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  • 31-05-1969
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    Maria
    Composer(s): Jean-Claude Massoulier
    Performer(s): Jean Ferrat



    Maria avait deux enfants
    Deux garçons dont elle était fière
    Et c'était bien la même chair
    Et c'était bien le même sang

    Ils grandirent sur cette terre
    Près de la Méditerranée
    Ils grandirent dans la lumière
    Entre l'olive et l'oranger

    C'est presqu'au jour de leurs vingt ans
    Qu'éclata la guerre civile
    On vit l'Espagne rouge de sang
    Crier dans un monde immobile

    Les deux garçons de Maria
    N'étaient pas dans le même camp
    N'étaient pas du même combat
    L'un était rouge et l'autre blanc

    Qui des deux tira le premier
    Le jour où les fusils parlèrent
    Et lequel des deux s'est tué
    Sur le corps tout chaud de son frère

    On ne sait pas, tout ce qu'on sait
    C'est qu'on les retrouva ensemble
    Le blanc et le rouge mêlés
    A même les pierres et la cendre

    Si vous lui parlez de la guerre
    Si vous lui dites liberté
    Elle vous montrera la pierre
    Où ses enfants sont enterrés

    Maria avait deux enfants
    Deux garçons dont elle était fière
    Et c'était bien la même chair
    Et c'était bien le même sang



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    3 In The Middle
    Performer(s): Sammy Hagar



    So much for friendly conversation
    Simple advice between friends
    When you step between two lovers
    They’re steppin out, you’re steppin in
    Oh Lord ... here we go again
    Hey! I’m in the middle, stuck here in the middle
    Yea! I’m in the middle, I can’t stand the middle
    Hey! diddle diddle it sucks here in the middle
    Yea! I’m in the middle, can’t stand the middle
    3 in the middle still leaves two on the outside
    I’d rather be right white conservative or
    Far left cult radical extreme
    I never learned to keep my mouth shut
    Just speak my mind every time
    Can I lay it on the line?
    Hey, I’m in the middle, I can’t stand the middle
    Yea! I’m in the middle, it sucks here in the middle
    Hey! diddle diddle, I’m stuck in the middle
    Yea! I’m in the middle, I can’t stand the middle
    3 in the middle still leaves two on the outside
    Yea ... I can’t stand the middle!
    Yea! Yea!
    Well this thing is killing me
    I’m in the middle, it sucks here in the middle
    I’m in the middle, I can’t stand the middle
    Hey! I’m in the middle, I can’t stand the middle
    Hey! I’m in the middle, stuck here in the middle
    3 in the middle still leaves two on the outside
    I’m in the middle, can’t stand the middle
    In the middle, I can’t stand the middle
    In the middle, I can’t stand the middle
    3 in the middle still leaves two on the outside




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    30-05-1969
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    María
    Composer(s): Leonard Bernstein; M. Molina Montes
    Performer(s): Javier Solís
    (Originally performed by: Larry Kent)



    María tu nombre es sagrado en mí
    María, María, María, María
    María tu nombre es sagrado en mí
    María, María, María, María
    María, María, María te llamas así vida mía
    igual que la mujer que dio forma de ser a Dios

    María, tu nombre es destino de siglos
    lo gritan sin cesar la tierra el viento el mar y el sol
    Tu nombre más blanco que la blanca espuma
    disipó de mis noches la bruma, María te llamas así vida mía

    Tu nombre más blanco que la blanca espuma
    disipó de mis noches la bruma, María te llamas así vida mía
    María, María, María



    Categorie:Latin Songs
    Tags:Javier Solís

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    3 Legs
    Performer(s): Paul McCartney



    Well, when I walk, when I walk
    Walk my horse upon a hill
    Well, when I walk, walk, walk, walk
    Walk my horse upon a hill
    When I lay me down
    Will my lover love me still?

