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I Just Wanna Make Love To You

This version of I Just Wanna Make Love To You was released by Van Morrison in 1974.

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I don’t want you to be no slave
I don’t want you to think you got it made
Do exactly what you wanna do
I just wanna make love to you, that’s alright

I don’t want you to run around like you got it made
Don’t want you to run around like the Ace of Spades
Do exactly what you plan to do
I just wanna make love to you, that’s alright

I can tell by the way you swish and walk
See by the way you baby talk
An’ I, know by the way you understand
Love me baby, love me baby, love me baby
Til a, cryin’ shame

Yeah, I don’t want ya to think ya got it made
I don’t want ya to run around like the Ace of Spades
Do exactly what you wanna do
I just wanna make love to you, that’s alright

I can tell by the way you swish and walk
See by the way you baby talk
An’ I, know by the way you understand, I just
Love me baby, love me baby, love me baby
Til a, cryin’ shame

I don’t want ya to bake my bread
I don’t want ya to make, make my bed
I don’t want ya to be sad an’ blue
I just wanna make, if that’s alright

Whoa, yeah!
An’ whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah
An’ whoa, yeah
Whoa, yeah

Her hearts a stone
Her hearts a stone
And, I just wanna make…

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Van Morrison has released many songs over the years besides I Just Wanna Make Love To You. Van Morrison released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Blowin' Your Mind!, Astral Weeks, Moondance, His Band And The Street Choir, Tupelo Honey, Saint Dominic's Preview, Hard Nose The Highway, It's Too Late To Stop Now, Veedon Fleece, A Period Of Transition, Wavelength, Into The Music, Common One, Beautiful Vision, Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart, A Sense Of Wonder, No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, Poetic Champions Compose, Irish Heartbeat, Avalon Sunset, Enlightenment, Hymns To The Silence, Too Long In Exile, Days Like This, How Long Has This Been Going On, Tell Me Something: The Songs Of Mose Allison, The Healing Game, The Philosopher's Stone, Back On Top, The Skiffle Sessions - Live In Belfast, You Win Again, Down The Road, What's Wrong With This Picture?, and Magic Time. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Van Morrison.

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The lyrics to I Just Wanna Make Love To You are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Van Morrison in 1974. Elements of the lyrics to I Just Wanna Make Love To You are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Van Morrison and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for I Just Wanna Make Love To You back when it was created.

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