ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES - HAVA A BALL (1997)
Originally performed by Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina
People smile and tell me I'm a lucky one
And we've just begun, think I'm gonna have a son
He will be like she and me as free as a dove
Conceived in love the sun is gonna shine above
Even though I ain't got money I'm so in love with ya honey
Everything will bring a chain of love
In the morning when I rise, bring a tear of joy to my eyes
Tell me everything's gonna be alright
Pisces, Virgo rising is a very good sign
Strong and kind and the little boy is mine
Now I see a family where there once was none
Now we've just begun yeah we're gonna fly to the sun
Even though I ain't got money I'm so in love with ya honey
Everything will bring a chain of love
In the morning when I rise, bring a tear of joy to my eyes
Tell me everything's gonna be alright
Love the girl who holds the world in a paper cup
Come on and drink it up, love her and she'll bring you luck
If you find she helps your mind, better take her home
Don't you live alone, try to earn what lovers own, go!
Even though I ain't got money I'm so in love with ya honey
Everything will bring a chain of love
In the morning when I rise, bring a tear of joy to my eyes
Tell me everything's gonna be alright
Originally performed by John Denver
All my bags are packed and I'm ready to go
I'm standing here outside the door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breaking its early morn
The taxi's waiting he's blowing his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could die
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
So many times I've let you down
There's so many times I fucked around
I tell you now they don't mean a thing
Cause every place I go I'll think of you
And every song I sing I'll sing for you
When I come back I'll bring your wedding ring
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Now the time has come to leave you
One more time to let me kiss you
Close your eyes and I'll be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I won't have to leave alone
About the times that I won't have to say
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
Yeah
Originally performed by Paul Simon
Mamma pajama rolled out of bed
And she ran to the police station
When the pappa found out he began to shout
And he started the investigation
It's against the law
It was against the law
What the mamma saw
It was against the law
Mamma looked down and spit on the ground
Every time my name gets mentioned
Pappa said "Oh if I get that boy,
I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention"
Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way I'm taking my time but I don't know where
Goodbye to Rosie, the Queen of Corona
See me and Julio down by the schoolyard
See me and Julio down by the schoolyard
Whoh-hoh every couple of days they come to take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when the radical priest come to get me released
It was all on the cover of Newsweek
Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way I'm taking my time but I don't know where
Goodbye to Rosie, the Queen of Corona
See me and Julio down by the schoolyard
Me and Julio down by the schoolyard
Yeah me and Julio down by the schoolyard
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, me and Julio down by the schoolyard
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, me and Julio down by the schoolyard
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, me and Julio down by the schoolyard
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, me and Julio down by the schoolyard
Originally performed by Original Castle
Listen children to a story that was written long ago
About a kingdom on a mountain and the valley folk below
On the mountain was a treasure buried deep beneath a stone
And the valley people swore they'd have it for their very own
So go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven, you'll be justified in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after one, one tin soldier rides away
So the people from the valley sent a message up the hill
Asking for the buried treasure, tons of gold for which they'd kill
Came an answer from the kingdom, "With our brothers we will share
all the secrets of our mountain, all the riches buried there"
Now the valley cried with anger "Mount your horses, draw your swords"
And they killed the mountain people so they won their just reward
As they stood beside the treasure on the mountain dark and red
Turned the stone and looked beneath it, "Peace on Earth" was all it said
So go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven, you'll be justified in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after one, one tin soldier rides away
Originally performed by Billy Joel
Uptown girl
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she never had a backstreet guy
I bet her mamma never told her why
I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man, that's what I am
And when she knows what she wants from her time
And when she wakes up she makes up her mind
She'll see I'm not so tough
Just because I'm in love with an uptown girl
You know I've seen her in her uptown world
She's getting tired of her high-class toys
And all her presents from her uptown boys, she's got a choice
Uptown girl
You know I can't afford to buy her pearls
But maybe someday when my ship comes in
She'll understand what kind of guy I've been, and then I'll win
And when she's walking she's looking so fine
And when she wakes up she makes up her mind
She'll see I'm not so tough
Just because I'm in love with an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man, that's what I am
Uptown girl uptown girl
my uptown girl uptown girl
you know I'm in love with an uptown girl uptown girl
my uptown girl uptown girl
you know I'm in love with an uptown girl uptown girl
yeah yeah uptown girl uptown girl
My uptown girl uptown girl
Let me hear ya, motherfucker
One more time, yeah, yeah, yeah
Originally performed by Simon & Garfunkel
A winter's day in a deep and dark December
I am alone
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I am a rock
I am an island
I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need for friendship, friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
