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I loves you,
, Don't let him take me Don't let him handle me And drive me mad If you can keep me I wanna stay here with you forever And I'll be gladYes I loves you, , Don't let him take me Don't let him handle me With his hot hands If you can keep me I wants to stay here with you forever I've got my manI loves you, , Don't let him take me Don't let him handle me And drive me mad If you can keep me I wanna stay here with you forever I've got my manSomeday I know he's coming to call me He's going to handle me and hold me So, it' going to be like dying, When he calls me But when he comes I know I'll have to goI loves you, , Don't let him take me Honey, don't let him handle me and drive me mad If you can keep me I wanna stay here with you forever I've got my man |
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| 5:30 |
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I left a note on his dresser
And my old wedding ring With these few goodbye words How can I sing Goodbye old sleepy head I'm packing you in like I saidTake care of everything I'm leaving my wedding ring Don't look for me I'll get a hand Remember darling Don't smoke in bedDon't look for me I'll get a hand Remember darling Don't smoke in bed |
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| 3. |
| 4:56 |
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The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam And I mean every word of itAlabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi GoddamAlabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi GoddamCan't you see it Can't you feel it It's all in the air I can't stand the pressure much longer Somebody say a prayerAlabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi GoddamThis is a show tune But the show hasn't been written for it, yetHound dogs on my trail School children sitting in jail Black cat cross my path I think every day's gonna be my lastLord have mercy on this land of mine We all gonna get it in due time I don't belong here I don't belong there I've even stopped believing in prayerDon't tell me I tell you Me and my people just about due I've been there so I know They keep on saying "Go slow!"But that's just the trouble "do it slow" Washing the windows "do it slow" Picking the cotton "do it slow" You're just plain rotten "do it slow" You're too damn lazy "do it slow" The thinking's crazy "do it slow" Where am I going What am I doing I don't know I don't knowJust try to do your very best Stand up be counted with all the rest For everybody knows about Mississippi GoddamI made you thought I was kiddin' didn't wePicket lines School boycotts They try to say it's a communist plot All I want is equality for my sister my brother my people and meYes you lied to me all these years You told me to wash and clean my ears And talk real fine just like a lady And you'd stop calling me Sister SadieOh but this whole country is full of lies You're all gonna die and die like flies I don't trust you any more You keep on saying "Go slow!" "Go slow!"But that's just the trouble "do it slow" Desegregation "do it slow" Mass participation "do it slow" Reunification "do it slow" Do things gradually "do it slow" But bring more tragedy "do it slow" Why don't you see it Why don't you feel it I don't know I don't knowYou don't have to live next to me Just give me my equality Everybody knows about Mississippi Everybody knows about Alabama Everybody knows about Mississippi GoddamThat's it! |
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| 4. |
| 2:45 |
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Baby do you understand me now
If sometimes you see that I'm mad Doncha know that no one alive can always be an angel? When everything goes wrong you see some badWell I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstoodYa know sometimes baby I'm so carefree with a joy that's hard to hide Then sometimes again it seems that all I have is worry And then you burn to see my other sideBut I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstoodIf I seem edgy I want you to know I never meant to take it out on you Life has its problems and I get more than my share but that's me one thing I never mean to doCause I love you Oh baby I'm just human Don't you know I have faults like anyone?Sometimes I find myself alone regretting some little foolish thing some simple thing that I've doneI'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstoodI try so hard So don't let me be misunderstood |
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| 5. |
| 2:18 |
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It's not 'cause I wouldn't,
It's not 'cause I shouldn't, And, you know though well, it's not 'cause I couldn't, It's simply because I'm the laziest gal in town. My poor heart is achin' To bring home the bacon, And if I find myself alone and forsaken, It's simply because I'm the laziest gal in town. Though I'm more than willing to learn How these gals get so much extra money to burn, Every little proposition I just turn it down, 'Way down, It's not 'cause I wouldn't, It's not 'cause I shouldn't, honey, And, you know, that it's not 'cause I couldn't, It's simply because I'm the laziest, laziest gal in town. |
