Thanks But No Thanks - Henry Townsend, Roosevelt Sykes

Now, this is a true story.

Ah, a man had a fine wife

(I ain’t gon' call her name, hee-hee)

But he mistreat his wife and went off and took another girl.

After he was with the other girl a while another guy come

Along and took her from him.

So now, he’s left all alone, so he thought he better drop

Back, see if he could get the wife back 'fore it was too late.

He went back he said, he said, 'Darling, will you take me back?

'

She looked at him, she said, 'i thank you for askin' me to take

You back but no thanks, I don’t want you back.

'

So, the story is but 'Thanks But No Thanks'

My, my.

So she said, darling, cheating is yo hobby

She say, you know I saw you kissing

In the hotel lobby

She said, darling you just won’t be true

So thanks but no thanks

I’ve had my share of you

She say, you know I hope you make money

And we start a little bank account.

I gave you all my loving in no small amounts.

She said, darling, you still just wouldn’t be true

So thanks but no thanks

I’ve had my share of you

My, my She say, you had my life complicated

That’s why I’ve just stated

She say, I think we better stay separated

Because you, you had me underrated

My, my She says, I got me a new love from now on And a telephone

She says, I don’t have to sit around here no mo all alone

She said, darling you see you just wouldn’t be true

So thanks but no thanks

I’ve had my share of you

I ain’t kiddin'

Yeah, she said, I had enough of you

Mercy, Goodbye.

Thanks But No Thanks — 3: 00 (Trk 8)

Roosevelt Sykes — piano & vocal

Recorded: December 30, 1971

Producer: G. H. Buck Jr.

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