Turtle Blues
Composer(s): Janis Joplin
First release: Big Brother & The Holding Company - 1968
Covered by multiple other artists



Ah, I'm a mean, mean woman
I don't mean no one man, no good, no
I'm a mean, mean woman
I don't mean no one man, no good
I just treats 'em like I wants to
I never treats 'em, honey like I should

Oh, Lord, I once had a daddy
He said he'd give me everything in sight
Once had a daddy
Said he'd give me everything in sight
Yes, he did
So I said, "Honey, I want the sunshine
You take the stars out of the night
Come on and give 'em to me, babe, 'cause I want 'em right now"

I ain't the kind of woman
Who'd make your life a bed of ease, ha ha ha ha!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
I'm not the kind of woman, no
To make your life a bed of ease
Yeah, but if you, if you just wanna go out drinkin', honey
Won't you invite me along, please
Oh, I'll be so good to ya babe, yeah!
Whoa, go on!

I guess I'm just like a turtle
That's hidin' underneath its horny shell
Whoa, whoa, oh yeah, like a turtle
Hidin' underneath its hard-ass shell
But you know I'm very well protected
I know this goddamn life too well

Oh! Now call me mean, you can call me evil, yeah, yeah
I've been called much worser things around
Honey, don't ya know I have!
Whoa, call me mean or call me evil
I've been called much worser things, all things around
Yeah, but I'm gonna take good care of Janis, yeah
Honey, ain't no one gonna dog me down
Alright, yeah

I Wish I Weren't In Love
Composer(s): Paul Simon
Performer(s): Jerry Landis (aka Paul Simon)



I've got a problem
The girl I love doesn't love me at all
In fact she won't even answer my call
I wish I weren't in love

I can't do my homework
I write her name on my notebook all night
The way she treats me, it just isn't right
I wish I weren't in love

What can I do, what can I say
How can I make her stop, hurting me this way
I'm so unhappy, you just don't know
Oh, how I love that girl
Guess I'm the loneliest boy in this world
I wish I weren't in love

Knokke-Le-Zoute
Composer(s): Jacques Brel
Performer(s): Jacques Brel



Les soirs où je suis argentin
Je m'offre quelques argentines
Quite à cueillir dans les vitrines
Des jolis quartiers d'Amsterdam
Des lianes qui auraient ce teint de femme
Qu'exporte vos cités latines
Ces soirs-là je les veux félines
Avec un rien de brillantine
Collé aux cheveux de la langue
Elles seraient fraiches comme des mangues
Et compenseraient leur maladresse
À coups de poitrine et de fesses

Ah mais ce soir
Y a pas d'argentines
Y a pas d'espoir
Y a pas de doute
Non ce soir
Il pleut sur Knokke-le-Zoute
Ce soir comme tous les soirs
Je me rentre chez moi
Le cœur en déroute
Et la bitte sous l'bras

Les jours où je suis espagnol
Petites fesses grande bagnole
Elles passent toutes à la casserole
Quite à pourchasser dans Hambourg
Des carmencitas de faubourg
Qui nous reviennent de vérole
Je me les veux fraiches et joyeuses
Bonnes travailleuse sans parlotes
Mi andalouses mi anguleuses
De ces femelles qu'on gestapote
Parce qu'elles ne savent pas encore
Que Franco est tout à fait mort

Mais ce soir
Y a pas d'espagnoles
Y a pas de casseroles
Y pas de doute
Non ce soir
Il pleut sur Knokke-le-Zoute
Ce soir comme tous les soirs
Je me rentre chez moi
Le cœur en déroute
Et la bitte sous l'bras

Les soirs depuis Caracas
Je panama je partaguasse
Je suis l'plus beau
Je pars en chasse
Je glisse de palace en palace
Pour y dénicher le gros lot
Qui n'attend que mon coup de grâce
Je la veux folle comme un travelo
Découverte de vieux rideaux
Mais cependant "dévanescente"
Elle m'attendrait depuis toujours
Cerclée de serpents et de plantes
Parmi les livres de Dufour

