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Artist: Janis Joplin
Canonical path: /janis-joplin/maybe
Related lyric paths: 6
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Maybe
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person
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Maybe
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Maybe
Oh, if I could pray, and I try, dear
You might come back home, home to me
Maybe
Whoa, if I could ever hold your little hand
Oh, you might understand
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, dear
I guess I might have done something wrong
Honey, I'd be glad to admit it
Oh, come on home to me
Honey, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah
Well, I know that it just doesn't ever seem to matter, babe
Oh, honey, when I go out or what I'm trying to do
Can't you see I'm still left here?
And I'm holding on in needing you
Please, please, please, please
Oh, won't you reconsider, babe?
Now come on, I said come back
Won't you come back to me?
Maybe, dear, oh, maybe, maybe, maybe
Let me help, you show me how
Honey, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe
Maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah
Maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah
Oh
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Janis Joplin performs "Maybe", and this lyric page sits inside the Janis Joplin catalog on LyroVerse.
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