And then I fell in love with the most wonderful boy in the world
We’d take long walks down by the river or just sit for hours gazing into each other’s eyes
We were so very much in love
And then one day he went away and I thought I’d die, but I didn’t
And when I didn’t I said to myself, is that all there is to love?
Fell in love with a girl
Fell in love once and almost completely
She’s in love with the world,
But sometimes these feelings can be so misleading
I’ve been searching for a girl,
Bobby socks and a pony tail,
When I saw her standing there,
I had to pick her up I couldn’t fail,
'Cause I knew I had to make her mine.
She’s so cool, she’s so fine,
Woah woah woah woah…
When people ask of me,
“What would you like to be now that you’re not a kid anymore?”
I know just what to say,
I answer right away.
There’s just one thing I’ve been wishing for.
I wanna be Bobby’s girl,
I wanna be Bobby’s girl.
That’s the most important thing to me.
But I’d trade all of my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday,
To be holdin’ Bobby’s body next to mine…
When they get to the part,
Where he’s breakin’ her heart,
It can really make me cry, just like before,
It’s yesterday once more.
I’m not that kind of person who can fall in and out of love with you
That’s not what love’s supposed to do
I’m not that kind of person who can fall in and out of love with you
That’s not what love’s supposed to do
Baby, don’t go breaking my heart, breaking my heart
Baby, don’t go breaking my heart, breaking my heart
'Cause it’s the only one I got
'Cause it’s the only one I got
Baby’s got a new baby,
Baby’s got a new baby, now…
And it ain’t me…
Baby, baby
I’m taken with the notion
To love you with the sweetest of devotion
Our love is like a ship on the ocean
We’ve been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion
So I’d like to know where, you got the notion
Said I’d like to know where, you got the notion
(To rock the boat), don’t rock the boat baby
(Rock the boat), don’t tip the boat over
(Rock the boat), don’t rock the boat baby
(Rock the boat)
So hoist up the John B’s sail,
See how the main sail sets,
Call for the Captain ashore,
Let me go home, let me go home.
I want to go home, yeah yeah,
Well I feel so broke up,
I want to go home.
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
and the the skies are not cloudy all day
Childhood part of my life, it wasn’t very pretty
You see, I was born and raised in the slums of the city
It was a one room shack that slept ten other children besides me
We hardly had enough food or room to sleep
It was hard times
Needed something to ease my troubled mind
Listen, my father didn’t know the meaning of work
He disrespected mama, and treated us like dirt
I left home, seekin’ a job that I never did find
Depressed and downhearted I took to cloud nine
I’m doin’ fine, up here on cloud nine
They say, “Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take”
I think I could never love another girl
To be free atop a tree stump and to look the other way
While she shines my mother’s imitation pearls
I’m digging up bones,
I’m digging up bones…
Exhuming things better left alone
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out alone
Riders on the storm
Ezekiel connected dem dry bones
Ezekiel connected dem dry bones
Ezekiel connected dem dry bones
Now I hear the word of the Lord
Well I’ve heard there was a secret chord,
That David played and it pleased the Lord.
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this:
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift,
The baffled king composing Hallelujah…
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I’d heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn’t play
And in the streets: the children screamed
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken
And the three men I admire most:
The father, son, and the holy ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died
Don’t take away the music it’s the only thing I’ve got
It’s my piece of the rock
Don’t take away the music everything else is gone
Don’t strip my world of it’s song