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The Beatles
All You Need Is Love
In My Life
Karla Bonoff
Rose in the Garden
Paul Brady
Cold, Cold Night
Guy Clark
Coat From the Cold
Judy Collins
(What I'll Give You) Since You've Asked
Bob Dylan
One Too Many Mornings
Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
Just Like A Woman
Vance Gilbert
Unfamiliar Moon
Richard Rogers w/Lorenz Hart or Oscar Hammerstein:
Some Enchanted Evening
With a Song In My Heart
Paul Siebel
Long Afternoons
Paul Simon
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Train In the Distance
You're the One
Jerry Jeff Walker
My Old Man
Jimmy Winokur
Till Morning's Light
(for Marilyn)
Jesse Colin Young
Get Together
Love, love, love,
Love, love, love,
Love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love - all together now!
All you need is love - everybody!
All you need is love, love,
Love is all you need.
Amidst the din of the crowd, the man rises and lifts his glass to his beloved, and sings out:
I sing to you tonight
Of love that lasts a lifetime
Of joy, of sorrow,
Of fear for tomorrow
I love you tonight
For the joy and for the sorrow,
'Cause my darling
I know you,
I know you so well
Lay by my side,
Warm through the night.
Love secure in the strength of my feeling
Trust and confide.
Rise like the tide
Warm me slowly
And love me all through the night
Until the morning's light.I met you as a child
Too young to know the future;
Too young to know if the world was quite real
When I met you that night
Your eyes were all a'sparklin’
And my darling;
I knew you
I knew you so wellLay by my side,
Warm through the night.
Love secure in the strength of my feeling
Trust and confide.
Rise like the tide
Warm me slowly
And love me all through the night
Until the morning's light.
Now childhood’s far behind.
We’re in a different ‘lifetime’
Too old to doubt that the world is quite real
Yes, I think of those nights
Your eyes all a’sparkling
Then I wonder,
Oh my darling,
Did I love you so well?
Gone from my side,
Far from my sight. …
I my-self must furnish love’s healings
Reach down inside,
Be my own guide
Gather my own strength
To soothe me all through my night
Until the morning's light.
Reprise:Singing: …..
Lay by my side,
Warm through the night.
Love secure in the strength of my feeling
Trust and confide.
Rise like the tide
Warm me slowly
And love me all through the night
Until the morning's light.
(Song for Marilyn III)Jimmy Winokur, Till Morning's Light (1974, 2005)
Love is but a song we sing Fear's the way we die You can make the mountains ring Or make the angels cry Though the bird is on the wing You may not know why Come on people now, smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another right now Some may come and some may go You will surely pass When the one who left us here Returns for us at last We are but a moment's sunlight Fading in the grass...
Come on people now, smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another right now If you hear the song we sing You will understand You hold to key to love and fear All in your trembling hand Just one key unlocks them both It's there at your command ... Come on people now, smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another right now
Jesse Colin Young, Get Together
My old man he had a rounder's soul
He'd hear an old freight train, then he'd have to go
Said he'd been blessed with a Gypsy bone
And that's the reason that he was cursed to roam
Came back through town back before the war
He didn't even know what it was he was lookin' for
Carried a tattered bag for his violin
Full of lots of songs and places he had been
He talked real easy, had a smilin' way
He could pass along to you while his fiddle played
Just makin' people drop their cares and woes
To hum out loud the tunes that his fiddle bowed
Till the people there began to join that sound
And everything was laughin' singin' dancin' round
Like the fiddler's tune were all they heard that night
As if some dream had said all the world is right
His eye caught one dancin' lady there
She had that rollin' flowin' danglin' kind of hair
He played for her as if she danced alone
Played his favorite songs, the ones he called his own
'Til she alone was dancin' in the room
The only thing left movin' to his fiddle tune
Played until she was the last to go
Then he stopped and packed his case, said he'd take her home
And all the nights that passed a child was born
And all the years that passed love would keep them warm
And all their lives they'd shared the dream come true
All because she danced so well to his fiddle tunes
But the train next mornin' she blew a lonesome sound
As if she sang the blues of what she took from town
And all that I recall was what she said when I was young
No one else could really sing the songs he sung
Jerry Jeff Walker, My Old Man (1968)
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face.
Just a song at the start
but it soon is a hymn to your grace.
When the music swells
I'm touching you hand
It tells that you're standing near, and ..
At the sound of your voice
heaven opens his portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
that a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
with a song in my heart for you.
from Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart, With A Song in My
Heart
Rosalie's rapturous, last-played piano piece
Down the street the dogs are barkin'
And the day is a-gettin' dark.