    A dog is here
    A dog is there
    My dog he got three legs
    But he can't run

    Well, when I thought, well, I thought
    When I thought you was my friend
    When I thought, well, I thought
    When I thought you was my friend
    But you let me down, ho
    Put my heart around the bend

    A fly flies in
    A fly flies out
    Most flies they got three legs
    But mine got one

    Well, when I fly, when I fly, when I fly
    When I fly above the clouds
    Oh, when I fly, when I fly, when I fly
    When I fly above the clouds
    You can knock me down, with a feather, yes, you could
    But you know it's not allowed

    A dog is here
    A dog is there
    My dog he got three legs
    But he can't run

    My dog he got three legs, your dog he got none, uh, uh, uh
    My dog he got three legs, your dog he got none
    My dog he got three legs, your dog he got none




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    29-05-1969
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    3/4 Time
    Composer(s): Tony Joe White
    Performer(s): Ray Charles



    I like enchilados and old El Dorados that shine
    And old friend the guitar and songs and women and wine
    They say that I'm livin too fast but I'm feelin fine (yeah)
    And I just keep easin along in 3/4 time
    Sometimes I get sideways and stay up all night writin songs
    They say it ain't healthy but somehow I keep goin on (I do)
    I write what I feel and don't care if the damn thing don't rhyme (no)
    Just gimme a C chord and play it in 3/4 time (got it)

    Chorus:
    It's a big old world and we all have to live out our lives
    And one thing's for sure ain't none of gonna get out alive (uhuh, sorry)

    So while I'm still kickin I'm gonna keep pickin my tunes
    I like what I'm doin and I hope it don't end too soon
    Cause all a my life there's one thing I keep hopin to find (yes)
    A woman who likes to make love in 3/4 time (be nice ya know)

    Chorus:
    It's a big old world and we all have to live out our lives
    And one thing's for sure ain't none of gonna get out alive (uhuh, sorry)




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    28-05-1969
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    Margot Coeur Gros
    Composer(s): Michèle Vendôme; Florence Véran
    Performer(s): Édith Piaf



    Pour faire pleurer Margot
    Margot-cœur-tendre, Margot-cœur-gros
    Il suffit d'un refrain
    Air de guitare, pleurs d'arlequin
    L'enfant du Paradis
    Vient là pour oublier sa vie
    Plus c'est triste, plus c'est beau
    Et plus elle rêve, Margot cœur gros

    Pour faire pleurer Margot
    Margot-chagrin, Margot-sanglot
    Il lui faut des regrets
    De belles amours contrariées
    L'enfant du Paradis
    Veut voir Colombine en folie
    Et voir l'ami Pierrot
    Pleurer avec Margot cœur gros

    Pour faire pleurer Margot
    Margot-soupir, Margot-mélo
    Dans ma vie je n'ai rien
    Qu'un grand amour qui finit bien
    L'enfant du Paradis
    S'ennuie quand les amants sourient
    Tant pis pour le mélo
    Je t'aime...
    Tu m'aimes...
    Salut, Margot!

    La-la-la...



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    3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds
    Composer(s): Marty Balin
    Performer(s): Jefferson Airplane



    Do away with people blowin' my mind
    Do away with people wastin' my precious time
    Take me to a simple place
    Where I can easily see my face
    Maybe baby, I'll see that you were kind
    Know I love you baby, yes I do
    Know I love you baby, yes I do

    Do away with people laughin' at my hair
    Do away with people frownin' on my precious cares
    Take me to a circus tent
    Where I can easily pay my rent
    And all the other freaks will share my cares
    Know I love you baby, yes I do
    Know I love you baby, yes I do

    Do away with things that come on obscene
    Like hot rods, pre-cleaned real fine nicotine
    Sometimes the price is 65 dollars
    Prices like that make a grown man holler
    'Specially when it's sold by a kid who's only 15
    Know I love you baby, yes I do
    Know I love you baby, yes I do




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    27-05-1969
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    Margootje
    Performer(s): Wim Sonneveld



