Retro-Songteksten: Evergreens, Classics, Old-Time Favourites, Hits Uit Onze Jeugd
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The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) Composer(s): Tom Waits First release by: Tom Waits - 1976
The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep And the combo went back to New York, the jukebox has to take a leak And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break And the telephone's out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And the menus are all freezing, and the light man's blind in one eye And he can't see out of the other And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking As the bouncer is a Sumo wrestler cream-puff casper milktoast And the owner is a mental midget with the I.Q. of a fence post 'Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And you can't find your waitress with a Geiger counter And she hates you and your friends and you just can't get served without her And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired 'Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking The piano has been drinking, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me
Cinderella
Composer(s): Paul Anka - Gerry Roslie
First release by: The Sonics - 1965
Covered by multiple other artists
Cinderella, Cinderella, Cinderella, hurry, hurry home Cinderella, Cinderella, pretty, pretty Cinderella Its late now, its late now While youre lips were kissing mine I forgot to watch the time Im sorry Im sorry
Cinderella, Cinderella, pretty, pretty Cinderella I promised, I promised I promised well be home in time I bet you dont think it was just a line Cinderella
Twelve oclock, twelve oclock, was what we were bargain for What am I gonna tell your mum and dad When were at your front door
Cinderella, Cinderella, pretty, pretty Cinderella Have faith now I am sure the one above will preserve our lasting love Cinderella Its late now ...
Remember Me (When The Candlelights Are Gleaming) Composer(s): Scotty Wiseman Performer(s): Willie Nelson; Jim & Jesse; Jesse McReynolds; Ernest Tubb
The sweetest songs are sung by lovers in the moonlight The sweetest days are the days that used to be The saddest words I ever heard were words of parting When you said "Sweetheart, remember me"
Chorus: Remember me when the candle lights are gleamin' Remember me at the close of a long, long day Just be so sweet when all alone you're dreamin' Just to know you still remember me
A brighter face may take my place when we're apart, dear A brighter smile an' a love more bold and free But in the end, fair weather friends may break your heart, dear An' if they do, sweetheart, remember me
Chorus: Remember me when the candle lights are gleamin' Remember me at the close of a long, long day Just to be so sweet when all alone you're dreamin' Just to know you still remember me
You told me once you were mine alone forever You were mine till the end of eternity But now it's over, dear, and we can never Be the same except in memory
Chorus: Remember me when the candle lights are gleamin' Remember me at the close of a long, long day Just be so sweet when all alone you're dreamin' Just to know you still remember me
The Phone Call Composer(s): Chrissie Hynde Performer(s): The Pretenders
This is a mercy mission From a faceless messenger who don't wanna see you hit Here's the word, listen to it Somebody that you used to know is back in town You better go
This is a mercy mission A voice you'll never hear again from a southside call box Winged demons are the hardest to outfox The same one you lost on the run Gonna show you that it ain't no fun
You better get out of town you're gonna get hit I didn't mean to get you...
