ACT NATURALLY



ACT NATURALLY

They're gonna put me in the movies,

They're gonna make a big star outta me,

We’ll make a film about a man that’s sad and lonely,

And all I gotta do is act naturally.

Well I bet you I'm gonna be a big star,

Might win an Oscar, you can never tell,

The movies gonna make me a big star,

'Cause I can play the part so well.

Well I hope you’ll come and see me in the movies,

Then I know you will plainly see,

The biggest fool that ever hit the big time,

And all I gotta do is act naturally.

We'll make the scene about a man that's sad and lonely,

And begging down upon his bended knee,

I'll play the part and I won't need rehearsing,

And all I have to do is act naturally.

Well I bet you I'm gonna be a big star,

Might win an Oscar, you can never tell,

The movies gonna make me a big star,

'Cause I can play the part so well.

AFTER MIDNIGHT

After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out,

After midnight, we gonna shake it up and shout,`\

We gonna stimulate some action,

We gonna get some satisfaction,

We gonna find out what it's all about,

After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out.

After midnight, we’re gonna shake your tambourine,

After midnight, it's all gonna be peaches and cream,

We gonna cause talk and suspicion,

We’re gonna give an exhibition,

We’re gonna find out what it's all about,

After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out.

We gonna cause talk and suspicion,

We’re gonna give an exhibition,

We’re gonna find out what it's all about,

After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out.

AGAINST ALL ODDS

How can I just let you walk away,

Just let you leave without a trace,

When I stand here,

Taking every breath with you ooh,

You’re the only one who really knew me at all.

How can you just walk away from me,

When all I can do is watch you leave,

‘Cause we shared the laughter and the pain,

And even shared the tears,

You’re the only one who really knew me at all,

So take a look at me now,

There’s just an empty space,

And there’s nothing left here to remind me,

Just the memory of your face.

Well take a look at me now,

‘Cause there’s just an empty space,

And you coming back to me is against the odds,

And that’s what I’ve got to face.

I wish I could just make you turn around,

Turn around and see me cry,

There’s so much I need to say to you,

So many reasons why,

You’re the only one who really knew me at all.

So take a look at me now,

There’s just an empty space,

And there’s nothing left here to remind me,

Just the memory of your face.

Well take a look at me now,

‘Cause there’s just an empty space,

And you coming back to me is against the odds,

And that’s what I’ve got to face.

But to wait for you is all I can do,

And that’s what I’ve got to face,

Take a good look at me now,

‘Cause I’ll still be standing here,

And you coming back to me is against all odds,

It’s the chance I’ve got to take,

Take a look at me now.

AIN’T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING

Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing.

Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing.

Ooh baby ooh, I got your picture hanging on the wall,

But it can’t see or come to me when I call your name,

I realise it’s just a picture inside a frame,

I read your letters when you’re not near,

But they don’t move me and they don’t groove me,

Like when I hear your sweet voice whispering in my ear.

Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing.

I play this game of fantasy,

I pretend that I’m not in reality,

I need the shelter of your arms to comfort me,

No other sound is quite the same as your name,

No touch can do half as much to make me feel better,

So let’s stay together.

Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing.

I’ve got some memories ,

To look back on though they help,

When you phone I’m well aware,

Nothing can take the place,

Of you being there,

So glad we’ve got the real thing baby.

Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,

Ain’t nothing like the real thing.

AIN'T SHE SWEET

Oh, ain't she sweet, I see her walking down the street,

Yes, I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet.

Oh, ain't she nice, well look her over once or twice,

Yes, I ask you very confidentially, ain't she nice.

Just cast an eye in her direction , oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection.

Oh, I repeat, well don't you think that's kinda neat,

Yes, I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet.

Just cast an eye in her direction, oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection.

Oh, ain't she sweet, I see her walking down the street,

Yes, I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet.

Oh, ain't she nice well look her over once or twice,

Yes, I ask you very confidentially ain't she nice.

Just cast an eye in her direction oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection.

Oh, I repeat, well don't you think that's kinda neat,

Yes, I ask you very confidentially ain't she sweet .

Just cast an eye in her direction oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection.

Oh, ain't she sweet, I see her walking down the street,

Yes, I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet.

AIN’T THAT A SHAME

You made me cry,

When you said goodbye,

Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,

Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.

You broke my heart ,

When you said we’d part,

Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,

Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.

Oh well goodbye,

Although I cry,

Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,

Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.

You made me cry,

When you said goodbye,

Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,

Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.

Oh well goodbye,

Although I cry,

Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,

Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.

You made me cry,

When you said goodbye,

Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,

Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.

ALI'S GEBURTSTAG LIED

Ali's neunädzwangst etz!

Di ganze Zaid gibds blous an Schdress,

Ka Uarlaub mehr, und allas hie,

Laudä Griesn, ouwäi, ouwäi.

Ich waas ned, anner had gsachd,

Schdress und Griesn fian blous ins Groob,

Kumm Ali, mach widdä a Schbass,

Wir dringn nuä Mous.

Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,

Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,

Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,

Ka Lebm lang.

Kumm Ali, schau ned su schdier,

Dar Jäggi is gor, dei Pils is sauä,

Trink Englisch Beiä 'n Whisky too,

Hör Englisch music, die Stones und Who.

Ade zu Griesn, Tschüs zum Schdress,

In Rainbow der Gaudi's best,

Komme Ali und wink a mol,

Und trink dei Seidlar gor.

Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,

Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,

Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,

Ka Lebm lang.

Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,

Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,

Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,

Ka Lebm lang.

ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

There must be some way out of here,

Said the joker to the thief,

There is too much confusion,

I can't get no relief.

Businessmen there drink my wine,

Ploughmen dig my earth,

None of them along the line,

Know what any of it is worth.

No reason to get excited,

The thief he later spoke,

There are many here amongst us,

Who feel that life is but a joke.

But you and I we've been through that,

And this is not our fate,

So let us not talk falsely now,

The hour is getting late.

All along the watchtower,

Princess kept her view,

While all the people came and went,

Barefoot servants too.

Outside in the cold distance,

A wild cat did growl,

Two riders were approaching,

And the wind began to howl.

ALL I SEE

Saw you, that was all I had to see

Wanted you, had to have you next to me

From that moment, I knew that you'd be all I'll ever need

And there's a place inside my heart nobody's ever touched before

And when I found you I found all that I've been searching for

You turned my world around

All I know is that it feels like forever

All I know is I love the way it feels

All I see is how good we are together

And I never want to see it slip away

I'll never let you go

Hold me love as you've rushed to me

Stay with me let's put our hearts in the hands of fate

Time will tell us if what we've got was worth the wait

And there's a fire that's been burning deep inside of me

And I don't need nobody else 'cause now you're here with me

You turned my world around

I might have never met you in another time or place

Now I never could forget you I can never walk away

It's all right with love

'Cause there's a place inside my heart nobody's ever touched before

And when I found you I found all that I've been searching for

You turned my world around

All I know is that it feels like forever

All I know is I love the way it feels

All I see is how good we are together

And I never want to see it slip away

I'll never let you go

All I know is that it feels like forever

All I know is I love the way it feels

All I see is how good we are together

And I never want to see it slip away

I'll never let you go

ALL RIGHT NOW

There she stood in the street

Smiling from her head to her feet

I said hey what is this now baby maybe

Maybe she's in need of a kiss

I said hey what's your name baby

Maybe we can see things the same

Now don't you wait or hesitate

Let's move before they raise the parking rate

All right now baby it's a all right now

All right now baby it's a all right now

Let me tell you now

I took her home to my place

Watching every move on her face

She said look what's your game now baby

Are you trying to put me to shame

I said slow don't go so fast

Don't you think that love will last

She said love lord above

Now you're trying to trick me in love

All right now baby it's a all right now

All right now baby it's a all right now

All right now baby it's a all right now

All right now baby it's a all right now

ALL SHOOK UP

Well bless a my soul what’s a wrong with me

I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree

My friends say I'm acting wild as a bug

I'm in love I'm all shook up

Uhum hum hum yeah yeah

Well my hands are shaking and my knees are weak

I can't seem to stand on my own two feet

Who do you think of when you have such luck

I'm in love I'm all shook up

Uhum hum hum yeah yeah

Well please don't ask me what’s a on my mind

I'm a little mixed up but I'm feeling fine

When I meet a girl that I love the best

My heart beats so it scares me to death

When she touched my hand what a chill I got

Her lips are like a volcano that's hot

And I'm proud to say that she's my buttercup

I'm in love I'm all shook up

Uhum hum hum yeah yeah

My tongue gets tired when I try to speak

My insides shaking like a leaf on a tree

There's only one cure for this body of mine

That's to have that girl that I love so fine

When she touched my hand what a chill I got

Her lips are like a volcano that's hot

And I'm proud to say that she's my buttercup

I'm in love I'm all shook up

Uhum hum hum yeah yeah

Uhum hum hum yeah yeah

I'm all shook up

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

Love, love, love

Love, love, love

Love, love, love

Love is all you need

There's nothing you can do that can't be done

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.

Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game.

It's easy ...

There's nothing you can make that can't be made.

No one you can save that can't be saved

Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be in time.

It's easy ...

All you need is love

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

Love, love, love

Love, love, love

Love, love, love

Love is all you need

All you need is love

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Nothing you can see that isn't shown.

Nowhere you can be, that isn't where you're meant to be.

It's easy ...

All you need is love

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need x3

ALL YOU LOVING

All your loving is loving all your kissing is kissing

All your loving is loving all your kissing is kissing

Before I met you baby I never knew what I was missing

All your loving pretty baby that I got in store for you

All your loving pretty baby that I got in store for you

When I say I love you baby gotta say you love me too

All your loving pretty baby that I got in store for you

All your loving pretty baby that I got in store for you

When I say I love you baby gotta say you love me too

All your loving pretty baby all your loving pretty baby

All your loving pretty baby all your loving pretty baby

Before I met you baby I never knew what I was missing

All your loving pretty baby all your loving pretty baby

All your loving pretty baby all your loving pretty baby

Before I met you baby I never knew what I was missing

ALLENTOWN

Well we're living here in Allentown

And they're closing all the factories down

Out in Bethlehem they're killing time

Filling out forms, standing in line

Well our fathers fought the second world war

Spent their weekends on the Jersey shore

Met our mothers in the USO

Asked them to dance, danced with them slow

And we're living here in Allentown

But the restlessness was handed down

And it's getting very hard to stay

Well we're waiting here in Allentown

For the Pennsylvania we never found

For the promises our teachers gave

If we worked hard, if we behaved

So the graduations hang on the wall

But they never really helped us at all

No they never taught us what was real

Iron and coke, chromium steel

And we're waiting here in Allentown

But they've taken all the coal from the ground

And the union people crawled away

Every child had a pretty good shot

To get at least as far as their old man got

But something happened on the way to that place

They threw an American flag in our face

Well I'm living here in Allentown

And it's hard to keep a good man down

But I won't be getting up today

And it's getting very hard to stay

And we're living here in Allentown

AMERICAN PIE

A long, long time ago I can still remember how that music used to make me smile

And I knew if I had my chance that I could make those people dance and maybe they'd be happy for a while

But February made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver bad news on the doorstep I couldn't take one more step

And I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride

But something touched me deep inside the day the music died I started singing

Bye bye Miss American Pie drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry

Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye

Singing, this will be the day that I die this will be the day that I die

Did you write the book of love and do you have faith in god above if the Bible tells you so

Now do you believe in rock’n’roll can the music save your mortal soul and can you teach me how to dance real slow

Well, I know that you're in love with him 'cause I saw you dancing in the gym

You both kicked off your shoes man, I dig those rhythm and blues

I was a lonely teenage broncing buck with a pink carnation and a pick up truck

But I knew I was out of luck the day the music died I started singing

Bye bye Miss American Pie ...

Now, for ten years we've been on our own and moss grows fat on a rolling stone but that's not how it used to be

When the jester sang for the king and queen in a coat he'd borrowed from James Dean and a voice that came from you and me

And while the king was looking down the jester stole his thorny crown

The courtroom was adjourned no verdict was returned

And while Lenin read a book on Marx the quartet practised in the park

And we sang dirges in the dark the day the music died we were singing

Bye bye Miss American Pie ...

Helter Skelter in the summer swelter the birds flew off with a fallout shelter eight miles high and falling fast

And as it landed on the grass the players tried for a forward pass with the jester on the sidelines in a cast

Now, the half-time air was sweet perfume while the sergeants played a marching tune

We all got up to dance but we never got the chance

And as the players tried to take the field the marching band refused to yield

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died we were singing

Bye bye Miss American Pie ...

And there we were all in one place a generation lost in space with no time left to start again

So come on Jack be nimble, Jack be quick Jack Flash sat on a candle stick 'cause fire is the devil's only friend

Oh and as I watched him on the stage my hands were clenched in fists of rage

No angel born in hell could break that Satan spell

And as the flames climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial rite

I saw Satan laughing with delight the day the music died he was singing

Bye bye Miss American Pie ...

I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news but she just smiled and turned away

So I went down to the sacred store where I heard the music years before but the man there said the music couldn't play

And on the streets the children screamed the lovers cried and the poets dreamed

Not a word was spoken the church bells lay all broken

And the three man I admire the most the Father, Son and Holy Ghost

They caught the last train for the coast the day the music died and they were singing

Bye bye Miss American Pie ... x2

AMPHETAMINE ANNIE

I wanna tell you all a story

About this chick I know

They call her Amphetamine Annie

She's always shovelling snow

I sat her down and told her

I told her crystal clear

I don't mind you getting high

But there's one thing you should fear

Your mind might think it's flying baby

On those little pills

But you ought to know it's dying 'cause

Speed kills

But Annie kept on speeding

Her health was getting poor

She saw things in the window

She heard things at the door

Her mind was like a brandy mill

Her lips were cracked and sore

Her skin was turning yellow

I just couldn't take it no more

She thought her mind was flying yeah

On those little pills

She didn't know it's going down fast 'cause

Speed kills

Well I sat her down and told her

I told her one more time

The whole wide human race has taken

Far too much methedrine

She said I don't care what a limey says

I've got to get it on

I'm not hip to the scene of a man

Who doesn't come and cross my palm

She would not hear my warning

No she wouldn't hear what I said

Now she's in the graveyard and she's

Awfully dead

ANGEL

Angel came down from heaven yesterday

She stayed with me just long enough to rescue me

And she told me a story yesterday

About the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea

And then she spread her wings high over me

She said she's gonna come back tomorrow

And I said fly on my sweet angel

Fly on through the sky

Fly on my sweet angel

Tomorrow I'm gonna be by your side

Sure enough this morning came unto me

Silver wings silhouette against a giant sunrise

And my angel she said unto me

Today is the day for you to rise

Take my hand you're gonna be my man you're gonna rise

And then she took me high over yonder

And I said fly on my sweet angel

Fly on through the sky

Fly on my sweet angel

Forever I will be by your side

ANGIE

Angie Angie when will these dark clouds disappear

Angie Angie where will it lead us from here

With no loving in our souls

And no money in our coats

You can't say we're satisfied

But Angie Angie you can't say we never tried

Angie you're beautiful yeah but ain't it time to say goodbye

Angie I still love you remember all the nights we cried

All the dreams we held so close

Seemed to all go up in smoke

Let me whisper in your ear

Angie Angie where will it lead us from here

Oh Angie don't you weep and your kisses still taste sweet

I hate the sadness in your eyes

But Angie Angie ain't it time we said goodbye

With no loving in our souls

And no money in our coats

You can't say we're satisfied

But Angie Angie you can't say we never tried

Angie I still love you baby everywhere I see your eyes

There ain't a woman that comes close to you

Come on baby dry your eyes

Angie Angie ain't it good to be alive

Angie Angie they can't say we never tried

THE ANIMAL TRAINER AND THE TOAD

For many a year I was so confused

I didn’t know what to play

But then I met a man who picked a guitar

And showed me just what to say

He was skinny and lean and he kept his nose clean

And he knew how to rock them too

And then came the day we started to play

And then we caught up with the blues

I’m in a band

A rock and roll band

I’m in a band yeah

We called him Beethoven and then we showed him

Exactly where we wanted to go

So we started to play and toured right away

A rocking and rolling show

He spoke of VC but played at the gigs

And never missed a single one

We called in the States and hit the Great Lakes

And boy did we have us some fun

I’m in a band

A rock and roll band

I’m in a band yeah

I’m in a band

A rock and roll band

I’m in a band yeah

We had an idea so we put it in gear

And soon we were out on the road

We did it to play they started to say

The animal trainer and the toad

I’m in a band

A rock and roll band

I’m in a band yeah

ANOTHER DAY

Every she takes a morning bath

She wets her hair, wraps a towel around her

As she’s heading for the bedroom chair

It’s just another day

Slipping’ into stockings, stepping into shoes

Dipping in the pocket of her raincoat

It’s just another day

As the office where the papers grow

She takes a break, drinks another cup of coffee

And she finds it hard to stay awake

It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du,

It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du,

It’s just another day

So sad, so sad, sometimes she feels so sad

Alone in her apartment she’d dwell

Till the man of her dreams comes to break the spell

Ah...stay, don’t stand around

And he comes and he stays but he leaves the next day

So sad, sometimes she fells so sad

As she posts another letter to the sound of five

People gather round her and she finds it hard to stay alive

It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du,

It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du,

It’s just another day

ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody

I got some money 'cause I just got paid

Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to

I'm in an awful way

I got in town a month ago

I've seen a lot of girls since then

If I could meet them, I could get them

But as yet I haven't met them

That's how I'm in the state I'm in

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody

I got some money 'cause I just got paid

Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to

I'm in an awful way

Another fellow told me

He had a sister who looked just fine

Instead of being my deliverance

She had a strange resemblance

To a cat named Frankenstein

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody

I got some money 'cause I just got paid

Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to

I'm in an awful way

It's hard on a fellow

When he don't know his way around

If I don't find me a honey

To help me spend my money

I gonna have to blow this town

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody

I got some money 'cause I just got paid

Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to

I'm in an awful way

APEMAN

I think I'm sophisticated 'cause I'm living my life

Like a good homosapien

But all around me everybody's multiplying

And they're running round like flies man

So I'm no better than the animals sitting

In their cages in the zoo man

'Cause compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees

I am an apeman

I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilised

'Cause I'm a strict vegetarian

And with the overpopulation and inflation and starvation

And the crazy politicians

I don't feel safe in this world no more

I don't want to die in a nuclear war

I wanna sail away to a distant shore

And make like an apeman

I'm an apeman I'm an ape ape man oh I'm an apeman

I'm a king Kong man I'm a voodoo man oh I'm an apeman

'Cause compared to the sun that sits in the sky

Compared to the clouds as they roll by

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies

I am an apeman

La la la la la la la la la la la la

Come on and love me

Be my apeman girl

And we'll be so happy

In my apeman world

Repeat...

AQUALUNG

Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent

Snot running down his nose greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes hey Aqualung

Drying in the cold sun watching as the frilly panties run hey Aqualung

Feeling like a dead duck spitting out pieces of his broken luck oh Aqualung

Sun streaking cold an old man wandering lonely

Taking time the only way he knows

Neck hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog end

He goes down to the bog and warms his feet

Feeling alone the Army’s up the road

Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea

Aqualung my friend don’t you start away uneasy

You poor old sod you see it’s only me

Do you still remember December’s foggy freeze

When the ice that clings on to your beard was screaming agony

Hey when you snatched your rattling last breaths with deep sea dive sounds

And the flowers bloom like madness in the Spring

Sun streaking cold an old man wandering lonely

Taking time the only way he knows

Neck hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog end

He goes down to the bog and warms his feet

Feeling alone the Army’s up the road

Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea

Aqualung my friend don’t you start away uneasy

You poor old sod you see it’s only me oh oh oh oh oh

De de de de, de de de de de dee

De de de de de de, de de de de

Aqualung my friend don’t you start away uneasy

You poor old sod you see it’s only me

Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent

Snot running down his nose greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes hey Aqualung

Drying in the cold sun watching as the frilly panties run hey Aqualung

Feeling like a dead duck spitting out pieces of his broken luck hey Aqualung

Woh Aqualung

ARTHUR McBRIDE

I had a first cousin called Arthur McBride

He and I took a stroll down by the seaside

A seeking good fortune and what might the tide

It was just as the day was a dawning

And after resting we both took a tramp

We met sergeant Carter and corporal Cramp

Besides a wee drummer who beat up for camp

With his rowdy dow dow in the morning

He said my fine fellows if you will enlist

A shilling you quickly shall have in your fist

Besides a crown to kick up the dust

And drink the queen's health in the morning

Had we been such fools as to take the advance

The wee bit of morning we had to run chance

You'd think it no scruple to send us to France

Where we would be killed in the morning

He said my young fellows if I hear but one word

I instantly now will out with my sword

And into your bodies as strength will afford

So now my brave fellows take warning

But Arthur and I we took on the odds

We gave them no chance to draw out their swords

Our whacking shillelaghs came over their heads

And paid them right smart in the morning

As for the wee drummer we rifled his pouch

And made a football of his rowdy dow dow

And into the ocean to rock and to roll

And to float on the tide in the morning

As for the old rapier that hung by his side

We flung it as far as we could in the tide

To the devil I pitch you said Arthur McBride

To temper your steel in the morning

AS I ROVED OUT

As I roved out on a bright May morning

To view the meadows and the flowers gay

Whom should I espy but my on true lover

As she sat under yon willow tree

I took off my hat and I did salute her

I did salute her most graciously

When she turned around as the tears fell from her

Saying false young man you have deluded me

The diamond ring I owned I gave to you

A diamond ring to wear on your own right hand

But the vows you made love you went and broke them

And married the lassie who had the land

If I married the lassie who had the land my love

It’s that I'll rue till the day I die

When misfortune falls sure no man can shun it

I was a blind fool that I'll ne'er deny

Now at night when I go to my bed of slumber

The thoughts of my true love run in my mind

When I turn around to embrace my darling

Instead of gold sure 'tis brass I find

And I wish that the queen would call home her armies

From the West Indies Americay and Spain

And every man to his own wedded woman

In hope that you and I will meet again

AS TEARS GO BY

It is the evening of the day

I sit and watch the children play

Smiling faces I can see but not for me

I sit and watch as tears go by

My riches can't buy everything

I want to hear the children sing

All I hear is the sound of rain falling on the ground

I sit and watch as tears go by

It is the evening of the day

I sit and watch the children play

Doing things I used to do they think are new

I sit and watch as tears go by

AWAY WITH RUM

Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,

Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.

We never eat biscuits because they have yeast

And one little bite turns a man into a beast

Oh can you imagine a sadder disgrace

Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face

Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,

Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.

We never eat fruitcake because it has rum

And one little slice turns a man into a bum

Oh can you imagine a sorrier sight

Than a man eating fruitcake until he get’s tight

Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,

Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.

We’re coming we’re coming our brave little band

On the right side of temperance we now take a stand

We don’t use tobacco because we do think

That people who use it are likely to drink

Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,

Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.

And we never use hair oil ‘cause that’s got bay rum

Which everyone knows sends you blind deaf and dumb

The addict buy’s bottles whatever the cost

Then rubs it all in ‘till his senses are lost

Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,

Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.

The breakfast of champions will give a boy the shakes

Because of the malt mixed in with the flakes

Just picture the shame and disgrace of his ma

When the dear little fellow acts just like his pa

Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,

Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.

BABY CAN I HOLD YOU

Sorry is all that you can say

Years gone by and still

Words don't come easily

Like sorry like sorry

Forgive me is all that you can say

Years gone by and still

Words don't come easily

Like forgive me forgive me

But you can say baby

Baby can I hold you tonight

Baby if I told you the right words

Ooh at the right time you'd be mine

I love you is all that you can say

Years gone by and still

Words don't come easily

Like I love you I love you

But you can say baby

Baby can I hold you tonight

Baby if I told you the right words

Ooh at the right time you'd be mine

Baby can I hold you tonight

Baby if I told you the right words

Ooh at the right time you'd be mine

You'd be mine you'd be mine

BACK IN THE OLD ROUTINE

I get up in the morning in the usual state

I listen to the breakfast show and know that I’m late

I clock in at the factory and pick up my tools

I got to get a shift because the union rules

We’re back in the old routine

Back in the old routine

We’re back in the old routine

Back in the old routine

I come off after work get my fags and a chat

And in the back I tinker with the Siamese cat

The wife is watching telly in a blue negligee

The good-night horror movie it really was late

We’re back in the old routine

Back in the old routine

We’re back in the old routine

Back in the old routine

I look forward to the weekend

And Match Of The Day

And we’re back in the old routine

If I can win the pools and be a millionaire

I’d get myself a stud farm and a sexy au-pair

I’d buy myself a yacht and sail away for a year

With soothing girls for company and plenty of beer

We’re back in the old routine

Back in the old routine

We’re back in the old routine

Back in the old routine

We’re back in the old routine

Back in the old routine

We’re back in the old routine

Back in the old routine

I look forward to the weekend

And Match Of The Day

And we’re back in the old routine

BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG

I found a picture of you

Would patch up my world at night

To a place in the past that we've been passed out of

Now we're back in the fight

We're back on the train hey

Oh back on the chain gang

A circumstance beyond our control

The phoney T and the News of the World

Got in the house like a pigeon from hell oh

Put sand in our eyes and descended like flies

Put us back on the train hey

Oh back on the chain gang

The powers that be

That force us to live like we do

Bring me to my knees

When I see what they've done to you

Well I'll die as I stand here today

Knowing that deep in my heart

They'll fall to ruin one day

For making us part

I found a picture of you

Those were the happiest days of my life

Like a break in the battle was your part

In the wretched life of a lonely heart

Now I'm back on the train hey

Oh back on the chain gang

BAD MOON RISING

I see bad moon a rising

I see trouble on the way

I see earthquakes and lightning

I see bad times today

Don't go round tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

I hear hurricanes a blowing

I know the end is coming soon

I feel rivers overflowing

I hear the voice from rage and ruin

Don't go round tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

Hope you have got your things together

Hope you are quite prepared to die

Looks like we're in for nasty weather

One eye is taken for an eye

Don't go round tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

Don't go round tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

BADGE

Thinking 'bout the time you drove in my car

Thinking that I might have drove you too far

And I'm thinking 'bout the love that you laid on my table

I told you not to wander out in the dark

I told you 'bout the swans that they live in the park

And I told you 'bout our kid now he's married to Mabel

Yes I told you that the life goes up and down

Don't you notice how the reel goes round

And you'd better pick yourself up from the ground

Before they bring the curtain down

Talking 'bout a girl that looks just like you

She didn't have the time to wait in the queue

She cried away her life since she fell out the cradle

BAKER STREET

Winding your way down to Baker Street

Light in your head and dead on your feet

Well it's another crazy day

You drink the night away

And forget about everything

This city desert makes you feel so cold

It's got so many people but it's got no soul

And it's taken you so long

To find out you were wrong

When you thought it held everything

You used to think that it was so easy

You used to say that it was so easy

But you're trying, you're trying now

Another year and then you'll be happy

Just one more year and then you'll be happy

But you're crying, you're crying now

Way down the street there's a light in his place

He opens the door he's got that look on his face

And he asks you where you've been

You tell him who you've seen

And you talk about anything

He's got his dream about buying some land

He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands

And then he'll settle down

In some quiet little town

And forget about everything

But you know he'll always keep moving

You know he's never gonna stop moving

'Cause he's the rolling, he's the rolling stone

When you wake up it's a new morning

The sun is shining it's a new morning

You're going, you're going home

BALLAD OF THE ANCIENT BRIT

I woke up this evening, I was feeling blue, wasn’t all that surprising, I'm an ancient Briton, who takes pride in his appearance, I indulge in every new visage. I don't argue,

With the leaders of the druids, ‘cause even if they knowed, that I think I have to bear a far too heavy woad. When they send me to battle down by the Roman road, they don't argue, I don't argue, you don't argue with druids.

I got up and went outside, a stranger was about. It was a Roman in the gloaming’, and he gave an awful shout when I whipped off me fig leaf, and flashed myself about, he didn't argue.

I ain’t got a secret weapon, it’s there for all to see, and in my turquoise birthday suit, I’m blue from head to knee. When the village maidens see it, they invite me up for tea, I don’t argue.

Now Merlin was a plumber, but he had got on quite far. An honoury druid appointed by queen Boudica, He was devious and shifty, like used khasi dealers are, one didn't argue with Merlin.

When he heard about the Roman, he looked shifty and he hissed "The time has come to rid out land of the imperialist" He jumped about as if possessed, I think that he was pissed, I didn't argue.

He said "Now take this liquid, put it in their aqueduct. It's made from special mushrooms that I myself have plucked, Eeh when the Romans drink it, they'll be rightly screwed up" I didn't argue, I didn't think much of his poetry though.

Well, I was going through the forest. when whom should I see there, but a beautiful camp follower, a camping in the air. She said “ Hello sailor, would you like to see me bare?” I didn't argue, I love animals.

Well being on a mission, I should have had more sense, but the sight of her proportions made me lower my defence, for I've heard with campers, the excitement is intense, I didn't argue.

As we lay down, a voice said "What’re you doing with my wife?” and I said "Just the usual", then a Roman stuck a knife halfway up me fundament, I shouted "Spare me life, and all" he didn't argue.

He said “You're for Londinium, where you will have to face, trial by cross section of the Roman populace, they'll be cross enough to crucify you in a market place, they don't argue in Londinium”

I was a manacled depressive, then I had an idea, I said “You must be weary soldier, have some British beer” and I pulled out Merlin's bottle, he said “Oh you are a dear” I didn't argue.

He took off my handcuffs, and we sat down on the grasses, and his bird pulled out a corkscrew and three plastic army glasses, and I said “Cheers, and strange how quickly one’s life passes” he didn’t argue.

He said “I'll drink to that, ‘cause I wish I was at home, or even on ‘le continent’ where all roads lead to Rome, but ‘till you lot join the market, I'm stuck in this battle zone” I didn't argue.

While we were sitting there and drinking, and it wasn't very late, when suddenly the ground turned pink and began to undulate, the Roman turned to me and said "was it something that we ate?” I didn’t argue, I couldn’t argue.

And suddenly I began to understood the true meaning of life and the nature of the universe, at last I understood.

Well, we thank you druid Merlin for your mushroom soup with weed in, Cause man, now I know where it’s at,

I'm through with tears, sweat and bleeding.

Me and the Roman's getting political asylum up in Sweden. They don't argue up there. Peace brother !

BARREL HOUSE WOMAN

I got a barrel house woman

She stay’s drunk all the time

I got a barrel house woman

She stay’s drunk all the time

She’s got a heart big and loving

She fuss and fight all the time

She wakes me up in the morning

Serves my breakfast in the bed

She wakes me up in the morning

Serves my breakfast in the bed

She washes my face and hands

And comb my doggone hair

She drinks so much whisky

She stays drunk all the time

She drinks so much whisky

She stays drunk all the time

She then raise hell with me

And talk talk all the time

Oh yes she do now

But she’s all right though

She only drinks a little bit a half a case

But she’s all right you know

That’s my woman

Yeah baby do what you want

I got a barrel house woman

She stay’s drunk all the time

I got a barrel house woman

She stay’s drunk all the time

Yeah but tell you baby

You sure have been good to me

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

My baby makes me proud lord don't she make me proud

She never makes a scene by hanging all over me in a crowd

'Cause people like to talk lord don't they love to talk

But when they turn out the light I know she'll be leaving with me

And when we get behind closed doors

And she let's her hair hang down

And she makes me glad that I'm a man

Oh no one knows what goes on behind closed doors

My baby makes me smile lord don't she make me smile

She's never cross with me or too tired to say I want you

She's always a lady just like a lady should be

But when they turn out that light she'll still be a baby to me

And when we get behind closed doors

And she let's her hair hang down

And she makes me glad that I'm a man

Oh no one knows what goes on behind closed doors

BELL BOTTOM BLUES

Bell bottom blues you make me cry

I don’t want to lose this feeling

And if I could choose a place to die

It would be in your arms

Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you

Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because

I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please

I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay

It’s all wrong but it’s all right

The way that you treat me baby

Once I was strong but I lost the fight

You won’t find a better loser

Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you

Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because

I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please

I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay

Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you

Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because

I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please

I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay

Bell bottom blues don’t say goodbye

Surely gonna meet again

And if we do don’t you be surprised

If you find me with another lover

Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you

Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because

I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please

I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay

I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please

I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay

I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please

I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay

BERRY RIDES AGAIN

Well thinking of my schooldays I remember Maybelline

I used to dance with her all night she was a little sweet sixteen

Her brother used to chase me he thought I did but I never could

I used to call him little queenie his name was Johnny B Goode

I used to hold her 'till I was older

Then I got bolder her brother used to scold her

I left her in the morning went back to Memphis Tennessee

You know her father never found me and that's all right with me

You know I went to New York city to find what could be found

Just for kicks style sixty six stomping outta town

Yes I went to California just to see what I could see

Well nobody knew just where I was and that's all right with me

You know I met a girl named Carol and her girlfriend sweet Nadine

Played rock and roll music used to kiss me in between

Roll over Beethoven that had to be my favourite song

But we never did much rolling I didn't stay there long

I used to hold her and try to mould her

Somebody told her Nadine and I were bolder

I left her in the morning went back to Memphis Tennessee

You know I never saw her face again and that's all right with me

I used to hold her and try to mould her

Somebody told her Nadine and I were bolder

I left her in the morning went back to Memphis Tennessee

You know I never saw her face again and that's all right with me

THE BEST OF MY LOVE

Every night I’m lying in bed

Holding you close in my dreams

Thinking about all the things that we said

And coming apart at the seams

We try to talk it over

But the words come out too rough

I know you were trying

To give me the best of your love

Beautiful faces and loud empty places

Look at the way that we live

Wasting our time on cheap talk and wine

Left us so little to give

The same old crowd was like a cold dark cloud

That we could never rise above

But here in my heart

I give you the best of my love

Oh, sweet darling you get the best of my love

Oh, sweet darling you get the best of my love

I’m going back in time and it’s a sweet dream

It was a quiet night and I would be all right

If I could go on sleeping

But every morning I wake up and worry

What’s gonna happen today

You see it your way, and I see it mine

But we both see it slipping away

You know we always had each other baby

I guess that wasn’t enough, oh

Oh, sweet darling you get the best of my love

Oh, sweet darling every night and day

You get the best of my love

BETTY BAPS THE BUXOM BARMAID

Now there’s a little ale house in the middle of our town

It’s sleazy and it’s grotty and they ought to pull it down

The food is always awful and the beer is always flat

But they’ve got one attraction that makes up for all that

The place is always crowded fellers come from near and far

By bus by train by bicycle by motorbike and car

To try and catch a glimpse of what is stood behind the bar

It’s Betty Baps the buxom barmaid

One day into our bar a Yankee film producer came

When he saw Betty’s bazookas he said crikey what a dame

You could be a megastar now what d’you think of that

And on the wide screen cinerama you could really knock them flat

Just sign this piece of paper and come across the sea

You’ll be bigger than Brigitte Bardot from the bits that I can see

Oh no said Betty, Brigitte’s only half as big as me

I’m Betty Baps the buxom barmaid

The navy came to see her once and said Betty dear we hope

You will launch our brand new warship with a bottle on a rope

We’ve a model of your bust in front, the enemy to scare

So we’re going to call it after you we think it’s only fair

But a splinter from the bottle caught the bodice of her gown

As she rapidly deflated, said the captain with a frown

All hands to the pumps my lads, me vessels going down

So’s Betty Baps the buxom barmaid

But a little boy scout standing by said “I have come prepared”

And with patches from his cycle bag her bosom he repaired

Then with his cycle pump her proportions he proceeded to restore

But when he had finished she was even larger than before

Now although we know that Betty isn’t everything she seems

We’re still by the bar indulging in our fantasies and dreams

Surrounded by the noise of Levi’s bursting at the seams

For Betty Baps the buxom barmaid

BIG BAD BILL IS SWEET WILLIAM NOW

In the town called Louisville

They got a man they call Big Bad Bill

I wanna tell you he sure was tough

And he certainly did strut his stuff

He had the folks all scared to death

When he walked by they all held their breath

He was the fightingest man sure enough

Then Bill took himself a wife

Now he leads a different life

‘Cause

Big Bad Bill is sweet William now

Married life has changed him somehow

He’s the man that they all used to fear

Now the people call him sweet papa Willy dear

Stronger than Samson I declare

‘Till a brown skinned woman went and bobbed his hair

Big Bad Bill don’t fight anymore

He washes dishes and he mops up that floor

Well he used to spend his evenings looking for a fight

But now he’s got to see his mamma every night

Big Bad Bill is sweet William now

Yes Big Bad Bill is sweet William now

Big Bad Bill is sweet William now

Married life has changed him somehow

He’s the man that they all used to fear

Now the people call him sweet papa Willy dear

Stronger than Samson I declare

‘Till a brown skinned woman went and bobbed his hair

Big Bad Bill don’t fight anymore

He washes dishes and he mops up that floor

Well he used to spend his evenings looking for a fight

But now he’s got to see his mamma every night

Big Bad Bill is sweet William now

Yes Big Bad Bill is sweet William now

BINTANG GLASS

Ha ha ha he he he

Bintang glass do I love thee

Come and live on my sideboard

Because my own I can’t afford

My wife and I live all alone

In a great big mansion we call home

The problem is, it’s bare you see

So Bintang glass come home with me

Ha ha ha he he he

Bintang glass do I love thee

Come and live on my sideboard

Because my own I can’t afford

Your contents down my throat I’ll throw

Then in my pocket you will go

When we get home some friends you’ll meet

My collection’s growing week by week

Ha ha ha he he he

Bintang glass do I love thee

Come and live on my sideboard

Because my own I can’t afford

BLACK DIAMONDS

Oh the clubs’ll make you wonder so don’t make that mistake

Way down black diamonds to be found

Spades are made for digging lads and hearts’ll only break

Looking for black diamonds a mile beneath the ground

And it’s way down black diamonds to be found

Down in the darkness that’s where we abound

And it’s way down black diamonds to be found

Shining in the lamplight a mile beneath the ground

Oh the dust’ll surely kill you but what else can you do

Way down black diamonds to be found

It’ll make your blood like ashes and your cuts and scars go blue

Looking for black diamonds a mile beneath the ground

And it’s way down black diamonds to be found

Down in the darkness that’s where we abound

And it’s way down black diamonds to be found

Shining in the lamplight a mile beneath the ground

Will you take a look around you the industry is ill

Way down black diamonds to be found

If McGregor doesn’t kill it then Scargill surely will

Looking for black diamonds a mile beneath the ground

And it’s way down black diamonds to be found

Down in the darkness that’s where we abound

And it’s way down black diamonds to be found

Shining in the lamplight a mile beneath the ground

See them wearing chains of silver and they’re wearing chains of gold

Way down black diamonds to be found

They’ll be grateful of black diamonds when the winter’s drawing cold

Looking for black diamonds a mile beneath the ground

And it’s way down black diamonds to be found

Down in the darkness that’s where we abound

And it’s way down black diamonds to be found

Shining in the lamplight a mile beneath the ground

Oh the clubs’ll make you wonder so don’t make that mistake

Way down black diamonds to be found

Spades are made for digging lads and hearts’ll only break

Looking for black diamonds a mile beneath the ground

And it’s way down black diamonds to be found

Down in the darkness that’s where we abound

And it’s way down black diamonds to be found

Shining in the lamplight a mile beneath the ground

BLACK IS BLACK

Black is black I want my baby back

It’s grey it’s grey since she went away oh ho

What can I do ‘cause I__ I’m feeling blue

If I had my way she’d be back today

But she don’t intend to see me again

What can I do ‘cause I__ I’m feeling blue

I can’t choose it’s too much to lose

My love’s too strong

Maybe if she would come back to me

Then it can’t go wrong

Bad is bad that’s why I feel so sad

It’s time it’s time that I found peace of mind

What can I do ‘cause I__ I’m feeling blue

I can’t choose it’s too much to lose

My love’s too strong

Maybe if she would come back to me

Then it can’t go wrong

BLACK MAGIC WOMAN

I got a black magic woman

I got a black magic woman

Yes I got a black magic woman

She's got me so blind I can't see

But she's a black magic woman

And she's trying to make a devil out of me

Don't turn your back on me baby

Don't turn your back on me baby

Don't turn your back on me baby

Stop messing round with your tricks

Don't turn your back on me baby

'Cause you just might wake up my magic sticks

You've got your spell on me baby

You've got your spell on me baby

Yes you've got your spell on me baby

Turning my heart into stone

I need you so bad magic woman

I can't leave you alone

BLACK PEARL

Black pearl precious little girl

Let me put you up where you belong

Black pearl precious little girl

You've been in the background much too long

You've been working so hard your whole life through

Tending other people's houses raising up their children too

How about something for me and you

You're in my arms you're gonna reign supreme

No other people's children they've gotta serve my dream

So just to happiness

And our day has come

Leaving for our own life and answering to my one

Black pearl precious little girl

Let me put you up where you belong

Black pearl precious little girl

You've been in the background much too long

Together we stand so great and so tall

Created by love to love one and all

Heart to heart and soul to soul

No other one could ever take your place

My world is built around every smile that is on your face

You'd never win a beauty show

Though they won't need you

But you're my miss phenomenal and I love you

Black pearl precious little girl

Let me put you up where you belong

Black pearl precious little girl

You've been in the background much too long

Black pearl precious little girl

Let me put you up where you belong

Black pearl precious little girl

You've been in the background much too long

BLACK VELVET BAND

As I went walking down Broadway not intending to stay very long

I met with a frolicsome damsel as she came tripping along

A watch she pulled out of her pocket and slipped it right into my hand

On the very first day that I met her bad luck to the black velvet band

And her eyes they shone like diamonds

I thought her the queen of the land

And her hair hung over her shoulders

Tied up with a black velvet band

‘Twas in the town of Tralee an apprentice to trade I was bound

With plenty of bright amusement to see the days go round

Till misfortune and trouble came over me which caused me to stray from my land

Far away from my friends and relations to follow the black velvet band

And her eyes they shone like diamonds

I thought her the queen of the land

And her hair hung over her shoulders

Tied up with a black velvet band

Before the judge and the jury the both of us had to appear

And the gentleman swore to the jewellery the case against us was clear

For seven years transportation right unto Van Diemens Land

Far away from my friends and relations to follow the black velvet band

And her eyes they shone like diamonds

I thought her the queen of the land

And her hair hung over her shoulders

Tied up with a black velvet band

Oh come all you brave young Irish lads a warning take by me

Beware of the pretty young damsels that are knocking around in Tralee

They’ll treat you to whiskey and porter until you’re unable to stand

And before you have time for to leave them you’re off unto Van Diemen’s Land

And her eyes they shone like diamonds

I thought her the queen of the land

And her hair hung over her shoulders

Tied up with a black velvet band

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night

Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night

Madman drummers bummers and Indians

In the summer with a teenage diplomat

In the dumps with the mumps

As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat

With a boulder on my shoulder feelin’ kinda older

I tripped the merry go round

With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing

This calliope crashed to the ground

Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night

Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night

Some silicone sister with her manager’s mister

Told me I got what it takes

She said I’ll turn you on sonny to something strong

If you play that song with the funky break

A go cart Mozart was checking out the weather chart

To see if it was safe to go outside

And little Early Pearly came by in her curly wurly

And asked me if I needed a ride

Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night

Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night

Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night

Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night

BLOODY WELL RIGHT

So you think your schooling's phoney

I guess it's hard not to agree

You say it all depends on money

And who is in your family tree

Right right you're bloody well right

You've got a bloody right to say

Right you're bloody well right

You know you've got a right to say

Ha ha you're bloody well right

You know you've got a right to say

Yeah yeah you're bloody well right

You know you've got a right to say

Me I don't care anyway

Write your problems down in detail

Take them to a higher place

You've had your cry no I shouldn't say where

And in the meantime hush your face

Right right you're bloody well right

You've got a bloody right to say

Right you're bloody well right

You know you've got a right to say

Ha ha you're bloody well right

You know you've got a right to say

Yeah yeah you're bloody well right

You know you've got a right to say

You've got a bloody right to say

You've got a bloody right to say

You've got a bloody right to say

You've got a bloody right to say

BLOWIN' IN THE WIND

How many roads must a man walk down

Before you can call him a man

How many seas must a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand

How many times must the cannon balls fly

Before they're forever banned

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind

How many years can a mountain exist

Before it's washed to the sea

How many years can some people exist

Before they're allowed to be free

How many times can a man turn his head

Pretending he just doesn't see

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind

How many times must a man look up

Before he can see the sky

How many ears must one man have

Before he can hear people cry

And how many deaths will it take till he knows

That too many people have died

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind

BLUE COAT MAN

Well the house was rocking

And we were having fun

The house was rocking

And we were having fun

Till that blue coat man

Walked in with that big gun

You know I got scared

And my baby she broke and run

I got scared

And my baby she broke and run

She knocked over that whisky jug

Don’t you know I didn’t get none

Well they’ve taken us to jail

But they let my baby go free

They’ve taken us to jail

But they let my baby go free

‘Cause I took the blame

And my gal paid the fine for me

Well they’ve taken us to jail

But they let my baby go free

They’ve taken us to jail

But they let my baby go free

‘Cause I took the blame

And my gal paid the fine for me

Now me and my baby

We’re gonna take a long long ride

Me and my baby

We’re gonna take a long long ride

She got me out of that jail

Don’t you know that I’m satisfied

BLUE SUEDE SHOES

Well it's one for the money two for the show

Three to get ready now go cat go

But don't you step on my blue suede shoes

Well you can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes

You can knock me down step on my face

Slander my name all over the place

Well do anything that you want to do

But aha honey lay off of them shoes

And don't you step on my blue suede shoes

You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes

Well you can burn my house steal my car

Drink my liquor from an old fruit jar

Well do anything that you want to do

But aha honey lay off of them shoes

And don't you step on my blue suede shoes

You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes

Well it's one for the money two for the show

Three to get ready now go cat go

But don't you step on my blue suede shoes

Well you can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes

Well it's blue blue blue suede shoes

Blue blue blue suede shoes

Blue blue blue suede shoes

Blue blue blue suede shoes

You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes

BOAT ON THE RIVER

Take me back to my boat on the river

I need to go down, I need to come down

Take me back to my boat on the river

And I won't cry out anymore

Time stands still as I gaze in her water

She eases me down, touching me gently

With the waters that flow past my boat on the river

So I don't cry out anymore

Oh, the river is wide

The river it touches my life like the waves on the sand

And all roads lead to tranquillity base

Where the frown on my face disappears

Take me down to my boat on the river

And I won't cry out anymore

Oh, the river is deep

The river it touches my life like the waves on the sand

And all roads lead to tranquillity base

Where the frown on my face disappears

Take me down to my boat on the river

I need to go down, won't you let me go down

Take me back to my boat on the river

And I won't cry out anymore

And I won't cry out anymore

And I won't cry out anymore

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Is this the real life, is this just fantasy ?

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.

Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see,

I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,

Because I’m easy come, easy go, little high, little low,

Any way the wind blows doesn’t really matter to me, to me,

Mama, just killed a man,

Put a gun against his head,

Pulled my trigger now he’s dead.

Mama, life had just begun,

But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away.

Mama, ooh, didn’t mean to make you cry,

If I’m not back again this time tomorrow,

Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters.

Too late, my time has come,

Sends shivers down my spine,

Body’s aching all the time,

Goodbye everybody, I’ve got to go,

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.

Mama, ooh, I don’t want to die,

I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all.

I see a little silhouetto of a man,

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango,

Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me,

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Figaro, magnifico.

I’m just a poor boy, nobody loves me,

He’s just a poor boy from a poor family,

Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go.

Bismillah, no, we will not let you go, let him go,

Bismillah, we will not let you go, let him go,

Bismillah, we will not let you go, let me go,

Will not let you go, let me go,

Will not let you go, let me go, ah, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go,

Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.

So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye,

So you think you can love me and leave me to die,

Oh, baby, can’t do this to me baby,

Just gotta get out, just gotta get right out of here.

Nothing really matters, anyone can see, nothing really mattered, nothing really matters, to me.

Any way the wind blows.

BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN

Ye maidens and widows I pray give attention

Unto these few lines I’m going to mention

Here’s a maid in distraction she’s now going to wander

She relies on King George for the loss of hew lover

Broken hearted I’ll wander for the loss of my lover

He’s my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain

Three long years and six months since he left England’s shore

My bonny light horseman I’ll see him no more

When he’s mounted on horseback so gallant and brave

And among all the soldiers respected he was

Broken hearted I’ll wander for the loss of my lover

He’s my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain

See how she laments for the loss of her mate

Oh where shall I wander my true love she says

There’s no mortal breathing my favour shall gain

Since my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain

Broken hearted I’ll wander for the loss of my lover

He’s my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain

If I was an eagle in the air I would fly

Till I came to the field where my true love does lie

And with these fond wings I’d spread over his grave

And kiss the dead lips that lie cold in the clay

Broken hearted I’ll wander for the loss of my lover

He’s my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain

When Boney commanded his troops for to stand

And bow to the banners so gay and so grand

He fixed up his cannons the victory to gain

And my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain

Broken hearted I’ll wander for the loss of my lover

He’s my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain

BORN TO BE WILD

Get your motor running

Head out on the highway

Looking for adventure

In whatever comes our way

Yeah darling gonna make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of the guns and watch them

Explode into space

I like smoke and lightning

Heavy metal thunder

Racing with the wind

And the feeling that I'm under

Yeah darling gonna make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of the guns and watch them

Explode into space

Like a true nature's child

We were born born to be wild

We can climb so high

I never wanna die

Born to be wild

Get your motor running

Head out on the highway

Looking for adventure

In whatever comes our way

Yeah darling gonna make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of the guns and watch them

Explode into space

Like a true nature's child

We were born born to be wild

We can climb so high

I never wanna die

Born to be wild

Born to be wild

THE BOXER

I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told

I have squandered my resistance

For a pocketful of mumbles such are promises

All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear

And disregards the rest lie la la la la la la la la la la

When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy

In the company of strangers

In the quiet of a railway station running scared

Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters

Were the ragged people go

Looking for the places, only they would know

Lie la lie lie la lie la la lie la lie lie la la la la la la la la la la

Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job

But I get no offers,

Just a Come on from the whores on Seventh Avenue

I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome

I took some comfort there lie la la la la la la la la la la

Lie la lie lie la lie la la lie la lie lie la la la la la la la la la la

Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone

Going home,

Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me

Leading me, going home

In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade

And he carries the reminders

Of every glove that laid him down or cut him 'til he cried out

In his anger and his shame, I am leaving, I am leaving

But the fighter still remains lie la la la la la la la la la la

Lie la lie lie la lie la la lie la lie lie la la la la la la la la la la

Lie la lie lie la lie la la lie la lie lie la la la la la la la la la la

BREAKIN' UP IS HARD TO DO

Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down

Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down

Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down

Breaking up is hard to do

Don't take your love away from me

Don't you leave my heart in misery

If you go then I'll be blue

'Cause breaking up is hard to do

Remember when you hold me tight

And then you kissed me all through the night

Think of all that we've been through

'Cause breaking up is hard to do

Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down

Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down

Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down

Breaking up is hard to do

I beg of you don't say good-bye

Can't we give our love another try

And maybe it'll start anew

'Cause breaking up is hard to do

I beg of you don't say good-bye

Can't we give our love another try

And maybe it'll start anew

'Cause breaking up is hard to do

Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down

Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down

Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down

Breaking up is hard to do

BRITISH BOBBY

I’m a British bobby, I pound the bobby’s beat

You can tell it’s me what’s pounding by the banging of me feet

It’s the bobby’s way of keeping warm inside his stylish uniform

I am a British bobby from the wilds of old Dock Green

Why I joined the police force I will never know

‘Cause I was almost human ‘till about a year ago

But one consolation to me song the customer is always wrong

I am a British bobby from the wilds of old Dock Green

Pounding on me beat boys makes me very tired

But I’m not looking foreward to when they put me out to grass

Some day I’ll get a panda car and I’ll get blisters on me elbow

I am an idle bobby from the wilds of old Dock Green

Good old cannibis resin we like it quite a lot

And if the truth be known boys what a lot we’ve got

It’s issued to us every day for planting in a crafty way

I am a turned on bobby freaking out in old Dock Green

Some days are not so good and some are even worse

Every day’s a pint a day, after hours of course

Me ‘elmet tucked beneath me arm, I please the landlord with me charm

I am a tanked up bobby driving back to old Dock Green

I caught a girl soliciting where I knew I would

I took her in me bobby box and cautioned her right good

I took down her name with a frown and that’s not all that I took down

I am a virile bobby populating old Dock Green

And when I gets too old for it a fight I just can’t win

Me ‘elmet and me truncheeon I’ll ‘ave to ‘and ‘em in

Hang me whistle on an ‘ook close me little notey book

I’ll be a clapped out bobby carried out from old Dock Green

BROWN EYED GIRL

Hey where did we go days when the rains came

Down in the hollow playing a new game

Laughing and a running hey hey skipping and a jumping

In the misty morning with our hearts a thumping

And you my brown eyed girl you my brown eyed girl

Whatever happened to Tuesday and so slow

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio

Standing in the sunlight laughing hiding 'neath a rainbow wall

Slipping and a sliding all along the waterfall

With you my brown eyed girl you my brown eyed girl

Do you remember when we used to sing

Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la te da

Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la te da la te da

So hard to find my way now that I'm on my own

I saw you just the other day my how you have grown

Cast my memory back there lord sometimes I'm overcome thinking 'bout it

Laughing and a running hey hey behind the stadium

With you my brown eyed girl you my brown eyed girl

Do you remember when we used to sing

Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la te da

Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la te da la te da

BROWN SUGAR

Gold coast slave ship round the cotton fields

Sold in a market down in New Orleans

Scarred old slaver knows he's doing all right

Hear him whip the women just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good

Brown sugar just like a young girl should

Drums beating cold English blood runs hot

Lady of the house wondering where it's gonna stop

House boy knows that he's doing all right

You should have heard him just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good

Brown sugar just like a young girl should

Brown sugar how come you taste so good

Brown sugar just like a black girl should

I bet your mamma was a tent show queen

And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen

I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like

You should have heard me just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good

Brown sugar just like a young girl should

I said yeah yeah yeah ooh

How come yer how come yer taste so good

Yeah yeah yeah ooh

Just like a just like a black girl should

Yeah yeah yeah ooh

BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP

Why do you build me up buttercup baby

Just to let me down and mess me around

And then worst of all you never call baby

When you say you will but I love you still

I need you more than anyone darling

You know that I have from the start

So build me up buttercup

Don't break my heart

I'll be over at ten you tell me time and again

But you're late I wait around and then

I run to the door I can't take any more

It's not you you let me down again

To you I'm a toy but I could be the boy

You adore if you just let me know

And though you're untrue I'm attracted to you

More and more why do I need you so

Baby baby try to find

A little time and I'll make you happy

I'll be home waiting beside the 'phone

Waiting for you ooh ooh

Why do you build me up buttercup baby

Just to let me down and mess me around

And then worst of all you never call baby

When you say you will but I love you still

I need you more than anyone darling

You know that I have from the start

So build me up buttercup

Don't break my heart

BULLFROG BLUES

Did you ever wake up with them bullfrogs on your mind

Well did you ever wake up with them bullfrogs on your mind

You had to sit down laughing laughing just to keep from crying

Did you ever wake up with that one woman on your mind

Did you ever wake up with that one woman on your mind

You had to sit down laughing laughing just to keep from crying

My mamma got ‘em my father got ‘em my sister got ‘em my brother got ‘em

I woke up this morning grandmother had them too

What d’you know about that I’ve got the bullfrog blues bullfrog

My mamma got ‘em my father got ‘em my sister got ‘em my brother got ‘em

I woke up this morning grandmother had them too

What d’you know about that I’ve got the bullfrog blues

I called up the doctor I wasn’t feeling so well

I called up the doctor I wasn’t feeling so well

He looked inside his bag and said well well

You don’t need no doctor you don’t need no pill

You don’t need no doctor you don’t need no pill

Just take my advice I sure know how to cure your ills

If you go down to New Orleans prettiest place you’ve ever seen

Get on down to the river bed that’s where the music never ends

Open your ears and don’t it feel good get one hell of a shot of rhythm and blues

Go on down to New Orleans the greatest place you’ve ever been

Head on down to the river bed hear the music of them Cajun bands

Honky tonk piano makes you feel good open your ears rhythm and blues

Did you ever wake up with them bullfrogs on your mind

Well did you ever wake up with them bullfrogs on your mind

You had to sit down laughing laughing just to keep from crying

Did you ever wake up with that one woman on your mind

Did you ever wake up with that one woman on your mind

You had to sit down laughing laughing just to keep from crying

BYE BYE JOHNNY

She drew out all her money from the Southern Trust

And put her little boy upon a greyhound bus

Leaving Louisiana for the golden west

Down came the tears from her happiness

Her own little son name of Johnny B Goode

Was gonna make some motion pictures down in Hollywood

She said bye bye bye bye

Bye bye bye bye

She said bye bye Johnny

Goodbye Johnny B Goode

She remembered making money from the gallery crop

The father joined his kids around the broker's shop

As long as she could play around the railroad side

And he wouldn't get in trouble she'd be satisfied

She never thought there'd ever come a day like this

When she would have to give her son a goodbye kiss

She said bye bye bye bye

Bye bye bye bye

She said bye bye Johnny

Goodbye Johnny B Goode

She finally got the letter she'd been dreaming of

When Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love

As soon as they were married he would bring her back

And build for her a mansion by the railroad track

So every time they heard the locomotives roar

They’d be standing waiting by the kitchen door

She said bye bye bye bye

Bye bye bye bye

She said bye bye Johnny

Goodbye Johnny B Goode

BYE BYE, LOVE

Bye bye, love

Bye bye, happiness

Hello loneliness, I think I'm gonna cry

Bye bye, love

Bye bye, sweet caress

Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die

Bye bye, my love, goodbye

There goes my baby with someone new

She sure looks happy, I sure am blue

She was my baby, 'til he stepped in

Good-bye to romance that might have been

Bye bye, love

Bye bye, happiness

Hello loneliness, I think I'm gonna cry

Bye bye, love

Bye bye, sweet caress

Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die

Bye bye, my love, goodbye

I'm through with romance, I'm through with love

I'm through with counting the stars above

And here's the reason why I'm so free

My loving baby is through with me

Bye bye, love

Bye bye, happiness

Hello loneliness, I think I'm gonna cry

Bye bye, love

Bye bye, sweet caress

Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die

Bye bye, my love, goodbye

CAN BLUE MEN SING THE WHITES

I was lying in my bed pulled the silken sheets up tight

I’ve gotta keep my strength up gonna do a show tonight

I have a sip of coffee while I’m taking in the news

Don’t need to have a shave ‘cause I’ve gotta sing the blues

Oh shit man

Then I think I’ll get a massage maybe lose a little fat

So I have to go down town in my brand new cadillac

My bodyguard addresses me I light a big cigar

‘Cause I like to look like Nimrod when I’m riding in my car

Can blue men sing the whites or are they hypocrites for singing blues

And now it’s getting near the time I’ve gotta make the scene

I change out my dark brown mohair suit put on my dirty jeans

The band comes round to pick me up I holler “Hello boys”

I gotta mess my hair up I’m gonna make some noise

Can blue men sing the whites or are they hypocrites for singing blues

CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE

Well I take whatever I want

And baby I want you

You gave me something I need

Now tell me I got something for you

Come on come on come on and do it

Come on honey do what you do

I can't get enough of your love

I can't get enough of your love

I can't get enough of your love

Well it's late and I want love

Love is gonna break me in two

Don't hang me up in the doorway

Don't hang me up like you do

Come on come on come on and do it

Come on honey do what you do

I can't get enough of your love

I can't get enough of your love

I can't get enough of your love

CANADIAN IN JAKARTA

I woke up this morning with a hard-on

Which threatened to block out the sun

I thought I would take it to Tambora

And show it how to have some fun

I picked up a doggy in the Top Gun

Which looked good enough to take home

But when I felt and groped it in the becak

I found that the dog had a bone

Too drunk to eject it from the becak

Too sober to take it to bed

We rode round town for about an hour

Whilst it was still giving me head

We went to a club in deepest Blok-M

It was called the intercourse

Where the girls all spoke softly in whispers

Cause to give too much head makes them hoarse

It happened that night there was a floor show

Where ladies pulled things from their cunts

They must have thought I looked pretty horny

Cause they gave me a seat at the front

At first she pulled out a bunch of flowers

All tied up in ribbons and bows

But when she pulled out my bloody wallet

I thought it was time to go home

I bummed round town for a little longer

Having the time of my life

Suddenly I heard gun-fire

Oh shit, I’ve been shot by my wife

Now ashtrays can hurt you pretty badly

Especially when thrown by a whore

A knife can fuck you up in a bad way

But a bullet fucks you a lot more

When we got home she said she wasn’t angry

And said she wanted to fuck

But she pulled out a knife and chopped my cock off

And fed it with rice to the duck

So if you ever wake without a hard-on

Or worse it’s been chopped off instead

I know a girl by the name of Molly

Who’s damned good at raising the dead

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

I'm a pogeen from Cholowogeen

I've got money and acres of land

I'm looking for a honey with a bit of money

So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man

And I'm off to Listonvarna at the end of the year

I'm off for a bit of crack and the women and the beer

I'm awful shifty for a man of fifty

So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man

I like the ceilidh the Stack of Barley

I like the waltzes the jigs and the reels

I like the swinging when big Tom is singing

So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man

And I'm off to Listonvarna at the end of the year

I'm off for a bit of crack and the women and the beer

I'm awful shifty for a man of fifty

So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man

I've got a brother who's in the Gardy

I've got an uncle who's down at the Doyle

He's quite a farmer he's a mighty charmer

So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man

And I'm off to Listonvarna at the end of the year

I'm off for a bit of crack and the women and the beer

I'm awful shifty for a man of fifty

So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man

And to conclude now and finish my story

If there's a young woman looking for a man

Take the bus from Barna down to Listonvarna

Catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man

And I'm off to Listonvarna at the end of the year

I'm off for a bit of crack and the women and the beer

I'm awful shifty for a man of fifty

So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man

CAUGHT IN THE ACT

Got the summons served on a Sunday see what I’ve done

Couldn’t see much sense in the charges but they sure sounded like fun

So I went down town up to Bow Street to see the company man

Hey boy you’re in a heap of trouble but I’ll do everything that I can

But the judge is a grudge man yes that’s a fact

The judge is a grudge man you know that’s a fact

Hope you don’t ever get caught in the act

Sorry for the damage I’ve done, I’ll try to pay it back

The only crime I’ve ever committed was being caught in the act

So the next time that you feel good don’t forget the fact

There’s a man in blue when he want’s you to be caught in the act

Yeah the judge is a grudge man yes that’s a fact

The judge is a grudge man you know that’s a fact

Hope you don’t ever get caught in the act

Well the judge is a grudge man yes that’s a fact

The judge is a grudge man you know that’s a fact

Hope you don’t ever get caught in the act

Hope you don’t ever get caught in the act

CAUGHT SHORT

Once a poor old hasher ,

Got caught short upon a hash run,

Under the rain of the Bandung skies.

