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Baby Doll
What's wrong, baby doll?
We can't get along
What's
wrong, baby doll?
We can't get along
We'll have fun together
Now baby,
tell me what's wrong
Have your mind made up
Before you walk out that door
Have your mind made up
Before you walk out that door
Because one woman,
one chance
You don't get back no mo'
I've been good to you
As I intend to be
I've been good
to you
As I intend to be
Now, it seem like, baby doll
You tryin' to run
out on me.
Beer Drinking Woman
The story's true ladies and gentlemen.
All the names have
been changed to
protect the innocent.
The year 19 hundred and forty.
The city, Chicago. The place, Rubin's Tavern
The story goes something like
this:
I walked into a beer tavern
To give a girl a nice time
I
had forty-five dollars when I enter
When I left I had one dime
Wasn't she a beer drinkin' woman?
Don't ya know, man don't
ya know?
She was a beer-drinkin' woman
And I don't want to see her no more
Now, when I spend down to my last dime
She said, 'Darlin' I
know you're not through'
I said, 'Yes, baby doll
And the trophy belongs to
you'
Wasn't she a beer drinkin' woman?
Don't you know, man don't
you know?
She was a beer-drinkin' woman
And I don't wanna see her no more
Now she'd often say, 'Excuse me a minute
I've got to step
around here'
And ev'ry time she came back
She had room for another quart
of beer
Wasn't that a beer drinkin' woman?
Don't ya know, man,
don't ya know?
She was a beer drinkin' woman
And I don't want to see her
no mo'.
Blue And Disgusted
You know I'm gonna pray
Lord, never let me love, again
I'm gonna pray
Lord, never let me love, again
They tell me love is a
gamble
But I've never been able to win
Blue an' disgusted
That's the way I feel
Feel like a
broken spoke
In some farmer's wagon wheel
My baby walked out on me
You
know she gave me a raw, raw deal
I come home ev'ry night
My baby goes out about ten
Come
home ev'ry night
My baby goes out about ten
An' when I go to work ev'ry
mornin'
My baby, she's just comin' in
That's why I'm blue an' disgusted
An' that's the way I feel
So blue an' disgusted
People, that's the way I feel
Feel like a broken
spoke
In some farmer's wagon wheel.
Empty Room Blues
My room was empty, and my woman was gone
My room was
empty, and my woman was gone
I didn't have a nickel, and all my clothes in
pawn
I asked my next door neighbor, which-a-way did my baby go?
Asked my
next door neighbor, which-a-way did my baby go?
She says she left for the
border, down in old Mexico
I found a note on the floor, it almost sent me
off in a trance
I found a note on the floor, it almost sent me off in a
trance
She said it's nothin' that you done, I'm just leavin' in advance
Yes, yes, yes
It's so hard when a woman leave you, and she leave you on a
zoom
It's so hard when a woman leave you, and leave you on a zoom
You
come home feelin' very happy, and find only a empty room
Lend Me Your Love
Now lend me your love, little girl, please lend me your love
Lend me your love, baby, please lend me your love
I know you hear me
keep moanin', moanin' just like Noah's dove
You got a mortgage on my love,
girl, there really is no doubt
You got a mortgage on my love, girl, there
really is no doggone doubt
But someday I be lucky enough to find another
woman,
Gonna buy your love mortgage out
Two Of A Kind
Woman you've been havin' your way,
and you don't want to
see me have mine
Woman you've been havin' your way,
and you don't want
to see me have mine
So there's no getting along,
we're just two of the
same old kind
I tried to make things happy,
and your life I tried to let
you enjoy
I tried to make things happy,
and your life I tried to let you
enjoy
But you tell me you you're your mother's baby girl
Do you realize
I'm my mama's baby boy?
Around home you were just a spoiled one,
and
what you said, it had to be
Around home you were just a spoiled one,
and
what you said, it had to be
But do you know that the same old story,
little girl, really goes for me
Since we are just two babies,
darlin'
why can't we agree?
Since we are just two babies,
darlin' why can't we
agree?
I'll talk baby talk to you,
if you'll talk baby talk to me
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László Zoltán 2012
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