I’VE GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING
By
Barry Manilow
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I’ve got the world on a string
Sitting on a rainbow
Got the string around my finger
What a world, what a life – I’m in love
I’ve got a song that I sing
I can make the rain go
Any time I move my finger
Lucky me, can’t you see – I’m in love
Life’s is a beautiful thing
As long as I hold the string
I’d be a silly so-and-so
If I should ever let it go
I’ve got the world on a string
Sitting on a rainbow
Got the string around my finger
What a world, what a life – I’m in love
Life’s is a beautiful thing
As long as I hold the string
I’d be a silly so-and-so
If I should ever let it go
I’ve got the world on a string
Sitting on a rainbow
Got the string around my finger
I’m walking around with my head in a clouds
And I’m feeling so good
I don’t want to come down
And I’m shouting it out
I’m in love
MOMENTS TO REMEMBER
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(January to December)
(We’ll have moments to remember)
The New Year’s Eve we did the town
The day we tore the goal post down
We will have these moments to remember
The quiet walks, the noisy fun
The ballroom prize we almost won
We will have these moments to remember
Though summer turns to winter
And the present disappears
The laughter we were glad to share
Will echo through the years
When other nights and other days
May find us gone our separate ways
We will have these moments to remember
(The drive in movie where we’d go)
(And somehow never watched the show)
We will have these moments to remember
Though summer turns to winter
And the present disappears
The laughter we were glad to share
Will echo through the years
When other nights and other days
May find us gone our separate ways
We will have these moments to remember
THE LAST DUET
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You creep
Into my heart
And make my heart burn
You sneak
Into my mind
And make my head ache
There are things I long to tell you
You’re much too blonde
You snore
Look
It’s time to face the music
Bye, Bye!
Don’t slam the door
And I don’t want
I don’t want
I don’t want
I don’t want
No, I don’t want your flowers anymore
This is the last duet
Last chance you’re gonna get
No more ha harmony
For you and me
This is the final song
And when the music’s through
This is the last duet
I’ll ever do with you
You’re not the one that I want
Ooh, ooh ooh
Tood-le-oo (honey)
Don’t go breakin’ my back
Don’t call me
I’ll call you
Back together
Reunited
Should feel so good
They say
So I hope there’s no hard feelings
Don’t go ‘way mad
Just go ‘way
’cause
Enough
Is enough
Is enough
Is enough
Too much too little too late
Tonight
Tonight
With you I’m bored again!
This is the last duet
Last chance you’re gonna get
No more ha harmony
For you and me
This is the final song
And when the music’s through
This is the last duet
I’ll ever do with you
This is the last duet
Last chance you’re gonna get
No more ha harmony
For you and me
This is the final song
And when the music’s through
This is the last duet
I’ll ever do
I’ll ever do
I’ll never never never never never do
With you
A NICE BOY LIKE ME
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Walkin’ around
Uptight
And lookin’ for noise
Frantic on a Friday night
Just one of the boys
Phony defenses, they fall in my way
A case of hot fire turnin’ to stone
Just a wind up poet with a chip on his shoulder
Meetin’ Saturday mornin’ alone
Won’t you tell me what’s a nice boy like me
Doin’ in a place that never closes?
I can hardly hear ya’
Holy Moses
Lookin’ so sad
Just tell me what’s a nice boy like me
Doin’ by the dance floor after hours?
Dozin’ over rolls of whiskey sours?
Feelin’ so bad
I’m feelin’ so bad for me
Lost in the crowd
Alone
And drinkin’ my third
I’m hungry for company, but I can’t think of the words
Watchin’ the girls, my heart in my hands
What a misplaced, pitiful sight?
Just a stiff upper lip who’ll be knowin’ tomorrow
What he shoulda been sayin’ tonight!
Wontcha’ tell me what’s a nice boy like me
Doin’ in a place that never closes
I can hardly hear ya’ Holy Moses
Lookin’ so sad
Now won’t you tell me what’s a nice boy like me
Doin’ by the dance floor after hours?
Dozin’ over rolls of whiskey sours
Feelin’ so bad
I’m feelin’ so bad for me
Watchin’ the girls, my heart in my hands
What a misplased, pitiful sight?
Just a stiff upper lip who’ll be knowin’ tomorrow
What he shoulda been sayin’ tonight
And tell me what’s a nice boy like me
Doin’ in a place that never closes
I can hardly hear ya’
Holy Moses
Lookin’ so sad
Now won’t you tell me what’s a nice kid like me
Doin’ by the dance floor after hours
Dozin’ over roll of whiskey sours
Feelin’ so bad
I’m feelin’ so bad for me
ONE VOICE
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Just One Voice,
Singing in the darkness,
All it takes is One Voice,
Singing so they hear what’s on your mind,
And when you look around you’ll find
There’s more than
One Voice,
Singing in the darkness,
Joining with your One Voice,
Each and every note another octave,
Hands are joined and fears unlocked,
If only
One Voice
Would start it on its own
We need just One Voice
Facing the unknown,
And that One Voice
Would never be alone
It takes that One Voice.
Ba ba ba da da da da,
Ba ba ba ba ba ba da da da,
Ba ba ba ba ba ba
It takes that one voice
Just One Voice
Singing in the darkness,
All it takes is One Voice,
Shout it out and let it ring.
Just One Voice,
It takes that One Voice,
And everyone will sing!
SWEETWATER JONES
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Sweetwater Jones
Went riding
out in to the country night
he left his phone still ringing
ringing by the t.v.’s light
goodbye to you new york city
goodbye to every thing it used to be
you sure can could look good
Emerald City
oh but now your just a drag on me
goodbye to the ringing phone
goodbye to the old grindstone
and what use to be Jimmy Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones
Sweetwater Jones
keep on going
hey Jonese boy your’ll doing find
smiling a smile and knowing
that your heading fore a better time
look at your face
hey its shinning
hey beaming like it never could
look at your eyes
hey you crying
but you never thought you fell so good
goodbye to the ringing phone
good,good,goodbye to the old grindstone
what used to be Jimmy Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones
ohhhhhhhh
ohhhhhhhh Sweetwater Jones
what use to be Jimmy Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones
now they known as Sweetwater Jones