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Aretha Franklin – Think
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“Think” is a hit single by undisputed queen of soul Aretha Franklin. The song topped the Billboard R&B Charts and reached an impressive #7 on the Pop Charts as well. Released in
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Aretha Franklin – (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
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[Verse 1] / Looking out on the morning rain / I used to feel so uninspired / And when I knew I had to face another day / Lord, it made me feel so tired / [Pre-Chorus] / Before the
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Aretha Franklin – Eleanor Rigby
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[Verse 1] / I'm Eleanor Rigby / I picked up the rice in the church where the weddings have been, yeah / I'm Eleanor Rigby / I'm keeping my face in a jar by the door / If you want
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Aretha Franklin – Amazing Grace
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[Intro: Choir] / Was blind, but now I see / [Verse 1: Aretha Franklin] / Amazing, amazing grace, how sweet the, the sound / That, that saved a, a wretch like me / I, I once was
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Aretha Franklin – Day Dreaming
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[Chorus] / Daydreaming and I'm thinking of you / Daydreaming and I'm thinking of you / Daydreaming and I'm thinking of you / Daydreaming and I'm thinking of you / Look at my mind
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Aretha Franklin – Skylark
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[Verse 1] / Skylark / Have you anything to say to me? / Won't you tell me where my love can be? / Is there a meadow in the mist / Where someone's waiting to be kissed? / [Verse 2
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Aretha Franklin – Unforgettable
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[Verse 1] / Unforgettable, that's just what you are / You're unforgettable, near to me or far / Like a song of love that clings to me / How the thought of you does silly little
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Aretha Franklin – One Step Ahead
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“One Step Ahead” is a non-album single released by Aretha Franklin in 1965 toward the end of her record deal with Columbia Records.
Though Aretha sounds as mature as she always
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Aretha Franklin – Chain of Fools
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“Chain of Fools” is about discovering your partner has been unfaithful.
One of five Top 10 hits Aretha scored in 1967, it rose to #2.
The following year, this song wound up on
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Aretha Franklin – The Weight
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[Verse 1] / I pulled into Nazareth, I was feeling about half past dead / I just need some place where I can lay my head / Hey, mister, can you tell me where a girl might find a bed
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Aretha Franklin – Evil Gal Blues
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[Chorus] / I'm an evil gal / Don't you bother with me, no / I said I'm an evil gal / Don't you mess around with me, mhm / Well, I'll empty your pockets and I'll fill you with
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Aretha Franklin – Respect
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Aretha Franklin’s signature song was a groundbreaking female empowerment anthem of the late 1960s.
Originally a minor hit by Otis Redding in 1965, Aretha’s “Respect” was given a
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Aretha Franklin – Groovin’
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[Chorus] / Groovin' / On a Sunday afternoon (Sunday, Sunday) / Groovin' / Couldn't get away too soon (Too soon) / [Verse 1] / I can't imagine anything that's better / The world is
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Aretha Franklin – Spanish Harlem
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[Intro] / (La-la-la la la la la la la la) / (La-la-la la la la la la la la) / [Chorus] / (There's a rose in black at spanish harlem) / (A rose in black at spanish harlem) / [Verse
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Aretha Franklin – Dr. Feelgood
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[Verse 1] / I don't want nobody, always / Sittin' around me and my man / I don't want nobody, always / Sittin' right there / Lookin' at me and that man / Be it my mother, my
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Aretha Franklin – Precious Memories
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(Precious memories, how they linger) / (How they ever) How they ever / (Flood my soul) Flood my soul / (In the stillness) Lord, in the stillness / (Of the midnight) The midnight
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Aretha Franklin – You Send Me
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[Verse 1] / Darling you send me / Darling you send me / Darling you send me / Honest you do / Honest you do / Honest you do / Woah-Oh-Oh / You thrill me, darling you thrill me
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Aretha Franklin – Save Me
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[Chorus] / Save me, somebody save me / Save me, somebody save me, yeah / [Verse 1] / Promised myself after the first romance / I wouldn't give you a second chance / They say if you
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Aretha Franklin – Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
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[Verse 1] / Take me to heart, and I'll always love you / And nobody can make me do wrong / Take me for granted, leaving love unshown / Makes willpower weak and temptation strong
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Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady
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[Verse 1] / Rock steady, baby / That's what I feel now / Let's call this song exactly what it is / Step and move your hips with a feeling from side to side / Sit yourself down in
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Aretha Franklin (Ft. Mavis Staples) – Oh Happy Day
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Oh happy day / Oh happy day / When Jesus washed / Oh when He washed / Oh when He washed / Washed my sins away / Oh happy day / Oh happy day / Oh happy day / When Jesus washed / Oh
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Aretha Franklin – I Say a Little Prayer
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Originally written for Dionne Warwick by Burt Bacharach and Hal David in 1966, Aretha and her ‘Sweet Inspirations’ were fooling around before a show and warming up by singing “Say
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Aretha Franklin – Somewhere
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[Verse] / There’s a place for us / Somewhere there is a place for us / Peace and quiet and open air / It waits for us somewhere / There is a time for us / I know that there is a
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Aretha Franklin (Ft. Lauryn Hill) – A Rose is Still a Rose
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[Intro] / Listen, dear / I realise that you've been hurt, deep / Because I've been there / But regardless to who, what, why, when and where / We're all precious in his sight / And
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Aretha Franklin – Willing to Forgive
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“Willing To Forgive” was a new single from Aretha Franklin’s compilation album Greatest Hits: 1980-1994. The Babyface-penned ballad faces an instance of infidelity in a
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Aretha Franklin – See Saw
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes you love me / Like a good man oughta / Sometimes you hurt me so bad / My tears run like water / Ya get me out / Not before your friends / And then ya disown
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Aretha Franklin – I Will Survive (The Aretha Version)
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[Verse 1] / At first I was afraid, I was petrified / Kept thinkin' I could never live without you by my side / But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong / And I
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Aretha Franklin – Freeway of Love
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Freeway of Love peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped Billboard’s R&B Singles chart for 5 weeks.
