I was alone I was made of stone, you took me home We built a world, a world for us We flew like birds, a new beginning It's better, better, better You keeping me together, gether, gether You know that I will never, never, never Try to pull you down, down Lover, lover, lover you can always be here I'll take cover You know that I will never, never, never Leave you all alone I'd be nothing if it wasn't for you If it wasn't for you I was a fool always keeping a distance If I'd ever know, oh You found a way, I thought I always stayed the same Because of you, I saw a new beginning It's better, better, better You keeping me together, gether, gether You know that I will never, never, never Try to pull you down, down Lover, lover, lover you can always be here I'll take cover You know that I will never, never, never Leave you all alone I'd be nothing if it wasn't for you If it wasn't for you I'd be nothing if it wasn't for you Nothing if it wasn't for you.

If it wasn't for you would've never known who I was If it wasn't for you I would be so lost If it wasn't for you I'd feel so all alone, you see If it wasn't for you there would be no me If it wasn't for you I wouldn't know what love is Having you by my side gives me reason to live If it wasn't for you I wouldn't fight so hard, you see If it wasn't for you there would be no me If it wasn't for you, you If it wasn't for you If it wasn't for you, you If it wasn't for you If it wasn't for you I would've never found escape If it wasn't for you it'd be hard to get through the day If it wasn't for you would've already run away, you see If it wasn't for you there would be no me If it wasn't for you, you If it wasn't for you If it wasn't for you, you If it wasn't for you If it wasn't for you I'd just be going along If it wasn't for you I could've never been so strong If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have a song to sing If it wasn't for you there would be no me

Uh-Uh Wait a minute, Jimmy, look here I'm listenin' As I was wakin' up this mornin' Well well Oh Lord, you know I felt pretty good, yes I did I began to stretch and yawn What for Ray? Just to see if I could I can dig it All at once I got a funny feelin' That something around here was goin on wrong Hmm So you know what I did Jimmy? What? I got up and I began to look all around for my baby Was that it? That was it, you know the woman had packed up and gone Oh lord That's why I say if everybody went to heaven Hey-ey-ey, I believe I'd miss the call But you see if it wasn't for bad luck, Trying to tell you son if it wasn't for bad luck, now now Oh, oh, I wouldn't have no luck at all Would you believe I wouldn't have no luck at all Looka here Ray, you think your luck is bad? Listen ta what happen to me Alright Now listen now Got a tip on a horse someone gave me, hey hey Yeah Pawned my last suit to make the bet No you didn't Yes I did Put every dime I had on him, ah What? Listen, you know he ain't showed up yet Oh! Tell ya I got so disgusted now Yeah Said I'll go back home and sleep some more Now that seem like the right thing to do But by the time I got back to my room Are you listenin' Ray? Yeah yeah, I'm payin' attention You know the landlord had padlocked my door Why that dirty... Tell ya a slow horse and a fast woman Hey hey hey lord they sure did let me fall That's why I say ah If it wasn't for bad luck sugar now Hey if it wasn't for bad luck y'all Oh! I wouldn't have no luck at all Oh Ray, listen, I wouldn't have no luck at all Huh-Yep. But wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet Let me tell you what happened Tell me about it I decided I'd go out walkin' Say what? Um-hm. And you know even that failed Now how can a walk fail, Ray? Because some man snatched a woman's pocketbook way across town Say what? Yeah, and uh guess who they put in jail? Do tell, do tell Jimmy, I just can't understand it I know what you mean I know there's got to be some kind of explanation There's got to be, there's got to be Lord, lord, lord, lord I ain't done nothing wrong So tell me why I'm doing two years probation Man I don't know, I got the same trouble They got me having to walk a chump line Say what? Oh, with my, with my back up against a wall That's tough, Ray That's why if it wasn't for bad luck sugar Oh I tell everybody if it wasn't for bad luck now now I believe, I believe I would have no luck at all I just would have no luck at all Looka here Ray, let me tell you something Hm? Now you know, you know about this here Yeah You know I was sittin' home one evening Well I didn't have a thing to do Yeah, that's happened to me sometimes So I thought I'd go out dancin', you know Yeah, yeah And do a little of that boogaloo I, I kinda like that myself Finally, I got myself a partner, now Yeah But old Ray, wouldn't you know Mm-hm, somthing musta happened bad Some man said, "You got my woman, boy" Uh oh And he stood about seven foot four Oops! Oops! As they walked away I stood there Feeling kinda sad and kinda small That's why I say If it wasn't for bad luck sugar Whoa, if it wasn't for bad luck, y'all now Hey, hey, hey, we'd have no luck at all Hey now! Yeah, I say we would have no luck at all Jimmy, I want you to tell me about that Seven foot four What did you do! Well Ray, anytime a man is seven foot four and you Messin' with his woman, it's time for you to go Oh yeah? Lord have mercy I, I, I, I can understand it It made you feel like you want to holler a little bit Made me feel like I want to Aahhhhhhh-ow! Yeah man, when I run into that situation Makes me want to cry a little bit like this Ooh-hoo!

