作词 : Broadnax/Covay/Ousley/Redding/Franklin/Penn/Bacharach/Wexler/White/Moman

作曲 : Ousley/Redding/Moman/Shannon/Broadnax/Franklin/Covay/Wexler/White/King

Baby here I am

By the railroad tracks

Waiting for my baby

Cause he's coming back

Coming back to me

On the 503

And it won't be long

No it won't be long

I've been so lonesome

Since the man has been gone

There ain't a thing worth mentioning

Nothing been going on

And that's why I know

When the whistle blows

Yeah that it won't be long

No no it won't be long

My daddy told me

When he said goodbye

Yes he did

"I'll be back baby baby by and by"

And that's why I waited

So doggone long yeah

Can't you see how happy I am

Because the man is coming home

So now here I be

By the railroad tracks

Oh waiting for my baby

He's coming back

Coming back to me

On the 503

Yeah and it won't be long

No no be long

I ain't had no loving

Since you know when

He's a long-gone rooster

And I'm a lonesome hen

And that's why I'm sure

When the whistle blows

Yeah that it won't be long

No no be long

Mmm and I'm so excited

My knees are shaking yeah

Mr. Engineer

Don't you keep me waiting

You hear me

Hurry hurry hurry hurry

Hurry hurry hurry

Baby here I am

Oh by the railroad tracks

Waiting for my baby

He's coming back

Coming back to me

Lord on the 503

Yeah and it won't be long

No be long

Ahh I know

When the whistle blows

Hey that it won't be long

No no be long

I don't know about you

But I know yeah I know

That it won't be long

No no be long

Said it won't be long

//Sweet Lover//

Say I bet you never thought you'd find

A sweet lover

You'd never find a girl like me

I say

I bet you never thought you'd find

A sweet lover

You'd never find a girl like me

Oh, oh

Oh yeah

Sweet lover, yeah

Ah, no matter how I treat you, baby

You like it

And I know, because you told me so

I said no matter how I treat you, baby

You like it

And I know it, 'cause you told me so

Oh, oh

Oh yeah

Sweet, sweet lover, yeah

Oh yeah!

I've got my hooks in you

Uh huh

Hmm, but I guess you've got me, too

'Cause I never ever thought I'd find

A sweet, sweet lover

I'd never find a man like you

I say I never, never ever thought I'd find

A sweet sweet lover

I'd never find a man like you

Oh, oh

Oh yeah

Mmm, sweet lover, yeah

Oh yeah!

I've got my hooks in you

Uh huh

Mmm, but I guess you've got me, too

Oh, oh, I never

Never ever thought I'd find

A sweet lover

Never find a man like you

I said I never, never thought I'd find

A sweet lover

I'd never find a man like you

Oh, oh

Mmm, oh yeah

Sweet, sweet lover, yeah

Oh, oh

Oh yeah

Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet lover, yeah

Oh, oh

Ow, oh yeah!

