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I saw her dancing, dancing In some old smokey place I bet I was the only one there to watch her face All night I never saw a smile there 'Cause she didn't even try You know for just a little while there I saw a tear in her eyes [Come on Come on baby I love to see you now Ou wi One more time baby watch me swinging, huh] I sit and watch her on the floor I said baby, baby, baby Come on baby just dance some more I wonder how it is to love her I toss it to her in my head The way she dance to the music She got me going out of my head [Come on Watch One more time you fine foxy thing you Uh, yeah ] One more time just watch she do She do this Huh She walk the mellow-man a little bit Then she skate a little bit Then she boog a little bit Then she twist a little bit I gotta One more time I got to see her on the floor, now, now Gotta, gotta I gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta see her now, now One more time Sweet little thing, sweet little thing, sweet little thing You sweet little Come on, watch that, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Turn me loose There ain't no use Free me darling Don't hang me up Let me go from your love, now Just like a prisoner You got me chained and bound Unlock 'em, Let me go, let me go Get 'em from around Turn me loose There ain't no use Free me baby, Let me go, Turn me loose From your love, now You know I did love you, yeah Do anything in the world for you I try my best, I try my very best, yeah, please The way your treating me Keep me in misery I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry To walk away It's up to you To say we're thru Free me baby, let me go, turn me loose baby From your love I got to tell you, Listen this I know sometime I wonder do you really love me And if you don't, if you don't You got to let me know Let me go Your love is not shown Break these chains Make them tearing apart Let me love again Turn me loose There ain't no use Let me go, darling If you don't want me Free me Let me go Unchain me From your love
In the beginning You really loved me, oh I was too blind I could not see, now But now that you left me OOH, how I cried out, I keep crying You don't miss your water 'Till your well are undried I kept you crying Sad and blue, oh my, oh I was a playboy I just wouldn't be true But now that you left me Good Lord, how I cried, I keep crying, I keep crying Ooh, I've been miss my water No I never miss my water 'Till my well are undried I sit here and wonder How in the world this could be, my, oh my I never thought, oh, I never thought You ever leave me But now that you left me Good Lord, good Lord, how I cried out You don't miss your water You don't miss your water 'Till your well are undried Ooh, You don't miss your water, oh You don't miss your water 'Till your well are undried I miss my water I keep missing my water I keep missing my water And I want my water I need my water I love my water And I want my water And I'am little destined now And I'am little destined now I want my water I need wanting my water...
1, 2, 3, play You left on the water running When you left me behind, baby now You left all the water running It's running from these eyes of mine Baby now that You turned out the light of love You left with another guy, honey that me You turned off all your love for me But you forgot to turn off the cry Ooh, forgot to turn off the cry Baby now that You pull the shades way down low And disconnect the telephone But baby these tears are running from my eyes I can't turn 'em off and on Now baby now that You left on the water running When you left me behind, let me tell you That you left all that water running It's running from these eyes of mine And now you go You locked the door And then you throw the key away, baby now that You'll regret, baby, you'll be upset, now When you get your water bill to pay, ooh When you get that water bill to pay Honey now that You left all the water running When you left me behind, let me tell you That you left, ooh, the water running It's running from these eyes of mine Baby now that You left, ooh, the water running Running from these eyes of mine, baby now that You left all the water running When you left me behind...
You left me, for another You told me, he was your lover So I'm begging and I'm pleading And I'm down on any knee, ooh baby That's What My Heart Needs Baby, ooh baby I'm calling you out loud and clear, baby Ooh baby I love you, yes I do And I want on meeting you, ooh baby That's What My Heart Needs Darling, my my darling I need you here right by my side, baby, darling If you hadn't left that day Then my love wouldn't be this way, ooh baby That's what my heart needs Come on baby I said I need you right here by my side I said I need you baby I need you here to protect me and be my guide And ooh, baby, yeah baby I know you don't know what I mean, baby Ooh, baby, yeah, HEY baby Hey hey baby Come on, come on and love me, baby, Lord Come on, come on and be right by my side hey, come on
I want security, yeah Without it I had a great loss, oh now Security, yeah And I want it at any cost, oh now Don't want no money, right muh now, muh now, muh now I don't want no fame But security I have all of these things, yeah All of these things, yeah, now Security, yeah That's all I want from you, oh now Security, yeah And a little love that will be true, oh Those sweet tender lips you know they tells me that You're the one for me Darling, how can I forget How can I forget, yeah now I want security, yeah I'm telling you, once say again, oh now Security And I want it in the end, oh Those sweet tender lips you know they tells me that You're the one for me Darling, how can I forget How can I forget, yeah now Alone with just a little bit of soul, right now, now, baby Darling, everything is gonna be allright One more time, just one more time, baby...
