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Artist: Etta Jones
Canonical path: /etta-jones/my-man
Related lyric paths: 6
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My Man
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My Man
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It's cost me a lot
But there's one thing that I've got
It's my man
Cold and wet, tired you bet
But all that I soon forget
With my man
He's not much for looks
And no hero out of books
Is my man
Two or three girls has he
That he likes as well as me
But I love him!
I don't know why I should
He isn't good, he isn't true
He beats me too
What can I do?
Oh, my man I love him so
He'll never know A
ll my life is just despair
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright, all right
What's the difference if I say I'll go away,
When I know I'll come back on my knees some day?
For whatever my man is
I am his forever more
Oh, my man I love him
Sometimes I say
If I could just get away
With my man
He'd go straight sure as fate
For it never is too late
For a man I just like to dream
Of a cottage by a stream
With my man Where a few flowers grew
And perhaps a kid or two
Like my man
And then my eyes get wet I most forget till he gets hot
And tells me not to talk such rot
Oh, my man I love him so
He'll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright, all right
What's the difference if I say
I'll go away,
When I know I'll come back on my knees some day?
For what ever my man is
I am his forever more
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