Sweet Ann
Rick Roberts


Sweet Ann, sweet Ann Jeanette
I just can't explain what I can't forget
Ever since the day that I met you
Something is different somehow

Oh, sweet Ann where are you now
I need you now

Something about you haunts me
Like an endless song
Whispering to me softly
In the lonely light of dawn
My head is in confusion
My heart is on my sleeve

Whoa sweet Ann, too sweet to leave
Too sweet to leave

Sweet Ann, sweet Ann Jeanette
Something about your laughter
Seemed to fill the air
Echoing like an answer
To my lonely, lonely, lonely prayer
There's no one else I could think of
Nobody else I'd choose

Whoa, sweet Ann, too sweet to lose
Too sweet to lose

Are you alone tonight
Sittin' at home tonight
In some far city

You could be here with me
We'd be making history
You're so pretty
Oh, what a pity

Whoa, Ann, sweet Ann Jeanette
I just can't explain what it is that I can't forget
But ever since the day that I met you
Something is different somehow

Whoa, sweet Ann come to me now
I need you now

Ooh, Ann, sweet Ann Jeanette
Ooh, sweet Ann, sweet Ann Jeanette
Sweet Ann Jeanette
Sweet Ann Jeanette


From Elan

Rick Roberts tells:
This is side two, cut four from the "Elan" album.
I'm playing this in my show, but now it's just me.
As I listen to this track, I realize how far away
the record got from the song as I wrote it.
It never had a Caribbean Island flavor to it
when I brought it to the band.
It was, believe it or not, once a rock and roll song.
With that bum, bum, bum...bum, bum beat
like "Not fade Away". I like our recorded version,
but listening to how it morphed surprised me.