I Was Checking Out While She Was Checking In Lyrics - Singles - Don Covay

Spoken: 

I just got finished given the hotel 

manager back the room key and paid my bill 

I was outside in the car 

In the shadows of the parkin' lot 

Tellin' the woman I was with 

how happy she made me 

Kissin' and huggin' 

An all of a sudden another car 

pulled up on the parkin' lot 

But I couldn't believe my eyes 

'Cause the woman that was sitting 

in the front seat beside another dude 

Turned out to be my old lady 

Sings: 

Lord, I was checkin' out 

And she was checkin' in 

Yeah, yeah, yeah, (yeah) 

(Oh yeah) 

Oh, let me tell you people 

I was checkin' out, um-hm 

An my old lady was checkin' in 

Oh Lord, have mercy! 

I was with my other woman 

And she, she was with her boyfriend 

She waited outside ya'all, in the car 

While he went in, yeah 

To rent the room 

I wanted to say something to her 

But there was nothing I could say, yeah 

'Cause the woman I was with 

Yes, she was married too! 

Lord, I was checkin' out 

And she was checkin' in (checkin' in) 

Yeah, yeah, yeah 

Oh, yes she was 

Ya'all, I saw another man took my old lady 

(Oh took my baby) 

Let me tell ya 

In the Hideaway Motor Inn 

(Motor Inn) yeah baby um-hm 

Uum, I was with my other woman 

(Oh, I was treated wrong, yeah) 

And she was with her boyfriend 

She was suppose to be at home 

Mindin' the kids 

The both of us had been untrue 

(Been untrue) 

Guess I'll have to go on 

Bein' blind 

I can't reveal her guilt 

Without' showin' mine, Lord! 

I was checkin' out 

(Checkin out, sho' nuff was) 

As she was checkin' in 

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 

Hoo hey! umm, let me tell ya 

What hurt me so bad, ya'all 

(Hurt me, really hurt me so bad) 

Really hurt me so bad 

(It hurt me) 

The man gave him the same room I had 

Yes, he did, yeah-yeah 

The same room I was in (yeah) 

Umm!, what a terrible blow it was 

(Such a terrible, terrible, terrible thing it was) 

FADES- 

What a terrible thing 

To do to a man, yeah-yeah 

She was smilin' 

And she never smiles! 

I think my debt has 

Caught up with me ya'all 

Lord, have mercy. 

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