Good morning mister sunshine, you brighten up my day
Come sit beside me in your way
Lonely days, lonely nights
Where would I be without my woman?
Lonely days, lonely nights
Where would I be without my woman?
Wasted days and wasted nights,
I have left for you behind
For you don’t belong to me,
Your heart belongs to someone else
Don’t cry
Don’t raise your eye
It’s only teenage wasteland
And my machine, she’s a dud,
out stuck in the mud
somewhere in the swamps of Jersey.
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we’re living here in Allentown
Father says, “your mother’s right, she’s really up on things.”
“before we married, mommy served in the WACs in the Philippines.”
Now, I had heard the WACs recruited old maids for the war.
But mommy isn’t one of those, I’ve known her all these years.
Gee, I wish I was back in the Army
The Army was the place to find romance
Soldiers and WACS
The WACS who dressed in slacks
Dancing cheek to cheek and pants to pants
They say that in the Army
The coffee’s mighty fine
Well, it’s good for cuts and bruises,
But it tastes like turpentine!
Oh, I don’t want no more of Army life
Gee Ma, I wanna go home!
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
I dreamed about them cotton fields of home
I dreamed about my mother, dear old pappy, sister and brother
And I dreamed about the girl who’s been waitin’ for so long
I want to go home
I want to go home
Oh, how I want to go home
Hey, it’s good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend.
Yes, 'n, hey it’s good to be back home again.
The old home town looks the same
As I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my Mama and Papa
Down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It’s good to touch the green, green grass of home
Yes, they’ll all come to meet me, arms reaching, smiling sweetly
It’s good to touch the green, green grass of home
Gimme a head with hair,
Long beautiful hair,
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen …
I am my hair, I am my hair, I am my hair,
I am my hair, I am hair, (and all the glory that I bear)
I am woman, hear me roar,
In numbers too big to ignore,
And I know too much to go back and pretend.
'Cause I’ve heard it all before,
And I’ve been down there on the floor,
No one’s ever gonna keep me down again.
I need you, I need you, I need you,
Yeah, I need you right now,
Don’t let me, don’t let me, don’t let me,
Yeah, don’t let me down…
Nobody ever loved me like she does,
Oh, she does, yeah, she does.
And if somebody loved me like she do me,
Oh, she do me, yes, she does.
Don’t let me down, don’t let me down,
Don’t let me down, don’t let me down.
How do you do what you do to me?
I wish I knew
If I knew how you do it to me
I’d do it to you
How do you do what you do to me?
I’m feeling blue
Wish I knew how you do it to me
But I haven’t a clue
Don’t know the reason
Stayed here all season
Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo
But it’s a real beauty
A Mexican cutie
How it got here I haven’t a clue
It’s the time … of the season …
When love runs high.
We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed
Were just seasons out of time