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Betsy suggested we start this game anew, so here's the steenkin' rulz:

A line (or two) of lyrics, followed by the name of the song and the performer or lyricist's name starts the game. The next to reply takes one (or two) words from that lyric and posts a line (or two) from another song that contains the same word (or two). And so on...

Here's the beginning lyric:

I don't know but I been told, a big-legged woman ain't got no soul.
-Black Dog by Led Zepplin

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Soul love - the priest that tastes the word and
Told of love - and how my God on high is
All love - though reaching up my loneliness
evolves
By the blindness that surrounds him

~ David Bowie, Soul Love

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No fair! I read Connie's initial post and prepared to respond with the following:

"Oh, I get the blues if the rhythm ain't got no soull
You got to keep it rollin'."

~Rollin', Garth Brooks

Then Maverick snuck in and posted first. Grrrr. Okay.

"The priest sat in the airport bar
He was wearing his father’s tie
And his eyes looked into my eyes so far
Whenever the words ran dry"

~The Priest Joni Mitchell

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They, said some day you'll find
All who love are blind
When you heart's on fire
You must realize
Smoke gets in your eyes

So I chaffed them, and I gaily laughed
To think they would doubt our love
And yet today, my love has gone away
I am without my love


Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters (circa 1958)


"So I chaffed them, and I gaily laughed"
You seldom hear chaffing lyrics like that anymore.

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"And as in agony of death with blood his lips were wet,
The Prussian Major gaily laughed, and lit a cigarette."

~Jean Desprez, Country Joe McDonald

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"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows"

David Bowie, Ground Control to Major Tom

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Worked all the summer, and worked all the fall
I had to take my Christmas, in my overall
But now she gone, and I don't worry
Because I'm sitting on top of the world

Goin' down to the freight yard, just to meet a freight train
I'm gonna leave this town, work's done got hard
But now she gone, and I don't worry
'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world.
_________________________________________ Sitting on Top of the World
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a dracula moon in a black disguise
was making its way back to its
pre-paid room at the St. Moritz Hotel (scat)
and the El train came tumbling across the trestles and it sounded
like the ghost of Gene Krupa
Nighthawk Postcards- Tom Waits

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Said that I'm like fallin' from grace.
You'd never know it to look at me.
Under the Dracula moon.
Love comes down any way it wants to.
Doesn't ask for your permission.
Open up your arms or it will break you in two.
- Joan Osborne, Dracula Moon

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"I'll wait
'Til your love comes down
I'm coming straight for your heart
No way
You can stop me now
As fine as you are "

~Eddie VanHalen, I'll wait

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This fire is burnin'
and it's out of control
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock n' roll.
- Guns 'N Roses, Garden of Eden

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I know,
it's only rock 'n roll
but I like it, like it
yes, I do

It's Only Rock and Roll- The Rolling Stones

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You're too old to lose it, too young to choose it
And the clock waits patiently on your song
You walk past the cafe but you don't eat when you've lived too
long
You're a rock 'n' roll suicide

~ Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (guess who?!)

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C’mon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin’ a blue rock
On a blue bus
- The Doors, The End

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I'll have a Blue Christmas without you
I'll be so blue thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmastree
Won't be the same dear, if you're not here with me

I'll have a Blue Christmas that's certain
And when that blue heartache starts hurtin'
You'll be doin' all right, with your Christmas of white,
But I'll have a blue, blue Christmas

--Elvis Presley
(words & music by billy hayes - jay johnson)


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Where have all my friends gone, they've all disappeared
Turned around maybe one day you're all that was there
Stood by on believing, stood by on my own
Always thought I was someone, turned out I was wrong
You brought me through, and you made me feel
So blue
Why don't you
stay behind?

"Blue" The Jayhawks

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Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head

On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone
I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me

from The Glums

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I still haven't got over it even now.
I want to spend huge amounts of time on my own.
I don't want to cause any serious damage.
I want to make sure that I can manage,
Because I'm not really in your head ,
I'm not really in your head.

And I see love and disaffection
And the clouds build up and won't pass over.
This is my road to my redemption.
And my life is just an image of a rollercoaster anyway.

Rollercoaster- Everything But the Girl

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You talk like Marlene Dietrich
And you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire
Your clothes are all made by Balmain
And there`s diamonds and pearls in your hair
You live in a fancy appartement
Of the Boulevard of St. Michel
Where you keep your Rolling Stones records
And a friend of Sacha Distel
But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head...

