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GOT TO GIVE UP WHAT YOU GOT

© 1994  Cynthia Emmets & Betty Ball

 

My girlfriend called me cryin’ late last night

She and her man had another fight

She wants a ring and a wedding in June

He wants his cake and to eat it too

 

PRECHORUS There’s only one thing I had to say

Can’t happen any other way

 

CHORUS Got to give up what you got sometimes

To get what it is you want

Got to give up what you got

A man can’t love when he don't

While you're hangin' on to second best

True love is waitin' in the wings

Got to give up what you got little girl

And trust what tomorrow brings

 

Had me a lover, couldn't make it work

But he wasn't the last man on this earth

So I said goodbye and into my life

Walked the man of my dreams, now I'm his wife

 

PRECHORUS: Girl I know this can happen to you

But not ‘til you tell him that you’re through

 

CHORUS

 

BRIDGE You can't fit a square peg in a round hole

If love ain’t easy, just let it go

Cause men are like trains, they're always runnin'

Behind every one there's another one comin'

 

CHORUS

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