I was born by a river, oh my In this little old town Just like this river I've been running ever since It's been alone Lord, I'm coming but I know, but I know That changes gotta come, now Ou yes it is, my oh my oh my oh my It's been too hard livin', oh my And I'm afraid to die I don't know what's up there Beyond the clouds It's been alone Lord I'm coming but I know, but I know That changes gotta come Oh yes it is, my oh my oh my There's a time I will go to my brother, oh my I would ask my brother Will you help me please, oh now oh now He turned me down And then I asked my little mother, oh my oh I said mother, I said mother I'm down on my knees It's been time that I go Lord it's too late Very long, oh now oh Somehow I thought I was still able To try to carry on It's been alone Lord I'm coming but I know That changes gonna come Oh yes it is Huh, just like I said I went to my little baby brother, oh my, my little brother I asked my brother, brother help me please, oh now He turned me down And then I go to my little mother, my dear mother, oh now, huh I said mother, I said mother I'm down on my knees But there was a time that I go Lord it's too late So very long, oh my oh Somehow I thought I was still able To try to carry on It's been alone Lord I'm coming but I know, but I know That changes gotta come, ou It's been so long, It's been so long A little too long But changes gotta come So tired, so tired of suffering Standing by myself Has given up a home But changes gotta come You know, you know that I know And I know that you know Honey, That a change is gonna come, oh now, oh my I gotta...
Mary had a little lamb His bleeks was white as snow everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go He followed her to school one day And that was against the rules He made the children laugh and play You've seen that lamb Oh that lamb in school Oh Mary Listen let me tell you something Ever since I was four years old I hated a silly rule Ever since they ran Mary's lamb Oh all the way home from school You should have seen Mary cry When she waved to her lamb goodbye The teacher said Mary come inside Come on and dry, oh, dry your eyes Oh, oh, oh Mary Wait a minute Mary don't you be so blue And bring that lamb back to school And Mary don't you be no fool You see the lamb daily thru When you go, oh, home today You and your lamb can play You can even do the twist And then it goes Something like this oh, oh, oh Mary oh, oh, oh Mary Come on Mary Don't you be such a moaner Don't moan no more Hey, hey, hey Mary, hey, hey Come on Mary, oh Come on Mary...
If I can only, make you see That you were only, meant for me, now Our love will be free And I'll be your destiny destiny, destiny, right, now, now, now, babe If I can make you only understand Treat me right and love me Then I will be your man Your one and only man These are the words That I have to say Live by them each and every day, now And as the time pass I know our love will last, our love will last, our love will last Now, now, now babe Take me blue Understand them Live by them and love me Then I will be your man Your one and only man These are the words That I have to say Just live by them each and every day, now And as the time pass I know our love will last, our love will last, our love will last Now Take me blue Understand them Live by them and love me Honey I will be your man I said your one and only man Yes your truly lovely man Yes your lovely lovely man You don't need nobody to do nothing for you baby I said I could just love and be just one guy that you need I could say I could be one guy that you love I could just be anyone you want me to be, now, now I said I could be just anyone you want me to be Darling, baby, my, my, my, my baby Na, na, wow...
