Song Lyrics - baby youve got what it takes

Baby (You've Got What It Takes )

- Artist: Brook Benton and Dinah Washington as sung on "The Satin Sound  Brook
  Benton"-Suffolk Marketing-SMI 2
- peak Billboard position # 5 in 1960
- Words and Music by Clyde Otis & Murray Stein and Brook Benton

<Brook> Well, now, it takes more than a robin to make the winter go
         And it takes two lips of fire to melt away the snow
<Dinah> Well, it takes two hearts a-cookin' to make a fire grow
        And baby you've got what it takes

<Dinah> You know it takes a lot of kissin' <Brook> SPOKEN (Tell me about it)
    to make a romance sweet 
<Dinah> Ooh, it takes a lot of lovin' to make my life complete
<Brook> Mmm, and it takes a lot of woman to knock me off my feet
    and baby, you've got what it takes.

<Dinah> I said, <Both> mm, mm, mm. uh-huh, mm, mm, mm
<Dinah> Ah, ah, hah  <Both> mm, mm
<Brook> You know you've got just what it takes!

<Brook> Because it takes more than an effort to stay away from you
    It'd take more than a lifetime to prove that I'll be true
<Dinah> But it takes somebody special to make me say, "I do."
<Brook> SPOKEN "Oh, yeah"
<Dinah> And baby, you've got what it takes.

<Dinah> Ah, ah, hah  <Both> mm, mm, uh-huh, mm, mm, mm
<Both>   Mmm
<Brook> You know you've got just what it takes

<Dinah> Because it takes oh yeah
<Dinah> SPOKEN **" You're back in my spot again, honey"**
 <Brook> SPOKEN **"I like your spot"**
<Dinah>  To stay away from you
<Brook> SPOKEN "I can't stay away from you"
<Dinah>  It takes more than a lifetime, daddy, to prove that I'll be true
<Dinah> SPOKEN "NOW it's you"
<Brook> But, it takes somebody special  <Dinah> SPOKEN "Like me, baby"
    to make me say, "I do."
<Both>  And baby you've got what it takes

<Dinah> SPOKEN "C'mon, let's play it again, huh?"
<Brook> SPOKEN  "C'mon, let's do it one more time, all right?"
 <Both>  And baby you've got what it takes
<Dinah> SPOKEN "One more time, Brook"
<Brook> SPOKEN "Ah-ha, OK, Ah-ha"
<Both>  And baby you've got what it takes

FADE

NOTE: Exchange at ** apparently prompted when Brook jumped into a line that 
Dinah was supposed to sing.

Transcribed by Robin Hood

These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.

baby youve got what it takes - Song Lyrics