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Youre watching the official lyrics video for the Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup.

Released in 1968, this singalong evergreen favourite was a global smash hit making number 3 in the USA, number 2 in the UK and number 1 in Australia and Canada. The song reached a whole new generation of fans 3 decades later when it was featured in closing credits of the 1998 movie "Theres Something About Mary". It has also been covered by artists as diverse as Yo La Tengo, Busted/McFly. Frank Turner and David Johansen of the New York Dolls.

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Lyrics

Why do you build me up (build me up) buttercup, baby

Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around?

And then worst of all (worst of all) you never call, baby

When you say you will (say you will) but I love you still

I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin

You know that I have from the start

So build me up (build me up) buttercup, dont break my heart

"Ill be over at ten, " you told me time and again

But youre late, I wait around and then (bah dah dah)

I went to the door, I cant take any more

Its not you, you let me down again

baby, baby, try to find

(Hey, hey, hey) a little time and Ill make you mine

(Hey, hey, hey) Ill be home

Ill be beside the phone waiting for you

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh

Why do you build me up (build me up) buttercup, baby

Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around?

And then worst of all (worst of all) you never call, baby

When you say you will (say you will) but I love you still

I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin

You know that I have from the start

So build me up (build me up) buttercup, dont break my heart

You were my toy but I could be the boy you adore

If youd just let me know (bah dah dah)

Although youre untrue, Im attracted to you all the more

Why do I need you so?

baby, baby, try to find

(Hey, hey, hey) a little time and Ill make you mine

(Hey, hey, hey) Ill be home

Ill be beside the phone waiting for you

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh

Why do you build me up (build me up) buttercup, baby

Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around?

And then worst of all (worst of all) you never call, baby

When you say you will (say you will) but I love you still

I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin

You know that I have from the start

So build me up (build me up) buttercup, dont break my heart

I, I, I need you more than anyone, baby

You know that I have from the start

So build me up (build me up) buttercup

Songwriters: Tony Macauley / Mike DAbo

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