Retro-Songteksten: Evergreens, Classics, Old-Time Favourites, Hits Uit Onze Jeugd
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Es Ist Besser, Du Gehst ((Adapted from: You Better Move On (Arthur Alexander) - 1961)) Composer(s): Arthur Alexander Performer(s): Drafi Deutscher
Es Ist Besser, Du Gehst Immer wieder sagst Du zu mir bitte geb' sie frei Du glaubst dass ich nicht für sie der Richt'ge sei doch wer bis Du und was geht Dich das an ich liebe sie, so sehr ich lieben kann es ist besser Du gehst
Du bist reich und bei Dir da hätt' sie ne Menge Geld doch unser Glück das ist ihr viel mehr auf dieser Welt denn ich lass' sie nie mals im Stich und darum gibt's nur eins für Dich Es ist besser Du gehst
Tut mir leid Boy, dass Du sie liebst doch sie gehört nur mir mir alleine und nie, nie, nie, würd sie zu einem andere'n gehn nein nie, nie, nie, wird das geschehn
Oh ich rate Dir mein Boy, lass die Finger weg von Ihr schick ihr keine Rosen und spiel nicht den Kavalier und glaube mir, Du bist ihr ganz egal ich sage Dir zum letzten Mal Es ist besser Du gehst Es ist besser Du gehst Es ist besser Du gehst
Hay días que siento que las horas se me escapan y tu boca no me basta para estar
Vuelan allá afuera las gaviotas, las ideas y murmura en mi cabeza sólo el mar
Y me pides el sol y me pides amor
Y siento nostalgia por la vida por la escarcha por las manos que no supe acariciar
Toda la tristeza del planeta me atraviesa y el futuro es una sombra que se va
Y me pides el sol y me pides y yo te doy la tarde gris café sin hablar el televisor un ojo de huracán siglos horas sombras en el mar hay días así que pasan de mí aquí.
Hay días que busco y doy vuelta los cajones intentando hallar razones para estar
Cierro las ventanas y doy vuelta los espejos y en los ojos solamente queda el mar
Y me pides el sol y me pides amor
Y me voy adentro al jardín de los silencios donde un fuego primitivo alumbrará
Y me acuerdo del sol y me acuerdo que hoy te di la tarde gris café sin hablar el televisor un ojo de huracán siglos horas sombras en el mar hay días así que pasan de mi aquí
April Showers Bring May Flowers Composer(s): Leo Wood - Nat Shilkret - Jack Shilkret
When the whole world seems so drear And above dark clouds appear And your heat seems filled with fear Don't feel sad and blue Think how nice it soon will be When the sun shines cheerfully Try it and I know you'll see What I say is true!
Happiness was meant for you Seek it and you'll find it too Then your life will start a new Wonderful 'twill be Sorrow was not meant to stay Just to come and go away Tho' it finds us all some day Still you'll surely see
April showers bring May flowers And sweet bowers, where roses twine Now I know too, I can show you That it's so too all the time If the sunshine came at one time All the fun time would soon be through April showers bring May flowers So just wait 'till love comes to you
Diary
Composer(s): David Gates
First release by: Bread - 1972
Covered by multiple other artists
I found her diary underneath a tree and started reading about me The words she's written took me by surpise you'd never read them in her eyes They said that she had found the love she waited for Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it
When she confronted with the writing there simply pretended not to care I passed it off as just in keeping with her total disconcerting air and though she tried to hide the love that she denied wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it
And as I go through my life, I will give to her my wife all the sweet things that I can find
I found her diary underneath a tree and started reading about me The words began stick and tears to flow. Her meaning now was clear to see The love she'd waited for was someone else not me Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it
and as I go through my life, I will wish for her his wife all the sweet things that she can find all the sweet things they can find
April Showers Composer(s): Buddy DeSylva - Louis Silvers First recording by: Al Jolson - 1921 Covered by multiple other artists
Life is not a highway strewn with flowers Still it holds a goodly share of bliss When the sun gives way to April showers Here is the point you should never miss
