Baby Let Me Be

Baby, let me be
Baby, set me free
I'm on my knees
I'm beggin' you, please
Won't you set me free if you don't want me?
Baby, let me be

A'baby, let me be
A'baby, set me free
You treat me so bad
You make me so sad
Won't you set me free if you don't want me?
Baby, let me be
Ooooooh!
Waaaaaah hoo!

You say you wanna settle down
But you keep runnin' around
What am I supposed to do?
How can I keep lovin' you?

Oh, baby, let me be
Baby, set me free
I'm on my knees
I'm beggin' you, please
Won't you set me free if you don't want me?
Baby, let me be
Ooooow!

You say you wanna settle down
But you keep runnin' around
What am I supposed to do?
How can I keep lovin' you?
How can I keep lovin' you?

Oh, baby, let me be
Oh, baby, set me free
You treat me so bad
You make me so sad
Won't you set me free if you don't want me?
Baby, let me be
Won't you set me free if you don't want me?
Baby, let me be
Won't you set me free if you don't want me?
Baby, let me be

Wow! Ow!
Woooooo! Ow

 

 

 

 

I was the toughest guy in town...
Used to throw my weight around...
Then one night at our town hall I fell in love!

My baby wrestles in the ring
My baby she's the sweetest thing
She's as pretty as a rose
If you disagree she'll smash your nose

She's a backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
A buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker

SHE'S AS PRETTY AS A RO-HOSE
IF YOU DISAGREE SHE'LL SMASH YOUR NO-OSE! (buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-Uh)
buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker,
uUH-buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker

She's the only one I care about
My baby really knocks me out
We're as happy as can be
She's really got a hold on me

SHE'S AS PRETTY AS A RO-HOSE
IF YOU DISAGREE SHE'LL SMASH YOUR NO-OSE! (buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-Uh
buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker, a buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker)
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker

WE'RE AS HAPPY AS CAN BE-HEE
MY BABY GOT A HOLD ON ME!! (buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-Uh)
buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker

Five-foot-two
Knows Kung-Fu
SHE'LL TEAR THE HEART RIGHT OUT OF YOU!
(Has anybody seen my) (uh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh)

A buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker

SHE'S AS PRETTY AS A RO-HOSE
IF YOU DISAGREE SHE'LL SMASH YOUR NO-OSE! (buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-Uh
buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker,
a buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker )

oooo-OOOOOOOOOOOO...
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (yer ded)
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (uh yeah)
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (uh yeah)
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (uh yeah)
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (uh yeah)
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (uh yeah)
uUH buh-backbreaker, she's a backbreaker.....

GRIMMS Sleepers album version	Download (right click, "save link as")
From a TV show "The Camera and the Song" featuring GRIMMS. It was also released on an album of songs from the series	Download (right click, "save link as")

Many years from now
When your grandchildren climb upon your knee
You may be quite astonished to see
How many channels they can change on t.v.
When some old film in black and white
Comes on and there you are upon the screen
Or is it someone just like someone you've been
Looking not a day over nineteen?
"Grand dad" the little ones are asking you
"Why do you look so sad?" (so sad)
So you tell them all about the fun you had

Back in '64 before you were born
People had no time for pouring scorn (or scoring porn)
On dreams of love and peace
No one was obese
Only tight trousers were worn
Back in '64 we were at it like knives
Back in '64 the time of our lives
Was in the present tense
Now does that make common sense
Any more than girls with hairdos called beehives?
(zoom zoom zoom zoom)

Back in '64 before you were born
Back in '64 before you were born
But as you've gone on and on
Your audience has flown
And as you find yourself all on your own
You may wistfully recall
How Benjamin Disraeli said that
"Life is too short to be small"
Or maybe like some old time song
Overall it's long - so
so long... it's all over.

Bandwagon

Woooo!
I think I'll get myself on the bandwagon                                                              
With my twelve bar blues
And sing of love or magic dragons
What else have I got to lose?

Yes, I think I'll get myself on the bandwagon
Wear fancy clothes you can see through
And when I got all my drag on
You won't see me
But I'll see you

But all I gotta do is sing a little more like this
(tutti frutti, beauties on duty)
Or throw myself around
   as though I'm bustin' for a piss
(sock it to me, sock it to me,
                       sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me)
Or look sincere even when I don't really care
(sha na na na, sha na na na)
You know if I mean it
  cause I go whoa yeah yeah!

