Yo Mister Lyrics - Patti Labelle

Oh, mister how's your daughter? 

You really ought to know 

For every thing you taught her 

Don't matter when she's all alone 

My crazy friend named Cara 

After all of us told her, ?No? 

S-s-she'd get another spoon ball 

Now, she's going no where slow 

Her papa caught her for the first time 

And put her out on the street 

Cara told me to remind him 

That she was only seventeen 

Yo, mister how's your daughter? how's your girl? 

You really ought to know 

Every thing you taught her 

It don't matter when she's all alone 

Cara got hooked up with the wrong kids 

Then s-s-she started skipping school 

Then Cara got high to make disappear 

A world full of fools 

In her eyes her father was the biggest fool of them all 

And she was speeding, that's what she?d say 

Maybe, maybe, maybe she wouldn't talk so stupid 

If she knew how much she needed this fool today 

Yo, mister how's your daughter? 

You really ought to know 

For every thing you taught her 

Don't matter when she's all alone 

She needs you right now mister 

?Cause she ain't got long to live 

It?s so easy to say, ?I love you? 

But it?s harder to forgive 

Her father cried when I told him that Cara twice got knocked up 

He said, ?Just like her mama, aha, she shows her body 

When she wants to show love, she tried that stuff with me 

And I beat her down, there's no way I could let her stay 

Couldn't let her stick around ? 

?Cause I tried so hard to raise her right 

He said, ?What made her turn out this way?, I don't know 

What made her turn out this way, I don't know, I don't know 

And I said and I said and I said 

Yo, mister how's your daughter? 

You really ought to know, every thing 

Every thing you taught her 

Don't matter when she's all alone 

But she needs you right now mister 

She ain't got long to live 

It?s easy to say, ?I love you? 

But it?s harder to forgive 

(How?s your daughter tonight?) 

Yo, mister how's your daughter? 

(How?s your daughter tonight?) 

Yo, mister how's your daughter? 

(How?s your daughter tonight?) 

Yo, mister how's your daughter? 

(How?s your daughter tonight?) 

Yo, mister how's your daughter? 

(How?s your daughter tonight?)