Donderdag 4 december 2008
Life Upon The Wicked Stage
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Life Upon The Wicked Stage
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Donderdag 4 december 2008
But Beautiful
But Beautiful
Composer(s): Johnny Burke; James van Heusen
Originally performed by: Bing Crosby
Covered by various other artists
Love is funny or it's sad
Or it's quiet or it's mad
It's a good thing or it's bad
But beautiful!
Beautiful to take a chance
And if you fall, you fall
And I'm thinking I wouldn't mind at all
Love is tearful or it's gay
It's a problem or it's play
It's a heartache either way
But beautiful!
And I'm thinking if you were mine
I'd never let you go
And that would be but beautiful I know
Woensdag 3 december 2008
Life Still Goes On (I'm Lonely)
Life Still Goes On (I'm Lonely)
Composer(s): C.F. Turner
Performer(s): Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Standin' in the street, shaved, I'm washed and neat
And the time is mine
But I don't even know where I'm goin'
Been too long in town, just workin' right tied down
But I got my pay
And I'm willin' to spend what I'm earnin'
Maybe over town, where the say love can be found anytime of day
I'll be lookin' you know I've been wishin'
Need a lovin' face, nice hair, some fancy lace
Someone soft and warm
Then those nights spent alone won't seem wasted
Get me on down, get me into the place
Where the beat of the street, and the people that meet
Take the blues far away
'Cause I'm lonely, ya baby I'm lonely
And life still goes on where I'm goin'
Listen
Can you hear me now
Can you hear me I'm callin' for lovin'
Hear me
Won't you listen now
Can you hear me I'm callin' for lovin'
Woensdag 3 december 2008
Busy Tonight
Busy Tonight
Composer(s): Mark Connors; Peter Mann
Performer(s): The Nylons
Are you busy
Baby are you busy tonight
Are you busy
Baby are you busy tonight
Are you busy
Please don't be busy tonight
I've been waiting while the whole world gets to you
I've been patient got my place in line
I know you love me but you don't know you do
How can you tell if you won't give it some time
Let me make your mind up
Hold you till my time's up
Baby don't you tell me that you're busy tonight
Say you've got a fever
Say you need a breather
But baby please don't be busy tonight
Can you forget all the others you've known
We'll make this turn out right
We'll close the door on a world of our own
And the heat of our love will light up the night
Let my love surround you
Now that I have found you
Baby don't you tell me that you're busy tonight
Give them any reason
Say you're out of season
But baby please don't be busy tonight, tonight
When you're around I feel you watching me
Your eyes are saying you're still unsure
Why be afraid of something that's just got to be
Give me a chance to make you feel secure
Let me make your mind up
Hold me till my time's up
Baby don't you tell me that you're busy tonight
Say you've got a fever
Say you need a breather
But baby please don't be busy tonight (tonight) tonight
The heat of our love will light up the night
Let my love surround you
Now that I have found you
Baby don't you tell me that you're busy tonight
Give them any reason
Say you're out of season
Oh baby please say you're busy
Busy with me tonight
Oh tonight
Oh tonight
Are you busy
Baby are you busy tonight
Are you busy
Baby are you busy tonight
Dinsdag 2 december 2008
Jag Har Tänkt På Dej
Jag Har Tänkt På Dej
((Adapted from: Mama, You Been On My Mind (by Bob Dylan) - 1964; Baby You've Been On My Mind (by Linda Ronstadt) - 1969))
Composer(s): Bob Dylan - Mikael Wiehe
Performer(s): Mikael Wiehe - 2004
Det kan va solen när den sänker sej
över fjärden. Eller vägskälet där jag står
Kanske är det vädret eller nåt med hur jag mår
som gör att jag har tänkt på dej
Jag vill inte bråka, få nu inte spel, bli inte sur
Jag kräver inget. Eller säger det finns bara du
Jag vankar inte heller av och an i nån sorts bur
Jag har bara tänkt på dej
Fast jag kanske kan va inskränkt och min värld kan verka trång
så har jag aldrig brytt mej om var du har kommit från
Och det rör mej inte heller vem du vaknar med imorgon
fastän jag har tänkt på dej
Jag menar, jag står inte här och vill ha svar som ”ja” och ”nej”
Du måste fatta. Du går din egen väg
Jag bara mumlar för mej själv som om det inte fanns ett skäl
dom gånger jag har tänkt på dej
Så när du vaknar upp på morgonen så titta dej i spegeln
Jag finns där inte bredvid dej. Mej har du inte kvar
Jag bara undrar för mej själv om du kan se dej lika klart
som nån som har tänkt på dej
Dinsdag 2 december 2008
Busy Line
Busy Line
Composer(s): Semos; Frank Stanton; Francis Hayward
Performer(s): Rose Murphy
and various other artists
I put a nickel in the telephone, dialled my baby’s number
Got a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line
Each time I tried I got a busy tone
Not my baby’s number
Just a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line
Called his uncle in Jamaica
Left a message with the baker
Even checked the number in the telephone book
Got so awfully, awfully worried
To my baby’s house I hurried
When I looked inside, the phone was off the hook
And as I walked up to my baby - then
I got my baby’s number
He was busy in the parlour doing fine
Busy kissing someone else
While I was keeping busy
Getting a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line
....busy line
Just brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line
Just biz-biz-biz-biz busy line
Biz-biz busy line
I put my nickel in the telephone
Dialled my baby’s number
Got a brrr, brrr, brrr, ... line
Each time I tried I got a busy tone
Not my baby’s number
Just a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line
In Jamaica, left a message with the baker
Even checked his number in the telephone book
Got so awfully, awfully worried
To my baby’s house I hurried
When I looked inside, the phone was off the hook, hook, hook
Walked up to my baby - then
I got my baby’s number
He was busy in the parlour doing fine
Busy kissing someone else
While I was keeping busy
Getting a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line
Maandag 1 december 2008
Life On Mars?
