Song Speakers Sing Solos

Same rules as always, a singing discussion created with lyrics or song titles. Keep it PG for the younger members of our group.

People just love to play
With words...

Some people i know,
think that i'm craaaaaa-aaaaaaaa-zeeeeeee.

But you don't know me.

Every step you take,
Every move you make,
I'll be watching you. :o)

I'll creep round your garden til daylight,
I'll look through your window til dawn

I have often walked down this street before.

where the streets have no name

It was good to get out of the rain.

It's raining men! Hallelujah, it's raining men!

Rainy days on Mondays always get me down.

A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now.

I only like it when it rains

The itsy bitsy spider went up the waterspout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.

I am the one hiding under your stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

Scary monsters and super creeps
Keep me running, running scared...

I'm on the whiskey flying and I 'll run by night
I'm on the glaze a'burning and it burns in the light.

Blinded by the light!
Wrapped up like a...

Baby, baby, baby, ooh

A goo goo goo, gah gah gah!
That's all I want to say to you!

Say you, say me; say it for always
That's the way it should be
Say you, say me; say it together
Naturally

I am Mr Natural
I don't wear no skin
I don't care who wins
I know that I'm right
I don't get uptight

Mr. Big Shot
Who do you think you are?

ʻI donʻt want your millions, mister;
I donʻt want your diamond rings.
All I want is the right to live, mister:
Give me back my job again."

We're taking care of business,
and workin' overtime.

Daylight come and me wanna go home.

Do you come from a land Down Under?

Oh, I come from a land, from a faraway place,
Where the caravan camels roam,
Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense,
It's barbaric -- but hey, it's home!

"At the crossroads,
I could see weary caravans,
Just like me wondering
Which way to turn . . ."

Turn around, bright eyes,
every now and then I fall apart.

And it feels just like I'm walking on broken glass.

It cuts like a knife
But it feels so right

"Could that SOMEone
Be Mack the Knife?"

The cat's in the crade and the silver spoon,
little boy blue and the man in the moon

"Lavender blue, Dilly-DIly,
Lavender green.
If I were king, Dilly-Dilly,
Iʻd meet a queen . . ."

Is this the real life?
IS this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality.

"Just a song at twilight
When the lights are low ,
And the flickering shadows
Softly come and go . . ."

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel.

"My brother Bill
Has a still on the hill,
Where he runs off a gallon or two.

The birds in the sky
Get so drunk they canʻt fly,
On that good old
Mountain Dew!"

It tastes just like cherry cola.
C-O-L-A ....

"Cherry bee* Cherry bee, Cherry bee! Cherry bee!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!"

*It sounds something like this -- phonetic spelling. I have no idea of the real spelling, or the title.
Sung on radio by Jimmy Durante et al. on
New Years Eve 1949>50. What ever happened to those old songs where the lyrics were so meaningful?

Chim-chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim cheree . . .

That was the day that the earth stalled

ooooh, cross-posting 14 days later... what were the chances?

supercalifragilisticexpealidocious

Do you believe in magic?

"i believe: For every
Drop of rain that falls,
A flower . . . "

I turn to YOU! Like a flower leaning to-ward the sun!

40: *They've been cherry-picked. 50 years from now, our meaningful songs will be remembered.

You light up my life.

Who renders happy
The Life of a Gypsy?
Who?
Who?
--The Gypsy life?

Who wrote the book of love?

Goldfinger!
He's the man, the man with the Midas touch!

Touch me, and I end up singing . . .

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday

"He rang the bell and whistled as he rang it,
And then he said ʻGood morning to you, Jack!ʻ
He little knew the sorrow that he brought me,
When he handed me The Letter Edged in Black."

Wait a minute, Mr. Postman!

Send me a postcard
Drop me a line
Stating point of view

"All right, Louie, drop the gun!
Youʻre not fooling any one!"

And then I fooled around and fell in love

". . .Love is a burninʻ thing
. . .bound by wild desire,
I fell into a Ring of Fire."

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I'll bleed forever

Feels just like I'm walking on broken glass.

Soon turned out
Had a heart of glass

I've been searching for a heart of gold.

I gave you my heart!
But the very next day you gave it away. :o)

Heart of my heart:
I love that melody.
Heart of my heart
Brings back fond memories.

