Summertime
Composer(s): Ira Gershwin - DuBose Heyward - George Gershwin
First performance by: Abbie Mitchell - 1935
Covered by multiple other artists



Summertime and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is fine
Oh your Daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin'
So hush little baby, don't you cry
One of these mornings
You're goin' to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take the sky
But till that morning
There's a nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mammy standin' by

You Light Up My Life
Composer(s): Joe Brooks
Performer(s): Debby Boone;
and various other artists



So many nights I sit by my window 
Waiting for someone to sing me his song 
So many dreams I kept deep inside me 
Alone in the dark but now 
You've come along 

You light up my life 
You give me hope 
To carry on 
You light up my days 
and fill my nights with song 

Rollin' at sea, adrift on the water 
Could it be finally I'm turning for home? 
Finally, a chance to say hey, 
I love You 
Never again to be all alone 

You light up my life 
You give me hope 
To carry on 
You light up my days 
and fill my nights with song 

You light up my life 
You give me hope 
To carry on 
You light up my days 
and fill my nights with song 

It can't be wrong 
When it feels so right 
'Cause You 
You light up my life

Summer's Gone
Composer(s): Paul Anka
Performer(s): Paul Anka



Summer's gone and no songbirds are singing
Because you're gone, gone from my arms
Gone from my lips but you're still in my heart

What to do? Oh, I'm left here just crying
Over you, oh, I'm so blue
What can I do now that you're gone?

The days, they prolong now that you're gone
My nights, they leave me blue (you're so blue)
I don't know why there are tears in my eyes
Can it be that I'm still in love with you?

Summer's gone and no songbirds are singing
Because you're gone, gone from my arms (from my arms)
Gone from my lips (from my lips) but still in my heart
(Still in my heart, still in my heart)

Summer's gone and no songbirds are singing
Because you're gone, gone from my arms
Gone from my lips but still in my heart
(Summer's gone but you're still in my heart)

You Know What To Do
Composer(s): George Harrison
Performer(s): The Beatles



When I see you I just don't know what to say
I'd like to be with you every hour of the day
So if want me just like I need you
You know what to do

I watched you walking by and you looked all alone
I hope that you won't mind if I walk you back home
And if want me just like I need you
You know what to do

Just call on me when you're lonely
I'll keep my love for you only
I'll call on you if I'm lonely too

Understand I'll stay with you everyday
Make you love me more in every way

So if want me just like I need you
You know what to do

Summer's Almost Gone
Composer(s): John Densmore - Robbie Krieger - Ray Manzarek - Jim Morrison
First release by: The Doors - 1968
Covered by multiple other artists



Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
Almost gone
Yeah, it's almost gone
Where will we be
When the summer's gone?

Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burn gold into our hair
At night, we swim the laughin' sea
When summer's gone
Where will we be
Where will we be
Where will we be

Morning found us calmly unaware
Noon burn gold into our hair
At night, we swim the laughin' sea
When summer's gone
Where will we be

Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
We had some good times
But they're gone
The winter's comin' on
Summer's almost gone

You Know What I Mean
Composer(s): Alfred Dubin; Fred Rath
Performer(s): Corinne Griffith & Robert Fraser



I've been dreaming, I've been dreaming
I've been scheming too
I hope my dreams come true
It all depends on you
I'm suspecting, I'm suspecting
That your eyes have seen
There's something wrong with me
And you know what I mean!

When we're married, when we're married
We'll go down to Cook's
Look through their tourist books
And pick some shady nooks
Then we'll visit those exquisite, Tropic Island scenes
The kind you read about
In all the magazines!