Life On Mars?
((Adapted from: Life On Mars (by David Bowie) - 1971))
((Swedish Version: Liv På Mars (by Frida) - 1975))
Composer(s): David Bowie - Seu Jorge
Performer(s): Seu Jorge - 2004
Quando as coisas do coracao
Nao consegue compreender
O que a mente nao faz questao
E nem tem forcas para obedecer
Quantos sonhos ja destrui
E deixei escapar das maos
E se o futuro assim permitir
Nao pretendo viver em vao
Meu amor nao estamos sos
Tem um mundo a esperar por nos
Do infinito do ceu azul
Pode ter vida em marte
Entao vem ca
Me da a sua lingua
Entao vem
Eu quero abracar voce
Seu poder vem do sol
Minha medida
Entao vem
Vamos viver a vida
Entao vem
Se nao eu vou perder quem sou
Vou querer me mudar
Para uma Life on Mars
Maandag 1 december 2008
Busy Doing Nothing
Busy Doing Nothing
Composer(s): Jimmy Van Heusen; Johnny Burke
Performer(s): Bing Crosby
and various other artists
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
We're busy doin' nothin'
Workin' the whole day through
Tryin' to find lots of things not to do
We're busy goin' nowhere
Isn't it just a crime
We'd like to be unhappy, but
We never do have the time
I have to watch the river
To see that it doesn't stop
And stick around the rosebuds
So they'll know when to pop
And keep the crickets cheerful
They're really a solemn bunch
Hustle, bustle
And only an hour for lunch
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
We're busy doin' nothin'
Workin' the whole day through
Tryin' to find lots of things not to do
We're busy goin' nowhere
Isn't it just a crime
We'd like to be unhappy, but
We never do have the time
I have to wake the Sun up
He's liable to sleep all day
And then inspect the rainbows
So they'll be bright and gay
I must rehearse the songbirds
To see that they sing in key
Hustle, bustle
And never a moment free
We're busy doin' nothin'
Workin' the whole day through
Tryin' to find lots of things not to do
We're busy going nowhere
Isn't it just a crime
We'd like to be unhappy, but
We never do have the time
I have to meet a turtle
I'm teachin' him how to swim
Then I have to shine the dewdrops
You know they're looking rather dim
I told my friend, the robin
I'd buy him a brand new vest
Hustle, bustle
We never do have
We never do have
We never do, never do
Never do, never do, never do have the time
Never do have the time
Zondag 30 november 2008
Life On Mars
Life On Mars
Composer(s): David Bowie
First release by: David Bowie - 1971
Covered by multiple other artists
Versions In Other Languages:
1975 - Liv På Mars (by Frida)
2004 - Life On Mars? (by Seu Jorge)
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It's on Amerikas tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
Zondag 30 november 2008
Sono Un Fallito
Sono Un Fallito
English & French Titles: Busted; Fauché
Composer(s): Don Backy; Mike DelPrete; Harlan Howard
Performer(s): Adriano Celentano
Coro: nessuno crede in te
Coro: nessuno crede in te
Non ho più nessuno, mi sento davvero un fallito
senza soldi, senza casa, senza te
Io spero soltanto che questa sfortuna
Coro: nessuno crede in te
mi debba lasciare, dovrà pur finire
Coro: nessuno crede in te
e cerco qualcuno che possa prestarmi dei soldi
Coro: nessuno crede in te
Per giunta fra poco sarà l'onomastico suo
e per farmi perdonare vorrei...
vorrei regalarti una bella pelliccia
Coro: nessuno crede in te
ma non ho il coraggio di farmi vedere
Coro: nessuno crede in te
io sono un fallito, mi spiace e non posso cambiare
Coro: nessuno crede in te
Nessuno mi aiuta, nessuno mi tende la mano
e un'idea sta giungendo piano
Io sono un fallito, un fallito d'onore
per questo ho vergogna di farmi vedere
un treno io prendo e non mi farò più sentire
Coro: nessuno crede in te
No, no, nessuno!