When we were kids
On the corner of the street
We were rough and ready guys,
But, oh , how we could harmonize!

Sing, sing a song,
Sing out loud,
Sing out strong!

Bring over some of your old motown records
We'll put the speakers in the window and we'll go...

Sing a song, a song of life
Made without regrets
Go tell the ones, the ones I loved
I never will forget

"Without a song,
The day would never end . . ."

Daylight come and me wanna go home.

Home, sweet home -- Payne

...on the range
Where the deer and the antelope...

Twist and shout!

Shout. Shout.
Let it all out.

". . .Speaking words of wisdom:
'Let it Be.' "

I will survive.

Stayin' alive!
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

"Ah, Ah! Je ne lʻose dire;
Ah, Ah ! Je le vous dirai!"/
Ah, Ah!, I do not dare say it;
Ah, ah! but I will tell you!"

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

"My Bonny lies over the ocean;
My Bonny lies over the sea ..."

Baby come back!
Any kind of fool could see...

"Back in the saddle again
Back where a frienʻ is a frienʻ
. . ."

And I'd like to see
Us as good of friends
As we used to be

You've got a friend in me!

When you're the best of friends,
Having so much fun together. . . .

fun= friends=life
:)

And we'll have fun fun fun til her daddy takes the TBird away

". . .It takes a worried man
To sing a worried song;
Iʻm worried now,
But I wonʻt be worried long. . ."

I'm throwing my cares away

Take out the papers and the trash!

"I sell the morning papers, sir;
My name is Jimmy Brown.
ʻMost everybody knows that Iʻm
The newsboy of the town."

Start spreading the news:
I'm leaving today

Beat it!
Just beat it!

Just a song at twilight,
When the lights are low,
And the evening shadows
Softly come and go . . .

Midnight, all alone in the moonlight . . .

Every now and then I get a little bit lonely, and you're never coming 'round.

I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places. :o)

I've got friends in low places.

"Swing low, Sweet Chariot,
Coming for to carry me home . . ."

You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.

What's your price for flight?

"Whatʻs the matter
With the one-eyed Riley?"

He's in love . . .

Let me call you Sweetheart,
Iʻm in love with you . . .

Don't fall in love with a dreamer...

I dreamed a dream in time gone by

"Deliaʻs gone,
One more round,
Deliaʻs gone . . ."

You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round.

Thatʻs RIGHT, the woman is --oomf--smahtah!
Thatʻs right the woman is --oomf--smahtah!
Thatʻs right -- Thatʻs right!

You may be right
I may be crazy...

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain.

Only You_________________
You are the one________________
Only You___________________
Under the Sun________________

Keep on the sunny side of life.

We have chemical weapons:
One shot - - the world wide.
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

Sing,
sing a song . . .

I'm dancing with myself . . .

singing in the rain...

Don't tell me how to live, just sit and putter!
Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter!
Don't bring a cloud around to rain on my parade!

When the rain comes
you run and hide your head
you might as well be dead
When the rain comes
when the rain comes

When the sun shines
you slip into the shade
and sip your lemon aid
when the sun shines
when the sun shines

RAIN
The Beatles

"But that lucky old Sun
Has nothin' to do
But run 'round Heaven all day!"

I'll build a stairway to paradise
With a new step ev'ry day

"Mind the music; mind the step,
And with the girls be handy".

You were always on my mind.

"Georgia, Georgia,
The whole day through:
Just an old sweet song keeps
Georgia on my mind."

In my mind I'm going to Carolina.

Sweet demon, North Carolina,
Send your daughter to me

Sweet Caroline
Good times 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.

Tessie, Nuff Ced McGreevy shouted
We're not here to mess around
Boston, you know we love you madly
Hear the crowd roar to your sound
Don't blame us if we ever doubt you
You know we couldn't live without you
Tessie, you are the only, only, only

// mess //

"There is a mess hall
Not far away,
Where we get pork and beans
Three times a day.

Ham and eggs we never see,
And we are gradually
Fading away!

Old soldiers never die,
Never die, never die;
Old soldiers never die;
They just fade away.

Why don't you all fade away
Don't try to dig what we all say
I'm not trying to cause a big sensation
Just talkin' about my generation

I blame it on my A.D.D, baby

"Remember why God made yer eyes --
and PLAGIARIZE!

