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What Did I Ever See In Him?


What Did I Ever See In Him?
Composer(s): Charles Strouse; Lee Adams
Performer(s): Chita Rivera



Rosie:
Eight years, eight years
That's how long I've wasted on him!
That's all, I'm through
Albert dear, to put it sweetly
To hell with you!
What did I ever see in him?
How did I ever get evolved that way?
Now that it's over I can smile and say
What did I ever see in him?
Boy, I was way out on the limb
Now that my feet are on the ground again
Now that my senses have been found again
What did I ever see in him?
Is he tender?
No, he's not!
Is he thoughtful?
No, he's not!
Am I crazy?
What's he's got that I found so damned appealing?
What did he ever do for me?
Well, to be honest he was sometimes nice
But still it wasn't worth that awful price
It was rough from the start
Broken dates, broken nails, broken heart
How did I ever?
Why did I ever?
What did I ever?

Rosie and Kim:
Do we need them? No, we don't!
Do we want them? No, we don't!
Will we leave them? No, we won't!
Tell me what did I say that for?
What did we ever see in them?
How could we ever think that they were nice?
Take it from us we pay an awful price
It was rough from the start
Broken dates, broken nails, broken heart
What did I ever see in him

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Limosnero De Amor


Limosnero De Amor
Composer(s): Alberto Videz
Performer(s): Javier Solís
and multiple other artists



Limosnero de amor me llaman
limosnero de amor yo soy
fuiste muy canalla
al abandonarme
y tus labios mintieron
cuando a mí me dijeron
sólo soy para ti

Implorando tu amor me dejas
ya no puedo vivir sin ti
te llevaste todo
me dejaste solo
desde entonces me llaman
desde entonces me llaman
limosnero de amor

Te llevaste todo
me dejaste solo
desde entonces me llaman
desde entonces me llaman
limosnero de amor

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Rosie


Rosie
Composer(s): Charles Strouse; Lee Adams
Performer(s): Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh,
Ann-Margret, Bobby Rydell



Albert:
I was never crazy for flowers
I confess that nothing left me colder
I could watch a daisy for hours
And all I'd feel was sev'ral hours older!
Lilacs and lilies, any bloom you please
All what they did was make me shrug or sneeze
But now I love each blossom that I see
For a lovely little rose loves me
Now my life is rosy, when I'm my Rosie
With a girl like Rosie
How could I be blue?
Hand in hand we'll mosey
Me and little Rosie
We will be so cozy
By a fire built for two
Oh! I once heard a poem that goes
"A rose is a rose is a rose"
Well I don't agree
Take it from me
There's one rose sweeter than any that grows!
That's my Rosie,
I'm so glad she chose me
Life is one sweet beautiful song to me
Now my life is rosy (Oh, we'll be happy, I know)
Since I found my Rosie (Off to the preacher we'll go)
With a girl like Rosie (So how could we be blue?)
How could I be blue?

Rosie:
Oh we'll have us a home out west
A nice little split-level nest
And in ev'ry room roses in bloom...

Albert:
But there's on rose sweeter than all of the rest!
Then that's my Rosie

Rosie:
I'm so glad you chose me!

Both:
Life is one sweet beautiful song to me
When love is right then
What can be wrong?
Life is one sweet beautiful song
To me!

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L'immensita


L'immensita
Composer(s): Don Backy - Mogol - Detto Mariano
Performer(s): Don Backy
and multiple other artists



Io son sicuro che, per ogni goccia
per ogni goccia che cadrà
un nuovo fiore nascerà
e su quel fiore una farfalla volerà

Io son sicuro che
in questa grande immensità
qualcuno pensa un poco a me
e non mi scorderà

Sì, io lo so
tutta la vita sempre solo non sarò
e un giorno io saprò
d'essere un piccolo pensiero
nella più grande immensità.....
di quel cielo

Sì, io lo s,
tutta la vita sempre solo non sarò
un giorno troverò
un po' d'amore anche per me
per me che sono nullità
nell'immensità ...

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Kids


Kids
Composer(s): Charles Strouse; Lee Adams
Performer(s): Paul Lynde, Maureen Stapleton,
Dick Van Dyke, Bryan Russell



Kids!
I don't know what's wrong with these kids today!
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They a disobedient, disrespectful oafs!
Noisy, crazy, dirty, lazy, loafers!
While we're on the subject
Kids!
You can talk and talk till your face is blue!
Kids!
But they still just do what they want to do!
Why can't they be like we were
Perfect in every way?
What's the matter with kids today?
Kids!
I've tried to raise him the best I could
Kids! Kids!
Laughing, singing, dancing, grinning, morons!
And while we're on the subject!
Kids! They are just impossible to control!
Kids! With their awful clothes and their rock an' roll!
Why can't they dance like we did
What's wrong with Sammy Caine?
What's the matter with kids today!