Peter Sarstedt ~ Where do you go to, my lovely?

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since mav posted while I was composting, and milum ignored it anyway, I'll just delete my Dirt Bike Annie lyric.

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She got to take sick and die one of these days
She got to take sick and die oh! one of these days
All the medicine I can buy, and all the doctors she can hire
She got to take sick and die one of these days

When she's dead I'm gonna bury her very deep
When she's dead I'm gonna bury her very deep
I'm gonna bury her very deep, rubies and diamonds round her feet
She got to take sick and die one of these days


Diamonds At Her Feet
_______________________ Muddy Waters

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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

One of These Nights- Eagles

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John Smith and Pocahontas
had a very mad affair
When her daddy tried to kill him she cried
Daddy, oh, don't you dare!
He gives me *fever* with his kisses,
fever when he holds me tight,
Fever - I'm his missus,
Daddy won't you treat him right?"

Fever
Miss Peggy Lee

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[spoken]
My heart's sad and I am all forlorn, my man's treating me mean
I regret the day that I was born and that man of mine I've ever seen
Happiness, it never lasts a day, my heart is almost breaking while I say...

A good man is hard to find,
you always get the other kind
Just when you think that he is your pal,
you look for him and find him fooling 'round some other gal
Then you rave, you even crave
to see him laying in his grave
So, if your man is nice, take my advice
and hug him in the morning, kiss him ev'ry night,
give him plenty lovin', treat him right
For a good man nowadays is hard to find.


A Good Man Is Hard To Find
________________________Bessie Smith


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The people of the land took Jesus by the hand,
They followed Him far and wide;
"I come not to bring you peace, but a sword",
So they killed Jesus Christ on the sly.
He went to the sick, he went to the poor;
And he went to the hungry and the lame;
Said that the poor would one day win this world,
And so they laid Jesus Christ in His grave.

Woody Guthrie

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Been travelling far and wide
Wondering who's going to be my guide

Living in a fantasy but it's way too far
But this kind of loneliness is way too hard
I've been wandering, feeling all alone
I lost my direction and I lost my home...Well

Laugh, I Nearly Died- The Rolling Stones

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See the pyramids along the Nile
Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle
Just remember, darling all the while
You belong to me

See the market place in old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears
You belong to me

I'll be so lonesome without you
Maybe you'll be lonesome too
And blue

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember 'til you're home again
You belong to me.


________________________________________________You Belong To Me circa 1952
written by Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart & Shilton Price
Recorded by Jo Stafford, Patti Page, Dean Martin, and others.

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"Down at the market place in old Algiers.
Fellow with a long face full of tears.
He used to have a dollar all go up in smoke.
One toke hoona, spoona coke, I'm broke."

~Joe Hutchinson, "Hoona, Spoona"

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I looked to the stars, tried all of the bars.
And I've nearly gone up in smoke.
Now my hand's on the wheel, I've something that's real,
And I feel like I'm goin' home.

And in the shade of an oak down by the river,
Sit an old man an' a boy,
Settin' sail, spinnin' tales an' fishin' for whales,
With a lady they both enjoy.
Well, it's the same damn tune, it's the man in the moon.
It's the way that I feel about you.
And with no place to hide, I looked in your eyes,
And I found myself in you.

Willie Nelson (yee-hah!)

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it was a purple purple sky in an orange orange room
and everyone was whistlen the same damn tune
-The River, by Atmosphere

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Purple Rain

I never meant 2 cause u any sorrow
I never meant 2 cause u any pain
I only wanted 2 one time see u laughing
I only wanted 2 see u laughing in the purple rain

Purple rain purple rain
Purple rain purple rain
Purple rain purple rain

I only wanted 2 see u bathing in the purple rain

I never wanted 2 be your weekend lover
I only wanted 2 be some kind of friend
Baby I could never steal u from another
It’s such a shame our friendship had 2 end

Purple rain purple rain
Purple rain purple rain
Purple rain purple rain

I only wanted 2 see u underneath the purple rain

Honey I know, I know, I know times are changing
It’s time we all reach out 4 something new
That means u 2
U say u want a leader
But u can’t seem 2 make up your mind
I think u better close it
And let me guide u 2 the purple rain

Purple rain purple rain
Purple rain purple rain

If you know what I’m singing about up here
C’mon raise your hand

Purple rain purple rain

I only want 2 see u, only want 2 see u
In the purple rain

--Prince


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If you cross your heart to someone
You`re not suposed to tell a lie