...And WHO deserves the credit,
and WHO deserves the BLAME?
--Nicolai Ivanovich Lubachesvsky is his name!
WHOO --OO!
NIcolai Ivanovich Lubachevsky is his name!

It's a wicked world that we live in
It's cruel and unforgiving
Woo-Woo! (pew pew)
Woo-Woo! (pew pew)
Woo-Woo! (pew pew)

What about love?
Don't you want someone to care about you?
What about love?
Don't let it slip away!

Where the blue of the night
Meets the gold of the day,
Someone waits for me.

And the blue of her eyes
meets the gold of her hair,
Like a halo, tenderly.

Perfect hair, to the second power of forever

I'm bored, I'm awesome, it's almost one
The internet's down and my homework's done
I'm sick of brown, and it looks like fun
So I'm gonna dye my hair blue

Until the day I die I promise I won't change
so you better give up
I don't wanna be told to grow up
and I don't wanna change
I just wanna have fun

Oh, GIRLS just wanna have FUUUUN!!!

And if the boys want to fight, you'd better let them

'Cause Saturday night's alright for fighting
Get a little action in

Verb!
That's what's happening!

I cannot write with any style or proper etiquette
I can't tell a preposition from a predicate
I am just a simple cobbler from Connecticut

Don't know much about history.

Archers in your arches
Raise your fingers for one last salute
And bleed this skyline dry
Your history is mine

Reading the pages of history it's not black and
White is the man with the pen who's writing the story
Of life

I wonder who,
Who wrote the book of love?

I've seen in your eyes
I've read it in books
Who want's love
Without the looks

You've got the look
Got the look
The look of love...

Let's make love and listen to Death From Above

"Listen, listen!
There's a lot you're liable to be missin'"

Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again

It's time to face the music

... Soon,
We'll be without the moon:
Let's face the music and dance

I feel something falling from the sky
I'm so sad I made the angels cry
Tears from the moon
Fall down like rain

Just call me angel of the morning

Morning has broken

Morning, mister shoeshine man
Shining white and black and tan
Baby says she loves me and
Need I tell you that everything here is just fine, in my mind

Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine!

"Is that the Chattanooga choo-choo,
On Track 29?
Then, you can give me a shine!"

You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles

"Men of Harlech in the hollow,
Do ye hear like rushing billow
Wave on wave that, surging, follow
Battle's distant sound?"

Soldier lies bleeding where a church once stood

"THere's a church in the
Valleyof the Wild Wood,
No lovelier spot in the vale. . ."

The scene is never what it used to be.
So, that's How We Quit the Forest.

By the waterfall, I will hold you in my arms
We will meet again by the leafy glade
In the shade of the forest

Don't go chasing waters,
please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used tooooo...

...ford every stream
follow every rainbow

Well we heard you got caught in the slipstream
Then you found your way back to the bad dream

DREEEAMS BECOOOME REALITYYYY...
Darling when you're near to me,
So I'll dream of you and sigh,
Soft as starlight in the skyyyy

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singin' in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me

I wanna talk about me !
Wanna talk about I!
Wanna talk about number one,
Oh my me my!
What I think, what I like, what I know, what I want, what I see.
I like talking about you you you you usually,
but occasionally ,
I wanna talk about me!
I wanna talk about me-EEE-eee!

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you

Well it is and it ain’t
and it ain’t, but it is

Well, I ain't never,
No, I ain't never:
Seen nobody like you!

And I'll say, "Mister Aladdin, sir, what will your pleasure be?"
Let me take your order, jot it down,
You ain't never had a friend like me!

Well, I am just a student, sir,
And I'm only here to learn.
... But if I've got something to say,
I'm gonna say it NOW!

I am just a poor boy, and my story's seldom told
I have squandered my existence
On a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
All lies and jests,
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo.
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico.

I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

Fuzzy and blue!
We all are fuzzy and blue!

I'm blue
da ba dee da ba di in da ba dee (repeat)

I'd rather be blue,
Thinking of you,
I'd rather be blue over you,
Than be happy
With somebody
Else

". . .I'm lonely, my darling
While thinking of you,
But at our next meeting
I hope to prove true.
To change the green lilac
For the Red White and Blue."

