Retro-Songteksten: Evergreens, Classics, Old-Time Favourites, Hits Uit Onze Jeugd
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The Ruby And The Pearl Composer(s): Jay Livingston - Ray Evans First release by: Nat King Cole - 1952 Covered by multiple other artists
There's a warm red ecstasy to love That makes you tremble with its fire And there's a pure white majesty to love When you have both, you have your heart's desire
Can love be as warm as the ruby Can love be as pure as the pearl Just look in the heart of my love for you You'll find the ruby and the pearl
My love will endure as the diamond And shine with the shimmer of gold It glows as the bright star above for you A thing of beauty to behold
Come close and cling to my kiss Stay close and share the passion of this
Yes, love is as warm as the ruby And love is as pure as the pearl Just look in the heart of my love for you You'll find the ruby and the pearl
Close Your Eyes Composer(s): Valerie Carter; Tennent Performer(s): Jack Hylton
Close your eyes and leave the world behind you Close your eyes till morning comes to find you While the stars are shining above Only our love dreams will remind you
Through the skies a silver moon is sweeping Close your eyes and soon you will be sleeping Say "goodnight" and then turn out the light And close your eyes
The Rubberband Man Composer(s): Linda Creed - Thom Bell Performer(s): The Spinners; Youssou N'Dour; Electric Six
Hand me down my walkin cane, hand me down my hat Hurry now and dont be late, cause we aint got time to chat You and me, were goin out to catch the latest sounds Guaranteed to blow your mind so high you wont come down!
Hey, yall prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man! You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man! Youre bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Oh, Lord, this dude is outta sight! Everything he does seems to come out right!
Once I went to hear him play at a club outside of town I was so surprised, I was hypnotized by the sound this cats puttin down! When I saw this short fat guy stretch a band between his toes Hey, I laughed so hard cause the man got down when he finally reached his nose!
Hey, yall prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man! You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man! Youre bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Got that rubberband up on his toes! And then he wriggled it up all around his nose!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Guaranteed to blow your mind! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Playin all that music, yet keepin time! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Where in the world did he learn that?! Oh, Lord! (Doo doo doo doo doo) Lord, help him get away!
Hey, yall prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man! You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man! Youre bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Doo doo doo doo doo! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Mmm! Watch him! He keep a-move, a-just a mo-vin'! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Got a groovin' on the corner! (Doo doo doo doo doo) He's had enough, yall! Whoa-oh-oh!
Hey, yall prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man! You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man! Youre bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Ah-yah-yah-yah-yah! Whoa, that Rubberband Man's a doozy! Move so quick, Lord, he makes me lose it!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) And then he stops the show, now! He wiggled it up, he wiggled it down! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Got his feet to movin', and that Rubberband off the ground! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) He lifted it way up high, ha! In the sky, 'y'all! (Doo doo doo doo doo) Oh get with it, yall!
Hey, yall prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man! You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man! Youre bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) How much of this stuff do he think we can stand? (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) So much rhythm, grace and debonair from one man, Lord! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) And then he had nerve to wiggle his left toe! (Doo doo doo doo doo) To his knee, got the feelin in his head, yall! Ah, come on, baby!
Hey, yall prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man! You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man! Youre bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Rubberband Man starts to jam, Movin up and down across the land! Got people all in his ways, Everything about him seems out of place!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Just a movin, just a movin, just a move-move-movin Just a Rubberband, Rubberband Man! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Just a movin, just a movin, just a move-move-movin Just a Rubberband, Rubberband Man, get down! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Oh, get down lover, uh-huh! (Doo doo doo doo doo) Oh, he can jam, y'all!
Hey, yall prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man! You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man! (He never fails to groove!) Youre bound to lose (And did you see him move?) control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Oohwee! What's he doin' to me?! Rhythms I ain't felt before! Just move 'em up by me!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Gotta move! I gotta groove! Rubberband Man, oh-oh-oh! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Ah-yah-yah-yah! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) The way he twiddles his toes and can play it on his nose is twofold! (Doo doo doo doo doo) How does he do it, yall?! I don't know!
Hey, yall prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man! You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man! Youre bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
I'm ready to jam, ugh! Gonna do my Rubberband! I'm ready to jam, ugh! Gonna do my Rubberband!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang! Ugh! Lord, have mercy! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang! Ugh! Just stopped me in my bones! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang-a-twang! Don't mess with me, y'all! I got a groove when I'm here! (Doo doo doo doo doo) Ah-yah-yah-yah!
Hey, yall prepare yourself for The Rubberband Man! You never heard a sound like The Rubberband Man! Youre bound to lose control when The Rubberband starts to jam!