Mais ce soir
Y a pas de Caracas
Y a pas de dévanescentes
Y a pas de doute
Mais ce soir
Il pleut sur Knokke-le-Zoute
Ce soir comme tous les soirs
Je me rentre chez moi
Le cœur en déroute
Et la bitte sous l'bras

Demain oui
Peut être que ...
Peut être que demain je serai argentin ... oui
Je m'offrai des argentines
Quite à cueillir dans les vitrines
Des jolis quartiers d'Amsterdam
Des lianes qui auraient ce teint de femme
Qu'exporte vos cités latines
Demain je les voudrai félines
Avec ce rien de brillantine
Collé aux cheveux de la langue
Elles seront fraiches comme des mangues
Et compenseront leur maladresse
À coups de poitrine et de fesses

Demain je serai espagnol
Petites fesses grande bagnole
Elles passeront toutes à la casserole
Quite à pourchasser dans Hambourg
Des Carmencitas de faubourg
Qui nous reviendront de vérole
Je les voudrai fraiches et joyeuses
Bonnes travailleuses sans parlotes
Mi andalouses mi anguleuses
De ces femelles qu'on gestapote
Parce qu'elles ne savent pas encore
Que Franco est tout à fait mort

Les soirs depuis Caracas
Je panama je partaguasse
Je suis l'plus beau
Je pars en chasse
Je glisse de palace en palace
Pour y dénicher le gros lot
Qui n'attend que mon coup de grâce
Je la veux folle comme un travelo
Découverte de vieux rideaux
Mais cependant dévanescente
Elle m'attendrait depuis toujours
Cerclée de serpents et de plantes
Parmi les livres de "Dufour"

Turquoise
Composer(s): Donovan
First release: Donovan - 1965



Your smile beams like sunlight on a gull's wing
And the leaves dance and play after you
Take my hand and hold it as you would a flower
Take care with my heart, oh darling, she's made of glass

Your eyes feel like silence resting on me
And the birds cease to sing when you rise
Ride easy your fairy stallion you have mounted
Take care how you ride, my precious, you might fall down

In the pastel skies a sunset I have wondered
With my eyes and ears and heart stained to the full
I know I tasted the essence in the few days
Take care who you love, my precious, he might not know

I Wish I Were In Love Again 
Composer(s): Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart
First performance by: Grace McDonald & Rolly Pickert - 1937
Covered by multiple other artists



The sleepless nights - the daily fights
The quick toboggan - when you reach the heights
I miss the kisses - and I miss the bites
I wish I were in love again

The broken dates - the endless waits
The lovely loving - and the hateful hates
The conversation - with the flying plates
I wish I were in love again

No more pain - no more strain
Now I'm sane - but I would rather be punched - drunk

The pulled out fur - of cat and cur
The fine mismating - of a him and her
I've learned my lesson - but I wish I were
In love again

The furtive sigh - the blackened eye
The words: "I love you - 'til the day I day"
The self deception - that believes the lie
I wish I were in love again

When love congeals - it soon reveals
The faint aroma - of performing seals
The double-crossing - of a pair of heals
I wish I were in love again

No, no more care - no, no despair
Now I'm all there (now) - but I'd rather be punch-drunk

Believe me sir - I much prefer
The classic battle - of a him and her
I don't like quiet - and I wish I were
In love again - in love again - in love again

Knots
Composer(s): Kerry Minnear; Derek Shulman;
Phil Shulman; Raymond Shulman
Performer(s): Gentle Giant; Steel Wind



