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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin


Background information
Birth name Aretha Louise Franklin
Born March 25, 1942
Born place Memphis, Tennesee, U.S.
Origin Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Genre(s) Soul
Jazz
Blues
R&B
Gospel
Rock
Years active 1956—present
Label(s) Arista Records
Columbia Records
Atlantic Records
Associated acts George Michael
Sweet Inspirations
Carolyn Franklin
Erma Franklin
Cissy Houston
George Benson
Michael McDonald
Mahalia Jackson
Albertina Walker
Stevie Wonder
Chaka Khan
Marvin Gaye
Natalie Cole



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Aretha Franklin Album


30 Greatest Hits (1986)
1986
1.
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
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5.
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
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8.
Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You)
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. . .



You're a no good heart breaker
You're a liar and you're a cheat
And I don't know why
I let you do these things to me
My friends keep telling me
That you ain't no good
But oh, they don't know
That I'd leave you if I could

I guess I'm uptight
And I'm stuck like glue
Cause I ain't never
I ain't never, I ain't never, no, no (loved a man)
(The way that I, I love you)

Some time ago I thought
You had run out of fools
But I was so wrong
You got one that you'll never lose
The way you treat me is a shame
How could ya hurt me so bad
Baby, you know that I'm the best thing
That you ever had
Kiss me once again

Don'cha never, never say that we we're through
Cause I ain't never
Never, Never, no, no (loved a man)
(The way that I, I love you)

I can't sleep at night
And I can't even fight
I guess I'll never be free
Since you got, your hooks, in me

Whoa, oh, oh
Yeah! Yeah!
I ain't never loved a man
I ain't never loved a man, baby
Ain't never had a man hurt me so bad

No
Well this is what I'm gonna do about it


. . .



(oo) What you want
(oo) Baby, I got
(oo) What you need
(oo) Do you know I got it'
(oo) All I'm askin'
(oo) Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)
Hey baby (just a little bit) when you get home
(just a little bit) mister (just a little bit)

I ain't gonna do you wrong while you're gone
Ain't gonna do you wrong (oo) 'cause I don't wanna (oo)
All I'm askin' (oo)
Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)
Baby (just a little bit) when you get home (just a little bit)
Yeah (just a little bit)

I'm about to give you all of my money
And all I'm askin' in return, honey
Is to give me my profits
When you get home (just a, just a, just a, just a)
Yeah baby (just a, just a, just a, just a)
When you get home (just a little bit)
Yeah (just a little bit)

------ instrumental break ------

Ooo, your kisses (oo)
Sweeter than honey (oo)
And guess what' (oo)
So is my money (oo)
All I want you to do (oo) for me
Is give it to me when you get home (re, re, re ,re)
Yeah baby (re, re, re ,re)
Whip it to me (respect, just a little bit)
When you get home, now (just a little bit)

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Find out what it means to me
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Take care, TCB

Oh (sock it to me, sock it to me,
sock it to me, sock it to me)
A little respect (sock it to me, sock it to me,
sock it to me, sock it to me)
Whoa, babe (just a little bit)
A little respect (just a little bit)
I get tired (just a little bit)
Keep on tryin' (just a little bit)
You're runnin' out of foolin' (just a little bit)
And I ain't lyin' (just a little bit)
(re, re, re, re) 'spect
When you come home (re, re, re ,re)
Or you might walk in (respect, just a little bit)
And find out I'm gone (just a little bit)
I got to have (just a little bit)
A little respect (just a little bit)


. . .



Take me to heart and I’ll always love you
And nobody can make me do wrong
Take me for granted, leaving love unsure
Makes will power weak and temptation strong

Chorus
A woman’s only human
You should understand
She’s not just a plaything
She’s flesh and blood just like her man
If you want a do-right-all-day woman
You’ve got to be a do-right-all-night man

They say that it’s a man’s world
Well you can improve that by me
And as long as we’re together baby
Show some respect for me

Chorus

Mood
Firmness - let's be serious here!

Background
You’ve got to play fair if you want co-operation!


. . .



I don’t want no body
Always sitting around me and my man.
I don’t want no body
Always sitting right there
Looking at me and that man
Be it my mother, my brother, or my sister
Would you believe? I’ll get up, put on some clothes,
Go out and help them find somebody for themselves
If I can. Yes I will.

Now I don’t mind company
Because company’s alright with me every once and a while
Yes it is.
I tell you I don’t mind company
Because company’s alright with me every once in a while, yeah.
But oh, when me and that man get to loving
I tell you girls I dig you, but I just don’t have time
To sit and chit and sit and chit chat and smile.

Don’t send me no doctor
Filling me up with all of those pills
I got me a man named ‘Dr. Feelgood’
And oh, yeah that man takes care of all my pains and my ills.
His name is Dr. Feelgood in the morning.
Taking care of business is really this man’s game.
And after one visit to Dr. Feelgood
You’d understand why Feelgood is his name
Oh yeah, oh good God Almighty the man sure makes me feel real
Goooooooooooooooooooood!!!!!!