I think I'll get myself on the bandwagon
Be the latest thing to hit the scene
No more motorways in old gig-wagons
From now on chauffeurs and limousines

One more time, how's it gonna be?

Well I'll read all
I'll read all the music papers
(like the Rolling Stone)
I'll find out who makes the melody
(come-a come-a come-a tell me what it's all about)
And never, never, never
Underestimate the N.M.E

But all I gotta do is sing a little more like this
(tutti frutti, beauties on duty)
Or throw myself around
  as though I'm bustin' for a piss
(sock it to me, sock it to me,
                       sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me)
Or look sincere even when I don't really care
(sha na na na, sha na na na)
You know if I mean it
  cause I go whoa yeah yeah!

Yeah yeah yeah nah!

I think I'll get myself on the bandwagon-nah
with my twelve bar blues
And sing of love or magic dragons
You know what I mean,
what else
I mean what else have I got to lose?

Thank you.

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Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues, originally released as a single in 1975

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From the John Peel sessions 1974

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Bandwagon from Rutland Weekend Television
If you never watch another minute of Rutland Weekend Television,
for the love of God at least watch this, its finest moment!

She's broken all the super hearts of the
Super Heroes of the galaxy
So why does she wanna mess around with me?
yeah...

Listen to my story
It's sad but it's true
Please don't laugh, it could happen to you
Beautiful Zelda from Galaxy Four (oh no)
Suddenly walked through my door

Beautiful Zelda, leave me alone
Just get on back to the Twilight Zone
Don't try your jive on a poor Earth boy
'Cause your kind of love don't bring me no joy
(oh no!)

A fourth dimensional space warp brought her to me
Oh yeah
The most beautiful girl I ever did see
Oh yeah
She gave me her hand but when I held her
Oh yeah
I was fooled by the beautiful Zelda

Beautiful Zelda, tell me the truth
I'm just a clean livin' all-Earth youth
Don't try your jive on a poor Earth boy
'Cause your kind of love don't bring me no joy

Beautiful Zelda
Beautiful Zelda
Beautiful Zelda

I'm looking at you
You're looking at me
Between us, it's oh, so easy to see
We were made for each other, girl
We were made for each other

Between us
Love has begun
Between us
Two hearts are one
Between us
Nothing can come between us

Whatever we do
Whenever we kiss
Between you and me, it's not hit n' miss
We were made for each other, girl
We were made for each other

Between us
Love has begun
Between us
Two hearts are one
Between us
Nothing can come between us

Between us
Love has begun
Between us
Two hearts are one
Between us
Nothing can come between us
Between us
Nothing can come between us
Between us
Nothing can come
Nothing can come between us

Blue Suede Schubert

Well you can take it any way you want
You can shake it 'til it's back to front
You can rock it 'til it's inside out
Let me tell you what it's all about
It's a rock 'n roll symphony
And it's gonna be the death of me

When you've had about enough
Of the paparazzi stuff in the media
With its freedom to depress
And its easy money t.v. shows
While down in the city
There are fat kitties getting even greedier
With their claws in the corporate drawers
Where the money goes

Look away, maybe someday
Greed will stand trial
But meanwhile
You're never alone at the bottom of the pile

Oo hoo hoo
Oo hoo hoo
Oo hoo hoo

When you're tired and you're sick
Of the carrot and the stick economy
And you know in your heart
There is nothing anyone can do
It's as old as the hills
And it's even in the book of Deuteronomy
Thou shalt do unto others before they can do unto you

Look away, maybe someday
We'll look back and smile
But meanwhile
You're never alone at the bottom of the pile
No you're never alone at the bottom of the pile

For all, all over the world
You can hear the same old story told
And saddest of all is that it happens to be true
There's only room at the top for a precious few

Oo hoo hoo
Oo hoo hoo
Oo hoo hoo

There's a man going home
With a broken mobile phone and a worried stare
There's a woman from Venus
Married to a man from Mars
There's some dot com kid on the net
Who wants to be a millionaire
We are all in the gutter so we may as well gaze at the stars

Look away, maybe someday
We shall be reconciled
But meanwhile
You're never alone at the bottom of the pile
Never alone at the bottom of the pile
You're never alone, never alone
No not even if you want to be
We are never alone at the bottom of the pile

When a cabinet minister resigns
Circumstances must be carefully defined
mVirtue versus vices
Only causes crises
No scandal with ideals can be combined
When a cabinet minister resigns
Should the name of law & order be maligned,
they're privately distressed!
The public is impressed!
When a cabinet minister resigns

The media and press
Predictably will guess
What the thoroughly reliable
Officially deniable
Sources all suggest

When a cabinet minister resigns
And once he's made it up he never change his mind
To perform a noble deed
Is what the nation needs
When a cabinet minister resigns

When a cabinet minister resigns
He leaves responsibilities behind
Along with problems still unsolved
Remember morals are involved!
WHEN a cabiNET minister RE-signs!

