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Canned Goods


Canned Goods
Composer(s): Greg Brown
Performer(s): Greg Brown



Well let the wild winter wind bellow and blow
I'm as warm as a July tomato
There's peaches on the shelf, potatoes in the bin
Supper ready, everybody come on in
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Grandma put it all in jars

Well there's a root cellar, fruit cellar down below
Watch your head now, and down we go
There's peaches on the shelf, potatoes in the bin
Supper ready, everybody come on in
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Grandma put it all in jars

Well maybe you are weary and you don't give a damn
I bet you never tasted her blackberry jam
There's peaches on the shelf, potatoes in the bin
Supper ready, everybody come on in
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Grandma put it all in jars

Oh, she got magic in her, you know what I mean
She puts the sun and rain in with her beans
There's peaches on the shelf, potatoes in the bin
Supper ready, everybody come on in
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Grandma put it all in jars

What with the snow and the economy and everything
I think I'll just stay down here and eat until spring
There's peaches on the shelf, potatoes in the bin
Supper ready, everybody come on in
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Grandma put it all in jars

When I go down to see Grandma, I gain a lot a weight
With her dear hands she gives me plate after plate
She cans the pickles, sweet and dill
And the songs of the whippoorwill
And the morning dew and the evening moon
I really gotta go down and see her soon
Cause the canned goods that I buy at the store
Ain't got the summer in 'em anymore
You bet Grandma as sure as you're born
I'll take some more potatoes and a thunder storm

There's peaches on the shelf, potatoes in the bin
Supper ready, everybody come on in
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Taste a little of the summer
Grandma put it all in jars

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Fenesta Che Lucive


Fenesta Che Lucive
Composer(s): Guglielmo Cottrau;
Giulio Genoino; Mariano Paolella
Performer(s): Mario Lanza



Fenesta che lucive e mò non luci
Sign' è ca Nenna mia stace ammalata
S'affaccia la sorella e me lo dice
Nennella toja è morta e s'è atterrata
Chiagneva sempe ca dormeva sola, ah!
Mò duorme co li muorte accompagnata!
Mò duorme co li muorte accompagnata!
Mò duorme co li muorte accompagnata!

Va nella chiesa e scuopre lo tavuto
Vide Nennella toja comm' è tornata
Da chella vocca che nasceano sciure
Mò n'esceno li vierme, oh che piatate!
Zi Parrocchiano mio, abbice cura
Na lampa sempe tienece allumata
Na lampa sempe tienece allumata
Na lampa sempe tienece allumata

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De Cirkel


De Cirkel
((Adapted from: The Circle Game (Ian & Sylvia) - 1967))
Composer(s): Joni Mitchell - Raoul Van Bambost
Performer(s): Miek en Roel - 1970



Vandaag nog lacht het kind luid om het wonder
Van snelle waterjuffers in het riet
't schrikt nog voor de bliksem en de donder
en 't schreit als het een staartster vallen ziet

Het kind wiegt weg en weer met de getijden
't wordt groter met het wassen van het meer
Eens zullen zijn dromen hem bevrijden
Van leugens en beloftes van weleer

De seizoenen vliegen weg en weer
De houten paarden gaan op en neer
Wij draaien op de molen van de tijd
We tollen rond, kunnen niet terug
Het heden vliegt voorbij
Want het rad draait rond en rond
In de eeuwigheid

Lente komt voor zomer,herfst voor winter
Zestien jaren liepen 't kind voorbij
Men zegt hem: neem je tijd,het duurt niet lang meer
Voor jij het rad vertraagt en dan ben je vrij...

