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The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away The thrill is gone baby The thrill is gone away You know you done me wrong baby And you'll be sorry someday The thrill is gone It's gone away from me The thrill is gone baby The thrill is gone away from me Although, I'll still live on But so lonely I'll be The thrill is gone It's gone away for good The thrill is gone baby It's gone away for good Someday I know I'll be open armed baby Just like I know a good man should You know I'm free, free now baby I'm free from your spell Oh I'm free, free, free now I'm free from your spell And now that it's all over All I can do is wish you well |
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She's a ghetto woman, waitin for her man to come home
Oh poor ghetto woman waitin for her man to come home She's just a ghetto woman waitin for her man to come home To come home A rat run cross the floor, a roach turn up the wall Everything is noisy around her, that don't seem to bother her at all Cause she's a ghetto woman, sittin there all alone She's just a ghetto woman waitin for her man to come home To come home Yes, the tv's on, radio blastin' the news Somebody down the hall, playin the low down dirty blues My ghetto woman, she's all alone She's just a ghetto woman, waitin for her man to come home To come home Cause she's a ghetto woman, said she's a ghetto woman Oh, ghetto woman, what's on your mind Sometimes I look in your face, can't help but cry. |
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Everybody wants to know
Why I sing the blues Yes, I say everybody wanna know Why I sing the blues Well, I've been around a long time I really have paid my dues When I first got the blues They brought me over on a ship Men were standing over me And a lot more with a whip And everybody wanna know Why I sing the blues Well, I've been around a long time Mm, I've really paid my dues I've laid in a ghetto flat Cold and numb I heard the rats tell the bedbugs To give the roaches some Everybody wanna know Why I'm singing the blues Yes, I've been around a long time People, I've paid my dues I stood in line Down at the County Hall I heard a man say, "We're gonna build Some new apartments for y'all" And everybody wanna know Yes, they wanna know Why I'm singing the blues Yes, I've been around a long, long time Yes, I've really, really paid my dues Now I'm gonna play Lucille. My kid's gonna grow up Gonna grow up to be a fool 'Cause they ain't got no more room No more room for him in school And everybody wanna know Everybody wanna know Why I'm singing the blues I say I've been around a long time Yes, I've really paid some dues Yeah, you know the company told me Guess you're born to lose Everybody around me, people It seems like everybody got the blues But I had 'em a long time I've really, really paid my dues You know I ain't ashamed of it, people I just love to sing my blues I walk through the cities, people On my bare feet I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings Up in Downbill Street You know I'm singing the blues Yes, I really I just have to sing my blues I've been around a long time People, I've really, really paid my dues Now Father Time is catching up with me Gone is my youth I look in the mirror everyday And let it tell me the truth I'm singing the blues Mm, I just have to sing the blues I've been around a long time Yes, yes, I've really paid some dues Yeah, they told me everything Would be better out in the country Everything was fine I caught me a bus uptown, baby And every people, all the people Got the same trouble as mine I got the blues, huh huh I say I've been around a long time I've really paid some dues One more time, fellows! Blind man on the corner Begging for a dime The rollers come and caught him And throw him in the jail for a crime I got the blues Mm, I'm singing my blues I've been around a long time Mm, I've really paid some dues Can we do just one more? Oh I thought I'd go down to the welfare To get myself some grits and stuff But a lady stand up and she said "You haven't been around long enough" That's why I got the blues Mm, the blues I say, I've been around a long time I've really, really paid my dues Fellows, tell them one more time. Ha, ha, ha. That's all right, fellows. Yeah! |
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Sometimes I get impatient
but she cools me without words and she comes so sweet and so plain my hummingbird and have you heard that I thought my life had ended but I find that it's just begun cause she gets me where I live I'll give all I have to give I'm talking about that hummingbird oh she's little and she loves me too much for words to say when I see her in the morning sleeping she's little and she loves me to my lucky day hummingbird don't fly away When I'm feeling wild and lonesome she knows the words to say and she gives me a little understanding in her special way and I just have to say in my life I loved a woman because she's more than I deserve and she gets me where I live I'll give all I have to give I'm talking about that hummingbird oh she's little and she loves me too much for words to say when I see her in the morning sleeping she's little and she loves me to my lucky day hummingbird don't fly away |
