Buying A Book

Lyrics

[Verse 1] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Outro] (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