This is a mercy mission You'll find your schedule underneath the door All of the arrangements have been made Major expenses have been paid as you know Don't forget the last detail Accept no parcels in the mail
Cinderella
Composer(s): Jack Ross - E. Nemeth
Performer(s): Jack Ross
Here is a tale to make your cresh fleep It`ll give you poose gimples It`s a story for fee bolk and biggle toe peep
That`s wee folk and bigger people too It`s a story about Cinderella who lived in a big hark douse with her mean old mepstother and her two sisty uglers And they made Cinderella do all the worty dirk while they sat around cheating ocolates and magging ridazines
And one day when Cinderella was in the kitchen, flopping the moor the two sisty uglers came in and said Guess what? The prandsome hince is frowing a bancy thress drall and we`re invited It`s too bad that you can`t go So Cinderella went back into the kitchen with ears in her teyes And she was just about to chicassee a fricken when suddenly there was a linding blash of flight and standing next to her was a feautiful bairy
And Cinderella said Who are you and what do you want? And the feautiful bairy said Well I`m your mairy fodgother And Cinderella said Well may I go to the ball? And the fairy said Well that`s quite a wish but she said Okay So she waved her magic wand instantly Cinderella was transfomed into a bavishing reauty She had long white gatin sown and a necklace of pubies and rearls And on her feet were two tiny sass glippers
And the fairy said You may go, but you must promise to be mome by hidnight And Cinderella said Okay So she was off and soon she cast to the came-le That`s came to the castle And Cinderella jumped out and the first two people she ran into were the two sisty uglers.. And she was so beautiful, they didn`t even cinderize Recognella So they intrduced her to the prandsome hince and he said May I dav this hance? He said You`re so beautiful you remind me of Beeping Sleauty
He was just about to ask for her mare in handage, when suddenly the strock clarted to trike swelve and Cinderella ban from the rall But as she did one of the sass glippers flipped from her soot The prandsome hince picked it up and said Now all I have to do is find the woman whose soot this flipper sits and I`ll know who I`ve lallen in fove So the next day he went from house to house And you can`t turn that around! And soon he came to the cin where House-derella lived and he docked on the knoor
And who should come to the door but the two sisty uglers and he says I`m looking for the woman who`s soot this flipper sits Well of course their beet were too fig But then it was Cinderella`s turn and guess what? The flipper pitted serfectly! They were married and happed livilly ever after and that`s the end of the story of Cinderella... But you see there`s a moral to this fairy tale because Cinderella never gave up! And as you walk down the pathway of life, never give up!
Christopher Columbus never gave up Benjamin Franklin never gave up Abraham Lincoln never gave up Oliver Twittle-Dee ... Who`s He? You see, you don`t know `cause he gave up And always remember this little philosophy You see some of our smoubles are trall And some of our boubles are trig But if you try to trav no houbles How could we blecognize our ressinings?
Bruce's Philosophers Song Composer(s): Eric Idle Performer(s): Monty Python
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable Heidegger, Heidegger, was a boozy begger Who could drink you under the table David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel And Wittgenstein was a boozy swine Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach yer 'bout the raising of the wrist Socrates himself was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill of his own free will On half a bottle o' shandy was particularly ill Plato they say,could stick it away Half a crate o' whisky every day Aristotle,Aristotle,was a bugger for the bottle Awfully fond of his dram And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart "I drink therefore I am" Yes,Socrates himself is particularly missed A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed
A Persian kitten perfumed and fair Strolled out to the kitchen door for air A Tom cat big, light, lean and strong And dirty and yella came along He sniffed at the perfumed Persian cat As she strutted around with much eclat Then thinking a little time to pass He whispered baby you sure got class It's fitting and proper was her reply As she arched the whiskers over her eye I'm ribboned and I sleep on a pillow of silk And daily I'm bathed in certified milk Folks oughta be happy with what they've got I oughta be happy, but happy I'm not I oughta be happy yes I should indeed Because I'm certainly highly pedigreed Cheer up said the tom cat with a smile And trust your new found friend for awhile You oughta escape from your back yard fence Ah my dear what you need is experience Untold tales he then unfurled He told her all the tales about the outside world Suggesting at last with a luring laugh A trip for two down Primrose Path The morning after the night before Our Persian came home about half passed four The innocent look in her eye had went But the smile on her face was the smile of content In the after years when the children came To this pedigreed Persian of pedigreed fame The children weren't Persian; they were black and tan And she told them that their Dad was a traveling man A rootin' tootin' scratchin' traveling man
When You're Driving Through The Moonlight/A Lovely Night
When You're Driving Through The Moonlight/A Lovely Night Composer(s): Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)
Cinderella: I imagine.. I imagine.. When you're driving through the moonlight on a highway when through the moonlight to a dance you are breathless with a wild anticipation of adventure and excitement and romance Then at last you see the towers of the palace silouetted on the sky above the park and below them is a row of lighted windows like a lovely diamond necklace in the dark
Esmerelda: It looks that way
Prunella: The way you say
Evil Stepmother: She talks as if she knows
Cinderella: I do not know these things are so I only just suppose I suppose that when you come into the ballroom and the room itself is floating on the air If you're suddenly confronted by his highness you are frozen like a statue on the stair You're afraid he'll hear the way your heart is beating and you know you musn't make the first advance You are seriously thinking of retreating then you seem to hear him asking you to dance You make a bow, a timid bow, and shyly answer yes
Evil Stepmother: How would you know that this is so?
