Tango
Composer(s): Mike Stoller - Jerry Leiber
First release by: Peggy Lee - 1975



Oh the tango is done with a thin black moustache
a wide scarlet sash, black boots and a whip
Or the tango is done with seafaring trash
callous and brash, fresh off the ship
Or the tango is done as a dangerous dance 
a treacherous step and if one should trip
The frail body breaks with a snap and a twist
And a gold watch slips onto a thick tattooed wrist
And a gray merchant ship turns black in the sun 
as it heaves to the East when the tango is done

Butterflies mounted on fields of black velvet
Neatly arranged in gleaming glass trays
One-eyed Etruscans play follow-the-leader
Forever around the edge of the vase

The phonograph's playing an old broken record
A tango and over and over it plays
Over it plays
Over it plays

A medieval tapestry hangs like a warning
A needlepoint forest of dark green and brown
The scene is the hunt, you will notice the hunter
He takes careful aim as your eye travels down

And finally rests upon the real victim
Lying quite still in a silk dressing gown
Lying quite still at the edge of the carpet
One arm flung out for the peacocks to peck
Blending in well with the blue and green background
Except for the bright scarlet sash round the neck

He was a collector of beautiful strangers
And life was a party right up to the end
The door always opened to love and loves dangers
Though dead, a lover, a stranger, a friend

Butterflies mounted on fields of black velvet
Neatly arranged in gleaming glass trays
One-eyed Etruscans play follow-the-leader
Forever around the edge of the vase
The phonograph's playing an old broken record
A tango and over and over it plays
Over it plays (repeat)...

Bad Time
Composer(s): Mark Farner
First release by: Grand Funk Railroad - 1974
Covered by multiple other artists



I'm in love with the girl that I'm talking about
I'm in love with the girl I can't live without
I'm in love but I sure picked a bad time ...
To be in love, to be in love

Well, let her be somebody else's queen
I don't want to know about it
There's too many others that know what I mean
And, that's why I got to live without it

I'm in love with the girl I'm talking about
I'm in love with the girl I can't live without
I'm in love but I feel like I'm wearin' it out
I'm in love but I must have picked a bad time ...
To be in love, a bad time to be in love
A bad time to be in love 
A bad time to be in love

All the stories coming back to me
From my friends and the people that I don't want to see
The things you say I know just couldn't be true
At least not until I hear them from you

'Cause I still love the little girl I'm talking about
I'm in love with the girl I can't live without
I'm in love but I feel like I'm wearin' it out
I'm in love but I must have picked a bad time ...
To be in love, a bad time to be in love
A bad time to be in love, a bad time to be in love

You know that I love the little girl I'm talking about
I'm in love with the girl I can't live without
I'm in love but I feel like I'm wearin' it out
I'm in love but I must have picked a bad time ...
To be in love, a bad time to be in love
A bad time to be in love, a bad time to be in love

La Vie D'artiste
Composer(s): Francis Claude - Léo Ferré
First release by: Léo Ferré - 1961
Covered by multiple other artists



Je t'ai rencontrée par hasard
Ici, ailleurs ou autre part
Il se peut que tu t'en souviennes
Sans se connaître on s'est aimés
Et même si ce n'est pas vrai
Il faut croire à l'histoire ancienne
Je t'ai donné ce que j'avais
De quoi chanter, de quoi rêver
Et tu croyais en ma bohème
Mais si tu pensais à vingt ans
Qu'on peut vivre de l'air du temps
Ton point de vue n'est plus le même

Cette fameuse fin du mois
Qui depuis qu'on est toi et moi
Nous revient sept fois par semaine
Et nos soirées sans cinéma
Et mon succès qui ne vient pas
Et notre pitance incertaine
Tu vois je n'ai rien oublié
Dans ce bilan triste à pleurer
Qui constate notre faillite
" Il te reste encore de beaux jours
Profites-en mon pauvre amour
Les belles années passent vite"

Et maintenant tu vas partir
Tous les deux nous allons vieillir
Chacun pour soi, comme c'est triste
Tu peux remporter le phono
Moi je conserve le piano
Je continue ma vie d'artiste
Plus tard sans trop savoir pourquoi
Un étranger, un maladroit
Lisant mon nom sur une affiche
Te parlera de mes succès
Mais un peu triste toi qui sais
"Tu lui diras que je m'en fiche...
que je m'en fiche..."