Coro: nessuno crede in te
No, no, nessuno!
Coro: nessuno crede in te
No, no, nessuno!
Coro: nessuno crede in te
Zaterdag 29 november 2008
Liv På Mars
Liv På Mars
((Adapted from: Life On Mars (by David Bowie) - 1971))
((Portuguese Version: Life On Mars? (by Seu Jorge) - 2004))
Composer(s): David Bowie - Owe Junsjö
Performer(s): Frida - 1975
Det är grått, det är sent och tyst
För en flicka som ingen kysst
Sen en gryning för länge sen
Ingen vet när det händer igen
Nu går hon genom stan, stannar så
Och hon köper biljett, en blå
Till det landet där drömmar väcks
Ljuset på biografen släcks
Men den filmen är seg och trist
Som den var när hon såg den sist
Hon kan varje sen utantill
Ser hjältinnan som kysser sin hjälte
Tårarna som rinner
Stelnar i en stumps sista bild
En sån fruktansvärd film
Hon går genom staden
Tittar upp mot rymden
Raden utav bleka stjärnors ljus
Som står högt över mörka hus
Finns det liv på mars?
Och från ett glömskans kalejdoskop
Helt utan saknad och enslig gråt
Går hon sakta, så sakta hem
Till sin vardag, nio till fem
Som en skepnad bland många fler
Men blir det aldrig nånting mer
Någonting riktigt rart och snällt
Som i den dröm som gavs i kväll
Men den filmen är seg och trist
Som den var när hon såg den sist
Hon kan varje sen utantill
Ser hjältinnan som kysser sin hjälte
Tårarna som rinner
Stelnar i en stumps sista bild
En sån fruktansvärd film
Hon går genom staden
Tittar upp mot rymden
Raden utav bleka stjärnors ljus
Som står högt över mörka hus
Finns det liv på mars?
Zaterdag 29 november 2008
Busted
Busted
French & Italian Titles: Fauché; Sono Un Fallito
Composer(s): Harlan Howard
Originally performed by: Johnny Cash
Covered by various other artists
My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm busted
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I'm busted
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county's gonna haul my belongings away cause I'm busted
I went to my brother to ask for a loan cause I was busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his bone, but I'm busted
My brother said there ain't a thing I can do
My wife and my kids are all down with the flu
And I was just thinking about calling on you 'cause I'm busted
Well, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong when he's busted
The food that we canned last summer is gone and I'm busted
The fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow
Me and my family got to pack up and go
But I'll make a living, just where I don't know cause I'm busted
I'm broke, no bread, I mean like nothing
Vrijdag 28 november 2008
Life Made Me Beautiful At Forty
Life Made Me Beautiful At Forty
Composer(s): Eartha Kitt - Joachim Kühn
Performer(s): Eartha Kitt
I've been through clouds and stormy skies
On different worlds, all filled with lives
I've travelled through the steams of lovers
And wiped my tears upon their covers
I've lived a life of rogue and queen
And died my hair to fit the scene
I've had my ups, I've had my downs
And sipped champagne with worldly crowns
I've been as honest as I could
And ashamed, the shame that knows I should
I've been loved and I've been lied to
And found a few shoulders I could cry to
And all those years I thought life naughty, ah-hah
Should make me beautiful at forty
For life's not been so bad to take
For now I've cut life's golden cake
Into a million tiny squares
And with each piece recall the years
The taste of life has not been so bad
Between the tears and joys I've had
But with some good and a little singing
She always allowed me to get a grin
And all those years I've spent on my youth
Thinking knowledge brought the truth
I know life has her games to play
And puzzles it, crackling play
So, graves are dug and wars are lost
But life goes on at any cost
I do think life has made me wiser
So there is no reason to disguise her
Even tried to rearrange her
She has been fair, I would not change her, hah-hum
She presents me life so simply
In a cup that's almost empty
With a little wine to tease me
But not enough to really please me
And if I drink, and let her take me
She is wise enough to wake me
But only after dreams and visions
Allowing me to see these decisions, ah-hah
All those years I thought life naughty
She made me beautiful at forty
Vrijdag 28 november 2008
Bust My Ball
Bust My Ball
Composer(s): Marc Bolan
Performer(s): Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Oh baby don’t you know my head it feels so slow
Won’t it bust my ball
Oh baby don’t you know my head it feels so slow
Won’t it bust my ball
Busted now busted now ba----by
Busted now busted now ba----by
Busted now busted now ba----by
Busted now
Oh baby don’t you know my head it feels so slow
Won’t it bust my ball
Oh baby don’t you know my head it feels so slow
Won’t it bust my ball
Donderdag 27 november 2008
Life Is Nothing Without Music
Life Is Nothing Without Music
Composer(s): Fred Hartley
Performer(s): Sam Browne
Life is nothing without music
Music helps the world along
While the orchestra is playing
My heart is singing a song of love, dear
Let’s forget about those grey days
We’ll be happy while we dance
Tunes we love will make us realise that
Life is nothing without music
Where there’s music we’ll find romance
What do you say, life is dull and grey
Because the sun’s not always shining.
