I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU
By
Barry Manilow

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No New Year’s Day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here’s just another ordinary day

No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

No summer’s high
No warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender August night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies

No Libra sun
No Halloween
No giving thanks to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, of my heart,
Of my heart

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, of my heart,
Baby of my heart

COULD IT BE MAGIC

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Spirit move me
every time I”m near you
Whirling like a cyclone in my mind

Sweet Melissa,
angel of my life time,
Answer to all answers I can find

Baby I love you Come, come,
come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby I want you,
now, now, now and hold on fast
Could this be the magic at last

Lady take me
hight upon a hillside
High up where the stallion meets the sun
I could love you,
build my world around you,
Never leave you till my life is done

Baby I love you Come, come,
come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
and baby I want you,
now, now, oh now, oh now and hold on fast
Could this be the magic at last
now could it be magic
Come, come on,come on
come oh come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby I want you,
now, now, oh now,oh now and hold on fast
Could this be the magic at last.
Could it be magic
come, come on,come on,come,oh come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby I want you,
now, now, oh now,oh now and hold on fast
Could this be the magic at last.
Could it be magic
come, come on,come on,come,oh come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby I want you,
now, now, oh now,now oh now and hold on fast
Could this be the magic at last.

THE CHRISTMAS SONG

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Chestnuts roasting on a open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like eskimos
Everybody knows
A turkey and some misteltoe
Help to make the season bright
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight

They know that Santa’s on his way
He’s loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
And every mother’s child is going to spy
Too see if reindeer even know how to fly
And so I’m offering this simple phrase
To kids from 1 to 92
All though it’s been said many times
Many ways

Merry Christmas to you
And every mother’s child is going to spy
Too see if reindeer even know how to fly
And so I’m offering this simple phrase
To kids from 1 to 92
All though it’s been said many times
Many ways
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you

STARDUST

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And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the skys the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we’re apart
You wandered down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago
Now my consolation is in the stardust of a song
Beside a garden wall
When stars are bright you are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
Of paradise where roses grew
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love’s refrain
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love’s refrain

SHE SHOULD’A BEEN MINE

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There goes the girl in the arms of someone new
Night after night I can see the life
She’s stumbing through
And I know that she’ll never notice me
But I still look for a sign

’cause she should’a been mine
She could’a been mine
We would’a been sharing love until the end of
Time
I should’a known how
We would’a been close to paradise by now
If it could’a been
It would’a been
Still she should’a been mine

Sometimes she smiles when I see her passing by
Sometime she waves
When she turns and whispers “hi”, again
And I see the pain of the life she lives
Yet I’m hoping for a sign

’cause she should’a been mine
She could’a been mine
We would’a been sharing love until the end of
Time
I should’a known how
We would’a been close to paradise by now
If it could’a been
It would’a been
Still she should’a been mine

I’m the one that she’s been lookin’ for
We would have been so find
If it could’a been
It would’a been
Still she should’a been mine

HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART

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I can think of younger days when living for my life
Was everything a man could want to do.
I could never see tomorrow, but I was never told about the sorrow.

And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend a this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again.

I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees
And misty memories of days gone by
We could never see tomorrow, noone said a word about the sorrow.

And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again.