DON’T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE
By
Barry Manilow
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Don’t sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
No no no
Don’t sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
’til I come marching home
Don’t go walking down lovers lane
With anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
No no no
Don’t go walking down lovers lane
With anyone else but me
’til I come marching home
I just got word from a guy who heard
From the guy next door to me
The girl he met just loved to pet
And fits you to a “T”
So don’t sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
’til I come marching home
Don’t give out with those lips of yours
To anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
No no no
Watch the girls on the foreign shores
You’ll have to report to me
When you come marching home
You’re on your own
When there is no phone and I can’t keep tab on you
Be fair to me I’ll guarantee
This is one thing that I’ll do
I won’t sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but you
’til you come marching home
Don’t sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
I know the apple tree
Is reserved for you and me
And I’ll be true
’til you come marching home
SUNRISE
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And so it began
As I sat by my window
All by myself in the dawn
No body else
No polite conversation
Just waiting for life to come on
And I see the sunrise over the ocean
Sunrise on the sea
I’m watching the sunrise
I’m glad to be living
Sunrise , shine over me
I think of my life as I look out my window
People I love , places I’ve been
Sometimes I feel I could go on forever
With nothing to lose and nothing to win
When I see the sunrise over the ocean
Sunrise on the sea
I’m watching the sunrise
I’m glad to be living
Sunrise , shine over me
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!
THE BELLS OF CHRISTMAS
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The bells of christmas
Are ringing in the night
The chrildren string there lights upond the tree
The bells of christmas
They sing to me tonight
Bring back thoughts of you and me
Central Park
Slideing round in the snow
And then after dark
Filling the fires burning glow
The bells of christmas
They ring of what could be
For the bells of christmas
They ring for you and me
Sunday walks watching ships in the bay
Midnight talks we voul
We never let love slip away
The bells of christmas
They ring of what could be
For the bells of christmas
The bells of christmas
The bells of christmas
They ring for you and me
THE TWO OF US
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Now, we’re happy to sit, day after day
The two of us
Wasting away, making believe
There’s a reason to stay together
Now, we’re happy to sit, night after night
The two of us
Conviced that it’s right, hiding the yawns
Somehow getting along together
Afraid we’d always be alone
We made a home that we could always share
Just to know that someone would be there
Even if we never learned to care
And now, it’s almost enough, year after year
The two of us
Nothing to fear, nothing at all
But the rest of our lives together
THE NIGHT THAT TITO PLAYED
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It was a hot night
The crowd was hangin’ in the neighborhood
Everybody there was lookin’ so cool
Everyone was feelin’ so good
Now, mister puente
They said he’d be here by ten-thirty
Said he was comin’ back to his roots again
To finds some old friends
The night that Tito played
My life forever changed
I felt my heart and soul come alive
I felt it all
Movin’ and swayin’ under the moon
Prayin’ to the rhythm of a puente tune
The night that Tito played
Nothin’ was ever the same
There was Romona
She came uptown from corona
Right there on the stairway of the subway train
We danced real slow
(she was heaven to know)
She whispered secrets
The way she kissed me it was perfect
We held on in the shadows of the city lights
Oh, it felt so right
The night that Tito played
My life forever changed
I felt my heart and soul come alive
I felt it all
Movin’ and swayin’ under the moon
Prayin’ to the rhythm of a puente tune
The night that Tito played
Nothin’ was ever the same
The night that Tito played
My life forever changed
I felt my heart and soul come alive
I felt it all
Movin’ and swayin’ under the moon
Prayin’ to the rhythm of a puente tune
The night that Tito played
Nothin’ would ever be the same