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Artist: John Lee Hooker
Canonical path: /john-lee-hooker/baby-how-can-you-do-it
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Baby, How Can You Do It
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Baby, How Can You Do It
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Well, a nickel is a nickel, dime is a dime,
house full-a
chillun
an' now one's mine
I gotta bundle up an' go I gotta bundle up an' go
Well, ya high pile a' women sho gotta bundle up an' go
Doo-doo, doo-doo doo-dop bah
Doo-doo, doo-doo doo-dop dah
Doo-doo, doo-doo doo-dop dah
May be old, may be gray, ya ain't too old just to shift them gears,
Ya gotta bundle up an' go
Ya gotta bundle up an' go
Ya gotta bundle up an' go
Sho' gotta bundle up an' go
Yeah!
Well, mama killed a chicken,
thought it was a duck
Put him on the table with his legs stickin' up
Ya gotta bundle up an' go, yeah
Ya gotta bundle up an' go
Well, ya high pile a' women
Sho' gotta bundle up an' go
Well, mama tol' papa, night afo' las',
"Look-a here, papa, you ain't doin' me right"
I gotta bundle up an' go
I gotta bundle up an' go
Well, ya high pile a' women
Sho' gotta bundle up an' go
Doo-doo, doo-doo doo-dop bah
Doo-doo, doo-doo doo-dop dah
Doo-doo, doo-doo doo-dop dah
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