The Sha-La Bandit (Alternate Version 2)

Supremes · Let Yourself Go - The '70s Albums, Vol. 2 - 1974-1977 [2011]

(Jerry Lang Ferguson, Wade Davis, Sr.)



Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (Sha la la la la)

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (Sha la la la la)

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (La)

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (Sha la la la la)

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (Sha la la la la)

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (La)



Girls, beware of the bandit

From Westchester County

I can offer you no reward

All he left me was a broken heart

He kidnapped me excitingly

When he round me up my dignity

And when enough of his time was spent,

He left me wanting more (sha la la a la)

Sha la la la (sha la la la la)

He left me wanting more (sha la la la la)

Sha la la (sha la la la la)

(La)



Be careful, my sisters (be careful, my sisters)

He's armed with an innocent smile

And a dangerous love record

That can stretched for miles and miles

Hey, girls... you ought a take a hint

'Cause he won't leave no fingerprints

And when he gets his hands on you,

He'll have you wanting more (sha la la la la)

Sha la la (sha la la la la)

He'll have you wanting more (sha la la la la)

Sha la la (sha la la la la)

(La)



[interlude]



For your female information,

You might be in the same situation

He might be sitting right next to you

Westchester County is right there, too

Hey, girls... I got a confession to make

If they put that bandit in jail,

I'm gonna jump right in his cell

There's something about his (sha la la la la)

Oh oh oh oh ooooh, yeah (sha la la la la)

There's something about his (sha la la la la)

Sha la la la la ahhhhhhh (sha la la la la)

(La) The way he makes me groove, oo-oooooooo-ooh

(sha la la la la)

There's something about his (sha la la la la)