Retro-Songteksten: Evergreens, Classics, Old-Time Favourites, Hits Uit Onze Jeugd
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Sound Of Your Name ((French Version: Ton Nom (Charles Aznavour)) Composer(s): Herbert Kretzmer - Charles Aznavour Performer(s): Charles Aznavour & Liza Minnelli
The sound of your name comes to me any hour On the wings of the wind, like the scent of a flower How can I explain its impossible power The sound of your name
The sound of your name is a valentine greeting A dare when it rings and a heart when it's beating And alone in a cell where all things keep repeating The sound of your name
Your name is a song that I long to be writing The music is strong and the words are inviting Exchangeable melodies, strangely exciting I found in your name
The sound of your name can bring times of desire That flares like a plane as it climbs ever higher That burns in my senses and turns then to fire The sound of your name
But love is a game that can't easily change The players discover the risk and the dangers We started as lovers, we ended as strangers Now where can I turn
Your name is the ghost of a chance that you gave me That original day, just enough when plainly And only my grief, what is there that can tame me If you don't return
As night in my dreams you are there, an obsession I whisper your name, I expel a confession You've entered my soul and you've taken possession And who can I blame
For you are the heaven on earth that I sigh for The high unattainable moon that I cry for As long as I live, I will live and I'll die for The sound of your name
Skeleton And The Roundabout Composer(s): Jeff Lynne Performer(s): The Idle Race
Climb aboard my roundabout Climb aboard my roundabout I am the fairground man at heart I run the roundabout this part I fill this fair but custom have I none
I turn the handle round so fast it makes my elbow ache Nobody seems to care No-one rides upon my roundabout no longer anymore Oh what a horrid fair!
Climb aboard my roundabout Climb aboard my roundabout Climb aboard my roundabout Climb aboard my roundabout
Money there is none - I'm thinner than a skeleton
But wait a minute, I'm so thin That all these aches and pains could be a chance for me I could be a horror or a ghost in a ghost train I think I'll go and see
I meet the man who runs the ghost train He says, "You're just great! I'll pay you top class wages If you'll just hang from this gate"
A year is passing lots of food and money come my way Oh lucky man am I But who's this telling me, "You're fired! You're much too fat to be a ghost, be on your way!" So here I am
Climb aboard my roundabout Climb aboard my roundabout Climb aboard my roundabout Climb aboard my roundabout
Maria Composer(s): Richard Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II First release by: Patricia Neway, Elizabeth Howell, Muriel O'Malley, Karen Shepard - 1959 Covered by multiple other artists
She climbs a tree and scrapes her knee Her dress has got a tear She waltzes on her way to Mass And whistles on the stair And underneath her wimple She has curlers in her hair I even heard her singing in the abbey
She's always late for chapel But her penitence is real She's always late for everything Except for every meal I hate to have to say it But I very firmly feel Maria's not an asset to the abbey
I'd like to say a word in her behalf Maria makes me laugh
How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? How do you find a word that means Maria? A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her Many a thing she ought to understand But how do you make her stay And listen to all you say How do you keep a wave upon the sand
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
When I'm with her I'm confused Out of focus and bemused And I never know exactly where I am Unpredictable as weather She's as flighty as a feather She's a darling! She's a demon! She's a lamb!
She'd outpester any pest Drive a hornet from its nest She could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl She is gentle! She is wild! She's a riddle! She's a child! She's a headache! She's an angel! She's a girl!
How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? How do you find a word that means Maria? A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her Many a thing she ought to understand But how do you make her stay And listen to all you say How do you keep a wave upon the sand
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
The Six Teens Composer(s): Mike Chapman - Nicky Chinn First release by: Sweet - 1974
Where were you in sixty-eight In sixty-eight Julie was Johnnie's date Two kids growin' together Livin' each day as if time was slippin' away Oh, they were just sixteen And their love a teenage dream They passed the time, they crossed the line The line that ran between Julie and Johnnie now you've made it But life goes on, you know it ain't easy You've just gotta be strong If you're one of the sixteens And life goes on, you know, you know it ain't easy You know you'll never go wrong 'Cause you're all part of the sixteens
Suzie and Davey got to make the big time Maybe they can put it all together In a show that lasts forever Oh they would walk the strip at nights And dream they saw their name in lights On Desolation boulevard They'll light the faded light Suzie and Davey you can make it
But life goes on, you know it ain't easy You've just gotta be strong If you're one of the sixteens And life goes on, you know, you know it ain't easy You know you'll never go wrong 'Cause you're all part of the sixteens
So where were you in sixty-eight When Bobby and Billy thought That sixty eight was out of date They took the flowers from their hair And tried to make us all aware Too bad, too late So they lived from day to day And tried to do it all their way But sixty-eight was sixty-eight No matter what they say Bobby and Billy maybe you'll make it one day...
