text: I really cant stay
  Ive got to go way
  I wish I knew how
  To break this spell
  My mother will start to worry
  Father will be pacin the floor
  Really Id better hurry
  Well maybe just a half a drink more
  
  The neighbors might think
  Hey pops, whats in this drink
  This evenin has been
  So nice and fine
  (take another drink-a-wine...and
  Maybe youll change your mind)
  I ought to say no, no, no, sir
  At least Im gonna say that I tried
  I really cant stay
  both ahh, but its cold outside
  (look-a there honey...look at that window there...you cant go
  Out there in all that bad weather take a look...............you lookin
  At the wrong window anyway...........thats a bay window there........
  See the one thats in the middle there.......yeah the one thats boarded
  Up...thats an out house there..........aint no usein you goin out there
  In all that bad weather...gettin them two little skis all frosted up)
  Yeah well pops, I didnt tell mama and papa where I was goin
  In fact, I sneaked outta the house
  (oh, velma, dont never do that to your mama and papa......stay here
  Three more days then you go back home to your people there)
  Theres bound to be talk tommorow
  At least there will be plenty implied
  I really cant stay
  both ahh but its cold outside
  Hey pops, Id really like to stick around
  But I live so far...i live way over on the other side of town....over in
  The aristocratic part...way over........................
  Over on jackson street
  (she been in town two hours and she done found out where
  Jackson street is.....................yes indeed folks this is the place.....
  You know where you can get two drinks for forty cents here......then you
  Come outta the gate and fall flat-a-your face.....thats what you do)
  both yeah, but it? s cold
   outside