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Reviewing The Situation


Reviewing The Situation
Composer(s): Lionel Bart
Performer(s): Ron Moody;
and various other artists



A man's got a heart, hasn't he?
Joking apart, hasn't he?
And though I'd be the first one to say that I wasn't a saint
I'm finding it hard to be really as black as they paint

I'm reviewing the situation
Can a fellow be a villain all his life?
All the trials and tribulation
Better settle down and get meself a wife

And a wife would cook and sew for me
And come for me, and go for me
And go for me and nag at me
The fingers she will wag at me
The money she will take from me
A misery, she'll make from me
I think I'd better think it out again!

A wife you can keep, anyway
I'd rather sleep, anyway
Left without anyone in the world
And I'm starting from now
So how to win friends and to influence people?
So how?

I'm reviewing the situation
I must quickly look up ev'ryone I know
Titled people, with a station
Who can help me make a real impressive show!

I will own a suite at Claridges
And run a fleet of carriages
And wave at all the duchesses
With friendliness, as much as is
Befitting of my new estate
"Good morning to you, Magistrate!"
I think I'd better think it out again

So where shall I go, somebody?
Who do I know? Nobody!
All my dearest companions
Have always been villains and thieves
So at my time of life I should start
Turning over new leaves?

I'm reviewing the situation
If you want to eat, you've got to earn a bob!
Is it such a humiliation
For a robber to perform an honest job?

So a job I'm getting, possibly
I wonder who the boss'll be?
I wonder if he'll take to me?
What bonuses he'll make to me?
I'll start at eight and finish late
At normal rate, and all, but wait!
I think I'd better think it out again

What happens when I'm seventy?
Must come a time, seventy
When you're old, and it's cold
And who cares if you live or you die?
The one consolation's the money
You may have put by

I'm reviewing the situation
I'm a bad 'un and a bad 'un I shall stay!
You'll be seeing no transformation
But it's wrong to be a rogue in ev'ry way

I don't want nobody hurt for me
Or made to do the dirt for me
This rotten life is not for me
It's getting far too hot for me
Don't want no one to rob for me
But who will find a job for me
There is no in between for me
But who will change the scene for me?
I think I'd better think it out again!

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Saints Rock & Roll


Saints Rock & Roll
Composer(s): Bill Haley - Mike Gabler
Performer(s): Bill Haley



Well, rock 'n rolling' holiday
Rock 'n rolling all the way
Rock 'n rolling' to the end
'Til the saints go marching' in
Now when the saints... go marching' in
Well, when the saints go marching' in
Yeah, Lord, I want... want 'a be in that number
When the saints... go marching' in
Well, now when Nick, comes wailing' in
Yeah, when old Nick comes wailing' in
Oh, Lord, I want... want 'a be in that number
when that guitar comes wailing' in

Well, now when Rudy begins to blow
Well, when old Rudy starts to wail
Yeah, Lord, I want... want 'a be in that number
When that sax man starts wailing' in
(Here we go now)...
Well, when that rhythm comes wailing' in
Yeah, when old Rapper starts to wail
Well, Lord, I want... want 'a be in that number
When old Rapper comes wailing' in

Now when the band plays rock 'n roll
Well, when the Comets rock 'n roll
Yeah, Lord, I want... want 'a be in that number
When the Comets play rock 'n roll
(All together now)...
When the saints go marching in!