    Ik zat aan het ontbijt een beschuitje te soppen
    Toen zag ik opeens een klein autootje stoppen
    Het was een Peugeootje, zo groot, nee, iets groter
    Het stond naast mijn theekopje, vlak bij de boter
    En ja hoor, daar ging het portiertje al open
    En kwam een klein vrouwtje naar buiten gekropen
    Heel blond in bikini, een beeldig figuurtje
    Ze stond op m'n bord en ze vroeg om een vuurtje
    Ze zei: "Ik heet Margootje"
    En ik zei: "Hallo"
    Ze zei: "Nou daar ben ik dan, he"
    En ik zei: "Oh"
    Ik vroeg haar, uit wat voor een plaatsje ze kwam
    Ze zei: "Nou, wat dacht je, uit Madurodam"

    Margootje, Margootje, ze klom op mijn broodje
    Ze trok aan mijn haar, ze zat op mijn mouw
    M'n kleine vriendinnetje, zo'n neussie, zo'n kinnetje
    Ze riep in m;n oor, o ik hou zo van jou
    Margootje, Margootje, in zo'n klein Peugeootje
    Margootje, Margootje uit Madurodam

    Ze was wel erg lief, maar ze werd te aanhalig
    Ze wou mee in bad en dat vond ik schandalig
    Toen heb ik haar weggebracht in haar Peugeootje
    Naar Madurodam en ik zei: "Dag Margootje"
    Ik zette haar neer bij het AVRO-gebouwtje
    Ik zei: "Nou naar huis en wees een zoet vrouwtje"
    Maar 's avonds deed ik de broodtrommel open
    Daar zat ze weer achter de koek weggekropen
    O, had ik haar toen maar de deur uitgezet
    Ze wou in m'n bad en ze wou in m'n bed
    Zij werd erg ondeugend en ik schreeuwde kwaad
    "Jij Christine Keeler in pocketformaat"

    Margootje, Margootje, in een klein pettycoatje
    Ze zwom in m'n bad en ze zat op de Vim
    Ze kroop in een laatje met zo'n klein behaatje
    Ze kroop in m'n binnenzak en fluisterde "Wim"
    Margootje, Margootje, kleine idiootje
    Margootje, Margootje uit Madurodam

    Ik zei dat ik zoiets beslist niet meer wilde
    Ze beet in m'n teen en krijste en gilde
    En toen is ze weggegaan, boos en beledigd
    En daarmede was de affaire erledigt
    Maar het laatste nieuws dat ik van haar vernam
    Ze zit nu in de Begijnhof van Madurodam
    Ze draagt een zedig wit kapje, zo'n kleintje
    Ze is nu een kuis en een deugdzaam begijntje
    Maar soms kijk ik nog wel eens achter een vaas
    Ik kijk in het trommeltje met speculaas
    Ik kijk of ze soms in m'n zeepbakje is
    Omdat ik haar toch wel een klein beetje mis

    Margootje, Margootje, ik riep je, ik floot je
    Ik zoek onder 't kussen, ik kijk in m'n hoed
    Ik zoek in de laatjes, in hoekjes en gaatjes
    Nou ben je verdwenen voor altijd, voorgoed
    Margootje, Margootje
    begijntje, Bardootje
    Margootje, Margootje
    Uit Madurodam



    Categorie:Nederl. Songs

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    3:10 To Yuma
    Composer(s): Ned Washington; George Duning
    Performer(s): Sandy Denny & Johnny Silvo



    There is a lonely train called the 3.10 to Yuma
    And it's the only train left for me to ride on
    I'll catch that lonely train called the 3.10 to Yuma
    I'll get my ticket now for my last time

    They say the life of man is made up of four seasons
    And springtime finds him young and planting his grain
    And then the summer comes bringing warm rains of reason
    And time to reap his crop of heartache and pain

    The winter comes, finds him snow-cropped and laden
    He has been humbled now, walking into the rain
    But the rains of death never fall from the cloudless skies of Yuma
    Time stand still for those on that 3.10 train

