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Al Green Gets Next To You, 1971
Written by Bert Berns
This guy is getting on the last train for Jacksonville. Or maybe a bus. Some kind of vehicle, anyway. Look, it doesn't matter. What's important is that he wants his baby to be there when he steps off the bus. Because he's sorry. And he's got to say he's lonely. "Let me tell you that I'm lonely, baby / I want to fool around all night long." Al Green is a funkier Sam Cooke here, serving all this loneliness up with a majestic R&B horn section and ornate organ flourishes while the background singers repeat the title over and over.
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