Retro-Songteksten: Evergreens, Classics, Old-Time Favourites, Hits Uit Onze Jeugd
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Isn't Life Strange Composer(s): John Lodge Performer(s): The Moody Blues and multiple other artists
Isn't life strange A turn of the page Can read like before Can we ask for more? Each day passes by How hard will man try? The sea will not wait
You know it makes me want to cry, cry, cry Wish I could be in your heart To be one with your love Wish I could be in your eyes Looking back there you were, and here we are
Isn't life strange A word we arrange With no thought or care Maker of despair Each breath that we breathe With love me must weave To make us as one
Isn't life strange A turn of a page A book without light Unless with love we write To throw it away To lose just a day The quicksand of time
Nights On Broadway Composer(s): Barry Gibb; Maurice Gibb; Robin Gibb Performer(s): The Bee Gees; and various other artists
Here we are in the room full of strangers Standing in the dark where your eyes couldn't see me
Well, I have to follow you Though you didn't want me to But that won't stop my lovin' you I can't stay away
Blaming it all on the nights on Broadway Singin' them love songs Singin' them straight to the heart songs Blamin' it all on the nights on Broadway Singin' them sweet sounds To that crazy, crazy town
Now in my place There are so many others Standin' in the line How long will they stand between us?
Well, I have to follow you Though you didn't want me to But that won't stop my lovin' you I can't stay away
Blaming it all on the nights on Broadway Singin' them love songs Singin' them straight to the heart songs Blamin' it all on the nights on Broadway Singin' them sweet sounds To that crazy, crazy town
I will wait even if it takes forever I will wait even if it takes a life time Somehow I feel inside You never ever left my side Make it like it was before Even if it takes a life time, takes a life time
Blaming it all on the nights on Broadway Singin' them love songs Singin' them straight to the heart songs Blamin' it all on the nights on Broadway Singin' them sweet sounds To that crazy, crazy town
Isn't It Wonderful, Isn't It Swell Composer(s): Lew Pollack; Sidney D. Mitchell Performer(s): Will Osborne & His Orch.
Isn't it wonderful, isn't it swell The spell of love, has so many charms Isn't it wonderful, isn't it swell You fell from heaven into my arms
I've been a blind one, I never knew I'd ever find one, as lovely as you Isn't it wonderful, can it be true That you can see, something in me Isn't it swell how wonderful love can be
Nights In White Satin Italian Titles: Un Po D'Amore; Ho Difeso Il Mio Amore Composer(s): Justin Hayward Performer(s): The Moody Blues
Nights in white satin never reaching the end Letters I've written never meaning to send Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before Just what the truth is I can't say any more 'Cause I love you Yes I love you Oh how I love you
Gazing at people some hand in hand Just what I'm going through they can't understand Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be you'll be in the end And I love you Yes I love you Oh how I love you, oh
Isn't It Romantic? Composer(s): Lorenz Hart; Richard Rodgers First performance by: Maurice Chevalier, Rolfe Sedan, Bert Roach, Jeanette MacDonald - 1932 Covered by multiple other artists
I've never met you, yet never doubt, dear I can't forget you, I've thought you out, dear I know your profile and I know the way you kiss just the things I miss on a night like this If dreams are made of imagination I'm not afraid of my own creation With all my heart, my heart is here for you to take Why should I quake? I'm not awake
Isn't it romantic? Music in the night, a dream that can be heard Isn't it romantic?
Moving shadows write the oldest magic word I hear the breezes playing in the trees above while all the world is saying you were meant for love Isn't it romantic merely to be young on such a night as this? Isn't it romantic? Every note that's sung is like a lover's kiss Sweet symbols in the moonlight do you mean that I will fall in love per chance? Isn't it romance?
My face is glowing, I'm energetic The art of sewing I found poetic My needle punctuates the rhythm of romance I don't give a stitch if I don't get rich A custom tailor who has no custom is like a sailor, no one will trust 'em But there is magic in the music of my shears I shed no tears, lend me your ears
Isn't it romantic? Soon I will have found some girl that I adore Isn't it romantic? While I sit around my love can scrub the floor She'll kiss me every hour or she'll get the sack and when I take a shower she can scrub my back Isn't it romantic? On a moonlight night she'll cook me onion soup Kiddies are romantic and if we don't fight we soon will have a troupe We'll help the population it's a duty that we owe to dear old France Isn't it romance?
