Everybody needs someone sometime    (Listen to sample)

 

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1.               Mary heard boys talkin' in voices low,

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    saying she weren't no spring chicken, like she didn't already know.

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    So she called up Jack from a few years back,

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    she turned him down once in his one-room shack.

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    She said, "Now baby, you don't look that bad."

 

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    'Cause everybody needs someone sometime,

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    everybody needs someone, can't you see,

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    everybody needs someone sometime.

 

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2.                 Spivey Leeks was a drip of a man,

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    he looked like a potato shoved into jeans.

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    He recollects, it wasn't that long ago

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    that he could walk by, make the young girls scream.

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    But he thought he'd just let it all slide, let it all pass,

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    'cause he thought love was best on the run.

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    He said, "Now baby, it don't seem that fun."  

 

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    'Cause everybody needs someone sometime,

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    everybody needs someone, can't you see,

F                                G                   Am       

    everybody needs someone sometime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    Hey there, Honey Bee, will you give me... sugar,

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    and if you shake real cute, I might give you some... sugar.

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    I was doing alright on my own, but now,

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    I just might take you home...sugar.

 

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3.    Sister Mary used to be a nun,

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     she thought that she'd retire and have her some fun.

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     Mr. Joe (of the Philadelphia Joes),

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    well, he worked in the post office all night.

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    He said,     "Hey Sweetheart, you know you look alright."

 

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    'Cause everybody needs someone sometime,

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    everybody needs someone, can't you see,

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    everybody needs someone sometime.  + repeat CHORUS

 

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    Everybody needs someone sometime, oh yeah ! (4x) ….

 

    (Jewel)