Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

(album: Say It Loud – I'm Black And I'm Proud - 1969)

Don't play that song no more, don't play it
Kiss me each morning for a million years
Hold me each evening at your side
Oh darling, tell me you love me for a million years
If it don't work out—do you hear me?'
If it don't work out, then you can tell me goodbye
Oh now, hit me now

Sweeten my coffee with a morning, a morning kiss
Sop up my dream with a side, oh darling
Tell me you love me for a million years, oh now now
If it don't work out
If it don't work out, then you can tell me goodbye
Oh now, hey brother...
Play it, brother—play the song!
No, no, not that, no, no
Don't play it no more, brother
I can't stand it, I can't stand it
Don't play that song about goodbye
I can't stand it now, I can't stand it
You hit me, you hit me so hard, oh
If you must go, oh no, I won't peep
If you must wait a lifetime before you leave
If you must go, I won't tell you, oh no no no no no no no
I'll just say, say we tried, say we tried, we tried
Tell me you love me for a million, a million long years
And if it don't work, do you believe we can make it?
Don't play that song no more, can't stand it
I said, you hit me so low
I can't stand it, baby
I can't stand it now
I just can't stand it, ow, no no no
I can't stand it, I can't take no more
Don't play the song
Don't play the song, oh
Then you can tell me goodbye