Retro-Songteksten: Evergreens, Classics, Old-Time Favourites, Hits Uit Onze Jeugd
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I'm gonna tell you what 's inside my soul We are so fragile, just like melting snow We've got to come to see the beauty of love And imagine, and imagine, just imagine
And we're like butterflies flying to the sun The sun will never let us look inside I believe that this'll be opened up But at the right time Heartfully just wait for it, it will come
And even if you often were so wrong And you denied the miracle's possible But you have got to see it anyway And imagine, and imagine, just imagine
And we're like butterflies flying to the sun The sun will never let us look inside I believe that this'll be opened up But at the right time Heartfully just wait for it, it will come
And we're like butterflies flying to the sun (The sun) The sun will never let us look inside (Look inside, I believe) I believe that this'll be opened up But at the right time Heartfully just wait for it And all the secrets will come, come out
Yellow Bird Composer(s): Michael Keith; Alan Bergman; Norman Luboff Performer(s): The Brothers Four; and various other artists
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me Did your lady friend leave your nest again? That is very sad, makes me feel so bad You can fly away, in the sky away You're more lucky than me
I also had a pretty girl She's not with me today They're all de same, the pretty girls Take tenderness, then they fly away
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me Let her fly away, in the sky away Pick a town and, soon, pick from night to noon Black and yellow, you like banana too They might pick you someday
Wish that I were a yellow bird I'd fly away with you But I am not a yellow bird So here I sit, nothin' else to do
Storybook Love Composer(s): Willy DeVille - Mark Knopfler Performer(s): Willy DeVille
Come my love, I'll tell you a tale of a boy and girl, and their love story and how he loved her oh, so much and all the charms she did possess
My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel it's as real as the feelings I feel Now this did happen once upon a time When things were not so complex And how he worshipped the ground she walked When he looked in her eyes, he became obsessed
My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel it's as real as the feelings I feel Now this did happen once upon a time When things were not so complex And how he worshipped the ground she walked When he looked in her eyes, he became obsessed
This love was stronger than the powers so dark A prince could have within his keeping His spells to weave and steal a heart Within her breast, but only sleeping
My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel it's as real as the feelings I feel Now this did happen once upon a time When things were not so complex And how he worshipped the ground she walked When he looked in her eyes, he became obsessed
He said, "Don't you know I love you oh, so much And lay my heart at the foot of your dress? "She said, "Don't you know that storybook loves Always have a happy ending?" Then he swooped her up, just like in the books And on his stallion they rode away
My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel it's as real as the feelings I feel Now this did happen once upon a time When things were not so complex And how he worshipped the ground she walked When he looked in her eyes, he became obsessed
Yell Help / Wednesday Night / Ugly (Medley) Composer(s): Elton John; Davey Johnstone; Bernie Taupin Performer(s): Elton John
Yell help, too many cooks and a bird in the bush
yell help Yell help, if your mirror busts and your cat gets cussed, yell help `Cause down the road you find someone else who's looking Down the road you find another sweet lady cooking So I gotta yell help
Yell help, some shelter from the storm like the travel agent warned Yell help, if you can help your superstitions they gonna keep you warm `Cause down the road you find someone else who's looking Down the road you seen another sweet lady cooking So I gotta yell help
I wish tonight wasn't Wednesday night I wish it wasn't the thirteenth of July, yell help And you're looking at the guy whose eyes can't deny That he wishes he were somewhere else tonight
Well I met this woman down in New Orleans Lord she built just like a dream Even wore stockings that had seams And she was ugly
Now hell I don't mind women of her kind I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly
She built like a steamroller Just the kind to mow you over anytime Hey the moment might arrive
On Bourbon Street Well the ugliest woman you'll ever meet But she's mine all mine and she's ugly So I better yell help
Thunder And Lightning Composer(s): Edin-Dino aran First performance by: Vukain Brajic - 2010
Say just one more word And you will make it end And I will leave this place Only anger will remain And it doesn't seem to me We're each other's better side These days
This is the time to melt the ice Off our lips and off our hearts Thunder and lightning holding hands Let's overcome the past
The drought is all around But if we start breathing together We can bring the rain down For a dream, for a brand new day To wash away our sins And carry them away