Mood

Clear out everybody - two's company, three's a crowd, if you know what I'm saying!


. . .



SAVE ME!
Somebody save me
SAVE ME!
Somebody save me, yeah

Promised myself after the first romance
I wouldn't give ya a second chance
Said you see, you're sure to find
A but the closer I get to ya, baby
You drive me stone out-a-my-mind

SAVE ME!
Oh, yeah, SAVE ME! yeah, yeah
Those who love always give the most
We're cryin together from coast to coast
Love leaves us cold and hurt inside
Leaves of ours unjustified
Beggin ya ta, SAVE ME!
Yeah, need somebody to
SAVE ME! Yeah-hey-hey-hey

(sax)
Yeah, um-hum, yeah, um hum-hum
(sax)

Your love said ya needed me
You abused my love, set me free
You didn't need, you didn't want me
Somebody help me, this man wants to taunt me
I'm beggin you ta, Ooooh-oh!

SAVE ME! yeah, Ee-hee, SAVE ME!
Call in the Cape Crusader, Green Hornet
Kado too
I'm in so much trouble I don't know what ta do
If you're thinkin a thing about me
SAVE ME! oh yeah, yea, c'mon
I just said
SAVE ME! baby c'mon
SAVE ME! Wooo-hooo, SAVE ME!
FADES-
Ooooooooooooooh
Whoa-ho-ho save me...


. . .



If you want my lovin
If you really do
Don't be afra-aid bab-ay
Just ask me
Ya know I'm gonna give it to you

Oh and I do declare (I do)
I Wanna see you with it
Stretch out your arms little boy
Your gonna get it
Cause I love you-oo
(Baby, baby, baby I love you)
There ain't no doubt about it
Baby I lo-ove you
(Baby, baby, baby I love you)
I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you, baby I love you

If you feel you wanna kiss me
Go right ahead I don't mind
All you got to do is snap your fingers
And I'll come a- runnin, I ain't lyin
(I ain't lyin)
And Ooooh what you want'
Little boy you know you got it
I'd deny my own self
Before I see you without it
Cause I love you
(Baby, baby, baby I love you)
Ain't no doubt about it baby I love you
(Baby, baby, baby I love you)
I love you, I love you, I love you
Baby I love you

Someday ya might wanna run, run away
And leave me sittin here to cry
But if it's all the same to ya baby
I'm gonna stop ya from sayin goodbye
(Goodbye)
Baby I love ya (baby, baby, I love ya)
Baby I need ya (baby, baby I need ya)
Said I want ya (baby baby I want ya)
Got ta have ya (baby baby I love ya)
Don't let your neighbors tell ya I don't want ya
(Baby, baby I want ya)
FADES-
Don't let your lowdown friends
(Baby, baby I want ya)
Say I don't need ya
(Baby, baby I need ya)
Uh-huh baby I love ya...


. . .


Looking out on the morning rain
I used to feel so uninspired
And when I knew I had to face another day
Lord, it made me feel so tired
Before the day I met you, life was so unkind
But you're the key to my peace of mind

Cause you make me feel,
you make me feel,
you make me feel like
A natural woman (woman)

When my soul was in the lost-and-found
You came along to claim it
I didn't know just what was wrong with me
'Til your kiss helped me name it
Now I'm no longer doubtful of what I'm living for
and if I make you happy I don't need to do more

Cause you make me feel,
you make me feel,
you make me feel like
A natural woman (woman)

Oh, baby, what you've done to me
You make me feel so good inside
And I just wanna be close to you
You make me feel so alive

You make me feel,
You make me feel,
You make me feel like
A natural woman (woman)

. . .



Chain Of Fools


Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain)
Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain)
Chain, chain, chain
(Chain...chain...chain..)
(Chain of fools)

For five long years
I thought you were my man
But I found out, I'm just a link in your chain
Oh, you got me where you want me
I ain't nothin but your fool
Ya treated me mean
Oh you treated me cruel

Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain
Chain of fools)

Every chain, has got a weak link
I might be weak child, but I'll give you strength
Oh, babe
(Woo, woo, woo, woo)
You told me to leave you alone
(Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo)
My father said 'Come on home'
(Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo)
My doctor said 'Take it easy'
(Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo)
Oh but your lovin is just too strong
(Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo)
I'm added to your
Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain)
Chain, chain, chain
(Chain chain, chain)
Chain, chain, chain
(Chain...chain...chain...)
Chain of fools

Oh, one of these mornings
The chain is gonna break
But up until the day
I'm gonna take all I can take, oh babe

Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain)
Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain)
Chain, chain, chain
(Chain...chain...chain...)
(Chain of fools)

Oh!
(Chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain)
(Chain, chain, chain)
Oh-oh!
(Chain, chain, chain, -ain, ain, ain, ain)
Your chain of fools
FADES-
Oooooooooooooooooh......


. . .