I'm sitting on the couch, feeling alone I don't feel right, cause no one's home I start to think about the things in the past The feelings were right, the fun always lasts Your kiss it was so sweet, it meant everything It felt like commitment, without a ring Now I feel like we don't have no fun This isn't for me, I don't like what we've become Now we just fight and I can't look at you The silent treatment is all that we do I tried to let you know that you were wrong But all it did was keep you gone I wanna cry, I wanna feel emotions now I'm kicking and screaming and having a cow Now I can't even talk to you, I guess this is it I guess that we are through, are through But girl I woulda known about it I woulda known about it If it wasn't true But girl I woulda known about it I woulda known about it If it wasn't true (True, true, true, true) (True, true, true, true) (True, true, true, true) The sun is out and there's no more clouds I feel I can approach you now I can be with you without feeling down Yeah, we can speak without a single shout We took some time to heal all our wounds Now what was made by me and you? Now we can let go of the little things This isn't love, I guess that it was But girl I woulda known about it I woulda known about it If it wasn't true But girl I woulda known about it I woulda known about it If it wasn't true But girl I woulda known about it I woulda known about it If it wasn't true But girl I woulda known about it I woulda known about it If it wasn't true

Santa Baby, Just slip a sable under the tree For me Been an awful good girl Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight Santa baby, a '54 convertible too Light blue I'll wait up for you, dear Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight Think of all the fun I've missed Think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed Next year I could be just as good If you'll check off my Christmas list Santa Baby, I want a yacht and really thats not Alot Been an angel all year Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight Santa honey, one thing I really do need The deed To a platinum mine Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight Santa cutie, fill my stocking with a duplex And cheques Sign your 'x' on the line Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight Come and trim my Christmas tree With some decorations bought at Tiffany's I really do believe in you Lets see if you believe in me Santa Baby, forgot to mention one little thing A ring I don't mean on the phone Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight Hurry down the chimney tonight Hurry down the chimney...

Well he went down to the jewelry store and he signed his life away I said yes and just like that he went from boyfriend to fiance' Well I found out he been running around with a low class Jezebel Now he's got a monthly payment and I got a ring for sale I got a ring for sale It's yellow gold with a princess diamond I got a ring for sale And I'm gonna let it go real cheap I got a ring for sale A blue box with the velvet on and I gotta get out fore he finds out And I'll throw in the dress for free Well I thought about taking the highway and I thought about giving it back And then I thought about all of them lowdown things that he's been doing behind my back Now he can stop by and apologize if he thinks that's gonna help But he's got another thing coming 'cus I got a ring for sale I got a ring for sale It's yellow gold with a princess diamond I got a ring for sale And I'm gonna let it go real cheap I got a ring for sale A blue box with the velvet on and I gotta get out fore he finds out And I'll throw in the dress for free Well I'll burn the invitations, return the decorations Took the hold off the Baptist church I love to hit him so I'm gonna hit him And I'll hit him right where it hurts I'm gonna hit him right where it hurts I got a ring for sale It's yellow gold with a princess diamond I got a ring for sale And I'm gonna let it go real cheap I got a ring for sale A blue box with the velvet on and I gotta get out fore he finds out And I'll throw in the dress for free I gotta get out fore he finds out And I'll throw in the dress for free I got a ring for sale

Sometimes I think about you Wonder if you're out there somewhere thinking 'bout me And would you even recognize The woman that your little girl has grown up to be 'Cause I look in the mirror and all I see Are your brown eyes looking back at me They're the only thing you ever gave to me at all Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California There's sunny skies as far as I can see If you ever come back home to Carolina I wonder what you'd say to me I think about how it ain't fair That you weren't there to braid my hair like mothers do You weren't around to cheer me on Help me dress for my high school prom like mothers do Did you think I didn't need you here? To hold my hand, to dry my tears? Did you even miss me through the years at all? Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California There's sunny skies as far as I can see If you ever come back home to Carolina I wonder what you'd say to me Forgiveness is such a simple word But it's so hard to do when you've been hurt Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California And just in case you're wondering about me From now on I won't be in Carolina Your little girl is off, your little girl is off Your little girl is off to Tennessee

Baby, I got plans tonight you don't know nothin' about I've been sittin' 'round way too long tryin' to figure you out But you say that you'll call and you don't and I'm spinnin' my wheels So I'm goin' out tonight in my red high heels I'm gonna call up that old boyfriend who says still has it bad for me I'm gonna take him into town, flaunt him around for everyone to see Well, you said watch yourself, baby, yeah, you know the deal Nobody holds a candle to me in my red high heels Oh, you can watch me walk if you want to, want to I bet you want me back now, don't you, don't you I'm about to show you just how missin' me feels In my red high heels All those games you tried to play, well, they ain't gonna work on me now I put up a barbed wire fence around my heart, baby, just to keep you out Well, you thought I'd wait around forever, but, baby, get real I just kicked you to the curb in my red high heels Oh, you can watch me walk if you want to, want to I bet you want me back now, don't you, don't you I'm about to show you just how missin' me feels In my red high heels Oh, you can watch me walk if you want to, want to I bet you want me back now, don't you, don't you I'm about to show you just how missin' me feels Oh, you can watch me walk if you want to, want to I bet you want me back now, don't you, don't you I'm about to show you just how missin' me feels In my red high heels In my red high heels In my red high heels

Every day when school got out I'd get off the bus and I'd run down That old dirt road where you were waiting for me On the front porch in that blue swing You'd be smiling and we would sing 'Amazing Grace' and 'Jesus Loves Me' You were like my mother You were my best friend You were everything I want to be And all the good inside of me There's never been Never been another That loved me like you did My grandmother, my angel Even though I can't touch your face I feel you with me every day I wish you could see all my dreams coming true When I get lost I close my eyes And I feel you shining down so bright I feel you shining down on me You were like my mother You were my best friend You were everything I want to be And all the good inside of me There's never been Never been another That loved me like you did My grandmother, my angel You were like my mother You were my best friend You were everything I want to be And all the good inside of me There's never been Never been another That loved me like you did My grandmother, my angel My angel