Retro-Songteksten: Evergreens, Classics, Old-Time Favourites, Hits Uit Onze Jeugd
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Ten Feet Away Composer(s): Billy Sherrill - Max D. Barnes - Troy Seals Performer(s): Keith Whitley; Diamond Rio
Alone at a corner table She was watching me watching her I was singin' about an old flame burning She was hanging on to every word
I was pouring out my feelings She was pouring out the wine Through the smoke and the beer It was perfectly clear That we were touching each others minds
It was love ten feet away Imagine her in my arms, with that look on her face Lying somewhere in some shadowy place It was love just ten feet away
I just knew my closing song would do it I knew that I was heaven bound I could tell she was moved, but before I was through This stranger walked up and set down
He was trying his best to impress her But she never took her eyes off me When he got up and left, I said to myself... Woh-o-woh what a night this will be
It was love ten feet away Imagine her in my arms, with that look on her face Lying somewhere in some shadowy place It was love just ten feet away
It was love ten feet away Imagine her in my arms, with that look on her face Lying somewhere in some shadowy place It was love just ten feet away
My Maria Composer(s): Daniel Moore; B.W. Stevenson Originally performed by: B.W. Stevenson
My Maria don't you know I've come a long long way I been longin' to see her When she's around she takes my blues away Sweet Maria the sunlight surely hurts my eyes I'm a lonely dreamer on a highway in the skies
Maria Maria I love you
My Maria there were some blue and sorrowed times Just my thoughts about you bring back my peace of mind Gypsy lady you're a mircle work for me You set my soul free like a ship sailing on the sea She is the sunlight when skies are grey She treats me so right lady take me away
Granada (English Version) Composer(s): Dorothy Dodd; Augustín Lara Performer(s): Frankie Laine; and various other artists
Granada, I'm falling under your spell And if you could speak what a fascinating tale you would tell Of an age the world has long forgotten Of an age that weaves the silent magic in Granada today
The dawn in the sky greets the day with a sigh for Granada For she can remember the splendour that once was Granada It still can be found in the hills all around as I wander along Entranced by the beauty before me Entranced by a land full of sunshine and flowers and song And when day is done and the sun starts to set in Granada I envy the blush of the snow clad Sierra Nevada For soon it will welcome the stars While a thousand guitars play a soft Habanera Then moonlit Granada will live again The glory of yesterday romantic and gay
T'en Fais Pas (C'est Le B-a Ba) Composer(s): P. Breslin - J. Top - S. Perathoner Performer(s): Nicoletta
Au bord de la route, au bout de ma peine Résewoir vide mais la lune est pleine C'est la série noire, le pied au plancher La nuit va-t-elle porter conseil?
Que des massifs à perte de vue Ça commence à sentir le quartier de la glu Pas si facile, le B-a Ba blesse Attention au changement de vitesse
T'en fais pas Ça, c'est le B-a Ba T'en fais pas Il y a des hauts et des bas
Parfois c'est là Et puis ça s'en va C'est le B-a Ba Mais ça reviendra
Tu lances les dés, tu joues à pile ou face Tu bois la tasse mais, quoique tu fasses T'en fais pas, t'en fais pas
J'ai vu des soirées à quatre étoiles On parle pognon et on lit Stendahl Comme l'a dit Shakespeare, le monde est une scène Et on est jamais mieux servi que par soi-même
T'en fais pas Ca, c'est le B-a Ba T'en fais pas Il y a des hauts et des bas
Parfois c'est là Et puis ça s'en va C'est le B-a Ba Mais ça reviendra
Tu lances les dés, tu joues à pile ou face Tu bois la tasse mais, quoique tu fasses T'en fais pas, t'en fais pas...