This is the time to melt the ice Off our lips and off our hearts Thunder and lightning holding hands Let's overcome the past We have to do it fast
This is the time (to melt the ice) (Off our lips and off our hearts) Off our hearts (Thunder and lightning holding hands) Thunder and lightning (Let's overcome the past) (We have to do it fast)
In this crazy world In this crazy world Just you and I
Say just one more word And everything will end, everyone will leave
Yeh Yeh Composer(s): Rodgers Grant; Jon Hendricks; Pat Patrick Performer(s): Georgie Fame; and various other artists
Every evenin' When all my day's work is through I call my baby And I ask her what shall we do I mention movies But she don't seem to dig that And then she ask me Why don't I come to her flat And have some supper And let the evening pass by By playing records The sounds of groovy hifi
I say "Yeh Yeh" That's what I say I say "Yeh Yeh"
My baby loves me She gets me feelin' so fine And when she loves me She makes me know that she's mine And when she kisses I feel the fire get hot She never misses She gives it all that she's got And when she ask me If everything is ok I got my answer And the only thing I say
I say "Yeh Yeh" That's what I say I say "Yeh Yeh"
We'll play a melody and turn the lights down low so that none can see We gotta do that we gotta do that We gotta do that we gotta do that And there'll be no one else alive in all the world 'cept you and me Yeh, yeh
And pretty baby I never knew such a thrill It's hard to tell you Because I'm trembling still But, pretty baby I want you all for my own I think I'm ready To leave those others alone No need to ask me If everything is ok I got my answer The only thing I can say
I say "Yeh Yeh" That's what I say I say "Yeh Yeh"
We'll play a melody and turn the lights down low So that none can see We gotta do that we gotta do that We gotta do that we gotta do that And there'll be no one else alive in all the world 'cept you and me Yeh, yeh
And pretty baby I never knew such a thrill It's hard to tell you Because I'm trembling still But, pretty baby I want you all for my own I think I'm ready To leave those others alone No need to ask me If everything is ok I got my answer The only thing I can say
Thunder And Lightning Composer(s): Phil Collins Performer(s): Phil Collins
I never thought I'd ever get tired of playing games But I've been holding back for too long Now the time has come to get it right Now's the time to show them all that they're wrong 'Cause they said thunder and they said lightning
It would never strike twice Oh but if that's true, why can't you tell me How come this feels so nice Oh it feels alright Never ever did believe in guiding lights 'Cause what you didn't hold, slipped away Oh but there's a feeling deep down in my shoe 'Cause things look like they're going my way 'Cause they say thunder and they say lightning It would never strike twice Oh but if that's true, why can't you tell me How come this feels so nice Oh it feels alright I never ever did believe in a second chance You get, just one crack of the whip, that's all If you played the game, you got treated right Oh but I'm not playing the game, no more 'Cause they say thunder and they say lightning It would never strike twice Oh but if that's true, why can't you tell me How come this feels so nice Oh it feels alright
Story Of The Rockers Composer(s): Jim Pewter Performer(s): Gene Vincent; Shakin' Stevens & the Sunsets
It started out with Haley's Comets A-rockin' round the clock Well, then along came Presley With some hillbilly rock, now Mix it in with Carl Perkins Chuck Berry when he's workin' And Little Richard out of Macon Inspired Jerry Lee to shakin' Slow down the tempo with the Fat Man Bring back the rhythm with Bo's band Don and Phil and Eddie Cochran And Buddy Holly kept a-rockin'
And that's the story of the rockers Yeah, who kept us dancin' Everybody was movin' And it looked [felt] so fine Yeah, you could feel the emotion As you looked around Sock it to me rockers Roll it down the line
Jump back down to to Philly For a daily Bandstand Rock At The Hop with Danny's Juniors The Stroll was very hot now Rydell, Cannon and Dion sang While Eddy's Rebels twanged on Soon the world a-started twistin' With the Checker dance The Four Seasons sang Sherry While Barry Gordy shopped the Champs Ike and Tina and a-Uncle Ray Along with Shannon's Runaway
And that's the story of the rockers Yeah, who kept us dancin' Everybody was movin' And it looked [felt] so fine Yeah, you could feel the emotion As you looked around Sock it to me rockers Roll it down the line
The West Coast started surfin' With the Beach Boy band Jan and Dean and the Surfaris Spread the songs throughout the land And soon the Beatles from a-Liverpool Electrified, began to rule Roll out the Stones with Satisfaction Mix in a bit of blues reaction Byrds and Spoonful got in motion With a very good time notion * Otis Redding and Revue Young Rascals attitude
And that's the story of the rockers Yeah, who kept us dancin' Everybody was movin' And it looked [felt] so fine Yeah, you could feel the emotion As you looked around Sock it to me rockers Roll it down the line
Chuck Willis, Lord Old Sam Cooke Sock it to me, yeah, Buddy Knox, Jimmy Bowen, Lloyd Price, Hey don't touch that dial, I ain't through I forgot somebody, Bobby Darin, Larry Williams, The Blue Caps... Here we go...