Cinderella: I do no more than guess, I do no more than guess
Cinderella: He is tall
Esmerelda: And straight as a lance
Cinderella: His eyes
Prunella: Can melt you with a glance
Cinderella: Yes I can picture the whole thing how you start thinking
Esmerelda: Start thinking what?
Cinderella: Thinking how wonderful it all is
Evil Stepmother: How wonderful what all is?
Cinderella: Everything
Evil Stepmother: Enough of this nonsense Esmerelda, Prunella, upstairs both of you and get your sleep
Esmerelda & Prunella: Yes ma'am
Evil Stepmother: Cinderella, here is your broom Get To Work!!!
Cinderella: I don't mind sweeping This night is mine and no one and nothing can take it from me
....A lovely night, a lovely night, a finer night you'll know you'll never see You meet your prince, a charming prince as charming as a prince will ever be The stars in the hazy heaven tremble above you while he is whispering darling I love you You say goodbye, away you fly but on your lips you'll keep a kiss all your life you'll dream of this lovely, lovely night A lovely night, a lovely night, a finer night you'll know you'll never see You meet your prince, a charming prince as charming as a prince will ever be The stars in the hazy heaven tremble above you while he is whispering darling I love you You say goodbye, away you fly but on your lips you'll keep a kiss all your life you'll dream of this lovely, lovely night You say goodbye, away you fly but on your lips you'll keep a kiss all your life you'll dream of this lovely, lovely, lovely night
Remember Me Composer(s): Harry Warren; Al Dubin Performer(s): Bing Crosby; and various other artists
Do you remember one September afternoon I stood with you and listened to a wedding tune And didn't I go with you on your honeymoon? Remember me?
Do you recall a cottage small upon a hill Where ev'ry day I had to pay another bill? And if I'm not mistaken, dear, I pay them still Remember me?
I can see that little angel on your knee Can't you see, He kinda sorta looks like me For I'm the boy whose only joy is loving you Who worries till he hurries home when day is thru And I'm the guy you give your goodnight kisses to Remember me?
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Composer(s): Robbie Robertson First release by: The Band - 1969 Covered by multiple other artists
Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train 'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive By May the tenth, Richmond had fell It's a time I remember, oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing They went, "La, la, la"
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me "Virgil, quick, come see, there go the Robert E.Lee" Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest But they should never have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went, "La, la, la"
Like my father before me, I will work the land And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the mud below my feet You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went, "Na, na, na"
The night they drove old Dixie down And all the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing They went, "Na, na, na"
The Adultress Composer(s): Chrissie Hynde Performer(s): The Pretenders
I'm the adultress But I didn't want to be and I'm convenient And I make good tea I stand accused Of the worst crime in history That's my mystery I'm the adultress
I go to the park With a bag of crumbs for the birds That's where we meet without words He takes my hand And stares into the wood There's nothing to understand It's understood I'm the adultress
Look at the fool Made up to go out She's desperate and lonely But she's puttin' it about Look at the spinster Comin' down off the shelf She's in love and she hates herself
Don't try to stop me Don't get in my way It's too late I've made my play Does misery love company I'll be in the bar You'll find me
Remember Me Composer(s): Nickolas Ashford; Valerie Simpson Performer(s): Diana Ross
Bye baby, see you around Didn't I tell you I wouldn't hold you down Take good care of yourself, y'hear Don't let me hear about you shedding a tear You're gonna make it You're gonna take it
Remember me as a sunny day That you once had, along the way Didn't I inspire you a little higher Remember me as a funny clown That made you laugh when you were down Didn't I boy, didn't I boy
Remember me as a big balloon At a carnaval that ended too soon Remember me as a breath of spring Remember me as a good thing
Bye baby, see you around I already know about the new love you've found What can I do but wish you well What we had was really swell I won't forget it, I have no regrets
Remember me as a sound of laughter And my face the morning after Didn't the sky beckon us to fly? Yes, you'l remember the times we fought But don't forget me in your tender thoughts Please darlin' oh yeah
