Lyrics Bobby Womack – The Preacher

Gimme my groove
Lemme hear everybody in the house tonight
If ya still feel like you want to have a good time
All ya gotta say is yeah —

She said, «I don’t mean to hurt your feelings, boy,»
«But you better get ooonnnn out — and find yourself a job!»
My nose was sort of opened wide at that time
So early that next morning
I went ooonnnn out — lookin’ —
Tryin to find a job —
And I’m mighty glad to today to tell you that I found it
I put in 24 hours a day —
And then a little bit overtime
And here’s the sad part of the story

You know something about that, don’t you?
Listen to me, now
What brought me home —
It brought me home sort of early one night, huh
I got a funny — I got a funny — feeling
That something wasn’t going on in my house that wasn’t right
Until I recognized my old lady’s voice —
And she kept tellin’ she said — Oooh, baby!
And I was steady listenin’ she said — Oooh, baby!
And he sort of stuttering too — He kept sayin, like, Uh, what, honey?
She kept tellin’ him — look, keep on doin’ doin’ doin’
what you’re doin’ boy!

Bobby
And lemme hear ya yeah —
Make me know you’re still with me —
Crowd sings
Yeah
Lemme hear ya yeah —
Crowd sings
Yeah
So I started to call my baby
I said, «Baby!»
I said «I’m glad to walk away if ya do me one thing…
would ya do me one thing…?»