Oh, he's a big, fat man that moves real good! Everybody oughta knock on wood! When you see The Man do his stuff Oh, Lord, I done seen enough!
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) A groovy show! Gotta standing room, side-to-side! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Oh, gimme a grip and then a-hold on tight! (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) Oh, he's The Man! The Rubberband Man!! (Doo doo doo doo doo!)
Return To Camp Grenada Performer(s): Allan Sherman
Hello muddah, hello faddah I am back at Camp Grenada And I'm writing you this letter Just to say my compound fracture's getting better
Noone here knows where my trunk is And my bunk is where the skunk is But the food here is improving 'Cause the little black things in it are not moving
Our camp nurse is quite a swimmer She says swimming makes you slimmer Her name's Mrs. Pellagrini Have you ever seen a whale in a bikini?
All our bathrooms have such thin doors Gee I'd wish they'd move them indoors We're all tired of mother goose here So next Friday night they're having Lenny Bruce here
Let me stay, oh muddah, faddah let me stay I love Grenada every night the campfire's really keen Oh ma please send some unguintine
Let me stay, up here in muddah nature's land And tiptoe through the tulips grand To leave would be a shame Besides, I'd miss the poker game
Please don't worry, faddah, muddah I'll take care of little brudda He plays ball here and he rows here And I hope they teach him how to blow his nose here
He wakes up half past six hand Goes directly to the quicksand He was lonely, now he's better He's like all of us except his bed is wetter
The Royal Scam Composer(s): Donald Fagen - Walter Becker Performer(s): Steely Dan
And they wandered in From the city of St. John Without a dime Wearing coats that shined Both red and green Colors from their sunny island From their boats of iron They looked upon the promised land Where surely life was sweet On the rising tide To New York City Did they ride into the street
See the glory Of the royal scam
They are hounded down To the bottom of a bad town Amid the ruins Where they learn to fear An angry race of fallen kings Their dark companions While the memory of Their southern sky was clouded by A savage winter Every patron saint Hung on the wall, shared the room With twenty sinners
See the glory Of the royal scam
By the blackened wall He does it all He thinks he's died and gone to heaven Now the tale is told By the old man back home He reads the letter How they are paid in gold Just to babble in the back room All night and waste their time And they wandered in From the city of St. John without a dime
Close Your Eyes I dreamed she came back home last night Asked her where she'd been She said I've been around the world and It almost did me in She said I hope you didn't wait too long I have no sense of time I see you've written one Last Song And I realized it's mine Think of all the times we talked Sing a nursery rhyme
Close your eyes I'm right beside you Run for miles you know I'll find you Cause it's all the same Change your lovers Change your name If you need a friend Close your eyes I'm back again
She really came back home last night Seemed as if she'd changed Said that she go back to school And try things once again But you know it didn't take too long Till she lost her way And all the reason in the world could see She couldn't stay As I helped her pack her things It didn't hurt to say
Close your eyes I'm right beside you Run for miles you know I'll find you Cause it's all the same Change your lovers Change your name If you need a friend Close your eyes I'm back again
'Cause it's all the same Change your lovers Change your name If you need a friend Close your eyes I'm back again
Return Of The Grievous Angel Composer(s): Thomas S. Brown; Gram Parsons Performer(s): Gram Parsons; and various other artists
Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich And welcome me back to town Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor And I'll show you how it all went down
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels And a good saloon in every single town
Oh, and I remember something you once told me And I'll be damned if it did not come true Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down And they all lead me straight back home to you
`Cause I headed West to grow up with the country Across those prairies with the waves of grain And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee
We flew straight across that river bridge last night a half past two The switchman wave his lantern goodbye and so long as we went rolling through Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel And now I know just what I have to do
And the man on the radio won't leave me alone He wants to take my money for something that I've never been shown
And I saw my devil and I saw my deep blue sea And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee
The news I could bring I met up with the king On his head an amphetamine crown He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt And lighted out for some desert town
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels And a good saloon in every single town
Oh, but I remembered something you once told me And I'll be damned if it did not come true Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down And they all lead me straight back home to you
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down And they all lead me straight back home to you
The Roving Kind (Adapted from: The Pirate Ship) Composer(s): Jesse Cavanaugh - Arnold Stanton Performer(s): Guy Mitchell and multiple other artists
