Composers: Al Cleveland, Smokey Robinson, and James Johnson aka Rick James

Malinda, Malinda

Malinda's the girl (girl)
Who came to my world
And made my interest
In all other girls stop

Malinda's a dream (dream)
Beauty to the extreme
Malinda is the cream of the crop

So many guys in love
With my Malinda (they can't get her)
You ought to see the presents
Others send her

Trying to make her surrender
Surrender them some of that tender
Love she's giving me (Malinda)

Oh, but she doesn't know
She'll never go
She's where she'd rather be

In the arms of a man
Who fits in her plan
(Fits into her plan)
She lets them know that man is me

So many guys have
Tried for my Malinda
(But they can't get her)
From the Casanovas
To the real big spenders

But all they do is offend her
Offend Malinda and send her
Calling out to me
In a lover's speed
Love me tenderly

(Malinda) oh
(Malinda, I love Malinda)
I love Malinda
(Yeah, Malinda Malinda)
(I love Malinda)
Ooh, I love that girl (yeah)

Ain't gonna let no
Jill or Jane or Brenda
(Any one of those girls)
Come between me and my Malinda

I'll never let another girl hinder
The chance that Malinda's gonna
Spend her every night and day
Satisfy this day
In love with me this way

(Malinda, Malinda, I love Malinda)
Oh, she only has eyes for me (yeah)
(Malinda, Malinda, I love Malinda)
Yeah, she gives up all the
Other guys for me (yeah)

(Malinda, Malinda, I love Malinda)
She is mine, all mine
That's the way it was meant to be