Livingston Taylor
©2002, L. Taylor/Morgan Creek Music (ASCAP)

I had me a girl
Bright as sunshine
Sweet as candy
Smart as a book
She rubbed my shoulders
At the end of a long day
And my, she sure could cook

Always laughing
For the sheer joy of living
She'd hear my stories
Right through to the end
Always looking
For a new way of giving
She even liked my mama
And my no good friends

Me on the other hand
I wasn't that pleasant
Mad at the world
And mean most the time
When God gave me
Beautiful daylight
I covered up my eyes
So I could stay blind

She said she couldn't take any more
And she cried as she walked away
Now I'm alone in the dark
And if she comes back
There's only one word
That I'm gonna say

Yes, yes
I'm gonna say yes
When my baby wants something
Yes, oh yes
If she wants to come back to me

My hands are down
My eyes are wide open
I sit on a bench
With nothing but time
And I pity the fool
Who gets surly and cool
With a woman
Who thinks he's fine

I hate to think
How much he'll be hurting
When she stands up
And drops off the key
I can tell you one thing for certain
If he learned anything from me
He'd say

Yes, yes
He'd learn to say yes
If his baby wants something
Yes, yes
Learn a little lesson from me

I've learned so much
In the absence of her touch
A Ph.D in doing it wrong
There's only one rule
Here at lonely school
That's life is a one word test
And the correct answer is
Yes yes yes

Yes, yes
You got to say yes
When your baby wants something
Yes, yes
Learn a little lesson from me