Like I've Never Been Gone
Composer(s): Paul Hampton - Camille Monte
Performer(s): Billy Fury



Don’t give your love to someone
While I’m away
I want you to think about me
Each night and day

And when I come on home
After being gone so long
I want it to be
Like I’ve never been gone

I’ll feel your tender kisses
Before I go to sleep
I’ll feel your arms around me
Just promise me
You’ll keep all your love
And your kisses
Until I come home
And then it will be
Like I’ve never been gone

I don’t ask much of you
Do what you want to do
But don’t make me be a fool for loving you

I’ll feel your tender kisses
Before I go to sleep
I’ll feel your arms around me
Just promise me
You’ll keep all your love
And your kisses
Until I come home
And then it will be
Like I’ve never been gone
Can't you hear me
Live I’ve never been gone

By The Beautiful Sea
Composer(s): Harold Atteridge; Harry Carroll
Performer(s): Spike Jones
and various other artists



Joe and Jane were always together 
Said Joe to Jane
"I love summer weather
So let's go to that beautiful sea
Follow along
Say you're with me!" 

Anything that Joe would suggest to her 
Jane would always think it was best for her

So he'd get his Ford
Holler
"All Aboard! 
Gosh, I want to be" 

By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea! 
You and me, you and me, oh how happy we'll be! 
When each wave comes a-rolling in 
We will duck or swim
And we'll float and fool around the water
Over and under, and then up for air
Pa is rich, Ma is rich, so now what do we care? 
I love to be beside your side, beside the sea
Beside the seaside, by the beautiful sea!

Like I Love You Today
Composer(s): Chad Stuart - Russell Alquist
Performer(s): Chad & Jeremy; John Barry



You've heard a lot of stories about me
But don't believe the things that people say
I'll be always true, I'll be loving you
Like I love you today

I've got a reputation all my own
But don't believe I'll ever go away
Listen to me do, I'll be loving you
Like I love you today

I've got kisses by the million
And I've got some more
I've got kisses by the million
Who, who do you think they're for

After all is said and all is done
I'll be yours for ever and a day
You know that it's for sure, I'll love you more and more
Like I love you today

By Strauss
Composer(s): George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin
Performer(s): Ella Fitzgerald
and various other artists



Away with the music of Broadway
Be off with your Irving Berlin
Oh I give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter
And Gershwin keeps pounding on tin

How can I be civil when hearing this drivel
It's only for nightclubbin' souses
Oh give me the free 'n' easy waltz that is Vienneasy and
Go tell the band If they want a hand
The waltz must be Strauss's

Ya, ya ya, give me oom-pa-pah
When I want a melody
Lilting through the house
Then I want a melody
By Strauss
It laughs, it sings, the world is in rhyme
Swinging to three-quarter time

Let the Danube flow along
And the Fledermauss
Keep the wine and give me song
By Strauss

By Jove, by Jing, by Strauss is the thing
So I say to ha-cha-cha, heraus!
Just give me your oom-pa-pah, by Strauss!

Let the Danube flow along
And the Fledermauss
Keep the wine and give me song
By Strauss

By Jove, by Jing, by Strauss is the thing
So I say to ha-cha-cha, heraus!
Just give me your oom-pa-pah
by Strauss!

Like Dreamers Do
Composer(s): John Lennon - Paul McCartney
Performer(s): The Beatles
and multiple other artists



I, I saw a girl in my dreams 
and so it seems 
that I will love her
Oh you, you are that girl 
in my dreams 
and so it seems 
that I will love you

And I waited for your kiss
waited for the bliss 
like dreamers do 
And I, I, I, I 
oh I'll be there, yeah 
waiting for you, you, you, you, you 

You, you came just one dream ago 
and now I know that I will love you 
I knew when you first said hello 
that's how I know 
that I will love you 
And I, I, I waited for your kiss
waited for the bliss 
like dreamers do. And I, I, I, I 
oh I'll be there, yeah
waiting for you, you, you, you, you 

You, you came just one dream ago 
and now I know that I will love you
Oh I knew when you first said hello 
that's how I know 
that I will love you

