I Wanna Testify

Words by Roger Taylor, music by George Clinton and D.Taylor

This song was originally recorded by The Parliaments in 1967, though the tune was a bit different and the words were completely different. It was a single at the time, and then was re-recorded (different from the original but still very different from Roger's) on the Parliament 1975 album Up For The Down Stroke. Roger credited the song to Clinton/Taylor and presumably he meant D.Taylor, although the words and song arrangement are so different that he deserves credit as well.

Highest UK Chart Position: did not chart

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We met each other introduced by her brother
A cat I'd known all my life
Parties and dancing, moonlight and romancing
Soon to be husband and wife
My friends call me crazy, her folks call her lazy
But our love counts for life
If we stuck together the pressures we would weather
Not knowing we were in for a fall

Women and drinking Loving and thinking
They do it to you every time
Women and drinking Loving and thinking
They do it to you every time

Find yourself going down down down down
I'm going down down
I'm going down down down down down down down

Ow - I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me
I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me

We had a boy
My pride and joy
I took a job day and night
Tired and wired
One day I got fired
That's when we started to fight

With time on his hands
A man ain't a man
And all he loves he starts to neglect
I didn't go far
Straight to the bar
And drank up all my self respect

Women and drinking Loving and thinking
They do it to you every time
Women and drinking Loving and thinking
They do it to you every time

Find yourself going down down down down
I'm going down down
I'm going down down down down down down down

Ow - I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me
I just wanna testify
What the women don't owe to me

Yeah - let me get on back to my story now

Yeah - about no-one
But my wife and my son
That's when I started to roam
Bar room to them
It happened so soon
I found myself on my own

She went back to her mother
I fought with her brother - yeah
And in my heart I know I was wrong
Please pay attention to the words that I mention - yeah
And listen to the moral of the song

I just I just wanna testify