YOU OUGHTA BE HOME WITH ME
By
Barry Manilow
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Everybody’s here spinin the bottle
Everybody dance,dance,dance
And you walk in with your new friend
Well my friend, have I lost again
Cause I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty women
You oughta be home with me
Well you can love the one you’re with
But you can love the one you oughta be with
And tonight pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
You been looking at me tryin to hide it
You smile so sweet
As you dance bye with you new friend
Can’t you see its killing me
Cause I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty women
You oughta be home with me
Well you can love the one your with
But you could love the one you oughta be with
And tonight pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty women
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty women
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yea I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty women
SEVEN MORE YEARS
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David I said as I lay on my bed
another years gone bye
your starting your parole in the morning they said
please tell her I’m alright
seven more years if only if she can hold on
seven more years and I’ll be home again
David you got to tell her that I miss her
tell her I’ll miss every day till then
but tell her it ain’t so bad
and say you’re my friend
say that I’m ok
and tell her too wait for me
and I’ll be home again
getting home again
getting home again
David I said as he started to go
another years gone by
won’t you write me some time
I’ll miss you ,you know
but I’ll make out alright
seven more years if only I can hold on
seven more years and I’ll be home again
David you got to tell her that I miss her
tell her I’ll miss her every day till then
but tell her it ain’t so bad
please tell her my friend
say that I’m ok
and tell her to wait for me
and I’ll be home again
getting home again
getting home again
getting home,getting home again
seven more years if only I can hold on
seven more years and I’ll be home again
David you got to tell her that I miss her
tell her that I’ll miss her every day till then
I only got seven more years
I only got seven more years
I know I got only got seven more lousy years
I only got seven more years
I only got seven more lousy years
THIS CAN’T BE REAL
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This can’t be real
As long as I love you
How could this ever be real
As long as you’re there?
Help me to feel
The nightmare’s behind me
That your love will find me
Anywhere
Love is what’s true
The rest is illusion
What I’ve discovered with you
No one can steal
The truth isn’t what it seems
The truth is our wildest dreams
Real was your kiss
But as for this
This can’t be real
This can’t be real
So why do I love you
I know that this can’t be real
Still you are there
You aren’t real
But somehow you’ve found me
To haunt and surround me
You’re everywhere
This isn’t true
It’s only illusion
What I’ve discovered with you
Is just an ideal
This must be a dream, I know
So why do I want you so?
Is it because
Only because
This can’t be real?
This can’t be real
Love is what’s true
The rest is illusion
What I’ve discovered with you
No one can steal
No one can steal
The truth isn’t what it seems
The truth is our wildest dreams
This must be a dream, I know
So why do I want you so?
Real was your kiss
Is it because
Oh, but as for this
Only because
This can’t be real
This can’t be real
This can’t be real
WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE
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Autumn days
Lying on a bed of leaves
Watching clouds up through the trees
You said our love was more than time
It’s colder now, the trees are bare and the nights are long
Can’t get warm since you’ve been gone
I can’t stop singing sad songs
Where do I go from here
Tell me where do I go from here
You say you’d take me through the years
So where do I go from here
Lovers plans, like falling leaves on windy days
Flutter past and they fly away
I thought I knew you all so well
And I need you now
I need to feel you in the night
I need your smile so warm and bright
I wish my mind could let you go
You said that you’ll take me though the years
So where do I go from here
DON’T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE
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Don’t sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
No no no
Don’t sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
’til I come marching home
Don’t go walking down lovers lane
With anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
No no no
Don’t go walking down lovers lane
With anyone else but me
’til I come marching home
I just got word from a guy who heard
From the guy next door to me
The girl he met just loved to pet
And fits you to a “T”
So don’t sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
’til I come marching home
Don’t give out with those lips of yours
To anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
No no no
Watch the girls on the foreign shores
You’ll have to report to me
When you come marching home
You’re on your own
When there is no phone and I can’t keep tab on you
Be fair to me I’ll guarantee
This is one thing that I’ll do
I won’t sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but you
’til you come marching home
Don’t sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
I know the apple tree
Is reserved for you and me
And I’ll be true
’til you come marching home
EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY SOMETIME
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Everybody loves somebody sometime
Everybody falls in love somehow
Something in your kiss just told me
That sometime is now
Everybody finds somebody someplace
There’s no telling where love may appear
Something in my heart keeps saying
My someplace is here
If I had it in my power
I’d arrange for every girl to have your charms
Then every minute, every hour
Everybody would find what I found in your arms
Everybody loves somebody sometime
And though my dreams were overdue
Your love made it all worth waiting
For someone like you
If I had it in my power
I’d arrange for every girl to have your charms
Then every minute, every hour
Everybody would find what I found in your arms
Everybody loves somebody sometime
And though my dreams were overdue
Your love made it all worth waiting
For someone like you