Something is worrying me, yeah And that something is driving me in misery, oh I can tell the way things change That you've been loving some other man That's why something keeps on worrying me, yes it is That's why something is worrying me, oh I can tell by the look in your eye I can tell by the way you smile I know things haven't been this way I stopped to love you each and every day And that something keeps on worrying me, yeah That's why something is driving me in misery, yeah I can tell by the look in your eye That you've been loving some other guy That's why something keeps on worrying me, oh yes it is That's why something keeps on worrying me, darling That something baby Is deep down in my heart Is worrying me baby I know you love somebody I know you have somebody else It's worrying me baby I need you right here by my side
Come to me for I'm lonely Come to me for I'm lonely, darling Come to me and be my girl For I love, love you so Come to me forget the past Think of life we have ahead, my my my my baby Come to me and be my girl For I love, love, love you so, oh now Day are getting so lonely, yeah now Life are getting so blue Time has come for you and I To get together and we'll make two, my my my my babe Come to me for I'm begging Come to me for I'm begging, darling Come to me and be my girl For I love, love, love you so, yeah Come on now baby Baby I'm down Said I'm down my knees, oh I need me someone, now Said I need some love Just to stand right by me, oh You know that these arms of mine They have been lonely Lonely so long But I know, but I know, I know what my heart needs I know just what my heart needs
Darling now, you made me change my mind Can go no further, because you got me chained and bound, oh Taller than the tallest sky Sweeter than a grape on a vine, now Can go no further, because you got me chained and bound, right now, now So glad, I'm so glad, I'm so glad Oh, I don't have to worry no more Oh my my my Baby, somebody, somebody What kind of life is this kind I'm trying living Oh Lord, what kind of love is she trying to give me I feel like I'm standing up and telling the word I'm chained to your love Darling, oh Don't break this little heart of mine There's no greater love than this love of yours and mine, oh You walk with your head in the sky Darling don't ever pass me by I ain't going no further, because you got me chained and bound, oh now So glad, I'm so glad, I'm so glad Lord, I don't have to worry no more She got me chained to her love, now I don't, I don't want to be taken away, baby I'm chained, I'm chained and a little bound, now, now, now I'm chained, I'm chained to your love I don't, I don't know darling I wanna to be taken away, now Ou, just a little bit of soul Just a little bit of soul, now...
Your arms around me How can I complain With your arms around me Uhm, I know I'm a lucky man With your arms around me Honey, I'm taller than a tree So all I can say is Keep those arms around me When I woke up this morning Oh, I had an aching head The pain was so great Uhm, I almost fell out of bed Then you put your arms around me Then you kiss me three times And in a matter of seconds I never felt so fine, oh no, oh yes I did With your arms around me I can feel no no no no pain With your arms around me Uhm, I know I'm the worlds strongest man With your arms around me, yeah If I was blind I know that I could see, oh now All I can say is Keep those loving arms around me Oh now, oh now, oh now
Your precious love, now Means more to me Than any love, than any love will ever mean For when I wanted you, oh now I was so lonely and so blue That's what love, that's what love really made me do And honey, oh, they keep saying that our love won't grow, now But honey I wanna tell them And I just wanna show them How in the world do they know, that It's very wrong, oh now, oh now For as long as you make love with me, now I know our love will grow wilder And so deeper than any any ever seen, now Oooh, the thing that I want, now In this whole wide world is just For you to say, for you to say That you'll be my my girl, now, now And I'm calling, I wanting you I just keep wanting you, now, oh now I'm wanting you, now Nobody but you, now Nobody but you, now Ou, I just wanna tell you just one more time For your precious love, now, oh my It means everything in the world to me Everything in the world to me And I'm just so wild, now Just to have you Right on with me, oh now, now, now
Amen, uh, A-Amen, uh A-Amen, Amen, Amen, with the horns, now Amen, with the rhytm, now A-Amen, A-Amen A-Amen, Amen, Amen, everybody, now A-Amen, A-Amen A-Amen, Amen, Amen, he let me tell you This little life of mine I'm gonna let it shine This little life of mine I'm gonna let it shine, yeah, yeah This little life of mine I'm gonna let it shine Let it shine, let it shine To show my love One thing my papa used to say he said that Even in my home son, I said what dad I'm gonna let it shine, let me tell you Said even in your home son You got to let your little light shine, yeah huh Even in your home son, ha You got to let it shine Just let it shine, just let it shine To show your love And then I said daddy help me sing this line one time A-Amen, will you help me A-Amen, huh, with a feeling A-Amen, Amen, Amen, everybody together now A-Amen, little louder now A-Amen, everybody say A-Amen, Amen, Amen Amen
Merry Christmas baby Sure do treat me nice Merry Christmas baby Sure do treat me nice Bought me a diamond ring for Christmas I feel like I'm in paradise I feel mighty fine, y'all I've got music on my radio Feel mighty fine, girl I've got music on my radio, oh, oh, oh I feel like I'm gonna kiss you Standing beneath that mistletoe Santa came down the chimney Half past three, y'all Left all them good ole presents For my baby and for me, ha, ha, ha Merry Christmas baby Sure do treat me nice You bought me all those good ole presents I love you baby rest of my life Merry Christmas, girl Merry, merry, merry Christmas baby Sure do treat me nice Merry Christmas baby I said you sure do treat me nice You bought all those lovely things, yeah I feel like I'm in paradise I wish you a merry Christmas baby Happy new year, ha A merry Christams, honey Everything here is beautiful I love you, baby For everything that you give me I love you, honey...
