Polly Brown – Up in a Puff of Smoke

Very heavily influenced by The Supremes. Polly Brown sounds like Diana Ross. I can’t believe that Motown did not offer her a contract. I also hear a little bit of Disco starting to creep in. The song reached #16 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart on March 15, 1975.

From Wikipedia,

The songwriting/production team of Gerry Shury and Ron Roker had admired Brown’s voice from her Pickettywitch recordings. Shury, who had arranged Brown’s 1972 self-titled album release, described her as a cross “between Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick”. In 1974, Shury and Roker had Brown record the neo-Motown number “Up in a Puff of Smoke”. In the same session Brown, with Roker as co-vocalist, recorded a cover of the ABBA song “Honey, Honey“, which was released under the name Sweet Dreams.

“Up in a Puff of Smoke” proved to be a UK Top 40 shortfall although it did spend five weeks in the Top 50, peaking at #43. However, the track became a hit in several English speaking countries: Australia (#22), Canada (#11), New Zealand (#13), and the US (#16).

Up in a Puff of Smoke

Going up, going up
Going up, up, up
Going up, going up
Going up, up, up

Going up, going up
Going up, up, up
Going up, going up, oh

Like a bubble
Headed for trouble
Wind is blowing
In the wrong direction
I was headed into danger
Too much in love to see

I pledged my trust in him
Believed in everything
Just had me on a string
And then he let me blow away

And now it’s going
Up, up, up in a puff of smoke
It ain’t no joke the way
He broke my heart
Going up, up, up in a puff of smoke
And I’m all choked up inside
To see my dreams just
Turn into ashes and all my
Hopes go up in a puff of smoke

Going up, going up
Going up, up, up
Going up, going up, oh

I aspire, took me higher than
A rocket on it’s way to Heaven
Couldn’t see those dangers coming
Cause I was flying blind

It hurt me deep inside
And broke my foolish pride
That my sweet talking guy
Was only talking lies

He took me higher than a kite
Then dropped me like a light
Going up, up, up, up, up, up ,up
Thought I had a chance
But let me set you down
Going up, up, up, up, up, up ,up

Ooh, ooh, yeah
Going up, up, up, up, up, up ,up

Going up, up, up in a puff of smoke
Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Going up, up, up in a puff of smoke
Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah
Going up, up, up in a puff of smoke

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Gerry Shury / Phillip Swern / Ron Roker

Clarence Carter – Patches

The first part of this song reminds me of my grandfather. He was a sharecropper during the depression in rural Tennessee. He and my grandmother had 5 kids, and they literally lived in shacks. The Waltons were well off in comparison. At some point when the kids got older, they moved into a regular house and also owned and operated a small grocery store. A few years after that they moved to the big city, Nashville and lived next to my uncle in a duplex. My grandfather died at the age of 80 in 1975. My grandmother would go on to live until 1992 and died at the age of 95.

The song peaked at number 04 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart on September 19, 1970.

From Wikipedia,

The song was written by General Johnson, the lead singer of Chairmen of the Board, with Ron Dunbar, who worked in A&R and record production at the Invictus record label, owned and overseen by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland, formerly of Motown. Dunbar was often credited with co-writing hit songs at Invictus with “Edyth Wayne”, a pseudonym used by Holland-Dozier-Holland during the time when they were in legal dispute with Motown and its music publishing arm Jobete to which they had been contracted.

The song tells a story about a boy born and raised in poverty on a backwoods farm in Alabama by a father who endured much suffering in life; the father dies before the boy is 13, entrusting the boy with the family and estate. The boy is forbidden from quitting school (as the father never could attend), so he must do all of the farm work before and after school so that he and his family have food. The burden is almost too much for the boy, especially after a flood wipes out a crop, but determination not to let his father down, along wth his mother’s prayers, keep him going. Years later, his mother has died and he and his younger siblings are adults, and he looks back on his father’s words as what helped him pull through those hard times.

