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Going Back West

Going Back West
Composer(s): Jimmy Cliff
Performer(s): Jimmy Cliff; Boney M.



I was born and raised in the ghetto
Talk with me and you'll know
I wasn't satisfied, with living on the side
I started looking around, for a possibility

Listen to my story, of what became of me

I met a businessman
Who said he had some friends back east
So why don't you come along
Well we can help you at least
We'll make you into a big star
By playing your guitar
But the joke was on me
They left me flat to see

Going back west
Yes I know I'll make out alright
Going back west
Where my music's playing all night
Going back west (going back west)
I think I'll do alright

Going back west
Yes I know I'll make out alright
Going back west
Where my music's playing all night
Going back west (going back west)
I think I'll do alright

Struggling for recognition, identity and respect
I got a lot of promises
They told me not to fret
So we will stand by you
If the going gets rough
But when I started thinking
They didn't even bluff

'bout a year has come and gone
And left me standing here
Thinking how it could have been
For still I ain't nowhere
They surely took me for a ride
Trampled on my pride
But I hold my head up high
Got no more tears to cry

Going back west
Yes I know I'll make out alright
Going back west
Where my music's playing all night
Going back west (going back west)
I think I'll do alright

Going back west
Yes I know I'll make out alright
Going back west
Where my music's playing all night
Going back west (going back west)
I think I'll do alright

Going back west
Yes I know I'll make out alright
Going back west
Where my music's playing all night

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Tapioca Tundra


Tapioca Tundra
Composer(s): Michael Nesmith
Performer(s): The Monkees; R. Stevie Moore



Reasoned verse, some prose or rhyme
Lose themselves in other times
And waiting hopes cast cast silent spells
That speak in clouded clues
It cannot be a part of me
For now it's part of you

Careful plays on fields
That seems to vanish when they're in between
And softly as I walk away
In freshly tattered shoe
It cannot be a part of me
For now it's part of you

Sunshine, ragtime
Blowing in the breeze
Midnight, looks right
Standing more at ease

Silhouettes and figures stay
Close to what he had to say
And one more time the faded dream
Is saddened by the news
It cannot be a part of me
For now it's part of you

Well, Sunshine, ragtime
Blowing in the breeze
Midnight, looks right
Standing more at ease

Sunshine, ragtime
Blowing in the breeze
Midnight, looks right
Standing more at ease

Silhouettes and figures stay
Close to what he had to say
And one more time the faded dream
Is saddened by the news
It cannot be a part of me
For now it's part of you

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Muñequita Negra


Muñequita Negra
Composer(s): José Alfredo Jiménez
Performer(s): José Alfredo Jiménez; Los Panchos



Muñequita negra duermete conmigo
duermete en mis brazos que tanto te quieren
porque son tu abrigo
muñequita negra del color del mio

vete acurrucando hasta que se vaya
de tu cuerpo el frío
cierra tus ojitos caya tu boquita
y acurricadita como ya te dije

duermete feliz olvida que el mundo
va a ser cruel contigo
y piensa que nunca nunca
en la vida tendras que sufrir

como un angelito sueña con las cosas
que a ti mas te gusten
como un angelito sueña con las cosas
bonitas de dios

mulequita negra duermete conmigo
duermete en mis brazo que tanto te quieren
porque son tu abrigo
muñequita negra del color del mio

vete acurrucando hasta que se vaya
de tu cuerpo el frío
muñequita negra, muñequita negra

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Going Back To Georgia


Going Back To Georgia
Composer(s): Brian Claflin;
Adam Duritz; Nanci Griffith
Performer(s): Nanci Griffith; Bill & Bonnie Hearne



Oh the city snow makes your brown eyes shine
We've gotta look real hard to find a reason to cry
New York, New York is a friend of the traveling kind
And I'm coming around from years of hard times
He's chased me down through the towns and the miles
Once stilled by love he was bound to roll on by

Chorus

And if you feel my love won't leave you
And if your sorrow has been your share
If you are traveling back to Georgia
(oo ooo back to Georgia)
Won't you take me with you there
Well I'm long gone darlin', lonesome blue
I been thinking of leavin', I been thinkin' o you
But that big city singin' man, I like the way that it shines
I was half a mile from Canada waitin' on a train
Wonderin' and wishin' I could disappear again
I been killed by love still it takes me to the end of the line

Chorus:

And if you feel my love won't leave you
And if your sorrow has been your share
If you are traveling back to Georgia
(oo ooo back to Georgia)
Won't you take me with you there
Well, I been troubled by a love untrue
He's a fool who'll drown in his fountain of youth
I can see that now as I'm walkin' and talkin' with you
Well, I been blinded by the sun, washed in the rain
Scattered in America, I'm scatterin' again
But if you're goin' south darlin, I guess I'm travelin' with you

Chorus

Chorus

Take me with you ...
Oh .... won't you take me home

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Tapestry


Tapestry
Composer(s): Carole King
First release by: Carole King - 1970
Covered by multiple other artists



My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue
an everlasting vision of the ever-changing view
A wonderous, woven magic in bits of blue and gold
a tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold

Once amid the soft, silver sadness in the sky
there came a man of fortune, a drifter passing by
He wore a torn and tattered cloth around his leathered hide
and a coat of many colors, yellow-green on either side

He moved with some uncertainty as if he didn't know
just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
Once he reached for something, golden hanging from a tree
and his hand came down empty...

Soon within my tapestry along the rugged road
he sat down on a river rock and turned into a toad
It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell
and I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well
As I watched in sorrow, there suddenly appeared
a figure gray and ghostly beneath the flowing beard
in times of deepest darkness I've seen him dressed in black
now my tapestry's unraveling, he's come to take me back
He's come to take me back

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Muñeca De Cera


Muñeca De Cera (Adapted from: Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son - 1965) Composer(s): Serge Gainsbourg Performer(s): Karina - 1965 Titles In Other Languages: 1965 - A Lonely Singing Doll 1965 - Boneca De Cera, Boneca De Pano 1965 - Lille Dukke



Soy tan sólo una muñeca que no sabe de amor
El corazón pongo en mi canción (poupée de cire, poupée de son)

Soy de seda, soy de trapo, pero no de salón
Mi vida es dulce como un bombón (poupée de cire, poupée de son)

En mis discos pueden ver mi corazón tal como es
Y mi voz se puede oír en todas partes a la vez

Todas las demás muñecas ríen alrededor
Eso es que bailan con mi canción (poupée de cire, poupée de son)

Esas mismas que se mueven por un sí, por un no
Esas que juegan con el amor (poupée de cire, poupée de son)

Lalalalala lalalala lalala lalalala

En mis discos pueden ver mi corazón tal como es
Y mi voz se puede oír en todas partes a la vez

Me pregunto cada instante por qué canto al amor
Si todavía mi corazón ninguna vez se enamoró

Soy tan sólo una muñeca que no sabe de amor
Con los cabellos igual que el sol (poupée de cire, poupée de son)

Pero algún día sabré de amor (poupée de cire, poupée de son)
Pero algún día sabré de amor (poupée de cire, poupée de son)

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Going Back


Going Back
Composer(s): Barkam; Adams
Performer(s): Olivia Newton-John



I wanna go back to those sweet and simple days
Goin' back to that cheerful little place
Goin' back, back through time
Back through space, goin' back

Do you remember when we had such fun
Playing all those happy games in the sun
We didn't have too much to think about
All our problems had a way of working out

I wanna go back to those sweet and simple days
Goin' back to that cheerful little place
Goin' back, back through time
Back through space, goin' back

Skipping through the park and holding hands
We were building castles in the sand
Everything was rosy way back then
Oh, come on, let's make it happen again

I wanna go back to those sweet and simple days
Goin' back to that cheerful little place
Goin' back, back through time
Back through space, goin' back

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Tap Turns On The Water


Tap Turns On The Water
Composer(s): J. Cameron - Alexis Korner
Performer(s): CCS



Peak through the bathroom door
Did you ever - did you ever
See a sister in the raw?
Did you ever - did you ever
Swear you could booze all night?
Did you ever - did you ever
Sweatin' hard and you turn in white?
Did you ever - did you ever
They're wrong so you're cutting out
Did you ever - did you ever
Back to the window and they were gone out
Yes you did - you only did

Tap turns on the water, see the waters flow
Eight corn makes a forest, watch the forest grow
Everything's behind you, everything's become
Come and ride a river, come and find the sun

Now's the time to get up and do it
Don't blame it to the right
When there's so much to be done
Now's the time to forget that you flew it
Left time to do it right
'Cause the jubelee has come

Tap turns on the water, see the waters flow
Eight corn makes a forest, watch the forest grow
Tap turns on the water, see the waters flow
Eight corn makes a forest, watch the forest grow

Tap turns on the water, see the waters flow
Eight corn makes a forest, watch the forest grow
Tap turns on the water, see the waters flow
Eight corn makes a forest, watch the forest grow...

