Joe Tex - Buying A Book lyrics

I saw this old man with this
Young girl the other night
I walked over to him and pulled
Him off on the side and I said "Pops
What're you trying to prove?"
I said "I've seen
You out here every night this week
With a different young girl wrapped
Around your arm"
I said "You can't keep this pace up", uh
"Because these young girls", huh, oh
"They'll certainly get you down"
He said "Son, sit down here
Let me tell somethin'"
He said "All my life I've worked hard", uh
"And I've saved up me a little money"
He said "But just about thе time I
Got me a nest еgg saved
I became a widow man"
He says "I'm seventy-two goin'
On seventy-three years old


And don't have too many
More years to live", ah
He said "I know that I
Should be ashamed of myself", ha
But he said "Young girls in my
Weakness, oh yes they are", ha
He said "So would you please this
Old gray haired man 'lone?"
"Mind your business", ha ha
"Let me and this young girl have
Us a bit of fun", ha
That's when I looked at him and I said
I said "Alright pops, you
Got her, but listen!", ha ha
Here's all you're doing, oh yes, oh yes

Oh, you're just buying buying a book
That what I said to him
I said "Listen to this"
Here's all you're doing
(Buying a book for some young man)
That's what you're doing, heh
To read, but don't do it (Don't do it)
Don't do it (Don't do it)
Oh, don't do it (Don't do it)
Send that young girl on home, mmm hmm

Then there was this middle-aged woman
Whose name I dare not call
Simply because you out there listenin'
Just might know who this woman is
But I can tell you this much
The woman lives right here in your town
I know you didn't know that, didn't you?
Ah, I saw this woman with this young man
In the broad open daytime the other day
I said "Miss lady
You oughta be ashamed of yourself
Ridin' around with this young man
All hugged up like this here", ha
She said "Son, oh son
You're dippin' in my business
But if you want to know why
I fool with this young man, I'll tell you"
She said "I was married to a man
Forty years older than I was"
Says "For a long time I was
True and faithful that one man"
Says "In the last year
He died and willed me a whole lot of money
And I know that young man sittin' in my car
Just wants me for my money", a ha
She said "But if that's what it takes
To keep the young fine thing", oh-ho
"He can get every single dime
Because it ain't nothin' an old
Man can do for me
But show me where a young man went", ha ha
Oh Lord, oh oh, here's what I said, ha ha

I said you're just buying
That's all you're doing (Buying a book)
That's what I told her, huh
Listen miss lady, here's all you're doing
Uh! (Buying a book for some young girl)
You oughta quit it, ha to read

(Don't do it) But I said "That's your car
Drive him on"
(Don't do it) "Give him all your money
I'm sorry I dipped in your business
I won't do it no more", no