> A DAY AT THE RACES

  • 1. Tie your mother down

  • 2. You take my breath away

  • 3. Long away

  • 4. The millionaire waltz

  • 5. You and I

  • 6. Somebody to love

  • 7. White man

  • 8. Good old fashioned lover boy

  • 9. Drowse

  • 10.Teo Torriatte (Let us cling together)





    • Tie your mother down

    Get your party gown
    Get your pigtail down
    And get your heart beating baby
    Got my timing right
    I got my act all tight
    It's gotta be tonight
    My little school babe

    Your mama 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 out of 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 mama and your daddy
    Gonna plague me till I die
    I can't understand it
    Because I'm a peace loving guy
    Tie your mother down
    Tie your mother down...



    You take my breath away

    Look into my eyes and you'll see
    I'm the only one
    You've captured my love
    Stolen my heart
    Changed my life
    Every time you make a move
    You destroy my mind
    And the way you touch
    I lose control and shiver deep inside
    You take my breath away

    You can reduce me to tears
    With a single sigh
    Every breath that you take
    Any sound that you make
    Is a whisper in my ear
    I could give up all my life for just one kiss
    I would surely die
    If you dismiss me from your love
    You take my breath away

    So please, don't go
    Don't leave me here all by myself
    I get ever so lonely from time to time
    I will find you anywhere you go
    I'll be right behind you
    Right until the ends of the earth
    I'll get no sleep until I find you
    To tell you that you just take my breath away

    I will find you anywhere you go
    Right until the ends of the earth
    I'll get no sleep until I find you
    To tell you when I've found you
    I love you

     

    Long Away

    You might believe in heaven
    I would not care to say
    For every star in heaven
    There's a sad soul here today
    Wake up in the morning with a good face
    Stare at the moon all day
    Lonely as a whisper
    on a star chase
    Does anyone care anyway?
    For all the prayers in heaven
    So much of life's this way

    Did we leave our way behind us?
    Such a long long way behind us
    Who knows when now who knows where
    Where the light of day will find us?
    Look for the day

    Take heart, my friend, we love you
    Though it seems like you're alone
    A million light's above you
    Smile down upon your home
    Hurry, put your troubles in a suitcase
    Come, let the new child play
    Lonely as a whisper
    on a star chase
    I'm leaving here, I'm long away
    For all the stars in heaven
    I would not live
    I could not live this way

    Did we leave our way behind us?
    Such a long long way behind us
    Leave it for some hopeless lane
    Such a long long way, such a long long way
    Such a long long way, I'm looking for
    Still looking for that day

     

    The millionaire waltz

    Bring out the charge of the love brigade
    There is spring in the air once again
    Drink to the sound of the song parade
    There is music and love everywhere
    Give a little love to me
    Take a little love from me
    I want to share it with you

    Feel like a millionaire
    Once we were mad, we were happy
    We spent all our days holding hands together
    Do you remember my love
    How we danced and played?
    In the rain we laid
    We could stay there for ever and ever
    Now I am sad, you are so far away
    I sit counting the hours day by day
    Come back to me
    How I long for your love
    Come back to me
    Be happy like we used to be

    Come back, come back to me
    Come back, come back to me
    Oh come back to me oh my love
    How I long for your love
    Won't you come back to me?

    My fine friend
    Take me wiz you unt love me forever
    My fine friend
    Forever forever

    Bring out the charge of the love brigade
    There is spring in the air once again
    Drink to the sound of the song parade
    There is music and love everywhere
    Give a little love to me
    Take a little love from me
    I want to share it with you
    Come back, come back to me feel
    Make me feel like a millionaire

     

    You and I

    Music is playing in the darkness
    And a lantern goes swinging by
    Shadows flickering my heart's jittering
    Just you and I
    Not tonight come tomorrow
    When everything's sunny and bright
    No, no, no come tomorrow because then
    We'll be waiting in the moonlight

    We'll go walking in the moonlight
    Walking in the moonlight
    Laughter ringing in the darkness
    People drinking for days gone by
    Time don't mean a thing
    When you're by my side
    Please, stay awhile

    You know I never could forsee
    the future years
    You know I never could see
    Where life was leading me
    But will we be together forever?
    What will be my love?
    Can't you see that I just don't know?

    No not tonight not tomorrow
    Everything's gonna be alright
    Wait and see if tomorrow we'll be
    As happy as we're feeling tonight
    We'll go walking in the moonlight
    (we'll be happy)
    Walking in the moonlight

    I can hear the music in the darkness
    Floating softly to where we lie
    No more questions, now
    Let's enjoy tonight
    (Just you and I) just you and I
    Just you and I

     

    Somebody to love

    Can anybody find be somebody to love?
    Each morning I get up I die a little
    Can barely stand on my feet
    Take a look in the mirror and cry
    Lord what you're doing to me
    I have to spend all my years in believing you
    But I just can't get no relief Lord
    Somebody oooh somebody
    Can anybody find me somebody to love?

    I work hard everyday of my life
    I work till I ache my bones
    At the end
    I take home my hard earned pay all
    on my own
    I get down on my knees
    And I start to pray
    'Til the tears run down from my eyes
    Lord, somebody oooh somebody
    Can anybody find me somebody to love?

    (He wants help)
    Every day - I try and I try and I try -
    But everybody wants to put me down
    They say I'm going crazy
    They say I got a lot of water in my brain
    Got no common sense
    I got nobody left to believe
    Yeah - yeah yeah yeah

    Oooh
    Somebody (somebody)
    Can anybody find me somebody to love?

    Got no feel I got no rhythm
    I just keep losing my beat
    I'm OK, I'm alright
    I ain't gonna face no defeat
    I just gotta get out of this prison cell
    One day I'm gonna be free, Lord!

