Lyrics Gloria (Live at the Fillmore, 1997) - Tom Petty , The Heartbreakers

I wanna tell ya about my baby
You know she come around
About five foot four
From her head to the ground
Yeah, and she come around here
Just about midnight
She make me feel so good
She make me fall alright

And her name is G,L,O,R,I
G-L-O-R-I-A (Gloria)
G-L-O-R-I-A (Gloria)
Lord, I wanna shout it all night (Gloria)
I wanna shout every day (Gloria)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I wanna tell ya about my baby
And how we chanced to meet
You know I saw her one day out walking, was looking so fine walking down the uptown street
And I said "Hey, baby"
I said "Whoa"
I said to her "Hey, baby"

And she just kept on walking, walking on down that street
And I wanted her so bad, 'cause she looked so sweet
I said "Hey, honey"
I said "Whoa"
She started to walk a little faster
She wouldn't even look at me
I said "Hey, baby, just a minute, all I wanna know is your name
Thought maybe we could have a little conversation
What's your name?"

She started to run, she was running, I was running too
I was running so hard, I said "Hey, hey baby, hey baby, hey, hey, hey, hey
Come on, tell me your name"
She said, "Ain't gonna talk to you, fool
I got more to do than talk with a man who approach me on the street like this
You up here in those raggedy tennis shoes, you think I wanna talk to you?
I know your kind of man
I'm looking for a man that's career-oriented
A man with goals, opportunities, a man with a future"

I said "Whoa"
Oh, you made me feel so bad
I didn't mean to hurt you, baby, I didn't mean to hurt ya
I just wanted to know your name
She said, "Fool, do you know how politically incorrect it is to whistle, yell and stomp and chase a woman down the street and ask her her name?"
I said "Yeah, I know, um I, I saw that on the Tom Snyder Show
And I know better, but I was so overcome by your beauty and your presence
That I felt we could get something going on, if you know what I mean"

She said "Fool, I'm tired of hearing y'all this from you, I got places to go, I got things to do
I surely don't need a man like you
A man that that'll lay around the house all day and play cards
Man stay up all night watching that Sally Jessy Raphael
And right now I think I can smell that marijuana on you
I don't need that
I seen you yesterday, I seen them friends of yours
You think you gonna bring them mud camels back to my house, you're wrong"

I said "Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, you don't understand
'Cause things ain't so bad
I got this rock 'n' roll band
I got a little money coming in, that pretty little bit coming in, things are pretty good, that's for sure
Matter of fact, I got a steady job down at the Fillmore"
That's when everything changed
She started to look at me in a different way
I saw a little smile come across her face
And I looked in her eyes and she looked in mine
And that's when it happened

That's when the wind began to sing her name
It was singing her name (Gloria)
And the wind came so strong (Gloria)
And the wind blew so hard (Gloria)
Oh, and it felt so good (Gloria)
Oh, and it felt so alive (Gloria)
Oh, it felt so good (Gloria)
Oh, it was singing her name (Gloria)
Yeah, I was singing her name (Gloria)

G-L-O-R-I-A (Gloria)
G-L-O-R-I-A (Gloria)
I know I'm gonna shout it all night (Gloria)
I'm gonna shout every day (Gloria)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

We thank you so much
We thank you so much for, ah, giving us such a good time
It's really hard to go, I, I thank you so much