Lord Jangle's Lyrics
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Everybody needs a friend
Would you lay your life down for a friend?
Would you help him when in need?
In the face of laughter and mockery
Would you stay, would you stand by him?
That’s what friends are for, that’s what friends are for
Would you do anything for me
Would lose your pride would you heal my pain
Would you do anything for me?
Would you help me out?
Chorus:
Everybody needs a friend sometimes you need someone
Everybody needs a friend sometimes you need someone to care
were you there in my hour of despair
through the noise did you hear my plea?
If the shells have left me wounded
would you come and rescue me?
That’s what friends are for, that’s what friends are for
Would you fight an enemy for me?
As I stand alone waiting to be freed
Would you fight a victory for me?
Would you help me out?
Chorus:
Everybody needs a friend sometimes you need someone
Everybody needs a friend sometimes you need someone who gives a damn
Instrumental
Chorus repeat
Baby baby
This is not about a woman. A real baby is the pride and joy of her father.
When I see her I seem to lose control
There is sparkle in her soul
If I held a poll, she’d have virtues that the pope would extoll
She can have my leading role
When I see her I have to stop and stare
(I have to stop and stare oh yeah)
Because she has something so rare, beyond compare
She’s an angel when I see her smile
She is lovely by a mile
Chorus: Baby baby she is qualified
To stop a full grown man in his stride
She could easily melt you into putty if she tried
She has brushed the competition aside
Guitar and violin solo
When I see her it gives me such a whizz
(it gives me such a whizz oh yeah)
Watch her psychic energy fizz, she’s the real biz
It’s an evolutionary quiz yes it is
To find perfection such as this
Chorus: Baby baby she is qualified
To stop a full grown man in his stride
She could easily melt you into putty if she tried
She has brushed the competition aside
Holy Moses
Piano intro
1. Sacrifice your life to join the crowd to be allowed to live your dream
Celebrate the trap to watch your days waste away in dreary toil
Mr Hathaway is looking, over shoulders and is booking,
anyone who goes against the company thought control
Chorus: Holy Moses in disguise! Fm Db E C Db C Fm
Holy Moses claim your prize!
2. Linda Bella-snitch, the office witch has spread a lie that you made a mistake
Cherish every kick and feel the stick of your disgrace and reprimand
venerate the bull and listen to the podium and odium
guarantee to kiss the derriere, who gives a care for your welfare?
Impetus to be obedient, is the critical ingredient
Mr Stevenson is coming, ask no questions, keep your head- down
instrumental guitar
Chorus: Holy Moses in disguise!
Bridge: Female:
We will be aware, we will be strong! They may try to repress, but we will speak
Descending scale with melisma:
So----- you may---- kee---p e----v’ry- - - one in fear
Bu-----t our---- love--- wi----ll be---- there- for- all to see.
O………………! (coloratura section)
3. They will a get raise for bullying and fallacy and phony smiles
some will get the praise for reading out the gospel of the boss’s files
Please accept our declarations or expect your terminations
Cups of tea in railway stations, as you consider your sorry life
Food
Good food is all you need
you don’t need love you need a feed
just put away those lovin’ eyes
and get your teeth - into one of my pies
lady luck is shining on you tonight
just get your shoes and come out for a bite
you need a wine with a superior label
and you need food - from a bountiful table
chorus –
plates filing into line and waiting one by one
the dish ran away with the spoon
where is my food? It’s coming soon
You don’t need no love in your soul
as long as you’ve got food in your bowl
I tell you love it never lasts very lon-------g
but this food will make you - big and strong
chorus –
plates filing into line and waiting one by one
the dish ran away with the spoon
where is my food? It’s coming soon
where is my food it’s coming soon x2
where is my food it’s coming soon (Tierce de Picardie)
Life of Riley
Violin intro
Give me the life of riley, put me in a packet for a cocktail party
Sow me me wild oat seeds to sheep a dippa hold in the fillick weed
Pass me a pint of beer I wanna have my supper in a brassiere
Gotta have a tipple in a bath of cream, load up the kerosene
Shendoah a country boy living on a farm on a government ploy
Sent me a sickle n scythe to tickle my wife to tiddly pom
Hi ho a lang shang po, steppin on the picker of a parson’s nose
Sing me a sad old song to while my hours away
Refrain:
Turali urali urali ay
Turali urali urali ay
This old guitar in my hand
Has seen many grains of the sand
A long john silver and a tiddly tum
I lost my heart to a bottle of rum
I left my love for a company car and went into the bar
Violin intro
Shenendoah is over heel, on his plate is a cardboard meal
He’s in the upper crust of a blueberry pie
with one foot in and the other in his eye
bent down his legs and knees looking like a plate of cauliflower cheese
he’s wired to the plus of a 353 and clinging to a tree
Refrain:
Turali urali urali ay
Turali urali urali ay
This old guitar in my hand
Has seen many grains of the sand
