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Say It In Private
SIDE ONE
I'm Attracted To You
by Steve Goodman and Rick Chudacoff
You better watch out
if you don't want me around all the time
'cause I'm attracted to you
You've got the way to keep me interested
in the things that you do
The sides you show to me and the ones you keep concealed
Oooo -They are pulling me into
your magnetic field, so
you better watch out
if you don't want me around all the time
'cause I'm attracted to you.
You better watch out
if you don't want me around all the time
'cause I'm attracted to you
Everywhere , you look
you're gonna see a good friend of mine
looking right back at you
We'll be eye to eye and me to you
that's the way I was attracted to
oooo -The only one of you
And I'm the only one who loves you like I do
so you better watch out
if you don't want me around all the time
'cause I'm attracted to you.
Copyright 1977 Big Ears Music Inc., Red Pajamas, Inc & Crackin
Music Co. ASCAP.
Used by Permission. All rights reserved.
You're The Girl I Love
by Steve Goodman
I'm gonna tell everybody I see just how much you mean to me
I'm your boy and I'm gonna talk all about the beautiful
way you walk -
Make everybody sad and blue 'cause they can't
spend their lives with you.
Tell all the fish in the deep blue sea
Tell all the boats in the Queen's navy
Say it real quiet, say it out loud
Say it in private, say it in a crowd
Read it to the blind and show it to the deaf--
Look in the mirror and remind myself
that no one has ever known a love so true
One of these days whatever I do,
I'm gonna have to find a way to tell you
that you're the girl I love.
I'm gonna tell everybody I see just how much you mean to me
Travel this world from pole to pole
telling everyone about your beautiful soul,
and to whom it may concern
all the other boys will have to wait their turn.
Tell it every night and every day of the year
Tell it to the people who don't want to hear.
Tell it to the birds way up in the trees
Tell it to the judge and the chief of police.
Tell all those I told you so's
just where they can pin that rose
Tell it to the good book up on the shelf
and now at the risk of repeating myself
No one has ever known a love so true
One of these days whatever I do
I'm gonna have to find a way to tell you
that you're the girl I love.
Copyright 1977 Big Ears Music Inc., Red Pajamas, Inc ASCAP.
Used by Permission. All rights reserved.
Video Tape
by Steve Goodman
If your life was on video tape
wouldn't everything be all right
When your head hurts the morning after
you could roll it back to late last night
You could replay all the good parts
and cut out what you don't like
Oh wouldn't you be in good shape
if your life was on video tape
If everybody had ESP
everything would be ok
We could see trouble coming
and we could step out of the way
When the grim reaper comes to call
we could arrange to be out of town
It would be the great escape
and you could put it on video tape
I don't have a video recorder
I don't have a crystal ball
and when I'm not with my baby
then I don't have very much at all
I can't predict the future
and I sure can't change the past
But I know it will all make sense
if you love me in the present tense
If your life was on video tape
wouldn't everything be all right
When your head hurts the morning after
you could roll it back to late last night
You could replay all the good parts
and cut out what you don't like
Oh wouldn't you be in good shape
if your life was on video tape
Copyright 1977 Big Ears Music Inc., Red Pajamas, Inc ASCAP.
Used by Permission. All rights reserved.
There's A Girl In The Heart Of Maryland
by Ballard MacDonald and Harry Carroll
There's a girl in the heart of Maryland
with the heart that belongs to me.
When I told her of my love
the oriole above sang from the old apple tree.
And Maryland was merry and she promised
my bride to be;
There's a girl in the heart of Maryland
with the heart that belongs to me.
Copyright 1913. Renewed by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. New York,
NY ASCAP.
Used by permission. All rights reserved
Two Lovers
by William "Smokey" Robinson
I've got two lovers and I ain't ashamed
Two lovers and I love them both the same.
Let me tell you about my first lover.
She treats me good like a lover should
Treats me fine and she's mine all mine
And I love her, I really love her
Oh, I love her so and I'll do everything I can
to let her know.
But I've got two lovers and I ain't ashamed
Two lovers and I love them both the same.
Let me tell you about the other lover
She treats me bad and makes me mad
Makes me cry but I can't deny
That I love her, I really love her
Oh, I love her so and I'll do everything I can
to let her know.
Darling well, don't you think that I can tell
That, whenever I'm with you that you think I'm untrue
'cause I say that I love two
but I really, really do.
'Cause you're a split personality
and in reality
both of them are you.
Copyright 1962 Jobete Music Company, Inc. ASCAP International
Copyright Secured
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SIDE TWO
Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
by Irving Caesar, Sammy Lerner and Gerald Marks
Is it true what they say about Dixie?