As he slipped, and he slid,

And he squelched all through the shiggy pit,

This sudden call of nature took him quite by surprise.

On-out you hashers, on-on you hashers,

On-in you hashers, and down down a beer.

There's still somebody lost in the paddy fields and undergrowth,

And it'll be goodnight hashers, before he gets here.

He then ran out of paper,

And lost sight of other runners,

It was hours since he'd heard "On-on" from anyone.

Then the thought came to his head,

"Sod this for a game of soldiers"

And he stopped for a beer, in the nearest kampung.

On-out you hashers, on-on you hashers,

On-in you hashers, and down down a beer.

There's still somebody lost in the paddy fields and undergrowth,

And it'll be goodnight hashers, before he gets here.

He supped a few warm Bintangs,

And they offered him some rice wine,

Under a palm tree he stopped for a nap.

Then he caught an angkutan,,

'Till he thought he saw some paper,

And ran down to the on-in, as his strength began to sap.

On-out you hashers, on-on you hashers,

On-in you hashers, and down down a beer.

There's still somebody lost in the paddy fields and undergrowth,

And it'll be goodnight hashers, before he gets here.

Under the umbrella,

Was only Fanta and some cherryade,

He'd slept until Wednesday, it was the puppy bash.

So let this be a lesson,

Don't run out of paper,

If you get caught short, especially on the hash !

On-out you hashers, on-on you hashers,

On-in you hashers, and down down a beer.

There's still somebody lost in the paddy fields and undergrowth,

And it'll be goodnight hashers, before he gets here.

CHAINS OF MYSTERY

People what have you done

Locked him in a golden cage golden cage

Made him bend to your religion

Him resurrected from the grave from the grave

He is the god of nothing

If that is all that you can see

You are the god of everything

He’s inside you and me

So lean upon him gently

And don’t call upon him to save

You from your social graces grow

And a sense you’re used to brave you’re used to brave

And the bloody church of England

In chains of mystery

Requests your earthly presence

At the bigger wreck from sea

And the graven image you know who

With his plastic crucifix he’s got him fixed

Confuses me as to who and where and why

After how he gets his kicks he gets his kicks

Confessing to the endless sin

The endless whining sounds

You’ll be praying till next birthday

To all the gods that you can count

THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

Riding on the City of New Orleans

Illinois Central Monday morning rail

Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders

Three conductors and twenty five sacks of mail

All out on a southbound odyssey

The train pulls out of Kankakee

Rolling past the houses farms and fields

Passing towns that have no name

And freight yards full of old black men

And graveyards full of rusted Automobiles

Singing good morning America how are you

Don’t you know me I’m your native son

I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans

I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Dealing cards with the old men in the club car

Penny a point and no one’s keeping score

Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle

Feel the wheels a rumbling ‘neath the floor

And the sons of Pullman porters

And the sons of engineers

Ride their fathers’ magic carpet made of steel

And mothers with their babes asleep

Are rocking to the gentle beat

The rhythm of the rails is all they feel

Singing good morning America how are you

Don’t you know me I’m your native son

I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans

I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Night time on the City of New Orleans

Changing cars at Memphis Tennessee

Halfway home and we’ll be there by morning

Through the Mississippi darkness rolling to the sea

But all the towns and people seem

To fade into one bad dream

And the steel rail hasn’t heard the news

The conductor sings his song again

Passengers will please refrain

This train has got the disappearing railroad blues

Singing good morning America how are you

Don’t you know me I’m your native son

I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans

I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

CITY TO CITY

Now the night train is waiting, to take me away

And I’m still feeling guilty about wanting you to stay

Well I know, how I know, it’s harder on you

But then you said it yourself, there’s nothing else we can do

When the wheels start turning, taking me through the night

Out there in the darkness, there’s a star shining bright

And the needs treated better, just to see you down there

Hope you’re thinking about it, and you know I still care

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

Now I know you’ve been waiting, I’ll be seeing you soon

Meanwhile I’ll just stay here, and stare at the moon

And that light painted silver, through my window it creeps

And the train keeps on rolling and just rocks me to sleep

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

Now from city to city, it’s four hundred miles

And I’m bound to wake up every once in a while

And each day that I call up, Just somehow you come

And you can go back to sleep, cause I’ll be home in an hour

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home

I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home

I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home

I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home

I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home

COCAINE

If you want to hang out,

You've got to take her out,

Cocaine.

If you want to get down,

Get down on the ground,

Cocaine.

She don't lie, she don't lie,

She don't lie,

Cocaine.

If you got bad news,

You want to kick them blues,

Cocaine.

When your day is done,

And you want to ride on,

Cocaine.

She don't lie, she don't lie,

She don't lie,

Cocaine.

If your thing is gone,

And you want to ride on,

Cocaine.

Don't forget this fact.

You can't get back,

Cocaine.

She don't lie, she don't lie,

She don't lie,

Cocaine.

She don't lie, she don't lie,

She don't lie,

Cocaine.

COME BACK

Come back,

Baby come back,

Baby come back,

Baby come back,

This is the first time I feel today

That you have run away

I'm asking you for the first time

Love me so fine and stay stay stay stay

Come back,

Baby come back,

Baby come back,

Baby come back,

There ain't no use in crying

'Cause I'm more hurt than you

I should not have been that flirting

But now my love it isn't true true true true

Come back,

Baby come back,

Baby come back,

Baby come back,

Come back baby don't you leave me

Baby, baby, don't you go

Oh won't you give me a second chance

Baby, I love you so so so so

Come back,

Baby come back,

Baby come back,

Baby come back,

COSMIC AND FREAKY

It was cosmic and freaky on a midsummer’s day

And the vibes from the meadows man they blew me away

And the blackbirds and thrushes they were into their own thing

And the larks got off on music man like all they did was sing

And the larks got off on music

And the larks got off on music

And the larks got off on music man like all they did was sing

Now a freak and his old lady were a tripping through the heather

Said the freak to his old lady man my head’s not together

So I’m off to San Francisco where the alpha waves roam free

And the highs you get on skateboards have transcended LSD

And the highs you get on skateboards

And the highs you get on skateboards

And the highs you get on skateboards

And the highs you get on skateboards have transcended LSD

Now a picture of his earth shoes she instantly drew

Saying man that’s where my head’s at and I’m still in tune with you

And as they dug each other’s head space tears in her eyes he could see

She said can I come and he said no, man don’t lay that trip on me

She said can I come and he said no

She said can I come and he said no

She said can I come and he said no

She said can I come and he said no, man don’t lay that trip on me

He said listen babe it’s getting heavy and I’m not into what’s going down

For my taxi meter’s ticking and I’m turned off this town

But you’ll still be my old lady if you’re ever in San Francisco

After all man you’re a Pisces and I’m a Scorpio

After all man you’re a Pisces

After all man you’re a Pisces

After all man you’re a Pisces

After all man you’re a Pisces and I’m a Scorpio

COUNTRY ROADS

Almost heaven West Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenendoa river

Life is old there older than the trees,

Younger than the mountains flowing on the breeze

Country road take me home to the place I belong

West Virginia mountain mama take me home country roads

All my memories gather round her

Miners lady stranger to Blue Water

Dark and dusty painted on the sky

Dusky taste of moonshine teardrops in my eyes

Country roads take me home to the place I belong

West Virginia mountain mama take me home country roads

I hear her voice in the morning how she calls to me

The radio reminds me of my home far away

And driving down the road I get the feeling

That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads take me home to the place I belong

West Virginia mountain mama take me home country roads

COWPOKE SONG

Well I was sitting by the campfire picking my nose

Using my toothbrush to clean between my toes

When who should I see up on the horizon

Who should it be but the girl I adore

Charlotte the starlet the Hollywood bore

And when I saw her I had to break into this song

Yippee yi yo yippee yi yay

I like to see those udders sway from side to side

I want to be a cowpoke just poking cows all day

Well Charlotte’s forty fat and fruity hear my song

Her foundation garments are by Dormond Long

She’s so to speak my little prairie flower

I pine for her wine and dine her but she won’t give in

So I feed her brandy vodka whisky rum and paraffin

She’s given up sex and lighting cigarettes so I sing my song to you

Yippee yi yo yippee yi yay....etc.

Well I’ve been sitting here all day long

Waiting for Rolf Harris to discover this song

And take it to the U.K. and play it on T.V.

It might even win the Eurovision song contest

The tune really stinks so it should come off best

I let the coyotes coyote by the light of the moon in June

Yippee yi yo yippee yi yay....etc.

Now I like to sing a country and western

With my cowboy Stetson and my cowboy vest on

And my cowboy boots pulled up to my cowboy knees

Hitch up my horse hitch up my pants

Adopt my cowboy song singing stance

When I get to the part where the song comes right from the heart

Yippee yi yo yippee yi yay....etc.

Now Sitting Bull was sitting sullenly carving his totem

When the silly bugger dropped a nine inch chisel on his left foot

His cries they lasted all through the prairie night

He used to be a stud but now his sex life’s dropped off

The squaws all ignore him they laugh and they scoff

He gets no more love calls since they heard about his accident

So I sing my song to you

Yippee yi yo yippee yi yay....etc.

CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE

This thing called love I just can’t handle it

This thing called love I must get around to it

I ain’t ready crazy little thing called love

This thing called love it cries in the cradle all night

It swings it jives shakes all over like a jellyfish

Kinda like it crazy little thing called love

There goes my baby she knows how to rock and roll

She drives me crazy she gives me hot and cold fever

She leaves me in a cool cool sweat

I’ve gotta be cool relaxed get in and get on my tracks

Take a back seat hitch hike take a long ride on a motorbike

Then I’m ready a crazy little thing called love

I’ve gotta be cool relaxed get in and get on my tracks

Take a back seat hitch hike take a long ride on a motorbike

Till I’m ready a crazy little thing called love

This thing called love I just can’t handle it

This thing called love I must get around to it

I’m ain’t ready crazy little thing called love

Crazy little thing called love

Crazy little thing called love

Crazy little thing called love

CROSSROADS

I went down to the crossroads

Fell down on my knees

Down to the crossroads

Fell down on my knees

I tried to beg for mercy

Baby if you please

I went down to the crossroads

Tried to pack a ride

I went down to the crossroads

Tried to pack a ride

Nobody wanna stop for me

Everybody passed me by

I'm going down to Rosedale

Take my rider by my side

I'm going down to Rosedale

Take my rider by my side

You can still buy a house babe

On the riverside

I'm going down to Rosedale

Take my rider by my side

I'm going down to Rosedale

Take my rider by my side

You can still buy a house babe

On the riverside

You can run you can run

Tell my old friend Willie Brown

You can run you can run

Tell my old friend Willie Brown

And I'm standing at the crossroads

Believe I'm sinking down

D’YER MAKER

Oh oh oh oh oh you don’t have to go

Oh oh oh oh you don’t have to go

Oh oh oh oh you don’t have to go

You don’t have to go

I I I I I all those tears I cried

I I I I all those tears I cried

Oh oh ah I baby please

Don’t go

When I read the letter you wrote me you made me mad mad mad

When I read the words that it told me you made me sad sad sad

But I still love you so I can’t let you go

I love you oh baby I love you

Oh oh oh oh oh every breath I take

Oh oh oh oh you oh every move I make

Oh baby please don’t go

I I I I I I you hurt me to my soul

Oh oh oh oh you hurt me to my soul

Darling please don’t go

When I read the letter you sent me you made me mad mad mad

When I read the news that it broke you made me sad sad sad

But I still love you so and I can’t let you go

I love you oh baby I love you

Oh oh oh oh oh you don’t have to go

Oh oh oh oh you don’t have to go

Oh oh oh oh oh baby babe please

Please please please

Ah ah ah ah ah ah baby

Ah ah I really love you baby

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh darling

Oh ... oh ... ah ... baby I still love you so

Oh baby I still love you so

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Ah ah ah ah ah

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Ah ah ah ah ah

DA DOO RON RON

I met her on a Monday and my heart stood still

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Somebody told me that her name was Jill

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Yes, my heart stood still,

Yes, her name was Jill

And when she walked me home

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

She knew what she was doing when she caught my eye

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

She looked so quiet, but my oh my

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Yes, she caught my eye

Yes, but my oh my

And when she walked me home

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

She picked me up at seven and she looked so fine

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Some day soon I'm gonna make her mine

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Yes, she looked so fine

Yes, I'm gonna make her mine

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron

DANCE DANCE DANCE

My grandpa he’s ninety five

He keeps on dancing he’s still alive

My grandma she’s ninety two

She likes to dance and sing some too

I don’t know but I’ve been told

If you keep on dancing you’ll never grow old

Come on darling put a pretty dress on

We’re gonna go out tonight

Dance dance dance

Dance dance dance

Dance dance dance

All night long

I’m a hard working man I’m a son of a gun

I’ve been working all week in the noon day sun

The wood’s in the kitchen and the cow’s in the barn

I’m all cleaned up my chores are all done

Take my hand and come along

Let’s go out and have some fun

Come on darling put a pretty dress on

We’re gonna go out tonight

Dance dance dance

Dance dance dance

Dance dance dance

All night long

Come on darling don’t look that way

Don’t you know when you smile I’ve got to say

You’re my honey bumpkin lover you’re my hearts delight

Don’t you want to go out tonight

You’re such a pretty lady, you’re such a sweet girl

When you dance it lightens up my world

Come on darling put a pretty dress on

We’re gonna go out tonight

Dance dance dance

Dance dance dance

Dance dance dance

All night long

DAYDREAM BELIEVER

I could hide 'neath the wings

Of a blue bird as she sings

The six o'clock alarm would never ring

But it rings and I rise

Wash the sleep out of my eyes

The shaving razor's cold and it stings

Cheer up sleepy Jean

Oh what can it mean

To a daydream believer

And a homecoming queen

You once thought of me

As a white knight on a steed

Now we know how useless this can be

And our days start and end

Without dollar one to spend

Now we know how happy we can be

Cheer up sleepy Jean

Oh what can it mean

To a daydream believer

And a homecoming queen

Cheer up sleepy Jean

Oh what can it mean

To a daydream believer

And a homecoming queen

DESPERADO

Desperado why don't you come to your senses

You've been out riding fences for so long now

Oh you're a hard one but I know you've got your reasons

These things that are pleasing you can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy

She'll beat you if she's able

You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet

Now it seems to me some fine things

Have been laid upon your table

But you only want the ones that you can't get

Desperado oh you ain't getting no younger

Your pain and your hunger they're driving you home

And freedom oh freedom that's just some people talking

Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime

The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine

It's hard to tell the night time from the day

You're losing all your highs and lows

Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away

Desperado why don't you come to your senses

Come down from your fences and open the gate

It may be raining but there's a rainbow above you

You'd better let somebody love you let somebody love you

You'd better let somebody love you before it's too late

DIANE

Oh no here I go again

Falling in love again

Love is like a grain of sand

Slowly slipping through your hand

Oh oh oh oh, oh oh Diane

Oh oh oh oh, oh oh Diane

Will I love you I will always

Will you stand by me always

Love is like a grain of sand

Slowly slipping through your hand

Oh oh oh oh, oh oh Diane

Oh oh oh oh, oh oh Diane

Oh oh Diane

Oh oh Diane

Oh oh Diane

Oh oh Diane

Talking 'bout Diane

Oh oh Diane

DIRTY WORLD

He loves your sexy body he loves your dirty mind

He loves when you hold him, grab him from behind

Oh baby you’re such a pretty thing

I can’t wait to introduce you to the other members of my gang

You don’t need no wax job you’re smooth enough for me

If you need your oil changed I’ll do it for you free

Oh baby the pleasure’ll be all mine

If you let me drive your pick-up truck and park it where the sun don’t shine

Every time he touches you his hair stands up on end

As your legs begin to quiver and his mind begins to bend

Oh baby you’re such a tasty treat

And I’m under doctors orders I’m afraid to over-eat

He loves your sense of humour disposition too

There’s absolutely nothing that he don’t love about you

Oh baby I’m on my hands and knees

Life would be so simple if I only had you to please

Oh baby turn around and say goodbye

You go to the airport now and I’m going home to cry

He loves your electric door plank

He loves your red bell pastas

He loves your fuel injection

He loves your service chart

He loves your five speed gear box

He loves your long endurance

He loves your quest for junk food

He loves your big refrigerator

He loves your Travelling Willbury

He loves your marble earrings

He loves your ugly curtains

He loves your power steering

He loves your bottled water

He loves your parts and service

Dirty world the dirty world it’s a F***ing dirty world

DO IT AGAIN

In the morning you go gunning

For the man who stole your water

And you fire till he is done in

But they catch you at the border

And the mourners are all singing

As they drag you by your feet

But the hangman isn’t hanging

And they put you on the street

Yeah you go back Jack do it again

Wheel turning round and round

You go back Jack do it again

When you know she’s no high climber

Then you find your only friend

In a room with your two timer

And you’re sure you’re near the end

Then you love a little wild one

And she brings you only sorrow

All the time you know she’s smiling

You’ll be on your knees tomorrow

Yeah you go back Jack do it again

Wheel turning round and round

You go back Jack do it again

Now you swear and kick and beg us

That you’re not a gambling man

Then you find you’re back in Vegas

With a handle in your hand

Your black cards could make you money

So you hide them when you’re able

In the land of milk and honey

You must put them on the table

Yeah you go back Jack do it again

Wheel turning round and round

You go back Jack do it again

DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME

Do that to me one more time

Once is never enough with a girl like you

Do that to me one more time

I can never get enough of a girl like you oh

Kiss me like you just did

Oh, baby do that to me once again

Passing by me one more time

Once just isn’t enough for my heart to hear

Oh, tell it to me one more time

I can never hear enough while I got you near, woh...

Say those words again like you just did

Oh, baby tell it to me once again

Do that to me one more time

Once is never enough with a girl like you

Do that to me one more time

I can never get enough of a girl like you oh

Oh, baby do that to once again, woh baby

Do that to me one more time

Do it one more time

Do it again, one more time

Do it again, one more time

DO WAH DIDDY

There she was, just a-walking down the street

Singing, Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

Snapping with her fingers and shuffling her feet

Singing, Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

She looked good (looked good)

She looked fine (looked fine)

She looked good, she looked fine

And I nearly lost my mind

Before I know it she was walking next to me

Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

Holding my hand just as natural as can be

Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

We walked on (walked on)

To my door (my door)

We walked on to my door

Then we kissed a little more

Whow-ouh whow-ouh, I knew I was falling in love yes I did,

So I told her all the things I've been dreaming of

Now we're together nearly every single day

Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

We're so happy and that's how we're gonna stay

Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

Well I'm hers (I'm hers)

She's mine (She's mine)

I'm hers, she's mine

Wedding bells are gonna chime

Whow-ouh whow-ouh, I knew I was falling in love yes I did,

So I told her all the things I've been dreaming of

Now we're together nearly every single day

Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

We're so happy and that's how we're gonna stay

Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

Do wah diddy, diddy, do wah diddy, diddy

Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do

DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE

I was walking down a one way street

Just a looking for someone to meet

One woman who is looking for a man

And I'm hoping that the feeling is right

And I'm wondering if you'll stay for the night

So I'm coming I don't want to be lonely baby

Please help me I want to love you all over

Do you believe in love

Do you believe in love

Do you believe in love

Well you're making me believe it too

Now the feeling is beginning to grow

And the meaning is something you only know

If you believe it keep my hand and I'll take your heart

Now I wonder where does true love begin

I'm going under so I'm letting you win

My woman I don't want to be lonely baby

Please help me I want to love you all over

Do you believe in love

Do you believe in love

Do you believe in love

Well you're making me believe it too

I used to have you in a photograph

I'm so glad it's changed

But now I've got you baby and it's going to last

Do you believe it babe

Do you believe in love

Do you believe in love

Do you believe in love

Well you're making me believe it too

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME

Give me time to realise my crime

Let me love and steal

I have danced inside your eyes

How can I be real

Do you really want to hurt me

Do you really want to make me cry

Precious kisses words that burn me

Lovers never ask you why

In my heart the fire’s burning

Choose my colour, find a star

Precious people always tell me

That’s a step, a step too far

Do you really want to hurt me

Do you really want to make me cry

Do you really want to hurt me

Do you really want to make me cry

Words are few I have spoken

I could waste a thousand years

Wrapped in sorrow words are token

Come inside and catch my tears

You’ve been talking but believe me

If it’s true, you do not know

This boy loves without a reason

I’m prepared to let you go

If it’s love you want from me

Then take it away

Everything is not what you see

It’s over again

Do you really want to hurt me

Do you really want to make me cry

Do you really want to hurt me

Do you really want to make me cry

Do you really want to hurt me

Do you really want to make me cry

Do you really want to hurt me

Do you really want to make me cry

Do you really want to hurt me

Do you really want to make me cry

DOG END IN MY BEER CAN

I took you out to dinner to a fancy restaurant

It took you half an hour to tell the waiter what you want

And when he brought the soup you let it fall down on your knee

Then when he brought another one you spilt it over me

You’re the dog-end in my beer can

You’re the stone in my left shoe

An when I think of great disasters

You know I always think of you

You’re the snowdrift on my motorway

The snake in my grass

But most of all baby

You’re a pain in my arse

I took you on an aeroplane and as we soared through the clouds

You scared all the other passengers when you said your prayers out loud

But worst was still to come before we ever touched the ground

As a present to the pilot you passed your hat around

You’re the dog-end in my beer can

You’re the stone in my left shoe

An when I think of great disasters

You know I always think of you

You’re the snowdrift on my motorway

The snake in my grass

But most of all baby

You’re a pain in my arse

You were an hour late for the wedding I thought you’d left me in the lurch

Oh you really shocked the guests when you smoked your pipe in church

And in the middle of the service I was stunned to say the least

When you answered all the questions wrong and I got married to the priest

You’re the dog-end in my beer can

You’re the stone in my left shoe

An when I think of great disasters

You know I always think of you

You’re the snowdrift on my motorway

The snake in my grass

But most of all baby

You’re a pain in my arse

DOGRUFF DAN

'Twas in the rains we built the drains from Salford to West Ham

I've been a ganger for thirty years and I've never stopped a man

But I'm sorry Joe you'll have to go

I'm signing Dogruff Dan

How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da

Betimes he’d work for Wimpy's, Mc Alpine he'd sign on

But he preferred the council jobs a working in the sun

And when the sun was sinking low he'd maybe get a sub

And he would lead a gang of lads down to the local pub

How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da

He was down there Monday morning wi' his hankie on his head

Brewing himself a mug of tea down in the foreman's shed

When up came a plasterer, said "you're drinking from me pot"

Said Dan to the plasterer "begorrah sure I'm not”

How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da

Like a mighty clap of thunder or a dumper’s skidding wheels

Dan began to shake and jerk and do an Irish reel

He punched the plasterer on the nose and when he came to land

He looked just like a flower stuck all in a heap of sand

How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da

Severely discontentered he gave his pick a wrench

And went to eat a buttie down in his favourite trench

When up came the plasterer, tipper at the double

And filled in Dogruff Daniel's trench with half a ton of rubble

How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da

How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da

DON'T BE CRUEL

You know I can't be found

Sitting home all alone

If you can't come around

At least please telephone

Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

Baby you may be mad

With something I might have said

Please forget my past

The future looks bright ahead

Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

I don't want no other love

Baby it's just you I'm thinking of

Don't stop a thinking of me

Don't make me feel this way

Come on over here and love me

You know what I wanted you to say

Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

Why should we be apart

I really love you baby cross my heart

Let's walk up to the preacher

And let us say I do

Then you know you'll have me

And I know that I'll have you

Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

I don't want no other love

Baby it's just you I'm thinking of

Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

I don't want no other love

Baby it's just you I'm thinking of

DON’T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD

Baby do you understand me now

Sometimes I feel a little mad

And don’t you know that no one alive can always be an angel

When things go wrong I seem to be bad

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood

Baby sometimes I’m so carefree

With a joy that’s hard to hide

And sometimes it seems that all I have to do is worry

And then you’re bound to see my other side

But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood

If I seem edgy I want you to know

That I never mean to take it out on you

Life has it’s problems and I get my share

And that’s one thing I never mean to do ‘cause I love you

Oh oh oh baby don’t you know I’m human

I have thoughts like any other one

Sometimes I find myself long regretting

Some foolish thing some little sinful thing I’ve done

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood

Yes I’m just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood

Yes I’m just a soul whose intentions are good

Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood

DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME

I can’t light no more of your darkness

All my pictures seem to fade to black and white

I’m growing tired and time stands still before me

Frozen here on the ladder of my life

Too late to save myself from falling

I took a chance and changed your life

But you misread my meaning when I met you

Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Don’t let the sun go down on me

Although I search myself it’s always someone else I see

I’d just allow a fragment of your life to wander free

But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

I can’t find oh the right romantic line

But see me once and see the way I feel

Don’t discard me just because you think I mean you harm

But these cuts I have oh they need love to help heal them up

Don’t let the sun go down on me

Although I search myself it’s always someone else I see

I’d just allow a fragment of your life to wander free

But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

DON’T STOP

If you wake up and don't wanna smile

If it takes just a little while

Open your eyes and look at the day

you'll see things in a different way

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow

Don't stop it'll soon be here

It'll be better than before

Yesterday's gone yesterday's gone

Why not think about times to come

And not about the things that you've done

If your life was bad to you

Just think what tomorrow will do

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow

Don't stop it'll soon be here

It'll be better than before

Yesterday's gone yesterday's gone

All I want is to see you smile

If it takes just a little while

I know you don't believe that it's true

I never meant any harm to you

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow

Don't stop it'll soon be here

It'll be better than before

Yesterday's gone yesterday's gone

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow

Don't stop it'll soon be here

It'll be better than before

Yesterday's gone yesterday's gone

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow

Don't stop it'll soon be here

It'll be better than before

Yesterday's gone yesterday's gone

Oh don't you look back

Oh don't you look back

Oh don't you look back

DON’T STOP ME NOW

Tonight I’m gonna have myself a real good time

I feel ali-hi-hi-hive

And the world, we’ll turn it inside out yeah

And float it around in ecstasy so

Don’t stop me now

Don’t stop me, ‘cause I’m having a good time, having a good time

I’m a shooting star leaping through the sky

Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity

I’m a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva

I’m gonna go, go, go, there’s no stopping me

I’m burning through the sky yeah two hundred degrees

That’s why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit

I’m travelling at the speed of light

I wanna make a supersonic man out of you

Don’t stop me now I’m having such a good time, I’m having a ball

Don’t stop me now If you wanna have a good time, just give me a call

Don’t stop me now, I’m having a good time

Don’t stop me now, I’m having a good time

I don’t wanna stop at all

I’m a rocket ship on my way to Mars

On a collision course, I am a satellite, I’m out of control

I’m a six shooter ready to reload like an atom bomb that’s about to woh woh woh woh woh explode

I’m burning through the sky yeah two hundred degrees

That’s why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit

I’m travelling at the speed of light

I wanna make a supersonic woman of you

(Don’t stop me don’t stop me don’t stop me) hey hey hey

(Don’t stop me don’t stop me ooh hoo hoo) I like it

(Don’t stop me don’t stop me) have a good time good time

(Don’t stop me don’t stop me) ooh

Oh burning through the sky yeah two hundred degrees

That’s why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit

I’m travelling at the speed of light

I wanna make a supersonic man out of you

Don’t stop me now I’m having such a good time, I’m having a ball

Don’t stop me now If you wanna have a good time, just give me a call

Don’t stop me now, I’m having a good time

Don’t stop me now, I’m having a good time

I don’t wanna stop at all

DON'T THINK TWICE, IT'S ALRIGHT

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe.

It don't matter anyhow.

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe.

If you don't know by now.

When the rooster crows at the break of dawn,

Look out your window, and I'll be gone.

You're the reason, I'm travelling on.

Don't think twice, it's alright.

It ain't no use in turning on your light, babe.

The light, I never knowed.

It ain't no use in turning on your light, babe.

I'm on the dark side of the road.

But I wish, there was something, you could do or say,

To try to make me change my mind, and stay.

But never did too much talking anyway,

So, don't think twice, it's alright.

It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal,

Like you never done before.

It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal,

I can't hear you anymore.

I'm a-thinking and a-wondering, walking down the road,

I once loved a woman, a child, I'm told.

I'd give her my heart, but she wanted my soul,

But don't think twice, it's alright.

So long, honey babe.

Where I'm bound, I can't tell.

Good-bye is too good a word, babe,

So I just say fare thee well.

I ain't a-saying, you treated me unkind,

You could have done better, but I don't mind.

You just kinda wasted my precious time,

But don't think twice, it's alright.

DOWN BY THE RIVER

City life was getting us down so we spend a weekend out of town

Fixed our tent on a patch of ground down by the river

Lit a fire and drank some wine you put your jeans on top of mine

Said come in the water's fine down by the river

Down by the river, down by the river

I said, come in the water's fine down by the river

Didn't feel too good all night so we took a walk in the morning light

We came across a stranger sight down by the river

Silver fish lay on it's side it was washed up by the early tide

I wonder how it died down by the river

Down by the river, down by the river

Silver fish lay on it's side down by the river

Doctor put us both in bed he dosed us up and shook his head

Only foolish people go he said down by the river

Why do willows weep said he because they're dying gradually

From the waste from the factories down by the river

Down by the river, down by the river

Why do willows weep said he down by the river

In time the river banks will die and the reed will wilt and the ducks won't fly

There'll be a tear in the author's eye down by the river

The banks will soon be black and dead and where the author raised his head

Will be a clean white stony bed down by the river

Down by the river, down by the river

The banks will soon be black and dead down by the river

DOWN ON THE CORNER

Early in the evening just 'bout supper time

Over by the court house they're starting to unwind

Four kids on the corner trying to bring you up

Willie picks a tune out and he blows it on the harp

Down on the corner out in the street

Willie and the poor boys are playing

Bring a nickel tap your feet

Rooster hits the washboard and people just got to smile

Blinky thumps the gutbass and solos for a while

Poor boy twangs the rhythm out of his kalamazoo

And Willie goes into a dance doubles on kazoo

Down on the corner out in the street

Willie and the poor boys are playing

Bring a nickel tap your feet

Down on the corner out in the street

Willie and the poor boys are playing

Bring a nickel tap your feet

You don't need a penny just to hang around

But if you've got a nickel won't you lay your money down

Over on the corner there's a happy noise

People come from all around just to hear the magic boys

Down on the corner out in the street

Willie and the poor boys are playing

Bring a nickel tap your feet

Down on the corner out in the street

Willie and the poor boys are playing

Bring a nickel tap your feet

DOWN THE DUSTPIPE

Going down the dustpipe now

Got a ten dollar bill in my jeans

Ain't no room for a kosher cowboy

In a town like New Orleans

But I'm doing all right now

Going down the dustpipe

Na na na na na na na na

Guess I didn't make it in the city

But that's just the way that it goes

What a lunatic crazy fool for being

They don't like the shape of my clothes

But I'm doing all right now

Going down the dustpipe

Na na na na na na na na

Going down the dustpipe now

Got a ten dollar bill in my jeans

Ain't no room for a kosher cowboy

In a town like New Orleans

But I'm doing all right now

Going down the dustpipe

Na na na na na na na na

DOWN UNDER

Travelling in a fried out combi

On a heavy trail head full of zombie

I met a strange lady she made me nervous

She took me in and gave me breakfast

And she said

Do you come from a land down under

Where women glow and men plunder

Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder

You'd better run you'd better take cover

Buying bread from a man in Brussels

He was six foot four and full of muscle

I said do you speaka my language

He just smiled and gave me a Vegamite sandwich

He said

I've come from a land down under

Where beer does flow and men chunder

Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder

You'd better run you'd better take cover

Dyin' in a den in Bombay

With a slack jaw and not much to say

I said to the man are you trying to tempt me

Because I come from the land of plenty

And he said

Do you come from a land down under

Where women glow and men plunder

Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder

You'd better run you'd better take cover

Cause you are

Living in a land down under

Where women glow and men plunder

Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder

You'd better run you'd better take cover

We are

Living in a land down under

Where women glow and men plunder

Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder

You'd better run you'd better take cover

DREAMER

Dreamer you know you are a dreamer

Can you put your hands in your head oh no

Dreamer you know you are a dreamer

Can you put your hands in your head oh no oh no

I said oh no what a day a year a life it is

You know well you know you had it coming to you

Know there's not a lot I can do

Dreamer stupid little dreamer

So you put your head in your hands oh no

I said oh no what a day a year a life it is

You know well you know you had it coming to you

Know there's not a lot I can do

You got something

If I can see something

You can see anything you want boy

If I can be someone

You can be anyone celebrate boy

Well if I can do something

You can do something

If I could do anything

Can you do something out of this world

Oh take a dream on a subway

Take a life take a holiday

Take a life in a dreamer

Dream dream dream dream dream dream dream dream alone

Come on and dream alone

Come on and dream alone

Come on and dream alone

Come on and dream alone

Dreamer you know you are a dreamer

Can you put your hands in your head oh no

Dreamer you know you are a dreamer

Can you put your hands in your head oh no oh no

DUST IN THE WIND

I close my eyes

Only for a moment and the moment's gone

All my dreams

Passed before my eyes in curiosity

Dust in the wind

All we are is dust in the wind

Same old song

Just a drop of water in an endless sea

All we do

Crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind

All we are is dust in the wind

Now don't hang on

Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky

It slips away

And all your money won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind

All we are is dust in the wind

Dust in the wind

Everything is dust in the wind

DYNAMO

Joey couldn't stand it so he left to join the band that really saved his soul

Tried it to a bring it on and to play it in a week but baby could it roll

He could make a bad drummer swing

You wouldn’t believe it to stand see him doing his thing

You couldn’t leave it alone

See him rock, see him roll, from his heart and his soul

Ah I know from his head to toe he's a dynamo

He could eat your fibulator he could tame an alligator

Baby could he move

When the band starts to play honey if you walk away

You've just gotta groove

When the smoke's rising high from his strings

It’s hard to take it too low

Like those Cadbury sweets

And you don’t fake it alone

See him rock, see him roll, from his heart to his soul

Ah I know from his head to toe he's a dynamo

He could make a bad drummer swing

You wouldn’t believe it to stand see him doing his thing

You couldn’t leave it alone

See him rock, see him roll, from his heart to his soul

Ah I know from his head to toe he's a dynamo

He could make you laugh he could make you want to cry

He could even make you fly fly fly

See him rock, see him roll, from his heart to his soul

Ah I know from his head to toe he's a dynamo

He’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo

He’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo

EASY

I know it sounds funny but I just can’t stand the pain

And I’m leaving you tomorrow

Seems to me girl you know I’ve done all I can

You see I beg stole and I borrow yeah

That’s why I’m easy

I’m easy like Sunday morning

That’s why I’m easy

I’m easy like Sunday morning

Why in the world would anybody put chains on me

I’ve paid my dues to make it

Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be

I’m not happy when I try to fake it no

That’s why I’m easy

I’m easy like Sunday morning

That’s why I’m easy

I’m easy like Sunday morning

I wanna to be high so high

I wanna be free to know the things I do are right

I wanna be free just free woh babe high

That’s why I’m easy

I’m easy like Sunday morning

That’s why I’m easy

I’m easy like Sunday morning

‘Cause I’m easy

Easy like Sunday morning

‘Cause I’m easy

Easy like Sunday morning

‘Cause I’m easy

Easy like Sunday morning

‘Cause I’m easy

Easy like Sunday morning

THE EFDSS

Young man there’s no need to feel down

I said young man don’t you worry or frown

Young man there’s a club in your town

Where you can wear a dangling tankard

Folkies live on barrels of beer

I said folkies fingers stuck in their ear

Folkies oh it’s all very queer

With their money belts and patches

You’ve got to go to the EFDSS

You’ve got to go to the EFDSS

They have everything for a man to enjoy

You can soon feel one of the boys

That’s if you go to the EFDSS

Why don’t you go to the EFDSS

You can reel you can jig be as sick as a pig

You can even dance like fairies

Well in the morris you can wear some budgie bells

In the morris we don’t play with sissy girls

In the morris you can sweat and give off smells

In the morris

In the morris wave your hankies round and round

In the morris bang your sticks upon the ground

In the morris all you do is piss around

In the morris

In the morris

They want you they want you they want you as a new recruit

They want you they want you they want you as a new recruit

In the quarry in Headington we danced all day

‘Till a man came by who said his name was Cecil

And he said to us where did you learn that dance

And we replied we learned it on the Generation Game

They want you they want you they want you as a new recruit

They want you they want you they want you as a new recruit

You’ve got to go to the EFDSS

You’ve got to go to the EFDSS

They have everything for a man to enjoy

You can soon feel one of the boys

That’s if you go to the EFDSS

Why don’t you go to the EFDSS

You can reel you can jig be as sick as a pig

You can even dance like fairies

END OF THE WORLD

Why does the sun go on shining

Why does the sea rush to the shore

Don’t they know its the end of the world

‘Cause you don’t love me anymore

Why do the birds go on singing

Why do the stars glow above

Don’t they know it’s the end of the world

It ended when I lost your love

I wake up every morning and I wonder

Why everything’s the same as it was

I can’t understand, no I can’t understand

How life goes on the way it does

Why does my heart go on beating

Why do these eyes of mine cry

Don’t they know it’s the end of the world

It ended when you said goodbye

EVE OF DESTRUCTION

The eastern world it is exploding

Violence flaring, bullets loading

You're old enough to kill,

But not for voting

You don't believe in war

But what's that gun you're toting

And even the Jordan river has bodies floating

But you tell me over and over and over again my friend

Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

Don't you understand what I'm trying to say

Can't you feel the fears that I'm feeling today

If the button is pushed

There's no running away

There'll be no one to save

With the world in a grave

Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you boy

And you tell me over and over and over again my friend

Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulating

I'm sitting here just contemplating

I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation

Handful of Senators don't pass legislation

When marches alone can't bring integration

When human respect is disintegrating

This whole crazy world is just too frustrating

But you tell me over and over and over again my friend

Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

Think of all the hate there is in Red China

Then take a look around you to Salma, Alabama

Ah, you may leave here for four days in space

But when you return it's the same old place

The pounding of the drums, the pride and disgrace

You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace

Hate you next-door neighbour, but don't forget to say grace

And you tell me over and over and over again my friend

Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE

Every breath you take, every move you make

Every bond you break, every step you take

I’ll be watching you

Every single day, every word you say

Every game you play, every night you stay

I’ll be watching you

Oh can’t you see, you belong to me

How my poor heart aches with every step you take

Every move you make, every vow you break

Every smile you fake, every claim you stake

I’ll be watching you

Since you’ve been gone, I’ve been lost without a trace

I dream at night, I can only see your face

I look around but it’s you I can’t replace

I feel so cold and long for your embrace

I keep crying baby, baby, please

Oh can’t you see, you belong to me

How my poor heart aches with every step you take

Every move you make, every vow you break

Every smile you fake, every claim you stake

I’ll be watching you

Every move you make, every step you take

I’ll be watching you

EVERY LITTLE THING SHE DOES IS MAGIC

Though I’ve tried before to tell her

Of the feeling I have for her in my heart

Every time that I come near her

I just lose my heart as I’ve done from the start

Every little thing she does is magic

Every thing she do just turns me on

Even though my life before was tragic

Now I know my love for her goes on

Do I have to tell the story

Of a thousand rainy days since we first met

It’s a big enough umbrella

But it’s always me that ends up getting wet

Every little thing she does is magic

Every thing she do just turns me on

Even though my life before was tragic

Now I know my love for her goes on

I resolved to call her up a thousand times a day

And ask her if she’ll marry me in some old fashioned way

But my silent fears have gripped me long before I reach the phone

Long before my tongue has tripped me must I always be alone

Every little thing she does is magic

Every thing she do just turns me on

Even though my life before was tragic

Now I know my love for her goes on

Every little thing she does is magic

Every thing she do just turns me on

Even though my life before was tragic

Now I know my love for her goes on

Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah

Every little every little thing

Every little thing she does is magic

Ki oh ki oh ki oh ki oh ...

Every little thing she does is magic

Magic magic magic magic

Way oh way oh

EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY

If we can solve any problem why do we lose so many tears

I saw you go again when the leading man appeared

It’s always the same scene

Can’t you see we’ve got everything going on and on

Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

Go on and go free baby you’re too close to see

I feel your body move it doesn’t mean that much to me

It’s always the same scene

Can’t you see we’ve got everything going on and on

Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

It’s always the same scene

Can’t you see we’ve got everything going on and on

Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

Go on and go free baby you’re too close to see

I feel your body move it doesn’t mean that much to me

It’s always the same scene

Can’t you see we’ve got everything going on and on

Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you

EVERYBODY NEEDS A FRIEND

Trust in me I'll try to do

Everything to help you that I can

Broken wings can heal and mend again

Don't be afraid to cry your tears out loud

Everybody needs to have a friend

Show me now that I can give

Give to you the only love I have

When I see you're in misery

It makes me want to try and understand

Everybody needs a helping hand

It's only love that I can give

I'll give to you the only love I have

When I see you're so unhappy

It makes me want to try and understand

Everybody needs a helping hand

If everything should turn around

And it's me who feels so down and out

You could be the kind of company

To share the load and know how bad it feels

Everybody needs to have a friend

EVERY THING I DO I DO IT FOR YOU

Look into my eyes you will see

What you mean to me

Search your heart search your soul

And when you find me there you’ll search no more

Don’t tell me it’s not worth trying for

You can’t tell me it’s not worth dying for

You know it’s true everything I do

I do it for you

Look into you heart you will find

There’s nothing there to hide

Take me as I am take my life

I would give it all I would sacrifice

Don’t tell me it’s not worth fighting for

I can’t help it there’s nothing I want more

You know it’s true

Everything I do I do it for you , oh yeah......

There’s no love like your love

And no other could give more love

There’s nowhere unless you’re there

All the time, all the way

Look in to your heartbreak

Yeah........

Oh yeah....

Oh you can’t tell me it’s not worth trying for

I can’t help it there’s nothing I want more

Yeah I would fight for you I’d lie for you

What do I for you yeah I die for you

You know it’s true everything I do

Oh... I do it for you

Excommunicate me

When I was young and they packed me off to school

And they taught me how not to play the game

I didn’t mind if they groomed me for success

Or if they said I was just a fool

So I left there in the morning with their god tucked underneath my arm

Their half-arsed smiles and the book of rules

And I asked this god a question and by way of firm reply

He said I’m not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays

So I told my old headmaster I’m twenty-one who cares

Before I’m through I’d like to say to say my prayers

I don’t believe you you have the whole damn thing all wrong

He’s not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays

Well you can excommunicate me on my way to Sunday school

And have all the bishops harmonise these lines

How d’you dare to tell me that I’m my father’s son

When that was just a natural man’s birth

I’d rather look around me compose a better song

‘Cause that’s the honest measure of my worth

In your pomp and all your glory you’re a poorer man than me

As you lick the boots of death born out of fear oh ho ho ho

When I was young and they packed me off to school

And they taught me how not to play the game

I didn’t mind if they groomed me for success

Or if they said that I was just a fool

So I left there in the morning with their god under my arm

Their half-arsed smiles and the book of rules

Well you can excommunicate me on my way to Sunday school

And have all the bishops harmonise these lines

When I was young and they packed me off to school

And they taught me how not to play the game

I didn’t mind if they groomed me for success

Or if they said I was just a fool

So I told my old headmaster I’m twenty-one who cares

Before I’m through I’d like to say to say my prayers

Well you can excommunicate me on my way to Sunday school

And have all the bishops harmonise these lines

I don’t believe you you have the whole damn thing all wrong

He’s not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays

FINAL COUNTDOWN

We're leaving together

But still it's farewell

And maybe we'll come back

To Earth who can tell

I guess there is no one to blame

We're leaving ground

Will things ever be the same again

It's the final countdown

We're heading for Venus

And still we stand tall

Cause maybe they've seen us

And welcome us all

With so many light years to go

And things to be found

I'm sure that we'll all miss her so

It's the final countdown

The final countdown

The final countdown

The final countdown

It's the final countdown

The final countdown

The final countdown

It's the final countdown

We're leaving together

The final countdown

Where love is to serve

It's the final countdown

It's the final countdown

THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST

I would have given you all of my heart

But there's someone who's torn it apart

And she's taken almost all that I've got

But if you want I'll try to love again

Baby I'll try to love again but I know

The first cut is the deepest, baby I know

The first cut is the deepest,

Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed

When it comes to loving me she's the worst

But when it comes to being loved she's the first

That's how I know

The first cut is the deepest, baby I know

The first cut is the deepest,

Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed

When it comes to loving me she's the worst

But when it comes to being loved she's the first

I still want you by my side

Just to help me dry the tears that I've cried

'Cause I'm sure gonna give you a try

And if you want I'll try to love again

Baby I'll try to love again but I know

The first cut is the deepest, baby I know

The first cut is the deepest,

Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed

When it comes to loving me she's the worst

But when it comes to being loved she's the first

That's how I know

The first cut is the deepest, baby I know

The first cut is the deepest,

Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed

When it comes to loving me she's the worst

But when it comes to being loved she's the first

FIRST SONG

I’ve written words to say I’m leaving

The words express the pain

Old songs lose young meanings

But the new ones they gain

From changes that I’ve been through

Or new ones I’m coming to

You were my first song

And I still ...

Well sure I still get feelings

To get back on the road

And I still get leanings

To forget the things I know

About myself and changes

Going through and coming to

You were my first song

And I still ...

Do words express true meaning

I mean the words are still the same

Old loves lose young feelings

But the new ones they gain

From changes that I’ve been through

And the new ones I’m coming to

You were my first song

And I still ...

Yes you were my first song and I still love you

THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE

The first time ever I saw your face

I thought the sun rose in your eyes

And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave

To the dark and the empty skies, my love

To the dark and the empty skies

The first time ever I kissed your mouth

I felt the earth move in my hand

Like the trembling heart of a captive bird

That was there at my command, my love

That was there at my command

The first time ever I lay with you

And felt your heart beat close to mine

I thought our joy would fill the earth

And last till the end of time, my love

And last till the end of time

FOG ON THE TYNE

Sitting in a sleazy snack bar sucking

Sickly sausage rolls

Slipping down slowly slipping down sideways

Think I’ll sign off the dole

‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine

The fog on the Tyne is all mine

‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine

The fog on the Tyne is all mine

Could a copper catch a crooked coffin maker

Could a copper comprehend

That a crooked coffin maker’s just an undertaker

One it takes to be your friend

‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine

The fog on the Tyne is all mine

‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine

The fog on the Tyne is all mine

Tell it to tomorrow today will take it’s time

To tell you what tonight may bring

Presently we’ll have a pint or two together

Everybody do their thing

We can swim together we can have a wee wee

We can have a wet on the wall

If someone slips a whisper that his simple sister

Slap ‘em down and slap it on their smalls

‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine

The fog on the Tyne is all mine

‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine

The fog on the Tyne is all mine

‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine

The fog on the Tyne is all mine

FOGGY FOGGY DEW

When I was a bachelor I lived all alone and I worked at the weaving trade

And the only thing I ever did wrong was courting a servant maid

I courted her in the Winter time and part of the Summer too

And the only thing I ever did wrong was to keep her from the foggy foggy dew

One night she came to my bedside as I lay fast asleep

She lay her head upon my bed and bitterly began to weep

She wept she moaned she tore out her hair crying “Oh what shall I do ?”

So all night long I held her in my arms just to keep her from the foggy foggy dew

So all the first part of the night how we did sport and play

And all the latter part of the night she in my arms did lay

And when the daylight did appear she cried I am undone

Oh shut your mouth you pretty fair maid for the foggy foggy dew has gone

Suppose that we should have a child it would make you laugh and smile

Suppose that we should have another it would make you think awhile

And if we had another my dear and another too

Why we must leave our kissing my dear and think of the foggy foggy dew

One night she starts to moan and cry says I what’s up with you

Says she I should never have been this way if it hadn’t been for you

I got my boots and my trousers on I got my neighbour too

But do what we could we could do her no good and she died in the foggy foggy dew

So I am a bachelor and with my son we work at the weaving trade

And every time I look into his eyes it reminds me of that fair young maid

He reminds me of the Wintertime and part of the Summertime too

And the many many times I held her in my arms just to keep her from the foggy foggy dew

THE FOLKER

I am but a folker and my story’s seldom told

But I massacre folk music with a piece of German plywood and a capo

I do requests just the ones that have two chords in and I disregard the rest

But with Burt Weedon’s help one day I’ll be the best

Seeking twenty plus expenses I went looking for a gig

But I got no offers just a come on from a groupie in the tap room

I do declare I was feeling kind of randy so I had her then and there

Ooh la la way hey I didn’t care

I have sung the folk tradition with my finger in my ear

‘Cause half the tripe I’m singing I just can’t bear to hear (it’s a load of cobblers)

Bar after bar to the rhythm of an off key British one string thatched guitar

La la la la la la la la la la la

In “Sir Patrick Spens” I clean forgot the forty second verse

So I sung the twenty seventh twice as loud and in reverse and no one noticed

I laughed for hours ‘till the tears ran down my trouser leg I nearly wet my drawers

La la la la la la la la la la la

Right fol la toora loora laddie ay fol de ra shooly shooly rolly day

Wass fink of ‘e o ar cor blimey oy diddly oy diddly oy dee diddle oy de day

On the stage I stand a hero and a martyr to my trade

‘Cause I carry the reminders of every gig I’ve been to like last Sunday at the Irish club in Clifton Where I fled in mortal fear with the imprint of a Guinness bottle stamped upon my ear

And a voice that shouted “no surrender here”

Nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya

Nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya

Now I’ve got me thing together man I’m really freaking out

Dropping black Old Holbourne resin mainlining on draught stout and having hang-ups

I’m like the rest I’ve got problems with my sex life since I fell and sprained my wrist

And my other songs are twice as bad as this

Ly la ly ly la ly ly ly ly ly ly la ly ly la ly ly ly ly ly ly ly ly ly ly

FOLLOW ME UP TO CARLOW

Lofy MacCahir Og your face brooding o’er the old disgrace

Black Fitzwilliam stormed your place and drove you to the Fern

Grey said victory was sure soon the fire brand he’d secure

Until he met at Glen malure with Feach MacHugh O’Byrne

Curse and swear Lord Kildare feach will do what Feach will dare

Now Fitzwilliam have a care fallen is your star now

Up with halbert out with sword on we’ll go for by the Lord

Feach MacHugh has given his word follow me up to Carlow

See the swords of Glen Imayle flashing o’er the English pale

See all the children of the Gael beneath O’Byrne’s banners

Rooster of the fighting stock would you let a Saxon cock

Crow out upon an Irish rock fly up and teach him manners

Curse and swear Lord Kildare feach will do what Feach will dare

Now Fitzwilliam have a care fallen is your star now

Up with halbert out with sword on we’ll go for by the Lord

Feach MacHugh has given his word follow me up to Carlow

From Tassagart to Clonmore flows a stream of Saxon gore

Och great is Rory Oge O’More at sending loons to Hades

White is sick and Lane is fled now for black Fitzwilliam’s head

We’ll send it over dripping red to Liza and the ladies

Curse and swear Lord Kildare feach will do what Feach will dare

Now Fitzwilliam have a care fallen is your star now

Up with halbert out with sword on we’ll go for by the Lord

Feach MacHugh has given his word follow me up to Carlow

FOR YOUR LOVE

For your love for your love for your love

I’d give you everything and more and that’s for sure (for your love)

I’d bring you diamond rings and things right to your door (for your love)

To thrill you with delight I’d give you diamonds bright

There’ll be days that will excite and make you dream of me at night

For your love

For your love

For your love

For your love for your love I would give the stars above

For your love for your love I would give you all I could

For your love for your love (for your love)

I’d give the moon if it were mine to give (for your love)

I’d give the stars and the sun before I live (for your love)

To thrill you with delight I’d give you diamonds bright

There’ll be days that will excite and make you dream of me at night

For your love

For your love

For your love

For your love

FREE BIRD

If I leave here tomorrow

Would you still remember me

For I must be travelling on now

‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see

But if I stayed here with you girl

Things just couldn’t be the same

‘Cause I’m free as a bird now

And this bird you cannot change

And this bird you cannot change

Lord knows I can’t change

Bye bye baby it’s been sweet love

Though this feeling I can’t change

But please don’t take it so badly

‘Cause the lord know’ I’m to blame

But if I stayed here with you girl

Things just couldn’t be the same

‘Cause I’m free as a bird now

And this bird you cannot change

And this bird you cannot change

Lord knows I can’t change

Lord help me I can’t change

Lord help me I can’t change

Lord help me I can’t change

FREE ELECTRIC BAND

My father is a doctor, he's a family man

My mother works for charity whenever she can

They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law

They both stick up for liberty and they both support the war

My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down

For summer in a summer camp and winter in the town

My future in the system was talked about and planned

But I gave it up for music and a free electric band

I went to school in hand washed shirts with neatly ordered hair

And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air

And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn and keep

And they clipped the ear of any idle kid who went to sleep

My father organised for me a college in the east

But I went to California for the sunshine and the beach

My parents and my lecturers could never understand

Why I gave it up for music and the free electric band

Well, they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career

A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer

Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand

'Cause all I need is music and the free electric band

My father sent me money and I spent it very fast

On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class

Yes and we learned about her body, but her mind we didn't know

Until the deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show

She wanted to get married even though she never said

And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head

She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land

So I gave her up for music and the free electric band

FREIGHT TRAIN

Freight train, freight train going so fast

Freight train, freight train going so fast

Please don't tell what train I'm on

So they won't know where I am gone

When I die Lord, please bury me deep

Way down on old Chestnut Street

So I can hear old number nine

As she comes a-rolling by

Freight train, freight train going so fast

Freight train, freight train going so fast

Please don't tell what train I'm on

So they won't know where I am gone

When I'm dead and in my grave

No more good times here I'll crave

Place the stones at my head and feet

And tell them all that I'm gone to sleep

Freight train, freight train going so fast

Freight train, freight train going so fast

Please don't tell what train I'm on

So they won't know where I am gone

FÜRSTENFELD

Langsam find der Tag sei End und die Nacht beginnt

In der Kärntner Straß'n da singt oaner "Blowing in the wind"

Hot a grianes Reckerl an, steht da ganz verlurn

Und der Steffl der schaut obi auf den oarmen Steirer Buam

Wochenlang steh' i scho do,

Wochenlang plag i mi o

I spui mir die Finger wund

Und so guat "Hier kummt die Sun"

Doch es is zum narrisch wern,

Koana wui mi singa hern

Langsam kriag i wirklich gnua,

I frag mi was i da tua

I wui wieder ham,

I fui mi da so allan

I brauch' ka große Welt,

I wui ham nach Fürstenfeld

In der Zeitung da hams g'schrie'm,

Da gibt's a Szene da mußt hin

Was die woll'n das soll'n sie schrei'm,

Mir kann die Szene g'stolen blei'm

Da geh' i gestern in's U4,

Fangt a Dirndl o zum Red'n mit mir

Schwarze Lippen, grüne Haar

Da kannst ja Angst kriag'n, wirklich woar

I wui wieder ham,

I fui mi da so allan

I brauch' ka große Welt,

I wui ham nach Fürstenfeld

Niemals spiel' ich mehr in Wien

Wien hat mich garnet verdient

I spiel' höchstens noch in Graz, Sinnappel, Kirchen und Spinats

I brauch' kan Gürtel, i brauch' kann Ring

I wui z'ruck hinter'n Semmering

I brauch' nur das bisserl Geld

Für die Fahrt nach Fürstenfeld

I wui wieder ham,

I fui mi da so allan

I brauch' ka große Welt,

I wui ham nach Fürstenfeld

THE FURZE FIELD

Well I have a furze field my own dearest jewel

Where all my fine pheasants do fly

And if you come shooting when pheasant’s in season

I’ll show you love how to get by

You bring your dogs with you your gun in your hand

All loaded and primed and at your command

When the pheasants take flight you must get them in sight

And shoot straight and you’ll hit them all right

Some do like hunting for sport and for fame

And shooting and fishing the gentleman claim

But I take delight in another wee game

And I’m up from the night ‘till the morning

Now I have a fishpond my own darling jewel

Where all the young fishes do swim

And if you come fishing in coarse fishing season

I’ll show you love how to cast in

You bring your rods with your nets in your hand

Your hooks and your angles and at the bank stand

And when you throw in your tackle the fishes will come

And swim straight in the palm of your hand

Some do like hunting for sport and for fame

And shooting and fishing the gentleman claim

But I take delight in another wee game

And I’m up every night ‘till the morning

Now I have a warren my own darling jewel

Where all the young conies do play

And if you come rabbiting when rabbit’s in season

I’ll show you the right proper way

You bring your dogs with you your nets in your hand

Your spade and your ferret all at your command

When you stick in your ferret the rabbits will bolt

Straight into the palm of your hand

Some do like hunting for sport and for fame

And shooting and fishing the gentleman claim

But I take to poaching another mans game

And I’m up every night ‘till the morning

Now I have a game park my own darling jewel

Where I keep the red deer at the bay

And if you come hunting when hunting’s in season

I’ll show you the right proper way

Your dog pack will prowl and your horse it will stand

All saddled and bridled and at your command

And the deer will bound off with a blow of the horn

And it’s tally ho lads ain’t it grand

Some do like hunting for sport and for fame

And shooting and fishing the gentleman claim

But I take to poaching another mans game

And I’m up every night ‘till the morning

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

Oh the games people play now every night and every day now

Never meaning what they say now never saying what they mean

For they while away the hours in their ivory towers

'Til they’re covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine

Shalalalalalalalaa shalalalalalalalee

I'm talking about you and me and the games people play

Well, we make one another cry, we break a heart and say goodbye,

We cross our hearts and we hope to die when the other was to blame.