Though April showers may come your way They bring the flowers that bloom in May So if it's raining, have no regrets Because it isn't raining rain, you know (It's raining violets)
And where you see clouds upon the hills You soon will see crowds of daffodils So keep on looking for a blue bird And list'ning for his song Whenever April showers come along
And where you see clouds upon the hills You soon will see crowds of daffodils So keep on looking for a blue bird And list'ning for his song Whenever April showers come along
Diana
Composer(s): Paul Anka
First release by: Paul Anka - 1957
Covered by multiple other artists
Versions In Other Languages:
1980 - Diana (Dutch Version) (Will Tura)
1989 - Diana (Spanish Version) (Alejandra Guzmán)
2006 - Oh Diana (Adriano Celentano & Paul Anka)
I'm so young and you're so old This, my darling, I've been told I don't care just what they say 'Cause forever I will pray You and I will be as free As the birds up in the trees Oh, please stay by me, Diana
Thrills I get when you hold me close Oh, my darling, you're the most I love you but do you love me Oh, Diana, can't you see I love you with all my heart And I hope we will never part Oh, please stay with me, Diana
Oh, my darlin', oh, my lover Tell me that there is no other I love you with my heart Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh Only you can take my heart Only you can tear it apart When you hold me in your loving arms I can feel you giving all your charms Hold me, darling, ho-ho hold me tight Squeeze me baby with-a all your might Oh, please stay by me, Diana Oh, please, Diana Oh, please, Diana Oh, please, Diana
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
Composer(s): Paul Simon - Joseph Shabalala
Performer(s): Paul Simon
and multiple other artists
(a-wa a-wa) Odez enzuene zanamchinge
(a-wa a-wa) Si bona kwenze ka kanjani
(a-wa a-wa) Amanto mbazane ayeza
She's a rich girl She don't try to hide it Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
He's a poor boy Empty as a pocket Empty as a pocket with nothing to lose
Sing Ta na na, ta na na na She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes Ta na na, ta na na na She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes Diamonds on the soles of her shoes Diamonds on the soles of her shoes Diamonds on the soles of her shoes Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
People say she's crazy She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes Well that's one way to lose these walking blues Diamonds on the soles of her shoes She was physically forgotten Then she slipped into my pocket With my car keys She said you've taken me for granted Because I please you Wearing these di-iamonds
And I could say oo As if everybody knows What I'm talking about As if everybody here would know Exactly what I was talking about Talking about diamonds on the soles of her shoes
She makes the sign of a teaspoon He makes the sign of a wave The poor boy changes clothes and puts on after-shave To compensate for his ordinary shoes And she said honey take me dancing But they ended up by sleeping In a doorway By the bodegas and the lights on Upper Broadway Wearing diamonds on the soles of their shoes
And I could say oo And everybody here would know What I was talking about I mean everybody here would know exactly what I was talking about Talking about di-iamonds
People say I'm crazy I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes Well that's one way to lose these walking blues Diamonds on the soles of your shoes
April Played The Fiddle Composer(s): Johnny Burke - James V. Monaco Performer(s): Glenn Miller and multiple other artists
April played the fiddle and my heart began to dance And I was so surprised to find my arms around romance April played the fiddle and I memorized the tune And later on, a dream and I went singing to the moon
Then May began to gossip and June just winked her eye And you should have seen the Know-It-All expression on July...
April played the fiddle, ah, but heres the funny part I had to pay the fiddler with my one and only heart!