Baby baby, sweet baby
There's something that I just got to say
Baby baby, sweet baby
You left me hurtin' in a real cold way

Speak your name
And I feel a thrill
You said I do
And I said I will

I tell you that I'll stay true
and give you just a little time
Wait on me baby,
I want you to be all mine
I just get so blue

Since you?ve been gone, baby
(why?d you do it? why?d you have to do it?)
Since you?ve been gone
(why?d you do it? why?d you have to do it?)

(bridge)

Baby baby, sweet baby
I didn't mean to run you away
It was pride on my lips,
But not in my heart
To say the things that led you to stray
But ah, me
Hear me now
(hear me)
I don't know what I'm gonna do
(hear me)
Got to get you back somehow
(hear me now)
I'm praying
Take me back,
consider me please
If you walk in that door,
I can get up off my knees
I've just been so blue

Since you've been gone
(why'd you do it? why'd you have to do it?)
Since you've been gone
(why'd you do it? why'd you have to do it?)
Well I've been so lonely
(sweet sweet - sweet sweet baby)
Baby, since you've been gone
(sweet sweet - sweet sweet baby)
I've been so lonely
(why'd you do it? why'd you have to do it?)
Since you've been gone
(why'd you'do it? why'd you have to do it?)
Baby baby baby been so lonely
(sweet sweet - sweet sweet baby)


. . .



Ain't no way for me to love you
If you won't let me
It ain't no way for me to give you all ya need
If you won't let me give all of me
(ooooooo) I know that a woman's duty
Is to help and love the man
And that's the way it was for me

(ooooooo)
Oh but how can I, how can I, how can I, give ya
Give ya all the things I can
If you're tying both of my hands
Whoa ho it ain't no way (ain't no way)
(It ain't no) way-ay-ay (ain't no way)
It just ain't no way babe-bay
(Ain't no way) ain't no way baaabbey
(Ain't no way) It ain't no way-hey-hey
For you me to love you (hoooo)
If you won't let me
Stop tryin' to be someone you're not
(Oooooo)
A hard, cold and crude is a man
Who paid too much for what he got
And if you need me, to love you
Say, say yeah you do
I'll be waiting, please, please
Don't you know that I need you
Oh it ain't no way (oooo-oooo)
I tell ya that it ain't no way
It ain't no way, it ain't no way bab-ay
It just ai-ai-n't no way, it sho ain't no way
It ain't no way-ay-hey-ay for me to love you
If you won't let me (ooooo-woooo)
Ain't no way, if you won't let me
fades
Baby no way


. . .



You better think (think)
Think about what you're tryin' to do to me
Think (think-think) let your mind go let yourself be free

Let's go back - let's go back
Let's go way on to way back when
I didn't even know you
You couldn't a been too much more than ten (just a child)

I ain't no psychiatrist
I ain't no doctor with degrees
But it don't take too much I.Q.
To see what you're doin' to me

You better think (think)
Think about what you're tryin' to do to me
Yeah think (think - think)
Let your mind go let yourself be free

Oh freedom (freedom)
Let's have some freedom (freedom)
Oh freedom
Yeah freedom (yeah)

You got to have freedom (freedom)
Oh freedom (freedom)
You need you some freedom
Oh freedom
Ya got ta have
Hey! think about it
You! think about it


There ain't nothin' you could ask
I could answer you but I won't (I won't)
But I was gonna change ya I'm not if
You keep doin' things I don't (don't)

You better think (think)
Think about what you're tryin' to do to me
(What you're tryin' ta do to me
Oh-oh-oh think (think)
Let your mind go let yourself be free

People walkin' around everyday
Playin' games and takin' scores
Tryin' to make other people lose their minds
Well be careful you don't lose yours

Oh think (think)
Think about what you're tryin' to do to me
Woo-hoo think (think)
Let your mind go let yourself be free

You need me (need me)
And I need you (don't cha know)
Without each other
There ain't nothin' we two can do

Oooh yeah think about it baby
(What cha tryin' to do me think)
Let it go baby
Think about it right now
Yeah right now (think about ..forgiveness)
Whoa right now (tell about ..forgiveness)
Yeah right now (tell about ..forgiveness)
I need to change your mind (think about it)
Baby baby baby woo (tell about it..forgiveness)
Think about it baby (tell about forgiveness)
FADES-
Yeah woo-hoo (tell about forgiveness)
Tell about it baby baby baby (think about it..)


. . .



The moment I wake up
Before I put on my makeup
I say a little prayer for you
While combing my hair, now,
And wondering what dress to wear, now,
I say a little prayer for you

Forever, forever, you'll stay in my heart
and I will love you
Forever, forever, we never will part
Oh, how I'll love you
Together, together, that's how it must be
To live without you
Would only be heartbreak for me.

I run for the bus, dear,
While riding I think of us, dear,
I say a little prayer for you.
At work I just take time
And all through my coffee break-time,
I say a little prayer for you.

Forever, forever, you'll stay in my heart
and I will love you
Forever, forever we never will part
Oh, how I'll love you
Together, together, that's how it must be
To live without you
Would only be heartbreak for me.

