Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby) [Live at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, May 7, 1968]

Baby baby, sweet baby
There's something that I just got to say
Baby, baby, sweet baby
You left me hurtin' in a real cold way

Speak your name
And I'll feel a thrill
You said I do
And I said I will

I tell you that I'll stay true
And give me just a little time
Wait on me, baby
I want you to be all mine
I just been so blue

Since you've been gone
(Why'd you do it? Why'd you have to do it?) Oh, baby
Since you've been gone
(Why'd you do it? Why'd you have to do it?) Yeah

Baby, baby, sweet baby
I didn't mean to run you away
It was pride on my lips
But not in my heart

To say the things that made you stray
But ah, babe, hehehe
Hear me, hear me now
(Hear me)

I don't know what I'm gonna do
(Hear me)
Got to get you back somehow
(Hear me now)

And I'm crying, take me back
Consider me, please
If you walk in that door
I can get up off my knees
But I've just been so blue (blue)

Since you've been gone
(Why'd you do it? Why'd you have to do it?) Hey baby
Since you've been gone
(Why'd you do it? Why'd you have to do it?) Hey now

I've been so lonely (sweet sweet - sweet sweet baby)
Baby, since you've been gone, hear now (sweet sweet - sweet sweet baby)
I've been so lonely (why'd you do it? Why'd you have to do it?)
Baby, since you've been gone
(Why'd you do it? Why'd you have to do it?) Yeah

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, sweet, sweet baby (sweet sweet - sweet sweet baby)
Since you've been gone (sweet sweet - sweet sweet baby), hey, now

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, sweet, sweet baby (why'd you do it? Why'd you have to do it?)
Since you've been gone (why'd you do it? Why'd you have to do it?) Yeah



Credits
Writer(s): Aretha Franklin, Ted White
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