The USMB Joyful Noise Karaoke Archives

[beautress]

A song for Jeff

(He's laughing with another girl
And playing with another heart
Placing high stakes, making hearts ache
He's loved in seven languages
Jukebox life, diamond nights and ruby lights, high in the sky
Heaven help him, when he falls)

Diamond life, lover boy
He moves in space with minimum waste and maximum joy
City lights, business nights
When you require streetcar desire for higher heights

No place for beginners or sensitive hearts
When sentiment is left to chance
No place to be ending but somewhere to start

No need to ask
He's a smooth operator
Smooth operator, smooth operator
Smooth operator

Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male
Across the north and south, to Key Largo, love for sale

Face to face, each classic case
We shadow box and double cross
Yet need the chase

A license to love, insurance to hold
Melts all your memories and change into gold
His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold

No need to ask
He's a smooth operator
Smooth operator, smooth operator
Smooth operator

Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male
Across the north and south, to Key Largo, love for sale

Mr. Angelo, This may work for my little karaoke project. Thanks! I think it was out in about 1984, and I don't know all the music and almost none of the words. It will take me a month to remember all that, but it's a cool song, and I think the group of karaoke enthusiasts I sing and listen to will like it.

 

[the other mike]

Mr. Angelo, This may work for my little karaoke project. Thanks! I think it was out in about 1984, and I don't know all the music and almost none of the words. It will take me a month to remember all that, but it's a cool song, and I think the group of karaoke enthusiasts I sing and listen to will like it.

Knock em dead kid. Sade's vocals are a little tricky because of all the time changes and
her off-beat rhythm variations ....and a lot of subtle nuances ( vibrato, trilling ....) in her voice - she makes you feel every word .

 

[the other mike]

Simple songs but in context a lot to remember without reading
in her performances.

In heaven's name why are you walking away
Hang on to your love
In heaven's name why do you play these games
Hang on to your love

Take time if you're down on luck
It's so easy to walk out on love
Take your time if the going gets tough
It's so precious

So if you want it to get stronger
You'd better not let go
You gotta hold on longer
If you want your love to grow

Gotta stick together
Hand in glove
Hold tight, don't fight
Hang on to your love

In heaven's name why are you walking away
Hang on to your love
In heaven's name why do you play these games
Hang on to your love

Be brave when the journey is rough
It's not easy when you're in love
Don't be ashamed when the going gets tough
It's not easy don't give up

If you want it to get stronger
You'd better not let go
You gotta hold on longer
If you want your love to grow

Gotta stick together
Hand in glove
Hold tight, don't fight
Hang on to your love

In heaven's name why are you walking away
Hang on to your love
In heaven's name why do you play these games
Hang on to your love

 

[beautress]

"La De Da" Ringo Starr


I live my life, it's only right
'Cause i can't live your life for you.
I'm satisfied, feeling high
'Cause i found out just what to do.
Oh, you can bet i never let the things i get get the best of me.
When i get blue, here's what i do and so can you,
It is no mystery when you sing.

La; la de da, like que sera sera,
Whatever la de da, la de da,
All you gotta say is la de da.

You don't need to cry,
No reason why is ever good enough for me.
We can take a walk, just laugh and talk,
Whatever's going to be will be.
And when it rains i don't complain, i'm like a train, i just keep rolling on.
Sometimes you lose, you blow a fuse, you're not immune
To what's been going on, sing along.