My darling believe me,
For me there is no one
But you


. . .



This is the house that Jack built, y'all
Remember this house!

This was the land that he worked by hand
It was the dream of an upright man
There was the room that was filled with love
It was a love that I was proud of
This is the life, the life that he planned
On the love, the same old loved
Of the house that Jack built.
Remember this house!

There was the fence that held our love,
There was the gate that he walked out of
This is the heart it has turned to stone
This was the house, it ain't no home
This is the love that I destroyed
On the day that I toyed with love,
This is the house that Jack built,
I'm gonn' remember this house!

Oh-ohh wha-a-at's the use of crying?
You know I brought it on myself
There's no denying
But it see-e-ee-ems awful funny
That I didn't understand
Until I lost my upright man

Up on the hill
Everything stands still
In the house that Jack built
I'm gonna remember this house

Listen!
I got the house
I got the car
I got the rug
And I got the rack
But I ain't got Jack
And I want my Jack back!

I turned my back on Jack
He said he wasn't coming back
I turned my back on Jack
He said he wasn't coming back
Ohhh, Jack
You oughta come on back
Ohh Jack
You oughta come on back
To the that you built
It's the same one that you built

I didn't understand
Until I lost a upright man
Come on back Jack


. . .



Sometimes you love me
Like a good man ought-ta
Sometimes you hurt me so bad
My tears run like water
You get me up
Right before your friends
Then you disown me baby
Until we?re alone again

Your love is like a see saw
Your love is like a see saw baby
Your love is like a see saw
Goin? up and down all around
It?s like a see saw

Sometimes ya tell me
Ya don?t need my sweet candy man
And then sometimes baby
Go-go away
An I?ll stay

You lift me up
When I?m on the ground
But as soon as I get up now
You send me tumblin? down

Now your love is like a see saw
Your love is like a see saw baby
Your love is like a see saw
Goin up.... down
All around
Just like a see saw

When I kiss you and I like it
And I ask you to kiss me again
When I reach for you
Ya jump clean out of sight
You change just like the wind
That ain?t right
That ain?t right
That ain?t right
That ain?t right baby

(Instrumental)

Your love is like a see saw
Your love is like a see saw baby
Your love is like a see saw
Goin up goin? down
Goin? all around

It?s like a see saw
Your love is like a see saw
Your love is like a see saw baby
Your love is like a see saw
Goin? up goin down
All around
FADES-
It?s like a see saw yeah
See saw baby
(See saw)


. . .



I pulled into Nazareth
I was feelin? bout a half past dead (dead)
I just need some place
Where I can lay my head (head)
?Hey mister can you tell me where a girl might find a bed??
(Can ya tell me?)
He just grinned and shook my hand
And ?no? was all he said

Take a load off Fannie
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fannie
Then hey-yea-yea
Put the weight on me!

I picked up my bag
I went lookin? for a place to hide
When I saw comin? in the devil
Walkin? side by side
I said ?they comin?
Come on let?s go down town?
She said ?I gotta go but my friend can stick around?

Take a load off Fannie
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fannie
Then hey, an yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
(Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo)

Go down Moses
There?s nothin? that-a you can say
(Ooo-ooo)
It?s just like all of us waitin?
Waitin? for the judgement day
(Woo-ooo)
Well Luke my friend
What about Annalee?
(Doo-ooo-ooo)
He said ?Do me a favor?
?Stay and keep Annalee some company?

(Take a load off Fannie
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fannie)
Well-ell yeah
Put the weight on me

(Yeah-yeah-yeah)
Catch me a cannonball
And that?ll take me on down the line
(Yeah)
My bag is circulin?
I believe that it?s about time
(You said it girl)
To get in touch with Fannie
You know she?s the one
(Yeah)
Who said ?Mickey
Is there a god forever one??
Yeah!

(Take a load off Fannie
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fannie
Take a load for free
FADES-
Take a load off Fannie
Take a load...


. . .



Itґs an evil wind
That blows no good yeah
Itґs a sad heart
That wonґt love like I know it should
No hollow sound (no hollow sound)
You must be
(You must be)
Itґs a shame (shame)
You donґt share your love with me

Itґs a heartache yeah
(Itґs a heartache)
When love is gone
(Itґs a heartache)
But itґs bad
(Bad) and even sad (sad)
All day long

And itґs no wonder
When you wonґt see me
Itґs a shame
(shame)
If you wonґt share
Some of your love with me

I canґt help it oh no
If heґs gone
I must try to forget
Because I got to live on
Ooooh
Have me some good thing
Itґs a sweet thing
(Its a sweet thing)
But you love someone eles
(Such a sweet thing)

But Itґs bad (bad)
And even sadder (sad)
When itґs not the time

And Ooooooooooh
How lonesome... how lonesome
How lonesome baby
(Lonesome)
You must be
(You must be)

I tell ya it would be a sad (sad)
Shame (shame)
If you donґt share
Your love with me
(Share your love with me)

It would really be a mistake baby
(If you say it)
If you donґt share
Your love with me
(Share your love with me)

It would sure be a shame
(Shame shame)
If you donґt share
Share your love with me
FADES-
Share your love with me
Come on bab-ay


. . .