If you cross your heart to someone
You`re not suposed to tell a lie

Before you say wrong
Or either do wrong
It have to be so long
Or either...goodbye

The first time I crossed my heart
I was by your bedside on my knees

Yes, the first time I crossed my heart
I was by your bedside, down on my knees

And I know the difference between I and you,
I have to beg you
Please, darlin`, help...me...please

I cross my heart
For there's no one else I know
I cross my heart to you, to you baby, because I know
There`s no one else, I know
Anything you tell me to do
I have to do it or I`ll have to go

Cross my Heart
_____________________The great___ Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller)

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And the ice of her kisses lingers on and on
And the image of her body live
Yet you walked on black sand by the sea's turmoil
In the dark of a velvet night
Then you sat down and gave your hands to be kissed and loved
Could not you hear a gentle sigh
And by the stars part control of your wandering life
Do you believe in not telling lies
But it was good that you were warm on your way back home
Short love, goodbye

Steel Eyes - Shawn Phillips

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Cheiro de fruta na pele salgada
Praia de areia negra, bronzeada
No vento aroma distante, trovoada
Aqui não me falta nada.

The smell of fruit on the salty skin
Black sand beach, tan black skin
In the wind the distant smell of thunder
Here, I have everything.

Bat Makumba, "Tropic".

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Everything I Have Is Yours


Everything I have...is yours
You are part of me
Everything I have...is yours
My destiny

I would gladly give the sun to you
If the sun were only mine
I would gladly give the earth to you
And the stars that shine

Everything that I posses
I offer you
Let my dream of happyness
Come through

I'll be happy just to spend, my life
Waiting at your beck and call
Everything I have, is yours
My life
My all
_____________________________________Billie Holiday

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Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Ev'ryone come on

Instant Karma- John Lennon

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"The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the night and the empty skies my love
To the night and the empty skies"

~Ewan MacColl, First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

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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.
Yeah! all right! let’s go!

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, girl
I wanna be your backdoor man.
Hey, oh, hey, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Keep a-coolin’, baby,
Keep a-coolin’, baby.

Led Zeppelin ~ wHole Lotta Love

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Inch worm, inch worm
Measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmetic
You'll probably go far
Inch worm, inch worm
Measuring the marigolds
Seems to me you'd stop and see
How beautiful they are

Kenny Loggins, "The Inch Worm"

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When the child was a child
It woke up once in a strange bed
And now time and time again
Many people seem beautiful to it
And now not so many and now only if it's lucky
It had a precise picture of paradise
And now can only vaguely conceive of it at best
Song of Being a Child- Van Morrison

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We are the men who worry of nothing
We are the men who fight without aim
We listen to no one, yet speak of our wisdom
We are the pawns in the game

We're getting older as time goes by
A little older with everyday
We were the children of yesterday

I was a child
Who ran full of laughter
I was a child who lived for today
My eyes full of sunshine
My heart full of smiles
I was a child for a day

Cat Stevens (as was) - Child for a Day

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"As Time Goes By"

This day and age we're living in
Gives cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like fourth dimension.
Yet we get a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein's theory.
So we must get down to earth at times
Relax relieve the tension

And no matter what the progress
Or what may yet be proved
The simple facts of life are such
They cannot be removed.]

You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh.
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.

And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you."
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by.

Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date.
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate.
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
That no one can deny.

It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die.
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.

Oh yes, the world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.

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I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on a windy common
That night I ain't forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said you are a lady
Perhaps she said I may be

Up the Junction by Squeeze (Difford & Tillbrook)

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Check that classy rhythm
Give me that sexy beat
I dig that feeling jam
Midnight lady , sexy
You are the one I'm looking for
Midnight Lady- Marvin Gaye

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Fascinating Rhythm,
You've got me on the go!
Fascinating Rhythm,
I'm all a-quiver.

~George & Ira Gershwin, Fascinatin' Rhythm

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You Really Got Me

Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
Girl (Girl), you really got me now
You got me so I don't know where I'm goin'
Oh yeah (Yeah), you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

You really got me (Oh!)
You really got me (Whoa-oh)
You really got me

Please, don't ever let me be
I only wanna be by your side
Please, don't ever let me be
I only wanna be by your side

Girl (Girl), you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin' yeah
Oh yeah (Yeah), you really got me now
Got me so I can't sleep at night

You really got me (Ah-ha!)
You really got me (Ah-ha!)
You really got me

Oh, no, no, ah!

