You Could Have Been a Lady

Album: Every 1's a Winner: The Very Best of Hot Chocolate (1971)
Charted: 22
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  • Hot Chocolate - You Could've been A Lady

    You could've been all right
    You could've been here tonight
    You could've been sweet as wine
    You could've been a lady

    You could've been all right
    You could've been here tonight
    You could've been sweet as wine
    You could've been a lady

    They all love you, you're a good girl
    When you awake you'll find another man
    Lying beside you
    They all need you, they all want you
    Well, I'll be surprised if you realised
    Where you're going to

    You could've been all right
    You could've been here tonight
    You could've been sweet as wine
    You could've been a lady ....

    If I tell you where you're going to
    You'd laugh in my face, I'm out of place
    Mind your business
    They all want you to make love to
    Well, I'll be surprised if you realised
    Where you're going to

    You could've been all right
    You could've been here tonight
    You could've been sweet as wine
    You could've been a lady ....

    Na-na-na-na-na-na-na ....

    All right
    You could've been here tonight
    You could've been sweet as wine
    You could've been a lady Writer/s: Anthony Wilson, Errol Ainsworth Glenstor Brown
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Ted from Phoenix, AzWhile the Hot Chocolate version of this song failed to chart in the U.S., April Wine, a young Canadian rock band, took it to #32 in Billboard's top 100 singles list in May of 1972.
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