I'm a mean green mother from outer space, and I'm bad
I'm just a mean green mother, a real tough case
And you've got me fighting mad

I said Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line
He said it's eatin' purple people and it sure is fine
But that's not the reason that I came to land
I wanna get a job in a rock and roll band

Old yellow bricks,
Love's a risk,
Quite the little Escapologist
Looked so miffed,
When you wished,
For a thousand places better than this,

I wanna get outta this place
If it's the last thing I ever do!

"It's a nice-a place!"
--"Ah, shut uppa you' face!"

Actions speak louder than words do
I just want to see what you will do
Shut up!

Got you where you wanna go, if you know what I mean
Got a ride that's smoother than a limousine
Can you handle the curves? Can you run all the lights?
If you can, baby boy, then we can go all night

'Cause I'm 0 to 60 in 3.5
Baby you got the keys --

Now shut up and drive
(drive, drive, drive)

Baby you can drive my car

You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere

Somewhere over the rainbow

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires will come to you

Any country that's smart enough to split the atom

Is smart enough to "split the difference".

I got fury in my soul
Fury's gonna take me to the glory goal
In my mind I can't study war no more
Save the people--Save the children--Save the country--
Now!

"Nearing the goal again;
One more plunge to glory!"

Only thing to do is jump over the moon.

The last that ever she saw him, carried away by a moonlight shadow,
He passed on worried and warning, carried away by a moonlight shadow,
Lost in a riddle that Saturday night, far away on the other side,
He was caught in the middle of a desperate fight, and she couldn't find how to push through.

Saturday night's alright for fightin'
Get a little action in

(On a side note, I looked up the lyrics, because I always thought this was "better than electioning." This makes much more sense!)

Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week,
'Cause that's the night she and I used to dance cheek-to-cheek,

Oh, I love to climb a mountain
And to reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me
Half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek

Oh, the Hatfields and McCoys:
They were reckless mountain boys . . .

There's an old hollow tree, just a little way from me
Where you lay down a dollar or two
If you hush up your mug, then they'll give you a jug
Of that good old mountain dew

Tie a yellow ribbon 'round that old oak tree...

And then I wake and look around me,
At four grey walls that surround me,
And I realize, yes, I was only dreaming.
For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre -
Arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak,
And again I'll touch the green, green grass of home.

Yes, they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me 'neath the green, green grass of home.

And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I will rest in peace until you come to me.

*sniffle*

"Many are the hearts that are weary tonight,
Wishing for the war to cease.
Many are the hearts that are waiting for the right
To see the dawn of peace."

Let there be peace on Earth
And let it begin with me

All we are saying
Is give peace a chance

"Here I go again . . .
Taking a chance on Love. . "

Love
Exciting and new
Come aboard
We're expecting you
The Love Boat....

Sit down! You're rocking the boat!

Sit down, John!
Sit down, John!
For god's sake, John, sit down!

Do ye ken John Peel
At the break of the day?
Do ye ken John Peel
. . .When he's far, far away?
With his horn and his hounds in the morning?

Who let the dogs out?

How much is that doggie in the window?

"Whoopee-ti-yi-yo, get along
little dogies;
Itʻs your misfortune, and none of my own . . ."

And as the moon rises he sits by his fire,
Thinking about women and glasses of beer,
And closing his eyes as the dogies retire,
He sings out a song which is soft but it's clear,
As if maybe someone could hear.

"And he sang a song, as he marched along
Of a land of milk and honey,
Where a bum can stay for many a day,
And he wonʻt need any money!"

Money makes the world go around
That clinking, clanking sound....

"Money, money, money, money,
money, money, money! --
Can you use any of that stuff?"

In my dreams, I have a plan
If I found me a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work at all
I'd fool around and have a ball!

(Money, money, money
Must be funny
In a rich man's world)

I wouldn't have to work hard,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
Idle-diddle-daidle-daidle man.

She works hard for the money,
So hard for it, honey.
She works hard for the money,
So you better treat her right.

I bet my money on the bob-tail nag;
Somebody bet on the bay.

