Lyrics The Preacher - Live - Bobby Womack

(Gimme my groove, gimme my groove)

Lemme hear everybody in the house tonight
If you still feel like you wanna have a good time
All you gotta say is "yeah" (Yeah!)
Yeah (Yeah!)
I don′t know why but I still think you could say it just a little bit louder
I wanna hear you say "yeah" (Yeah!), hmm

I don't know why, I feel like I wanna preach tonight
I wonder would y′all mind
If I preach to you for about five minutes?
But I got to know that I got some warriors in the house tonight
So lemme hear you say "yeah", owww!

About five years ago
I fell in love
But you know what? I never believed-
I never believed in working a real hard job
One day my old lady walked up and told me, she said "Bobby -"
She said "Your lovin' is good"
"But my money is gettin' sorta thin", lemme hear you say "yeah"
She said "I don′t mean to hurt your feelings boy"
"But you better get on out and find yourself a job"
(My nose was sorta opened wide at that time)
So earlier that next mornin′
I went on out lookin' tryna find a job
And I′m mighty glad the day that I can tell you that I found it
I put in 24 hours a day
And then a little overtime
But here's a sad part of the story
(You know somethin′ 'bout that, don′t you?)
Listen to me, now
What brought me home
It brought me home sorta early one night
I gotta funny, I gotta funny feelin'
That somethin' was going on in my house that wasn′t right
I′ll tell you why I say that
The car parked in my driveway
(You know about that, don't you?)
The car parked in my driveway turned out to be my best friend′s
And what made it so bad, this is what it made it so bad
I know they heard me
(It be like this sometimes)
I know they heard me!
Ooh, I know they heard me knockin' but they still wouldn′t let me in
My mind told me to leave, but my heart told me to stay
Ooh, I tried to walk away
But everytime I take a step, seem like something kept pulling me back
So I eased up to the door, and I started to listen
(Tryna find out what I could hear)
But y'all know what? I couldn′t hear a damn thing
But I kept on listening, yeah
And just as I started to walk away, seems like to me I recognized my best friend's voice, as he went something like this
It must've been getting good to him cause he was saying, uh, "Hmm, hmm, ooh, ooh, owww!"
But that didn′t make it so bad
Until I recognized my old lady′s voice, as she kept telling, she said "Ooh, baby"
And I was standing listenin', and she said "Ooh, baby"
And he sorta stuttered, he kept saying like "O-o-o-o, what honey?"
She kept telling this, she said "Keep on doin′-doin'-doin′ what you doin', boy"

Now, lemme hear you say "yeah" (Yeah!)
Make me known you′re still with me, let me hear you say "yeah" (Yeah!)

So I started to call my baby
I said, "Baby"