I'm Eleanor Rigby, I picked up the rice
In the church where the weddin's had been, yeah
I'm Eleanor Rigby, I'm keepin' my face in a jar by the door
You wanna know what is it for'

Well, all the lonely people
Where do they all come from' yeah
All the lonely people, where do they all belong' now now

Father McKenzie writin' a words to a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him workin', darnin' his socks in the night
What does he care' yeah
All the lonely people, where do they all come from'
All the lonely people, where do they all belong' yea!

Uum-hum-um-um, um hum- hum- yea!
Eleanor, baby, um hum-hum-um
Eleanor Rigby, died in the church
And was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wipin' the dirt from his hands
As he walked from the grave
Sayin' all the lonely people, where do, where do they come from'
All over the world, the lonely, lonely, lonely, people
Where do, where do they all belong'
Ooo lonely, only the lonely know
Ooohoo lonely, only the lonely people know
Just like a Eleanor Rigby, yeah, Eleanor, Eleanor
Rigby, only the lonely, yeah the lonely, yea-e-yea
fades-
Loneliness
Yeah gotta love some lonely people


. . .



I love you (I love you)
An I love you (I love you)
And I love you too (and I love you)
Baby will you call me the moment you get there?

Hey baby, um-hum
And I love you (I love you)
And I love you too (I love you)
And I love you (and I love you)
Baby will you
(Call me) call me (the moment) the moment
(You get there) you get there? yeah
Yeeeeaaaah, bab-bay-a-yea-yea

My dearest, my dearest of all darling (ah-ooo)
I know, I know, I know
I know we?ve got to part
(Ah-ooo)
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby

It really doens?t hurt me that bad yeah (ah-ooo)
Because you?re takin? me with you
And I?m keepin? you
Right-a here in my heart

It?s all because I love you (I love you)
Woo-hoo and I love you (I love you)
And I love you too (and I love you)
Baby will ya call me the moment you get there, bab-ay
Will you do that?
Will you do that for me now?

Oh-oh-oh-oh, call me
(Call me) call me the hour
(The hour) Call me the minute (the minute)
The second that you get there?
Baby, baby, baby, baby, call me (the moment)
Call me the moment (call me)
Cause I love you call me the minute (the moment)
Yeah, yeah, call me, call me, call me, call me, call me, bab-ay
Yeah, yeah, yeah (call me)
Call me the hour
(The hour)
Call me the moment ya get there?

(Don?t forget, don?t forget)
(Don?t forget about me bab-ay)
No don?t forget about me bab-ay
(Baby) I love you
(Baby) call me!
(And when you get there
Call me, call me, call me
Baby)
Call me baby

(Call me) call me the hour (the hour)
Call me the minute, the hour, the second
(Call me, call me, call me, call me, call me bab-ay
Yeah, call me baby (the minute)
Call me the minute (second) the second
Don?t forget about the hour (don?t forget, don?t forget
About me bab-ay)
Don?t forget, don?t forget about me bab-ay
(The moment) call me the moment
(Call me) caaall me
FADES-
(You got to call me
(call me, call me, call me, call me bab-ay)
Oh yeah...


. . .



I-Iґm gettinґ the spirit in the dark
(um-hum-hum)
Iґm gettinґ the spirit in the dark
(Um-hum-hum)
People movinґ oh and they groovinґ
Just gettinґ the spirit
(Um-hum-hum) in the dark

Tell me sister how do ya feel?
Tell me my brother-brother-brother
How do you feel?
A do you feel like dancin?
Get up and letґs start dancinґ
Start gettinґ the spirit
(Start gettinґ in the spirit)
Spirit in the dark
(In the dark)

(Doot-doot)
Itґs like Sally Walker
(Do-do-doot-doot)
Sittinґ in a saucer
(Do-do-do-do-do-do)
Thatґs how ya (doot) do it
(Do-do-doot-doot)
It ainґt nothinґ
(Do-ooo-do-ooo-doot-doot) to it

Riiiiide Sally ride
(Do-ooo-do-do-do)
Put your hand on your hips
Cover your eyes
And move
(Move)

With the spirit
(With the spirit)
Go on an move
(Move)
Move with the spirit
(With the spirit)
Oh move
(Move)
Move with the spirit
Now-now-now
(With the spirit)
Move with the spirit

Are you gettin the spirit?
(Yeah)
Are you gettinґ it in the dark?
(Yeah)
I wonder how youґre gettinґ the spirit?
(Yeah)
Gettinґ the spirit in the dark
(Yeah)

People movinґ yeah-yeah-yeah
Everybodys groovinґ
Just gettinґ the spirit
(Start gettinґ in the spirit)
Are you gettinґ it?
Are you gettinґ it in the dark?
(In the dark)

(Doot-doot)
Itґs like Sally Walker
(Doo-do-do-do)
Sittinґ in her saucer
(Doo-do-do-do-do)
Thatґs how ya do it
(Doo-do-do-do-do)

Now get on up to it
(Doo-do-do-do-do)
Ride Sally ride
(Doo-do-do-do-do)
Put your hands on your hips
Cover your eyes

And move on up with the spirit
(With the spirit)
Go on and move
(Move)
Move with the spirit
(With the spirit)
Move with the spirit
(With the spirit)
Hey now move
(Move)
Move with the spirit

(Piano)
(I THINK IґVE GOT IT!

