You Could Have Had Me, Baby chords by Esther Phillips

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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You could have had me baby,
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but you threw your chance away.
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You thought you had a rain check,
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but there ain't no game today, well good mornin' baby,
I wanna know,
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what can I do for you, yeah.
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Yeah.
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You see, I don't seem to recall
that we'd sign up any kind of rendezvous.
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Now,
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I  want you to hear this, honey.
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You remember one night, baby, I was standing,
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standing in the rain, yeah, and you never,
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you never asked me in, and I didn't even complain,
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no, no, no, no, and you know, I was broke,
Wet, tired, and hungry
But you threw me right
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on out the door
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Yes you did, yes you did, yes you did
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Now it's my turn to tell you
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I just can't, I just can't,
just can't use you anymore
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Lord, I'm so glad, so glad you're gone
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this time around
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Yeah, the last time I saw you
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You were evil, evil as you could be
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My sister had big eyes for you
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But you had no eyes for me
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You, you could have had me baby
But it's too bad, it's too bad
It's too bad because you
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need me now
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Don't you think I don't know
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you need me now
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I'm so sorry, baby, cause I ain't about to take you back,
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take you back no time, no       place,
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no how, no I ain't, baby, no I ain't,
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baby,    no, uh -uh, no, no.
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I  used to love you, baby
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But you're playin' so
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hard to get
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So I      found me somebody
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Who made you so easy to forget
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Be  cause of you,
you could've had me, baby
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Way back when the time was so right,
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so right, so right
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Now I know you're starving,
you're starving for some of my lovin'
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It's too late, it's too late,
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cause I've lost my appetite
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So
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Now I want you to pay special attention to this,
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you could have had me baby, in 1973.
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Now I'm older and I'm wiser and you don't look so good to me no more,
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no more, you could have had me baby
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Way back, way back in 1968, yeah,
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yeah, yeah
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But I got news,  I got news for you baby
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Oh  my lord, oh       you just
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came around too late
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Yes you did, it's too late baby,
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oh       yeah
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