She'd Rather Be With Me

Album: Happy Together (1967)
Charted: 4 3
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  • Some girls
    Love to run around
    Love to handle everything they see
    But my girl
    Has more fun around
    And you know she'd rather be with me
    Me oh my (me oh my, I'm a lucky guy)
    Lucky guy is what I am
    Tell you why, you'll understand
    She don't fly although she can

    Some boys (some boys)
    Love to run around
    They don't think about the things they do
    But this boy (this boy)
    Wants to settle down
    And you know he'd rather be with you
    Me oh my (my)
    Lucky guy is what I am (my)
    Tell you why, you'll understand (my)
    She don't fly although she can (my)

    Some girls (some girls)
    Love to run around
    Love to handle everything they see
    But my girl (my girl)
    Has more fun around
    And you know she'd rather be with
    Yeah, she'd rather be with
    You know she'd rather be with me

    You know she'd rather be with me
    You know she'd rather be with me
    You know she'd rather be with me Writer/s: Alan Gordon, Garry Bonner
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 27, 1967, Dick Clark conducted an interview with Turtles' members Al Nichol and Jim Tucker on his ABC-TV network Saturday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the Turtles' "She'd Rather Be With Me" was at #39 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; three weeks later it would peak at #3* {for 2 weeks} and it spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
    The song was track one of side two from the group's third studio album, 'Happy Together',
    Between August 1965 and June 1970 the group had seventeen Hot Top 100 records; five made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Happy Together" for for 3 weeks in 1967...
    Original drummer Don Murray passed away on March 22nd, 1996 at the young age of 50...
    May he R.I.P.
    * The two weeks that "She'd Rather Be With Me" was at #3, the top two records remained the same, at #2 was "Respect" by Aretha Franklin and at #1 was "Groovin'" by the Young Rascals, and both were on the same label, Atlantic Records.
  • Jennifur Sun from RamonaLoved the drums on this song.
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