The blind blues singer Clarence Carter heard the song, later saying: “I heard it on the Chairmen of the Board LP and liked it, but I had my own ideas about how it should be sung. It was my idea to make the song sound real natural…” Initially he thought “that it would be degrading for a black man to sing a song so redolent of subjugation,” but was persuaded to do so by record producer Rick Hall.

Carter recorded the song at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with Hall as producer and musicians including Junior Lowe (guitar), Jesse Boyce (bass), and Freeman Brown (drums). Carter’s recording was released in July 1970 and was described by a Billboard reviewer as a “powerful blues item” featuring a “blockbuster vocal work-out.” The record rose to No. 4 on the Hot 100, No. 2 on the R&B chart, and No. 2 on the UK singles chart.

Following Carter’s success, the song won the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Song for its writers, Johnson and Dunbar.

Clarence Carter – Patches

I was born and raised down in Alabama
On a farm way back up in the woods
I was so ragged that folks used to call me Patches
Papa used to tease me about it
‘Cause deep down inside he was hurt
‘Cause he’d done all he could

My papa was a great old man
I can see him with a shovel in his hands, see
Education he never had
He did wonders when the times got bad
The little money from the crops he raised
Barely paid the bills we made

For, life had kick him down to the ground
When he tried to get up
Life would kick him back down
One day Papa called me to his dyin’ bed
Put his hands on my shoulders
And in his tears he said

He said, Patches
I’m dependin’ on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it’s all left up to you

Two days later Papa passed away, and
I became a man that day
So I told Mama I was gonna quit school, but
She said that was Daddy’s strictest rule

So every mornin’ ‘fore I went to school
I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too
Sometimes I felt that I couldn’t go on
I wanted to leave, just run away from home
But I would remember what my daddy said
With tears in his eyes on his dyin’ bed

He said, Patches
I’m dependin’ on you, son
I tried to do my best
It’s up to you to do the rest

Then one day a strong rain came
And washed all the crops away
And at the age of 13 I thought
I was carryin’ the weight of the Whole world on my shoulders
And you know, Mama knew What I was goin’ through, ’cause

Every day I had to work the fields
‘Cause that’s the only way we got our meals
You see, I was the oldest of the family
And everybody else depended on me
Every night I heard my Mama pray
Lord, give him the strength to make another day

So years have passed and all the kids are grown
The angels took Mama to a brand new home
Lord knows, people, I shedded tears
But my daddy’s voice kept me through the years

Saying
Patches, I’m dependin’ on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it’s all left up to you

Oh, I can still hear Papa’s voice sayin’
Patches, I’m dependin’ on you, son
I’ve tried to do my best
It’s up to you to do the rest

I can still hear Papa, what he said
Patches, I’m dependin’ on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it’s all left up to you

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: General N. Johnson / Ronald Dunbar

Y&T – Summertime Girls

From their 1985 album Open Fire. The song reached #55 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in the summer of 1985.

From Allmusic.com

Taking their name from a Beatles song, the group was originally formed as Yesterday & Today in San Francisco, around 1973.

From Wikipedia

“Summertime Girls” is a single by American rock band Y&T. It was released as the first single from their seventh studio album Open Fire. It later reappeared on their eighth studio album Down for the Count. The song became the band’s biggest hit, as well as their first and only single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 55.

Summertime Girls

Ooh yeah, I
Just want to watch the girls, goin’ by…
It’s like poetry in motion
against a hot summer sky.
I’m in love, yeah yeah…
at least every minute or two…
until the next time a girl walks by
I think I love her too

I can’t help myself
but I just loose my head
everytime you see ’em walkin’ by…

Summertime Girls
You make my whole world go around
Summertime Girls
When you lift me up
I never come down, no, no…

She’s hot!
I dig her wiggle and all that shake
I can read that body language, yeah
a million miles away
Sometimes I, yeah come on just a bit, a bit too strong
But I just like to pretend, yes.
that I can have ’em all.