Diamonds On My Windshield
Composer(s): Tom Waits
Performer(s): Tom Waits; Steve Glotzer
Well these diamonds on my windshield And these tears from heaven Well I'm pulling into town on the Interstate I got a steel train in the rain And the wind bites my cheek through the wing And it's these late nights and this freeway flying It always makes me sing
There's a Duster tryin' to change my tune He's pulling up fast on the right Rolling restlessly by a twenty-four hour moon
And a Wisconsin hiker with a cue-ball head He's wishing he was home in a Wiscosin bed But there's fifteen feet of snow in the East Colder then a welldigger's ass And it's colder than a welldigger's ass
Oceanside it ends the ride with San Clemente coming up Those Sunday desperadoes slip by and cruise with a dry back And the orange drive-in the neon billin' And the theatre's fillin' to the brim With slave girls and a hot spurn bucket full of sin
Metropolitan area with interchange and connections Fly-by-nights from Riverside And out of state plates running a little late
But the sailors jockey for the fast lane So 101 don't miss it There's rolling hills and concrete fields And the broken line's on your mind
The eights go east and the fives go north And the merging nexus back and forth You see your sign, cross the line, signalling with a blink
And the radio's gone off the air Gives you time to think And you hear the rumble As you fumble for a cigarette And blazing through this midnight jungle Remember someone that you met And one more block; the engine talks Whispers 'home at last' It whispers 'home at last' Whispers 'home at last' It whispers 'home at last' Whispers 'home at last'
And there are diamonds on my windshield And these tears from heaven Well I'm pulling into town on the Interstate I got me a steel train in the rain And the wind bites my cheek through the wing Late nights and freeway flying Always makes me sing It always makes me sing
Diamonds At Your Feet
Composer(s): McKinley Morganfield
Performer(s): Muddy Waters; Big Bill Morganfield
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
I 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 she can buy, and all the doctors she can hire She got to take sick and die one of these days
She got to take sick and die one of these days She got to take sick and die one of these days All the medicine she can buy, and all the doctors she can hire She got to take sick and die one of these days
If it was me and all the powers in my hands If it was me and all the powers in my hands If it was me and all the powers laying there child in my hands She would have to go down to the promised land
April Love Composer(s): Sammy Fain - Paul Francis Webster First recording/First release by: Pat Boone - 1957 Covered by multiple other artists
April love is for the very young Every star's a wishing star that shines for you April love is all the seven wonders One little kiss can tell you this is true
Sometimes an April day will suddenly bring showers Rain to grow the flowers for her first bouquet But April love can slip right through your fingers So if she's the one don't let her run away
Sometimes an April day will suddenly bring showers Rain to grow the flowers for her first bouquet But April love can slip right through your fingers So if she's the one don't let her run away
Diamonds Are Forever
Composer(s): John Barry - Don Black
First release by: Shirley Bassey - 1971
Covered by multiple other artists
Diamonds are forever They are all I need to please me They can stimulate and tease me They won't leave in the night I've no fear that they might desert me
Diamonds are forever Hold one up and then caress it Touch it, stroke it and undress it I can see every part Nothing hides in the heart to hurt me
I don't need love For what good will love do me? Diamond never lie to me For when love's gone they'll lustre on
Diamonds are forever Sparking round my little finger Unlike men, the diamonds linger Men are mere mortals who are no Worth going to your grave for (Repeat)
Diamonds are forever, forever, forever Diamonds are forever, forever, forever Forever and forever
Middellandse Zee Composer(s): G. van Wageningen Performer(s): Anita Berry
Middellandse zee, souvenir van een zomer Enkel al het woord is als wijn op de tong Middellandse zee, wie haar kent wordt een dromer Die nog nooit voldoende haar charme bezong Duizend keer (duizend keer) Kan dit lied al gezongen zijn (ahahahahahah) Maar ik leer (maar ik leer) Van de wind soms een nieuw refrein (ahahahahahah) En steeds weer (en steeds weer) Geeft de zee mij het tempo aan (ahahahahahah) In een ritme (in een ritme) Dat blijft bekoren zolang er licht is van zon en maan
Overal in Europa's zuiden, van Gibraltar tot bij Capri Componeren natuurgeluiden steeds opnieuw deze melodie De natuur schrijft met vele handen En de zee dient als blauwe inkt Het papier zijn de witte stranden Waar ik kon lezen hoe dit wijsje klinkt
