Chokin' Kind - Allen Toussaint

I only meant to love you

Didn’t you know it, babe?

Didn’t you know it?

Why couldn’t you be content

With the love I gave, oh yeah?

I gave you my heart

But you wanted all my mind, oh yeah

Don’t you know your love scared me to death, boy

Oh, it’s the chokin' kind

That’s what it is

Don’t you know you can kill a man

With a bottle of poison or a knife, oh yeah

But it hurt him more to take his pride

And ruin his life, oh it’s a shamegirl

Whatever it is, girl

I surely hope you find, oh yeah

I tell you that a hat that don’t fit my head

Oh, it’s the chokin' kind, that’s what it is

It makes me want to stop

In the middle of what I’m doin' and try and explain to ya

Whenever you fall in love

Please take a tip from me oh yeah

If you don’t, you don’t like the peach

Just-a walk on by the tree

That’s what you better do, honey

Find what you want, girl

Keep it, treat it, sweet and kind, oh yeah

Oh let it breathe

Don’t make it the chokin' kind

That’s what you better do, honey

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