Hold What You've Got

Hold What You've Got 3: 08 Trk 5
 (Joe Tex)
 Joe Tex
 Dial Records single #4001
 Recorded: Muscle Shoals, AL
 Pop Chart #5 Dec 19, 1964+
 Album: Joe Tex Greatest Hits, CBS A21551
 You had better hold on
 Hold on to what you got
 You had better hold on
 Hold on to what you got
 'Cause if you think nobody wants it
 Just throw it away and you will see
 Someone will have it
 Before you can count
 1, 2, 3, yes they will, yes they will
 Spoken:
 Listen fellas, you know, it's not all the time
 That a man can have a good woman.
 A woman that he can call his very own.
 A woman who'll stay right there at home
 And mind the children while he's gone to work.
 A woman who'll have his dinner cooked when
 He comes home.
 Where some men make mistakes is when they go
 Out and stay because they feel that no other man
 Wants his woman but him. But listen:
 Sings:
 If you think no other man wants her
 Just throw her away and you will see
 Some man will have her
 Before you can count 1, 2, 3
 Yes, they will, yes, he will
 Spoken:
 Ha Ha! Listen girls
 This goes for you, too.
 Because you know I've seen so many women
 Who've had so many good men in life.
 Men who would stand by 'em through thick and thin.
 Men who would go to work everyday and bring home
 Their hard earned pay.
 Men who would give their women anything that their
 Little heart desired.
 Where some women make mistakes
 Is when their men go out and let 'em play.
 They would stay because they felt that no other
 Woman wanted him but her. Listen:
 Sings:
 If you think that no other woman wants him
 Just pitch him out in the streets and you will see.
 Some woman will have your man
 Before you can count, 1, 2, 3.
 Yes, you will, yes you wiii-ll.
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