Take It Easy
Composer(s): Glenn Frey - Jackson Browne
First release by: Eagles - 1972
Covered by multiple other artists



Well, I'm a runnin' down the road, tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me
one says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand
just find a place to make your stand and take it easy

Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
it's a girl, my Lord, in a flat bed Ford
slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win though we will never be here again
So open up, I'm climbin' in, so take it easy

Well, I'm a runnin' down the road, tryin' to loosen my load
got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover
she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
Oh, we got it easy
we oughta take it easy

Mother Dear
Composer(s): Brian Holland; Lamont Dozier; Edward Holland Jr.
Performer(s): The Supremes



Something's on my mind
Mother dear the boy keeps me crying
Don't know which way to turn
Keeps me so confused
Keeps me so confused

Mother dear
'Cause for him I yearn
But he treats your daughter bad
Keeps your daughter sad

I wish I didn't love him so
'Cause now I can't let him go
His kiss gets a little sweeter
Ooh, my heart gets a little weaker

I'm falling deeper
Deeper in love each day
I know he's no good for me
But I'm too weak to break away

Ooh, each day love gets a little stronger
Ooh, heartaches lasts a little longer

Help, help me mother dear
'Cause I can't help myself
Ooh, he treats your daughter bad
Keeps your daughter sad

So many times I've tried
Telling him we're through
But when he takes me in his arms
There's nothing I can do

Ooh, it's no use
I can't break loose
I keep love him more and more each passing day
All my love to him I give it
Without him around
I couldn't live
I need him so
And he knows it
Can't let him go
And I show it

Help, help me mother dear
I'm so in love with him 
But he treats your daughter bad
Keeps your daughter sad

Help, help me mother dear
Help, help me mother dear
He keeps your daughter crying

Girls' School
Composer(s): Paul McCartney
Performer(s): Wings; Catfight!



Sleepy head, kid sister
Lying on the floor
18 years and younger, boy
Well she knows what she's waiting for

Yuki's a cool school mistress
She's an Oriental princess
She shows the films in the classroom, boy
They put the paper on the windows

Ahhh.....what can the sisters do
Ahhh.....girls' school

Head nurse is Sister Scala
Now she's a Spanish doll
She runs a full body outcall massage parlor
From the teacher's hall

Ahhh.....what can the sisters do
Ahhh.....girls' school

Well now, Roxanne's the woman trainer
She puts the kids to bed
She gives them pills in a paper cup
And she knocks them on the head

Ahhh.....what can the sisters do
Ahhh.....girls' school

She shows them films in the classroom, boy
When they put the paper on the windows

Ahhh.....what can the sisters do
Ahhh.....girls' school

Take It Back
Composer(s): Kristy Jackson
Performer(s): Reba McEntire; Kristy Jackson; Mark Thornton



You talked me into moving in and giving you my key
You said you'd be a mess now if it hadn't been for me
You said I stole your heart away by looking in your eyes
I wonder now how many times you sold that pack of lies

If this is how you act when you give your heart away
Well, take it back
Take it back

You told me I was everything you wanted and more
Then tell me what you're doing now sneaking out the back door
You're bringing home flowers and a bottle of Chablis
You forgot I don't drink wine I know that bottle's not for me

If this is how you act when you give your heart away
Well, take it back
Take it back

Oh, you must think I'm blind
And I don't smell your new cologne
You don't think I notice
All the nights I spend alone

Well, I'm not one for sitting 'round in some ole pity pool
You think you got a ticket and I must be some kind of fool
I hate to steal your thunder but your playing days are through
At least they are with me cause babe, I got no use for you

Tonight laying on the street
Babe, your bag is packed
So, take it back

Mother Dear
Composer(s): John Curulewski; De Young
Performer(s): Styx



Lonely feelings in the city 
One room flat with crumbling walls 
Sirens play a distant melody 
Neon shadows paint the halls 

In the thirteen months I've spent here 
With my manuscript and rhymes 
I've paid in cash for foolish pleasures 
Mother dear you'd call them crimes 