My Margarita (El Charro) Composer(s): Maria Grever; Walter Hirsh
My Margarita, I'm so romantic, but Margarita You drive me frantic My Margarita You could be tender, but Senorita You won't surrender On my guitar oh so lightly I play nightly when the moon begins to shine Though ev'ry star up above you knows I love you I can never make you mine Oh Margarita When stars are fading, beneath your window I'm serenading My Margarita life could be sweeter If I could read in your glances where romance is When it dances But whenever we're together You're as fickle as the weather when you kiss and run away
La vie m'a doublé C'est pas régulier Pour un pauv' lézard Qui vit par hasard Dans la société Mais la société Faut pas s'en mêler J'suis un type à part Un' grain' d'ananar
On m'dit qu'j'ai poussé En d'ssous d'un gibet Où mon grand-papa Balançait déjà Avec un collier Un collier tressé De chanvre il était Un foutu foulard A gueul' d'ananar
J'avais des copains Qui mangeaient mon pain Car le pain c'est fait Pour êtr' partagé Dans notr' société C'est pas moi qui l'dis Mais c'est Jésus-Christ Un foutu bavard A gueul' d'ananar
Si j'avais des sous On m'd'manderait: ""Où Les as-tu gagnés Sans avoir trimé Pour la société?" Mais comm' j'en ai pas Faut lui dir' pourquoi C'est jamais peinard La grain' d'ananar
On m'dit qu'c'est fini J'vous l'dit comme on l'dit Et qu'on me pendra Au nom de la loi Et d'la société D'la bell' société Qui s'met à s'mêler De mettre au rancart La grain' d'ananar
Potence d'oubli L'oiseau fait son nid Messieurs les corbeaux Passeront ma peau Comme à l'étamis Mais auparavant J'aurai comm' le vent Semé quelque part Ma grain' d'ananar
My Man Jumped Salty On Me Composer(s): Perry Bradford Performer(s): Rosetta Crawford; Mezz Mezzrow; George Wettling
Goin' down to the river, take a rope and a rock Tie it round my neck and jump off the dock 'Cause my man he jumped salty on me
Ain't no one can change my mind I've been mistreated and I don't mind dyin' 'Cause that man jumped salty on me
Gonna get me some poison, kill myself 'Cause the man I love has put me on the shelf The dirty old viper jumped salty on me If he didn't want me he didn't have to lie The day I see him, that's the day he'll die 'Cause that man jumped salty on me
Baby you don't know my mind Lord, Lord, Lord, Baby you don't know my mind When you see me laughin', I'm laughin' just to keep from cryin'
A crooked man's worse than crooked dice With dice you lose your money, with men you lose your life Oh that fool jumped salty on me I'm gonna get me a razor and a gun Cut him if he stands still, shoot him if he runs 'Cause that man jumped salty on me
High school parties are over Things won't be the same The day to grow up finally came Graduation's here Graduation
Our trips to the ocean Were so much fun Remember the games we almost won Graduation's here
Chorus Our senior year and our one big sin Was the "senior skip" when we were all turned in The gaudy mischief had to come but now it's gotta go 'cause graduation's here and we'll soon be on our own
Tempus Fugit Composer(s): Geoffrey Downes - Trevor Horn - Steve Howe - Chris Squire - Alan White Performer(s): Yes
Born in the night She would run like a leopard That freaks at the sight Of a mind close beside herself And the nearer I came How the country would change She was using the landscape To hide herself
More in the mind Than the body this feeling A sense at the end Of a circular line That is drawn at an angle I see when I'm with you To navigate waters and finally answer to-yes
If you were there you would want to be near me Innocence, you could hold the materials And though nothing would really be living It would shock Your fall into landing light In the north sky time flies fast to the morning The cold of the dawn it meant nothing to us You were keeping your best situation An answer to-yes
(Yes, Yes) And the moment I see you (Yes, Yes) It's so good to be near you (Yes, Yes) And the feeling you give me (Yes, Yes) Makes me want to be with you (Yes, Yes) From the moment you tell me - yes
If you could see all the roads I have traveled Towards some unusable last equilibrium Run like an athlete and die like a dead beaten speed-freak An answer to all of your answers to-yes
In the north sky time flies faster than morning The cold of the dawn it meant nothing to us You were keeping your best situation An answer to Yes
(Yes, Yes) And the moment I see you (Yes, Yes) It's so good to be near you (Yes, Yes) And the feeling you give me (Yes, Yes) Makes me want to be with you (Yes, Yes) If we wait for an answer (Yes, Yes) Will the silence be broken (Yes, Yes) Should we wait for an answer (Yes, Yes) Do we leave it unspoken
Tempted Composer(s): Chris Difford - Glenn Tilbrook First release by: Squeeze - 1981 Covered by multiple other artists
