Love Potion Number Nine

I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth,

you know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth.

She's got a pad down on thirty-fourth and vine,

Selling little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine.

I told her that I was a flop with chicks,

I've been this way since nineteen fifty six,

she looked at my palm and she made a magic sign,

She said "What you need is Love Potion Number Nine."

She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink,

She said "I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink."

It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink.

I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink.

I didn't know if it was day or night,

I started kissing everything in sight,

but when I kissed a cop down on thirty-fourth and vine,

he broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine.

I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink.

I didn't know if it was day or night,

I started kissing everything in sight,

but when I kissed a cop down on thirty-fourth and vine,

he broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine.

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