Live It Up
Composer(s): Ergün Arsal - Kutlu özmakinaci
First performance by: Yüksek Sadakat - 2011



Here’s your favourite song on the radio
shake your head to the beat- it’s rock n roll
if you’re feeling the world has kicked you down
all you need is just to have a little fun

hey, it’s time to live it up
my friend, put the record on
sing it loud and let it out
life is beautiful
my friend let it out
life is beautiful

give yourself a break, come on and live it up
give yourself a break

driving on with no map to lead me on
eyes on the horizon and there’s no turning round
sometimes I feel, I feel I’m not alone
so let your colors shine right next to mine

hey, it’s time to live it up
my friend, put the record on
sing it loud and let it out
life is beautiful
my friend let it out
life is beautiful

give yourself a break, come on and live it up
give yourself a break

I say my friend life is beautiful
I say my friend life is beautiful

I say my friend… put the record on
sing it loud and let it out
life is beautiful
my friend let it out
life is beautiful

give yourself a break, come on and live it up
give yourself a break

Check-Out Time
Composer(s): Burt Bacharach - Hal David
Performer(s): Dionne Warwick



When I woke up this morning I was all alone
Stretched out in bed
Two hundred miles from home in some old motel
I don't know what's to become of me
I know that check-out time is three

I didn't mean to hurt him, he has so much pride
I never dreamed
I had to run and hide to this lonely room
I just hope he doesn't follow me
I know that check-out time is three

There's just no use
Why try to make an excuse
I've lost great news
Because to be his one
Well that would be just giving up on life

I've got to go on living, I just can't exist
I wanna taste all of the things I missed
For his tender love
Till the day love catches up with me
That's always check-out time at three

Rainbow People
Composer(s): Andrew Gold



See all the rainbow people dance about
They're here to love you and to freak you out 

Long tendril hair touching stars
Multicolored diamond shards will shower you with love 

Hey Mr. plastic man all dressed in black
Incense and beads and flower power's back

The beautiful ones will turn you on
Gonna drop the flower bomb
Gonna drop the flower bomb
And blow your mind

I was thinkin' bout a groovy chick at Pandora's box
She was doing the pony eatin' magic paisley dots
Beautiful Capricorn said "man, this trip's so boss." 

Just watch the rainbow people do their thing
Your soul can fly on lavender wings

You can be a butterfly
'Cause it's all inside your mind
It's all inside your mind
Whoa woah

And all the cosmic radiation
is blowing colors through the center of mind

Boom Boom
Composer(s): Hayk Harutyunyan - Hayk Hovhannisyan - Sosi Khanikyan
First performance: Emmy - 2011



My days and nights are passing
Long hours are running
But we are still fighting
Ay ay ay

The love is still so shining
Why are we denying?
I really don't know why
Ay ay ay

Come and take my hand now don't be shy (don’t be shy)
And let's try to hold our spirits high

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your kisses like a like a

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your love is like a like a

I wanna say that one thing is true
I'm in love with you

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your kisses like a like a

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your love is like a like a

I wanna say that one thing is true
I'm in love with you

I know that love cannot lie
I wanna give you a new try
So there's no need to cry
Ay ay ay

And if you want we can fly
High up to the sky-ay
Just you and I
Ay ay ay ay

Come and take my hand now don't be shy(don't be shy)
And let's try to hold our spirits high

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your kisses like a like a

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your love is like a like a

I wanna say that one thing is true (true)
I'm in love with you

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your kisses like a like a

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your love is like a like a

I wanna say that one thing is true
I'm in love with you

You are the strongest fighter
(Boom boom boom)
you`re the king for me,yeah
( I’m in love with you)
It’s time to win me in the ring of love, babe, babe...

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your kisses like a like a

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your love is like a like a

I wanna say that one thing is true
I'm in love with you

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your kisses like a like a

Boom boom
Chucka chucka
Your love is like a like a

I wanna say that one thing is true
I'm in love with you

Checking Out
Composer(s): Allan Holdsworth
Performer(s): Allan Holdsworth



You keep me hanging here 
and you steal my time 
while I wear my heart out on my sleeve
oh, on my sleeve 

Me, I am falling down
come see me drown 
Checking Out the bottles 
at the bar... 

Like to be away so far.... 

