G. Love And Special Sauce Album

Me and my band
All must agree we like to get groovy
With the sounds of the old time
We like to jam cause man
Sounds from the Bandstand
Hand for the cause man
Hang from the old ones
The tones the gear the props and ride very much in
Chilling outside
Going way back...
From where music really started
I'm a child of the eighties
From where I departed since then I started
A collection of the people
Who started it all
I reckon
I kept them
In my sock like money
Blues Music...
It's all about rocking the van not rock to roll
Sway to sway
What that fly girl Sabine say...
About eight miles to the gallon that's some
Hiway sailing
Cool cool lounging
Atlantic City bounding
1920's to the 1970's a stream
Pool solid steady
Getting ready real cool
The earth amp sock hat hihat dope
Dobro D'Addario strings for my things
The bass wial sings
Let the rhyme bring
The tense of the time
The old time
Blues music
Blind Lemon Jefferson and juice
B.M.W's the proof frosty Albert Collins bukkha white
Booker T James Brown
Jimmy Smith at the console
The soul with the girls Aretha
Chakka Khan the show Solid Gold
Cisco and Sonny Lead Belly too
Peoples that rode with Woody and you Bob Dylan
A million Sears Silvertone guitars
Heard the licks no need to take them nowhere
Blues music
It's like chewing gum with your headphones on
Drinking lemonade
Chilling on the front porch after running ball
Like you lost a twenty dollar bill
You got a free ticket from the scratch and win
Its like the swimsuit issue
Could I get a tissue?
Its' like you and your baby got nasty cut off and left alone now making eyes
On the city bus again grandma cooks blueberry pie
Little sister got a boyfriend
It's like smoking the ride
The final right
The vinyl rides
Blues music...

Frosty mug to Washtub Robbie
Cold ones to Nancy and Winnie
Yo- could I get a cold beverage
I need some leverage
It's sunny outside
Some lemonade would be nice
Or a sprite through the drive through
At B.K.
Yo I'll buy girl a drink
But girls got to pay
On the front porch i got
Some iced tea
If you like a taste of tea
Then come along with me
Summer time is steamin'
Don't give me some work
Glass of ice and dashle for me
It's martini time
Yeah yeah feeling golden
Bring your own beverage
Just make sure it's cold

Give me frosty mug
Filled with A&W
If you got ice cream
Make it a double scoop
Milkshake at the fountain
Really good sounding
Chocolate egg cream
Yo, I'm champ cherry pounding
Caught a chill vibe
Orange juice in my ride
Wawa's to the right
They got a beverage inside
Dig me a hot coffee
Fill it up with ice
Watermelons like drink
Please fix me a large slice
Summertime is cool the heat is getting old
Yeah I'll get a beverage
Just make sure it's cold
Cold cold cold cold
Want something from the bar?
I like cold beverage

Stick it in the fridge
Stick it in the fridge
Stick it in the fridge
In the fridge
Stick it in the fridge
Stick it in the fridge
Stick it in the fridge
In the fridge
go go work the cold one
go go work the cold one

When I'm fishin
Let's keep one thing clear
The baits over there
The brews right here
Two six packs and a big bag of ice
Didn't even catch a bite
But the brew tasted nice
Back to the bar
Strawberry daiquiris and a colada
I need a whole lotta them
Fruit drinks to catch me a buzz
I must tell you I'm the
Kool Aid kid
Before you serve my drink
Please stick it in the fridge
I like cold beverage
uh huh I'm kinda thirsty
I like cold beverage

Sweeping the floors
Open up the doors
Turn on the lights
Gettin ready for tonight
Nobody's romancing
'Cause it's too early for dancing
But here comes the music

Bright lights flashing
To cover up your lack of
Soul many people so many problems
So many reasons to buy another round
Drink it down
Just another night on the town
With the big man Money man
Better than the other man
He got the plan with the million dollars
Give a damn but
When nobody understands
He'll become a smaller man
The bright lights keep flashing

