EVERYBODY SING
Lyrics
- 1. EVERYBODY
SING
- Written by Debbie Fleming
Chorus
- Everybody sing.
- We could make the world a better place.
- Let the voices ring.
- We could put a smile on every face.
- Let the voices ring.
Vs.1
- Life is perpetual motion
- And the rhythm makes the world go round and round.
- Just like the tides in the ocean,
- The power of life swells to a glorious sound.
- Find the groove, and go with the flow.
- Make your move,
- Find your voice, make your choice,
- Sing it high--sing it low.
- Chorus
Vs.2
- The earth revolves to a melody,
- A symphony that makes the world go round.
- When everybody is listening,
- The mountains ring and harmony abounds.
- Use your ear to hear the song!
- Soon it's clear -- sing your part with your heart!
- Sing it loud--sing it strong.
- Chorus
Breakdown
- Music opens up our eyes and when we harmonize
- We synchronize to the rhythm.
- Music opens up our hearts, and when we learn our
parts,
- We find the meaning of livin'.
- Repeat
- Chorus
- Modulate
- Chorus
- ©1998 Fleming Songs Publishing /Folkscript
Music(Socan)
- 2. MAKE LEMONADE
- Written by Debbie Fleming
- Oooh, Make a-lemon, make a-lemon,
Ooooh
- Oooh, Make a-lemon, make a-lemon,
Ooooh
- Vs.1
- What do you do when your life
turns sour?
- Add a little sugar, and you
make lemonade.
- What do you do in your darkest
hour?
- Light up a candle, and you
make lemonade.
- What do you do when the times
get tough?
- Put on your boxing gloves and
make lemonade.
- What do you do with a string
of bad luck?
- Tie a kite on the end of it
and make lemonade.
- Bridge #1
- If a lemon makes you sour,
- You may have to drink your
cup alone.
- But add the sweet sweet taste
of your power
- And somebody will always come
along
- To help you be strong.
- Vs.2
- What do you do when the future
looks black?
- Eat a lot of carrots, and you
make lemonade.
- If there's a heavy load on
your back,
- Put it down for a moment and
you make lemonade.
- What do you do when nothin'
goes easy?
- Oil the machinery and make
lemonade.
- What do you do when life drives
you crazy?
- Dance in the moonlight, and
you make lemonade.
- Bridge #2
- Every cloud is lined with silver.
- All the pain and heartache
passes.
- It's a long, hard climb up
the hill for
- The beautiful view from the
top
- Through rose-coloured glasses
- Tag
- What do you do?
- Squeeze out the lemon and you
make lemonade.
- Tell me what do you do, what
do you do?
- Squeeze out the lemon and you
make lemonade.
- Squeeze out the lemon, hoo
hoo,
- Squeeze out the lemon.
- Squeeze out the lemon, hoo
hoo,
- Squeeze out the lemon.
- Squeeze out the lemon, hoo
hoo
- Squeeze out the lemon and you make lemonade.
©1999 Fleming Songs Publishing/Folkscript
Music(Socan)
- 3. THE GATHERING
- There's a light on the hillside
- That shines to guide the traveller
back home.
- That same light was on the
pathway
- When you made that final journey
on your own.
- Life goes on, but not the same.
- There's an aching at the mention
of your name.
- But our broken hearts will
mend
- When we meet you at the gathering
of friends.
Vs. 2
- There is music on the hillside.
- There are angels in a song
that never ends.
- There is hope we'll be together,
- When we join you at the gathering
of friends.
- And our eyes will have no tears
- When there's no more sadness,
nothing left to fear.
- We'll know joy that never ends
- When we meet you at the gathering
of friends.
Vs.3
- 'Til we stand on that hillside,
- We'll take all the joy and
sadness each day sends.
- Then the One who knows our
heartache
- Will call us to the gathering
of friends.
- And our hearts will laugh again
- When the One who loves us gently
calls our name.
- We'll know joy that never ends
- When we meet you at the gathering
of friends.
- We'll know joy that never ends
- When we meet you at the gathering
of friends.
©1995 Folkscript
Music/Fleming Songs Publishing (SOCAN)
- 4. IN
A MELLOW TONE
- Written by Duke Ellington
- Soli section words &
music by John Herberman
- Intro
- Mellow, mellow tone, in a mellow
tone.
