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Artist: Tammy Wynette
Canonical path: /wynette-tammy/ill-take-what-you-can-give-me-when-you-can
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I’ll Take What You Can Give Me (When You Can)
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I’ll Take What You Can Give Me (When You Can)
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Tonight I'll wear the gown you bought for me
And fix my hair the way you like it best
I'll put on the perfume that you gave me
And then I'll wait
Lying here
I'd like to make believe
That you're home and gently kissing me
I'm waiting here alone
With the silence as my friend
I could never ask you to leave her
Even though I'm drowning with no place to stand
All I wanna hear is I love you
And I'll take what you can give me when you can
A little bit of you is better
Than none of you at all
But all of me is nothing without you
I know I tromped a lot
Another woman's man
But it's alright
It's enough to see me through
But I would never ask you to leave her
Even though I'm drowning with no place to stand
All I wanna hear is I love you
And I'll take what you can give me when you can
Oh, I'll take what you can give me when you can
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Tammy Wynette performs "I’ll Take What You Can Give Me (When You Can)", and this lyric page sits inside the Tammy Wynette catalog on LyroVerse.
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