The Momma ‘n’ Daddy Collection 130

Bobbie Gentry badly wants to go to town, so she’s asking her old boy to take her, in ‘Papa, Won’t You Let Me Go To Town With You?‘

Chorus
Papa, won’t you let me go to town with you
Papa, I’m feeling so down and blue
You just gotta come around, please do
Papa, won’t you let me go to town with you

There’s a blue dress at Dindy’s I’d give the world to see again
I need some hand lotion and some powder from the five and ten
Buy us some chocolate and I’ll make you a pretty pie
If ya don’t let me go I’ll just die

Repeat chorus

I gotta pick up a pattern, Aunt Nora’s making me a dress
I scrubbed it this morning, what d’ya mean, this floor’s a mess?
I done everythiing you said, and then some ya didn’t say to do
You just gotta take me with you

Repeat chorus

Looky here, Papa, I found your other Sunday shoe
I shined it and shined it till it looks all brand spankin’ new
Seems like a year I’ve been waiting for today
If you let me go I won’t get in your way

Repeat chorus

Bobbie surely needs her own car.

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