You Can Look (But You'd Better Not Touch)

Album: The River (1980)
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  • Yesterday I went shopping buddy down to the mall
    Looking for something pretty I could hang on my wall
    I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor I caught it
    A salesman turned around said "Boy you break that thing you bought it"

    You can look but you better not touch boy
    You can look but you better not touch
    Mess around and you'll end up in dutch boy
    You can look but you better not no you better not no you better not touch

    Well I came home from work and I switched on Channel 5
    There was a pretty little girly lookin' straight into my eyes
    Well I watched as she wiggled back and forth across the screen
    She didn't get me excited she just made me feel mean

    You can look...

    Well I called up Dirty Annie on the telephone
    I took her out to the drive-in just to get her alone
    I found a lover's rendezvous the music low set to park
    I heard a tappin' on the window and a voice in the dark

    You can look...

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Comments: 2

  • Landon from Winchester, OhThis song was sampled in Trace Adkins's hit "Honkytonk Badonkadonk."
  • Johnny from Los Angeles, CaThis song is to fast paced. It would be much better with some darker lyrics and a slower beat.
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