ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES / HAVE A BALL1.Danny's Song
2.Leavin' on a Jet Plane
3.Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
4.One Tin Soldier
5.Uptown Girl
6.I Am A Rock
7.Sweet Caroline
8.Seasons in the Sun
9.Fire and Rain
10.Nobody Does it Better
11.Mandy
12.Rocket Man
DANNY'S SONG
people smile and tell me i'm a lucky one and we've just begun, think i'm gonna have a son he will be like she and me, as free as a dove conceived in love, the sun is gonna shine above even though we ain't got money i'm so in love with ya honey everything will bring a chain of love in the morning when i rise, bring a tear of joy to my eyes tell me everything's gonna be alright pisces, virgo rising is a very good sign strong and kind and the little boy is mine now i see a family where there once was none now we've just begun yeah we're gonna fly to the sun repeat chorus love the girl who holds the world in a paper cup come on and drink it up, love her and she'll bring you luck if you find she helps your mind, better take her home don't you live alone, try to earn what lovers own repeat chorus
LEAVIN' ON A JET PLANE
all my bags are packed and i'm ready to go i'm standing here outside the door i hate to wake you up to say good bye but the dawn is breaking its early morn the taxi's waiting he's blowing his horn already i'm so lonesome i could die so kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me hold me like you'll never let me go cause i'm leaving on a jet plane don't know when i'll be back again oh babe, i hate to go so many times i've let you down there's so many times i fucked around i tell you now, they don't mean a thing cause every place i go i'll think of you and every song i sing i'll sing for you when i come back i'll bring your wedding ring repeat chorus now the time has come to leave you one more time to let me kiss you close your eyes and i'll be on my way dream about the days to come when i won't have to leave alone about the times that i won't have to say oh kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me hold me like you'll never let me, never let me go cause i'm leaving on a jet plane don't know when i'll be back again oh babe, i hate to go yeah
ME AND JULIO DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD
mama pajama rolled out of bed and she ran to the police station when the papa found out he began to shout and he started the investigation it's against the law, it was against the law what the mama saw, it was against the law mama looked down and spit on the ground every time my name gets mentioned papa said "oh if i get that boy i'm gonna stick him in the house of detention" well i'm on my way i don't know where i'm going i'm on my way i'm taking my time, but i don't know where goodbye to rosie, the queen of corona see me and julio down by the schoolyard whoh-hoh every couple of days they come to take me away but the press let the story leak and when the radical priest come to get me released it was all on the cover of newsweek well i'm on my way i don't know where i'm going i'm on my way i'm taking my time but i don't know where g-g-g-goodbye to rosie, the queen of corona see me and julio down by the schoolyard m-m-m-me and julio down by the schoolyard yeah me and julio down by the schoolyard (yeah yeah yeah yeah) me and julio down by the schoolyard (4x)
ONE TIN SOLDIER
listen children to a story that's been written long ago 'bout a kingdom on a mountain and the valley folk below on the mountain was a treasure buried deep beneath a stone and the valley people swore they'd have it for their very own so go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend do it in the name of heaven, you'll be justified in the end there won't be any trumpets blowing come the judgement day on the bloody morning afternoon one tin soldier rides away so the people from the valley sent a message up the hill asking for the buried treasure, tons of gold for which they'd kill came an answer from the kingdom "with our brothers we will share all the secrets of our mountain, all the riches buried there" now the valley cried in anger "mount your horses, draw your swords" and they killed the mountain people so they won their just reward now they stood beside the treasure on the mountain, dark and red turned the stone and looked beneath it "peace on earth" was all it said repeat chorus
UPTOWN GIRL
uptown girl she's been living in her uptown world i bet she never had a backstreet guy i bet her mama never told her why i'm gonna try for an uptown girl she's been living in her white bread world as long as anyone with hot blood can and now she's looking for a downtown man, that's what i am and when she knows what she wants from her time and when she wakes up she makes up her mind she'll see i'm not so tough just because i'm in love with an uptown girl you know i've seen her in her uptown world she's getting tired of all her high-class toys and all her presents from her uptown boys, she's got a choice and when she's walking she's looking so fine and when she wakes up she makes up her mind she'll see i'm not so tough just because i'm in love with an uptown girl she's been living in her white bread world as long as anyone with hot blood can and now she's looking for a downtown man, that's what i am uptown girl (uptown girl) my uptown girl (uptown girl) you know i'm in love with an uptown girl (uptown girl) my uptown girl (uptown girl) you know i'm in love with an uptown girl (uptown girl) yeah yeah uptown girl (uptown girl) my uptown girl (uptown) let me hear ya, motherfucker! one more time: yeah yeah yeah
I AM A ROCK