Colour My World Composer(s): Tony Hatch; James Pankow; Jackie Trent Performer(s): Petula Clark
You'll never see a dark cloud hanging 'round me Now there is only blue sky to surround me There's never been a gray day since you found me Everything I touch is turning to gold
So you can colour my world with sunshine yellow each day Oh you can colour my world with happiness all the way Just take the green from the grass and the blue from the sky up above And if you colour my world, just paint it with your love Just colour my world
Just as long as I know you're thinking of me There'll be a rainbow always up above me Since I found the one who really loves me Everything I touch is turning to gold
So you can colour my world with sunshine yellow each day Oh you can colour my world with happiness all the way Just take the green from the grass & the blue from the sky up above And if you colour my world, just paint it with your love Just colour my world
So you can colour my world with sunshine yellow each day Oh you can colour my world with happiness all the way Just take the green from the grass and the blue from the sky up above And if you colour my world, just paint it with your love Just colour my world
Riding With The King Composer(s): John Hiatt Performer(s): John Hiatt; and various other artists
I dreamed I had a good job and I got well paid I blew it all at the penny arcade A hundred dollars on a Kewpie doll No pretty chick is gonna make me crawl
We're on a TWA to the promised land Every woman, child and man Get a Cadillac and a great big diamond ring Don't you know you're riding with the king?
He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier He's gonna check us all on out of here Up to that mansion on a hill Where you can get your prescription filled
We're on a TWA to the promised land Everybody clap your hands And don't you just love the way that he sings? Don't you know we're riding with the king? Riding with the king Don't you know we're riding with the king?
A tuxedo and shiny 335 You can see it in his face, the blue never lie Tonight everybody's getting their angel wings And don't you know we're riding with the king?
I stepped out of Mississippi when I was ten years old With a suit cut sharp as a razor and a heart made of gold I had a guitar hanging just about waist high And I'm gonna play this thing until the day I die Don't you know we're riding with the king? Don't you know we're riding with the king? Riding, you're riding with the king You're riding, you're riding with the king
De Mooiste Muziek ((Adapted from: Sound Of Music (Mary Martin) - 1959)) Composer(s): Richard Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II - Joris Lutz - Luc Lutz Performer(s): Ann De Winne - 1998
Een dag op de berg, vliegt om voor je t weet, zo vlug Een ster die verdwijnt, die leidt mij naar huis terug Maar diep in mijn hart weerklinkt dan een stem die me zegt niet te gaan En ik luister en hoop vol verlangen op nog een lied Mijn lievelingsmelodie voor ik slapen ga
De mooiste muziek, rijk aan melodieën Weerklinkt door het dal, van dit schone land Vervult heel mijn hart met zn melodieën Aan ieder lied heb ik mijn hart verpand
Mijn hart slaat op hol en ik zweef door de lucht Als een vogel zo vrank en zo vrij en kijk in mijn vlucht Als een kind dat droomt naar het land onder mij
Daar stroomt een rivier Als een zilveren lint in een luchtspiegeling Ik voel mij zo vrij als een biddende vogel en zing
Ik vlucht hier naartoe als ik mij alleen voel Dan hoor ik muziek waar ik zo van hou Mijn hart is verrukt Want die melodieën zijn mij zo vertrouwd
The Simple Joys Of Maidenhood Composer(s): Alan Jay Lerner - Frederick Loewe Performer(s): Julie Andrews and multiple other artists
Where are the simple joys of maidenhood? Where are all those adoring daring boys? Where's the knight pining so for me he leaps to death in woe for me? Oh where are a maiden's simple joys?
Shan't I have the normal life a maiden should? Shall I never be rescued in the wood? Shall two knights never tilt for me and let their blood be spilt for me? Oh where are the simple joys of maidenhood?
Shall I not be on a pedestal, Worshipped and competed for? Not be carried off, or better st'll, Cause a little war? Where are the simple joys of maidenhood?