Oh I'm just crazy 'bout your kisses, honey
You know what I mean
For when your lips meet mine
I feel so funny
You know what I mean
You're just a dream of lovliness
You surely know just how to dress
You play and sing, and everything 
So different from the rest
I'd like to hear the preacher say that we are
You know what I mean
And in a year or so we both may have a little
Ford machine
We'll find a little cottage where the roses bloom
With a parlor and a kitchen and a dining room
And a room upstairs
Where we'll say our pray'rs, 
Oh, you know what I mean
I've been dreaming, I've been dreaming
I've been scheming too
I hope my dreams come true
It all depends on you
I'm suspecting, I'm suspecting
That your eyes have seen
There's something wrong with me
And you know what I mean!

When we're married, when we're married 
We'll go down to Cook's
Look through their tourist books
And pick some shady nooks
Then we'll visit those exquisite, Tropic Island scenes
The kind you read about
In all the magazines!

Oh I'm just crazy 'bout your kisses, honey
You know what I mean
For when your lips meet mine
I feel so funny
You know what I mean
You're just a dream of lovliness
You surely know just how to dress
You play and sing, and everything 
So different from the rest
I'd like to hear the preacher say that we are
You know what I mean
And in a year or so we both may have a little Ford machine
We'll find a little cottage where the roses bloom
With a parlor and a kitchen and a dining room
And a room upstairs
Where we'll say our pray'rs
Oh, you know what I mean

Summerlove Sensation
((French Version: Petit Rainbow (by Sylvie Vartan) - 1977))
Composer(s): William Wylie MacPherson Martin - Phil Coulter
First release by: Bay City Rollers - 1974



The summer sun sitting high in the sky
And love that's in everyone's eye
Now the waitin' the anticipating' is over
Over, over
You feel loose and get out in the sun
Summer's here and we're gonna have fun
Two weeks are past and at last
We can really feel free

And you can run in the sun
Having' fun with the one that you really love
Walk in the sand hand in hand
With the boy that you met on vacation
And on a warm summer night it's all right
When he says, baby I love you
Then boy oh boy you're enjoying'
That summerlove sensation

And you're right on the down of the sea
On the beach where the gang's gonna be
We can stay there all day
Until the fall is over over over
In the evening he's waiting for you
And you go to the beach barbecue
And you'll all have a ball till dawn

You Know What I Mean
Composer(s): Phil Collins; Mark Mancina
Performer(s): Phil Collins; Frida



Just as I thought I'd make it 
You walk back into my life 
Just like you never left 

Just as I'd learned to be lonely 
You call up to tell me 
You're not sure if you're ready 
But ready or not, you'll take what you've got and leave 

Leave me alone with my heart 
I'm putting the pieces back together again 
Just leave, leave me alone with my dreams 
I can do without you, know what I mean... 

I wish I could write a love song 
To show you the way I feel 
Seems you don't like to listen 
Oh but like it or not, take what you've got and leave 

Leave me alone with my heart 
It's broken in two and I'm not thinking too straight 
Just leave, leave me alone with my dreams 
You've taken everything else, you know what I mean

What A Life! (Trying To Live Without You)
Composer(s): Louis Alter - Charlotte Kent



What a life, to live alone
What is left when love has flown
What a life, trying to live without you

All the love that used to be
Sings a minor melody
What a life, trying to live without you

All the funny little things
We used to say and do
They weren't meant for one
They were meant for two

Just the same, the world goes on
I must live and know you're gone
What a life, trying to live without you

All the funny little things
We used to say and do
They weren't meant for one
They were meant for two

Just the same, the world goes on
I must live and know you're gone
What a life, trying to live without you

Without you, without you
I can't live without you

You Know What I Like
Composer(s): Billy Squier
Performer(s): Billy Squier



Somewhere in the distance---somewhere down the line
A trace of an illusion is etched upon my mind
A fool's infatuation poundin' in my brain
I fell into your face before I ever knew your name
You're no stranger--you know what I like...

You got me in a cross fire, drivin' in my car
You come on like a daydream, you move just like a star
Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure
The path of least resistance is all I can endure
You're no stranger--you know what I like...

