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Artist: Johnny Rivers
Canonical path: /johnny-rivers/do-what-you-gotta-do
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Do What You Gotta do
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Do What You Gotta do
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Girl, i can understand how it might be
Kinda hard to love a guy like me
I don't blame you much for wanting to be free
I just wanted you to know
I've loved you better than your own kin did
From the very start so it's my own fault
What happens to my heart
You see i've always known you'd go
So, you just do what you gotta do
My wild sweet love
Though it may mean that i'll never kiss
Those sweet lips again
Pay that no mind
Find that dappled dream of yours
And come on back and see me when you can
Now i know it'll make you sad
Make you feel so bad
They say you don't treat me like you should
They got ways to make you feel no good
I guess they got no way to know
I've had my eyes wide open from the start
And girl you never lied to me
The part of you they'll never see
Is the part you've shown to me
Now you just do what you gotta do
My wild sweet love
Though it may mean that i'll never kiss
Those sweet lips again
Pay that no mind
Chase that dappled dream of yours
And come on back and see me when you can
Yeah you just do what you gotta do
My wild sweet love
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