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Artist: Eddie Kendricks
Canonical path: /eddie-kendricks/honey-brown
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Honey Brown
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Honey Brown
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My Honey Brown, lovely barefooted clown
as sweet and wild as honeysuckle vine
Now children would follow everyplace you would go
Thrill and delight to your one woman show
How foolish and vain
to think that I could change
a girl who's heart
was born for the stage
Honey Brown, we were world's apart
I knew it from the start
That's why I stepped aside
and let you go free
Cause Honey Brown,
my love was so deep
I used to laugh at your movie magazines
You vowed one day you'd be on the screen
I'd fight in the streets when folks tried to say
You'd love any man who promised you fame
And then he came in his big shiny car
took your love from me and broke my heart
Honey Brown, through your tears you're gonna find,
life can be cruel and so unkind
So, Honey Brown, don't let his masquerade
make a streetcorner, make a streetcorner, your stage.
Ooooh, Don't let him do it Don't let him do it Ooooh Honey, ooooh
How foolish and vain
to think that I could change
A girl who's heart was born for the stage
Honey Brown, Girl can'tcha see,
I'll always love ya and wan'tcha here with me.
Honey Brown, I'll be around You're gonna need me
when the tears come down Ooooh Honey, Ooooh Honey
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