Take It To The Limit
((Dutch Version: Jij Maakt Mij Gelukkig (Severine Doré) - 2003))
Composer(s): Randy Meisner - Glenn Frey - Don Henley
First release by: Eagles - 1975
Covered by multiple other artists



All alone at the end of the evening
And the bright lights have faded to blue
I was thinking 'bout a woman who might have loved me
I never knew
You know i've always been a dreamer spent my life running round
And it's so hard to change can't seem to settle down
But the dreams i've seen lately keep on turning out
And burning out and turning out the same
So put me on a highway and show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time

You can spend all your time making money
You can spend all your love making time
If it all fell to pieces tomorrow
Would you still be mine?
And when you're looking for your freedom nobody seems to care
And you can't find the door can't find it anywhere
When there's nothing to believe in still you're coming back
You're running back, you're coming back for more

So put me on a highway and show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time

Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time ...

Mother Nature's Son
Composer(s): John Lennon; Paul McCartney
Originally performed by: The Beatles
Covered by various other artists



Born a poor young country boy
Mother Nature's son
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone

Sit beside a mountain stream
See he waters rise
Listen to the sound of pretty music as she flies

Find me in my field of grass
Mother Nature's son
Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun

Girls! Girls! Girls!
Composer(s): Jerry Leiber; Mike Stoller
Performer(s): Elvis Presley;
and various other artists



(Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls!)
(Girls) goin' swimming, (Girls) in bikinis
(Girls! A-walkin' and a-wigglin' by (Yay, yay, yay)
(Girls) on the beaches, (Girls) oh, what a peaches
(Girls!) So pretty, Lord I could cry (yay, yay)
I'm just a red blooded boy and I can't stop thinkin' about
(Girls) sailin' sailboats, (Girls) water skiin'
They'll drive me out of my mind (Yay, yay, yay)
(Girls) big and brassy, (Girls) small and sassy
(Girls!) Just give me one of each kind (Yay-yay)
I'm just a red blooded boy and I can't stop thinkin' about
Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls!

And when I pick up a sandwich too munch
A-crunchy-crunchety-a-crunchety-crunch
I never ever get to finish my lunch
Because there's always bound to be a bunch of
(Girls!) In tight sweaters, (Girls!) in short dresses
(Girls!) A-walkin' and a-wigglin' by (Yay, yay, yay)
(Girls!) Out boatin', Girls, just a floatin'
(Girls!) So pretty, Lord I could cry (Yay, yay)
I'm just a red blooded boy and I can't stop thinkin' about
Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls!

I'm just a red blooded boy and I can't stop thinkin' about
Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls!
I'm just a red blooded boy and I can't stop thinkin' about
Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls!
I'm just a red blooded boy and I can't stop thinkin' about
Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls!

Take It On The Run
Composer(s): Gary Richrath
First release by: REO Speedwagon - 1980



Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another you been messin' around 

They say you got a boy friend
You're up there every weekend
They're talkin' about you and it's bringin' me down 

But I know the nieghborhood
And talk is cheap when the story is good
And the tales grow taller on down the line 

But I'm telling you, babe
That I don't think it's true, babe
And even if it is keep this in mind 

You take it on the run baby
If that's the way you want it baby
Then I don't want you around
I don't believe it
Not for a minute
You're under the gun so you take it on the run 

You're thinking up your white lies
You're putting on your bedroom eyes
You say you're coming home but you won't say when

But I can feel it coming
If you leave tonight keep running
And you need never look back again 

You take it on the run baby
If that's the way you want it baby
Then I don't want you around
I don't believe it
Not for a minute
You're under the gun so you take it on the run 

You take it on the run baby
If that's the way you want it baby
Then I don't want you around
I don't believe it
Not for a minute
You're under the gun so you take it on the run 

You take it on the run baby
If that's the way you want it baby
Then I don't want you around
I don't believe it
Not for a minute
You're under the gun so you take it on the run 

Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another you been messin' around 

Mother Nature And Father Time
Composer(s): Kay Twomey; Fred Wise; Ben Wiseman
Performer(s): Nat King Cole; Dickie Valentine



I'm a son of mother nature
A son of father time
I've got a lot of neighbours the million stars that shine
And there all friends of mine

Every robin is my brother
They sing their songs to me
The tiny black-eyed daisies
The mighty red wood tree
There all my family

Then why do I feel so lonely
Like a king on an empty throne
There's one thing that's missing only
A true love to call my own

Won't you listen mother nature
And listen father time
Please help me to find someone
To fill these arms of mine
Mother nature and father time

Then why do I feel so lonely
Like a king on an empty throne
There's one thing that's missing only
A true love to call my own

Won't you listen mother nature
And listen father time
Please help me to find someone
To fill these arms of mine
Mother nature and father time
Mother nature and father time

