S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song)

Album: Best Of Joe Tex (1966)
Charted: 39
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  • Everybody has got somebody
    Yes, they do
    Alright
    An everybody's got their
    Own way of sayin', I love you
    Oh, yes they have

    The sooner you say it
    The better it is
    The softer you whisper it
    The better it feels
    Just make sure
    That when you say it
    Be for real

    Alright, let me hear you say it, now

    S.Y.S.L.J.F.M.
    Save your sweet love just for me
    D.K.W.I.M.T.M.
    You don't know what it means to me
    D.E.T.Y.S.L.A
    Don't ever take your sweet love away
    I.C.L.M.L.T.W.
    I can't live my life that way
    (Woo-ooo)
    Alright

    Tell them

    Oh, if gramma could see me now

    H'uh, H'uh, get on up there, now

    Keep that beat goin'

    Alright

    I love this song, now listen'

    Everybody, s'got somebody
    They love to talk about
    And I've got somebody

    Everybody, got their
    Own way of unwindin' when they feel down and out
    Oh yes, they have

    The sooner you unwind
    The better it is
    The easiest way you do it
    The better you feel

    Just make sure
    That when you do it
    Be for real

    Alright

    Listen

    Y.C.C. M.A.O.T
    You can call me any old time
    T.C.A.H.Y.T.U.
    To come and help you to unwind

    S.Y.S.L.J.F.M.
    Save your sweet love just for me
    D.K.W.I.M.T.M.
    Don't know what I means to me
    Yeah
    D.E.T.Y.S.L.A.
    Don't ever take your sweet love away
    I.C.L.M.L.T.W.
    I can't live my life that way Writer/s: JOE TEX
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 27th 1966, Joe Tex performed "S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song)" on the ABC-TV program 'Where The Action Is'...
    Two months earlier on May 8th, 1966 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #90; and on June 12th, 1966 it peaked at #39 (for 1 week) and spent 7 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #9 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1964 and 1977 he had twenty-seven songs on the Top 100; three made the Top 10 with "I Gotcha" being his biggest hit, it peaked at #2 (for 2 weeks) on April 30th, 1972 (the two weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for both those weeks was "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack)...
    R.I.P. Mr. Tex, born Joseph Arrington, Jr., (1935 - 1982).
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