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Sex, Drugs And Violence In Rock: The Sexual Language Of Rock Part 2

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 6 March 1976

"I'm gonna pick you up now
And carry you away,
So you'd better pack up now, baby,
Packin' up today,
Here I come, just a big bad man,
When I walk away baby you'll be holdin' my hand,
'Cuz I take what I want,
I'm a bad go-getter yeah, yes I am,
I never lose and I'm never fiddled, yeah,
I said I take what I want, oh yeah,
And baby I want you..."

– Sam and Dave's 'I Take What I Want', by Isaac Hayes and David Porter (copyright Shapiro Bernstein 1966)

Total word count of piece: 3461

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