Miles of conversation...it's all between the lines
You're in the "A" rotation, you're with me all the time
Our love will go the distance--however near and far
In all of my confusion, I know just who you are
You're no stranger--you know what I like...

Call Me Claus
Composer(s): Garth Brooks - Lisa Sanderson - Jenny Yates
Performer(s): Garth Brooks



May not know by lookin' at me
Who you're looking at exactly
Wonder who could that be in your stockin'
Suit of red and cheeks of cherry
Lookin' extraordinary
Spare me 'cause
You scare with your gawkin'
Hold your applause
Pick up your jaws
Call me Claus, hoah

I got the spirit of the season in me
Spreadin' joy and toys a'plenty
Nimbly down your chimney I'll be bumpin'
Give me room 'cause I'm a packin'
Only time for toys and snackin'
Love to stay here yackin'
But I'm humpin'
I got a cause
No time to pause
They call me Claus

Hoah, call me Santa
Call me Kringle
Call me Old Saint Nick
All those have a beautiful ring
Pleasin' is the reason
And the season's a kick
When your Santa
Baby, you gotta swing
Swing, I dare ya, yeah

Hey, call me Santa
Call me Kringle
Call me Old Saint Nick
All those have a beautiful ring
Pleasin' is the reason
And the season's a kick
When you Santa
Baby, you gotta swing

So while in your jammies sleepin'
Roof to roof I'll be a leapin'
Quickly if your creepin' for a peepin'

The oohs and aahs
Are all because
They call me Claus

Hold your applause
Hey, watch the paws
They call me Claus

You Know Me
Composer(s): Jackie DeShannon
Performer(s): Jackie DeShannon



I'll go where the feeling takes me 
Although it could surely break me 
So long, so long without an ending 
To learn there's no pretending 

Chorus: 
You know me 
Following a shooting star 
You know me 
Someone with a restless heart 
You know me 
Wanting to be where you are 
Endlessly 
You know me 

These day behind the sun's illusion 
In games where some things must be proven 
It's time, it's time to trust the reason 
And say you're still believing 

(Chorus) 

Trade winds 
Somewhere from another distant place 
Fallen 
Promises that had to fade away 

(Chorus)

Summerday Sands
Composer(s): Ian Anderson
Performer(s): Jethro Tull



I once met a girl with the life in her hands
and we lay together on the summerday sands
I gave her my raincoat and told her, "Lady, be good!"
And we made truth together, where no one else would
I smiled through her fingers and ran the dust through her hands
the hour-glass of reason on the summerday sands

We sat as the sea caught fire
Waited as the flames grew higher in her eyes, in her eyes
We watched the eagle born
wings clipped, tail feathers shorn, but we saw him rise
we saw him rise over summerday sands

Came the ten o'clock curfew
She said, "I must start my car
I'm staying with someone I met last night in a bar"
I called from my wave top:"At least tell me your name!"
She smiled from her wheelspin and said, "It's all the same"
I thought for a minute, jumped back on dry land
left one set of footprints on the summerday sands
I once met a girl with the life in her hands
and we lied together on the summerday sands

You Know How To Love Me
Composer(s): Reggie Lucas;
Lucas Mtume; James Mtume
Performer(s): Phyllis Hyman; Chris Bangs; 
Juanita Dailey; Mtume; Lisa Stansfield



Measure for measure
Your love’s so much pleasure
Like a haunting melody
You came inside and captured me

And I’m so happy
You’re the rhythm of my rhyme
You and I together
We’ll stand the test of time

You know how to love me (Sure you do)
You know to make it right (So nice)
You know how to love me (There’s no denyin’)
Sweet as the morning light

Sooner or later
I knew you’d come my way
You’re welcome to my love
Just promise that you’ll stay

You know how to love me
Right in a special way
You know how to love me
Tonight all I wanna say
You know how to love me
You’re the real that I feel, never go away

Seeing’s believin’
Don’t you know you’re a dream come true
Ain’t nothin’ deceivin’
‘Bout the way that I’m lovin’ you, yeah