Bad Rain
Composer(s): Dickey Betts - Warren Haynes
Performer(s): The Allman Brothers Band



Don't come around here no more
bringing me all of your bad rain
Can't you see I've got troubles of my own
I ain't got time to be messing with all of your bad rain
why in the world can't you just leave that stuff alone? 
There was a time we had a good thing going on
you and I both know the reason why it all went wrong
Tried to stick by you, help you see it through
but you used me all up, now you're on your own 
So, don't come around here no more
bringing me all of your bad rain
Can't you see I've got troubles of my own
I ain't got time to be messing with all of your bad rain
why in the world can't you just leave that stuff alone? 
Well I tried and tried again, to be good to you
but you won't a hear a word and I don't know what it's coming to
Comes a time when you just have to turn and, walk away
there's nothing left to do, nothing left to say
So, don't come around here no more
bringing me all of your bad rain
Can't you see I've got troubles of my own
I ain't got time to be messing with all of your bad rain
why in the world can't you just leave that stuff alone? 
I ain't someone to be preaching to nobody else
ain't going to try and pretend to be living that clean myself
Can't stand by and watch you throw your life away
But there's nothing left to do, nothing left to say
So, don't come around here no more
bringing me all of your bad rain
Can't you see I've got troubles of my own
I ain't got time to be messing with all of your bad rain
why in the world can't you just leave that stuff alone? 
Why in the world can't you just leave that stuff alone?

La Vie Comme Elle Passe
Composer(s): Salvatore Adamo 
Salvatore Adamo; Toots Thielemans



Oh prends la vie comme elle passe
en gardant une petite place
pour tes rêves bien au chaud
et si le malheur te fait face
pour graver sa dédicace
dans ton âme et sur ta peau
alors prends le de haut 
regarde les oiseaux
mais oui prends le de haut
et rêve encore plus haut
plus haut que la vie qui passe
juste sur l'étoile d'en face
là où tout paraît plus beau
là où tout est bien plus beau

Oui prends la vie comme elle passe
et si parfois ton angoisse
prend les couleurs du dégoût
tiens bon va jusqu'au bout
même si le monde est fou
mais oui va jusqu'au bout
dis toi que malgré tout
aussi mal qu'la vie te fasse
il viendra l'instant de grâce
qui fait qu'elle vaudra le coup
oui ta vie vaudra le coup
la vie vaut toujours le coup

Bad Penny
Composer(s): Rory Gallagher
Performer(s): Rory Gallagher



Well, like a bad penny you've turned up again
You're in my sights, there's a mist on my lens
I think you know how it was when I tripped and fell
Well, you double-dealed me, baby and I broke like a shell

Like a bad penny you've sure lost the glow
But I'm out of reach, your smile's sure gone cold
Well, it can't ever be like it was then
Well, don't you fool with me, baby
Don't you mess with my plans

Some stormy nights, your memory haunts me
You won't go away

Well, like a bad penny you have turned up in the change
Try to fit into the picture, you can't get inside the frame
I think you know I'm still sore, but I'm on the mend
Times sure have changed, it won't happen again

Well, like a bad penny spins around and around
Well, you won't know what's gone wrong when it all falls down
You got to learn from now on to stop playing games
You ought to keep on moving, you got to spin on your way

Some lonely nights, I hear you calling
Won't you go away?

Well, like a bad penny you have turned up again
You're in my sights, there's a mist on my lens
I think you know how it was when I tripped and fell
Well, you double-dealed me, baby, I cracked like a shell

La Vida Sigue Igual
Composer(s): Julio Iglesias 
Performer(s): Julio Iglesias 
and multiple other artists



Unos que nacen, otros morirán
unos que ríen, otros llorarán
Aguas sin cauce, ríos sin mar
penas y glorias, guerras y paz

Siempre hay
por qué vivir
por qué luchar
Siempre hay
por quién sufrir
y a quien amar
Al final
las obras quedan, las gentes se van
Otros que vienen las continuarán...
¡La vida sigue igual!

Pocos amigos que son de verdad
cuántos te alagan si triunfando estás
y si fracasas, bien comprenderás
los buenos quedan, los demás se van

Siempre hay
por qué vivir
por qué luchar
Siempre hay
por quién sufrir
y a quien amar
Al final
las obras quedan, las gentes se van
Otros que vienen las continuarán...
¡La vida sigue igual!

Al final
las obras quedan, las gentes se van
Otros que vienen las continuarán...
¡La vida sigue igual!

