What a beautiful noise Comin’ up from the street It’s got a beautiful sound It’s got a beautiful beat It’s a beautiful noise Goin’ on ev’rywhere Like the clickety-clack Of a train on a track It’s got rhythm to spare It’s a beautiful noise And it’s a sound that I love And it fits me as well As a hand in a glove Yes it does, yes it does What a beautiful noise Comin’ up from the park It’s the song of the kids And it plays until dark It’s the song of the cars On their furious flights But there’s even romance In the way that they dance To the beat of the lights It’s a beautiful noise And [...]
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If I close my eyes I can almost hear my mother Callin, neil, go find your brother Daddys home, and it’s time for supper Hurry on And I see two boys Racin up two flights of staircase Squirmin into papas embrace And his whiskers warm on their face Wheres it gone Oh, wheres it gone Two floors above the butcher First door on the right Life filled to the brim As I stood by my window And looked out on those Brooklyn roads I can still recall The smell of cookin in the hallways Rubber drying in the doorways And report cards I was always Afraid to show Mamad come to school And as I’d sit there softly crying Teacherd [...]
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Cracklin’ Rosie, git on board We’re gonna ride ’till there ain’t no more ta go Takin’ it slow Lord, don’cha know I’ll have me a time with a poor man’s lady Hitchin’ on a twilight train Ain’t nothin’ here that I care to take along Maybe a song To sing when I want Don’t need to say please to no man for a happy tune Oh, I love my Rosie child You got the way to make me happy You and me, we go in style Cracklin’ Rose, you’re a store bought woman But you make me sing like a guitar hummin’ So hang on to me, girl Our song keeps runnin’ on Play it now Play it now, Play [...]
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It was the third of June On that summer’s day When I became a man At the hands of a girl Almost twice my age And she came to me Just like a morning sun And it wasn’t so much Her words as such As the way they were sung It was the way they were sung Desiree Oh, Desiree There I was found By the sweet passion sound Of your loving song Time was right, the night was long Remember, Desiree Oh, Desiree Somehow I knew I could only have you ‘Til the morning light If only for that single night Sweet Desiree, you make it right Then came the fourth of June On that sleepless night Well I [...]
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