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We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale
She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed
She said, 'I'm home on shore leave,'
though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died
If music be the food of love then laughter is its queen
and likewise if behind is in front
then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
and attacked the ocean bed
- Album:
- When a Man Loves a Woman & Warm and Tender Soul
- The Album
- My Old Friend The Blues
- My Special Prayer
- Miscellaneous
- The Very Best Of Percy Sledge (Live)
- The Very Best of Percy Sledge & Ben E. King
- Sixties Soul Machine
- The Platinum Collection
- The Ultimate Collection - When A Man Loves A Woman
- The Best Of Percy Sledge
- Warm & Tender Soul
- Rhino Hi-Five: Percy Sledge (US Release)
- The Complete Percy Sledge Collection (Re-Recorded Versions)
- The Best of Percy Sledge (Re-Recorded Versions)
- When a Man Loves a Woman (Re-Recorded Versions)
- The Essential Percy Sledge (Re-Recorded Versions)
- Two of a Kind - Percy Sledge & Wilson Pickett
- One Hour With Percy Sledge (Re-Recorded Versions)
- The Soul and R&B Archives - Percy Sledge