It also won a Grammy for “Best Female R&B Vocal Performance”.
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Aretha Franklin – I'm In Love
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[Chorus] / I'm in love, yes I am / I'm in love, yes I am, uh / I'm in love, hey baby, hey, you know I am / I'm in love, uh, huh, you know I am / [Verse 1] / Friends all wonder what
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Aretha Franklin – All the King’s Horses
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[Intro] / All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put our two hearts together again / [Verse] / We sat on the wall of happiness / We sat on the wall of love / We
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Aretha Franklin – I Get High
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[Intro] / Oh, oh / Oh-oh-oh, oh / Oh, yeah / Oh, yeah, yeah / [Refrain] / Woke up this mornin' / Lookin' there over the dawn of light / Things now for me are not what they used to
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Aretha Franklin – Spirit in the Dark
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[Verse 1] / I, I'm getting the spirit in the dark / (Um-hum-hum) / I'm getting the spirit in the dark / (Um-hum-hum) / People moving oh and they grooving / Just getting the spirit
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Aretha Franklin (Ft. James Cleveland) – Precious Memories (Live)
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Precious memories (Mm) / How they linger (They linger) / How they ever (How they ever) / Flood my soul (Flood my soul) / Ooh, ooh (Mm) / In, in the stillness (Lord, in the
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Aretha Franklin – Mary Don't You Weep
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Miss Aretha Franklin / Oh, oh, Mary / Oh, oh, Mary / Oh, oh, Mary / Oh, oh, Mary / Oh, oh, Mary / Oh, oh, Mary / Oh, oh, Mary / Oh, oh, Mary / Oh, oh, Mary, don't you weep / Tell
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Aretha Franklin – Without Love
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[Verse 1] / All night long, one night / I could not sleep for ringing in my ear / A melody began to sing / For at first / The words I could not make out clear / Then smog fields
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Aretha Franklin – A Deeper Love
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[Intro] / (Pride) A deeper love / (Pride) A deeper love / (Pride) A deeper love / Woah woah woah woah / (Pride) A deeper love / (Pride) A deeper love / (Pride) A deeper love / Woah
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Aretha Franklin – Son of a Preacher Man
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“Son of a Preacher Man” is Aretha Franklin’s cover of a song made popular by Dusty Springfield in 1968. The twist is that the song was originally intended to be recorded by Aretha
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Aretha Franklin – Good to Me As I Am to You
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[Verse] / If you had a dollar / And I had a dime / I wonder, could I borrow yours / As easy as you could mine? / Because when you need my love / And I give time after time / And
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Aretha Franklin – Something He Can Feel
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Reached #1 on the on the Billboard’s R&B singles chart in June 26, 1976. “Something He Can Feel” is a love ballad in a Chicago-/Philly-soul style, composed by Curtis Mayfield for
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Aretha Franklin – It's My Turn
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[Intro] / I can't cover up my feelings / In the name of love / Or play it safe / For a while that was easy / And if living for myself / Is what I'm guilty of / Go on and sentence
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Aretha Franklin – It Hurts Like Hell
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[Intro] / Oh baby / Ohhhhh / Oh baby / Ohhhhh / Oh babe / [Verse 1] / Love was always supposed to be / Something wonderful to me / To watch it grow inside yourself / To feel your
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Aretha Franklin – Ain't No Way
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[Verse] / Ain't no way for me to love you / If you won't let me / It ain't no way for me to give you all you need / If you won't let me give all of me / I know that a woman's duty
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Aretha Franklin – How I Got Over
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[Intro] / How I got over (How I got over) / How I got over (How I got over) / You know my soul looks back in wonder how I got over / How I got over (How I got over) / How I got
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Aretha Franklin – Bridge Over Troubled Water
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[Intro] / (Don't trouble the water) / I won't (Leave it alone) / (Why don't you, why don't you, let it be?) / Um hum hum / (Still water run deep... yes it do) / I know that / (Whoa
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Aretha Franklin – Who's Zoomin' Who
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Who’s Zoomin' Who peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on Billboard’s R&B chart.
It also topped Billboard’s dance music chart for a week in November of 1985 and also
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Aretha Franklin – Trouble In Mind
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[Chorus 1] / Trouble in mind / Yes I'm blue / But I won't be blue always / Sun is gonna shine / In my back door someday / [Chorus 2] / Trouble in mind / Yes its true / I have
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Aretha Franklin – Muddy Water
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[Verse 1] / Baby we've got to have us a little talk / Gonna have to pack up my things I'm gonna walk / You say a dollar goes from hand to hand / But before I see you go from woman
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