Retro-Songteksten: Evergreens, Classics, Old-Time Favourites, Hits Uit Onze Jeugd
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Tug Of War Composer(s): Paul McCartney Performer(s): Paul McCartney
It's A Tug Of War What With One Thing And Another It's A Tug Of War We Expected More But With One Thing And Another We Were Trying To Outdo Each Other In A Tug Of War In Another World In Another World We Could Stand On Top Of The Mountain With Our Flag Unfurled In A Time To Come In A Time To Come We Will Be Dancing To The Beat Played On A Different Drum
It's A Tug Of War Though I Know I Mustn't Grumble It's A Tug Of War But I Can't Let Go If I Do You'll Take A Tumble And The Whole Thing Is Going To Crumble It's A Tug Of War
Pushing Pushing, Pulling Puliing Pushing And Pulling
In Years To Come They May Discover What The Air We Breathe And The Life We Lead Are All About But It Won't Be Soon Enough Soon Enough For Me No It Won't Be Soon Enough Soon Enough For Me
In Another World We Couid Stand On Top Of The Mountain With Our Flag Unfurled In A Time To Come We Will Be Dancing To The Beat Played On A Different Drum
We Will Be Dancing To The Beat Played On A Different Drum We Will Be Dancing To The Beat Played On A Different Drum
It's A Tug Of War, A Tug Of War A Tug Of War What With One Thing And Another It's A Tug Of War We Expected More But With One Thing And Another In A Tug Of War
Pushing Pushing, Pulling Pulling Pushing And Pulling
I Was Only Joking Composer(s): Rod Stewart; Gary Grainger Performer(s): Rod Stewart and multiple other artists
Ever since I was a kid at school I messed around with all the rules Apologised then realised I'm not different after all
Me and the boys thought we had it sussed Valentinos all of us My dad said we looked ridiculous But boy we broke some hearts In and out of jobs, running free Waging war with society Dumb blank faces stare back at me But nothing ever changed
Promises made in the heat of the night Creeping home before it got too light I wasted all that precious time and blamed it on the wine
I was only joking my dear Looking for a way to hide my fear What kind of fool was I I could never win
Never found a compromise Collected lovers like butterflies Illusions of that grand first prize are slowly wearing thin Susy baby you were good to me Giving love unselfishly But you took it all too seriously I guess it had to end
I was only joking my dear Looking for a way to hide my fear What kind of fool was I I could never win
Now you ask me if I'm sincere That's the question that I always fear Verse seven is never clear But I'll tell you what you want to hear I try to give you all you want But giving love is not my strongest point If that's the case it's pointless going on I'd rather be alone 'Cause what I'm doing must be wrong Pouring my heart out in a song Owning up for prosperity For the whole damn world to see
Quietly now while I turn a page Act one is over without costume change The principal would like to leave the stage The crowd don't understand
Tuff Enuff Composer(s): Kim Wilson Performer(s): The Fabulous Thunderbirds
I would walk ten miles on my hands and knees Ain't no doubt about it baby it's you I aim to please I'd wrestle with a lion and a grizzly bear It's my life baby but I don't care
Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff
For you baby I would swim the sea Nothing I'd do for you that's too tuff for me I'd put out a burning building with a shovel and dirt And not even worry about getting hurt
Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff
I'd work twenty four hours, seven days a week Just so I could come home and kiss your cheek I love you in the morning and I love you at noon I love you in the night and take you to the moon
Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff
I'd lay in a pile of burning money that I've earned and not even worry about getting burned I'd climb the Empire State Building, fight Muhammad Ali Just to have you baby close to me
Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff Ain't that tuff enuff
I Was Only 19 (A Walk In the Light Green) Composer(s): John Schumann First release by: Redgum - 1983
Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing-out parade at Puckapunyal It was a long march from cadets The sixth battalion was the next to tour, and it was me who drew the card We did Canungra, Shoalwater before we left
And Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched down to the quay This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean And there's me in my slouch hat with my SLR and greens God help me, I was only nineteen
From Vung Tau, riding Chinooks, to the dust at Nui Dat I'd been in and out of choppers now for months But we made our tents a home, VB and pinups on the lockers And an Asian orange sunset through the scrub
And can you tell me, doctor, why I stil can't get to sleep? And night-time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16? And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means? God help me, I was only nineteen
A four week operation when each step could mean your last one on two legs It was a war within yourself But you wouldn't let your mates down til they had you dusted off So you closed your eyes and thought about something else
Then someone yelled "Contact!" and the bloke behind me swore We hooked in there for hours, then a Godalmighty roar Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon God help me, he was going home in June
I can still see Frankie, drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel On a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau And I can still hear Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row
And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel God help me, I was only nineteen
And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep? And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet? And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means? God help me, I was only nineteen
El Mundo Composer(s): G. Meccia - Fontana - Pes - A. Martínez
Performer(s): Javier Solís
No, en esta noche ya no pienso amor en ti abrí los ojos solamente para ver si en torno a mí giraba el mundo como siempre Gira el mundo gira en su espacio infinito con amores que comienzan con amores que terminan con las penas y alegrías de otras gentes como yo
El mundo, por eso ahora yo te miro y en tu silencio yo me pierdo y no soy nada al verte a ti El mundo que no ha parado ni un momento su noche muere y viene el día y ese día verá
El mundo, por eso ahora yo te miro y en tu silencio yo me pierdo y no soy nada al verte a ti El mundo que no ha parado ni un momento su noche muere y viene el día y ese día verá El mundo
Tuesday's Gone Composer(s): Ronnie Van Zant - Allen Collins First release: Lynyrd Skynyrd - 1973 Covered by multiple other artists
Train roll on, on down the line Won't you please take me far away? Now I feel the wind blow outside my door Means I'm leaving my woman behind Tuesday's gone with the wind My woman's gone with the wind
And I don't know where I'm going I just want to be left alone Well, when this train ends I'll try again But I'm leaving my woman at home
Tuesday's gone with the wind Tuesday's gone with the wind Tuesday's gone with the wind My woman's gone with the wind
Train roll on many miles from my home See, I'm riding my blues away Tuesday, you see, she had to be free But somehow I've got to carry on
Tuesday's gone with the wind Tuesday's gone with the wind Tuesday's gone with the wind My woman's gone with the wind
I Was Made To Love Her Composer(s): Stevie Wonder; Lula Mae Hardaway; Henry Cosby; Sylvia Rose Moy First release by: Stevie Wonder - 1967 Covered by multiple other artists
I was born in Lil' Rock Had a childhood sweetheart We were always hand in hand
I was hightop shoes and shirt tails Suzy was in pig tails I know I loved her even then
You know my papa disapproved it My mama boohooed it But I told them time and time again "Don't you know I was made to love her Built a world all around her" Yah! Hey, hey, hey
She's been my inspiration Showed appreciation For the love I gave her through the years
Like a sweet magnolia tree My love blossmed tenderly My life grew sweeter through the years
I know that my baby loves me My baby needs me That's why we made it through the years
I was made to love her Worship and adore her Hey, hey, hey
All through thick and thin Our love just won't end 'Cause I love my baby, love my baby Ah!
My baby loves me My baby needs me And I know I ain't going nowhere
I was knee high to a chicken When that love bug bit me I had the fever with each passing year
Oh, even if the mountain tumbles If this whole world crumbles By her side I'll still be standing there
'Cause I was made to love her I was made to live for her, yeah!