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| 2:53 | 
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| 7. |
| 2:37 |
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yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah alright yesee-line woman she drink coffee she drink tea and then go home see-line womansee-line woman dressed in green wears silk stockings with golden seams see-line womansee-line woman dressed in red make a man lose his head see-line womansee-line woman black dress on for a thousand dollars she wail and she moan see-line womanwiggle wiggle turn like a cat wink at a man and he wink back now child see-line womanempty his pockets and wreck his days make him love her and she'll fly awaysee-line woman take it on out now empty his pockets and she wreck his days and she make him love her then she sure fly away she got a black dress on for a thousand dollars she wail and she moan... |
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| 8. |
| 2:37 |
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I put a spell on you
'Cause you're mineYou better stop the things you do I ain't lyin' No I ain't lyin'You know I can't stand it You're runnin' around You know better daddy I can't stand it cause you put me downI put a spell on you Because you're mine You're mineI love ya I love you I love you I love you anyhow And I don't care if you don't want me I'm yours right nowYou hear me I put a spell on you Because you're mine |
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| 9. |
| 3:38 |
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Ne me Quitte pas Ne me quitte pas/Il faut oublier Tout peut s'oublier Qui s'enfuit deja Oublier le temps/Des malentendus Et le temps perdu A savoir comment Oublier ces heures Qui tuaient parfois A coups de pourquoi/Le coeur du bonheur Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas/Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas Moi je t'offrirai Des perles de pluie/Je creuserai la terre Jusqu'apres ma mort Pour couvrir ton corps D'or et de lumiere Je ferai un domaine Ou l"amour sera roi/ Ou l'amour sera loi Ou tu seras reine Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas/Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas Je 'inventerai Des mots insenses/Que tu comprendras Je te parlerai De ces amants-la Qui ont vu deux fois/Leurs coeurs s'embraser Je te raconterai L'histoire de ce roi Mort de n'avoir pas/Pu te rencontrer Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas On a vu souvent Rejaillir le feu/De l'ancien volcan Qu'on croyait trop vieux Il est parait-il Des terres brulees/Donnant plus de ble Qu'un meilleur avril Et quand vient le soir Pour qu'un ciel flamboie Le rouge et le noir Ne s'epousent-ils pas Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas Je ne vais plus pleurer Je ne vais plus parler/Je me cacherai la A te regarder Danser et sourire Et a t'ecouter Chanter et puis rire Laisse-moi devenir/L'ombre de ton ombre L'ombre de ta main L'ombre de ton chien mais Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas
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| 10. |
| 2:56 |
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Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feelIt's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life For me And I'm feeling goodFish in the sea you know how I feel River running free you know how I feel Blossom on the tree you know how I feel Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, don't you know Butterflies all havin' fun you know what I mean Sleep in peace when day is done That's what I meanAnd this old world is a new world And a bold world For meStars when you shine you know how I feel Scent of the pine you know how I feel Oh freedom is mine And I know how I feel |
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| 2:06 |
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Don't talk just hold me closer
Let me sit on top of your knee Go ahead and take care of business For me for me for meOh Lord, don't keep me waiting Be as firm as can be Go ahead and take care of business For me for me for meIn all my life no-one has touched me so close Nor made me feel so sweet I said to you you are God's gift to all womanhood Take it from me take it from meYou know you know that I love you truly And I want the whole round world to see How you can take care of business For me for me for meGo take care of business for me Yeah yeah go take care of business for me |
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| 12. |
| 3:23 |
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Be my husband man I be your wife
Be my husband man I be your wife Be my husband man I be your wife Loving all of you the rest of your life yeah If you promise me you'll be my man If you promise me you'll be my man If you promise me you'll be my man I will love you the best I can yeah Stick the promise man you made me Stick the promise man that you made me Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Stick the promise man you made me That you stay away from Rosalie yeah Oh daddy love me good Oh daddy now love me good Oh daddy love me good Oh daddy now love me good If you want me to cook and sew If you want me to cook and sew If you want me to cook and sew yeah Outside of you there is no place to go Please don't treat me so doggone mean Please don't treat me so doggone mean Please don't treat me so now doggone mean yeah You're the meanest man I ever see Oh daddy now love me good Oh daddy love me good yeah Oh daddy love me good yeah Oh daddy now love me good |