Sweet lover

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

//It's so Heartbreakin'//

It’s so heartbreaking when the one you love

Is in love with somebody else

When somebody you’ve been dreaming of

Is in love with somebody else

You can’t keep on smiling over rainy’s due

Keep on walking though you’ve gotta hold in your shoe

But it’s so heartbreaking when the one you love

Is in love with somebody else

John thought Jennie really love him true

Till he caught her kissing with Bill

John is so lonesome, don’t know what he’ll do

Since Jane went over the hills

So there goes Johnnie with a broken heart

He is just too good for nothing since they’re apart

Cause it’s so heartbreaking when the one you love

Is in love with somebody else

Oh, it’s so heartbreaking when you’re love is gone

And your dream love go up in smoke

And it’s so frightening, baby, when you love someone

And he thinks your love is a joke

Oh, you gotta keep on living till the day you die

But you’re so disgusted that you wonder why

Cause it’s so heartbreaking when the one you love

Is in love with somebody else

I said that it’s so heartbreaking when the one you love

Is in love with somebody else

It hurts so bad, yes it does

So heartbreaking when the one you love

Is in love with somebody else

That man really turn just back on

So heartbreaking when the one you love

Is in love with somebody else

//Right Now//

Tell me if you love me

Right now

Tell me if you want me

Right now

You make me think you like it

When we kiss

But still you never say so

So if you're only playing

Let′s stop

Cause you're nearly blowing my top

And if you can say you do

But if you don't

Baby tell me right now

You've got a smile I love

And you've a style I love

And your caress

Is all my heart is dreaming of

But if you keep stalling

By the time we click

I'll be turning gray

And you'll be walking

With this trick

So if we're gonna make it

Let's start

Cause you're overworking my heart

I confess that I'm with you

And you with me

But tell me right now

You've got

You've got a smile I love

And God knows you've the style I love

And your caress

Is all my heart is dreaming of

But if you keep stalling

By the time we click

I'll be turning gray

And you'll be walking

With this trick

So if we're gonna make it

We've got to start

Cause you're overworking my heart

And you're the guy that I love

That I can't deny

And all you ever give me

Is just an alibi

And baby I've decided

Now it's do or die

So tell me if you love me

Oh tell me if you love me

I wanna know now

I wanna know now

Yes right now

Hmmm.......

//Love Is the Only Thing//

I love and you love

We love

Sweet love

I look and you look

And we found sweet love

And now we know

Love is the only thing

That matters at all

After all

I kiss and you kiss

Each kiss sweet lips

I tease and you squeeze

And we find sweet bliss

That's how we know

Love is the only thing

That matters at all

After all

I'm lucky

And you're lucky too

We're lucky

And we know it's true

Love is so wonderful

I give and you give

We live for love

Each night

Each day

We love sweet love

Cause ain't it so?

Love is the only thing

That matters at all

After all

Love is the only thing

That matters at all

After all

//All Night Long//

Never knew the softness of his tender kiss

Don't know if he's weak or strong

All I know is he's in every dream I dream

All night long

Mmm, never heard him speak a single word of love

Never knew his favorite song

Because he only speaks to me in dreams I dream

All night long

When I'm asleep

He tells me he's in love with me

And how much he needs me to be near

But at best, a dream is just a fantasy

If I touch his hand, he'll disappear

No, no, no, no, no

No, I don't need a lover that's just a memory

Fate, how could you be so wrong?

Now I've got to find a man who's haunting me

All night long

All night long

All night long

//Maybe I'm a Fool//

Maybe I'm a fool

For loving you so

And maybe

Maybe I'm a fool

I don't, I don't really know

But I can't

I can't stop loving you

Darling, oh yes

Though I tried, oh yes

And maybe

Maybe your goodbye was so mean

So mean and unfair

Though you made me cry

My love's still there

And I know, I know

That I'll long for your kisses, oh

Until I die

Oh yes, until I die

Well, I said all of my friends

All of my friends have told me

They said "Aretha, why don't you find

You really need to findSomebody new"

Yeah, oooh yeah

But what they don't know

What they just don't know

Is in my heart

I'd missing, oh

That that someone was you

So, oh, it's all for you to decide

If you should decide

To trap me once more

All you got to do

All you got to do is knock on my door

And I'll say

I'll say that I've taken you back

Yeah, taking you back would be folish

Then maybe, oh, maybe I'm a fool

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

//Just for You//

I'll say goodbye to all that old friends

Just for you just for you

If we can be together just we two

I'll stay at home all week and weekends

If you'll be there with me

Our lust will be a drift you just wait and see

I'll forget the old days

When running around was fun

Through the years and always

You'll be the only one

I'll save my love and my affection

Just for you I'll be true

As long as I may live I'll live just for you

//Exactly Like You//

I know why I've waited

I know why I've been blue, yeah

'cause I've been waiting here for somebody, baby

Ah, yeah, exactly like you

Uh-huh

Why should we spend all of our money

On a show or two

When nobody makes those love scenes, honey

Ah, exactly like you

Now you make me feel so grand

I want to give this world to you

And you make me understand

These foolish little dreams I'm dreamin'

