Playlist Betty Wright

betty wright - after the pain

Well, I couldnâ??t resist the urge to tell you the end of my story
For all those who wanted to know was there life after the pain

After the pain
You come and love me
And I welcome you
Youâ??re a glad sight to see

And after the rain
And all that I have been through
I still canâ??t explain
How I can still love you like I do
But I do, yes, I do

Still love you like I do [After the pain]
Though you still do me like you do [After the pain]

After the pain
We sit and we talk awhile
And I fight with all my might
To hold back the tears from falling with a pleasant smile

And after the rain
I canâ??t believe you got the nerve to still call me, baby
And I try to tell you, â??No, it ainâ??t soâ?
But I guess â??Noâ? just ainâ??t in me

â??Cause boy, I still love you like I do [After the pain]
Though you still do me like you do [After the pain]

Yeah, I know youâ??re laughinâ??
Those of you who heard â??Painâ?
Yeah, youâ??re right, I sure did
I said Iâ??d never take him back again
Well, itâ??s a womanâ??s prerogative to change her mind isnâ??t it?
But we do it all the time
Donâ??t laugh, you probably done the same thing too
Itâ??s just that you know me and I donâ??t know you
You know one thing, time has taught me that
Havinâ?? a piece of man is better than havinâ?? no man at all
So Iâ??mma just take what I got and work with it
You understand what I mean
And donâ??t you remember thinkinâ?? back just a few years
When people used to try to help you stay together
They find out youâ??re on the verge of breakinâ?? up
They used to cook up a little food and throw a little party
And whisper things in your ear like

â??Donâ??t blame Mr. Charlie, Mr. Charlie is just a man
And heâ??s doing the best he canâ?
I heard â??em say, â??Donâ??t blame Mr. Charlie, Mr. Charlie is just a man
And heâ??s doing the best he canâ?

Thatâ??s why I still love you like I do [After the pain]
Though you still do me like you do [After the pain, the pain]

I know that you know itâ??s true
After all Iâ??ve been through
I should be through with love
But thereâ??s a God up above

That keeps sayinâ??, â??Betty try
Donâ??t give up, you know why
The sun is gonna shine
â??Cause you are mine, all mineâ?

You just keep doinâ?? your best
And I will do the rest
â??Cause I love you, love you, Betty, like I do

Thatâ??s why I still love you like I do [After the pain, the pain]
Though you still do me like you do [After the pain, the pain]

My love is deeper than any ocean
And my love is higher than any mountain
Itâ??s, oh, itâ??s full of emotion
My love is full of devotion

My love is in and out of season
And I love you with or without a reason
You see God is gonna bless me for lovinâ?? you
For all the times that you treated me wrong and I kept beinâ?? true

You see, Godâ??s eyes theyâ??re not closed
Heâ??s not asleep
Said Heâ??s watchinâ?? everything move you make
Every secret you keep

Boy, you better be careful
Hoo....hoo...hoo...hoo...
Said if you treat me bad or make my sad
My Father in heaven is watching you

But I still love you like I do [After the pain]
And no-n-n-no-n-n-no-n-n-nobodyâ??s ever gonna love you like I do [After the pain]
No oneâ??s ever gonna love you like I do
No oneâ??s ever gonna love you like I do
No oneâ??s ever gonna love you like I do
I donâ??t know why I do, but I do, yes, I do [After the pain]
Oh...thereâ??s a woman in me that keeps on lovinâ?? you [After the pain, the pain]
I donâ??t know why
Oh, I donâ??t know why (I donâ??t know why, baby) [After the pain, the pain]
I donâ??t know why (I donâ??t know why, baby), but I do (I do)
Said I do (I do, I do, I do)
Said I... [After the pain, the pain]
(Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa) [After the pain, the pain]
...do, I donâ??t know why, baby [After the pain, the pain]
But I love you so...
Yes, I do [After the pain, the pain]
Baby, donâ??t you know itâ??s true, yes, I do
Baby [After the pain], no strain [The pain]
Still love you after the pain [The pain]

betty wright - you can t see for looking

Ooh baby I want you to listen to what I have to say
Baby, yeah
It's so easy for someone
To tell you something bad about me
Because that's what that's what your ears want to hear
Then for someone to tell you
That I'm being a good woman
And loving you, loving you only my dear
But I'm gonna do the very best I can
To get you to try and understand
That when you look for trouble
You're gonna find it somewhere
And what I want to say hey
Is that

You can't
You can't
You can't see
For looking hey hey hey hey
You can't
You can't
You can't see
For looking hey hey hey hey

