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Maxi Priest - Intentions

 

Love Train

Woman In You

Crazy Love

Jehovah

Cry Me A River

Strollin' On

Pretty Little Girl

Let Me Know

Festival Time

Must Be A Way

 

Love Train

written by M. Elliott, P. Robinson

 

chorus

Get on the love train

Gotta get on board

Get on the love train

Gotta get on board

Won't need no ticket, just get on board

You're on the right road, just get on board

On the love train

Gotta get on board

I never wanna leave my people behind

Whether black or white

And I don't understand the reasons why

That we have to live apart and stray

For health, strength and prosperity

It's there for you, it's there for me

On the love train, gotta get on board

 

See my idea of a love train is to jammin' as one

Like Bobs jamming in the name of the Lord

With hearts and minds and fullfilness, we'll rock this a train

We'll rock it to and for

Come to hide, come to love )don't know if this is right)

On this train there is no ???

 

On the love train, gotta get on board

Get on the love train, gotta get on board

Closer we've got to be, people oh yeah

Loving is what we need hey oh

Together we've got to be people

Loving is what we need hey oh

 

repeat chorus

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Woman In You

written by M. Elliott, J.P. Maunick, A. Scott, R. Simpson

 

She loves me and I know she wants me oh oh yeah

She loves me yeah and I know she cares about me

Friends they keep on telling me

How she sits and talks about me

Folks they keep on telling me yeah

How she always talks about me

 

Oh I've been such a fool

Not to realize the love we had

Gonna take this chance to prove to myself

Love is not a game

You and I should feel the same

 

chorus

Cause I recognize the woman in you 2x

 

Let love free me and break these chains that bind me

It's taking me time to see it

The loving that surrounds me

I've been down on my luck before

See oh Lord I can't take no more of this pain

Now I know it's gonna be alright

Cause with you I see the light

It's this way

 

repeat chorus

 

In the corners of my mind

I can hear the voice of love

It talks about you

There's a place within my heart

Leaves me longing for the night

To vibe with you

 

repeat chorus

 

I can feel the woman, woman in you, feel woman in you

I recognize the woman in you

I can feel the woman

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Crazy Love

written by V. Morrison

 

I can hear her heartbeat from a thousand miles

And the heaven's open every time she smiles

And when I come to her that's where I belong

Yet I'm running to her like a river song

 

chorus

She gimme love love love love crazy love

She gimme love love love love crazy love

 

She's got a fine sense of humor

When I'm feeling lowdown

Yet when I come to her when the sun goes down

She takes away my troubles, takes away my grief

Takes away my heartache, go right to sleep

 

repeat chorus 2x

 

Yes I need her in the daytime

And I need her in the night

And I wanna holding my arms around her

And kiss and hug and kiss and hug her tight

 

And when I'm returning from so far away

She give me some sweet lovin'

Brighten up my day

Yet it make me righteous, ooh and it makes me whole

Yet it make me mellow down to my soul

 

repeat chorus

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Jehovah

written by M. Elliott, A. Gaye, T. Robinson

 

There's a vibe within the air

And it's every, everywhere

If you reach out you can hold it, hold it

If you only seek, seek the right way

 

Try love, Jah love, try love, Jah Jah love

Try love, Jah love, I love you

 

It's a feeling deep within

And without it life is really grim yeah

It fills a space of unhappiness

So, try a little loving

That's my request

 

chorus

Try a little lovin'

Cause it's lovin' we need

Letting go the pain

That makes my heart bleed

Try a little lovin'

Cause it's lovin' we need

Letting go the pain

That makes my heart bleed

Try a little love

 

If we only club together hey

And learn to live, live with one another

Tears or pains would never be hey

And to this I'm sure you'll all agree

 

Try love, Jah love, try Jah love, I said you gotta try, said you gotta try

Try love, Jah love, Jehovah I love you

 

repeat chorus

 

You've gotta try, try to know oh

 

repeat chorus

 

Oh I feel the pain yeah yeah

 

repeat chorus

 

You've gotta try, you know

Before it's too late

Ooh I don't wanna cry

Don't you know, don't you know

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Cry Me A River

written by M. Elliott, A. Gaye, T. Robinson, B. Forde

 

Like a tear that never falls

It's like a story left untold oh oh oh ah

Like a pain within ones heart oh yeah yeah yeah

Where do I find the words to start

 

chorus

Cry me a river that paths the way

Set my people free oh oh ah

Cry me a river that paths the way

To set my people free oh oh ah

 

I turn it over in my mind oh oh oh oh

So much to do, so little time oh oh oh ah

I said their path lies in the truth oh yeah yeah yeah

What can we do to help the youths

 

repeat chorus 2x

 

Cry me a river

We have the ways we have the means

To turn to reality this dream oh oh oh ah

We put our shoulders to the wheel oh yeah yeah yeah

This is a love we all can feel, oh won't you

 

repeat chorus

 

Cry me a river that paths the way 2x

Cry me a river 4x

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Strollin' On

written by P. Robinson, M. Elliott

 

Strollin' on, strollin' on

Strollin' along with my girl

Holding her by her hand

 

See it's a feelin'

Which you've gotta experience for yourself

Lord it's a feelin' you have

When you're strollin' along with your girl

 