Bad Or Good
Composer(s): Van Morrison
Performer(s): Them



Everybody got some soul
I don’t care about young or old
Gotta hold on when all is gone
Make out like it’s fine

While we say yeah (bad or good)
Oh yeah (bad or good)
Yeah (bad or good)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (bad or good)
That’ll ever happen (bad or good)
Everybody (bad or good) sometimes
Oh, oh yeah

Don’t even have to say one word
And it’s nothing that we’ve seen or heard
Get out, get out, jump and shout
They’d like to know what it’s all about

Just say yeah (bad or good)
Oh yeah (bad or good)
And it’s alright baby (bad or good)
Gotta happen (bad or good)
Everybody (bad or good)
Sometimes (bad or good)
Some sweet time, ooo-ooo

If there’s something baby
You want me to do
Come on over here and I’ll see about you
Yeah I’ll make ya shake it all about
Jump and shout

Just say yeah (bad or good)
Oh yeah (bad or good)
Wah ooo (bad or good, bad or good)
That’ll happen, everybody (bad or good)
Sometime (bad or good)

At sometime (bad or good)
Oh yeah yeah (bad or good)
Oh yeah (bad or good)

La Vida Que Nunca Os Di
Composer(s): Luis Eduardo Aute
Performer(s): Luis Eduardo Aute



Puesto que he de volver
al barro en que nací
puesto que he de existir
tan sólo de una vez
para vivir nací
no para mendigar
la vida que nunca os di

Bad Night At The Whiskey
Composer(s): Roger McGuinn - J. Richards
Performer(s): The Byrds



Pushed me off the street today
The lamp light gets in the way
On the darkness you pushed me in
You say that it´s a sin we´re hangin´ around

You told me not to sing today
You say my music gets in the way
'Cause he walks on in just as you begin
Bringin´ my soul brothers down

And although you´re smiling
your hate will not cease
So just face yourself babe
and leave my soul in peace

Well I´ll stay out of your way
if you keep out of mine
Find the good lookin´ people go
Oh you know we´ll both go down in time

La Vida Es Una Moneda
Composer(s): Fito Páez
Performer(s): Juan Carlos Baglietto



La vida en una moneda quien la rebusca la tiene
ojo que hablo de monedas y no de grueso billetes
mi vida en una hoja en blanco un piano desafinado
diez dedos largos y flacos y un manojo de palabras

Solo se trata de vivir / esa es la historia
con la sonrisa en el ojal / con la idiotez y la locura
de todos los dias / a lo mejor resulta bien
La gente sueña que sueña la calle sigue que sigue
el taxi gira que gira el cielo y la ancha avenida

Los dias cantan la historia / del hombre al borde del hombre
los dias cantan mañana / los dias no tienen miedo
Solo se trata de vivir / esa es la historia
con un amor sin un amor / con la inocencia y la ternura
que florece a veces / a lo mejor resulta bien
Si nos inunda el asfalto de sensaciones profundas
gocemos bien nuestro ahogo que es nuestra imagen fecunda

La vida en una moneda quien la rebusca la tiene
ojo que hablo de monedas y no de grueso billetes
Solo se trata de vivir / esa es la historia
con la sonrisa en el ojal / con la idiotez y la locura
de todos los dias / a lo mejor resulta bien

Solo se trata de vivir / esa es la historia
con un amor sin un amor / con la inocencia y la ternura
de todos los dias / a lo mejor resulta bien

Bad News From Home
Composer(s): Randy Newman
Performer(s): Randy Newman; Mathilde Santing



High on a cliff in Mexico
Staring down at the rocks and the sea below
I can hear the church bells ring
I can hear the choir

I remember the night she left
I drove to the station in the pouring rain
Sat all night behind my big iron desk
The oil on the water made a rainbow

At the end of this bone white gravel road
They both lie sleeping on a feather bed
And her hair is black as the sky at night
But her eyes are gray like the moon
You can run but you can't hide
You can run but you can't hide
You said you love me but I know you lied
You said you love me but I know you lied

La Vida Es Un Mix
Composer(s): Miguel Mateos
Performer(s): Miguel Mateos



Desnudos en el río
mirando los planetas
hablando y hablando
Pisando los charcos
con los Dioses en el aire
dando y dando
Yo puedo ver hacia adelante
y lo que veo me gusta tanto
que cruzaré el mar si me lo pides
en la cresta de la ola
surfeandolo

Pero no llores más
nena no llores más
trato y trato de hacerte entender
La vida es un mix
y todo está bien
siempre y cuando vos
lo quieras