Raise the roof 
Light the lite 
Mother dear I'm returning tonight 
Now I see 
Your concern 
Mother dear how you taught me to learn 

I been a Roman for survival 
Showing two sides of my face 
I need the comfort of your wisdom 
I'm coming home to your embrace 

If by chance I pass before you 
Don't discount my gratitude 
You're responsible for me here 
And of course my attitude 

Raise the roof 
Light the lite 
Mother dear I'm returning tonight 
Now I see 
Your concern 
Mother dear how you taught me to learn 

Stayin' up half the night 
Wonderin' if what I'm doin' is right 
Raise the roof 
Light the lite 
Mother dear I'm returning tonight

Girls On Film
Composer(s): Christian Lebon; Nick Rhodes; John Taylor
Performer(s): Duran Duran;
and various other artists



See them walking hand in hand 
across the bridge at midnight
Heads turning as the lights flashing out it's so bright
Then walk right out to the fourline track
There's a camera rolling on her back, on her back
And I sense the rhythm humming in a frenzy all the way down her spine
Girls on film, girls on film, girls on film, girls on film

Lipstick cherry all over the lens as she's falling
In miles of sharp blue water coming in where she lies
The diving man's coming up for air cause the crowd all love pulling 
dolly by the hair, by the hair
And she wonders how she ever got here as she goes under again

Girls on film (two minutes later), girls on film
Girls on film (got your picture), girls on film

Wider baby smiling you just made a million
Fuses pumping live heat twisting out on a wire
Take one last glimpse into the night I'm touching close I'm holding 
bright, holding tight
Give me shudders in a whisper take me up till I'm shooting a star

Girls on film (she's more than a lady), girls on film
Girls on film (two minutes later), girls on film
Girls on film (see you together), girls on film
Girls on film (see you later), girls on film
Girls on film (what ya doing), girls on film

Take It Back
Composer(s): Jack Bruce - Pete Brown
First release by: Cream - 1967



Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here
Right away, far away, take that thing right out of here

Don't let them take me to where streams are red
I want to stay here and sleep in my own bed
Need all your loving, long blonde hair
Don't let them take me 'cause I'm easily scared
Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here

Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here
Right away, far away, take that thing right out of here

I got this great need, the need to stay alive
Not ashamed of my creed, I've got to survive
So come on baby, don't go away
Just let them save me for a rainy day
Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here

I got this need, the need to stay alive
Not ashamed of my creed, I've got to survive
So come on baby, don't go away
Just let them save me for a rainy day
Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here

Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here
Right away, far away, take that thing right out of here

I got this thing, I've got to keep it sharp
Don't go to places where it won't shine in the dark

So come on baby, don't go away
Just let them save me for a rainy day
Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here

Mother And Child Reunion
Composer(s): Paul Simon
Originally performed by: Paul Simon
Covered by various other artists



No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine
I can't for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don't work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine

I just can't believe it's so
and though it seems strange to say
I never been laid so low
In such a mysterious way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

But I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
When the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a motion away, 
Oh, oh the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a moment away

Girl's Got Rhythm
Composer(s): Bon Scott;
Angus Young; Malcolm Young
Performer(s): AC/DC; Babylon A.D.; 
Baron Rojo; Beki Bondage; Robin McAuley



I've been around the world
I've seen a million girls
Ain't one of them got
What my lady she's got
She's stealin' the spotlight
Knocks me off my feet
She's about to start a landslide
Just a-walkin' down the street
Wearin' dresses so tight
And lookin' dynamite
About to blow me out

No doubt about it
Can't live without it

(chorus)
The girl's got rhythm (Girl's got rhythm)
The girl's got rhythm (Girl's got rhythm)
She's got the backseat rhythm (Backseat rhythm)
The girl's got rhythm

She's like a lethal brand
Too much for any man
She gives me first degree
She really satisfies me
Love me till I'm legless
Aching and sore
Enough to stop a freight train
Or start the Third World War
You know I'm losin' sleep
I'm in too deep
And my body needs love