- Vs.1
- In a mellow tone, feeling fancy
free.
- And I'm not alone, I've got
company.
- Everything's OK the livelong
day
- With this mellow song I can't
go wrong.
- In a mellow tone, that's the
way to live.
- If you mope and groan, somethin's
got to give.
- Just go your way, and laugh
and play
- There's joy unknown in a mellow
tone.
- Soli Section
- I remember listening to all
my fav'rite music
- Of the big bands,
- It was always swingin' and
mellow (mellow).
- But my favourite of all was
the lazy satin sound of the Duke
- That would play on my old radio.
- I really wish that I could
have been there
- When Cootie Williams got up
to blow.
- Doo dn doo dn doo dn doo dn
doo doot.
- Doo dn doo dn doo dn doo dn
doo doot.
- When the big band era ended,
Duke was still at the top.
- It was his band that the crowds
came to hear.
- Even now the mem'ry of his
Carnegie Hall concerts
- Was enough to bring tears of
joy to my eyes.
- I miss him, I listen to his
jazz, the best jazz!
- There's joy unknown in a mellow
tone.
- Repeat vs.1
- ©EMI Robbins Catalogue
INC
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- 5. BAILA
- Written by Debbie Fleming
- Intro
- Baila el merengue, baila el
merengue, baila el merengue!
- Baila, baila! Dance!
- Chorus
- Baila, Baila el merengue. Baila,
it's the dance of love.
- Baila, baila el merengue. Baila,
can't get enough.
Vs.1
- Where you're feeling down,
- Turn up that happy sound of
the merengue.
- Jump up on your feet,
- Surrender to the beat of the
merengue.
- It sparkles like flames of
a fire,
- Your heart goes insane with
desire -- with love
- It's the dance of love.
Vs.2
- When you're in a bind,
- You know you can unwind to
the merengue.
- Let that booty slide
- Round and round and side to
side to the merengue.
- It moves you like shimmering
water,
- It grooves you and makes you
feel hotter -- with love
- It's the dance of love.
Bridge
- Merengue! Get off your hands,
- Get up and dance now if you
dare.
- Do the merengue! Just take
a chance,
- You'll find romance is in the
air!
- You can throw away your cares.
Breakdown
- (vocal percussion, 10 bars)
- Baila, baila (Dance)
- Baila el merengue, baila el
merengue, baila el merengue
- Baila, baila.
- Baila el merengue, baila el
merengue, baila el merengue
- Baila, baila DANCE!
- ©1996 Fleming Songs
Publshing/Folkscript Music(SOCAN)
-
- 6. HERE'S
THAT RAINY DAY
- Intro
- Soon it's gonna rain, I can
feel it.
- Soon it's gonna rain, I can
tell.
- Soon it's gonna rain. What
am I going to do?
- Verse
- Maybe I should have saved those
left-over dreams.
- Funny, but here's that rainy
day.
- Here's that rainy day they
told me about.
- But I laughed at the thought
- That it might turn out this
way.
- Where is the worn-out wish
that I threw aside
- After it brought my lover near?
- Funny how love becomes a cold
rainy day.
- Funny, that rainy day is here.
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- 7. FOODBLOOZ
- Written by Debbie Fleming
- Chew, chew chew chew chew-bee--doo,
- I've got the blues! Boo hoo!
Vs. 1
- A rice-cake for breakfast,
a cup of black java.
- The diet book says I can never
have a
- Donut, a muffin, or bacon or
eggs,
- If I wanna flaunt a pair of
sexy legs
- I've got the food-defyin',
self-denyin' blues
- (woh I got the blues, oh yea!)
Vs.2
- At lunchtime I savour a leaf
of romaine,
- With lemon juice for flavour,
- And not a pound I'll gain!
- I'm gonna be thin as a model!
- Size minus one petit-ah!
- I'll grin as men ogle, cuz
they will never see the
- Food-defyin', self-denyin'
blues
- (woh, I've sho' got the blues,
oh yea!)
Bridge
- When the weekend comes, I deserve
a little treat!
- I've got the "nummy-nums"
- And I've been oh-so-good all
week!