Neither one of us will give in and don't you know, it's a sin

When you think of things that might have been, it's a goddamn shame.

Shalalalalalalalaa shalalalalalalalee

I'm talking about you and me and the games people play

People walking up to you, yeah singing glory hallelujah

And they try to sock it to ya in the name of the Lord

And they teach you how to meditate, read your horoscope and seal your fate

And it's almost "to hell with hate", come on, brother, get on board.

Shalalalalalalalaa shalalalalalalalee

I'm talking about you and me and the games people play

So look around you, tell me what you see, what is happening to you and me.

God gave us the serenity but he said "Remember who I am".

For you've thrown away your sanity for your pride and your vanity.

You turned your back on humanity and you don't give a damn.

Shalalalalalalalaa shalalalalalalalee

I'm talking about you and me and the games people play

Shalalalalalalalaa shalalalalalalalee

I'm talking about you and me and the games people play

GASTHAUS IN ROETHENBACH

There is a gasthaus in Roethenbach

It's called the Kronenbrau

And it's where the F.C. Kickers live

But they're only drinking now

They like to fussball spielen

And often play a game

But they're better far at drinking

That's their real claim to fame

The kickers have a mascot

A giant of a man

They call him "Animal Hingson"

He'll bite you if he can

And when the Kickers have a match

He's in there heart and soul

But he always has to play right back

Right back behind the goal

But now that he is thirty years

And old age begins to loom

He'll have a new position

Left back in the changing room

There is a gasthaus in Roethenbach

It's called the Kronenbrau

And it's where the F.C. Kickers live

But they're only drinking now

GEORGIA ON MY MIND

Georgia Georgia the whole day through

Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind

I said Georgia a song of you

Comes as sweet and clear as moonlight through the pines

Other arms reach out to me

Other eyes smile tenderly

Still in peaceful dreams I see

The road leads back to you

Georgia oh Georgia no peace I find

Just an old sweet song it's Georgia on my mind

Other arms reach out to me

Other eyes smile tenderly

Still in peaceful dreams I see

The road leads back to you

Georgia oh Georgia no peace I find

Just an old sweet song it's Georgia on my mind

GET BACK

Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner

But he knew it couldn’t last

Jo Jo left his home in Tucson Arizona

For some California grass

Get back! get back! get back to where you once belonged

Get back! get back! get back to where you once belonged

Sweet Loretta Modern thought she was a woman

But she was another man

All the girls around her say she’s got it coming

But she gets in while she can

Get back! get back! get back to where you once belonged

Get back! get back! get back to where you once belonged

GIVE A LITTLE BIT

Give a little bit

Give a little bit of your love to me

I'll give a little bit

I'll give a little bit of my love to you

There's so much that we need to share

So send a smile and show you care

I give a little bit

I give a little bit of my life to you

So give a little bit

So give a little bit of your time to me

See the man with the lonely eyes

Oh take his hand he'll be surprised

Give a little bit

Give a little bit of your love to me

I give a little bit

I give a little bit of my life for you

Now's the time that we need to share

So find yourself we're on our way back home

Oh going home

Such a need,

Such a need to feel at home

Oh yeah we gotta see

Oh you gotta get a feeling

Oh you come along too

Come along feel it

Come along

Oh you come along too

Come along feel it

Take a look

Come along too,

Come along right,

Come along way

Sing it tonight

GO YOUR OWN WAY

Loving you isn't the right thing to do

But how can I ever change things that I feel

If I could baby I'd give you my world

How can I when you won't take it from me

You can go your own way (you can go your own way)

You can call it under but don't you dare

You can go your own way

You can go your own way

Tell me why everything turned around

Back in the checking up self you won't do

If I could baby I'd give you my word

Open up everything's waiting for you

You can go your own way (you can go your own way)

You can call it under but don't you dare

You can go your own way

You can go your own way

You can go your own way (you can go your own way)

You can call it under but don't you dare

You can go your own way

You can go your own way

You can go your own way (you can go your own way)

You can call it under but don't you dare

You can go your own way

You can go your own way

GOLD WEDDING BAND

And her breasts they hung like used condoms

Her dress it would make a marquee

A pound of cheese sits in her belly-button

But she is the girl for me

In the pub she squinted right at me

She said I’m the woman for you

And my eye is as good as it could be

Though it’s been years since I’ve seen out of two

And her breasts they hung like used condoms

Her dress it would make a marquee

A pound of cheese sits in her belly-button

But she is the girl for me

A cripple I’m not you derate me

Thought lame of the leg I’ll admit

But my acne has calmed down quite recently

And my fits have subsided a bit

And her breasts they hung like used condoms

Her dress it would make a marquee

A pound of cheese sits in her belly-button

But she is the girl for me

Last week on Sunday we married

And I’m happy as I could be

Though I close my eyes when we’re in bed

She’s a millionaire for a daddy

And her breasts they hung like used condoms

Her dress it would make a marquee

A pound of cheese sits in her belly-button

But she is the girl for me

GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY

Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball

Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball

When you're rocking and a rolling

You can’t hear your mamma call

From the early early morning to the early early night

When I caught miss Molly rocking at the house of blue lights

Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball

When you're rocking and a rolling

You can’t hear your mamma call

My mum and papa told me son you'd better watch your step

If they knew about miss Molly I’d have to watch my papa myself

Good Golly miss Molly you sure like to ball

When you're rocking and a rolling

You can’t hear your mamma call

Going to a store gonna buy a diamond ring

When she hugs me and she kisses makes me ting a ling a ling

Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball

When you're rocking and a rolling

You can’t hear your mamma call

Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball

Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball

When you're rocking and a rolling

You can’t hear your mamma call

From the early early morning to the early early night

When I caught miss Molly rocking at the house of blue lights

Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball

When you're rocking and a rolling

You can’t hear your mamma call

GOOD OLD ROCK AND ROLL (MEDLEY)

When I was just a little boy you know my one and only joy

Was listening to that good old rock and roll

Now I’m just turned twenty three and if you wanna get a message to me

All you’ve gotta do is play that good old rock and roll

They’re really rocking in Boston in Philadelphia PA

Deep in the heart of Texas and down in ‘Frisco bay

Well all over St Louis and down in New Orleans

All the cats are gonna dance with sweet little sixteen

Sweet little sixteen she’s just got to have

About a half a million framed autographs

Her album’s filled with pictures she gets them one by one

She gets so excited won’t you look at her run

I’m gonna tell Aunt Mary ‘bout Uncle John

He say’s he’s got the blues but I know he’s having fun

Oh baby yeah baby woo hoo hoo maybe

We’re having us some fun tonight

Chantilly lace her pretty face her pony tail a hanging down

A little wiggle when you walk a giggle when you talk

That makes the world go round round round

Ain’t nothing in the world makes me feel so good

That makes me act so funny makes me spend my money

Make me feel so loose like a long legged goose

Ah baby that’s a what I like

Come on over baby whole lotta shaking going on

Come on over baby whole lotta shaking going on

I ain’t thinking whole lotta shaking going on

Well you can knock me down stamp on my face

Slander my name all over the place

Do anything that you wanna do

But oh ho honey lay off of my shoes

And don’t you step on my blue suede shoes

You can do any thing but lay off of my blue suede shoes

When I was just a little boy you know my one and only joy

Was listening to that good old rock and roll

Now I’m just turned twenty three and if you wanna get a message to me

All you’ve gotta do is play that good old rock and roll

GOODBYE

Please don’t wake me up too late tomorrow comes

And I will not be late

Late today when it becomes tomorrow

I will leave and go away

Goodbye goodbye goodbye

Goodbye my love goodbye

Songs that lingered on my lips excite me now

And linger on my mind

Leave your flowers at my door I’ll leave them there

For the one who waits behind

Goodbye goodbye goodbye

Goodbye my love goodbye

Far away my lover sings a lonely song

And calls me to his side

When a song of lonely love invites me on

I must go to his side

Goodbye goodbye goodbye

Goodbye my love goodbye

GOODBYE TO LOVE

I'll say goodbye to love

No one ever cared if I should live or die

Time and time again the chance for love has passed me by

And all I know of love is how to live without it

I just can't seem to find it

So I've made my mind up I must live my life alone

And though it's not the easy way I guess I've always known

I'd say goodbye to love

There are no tomorrows for this heart of mine

Surely time will lose these bitter memories

And I'll find that there is someone to believe in and to live for

Something I could live for

All the years of useless search have finally reached an end

Loneliness and empty days will be my only friends

From this day love is forgotten I'll go on as best I can

What lies in the future is a mystery to us all

No one can predict the wheel of fortune as it falls

There may come a time when I see that I've been wrong

But for now this is my song

And it's goodbye to love

I'll say goodbye to love

GRANDE AFFAIR

Let’s take a bus who needs a car

Or let’s walk it’s not very far

I’m not hungry much now are you

Do you mind if I share yours with you

You see I’ve no money but I think that you knew

Remember the moon on the walls didn’t she shine

The taste of the sheets and the feel of the wine

Wasn’t I glad that you were once mine

In the Grande affair

Now I stay in the best hotels

Where white coated waiters attend me

And I look at the beautiful girls

Do they really believe they can bend me

I ride now seldom I walk

I see friends but I’d rather not talk

I order red then I change it to white

And go drunk to my bed at night

You brought me from darkness back into the light

Remember the moon on the walls didn’t she shine

The taste of the sheets and the feel of the wine

Wasn’t I glad that you were once mine

In the Grande affair

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain

Too much love drives a man insane

You broke my will but what a thrill

Goodness gracious great balls of fire

I laughed ‘cause I thought it was funny

You came along and moved me honey

I changed my mind this love is fine

Goodness gracious great balls of fire

Kiss me baby ooh it feels good

Hold me baby yeah you’ve got to love me love a lover should

You’re fine so kind

I’m gonna tell this world that you’re mine mine mine

I chew my nails I twiddle my thumbs

I’m really nervous but it sure is fun

Come on baby you’re driving me crazy

Goodness gracious great balls of fire

Kiss me baby ooh it feels good

Yeah let me love you like a lover should

You’re fine so kind

I’m gonna tell this world that you’re mine mine mine

I chew my nails I twiddle my thumbs

I’m really nervous but it sure is fun

Come on baby you’re driving me crazy

Goodness gracious great balls of fire

GREAT PRETENDER

Oh yes, I'm the great pretender

Pretending that I'm doing well

My need is such, I pretend too much

I'm lonely but no one can tell

Oh yes, I'm the great pretender

Laughing out loud like a clown

I seem to be what I'm not, you see

I'm wearing my heart like a crown

Pretending that you're still around

Too real is this feeling, when I've made believe

Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal

Oh yes, I'm the great pretender

I drift in a world of my own

I play the game but to my real shame

You've left me today on my own

Pretending that I'm not alone

Too real is this feeling, when I've made believe

Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal

Oh yes, I'm the great pretender

Pretending that I'm doing well

My need is such, I pretend too much

I'm lonely but no one can tell

I'm lonely but no one can tell

THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE

So how do you do Private William McBride

Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside

And I’ll rest for a while in the warm summer’s sun

I’ve been walking all day and now I’m nearly done

I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen

When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen sixteen

Well I hope you died quickly and I hope you died clean

Or Willy McBride was it slow and obscene

Did they beat the drums slowly did they sound the fifes lowly

Did the rifles fire o’er you as they lowered you down

Did the bugles sing last post in chorus

Did the Pipes play the flowers of the forest

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind

And in some faithful heart does your memory shine

And though you died back in nineteen sixteen

To that loyal heart are you always nineteen

Or are you a stranger without even a name

For ever enshrined behind some glass pane

In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained

And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame

Did they beat ...

Well the sun’s shining now on these green fields of France

The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance

The trenches have vanished long under the ground

No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now

But here in this graveyard it’s still no man’s land

The countless white crosses in mute witness stand

To man’s blind indifference to his fellow man

And a whole generation who were butchered and damned

Did they beat ...

And I can’t help but wonder now Willy McBride

Do all those who lie here know why they died

Did you really believe them when they told you the cause

Did you really believe that this war would end wars

The suffering the sorrow the glory the shame

The killing the dying it was all done in vain

For Willy McBride it’s all happening again

And again and again and again and again

Did they beat ...

GROCER JACK

Pass the days into years

Yes eighty two brings many fears

Yesterday’s laughter turns to tears

His arms and legs don’t feel so strong

His heart is weak there’s something wrong

Opens windows in despair tries to breathe in some fresh air

His conscience cries get on your feet

Without you Jack the town can’t eat

Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back

Go into town don’t let them down oh no no

Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back

Go into town don’t let them down oh no no

The people that live in the town

Don’t understand he’s never been known to miss his round

It’s ten o’clock the housewives yell

When Jack turns up we’ll give him hell

Husbands moan at breakfast tables

No milk no eggs no marmalade labels

Mothers send their children out

To Jack’s house to scream and shout

Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back

Come into town don’t let us down oh no no

Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back

Come into town don’t let us down oh no no

It’s Sunday morning bright and clear

Lovely flowers decorate a marble square

People cry and walk away

And think about the fateful day

Now they wish they’d given Jack

More affection and respect

The little children dressed in black

Don’t know what’s happened to old Jack

Grocer Jack grocer Jack is it true what mummy says

You won’t come back oh no no

Grocer Jack grocer Jack is it true what mummy says

You won’t come back oh no no

Grocer Jack grocer Jack is it true what mummy says

You won’t come back oh no no

Grocer Jack grocer Jack is it true what mummy says

You won’t come back oh no no

GROOVY KIND OF LOVE

When I'm feeling blue all I have to do

Is take a look at you then I'm not so blue

When you're close to me I can feel your heartbeat

I can hear you breathing in my ear

Wouldn't you agree

Baby you and me

Got a groovy kind of love

Anytime you want to you can turn me on to

Anything you want to anytime at all

When I kiss your lips ooh I start to shiver

Can't control the quivering inside

Wouldn't you agree

Baby you and me

Got a groovy kind of love

We got a groovy kind of love

When I'm feeling blue all I have to do

Is take a look at you then I'm not so blue

When I'm in your arms nothing seems to matter

My whole world can shatter I don't care

Wouldn't you agree

Baby you and me

Got a groovy kind of love

We got a groovy kind of love

We got a groovy kind of love

HAMPSTEAD FAIR

As I did walk by Hampstead Fair I came upon Mother Goose

So I turned her loose and she was screaming

And a foreign student said to me was it really true

There are elephants and lions too at Picadilly Circus

Walked down by the bathing pond to try and catch some sun

I saw at least a hundred schoolgirls sobbing into handkerchiefs as one

I don’t believe they knew I was a schoolboy

And the bearded lady said to me if you start your raving

And your misbehaving you’ll be sorry

And the chicken fancier came to play

With his long red beard and his sister’s weird she drives a lorry

Laughed down by the buttery I popped them in their holes

Four and twenty labourers were labouring and digging up their gold

I don’t believe they knew that I was Long John Silver

Saw Johnny Scarecrow make his rounds in his jet black Mac

Which he won’t give back stole it from a snowman

As I did walk by Hampstead Fair I came upon Mother Goose

So I turned her loose and she was screaming

Walked down by the bathing pond to try and catch some sun

I saw at least a hundred schoolgirls sobbing into handkerchiefs as one

I don’t believe they knew I was a schoolboy

HANDLE WITH CARE

Been beat up and battered around

Been sent up but I’ve been shot down

You’re the best thing that I’ve ever found

Handle me with care

Reputation’s changeable

Situation’s tolerable

But baby you’re adorable

Handle me with care

I’m so tired of being lonely

I still have some love to give

Won’t you show me

That you really care

Everybody’s got somebody to lean on

Put your body next to mine and dream on

I’ve been fobbed off and I’ve been fooled

I’ve been robbed and ridiculed

In Baker Centres and night schools

Handle me with care

Been stuck in a pot, terrorised

Sent to meetings, hypnotised

Over-exposed, commercialised

Handle me with care

I’m so tired of being lonely

I still have some love to give

Won’t you show me

That you really care

Everybody’s got somebody to lean on

Put your body next to mine and dream on

I’ve been uptight and made a mess

But I’m cleaning up myself I guess

Oh the sweet smell of success

Handle me with care

HANG ON SLOOPY

Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on

Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on

Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town

And everybody yeah, tries to put my Sloopy down

Sloopy, I don't care what your daddy do

'Cause you know, Sloopy-Girl, I'm in love with you

And so I sing now

Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on

Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on

Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on

Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on

Sloopy let your hair down, girl, let it hang down on me

Sloopy let your hair down, girl, let it hang down on me

Come on Sloopy (Come on, come on)

Come on Sloopy (Come on, come on)

Come on Sloopy (Come on, come on)

Come on Sloopy (Come on, come on)

Well it feels so good (Come on, come on)

Well it feels so good (Come on, come on)

Shake it, shake it , shake it, Sloopy (Come on, come on)

Shake it, shake it , shake it, Sloopy (Come on, come on)

Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on

Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on

Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on

Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on

HAPPY WE SHALL BE

In a cottage in a wood,

Little old man at the window stood,

Saw a rabbit running scared,

Knocking at his door,

Help me, help me, help he said,

Before the farmer shoots me dead,

Come little rabbit, come inside,

Happy we shall be.

Little old man at the window stood,

Saw a rabbit running scared,

Knocking at his door,

Help me, help me, help he said,

Before the farmer shoots me dead,

Come little rabbit, come inside,

Happy we shall be.

Saw a rabbit running scared,

Knocking at his door,

Help me, help me, help he said,

Before the farmer shoots me dead,

Come little rabbit, come inside,

Happy we shall be.

Knocking at his door,

Help me, help me, help he said,

Before the farmer shoots me dead,

Come little rabbit, come inside,

Happy we shall be.

Help me, help me, help he said,

Before the farmer shoots me dead,

Come little rabbit, come inside,

Happy we shall be.

Before the farmer shoots me dead,

Come little rabbit, come inside,

Happy we shall be.

Come little rabbit, come inside,

Happy we shall be.

Happy we shall be.

HARD TO SAY I’M SORRY

Everybody needs a little time away

I heard her say from each other

Even lovers need a holiday

Far away from each other,

Hold me now

It’s hard for me to say I’m sorry

I just want you to stay

After all that we’ve been through

I will make it up to you I’ll promise to

And after all that’s been said and done

You’re just the part of me I can’t let go

Couldn’t stand to be kept away

Just for the day from your body

Wouldn’t wanna be swept away

Far away from the one that I love

Hold me now

It’s hard for me to say I’m sorry

I just want you to know,

Hold me now

I really want to tell you I’m sorry

I could never let you go

After all that we’ve been through

I will make it up to you I’ll promise to

And after all that’s been said and done

You’re just the part of me I can’t let go

After all that we’ve been through

I will make it up to you, I promise to

Love is gonna be the lucky one

When we get there gonna jump in the air

Don’t want to see this country nobody there

After all you know we really don’t care

Hold on I’m gonna take you there

HASH ON THE TOWN

I see bodies fall and rising,

I know they will come quite soon,

Virgins from their maidenheads they're prising,

Many a young girl faces ruin.

Tie your virgins down,

The hash is on the town,

And their passion’s on the rise.

Hope you won't keep your legs together,

And on the feather bed you'll lie,

Then we can all go hell for leather,

Later we'll have another try.

Tie your virgins down,

The hash is on the town,

And their passion’s on the rise.

I hear botty burps a blowing,

I know the reason is quite clear,

Effects of Monday night are showing,

That they've all drunk too much beer.

Tie your virgins down,

The hash is on the town,

And their passion’s on the rise.

HAVE A DRINK ON ME

In 1880 down a dusty road along came a miner with a big fat load

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

He was dressed in dirt from his head to his foot his hair was so black that it looked like soot

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

Well, he put away his load and he hitched it to the rail and he said old fellow it's the end of the trail.

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

Well, he ambled down to the old saloon he said, I know it's early and it ain't quite noon

But, hey, hey everybody drink on me

Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

Well, I just got a letter from down in Tennessee it said, my uncle Donald left an oil well to me

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

I've been digging all my life and I nearly dug to hell but my uncle digs potatoes and he struck an oil well

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

Well, black gold, yellow gold, I guess it's all the same take my tip and give up the mining game

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

Sell your shovel and your old long Johns you can make a fortune writing "I don't fail songs"

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me

Hey, hey everybody drink on me

HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY

Have I told you lately that I love you

Have I told you there’s no one above you

Fill my heart with gladness

Take away my sadness

Ease my troubles that’s what you do

Oh, the morning sun in all it’s glory

Greets the day with hope and comfort too

And you can fill my heart with laughter

You make it better

Ease my troubles that’s what you do

There’s a love that’s divine

And it’s yours and it’s mine

Like the sun

At the end of the day

We should give thanks and pray to the one

Have I told you lately that I love you

Have I told you there’s no one above you

Fill my heart with gladness

Take away my sadness

Ease my troubles that’s what you do

There’s a love that’s divine

And it’s yours and it’s mine

Like the sun

At the end of the day

We should give thanks and pray to the one

HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN

Have you ever loved a woman

So much you tremble in pain

Have you ever loved a woman

So much you tremble in pain

But all the time you know yeah

She bears another man’s name

But you just love that woman

So much it’s a shame and a sin

You just love that woman

So much it’s a shame and a sin

But all the time you know yes you know

She belongs to your very best friend

Have you ever loved a woman

You know you can’t leave it alone

Have you ever loved a woman

And you know you can’t leave it alone

Something deep inside of you

Won’t let you rape your best friend’s woman

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN

Someone told me long ago

There's a calm before the storm

I know, it's been coming for some time

When it's over so they say

It'll rain a sunny day

I know shining down like water

I wanna know have you ever seen the rain

I wanna know have you ever seen the rain

Coming down on a sunny day

Yesterday and days before

Sun is cold and rain is hot

I know, been that way for all my time

You're forever comin' and goin'

Through the circle fast and slow

I know, I can't stop but wonder

I wanna know have you ever seen the rain

I wanna know have you ever seen the rain

Coming down on a sunny day

I wanna know have you ever seen the rain

I wanna know have you ever seen the rain

Coming down on a sunny day

HE AIN’T HEAVY HE’S MY BROTHER

The road is long

With many a winding turn

That leads us to who knows where

Who knows where

But I’m strong

Strong enough to carry him

He ain’t heavy

He’s my brother

So on we go

His welfare is my concern

No burden is he to bear

We’ll get there

For I know

He would not encumber me

He ain’t heavy

He’s my brother

If I’m laden at all I’m laden with sadness

That everyone’s heart isn’t filled

With the gladness of love for one another

It’s a long long road

From which there is no return

While we’re on the way to there

Why not share

And the load

Doesn’t weigh me down at all

He ain’t heavy

He’s my brother

HEAR ME CALLING

Hear me calling, hear me call on you

Hear me calling, hear me call on you

If you don’t come soon

I’ll know your love ain’t true

Hear me calling, hear me calling loud

Hear me calling, hear me calling loud

If you don’t come soon

I’ll be wearing a shroud

Hear me calling, hear me call on you

Hear me calling, hear me call on you

If you don’t come soon

I’ll know your love ain’t true

Hear me calling, hear me calling loud

Hear me calling, hear me calling loud

If you don’t come soon

I’ll be wearing a shroud

HEART OF GOLD

I wanna live, I wanna give

I've been a miner for a heart of gold

It's these expressions I never give

That keeps me searching for a heart of gold

And I'm getting old

Keep me searching for a heart of gold

And I'm getting old

I've been to Hollywood, I've been to Redwood

I've crossed the ocean for a heart of gold

I've been in my mind, it's such a fine line

That keeps me searching for a heart of gold

And I'm getting old

Keep me searching for a heart of gold

And I'm getting old

Keep me searching for a heart of gold

You keep me searching and I'm growing old

Keep me searching for a heart of gold

I've been a miner for a heart of gold

HEARTACHE TONIGHT

Somebody's gonna hurt someone

Before the night is through

Somebody's gonna come undone

There's nothing we can do

Everybody wants to touch somebody

If it takes all night

Everybody wants to take a little chance

Make it come out right

There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know

There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know, Lord, I know

Some people like to stay out late

Some folks can't hold out that long

But nobody wants to go home now

There's too much going on

This night is gonna last forever

Last all, last all summer long

Sometime before the sun comes up

The radio's gonna play that song

There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know

There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know, Lord, I know

There's gonna be a heartache tonight the moon's shining bright

So turn out the light and we'll get it right

There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know

Somebody's gonna hurt someone

Before the night is through

Somebody's gonna come undone

There's nothing we can do

Everybody wants to touch somebody

If it takes all night

Everybody wants to take a little chance

Make it come out right

There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know

There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know, Lord, I know

We can beat around the bushes

We can get down on the floor

We can leave it in the parking lot

But either way there's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know

I know there's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know

HECTOR THE DOPE SNIFFING HOUND

Hector the dope sniffing hound

Used to be seen around town

With inspectors and pigs

He was one of the bigs

A bark from that nark sent you down

One night they was casing a joint

On point duty Hector did point

At the small herbal fag

Then he took a sly drag

Saying bow wow wow wow, what's the point

Hector the dope sniffing hound

Now among the butterflies and flies he flies, closing his eyes

Ladybirds and beetles passing him by

Lazy days and summer ways in skies cornflower blue

Hector defector frolicking in the dew

Hector the dope sniffing hound

Was out through the door in a bound

Now he wanders at large

Shouting out “What’s the charge

Afghan black or Mongolian brown ?”

Hector the dope sniffing hound

Was the most dogmatic dog in the pound

But now he’s a dropout

His eyes nearly pop out

Going round and around and around

Hector the dope sniffing hound

Among the butterflies and flies he flies, closing his eyes

Ladybirds and beetles passing him by

Lazy days and summer ways in skies cornflower blue

Hector defector frolicking in the dew

His number was PC K9

But now he's smashed all the time

Under floorboards and mats

He goes chasing cats

Instead of unearthing cocaine

Hector the dope sniffing hound

Has recently gone underground

He’s the only coyote

Who’s dropped pure peyote

Hector the dope sniffing hound

Hector the dope sniffing hound

HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT

Take that ribbon from your hair.

Shake it loose and let it fall.

Lay it soft upon my skin,

Like the shadows on the wall.

Come and lay down by my side,

'Till the early morning light.

All I'm taking is your time,

Help me make it through the night.

I don't care, who's right or wrong,

I don't try to understand.

Let the devil take tomorrow,

Lord, tonight I need a friend.

Yesterday is dead and gone,

And tomorrow's out of sight.

It's so sad to be alone,

Help me make it through the night.

I don't care, who's right or wrong,

I don't try to understand.

Let the devil take tomorrow,

Lord, tonight I need a friend.

Yesterday is dead and gone

And tomorrow's out of sight.

I don't want to be alone,

Help me make it through the night.

KING HENRY V AND THE KING OF FRANCE

Our King lay dreaming all on his bed a happy thought came to his head

That he should send to the King of France and cause his tribute to be paid

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

Come here to me my trusty page my trusty page come here to me

For you shall go to the King of France and fetch the tribute here to me

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

So then uprose his trusty page his trusty page then uprose he

And he has gone to the King of France and there he bowed on bended knee

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

What news what news my trusty page from the English King what news for me

Oh I have come from the English King to fetch the tribute due from thee

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

Your King is young and of tender years he is not like to our degree

So we will send him three tennis balls that with them he may play may he

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

So then uprose his trusty page his trusty page then uprose he

Until he came to the English King and there he bowed on bended knee

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

What news what news my trusty page from the King of France what news for me

Oh he has sent you three tennis balls that with them you may play may thee

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

Come here to me my trusty page my trusty page come here to me

And we will send him such English balls the King of France he ne’er did see

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

Recruit me Cheshire and Lancashire and men of Derby that are so free

But no married man or widow's son no widows curse shall lie on me

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

They recruited Cheshire and Lancashire and men of Derby that are so free

And when the numbers were counted o'er it came to fifty thousand men and three

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

They fought the French and they fought the King until they gained the victory

They brought the King down until he cried have mercy on my men and me

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

And if I pay this tribute owed then don't bring soldiers unto me

And the fairest lily in all of France to the Rose of England give I free

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

Our King lay dreaming all on his bed a happy thought came to his head

That he should send to the King of France and cause his tribute to be paid

Right fol de rol right fol de ray

HERE COMES THE NIGHT

Wow, here it comes, here comes the night,

Here comes the night oh yeah

I can see right out my window

Walking down the street, my girl with another guy

His arms around her like it used to be with me

It makes me want to die

Yeah, here it comes, here comes the night

Here comes the night oh yeah

There they go it’s funny how they look so good together

Wonder what is wrong with me

Why can’t I accept the fact that she’s chosen him

And simply let them be, woh, woh, woh

Yeah, here it comes, here comes the night

Here comes the night oh yeah

She’s with him, he’s turning down the lights

And now he’s holding her the way I used to do

I can see her closing her eyes and telling him lies

Exactly like she told me too

Yeah, here it comes, here comes the night

Here comes the night oh yeah

HESITATION BLUES

Nickel is a nickel

Dime is a dime

I got a house full of kids

One of them must be mine

Oh how long must I wait

Can I get you now oh no must I hesitate

Never been to heaven

But I've been told

Old Saint Peter knows

How to get it on

Oh how long must I wait

Can I get you now oh no must I hesitate

Hesitation stockings

Hesitation shoes

Lord almighty got them

Hesitation blues

Oh how long must I wait

Can I get you now oh no must I hesitate

HEY JOE

Hey Joe where you going with that gun in your hand

Hey Joe I said where you going with that gun in your hand

I'm goin’ down to shoot my old lady

You know I caught her messing round with another man

I'm goin’ down to shoot my old lady

You know I caught her messing round with another man

And that ain't too cool

Hey Joe I heard you shot your woman down you shot her down down

Hey Joe I heard you shot your lady down you shot her down in the ground

Yes I did I shot her

You know I caught her messing round messing round town

Yes I did I shot her

You know I caught my old lady messing round town

And I gave her the gun and I shot her

Hey Joe where you going to run to now where you going to run to

Hey Joe where you going to run to now where you going to go

I'm going way down south way down to Mexico way

I'm going way down south way down where I can be free

Ain't nobody gonna find me

Ain't no hangman gonna he ain't going to put a rope around me

You'd better believe man now I gotta go now

HEY JUDE

Hey Jude don't make it bad

Take a sad song and make it better

Remember to let her into your heart

Then you can start to make it better

Hey Jude don't be afraid

You have found her now go and get her

Remember to let her under your skin

Then you can begin to make it better

And anytime you feel the pain hey Jude refrain

Don't carry the world upon your shoulder

And don't you know that it's the fool who plays it cool

By making his world a little colder

Hey Jude don't make it bad

You were made to go out and get her

The minute you let her into your heart

Then you can start to make it better

Better better better better Aaahhh

La la la la la la la la la la la hey Jude

La la la la la la la la la la la hey Jude

La la la la la la la la la la la hey Jude

La la la la la la la la la la la hey Jude

HEY TONIGHT

Hey tonight,

Gonna be tonight,

Don't you know I'm flying

Tonight, tonight

Hey, come on

Gonna chase tomorrow

Tonight, tonight

Gonna get it to the rafters

Watch me now

Jody’s gonna get religion

All night long

Hey, come on

Gonna hear the song

Tonight, tonight

Gonna get it to the rafters

Watch me now

Jody’s gonna get religion

All night long

Hey tonight,

Gonna be tonight,

Don't you know I'm flying

Tonight, tonight

Tonight, tonight

HIDE IN YOUR SHELL

Hide in your shell 'cause the world is out to bleed you for a ride

What will you gain making your life a little longer

Heaven or hell was the journey cold that gave you eyes of steel

Sheltered behind painting your mind and playing joker

Too frightening to listen to a stranger

Too beautiful to put your pride in danger

You're waiting for someone to understand you

But you've got demons in your closet (you've got demons in your closet)

And you're screaming out stop it (you're screaming out stop it)

Saying life's begun to cheat you

Friends are out to beat you

Grab on to what you can scramble for

Don't let the tears linger on inside now

'Cause it's sure time you gained control

If I can help you If I can help you

If I can help you just let me know

All through the night as you lie awake and hold yourself so tight

What do you need a second hand movie star to tell you

I as a boy believed the only cure for pain was love

How would it be if you could see the world through my eyes

Too frightening the fire's becoming colder

Too beautiful to think you're getting older

You're looking for someone to give an answer

What you see is just illusion (what you see is just illusion)

You're surrounded by confusion (you're surrounded by confusion)

Saying life's begun to cheat you

Friends are out to beat you

Grab on to what you can scramble for

Don't let the tears linger on inside now

'Cause it's sure time you gained control

If I can help you If I can help you

If I can help you just let me know

I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I gotta know

I wanna know you I wanna know you well let me know you

I wanna feel you oh I wanna touch you

Please let me near you please let me near you

Can you hear what I'm saying well I'm hoping I plead and I'm praying

I know what you're thinking see what you're seeing

Never never let yourself go hold yourself down

Hold yourself down why don't you hold yourself down

Why don't you listen and trust me oh listen please I know the way

A place there is no feeling a feeling to feel at last you've got to know

HIGH GERMANY

Oh Polly love oh Polly the rout has now begun

And we must go a marching to the beating of a drum

Go dress yourself all in your best and come along with me

And I’ll take you to the wars my love in high Germany

Oh Willy love oh Willy come list what I do say

My feet they are so tender, I cannot march away

Besides my darling Willy I am with child by thee

Not suited for the cruel wars in high Germany

I’ll buy for you a horse my love and on it you shall ride

And all my delight shall be in riding by your side

We’ll stop at every alehouse and drink when we are dry

Be true to one another get married by and by

Oh cursed be those cruel wars that ever they should rise

And out of merry England pressed many a man likewise

They took my true love from me likewise my brothers three

And sent them to the cruel wars in high Germany

My friends I do not value, my foes I do not fear

And since my love has left me I’ve wandered far and near

And when the baby it is born a crying on my knee

I’ll think of darling Willy in high Germany

HIGHWAY STAR

Nobody gonna take my car gonna race it to the ground

Nobody gonna beat my car it's gonna break the speed of sound

Oh it's a killing machine it's got everything

Like a driving power big fat tyres and everything

I love it and I need it I feel it

Yeah it's a wild machine

All right hold tight I'm a highway star

Nobody gonna take my girl I'm gonna keep her till the end

Nobody gonna have my girl she stays close on every bend

Ooh she's a killing machine she's got everything

Like a moving mouth body control and everything

I love her I need her I seed her

Yeah she turns me on

All right hold tight I'm a highway star

Nobody gonna take my head I've got speed inside my brain

Nobody gonna steal my head now that I'm on the road again

Ooh I'm in heaven again I've got everything

Like a moving frown over control and everything

I love it I need it I feel it

Eight cylinders all mine

All right hold tight I'm a highway star

Nobody gonna take my car gonna race it to the ground

Nobody gonna beat my car it's gonna break the speed of sound

Oh it's a killing machine it's got everything

Like a driving power big fat tyres and everything

I love it and I need it I feel it

Yeah it's a wild machine

All right hold tight I'm a highway star

HIPPIES AND THE HAIRIES

It was late one night Mr. Jones came home

On the nine forty-seven from Euston O

He was big, he was fat and he wore a bowler hat

And he hated the hippies and the hairies O

As he stopped before his mock Tudor door

He called to his wife I am home dear O

The train was delayed, I'm late I'm afraid

Must have been the hippies and the hairies O

As he stepped inside a note he espied

The au-pair came to greet him O

Saying Madam is not here she has gone I fear

She has gone with the hippies and the hairies O

Go prepare for me the MGB GT

The Roller's not so speedy O

And I shall drive 'till I find her alive

Or dead with the hippies and the hairies O

So he rode North and he rode South

'Till he came to a field near Knebworth O

And there she did stand with a joint in her hand

Getting into Harper with the hairies O

What makes you leave your house and car

Your Habitat kitchen and your freezer O

And the children three, not to mention me

And go with the hippies and the hairies O

Oh what care I for my house and car

My Habitat kitchen and my freezer O

A fuse I've primed and the whole thing's timed

To explode in the middle of the Jimmy Young show

So now I'm free of the Bourgeoisie

And the cosmic twits at the golf club O

So Chorleywood you can stuff for good

I'm spaced with the hippies and the hairies O

HIT THE ROAD JACK

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back

No more, no more, no more, no more

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back

No more, no more, no more, no more

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more

Oh woman, oh woman, don't treat me so mean

You're the meanest old woman I've ever seen

I've guess if baby, you said so

I'll have to pack my things and go

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back

No more, no more, no more, no more

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back

No more, no more, no more, no more

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more

Now, baby, listen, baby, don't you treat me this a way

‘Cause I'll be back on my feet some day

Don't care if you do, 'cause it's understood

You ain't got no money, you just ain't no good

Well, I guess if baby, you said so

I'll have to pack my things and go (That's right)

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back

No more, no more, no more, no more

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back

No more, no more, no more, no more

Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more

HOLE IN THE GROUND

There I was digging this hole

Hole in the ground so big and sort of round it was

There I was digging it deep

It was flat at the bottom and the sides were steep

When along came this bloke in a bowler

Which he lifted and scratched his head

He looked down the hole for all his blinkin’ soul

And he said “Do you mind if I make a suggestion ?”

Don’t dig there dig it elsewhere

You’re digging it round and it ought to be square

The shape of it’s wrong and it’s much too long

And you can’t put a hole where a hole don’t belong

Well there we was discussing this hole

Hole in the ground so big and sort of round it was

And there was him standing up there

All grand and official with ‘is nose in the air

So I gave ‘im a look sort of sideways

Which I lifted and scratched my ‘ead

I looked out of me ‘ole for all me blinkin’ soul and I said

I’m digging it here ‘cause I don’t want it there

And I’m digging it round ‘cause I don’t want it square

And if you disagree it doesn’t bother me

‘Cause that’s the place where the hole’s gonna be

There I was digging this hole

Hole in the ground so big and sort of round it was

There’s no hole now the ground’s all flat

And beneath it is the bloke in the bowler hat

HOLY GROUND ONCE MORE

Fare thee well my lovely Dinah a thousand times adieu

We’re bound away from the holy ground and the girls we love so true

We’ll sail the salt seas over and we’ll return to shore

And still I live in hope to see the holy ground once more

Fine girl you are

You’re the girl I do adore

And still I live in hopes to see

The holy ground once more

And when we’re out a sailing and you are far behind

Fine letters I will write to you with the secrets of my mind

The secrets of my mind my girl you’re the girl I do adore

And still I live in hopes to see the holy ground once more

Fine girl you are

You’re the girl I do adore

And still I live in hopes to see

The holy ground once more

And now the storm is raging and we are far from shore

And the poor old ship is sinking fast and the riggings they are tore

The night is dark and dreary we can scarcely see the shore

And still I live in hopes to see the holy ground once more

Fine girl you are

You’re the girl I do adore

And still I live in hopes to see

The holy ground once more

And now the storm is over and we are safe on shore

And we’ll drink one toast to the holy ground and the girls we do adore

We’ll drink strong ale and porter and we’ll make the tap room roar

And when our money is all spent we’ll go to sea once more

Fine girl you are

You’re the girl I do adore

And still I live in hopes to see

The holy ground once more

HOMBURG

Your multi-lingual business friend

Has packed her bags and fled

Leaving only Nashville ashtrays

And the lipstick unmade bed

The mirror on reflection

Has climbed back upon the wall

For the floor she found descended

And the ceiling was too tall

Your trouser cuffs are dirty

And your shoes are laced up wrong

You’d better take off your Homburg

‘Cause your overcoat is too long

The town clock in the market square

Stands waiting for the hour

When it’s hands they’ve both turned backward

And on meeting will devour

Both themselves and also any fool

Who dares to tell the time

And the sun and moon will shatter

And the signposts cease to shine

Your trouser cuffs are dirty

And your shoes are laced up wrong

You’d better take off your Homburg

‘Cause your overcoat is too long

Your trouser cuffs are dirty

And your shoes are laced up wrong

You’d better take off your Homburg

‘Cause your overcoat is too long

Your trouser cuffs are dirty

And your shoes are laced up wrong

You’d better take off your Homburg

‘Cause your overcoat is too long

HONESTY

If you search for tenderness it isn't hard to find

You can have the love you need to live

But if you look for truthfulness you might just as well be blind

It always seems so hard to give

Honesty is such a lonely word

Everyone is so untrue

Honesty is hardly ever heard

But mostly what I need from you

I can always find someone to say they sympathise

If I wear my heart out on my sleeve

But I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies

All I want is someone to believe

Honesty is such a lonely word

Everyone is so untrue

Honesty is hardly ever heard

But mostly what I need from you

I can find a lover I can find a friend

I can have security until the bitter end

Anyone can comfort me with promises again

I know I know

When I'm deep inside of me don't be too concerned

I won't ask for nothing while I'm gone

But when I want sincerity tell me where else can I turn

Cause you're the one that I depend upon

Honesty is such a lonely word

Everyone is so untrue

Honesty is hardly ever heard

But mostly what I need from you

HONKY TONK BANDUNG

I met a beer soaked Adrian in Bandung

He said we should go downtown for the night

We thought we’d make our first pit stop the Braga

He said a chicken lady would see me all right

It’s the honky tonk, honky tonk women

Gimme, gimme, gimme the Marabu girls

The Marabu was just around the corner

A young girl came to me out of the blue

She said we don’t have music like the Lingga

But boy do I have something better for you

It’s the honky tonk, honky tonk women

Gimme, gimme, gimme the Marabu girls

I took this lady home up to my bedroom

By this time I was pissed as could be

When she undressed I found it was a banshee

From now on I’ll just stick to drinking tea

It’s the honky tonk, honky tonk women

Gimme, gimme, gimme the Marabu girls

It’s the honky tonk, honky tonk women

Gimme, gimme, gimme the Marabu girls

HONKY TONK WOMAN

I met a conjureva down in Huston

She went and told me about something that I lack

I sat there in that tiny two way rebuff refusal

She couldn’t smile tells you when she saw my crack

It’s the honky tonk women

Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues

It’s the honky tonk women

Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues

She told me that she’d really like to see me

Standing in the corner standing all by myself

Muck to baby I’ve got no time for your easing

All I wanna do is turn round and be myself

It’s the honky tonk women

Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues

It’s the honky tonk women

Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues

She said you’d never leave me standing all by myself now

Oh babe yeah I have to find my head

I’m in love baby with somebody else dear

Always gonna see I’m standing way on the wings

It’s the honky tonk women

Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues

It’s the honky tonk women

Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues

HONKY TONK WOMAN

I met a gin soaked bar room queen in Memphis

She tried to take me upstairs for a ride

I had to lean her right across my shoulder

'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind

It's the honky tonk women

Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues

I laid a divorcee in New York city

I had to put up some kind of a fight

She laid me then she covered me in roses

She blew my nose and then she blew my mind

It's the honky tonk women

Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues

It's the honky tonk women

Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues

HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN

Gypsy woman told my mother

Before I was born

You've got a boy child coming

He'll be a son of a gun

He'll make pretty women

Jump and shout

Then the world'll wanna know

What it's all about

But you know I'm here

Everybody knows I'm here

Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man

Everybody knows I'm here

I got a black cat bone

I got a mojo too

I got a jolly cockeroo

I'm gonna mess with you

I'm gonna make you girls

Lead me by my hand

Then they'll really know

I'm your hoochie coochie man

Well you know I'm here

Everybody knows I'm here

Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man

Everybody knows I'm here

On the seventh hour

Of the seventh day

On the seventh month

Seven doctors did say

He was born for good luck

And that you'd see

I've got seven hundred dollars

And don't you mess with me

But you know I'm here

Everybody knows I'm here

Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man

Everybody knows I'm here

HOT PATOOTIE

Whatever happened to Saturday night

When you left a job and you felt all right

Don't seem the same since cosmic light

Came into my life I thought I was divine

I used to gopher round to Chooku cove

And listen to the music on the radio

A saxophone was blowing on a rock and roll show

Reclined in the back seat really had a good time

Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll

My head used to swim from the perfume I smelt

My hands kinda fumbled with that black plastic belt

My taste of daily hook-up stick and that's when it melt

She gets her in my kitchen and she really was mine

Get back in bond with some hell at home

But the Hollywood scene and it's very last song

Their entourage was fairly trying to sing along

They're stepping it up really had a good time

Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll

Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll

HOTEL CALIFORNIA

On a dark desert highway cool wind in my hair

Warm smell of colitis rising up through the air

Up ahead in the distance I saw a shimmering light

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night

There she stood in the doorway I heard the mission bell

And I was thinking to myself this could be heaven or this could be hell

Then she lit up the candle and she showed me the way

There were voices down the corridor I thought I heard them say

Welcome to the hotel California

Such a lovely place such a lovely face

Plenty of room in the hotel California

Any time of year you can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany twisted she's got a Mercedes Benz

She got a lot of pretty boys that she calls friends

How they dance in the courtyard sweet summer's sweat

Some dance to remember some dance to forget

So I called up the captain please bring me my wine

He said we haven't had that spirit here since 1969

And still those voices keep calling from far away

Wake you up in the middle of the night just to hear them say

Welcome to the hotel California

Such a lovely place such a lovely face

They’re living it up at the hotel California

What a nice surprise bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling drink pink champagne on ice

And she said we are all just prisoners here of our own device

And in the master's chambers they gathered for the feast

They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember I was running for the door

I had to find my passage back to the place I was before

Relax said the nightman we are programmed to receive

You can check out any time you like but you can never leave

HOUND DOG

You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time

You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time

you ain't never caught a rabbit

And you ain't no friend of mine

Well they said you were high class well that was just a lie

Yeah they said you were high class well that was just a lie

Well you ain't never caught a rabbit

And you ain't no friend of mine

You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time

You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time

you ain't never caught a rabbit

And you ain't no friend of mine

Well they said you were high class well that was just a lie

Yeah they said you were high class well that was just a lie

Well you ain't never caught a rabbit

And you ain't no friend of mine

Well they said you were high class well that was just a lie

Yeah they said you were high class well that was just a lie

Well you ain't never caught a rabbit

And you ain't no friend of mine

You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time

You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time

you ain't never caught a rabbit

And you ain't no friend of mine

HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN

There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy,

And God, I know, I'm one.

My mother was a tailor,

She sewed my new blue jeans,

My father was a gambling man

Down in New Orleans.

Now, the only thing a gambler needs

Is a suitcase and a trunk

And the only time he is satisfied

Is when he's all a drunk.

Oh, Mother, tell your children

Not to do what I have done,

Spend your lives in sin and misery

In the house of the Rising Sun.

Well I’ve got one foot on the platform

The other foot on the train

I'm going back to New Orleans

To wear that ball and chain

There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy,

And God, I know, I'm one.

THE HUNTER

They call me the hunter that's my name

A pretty little woman like you is my only game

I bought me a love gun just the other day

And I aim to aim it your way

Ain't no use to hide ain't no use to run

Cause I've got you in the sight of my gun

The first time I saw you standing on the street

I said to myself ain't she sweet

I got my love gun loaded with hundreds of kisses

As soon as I pull that trigger baby there will be no missing

Ain't no use to hide ain't no use to run

Cause I've got you in the sight of my gun

Ain't no use to hide ain't no use to run

Cause I've got you in the sight of my gun

The first time I saw you standing on the street

I said to myself ain't she sweet

I got my love gun loaded with hundreds of kisses

As soon as I pull that trigger baby there will be no missing

Ain't no use to hide ain't no use to run

Cause I've got you in the sight of my gun

HURTS SO GOOD

When I was a young boy

Said put away those young boy ways

Now that I’m getting older so much older

I long for those young boy days

With a girl like you, with a girl like you

Lord knows there are things we can do baby

Just me and you, come on and make it

Hurt so good

Come on baby make it hurt so good

Sometimes love don’t feel like it should

You make it hurt so good

Don’t have to be so exciting

Just trying to get myself a little bit of fun yeah

You ain’t as green as you are young

Hey baby it’s you, come on girl now it’s you

Sink your teeth right through my bones baby

Let’s see what we can do

Come on and make it

I ain’t talking no big deals

I ain’t made no plans myself

I ain’t talking no high heels

Maybe we could walk around all day long

Walk around all day long

Hurt so good

Come on baby make it hurt so good

Sometimes love don’t feel like it should

You make it hurt so good

Hurt so good

Come on baby make it hurt so good

Sometimes love don’t feel like it should

You make it hurt so good

I CAN HELP

If you got a problem, don't care what it is

If you need a hand, I'm gonna show you this

I can help, I got two strong arms I can help

It would sure do me good to do you good let me help

Was it bad two people get lonely, ain't nothing new

But a woman like you baby, should never have the blues

Let me help, I got two strong arms let me help

It would sure do me good to do you good let me help

When I go to sleep at night

You're always a part of my dream

Holding me tight and telling me everything

I wanna hear

Don't forget me, baby, all you got to do is call

You know how I feel about it, I can do anything at all

I can help, if your child needs a daddy I can help

It would sure do me good to do you good I can help

When I go to sleep at night

You're always a part of my dream

Holding me tight and telling me everything

I wanna hear

Don't forget me, baby, all you got to do is call

You know how I feel about it, I can do anything at all

I can help, if your child needs a daddy I can help

It would sure do me good to do you good I can help

I DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT

I can tell by your eyes

That you're probably been crying forever

And the stars in the sky

Don't mean nothing to you but a mirror

I don't wanna talk about about it

How you broke my heart

If I stay here just a little bit longer

If I stay here won't you listen

To my heart, oh my heart

If I stand all alone

Will the shadows hide the colours of my heart

Blue for the fears, black for the nights

Still the stars in the sky

Don't mean nothing to you but a mirror

I don't wanna talk about about it

How you broke my heart

If I stay here just a little bit longer

If I stay here won't you listen

To my heart, oh my heart

I DON’T WANT TO KNOW

I don't want to know the reason why our love keeps

Right on walking on down the line

I don't wanna stand between you love and money

I just want you to feel fine

I don't want to know the reason why our love keeps

Right on walking on down the line

I don't wanna stand between you love and money

I just want you to feel fine

Finally baby the truth has been told now

Take a listen to your spirit

It's crying out loud trying to believe

Oh you say you love me but you don't though

You've got me rocking and a reeling oh yeah

I don't want to know the reason why our love keeps

Right on walking on down the line

I don't wanna stand between you love and money

I just want you to feel fine

Finally baby the truth has been told

Now you tell me that I'm crazy

It's nothing that I didn't know trying to survive

Oh you say you love me but you don't though

You've got me rocking and a reeling oh yeah

Hey you know it's you oh yeah

I don't want to know the reason why our love keeps

Right on walking on down the line

I don't wanna stand between you love and money

I just want you to feel fine

I don't want to know the reason why our love keeps

Right on walking on down the line

I don't wanna stand between you love and money

Take a little time

I FEEL LIKE A MILLIONAIRE

Well I feel just like a millionaire

Well I feel just like a millionaire

Not a penny in my pocket that I could spare

Woh lord I feel just like a millionaire

When you’re raggedy and dirty broke and hungry too

Don’t have nobody to tell your troubles to

When you’re all alone way down by yourself

Oh you worry about that millionaire

Oh yes I feel just like a millionaire

I feel just like a millionaire

Not a penny in my pocket that I could spare

Woh yeah I feel just like a millionaire

Well I once was raggedy broke and hungry too

Meet all my friends nothing I could do

They’d all shake my hand and they’d all walk with me by

They wouldn’t leave me starving there to die

Oh yes I feel just like a millionaire

Yes I feel just like a millionaire

Not a penny in my pocket that I could spare

Woh yeah I feel just like a millionaire

Well I feel just like a millionaire

Well I feel just like a millionaire

Not a penny in my pocket that I could spare

Woh lord I feel just like a millionaire

I GO TO EXTREMES

Call me a joker call me a fool

Right at this moment I'm totally cool

Clear as a crystal sharp as a knife

I feel like I'm in the prime of my life

Sometimes it feels like I'm going too fast

I don't know how long this feeling will last

Baby it's only tonight

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

Too high or too low there ain't no in betweens

And if I stand or I fall it's only nothing at all

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

Sometimes I'm tired sometimes I'm shot

Sometimes I don't know how much more I've got

Baby I'm heading over the hill

Maybe I set myself up for the kill

Tell me how much do you think you can take

Until the heart in you's starting to break

Sometimes it feels like it will

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

You can be sure when I'm gone

I won't be up there too long

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

Out of the darkness into the light

Leaving the scene of the crime

Either I'm wrong or I'm perfectly right every time

Sometimes I lie awake night after night

Coming apart at the seams

Eager to please, ready to fight

Why do I go to extremes

And if I stand or I fall it's only nothing at all

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

Too high or too low there ain't no in betweens

You can be sure when I'm gone

I won't be up there too long

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

I don't know why I go to extremes

I don't know why I go to extremes

I GOT YOU BABE

They say we’re young and we don’t know

Won’t find out until we grow

Well I don’t know baby if that’s true

‘Cause you got me and baby I got you baby

I got you babe, I got you babe

They say our love won’t pay the rent

Before it’s earned our moneys always spent

I guess that’s so we don’t have a lot

But at least I’m sure of all the things we got baby

I got you babe, I got you babe

I got flowers in the spring

I got you to wear my ring

And when I get sad you’re around

And if I get scared you’re always around

Don’t let them say your hair’s too long

I don’t care with you I can’t go wrong

Then put your little hand in mine

There ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb baby

I got you babe, I got you babe, I got you babe

I’ve got you to hold my hand and I’ve got you to understand

I’ve got you to walk with me I’ve got you to talk with me

I’ve got you to kiss goodnight I’ve got you to hold me tight

I got you and I won’t let go I got you to love me so

I got you babe, I got you babe, I got you babe

I HEAR YOU KNOCKING

You went away and left me long time ago

And now you're knocking on my door

I hear you knocking but you can't come in

I hear you knocking go back where you been

I begged you not to go but you said goodbye

And now you're tellin' me all your lies

I hear you knocking but you can't come in

I hear you knocking go back where you been

I told your baby sister too

That I would never go with you

I hear you knocking but you can't come in

I hear you knocking go back where you been

You’d better go back to your old used to be

‘Cause your kind of loving ain’t good for me

I hear you knocking but you can't come in

I hear you knocking go back where you been

I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU

No new year’s day to celebrate

No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away

No first of spring, no song to sing

In fact, it’s just another ordinary day

No April rain, no flowers bloom

No wedding Saturday within the month of June

But what it is, is something true

Made up from these three words that I must sing to you

I just called to say I love you

I just called to say how much I care

I just called to say I love you

And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

No summer’s high, no warm July

No harvest moon to light one tender August night

No autumn breeze, no falling leaves

Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies

No Libra sun, no Halloween

No given things to all the Christmas joy you bring

But what it is, though old, some new

To fill your heart like no three words could ever do

I just called to say I love you

I just called to say how much I care

I just called to say I love you

And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

I LAY DOWN

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Oh my soul

By still waters I lay down with the light

And I could feel I made peace with my soul

And I care not for the night, while my guiding star shone bright

By still waters I lay down, I lay down

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Oh my soul

After all that I’ve been hurt all my time

From dirty streams I’m not looking for my soul

In a magic pool divine, I will leave it far behind

By still waters I lay down, I lay down

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Oh my soul

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Oh my soul

In sorrow I did fly with the sun

Now mountains all around take care of my soul

And I’ve found that I’m possessed, where my spirit lay’s to rest

In deep sorrow I lay down, I lay down

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Oh my soul

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Lay down, I lay me down

Oh my soul

I LOOKED AWAY

She took my hand and tried to make me understand

That she would always be there

Well I looked away and she ran away from me today

I’m such a lonely man

It came as no surprise to me

She left me in misery

Seemed like only yesterday she made a vow

That she’d never go away

She took my hand and tried to make me understand

That she would always be there

Well I looked away and she ran away from me today

I’m such a lonely man

Her voice seemed to say

You love another man’s woman baby

I guess I’ll keep on sinning and

Loving you lord till my very last day

Well I looked away and she ran away from me today

I’m such a lonely man

I SAW HER STANDING THERE

Well she was just seventeen well you know what I mean

And the way she looked was way beyond compare

So how could I dance with another ooh

When I saw her standing there

Well she looked at me and I I could see

That before too long I'd fall in love with her

She wouldn't dance with another ooh

When I saw her standing there

Well my heart went boom when I crossed that room

And I held her hand in mine

Well we danced through the night and we held each other tight

And before too long I fell in love with her

I'll never dance with another ooh

When I saw her standing there

Well my heart went boom when I crossed that room

And I held her hand in mine

Well we danced through the night and we held each other tight

And before too long I fell in love with her

I'll never dance with another ooh

Since I saw her standing there

Since I saw her standing there

Since I saw her standing there

I SHOT THE SHERIFF

I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot the deputy

I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy

All around in my hometown

They're trying to track me down

They say they want to bring me in guilty

For the killing of a deputy

For the life of a deputy but I say

I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defence

I shot the sheriff and they say it is a capital offence

Sheriff John Brown always hated me

For what I do not know

Every time I plant a seed

He said, Kill it before it grows

He said Kill it before it grows but I say

I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defence

I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defence

Freedom came my way one day

And I started out of town

All of a sudden I see sheriff John Brown

Aiming to shoot me down

So I shot, I shot him down and I say

I shot the sheriff - But I didn't shoot no deputy

I shot the sheriff - But I didn't shoot no deputy

Reflexes got the better of me

And what is to be must be

Every day the bucket goes to the well

One day the bottom will drop out

One day the bottom will drop out - I say

I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy

I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS

Gotta take a little time

A little time to think things over

I’d better read between the lines

In case I need it when I’m older

This mountain I must climb

Feels like a world upon my shoulders

Through the clouds I see love shine

It keeps me warm as life grows colder

In my life there’s been heartache and pain

I don’t know if I can face it again

Can’t stop now, I’ve travelled so far

To change this lonely life

I want to know what love is

I want you to show me

I want to feel what love is

I know you can show me, oh

I’m gonna take a little time

A little time to took around me

I’ve got nowhere left to hide

It looks like love has finally found me

In my life there’s been heartache and pain

I don’t know if I can face it again

Can’t stop now, I’ve travelled so far

To change this lonely life

I want to know what love is

I want you to show me

I want to feel what love is

I know you can show me, oh

I want to know what love is

I want you to show me

I want to feel what love is

I know you can show me

Let’s talk about love ( I want to know what love is )

Love, when you feel it inside

I want you to show me

I feel so much love ( I want to know what love is )

I WANNA WAKE UP WITH YOU

I wanna wake up with you

I wanna be there when you open your eyes

I want you to be the first thing that I see

I wanna wake up with you

I wanna lay by your side baby

I wanna feel every beat of your heart

And throughout the night I wanna hold you tight

I wanna wake up with you

All the love inside of me has been sleeping

Waiting ‘till the right one came along

You can share the love that I’ve been keeping

You can put the music to my song

I wanna wake up with you

I wanna reach out and know that you’re there

I want you to be the first thing that I see

I wanna wake up with you

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,

And throughout the night I wanna hold you tight

I wanna wake up with you

All the love inside of me has been sleeping

Waiting ‘till the right one came along

You can share the love that I’ve been keeping

You can put the music to my song

I wanna wake up with you

I wanna reach out and know that you’re there

I wanna you to be the first thing that I see

I wanna wake up with you

I wanna lay by your side baby

I wanna feel every beat of your heart

And throughout the night I wanna hold you tight

I wanna wake up with you

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,

I wanna you to be the first thing that I see

I wanna wake up with you

I WILL

Who knows how long I've loved you

You know I love you still

Will I wait a lonely lifetime

If you want me to, I will

For if I ever saw you

I didn't catch your name

But it never really mattered

I will always feel the same

Love you forever and forever

Love you with all my heart

Love you whenever we're together

Love you when we're apart

And when at last I find you

Your song will fill the air

Sing it loud so I can hear you

Make it easy to be near you

For the things you do endear you to me

Oh you know I will,

I will

I’D LOVE YOU TO WANT ME

When I saw you standing there

I ‘bout fell out of my chair

And when you moved your mouth to speak

I felt the blood go to my feet

Now it took time for me to know

What you tried so not to show

Something in my soul just cries

I feel the want in your blue eyes

Baby I’d love you to want me

The way that I want you

The way that it should be

Baby you’d love me to want you

The way that I want to

If you’d only let it be

You told yourself a year ago

You’d never let your feelings show

The obligations that you made

For the title that they gave

Baby I’d love you to want me

The way that I want you

The way that it should be

Baby you’d love me to want you

The way that I want to

If you’d only let it be

Now it took time for me to know

What you tried so not to show

Something in my soul just cries

I feel the want in your blue eyes

Baby I’d love you to want me

The way that I want you

The way that it should be

Baby you’d love me to want you

The way that I want to

If you’d only let it be

I’LL BE TRUE TO MY LOVE

There was a Lord in the north country bow down bow down to me

There was a Lord in the north country and he had daughters one two three

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

A young man came a courting them bow down bow down to me

A young man came a courting them and he’s made the choice of the youngest one

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

He’s offered the youngest a gay gold ring bow down bow down to me

He’s offered the youngest a gay gold ring but he never gave the eldest a single thing

