Aretha Franklin

"See Saw"

"See Saw"



Sometimes you love me
Like a good man oughta
Sometimes you hurt me so bad
My tears run like water
Ya get me out
Not before your friends
When ya disown me baby
Until we alone again

Your love is like a see saw
Your love is like a see saw baby
Your love is like a see saw
Going up
Down
All around
Like a see saw

Sometimes you tell me
You're goin' be my sweet candy man
And then sometimes baby
Never know where I stand
Ya lift me up
When im on the ground
But as soon as I get up babe
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
Going up
Down
All around
Just like a see saw

When I kiss ya and I like it
And I ask you to kiss me again
When I reach for you you jump clean outta site
Ya change just like the wind
That ain't right
That ain't right
That ain't right

Your love is like a see saw
Your love is like a see saw baby
You love is like a see saw
Going up
Down
All around
Just 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
Going up
Down
All around
Just like a see saw
Yeah

"Share Your Love With Me"

"Share Your Love With Me"



It's an evil wind
That blows no good air
It's a sad heart
That won't love like I know it should
Oh how lonesome (oh how lonesome)
You must be
(You must be)
It's a shame (shame)
You don't share your love with me

It's a heartache yeah
(It's a heartache)
When love is gone
(It's a heartache)
But it's bad
(Bad) and even sad (sad)
All day long

And it's no wonder
When you won't see me
It's a shame
(shame)
If you won't share
Some of your love with me

I can't help it oh no
If he's gone
I must try to forget
Because I got to live on
Ooooh
Have me some good thing
It's a sweet thing
(Its a sweet thing)
But you love someone eles
(Such a sweet thing)

But It's bad (bad)
And even sadder (sad)
When it's 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 don't share
Your love with me
(Share your love with me)

It would really be a mistake baby
(If you say it)
If you don't share
Your love with me
(Share your love with me)

It would sure be a shame
(Shame shame)
If you don't share
Share your love with me
Share your love with me
Come on bab - ay

"Silent Night"

"Silent Night"



Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love's pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth

Silent night, holy night
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing alleluia
Christ, the Saviour is born
Christ, the Saviour is born

"Since You've Been Gone"

"Since You've Been Gone"


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'll 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 made you stray
But ah, babe
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 trying
Take me back,
Consider me please
If you walk in that door,
I can get up off my knees
I 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)

"Sister From Texas"

"Sister From Texas"



The sister from Texas who's been many places, that's who I am;
Don't get yourself uptight just trying to please me - I'm down with the flame...
Here for the moment... gone forever...
Here for the moment... gone forever...
Here for the moment... gone forever, said the sister from Texas...

Hard luck nights just like I see - I don't try to color it over with rose;
Do you know that pride can kill ya? I don't try to spike my pains with my nose...
People are - here for the moment... gone forever...
Here for the moment... then we're gone forever...
Here for the moment... gone forever, said the sister from Texas...

I've seen 'em come and go, for as long as I been here;
Yeah! There just ain't very much more now, that can make me cry... Yeah, yeah!
Woman was born to love and to lose man, and vice versa;
There's one more thing I gotta get up to, and that's the real - that I was born to die,
Yeah, yeah, hey, hey!

But I'm in there fighting everyday because I got a few more dreams in me... yes, I have!
And I wonder will the day come when every man with a heartbeat will knows that he's free?
Yeah, people are - here for the moment... then they're gone forever...
(Forever...) Here for the moment... (Forever...) gone forever...
(Forever...) Here for the moment... (Forever...) then they're gone forever, said the sister from Texas...

Yeah! Here for the moment... (Forever...) gone forever...
(Forever...) Here for the moment... (Forever...) gone forever...
(Forever...) Here for the moment... (Forever...) gone forever, said the sister from Texas...

Yeah!
Here for the moment... gone forever...
(Forever...) Here for the moment... (Forever...) gone forever...
(Forever...) Here for the moment... (Forever...)gone forever, said the sister from Texas...