Does the sun really shine all the time?
Do the sweet magnohas blossom
'round everybody's door?
Do folks keep eating'possum 'til they can't eat no more?
Is it true what they say about Swanee?
Is it a dream by that stream so sublime?
Do they laugh?
Do they sing like they say in that song?
If that's true, then that's where I belong.
Copyright 1936, Copyright renewed 1964 Irving Caesar Publishing
Company ASCAP
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Weary Blues From Waitin'
by Hank Williams
The snow falls'round my window
But it can't chill my heart
God knows it died the day you left
When my dream world fell apart.
Chorus:
Got the weary blues from waitin'
Lord I've been waitin' so long
These blues have got me cryin'
Sweet mama won't you please come home
Through tears I watch young lovers as
they go strolling by.
For all those things that might have been
Lord, forgive me if I cry.
Got the weary blues from waitin'
Lord I've been waitin' so long
These blues have got me cryin'
Sweet mama won't you please come home
Copyright 1951 Fred Rose Music, Inc BMI
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Daley's Gone
by Steve Goodman
Richard J. Daley was the Mayor of our town
'til that cold day in December when
they laid him in the ground--
Daley's gone, one more round--
Daley's gone.
He was always known as the working man's pal
He grew up in Bridgeport and studied law at De La Salle.
He was first elected Mayor in 1955
when half the people here tonite
were not as yet alive.
When John Kennedy wanted to be President
he knew just what to do
he called up Mayor Daley
because he was Irish too.
When it came to building big buildings
no job was too tough
Daley built McCormick Place twice
because once was not enough.
There never was another man who could
inspire more love or hate
if you were in the park and it was 1968.
It would be funny if heaven was
just like the 11th ward
and you had to know the right people
to receive your just reward.
Richard J. Daley was the Mayor of our town
and when he died no suitable replacement
could be found.
Copyright 1977 Big Ears Music Inc., Red Pajamas, Inc & Crackin
Music Co. ASCAP.
Used by Permission. All rights reserved.
My Old Man
by Steve Goodman
I miss my old man tonite
and I wish he was here with me
With his corny jokes and his cheap cigars
He could look you in the eye and sell you a car.
That's not an easy thing to do,
but no one ever knew a more charming creature
on this earth than my old man.
He was a pilot in the big war in the U.S. Army Air Corps
in a C - 47 with a heavy load
full of combat cargo for the Burma Road.
And after they dropped the bomb
he came home and married Mom
and not long after that
he was my old man.
And oh the fights we had
when my brother and I got him mad;
He'd get all boiled up and he'd start to shout
and I knew what was coming so I tuned him out.
And now the old man's gone, and I'd give all I own
to hear what he said when I wasn't listening
to my old man'
I miss my old man tonite
and I can almost see his face
He was always trying to watch his weight
and his heart only made it to fifty-eight.
For the first time since he died
late last night I cried.
I wondered when I was gonna do that
for my old man.
Copyright 1977 Big Ears Music Inc., Red Pajamas, Inc & Crackin
Music Co. ASCAP.
Used by Permission. All rights reserved.
The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over
by Steve Goodman and John Prine
Back in 1899 when everybody sang Auld Lang Syne
a hundred years took a long, long time
for every boy and girl
Now there's only one thing I'd like to know
where did the 20th century go
I'd swear it was here just a minute ago
all over this world.
Does anyone remember the Great Depression
I read all about it in True Confessions
Sorry I was late for the recording sessions
but somebody put me on hold;
Has anybody seen my linoleum floors,
petroleum jelly and two World Wars;
They got stuck in the revolving doors
all over this world.
Winter's getting colder, summer's getting hotter
Wishing well's wishing for another drop of water
Mother Earth's blushin' cause somebody caught her
making love to the man in the moon
How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm,
now that outer space has lost its charm,
Somebody set off the burglar alarm and not a moment too
Old Father Time has got his toes a tappin,
standin'in the window grumblin'and a rappin'
Everybody's waiting for something to happen,
tell me if it happens to you
The judgement Day is getting nearer,
there it is in the rear view mirror
If you duck down, I could see a little clearer
all over this world.
The twentieth century is almost over
almost over, almost over
The twentieth century is almost over
all over this world.
All over this world, all over this world.
The twentieth century is almost over all over this world.
Copyright 1977 Big Ears Music Inc., Red Pajamas, Inc & Crackin
Music Co. ASCAP.
Used by Permission. All rights reserved.
Lyrics, transcribed by:
Steven H Silver:
shsilver@ameritech.net
