Don’t You Shush Me Now

Are you listenin’, are you listenin’ good

Open them big flaps and get somethin’ understood

I don’t care if you leave and I don’t care how

Baby, don’t you shush me now

You said you’d be right back, heading through that door

What’s a week or two, it’s a looooong way to the store

Baby, don’t shush me now…oh no

It’s a longer way home, crawlin’ through the dark

Your belly draggin’ low, no baby, don’t you park

No baby, don’t shush me now … don’t shush me now

Don’t you park your tom-cattin’ tail by my front door

I mean it Baby, no more…no more

I said, Baby…don’t you shush me now

I’m just winding up. Gonna have my say

You’d best be on your knees and commencin’ to pray

No Baby, no more shushing now

That girl you been charmin’, she dropped by and said

All sassy and braggin’, tricked out in red

Listen, Baby, don’t you shush me now

She told me you was moving on, but I said get this understood

I was giving you away, this time for good

Oh yeah, Baby, don’t shush me now

Jimmy-two-step-shoes, keep on prancin’

Keep those slippery soles a dancin’

Yeah, Baby, here it comes…don’t you shush me now

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again

Don’t care if you leave, don’t care when

Baby…don’t you dare try shushing me now

So before you take your lies down that one-way road

Paradin’ them stories of your heavy load

Baby…baby listen up good, hear me now

You raggy-assed piece of useless bone

This here’s a call from the reality phone

Yes baby, that’s you I’m talkin’ to…

Don’t even think about shushing me now

Oh no…no more shushing now.

by Cathy Yard

Words In Motion 2014