LOVE POTION #9
(Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller)

Recorded by : Jewel Akens; Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass;
Beau Nasty; Blue Stew; Elkie Brooks; The Clovers; The Coasters;
The Countdown Singers; Neil Diamond; The Downliners Sect;
Ian Gillan; Herman's Hermits; Kerry Hodgkin; Inga; The Javelins;
Hansel Martinez; MDC; Mike Pender's Searchers; The Searchers;
The Surfaris; Tygers Of Pan Tang; The Ventures.


I took my troubles down to Madame Rue
You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine

I told her that I was a flop with chicks (*)
I've been this way since 1956
She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign
She said "What you need is Love Potion Number Nine"

She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink
She said "I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink"
It smelled like turpentine, it looked like India ink (*)
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine

I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine
Love Potion Number Nine
Love Potion Number Nine
Love Potion Number Nine 


(*) (Corrections by Andy von Salis - January 2005)