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)