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Release Date: 10/10/1969  (AH3RD) 
Lyrics By: Michael Nesmith (AH3RD) 
Music By: Michael Nesmith (AH3RD) 
Produced By: Michael Nesmith (AH3RD) 
Released By: Colgems (AH3RD) 
Published By: Screen Gems-Columbia Music, Inc. (BMI) (AH3RD) 
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  • From The Monkees Present Micky, David, Michael (Colgems #COS-117), The Monkees' eighth album (and the last to include Michael Nesmith). (AH3RD)
  • 'Never Tell a Woman Yes' is a piano-driven tale of a man who passes on a woman's invitation to travel with her, regrets it when he finds out she's rich, and then ultimately gets rewarded when she comes to find him after having been robbed by another man. Thus we get the title of the song, which serves as an odd, misguided moral to the story. (AH3RD)
  • Song Lyrics:
    Oh my, my, my-

    In a dusty caravan was a girl with a golden tan
    And she asked me if I was headed to the east
    I politely stepped a side and said I did not need a ride
    That I'd rather take my chances with the heat
    Well, when she turned and walked away
    I saw my big mistake
    There were jewels on her body oh-so-rare
    Had it been another day I just might have rode away
    With that woman riding off to God-knows-where.

    So the years they came and went
    And found me living in a tent
    Far above a little marble stream
    And it may have been the light that shone out through the night
    That attracted the hand scratching on my screen
    When I cautiously looked out through the night
    There was no doubt
    That the owner of that hand was that girl
    So I bid her do come in
    And I'll open up a tin
    If you'll tell me 'bout your trip around the world

    Well, she said, "If you think back
    To the first time that we passed
    I'm sure you'll picture me in all my jewles
    It was shortly after then that I ran into another man
    And I asked him the same question I asked you
    But now he, he didn't refuse
    And he took off of both his shoes
    And climbed abord my east-bound caravan
    And in the twinkling of an eye
    He knocked me off the side
    And left me there for dead upon the sand!

    And I thought that I was done
    Lying naked in the sun
    When much to my surprise, who should pass?
    But this old friend of yours
    He said he knew you from the wars
    And I told him that I thought you'd headed west
    Well, he said he should have known
    'Cause you like to be alone
    And that's the time I knew you were my one
    So I asked him for a ride
    Just to get here by your side
    And stay here above this stream out of the sun."

    Well, we sat quite for a while
    And I began to smile
    Well it's strange but I don't care
    And some nights when I'm at rest
    I wonder if I'd said, "yes"
    Would she have come to me from God knows where.
    Or would I have been the one to leave her lying in the sun
    And then ended up with only precious stones,
    Or would the woman in my arms be giving me her charms
    If the answer that I gave her wasn't "no"?
    (AH3RD)
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    09-28-16, #ISGD-16-4005-16-10, #10-20
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