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Lime Tree Arbour


Lime Tree Arbour
Composer(s): Nick Cave
Performer(s): Nick Cave; Adam Sherman



The boatman calls from the lake
A lone loon dives upon the water
I put my hand over her
Down in the lime tree arbour

The wind in the trees is whispering
Whispering low that I love her
She puts her hand over mine
Down in the lime tree arbour

Through every breath that I breathe
And every place I go
There is hand that protects me
And I do love her so

There will always be suffering
It flows through life like water
I put my hand over hers
Down in the lime tree arbour

The boatman he has gone
And the loons have flown for cover
She puts her hand over mine
Down in the lime tree arbour

Through every word that I speak
And every thing I know
There is hand that protects me
And I do love her so

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One Boy


One Boy
Composer(s): Charles Strouse; Lee Adams
Performer(s): Ann-Margret
and various other artists



Kim:
One boy
One special boy
One boy to go with
And talk with
And walk with

Kim and Girls:
One boy
That's the way it should be
Yeah, yeah!
That's the way it should be
One boy
One certain boy
One boy to laugh with
To jump with
Have Coke with
One boy
Not two or three

Kim:
One day you'll find out
This is what life is all about
You'll need someone who
Is living just for you

Kim and Girls:
One boy
One steady boy
One boy to be with
Forever and ever
One boy
That's the way it should be
That's the way it should be
That's the way it should be

Rosie:
When will he find out
This is what life is all about?
Will he ever see
I need him and he needs me?
One guy
One special guy
One guy to live for
To care for, be there for
One guy
That's the way it should be
That's the way it should be...

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Limelight


Limelight
Composer(s): Neil Peart - Geddy Lee - Alex Lifeson
Performer(s): Rush



Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage

Cast in this unlikely role,
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact

Living in the limelight
The universal dream
For those who wish to seem

Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation
The underlying theme

Living in a fisheye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can't pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage

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Honestly Sincere


Honestly Sincere
Composer(s): Charles Strouse; Lee Adams
Performer(s): Jesse Pearson
and various other artists



Girl:
Speak to us, oh beautiful one, tell us how you make that
glorious sound, that even now an anticipation of it has
reduced me to a snarling, raging, panting, jungle beast!

Birdie:
You gotta be sincere!
You gotta be sincere!
You gotta feel it here
'Cause if you feel it here
Well, then you're gonna be honestly sincere!
If what you feel is true
You really feel it you
Make them feel it too
Write this down now
You gotta be sincere
Honestly sincere!
Man, you've got to be sincere!
If you're really sincere
If you're really sincere
If you feel it in here
Then it's gotta be right!
Oh, baby!
Oh, honey!
Hug me!
Suffer!
In ev'rything I do
My sincerity shows thro'
I looked you in the eye
Don't even have to try
It's automatic!
I'm sincere!
When I sing about a tree
I really feel that tree!
When I sing about a girl
I really feel that girl
I mean I really feel sincere!
If you're really sincere!
If you're really sincere!
If you feel it in here
Then it's gotta be right!
Oh, baby!
Oh, honey!
Hug me!
Suffer!
You gotta be sincere!
Oh oh, you gotta feel it here!
Oh, my baby, oh, my baby, oh yeah!
Oh, my baby, oh yeah!
Well, you gotta be sincere!
Well, you gotta be sincere!
Well, you gotta be sincere!
Well, you gotta be sincere!
Well, you gotta be sincere!
Well, you gotta be sincere!
Oh, my baby, oh yeah!
Oh, my baby, oh yeah!
Well, you gotta be sincere!
Well, you gotta be sincere!
Oh, my baby, oh yeah!
Oh, my baby, oh yeah!
Oh, my baby, oh yeah!
Oh, my baby, oh yeah!
Yeah, Yeah!