No doubt about it
Can't live without it

(repeat chorus)

(solo)

You know she moves like sin
And when she lets me in
It's like liquid love

No doubt about it
Can't live without it

(repeat chorus, then this variation:)
You know she's really got the rhythm (Girl's got rhythm)
She's got the backseat rhythm (Backseat rhythm)
Rock n' roll rhythm (Rock n' roll rhythm)
Girl's got rhythm

Take It As It Comes
Composer(s): Jim Morrison - John Densmore - Robby Krieger - Ray Manzarek
First release by: The Doors - 1967



Time to live
Time to lie
Time to laugh
Time to die

Take it easy baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move to fast if you want
your love to last
You've been movin' much to fast 

Time to walk
Time to run
Time to aim your arrows
At the sun

Take it easy baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move to fast if you want
your love to last
You've been movin' much to fast

Go real slow
You'll like it more and more
Take it as it comes
Specialize in havin' fun

Take it easy baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move to fast if you want
you're love to last
You've been movin' much to fast
Movin' much to fast
Movin' much to fast

Mother
Composer(s): Roger Waters
Originally performed by: Pink Floyd



Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?
Mother, do you think they'll like this song?
Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Ooooowaa Mother, should I build a wall?
Mother, should I run for President?
Mother, should I trust the government?
Mother, will they put me in the firing line?
Ooooowaa Is it just a waste of time?
Hush, my baby. Baby, don't you cry
Momma's gonna make all of your nightmares come true
Momma's gonna put all of her fears into you
Momma's gonna keep you right here under her wing
She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing
Momma's gonna keep Baby cozy and warm
Oooo Babe
Oooo Babe
Ooo Babe, of course Momma's gonna help build a wall
Mother, do you think she's good enough
For me?
Mother, do you think she's dangerous
To me?
Mother will she tear your little boy apart?
Ooooowaa Mother, will she break my heart?
Hush, my baby 
Baby, don't you cry
Momma's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you
Momma won't let anyone dirty get through
Momma's gonna wait up until you get in
Momma will always find out where you've been
Momma's gonna keep Baby healthy and clean
Oooo Babe
Oooo Babe
Ooo Babe, you'll always be Baby to me
Mother, did it need to be so high?

Girl's Eyes
Composer(s): Keith Moon
Performer(s): The Who; Fastbacks



Girl's eyes, butterflies, how she cries
can't get through to you
She knows all the charts, breaks her heart
thinks a lot of you
Each time you play a melody, it means the earth to this little girl
Can you be cruel and break her heart, tear her small world apart

She's there, eyes aglow, very front row, don't throw sticks at her
Please don't look her way, see her way, don't care anyway

It's you who led her on, I see
Just leave her down in her misery
She don't want help from you and me
Can't tell a note from a symphony

It's you who led her on, I see
Just leave her down in her misery
She don't want help from you and me
Can't tell a note from a symphony

Girl's eyes, butterflies, how she cries, can't get through to you
She knows all the charts, breaks her heart, thinks a lot of you
Each time you play a melody, it means the earth to this little girl
Can you be cruel and break her heart, tear her small world apart

Take Good Care Of Yourself
Composer(s): Kenny Gamble - Leon Huff
Performer(s): The Three Degrees



Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
ooh-ooh-ooh

Take good care of yourself
Take good care of yourself
I worry 'bout you
When you're gone

When you leave my arms
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
I feel so bad
I just think about
The good times we had

And when we kiss goodnight
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh, I wanna cry
I can't wait till your back
Back in my arms again

Ooh baby
Take good care of yourself
Take good care of yourself
I worry 'bout you
Ooh, when you're gone

I wish there could be
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
A way for us
To be together
Both day and night

When I see you leave
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
How thoughtful, aren't we
Call as soon as you 
Walk in that door
And I won't have to
Worry no more

Take good care of yourself
Take good care of yourself
I worry 'bout you
Ooh-ooh, when you're gone

Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh

So baby, baby
Take good care of yourself 
I worry 'bout you, 'bout you
(Background singers: "Take ... 'bout you, 'bout you, 'bout you ... good care of yourself (x 12)
till Baby, yeah ... simultaneously with lead) 

I worry 'bout you, 'bout you
'bout you, 'bout you, 'bout you, baby
I worry 'bout you, yeah

I worry 'bout you, 'bout you
'bout you, 'bout you, 'bout you, baby

Don't you worry 'bout me

I worry 'bout you, 'bout you
'bout you, 'bout you, 'bout you 

Mother
Composer(s): John Lennon
Originally performed by: John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band



Mother, you had me, but I never had you
I wanted you, you didn't want me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye
Father, you left me, but I never left you
I needed you, you didn't need me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Children, don't do what I have done
I couldn't walk and I tried to run
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Mama don't go
Daddy come home
(repeat 9 more times)

Girls Don't Nag Your Husbands
Composer(s): Davis; Taylor
Performer(s): Lonzo & Oscar



Girls don't nag your husbands
They are your pride and joy
You know before you hooked him
He was his mother's boy

She sacrificed her darling
That you might happy be
Girls don't nag your husbands
They must be weary free

Girls don't smoke cigarettes
He wants your love you know
And don't drink whiskey either
Just give your man a fair show

Your maw used to drink saspariller
Be careful how you act
If you want a cigarette
Just try some chewing wax

(Oscar what did your wife say to you the other night
When you got home late?
Oh Lonzo she really told me off
Did she sure enough?
She said:

(This part sped up)
But the most prominent color is a rose bouquet on a live __________
I've been wondering how it would look on a potted blue rug
Well they have a potted blue background with a floral patterned rug)

Don't call your husbands a hootenanny
Remember if you do
Some big old blonde hair flapper
With great big eyes of blue

Will gaze around and see him
And steal his love away
Oh girls don't nag your husbands
You'll never know such a day

Girls don't wink at other boys
Your husband won't like it you know
And don't throw kisses either
Just give your man a fair show

Don't do things to make your neighbors
Think your husbands an old hen-pecked
Now we're both married men, girls
So we know what a man expects

(Well looky there Oscar here comes your wife
Well so it is ain't it Lonzo? Yes sure, it is
Well hello there darlin'

(This part sped up)
But the most prominent color is a rose bouquet on a live __________
I've been wondering how it would look on a potted new rug
Well they have a potted blue background with a floral patterned rug)

Now we're both married men, girls
So we know what a man expects

Take Good Care Of You And Me
Composer(s): Burt Bacharach - Gerry Goffin - Carole Bayer Sager
Performer(s): Dionne Warwick & Jeffrey Osborne



Osborne:
Take good care of you and me
Protect us from the things that hurt love
Jealousies that take you under
Lies that undermine

Warwick:
Please be fair to you and me
And don't betray the love I give to you
When you're away don't make me wonder
If I'm on your mind

Osborne:
Take good care of you and me
Real love is hard to find

Warwick:
Look in my eyes
I'll fall in love with you
Over and over
For the rest of our lives

Osborne:
Hear what I say now
I want our love to be
The one that's the strongest
And the one that survives
'Cause there's no one else 
(Warwick: No, no one else)
That makes me feel so glad I'm alive

Warwick:
Baby, one sorry note to end on
If we should fall apart
Take good care of you and me
I've given you my heart

Osborne:
Look in my eyes
I'll Fall In Love with you 
(Warwick: Oh, yes)

Both:
Over and over
For the rest of our lives

Warwick:
Hear what I say now
I want our love to be
The one that's the strongest
And the one that survives

Osborne:
'Cause there's no one else
(Warwick: No, no one else)
That makes me feel so glad I'm alive

Warwick:
Hear what I say now 
(Osborne: Oh, hear me)

Both:
I want our love to be
The one that's the strongest
And the one that survives

Osborne:
'Cause there's no one else 
(Warwick: No, no one else)
That makes me feel so glad I'm alive

Both:
Look in my eyes
I'll fall in love with you
Over and over
For the rest of our lives

Warwick:
Hear what I say now 
(Osborne: I hear ya, Baby)
I want our love to be (Oh yeah)

Both:
The one that's the strongest
And the one that survives

Osborne:
'Cause there's no one else 
(Warwick: No one else)
That makes me feel so glad I'm alive

Warwick:
Look in my eyes 
(Osborne: Look in my eyes)
I'll fall in ...