Now your boys as you see as friends
They'll all out to bring you down
And you don't realize
That's what they are trying to do to you
So you spend most of your time
Just believing me
Swearing, swearing I'm being untrue to you
But I'm not gonna let them
Tear us apart getting next to your jealous heart
Because I love you daddy
And I want to make that clear
And what I want to say hey
Is that

You can't
You can't
You can't see
For looking hey hey hey hey
You can't
You can't
You can't see
For looking hey hey hey hey
You can't
You can't

You can't see
For looking hey hey hey hey
You can't
You can't
You can't see
For looking hey hey hey hey

betty wright - at this moment

What did you think
I would do at this moment
When you're standing before me
With tears in your eyes?
Trying to tell me that you
Have found you another
And you just don't love me no more

What did you think
I would say at this moment
When I'm faced with the knowledge
That you just don't love me
Did you think I would curse you?
Or say things to hurt you?
Cause you just don't love me no more

Did you think I could hate you?
Or raise my hands to you?
Now come on, you know me too well
How I could hurt you
When darling, I love you
And you know... I'd never hurt you

What do you think, I would give at this moment?
If you'd stay I'd subtract twenty-years from my life
I'd fall down on my knees
Kiss the ground that you walk on
If I could just hold you again

I'd fall down on my knees
Kiss the ground that you walk on, baby
If I could just hold you...again

betty wright - let me be your lovemaker

Let me be your lovemaker
Let me be your soul shaker
Let me be your lovemaker
Let me be your soul shaker

Around this time last summer
when you and I first met
I thought I was cool
Living by the rules
Trying to play hard to get.

So you found some good-time chick
To give you the love you needed.
I didn't know a thing
about the thrills love could bring
I was young, selfish, and conceited.

I know you don't think I'm ready
But open your eyes and see.
As sure as my name is Betty
I can love away all your misery!

Let me be your lovemaker
Let me be your soul shaker
Why don't ya, Let me be your lovemaker
Let me be your soul shaker

About this time last year
I was blind to all the good things you said.
The sweet words you spoke
I took them for a joke
Though they were strong enough raise the dead!

So you thought you wasted
Both your time and mine
But now I'm ready to do
What you want me to
Cause I'm your woman
And I ain't Lyin'

I know you don't think I'm ready, Ooo ooo
But open your eyes and see.
As sure as my name is Betty
I can love away all your misery HEE!

So, Let me (umh) be your lovemaker ( I need to be)
Let me be your soul shaker (umh)
Why don't ya, Let me be your lovemaker
Let me be your soul shaker

Why don't let me be it baby
Why don't ya let me be - Wooh OH
I wanna be, I got ta got ta be
Ooooooooo

Won't it be nice baby
If ya let me be your love maker
Let me be good to ya.

Honey, Honey, Yahhhhh!!!!!

