Alright!!!
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Alright!!!
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I'm ready, man!
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Whoaa yeah!!!
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You thought you had found yourself a good girl,
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One who would love you and give you the world.
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Then you find, babe, that you've been misused,
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Come to me, honey, I'll do what you choose.
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I want you to
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Well, tell mama
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All about it.
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Well, tell mama
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What you need
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Tell your mama, babe,
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What you want.
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Tell your mama, babe.
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What you need
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What you want.
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What you need
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What you want
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Whoa! an' I'll make everything alright.
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That girl you didn't have no sense, babe,
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Wasn't worth all the time that you spent.
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That same man he throwed you outdoors,
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I just heard that he quartered your clothes, hey!
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Well, tell mama
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All about it.
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Tell mama
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What you need.
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Tell your mama, babe,
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What you want
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Tell your mama, babe.
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What you need
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What you want
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What you need
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What you want,
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Whoaaa! an' I'll make everything alright, babe.
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Whoaa... rock & roll!
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... baby,
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Wasn't worth all the time that you spent.
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And that same man that throwed you outdoors,
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I just heard that he torn all your clothes, hey.
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Well, tell mama
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All about it
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Tell mama
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What you need
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Tell your mama, babe
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What you want
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Tell your mama, babe
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What you need
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What you want
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What you need
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What you want
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Anything I can do
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Anything I can do for you.
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Tell your mama, babe!
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Your mama, babe!
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Your mama, babe!
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Your mama, babe!
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HEY your mama, babe!
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Tell your mama, babe!
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Tell your mama, babe!
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Tell your mama, babe!
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Hey!
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Every time you get lonely, lonely, lonely,
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Every time you get lonely sometime.
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Every time you get lonely, lonely, lonely,
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Every time you get lonely sometime.
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Every time you got to cry, cry,
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Every time you gotta cry.
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Every time you got to cry, cry, cry,
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Every day, Lord.
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And I'd figured
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I'll tell you, when you go lonely, an' I figure everybody does, right?
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Because as a matter of fact everybody does.
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I figure if you're a woman
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Man if you're really a woman
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You already know what you need, man.
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You already know what you're looking for,
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Man, i found out out at fourteen years old
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And I been lookin' for it every since, too, man.
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But, if you happen to be a young cat,
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You know like about seventeen years old, just about
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If you happen to be a young cat and you ain't figured it out yet,
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I'll tell you what you need, baby,
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When you got those strange thoughts in your head
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You got those strange little weirdenesses happening to you, you don't know what they are
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I'll tell ya what you need ?
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You need a sweet lovin' mama, babe,
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Honey, sweet talkin' mama, babe.
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You need a sweet lovin' mama, babe.
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Honey, sweet talkin' mama, babe.
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You need someone to listen to you,
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Someone to want you,
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Someone to hold you
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Someone to need you
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Someone to use you
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Someone to want you
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Someone to need you
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Someone to hold you
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Someone to want you
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Someone to hold you
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You need a mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, baby
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Lordy, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama. Mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama,
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mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, yeah!
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Mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, yeah!
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Mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, yeah!
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Tell mama all about it
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Tell mama all about it
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What you need, what you want
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What you need, what you want
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Anything I can do
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Anything I can do
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Tell your mama, babe
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Yeah your mama babe!
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Whoa mama babe!
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Whoa mama babe!
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Whoa mama babe!
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Whoa mama babe!
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Whoa mama babe!
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Whoa mama babe!
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Whaa mama babe!
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Yeah
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An' I'll make everything alright, yeah!
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Hey! Yeah!
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This is a song I heard years ago by the great Nina Simone, and I always wanted to do it, so I did it, and I'm
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gonna do it again right now.
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Tell Mama
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