All of my brothers
(Move with the spirit)
All of my sisters
(Move with the spirit)
Move
(Move with the spirit)
With the spirit
(Move with the spirit)
Keep on movinґ
(Move with the spirit)
We all groove
(Groove with the spirit now)
Now move
(Move with the spirit)
Keep on groove!
(Groove with the spirit)
You gotta move your hands
(Move)
Put em together
And groove your hands
Gotta move your feet
(Groove!)
The spirit on the beat
(Move)
Oh move
(Move with the spirit)
Move!
(Move with the spirit)
Oh move
(Move with the spirit)
Move
(Move with the spirit)
Move with the spirit
(Move with the spirit)
Ooo yeah move on
(Move with the spirit)
Oh right on!
(The spirit)
Come on!
(The spirit)
Right on
(The spirit)
(Move on)
(The spirit)
Feel it
(The spirit)
Feel it
(Oh that spirit)
Feel
(Oh that spirit)
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
(Move with the spirit)
Yeah move on
(Move with the spirit)
Yeah
(Move with the spirit)
Yeah
(Move with the spirit)
Move on
(Move with the spirit)
Oh Good God A-Mighty!
(Move with... the spirit)
Yeah Good God A-Mighty)


. . .



Don't play that song for me
It brings back memories of days that I once knew
The days that I spent with you
oh no, don't let it play
It fills my heart with pain
Please stop it right away
I remember just-a what it said
It said: "Darling, I love you"
You know that you lied
"Darling, I love you"
You know that you lied
"darling, I love you"
You know that you lied, you lied,
You lied, lied, lied, lied

Remember on our first date
You kissed me and you walked away
You were only seventeen
I never thought you'd act so mean
But baby you told me you loved me
You told me you cared
you said, "I'll go with you darling almost anywhere
But darling, you know that you lied, lied, lied, lied, lied


. . .



(Youґre all I need to get by)
(Youґre all I need to get by)
(Youґre all I need to get by)
(Youґre all I need to get by)
(Youґre all.....I need....to get by-hi-hi)

AslongasIgotyouthenbabyyouknowthatyougotme!
Oh (whoa-oh-ho)
IknowthatIґlllovehimtomorrowESBCT!(oh) whoa oh ho

Like the sweet morning dew
I took one look at you
And it was plain to see you were my destiny
With my arms open wide I threw away my pride
I sacrificed for you, dedicate my life to you
I will go where you lead, Iґll be right there in a time of need
And when I lose my will, youґll be right there to push me up that hill

(Thereґs no) no (no lookinґ back for us) no way bab-bay
(Weґve got enough to show love thatґs enough)
(Youґre all) youґre all, all (youґre all I need)
(Youґre all, youґre all I need, youґre all)
Youґre all I need baby baby, to get by yeah, get by

Like an eagle protects his nest, for you Iґll do my best
Stand by you like a tree and damn anybody that try an move me
Darling in you I found, straight for I was torn down
I donґt know whatґs in store, but together we can open any door
Just to do whatґs good for you, Iґll inspire you alittle bit higher
I know you can make a real man
Iґm a soul that didnґt have a goal

(Cause weґve) yeah ( weґve got the right foundation)
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah (and weґve got determination)
Yes we do (oh) Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
(Youґre all, youґre all I need youґre all)
Yes, baby (youґre all I need youґre all)
(Youґre all)
Oooo youґre all that I need to get by-i-i-i-i
Yeah, yeah

AslongasIgotyouthenbabyyouknowthatyougot me!
(Whoa) whoa (yeah) um umm hum
ThinkinIlovehimtomorrowESBCT! oh whoa oh oh oh oh

(Baby) uum hum uum hum
Babyyouknowthatyougotme!
Oh youґre all I need (yeah)
Fades-
Youґre all that I need
Youґre all that I need


. . .

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

[No lyrics]

. . .



There is a rose in Spanish Harlem
A red rose up in Spanish Harlem
It is a special one, it's never seen the sun
It only comes out when the moon is on the run
And all the stars are gleaming
It's growing in the street right up through the concrete
But soft and sweet and dreamin'

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem
A red rose up in Spanish Harlem
With eyes as black as coal that look down in my soul
And starts a fire there and then I lose control
I have to beg your pardon
I'm going to pick that rose and watch her as she grows in my garden



I'm going to pick that rose and watch her as she grows in my garden

(There is a rose in Spanish Harlem)
La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la-la
(There is a rose in Spanish Harlem)
La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la-la
(There is a rose in Spanish Harlem)
FADE


. . .



