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(Spoken:)
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Don't you know Lily Mae?
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Yeah, I know Lily Mae
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One day they gonna find her froze to death standing in that door, you know!
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What door?
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Where she alway stand!
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Is she still standing there?
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Man, she done stood there so long she ain't nothing but bone, man.
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And it ain't doin' no good. You know what I told her?
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What?
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(Sung:)
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Don't you know, tricks ain't gonna walk no more
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(What they gonna do? Crawl?)
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No she got to get out and git them, man
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Don't you know, tricks ain't gonna walk no more
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Yes woman you gotta get out and get 'em,
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Or tricks ain't gonna walk no more
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(Spoken):
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You know I used to have a little money, and I used to pass
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all up and down that neighbourhood, you know.
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You know, one time I run into you down there, you know.
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But you never wondered where I saw you.
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Yes... I had been cleaned - I had been cleaned already, you know.
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That's why I didn't talk to you about wanting you to go there
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and get your dustbin out you know.
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Haha.
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Yes boy, it was a mess boy, you know...
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You know, she used to sit inside in the wintertime (yeah),
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sit right by the window glass, you know... Looking out.
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And when you pass by she'd knock on the glass like this, you know.
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And when you look - yeah! - she make two signs.
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You know what them signs were?
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What was it?
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Two and a half, man! Two and a half, yeah. And you know what I told her?
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(Sung:)
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Don't you know, tricks ain't gonna walk no more
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(She didn't believe me, though, you know, when I told her that)
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Don't you know, tricks ain't gonna walk no more
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(Not a bit!)
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Yes if you don't go out and get 'em,
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Tricks ain't gonna walk no more
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(Mickey's solo)
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Now go, man, go on and see how they walk, man...
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Man I believe you walkin' with the woman like that!
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Take it easy... Oh my goodness...
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Tricks ain't never walked like that man...
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You messed up that neighbourhood
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(Sung:)
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Don't you know, tricks ain't gonna walk no more
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Don't you know, tricks ain't gonna walk no more
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Well if you don't go out and get 'em, woman,
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Tricks ain't gonna walk no more
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The Tricks
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| Champion Jack Dupree |