And schemes I'm schemin', yeah

I know why my daddy

Taught me to be true, yeah

'cause he was keepin' me here for somebody, somebody, somebody

Exactly like you

Now you make me feel so grand

I want to hand this great big wide world to you

And you make me understand

These foolish little dreams I'm dreamin'

And oh, schemes I'm schemin', yeah

I know why my daddy

The man taught me to be true, uh-huh

'cause he was savin' me here for somebody, somebody, somebody

Exactly like you

Oh, exactly, ah baby

Like you.

Exactly like you

Nobody, nobody, nobody but you

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Exactly, exactly, exactly, oh, like you

Oh baby

Somebody, somebody...

//(Blue) by Myself//

Feeling mighty blue

By myself

One ol' lonesome shoe

By myself

Now that love's behind me

You'll find me

By myself

I just sit and stare

At the floor

Just don't seem to care

Anymore

Since my baby's gone

Got a padlock on my door

That old black cat

Keeps hangin' 'round

But I ain't blaming him

'Cause things are bad

It ain't his fault

I've gone and lost

The only love

I ever had

Love

Love

I miss him so

It's no lie

And I'm so "double o"

I could die

So I'll be

Just me here

By myself

//Today I Sing the Blues//

Without a word of warnin'

The blues walked in this mornin'

And circled around my lonely room.

I didn't know why I had that sad 'n lonely feelin'

Until my baby called and said we were through, hooo.

For yesterday this time I sang a lovesong

But today... I'm singing the blues.

Now, I know the explanation

'Cause we were lovin' 'til last night honey, yeah.

I'm alone again today

And it strikes me kinda funny how fate can be so unfair

'Cos I seem to come right on the losin' end in every, every love affair!

Yes it must be, it must be meant for me that I should be the one

Be the one to always lose, hooo........

For yesterday this time I sang a lovesong

But right now... I'm singing the blues......

//Just for a Thrill//

Just for a thrill

You changed the sunshine to rain

And just for a thrill

You filled my heart with so much pain

To me you were my pride and joy

Oh but to you I was merely a toy

A plaything a plaything a plaything

That you could toss around at will

And just for a thrill a thrill a thrill

You made my life you made my life one sad song

And just for a thrill

You took me by the hand and you just led ooh led me along

And although you're free

I know you're havin' fun

Oh but to me and in my heart

You'll still be the only one

Because you oh you made my

Heart stand still yeah

Thrill thrill yeah

//Rock-a-Bye Baby with a Dixie Melody//

Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody

When you croon, croon a tune from the heart of Dixie

Just place my cradle, mammy mine

Right on the Mason Dixon line

And swing it from Virginia

To Tennessee with all the love that's in ya

Weep no more, my lady

Sing that song again for me

Soft and low, just as though

You had me on your knee

A million baby kisses I'd deliver

If you would only sing that Swanee River

Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody

Weep no more, my lady

Sing that song again for me

Soft and low, just as though

You had me on your knee

A million baby kisses I'd deliver

If you would only sing that Swanee River

Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody

You had me on your knee

A million baby kisses I'd deliver

If you would only sing that Swanee River

Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody

//It Ain't Necessarily So//

It ain't necessarily so

It ain't necessarily so

The things that you're liable

To read in the Bible

It ain't necessarily so

Now David was small but, oh my

Yes, David was small but, oh my

He fought big Goliath

Who lay, lay down and dieth

Yes, David was small

But, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa my

You've ever heard 'bout Jonah?

He lived in a whale

You've ever heard 'bout Jonah?

He lived, lived in a whale

And he made his home in that fish's abdomen

Yes Jonah, he lived in a whale

To get into heaven

Don't snap for a seven

Live clean and don't have no fault

And take me, yeah, take that gospel

Whenever it's possible

But with a little grain of salt

Methuselah lived 900 years

Methuselah lived 9,900 years

But tell me who, who calls that living

When no gal is given to no man

What's 900 years?