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Clown (Argent)


Clown
Performer(s): Argent



No minor love can make the darkness right
Alone, deserted by the warm spotlight
I breathe the meaning of the words that I must need her
The colder seas of my sleeping mind
Make muddy dreams until no peace I find
Through fields Elysian beg to see my life again, once again
And here at last I stand revealed a clown
And who can doubt the painted fool upon this circus has always been a clown
No mind to colour now, no page to write
Cold pools of morning stain the virgin white
Another day without her love, and I still need her
And so the stage is set, the time is right
And waves of laughter shake the gods this night
Another day will make a fool delight the children
And so I stand at last revealed a clown
And who can doubt this painted fool
Who maybe has no mind at all
Would ever walk where he might fall
And gain the laughter of us all
Oh, who would doubt the painted fool upon this circus stage has always been a clown
Just a clown

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Reviens-Moi


Reviens-Moi
Composer(s): Georges Michael; D. Barbelivien
Performer(s): Dalida



Reviens-moi oui je te pardonne
Tu es parti cent fois
Je connais les hommes
Reviens-moi ne baisses pas la tête
Ma victoire sera ma défaite
Reviens-moi avec ce sourire
Qui me fait oublier ce que j'ai à te dire
Reviens amour infidèle
Mon chagrin sera mon soleil

Reviens-moi je n'veux pas savoir
Si elle était jolie ce qu'elle t'a fait croire
Regarde-moi es-ce que j'ai l'air malheureux
Regarde-moi je suis surtout amoureuse
Reviens-moi on va tout recommencer
Tous les deux c'est un roman inachevé
Prends-moi dans tes bras j'ai envie de danser
Dis-moi les mots d'autrefois les mots qui font voyager
Reviens-moi oui je te pardonne
Tu es parti cent fois
Je connais les hommes
Reviens rentre à la maison
Mon amour sera mon pardon
Reviens-moi espèce de charmeur
Qui me fait oublier la colère du cœur
Reviens au bout de la nuit
Mon bonheur sera mon oubli

Reviens-moi on va tout recommencer
Tous les deux c'est un roman inachevé
Prends-moi dans tes bras j'ai envie de danser
Dis-moi les mots d'autrefois les mots qui font voyager
Reviens-moi oui je te pardonne
Tu es parti cent fois je connais les hommes
Reviens ne baisses pas la tête
Ma victoire sera ma défaite
Reviens-moi avec ce sourire
Qui me fait oublier ce que j'ai à te dire
Reviens amour infidèle
Mon chagrin sera mon soleil
Reviens-moi

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The Saints Are Coming


The Saints Are Coming
Composer(s): Stuart Adamson - Richard Jobson
First release by: The Skids - 1979



I cried to my daddy on the telephone
how long now
Until the clouds unroll and you come home
the line went
But the shadows still remain since your descent
your descent

The saints are coming, the saints are coming
No matter how I try, I realise there’s no reply
The saints are coming, the saints are coming

A drowning sorrow floods the deepest grief
How long now
Until a weather change condemns belief
The stone says
This paternal guide once had his day
Once had his day

The saints are coming, the saints are coming
No matter how I try, I realise there’s no reply
The saints are coming, the saints are coming

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Clouds And Rain


Clouds And Rain
Composer(s): Ian Gillan; Roger Glover
Performer(s): Ian Gillan & Roger Glover



The time is always now
the call is always loud
without a movement a word, without a sound
love comes crashing in again
brings along the clouds and rain

You've got to take a chance you haven't got a choice
somewhere in the rain you hear a distant voice
love has to come to stake its claim it's
when you reach the clouds and rain

If I close my eyes I can picture you
this is the place I get the clearest view
beyond the happiness and pain
this place they call the clouds and rain

First you become a lover then you become a friend
and then you start to wonder will it ever end
I'd like to ask you just the same
without feeling any shame
did you touch the clouds and rain

I'd like to ask you just the same
without feeling any shame
did you touch the clouds and rain

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Reviens, Je T'Aime


Reviens, Je T'Aime
English Title: Midnight
Composer(s): Bouwens; Claude Carrère; Ibach
Performer(s): Sheila



En ce temps là nous n'avions pas grand-chose
Mais nous aimions ici nous retrouver
Ce soir sans toi je me sens l'âme triste
Ta place est vide et le monde a changé

{Refrain:}
Reviens, je t'aime
Tu ne peux pas me laisser toute seule
Tu ne peux pas me laisser souffrir comme ça
Reviens, je t'aime
Tu ne peux pas d'un seul coup briser tout
Après tant de jours et d'amour entre nous
la la la ........