- Just a little taste of Haagen
Daåz can't hurt a bit.....
- Three pints later, I'm lickin'
the last lid!
- I can't believe what I just
did!
vs.3
- A rice-cake for breakfast!
I swear I just can't win.
- How can they expect us to be
so doggone thin?
- It's unnatural! It's not the
way God made us!
- It's fanatical! I need my gravy
on my potatoes!
Coda
- Cuz I'm a woman!
- Every lovin' inch of me's a
woman babe!
- Fat or thin, I'm the same old
me!
- No more food-defyin', self-denyin'
blues!
- (No more self-denyin' blues....OH
YEA)
- (Somebody pass me those chocolates!)
©1996 Fleming Songs
Publishing/Folkscript Music (SOCAN)
- 8.
FIXING A HOLE
- Written by J.Lennon and P.McCartney
- Intro
- Ba ba doo bap ba doo bap bap
bah,
- Dah da dat dah dah dat
- Ba ba doo bap bap bap ba doo
bah,
- Dah da dat dah dah dat
- Vs.1
- I'm fixing a hole where the
rain gets in,
- And stops my mind from wandering
- Where it will go, Doo doot
doot doo doo.
- I'm filling the cracks that
ran through the door,
- And kept my mind from wandering
- Where it will go, Doo doot
doot doo doo
- Bridge
- And it really doesn't matter
if I'm wrong, I'm right
- Where I belong I'm right, where
I belong.
- See the people standing there
who disagree, and never win,
- And wonder why they don't get
in my door.
- Vs.2
- I'm painting my room in a colourful
way,
- And when my mind is wandering,
- There it will go.
- Scat Section
- Bridge#2
- And it really doesn't matter
if I'm wrong, I'm right
- Where I belong I'm right, where
I belong.
- Silly people run around.
- They worry me and never ask
me why
- They don't get in my door.
- Vs.3
- I'm taking the time for a number
of things
- That weren't important yesterday
- And I still go, doo doot doot
doo doo.
- I'm fixing a hole where the
rain gets in, ooh.
- And stops my mind from wandering,
ooh.
- Bap bah, bap bah, doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo doo......
- Oooo.
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- 9. CORNER
OF MY MIND
- Written by Debbie Fleming
- **
- There's a corner of my mind
- Where I go when I must leave
this world behind.
- And there my cares unwind like
a ribbon on a kite.
- They fly away to vanish in
the heights,
- While in my corner
- A sunbeam comes to shine.
Bridge
- And I am warm, enfolded by
the memories of you.
- I hear your voice, I feel your
touch --
- A gentle summer breeze upon
my face.
- You brush the teardrops all
away, and whisper in my ear
- "Everything's gonna be
alright -- I'm here".
Verse
- And in a little time,
- I can go back to the world
I left behind,
- Feeling strong, I'm not alone
--
- 'Cause I know you're with me
always
- In the corner of mind.
©1999 Fleming Songs
Publishing/Folkscript Music (SOCAN)
- 10. SHOOFLY
PIE AND APPLE PAN DOWDY
- Written by S. Gallop/G. Wood
- Intro
- If you wanna do right by your
appetite,
- If you're fussy about your
food --
- Take a choo choo today, head
New England way,
- And we'll put you in the happiest
mood!
- Vs.1
- With shoofly pie and apple
pan dowdy.
- Makes your eyes light up, and
your tummy say howdy!
- Shoofly pie, and apple pan
dowdy --
- I never get enough of that
wonderful stuff!
- Shoofly pie and apple pan dowdy
- Makes the sun come out when
the heavens are cloudy.
- Shoofly pie and apple pan dowdy
--
- I never get enough of that
wonderful stuff!
- Bridge
- Mama, when you bake! Mama --
I don't want cake!
- Mama -- for my sake --
- Go to the oven and make some
ever-lovin'
- Vs.2
- Shoofly pie and apple pan dowdy
- Makes your eyes light up, and
your tummy say howdy!
- Shoofly, oh my, shoofly pie
--
- I never get enough of that
wonderful stuff!
- I never get enough of that
wonderful stuff!
- I never get enough of that
rich and delectable,
- Sinfully schmeckable Shoofly
pie!