A long john silver and a tiddly tum
I lost my heart to a bottle of rum
I left my love for a company car and went into the bar
Back in time
I was born of a good family I used to fight with my brother when I was a kid
Twenty years on and I’ve changed a lot but I wish that I could go back again
Back to the time in the days of old for adventure and dashing deeds so bold
Back to the time when the Vikings would meet
To talk of the rape and the pillaging fleet
Chorus:
Back in time, back in time
Back in time, back in time
Instrumental
I’d like to take a trip back in time
And change the mistakes I made in the past
I’d like to ask the girl I never dared and I’d show all the bullies that I’m not scared
I want to see the knights of the table and I’d like a cup of tea with William the first
And like Robin Hood no less I’d fight a dual just to save a damsel in distress
Chorus:
Back in time, back in time
Back in time, back in time
Instrumental
I have been in too many fights I let lost opportunities pass by my sights
I was a dreamer who wasted time, nothing to say and nothing on my mind
I was born of a good family I used to fight with my brother when I was a kid
Twenty years on and I’ve changed a lot but I wish that I could go back again
Chorus:
Back in time, back in time
Back in time, back in time
Baby red
Chorus: F#m D A E x3 F#m D G C#7b9(no third)
ooh ooh merry go round in the sky, ooh touching the clouds
ooh ooh, spinning around like a top
ooh touching the sky (female alone)
instrumental horn section
1. Baby red I’m patiently waiting for you to get into your bed.
it’s getting late and the fire is through, baby blue is tying his shoe
2. Mother May is catching a train to see aunty Adela today
you’re getting dressed but your face is a mess, little Craig has run away
3. Ginger’s dead or so mummy said and the lollypop lady is gone
look out the window, it’s raining so long
father Brendan sings his song
(Up a semitone)
4. Please don’t cry dry up your eyes now Daddy’s not saying goodbye
open the curtains look out at the night, see the stars that shine so bright
(up another semitone)
instrumental
Chorus:
ooh ooh merry go round in the sky, ooh touching the clouds
ooh ooh, spinning around like a top, ooh touching the sky
instrumental horn section
Harpsichord solo
(up another semitone!)
5. Baby red, sailing up high on a merry go round in the sky
dancing on clouds with the sun in her hair
spinning round without a care
instrumental slowed
Walk in the rays of the sun
Chorus:
walk in the rays- of- the sun your- life- is- fun
and work is always done oh
walk in the rays- of- the sun your- life- is- fun
and work is always done-
Piano/harpsichord part
(Interweaving counterpoint)
Golden beer beer makes my- day
friends so dear with good company
won’t be long long it is strong bonds of friendship and
Friendship and cheer, Never fail, Fail, tooth and nail
Amber ale To set sail, more life
More to life than a blind More to- life than the
Daily grind, rai-se your glass to your art Glass to your art
Bold as brass Make a start, celebrate
Carbonate celebrate, start to relax contemplate
Instrumental oboe
Middle:
Look to the world!
And your friends are reunited
drop all your hate
and the feud will be ended
dream of a world where the young will be free spirits
Chorus:
walk in the rays- of- the sun your- life- is- fun
and work is always done oh
walk in the rays- of- the sun your- life- is- fun
and work is always done-
dream of a peace on earth and happiness and jubilation
sing a happy song of peace on earth and goodwill
Instrumental guitar and cello
Repeat of verse
Golden beer beer makes my- day
friends so dear with good company
won’t be long long it is strong bonds of friendship and
Friendship and cheer, Never fail, Fail, tooth and nail
Amber ale To set sail, more life
More to life than a blind More to- life than
Daily grind, rai-se your glass to your art Glass to your art
Bold as brass Make a start, celebrate
Carbonate celebrate, start to relax contemplate
Resolution
Intro – chorus tune Irish sound
Verse 1:
You don’t have to follow the crowd you can choose what you wanna be (pp)
I know your dreams are crushed and gone
But but there is a light that you can find ( mf)
You must go (ff)
For many - there is hope that isn’t blind
Guitar solo (played very softly)
Verse 2
Though the sea is calm the change is yet to come
I know you lost the someone right here
but-- but - the time has come to liberate
now—now the time has come to
to stand up for people who cannot defend themselves
Chorus:
One day there will be-- a resolution
You will find-- your dignity
And we will all be free
Some day you will find-- someone to love you
And your heart will burst with passion, you will be changed
After chorus
It may be hard to understand
To realise the path you planned
Is not the one that you -can- take –to win this day
Guitar solo strong x2
chorus
One day there will be-- a resolution
You will find-- your dignity
And we will all be free
Some day you will find-- someone to love you
And your heart will burst with passion, joy and pride
after chorus:
The time has come to show your
To not be beaten to the dirt
You only have / need to stand up strong
To right this wrong
Grand ending: trumpets, trombones, horns
Dinosaur
Intro – do do do….