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| 13. |
| 2:41 |
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(Jimmie Cox)
Well once I lived the life of a millionaire Spending my money, I didn't care Takin' my friends out for a mighty good time Buyin' boot leg liquor, champagne and wine Then I began to fall so low Couldn't find me no friends Had no place to go If I ever get my hands on a dollar again I'm gonna hold on to it, till the eagle grins I said nobody knows you When you're down and out In your pocket, you ain't got one penny And your friends, you didn't have any Just as soon as you get up on your feet again Here they all come, they say that they're your long-lost friend Oh lord without a doubt Nobody wants you Nobody needs you Nobody wants you When you're down and out I say Nobody wants you Nobody needs you Nobody wants you when you're down and out |
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| 14. |
| 3:32 |
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Southern trees
Bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves And blood at the roots Black bodies Swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' From the poplar trees Pastoral scene Of the gallant south Them big bulging eyes And the twisted mouth Scent of magnolia Clean and fresh Then the sudden smell Of burnin' flesh Here is a fruit For the crows to pluck For the rain to gather For the wind to suck For the sun to rot For the leaves to drop Here is Strange and bitter cropSouthern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.Pastoral scene of the gallant south, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.Here is fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, Here is a strange and bitter cry. |
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| 10:20 |
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Oh, sinner man, where you gonna run to?
Oh, sinner man, where you gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you gonna run to all on that day?Run to the moon, "Moon won't you hide me?" Run to the sea, "Sea won't you hide me?" Run to the sun, "Sun won't you hide me all on that day?"Lord says, "Sinner man, the moon'll be a bleeding." Lord says, "Sinner man, the sea'll be a sinking." Lord says, "Sinner man, the sun'll be a freezin' all on that day!"Run to the Lord, "Lord won't you hide me?" Run to the Lord, "Lord won't you hide me?" Run, run, "Lord won't you hide me all on that day?"Lord says "Sinner man, you should've been a praying." Lord says "Sinner man, you should've been a praying." Lord says "Sinner man, you should've been a praying all on that day." |
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| 3:05 |
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The other woman finds time to manicure her nails
The other woman is perfect where her rival fails And she's never seen with pin curls in her hair The other woman enchantes her clothes with French perfume The other woman keeps fresh cut flowers in each room There are never toys that's scattered everywhere And when her own man comes to call on her He'll find her waiting like a lonesome queen Cos when she's by his side It's such a change from old routine But the other woman will always cry herself to sleep The other woman will never have his love to keep And as the years go by the other woman Will spend her life alone The other woman enchantes her clothes with French perfume The other woman keeps fresh cut flowers in each room There are never toys that's scattered everywhere And when her own man comes to call on her He'll find her waiting like a lonesome queen Cos when she's by his side It's such a change from old routine But the other woman will always cry herself to sleep The other woman will never have his love to keep And as the years go by the other woman Will spend her life alone |
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| 4:22 |
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Hush now, don't explain
There aint nothin' to gain Im glad that your back dont' explain Quiet baby, dont explain there is nothing to gain. Skip back the lipstick don't explain. You know that I love you and what love endures all my thoughts of you for I'm so completley yours Don't want to hear folks chatter cause I know you cheat Right n' wrong don't matter when your with me my sweet.. Hush now don't explain daon't you know your my joy and your my pain. My life is yours love don't explain int..... All my thoughts of you, for I'm so completley yours. I don't want to hear nobody chatter cause I know you cheat, right n' wrong don't matter when your with me my sweet. Hush now, don't explain your my joy, your my pain My life is yours love don't wxplain. |
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| 2:53 |
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uney
