BECAUSE IT’S CHRISTMAS
By
Barry Manilow
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Unto us a son is given
Unto us a son is given
Unto us a son is given
Unto us a child is born
Tonight the stars shine for the children
And light the way for dreams to fly
Tonight our love comes wrapped in ribbons
The world is right
And hopes are high
And from a dark
And frosted window
A child appears
To search the sky
Because it’s Christmas
Because it’s Christmas
Tonight belongs to all the children
Tonight their joy rings through the air
And so we send our tender blessings
To all the children everywhere
To see the smiles and hear the laughter
A time to give
A time to share
Because it’s Christmas
For now and forever
For all of the children
And for the children in us all
Tonight belongs to all the children
Tonight their joy rings through the air
And so we send our tender blessings
To all the children everywhere
To see the smiles and hear the laughter
A time to give
A time to share
Because it’s Christmas
For now and forever
For all of the children
And for the children in us all
A LITTLE TRAVELING MUSIC PLEASE
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On the road so long and lonely
Can’t believe I’m headed home to stay
God I miss my one and only
A little traveling music please
Seems we’re always seperating
Still she doesn’t let me lose my way
Home is anywhere she’s waiting
A little traveling music please
I may forget how much I care
But once I’ve left her laughter
Two and three days after
I’m aware how much I miss her there
This time I’ll stay home forever
Hold her close and turn the world away
Even if it’s not forever
It it’ll keep me from unraveling
A little traveling music please
Two and three days after
I’m aware how much I miss her there
This time I’ll stay home forever
Hold her close and turn the world away
Even if it’s not forever
She’s going to keep me from unraveling
A little traveling music please
A little traveling music please
BLUE VELVET
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She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet was the night
Softer than satin was the light
From the stars
She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet were her eyes
Warmer than May her tender sighs
Love was ours
Ours a love I held tightly
Feeling the rapture grow
Like a flame burning brightly
But when she left, gone was the glow of
Blue velvet
But in my heart there’ll always be
Precious and warm, a memory
Through the years
And I still can see blue velvet
Through my tears
NO LOVE FOR JENNY
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Not even anbition
Led her right in to the palm of his hand
Not that she didn’t know better
But she never been out on the streets before
Lost in her anbition
She just had to know the good and the bad
So she took a apartment
And spend all the money she didn’t have
No love for Jenny
She’s wasting her smile
Takeing a chance that it’s all worth her wile
Dancin for strangers
Thinking she’s grown up
Loving so many
But no love for Jenny
Fakeing dependents
Kept her right on top of his list
Makeing some really good money
But knowing it won’t last very long
A happy birthday
What away to spend your sweet 16
Saying she’s 20 but looking like 30
Hey what went wrong
No love for Jenny
She’s wasting her smile
Takeing a chance that it’s all worth her wile
Dancin for strangers
Looking so grown up
Loving so many
But no love for Jenny
HARMONY
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Harmony
Unforgettable harmony
Harmony
First there was harmony
And there was rhyme
This was our time
Harmony
Did we have harmony
And that’s just about all we had!
Suddenly
A little harmony
And the poverty’s not so bad
Thin, we were
Poor as sin in berlin, we were!
Patches on our pants
Mercif’lly, when you’re in harmony
You’re in a trance
Others went marching
Not us, we’d dance
No one in grodnogubernia
Ever learned to dance like this!
(Believe it or not I was a rabbi before all this started!
In grodnogubernia yet!)
If you’re in grodnogubernia
Tell em’, this you shouldn’t miss!
Harmony
All arm in arm were we
Well, except when the punches flew
Squabbles, sure
But squabbles don’t endure
When there’s harmony in the brew
Then did we
Oh, so splendidly blend, did we
Like a spell had come
It was clear
My pals and I could hear
A different drum
Outside they hollered!
But we had… harmony!
In this joint
All encounters with counterpoint
End in harmony
And it’s clear
No man’s a solo here
Not even me
No solo mio!
No we’ve got harmony!
When we’ve got harmony
Then just maybe we’ve got a chance
Harmony, the best is harmony!
And the rest is a song and dance!
Where you find
You’re in harmony
There you find
Shelter in a storm
Every note
A button on the coat
That keeps you warm
Stars have the heavens
But we’ve got harmony!
Harmony!
Harmony!
Harmony!
Troubles disappear
And what you feel is what you hear
Not what you see!
Yes, first there was
Harmony!
I DON’T WANT TO WALK WITHOUT YOU
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I don’t want to walk without you , baby
Walk without my arm about you , baby
I thought the day you left me behind
I’d take a stroll and get you right off my mind
But now I find that
I don’t want to walk without the sunshine
Why’d you have to turn off all that sunshine
Oh baby, please come back
Or you’ll break my heart for me
Cause, I don’t want to walk with out you
No siree
I don’t want to walk with out you,baby
Walk with out my arm about you , baby
I though the day you left me behind
That I’d take a stroll and get you right off my mind
But now I find
That I don’t want to walk with out the sunshine
Why’d you have to turn off all that sunshine
Oh baby, please come back
Or you’ll break my heart for me
Cause I don’t want to walk with out you
I don’t want to walk with out you
No siree