lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

I STARTED A JOKE

(Barry Gibb - Maurice Gibb - Robin Gibb)
« © '69 Crompton Songs, BMI »
I started a joke which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see that the joke was on me oh no
I started to cry which started the whole world laughing
Oh if I only see that the joke was on me

Oh I look at the sky running my hand over my eyes
And I fell out of breath turning my head from things that I said
Till I finally die which started the whole world living
Oh if I only see that the joke was on me

Oh I look at the sky...
Oh no that the joke was on me
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2.

YOU DON'T NEED ME ANYMORE

(Don Robertson - Hal Blair)
« © '66 Don Robertson Music, ASCAP »
You don't need me anymore you're not a girl out in the cold
Searching for someone to care reaching for a hand to hold

Someone to turn to until your heart was well again
But that was all my love was for you don't need me anymore

I'll go on loving you till the day that I die
But I was only meant to teach the broken wings to fly

Till you found somebody who means much more to you than me
Then the tenderness we knew will be just a memory

You only needed someone to guide you through the storm
Now you're safe upon the shoulder you don't need me anymore

And so I'm walking out the door you don't need me anymore
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3.

MY WAY

(Paul Anka - Jacques Revaux - Claude Francois)
« © '67 Chrysalis Standards, BMI »
And now the end is near and so I face the final curtain
My friend I'll say it clear I'll state my case of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full I've traveled each and every highway
And more much more than this I did it my way

Regrets I've had a few but then again too few to mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each chartered course each careful step along the byway
And more much more than this I did it my way

Yes there were times I'm sure you knew when I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all when there was doubt I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way

I've loved I've laughed and cried I've had my fill my share of losing
And now as tears subside I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that and may I say not in a shy way
Oh no oh no not me I did it my way

For what is a man what has he got if not himself then he has not
To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows and did it my way
And did it my way
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4.

SAN FRANCISCO IS A LONELY TOWN

(Ben Peters)
« © '69 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
Two happy people on a Greyhound bus
We came here looking for a life for us
But the nightlife is her new life and the only thing I've found
Is San Francisco is a lonely town

Oh there were good times for a little while
But now her new friends say I cramp her style
I guess I'm only in the way now she don't need me hanging round
Oh San Francisco is a lonely town

Now she's out there somewhere cross San Francisco Bay
She'll be wondering where I am when she gets in today

She'll find I left her a oneway ticket home
And while she stands there cryin' all alone
And while this Greyhound keeps on rolling I'll pray Lord she's found
San Francisco is a lonely town
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5.

YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG

(Herbert Kretzmer - Charles Aznavour)
« © '66 Hampshire House Publishing, ASCAP »
Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed the splendid things I planned
I always built a las on weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how the years ran away

Yesterday when I was young
So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation I can now recall
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

Yesterday the moon was blue
And every crazy day brought something new to do
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly quickly died
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
And only I am left on stage to end the day

There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young
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6.

YOU FOOL

(Martha Sharp)
« © '69 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
Your walls are lines with pictures of your triumphs through the years
Your doors is bolted tight against all wordly want and fear
But you left your passion and your pain with your first love back in school
You fool you fool

In your penthouse high from the dirty streets I swear you'll never find
The answers to the questions that muddy up your mind
For your window shades are drawn upon the wicked and the cruel
You fool you fool

You give your share the charity without a second thought
And you are kind to animals for that's what you've been taught
But all your real emotion you proudly overrule
You fool you fool

You've planned your life so carefully for society's delight
And still you can't quite understand why things just don't seem right
It's a love made fresh out homemade bread will sat aside to cool
You fool you fool you fool
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7.

CYCLES

(Gayce Caldwell)
« © '69 Irving Music, BMI »
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8.

BAND OF GOLD

(Ronald Dunbar - Edythe Wayne)
« © '69 Gold Forever Music, BMI »
I've never wanted wealth untold my life has one design
A simple little band of gold to prove that you were mine

Don't want the world that have been hold for fame is not my line
Just want a little band of gold to prove that you were mine

Some sail away to Araby's another land of mistery
But all the wonders that they see will never tempt me

Their memories will soon grow cold but till the end of time
I'll have a little band of gold to prove that you are mine

Their memories will soon grow cold...
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9.

WHAT HAVE I DONE FOR HER LATELY

(Hal Blair - Dean Kay)
« © '69 Edwin H. Morris & Co, ASCAP »
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10.

TO SLEEP WITH YOU

(Bob Tubert)
« © '69 Vintage Music, BMI »
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11.

THEN I'LL BE OVER YOU

(Ben Peters)
« © '68 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
When I try to go to sleep and know
That I won't lie awake and cry then I'll be over you
When I wake up in the morning and I find
That you're not on my mind then I'll be over you

If the time should arrive when I feel alive once again
When each beat of my heart says it's time to start giving in
When I close my eyes in someone's warm embrace
And I don't see your face then I'll be over you
When I don't see your face then I'll be over you
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