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Limehouse Blues


Limehouse Blues
Composer(s): Philip Braham - Douglas Furber
First performance by: Gertrude Lawrence & Jack Buchanan - 1921
Covered by multiple other artists



And those weird China blues
Never go away
Sad, mad blues
For all the while they seem to say

Oh, Limehouse kid
Oh, oh, Limehouse kid
Goin' the way
That the rest of them did
Poor broken blossom
And nobody's child
Haunting and taunting
You're just kind of wild

Oh, Limehouse blues
I've the real Limehouse blues
Can't seem to shake off
Those real China blues
Rings on your fingers
And tears for your crown
That is the story
Of old Chinatown

Rings on your fingers
And tears for your crown
That is the story
Of old Chinatown

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How Lovely To Be A Woman


How Lovely To Be A Woman
Composer(s): Charles Strouse; Lee Adams
Performer(s): Ann-Margret
and various other artists



When you're a skinny child of fourteen
Wide with braces from ear to ear
You doubt that you will ever be appealing
Then Hallelujah!
You are fifteen
And the braces disappear
And your skin is smooth and clear
And you have that happy grown-up female feeling
How lovely to be a woman
The wait was well worth while
How lovely to wear mascara
And smile a woman's smile
How lovely to have a figure
That's round instead of flat
Whenever you hear boys whistle
You're what they're whistling at
It's wonderful to feel
The way a woman feels
It gives you such a glow just to know
You're wearing lipstick and heels!
How lovely to be a woman
And have one job to do
To pick out a boy and train him
And then when you are through
You've made him the man you want him to be!
Life's lovely when you're a woman like me!
How wonderful to know
The things a woman knows
How marvelous to wait for a date
In simply beautiful clothes!
How lovely to be a woman
And change from boys to men
To go to a fancy nightclub
And stay out after ten
How lovely to be so grown-up and free!
Life's lovely when you're a woman like me!

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Lime Street Blues


Lime Street Blues
Composer(s): Gary Brooker - Keith Reid
Performer(s): Procol Harum



Lime street in the afternoon
Everybody crazy as a coon
I’m running round in my underpants
Trying to find some kinda romance

Quarter past three [sic] on lime street
I got whipped right offa my feet
Didn’t realize that I’d been caught
Till I found myself in the county court

’Mr judge,’ I said, ’won’t you please be kind
Have pity on me, a poor orphan child?’
Mr judge he says with a long mean frown
’orphan or not, you’re going down!’

Well I screamed on my knees in the witness box
’lord have mercy on my golden locks’
The judge I could see that he was snide
He says, ’the only kind of blonde you are’s a peroxide!’

Oh Lime street, Lime street
Lime street, that’s where we meet

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We Love You Conrad


We Love You Conrad
Composer(s): Charles Strouse; Lee Adams



We love you, Conrad
Oh, yes, we do
We love you, Conrad
And we'll be true
When you're not near us
We're blue
Oh, Conrad, we love you

We love you, Conrad
Oh, yes, we do
We love you, Conrad
And we'll be true
When you're not near us
We're blue
Oh, Conrad, we love you

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Limbo Rock


Limbo Rock
Composer(s): Jon Sheldon - Billy Strange
First release by: The Champs - 1961
Covered by multiple other artists



Every limbo boy and girl
All around the limbo world
Gonna do the limbo rock
All around the limbo clock
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go unda limbo stick
All around the limbo clock
Hey, let's do the limbo rock

Limbo lower now
Limbo lower now
How low can you go

First you spread your limbo feet
Then you move to limbo beat
Limbo ankolimboneee,
Bend back like a limbo tree
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go unda limbo stick
All around the limbo clock
Hey, let's do the limbo rock

la la la ...

Get yourself a limbo girl
Give that chic a limbo whirl
There's a limbo moon above
You will fall in limbo love
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go unda limbo stick
All around the limbo clock
Hey, let's do the limbo rock

Don't move that limbo bar
You'll be a limbo star
How low can you go

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Bye Bye Birdie


Bye Bye Birdie
Composer(s): Charles Strouse; Lee Adams
Performer(s): Ann-Margret
and various other artists



[Opening]
Kim:
Bye Bye Birdie
I'm gonna miss you so
Bye Bye Birdie
Why'd you have to go?
No more sunshine
It's followed you away
I'll cry Birdie
Till you're home to stay
I'll miss the way you smile
As tho' it's just for me
And each and ev'ry night
I'll write you faithfully!
Bye Bye Birdie
It's awful hard to bear
Bye Bye Birdie
Think I'll always care
Guess I'll always care
Guess I'll always care!

[Finale]
Bye Bye Birdie
The Army's taken you now
I'll try Birdie
To forget some how
No more sighing
Each time you moved your lips
No more crying
When you twist those hips
Your swivel and your sway
Your super trooper
There's nothing left to say
But Conrad you're a jet
Bye Bye Birdie

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Lily The Pink


Lily The Pink
(Traditional)
Performer(s): The Scaffold



We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case

Mr. Frears
had sticky-out ears
and it made him awful shy
and so they gave him medicinal compound
and now he's learning how to fly

Brother Tony
Was notably bony
He would never eat his meals
And so they gave him medicinal compound
Now they move him round on wheels

We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case

Old Ebeneezer
Thought he was Julius Caesar
And so they put him in a Home
where they gave him medicinal compound
and now he's Emperor of Rome

Johnny Hammer
Had a terrible stammer
He could hardly say a word
And so they gave him medicinal compound
Now he's seen (but never heard)!