Nights Are Forever Without You Composer(s): Parker McGee Performer(s): Dan Seals; and various other artists
Lyin' in bed with the radio on Moonlight falls like rain Soft summer nights spent thinkin' of you When will I see you again
Chorus: Soft and low the music moans I can't stop thinking about you Thinkin' 'bout you I didn't know it would be so strong Waiting and wondering about you I didn't know it would last so long Nights are forever without you
The curtains still dance with the wind and the sky The sun'll be coming up soon But I just can't sleep for thinkin' of you Here alone with the moon
Isn't It A Pity? (Spanish Version: No Es Una Pena? - 2008) Composer(s): George Harrison First release by: George Harrison - 1970 Covered by multiple other artists
Isn't it a pity, isn't it a shame How we break each other's hearts, and cause each other pain How we take each other's love, without thinking anymore Forgetting to give back Isn't it a pity
Somethings take so long, but how do I explain? When not too many people can see we're all the same And because of all their tears, their eyes can't hope to see The beauty that surrounds them-oh Isn't it a pity
Nightingale Composer(s): Richard Coburn; Vincent Rose Performer(s): Frederick S. Manning
Somewhere the nightingale is singing from above he promised that he's be my messenger of love and I am yearning for his returning It seems that's all I'm thinking of
The nightingale knows why I'm feeling sad and blue somehow I know that he is feeling lonesome too that's why he's heeding my tender pleading and sings to her the whole night thru
Nightingale when you are singing tenderly oh tell her nightingale That it's a lover's melody just so whenever you are singing she'll know the message you are bringing nightingale bring back my love to me
Nighthawkin' Composer(s): Tim Buckley Performer(s): Tim Buckley
I was a nighthawkin' in my taxi My fare was a shaky ol' lush So I kicked it over and took off Then he whipped out this switch blade Straight outta nowhere level to my throat He said "See reb I've been over to the war boy" I said "I was a combat paratrooper daddy" Well now he slupped back cool and he pocket that steel He said "Get me down to fourth and main"
Isn't It A Pity? (George Givot & Josephine Huston)
Isn't It A Pity? Composer(s): George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin First performance by: George Givot & Josephine Huston - 1933 Covered by multiple other artists
Why did I wander here and there and yonder Wasting precious time for no reason or rhyme? Isn't it a pity? Isn't it a crime? My journey's ended, everything is splendid Meeting you today Has given me a wonderful idea - here I stay
It's a funny thing I look at you, I get a thrill I never knew Isn't it a pity we never met before?
Here we are at last It's like a dream, the two of us a perfect team Isn't it a pity we never met before?
Imagine all the lonely years we've wasted You with the neighbors, I at silly labors What joys untasted You reading Heine, me somewhere in China
Let's forget the past Let's both agree that I'm for you and you're for me And it's such a pity we never, never met before
Imagine all the lonely year's we've wasted Fishing for salmon, losing at backgammon What joys untasted My nights were sour spent with Schopenhauer
Let's forget the past Let's both agree that I'm for you and you're for me And it's such a pity we never, never met before
Nightflight To Venus Composer(s): Frank Farian; Fred Jay; Dietmar Kawohl Performer(s): Boney M.