It isn’t so, if you only know
Where to look to find the silver lining.
Life is nothing without music
(One line of music)
While the orchestra is playing
(One line of music)
Let’s forget about those grey days
We’ll be happy while we dance
Tunes we love will make us realise that
Life is nothing without music
Where there’s music we’ll find romance
Donderdag 27 november 2008
Business On The Street
Business On The Street
Composer(s): Stephen Stills
Performer(s): Stephen Stills & Manassas
Don't put your business in the street
Your brothers and sisters is about all you need
No tellin' who you might meet
It might make you sad, make you feel mad
Make you blue, what are you gonna do
The biggest fool of all is me
I play the music for the music you see
For money I do publicity
So I can buy guitars, put a studio in the backyard
You know what it costs me to find another key
And when you get a little bit older
You're carryin' too much weight on your shoulder
Share your heavy load come on over
So we go and see, what you're gonna be
Don't try too hard, don't you break your heart
Oh yes, wrong, right
I'm tellin' ya, tell me
Gonna be all right
Gonna be all right
Woensdag 26 november 2008
Life Is Just What You Make It
Life Is Just What You Make It
Composer(s): Alan Osmond - Merrill Osmond
Performer(s): Donny Osmond
Baby, I've been thinkin', and I've finally made up my mind
Baby, I've been lookin', and you know there's one thing that I find
That life is just what you make it
life is just what you want it to be
Life, don't think I can take it
unless you could spend it with me
Baby, since I met you, I just can't get you out of my mind
Lately, if I'm not with you, I feel like I'm wasting my time
'Cause life is just what you make it
life is just what you want it to be
Life, don't think I can take it
unless you could spend it with me
Walkin' in the noonday sunshine
together we will pass the time
Sittin' 'neath the moon just dreamin'
with you, girl, just us two girl
Oh yeah.... oh yeah.....
With you, girl, just us two girl
I'm no fool, girl
'Cause life is just what you make it
life is just what you want it to be
Life, don't think I can take it
unless you could spend it with me
Oh, life is just what you make it ...
Woensdag 26 november 2008
Business Is Business
Business Is Business
Composer(s): John Kay
Performer(s): John Kay & Company
I was told I had to grease his palm
To walk from school without the fear of harm
He knocked me down and took my dollar from me
And then he lay these pearls of wisdom on me
He say; Business is business, nothing is free
Business is business, don't you blame me
Business is business, you've got to pay
Business is business, can't get away
Business is business, a man's gotta live
And what I can take is more than you'd give
Nothing has changed since I left school behind
The bullies now just all wear suits and ties
They'll buy you lunch to get that dollar from you
And then they'll lay the mumbo-jumbo on you
Business is business, nothing is free
Business is business, don't you blame me
Business is business, you've got to pay
Business is business. can't get away
Business is business, don't call me a crook
It's perfectly legal, I go by the book
Dinsdag 25 november 2008
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
Composer(s): Ray Henderson - Lew Brown
Performer(s): Rudy Vallée
and multiple other artists
People are queer, they're always crowing, scrambling and rushing about
Why don't they stop someday, address themselves this way?
Why are we here? Where are we going? It's time that we found out
We're not here to stay; we're on a short holiday
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious
You work, you save, you worry so
But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go
So keep repeating it's the berries
The strongest oak must fall
The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned
So how can you lose what you've never owned?
Life is just a bowl of cherries
So live and laugh at it all
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious
At eight each morning I have got a date
To take my plunge 'round the Empire State
You'll admit it's not the berries
In a building that's so tall
There's a guy in the show, the girls love to kiss
Get thousands a week just for crooning like this
Life is just a bowl of ... aw, nuts!
So live and laugh at it all!
Dinsdag 25 november 2008
Bush Doctor