Ah, I was made to love her Built my world all around her Hey, hey, hey
Oo baby, I was made to please her You know Stevie ain't gonna leave her, no Hey, hey, hey
Oo wee baby, my baby loves me My baby needs me Hey, hey, hey
El Mayor Composer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
Performer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
and multiple other artists
El hombre se hizo siempre de todo material de villas señoriales o barrio margina Toda época fue pieza de un rompecabezas para subir la cuesta del gran reino animal con una mano negra y otra blanca mortal
Mortales ingredientes armaron al Mayor luz de terratenientes y de Revolución destreza de la esgrima sucesos como un preso Amalia abandonada por la bala la vergüenza, el amor o un fusilamiento un viejo cuento modelaron su adiós
Va cabalgando El Mayor con su herida y mientras más mortal el tajo es más de vida Va cabalgando sobre una palma escrita y a la distancia de cien años resucita
Trota sobre la espuma seguido por un mar de negros en machete y sin encadenar Ordena a su corneta el toque de a degüello y a un siglo de distancia entona nuestra canción y con recia garganta canta espanta lejos la maldición
Va cabalgando El Mayor con su herida y mientras más mortal el tajo es más de vida Va cabalgando sobre una palma escrita y a la distancia de cien años resucita
Tuesday heartbreak seem to be unfair Cause you say that you found another man Tuesday break heart, guess you just don't care Cause you found you another man
I want to be with you when you're all alone I want to be with you when you feel you got another man You see, baby, it's all alright
I wanna be with you when the nightime comes I wanna be with you when the daytime comes I wanna stay, oh baby, lemme, baby with you
Tuesday heartbreak seem to be a drag When you know that you love her especially Catch up baby, catch up with my dreams Maybe than I can see you all the time
But I wanna be with you when the nightime comes I wanna be with you when the daytime comes I wanna stay and never go away Oh baby, it's alright
I wanna be with you when the nightime comes I wanna stay with you till the morning runs I wanna, baby, baby, baby, it's alright
I wanna be with you when the nightime comes I wanna be with you till the daytime comes Oh baby, get away, alright
I Was Brought To My Senses Composer(s): Sting Performer(s): Sting; The MadHatters; Abigail Riccards
Alone with my thoughts this evening I walked on the banks of Tyne I wondered how I can win you or if I could make you mine or if I could make you mine
The wind it was so insistent With tales of a stormy south But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree There came a dryness in my mouth Came a dryness in my mouth
For then without rhyme or reason The two birds did rise up and fly And where the two birds were flying I swear I saw you and I I swear I saw you and I
I walked out this morning it was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes For the first time I saw the work of heaven in the line where the hills had been married to the sky And all around me ev'ry blade of singing grass was calling out your name and that our love would always last
And inside ev'ry turning leaf is the pattern of an older tree the shape of our future the shape of all our history And out of the confusion where the river meets the sea came things I'd never seen things I'd never seen
I was brought to my senses I was blind now that I can see ev'ry signpost in nature said you be...
...long to me I know it's true It's written in a sky as blue As blue as your eyes, as blue as your eyes If nature's red in tooth and claw Like winter's freeze and summer's thaw The wounds she gave me Were the wounds that would heal me
And we'd be like the moon and sun And when our courtly dance had run it's course across the sky Then together we would lie And out of the confusion where the river meets the sea Something new would arrive Something better would arrive
I was brought to my senses I was blind now that I can see ev'ry signpost in nature said you belong to
I was brought to my senses I was blind now that I can see ev'ry signpost in nature said you belong to I was brought to my senses I was blind now that I can see ev'ry signpost in nature said you belong to me
El Matador Composer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
Performer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
Siento un hilo profundo que atraviesa el espacio -de tiempo en tiempo llega despacio- Siento olor de llanuras llenas de peregrinos -la llanura se llama camino-
Siento de pronto el gusto de un raro mineral me siento a veces hombre y muchas animal Se confunde el deseo de calentar la piel con rugidos lejanos que recuerdan mujer
Y en una playa angosta caen del cielo estas reminiscencias de veneno Yo no sé, pero hay días sin reposo que lo que tenga cerca lo destrozo muy primitivamente, casi salvajemente con odio, con desprecio, con rencor con palabras hirientes, con garras y con dientes con rabia, con violencia, con horror