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

Oh sister sister will you walk about bow down bow down to me

Oh sister sister will you walk about to see the ships a going sailing round

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

They waked until they came to the river’s brim bow down bow down to me

They waked until they came to the river’s brim and the eldest’s pushed the youngest in

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

Oh sister sister will you lend me your hand bow down bow down to me

Sister sister will you lend me your hand and you can have my houses and land

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

I wouldn’t give you the finger of my glove bow down bow down to me

I wouldn’t give you my hand nor glove and I will steal your only love

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

Away she sank and away she swam bow down bow down to me

Away she sank and away she swam and into the miller’s fishpond she ran

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

The miller came out with a long gaff hook bow down bow down to me

The miller came out with a long gaff hook and he fished young Polly out of the brook

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

He’s robbed her of her gay gold ring bow down bow down to me

He’s robbed her of her gay gold ring and into the ditch he’s flung her again

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

The miller was hung at his own mill gate bow down bow down to me

The miller was hung at his own mill gate and the oldest sister was burned at the stake

I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me

I'LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT

Close your eyes close the door

You don't have to worry anymore

I'll be your baby tonight

Shut the light shut the shade

You don't have to be afraid

I'll be your baby tonight

Oh well that mocking bird is gonna stay away

We're gonna forget it

Big fat moon's gonna shine like a spoon

We're gonna let it you won't regret it

Take your shoes off do not fear

Bring that bottle over here

I'll be your baby tonight

Be my baby

Be my baby

Be my baby

Be my baby

I'll be your baby tonight

I'M MOVING ON

I warned you baby from time to time

But you wouldn't listen

You don't pay me no mind

So I'm moving on

Now baby don't moan

I'm rolling on

You've broken your vow and it's all over now

So I'm moving on

That big eight wheeler rolling down the track

With your true lovin' daddy ain't coming back

Well I'm moving on I'm rolling on

You were flying too high for my little sky

So I'm moving on

Some day baby when you've had your play

You're gonna want your daddy but your daddy will say

Keep moving on keep rolling on

I'm through with you too bad you're blue

But I'm moving on

Mr Engineer take your throttle in hand

And take me down to that southern land

Keep moving on keep rolling on

You can ease my mind if you get me there on time

I'm moving on

Mr fireman please won't you listen to me

Cause I've got a burning (pretty?) woman in Tennessee

Keep moving on keep rolling on

She's fine as could be and she's good for me

Keep moving on

I'm gonna move

I'm gonna move

I'm gonna move

I'm gonna move

ICARUS

I never wanted to fly high, I was too fond of walking

And when you said you’d touched the sky, thought it was your way of talking

Then you said you’d built some wings, found out how it could be done

But I was doubtful ‘bout everything, never thought you’d reach the sun

You were so clever with your hands, I’d watched you for hours

The glue and the rubber bands, feathers and lace and flowers

And the finished wings they glowed so bright, like some bird of glory

I began to envy you your flight, like some old hero story

You tried to get me to go with you, tried all ways to dare me

But I looked up at the skies so blue, and I thought the height would scare me

But I carried your wings for you, up the path to the cliff face

Kissed you goodbye and watched your eyes, already bright with sunlight

And it was grand at the start, to watch you soaring higher

But there was a pain deep in my heart, the wings seemed tipped with fire

Like a seagull or a lark, rising up forever

Like an ember or some spark, rising from earth to heaven

And I believe you touched the sun, I believed everything you told me

You’d done a thing no man has done, you touched the stars to please me

And then I saw the wide wings fail, and I saw the feathers falter

Watched you drop like a ball of gold, into the wide green water

For some are born to fly high, some are born to follow

And some are born to touch the sky, while some walk in the hollow

And as I watched your body fall, I knew that really you had won

For your grave was not the earth, but the reflection of the sun

IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY

If I said you had a beautiful body

Would you hold it against me

If I swore you were an angel

Would you treat me like a devil tonight

If I was dying of thirst

Would your flowing love come and quench me

If I said you had a beautiful body

Would you hold it against me

Now we could talk all night about the weather

Tell you about my friends out on the coast

I could ask a lot of crazy questions

Or ask you what I really wanted to know

If I said you had a beautiful body

Would you hold it against me

If I swore you were an angel

Would you treat me like a devil tonight

If I was dying of thirst

Would your flowing love come and quench me

If I said you had a beautiful body

Would you hold it against me

Now rain can fall so soft against the window

The sun can shine so bright up in the sky

But daddy always told me don’t make small talk

He said come on out and say what’s on your mind

If I said you had a beautiful body

Would you hold it against me

If I swore you were an angel

Would you treat me like a devil tonight

If I was dying of thirst

Would your flowing love come and quench me

If I said you had a beautiful body

Would you hold it against me

IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW

If you leave me now

You’ll take away the biggest part of me

Ooh no baby please don’t go

And if you leave me now

You’ll take away the very heart of me

Ooh no baby please don’t go

Ooh girl I just want you to stay

A love like ours is love that’s hard to find

How could we let it slip away

We’ve come too far to leave it all behind

How could we end it this way

When tomorrow comes then we’ll both regret

The things we said today

A love like ours is love that’s hard to find

How could we let it slip away

We’ve come too far to leave it all behind

How could we end it this way

When tomorrow comes then we’ll both regret

The things we said today

If you leave me now

You’ll take away the biggest part of me

Ooh no baby please don’t go

Ooh girl just got to have you by my side

Ooh no baby please don’t go

Ooh mama I just got to have your love inside me

IMAGINE

Imagine there’s no heaven it’s easy if you try

No hell below us above us only sky

Imagine all the people living for today ah

Imagine there’s no countries it isn’t hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too

Imagine all the people living life in peace

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger a brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll join us

And the world will live as one

AN INNOCENT MAN

Some people stay far away from the door cause there's a chance of it opening up

They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it's just passers by

Some people live with the fear of the touch and the anger of how to play the fool

They won't listen to anyone so nobody tells them the lie

I know you're only protecting yourself I know you're thinking there's somebody else

Don't want to hurt you but I'm not above making up for the love

You've been denying you could ever feel

I'm not above doing anything to restore your faith if I can

Some people see through the eyes of the old only angry to look at the young

Only willing to hear you cry because I am an innocent man

I am an innocent man

Oh yes I am

Some people say they will never believe another promise they hear in the dark

Because they only remember too well they heard somebody tell them before

Some people sleep all alone every night instead of taking their lover to bed

Some people find that it's easier to hate than to wait any more

I know you don't wanna hear what I say I know you're gonna keep turning away

I've been there and if I can survive I can keep you alive

I'm not above going through it again not above being cool for a while

If you're true to me I'll be spared some people run from a possible fight

Some people figure they can never win although this is a fight I can lose

The accused is an innocent man

I am an innocent man oh yes I am an innocent man

You know you only hurt yourself by the spites but you should rather be a father tonight

That's your decision but I'm not below anybody I know if there's a chance of resurrecting the love

Not above going back to the start to find out where the heartache began

Some people hope for a miracle cure some people just accept the world as it is

Me I'm not willing to lay down and die because I am an innocent man

I am an innocent man

Oh yes I am an innocent man

IT’S A HEARTACHE

It’s a heartache, nothing but a heartache

Hits you when it’s too late

Hits you when you’re down

It’s a fool’s game, nothing but a fool’s game

Standing in the cold rain, feeling like a clown

It’s a heartache, nothing but a heartache

Love him till your arms break

Then he lets you down

It ain’t right with love to share

When you find he doesn’t care for you

It ain’t wise to need someone

As much as I depend on you

It’s a heartache, nothing but a heartache

Hits you when it’s too late

Hits you when you’re down

It’s a fool’s game, nothing but a fool’s game

It ain’t right with love to share

When you find he doesn’t care for you

It ain’t wise to need someone

As much as I depend on you

It’s a heartache, nothing but a heartache

Hits you when it’s too late

Hits you when you’re down

It’s a fool’s game, noting but a fool’s game

IT’S ALL OVER NOW

Baby used to stay yeah all night long

She made me weak you know she’s done me wrong

She held my eyes open and that’s no lie

Still the tables are turning now it’s her turn to cry

Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now

Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now

I used to wake in the morning get my breakfast in bed

But now I’ve got nothing to ease my aching head

And now she’s here and there with every single man in town

Still trying to take me for that same old crap

Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now

Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now

Still see her running round with every single man in town

Spend all of my money playing her fast game

It used to put me down it’s just pathetic how she cried

But the tables are turning now it’s her turn to cry

Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now

Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now

Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now

Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now

IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME

What's the matter with the clothes I'm wearing

Can't you see that your tie's too wide

Maybe I should buy some old tab collars

Welcome back to the age of jive

Where have you been hiding out lately honey

You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money

Everybody's talking 'bout the new sound funny

But it's still rock and roll to me

What's the matter with the car I'm driving

Can't you tell that it's out of style

Should I get a set of white wall tyres

Are you going to cruise the miracle mile

Nowadays you can't be too sentimental

Your best bet's a true baby blue continental

Hot funk cool punk even if it's old junk

It's still rock and roll to me

Oh it doesn't matter what they say in the papers

Cause it's always been the same old scene

There's a new band in town

But you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine

Aimed at your average teen

How about a pair of pink sidewinders

And a bright orange pair of pants

You could really be a Beau Brummel baby

If you just give it half a chance

Don't waste your money on a new set of speakers

You get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers

Next phase new wave dance craze anyways

It's still rock and roll to me

What's the matter with the crowd I'm seeing

Don't you know that they're out of touch

Well should I try to be a straight A's student

If you are then you think too much

Don't you know about the new fashion honey

All you need are looks and a whole lotta money

It's the next phase new wave dance craze anyways

It's still rock and roll to me

Everybody's talking 'bout the new sound funny

But it's still rock and roll to me

IT’S TOO LATE

Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time

There’s something wrong here there can be no denying

One of us is changing or maybe we just stopped trying

And it’s too late baby now it’s too late

Though we really did try to make it

Something inside has died

And I just can’t hide and I just can’t fake it

It used to be so easy living here with you

You were light and breezy and you knew just what to do

Now you look so unhappy and I feel like a fool

And it’s too late baby now it’s too late

Though we really did try to make it

Something inside has died

And I just can’t hide and I just can’t fake it

There’ll be good times ahead for me and you

But we just can’t stay together don’t you feel it too

Still I’m glad for what we had and how I once loved you

And it’s too late baby now it’s too late

Though we really did try to make it

Something inside has died

And I just can’t hide and I just can’t fake it

JACK AND ANNABEL AT THE SEASIDE

Annabell were waiting in the shadow of the pier

You could see the sea through her see through blouse

And smell the smell of beer

Flasher Jack came walking ‘till he reached where she were hid

Annie said “Eh Jack yer late” and straight away Jack did

But that’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee

I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be

Annie said “What’s that your smoking? that’s a funny smell”

Flasher said “I’ll tell yer when I marry you Annabell”

“Just a little puff Jack, I just want to see

Ooh I’m not feeling myself” Jack said “No your feeling me”

But that’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee

I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be

Annie said “Give over,” Flasher said “Give in

For I do like to see beside the B side bay the A side of your skin

Let me be a gay Don Juan behind the harbour wall

‘Cause it’s not true what people say, done one you’ve done them all”

That’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee

I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be

Flasher said “I love yer” Annie said “Go on

But there’s something about you Jack I like, that I can’t put my finger on

I feel as if I’m falling, push me over the edge

‘Cause I can’t stop it once I feel the sin edge if the wedge”

But that’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee

I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be

Constable McLagen came creeping up the sand

“I’m gonna do you for possession lad, I can see it in your hand

Anything you answer now will be taken down by me”

Annabel said “Underpants” and Flasher said “Feel free”

But that’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee

I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be

But that’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee

I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be

JACKIE WILSON SAID

Da da da da da

Jackie Wilson said it was "reet petite"

Kinda love you got knocks me off my feet

Let it all hang out, oh let it all hang out

And you know I'm so wired up

Don't need no coffee in my cup

Let it all hang out let it all hang out

Watch this Ding a ling a ling, ding a ling a ling a ling

Ding a ling a ding, ding a ling a ling a ding, do da do da

I'm in heaven, I’m in heaven

I'm in heaven when you smile

When you smile when you smile when you smile

And when you walk across the road

You make my heart go boom boom boom

Let it all hang out baby let it all hang out

And every time you look that way

Honey chile you make my day

Let it all hang out

Like the man said let it all hang out

Watch this Ding a ling a ling, ding a ling a ling a ling

Ding a ling a ding, ding a ling a ling a ding, do da do da

JACOB'S LADDER

I met a fan dancer in south side Birmingham

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand

And now he's trying to save me when I'm doing all right the best that I can

Just another fallen angel trying to get through the night

Step by step one by one higher and higher

Step by step rung by rung I'm climbing Jacob's ladder

Coming over the airwaves a man say's I'm overdue

Sing along send some money join the chosen few

Hey mister I'm not in a hurry and I don't want to be like you

All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today

Step by step one by one higher and higher

Step by step rung by rung I'm climbing Jacob's ladder

All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today

Step by step one by one higher and higher

Step by step rung by rung I'm climbing Jacob's ladder

Climbing and climbing

Step by step one by one higher and higher

Step by step rung by rung I'm climbing Jacob's ladder

JAILHOUSE ROCK

Warden threw a party in the county jail

Prison man was there and they began to wail

The band was jumping and the joint began to swing

You should have heard them knocked out jailbirds sing

Let's rock everybody let's rock

Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock

Spider Murphy playing the tenor saxophone

Little Joe was blowing on the slide trombone

Drummer Corchinelli going crash boom bang

The whole rhythm section was a purple gang

Let's rock everybody let's rock

Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock

Number forty seven said to number three

You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see

I'd sure be delighted with your company

Come on and do the jailhouse rock with me

Let's rock everybody let's rock

Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock

Centre sack was sittin’ on a block of stone

Over in the corner weeping all alone

The warden said nobody don't you be no square

If you can't find a partner use a wooden chair

Let's rock everybody let's rock

Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock

Shifty Head was saying folks for heaven's sake

The warden's looking out a chance to make a break

His brother turned to Shifty and he said nix sticks

I want to stick around while I get my kicks

Let's rock everybody let's rock

Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock

Dancing to the jailhouse rock

Dancing to the jailhouse rock

Dancing to the jailhouse rock

Dancing to the jailhouse rock

Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock

J.C.

Five foot nine, he’s divine

He turns water into wine

Has anybody seen J.C.

He’s the greatest he’s real cool

He’s just walked across my pool

Has anybody seen J.C.

If you should run into a five nine Jew

Head all covered in thorns

Turning water into wine

Well you bet your life that he’s divine

Mother Mary she’s the most

She got banged by the Holy Ghost

Has anybody seen J.C.

Five foot nine, he’s divine

He turns water into wine

Has anybody seen J.C.

He’s the greatest he’s real cool

He’s just walked across my pool

Has anybody seen J.C.

If you should run into a five nine Jew

Head all covered in thorns

Turning water into wine

Well you bet your life that he’s divine

Mother Mary she’s the most

She got banged by the Holy Ghost

Has anybody seen J.C.

Not since Ascension

Has anybody seen J.C.

JEANS ON

When I wake up in the morning light

I put on my jeans and I feel all right

I pull my blue jeans on,

I pull my old blue jeans on

I pull my blue jeans on,

I pull my old blue jeans on

It's the weekend and I know that you're free

So pull on your jeans and come on out with me

I need to have you near me,

I need to feel you close to me

I need to have you near me,

I need to feel you close to me

You and me we'll go motorbike riding

In the sun and the wind and the rain

I got money in my pocket, the tiger in my tank

And I'm King of the Road again

I meet you in the usual place

I can’t wait to see such a pretty face

I need to have your near me,

I need to feel you close to me

I need to have your near me,

I need to feel you close to me

You and me we'll go motorbike riding

In the sun and the wind and the rain

I got money in my pocket, the tiger in my tank

And I'm King of the Road again

When I wake up in the morning light

I put on my jeans and I feel all right

I pull my blue jeans on,

I pull my old blue jeans on

I pull my blue jeans on,

I pull my old blue jeans on

JEZAMINE

What am I supposed to do with a girl like Jezamine

Though my eyes are open wide she’s made my life a dream

When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living

A butterfly so free and so wild and so full of living

When Jezamine stays though time goes fast this is my world at last

Beautiful days lost in her eyes but then the whole world dies

When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living

What can you say when a girl doesn’t want to know

She’s too far away And she makes my life a dream

When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living

A butterfly so free and so wild and so full of living

When Jezamine stays though time goes fast this is my world at last

Beautiful days lost in her eyes but then the whole world dies

When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living

What can you say when a girl doesn’t want to know

She’s too far away And she makes my life a dream

When Jezamine cries what am I supposed to do with a girl like Jezamine

Though my eyes are open wide she’s made my life a dream

La la la l a la la l a la la l a la la l a la la l a la

When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living

La la la l a

When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living

A butterfly so free and so wild and so full of living

When Jezamine stays though time goes fast this is my world at last

Beautiful days lost in her eyes but then the whole world dies

When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living

JOCK STUART

Oh my name is Jock Stuart

I’m a canny goin’ man

But a rovin’ young fellow I’ve been

So be easy and free when you’re drinking with me

I’m a man you’ll not meet every day

Well I’ve ta’en out my gun

With my dogs I did go

Down by the banks of the Tay

So be easy and free when you’re drinking with me

I’m a man you’ll not meet every day

I’ve got acres of land

I’ve got men at command

But my money is easily spent

So be easy and free when you’re drinking with me

I’m a man you’ll not meet every day

So be easy and free when you’re drinking with me

I’m a man you’ll not meet every day

JOHN OF DREAMS

When midnight sings the people homeward tread

Seek now your blanket and your feather bed

Home is the rover his journey over

Yield up the night time to old John o'dreams

Yield up the night time to old John o'dreams

Across the hill the sun has gone astray

Tomorrow’s cares are many dreams away

The stars are flying your candle's dying

Yield up the darkness to old John o'dreams

Yield up the darkness to old John o'dreams

Both man and master in the night are one

All things are equal when the day is done

The prince and the ploughman the slave and the freeman

All find their comfort in old John o'dreams

All find their comfort in old John o'dreams

Now as you sleep the dreams come winging clear

The hawks of morning cannot harm you here

Sleep is your river float on forever

And for your boatman choose old John o'dreams

And for your boatman choose old John o'dreams

JOHNNY B GOODE

Way down in Louisiana close to New Orleans

Back up in the woods amongst the evergreens

In an old log cabin made of earth and wood

There lived a country boy name of Johnny B Goode

Who never ever learned to read and write so well

But he could play a guitar just like a ringing a bell

Oh go, go Johnny, go, go, go,

Go Johnny, go, go, go,

Go Johnny, go, go, go,

Go Johnny, go, go, go, go, go,

Johnny B Goode

He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack

Go sit beneath the trees by the railroad track

Old engineers would say, sitting in the shade

Strumming with the music that the drivers made

People passing by the would stop and say

Oh my but that little country boy could play

Oh go, go Johnny, go, go, go,

Go Johnny, go, go, go,

Go Johnny, go, go, go,

Go Johnny, go, go, go, go, go,

Johnny B Goode

Well his mother told him someday you will be a man

And you will be the leader of a big rock band

All kinds of people’ll come from miles around

To hear you play your guitar ‘till the sun goes down

Maybe someday your name will be in lights saying

Johnny B Goode tonight

Oh go, go Johnny, go, go, go,

Go Johnny, go, go, go,

Go Johnny, go, go, go,

Go Johnny, go, go, go, go, go,

Johnny B Goode

JOHNNY COME GOOD

Down amongst the harlots where the punters come,

To the rhythm of the falling and the rising bum,

And a flaccid phallus droops now, where a horn once stood,

Lived a country boy called Johnny come good,

Who was blessed with the world's most enormous wick,

It was six feet long, and it was two feet thick.

Oh come, come Johnny come come come,

Come Johnny, come come come,

Come Johnny, come come come,

Come Johnny come come come, Johnny come good.

He would carry his great tool in a pick-up truck,

And travel fifty miles or more just for a friendly conversation,

Experienced whores would cry out when he had them splayed,

Gasping to recover from each thrust he made,

Sometimes he would split them right from arse to tit,

Because they couldn't take the length or width of it.

Oh come, come Johnny come come come,

Come Johnny, come come come,

Come Johnny, come come come,

Come Johnny come come come, Johnny come good.

Along came a lady of the endless night,

Who challenged him to fuck her 'till the morning light,

He gave his wick a rub 'till it was yards around,

And in between her legs he went and ground and ground,

But this devious old harlot then let fly a fart,

That blew both of his balls and his prick apart.

Well bye bye bye,

Well bye bye bye bye,

Bye bye Johnny,

Johnny come good.

THE JOKER

Some people call me the space cowboy yeah

Some call me the gangster of love

Some people call me Maurice

‘Cause I speak of the pompetus of love

People talk about me baby

Say I’m doing you wrong doing you wrong

Well don’t you worry baby don’t worry

‘Cause I’m right here right here right here right here at home

‘Cause I’m a picker I’m a grinner I’m a lover and I’m a sinner

I play my music in the sun

I’m a joker I’m a smoker I’m a midnight toker

I get my loving on the run

You’re the cutest thing that I ever did see

I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree

Lovey dovey lovey dovey lovey dovey all the time

Ooh wee baby I’ll sure show you a good time

‘Cause I’m a picker I’m a grinner I’m a lover and I’m a sinner

I play my music in the sun

I’m a joker I’m a smoker I’m a midnight toker

I sure don’t want to hurt no one

People keep talking about me baby

Say I’m doing you wrong

Well don’t you worry don’t worry no don’t worry mamma

‘Cause I’m right here at home

You’re the cutest thing I ever did see

I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree

Lovey dovey lovey dovey lovey dovey all the time

Come on baby now I’ll show you a good time

JOLLY BEGGARMAN

It’s of a jolly beggar man came tripping o’er the plain

He came unto a farmers door some lodgings for to gain

The farmer’s daughter she came down and viewed him cheek and chin

She said he is a handsome man I pray you let him in

We’ll go no more a roving a roving in the night

We’ll go no more a roving let the moon shine so bright

We’ll go no more a roving

He would not lie within the barn nor yet within the byre

But he would in the corner lie down by the kitchen fire

The beggar’s bed then it was made of good clean sheets and hay

And down besides the kitchen fire the jolly beggar lay

We’ll go no more a roving a roving in the night

We’ll go no more a roving let the moon shine so bright

We’ll go no more a roving

The farmer’s daughter she came down to bolt the kitchen door

And there she saw the beggar standing naked on the floor

He took the girl in both her arms and to the bed he ran

Kind Sir she said go easy now you’ll waken our good man

We’ll go no more a roving a roving in the night

We’ll go no more a roving let the moon shine so bright

We’ll go no more a roving

So now you are no beggar man you are some gentleman

For you have stole my maidenhead and I am quite undone

I am the lord I am the squire of beggars I be one

And beggars they are robbers all and you are quite undone

We’ll go no more a roving a roving in the night

We’ll go no more a roving let the moon shine so bright

We’ll go no more a roving

JOY TO THE WORLD

Jeremiah was a bullfrog was a good friend of mine

Never understood a single word I said

But he always helped me drink my wine

Yes we always had some mighty fine wine

Singing joy to the world

All the boys and girls

Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea

Joy to you and me

If I was the king of the world

Tell you what I’d do

Throw away all the cars and bar all the wars

And make sweet love to you

Yes I’d make sweet love to you

Singing joy to the world

All the boys and girls

Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea

Joy to you and me

You know I love the ladies love to have fun

I’m a high night flier and a rainbow rider

A straight shooting son of a gun

Yes a straight shooting son of a gun

Singing joy to the world

All the boys and girls

Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea

Joy to you and me

JUMP

I get up and nothing gets me down

You got it tough I’ve seen the toughest soul around

And I know baby just how you feel

You’ve got to roll with the punches and get to what’s real

So can’t you see me standing here

I’ve got my back against the record machine

I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen

Ah can’t you see what I mean

I might as well jump jump

Might as well jump

Go ahead and jump jump

Go ahead and jump

Oh oh hey you who said that

Baby how you been

You say you don’t know

You won’t know until you’ve begin

So can’t you see me standing here

I’ve got my back against the record machine

I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen

Ah can’t you see what I mean

I might as well jump jump

Go ahead and jump

Might as well jump jump

Go ahead and jump jump

I might as well jump jump

Go ahead and jump

Go ahead and jump jump

Go ahead and jump jump

Jump jump jump jump

JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH

I was born in a cross fire hurricane

And I howled at my ma in the driving rain

But it’s all right now

In fact it’s a gas

But it’s all right

I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas gas gas

I was raised by a toothless bearded hag

I was schooled with a strap right across my back

Well it’s all right now

In fact it’s a gas

But it’s all right

I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas gas gas

I was drowned I was washed up and left for dead

I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled

I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread

I was crowned with a spike right through my head

But it’s all right now

In fact it’s a gas

But it’s all right

I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas gas gas

Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas

Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas

Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas

Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

Don't go changing to try and please me

You never let me down before

Don't imagine you're too familiar

And I don't see you anymore

I would not leave you in times of trouble

We never could have come this far

I took the good times I'll take the bad times

I'll take you just the way you are

I need to know that you will always be

The same old someone that I knew

What will it take till you believe in me

The way that I believe in you

I said I love you and that's forever

And this I promise from the heart

I could not love you any better

I love you just the way you are

I don't want clever conversation

I never want to work that hard

I just want someone that I can talk to

I want you just the way you are

JUST TO HAVE YOU BACK AGAIN

You sheltered me from harm

Kept me warm, kept me warm

You gave my life to me

Set me free set me free

The finest years I ever knew

I s all the years I had with you

I would give everything I own

Give up my life, my heart, my own

I would give anything I own

Just to have you back again

Is there someone you know

That won’t let you go

And taking it all for granted

You may lose them one day

Someone takes them away

And you don’t hear a word they say

I would give everything I own

Give up my life, my heart, my own

I would give anything I own

Just to have you back again

Is there someone you know

That won’t let you go

And taking it all for granted

You may lose them one day

Someone takes them away

And you don’t hear a word they say

KEY TO THE HIGHWAY

I got the key to the highway

Yes all packed up and bound to go

I’m going to leave here running

‘Cause walking’s much too slow

I’m going down to the river

Yes I’m going to take my rocking chair

I’m going to have blues in trouble

I’m gonna rock away from here

I’m going down to the border

Yes, baby where in better know

You know I don’t do nothin’ here little girl

That would drive a good man away from home

Now give me one whole kiss baby

Yeah just before I go

,Cause I know it’s time little girl

I was back out on that road

Now when the man peeps over the mountain

You know I’ll be on my way

I’m going to walk walk this old highway

Just until the break of day

So long goodbye

Yes I have to say goodbye

I’m gonna walk walk this old highway

Just until the day I die

I got the key to the highway

Yes all packed up and bound to go

I’m going to leave here running

‘Cause walking’s much too slow

KILLER QUEEN

She keeps Moet and Chandon in a pretty cabinet

Let them eat cakes she says just like Marie Antoinette

Building a remedy for Kruschev and Kennedy

And in it signed an invitation you can’t decline

Caviar and cigarettes well versed in etiquette

Extraoardinarily nice she’s a killer queen

Gunpowder gelatine dynamite with a laser beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind (anytime)

Ooh recommended at the Pru

Unsatiable appetite (wanna try ?)

To avoid complications she never kept the same address

In conversation she spoke just like a baroness

Made a mine in China the corporation bought her

But then again incidently she went about it with class

Perfume came right through here from Paris (naturally)

Because she couldn’t care less

Fastidious and precise she’s a killer queen

Gunpowder gelatine dynamite with a laser beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind (anytime)

Drop of a hat she’s as elegant

Grateful as a prison camp

Momentarily out of action temporarily out of use

Absolutely grand

She’s out to get you she’s a killer queen

Gunpowder gelatine dynamite with a laser beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind (anytime)

Ooh recommended at the Pru

Unsatiable appetite (wanna try ?)

KILLING FLOOR

I should have quit you a long time ago

I should have quit you babe a long time ago

I should have quit you and went on to Mexico

If I had a followed my first mind

If I had a followed my first mind

I’d been gone it’s my second time

I should have went home when my friend come from Mexico

I should have went home when my friend come from Mexico again

But now I’m fooling with you baby I’m down on this killin’ floor

God knows I should have been gone

God knows I should have been gone

And I wouldn’t been here down on the killin’ floor

KILLING ME SOFTLY

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

I heard he sang a good song.

I heard he had a style

And so I came to see him

To listen for a while

And there he was this young boy,

A stranger to my eyes

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

I felt all flushed with fever

Embarrassed by the crowd

I felt he found my letters

And read each one out loud

I prayed that he would finish

But he just kept right on

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

He sang as if he knew me

In all my dark despair

And then he looked right through me

As if I wasn't there

But he was there this stranger

Singing clear and strong

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

KING OF THE ROAD

Trailer for sale or rent rooms to let fifty cents

No phone, no pool, no pets I ain't got no cigarettes

Ah, but two hours of pushing broom buys an eight by twelve four bit room

I'm a man of means by no means king of the road

Third box car, midnight train destination Bangor, Maine

Old worn out suit and shoes I don't pay no union dues

I smoke old stogies I have found short, but not too big around

I'm a man of means by no means king of the road

I know every engineer on every train

All of the children and all of their names

And every hand out in every town

And every lock that ain't locked when no one's around I sing

Trailer for sale or rent rooms to let fifty cents

No phone, no pool, no pets I ain't got no cigarettes

Ah, but two hours of pushing broom buys an eight by twelve four bit room

I'm a man of means by no means king of the road

Third box car, midnight train destination Bangor, Maine

Old worn out suit and shoes I don't pay no union dues

I smoke old stogies I have found short, but not too big around

I'm a man of means by no means king of the road

I know every engineer on every train

All of the children and all of their names

And every hand out in every town

And every lock that ain't locked when no one's around I sing

Trailer for sale or rent rooms to let fifty cents

No phone, no pool, no pets I ain't got no cigarettes

Ah, but two hours of pushing broom buys an eight by twelve four bit room

I'm a man of means by no means king of the road

KINGDOM COME

I have no one to call my friend

The road I travel has no end

And so I turn my face up to the sun

And walk on down the road to kingdom come

And as I walk this lonely road

Nobody helps me bear my load

Won’t somebody tell me what I’ve done

Condemned to walk the road to kingdom come

And if you pass me on the side

Why don’t you stop and let me ride

You just had a better deal than some

Walking down the road to kingdom come

Walking down the road to kingdom come

Walking down the road to kingdom come

KINGSTON TOWN

The night seems to fade

But the moonlight lingers on

There are wonders for everyone woh oh

The stars shine so bright

But they’re fading after dawn

There is magic in Kingston town

Oh Kingston town

The place I long to be

If I had the whole world I would give it away

Just to see the girls at play

When I am king

Surely I will meet a queen

And a palace and everything yeah

And now I am king

And my queen will come at dawn

She’ll be waiting in Kingston town

Oh Kingston town

The place I long to be

If I had the whole world I would give it away

Just to see the girls at play yeah

When I am king

Surely I will meet a queen

And a palace and everything yeah

And now I am king

And my queen will come at dawn

She’ll be waiting in Kingston town

She’ll be waiting in Kingston town right on

She’ll be waiting in Kingston town oh yeah

She’ll be waiting in Kingston town oh yeah

She’ll be waiting in Kingston town oh yeah

KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR

Mama, take this badge off of me

I can't use it anymore

It's getting dark, too dark to see

I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door

Mama, take these guns off me

I can't shoot them anymore

A long black cloud is coming down

I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door

Mama, take this badge off of me

I can't use it anymore

It's getting dark, too dark to see

I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door

I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door

LA BAMBA

Para bailar la bamba. para bailar la bamba se necesita

Una poca de gracia, una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti.

Ay arriba, y'arriba, ay arriba, y'arriba,

Por ti sere por ti sere, por ti sere.

Yo no soy marinero, yo no soy marinero,

Soy capitan.soy capitan, soy capitan.

Bamba, bamba, bamba, bamba,

Bamba, bamba, bamba.

Para bailar la bamba. para bailar la bamba se necesita

Una poca de gracia, una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti.

Ay arriba, y'arriba, ay arriba, y'arriba,

Por ti sere por ti sere, por ti sere.

Ay arriba, y'arriba.

Para bailar la bamba. para bailar la bamba se necesita

Una poca de gracia, una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti.

Ay arriba, y'arriba, ay arriba, y'arriba,

Por ti sere por ti sere, por ti sere.

Bamba, bamba, bamba, bamba,

Bamba, bamba, bamba.

LADY IN BLACK

She came to me one morning, one lonely Sunday morning

Her long hair flowing in the midwinter wind

I know not how she found me for in darkness I was walking

And destruction lay around me from a fight I could not win

Ah ...

She asked me name my foe then I said the need within some men

To fight and kill their brothers without thought of love or god

And I begged her give me horses to trample down my enemy

So eager was my passion to devour this waste of life

Ah ...

But she would not think of battle that reduces man to animals

So easy to begin and yet impossible to end

For she the mother of all men did counsel me so wisely then

I feared to walk alone again and asked if she would stay

Ah ...

Oh Lady, lend your hand I cried or let me rest here at your side

Have faith and trust in me, she said and filled my heart with life

There is no strength in numbers. Have no such misconception.

But when you need me be assured I won't be far away

Ah ...

Thus having spoke she turned away and though I found no words to say

I stood and watched until I saw her black cloak disappear

My labour is no easier, but now I know I'm not alone

I find new heart each time I think upon that windy day

Ah ...

And if one day she comes to you,

Drink deeply from her words so wise

Take courage from her as your prize

And say hello for me

Ah ...

LADY JANE

My sweet Lady Jane when will I see you again

Your servant am I and will humbly remain

Just hear this plea my love

On bended knees my love

I pledge myself to Lady Jane

My dear Lady Anne I’ve done what I can

I must take my leave for promised I am

This play is run my love

Your time has come my love

I pledge myself to Lady Jane

Oh my sweet Marie I wait at your ease

The sands have run out for your lady and me

Wedlock is nigh my love

Her station is right my love

Life is secure with Lady Jane

My Lady Jane

LANCASHIRE LASSES

Well I know a girl and she’s called Annabella

She stands on our grid every night with a fella

And how do I know that her knickers are yellow

I go down our cellar for coal

I love them all, all the Lancashire lasses

The tall ones the short ones the ones that wear glasses

The fat ones the thin ones the ones that make passes

It’s Lancashire lasses for me

Now my brother Bongo had a ten foot six dongo

His friends all remarked saying how it was longo

But Bongo’s long dongo is longer no longo

Since our Rover’s got a new bone

I love them all, all the Lancashire lasses

The tall ones the short ones the ones that wear glasses

The fat ones the thin ones the ones that make passes

It’s Lancashire lasses for me

I once knew a fellow by name Albert Dooley

Nature endowed him with different sized goolies

Now one of then was small and it looked rather poorly

But the other two were large and won prizes

I love them all, all the Lancashire lasses

The tall ones the short ones the ones that wear glasses

The fat ones the thin ones the ones that make passes

It’s Lancashire lasses for me

The couple next door whose name it was Kelly

Discovered one night they’d stuck belly to belly

They thought they’d been using petroleum jelly

But our Michael had swapped it for Bostik

I love them all, all the Lancashire lasses

The tall ones the short ones the ones that wear glasses

The fat ones the thin ones the ones that make passes

It’s Lancashire lasses for me

And my brother Paul who works as a baker

In matters of sex is a little match maker

Cause he’s just invented a dance called the Quaker

Once round then out for your oats

I love them all, all the Lancashire lasses

The tall ones the short ones the ones that wear glasses

The fat ones the thin ones the ones that make passes

It’s Lancashire lasses for me

LAST OF BARRETTS PRIVATEERS

Oh the year was seventeen seventy eight how I wish I was in Sherbrook now

A letter of mark came from the King to the scummiest vessel I’d ever seen

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold

We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers

Oh Barrett he cried throughout the town how I wish I was in Sherbrook now

With twenty bold men all fishermen free I could give you more gold than you ever did see

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold

We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers

Now the Antelope sloop was a sickening sight how I wish I was in Sherbrook now

She’d a list to the port and her sails in rags the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and the jags

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold

We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers

On the Kings birthday we put to sea how I wish I was in Sherbrook now

With ninety six days to Montego Bay and pumping like madmen all the way

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold

We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers

Now Barrett he worked us to the bone how I wish I was in Sherbrook now

With maggoty meat and weevily bread and watered down rum we’d be better off dead

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold

We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers

On the ninety ninth day we sailed again how I wish I was in Sherbrook now

When a Yankee sloop came into sight with our crack five pounders we made to fight

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold

We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers

Now the Yankee lay low down with gold how I wish I was in Sherbrook now

She was broad and fat and loose in the stays but to catch her took three whole days

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold

We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers

And at length we stood two cables away how I wish I was in Sherbrook now

Our crack five pounders made an awful din but with one fat ball the Yank stove us in

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold

We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers

Well the Antelope shook and she pitched on her side how I wish I was in Sherbrook now

Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs and the main truck carried off both my legs

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold

We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers

So here I lay in my twenty third year how I wish I was in Sherbrook now

It’s been six years since we sailed away and I just made Halifax yesterday

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold

We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers

LAY DOWN SALLY

There is nothing that is wrong

In wanting you to stay here with me

I know you’ve got somewhere to go

But won’t you make yourself at home

And stay with me

And don’t you ever leave

Lay down Sally and rest you in my arms

Don’t you think you want someone to talk to

Lay down Sally no need to leave so soon

I’ve been trying all night long just to talk to you

The sun ain’t nearly on the rise

And we still got the moon and the stars above

Underneath the velvet skies love is all that matters

Won’t you stay with me

And don’t you ever leave

Lay down Sally and rest you in my arms

Don’t you think you want someone to talk to

Lay down Sally no need to leave so soon

I’ve been trying all night long just to talk to you

I long to see the morning light

Colouring your face so dreamily

So don’t you go and say goodbye

You can lay your worries down and stay with me

And don’t you ever leave

Lay down Sally and rest you in my arms

Don’t you think you want someone to talk to

Lay down Sally no need to leave so soon

I’ve been trying all night long just to talk to you

Lay down Sally and rest you in my arms

Don’t you think you want someone to talk to

Lay down Sally no need to leave so soon

I’ve been trying all night long just to talk to you

LAYLA

What'll you do when you get lonely

With nobody waiting by your side

You’ve been running hiding much too long

You know it's just your foolish pride

Layla you've got me on my knees

Layla I beg you darling please

Layla darling won't you ease my worried mind

I try to give you consolation

Your old man has let you down

Like a fool I fell in love with you

You've turned my whole world upside down

Layla you've got me on my knees

Layla I beg you darling please

Layla darling won't you ease my worried mind

Let's make the best of the situation

Before I finally go insane

Please don't say we'll never find a way

And tell me all my love's in vain

Layla you've got me on my knees

Layla I beg you darling please

Layla darling won't you ease my worried mind

LAZY

You’re lazy you just stay in bed

You’re lazy you just stay in bed

You don’t want no money

You don’t want no bread

If you’re drowning you don’t clutch no straw

If you’re drowning you don’t clutch no straw

You don’t want to live

You don’t want to cry no more

Well my trying ain’t done no good

Well my trying ain’t done no good

You don’t make no effort

No not like you should

Lazy you just stay in bed

Lazy you just stay in bed

You don’t want no money

You don’t want no bread

LAZY SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Oh wouldn’t it be nice to get on with me neighbours

But they make it very clear they’ve got no room for ravers

They stop me from grooving they bang on me wall

They’re doing me crust in it’s no good at all

Ah lazy Sunday afternoon I’ve got no mind to worry

I close my eyes and drift away

Here we all are sitting in a rainbow

Cor blimy ‘ello Mrs. Jones how’s your bird’s lumbago (mustn’t grumble)

I’ll sing you a song with no words and no tune

I’m flinging a party while you suss out the moon

Ah lazy Sunday afternoon I’ve got no mind to worry

Close my eyes and drift away

A rootie dootie doo a rootie dootie die day

A rootie dootie dum a rootie dootie do dee do

There’s no one to hear me there’s nothing to say

And no one can stop me from feeling this way

Yeah lazy Sunday afternoon I’ve got no mind to worry

Close my eyes and drift away

Lazy Sunday afternoon I’ve got no mind to worry

Close my eyes and drift a

Close my mind and drift away

Close my eyes and drift away

LE VOYEUR

He like to ring the changes le voyeur

He doesn’t mind the dangers le voyeur

If there’s something quite obscure

And a little less than pure

A fascinated viewer is le voyeur

He’s got an interest in leather le voyeur

And he’s handy with a feather le voyeur

He’s got whipping on the brain

Though he doesn’t mind the cane

It’s really not the same for le voyeur

He often climbs quite high le voyeur

To see what he can spy le voyeur

Of heights he’s not afraid

The drainpipe is an aid

It’s all part of the trade for le voyeur

He’ll search for dusk ‘till dawn le voyeur

To view a bit of porn le voyeur

He roams around quite free

Dressed up as a tree

It’s tough up mais ce la vie pour le voyeur

He’s follower of fashion le voyeur

He finds rubber rather dashing le voyeur

Though you may think it fay

To see a fetish every day

It makes a dull life gay for le voyeur

THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL

Farewell to Prince’s landing stage river Mersey fare thee well

I am bound for California a place I know right well

So fare thee well my own true love

When I return united we will be

It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me

But my darling when I think of thee

I am bound for California by way of stormy Cape Horn

And I will write to thee a letter, love, when I am homeward bound

So fare thee well my own true love

When I return united we will be

It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me

But my darling when I think of thee

I’ve shipped on a Yankee clipper ship Davy Crockett is her name

And Burgess is the captain of her and they say that she’s a floating hell

So fare thee well my own true love

When I return united we will be

It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me

But my darling when I think of thee

I have sailed with Burgess once before, I think I know him well

If a man ‘sailor, he will get a long if not, then , he’s sure in hell

So fare thee well my own true love

When I return united we will be

It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me

But my darling when I think of thee

Farewell to Lower Frederick Street, Anson Terrace and Park Lane

I am bound away for to leave you and I’ll never see you again

So fare thee well my own true love

When I return united we will be

It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me

But my darling when I think of thee

LEROY BROWN

Well now south side of Chicago is the baddest part of town

And if you go down there you’d better just beware of a man name of Leroy Brown

Now Leroy’s more than trouble you see he stands about six feet four

All the downtown ladies called him treetop lover all the men just called him Sir

He’s bad bad Leroy Brown baddest man in the whole damned town

Badder then old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog

Now Leroy, he’s a gambler and he likes his fancy clothes

And he likes to poke his diamond rings in front of everybody’s nose

He’s got a custom Continental, he’s got an Eldorado too

He’s got a thirty two gun in his pocket for fun he’s got a razor in his shoe

He’s bad bad Leroy Brown baddest man in the whole damned town

Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog

Well Friday about a week ago, Leroy shooting dice

At the edge of the bar sat a girl name of Doris and ooh that girl looked nice

He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began

And Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man

He’s bad bad Leroy Brown baddest man in the whole damned town

Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog

Well these two men took to fighting

And when they pulled them from the floor

Leroy Brown looked like a jigsaw puzzle

With a couple of pieces gone

He’s bad bad Leroy Brown baddest man in the whole damned town

Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog

He’s bad bad Leroy Brown baddest man in the whole damned town

Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog

Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog

LET IT BE

When I find myself in times of trouble

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom

Let it be

And in my hour of darkness

She is standing right in front of me

Speaking words of wisdom

Let it be

Let it be let it be let it be let it be

Speaking words of wisdom let it be

And when the broken hearted people

Living in the world agree

There will be an answer

Let it be

And though they may be parted

There is still a chance that they might see

There will be an answer

Let it be

Let it be let it be let it be let it be

Speaking words of wisdom let it be

And in my hour of darkness

There is still a light that shines on me

Shine until tomorrow

Let it be

I wake up to the sound of music

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom

Let it be

Let it be let it be let it be let it be

Speaking words of wisdom let it be

LET IT BE ME

I bless the day I found you

I want to stay around you

And so I beg you

Let it be me

Don’t take this heaven from one

If you must cling to someone

Now and forever

Let it be me

Each time I meet love

I find complete love

Without your sweet love

What would life be

So never leave me lonely

Tell me you love me only

And that you’ll always

Let it be me

If for each bit of gladness

Someone must taste the sadness

I’ll bear the sorrow please

Let it be me

And no matter what the price is

I’ll make the sacrifices

For each new tomorrow just

Let it be me

Each time I meet love

I find complete love

Without your sweet love

What would life be

Each time I meet love

I find complete love

Without your sweet love

What would life be

LET ME DOWN EASY

How can I say it

It's just something I feel way down inside

So hard for me to try and explain it

But something's gone wrong you're unable to hide

So let me down easy baby

Be so kind as to let me down slow

Let me down easy darling

It's so hard to let go

We are not drifting

Not with one of us still left holding the line

And the wind that has moved you set your sails lifting

Blows cold on the one who got cut loose behind

So let me down easy baby

Be so kind as to let me down slow

Let me down easy darling

It's so hard to let go

How can I say it

It's just something I know from way down inside

No need for you to try to explain it

It's enough for me to know that you tried

So let me down easy baby

Be so kind as to let me down slow

Let me down easy darling

It's so hard to let go

It's so hard so hard to let go

LET YOUR LOVE FLOW

There's a reason for the sunshiny sky

And there's a reason why I'm feeling so high

Must be the season when that love light shines all around us

So let the feeling grab you deep inside

And send you reeling where your love can't hide

And then go steeling through the moonlit nights with your lover

Just let your love flow like a mountain stream

And let your love grow with the smallest of dreams

And let your love show and you'll know what I mean it's the season

Let your love fly like a bird on a wing

And let your love bind you to all living things

And let your love shine and you'll know what I mean that's the reason

There's a reason for the warm sweet nights

And there's a reason for the candle lights

Must be the season when those love light shines all around us

So let that wonder take you into space

And lay you under his loving embrace

Just feel the thunder as it warms your face, you can't hold back.

Let your love fly like a bird on a wing

And let your love bind you to all living things

And let your love shine and you'll know what I mean that's the reason

Let your love fly like a bird on a wing

And let your love bind you to all living things

And let your love shine and you'll know what I mean that's the reason

LET'S HAVE A PARTY

Some people like to rock, some people like to roll

But moving and a-grooving gonna satisfy my soul

Let's have a party, ooh,

Let's have a party

We're swinging to the store, let's rock some more

Let's have a party tonight

I never kissed a bear, I never kissed a goon

But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room

Let's have a party, ooh,

Let's have a party

We're swinging to the store, let's rock some more

Let's have a party tonight

Honky Tonky Joe is knocking at the door

Bring him in and fill him up and sit him on the floor

Let's have a party, ooh,

Let's have a party

We're swinging to the store, let's rock some more

Let's have a party tonight

The meat is on the stove the brandy’s getting hot

Everybody come and take some punch and have a shot

Let's have a party, ooh,

Let's have a party

We're swinging to the store, let's rock some more

Let's have a party tonight

THE LETTER

Give me a ticket for an aeroplane

Ain't got time to take a fast train

Lonely days are gone, I’m a going home

'Cause my baby just wrote me a letter

Well, she wrote me a letter

Saying how she couldn't live without me no more

Listen Mister, can't you see

I've got to get back to my baby once more, anyway, yeah

I don't care how much money I got to spend

Got a ticket back to where my baby's been

Lonely days ago, I am going home

'Cause my baby just wrote me a letter

Well, she wrote me a letter

Saying how she couldn't live without me no more

Listen Mister, can't you see

I've got to get back to my baby once more, anyway, yeah

Give me a ticket for an aeroplane

Ain't got time to take a fast train

Lonely days are gone, I’m a going home

'Cause my baby just wrote me a letter

Well, she wrote me a letter

Saying how she couldn't live without me no more

Listen Mister, can't you see

I've got to get back to my baby once more, anyway, yeah

I don't care how much money I got to spend

Got a ticket back to where my baby's been

Lonely days ago, I am going home

'Cause my baby just wrote me a letter

Well, she wrote me a letter

Saying how she couldn't live without me no more

Listen Mister, can't you see

I've got to get back to my baby once more, anyway, yeah

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE

He was a hard headed man

He was brutally handsome and she was terminally pretty

She held him up, and he held her for ransom

In the heart of the cold, cold city

He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude

They said he was ruthless, they said he was cruel

They had one thing in common, they were good in bed

She said faster, faster the lights are turning red

Life in the fast lane surely make you lose your mind

Life in the fast lane mm...

(Are you with me so far)

Eager for action and hot for the game

The coming attraction, the drop of a name

They knew all the right people, they took all the right pills

They threw outrageous parties, they paid heavily bills

There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face

She pretended not to notice, she was caught up in the race

Out in the evening until it was light

He was too tired to make it, she was too tired to fight about it

Life in the fast lane surely make you lose your mind

Life in the fast lane yeah

Life in the fast lane everything all the time,

Life in the fast lane uh uh

Loaded and burning blinded by thirst

They didn’t see the stop sign, took a turn for the worse

She said listen baby you can hear the engine ring

We’ve been up and down this highway haven’t seen a goddam thing

He said “call the doctor I think I’m gonna crash”

The doctor say he’s coming, but you gotta pay in cash

They were rushing down that freeway messing round and got lost,

They didn’t care they were just dying to get off, and it was

Life in the fast lane surely make you lose your mind

Life in the fast lane uh uh

Life in the fast lane everything all the time,

Life in the fast lane uh uh

Life in the fast lane

Life in the fast lane

LIKE A ROLLING STONE

Once up on a time you dressed so fine

You threw the bums a dime in your prime didn’t you?

People’d call say beware doll you’re bound to fall

You thought they all were kidding you?

You used to laugh about every body that was hanging out

Now you don’t talk so loud

Now you don’t seem so proud

About having to be scrounging for your next meal

How does it feel how does it feel to be without a home

Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone

You’ve gone to the finest school all right Miss lonely

But you know you used to get juiced in it

And nobody’s ever taught you how to live on the street

And now you’re gonna have to get used to it

You said you’d never compromised

with the mystery tramp but now you realise

He’s not selling any alibis as you stare into the vacuum of his eyes

And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel how does it feel to be without a home

Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns

When they all came down and did tricks for you

You never understood that it ain’t no good

You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you

You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat

Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat

Ain’t it hard when you discovered that he really wasn’t where it’s at

After he took from you everything he could steal

How does it feel how does it feel to be without a home

Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people’re

Drinking, thinking that they got it made

Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things

But you’d better lift your diamond ring you’d better pawn it babe

You used to be so amused at Napoleon in rags and the language that he used

Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse

When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose

You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel how does it feel to be without a home

Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone

LISTEN TO THE MUSIC

Don't you feel it growing day by day

People getting ready for the news

Some are happy some are sad

Oh oh we're got to let the music play

What the people need is a way to make them smile

It ain't so hard to do if you know how

Gotta give a message get it on through

Oh oh now mama’s goin’ to to after a while

Woh oh woh listen to the music

Woh oh woh listen to the music

Woh oh woh listen to the music

All the time

Well I know you know better everything I say

Meet me in the country for a day

We'll be happy and we'll dance

Oh we're gonna dance the blues away

And if I’m feeling good to you and you're feeling good to me

There ain't nothing we can't do or say

Feeling good feeling fine

Oh oh baby let the music play

Woh oh woh listen to the music

Woh oh woh listen to the music

Woh oh woh listen to the music

All the time

Like a lazy flowing river surrounding castles in the sky

And the crowd is growing bigger

Listening for the happy sounds

You've gonna have to let them cry

Woh oh woh listen to the music

Woh oh woh listen to the music

Woh oh woh listen to the music

All the time

Woh oh woh listen to the music

Woh oh woh listen to the music

Woh oh woh listen to the music

All the time

LITTLE BIT OF LOVE

I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with

A little bit of love oh it's got to come your way

Well in my mind it's easy to lose sight of the truth

But in my heart I can't deny my feeling inside

Cause I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with

A little bit of love oh it's got to come your way

Man in the sky he'll say you're flying you'll lose sight of the role

You wanna stay high then don't deny your feeling inside

Cause I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with

A little bit of love oh it's got to come your way

I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with

A little bit of love oh it's got to come your way

I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with

A little bit of love oh it's got to come your way

LITTLE TIM MAGUIRE

Little Tim Maguire loved to play with fire

Always hated water, never used to wash

Loved the smell of burning, of bonfires burning

Loved to play all day with his little tinder box

When he was young they put him in a uniform

Sent him to school with iron railings all around

Hated the school and the rules and the railings

Had just one ambition to burn the whole place down

When Maguire grew older, they made him wear a bowler

Sent him to work in an office in the town

Hated the people, the pens and the paper

Took his little tinder box and burned it to the ground

The judge said at his trial “your behaviour has been vile

You’re a menace to society, though you may think you’re big

You’ll have to go to prison”, and then what a commotion

Smoke and flames were pouring from the judge’s wig

They never found Tim Maguire’s little tinder box

They never found a trace of little Tim Maguire

Perhaps he’s up in heaven, setting fire to angels’ halos

Perhaps he’s down in hell, dancing round the fire

Little Tim Maguire loved to play with fire

Always hated water never used to wash

Loved the smell of burning, of bonfires burning

Loved to play all day with his little tinder box

Fire, fire, there’s fire down below

It’s fetch a bucket of water girls, there’s fire down below

LITTLE WING

Well she's walking through the clouds

With a circus mind that's running wild

Butterflies and zebras moonbeams fairy tales

That's all she ever thinks about riding with the wind

When I'm sad she comes to me

With a thousand smiles she gives to me free

It's all right it's all right she says it's all right

Take anything you want from me anything at all

LONELY DAYS

Good morning mister Sunshine

You brighten up my day

Come and sit beside me

In your way

I see you every morning

Outside the restaurant

The music plays so nonchalant

Ah ah ah

Lonely days lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman

Lonely days lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman

Where would I be without my woman

Lonely days lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman

Good morning mister Sunshine

You brighten up my day

Come and sit beside me

In your way

I see you every morning

Outside the restaurant

The music plays so nonchalant

Ah ah ah

Lonely days lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman

Lonely days lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman

Where would I be without my woman

Lonely days lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD

The long and winding road

That leads to your door

Will never disappear

I’ve seen that road before

It always leads me here

Lead me to your door

The wild and windy night

That the rain washed away

Has left them full of tears

Crying for the day

They meet me standing here

Let me know the way

Many times I’ve been alone

And many times I’ve cried

Anyway you’ll never know

The many ways I’ve tried

And still they lead me back

To the long and winding road

You left me standing here

A long long time ago

Don’t leave me waiting here

Lead me to your door

But still they lead me back

To the long and winding road

You left me standing here

A long long time ago

Don’t keep me standing here

Lead me to your door

LONG AS I CAN SEE THE LIGHT

Put a candle in the window

But I feel I've got the blues

But I'm going going I'll be coming home soon

Long as I can see the light

Pack my bag and let's get moving

Cause I'm bound to trip a while

I'll be gone gone you don't have to worry no more

Long as I can see the light

Guess I've got that old travelling bug

And the feeling won't leave me alone

But I won't no I won't lose my way

Long as I can see the light

Put a candle in the window

But I feel I've got the blues

But I'm going going I'll be coming home soon

Long as I can see the light

Long as I can see the light

Long as I can see the light

Long as I can see the light

Long as I can see the light

LONG TALL SALLY

Gonna tell aunt Mary 'bout uncle John

He say's he's got no rhythm but he has a lot of fun

Oh baby yeah baby uh uh uh baby

Having us some fun tonight

Long tall Sally she was built to please

She's got everything that uncle John needs

Oh baby yeah baby uh uh uh baby

Having us some fun tonight

Saw uncle John with long tall Sally

She showed him how to come and then he got me in the alley

Oh baby yeah baby uh uh uh baby

Having us some fun tonight

Long tall Sally got her love on the ball

Nobody cares if she's long and tall

Oh baby yeah baby uh uh uh baby

Having us some fun tonight

Saw uncle John with long tall Sally

She showed him how to come and then he got me in the alley

Oh baby yeah baby uh uh uh baby

Having us some fun tonight

Well we're gonna have some fun tonight

Have some fun tonight have some fun tonight

Everything's all right

We're gonna have some fun have some fun tonight

LONG TRAIN RUNNING (WITHOUT LOVE)

Down around the corner

Half a mile from here

You see them old trains runnin’

And you watch them disappear

Without love

Where would you be now

Without love

You know I saw Miss Lucy

Down along the tracks

She lost her home and family

And she won't be coming back

Without love

Where would you be right now

Without love

Well the Illinois Central

And the Southern Central freight

Can't keep on pushing mama

‘Cause you know they're running late

Without love

Where would you be now

Without love

Well the Illinois Central

And the Southern Central freight

Can't keep on pushing mama

‘Cause you know they're running late

Without love

Where would you be now

Without love

Where pistons keep on turning

And the wheels go round and round

And steel rails are cold and hard

For the miles that they go down

Without love

Where would you be now

Without love

Ooh where would you be now

Got to get it baby baby won’t you move it down

Won’t you move it down

Baby baby baby baby won’t you move it down

When the big train runs

And the train is movin’ on

I gotta keep on moovin’

Keep on movin’

Keep on movin’

Gonna keep on movin’

THE LONGEST TIME

Woh oh oh oh for the longest time

Woh oh oh for the longest

If you said goodbye to me tonight

There would still be music left to write

What else could I do I'm so inspired by you

That hasn't happened for the longest time

Once I thought my innocence was gone

Now I know that happiness goes on

That's where you found me when you put your arms around me

I haven't been there for the longest time

Woh oh oh oh for the longest time

Woh oh oh for the longest

I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall

And the greatest miracle of all

Is how I need you and how you needed me too

That hasn't happened for the longest time

Maybe this won't last very long

But you feel so right and I could be wrong

Maybe I've been hoping too hard

But I've gone this far and it's more than I hoped for

Who knows how much further we'll go on

Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone

I'll take my chances I forgot how nice romance is

I haven't been there for the longest time

I had second thoughts at the start

I said to myself hold on to your heart

Now I know the woman that you are

You're wonderful so far and it's more than I hoped for

I don't care what consequence it brings

I have been a fool for lesser things

I want you so bad I think you ought to know that

I intend to hold you for the longest time

Woh oh oh oh for the longest time

Woh oh oh oh for the longest time

Woh oh oh oh for the longest time

Woh oh oh oh for the longest time

LOOK AT ME

Who am I but you in the sun

A sad reflection of everyone

Was it me who let you walk away

Were you the one or is it we’re the same

What are we in time going by

The simple story of a younger life

Half in dreams and somehow through the day

We haven’t come so far to lose our way

Look at me I believe it’s true

You’re a part of me I’m a part of you

Love is only what we’ve come to live

Waking breathing and all we give

A crystal passing reflected in our eyes

Eclipsing all the jealousy and lies

Look at me can’t you see it’s true

You’re a part of me I’m a part of you

Quiet as the voices in a dream

Without you shadow the things I’ve seen

Were not for the evening I let you walk away

Were you the one or is it we’re the same

Look at me I believe it’s true

You’re a part of me I’m a part of you

LOOKING IN YOUR BIG BROWN EYES

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

Staring across the room I saw you smile

I said I want to talk to you woo woo for a little while

But before I make my move my emotions start running wild

My tongue is tied and that’s no lie

I’m looking in your eyes yeah I’m looking in your big brown eyes

Ooh girl I’ve got this to say to you yeah

Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more

And if you cry out I’m gonna push it some more

Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more

And if you cry out I’m gonna push you push it push it some more

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

So I say to myself if she loves me or not

But it’s great I know that love is his to take

It’s a little bit of this a little bit of that the lyrics goes on besides

My tongue get’s tied and that’s no lie

I’m looking in your eyes yeah I’m looking in your big brown eyes

Ooh girl I’ve got this to say to you yeah

Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more

And if you cry out I’m gonna push it some more

Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more

And if you cry out I’m gonna push you push it push it some more

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

I’m looking in your eyes yeah I’m looking in your big brown eyes

Ooh girl I’ve got this to say to you yeah

Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more

And if you cry out I’m gonna push it some more

Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more

And if you cry out I’m gonna push you push it push it some more

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Love is in the air everywhere I look around

