NO LOVE FOR JENNY
By
Barry Manilow
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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
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
NEVER MET A MAN I DIDN’T LIKE
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Never met a man I didn’t like
High fullutent chant or bowery bum
Yes, I’ve come a long way
Down the pike
Never met a man I didn’t like
Never shook a hand I didn’t like
Royal Prince of Wales or working Joe
Though I know life’s one long rocky hike
Never met a man I didn’t like
In all of my wonderin’
I’ve bumped into all kinds of people
Fancy cinema stars, false avangelist
Politicians, morgutitions
And I have reached the conclusion
While hiking the pike
Though I try and I try
Never once met a guy that I didn’t like
I said I roam along a Nappa Valley
Shubert Alley, Ru de la Play
Oklahoma, Camalazo oh oh oh
And I have reached the conclusion
While hiking the pike
Yes I’ll say when I’m done
No I never met one that I didn’t like
Met the worst and met the best
Somebody put me into the test
Almost made me change my mind
Yet somehow I always find
If you don’t expect too much
There’s a certain human touch
Homosapiens have got other animals have not
Try the shoes on that are his
Feel what makes him what he is
What’s it like inside his skin
Living in the skin he’s in
Just like me a lump of sod
There what for the grace of God
That is a philosphy of this part time cherokee
Present into king or Pat and Mike
Folks can last but I can give up hope
Spun my rope along way down the pike
Never met a man I didn’t like
High tone gent, bowery bum
Prince of Wales, working Joe
Pat and Mike
Cherokee, philosphy
I never met a man I didn’t like
BRING ON TOMORROW
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Sleep baby, sleep
lose yesterday’s blues
when you’re ready for morning
have I got news..
our ship’s in the harbor…
the street’s turning gold
whatever you’re dreaming, it’s no longer on hold..
Dream baby, dream
while you were asleep
I had mountains to climb and a promise to keep
now home is the hunter and holding the prize
I’m waiting tell you when you open your eyes
Bring on tomorrow for me and for you
we hung on through dark hours..dawn’s overdue
bring on tomorrow and show me the sun
we’ll live it together cause you are the one.
Smile baby, smile
through canyon’s of night
but you’ll really be smiling by morning’s light
they told us we’re crazy
they promised I’d lose
forgive and forget them…
they’re yesterday’s news..
Bring on tomorrow for me and for you
we hung on through dark hours…dawn’s overdue
bring on tomorrow and show me the sun
we’ll live it together cause you’re the one..
Without you it’s nothing..
why else would I climb?
Together forever, hearts beating in time..
Oh…bring on tomorrow for me and for you…
we hung on through dark hours, dawn’s overdue
bring on tomorrow and show me the sun..
we’ll live it together cause you are the one
OPEN ARMS
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Lying beside you
Here in the dark
Feeling your heart with mine
Softly you whisper
You’re so sincere
How could our love be so blind
We sailed on together
We drifted apart
And here you are
By my side
So now I come to you
With open arms
Nothing to hide
Believe what I say
So here I am
With open arms
Hoping you’ll see
What your love means to me
Open arms
Living without you
Living alone
This empty house seems so cold
Wanting to hold you
Wanting you near
How much I wanted you home
But now that you’ve come back
Turned night into day
I need you to stay
So now I come to you
With open arms
Nothing to hide
Believe what I say
So here I am
With open arms
Hoping you’ll see
What your love means to me
Open arms
SOME BAR BY THE HARBOR
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Salin’ can save me
Or I drown evermore
But I’m on the waves
With you on the shore
Never mind
One find day
In some bar
By the harbor
I’ll find you
There you’ll be
As you where
Corner stool
By the jukebox
Watin’ for me
I can remember
Sweet child
Gone a mile
Swayin’ your head
To the crazy ragtime
Sayin’ “hey you got a quater?
Hey you look familiar
Hey you got a quater?
Let’s dance to the ragtime”
Slow down
Don’t time fly
Chased your smile
To some cold dingy attic
Now memories of
A room we shared
Heaven and home to me longer
And longer ago
I can remember
Time’s up
Callin’ ships all of the sounds
Of a restless harbor
You said “hey you look familiar
Come on you remember
Hey you got a quater?
Let’s dance to the ragtime
Sailin’ has saved me
From drownin’ evermore
But I’m on the waves
And you on the shore
Never mind
One find day
In some bar by the harbor
I’ll find you
Boozy, scared
Breakin’ down
Tellin’ the bouncer be cool
’cause you’re waitin’ for me
Like I been dreamin’
That’s you
Swingin’ ’round
Pushin’ your way like
A star to the jukebox
Sayin’ hey ya’ got a quater?
Hey don’t you remember?
Let’s dance to the ragtime!
Hey ya’ got a quater?
Hey don’t you remember?”
Why must I remember?
Never mind
One find day
In some bar by the harbor
I’ll find you
I’ll find you
I’ll find you
And will dance to the ragtime
Yes will dance to the ragtime
Will we dance and to the ragtime
Yes will dance to the ragtime