Yo soy la mitad del hombre
que debía ser
pero justo la mitad que necesitas
y aún así voy a parar la lluvia
y te traeré el sol en un puño
lleno de margaritas
Yo puedo ver hacia adelante
y lo que veo es lo que siento
Y problema no es que la vida
sea corta
el problema es
que estamos muertos
demasiado tiempo

Pero no llores más
nena no llores más
trato y trato de hacerte entender
La vida es un mix
y todo está bien
siempre y cuando vos
lo quieras

trato y trato de hacerte entender
La vida es un mix
y todo está bien
siempre y cuando

La vida es un mix
todo está bien
La vida es un mix
todo está bien
nena no llores más
La vida es un mix

Bad News
Composer(s): John D. Loudermilk
First release by: John D. Loudermilk - 1963
Covered by multiple other artists



Well, bad news travels like wildfire
Good news travels slow
They all call me "wildfire" 
'Cause ev'rybody knows
I'm bad news, ev'rywhere I go
Always gettin' in trouble
And a-leavin' little girls
That hate to see me go

They tried to hang me in Oakland
And they did in Francisco
But I wouldn't choke, I broke the rope
And they had to let me go
'Cause I'm bad news, ev'rywhere I go
Always gettin' in trouble
And leavin' little girls
That hate to see me go

Now, from North to South, to East to West
The story is the same
From one state to another
I have to change my name 
'Cause I'm bad news, ev'rywhere I go
Always gettin' in trouble
And a-leavin' little girls 
That sure hate to see me go
Well, now I picked peaches in Georgia
I lumberjacked in Maine
I've been hired, and fired, and jailed
Any town you can name
'Cause I'm bad news, ev'rywhere I go
Always gettin' into trouble
And a-leavin' little girls
That hate to see me go

La Vida Es Un Carnaval
Composer(s): Victor Daniel
Performer(s): Celia Cruz



Todo aquel que piense que la vida es desigual
tiene que saber que no es así
que la vida es una hermosura, hay que vivirla
Todo aquel que piense que está solo y que está mal
tiene que saber que no es así
que en la vida no hay nadie solo, siempre hay alguien

Ay, no ha que llorar, que la vida es un carnaval
es más bello vivir cantando
Oh, oh, oh, Ay, no hay que llorar
que la vida es un carnaval
y las penas se van cantando

Todo aquel que piense que la vida siempre es cruel
tiene que saber que no es así
que tan solo hay momentos malos, y todo pasa
Todo aquel que piense que esto nunca va a cambiar
tiene que saber que no es así
que al mal tiempo buena cara, y todo pasa

Ay, no ha que llorar, que la vida es un carnaval
es más bello vivir cantando
Oh, oh, oh, Ay, no hay que llorar
que la vida es un carnaval
y las penas se van cantando
Para aquellos que se quejan tanto
Para aquellos que solo critican
Para aquellos que usan las armas
Para aquellos que nos contaminan
Para aquellos que hacen la guerra
Para aquellos que viven pecando
Para aquellos nos maltratan
Para aquellos que nos contagian
La Vida es un Carnaval

Bad Moon Rising
Composer(s): John Fogerty
First release by: Creedence Clearwater Revival - 1969
Covered by multiple other artists
Versions In Other Languages:
1969 - La Luna È Stanca (by Stormy Six)
1977 - Tegn I Sol Og Måne (by Rock Nalle & The Flames)
1983 - Paha Kuu Nousee (by Kari Peitsamo Revival)



I see the bad moon arising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

I hear hurricanes ablowing
I know the end is coming soon
I fear rivers over flowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruin

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
All right!

Hope you got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

La Vida
Composer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
Performer(s): Silvio Rodríguez



La vida de un pájaro en vuelo
la vida de un amanecer
la vida de un crío
de un bosque y de un río
la vida me ha hecho saber

La vida del sordo y del ciego
la vida que no sabe hablar
la del triste loco
la que sabe a poco
la vida me ha hecho soñar

La vida voraz que se enreda
la vida que sale a jugar
la vida consciente que queda
la vida que late en el mar

La vida que brota de un muerto
la vida que no se murió
la de los desiertos
la de un libro abierto
la vida me ha hecho cual yo

La vida que alumbra en el trueno
la vida final de un adiós
la vida goteando de un seno
la vida secreta de un dios

La vida que pende de todo
la vida de cada emoción
la vida en exceso
la vida de un beso
la vida me ha hecho canción