Are those sweet, gentle pleasures gone for good? Shall a feud not begin for me? Shall kith not kill their kin for me? Oh where are the trivial joys? Harmless, convivial joys? Where are the simple joys of maidenhood?
Cold Love Composer(s): Pete Bellotte; Harold Faltermeyer; Keith Forsey Performer(s): Donna Summer; Motors
I'm walking the line I'm walking the line treading thin ice time after time
I go for the best, end up with much less I need the real thing forget all the rest
started out good working out bad all the sweet love turner sour and sad
a face and name it's always the same so tired of playing love's foolish games tell me why love passes me by
Cold love, cold love another shot of rock'n'roll love cold love, cold love whatever happened to that good old love tell me why, tell me why, tell me why tell me why, tell me why
Hope in the dark, love in the light I'll keep on looking for someone who's right
I'm out for the best can you stand the test I need the real thing no more and no less tell me why love passes me by
Cold love, cold love another shot of rock'n'roll love cold love, cold love whatever happened to that good old love tell me why, tell me why, tell me why tell me why, tell me why
Riding With Private Malone Composer(s): Wood Newton; Thom Shepherd Performer(s): David Ball
I was just out of the service Thumbin' through the classifieds When an ad that said "Old Chevy" Somehow caught my eye The lady didn't know the year Or even if it ran But I had that thousand dollars in my hand It was way back in the corner of this old ramshackle barn With thirty years of dust and dirt on that green army tarp And when I pulled the cover off It took away my breath What she called a Chevy Was a sixty-six Corvette And I felt a little guilty as I counted out the bills But what a thrill I got When I sat behind the wheel I opened up the glovebox And that's when I found the note The date was 1966 and this is what he wrote
He said my name is Private Andrew Malone And if your readin' this, then I didn't make it home But for every dream that's shattered Another one comes true This car was once a dream of mine Now it belongs to you Though you may take her and make her your own You'll always be riding with Private Malone
Well it didn't take me long at all I had her runnin' good I loved to hear those horses thunder underneath her hood I had her shinin' like a diamond and I put the rag top down All the pretty girls would stop and stare as I drove her through town The buttons on the radio didn't seem to work quite right But it picked up that Oldie's Show Especially late at night I get the feelin' sometimes If I turned real quick I'd see A soldier ridin' shotgun In the seat right next to me
It was a young man named Private Andrew Malone Who fought for his country and never made it home But for every dream that's shattered There's another that comes true This car was once a dream of his back when it was new He told me to take her and make her my own And I was proud to be riding with Private Malone
Well one night it was rainin' hard I took the curve too fast I still don't remember much about that firey crash But someone said they thought they saw a soldier pull me out They didn't get his name But I know without a doubt
It was a young man named Private Andrew Malone Who fought for his country and never made it home But for every dream that's shattered There's another that comes true This car was once a dream of his back when it was new And I know I wouldn't be here if he hadn't tagged along Yeah that night I was riding with Private Malone
Sound Of Music ((Dutch Version: De Mooiste Muziek (Ann De Winne) - 1998)) Composer(s): Richard Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II First performance/First release by: Mary Martin - 1959 Covered by multiple other artists
The hills are alive with the sound of music With songs they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music My heart wants to sing every song it hears
My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely I know I will hear what I've heard before My heart will be blessed with the sound of music And I'll sing once more
The Silky Veils Of Ardor Composer(s): Joni Mitchell First release by: Joni Mitchell - 1977
I am a poor wayfaring stranger Traveling through all these highs and lows I heard there was no sickness And no toil or danger Just mercy and plenty Where peaceful waters flow Where peaceful waters flow
Come all you fair and tender school girls Be careful now--when you court young men They are like the stars On a summer morning They sparkle up the night And they're gone again Daybreak--gone again
If I'd only seen through the silky veils of ardor What a killing crime this love can be I would have locked up my heart In a golden sheath of armor And kept its crazy beating Under strictest secrecy High security
I wish I had the wings Of Noah's pretty little white dove So I could fly this raging river To reach the one I love But I have no wings And the water is so wide We'll have to row a little harder It's just in dreams we fly In my dreams we fly!