All in all each man in all men
All men in each man
He can see she can't, she can see 
she can
see whatever, whatever
You may know what I don't know
but not that
I don't know it and I can't tell you
so you will
To tell me all man in all men
All men in each man
He can see she can't, she can see
she can
see whatever, whatever
You may know what I don't know
but not that
I don't know it and I can't tell you
so you will have to tell me all
It hurts him to think that she is
hurting her by him being hurt to think
that she thinks he is hurt by making her
feel guilty at hurting him by her thinking
she wants him to want her
Her wants her to
want him to get him to want him to get
him to want her she pretends
He tries to make her afraid by not
being afraid
You may know what I don't know, but not
that I don't know it and I can't
tell you so you will have to tell
me all
I get what I deserve
I deserve what I get
I have it so I deserve it
I deserve it for I have it
I get what I deserve
What I deserve - what I deserve what I get
I have it so I deserve
He tries to make her afraid by not being afraid

Turning Away
Composer(s): Tim Krekel
First release: Crystal Gayle - 1984



None of your friends come near you
They've given up trying to steer you
Because your turning away
Turning away from love

Lately you look so ragged
The edge of your heart's become jagged
And you're turning away
Turning away from love

I say you're turning away, turning away from love
I say you're turning away, turning away from love
Well she gives it to you without asking
A piece of her heart ever lasting
But you're turning away
Turning away from love

Just when this old world needs all of the love it can get
You're turning away
Turning away from the one who really cares
You're turning away from love

I say you're turning away, turning away from love
I say you're turning away, turning away from love

Just when this old world needs all of the love it can get
You're turning away
Turning away from the one who really cares
You're turning away from love

I say you're turning away, turning away from love
I say you're turning away, turning away from love
Well she gives it to you without asking
A piece of her heart ever lasting
But you're turning away
Turning away from love

I say you're turning away, turning away from love
I say you're turning away, turning away from love
I say you're turning away, turning away from love
I say you're turning away, turning away from love
No, no, no turning away, turning away from love
I say you're turning away, turning away from love...

I Wish I Were A Princess
Composer(s): Luigi Creatore; Hugo Peretti; George David Weiss
Performer(s): Little Peggy March; Sara Hickman



I wish I were a princess
I wish I were a princess
I wish I were a princess
and you were my prince

I wish I were a princess
so beautiful to see
I'd pass the greatest law in history
A lovely little law
that I hope you'll never break
and it would make you fall in love with me

And if I were a princess
the next thing I would do
is plan a celebration in the land
Oh, what a happy day
when the people hear you say,
"My princess, I'm asking for your hand!"

I wish I were a princess
I wish I were a princess
I'd have you sit beside me
so handsome, so bold
I wish I were a princess
and you were my prince
Oh, we'd live happily ever after
as in days of old

I wish I were a princess
I wish I were a princess
I'd have you sit beside me
so handsome, so bold
I wish I were a princess
and you were my prince
Oh, we'd live happily ever after
as in days of old!

I wish I were a princess
I wish I were a princess
I wish I were a princess
I wish I were a princess

Yes, I wish...

Know By Now
Composer(s): Robert Palmer
Performer(s): Robert Palmer



You ought to know by now 

Baby when our hearts awoke
Think of all the rules we broke
In the name of love we hoped
Little did we know

Darling all the time we spent
Ignoring all the consequences 
And hiding from big evidence
Hoping things would change

But the yearning grew like the loneliness of a castaway
To be near to you was the only thing in my heart each day
Keeping me alive till your rescue came

Honey you mean everything to me
You ought to know by now
Love means everything
You ought to know by now
Only love can bring happiness

Wishful thinking spent in vain
What to loose and what to gain
All the guilt and all the pain seemed to come away 
And baby when our hearts awoke 
Think of all the rules we broke
In the name of love we spoke 
Little did we know
But the hope was there 
like a ray of sun on a cloudy day
Any change from impossibility to the only way
Love can conquer all
And its here to stay

Honey you mean everything to me
You ought to know by now
Love means everything
You ought to know by now
Only love can bring happiness
You ought to know by now 
Love means everything
You ought to know by now
Only love can bring happiness

