Pretty Little Thing

Keep your head on straight and stand up proud
Don’t hesitate to walk on clouds
If you can make it on this planet
You can make it anywhere
So do all the things they said you should never dare

Can you hit the mark and make a grown man cry
With your poison dart and your eagle eye
Did they break your spirit and tame your hunter’s soul
Did they get you addicted to lust, and lies, and gold

Pretty little thing won’t you please come home
Give me a ring on the telephone
You can call me daddy with pretty please sugar on top
Anything in the world you want you know you got

Does your mama roam in a limousine
Is she hard as stone is she cold and mean
Did she tell you the facts of life or a fairy tale
Did she lock you up or get you out on bail

Corrina baby did I make you cry
Did I put those tears in those big brown eyes
I was only a kid myself when you came on the scene
It was a miracle then but now it only seems like a dream

Pretty little thing won’t you please come home
Give me a ring on the telephone
You can call me baby with pretty please sugar on top
Anything in the world you want you know you got

Now you’ve got your man and you live in town
He does the best he can but if he let’s you down
I’ll light him on fire and shoot him like a dog at your feet
He thinks I ’m only joking but he stays on his side of the street

You would do anything you would go anywhere
To get away from the sting of the salty air
You know back in jersey they still talk about the things you did
Well you’re a grown woman now but i still love you
Like when you was a kid

Pretty little thing
Won’t you please come home
Give me a ring on the telephone
You can call me daddy with pretty please sugar on top
Anything in the world you want you know you got

Written by Robert Hazard - © 2004 ASCAP