[Intro]

Now, this song is going out to all of you players

Wannabe players

Wannabe pimps

Mack daddys

Or whatever you call yourself

Well, you better get your game face on

'Cause this old lady told me one time

She say, "Son, you men think you know what women want, but you don't"

And then she went on to tell me a story

And it goes something like this

[Verse 1]

All you wannabe lovers

There's something you need to know

Now this old lady told me a story a long time ago

She said, "Theodis, men think they know what women want

But the truth about the whole thing is, boy, they really don't"

She said, "I had a man who thought he was the world's greatest lover

But when you add his time up, he was just a five-minute brother"

He used to lick it, mm, he used to stroke it

You know, one night, we was makin' love, he said

That thang is so damn good, I wanna put it in my pipe and smoke it

[Chorus]

She said, "Theodis, you need to know

That you can lick it and you can stroke it

Now you can kiss it and you can eat it

But you ain't did a dog-gone thing until you stand up in it

Mm, got to stand up in it

[Verse 2]

Now this wannabe brother who thought he was the world's greatest lover

Stopped by my house the other day and caught me with my part-time lover

He said, "Baby, ooh, baby, why you messin' around on me?

I make sure your rent's paid, I make sure your cable's on

Now, just the other day, I bought you a cell phone

Baby, ooh, baby, why you do me this way?"

She said, "Theodis, men think they know what women want

But the truth about the whole thing is, boy, they really don't"

[Chorus]

Now you can lick it, and you can stroke it

But you ain't did a dog-gone thing until you stand up in it

Now you can eat it, and you can lick it

But you ain't did a dog-gone thing until you stand up in it

Oh, you got to stand up in it, boy

Ooh, you got to stand up in it, yes, you do

[Interlude]

Yeah, she said

"Now, Theodis, play that guitar for me like you're standing up in it"

I said, "Alright," I went

She said, "No, no, no, no, go'n, go'n

Play it like you're sta— you know, stand up in it

What? What? What? What? Stand on up on it"

I say, I said, "Okay then, alright then," I, I said

Oh yeah, Theodis

[Chorus]

She said, "Theodis, men think they know what women want

But the truth about the whole thing is, son, they really don't"

She said

You can lick it, mm, you can stroke it

But you ain't did a dog-gone thing until you stand up in it, ooh

Now you can eat it, boy, and you can lick it, hey

But you ain't did a dog-gone thing until you stand up in it

Ooh, boy, you better stand up in it

[Outro]

Yeah, oh, oh

You got to stand on up in it, you know

Somebody said, you know, a woman got to have

Ooh, don't you know? She got to feel it, boy, every time

That what old Bobby Womack said, fellas, I'ma tell you somethin' now, he was right too

And

And the moral of this story is, is that

You can eat it, stroke it, lick it

Do anything you wanna do with it

But you ain't did nothing until you stand up in it

Woo