Love is in the air every sight and every sound

And I don’t know if I’m being foolish

Don’t know if I’m being wise

But it’s something that I must believe in

And it’s there when I look in your eyes

Love is in the air in the whispering of the trees

Love is in the air in the thunder of the seas

And I don’t know if I’m just dreaming

Don’t know if I feel sane

But it’s something that I must believe in

And it’s there when I call out your name

Love is in the air in the rising of the sun

Love is in the air when the day is nearly done

And I don’t know if you are illusion

Don’t know if I see it true

But you’re something that I must believe in

And you’re there when I reach out for you

Love is in the air everywhere I look around

Love is in the air every sight and every sound

And I don’t know if I’m being foolish

Don’t know if I’m being wise

But it’s something that I must believe in

And it’s there when I look in your eyes

Love is in the air in the rising of the sun

Love is in the air when the day is nearly done

And I don’t know if you are illusion

Don’t know if I see it true

But you’re something that I must believe in

And you’re there when I reach out for you

LOVE ME TENDER

Love me tender love me sweet

Never let me go

You have made my life complete

And I love you so

Love me tender love me true

All my dream fulfil

For my darling I love you

And I always will

Love me tender love me long

Take me to your heart

For it’s there that I belong

And we’ll never part

Long me tender love me true

All my dreams fulfil

For my darling I love you

And I always will

Love me tender love me dear

Tell me you are mine

I’ll be yours through all the years

Till the end of time

Love me tender love me true

All my dreams fulfil

For my darling I love you

And I always will

LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE

Living on free food tickets

Blowing in the milk from a hole in the roof

where the rain came through

What can you do if we move

Tears from your little sister

Crying because she doesn’t have a dress without a patch

But a party to go but oh you know she’ll get by

‘Cause she’s living in the love of the common people

Smiles through the heart of the family man

Daddy’s gonna buy her a dream to cling to

Mamma’s gonna love her just as fast as she can and she can

It’s a good thing you don’t have busfare

It would fall through the hole in your pocket

And you’d lose it in the snow on the ground

You gotta walk into town to find a job

Trying to keep your toes warm

But the hole in your shoe lets the snow come through

And it chills them to the bone so you’d better go home where it’s warm

You can live in the love of the common people

Smiles through the heart of the family man

Daddy’s gonna buy you a dream to cling to

Mamma’s gonna love you just as fast as she can and she can

Living on a dream ain’t easy the closer the lip the tighter the flip

And then you stay away go round trying the family crowd

You know that fate is their foundation

The whole of the love and the warm conversation but don’t forget to pray

Just make it strong where you belong

You can live in the love of the common people

Smiles through the heart of the family man

Daddy’s gonna buy you a dream to cling to

Mamma’s gonna love you just as fast as she can and she can

You can live in the love of the common people

Smiles through the heart of the family man

Daddy’s gonna buy you a dream to cling to

Mamma’s gonna love you just as fast as she can and she can

LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH

If you’re down and confused

And you don’t remember who you’re talking to

Concentration slip away

‘Cause your baby is so far away

Well there’s a rose in the fisted glove

And the eagle flies with the dove

And if you can’t be with the one you love

Honey love the one you’re with

Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with

Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with

Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit

Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit

Dit dit dit, dit dit dit

Don’t be angry don’t be sad

And don’t sit crying over good times you’ve had

There’s a girl right next to you

And she’s just waiting for something to do

Well there’s a rose in the fisted glove

And the eagle flies with the dove

And if you can’t be with the one you love

Honey love the one you’re with

Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with

Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with

Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit

Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit

Dit dit dit, dit dit dit

Love the one you’re wit love the one you’re with

Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with

Turn your heartache right into joy

She’s a girl and you’re a boy

Get it together make it nice

You ain’t gonna need any more advice

Well there’s a rose in the fisted glove

And the eagle flies with the dove

And if you can’t be with the one you love

Honey love the one you’re with

Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with

Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with

Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit

Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit

Dit dit dit, dit dit dit

LOVE YOU HOLD YOU

I’m gonna take you down to my place

And give you all I can

I’m gonna prove to you girl

That I really am a man

I’ll hold you so close girl

That you can feel the heat from me

I’m gonna love you

I’m gonna hold you

Ooh baby feel that for me

I want you to feel baby

What it’s like to be loved

I want you to come willingly

And not feel you’re being shoved

I want you to come with me girl

You’re pretty safe in my hands

I’m gonna love you

I’m gonna hold you

Ooh baby feel that for me

If you really want me

Don’t be afraid to say

If you need my love girl

You’re gonna have it every day

If you feel for me girl

I can feel for you

I’m gonna love you

I’m gonna really hold you

LOVE YOU MORE THAN I CAN SAY

Woh oh woh yeah yeah

I love you more than I can say

I’ll love you twice as much tomorrow

Oh oh love you more than I can say

Woh oh woh yeah yeah

I’ll miss you every single day

Why must my life be filled with sorrow

Woh woh love you more than I can say

Oh don’t you know I need you so

Oh tell me please I’ve gotta know yeah

Do you mean to make me cry

Am I just another guy

Woh oh woh yeah yeah

I’ll miss you more than I can say

Why must my life be filled with sorrow

I miss you more than I can say

Oh don’t you know I need you so

Oh tell me please I’ve gotta know yeah

Do you mean to make me cry

Am I just another guy

Woh oh woh yeah yeah

I love you more than I can say

I’ll love you twice as much tomorrow

Love you more than I can say

LOVER’S CONCERTO

How gentle is the rain

That falls softly on the meadow

Birds high up in the trees

Serenade the flowers with their melodies

See there beyond the hill

The bright colours of the rainbow

Some magic from above

Made this day for us just to fall in love

Now I belong to you

From this day until forever

Just love me tenderly

And I will to you every part of me

Don’t ever make me cry

Through long lonely nights without love

Be always true to me

Keep this day in your heart eternally

Some day we shall return

To this place upon the meadow

We’ll walk out in the rain

Hear the birds above

Singing once again

Oh hold me in your arms

And say once again you love me

And if your love is true

Everything will be just as wonderful

LOVERS CROSS

They said that it was bound to happen

Just a matter of time

Now I’ve come to my decision

It’s one of the painful kind

Now it seems that you wanted a martyr

Just a regular guy wouldn’t do

But baby I can’t hang upon a lover’s cross for you

Well I’ve really got to hand it to you

‘Cause girl you really tried

But for every time that we spent laughing

There were two times that I cried

And you were trying to make me a martyr

That’s one thing I just couldn’t do

‘Cause baby I can’t hang upon a lover’s cross for you

‘Cause tables are meant for turning

And people are bound to change

Bridges are meant for burning

And the people and memories they join up the same

Still I hope that you can find another

Who can take what I could not

He’s have to be some kind of super guy

Or maybe a super god

‘Cause I never was much of a martyr before

And I ain’t ‘bout to start something new

‘Cause baby I can’t hang upon a lover’s cross for you

‘Cause tables are meant for turning

And people are bound to change

Bridges are meant for burning

And the people and memories they join up the same

Still I hope that you can find another

Who can take what I could not

He’d have to be some kind of super guy

Or maybe a super god

‘Cause I never was much of a martyr before

And I ain’t ‘bout to start something new

‘Cause baby I can’t hang upon a lover’s cross for you

LUCILLE

Lucille you don't do your daddy's will

Lucille you don't do your daddy's will

Well there ain't nothing to you

But I I I love you still

I woke up this morning

And Lucille was not in sight

Asked her friends about it

But all their lips were tight

Lucille you don't do your daddy's will

Well there ain't nothing to you

But I I I love you still

I woke up this morning

And Lucille was not in sight

Asked her friends about it

But all their lips were tight

Lucille you don't do your daddy's will

I give it to you baby

I I I love you still

Lucille please come back where you belong

Lucille please come back where you belong

I give it to you baby please don't leave me alone

Lucille you don't do your daddy's will

Lucille you don't do your daddy's will

Well there ain't nothing to you

But I I I love you still

LUCKY MAN

He had white horses and ladies by the score

All dressed in satin and waiting by the door

Ooh what a lucky man he was

Ooh what a lucky man he was

White lace and feathers they made up his bed

A rose covered mattress on which he was led

Ooh what a lucky man he was

Ooh what a lucky man he was

He went to fight wars for his country and his king

Of his honour and his glory the people still sing

Ooh what a lucky man he was

Ooh what a lucky man he was

A bullet it found him his blood ran as he cried

Nobody could save him so he lay down and he died

Ooh what a lucky man he was

Ooh what a lucky man he was

He had white horses and ladies by the score

All dressed in satin and waiting by the door

Ooh what a lucky man he was

Ooh what a lucky man he was

LYING EYES

City girls just seem to find out early

How to open doors with just a smile

A rich old man and she won't have to worry

She'll dress up all in lace and go in style

Late at night a big old house gets lonely

I guess every form of refuge has it's price

And it breaks her heart to think her love is only

Given to a man with hands as cold as ice

So she tells him she must go out for the evening

To comfort an old friend who's feeling down

But he knows where she's going as she's leaving

She's heading for the cheating side of town

You can't hide your lying eyes

And your smile is a thin disguise

I thought by now you'd realise

Ain't no way to hide your lying eyes

On the other side of town a boy is waiting

With firey eyes and dreams no one can see

She drives on through the night anticipating

'Cause he makes her feel the way she used to feel

She rushes to his arms they fall together

She whispers that it's only for a while

She swears that soon she'll be coming back for ever

She pulls away and leaves him with a smile

You can't hide your lying eyes

And your smile is a thin disguise

I thought by now you'd realise

Ain't no way to hide your lying eyes

She gets up and pours herself a strong one

And stares out at the stars up in the sky

Another night it's going to be a long one

She draws the shades and hangs her head to cry

She wonders how it ever got this crazy

She thinks about a boy she knew in school

Did she get tired or did she just get lazy

She's so far gone she feels just like a fool

My oh my you sure know how to arrange things

You set it up so well so carefully

Ain't it funny how your new life didn't change things

You're still the same old girl you used to be

You can't hide your lying eyes

And your smile is a thin disguise

I thought by now you'd realise

Ain't no way to hide your lying eyes

Aint no way to hide your lying eyes

Honey you can't hide your lying eyes

MADNESS

Madness madness they call it madness

Madness madness they call it madness

It's plain to see that is what they mean to me

Madness madness they call it gladness

Madness madness they call it madness

Madness madness they call it madness

I'm about to explain I've had someone including their brain

Madness madness they call it gladness

Propaganda ministers propaganda ministers

I've a got a heavy due I'm gonna walk all over you

Madness madness they call it madness

Well if this is madness then I know I'm filled with gladness

It's gonna be rougher it's gonna be tougher banana banana

And I won't be the one who's gonna suffer oh no

I won't be the one who's gonna suffer

You know I won't be the one You

MAGGIE

I wandered today to the hills Maggie

To watch the scene being old

The creek and the creaking old mill Maggie

As we used to long long ago

The green grove is gone from the hills Maggie

Where first the daisies brown

The creaking old mill is still Maggie

Since you and I were young

Oh they say that I’m feeble with age Maggie

My steps are much slower than then

My face is a well written page Maggie

And time all alone was the pen

They say we have outlived our time Maggie

As dated as songs that we’ve sung

But to me you’re as fair as you were Maggie

When you and I were young

They say we have outlived our time Maggie

As dated as songs that we’ve sung

But to me you’re as fair as you were Maggie

When you and I were young

When you and I were young

MAGGIE MAY

Wake up Maggie I think I've got something to say to you

It's late September and I really should be back at school

I know I keep you amused but I feel I'm being used

Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore

You led me away from home just to save you from being alone

You stole my heart and that's what really hurts

The morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age

But that don't worry me none, in my eyes you're everything

I laughed at all your jokes, my love you didn't need to coax

Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore

You led me away from home just to save you from being alone

You stole my soul and that's a pain I can do without

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand

But you turned into a lover and mother what a lover you wore me out

All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head

Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore

You led me away from home 'cause you didn't want to be alone

You stole my heart, I couldn't leave you anyway

I suppose I could collect my books and go on back to school

Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool

Or find myself a rock and roll band that needs a helping hand

Oh Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face

You made a first class fool out of me but I'm as blind as a fool can be

You stole my heart but I love you anyway

Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face

I'll get on back home one of these days

MAGINOT WALTZ

All off to Brighton in a charabanc

Albert played his banjo and how we sang

The beer was expensive but the laughter was free

How we all love to be beside the sea

Albert had a cousin called Marjorie

And I’d begun to notice she’d begun to notice me

I quickly decided if she didn’t mind it

I would spend the day in her glad company

We shared a plate of whelks walking side by side

I said she weren’t to old to take a donkey ride

But I didn’t mind when she laughed and said no

So we paused for a while and listened to a minstrel show

There was a notice on the Palace pier

It said there was to be a dance that night and it wasn’t dear

I explained of course that I could only waltz

And so we waltzed to every tune and air

Nine o’clock came round we had to take the charabanc

Albert was too drunk to play but still we sang

All except Marjorie I could tell at a glance

Because me and Albert were leaving for France

I said we’d both be home in a week or two

Me and Albert and Lord Kitchener were gonna teach the Hun a thing or two

I’m bound to return so for me do not yearn

And we will waltz together all our lives through

MAN OF THE WORLD

Shall I tell you about my life

They say I’m a man of the world

I’ve flown across every time

And I’ve seen lots of pretty girls

I guess I’ve got everything I need

I wouldn’t ask for more

And there’s no one I’d rather be

But I just wish I had never been born

And I need a good woman

To make me feel like a good man should

I don’t say I’m a good man

Or that I would be if I could

I could tell you about my life

And keep you amused I’m sure

About all the times I’ve cried

And how I don’t want to be sad any more

And how I wish I was in love

MARMOR, STEIN UND EISEN BRICHT

Weine nicht wenn der Regen fällt,

Damm-damm, damm-damm

Es gibt einen, der zu Dir hält

Damm-damm, damm-damm

Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht

Aber unsere Liebe nicht

Alles, alles geht vorbei

Doch wir sind uns treu

Kann ich einmal nicht bei Dir sein

Damm-damm, damm-damm

Denk' daran, Du bist nicht allein

Damm-damm, damm-damm

Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht

Aber unsere Liebe nicht

Alles, alles geht vorbei

Doch wir sind uns treu

Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht

Aber unsere Liebe nicht

Alles, alles geht vorbei

Doch wir sind uns treu

Nimm den goldenen Ring von mir

Damm-damm, damm-damm

Bist Du traurig dann sagt er Dir

Damm-damm, damm-damm

Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht

Aber unsere Liebe nicht

Alles, alles geht vorbei

Doch wir sind uns treu

Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht

Aber unsere Liebe nicht

Alles, alles geht vorbei

Doch wir sind uns treu

Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht

Ins Gras müß' 'mer beißen, ob's uns schmeckt oder nicht

Alles, alles, alles geht vorbei

Durch die Pershing 2.

MATTIE’S RAG

Oh Matti open up the door

That's right I'm home again

You've got a big surprise in store

Turn round and count to ten

Wait till you see what I've got you well

You'll say it's a magic thing

(Wait till you see it in motion)

Wind them up and you start to sing

I've been away for quite a while

And I wanna hear all your news

Speak to me let me see you smile

'Cause I've got those homesick blues

When I go down to the city

I just don't know wrong from right

When I come back to you Matti

You make me see the light

Love is a singular thing

It can take you up or bring you down

Yes love is a song that I sing

So come on now Matti listen to this sound

When you grow up we'll sit and talk

Of how things used to be

I'll be your (friend no matter what)

With all these memories

MATTY GROVES

A holiday a holiday and the first one of the year

Lord Donald’s wife went into the church the gospel for to hear

And when the meeting it was done she cast her eyes about

And there she saw little Matty Groves a walking in the crowd

Come home with me little Matty Groves come home with me tonight

Come home with me little Matty Groves and sleep with me ‘till light

Oh I can’t come home and I won’t come home and sleep with you tonight

By the rings on your finger I can see you are Lord Donald’s wife

Oh what if I am Lord Donald’s wife Lord Donald’s not at home

He is out in the far corn fields bringing the yearlings home

A servant who was standing by on hearing what was said

He swore Lord Donald he would know before the sun was set

And in his hurry to carry the news he bent his breast and he ran

And when he came to the broad mill stream he took off his shoes and swam

If this be false Lord Donald cried then hanged you shall be

But if this be true then half my lands I’ll freely give to thee

Little Matty Groves he lay down and took a little sleep

When he arose Lord Donald was standing at his feet

Saying how d’you like my feather bed and how d’you like my sheets

And how d’you like my lady fair that lies in your arms asleep

Oh ‘tis well I like your feather bed and well I like your sheets

But it’s better I like your lady who lies in my arms asleep

Well get up get up Lord Donald cried get up as quick as you can

It’ll never be said in all the land that I slew a naked man

Oh I can’t get up and I won’t get up and I can’t get up for my life

For you have two long beaten swords and I but a pocket knife

It’s true I’ve two long beaten swords and they cost me deep in the purse

But you shall have the better of them and I shall have the worst

And you shall strike the very first blow and strike it like a man

And I shall strike the very next blow and I’ll kill you if I can

So Matty struck the very first blow and it hurt Lord Donald sore

Lord Donald struck the very next blow and Matty struck no more

So then Lord Donald took his wife and he sat her on his knee

Saying who d’you like the best of us Matty Groves or me

And then up spoke his only wife never heard to speak so free

I’d rather a kiss from dead Matty’s lips than you and your finery

And then Lord Donald he got up and loudly he did bawl

He struck his wife through the heart and pinned her against the wall

A grave a grave Lord Donald cried to put these lovers in

But bury my lady on the top for she was of noble kin

MAXWELL'S SILVER HAMMER

Joan was quizzical, studied paraphysical

Science in the home.

Late night, all alone with the test-tube, oh, ohoh, oh.

Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine,

Calls her on the phone.

Can I take you out to the pictures, Joan

But as she's getting ready to go,

A knock comes from the door.

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down on her head.

Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead.

Back in school again, Maxwell plays the fool again.

Teacher gets annoyed,

Wishing to avoid an unpleasant scene.

She tells Max to stay, when the class has gone away,

So he waits behind.

Writing fifty times, I must not be so.

But when she turns her back to the boy,

He creeps up from behind.

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down on her head.

Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead.

P.C. Thirty-one said: "We've caught a dirty one."

Maxwell stands alone.

Painting testimonial pictures, oh, ohoh, oh.

Rose and Valerie, screaming from the gallery,

Say he must go free.

The judge does not agree, and he tells them so.

But as the words are leaving his lips,

A noise comes from behind.

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down on her head.

Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead.

MAYBELLINE

Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true

You've started back doing the things you used to do

As I was motoring over the hill

I saw Maybelline in a cool Hillile

Cadillac rolling on an open road

Nothing ought to run my vehicle

Cadillac doing about ninety five

A pumping up we're side by side

Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true

You've started back doing the things you used to do

Peeked in the mirror at the top of the hill

Just like swallowing a medicine pill

First thing I saw was that Cadillac grille

Doing one hundred and ten dropping over the that hill

A hock wheel curve a down hill stretch

Me and that cadillac neck and neck

Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true

You've started back doing the things you used to do

Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true

You've started back doing the things you used to do

Cadillac pulled up to one hundred and four

The Falcon got hot and wouldn't do no more

Jumpin’ Jack Flowery started to rain

Tooted my horn but I passed the name

Rain water blowing under my hood

But I knew that was doing my motor good

Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true

You've started back doing the things you used to do

The motor cooled down the heat went down

That's when I heard that highway sound

Cadillac sitting like a ton of lead

A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead

Cadillac looked like a steady steal

And I caught Maybelline at the top of the hill

Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true

You've started back doing the things you used to do

MEET ME ON THE CORNER

Hey Mr. dream seller where have you been

Tell me have you dreams I can see

I came along just to bring you this song

Can you spare one dream for me

You won’t have met me and you’ll soon forget

So don’t mind me tugging at your sleeve

I’m asking you if I can fix a rendezvous

For your dreams are all I believe

Meet me on the corner when the lights are coming on

And I’ll be there I promise I’ll be there

Tell me empty streets will disappear until the dawn

If you have dreams enough to share

Lay down your bundles of rags and reminders

And spread your wares on the ground

Well I’ve got time if you’re dealing round

I’m just hanging around

Meet me on the corner when the lights are coming on

And I’ll be there I promise I’ll be there

Tell me empty streets will disappear until the dawn

If you have dreams enough to share

Hey Mr. dream seller where have you been

Tell me have you dreams I can see

I came along just to bring you this song

Can you spare one dream for me

MEMPHIS TENNESSEE

Long distance information

Give me Memphis Tennessee

Help me find the party

Trying to get in touch with me

She would not leave her number

But I know whose place to call

My uncle took the message

And he wrote it on the wall

Last time I saw Marie

She was kissing me goodbye

With hurry home drops on her cheek

That trickled from her eye

We were torn apart because

Her mum did not agree

And broke apart our happy home

In Memphis Tennessee

Long distance information

More than that I cannot add

Only that I miss her

And all the fun we had

Help me find the number

Information please

She's the only one who'd call me here

From Memphis Tennessee

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

Wake up early in the morning you hear the church bell ring

You go in a marching to the table you see the same old thing

Knife and fork upon the table nothing in the pan

But you’d better not complain boy

You’ll get trouble with the man

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

And let the midnight special shine a light on me

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

And let midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

If you ever go to Houston well you’d better walk right

And you’d better not stagger and you’d better not fight

‘Cause the sheriff will arrest you and his boys’ll pull you down

And they’re sure to find you guilty, you know you’re prison bound

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

And let the midnight special shine a light on me

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

And let the midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

Yonder comes miss Molly how in the world d’you know

I can tell her by apron and the clothes she wore

Umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand

She’s came to see the governor she wants to free her man

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

And let the midnight special shine a light on me

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

And let the midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

And let the midnight special shine a light on me

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

And let the midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

And let the midnight special shine a light on me

Let the midnight special shine a light on me

And let the midnight special shine your ever loving light on me

MONEY FOR NOTHING

I want my, I want my MTV I want my, I want my MTV

I want my, I want my MTV I want my, I want my MTV

Now look at them yo-yos, that’s the way to do it

You play the guitar on the MTV

That ain’t working, that’s the way you do it

Money for nothing and your chicks for free

Now that ain’t working that’s the way you do it

Lemme tell ya them guys ain’t dumb

Maybe get a blister on your little finger

Maybe get a blister on your thumb

We got to install microwave ovens

Custom kitchen deliveries

We got to move these refrigeratoes

We got to move these colour TVs

See that little faggot with the earring and the make up

Yeah buddy that’s his own affair

That little faggot got his own jet airplane

That little faggot he’s a millionaire

We got to install microwave ovens

Custom kitchen deliveries

We got to move these refrigeratoes

We got to move these colour TVs

We got to install microwave ovens

Custom kitchen deliveries

We got to move these refrigeratoes

We got to move these colour TVs

I should have learned to play the guitar

I should have learned to play them drums

Look at that mama she’s got it sticking in the camera

Man we could have some fun

And he’s up there what’s that Hawaiian noises

Banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee

Oh that ain’t working that’s the way you do it

Get your money for nothing and your chicks for free

We got to install microwave ovens

Custom kitchen deliveries

We got to move these refrigeratoes

We got to move these colour TVs

Listen her now that ain’t working that’s the way you do it

You play the guitar on the MTV

That ain’t working that’s the way you do it

Money for nothing and your chicks for free

Money for nothing and chicks for free

Get your money for nothing and chicks for free

Get your money for nothing and chicks for free

Get your money for nothing and chicks for free

I want my, I want my MTV I want my, I want my MTV

I want my, I want my MTV I want my, I want my MTV

MONSTER MASH

I was working in the lab late one night

When my eyes beheld an eerie sight

For my monster from his slab began to rise

And suddenly to my surprise

He did the mash he did the monster mash he did the mash it was a graveyard smash

He did the mash it caught on in a flash he did the mash he did the monster mash

Mash good easy Igor you impetuous young boy uh uh uh uh

From my laboratory in the castle east

To the master bedroom where the vampires feast

The ghouls all came from their humble abodes

To catch a jolt from my electrodes

They did the mash they did the monster mash they did the mash it was a graveyard smash

They did the mash it caught on in a flash they did the mash they did the monster mash

The zombies were having fun

The party had just begun

The guests included Wolfman,

Dracula and his son

The scene was rocking; all were digging the sounds

Igor on chains backed by his baying hounds

The coffin-bangers were about to arrive

With their vocal group “The Crypt Kicker Five”

They did the mash they did the monster mash they did the mash it was a graveyard smash

They did the mash it caught on in a flash they did the mash they did the monster mash

Out from his coffin Drac’s voice did ring

Seems he was troubled by just one thing

He opened the lid and he shook his fist

And said “Whatever happened to my Transylvanian twist ?”

He did the mash he did the monster mash he did the mash it was a graveyard smash

He did the mash it caught on in a flash he did the mash he did the monster mash

Now everything’s cool, Drac’s a part of the band

And my monster mash is the hit of the land

For you, the living this mash is meant too

When you get to my door tell them Boris sent you

And do the mash you did the monster mash do the mash it was a graveyard smash

Do the mash it caught on in a flash do the mash you did the monster mash

MONTEGO BAY

Girl there to meet me when the Boeing lands

Keys to the MG will be in her hands

Just do the driving and I’m on my way

Sun on the right side Montego Bay

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Come sing me love come sing me Montego Bay

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Girl you no meet me like a brother would

I think I remember girl it’s twice as good

Light cooled Bacardi rum is from a silver tray

Just to be thirsty in Montego Bay

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Come sing me love come sing me Montego Bay

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Late in the night we’ll turn the lobster red

I still feel the motion even home in bed

I tell you it’s hard for me to stay away

Do anything ‘till you’ve been down Montego Bay

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Come sing me love come sing me Montego Bay

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

MOON SHADOW

Oh, I'm being followed by a moon shadow,

Moon shadow, moon shadow.

Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow,

Moon shadow, moon shadow.

And if I ever lose my hands,

Lose my plough, lose my land,

Oh, if I ever lose my hands,

Way oh way oh oh oh oh

I won't have to work no more.

And if I ever lose my eyes,

If my colours all run dry,

Yes, if I ever lose my eyes,

Way oh way oh oh oh oh

I won't have to cry no more.

Oh, I'm being followed by a moon shadow,

Moon shadow, moon shadow.

Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow,

Moon shadow, moon shadow.

And if I ever lose my legs,

I won't moan, and I won't beg.

Oh, if I ever lose my legs,

Way oh way oh oh oh oh

I won't have to walk no more.

And if I ever lose my mouth,

All my teeth, north and south,

Yes, if I ever lose my mouth,

Way oh way oh oh oh oh

I won't have to talk ...

Did it take long to find me ?

I asked the faithful light.

Did it take long to find me,

And are you gonna stay tonight ?

Oh, I'm being followed by a moon shadow,

Moon shadow, moon shadow.

Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow,

Moon shadow, moon shadow.

MORRIS MAN’S LAMENT

As I walked by the brewery one morning so fair

To view the still vats and to sniff the malt air

I spied an old morris man singing this song

Oh bury me here ‘cause me gallup has gone

Wrap me up in me bells and me baldricks

No more in the pubs I’ll be seen

Just tell me old side mates I’ve taken a slide mates

And I’ll see you someday when your bells have turned green

Now “Bells have turned green” is a pub I’ve heard tell

Where morris men go when they don’t go to hell

Where the beer is so pretty and the girls are all free

They take you to heaven and don’t ask a fee

Wrap me up in me bells and me baldricks

No more in the pubs I’ll be seen

Just tell me old side mates I’ve taken a slide mates

And I’ll see you someday when your bells have turned green

Where it always rains when you dance “Shepherd’s hey”

And you don’t need a squire to show you the way

And the bagman is there buying drinks by the score

And everyone say’s good let’s have twenty more

Wrap me up in me bells and me baldricks

No more in the pubs I’ll be seen

Just tell me old side mates I’ve taken a slide mates

And I’ll see you someday when your bells have turned green

My time has been good boys I’ve had a fair part

And from your kind company I sadly do part

These words slowly dropped from his lips and his jaw

As he sank down contented in booze on the floor

Wrap me up in me bells and me baldricks

No more in the pubs I’ll be seen

Just tell me old side mates I’ve taken a slide mates

And I’ll see you someday when your bells have turned green

A MOTHER’S LAMENT

A muvver was washing ‘er baby one night

The youngest of ten and a delicate mite

The muvver was poor and the baby was thin

It was nought but an skelington covered with skin

The muvver turned round , picked the soap off the rack

She was only a moment but when she looked back

‘Er baby had gorn and in anguish she cried

“Oh where has my baby gorn ?” the angels replied ...

Oh your baby has gorn down the plug ‘ole

Your baby ‘as gorn down the plug

The poor little thing was so skinny and thin

It should ‘ave been washed in a jug (in a jug)

Oh your baby is perfectly ‘appy

It won’t need a barf no more

It’s a muckin’ abaht wiv the angels above

Not lorst but gone before

MOVING ON

I'm gonna leave this place tomorrow

I'm gonna leave this town behind

I'll be gone before the morning

I'll be outta sight and outta mind

That's why I'm moving on I'm moving on

I've been hanging round too long

It's time I was moving on

Well I'm tired of the same old faces

And I'm sick of the same old things

I'm getting bored with the same old places

Everybody starts to look the same

That's why I'm moving on I'm moving on

I've been hanging round too long

It's time I was moving on

I was trying to settle down here

But my feet just a won't stay still

And I felt that the grass is greener

On the other side of the hill

That's why I'm moving on I'm moving on

I've been hanging round too long

It's time I was moving on

I'm gonna leave this town tomorrow

I'm gonna leave this place behind

You can bet your bottom dollar

All my troubles will be far behind

That's why I'm moving on I'm moving on

I've been hanging round too long

It's time I was moving on

I've been hanging round too long

It's time I was moving on

I've been hanging round too long

It's time I was moving on

MR. TAMBOURINE MAN

Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.

Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

Though I know that evening's empire has returned into sand,

Vanished from my hand, left me blindly here to stand,

But still not sleeping.

My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet.

I have no one to meet, and the ancient, empty street's

Too dead for dreaming.

Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.

Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

Take me for a trip upon your magic whirling ship.

My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,

My toes too numb to step,

Wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade

Onto my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

I promise to go under it.

Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.

Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

Though you might hear laughing spinning swinging madly across the sun,

It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escaping on the run,

But for the sky, there are no fences facing.

And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme

To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind.

I wouldn't play it any mind,

It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing.

Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.

Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

Then take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind.

Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,

The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,

Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free.

Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,

With all memory and fate, driven deep beneath the waves.

Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.

Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

MRS FANSHAW

When Mrs. Fanshaw fantasised, things often got romanticised,

There was for those who liked a rock cake, no bolder cook, by grave mistake,

She put cement dust in the spice, and Fanshaw said “It's very nice”,

And ground his teeth and coughed and sighed, and very soon thereafter , died.

Now though England's a pagan land, some citizens still make a stand,

While Fanshaw's faith was lapsed RC, his wife was Christmas C of E,

Yet down the years she had forgot ,what an arse he was,

And what funerary pomps were meet, and which were poison for her sweet.

A representative of Rome was summoned quickly to the home,

To explain the Catholic rites, and wrongs, and ways, and mays, and mights,

Father Ignatius (29), not only godly, but divine,

Within minutes of the time he met her she found love at first sight in a buretta.

Unchecked by ultra monstrance guilt, her love ran wild and at full tilt,

From that day forth she planned, full spate, to swallow up this celibate

The very night her spouse chose to knock off in, she danced with glee upon his coffin,

And by his box was not a dirge she sang, but praises for the clergy.

With an ardour mostly found in latins, Mrs F. turned up at Mass, and matins,

And from the second row of pews, tried to communicate her views.

Rattling her rosary in her best clothes and hosiery,

With sad unconsummated sighs, Mrs.F. unfrocked him with her eyes.

Her fantasies began to grow, that she could die she loved him so,

What a man so strong and chaste, what a chest, oh what a waste,

If he could only leave his pedestal and clasp her close, or even better still,

Inflamed with lust and satyriasis, chase her naked round the diocese.

But Mrs. Fanshaw’s guile and gaiety, ‘though it might have laid the laity,

Sometimes coy, sometimes salacious, never did ignite Ignatius.

Her passions always animated, blew up one Sunday when he stated,

“Today I have this news to dish up, I'm leaving to become a bishop”

Mrs. Fanshaw blenched, Mrs. Fanshaw paled, Mrs. Fanshaw cried, Mrs. Fanshaw wailed,

My love won’t die, my love won’t cease, how can you leave the diocese?

She didn’t even get a kick from thinking of his bishopric,

A fallacy she said, that’s it, and threw a most unpleasant fit.

They saw her raise her head and shake it, no truth had ever seemed so naked

Since Adam's first defoliation, no Budda, or other holy Asian

Could calm the rage that boiled up in her breast now she was foiled,

And voicing vulgar unromanticals, she kicked him soundly in the canticles.

The congregation rose in wrath, to avenge this insult to the cloth,

Not lacking for a precedent, to burn her at the stake they went.

Hymn books and Psalters soon caught fire, they threw her screaming on the pyre,

And she remained though quickly slaked, for ever afterwards half baked.

MRS. ROBINSON

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson

Jesus loves you more than you will know,

Wow wow wow

God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson

Heaven holds a place for those who pray

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files

We'd like to help you learn to help yourself

Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes

Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home

And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson

Jesus loves you more than you will know,

Wow wow wow

God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson

Heaven holds a place for those who pray

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes

Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

It's a little secret, just the Robinsons' affair

Most of all you've got to hide from the kids

Coo, coo, coo-ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson

Jesus loves you more than you will know,

Wow wow wow

God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson

Heaven holds a place for those who pray

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon

Going to the candidates' debate

Laugh about it, shout about it when you've got to choose

Every way you look at it, you lose

Where have you gone, Joe Di Maggio

A nation turns its lonely eyes to you,

Woo woo woo

What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson

"Jolting Joe" has left and gone away

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

MY LIFE

Got a call from an old friend we used to be real close

Said he couldn't go on the American way

Closed his shop sold his house bought a ticket to the west coast

Now he gives them a stand up routine in L A

I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm all right

I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home

I don't care what you say anymore this is my life

Go ahead with your own life leave me alone

I never said you had to offer me a second chance

I never said I was a victim of circumstance

Don't get me wrong I still belong

You can speak your mind but not on my time

They will tell you you can't sleep alone in a strange place

Then they tell you you can't sleep with somebody else

Ah but sooner or later you sleep in your own space

Either way it's OK you wake up with yourself

I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm all right

I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home

I don't care what you say anymore this is my life

Go ahead with your own life leave me alone

I never said you had to offer me a second chance

I never said I was a victim of circumstance

Don't get me wrong I still belong

You can speak your mind but not on my time

I don't care anymore what you say anymore this is my life

Go ahead with your own life leave me alone

MY SWEET LORD

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

I really want to see you,

Really want to be with you

Really want to see you Lord

But it takes so long my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

I really want to know you

Really want to go with you

Really want to show you Lord

That it won't take long my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

I really want to see you

Really want to see you

Really want to see you Lord

Really want to see you Lord

But it takes so long my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

I really want to know you

Really want to go with you

Really want to show you Lord

That it won't take long my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord

MY TOWN

When I awake I think of you

Only my heartbreak makes me feel like a fool

You led me on just to bring me down and I felt so low

So if the stars are out tonight I’ll get up and go

On my way I walked through town

Stopped at your house but you weren't around

The lights were on to ward off thieves but you stayed out all night

It's you who stole my heart when you hadn't any right

It's my town but I've got to leave it

And head south to where the climate is kind

And if the time comes when I'm feeling better

I'll be back with the birds in the spring

Paid my fare and took the train

I'd soon forget but now I feel the pain

Though I tried to think of better days lying in my berth

I pondered revenge for what it was worth

It's my town but I've got to leave it

And head south to where the climate is kind

And if the time comes when I'm feeling better

I'll be back with the birds in the spring

I NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD

I need someone’s hand to lead me through the night

I need someone’s arms to hold squeeze and squeeze me tight

Now when the night begins I’ve had enough

BecauseI need your love so bad

I need some lips to feel next to mine

I need someone to stand up and tell me when I’m lying

But when the lights are low and it’s time to go

That’s when I need your love so bad

So why don’t you give it up and bring it home to me

Or write it on a piece of paper baby so it can be read to me

Tell me that you love me and stop driving me mad

Because I, I need your love so bad

I need your soft voice to talk to me at night

I don’t want you to worry baby I know we can make everything all right

Listen to my plea baby bring it to me

Because I need your love so bad

NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN

She broke down and left me again

Made me see where I'd been

Been down one time been down two times

Never going back again

You don't know what it means to win

Come down and see me again

Been down one time been down two times

Never going back again

NEW KID IN TOWN

There’s talk on the street, it sounds so familiar

Great expectations, everybody’s watchin’ you

People you meet they all seem to know you

Even your old friends treat you like you’re something new

Johnny come lately, the new kid in town

Everybody loves you, so don’t let them down

You look in her eyes, they music begins to play

Hopeless romantics here we go again

But after a while you’re looking the other way

It’s those restless hearts that never mend

Johnny come lately, the new kid in town

Will she still love you, when you’re not around

There’s so many things you should have told her

But night after night you’re willing to hold her,

Just hold her tears on your shoulder

There’s talk on the street, it’s there to remind you

Doesn’t really matter which side you’re on

You’re walking away and they’re talking behind you

They will never forget you ‘till somebody new comes along

Where’ve you been lately, there’s a new kid in town

Everybody loves him don’t they?

And he’s holding her and you’re still around oh my my

There’s a new kid in town

Just another new kid in town

Everybody’s talking ‘bout the new kid in town, oo hoo

Everybody walking like the new kid in town

There’s a new kid in town, I don’t want to hear it

There’s a new kid in town, I don’t want to hear it

There’s a new kid in town

There’s a new kid in town

There’s a new kid in town everybody’s talking

There’s a new kid in town everybody’s walking

There’s a new kid in town

There’s a new kid in town

THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN

Virgil Caine is my name

And I served on the Danville train

‘Till Stoneman’s cavalry came

And tore up the tracks again

In the winter of '65

We were hungry, just barely alive

By May the tenth Richmond had fell

It’s a time I remember oh so well

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringing

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singing

They went na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

Back with my wife in Tennessee

When one day she said to me

Virgil quick come see

There goes the Robert E. Lee

Now, I don't mind them chopping wood

And I don't care if their money's no good

Just take what you need and leave the rest

But they should never have taken the very best

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringing

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singing

They went na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

Like my father before me

I'm a working man

And like my brother before me

I took the rebel stand

Well, he was just eighteen, proud and brave

But a Yankee laid him in his grave

I swear by the mud below my feet

You can't raise a Caine back up when he’s in defeat

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringing

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singing

They went na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN

Nights in white satin never reaching the end

Letters I've written never meaning to send

Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before

Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore

'Cause I love you, yes, I love you

Oh, how I love you

Gazing at people, some hand in hand

Just what I'm going through, they can't understand

Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend

Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end

And I love you, yes, I love you

Oh, how I love you

Nights in white satin never reaching the end

Letters I've written never meaning to send

Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before

Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore

'Cause I love you, yes, I love you

Oh, how I love you

NO MATTER WHAT

No matter what you are

I will always be with you

Doesn’t matter what you do girl

Ooh girl with you

No matter what you do

I will always be around

Won’t you tell me what you’ve found girl

Ooh girl won’t you

Knock down the old grey wall

Be a part of it all

Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do

If you would give me all

I would give it to you

Nothing would be,

Nothing would be,

Nothing would be

No matter where you go

There will always be a place

Can’t you see it in my face girl

Ooh girl won’t you

Ooh girl won’t you

NO MILK TODAY

No milk today, my love is gone away

The bottle stands forlorne, a symbol of the dawn

No milk today, it seems a common sight

But people passing by, don't know the reason why

How could they know just what that message means

The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams

How could they know a palace there had been

Behind the door, where my love reigned as queen

No milk today, it wasn't always so

The company was gay we turned night into day

But all that's left is a place dark and lonely

A terraced house in the main street back of town

Becomes a shrine when I think of you only

Just two up two down

No milk today, my love is gone away

The bottle stands forlorne, a symbol of the dawn

No milk today, it seems a common sight

But people passing by, don't know the reason why

As music played the faster we did dance

We felt both in at once the start of our romance

How could they know just what that message means

The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams

How could they know a palace there had been

Behind the door, where my love reigned as queen

No milk today, my love is gone away

The bottle stands forlorne, a symbol of the dawn

No milk today, it seems a common sight

But people passing by, don't know the reason why

But all that's left is a place dark and lonely

A terraced house in the main street back of town

Becomes a shrine when I think of you only

Just two up two down

NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS

I can wait another day until I call you

You’ve only got my heart on a string

And everything a flutter

But another lonely night might take forever

We’ve only got each other to blame

It’s all the same to love

‘Cause I know what I feel to be right

No more lonely nights

No more lonely nights

You’re my guiding light

Day or night I’m always there

No more lonely nights (never be another)

No more lonely nights

You’re my guiding light

Day or night I’m always there

And I won’t go away until you tell me so

No, I’ll never go away

Yes, I know what I feel to be right

No more lonely nights (never be another)

No more lonely nights

You’re my guiding light

Day or night I’m always there

And I won’t go away until you tell me so

No, I’ll never go away

No more lonely nights, no no

NO WOMAN, NO CRY

No woman, no cry no woman, no cry

No woman, no cry no woman, no cry

Say, I remember when we used to sit

In the government yard in Trenchtown

Observing the hypocrites

As they would mingle with the good people we meet

Good friends we have, good friends we've lost

Along the way

In this bright future you can forget your past

So dry your tears I say, and

No woman, no cry no woman, no cry

Eh, little darling, don't shed no tears no woman, no cry

Say, I remember when we used to sit

In the government yard in Trenchtown

And then Georgie would make the fire light

As it was love would burning through the night

Then we would cook corn-meal porridge

Of which I'll share with you

My feet is my only carriage

So I've got to push on through

But while I'm gone

Everything's gonna be all right

Everything's gonna be all right

Everything's gonna be all right

Everything's gonna be all right

No woman, no cry no woman, no cry

No woman, no cry no woman, no cry

Say, I remember when we used to sit

In the government yard in Trenchtown

And then Georgie would make the fire light

As it was love would burning through the night

Then we would cook corn-meal porridge

Of which I'll share with you

My feet is my only carriage

So I've got to push on through

No woman, no cry no woman, no cry

No woman, no cry no woman, no cry

No woman, no cry no woman, no cry

No woman, no cry no woman, no cry

NOTHING

It’s been seven hours and fifteen days

Since you took your love away

I go out every night and sleep all day

Since you took your love away

Since you’ve been gone I can do whatever I want

I can see whomever I choose

I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant

But nothing, I said nothing can take away these blues

‘Cause nothing compares, nothing compares to you

It’s been so lonely without you here

Like a bird without a song

Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling

Tell me baby where did I go wrong

I could put my arms around every girl I see

But they’d only remind me of you

I went to the doctor, guess what she told me, guess what she told me

She said boy you’d better try to have fun no matter what you do

But she’s a fool

‘Cause nothing compare, nothing compare to you

All the flowers that you planted for me in the back yard

All died when you went away

I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard

But I’m willing to give it another try

‘Cause nothing compares, nothing compares to you

‘Cause nothing compares, nothing compares to you

‘Cause nothing compares, nothing compares to you

NOW THAT THE MAGIC HAS GONE

In my life I’ve seen sorrow, heartache and pain

I’ve burned in the sunshine, been drowned in the pouring rain

Had too many lovers and not too much love

I’ve been tried and convicted of things I’m not guilty of

I was locked in a prison, ‘till you came and set me free

So how can you say you’re no good for me

Now that the magic has gone

You just wanna walk away, nothing left to say

Anyway, now that the magic has gone

There’s no sense in holding on, baby now

Now that the magic has gone

You know love can be tender, love can be cruel

It can smile like an angel while it treats you just like a fool

It captures and haunts you until you give in

And it stacks the dice against you in a game you never can win

Just when I was thinking lady luck was you and me

You tell me it’s over, it’s time for breaking free

Now that the magic has gone

You just wanna walk away, nothing left to say

Anyway, now that the magic has gone

There’s no sense in holding on, baby now

Now that the magic has gone

I won’t try to hold you down

I might as well let go

But my heart keeps asking how to

There’s no prize for the loser, only the winner takes the purse

Some say love’s a blessing, but for me it’s just a curse

Now that the magic has gone

You just wanna walk away, nothing left to say

Anyway, now that the magic has gone

There’s no sense in holding on, baby now

Now that the magic has gone

NUTTING GIRL

Come all you jovial fellows and listen to my song

It is a little ditty and it won’t contain you long

It’s of a fair young maiden was living down in Kent

Arose one Summer’s morning and she a nutting went

To me right fol rol to me rol tol tol

Sing wack for the doo ral day

And what few nuts this poor girl had

She threw them all away

It’s of this brisk young ploughboy was ploughing of his land

He called unto his horses and bid them gently stand

As he sat down upon his plough all for a song to sing

His voice was so melodious it made the valleys ring

To me right fol rol to me rol tol tol

Sing wack for the doo ral day

And what few nuts this poor girl had

She threw them all away

It’s of this fair young damsel was nutting in the woods

His voice was so melodious it charmed her where she stood

She could no longer stay

And what few nuts she had poor girl she threw them all away

To me right fol rol to me rol tol tol

Sing wack for the doo ral day

And what few nuts this poor girl had

She threw them all away

She came up to young Johnny as he sat on his plough

She said young man I really feel I cannot tell you how

So he took her to some shady broom and there he laid her down

She said young man I really feel the world go round and round (/up and down)

To me right fol rol to me rol tol tol

Sing wack for the doo ral day

And what few nuts this poor girl had

She threw them all away

So come all you local maidens this warning by me take

If you should a nutting go don’t stay out too late

For if you should stay too late to hear the ploughboy sing

You might have a young farmer to nurse up in the Spring

To me right fol rol to me rol tol tol

Sing wack for the doo ral day

And what few nuts this poor girl had

She threw them all away

OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA

Desmond has a barrow in the market place

Molly is the singer in a band

Desmond says to Molly, "Girl, I like your face."

And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand

Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on

Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on

Desmond takes a trolley to the jeweller's store

Buys a twenty carat golden ring

Takes it back to Molly waiting at the door

And as he gives it to her she begins to sing

Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on

Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on

In a couple of years they have build a home sweet home

With a couple of kids running in the yard

Of Desmond and Molly Jones

Happy ever after in the market place

Desmond lets the children lend a hand

Molly stays at home and does her pretty face

And in the evening she still sings it with the band

Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on

Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on

In a couple of years they have build a home sweet home

With a couple of kids running in the yard

Of Desmond and Molly Jones

Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on

Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on

Happy ever after in the market place

Molly lets the children lend a hand

Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face

And in the evening she's a singer with the band

Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on

Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on

And if you want some fun

Sing ob-la-di-bla-da

OH BOY

All my love, all my kissing

You don't know what you've been missing

Oh boy, when you're with me, oh boy

The world would see that you were meant for me-e-e-e

All my life, I've been a-waiting

Tonight there'll be no hesitating

Oh boy, when you're with me, oh boy

The world would see that you were meant for me-e-e-e

Stars appear and shadows are a-falling

I can hear my heart a-calling

If you're not the lover making everything right

I'm gonna be your baby tonight

All my life, I've been a-waiting

Tonight there'll be no hesitating

Stars appear and shadows are a-falling

I can hear my heart a-calling

A little bit of loving makes everything all right

I'm gonna be your baby tonight

All my love, all my kissing

You don't know what you've been missing

Oh boy, when you're with me, oh boy

The world would see that you were meant for me-e-e-e

All my life, I've been a-waiting

Tonight there'll be no hesitating

Oh boy, when you're with me, oh boy

The world would see that you were meant for me-e-e-e

THE OLD DUN COW

Some pals and me in a public house, were playing dominoes one night

When all of a sudden in the pot man rushed, with his face all chalky white

What’s up said Brown, have you seen your Aunt, have you seen your Aunt Maria

My Aunt Marie be blowed said he, the bleeding pub’s on fire

And there was Brown upside down, mopping up the whisky on the floor

Booze booze the firemen cried, as they came knocking at the door

Don’t let them in ‘till it’s all mopped up, someone shouted McIntyre

And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk, when the Old Dun Cow caught fire

Oh fine said Brown what a bit of luck, come along with me he said

Down in the cellar if the fire’s not there, we’ll have a rare old spree

So we all went down with good old Brown, and the beer could not be missed

We hadn’t been there ten minutes or more, before we were quite pissed

And there was Brown upside down, mopping up the whisky on the floor

Booze booze the firemen cried, as they came knocking at the door

Don’t let them in ‘till it’s all mopped up, someone shouted McIntyre

And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk, when the Old Dun Cow caught fire

Old Johnson rushed to the port wine tub, and gave it a few hard knocks

Then he took off his pantaloons, likewise his shoes and socks

Hold on said Snooks if you want to wash your feet, there’s a drop of old ale right there

Don’t put your trotters in the port wine tub, when we’ve got some old stale beer

And there was Brown upside down, mopping up the whisky on the floor

Booze booze the firemen cried, as they came knocking at the door

Don’t let them in ‘till it’s all mopped up, someone shouted McIntyre

And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk, when the Old Dun Cow caught fire

Just then there was a terrible crash, and half the bloody roof gave way

We got soaked with the firemen’s hose, but still we were quite gay

Well we got some sacks and some old tin tacks, and bunged ourselves inside

And we kept on drinking good old scotch ‘till we were bleary eyed

And there was Brown upside down, mopping up the whisky on the floor

Booze booze the firemen cried, as they came knocking at the door

Don’t let them in ‘till it’s all mopped up, someone shouted McIntyre

And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk, when the Old Dun Cow caught fire