Chorus:
No more like a dinosaur
will my heavy bones be the aching groans of remorse.
I fought in the war, I would just feel worth more
If I knew that somebody gives a damn about me
Seventy two and here I am looking back at you
And I could tell you more than a thousand things
That life holds so many beautiful things
And you, hold the whole world in your hands
Nothing turned out quite as I planned
Wonder what the hell I have done
Wonder when I go, did I make the best of the show?
Chorus
I remember when I was a boy
Things were different then
For then all the soldiers were made of lead
And then I would still have sheets on my bed
And she brought my hot water bottle up
And my hot chocolate in a cup, Just the little things to enjoy
Things they can’t destroy, are you still listening to me boy?
Middle: do do do…. > To minor key
I fought in the war as I said before
And I wrote a book and bought that stone
I was in a band used to play trombone
Well it’s not so bad when you think of all the things I’ve had
Rhapsody for life
Pt1: I love my life
All, all this feeling, breaking right out of my soul,
Rain like tears, streaming down my face
I love my life
too- too much feeling, for any man to bear,
No more sun, shining on my face.
Female:
He must- pay the—price and suffer---
He must pay, must pay the price, and he must, suffer---
Pt3 Adventure brass theme
Pt 4 I’m falling....... oooh whooooh, you misconstrue oooh whooooh, Am/Ddim7/F
I never knew, oooh whooooh, it’s not true, ah - ooooooh (like a wolf)
uses a semitone slide up to B minor
Pt 5: Chorus:
And sometimes when you’re calm you’re violent
and sometimes I see my face in your eyes,
And you said don’t look at me in silence
and you said don’t shout at me in silence
Pt6: chords rising (aaah ) Am G C D Em D >
Pt 7: piano descent E > Am
Pt8: choral section
He is fearful. We must let him into our ring FCGG Am, Em, Em7, A
F#dim7 misconstrue, never knew, not true, didn’t do – go! FCG
It is written down. the book is clear –
Lucifer has bought your soul, you must give yourself to fire, he will burn!
Lucifer has bought your soul, you must give yourself to fire, no no no, no!
Pt 9 Counterpoint section
I beg, I know I have sinned and I gave into temptation /our prince he gives you a sacramental pyre
Please God help me please/ with your life, he will rise.
Pt 10 Prog rock –bass solo (rising chords step into G major)
Pt11: Metal voice (Satan speaks)
And you thought you were judged by me!
you are the one who has judged yourself
and you thought you had fooled us all
only foolin’ yourself
Short guitar solo Am F E E
Pt2: reprise but as a solo guitar
Pt3 Adventure brass theme ending dominant of G
Pt 12 Hymn section in G major
I don’t need your pity, my cuff is never strong, but we fight for the glory and thirst to belong,
The might of hope, my soul will strive, for the chance to feel alive.
pt13: A VII to I of E minor functions as the key change for a guitar solo
Pt 4 reprise Am/Ddim7/F Guitar bends to the tune of falling.
pt 5: Chorus repeat:
And sometimes when you’re calm you’re violent
and sometimes I see my face in your eyes,
And you said don’t look at me in silence
and you said don’t shout at me in silence
Pt 15: piano ending in Bm
Rawhide (cover)
Dad Superman
Dad, looks at me with xray eyes,
Dad, always with some extra fries
Dad, powerful in every way, like a gamma ray
Dad, shining like a beam of light
Dad, piercing through the dark of night
Dad, always there to save me from anything that bites
Chorus
He’s a superman, always tries the very best he can
mighty as a lion and I know that he can fix most thi-ings
He’s a superman, flying through the sky like Peter Pan
Rushing to the scene to save the day, you just watch him go-!
He is always there to make my day a brighter day to make the night less scary
He will always be around to meet my Aunty Pam from Tipperary
Solo
Chorus
Dad, always goes the extra mile, Dad, always with a ready smile
Dad, takes me to the moon and back, And never any flack
Dad, faster than a lightning bolt
Dad, zaps you with a Megavolt
Dad, raising up the torch of time
Standing in his prime!
Chorus
Instrumental