Junior Parker — Funny How Time Slips Away

Boy it sure is a beautiful day outside Sun shining I don't think its gonna rain Think I'll take my dog Sam for a walk C'mon Sam let's walk down to the corner Yeah Never can tell who we might see You may run up on something yourself And I may run up on something too, you know Birds singing, beautiful day Birds doing their thing, I guess everybody do their thing I had a thing but I blew it Course that happens to everybody once in life Sometimes two or three times haha See a young lady coming down the street too Sure looking good Got hot pants and everything Know what Sam, she's a bad mother Well I can say it cause you don't know what I'm saying anyway Cause if a girl dog comes down the street you'd say the same thing Too bad we don't speak the same language Sure enough looking good Man looks familiar too Sam, you know Yeah I think I know this young lady Well I better not rush into it too fast You know I don't Don't wanna get slapped upside the head or something like that You know how these ladies we somedays you know Coming like don't I know you You know that kind of stuff Sure I know her Yeah Mmm mm Sure enough looking good Man looks familiar too Sam, you know Yeah I think I know this young lady Well I better not rush into it too fast You know I don't Don't wanna get slapped upside the head or something like that You know how these ladies are somedays you know Coming like don't I know you You know that kind of stuff Sure I know her Yeah Mmm mm Sure looking good Well hello there My its been a long, long time Hahahaha How am I doing? That's what you wanna know Oh I guess I'm doing fine Know what baby Its been so long now But it seems like It was just the other day Ain't it funny How time slips right on away You know what baby The other day I was down at the pool hall I went down there rapping with the fellas You know how you go down there an shoot the breeze Nothing else to do you know Played a couple of games of ball Played 8 Ball and stuff like that Little one pocket, little bank (?) at pool you know People are talking to one another You can get all the gossip you want at a pool hall Beauty shop, barber shop Grapevine is something else You know everything that goes on someone knows I don't care how large your city is I don't care how you try to hide Somebody will find it out And what they say What goes on in the dark soon will come to the light You know what it means But uh, I'd like to ask you one thing Yeah You looking so good I got to ask you this one time baby How's your new love Oh I hope he's doing fine Its a funny thing baby You know what them cats told me I heard you told him That you will love him 'til the end of time Something kind of peculiar about that You know what baby Oh that's the same thing That you told me It was just the other day Ain't it funny baby yeah How time slips right on away You know what baby I don't meant to call you baby I used to call you that you know Used to call you mamma, you used to call me daddy You know how it go But nice seeing you again I don't wanna stay and rapture you too doggone long Cause I don't want your man to come back And think I'm trying to cop his thing Cat must be doing all right you know Like the way you dressed and everything Good gracious you like You a bad (?) baby (?) No BS about that at all But I won't talk to you too doggone long you know (?) cat may be driving an El Dorado (?) or something I don't want him to pass by and think I'm trying to cop his thing Let me have it She ain't doing anything May have a dog that's bigger than my dog Sam Beat both of us up So baby I just tell you what I got to do You remember this though you know Yeah Still look good baby Sure enough looking good Mmm mm I got to go konw You know what But I'll see you somewhere around Don't forget this baby You never can tell now When JP will be back in town Already remember this baby Just remember What I told you That in time You gonna pay Ain't it funny now mommy How time it slips right on away Well Sam I guess we'll walk on back to the house I thought we'd have something going But you didn't see anything I saw something but uh you know She's already taken I'm sure you remember her She's come by the pad She took you on walks sometimes too I see you wagging your tail You must remember her too you know So we'll go on back to the house And find something to do Yeah Guess I'll get my harmonica out now Play a little bit Because nobody knows the trouble I've seen But me Sam you understand, you know Hm Start going back to the house