(Guitar Solo)

Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin' Ow!
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
(Owwww!)

Girl (Girl), you really got me now
You got me so I don't know where I'm goin' yeah
Oh yeah (Yeah), you really got me now
Got me so I can't sleep at night

You really got me
You really got me (Oh!)
You really got me

Oh! Oh! Oh!

-- Ray Davies (as performed by Van Halen)


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don't like you
But I love you
See that I'm always
thinking of you
Oh, oh, oh,
you treat me badly
I love you madly
You've really got a hold on me
You've really got a hold on me, baby

Artist: Meshell Ndegeocello Lyrics
Song: You've Really Got A Hold On Me Lyrics

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If you could see the happy you and me
I dream about so proudly
You'd know the breath of spring
That makes me sing
My love song so loudly

Good things come to those who wait
So just relax and wait for fate
To let me see the day you'll say to me
I love you, love you madly

Ella Fitzgerald - Love You Madly


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Lovely ... Never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it ?
'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.

The Way You Look Tonight Words & Music by Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern, 1936

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Heaven please send, to all mankind
Some understanding, and peace of mind
But if its not, askin' too much
Won't you please send me someone to love

I'd show the world, how to get along
Peace will enter, where hate has gone
But if its not, askin' too much
Won't you please send me someone to love

I lay awake at night and see the world so troubled
And my answer's always the same
Unless man, puts an end
To his terrible sins
Well, hate's gonna put the world in a flame
What a shame

Just because, I'm in misery
Well I don't beg for, no sympathy
But if its not, askin' too much
Won't you please send me someone to love.

Please Send Me Someone To Love
________________________________________Percy Mayfield
(1955)

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All The World

All the world's forgiving the change is all around
And people everywhere have seen the light in what they've found
It's a happy place in the human race
When all our lives are lived forgiving
All the world's for living when love is what you find
Despair and loneliness you've got to leave them far behind
Tell the clouds to go let the feeling show
It's great when life is full of living
Everyone's aware they know to change the world we've got to care
And people all should know should have happened long ago
Or could it be that I just now found out
Life is meant to share and it means the same thing everywhere
Living everyday, helping people on their way
Cause sometimes life gives everyone some doubts
Can I have time? Is it right what I feel?
At times I doubt what I normally know is real
But right now I don't know what to do
And it's all because of you
I could tell you if I knew that you'd believe
As slight and elusive as life sometimes is
Right or wrong as we both know we all can be
I could never have denied that I need you by my side
'Cause without you life don't seem that much to me
I can see an old man cry, it's his time to die
And life no longer gives him any breaks
He hasn't got a home, no one to call his own
Still he tells no one that it is more than he can take
When the time is so unkind, an empty future plays in your mind
When the darkness cries out to you, can you escape it?
What can you do?
All the world's forgetting the hate that filled our hearts
The times of selfish reasoning that keeps all apart
This world was meant to share, let them know you care
By making someone's life worth living
All the world's believing that this feeling's got to stay
till all the world is living
till all the world is giving
till all the world is loving every day.

by Kansas (Walsh, Steinhardt)


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This is where I want to be
Here with you so close to me
Until the final flicker of life's ember

I who was lost and lonely
Believing life was only
A bitter tragic joke, have found with you
The meaning of existence
oh my love

Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Hey miss lonely , won't you come here soon
Have you been standing on a star-flaked snowdune
Lookin' at the moon
Feelin' pretty funny sayin' what is that?
Hey miss lonely, don't you know, where are you at?

Hey Miss Lonely- Shawn Phillips

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How High the Moon

Somewhere there's music -- how near, how far?
Somewhere there's heaven -- it's where you are.
The darkest night would shine if you would come to me soon;
Until you will, how still my heart, how high the moon?

Words & Music by Nancy Hamilton and Morgan Lewis, 1940


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...but Tony Bennett sang this song first:(abridged)

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places,
And still my heart has wings...
These foolish things remind me of you.

A tinkling piano in the next apartment,
Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant,
A fairground's painted swings...
These foolish things remind me of you.

You came, you saw,
You conquered me.
When you did that to me,
I knew somehow this had to be.


The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations,
Silk stockings tossed aside, dance invitations.
Oh, how the ghost of you clings!
These foolish things remind me of you...