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To know you is to love you
But to know me is not that way, you see 'Cause you made me so happy That my love for you grows endlessly When I'm down and feeling sad You always comfort me When I'm down and feeling sad You always comfort me Baby, to know you is to love you You smile when I see your face 'Cause there ain't no one on this earth Baby, could ever, ever take your place When I'm down and feeling sad You always comfort me When I'm down and feeling sad You always comfort me Oh to know you is to love you Is to see you being free as the wind 'Cause the power of your loving Is too strong to hold within To know you is to love you To see you blowing free in the breeze The power of your loving I never found a woman like you That could be my lover And my best friend I know you and I think I love you I know you and I think I love you I know you and can't you feel our love Just growing, growing, growing Growing, growing, growing Hey, I know you and I think I love you I know you and I think I love you I know you and can't you feel our love Just growing, growing, growing Growing, growing, doggone it, baby I know you and I think I love you I know you and I think I love you I know you and can't you feel our love Just growing, growing, growing Growing, growing, hey doggone it, baby I know you and I think I love you I know you and I think I love you And I think you love me, too Mm baby, I know you |
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I've been down hearted baby
ever since the day we met I said I've been down hearted baby ever since the day we met our love is nothing but the blues, woman baby, how blue can you get? You're evil when I'm with you, baby and you're jealous when we're apart I said You're evil when I'm with you, baby and you're jealous when we're apart how blue can you get baby the answer is right here in my heart I gave you a brand new Ford But you said: I want a Cadillac I bought you a ten dollar dinner and you said: thanks for the snack I let you live in my pent house you said it just a shack I gave seven children and now you wanna give them back I said I've been down hearted baby ever since the day we met our love is nothing but the blues baby, how blue can you get? |
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When I first met you, baby
Baby, you were just sweet sixteen When I first met you, baby Baby, you were just sweet sixteen You just left your home then, woman Ah, the sweetest thing I'd ever seen But you wouldn't do nothing, baby You wouldn't do anything I asked to You wouldn't do nothing for me, baby You wouldn't do anything I asked to You know you ran away from your home, baby And now you wanna run away from old B. too You know I loved you, baby I loved you before I could call your name You know I loved you, baby Baby I loved you, I love you before I could call your name Well, it seems like everything I do now baby Everything I do is in vain My brother's in Korea, baby My sister's down in New Orleans Brother's in Korea baby My sister's down in New Orleans You know I'm having so much trouble woman Baby, I wonder, what in the world is gonna happen to me You know I love you and I'll do anything you tell me to You know I love you and I'll do anything you tell me to Well, there ain't nothing in the world, woman Babe, it ain't nothing Nothing in the world I wouldn't do it for you You can treat me mean, baby But I'll keep on loving you just the same You can treat me mean baby But I'll keep on loving you just the same But one of these days, baby You're gonna give a lot of money To hear someone call my name Yes, sweet sixteen baby... sweet sixteen... Yes, the sweetest thing baby The sweetest thing I ever seen You know I'm having so much trouble, woman Baby I wonder Yes I wonder Baby I wonder Oh, I wonder what in the world's gonna happen to me |
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Oh, I'm so excited, think about you all the time
Yes I can't wait to see you baby You really best of my mind You're so fine, wanna hold you all the time Oh, when you touch me baby, tears of joy I'm crying Oh, when you hold me, chills run up and down my spine You're so fine, think about you all the time Yes, I'm so excited, I met peace with the world Oh, can this love be real? I'm talking about my new, new love You're so fine baby, wanna love you all the time Hey, I'm so excited, don't know what you're doing myself Oh, I'm so happy baby, don't need nobody else You're so fine baby, think about you all the time Yes, when I look in your eyes, you put me in a trance Oh, I just shake all over baby, I feel like I wanna dance You're so fine baby, wanna hold you all the time How can this be a dream, can this really happen to me? Oh, I surely loved at last, seems like a fantasy You're so fine baby, wanna hold you all the time I thought I've been in love, so many many times Oh, but this new love, has really messed up my mind You're so fine, think about you all the time You're so nice and lovin', everything you do is right I just can't wait, I can't wait baby Can't wait for you hold me tight You're so fine, wanna hold you all the time |
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