Bad Man's Blunder
Composer(s): Lee Hays - Cisco Houston
Performer(s): The Kingston Trio; White Mountain Singers



Well early one evenin' I was rolling around
I was feelin' kinda mean I shot a deputy down
Strolled along home and I went to bed
Well I laid my pistol up under my head

(He strolled along home) I took my time
(And he went to bed) Thought I'd sleep some
(Laid his pistrol) Big 22"
(Up under his head) I keep it handy

Well early in the mornin' bout the break of day
I figured it was time to make a getaway
Steppin' right along but I was steppin' too slow
Got surrounded by a sheriff down in Mexico

(Well he was steppin' right along) I were a hot-footin' it
(But he was steppin' too slow) It was a sultry day
(Got surrounded by a sheriff) Boxed in
(In Mexico) I didn't even have a chance to see the country

When I was arrested well I didn't have a dime
The sheriff said, 'Son you're riding free this time
'Where you're going you won't need a cent
'Cause the great state of Texas gonna pay your rent'

('Cause where you're going) I think he means jail
(You won't need a cent) Well he knows I'm broke
('Cause the great state of Texas) Yippee!
(Gonna pay your rent) I'm mighty grateful fellas

Well I didn't have a key and I didn't have a file
Naturally I stayed around until my trial
Judge was an old man, Ninety-three
And I didn't like the way the jury looked at me

(Well the judge was an old man) Too old
(Ninety-three) Entirely too old
I didn't like the way..the jury looked at me
I think they were suspicious

(The judge and jury they did agree)
(They all said murder in the first degree)
(The judge said same)
'Well I dunno whether to hang you or not
but this here killin' of deputy sheriffs has just naturally got to stop'
[You gotta point there judge]

It was a most unsatisfactory trial
They gave me ninety-nine years on the hard rock pile
Ninety and nine on the hard rock ground
And all I ever did was shoot a deputy down

(Ninety and nine) It could have been life
(On the hard rock pile) They might-a hung me
(And all he ever did...was shoot a deputy down...)
This whole thing has sure been a lesson to me
[Bang! You're dead!]

La Veuve De Joe Stan Murray
Composer(s): Maurice Vallet - Julien Clerc
Performer(s): Julien Clerc



Comme un Bernard l'hermite
Qui se souvient d'anciens palais
Mon cœur coquille vide
Résonne encore d'anciens regrets

Un saxophone bizarre
Pris dans de gluants lichens mous
Raconte sur la plage
L'histoire vieille du G.I. fou

J'écoute monotone
Le bruit de l'acier et du fer
Les vagues d'assaut résonnent
Entre le village et la mer

Le casino en ruines
Frappe de stupeur l'environ
Des canons dans les ruines
Fument l'opium des moissons, des moissons

Ma patience prolifère
De la Province à l'horizon
Reviens dans ton repaire
Mon vieux mollusque ma déraison

Comme une fleur petite
Qui jamais ne se fanerait
Ta petite veuve annamite
T'attend encore Joe Stan Murray

J'écoute monotone
Le bruit de l'acier et du fer
Les vagues d'assaut résonnent
Entre le village et la mer

Le casino en ruines
Frappe de stupeur l'environ
Des canons dans les ruines
Fument l'opium des moissons, des moissons

Deux croupiers agonisent
Frappés à mort par deux harpons
Des mouettes vocalisent
Le programme de l'Opéra de Saïgon

Bad Luck And Trouble
Composer(s): Johnny Winter
Performer(s): Johnny Winter; Mark Wenner; Terry Garland



I believe that bad luck and trouble
Man is all that joins us
I mean that bad luck and trouble
People that's all that joins us
When my bad luck quit me
Lord, my trouble just began
I'm travelin' the highway
Since I was a child
Nobody see no woman man
Nobody seems to care
Bad luck and trouble
Man, is all that joins us
When my bad luck quit me
Man, my trouble just began
Lord, I'm sittin' down and thinkin'
Man, I'm a long, long way from home
Just sittin' down and thinkin'
Man, I'm a long, long way from home
Think about all my good times
Lord, and my friends all want to know
They never hurt nobody
They never done nobody wrong
Other people won't accept me they say
Man, leave me alone
Sittin' down and thinkin'
Lord, I'm a long, long way from home
Thinkin' about my good times
Man, and my friends all want to know
Man, ain't nobody has this trouble
I gonna tell nobody else
Nobody else has this trouble
Man, ain't gonna tell nobody else
My whole life I'm livin' baby
Gonna make it by myself