a winter's day in a deep and dark december i am alone gazing from my window to the streets below on a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow i am a rock i am an island i've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty that none may penetrate i have no need for friendship, friendship causes pain it's laughter and it's loving i disdain i am a rock i am an island don't talk of love, but i've heard the word before it's sleeping in my memory i won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died if i never loved i never would have cried i am a rock i am an island and a rock feels no pain and an island never cries
SWEET CAROLINE
where it began i can't begin to knowin' but then i know it's growing strong was in the spring, and spring became the summer who'd have believed that you'd come along hands touchin' hands reachin' out touchin' me, touchin' you sweet caroline the time never seemed so good i've been inclined to believe they never would but now i look at the night, and it don't seem so lonely we fill it up with only two and when i hurt, hurtin' runs off my shoulder how can i hurt when i'm alone with you warm touchin' warm reachin' out touchin' me, touchin' you repeat chorus oh no yeay! yeah! repeat chorus twice sweet caroline yeay, yeay, yeay, yeay
SEASONS IN THE SUN
good bye to you my trusted friend we've known each other since we were nine and ten together we've climbed hills and trees learned of love and abc's, skinned our hearts and skinned our knees good bye my friend it's hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky now that spring is in the air pretty girls are everywhere think of me and i'll be there we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun but the we climb were just seasons out of time good bye papa please pray for me i was the black sheep of the family you tried to teach me right from wrong too much whine and too much song, wonder how i got along good bye papa it's hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky now that spring is in the air little children everywhere when you'll see them i'll be there we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun but the whine and the song like the seasons have all gone (repeat) good bye rochelle my little one you gave me love and helped me find the sun and every time that i was down you would always come around and get my feet back on the ground good bye rochelle it's hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky now that spring is in the air with the flowers everywhere i wish that we could both be there (one, two, three) we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun but the stars we could reach we just starfish on the beach (repeat) we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun but the whine and the song like the seasons have all gone all our lives we had fun, we had seasons in the sun but the hills that we climb were just seasons out of time
FIRE AND RAIN
just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone suzanne the plans they made put an end to you i walked out this morning and i wrote down this song i just can't remember who to send it to i've seen fire and i've seen rain i've seen sunny days that i thought would never end i've seen lonely times when i could not find a friend but i always thought that i'd see you again won't you look down upon me jesus, you gotta help me make a stand you just got to see me through another day my body's aching and my time is at hand and i won't make it any other way, oh repeat chorus
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER
nobody does it better makes me feel sad for the rest nobody does it half as good as you baby you're the best i wasn't looking, but somehow you found me i tried to hid from your love light but like heaven above me, the spy who loved me is keeping all my secrets safe tonight and nobody does it better sometimes i wish someone could nobody does it quite the way you do why'd you have to be so good the way that you hold me, whenever you hold me there's some kind of magic inside you that keeps me from running, but just keep it coming how'd you learn to do the things you do and nobody does it better makes me feel sad for the rest nobody does it half as good as you baby baby, oh man, you're the best baby you're the best (3x) yeay yeay yeay whoo
MANDY
i remember all my life raining down as cold as ice shadows of a man, a face through a window cryin' in the night, the night goes into morning just another day happy people pass my way looking in their eyes i see a memory i never realized how happy you made me oh mandy, well you came and you gave without taking but i sent you away oh mandy, well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking and i need you today, oh mandy i'm standing on the edge of time i've walked away when love was mine caught up in a world of uphill climbing the tears are in my mind and nothing is rhyming oh mandy, well you came and you gave without taking but i sent you away oh mandy, well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking and i need you today yesterday is a dream, i face the morning crying on the dreams, the pain is calling oh mandy, well you came and you gave without taking but i sent you away oh mandy, well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking and i need you today oh mandy, well you came and you gave without taking and i sent you away oh mandy, well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking and i need you yeah!
ROCKET MAN
she packed my bags last night, pre-flight zero hour nine am and i'm gonna be high as a kite by then i miss the earth so much, i miss my wife it's lonely out in space on such a timeless flight and i think it's gonna be a long long time touch down brings me round again to find i'm not the man they think i am at home, oh no no no i'm a rocket man, rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone (repeat whole chorus) mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kid in fact it's cold as hell and there's no one there to raise them if you did and all this silence i don't understand it's just my job five days a week a rocket man a rocket man repeat chorus i think it's gonna be a long long time (6x) yeah, yeah, yeah
