"Basketball Jones" lyrics - BARRY WHITE

BARRY WHITE
"Basketball Jones"

Basketball Jones
I got a Basketball Jones
I got a Basketball Jones, oh baby

Hey, that's Barry White! (an obsession)
(A burning desire) Barry, you want some chicken?
(The undeniable passion)
Aww, you? that singin' stuff
(The love, of someone are some thing)
Y'know you want some chicken!
(Yes, he was a victim of a Basketball Jones)
In fact, I was a baddest dribbler in the whole world
(Then one day, his mother bought him a basketball)
And I love that basketball! I took that basketball everywhere I went
You know what? That basketball was like a basketball to me!
C'mon, you cheerleaders

Basketball Jones
I got a Basketball Jones (happily)
I got a Basketball Jones oh baby oh

Wait a minute, y'all not En Vouge!
Where the hell is En Vogue?!
Somebody told me En Vogue was gonna be here
I guess y'all'll do (Yeah)
So what y'all doin' after the game? C'mon!

(His basketball was like a member of his own family)
In fact, better looking than my brother Tony
Didn't owe me money, and didn't piss in a bed!
And after the game, I always took a shower wit' my basketball
Every now and then, the basketball gonna pinch my butt
But I didn't mind, 'cause my and my basketball had guts, clean fun
See I am a victim of a Basketball Jones, I'll take my basketball everywhere
I'll even put my basketball under the pillow!
(Maybe that's why you couldn't sleep at night)

Sing it! Sing it! Sing it like ya wanna!
(Yeah) Eh-eh-eh, act like Puffy's in the audience
(Sing it out!) Would y'all aut up?
(Oh, sounds so sweet) B-Barry, don't encourage 'em!
They got a Basketball Jones
See I like to play it, I know a thang yeah, heh-heh
What kinda Basketball Jones y'all got?! (sing it out!)
I see y'all runnin' after a lime zone
I see ya chasin' Penny around!

Hey, there's a Basketball Jones
Basketball Jones's in the hoouse

Michael Jordan! Michael Jordan!
Ladies and gentlemen, the man we came out to see!
Michael Jordan. Why don't you sing?

Sing? I don't sing, that's the other "M.J."

Oh, okay, I support you
I go to all your games, and you can't sing a lil' song for a brotha!
I hope you go bald! Oh, you already bald!

Basketball Jones, c'mon!
I got a Basketball Jones (Tear it up, Chris)
I got a Basketball Jones, oh baby (Eat it up!)
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Was that Babyface?!
Was that El Debarge?!
Th-That musta been Smokey Robinson!
Who the hell was that?
I guess that was me!

(Baby, baby, baby it's a craving)
Basketball's a chicken!
(An uncontrollable yearning)
Do y'all hear Barry White? Do y'all hear Barry White?
(The overwhelming emotion to a love for someone are some thing)
I love The Knicks, myself!
Hey, is the a basketball in the house?!
(I got a Rib Jones)
Ias there a basketball in the house?
(A Rib Jones)

Everybody (yeah)
Pat Riley, in the house!
Mitch Rechman's in the house!
Scottie Pippen, in the house
Turn it out, without a doubt!
A-Larry Johnson, in the house!
David Robinson, turn it out
Dennis Rodman, in the house
Wit' green hair, without a doubt, c'mon!
(Gotta Basketball Jones)
Eh, Michael, can your (...?) play?
Don't get mad at me, Michael, I just asked you simple question!
Does your woman got game?
All right, alirght, I'll leave you alone then!
You goin' tryin' to be a bully! (You go it!)
Bob Costas's in the house!
Dr. J, in the house!
Bill Walten, in the house!
Sheryl Miller, in the house!
Bugs Bunny, in the house!
Elmer Fudd, in the house!
Tweety Bird, what 'cha heard?
Pass the word, Tweety Bird
Sylvester, my broth-a
No oth-a, undercov-a
Everybody plays basketball!
Mike Tyson, shoots the ball, (Damn right!)
Against the wall, makes it fall
My mama plays basketball!
Charles Barklay, in the house!
Kenan Anderson, in the house!
Shawn Kemp, gon' turn it out!
Jack Nicholson, in the house!
Courtside, wit-out a doubt!
(He's never gonna give it up! Never walk away!)
Spike Lee, in the house!
Chillin', without a doubt!