Tu m'as quitté comme un homme en colère
Et par fierté je t'ai laissé partir
Mais je voudrais du fond de ma détresse
Trouver les mots pour te faire revenir
{au Refrain, 2x}

Reviens, je t'aime
Reviens, je t'aime

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The Sailor's Polka


The Sailor's Polka
Composer(s): Jerry Livingston - Mack David
Performer(s): Dean Martin



Come on and play the sailors' polka
Make way for Navy blue
Oh, how the girls all love to polka
With a sailor who's tried and true

Where there is music and there's moonlight
The Navy knows what to do
So, come on and play the sailors' polka
Make way for Navy blue

(Oh, the band will start in playin')
(When the fleet comes sailin' in)
(There'll be hip, hip, hip, hoorayin')
(And the good times will begin)

There'll be gobs and gobs of misses
Who'll be waitin' on the shore
With gobs and gobs of kisses
(Bass Singer: For the gobs that they adore)

(Long before they drop anchor)
(You will hear the music start)
(Ev'ry pretty girl will hanker)
(To win a sailor's heart)

Yeah, the band will start in playin'
And the dancing will begin
When the fleet comes sailin' in

Duet With Dean & Chorus:
Come on and play the sailors' polka
(Oh, the band will start in playin' when the fleet comes sailing in)
Make way for Navy blue
(There'll be hip, hip, hip, hoorayin' and the good times will begin)
Oh, how the girls all love to polka
(There'll be gobs and gobs of misses who'll be waitin' on the shore)
With a sailor who's tried and true.
(With gobs and gobs of kisses for the gobs that they adore)
Where there is music and there's moonlight
(Long before they drop anchor you will hear the music start)
The Navy knows what to do
(Ev'ry pretty girl will hanker to win a sailor's heart)
So, come on and play the sailors' polka
(Yeah, the band will start in playin' and they'll dance the whole
night through)
So make way for Navy blue (BASS: Make way for Na- )
Submerge! Submerge! (Bass: -vy)
Scrape the bottom! (Bass: Blue)

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Clouds (That Pass In The Night)


Clouds (That Pass In The Night)
Composer(s): Lee David



When the world is sleeping, and the night is still
And the moon is creeping slowly above the hill
Clouds float by and kiss her
O! What a wond'rous thrill!
When the clouds are passing in the night, I dream of you
When the clouds enveil the silv'ry light I dream of you
But the clouds that pass me in the day
Hide the sunshine, make the skies look gray
How I wish and long and wait till they roll by, roll by
Oft when nights are lonely and I walk the road
Thinking of you only
Sweet thoughts of love bestowed
Ah! my moon is pris'ner
By fleeting clouds she's towed
When the clouds are passing in the night, I dream of you
When the clouds enveil the silv'ry light I dream of you
But the clouds that pass me in the day
Hide the sunshine, make the skies look gray
How I wish and long and wait till they roll by, roll by
Clouds

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Reviens Donc Chez Nous


Reviens Donc Chez Nous
Danish & English Titles: Kom Hjem Til Mig Igen; Bring It On Home To Me
Composer(s): Georges Aber; Sam Cooke
Performer(s): Johnny Hallyday



Si tu avais des regrets
Qui sait, un jour, de m'avoir quitté
Oh ! Reviens-moi avec ton amour
Reviens donc chez nous, oh oui

Bien sûr, j'ai ris
Mais je sais
Je sais le mal que ton départ m'a fait
Oh! Reviens-moi avec ton amour
Ah, reviens donc chez nous

Je le sais bien, j'étais fou
La vie sans toi
Ce n'est plus rien du tout
Oh! Reviens-moi avec ton amour
Reviens donc chez nous

Il n'y a rien, oh non, d'assez beau
À te donner
Si tu reviens bientôt
Oh! Reviens-moi avec ton amour
Reviens donc chez nous

Si tu avais des regrets
Qui sait, un jour, de m'avoir quitté
Oh! Reviens-moi avec ton amour
Reviens donc chez nous

Allez reviens!