I am a rock
I am an island
Don't talk of love but I've heard the word before
It's sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I'd never loved I never would have cried
I am a rock
I am an island
I have my books and my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock
I am an island
And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries
Originally performed by Neil Diamond
Where it began I can't begin to knowin'
But then I know that it's growing strong
Was in the spring and spring became the summer
Who'd have believed that you'd come along
Hands
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touchin' me, touchin' you
Sweet Caroline
The time never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would
But now I look at the night and it don't seem so lonely
We fill it up with only two
And when I hurt, hurtin' runs off my shoulders
How can I hurt when I'm alone with you
Warm
Touchin' warm
Reachin' out
Touchin' me, touchin' you
Sweet Caroline
The time never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would
Oh, no, yeah
Yeah
Sweet Caroline
The time never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would
Sweet Caroline
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Originally performed by Rod McKuen
Goodbye to you, my trusted friend
We've know each other since we were nine or ten
To get away find hills and trees
Learned of love and ABC's, skinned our hearts and skinned our knees
Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere, think of me and I'll be there
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed
Were just seasons out of time
Goodbye Pappa, please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song, wonder how I got along
Goodbye Pappa, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that spring is in the air
Little children everywhere, when you see them I'll be there
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song
Like the seasons have all gone
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song
Like the seasons have all gone
Goodbye Rochelle, my little one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
And every time that I was down
You would always come around and get my feet back on the ground
Goodbye Rochelle, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that spring is in the air
Flowers everywhere, I wish that we could both be there
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Where just stars that's on the beach
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Where just stars that's on the beach
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song
Like the seasons have all gone
All our lives we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed
Were just seasons out of time
Originally performed by James Taylor
Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this mornin' and I wrote down this song
I just can't remember who to send it to
I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've known lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you gotta help me make a stand
You just got to see me through another day
My body's aching and my time is at hand
And I won't make it any other way
I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've known lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Originally performed by Carly Simon
Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby you're the best
I wasn't looking but somehow you found me
I tried to hide from your love light
But like heaven above me, the spy who loved me
Is keeping all my secrets safe tonight
And nobody does it better
Though sometimes I wish someone could
Nobody does it quite the way you do
Who d'you have to be so good?
The way that you hold me, whenever you hold me
There's some kind of magic inside you
That keeps me from running, but just keep it coming
How d'you learn to do the things you do?
And nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, baby, oh man you're the best
Baby you're the best
Baby you're the best
Baby you're the best
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah whoo
Originally performed by Barry Manilow
I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice
Shadows of a man, a face through a window
Crying in the night, the night goes into
Morning, just another day
Happy people pass my way
Looking in their eyes I see a memory
I never realized how happy you made me
Oh Mandy, well you came and you gave without takin'
But I sent you away
Oh Mandy, well you kissed me and stopped me from shakin'
And I need you today, oh Mandy
1,2,3,4, standing on the edge of time
I walked away when love was mine
Caught up in a world of uphill climbing
Tears are in my eyes and nothing is rhyming
Oh Mandy, well you came and you gave without takin'
But I sent you away
Oh Mandy, well you kissed me and stopped me from shakin'
And I need you today, oh Mandy
Yesterday's a dream I face the morning
Crying on the breeze, the pain is calling
Oh Mandy, well you came and you gave without takin'
But I sent you away
Oh Mandy, well you kissed me and stopped me from shakin'
And I need you today
Oh Mandy, well you came and you gave without takin'
And I sent you away
Oh Mandy, well you kissed me and stopped me from shakin'
And I need you
Yeah
Originally performed by Elton John
She packed my pags last night, pre-flight
Zero hour, nine AM
And I'm gonna be high
As a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no
I'm a rocket man, rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no
I'm a rocket man, rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kid
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there
To raise them if you did
And all this silence I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man
A rocket man
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no
I'm a rocket man, rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no
I'm a rocket man, rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone
I think it's gonna be a long, long time
I think it's gonna be a long, long time
I think it's gonna be a long, long time
I think it's gonna be a long, long time
I think it's gonna be a long, long time
I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Yeah, yeah, yeah