How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[Gordon]

24 hours from Tulsa.

[Nearly Sane]

I read the news today, oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on

[Gordon]

'There I was, digging this 'ole'.

[Nearly Sane]

It aint no trick
To get rich quick
If ya dig dig dig
With a shovel or a stick

[Gordon]

'Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go (whistle whistle) hi ho, hi ho'.

[ekim]

Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home.

Work all night on a drink a'rum
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Stack banana till thee morning come
(Daylight come and he wan' go home).

[Aruntraveller]

Yellow bird,
Up high in banana tree
Yellow bird

You sit all alone like me

   Did your lady friend
 Leave the nest again
 That is very sad
 Make me feel so bad

 You can fly away
 In the sky away
 You more lucky than me

 I also have a pretty man
 He not with me today
 They all the same
 The pretty men
 Make them the nest
 Then they fly away

 Yellow bird
 Up high in banana tree
 Yellow bird
 You sit all alone like me

[ekim]

Come fly with me, let's fly let's fly away
If you can use some exotic booze
There's a bar in far Bombay
Come fly with me, let's fly let's fly away.

Come fly with me, let's float down to Peru
In lama land, there's a one man band
And he'll toot his flute for you
Come fly with me, let's take off in the blue.

[Nearly Sane]

And I think I will travel to Rio
Using the music for flight,
There's nothing I know of in Rio,
But it's something to do with the night.
It's only a whimsical notion
To fly down to Rio tonight,
And I probably won't fly down to Rio,
But then again, I just might.

[ekim]

The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song it hears.

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
That rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
From a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over
Stones on its way
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray.

I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I've heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I´ll sing once more.

[Gordon]

Moderator:

When this thread (and the previous one) first started it was based on connecting (albeit often tenuously) song titles thematically but more recently there has been a tendency to quote all or most of the lyrics of songs: where the song concerned is out of copyright there is no issue, but since that only applies to very old songs then most of the lyrics quoted will still be in copyright.

Therefore, can we ask that those wishing to quote lyrics to limit themselves to a couple of verses and/or the chorus along the same lines that we apply to quotes taken from books and newspaper/magazine articles - where if the C&P is more than around 4 paragraphs we ask for it to be truncated. Put simply: please avoid quoting the entire song lyric.

[Robbie]

I talk to the trees
But they don't listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me

[ekim]

Every little breeze seems to whisper "Louise."
Birds in the trees seem to twitter "Louise."
Each little rose
Tells me it knows I love you, love you.

[Robbie]

Snowdrops and daffodils
Butterflies and bees

Wishing-wells
Wedding bells
Early morning dew
All kinds of everything remind me of you

[ekim]

The bells are ringing for me and my gal.
The birds are singing for me and my gal.
Everybody's been knowing to a wedding they're going.
And for weeks they've been sewing every Suzie and Sal.

[Aruntraveller]

Clang, clang, clang went the trolley
 Ding, ding, ding went the bell
 Zing, zing, zing went my heart strings
 From the moment I saw him I fell
 

[ekim]

I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill, it calls to me
To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care.

[Aruntraveller]

If you're going to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

If you're going to San Francisco

You're gonna meet some gentle people there

[ekim]

People who need people,
Are the luckiest people in the world
We're children, needing other children
And yet letting a grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children.

[Aruntraveller]

want to live like common people
 I want to do whatever common people do
 I want to sleep with common people
 I want to sleep with common people
 Like you

[Nearly Sane]

What else do the simple folk do?

They must have a system or two

They obviously outshine us at turning tears to mirth

And tricks a royal highness is minus from birth

What, then, I wonder, do they

To chase all the goblins away?

They have some tribal sorcery you haven't mentioned yet

Oh, what do simple folk do to forget?

[Robbie]

They say:-

We'll drink a drink a drink
To lily the pink the pink the pink
The saviour of our human race
For she invented, medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case

[ekim]

Drink! Drink! Drink!
To eyes that are bright as stars when they're shining on me!
Drink! Drink! Drink!
To lips that are red and sweet as the fruit on the tree!

[Robbie]

Ay,you're drunk you're drunk, you silly old fool
Still ye cannot see

[Aruntraveller]

New born eyes always cry with pain
 At the first look at the mornin' sun
 Fool, if you think it's over
 It's just begun