Cold Hearted Composer(s): Gary Moore Performer(s): Gary Moore
I'm a man with something to say I don't need nobody to show me the way I don't care if it's day or if it's night Ain't nobody gonna teach me wrong from right
'Cause every hungry woman Has tried to make a fool out of me Every hungry woman Stick around and baby you'll see
I'm cold hearted I'm so cold hearted
I'm a man with a mind of my own I don't need nobody, I'm happy all alone I don't care if it's day or if it's night Ain't nobody gonna teach me wrong from right
'Cause every hungry woman Has tried to make a fool out of me Every hungry woman Stick around and baby you'll see
I'm cold hearted So cold hearted I'm cold hearted So cold hearted
Let me show you why they call me cold hearted, baby
Every hungry woman Has tried to make a fool out of me Every hungry woman Stick around and baby you'll see
I'm cold hearted So cold hearted I'm cold hearted So cold hearted
Baby, I tell you I've got a heart that's made of stone
Riding The Rainbow Composer(s): Ben Weisman; Fred Wise Performer(s): Elvis Presley
I'm ridin' the rainbow
hittin' the highway to happiness Oh yes, I'm looking to find someone whose meant to be mine (I'm livin' to love) I'm livin' to love (And lovin' to live) And lovin' to live (I've got a heart) I've got a heart (I'm longing to give) I'm longing to give (Oh-oh-ooh) I'm riding the rainbow I'll follow my star to where you are
I'm ridin' the rainbow, headin' for heaven and happiness I guess somebody somewhere, someday will teach me to care (But bein' alone) But bein' alone (Don't bother me) Don't bother me (I'm free to have fun) I'm free to have fun (It's fun to be free) It's fun to be free (I-I-I) I'm riding the rainbow, I'll follow my star I'm riding the rainbow to where you are
So Long, Farewell Composer(s): Richard Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II First performance/First release by: Mary Martin & Theodore Bikel - 1959 Covered by multiple other artists
Children: There's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall And the bells in the steeple too And up in the nursery an absurd little bird Is popping out to say "cuckoo" Marta, Gretl, Brigitta: Cuckoo, cuckoo
Children: Marta, Gretl, Brigitta: Regretfully they tell us Cuckoo, cuckoo But firmly they compel us Cuckoo, cuckoo To say goodbye... Marta, Gretl, Brigitta: Cuckoo!
Children: ... to you
Children: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
Marta: I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
Children: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Friedrich: Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu
Children: So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen
Liesl: I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne
Children: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
Kurt: I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye -- Goodbye!
Brigitta: I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a lie
Louisa: I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly
Gretl: The sun has gone to bed and so must I
Children: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Cold Grey Light Of Dawn Composer(s): Ivory Joe Hunter Performer(s): Nick Lowe; Ivory Joe Hunter; Charlie Musselwhite
That old alarm clock gives a yell starting another day in hell passing a world I can't face with you gone in the mirror I see someone to choose to be me and I turn blue in the cold grey light of dawn The Neon light and the jukebox help to ease me through the night I lean hard on the bottle 'til I no longer stand up right in the morning in my room I'm like a body in a tomb Those same three walls keep coming on kind of strong Down the freeway when I drive more dead than alive and I turn blue in the cold grey light of dawn The Neon light and the jukebox help to ease me through the night I lean hard on the bottle 'til I no longer stand up right in the morning in my room I feel like a body in a tomb Those same three walls keep coming on kind of strong Down the freeway then I drive more dead than alive and I turn blue in the cold grey light of dawn I turn blue in the cold grey light of dawn
Riding In The TT Races Composer(s): Gifford Cliffe Performer(s): George Formby
If theres one thing that I like
it's riding around on a motor-bike I'm a speed king, when I once begin I once won first prize two and six, I know all the dirt track dirty tricks I'm a marvel when I'm out to win In a fifty mile race I am the best, I ride five miles and skid the rest
So come along and see me riding in the T.T. races Easier than hop scotch, beating all the top notch aces I've been riding all my life, I started quite small I've ridden fairy cycles, aye, and scooters and all Hear the people cheer me when they see me steering backwards Down the hill I go at break-neck speed See me coming down the street with the winning post on the pillion seat Oh! Come along and see me riding in the T.T. race
Come along and see me riding in the T.T. races Easier than hop scotch, beating all the top notch aces Once my bike was hard to ride, but I didn't mind Until I found they'd hitched a charabanc on behind Everybody's scaring, I am such a daring rider My inside rattles when I go the pace My ribs begin to shake about, there's all my spare parts sticking out So come along and see me riding in the T.T. race
Alternative ending: With my gears in reverse, the other way round I'll finish first Oh! Come along and see me riding in the T.T. race
