It's something, I have to come way
back to St. Louis where my home is
it's awfully nice being home,
seeing so many of you out this evening.
And in spite of your coldness,
Baby, please don't go, don't go.
Baby, you've done me wrong,
Since you took my love right now,
that you're doin' it wrong?
Baby, come on in and take my hand,
that you're gonna be my lovin' man
Sing the song and let it breathe
for just a few minutes now,
because I want to talk to you.
I want to talk about love and hurt.
Maybe there's some of you
that's never been in love.
Maybe there's some in the house this evening
that's never been hurt, but just the same,
I want you to listen to me,
because I've loved, and I've been hurt,
I wonder how many of you have ever been
Have you ever been in love
with a man that didn't love
Or sometimes, when you might have been at a dance like you are tonight,
thinking about the man you love,
over the corner somewhere
and see him with another girl.
the feeling that you get then is
nothing you can do about it.
Some of you might say, oh yeah, Tina,
there is something that I can do about it.
But I'm going to tell you something,
you can't make him have you.
You might as well try to forget about it.
I'm going to ask you something right now.
If you feel like talking to me,
I want you to sing along with me and say,
If there's anybody in this house
I wanna hear you sing, ah
No, I know, baby, I love you so I must
stop the music one more time,
because I ain't been talking to you yet.
First, I want to say that I know that
in the house this evening,
we probably have some more respectable young ladies,
but you know, even the respectable ones
have done some wrong once in their lives.
If you haven't done wrong yet,
you've got to do something wrong
because that's how life is.
I say that for another reason because folks,
I still want to know how am I by myself.
I want to know how many of you have ever
been in love with a married man.
You know, I want to know how many of you have
ever been in love with your best girlfriend's old man.
when you're in love with a man
that don't belong to you,
have him when you want to.
when you really, really need him.
you have to slip to see him.
But all of us know, young and old,
that when you start to slip in doing anything,
it gets out of hand sometimes.
it makes you start to wondering.
I wonder if he hugs and kisses his old lady at home like he hugs and kisses me.
and we can face the truth.
But I got some young ladies in the
that ain't talking to me.
Maybe it's because you don't want to put your
Some of you may think hard of me
because I'm saying it before so
that I'm telling the truth.
when I run up on one of those men
that I can't have when I want him,
whenever I think I want him,
you want to know what I tell him?