In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) Lyrics

Here′s a song that I had the opportunity
Of recording in my first album

And, uh, since then we have found a few little new things to add to it
Again, we revised the name of it
It was once called "In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down"
We have revived it and called it "In the
Evening When the Sun Goes Down," folks
And your good homemaking, home cooking lover ain't around
Ain′t you in trouble if you can't cook?
You in big trouble
We call it "In the Evening When Your Lover's Not Around"
And you don′t get no soul food, don′t you get sick?

In the evening, baby, when the sun goes down
In the evening, baby, when the sun goes down
Ain't it lonesome, lonesome when your lover ain′t around?

Well, last night I laid sleeping, thinking to myself
Last night I laid sleeping, I was thinking to myself
I thought she loved me but I found out she loved somebody else
Well, the sun rises in the east and sets down in the west end
Sun rises in the east and it sets down in the west
But it's so hard to tell who will love you the best

Goodbye, my baby, I am going away
Bye-bye, my sweet baby, ′cause I'm going away
And I′ll be back to see you some old rainy day
Hey, in the evening, baby, when the sun goes down
Talking 'bout in the evening when the sun goes down
Now don't you get a little lonesome
When your loving baby can′t be found
You got it, Tommy
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I said goodbye, my sweet baby, I am going away
So long, my sweet baby, don′t you know that I'm going away?
And I′ll be back to see you some old rainy day
Hey, in the evening, baby, when the sun goes down
In the evening when the sun goes down
Now don't you get a little lonesome when your loving baby ain′t around

Hey, fellas, you better hear what I say

You better treat your baby right
Or the girl might leave you late one night
Then you'll be in a world of trouble all by yourself

You get up early in the morning
Going down to the kitchen ready for a good hot breakfast
To send you on your way

So you can put in eight hard hours on your job that day
But your baby will be gone and you will be all alone all by yourself

You say, "Well, maybe my baby went shopping
With her girlfriends early this morning"
As you go to the cupboard and get your lunchbox
Fix your lunch, eat your cornflakes
Start out the front door going to the garage to get the car
And when you get there you find out the car is gone, you say
You walk down to the corner to the bus stop and it′s cold outside
Say, "I wonder where my baby's gone
I know she can't shop at five o′clock in the morning
′Cause ain't no stores open that early

But she will be gone"

You go on to work, put in eight hard hours
Come home in the evening ready for a good hot supper

Talking ′bout some of that good old
Rib stick and home cooked soul food
In the evening after eight hard hours on your job
But when you walk in the door
You don't hear no pots clanking on the stove
You don′t smell no aromas coming out of the kitchen
Mmm, then you really start to worry
You walk through the house
As great big tears begin to form in your eyes
You walk on into the kitchen out on the service porch

Reach in the deep freeze and get yourself a TV dinner
And that sure don't make it in the
Evening after you have worked hard all day

You want some neck bones or some ham hocks
Or some pigtails or some oxtails
Or some red beans and rice
Or some black-eyed peas
Or some collard greens and cornbread and buttermilk
Talking ′bout some chitlins and some candied yams on the side, Lord

In the evening when the sun goes down
In the evening when the sun goes down
I'm talking 'bout in the evening when the sun goes down
Now don′t you get ooh lonesome when your lover ain′t around
In the evening when the sun goes away
It's got to go down, oh yeah

Thank you very much
We′d like to, uh, give you some new songs
That have been recorded perhaps by others
Not perhaps, really, they have been recorded by other people, you see
And, uh, we want to give you our little version of them