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Missouri Waltz


Missouri Waltz
Composer(s): Frederick Knight Logan; James Royce Shannon
Performer(s): Glenn Miller
and various other artists



"Hush-a-bye m'baby, slumber time is comin' soon
rest your head upon my breast while Mammy hums a tune
the sandman is callin' where shadows are fallin'
while the soft breezes sigh as in days long gone by!"

Way down in Missouri, where I heard this melody
when I was a little boy upon my Mammy's knee
the old-folks were hummin' and the banjos were strummin'
so sweet and low!

Strum, strum, strum, strum strum!
Seems I hear those banjos playin' once again
Hmmm, hum, hmmm!
That same old plaintive phrase!

Way down in Missouri, where I heard this melody
when I was a little boy upon my Mammy's knee
the old-folks were hummin' and the banjos were strummin'
so sweet and low!

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Garden Of Serenity


Garden Of Serenity
Composer(s): Dee Dee Ramone; Daniel Rey
Performer(s): The Ramones



Come on take my hand come on little stranger
The spirits are angry stay away from danger
This is insanity this could be the end
This is insanity farewell my friend

In the garden of serenity in the garden of serenity
In the garden of serenity in the garden of serenity

Meet me in the graveyard we'll walk among the dead
On a midnight odyssey riding in my head

I'm not your enemy girl, i'm your friend
Come with me on a journey on a journey to the end

In the garden of serenity in the garden of serenity
In the garden of serenity in the garden of serenity

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Love Makes You Crazy


Love Makes You Crazy
Composer(s): Mike Batt
Performer(s): Mike Batt



I was reading in a history book before the seventh war

They used to have a thing that they called love
that we don't have any more
I don't know the feeling
but I'm told it was an evil thing

It used to make you crazy and fall down
no one knows what it could bring
Loves makes you crazy
loves makes you cry
Love made them crazy in days gone by
Loves makes you crazy - that's what they say
Loves made them crazy in the olden days
I must have seized the body and the mind like strong disease

Another plague that science has erased even from the memory
Or maybe evolution wiped it out
so just the strong survived
And no-one with that feeling could exist
in the race to stay alive
Love makes you crazy
love makes you cry ...
Love makes you crazy
love makes you cry ...

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Mississippi Squirrel Revival


Mississippi Squirrel Revival Composer(s): C.W. Kalb, Jr. - Carlene Kalb Performer(s): Ray Stevens and multiple other artists



Well, when I was a kid I'd take a trip Ev'ry summer down to Mississipp To visit my granny in her antebellum world I'd run barefooted all day long Climbin' trees free as a song And one day I happened to catch myself a squirrel Well, I stuffed him down in an old shoe box Punched a couple of holes in the top And when Sunday came, I snuck him into Church I was sittin' way back in the very last pew Showin' him to my good buddy, Hugh When that squirrel got loose and went totally berserk Well, what happened next is hard to tell Some thought it was heaven, others thought it was hell But the fact that somethin' was among us was plain to see As the choir sang "I Surrender All" The squirrel ran up Harv Newlan's coveralls Harv leaped to his feet and said "Somethin's got a hold on me", Yeow!! The day the squirrel went berserk In the First Self-Righteous Church In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah! Well, Harv hit the aisles dancin' and screamin' Some thought he had religion, others thought he had a demon And Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his Fruit-Of-The-Looms He fell to his knees to plead and beg And the squirrel ran out of his britches leg Unobserved, to the other side of the room All the way down to the amen pew Where sat Sister Bertha better-than-you Who'd been watchin' all the commotion with sadistic glee But you should've seen the look in her eyes When that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs She jumped to her feet and said "Lord have mercy on me" As the squirrel made laps inside her dress She began to cry and then to confess To sins that would make a sailor blush with shame She told of gossip and church dissension But the thing that got the most attention Was when she talked about her love life And then she started naming names The day the squirrel went berserk In the First Self-Righteous Church In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah! Well seven deacons and the pastor got saved And twenty-five thousand dollars got raised And fifty volunteered for missions in the Congo on the spot And even without an invitation There were at least five hundred rededications And we all got baptized, whether we needed it or not Now you've heard the bible story I guess How he parted the waters for Moses to pass Oh, the miracles God has brought to this old world But the one I'll remember 'til my dyin' day Is how he put that Church back on the narrow way With a half crazed Mississippi squirrel The day the squirrel went berserk In the First Self-Righteous Church In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival They was jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah! The day the squirrel went berserk In the First Self-Righteous Church In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival They was jumpin' pews and...