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Muñeca


Muñeca
Composer(s): Miguel Gallardo; K.C. Porter; M. Spiro
Performer(s): Miguel Gallardo



Eras la luz de mis ojos, mi muñeca de cristal
eras, mujer, como una flor, que no se deja cortar
Y ahora que vuelvo a encontrarte, tu mirada se endureció
y aquella piel que tanto amé, la droga te la quemó
Vives deprisa, muñeca, y así te vas a matar
eras la Reina de mi amor, y ahora, ¡qué pena me das!
Fuíste mi sueño imposible, lo que nunca logré tocar
y en cambio hoy, el cuerpo aquél, lo vendes para “volar”
Vives deprisa, muñeca, y así te vas a matar
eras la Reina de mi amor, y ahora, ¡qué pena me das!
Hubiera dado hasta mi vida ayer
por ser tu sombra o tu perro fiel
te quise amar, pero ya ves
la droga es tu “gran amor”
Vives deprisa, muñeca, y así te vas a matar
eras la Reina de mi amor, y ahora, ¡qué pena me das!

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Goin' To The Bank


Goin' To The Bank
Composer(s): Franne Golde; Andy Goldmark; Dennis Lambert
Performer(s): The Commodores



She knows I want her
she knows I need her

she knows she got my love
But I'm apprehensive
she's so expensive
girl

just can't get enough
I'm the one who does 9 to 5
hustlin' for my bread

While she's decidin' what dress to buy

layin' around in my bed

Goin' to the bank
she got me goin' to the bank
She keeps me runnin' to the bank
she got me
got me

Drives my Mercedes
lunch with the ladies

she loves the finer things
What have I created

now I'm afraid to see what tomorrow brings
She don't know what it does to me trying to keep her in line

If love is iust a big charge account

why'd it have to be mine?

Goin' to the bank
she got me goin' to the bank
She keeps me runnin' to the bank
she got me
got me

Hello! - Oh hi
can I help you today?
Yeah
I'd like to make another withdrawal
Again? - Yeah
again
Well
as you know
by now there is a substantial penalty for early withdrawal

She knows I love her
knows how I need her

she knows I really care
I can't afford her

I should've taught her I ain't no billionaire
Gotta get her to understand soon the will be dry

If she don't love the simple things
maybe I'm the wrong guy

Goin' to the bank
she got me goin' to the bank
She keeps me runnin' to the bank
she got me
got me

She thinks she saves me money buyin' everything on sale
But she believes in quantity
now I'm afraid to open my mail
Goin' to the bank
she got me goin' to the bank

Now the girl's gotta look good for me

but this is going too far
'Cause she won't feel so beautiful when they repossess my car
Goin' to the b-a-n-k
she got me goin' to the bank

Goin' to the bank
she got me goin' to the bank
She keeps me runnin' to the bank
she got me
got me.
Goin' to the b-a-n-k
B-a-n-k
B-a-n-k
B-a-n-k

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Tanto Mar


Tanto Mar
Composer(s): Chico Buarque
Performer(s): Chico Buarque; Maria Bethânia; Maria De Medeiros



Sei que estás em festa, pá
Fico contente
E enquanto estou ausente
Guarda um cravo pra mim

Eu queria estar na festa, pá
Com a tua gente
E colher pessoalmente
Uma flor do teu jardim

Sei que há léguas a nos separar
Tanto mar, tanto mar
Sei também que é preciso, pá
Navegar, navegar

Lá faz primavera, pá
Cá estou doente
Manda urgentemente
Algum cheirinho de alecrim

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Mummy's Boy


Mummy's Boy
Composer(s): Mark Bedford
Performer(s): Madness



(Oy!) in the pub, about seven thirty
Mother makes sure that his face ain't dirty
Him and mother go everywhere
Holds her hand without a care

Lived with mother for fourty years
The neighbourhood said that he must be queer
Normal folk a-just don't like that
Glad he can't hear behind his back

When mother dies, he will have a cry
'cos he'll be on his own
He's frightened stiff, would he come to this?
Will he lose her to the heavenly home?

In the pub, about seven thirty
Mother makes sure that his face ain't dirty
Him and mother go everywhere
Holds her hand without a care

Lived with mother for fourty years
The neighbourhood said that he must be queer
Normal folk a-just don't like that
Glad he can't hear behind his back

When mother dies, he'll have a cry
'cos he'll be on his own
He's frightened stiff, would he come to this?
Will he lose her to the heavenly home?

