Red and white / blue Suede Shoes
I'm Uncle Sam / How do you do?
Gimme five / I'm still alive
Ain't no luck / Ilearned to duck
Check my pulse / it don't change
Stays seventy-two / come shine or rain
Wave the flag / pop the bag
Rock the boat / skin the goat
Wave that flag
Wave it wide and high
Summertime
Done come and gone
My, oh, my
I'm Uncle Sam / that's who I am
Been hidin' out / in a rock-and-roll band
Shake the hand / that shook the hand
Of P.T. Barnum / and Charlie Chan |
Shine your shoes / light yourfuse
Can you use / them ol' U.S. Blues?
I'll drink your health / share your wealth
Run your life / steal your wife
Wave that flag
Wave it wide and high
Summertime
Done come and gone
My, oh, my
Back to back / chicken shack
Sun of a gun / better change your act
We're all confused / what's to lose?
You can call this song / the United States Blues
Wave that flag
Wave it wide and high
Summertime done come and gone
My, oh, my
Summertime done come and gone
My, oh, my
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A pistol shot at five o'clock
The bells of heaven ring
Tell me what you done it for
"No, I won't tell you a thing
"Yesterday I begged you
before I hit the ground--
all I leave behind me
is only what I found
"If you can abide it
let the hurdy-gurdy play--
Stranger ones have come by here
before they flew away |
"I will not condemn you
nor yet would I deny . . ."
I would ask the same of you
but failing will not die. . . .
Take up your china doll
it's only fractured--
and just a little nervous
from the fall
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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Loose Lucy is my delight
She comes running and we ball all night
Round and round and round and round
Don't take much to get me on the ground
She's my yo-yo, I'm her string
Listen to the birds on the hotwire sing
Singing: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Singing: Thank you
for a real good time
I got jumped coming home last night
Shadow in the alley turned out all my lights
Round and round and round and round
Don't take much to lay me on the ground
Loose Lucy--was she sore!
Says I know you don't want my love no more
Singing: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Singing: Thank you
for a real good time |
Be-bop baby, how can this be?
I know you been out a-cheating on me
Round and round and round and round
Don't take much to get the word around
Cross my heart and I hope to die
I was just hanging out with the other guys
Singing: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Singing: Thank you
for a real good time
Went back home with two black eyes
But you know I'll love her till the day I die
Round and round and round and round
Don't take much to get the word around
I like your smile but I ain't your type
Don't shake the tree when the fruit ain't ripe
Singing: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Singing: Thank you
for a real good time
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As I was walking 'round Grosvenor Square
not a chill to the winter
but a nip to the air
from the other direction
she was calling my eye
Could be an illusion
but I might as well try
Might as well try
She had rings on her fingers and
bells on her shoes
I knew without asking she was
into the blues
Scarlet begonias
tucked into her curls
I knew right away
she was not like other girls--
other girls
In the thick of the evening
when the dealing got rough
she was too pat to open and
too cool to bluff
As I picked up my matches and
was closing the door
I had one of those flashes:
I'd been there before--
been there before |
I ain't often right
but I've never been wrong
It seldom turns out the way
it does in a song
Once in a while
you get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right
Well, there ain't nothing wrong
with the way she moves
Scarlet begonias or a
touch of the blues
And there's nothing wrong with
the look that's in her eye
I had to learn the hard way
to let her pass by--
let her pass by
The wind in the willows played tea for two
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue
Strangers stop strangers
just to shake their hand
Everybody playing
in the Heart of Gold Band
Heart of Gold Band
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Went to see the captain
strangest I could find
Laid my proposition down
Laid it on the line:
I won't slave for beggar's pay
likewise gold and jewels
but I would slave to learn the way
to sink your ship of fools
Ship of fools
on a cruel sea
Ship of fools
sail away from me
It was later than I thought
when I first believed you
now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of Fools
Saw your first ship sink and drown
from rocking of the boat
and all that could not sink or swim
was just left there to float
I won't leave you drifting down
but--whoa!--it makes me wild
with thirty years upon my head
to have you call me child
Ship of fools
on a cruel sea
Ship of fools
sail away from me |
It was later than I thought
when I first believed you
now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of Fools
The bottles stand as empty
as they were filled before
Time there was and plenty
but from that cup no more
Though I could not caution all
I yet may warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag
atop no ship of fools
Ship of fools
on a cruel sea
Ship of fools
sail away from me
It was later than I thought
when I first believed you
now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of Fools
No I cannot share your laughter
Ship of Fools
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