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The Sailor's Hornpipe


The Sailor's Hornpipe
Composer(s): Vivian Stanshall
Performer(s): Vivian Stanshall



The hallway

From outside, an ordinary house
A great house, true - four hundred and eighty three rooms
each one with its own marble wash basin and douche, bidet as it may
But inside, and the positions are reversed
A human failing, some say a disease
but a disease that Sir Francis Dashwood knew, and knew it well

Upstairs, inside and a revelation
It's a discotheque
No, no, uh... there are paintings, real
and look here - a rare seventeenth century masterpiece
and if I can scrape a little of it off
beneath I can find hidden a fourteenth century underpiece

Made entirely of tiny pieces of eggshells
this lurid work has caused controversy in the world of embroidery and anthropologicky
No, I'll say it again, anthropolology
Umm... no quite possibly make an anthropol, no, uh, I mean an apolog... ph...
It has enthralled distinguished professors
and in layman's language is "blinking well baffling"

But to be more obtusely, "buggered if I know"
Yes, "buggered if I know"
And that's all we've gleaned so far from experts in fourteenth century painting
renaissance, greengrocers, and recently revived members of the public
Buggered if I know

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Cloud Nine


Cloud Nine
Composer(s): Barrett Strong; Norman J. Whitfield
Originally performed by: The Temptations
Covered by various other artists



Childhood part of my life it wasn't very pretty
You see I was born and raised in the slums of the city
It was a one-room shack that slept
Ten other children besides me
We hardly had enough food or room to sleep
It was hard times needed something
To ease my troubled mind
Listen my father didn't know the meaning of work
He disrespected momma and treated us like dirt
I left home seeking a job that I never did find
Depressed and downhearted I took to cloud 9
I'm doing fine up here on cloud 9
Listen one more time I'm doing fine up here on cloud 9

Folks down there tell me
They say give yourself a chance, son
Don't let life pass you by
But the world of reality is a rat race
Where only the strongest survive
It's a dog eat dog world
And that ain't no lie
Listen it ain't even safe no more
To walk the streets at night

I'm doing fine on cloud 9
Let me tell you about cloud 9
Cloud 9, you can be what you wanna be
You ain't got no responsibility
And every man, every man is free
And you're a million miles from reality
I wanna say I love the life I live
And I'm gonna live the life I love
Up here on cloud 9
I'm riding high on cloud 9
You're as free as a bird in flight
There's no difference between day and night
It's a world of love and harmony
You're a million miles from reality, cloud 9

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Rêver


Rêver
Composer(s): René Rouzaud;
Rachel Thoreau; Guy Luypaerts
Performer(s): Lucienne Boyer



{Refrain:}
Rêver de toi, la nuit, le jour
Rêver toujours, au fil des heures
Jeter au ciel des mots d'amour
Crier ma peine au vent qui pleure
Imaginer qu'une présence
Se penche sur mon chagrin
Que tout recommence
Comme une romance
Flaner tout seul sur les chemins où nous allions jadis ensemble
Croire un instant que c'est ta main qui prend ma main, ma main qui tremble
Ecouter les harpes du temps qui fuit
Voir comme une écharpe, tomber la nuit
Rêver toujours
Rêver de toi
Rêver d'amour

Ainsi rien qu'en fermant les yeux
Je fais chanter quand je le veux
Mes souvenirs comme un lointain prélude
Et le rappel des jours anciens
Me fait oublier le chagrin
De te savoir si loin

{Refrain}

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The Sailor With The Navy Blue Eyes


The Sailor With The Navy Blue Eyes
Composer(s): Al Hoffman - Victor Mizzy - Irv Taylor
Performer(s): Harry Roy & His Band; Spike Jones



