ATF: Regrettable Situations

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Three Dog Night]

Mama Told Me Not To Come

Three Dog Night

Want some whiskey in your water

Sugar in your tea

What’s all these crazy questions

They’re askin’ me

This is the craziest party

There could ever be

Don't turn on the lights

'Cause I don't wanna see

Mama told me not to come

Mama told me not to come

No

That ain't the way to have fun

No

Uh huh

Open up the window

Let some air into this room

I think I'm almost chokin'

From the smell of stale perfume

And that cigarette you're smokin'

About to scare me half to death

Open up the window

Sucker

Let me catch my breath

Mama told me not to come

Mama told me not to come

That ain't the way to have fun

Son

That ain’t the way to have fun

She said no

Son

Yeah

The radio is blastin'

Someone's knockin' at the door

I’m lookin’ at my girlfriend

She’s passed out on the floor

I've seen so many things

I ain't never seen before

Don't know what it is

I don't wanna see no more

Mama told me not to come

Mama told me not to come

She said

That ain't the way to have fun

Son

That ain’t the way to have fun

No

Mama told me

Mama told me

Mama told me

Told me

Told me

Mama told me

Not to come

Whoa

Yeah

Yeah

Mama told me

Not to come

Mama told me

Not to come

Mama told me

Not to come

Mama told

Not to come

That ain’t the way to have fun

No

That ain’t the way to have fun

Son

That ain’t the way to have fun

No

That ain’t the way to have fun

Son

Mama told me

Not to come

Mama told me

Not to come

Mama told me

Not to come

Mama told me

Not to come

That ain’t the way to have fun

No

Yeah yeah yeah

That ain’t the way to have fun

Son

That ain’t the way to have fun

No

That ain’t the way to have fun

Son

Mama told me

Mama told me

Mama told me

Yeah

Want some whiskey in your water

Sugar in your tea

What’s all these crazy questions

They’re askin’ me…

Link: [Stealers Wheel]

Stuck in the Middle with You

Stealers Wheel

Well I don't know why I came here tonight

I got the feelin’ that somethin’ ain't right

I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair

And I'm wonderin’ how I'll get down the stairs

Clowns to the left of me

Jokers to the right

Here I am

Stuck in the middle with you

Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you

And I'm wonderin’ what it is I should do

It's so hard to keep this smile from my face

Losin’ control and I'm all over the place

Clowns to the left of me

Jokers to the right

Here I am

Stuck in the middle with you

Well you started off with nothin’

And you're proud that you're a self-made man

And your friends they all come crawlin'

Slap you on the back

And say

Please

Please

Tryin’ to make some sense of it all

But I can see it makes no sense at all

Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor

Well I don't think that I can take anymore

Clowns to the left of me

Jokers to the right

Here I am

Stuck in the middle with you

Well you started out with nothin’

And you're proud that you're a self-made man

And your friends they all come crawlin'

Slap you on the back

And say

Please

Please

Yeah I don't know why I came here tonight

I got the feelin’ that somethin’ ain't right

I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair

And I'm wonderin’ how I'll get down the stairs

Clowns to the left of me

Jokers to the right

Here I am

Stuck in the middle with you

Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you

Stuck in the middle with you

Here I am

Stuck in the middle with you

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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