As the night comes in a-fallin',
The dogs 'll lose their bark.
An' the silent night will shatter
From the sounds inside my mind,
For I'm one too many mornings
And a thousand miles behind.
From the crossroads of my doorstep,
My eyes they start to fade,
As I turn my head back to the room
Where my love and I have laid.
An' I gaze back to the street,
The sidewalk and the sign,
And I'm one too many mornings
An' a thousand miles behind.
It's a restless hungry feeling
That don't mean no one no good,
When ev'rything I'm a-sayin'
You can say it just as good.
You're right from your side,
I'm right from mine.
We're both just one too many mornings
An' a thousand miles behind.
Bob Dylan, One Too Many Mornings
Once I knew a woman
She loved only me
She knew how to touch
And how to turn to me
She knew how to kiss
And she knew how to whisper
No need to explain how I feel about her
Her hair it was brown
Soft brown in the sun
I could blow it away
When it came down undone
So perfumed and clean
like the snow on a flower
No need to explain
How I feel about her
Her ribbons and lace
We shared in her room
I remember them well
Those long afternoons
Her words falling softly
Like a warm summer shower
No need to explain
How I feel about her
Soon the hay fields will ripen
Soon the berry will show
Then they'll fade into autumn
To lie under the snow
Some years among many
Leave much more to remember
No need to explain
How I feel about her
Paul Siebel, Long Afternoons (late 1960s)
When you're weary, feeling small
When tears are in your eyes,
I will dry them all
I'm on your side
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I'll take your part
When darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Sail on silver girl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine
When you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
Paul Simon, Bridge Over Troubled Water
Oh, I'm sailin' away my own true love,
I'm sailin' away in the morning.
Is there something I can send you from across the sea,
From the place that I'll be landing?
No, there's nothin' you can send me, my own true love,
There's nothin' I wish to be ownin'.
Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled,
From across that lonesome ocean.
Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine
Made of silver or of golden,
Either from the mountains of Madrid
Or from the coast of Barcelona.
Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night
And the diamonds from the deepest ocean,
I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss,
For that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.
That I might be gone a long time
And it's only that I'm askin',
Is there something I can send you to remember me by,
To make your time more easy passin'.
Oh, how can, how can you ask me again,
It only brings me sorrow.
The same thing I want from you today,
I would want again tomorrow.
I got a letter on a lonesome day,
It was from her ship a-sailin',
Saying I don't know when I'll be comin' back again,
It depends on how I'm a-feelin'.
Well, if you, my love, must think that-a-way,
I'm sure your mind is roamin'.
I'm sure your heart is not with me,
But with the country to where you're goin'.
So take heed, take heed of the western wind,
Take heed of the stormy weather.
And yes, there's something you can send back to me,
Spanish boots of Spanish leather.
Bob Dylan, Boot
s of Spanish Leather
Some enchanted evening
You may see a stranger,
you may see a stranger
Across a crowded room
And somehow you know,
You know even then
That somewhere you'll see her
Again and again.
Some enchanted evening
Someone may be laughin',
You may hear her laughin'
Across a crowded room
And night after night,
As strange as it seems
The sound of her laughter
Will sing in your dreams.
Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons,
Wise men never try.
Some enchanted evening
When you find your true love,
When you feel her call you
Across a crowded room,
Then fly to her side,
And make her your own
For all through your life you
May dream all alone.
Once you have found her,
Never let her go.
Once you have found her,
Never let her go!
Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein, Some Enchanted Evening
Had a bad dream
Had a bad dream in the cold cold night
Had a bad dream
Darling it came to me in the cold cold night
I dreamed I looked for you but you were gone
You were a shadow fading in the dawn
And there was nothing but the memory to linger on
I had been searching
Searching for my destiny
High and mighty
Way above the clouds to find the soul in me
While you were stuck here with your ball and your chain
I was too far away to ease your pain
And all you wanted was to feel you were alive again
So let me hold you
Let me hold you like it used to be
Let me tear down
Everything that's separating you and me
For I was blinded but now I can see
The price you have paid for loving me
And there is nothing I won't do to try to set you free
For in the end
In the end it's just the two of us
In the end
Darling there is nothing but the two of us
When all the passing ships have come and gone
There'll be nobody else to lean upon
And in the end it's up to you and me to carry on.
it's up to you and me to carry on
There'll be nobody else to lean upon.
Paul Brady, Cold, Cold Night
What I'll give you since you've asked,
is all my time together.
