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i’m talking about the power of love now
i’m gonna tell you what love can do
you know when they say love makes the world go ’round that’s the truth
love can make you or break you
it can make you laugh it can make you cry
it can make you happy it can make you sad
aw it’d get hung up real bad
in a case of jealousy love can make you mad aw yeah
now everybody everybody’s got it’s own thing
everybody’s got it’s way of doing a thing
now we should attempt to do a tune that is very popular it was written by one of the great young songwriters of today
now i don’t know what he was thinking about or what inspired him to write this tune but it’s a deep tune
there’s a deep meaning to this tune because it shows you what the power of love can do
now i should attempt it to do it my way my own interpretation of it
like i said everybody’s got it’s own thing
i’m gonna bring it on down to soulsville
now i want you to bear along with me for a few minutes while i set it up
now i want your imagination i want you to travel with me
oh come on come on come on
this young man was raised in the hills of tennessee
when he reached the age of maturity he moved to the west coast
and he fell in love when he got out there to this young girl
aw man she was out of sight she was bad
and then they started dating and then the inevitable became engaged and they were married
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they were happily married that’s right they lived in la
oh oh the power of love was upon them
but you see girls i don’t mean to come down on you but this man loved this woman sohe can really say love is blind
he could see no wrong no no no
he worked every day and sometimes he’d pull overtime double time triple time
he bought anything that this woman’s heart desires anything that he could rake and scrape
he spent his last dime on women because he loved her
and you know girls you can take love and kindness sometime for weakness and she took it for granted
she said i got a fool and i know i got a fool i got a good thing
yeah she was standing around on the corner you understand meeting with her friends
she would go to the beauty salon get her hair fixed
she’d go shopping and she would brag about her good thing that she’s got
yeah and she took doubt on it
see ain’t nobody gonna believe what to tell him no way fool
oh yeah girls you would love that sometimes
but one day one day the old boy got sick and he had to come home
i don’t have to tell you what he found
oh yeah it hurt him so bad
he said baby mamawhy that’s all he could say
that’s all he could say he was hurt
but she said oh go on fool you’re doing it but the man wasn’t doing it but that’s the only excuse you can give him
he said mama i can’t take it i’ve got to leave you i’m gonna leave you
he packed up his rags you understand and he started out the door
and when he reached the driveway you understand he went in there begging just like my man tyrone davis
and he said oh mama mama mama can i change oh my mind
you see the power of love was upon him and he came back
oh yes he did
when she tried to straighten up she said she was gonna straighten up
she got a little job to help him out with the bills too but that was just a sham because he found it again and again
and seven times he left this woman and seven times he came back
oh but you know the heart can take so much
that’s right you can kick a dog around for so long and he’ll get tired he’ll turn
and he taken all that he could stand
in the eighth time that this went down he said mama i’ve got to go
with tears in his eyes he said i’m gonna leave you baby
he said i ain’t coming back
he said i’m leaving my heart right here but i’ve got to go you see ’cause this man can’t take no more
she didn’t believe it
he packed his clothes he got in his 965 ford
he started out
three times he started to turn back before he reached the outskirts of the city but he kept on going
oh i don’t wanna go but i’ve got to leave you mama
and he’s going down the highway
i guess it was around 0 in the morning
he could not hardly see the road with tears in his eyes
that’s right he was crying
there were meaning in his tears
he cannot barely see the sign that read on the side of the road the next town is 5 miles away
and these very words came into his mind he said
by the time i get to phoenix she’ll be rising
oh and she’ll find a note i left hanging on her door
she’ll laugh when she reads the part that says i’m leavin’
yes she will why
’cause i’ve left that girl so many times before oh
by the time i make albuquerque she’ll be workin’
and she’ll probably stop at lunch
just to give her her sweet good thing a call
and oh she’ll hear oh oh the phone keeps right on ringin’ and ringin’ and ringin’ and ringin’ and ringin’ and ringin’
oh and ringin’ off the wall
mama mama mama that’s all
and by the time i get to oklahoma she’ll be sleepin’
she’ll turn softly in her restless sleep call my name out low
and oh then she’ll cry just to think iiiii
i would really leave her
for time after time after time after time and time again i tried to tell her so
but she was a nonbeliever oh and she didn’t know
oh that iiiiiii would really go
she didn’t believe i would really go oh no
i hate to leave you baby yes i do
i really really really hate to go oh yeah
but this heart of mine just can’t take no more
iiiiii’ve taken all that i could stand
you should’ve known what you were doing to the man
yeah yeah yeah yeah
you see when i left baby i left a piece of my heart
oh yeah
you know you know you know you know you took baby
you know you you took the greatest part yeah yeah
i don’t know how i’m gonna make it oh no but i’ve got to go
i’m gonna miss all the sweet loving and the good times
but the good times weren’t as heavy oh no as the bad times
oh yeah
you really really put the hurt on me yes you did
i’m a prisoner of your love and i just i just won’t ever be free no no no
so it’s byebye oh mama mama byebye
oh byebye oh byebye baby byebye
it’s too late for you to cry
you had a good thing oh and you misused it yes you did
yes you did
you had a good heart oh and you abused it
oh yeah
you were sweet to me yes you were
but on the other hand you was real cold cold cold cold
you just kept me oh you kept me hanging on yes you did
oh oh you kept me hanging on
you kept me begging beggingyou kept me begging you to do right
you kept me pacing the floor at night oh yeah
but i love you god knows that i love you baby
ah yeah i’ll always love you yeah
break
raindrops of water beating under my chin
you can look at me and tell all the pain i’m in
aw yeah aw yeah i’m gonna moan now
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organ
finale
Artist: Isaac Hayes
Year: 1969
Decade: 60s
Language: en
Word Count: 717