De seizoenen vliegen weg en weer
De houten paarden gaan op en neer
Wij draaien op de molen van de tijd
We tollen rond, kunnen niet terug
Het heden vliegt voorbij
Want het rad draait rond en rond
In de eeuwigheid

Jaren kwamen langs, mijn zoon is twintig
Zijn dromen onherkenbaar door de tijd
Morgen maakt hij nieuwe,misschien betere
De toekomst heeft hem door haar spel verleid

De seizoenen vliegen weg en weer
De houten paarden gaan op en neer
Wij draaien op de molen van de tijd
We tollen rond, kunnen niet terug
Het heden vliegt voorbij
Want het rad draait rond en rond
In de eeuwigheid

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Cannabis


Cannabis Composer(s): Jean-Claude Vannier - Serge Gainsbourg Performer(s): Serge Gainsbourg; Jean-Claude Vannier; Todd Bishop



La mort a pour moi le visage d'une enfant
Au regard transparent
Son corps habile au raffinement de l'amour
Me prendras pour toujours
Elle m'appelle par mon nom
Quand soudain je perds la raison
Est-ce un maléfice
Ou l'effet subtil du cannabis?
Elle m'appelle par mon nom
Quand soudain je perds la raison
Est-ce un maléfice
Ou l'effet subtil du cannabis?
La mort ouvrant sous moi ses jambes et ses bras
S'est refermée sur moi
Son corps m'arrache enfin les râles du plaisir
Et mon dernier soupir

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Femmes, Je Vous Aime


Femmes, Je Vous Aime
Composer(s): Claude Barzotti; A.M. Gaspard
Performer(s): Claude Barzotti



Elles vous font faire des enfants qu'elles emmènent en s'en allant
Les femmes vous prennent et puis vous jettent sont bien plus machos que les mecs
Où sont les femmes d'autre fois qui ne nous coupaient pas en trois
Le père, le mari et l'amant, c'était le même en d'autres temps

Un jour elles ont tout voulu et on leur a tout accordé
Nous sommes les dindons, les cocus de leur nouvelle liberté
Où êtes-vous femmes d'antans qui savaient faire en même temps
Et les enfants, et les tartines, et la tendresse et la cuisine

Oh ! femmes, femmes, femmes
On vous aimait pourtant plus un homme ne vous comprend
Femmes, femmes, femmes
Qu'avez-vous fait de nous nous sommes là regardez-nous
Femmes, on ne comprend plus rien du tout, on ne sait plus à quoi on joue
Femmes, plus aucun homme ne sait vraiment ce que vous voulez et comment
Femmes, femmes, femmes

Le temps de vouloir vivre à deux, vous voilà déjà reparties
Le temps d'avoir ce que l'on veut, on n'en a déjà plus envie
Où sont donc les femmes d'avant, celles qui nous laissaient le temps
De leur faire un moment la cour avant de leur faire l'amour

Oh! femmes, femmes, femmes
On vous aimait pourtant plus un homme ne vous comprend
Femmes, femmes, femmes
Qu'avez-vous fait de nous nous sommes là regardez-nous
Femmes, on ne comprend plus rien du tout, on ne sait plus à quoi on joue
Femmes, plus aucun homme ne sait vraiment ce que vous voulez et comment
Femmes, femmes, femmes

Femmes, femmes, femmes, femmes, femmes
Femmes, femmes, femmes, femmes, femmes

Oh, femmes, je vous aime

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The Bold Pedlar And Robin Hood


The Bold Pedlar And Robin Hood
(Traditional)



There chanced to be a Pedlar bold
A Pedlar bold there chanced to be
He put his pack all on his back
And so merrily trudged over the lea

By chance he met two troublesome men
Two troublesome men they chanced to be
The one of them was bold Robin Hood
And the other was little John so free

O Pedlar, Pedlar, what is in thy pack?
Come speedily and tell to me
I've several suits of the gay green silks
And silken bowstrings by two or three

If you have several suits of the gay green silk
And silken bowstrings two or three
Then, by my body, cries little John
One half of your pack shall belong to me

O nay, O nay, said the pedlar bold
O nay, O nay, that can never be
For there's never a man from fair Nottingham
Can take one half my pack from me

