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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