La; la de da, like que sera sera,
Whatever la de da, la de da,
All you gotta say is la de da
Oo-oo

And when you're down, it can be found, turn it around, you know the remedy.
(you always get what you always get, you always get what you always get)
Just cut some slack, don't look back 'cause it's a fact it will be okay
When you say

La; la de da, like que sera, sera,
Whatever la de da, la de da,
All you gotta say is la de da
Oh yeah
Just like doris day said, "que sera,"
La; la de da,
La; la de da,
La^; la de da,
All you gotta say is la de da,
All i gotta say is; all we gotta say is,
It's the only way is la de da.
La; la de da,
La; la de da,
La; la de da,
Come on. Ev'rybody
La; la de da,
This one's for you, mate
La; la de da,
It went la de da, i say
La; la de da,
La; la de da,
Come on, join me with this line!
La; la de da,
La; la de da,
La -​

 

[beautress]

Autumn Leaves, performed by Andy Williams


The falling leaves drift by the window
The Autumn leaves of red and gold
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sunburned hand I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I'll hear old winter's song
But I miss you most of all, my darling
When Autumn leaves start to fall

I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sunburned hand I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I'll hear old winter's song
But I miss you most of all, my darling
When Autumn leaves start to fall.​

Songwriters: Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma

 

[beautress]

AT Karaoke this week, sang Ringo Starr's "La De Da" - and it was a hit! Everybody liked it. I put everything I had into it, though. The doctor diagnosed "asthma" the last visit, and it sure takes everything it can away from you, but I've been going to the gym a lot lately, working on aerobic walking which helps the O2 levels you need in those lungs to carry and make a statement in song. It's a cheerful thing that Ringo Starr wrote, and it was a pleasure to give it all I had. We have some pretty stiff critics, but that's got to be my best performance so far, with our Karaoke group. People can hear it in the restaurant, and it's really great when you walk through to the front door, and people recognize you. I missed a lot of Tuesday nights, because of having pneumonia for several months through the fall and winter after taking a pneumonis preventive shot. Duh. If anyone is going to get sick from an attenuated virus which gets converted back to the original illness (not attenuated,) sick is me, and it lasted through the months of spring, too, except by then it had weakened my lungs to the point of inviting pneumonia's ugly sister bronchitis when the pneumonia spent herself out while I suffered, singing rarely, since there were a couple of good days now and then. Also Tues. I sang CCR's Run Through the Jungle (John Cameron Fogerty) and Carly Simon's "I Haven't Got Time for the Pain," which went reasonably well, but it still needs work. The Viet Nam vets liked Run through the Jungle. I'm pretty sure Fogerty wrote that when he or a member of the Army escaped enemy fire by running through the Jungle areas of Viet Nam. I did my best to bring out the feeling of fear first-time army members must've experienced when up against determined enemies who ended many an American life (think the number was around 60,000 fallen Americans).

Mr. Angelo, This may work for my little karaoke project. Thanks! I think it was out in about 1984, and I don't know all the music and almost none of the words. It will take me a month to remember all that, but it's a cool song, and I think the group of karaoke enthusiasts I sing and listen to will like it.

Knock em dead kid. Sade's vocals are a little tricky because of all the time changes and
her off-beat rhythm variations ....and a lot of subtle nuances ( vibrato, trilling ....) in her voice - she makes you feel every word .

I've been listening to Carly & Company this evening, reviewing her songs, and there are a couple of more I may do sometime in the future. I've done Karaoke on 5 or 6 of her wonderful songs. It's truly fun to sing what she sang in the years I was too busy being a full-time mommy and worker to help my husband with his investment practices with his income. It was fun to work while the children as they grew older, needed me less and less. It's 1 am here. and I'm doing a lot better thanks to a very cool friend posting some upbeat songs elsewhere when I was feeling awful. I hadn't thought about my husband in a few days, but his death was hard, being all I had of good living in my life revolved around him since he retired int he year in or around 2000, maybe a year or two before that. He liked it that way, hated entertaining, so I became reclusive to try and keep him happy. Dementia is a very demanding disease if you're the caregiver and all else. It's early hours morning.. 'Nighters.

