STOMPIN AT THE SAVOY
By
Barry Manilow
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Let’s go, ready or no
Let’s take a chance
Let’s go, ready or no
Come on let’s dance
Gold from long ago
Savoy
The home of sweet romance
Savoy
It wins you at a glance
Savoy
Gives happy feet a chance to dance
Your form
Just like a clingin’ vine
Your lips
So warm and sweet as wine
Your cheeks
So soft and close to mine
Divine
How my heart is singin’
While the band is swingin’
Never tired of rompin’
And stompin’ with you
At the Savoy
What joy – Tonight’s the night
A perfect holiday
Savoy – The mood is right
Where we can glide and sway Savoy – What a delight
Where we can stomp away with you
Savoy – Stompin’ Stompin’
Savoy – Stompin’
Savoy – I’m stompin’ at the Savoy, Savoy
Savoy – Stompin’ with you
Savoy The home of sweet romance
Savoy
It wins you at a glance
Savoy
Gives happy feet a chance to dance
Oh how my heart is singin’ – You and I
While the band is swingin’ – Glidin’ by
Never tired of rompin’ – How I love
And stompin’ with you – To dance
At the – Romance
Savoy – Let’s dance
A perfect holiday – What a delight
Savoy – Romance
Where we can glide and sway – Into the night
Savoy – We’ll be
There let me stomp away – Feelin’ so right
Savoy – Baby you and me we’re gonna keep
We’ll keep on dancin’ – On dancin’
What a joy
Savoy
FREDDIE SAID
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Freddie’s got the dirt on
Everybody on the street
Don’t know how he does it
But it isn’t too discreet
Everybody says
It always winds up being true
He’s got somethin’ on everyone
Maybe even you!
Freddie know-oh yeah
Freddie goes-“Oh yeah,
I got the 411 in my head!”
That’s what Freddie said
One night Freddie’s goin’ home
He’s had a long, long day
When he see big Eddie
Runnin’ out the alleyway
Freddie looks at the shadow
Of a body with a shrug
There’s Slapsie layin’ deader
Then an ugly fire plug
Freddie know-oh yeah
Freddie goes-“Oh yeah!”
I’ll get the 411 to the feds!”
That’s what Freddie said
Personally i don’t think that
Was such a wise move on freddie’s part
If you see what i’m sayin’
Freddie now has the biggest news
He’s ever had
But Eddie knows that Freddie knows
And man, you knows, thats’s bad!
’cause next night
Freddie’s walking home
Just like he did before
Badda-boom! badda-bang!
Badda-bing!
He won’t be blabbin’ anymore!
See Eddie said-“oh yeah!
Freddie’s dead!-oh yeah
No more the 411 in his head
That’s ’cause Freddie’s dead
Now you know the skinny
All about the scuttlebutt
And the moral of this story is
To keep your big mouth shutt!
Cause Freddie said-“oh yeah!”
Now Freddie’s dead!-oh yeah
I’ll keep the 411 in my head!”
That’s what Freddie should’a said
THE OLD SONGS
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Candles burning
Glasses are chilled and soon
She’ll be by
Hope and pray
She’ll say that she’s willing to give us
Another try
And if all those plans I’ve made
Don’t melt the lady’s heart
I’ll put on the old 45’s
And maybe the old songs
Will bring back the old times
Maybe the old lines
Will sound new
Maybe she’ll lay her
Head on my shoulder
Maybe old feelings
Will come through
Maybe we’ll start to cry
And wonder why
We ever walked away
Maybe the old songs
Will bring back the old times
And make her want to stay
It’s been too long since I’ve
Seen her face light up
When I come home
It’s been too many
Hours I’ve wasted staring
At the phone
Sweet old songs I’m counting on you
To brink her back to me
I’m tired of listening alone
And make her want to stay
Want to stay
Maybe we’ll start to cry
And wonder why
We ever walked away
Maybe the old songs
Will bring back the old times
And make her want to stay
IN ANOTHER WORLD
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This is the first time on my own
This is the first time I’ve ever been alone like this
The silence covers wall to wall
I never knew how suddenly the night can fall
Far away
I can here the city screams
Drift away
I could be beside you in my dreams
In another world
I could walk away
Pretend there was nothing
I wouldn’t need you anyway
In another world
But not in this world
I have no stronghold to defend
But still my heart is outside, beating at the door again
No promises to make or keep
And though I’m free to go
I end up chasing sleep again
Drift away
Wonder if you think of me
Yesterday, is the place I’m going endlessly
And though I realize the truth
Is not idealized in you
Why should I be surprised to find
That you are always on my mind
This is the first time on my own
This is the first time I’ve ever been alone like this
The silence covers wall to wall
I never knew how suddenly the night can fall
Far away
I can here the city screams
Drift away
I could be beside you in my dreams
In another world
But not in this world
I have no strong hold to defend
But still my heart is outside, beating at the door again
No promise to make or keep
One thought I’m free to go
I end up chasing sleep again
Drift away
Wonder if you think of me
Yesterday, is the place I’m going endlessly
And though I realize the truth
Is not that I desire in you
Why should I be surprised to find
That you are always on my mind
This is the first time on my own
This is the first time I ever been alone like this
This is the first time I ever been alone like this
WELCOME HOME
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In my life
I have seen
Far away places
Wild and serene
But nothing I saw
Prepared me for
The mat on the floor
Saying “welcome home”
Time flies
See the moon rise
As I’m makin’ my way
Through another long day
But I’ll go
To a place I know
In my heart I know
There’s just no place
Like home
Welcome home
Welcome home
To that place
That’s safe and warm
Always a shelter
From the storm
I’m going home
Welcome home
Roll out the welcome mat
For me!
I’m goin’ home
Sometimes
I remember
All the days I never knew
If I would ever make it through
But just when
I’d give up again
I’d remember when the days
Were stormy
Home was always
Waitin’ for me
Sayin’
Welcome home
Welcome home
Where there will always be
A welcoming light on
Just for me
When I go home
Welcome home
No place
That I would rather be
Than goin’ home
In my heart I know
That someday when my time
Is drawing near
I’m gonna hear
Welcome home
Welcome home
Where there will always be
Somebody waiting
There for me
When I go home
Home sweet home
Everyone’s smilin’ just for me
When I go home
In my heart I see
Somebody waiting
There for me
Welcome home
Welcome home
It looks like a
Starlight symphony
I’m goin’ home
MY MOONLIGHT MEMORIES OF YOU
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One time in everybody’s life
There is a moment
Like the moment we knew
And if you’re a fool
You’ll let it slip away
Sometime in everybody’s life
There is a feeling
A feeling so real
And once it’s gone it can never be replaced
I’m dancing with a shadow
Holding on to a dream that’ll never come true
Still haunted by that old love song
My moonlight memories of you
My heart is like a ghost town
To every stranger that passes on through
All they find there
Is what you left behind there
My moonlight memories of you
You thought when you left me
I’ll let you go
But here I am loving you more
Then you’ll ever know
If I could hold you
Feel your heart beat
Just one more time
There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
’cause without your love
I’ll never be free of
My moonlight memories of you
One time in everybody’s life
There is a moment
Like the moment we knew
And if you’re a fool
You’ll let it slip away
I’m dancing with a shadow
Holding on to a dream that’ll never come true
Still haunted by that old love song
My moonlight memories of you
My moonlight memories of you