    There is a lonely train called the 3.10 to Yuma
    And it's the only train left for me to ride on
    I'll catch that lonely train called the 3.10 to Yuma
    I'll get my ticket now for my last time




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    26-05-1969
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    Margie
    Composer(s): Con Conrad; J. Russel Robinson; Benny Davis
    Performer(s): Original Dixieland Jazz Band



    You can talk about your love affairs
    Here's one I must tell to you
    All night long they sit upon the stairs
    He holds her close and starts to coo

    My litle Margie
    I'm always thinking of you
    Margie, I'll tell the world I love you
    Don't forget your promise to me
    I have bought a home and ring and ev'ry thing
    for Margie you've been my inspiration

    Days are never blue
    After all is said and done
    There is really only one Oh!
    Margie, Margie, it's you

    You can picture me most ev'ry night
    I can't wait until they start
    Ev'ry thing he says just seems all right
    I want to learn that stuff by heart

    My litle Margie
    I'm always thinking of you
    Margie, I'll tell the world I love you
    Don't forget your promise to me
    I have bought a home and ring and ev'ry thing
    for Margie you've been my inspiration



    Categorie:Eng. Songs

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.30 Days In The Hole
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    30 Days In The Hole
    Composer(s): Marriott
    Performer(s): Humble Pie



    Roll my tape
    Ooh, ooh, ooh

    Thirty days...
    Anyone doin' that one?
    I'm doin' that one

    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole

    all right all right all right all right, yeah

    Chicago Green, talkin' 'bout Black Lebanese
    A dirty room and a silver coke spoon
    Give me my release, come on
    Black napalese, it's got you weak in your knees
    Sneeze some dust that you got buzzed on
    You know it's hard to believe

    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    That's what they give you
    30 days in the hole
    I know

    Newcastle Brown, I'm tellin' you, it can sure smack you down
    Take a greasy whore and a rollin' dance floor
    It's got your head spinnin' round
    If you live on the road, well there's a new highway code
    You take the urban noise with some dirt with poison
    It's gonna lessen your load

    30 days in the hole
    That's what they give you now
    30 days in the hole
    Oh, yeah
    30 days in the hole
    All right, all right
    30 days in the hole

    What you doin' boy?
    You here for 30 days
    Get, get, get your long hair cut
    And cut out your ways

    Black napalese, it got you weak in your knees
    Gonna sneeze some dust that you got busted on
    You know it's so hard to please
    Newcastle Brown can sure smack you down
    You take a greasy whore and a rollin' dance floor
    You know you're jailhouse-bound

    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    Oh, yeah
    30 days in the hole
    30 days, 30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole
    30 days in the hole




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    25-05-1969
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    Margherita
    Composer(s): Riccardo Cocciante; Marco Luberti
    Originally performed by: Riccardo Cocciante
    Covered by various other artists



    Io non posso stare fermo con le mani nelle mani
    tante cose devo fare prima che venga domani
    e se lei già sta dormendo io non posso riposare
    farò in modo che al risveglio non mi possa più scordare
    Perché questa lunga notte, non sia nera più del nero
    fatti grande dolce luna e riempi il cielo intero
    e perché quel suo sorriso possa ritornare ancora
    splendi sole domattina come non hai fatto ancora

    E per poi farle cantare, le canzoni che ha imparato
    io le costruirò un silenzio che nessuno ha mai sentito
    sveglierò tutti gli amanti, parlerò per ore ed ore
    abbracciamoci più forte, perché lei vuole l'amore

    Poi corriamo per le strade e mettiamoci a ballare
    perché lei vuole la gioia, perché lei odia il rancore
    e poi coi secchi di vernice coloriamo tutti i muri
    case, vicoli e palazzi, perché lei ama i colori
    raccogliamo tutti i fiori, che può darci primavera
    costruiamole una culla, per amarci quando è sera
    poi saliamo su nel cielo, e prendiamole una stella
    perché Margherita è buona, perché Margherita è bella

    Perché Margherita è dolce, perché Margherita è vera
    perché Margherita ama, e lo fa una notte intera
    perché Margherita è un sogno, perché Margherita è il sale
    perché Margherita è il vento e non sa che può far male
    perché Margherita è tutto, ed è lei la mia pazzia
    Margherita, Margherita...Margherita...adesso è mia...



