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Version 1
            You Better Know It:Jackie Wilson.
#1 R&B and #37 Hot 100 in 1959.
#1.
F
Well, I want you to run to me, baby,
run with all your might.
F
I wanna love you pretty baby, till the 
broad day light.
      Bb
Wanna thrill you pretty mamma, till the 
sun don't shine.
F
Satisfy your soul before I loose my mind.
CHORUS:
           Bb
You better know it..cause it's me and you.
           F
You better know it..this is what I do.
           Bb               C    B  Bb   Bbdim     
You better know it..for the rest of your life.
           C7                           Bb
You better listen to me..and you better hear 
       F
what I say.
#2.
F
Why, pretty baby, can't you understand..
that I wanna be your lovin' man.
      Bb
Gonna love you, pretty baby, with all my heart..
    G                                   C
but tell me, pretty mamma, that we will never part.
CHORUS:
           Bb
You better know it..cause it's me and you.
           F
You better know it..this is what I do.
           Bb               C    B  Bb   Bbdim           
You better know it..for the rest of your life.
           C7                           Bb
You better listen to me..and you better hear 
       F
what I say.
#3.
F
A river's a river..a sea is a sea.
And I want you to belong to me.
F
If they say they go together like a 
                 F
road with bumps..then I got the measles 
and you got the mumps.
CHORUS:
           Bb
You better know it..cause it's me and you.
           F
You better know it..this is what I do.
           Bb               C    B  Bb   Bbdim
You better know it..for the rest of your life.
           C7                           Bb
You better listen to me..and you better hear 
       F
what I say.
#4.
     Bb
Come along (come along, come along with me)
           F
baby, come along..(come along, come along with me)
                  Bb
you'd better come along..(come along, come along with me)
C7                        Bb      F
I love you baby can't you plainly see.
OUTRO:
F          
Well, come on (come on) come on (come on)..
     F
come on (come on) come on (come on)..
        Bb
You can love me (come on) come on (come on)..
        F
you can hug me (come on) come on (come on)
        C7
You can squeeze me..(come on) come on (come on)
     F
Come on (come on) come on, baby (come on)
     F
Come on (come on) love me, honey (come on) 
     F
come on (come on)..love me long (come on)
        F
love me right (come on) love me strong (come on)
              F
Yes (come on) come on come right along (come on) (Fade.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat. 
        
                