You ought to know by now
You ought to know by now
You ought to know by now
You ought to know by now

Turn Your Radio On
Composer(s): Albert E. Brumley
Performer(s): Ray Stevens



Well, come and listen in to a radio station
Where the mighty hosts of heaven sing
Turn your radio on, turn your radio
Turn your radio on, turn your radio on

If you want to feel those good vibrations
Comin' from the joy that His love can bring
Turn your radio on, turn your radio on
Turn your radio on

Turn your radio on
Oh, yes, turn your radio on
And listen to the music in the air
And listen to the music in the air
Turn your radio on
Oh, yes, turn your radio on
Heaven's glory share
Heaven's glory, glory share
Turn your lights down low
Oh, yes, turn your lights down low
And listen to the Master's radio
And listen to the Master's radio
Get in touch with God
Get in touch with God
Turn your radio on
Turn your radio on

Don't you know that everybody is a radio receiver
All you gotta do is listen for the call
Turn your radio on, turn your radio
Turn your radio on, turn your radio on

If you listen in you will be a believer
Leanin' on the truth that will never fall
Get in touch with God, get in touch with God
Turn your radio on

Turn your radio on
Oh, yes, turn your radio on
And listen to the music in the air
And listen to the music in the air
Turn your radio on
Oh, yes, turn your radio on
Heaven's glory share
Heaven's glory, glory share
Turn your lights down low
Oh, yes, turn your lights down low
And listen to the Master's radio
And listen to the Master's
Turn your lights down low
And listen to the Master's radio
Get in touch with God
Get in touch with God
Turn your radio on
Turn your radio on

I Wish I Was In Glasgow
Composer(s): Billy Connolly
Performer(s): Iain MacKintosh



Oh I wish I was in Glasgow
With some good old friends of mine
Some good old rough companions
And some good old smooth red wine
We could talk about the old days
And the old town's sad decline
And drink to the boys on the road

Oh I was born in Glasgow
Near the center of the town
I would take you there and show you
But they've torn the building down
And when I think about it
It always makes me frown
They bulldozed it all to make a road

And that great old place I miss so much
Has seen much better days
And still we talk about it
As we go our separate ways
Oh but Glasgow gave me more
Than it ever took away
And prepared me for life on the road

And that great old place I miss so much
Has seen much better days
And still we talk about it
As we go our separate ways
Oh but Glasgow gave me more
Than it ever took away
And prepared me for life on the road

My granny was a cleaner
My grandad drove a tram
My father an engineer
Made me all I am
They have seen the city come and go
Still they give a damn
There's so much to learn along the road

And Glasgow gave me more
Than it ever took away
And prepared me for life on the road

Know One Knows
Composer(s): Pete Ham
Performer(s): Pete Ham; Badfinger



No one knows it
No one knows it
No one knows it, no
No one knows how good I feel
When I see you glow

No one knows it
No one knows it
No one knows it, no
No one knows how good I feel
When you let it show

Keep it coming, keep it long
Caress me with your body song
Reach it higher with each sigh
Knowing soon that we will fly

No one knows it
No one knows it
No one knows it, no
No one knows how good I feel
When I see you glow

No one knows it
No one knows it
No one knows it, no
No one knows how good I feel
When you let it flow

Keep it moving, keep it bright
And guide me with your body light
Come in closer with each sigh
Knowing soon that we will fly

[Mika's Japanese cooing over guitar solo (Pete Ham):
No one knows
No one knows
No one knows
No one knows how good I feel
When you let it show

No one knows
No one knows how good I feel
When you let it flow]

Keep on feeling, keep it whole
And lead me with your body soul
Take me higher with each sigh
Knowing you can make me fly

No one knows it
No one knows it
No one knows it, no
No one knows how good I feel
When I see you glow

Turn Your Love Around
Composer(s): Bill Champlin - Jay Graydon - Steve Lukather
Performer(s): George Benson



