Cheech Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces Lyrics

Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces Lyrics

Basketball Jones featuring Tyrone Shoelaces

 Cheech & Chong

 Written by Richard A. "Cheech" Marin and Thomas Chong

 

 - parody of "Love Jones" by Brighter Side Of Darkness

 - as recorded by Cheech & Chong on their 1973 album "Los Cochinos"

 - all-star band included George Harrison, Carole King, Billy Preston and Tom
Scott,

 with Darlene Love and Michelle Phillips (The Mamas & The Papas) as
cheerleaders.

 - single peaked at #15 in 1973

 

 Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones

 Got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, oo-oo-ooo

 

 Yes, I am the victim of a Basketball Jones

 Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin'

 In fac', I was de baddest dribbler in the whole neighborhood

 Then one day, my mama bought me a basketball

 And I loved that basketball

 I took that basketball with me everywhere I went

 That basketball was like a basketball to me

 

 I even put that basketball underneath my pillow

 Maybe that's why I can't sleep at night

 I need help, ladies and gentlemens

 I need someone to stand beside me

 I need, I need someone to set a pick for me at the free-throw line of life

 Someone I can pass to

 Someone to hit the open man on the give-and-go

 And not end up in the popcorn machine

 So cheerleaders, help me out

 

 {cheerleaders sing repeatedly...}

 (Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones)

 (I got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, oo-oo-ooo)

 

 {while Tyrone Shoelaces sings/speaks...}

 Oh, that sounds so sweet

 Sing it out

 C'mon Coach Booty, Red Blazer, sing along with me

 That be bad, honky

 Yeah

 I want everybody in the whole stadium to stand up and sing with us

 Oh yeah, sing it out like you're proud

 All right, everybody watchin' coast-to-coast, sing along with us

 Bill Russell, sing along with us

 Chick Hearn, sing along with us

 Chris Schenkel, don't sing nothin'

 

 Oh, it feels so good

 Gimme the ball

 I'll go one-on-one against the world, left-handed

 I could stuff it from center court with my toes

 I could jump on top of the backboard, take off a quarter, leave fifteen cents
change I

 could, I could dribble behind my back I got more moves than Ex-Lax I'm bad I
could

 dribble with my tongue Here I go down court, try to stop me You can't stop me
'cause I

 got a Basketball Jones Here I come That's my hook shot with my eyebrow Yeah, I
could

 dunk it with my nose I'm, I'm bad as King Kong, gimme the ball I'm hot, I'm
hot as...,

 I'm hot as..., I'm hot as... uh Uh, uh, uh, uh

 

 (Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones,
Basketball Jones)

 (Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones,
Basketball Jones)

 (Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones,
Basketball Jones)

 (Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones,
Basketball Jones)

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