The Monkees — Never Tell a Woman Yes

Oh my, my my In a dusty caravan Was a girl with a golden tan And she asked me if I was headed to the east I politely stepped aside And said I did not need a ride That I’d rather take my chances with the heat Well, when she turned and walked away I saw my big mistake There were jewels on her body oh so rare Had it been another day I just might’ve rode away With that woman ridin’ off to God knows where So the years, they came and went And found me livin’ in a tent Far above a little marble stream And it may’ve been the light That shone out through the night That attracted the hand scratchin’ on my screen When I cautiously looked out Through the night, there was no doubt That the owner of the hand was that girl So I bid her, “Do come in And I’ll open up a tin If you’ll tell me ’bout your trip around the world” Well, she said, “If you think back To the first time that we passed I’m sure you’ll picture me in all my jewels And it was shortly after then That I ran into another man And I asked him the same question that I asked you “But now he, he didn’t refuse And he took off both his shoes And climbed aboard my eastbound caravan And in the twinkling of an eye He had knocked me off the side And left me there for death upon the sand “Then I thought that I was done Lyin’ naked in the sun When much to my surprise, who should pass? But this ol’ friend of yours He said he knew ya from the wars And I told him that I thought you’d headed west “Well, he said he should have known ’Cause you liked to be alone And that’s the time I knew you were my one So I asked him for a ride Just to get here by your side And stay here above this stream out of the sun” Well, we sat quite for a while And I began to smile And I said, “Well, it’s strange, but I don’t care” And some nights, when I’m at rest I wonder if I’d said yes If she’d have come to me from God knows where Or would I have been the one To leave her lyin’ in the sun And then ended up with only precious stones? Or would the woman in my arms Be givin’ me her charms If the answer that I gave her wasn’t “no”?