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Goodnight Ladies

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Goodnight Ladies

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Goodnight ladies, ladies goodnight

It's time to say goodbye

Let me tell you, now, goodnight ladies, ladies goodnight

It's time to say goodbye

Ah, all night long you've been drinking your tequilla rye

But now you've sucked your lemon peel dry

So why not get high, high, high and

Goodnight ladies, ladies goodnight

Goodnight ladies, ladies goodnight

It's time to say goodbye

Goodnight sweet ladies, all ladies goodnight

It's time to say goodbye, bye-bye

Ah, we've been together for the longest time

But now it's time to get high

Come on, let's get high, high, high

And goodnight ladies, ladies goodnight

Oh, I'm still missing my other half

Oh, it must be something I did in the past

Don't it just make you wanna laugh

It's a lonely Saturday night

Oh, nobody calls me on the telephone

I put another record on my stereo

But I'm still singing a song of you

It's a lonely Saturday night

Now, if I was an actor or a dancer that was glamorous

Then, you know, an amourus life would soon be mine

But now the tinsel light of star break

Is all that's left to applaud my heart break

And eleven o'clock I watch the network news

Oh, oh, oh, something tells me that you're really gone

You said we could be friends, but that's not what's not what I want

And, anyway, my TV-dinner's almost done

It's a lonely Saturday night

I mean to tell you, it's a lonely Saturday night

One more word, it's a lonely Saturday night

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