Cover art for You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice by The Grass Roots

You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice

The Grass Roots
Track 8 on Where Were You When I Needed You (2005) 

Producers

P.F. Sloan & Steve Barri
Oct. 19661 viewer

You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You didn't have to be so nice
I would have liked you anyway
If you had just looked once or twice
And gone upon your quiet way

[Chorus]
Today said the time was right for me to follow you
I knew I'd find you in a day or two
And it's true

[Verse 2]
You came upon a quiet day
You simply seemed to take your place
I knew that it would be that way
The minute that I saw your face

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
And when we've had a few more days (A few more days)
I wonder if I'll get to say (Get to say)
You didn't have to be so nice (Be so nice)
I would have liked you anyway

[Chorus]
Today said the time was right for me to follow you
I knew I'd find you in a day or two
And it's true
[Verse 1]
You didn't have to be so nice (Be so nice)
I would have liked you anyway (Anyway)
If you had just looked once or twice (Once or twice)
And gone upon your quiet way

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October 1966
You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice Is A Cover Of
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PopCoverUSAIn EnglishFolk RockEasy Listening
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