Woke up this mornin'
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with an awful achin' head.
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Woke up this mornin'
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with an awful achin' head.
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My new man left me.
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I'm just a bloom in an empty bed.
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Now, when my bed gets empty
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I get to feelin' kind of mean and blue.
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When my bed gets empty,
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get to feelin' awful mean and blue.
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The springs are gettin' rusty
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sleepin' single like I do.
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I bought me a coffee grinder,
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the best one I could find.
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You know that I bought me a brand new coffee grinder,
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the best one I could find,
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so he could grind my coffee.
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Babe, I got a brand new grind.
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You gotta try, girl, you gotta try.
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He was a deep sea diver
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with a stroke that could not go wrong.
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Deep, deep sea, deep sea diver
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with a stroke that just could not go wrong.
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He could touch the bottom,
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and his wind held out so long.
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Oh, he boiled my cabbage,
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and he made it awful hot,
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tsch, tsch, tsch, tsch, tsch, tsch, tsch, mmmm.
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He boiled it, I got to tell you
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that he made it, made it awful hot.
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But when he slipped the bacon in,
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he overflowed the pot!
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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What a sweet man he was.
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I went and told my girlfriend Lou.
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Remember that old rag of a girl named Lou?
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Real sweet man.
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I went and told my girlfriend Lou.
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That way that girl is, baby,
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she must have had a piece of it, too.
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And now when you get good lovin',
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don't you, don't you spread the news.
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Don't you spread the news.
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When you get it and it's good, good, good,
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you really ought not to,
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you ought not to spread the news.
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Because those gals will doublecross you and leave you,
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those gals will doublecross you, and they do,
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those gals will doublecross you
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and leave you, leave you, leave you,
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leave you with the empty bed blues!
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Zah!
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Empty Bed Blues
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Bette Midler |