Peter Green - The Case lyrics

hey, listen, listen you know i don't mean to be i don't mean to be mean but i'm just asking everybody to just i want everybody to just bear with me for one minute i know you want to have some fun you know everybody come from their home and they, they come to do their thing and i ain't stopping you from doing your thing i just want to say one thing if you step out of your door one evening and you got yours, and you got yourself a case and you think you took it to a place and when you get to that place and when you're settled down to do something and you look around and you can't find no case now tell me, friends, what are you going to do? no, hold it, hold it, man i said what are you going to do? you see this here happened to me today and i don't mean to take up your time i just want to tell you my case now listen to the case, man you don't have to be so loud when you don't have to be so smart i just want to tell you a story what happened to me today you see i stepped out my door i got myself a little square case i took it in the car i went down the road i stopped by my friends well, i didn't take the case out the car i went inside i said, hello, vince he said, hi well, he came in the car we sat down and we talked we drove up to richmond well, i didn't know what to do you say i'm feeling bad well, i'm feeling bad you see i got in the house i'm sure i took out that case well, i took it upstairs i asked my friend i said, hey, man, can i make a phone call? he said, yeah, you can make a phone call well, i took out the case i went in the room i took out my book and i look at a number well, i telephoned my lawyer and he said, well, it's all right you don't have to worry 'cause everything is going to be the way you planned it well, well, i was feeling okay i put my book in the case i closed the case i go downstairs i look at those two girls who are sitting down by the steps i said to my friend, well, it's time to go he said, oh all right, all right, don't say no more well, i, i took out my case i will swear to god i took out that case i went out through the door i put the case in the car i said, man, we ain't got much time we got to go we got to go you see, listen oh sh** well it's been on my mind it's been a bothering me a long, long time