(She had a dark and a rovin' eye-i-eye) (And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets) (She was a nice girl, a proper girl) (But one of the rovin' kind)
As I cruised out one eve-a-ning upon a night's career I spied a lofty clipper ship and to her I did steer I heisted out my sig-a-nals, which she so quickly knew And when she saw my bunting fly, she immediately hove too-oo-oo
(She had a dark and a rovin' eye-i-eye) (And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets) (She was a nice girl, a proper girl) (But one of the rovin' kind)
I took her for some fish and chips and treated her so fine And hardly did I realise she was the rovin' kind I kissed her lips, I missed her lips and found to my surprise She was nothin' but a pirate ship rigged up in a disgui-i-ise
(She had a dark and a rovin' eye-i-eye) And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets (She was a nice girl, a proper girl) (But one of the rovin' kind)
So come all ye good sailor men who sail the wint'ry sea And come all you apprentice lads, a warnin' take from me Beware of lofty clipper ships, they'll be the ruin of you For it t'was there that she made me walk the plank and pushed me under too-hoo-hoo
(She had a dark and a rovin' eye-i-eye) (And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets) She was a nice girl, a proper girl But one of the rovin' kind (She was a nice girl, a proper girl) But one of the rovin' kind
Close Up The Honky Tonks Composer(s): Red Simpson Performer(s): Buck Owens and various other artists
She's in some honky tonk tonight I know She's dancing where the music's loud and lights are low In a crowed bar she likes to hang around And as long as there's a honky tonk, she'll never settle down
So close up the honky tonks, lock all the doors Don't let the one I love go there any more Close up the honky tonks, throw away the key Then maybe the one I love will come back to me
I wish I had the power to turn back the time And live again the hours when she was all mine But it hurts to see her running with that crowd down And as long as there's a honky tonk, she'll never settle down
The Rover Composer(s): Robert Plant - Jimmy Page First release by: Led Zeppelin - 1975 Covered by multiple other artists
I've been to London, seen seven wonders I know to trip is just to fall I used to rock it, sometimes I'd roll it I always knew what it was for There can be no denyin' That the wind'll shake 'em down And the flat world's flyin' There's a new plague on the land If we could just join hands If we could just join hands If we could just join hands Traversed the planet when heaven sent me I saw the kings who rule them all Still by the firelight and purple moonlight I hear the rested rivers call And the wind is crying From a love that won't grow cold My lover, she is lying On the dark side of the globe If we could just join hands If we could just join hands If we could just join hands You got me rockin' When I ought to be a-rollin' Darlin', tell me, darlin' Which way to go You keep me rockin', baby Then you keep me stolen Won't you tell me, darlin' Which way to go, that's right Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry And I would dearly like to know If all this wonder of earthly plunder Will it leave us anything to show And our time is flyin' See the candle burnin' low Is the new world rising From the shambles of the old? If we could just join hands
Onde a máquina me leva não há nada Horizontes e fronteiras são iguais Se agora tudo que eu mais quero já ficou pra trás Qualquer um que leva a vida nessa estrada Só precisa de uma sombra pra chegar A saudade vai batendo e o coração dispara
Mas de repente a velocidade chora Não vejo a hora de voltar pra casa A luz do teu olhar no fim do túnel E no espelho a minha solidão O céu da ilusão que não se acaba A música do vento que não pára Será que a luz do meu destino vai te encontrar
Vejo a manhã de sol entrando em casa Iluminando os gritos das crianças Os momentos mais bonitos na lembrança Não vão se apagar
Ai quem me dera encontrar contigo agora E esquecer as curvas dessa estrada Eu prefiro sonhar com os rios E lavar minhalma
Alguém sentado à beira do caminho Jamais entenderá o que é que eu sinto agora Sou levado pelo movimento Que a tua falta faz Havia tanta paz no teu carinho Na despedida fez um dia lindo Quem sabe tudo estará sorrindo Quando eu voltar
The Rose Of Tralee Composer(s): Charles Glover - Mordaunt Spencer Performer(s): Webster Booth and multiple other artists
The pale moon was rising above the green mountain The sun was declining beneath the blue sea When I strayed with my love to the pure crystal fountain That stands in the beautiful vale of Tralee
She was lovely and fair, as the rose of the summer Yet t'was not her beauty alone that won me Oh no, t'was the truth in her eyes ever dawning That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee! The cool shades of evening their mantle were spreading And Mary, all smiling, was listening to me The moon through the valley her pale rays was shedding When I won the heart of the Rose of Tralee
Though lovely and fair, as the rose of the summer Yet t'was not her beauty alone that won me Oh no, t'was the truth in her eyes ever dawning That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee!
Close To You Composer(s): Al Hoffman; Carl G. Lampl; Jerry Livingston Performer(s): Frank Sinatra
Close to you, I will always stay Close to you, though you're far away
You'll always be near as though you were here by my side No matter where - in my dreams I'll find you there Close to me, sharing you're caress Can't you see you're my happiness?