Girls Were Made To Love And Kiss
Composer(s): Franz Lehár; Victor Herbert
Performer(s): Richard Tauber;
and various other artists



Girls were made to love and kiss
And who am I to interfere with this?
Is it well?  Who can tell?
But I know the good Lord made it so
 
Am I ashamed to follow nature’s way?
Shall I be blamed if God has made me gay?
Does it pay?  Who can say?
I’m a man and kiss her when I can
 
Yet I have suffered in love’s great deeps
I know the passion that never sleeps
I know the longing and wronging of hearts
The hope that flatters and shatters and smarts
 
I suffer still but I sleep at nights
Man cannot always be on the heights
And when our aching and breaking is done
Flirting is jolly, it’s folly, but fun
 
Girls were made to love and kiss
And who am I to interfere with this?
Does it pay?  Who can say?
I’m a man and kiss her when I can

Take It Like A Man
Composer(s): Blair Thornton - C.F. Turner
Performer(s): Bachman-Turner Overdrive; BTO Spider



Only three stops
To make in Alabama
Everyone
A one-night stand
Working for a man
Down South Louisiana
Cause ZZ ain't
His only band
Business has been
Good or bad
But sittin here
Will drive me mad

And I'm gonna get back
Where they want me
Get back
Where they want me
Get back
Where they want me
Make a stand
I'm gonna
Take it like a man

Met a stray woman
I think it was in Texas
She was made
For those who'd pay
Got a little drunk
And raised a mild ruckus
The city said
I could not stay
I guess I'm gonna
Have to change
Until this mess is
Rearranged

And I'm gonna get back
Where they want me
Get back
Where they want me
Get back
Where they want me
Make a stand
I'm gonna
Take it like a man

I guess I'm gonna
Have to change
Until my life is
Rearranged

And I'm gonna get back
Where they want me
Get back
Where they want me
Get back
Where they want me
Make a stand
I'm gonna
Take it like a man 

Mother Dear, O Pray For Me
(Traditional)
Performer(s): Perry Como
and various other artists



Mother dear, O pray for me! 
Whilst far from heav'n and thee
I wander in a fragile bark
O'er life's tempestuous sea
O Virgin Mother, from thy throne
So bright in bliss above
Protect thy child and cheer my path
With thy sweet smile of love

Mother dear, O pray for me!
Should pleasure's siren lay
E'er tempt thy child to wander far 
From Virtue's path away
When thorns beset life's devious way
And darkling waters flow
Then Mary aid thy weeping child
Thyself a mother show

Chorus 

Mother dear, remember me! 
And never cease thy care
'Till in heaven eternally
Thy love and bliss I share

Girls Talk
Composer(s): Elvis Costello
Performer(s): Dave Edmunds;
and various other artists



There are some things you can't cover up 
With lipstick and powder 
Thought I heard you mention my name 
Can't you talk any louder? 

Don't come any closer 
Don't come any nearer 
My vision of you 
Can't come any clearer 
Oh I just wanna hear girls talk 

Got a loaded imagination 
Bein' fired by girls talk 
It's a more or less situation 
Inspired by girls talk 

But I can't say 
The words you wanna hear 
I suppose you're gonna have to
Play it by ear, right here 

And now, girls talk 
And they wanna know how girls talk 
And they say it's not allowed, girls talk
If they say that it's so 
Don't they think that I'd know by now? 

Got the word up on everyone's lipstick 
That you're getting faded 
You may not be an old-fashioned girl 
But you're gonna get dated 

"Was it really murder?" 
"Were you just pretending?"
"Lately I've heard..." 
"You are the living end" 

Girls talk 
And they wanna know how girls talk 
And they say it's not allowed, girls talk 
And they think they know how girls talk 
If they say that it's so 
Don't they think that I'd now by now? 

But I can't say 
The words you wanna hear 
I suppose you're gonna have to 
Play it by ear, I hear 

There are some things you can't cover up 
With lipstick and powder
But I heard you mention my name 
Can't you talk any louder? 

Don't come any closer 
Don't come any nearer 
My vision of you 
Can't come any clearer

Take It Easy
Composer(s): Glenn Frey - Jackson Browne
First release by: Eagles - 1972
Covered by multiple other artists



Well, I'm a runnin' down the road, tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me
one says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand
just find a place to make your stand and take it easy

Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
it's a girl, my Lord, in a flat bed Ford
slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win though we will never be here again
So open up, I'm climbin' in, so take it easy

Well, I'm a runnin' down the road, tryin' to loosen my load
got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover
she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
Oh, we got it easy
we oughta take it easy

Mother Dear
Composer(s): Brian Holland; Lamont Dozier; Edward Holland Jr.
Performer(s): The Supremes



