Don’t wanna be your woman,
don’t want to be your wife,
don’t want to be your girlfriend, man,
don’t wanna live inside your life,
Just wish you could give yourself
yeah give yourself to me.
Love it don’t mean nothing, man, unless it come for free.
Love it don’t mean nothing, man, unless it come for free.
I ain’t hiding nothing, man,
ain’t wearing no disguise,
ain’t laying down no mousetraps, man,
ain’t casting hooks into your eyes,
I ain’t got no business, man,
I’m a lonesome charity.
Love it don’t mean nothing, man, unless it come for free.
Love it don’t mean mothing, man, unless it come for free.
The goods you’re looking to acquire,
well, they don’t belong to me.
You should have asked my father
if you meant to marry me.
When dawn breaks I rise up
with a green pail in my hand,
I feed the pigs and chickens and
I gaze across the land.
This land is and beautiful,
but it don’t belong to me;
ain’t nothing I can give you,
but I’ll take your love for free.
Love it don’t mean nothing, man, unless it comes for free.
Love it don’t mean nothing, man, unless it comes for free.
You should meet my sister
with her hair of gold;
she looks the same as I do and
she’s only half as old.
I think she might marry you
if you asked her properly;
she could really sew for you and
she could make you tea.
Me I’m gonna stay here
on my father’s land,
gonna spend my nights alone
my days upon this land.
The chickens and the pigs, you see,
they all depend on me.
Love it don’t mean nothing, man, unless it come for free
Love it don’t mean nothing, man, unless it come for free.