No time, time to catch my breath
so easily impressed
it doesn’t matter if it’s day or night

Summertime Girls
You make my whole world go around
Summertime Girls
But when you lift me up
I never come down, no, no…

Come here girls…

Summertime Girls
You make my whole world go around
Summertime Girls
When you lift me up
I never come down, no, no…

Summertime Girls
Oh baby..You make my whole world go around
Summertime Girls
The way you lift me up
I never come down, no, no…

Summertime Girls
Summertime Girls
Summertime Girls
You make my whole world go around
Summertime Girls

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Dave Meniketti / Joseph L Alves / Leonard E Haze / Philip M Kennemore

Freda Payne – Bring the Boys Home

I ran across this song a couple of months ago. In 1971 it was banned by Arm Forces Radio. I thought this would be a good post for Memorial Day.

From her 1971 album Contact. The song reached #12 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart on June 5th 1971.

From Wikipedia

“Bring the Boys Home” is a song recorded by rhythm and blues singer Freda Payne in 1971 during the Vietnam War era. It was an anti-war song that was aimed at the sending of troops to fight in an increasingly unpopular war.

The song was produced by Greg Perry and released on the Invictus label. It was backed with “I Shall Not Be Moved”. The song came out at a time when soldiers were returning to America dead and in body bags. A higher than normal amount of the soldiers were black. The soldiers were only boys at the age of 20, which was the average age that many of them were killed. In spite of the healthy amount of airplay it received in the US, the US Command from the American Forces Network banned it. The reason given was that it would be of benefit to the enemy. 50,000 copies of the album Contact were pressed before it was added to the album after it became a hit. It replaced “He’s In My Life” which was the first track on side 1.

The Soul Source section of the May 22 issue of Billboard named it the best new record of the week.

Bring the Boys Home

Fathers are pleading
Lovers are all alone
Mothers are praying
Send our sons back home (tell ’em ’bout it)
You marched them away
Yes, you did now
On ships and planes
To the senseless war
Facing death in vain

Bring the boys home (bring ’em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ’em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ’em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ’em back alive) (why don’t you)
Turn the ships around (everybody oh)
Lay your weapons down

Can’t you see ’em march across the sky
All the soldiers that have died
Tryin’ to get home
Can’t you see them tryin’ to get home?
Tryin’ to get home
They’re tryin’ to get home
Seesaw fire (tell ’em ’bout it
On the battlefield
Enough men have already
Been wounded and killed

Ooh, ooh
Tryin’ to get home
Can’t you see them tryin’ to get home? (Have mercy)
Ooh, ooh
Tryin’ to get home, tryin’ to get home

Bring the boys home (bring ’em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ’em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ’em back alive)
Bring the boys home (bring ’em back alive)
What they doing over there, now (bring ’em back alive)
When we need them over here, now (bring ’em back alive)
What they doing over there, now (bring ’em back alive)
When we need them over here, now (bring ’em back alive)
Bring ’em home, bring ’em home (bring ’em back alive)
Bring ’em home, bring ’em home (bring ’em back alive)

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Angelo Bond / General N. Johnson / Gregory S. Perry

The Monkees – Last Train To Clarksville

From their 1966 album The Monkees. The song reached number 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart on November 5th, 1966. The train in the video is the Sierra Railway No .03 The Cannonball from the TV show Petticoat Junction. It was also in the movie Back to The Future part III plus hundreds of other TV shows and movies.

From Wikipedia,

The song was written by the songwriting duo of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. Boyce has said that the song’s opening guitar part (played by Louis Shelton) was an attempt to emulate the type of memorable and clearly identifiable riff that the Beatles had used in songs such as “I Feel Fine,” “Day Tripper” and “Paperback Writer“. The latter Beatles’ song had reached number one on the U.S. charts three months earlier, around the time that “Last Train to Clarksville” was written and recorded. The lyrics, too, were inspired by “Paperback Writer”: Hart misheard the end of that song on the radio and thought Paul McCartney was singing “take the last train”; Hart then decided to use the line himself, after he found out that McCartney was actually singing “paperback writer.”

Hart knew that the Monkees’ TV series was being pitched as a music/comedy series in the spirit of the Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night, and he was hoping that by emulating the Beatles the song might become a successful single.