And I waited for your kiss 
waited for the bliss 
like dreamers do
oh like dreamers do 
like dreamers do

By Myself
Composer(s): Arthur Schwartz; Howard Dietz
Originally performed by: Jack Buchanan
Covered by various other artists



The party's over, the game is ended
the dreams I dreamed went up in smoke
They didn't pan out as I had intended 
I should know how to take a joke

I'll go my way by myself, this is the end of romance
I'll go my way by myself, love is only a dance
I'll try to apply myself and teach my heart to sing
I'll go my way by myself like a bird on the wing
I'll face the unknown, I'll build a world of my own
No one knows better than I, myself, I'm by myself alone
I'll go my way by myself, here's how the comedy ends
I'll have to deny myself love and laughter and friends
Grey clouds in sky above have put a blot on my fun
I'll try to fly high above for a place in the sun
I'll face the unknown, I'll build a world of my own
No one knows better than I, myself, I'm by myself alone

Like China
Composer(s): Phil Collins
Performer(s): Phil Collins



My mom and daddy both say
I must be crazy to be this infatuated
But I know you know
We got something special never felt before
You get me going just looking at you
And the feeling's not hard to recognise so
Alright I'll come out in the open with it
Will you walk out with me.
'Cause you're the first girl I've ever loved
Tell me do you feel the same way
Well I'll show you I'm not like all the rest
Cause I know who I am
Your skin is smooth as silk and your eyes like stars
You're just like a picture book standing there
But I can't go on
No, I can't go on thinking you don't feel the same way that I do
I'll be so careful I'll hold you like china
I'll promise not to hurt you I'll hold you like china
You won't feel nothing, I'll hold you like china
'Cause I know it's your first time
Your mum and dad don't like me
And they tell me every time I call around to see you
I don't know why
Cause I always straighten my tie and comb my hair
I know your brother thinks that
I'm a limp wrested wimp from the other side of town
I know he's got me wrong
Because I'm really not like that, I'll tell you why
You're the first girl I've ever loved
Tell me do you feel the same way
Well I'll show you I'm not like all the rest
'Cause I know who I am
I remember the very first time I held your hand
And that was the last time you were so close to me
But I can't go on
No, I can't go on thinking you don't feel the same way as I do
I'll be so careful I'll hold you like china
I'll promise not to hurt you I'll hold you like china
You won't feel nothing, I'll hold you like china
'Cause I know it's your first time
I know you know and now I want to, I want to tell everybody
I know you know and now I want them all to see ...

By Love Possessed
Composer(s): Phil Lampkin; J. Joseph Leahy; Carl Sigman
Performer(s): Della Reese



By love possessed, by love possessed, by love possessed am I
From the moment that we caressed, by love possessed was I
From the moment we kissed all my plans to resist were replaced by a sigh
Your lips were warm on mine and tender was your touch
I tried so not to care but suddenly I care too much
All my fears seem to come to rest, by love possessed was I
When your arms held me tight could I question the night, could I ask myself why
I only know I needed you so
And whether the end be high or low
In the valley or somewhere atop the crest 
By love possessed, by love possessed, by love possessed am I

Like Animals 
From the musical "Doctor Dolittle"
Composer(s): Leslie Bricusse - Samantha Eggar
Performer(s): Rex Harrison


I do not understand the human race

It has so little love for creatures with a different face
Treating animals like people is no madness or disgrace
I do not understand the human race

I wonder 
Why do we treat animals like animals?
Animals treat us so very well
The devoted ways they serve us
And protect us when we’re nervous
Oh, they really don’t deserve us
All we give them is hell!

Tell me how else man repays them 
Do we ever think to praise them?
No we don’t, and this dismays them You can tell

We’re riddled with ingratitude
We give no love or latitude
In every way our attitude
Is, well, like animals

No, no — that’s not what I mean

I mean 
Why do we treat animals like animals?
How can people be so inhumane?
Cows and chickens work to feed us
Dogs and horses show they need us
And though cats don’t always heed us
Their affection is plain

What do we do? We neglect them
We do nothing to protect them
We reject them, don’t expect them
To complain
We ignore them or we beat them
When we’re hungry then we eat them
It’s appalling how we treat them
It’s insane!
Like animals!