THE OLDEST SWINGER

When you tap up a bird in the folk club bar

Drive her home in your comfy car

Find you went to school with her ma and pa

You’re the oldest swinger in town

When you avoid a mirror by the light of the day

Think it looks distinguished when your hair turns grey

Zip up your Wranglers and your belly’s in the way

You’re the oldest swinger in town

There he goes with his wire wheels

Easy Rider specs and his nine inch heels

He never shows how old he feels

Cause he’s the oldest swinger in town

When you blow-wave your hair twice a week

The girls don’t understand a word you speak

You walk in the disco and they offer you their seat

You’re the oldest swinger in town

When you prefer beer to Bacardi and coke

Suffer next morning from the fags you smoke

When you’d have another dance but you’re scared of a stroke

You’re the oldest swinger in town

There he goes with his wire wheels

Easy Rider specs and his nine inch heels

He never shows how old he feels

Cause he’s the oldest swinger in town

When sex becomes a monthly chore

When you wonder how you every managed on the floor

When sometimes you even forget what it’s for

You’re the oldest swinger in town

And when you’re down to the last of your slim-jim ties

When the president of the Bill Haley Fan Club dies

When you’ve got suitcases instead of bags under your eyes

You’re the oldest swinger in town

ON THE BORDER

The fishing boats go out across the evening water

Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border

The winds wipe up the waves so loud

The ghost moon sails amongst the clouds

And turns the rifles into silver on the border

On my wall the colours of the maps are running

From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming

The torches flare up in the night

The hand that sets the farms alight

Has spread the word to those who’re waiting on the border

In the village where I grew up nothing seems the same

Still you never see the change from day to day

No one sees the customs slip away

Late at night the rain was knocking on my window

I moved across the darkened room and in the lamp glow

I thought I saw down in the street

The spirit of the century

Telling us that we’re standing on the border

On the island where I grew up nothing seems the same

It’s just the patterns that remain an empty shell

But there’s a strangeness in the air

You feel it too well

The fishing boats go out across the evening water

Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border

The winds wipe up the waves so loud

The ghost moon sails amongst the clouds

And turns the rifles into silver on the border

On the border on the border on the border

ONE MORE CHANCE

Calling all olive branches and laid off doves

There's work to do before we say goodbye

And the tears which welled beneath his sombre shroud

And hurt with the pain of somebody who knows

He can never be like the sort of a rose

Whose beauty remains even though the bloom goes

Oh one more chance

Naked tree of winter seems to stand so proud

Lord you know more mortal than we know

And who can see him turning to the face of love

And hear him pleading with her don’t let it die

And I see her leaning on my shoulder to cry

Oh one more chance

And is it too late to change the way we're bound to go

Is it too late for surely one of us must know

ONE MORE NIGHT

I've been trying oh so long to let you know

Let you know know how I feel

So if I stumble and if I fall just hold me back

So I can beat you see

Please just give me one more night

Give me that one more night

Oh one more night cause I can't wait forever

Please just give me one more night

Give me that one more night

Oh one more night cause I can't wait forever

I've been sitting here so long just wasting time

Just staring at the phone

And I was wondering should I call you then I thought

Well maybe you're not alone

Please just give me one more night

Give me that one more night

Oh one more night cause I can't wait forever

Please just give me one more night

Give me that one more night

Oh one more night cause I can't wait forever

Just give me one more night

Give me that one more night

Oh one more night cause I can't wait for ever

Please just give me one more night

Give me that one more night

Oh one more night cause I can't wait forever

Like a river to the sea I will always be with you

And if you sail away I will follow you

To give me one more night

Just give me that one more night

One more night cause I can't wait forever

I don't think there'll ever be a time you'll ever feel the same

And I know it's only words

But if you change your mind you know that I'll be here

And maybe we both can love

I'll give you just one more night

Give me that one more night

Just one more night cause I can't wait for ever

Just give me one more night

Give me that one more night

Just one more night cause I can't wait forever

ONE OF THESE NIGHTS

One of these nights one of these crazy old nights

We’re gonna find out pretty mama what turns on your lights

The full moon is calling the fever is high

And the wicked wind whispers and moans

You’ve got your demons you’ve got desires

Well I’ve got a few of my own

Ooh someone to be kind to

In between the dark and the light

Ooh coming right behind you

Swear I’m gonna find you one of these nights

One of these dreams one of these lost and lonely dreams now

We’re gonna find one girl one that really screams

I’ve been searching for the daughter of the devil himself

I’ve been searching for an angel in white

I’ve been waiting for a woman who’s a little of both

And I can feel her but she’s nowhere in sight

Ooh loneliness will blind you

In between the wrong and the right

Ooh coming right behind you

Swear I’m gonna find you one of these nights

One of these nights

In between the dark and the light

Coming right behind you

Swear I’m gonna find you

Get you baby one of these nights

One of these nights

One of these nights

One of these nights

One of these nights

One of these nights

One of these nights

One of these nights

One of these nights

One of these nights

ONLY LOVE

Some say a heart is just like a wheel

When you bend it you can’t mend it

And my love for you is like a sinking ship

And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean

They say that death is a tragedy

It comes once and then it’s over

But my only wish is for that deep dark abyss

‘Cause what’s the use of living with no true lover

When harm is done no love can be won

I know it happens frequently

What I can’t understand and please God hold my hand

Is why it should happen to me

And it’s only love and it’s only love

That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out

That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out

ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG

Come out Virginia don’t let me wait

You Catholic girls start much too late

But sooner or later it comes down to fate

I might as well be the one

Well they showed you a statue and told you to pray

They built you a temple and locked you away

But they never told you the price that you’d pay

For things that you might have done

For only the good die young that’s what I said

Only the good die young, only the good die young

You might have heard that I run with a dangerous crowd

We ain’t too pretty, we ain’t too proud

We might be laughing a bit too loud

But that never hurt no one

So come on Virginia show me a sign

Send up a signal, I’ll throw you the line

The stained glass curtain you’re hiding behind

Never lets in the sun

Only the good die young I tell you

Only the good die young I tell you

You got a nice white dress and a party at your confirmation

You got a brand new soul and a cross of gold

But Virginia they didn’t give you quite enough information

You didn’t count on me when you were counting on your rosary

And they say there’s a heaven for those who will wait

Some say it’s better but I say it ain’t

I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints

The sinners are much more fun

You know that only the good die young, I tell yer

You know that only the good die young, I tell yer

You said your mother told you all that I could give you

Was a reputation

Oh she never cared for me

But does she ever say a prayer for me

Ooh woh woh

Come out, come out, come out Virginia don’t let me wait

You Catholic girls start too late

But sooner or later it comes down to fate

I might as well be the one

You know that only the good die young tell you baby

You know that only the good die young only the good die young

Only the good die young, only the good die young

OUT BEHIND THE BARN

You say the world’s in trouble

You say you don’t feel clean

You don’t have an answer but baby don’t ask me

I don’t give a darn in hell, out behind the barn

Oh out behind the barn, I’m chewing on a piece of hay

I’m up to my knees in cow shit, I’m shovelling my blues away

You say I was your leader, you say I turned you on

You’re starting to suspect now, it was all a con

I don’t give a darn in hell, out behind the barn

Oh out behind the barn, I’m chewing on a piece of hay

I’m up my knees in cow shit, I’m shovelling my blues away

You say I owe you something, you ask me for my plan

Just who were you expecting, Jesus Zimmerman

I don’t give a darn in hell, out behind the barn

Oh out behind the barn, I’m chewing on a piece of hay

I’m up to my knees in cow shit, I’m shovelling my blues away

OUT MY BACK DOOR

Just got home from Illinois locked the back door oh boy

Got to set down take a rest on the porch

Imagination set's in fairly soon I'm singing

Toot toot toot looking out my back door

There's a giant doing cartwheels statue wearing high heels

Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn

Dinosaur with troll there listening to Buck Owens

Toot toot toot looking out my back door

Tamarinds and elephants are playing in the band

Won't you take a ride on the flying spoon dood ju ju

A wondrous apparition provided by magician

Toot toot toot looking out my back door

Tamarinds and elephants are playing in the band

Won't you take a ride on the flying spoon dood ju ju

Bother me tomorrow today I found no sorrows

Toot toot toot looking out my back door

All our troubles Illinois locked the front door oh boy

Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn

Bother me tomorrow today I found no sorrows

Toot toot toot looking out my back door

OVER AND OVER

Over and over and over

I gotta baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head

When there’s no one looking over my shoulder

I like to write rock and roll but it doesn’t always hang together

So what do I know or any one know about love

You ask me how I feel I said my heart is not for real

Why don’t you listen to it sometimes

I’ve wandered round the moors on many misguided tours

Poor Emily and Charlotte pour their hearts out

What did they know what could they know about love

What do they know or any one know about love

Over and over and over

Baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head

Over and over and over

Baby baby baby what made you think I need it maybe

I’m going up here, rolling up over

I have to write rock and roll just to keep body and soul together

For what do I know or anyone know about love

You ask me how I feel I said my heart is not for real

Why don’t you listen to it sometimes

I’ve wandered round the moors on many misguided tours

Poor Emily and Charlotte pour their hearts out

What did they know what could they know about love

What do they know or any one know about love

Over and over and over

Baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head

Over and over and over

Baby baby baby what made you think I need it maybe

Over and over and over

Baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head

Over and over and over

Baby baby baby what made you think I need it maybe

Over and over and over

Baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head

Over and over and over

Baby baby baby what made you think I need it maybe

Over and over and over

Baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head

Over and over and over

Baby baby baby what made you think I need it maybe

OVER THE MOUNTAIN

Well it happened to be on a cold Winter’s night

That I first took a notion to marry

I lifted my rod and my hat in my hand

And I seemed for to be in a hurry

I jaunted along to her cabin I came

My heart it rejoiced when I viewed this fair dame

I lifted the latch and I bid her good day

Saying I’m going over the mountain

Now what foolish notions come into your head

But I’m glad for to see you so merry

It’s twelve of the clock and the old folks’ in bed

Speak low or me mummy will hear me

Well if this be jesting then jesting is true

I’ve courted a year and I think that will do

This night I’ve a notion to marry with you

If you’ll venture with me o’er the mountain

Oh no my fond charmer I’ll stay as I am

For I think it be fitter and better

I lifted my rod and my hat in my hand

Saying I’ll soon put an end to this chatter

Stop stop my bold laddie while I get my shoes

My heart it rejoiced when I heard the glad news

She ran to the door saying I’ll hope you’ll excuse

But I’d love to go over the mountain

So now you’re in earnest she said with a smile

Let providence be my director

I’ve love in my bosom I ne’er will deny

Though the sentence it seemed to affect her

I’m using no magic no potions or spells

I’ve a true honest heart and I love you right well

And if you’ll agree and my parents don’t tell

We’ll go pick our way o’er the mountain

Well the moon and the stars ‘luminated the sky

And the morning star brightly shining

When me and my darling set out our long journey

Till we came to the Alter of Hymen

‘Tween fiddling and dancing we spent the whole day

The fear of marriage it soon fades away

And often I turn to my darling and say

Do you rue going over the mountain

Oh no my fond charmer now why should I rue

When I took the advice of my laddie

And now that I’m over the mountain with you

I’ll regard not the scorn of my daddy

Let this be a lesson to all pretty maids

Slip out with your lad when the old folks’ in bed

And don’t be afraid your fair charmer to wed

Don’t you rue going over the mountain

PARADISE

La la la la, la la la la

La la la la, la la la

La la la la la, la la la la la

If Paradise is half as nice

As Heaven that you take me to

Who needs Paradise

I’d rather have you

They say Paradise is up in the stars

But I needn’t sigh because it’s so far

‘Cause I know it’s worth a Heaven on Earth

For me where you are

The look from your eyes the touch from your hand

And I seem to fly to some other land

When you are around my heart always pounds

Just like a brass band

If Paradise is half as nice

As Heaven that you take me to

Who needs Paradise

I’d rather have you

La la la la, la la la la

La la la la, la la la

La la la la la, la la la la la

If Paradise is half as nice

As Heaven that you take me to

Who needs Paradise

I’d rather have you

Oh yes I’d rather have you

La la la la, la la la la

La la la la, la la la

La la la la la, la la la la la

They say Paradise is up in the stars

But I needn’t sigh because it’s so far

‘Cause I know it’s worth a Heaven on Earth

For me where you are

The look from your eyes the touch from your hand

And I seem to fly to some other land

When you are around my heart always pounds

Just like a brass band

PARTING GLASS

Oh all the money e’er I had I spent it in good company

And all the harm I’ve ever done alas it was to none but me

And all I’ve done for want of wit to memory now I can’t recall

So fill to me the parting glass goodnight and joy be with you all

Oh all the comrades e’er I had they’re sorry for my going away

And all the sweethearts e’er I had they’d wished me one more day to stay

But since it falls upon my lot that I should rise and you should not

I gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be with you all

If I had money enough to spend and leisure time to sit awhile

There is a fair maid in this town that sorely has my heart beguiled

Her rosy cheeks and ruby lips I own she has my heart in thrall

Then fill to me the parting glass goodnight and joy be with you all

PEACEFUL EASY FEELING

I like the way your sparkling earrings lay

Against your skin so brown

And I want to sleep with you in the desert tonight

With a billion stars all around

'Cause I've got a peaceful easy feeling

And I know you won't let me down

'Cause I'm already standing

On the ground

And I found out a long time ago

What a woman can do to your soul

Ah but she can't take you anyway

You don't already know how to go

And I've got a peaceful easy feeling

And I know you won't let me down

'Cause I'm already standing

On the ground

I get this feeling I may know you

As a lover and a friend

This voice keeps whispering in my other ear

Tells me I may never see you again

'Cause I get a peaceful easy feeling

And I know you won't let me down

'Cause I'm already standing

I'm already standing yes I'm already standing

On the ground

PEMBANTU SAYA

I went out on the town last Friday

And brought home a nice take away

My wife left the following morning

‘Cause my pembantu had something to say

So I brought a girl home the next weekend

I was meaning to sport and to play

When I searched high and low for my condoms

My pembantu had thrown them away

So I had her that night without condoms

And then looked for my wallet to pay

My pembantu had been through my pockets

And taken my money away

But now I’m a man without problems

My pembantu has left me today

‘Cause I caught her using my condoms

So then I had something to say

So if you want to avoid having problems

And go out on the town and have fun

Before you employ a pembantu

Make sure that she’s blind, deaf and dumb

PENNY LANE

Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs

Of every head he's had the pleasure to have known

And all the people that come and go

Stop and say hello

On the corner is a banker with a motor car

The little children laugh at him behind his back

And the banker never wears a Mac

In the pouring rain, very strange

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes

There beneath the blue suburban skies

I sit and meanwhile back

In Penny Lane there is a fireman with hourglass

And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen

He likes to keep his fire engine clean

It's a clean machine

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes

Full of fish and finger pies in summer meanwhile back

Behind the shelter in the middle of the round about

A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray

And though she feels as if she's in a play

She is anyway

In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer

We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim

And then the fireman rushes in

From the pouring rain, very strange

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes

There beneath the blue suburban skies

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes

There beneath the blue suburban skies

Penny Lane

PIANO MAN

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday

And the regular crowd shuffles in

There’s an old man sitting next to me

Making love to his tonic and gin

He says son can you play me a memory

I’m not really sure how it goes

But it’s sad and it’s sweet and I knew it complete

When I wore a younger man’s clothes

La la la lilly la, la la lilly la la dum

Sing us a song you’re the piano man sing us a song tonight

For we’re all in the mood for a melody and you’ve got us feeling all right

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine

He gets me my drinks for free

And he’s quick with a joke or to light up your smoke

But there’s somewhere that he’d rather be

He says Bill I believe this is killing me

As a smile ran away from his face

Well I’m sure that I could be a movie star

If I could get out of this place

La la la lilly la, la la lilly la la dum

Sing us a song you’re the piano man sing us a song tonight

For we’re all in the mood for a melody and you’ve got us feeling all right

Now Paul is a real estate novelist

Who never had time for a wife

And he’s talking with Davy who’s still in the navy

And probably will be for life

And the waitress is practising politics

As the businessmen slowly get stoned

And they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness

But it’s better than drinking alone

La la la lilly la, la la lilly la la dum

Sing us a song you’re the piano man sing us a song tonight

For we’re all in the mood for a melody and you’ve got us feeling all right

It’s a pretty good crowd for a Saturday

And the manager gives me a smile

‘Cause he knows that it’s me that they’re coming to see

To forget about life for a while

And the piano it sounds like a carnival

And the microphone smells like a beer

And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar

And say man what are you doing here

La la la lilly la, la la lilly la la dum

Sing us a song you’re the piano man sing us a song tonight

For we’re all in the mood for a melody and you’ve got us feeling all right

PINBALL WIZARD

Ever since I was a young boy I’ve played the silver ball

From Soho down to Brighton I must have played them all

But I ain’t seen nothing like him in any amusement hall

That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

He stands like a statue becomes part of the machine

Feeling all the bumpers always plays it clean

Plays by intuition the digit counters fall

That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

He’s a pinball wizard there has to be a twist

That pinball wizard’s got such a supple wrist

How do you think he does it I don’t know

What makes him so good

Ain’t got no distractions can’t hear no buzzers and bells

Don’t see no lights a flashing plays by sense of smell

Always gets a replay never seen him fall

That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

I thought I was the bally table king

But I’ve just handed my pinball crown to him

Even on my favourite table he can beat my best

His disciples lead him in and he just does the rest

It’s like crazy flipper fingers never seen him fall

That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

PITY ME POOR PIG

Was ever a pig maligned as this poor sow

Harried and hunted down as I am now

Condemned to die

On the gallows tree so high there I'll hang

With the rough rope on my neck like a common man

And there I'll jig poor pig

Pity me poor pig condemned to die for butchering a beggars baby

They'll take me out this cold cold morn and hanged I shall be

One morning I saw the wind it drove me wild

Then I came across a beggars boy and killed the child

All for to feel

Some people saw the deed and fell on me

To beat and bind me fast unable to flee

I'd squeal and whine poor swine

Pity me poor pig condemned to die for butchering a beggars baby

They'll take me out this cold cold morn and hanged I shall be

I was chained for many a day in a prison vile

Then grunting dragged from there and brought to trial

In deep disgrace

With the charge read to my face and evidence

And a lawyer came to plead in my defence

For this my crime poor swine

Pity me poor pig condemned to die for butchering a beggars baby

They'll take me out this cold cold morn and hanged I shall be

Rough justice soon was served the sentence read

To take and hang me high till I was dead

As dead as could be

'Twas then they forced on me gentlemen's clothes

With the jacket pulled on my back breeches and hose

Waistcoat and wig poor pig

Pity me poor pig condemned to die for butchering a beggars baby

They'll take me out this cold cold morn and hanged I shall be

No litter of mine shall come to see the show

They're stuck and slaughtered all so long ago

Every one

When my life is done they'll cut me down

My flesh they will divide around the town

No grave to dig for poor pig

Pity me poor pig condemned to die for butchering a beggars baby

They'll take me out this cold cold morn and hanged I shall be

PLAISIR D’AMOUR

Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment

Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie

The joys of love are but a moment long

The pains of love endure the whole life long

Your eyes kissed mine I saw the love in them shine

You brought me heaven right then when your eyes kissed mine

Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment

Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie

My love loves me and all the wonders I see

A rainbow shines in my window my love loves me

Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment

Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie

And now she’s gone like a dream that fades into dawn

But the words stay locked in my heart string my love loves me

Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment

Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie

The joys of love are but a moment long

The pains of love endure the whole life long

POOR FELLOWS

Oh the times they are hard and the wages are poor

None of us poor fellows has money in store

So how can a good man keep the wolf from the door

Poor fellows you all will go down

When the work is scarce tell me how can we eat

How can we afford to buy shoes for our feet

How can we get clothing to keep off the sleet

Poor fellows we might as well drown

If we could find work we ne'er would complain

We'd work well for a master his favour to gain

We'd be honest and truthful with never a stain

Poor fellows how will we survive

We could plough the good land we could fish the salt sea

We could work in the woodland a felling the trees

But when only the breath in our bodies is free

Poor fellows how can we stay alive

Oh a man who is single is free from all care

He can soon leave a district if no work be there

There's no manner of hardship that he cannot bear

Poor fellow if he is alone

But a man with a family his hands they are tied

He must look to their comfort or lose all his pride

He can't wander away but must stay by their side

Poor fellow to maintain his home

And a man that is willing can't understand why

He can find no employment how hard he may try

And it breaks his poor heart for to see his wife cry

So poor fellow he'll do what he can

A man that is desperate and can't find a job

He will not be contented to sit down and sob

Be he ever so honest he'll turn out and rob

Poor fellow to prove he's a man

If a good man goes robbing you know it's a shame

He brings scorn and misfortune on his honest name

But in visible straits tell me who is to blame

Poor fellow you know he must try

So let's hope these hard times they soon pass away

Unto our sweet saviour we earnestly pray

That this dark cloudy morn brings a glorious day

Poor fellows sometime e'er we die

POOR OLD MAN

Well they say old man your horse will die

And they say so and we hope so

They say old man your horse will die

Oh poor old man

And if he dies we'll tan his hide

And they say so and we hope so

And if he dies we'll tan his hide

Oh poor old man

And if he lives then we'll ride again

And they say so and we hope so

And if he lives then we'll ride again

Oh poor old man

And it's after years of much abuse

And they say so and we hope so

And we'll salt him down for the sailors' use

Oh poor old man

He's as dead as the nail in the lamp room floor

And they say so and we hope so

And he won't bother us no more

Oh poor old man

And it's Sally's in the garden and she's picking the peas

And they say so and we hope so

And her long black hair's hanging down to her knees

Oh poor old man

And it's Sally's in the kitchen and she's baking the dough

And they say so and we hope so

And the cheeks of her arse going chub chub chub

Oh poor old man

And it's down the long and winding road

And they say so and we hope so

It's mahogany beef and weevily bread

Oh poor old man

And I thought I heard the old man say

And they say so and we hope so

Just one more pull and then belay

Oh poor old man

Just one more pull and that will do

And they say so and we hope so

For we're the lads to pull her through

Oh poor old man

POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN

I’m Popeye the sailor man

I’m Popeye the sailor man

I’m strong to the finich

‘Cause I eats me spinach

I’m Popeye the sailor man

I’m one tough Gazookus who hates all palookas

Wot ain’t on the up and square I biffs ‘em and buffs ‘em

And always out-roughs ‘em and none of ‘em gits nowhere

If anyone dasses to risk my fisk it’s a boff an’ it’s wham understand

So keep good behaviour that’s your one life saver

With Popeye the sailor man

I’m Popeye the sailor man

I’m Popeye the sailor man

I’m strong to the finich

‘Cause I eats me spinach

I’m Popeye the sailor man

POWER OF LOVE

The power of love is a curious thing

Make a one man weep make another man sing

Change your heart to a little white dove

More than a feeling that’s the power of love

Tougher than diamonds breaks like cream

Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream

Make a bad one good make a wrong one right

The power of love’ll keep you home at night

It don't need money, don't take fame

Don't need a credit card to ride this train

It's strong and it's certain and it's cruel sometimes

But it might just save your life

That's the power of love

That's the power of love

First time you feel it it may make you sad

Next time you feel it it might make you mad

It could be glad baby you know when you've found

That's the power makes the world go round

It don't need money, don't take fame

Don't need a credit card to ride this train

It's strong and it's certain and it's cruel sometimes

But it might just save your life

That's the power of love

That's the power of love

They say that only love is fair

Yeah but you don't care

But if you know what to do when it gets hold of you

And with a little help from above

You'll feel the power of love

You'll feel the power of love can you feel it

It don't take money, don't take fame

Don't need a credit card to ride this train

Tougher than diamonds and stronger than steel

You won’t feel nothing till you feel no

You feel the power, just feel the power of love

That's the power of love

You feel the power of love

You feel the power of love

You feel the power of love

You feel the power of love

PRESSURE

You have to learn to pace yourself pressure

You're just like everybody else pressure

You only had to run so far so good

But you will come to a place

Where the only thing you feel

Are loaded guns in your face

And you'll have to deal with pressure

You used to call me paranoid pressure

But even you cannot avoid pressure

You turned the tap dance into your crusade

Now here you are with your faith

And your Peter Pan advice

You had no scars on your face

And you cannot handle pressure

All grown up and no place to go

Psyche one psyche two what do you know

All your life is child thirteen

Sesame street what does it mean

Pressure

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale

Well here you are with your faith

And your Peter Pan advice

You had no scars on your face

And you cannot handle pressure

Pressure pressure one two three four pressure

PROUD MARY

Left a good job in the city

Working for a man every night and day

And I never lost a minute of sleep

Worrying 'bout the way things might have been

Big wheel keep on turning

Proud Mary keep on burning

Rolling rolling rolling on the river

Seen a lot of plates in Memphis

Had a lot of wine down in New Orleans

But I never saw the good side of the city

Till I hitched a ride on the riverboat queen

Big wheel keep on turning

Proud Mary keep on burning

Rolling rolling rolling on the river

Rolling rolling rolling on the river

Rolling rolling rolling on the river

Rolling rolling rolling on the river

If you come down to the river

There you're going to find some people who live

You don't have to worry 'cause you've got no money

People on the river are happy to give

Big wheel keep on turning

Proud Mary keep on burning

Rolling rolling rolling on the river

Rolling rolling rolling on the river

Rolling rolling rolling on the river

RAISED ON ROBBERY

He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire hotel

He was clinking for diversion he was thinking for himself

A little money riding on the maple leaves

Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves

She said let me sit down you know drinking alone’s a shame it’s a shame it’s a cryin’ shame

Look at those jokers glued to that damn hockey game

Hey honey you’ve got lots of cash

Bring us out a bottle we’ll have some laughs

Gin’s what I’m drinking I was raised on robbery

I’m a pretty good cook sitting on my groceries

Come up to my kitchen I’ll show you my best recipes

I try and I try but I can’t save a cent

I’m up after midnight cooking tryin’ to make the rent

I’m rough but I’m pleasin’ I was raised on robbery

We had a little money once they were pushing through a four lane highway

The government gave us three thousand dollars you should have seen it fly away

First he bought a fifty seven Biscay and he put it in the ditch

He drunk up all the rest that son of a bitch

His blood’s bad whisky I was raised on robbery

You know you ain’t bad looking I like the way you hold your drinks

Come home with me honey I ain’t asking for no full length minks

Hey where you going don’t go yet

Your glass ain’t empty and we’ve just met

You’re mean when you’re loaded I was raised on robbery

THE RANDY OLD PARSON

Oh it’s of an old farmer who lived up in Kent

With his wife and his daughter of sweet seventeen

She was as fair and as buxom a beauty

The fairest as ever was seen

When over the hill came a randy old parson

And though he was married he fancied her still

Often he swore with the farmer’s fair daughter

That parson he would have his will

Well the very next morning as she was out walking

To view of the fields and meadows so gay

This randy old parson he stepped up to her

And these were the words he did say

Many’s the time I’ve seen you out walking

And you from a distance I’ve often admired

Just one fine night for to lie in your arms

It’d be all my own heart desires

Oh well kind Sir well I’m sure I could please you

We’d have to be quick though tomorrow at night

My mother and father will both be from home

And it’s there you’ll enjoy my delight

And so the young maid agreed with the parson

And back to her cottage she quickly did run

Where she sat down for to think of a plan

How she might show the parson some fun

Well the very next evening the parson came calling

She opened the window to let him come in

She took the parson into her bedchamber

And then to undress did begin

And when he was down to his waistcoat and breeches

The maid for her father so loudly did call

Father come quick for here is a burglar

Come for to murder us all

So the farmer flew into the daughter’s bedchamber

He took up a stick and he beat him about

This randy old parson without any breeches

So loudly for mercy did shout

The poor old parson escaped through the window

And over the hillside he ran for his life

He never stopped until he came

To the arms of his nagging old wife

Now the very next morning they looked in his pockets

Found fifty shillings in silver and gold

The farmer remarked it’s a fitting reward

For a daughter so cunning and bold

The poor old parson awoke in the morning

Both light in the pocket and sore in the head

Then ever after his nagging old wife

Made him wish for the day he were dead

RED HOUSE

There's a red house over yonder

That's where my baby stays

There's a red house over yonder

That's where my baby stays

I haven't been home to see my fuzzy headed baby

Not in ninety nine and one half days

Wait a minute something's wrong

My key won't unlock this door

Wait a minute something's wrong

My key won't unlock this door

I've got a bad bad feeling

My baby don't live here any more

Well I'll go back over yonder

Way back yonder cross the hill

Well I'll go back over yonder

Way back yonder cross the hill

Sad that my baby don't love me no more

But I know good and well that her sister will

RED RED WINE

Red red wine goes to my head

Makes me forget that I

Still need her so

Red red wine it’s up to you

All I can do I’ve done,

Memories won’t go,

Memories won’t go

I have sworn that with time

Thoughts of you will leave my head

I was wrong now I find

Just one thing makes me forget

Red red wine stay close to me

Don’t let me be alone

This day we will find

My blue blue mind

I have sworn that with time

Thoughts of you will leave my head

I was wrong now I find

Just one thing makes me forget

Red red wine stay close to me

Don’t let me be alone

This day we will find

My blue blue mind

Red red wine stay close to me

Don’t let me be alone this day we will find

My blue blue mind

REELIN’ IN THE YEARS

You’re everlasting summer and you see it fading fast

So you grab a piece of something that you think is gonna last

Well you wouldn’t even know a diamond if you held it in your hand

The things you think are precious I can’t understand

Are you reelin’ in the years

Stowin’ away the time

Are you gathering up the tears

Have you had enough of mine

Are you reelin’ in the years

Stowin’ away the time

Are you gathering up the tears

Have you had enough of mine

You’ve been telling me you’re a genius since you were seventeen

In all the time I’ve known you I still don’t know what you mean

The weekend in the college didn’t work out like you planned

The things that pass for knowledge I can’t understand

Are you reelin’ in the years

Stowin’ away the time

Are you gathering up the tears

Have you had enough of mine

Are you reelin’ in the years

Stowin’ away the time

Are you gathering up the tears

Have you had enough of mine

I’ve spent a lot of money and I’ve spent a lot of time

The trip we made to Hollywood is etched upon my mind

After all the things we’ve done and seen you find another man

The things you think are useless I can’t understand

Are you reelin’ in the years

Stowin’ away the time

Are you gathering up the tears

Have you had enough of mine

Are you reelin’ in the years

Stowin’ away the time

Are you gathering up the tears

Have you had enough of mine

REELING AND ROCKING

Some times I will then again I think I won’t

Some times I will then again I think I won’t

Some times I will then again I think I won’t

Some times I do then again I think I don’t

I looked at my watch it was a little past one

That’s when we rolled up and had some fun

We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling

Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn

I looked at my watch it was a little past two

She said she don't but I know she do

We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling

Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn

I looked at my watch it was a little past three

That's when she started coming on strong with me

We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling

Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn

I looked at my watch it was a little past four

We did it in the kitchen we did it in the hall

We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling

Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn

I looked at my watch it was a little past five

Man I was feeling more dead than alive

We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling

Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn

I looked at my watch it was a little past six

Gonna keep going till I get my kicks

We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling

Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn

I looked at my watch it was seven thirty

She turned round and called me something dirty

You know what you know why

I'm not gonna tell you why

I looked at my watch it was a little past eight

That's when I got to them pearly gates oh yeah

We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling

Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn

I looked at my watch it was a little past nine

Man we were going like a steam train line

We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling

Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn

I looked at my watch it was a little past ten

She turned round and said do it again

We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling

Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn

I looked at my watch it was a little past eleven

That’s when rolled up and took off to heaven

We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling

Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn

REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE

The changing of sunlight to moonlight

Reflections of my life, oh how they fill my eyes

The greetings of people in trouble

Reflections of my life, oh how they fill my eyes

All my sorrow, sad tomorrow

Take me back to my own home

All my crying, feel like dying, dying

Take me back to my own home

I’m changing, arranging, I’m changing

I’m changing everything, ah everything around me

The world is a mad place, a bad place, a terrible place to live

Oh but I don’t want to die

All my sorrow, sad tomorrow

Take me back to my own home

All my crying, feel like dying dying

Take me back to my own home

All my sorrow, sad tomorrow

Take me back to my own home

All my crying, feel like dying dying

Take me back to my own home

RIGHT DOWN THE LINE

You know how much I need your love

You’ve got that hold over me

As long as I’ve got your love

You know that I’ll never leave

When I wanted you to share my life

I had no doubt in my mind

And it’s been you woman right down the line

You know how much I lean on you

Only you can see

Changes that I’ve been through

Have left their mark on me

You’ve been as constant as the Northern star

The brightest star that shines

And it’s been you woman right down the line

Just want to say this is my way of telling you

Everything I could never say before

Yeah this is my way of telling you

That every day I’ll be loving you so much more

‘Cause you believed in me

Through my darkest night

There’s something better inside of me

You’ve brought me into the light

I threw away all those crazy dream

I put them all behind

And it’s been you woman right down the line

If I should doubt myself

If I’m losing ground

I won’t turn to someone else

They’d only let me down

When I wanted you to share my life

I had no doubt in my mind

And it’s been you woman right down the line

Just want to say this is my way of telling you

Everything I could never say before

Yeah this is my way of telling you

That every day I’ll be loving you so much more

RIGHT SAID FRED

Right said Fred both of us together

One each end and steady as we go

Tried to lift it couldn’t even shift it

We was getting nowhere and so we

‘Ad a cup of tea and

Right said Fred ‘ave to take the door off

Need more space to shift the so and so

‘Ad bad twinges takin’ off the ‘inges

We was getting nowhere and so we

‘Ad a cup of tea and

Charley ‘ad a think and ‘e thought we ought

To take off all the ‘andles and the things what ‘eld the candles

But it did no good well I never thought it would

Right said Fred ‘ave to take the wall down

This ‘ere wall is gonna ‘ave to go

Took the wall down even with it all down

We was getting nowhere and so we

‘Ad a cup of tea and

Charley ‘ad a think and he said look Fred

I’ve got a sort of feeling if we removed the ceiling

With a rope or two we could drop the blighter through

Right said Fred climbing up a ladder

With ‘is crowbar gave a mighty blow

Was ‘e in trouble ‘alf a ton of rubble landed on the top of ‘is dough

So Charley and me ‘ad another cup of tea and then we went ‘ome

You know I said to Charley, the trouble with Fred is ‘e’s too ‘asty

And you never get nowhere when you’re too ‘asty !

RISING FOR THE MOON

Well I’ve travelled o’er the land

And ride the rolling sky

For that’s the way it is, that is my fortune

There are many years to please

Many people’s love to try

And every day’s begun rising for the moon

Rising for the moon, the sun has set and it is dark

But the sound of the enchanted tune is bright as any spark

The chorus of the dusk regales the evening lark

With the sinking of the sun rising of the moon

There’s a heart in every place

A tear for each farewell

For that’s the way it is, that is my fortune

I’ll lure you as the dust

That the wayward gypsies sell

And every day’s begun rising for the moon

Rising for the moon, the sun has set and it is dark

But the sound of the enchanted tune is bright as any spark

The chorus of the dusk regales the evening lark

With the sinking of the sun rising of the moon

ROBERT THE GAY RABBIT

Now people think it’s dandy if a rabbit’s always randy

They expect him to be at it night and day

He can do it on the Metro as long as he’s a hetro

But things are quite different if he’s gay

This happened to a rabbit whose name happened to be Robert

He was born it seems on the wrong side of the tracks

And relative to rabbits he had far from normal habits

Instead of jeans he fancied Petes and Jacks

Why can’t Robert my rabbit be gay?

Why must he make love in the old fashioned way?

They say that there is sexual freedom today

So why can’t Robert my rabbit be gay?

Now woman made him limp so he thought he’d be a pimp

And that way would make his life complete

But instead of being zealous he found he was rather jealous

Of what the girls were getting on the beat

Caught loitering with intent the judge pronounced him bent

And threatened the full wrath of rabbit law

But Robert’s lawyer squealed “That law has been repealed

Now he’s just the same as any other whore”

Now Robert was a honey when he played the Easter bunny

And I don’t mean he looked just like a bag

He could play that female vamp with a natural kind a camp

That made him look like Rupert Bear in drag

The plight of minor groups made him write to Marjorie Proops

And of course she lent a sympathetic ear

She said “My impression is of infantile repression”

Which simple means you’re raging bloody queer

The cruel called him fag when my rabbit slipped his bag

But now at least he’s happy with a man

For those that know of such Robert was more queen than butch

Now he’s found a Flemish giant who’s a ram

ROCK AND ROLL

It's been a long time since I rock and roll woman

It's been a long time since I did the stroll

Oh let me get it back let me get it back let me get it back

Baby where I come from

Been a long time

Been a long time

Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time

Yes it has

Been a long time since the book of love

I can't count the tears of a life with no love

Carry me back carry me back carry me back

Baby where I come from

Been a long time

Been a long time

Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time

Yes it has

Seems so long since I walked in the moon light

Making vows that just can’t work out right

Cryin’ open your arms open your arms open your arms

Baby let my love come running in

Been a long time

Been a long time

Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time

Yes it has

Been a long time

Been a long time

Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time

Yes it has

ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC

Just let me hear some of that rock and rolling music

Any old way you use it

It's got a back beat you can't lose it

Any old way you choose it

It's gotta be rock and roll music

If you gonna dance with me

If you gonna dance with me

Well down south they had a jubilee

The folks dancing had a jamboree

Drinking offer from a wooden cup

The folks dancing got all shook up

They started playing that rock and rolling music

Any old way you use it

It's got a back beat you can't lose it

Any old way you choose it

It's gotta be rock and roll music

If you gonna dance with me

If you gonna dance with me

I took my lover on across the tracks

To hear the tenor man play the sax

I must admit they had a rocking band

They were going like a hurricane

They started blowing that rock and rolling music

Any old way you use it

It's got a back beat you can't lose it

Any old way you choose it

It's gotta be rock and roll music

If you gonna dance with me

If you gonna dance with me

I've got no kick against modern jazz

Except for when they play it too darn fast

And change the beauty of the melody

Until it sounds just like a symphony

I just go for that rock and rolling music

Any old way you use it

It's got a back beat you can't lose it

Any old way you choose it

It's gotta be rock and roll music

If you gonna dance with me

If you gonna dance with me

I got no kick against the mambo

And it's too early for the conga

And while they usually take the rumba

Keep on rocking that piana

Well let me hear some of that rock and rolling music

Any old way you use it

It's got a back beat you can't lose it

Any old way you choose it

It's gotta be rock and roll music

If you gonna dance with me

If you gonna dance with me

ROCK IT UP

Well it's Saturday night and I just got paid

All of that money I've been tryin’ to save

My heart says go go every time

Saturday night baby I feel fine

Gonna rock it up gonna rip it up

Gonna shake it up gonna bawl it up

Gonna rip it up at the ball tonight

Along about ten I'm flying high

Band going on into the sky

I don't care about spending my dough

Tonight I'm gonna be one at the show

Gonna rock it up gonna rip it up

Gonna shake it up gonna bawl it up

Gonna rock it up at the ball tonight

Rock rock rock rock rock

Rock rock rock rock rock

Rock rock rock rock rock

Rock rock rock rock rock

Along about ten I'm flying high

Band going on into the sky

I don't care about spending my dough

Tonight I'm gonna be one at the show

Rock rock rock rock rock

Rock rock rock rock rock

Rock rock rock rock rock

Rock rock rock rock rock

Saturday and I'm gonna be there

Gonna go right up to the stairs

I don't care about spending my dough

Tonight I'm gonna be one at the show

Gonna rock it up gonna rip it up

Gonna shake it up gonna bawl it up

Gonna rock it up at the ball tonight

Well it's Saturday night and I just got paid

All of that money I've been tryin’ to save

My heart says go go every time

Saturday night baby I feel fine

Gonna rock it up gonna rip it up

Gonna shake it up gonna bawl it up

Gonna rock it up at the ball tonight

ROCK'N ME

Well, I've been lookin' real hard and I'm tryin' to find a job,

But it just gets gettin' tougher every day and I know in my heart

I got to do my part I got to please my sweet baby, yeah

Well, I ain't superstitious and I don't get suspicious

But my woman is a friend of mine and I know that it's true

That all the things that I do will come back to me in my sweet time

So keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

I went from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to Tacoma

Philadelphia and later L.A. Northern California

Where the girls are warm so I could be with my sweet baby, yeah

So keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n, rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n, rock'n me, baby

Don't get superstitious no, don't get suspicious

Baby, you know you are a friend of mine and you know that it's true

That all the things that I do are gonna come back to you in your sweet time

I went from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to Tacoma

Philadelphia and later L.A. Northern California

Where the girls are warm so I could hear my sweet baby say

So keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

So keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

So keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

Keep on rock'n me, baby

ROLL AWAY THE STONE

Baby if you just say you care

I’d follow you most anywhere

Roll away the stone

Roll away the stone

And in the darkest night

I’ll keep you warm and all right

Roll away the stone

Roll away the stone

Won’t you roll away the stone

Why’d you become so alone

Won’t you roll away the stone

Don’t you let it lie

No matter if fools say we can’t win

I know I’ll fall in love again

Roll away the stone

Roll away the stone

So seeing we’ve still got a change

Baby in love and sweet romance

Roll away the stone

Roll away the stone

Won’t you roll away the stone

Why’d you become so alone

Won’t you roll away the stone

Don’t you let it lie

There a rock-a-billy party on Saturday night

Are you gonna be there? I’ve got my invite

Are you gonna bring your records

Ooh will do

Won’t you roll away the stone

Why’d you become so alone

Won’t you roll away the stone

Don’t you let it lie

Won’t you roll away the stone

Why’d you become so alone

Won’t you roll away the stone

Don’t you let it lie

ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN

I'm gonna write a little letter gonna mail it to my local DJ

It's a jumpin' little record I want my jockey to play

Roll over Beethoven gotta hear it again today

You know my temperature's rising and the jukebox's blowing a fuse

It's a heart beating rhythm and my soul keeps singing the blues

Roll over Beethoven a rocking in two by two

Well if you feel it and like it go get your lover and reel and rock it

Roll it over and move on up just a trifle further

And reel and rock with one another

Roll over Beethoven dig these rhythm and blues

Early in the morning I'm a giving you the warning

Don't you step on my blue suede shoes

Hey diddle diddle gonna play my fiddle

I ain't got nothing to lose

Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikowsky the news

I've got the rocking pneumonia and I need a shot of rhythm and blues

I've got the rolling out writer sitting down to a rhythm review

Roll over Beethoven they're rocking in two by two

Roll over Beethoven roll over Beethoven

Roll over Beethoven roll over Beethoven

Roll over Beethoven and dig these rhythm and blues

ROMEO AND JULIET

A love struck Romeo sings the streets a serenade

Laying everybody low with a love song that he’s made

Finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shade

Saying something like “You and me babe, how about it ?”

Juliet says “Hey it’s Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack”

He’s underneath the window, she’s singing “Hey la my boyfriend’s back

Shouldn’t come round here singing up to people like that

Anyway what you gonna do about it ?”

Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start

And I fell when you exploded in my heart

And I forget, I forget the movie song

When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet

Come up on different streets, they’re both the streets of shame

Both dirty, both mean, yes, and the dream was just the same

And I dreamed your dream for you, but now your dream is real

How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals

When you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold

You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold

You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin

Now you say Romeo yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him

Juliet, when we made love you used to cry

Said I love you like the stars above, I’ll love you ‘till I die

There’s a place for us, you know the movie song

When’re you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong

I can’t do the talk like they do on TV

And I can’t the do a love song like the way it’s meant to be

I can’t do everything, but I’ll do anything for you

Can’t do anything except be in love with you

All I do is miss you, and the way we used to be

All I do is keep the beat and bad company

All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme

Juliet, do the stars with you any time Juliet

ROSE GARDEN

I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden

Along with the sunshine there’s got to be a little rain sometime

When you take you got to give so live and let live or let go oh oh oh oh

I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden

I could promise you things like big diamond rings

But you don’t find roses growing on stalks of clover

So you’d better think it over

When it’s sweet talking you could make it come true

I would give you the world on a silver platter

But what would it matter

So smile for a while and let’s be jolly

Love shouldn’t be so melancholy

Come along and share the good times while we can

I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden

Along with the sunshine there’s got to be a little rain sometime

When you take you got to give so live and let live or let go oh oh oh oh

I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden

I could sing you a tune and promise you the moon

But if that’s what it takes to hold you

I’d just as soon let you go but there’s one thing I want you to know

You’d better look before you leap still waters run deep

And there won’t always be someone there to pull you out

And you know what I’m talking about

But what would it matter

So smile for a while and let’s be jolly

Love shouldn’t be so melancholy

Come along and share the good times while we can

I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden

Along with the sunshine there’s got to be a little rain sometime

When you take you got to give so live and let live or let go oh oh oh oh

I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden

ROSIE

Rosie oh Rosie I’d like to paint your face up in the sky

Sometimes when I’m busy relaxing I look up and catch your eye

Your eyes when they’re widening bring thunder and lightning

And sunset strokes the colour to your skin

Your eyes are so blue I just think of a blue sky

And bumble bees a buzzing on the wind

Rosie oh Rosie it’s raining when you look the other way

Rosie oh Rosie your laughter brings the sunshine out to play

And though I just met you will I silhouette you

Or highlight golden shadows in your hair

I’d paint in your mind’s eye a very good blue sky

And Summer birds swimming through the air

Rosie oh Rosie I’d paint your face for all the world to see

Rosie oh Rosie I’d like to paint your face eternally

THE MERRY-GO-ROUND BROKE DOWN

The merry-go-round went round

And made the darndest sound

The lights went low we both said oh

And the merry-go-round broke down

Oh what fun a wonderful time

Finding love for only a dime

The merry-go-round went round

And made the darndest sound

The lights went low we both said oh

And the merry-go-round broke down

Oh what fun a wonderful time

Finding love for only a dime

The merry-go-round went round

And made the darndest sound

The lights went low we both said oh

And the merry-go-round broke down

RUBY TUESDAY

She would never say where she came from

Yesterday don't matter if it's gone

While the sun is bright

Or in the darkest night

No one knows she comes and goes

Good-bye Ruby Tuesday

Who could hang a name on you

When you change with every new day

Still I'm gonna miss you

Don't question why she needs to be so free

She'll tell you it's the only way to be

She just can't be chained

To a life where nothing's gained

And nothing's lost at such a cost

Good-bye Ruby Tuesday

Who could hang a name on you

When you change with every new day

Still I'm gonna miss you

There's no time to lose, I heard her say

Catch your dreams before they slip away

Dying all the times

Lose your dreams and you

Will lose your mind, ain't life unkind

Good-bye Ruby Tuesday

Who could hang a name on you

When you change with every new day

Still I'm gonna miss you

RUN BABY RUN

Listen baby if you’re not adverse

The world is changing for the better or worse

And if I live your life for what it’s worth

Cause it’s a hell on earth

The world today I bet you see it clear

Has taken us about a thousand years

To those poor off it means they’ve never lived

‘Cause it’s a hell on earth

Run baby run when’re you gonna learn

The time to put out the fireball

Run baby run when’re you gonna learn

The earth is getting drier

The flames are growing higher

Your clothes are dirty and the sky is red

I don’t have anything to wash my head

Cause all the detergents are on the river bed

And it’s a hell on earth

If we make a levy on the telly and fax

We join everybody trying to fiddle their tax

If you don’t get bit they’re trying to run you back

Cause it’s a hell on earth

Run baby run when’re you gonna learn

It’s time to put out the fire ball

Run baby run when’re you gonna learn

The earth is getting drier

The flames are growing higher

Another child every second is born

And family planning we will never learn

Another mouth to feed is all it brings

And it’s a hell on earth

Run baby run when’re you gonna learn

It’s time to put out the fire ball

Run baby run when’re you gonna learn

The earth is getting drier

The flames are growing higher

Run baby run when’re you gonna learn

It’s time to put out the fire ball

Run baby run when’re you gonna learn

The earth is getting drier

The flames are growing higher

RUN RUN MISTER

It looked like a town where a family could grow

The streets would be safe every night

The pavements all clean and the people well dressed

The dirt and the drunks out of sight

I kicked off my shoes I had nothing to lose

The bad days seemed far behind me

And then that voice started talking inside me

It said

Run run mister don’t you look back

Get your feet on that road, your wheels on the track

You’re too young to start thinking ‘bout settling down

Get packed, get running, get right out of town

It seemed like a job that would please any man

Good hours, good prospects, good pay

I was up with the sun for three seasons or more

Clocked in and checked out every day

A rung at a time I’d willingly climb

And kept on moving up blindly

And then the voice started talking inside me

It said

Run run mister don’t you look back

Get your feet on that road, your wheels on the track

You’re too young to start thinking ‘bout settling down

Get packed, get running, get right out of town

I never believed in love at first sight

It seemed too good to be true

I knew that something had started to bite

So I asked a good friend what to do

He said it only happens just once in a life

I want her always beside me

And then the voice started talking inside me

It said

Run run mister don’t you look back

Get your feet on that road, your wheels on the track

You’re too young to start thinking ‘bout settling down

Get packed, get running, get right out of town

Run run mister don’t you look back

Get your feet on that road, your wheels on the track

You’re too young to start thinking ‘bout settling down

Get packed, get running, get right out of town

SAKSI GITAR TUA

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Na na na na na

Na na na na na

Na na na na na

Na na na na na

Na selamat malam

SAN FRANCISCO

If you're going to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

If you're going to San Francisco

You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a loving day

In the streets of San Francisco

Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation, such a strange vibration

People in motion

There's a whole generation with a new explanation

People in motion, people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in their hair

If you come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a loving there

If you come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a loving day

SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME

You can dance every dance with the guy

Who gives you the eye and let him hold you tight

You can smile every smile for the guy

That holds your hand in the pale moonlight

But don’t forget who’s talking you home

And in who’s arms you’re going gonna be

So darling save the last dance for me

Oh I know that the music’s fine

Like sparkling wine go and have your fun

Laugh and sing but while we’re apart

Don’t give your heart to anyone

And don’t forget who’s talking you home

And in who’s arms you’re gonna be

So darling save the last dance for me

Baby don’t you know I love you

Can’t you feel it when we touch

I will never ever let you go

Oh I love you oh so much

Baby don’t you know I love you so

Can’t you feel it when we touch

I will never ever let you go

Oh I love you oh so much

SATISFACTION

I can’t get no satisfaction

I can’t get no satisfaction

‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try

I can’t get no, I can’t get no

When I’m driving in my car

And the man comes on the radio

And he’s telling me more and more

About some useless information

Supposed to fire my imagination

I can’t get no, oh no no no,

Hey hey hey that’s what I say

I can’t get no satisfaction

I can’t get no satisfaction

‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try

I can’t get no, I can’t get no

When I’m watching my TV

And the man comes on to tell me

How white my shirts can be

Well he can’t be a man ‘cause he doesn’t smoke

The same cigarettes as me

I can’t get no, oh no no no,

Hey hey hey that’s what I say

I can’t get no satisfaction

I can’t get no satisfaction

‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try

I can’t get no, I can’t get no

When I’m riding round the world

And I’m doing this and signing that

And I’m trying to make some girl who tells me

Baby better come back later next week

‘Cause you see I’m on a losing streak

I can’t get no, oh no no no,

Hey hey hey, that’s what I say

I can’t get no, I can’t get no

I can’t get no satisfaction

No satisfaction, no satisfaction

No satisfaction, I can’t get no satisfaction

SAVED

I used to smoke I used to drink

I used to smoke drink dance the hoochie coochie

I used to smoke and drink

Smoke and drink and dance the hoochie coo oh yeah

But now I'm standing on this corner

Praying for me and you Aha

That's why I'm saved saved

People let me tell you 'bout a kingdom come

You know I'm saved I'm saved

I won't care to preach here till I'm deaf and dumb

I'm in the soul saving army

Beating on the big base drum oh yeah

I used to cuss I used to fuss

I used to cuss fuss and boogie all night long

I used to cuss and fuss

Cuss and fuss and boogie all night long oh yeah

Now I'm standing on this corner

All I know is right from wrong ah yeah

That's what I'm saying that's what I'm saying

People let me tell you 'bout a kingdom come

You know I'm saved I'm saved

I can preach it to the deaf and dumb

I'm in the soul saving army

Beating on the big bass drum

I used to lie I used to cheat

I used to lie cheat step on people's feet

I used to lie and cheat

Lie and cheat and step on people's feet

But now I'm stepping all through glory

Salvation is my beat oh yeah

That's why I'm saved saved

People let me tell you 'bout a kingdom come

You know I'm saved I'm saved

I won't care to preach here till I'm deaf and dumb

I'm in the soul saving army

Beating on the big base drum oh yeah

SCHIFOAN

Am Freitag auf'd Nacht montier i di Schi

Auf mei Auto und dann begiab i mi

In's Stubai-Tal oder noch Zell am See

Weil durt auf die Berg o'm hom's immer an leiwandn Schnee

Weil i wui, Schifoan, Schifoan, wow wow wow wow

Schifoan, weil Schifoan is des leiwandste

Wos mer si nur vurstoin kann

In der Fruah bin i der erschte der wos afifoat

Damiat i net so long aufs afifoarn woart

Ob'm auf der Hütt'n kaaf i mar an Jagertee

Weil so a Tee macht den Schnee erst so richtig schee

Weil i wui, Schifoan, Schifoan, wow wow wow wow

Schifoan, weil Schifoan is des leiwandste

Wos mer si nur vurstoin kann

Und wann der Schnee staubt und wann die Sunn scheint

Dann hob' i olles Glück in mir vereint

I steh' am Gipfel schau obi ins Toi

A jeder is glicklich, a jeder fühlt si woi

Weil i wui, Schifoan, Schifoan, wow wow wow wow

Schifoan, weil Schifoan is des leiwandste

Wos mer si nur vurstoin kann

Am Sonntag auf'd Nacht montier i die Schi

Auf mei Auto doch dann überkommts mi

I schau no amoi aufi und denk' mer "Aber wo"

I foar no net z'Haus i bleib' am Montag a no do

Weil i wui, Schifoan, Schifoan, wow wow wow wow

Schifoan, weil Schifoan is des leiwandste

Wos mer si nur vurstoin kann

SCHOOL

I can see you in the morning

When you go to school

Don't forget your books

You know you've gotta learn the golden rule

The teacher tells you stop your playing

Get on with your work

And be like Johnny too good

Don't you know he never shirks

He's coming along

After school is over

No playing in the park

And don't go out too late

Don't let it get too dark

They tell you not to hang around

And learn what life's about

And grow up just like them

Won't let you work it out

And you're full of doubt

Don't do this and don't do that

What are they trying to do

Make a good boy of you

Do they know where it's at

Don't criticise

They're old and why

Do as they tell you to

Don't want the devil to

Come and pull out your eyes

Maybe I'm mistaken

Expecting you to fight

Or maybe I'm just crazy

I don't know wrong from right

But while I'm still living

I've just got this to say

It's always up to you

If you want to be that

Want to see that

Want to see that way

You're coming along

SCIENCE FICTION

Michael Renny was ill the day the Earth stood still

But he told us where we stand

And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear

Claude Rains was the invisible man

Then something went wrong

Cause they reigned in King Kong

They got caught in a cellular jam

Then at a deadly pace it came from outta space

And this is how the message ran

Science fiction double feature

Doctor X will build a creature

See androids fighting Brad and Janet

And Francis stars in Forbidden Planet

Rock on at the late night double feature picture show

I know Leo G Carrol was over a barrel when tarantula took to the hills

And I really got hot when I saw Jim macScott fight a triffid that spit's poison and kills

Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes

And passing them used lots of skills

But when worlds collide said George Pal to his bride

I'm going to give you some terrible thrills like a

Science fiction double feature

Doctor X will build a creature

See androids fighting Brad and Janet

And Francis stars in Forbidden Planet

Rock on at the late night double feature picture show

I wanna go Rock on to the Late night picture show by RKO

Rock on to the late night double feature picture show in the back row

A ho oh to the late night double feature picture show

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Science fiction double feature

Frank has built and lost his creature

Darkness has conquered Brad and Janet

The servant's gone to a distant planet

Rock on at the late night double feature picture show

I wanna go oh oh to the late night picture show

SECOND HAND NEWS

I know there's nothing to say

Someone else has taken my place

When times go bad when things get rough

Won't you lay me down in the tall grass

And let me do my stuff

I know I've nothing on you

I know there's nothing to do

When times go bad you can't get enough

Won't you lay me down in the tall grass

And let me do my stuff

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

One thing I think you should know

I ain't gonna miss you when you go

I've been down so long I've been tossed around enough

Oh could you just let me go down

And do my stuff

I know you're hoping to find

Someone who's gonna give you peace of mind

When times go bad you can't get enough

Won't you lay me down in the tall grass

And let me do my stuff

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

Down down down down

I'm your second hand news I'm your second hand news yeah

I'm your second hand news I'm your second hand news yeah

I'm your second hand news

I'm your second hand news yeah

I'm your second hand news

I'm your second hand news yeah

SEE A TOAD

It’s not much of a life at all

When you can only hop

People in their great big cars

They never swerve or stop

Now we help our little feathered friends

With mouldy crusts and old fag ends

So to toads let’s make amends

And do this little thing for me

See a toad across the road

And make yourself a friend

See a toad across the road

It’ll help you in the end

I know how ugly a toad can be

But it’s got parents like you and me

So see a toad across the road

And make yourself a friend

The boy scouts help old ladies

And the lollipop man your child

What protection is there

For that creature green and wild

He may be stupid as they say

But there’s plenty more down Westminster way

Why should he be the one to pay

So do this little thing for me

SEE ME FEEL ME

See me feel me touch me heal me

See me feel me touch me heal me

See me feel me touch me heal me

See me feel me touch me heal me

Listening to you I get the music

Gazing at you I get the heat

Following you I climb the mountain

I get excitement at your feet

Right behind you I see the millions

On you I see the glory

From you I get opinions

From you I get the story

See me feel me touch me heal me

See me feel me touch me heal me

See me feel me touch me heal me

See me feel me touch me heal me

Listening to you I get the music

Gazing at you I get the heat

Following you I climb the mountain

I get excitement at your feet

Right behind you I see the millions

On you I see the glory

From you I get opinions

From you I get the story

Listening to you I get the music

Gazing at you I get the heat

Following you I climb the mountain

I get excitement at your feet

Right behind you I see the millions

On you I see the glory

From you I get opinions

From you I get the story

SEE MY BABY JIVE

Look out look out your mama washed out you might as well go home

Since then some man got into your hair so give me back my comb

But you you make things that get along turn out so wrong

Too long too long you’d better rock on the band might play our song

See my baby jive see my baby jive she hangs on to me and she really goes

Woh oh woh oh woh oh

See my baby jive such a lazy jive

Well everyone you meet coming down the street

Just to see my baby jive

They’ve taken her home it’s turning me on she dropped down to his knees

Oh boy that’s that it’s calling me back this dog ain’t got no fleas

But you you dance all the guys up town into the crown

You know you know you’ve gotta rock on your daddy ain’t coming home

See my baby jive see my baby jive she hangs on to me and she really goes

Woh oh woh oh woh oh

See my baby jive such a lazy jive

Well everyone you meet coming down the street

Just to see my baby jive

Too bad your game is driving me mad you’ve tucked down on my boy

I don’t suppose though everyone knows exactly who you are

But you you make things that get along turn out so wrong

Too long too long you’d better rock on the band might play our song

See my baby jive see my baby jive she hangs on to me and she really goes

Woh oh woh oh woh oh

See my baby jive such a lazy jive

Well everyone you meet coming down the street

Just to see my baby jive

Woh oh see my baby jive she hangs on to me and she really goes

Woh oh woh oh woh oh

See my baby jive such a lazy jive

Well everyone you meet coming down the street

Just to see my baby jive

See my baby jive

THE SEEDS OF LOVE

I sowed the seeds of love

And I sowed them in the spring

I gathered them up in the morning so soon

While the small birds so sweetly sing

While the small birds so sweetly sing

My garden was planted well

With flowers everywhere

But I had not the liberty to choose for myself

Of the flowers that I love so dear

Of the flowers that I love so dear

The gardener was standing by

And I asked him to choose for me

He choose for me the violet the lilly and the pink

But these I refused all three

But these I refused all three

The violet I forsook

Because it fades so soon

The pink and the lilly I did over look

And I vowed I would wait ‘till June

And I vowed I would wait ‘till June

For in June there’s a red rose bud

And that’s the flowers for me

And oft times I here plucked that red rose bush

Till I gained the willow tree

Till I gained the willow tree

For the willow tree will twist

And the willow tree will twine

And I oft times wished I were in that young man’s arms

That once had this heart of mine

That once had this heart of mine

Come all you false young men

Don’t leave me here to complain

For the grass that has optima been trampled under foot

Give it time it will rise again

Give it time it will rise again

SHALALALALEE

Picked her up on a Friday night.

Shalalalalee, yeah.

I knew everything's gonna be all right.

Shalalalalee, yeah, shalalalalee.

I asked her, where do you wanna go

Shalalalalee, yeah.

We went some place I don't know.

Shalalalalee, yeah, shalalalalee.

I held her close,

And I asked her if she's gonna, gonna be my baby.

It felt so good, when she answered me.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.

She looked good, and she moved so fine.

Shalalalalee, yeah.

And all the guys knew that she was mine.

Shalalalalee, yeah, shalalalalee.

I held her close,

And I asked her if she's gonna, gonna be my baby.

It felt so good, when she answered me.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.

Wanna know, how my story ends

Shalalalalee, yeah.

We invited just a few close friends.

Shalalalalee, yeah, shalalalalee.

Shalalalalee, yeah, shalalalalee.

SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER

Shake your money maker

Shake your money maker

You’ve got to shake your money maker

Shake your money maker

Shake your money maker

You’ve got to

I’ve got a girl who lives up on the hill

I’ve got a girl who lives up on the hill

Says she’ll let me roll her

But I don’t believe she will

She won’t shake her money maker

Won’t shake her money maker

Gonna roll her I can’t break her

She won’t shake her money maker

Won’t shake her money maker

She won’t

I’ve got a girl and she just won’t be true

I’ve got a girl and she just won’t be true

Just won’t let her do

The one good thing you tell her to

She won’t shake her money maker

Won’t shake her money maker

Won’t shake her money maker

She won’t shake her money maker

Won’t shake her money maker

She won’t

SHE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN

She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes

She can ruin your faith with her casual lies

And she only reveals what she wants you to see

She hides like a child but she's always a woman to me

She can lead you to love, she can take you or leave you

She can ask for the truth but she'll never believe you

And she'd take what you'll give her as long as it's free

Yes she steals like a thief but she's always a woman to me

Oh, she takes care of herself

She can wait if she wants

She's ahead of her time

Oh, and she never gives out

And she never gives in

She just changes her mind

And she'll promise you more than the garden of Eden

And she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding

But she'll bring out the best and the worst you can be

Blame it all on yourself 'cause she's always a woman to me

Hmmm ...

Oh, she takes care of herself

She can wait if she wants

She's ahead of her time

Oh, and she never gives out

And she never gives in

She just changes her mind

She is frequently kind and she’s suddenly cool

She can do what she pleases she's nobody's fool

And she can't be convicted she's earned her degree

And the most she will do is throw shadows at you

But she's always a woman to me

Hmmm ...

SHE’S NOT THERE

Well nobody told me about her

The way she lied

Well nobody told me about her

How many people cried

Well it’s too late to say you’re sorry

How should I know why should I care

Please don’t bother trying to find her

She’s not there

Well let me tell you ‘bout the way she looked

The way she acted and the colour or her hair

Her voice was soft and cool, her eye were clear and bright

But she’s not there

Well nobody told me about her

What could I do

Well nobody told me about her

Though they all knew

Well let me tell you ‘bout the way she looked

The way she acted and the colour or her hair

Her voice was soft and cool, her eyes were clear and bright

But she’s not there

But it’s too late to say you’re sorry

How should I know why should I care

Please don’t bother trying to find her

She’s not there

Well let me tell you ‘bout the way she looked

The way she acted and the colour or her hair

Her voice was soft and cool her eyes were clear and bright

But she’s not there

A SHROPSHIRE LAD

The gas was on in the institute

The flare was up in the gym

A man was running a miller a line

A lass was singing a hymn

When Captain Webb the Dawley man

Captain Webb from Dawley

Came swimming along the old canal

That carries the bricks to Lawley

Swimming along swimming along

Swimming along from Severn

Paying a call at Dawley Bank

While swimming along to Heaven

The sun shone low on the railway lines

And over the bricks and stacks

And in at the upstairs windows

Of the Dawley housing backs

When we saw the ghost of Captain Webb

Webb in a water sheeting

Come dripping along in a bathing dress

TO the Saturday evening meeting

Dripping along, dripping along

To the congregational hall

Dripping and still he rose over the sill

And he faded away in the wall

There wasn’t a man in Oakengates

Who hadn’t got hold of the tale

And over the valley in Ironbridge

And round by Coalbrookdale

How Captain Webb the Dawley man

Captain Webb from Dawley

Rose rigid and dead from the old canal

That carries the bricks to Lawley

Rigid and dead, rigid and dead

To the Saturday congregation

Paying a call at Dawley bank

On his way to his destination

SINGING THE BLUES

Well I never felt more like singing the blues

‘Cause I never thought

That I’d ever lose your love dear

Why’d you leave me this way

Well I never felt more like crying all night

‘Cause everything’s wrong

And nothing is right without you

You got me singing the blues

The moon and the stars no longer shine

The dream is gone I thought was mine

There’s nothing left for me to do

But cry ay ay ay over you

Well I never felt more like running away

But why should I go

‘Cause I couldn’t stay without you

You got me singing the blues

Well I never felt more like singing the blues

‘Cause I never thought

That I’d ever lose your love dear

Why’d you leave me this way

Well I never felt more like crying all night

‘Cause everything’s wrong

And nothing is right without you

You got me singing the blues

The moon and the stars no longer shine

The dream is gone I thought was mine

There’s nothing left for me to do

But cry ay ay ay over you

Well I never felt more like running away

But why should I go

‘Cause I couldn’t stay without you

You got me singing the blues

SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY

Sitting in the morning sun

I'll be sitting when the evening comes

Watching all the ships roll in

Then I'll watch them roll away again

Sitting on the dock of the bay

Watching the tide roll away

Sitting on the dock of the bay

Wasting time

I left my home in Georgia

Heading for the 'Frisco bay

I had nothing to live for

Looks like nothing's gonna come my way

So I 'm just sitting on the dock of the bay

Watching the tide roll away

Sitting on the dock of the bay

Wasting time

Sitting here resting my bones

This loneliness won't leave me alone

Two thousand miles I've roamed

Just to make this dock my home

Yeah I 'm just sitting on the dock of the bay

Watching the tide roll away

Sitting on the dock of the bay

Wasting time

SIXTEEN TONS

Now, some people say, a man's made out of mud,

But a poor man's made out of muscles and blood.

Muscle and blood, skin and bone,

A mind that's weak and a back that's strong.

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.

I owe my soul to the company store.

I was born one morning in drizzling rain,

Fighting and Trouble is my middle name.

I was raised in the bottoms by a momma hound,

I'm mean as a dog, but I'm gentle as a lamb.

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.

I owe my soul to the company store.

I was born one morning, when the sun didn't shine.

I picked up my shovel, and I walked to the mine.

I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal,

And the straw boss hollered well bless my soul

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.

I owe my soul to the company store.

If you see me coming, you better step aside.

A lot of men didn't, and a lot of men died.

I got a fist of iron and a fist of steel,

If the right one don't get you, then the left one will

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.

I owe my soul to the company store.