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Garden Of Peace


Garden Of Peace
Composer(s): Dewey Bunnell; Gerry Beckley
Performer(s): America



I look inside at the scarlet room
Places to hide in the dusty gloom
A noisy clock and a silver spoon

A china cup on the mantlepiece
Gathering dust as it did in the east
And just outside lies the garden of peace

Oh, tell me is this really true
Can it be, peace has come to me and you
Tell me over, over and over
Tell me is this really happening

Inside this world it's beautiful
Peace in this garden has come true

A mirror pond reflects the dawn
Over the banks, 'cross the emerald lawn
A breeze has come and I'm carried along

So follow the path through the knowing trees
And each time you laugh, it is love you release
That love will come back in the garden of peace

So, tell me is this really true
Can it be, peace has come to me and you
Tell me over, over and over
Tell me is this really happening

Inside this world it's beautiful
Peace in the garden has come true

Oh, tell me is this really true
Can it be, peace has come to me and you
Tell me over, over and over
Tell me is this really happening

Inside this world it's beautiful
Peace in the garden has come true ...

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Love Makes The World Go Round (Pat Boone)


Love Makes The World Go Round
Composer(s): Bob Merrill
Performer(s): Pat Boone
and multiple other artists



Love makes the world go round
Love makes the world go round
Somebody soon will love you
If no one loves you now
High in some silent sky
Love sings a silver song
Making the Earth whirl softly
Love makes the world go round

High in some silent sky
Love sings a silver song
Making the Earth whirl softly
Love makes the world go round

Making the Earth whirl softly
Love makes the world go round

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Mississippi River Queen


Mississippi River Queen
Composer(s): David Allan Coe
Performer(s): David Allan Coe



Hey, California you don't know me
New York City you can't show me
Anything I haven't seen at least a hundred times before
I still love you, New Orleans, Mississippi River Queen
'Cause when it comes to loving you beat all I've ever seen!

And I've seen a lot of ladies in my time
I've had me a few women that were fine
Ah, but I don't need no city woman messing with my mind
So goodbye San Francisco girl, I'm leaving you behind

And I've had some Senoritas down in Mexico
I met a few potatoes up in Idaho
I've had a few Peaches in Georgia and that San Antoine Rose
If the Good Lord made any better
That you He's the only one who knows

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Garden Of Love


Garden Of Love
French Title: Dans Un Jardin D'Amour
Composer(s): Gene Pitney
Performer(s): Gene Pitney



She's fresh as a daisy all of time
She's smelling like a lilac too
But in the garden of love I wanna tell ya
She something wild, wild, wild and new

Her lips are like a rose a fiery red
forget-me-not eyes deep blue
But in the garden of love I wanna tell ya
She's something wild, wild, wild and new

She's my lily of the valley with a rare perfume
Got the beauty of an orchid in full bloom
Her sunflower smile is something to see
And her two lips are much too much for me

But she's as sweet as the apple blossom is to the bee
As pure as the violet too
But in the garden of love I wanna tell ya
She's something wild, wild, wild and new

She's my lily of the valley with a rare perfume
Got the beauty of an orchid in full bloom
Her sunflower smile is something to see
And her two lips are much too much for me

But she's as sweet as the apple blossom is to the bee
As pure as the violet too
But in the garden of love I wanna tell ya
She's something wild, wild, wild and new

But in the garden of love I wanna tell ya
She's something wild, wild, wild and new

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Love Makes The World Go Round (Deon Jackson)


Love Makes The World Go Round
Composer(s): Deon Jackson
First release by: Deon Jackson - 1966
Covered by multiple other artists



You know love makes the world go round
And love, baby makes the seesaws go up and down
And it makes trees grow tall
And the most important thing of all
It makes a boy and girl, oh
Say they feel so fine, now (feel so fine)

Without love flowers wouldn't grow in the spring
And without spring, yeah the birdies just couldn't sing
Everybody needs love
(1: And 2: Just) to watch the twinkling stars above
It makes a boy and girl, (1: yeah 2: oh)
Say they feel so fine, now (feel so fine)

Without love flowers wouldn't grow in the spring
And without spring, yeah the birdies just couldn't sing
Everybody needs love
(1: And 2: Just) to watch the twinkling stars above
It makes a boy and girl, (1: yeah 2: oh)
Say they feel so fine, now (feel so fine)

Oh... love makes you cry, now
That goes for Billy, Sherry, Bobby and Marsha and baby you and I
Oh, I can prove to you
That these facts of love are so true
It makes a boy and girl, yeah
Say they feel so fine, now (feel so fine)

Love, love, sweet love love is so good, child
Ooh, it's so fine ooh ...

