Nadine

I got on a city bus and found a vacant seat, I thought I saw my future bride walking up the street, I shouted to the driver hey conductor, you must slow down I think I see her please let me off this bus Nadine, honey is that you? Oh, Nadine Honey, is that you? Seems like every time I see you Darling you got something else to do I saw her from the corner when she turned and doubled back And started walkin' toward a coffee colored Cadillac I was pushin' through the crowd to get to where she's at And I was campaign shouting like a southern diplomat Downtown searching for her, looking all around Saw her getting in a yellow cab heading up town I caught a loaded taxi, paid up everybody's tab With a twenty dollar bill, told him 'catch that yellow cab She move around like a wave of summer breeze, Go, driver, go, go, catch her balmy breeze Moving through the traffic like a mounted cavalier Leaning out the taxi window trying to make her hear