I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a flannel for my face Pajamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case I said to my reflection, Let's get out of this place Passed the church and the steeple, the laundry on the hill Billboards and the buildings Memories of it still keep calling And calling But forget it all I know I will Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered
What's been going on Now that you have gone There's no other Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered
I'm at the carpark, the airport, the baggage carousel The people keep on grabbing, ain't wishing I was well I said, "It's no occasion It's no story I can tell" At my bedside, empty pocket, a foot without a sock Your body gets much closer I fumble for the clock, alarmed by The seduction I wish that it would stop Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered
What's been going on Now that you have gone there's no other Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered
I bought a novell, some perfume, a fortune all for you But it's not my conscience that hates to be untrue I asked of my reflection Tell me what is there to do? Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered
What's been going on Now that you have gone there's no other Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered
My Man
((Adapted from: Mon Homme (Mistinguett) - 1916))
Composer(s): Albert Willemetz - Jacques Charles - Maurice Yvain - Channing Pollack
Performer(s): Fanny Brice - 1921
and multiple other artists
It's cost me a lot
But there's one thing that I've got
It's my man
Cold and wet, tired you bet
But all that I soon forget
With my man
He's not much for looks
And no hero out of books
Is my man
Two or three girls has he
That he likes as well as me
But I love him
I don't know why I should
He isn't good
He isn't true
He beats me, too
What can I do
Oh, my man, I love him so
He'll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright, all right
What's the difference if I say
I'll go away
When I know I'll come back
On my knees some day
For whatever my man is
I am his forever more
Sometimes I say
If I just could get away
With my man
He'd go straight, sure as fate
For it never is too late
For a man
I just like to dream
Of a cottage by a stream
With my man
Where a few flowers grew
And perhaps a kid or two
Who liked my man
And then my eyes get wet
I 'most forget
Till he gets hot
And tells me not
To talk such rot
Oh my man, I love him so
He'll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright, all right
What's the difference if I say
I'll go away
When I know I'll come back
On my knees some day
For whatever my man is
I'm his forever more
My car radio's playing a song That makes me feel very strange It's taken so long Through the gradation of the grey scale A landscape like I've never seen As far as my eyes can see Out on the road I've seen so many shades, shades of grey Now I'm back in the tunnel again Every minute, every second I can feel it getting closer Speeding ahead To where grey meets white
Temptation Eyes Composer(s): Harvey Price - Dan Walsh First release by: The Grass Roots - 1970 Covered by multiple other artists
She's got something that moves my soul And she knows I'd love to love her But she lets me down every time, can't make her mind She's no one's lover Tonight with me she'll be so inviting I want her all for myself, aw
Temptation eyes, looking through my mind, my soul Temptation eyes, you've got to love me, got to love me tonight Got to love me baby yeah, mm
Oh wild-eyed innocence is just a game But just the same my head is spinning She's got a way to keep me on her side, it's just a ride It's never ending Tonight with me she'll be so exciting I want her all for myself, oh
Temptation eyes, looking through my mind, my soul Temptation eyes, you've got to love me, got to love me tonight Can you feel it now
Tonight with me she'll be so exciting, I want her all for myself, oh Temptation eyes, looking through my mind, my soul Temptation eyes, you've got to love me, got to love me tonight Temptation eyes, looking through my mind, my soul Temptation eyes, come on and love me, love me tonight
My Mammy Composer(s): Walter Donaldson; Sam M. Lewis; Joe Young Performer(s): Al Jolson and various other artists
Everything is lovely When you start to roam The birds are singin', the day that you stray But later, when you are further away Things won't seem so lovely When you're all alone Here's what you'll keep saying When you're far from home
Mammy Mammy The sun shines east, the sun shines west I know where the sun shines best Mammy My little mammy My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy I'm comin' Sorry that I made you wait I'm comin' Hope and trust that I'm not late, oh oh oh Mammy My little Mammy I'd walk a million miles For one of your smiles My Mammy! Oh oh oh...
