Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Lyrics to America :
far, we've been traveling far without a home but not without a star free, only wanna be free we huddle close, hang on to a dream on the boats and on the planes they're coming to america never looking back again they're coming to america home, don't it seem so far away oh we're traveling light today in the eye of the storm in the eye of the storm home, to a new and a shiny place make our bed and we'll say our grace freedom's light burning warm freedom's light burning warm everywhere around the world they're coming to america every time that flag's unfurled they're coming to america got a dream to take 'em there they're coming to america got a dream they've come to share they're coming to america they're coming to america [x4] today [x4] (today) my country 'tis of thee (today) sweet land of liberty (today) of thee i sing (today) of thee i sing, yeah

Lyrics to Ben :
Go!

Ben, the two of us need look no more
We both found what we've been looking for
With a friend to call my own
I'll never be alone
And you, my friend, will see
You've got a friend in me

Ben, you're always running here and there
You feel you're not wanted anywhere
If you ever look behind
And don't like what you find
There's something you should know
You've got a place to go

I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"

Ben, most people would turn you away
I don't listen to a word they say
They don't see you as I do
I wish they would try to
I'm sure they'd think again
If they had a friend like Ben

Woow!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeeaaah!

Ben, you're rad

Lyrics to Country Roads :
Allmost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shanandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growing like a breeze
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia Mountain mama
Take me home Country Road
All my memories gather 'round her
Miner's lady, strangers to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine
Tear drops in my eye
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia Mountain mama
Take me home Country Road
I hear her voice in the morning
How she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And driving down the road
I get a feeling that I should have been home
Yesterday Yesterday
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia Mountain mama
Take me home Country Road
Take me home Country Road
Take me home Country Road

Lyrics to Father And Son :
[Originally by Cat Stevens]

It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know
Find a girl, settle down, if you want you can marry
Look at me, I am old but I'm happy

I was once like you are now
And I know that it's not easy
To be calm when you've found
Something going on
But take your time, think a lot, why think of everything you've got
For you will still be here tomorrow but you dreams may not

How can I try to explain, 'cause when I do he turns away again
It's always been the same, same old story
From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away
I know, I have to go

It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know
Find a girl, settle down, if you want you can marry
Look at me, I am old but I'm happy

All the times that I've cried keeping all the things I knew inside
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it
If they were right I'd agree, but it's them they know, not me
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away

Lyrics to Harder They Come :
[Originaly by Jimmy Cliff]

Well they tell me about the pie up in the sky
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day your born and when you die
They never seem to hear even your cry

So as soon as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my shine out what's mine
And then the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all
The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all

Well the opus' are trying to keep me down
Trying to drag me underground
And they think that they have got the battle won
I say forgive them lord the do not what they've done

So as soon as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my shine out what's mine
And then the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all
The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all

Well I'll keep on fighting for the things I want
Though I know that when you dead you gone
But I'd rather be a free man in my grave
Then living as a puppet or a slave

So as soon as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my shine out what's mine
And then the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all
The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all
The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all

Lyrics to Hats Off To Larry :
[Originally by Del Shannon]

Once I had a pritty girl
Her name it doesn't matter
She went away with an other guy
And now he wont even look at her

Hats off to larry
He broke your heart
Just like you broke mine when you
Said we must part
He told you lies
Now its your turn to cry, cry, cry
Now that larry said good bye to you

I know this may sound strange
I want you back i think you'll change
But there's one more thing i gotta say

Hats off to larry
It may sound cruel
But you laughed at me when you said we were Through
you told me lies
Now its your turn to cry, cry, cry
Now that larry said good bye to you

Hats off to larry
It may sound cruel
But you laughed at me when you said we were Through
You told me lies
Now its your turn to cry, cry, cry
Now that larry said good bye to you

Good Bye to you
Good Bye to you
Hats Off To Larry

Hats off Larry!