The lyrics tell of a man phoning the woman whom he loves, urging her to meet him at a train station in Clarksville before he must leave, possibly forever. There is no explicit reference to war in the song, but its last line, “And I don’t know if I’m ever coming home,” was an indirect reference to a soldier leaving for the Vietnam War. Hart has denied any connection by the song to the city of Clarksville, Tennessee, near Fort Campbell, the home of the 101st Airborne Division that was then serving in Vietnam. According to Hart, “We were just looking for a name that sounded good. There’s a little town in northern Arizona I used to go through in the summer on the way to Oak Creek Canyon called Clarkdale. We were throwing out names, and when we got to Clarkdale, we thought Clarksville sounded even better. We didn’t know it at the time, but there is an Army base near the town of Clarksville, Tennessee — which would have fit the bill fine for the storyline. We couldn’t be too direct with the Monkees. We couldn’t really make a protest song out of it—we kind of snuck it in.”

Last Train to Clarksville

Take the last train to Clarksville
And I’ll meet you at the station
You can be here by 4:30
‘Cause I’ve made your reservation

Don’t be slow
Oh, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no

‘Cause I’m leavin’ in the morning
And I must see you again
We’ll have one more night together
‘Til the morning brings my train

And I must go
Oh, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no
And I don’t know if I’m ever comin’ home

Take the last train to Clarksville
I’ll be waiting at the station
We’ll have time for coffee flavored kisses
And a bit of conversation

Oh, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no

Take the last train to Clarksville
Now I must hang up the phone
I can’t hear you in this noisy railroad station, all alone

I’m feelin’ low
Oh, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no
And I don’t know if I’m ever coming home

Take the last train to Clarksville
And I’ll meet you at the station
You can be here by 4:30
‘Cause I’ve made your reservation

Don’t be slow
Oh, no, no, no
Oh, no, no, no
And I don’t know if I’m ever coming home

Take the last train to Clarksville
Take the last train to Clarksville
Take the last train to Clarksville
Take the last train to Clarksville

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Bobby Hart / Tommy Boyce

The Dead Daisies – Love That’ll Never Be

From their 2024 album, Light ‘Em Up. John Corabi returns as lead singer. This song goes back to a style of music that was popular in the late 70s and early 80s. It sounds like they barrowed the Hammond B3 from an REO song, but that’s OK with me.

From sleazeroxx.com

“The Dead Daisies release their latest single “Love That’ll Never Be” today. The song came together while the band was working on songs for what became their latest album Light ‘Em Up. John and Marti Frederiksen had started working on the track with a future Corabi solo record in mind but decided to throw it into the mix for the band to consider. Everyone really liked it and after a few elements were trimmed off and Doug toughened up some of the guitar parts, they all really loved how it came out!!

“Love That’ll Never Be” is a bluesy 70’s rock ballad reminiscent of The Allman Brothers about a girl who thought the grass was greener until she realizes that what she wanted….she already had!!! Now, it’s too late to get it back…” – John Corabi

Love That’ll Never Be

She wakes up on the wrong side of the bed alone
Thinks about a time that’s passed her by
Makes a cup of coffee, reaches for the phone to see
With no word from him begins to cry, you know

Time they say, heals everything
But not goodbyes

Now she’s holding on to the memories
She cries at night for a remedy
She cries
For a love that’ll never be

She checks her phone a thousand times he doesn’t call
Did she push him to the point of no return?
Took his love for granted, left his heart abandoned
Now she’d give up everything to be back in his arms

Time they say, heals everything
But not goodbyes

Now she’s holding on to the memories
She cries, at night for a remedy
She cries
For a love that’ll never be

Time they say, heals everything
Time they say, heals everything
But not this time
No!

