Aretha Franklin

Songwriter: Bobby Goldsboro

Producer: Tom Dowd

With pen in hand
You sign your name
Today at five
I might be on that train
(Hou hou-hou hou-hou)
And you'll be free
And I will be alone
(Alone)
Oh-oh alone
(Alone)

If you think we can't find
That a love we once knew
If you think that I can't make
It all up to you
Then I'll be gone
You'll be on your own
(Your own)
All on your own
(Your own)

And this is what I wanna know
Can you take good care of the children
Can you take them to school every day
(Every every every)
Can you teach them how
To catch the fish and keep all of the bullies away
(Take the bullies all in away)
Can you keep them away
(Take the bullies all in away)

And tonight as you laid
In your lonely lonely bed
And you try to tell me that when you look at that pillow
Where I laid my head
With your heart on fire
(Fire)
Would you have no desire
(Have no desire)
To kiss me
(Kiss me)
To kiss and kiss and kiss and kiss and kiss me
(Honey, honey, honey, woooh)

And if you can forget
The good times we had (But just let me to feel you)
If you think that not do
They out at the way not bad
(Ouh ouh-ouh)

Then sign your name
(Sign)
And I tell you what I'll be on (Sign)
My way
(My way)
My way
(My way)

I'll be on my way
(My way)
Yeah, I'll be on my way baby
(My way)
(Sign)
You know I'm the one, you gonna want me back
(My way) Yeah!
(Sign)
Sign
(My way)
(Sign)
Did you know you loved me
(My way)
(Sign)
And you know that I need somebody to love (My way)
(Sign)
Baby don't sign
(My way)
(Sign)
Baby don't sign
(My way)
(Sign)
Baby (my way)
(Sign)
Oh no, baby don't sign
Yeah don't sign
(My way)...

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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