Me, wonder will the wind blow? 

Am I chasing snow, though I'll never show 
my sorrow's face, my sorrow's face? 

Oh you, do you have to toy with 
a bolted chest in my mind's chaotic 
lumber room, rattling on fair fortune's loom?

Rainbow On The River (aka It Happened In New Orleans)
Composer(s): Louis Alter; Paul Francis Webster
Performer(s): Perry Como;
and various other artists



There's a rainbow on the river
the skies are clearing . . .
You'll soon be hearing a heavenly song
all the day long . . .
 
When there's a rainbow on the river
the birds are mating . . . 
They're busy dating each other above
happy in love . . .
 
Let's you and I go sailing
along the rippling stream . . .
Holding hands together
together we'll dream . . .
 
With a rainbow on the river
you get the feeling . . .
Romance is stealing right out of the blue
into your heart . . .

Feel The Passion
Composer(s): Shpëtim Saraçi - Sokol Marsi
First performance: Aurela Gaçe - 2011



Feel my heart, feel the words beat low
I sing my song and the echo flows
And wherever I go, I just want you to know
You're the blood in my veins and the love in my soul

You are my wave rippling over sea
You dry my tears and you make me grieve
But wherever I go, I just want you to know
My moment in time, oh sweet song of mine, eh...

I'm like an eagle in the open sky
I'll never land, I'm flying high

Let me share my song with you, just feel the passion
Love's the message shining through, a chain reaction
It brings my heaven down to earth and this is why
It drives me mad but it gives me life, I'm free to fly, eh...

And when I feel that I thirst for you
I dab my lips with your morning dew
But wherever I go, I just want you to know
Sweet song, live forever and I'll live with you, eh...

I'm like an eagle in the open sky
I'll never land, I'm flying high

Let me share my song with you, just feel the passion
Love's the message shining through, a chain reaction
It brings my heaven down to earth and this is why
It drives me mad but it gives me life, I'm free to fly, eh...

(Let me share my song with you, just feel the passion)
(Love's the message shining through, I'm free to fly)
Zot, qe këngën ma ke fal, më lerë të ndarë
Nuk ka ngjyrë e nuk ka fjalë, muret s'e mbajnë
It brings my heaven down to earth and this is why
It drives me mad but it gives me life, I'm free to fly, eh...

(Let me share my song with you, just feel the passion) Yeah...

Checkin' On My Baby
Composer(s): Junior Wells
Performer(s): Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
and multiple other artists



Checkin' on my baby, see what she puttin' down
So many days and nights I been out of town
I wouldn't call home, and I wouldn't even write
I bought me a plane and flew back the same night

Checkin' on my baby, find out what she puttin' down
Checkin' up on my baby, find out what she puttin' down
So many nights and days I been out of town

Rainbow At Midnight
Composer(s): John Miller
Performer(s): Ernest Tubb;
and various other artists



After the war was over
I was coming home to you
I saw a rainbow at midnight
Out on the ocean blue

The stars in heaven were shining
The moon gave its light from above
I saw your face in this rainbow
And it made me think of our love

We’ll build a home in the country
And make all our dreams come true
There we’ll make a heaven
Sweetheart just for we two

Here we will live so happy
And have a baby or two
We’ll name them after the rainbow
Because it reminds me of you

After this life is over
And our journey here is trough
We’ll move to the land of the rainbow
And live in the starry blue

Haba Haba
Composer(s): Stella Nyambura Mwangi
First performance: Stella Mwangi - 2011



When as a little girl, my grandma told me
That I could be just anything I wanted to
When as a little girl, my grandma told me
That I could be just anything I wanted to

She said that
Everything I work for, everything I wish for
Everything I look for, it is right in front of me
Everything I work for, everything I wish for
Everything I look for, it is right in front of me

And she said ah
Haba haba hujaza kibaba
Haba haba hujaza kibaba
Haba haba hujaza kibaba
Haba haba hujaza kibaba

When as a little girl, my grandma told me
That it's the little things in life that's gon' make me happy
When as a little girl my grandma told me
That it's the little things in life that's gon' make me happy

She said that
Little by little fills up the measure
Don't ever give up, keep on moving
Little by little fills up the measure
Don't ever give up, keep on moving