SKINHEAD SONG

Oi woz walkin’ dahn veh streah wiv a duzzen pals or moah

Lookin’ fer some aggro ‘coz life is such a bore

We come across a ‘ippie an ‘e troid t’run away

So we smashed ‘is stoopid ‘ead in jus’ t’ pass veh toim away

Wiv ah greah big boots greah long laces

Jeans ‘eld up wiv scarleh braces

Don’ geh in our way or we’ll take you for a ride

Vair ain’t much on veh top of our ‘eads an’ even less inoid

We go t’ football matches it really is a laugh

We always get’s some bovver in befoah the second ‘alf

We ‘ave oursels a smashin’toim we ‘ave a lot a fun

Suspessly when the odds is ours boi twenty foif ta wun

Wiv ah greah big boots greah long laces

Jeans ‘eld up wiv scarleh braces

Cum an’ join veh party cum along wiv us

We never walks alone ‘coz we’re so gre-gair-re-yuss (‘ere wot duz ‘at mean)

Oi gets up in veh mornin’ an oi ‘as me reggae brek (hur hur)

Oi drinks me cup o’ bovveril an’ oi wrings me muvver’s neck

Ven goes into veh tahn kicks a pensioner or two

An’puts fruit gums in parkin’ meters coz vair’s sod all else t’ do

Wiv ah greah big boots greah long laces

Jeans ‘eld up wiv scarleh braces

Ev’ry phone for moiles arahnd is smashed t’ smivvereens

An’nah we’re goin’ off t’ do some cigarette machines

An’ wen oi gets to ‘evven an’ oi ‘ear vee angels call

Oi’ll go ver on me scootah me bovver boots an’ all

Oi’ll take me broken bottle me lump o’ lead as well

An oi’ll give ‘em so much aggro vey’ll send me dahn t’ ‘ell

Wiv ah greah big boots greah long laces

Jeans ‘eld up wiv scarleh braces

Oi knows oi’ll get some bovver there jus’ veh koind oi loike

‘Coz the devil is a greebo an’ ‘e roids a motorboike

SLOOP JOHN B

We sailed on the sloop John B

My grandfather and me

Around Nassau town we did roam

Drinking all night got into a fight

Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home

So hoist up the John B sails

See how the main sail’s set

Call for the captain ashore let me go home

Let me go home I wanna go home

Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home

The first mate he got drunk

He broke up the captain’s trunk

A constable had to come and take him away

Sheriff John Stone why don’t you leave me alone

Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home

So hoist up the John B sails

See how the main sail’s set

Call for the captain ashore let me go home

Let me go home I wanna go home

Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home

The poor cook he got the fits

He threw away all my grits

Then he took and ate up all of my corn

Let me go home why don’t you let me go home

This is the worst trip I’ve ever been on

So hoist up the John B sails

See how the main sail’s set

Call for the captain ashore let me go home

Let me go home I wanna go home

Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home

SMOKEY’S BAR

The good old gang down at Smokey’s bar

They couldn’t rightly understand

How Judy left without a word

But not without a man

That old routine that she had going

Was like the sun so sure

Which by surprise might fail to rise

But always had before

And I still remember what was on

The jukebox as she turned

The Dobro part out of Cheating Heart

She never has returned

She snapped her little plated latch

That closed her pocket book

And paid for all she had to drink

And gave us boys a look

And something in that little glance

Sent creeps about the room

No one stared or even dared

To breathe or even move

And I still remember what was on

The jukebox as she turned

The Dobro part out of Cheating Heart

She never has returned

Now I can’t say what the others thought

But likely I can guess

They’d be scared as to who and where

She’d take what we’d confess

Yes that good old gang up at Smokey’s bar

They’ve just about all busted up

With no one here to drink our tears

Or fill our empty cups

And I still remember what was on

The jukebox as she

The Dobro part out of Cheating Heart

She never has returned

And I still remember what was on

The jukebox as she

The Dobro part out of Cheating Heart

She never has returned

SO FAR AWAY

Here I am again in this mean old town

And you’re so far away from me

And where are you when the sun goes down

You’re so far away from me

So far away from me

So far I just can’t see

So far away from me

You’re so far away from me

I’m tired of being in love and being all alone

When you’re so far away from me

I’m tired of making out on the telephone

‘Cause you’re so far away from me

So far away from me

So far I just can’t see

So far away from me

You’re so far away from me

And I get so tired when I have to explain

When you’re so far away from me

See you’ve been in the sun and I’ve been in the rain

And you’re so far away from me

So far away from me

So far I just can’t see

You’re so far away from me

You’re so far away from me

So far away from me

Oh you’re so far away from me

Yeah you’re so far I just can’t see

So far away from me

You’re so far away from me

So far away from me

So far away from me

You’re so far away from me

SOMEONE’S GONNA GET THEIR HEAD KICKED IN TONIGHT

Well the band is rocking and everybody’s feeling all right

And the best of might there’s sure gonna be a fight

‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight

Well the joint is jumping and everybody’s shouting for more

Well there’s gonna be a pool of blood on the dance hall floor

‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight

We’re gonna rip up the chairs and tear down the walls

Smash up the band and really have a ball

We’ll leave everybody as a physical wretch

And the whole dance hall’ll be a darn gone mess

So while the dance is running everybody’s feeling all right

At the dance tonight there’s sure gonna be a fight

‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight

We’re gonna rip up the chairs and tear down the walls

Smash up the band and really have a ball

We’ll leave everybody as a physical wretch

And the whole dance hall’ll be a darn gone mess

Well the dance is rocking and everybody’s shouting for more

Well there’s gonna be a pool of blood on the dance hall floor

‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight

‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head smashed in tonight

‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight

‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight

SOMETHING

Something in the way she moves,

Attracts me like no other lover

Something in the way she woos me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

Somewhere in her smile she knows

That I don't need no other lover

Something in her style that shows me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

You're asking me will my love grow

I don't know, I don't know

You stick around, now it may show

I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way she knows

And all I have to do is think of her

Something in the things she shows me

I don't want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

You're asking me will my love grow

I don't know, I don't know

You stick around, now it may show

I don't know, I don't know

SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH

You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply

I’d rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie

And who am I to judge you on what you say or do

I’m only just beginning to see the real you

And sometimes when we touch the honesty’s too much

And I have to close my eyes and hide

I wanna hold you till I die till we both break down and cry

I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

Romance with all its strategy leaves me battling with my pride

But through the insecurity some tenderness survives

I’m just another writer still trapped within my truths

A hesitant prize fighter still trapped within my youth

And sometimes when we touch the honesty’s too much

And I have to close my eyes and hide

I wanna hold you till I die till we both break down and cry

I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

At times I’d like to break you and drive you to your knees

At times I’d like to break through and hold you endlessly

And sometimes when we touch the honesty’s too much

And I have to close my eyes and hide

I wanna hold you till I die till we both break down and cry

I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Got on board a westbound seven forty seven

Didn't think before deciding what to do

All that talk of opportunities TV breaks and movies

Rang true it sure rang true

It seems it never rains in Southern California

Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before

It never rains in California but girl don't they warn ya

It pours man it pours

I'm out of work I'm out of bread

Out of self respect I'm outta my head

I'm under loved I'm underfed

I wanna go home

It never rains in California but girl don't they warn ya

It pours man it pours

It seems it never rains in Southern California

Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before

It never rains in California but girl don't they warn ya

It pours man it pours

Won't you tell the folks back home I nearly made it

I've had offers but don't know which ones to take

Please don't tell them how you found me

Don't tell them how you found me

Gimme a break, gimme a break

It seems it never rains in Southern California

Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before

It never rains in California but girl don't they warn ya

It pours man it pours

SPANISH HARLEM

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem

A red rose up in Spanish Harlem

It is a special one

It only comes out when the moon is on the run

And all the stars are gleaming

It’s growing in the street

Right up through the concrete

But soft and sweet and dreaming

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem

A red rose up in Spanish Harlem

With eyes as black as coals

That look down in my soul

And start a fire there and then I lose control

I have to beg your pardon

I’m going to pick that rose

And watch her as she grows in my garden

SPENCER THE ROVER

These words were composed by Spencer the rover

Who travelled most parts of Great Britain and Wales

He’d been much reduced which caused great confusion

And that was the reason he went on the road

In Yorkshire near Rotherham he went on his rambles

Being weary of travelling he sat down to rest

At the foot of yon mountains there runs a clear fountain

With bread and cold water himself did refresh

More sweeter it tasted than the gold he had wasted

More sweeter than honey and gave more content

But the thoughts of his baby lamenting her father

Brought tears to his eyes and made him lament

The night fast approaching to the woods he resorted

With woodbine and ivy his bed for to make

He dreamed about sighing lamenting and crying

Go home to your family your rambling forsake

On the fifth of November I have reason to remember

When first I arrived home to my family and wife

She stood so surprised to see me arrived

To see such a stranger once more in their sight

My children flocked round me with their pretty prattling stories

With their pretty prattling stories that drive care away

Like birds of a feather we’ll all flock together

Like bees of one hive then contented we’ll be

Now I am well placed in my cottage contented

With woodbine and ivy hanging over my door

As happy as them that have plenty of riches

Contented I’ll stay and go rambling no more

SPIRIT IN THE SKY

When I die and they lay me to rest

Gonna go to the place that’s the best

When they lay me down to die

Going up to the spirit in the sky

Going up to the spirit in the sky

That’s were I’m gonna go when I die

When I die and they lay me to rest

I’m gonna go to the place that’s the best

Prepare yourself you know it’s a must

Gotta have a friend in Jesus

So you know that when you die

He’s gonna recommend you to the spirit in the sky

Gonna recommend you to the spirit in the sky

That’s where I’m gonna go when I die

When you die and they lay you to rest

You’re gonna go to the place that’s the best

Never been a sinner I never sinned

I’ve got a friend in Jesus

So you know that when I die

He’s gonna set me up with the spirit in the sky

Gonna set me up with the spirit in the sky

That’s where I’m gonna go when I die

When I die and they lay me to rest

I’m gonna go to the place that’s the best

Go to the place that’s the best

SPOONFUL

Well it could be a spoonful of coffee

Could be a spoonful of tea

Just a little bit of your passion

Good enough for me

I’m wild about it

I’m crazy about it

I’m in love about it

Everybody’s talking ‘bout it

Everybody’s lying ‘bout it

Everybody loves it ooh

Well it could be a spoonful of wine

Straight from a girl’s hand

Could be a spoon of your percious love

Saved from another man

I’m wild about it

I’m crazy about it

I’m in love about it

Everybody’s talking ‘bout it

Everybody’s lying ‘bout it

Everybody loves it ooh

Everybody grooving

That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful

That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful

That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful

That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold

And she’s buying a stairway to Heaven

When she gets there she knows if the stores are all closed

With a word she can get what she came for

Ooh and she’s buying a stairway to Heaven

There’s sign on the wall but she want’s to be sure

‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings

In a tree by the brook there’s a song bird who sings

Sometimes all of her thoughts are misgiven

Ooh and it makes me wonder, ooh and it makes me wonder

There’s a feeling I get when I look to the West

And my spirit is crying for leaving

In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees

And the voices of those who stand looking

Ooh and it makes me wonder, ooh and it makes me wonder

And it’s whispered that soon if we all call the tune

Then the piper will lead us to reason

And a new day will dawn for those who stare long

And the forest will echo with laughter

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow don’t be alarmed there

It’s just a sprinkling for the May queen

Yes there are two paths you can go back but in the long run

There’s still time to change the road you’re on

And it makes me wonder

Your head is humming and it won’t go in case you don’t know

The piper’s calling you to join him

Dear lady can you hear the wind blow and did you know

Your stairway lies on the whispering wind

And as we wind on down the road

Our shadows taller than our souls

There walks lady we all know

Who shines white light and wants to show

How everything still turns to gold

And if you listen very hard

The tune will come to you at last

Where all is one and one is all

To be a rock and not to roll

And she’s buying a stairway to Heaven

STAIRWAY TO OBLIVION

There’s a ‘Stralian who’s heard that old songs sell like gold

He’s recorded a “Stairway to Heaven”

With his didgeridoo and his wobble board too

With this song he should make a fast million

Ooh....and he also may pick up a Grammy

He’s been signed up before, but he was such a bore

With his paintings and songs of the outback

His tied down kangaroo and Coogee bear too

Jake the peg in an old plastic black Mac

Ooh what a sexual wonder, ooh and it makes me chunder

He has tried sniffing coke through his didgeridoo

But he just couldn’t handle the bubbles

And a bottle or two sends him straight to the loo

He’s found fanta gives him far less troubles

Ooh from down under, ooh and it makes me chunder

And it’s whispered that soon if we all hum the tune

He will get a gold disc for his labours

And the funny farm waits with wide open gates

And we’ll all end up starring in “Neighbours”

Oooh......

If there’s some trouble in the disco don’t be alarmed there

It’s just the fans want to lynch him

They’ll stuff his two little boys with both their two little toys

And pull off Jake the peg’s extra limb

Oooh...and it really makes me chunder

Your head is aching and it won’t go in case you don’t know

He must have bribed every DJ

Old ladies like to hear his wind blow, maybe “Hey Joe”

And “All right Now” will go the same way

And as he plummets down the charts

There’ll be relief in all our hearts

There is a fan club who will know

And more important want to show

That if you want to come along

There is a lesson for you all

For anyone who has the gall

To try and mock our rock and roll

By bastardising “Stairway to Heaven”

STAND BY ME

When the night has come and the land is dark

And the moon is the only light we'll see

No I won't be afraid, oh I won't be afraid

Not as long as you stand, stand by me

So darling, darling Stand by me,

Oh stand by me

Oh stand by me

Stand by me

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall

Or the mountains should crumble to the sea

I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear

Just as long as you stand stand by me

So darling, darling Stand by me,

Oh stand by me

Oh stand by me

Stand by me

So darling, darling Stand by me,

Oh stand by me

Oh stand by me

Stand by me

When ever you're in trouble

Stand by me

STAY

People, stay just a little bit longer,

We want to play just a little bit longer.

Now the promoter don't mind,

And the union don't mind,

If we take a little time

And we leave it all behind and sing

One more song.

Oh, won't you stay just a little bit longer.

Please, please, stay say you will.

Say you will.

Stay just a little bit longer,

We want to play just a little bit longer.

Now the promoter don't mind,

And the union don't mind,

If we take a little time

And we leave it all behind and sing

One more song

Stay just a little bit longer.

Please, please, stay tell me that you're going to.

Now your mummy don't mind,

And your daddy don't mind,

If we take a little time

And we leave it all behind and sing

One more song.

Oh, won't you stay just a little bit longer.

Please, please, stay say you will.

Say you will.

Just to feel your sweet lips on mine,

Tell me that you love me all of the time.

Stay just a little bit longer,

We want to play just a little bit longer.

Now the promoter don't mind,

And the union don't mind,

If we take a little time

And we leave it all behind and sing

One more song

STAY WITH ME

In the morning please don’t say you love me

‘Cause you know I’ll only kick you out the door

I know your name is Rita ,’cause your perfume’s smelling sweeter

Than when I saw you down on the floor

You won’t need too much persuading

I don’t mean to sound degrading

But with a face like that you’ve got nothing to laugh about

Red lips, hair and fingernails, I hear you’re a mean old Jesebel

Let’s get upstairs and read my tarot cards

Stay with me stay with me

‘Cause tonight you’re gonna stay with me

Stay with me stay with me

‘Cause tonight you’re gonna stay with me

So in the morning please don’t say you love me

‘Cause you know I’ll only kick you out the door

Yes I’ll pay your cab fare home

You can even use my best cologne

Just don’t be here in the morning when I wake up

Stay with me stay with me

‘Cause tonight you’re gonna stay with me

Stay with me stay with me

‘Cause tonight you’re gonna stay with me

STILL GOT THE BLUES FOR YOU

Used to be so easy to give my heart away

But I've found out the hard way

There's a price you have to pay

I've found out that love is no friend of mine

I should have known time after time

So long it was so long ago

But I've still got the blues for you

Used to be so easy to fall in love again

But I've found out the hard way

It's a road that leads to pain

I've found out that love was more than just a game

You're playing to win but you lose just the same

So long it was so long ago

But I've still got the blues for you

So many years since I've seen your face

Here in my heart there's an empty space

You used to be

So long it was so long ago

But I've still got the blues for you

Though the days come and go

There is one thing I know

I've still got the blues for you

STOP MESSING AROUND

Oh baby please stop messing 'round

You're messing 'round with my heart

Oh baby please stop messing 'round

You're messing 'round with my heart

And if you don't stop messing baby

Pretty soon we're gonna have to part

Oh baby please stop messing 'round

You're messing 'round all the time

Oh baby please stop messing 'round

You're messing 'round all the time

And if you don't stop messing baby

You're gonna be somebody else’s baby not mine

Squeeze me baby 'till my face turns cherry red

Roll me so hard that I fall right out of bed

Please stop messin' 'round

You're messing' 'round all the time

And if you don't stop messing baby

You're gonna be somebody else’s baby not mine

Squeeze me baby 'till my face turns cherry red

Roll me so hard that I fall right out of bed

Please stop messin' 'round

You're messing' 'round all the time

And if you don't stop messing baby

You're gonna be somebody else’s baby not mine

STREET FIGHTING MAN

Everywhere I hear the sound of marching charging feet boy

Cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street boy

What can a poor boy do but to sing for a rock and roll band

Cause in sleepy London town there's just no place for a street fighting man no

Hey think the time is right for palace revolution

Cause where I live the games we play aren't finding a solution

Well what can a poor boy do but to sing for a rock and roll band

Cause in sleepy London town there's just no place for a street fighting man no

Hey so the name of god is terrible

I'll shout and scream I'll kill the gang I'll rail them all in circles

Well what can a poor boy do but to sing for a rock and roll band

Cause in sleepy London town there's just no place for a street fighting man no

STREETS OF LONDON

Have you seen the old man in the closed down market,

Kicking in the papers with his worn out shoes ?

In his eyes you see no pride,

Hands held loosely by his side

Yesterday's paper, telling yesterday's news.

So, how can you tell me, you're lonely,

And say for you that sun don't shine ?

Let me take you by the hand,

And lead you through the streets of London.

I'll show you something to make you change your mind.

Have you seen the old girl, who walks the streets of London,

Dirt in her hair, and her clothes in rags ?

She's no time for talking,

She just keeps right on walking,

Carrying her home in two carrier bags.

So, how can you tell me, you're lonely,

And say for you that sun don't shine ?

Let me take you by the hand,

And lead you through the streets of London.

I'll show you something to make you change your mind.

In the all-night cafe, at quarter past eleven,

Same old men are sitting there on his own.

Looking at the world over the rim of his tea-cup.

Each tea lasts an hour, and he wanders home alone.

So, how can you tell me, you're lonely,

And say for you that sun don't shine ?

Let me take you by the hand,

And lead you through the streets of London.

I'll show you something to make you change your mind.

Have you seen the old man outside the seaman's mission,

Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears ?

In our winter city, the rain cries a little pity

For one more forgotten hero, and a world that doesn't care.

So, how can you tell me, you're lonely,

And say for you that sun don't shine ?

Let me take you by the hand,

And lead you through the streets of London.

I'll show you something to make you change your mind.

STRIKE THE BELL LANDLORD

In our local boozer hear the rafters ring

Everybody's gathered there and just to have a sing

The atmosphere is warming up the choruses are prime

Then the landlord rings his little bell and calls out time

Strike the bell landlord serve another round

Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found

To break such jovial company would surely be a sin

So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in

Tom over there's chatting up a girl with class

She's drinking double vodkas and it's costing him all his brass

She's very understanding when she gets a little tight

Just another two or three and he'll be set up for the night

Strike the bell landlord serve another round

Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found

To break such jovial company would surely be a sin

So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in

Jim in the corner has been drinking very hard

But everything he's had tonight he's left out in the yard

He's got nothing left to show for all he's had to pay

It's only fair that he should have some more before he goes away

Strike the bell landlord serve another round

Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found

To break such jovial company would surely be a sin

So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in

I have to admit I've had a drop or two myself

My vision's kind of fuzzy and my legs aren't working well

If a copper stopped my car me breath would set his bag alight

So keep death off the road and let me stay all night

Strike the bell landlord serve another round

Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found

To break such jovial company would surely be a sin

So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in

Here comes our local copper a creeping up so sly

His beat is hot and dusty and he's looking very dry

Underneath that uniform he's just like me and you

So stuff a tankard in his fist and lock him in too

Strike the bell landlord serve another round

Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found

To break such jovial company would surely be a sin

So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in

Landlord if you'll be our friend and if you'll let us stay

We'll keep your till a ringing till the dawning of the day

The more we drink the more we sing and singing makes us dry

We'll drink the moon to bed and drink the sun into the sky

Strike the bell landlord serve another round

Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found

To break such jovial company would surely be a sin

So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in

STRIKE THE BELL SECOND MATE

Aft on the poop deck and walking all about

There stands the second mate so steady and so stout

What he is a thinking of he doesn’t know himself

But we’re wishing he would hurry up and strike strike the bell

Strike the bell second mate let us go below

Look well to windward you can see it’s going to blow

Look at your glass you can see that it has fell

Oh we wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell

Down on the main deck and working at the pumps

There is the larboard watch who’re longing for their bunks

Looking up to windward they can see a mighty swell

And they’re wishing that the second mate would strike strike the bell

Strike the bell second mate let us go below

Look well to windward you can see it’s going to blow

Look at your glass you can see that it has fell

Oh we wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell

Aft at the wheel poor Anderson he stands

Grasping at the spokes with his cold mittened hands

Looking at the compass the course is clear as hell

And he’s wishing that the second mate would strike strike the bell

Strike the bell second mate let us go below

Look well to windward you can see it’s going to blow

Look at your glass you can see that it has fell

Oh we wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell

For’ad on the fo’castle head and keeping sharp lookout

There is Johnny standing and he’s waiting for to shout

All lights burning bright sir and everything is well

But he’s wishing that the second mate would strike strike the bell

Strike the bell second mate let us go below

Look well to windward you can see it’s going to blow

Look at your glass you can see that it has fell

Oh we wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell

Down on the main deck our gallant captain stands

Looking out to windward with his glasses in his hand

What he is a thinking of we know very well

He’s thinking more of shortening sails than strike strike the bell

Strike the bell second mate let us go below

Look well to windward you can see it’s going to blow

Look at your glass you can see that it has fell

Oh we wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell

STUCK IN THIS OLD CITY NOW

Stuck in this old city now where living ain’t no fun

Where steel and glass and concrete cancel out the wind and sun

And I’m thinking of last winter now when we walked hand in hand

In the trails of the Colorado Rockies

The wind sang us a lullaby the snow was thick as cream

And icicles were chandeliers like crystals in a dream

And the streams were strips of diamonds and the hills were white as snow

And a bear ate all our soya beans in the night

Oh Colorado’s calling me

From her hillsides and her rivers and her mesas and her trees

When blizzards snapped the power lines and all the toilets freeze

In December in the Colorado rockies

We had time and space and freedom we had love and peace to spare

Though we ran out of things to smoke and say and eat and wear

And the morning of the avalanche a yeti kidnapped Blanche

Took her to his cave up in the rockies

Oh Colorado’s calling me (Hey you !)

From her glaciers and her canyons and her badlands and ravines

And infectious hepatitis was all that came to stay

In January in the Colorado rockies

The baby didn’t die until we burned up all our wood

Considering we ate her raw she tasted pretty good

And the Fascist health inspectors dug us out and mailed us home

Except for Blanche who wouldn’t leave her man

Oh Colorado’s calling me

From her mountains and her rivers and her meadows and her trees

They tell me I’ll be cured soon thawed and ready to return

When it’s April in the Colorado rockies

STUCK WITH YOU

We've had some fun, guess we've had our ups and downs

Been down that rocky road but here we are still around

We thought about someone else but neither one took the bait

We thought about breaking up but now we know it's much too late

We are bound by all the rest that’s the same for another

With all the same friends and all the same address

Yes it's true I am happy to be stuck with you

Yes it's true I'm so happy to be stuck with you

'Cause I can see that you're happy to be stuck with me

We've had our doubts we never took them seriously

And we've had our ins and outs but that's the way it's meant to be

We thought about giving up but we could never stay away

We thought about breaking up but now we know it's much too late

And it's love made history if we change our minds

Eventually it's up to you and me

Yes it's true I am happy to be stuck with you

Yes it's true I'm so happy to be stuck with you

'Cause I can see that you're happy to be stuck with me

We are bound by all the rest that’s the same for another

With all the same friends and all the same address

Yes it's true I am happy to be stuck with you

Yes it's true I'm so happy to be stuck with you

'Cause I can see that you're happy to be stuck with me

I'm so happy to be stuck with you

I'm so happy to be stuck with you

SUBSTITUTE

You think we look pretty good together

You think my shoes are made of leather

But I’m a substitute for another guy

I look pretty tall but my heels are high

The simple things you see are all complicated

I look pretty young but I’m just backdated yeah

Substitute your lies for fact

I see right through your plastic Mac

I look all white but my dad was black

My fancy suit’s really made out of sack

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth

The north side of my town east isn’t east it was facing south

Now you dare to look me in the eye

Those crocodile tears are what you cry

But I’ll tell you one problem you won’t try

To work it out at all just pass it by, pass it by

Substitute me for him

Substitute my coat for Jim

Substitute you for my mum

At least I’ll get my washing done

I’m a substitute for another guy

I look pretty tall but my heels are high

The simple things you see are all complicated

I look pretty young but I’m just backdated yeah

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth

The north side of my town east isn’t east it was facing south

And now you dare to look me in the eye

Those crocodile tears are what you cry

But it’s a genuine problem you won’t try

To work it out at all just pass it by, pass it by

Substitute me for him

Substitute my coat for Jim

Substitute you for my mum

At least I’ll get my washing done

Substitute your lies for fact

I see right through your plastic Mac

I look all white but my dad was black

My fancy suit’s really made out of sack

SULTANS OF SWING

You get a shiver in the dark, it’s a raining in the park, meantime

South of the river you stop and you hold everything

A band is blowing Dixie double four time

You feel all right when you hear the music ring

Well you step inside but you don’t see too many faces

Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down

Too much competition in other places

But the horns they’re blowing that sound

Way on down South, way on down South, London town

Check out Guitar George he knows all the chords

Man it’s strictly rhythm he doesn’t want to make it cry or sing

And an old guitar is all he can afford

When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

But Harry doesn’t mind if he doesn’t make the scene

He’s got a daytime job, he’s doing all right

He can play the honky-tonk like anything

Saving it up for Friday night

With the Sultans, with the Sultans of Swing

In the crowded young bars they’re fooling about in the corner

Dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles

They don’t give a damn about any trumpet playing band

It’s not what they call rock and roll

And the Sultans, yeah the Sultans play Creole

And than the man steps right up to the microphone

He says at last just as the time bell rings

Goodnight, and it’s time to go home

But he makes it fast with one more thing

We are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of Swing

SUMMER LIGHTNING

Come over here, come on sit down beside me

Closer now, come on put your arms, put your arms around me

Have you had a bad day too, and I feel the same as you

Come on sit down

It’s just when I get mad I end up saying things

If I thought about I would never say

And I think that you already know that

But I’ll say it anyway, I’ll say it anyway

Don’t let the sun go down the two of us still fighting

It’s not a storm at all no it’s only summer, only summer lightning

And we’ve still got the night so there’s time to put it right

Let’s go to bed

SUMMERTIME

Summertime and the living is easy

Fish are jumping and the cotton is high

Your daddy’s rich and your mamma’s good looking

So hush little baby don’t you cry

One of these days you’re gonna rise up singing

You’ll spread your wings and you’ll fly away

But ‘till then there’s nobody can harm you

With your mamma and papa standing close by

Summertime and the living is easy

Fish are jumping and the cotton is high

Your daddy’s rich and your mamma’s good looking

So hush little baby don’t you cry

One of these days you’re gonna rise up singing

You’ll spread your wings and you’ll fly away

But ‘till then there’s nobody can harm you

With your mamma and papa standing close by

SUNNY AFTERNOON

The taxman’s taken all my dough

And left me in my stately home

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

And I can’t sail my yacht

he’s taken everything I’ve got

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

Save me save me save me from this squeeze

I’ve got a big fat mama trying to break me

And I love to live so pleasantly

Love this life of luxury

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

In Summertime, in Summertime, in Summertime

My girlfriend’s gone off with my car

And gone back to her ma and pa

Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty

Now I’m sitting here

Sipping at my ice cold beer

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

Help me help me help me sail away

You give me two good reasons why I ought to stay

‘Cause I love to live so pleasantly

Love this life of luxury

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

In Summertime, in Summertime, in Summertime

Save me save me save me from this squeeze

I’ve got a big fat mama trying to break me

And I love to live so pleasantly

Love this life of luxury

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

In Summertime, in Summertime, in Summertime

SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE

It's getting near dawn

When lights close a tired eye

I'll soon be with you my love

Give you my dull surprise

I'll be with you darling soon

Be with you when the stars start falling

I've been waiting for so long

To be where I'm going

In the sunshine of your love

I'm with you my love

The light shining down on you

Yes I'm with you my love

It's the morning and just we two

I'll stay with you darling now

Stay with you till my seas are dried up

I've been waiting for so long

To be where I'm going

In the sunshine of your love

I've been waiting for so long

To be where I'm going

In the sunshine of your love

SUSIE Q

Oh Susie Q

Oh Susie Q

Oh Susie Q

I love you

Susie Q

I like the way you walk

I like the way you talk

I like the way you walk

I like the way you talk

Susie Q

Well say that you'll be true

Well say that you'll be true

Well say that you'll be true

And never leave me blue

Susie Q

Well say that you'll be mine

Well say that you'll be mine

Well say that you'll be mine

Baby all the time

Susie Q

Oh Susie Q

Oh Susie Q

Oh Susie Q

Baby I love you

Susie Q

I like the way you walk

I like the way you talk

I like the way you walk

I like the way you talk

Susie Q

Oh Susie Q

Oh Susie Q

Oh Susie Q

Baby I love you

Susie Q

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

Big wheels keep on turning

Carrying me home as soon they can

Singing songs about the southway

I miss that old band once again

Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her

Well, I heard old Neil put it down

Well, I hope Neil Young will remember

Several men don't need him around

Sweet home Alabama

Where the skies are so blue

Sweet home Alabama

Lord, I'm coming home to you

In Birmingham they robbed the governor (Prouh-prouh-prouh)

Now, we all did what we had to do

Now, Watergate doesn't bother me

Does your conscience bother you

Sweet home Alabama

Where the skies are so blue

Sweet home Alabama

Lord, I'm coming home to you

Now muscle shovellers got the swampers

They did in the summer too

Lord, they give me oh so much

They picked me up when I was blue

Sweet home Alabama

Where the skies are so blue

Sweet home Alabama

Lord, I'm coming home to you

SWEET JEAN VINCENT

Blue Jean man

Skinny white sailor the chances were slender the beauties were brief

Shall I mourn your decline with some thunderbird wine and a black handkerchief

I miss your sad but genial whisper I miss the voice that called my heart

Sweet Jean Vincent young and old and gone sweet Jean Vincent

Who who who’s that John

White face black shirt white socks black shoes black hair white strap bled white dyed black

Sweet Jean Vincent the blue cap’s road to love

At the surf club ball in the uniform bopping their delight

With the bob tail bandage and an uncanny act she’s the one with the flowing feet

You can wave her fringe back to the sick or frees the beat is incomplete

And the jumpered honey in the dungarees tough sweater and the ponytail

If you guess her age when she comes back stage the loony knobs bite their nails

Black gloves white frost black crepe white lead white sheet black night jet black deadly white

Sweet Jean Vincent there’s one in every town

And the dirt boy drives till the hearse arrives and laid that frisker down

Sweet Jean Vincent there’s nowhere left to hide

With lazy skin and ashtray eyes and perforated pride

So with the well met gel in the public hotel you’re bound to modify

When the lead’s still out in the leak house shout you’d better get out your gold

SWEET LITTLE ROCK AND ROLLER

Only nine years old and sweet as she can be

All dressed up like a downtown Christmas tree

Dancing and humming a rock and roll melody

She’s the daughter of a well respected man

Who taught her how to judge and understand

Since she became a rock and roll music fan

Talking ‘bout sweet little rock and roller

Sweet little rock and roller

Her daddy don’t have to scold her

Her partner can’t hardly hold her

She never gets any older

Sweet little rock and roller

Should have see her eyes when the band began to play

And the famous singer he sang and bowed away

When the star performs she screamed and yelled hooray

Ten thousand eyes were watching him leave the floor

Five thousand tongues were screaming “more, more”

About fifteen hundred of them waiting outside the door

She’s a sweet little rock and roller

Sweet little rock and roller

Her daddy don’t have to scold her

She never gets any older

Her partner can’t hardly hold her

She’s a sweet little rock and roller

She’s a sweet little rock and roller

Sweet little rock and roller

Her daddy don’t have to scold her

She never gets any older

Her partner can’t hardly hold her

She’s a sweet little rock and roller

SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN

They're really rocking in Boston Pittsburgh PA

Deep in the heart of Texas around the 'Frisco bay

All over Saint Louis way down in New Orleans

All the cats are gonna dance with sweet little sixteen

Sweet little sixteen she just got to have

About a half a million framed autographs

Her album’s filled with pictures she gets them one by one

She gets so excited won't you look at her run

Oh mummy mummy please may I go

Such a sight to see somebody steal a show

Oh daddy daddy I beg of you

Whisper to daddy it's all right with you

Sweet little sixteen she's got them grown up blues

Tight dresses and lipstick she's sporting high heeled shoes

But tomorrow morning she'll have to change her trend

Be sweet sixteen go back to class again

They're really rocking on bandstands Philadelphia PA

Deep in the heart of Texas around the 'Frisco bay

All over Saint Louis and down in New Orleans

All the cats are gonna dance with sweet little sixteen

SWEET MYSTERY

One of these days I’m gonna do it right

Take her out to dine by candlelight

Rent a suit and give my shoes a shine

And talk about nothing over a glass or two of expensive ...

One of these days I’m gonna do it right

Get to her door and just say goodnight

Even if she asks me to come on in

I’ll make myself say no so I can call again

But babe I really like you

There’s nothing wrong with you oh no

I said baby there is nothing that is wrong with me

I’ve just got to have you for my sweet mystery

Sweet mystery, sweet mystery

Nothing wrong with you, nothing wrong with me

Can’t you see how groovy it could be

If you’d agree to be my sweet mystery

One of these days I’m gonna do it right

Send her flowers and ask her out tomorrow night

Find a little place where maybe we can dance

And build it up slowly for the big romance

One of these days I’m gonna do it right

If I don’t get stoned in the candle light

Not get to her door and scream now you let me in

‘Cause if she said yes it’d be the same old thing

But babe I really like you

There’s nothing wrong with you oh no

I said baby there is nothing that is wrong with me

I’ve just got to have you for my sweet mystery

Sweet mystery, sweet mystery

Nothing wrong with you, nothing wrong with me

Can’t you see how groovy it could be

If you’d agree to be my sweet mystery

SWEET TRANSVESTITE

How d'you do I see you've met my faithful handyman

He's just a little brought down because when you knocked

He thought you were the candyman

Don't get strung out by the way I look

Don't judge a book by it's cover

I'm not much of a man by the light of the day

But by night I'm one hell of a lover

I'm just a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania

Let me show you around and maybe play you a sound

You look like you're both pretty groovy

Or if you want something visual

That's not too abysmal

We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie

I'm glad we caught you at home

Could we use your 'phone

We're both in a bit of a hurry

We'll just say where we are

And then go back to the car

We don't want to be any worry

Well you got caught with a flat

Well how about that

Well babies don't you panic

By the light of the night

It'll all seem all right

I'll get you a satanic mechanic

I'm just a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania

Why don't you stop for the night

And maybe a bite

I could show you my favourite obsession

I've been making a man

With blond hair and a tan

And he's good for relieving my tensions

I'm just a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania

I'm just a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania

So come up to the lab

And see what's on the slab

I see you shiver with anticipation

But maybe the rain is really to blame

So I'll remove the cause but not the symptom

TAKE IT EASY

Well I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load

I've got seven women on my mind

Four that want to own me two that want to stone me

One says she's a friend of mine

Take it easy take it easy

Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy

Lighten up while you still can don't even try to understand

Just find a place to make your stand take it easy

Well I'm standing on a corner in Wilmslow Arizona

Such a fine sight to see

It's a girl my lord in a flat Bedford

Slowing down to take a look at me

Come on baby don't say maybe

I've got to know if your sweet love is going to save me

We may lose and we may win but we will never be here again

So open up I'm climbing in take it easy

Well I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load

I've got a world of troubles on my mind

Looking for a lover who won't blow my cover

She's so hard to find Take it easy

Come on baby don’t say maybe

I've got to know if your sweet love is going to save me

Oh we've got it easy

We ought ta take it easy

TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT

All alone at the end of the evening

And the bright lights have faded to blue

I was thinking ‘bout a woman who might have loved me,

And I never knew

You know I’ve always been a dreamer spent my life running ‘round

And it’s so hard to change can’t seem to settle down

But the dreams I’ve seen lately

Keep on turning out and burning out

And turning out the same

So put me on a highway and show me a sign

And take it to the limit one more time

You can spend all your time making money

You can spend all your love making time

If it all feel to pieces tomorrow

Would you still be mine?

And when you’re looking for your freedom nobody seems to care

And you can’t find the door can’t find it anywhere

When there’s nothing to believe in

Still you’re coming back, you’re running back

You’re coming back for more

So put me on a highway and show me a sign

And take it to the limit one more time

Take it to the limit, take it to the limit

Take it to the limit one more time

Take it to the limit, take it to the limit

Take it to the limit one more time

Take it to the limit, take it to the limit

Take it to the limit one more time

Take it to the limit, take it to the limit

Take it to the limit one more time

Take it to the limit, take it to the limit

Take it to the limit one more time

TASTE AND TRY BEFORE YOU BUY

My mother told me when I was young

Some people try to con you son

You’ve got to separate the truth from the lie

Taste and try before you buy

The army say now sign on for five

The army give you a real man’s life

You know I don’t dig that army jive

Taste and try before you buy

My woman looks at me, my woman said

Go pack your things boy and get outta my bed

Five long years now you still ain’t do me right

Taste and try before you buy

This is my philosophy

It may not suit you but it sure suits me

You’ve got to live before you die

Taste and try before you buy

THE TAXMAN

The other day I had a little problem

I found another taxman at my door

Eh you know the kind of feeling this arouses

So I done what I've done many times before

I asked him very nicely if he'd like to step this way

And have a cup of coffee and a bun

Then I hit him with a shovel and I stuffed him in the cupboard

With the coal sacks and I turned around and sung

Oh what shall I do with the taxmen in the cupboard

Mother Hubbard had a cupboard it were bare

But I've got thirteen and another one just come

D'you think it's something that I should declare

I’m not raving, I’m just saving, on my income tax, I’m waiving

Regulations that would quickly strip me bare

So what shall I do with the taxmen in the cupboard

What shall I do with them there

The other day I went down to a post office

And I said I know it's really not the norm

But I've got a load of bodies I want shifting

I wonder if you’ve got the proper form

They said we're very sorry but we'll have to disappoint

We just can't undertake that kind of thing

I think they thought that I were barmy they said the salvation army

May be the people that you ought to ring

So what shall I do with the taxmen in the cupboard

I ask them but they only sit and stare

Now I've got thirty-two with another turning blue

Since I stuck a little poker through his hair

I’m not raving, I’m just saving, on my income tax, I’m waiving

Regulations that would quickly strip me bare

So what shall I do with the taxmen in the cupboard

What shall I do with them there

TEABAG IN MY COFFEE

Intro:

Darling, I’m 500 miles from home, I stopped over at this lonely motel and had me forty seven beers at the bar, and then, darling I staggered up to my lonely room and I yodelled all over the floor, and darling, as I looked down, my thoughts turned to you ....

You’re the teabag in my coffee, you’re the strychnine in my tea

You’re the water in my petrol, I’m so glad you picked on me

I love everything about you, from your head down to your toes

From the pimples on your legs dear, to the warts upon your nose

You’re the dog-end in my ashtray, I can say without regret

You’re the droppings in my bird cage, I wish you’d go and see a vet

You’re the fuse gone in my meter, you look just like a Whitehouse farce

You’re a very noisy eater, you’re a pain in the leg

You’re the abscess on my molars, guess you’ll always be a runt

When I see you in your rollers, can’t tell your backside from your front

You’re the gas bill every quarter, you’re inflation at it’s worst

I can say I love you dearly, like a boil that just won’t burst

Guess I’ll head for new horizons, guess I’ll walk right out the door

But I keep going round in circles, you nailed my left foot to the floor

You’re the nail stuck in my spare tyre, you put my head into a whirl

You’re the greenfly on my roses, how I wish you’d been a girl

TEAR THEM DOWN

Councillors, magistrates, men of renown

Who needs to live in a dirty old town

Yes come on tear it down

Who needs the trees and the flowers to grow

We can have a motorway with motorway dough

I know, I know, I know they’ve got to go

Tear them down mess them round

Bury them deep under the ground

And if you ever have a sleepless night

Just count out your money it’ll be all right

All right

Politicians, planners go look what you’ve done

Your madness is making a machine of everyone

But one day the machine might turn on

We’ll tear you down mess you round

Bury you deep under the ground

And we’ll dance on your graves ‘till the flowers return

And the trees tell us secrets that took ages to learn

We’ll tear you down mess you round

Bury you deep under the ground

And we’ll dance on your graves ‘till the flowers return

And the trees tell us secrets that took ages to learn

We’ll tear you down

TELL HER ABOUT IT

Listen boy I don't want to see you let a good thing slip away

You know I don't like watching anybody make the same mistakes I made

She's a real nice girl and she's always there for you

But a nice girl wouldn't tell you what you should do

Listen boy I'm sure that you think you got it all under control

You don't want somebody telling you the way to stay in someone's soul

You're a big boy now and you'll never let her go

But that's just the kind of thing she ought to know

Tell her about it tell her everything you feel

Give her every reason to accept that you're for real

Tell her about it tell her all your crazy dreams

Let her know you need her let her know how much she means

Listen boy it's not automatically a certain guarantee

To insure yourself you've got to provide communication constantly

When you love someone you're always insecure

And there's only one good way to reassure

Tell her about it let her know how much you care

When she can't be with you tell her you wish you were there

Tell her about it every day before you leave

Pay her some attention give her something to believe

Cause now and then she'll get to worrying

Just because you haven't spoken for so long

And though you may not have done anything

Will that be a consolation when she's gone

Listen boy it's good information from a man who's made mistakes

Just a word or two that she gets from you could be the difference that it makes

She's a trusting soul and she's put her trust in you

But a girl like that won't tell you what you should do

Tell her about it tell her everything you feel

Give her every reason to accept that you're for real

Tell her about it tell her all your crazy dreams

Let her know you need her let her know how much she means

Tell her about it tell her how you feel right now

Just tell her about it the girl don't want to wait too long

You got to tell her about it tell her now and you won't go wrong

You got to tell her about it before it gets too late

Tell her about it you know the girl don't want to wait

Tell her about it

TELL IT LIKE IT IS

If you want something to play with

Go and find yourself a toy

Baby my time is to expensive

And I'm not your little boy

If you are serious don't play with my heart it makes me furious

But if you want me to love you then baby I will

Yeah you know I will

Tell it like it is don't be ashamed

Let your conscience be your guide

But I know deep down inside of me

I believe you love me forget your foolish pride

Life is too short to have sorrow

You might be here today and gone tomorrow

You might as well get what you want

So leave me girl go and leave

Tell it like it is don't be ashamed

Let your conscience be your guide

But I know deep down inside of me

I believe you love me forget your foolish pride

Tell it like it is don't be ashamed

Let your conscience be your guide

But I know deep down inside of me

I believe you love me forget your foolish pride

TEQUILA SUNRISE

It's another tequila sunrise

Stirring slowly 'cross the sky

Said goodbye

He was just a hired hand

Working on the dreams he'd planned to try

The days go by

Every night when the sun goes down

Just another lonely boy in town

And she's out running round

She wasn't just another woman

And I couldn't keep from coming on

Been so long

Woh and it's a hollow feeling

When it comes down to dealing friends

It never ends

Take another shot of courage

Wonder why the fireworks never come

You just get numb

It's another tequila sunrise

This old world still looks the same

Another frame

TEXAS STRUT

Let me tell you about the Texas blues

I went down south to Dallas to hear those cowboys wail

Came across that Feelie Gibbons found out all that she is a trail

I just can't lose with the Texas beat

Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues the Texas blues

Found myself in double trouble when I saw that Texas flood

Stevie said that sky is crying silver Stetsons in his blood

I just can't lose with the Texas beat

Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues the Texas blues

I heard that Houston twister well he could run you off the tracks

When I faced that cold cold feeling you get the shivers down your back

I just can't lose with the Texas blues

Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues the Texas blues

Well I'm a going back to Dallas won't be waiting for no bus

Find it hard down to the sunset you won't see my feet for dust

I just can't lose with the Texas blues

Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues

Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues

Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues

Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues the Texas blues the Texas blues

Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues the Texas blues

THAT’S WHY I’M SO RICH

My manager he promised to make me a star

He wears a diamond ring, smokes a big cigar

I see him riding round town in a big black car

I said I need a lift are you going far

Then he tells me

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor

He said I got you a tour of the USA

And two lovely ladies along the way

Before you know it you’ll soon be a household name

But when I ask how much they are willing to pay

All he tells me

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor

Oh ho That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor

Now that I’m top of the charts and on T.V.

You might think I’m rich but pity me

When I ‘phone up to ask for my royalties

There is only a voice on the answering machine

I hear him tell me

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more

That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor

Oh ho That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor

THEME FROM AN IMAGINARY WESTERN

When the wagons leave the city

For the forest and further on

Painted wagons of the morning

Dusty roads where they have gone

Sometimes travelling through the darkness

Met the Summer coming home

Fallen faces by the wayside

Looked as if they might have known

Oh the sun was in their eye

And the days with the trials

In a country town

Where the laughter sounds

Oh the dancing and the singing

Oh the music when they played

Oh the fires that they started

Oh the girls with no regrets

Sometimes they found it sometimes they kept it

Often they lost it along the way

For each other to possess it

Sometimes ride inside of day

Oh the sun was in their eye

And the days with the trials

In a country town

Where the laughter sounds

Oh the sun was in their eye

And the days with the trials

In a country town

Where the laughter sounds

THERE'S A LIGHT OVER AT THE FRANKENSTEIN PLACE

In the velvet darkness of the blackest night

Looming bright there's a guiding star

No matter what or who you are

There's a light over at the Frankenstein place

There's a light burning in the fireplace

There's a light light in the darkness of everybody's life

Darkness must go down the river of night's dreaming

Flow Morpheus slow let the sun and light come streaming

Into my life into my life

There's a light over at the Frankenstein place

There's a light burning in the fireplace

There's a light light in the darkness of everybody's life

THIRTY-NINE

In the year of thirty-nine assembled here the volunteers

In the days when lands were few

Said the ship roved out on a blue and sunny morn

Sweetest sight ever seen

And the nights they followed day and the storytellers say

That the score brave souls inside

Sailed out for many years way across the milky sea

Ne’er looked back never feared never cried

Don’t you hear my call though you’re many years away

Don’t you hear me calling you

Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand

In the land that our grandchildren knew

In the year of thirty-nine came a ship in from the blue

Volunteers came home that day

And they bring good news of a world so newly born

But their hearts so heavily weigh

For the Earth is old and grey little darling we’ll away

But my love this cannot be

For so many years have gone though I’m older but a year

Your mother’s eyes from your eyes cry to me

Don’t you hear my call though you’re many years away

Don’t you hear me calling you

Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand

In the land that our grandchildren knew

Don’t you hear my call though you’re many years away

Don’t you hear me calling you

All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand

For my life ahead pity me

THOSE WERE THE DAYS

Once upon a time there was a tavern

Where we used to raise a glass or two

Remember how we laughed away the hours

And dreamed of all the great things we would do

Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose

For we were young and sure to have our way

La la la la la la, la la la la la la

Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days

Then the busy years went rushing by us

We lost our starry notions on the way

If by chance I'd see you in the tavern

We'd smile at one another and we'd say

Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose

For we were young and sure to have our way

La la la la la la, la la la la la la

Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days

Just tonight I stood before that tavern

Nothing seemed the way it used to be

In the glass I saw a strange reflection

Was this lonely fellow really me

Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose

For we were young and sure to have our way

La la la la la la, la la la la la la

Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days

through the door there came familiar laughter

I saw you face and heard you call my name

Oh my friend, we're older but no wiser

For in our hearts the dreams are still the same

Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose

For we were young and sure to have our way

La la la la la la, la la la la la la

Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days

THREE TIMES A LADY

Thanks for the times that you’ve given me

The memories are all in my mind

And now that we’ve come to the end of our rainbow

There’s something I must say out loud

You’re once twice three times a lady

And I love you

Yes you’re once twice three times a lady

And I love you I love you

(You’ve shared my dreams my joys my pains)

(You’ve made my life worth living for)

(And if I had to live my life over again dear)

(I’d spend each and every moment with you)

(You’re once twice three times a lady)

(And I love you)

(You’re once twice three times a lady)

(And I love you I love you)

When we are together the moments I cherish

With every beat of my heart

To touch you to hold you to feel you to need you

There’s nothing to keep us apart

You’re once twice three times a lady

And I love you I love you

TIE YOUR MOTHER DOWN

Get your party gown and get your pigtail down

And get your heart beating baby

Got my timing right and got my act all tight

It’s got to be tonight my little school babe

Your mother says you don’t

And your daddy says you won’t

And I’m boiling up inside

Ain’t no way I’m gonna lose out this time

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Lock your daddy out of doors

I don’t need him nosing around

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Give me all your love tonight

You’re such a dirty louse go get outta my house

That’s all I ever get from your family ties

In fact I don’t think I ever heard a single little civil word

From those guys

I don’t give a light I’m gonna make out all right

I’ve got a sweetheart hand to put a stop

To all that sniping and grousing

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Take your little brother swimming

With a brick that’s all right

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Or you ain’t no friend of mine

Your momma and your daddy gonna plague me ‘till I die

I can’t understand it cause I’m a peace loving guy

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Get that big big big big big daddy out the door

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Give me all your love tonight

TIME AFTER TIME

Lying in my bed I hear the clock ticks I thing of you

All the things circled, confusion is nothing new

Flashed that warm night almost left behind

Suitcase so left me

Time after sometimes you pictured me

I’m walking to find a hope, you’re calling to me

I can’t hear what you’ve said

Then you said go slow, I fall behind

The second hand done right

If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time

If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time

If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time

If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time

I’ve done my pictured face

And darkness has turned to climb

Watch you through the window

You’re wondering it’s fine, O.K.

Scene left, stone left from deep inside

If you’re a big sound of time

If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time

If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time

The second hand done right

If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time

If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time

TIME IS ON MY SIDE

Time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time is on my side oh yes it is

Now you always say

That you wanna be free

But you come running back

You come running back

You come running back to me

Time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time is on my side oh yes it is

You're searching for good times

But just wait and see

You'll come runnin' back

You'll come runnin' back

You'll come runnin' back to me

Girl girl go on I said go ahead a lot of the time

And baby do anything your heart desires

Remember I'll be around

But I know I know like I told you so many times before

That you are gonna turn back

Yeah you're gonna come back one of these days

Gonna hammer right on my door

Time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time is on my side oh yes it is

Cause I've got the real love

The kind that you need

You'll come runnin' back

You'll come runnin' back

You'll come runnin' back to me

Yes time time time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time time time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time is on my side oh yes it is

TIME WARP

It's astounding time is fleeting

Madness takes it's toll

But listen closely

Not for very much longer

I've got to keep control

I remember doing the time warp

Drinking those moments when

The blackness would hit me

And the voice would be calling

Let's do the time warp again

It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right

Put your hand on your hips and bring your knees in tight

It's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane

Let's do the time warp again

It's so dreamy

Oh fantasy free me

Till you can't see me no not at all

In another dimension

With voyeuristic intention

Well secluded I see all

With a bit of a mind flip

You're into a time slip

And nothing can ever be the same

You're spaced out on sensation

Like you're under sedation

Let's do the time warp again

It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right

Put your hand on your hips and bring your knees in tight

It's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane

Let's do the time warp again

Well I was walking down the street just a having a think

When this snake of a guy gave me an evil wink

He looked me up he took me by surprise

He had a pickup truck and the devils eyes

He stared at me and I felt the change

Time meant nothing after what I gained

Let's do the time warp again

It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right

Put your hand on your hips and bring your knees in tight

It's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane

Let's do the time warp again

THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING

Come gather around people wherever you roam

And admit that the waters around you have grown

And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth saving

Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changing

Come writers and critics, who prophecies with your pen

And keep your eyes wide the change won't come again

And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin

And there's no telling who that is naming

For the loser now will be later to win

For the times they are a-changing

Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside and it's raging

It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changing

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land

And don't criticise what you don't understand

Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command

Your old road is ripply again

Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changing

The line it is drawn the curse it is cast

The slow one now will later be fast

As the present now will later be past

The order is rapidly fading

And the first one now will later be last

For the times they are a-changing

TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON

When love with unconfined wings hovers within my gates

And my divine Althea brings to whisper at my grates

When thy light angled in her hair and fettered with her eye

Birds that wanton in the air know no such liberty

When flowing cups run swiftly round with no allay intends

Our careless heads with roses crowned our hearts with royal flames

When thirsty grief in wine we steep when healths and draughts run free

Fishes that tickle in the deep know no such liberty

Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage

Minds innocent and quiet take that as a hermitage

If I have freedom in my love and in my soul am free

Angels alone that soar above enjoy such liberty

TO BE A FARMER’S BOY

The sun had set behind yon hill across the dreary moor

Weary and lame a poor boy came unto a farmer’s door

Can you tell me if here it be that I can find employ

To plough and sow to reap and mow

And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy

My father’s dead my mother’s left with children great and small

And what is worse for mother still I’m the oldest of them all

Though small I be though I’ll work hard if you would me employ

To plough and sow to reap and mow

And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy

And if you will not me employ one favour I must ask

To shelter me ‘till break of day from this cold winter’s blast

At break of day away I’ll go elsewhere to seek employ

To plough and sow to reap and mow

And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy

Come try the lad the mistress said let him no further seek

Oh father do the daughter cried as the tears rolled down her cheek

A man that’ll work is hard to find so father him employ

Don’t turn him away but let him stay

And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy

As time the lad became a man and the good old farmer died

Leaving the lad the farm he had and his daughter for his bride

The lad that was a man now is oft smiles as he thinks with joy

And he blesses that day he came that way

To be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy

TO KNOW HER IS TO LOVE HER

To know know know her

Is to love love love her

Just to see her smile

Makes my life worthwhile

To know know know her

Is to love love love her

And I do and I do and I do

I’ll be good to her

I’ll bring love to her

Everyone says there’ll come a day

When I’ll walk alongside of her

Oh yes yes to know know know her

Is to love love love her

And I do and I do and I do

Why can’t she see me

How blind can she be

Someday she’ll see

That she belongs to me

To know know know her

Is to love love love her

Just to see her smile

Makes my life worthwhile

To know know know her

Is to love love love her

And I do and I do and I do

TO LOVE SOMEBODY

There’s a light a certain kind of light

That never shone on me

I want my life to be lived with you

Lived with you

There’s a way everybody say

To do each and every little thing

But what does it bring

If I ain’t got you ain’t got you baby

You don’t know what it’s like

You don’t know what it’s like

To love somebody to love somebody

The way I love you

In my brain I see your face again

I know my frame of mind

You ain’t got to be so blind

And I’m blind so so so very blind

I’m a man can’t you see what I am

I live and I breathe for you

But what good does it do

When I ain’t got you, ain’t got you baby

You don’t know what it’s like

You don’t know what it’s like

To love somebody to love somebody

The way I love you

TOO TIRED

I lay down last night too tired to wake

I had a chill this morning too tired to shake

I got a good poker hand too tired to win

I hear my baby knocking too tired to let her in

I'm tired yeah yeah yeah I'm tired

Too tired too tired for anything

I'm too tired to walk too tired to run

I can hear my baby calling too tired too tired

I'm tired yes I'm tired I'm tired too tired for anything

I'm tired of prosperity I'm tired of luck

I'm sitting on a pin I'm too tired to get up

I'm tired I declare I'm tired

Too tired too tired for anything

THE TORTOISE

He was just a lonely tortoise looking for a home

His little feet were blistered

With the miles he had to roam

I found him in a pet shop

On his cheek there was a tear

On his little back was painted

“Five new pence to clear”