    Categorie:Latin Songs
    Tags:Riccardo Cocciante

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.30 Days Out
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    30 Days Out
    Performer(s): Bruce Springsteen



    We fell in love and I made you the world
    I spent all my time tryin' to satisfy you, girl
    Just one thing that I can't figure out
    Closer I get, farther baby I am out

    30 days, 30 days out
    Well I'm six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out
    30 days, 30 days out
    With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt

    The roof was leakin' honey where we live
    And I'm wonderin' what's that something that you won't give
    I started loving you but I gotta stop
    You got me mostly waitin' for that other shoe to drop

    30 days, 30 days out
    You keep me six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out
    30 days, 30 days out
    With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt

    Tried to talk about what's goin' on
    You just smile and tell me "Baby there ain't nothin' wrong"
    In your smile there's a sign in red
    It said "Thousand miles of hard road dead ahead"

    30 days, 30 days out
    Yeah I'm six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out
    30 days, 30 days out
    With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt

    30 days, 30 days out
    Well I'm six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out
    30 days, 30 days out
    With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt




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    24-05-1969
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    Margherita
    Composer(s): Riccardo Cocciante; Marco Luberti;
    L. Driessen; H. Kooreneef
    Performer(s): Marco Borsato
    (Originally performed by: Riccardo Cocciante)



    In de verte spreekt een stem
    Die ik herken van onze ruzies
    Over kleine misverstanden
    Over grote desillusies
    En ik hoor de kille klanken
    Van jouw ingehouden woede
    Maar wat kan ik meer dan janken
    Als ik dit niet kon vermoeden
    In een waas hoor ik je zeggen
    Dat je alles op wilt geven
    Dat je alles met je meeneemt
    Wat me lief is in dit leven
    En ik luister hoe jouw woorden
    Langzaam opgaan in de zinnen
    Die me treffen als een bliksem
    Met vernietigende kracht

    Deze kilte maakt me gek
    En dit gevoel is angstaanjagend
    Maar je woorden malen verder
    En m`n ogen kijken vragend
    Waarom zei je mij niet eerder
    Dat je zo van me vervreemd was
    Waarom sprak je over liefde
    Als je nooit van mij gehouden hebt
    Ik verlies het van de wanhoop
    En ik voel m`n tranen branden
    En ik zou niets liever willen
    Dan m`n hoofd weer in jouw handen
    Maar wat tot een uur geleden
    Nog zo veilig heeft geleken
    Is `n hele grote leugen
    En `n kaartenhuis gebleken

    Het is net of iemand anders
    In jouw lichaam is gekropen
    En ik heb niet eens gemerkt
    Dat ie naar binnen is geslopen
    Om jouw liefde uit te wissen
    En m`n wereld te vernielen
    Wil er niemand me vertellen
    Dat ik alles heb gedroomd



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    30,000 Pounds Of Bananas
    Composer(s): Harry Chapin
    Performer(s): Harry Chapin



    It was just after dark when the truck started down
    the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania
    Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas
    Carrying thirty thousand pounds (hit it Big John) of bananas

    He was a young driver
    just out on his second job
    And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits
    for everyone in that coal-scarred city
    where children play without despair
    in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day
    about thirty thousand pounds of bananas
    Yes, just about thirty thousand pounds (scream it again, John)

    He passed a sign that he should have seen
    saying "shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend."
    He was thinking perhaps about the warm-breathed woman
    who was waiting at the journey's end
    He started down the two mile drop
    the curving road that wound from the top of the hill
    He was pushing on through the shortening miles that ran down to the depot
    Just a few more miles to go
    then he'd go home and have her ease his long, cramped day away
    and the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas
    Yes the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas

    He was picking speed as the city spread its twinkling lights below him
    But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights
    delights went through him
    His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down
    But the pedal floored easy without a sound
    He said "Christ!"
    It was funny how he had named the only man who could save him now
    He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide
    riding on his fear-hunched back
    was every one of those yellow green
    I'm telling you thirty thousand pounds of bananas
    Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of bananas

    He barely made the sweeping curve that led into the steepest grade
    And he missed the thankful passing bus at ninety miles an hour
    And he said "God, make it a dream!"
    as he rode his last ride down
    And he said "God, make it a dream!"
    as he rode his last ride down
    And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars
    clipped off thirteen telephone poles
    hit two houses, bruised eight trees
    and Blue-Crossed seven people
    it was then he lost his head
    not to mention an arm or two before he stopped
    And he slid for four hundred yards
    along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania
    All those thirty thousand pounds of bananas

    You know the man who told me about it on the bus
    as it went up the hill out of Scranton, Pennsylvania
    he shrugged his shoulders, he shook his head
    and he said (and this is exactly what he said)
    "Boy that sure must've been something
    Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas
    Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas
    Of bananas, bananas, just bananas
    Thirty thousand pounds of Bananas, not no driver now, just bananas!"




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    23-05-1969
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    Margaritaville
    Composer(s): Jimmy Buffett
    Performer(s): Jimmy Buffett



    Nibblin' on sponge cake
    Watching the sun bake
    All of those tourists covered with oil
    Strumming my six-string
    On my front porch swing
    Smell those shrimp, they're beginning to boil

    Wasted away again in Margaritaville
    Searching for my lost shaker of salt
    Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
    But I know
    It's nobody's fault

    I don't know the reason
    I stayed here all season
    Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo
    But it's a real beauty
    A Mexican cutie
    How it got here I haven't a clue

    Wasted away again in Margaritaville
    Searching for my lost shaker of salt
    Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
    Now I think
    Hell, it could be my fault

    I blew out my flip-flop
    Stepped on a pop-top
    Cut my heal had to cruise on back home
    But there's booze in the blender
    And soon it will render
    That frozen concoction that helps me hang on

    Wasted away again in Margaritaville
    Searching for my lost shaker of salt
    Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
    But I know
    It's my own damned fault

    Yes and some people claim that there's a woman to blame
    And I know
    It's my owned damned fault



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    30th Century Man
    Composer(s): Scott Walker
    Performer(s): Scott Walker



    See the dwarves and see the giants
    Which one would you choose to be?
    And if you can't get that together
    Here's the answer, here's the key
    You can freeze
    Like a 30th century man
    Like a 30th century man
    Play it cool
    Like a 30th century man
    Like a 30th century man
    I'll save my breath and take it with me
    'Til a hundred years or so
    Shame you won't be there to see me
    Shaking hands with Charles DeGaulle
    Play it cool and surrender up all you can
    Be a 30th century man
    You can freeze like a 30th century man
    Be a 30th century man
    High, high
    Be a 30th century man
    Play it cool
    Be a 30th century man
    You can freeze
    Be a 30th century man
    Play it cool
    Be a 30th century man
    ???
    See the dwarves and see the giants
    Which one would you choose to be?
    And if you can't get that together
    Here's the answer, here's the key
    You can freeze like a 30th century man
    Be a 30th century man
    You play it cool
    And surrender off all you can
    Be a 30th century man
    You can freeze like a 30th century man
    Be a 30th century man
    You play it cool like a 30th century man
    Be a 30th century man
    You can freeze
    And surrender off all you can
    Be a 30th century man




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    22-05-1969
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    Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of ...)
    Composer(s): Lou Bega; Pérez Prado; Zippy
    Performer(s): Lou Bega



