So Swell When You're Well

I wrote this song back in the '60s

And Fats Domino and I recorded this together

He did the singing, I did the playing

The name of this song is "So Swell When You're Well"

Later on, Aretha Franklin and I collaborated on

Sort of an extension to the song

So you can also get it by Aretha Franklin on an album entitled

"Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)"

You know I love ya honey from A to Z

Something 'bout you seem to worry me

Sometimes you love me, honey sometimes you don't

Today you will and I know tomorrow you won't

It's 'cause you're so swell when you're well

So swell when you're well

So swell when you're well

Well but you just stay sick so long

Keep on conniving and your jivin' too

True love is never gonna smile on you

You pace the floor and honey you sit and cry

Pull out your hair and then you wonder why

'Cause you're so swell when you're well, well think you're

So swell when you're well, I'm thinking

So, so, so swell when you're well

Well but you just stay sick so long

Well, well now, when you're well, when you're well

So swell mama when you're well

I'm thinking, so swell when you're well

Well but you just stay sick so long

You build me up and then you let me down

Gimme little smile and then you change it to a frown

If you love me like you say you do

I wonder how could you love me, well abuse me too?

Think you're so swell baby when you're well

I think you're so swell when you're well

So swell when you're well

Well but you just stay sick so long