Straight Shooter - With John Phillips Intro

Lyrics

[Spoken-Word Intro - John Phillips] Michelle and myself and Marshall Brickman - who's now, right now he's head writer on The Tonight Show, comedy writer, very funny guy - were a trio singing together And Marshall wanted to write a movie script, and Denny had just left a group called the Halifax Three. He was in New York, and I had met him a couple years before on tour And so he called me and said, "here, you need a tenor." And he came over and he sang. He sang and it worked out fine And about three or four weeks later, we met Cass And Cass and I are from the same hometown in Virginia, Alexandria, Virginia But we didn't know each other because I'm maybe about five years older than Cass and by the time she got to school, I'd left Cass followed us around for months, maybe six or seven months, trying to join the group. We kept saying no She did jobs as a waitress whenever we were working, just to be around. She knew she was going to get in the group, and we knew she was going to get in the group also Just a good game to play for a while. She had to keep following us, and she finally followed us down to the Virgin Islands. We were camping out. You can imagine Cass camping out [Verse 1] Don't get me mad Don't tell no lie Don't make me sad Don't pass me by [Chorus] Baby, are you holding Holding anything but me? 'Cause I'm a real straight shooter If you know what I mean [Verse 2] You can bring me love You can hang around You can bring me up Don't you bring me down [Chorus] Baby, are you holding Holding anything but me? 'Cause I'm a real straight shooter If you know what I mean [Bridge] I've been searching all night Just to find what I'm looking for Baby, baby, treat me right Or I won't come 'round your door No more [Verse 3] You can bring me love You can hang around You can bring me up Don't you bring me down [Chorus] Baby, are you holding Holding anything but me? 'Cause I'm a real straight shooter If you know what I mean [Bridge] I've been searching all night Just to find what I'm looking for (Looking for, looking for) Baby, baby, treat me right Or I won't come 'round your door No more [Verse 4] Don't get me mad Don't tell no lie Don't get me sad Just get me high [Chorus] Baby, what you're holding Half of that belongs to me 'Cause I'm a real straight shooter (Baby, don't you get me mad) I'm a real straight shooter (I've been searching all night long) I'm a real straight shooter Baby, if you know what I mean [Outro] If you know what I mean, ooh