These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
______________________________________________ Tony Bennett
(1936)

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***steenkin roolz reminder***
It's more fun if you don't post the entire lyric, only the relevent verse. I know, I know. Sometimes you just...can't...resist...temptation. I think most have gotten the hang of bolding or coloring the link word or phrase. Great lyrics! Carry on, then...

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Didn't it feel good
We were sitting there talking
Or lying there not talking
Didn't it feel good
You dance
with the lady
With the hole in her stocking

Didn't it feel good
Didn't it feel good

Help Me- Joni Mitchell

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'cause if you feel my legs
you're gonna feel my thighs

--Bette Midler

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Legs

She's got legs, she knows how to use them.
She never begs, she knows how to choose them.
She's holdin' leg wonderin' how to feel them.
Would you get behind them if you could only find them?
She's my baby, she's my baby,
Yeah, it's alright.

Zz Top - billy gibbons, dusty hill & frank beard


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and he did *get him a beautiful wife
hey willi walicki how
john jubila lane
for rushiti roo roo roo!

Sco'ish folk song

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And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here?

Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads

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Baby, do me a favor, keep our business to yourself.
Please, darling, do me a favor, keep our business to yourself.
I don't want you to tell nobody in your family,
And don't mention it to nobody else.

Don't tell your mother,
Don't tell your father,
Don't tell your sister,
Don't mention it to your brother.

Please, darling, keep our business to yourself.
Don't you tell nobody,
And don't mention it to nobody else.

______________________Keep It To Yourself
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I don't want your millions, mister
I don't want your diamond ring
All I want is my job back mister
Give me back my job to me.

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Give me a job , give me security,
make me respectable

Blue collar man
Styx

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I Have the Touch

Wanting contact
I'm wanting contact
I'm wanting contact with you
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Give me the thing I understand
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Shake those hands, shake those hands

Peter Gabriel


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so many ways to understand
one for every woman and every man
been that way since the world began

I hear the drumming of the surf and I have to dance
stepping to the rhythm of circumstance---
making contact ...

Making Contact- Bruce Cockburn

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They ain't but two things, boys
In this world
I don't understand :
One's a two-faced woman
And one's a lying man.

Trouble in Mind
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you'll meet lots of funny men
Some will rob you with a six gun
and some with a fountain pen
Yes as through this world you wander
as through this world you roam
you won't never see an outlaw
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Step up, buddies, and listen to my song
I'll sing it to you right, but you may sing it wrong,
All about a man named Otto Wood,
I can't tell you all, but I wish I could.

He walked in a pawn shop a rainy day,
And with the clerk he had a quarrel, they say.
Pulled out his pistol and he struck him a blow,
And this is the way the story goes.

They put him in the pen, but it done no good,
It wouldn't hold the man they call Otto Wood.
It wasn't very long till he slipped outside,
Drawed a gun on the guard, said, "Take me for a ride."

Second time they caught him was away out west,
In the holdup game, he got shot through the breast.
They brought him back and when he got well,
They locked him down in a dungeon cell.

Otto Wood
_______________Doc Watson
(from The Carolina Boys original, 1931)

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IP's lyrics
Pretty Boy Floyd- Woody Guthrie

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She said, I’ll forgive you frankie,
She said, I’ll forgive you not, not
For killin’ my lovin’ son johnny,
He’s the only support that I’ve got,
’cause you shot my man and he was doin’ you wrong.

Well the last time I seen frankie
She was a-sittin’ in a dungeon cell
She would be there moanin’, herself
With no one there to care
She shot her man, a he’d been doin’ her wrong, so wrong

Van Morrison: Frankie & Johnny

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"The billiard sharp who any one catches,
His doom's extremely hard -
He's made to dwell In a dungeon cell
On a spot that's always barred;
And there he plays extravagant matches
In fitless finger-stalls
On a cloth untrue,
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls!"

G&S: The Mikado

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Go! Go! Go, Johnny, go! Go!
Go, Johnny, go! Go!
Go, Johnny, go! Go!
Go, Johnny, go! Go! Johnny B. Goode

Chuck Berry


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Me oh my, I loved him so
breaks my heart to see him go
dee dum dum dee dee dee dum dum dum
Johnny has gone for a soldier

Folksong fragment

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Ooo
Soldier Blue, Soldier Blue
Can't you see that there's another way to love her

Buffy Ste. Marie

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Well they all said Louise was not half bad
It was written on the walls and window shades
And how she'd act a little girl
A deceiver, don't believe her, that's her trade
Sometimes a bottle of perfume
Flowers and maybe some lace
Men brought Louise ten cent trinkets
Their intentions were easily traced
Yes and everybody knew at times she cried
Ah but women like Louise well they get by

Louise-Leo Kotke version

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This desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

And as she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realise that nothing's as it seems

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand

Sting: Desert Rose

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My heart have been broken
And all my love's in vain
Because the peoples always told me
That a woman is the glory of a man.