Haba haba hujaza kibaba
Haba haba hujaza kibaba
Haba haba hujaza kibaba
Haba haba hujaza kibaba

(Haba haba hujaza kibaba) Sing it
(Haba haba hujaza kibaba)
(Haba haba hujaza kibaba)
(Haba haba hujaza kibaba)

Haba haba hujaza kibaba
Haba haba hujaza kibaba
Haba haba hujaza kibaba
Haba haba hujaza kibaba

Hujaza kibaba

Checkers
Composer(s): Edgar Allen - Leo. Edwards



Checkers was the nervy fellow's name
Who picked no winners in the racing game
Until his sweetheart picked the winning horse 
And rode to fame and fortune on Remorse
He played the game and won out in the end
And here is what he told me like a friend

From the photo play you will observe
Fortune comes to those who most deserve 
When Checkers' fate seemed but an idle guess
Love took the mount and rode it to success
Your horse may balk and leave you at the start
You're sure to win whenever you lead a heart

Life is like a game of checkers, just a game we play
Every move we make means loss or gain
Like a jockey in the racing game
some are driven to a corner throw their stakes away
Only love can lift their crosses
Make them all forget their losses
Life is like a game of checkers 
Every one must play

Rainbow
Composer(s): Russ Hamilton
Performer(s): George Hamilton IV



Rainbow, rainbow, rainbow

I'm saving my money to buy you a rainbow
A rainbow, to fit on your finger
And after I've gone and bought you the rainbow
I'll go out and I'll buy you the moon

When we go walking side by side in the moonlight
We count the stars as we go strolling by
Maybe one day we'll own those beautiful diamonds
That glisten like the teardrops from your eyes

You know how I feel on a moment like this
When hand in hand, when we reminisce
Your eyes seem to glow when you whisper low
I really love you

I'm saving my money to buy you a rainbow
A rainbow, to fit on your finger
And after I've gone and bought you the rainbow
I'll go out and I'll buy you the moon

And after I've gone and bought you the rainbow
I'll go out and I'll buy you the moon
I'll go out and I'll buy you the moon
Rainbow, rainbow, rainbow

The Magic Piper (Of Love)
Composer(s): Edwyn Collins
Performer(s): Edwyn Collins



I'm through with love hangovers
It's best that I stay sober 
No rolling in the clover 
No Gretna Green trip over 
No honeymoon in Paris
I only feel embarrassed 
For the cool cats
The charmed kittens 
Both smitten by the love songs 
That he's written
Caught in the sights 
Of a deadly sniper 
The magic piper of love 
The magic piper of love
Of love, of love 

My girlfriend, she go blotto 
Of cunnings and his grotto 
It turns out he's a dirty old man 
The nice place that I want to be 
Is sat up on this Christmas tree 
While playing these games of 
Catch as catch can
'Cause he's a sweet talker 
A silent stalker
All the savvy of a street walker 
More deadly than a horned viper 
The magic piper of love
The magic piper of love
Of love, of love

He's a heart breaker 
A mover and a shaker
The magic piper of love

It's kind of hard to swallow 
You know you've gotta follow 
The magic piper of love

'Cause he's a city slicker 
An expert politic-er
The magic piper of love 

Of love, of love
Of love, of love 
Of love, of love 

Check Yourself
Composer(s): Al Bryant - David English - Berry Gordy Jr. - Otis Williams
Performer(s): The Temptations
and multiple other artists



Otis (& then Melvin):
By and by, you knew that you make me cry 
(By and by, knew you'd make me cry)
And my love for you will never die 
(My love will never, never die)
But I had to find out on my own

(Check yourself, check yourself)

Paul:
Aww, that's what they told me 
(Check yourself, check yourself)
I paid no mind 
(Check yourself, check yourself)
I kept on breaking hearts 
(Check yourself, check yourself)
All down the line 
(Check yourself, check yourself)

Sometimes you just got to lose
That's when you pay your dues
I guess I was a fool, I guess I was a fool
To think that... you'd stayed so true

Aww, I really played in the game 
(Check yourself, check yourself)
I'd always win 
(Check yourself, check yourself)
Now the tables turn
(Check yourself, check yourself)
And I'm on the losing end
(Check yourself, check yourself)

