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You call it French but it's just Frenchette

Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:41 am

[background=rgb(255,255,204)].[/background] . . . . . . We were marveling at The Marvelettes



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --David Johansen



You call that love in French, but it's just Frenchette

I've been to France, so let's just dance

I get all the love I need in a luncheonette

In just one glance, so let's just dance

I can't get the kind of love that I want

Or that I need, so let's just dance



You come on like it's all natural darling

But you know, oh it's really only naturalette

It's just like all of your leathers darling, they don't scare me

I know it's really only leatherette

I take it down, gonna wash it down

I scrub you on down in any old launderette

I can't get the kind of love that I want

So let's just dance, and I'll forget



Want you to come in my kitchen and not my kitchenette

Want you to come in my dining room, not my dinette yet

I can't get the kind of love

So let's just dance and I'll forget



I can't get the kind of love that I want or that I need

So let's just dance

I can't get the kind of love that I want or that I need

So let's just dance



Let's just dance

Let's just dance

I said, let's just dance

Let's just dance

Let's just dance

Let's just dance



Remember how we were marveling darling, we were marvelous

Yeah we were marveling at The Marvelettes

We fell in love with Veronica

And every last one of The Ronettes . . .



. . . . . . . . . . . -- Lyrics to "Frenchette" David Johansen 1978

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