If you whoop her when she needs it
The judge will not let you explain
Because he believes in justice
And a woman is the glory of a man.

I rather be tired out on the desert
or right out in the falling rain
Than to lose my baby
Because she is the glory of a man.


All My Love In Vain
______________________ Sonny Boy Williamson

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I can turn a gray sky blue.
I can make it rain , whenever I want it to.
Oh, I
I can build a castle from a single grain of sand.
I can make a ship sail, uh, on dry land.

But my life is incomplete and I'm so blue. 'Cause I can't get next to you.

I can't get next to you, babe. (Next to you)
I can't get next to you. (I just can't get next you)

Can't Get Next To You-Al Green version (playing as I type this)

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Come Sail Away

A gathering of angels appeared above my head
They sang to me this song of hope, and this is what they said
They said come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me

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All colours bleed to red
Asleep on the ocean's bed
Drifting on empty seas
For all my days remaining

But would north be true?
Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?
Dark angels follow me
Over a godless sea
Mountains of endless falling,
For all my days remaining,

Why Should I Cry For You~Sting

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The night was dark, rain falling down
Looked for my baby she's nowhere around
Traced her footsteps down to the shore
'Fraid she's gone forever more

I looked at the sea and it seemed to say
I took your baby from you away
I heard a voice crying in the deep
Come join me baby in my endless sleep

Why did we quarrel, why did we fight
Why did I leave her alone tonight
That's why her footsteps ran into the sea
That's why my baby is gone from me

I looked at the sea and it seemed to say
I took your baby from you away
I heard a voice crying in the deep
Come join me baby in my endless sleep

Ran in the water, heart full of fear
There in the breakers I saw her near
Reached for my baby, held her to me
Stole her back from the endless sleep

I looked at the sea and it seemed to say
You took your baby from me away
My heart cried out, she's mine to keep
I saved my baby from that endless sleep


Endless Sleep
_________________ Evan Williams

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I had a keeper, he helped me warn the ships at sea.
We had grown closer, 'till his joy meant everything to me.

And he was to marry, a girl who shone with beauty and light.
And they loved each other, and with me watched the sunsets into night .

Chorus:
And the waves crashing around me, the sand slips out to the sea.
And the winds that blow remind me, of what has been, and what can never be.

She had to leave us, my keeper he prayed for a safe return.
But when the night came, the weather to a raging storm had turned.

He watched her ship fight, but in vain against the wild and terrible WIND.
In me so helpless, as dashed against the rock she met her end.

The Lighthouse's Tale` Nickel Creek

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My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light
And he slept with a mermaid one fine night.
Of this union there came three:
A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me.
. . Yo-ho-ho, the wind blows free,
. . Oh, for the life on the rolling sea.

One night when I was a-trimmin' of the glim,
A-singin' a verse of the Evenin' Hymn,
A voice from the starboard shouted "Ahoy"
And there was me mother, a-sittin' on a buoy.
. . Yo-ho-ho, the wind blows free,
. . Oh, for the life on the rolling sea.

"What has become of my children three?"
My mother then she asked of me.
"One was exhibited as a talking fish
And the other was served on a chafing dish."
. . Yo-ho-ho, the wind blows free,
. . Oh, for the life on the rolling sea.

Well, the phosphorus flashed in her seaweed hair;
I looked again and me mother wasn't there.
A voice came echoing out of the night:
"To Hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!"
. . Yo-ho-ho, the wind blows free,
. . Oh, for the life on the rolling sea.

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http://www.corfid.com/gl/wreck.htm (Scroll down for background music)

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee'
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early.

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
T'was the witch of November come stealin'.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the Gales of November came slashin'.
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind.

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'.
Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya.
At Seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it's been good t'know ya
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
And the good ship and crew was in peril.
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searches all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
May have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the Gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral.
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'.
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early!


THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD
___________________________________GORDON LIGHTFOOT

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Pale was the wounded knight who bore the rowan shield;
loud and cruel were the ravens' cries that feasted on the field,
saying "Beck water cold and clear will never clean your wound -
there's none but the Witch of the Westmoreland can make thee hale and sound."

