THE LAST DUET
By
Barry Manilow
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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
LET’S TAKE ALL NIGHT (TO SAY GOODBYE)
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Two A.M
Two of us
Come sunrise I’m leavin’
You know I must
I can’t bear the heartache
That’s in your eyes
So let’s take all night to say goodbye
You know I want to stay
How I want to stay
Let’s take all night to say goodbye
’cause goodbye is hard to say
Oh so hard to say
So let’s take all night
Smile for me
Why don’t we
Make this the sweetest of memories
The love that we make now
Is all we have
So let’s take all night to say goodbye
You know I want to stay
How I want to stay
Let’s take all night to say goodbye
’cause goodbye is hard to say
Oh so hard to say
Let’s take each moment
And every desire
You make the coffee
And I’ll light the fire
And will take all night to say goodbye
You know I want to stay
How I want to stay
Let’s take all night to say goodbye
’cause goodbye is hard to say
Oh so hard to say
ALL I NEED IS THE GIRL
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Once my clothes where shabby
Tailors called me cabby
So I took a vow
Said this bum’ll be Beau Brummell
Now I’m smooth and snappy
Now my tailor’s happy
I’m the cat’s meow
My wardrobe is a-wow
Paris silk, Harris tweed
There’s only one thing I need
Got my tweed pressed
Got my best vest
All I need now is the girl
Got my striped tie
Got my hopes high
Got the time and the place and I got rhythm
Now all I need is the girl to go with ’em
If she’ll just appear
We’ll take this big town for a whirl
And if she’ll say
“My darling, I’m yours,” I’ll throw away
My striped tie and my best pressed tweed
All I need now is the girl
WHEN OCTOBER GOES
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And when October goes
The snow begins to fly
Above the smokey roofs
I watch the planes go by
The children running home
Beneath a twilight sky
Oh, for the fun of them
When I was one of them
And when October goes
The same old dream appears
And you are in my arms
To share the happy years
I turn my head away
To hide the helpless tears
Oh how I hate to see October go
And when October goes
The same old dream appears
And you are in my arms
To share the happy years
I turn my head away
To hide the helpless tears
Oh how I hate to see October go
I should be over it now I know
It doesn’t matter much
How old I grow
I hate to see October go
A LINDA SONG
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He never wrote a song for Linda
He wrote as though he lived alone
He wrote of dreams that end of sad brave men
Inventing worlds he never know
But he never wrote a song for Linda
And she was right there all alone
Loved him back to life
When his luck ran low
But he never wrote a Linda song
He nearly broke his heart at writing
Linda kept him from despair
Standing by his side, through the hungry days
But he hardly seemed to see her there
And he never wrote a song for Linda
And she was right there all alone
The one real thing in his crazy world
And he never wrote a Linda song
When the bills piled up and couldn’t pay
He couldn’t dream no more
So he hitched a ride and he road away
And he left a note for Linda by the door
By the door
When times got rough he phone her
Once or twice she took the call
Then she changed her number and she turned her head
And Linda never looked back at all
He’ll never write a song for Linda
And she was right there all alone
Oh he knows,is no one understands
And he never wrote a Linda song
No he never wrote a Linda song
WINTER WONDERLAND
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Sleigh bells ring, are you listening
In the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight,we’re happy tonight
Walkin’ in a winter wonderland
Gone away is the bluebird
Here to stay is a new bird
He sings a love song as we go along
Walkin’ in a winter wonderland
In the meadow we can build a snowman
And pretend that he is Parson Brown
He’ll say “Are you married?”
We’ll say “No man,
But you can do the job when you’re in town.”
Later on we’ll conspire
As we dream by the fire
To face unafraid
The plans that we made
Walkin’ in a winter wonderland
Were walkin’ in a winter wonderland
Yea, walkin’ in a winter wonderland