Then the Pedlar he pulled off his pack
And put it a little below his knee
Saying, If you do move me one perch from this
My pack and all shall gang with thee

Then little John he drew his sword
The Pedlar by his pack did stand
They fought until they both did sweat
Till he cried, Pedlar, pray hold your hand

Then Robin Hood he was standing by
And he did laugh most heartily
Saying, I could find a man of smaller scale
Could thrash the Pedlar and also thee

Go you try, master, says little John
Go you try, master, most speedily
For by my body, says little John
I am sure this night you will know me

Then Robin Hood he drew his sword
And the pedlar by his pack did stand
They fought till the blood in streams did flow
Till he cried, Pedlar, pray hold your hand

O Pedlar, Pedlar, what is thy name?
Come speedily and tell to me
Come, my name I ne'er will tell
Till both your names you have told to me

The one of us is bold Robin Hood
And the other is little John so free
Now, says the Pedlar, it lays to my good will
Whether my name I choose to tell to thee

I am Gamble Gold of the gay green woods
And I travelled far beyond the sea
For killing a man in my father's land
And from my country was forced to flee

If you are Gamble Gold of the gay green woods
And travelled far beyond the sea
You are my mother's own sister's son
What nearer cousins can we be?

They sheathed their swords, with friendly words
So merrily they did agree
They went to a tavern and there they dined
And cracked bottles most merrily

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Cane Toad Blues


Cane Toad Blues
Performer(s): Tim Finn



Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming
Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues
Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming
Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues
Cane toads...
When are you gonna leave me alone?
Heading south
Like a case of foot and mouth
Cane toads...
You're supposed to set us free
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming...
Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues
Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming
Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues
Cane toads
ba, pa, da...
da, pa, da, pa, da, da, da

Cane toads
You go chomp and live in the swamp
Yeah
Cane toads
You're supposed to set us free
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Cane toads are coming
Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues
Cane toads are coming, cane toads are coming
Main roads are humming with the cane toad blues
Yeah.........

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Femmes ... Je Vous Aime


Femmes ... Je Vous Aime
Composer(s): Jean-Loup Dabadie; Julien Clerc
Performer(s): Julien Clerc



Quelquefois
Si douces
Quand la vie me touche
Comme nous tous
Alors si douces...

Quelquefois
Si dures
Que chaque blessure
Longtemps me dure
Longtemps me dure...

Femmes...Je vous aime
Femmes...Je vous aime
Je n'en connais pas de faciles
Je n'en connais que de fragiles
Et difficiles
Oui...difficiles

Quelquefois
Si drôles
Sur un coin d'épaule
Oh oui...Si drôles
Regard qui frôle...

Quelquefois
Si seules
Parfois ell's le veulent
Oui mais...Si seules
Oui mais si seules...

Femmes...Je vous aime
Femmes...Je vous aime
Vous êt's ma mère, je vous ressemble
Et tout ensemble mon enfant
Mon impatience
Et ma souffrance...

Femmes...Je vous aime
Femmes...Je vous aime
Si parfois ces mots se déchirent
C'est que je n'ose pas vous dire
Je vous désire
Ou même pire
O...Femmes...

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The Boat That I Row


The Boat That I Row
Composer(s): Neil Diamond
Performer(s): Neil Diamond
and multiple other artists



I don't have a lot but with me that's fine
Whatever I got, well, I know it's mine
I don't go around with the local crowd
I don't dig what's in so I guess I'm out

I'm sayin' these things so you know me, baby
So you understand what I'm all about

The boat that I row won't cross no ocean
The boat that I row won't get me there soon
But I got the love and if you got the notion
The boat that I row is big enough for two
That's me and you

There ain't a man in life tell me what to say
I choose my own side and I like it that way
I don't worry about the thinkgs that I'm not
There's only one thing that I want I ain't got

You know that I'm talking about you baby
So you better know and come along

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Candy's Going Bad


Candy's Going Bad Composer(s): Barry A. Hay - George J. Kooymans First release by: Golden Earring - 1973



Candy took the pearls, got ahead of the girls
Got on top and found the secret entrance
Are you satisfied?
Through neon doors, 'cross killing floors
She got sucked into a champagne desert
Are you satisfied?

