(Brian Holland Lamont Dozier Edward Holland)

Well I tried to tell you baby

Running makes no sense

Now you got me baby

Up against this fence

And Ain't that a shame... shame shame

Shame... shame the way you do

Well it's a shame... shame shame

Oh it's a shame on you



Well now you walk out in the evening

Don't even say you're gone

6 o'clock in the morning

You come walking home



And ain't that a shame... shame, shame

Shame, shame the way you do

Oh it's a shame... shame... shame

Hey it's a shame on you



Well I be sittin' there waitin'

Listen everybody

Cryin' for you to come home

Especially you girls

When I wake up baby

Is it right to be left alone

I'm sittin' here all alone

While the one you love is never home



And ain't that a shame... shame... shame

I love too hard... my friends sometimes say

Shame... shame the way you do

But I believe... I believe that a woman should be loved that way

Well it's a shame... shame... shame

But it hurts me so inside to see her treat me so unkind

Oh it's shame on you

Somebody... somewhere tell her it's unfair