You've got the love 
You've got the power 
But you just don't understand 
Girl, you've been charging by the hour 
For your love 

I'm trying to show how much I love you 
Still believe in romance 
You're taking way too many chances 
With my love 

I remember 
When you used to be 
The talk of the town 
All you get is lonely 

Turn your love around 
Don't you turn me down 
I can show you how 
Turn your love around 

Without the woman I can make it 
But I need the girl to stay 
Oh, don't you let the lady take it 
Away 
When all I need's a taste of yesterday 
But you stay at home 
All they get is lonely 

Turn your love around 
Don't you turn me down 
I can show you how 
Turn your love around 

Oh girl you know me 
I'm alone until you show me 
That you're still in love with me 
We're gonna make it 
We're gonna take it 
Back where we belong 

Turn your love around 
Don't you turn me down 
I can show you how 
Turn your love around 

Turn your love around 
This time the girl became a woman 
Don't you turn me down 
Every woman needs a man 
I can show you how 
I love the girl, I love the woman 
Turn your love around 

Turn your love around 
This time the girl became a woman 
Don't you turn me down 
Every woman needs a man 
I can show you how 
I love the girl, I love the woman 
Turn your love around 

Turn your love around 
This time the girl became a woman 
Don't you turn me down 
Every woman needs a man 
I can show you how...

I Wish I Was Eighteen Again
Composer(s): Sonny Throckmorton
Performer(s): Jerry Lee Lewis
and multiple other artists



At a bar down in Dallas an old man chimed in
And I thought he was out of his his head
Just being a young man, I just laughed it off
When I heard what that old man had said

He said I'll never again turn the young ladies heads
Or go running off into the wind
I'm three quarters home from the start to the end
And I wish I was eighteen again

I wish I was eighteen again
And going where I've never been
But old folks and old oaks
Standing tall just pretend
I wish I was eighteen again

Now time turns the pages and oh, life goes so fast
The years turn the black hair all grey
I talked to some young folks, hey they don't understand
The words this old man's got to say

I wish I was eighteen again
And going where I've never been
But old folks and old oaks
Standing tall just pretend
I wish I was eighteen again

Lord, I wish I was eighteen again!

Know Your Rights
Composer(s): Mick Jones; Joe Strummer
Performer(s): The Clash; Frisk; 
Pearl Jam; Primal Scream



This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights all three of them

Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a crime!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat
Know your rights

And Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation

Know your rights
These are your rights
Wang

Know these rights

Number 3
You have the right to free
Speech as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it

Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of 'em
It has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough!
Well..............................

Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run
You don't have a home to go to
Smush

Finally then I will read you your rights

You have the right to remain silent
You are warned that anything you say
Can and will be taken down
And used as evidence against you

Listen to this
Run

Turn To Stone
Composer(s): Jeff Lynne
First release: Electric Light Orchestra - 1977



The city streets are empty now (the lights don't shine no more)
and so the songs are way down low (turning, turning, turning)
A sound that flows into my mind (the echoes of the daylight)
of everything that is alive (in my blue world)
I turn to stone when you are gone, I turn to stone
Turn to stone when you comin' home, I can't go on
The dying embers of the night (a fire that slowly fades till dawn)
still glow upon the wall so bright (burning burning burning)
The tired streets that hide away (from here to everywhere they go)
roll past my door into the day (in my blue world)
I turn to stone when you are gone, I turn to stone
Turn to stone when you comin' home, I can't go on
Turn to stone when you are gone, I turn to stone
Yes, I'm turnin' to stone 'cos you ain't comin' home
Why you ain't comin' home if I'm turnin' to stone?
You've been gone for so long and I can't carry on
yes, I'm turnin', I'm turnin', I'm turnin' to stone
The dancing shadows on the wall (the two-step in the hall)
are all I see since you've been gone (turning turning turning)
Through all I sit here and I wait (I turn to stone I turn to stone)
You will return again some day (to my blue world)
I turn to stone when you are gone, I turn to stone
Turn to stone when you comin' home, I can't go on
Turn to stone when you are gone, I turn to stone.
I turn to stone when you are gone, I turn to stone
Turn to stone when you comin' home, I can't go on
Turn to stone when you are gone, I turn to stone

