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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