

(Tell me what you wanna do, babe) I'm willing (Tell me what you wanna do, babe) 'Cause you've been so sweet, yeah, yesĪnything that you want, anything that you need (Tell me what you wanna do) I wanna give you a special treat (Tell me what you wanna do, babe) Something I've been wanting to do all the time, yeah, yes

(Tell me what you wanna do) I got something in my mind (Tell me what you wanna do, babe) There's something I, something I wanna do to you, baby, yeah (Tell me what you wanna do) There's something I You can get what you want any time you want itĬome get what you need, give me what I need You see, there's somethin' I, somethin' I You're the only one in this whole wide world that I ever need I wanna give you a special treat, you've been so sweet I swear I would do the same thing, the same thing to you, baby Would you rub me down in some, in some burnin' hot oils, baby, yeah? Girl, there's something that I, I wanna to do to you Show you I much I missed you, missed you, my dear

Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again I wanna love you, love you all over, yeah See, you're the only one in the world that I need Girl, I wanna give you a special treat, you're so sweet (An interesting side note: Watson was a transsexual drag queen originally named John Watson, and her relationship to Pendergrass has been the subject of speculation, especially given his over-the-top heterosexual posturing.I'll wash your body and you'll wash mine, yeah Pendergrass was paralyzed from the waist down, though his passenger, Tenika Watson, was uninjured. Then, in March of 1982, Pendergrass was driving his Rolls Royce in the Germantown section of Philadelphia when the brakes failed the car jumped a rail and hit a tree. If Marvin Gaye was always shadowed by his political consciousness, Pendergrass was a straight-ahead sex symbol. From his start as the drummer and then vocalist of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Pendergrass built a strong following with songs like “Turn Off the Lights,” “Love TKO,” and “Close the Door,” displaying an overt (and, some would say, excessive) virility.
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Teddy Pendergrass, one of the leading soul men of the seventies-a highly sensual performer who recorded an electrifying and highly successful series of love songs before being paralyzed in a car accident in 1982-died yesterday of colon cancer at the age of 59.