 

[the other mike]

I can't light no more of your darkness
All my pictures seem to fade to black and white
I'm growing tired and time stands still before me
Frozen here on the ladder of my life

Too late to save myself from falling
I took a chance and changed your way of life
But you misread my meaning when I met you
Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

I can't find the right romantic line
But see me once and see the way I feel
Don't discard me just because you think I mean you harm
But these cuts I have they need love to help them heal

 

[beautress]

I'm Gonna Be (500 miles) The Proclaimers



When I wake up, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man girl who wakes up next to you
When I go out, yeah, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man girl who goes along with you
If I get drunk, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man girl who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver, hey, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man girl who's havering to you

But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man girl who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

When I'm working, yes, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man girl who's working hard for you
And when the money comes in for the work I do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home (When I come home), oh, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be man girl who comes back home to you
And if I grow old, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be man girl who's growing old with you

But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man girl who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

Da lat da (Da lat da), da lat da (Da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (Da lat da), da lat da (Da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da

When I'm lonely, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man girl who's lonely without you.
An' when I'm dreaming, well I know I'm gonna dream
I'm gonna dream about the time when I'm with you.

When I go out, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man girl who goes along with you.
An' when I come home, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man girl who comes back home with you.

I'm gonna be the man girl who's coming home...with you!

But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man girl who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

Da lat da (Da lat da), da lat da (Da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (Da lat da), da lat da (Da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (Da lat da), da lat da (Da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (Da lat da), da lat da (Da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da

But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man girl who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your do-o-or


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[the other mike]

 

[the other mike]

 

[beautress]

I'm Easy, Keith Carradine
won best original song, Academy Awards, 1975


It's not my way to love you just when no one's looking
It's not my way to take your hand if I'm not sure
It's not my way to let you see what's going on inside of me
When it's a love you won't be needing you're not free

Please stop pulling at my sleeve if you're just playing
If you won't take the things you make me wanna give
I never cared too much for games, and this one's driving me insane
You're not half as free to wonder as you claim

But I'm easy, yeah I'm easy
Give the word I'll play your game
As though that's how it ought to be
Because I'm easy

Don't lead me on if there's nowhere for you to take me
If loving you would have to be a sometime thing
I can't put bars on my inside, my love is something I can't hide
It still hurts when I recall the times I tried

But I'm easy, yeah I'm easy
Take my hand and pull me down
I won't put up any fight
Because I'm easy

Don't do me favors, let me watch you from the distance
'Cause when you're near I find it hard to keep my head
When your eyes throw light at mine, it's enough to change my mind
Make me leave my cautious words and ways behind

That's why I'm easy, yeah I'm easy
Say you want me I'll come running
Without taking time to think
Because I'm easy

Yeah I'm easy
Take my hand and pull me down
I won't put up any fight
Because I'm easy

Yeah I'm easy
Give the word I'll play your game
As though that's how it ought to be
Because I'm easy

Songwriter: KEITH CARRADINE

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[beautress]

Nobody does it Better (from The Spy Who Loved Me)



Nobody Does It Better
Carly Simon
Nobody does it better makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, you're the best
I wasn't lookin' but somehow you found me
I tried to hide from your love light
But like heaven above me the spy who loved me
Is keepin' all my secrets safe tonight

Nobody does it better sometimes I wish someone could
Nobody does it quite the way you do
Did you have to be so good?
The way that you hold me whenever you hold me
There's some kind of magic inside you
That keeps me from runnin' but just keep it comin'
How'd you learn to do the things you do?

And nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you

Songwriters: Marvin Hamlisch​

 

[the other mike]

Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And (and, and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)

The Band - The Weight Lyrics | AZLyrics.com

 

[beautress]

Light My Fire


The Doors

You know that it would be untrue
You know that i would be a liar
If i was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher

Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre

Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre

Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah

You know that it would be untrue
You know that i would be a liar
If i was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher

Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire​

 

[beautress]

She Works Hard for the Money
Donna Summer
She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

Onetta there in the corner stand
And she wonders where she is
And it's strange to her
Some people seem to have everything

Nine a.m. on the hour hand
And she's waiting for the bell
And she's looking real pretty
Just wait for her clientele

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

Twenty-eight years have come and gone
And she's seen a lot of tears
Of the ones who come in
They really seem to need her there

It's a sacrifice working day to day
For little money, just tips for pay
But it's worth it all
Just to hear them say that they care