Wherever you go, my heart will go, too What can I do? It only wants to be close to you Wherever you go, my heart will go, too What can I do? It only wants to be close to you
Ruby Baby Composer(s): Jerry Leiber; Mike Stoller Performer(s): Dion & The Belmonts; and various other artists
Ah, now said I love a girl and-a Ruby is her name Hear me talkin' now This girl don't love me, but I love 'er just the same What'd I say, whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh Ruby, Ruby, I'm-a want ya Like a ghost I'm-a gonna haunt ya Ruby, Ruby, Ruby will you be mine, sometime
Ah, each time I see you, baby my heart cries Ah, it does, Ruby I tell ya I'm gonna steal you away from all those guys Are they wise Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, from the happy day I met ya Now I made a bet that I was goin' to get ya Ruby, Ruby, Ruby will you be mine? Hear me talkin', in time, now
Hey-hey, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby Hey-hey, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby Hey-hey, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby Hey-hey, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby Come to me, now Hey-hey, oh, oh, oh, oh Gonna get ya Hey-hey, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby Well, I tell ya
Now I love this girl, I said-a Ruby is her name Believe me, now When this girl looks at me she just sets my soul aflame Doncha know, whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh I got some hugs and-a kisses too Yeah and now I'm gonna give-a them all to you Now, listen, now Ruby, Ruby, when will you be mine Gonna get you sometime, Ruby
The Rose Of The Mountain Trail Composer(s): Jack Caddigan - Charles A. Brennan
Far away on a mountain trail way down in Mexico Every day when the sun is sinking low and the tropic breezes blow There I stray to a flower bower near a bungalow To my Rose who is waiting there
Moon shines bright on that mountain trail way down in Mexico Its love light shining like a beacon there on the blackness of her hair Wondrous sight in among the cactus of the mountain trail Just one Rose growing all alone
On the Mountain Trail, there's a Rose that grows so wonderful It's the only Rose that the Mountain knows It was placed there Just for me and I will take her soon on a saddle back Honeymoon I'll strike a golden claim when I change the name of the Rose of the Mountain Trail
Close To The Edge Composer(s): Jon Anderson; Steve Howe Performer(s): Yes
I. The Solid Time Of Change
A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour And assessing points to nowhere, leading ev'ry single one A dewdrop can exalt us like the music of the sun And take away the plain in which we move And choose the course you're running
Down at the edge, round by the corner Not right away, not right away Close to the edge, down by a river Not right away, not right away
Crossed the line around the changes of the summer Reaching to call the color of the sky Passed around a moment clothed in mornings faster than we see Getting over all the time I had to worry Leaving all the changes far from far behind We relieve the tension only to find out the master's name
Down at the end, round by the corner Close to the edge, just by a river Seasons will pass you by I get up, I get down Now that it's all over and done Now that you find, now that you're whole
II. Total Mass Retain
My eyes convinced, eclipsed with the younger moon attained with love It changed as almost strained amidst clear manna from above I crucified my hate and held the word within my hand There's you, the time, the logic, or the reasons we don't understand
Sad courage claimed the victims standing still for all to see As armoured movers took approach to overlook the sea There since the cord, the license, or the reasons we understood will be
Down at the edge, close by a river Close to the edge, round by the corner Close to the end, down by the corner Down at the edge, round by the river
Sudden call shouldn't take away the startled memory All in all, the journey takes you all the way As apart from any reality that you've ever seen and known Guessing problems only to deceive the mention Passing paths that climb halfway into the void As we cross from side to side, we hear the total mass retain
Down at the edge, round by the corner Close to the end, down by a river Seasons will pass you by I get up, I get down
III. I Get Up, I Get Down
In her white lace You can clearly see the lady sadly looking Saying that she'd take the blame For the crucifixion of her own domain
I get up, I get down I get up, I get down Two million people barely satisfy Two hundred women watch one woman cry, too late The eyes of honesty can achieve How many millions do we deceive each day?
[Thru the duty she would coil their said amusement of her story asking only interest could be laid upon the children of her domain]
I get up, I get down I get up, I get down
In charge of who is there in charge of me Do I look on blindly and say I see the way? The truth is written all along the page How old will I be before I come of age for you? I get up, I get down I get up, I get down I get up, I get down
IV. Seasons Of Man
The time between the notes relates the color to the scenes A constant vogue of triumphs dislocate man, so it seems And space between the focus shape ascend knowledge of love As song and chance develop time, lost social temp'rance rules above Ah, ah
Then according to the man who showed his outstretched arm to space He turned around and pointed, revealing all the human race I shook my head and smiled a whisper, knowing all about the place On the hill we viewed the silence of the valley Called to witness cycles only of the past And we reach all this with movements in between the said remark
Close to the edge, down by the river Down at the end, round by the corner Seasons will pass you by Now that it's all over and done Called to the seed, right to the sun Now that you find, now that you're whole Seasons will pass you by I get up, I get down I get up, I get down I get up, I get down