Mammy... My little Mammy The sun shines east, the sun shines west I know where the sun shines best! It's on my Mammy I'm talkin' about, nobody else's!
My little Mammy My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy
Mammy, Mammy, I'm comin' I'm so sorry that I made you wait! Mammy, Mammy, I'm comin'! Oh God, I hope I'm not late! Look at me, Mammy! Don't you know me? I'm your little baby!
I'd walk a million miles For one of your smiles My Mammy!
Gracias A La Vida Composer(s): Violetta Parra Performer(s): Raphael; and various other artists
Gracias a la Vida que me ha dado tanto me dio dos luceros que cuando los abro perfecto distingo lo negro del blanco y en el alto cielo su fondo estrellado y en las multitudes el hombre que yo amo
Gracias a la Vida que me ha dado tanto me ha dado el sonido y el abedecedario con él las palabras que pienso y declaro madre amigo hermano y luz alumbrando la ruta del alma del que estoy amando
Gracias a la Vida que me ha dado tanto me ha dado la marcha de mis pies cansados con ellos anduve ciudades y charcos playas y desiertos montañas y llanos y la casa tuya, tu calle y tu patio
Gracias a la Vida que me ha dado tanto me dio el corazón que agita su marco cuando miro el fruto del cerebro humano cuando miro al bueno tan lejos del malo cuando miro al fondo de tus ojos claros
Gracias a la Vida que me ha dado tanto me ha dado la risa y me ha dado el llanto así yo distingo dicha de quebranto los dos materiales que forman mi canto y el canto de ustedes que es el mismo canto y el canto de todos que es mi propio canto
Gracias a la Vida Gracias a la Vida Gracias a la Vida Gracias a la Vida
Temporarily Composer(s): Johnny Mercer - Gene De Paul Performer(s): June Allyson & Jack Lemon
This is your shack Temporarily Your cul-de-sac Temporarily So hit the sack Temporarily While I unpack Temporarily You can't be too darn particular I'm your vehicular extracurricular spouse And even though, you don't wanna play looks Like we're gonna play house That's realistic and sensible But I am so indefensible Faced with so much masculinity I fear for my femininity So let's just skip the pyjama bit Papa and Mama bit Hoping that neither snores While I am involuntarily, necessarily Temporarily yours
My Lover's Prayer Composer(s): Otis Redding Originally performed by: Otis Redding Covered by various other artists
This is my lover's prayer I hope it'll reach out to you, my love This is my lover's prayer And I hope you can understand it, my love
My life is such a weary thing But it might be old pressure bringing rain (?) You keep wanting, waiting and wishing When I know deep down that I'm not to blame
What you gonna do tonight When you need some loving arms to hold you tight What you gonna do tonight When you need my heavy voice to tell you good night
Honey but you can't let that be no problem You ve got to come home and help me solve it (Yeah) I won't be missing you And honey, my lover's prayer would be all over
What can the matter be [now]? It can't be to serious we can't talk it over Living in this misery, darling You can't make my life all over
Honey but don't you let that be no problem Just come on home and help me solve it (Dear) I won't be missing you And my lover's prayer would be all over It got to be all over Honey all over Don't keep my life going round so many circles
I won't be missing you I won't be missing you And my lover's prayer won't be all over
This is my lover's prayer Come on y'all This is my lover's prayer And I hope it reaches out to you This is my lover's prayer I hope it gets to you