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

Already knows
She's seen her bad times
Already knows
These are the good times

Never sell out
She never will
Not for a dollar bill
She works hard

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

Hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right, alright

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works so hard for the money
So you better treat her right, alright

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right
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[beautress]

On the Radio


Donna Summer
Someone found a letter you wrote me
On the radio
And they told the world just how you felt
It must have fallen out of a hole
In your old brown overcoat
They never said your name
But I knew just who they meant

I was so surprised and shocked
And I wondered, too
If by chance you heard it for yourself
I never told a soul
Just how I've been feeling about you
But they said it really loud
They said it on the air
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
Now, now

Don't it kinda strike you sad
When you hear our song
Things are not the same
Since we broke up last June
The only thing that I wanna hear
Is that you love me still
And that you think
You'll be comin' home real soon
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, you kinda made me feel proud
When I heard him say
You couldn't find the words to say it yourself
And now in my heart I know
I can say what I really feel
'Cause they said it really loud
They said it on the air
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh
Oh, oh, on the radio

If you think that love isn't found on the radio
Then tune right in you made find the love you lost
'Cause now I'm sitting here
With the man I sent away long ago
Hefound it really loud
They said it really loud
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
On the radio​

 

[beautress]

Last Dance


Donna Summer

Last dance
Last dance for love
Yes, it's my last chance
For romance tonight
I I need you by me
Beside me, to guide me
To hold me, to scold me
'Cause when I'm bad
I'm so, so bad

So let's dance the last dance
Let's dance the last dance
Let's dance this last dance tonight

Last dance
Last dance for love
Yes, it's my last chance
For romance tonight
Oh-ho, I need you by me
Beside me, to guide me
To hold me, to scold me
'Cause when I'm bad
I'm so, so bad
So let's dance the last dance
Let's dance the last dance
Let's dance the last dance tonight

Oh-ho, I need you by me
To guide me, to guide me
To hold me, to scold me
'Cause when I'm bad
I'm so, so bad

So, come on baby, dance that dance
Come on baby, dance that dance
Come on baby, let's dance tonight

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[beautress]

Play that Funky Music


Hey do it now yeah hey

Yeah
There was a funky singer
Playin' in a rock & Roll Band
And never had no problems yeah
Burnin' down one night stands
And everything around me, yeah
Got to stop to feelin' so low
And I decided quickly,
Yes I did disco down and check out the show
Yeah they was

Dancin' and singin' and movin' to the groovin'
And just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted
Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right
Play that funky music white boy
Lay down that boogie and play that funky music till you die
Till you die, oh till you die

Hey wait a minute
Now first it wasn't easy
Changin' Rock & Roll and minds
And things were getting shaky
I thought I'd have to leave it behind
But now its so much better (it's so much better )
I'm funking out in every way
But I'll never lose that feelin' (no I won't)
Of how I learned my lesson that day

When they were
Dancin' and singin' and movin' to the groovin'
And just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted
Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right
Play that funky music white boy
Lay down that boogie and play that funky music till you die
Till you die, oh till you die

They shouted play that funky music
Play that funky music
Play that funky music
Gotta keep on playin' funky music
Play that funky music

Songwriters: Robert W. Parissi
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[beautress]

Went a different way this week and sang at three different karaoke places at the invitation of friends, who guess, what, didn't show up to either of the new places. lol! I'm still rather sick from the Friday night one, as it was a bar, and the smoke was so thick, I've been coughing ever since with asthma. I only came back down here to the computer to hopefully find some ricola, but forgot where I put them.
I did some of the new songs added in the past 3 weeks--Light my Fire went over really well, but the Banana Boat Song by Harry Belafonte took first place like nothing else I ever sang. I worked on it for several weeks and am finishing. Not much else to report, except I may have to knock off this week at karaoke. I need to go back to the doctor and let her rule out other lung issues if any, or get a new panacea for breathing. Later, gators.

 

[beautress]

Fun song... plus lyrics!

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