Once went out with a London girl
Dirty weekend in a hotel
Broke it off when she got shirty
She was twelve and he was thirty

Right after that he was bedsore
He wouldn't go out with girls no more
From that day since, he never has
He wants to do a-something dirty

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Goin' Steady


Goin' Steady
Composer(s): Faron Young
Performer(s): Faron Young;
and various other artists



Well, me and my baby are goin' steady
We ain't married but we're gettin' ready
To tie the knot and I'm gonna make her my own
Now that I've found her I'm gonna keep her
Finders keepers, losers weepers
She's my baby she's goin' steady with me

Well, I've been honky tonkin' round nearly all my life
But now I got a steady babe and I'm gonna make her my wife
All you rovin' ramblers can leave her alone
Don't even try to date her on the phone
'Cause she's my baby, she's goin' steady with me

Well, now sweet baby that we're goin' steady
I'll pull up and ask your daddy
What he thinks if you and I are wed
'Cause I love you and you love me
We're both as happy as can be
And I hope your daddy will let you go steady with me

Well, we'll get the rings and be on our way
To see the preacher man
And when you say I do sweetheart
I'll slip the ring on your loving hand
Everything's gonna turn out fine
I'll be yours and you'll be mine
'Cause you're my baby, you're goin' steady with me...

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Tanto Daño


Tanto Daño
Composer(s): Vicente Garrido
Performer(s): Javier Solís
and multiple other artists



Me haces daño fingiendo un cariño que nunca sentiste
me haces daño negando a mi vida tu sinceridad
Tus caricias me ofenden pues siempre te fui indiferente
tus halagos me insultan pues nunca dijiste verdad

Tanto daño me causa pensar que no puedes quererme
y que inútil ha sido el afán de mi eterna ansiedad
que me odio yo mismo por haber fracasado
y por ser tan pequeño mi amor para darte la felicidad

Tanto daño me causa pensar que no puedes quererme
y que inútil ha sido el afán de mi eterna ansiedad
que me odio yo mismo por haber fracasado
y por ser tan pequeño mi amor para darte la felicidad

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Multiplication


Multiplication
Composer(s): Bobby Darin
Originally performed by: Bobby Darin
Covered by various other artists



When you see a gentleman bee
Round a lady bee buzzin'
Just count to ten then count again
There's sure to be an even dozen

Multiplication
That's the name of the game
And each generation
They play the same

Now, there was two butterflies castin' their eyes
Both in the same direction
You'd never guess that one little yes
Could start a butterfly collection

Multiplication
That's the name of the game
And each generation
They play the same

Let me tell ya now …

I say one and one is five
You can call me a silly goat
But, ya take two minks add two winks
Ahhh … ya got one mink coat

When a girl gets coy in front of a boy
After three or four dances
Ah … you can just bet she'll play hard to get
To multiply her chances

Multiplication
That's the name of the game
And each generation
You know they play the same

Hear me talkin' to ya …

Mother Nature's a clever girl
She relies on habit
Ya take two hares with no cares
Pretty soon you got a room full of rabbits

Parakeets in-between tweets
Sometimes get too quiet
Uh-oh … but, have no fear 'cause soon you'll hear
A parakeet's riot just try it

Multiplication
That's the name of the game
And every generation
You know they play the same

Yes ... it's multiplication
That's the name of the game
And each generation
They play the same

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Goin' Out Of My Head


Goin' Out Of My Head
Spanish Title: Me Gusta Pensar En Ti
Composer(s): Teddy Randazzo; Bob Weinstein
Performer(s): Little Anthony & The Imperials



Well, I think I'm goin' out of my head
Yes, I think I'm goin' out of my head
Over you, Over you
I want you to want me, I need you so badly
I can't think of anything but you

And I think I'm goin' out of my head
Yes, I think I'm goin' out of my head
Over you, Over you

I see you each morning
But you just walk past me
You don't even know that I exist

Goin' out of my head over you
Out of my head over you
Out of my head day and night
Night and day and night
Wrong or right

I must think of a way
Into your heart
There's no reason why
My being shy Should keep us apart
And I think I'm goin' out of my head
Yes, I think I'm goin' out of my head

Goin' out of my head over you
Out of my head over you
Out of my head day and night
Night and day and night
Wrong or right
Night and day and night
Wrong or right, day or night
everyday, every, every day

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Tanto Cara


Tanto Cara
Composer(s): Alberto Mancinotti - Giorgio Zinzi - Piero Mirigliano
First release by: Guido Renzi - 1971



Cara
Ringrazio il cielo che mi ha datto te
Questa mia vita, ora è vita sai
Cercavo il sole, ora è qui con me
E nei tui occhi...