Something's on my mind
Mother dear the boy keeps me crying
Don't know which way to turn
Keeps me so confused
Keeps me so confused

Mother dear
'Cause for him I yearn
But he treats your daughter bad
Keeps your daughter sad

I wish I didn't love him so
'Cause now I can't let him go
His kiss gets a little sweeter
Ooh, my heart gets a little weaker

I'm falling deeper
Deeper in love each day
I know he's no good for me
But I'm too weak to break away

Ooh, each day love gets a little stronger
Ooh, heartaches lasts a little longer

Help, help me mother dear
'Cause I can't help myself
Ooh, he treats your daughter bad
Keeps your daughter sad

So many times I've tried
Telling him we're through
But when he takes me in his arms
There's nothing I can do

Ooh, it's no use
I can't break loose
I keep love him more and more each passing day
All my love to him I give it
Without him around
I couldn't live
I need him so
And he knows it
Can't let him go
And I show it

Help, help me mother dear
I'm so in love with him 
But he treats your daughter bad
Keeps your daughter sad

Help, help me mother dear
Help, help me mother dear
He keeps your daughter crying

Girls' School
Composer(s): Paul McCartney
Performer(s): Wings; Catfight!



Sleepy head, kid sister
Lying on the floor
18 years and younger, boy
Well she knows what she's waiting for

Yuki's a cool school mistress
She's an Oriental princess
She shows the films in the classroom, boy
They put the paper on the windows

Ahhh.....what can the sisters do
Ahhh.....girls' school

Head nurse is Sister Scala
Now she's a Spanish doll
She runs a full body outcall massage parlor
From the teacher's hall

Ahhh.....what can the sisters do
Ahhh.....girls' school

Well now, Roxanne's the woman trainer
She puts the kids to bed
She gives them pills in a paper cup
And she knocks them on the head

Ahhh.....what can the sisters do
Ahhh.....girls' school

She shows them films in the classroom, boy
When they put the paper on the windows

Ahhh.....what can the sisters do
Ahhh.....girls' school

Take It Back
Composer(s): Kristy Jackson
Performer(s): Reba McEntire; Kristy Jackson; Mark Thornton



You talked me into moving in and giving you my key
You said you'd be a mess now if it hadn't been for me
You said I stole your heart away by looking in your eyes
I wonder now how many times you sold that pack of lies

If this is how you act when you give your heart away
Well, take it back
Take it back

You told me I was everything you wanted and more
Then tell me what you're doing now sneaking out the back door
You're bringing home flowers and a bottle of Chablis
You forgot I don't drink wine I know that bottle's not for me

If this is how you act when you give your heart away
Well, take it back
Take it back

Oh, you must think I'm blind
And I don't smell your new cologne
You don't think I notice
All the nights I spend alone

Well, I'm not one for sitting 'round in some ole pity pool
You think you got a ticket and I must be some kind of fool
I hate to steal your thunder but your playing days are through
At least they are with me cause babe, I got no use for you

Tonight laying on the street
Babe, your bag is packed
So, take it back

Mother Dear
Composer(s): John Curulewski; De Young
Performer(s): Styx



Lonely feelings in the city 
One room flat with crumbling walls 
Sirens play a distant melody 
Neon shadows paint the halls 

In the thirteen months I've spent here 
With my manuscript and rhymes 
I've paid in cash for foolish pleasures 
Mother dear you'd call them crimes 

Raise the roof 
Light the lite 
Mother dear I'm returning tonight 
Now I see 
Your concern 
Mother dear how you taught me to learn 

I been a Roman for survival 
Showing two sides of my face 
I need the comfort of your wisdom 
I'm coming home to your embrace 

If by chance I pass before you 
Don't discount my gratitude 
You're responsible for me here 
And of course my attitude 

Raise the roof 
Light the lite 
Mother dear I'm returning tonight 
Now I see 
Your concern 
Mother dear how you taught me to learn 

Stayin' up half the night 
Wonderin' if what I'm doin' is right 
Raise the roof 
Light the lite 
Mother dear I'm returning tonight

Girls On Film
Composer(s): Christian Lebon; Nick Rhodes; John Taylor
Performer(s): Duran Duran;
and various other artists



See them walking hand in hand 
across the bridge at midnight
Heads turning as the lights flashing out it's so bright
Then walk right out to the fourline track
There's a camera rolling on her back, on her back
And I sense the rhythm humming in a frenzy all the way down her spine
Girls on film, girls on film, girls on film, girls on film

Lipstick cherry all over the lens as she's falling
In miles of sharp blue water coming in where she lies
The diving man's coming up for air cause the crowd all love pulling 
dolly by the hair, by the hair
And she wonders how she ever got here as she goes under again

Girls on film (two minutes later), girls on film
Girls on film (got your picture), girls on film