You know how to love me (You know, you know)
You know to make it right (I can feel it)
You know how to love me (No doubt about it)
Sweet as the morning light

Nothing’s forever
That’s what people say
But each time we’re together
Forever and a day

You know how to love me
Right in a special way
You know how to love me
Tonight all I wanna say
You know how to love me
You’re the real that I feel, never go away

You know how to love me (Oh, you know that you do)
(You know how to love me, baby)
Ooh, you know to make it right (Oh, I know you do, whoa)
Ooh, you know how to love me
(Seeing’s believin’, don’t you know you’re a dream come true, yeah)
Ooh, you know how to love me (Oh, oh, baby)
(Who will take this heart of mine) Ooh, you know how to love me
(Love me, baby, all the time, come on, give it to me, baby)
(You know how to love) Ooh, you know how to love me
(You know how to love me, yeah)
(Ooh, I can feel it) Ooh, you know how to love me (I can feel love, no, no, baby)
(You know how to love me, yeah) Ooh, you know how to love me
(Ooh, you know ‘cause you told me so, oh, oh)
Ooh, you know how to love me (There’s no denyin’)

Ooh, you know how to love me
Ooh, you know how to love me
(You and I were meant to be) Ooh, you know how to love me
(There’s no doubt the world can see)
(That I love you, baby, ooh, oh, oh, oh, baby)
Ooh, you know how to love me (Ooh, ooh, baby)
(You know how to love me, sure you do)
Ooh, you know how to love me (Oh, ho)
Ooh, you know how to love me (You know how to love me, baby, I can feel it)
(No doubt about it, no, no)
Ooh, you know how to love me (Oh, you know how to love me, baby)
Ooh, you know how to love me (I love you, baby, and I need ya, baby)
Ooh, you know how to love me (I know, baby)
Ooh, you know how to love me
Ooh, you know how to love me (I wasn’t born yesterday)
Ooh, you know how to love me (Spent my time in the streets and I played it)

Summer, Highland Falls
Composer(s): Billy Joel
Performer(s): Billy Joel
and multiple other artists



They say that these are not the best of times
But they're the only times I've ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own
Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what our situations hand us
It's either sadness or euphoria

And so we argue and we compromise
And realize that nothing's ever changed
For all our mutual experience, our separate conclusions are the same
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason co-exists with our insanity
And though we choose between reality and madness
It's either sadness or euphoria

How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies
And so we'll stand upon the ledges of our lives
With our respective similarities
It's either sadness or euphoria

You Keep Running Away
Composer(s): Lamont Dozier; 
Brian Holland; Eddie Holland
Performer(s): The Four Tops; Chuck Jackson



You're here today and gone tomorrow 
Leave this heart of mine in sorrow 
Then you come around every now and then 
Long enough to hurt me then you're gone again 

Darlin you keep running away 
Well I begged you not to leave but you never stay 
Now you, you keep running away 
Leavin me here to face another lonely day 

To you all of this is just a game 
Well each time you leave I feel the pain 
But I've got so much love for you 
I keep wanting you no matter what you do 

All I want to do is take care of you 
Everything I have in my life 
I will share with you 
This soul of mine has been processed by you 

Darling my heart has been obsessed with you 
Just look at me, I'm not the man I used to be 
I used to be proud, I used to be strong 
But all of that's changed girl since you come along 

Your lovin sweetness is my weakness 
Boy I need you, dear
I just can't keep you near 
Each time you go the hurt comes callin'

My days become nights, darlin 
My nights become so much longer 
You're in my life, you're in my heart 
But I can't get you 
Get you into my arms 
Darlin, you keep runnin away ......