    Find me somebody to love find me
    somebody to love
    Find me somebody to love find me
    somebody to love
    Find me somebody to love find me
    somebody to love
    Find me somebody to love find me
    somebody to love
    Find me somebody to love find me
    somebody to love
    Somebody somebody somebody somebody somebody
    Find me somebody find me somebody to love
    Can anybody find me somebody to love?

    Find me somebody to love
    Find me somebody to love
    Find me somebody to love
    Find me find me find me
    Find me somebody to love
    Somebody to love
    Find me somebody to love...

     

    White man

    I'm a simple man with a simple name
    From this soil my people came
    In this soil remain oh yeah oh yeah
    He made us our shoes
    And we trod soft on the land
    But the immigrant built roads
    On our blood and sand oh yeah

    White man, White man
    Don't you see the light behind your blackened skies?
    White man, White man
    You took away the sight to blind my simple eyes
    White man White man
    Where you gonna hide
    From the hell you've made?

    Oh, the red man knows wars
    With his hands and his knives
    On the Bible you swore
    Fought your battle with lies oh yeah
    Leave my body in shame
    Leave my soul in disgrace
    But by every god's name
    Say a prayer for your race oh yeah

    White man, White man
    Our country was green and all our rivers wide
    White man, White man
    You came with a gun
    And soon our children died
    White man, White man
    Don't you give a light for the blood you've shed?

    White man, White man
    White man
    White man, White man
    For you battled with lies
    White man, White man
    Still lies
    White man, White man
    Say you look around every skin and bone again

    What is left of your dream?
    Just the words on your stone
    A man who learned how to teach
    Then forgot how to learn
    Oh yeah

     

    Good old fashioned lover boy

    I can dim the lights
    And sing you songs full of sad things
    We can do the tango just for two
    I can serenade and gently play
    On your heart strings
    Be your Valentino just for you

    Oooh love oooh lover boy
    What are doing tonight, hey boy?
    Set my alarm, turn on my charm
    That's because I'm a good old fashioned lover boy

    Oooh let me feel you heartbeat
    (Grow faster, faster)
    Oooh can you feel my love heat
    Come on and sit on my hot seat of love
    And tell me how do you feel right, after all
    I'd like for you and I to go romancing

    Say the word your wish is my command
    Oooh love oooh lover boy
    What are doing tonight, hey boy?
    Write my letter feel much better
    And use my fancy patter on the telephone

    When I'm not with you
    Think of you always I miss you
    (I miss those long hot summer nights)
    When I'm not with you
    Think of me always I love you love you
    Hey boy, where did you get it from?
    Hey boy, where did you go?
    I learned my passion
    In the good old fashioned school of lover boys

    Dining at the Ritz, we'll meet at nine precisely
    I will pay the bill, you taste the wine
    Driving back in style, in my saloon
    will do quite nicely
    Just take me back to yours, that will be fine
    (Come on and get it)

    Oooh love oooh lover boy
    What are you doing tonight, hey boy?
    Everything's all right, just hold on tight
    That's because I'm a good old fashioned lover boy

     

    Drowse

    It's the sad eyed goodbye
    Yesterday's moments I remember
    It's the bleak street week kneed partings
    I recall
    It's the mistier mists the hazier days
    The brighter sun and the easier lays
    There's all the more reason for laughing and crying
    When you're younger and life isn't to hard at all

    It's the fantastic drowse
    Of the afternoon Sundays
    That bored you to rages of tears
    The unending pleadings
    To waste all your good times
    In thoughts of your middle-aged years
    It's the vertical hold, all the things that you're told
    For the everyday hero it all turns to zero
    And there's all the more reason
    For living or dying when you're young
    And your troubles are all very small

    Out here on the street we'd gather and meet
    And scuff up the sidewalk
    With endlessly restless feet
    Half on the time we'd broaden our minds
    More in the pool hall
    Than we did in the school hall
    With the down town chewing gum bums
    Watching the night life, the lights and the fun

    Never wanted to be the boy next door
    Always thought I'd be something more
    But it ain't easy for a small town boy
    It ain't easy at all
    Thinking it right, and doing it wrong
    It's easier from an arm chair
    Waves of alternatives wash over my sleepiness
    Have my eggs poached for breakfast I guess

    I think I'll be Clint Eastwood
    Jimi Hendrix he was good
    Let's try William the Conqueror
    Now who else do I like?



    Teo Torriatte (Let us cling together)

    When I'm gone no need to wonder
    If I ever think of you
    The same moon shines
    The same wind blows for both of us
    And time is but a paper moon
    Be not gone

    Though I'm gone it's as though
    I hold the flower that touches you
    A new life grows
    The blossom knows there's no-one else
    Could warm my heart as much as you...
    Be not gone

    Let us cling together as the years go by
    Oh my love, my love
    In the quiet of the night
    Let our candle always burn
    Let us never lose the lessons
    we have learned

    Teo toriatte konomama iko
    Aisuruhito yo
    Shizukana yoi ni
    Hikario tomoshi
    Itoshiki oshieo idaki

    Hear my song still think of me
    The way you've come to think of me
    The nights grow long
    But dreams live on
    Just close your pretty eyes
    And you can be with me
    Dream on

    Teo toriatte konomama iko
    Aisuruhito yo
    Shizukana yoi ni
    Hikario tomoshi
    Itoshiki oshieo idaki

    When I'm gon
    They'll say we were all fools
    And we don't understand
    Oh be strong don't turn your heart
    We're all you're all we're all
    for all for always

    Let us cling together as the years go by
    Oh my love, my love
    In the quiet of the night
    Let our candle always burn
    Let us never lose the lessons
    we have learned