Here for the moment... gone forever...
(Forever...) Here for the moment... (Forever...) gone forever, baby...
(Forever...) Here for the moment... (Forever...)gone forever, said the sister from Texas...

"Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves"

"Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves"



Now there was a time when they used to say
That behind every - "great man."
There had to be a - "great woman."
But in these times of change you know
That it's no longer true.
So we're comin' out of the kitchen
'Cause there's somethin' we forgot to say to you (we say)

Sisters are doin' it for themselves.
Standin' on their own two feet.
And ringin' on their own bells.
Sisters are doin' it for themselves.

Now this is a song to celebrate
The conscious liberation of the female state!
Mothers - daughters and their daughters too.
Woman to woman
We're singin' with you.
The "inferior sex" got a new exterior
We got doctors, lawyers, politicians too.
Everybody - take a look around.
Can you see - can you see - can you see
There's a woman right next to you.

Sisters are doin' it for themselves.
Standin' on their own two feet.
And ringin' on their own bells.
Sisters are doin' it for themselves.

Now we ain't makin' stories
And we ain't layin' plans
'Cause a man still loves a woman
And a woman still loves a man
(Just a same though)

"Sit Down And Cry"

"Sit Down And Cry"



Baby, no one could have told me
How could they have told me
When they didn't know?

I'd sit down and cry, baby
I'd sit down and cry, baby
Sit down and cry my heart out
Over you, oh

No one, no one could have warned me
That you would scar me yeah
And hurt me so bad

And that I'd sit down and cry, baby
I'd sit down and cry, baby
I'd sit down and cry my heart out
Over you

Oh, who would ever believe?
That lips sweet as yours
Sweeter than the honey
From the bees

Tell, who would ever believe?
That those same sweet lips
Would lie, lie like
Lie like you lied to me, yeah

Baby, no one, no one could ever told me
I wouldn't hear it
That you would have sold me, yeah
Down the river so fast

And that I'd sit down and cry, baby
I'd sit down and cry, baby, yeah
I'd sit down and cry my heart out
Over you

Yes I will, yeah, I will sit down and cry, baby
I will sit down and cry, baby
Sit down and cry my heart out
Heart out over you, yes I would
Hey, hey, hey, baby, yeah, sit down and cry baby

"Skylark"

"Skylark"



Skylark
Have you anything to say to me?
Won't you tell me where my love can be?
Is there a meadow in the mist
Where someone's waiting to be kissed?

Skylark
Have you seen a valley green with spring?
Where my heart can go a journeying
Over the shadows and the rain
To a blossom covered lane

And in your lonely flight
Haven't you heard the music in the night?
Wonderful music, faint as a will o' the wisp
Crazy as a loon, sad as a gypsy serenading the moon

Oh skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there?

Oh skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there?

"So Damn Happy"

"So Damn Happy"



My love
Oh baby, my love
It's always been you
You make me so damn happy

I thought I knew who you were
Oh, but after twice around
I can say exactly

Of course this is love
And I never say
I didn't care about you
You sweet thing

But you can't pretend
The serious burn
That I feel in my heart, and there it's
A wedding ring, oh

I got to get over you
Its so hard
Youre my everything

Baby, when I think of us when
It's in the tea leaves
That we won't get our turn

You can't always have
What you want
You have to take the bitter
With the sweet

I'm a big girl
And I know what I want
Three nights in your arms would be
A super treat

Got to tell me baby
Got to get over you
But it's so hard
Because you're my every, everything

When I think about us when
I know it's in the tea leaves
And we won't get our turn

Oh baby
Oh baby
Hey boy
So damn happy

Babe, it's always been you
Oh baby
I'm so happy with my baby
Hey boy, I'm so damn happy
Yes, always with you
Hey boy, I'm so damn happy

I remember the moment
Yeah, baby
Yeah, boy

Forget about it
It's always been you