Oh, 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?   S-s-she'd get another spoon ball   Now, she?s going no where slow      Her papa caught her for the first time   And put her out on the street   Cara told me to remind him   That she was only seventeen      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 s-s-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, aha, 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      But she needs you right now mister   She ain?t got long to live   It?s easy to say, ?I love you?   But it?s harder to forgive   (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?)   Yo, mister how?s your daughter?   (How?s your daughter tonight?)