Featuring: Linda Gail Lewis
Songwriter: Nat Stuckey
Producer: Jerry Kennedy
Well I slipped out of the house about sundown
While mama was a washin' her hair
And you can bet your bottom dollar she'll come lookin' for me
When she finds that I'm not there
And if she catches her sweet thang runnin' around
I know there'll be the devil to pay
She'll come blowin' like a cyclone right through that door
And I can hear exactly what she'll say
Well has anybody here see my sweet thang?
I got a notion he'll be headed this a way
'Cause when my sweet thang is out tomocattin' around
He finds a sandbox like this to play
I wanna tell all you barroom roses
If my sweet thang does have a bite
You'd better take my advice and if you'll blink more than twice
You'd better have somethin' in your eyes
Well I gave my baby all my money on payday
Except a little she don't know that I've got
'Cause there's a cute little waitress at the corner cafe
She seems to like me quite a lot
While we were sittin' in the back booth a havin' a talk
She believed in every thing I said
When the door blew open and mamma walked in
Shoutin' loud enough to wake the dead
Well has anybody here see my sweet thang?
I got a notion he'll be headed this a way
'Cause when my sweet thang is out tomocattin' around
He finds a sandbox like this to play
I wanna tell all you barroom roses
That if my sweet thang does have a bite
You'd better take my advice and if you'll blink more than twice
You'd better have somethin' in your eyes
You'd better take my advice and if you'll blink more than twice
You'd better have somethin' in your eyes
While mama was a washin' her hair
And you can bet your bottom dollar she'll come lookin' for me
When she finds that I'm not there
And if she catches her sweet thang runnin' around
I know there'll be the devil to pay
She'll come blowin' like a cyclone right through that door
And I can hear exactly what she'll say
Well has anybody here see my sweet thang?
I got a notion he'll be headed this a way
'Cause when my sweet thang is out tomocattin' around
He finds a sandbox like this to play
I wanna tell all you barroom roses
If my sweet thang does have a bite
You'd better take my advice and if you'll blink more than twice
You'd better have somethin' in your eyes
Well I gave my baby all my money on payday
Except a little she don't know that I've got
'Cause there's a cute little waitress at the corner cafe
She seems to like me quite a lot
While we were sittin' in the back booth a havin' a talk
She believed in every thing I said
When the door blew open and mamma walked in
Shoutin' loud enough to wake the dead
Well has anybody here see my sweet thang?
I got a notion he'll be headed this a way
'Cause when my sweet thang is out tomocattin' around
He finds a sandbox like this to play
I wanna tell all you barroom roses
That if my sweet thang does have a bite
You'd better take my advice and if you'll blink more than twice
You'd better have somethin' in your eyes
You'd better take my advice and if you'll blink more than twice
You'd better have somethin' in your eyes
- Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits, Vol. 2 (1969)
- Together (1969)
- Great Balls of Fire
- Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On
- All Night Long
- All the Good Is Gone
- You Don’t Miss Your Water
- It Won’t Happen with Me
- Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
- Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O’Dee
- I Could Never Be Ashamed of You
- What’d I Say
- Over the Rainbow
- I’m Feeling Sorry
- Time Changes Everything
- Another Place, Another Time
- Memphis
- Mean Woman Blues
- My Lovely Fraulein
- He Can’t Fill My Shoes
- Folsom Prison Blues
- You Win Again
- Bottom Dollar
- Skid Row
- I Love You Because
- Mom and Dad’s Waltz