Rare, Precious, and Beautiful (c) 1968

Where Are You

Second Hand People

Spicks and Specks

Monday's Rain

Playdown

I Don't Know Why I Bother With Myself

Big Chance

Tint Of Blue

Glass House

Jingle Jangle

How Many Birds

Born A Man

This compilation album features songs from the "Australian years" prior to 1967.

 

 

Where Are You

Where are you (where are you)

Night is day and day is night

Where are you (where are you)

Need you girl you're not in sight

Our love would grow , but you leave and I know

that you don't love me (where are you)

I need you girl ,you're not in sight

I told you (I told you)

I was never coming back -ah

You told me (You told me)

You would give my love the sack-ah

Now as I fly , you won't tell me goodbye

'cause you don't love me (where are you)

 

Now you give my love the sack-ah

Now as my heart lies in pieces of eight

You were a part of my love but too late

I love you (I love you)

This I think that you should know

I'll be blue (I'll be blue)

You are still 'cause I must

I'd like to stay but I know you won't play

and see things my way (where are you)

You are still 'cause I must go

You are still 'cause I must

I must go (where are you )

 

 

Spicks And Specks 

Where is the sun

That shone on my head

The sun in my life

It is dead

it is dead

Where is the light

That would play

In my streets

And where are the friends

I could meet

I could meet

 

Where are the girls

I left all behind

The spicks and the specks

Of the girls on my mind

Where is the sun

That shone on my head

The sun in my life

It is dead

it is dead

 

Where are the girls

I left all behind

The spicks and the specks

Of the girls on my mind

 

Where is the girl I loved

all along

The girl that I loved

she's gone

she's gone

 

All of my life

I call yesterday

The spicks and the specks

of my life 've gone away

All of my life

I call yesterday

The spicks and the specks

of my life 've gone away

 

Spicks and Specks!

 

 

Playdown

I'm not a ghost , I am a man

I only do the best I can

Believin' I will find a way

It's just a price that you must pay

 

For my friends , they put me down

So I go from town to town

They all say that I'm a clown

They play high and I play

They play high and I play

 

I play the game , I see the light

I walk in day , you walk in night

Believe me boy, it ain't no good

In doin' what you never should

 

All my friends, they put me down

So I go from town to town

They all say that I'm a clown

They play high and I play down

They play high and I play

 

nah......

 

All my friends , they put me down

So I go from town to town

They all say that I'm a clown

They play high and I play down

They play high and I play

  

  

Big Chance 

People in their pride believe it's easier for them to leave

their problems in the arms of others , running to their mothers

Lasting love is such a funny thing

When you're in love you're on the wings

You're not in love, it's good for you

'cause you can do the things you want to do

 

It's you big chance , to take it baby

It's you big chance , you'll make it baby

 

When you're high and mighty you'll remember how I loved you

You'll be thinkin' how you hurt me when I needed you beside me

In the night is such a lonely time

I dream of you and that's a sign

It means that I am still a fool

And I am still so much in love with you

 

It's your big chance, so take it baby

It's your big chance, don't fake it baby

 

Big chance

Hot chance

 

 

Glass House

Glass house, that once was mine , the sun will shine in on me

You, change your mind, you weren't the kind to live on me

I remember yesterday , turn my tears to laugher

Then you left and like a stray, I came running after

 

(break)

 

I remember you at night, palm trees softly swaying

I remember all the words you were softly saying

 

Glass house upon the hill so big and still, the shady lane

It's ours , my love , until the day we say auf wiedersehen

 

 

How Many Birds

I was so lonely without you baby, don't know what I'm gonna do

I'm goin' crazy without you baby, look at what I'm goin' through

How many times must I tell you I love

Tell you I love you times before

Don't believe that I'm worth all your kisses

I'm worth more then this , but you ignore

 

How many birds will I see high and flying

How many birds will it take till I get you

I will be crying, yeah

 

Maybe tomorrow you'll come walkin' my way

Come talkin' my way , you'll find out

My love for you will be stronger then truer

I'll look at you and there's no doubt

 

How many birds will I see high and flying

How many birds will it take till I get you

I will be crying, yeah

 

I was so lonely without you baby, don't know what I'm gonna do

I'm going crazy without you baby, look at what I'm goin' through

Baby, baby, baby

 

 

Second Hand People

See the cracks upon the wall

We do not know the meaning of it all

Ain't no fire to warm my feet

Ain't got a nickel for a bit to ear

We're not workin', we're not slavin'

Ain't worth a brain, 'cause we're not worth savin'

Second hand people, tall as a steeple

Softer then treacle, in a pond are we

Second hand people

 

Ain't no mirror to comb my face

Just keep on going from place to place

Ain't got no lights above my head

Don't even bother to leave my bed

We're not livin' ,we're existin'

We're not movin' ,just resistin'

Second hand people, tall as a steeple

Softer then treacle , in a pond are we

Second hand people , tall as a steeple

Softer then treacle ....

