Rise and shine all you gold-digging mothers Are you too good to tango with the poor poor boys Slow nights so long she's frenching out flavour She's seventeen but I done went and plum forgot it. No tears are gone they're pooling on the table No tears are

Ava was the morning, now she's gone She's reborn like Sarah Vaughan In the sanctuary she has found Birds surround her sweet sound And Ava flies in paradise Today my bird flew away Gone to find her big blue jay Starlight before she took flight I sung a

(Will they come?) Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs Oo-oo-ooh, call them the Diamond Dogs I'll keep a friend serene Oh baby, come unto me Well, she's come, been and gone Come out of the garden, baby You'll catch your death in the fog Beware of

Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind I realized that Illinois was more than I could stand They

Give me somethin' to ride to And forget about life to The kind you wanna get high to Lay back in the night to Yeah used to be dance songs Slow jams and romance songs But now that she's gone and the radio's on Yeah I just want one that don't sing about

Meet you all the way, meet you all the way Meet you all the way, meet you all the way, Rosanna, yeah Rosanna, Rosanna Now she's gone and I have to say Meet you all the way, meet you all the way, Rosanna, yeah All I want to do when I wake up in the

Give me somethin' to ride to And forget about life to The kind you wanna get high to Lay back in the night to Yeah used to be dance songs Slow jams and romance songs But now that she's gone and the radio's on Yeah I just want one that don't sing about

The power touches me, The power drives me crazy You know it's real It's stronger than anybody Any man has ever made It won't take long to understand Just how lucky I am The king is crying from his throne He had a queen but now she's gone

Now I must die by my own hand 'cause I'm not man enough to live alone. and I'm better off dead now that she's gone. She couldn't stand me anymore so she just took the kids and went. You see, I've got a drinkin' problem, all the money that we had I spent.

Give me somethin' to ride to And forget about life to The kind you wanna get high to Lay back in the night to Yeah used to be dance songs Slow jams and romance songs But now that she's gone and the radio's on Yeah I just want one that don't sing about