Wider baby smiling you just made a million
Fuses pumping live heat twisting out on a wire
Take one last glimpse into the night I'm touching close I'm holding 
bright, holding tight
Give me shudders in a whisper take me up till I'm shooting a star

Girls on film (she's more than a lady), girls on film
Girls on film (two minutes later), girls on film
Girls on film (see you together), girls on film
Girls on film (see you later), girls on film
Girls on film (what ya doing), girls on film

Take It Back
Composer(s): Jack Bruce - Pete Brown
First release by: Cream - 1967



Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here
Right away, far away, take that thing right out of here

Don't let them take me to where streams are red
I want to stay here and sleep in my own bed
Need all your loving, long blonde hair
Don't let them take me 'cause I'm easily scared
Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here

Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here
Right away, far away, take that thing right out of here

I got this great need, the need to stay alive
Not ashamed of my creed, I've got to survive
So come on baby, don't go away
Just let them save me for a rainy day
Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here

I got this need, the need to stay alive
Not ashamed of my creed, I've got to survive
So come on baby, don't go away
Just let them save me for a rainy day
Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here

Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here
Right away, far away, take that thing right out of here

I got this thing, I've got to keep it sharp
Don't go to places where it won't shine in the dark

So come on baby, don't go away
Just let them save me for a rainy day
Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here

Mother And Child Reunion
Composer(s): Paul Simon
Originally performed by: Paul Simon
Covered by various other artists



No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine
I can't for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don't work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine

I just can't believe it's so
and though it seems strange to say
I never been laid so low
In such a mysterious way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

But I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
When the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a motion away, 
Oh, oh the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a moment away

Girl's Got Rhythm
Composer(s): Bon Scott;
Angus Young; Malcolm Young
Performer(s): AC/DC; Babylon A.D.; 
Baron Rojo; Beki Bondage; Robin McAuley



I've been around the world
I've seen a million girls
Ain't one of them got
What my lady she's got
She's stealin' the spotlight
Knocks me off my feet
She's about to start a landslide
Just a-walkin' down the street
Wearin' dresses so tight
And lookin' dynamite
About to blow me out

No doubt about it
Can't live without it

(chorus)
The girl's got rhythm (Girl's got rhythm)
The girl's got rhythm (Girl's got rhythm)
She's got the backseat rhythm (Backseat rhythm)
The girl's got rhythm

She's like a lethal brand
Too much for any man
She gives me first degree
She really satisfies me
Love me till I'm legless
Aching and sore
Enough to stop a freight train
Or start the Third World War
You know I'm losin' sleep
I'm in too deep
And my body needs love

No doubt about it
Can't live without it

(repeat chorus)

(solo)

You know she moves like sin
And when she lets me in
It's like liquid love

No doubt about it
Can't live without it

(repeat chorus, then this variation:)
You know she's really got the rhythm (Girl's got rhythm)
She's got the backseat rhythm (Backseat rhythm)
Rock n' roll rhythm (Rock n' roll rhythm)
Girl's got rhythm

Take It As It Comes
Composer(s): Jim Morrison - John Densmore - Robby Krieger - Ray Manzarek
First release by: The Doors - 1967



Time to live
Time to lie
Time to laugh
Time to die

Take it easy baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move to fast if you want
your love to last
You've been movin' much to fast 

Time to walk
Time to run
Time to aim your arrows
At the sun

Take it easy baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move to fast if you want
your love to last
You've been movin' much to fast

Go real slow
You'll like it more and more
Take it as it comes
Specialize in havin' fun

Take it easy baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move to fast if you want
you're love to last
You've been movin' much to fast
Movin' much to fast
Movin' much to fast

Mother
Composer(s): Roger Waters
Originally performed by: Pink Floyd



Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?
Mother, do you think they'll like this song?
Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Ooooowaa Mother, should I build a wall?
Mother, should I run for President?
Mother, should I trust the government?
Mother, will they put me in the firing line?
Ooooowaa Is it just a waste of time?
Hush, my baby. Baby, don't you cry
Momma's gonna make all of your nightmares come true
Momma's gonna put all of her fears into you
Momma's gonna keep you right here under her wing
She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing
Momma's gonna keep Baby cozy and warm
Oooo Babe
Oooo Babe
Ooo Babe, of course Momma's gonna help build a wall
Mother, do you think she's good enough
For me?
Mother, do you think she's dangerous
To me?
Mother will she tear your little boy apart?
Ooooowaa Mother, will she break my heart?
Hush, my baby 
Baby, don't you cry
Momma's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you
Momma won't let anyone dirty get through
Momma's gonna wait up until you get in
Momma will always find out where you've been
Momma's gonna keep Baby healthy and clean
Oooo Babe
Oooo Babe
Ooo Babe, you'll always be Baby to me
Mother, did it need to be so high?