She does not know Her beauty, She thinks her brown body Has no glory. If she could dance Naked, Under palm trees And see her image in the river She would know. But there are no palm trees On the street, And dishwater gives back no images. |
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| 4:26 |
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My skin is black
My arms are long My hair is woolly My back is strong Strong enough to take the pain inflicted again and again What do they call me My name is AUNT SARAH My name is Aunt SarahMy skin is yellow My hair is long Between two worlds I do belong My father was rich and white He forced my mother late one night What do they call me My name is SAFFRONIA My name is SaffroniaMy skin is tan My hair is fine My hips invite you my mouth like wine Whose little girl am I? Anyone who has money to buy What do they call me My name is SWEET THING My name is Sweet ThingMy skin is brown my manner is tough I'll kill the first mother I see my life has been too rough I'm awfully bitter these days because my parents were slaves What do they call me My name is PEACHES |
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| 4:16 |
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I lost myself on a cool damp night
Gave myself in that misty light Was hypnotized by a strange delight Under a lilac tree I made wine from the lilac tree Put my heart in its recipe It makes me see what I want to see... And be what I want to be When I think more than I want to think Do things I never should do I drink much more that I ought to drink Because I brings me back you...Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love Listen to me... I cannot see clearly Isn't that she coming to me nearly here?Lilac wine is sweet and heady where's my love? Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, where's my love?Listen to me, why is everything so hazy? Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear?Lilac Wine, I feel unready for my love... |
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| 7:00 |
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Love me love me love me
Say you do Let me fly away with you For my love is like the wind And wild is the windGive me more than one caress Satisfy this hungriness Let the wind blow through your heart For wild is the windYou... touch me... I hear the sound of mandolins You... kiss me... With your kiss my life begins You're spring to me All things to meDon't you know you're life itself Like a leaf clings to a tree Oh my darling, cling to me For we're creatures of the wind And wild is the wind So wild is the windWild is the wind Wild is the wind |
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| 3:27 |
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Black is the color of my true loves hair
His face so soft and wondrous fair The purest eyes And the strongest hands I love the ground on where he stands I love the ground on where he standsBlack is the color of my true loves hair Of my true loves hair Of my true loves hairOh I love my lover And where he goes Yes, I love the ground on where he goes And still I hope That the time will come When he and I will be as one When he and I will be as oneSo black is the color of my true loves hair Black is the color of my true loves hair Black is the color of my true loves hair |
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| 3:57 |
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If I should lose you
The stars would fall from the skies If I should lose you The leaves would wither and die The birds in Maytime Would sing a lonely refrain And I would wander around Hating the sound of rain With you beside me No wind in winter would blow With you beside me A rose would bloom in the snow I gave you my love But I was living a dream And living would seem in vain If I lost you |
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| 2:20 |
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I'm gonna leave you yes I'm gonna I'm gonna leave you cos I wanna And I'll go where people love me And I'll stay there cos they love meNo more headaches no more heartbreaks I'm gonna leave you where I met you I'm gonna leave you whit your money I want somebody to call me honeyI don't want gold rings I wanna hear sweet things I need affection and not protection When you're teasing you should be squeezingI'm gonna leave you where I met you Yes I'm pulled up with your person And I'm pulled up with your person And I waited getting frustratedI'm old fashioned I want my passion So I'm leaving though I'm grieving I'm gonna leave you where I met youI'm gonna leave you When you're teasing you should be squeezing I'm gonna leave youI'm gonna leave you cos I'm gonna Yes I'm gonna leave you cos I wanna And I'll go where people love me And I'll stay there cos they love meNo more headaches no more heartbreaks I'm gonna leave you where I met you I'm gonna leave you whit your money I want somebody to call me honeyI don't want gold rings I wanna hear sweet things I need affection and not protection When you're teasing you should be squeezingI'm gonna leave you where I met you Yes I'm pulled up with your person And I'm pulled up with your person And I waited getting frustratedI'm old fashioned I want my passion So I'm leaving though I'm grieving I'm gonna leave you where I met you |