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Mississippi River


Mississippi River
Composer(s): Nicolas Peyrac
Performer(s): Nicolas Peyrac



Un kilomètre d'une rive à l'autre
Quelques bateaux à roues
Pour touristes en mal d'argonautes
Et de machines à sous
Et les champs de coton défilent
Mais l'oncle Tom est mort
Ne chantent plus que des oiseaux un peu perdus
Plus de tricheurs, plus de danseuses
Plus d'orpheline en pleurs
Et plus de barmaid amoureuse
Des filons, des trappeurs
Plus de lingots plus de pépites
On a trouvé l'or noir
Mais y'a toujours des bars pour Blancs
Des bars pour Noirs

Mississippi River
N'oublie pas que toi
Toi, tu chantais la liberté des opprimés
L'espoir du peuple noir

Dans un beuglant d'Outre-Atlantique
Le vieux barman s'endort
On assassine sa musique
Au fond du transistor
Et sa mémoire fait des gammes
Ses doigts se posent encore
Sur le piano désaccordé qui n'est pas mort

Mississippi River
N'oublie pas que toi
Toi, tu chantais la liberté des opprimés
L'espoir du peuple noir

Mais un jour autour de ta tombe
Tous tes copains viendront
Les trombones sortiront de l'ombre
Ils réinventeront
Cette musique un peu bizarre
Qui vous sortait du coeur
Quand le sang rouge devenait noir au fond des pleurs

Mississippi River
N'oublie pas que toi
Toi, tu chantais la liberté des opprimés
L'espoir du peuple noir

Mississippi River
N'oublie pas que toi
Toi, tu chantais la liberté des opprimés
L'espoir du peuple noir

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Garden Of Happiness


Garden Of Happiness
Composer(s): Edward Lockton; Daniel Wood
Performer(s): Richard Crooks



I found a garden in the long ago
Fragrant and sweet, with wondrous flowers aglow
Shady with trees, where birds from morn till night
Sang to my heart of love and all delight

Garden of happiness, skies of blue
Shine o'er your golden ways, radiant for you
Now I have found you, gladness is mine
Garden of happiness and love divine

In that fair garden I would ever stay
Loving one heart each hour of every day
Never a cloud to dim the skies above
Never a tear in that glad place of love

Garden of happiness, skies of blue
Shine o'er your golden ways, radiant for you
Now I have found you, gladness is mine
Garden of happiness and love divine

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Love Makes Sweet Music


Love Makes Sweet Music
Composer(s): David Allen - Kevin Ayers - Mike Ratledge - Robert Wyatt
Performer(s): Soft Machine
and multiple other artists



Every night it's the same old scene
Drinking wine cos you're scared to dream
But you know that things will get better
If you let your dreams get wetter than wine
It's just a waste of time

When it's dark and you hear your heart beat
Walk down moonlight's lonely high street
Something sings and you feel sunshine
But you know you're full of moonshine, too
It's staring at you

Love makes sweet music
Makes you want to shout out
Love makes sweet music
Makes you want to run, makes you want to shout out
Makes you want to cry, makes you want to run to ... her

Every day it's the same old tune
Tell yourself it's coming soon
When it comes it comes so fast
You get worried cause that thing won't last with her
Then you're back where you were

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Mississippi Queen


Mississippi Queen
Composer(s): Corky Laing; Felix Pappalardi;
David Rea; Leslie West
Originally performed by: Mountain
Covered by various other artists



Mississippi Queen
If you know what I mean
Mississippi Queen
She taught me everything
Way down around Vicksburg
Around Louisiana way
Lived a cajun lady
Aboard the Mississippi Queen
You know she was a dancer
She moved better on wine

While the rest of them dudes were'a gettin' their kicks
Buddy, beg your pardon, I was getting mine

Mississippi Queen
If you know what I mean
Mississippi Queen
She taught me everything
This lady she asked me
If I would be her man
You know that I told her
I'd do what I can
To keep her looking pretty
Buy her dresses that shine

While the rest of them dudes were making their bread
Buddy, beg your pardon, I was losing mine!

