| Well I work like a dog eight hours a day you know I’m nearly dead
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| When I stop by a bar on my way home and loosen up my head
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| Lord knows this is a hard life sometimes it’ll drive a man crazy
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| And there ain’t no pleasure in this life for me but the nighttime and my baby
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| Well I’d love to ride all over town in a brand new Cadillac
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| But on the money that I’m makin' it’ll never be like that
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| But money don’t buy everything
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| Like tender love that I always got at home just a waitin'
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| And the only pleasure in this life for me is the nighttime and my baby
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| When I get home she’s always got good lovin' saved up for me
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| Her warm sweet lips will make me forget all of my misery
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| With her arms wrapped around me all through the long long night
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| I wake up in the morning feeling right mighty right
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| Start back to that old job again with the boss standin' over me
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| Sayin' hurry up you gotta do your work that’s the way it’s gonna be
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| Ten hours just keep on draggin' Lord don’t you know that this life of mine
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| ain’t easy
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| But I wanna thank you for sendin' me the nighttime and my baby
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| Yeah I wanna thank you very much for sendin' me the nighttime and my baby
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| Oh I don’t know bout makin' a nap if it wadn’t for the nighttime and my baby
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| I believe I’d lose my mind if I didn’t have the nighttime and my baby |