M-o-t-h-e-r
Composer(s): Howard Johnson; Theodore Morse



I've been around the world, you bet, but never went to school
Hard knocks are all I seem to get, perhaps I've been a fool
But still, some educated folks, supposed to be so swell
Would fail if they were called upon a simple word to spell
Now if you'd like to put me to the test
There's one dear name that I can spell the best!

"M" is for the million things she gave me
"O" means only that she's growing old
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me
"H" is for her heart of purest gold
"E" is for her eyes with love-light shining
"R" means right and right she'll always be
Put them all together they spell Mother
a word that means the world to me

When I was but a baby, long before I learned to walk
While lying in my cradle, I would try my best to talk
It wasn't long before I spoke and all the neighbors heard
My folks were very proud of me for "Mother" was the word
Although I'll never lay a claim to fame
I'm satisfied that I can spell the name

"M" is for the mercy she possesses
"O" means that I owe her all I own
"T" is for her tender, sweet caresses
"H" is for her hands that made a home
"E" means ev'rything she's done to help me
"R" means real and regular, you see
Put them all together they spell Mother
a word that means the world to me

Girls Don't Like It
Composer(s): John O'Neill
Performer(s): The Undertones



Yeah I don't go for him do you ? 

Here comes Eddie in a brand new car
Driving like that he won't get far
Kissing in the back seat all the way home
You can't do that if you're on your own
But what else can you do if the girls don't like it

Says he doesn't have nowhere else to go
No late night movies now on radio
Just a TV switched up really loud
Know what I mean it becomes part of the crowd
But what else can you do if the girls don't like it

If the girls want to know what were gonna do know
Always up to things they're not supposed to allow
Leading us on telling no
Making us stop instead of letting us go
But what else can you do if the girls don't like it

Take Good Care Of My Baby
Composer(s): Gerry Goffin - Carole King
Bobby Vee & The Johnny Mann Singers - 1961
Covered by multiple other artists



My tears are fallin' 'cause you've taken her away
And though it really hurts me so
There's something that I've gotta say

Take good care of my ba-a-a-by
Please don't ever make her blu-u-u-ue
Just tell her that you love her
Make sure you're thinking of her
In everything you say and do-o-o-o

Aww, take good care of my ba-a-a-by
Now don't you ever make her cry-y-y-y
Just let your love surround her
Paint a rainbow all around her
Don't let her see a cloudy sky

Once upon a time that little girl was mine
If I'd been true, I know she'd never be with you

So, take good care of my ba-a-a-by
Be just as kind as you can be-e-e-e
And if you should discover
That you don't really love her
Just send my baby back home to me

Well, take good care of my ba-a-a-by
Be just as kind as you can be-e-e-e
And if you should discover
That you don't really love her
Just send my baby back home to me

Aww, take good care of my ba-a-a-by
Well, take good care of my ba-a-a-by

Just, take good care of my ba-a-a-by

Most Of Us Are Sad
Composer(s): Glenn Frey
Performer(s): The Eagles



Most of us are sad 
No one lets it show 
I've been shadows of myself 
How was I to know? 
Tell me scarlet sun 
what will time allow? 
We have brought our children 
here Who can save them now? 
Oh, Weeping woman try to smile 
Like the coming dawn 
Most of us are sad it's true 
Still we must go on 
Love was here today 
Oh the sun was bright 
I will sing you faraway 
Love is here tonight 
Most of us are sad 
No one lets it show 
I've been shadows of myself 
How was I to know?