Jerry Lieber / Mike Stoller 
 

Love potion number nine 

 
 
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1. I took my troubles down to Madam Ruth.
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You know that gypsy with the gold capped tooth.
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She's got a pad down at thirty-fourth and Vine,
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selling little bottles of love potion number nine. 
 
2. 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”. 
 
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Mid. She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink.
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She said: “I'm gonna mix it up right here in the sink”.
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It smelled like turpentine and looked like India ink.
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I held my nose; I closed my eyes; I took a drink. 
 
3. I didn't know if it was day or night.
I started kissing everything in sight.
But when I kissed a cop down at thirty-fourth and Vine,
he broke my little bottle of love potion number nine. 
 
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End. Love potion number nine :|