Key: A major•
Verse 1
Soddy Ho.
And you know, I heard all my life
that if you want to be on record,
you got to write songs that touch people.
And I would like to try to touch you
with a song I wrote called A
Testimony of Soddy Ho,
also known as Ain't Nobody
Never Told Me Nothin'.
It goes like this. One day,
my truck run out of gas
on Route 1
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They said, hey boy,
come over here and let's talk.
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I'll give you a ride. I said, fine.
He said, well,
if you've got a driving license,
what's your name?
Soddy's my name,
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but I sure drive to hell, I just think.
We were riding along
and I said, what kind of work y 'all in?
he just grinned.
and he said,
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Ain't nobody ever told me nothin'
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Only anybody ever told me where to go
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so much as givin' the time of day
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so I ain't got nothin' to say
Soddy's fixin' to get
in a heap of trouble
They said, well look,
we got a business deal
here at the bank
Why don't you sit out in the
I said, fine.
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So I sit there pickin' my teeth,
over across the street.
So I did.
And I was on the self -service aisle,
when this great big cop
stay where you are,
Is that yours, boy?
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I'm just puttin' gas in this can.
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told me nothin'
Verse 3
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But that they didn't want me to know
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All anybody ever told me
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ain't nobody so much
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as give me the time of day
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so I ain't got nothin' to say
Verse 7
Yeah, see, Soddy may be
dumb like a box of rocks,
but he knows that police
ain't gonna buy none of this.
See, but before Soddy even
had time to think,
when the burglar alarm
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went off over at the bank,
Well, here come them dudes runnin' out
with their arms loaded full of money,
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Well, they looked for the car,
and then they looked for me.
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Well, son, you shoulda seen the
look on their face
They was a -hollerin',
jumpin' up and down.
all over on the ground
Well, the dude called left,
and he pulled me over to the side,
the damn car knucklehead?
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I didn't look at left and I said brother wait
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a minute ain't nobody ever
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only anybody ever told me
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The time of day they never told me nothing.
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I ain't got nothing to say except hey
when you leave him brother,
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And if I had my brothers, brother,
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I'd rather be going without it
than going with you.
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Oh, huh?
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but I ain't going to jail.
Hey, brother, you over there
Hey, yeah, you going out
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toward Highway 1?
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Well, let me tell you where to stick your pickup truck,
F#m
brother.
officer.
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