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Garden Of Eden


Garden Of Eden
Composer(s): Norwood
Performer(s): Joe Valino;
and various other artists



When you walk in the garden
The garden of Eden
With a beautiful woman
And you know how you care
And the voice in the garder
The Garden of Eden
Tells you she is forbidden
Can you leave her there

When you're yearnin for lovin
And she touches your hand
And your heart starts in pounding
And you're feeling so grand

Can you lead her to heaven
And obey the commands
Can you walk from the garden
Does your heart understand

When you walk in the garden
The garden of Eden
With a beautiful woman
And you know how you care
And the voice in the garder
The Garden of Eden
Tells you she is forbidden
Can you leave her there

When you're yearnin for lovin
And she touches your hand
And your heart starts in pounding
And you're feeling so grand

Can you lead her to heaven
And obey the commands
Can you walk from the garden
Does your heart understand

When you walk in the garden
The garden of Eden
With a beautiful woman
And you know how you care
And the voice in the garder
The Garden of Eden
Tells you she is forbidden
Can you leave her there

Can you leave her there
Can you leave her there
Can you leave her there

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Love Machine


Love Machine Composer(s): Billy Griffin - Warren "Pete" Moore Performer(s): The Miracles and multiple other artists



Oh, yeah! I'm just a love machine and I won't work for nobody but you Yeah, baby, I'm just a love machine A hugging kissing fiend! I think it's high time you knew Whenever I think of you My mind blows a fuse When I look in your eyes My meter starts to rise And I become confused My voltage regulator cools When I'm sitting next to you Electricity starts to flow And my indicator starts to glow – wooo! I, I, I'm just a love machine and I won't work for nobody but you I'm just a love machine, yeah, baby A hugging kissing fiend La-La la la la-La la la la-La la La la la la la-La la la-La laaaaaaaaa I, I, I'm just a love machine and I won't work for nobody but you I'm just a love machine, yeah, baby A hugging kissing fiend! I'm gentle as a lamb I'm not that hard to program There's no way that you can lose My chassis fits like a glove I've got a button for love That you have got to use! If you look into my file I am sure you can find out how To turn me on just set my dial And let me love you for a little while, ooooooh! I, I, I'm just a love machine and I won't work for nobody but you I'm just a love machine, yeah, baby A hugging kissing fiend La-La la la la-La la la la-La la La la la la la-La la la-La laaaaaaaaa Push it, push it, baby, aah! I, I, I'm just a love machine and I won't work for nobody but you I'm just a love machine, (yeah, baby) A hugging kissing fiend, (ah, ah) I'm just a love machine I won't operate for anybody but you I'm just a love machine, (yeah, baby) A hugging kissing fiend! Oh, yeah! Love making, earthquaking, soul shaking love machine! I won't operate for anybody but you Love making, earthquaking, soul shaking love machine! I won't operate for anybody but you Oh, yeah! Love making, earthquaking, soul shaking love machine! I won't operate for anybody but you Love making, earthquaking, soul shaking love machine! I won't operate for anybody but you!

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Mississippi Mud


Mississippi Mud
Composer(s): James Cavanaugh; Harry Barris
Performer(s): Paul Whiteman & His Orch.
and various other artists



When the sun goes down, the tide goes out
The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout
"Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud"

What a dance do they do!
Lordy, how I'm tellin' you...
They don't need no band...
They keep time by clappin' their hand...
Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud

Lordy, how they play it!
Goodness, how they sway it!
Uncle Joe, Uncle Jim
How they pound the mire with vigor and vim!
Joy! that music thrills me!
Boy! it nearly kills me!
What a show when they go!
Say! they beat it up either fast or slow

When the sun goes down, the tide goes out
The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout
"Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud"

What a dance do they do!
Lordy, how I'm tellin' you...
They don't need no band...
They keep time by clappin' their hand
Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud

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Garde-Moi La Dernière Danse


Garde-Moi La Dernière Danse ((Adapted from: Save The Last Dance For Me (The Drifters - 1960)) Composer(s): Doc Pomus - Mort Schuman - François Llenas - André Salvet Performer(s): Dalida - 1961

Versions In Other Languages: 1961 - Dans Nog Eenmaal Met Mij (Fouryo's) 1961 - Mit 17 Fängt Das Leben Erst An (Ivo Robic) 1961 - Chiudi Il Ballo Con Me (Dalida) 1962 - Bare Sidste Dans Bli'r Me' Mig (Grethe Sønck) 1968 - Lascia L'ultimo Ballo Per Me (The Rokes) 1981 - Bewaar De Laatste Dans Voor Mij (Will Tura) 1982 - Oh Darling, Dans Nog Eenmaal Met Mij (Johnny Camaro) 1984 - Natten Er Min (Bamses Venner) 1987 - De Laatste Dans (Corry Konings) 2001 - Vivir Cerca De Ti (Frank Galan)



