I just got out my little red book
The minute that you said goodbye
I thumbed right through my little red book
I wasn't gonna sit and cry
And I went from A to Z
I took out every pretty girl in town
They danced with me and as I held them

All I did was talk about you
Hear your name and I'd start to cry
There's just no getting over you... oh, no...

There ain't no girl in my little red book
Who could ever replace your charms
And each girl in my little red book
Knows you're the one I'm thinkin' of
Oh won't you please come back
Without your precious love I can't go on
Where can love be I need you so much

Oh won't you please come back
Without your precious love I can't go on
It's haunting me I need you so much

All I did was talk and talk about you
Hear your name and I'd start to cry
There's just no getting over you
All I did was talk and talk about you
Hear your name and I'd start to cry
There's just no getting over you... oh no

Can't explain
Nothin' seems to be goin' right
Can't explain
Nothin' seems to be goin' right

Well now you wake up in the mornin'
Find your poor self dead
Well now you wake up in the mornin'
Find your poor self dead

What a shame
You always wanna start a fight
Can't explain
You always wanna start a fight

Well now you wake up in the mornin'
Find your poor self dead
Well now you wake up in the mornin'
Find your poor self dead

Let it go, what I say, yeah

Can't explain
You always wanna start a fight
Can't explain
You always wanna start a fight

Well now you wake up in the mornin'
Find your poor self dead
Well now you wake up in the mornin'
Find your poor self dead

Let it go, one more time, yeah

People check to tell me
What they think is right
I don't listen to them
Don't know day from night
I'll go through life searchin'
Tryin' to find the one
I'd go slip, slip, you'd go slip, slip Away

And I don't need you to help me find my way
I can make it if I just don't see your face

Once I had a problem
Didn't know what to do
Now I've got no problems
All I had was you
Guess I'll keep on searchin'
And try to find the one
'Cause I'd go slip, slip, you'd go slip, slip
Away

I don't want to be in your company
I don't need you to take care of me
Let me alone, let me alone, let me alone, can't you let me be
All I want in this world is to say I'm a man that's free

People talk about the way I look
I say come on and say it, I got enough to write a book
But don't they know, don't they know, don't they know it's a waste of breath'Cause I don't wanna be like them, all I want is to be myself
(Lemme hear you play it one time now)

Don't try to force your smuggled drugs my way
'Cause baby, I cleansed my soul and I say that's the way it's gonna stay
But you can put me down, all around, on the ground, anyway you choose
Get your kicks with your fix, but this time I know it's you who lose

I could love you more and more each day for a million years
And I'd sit around all day just crying happy tears

To dance and sing my life away (life away)
And laughing with you, my darling, softly to me

Orange, sugar, chocolate, hot cinnamon and lovely things and you
And darling, you know there was really nothing else that I could do

And my darling you will never know how elegant
you'll always be to me
And my darling I was so in love it was evident for anyone

To see, and I suppose they already do
And how come so suddenly everything depends on you

And if I kissed you once I'd probably do it again
But then that's not so inconceivable, my friend

Do you remember me
I'm the one you talk about
Do you remember me
I'm the one you booted out

No matter what in the world you do
Hey, I'll always be in love with you
No matter what in the world you say
Girl, I'm gonna love you anyway

Do you remember when
You said that I was your true love
And you'd take care of me
And watch me like the stars above

No matter what in the world you do
Hey, I'll always be in love with you
No matter what in the world you say
Girl, I'm gonna love you anyway

I just gotta hear you play it one time for everybody now

No matter what in the world you do
Hey, I'll always be in love with you
No matter what in the world you say
Girl, I'm gonna love you anyway

I just gotta hear you play it one time for the world now.

No matter what in the world you do
Hey, I'll always be in love with you
No matter what in the world you say
Girl, I'm gonna love you anyway

I said I'm gonna love you anyway
You know I'm gonna love you anyway.

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I went to Georgia
I went to Florida
I went to Missi
Tripped in Missippi, but now
You I'll be following
Oh, oh, oh

I went to Baghdad
I went to Laurel
Tripped in the canyon
My head is still bent, but now
You I'll be following
Oh, oh, oh

I went to Johnny
I went to Conka
One of them told me
That he was holding, but now
You I'll be following
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh (Ow!)

I went to Frisco
Bumped into Cisco
He had a shoebox
Behind his icebox, but now
You I'll be following
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh

In a gazing dazzling glare
As an image stood before me
But he knew not where

a mulatto soul so rare
Intercepted by graviation
Through the mist like air

From the pits of Eden
This image he came from there

One time now
Johnny's turn now

Driven out by Eden's

This image he came from there

Hey Joe where you goin with all that money in your hand now
Well I said hey Joe where you goin with all that money in your hand
Well I'm goin after my woman she's been runnin around with some other man now
Well I said I'm goin after my woman she's been runnin around with some other man
Well I'm gonna go downtown gonna buy me some blue steel 44's
And when I catch up to that woman she ain't gonna be runnin no more
All right
All right

Well I said hey Joe I heard you shot your woman dead
Well I said hey Joe I heard that you shot your woman dead
Well yes I did I shot tham just like I said now
Well you see I shot them just like I said
Well hey Joe tell me where are you gonna go
Well I said hey Joe now tell me where are you goin to go
Well I guess I'll go back to my favorite Mexico
Well I guess I'll go back to where I know a man can be free
Well there ain't goin to be no hangman putting no noose around my neck little child
Well I said there ain't goin be no hangman putting no noose around me
Well hey Joe where you goin with all that money in your hand
Well I said hey

On all of the A's just put your finger off the B
Then put it back on then up a fret. You'll understand.

Sometimes I feel so lonely
My comedown I'm scared to face
I've pierced my skin again, Lord
No one cares
For me

My soul belongs to the dealer
He keeps my mind as well
I play the part of the leecher
No one cares
For me, cares for me

Look out Joe, I'm fallin'
I can't unfold my arms
I've got one foot in the graveyard
No one cares
For me, cares for me

As I sit here thinking
Wondering where I am
Knowing that I could be here but I just sat
That's where I'm at

People walk the shadows
Falling stars appear
Other blinding matches come with their cats
That's where I'm at

I could never go there
It's too close far behind
Hope I never see you
So I won't go run and hide

Mushroom clouds are forming
And the sky is dark and grey

Little children dying
In a age of hate and war

We can love again
Only God knows when
Help us with our problems

I don't need you bothering me
Can't you tell me that I'm free

Mushroom clouds are forming
And the sky is dark and grey

Love me for a little while
Love me if you can
'Cause I want to be your man
And I want to understand You
Ah...

If you try to follow, girl
Please stay close behind
'Cause I wanna be with you
And I wanna love you too
Or three

Ah, ah, ah
Ah...
Ah, ah, ah

I don't want to waste your time
I just want to make you mine
Ah... whoa-oh-ah

One, two, three, four, I love you
And I always will
'Til the sun falls off the sky
Gonna love you 'til I die
And more

Ah, ah, ah
Ah...
Ah, ah, ah

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