My one and only prayer
Is that someday you’ll care
My hopes, my dreams come true
My one and only you
No one will ever know
How much I love you so
My only prayer will be
Someday you’ll care for me
But it’s only make believe
My one and only
What am I gonna do if you turn me down
When I’m so crazy over you
Say it is only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea,
But it wouldn’t be make believe
If you believed in me.
Yes It is only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree,
But it wouldn’t be make believe
If you believed in me.
Without your love,
It’s a honky-tonk parade.
Without your love,
It’s a melody played in a penny arcade.
I don’t wanna play house, I know it can’t be fun
I’ve watched mommy and daddy and if that’s the way it’s done
I don’t wanna play house, it makes my mommy cry
'Cause when she played house, my daddy said, “Goodbye”
Our D.I.V.O.R.C.E becomes final today
Me and little J.O.E will be goin’ away
I love you both and it will be pure H.E double L for me
Oh, I wish that we could stop this D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
He said I’ll love you 'til I die
She told him you’ll forget in time
As the years went slowly by
She still preyed upon his mind.
He kept her picture on his wall
Went half crazy now and then
He still loved her through it all
Hoping she’d come back again.
After a while you’ll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night’s fling
And you’ll see that it’s time to move on
I won’t do that, no I won’t do that
I know the territory, I’ve been around
It’ll all turn to dust and we’ll all fall down
And sooner or later, you’ll be screwing around
I won’t do that, no I won’t do that
For your love.
For your love.
For your love.
I’d give the moon if it were mine to give.
For your love.
I’d give the stars and the sun 'fore I live.
For your love.
I gave my love a cherry without a stone
I gave my love a chicken without a bone
I gave my love a ring without an end
I gave my love a baby with no cryin’
She tears you down Darling
Says you’re nothing at all
But I’ll pick you up Darling
When she lets you fall
You’re like a diamond
And she treats you like glass
Yet you beg her to love you
But me you don’t ask
Now Alice is gone,
But I’m still here,
You know I’ve been waiting
For twenty-four years…"
Now I’ve been walking a three day, two lonely nights
You know that I’m mighty mad
But I got a woman waiting for me
That’s gonna make this trip worthwhile
You see she’s got the kind of lovin’ and a kissing
A make a man go stone wild
Charlie’s got a gold watch
Don’t seem like a whole lot
After thirty years of drivin’
Up and down the interstate
But Charlie’s had a good life
And Charlie’s got a good wife
And after tonight she’ll no longer
be countin’ the days
Eighteen wheels and a dozen roses
Ten more miles on his four day run
A few more songs on the all night radio
And he’ll spend the rest if his life
with the one that he loves
Red roses for a blue lady
My love is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June:
My love is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
June is busting out all over
All over the meadow and the hill
Buds are busting out of bushes
And the romping river pushes
Every little wheel that wheels beside a mill
Down by the old mill stream
Where I first met you,
With your eyes of blue,
Dressed in gingham too.
Good morning Mister Blue, we’ve got our eyes on you.
The evidence is clear, that you’ve been scheming.
You like to steal away and while away the day.
You like to spend an hour dreaming.
What will it take, to whip you into line?
A broken heart?
A broken head?
It can be arranged.
It can be arranged.
They’ll tear out your heart, throw it knee-deep in a gut
'cos that’s what they do with the scum like me and you
And you feel as if you died, moisture standing on the line
And you wonder all the time why can’t you cry?
But the people in control don’t care for you
Say you’re just a robot with a job to do
And when your use is exhausted, they’ll be rid of you
As soon as look at you, go to the back of the queue!
B-B-Big brother’s got no heart
When I get my chance
I’m gonna kick him in the ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Big brother’s got no heart
When I get my chance
I’m gonna kick him in the ah (sh) ah (sh) ah (sh) ah (sh) arse
You’re a heart-shaped box of strings and wires