Va danser
Toutes les danses que tu veux
Dans les bras de ceux
Qui t'entraînent au loin
Va sourire
Des sourires merveilleux
Pour les danseurs
Qui te tiennent la main
Mais n'oublie pas que ce sera toi
Qui conduiras ce soir chez moi
Garde bien la dernière danse pour moi
Il y a
Quelquefois des refrains
Plus forts que le vin
Qui vous tournent la tête
Chante et rit
Mais je t'en supplie
Aucun danseur ne m'enlève ton cœur
Et n'oublie pas que ce sera toi
Qui conduiras ce soir chez moi
Garde bien la dernière danse pour moi
Comprends-moi chéri, je t'aime trop
Et je n'ai plus qu'un désir
C'est t'empêcher un jour de partir
Notre amour est trop beau
Va danser
Si tu peux t'amuser
J'attendrai le jour de ton retour
Si quelqu'un
Veut que tu l'accompagnes
Jusqu'à la maison
Dis-lui bien que non
Car n'oublie pas que ce sera toi
Qui conduiras ce soir chez moi
Garde bien la dernière danse pour moi
La, la, la,la,la,..
Oui n'oublie pas que c'est dans tes bras
Que ce soir tu me serreras
Garde bien la dernière danse pour moi
Garde bien la dernière danse pour moi
Garde bien la dernière danse pour moi

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Love L-o-v-e


Love L-o-v-e
Composer(s): Loretta Lynn - Maggie Vaughn
Performer(s): Loretta Lynn



L-o-v-e l-o-v-e love
There couldn't be a bad word I haven't heard you say
Don't you know the needs of any woman
You speak words my ears have never heard of
The only four letter word that you don't know is l-o-v-e love
L-o-v-e a word you never use l-o-v-e your lips never choose
It's enough to make a woman want to give of
The only four letter word that you don't know is l-o-v-e love

It would tear me all to pieces if you ever came to me
With more to give than one robbed kiss at nighttime
You'll never know the longing that my heart does
The only four letter word that you don't know is l-o-v-e love
L-o-v-e a word you never use ...

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Mississippi Kid


Mississippi Kid
Composer(s): Robert Burns; Al Kooper; Ronnie Van Zant
Performer(s): Lynyrd Skynyrd
and various other artists



I've got my pistols in my pockets boys
I'm Alabama bound
I've got my pistols in my pockets boys, I'm
I'm Alabama bound
Well, I'm not looking for no trouble
But nobody dogs me 'round

Well, I'm going to fetch my woman, people
Tri-cities here I come
Well, I'm going to fetch my woman, people
Tri-cities here I come
Cause she was raised up on that cornbread
And I know she's gonna give me some

When the kid hits Alabama, people
Don't you try and dog him 'round
When the kid hits Alabama, people
Don't you try and dog him 'round
Cause if you people cause me trouble
Then I've got to put you in the ground

Well, I was born in Mississippi
And I don't take any stuff from you
Well, I was born in Mississippi
And I don't take any stuff from you
And if I hit you on your head
Boy, its got to make you black and blue

Well, I ride to Alabama

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Garde-Moi Dans Ta Poche


Garde-Moi Dans Ta Poche Adapted from: I Can't Help Myself - 1965 Composer(s): Lamont Dozier; Brian Holland; Eddie Holland; J. Renard Performer(s): Sylvia Vartan - 1966



Garde-moi dans ta poche
Maintenant que je sais
Qu'il ne faut jamais
Oh non plus jamais nous séparer
Et vivre de nous de notre amour
Comme la feuille et l'arbre
Ne peuvent vivre l'un sans l'autre
J'ai tellement pleuré sur notre amour
Sur ce qui était à nous que je te le demande
Maintenant garde-moi dans ta poche

Garde-moi dans ta poche
Pour que tu ne sois jamais seul
Et je te ferai oublier toute ta peine
Chaque fois que la nuit vient
Et qu'on est très loin l'un de l'autre
Je veux crier ton nom
Oh oui crier ton nom
Si ton cœur a souffert à cause de nous
Nous allons refaire le chemin de notre amour
{ad lib}

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