Lyrics to I Just Called To Say I Love You :
[Originally by Stevie Wonder]

No New Year's Day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here's just another ordinary day

No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you

I just called to say I love you (Aaah)
I just called to say how much I care
I just called (he called) to say (to say) I love you (Aaah)
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

No summer's high
No warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender August night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies

No Libra sun
No Halloween
No giving things to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

I just called (he called) to say (to say) I love you (Aaah)
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Of my heart, of my heart

Lyrics to I Still Miss Someone :
[Originally by Johnny Cash]

At my door the leaves are falling
A cold wild wind has come
Sweethearts walk by together
And I still miss someone

I go out on a party
And look for a little fun
But I find a darkened corner
because I still miss someone

Oh, no I never got over those blues eyes
I see them every where
I miss those arms that held me
When all the love was there

I wonder if she's sorry
For leavin' what we'd begun
There's someone for me somewhere
And I still miss someone

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Lyrics to I Will Always Love You :
[Originally by Dolly Parton]

If I should stay
Well, I would only be in your way
And so Ill go, and yet I know
That Ill think of you each step of my way
And I will always love you
I will always love you
Bitter-sweet memories
That's all I have, and all I'm taking with me
Good-bye, oh, please don't cry
cause we both know that I'm not
What you need
I will always love you
I will always love you
And I hope life, will treat you kind
And I hope that you have all
That you ever dreamed of
Oh, I do wish you joy
And I wish you happiness
But above all this
I wish you love
I love you, I will always love

I, I will always, always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you

Lyrics to I Write The Songs :
[Originally by Barry Manilow]
I've been alive forever
And I wrote the very first song
I put the words and melodies together
I am music and I write the songs

I write the songs that make the whole world sing
I write the songs of love and special things
I write the songs that make the young girls cry
I write the songs, I write the songs[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

My home lies deep within you
And I've got my own place in your soul
Now when I look out through your eyes
I am young again even though I'm very old

[repeat chorus]

My music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance
And I wrote some rock 'n' roll so you can move
Music fills your heart and that's a real fine place to start
It's from me, it's for you, it's from you, it's for me
It's a worldwide symphony

[repeat chorus]

Yeah! I write the songs that make the whole world scream!
I write the songs of love and special things
I write the songs that make the young girls cry
I write the songs, I write the songs

I am music (music) and I write the songs
Yeah

Lyrics to I'm Gonna Write A Song :
[Originally by Jerry Reed]

I'm gonna write a song the whole wide world can sing
It's gonna be about sunshine and praise every living thing
It's gonna be about love the one thing the world needs a lot more of
I'm gonna write a song the whole wide world can sing

People sit around with their face in a frown and they gripe about the way things are
They're happy to receive but they hardly ever give
Now I'm so tired of complaining so in my time remaining
I'm gonna do my part to make the world a better place to live (go)

I'm gonna write a song the whole wide world can sing
It's gonna be about sunshine and praise every living thing
It's gonna be about love the one thing the world needs a lot more of
I'm gonna write a song the whole wide world can sing

Your government needs teenage blood and oil to keep the nation strong
And the old time religion gets 'em every day
Now we need agitatin' and more black flags waving
And there's no better time to start than today

I'm gonna write a song the whole wide world can sing
It's gonna be about sunshine and praise every living thing
It's gonna be about love the one thing the world needs a lot more of
I'm gonna write a song the whole wide world can sing

I'm gonna cover a song some redneck fascist wrote
Toby Keith is a Nazi, George Bush is a fucking joke
How many more will die for the word of god, for the oil you buy
I'm gonna cover a song the whole wide world can sing
The whole wide world can sing
The whole wide world can sing
Aaa-hoooo

Lyrics to Lady :
Lady, I'm your knight in shining armor and I love you
You have made me what I am and I am yours
My love, there's so many ways I want to say I love you
Let me hold you in my arms forever more

You have gone and made me such a fool
I'm so lost in your love
And oh, we belong together
Won't you believe in my song?

Lady, for so many years I thought I'd never find you
You have come into my life and made me whole

In my eyes I see no one else but you
There's no love like our love
And yeah, I'll always want you near me
I've waited for you for so long

Lady, your love's the only love I need
And beside me is where I want you to be
'Cause, my love, there's somethin' I want you to know
You're the love of my life, you're my lady!

Lyrics to Mother And Child Reunion :
no i would not give you false hope on this strange and mournful day but the mother and child reunion is only a motion away oh little darling of mine i can't for the life of me remember a sadder day i know they say to let it be but it just don't work out that way in the course of a lifetime runs over and over again [repeat chorus] oh little darling of mine i just can't believe it's so though it seems strange to say i never been laid so low in such a mysterious way and the course of a lifetime runs over and over again [repeat chorus] but the mother and child reunion is only a motion away but the mother and child reunion is only a moment away [repeat whole verse] only a moment away yeay, oh yeah

Lyrics to Tainted Love :
[Originally by Gloria Jones]
Sometimes I feel I've got to
Run away, I've got to
Get away
From the pain
You drive into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
And I toss and turn
I can't sleep at night