We humiliate and murder and confine them
We create their wretched status
Then we use it to malign them

I mean
Why should we say, “treated like a dog”
Why should we say, “working like a horse”
Why should we say, “eating like a hog”
When what we mean is “eating like a man”?
Don’t we? Of course!

A man of ill repute is called a “weasel” or a “rat”
A woman you dislike becomes a “vixen” or a “cat”
A family that is blessed
With healthy reproductive habits
Occasions the remark,
"Well you know them, they “breed like rabbits”!

“He’s as stubborn as a mule!”
“He’s as stupid as an ox!”
“He’s as slimy as a snake!”
“He’s as crafty as a fox!”

Remarks like that really get my goat!

Why don’t we say, “noble as a frog”?
Or, why can’t we say, “wealthy as a hen”?
True, we say, “devoted as a dog”
But what we should say is
“Chic as a giraffe,”
“Pretty as a pig,” eh? 
That’ll be the big day
Won’t it? But when?
But when?
But when?

When will we stop treating them like animals?
Is the human race entirely mad?
Women see a baby goatskin
Or a lambskin or a stoatskin
And to them it’s just a coatskin 
Oh, it’s terribly sad!

When you dress in suede or leather
Or some fancy fur or feather
Do you stop and wonder whether
For a fad
You have killed some beast or other
And you’re wearing someone’s brother
Or perhaps it’s someone’s mother
In which you’re clad?

Like animals! Like animals!
Like animals

Well, it’s true, we do not live in a zoo
But man is an animal too
So why can’t you
Like me
Like animals?
... animals

By Candlelight 
Performer(s): Kay Armen



When there’s pink champagne by candlelight
We will bring champagne by candlelight
While the bubbles rise, a violin will improvise
And we’ll drink a toast by candlelight

Then we’ll talk, but not for very long
Then we’ll dance, but not for very long
For when I hold you, not a word will wake the night
And you’ll understand, by candlelight

While the bubbles rise, a violin will improvise
And we’ll drink a toast by candlelight

Then we’ll talk, but not for very long
Then we’ll dance, but not for very long
For when I hold you, not a word will wake the night
And you’ll understand, by candlelight

Like An Old Time Movie
Composer(s): John Phillips
Performer(s): Scott McKenzie



Every time I see you 
It's just because you're blue 
You don't really need me
The way that I need you 
Don't come on so groovy 
You do better mean
You're like an old time movie
One that I already seen

Baby, yes I need your love
But I'm not gonna get this low
Don't you think that I can tell
When you've no place else to go 
Could it be you misunderstood
When you tried to read my mind
Cause this time you will find
I'm gonna let you go
Every time I see you

You're like an old time movie
Baby, yes I need your love
But I'm not gonna get this low
Don't you think that I can tell
When you've got no place else to go 
Could it be you understood
When you tried to read my mind
Cause this time you will find
I'm gonna let you go
Every time I see you

By A Waterfall
Composer(s): Irving Kahal; Sammy Fain
Performer(s): Dick Powell
and various other artists



I appreciate the simple things
'Cause I'm awf'lly fond of getting
Love in a natural setting
This is what I call the simple things
Just a winding stream
Where I can drift and dream
And now I'm waiting for you

By a waterfall, I'm calling you-oo-oo-oo
We can share it all beneath a ceiling of blue
We'll spend a heavenly day
Here where the whispering waters play
There's a whippoorwill that's calling you-oo-oo-oo
By a waterfall, he's dreaming too
There's a magic melody
Mother Nature sings to me
Beside a waterfall with you

Like Always
Composer(s): Larry Ramos - Bob Alcivar - Tony Ortega
Performer(s): The Association



Stepping off a stone, while I'm walking alone
Walking all alone, like always
Got me a new car, it doesn't get me too far
I'm all out of gas, like always

Got to pay the rent, but all my money's spent
All my money's spent, like always
I wonder where my pay went
Missed another payment
I'm all out of bread, like always