Remember me when you drink the wine Of sweet succes and I gave you my best Remember me every song you sing Remember me as a good thing
Remember me as a sunny day Please darling, remember me as a good thing Remember me when you drink the wine Remember me as a good thing Remember me as a big balloon Don't forget me darling
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia Composer(s): Bobby Russell First release by: Vicki Lawrence - 1972
He was on his way home from Candletop Been two weeks gone and he thought he'd stop At William's and have him a drink 'fore he went home to her Andy Wolloe said "Hello" And he said "Hi, what's doin', Wo?" "Seth, sit down, I got some bad news, it's gonna hurt" He said "I'm your best friend and you know that's right" "But your young bride ain't home tonight" "Since you been gone she's been seein' that Amos boy, Seth" Well, he got mad 'n' he saw red and Andy said "Boy, don'tcha lose your head" "'Cause to tell ya the truth, I been with her myself"
That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia That's the night that they hung an innocent man Well, don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer 'cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands
Well, Andy got scared and left the bar Walkin' on home 'cause he didn't live far See, Andy didn't have many friends and he'd just lost him one Brother thought his wife musta left town So he went home and finally found The only thing Papa had left him, that was a gun
And he went off to Andy's house A'skippin' through the backwoods quiet as a mouse Came upon some tracks too small for Andy to make He looked through the screen at the back-porch door And he saw Andy lyin' on the floor In a puddle of blood and he started to shake
Well, the Georgia Patrol was a'makin' their rounds So he fired a shot just to flag 'em down And a big-bellied sheriff got his gun and said "why'dya do it?" And the judge said "Guilty" in a make-believe trial And slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile Said' supper's waitin' at home and I gotta get to it"
That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia That's the night that they hung an innocent man Well, don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer 'cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands
Well, they hung my brother before I could say The tracks he saw while on his way To Andy's house and back that night were mine And his cheatin' wife had never left town And that's one body that'll never be found See, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun
That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia, oh-oh-aah That's the night that they hung an innocent man, ah-huh-unh Well, don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer
'Cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands
The Night The Floor Fell In Composer(s): Ken Wheeley Performer(s): Billy Cotton & His Band
Charlie and his missus were a happy-go-lucky pair They threw a party every Saturday night With all of their relations, like the league of nations there It nearly always ended in a fight But there was one occasion on which they did agree And then they brought the house down with their joviality
They danced the boomps-a-daisy And then the palais glide They did the hokey-cokey And laughed until they cried And when they had a knees-up And everyone joined in The only night they never fell out The blinkin floor fell in
Oh my, it wasnt half a do With everybody happy Though they were black and blue Oh my, it really was a sin The only night they never fell out The night the floor fell in
Now Mrs. Brown was bending To button up her shoe Just then the carpet parted And she went sailing through They heard her saying after She put her teeth back in The only time they ever fell out The blinkin floor fell in
Oh my, it wasnt half a do With everybody happy Though they were black and blue Oh my, it really was a sin The only night they never fell out The night the floor fell in
An old cowpoke was sleeping Down in the room below A-dreamin of the dogies And cows he used to know And then the ceiling opened He got an awful fright He said, Them riders in the sky Is ridin low tonight
Oh my, it wasnt half a do With everybody happy Though they were black and blue Oh my, it really was a sin The only night they never fell out The night the floor fell in
Now Charlie learnt his lesson Like all good men and true When he was at a party He knew just what to do If anyone was fighting He covered up his chin And for a dance he padded his pants In case the floor fell in
Oh my, it wasnt half a do With everybody happy Though they were black and blue Oh my, it really was a sin The only night they never fell out I wondered what all the noise was about The only night they never fell out The night the floor fell in
