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Quality For Quantity

Composed by Smokey Robinson
Produced & Arranged by Smokey Robinson


Musicians - Funk Brothers and Stevie Wonder


In album: A Cellarful of Motown Vol.2 (2005. Song recorded 1964)


Ooh ooh yeah
You're such a sweet thing
You're so fine
You're just as pretty on the inside
As you are outside
To think that you were mine

And when some girls start hanging around
Like a fool I went and put you down

I gave up quality for quantity
Gave up quality for quantity
And now I'm sad and blue
Because I put them all together
And they don't equal just one you
Just one you
Just one you

You gave me all your love,
With a gentle touch
How could I have given up one girl
For five times as many
And still not have as much

They say that a bird in the hand
Is worth Ten in the bush
And since I gave you up for them
You don't know how I wish

I hadn't gave up quality for quantity
Gave up quality for quantity
And now I'm sad and blue
Because I put them all together
And they don't equal just one you
Just one you
Just one you

Oh baby now, you got a certain quality
That only diamonds possess
The rest are like costume jewellery
You're the best
You're the best
Baby I confess, I confess

I never should have
Gave up quality for quantity
Gave up quality for quantity
And now I'm sad and blue
Because I put them all together
And they don't equal just one you
Just one you
Just one you

Gave up quality for quantity
Gave up quality for quantity
I never should have