Daddy said: I'll break your bones
If you come home dressed in Peacock clothes
Mother said: quit the show
She didn't want the neighbours to know
Candy had to quit the show

Well, Candy didn't care, when she started her affair
With the studs and the mares of the night
Are you satisfied?
Teddy knows the rule, of the underground school
He's got Candy wrapped 'round his finger
Are you satisfied?

Daddy said: I'll break your bones
If you don't get your tricks off the phone
Mother said: quit the show
She didn't want the neighbours to know

Candy's going bad - got a room to let
Candy's going bad - got a pimp named Ted
Candy's going bad - Long Green's where it's at
Candy's going bad - she got stars in her head

Candy took the pearls, got ahead of the girls
Got on top and found the secret entrance
Are you satisfied?

Daddy said: I'll break your bones
If you come home dressed in Peacock clothes
Mother said: quit the show
I don't want the neighbours to know

Candy's going bad - got a room to let
Candy's going bad - got a pimp named Ted
Candy's going bad - Long Green's where it's at
Candy's going bad - she got stars in her head

Candy's going bad - got a room to let
Candy's going bad - she got stars in her head

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Femme Objet


Femme Objet
Composer(s): Bernard Lavilliers
Performer(s): Bernard Lavilliers



Quand je te vois passer, ma belle indépendante
Au son de la musique qui se joue des bas-fonds
Suspendant ta démarche voluptueuse et lente
Pour promener l'ennui de ton regard profond
Je t'attends comme un fauve, ma tigresse d'alcôve
Dans le jeu de miroirs de tes sous-entendus
Je n'ai que la mémoire d'un triangle entrevu

Attention! La passion
Se nourrit d'obsessions
N'oublie pas l'obsession
N'admet que l'apparence
Ton imagination
Carbure à des pulsions
Dont jamais la raison
Ne connaît l'existence

Je sais qu'il est des yeux des plus mélancoliques
Qui ne recèlent point de secrets sulfureux
Des écrins sans diamants, des rythmes sans musique
Plus vides et plus profonds que l'absence de feu
Je t'attends comme un fauve, ma tigresse d'alcôve
Dans le jeu de miroirs d'un triangle entrevu
Je n'ai que la mémoire de tes sous-entendus

Attention ! La passion
Se nourrit d'obsessions
N'oublie pas l'obsession
N'admet que l'apparence
Ton imagination
Carbure à des pulsions
Dont jamais la raison
Ne connaît l'existence

Quand je te vois danser, magnifique indolente
Les hanches insolentes et la crinière mouillée
Je me dis qu'il suffit que tu sois l'apparence
Pour faire monter en moi quelques grandes marées
Qu'importe ton absence et ton indifférence
Tu n'es qu'un simulacre et j'adore ta beauté

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The Boa Constrictor Ate My Wife Last Night


The Boa Constrictor Ate My Wife Last Night
Simon Stokes & The Black Whip Thrill Band



This week at the pet store I bought a snake
I brought him home with me and I called him Jake
Last night I woke up from an awful dream
The last thing that I heard was my wife scream

Wow the Boa Constrictor ate my wife last night
The Boa Constrictor ate my wife last night
Ate my wife and ate her sister
I love that Boa Constrictor
Well the Boa Constrictor ate my wife last night

He slithered from the house out to the street
And then he spied a cop upon his beat
And I have just one question
Did Jake get indigestion
Oh the Boa Constrictor ate the heat last night

Wow the Boa Constrictor ate the heat last night
The Boa Constrictor ate the heat last night
And I have just one question
Did Jake get indigestion
Oh the Boa Constrictor ate the heat last night
Take it away Thrill Band