Middellandse zee, souvenir van een zomer Enkel al het woord is als wijn op de tong Middellandse zee, wie haar kent wordt een dromer Die nog nooit voldoende haar charme bezong Duizend keer (duizend keer) Kan dit lied al gezongen zijn (ahahahahahah) Maar ik leer (maar ik leer) Van de wind soms een nieuw refrein (ahahahahahah) En steeds weer (en steeds weer) Geeft de zee mij het tempo aan (ahahahahahah) In een ritme (in een ritme) Dat blijft bekoren zolang er licht is van zon en maan
Duizend keer (duizend keer) Kan dit lied al gezongen zijn (ahahahahahah) Maar ik leer (maar ik leer) Van de wind soms een nieuw refrein (ahahahahahah) En steeds weer (en steeds weer) Geeft de zee mij het tempo aan (ahahahahahah) In een ritme (in een ritme) Dat blijft bekoren zolang er licht is van zon en maan
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend Composer(s): Jule Styne - Leo Robin First performance/First release by: Carol Channing - 1949/1950 Covered by multiple other artists
The French were bred to die for love They delight in fighting duels But I prefer a man who lives And gives expensive jewels A kiss on the hand may be quite continental But diamonds are a girl's best friend A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental On your humble flat or help you at the automat Men grow cold as girls grow old We all lose our charm in the end But square cut or pear shape These rocks don't lose their shape ... Tiffany's... Cartier... Talk to me, Harry, Winston, tell me all about it! Diamonds are a girl's best friend Yeah diamonds are a girl's best friend Let's rock There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer Diamonds are a girl's best friend There may come a time when a hardboiled employer Thinks you're awful nice, but get that ice or else no dice He's your guy when stocks are high But beware when they start to descend It's then that those louses go back to their spouses And diamonds are a girl's best friend I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonic But diamonds are a girl's best friend, And I think affairs that you must keep liaisonic Are better bets if little pets get big baggettes Time rolls on and youth is gone And you can't straighten up when you bend But stiff back or stiff knees You stand straight at Tiffany's Diamonds... Diamonds... - I don't mean rhinestones - but Diamonds, Are A Girl's Best Friends Diamonds are a girl's best friend Yeah diamonds are a girl's best friend Let's rock again Diamonds are a girl's best friend Diamonds are a girl's best friend Diamonds are a girl's best friend Diamonds are a girl's best friend
April Lady Composer(s): Brian May - Tim Staffell Performer(s): Queen
She won our hearts The arts she loved Is painting pictures for free When she was done she hung them up For all the children to see Goodbye April lady It's been good to have you around Goodbye April lady You've done a lot for the folks in this town The children learned to read She strung their beads It's sorry she was the one As you can see isn't she good She don't leave nothing undone Goodbye April lady It's been good to have you around Goodbye April lady You've done a lot for the folks in this town She taught them all to love She was their cream And we don't want her to go But we know too well She fell in love And there's no stopping her so Goodbye April lady It's been good to have you around Goodbye April lady You've done a lot for the folks in this town Goodbye April lady...
Diamonds & Rust
Composer(s): Joan Baez
First release by: Joan Baez - 1975
and multiple other artists
Well I'll be damned Here comes your ghost again But that's not unusual It's just that the moon is full And you happened to call And here I sit Hand on the telephone Hearing a voice I'd known A couple of light years ago Heading straight for a fall
As I remember your eyes Were bluer than robin's eggs My poetry was lousy you said Where are you calling from? A booth in the midwest Ten years ago I bought you some cufflinks You brought me something We both know what memories can bring They bring diamonds and rust
Well you burst on the scene Already a legend The unwashed phenomenon The original vagabond You strayed into my arms And there you stayed Temporarily lost at sea The Madonna was yours for free Yes the girl on the half-shell Would keep you unharmed
Now I see you standing With brown leaves falling around And snow in your hair Now you're smiling out the window Of that crummy hotel Over Washington Square Our breath comes out white clouds Mingles and hangs in the air Speaking strictly for me We both could have died then and there
Now you're telling me You're not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And at keeping things vague Because I need some of that vagueness now It's all come back too clearly Yes I loved you dearly And if you're offering me diamonds and rust I've already paid
