As I got on a city bus and found a vacant seat I thought I saw my future bride walkin?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, datcha 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 to get to where shes 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 everybodys tab With a twenty-dollar bill, told him "catch that yellow cab." She moves around like a wave of summer breeze Go, driver, go, go, catch her balmy breeze Moving through the traffuc like a mounted cavalier Leaning out the taxi window trying to make her hear