Just a Gigolo / I Ain’t Got Nobody Lyrics
People know the part I'm playing
Paid for every dance, selling each romance
Ooh, what they say
There will come a day when youth will pass away
What will they say about me?
When the end comes, I know
It was just a gigolo
Life goes on without me
I'm just a gigolo and everywhere I go
People know the part Dave's playing
Paid for every dance, selling each romance
Ooh, what to say
There will come a day when youth will pass away
What will they say about me?
When the end comes, I know
It was just a gigolo
Life goes on without me, 'cause
I ain't got nobody
Nobody cares for me, nobody
Nobody cares for me
I'm so sad and lonely
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won't some sweet mama come and take a chance with me?
'Cause I ain't so bad
Sad and lonesome, all of the time
Even on the beat, on the, on the, on the beat
Bop, boze-de-boze-de-bop, se-de-bop
I ain't got nobody
Nobody cares for me, nobody
Nobody, hey, say
Feelin' so sad and lonesome
Ain't got nobody
Woohoo, sad and lonesome
Need love
Humala bebuhla zeebuhla boobuhla
Humala bebuhla zeebuhla bop
I ain't got nobody
Nobody, nobody cares for me, nobody, nobody
I'm so sad and lonely
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won't some sweet mama come and take a chance with me?
'Cause I ain't so bad
Been a lonely soul
Been lonesome all of the time
Even on the beat
Johnny, Johnny on the beat
Need a long tall darling, mama
David said he got nobody I loves
Nobody (nobody), nobody (nobody)
No one (no one), no one (no one)
Loop-de-loop (loop-de-loop)
Darling, darling (darling, darling)
Getting serious (getting serious)
Got to see the walls (got to see the walls)
Over there (over there)
Nobody (nobody), not no one (not no one)
Nobody (nobody), nobody (nobody)
Nobody (nobody), nobody (nobody)
Nobody (nobody)
Nobody cares for me
About
“Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” was released as a single by David Lee Roth in January of 1985 while he was still the lead singer of Van Halen. The song kept Roth in the spotlight while the band was inactive before he left Van Halen to work on his solo career at the end of summer that same year.
Aside from David Lee Roth, the song was released by many artists over the years; some of the most notable people were Louis Armstrong (1931), Bing Crosby (1931), Tony Martin (1985), and Village People (1978). However, Roth’s version is inspired specifically from Louis Prima who released his version of the song in 1956.
The song is an adaptation of an Austrian tango from 1929 titled “Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo” composed by Leonello Casucci then given lyrics by Julius Brammer in 1924.
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