Rock steady baby!
That's what I feel now
Let's call this song exactly what it is

Step n' move your hips
With a feelin' from side to side
Sit yourself down in your car
And take a ride

And while you're movin'
Rock steady
Rock steady baby
Let's call this song exactly what it is
(What it is -what it is - what it is)

It's a funky and low down feelin'
(What it is)
In my hips from left to right
(What it is)
What it is
Is I might be doin'
(What it is)
This funky dance all night
Oh!
(Let me hear ya gotta feelin' in the air)
Oh!
(Gotta a feelin' an ain't got a care)
Oh!
(What fun to take this ride
Rock steady will only slide)

Rock steady........ rock steady baby
Rock steady........ rock steady baby

(Instrumental)

Step and move your hips
With a feelin' from side to side
Sit yourself down in your car
And take a ride
While you're movin' rock steady
Rock steady

Let's call this song exactly what it is
(What it is -what it is - what it is)
It's a funky and low down feelin'
(What it is)
In my hips from left to right
(What it is)
What it is - is I might be doin'
(What it is)
This funky dance all night
Oooooooooooooh
(Wave your hands up in the air
Got the feelin' an ain't got a care)
Oooooooooooooh
(What fun to take this ride)
(Rock steady will only slide)

Rock steady baby
Rock steady... woo!
Rock steady

(Instrumental)

(Rock.... steady!... rock... steady!)

(What it is)
It's a funky and low down feelin'
(What it is)
In my hips from left and right
(What it is)
What it is
Is I might be doin'
This funky dance all night

Oooooooooooooh
(Wave your hands up in the air)
Oooooooooooooh
(Got a feelin' an ain't got a care)
Oooooooooooooh
(What fun to take this ride)
Oooooooooooooh
(Rock steady will only slide)

Rock steady
Steady it baby!
Rock....rock steady baby
FADES-
Baby
(What it is)
Baby baby
(What it is)
Baby
(What it is)
Baby...


. . .



To make you laugh, I would be a fool for you
Although the people turn and stare
I really don?t care
I would give my everything to keep you, boy
It breaks my heart when you?ve not there

I?ll stage a ballet on a tabletop
Command performance finger size
And although I ain?t got no tune
My show ain?t gonna fly
I?ll find the music there in your eyes

Oh me, oh my, I?m a fool for you baby (baby now)
(Fool for you) Oh me oh my (I)
I am crazy (crazy baby)
Oh me, oh my (me oh my)
Yeah I?m a fool for ya baby
C?mon let your love light shine on me
(Shine on me)

We?ll blow a genie from a cigarette
And then we?ll take a magic carpet ride
Yes we will
And we?ll tell our smokey friend, hey don?t you forget
Because you?ve got to keep us side by side, yeah

Oh me, oh my (oh me, oh my)
I am a fool for ya baby (be your)
(Your fool for ya)
Oh me, oh my, (I)
You know that I am (crazy) crazy baby
(Crazy baby) yes you do (crazy baby)
Oh me, oh my (oh me, oh my)
Whoa-oh I?m a fool (fool) for ya baby
(Need your)
Come on let your love light shine on me
(Shine on me)
Would you do that? (on me)
Come on let your love light shine
Just alittle bit (shine) right on me

Oh lover let your love light
Shine on me (shine on me)
Oh hear me now!
Oh me, me oh my
I?m a fool oh! for ya baby (now)

FADES-
Oh me oh my (I)
You know that I?m cra-a-azy baby
(Crazy baby)
Oh me, oh my.......


. . .



(Day dreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you)
(Day dreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you)
(Day dreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you)
(Day dreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you)
(Look at my heart floating away)

He's the kind of guy that would say
'Hey baby let's get away let's go some place, huh''
Well I don't care
He's the kind of guy that you give your everything
And trust your heart, share all of your love, till death do you part

I want to be what he wants when he wants it, and whenever he needs it
And when he's lonesome and feelin' love starved
I'll be there to feed it
I'm givin' him a little bit for each day
He turns me right on when I hear him say

(Hey baby let's get away, let's go somewhere far
(Baby can we')
Well I don't care
(Hey baby let's get away, let's go somewhere far
(Baby can we')
Well I don't care

I wanna be what he wants when he wants it
And whenever he needs it
When it comes to bein' feelin' loved starved I'll be there to feed it
Lovin him a little bit more each day
It turns me right on when I hear him say

(Hey baby let's get away, let's go somewhere far)
(Baby can we') Well, I don't care
(Hey baby let's get away, let's go somewhere far)
(Baby can we') Well, I don't care

(Day dreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you)
(Day dreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you) hoooo
(Day dreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you)
(Day dreamin' and I'm thinkin' of you)
(Look at my heart, floating away)]

(Day dreaming) day dreaming of you
(Day dreaming)
Thinking of you
fades-
Day....dreaming
Day....dreaming


. . .



