Standard (EADGBE)

  Ernestine, you’d better leave my man alone

  Ernestine, because of you I can’t go on

  I told you for the last time to find a man of your own

  Ernestine, what you doing, you know it ain’t right

  Ernestine, when you play, it make me wanna fight

  Girl, you playin’ with danger and girl, this might take, it might

  I warned you once, girl, without a doubt

Two strikes you lose, third strike you’re out

Like a baseball game, you’re dancin’ with a slugger

I hit a grand slam, ‘cause I’m a bad mother fucker

  Ernestine, you’d better leave my man alone

  I told you for the last time to find a man of your own

(Instrumental break)

  Ernestine, you playin’ with fire, you know you’ll burn

  Ernestine, I know where you come from

  You refuse to listen, but you ain’t in the right school to learn

  I warned you once, girl, without a doubt

Two strikes you lose, third strike you’re out

Like a baseball game, you’re dancin’ with a slugger

I hit a grand slam, ‘cause I’m a bad mother fucker

  Ernestine, you’d better leave my man alone

  I told you for the last time to find a man of your own