Ladies and Gentlemen
welcome aboard the starship Boney M for our first passenger flight to Venus
Ready for count-down: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - ignition - lift off
Nightflight to Venus Way out there in space Nightflight to Venus Our new fav'rite place
Nightflight to Venus All systems are go Nightflight to Venus The sky is aglow
Ladies and Gentlemen, we've had a successful take-off on this first Nightflight to Venus Our flying time will be 8 hours We'll be travelling at a speed of 2183 miles per second
Nightflight to Venus Nightflight to Venus
Captain - unidentified object at 8 o'clock - 2 million miles away Stand by for emergency manoeuvre Object coming closer at the speed of light We have 8 more seconds Change course by 4 point 6 degrees Order admitted
Ladies and Gentlemen, in a few minutes we are going to be landing on Venus, push the button on your left side the safety mechanism will do the rest for you We hope you enjoyed the world's first Nightflight to Venus have a good time there
Isle Of Islay Composer(s): Donovan Leitch Performer(s): Donovan; Jerry Peel; Winter Flowers
How high the gulls fly o'er Islay How sad the farm lad deep in play Felt like a grain on your sand
How well the sheep's bell music makes Rovin' the cliff when fancy takes Felt like the tide left me here How blest the forest with birds' song How neat the cut peat laid so long Felt like a seed on your land
How high the gulls fly o'er Islay How sad the farm lad deep in play Felt like the tide left me here Felt like a grain on your sand Felt like a grain on your sand
Nightclubbing Composer(s): David Bowie; Iggy Pop Performer(s): Iggy Pop; and various other artists
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing We're what's happening Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing We're an ice machine We see people brand new people They're something to see Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing Oh isn't it wild?
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing We're walking through town Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing We walk like a ghost We learn dances brand new dances Like the nuclear bomb When we're nightclubbing Bright white clubbing Oh isn't it wild...
Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears Composer(s): Brendan Graham Performer(s): Seán Keane and multiple other artists
On the first day on January Eighteen ninety-two They opened Ellis Island and they let The people through And the first to cross the treshold Of that isle of hope and tears Was Annie Moore from Ireland Who was all of fifteen years
Isle of hope, isle of tears Isle of freedom, isle of fears But it's not the isle you left behind That isle of hunger, isle of pain Isle you'll never see again But the isle of home is always on your mind
In a little bag she carried All her past and history And her dreams for the future In the land of liberty And courage is the passport When your old world disappears But there's no future in the past When you're fifteen years
Isle of hope, isle of tears Isle of freedom, isle of fears But it's not the isle you left behind That isle of hunger, isle of pain Isle you'll never see again But the isle of home is always on your mind
When they closed down Ellis Island In nineteen fourty-three Seventeen million people Had come there for sanctuary And in Springtime when I came here And I stepped onto it's piers I thought of how it must have been When you're fifteen years
Isle of hope, isle of tears Isle of freedom, isle of fears But it's not the isle you left behind That isle of hunger, isle of pain Isle you'll never see again But the isle of home is always on your mind
Nightbird Composer(s): Stevie Nicks; Sandy Stewart Performer(s): Stevie Nicks
And the summer became the fall I was not ready for the winter It makes no difference at all Cause I wear boots all summer long
My makeup dark and it's careless Same circles around my eyes Sometimes the real color of my skin Is my eyes without any shadow
And when I call Will you walk gently Through my shadow The ones who sing at night The ones who sing at night The ones you dream of
The ones who walk away With their capes pulled around them tight Cryin for the night Cry for the nightbird tonight
The winter's really here now And the blankets that I love Sometimes I am surrounded By too much love
And when I call Will you walk gently Through my shadow The ones who sing at night The ones who sing at night The ones you dream of The ones who walk away With their capes pulled around them tight Cryin for the night Cry for the nightbird tonight
Isle Of Capri Composer(s): Will Grosz; Jimmy Kennedy Performer(s): Frank Sinatra and multiple other artists
`t Was on the Isle of Capri that I found her Beneath the shade of an old walnut tree Oh, I can still see the flowers blooming round her Where we met on the Isle of Capri
She was as sweet as a rose at the dawning But somehow fate hadn't meant her for me And though I sailed with the tide in the morning Still my heart's on the Isle of Capri
Summertime was nearly over Blue Italian sky above I said "Lady, I'm a rover, Can you spare a sweet word of love?"
She whispered softly "It's best not to linger" And then as I kissed her hand I could see She wore a lovely meatball on her finger 't Was goodbye at the Villa Capri
Summertime was nearly over Blue Italian sky above I said "Lady, I'm a rover, Can you spare a fine word of love?"
