1917

Instrumental

A Foggy Day In London Town

I was a stranger in the city
Out of town were the people I knew
I had that feeling of self-pity
What to do? What to do? What to do?
The outlook was decidedly blue
But as I walked through the foggy streets alone
It turned out to be the luckiest day I've known

A foggy day in London Town
Had me low and had me down
I viewed the morningwith alarm
The British Museum had lost its charm
How long, I wondered, could this thing last
But the age of miracles hadn't passed
For, suddenly, I saw you there
And through Foggy London Town
The Sun was shining everywhere

Abdulmajid

Instrumental

Absolute Beginners

I've nothing much to offer
There's nothing much to take
I'm an absolute beginner
And I'm absolutely sane
As long as we're together
The rest acan go to hell
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
With eyes completely open
But nervous all the same

CHORUS:
If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Could laugh at the ocean
(Second time - Sail over heartaches)
Just like the films
There's no reason
To feel all the hard times
To lay down the hard lines
It's absolutely true

Nothing much could happen
Nothing we can't shake
Oh we're absolute beginners
With nothing much at stake
As long as you're still smiling
There's nothing more I need
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
But if my love is your love
We're certain to succeed

CHORUS

After Today

Always in trouble
Never to blame
Must be your double
Feel the same
Here it comes again

Doing the wrong thing
Forgetting your lines
Waiting for something
Better to shine
Hate that same old game

After today
Fortunate then will find you
After today
Plane will fly you away
After today
You'll find the one you're after
After today
Look out, after today

What kind of rescue
What will you be
Where can you take it baby for free
Break that heart for me

(TWICE:)
After today
The fortune fan will find you
After today
They may pry you away
After today
You'll find the one you're after
After today
Look out, after today

Today
After today
After today
Look out after today
Ah, yeah
Look, ah
LAUGHTER
WHO'S GETTING DINNER?
LAUGHTER

Alabama Song

Oh show me the way to the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why
No, don't ask why
For we must find the next whiskey bar
Or if we don't find the next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die

Oh, Moon of Alabama
It's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good ol' mama
And we must have whiskey, oh, you know why

Oh, show us the way to the next little dollar
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why
For we must find our next little dollar
Or if we don't find our next little dollar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die

Oh, Moon of Alabama
It's time to say goodbye
We've lost our good ol' mama
And we must have dollars oh, you know why

Oh, show us the way to the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why
No, don't ask why
For we must find the next little girl
Or if we don't find the next little girl
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die

Oh, Moon of Alabama
It's time to say auf wiedersehen
We've lose our good ol' mama
And must have little girl, oh, you know why
You know why
You know why

All Saints

Instrumental

All the Young Dudes

Billy rapped all night about his suicide
How he kicked it in the head when he was twenty five
Don't wanna stay alive when you're twenty five
And Wendy's stealing clothes from unlocked cars
And Freddy's got spots from rippin' off the stars from his face
Funky little boat race
The television man is crazy saying we're juvenille deliquen wrecks
Oh man, I need TV when I got T. Rex
Oh brother, you guessed, I'm a dude dad

CHORUS:
All the Young Dudes
Carry the news
Boogaloo dudes
Carry the news

Lucy's looking sweet, 'cause he dresses like a queen
But he can kick like a mule, it's a real mean team
But we can love, oh yes we can love
And my brohter's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones
We never got it off on all that revolution stuff
What a drag, too many snags
Now I drunk a lot of wine and I'm feeling fine
Gonna race some cat to bed
Oh is there concrete all around
Or is it in my head
Yeah, I'm a dude dad

CHORUS

Almost Grown

Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school
They ain't said I broke no rule
I ain't never been in Dutch
I don't browse around too much

Don't bother me, leave me alone
Anyway I'm almost grown

I don't run around with no mob
Got myself a little job
I'm gonna buy me a little car
Drive my girl in the park

Got my eye on a little girl
Ah, she's really out of this world
When I take her to the dance
She's got to talk about romance

You know I'm still livin' in town
But I done married and settled down
Now I really have a ball
So I don't browse around at all

And I Say To Myself

And I say to myself
I've got it wrong, wrong, wrong
She is a play-girl
She the wrong, wrong girl for me
And I say to myself
You're a fool, fool, fool
She doesn't love you
She doesn't need you, this I know

She's got a trail of men that she takes
Wherever she goes
She hasn't the strength to love any
Single man for a length of time

And I say to myself
Ooh, I don't stand a chance
And I say to myself
It's a long long romance
And I say to myself
Well, she's out to slay
And I say to myself
Well, she's got it made
And I say to myself
Oh yeah, oh yeah
And I say to myself
Oh yeah

And I say to myself that she shouldn't love
Anybody else in the world but me
And I say to myself
Forget her now, now, now
She don't want you
She don't love you anymore
And I say to myself you're a fool, fool, fool
She don't love you
She don't need you, this I know

And I turn around and look at myself
You'llnever get her, you're a fool
Say after me, I'm a fool, I'm a fool

And I say to myself
I can't get what I want
And I say to myself
And it makes me sad
And I say to myself
I can't get what I want
And I say to myself
And it makes me mad
And I say to myself
Oh yeah, oh yeah
And I say to myself
Oh yeah

And I say to myself that she shouldn't
Love anybody else in teh world but me
Yeah, yeah

And I say to myself
Oh, I feel so sad
And I say to myself
She's making me mad
And I say to myself
And I say to myself
And I say to myself
That I love her
And I say to myself
And I say to myself that I need her
And I say to myself
Oh, I need her

And I say to myself I'm a fool
And I say to myself

Baby Loves that Way

[Baby loves that way]
Yes, she does, yes, she does
[Baby loves that way]
Oh, I love my baby
[Baby loves that way]
Ooh, I gotta take her
[Baby loves that way]
Yep, I love her

