I said I'm a fool for your stockings baby, and I dont mean them Hanes or them
Playtex kind.  I'm talking about them 15.95 come see me at midnight stockings.
Sometime them stockings is the real crosses you must bear.  Real crosses
you have to deal with in life.

Somebody out there saying, Reverend Willie G, I aint got no cross I have to
deal with.  You must be crazy.  But if you go home tonight and lay down
across somebody you're putting yourself in a hell of a cross.

And for those that will not be going home tonight and laying down across 
somebody, you'll really be cross coz you be lonely.  And for those that 
will be going home tonight and finding somebody else taking care of your 
cross, you'll really be cross.

Now there's all kind of crosses, all kind of crosses we got to deal with.
Now there's the green cross and the black cross and the heavy cross and
the music cross, the love cross, the criss cross, the double cross, the
old jive president cross, the smoking cross, the cocaine cross [pause]...
All kinda crosses.

but when you go home tonight and you gotta deal with that stocking cross, 
just say baby, i wanna feel them stockings, and she'll say
[quick e.g.]
a little bit later on you'll say baby i wanna, i wanna feel them stockings
and she'll say
[another quick e.g.]
and a little bit later on when you've got the lamp turned down real low
baby i wanna get inside them stockings,  (barely audible: lord have mercy)
and she'll be talkin to ya...
[loud guitar solo]