I Wanna Testify

Words by Roger Taylor, music by George Clinton and Daron Taylor

Arranged by Roger Taylor

This song was originally recorded by "The Parliaments" in 1967, though the tune was a bit different and the words were completely different. It was a single at the time, and then was re-recorded (different from the original but still very different from Roger's) on the "Parliament" 1975 album "Up For The Down Stroke". Roger credited the song to Clinton/Taylor and presumably he meant Daron Taylor, although the words and song arrangement are so different that I think he deserves credit as well.

Highest UK Chart Position: did not chart

We met each other introduced by her brother

A cat I'd known all my life

Parties and dancing,moonlight and romancing

Soon to be husband and wife

My friends call me crazy,her folks call her lazy

But our love counts for life

If we stuck together the pressures we would weather

Not knowing we were in for a fall

Women and drinking Loving and thinking

They do it to you every time

Women and drinking Loving and thinking

They do it to you every time

Find yourself going down down down down

I'm going down down

I'm going down down down down down down down

Ow, I just wanna testify

What the women don't owe to me

I just wanna testify

What the women don't owe to me

We had a boy

My pride and joy

I took a job day and night

Tired and wired

One day I got fired

That's when we started to fight

With time on his hands

A man ain't a man

And all he loves he starts to neglect

I didn't go far

Straight to the bar

And drank up all my self respect

Women and drinking Loving and thinking

They do it to you every time

Women and drinking Loving and thinking

They do it to you every time

Find yourself going down down down down

I'm going down down

I'm going down down down down down down down

Ow, I just wanna testify

What the women don't owe to me

I just wanna testify

What the women don't owe to me

Yeah, let me get on back to my story now

Yeah, about no-one

But my wife and my son

That's when I started to roam

Bar room to them

It happened so soon

I found myself on my own

She went back to her mother

I fought with her brother, yeah

And in my heart I know I was wrong

Please pay attention to the words that I mention, yeah

And listen to the moral of the song

I just I just wanna testify