Aretha Franklin

Songwriter: Steve Cropper Don Covay

Producer: Jerry Wexler

[Verse 1]
Sometimes you love me
Like a good man oughta
Sometimes you hurt me so bad
My tears run like water
Ya get me out
Not before your friends
When ya disown me baby
Until we alone again

[Chorus]
Your love is like a see saw
Your love is like a see saw baby
Your love is like a see saw
Going up
Down
All around
Like a see saw

[Verse 2]
Sometimes you tell me
You're goin' be my sweet candy man
And then sometimes baby
Never know where I stand
Ya lift me up
When im on the ground
But as soon as I get up babe
You send me tumblin' down

[Chorus]
Now your love is like a see saw
Your love is like a see saw baby
Your love is like a see saw
Going up
Down
All around
Just like a see saw

[Verse 3]
When I kiss ya and I like it
And I ask you to kiss me again
When I reach for you you jump clean outta site
Ya change just like the wind
That ain't right
That ain't right
That ain't right

[Chorus][x2]
Your love is like a see saw
Your love is like a see saw baby
You love is like a see saw
Going up
Down
All around
Just like a see saw

Aretha Franklin is both a 20th and 21st century musical and cultural icon known simply by her first Aretha. She is the reigning and undisputed “Queen Of Soul” with a legacy that spans five decades. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Aretha began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin’s church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Aretha embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records with modest success.

After moving to Atlantic Records in 1967, she released a steady string of US top ten hits through 1973 including “Spanish Harlem”, “Chain Of Fools”, “Baby I Love You”, “Since You’ve Been Gone”, “Daydreaming”, “The House That Jack Built”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", ”Think“ and her first chart-topper “Respect” – a song that also won Aretha her first of 18 Grammys. During this time, several of her songs were also successful overseas.

By the mid-70s, Aretha’s commercial success waned and she left Atlantic for Clive Davis' Arista Records in 1980. Her 1982 song “Jump to It,” returned her to the top 40 for the first time in six years. 1985’s Who’s Zoomin' Who? got her back into the top 10 twice with its title track and “Freeway Of Love”. Four more songs reached the top 40 through 1986.

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