Oh Jake returned to me late tonight
And once again I woke up in a fright
Cuz he's looking strange at me
And I can tell that he's hungry
Oh the Boa Constrictor ate my wife last night

Wow the Boa Constrictor ate my wife last night
The Boa Constrictor ate my wife last night
Ate my wife and ate her sister
I love that Boa Constrictor
Oh the Boa Constrictor ate my wife last night

The Boa Constrictor ate my wife last night
The Boa Constrictor ate my wife last night
Ate my wife and ate her sister
I love that Boa Constrictor
Oh the Boa Constrictor ate my wife last night
Alright

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Candy Store Blues


Candy Store Blues Composer(s): Eddie Beal - Nick Castle - Herb Jefferies Performer(s): Toni Harper; Maria Muldaur



Last night I dreamt that I owned a candy store
Last night I dreamt that I owned a candy store
Woke up this mornin' just like the day before

Got five pennies and I don't know what to do
Got five pennies and I don't know what to do
I need another nickel for the bubblegum I chew

There's a little wagon passin'
Every afternoon at four
And the bells they start to ringin'
Every time they pass my door

Yes, I love him
I love that good, good humour man
He's got lots of frozen custard
That's how this love began

He said, "Hey, little baby
If you didn't get enough
Don't you worry 'bout no money
You can put it on the cuff"

Yes, I love him
I love that good, good humour man
He's got lots of tutti-frutti
I could eat it by the can

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Femme Sous Influence


Femme Sous Influence
Composer(s): J.M. Moreau; R. Musumarra
Performer(s): Sylvie Vartan



D'un mot d'un regard
Tu me renverses et changes l'histoire
Tu planes sur ma vie
Immobile
Comme un aigle sur le Nil
Un jour de chaleur
Tu as planté ta force et ton cœur
Sur ma terre d'argile
Trop fragile
Comme un drapeau sur une île

{Refrain:}
Les yeux fermés je t'aime à l'avance
Quand tu es loin j't'écoute à distance
Je suis toujours et sans défaillance
Une femme sous influence
Et je te suis dans tes rêves immenses
Même dans le noir je te fais confiance
Je suis au fil de ton existence
Une femme sous influence

Sous le signe de toi
Je suis née un matin dans tes bras
Et j'ai vu le jour
Pour toujours sous influence d'amour
Ascendance heureuse
Pour toi je nage en eaux dangereuses
Même quand tu as tort
Je t'aime encore
Comme un volcan dans mon corps
{au Refrain}

Tu traces les couleurs
Les lignes de mon bonheur
Entre tes mains
Court mon destin
Sans fin
{au Refrain}

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The Blues Is All I Ever Had


The Blues Is All I Ever Had
Composer(s): Bobby Troup
Performer(s): Julie London



Some folks always seem to find the good things
Other folks get mixed up with the bad
Don't ask me what I know about the good things
The blues is all I ever had

To some, the earth's a world of friendly faces
For those lucky few, I'm awful glad
My world's been a string of second places
The blues is all I ever had

When I first met him, I thought that maybe
He could change this lonely life I led
When he smiled and said, "I love you, baby"
Silly girl, I b'lieved each word he said

Guess it's time for me to say "good bye" now
Didn't mean to leave you feelin' sad
Since he's gone, what is there left to try now?
The blues is all I ever had

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Candy Says


Candy Says Composer(s): Lou Reed First release by: The Velvet Underground - 1969 Covered by multiple other artists



Candy says I've come to hate my body
and all that it requires in this world
Candy says I'd like to know completely
what others so discretely talk about

Candy says I hate the quiet places
that cause the smallest taste of what will be
Candy says I hate the big decisions
that cause endless revisions in my mind

I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I'm older
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from me

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Femme Fatale


Femme Fatale
Composer(s): Lou Reed
Performer(s): The Velvet Underground;
and various other artists