Now she’s holding on to the memories
She cries at night for a remedy yeah, yeah
Alone tonight, she’s gonna be
Holding on to the memories
Oh, just a memory
Mmmm
For a love that’ll never be
A love that’ll never be

AC/DC – Rock N Roll Train (Live At River Plate, December 2009)

From their 2008 album Black Ice. As Rodney Dangerfield used to say “What a crowd, What a crowd, but in this case AC/DC gets all the respect from the crowd of around 85,000 people at Argentina’s River Plate stadium. The band was in their 50’s and 60’s at this point. This concert had an unreal energy about it. The song peaked at number 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

From songfacts

This was AC/DC’s first new single in eight years, their longest gap to date. Black Ice debuted at the top of the album chart selling 784,000 copies the first week. It was AC/DC’s first chart-topping release in the US since For Those About To Rock in 1981.

This song was one of four tracks on Black Ice that featured the word ‘Rock’ in the title, the others being “She Likes Rock ‘n’ Roll,” “Rock ‘n’ Roll Dream” and “Rocking All the Way.” Vocalist Brian Johnson explained to Vancouver 24 Hours: “I just think we’re trying to tell people that normal service has been resumed. We’re back, and this is a rock ‘n’ roll record. It cannot be mistaken. We’re ramming it down their throat, me son! But I must admit, we didn’t notice. We went, ‘F—ing hell, there’s four songs with rock ‘n’ roll in the title.’ But that’s just what we do.”

This featured in promo ads for season 4 of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds plus in Episode 69 of the show.

Rock N Roll Train

One hot angel
One cool devil
Your mind on the fantasy
Living on the ecstasy

Give it all, give it
Give it what you got
Come on give it all a lot
Pick it up and move it
Give it to the spot
Your mind on a fantasy
Living on ecstasy

Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Yeah the runaway train
(Running right off the track)

One hard ring a bell
Old school rebel
A ten for the revelry
Jamming up the agency

Shake it, shake it
Take it to the spot
You know she made it really hot
Get it on, give it up
Come on give it all you got
Your mind on a fantasy
Living on the ecstasy

Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Yeah the runaway train yeah
(Running right off the track)
On the runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)

One hot southern belle
Son of a devil
A school boy’s spelling bee
A school girl with a fantasy

One hard ring a bell
All screwed up
A ten on the revelry
Jamming up the agency

Shake it, take it
Take it to the spot
You know she make it really hot
Give it all, give it up
Come on give it all you got
You know she just like it

Runaway train
(Running right off the track) she’s coming off the track
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)

Get it on, get it up
Come on give it all you got
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Angus Young / Malcolm Young

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Wake Up Everybody

The title song from their 1975 album. I remember this song mostly from a teachers PSA back in the 70s and 80s. The song reached number 9 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1976.

From Wikipedia

“Wake Up Everybody” is an R&B song written by John Whitehead, Gene McFadden and Victor Carstarphen.

Originally recorded by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, with Teddy Pendergrass singing lead vocals, the song had a somewhat unconventional structure, starting subdued and building slowly to a climax. The title track from their 1975 album, the song spent two weeks at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1976. It also enjoyed success on the pop charts, peaking at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, number 34 Easy Listening, number 33 in Canada, and number 23 in the UK Singles Chart. They performed the song on Soul Train on November 22, 1975.

From Songfacts

This was their last Top 40 hit with drummer/lead singer Teddy Pendergrass. He left for a solo career that was cut short by an automobile accident. David Ebo became lead singer in 1976, after Pendergrass’s departure.

Wake Up Everybody

Wake up everybody no more sleepin’ in bed
No more backward thinkin’ time for thinkin’ ahead
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be
There is so much hatred war an’ poverty
Wake up all the teachers time to teach a new way
Maybe then they’ll listen to whatcha have to say
‘Cause they’re the ones who’s coming up and the world is in their hands
When you teach the children teach em the very best you can

The world won’t get no better if we just let it be
The world won’t get no better we gotta change it yeah, just you and me

Wake up all the doctors make the ol’ people well
They’re the ones who suffer an’ who catch all the hell
But they don’t have so very long before the Judgment Day
So won’tcha make them happy before they pass away
Wake up all the builders time to build a new land
I know we can do it if we all lend a hand
The only thing we have to do is put it in our mind
Surely things will work out they do it every time