Who’s got girls in every port
Hanging around like flies
Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho
The sailor with the navy blue eyes

Who’s the guy they love to buy
Dozens of socks and ties
Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho
The sailor with the navy blue eyes

When the boat comes home after crossing the foam
He’s still at sea
Thinking, wond’ring who’s he gonna take a-rowing on the lake

Who’s the boy who’s full of joy
Waving the most goodbyes
Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho
The sailor with the navy blue eyes

When the boat comes home after crossing the foam
And he’s still at sea
He’ll start a-wond’ring, worrying, all of a flurrying
Who’s he gonna take rowing on the lake

Now who’s the boy who’s full of joy
Waving the most goodbyes
Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho
The sailor with the navy blue eyes

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Cloud Lucky Seven


Cloud Lucky Seven
Composer(s): Charles Tobias; Peter DeRose
Performer(s): Guy Mitchell;
Ambrose; Mitch Miller



When you're in love, when you're in love, when you're in love
You're walkin' on cloud lucky seven
Hah, seven is the cloud nearest heaven
When you're in love, when you're in love, when you're in love

You never know, you never know, you never know
There's no way that you can detect it
It can happen when you least expect it
You never know, you never know, you never know

When you meet someone new
You're on clouds one and two
With someone who
makes you feel like singing
As you see more and more
of the one you adore
You're on clouds three and four
And bell are ringing
When you reach five and six
Then your heart bumps and kicks
There's one more cloud to go

When you're in love, when you're in love, when you're in love
You're walkin' on cloud lucky seven
Hah, seven is the cloud nearest heaven
When you're in love, when you're in love, when you're in love
Love, love
When you're in love

When you meet someone new
You're on clouds one and two
With someone who
makes you feel like singing
As you see more and more
of the one you adore
You're on clouds three and four
And bell are ringing
When you reach five and six
Then your heart bumps and kicks
There's one more cloud to go

When you're in love, when you're in love, when you're in love
You're walkin' on cloud lucky seven
Wow, seven is the cloud nearest heaven
When you're in love, when you're in love, when you're in love
Love, love
When you're in love

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Reveline


Reveline
Performer(s): Georges Moustaki



Pour un bouquet de lilas
Qu'il t'offrit ce jour-là
Reveline
Tu as rêvé d'un jardin
Fleurissant tes matins
Reveline
Pour un petit brin de cour
Tu as rêvé d'amour
Reveline
Comme si un arc-en-ciel
Suffit pour que le ciel
S'illumine

Reviens sur terre
Ma douce amie
La vie n'est guère
Que la vie

Avec un soleil pâlot
Qui se posait sur l'eau
Reveline
Tu as rêvé que l'été
Durait l'éternité
Reveline
Une balade en bateau
Jusqu'au pont de Puteaux
Reveline
T'a fait rêver de croisière
Mexico, le cap Vert
L'Argentine

Reviens sur terre
Ma douce amie
La vie n'est guère
Que la vie

Lorsque mon cœur s'assombrit
Et que je broie du gris
Reveline
Je voudrais avoir tes yeux
Pour ne voir que du bleu
Reveline
Toi, qui changes l'eau en vin
Toi qui rêves sans fin
Reveline
Montre-moi comment tu fais
Apprends-moi à rêver
Reveline

Ne change guère
Ma douce amie
La vie n'est guère
Que la vie

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Do It Again A Little Bit Slower


Do It Again A Little Bit Slower
Performer(s): Jon & Robin & The In Crowd



Kiss me (kiss me), I love the way that you kiss me (kiss me, ooo)
There's only one thing wrong with the way you kiss me (kiss me, yeah)
Now your kisses are sweeter than sugar & plenty strong enough
But the bad part is you don't do it slow enough, oh

Do it again just a little bit slower
Do it again just a little bit slower
I just can't stand it when it's over
Do it again just a little bit slower

Hold me (hold me), I love the way that you hold me (hold me, ooo)
There's only one thing wrong with the way you hold me (hold me, yeah)
Maybe you'd just laugh if I let you know too soon
But the thing about this, you just let go too soon, oh baby

Do it again just a little bit slower
Do it again just a little bit slower
I just can't stand it when it's over
Do it again just a little bit slower

Slower, slower, kiss me just a little bit slower
Tell me that you love me, hold me fast, make it last &...