Once I ran to you
Now I run from you
This tainted love you give me
I gave you all a boy could give you
Take my tears
And that's not really
Ooh, tainted love
Tainted love

Now I know I've got to
Run away, I've got to
Get away
You don't really want
Anymore from me
To make things right
You need someone
To hold you tight
And you think love is a game
But I'm sorry I don't play that way

Once I ran to you
Now I run from you
This tainted love you give me
I gave you all a boy could give you
Take my tears
And that's not really
Ooh, tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love

Tainted love
Tainted love
Don't touch me, please
I cannot stand the way you tease
I love you though you hurt me so
Now i've gotta pack my things and go
Tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love

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Lyrics to The City Of New Orleans :
[Originally by Arlo Guthrie]

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
[x2]

Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

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Lyrics to The Times They Are A-changin' :
[Originally by Bob Dylan]

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.

Lyrics to Walking On Sunshine :
I used to think maybe you loved me
Now baby I'm sure
And I just can't wait till the day
When you knock on my door
Now ev'ry time I go for the mailbox
You hold myself down
'Cause I just can't wait
Till you write me you're coming around

Now I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
And don't it feel good?
Alright now
And don't it feel good?
Oh yeah

I used to think maybe you loved me
Now I know that it's true
And I don't want to spend my whole life
Just waiting for you
Now I don't want you back for the weekend
Not back for a day
No no no

I said baby
I just want you back and I want you to stay

Now I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
And don't it feel good?
Alright now
And don't it feel good?
Alright now

Walking on sunshine
Walking on sunshine

I feel alive
I feel in love
I feel in love
That's really real...

Now I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
And don't it feel good?
Alright now
And don't it feel good?
Alright now
And don't it feel good?
Alright now

Lyrics to Walking On Sunshine :
I used to think maybe you loved me
Now baby I'm sure
And I just can't wait till the day
When you knock on my door
Now ev'ry time I go for the mailbox
You hold myself down
'Cause I just can't wait
Till you write me you're coming around

Now I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
And don't it feel good?
Alright now
And don't it feel good?
Oh yeah

I used to think maybe you loved me
Now I know that it's true
And I don't want to spend my whole life
Just waiting for you
Now I don't want you back for the weekend
Not back for a day
No no no

I said baby
I just want you back and I want you to stay

Now I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
And don't it feel good?
Alright now
And don't it feel good?
Alright now

Walking on sunshine
Walking on sunshine

I feel alive
I feel in love
I feel in love
That's really real...

Now I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine
And don't it feel good?
Alright now
And don't it feel good?
Alright now
And don't it feel good?
Alright now

Lyrics to Rocket Man :
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
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
Till 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

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man

Lyrics to Mandy :
I remember all my life, raining down as cold as ice
shadows of a man, a face through a window
crying 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!!!

Standing on the edge of time,
walked away when love was mine
caught up in a world of uphill climbing
the tears are in my eyes and nothing is rhyming!!!

Yesterday's a dream. I face the morning
crying on a breeze, the pain is calling...

Lyrics to 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 hide from your love light
But like heaven above me
The spy who loved me
Is keeping all my secrets safe tonight[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

And nobody does it better
Though 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, darling you're the best

Baby you're the best

Lyrics to Fire And Rain :
Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
Susan 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've got to help me make a stand
You've 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

Lyrics to Seasons In The Sun :
Goodbye to you, my trusted friend
we've known each oth'r since we were nine or ten;
together we've climbed hills and trees,
learned of love and A-B-C's,
skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.

Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky;
now that the 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 hills that we climb
were just seasons out of time.

Goodbye, Papa, please pray for me,
I was the black sheep of the family;
you tried to teach me right from wrong,
too much wine and too much song,
wonder how I got along.

Goodbye, Papa, it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky;
now that the spring is in the air,
little children everywhere,
when you'll see them, I'll be there.

Goodbye, 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.

Goodbye, Rochelle, it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky;
now that the spring is in the air,
with the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there.

All our lives we had fun,
we had seasons in the sun;
But the stars we could reach
were just starfish on the beach.

Lyrics to Sweet Caroline :
Where it began
I can't begin to knowin'
But then I know it's growin' strong

Was in the spring
And spring became the summer
Who'd have believed you'd come along

Hands, touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touchin' me
Touchin' you

Sweet Caroline
Good times 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 shoulders
How can I hurt when I'm with you

Warm, touchin' warm
Reachin' out
Touchin' me
Touchin' you

Oh, no, no

Lyrics to 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 of 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 words 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.

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.