Take the rugged sunny days,
the warm and rocky weather.
Take the roads that I have walked along,
looking for tomorrow's time.
Peace of mind.
As my life spills into yours,
changing with the hours.
Filling up the world with time,
turning time to flowers.
I can show you all the songs
that I never sang to one man,
before.
We have seen a million stones lying by the water.
You have climbed the hills with me to the mountain shelter.
Taking off the days one by one,
setting them to breathe in the sun.
Take the lilies and the lakes,
from the days of childhood.
All the willow-winding paths,
leading up and outward.
This is what I give,
this is what I ask you for,
nothing more
Judy Collins, What I'll Give You Since You've Asked
I found comfort and courage in bottles of whiskey
I swear to you friend, that old high life sure gets risky
I've walked away gently from those I thought would burn me
Blocked up my ears so know one could learn me
But the lady beside me is the one I have chosen
To walk through my life like a coat from the cold
I have flown like a bird
From every cage that confines me
And broken every one of the ties that bind me
I've danced me around
All those sad ole situations
I've taken my share of those sweet invitations
But the lady beside me is the one I have chosen
To walk through my life like a coat from the cold
Guy Clark, Like a Coat From the Cold
There's a rose in the garden
It will bloom if you're sure
That you pay close attention
but leave it room
I know your heart can be opened
And like the rose, it will bloom
if I pay close attention
But leave you room...
from Karla Bonoff, Rose in the Garden
Copyright 1988 Seagrape Music (BMI)
There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more
John Lennon & Paul McCartney, The Beatles, In My Life
she was beautiful as southern skies the night he met her she was married to someone he was doggedly determined that he would get her he was old he was young from time to time he would tip his heart but each time she withdrew everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance everybody thinks its true well eventually the boy the girl get married sure enough they have a son and although both were occupied with the child she carried disagreements had begun and in a while it just fell apart it wasn't hard to do everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance everybody thinks its true two disappointed believers two people playing the game negotiations and love songs are often mistaken for one and the same well the man and the woman they remain in contact let us say its for the child with disagreements about the meaning of a marriage contract conversations hard and wild from time to time he would make her laugh she'd cook him a meal or two everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance everybody thinks its true what is the point of this story? what information pertains? the thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains like a train in the distance
Paul Simon, Everybody Loves the Sound of the Train in the Distance
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.
Queen Mary, she's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can't be blessed
Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls.
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.
It was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse
Is this pain in here
I can't stay in here
Ain't it clear that--
I just can't fit
Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world.
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
You make love just like a woman, yes, you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl.
Bob Dylan, Just Like a Woman
Unfamiliar moon
Stars are out of place
Everything is new
Everything is changed
Like a baby child
Just has to cry
When he sees it for the first time
And he don't understand
Now that there's no you
Everything is new
Like this unfamiliar moon
That can't be our song
Those aren't the words I know
The melody's all wrong
But the DJ says "That's just how it goes"
Like a child has to learn
On his own
You get too close to a bird
And she'll be gone
Now that there's no you
Everything is new
Like this unfamiliar moon
This can't be my house
How can this be home?
I don't recognize it
Anymore
Each step to the front door
Is higher than I've known
It's like climbing up a mountain
'Cause now I climb alone
Now that there's no you
Everything is new
Like this unfamiliar moon
Vance Gilbert, Unfamiliar Moon
May twelve angels guard you
While you sleep
Maybe that's a waste of angels I don't know
I'd do anything to keep you safe
From the danger that surrounds us
Little by little
Bit by bit
Little bit by little bit
Now you got it that's it
What're you thinking?
Things'll go sour?
Take its temperature every hour
Nervous when you own it
Nervous when it's gone
What do you think has been going on
For so long?
You are the air
Inside my chest
You're the one
You broke my heart
You made me cry
You're the one
You broke my heart
You made me cry
You're the one
You broke my heart
You made me cry
You're the one
But when I hear it from the other side
It's a completely different song
I'm the one who made you cry
And I'm the one who's wrong
In my dream you spoke to me
And you said
You're the one
You broke my heart
You made me cry
You're the one
You broke my heart
You made me cry
You're the one
You broke my heart
You made me cry
You're the one
Nature gives us shapeless shapes
Clouds and waves and flame
But human expectation
Is that love remains the same
And when it doesn't
We point our fingers
And blame blame blame
You're the one
You broke my heart
You made me cry
And i'm the one
I broke your heart
I made you cry
And you're the one
You broke my heart
You made me cry
We're the ones
Paul Simon, You're the One