Song Description

a look at life's temptations

Lyrics

YOU KNOW IT?S JIVE
words & music by Dave Phillis and Walter Guy




It was a sultry night in the moonlight -- I was just a boy child
Janey took my hand; She said ?I?ll make you a man? she was feelin? wild
We was doin? it days ?till her Daddy came and caught us at the shoreline
Then he yanked off a switch and chased me down the ditch to the borderline

You know its JIVE ?cause that's always the name of the game
Played with it just to get next to the flame
But it ain?t no crime --- everybody?s gonna do it sometime
Everybody's got to do it once in their life just one time

I was taken by surprise -- I was abducted by the eye of a hurricane
Well, Chantilly Billy he was bein? kinda chilly with his cocaine
I was able to leap tall buildings -- I was thinkin? I was all right
Glad it didn?t have to last, didn?t have to last, Baby, all night

You know its JIVE ?cause that's always the name of the game
Played with it just to get next to the flame
You know it may be a crime -- Think about it ?fore you do it next time

There was a drunken man with a gun in his hand -- he was feelin? pain
He couldn?t handle his own so he went on the roam just to push the blame
He woke up in a cell -- his mind playing hell screamin? ?What?d I do??
The story?s long -- you know he done somebody wrong -
Just be glad that it ain?t you.

You know its JIVE ?cause that's always the name of the game,
Played with it just to get next to the flame,
Don?t wanna do no time,
Ain?t nothin? worth doin? hard time





Copyright 1995 Winterstone Music