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BABY I CAN'T STAND THE HEAT blues song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

at high noon at 12 o'clock
I fried an egg upon the sidewalk
the asphalt got so soft and deep
it was like the quicksand in your sleep
I oozed on down beside the bayou
just to be with you know who
but she said oh baby
baby I can't stand the heat
it's too hot
don't try to do what I will not
don't even try I'll tell you why
it's too hot
and when it gets like this
I feel like I'm just a piece of meat
baby I can't stand the heat

they say the Delta's worse than Hell
but I don't know about the smell
when the canal gets good and ripe
you're bound to lose your appetite
and all the lust that's in your loins
turns into dust
where the Mississippi joins

I saw a gator go belly up
because he just had had enough
I saw birds fall out of the sky
cause it was just too hot to fly
I saw the ghost of Lafcadio Hearn
I saw a skeeter crash and burn
that's when I knew not maybe baby
baby I can't stand the heat
it's too hot
my guts on fire my heart is shot
don't even have no tears to cry
it's too hot
and when it gets like this
it knocks me down and leaves me
lying senseless in the street
baby I can't stand the heat

tell me baby
is that a gun?
baby please
put me outta my miseries

well okay
do what you gotta do

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