That's why I say that it ain't

It ain't necessarily

It ain't, no, necessarily

It ain't, it ain't necessarily so

Ain't necessarily so

Ain't necessarily so

Ain't necessarily so

Ain't necessarily so

Ain't necessarily so

//You Made Me Love You//

You made me love you

I didn’t want to do it (no, no)

I didn’t want to do it (no, no)

You made me love you

And all the time you knew it

I guess you always knew it

You made me happy sometimes

And then you made me sad

And there were times, dear

You made me feel so bad

You made me sigh for

I didn’t want to tell ya (no, no)

I didn’t want to tell ya (no, no)

I want a love that’s true

Yes I do, you know I do, indeed I do

Give me, give me

Give me what I cry for

You know you got the brand of kisses that I’d die for

You know you made me love you.......

//Try a Little Tenderness//

Oh, she may be weary

Young girls they do get weary

Wearing that same old shaggy dress, yeah yeah

But when she gets weary

Try a little tenderness, yeah yeah

You know she's waiting

Just anticipating

For things that she'll never possess

But while she's there waiting, without them

Try a little tenderness (that's all you gotta do)

It's not just sentimental, no, no, no

She has her grief and care, yeah yeah yeah

But the soft words, they are spoke so gentle, yeah

It makes it easier, easier to bear, yeah

You won't regret it, no, no

Some girls they don't forget it

Love is their only happiness, yeah

But it's all so easy

All you gotta do is try, try a little tenderness, yeah

All you gotta do is, man, hold her where you want her

//Don't Cry,Baby//

Don't cry, baby, don't cry, sugar

Dry your eyes

And let's be sweethearts again

Because you know

You know I didn't mean

To ever treat you so mean

Right now, oh, yeah

Come on, honey

Let's try it all over

One more time

Oh, don't cry, don't cry, baby

Don't cry, don't cry

Honey, oh, dry your eyes

And let's be, come on

Let's be sweethearts again

Oh, oh, oh, because you know

You know I didn't mean

To ever, ever, oh

Treat you so mean right now

Right now, oh, yeah

Come on, baby

And I wonder can I be

Your sweetheart one more time

Right now, right now

Oh, I said don't cry

Oh, honey, don't cry, baby

Don't cry, don't cry, sugar

Oh, right now

Dry your little eyes

Oh, oh, and let me be

Your little cookie one more time

Right now, yeah, yeah

Oh, I said don't cry, don't cry, baby

Ooh, don't cry, don't cry, sugar

Oh yeah, don't cry

//That Lucky Old Sun//

Up in the mornin', out on the job

Work like the devil for my pay

But that lucky old sun got nothin' to do

But roll around heaven all day

Fuss with my woman, toil for my kids

Sweat till I'm wrinkled and gray

While that lucky old sun got nothin' to do

But roll around heaven all day

Dear Lord above, can't you know I'm pining, tears all in my eyes

Send down that cloud with a silver lining, lift me to paradise

Show me that river, take me across, wash all my troubles away

Like that lucky old sun, give me nothing to do

But roll around heaven all day, but roll around heaven all day

Send down that cloud with a silver lining, lift me to paradise

Show me that river,

Take me across, wash all my troubles away

Like that lucky old sun, give me nothing to do

But roll around heaven all day........