Archie Fisher

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Try to tell a Knight in gold
He's to blame
A promise made, a dream will come,
It's all the same.

In this strange land
This strange land...

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That unseeing eye, reminds me of a midnight dream.
It reminds me of somebody, that I have never seen.

Boys, you'd better be careful, about what you, say or do.
You'd better be careful boys, about what you, might say or do.
That Unseeing Eye, is, always, watching you.

Seems like you don't care, about what you say
Seems, like you don't care, about the places you go
Seems like you don't care, what you say or do
But that Unseeing Eye, is, watching you.

Unseeing Eye
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seems like

SEEMS LIKE A LONG TIME

(by T. Anderson; (c) 1970)

Nighttime is only the other side of daytime
but if you've ever waited for the sun
you know what it's like to wish daytime would come
And don't it seem like a long time
seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time

Hard times are only the other side of good times
but if you ever wished hard times were gone
you know what it's like to wish good times would come
And don't it seem like a long time
seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time

Help me, seems like a long time
seems like a long time, seems like a long, long time

And don't it seem like a long time
seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time
And don't it seem like a long time
seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time
And don't it seems like a long time
seems like a long time, seems like a long, long time

You know it makes me sad
seems like a long time, seems like a long time
seems like a long, long time

War time is only the other side of peace time
but if you've ever seen how wars are won
you know what it's like to wish peace time would come
And don't it seem like a long time
seem like a long time, seems like a long, long time


*as performed by Brewer & Shipley, and Rod Stewart.

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It's been a long time comin'
It's goin' to be a long time gone.
And it appears to be a long,
Appears to be a long,
Appears to be a long time,
Yes, a long, long, long, long time,
Before the dawn.

Turn, turn any corner.
Hear, you must hear what the people say,
You know there's something that's goin' on around here,
That surely, surely, surely won't stand the light of day.
And it appears to be a long, (yes it does)
Appears to be a long,
Appears to be a long time,
Such a long, long, time,
Before the dawn.

from A Long Time by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

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Lay down your sweet and weary head
Night is falling, you have come to journey's end.
Sleep now, and dream of the ones who came before.
They are calling from across the distant shore.

Why do you weep?
What are these tears upon your face?
Soon you will see all of your fears will pass away,
safe in my arms you're only sleeping.

(refrain)
What can you see on the horizon?
Why do those white gulls call?
Across the sea a pale moon rises --
The ships have come to carry you home.
Dawn will turn to silver glass
A light on the water - All souls pass.

Hope fades into the world of night
through shadows falling out of memory and time.
Don't say, "We have come now to the end."
White shores are calling you and I will meet again.
And you'll be here in my arms just sleeping.

(refrain)

Annie Lennox "Into the West" (From the LOTR movie "Return of the King")

edit - Listen to it here!!!

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When I wake up early in the morning
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream

Please, don't wake me, no, don't shake me
Leave me where I am - I'm only sleeping

I'm Only Sleeping The Beatles

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Six o'clock already
I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissin' Valentino
By a crystal blue Italian stream
But I can't be late
'Cause then I guess I just won't get paid
These are the days
When you wish your bed was already made

It's just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic Monday

from Manic Monday by The Bangles

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Manic depression is touching my soul
I know what I want but I just don’t know
How to, go about gettin’ it
Feeling sweet feeling,
Drops from my fingers, fingers
Manic depression is catchin’ my soul

Manic Depression- Jimi Hendrix

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At eleven forty five the phone began to ring
I heard someone say "Sonny Boy" and I know that was my name.
"Who called you?" I don't know. I don't know.
But I'm trying to get in touch with my Baby to find out why
She disappoint me so.

I recieved a special delivery, I recieved a telegram
Then she called me long distance to find out, where was I am
"For what?" I don't know. Man, I just don't know
But I'm still trying to get in touch with my Baby to find out why
She disappoint me so.

I met the greyhoud bus. I met the train
But she wasn't on either one, and I wanna know what was the blame.
"You mean to tell me she didn't come, man?" I don't know. I don't know.
But I've got my head in my hands wondering, why did my Baby
Disappoint me so.

I Don't Know
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Climb upon my knee Sonny boy
You are only 3 Sonny boy
You have no way of knowing
I have no way of showing
What you mean to me Sonny boy
When they are gray skies honey
I don't mind those gray skies
I'll still have you Sonny boy
Don't you know that
My friends may forsake me
Let them go on and forsake me
You're gonna pull me straight through
Sonny boy
You're sent from heaven
And I know your worst
You've made a heaven for me
Right here on earth.


