As I got on a city bus and found a vacant seat, I thought I saw my future bride walking up the street, I shouted to the driver hey conductor, you must slow down. I think I see her please let me off this bus
Nadine, honey is that you? Oh, Nadine. Honey, is that you? Seems like every time I see you darling you got something else to do
[Alternate verse: Seems like every time I catch you, but you're up to something new]
I saw her from the corner when she turned and doubled back And started walkin' toward a coffee colored cadillac I was pushin' through the crowd tryin' to get to where she's at And I was campaign shouting like a southern diplomat
Downtown searching for her, looking all around. Saw her getting in a yellow cab heading up town. I caught a loaded taxi, paid up everybody's tab. With a twenty dollar bill, told him 'catch that yellow cab.'
She move around like a wave of summer breeze, go, driver, go, go, catch her for me please. Moving thru the traffic like a mounted cavalier. Leaning out the taxi window trying to make her hear.