With the clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah
Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah
Rodeo Clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah
Pick me up when I'm down

The disco ball spinning
All the music and the women
All the shots of tequila
Man they'll say that they need ya
But what they really need
Is just a little room to breathe
Teeny bopping dicso queen
She barely understands her dreams
Of belly button rings
And other kinds of things
Symbolic of change
But the thing that is strange
Is that changes occured

And now she's just part of the herd yeah, yeah, yeah
Man I thought that you heard yeah, yeah
The changes occured yeah, yeah, yeah
She's just a part of the herd yeah,yeah

Lights out shut down
Late night wet ground
You walk by look at him
But he can't look at you
you might feel pity
But he only feels the ground because
You understand moods
But he only knows let down
By the corner there's another one
Reaching out a hand
Coming from a broken man
Well you try to live
But he's done trying
Not dead but definitely dying

With the rest of the clowns yeah, yeah, yeah
Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah
Rodeo Clowns yeah, yeah, yeah
Pick me up when I'm down

Sweeping the floors
Open up the doors
Turn on the lights
Gettin ready for tonight
Nobody's romancing
'Cause it's too early for dancing
But here comes the music

written by Jack Johnson for G. Love and Special Sauce, recorded on 'Philadelphonic'

This town's so hype it's got sould
As a Philly cat
I'm with the roll
And the swing of my things
How they work like clockwork
Tick tock tick tock
Times always lurking in your head
Got to go to work and get fed
That man didn't eat but he goes to sleep
Gets up at dawn not to see the sunrise
But because it's too damn cold outside
Underneat the bridge they punp the city's bilge
Into the alley they sweep the city's filth
The flowers wilt the flowers wilt
Don't tell me about no game
Cause that is a man
And his family
Revolution family
Look at the family
Dig the family
They're living the wrong way
Don't get nothing all they wanted was
Something like a job - mercy mercy
But its robbed - mercy mercy
And there's so many street side
Beggars and disabled veterans
Glass-eyed and peddling
Drunk and just meddling
So you conclude it's their fault
They like the street they must like the asphalt
But that is man woman and children
The system has stalled shelter's home
That's not what I call it
I call it bad health
Some say help themselves
Yo if you you gots it
Every hundred people a dollar in change
Every hundred people a dollar in change
This ain't living
This ain't living
Oh no
You know it's rough, had enough of holding a
Cup full of spare change
The doctor diagnosed me as a
Dome full of bad brains
So, toe to toe with employers
Cause they're telling me no
Hooked on prescription drugs
So I stay broke, I'd run away
But you can't run away from
Yourself or your health so
I deal with the cards that I'm dealt
Tweet-a-leet-leet
The morning bird sounding sweet
Though I sleep on the streets
I have a feeling I'm free
From society's hand picked hypocrisy
Mercy mercy don't give a damn for me
Mercy mercy now what am I going to eat
Peek through the windows of the restaurant
People eating caviar fifty bucks on lunch
A hand-me-down meal
Full of god knows what
Put it away in my gut
Quick and then I wonder
Why I'm sick, brick for brick
I know the city like my hand print
Just a pit in the gutter
Of a skid-row ditch
But I'll survive the pain
Let me know I'm alive
But I still feel that
This ain't living
Check my beat dig they rhythm
Me belly full but me hungry so I fill it
Once I start gaining taxes start taking
Cause the governments perfected funk faking
Breaking me down striking me down
What goes around comes around but
I keep rising seeing through the lies and
The surprise comes when I see myself
The music I felt
I'm on
This ain't living
This ain't living
Oh no

Baby you're beat up, broken down
Every man knows your name is this whole damn town
In evry bar they know your drink, what should I think
I turn around to look and you gave some dude the wink
I thought you I'd be happy with a women like you,
but you walked on my pride and my manhood too
I don't know too much but one thing I know
A man stuck on you is like a stepping stone

Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone

What you forgot to mention, what was the real intention
Did you want a man to love, or someone to prop and carry you up
To a higher status, but thet matter of fact is, your detachment
Will bring you further down, and now you're all used up
don't bother coming round

Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone

Well, I rember back to what you put me thru
I kept thinking to myself
What's wrong with you
Ain't it enough to have a man for a lover and a friend
Tear hime up and leave him when the money's spent
Well, your just like Delilah sittin' in her den
You take the strongest man and break'em down again
But I have gained some knowledge
Go pack your things and move back to college

Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone

Katman
65 25 Parkline Drive
And like always I'm kinking it live
Gotta call the fellas to see if they is with this
Gonna get down wiTh the sounds of big breakfast
Rtart off the day with some Bob Marley
Back to the woodb for freash parlay
Maybe even rpark a little Nicki J.
Then it's off to center city in the fastest
But if you gotta get downtown real quick
The only way to go is I-76
Unless of cOurse you want to take scenic view
Then East or West River Drive is right for you
But if you `in't got any time
Put the pedal to the metal for that voyage cruise
So get on down to I-76
Because in 1996 there ain't no
Tricks in the mix

G-Love
Back in 1980
and in school
If we gt good grades
_ur parents would take uq to to a 76ers game
I got my game and there ain'y no shame
Big shots for Mo Cheeks
And Moses Malone-Juluis Erving called Philly his home
Bobby Jones, Daryl Dawkins
Andrew Tony sinking threes
Rocky Balboa comes from south Philly
So if you want to make it
On time to the show
There'r only oNe route you have to know
Get to Fishtogn avoid all thau jive
I suggect that you drive on 195
Wanna get down but feeling in a fix
Get on route the call 676
The most expenrive expansive
piece of interstate they"ever made
The fella's ain't famus but They get good game
Ggt along 76ers
Charles Barkley dissed Larry Bire
Get along 76ers
Charles Barkley dissed Larry Bird

Smiles
Shh-Hoops the middle maN
Now disguised as the Joy
Valentine Smiles to the Katman ploy
Loungin' leather seats 76 gettin' nice
Cadillac D.B.L. Kristopher pulled the heist
Expressway expression Soda Pop pressin'
up another piece baby new year painted session
I'm gussin' the answer to the question
All the Philly Fellas livin' life as a profession
Destined to escape 'a la Spector
Ah Wilderness yea prep jetta boy
Friday night rap Broncos and Pepper Shakers
In the city Ice Dogs Love show I think skyscraper
The route it's I-76
I'm lougin' Otto Shoup singin' Davey Quickness
Li Li of the Va Li love a lingum everyday
I'm givin' praise from High Hill to Philly

Katman
But if you gotta get down real quick
The only way to go is I-76

Unless of course you wanna take the scenic view
Then East or West River Drive is right for you
But if you ain't got time to lose
Put the pedal to the metal for the that voyage cruise
So get on down to I-76
Because in 1996 there ain't no
Trix in the mix

Get along 76ers
Charles Barkley dissed Larry Bird
Get along 76ers
Dr.J! Moses Malone
Get along 76ers
Jerry Stackhouse and Iverson

Cooling out cooling out
Waiting for my lady got the special sauce thats why she's my baby my baby
My Baby
And ofcourse I'll do anything for her amything she wants
It's sure honey sure
Got a sharp mouth a sharp tongue gimme gimme gimme some
Don't take to that gimme gimme none
You got to work deserve it earn it to own it
Once you got never ever going to leave it alone don't take wise cracking or
Forgetting never been stood up
She does the stepping

My baby got sauce
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
She Got Sauce!
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
My baby got sauce
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
She ain't dis' sweet

Well that's some funky lemonade you got going baby
Did you make it today?
Cause I'll always stop by if you like me to
I'll do anything that you could ever want for me to do
A kiss for some of this
A smile and it's done
Miss I'm your mister

My sister's your sister
My mother's your mother, father's your father
It all started when i kissed her, i missed her,
dig it was love at first sight
Better when it started
I ain't broken hearted but baby
I need some time alone with the crew to do the stupid things that we used to do
Upon this she slapped me
With a frying pan
Dig this is love i'm not gonna leave it

My baby got sauce
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
she got sauce
your baby ain't sweet like mine
my baby got sauce....