Baby likes to go outside, so I let her
Wants to fool with other guys, so I let her
Wants to be bad, so I let her be bad
But fooling around, it will make me sad
She fools around with other boys
And treat me like an unwanted toy

[Baby loves that way]
Oh, I love my baby
[Baby loves that way]
Ooh, she does too much to me
[Baby loves that way]
And I can't think too much of her
[Baby loves that way]
Gotta take her, gotta take her

Gonna better leave her alone, put you down son
Treating her real fine, thus I'm home being a loner
Jeanny's my babe and that's alright, yeah
She treats me good, each and every night
She fools around with other boys
And treat me like an unwanted toy

[Baby loves that way]
I love my baby
[Baby loves that way]
Ooh, she's too much
[Baby loves that way]
Yes she does, yes she does
[Baby loves that way]

[Baby loves that way]
I love my baby
[Baby loves that way]
Yeah, she's too much, yeah yeah
[Baby loves that way]
Ooh, I think she can live with me
[Baby loves that way]
Love her, love her, love her

Baby likes to go outside, so I let her
Wants to fool with other guys, so I let her
Wants to be bad, so I let her be bad
But fooling around, it will make me sad
She clings around with all the boys
Who treat her like unwanted toys

[Baby loves that way]
Obviously this is the end
[Baby loves that way]
Gotta take her
[Baby loves that way]
Ooh yeah
[Baby loves that way]
Can't do enough
[Baby loves that way]

Backed a Loser

Band Intro

Richie Grando, Dave Sanborn, Herbie Flowers, Tony Newman Earl Slick, Mike Kamen, Mike Garson, Pablo Rosario

Bars of the County Jail

La la la la la la la la

Gather you all and listen here
I'll tell you a tale if you lend me an ear
I rode a horse through many a town
But the devil rode me down to the ground
I was to marry a very rich girl
I loved her as only I can
But the father was shot and his gold was stoled
And now I'm the devil's man, na na na
And now I sing a tale of woe
Through the bars of the county jail
Na la la la la la la la la la

La la la la la la la la

I walked into the room one night
I found her mother and gun
Well, the man was dead and I kneeled and cried
The sheriff ran in and said "I'm holding you, son"

La la la la la la la la

Through the day I sing and play
For time is on my side
But when the moon and stars come out
I lay me down and cry
For the Saviour, mar I lied
Now I will not have a ride
Beside the window the scaffold was made
On the morrow I will hang

La la la la la la la la

Blah Blah Blah

Pop before the war
Lunch before the score
Steady as she goes
Following my nose
I'm a bull mongrel
That's me

Shimon Peres
Whatcha gonna do?
I'm from Detroit
Blow the reveille
Deatho knocko
That's me - little ol' me
Glamorous me

Johnny can't read
Blah blah blah
I can't see
Blah blah blah
Tuna on white
Guns all night
Blah blah blah

Cat taboo girl
Raped by an ape
Cat taboo girl
Jam the sucker in
You dig the mongrels
Guardian of the state
Says you gotta go
Bombin' low

Senator Rambo
Merrily you go
Monkey butcher knows
A cab to find a bank
A bank to find a loan
'Cause you can't be alone
You dig the mongrels
That's you - baby that's you
Quivering you

Violent peace
Blah blah blah
Buy it right now
Blah blah blah
We are the world
We are so huge
Blah blah blah

Johnny can't read
Blah blah blah
I can't see
Blah blah blah
Tuna on white
Guns all night
Blah blah blah

Blue jean coolies
Everything huge
Petrified food
Pizza killers
From napalm to nice guy
Hit 'em where they live
Nifty fifty

The ranks of the glamorous
Change constantly

The most spoiled brats
On god's green earth

Pop before the war

Bombers

CHORUS:
All clear wail the sirens
Sunshine on the wasteland
Old man sitting in the white sand
Think we're in for a big surprise
Right between the eyes

Seemed a good idea
To drop a bomb on the wasteland here
Only one man could be seen
And he was old and so serene
Captain sat in his deck chair
And the red light flashed Beware
Pilot felt quite big-time
As the bomb sailed through the air
Well, they danced and sang
When the bang went bang
When the lights popped out
And the smoke began to clear
It was positively queer

CHORUS

"Die" said the General
"Cobblers" said the man
So the Pentagon sent a cable
And the Queen a telegram
A-bombs, H-bombs, even very small ones
Ripped apart that sand
'Til the stench was just revolting
And the sky a greenish tan
But the soldier said "Sir,
there's a crack in the world"
And the figures went "squash",
and the bits flew far and wide
How the universe sighed!

CHORUS TWICE

When the smoke had blown away
There was nothing left to view
Except a man dear Lord who looked like you
Floating high up in the sky

Buzz the Fuzz

Once there was a fellow
and his name was Buzz
He was just a rookie cop
just a baby fuzz

He patrolled the Sunset Strip
in the land of the free
and the home of the hip

He protected you and me
from evil women like
poor Alice D

Alice was the girl
that all good hippies dread
and they called her sweet Alice D'head

Alice it was plain to see was
full of pot and STP
she'd attract a great big crowd
because her inner peace was much too loud

Good Buzz did the thing
that all the good fuzz must
stuck his gun in Alice's back
and said 'This is a bust'

Shone the flashlight in her eyes
she began to hypnotize
Buzz said 'What a wild sensation'
guess this must be hallu hallucina cina cina cination hmmm

Love is so sensational
when you fall in love with eyes dilational la la
now they're taking pills and shots
And Buzz is not afraid of Watts

Buzz and Alice D have shown
the way of where the Fuzz might be some day

Buzz is still a cop of course
he's the pusher on the force
he's protecting you and me
from evil women like
poor Alice D

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