Le he cantado a la muerte como nadie con vida mas yo dijera siempre querida Junto a cada palabra hay cuerpos de millones y los maté yo mismo perdonen
A veces se me olvida que mato por vivir y olvido los entierros y no quiero dormir El día que me acusen no me defenderé esta culpa es muy vieja, de todos la heredé
Y en una playa angosta caen del cielo estas reminiscencias de veneno Yo no sé, pero hay días sin reposo que lo que tenga cerca lo destrozo muy primitivamente, casi salvajemente con odio, con desprecio, con rencor con palabras hirientes, con garras y con dientes con rabia, con violencia, con horror
Tuesday afternoon I'm just beginning to see, now I'm on my way It doesn't matter to me, chasing the clouds away Something calls to me The trees are drawing me near, I've got to find out why Those gentle voices I hear, explain it all with a sigh I'm looking at myself reflections of my mind It's just the kind of day to leave myself behind So gently swaying through the fairyland of love If you'll just come with me you'll see the beauty of Tuesday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon I'm just beginning to see, now I'm on my way It doesn't matter to me, chasing the clouds away Something calls to me The trees are drawing me near, I've got to find out why Those gentle voices I hear, explain it all with a sigh
I Was Born Ten Thousand Years Ago (aka "The Liar"; "The Bragging Song"; "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago"; "I Was Borned About Four Thousand Years Ago") (Traditional) Performer(s): Kelly Harrell and multiple other artists
I was born ten thousand years ago And there's nothing in this world that I don't know I saw Pater, Paul, and Moses playing ring around the roses And I'll lick the guy that say it isn't so
I saw Satan when he looked the garden o'er I saw Eve and Adam driven from the door And behind the bushes peepin', saw the apple they were eatin' And I swear that I'm the guy that ate the core
I saw Jonah when he was within the whale And thought he'd never live to tell the tale But old Jonah'd eaten garlic, and he gave the whale the colic So he coughed him up and let him out of jail
I saw Israel in the battle of the Nile The arrows were flying thick and fast and wild I saw David with his sling pop Goliath on the wing I was doing forty seconds to the mile
I saw Sampson when he laid the village cold Saw Daniel tame the lions in their hold I helped build the Tower of Babel up as high as they were able And there's many other things I haven't told
I taught Soloman his little A-B-C's I helped Brigham Young to make limberger cheese And while sailing down the bay with Methusala one day I saved his flowing whiskers from the breeze
Queen Elizabeth, she fell in love with me We were married in Milwaukee secretly But I schemed around and shook her, then she went with General Hooker To shoot mosquitoes down in Tenessee
I remember when the country had a king I saw Cleopatra pawn her wedding ring And I saw th flags a'flyin' when George Washington stopped lyin' On the night when Patty first begin to sing
So, you see I am an educated man To keep my brains in my head I plan Cause I been on earth so long, that I use to sing a song While Abraham and Issac played the band
I was born ten thousand years ago And there's nothing in this world that I don't know I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring-around-the-roses And I can lick the guy that says it isn't so
El Martillo ((Adapted from: The Hammer Song (The Weavers) - 1949)) Composer(s): Lee Hays - Pete Seeger - Victor Jara Performer(s): Victor Jara - 1969
Versions In Other Languages: 1956 - If I Had A Hammer (Pete Seeger) 1963 - Si J'avais Un Marteau (Claude François) 1963 - Datemi Un Martello (Rita Pavone)
Oh hermano, oh hermano Si tuviera un martillo golpearia en la mañana golpearia en la noche por todo el pais Alerta el peligro debemos unirnos para defender la paz
Si tuviera una campana tocaria en la mañana golpearia en la noche por todo el pais Alerta el peligro debemos unirnos para defender la paz
Si tuviera una cancion cantaria en la mañana cantaria en la noche por todo el pais Alerta el peligro debemos unirnos para defender la paz
Ahora tengo un martillo y tengo una campana y tengo una cancion que cantar por todo el pais Martillo de justicia campana de libertad y una cancion de paz
Tucumcari Composer(s): Mark McIntyre - William Olofson Performer(s): Jimmie Rodgers
Twelve more miles to Tucumcari I've been hurrying there To the gal I'm gonna marry With the yellowest hair
Left, right, march along I just gotta get home (Just gotta get home) Ten more miles to Tucumcari Then I'll never more roam (Tucumcari, Tucumcari, I just gotta get home)
Eight more miles to Tucumcari It's the fourth of July Been three years in January Since I kissed her goodbye
