Written by: Eddie Green
With Shelly Winters
Arranged By: Joseph Gershenson
From the Album: Suddenly It's Spring
From the Film: Meet Danny Wilson
Label: Universal-International
Recorded: June 21, 1951
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[Girl] <Frankie and Girl>
Now here's a story with quite a
moral,
And all you gals, you gotta pay
some mind,
When you find a guy [yeah?]
worth keeping, be satisfied,
Make sure you treat him very
kind..
'Cause a good guy [Ow!] is hard
to find,
You could always get the other
kind.
[But when you think that you got
her tied, you'll find her]
Messing around with another guy.
Then you rave and you'll even
start to crave,
Man, you want to see her lying
deep down in the grave.
So if the guy's nice, you better
take my advice,
You better love him in the
morning, kiss him every night,
Ooo, give him plenty of loving,
treat him right,
Because a good man nowadays is
hard to find.
[Buster, you gotta be kidding,
you see this little guy?]
[The one with the feeble mind,
he always been, he moving time.]
[One fine day he dug another
chick, she took all his loot and cut him quick.]
[Now, he's calling me back on
the phone, he says]
Baby, don't you go away, I'm
coming right home.
[But if you wanna come back,
come on in our little grass shack,]
[You gotta love me in the
morning, kiss me in the night,]
[You give me lots of loving,
treat me right,]
['Cause a good gal nowadays is
hard to find.]
Well, I went back, but I told
this doll,
I said: Woman, then is then, but now is now,
If you want me to stay, there's
just one but (what?)
Keep a smile on your face, and
keep your big mouth shut.
Well, we're back together, and
everything is fine,
[I'm a-running the show, jack,
you better stay in line.]
[Now you know what to do when
the day is through.]
I better love you in the AM
[that's right!], kiss you in the PM [what else?]
Give plenty of loving [show me!]
with all my mind [good boy!]
[For a good gal nowadays are
hard to find.. Leroy!] Yes, ma'am!
[I am just .. you better keep
those cotton picking hands off all those other dames or I'll]
Or you'll what? [I'll fly over
there and turn off all your lights.]
Uh yeah, like I was saying, a
good <gal nowadays is hard to find.>
[Oh man, yes!]