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Artist: Janis Joplin
Canonical path: /janis-joplin/i-can-t-turn-you-loose
Related lyric paths: 6
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I Can't Turn You Loose
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I Can't Turn You Loose
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I can't turn you loose, if I do I'm gonna lose my mind
I can't never turn you loose, if I do I'm gonna lose my mind
Whoa, I can't turn you loose for nobody, I love you, yes I do, huh!
Hip-shakin' mama, I love you, love no one but you
Hear me, baby, I call you, call you
I can't turn you loose, if I do I'm gonna lose my mind
I can never turn you loose, huh, if I do I'm gonna lose my mind
I can't turn you loose for nobody, I love you, yes I do, huh!
Hip-shakin' mama, I love you, love no one but you
Hear me, baby, I call you, call you
Ah, tell me mama, baby!
Hey, baby, baby, baby
Now, wooh, baby, huh!
Talkin' about my baby
Oh baby, huh, about my baby
Baby, baby I love you, I gotta do everything, ha!
Baby!
My!
My, my, my, baby!
Baby, baby, baby, baby yeah
Whoa!! Baby, baby, baby, huh!
Talkin' about you
Every, every day, baby, gotta keep on holdin'
Gotta keep on holdin' on you, baby
Holdin'
Oh baby, huh! Talkin' about you, ah!
Huh! Baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby
Huh! Baby I love you
Every, every day, baby
Huh! Love you
Baby, let me hear you say yeah!
Over here, yeah!
Yeah!!!! I feel good
Sam, I need a little help
Bring it down a little bit, Maury, bring it down a little bit
I need a little help
Fellas, get your hands from under your girl's dress for a minute
Young ladies, yeah we're about to get into this
Hold on a minute
Aah!!
Yeah!!
Every day, baby, every day, baby, aahh!!
Lord!!
Yeah, baby, every, every day, baby
Whoaa, whooo, ahh, aahhha
Every, every day, baby
Huh! Bring it on down, bring it down!
Mercy! Do you feel alright?
If you don't, fuck you, you oughta go home!
Mercy! Do you feel alright?
Get on in, daddy!
I feel good, woohh, mercy, I can dig it, aww!
Say you're lookin' good to me, say you're lookin' fine
Say you're lookin' good to me, hon you're lookin' fine
Hey you're lookin' good to me, hon you're lookin' fine
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!!
Oh!! Oh!! Oh!! Oh!! Oh yeah!! Oh yeah!! Oh yeah!! oh yeah!!
Woh yeah!! Woh yeah!! Woh yeah!! Wo yeah!! - alright!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, baby
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel good because I love you
You know I love you
Huh! I love you
Every day
Huh!
Babe, aw!! wooh! Huh!
Say you're looking good! Mercy!
Let's get the horns in
Do you want to hear the horns blow?
Do you want to hear the horns blow?
Do you want to hear the horns blow?
Yeah!! Huh, talkin' about you
Say look-a here, here we go
One, two, three, four, ah!!
Hey!
Ooh!
Shit!
Wohh!
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