//Nobody Like You//

I've looked around all over town

And I'm so lonely and so blue

I've looked around and all over

But I can't find nobody like you you you yeah

Now it's all so lonely since you went away

And I don't know what to do

I've looked around all over over

I just can't find nobody nobody like you

Tears seem to fall when I'm away oh when I'm away from you

And I've tried to understand the reason why

And now I know it's all it's all because I love you I love you so much

My heart is yours until the day that I die

And oh why don't you hold me

Hold me and never never let me go

Why don't you why don't you love me love me

And vanish all thoughts of sorrow

I love you

I love you just can't find nobody like you

//I Surrender,Dear//

We played the game

Of stay away

But it cost more

Than I can take

Without you

I can't make my way

I surrender, dear

Now I must seem proud

I may act gay

But it's just a pose

I'm not that way

'Cause deep down

Deep down in my heart

I say, I surrender, dear

Little mean things

We were doing

Must have been

Part of the game

Lending a spice to the wooing

Oh, but I don't care

Who's to blame, blame

When stars appear

And shadows fall

Why didn't you hear

My poor heart call

To you, my love

My life, my all

I surrender, dear

Oh, I, I surrender, dear

Oh, yeah, I

Oh, Isurrender, yeah, dear

Yeah, yeah

//Rough Lover//

Now, listen here, girls

I'm gonna tell you

What I want right now

I want a rough lover

I want a man

I want a rough, tough lover

And I'll find him if I can

He's got to bite nails

Fight bears

And if I get sassy

Be a man who dares

To shut me up and kiss me

So I know he cares

I want a man

Don't want a mean daddy

I want a boss

I want a mean, sweet daddy

Who the devil wouldn't cross

He's got to spit fire

Chew iron

Get mad and start roaring

Like a mountain lion

Then whisper that he loves me

So I know he's mine

I want a man

I'm looking for a guy

Who's big and strong

But weak for me

I'm looking for a guy

Who'll ride around

But never, never set me free

I want a rough lover

I want a man

I want a rough, tough lover

With a sentimental plan

So he can kiss nice

Hug tight

He's gotta be sweet and gentle

Day and night

But mean enough to make me

Want to treat him right

I want a man, oh, yeah

I'm looking for a guy

Who's raving strong

But weak for me

I'm looking for a guy

Who'll ride around

But never, never set me free

I want a rough lover

I want a man

I want a rough, tough lover

With a sentimental plan

So he can kiss nice

Hug tight

He's gotta be sweet and gentle

Day and night

But mean enough to make me

Want to treat him right

I want a man

I want a man

I don't want no creampuff, baby

Don't want no butterfly

I want a man

Oh, yes, I do

Oh, yes, I do

//I'm Wandering//

I'm wandering been moving to and fro

Just wandering with no place to go

Since I lost you lost you

All I ever do is been wandering 'til I wander back to you

Oh oh I'm wishing been yearning for your kiss

Oh and I've been missing the warmth of your caress

Since I lost you I lost you

All I ever do is been wandering wandering wandering

Wandering I'll be wandering 'til I wander back to you

I look on every corner down every dismal street

Are you there Are you there Oh darling I repeat

I visit all familiar places There's no one there but me

Where can you be Where can you be

Oh darling where can you be

Oh I'm praying your touch for me has grown

Oh and I'm saying for before it's not been long

I love you I love you

And all I ever do is been wandering crying wandering wandering

I'll be wandering 'til I wander 'til I wander back to you

Yeah oh yeah I'm gonna be I'm gonna be wandering

Til I wander back to you yeah yeah

Mm wandering

//Lover Come Back to Me//

The sky was blue

And high above

The moon was new

And so was love

This eager heart of mine was singing

Lover where can you be

You came at last

Love had its day

That day is past

You've gone away

This aching heart of mine is singing

Lover come back to me

When I remember every little thing

You used to do

I'm so lonely

Every road I walk along

I walk along with you

No wonder I am lonely

The sky is blue

The night is cold

The moon is new

But love is old

This heart of mine is singing

And while I'm waiting here

Lover come back to me

This aching heart of mine is singing

Lover come back to me

This aching heart of mine is singing

Lover come back to me

When I remember every little thing

You used to do

I get so so lonely

Every road I walk

I walk along with you

No wonder

No wonder I get so so lonely

The sky is blue

The night is cold

The moon is new

But love is old

And while I'm waiting here

This heart of mine is singing

Lover come back to me

Lover come back to me yeah