You'll Lose a Good Thing

by Aretha Franklin

From the album: Runnin' Out of Fools

Track 6 of 16 on Runnin' Out of Fools (1964).

Duration: 2:41

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Lyrics for You'll Lose a Good Thing

(Good thing, good thing, good thing) If you should lose me Oh, yeah, you'll lose a good thing If you should lose me Oh, yeah, you'll lose a good thing And you know I love you I do anything for you Just don't mistreat me And I'll be good to you 'Cause if you should lose me Oh, yeah, you'll lose a good thing (Good thing, good thing) (Good thing, good thing) Now I'm givin' you one more chance For you to do right And if you'll only straighen up We can have a good life 'Cause if you should lose me Oh, yeah, you'll lose a good thing And this is my last time And I'm not asking you any more 'Cause if you don't straighten up I'm gonna walk right out of that door #PRE-CHORUS And if you don't believe me Just try it, daddy And see yourself lose a good thing (Good thing, good thing) Just try it, daddy (good thing) And I said, you'll lose your good thing (Good thing, good thing) Yeah! (Good thing) Yeah! (Good thing) Yeah! (Good thing) A good thing (Good thing) Your sweet thing (Good thing) A good thing (Good thing) Your sweet thing

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