The world won’t get no better if we just let it be
The world won’t get no better we gotta change it yeah, just you and me

Change it yeah, change it yeah, just you and me
Change it yeah, change it yeah
Can’t do it alone, need some help y’all
Can’t do it alone
Can’t do it alone yeah, yeah
Wake up everybody, wake up everybody
Need a little help y’all
Need a little help
Need some help y’all

Change the world
What it used to be
Can’t do it alone, need some help
Wake up everybody
Get up , get up, get up, get up
Wake up, come on, come on
Wake up everybody

Writer/s: GENE MCFADDEN, JOHN WHITEHEAD, VICTOR CARSTARPHEN

The Dead Daisies – Resurrected

From their 2018 album Burn It Down. The song did not chart, but the album reached #6 on Billboard’s U.S. Heatseekers chart in 2018. Happy Halloween!

Resurrected

Stare in the mirror, lines on my face, yeah
I wonder where the time has gone
It’s been a long hard road out from the grave
But I keep a moving on
I been up, down, turned around
Kicked hard to the ground
Keep a coming back again

From the ashes, from the flame
I’m here to light the fire again

I’m back, resurrected
I’m back, resurrected

I’m a man on a mission, you better listen
Ain’t nobody gonna stop the show
Riding high on my horse, ass in my saddle
All revved up ready to go
I’ve had nine lives, every time
Roll the dice, pay the price
I do it all again

Another day, another dance
From the dead, a second chance

I’m back, resurrected
I’m back, resurrected

I’m back, I’m back, I’m back, I’m back
I’m back, I’m back, I’m resurrected

I’m back, resurrected
I’m back, resurrected

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Marti Frederiksen / John Corabi / Doug Aldrich / Marco Mendoza / David Lowy

Phil Seymour – Precious to Me

From his self-titled album. The song reached #22 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart on January 24, 1981. I just heard this song for the first time. I want to thank AT40 and Casey Kasem.

From Popdiggers.com

Precious To Me was Phil Seymour’s first solo single after leaving the Dwight Twilley Band. The song, written by Seymour, managed to reach #3 in Australia and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981.

From philseymour.org

Our hero, Phil Seymour, was an American musician who developed skillfully between the sounds of Power Pop, Rock and New Wave. Singer, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist (drums, guitar, bass), he left his mark on all the projects in which he participated throughout his professional career between 1974 and 1993. Phil was a brilliant “all terrain” who is well known for the songs “I’m on fire” (with the Dwight Twilley Band) or his wonderful “Precious to me”, already on his own.No doubt, Phil had a major role in the Dwight Twilley Band, a seminal group within the pop and underground world, but his solo work was, and still is, revered among the most exquisite Power Pop fans.Unfortunately, he left us in 1993, after fighting cancer that was detected in 1984.Not only is he the author of a delightful song, but he is the creator of a hymn that will be transmitted from generation to generation. Precious to me.

Precious to Me

Well baby, baby, don’t you leave me here to make it alone
‘Cause I don’t think that I could take it for a day on my own
Why would you wanna hurt me
When I love you, baby, can’t ya see
That you’re precious to me?

(I love you so) and I can’t let you go (can’t let you go)
Maybe one day you’ll see (girl can’t you see)
That you’ll always be (you’ll always be)
So precious to me-e-e-e-e

Why would you wanna hurt me
When I love you, baby, can’t ya see
That you’re precious to me?

(I love you so) and I can’t let you go (can’t let you go)
Baby, one day you’ll see (girl can’t you see)
That you’ll always be (you’ll always be)
So precious to me-e-e-e-e

Well baby, baby ya can tell me when will we meet again
If I can’t be your one and only then I’ll have to pretend
Ah, that you’re still with me
Girl, I love ya so affectionately
‘Cause you’re precious to me

(I love you so) and I can’t let you go (can’t let you go)
Baby, one day you’ll see (girl can’t you see)
That you’ll always be (you’ll always be)
So precious to me-e-e-e-e, to me-e-e-e-e
You’re so precious to me

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