| Don’t you know it’s too late now
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| Listen, children, I wanna tell you this
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| It’s too late to cry (too late to cry)
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| It’s too late to cry now (too late to cry)
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| My love is gone away, yes she has (too late)
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| Wo wo (too late) she has (too late)
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| (Spoken):
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| I just guess that you’re wonderin' why I always sing a sad song
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| But you see, I had a woman who was very good to me
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| & I can remember the times she used to sit down & tell me these words:
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| Said, 'Pickett, I want you to know I love you from the bottom of my heart
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| & whatever you need, I don’t want you to go to your mother, your father,
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| your sister or your brother
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| I’ll be a leadin' pull when you’re fallin' down
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| When all your money’s gone, I want you to know you can count on me'
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| But I didn’t appreciate that woman then
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| You know what? |
| I had to run & chase after every little girl around town
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| So finally one day I got home & I found my little girl gone
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| & people, you know it hurt me so bad (ha ha) I had to hang my little head & cry
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| Then I began to read the letter she left for me layin' there; |
| it read like this,
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| children
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| It’s too late, she’s gone, oh (she's gone)
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| 'It's too late I’m gone away' (she's gone)
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| Ah yeah (too late) don’t you know it, children (too late)
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| Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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| Say it one more time (too late) listen (too late)
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| I wanna hear you understand what I’m talkin' about (too late)
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| … & fade |