Sonny Boy, by Al Jolson

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If you want to go
where the rainbows end
you'll have to say goodbye
all our dreams come true
baby up ahead
and it's out where your memories lie
well the road's out before me
and the moon is shining bright
what I want you to remember
as I disappear tonight
today is grey skies
tomorrow's tears
you'll have to wait til yesterday is here
Yesterday Is Here~ Tom Waits

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O beautiful for spacious skies, for am - ber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!

America! A - merica! God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with broth - er - hood

From sea to shining sea!


O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern im - passion'd stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wil - der - ness.

America! A - merica! God mend thine ev' - ry flaw,

Confirm thy soul in self - control, thy lib - er - ty in law.


O beautiful for patriot dream that sees be - yond the years

Thine al-a-bas-ter cities gleam un - dim'd by hu - man tears.

America! A - merica! God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with broth - er - hood

From sea to shining sea!

America The Beautiful
Words & Music by Katharine Lee Bates & Samuel Lee Ward
Recorded by Ray Charles, 1961

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Death in the wilderness
It's a hopeless case I guess
Who's looking out for the wilder side
It will soon all be gone
You can tell it won't be long
We'll find the wilderness has died
We'll be the lonely one
Concrete, plastic human throng
Tellin' one another have you heard the news
We'll mow it down, we'll rape the ground
'til there's nothing left to abuse
The rabbit, he'll be gone
The bird will sing no song
The wolf, the bear, the lion too
The insect far and near, creatures like the deer
We'll put in cages a the zoo
Death in the wilderness
It's a hopeless case I guess
Who's looking out for the wilder side
It will soon all be gone
You can tell it won't be long
We'll find the wilderness has died
The stream will all dry out
The fish, gone no doubt
We'll have no animals to fear
The tree will be no more
We'll use it to build the store
Mountain scene will disappear
These changes takin' place
Will affect the human race
We'll all know it when it's gone
God save this planet now
We've got to help somehow
We've left it happen way too long
Death in the wilderness
It's a hopeless case I guess
Who's looking out for the wilder side
It will soon all be gone
You can tell it won't be long
We'll find the wilderness has died
We'll find the wilderness has died

Death in The Wilderness - JJ Cale

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Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Chorus

In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.

Chorus (2x)

©1956 (renewed 1984), 1958 (renewed 1986) and 1970 TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI)

oops, I went over the comfort limit. Can the next contributor start a new thread?

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mmmm, *great choice! singalongawoody :]

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You And Me Against The World
( Helen Reddy )

You and me against the world
Sometimes it feels like you and me against the world
When all the others turn their back and walk away
You can count on me to stay

Remember when the circus came to town
And you were frightened by the clown?
Wasn't it nice to be around someone that you knew?
Someone who was big and strong and looking out for

You and me against the world
Sometimes it feels like you and me against the world
And for all the times we've cried I always felt that
The odds were on our side

And when one of us is gone
And one of us is left to carry on
Then remembering will have to do
Our memories alone will get us through
Think about the days of me and you
Of you and me against the world

Remember when the circus came to town
And you were frightened by the clown?
Wasn't it nice to be around someone that you knew?
Someone who was big and strong and looking out for

You and me against the world
Sometimes it feels like you and me against the world
And for all the times we've cried I always felt that
The odds were on our side

And when one of us is gone
And one of us is left to carry on
Then remembering will have to do
Our memories alone will get us through
Think about the days of me and you
Of you and me against the world
You and me against the world
You and me against the world

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Oh a sleeping drunkard up in central park
Or the lion hunter in the jungle dark

Or the chinese dentist or the british queen
They all fit together in the same machine

Nice, nice, very nice
Nice, nice, very nice
So many people in the same device

Oh a whirling dervish and a dancing bear
Or a ginger rogers and a fred astaire

Or a teenage rocker or the girls in france
Yes, we all are partners in this cosmic dance

Nice, nice, very nice
Nice, nice, very nice
So many people in the same device

I wanted all things to make sense
So we'd be happy instead of tense

Oh a sleeping drunkard up in central park
Or the lion hunter in the jungle dark

Or the chinese dentist or the british queen
They all fit together in the same machine

Nice, nice, very nice
Nice, nice, very nice
So many people in the same device
So many people in the same device

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