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Clothes Line Saga


Clothes Line Saga
Composer(s): Bob Dylan
Originally performed by: Bob Dylan
Covered by: Suzzy Roche



After a while we took in the clothes
Nobody said very much
Just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pants
Which nobody really wanted to touch
Mama come in and picked up a book
An’ papa asked her what it was
Someone else asked, "what do you care?"
Papa said, "well, just because"
Then they started to take back their clothes
Hang ’em on the line
It was january the thirtieth
And everybody was feelin’ fine

The next day everybody got up
Seein’ if the clothes were dry
The dogs were barking, a neighbor passed
Mama, of course, she said, "hi!"
"have you heard the news? "he said, with a grin
"the vice-president’s gone mad!"
"where?" "downtown" "when?"
"last night"
"hmm, say, that’s too bad!"
"well, there’s nothin’ we can do about it," said the neighbor
"it’s just somethin’ we’re gonna have to forget"
"yes, I guess so," said ma
Then she asked me if the clothes was still wet

I reached up, touched my shirt
And the neighbor said, "are those clothes yours?"
I said, "some of ’em, not all of ’em"
He said, "ya always help out around here with the chores?"
I said, "sometime, not all the time"
Then my neighbor, he blew his nose
Just as papa yelled outside
"mama wants you t’ come back in the house and bring them clothes"
Well, I just do what I’m told
So, I did it, of course
I went back in the house and mama met me
And then I shut all the doors

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Revelation (Mother Earth)


Revelation (Mother Earth)
Composer(s): Bob Daisley;
Ozzy Osbourne; Randy Rhoads
Performer(s): Ozzy Osbourne;
Novembers Doom; Alex Skolnick Trio



Mother please forgive them
For they know not what they do
Looking back in history's books
It seems it's nothing new

Oh! Let my mother live

Heaven is for heroes
And hell is full of fools
Stupidity, no will to live
They're breaking God's own rules

Please let my mother live

Father, of all creation
I think we're all going wrong
The course they're taking
Seems to be breaking

And it won't take too long
Children of the future
Watching empires fall
Madness the cup they drink from
Self destruction the toll
I had a vision, l saw the world burn
And the seas had turned red
The sun had fallen, the final curtain
In the land of the dead

Mother, please show the children
Before it's too late
To fight each other, there's no-one winning
We must fight all the hate

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The Sad Cafe


The Sad Cafe
Composer(s): Joe Walsh - Glenn Frey - Don Henley - J.D. Souther
First release by: Eagles - 1979
Covered by multiple other artists



Out in the shiny night, the rain was softly falling
The tracks that ran down the boulevard had all been washed away
Out of the silver light, the past came softly calling
And I remember the times we spent inside the Sad Cafe
Oh, it seemed like a holy place protected by amazing grace
And we would sing right out loud, the things we could not say
We thought we could change this world with words like "love" and "freedom"
We were part of the lonely crowd
Inside the Sad Cafe
Oh, expecting to fly
we would meet on that shore in the sweet by and by
Some of their dreams came true
some just passed away
And some of the stayed behind inside the Sad Cafe
The clouds rolled in and hid that shore
Now that Glory Train, it don't stop here no more
Now I look at the years gone by
and wonder at the powers that be
I don't know why fortune smiles on some and let's the rest go free
Maybe the time has drawn the faces I recall
But things in this life change very slowly
if they ever change at all
There's no use in asking why
it just turned out that way
So meet me at midnight baby inside the Sad Cafe
Why don't you meet me at midnight baby
inside the Sad Cafe

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