| Every time I cook, look like you can’t get enough
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| Fix you a pot of soup and make you drink it up So keep on a-eating
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| Oh, keep on a-eating
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| Keep on eating, baby, till you get enough
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| You don’t like nobody’s cooking but mine
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| Get up in the morning and fix you a tenderloin
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| So keep on a-eating
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| Oh, keep on a-eating
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| Keep on eating, baby, till you get enough
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| Don’t tell nobody that I tried to be tough
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| I just got a man so hard to fill up So keep on a-eating
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| Oh, keep on a-eating
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| Keep on eating, baby, till you get enough
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| (spoken:
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| Oh, play it now, Mr. Charlie
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| Yes, man! |
| Just keep on eating
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| You’ll get through it someday)
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| I know you’re crazy about your oysters and your shrimp and crab
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| Take you around the corner and give you a chance to grab
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| So keep on a-eating
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| Oh, keep on a-eating
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| Keep on eating, baby, till you get enough
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| I’ve cooked and cooked till I done got tired
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| Can’t fill you up off of my fried apple pie |