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| 1. |
| 2:35 | 
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Have you seen my baby
On the avenue? You know she's driving me crazy With the funny things she do I seen her with the milkman Ridin' down the street When you're through with my baby, milkman Send her home to me Hold on, hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on, hold on You know it's been so long Since she have been gone Hold on, hold on, hold on I seen her with the gipsies Dancin' in the wood She's always been unfaithful to me She ain't never been no good I say, "Please don't talk to strangers, baby" But she always do She say, "I'll talk to strangers if I want to 'Cause I'm a stranger, too" Hold on, hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on, hold on You know it's been so long Since she have been gone Hold on, hold on, hold on |
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| 2. |
| 3:05 |
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Let's burn down the cornfield
Let's burn down the cornfield And we can listen to it burn You hide behind the oak tree You hide behind the oak tree Stay out of danger 'till I return Oh, it's so good On a cold night To have a fire Burnin' warm and bright You hide behind the oak tree You hide behind the oak tree Stay out of danger 'till I return Let's burn down the cornfield Let's burn down the cornfield And I'll make love to you while it's burning |
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| 3. |
| 2:12 |
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Will you have whiskey with your water
Or sugar with your tea? What are these crazy questions That they're asking of me? This is the wildest party that there ever could be Oh, don't turn on the light 'cause I don't want to see Mama told me not to come Mama told me not to come Mama said, "That ain't no way to have fun" Open up the window, let some air into this room I think I'm almost choking on the smell of stale perfume And that cigarette you're smoking 'bout to scare me half to death Open up the window, let me catch my breath The radio is blasting, someone's beating on the door Our hostess is not lasting - she's out on the floor I seen so many things here I ain't never seen before I don't know what it is - but I don't wanna see no more Mama told me not to come Mama told me not to come Mama said, "That ain't no way to have fun" |
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| 4. |
| 3:08 |
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I saw your name, baby
In a telephone booth And it told all about you, mama Boy, I hope it was the truth I took down your number Looked up your address, Sue And I was hopin' that maybe You could love me, too I'm gonna wait in the shadows For you to come by I'm gonna wait in the shadows For you to come by And then I'll jump from the shadows And try and catch your eye Gonna run my fingers through your hair And love you everywhere Now I don't want to get too romantic That's just not my way But when I get my arms around you I'm gonna rock you all the night Gonna rock you all the day Suzanne, you won't know it but I'll be behind you Don't try and run away from me, little girl Wherever you go I'll find you And when you go to the pictures And I know you do Don't take no one with you 'Cause I'll be there, too Suzanne |
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| 5. |
| 1:59 |
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Don't send me no young girl to love me
With their eyes shinin' bright All the young girls are afraid of me Send me a woman tonight Don't send me no hand-holdin' baby 'Cause I been with babies before Don't send me nobody that's crazy Don't send me no young girls no more I was entertaining a little girl in my rooms, Lord With California wines and French parfumes, Lord She started to talk to me about the War, Lord I said, "I don't want to talk about the War." Don't send me nobody with glasses Dont't want nobody above me Don't send nobody takin' night-classes Send me somebody to love me Please answer my prayer Please answer my prayer Please answer my prayer |
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| 6. |
| 2:44 |
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We met one summer evening
As the sun was going down She was lying on the beach In her graduation gown She was wrapped up in a blanket (I could tell she knew her way around) And as I lay down beside her You know she never made a sound On down the beach came the beachcleaning man Scoopin' up the papers and flattening down the sand "Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda we've got to run away That big white truck is closin' in And we'll get wounded if we stay" Now Lucinda lies buried 'neath the California sand Put under by the beachcleaning man Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda why'd you have to go? They sent her to high school They sent her to low school She just wouldn't go further |
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| 1:54 |
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Creole ladies walk along with rhythm in their thighs
Rhythm in their feet and in their lips and in their eyes, Where do highbrows find the kind of love that satisfies? Underneath the Harlem moon! There's no fields of cotton; picking cotton is taboo; They don't live in cabins like the old folks used to do. Their cabin is a penthouse up on Lennox Avenue, Underneath that Harlem moon! Why, they just live on dancing, They're never blue or forlorn, 'Cause it ain't no sin to laugh and grin; That's why darkies were born. Oh, they shout, |
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| 8. |
| 2:24 |
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Very far away in a foreign land
Live the yellow woman and the yellow man He's been around for many-a-year They say they were there before we were here Eatin' rice all day While the children play You see he believes In the family Just like you and me Oh, yellow man, oh, yellow man We understand, you know we understand He keeps his money tight in his hand With his yellow woman he's a yellow man Got to have a yellow woman When you're a yellow man |
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| 9. |
| 2:40 | 
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| 10. |
| 2:10 |
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Rosemary, won't you come out tonight?
The moon is shining and the stars are bright If you stay inside, how can I love you, dear When you're up there and I'm down here? Come on down, we'll take a walk in the park I know a place there where it's good and dark I'll hold yours, baby, and you'll hold mine I'm thinking about you all the time Hear that wind blow 'Gainst your window And I call your name I need you so, baby I'm ready to go, baby Ain't that a shame? Take your shoes off Come with me Take your shoes off Come on down, we'll take a walk in the park I know a place where it's good and dark I'll hold yours, baby, and you'll hold mine I'm thinking about you all the time |
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| 11. |
| 2:59 |
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There ain't no moon
There ain't no stars Have to close up soon 'Cause there ain't no cars Got no radio Got no telephone I'm just awful bored And I'm so alone Baby, please come to the station And I'll wipe your windshield clean If you need oil, I'll give you oil And I'll fill your tank with gasoline Baby, please come to the station You know I get so lonely there Bring some wine for inspiration And wear a ribbon in your hair Hear those dogs bark Man, they can feel this cold And it's so dark I need your hand to hold Baby, please come to the station You know I need you so tonight Come and put your arms around me Baby, come and hold me tight Please, baby, come to the station I've taken all that I can take Baby, how can you be sleeping When you know that I'm awake? |
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| 2:02 |
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Goin' down to the corner
Gonna have myself a drink Goin' down to the corner Gonna have myself a drink 'Cause that shit that we been usin' Sure confuse my thinking Gonna send out to the drugstore Buy myself a goat Tie him up in my front yard For all my socalled friends to see Ain't nobody gonna look in window and laugh at me I been up so long That it looks like down to me Please don't talk about to me when I'm gone Baby, are you against me too? Had a great idea the other night ComeATiYiYippie, baby Look out When the blue of the night meets the gold of the day We love you We love you We love you |
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