i m tired of runnin around think i will marry and settle down this ole sportin life it is a mean life and it s killin me i got a letter from my home all of my schoolmates they re dead an gone it ll make you worry it ll make you wonder bout days to come my mother used to talk to me i was young and foolish brownie could not see now i have no mother my sisters and my brothers they don t care for me mama used to fall on her knees an pray these are the words mother she used to say she would say brownie wha oh my son please change your way now i m goin to change my way i m growin older each and every day when i was young and foolish i was so easy easy to let i was a gambler and a cheater too now it s come my turn to lose this ole sportin life got the best hand what can i do there ain t but one thing brownie done wrong i liv d that ole sportin life too long friends it s no good please believe me please leave it alone