Oh don't, feel sorry
I had it coming, it's true
'Cause I'm losing, yes, I'm losing, I'm losing you

Before I go, I'd like for you to know
You've had my heart from the very start
But there's one more thing, before we part
And that's I'm sorry, sorry, sorry to my heart

Aww, I'm on my sad way 
(Check yourself, check yourself)
Because I know I'd lost your love 
(Check yourself, check yourself)
I'll kick it, like a pass 
(Check yourself, check yourself)

But I'll be thinking of....
The good times 
(The good times)
The bad times 
(The bad times)
But good or bad, happy or sad
Of memories 
(Memories)
Sweet, sweet memories 
(Memories)
Aww, memories... are all I have

Aww, that's what they told me 
(Check yourself, check yourself)
That's what they told me 
(Check yourself, check yourself)
That's what they... what they told me 
(Check yourself, check yourself)
Hmmm...

Rain, Rain, Rain
Composer(s): Bernard Toorish
Performer(s): Frankie Laine; The Four Lads



Rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain, rain

Well, didn't it rain children
God's gonna send new orders from Zion
He's good raise his heaven up higher
It's gonna rain

Well stop! Great God, stop still and listen
My God walked down by the briny sea
Beheld the evil of the sinful Man
Declared that he would destroy the land

He spoke to Noah, Noah stopped
He said, Noah I want you to build an ark
And I want you to build it big and strong
Build it three hundred cubits along
Thirty high and fifty wide
Cause it's got to stand that rain and tide

Well, rain children
God's gonna send new orders from Zion
He's good raise his heaven up higher
It's gonna rain

Well, after God told him what to do
Noah began to cut and hew
The ringing of the saw cried "Judgement"
The ringing of the hammer cried "Sinner repent"

A hundred years he hammered and sawed
Building the Ark by the Grace of God
After the foundation was laid
He hewed the timber and the Ark was made

Lord, let it rain
Behold the Ark is made

Well he called in the animals two by two
The ox, the camel, and the kangaroo
Well they called in Japeth, Ham and Shem
And God began to flood the land

He raised his hands to heaven on high
He knocked the sun, the moon from the sky
Shook the mountains around the sea
And he hitched his reins to the chariot wheel
Stepped on the land and stood on the shore
And declared that time would be no more

Rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain
Oh, Noah, Noah, didn't it rain
Rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain, rain

My Lord had to wait until the float and the Ark did rock
And Noah couldn't find nowhere to dock
My God spoke and he whispered low
Showed old Noah where he wanted him to go

He said, "Lookit here, Noah, the rain's done stopped
And I want you to land on the mountaintop"
He showed old Noah a rainbow sign
Said it won't be a rain but fire next time

Rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain
Oh, Noah, Noah, didn't it rain
Rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain
Oh, Noah, Noah, didn't it rain

The Mad Hatter's Song
Composer(s): Robin Williamson
Performer(s): The Incredible String Band



Oh seekers of spring how could you not find contentment
In a time of riddling reasons in this land of the blind
By the joke of fate alone
it's sure that as the loved hand leaves you
You clutch for the slip-stream, the realness to find

But do what you like, do what you like, do what you like
do what you like, do what you like, do what you can
do what you can, live till you die
My poor little man
For Jesus will stretch out his hand no more

But in the south there's many a waving tree
Oh would that musky fingers move your pain
In the warm south winds the lost flowers bloom again

And if you cried, you know you'd fill a lake with tears
Still wouldn't turn back the years
Since the city has took you
Mad Hatter is on my mind

So sad, sad to see the way it grew
Those other people that I knew
That have either fell or faltered
Mad Hatter is on my mind

And you must have to see clear some time

Prometheus the problem child
still juggling with his brains
Gives his limping leopard's visions
to the miser in his veins
Within the ruined factory is the normal soul insane
As he sets the sky beneath his heel
And learns away the pain

But I am the archer the lover of laughter
And mine is the arrowed flight

I am the archer, and my eyes yearn after the unsullied sight
Born of the dark waters of the daughters of night
Dancing without movement after the clear light
Oh Perithian fate be kind in the rumbling and trundling rickshaw of time
Hooked by the heart to the king fisher's line
I will set my one eye for the shores of the blind

Cheatin' On You
Composer(s): Jon Cleary
Performer(s): Taj Mahal; Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen



It's the end to all my high jinks
It's the end to all my capers
Sort of a three-way story
The kind you'd read about in the Sunday papers

Thought I was getting over
Having both cakes and eatin' `em too
But to my surprise, my slice on the side
Been eatin' the forbidden fruit

Oh, I been cheatin' on you
I been cheatin' on you
Been cheatin' on you with somebody's
Been cheatin' on me

Thought I was Jimmy Slick (yeah, I thought that)
Thought I was Charlie Cool (thought that too)
But I'm just Sammy Stupid
My friends call me Freddy Fool

Wooooo, Cupid played a trick on me
Turned the duper into the duped
I'm so surprised to find my slice on the side
Been eatin' the forbidden fruit

Oh, I been cheatin' on you
I been cheatin' on you
I been cheatin' on you with somebody's
Been cheatin' on me

Wooooo, Cupid played a trick on me
Turned the duper into the duped
I'm so surprised to find my slice on the side
Been eatin' the forbidden fruit

I been cheatin' on you
I been cheatin' on you
I been cheatin' on you with somebody's
Been cheatin' on me

Baby, Baby been cheatin' on you
Cheatin' on you
I been cheatin' on you
Been cheatin' on you with somebody's
Been cheatin' on me

Cheatin' on you with somebody's
Been cheatin' on me
Cheatin' on you with somebody's
Been cheatin' on me
Cheatin' on you with somebody's
Been cheatin' on me

Rain, Rain Go Away
Composer(s): Noel Regney; Gloria Shayne
Performer(s): Bobby Vinton



I can still remember
When you moved in next door
I brought you some choc'late
From the corner candy store
When it started raining
You started crying too
That was the first time
I sang this song to you

Rain rain go away
Come again some other day 
Rain rain go away
Bring my love a sunny day

We grow up together
And as the years went by
Ev'rybody knew that we were
Sweethearts you and I
Through many april showers
I held your hand in mine
Between the raindrops
We sang time after time

Rain rain go away
Come again some other day 
Rain rain go away
Bring my love a sunny day

I went away to college
You said you'd wait for me
Then I got your letter
Asking me to set you free
Tomorrow you'll be maried
There's nothing I can do
But wish you sunshine
Now and your whole life through

Rain rain go away
Tomorrow is her wedding day 
Rain rain go away
Bring my love a sunny day

The Lusty Month Of May
Composer(s): Alan Jay Lerner - Frederick Loewe
Performer(s): Julie Andrews
and multiple other artists



Tra la, it's May, the lusty Month of May
That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray
Tra la, it's here, that shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts merrily appear

It's May, It's May, that gorgeous holiday
When every maiden prays that her lad will be a cad
It's mad, it's gay, alive, a lust display
Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks
Everyone makes divine mistakes
The Lusty Month of May

Whence this fragrance wafting through the air?
What sweet feelings does it's scent transmute?
Whence this perfume floating everywhere?
Don't you know, it's that dear forbidden fruit

It's May, the lusty month of May
That darling month when everyone throws self-control away
It's time to do a wretched thing or two
And try to make each precious day one you'll always rue

It's May, it's May, the month of "Yes, you may"
The time for every frivolous whim, proper or im-
It's wild, it's gay, depraved in every way
The birds and bees with all of their vast amorous past
Gaze at the human race aghast
The Lusty Month of May

Tra la, it's May, the lusty Month of May
That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray
Tra la, it's here, that shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts merrily appear

It's May, it's may, the month of great dismay
when all the world is brimming with fun, wholesome or un-
It's mad, it's gay, alive a lust display
Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks
Everyone makes divine mistakes
The Lusty Month of May 

Cheatin' On The Sandman
Composer(s): Sid Carris - Bill McCrystal
Performer(s): Spike Jones



Cheatin' on the sandman, makin' love to you
List'nin' to the band man play his song so blue
Burgers at the drive-in, parkin' by the sea
Makin' love and dreamin', not a soul to see
And Honey, `s we drove through deserted streets
Dark with night's heavenly bloom
We'd stop by the roadside to kiss
Then to drive on too soon
Cheatin' on the sandman, fun when I knew you
Now I'm a lonely blue man missin' makin' love to you