Thinking of things

Of things gone long by

All the times we spend

When we're strollin' along together

Yes I'm strollin' on

Yes I'm strollin' on

 

chorus

Strolling with my girl

Holding her by, holding her by her hand

 

Strollin' on on on, yeah oh yeah

 

repeat chorus

 

See in the country

Flowers, the cool breeze

The wind in her hair

Seems so sweet to me

 

So when you're in love

And she loves you too

Hand in hand, feelin' the vibes flow through

So when I kissed her lips

So soft so sweet as honey

Strollin' along with a beautiful girl like her

Cause I'm strollin' on

Yes I'm strollin' on

repeat chorus

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Pretty Little Girl

written by M. Elliott, A. Gaye, P. Robinson

 

Hey girl how do you do

I wanna talk to you

Seen you down 4th Avenue

I wanna spend some time with you

 

chorus 1

Pretty little girl, I've been watching you oh baby

Pretty little girl, I've been watching you

 

Cause you stole a little part of my heart

Yes you stole a little part of my heart

 

chorus 2

True love is a thing I've never found, never found

True love is a thing I see in you

 

chorus 3

Feeling inside I just cannot hide oh baby

Feeling inside I just can't push aside

 

repeat chorus 2

 

I see in you oh oh baby

I see in you oh oh ah hey

 

repeat chorus 1

 

oh yeah

Cause I'm in need of a little love and happiness

And I'm in need of someone to hold and caress

It's not once or twice I've felt this way, felt this way

Everytime I see you pass my way oh oh oh

 

repeat chorus 3

 

Oh yeah

Everyday

Hoping you'll come my way

Hoping for a time to say

Greetings hello what's your name

 

Looking from an upstairs floor

Wanting you more and more

Feelings I can't explain

Running wild within my brain

 

repeat chorus 1

 

repeat chorus 2

 

I see in you, said I see in you baby I see in you oh oh ah

It's true love, true true true true love is a thing I never found

Said I found in you baby I found in you oh oh oh oh oh

Said I found in you baby I found in you

oh ah oh ah oh ah

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Let Me Know

written by M. Elliott, T. Robinson, A. Gaye

 

Let's go again

This time I'm gonna make it ah baby

it goes shooptodoshooptododo shooptodoshooptododo ah baby

 

I seemed to have woken up too early this morning

I stop and wonder why

Sweet visions of you have woken me from my slumber

I ask myself is it really true yeah

Is this the girl I desire

I wanna know, I gotta know, I wanna know for sure oh girl

 

chorus 1

If your dreams are without me

Let me know oh girl

If your dreams are without me

Let me know oh girl

 

It's not everyday I wake up that I'm happy

It's not everyday I'm sad

This vibe, this vibe, this vibe that I'm feeling

I wanna know if you really feel it too yeah

 

chorus 2

Sometimes when I'm lonely

This blue feeling takes a hold on me

I need your loving close to me

I need your loving desperately

So tell me cause I really got to know

 

repeat chorus 1

 

repeat chorus 2

 

repeat chorus 1

 

Oh girl

If your dreams are without me, really gotta know 2x

know, really gotta know ah baby

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Festival Time

written by M. Elliott, A. Gaye, T. Robinson

 

Things we used to do

Things we used to say

Things we used to do

Things we used to say

 

Sunday morning I rise bright and early

Getting ready for a festival time

Smiley Culture, Tippa Irie they are coming

Philip Levi, phone and say him soon come

We are gonna meet, meet the sound

We hold the mike crowd gather round

Put on the show fi please the crowd

Everybody them baul out loud

 

chorus

Festival time is here, festival time is here

Festival time is here, festival time is here well sister

woh yeah woh yeah woh yeah woh yeah

 

repeat chorus

 

Now the children they are laughing and playing

While the elders they are talking about them

Say miss Lou's working hard on the chicken

While Max's dad has been doing enough drinking

Me and me brethren just a stand up and watch

A what a joy to see them

Me and me brethren just a stand up and watch

A what a joy to see them

 

repeat chorus

 

Come mek we carry go drink come

Food and stall, food and stall

Goes oh ah ah oh ah oh ah ah

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Must Be A Way

written by M. Elliott, A. Gaye, T. Robinson, B. Forde

 

Hey

Say whats happened to humanity

There's enough love for you, there's enough for me

A cup for you and a cup for me

Sharing the love, that's how it should be

 

Listen

 

In my raggy shirt and one pair of shoes

I tread along so confused

Mixed up illusions, lot of confusion

People building bombs, that's no solution

I say

 

chorus

Stand up for your rights, brother man

Must be a way somehow, don't give up

 

repeat chorus

 

Living in a city, surrounded by walls

So many stumbling blocks and pit falls

Can't afford to slip away, can't aslide

With the Lord on my side, how can I fall

 

Said I gotta stand up, said I gotta stand up for my right 2x

 

Say whats happened to humanity

There's enough love for you, there's enough for me

A cup for you and a cup for me

Sharing the love, that's how it should be

 

Sharing the love

A cup for you, a cup for me

Sharing the love, that's how it should be

A cup for you, a cup for me

Sharing the love, that's how it should be

Won't you stay

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