Don't Start Me Talking

[Verse 1]

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Well, I'm goin' down to Rosie's, Stop at Fannie Mae's 

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Gonna tell Fannie what I heard her boyfriend say 


[Chorus]

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Don't start me to talkin', I'll tell her everything I know,


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I'm gonna break up this signifyin', 'cause somebody's got to go 

 

[Verse 2]

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Jack give his wife two dollars, go downtown, and get some market, 

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Gets out on the streets, ol' George stopped her,

 
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He knocked her down, and blackened her eye ,

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She gets back home, tell her husband a lie 

 
[Chorus]

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Don't start me to talkin', I'll tell her everything I know ,

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I'm gonna break up this signifyin', 'cause somebody's got to go 

 
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]

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She borrowed some money, to go to the beauty shop,

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Jim honked his horn, she begin to stop,

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Said, "Take me, baby," around the block,

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I'm goin to the beauty shop, where I can get my hair sock.
 

[Chorus]

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Don't start me to talkin', I'll tell her everything I know,

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I'm gonna break up this signifyin', 'cause somebody's got to go.