Cover art for Pitiful by Aretha Franklin

Pitiful

Aretha Franklin
Track 30 on Soul Queen 

Producers

Tom Dowd & Jerry Wexler
Jan. 17, 19691 viewer

Pitiful Lyrics

[Intro]
Oh pitiful
Feel so sorry for me
Pitiful
It's pitiful
Feel so sorry for me
Though you do not love me you see
You still won't set me free
Oh set me free

[Verse]
I wonder why I wondered why you do me like you do
I wonder why you do me like you do
When you know that I love you baby
And you know I wouldn't do it to you
No no
It looks like it makes you happy
Just to see me cry
Please have mercy on this
Vacant heart of mine
You're trying to see how mean you can be
I would do my dog better that the way you do me

[Outro ]
Pitiful
Feel so sorry for myself
Pitiful
Feel so sorry for myself
When you know that you don't want me baby
But you ain't gonna let me have nobody else now are ya

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Soul Queen (2007)
  1. 1.
    I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
  2. 2.
    Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
  3. 3.
    Save Me
  4. 4.
    Drown In My Own Tears
  5. 5.
    Baby, Baby, Baby
  6. 6.
    Respect
  7. 7.
    Good Times
  8. 8.
    Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)
  9. 9.
    (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
  10. 10.
    Never Let Me Go
  11. 11.
    Night Life
  12. 12.
    Baby, I Love You
  13. 13.
    Chain of Fools
  14. 14.
    Ain’t Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)
  15. 15.
    Since You’ve Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)
  16. 16.
    Good to Me As I Am to You
  17. 17.
    You’re a Sweet Sweet Man
  18. 18.
    Come Back Baby
  19. 19.
    Ain’t No Way
  20. 20.
    My Song
  21. 21.
    Think
  22. 22.
    You Send Me
  23. 23.
    See Saw
  24. 24.
    The House That Jack Built
  25. 25.
    I Say a Little Prayer
  26. 26.
    The Night Time Is the Right Time
  27. 27.
    Tracks of My Tears
  28. 28.
    I Take What I Want
  29. 29.
    I Can’t See Myself Leaving You
  30. 30.
    Pitiful
  31. 31.
    Gentle On My Mind
  32. 32.
    Share Your Love with Me
  33. 33.
    The Weight
  34. 34.
    When the Battle is Over
  35. 35.
    Pullin’
  36. 36.
    Eleanor Rigby
  37. 37.
    Call Me
  38. 38.
    Dark End of the Street
  39. 39.
    Let It Be
  40. 40.
    You and Me
  41. 41.
    Spirit in the Dark
  42. 42.
    Don’t Play That Song
  43. 43.
    Bridge Over Troubled Water
  44. 44.
    Border Song (Holy Moses)
  45. 45.
    A Brand New Me
  46. 46.
    Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby)
  47. 47.
    You’re All I Need to Get By
  48. 48.
    Spanish Harlem
  49. 49.
    Rock Steady
  50. 50.
    Day Dreaming
  51. 51.
    All the King’s Horses
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Alto Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Trombone
Trumpet
Vibraphone
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Recorded At
Atlantic Recording Studios (New York City)
Released on
January 17, 1969
Tags
PopR&BCoverBig BandJazzSoul JazzSoulSoul Pop
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