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Arrested on charges of unemployment,
he was sitting in the witness stand The judge's wife called up the district attorney Said you free that brown eyed man You want your job you better free that brown eyed manFlying across the desert in a TWA, I saw a woman walking across the sand She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay. To get a brown eyed handsome man Her destination was a brown eyed handsome manWay back in history three thousand years Back every since the world began There's been a whole lot of good women shed a tear For a brown eyed handsome man That's what the trouble was brown eyed handsome manBeautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind Between a doctor and a lawyer man Her mother told her daughter go out and find yourself A brown eyed handsome man That's what your daddy is a brown eyed handsome manMilo Venus was a beautiful lass She had the world in the palm of her hand But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match To get brown eyed handsome man She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome manTwo, three count with nobody on He hit a high fly into the stand Rounding third he was headed for home It was a brown eyed handsome man That won the game; it was a brown eyed handsome man |
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Take me to the water
Take me to the water Take me to the water To be baptizedNone but the righteous None but the righteous None but the righteous Shall be savedSo take me to the water Take me to the water Take me to the water To be, to be baptizedI'm going back home, going back home Gonna stay here no longer I'm going back home, going back home To be baptized |
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| 2:49 |
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I'm going back home where I was born First I planned to stay but I can't live this way I'm going back home where I was bornTry to understand I think this city's grand But with all its charme give me the little country farm I'm going back home where I was bornOh yeah oh yeah oh yeah now oh yeah I tell you all about it I think you ought to know Tell you all about it why I wanna goI miss the country preacher and the house of prayer I miss the bootlegger smelling in the air Miss friendly faces and the country smiles The crickets singing you can hear it for milesMiss the rooster crowing at the break of dawn Yes it all happens where I was born Miss the fried chicken colored greens Miss the hot biscuits and the lima beans Miss the prayer meeting where the people pray With the drum beating till the break of dayYou can have it you can have it You can have it you can have it You can have thy town I won't be around This here life's too fast but 'll never never lastI'm going back home where I was born I got to go home got to go home Where the people are real people can feel Got to go down got to go down Leave here today on my way so long so long Going back home going back home Got to go home got to go home Got to go home got to go home Where I where I was born |
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Oh stairs ... you look so high tonight
CLIMBIN' UP with all my might Where I got no heart to be 'Cause he ain't comin' home no more. Oh room ... I'm all alone with you Tell me what's a women to do When her man is gone And he ain't comin' home no more. I'm all choked up ... inside me Try'na hold back my tears You know ... I just can't GET USED I just can't USED TO this loneliness How AM I gonna face the empty years. Oh chair ... Oh chair You sittin' silent there Don't you even care That my baby's gone ... yea, yea And he ain't comin' home no more Yes ... for my baby's gone And he ain't comin' home no more |
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| 3:36 |
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Come ye ye who would have peace
Hear me what I say now I say come ye ye who would have peace It's time to learn how to prayI say come ye ye who have no fear What tomorrow brings child Start praying for a better world Or peace and all good thingsI say come ye ye who still have hope That we can still survive now Let's work together as we should And fight to stay aliveI say come ye ye who would have love It's time to take a stand Don't mind abuse it must be paid For the love of your fellow manI say come ye come ye Who would have hope Who would have hope Who would have hope Who would have hope |
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| 4:01 |
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I love my baby
I've loved him so long I love my baby I've loved him since he was born Now, sweet baby is gone And done me oh so wrong Come on back baby Now understand Come on back baby Come back and hold me And take me by my hand Come back baby and take me by the hand Don't you know I love you baby Don't you understand Just say you love me And we'll go to the preacherman Just say you love me And before him we'll stand We'll live our lives together As we go hand in hand You say you love me We'll go to the preacherman And we'll live our lives together As we go hand in hand |
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