so get down, down here beside me
oh you ain’t going nowhere
no I won’t hurt you mama
but its getting so hard
Well I met a boy in the Vieux Carres
Down in Yokohama
He picked me up and he threw me down
He said “Please don’t hurt me Mama”
Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor pitiful me
Oh these boys won’t let me be
Lord have mercy on me
I’ll tell me Ma when I go home,
The boys won’t leave the girls alone.
They pulled my hair, they stole my comb,
But that’s all right 'til I go home.
She is handsome, she is pretty,
She’s the belle of Belfast City,
She goes courting, 1-2-3.
Please won’t you tell me who is she?
Albert Mooney says he loves her,
All the boys are fighting for her.
Knocking on the door and ringing the bell, saying,
“Oh my true love, are you well?”
Out she comes as white as snow,
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.
Old Johnny Murphy says she’ll die
If she doesn’t get the fellow with the roving eye.
Oh, I don’t know why she’s leaving,
Or where she’s gonna go,
I guess she’s got her reasons,
But I just don’t want to know,
'Cos for twenty-four years
I’ve been living next door to Alice.
Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?
Twenty-four years just waiting for a chance,
To tell her how I feel, and maybe get a second glance,
Now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice…
And Sally called back and asked how I felt,
And she said: “I know how to help -
Get over Alice”.
She said: “Now Alice is gone,
But I’m still here,
You know I’ve been waiting
For twenty-four years…”
And a big limousine disappeared…
Two black Cadillacs riding in a slow parade
Headlights shining bright in the middle of the day
Honey, you may think I’m fooling, for the foolish things I do
You may wonder how come I love you, when you get on my nerves like you do
Well baby you know you bug me, there ain’t no secret about that
But come on over here and hug me, hey baby I’ll spill the facts
Well honey it ain’t your money, cause baby I got plenty of that
I love you for your pink Cadillac, crushed velvet seats
Riding in the back, cruising down the street
Waving to the girls, feeling out of sight
Spending all my money on a Saturday night
Honey I just wonder what you do there in the back
of your pink Cadillac, pink Cadillac
And it’s bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs!
There’s always one more bug.
Oh Baby Look So Good in My Crib At Night
Yeah Baby Look So Good in My Crib At Night
I Could Give You a Million Hugs
You Look So Good All Covered Up in Bugs
Oh, I Missed Some There
Under Your Chair
But That’s All Right, I’ll Sweep You Under the Rug… Ah Ha Ha!
I found a million dollar baby
In the five and ten cent store.
Baby, here’s a five and dime, Baby, now’s about the time
For a string of pearls ala Woolworth.
Ev’ry pearl’s a star above,
Wrapped in dreams, and filled with love –
That old string of pearls ala Woolworth.
It’s about time
It’s about space
It’s about three men in the strangest place
My echo, my shadow, and me.
Me and my shadow
Strolling down the avenue
Down on the boulevard, they take it hard
They look at life with such disregard
They say it can’t be won,
The way the game is run.
But if you choose to stay,
You wind up playing anyway.
Down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks
People put me down 'cause
That’s the side of town I was born in
I love her she loves me but I don’t fit in her society
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks
Ev’ry night I watch the lights from the house up on the hill
I love a little girl who lives up there and I guess I always will
But I don’t dare knock on her door
'Cause her daddy is my boss man
So I have to try to be content
Just to see her when ever I can
Down in the boondocks
Up on the housetop reindeer pause
Out jumps good old Santa Claus
We are Santa’s reindeer
We’ve learned to sing this year
So we can tell everyone
Christmas Day is near.
They got cars big as bars
They got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It´s no place for the old
When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas eve
You promised me broadway was waiting for me
It’s coming on Christmas
They’re cutting down trees
They’re putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on
But it don’t snow here
It stays pretty green
I’m going to make a lot of money
Then I’m going to quit this crazy scene
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I’ve got peace like a river.