We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case

Auntie Millie
Ran willy-nilly
When her legs, they did recede
And so they rubbed on medicinal compound
And now they call her Millipede

Jennifer Eccles
had terrible freckles
and the boys all called her names
but she changed with medicinal compound
and now he joins in all their games

We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case

Lily the Pink, she
Turned to drink, she
Filled up with paraffin inside
and despite her medicinal compound
Sadly Picca-Lily died

Up to Heaven
Her soul ascended
All the church bells they did ring
She took with her medicinal compound
Hark the herald angels sing.

Oooooooooooooooo Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'lll...

We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case

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Bye Bye Love


Bye Bye Love
Composer(s): Felice Bryant; Boudleaux Bryant
Originally performed by: The Everly Brothers
Covered by various other artists



There goes my baby
With someone new
She sure looks happy
I sure am blue

She was my baby
Till he stepped in
Goodbye to romance
That might have been

Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think I’m gonna cry

Bye bye love
Bye bye sweet caress
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love
Good bye

I’m through with romance
I’m through with love
I’m through with counting
The stars above

And here’s the reason
That I’m so free
My loving baby
Is through with me

Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness
Hello loneliness
I think I’m gonna cry

Bye bye love
Bye bye sweet caress
Hello emptiness
I feel like I could die
Bye bye my love
Good bye

Bye bye my love
Good bye
Bye bye my love
Good bye

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Lily Of The Valley


Lily Of The Valley
Composer(s): Freddie Mercury
First release by: Queen - 1974



I am forever searching high and low
But why does ev'ryone tell me no
Neptune of the seas an answer for me please
The lily of the valley doesn't know

I lie in wait with open eyes
I carry on thru' stormy skies
I follow ev'ry course my kingdom for a horse
But each time I grow old
Serpent of the Nile relieve me for a while
And cast me from your spell and let me go

Messenger from seven seas has flown
To tell the king of Rhye he's lost his throne
Wars will never cease
Is there time enough for peace?
The lily of the valley doesn't know

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Bye Bye Johnny


Bye Bye Johnny
Composer(s): Chuck Berry
Originally performed by: Chuck Berry
Covered by various other artists



She drew out all her money out of the Southern Trust
And put her little boy aboard a Greyhound Bus
Leaving Louisiana for the Golden West
Down came the tears from her happiness
Her own little son name 'o Johnny B. Goode
Was gonna make some motion pictures out in Hollywood

Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye bye Johnny
Good bye Johnny B. Goode

She remembered taking money out from gathering crop
And buying Johnny's guitar at a broker shop
As long as he would play it by the railroad side
And wouldn't get in trouble he was satisfied
But never thought that there would come a day like this
When she would have to give her son a goodby kiss

Going
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye bye Johnny
Good bye Johnny B. Goode

She finally got the letter she was dreaming of
Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love
As soon as he was married he would bring her back
And build a mansion for 'em by the railroad track
So every time they heard the locomotive roar
They'd be a' standin', a' wavin' by the kitchen door

Howling
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye bye Johnny
Good bye Johnny B. Goode

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The Lily Of The Valley


The Lily Of The Valley
Composer(s): Charles William Fry - Will S. Hays
First performance/First recording by: The Salvation Army - 1881/Johnny Cash - 1973



I have found a friend in Jesus, He’s everything to me
He’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul
The Lily of the Valley, in Him alone I see
All I need to cleanse and make me fully whole
In sorrow He’s my comfort, in trouble He’s my stay
He tells me every care on Him to roll

He’s the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star
He’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul

He all my grief has taken, and all my sorrows borne
In temptation He’s my strong and mighty tower
I have all for Him forsaken, and all my idols torn
From my heart and now He keeps me by His power
Though all the world forsake me, and Satan tempt me sore
Through Jesus I shall safely reach the goal

He’s the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star
He’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul

He will never, never leave me, nor yet forsake me here
While I live by faith and do His blessèd will
A wall of fire about me, I’ve nothing now to fear
From His manna He my hungry soul shall fill
Then sweeping up to glory to see His blessèd face
Where the rivers of delight shall ever roll

He’s the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star
He’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul

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