Year Of The Guru Composer(s): Eric Burdon Performer(s): The Animals
My leader told me to jump in the river The river was deep and the weather was winter After a sailer very kindly saved me My leader told me, you'd better take it easy I took it so easy my leader called me lazy Through the lack of red meat Everything was getting hazy Friends looked at me and said, Man, you gotta be crazy Oh, oh leader My leader said son you'd better get yourself together never mind the fools who know what we're getting into But a forty mile walk would do us both a world of good and he sat down and watched me take off down the road Well, I walked so far my feet began to bleed If this was good for me I just couldn't see it A motorist picked me up and said Look man, you must be crazy Oh, oh leader Oh, oh leader My leader came to see me in a hospital bed Well at least I really knew that my leader really cared After giving me a second-hand roach He said where's your donation man, It's all for a good cause. He left me all alone to work the riddle out But I just couldn't make it so I began to shout They stuck a hypodermic deep down into me Said, look out nurse I think we got a loony Oh, oh leader Okay baby follow me now Follow your leader All rightNow here I sit in a state-run asylum Limitless, friendless but much more together I decided to do some good book readin' About the art of people leadin' Now I'm the leader and they're being led What's the matter if they're crazy till you hear what I've said Being the leader is really where its at But just how long can a good thing last Oh, oh leader Oh, oh leader Now listen to this baby This is the year of the guru Now the thing to do is to ask yourself What can a guru do for me? Then you say to yourself I gotta get a guru
Life Looks Better In Spring Composer(s): Nasos Lambrianides - Melis Konstantinou First performance by: Jon Lilygreen & The Islanders - 2010
Time changes everything, even you and I have changed The rain the winters bring has made us fade away I still remember everything, that old December, the fears, the cold I really wonder how you feel on these nights, all alone
I hope someday you'll see me I hope someday you'll spot me in the crowd Take my hand and kiss me I hope someday you'll say my name out loud
(Tell me) Tell me about your feelings, tell me about your stories Look into my eyes and come on closer, make me immortal with a kiss (Tell me) Tell me about your feelings, tell me about your stories We know it's over, so tell me it's over and life will be better in spring
Time changes everything, but this feeling, it still remains The sweetness of the lips I kissed will always be the same
I hope someday you'll see me I hope someday you'll spot me in the crowd Smile and say you miss me I hope someday you'll say my name out loud
(Tell me) Tell me about your feelings, tell me about your stories Look into my eyes and come on closer, make me immortal with a kiss (Tell me) Tell me about your feelings, tell me about your stories We know it's over, so tell me it's over and life will be better in spring
(Tell me) Tell me about your feelings, tell me about your stories Look into my eyes and come on closer, make me immortal with a kiss (Tell me) Tell me about your feelings, tell me about your stories We know it's over, so tell me it's over and life will be better in spring
Year Of The Cat Composer(s): Al Stewart; Peter Wood Performer(s): Al Stewart; BB Band; Hanne Boel; The Countdown Singers
On a morning from a Bogart movie In a country where they turn back time You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre Contemplating a crime She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running Like a watercolour in the rain Don't bother asking for explanations She'll just tell you that she came In the year of the cat
She doesn't give you time for questions As she locks up your arm in hers And you follow 'till your sense of which direction Completely disappears By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls There's a hidden door she leads you to These days, she says, I feel my life Just like a river running through The year of the cat
Well, she looks at you so cooly And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea She comes in incense and patchouli So you take her, to find what's waiting inside The year of the cat
Well, morning comes and you're still with her And the bus and the tourists are gone And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket So you have to stay on But the drum-beat strains of the night remain In the rhythm of the new-born day You know sometime you're bound to leave her But for now you're going to stay In the year of the cat
Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time)
(Dutch Version: Storm En Regen - 2009)
Composer(s): Harold Arlen - Ted Koehler
First performance/First release by: Ethel Waters & Duke Ellington & His Orch./Leo Reisman & His Orch. - 1933
Covered by multiple other artists
Don't know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps raining all the time
Life is bare Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather Just can't get my poor old self together I'm weary all the time, the time So weary all of the time
When he went away The blues walked in and met me If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me All I do is pray The lord above will let me Walk in the sun once more
Can't go on Everything I had is gone Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps raining all the time Keeps raining all of the time
I walk around, Heavy-hearted and sad Night comes around And I'm still feeling bad Rain pourin' down Blinding every hope I had This pitter 'n patter 'n beatin' 'n spatterin' drivin' me mad
Love, love, love, love This misery will be the end of me
When he went away The blues walked in and met me If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me All I do is pray The lord above will let me Walk in the sun once more
Can't go on Everything I had is gone Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps raining all the time, the time Keeps raining all the time
Yeah Man (aka The Magnificent Seven (by Al Caiola and His Orch.); Sweet Soul Music (by Arthur Conley) - 1967)) ((French Version: La Seule Vraie Musique (by Johnny Hallyday) - 1967)) Composer(s): Sam Cooke First release by: Sam Cooke - 1965
Do you like good music crazy 'bout music any old music yeah, yeah do you like all the dances you crazy 'bout the dances
as long as they are swinging what, what let's try some others dances I don't know which one let's try to do the monkey all right, yeah
do you like all the dances I'm crazy 'bout the dances let's try a new dance let's try the watutsi I love to do the tutsi put the twist with the tutsi
let's try a new dance dig what I tell you got to do what I tell you
you're on a football field you're down in the huddle run for that touchdown
you're on a baseball field now your bat's in your hand now swing for that homerun
you're in the middle of an ocean ship had gone done now swim our life now swim, swim, got to go I'm going home
Run Away Composer(s): Anton Ragoza - Sergey Stepanov - Alina Galetskaya First performance by: Sunstroke Project & Olia Tira - 2010
Oh... forget, let me breathe, let me live Just run away from my mind Oh... forgive, I don't need, I won't breathe Just get away from my life
You've lost one and all, so fly away Over the clouds, under the sky Never come back and run away With all your might, give up you
I don't believe anymore your shallow heart I know that it's you who chose to play this trick I'll never forgive you, not for anything And now you are left with nothing
Oh... forget, let me breathe, let me live Just run away from my mind Oh... forgive, I don't need, I won't breathe Just get away from my life
Oh... forget, let me breathe, let me live Just run away from my mind Oh... forgive, I don't need, I won't breathe Just get away from my life
There's no other time to making happiness You have mistaken We have no progressive future I know your lying nature
There's no other time to making happiness You have mistaken We have no progressive future I know your lying nature
Oh... forget, let me breathe, let me live Just run away from my mind Oh... forgive, I don't need, I won't breathe Just get away from my life
Oh... forget, let me breathe, let me live Just run away from my mind Oh... forgive, I don't need, I won't breathe Just get away from my life
Y'Avait Du Soleil Composer(s): Jean Lenoir Performer(s): Edith Piaf
Dans tout le raffut des musiques Des pianos mécaniques Des manèges électriques Un jour, à la fête de Saint-Cloud Dans un tir, je vois un grand type Avec toute une équipe Pan, l'uf et pan, la pipe Et la fille faisait mouche à tout coup Tout autour, on s'marrait Et comme j'étais tout près Il m'a offert du nougat, du surpain Du premier coup on était deux copains
Y avait du soleil ce jour-là Je revois tout ça, c'est loin déjà Mais ça me tourne encore la tête Il riait, même sortant de la fête Un p'tit porto, deux doigts d'écho Demain on se reverra coco... Je voulais pas tomber dans ses bras Oui, mais voilà... Y avait du soleil, ce jour-là...
