"Sixteen Sons"

Well, you may’ve heard about me in a nurs’ry rhyme
I’m an ill-fated woman, old before my time
Ev’ry time I saw a fella, well, I lost control
Now I got more kids than Aretha got soul

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I got sixteen sons, and whaddaya bet
The bun in the oven is another son yet?
I can’t feed another one, there’s no room for mo’
In th’ sole of this shoe that we gotta call home.

The first sixteen know their daddy’s name
But ‘cept for the twins no two’s the same.
I guess seventeen gonna haf’ta take mine
’Cause his pop popped me then he took off a-flyin’.

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I see a man comin’ now, I step aside --
I lot o’ times I didn’t and I soon got “wide.”
I always was a sucker for that sex-appeal
Now my shoe home's full ’o kid from toe to heel.

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