Cabin In The Valley
Composer(s): Kix Brooks - Kenny "Boudro" Gray
Performer(s): Brooks & Dunn



Today I climbed the hillside with the snowcapped evergreens
Stared down in the valley at a Christmas memory
Saw a young boy in a cabin hang a stockin' on a peg
Peace on Earth was ours down in the valley

Christmas dinner's cookin', the turkey's golden brown
There's a big old fire ablazin', all the family's gathered 'round
There was nothin' quite as pretty in the cities or the towns
As my cabin in the valley when the snow is on the ground

Mama still still plays carols on those worn out ivory keys
And Papa's hooked his old team up to fetch the Christmas tree
I watch my boy climb on a limb, shakin' loose the mistletoe
Just the way I did not so long ago

Christmas dinner's cookin', the turkey's golden brown
There's a big old fire ablazin', all the family's gathered 'round
Well, there's nothin' quite as pretty in the cities or the towns
As my cabin in the valley when the snow is on the ground

Christmas dinner's cookin', the turkey's golden brown
There's a big old fire ablazin', all the family's gathered 'round
Well, There's nothin' quite as pretty in the cities or the towns
As my cabin in the valley when the snow is on the ground

You Keep Me Hangin' On
Composer(s): Lamont Dozier;
Eddie Holland; Brian Holland
Performer(s): Diana Ross & The Supremes;
and various other artists



Set me free, why don't you babe
Get out of my life, why don't you babe
'Cause you don't really love me
You just keep me hanging' on
You don't really need me
But you keep me hanging' on

Why do you keep a coming around
Playing with my heart?
Why don't you get out of my life
And let me make a new start?
Let me get over you
The way you've gotten over me

Set me free, why don't you babe
Let me be, why don't you babe
'Cause you don't really love me
You just keep me hanging' on
Now you don't really want me
You just keep me hanging' on

You say although we broke up
You still want to be just friends
But how can we still be friends
When seeing you only breaks my heart again
And there ain't nothing I can do about it

Woo, set me free, why don't you babe
Woo, get out my life, why don't you babe
Set me free, why don't you babe
Get out my life, why don't you babe

You claim you still care for me
But your heart and soul needs to be free
Now that you've got your freedom
You want to still hold on to me
You don't want me for yourself
So let me find somebody else
Hey!

Why don't you be a man about it
And set me free
Now you don't care a thing about me
You're just using me
Go on, get out, get out of my life
And let me sleep at night
'Cause you don't really love me
You just keep me hanging' on...

Summer Wine
Composer(s): Lee Hazlewood
First release by: Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - 1966
Covered by multiple other artists

Versions In Other Languages:
1969 - Le Vin De L'été (Marie Laforêt & Gérard Klein)
1969 - Ci Sono Fiori (Dalida)



(Nancy):
Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things

(Lee):
I walked in town on silver spurs that jingled to
A song that I had only sang to just a few
She saw my silver spurs and said lets pass some time
And I will give to you summer wine
Ohh-oh-oh summer wine

(Nancy):
Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Ohhh-oh summer wine

(Lee):
My eyes grew heavy and my lips they could not speak
I tried to get up but I couldn't find my feet
She reassured me with an unfamiliar line
And then she gave to me more summer wine
Ohh-oh-oh summer wine

(Nancy):
Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Mmm-mm summer wine

(Lee):
When I woke up the sun was shining in my eyes
My silver spurs were gone my head felt twice its size
She took my silver spurs a dollar and a dime
And left me cravin' for more summer wine
Ohh-oh-oh summer wine

(Nancy):
Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Mmm-mm summer wine 

You Keep Coming Back Like A Song
Composer(s): Irving Berlin
Performer(s): Bing Crosby;
and various other artists



Can't run away from you, dear
I've tried so hard but I fear
You'll always follow me near and far
Just when I think that I'm set
Just when I've learned to forget
I close my eyes, dear, and there you are

You keep coming back like a song
A song that keeps saying, remember

The sweet used-to-be
That was once you and me
Keeps coming back like an old melody

The perfume of roses in May
Returns to my room in December

From out of the past where forgotten things belong
You keep coming back like a song