Here she comes, you better watch your step
She’s going to break your heart in two, it’s true
It’s not hard to realize
Just look into her false colored eyes
She builds you up to just put you down, what a clown

’cause everybody knows (she’s a femme fatale)
The things she does to please (she’s a femme fatale)
She’s just a little tease (she’s a femme fatale)
See the way she walks
Hear the way she talks

You’re written in her book
You’re number 37, have a look
She’s going to smile to make you frown, what a clown
Little boy, she’s from the street
Before you start, you’re already beat
She’s gonna play you for a fool, yes it’s true

’cause everybody knows (she’s a femme fatale)
The things she does to please (she’s a femme fatale)
She’s just a little tease (she’s a femme fatale)
See the way she walks
Hear the way she talks

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The Blues Don't Bother Me


The Blues Don't Bother Me
Performer(s): The Blues Brothers Band



If you're wonderin'
What's all the noise
I'm in the backroom
With the girls and boys
Were' discussing the blues
And they don't seem to see
The blues is all I play
The blues don't bother me

When I was a little boy
Sittin' on my papa's knee
I couldn't a been no older than two or three
He said I am a blues man
You're gonna take after me
After me
The blues is my companion
The blues don't bother me
They don't bother me
No they don't

When I go to bed at night
I'll throw on a record or two
If I didn't have these blues
I wouldn't know what to do
I need them to soothe me
To ease my misery
The blues is my companion
They don't bother me
They don't bother me
The blues don't bother me
They don't bother me
keeps me company
I got the blues
Relieves my misery
Keeps me company
The blues don't bother me
I got the blues

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Candy Man (Grateful Dead)


Candy Man Composer(s): Jerry Garcia - Robert Hunter Performer(s): Grateful Dead



Come all you pretty women
with your hair hanging down
Open up your windows 'cause
the Candyman's in town
Come on boys and gamble
Roll those laughing bones
Seven come eleven boys
I'll take your money home

Look out
Look out
The Candyman
Here he come
and he's gone again
Pretty lady ain't
got no friend
till the Candyman
come round again

I come in from Memphis
where I learned to talk the jive
When I get back to Memphis
be one less man alive
Good Mornin Mr. Benson
I see you're doin well
If I had me a shotgun
I'd blow you straight to Hell

Look out
Look out
The Candyman
Here he come
and he's gone again
Pretty lady ain't
got no friend
till the Candyman
come round again

Come on boys and wager
if you have got the mind
If you got a dollar boys
lay it on the line
Hand me my old guitar
Pass the whiskey round
Want you to tell everybody you meet
the Candyman's in town

Look out
Look out
The Candyman
Here he come
and he's gone again
Pretty lady ain't
got no friend
till the Candyman
come round again

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Femme F.M.


Femme F.M.
Composer(s): Claude Moine; M. Gaucher
Performer(s): Eddy Mitchell



Je bois jusqu'à l'aube les moindres mots
D'un oiseau de nuit "Star Radio"
Qui m'emmène goûter sur ses ondes F.M.
Son "sirop" micro
Solitaire, j'attends en solo
Un sommeil noyé dans peu d'eau
Au réveil, sa voix n'est plus qu'un écho
J'éteins la radio
J'aime une femme F.M., déesse stéréo
J'aime une femme F.M., disc-jockey de nuit
Star radio, star radio
Parfois, j'suis en planque, j'la surveille
Je l'attends, elle sort du studio
Elle ignore que je suis là, je l'observe
Vivre dans mon rétro
Elle court vers un homme, ça m'énerve
Je démarre, car pour moi c'est trop
Un voyeur, c'est tout c'que j'suis bon à faire
J'allume la radio
J'aime une femme F.M., déesse stéréo
J'aime une femme F.M., disc-jockey de nuit
Star radio, star radio
J'aime une femme F.M., déesse stéréo
J'aime une femme F.M., disc-jockey de nuit
Star radio, star radio

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