He’s a faithful friend the tortoise

and he’ll love you to the end

And you’ll never need a person

With a tortoise for a friend

I took him from that pet shop

Tied to a piece of string

He was happy in his freedom

You know I think I heard him sing

Then I took him to my sports car

We’d twenty miles to go

I tied him to the bumper

He was grateful for the tow

In the winter we would hibernate

We would both retire

And if he ever got too cold

I’d stick him on the fire

In the summer at the swimming pool

I was so proud of him

I threw him in, he often sank

You know I don’t think he could swim

Then came that day as come it may

To creatures great and small

A drunken driver hit my friend

And he went to the wall

All I found here and there

Were little bits of shell

So I made them into plectrums

And friends I knew this plectrum well

TRAIN IN G

I know you’re travelling but I don’t know where

I’d leave here with you but I just can’t pay my fare

Take me to some better place to be

Now tell me baby don’t you want a man like me

I came in the summer with the bright lights on my mind

I tried to make it but I soon got left behind

If you deal me one good hand to play

Then I swear I’ll keep your secret when your man comes back one day

Hey now baby won’t you take me on your train

We’ll leave tomorrow and we won’t come back again

And if the sun don’t shine on our back door

Then you can leave me in the morning if you just let me know what for

TRAVELLING BAND

Seven thirty seven coming out of the sky

Won't you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride

I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah

Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand

Playing in a travelling band

Take me to the hotel baggage going nowhere

Come on come on won't you get me to my room

I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah

Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand

Playing in a travelling band

Listen to the radio talking 'bout the last show

Someone got excited and they called the state malitia

I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah

Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand

Playing in a travelling band

Here we come again on a Saturday night

With your fussing and your fighting won't you get me to the rock

I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah

Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand

Playing in a travelling band

Playing in a travelling band

Playing in a travelling band

Wanna give myself a hand

Cause I'm playing in a travelling band

Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand

Playing in a travelling band

TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS

Oh she may get weary young girls they do get weary

Wearing that same old shaggy dress but when she gets weary

Try a little tenderness

You know she's waiting just anticipating

The things that she'll never never posses while she's there waiting

Try a little tenderness

That's all you gotta do

You won't regret it some girls they can't forget it

Love is their only happiness but it's all so easy

All you gotta do is try a little gentleness

All you gotta do is try a little gentleness

Hold her squeeze her never leave her

Try a little tenderness

Hold her squeeze her never leave her

Try a little tenderness

Try a little tenderness

All you gotta do is hold her squeeze her

Never leave her gotta please her

Try a little tenderness

Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness

Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness

Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness

Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness

Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness

Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness

TUNNEL OF LOVE

Getting crazy on the waltzer but it’s the life that I choose

Sing about the six blade, sing about the switchback and the torture tattoo

And I’ve been riding on the ghost train where the cars they scream and slam

And I don’t know where I’ll be tonight but I’ll always tell you where I am

In a screaming ring with faces I saw her standing in the light

She had a ticket for the races, just like me she was a victim of the night

I put my hand upon her lever said let it rock and let it roll

I had the one armed bandit fever there was an arrow through my heart and my soul

And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning, up above

And I’m so high on the world come and take a slow ride with me girl

On a tunnel of love, love, love

It’s just a danger when you’re riding at your own risk

She said you are the perfect stranger and she said baby lets keep it like this

It’s just a kick, walk, twisting daily and step right up and see

Hey mister, hey mister gimme two, gimme two now `cause any two can play

And the big wheel keep on turning, neon burning up above

And I’m so high on the world come and take a slow ride with me babe

On a tunnel of love, love, love

Well It’s been money for muscle on another whirligig

Money for muscle and another girl I dig

Just a hustle just to make it big

And rock away, rock away, oh rock away, rock away

Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did

Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids

Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did

Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids

She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this

She put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss

And in the roar and dust and visa I stood I was to walk away

I could have caught up with her easy enough but someone must have made me stay

And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning, up above

And I’m so high on the world come and take a slow ride with me girl

On a tunnel of love, love, love

Hey now I’m searching through these carousel and carnival arcades

Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades

In any shooting gallery where promises are made

To rock away, rock away, Coloured cove to Whitby bay

Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did

Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids

Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did

Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids

Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did

Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids

TURN AGAIN

The stage director stood up and he called the actors down

He asked them all to say three words up, down, and around

Up, down and around they cried with one accord and voice

And up, down and around they went for it was their only choice

I can only turn again, to the front again

Only to turn again, to the rear

Turn again, turn again, turn, turn, turn again

I can listen, but I can’t hear

My friend’s girl’s got a wireless aerial sticking out of her head

And a pile of true romances lying underneath the bed

And a giant poster of Ravi Nooks just beside the door

Well I know she’ll get along fine without him if he doesn’t see her any more

I can only turn again, to the front again

Only to turn again, to the rear

Turn again, turn again, turn, turn, turn again

I can listen, but I can’t hear

The strings were cut from the guitar puppet playing here on the stage

And his music became furious and he stamped his foot in rage

The girls all screamed in agony, the boys they gaped in fear

And the song was called have mercy, have mercy on my ears

I can only turn again, to the front again

Only to turn again, to the rear

Turn again, turn again, turn, turn, turn again

I can listen, but I can’t hear

I remember what the old man said on his little wooden stand

He spoke very quietly with a waving of his hand

Every pigeon to it’s own home was what he seemed to say

And no one should go looking for a better place to stay

I can only turn again, to the front again

Only to turn again, to the rear

Turn again, turn again, turn, turn, turn again

I can listen, but I can’t hear

I can only turn again, to the front again

Only to turn again, to the rear

Turn again, turn again, turn, turn, turn again

I can listen, but I can’t hear

TUTTI FRUTTI

A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bop

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bop

Got a gal name of Sue she knows just what to do

Got a gal name of Sue she knows just what to do

She bop to the east she bop to the west

She's the gal that I like the best

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bop

Got a gal named Adie she almost drives me crazy

Got a gal named Adie she almost drives me crazy

She knows how to love me yes indeed

I don't know how she do it to me

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bop

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bop

Got a gal named Adie she almost drives me crazy

Got a gal named Adie she almost drives me crazy

She knows how to love me yes indeed

I don't know how she do it to me

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

Tutti frutti oh rudi

A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bam

25 OR 6 TO 4

Waiting for the break of day

Searching for something to say

Flashing lights against the sky

Giving up I close my eyes

Sitting cross-legged on the floor

25 or 6 to 4

Staring blindly into space

Getting up to splash my face

Wanting just to stay awake

Wondering how much I can take

Should I try to do some more

25 or 6 to 4

Feeling like I ought to sleep

Spinning wheel is spinning deep

Searching for something to say

Waiting for the break of day

25 or 6 to 4

Turning round the 6 to 4

Turning round the 6 to 4

TWISTING BY THE POOL

We’re going on a holiday now

Gonna take a bit of small chalet

Costa del Magnifico

The cost of living’s so low

Yeah, it’s gonna be so neat

Dancing to the eurobeat

Yeah it’s gonna be so cool

Twisting by the, twisting by the, twisting by the, by the pool

Sitting in a small cafe now

Swing swing swinging to the cabaret

Want to take in a movie, take in a show

Meeting new people at the disco yeah

Yeah, it’s gonna be so neat

Dancing to the eurobeat

Yeah it’s gonna be so cool

Twisting by the, twisting by the, twisting by the, by the pool

Spend the week selling information

Reading all about inflation

And were never gonna be out of reach

There’s a cover on the beach

Twisting by the pool

Uh um you’re gonna look so cute

Sunglasses and a bathing suit

Be the woman of my dreams

Like the ladies in the magazines

Yeah, it’s gonna be so neat

Dancing to the eurobeat

Yeah it’s gonna be so cool

Twisting by the, twisting by the, twisting by the, by the pool

Yeah, it’s gonna be so neat

Dancing to the eurobeat

Yeah it’s gonna be so cool

Twisting by the, twisting by the, twisting by the, by the pool

TWISTING THE NIGHT AWAY

Let me tell you ‘bout a place

Somewhere out the New York way

Where the people are so gay

Twisting the night away

Here they have a lot of fun

Putting trouble on the run

Oh man you find the old and young

Twisting the night away

See the man in evening clothes

How he got there I don’t know

But man you ought to see him go

Twisting the night away

He’s dancing with a chick in slacks

She’s moving up and back

Man there ain’t nothing like

Twisting the night away

Here’s a fella in blue jeans

Who’s dancing with an older queen

Cats dolled up in a diamond ring

Twisting the night away

Man you ought to see her go

Twisting to the rock and roll

Here you find the young and old

Twisting the night away

Twisting twisting everybody’s doing great yeah

Twisting twisting twisting the night away

Twisting twisting twisting the night away

Twisting twisting twisting the night away

Here they have a lot of fun

Putting trouble on the run

Oh man you find the old and young

Twisting the night away

See the man in evening clothes

How he got there I don’t know

But man you ought to see him go

Twisting the night away

UNCHAIN MY HEART

Unchain my heart baby let me be

Unchain my heart ‘cause you don’t care about me

You’ve got me sewed up like a pillow case

But you’re letting my love go to waste

So unchain my heart oh please please set me free

Unchain my heart baby let me go

Unchain my heart ‘cause you don’t love me no more

Every time I call you on the phone

Some fella tells me that you’re not at home

So unchain my heart oh please please set me free

Unchain my heart baby let me be

Unchain my heart ‘cause you don’t care about me

You’ve got me sewed up like a pillow case

But you’re letting my love go to waste

So unchain my heart oh please please set me free

I’m under your spell like a man in a trance

But I know darn well that I don’t stand a chance

So unchain my heart let me go my way

Unchain my heart you worry me night and day

Why lead me through a life of misery

When you don’t care a bag of beans for me

So unchain my heart oh please please set me free

I’m under your spell like a man in a trance

But I know darn well that I don’t stand a chance

So unchain my heart let me go my way

Unchain my heart you worry me night and day

Why lead me through a life of misery

When you don’t care a bag of beans for me

So unchain my heart oh please please set me free

Oh won’t you set me free oh set me free

UNCHAINED MELODY

Oh my love my darling

I’ve hungered for your touch a long lonely time

And time goes by so slowly

And time can do so much are you still mine

I need your love I need your love

God speed your love to me

Lonely rivers flow to the sea to the sea

To the open arms of the sea

Lonely rivers sigh wait for me wait for me

I’ll be coming home wait for me

Lonely mountains gaze at the stars

Waiting for the dawn of the day

All alone I gaze at the stars at the stars

Dreaming of my love far away

Oh my love my darling

I’ve hungered for your touch a long lonely time

And time goes by so slowly

And time can do so much are you still mine

I need your love I need your love

God speed your love to me

UNDER THE BOARDWALK

When the sun beats down

And melts the tar upon the roof

And your shoes get so hot

You wish your tired feet were fire proof

Under the boardwalk down by the sea

On a blanket with my baby's where I'll be

Under the boardwalk, out of the sun

Under the boardwalk, we'll be having some fun

Under the boardwalk, people walking above

Under the boardwalk, we'll be making love

Under the boardwalk, boardwalk

From the park you hear

The happy sound of a carousal

And you can almost taste

Hot Dogs and French Fries they sell

Under the boardwalk down by the sea

On a blanket with my baby's where I'll be

Under the boardwalk, out of the sun

Under the boardwalk, we'll be having some fun

Under the boardwalk, people walking above

Under the boardwalk, we'll be making love

Under the boardwalk, boardwalk

When the sun beats down

And melts the tar upon the roof

And your shoes get so hot

You wish your tired feet were fire proof

Under the boardwalk down by the sea

On a blanket with my baby's where I'll be

Under the boardwalk, out of the sun

Under the boardwalk, we'll be having some fun

Under the boardwalk, people walking above

Under the boardwalk, we'll be making love

Under the boardwalk, boardwalk

UNICORNS

We were travelling north to sing and play

For friends that we had never met

Been working hard and didn't speak

The sky was grey and threatened wet

And I dreamed that I saw unicorns

Dreamed I saw them wild and white

Their sudden beauty lit the world

Like a star will light a winter's night

Pure as love with manes of milk

They danced and pranced and cried aloud

Bright as rainbows round the stars

Their eyes were soft and sad and proud

And I wept for the wild and dirty world

To which this beauty now was lost

And cursed the hungry mind of man

That feeds the future at such cost

My head was bowed my eyes were closed

When in my ears their voices rang

And these few words lodged deep inside

And in my very soul they sang

We never went away

You always knew that we were near

Remember how to look for us

You'll see we were always here

I raised my eyes to seek them out

The world was empty all around

Rain came tumbling from the sky

It drowned all dreams upon the ground

And when they asked me why I wept

Like one who for his dead love mourns

The only answer I could give

I dreamed that there were unicorns

We never went away

You always knew that we were near

Remember how to look for us

You'll see we were always here

We never went away

You always knew that we were near

Remember how to look for us

You'll see we were always here

UNION MAN

Now I’m a union man

Amazed at what I am

I say what I think that the company stinks

Cause I’m a union man

When we meet in the local hall

I’ll be voting with them all

With a hell of a shout, it’s “Out brothers out”

And the rise of the factory’s fall

Oh You don’t get me I’m part of the union

You don’t get me I’m part of the union

You don’t get me I’m part of the union

Till the day I die till the day I die

As a union man I’m wise

To the lies of the company spies

And I don’t get fooled by the factory rules

Cause I always read between the lines

And I always get my way

If I strike for higher pay

When I show my card to the Scotland Yard

And this is what I say

Oh You don’t get me I’m part of the union

You don’t get me I’m part of the union

You don’t get me I’m part of the union

Till the day I die till the day I die

Before the union did appear

My life was half as clear

Now I’ve got the power to the working hour

And every other day of the year

Now although I’m a working man

I can ruin the Government’s plan

I never know how this is all going to go

I’m just some kind of superman

Ooooh You don’t get me I’m part of the union

You don’t get me I’m part of the union

You don’t get me I’m part of the union

Till the day I die till the day I die

You don’t get me I’m part of the union

You don’t get me I’m part of the union

You don’t get me I’m part of the union

Till the day I die till the day I die

UP AROUND THE BEND

There's a place up ahead and I'm going

Just as fast as my feet can fly

Come away come away if you're going

Leave the sinking ship behind

Come on arise and win we're goin' up around the bend

Bring a song and a smile for the banjo

Better get while the getting's good

Hitch a ride to the end of the highway

Where the neons turn to wood

Come on arise and win we're goin' up around the bend

You can ponder perpetual motion

Fix your mind on a crisp filled day

Always time for a good conversation

There's a new form in what you say

Come on arise and win we' re goin’ up around the bend

Catch a ride to the end of the highway

And we'll meet by the big red tree

There's a place up ahead and I'm going

Come along come along with me

Come on arise and win we're goin’ up around the bend

UP WHERE WE BELONG

Who knows what tomorrow brings

In a world few hearts survive

All I know is the way I feel

When it’s real I keep it alive

The road is long

There are mountains in our way

But we climb a step every day

Love lift us where we belong

Where the eagles cry on a mountain high

Love lift us up where we belong

Far from the world we know

Up where the clear winds blow

Some hang on to “used to be”

Live their lives looking behind

All we have is here and now

All our life out there to find

The road is long

There are mountains in our way

But we climb a step every day

Love lift us where we belong

Love lift us up where we belong

Where the eagles cry on a mountain high

Love lift us up where we belong

Far from the world we know

Up where the clear winds blow

Time goes by, no time to cry

Life’s you and I, alive today

Love lift us up where we belong

Where the eagles cry on a mountain high

Love lift us up where we belong

Far from the world we know

UPTOWN GIRL

Uptown girl she's been living in her uptown world

I bet she never had a back street guy

I bet her mama never told her why

I'm gonna try for an uptown girl

She's been living in her white bread world

As long as anyone with hot blood can

And now she's looking for a downtown man

That's what I am

And when she knows what she wants from her time

And when she wakes up and makes up her mind

She'll see I'm not so tough just because I'm in love

With an uptown girl

You know I've seen her in her uptown world

She's getting tired of her high class toys

And all the presents from her uptown boys

She's got a choice

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Uptown girl you know I can't afford to buy her pearls

But maybe someday when my ship comes in

She'll understand what kind of guy I've been

And then I'll win

And when she's walking she's looking so fine

And when she's talking she'll say that she's mine

She'll say I'm not so tough just because I'm in love

With an uptown girl

She's been living in her white bread world

As long as anyone with hot blood can

And now she's looking for a downtown man

That's what I am

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Uptown girl she's my uptown girl

You know I'm in love with an uptown girl my uptown girl

Don't you know I'm in love with an uptown girl my uptown girl

Don't you know I'm in love with an uptown girl my uptown girl

Don't you know I'm in love with an uptown girl my uptown girl

I’M THE URBAN SPACEMAN

I’m the urban spaceman baby I’ve got speed

I’ve got everything I need

I’m the urban spaceman baby I can fly

I’m a supersonic guy

I don’t need pleasure I don’t feel the pain

If you were to knock me down

I just get up again

I’m the urban spaceman baby I’m making out

I’m all about

I wake up every morning with a smile upon my face

My natural exuberance spills out all over the place

I’m the urban spaceman I’m intelligent and clean

Know what I mean

I’m the urban spaceman baby as a lover second to none

It’s a lot of fun

I never let my friends down I’ve never made a boob

I’m a glossy magazine an advert in the tube

I’m the urban spaceman babe but here comes the twist

I don’t exist

THE VICAR AND THE FROG

A very holy man, a vicar by trade,

Was a walking in the woods one day,

When he heard a voice give a plaintive cry,

“Oh help me vicar” the voice did say,

And the vicar looked around

And all he could see was a tiny frog seated on the ground,

“My dear little froggy did you speak to me,

Was it you who spoke when I heard that sound ?”

“Oh yes” said the frog “please help me vicar,

I’m not really a frog you see,

I’m a choirboy really but a nasty fairy

Cast a wicked spell on me,

And the only way I can be saved

From this evil spell” the little frog said

“Is for someone to take me and put me in a place

Where a holy man has laid his head.”

So the vicar took him home and put him on his pillow,

And there he lay ‘till the break of day,

And in the morning a blessed miracle,

The spell was broken I’m glad to say,

And there was a choirboy in bed with the vicar

And I hope this all makes sense

For there my lord and members of the jury

Rests the case for the defence.

VINCENT

Starry, starry night, paint your pallet blue and grey

Look out on a summers day,

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the daffodils

And catch the breeze and winter chills

In colours on the snowy linen land

Now I understand, what you try to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps they listen now

Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze

Swirling colours in a violet haze

Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue

Colours changing hue, morning fields of amber grain

Weathered faces lined in pain

Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand

Now I understand, what you try to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps they listen now

For they could not love you, but still your love was true

And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night

You took your life as lovers often do

I could have told you Vincent,

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls

Frameless heads on nameless walls

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the stranger that you've met, the ragged man in ragged clothes

A silver thorn a bloody rose

Lying crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know, what you try to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried and set them free

They would not listen, they're not listening still

Perhaps they never will

WAKE UP LITTLE SISTER

Wake up little sister tell me what you’ve got

I can see you’re dreaming quite a lot

And if the sun is shining we can make it to the top

Wake up little sister and tell me what is and what is not

Wake up little dreamer you’ve been dreaming too long

I can feel your heartbeat like a song

With you beside me I can feel both gentle and strong

Wake up little sister and tell me what’s right and what is wrong

Wake up little sister help me through the night

We’ve got to make it, we’ve got to make it all right

And in the morning when we have to say good night

We’ll say hello I know and walk off into the light

And in the morning when we have to say good night

We’ll say hello I know and walk off into the light

And if the sun is shining we can make it to the top

Wake up little sister and tell me what is and what is not

WALK OF LIFE

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies

Hey bopaluba listen what I say

Here comes Johnny singing I’ve got a woman

Down in the tunnel trying to make it pay

He’s got the action, he’s got the motion

Yeah, the boy can play

Dedication and devotion, turning the night time into the day

Do the song about the sweet loving woman

Do the song about the knife

Do the walk do the walk of life, yeah, the walk of life

Here comes Johnny gonna tell you a story

Hand me down my walking shoes

Here comes Johnny with the power and the glory

Back beat, the talking blues

He’s got the action, he’s got the motion

Yeah, the boy can play

Dedication and devotion, turning the night time into the day

Do the song about the sweet loving woman

Do the song about the knife

Do the walk do the walk of life, yeah, the walk of life

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies

Hey bopaluba listen what I say

Here comes Johnny singing I’ve got a woman

Down in the tunnel trying to make it pay

He’s got the action, he’s got the motion

Yeah, the boy can play

Dedication and devotion, turning the night time into the day

Do the song about the sweet loving woman

Do the song about the knife

Do the walk do the walk of life, yeah, the walk of life

And after all the violence and double talk

There’s just the song of all the trouble and the strife

You do the walk, yeah, you do the walk of life

WALTZING Mrs. THATCHER

Once an ageing yuppie passed by a juicy pension fund,

Under the protection of a loophole in the law.

And he watched, and he waited and he seized the opportunity,

Then he banked it in the Seychelles before anybody saw.

Rip off the punters rip off the punters,

Tax the buggers heavily come listen to my plea.

'Cause my cottage needs rethatchering and my Rolls Royce needs an overhaul,

The plebs'll only spend it so give it all to me.

Then this poor old yuppie found life getting sticky

Folks were asking questions especially of him

So he sailed off in his yacht to the sunny Costa Packet

And no one’s ever seen him since he went for a swim

Rip off the punters rip off the punters,

Tax the buggers heavily come listen to my plea.

'Cause my cottage needs rethatchering and my Rolls Royce needs an overhaul,

The plebs'll only spend it so give it all to me.

THE WANDERER

Well I'm the type of guy who will never settle down

Where pretty girls are, well you know that I'm around

I kiss 'em and I love 'em, 'cause to me they're all the same

I hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my name

They call me the wanderer, yeah the wanderer,

I roam around, around around, around around

Well there is Bo on my left hand and there is Mary on my right

And Jenny is the girl that I'll be with tonight

And when she asked me which one I love the best

I tear off my shirt and show her Rosy on my chest

'Cause I'm a wanderer, yeah the wanderer,

I roam around, around around, around around

Well, I roam from town to town,

I roam through life without a care,

And I’m as happy as a clown.

With my two fists of iron

And I'm going nowhere

Yeah, I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around

I'm never in one place I roam from town to town

And when I find myself falling for some girl

I hop right into that car of mine and I drive around the world

Yeah, I'm the wanderer, yeah the wanderer,

I roam around, around around, around around

Well, I roam from town to town,

I roam through life without a care,

And I’m as happy as a clown.

With my two fists of iron

And I'm going nowhere

Yeah, I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around

I'm never in one place I roam from town to town

And when I find myself falling for some girl

I hop right into that car of mine and I drive around the world

Yeah, I'm the wanderer, yeah the wanderer,

I roam around, around around, around around

WATERS OF TYNE

I canna get to my love though I would dae

The waters of Tyne come between her and me

So here I must stand with a tear in my eye

Both sighing and longing my true love to see

Go fetch me a boatman my bonny Jimmy

Find me a boatman and bring him to me

To carry me over the Tyne to my hinnie

And I shall remember the boatman and thee

Oh where is that boatman my bonny Jimmy

Fetch me the ferryman where’er he may be

That I may cross over the Tyne to my hinnie

So me and my love united may be

I canna get to my love though I would dae

The waters of Tyne come between her and me

So here I must stand with a tear in my eye

Both sighing and longing my true love to see

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS

I’ve paid my dues time after time

I’ve done my sentence but comitted no crime

And bad mistakes I’ve made a few

I’ve had my share of sand kicked in my face but I’ve come through

We are the champions my friends

And we’ll keep on fighting ‘till the end

We are the champions we are the champions

No time for losers ‘cause we are the champions of the world

I’ve taken my bows and my curtain calls

You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it I thank you all

But it’s been no bed of roses no pleasure cruise

I consider it a challenge before the whole human race and I ain’t gonna lose

We are the champions my friends

And we’ll keep on fighting ‘till the end

We are the champions we are the champions

No time for losers ‘cause we are the champions of the world

We are the champions my friends

And we’ll keep on fighting ‘till the end

We are the champions we are the champions

No time for losers ‘cause we are the champions of the world

WE CAN SWING TOGETHER

No one came to criticise no one to complain

Just to pass a little bit of time and play some human games

Some were smoking rolly rolls while others they had none

But everybody was holding hands and singing this little song

We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right

We can swing together, we can swing right through the night

Then when things were happening around about ten to four

There was a screeching of brakes, and dogs barking outside, and a hammering on the door

Then the voice of officialdom saying open up in the name of the law

We just kept on holding hands and singing this song some more

We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right

We can swing together, we can swing all through the night

Then they broke down all the doors, they kicked the windows in

Let their doggies off their leads and they ransacked everything

They stood us all against the wall their faces split with grins

We linked each other’s handcuffs and merrily began to sing

We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right

We can swing together, we can swing right through the night

They took us to see the county judge with a wig hat on his head

He heard our case with a smile on his face and this is what he said

I have to send you all to jail for doing this terrible thing

But as I walked down to the cells I swear I heard him sing

We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right

We can swing together, we can swing all through the night

We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right

We can swing together, we can swing all through the night

We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right

We can swing together, we can swing right through the night

WE USED TO KNOW

Whenever I get to feel this way

Hard to find new words to say

I think about the bad old days

We used to know

Nights of winter turn me cold

Fears of dying getting old

We ran the race the race was won

By running slowly

Could be soon we’ll cease to sound

Slowly upstairs faster down

Then to revisit stony grounds

We used to know

Remembering mornings shillings spent

Made no sense to leave the bed

The bad old days they came and went

You’ve been waiting fruitful years

Saving up the birds in hand

While in the bush the others land

Take what we can before the man

Says it’s time to go

Each to his own way I’ll go mine

Best of luck with what you find

But for your own sake remember times

We used to know

WEE WEE SONG

When I was a wee wee tot

They took me from my wee wee cot

And put me on my wee wee pot

To see if I’d wee wee or not

When they saw that I would not

They took me from my wee wee pot

And put me in my wee wee cot

And there I would wee wee or not

THE WEIGHT

We pulled into Nazareth, feeling 'bout half past dead

Just need to find a place, where we can lay our heads

Mister can you tell us, where a man might find a bed

He just grinned and shook our hands, "No" was all he said

Take a load off Fanny take a load for free

Take a load off Fanny and you put the load right on me

I picked my bags and went looking for a place to hide

When I saw old Carmen and the devil walking side by side

Now I said, "Hey Carmen, come on let's go downtown !"

She said, "I got to go, but my friend can stick around."

Take a load off Fanny take a load for free

Take a load off Fanny and you put the load right on me

Go down miss Moses, there's nothing that you can say

'Cause it's old Luke and Luke's a-waiting on judgement day

"Hey Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee"

He said, "Do me a favour son, won't you stay and keep Anna Lee company"

Take a load off Fanny take a load for free

Take a load off Fanny and you put the load right on me

Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog

He said, "I will fix your rack, if you just jack my dog."

I said, "Wait a minute Chester, I'm a peaceful man."

He said, "That's OK, won't you feed him, whenever you can."

Take a load off Fanny take a load for free

Take a load off Fanny and you put the load right on me

Catch a cannonball, take me on down the line

My bag is sinking low and I do believe that it's time

To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one

She sent me here her regards for everyone

Take a load off Fanny take a load for free

Take a load off Fanny and you put the load right on me

WHAT'D I SAY

Hey mamma don't you treat me wrong

Come and love your daddy all night long

All night long hey hey all right

See that girl with the diamond ring

She sure knows how to shake that thing

All night long hey hey all right

Tell your papa tell your mam

I'm gonna send you back where you come from

You don't do right you don't do right hey hey

When you see me in misery

Come on baby set me free now

All night long hey hey all right

When you see me in misery

Come on baby set me free now

All night long hey hey all right

See the girl with the red dress on

She likes to rock and roll all night long

What'd I say yeah what'd I say

Well tell me what I say

Tell me what I say right now

Tell me what I say tell me what I say

Yeah I want to know

I want to know right now

Yeah tell me what I say

Baby feels so good

Baby you’re so good

Makes me feel all right

Shake that thing

Why don't you shake that thing right now

Yeah it'll make you feel all right

One more time

Yeah one more time right now

It's all right it's all right now

WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN

When a man loves a woman

Can't keep his mind on nothing else

He'll change the world

For the good thing he's found

If she's bad he can't see it

She can do no wrong

Turn his back on his best friend

If he puts her down

When a man loves a woman

Spends his very last dime

Trying to hold on

To what he needs

He'll give up all of his comforts

Sleep out in the rain

He'll pretend it's the way

It ought to be

When a man loves a woman

I gave you everything I had

Trying to hold on to your love

Baby please don't treat me bad

When a man loves a woman

Down deep in his soul

She can burn him

So easily

If she plays him for a fool

He's the last one to know

Loving eyes

Can never see

When a man loves a woman

He can do her no wrong

He can never walk some other girl

Yes when a man loves a woman

I know exactly how he feels

Baby baby baby you're my world

When a man loves a woman

I know exactly how you feel

WHEN I’M DEAD AND GONE

Oh I love you baby I love you night and day

When I leave you baby don’t cry the night away

When I die don’t you write no words upon my tomb

I don’t believe I want to leave no epitaph of doom

Oh, oh, oh, oh, when I’m dead and gone

I want to leave same happy woman living on

Oh, oh, oh, oh, don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave

Old mamma Linda she’s out to get my hide

She’s got a shotgun and her daughter by her side

Hey there ladies, Johnson’s free

Who’s got the love who’s got the love to keep a man like me

Oh, oh, oh, oh, when I’m dead and gone

I want to leave same happy woman living on

Oh, oh, oh, oh, don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave

WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR

When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now

Will you still be sending me a valentine

Birthday greetings, bottle of wine

If I'd been out 'til quarter to three, would you lock the door

Will you still need me, will you still feed me

When I'm sixty-four

Hm

You'll be older too

And if you say the word

I could stay with you

I could be handy mending a fuse when your lights have gone

You can knit a sweater by the fireside

Sunday mornings go for a ride

Doing the garden, digging the weeds, who could ask for more

Will you still need me, will you still feed me

When I'm sixty-four

Every summer we can rent a cottage

On the Isle of Wight if it's not too dear

We could scrimp and save

And grandchildren on your knee

Vera, Chuck and Dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line, stating point of view

Indicate precisely what you mean to say

Yours sincerely wasting away

Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more

Will you still need me, will you still feed me

When I'm sixty-four

Will you still need me, will you still feed me

When I'm sixty-four

WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT

Once I lived the life of a millionaire

Spent all my money just did not care

Took all my friends out for a mighty good time

Bought bootleg whisky, champagne and wine

Then I began to fall so low

Lost all my good friends just had nowhere to go

If I get my hands on a dollar again

I’m gonna hang on it ‘till that eagle grins

Nobody wants you

When you’re down and out

In your pocket not one penny

And your friends well you don’t have any

When you get back on your feet again

Everybody wants to be your long lost friend

Mighty strange without a doubt

Nobody wants you when you’re down and out

WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS

I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping

While my guitar gently weeps

I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping

Still my guitar gently weeps

I don’t know why nobody told you

How to unfold your love

I don’t know how someone controlled you

They bought and sold you

I look at the world and I notice it’s turning

While my guitar gently weeps

With every mistake we must surely be learning

Still my guitar gently weeps

I don’t know how you were diverted

You were perverted too

I don’t know how you were inverted

No one altered you

I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping

While my guitar gently weeps

I look at you all still my guitar gently weeps

WHINNY’S RAG

Listen while I tell you about a little girl

I’ve been with over just three years

Some would say she’s slow but I would answer no

She knows how to shift them gears

We used to be so cosy everything was rosy

In our little love nest on the Old Kent Road

In our house of passion they could hear us thrashing

A good six houses down the road

But now that she has gone I can’t carry on

Every night I end up canned

I’m in and out of boozers I’m backing all the losers

Well I have to take myself in hand

I was s’posed to meet her by a parking meter

It was just outside the Coal Face Club

Then when I had got there I looked but couldn’t find her

I thought she must be taking a walk

I there and then decided

As swiftly home I strided

I’d have to make her sorry for crossing my path

I was really mad completely off my mettle

I can’t believe she left me all alone

I went to see her mother she wasn’t with her brother

I began to leap and groan

Then in disillusion

I came to this conclusion

My little bird had flown

If you see my Whinny she’s blonde and rather skinny

But you’ll know her by the wart on her nose

Her dress is very sweet she’s really rather neat

She always wears them beat up clothes

So Whinny if you’re near

Come home to me my dear

You know I’ll always understand

WHISKY IN THE JAR

As I was going over the Cork and Kerry mountains

I met with captain Ferrel as his money he was counting

I first produced my pistol and then got out my rapier

Saying stand and deliver for I am the bold receiver

Put your ring on a do on a di

Wack for my daddy oh

Wack for my daddy oh

There's whisky in the jar

I took all of his money and it was a pretty penny

I put it in my bag and I took it home to Molly

She swore that she’d love me and she ne'er again would leave me

The devil take the women for you know she tricked me easy

Put your ring on a do on a di

Wack for my daddy oh

Wack for my daddy oh

There's whisky in the jar

Being drunk and weary I went into Molly’s chamber

Taking my bounty with me and I never knew the danger

For round about six or seven in walked captain Ferrel

I jumped up fired off my pistols and I shot him with both barrels

Put your ring on a do on a di

Wack for my daddy oh

Wack for my daddy oh

There's whisky in the jar

Now some they like the fishing and some they like the fowling

And some men like to hear the cannon balls rolling

Me I like sleeping specially in my Molly’s chamber

But here I am in prison here I am with a ball and chain yeah

Put your ring on a do on a di

Wack for my daddy oh

Wack for my daddy oh

There's whisky in the jar

If there's anyone can help me it's my brother in the army

Maybe he's in Cork or maybe in Killarney

Together we'll go tramping through the golden fields of barley

He's sure to treat me better than my darling sporting Jenny

Put your ring on a do on a di

Wack for my daddy oh

Wack for my daddy oh

There's whisky in the jar

WHITE ROOM

In a white room with black curtains in the station

Black roof country no gold pavements tired starlings

Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes

Dawn light smiles on you leaving my contentment

I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines

Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves

You said no strings could secure you at the station

Platform ticket restless diesel goodbye window

I walked out of such a sad time at the station

As I walked out felt my own need just beginning

And I'll wait in the queue wen the train comes back

Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves

At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd

Consolation for the old wound now forgotten

Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes

She's just dressing goodbye windows tired starlings

I'll sleep in this place with the lonely crowd

Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves

A WHITER SHADE OF PALE

We skipped the light Fandango

And turned cartwheels cross the floor

I was feeling kind of sea sick

But the crowd called out for more

The room was humming hotter

As the ceiling flew away

When we called out for another drink

The waiter brought a tray

And so it was later

As the mirror told his tale

That her face at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said there is no reason

And the truth is plain to see

As I wandered through my playing cards

That would not let her be

One of sixteen vestal virgins

Who were leaving for the coast

And the moment my eyes were open

They might just as well been closed

And so it was later

As the mirror told his tale

That her face at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale

And so it was later

As the mirror told his tale

That her face at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale

WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN

Long as I remember rain's been coming down

Clouds of mystery falling confusion on the ground

Goodness through the ages trying to find the sun

And I wonder still I wonder who'll stop the rain

I went down Virginia seeking shelter from the storm

Out up in the fable I watched the tower close

Obvious plans and new deals wrapped in golden chains

And I wonder still I wonder who'll stop the rain

Heard the singers playing how we cheered for more

Crowed rushed together trying to keep warm

Still the rain kept falling violence on my heels

And I wonder still I wonder who'll stop the rain

WHOLE LOTTA LOVE

You need coolin’ baby I’m not foolin’

I’m gonna say it yeah get back to schoolin’

Way down inside honey you need it

I’m gonna give you my love

I’m gonna give you my love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

You’ve been learnin’ baby I mean learnin’

All them good times baby baby I’ve been yearnin’

Way way down inside honey you need it

I’m gonna give you my love

I’m gonna give you my love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

You’ve been coolin’ baby I’ve been droolin’

All the good times I’ve been misusin’

Way way down inside I’m gonna give you my love

I’m gonna give you every inch of my love

Gonna give you my love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Wanna whole lotta love

Way down inside woman you need love

Shake for me I wanna be your back door man

Hey oh hey oh oh oh oh

Keep a coolin’ baby keep a coolin’ baby

WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOING ON

Come on over baby whole lotta shaking going on

I said come on over baby baby you can't go wrong

We ain't thinking whole lotta shaking going on

Come on over baby we've got a chicken in the barn

Come on over baby we've got the bull by the horns

We ain't thinking whole lotta shaking going on

I said shake baby shake shake baby shake

Shake baby shake shake baby shake

Come on over whole lotta shaking going on

Come on over baby we've got a chicken in the barn

Come on over baby we've got the bull by the horns

We ain't thinking whole lotta shaking going on

I said shake baby shake shake baby shake

Shake baby shake shake baby shake

Come on over baby whole lotta shaking going on

I said shake baby shake shake baby shake

Shake baby shake shake baby shake

Come on over whole lotta shaking going on

Come on over whole lotta shaking going on

WHY WORRY NOW

Baby, I see this world has made you sad

Some people can be bad, things they do and things they say

But baby, I’ll wipe away those bitter tears

I’ll chase away those restless fears

That turn your blue skies into grey

Why worry, there should be laughter after pain

There should be sunshine after rain

These things have always been the same

So, why worry now, why worry now

Baby, when I get down I turn to you

And you make sense of what I do

And all that isn’t hard to say

Why worry, there should be laughter after pain

There should be sunshine after rain

These things have always been the same

So, why worry now, why worry now

But baby, just when this world seems mean and cold

Our love comes shining red and gold

And all the rest is by the way

Why worry, there should be laughter after pain

There should be sunshine after rain

These things have always been the same

So, why worry now, why worry now

THE UNEXPURGATED WILD COLONIAL BOY

There was a wild colonial boy Bruce Clansky was his name

He was born and raised in Wooloomooloo A place of no great fame

Where men are men and girls are few and sheep will oft times do

And don’t forget your machine gun if you go to Wooloomooloo

Now Bruce grew up when times were hard and wandered near and far

He robbed the rich to help the poor and bought a brand new car

A T.V. and a stereo and beer and fags galore

In fact there wasn’t that much left to waste upon the poor

One morning in the wild outback as Bruce he rode along

An emu raped a parakeet down by a billabong

A wombat waltzed a dingo dozed a jumbuck jumped for joy

It’s like a flamin’ menagerie said the wild colonial boy

He took a trip to Adelaide to find himself a whore

He stacked the furniture round the room and up against the door

The Sheila asked what was his game he answered on the spot

If it’s anything like a kangaroo we’ll need all the space we’ve got

He went to his mates wedding and wished he’d stayed at home instead

The beer ran out too soon and someone took the bride to bed

But it ended well more beer turned up and to everyone’s surprise

The bloke who took the bride to bed came to apologise

He met a band of shearers on the road to Bungaree

They took him to their bivouac and had a rare old spree

Now what they did I cannot say I’d rather not be blunt

But that is why Australians wear their trousers back to front

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God bless Australia and all those who sail in her

God bless her jumbucks and billabongs too

For our country’s pure, our country’s white

We’ve locked the Abos out of sight

And if you like tasteless fizzy beer

We’ll waltz along with you

WILD ROVER

I've been a wild rover for many's the year

And I've spent all my money on whisky and beer

But now I'm returned with gold in great store

And it's never I'll play the wild rover no more

And it's no nay never

No nay never no more

Will I play the wild rover

No never no more

I went into an ale house I used to frequent

And I told the landlady my money was spent

I asked her for credit she answered me nay

Saying custom like yours I can get any day

And it's no nay never

No nay never no more

Will I play the wild rover

No never no more

So I pulled from my pockets sovereigns bright

And the landlady's eyes opened wide with delight

She said we've got brandy and wine of the best

And the words that I spoke they were only in jest

And it's no nay never

No nay never no more

Will I play the wild rover

No never no more

I'll go home to my parents confess what I've done

And ask them to forgive their prodigal son

And when they've caressed me as oft times before

It's never I'll play the wild rover no more

And it's no nay never

No nay never no more

Will I play the wild rover

No never no more

WILD THING

Wild thing you make my heart sing

You make everything groovy

Wild thing

Wild thing I think you move me

But I wanna know for sure

Come here and sock it to me one time

You move me

Wild thing you make my heart sing

You make everything groovy

Wild thing

Wild thing I think I love you

But I wanna know for sure

Come here and sock it to me one time again

I love you

Wild thing you make my heart sing

You make everything groovy

Wild thing

Wild thing

Wild thing

Wild thing

Wild thing

WILD WORLD

Now that I've lost everything to you

You say you want to start something new

And it's breaking my heart you're leaving, baby I'm grieving

But if you want to leave take good care

Hope you have a lot of nice things to wear

But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there

Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world

It's hard to get by just upon a smile

Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world

I'll always remember you like a child, girl

You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do

And it's breaking my heart in two

'Cause I never want to see you sad girl. don't be a bad girl

But if you want to leave take good care

Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there

But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware

Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world

It's hard to get by just upon a smile

Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world

I'll always remember you like a child, girl

Baby I love you

But if you want to leave take good care

Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there

But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware

Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world

It's hard to get by just upon a smile

Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world

I'll always remember you like a child, girl

Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world

It's hard to get by just upon a smile

Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world

I'll always remember you like a child, girl

WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW

Tonight you're mine completely

You give your love so sweetly

Tonight the light of love is in your eyes

Will you still love me tomorrow

Is this a lasting treasure

Or just a moment's pleasure

Tonight believe the of your sighs

Will you still love me tomorrow

Tonight with words unspoken

You say that I'm the only one

But will my heart be broken

When the night meets the morning sun

I'd like to know that your love

Is love that I can be sure of

So tell me now and I won't ask again

Will you still love me tomorrow

So tell me now and I won't ask again

Will you still love me tomorrow

THE WIND CRIES MARY

Well after all the jacks are in their boxes

And the clowns have all gone to bed

You can hear happiness staggering on down the street

Footprints dressed in red

And the wind whispers Mary

A broom is drearily sweeping

Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life

Somewhere a queen is weeping

Somewhere a king has no wife

And the wind it cries Mary

The traffic lights they turn on blue tomorrow

And shine their emptiness down on our bed

The tiny island sags down stream

Cause the light that lived is dead

And the wind screams Mary

Will the wind ever remember

The names it has blown in the past

And with it's crutch it's old age and it's wisdom

It whispers no this will be the last

And the wind cries Mary

WINGS OF A DOVE

Take time for your pleasure and laugh with love

Take the hand of another and sing for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Look up at the rooftops when you’re walking round

Don’t think for a moment of looking down

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Halleluia Halleluia

Look up at the rooftops when you’re walking round

Don’t think for a moment of looking down

Have a look at the top where he walks around

Tune to the ego and you’ll hear the sound

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

So sing yeah yeah yeah

So sing yeah yeah yeah

So sing yeah yeah yeah

So sing yeah yeah yeah

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove

WISHING WELL

Take off your hat kick off your shoes

I know you ain't going anywhere

Run round the town singing your blues

I know you ain't going anywhere

You've always been a good friend of mine

But you're always saying farewell

And the only time that you're satisfied

Is with your feet in the wishing well

Throw down your gun you might shoot yourself

Or is that what you're trying to do

Put up a fight you believe to be right

And someday the sun will shine through

You've always got something to hide

Something you just can't tell

And the only time that you're satisfied

Is with your feet in the wishing well

You've always been a good friend of mine

But you're always saying farewell

And the only time that you're satisfied

Is with your feet in the wishing well

WITCHY WOMAN

Raven hair and ruby lips

Sparks fly from her finger tips

Echoed voices in the night

Restless spirits on an endless flight

Woo hoo witchy woman

See how high she flies

Woo hoo witchy woman

She’s got the moon in her eyes

She held me spell bound in the night

Dancing shadows and firelight

Crazy laughter in another room

And she drove herself to madness with a silver spoon

Ah ah

I know you want to love her

But let me tell you brother

She’s been sleeping in the devil’s bed

There’s some rumours going round

Someone’s underground

She can rock you in the night

Until your skin turns red

Woo hoo witchy woman

See how high she flies

Woo hoo witchy woman

She’s got the moon in her eyes

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

What would you do if I sang out of tune

Would you stand up and walk out on me

Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song

And I'll try not to sing out of key

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends

Mm, I gonna try with a little help from my friends

What do I do when my love is away

Does it worry you to be alone

How do I feel by the end of the day

Are you sad because you're on your own

No, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends

Mm, I gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody

I need somebody to love

Could it be anybody

I want somebody to love

Would you believe in a love at first sight

Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time

What do you see when you turn out the light

I can't tell you, but I know it's mine

No, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends

Mm, I gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody

I need somebody to love

Could it be anybody

I want somebody to love

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends

Mm, I gonna try with a little help from my friends

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends

Mm, I gonna try with a little help from my friends

I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends with a little help from friends

WONDERFUL TONIGHT

It's late in the evening,

She’s wondering what clothes to wear.

She puts on her make-up

And brushes her long blond hair.

And then she asks me "Do I look all right ?"

And I say "yes, you look wonderful tonight !"

We go to a party.

Everyone turns to see

This beautiful lady,

Walking around with me.

And then she asks me “Do you feel all right ?"

And I say "yes, I feel wonderful tonight !"

I feel wonderful, because I see

The love light in your eyes.

And the wonder of it all

Is that you just don't realise

How much I love you.

It's time to go home now,

And I've got an aching head.

So I give her the car-keys,

And she helps me to bed.

And then I tell her As I turn out the light,

I say "my darling, you are wonderful tonight !"

I say "my darling, you are wonderful tonight !"

WONDERFUL WORLD BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

Wonderful world beautiful people

You and your girl pleased to be pretty

But underneath this there is a secret

That nobody can be free

Take a look at the world and the state that it’s in today

I am sure you’ll agree we all could make it a better way

With some work put together everybody learn to love each other

Instead of fussing and fighting cheating by fighting

Scandalising and hating baby people now

Wonderful world beautiful people

You and your girl pleased to be pretty

But underneath this there is a secret

That nobody can be free

Man and woman girl and boy let us try to give a helping hand

This I know and I’m sure that the love we all could understand

This is our world if you see everybody wants to live and be free

Instead of fussing and fighting cheating by fighting

Scandalising and hating yeah people now

Wonderful world beautiful people

You and your girl pleased to be pretty

But underneath this there is a secret

That nobody can be free

Wonderful world beautiful people

You and your girl pleased to be pretty

But underneath this there is a secret

That nobody can be free

WORLD WITHOUT LOVE

Please lock me away and don’t allow the day

Here inside where I hide with my loneliness

I don’t care what they say

I won’t stay in a world without love

Birds sing out of tune and raindrops hide the moon

I’m OK here I’ll stay with my loneliness

I don’t care what they say

I won’t stay in a world without love

So I wait and in a while

I will see my true love smile

She may come I know not when

When she does I’ll know so baby until then

Lock me away and don’t allow the day

Here inside where I hide with my loneliness

I don’t care what they say

I won’t stay in a world without love

So I wait and in a while

I will see my true love smile

She may come I know not when

When she does I’ll know so baby until then

Lock me away and don’t allow the day

Here inside where I hide with my loneliness

I don’t care what they say

I won’t stay in a world without love

I don’t care what they say

I won’t stay in a world without love

WPC SADIE STICK

They say she ate desatiated need for love

She was breed above the average police woman

WPC Sadie Stick big and fat and round and thick

Eighteen stone with a hairy lip oh brother

McLagen hankered after her with hankering and greed

And frequently when drunk he’d sing behind his handkerchief

WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick

I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary

The night of the policeman’s ball McLagen met her in the hall

He said ‘ello ‘ello ‘ello ‘ello

She turned and looked him in the face as friendly as a can of mace

And said are you someone that I know

Is it the gay Lethario is it Don Giovanni

Don’t drop your balls into my court you nasty little mannie

WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick

I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary

When a bust is damned a dam is bust giving Sadie up for lust

McLagen said it’s hard to hold your own

Sadie Sadie I would like to stick my finger in your dike

I’ll drown of love if you leave me here alone

Drunk on an empty head he sought the porcine porcelain

And as he groped his drunken way they heard this sad refrain

WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick

I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary

Meanwhile back in Notting Hill the moon showed up like an anthrax pill

In the sky so high like everybody

Bomber Diana with delight stuffed her bra with gelignite

She’s a booby trap just for tonight and Noddy

Up in the sweaty ballroom things were swinging

As she cased the place she heard McLagen singing

WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick

I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary

Behind the hall Diana unseen laid bare her bulging magazine

When suddenly McLagen did appear

He muttered is this where the Gents is then a vision pierced his drunken senses

Big and bold and beautiful and bare

It must be Sadie half undressed if she was French she’d be from Brest

I always did like Bristols best I love you

WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick

I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary

Diana was not like other girls she had a twin set but no pearls

She shouted kill the pigs and then exploded

McLagen took off through the air wrapped in a red hot brassiere

He said I did not know the girl was loaded

A satellite was set alight high in the London sky

As it tumbled over Notting Hill you could hear it cry

WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick

I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary

YANGTZE PO

I'll sing you a song of trouble and woe that'll cause you to shake and to shiver

Concerning a Chinese bumboat man who sailed the Yangtze river

He was a heathen of high degree as the doss-house records show

His family name was Win Chang Lu but the sailors just called him Jim Crowie-i-oe-i

Itchicum itchicum ya ya ya sailor man no likee me ya

Come savvy the story of Win Chang Lu too much of the Barbariee-yi-ya

Now Win Chang Lu he fell in love with a girl called Ah Chu Fong

Her eyes they were like pump-a-kine seeds and her slippers were two inches long

But Ah Chu Fong loved a pi-i-rate bold with all her heart and her liver

He was captain of a double decked junk and he sailed on the Yangtze river-i-iver-i

Itchicum itchicum ya ya ya sailor man no likee me ya

Come savvy the story of Win Chang Lu too much of the Barbariee-yi-ya

When Win Chang Lu he heard of this he swore a horrible oath

If I can’t marry Ah Chu Fong then I’ll make sausage meat of them both

So he hoisted up his big red battle flag and put into the Yangtze river

He sailed to the North and the South and the West the pirate for to disciver-i-iver-i

Itchicum itchicum ya ya ya sailor man no likee me ya

Come savvy the story of Win Chang Lu too much of the Barbariee-yi-ya

Now the drums they beat at quarters and the cannons did loudly roar

The red hot dump-i-lings filled the air the scuppers they ran with gore

The pirate he strode the quarter deck with neither a shake nor a shiver

He was shot up the arse by a hard boiled egg which pen-e-itrated his liver-i-iver-i

Itchicum itchicum ya ya ya sailor man no likee me ya

Come savvy the story of Win Chang Lu too much of the Barbariee-yi-ya

The dying pi-i-rate feebly called we’ll give that foe more shot

If I can’t marry Ah Chu Fong then Win Chang Lu shall not

Then a hot pease pud hit the bum-boat’s side which caused this horrible scene

It upset a pot of hot bow-wow soup and exploded the maga-zi-een-i-een-i

Itchicum itchicum ya ya ya sailor man no likee me ya

Come savvy the story of Win Chang Lu too much of the Barbariee-yi-ya

YEAR OF THE CAT

On a morning from a Bogart movie

In a country where they turned back time

You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre

Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running

Like a water-colour in the rain

Don’t bother asking for explanations

She’ll just tell you that she came

In the year of the cat

She doesn’t give you time for questions

As she locks up your arm in hers

And you follow till your sense of which direction

Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market

There’s a hidden door she leads you to

These days she says I feel my life

Just like a river running through

The year of the cat

While she looks at you so coolly

And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea

She comes in incense and patchouli

So you take her to find what’s waiting inside

The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you’re still with her

And the bus and the tourists are gone

And you’ve thrown away your choice and lost your ticket

So you have to stay on

But the drum beat strains of the night remain

In the rhythm of the new-born day

You know sometime you’re bound to leave her

But for now you’re gonna stay

In the year of the cat

The year of the cat

YESTERDAY

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

Now it looks as though they're here to stay

Oh, I believed in yesterday

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be

There's a shadow hanging over me

Oh, yesterday came suddenly

Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say

I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play

Now I need a place to hide away

Oh, I believed in yesterday

Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say

I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play

Now I need a place to hide away

Oh, I believed in yesterday

Mm mm mm mm

YOU AIN'T SEE NOTHIN YET

I met a devil woman

She took my heart away

She said I had it coming to me

But I wanted it that way

I think that any love is good loving

So I took what I could get, yeah I took what I could get

And then she looked at me with her big brown eyes and said

You ain't seen nothing yet baby

You just ain't seen nothing yet

Here's something that you never gonna forget

B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet

And now I'm feeling better

‘Cause I ran up for sure

She took me to her doctor

And he told me, I was cured

He said that any love is good loving

So I took what I could get, yeah I took what I could get

And then she looked at me with her big brown eyes and said

You ain't seen nothing yet baby

You just ain't seen nothing yet

Here's something that you never gonna forget

B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet

He said that any love is good loving

So I took what I could get, yeah I took what I could get

And then she looked at me with her big brown eyes and said

You ain't seen nothing yet baby

You just ain't seen nothing yet

Here's something that you never gonna forget

B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet

I met a devil woman

She took my heart away

She said I had it coming to me

But I wanted it that way

I think that any love is good loving

So I took what I could get, yeah I took what I could get

And then she looked at me with her big brown eyes and said

You ain't seen nothing yet baby

You just ain't seen nothing yet

Here's something that you never gonna forget

B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet

YOU AND I

I wake up with my eyes shut tight

Hoping tomorrow will never come

For you, you, you, you, you, and I

Keep your heart open and your eyes shut tight

What will be will be

Keep your heart open and your eyes shut tight

But don’t forget about me

Oh the phantoms crawl out of the night

Hoping tomorrow will never come

For you, you, you, you, you, and I

I wake up with my eyes shut tight

Hoping tomorrow will never come

For you, you, you, you, you and I

Hoping tomorrow will never come

For you, you, you, you, you and I

Hoping tomorrow will never come

For you, you, you, you, you and I

YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE

You are the sunshine of my life

That's why I'll always be around

You are the apple of my eye

Forever you'll stay in my heart

I feel like this is the beginning

Though I've loved you for a million years

And if I thought our love was ending

I'd find myself drowning in my own tears

You are the sunshine of my life

That's why I'll always be around

You are the apple of my eye

Forever you'll stay in my heart

You must have known that I was lonely,

Because you came to my rescue.

And I know that this must be heaven.

How could so much love be inside of you.

You are the sunshine of my life

That's why I'll always be around

You are the apple of my eye

Forever you'll stay in my heart

You are the sunshine of my life

That's why I'll always be around

You are the apple of my eye

Forever you'll stay in my heart

YOU CAN GET IT IF YOU REALLY WANT

You can get it if you really want

You can get it if you really want

But you must try, try, try, try, try

You’ll succeed at last

Persecution you must feel

Win or lose you’ve got to get your share

You’ve got your mind set on a dream

You can get it though hard it may seem now

You can get it if you really want

You can get it if you really want

But you must try, try, try, try, try

You’ll succeed at last

Rome was not built in a day

Opposition will come your way

But the harder the battle you see

Is the sweeter the victory now

You can get it if you really want

You can get it if you really want

But you must try, try, try, try, try

You’ll succeed at last

You can get it if you really want

You can get it if you really want

But you must try, try, try, try, try

You’ll succeed at last

YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE

I need love love love to ease my mind

I need to find find someome to call my very own

But mama said you can't hurry love you just have to wait

She said love don't come easily it's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait

Just trust in the good times no matter how long it takes

But how many heartaches must I stand

Before I find a love to let me live again

Cause when I found a thing that keeps me hanging on

It's been a few nice days you know it's almost gone

I remember mama said

You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait

She said love don't come easily it's a game of give and take

How long must I wait how much more must I take

Before loneliness causes my heart heart to break

And now I can't bear to live my life alone

I'm only fishing for a lover to call my own

But when I feel that I I can't go on

I feel my strength you know it's almost gone

I remember mama said

You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait

She said love don't come easily it's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait

Just trust in the good times no matter how long it takes

And I break

Well now love love love don't come easily

I know I keep on waiting anticipating

For that soft voice to talk to me at night

For some tender arms to hold me tight

I keep waiting until that day

I thought it'd be easy you know it ain't easy

And my mama said

You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait

She said love don't come easily it's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait

Just trust in the good times no matter how long it takes

YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU

You know I love you you know it's true

Give you all my loving what more can I do

Walking by myself I hope you understand

I just want to be your loving man

I love ya yes I love you with my heart and soul

I wouldn't mistreat you for my weight in gold

You know I love you you know it's true

I give you all my love babe what more can I do

I'm walking by myself I hope you understand

I just want to be your loving man

Keep on walking

You know I love you you know it's true

I give you all my loving what more can I do

I'm walking by myself I hope you understand

I just want to be your loving man

I said I'm walking by myself I hope you understand

I just want to be your loving

I just want to be your loving

I just want to be your loving man

YOU MAKE LOVING FUN

Sweet wonderful you

You make me happy with the things you do

Oh can it be so

This feeling follows me wherever I go

I never did believe in miracles

But I’ve a feeling it’s time to try

I never did believe in the ways of magic

But I’m beginning to wonder why

I never did believe in miracles

But I’ve a feeling it’s time to try

I never did believe in the ways of magic

But I’m beginning to wonder why

Don’t, don’t break the spell

It would be different and you know it will

You, you make loving fun

And I don’t have to tell you but you’re the only one

You, you make loving fun

You, you make loving fun

You, you make loving fun

You, you make loving fun

YOU MAY BE RIGHT

Friday night I crashed your party Saturday I said I'm sorry

Sunday came and trashed me out again

I was only having fun wasn't hurting anyone

And we all enjoyed the weekend for a change

I was stranded in the combat zone I walked through Bedford sty alone

Even rode my motorcycle in the rain

And you told me not to drive but I made it home alive

So you said that only proves that I'm insane

You may be right I may be crazy

But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for

Turn out the lights don't try to save me

You may be wrong for all I know but you may be right

Well remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair

I told you dirty jokes until you smiled

You were lonely for a man I said take me as I am

Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while

And I think of all the years you tried to find someone to satisfy you

I might be as crazy as you say

If I'm crazy then it's true that it's all because of you

And you wouldn't want me any other way

You may be right I may be crazy

But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for

It's too late to fight it's too late to change me

You may be wrong for all I know but you may be right

You may be right I may be crazy

But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for

Turn out the lights don't try to save me

You may be wrong for all I know but you may be right

You may be wrong but you may be right

You may be wrong but you may be right

You may be wrong but you may be right

You may be wrong but you may be right

You may be wrong but you may be right

YOU SHOULDN’T DO THAT

I was five years old I was having a drag

And a cough now and then it was my very first fag

When in comes our teacher and stood on my toes

He pulled out my fag as he flattened my nose

He said ‘ey up you shouldn’t do that

‘Ey up you’ll drive yerself daft

Now ‘avn’t you ‘eard that yer eyes’ll go blurred

‘Ey up you shouldn’t do that

So I gave up the fags and I took to the beer

And spirits at times although they were quite dear

When I rolled home from school unsteady as a newt

My father spoke sternly as he laid in the boot

He said ‘ey up you shouldn’t do that

‘Ey up you’ll drive yerself daft

Now ‘avn’t you ‘eard that yer eyes’ll go blurred

‘Ey up you shouldn’t do that

I was out with a girl at the age of thirteen

She didn’t look much but I knew where she’d been

As I tickled her fancy she giggled and then

Her boyfriend came up and I copped it again

He said ‘ey up you shouldn’t do that

‘Ey up you’ll drive yerself daft

Now ‘avn’t you ‘eard that yer eyes’ll go blurred

‘Ey up you shouldn’t do that

I was down at the bank I was cashing a cheque

When a gunman walked in wearing tights round his neck

He pointed his gun said “Don’t move or you’re dead”

So I tapped on his shoulder and here’s what I said

He said ‘ey up you shouldn’t do that

‘Ey up you’ll drive yerself daft

Now ‘avn’t you ‘eard that yer eyes’ll go blurred

‘Ey up you shouldn’t do that

And then he shot me

‘Ey up you shouldn’t do that

YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE

When you walk through a storm

Hold your head up high

And don’t be afraid of the dark

At the end of the storm is a golden sky

And the sweet silver song of a lark

Walk on through the wind

Walk on through the rain

Though your dreams be tossed and blown

Walk on walk on

With hope in your heart

And you’ll never walk alone

You’ll never walk alone

Walk on walk on

With hope in your heart

And you’ll never walk alone

You’ll never walk alone

YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND

Ooh you make me live

Whatever this world can give to me

It’s you, you’re all I see

Ooh you make me live now honey

Ooh you make me live

Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had

I’ve been with you such a long time

You’re my sunshine

And I want you to know that my feelings are true

I really love you

Ooh you’re my best friend

Ooh you make me live

Ooh I’ve been wandering round

But I still come back to you

In rain or shine you’ve stood by me girl

I’m happy at home

You’re my best friend

Ooh you make me live

Whenever this world is cruel to me

I’ve got you to help me forgive

Ooh you make me live now honey

Ooh you make me live

Oh you’re the first one

When things turn out bad

You know I’ll never be lonely

You’re my only one and I love the things

I really love the things that you do

Ooh you’re my best friend

Ooh you make me live

Ooh I’ve been wandering round

But I still come back to you

In rain or shine you’ve stood by me girl

I’m happy at home

You’re my best friend

Ooh, ooh you’re my best friend

Ooh you make me live

Ooh you’re my best friend

YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND

When you're down and troubled

And you need a helping hand

And nothing, oh nothing's going right

Close your eyes and think of me

And soon I will be there

To brighten up even your darkest nights

You just call out my name

And you know wherever I am

I'll come running to see you again

Winter, spring, summer or fall

All you've got to do is call

And I'll be there you've got a friend

If the sky above you

Should turn dark and full of clouds

And that old North wind should begin to blow

Keep your head together

And call my name out loud

Soon I'll be knocking upon your door

You just call out my name

And you know wherever I am

I'll come running to see you again

Winter, spring, summer or fall

All you've got to do is call

And I'll be there you've got a friend

If the sky above you

Should turn dark and full of clouds

And that old North wind should begin to blow

Keep your head together

And call my name out loud

Soon I'll be knocking upon your door

Now ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend

When people can be so cold

They’ll hurt you and desert you

They’ll take your soul if you let them

But don’t you let them

You just call out my name

And you know wherever I am

I'll come running to see you again

Winter, spring, summer or fall

All you've got to do is call

And I'll be there you've got a friend

YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING

You never close your eyes any more when I kiss your lips

And there’s no tenderness like before in your fingertips

You’re trying hard not to show it but baby baby I know it

You’ve lost that loving feeling woh that loving feeling

You’ve lost that loving feeling now it’s gone gone gone woh woh woh

Now there’s no local look in your eyes when I reach for you

And now you’re starting to criticise little things I do

It makes me just feel like crying ‘cause baby something you had is dying

You’ve lost that loving feeling woh that loving feeling

You’ve lost that loving feeling now it’s gone gone gone woh woh woh

Baby baby I’d get down on my knees for you

If you would only love me like you used to do yeah

We had a love a love a love you don’t find every day

So don’t don’t don’t don’t let it slip away

Baby baby baby baby I’m begging you please please please

I need your love I need your love now bring it on back

Bring it on back

Bring back that loving feeling woh that loving feeling

Bring back that loving feeling ‘cause it’s gone gone gone

And I can’t go on woh woh woh

Bring back that loving feeling woh that loving feeling

Bring back that loving feeling ‘cause it’s gone gone gone

And I can’t go on woh woh woh

YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK

Young gifted and black

Oh what a lovely precious dream

To be young gifted and black

Open your heart to what I mean

In the whole world you know

There’s a part for those

Who are young gifted and black

And that’s all set

Young gifted and black

We must begin to tell our young

There’s a world waiting for you

Yours is the past that’s just begun

When you’re feeling real low yow

There’s a great truth you should know

To be young gifted and black

Your soul’s intact

Young gifted and black

Oh how I long to know the truth

There were times when I look back

And I am haunted by my youth

But my joys of today

Is that we can all be proud to say

To be young gifted and black

Is where it’s at

Young gifted and black

We must begin to tell our young

There’s a world waiting for you

Yours is the past that’s just begun

When you’re feeling real low yow

There’s a great truth you should know

To be young gifted and black

Your soul’s intact

Young gifted and black

Oh how I long to know the truth

There were times when I look back

And I am haunted by my youth

But my joys of today

Is that we can all be proud to say

To be young gifted and black

Is where it’s at

YOUR LATEST TRICK

All the late night bargains have been struck

Between the satin beaus and their belles

And prehistoric garbage trucks

Have the city to themselves

Echos and roars of dinosaurs

They’re all doing the Monster Mash

And most of the taxis and most of the whores

Are only taking calls for cash

I don’t know how it happened

It all took place so quick

But all I can do is hand it to you

And your latest trick

Well now my door was standing open

Security were laid back and lax

But it was only my heart that got broken

You must have had a pass key made out of wax

You played robbery with insolence

And I played the blues in twelve bars down in lover’s lane

And you never did have the intelligence to use

The twelve keys hanging off of my chain

I don’t know how it happened

It all took place so quick

But all I can do is hand it to you

And your latest trick

Well now it’s past last call for alcohol

Fast recall has been here and gone

The landlord finally paid us all

The satin jazzmen have put away their horns

And we’re standing outside this wonderland

Looking so bereaved and so bereft

Like a bowery bum when he finally understands

The bottle’s empty and there’s nothing left

I don’t know how it happened

It was faster than the eye could flick

But all I can do is hand it to you

And your latest trick

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