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 



My crazy friend named Cara 

After all of us told her, “No” 

She'd get another speed ball 

Now she's going no where slow 



Her papa caught her on the first time 

And put her out on the street 

Cara told me to remind him 

That she was only 17 



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 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, uh-huh 

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 



She needs you right now Mister 

She ain't got long to live 

It's so easy to say, “I love you” 

But it's harder to forgive



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)