Girl, let the world have my money
I don't care
Girl, make my troubles seem funny and small
In no time at all

Things have got to move, I've been to long in this groove
Hung up in this groove, like always
Things are getting better, ever since I met her
Oh, oh, there she goes, like always
Like always, like always

Bwana Dort
Composer(s): Claude Lemesle; Michel Fugain
Performer(s): Michel Fugain



Mon frère éléphant s'endort tranquille
Le grand prédateur blanc n'est pas là
Ouwéyé Bwana
L'animal cruel est dans la ville
La savane est calme au vent qui va
Iléyé Laba

Le chant de la nuit s'élève à peine
Wowo Bwana
La saison des pluies n'est plus lointaine
Ne Reviens Pas

Venez frères et dansez
Bwana dort
Bwana dort

Ma sœur antilope court son rêve
Le grand prédateur blanc n'est pas là
Ouwéyé Bwana
Dans la plaine quand le jour se lève
va couler un fleuve d'impalas
Iléyé Laba

Le rhinocéros, blanc de poussière
Wowo Bwana
sait que le ciel porte des rivières
Ne Reviens Pas

Venez frères et dansez
Bwana dort
Bwana dort
Mon frère éléphant s'endort tranquille
Le grand prédateur blanc n'est pas là
Ouwéyé Bwana
L'animal cruel est dans la ville
La savane est calme au vent qui va
Iléyé Laba

Les 4X4 ont filé comme des hyènes
Wowo Bwana
Laissant des carcasses par centaines
Ne Reviens Pas

Venez frères et dansez
Bwana dort
Bwana dort

Like A Virgin ((aka Like A Surgeon (by "Weird Al" Yankovic) - 1985))
Composer(s): Billy Steinberg - Tom Kelly
First release by: Madonna - 1984
Covered by multiple other artists



I made it through the wilderness
Somehow I made it through
Didn't know how lost I was
Until I found you

I was beat incomplete
I'd been had, I was sad and blue
But you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
Shiny and new

Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats 
Next to mine

Gonna give you all my love, boy
My fear is fading fast
Been saving it all for you
'Cause only love can last

You're so fine and you're mine
Make me strong, yeah you make me bold
Oh your love thawed out
Yeah, your love thawed out
What was scared and cold

Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats 
Next to mine

Oooh, oooh, oooh

You're so fine and you're mine
I'll be yours 'till the end of time
'Cause you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
I've nothing to hide

Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats
Next to mine

Like a virgin, ooh, ooh
Like a virgin
Feels so good inside
When you hold me, and your heart beats, and you love me

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ooh, baby
Can't you hear my heart beat
For the very first time?

Buzzin' Fly
Composer(s): Tim Buckley
Originally performed by: Tim Buckley
Covered by: Dredd Foole; Keith Sykes; Kathryn Williams



Just like a buzzin' fly
I come into your life
Now I float away
Like honey in the sun
Was it right or wrong
I couldn't sing that song anyway 

Oh, but darlin'
Now I remember
How the sun shown down
And how it warmed your prayin' smile
When all the love was there 

You're the one I talk about
You're the one I think about
Everywhere I go
And sometimes honey
In the mornin'
Lord, I miss you so 

That's how I know I found a home
That's how I know I found a home 

Oh, hear the mountains singing
Lord, I can hear them ringing, darlin'
Out your name
And tell me if you know
Just how the river flows
Down to the sea 

Now I wanna know
Everything about you
I wanna know
Everything about you 

What makes ya smile
What makes ya wild
What makes ya love me this way
Darlin' I wanna know
Darlin' I wanna know 

You're the one I talk about
You're the one I think about
Everywhere I go
And sometimes honey
In the mornin'
Lord, I miss you so 

That's how I know I found a home
That's how I know I found a home 

A-walkin' hand in hand
And all along the sand
A seabird knew your name
He knew your love was growin'
Lord, I think it knows it's flowin'
Thru you and me

Ah, tell me darlin'
When I should leave you,
Ah, tell me darlin'
I don't want to grieve you.... 

