[Preamble]
Have you ever had a feeling
That someone would come out needin' you?
If you had, it's not so bad
Unless you found that it is all untrue
Take a good girl to keep her man
Some can't do it, others can
I'm no chump but I would jump
If I could find someone that's not unlike me too

[Verse 1]
Oh when the river runs, flowers are bloomin' in May
And if you get good business, how do you do it that way?

[Verse 2]
Streetwalkin' women, they are happy and gay
But I'm never happy, how do you get that way?

[Bridge]
I want a man to be near because he bring good cheer
But the men don't like me, they don't seem to care

[Verse 3]
Now they can come and go, to and fro every day
But I can't make 'em like me, how do you do it that way?
[Bridge]
Now if you want somethin' good, you mustn't knock on wood
Just get a good man to look up under your hood

[Verse 4]
And when the rooster and the hen go to the barn to play
Oh the hen has chickens, how do they do it that way?