I Wish I Was A Lesbian (aka IWIWAL)
Composer(s): Loudon Wainwright III
Performer(s): Loudon Wainwright III



I wish I was a lesbian, and not a hetero
I wouldn't have to deal with men and all their come and go
And all their yucky yucky facial hair and all their machis'mo!
I wish I were a lesbian and not a hetero!

I wish I was a lesbian and that I wasn't straight
I'd sleep with women only 
Man, it would be great
I'd throw away my diaphragm, I wouldn't want to mate
I wish I was a lesbian, and that I wasn't straight!

I wish I were a lesbian, I'd like to be a dyke
I'd hang with K.D. Lang 
Mel Gibson, take a hike!
I think it would be nice to love someone who was alike
I wish I was a lesbian, I'd like to be a dyke!

I wish I was a lesbian, that's why this song is sung
It shouldn't really matter how somebody is hung
Other things are more important - like how you use your tongue!
I wish I was a lesbian, that's why this song is sung!

I dare Casey Kasem to play this!

I wish I was a lesbian, and not a hetero
I wouldn't have to deal with men and all their come and go
And all their yucky facial hair and all their machis'mo
(I hate that machis'mo!)
I wish I was a lesbian and not a hetero

Knowing
Composer(s): Keith Relf
Performer(s): The Yardbirds



Laughed and loved, when others sang
Their songs of love, nothing rang
Of truth to me
And then I did not see reality
But now I know

Sad in mind, I thought I'd lost
Someone who would share the cost
Of being here
But now you're always near
And I must sing

Knowing 'bout the happiness
Of sharing nights with you
Knowing 'bout the loneliness
When I'm away from you
Knowing is another song
But this time for you

Always wanting things not there
Making fun, I didn't care
For other's dreams
But now to me it seems
That I was wrong

Knowing 'bout the happiness
Of sharing nights with you
Knowing 'bout the loneliness
When I'm away from you
Knowing is another song
But this time for you

I see when lovers cry
They're trying to touch the sky
But only find
[Their arms are only blind
To pains of love?]

I Wish I Knew The Way To Your Heart
Composer(s): Carlo Alberto Rossi; Al Stillman
Performer(s): Nat King Cole



I wish I knew
Wish I knew if you want me to spend all my life loving you
The way that I feel is hard to conceal 
But you don't reveal if you feel that way too

And I wish I knew
Wish I knew that you loved me as I care for you from the start

I found all your charms your lips and your arms
I wish I knew, I wish I knew
I wish I knew the way to your heart

And I wish I knew
Wish I knew that you loved me as I care for you from the start

I found all your charms, your lips and your arms
I wish I knew, I wish I knew
I wish I knew the way to your heart

Knowing Me, Knowing You
Composer(s): Benny Andersson; Stig Anderson; Bjorn Ulvaeus
Performer(s): ABBA;
and various other artists



No more carefree laughter
Silence ever after
Walking through an empty house, tears in my eyes
Here is where the story ends, this is goodbye

Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
We just have to face it, this time we're through
(This time we're through, this time we're through
This time we're through, we're really through)
Breaking up is never easy, I know but I have to go
(I have to go this time
I have to go, this time I know)
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do

Mem'ries (mem'ries), good days (good days), bad days (bad days)
They'll be (they'll be), with me (with me) always (always)
In these old familiar rooms children would play
Now there's only emptiness, nothing to say

Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
We just have to face it, this time we're through
(This time we're through, this time we're through
This time we're through, we're really through)
Breaking up is never easy, I know but I have to go
(I have to go this time
I have to go, this time I know)
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do