    Ladies and gentlemen
    This is Mambo No.5

    One, two, three, four, five
    Everybody in the car, so come on
    Let’s ride to the liqueur-store around the corner
    The boys say they want some gin and juice
    But I really don’t wanna
    Beerbust like I had last week
    I must stay deep
    Because talk is cheap
    I like Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita
    And as I continue you know
    They are getting sweeter
    So what can I do I really beg and you my Lord
    To me flirting it’s just like sport, anything fly
    It’s all good let me dump it
    Please set in the trumpet

    Refrain:
    A little bit of Mardi Gras in my life
    A little bit of Erica by my side
    A little bit of Rita is all I need
    A little bit of Tina is what I see
    A little bit of Sandra in the sun
    A little bit of Mary all night long
    A little bit of Jessica here I am
    A little bit of you makes me your man

    Mambo No.5

    Jump up and down go and move it all around
    Shake your head to the sound
    Put your hand on the ground
    Take one step left
    And one step right
    One to the front and one to the side
    Clap your hands once
    And clap your hands twice
    And if it looks like this
    Then you are doing it right

    Refrain Trumpet
    The trumpet
    Mambo No.5

    Refrain

    I do all
    To fall in love with a girl like you
    You can’t run and you can’t hide
    You and me gonna touch the sky

    Refrain



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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.32-20 Blues
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    32-20 Blues
    Composer(s): Skip James
    Performer(s): Robert Johnson



    If I send for my baby, and she don't come
    If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come
    All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can't help her none

    And if she gets unruly, thinks she don't wan' do
    And if she gets unruly and thinks she don't wan' do
    Take my 32-20, now, and cut her half in two

    She got a .38 special but I believe it's most too light
    She got a .38 special but I believe it's most too light
    I got a 32-20, got to make the caps alright

    If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come
    If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come
    All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can't help her none

    I'm gonna shoot my pistol, gonna shoot my gatling
    I'm gonna shoot my pistol, gotta shoot my gatling gun
    You made me love you, now your man have come

    Aha, baby, where you stayed last night
    Aha, baby, where you stayed last night
    You got your hair all tangled and you ain't talking right

    Her .38 special, boys, it do very well
    Her .38 special, boys, it do very well
    I got a 32-20 now, and it's a burning

    If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come
    If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come
    All the doctors in Wisconsin sure can't help her none

    Hey, hey, baby, where you stayed last night
    Hey, hey, baby, where you stayed last night
    You didn't come home until the sun was shining bright

    A-ho boy, I just can't take my rest
    A-ho boy, I just can't take my rest
    With this 32-20 laying up and down my breast




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    21-05-1969
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    Marcie
    Composer(s): Joni Mitchell
    Performer(s): Joni Mitchell



    Marcie in a coat of
    flowers
    Steps inside a
    candy store
    Reds are sweet and
    greens are sour
    Still no letter at
    her door
    So she'll wash her
    flower curtains
    Hang them in the
    wind to dry
    Dust her tables
    with his shirt and
    Wave another day
    goodbye

    Marcie's faucet
    needs a plumber
    Marcie's sorrow
    needs a man
    Red is autumn green
    is summer
    Greens are turning
    and the sand
    All along the ocean
    beaches
    Stares up empty at
    the sky
    Marcie buys a bag
    of peaches
    Stops a postman
    passing by
    And summer goes
    Falls to the
    sidewalk like string and brown paper
    Winter blows
    Up from the river
    there's no one to take her
    To the sea

    Marcie dresses warm
    its snowing
    Takes a yellow cab
    uptown
    Red is stop and
    green's for going
    Sees a show and
    rides back down
    Down along the
    Hudson River
    Past the shipyards
    in the cold
    Still no letter's
    been delivered
    Still the winter
    days unfold
    Like magazines
    Fading in dusty
    grey attics and cellars
    Make a dream
    Dream back to
    summer and hear how
    he tells her
    Wait for me

    Marcie leaves and
    doesn't tell us
    Where or why she
    moved away
    Red is angry green
    is jealous
    That was all she
    had to say
    Someone thought
    they saw her Sunday
    Window shopping in
    the rain
    Someone heard she
    bought a one-way ticket
    And went west again



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