Je revois nos balades de première Sur ma moto, pépère Lui devant, moi derrière Comme ça gazait, la joie au cur Surtout notre premier dimanche Arrêtés sous les branches Il avait carte blanche Pour me donner tous les bonheurs Le plafond, c'était le ciel Alors, tout naturel' Dans l'herbe tendre on a cueilli d'abord Des fleurs, et puis l'amour encore, encore...
Y avait du soleil, ce jour-là Et les lilas, je revois tout ça Comme il riait sur l'herbe épaisse Même son rire c'était une caresse Ça chantait partout dans les nids Moi je soupirais : "C'est le paradis Dis-moi que jamais on ne se quittera... Tant que tu voudras..." Y avait du soleil, ce jour-là...
La-la-la... Dis-moi que jamais on ne se quittera... Tant que tu voudras... Y avait du soleil, ce jour-là...
Stormy Horizons Composer(s): Frank Iris - Ira Louvin Performer(s): Jim & Jesse; Donnie "Dobro" Scott
I scarcely hear the wild wind's cry or feel its sudden blast A greater storm just swept my world apart Today you're with someday new my hopes are gone at last There's stormy horizons in my heart
Rain swept and tattered like the rose in the wind Stormy horizons without and within You were all that mattered but you wanted to be free Now stormy horizons wait for me
Of things as fragile and as sweet as roses dreams are made And dreams we had you held so carelessly They fell like petals round my feet I saw my rainbow fade Now stormy horizons wait for me
Y'Avait Donc Pas De Quoi Performer(s): Charles Aznavour
Je suis sorti pour aller nulle part Et le plus fort c'est que je suis allé Je n'y ai rencontré personne Alors bien sur il ne m'est rien arrivé C'était un jour sans soleil ni brouillard Je n'étais pas triste et n'étais pas gai Les rues n'étaient pas monotones Et rien n'était particulier
Y'avait donc pas de quoi Pas de quoi En faire une chanson Mais j'avais rien à faire
Alors j'en ai fait une, ai fait une Ai fait une Et ça vaut bien mieux dans le fond Que de faire la guerre
Personne ne m'a offert un pont d'or Je n'ai pas non plus rencontrer l'amour Je ne me sentais pas malade C'était un jour, comme un million d'autres jours Je n'ai pas bu à en être ivre-mort Aucun malheur n'est venu me frapper J'ai fait une simple balade Sans aucune arrière-pensée
Y'avait donc pas de quoi Pas de quoi En faire une chanson Mais j'avais rien à faire Alors j'en ai fait une, ai fait une Ai fait une Et ça vaut bien mieux dans le fond Que de faire la guerre
Sans trop savoir ni pourquoi ni comment Tandis que la nuit remplaçait le jour Mes pieds ont emprunté de même Tout benoîtement le chemin du retour Arrivé chez moi pour trompé le temps Je n'ai rien fait que des ronds de fumée Et comme j'étais sans problème Dans mon lit je me suis coulé
Y'avait donc pas de quoi Pas de quoi En faire une chanson Mais j'avais rien à faire Alors j'en ai fait une, ai fait une Ai fait une Et ça vaut bien mieux dans le fond Que de faire la guerre
My Heart Is Yours Composer(s): Fredrik Kempe - Hanne Margrethe Fredriksen Sørvaag First performance by: Didrik Solli-Tangen - 2010
You are like a sunset behind a mountain somewhere And when I cannot see you, I know you're still there
Because my heart is yours, I'll never leave you Though we are far apart, I'm by your side My love is never gone, I feel it rise again Through it all, now my heart is yours
You say I am the moonlight, I watch you at night And when you cannot see me, I'm still there in the sky
Because my heart is yours, I'll never leave you Though we are far apart, I'm by your side My love is never gone, I feel it rise again Through it all, now my heart is yours
Because my heart is yours, I'll never leave you Though we are far apart, I'm by your side My love is never gone, I feel it rise again Through it all, now my heart is yours