If I Was Your Girlfriend Lyrics

[Intro: TLC]
Shoo doop do
Shoo doop do
Shoop do do do, ooh ooh ooh
Shoo doop do
Shoo doop do
Do do

[Verse 1: T-Boz]
If I was your girlfriend
Would you remember
To tell me all the things you forgot
If I was your man
Hey hey, yeah
If I was your man

If I was your best friend
Would you let me
Take care of you
Do all the things that only your best friend can
Oh oh oh
Only best friends can
Ooh

[Refrain: TLC]
If I was your girlfriend
If I was your girlfriend
[Verse 2: T-Boz, with others]
If I was your girlfriend
Would you let me dress ya
I mean, help you pick out your clothes
Before we go out
Not that you're helpless
But sometimes
Sometimes those are the things that being in love's about
If I was your one and only friend
Would you run to me
If somebody hurt you
Even if that somebody was me
Yeah yeah ooh
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
Please, yeah
Oh oh

[Refrain: TLC]
If I was your girlfriend
If I was your girlfriend

[Break: T-Boz]
If I was your girlfriend
I know I could treat you right
I could see what you see
And hear what you hear
But most of all, heh
I could feel what you feel
Oh, make me wanna say
[Refrain: TLC, T-Boz]
Shoo doop do (Shoo doop do do)
Shoo doop do (Shoo)
If I was your girlfriend
Shoo doop do (Oh yeah)
Shoo doop do (Oh yeah)
If I was your girlfriend
Shoo doop do (Shoo doop)
Shoo doop do (Shoobie doobie do do, oh hey-ey)
If I was your girlfriend
Shoo doop do
Shoo doop do
Baby, can I dress ya? I mean help you pick out your clothes before we go out
If I was your girlfriend
Shoo doop do (Sometimes)
Shoo doop do (Sometimes)
Those are the things that being in love's about
If I was your girlfriend

[Outro: T-Boz]
All the things you are to me
Surely, surely you could see
If I was your girlfriend...

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“If I Was Your Girlfriend” is TLC’s cover of Prince’s 1987 hit of the same name. Featured on TLC’s 1994 album CrazySexyCool, it was originally set to be for Mary J. Blige’s album, My Life then it was passed to Total for their debut album and then it ended up with TLC. They talked about it in a rare syndicated radio interview disc, saying that they thought that T-boz’s vocals were a more perfect fit:

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Recorded At
D.A.R.P. Studios (Atlanta) & Daddy's House (New York City)
Release Date
November 15, 1994
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