When a cabinet minister resigns
He leaves responsibilities behind
Along with problems still unsolved
Remember morals are involved!
When a cabinet minister resigns
Oh when a cabinet minister resigns
OH WHEN A CABINET MINISTER RESIGNS!!

Live in Japan, early 2000s   download

I'm filthy, I'm hungry
I'm fed up to the teeth
I'm very revolutionary
I haven't washed in weeks
You've seen me dancing topless
And kipping on the beach
I'm so bloody normal
Yet I'm one of nature's freaks

I think it would do more good to try
And understand the other guy
In the soft, grey squeeze
As they mind the doors
Like a sacrifice for the minotaur
All together in the Blood Rush Hour!
C'mon fish-face, you got the power!

Then I went and got busted (yay)
They say I'm maladjusted (he's a fool)
I never can be trusted
By anybody anymore, yay yay yay
I got busted (yay)
My own mother was disgusted (she's a fool)
I got busted
(By the Law)

"'ello, 'ello, what's all this here?
I'll trim your wellingtons for you my dear."
I proceeded to plod at a porcupine pace
When I spotted the accused and decided to give chase
He blotted his copy book straight away
'Cause as soon as he saw me, whoops, 'e was away
Running like a rabbit, or a frisky poodle
Blowing his trousers like a bugle

Then I went and got busted (yay)
They say I'm maladjusted (he's a fag)
I never can be trusted
By anybody anymore, yay yay yay
I got busted (yay)
My own mother was disgusted (she's a fag)
I got busted
(By the Law, by the Law, by the Law)
Moo...moo...moo...

I was floating along
Enjoying the breeze
Watching the giants
Tearing 'part trees

The broad in the ballet performed in the street
By hot water bottles with faces and feet
At the fourteenth blood rush
I went paddling
The pygmies wove the sacred tile
Underwater in the Nile
Strip and style with burnished sand
Blablablablablablablabla

Then I went and got busted
They say I'm maladjusted
And I never can be trusted
By anybody anymore
Yeah, yeah
I got busted
My own mother was disgusted
I got busted
By the law

I was floating along
Enjoying the breeze
Watching the giants
Tearing 'part trees

The musculo oranges
Oh, blah blah guess guess
The fourteenth blood rush
I went paddling
The soft, grey squeeze of the upper crowd
Don't get caught in the blood rush ha
The halls that blore and the meat that hangs
The bacon breath of the Minotaur

Then I went and got busted
And I never can be trusted
They say I'm maladjusted
Blah blah
Yay, yay!
I got busted!
My own mother was digusted!
I got busted
By the law

Busy Day

Feeling cosy, safe as houses,
Sitting in her easy chair
Watchin' t.v., sippin' whisky,
In her see-through underwear
She lights a cigarette, the room is much too hot
She opens up the window, showing all she's got

Feeling restless and upset,
She slides a hand between her thighs*
She doesn't see him, she doesn't hear him
He takes her by surprise
He throws himself upon her
Pins her to the floor
She moans in sudden pleasure
"Give me more, give me more!"

Doo doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Waaahhhhhhhhh ....

Headlights in the driveway
Footsteps down the hall
"Is anybody home?" she hears her husband call
He finds her in the kitchen with his dinner on a tray
And as she takes his coat and hat
He says he's had a busy day

* this line was "She sees her world through misty eyes" on the Innes Book of Records t.v. show. Lame.

Download Link (right click, "save link as") From Neil's 1977 album "Taking Off"

Busy Life

oooooo... ooeeeah.......

A busy life
Keeps a body busy
With so many same old things to do...

So why not stop
And take a good look around
Maybe you will find out something new to you...

Like how do the trees make noises
Lnd where does the wind come from
When and why do dragonflies say "hey, what's goin' on?"

A busy life keeps a body busy
If you never take the time of day
To ask yourself is there something else
And maybe find the answer's just a stone throw away

A busy life, keeps a body busy...

Thanks to Paul Snyder for transcribing and contributing this!