Grazie
Grazie di tutto quello che mi dai
La comprenzione il bene che mi vuoi
La tenerezza che io trovo in te
Mi fa fritare al mondo che sei
Cara...
Tanto cara è la mia bambina
Cerco...
Con un'altra mai la cambieri i
Ora...
Ora che non ti ero nulla
Solo...
Prego il Dio tenerti accanto me
Accanto me, accanto me, accanto me

Cara
Grazie di tutto quelo che mi dai
La comprenzione il bene che mi vuoi
La tenerezza che io trovo in te
Mi fa gritare al mondo che sei
Cara...
Tanto cara è la mia bambina
Cerco...

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Multi-Colored Lady


Multi-Colored Lady
Composer(s): Gregg Allman
Performer(s): Gregg Allman; Erik Viel



Got on a bus to Memphiiiss
Destination Rome...
Georgia aaaiin't no Paradiiisse, no place I could call hooooommmeee
I sat next to a broken hearted briiiiddeee
She was cryyyinn' tryyyyyin' so hard to hide
Her selfish sorrooooowwwww...

Multicolored Ladaaaaayyyy
You ain't like no rainbow I've ever seen...

Multicolored Laddaaayyy
Angry Red, Passion Blue, but mostlayyy

Shades of graaaayyyyyy

I tried to get her talkin'
She didn't have much to saaaaaayyyyyy
Asked me for a ticket to deeeaaatthhh rooowwww
And I didn't know the waaaaayyyyyyy

She had lost a million in the game
She wouldn't look out my window
At the pine trees
And the rain

It wasn't her gaaammmee

Multicolored Laaddaaayyy
You ain't like no rainbow
I've ever known

Multicolored Laaadddaaayyy
Angry Red, Passion Bluuuee, but mosttllaayyy

Shades of Graaaaayyyyyy

Evening came
And brought more rain...
Nothing seemed to ease heeeerrrrr paaaaiiinnn
All the minutttess seeemmed like hourrssss

Allll in vaaaaaaaiiinnnn

I watched as her teaaarrsss keep runnin' wiiiilllddd

And after awhile, long while, after, way on past

She start smiiiilliiinnn'

Multicolored Laaddaaayyyy
You ain't like no rainbow

I've ever known...

Multicolored Laddaaaaayyy

Please come with mmeeeee, I'll take yooouuuu

To my hooohoooohoooooooommmmmmmmmeeee

Oh, by the waaayy
I'm bound for Rome...

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Goin' Nowhere Tonight


Goin' Nowhere Tonight
Composer(s): David Smalley; Eric Carmen
Performer(s): The Raspberries; Bill Lloyd



Goin' nowhere tonight, mama
I'm gonna be stayin' home
You walked out a week ago, and
I'm here sitting by my telephone
Hoping you might change your mind
Feeling sorry I was so unkind

Goin' nowhere tonight, mama
Can't take it no more
I called your number and your daddy said
You'd just gone out the door

How could you throw it all away?
I never thought I'd see the day
That I'd be...

Goin' nowhere tonight, mama
I'm gonna be stayin' home
You walked out a week ago, and
I'm here sitting by my telephone
Hoping you might change your mind
Feeling sorry I was so unkind

Goin' nowhere tonight, mama
Goin' nowhere tonight, mama
Goin' nowhere tonight, mama

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Tanto Amar


Tanto Amar
Composer(s): Chico Buarque
Performer(s): Chico Buarque; Ney Matogrosso



Amo tanto e de tanto amar
Acho que ela é bonita
Tem um olho sempre a boiar
E outro que agita

Tem um olho que não está
Meus olhares evita
E outro olho a me arregalar
Sua pepita

A metade do seu olhar
Está chamando pra luta, aflita
E metade quer madrugar
Na bodeguita

Se seus olhos eu for cantar
Um seu olho me atura
E outro olho vai desmanchar
Toda a pintura

Ela pode rodopiar
E mudar de figura
A paloma do seu mirar
Virar miúra

É na soma do seu olhar
Que eu vou me conhecer inteiro
Se nasci pra enfrentar o mar
Ou faroleiro

Amo tanto e de tanto amar
Acho que ela acredita
Tem um olha a pestanejar
E outro me fita

Suas pernas vão me enroscar
Num balé esquisito
Seus dois olhos vão se encontrar
No infinito

Amo tanto e de tanto amar
Em Manágua temos um chico
Já pensamos em nos casar
Em Porto Rico

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