?sing it sing it? (audience)
Chorus:
(Woo-wooo-wooo-wooo)

Whoa-ho-ho-ho Holy Wholly
Come together wholly
People we have got to come together
With all of the strength
Have all of the feeling ooo-yeah
Why Holly Wholly
Come on check out the water now now
Water Holly Wholly

We should believe
Believe in each other?s dreams
Jesus left along time ago
And said he would return
But he left us a book to believe in
And in it we?ve got a whole lot to learn
Yeah-yeah-whoa Holly Wholly
He can?t talk out
Can?t walk out now
Holly Holly Holly

We can rock this earth?s foundation
Yes we can (glory)
Can?t you see us (glory)
Brothers and sisters
Talkin? about love
(Love-love-love-love-love)
Love-love-love-love)
(Love-love-love-love-love)

Oooooohooo-hoooo
Holly Wholly
We can rock
We can rock this earth?s foundation
Uum hum (Holly Wholly)
Wholly Wholly (Wholly-Wholly)
Can?t you see us (Wholly)
Comin? together
Talking ?bout love (Wholly)
Movin? and groovin? with a-love
Let it get men with a-love (Wholly Wholly)
Doin? and movin? it with love
Love-love-love-love-love
Whoa- Holly Wholly
He proclaimed love
He proclaimed love
About his salvation oh-yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah (Wholly)

Whoa (Wholly) Wholly Wholly Wholl
Wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly
Wholly-wholly
Wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly
Wholly-wholly
Wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly
Wholly-wholly
Wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly
Wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly
Wholly-wholly-wholly-wholly

Love right now- love brother
Love right now- love..


. . .



Spoken:
I got a call the other day
It was my sister, Carolyn, sayin?
?Aretha, come by when you can
I?ve got somethin? that I wanna say?
And when I got there she said
?You know rather than go through a long drawn out thing,
I think the melody on the box, will help me explain?

Gotta find me an angel, just fly away with me
Gotta find me an angel, ooh and set me free
My heart is without a whole, I don?t want to be in love
I gotta find me an angel in my life, in my life
Too long have I loved you so unattached within
So much that I know that I need somebody so
So I?ll just go on hoping that I find me someone
Find me an angel in my life
In my life

Instrumental

I know there must be someone, somewhere for me
Oh I lived too long without the love of someone
And there?s no misery ooooooh oooh like the misery
I feel in me, gotta find me an angel in (in my life)
(You?ll meet him now don?t you worry)
My life (keep lookin? and just keep cookin?)
My life (he?ll be there, now don?t you worry)
My life


. . .



Though you don't call anymore
I sit and wait in vain
I guess I'll rap on your door
tap on your window pane
I wanna tell you, baby
changes I've been going through, missing you
'til you come back to me that's what I'm gonna do

Why did you have to decide
you had to set me free?
I'm gonna swallow my pride
and beg you to please see me
I'm gonna walk by myself
to prove that my love is true, all for you
'til you come back to me that's what I'm gonna do

Living for you, my dear
is like living in a world of constant fear
hear my plea
I've gotta make you see that our love is dying

Although your phone you ignore
somehow I must explain
I'll have to rap on your door, tap on your window pane
I'm gonna camp by your steps
until I get through to you
change your view
'til you come back to me that's what I'm gonna do
'til you come back to me that's what I'm gonna do

I'm gonna tap on your window pane, don't wanna wait in vain
I'm gonna tap on your window pane, don't wanna wait in vain


. . .



(Love-love-love-love)

I?m in love.... yes I am
I?m in love.... yes I am um!
I?m in love
Hey baby-hey you know I am
In love
Uh-huh you know I am

Friends all wonder
What?s come over me
I?m as happy as any girl could be
(Love-love-love)
I?m in love
(Love-love-love)
Believe me I am
(Love-love-love)
I?m in love oh
(Love- love-love)

Yes-sir I am
Yes-sir I am
Yes I am
(Love-love-love)
Hoo-whoa-whoa-whoa
(Love-love-love)
I?m in love

And I?m so glad
That it?s me who had to change
I?m sproutin? and bloomin?
Like the last summer rose
I?m in love
(Love-love-love)
I?m in love - I?m in love
I?m in love - I?m in love
I?m in love
(Love-love-love)
I?m in ...
(Love-love-love)

(Instrumental)

I?M IN LOVE!
(Love-love-love)
In the mornin?
(In-love in-love in-love in-love)
I wake up smilin?
(Love-love-love)
I?M IN LOVE!
(Love-love-love)
Smilin? like love
I know where it?s at
(In-love in-love in-love in-love)
(Oh I?m in love)
I?m in love
(In-love in-love in-love)
I?m in love
(In-love in-love in-love in-love)
Yes I am!
FADES-
(Love-love-love)
I?m in love


. . .


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