I, I'm dreaming, dreaming of a white, white Christmas, y'all Just like the one that I used to know, oh Honey, it's where the treetop, treetop listen Little bitty, litle bitty, little bitty children should They try to listen To hear, before the sleebells that are ringing through the snow I wanna tell you one more time what I'm thinking about I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, yeah With every Christmas, call that I write you, oh now I want you to know May all your days, May all your days Be so very merry, merry and bright Darling I wished all of them One more thing And may all, all of your Christmasses And be all, and be all of your Christmasses Baby may your days, may your days Be so merry, merry, merry and bright Lord have mercy, I wished all of them honey And may all your Christmasses Be so wide Dreaming of a white, dreaming of a white Christmas Dreaming, dreaming of a white, white Christmas Baby, baby, oh I'm dreaming, dreaming of a white Christmas...
O: I hope it's not too late
Just to say that I'm sorry, honey
All I want to do
Is just finish what we started, baby
O + C: Let's turn over a new leave
And baby let's make promises
That we can keep
And call it a new year's resolution, hmmm
C: Oh, I'm a woman
And woman makes mistakes too
But will you, will you forget the changes
That I put you through
O + C: Oh, let's try it again
Just you and me
And, baby, let's see how happy honey, yeah
That we can be
And call it a new year's resolution, yeah, yeah, yeah
O: Many times we had our ups and downs
C: And times you needed me I couldn't be found
O: I'm sorry
C: And I'm sorry too
O: I'll never, never do it again, no, no, no
So baby before we fall out
Let's fall on in, yeah, yeah
C: Oh, and we're gonna try harder
Not to hurt each other again, oh
O + C: Love me baby, huh
Week after week
And baby let's make promises
That we can keep
And call it a new year's resolution, yeah, oh
O: I know we can do it Carla
C: I'm gonna keep my promises
O: I'm gonna hold on that we can do it, baby
C: Oh, it's not too late
O: You're gonna love me
Nobody else
C: Oh Otis let's finish what we started
O: Talk no mean...
Come on honey let's play the match game You strike me and I'll be the flame Girl you start the biggest fire When you touch me I'm like a likewire You burn a tattoo on my arms I can't feel the fire But your kisses is warm And it's the match game Now, now I'll tell you it's the match game Huh, come on Honey the match game is really in Strike me the light a cigarette Your love keeps me burning up Give me so much I can't get enough My burns can burn down a building But my kind of fire Gives you that lovely good feeling It's the match game Baby, I'll tell you it's my match game Hard is my momma's turn to free Oh, your just ties me up in the sea Don't you know I like it momma Really do, love it, huh, come on Come on honey let's play the match game You strike me and I'll be the flame Girl you start the biggest fire When you touch me I'm like a likewire You burn a tattoo on my arms I don't feel the fire But your kisses is warm Now it's the Light me up, come on and light me up Can't get enough Now, I tell you, it's the match game Strike me baby, strike, strike me momma Lord it's the match game Come on and, come on honey baby cake...
That's the sound of the men They are working on the chain gang, huh That's the sound of the men They are working on the chain gang That's the sound of the men When they're working on the chain gang All day long you hear them, pooh I'm going home, just one of these ole days Man, I'm going home to see my woman For my love's so dear But that means why I gotta work righta here now, huh And that's the sound of the men They're just working on the chain gang That's the sound of the men They're working on the highways and the biways That's the sound of the men Working on the highway and biway All day long they're going, pooh Man, I'm going home to see that woman For my love's so dear I gotta see the woman For my love's so well But that means why I gotta work righta here now, huh Now that's the sound of us mens When we're working on the chain gang Oh, it's allright now, HOO Out there That's the sound of the men When they're working on the chain gang, ha That's the sound of the men When they're working on the chain gang All day long you hear them, pooh Man, I'm going home one of these ole days Man I'm going home I got to see the woman Whom my love's so dear But that means why I've gotta sit righta here now, ha Now that's the sounds of the mens Working on the chain gang Working, we're working Ah, we're working man Got to be working Oh, every day we work a little bit stronger Every night, man, a few bit longer Got to be working, man The time is going up We got to be working, man...
