awww yeah mmmm hmmm hmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm i m talking about the power of love now i m gonna tell you what love can do you know when they say love makes the world go round that s the truth love can make you or break you it can make you laugh it can make you cry it can make you happy it can make you sad aw it d get hung up real bad in a case of jealousy love can make you mad aw yeah now everybody everybody s got it s own thing everybody s got it s way of doing a thing now we should attempt to do a tune that is very popular it was written by one of the great young songwriters of today now i don t know what he was thinking about or what inspired him to write this tune but it s a deep tune there s a deep meaning to this tune because it shows you what the power of love can do now i should attempt it to do it my way my own interpretation of it like i said everybody s got it s own thing i m gonna bring it on down to soulsville now i want you to bear along with me for a few minutes while i set it up now i want your imagination i want you to travel with me oh come on come on come on this young man was raised in the hills of tennessee when he reached the age of maturity he moved to the west coast and he fell in love when he got out there to this young girl aw man she was out of sight she was bad and then they started dating and then the inevitable became engaged and they were married mmmm hmmm hmmm they were happily married that s right they lived in l a oh oh the power of love was upon them but you see girls i don t mean to come down on you but this man loved this woman so he can really say love is blind he could see no wrong no no no he worked every day and sometimes he d pull overtime double time triple time he bought anything that this woman s heart desired anything that he could rake and scrape he spent his last dime on women because he loved her and you know girls you can take love and kindness sometime for weakness and she took it for granted she said i got a fool and i know i got a fool i got a good thing yeah she was standing around on the corner you understand meeting with her friends she would go to the beauty salon get her hair fixed she d go shopping and she would brag about her good thing that she s got yeah and she took doubt on it see ain t nobody gonna believe what to tell him no way fool oh yeah girls you would love that sometimes but one day one day the old boy got sick and he had to come home i don t have to tell you what he found oh yeah it hurt him so bad he said baby mama why that s all he could say that s all he could say he was hurt but she said oh go on fool you re doing it but the man wasn t doing it but that s the only excuse you can give him he said mama i can t take it i ve got to leave you i m gonna leave you he packed up his rags you understand and he started out the door and when he reached the driveway you understand he went in there begging just like my man tyrone davis and he said oh mama mama mama can i change oh my mind you see the power of love was upon him and he came back oh yes he did when she tried to straighten up she said she was gonna straighten up she got a little job to help him out with the bills too but that was just a sham because he found it again and again and seven times he left this woman and seven times he came back oh but you know the heart can take so much that s right you can kick a dog around for so long and he ll get tired he ll turn and he taken all that he could stand in the eighth time that this went down he said mama i ve got to go with tears in his eyes he said i m gonna leave you baby he said i ain t coming back he said i m leaving my heart right here but i ve got to go you see cause this man can t take no more she didn t believe it he packed his clothes he got in his 1965 ford he started out three times he started to turn back before he reached the outskirts of the city but he kept on going oh i don t wanna go but i ve got to leave you mama and he s going down the highway i guess it was around 3 30 in the morning he could not hardly see the road with tears in his eyes that s right he was crying there were meaning in his tears he cannot barely see the sign that read on the side of the road the next town is 125 miles away and these very words came into his mind he said by the time i get to phoenix she ll be rising oh and she ll find a note i left hanging on her door she ll laugh when she reads the part that says i m leavin yes she will why cause i ve left that girl so many times before oh by the time i make albuquerque she ll be workin and she ll probably stop at lunch just to give her her sweet good thing a call and oh she ll hear oh oh the phone keeps right on ringin and ringin and ringin and ringin and ringin and ringin oh and ringin off the wall mama mama mama that s all and by the time i get to oklahoma she ll be sleepin she ll turn softly in her restless sleep call my name out low and oh then she ll cry just to think i i i i i i would really leave her for time after time after time after time and time again i tried to tell her so but she was a non believer oh and she didn t know oh that i i i i i i i would really go she didn t believe i would really go oh no i hate to leave you baby yes i do i really really really hate to go oh yeah but this heart of mine just can t take no more i i i i i i ve taken all that i could stand you should ve known what you were doing to the man yeah yeah yeah yeah you see when i left baby i left a piece of my heart oh yeah you know you know you know you know you took baby you know you you took the greatest part yeah yeah i don t know how i m gonna make it oh no but i ve got to go i m gonna miss all the sweet loving and the good times but the good times weren t as heavy oh no as the bad times oh yeah you really really put the hurt on me yes you did i m a prisoner of your love and i just i just won t ever be free no no no so it s bye bye oh mama mama bye bye oh bye bye oh bye bye baby bye bye it s too late for you to cry you had a good thing oh and you misused it yes you did yes you did you had a good heart oh and you abused it oh yeah you were sweet to me yes you were but on the other hand you was real cold cold cold cold you just kept me oh you kept me hanging on yes you did oh oh you kept me hanging on you kept me begging begging you kept me begging you to do right you kept me pacing the floor at night oh yeah but i love you god knows that i love you baby ah yeah i ll always love you yeah raindrops of water beating under my chin you can look at me and tell all the pain i m in aw yeah aw yeah i m gonna moan now mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm hmmm 4