Lyrics for singles by Grand Funk Railroad

I'm Your Captain

Everybody
listen to me
and return me, my ship
I'm your captain, I'm your captain
though I'm feeling mighty sick

I've been lost now
days uncounted
and it's months since
I've seen home
Can you hear me
Can you hear me
or am I all alone?

If you return me
to my home port
I will kiss you
mother earth
Take me back now, take me back now
to the port, of my birth
Am I in my cabin dreaming
or are you really scheming
to take my ship away from me
You'd better think about it
I just can't live without it
so please don't take my ship from me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I can feel the hand
of a stranger
and it tightening
around my throat
Heaven help me, heaven help me
take this stranger, from my boat
I'm your captain, I'm your captain
though I'm feeling mighty sick
Everybody, listen to me
and return me, my ship
I'm your captain, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'm your captain, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'm your captain, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'm your captain, yeah yeah yeah yeah

I'm getting closer to my home
I'm getting closer to my home

Bad Time

I'm in love with a girl that I'm talking about
I'm in love with a girl I can't live without
I'm in love . . . but I sure picked a bad time
To be in love
To be in love

Well, let her be somebody else's queen
I don't want to know about it
There's too many others that know what I mean
And that's why I've got to live without it

I'm in love with a girl I'm talking about
I'm in love with a girl I can't live without
I'm in love but I feel like I'm wearing it out
I'm in love but I must have picked a bad time to be in love
A bad time to be in love
A bad time to be in love
A bad time to be in love

All the stories crawling back to me
From my friends and the people that I wanna see
The things they say I know just couldn't be true
At least not until I hear it from you

Loco Motion

Everybody's doin' a brand new dance, now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
My little baby sister can do it with ease
It's easier than learning your A-B-Cs
So come on, come on, do the Loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips, now
Come on, baby
Jump up. Jump back.
Well, now, I think you've got the knack

Now that you can do it, well let's make a chain, now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
A chug-a chug-a motion like a railroad train, now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
Do it nice and easy, now, and don't lose control
A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul
So come on, come on, do the Loco-motion with me

Move around the floor in a Loco-motion
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
Do it holding hands if you get the notion
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
There's never been a dance that's so easy to do
It even makes you happy when you're feeling blue
So come on, come on, do the Loco-motion with me

Some Kind Of Wonderful

I don't need a whole lots 'a money

I don't need a big, fine car
I got everything that a man could want
I got more than I could ask for
Now, I don't have to run around
I don't have to stay out all night
'Cause I got me a sweet, a sweet lovin' woman
And she knows just how to treat me right

Well my baby, she's all right
Well my baby, she's clean out of sight, don't you know that

She's some kind 'a wonderful
She's some kind 'a wonderful Yes she is, she's a
She's some kind 'a wonderful Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

When I hold her in my arms
You know, she sets my soul on fire
Oo, when my baby kisses me
My heart becomes filled with desire
When she wraps her lovin' arms around me
It 'bout tires me out of my mind
Yeah, when my baby kisses me chills run up and down my spine

Well my baby, she's all right
Uh, my baby, she's clean out of sight, don't you know that
she's

She's some kind 'a wonderful
She's some kind 'a wonderful Yes she is, she's a
She's some kind 'a wonderful Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Now is there anybody got a sweet little woman like mine
Got to be somebody got a, got a sweet little woman like mine

Can I get a witness
Can I get a witness
Can I get a witness
Can I get a witness

We're An American Band

Out on the road for forty days
Last night in Little Rock, put me in a haze
Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact

Up all night with Freddie King
I got to tell you, poker's his thing
Booze and ladies, keep me right
As long as we can make it to the show tonight

We're an American Band
We're an American Band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American Band

Four young chiquitas in Omaha
Waitin' for the band to return from the show
A feelin' good, feelin' right and it's Saturday night
The hotel detective, he was outta sight

Now these fine ladies, they had a plan
They was out to meet the boys in the band
They said, "come on dudes, let's get it on"
And we proceeded to tear that hotel down