Love and Happiness Lyrics
Love and happiness
Yeah
Something that can make you do wrong—make you do right
Yeah, hmmm-mmm
Love
[Verse 1]
Love and happiness
But wait a minute, something's going wrong
Someone's on the phone
Three o'clock in the morning, yeah
Talkin' about, how she can make it right, yeah
Well, happiness is when
You really feel good about somebody
There's nothing wrong
Being in love with someone
Yeah
[Chorus]
Oh, baby
Love and happiness
(Love and happiness) yeah
Love and happiness
(Love and happiness), ohh ohh
[Chorus]
Have to say
Love and happiness
(Love and happiness) yeahh
Love and happiness
(Love and happiness)
[Verse 2]
You be good to me
I'll be good to you
We'll be together, yeah
We'll see each other
Walk away with victory, yeah
Yeah
[Chorus]
Oh baby
Love and happiness
(Love and happiness) ohh
Love and happiness
(Love and happiness) ohhh
Heh heh heh
[Bridge]
Make you do right, yeah
Love'll make you do wrong, yeah
Make you come home early, ohh
Make you stay out all night long
The power of love
Wait a minute
Let me tell you about the power
The power of love, yeah yeah yeah
Power
Power
Make you do right, yeah
Love'll make you do wrong, huh, yeah
Lady
(Love and happiness)
Lady
(Love and happiness)
See love
(Love and happiness)
(Love and happiness)
[Outro]
Make you want to dance
Love and happiness, eh heh
Love is, wait a minute
Love is, heh heh
Walkin' together, heh heh
Talkin' together
Say it again
Say it together, girl
Say it one [?]
Hmmmm
Moan for love, say
Hmmmmm
A moan for love, say
Hmmmmmmmmmm
A moan for love
About
“Love and Happiness” is a song by Al Green from his album I’m Still in Love with You. Green co-wrote the song with Teenie Hodges. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom on London Records in 1973 and in the United States on Hi Records in 1977. It has been covered by Etta James, Al Jarreau, and many other performers.
Green wrote “Love and Happiness” with Teenie Hodges, with whom he also collaborated in writing “Take Me to the River”, “Here I Am (Come and Take Me)”, “Full of Fire”, and other songs. It was produced by Willie Mitchell in the 1972 recording session for the album I’m Still in Love with You. Of the recording process, Green said:
I wouldn’t say it was a return to the old style soul of my early days, but I definitely pulled it from the same source of raw and gritty need. The result was like a slow fever, building on the beat, pushing up the temperature with each breath of the staccato horns and pushing through to delirium as we came up on the fade.
In his 2000 autobiography Take Me to the River, Green said of the song:
“Love and Happiness” was like mixing explosive chemicals — everything had to be added at just the right time and at just the right dose. The tempo was the most important thing to Willie, and, if you listen close, you can hear Teenie counting off with his foot on a cardboard box for the take that nailed it
Q&A
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The rationale behind the lyrics according to Al Greene –
Sixty percent of my audience are women, and a woman is more sensitive than a man, especially in the area of love and happiness.
- 3.Love and Happiness