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Mother Worries.

BY SHANE ALLISON

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 Lord, how we gon' pay these bills in this
 How we gon' pay these bills, 
 Lord. How we gon' pay these bills in
 We gon' pay these
 We gon' pay
 Lord, how we gon' pay these bills in this house? 

 How, Lord, are we gon' pay these bills in this house
 Lord, how, Lord, how we gon' pay these bills in this
 Lord, how, Lord, we gon' pay
 Lord, how are we gon' pay these bills 
 These bills, Lord, how we gon' pay these
 How we goin' to pay these bills, Lord, in

 In this house, Lord? How is it that we gon' pay these bills in, 
 In this house, Lord. How, Lord, we goin' to pay the bills in this house
 These bills, these bills in this house, Lord, these
 Bills in this house, how are we goin' to afford to pay the bills in this
 House of all houses? With the bills the way, these bills
 Are, how are we goin' to pay? 

 How, Lord? How is it that we are goin' to pay
 The bills in this house the way they are in
 This house, this house with the bills
 In this house of houses in the house
 With the bills we don't know how we're goin' to pay in this 
 House with the bills the way these

 Bills are in this house, with these
 Bills we don't know how we gon' pay
 In this, our house of houses with this and this
 Bill, Lord, we have to pay in 
 This house, the house with all the bills that need to be paid in the house. 
 Lord, how? How, Lord, is we to pay these bills? 

 How are we gon' do it? How is it that we are to pay these bills 
 These bills, which are stacking up high as a house with these
 Bills we don't know, Lord, how we goin' to pay the bills that are due on the house
 That needs to be paid
 In the house, this house in 
 Which the bills are big in this 

 House with these bills that we
 Don't know how in this world
 We don't know how we goin' to pay 

 

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