Tennessee Toddy

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[Verse 1]
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Well, me and my baby was a-walkin' down the road
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Hoppin' along like two little toads
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I looked down at her; I said, "What can we do?"
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She said, "Let's go someplace where we can bop to the blues!"
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I said I didn't know a place where we could do such a thing

She said, "I know a little place, and, man, it's just a dream!"
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It's just a little spot on the outside of town
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Where we can really pick 'em up and put 'em down!"
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So we went, we as gone gone long gone
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Well  I'll tell you more about it in the very next verse of my song.

[Verse 2]
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Well we went to a place called "Everybody's"
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I met a little chick called 'the Tennessee Toddy'
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The reason that they called this chick 'Tennessee Toddy"
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Was she had long legs and a little bitty body,
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But that cat could go, yeah, she was gone, gone, gone,
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And I'll tell you all about it in the very next verse of my song.

[Verse 3]
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Well she was long and lean like a green string bean:
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Calm and collected and cool and keen!
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She was all of this and a whole lot more;
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When baby saw me watching her, she threw me out the door
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And we were gone, yeah, we were gone, gone, long gone,
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And I'll tell you more about it in the very next verse of my song.

[Whistled Bridge]
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[Verse 4]
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Well  took baby home and she said, "Good night"
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She said, "Be real good and sleep real tight!"
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Well I rushed right back to Everybody's
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'Cause I had to get acquainted with the Tennessee Toddy!
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So we left there, yeah I was gone, gone, long gone,
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And I'll tell you more about it in the very next verse of my song.

[Verse 5]
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I was back there jumpin' with Toddy at three
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When in walked a gent twice as big as me
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He looked real mean and mad and sore;
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He made for me and I made for the door,
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Just a-runnin', yeah, I was gone, gone, long gone,
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And I'll tell you more about it in the very next verse of my song.

[Verse 6]
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Well I didn't know that Toddy had a man of her own
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Made out of nothing but muscle and bone
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I know I'd rather have baby instead
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But that big ape put knots on my head
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So I left there, yeah, I was gone, gone, long gone,
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Well there ain't no more, this is the end of my song