betty wright - tonight is the night

First of all Iâ??d like to say good evening
And weâ??re so pleased that
So many of you could come out and share
In all the love and all the happiness we have in store for you
We want you to have a real good time
â??Cause thatâ??s just what we have in mind
Is that alright with you
Now, this is a tune that I composed
And itâ??s called
Tonight is the night
That you make me a woman
Now I never intended recording this song
It was a personal poem
This is until the day that my producer
Happened to thumb through the pages of my notebook
He came across the words and he said
â??We got to somethinâ?? with these words
Itâ??s happening every day
And people wanna hear about it, Bettyâ?
You see, itâ??s the story of a young girl
Making love for the very first time
Now when I finally got a melody
I took it home and I-I played it for my mother
Now I got to tell you a little bit about my mother
You see I come from one of those pretty large families
And Iâ??m the baby of the family
And you know you never grow up to your mother
Iâ??ll never forget the way she looked at me when I played it for her
She said, â??Uh, I like the music
You know, baby, the melody itâ??s really nice
But I know youâ??re not gonna sing that songâ?
But we eased it right on by, yes, we did
And it became one of my biggest records too
So I want you to do this for me if you will
Everybody think back to your very first time
Now Iâ??ll give you a little while longer
â??Cause I know some of you
Have to think back a little further than others
Come on now, I want you to play catch-up
â??Cause I donâ??t want you waitinâ?? till I get to the end of my song
Sayinâ??, â??Oh, yeah, now I rememberâ?
Now whether it was good
Or you just smilinâ?? it was good
Or on the other hand if it was not so good
Hereâ??s my story
Hmm...hmm...mmm...mmm...
Tonight is the night
That you make me a woman, mmm...
You said youâ??ll be gentle with me
And I-I hope you will, mmm...mmm...
Iâ??m nervous and Iâ??m tremblinâ??
Waitinâ?? for you to walk in
Iâ??m tryinâ?? hard to relax
But I just canâ??t keep still, no
I can hear your car door slamminâ??
I wanna play big girl and put on a sexy smile
But I know so little about what love is
I just canâ??t help actinâ?? like a child
Youâ??re knockinâ?? on my door and youâ??re ringinâ?? my bell
Hope youâ??re not impatient after waiting so very long
A whole year I put you off with my silly hang-ups
And weâ??re both old enough to know right from wrong
Tonight is the night
That you make me a woman, mmm...
You said youâ??ll be gentle with me
And I-I hope you will, hmm...mmm...
Iâ??m nervous and Iâ??m tremblinâ??
Waitinâ?? for you to walk in
Tryinâ?? hard to relax
But I just canâ??t keep still
Mmm...hey, baby
Ho, ho, baby
Ho...yeah...yeah...
Oh, but what if my mama should come home early
And catch us doinâ?? what weâ??re doinâ??
Not only will I never live it down
But my whole family relationship itâ??ll all be ruined
But weâ??ve gone a little bit too far now
Oh, to turn around
So letâ??s just pray
That true love is what weâ??ve found
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight
Ho, Iâ??ll never forget tonight
No, no, Iâ??ll never forget tonight
Thatâ??s when you make me feel real, mmm...hmm...
You make me feel real, real good
Oh...oh...whoa...oh...oh...whoa...whoa...
Yeah, and I wanna thank your love
Said Iâ??ve got to thank your love
â??Cause you make me feel good
And I love you, baby
I love you and I know it
And I ainâ??t too proud to show it
â??Cause I love you, baby
And I need you, baby
I want you, my love, my love
My, my, my baby
Iâ??ll never forget tonight
No, Iâ??ll never forget tonight
â??Cause you make me feel good
And I love you, baby
You make me feel real good
And I love you, baby
â??Cause you gave me
Uh, uh, pure love, yeah
Uh, uh, uh, pure love
Said I like that, baby
Uh, uh, pure love
Said I need that, sugar
Uh-uh-uh, pure love
Thereâ??s nothinâ?? phony about it
Uh-uh, pure love
Your love I canâ??t do without it
Uh-uh-uh, pure love, ooh
I love him, I know it
I ainâ??t too proud to show it
I love him, I know it
I ainâ??t too proud to show it
I love him, I know it
I ainâ??t too proud to show it
I love him, I know it
And I ainâ??t too proud to show it
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight
Mmm...mmm...mmm...
Thank you
Thank you

betty wright - thank you for the many things you ve done

I have so much to say
But in the least, most simple way
I love you

I have so much to share
And so to show you how I care
I thank you

I just wanna say Thank You
For the many things you've done
For having faith in me
More than anyone

And when people would have
Bad things to say
And try to tear me down
In the worst possible way
Honey, you stood right by me
And that's how love is supposed to be

I just wanna say Thank You
For the many things you've done
Wanna say Thank You
For the many things you've done

I have so much to give
So for as long as I shall live
I'll love you
I have so much to do
Just to prove my love is true
'Cause I thank you

Lord know I was heading down hill
Until you came along
Now suddenly, life is a song
This happy song I just love to sing
Especially for the joy it brings, sugar
You stood up for me

And that's how love is supposed to be

I just wanna say Thank You
For the many things you've done
Thank You
For the many things you've done

Thank You for the many things you've done
You've been good to me and I
Thank You for the many things you've done

Stood up like the strongest tree and I
Thank You for the many things you've done

Thank You for the many things you've done
I just wanna thank you

Thank You for the many things you've done
Said you've been my best friend, I
Thank You for the many things you've done
Thank You for the many things you've done
I feel I wanna testify

Thank You for the many things you've done
Sweet man's love is the reason why, I
Thank You for the many things you've done
I won't sin, my best friend, I tell my man

Thank You for the many things you've done
I want him, get him first hand, I

betty wright - clean up woman

A clean up woman
Is a woman who
Gets all the love we girls leave behind.
The reason I know
So much about her
Is because she picked up a man of mine.

Chumpin' Slick
Was my ruin
'Cause I found out all I was doin'
Was makin' it easy
For the clean up woman
To get my man's love, oh, yeah.

Just makin' it easy
For the clean up woman
To get my baby's love, uh-huh.

Mmm-hmm.

I took this man's love and put it on a shelf
And like a fool, I thought I had him all to myself.
When he needed love, I was out havin' fun
But I found out all I had done
Was made it easy
For the clean up woman
To get my man's love, uh-huh.
Yeah, that's what I did.
I made it easy
For the clean up woman
To steal my baby's love, oh, yeah.

