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Baby Let Me Be
Baby S'il Vous Plait
Backbreaker
Background to History
Back in '64
Bandwagon
Beautiful Zelda
Between Us
Blue Suede Schubert
Boring
Burlesque
Busted
Busted (Anthropology)
Busy Day
Busy Life
By A Waterfall
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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
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Baby S'il Vous Plait
Baby s'il vous plait
Parlez-vous Anglais?
J'ai boire de trop
Le vin du pays
Voulez-vous cacher ma saucisse?
- s'il vous plait
Baby s'il vous plait
Je ne parle Francais
J'ai un lonely heart
And a Bonyparte
Voulez-vous cacher ma saucisse?
- s'il vous plait
Ce soir!
Vous l'avez faire n'est-ce pas?
Je suis un grand rock star
Mon serpent de pantalon fait encore le c'est si bon
Baby s'il vous plait
Je ne parle Francais
J'ai un lonely heart
Any Bonyparte
Voulez-vous cacher ma saucisse
- s'il vous plait
ROCK ON!
Vous l'avez faire n'est-ce pas?
Je suis un grand rock Star
Mon serpent de pantalon fait encore le c'est si bon
Fait encore le C'EST SI BON!
Baby s'il vous plait
Parlez-vous Anglais?
J'ai boire de trop
Le vin du pays
Voulez vous cacher ma saucisse, s'il vous plait
Voulez-vous cacher ma saucisse, s'il vous plait
Voulez-vous cacher ma saucisse, s'il vous plait
Ce soir, baby...
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Backbreaker
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
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker,
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
She's as pretty as a rose
If you disagree she'll smash your nose
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker,
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 rose
If you disagree she'll smash your nose
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker,
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker,
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
We're as happy as can be
My baby got a hold on me
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
Five-foot-two
Knows Kung-Fu
She'll tear the heart right out of you
(Has anybody seen my)
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
She's as pretty as a rose
If you disagree she'll smash your nose
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (yer ded)
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (uh yeah)
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (uh yeah)
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (uh yeah)
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (uh yeah)
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker (uh yeah)
Backbreaker, she's a backbreaker
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Background to History
The Background to History, Part Four
Good evening.
One of the main elements in any assessment of the
medieval open field farming system is the availability
of oxen for the winter plowing. Professor Tofts, of the
University of Manchester, puts it like this...
To plough once in the winter, sowing, and again in Lent,
Sowing with as many oxen, sowing with as many oxen
As he shall have yoked in the plough
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
As he shall have yoked in the plough.
Oh yeah,
Oh yeah
Oh, yeah
But, of course, there is considerable evidence of open field villages
as far back as the tenth century. Professor Moorehead...
Theeeeeere's ev-i-de-ence
Theeeeeere's ev-i-de-ence
There's evidence (evidence)
Evidence (evidence)
Evidence (evidence?)
There's evidence (evidence!)
Evidence of settlements with one long village street
Farmsteads, hamlets, little towns - the framework was complete
By the tiii-iime ... OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST!
The rural framework was complete
Rur-al
frame-work
wa-as
com-plete
This is not to say, of course, that the system was as sophisticated
as it later came to be. I asked the Professor of Medieval Studies,
at Cambridge, why this was...
Well, it may not of been a, uh, statuatory obligation, but, uh,
I mean, uh,
a guy, who's a Freeman, wo uh, was obliged in the medieval system to
uh... to
To, to do boon work?
Thas'right, yeah, uh, there's an example, uh, from the village rolls, uh, in 1313.
And, I believe you're going to do it for us now.
Thas'right, yeah.
Oh it's written in the village rolls
That if one plough-team wants an oxen
And that oxen is lent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the loooord's consent
Yes, sir
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
(na na na na)
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
(na na na na)
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
(na na na na)
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
(na na na na)
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
(na na na na)
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
(na na na na)
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
That was a talk on the open-field farming system by Professor Angus
Jones.
Some of the main points covered in this talk are now available on a
long-playing record "The Ronettes Sing Medieval Agrarian History."
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Back in '64
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?
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
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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-wagon
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
with my twelve bar blues
And sing of love or magic dragon
You know what I mean,
what else
I mean what else have I got to lose?
Thank you.
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Beautiful Zelda
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
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Between Us
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
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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
They call me Blue Suede Schubert
The King of the Bop
(bop, Schubert, bop bop Schubert)
Blue Suede Schubert
I just can't stop
(bop, Schubert, bop bop Schubert)
When I get that beat, my music is complete
(bop, Schubert, bop bop Schubert)
Oooow!
Yeah well, it's crazy but you know it's true
You gotta do what you gotta do
And I'm gonna have to sing my song
While the back-beat's going strong
Everybody's rockin' more and more
Even rolling all around the floor
They call me Blue Suede Schubert
The King of the Bop
(bop, Schubert, bop bop Schubert)
Blue Suede Schubert
I just can't stop
(bop, Schubert, bop bop Schubert)
When I hear that drum
I'm gonna blow 'til Kingdom Come
(bop, Schubert, bop bop Schubert)
Ooow!
They call me Blue Suede Schubert
The King of the Bop
(bop, Schubert, bop bop Schubert)
Blue Suede Schubert
I just can't stop
(bop, Schubert, bop bop Schubert)
When I get that beat
My music is complete
(bop, Schubert, bop bop Schubert)
Blue Suede Schubert
Blue Suede Schubert
Blue Suede Schubert
Blue Suede Schubert
Blue Suede Schubert
When I'm dead I'll drop!
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Boring
Daddy went off to work about 7:30
He put on his overalls and his working gloves
He said "United drew again" to his cousin Ernie
And read a magazine about crime and secret love
And if it all sounds boring
If it all sounds boring
If it all sounds boring
Then there's something wrong with the song
Mama went down the hill to the supermarket
She brought back groceries in a carrier bag
She hung up her coat and then she put on the kettle
Sat down with a cup of tea and lit a fag
And if it all sounds boring
If it all sounds boring
If it all sounds boring
Then there's something wrong with the song
Or you
Young Billy grazed his knee on a concrete playground
And answered "Yes, miss" when they called his name
Auntie Mary rearranged her mantle pieces
And sucked a peppermint before the rent man came
And if it all sounds boring
If it all sounds boring
If it all sounds boring
Then there's something wrong with the song
Or you
Or me
Or something
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Burlesque
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 resigns
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
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Busted (Stanshall/Innes)
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)
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Busted - Anthropology (Stanshall/Innes)
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
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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
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
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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...
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By A Waterfall
(Fair/Kahal)
By a waterfall
I'm calling you oo oo oo
We can share it all
Beneath a ceiling of blue
We'll spend a heavenly day
Here, where the whispering waters play
There's a whippoorwill
He's calling you hoo hoo hoo
By a waterfall
He's dreaming, too
There's a magic melody
Mother Nature sings to me
Beside a waterfall
With you
All together now
By a waterfall
I'm calling you hoo hoo hoo
(You hoo hoo hoo)
We can share it all
Beneath a ceiling of blue
(You hoo hoo hoo)
We'll spend a heavenly day
Here, where the whispering waters play
There's a whippoorwill
He's calling you hoo hoo hoo
(You hoo hoo hoo)
By a waterfall
He's dreaming, too
(He is dreaming, too)
A magic melody
Mother Nature sings to me
Beside a waterfall
With you
With you
(Only you hoo hoo)
Thinking only of you
Wanting only to be with you
Needing desperately to be only with you
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