I HEARD IT TROUGH THE GRAPEVINE


Oo, Bet you're wond'ring how I knew 'bout your plans to Make me blue
With some other guy that you knew before?
Between the two of us guys, you know I love you more.
It took me by surprise, I must say, when I found out Yesterday. Oo,

I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you Be mine.
Oo, I heard it through the grapevine, and I'm just about To lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.

You know that a man ain't supposed to cry, but these Tears I can't hold inside.
Losin' you would end my life you see, 'cause you mean That much to me.
You could have told me yourself that you found someone Else.

Instead,
I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would You Be mine.
Oo, I heard it through the grapevine, and I'm just about To Lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.

People say you "Hear from what you see, na na not from what You hear."
I can't help bein' confused; if it's true, won't you tell Me dear?
Do you plan to let me go for the other guy that you knew Before? Oo,




2. PORTERVILLE


It's been an awful long time since I been home
But you won't catch me goin' back down there alone
Things they said when I was young are quite enough to get Me hung

I don't care! I don't care!
They came and took my Dad away to serve some time
But it was me that paid the debt he left behind
Folks said I was full of sin, because I was the next of kin
I don't care! I don't care!

Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo!
I don't care! I don't care!

Folks were out one night to put me up a fence
And you can guess that I've been runnin' ever since
Ain't no one that's 'bout to help, and I'll keep on, I Tell myself

I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!

Ain't no one that's 'bout to help
And I'll keep on, I tell myself

I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!