You Ought to Be with Me

Album: Call Me (1972)
Charted: 3
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  • Sit right down and talk to me
    About how you want to be
    You ought to be with me
    Yeah, you ought to be with me

    Thinking about what people do
    Talking about how I love you
    Thinking there's nothing to what they say
    You're going to be with me, anyway

    They don't want to see us do
    All of the things we want to
    You ought to be with me
    Hey, you ought to be with me

    You don't have to waste my time
    If you want to be a friend of mine
    You can leave me now and walk away
    And turn your back for another day

    Oh babe, yeah, yeah

    Say you ought to be the kind of girl
    That can brighten this old world
    And it's hard to see why you and me
    Can't be together happily

    I'm trying to realize
    You being with some other guy
    I don't know the reason why
    You ought to be with me until I die

    You ought to be with me until I die

    I don't want to waste my time
    If you want to be a friend of mine
    I want to hold you tight, love you right
    Put good feelin' in your night Writer/s: Al Green, Al Jackson Jr, Willie Mitchell
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Wise Music Group
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