They come running just as fast as they can
'Cause every girl’s crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man
Either you’ve got or you haven’t got style,
If you do, then you’ll stand out a mile.
A flower’s not a flower if it’s wilted,
A hat’s not a hat, 'til it’s tilted.
Look into the wall of my mind’s eye
I think I know, but I don’t know why
The questions are the answers you might need
Coming in a mess going out in style
I ain’t good-looking but I’m someone’s child
No-one can give me the air that’s mine to breathe
I met my maker
I made her cry
And on my shoulder she asked me why
Her people won’t fly through the storm
I said “Listen up girl, they don’t even know you’re born”
All my people right here, right now
D’You Know What I Mean?
All my people right here, right now
D’You Know What I Mean?
All my people right here, right now
D’You Know What I Mean?
Yeah, yeah
I don’t look for trouble
But it finds me just the same
If you hear me shout just look out
‘Cause it’s calling me by name
It’s looking still, it always will
If looks could kill I’d be six feet underground
And I never was good lookin’
But now I’m too old to let that get me down
You know you make me wanna
Shout!
Shake it up baby now (Shake it up baby)
Twist and Shout (Twist and shout)
C’mon, C’mon, C’mon Baby now (c’mon baby)
C’mon and work it on out (work it on out)
Let’s Twist again like we did last Summer!
I never will forget those nights.
I wonder if it was a dream.
Remember how you made me crazy,
Remember how I made you scream.
I don’t understand what happened to our love.
But, baby, I’m gonna get you back,
I’m gonna show you what I’m made of.
I can see you,
Your brown skin shining in the sun.
I see you walking real slow
And you’re smiling at everyone.
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone.
[Still prefer the Mondegreen there: “After the poison, summer has gone…”]
When winter hearts turn summer pink
In half the time it takes to blink
But it all depends on what’you think
About the girls of summer
When all you think of all day long
Is a pretty face inside a song
With a thought like that you can’t go wrong
About the girls of summer
Some boys take a beautiful girl
And hide her away from the rest of the world
I want to be the one to walk in the sun
Oh girls they want to have fun
Oh girls just want to have
That’s all they really want
Some fun
Well she got her daddy’s car
And she cruised through the hamburger stand now
Seems she forgot all about the library
Like she told her old man now
And with the radio blasting
Goes cruising just as fast as she can now
And she’ll have fun fun fun
Til her daddy takes the t-bird away
(Fun fun fun til her daddy takes the t-bird away)
Bye-bye Birdie!
Why’d you have to go?
Pack up all my cares and woes,
Here I go, singin’ low,
Bye, bye, blackbird!
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile!
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying?
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile
If I’m laden at all
I’m laden with sadness
That everyone’s heart
Isn’t filled with the gladness
Of love for one another
You’re a heartbreaker!
Dream maker!
Love taker!
Don’t you mess around with me.
Oh, oh, here she comes.
Watch out boy, she’ll chew you up.
I dreamed a show in days gone by.
Neil Diamond didn’t sing my hit song.
A pretty girl they’d glorified!
And Act One wasn’t so damn long.
Come watch us grovel in the dirt.
Then buy a souvenir and don it.
Rich folks pay twenty bucks a shirt
That has a starving pauper on it.
(From I Dreamed A Show, Forbidden Broadway’s marvelous send-up of I Dream A Dream)
Well you know that I’m not a gambler but I’m being gambled on
They put in a nickel and I sing a little song
In the nickelodeon
All I ever, all I ever, wanted was music
Well I don’t mind that
They’re lucky but it seems like they always win
And gambling is illegal in the state of mind I’m in
And if I had a nickel for each time that I’ve been put on
I would be their nickel man and I’d sing a little song