She whispered softly "It's best not to linger" And then as I kissed her hand I could see She wore a plain golden ring on her finger 't Was goodbye on the Isle of Capri 't Was goodbye on the Isle of Capri 't Was goodbye on the Isle of Capri
Night Vision Composer(s): K. Elam; Victor Flowers; Isaac Hayes Performer(s): Guru & Isaac Hayes
(Isaac Hayes) When the sun goes down and the moon comes up You can see a lot of things if you look deep enough It's all around
(Guru) The city skyline, in the nighttime, be the right time, to ball out (Yeah) Who's the real pimp, gangster hustler, you call out Is it him, is it him or is it, Dukes over there? Real recognizes real, so yo, no one cares The chief executive mack, in so deep you can't imagine I've seen the beatdowns, the gunfights, plus the paddywagon See daddy with his pants saggin, pushin whips that's too fly Switchin up to a suit and tie, ladies say he's too cute to lie (Forget about it) And none of my girls, wanna, talk to you Plus, none of my boys, gotta, talk to you Cause when you see me, they'll be somewhere in the cut And you can't be me, so nip that weak talk in the butt The party's crowded, and everyone, is showin love Whassup, what's the deal, how's things holdin up? (Whassup young blood?) The smooth dude, that moves through, with the utmost precision Truly a wiseguy, seein life with my night vision
(Isaac Hayes) See that young blood, comin down the street Don't be hypnotized by the stride of his feet.. Pickpockets.. streetwalkers.. number runners.. hustlers
(Guru) Lots of ladies, wanna, check me out And lots of haters, wanna, X me out I got more style than Gucci, Louis or Prada Drop more jewels on you, than your uncle or father Once this envious kid, was temptin me kid to stoop down to his level and cold empty his wig He was mad cause his girl wanted up in my world (hahahaha) I looked the other way, and she was still, stuck in my world Aiyyo; baby wants to run with me, come with me, have fun with me I be the man when I'm dipped, or in a t-shirt, and dungarees I overheard her man, that was screamin in her ear while I nodded to my peeps, who was schemin in the rear If he's gon' flip, he's gonna, find out quick That I stroll with a click, and we roll mad thick He shook my hand and laughed it off, that was his best decision We keep it tight aight? Hangin out, with that night vision
(Isaac Hayes) I bust into this night club I can see you perpetraters Passin out your BID'ness cards Wearin your knockoff gators Pimps.. heartbreakers.. dumb-ass Johns.. You got to make a decision, to go witcha instincts and rely on your night vision
Islands Composer(s): Robert Fripp; Peter Sinfield Performer(s): King Crimson
Earth, stream and tree encircled by sea Waves sweep the sand from my island My sunsets fade Field and glade wait only for rain Grain after grain love erodes my High weathered walls which fend off the tide Cradle the wind to my island
Gaunt granite climbs where gulls wheel and glide Mournfully glide o'er my island My dawn bride's veil, damp and pale Dissolves in the sun Love's web is spun - cats prowl, mice run Wreathe snatch-hand briars where owls know my eyes Violet skies Touch my island Touch me
Dark harbour quays like fingers of stone Hungrily reach from my island Clutch sailor's words - pearls and gourds Are strewn on my shore Equal in love, bound in circles Earth, stream and tree return to the sea Waves sweep sand from my island, from me
Night Train Composer(s): Rickie Lee Jones Performer(s): Rickie Lee Jones
Here I'm going Walking with my baby in my arms Cuz I am in the wrong end of this eight ball black And the devil, see, he's right behind us And this worker said she's gonna take my little baby My little angel black But they won't getcha Cuz I'm right here witcha On the Night Train
Swing low, Saint Cadillac Tearin' down the alley And I'm reaching so high for ya Don't let 'em take me back Broken like valiums and chumps in the rain That cry and quiver When a Blue Horizon is sleeping in the station With a ticket for a train Surely mine will deliver me there
Here she comes...
I'm safe here with you On the Night Train Oh mamma, mamma Concrete is wheeling by Down at the end of a lullaby On the Night Train
