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Song: Hey Hey What Can I Do
Album: N/A
Single: Immigrant Song/Hey Hey What Can I Do [Nov 5, 1970]
Credited to: ?
Related Songs:
Boogie Chillun - John Lee Hooker (reference)

Lyrics:

Wanna tell you 'bout the girl I love, my, she look so fine
And she's the only one that I been dreamin' of, maybe someday she will be all mine
I wanna tell her that I love her so, I thrill with her every touch
I need to tell her she's the only one I really love

I got a woman, wan' ball all day, yeah
I got a woman, she won't be true, no
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I said, I got a little woman and she won't be true

And Sunday mornin', when we go down to church, see the men-folk standin' in line
Don't say they come to pray to the Lord, not when my little girl looks so fine
And in the evenin' when the sun is sinkin' low, and everybody's with the one they love
I walk the town, keep a-searchin' all around, lookin' for my street-corner girl

I got a woman, wan' ball all day, yeah
I got a woman, she won't be true, no, no
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I said, I got a little woman and she won't be true

And in the bars where the men who play guitars sit there drinkin' and rememberin' the time
My little lover does a midnight shift, she ball around all of the time
I guess there's just one thing tha' left for me to do, gonna pack my bags and move on my way
'Cause I got a worried mind, I'm sharin' what I thought was mine
Gonna leave her when the guitars play

I got a woman, she won't be true, no, no
I got a woman, wanna ball all day, yeah, yeah, now, now
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I got a little woman and she won't be true

I said she won't be true, no
Yeah, no, yeah, no, yeah, no, yeah, no
Aaah, keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin'
She wanna ball
Keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin'
Yeah, yeah, a-boogie, a-boogie, children, a-boogie, a-boogie, children
Ah, yeah, ah, yeah, ah, yeah, ah, yeah

Hey, hey, what can I do
I got a woman, she won't be true
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hear what I say
I got a woman, wanna ball all day
Keep ballin', keep ballin', ohh-ho-ho-ho-ho, oh

Influences: There's a slight lyrical reference to John Lee Hooker's Boogie Chillun toward the end of this song.