I Need Your Help Barry Manilow
Ray Stevens

Written by Dale R. Gonyea

Peaked at # 49 in 1979

Ray's last charted single, a hilarious but devastating satire
of the pop stylings of Barry Manilow.


My account is overdrawn, my car slid down the hill
I'm givin' up, I've got no more to give
My beagle bit the vet and my daughter's on the pill
And my ficus plant has lost its will to live

I owe Master Charge my life, I got adolescent skin
My doctor says I can't use any salt 
My waist is gettin' thick but my hair is getting thin
And my house is on the San Adreas fault

	I need your help, Barry Manilow
	I'm mis'rable and I don't know what to do
	Sing me a song, sing it sad and low
	No one knows how to suffer quite like you

My shrink is outta town, my love life is a joke
My ex-wife sold my diary to Rona
All my ashtrays overflow and I don't even smoke
And my sinuses came back from Arizona

  Hello, Mandy?  It's me.  I'm here at the Copa, you know, the Copacabana.  
I know I don't write the songs that make the whole world sing but I do know one thing, 
Mandy.  I can't smile without you.  Forget Lola.  Remember that weekend in New 
England?  I thought then that this could be the magic at last.  And now here I am-tryin' to get the feelin' again."


I need your help, Barry Manilow
	I'm all alone and sittin' on the shelf
Sing me a song, sing it sad and low
I feel like feelin' sorry for myself

I need your help, Barry Manilow
Your songs can really comfort the unlucky
Sing me a song, sing it sad and low
I wish I didn't hafta feel so yucky
I wish I didn't hafta feel           so yucky!!

source: Robin Hood

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