Born in the valley
And raised in the trees
Of Western Kentucky
On wobbly knees
With mama beside you
To help you along
You'll soon be a growing up strong.
All the long, lazy mornings
In pastures of green
The sun on your withers
The wind in your mane
Could never prepare you
For what lies ahead
The run for the roses so red --
And it's run for the roses
As fast as you can
Your fate is delivered
Your moment's at hand
It's the chance of a lifetime
In a lifetime of chance
And it's high time you joined
In the dance

I guess youʻve read it in the prints
How Packenham attempted
To make Old Hickory Jackson wince,
But he his scheme repented:

Oh Kentucky!
The hunters of Kentucky!

I've got the horse right here,
His name is Paul Revere,
And there's a guy that says
If the weather's clear,
Can do, can do,
This guy says the horse can do.
If he says the horse can do,
Can do, can do.

" ʻBoola-boola, boola-boolaʻ:
Thatʻs the war cry
Of Revere High!
Smash and hit ʻem
ʻTill they holler,
ʻTIll they holler ʻboola-boo!ʻ!"

Oh, make me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands
Yeah, it makes me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands

Hands up!
Raise your hands up!

Ein, zwei, drei, vier!
Raise your stein, and drink your beer!

How I love a glass of beer, More beer!
Beer goes very good with beer, More beer!
When I'm drinking beer I'm thinking,
Ach! Life is dear
But there's someone I love even more than beer

I love being a girl!

I don't necessarily believe there is a cure for this
So I might join your century but only as a doubtful guest
I was too precarious, removed as a caesarian
Behold the world's worst accident
I AM THE GIRL ANACHRONISM

Holy mackerel! -- CAE-SAR!!

Watch out Caesar, Watch out Caesar

Look out!
Here comes the Spiderman!

Look! Look!
My heart is an open book;
I love
Nobody but you.

If they asked me, I could write a book
About the way you walk and whisper and look

I could write a sonnet
About your Easter bonnet,
And about the girl I'm taking
To that Easter parade.

Poetry in motion
See her gentle sway
Her lovely locomotion
Makes me feel this way

It makes me feel like dancin'!
Wanna dance the night away...

But I don't feel like dancin' when the old Joanna plays
My heart could take a chance but my two feet can't find a way
You think that I could muster up a little soft shoe gentle sway
But I don't feel like dancin', no sir, no dancin' today

(Used 247 less than 2 months ago, and so have deleted it.)

// sway //

Sing and sway
with Sammy Kaye

Give yourself what you need
Sing a song, it'll make your day
Smile, smile, smile and believe
Sing a song, it'll make a way

Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Just sing
Sing a song

Stay on the sunny side,
Stay on the sunny side,
Stay on the sunny side of life!
It will brighten up your style;
It will make your life worth while
If you stay on the sunny side of life!

I'm walking on sunshine.

Take a walk on the wild side.

"You gave up the only man
That ever loved you;
And went back to the
Wild side of life."

He came down through fields of green
On the summer side of life
His love was ripe
There were no illusions
On the summer side of life
Only tenderness

Fell asleep last night in Detroit city,
And I dreamed of the cotton fields back home . . .

The dream police
They live inside of my head...

"I dream of Jeanie
with the light brown hair,
Borne like a vapor on the
summer air . . ."

Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde
And the band played on;
He'd glide 'cross the floor with the girl he adored
And the band played on;
But his brain was so loaded it nearly exploded
The poor girl would shake with alarm;
He'd ne'er leave the girl with the strawberry curls
And the band played on.

C'mon along, c'mon along:
Alexander's ragtime band.
C'mon along, c'mon along;
It's the best band in the land!

Booked solid and in demand.

Solid avoir du pois!

He's a mellow old cat

A real Hep FAT!

He be Mr. Five-by-five!

Ev'rybody wants to be a cat,
Because a cat's the only cat
Who knows where it's at.
Ev'rybody's pickin' up on that feline beat,
'Cause everything else is obsolete.

Iʻm the pied Piper,
the Pied Pi --i--i-per!
Iʻll show you where itʻs at!

Pussycat, pussycat
Where have you been?

She go from Nashville to Norway, Bonaire to Zimbabwe,
Chicago to Czechoslovakia and back!

...on the way the paper bag was on my knee
man I had a dreadful flight!

"I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee,
ANd Iʻm goinʻ to Louʻsiana,
My Susannah for to see!"