The clean up woman
Will wipe his blues away.
She'll give him penny lovin'
24 hours a day.
The clean up woman,
She'll sweep him off his feet.
She's the one
To take him in when you dump him in the street.
So take a tip,
You better get hip
To the clean up woman,
'Cause she's tough.
I mean she really cleans up

betty wright - country girl city man

I was born in New York City
I was born in Georgia
Girl you're lookin kinda pretty
Don't you think we oughta
Get to know each other better
Take the time to find out while we can
Gotta be some soul between a country girl and a city man
We could find, we could find it's groovy just to cross the line

City boy had your eggs and bacon
You were raised on cornbread
The rooster crowed while I was wakin
Bout the time I was going to bed
Bet we got a lot in common
Take the time to find out while we can
Gotta be some soul between a country girl and a city man
We could find, we could find it's groovy just to cross the line

We could find, we could find it's groovy just to cross the line
He was born in New York City
She was born in Georgia
Girl you're lookin fine
Don't you think we oughta
Get to know each other better
Take the time to find out while we can
Gotta be some soul between a country girl and a city man
We could find, we could find it's groovy just to cross the line

That man's from New York City
She's a girl from Georgia town
We could find, we could find it's groovy just to cross the line

betty wright - hopeless romantic

Sometimes on sundays
I sit by the TV
Watching sad movies alone
When it gets to the part
Where the little dog dies
I cry
Somtimes I think
I was born just a little
Behind or ahead of my time
I live in a dream world
Of caring and sharing
And good guys and nobosy lies

I'm a believer
And much more than anything
I belieeve in you
You're not a deceiver
And if you told me the ocean went dry
I'd believe it was true

So call me a hopeless romantic
Because I can still believe
I can still believe in true love
ANd hopeless romantics
Still can find a way
To make true love last these days

betty wright - no pain no gain

Ooh...ooh...ooh...

My baby and are back together again
Lovin' is better than it's ever been
If it weren't for the trials we've been through
I'd never have the courage to come back to you

We're all entitled to make a mistake
We got to prepare for some heartbreak
I as earnin' my man, while I was learnin' my man
Something you young girls might not understand

No pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain], no
No pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain]

There was an old lady sittin' under a tree
She called me over and she said to me
â??My days left here may not be long
I wouldn't waste my time tellin' you nothin' wrong

But love is a flower that needs the sun and the rain
A little bit of pleasure's worth a whole lot of pain
If you learn this secret, how to forgive
A longer and better life you'll live'

No pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain], mmm
No pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain]

Anything worth havin' at all
Is worth workin' for and waitin' for
Some of my closest friends
Have thought they had their thing on a string
Just â??cause that man was bringin' â??em flowers and candy and all kinds of gifts
Mmm, mmm, honey
Some gifts are just to make him feel better while he's on his guilt trip
About the night before
You know what I mean
Especially when you know you haven't been doin' the things you should do
Think about it
What is the man tryin' to tell you
Sometimes flowers mean â??Maybe we should just be friends'
Do you get my drift
Hang if you can hang
No pain, no gain

In order to get something
You got to give something
In order to be something
You got to go through something

Be a cook in the kitchen, a lady in the streets
You can't show your teeth to every guy you meet
It's alright to be a little sweet
But be a mama with the kids and you know what in the sheets

No pain [No pain]
No pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain]

See, you can't give up â??cause times get hard
It's just that old evil devil trying to keep us apart
Say devil you ain't getting nothin' here
I'm holding on to my man and have no fear

No pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain], oh
No pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain]

See you can't give up â??cause times get hard
It's just that old devil tryin' keep us apart
Say devil, you ain't got nothin' here
I'm holdin' to my man, and have no fear

No pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain]
No-no pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain]

Oh, no pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain]
No-no-no-no pain [No pain, no pain], no-no-no-no-no-no-no pain [No gain]
No-no pain, no-no pain [No pain], no-no pain [No pain], no pain [No gain], no pain

No pain [No pain, no pain, no gain]
In order to get something [No pain], give something [No pain]
To be something [No gain] you got to go through something
[No pain, no pain, no gain]

Oh...no pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain]
No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no [No pain]
No-no-no-no [No pain, no gain]

No...no pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain]
You're really not to gain anything [No pain, no pain]
Without [No gain] goin' through some pain

No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no
No pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No-no [No gain]

[No pain, no pain, no gain]
No pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No pain [No gain], no gain, no pain, no gain

Get something [No pain, no pain]
You got to go through something [No gain]
No pain [No pain], no pain [No pain]
No gain [No gain]

Hear me when I say no pain, no gain [No pain], no pain, no gain [No pain]
No pain, no gain [No gain]

betty wright