I can get no satisfashion I can get no satisfashion I have tried, I have tried I have tried, I have tried I can't get me no, ha, ha I can't get no, uh, now When I'm driving in my car And the man talks on the radio Keep tellin' me more and more About that useless information He's tryin' to mess up my imagination And I can get me no, no, no And I can get me no Hey, hey, hey What I say You gotta, gotta, gotta groovy We gotta have it, we gotta have it We gotta have it, we gotta have it Keep on grooving, keep on grooving We keep on grooving God, no, my, yeah I can get no satisfashion I can get no, no satisfashion I have tried, I have tried I have tried, I have tried, tried, tried I can't get me no, no, no And I can't get me no, no, no, no We gotta groove it, groove it, oh my now We keep on knockin', knockin' baby, yeah Au, gotta, gotta have it We gotta, keep, keep, ah Whatever, why won't you wait for time This little girl is tryin' to put me down I keep on runnin' round in my sleep I keep on messin' up any beat I keep on rockin', I try to find me Somebody to love me And give me some reaction And I can find nobody No, no, nobody Give me no faction, faction Faction got to have it Satisfaction, we got to have it Satisfaction, earlier in the morning Satisfaction, later in the evening Satisfaction, and don't make my...
Down in the valley, ha In the valley so low, wowow Hang your hair over your shoulder And you can hear the four winds blow, now, oh my Now can't you hear the wind blow my love, ha Can't you hear the wind blow, wowowowow, ha, ha We're down in the valley, ha In the valley so low, now, ha Now have you ever been lonely, lonely, ha Now have you ever been sad Did you ever really need some one, oh my Who really needed fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa Gotta, gotta, gotta, ha, too much, ooh yeah Help me baby, gotta get the groove So too much, ooh yeah It was down in the valley In the valley so low It was when I held you so tight How can I ever let you go, go, go, go, ooh now Now it was down, down, down, down, down, down, down In the valley so low, ooh my When I held you so tight, now How can I ever let you go, now Ah, good god Too much, too much, too much groovin' now Too much, gotta Down in the valley We're down in the valley So low, so low, we can't go no further We're down, we're down too much Gotta groovin', groovin', groovin' Gotta, we can't, we can't, we can't, we can't, we can't, we can't, we can't Go no further, now Gotta, gotta, good god almighty we gotta, gotta Groovin', groovin', groovin' Too much grippem Watch it, watch it, wathc it Gotta, a good time we're havin' We gotta, gotta keep on, keep on groovin'...
Come here sister Papa's in the thing Ain't you hip, of that new green thing It ain't no drag Papa's got a brand new bag It's gone beserk He's going to fly Don't playing cheap You know he's not shy Imagnitate her, the alligator Jump back Jack, see you later alligator Come here sister Papa's in the thing Ain't you hip, now, of that new green thing, ha Ain't no drag Papa's bought himself a brand new bag Au, come on, hey hey, come on It's out of sight He's uptight, come on and groove Know you're out of sight Papa, got it, got it, soul man, soul, groove He's uptight, Mr. Pity that's my name Got it, yeah He's gonna twist He's doing the fly Don't playing cheap You know he's not shy Imagnitate her, the alligator Jump back Jack, see you later alligator Come here sister Papa's in the thing Ain't you hip, of that new green thing Ain't no drag My man has got a brand new bag Come on, hey hey, come in Come in, got it
I don't know what you got baby But you're so good to me I don't what you're doing wrong to me baby But you're so good to me Honey, I've been loving you for a long time And you're still good to me I've been loving you woman 20 long years I'll love you 20 more 'Cause I've got that will to try, huh I remember those sweet kisses you give me last night And man they we're so good to me All of that good, good, good old loving you give me baby Honey we were sure good to me I've been loving you woman 20 long years If it takes fourty more Honey I let my will to try, huh I don't know what you're doing to me baby But it sure is good to me Whatever you do wrong honey I don't care baby Because you're so good to me I keep on loving you woman For twenty more years After that I'm going for forty 'Cause I got my will to try I've been loving you woman too long But I'm just gonna keep on loving you all day long, honey I'll never gonna disatisfy you in no kind of way, honey And I'm gonna love you baby long in the early morning sun And I'm gonna squeeze you tight, honey, lord yeah You're just so good to me baby And I love, love, love you, honey I just love, love, love you, baby I'm just keep on loving you honey 'Cause you're so good to me So so good to me...