 

 

I Don't Know Why I Bother With Myself

I'm a fool , I've taken no advice

And I'm so cruel , I'm talkin' to you nice

But then again you may not take me back

Oh just to put my hat back on your rack

Guess I don't know why I bother with myself

You will find a part of me in someone else

I never argued with the fact that she is mine

I only hurt her and kissed her three times out of nine

You have the edge to talk to men and make them feel at home

You spent that every lasting cent on someone that's not your own

Bear with me there's bound to be a chance

To heal the wound and start back our romance

I gained a heart and part of it is yours

Oh just to see my love walk through these doors

Oh and my life's bound out ahead , I can not look

And if you read me , then I am just a book

You don't care if rain falls in my room

You won't be there if trouble fills my spoon

I'm just a clown that plays around with misery in my way

Forgetting all the rules of love ....(fade)

 

 

Monday's Rain

I can see the sun shinin' down on me

Is it you my love that I can see

Don't let me down

Don't let me down

Don't let me walk to Monday's rain (Monday's rain)

to Monday's rain (Monday's rain)

 

In this my life , I walk in light

You are my love so baby I'm all right

Don't let me down , baby

Don't let me down

Oh baby, please don't let me walk in Monday's rain (Monday's rain)

in Monday's rain (Monday's rain)

 

(break)

 

Ah....

 

Ev'ry man alive has got to have someone

So what will I do when baby you are gone

Don't let me down

Don't walk on me

My Sunday sunshine

hide Monday's rain (Monday's rain)

hide Monday's rain (Monday's rain)

Monday's rain (Monday's rain) Ah...

 

 

I Don't Know Why I Bother With Myself

 

I'm a fool , I've taken no advice

And I'm so cruel , I'm talkin' to you nice

But then again you may not take me back

Oh just to put my hat back on your rack

Guess I don't know why I bother with myself

You will find a part of me in someone else

I never argued with the fact that she is mine

I only hurt her and kissed her three times out of nine

You have the edge to talk to men and make them feel at home

You spent that every lasting cent on someone that's not your own

Bear with me there's bound to be a chance

To heal the wound and start back our romance

I gained a heart and part of it is yours

Oh just to see my love walk through these doors

Oh and my life's bound out ahead , I can not look

And if you read me , then I am just a book

You don't care if rain falls in my room

You won't be there if trouble fills my spoon

I'm just a clown that plays around with misery in my way

Forgetting all the rules of love ....(fade)

 

 

Tint Of Blue

A tint of blue , deep down inside my heart, each time I see you

It would take a lot to ease my pain from all these chains

 

A tint of red , each time I see you with another

Just because I was your lover , jealous I

I get so angry I could cry

 

(break)

 

A tint of blue , why do you make me feel so sad

Why do you leave me feeling bad they way I do

A tint of blue

 

A tint of red , each time I see you with another

Just because I was your lover, jealous I

I get so angry I could cry

 

(break to end of song )

 

 

Jingle Jangle

Jingle jangle , my love wears silvery bangles

She likes to wander and that's why I'm under

the spell of her jingle jangle

 

We used to cry on each others shoulder

Now that I'm older , she wanders ahead

Now that she's found love , I still hear the sound of

silvery bangles , remain in my head

 

Jingle jangle , my love wears silvery bangles

She used to wander and that's why I'm under

the spell of her jingle jangle

 

mmm..... (fade)

 

 

Born A Man

When I was just a little boy , when I didn't know

My daddy put me n his knee and showed me the way to go

He said " a woman will do her best to make a fool out of you

So be a man and stand the test and see what you can do " .

 

I'm glad I am born a man

I'm glad I am born a man

 

If you got what it takes my boy

You can always choose

Work it out before it's too late my boy

Make sure you never lose

 

I'm glad I am born a man

I'm glad I am born a man

 

Born a man , etc... ad lib during break

 

Ev'ry woman wants her man to live and learn on her land

Where I go , baby you go

Arrangement , man and wife

 

I'm glad I am born a man

I'm glad I am born a man

 

Born a man , etc ... ad lib and fade out

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