- 11. SHODIOH
- Written by Debbie Fleming
- Intro
- Shodioh, shodioh, Shodioh,
Ba da da da da da dat dat da dat.
- Chorus
- Shodioh my lady-oh, Bohdio
libidio,
- Shondihµ mysterio, Shodioh,
Pistachio.
- Shodioh my lady-oh, Bohdio
libidio,
- Shondihµ mysterio, Shodioh,
Pistachio, woh.
- Verse 1
- Waiting,
- I'm always gonna be beside
you waiting, debating,
- Anticipating
- The day you say the words that
I just long to hear
- Loving you so, whispering low
- Holding you near as I hear
you repeat and repeat in my ear
- "Oh, Shadadadat dat da
dat."
- Chorus
- Creating
- Will always ease my mind while
I am waiting, debating
- Always frustrating,
- Until you say the words that
I just long to hear
- Loving you so, whispering low,
- Holding you near as I hear
you repeat and repeat in my ear
- "Oh, Shadadadat dat da
dat."
- Breakdown
- Shodioh, whispering the words
I long to hear,
- Whispering low,
- Shondihµ, shondihµ
-- bom bom,
- Sho di oh, whisper low sweet
words of love,
- Shodioh my love, shodioh baby
baby.
- Sha dat , sha dat, shadadadat
dat da dat.
- Verse3
- Oh baby,
- I get tingles down my spine
that drive me crazy,
- It's so amazing
- Anticipating the day you say
the words that I just long to hear
- Loving you so, whispering low,
- Holding you near as I hear
you repeat and repeat in my ear
- "Oh, Shadadadat dat da
dat"
- ©1984 Fleming Songs
Publishing/Folkscript Music (SOCAN)
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- 14. LET'S
JIVE
- Written by Debbie Fleming
- Intro
- Bup buyup buyup ba ba doo bup
bayup, Bayup
Verse 1
- It all began with ragtime,
- 'way down in New Orleans.
- Then Dixieland was bigtime,
- And Jazz Hot ruled the scene.
- The minstrels and musicians,
- And synchopated rhythms
- Got 'em dancin' in the streets,
- Romancin' to the beat.
- Then came the roarin' 20's
- When the flappers had their
fling.
- The big bands of the 30's
- Introduced the world to swing.
- Jitterbug and Lindyhop,
- Boogie Woogie Roll and Rock,
- Hip Hop, don't stop
- Boppin' 'til you're droppin'
Chorus
- Let's Jive, feel your body
come alive,
- Come on let's jive, let your
feet take off and fly,
- Come on let's jive, you can
do it if you try.
- Twist and turn, don't stop,
we're really burnin'
- Ooo-weee -- Let's Jive.
Verse 2
- Now if you want a chance with
me,
- You'd better be hip to 8 to
the bar.
- And if you want to dance with
me,
- I'll even let you drive my
car
- (That big red car!)
- Move me to the rhythm!
- Groove me 'til I'm spinnin'!
- Cut the rug, jitterbug!
- Hubba hubba honey!
Bridge
- Let's jive let's jive let's
really jive,
- Let's jive let's jive, now
give me 5
- Let's jive let's jive let's
really jive!
- Hey bobba-ree-bear, said the
little wee bear!
- Jive let's jive let's really
go,
- Sing hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee ho
- Let's jive let's jive let's
really go!
- Take me right back to the shack!
Jack!
Coda
- Jive, (I don't care if I
ain't got money)
- (Just me and my baby)
- Let's jive (just as long
as I can dance with my honey)
- (We love to go crazy)
- Let's jive (I don't mind
if the sun don't shine)
- (Mashed potatos and gravy)
- Salt Peanuts, salt peanuts!
- Let's jive (I don't mind
when things get crazy)
- (It's really amazing)
- Jive (just as long as I
can swing with my baby)
- (The ruckus we're raising)
- Give me all you've got -- burnin'!
- Twist and turn, don't stop
-- turnin'!
- Rock me 'til we drop -- we're
really burnin'!
- Ooooo Wee (ev'rybody)
- Let's jive, let's jive, let's
jive (Baby let's jive) Yea!!
- ****
©1999 Fleming Songs
Publishing/Folkscript Music (SOCAN)