Left, right, march along I've just gotta get home (Just gotta get home) Six more miles to Tucumcari Then I'll never more roam (Tucumcari, Tucumcari, I just gotta get home)
Four more miles to Tucumcari Not much further to go Got no time to waste or tarry She'll be waitin' I know
Left, right, march along I've just gotta get home (Just gotta get home) Two more miles to Tucumcari Then I'll never more roam (Tucumcari, Tucumcari, I just gotta get home)
Here I am in Tucumcari Found my yellow-haired gal Just in time to see her marry With my very best pal
Left, right, march along Guess I better be gone (I better be gone) A thousand miles from Tucumcari I'll be rambling on (Tucumcari, Tucumcari, I'll be rambling on)
A hundred miles from Tucumcari Down in Santa Fe Fell in love with a girl named Mary Gee I'm happy today
No more marching now Found my honeycomb (Found my honeycomb) I've forgotten Tucumcari No more reason to roam (Tucumcari, Tucumcari) I've forgotten Tucumcari No more reason to roam
I Was Born In Virginia (aka "Virginia" or "Ethel Levey's Virginia Song") Composer(s): George M. Cohan Performer(s): Ethel Levey
I was born in a Southern state Where all nature's sublime In a city where the gals are pretty And the sun shines nearly all the time Hospitality there you'll find Bright smiles ev'rywhere When I look 'roun' and see some other town I'm mighty glad I come from there
I was born in Virginia That's the state that will win yer If you've got a soul in yer Ain't no Southern frown In the city of Norfolk Home of beauties and war talk Reckon you'll like it, if you should strike it That doggarn town
Something nice about Southerners You don't find ev'rywhere Never con yer, but they smile upon yer And they make you happy while you're there Old Kentucky and Tennessee They can certainly go some Travel far and wide, still I'm satisfied To settle in the state I'm from
I was born in Virginia That's the state that will win yer If you've got a soul in yer Ain't no Southern frown In the city of Norfolk Home of beauties and war talk Reckon you'll like it, if you should strike it That doggarn town
El Mala Estrella Composer(s): José Alfredo Jiménez
Performer(s): José Alfredo Jiménez
and multiple other artists
Ahí les va el nuevo corrido
es la historia de un amigo
que nació con mala estrella
anmda muy enamorado
pero mal correspondido
pues nació con mala estrella
Yo le digo no seas tonto
ya no le hagas tanto al loco
la muchacha... no te quiere...
yo sé bien que anda volada
por un tipo que muy hombre
pero como es muy tu amigo
mejor ne te doy su nombre
Qué voy a hacer
si cada que me mira
me dice y me suspira
que como yo no hay otro
Qué voy a hacer
si yo también la miro
le digo y le suspiro
que con su amor soy todo
Pero él sigue con su sueño
de llegar a ser su dueño
la muchacha... no lo quiere...
yo lo mando a la cantina
que se acabe una botella
pero ya ni el vino le hace
pues nació con mala estrella
Old Kentucky cradled me when I was born Old Kentucky how I miss your field of corn nighttime when I get to bed how I weep and toss my head I'll weep no more I'm going back instead
Old Kentucky smile up on alone some shack dear old 'Tucky keep it bright till I get back make the shadows stay away from my mammy old and gray she'd weep no more if she could hear me say
Tuck me to sleep in my old 'Tucky home cover me with Dixie skies and leave me there alone just let the sun kiss my cheeks every morn like the kissin' I've been missin' from my mammy since I'm gone I ain't had a bit of rest, since I left my mammy's nest I can always rest the best in her loving arms tuck me to sleep in my old Tucky home let me lay there, stay there never no more to roam
I Was A Fool To Care French Title: J'ai Été Fou D'aimer - 1979 Composer(s): James Taylor First release by: James Taylor - 1975
I was a fool to care I was a fool to care I was a fool to care But I don't care even if I was a fool I'm still in love with you
Had I listened to the grapevine I might have had my doubts But I did my level best just to block them out 'Cause love is so unwise and love has no eyes And it took a while for a fool to see What his friends were on about
I was a fool to care I was a fool to care I was a fool to care But I don't care even if I was a fool I'm still in love with you
Imagining your face it almost fills the empty space before me I can see you eyes and almost hear your lovely lies
I wish I was an old man And love was through with me I wish I was a baby on my mama's knee I wish I was a freight train moving down the line Just keeping track of time without all these memories
I was a fool to care I was a fool to care I was a fool to care But I don't care even if I was a fool I'm still in love with you Baby, yes, I am I could have opened my eyes I could have seen through your lies I could have stood for no more I could have walked out the door
But I was a fool to care, I was a fool to care But I was a fool to care, I was a fool to care You weren't nothing but a fool to care; just a country fool to care
