Battered Ladies

Dark rewrite of Beyonce's new hit, Single Ladies

Intro

Oyyy!

Battered ladies
Should never have let 'em
Put a ring on it

Verse 1

Wo you ho ho ho
Black and blue here
Black and blue there
Black and blue everywhere
Got his temper to poppin'
Cos you thought you could go out
For a few hours
Without cooking him any dinner
Wanted to have yourself an adventure
Party the dark tolls of your day as a busy wife and mother away
Now you've just went and ruined yourselfs, my sistas

Verse 2

Wo you ho ho ho
Got your babes you know back at home to care for
Long, hard, heavy hours to spent
Still when he gets home
If you don't want him to be blacking both those eyes again
You better be waitin'
So loveable, so sexy
Cold beer for him in hand and your mouth shut up tight
Ya know that's all a good man be really askin' for these days
So don't go making yourselfs undesireable

Chorus

Battered ladies
Battered ladies
Should never have let 'em
Put a ring on it
Battered ladies
Should never have let 'em
Put a ring on it

Verse 3

Wo you ho ho ho
Serve and treat those fine upstanding men of yours right
Right now my sistas
Should never have let 'em
Put a ring on it
Your life now ain't nothing but your own fault
So please do quit begging for our pity
Know that it ain't all loving sun and fun
But you married 'em
So seems to me
You're asking for what you get from 'em

Chorus

Battered ladies
Battered ladies
Should never have let 'em
Put a ring on it
Battered ladies
Should never have let 'em
Put a ring on it

Oh!

Battered ladies
Battered ladies
Should never have let 'em
Put a ring on it
Battered ladies
Should never have let 'em
Put a ring on it

Bridge

Got your man
Now you better pray you never make him mad
Got taken
Now in bed he better catch you fakin'
Gone off the market
Now you better stop all your flirting and playing around
Or on your pretty little face he'll soon be painting
An ugly little target

Chorus Till Fade

Battered ladies
Battered ladies
Should never have let 'em
Put a ring on it
Now you're just gonna live to regret it
Battered ladies
Should never have let 'em
Put a ring on it

2008 Ramona Thompson