[Verse]

             
Well sometimes

              
 I go out by m

              
yself and I lo

             
ok across the 


water
             
And I think of

              
 all the thing

              
s, what you're

              
 doing and in 

              
my head I pain

    
t a picture


[Chorus]

             
'Cos since I'v

              
e come on home

           
, well my body

's been a mess
             
And I've misse

              
d your ginger 

              
hair and the w

   
ay you like to

 dress
             
Won't you come

              
 on over, stop

            
 making a fool

        
 out of me
              
Why don't you 

              
come on over V

             
a-a-lerie, Val

            
erie-e-ee, Va-

             
a-alerie, Vale

      
rie-e-ee


[Verse]

             
Did you have t

              
o go to jail, 

              
put your house

              
 on up for sal

              
e, did you get

        
 a good lawyer
             
I hope you did

              
n't catch a ta

              
n, I hope you 

              
found the righ

              
t man who'll f

      
ix it for ya
             
Are you shoppi

              
n' anywhere, c

              
hanged the col

              
our of your ha

            
ir, are you bu

sy?
             
And did you ha

              
ve to pay that

              
 fine you was 

              
dodging all th

              
e time are you

       
 still dizzy?


[Chorus]

             
'Cos since I'v

              
e come on home

           
, well my body

's been a mess
             
And I've misse

              
d your ginger 

              
hair and the w

   
ay you like to

 dress
             
Won't you come

              
 on over, stop

            
 making a fool

        
 out of me
              
Why don't you 

              
come on over V

             
a-a-lerie, Val

            
erie-e-ee, Va-

             
a-alerie, Vale

      
rie-e-ee


[Verse]

             
Well sometimes

              
 I go out by m

              
yself and I lo

             
ok across the 


water
             
And I think of

              
 all the thing

              
s, what you're

              
 doing and in 

              
my head I pain

    
t a picture


[Chorus]

             
'Cos since I'v

              
e come on home

           
, well my body

's been a mess
             
And I've misse

              
d your ginger 

              
hair and the w

   
ay you like to

 dress
             
Won't you come

              
 on over, stop

            
 making a fool

        
 out of me
              
Why don't you 

              
come on over V

             
a-a-lerie, Val

            
erie-e-ee, Va-

             
a-alerie, Vale

      
rie-e-ee


[Outro]

             
mmm Valerie   

   
  Valerie-e-ee
             
Valerie-E-ee, 

        
Va-A-le-rieee
              
Why dont you c

            
ome on over Va


lerie...