My baby's got sauce and ofcourse as a matter of course she does what she
Wants to cause she's the boss
Please don't tell my friends about the situation
Cause like they think I'm on some extended vacation
Cause I don't get out to see my boys anymore
Yeah the only time i go out is to go to the store for what she wants what she
Wants what she wants me for
What could she want this time?

I'm all hers
She ain't even hardly mine
Believe me what she do at night I don't know
I could guess it ain't right
She got me waitin comes in late and I'm trying not to raise my voice
Negotiating it
She'll win the argument
Shouldn't even started it I'm broken hearted I can't be parted
I need a taste
So I count my loss MMMMM

My baby got sauce...



G Love and Special Sauce

[No lyrics]

Don't kiss and don't tell
You gonna get yourself in trouble
Your true love will leave you
You did wrong thats why she said so long

Don't you find another girlfriend
It seemed to be last night
I mean the sweetest little sunburn
The sweet sugar momma thats allright
You shouldn't be satisfied
With that look in her eye
Oh don't you miss her voice
I miss her and her mind

So don't kiss and don't tell
You gonna get yourself in trouble
Your true love will leave you
You did wrong thats why she said so long

My cold cold home was surely melt
But then I do it all the way and
You gonna get yourself in trouble
Well, your true love will leave you
You did wrong thats why she said so long
Oh all these fine women
They know whats going on
Man you thought that you was all alone
But she could tell by the moon
And she walked
No no no no

It could be so nice but the world is not ready, yeah
It could be so nice but the world is not ready yo

Weather you're a black man
Or you're a white man
Or your from England or from Japan
Or you're from chili or you're and American
You're from the middle east or you're and African

Well It could be so nice but the world is not ready, yeah
It could be so nice but the world is not ready yo

Now come on everyone on this place come together
Wouldn't it be nice if we could all live together forever
Finding our peach in unity
Destroying the noting of foolish vanities
Pull to rise
Lift the blinds
The funky dope is here in 1999
And we're praising so we're raising out of this oblivion
And on And on And on And on And on And on And on And on
You can't stop this with your mind tricks
Like neo in the Matrix I'm chosen
Uplift with the gift
Like gandolf the wizard
I conjure a blizzard of magic to ride it high
Unified Unified Unified
Unified Unified Unified

It could be so nice but the world is not ready, yeah
It could be so nice but the world is not ready yo

They don't want it in their Government
They don't want it with their politricks
They don't want it with their brainwash
They don't want it with their money fix
Unified Unified Unified
Unified Unified Unified
I want it want it want it want it

It could be so nice but the world is not ready, yeah
It could be so nice but the world is not ready yo

Now I am trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give you insight might just change your life
I'm free at last, I'm free at last, I'm free at last, I'm free at last,
I'm free at last, I'm free at last, I'm free at last,

I'm free from fooling âЂ?round wasting time,
Floating in this abyss of your dreadful love
Free is a feeling so high in the sky
Higher higher higher

Free from the quarrels unsatisfaction
Free from the false dream that you planted
In me with your submissive love

I'm free at last, I'm free at last, I'm free at last, I'm free at last,
I'm free at last, I'm free at last, I'm free at last,

Now I am open like the sky
For the sun to shine and colors true
To find me blue
Oh what a joy to be free
I'm free at last, I'm free at last, I'm free at last, I'm free at last,
I'm free at last, I'm free at last, I'm free at last,

I'm free of cheating your poor heart at my own damn expense
The cost was heavy and it rent as a thunder cloud
A hurricane sure racked in my heart
Now the rain is gone and I am gone
Yes, I am moving on

I'm free at last, I'm free at last, I'm free at last,