From the recordings A&R Music List and Soul R&B Test
Many years ago as a young man I met a woman who was already with child. She wasn't showing and I did not know that I was in over my head. In time I grew to love her and was there when her daughter/my little girl was born. In the next two years or so I became her Dad. When I lost faith in the relationship I was no longer allowed to maintain the relationship with my daughter. This is "Hey Love Child".
Lyrics
Hey Love Child
Lyrics & Music by Lennox Armstrong
Hey Love child Hey Love Child
I got nothing but love for you
Hey Love child Hey Love Child
I still love you
Hey Love Child
Let me tell you of a story
about things the way they used to be
you were loved before you were born
conceived by another
but loved into the world by me
I don’t know what your mother told you
but I’m saying from me
there was nothing but love my sweet… my love child
Hey Love child... Hey Love Child
I got nothing but love for you
Hey Love child... Hey Love Child
I still love you
Hey Love child Hey Love Child
I got nothing but love for you
Hey Love child Hey Love Child
I still love you…Hey Love Child
Now I went away to college
Hampton University
had no money
but I had dreams
Yeah...I believed in me
Got grants
Worked hard, R.A. summer Job
on my grind
Get that degree
Make something of myself
Handle my responsibility
You may not know
Your love was stolen from me
Because I lost faith in a love
That could no longer be
Hurt and confused
The Woman scorned
Let my love you…
She let it burn…She let it burn
Hey Love child Hey Love Child
I got nothing but love for you
Hey Love child Hey Love Child
I still love you
Back to The front again
Always on my mind
Never knew the hurt I felt
Would be the pain I left behind
Somehow I thought
Just what I felt
I buried deep enough inside
To deal with what I’m feeling
Hey Love child Hey Love Child
I got nothing but love for you
Hey Love child Hey Love Child
I still love you
I don’t know you
You don’t me
I know this love
will always be
Cause I only have this love for you