WHEN YOU GOT A GOOD FRIEND (TAKE 1)

When you got a good friend
        that will stay right by your side
When you got a good friend
        that will stay right by your side
Give her all of your spare time
        love and treat her right
I mistreated my baby
        and I can't see no reason why
I mistreated my baby
        but I can't see no reason why
Everytime I think about it
        I just wring my hands and cry
Wonder could I bear apologize
        or would she sympathize with me
Mmmmm mmm mmm
        would she sympathize with me
She's a brownskin woman
        just a sweet as a girl friend can be
Mmm mmm
        babe, I may be right ay wrong
Baby,it's yo'y opinion
        oh, I may be right ay wrong
Watch your close friend, baby
        then your ene'ies can't do you no harm
When you got a good friend
        that will stay right by your side
When you got a good friend
        that will stay right by your side
Give her all of your spare time-aah
         love and treat her right

Notes: 1. The underline "ay" and "yo'y" above are obviously Johnson's
        own particular way of pronouncing "or" and " "your",
                respectively. The latter also appears once in (take 2), q.v. This
        group of dialectic shadings in his speech probably accounts for
        the take never seeing issuance on 78.

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Sito pensato e realizzato da Roberto Mammola 1999 - 2001