Just like a buzzin' fly
I come into your life
Now I float away
Like honey in the sun
Was it right or wrong
I couldn't sing that song anyway 

Oh, but darlin'
Now I remember
How the sun shown down
And how it warmed your prayin' smile
When all the love was there 

You're the one I talk about
You're the one I think about
Everywhere I go
And sometimes honey
In the mornin'
Lord, I miss you so....

Like A Sunday Morning
Composer(s): Joel Diamond - Allan Kenneth
Performer(s): Maureen McGovern



You're just like a Sunday morning
Quiet and warm and moving slow
Put your hand in my hand
Let me dream while I can
Oh, how I love you so

Life is made of milk and honey
I always thought that line was a lie
But it turns out it's true
'Cause the sweetness of you is so real
That it makes me want to cry

Oh, you're a holiday weekend
The key that unlocks the door
You're my friend and my lover
The dream I've been looking for
And you're much more, you're so much more

You're just like a Sunday morning
Feeling so comfortable and right
Be the wind, be the sea
Be whatever you please, but
Just be here on Sunday night

Buzz Buzz Buzz
Composer(s): Robert Byrd; John Gray
Originally performed by: The Hollywood Flames
Covered by various other artists



Well buzz, buzz, buzz goes the bumble bee
Tweedley, deedley dee goes the bird
But the sound of your little voice darling
Is the sweetest sound I've ever heard

I've seen the beauty of the red, red rose
Seen the beauty when the skies are blue
Seen the beauty of the evening sunset
But the beauty of you-ooo

Sweet is the honey from the honey comb
Sweet are the grapes from the vine
But there's nothing as sweet as you darling
And I hope someday you'll be mine

Well buzz, buzz, buzz goes the bumble bee
Tweedley, deedley dee goes the bird
But the sound of your little voice darling
Is the sweetest sound I've ever heard

I've seen the beauty of the red, red rose
Seen the beauty when the skies are blue
Seen the beauty of the evening sunset
But the beauty of you-ooo

Sweet is the honey from the honey comb
Sweet are the grapes from the vine
But there's nothing as sweet as you darling
And I hope that some day you'll be mine
Hope someday you'll be mine

Hope someday you'll be mine
Hope someday you'll be mine
Hope someday you'll be mine

Like A Sad Song
Composer(s): John Denver
Performer(s): John Denver
and multiple other artists



Usually in the morning I'm filled with sweet belonging
And everything is beautiful to see
Even when it's raining, the sound of heaven singing
Is simply joyful music to me

Sometimes I feel like a sad song
Like I'm all alone without you

So many different places, a million smiling faces
Life is so incredible to me 
Especially to be near you and how it is to touch you
Oh paradise was made for you and me

I know that life goes on just perfectly
And everything is just the way that it should be
Still there are times when my heart feels like breaking
And anywhere is where I'd rather be

Oh and in the night time I know that it's the right time
To hold you close and say I love you so
To have someone to share with 
And someone I can care with
And that is why I wanted you to know

Sometimes I feel like a sad song
Like I'm all alone without you, without you

Buy Me A Rose
Composer(s): Jim Funk; Erik Hickenlooper
Performer(s): Kenny Rogers
and various other artists



He works hard to give her all he thinks she wants
A three car garage, her own credit cards
He pulls in late to wake her up with a kiss good night
If he could only read her mind, she'd say

Buy me a rose, call me from work
Open a door for me, what would it hurt
Show me you love me by the look in your eyes
These are the little things I need the most in my life

Now the days have grown to years of feeling all alone
And she can't help but wonder what she's doing wrong
'Cause lately she'd try anything to turn his head
Would it make a difference if she said

Buy me a rose, call me from work
Open a door for me, what would it hurt
Show me you love me by the look in your eyes
These are the little things I need the most in my life

And the more that he lives the less that he tries
To show her the love that he hold inside
And the more that she gives the more that he sees
This is a story of you and me

So I bought you a rose on the way home from work
Opened the door to a heart that I hurt
And I hope you notice this look in my eyes
Cause I'm gonna make things right
I'm gonna hold you tonight
Do all those little things
For the rest of your life