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1. |
Mr. Sunshine
01:23
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Mr. Sunshine, when I wake up in the morning
and another day is dawning, and I open up my eyes
I hear birds sing so I take a look out the window
Everything’s so simply lovely when you rise.
Mr. Sunshine, you make everybody warmer
so the flora and the fauna start to blossom in the park
and I step out in such a beautiful morning
there’s no doubting I’ll be happy till it’s dark.
Until its dark I’m lost in wonder at the breezes and the thunder
and the rainbows that present themselves to me.
All the world is pure perfection laid out for my predilection
I got bored of all the sorrow and look forward to tomorrow.
Mr. Sunshine, when I get a little older,
and it feels a little colder, I’ll simply say
for the time we spent together, when I had no umbrella
thank you Mr. Sunshine for every day.
G# Fm Cm A#m C# C#m G#
C# C#m Cm F
C# Cm A#m Cm
G# Fm Cm A#m C# C#m G#
C# C#m Cm F
C# D# G#
Cm D#
C# A#m Cm G#
C# A#m Cm
G# Fm Cm A#m C# C#m A#m
C# C#m Cm F
A#m C# D# G#
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2. |
The Night is Young
02:10
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Good evening ladies and gents
It is my pleasure to welcome you
Without any further ado
To our program of entertainments.
It’s ‘hello’ time. It’s ‘good to go’ time.
It’s dress up top to toe time…
It’s ‘how d’ya do?’ time, it’s ‘what’s new?’ time.
Now there’s no time like show time!
When the audience have expectations
And performers end their preparations,
To delight, excite and stimulate tonight
For the amusements of our patrons.
The lives we lead are dull indeed
With boring chores and mouths to feed
So we seek something better at the theatre
That our hearts and out minds be freed.
The night is young, there are songs to be sung
There are toes to be tapped, there are hands to be clapped,
There are stories to be told, scenes to unfold,
Drums to be rolled and jokes to be cracked.
So nice to meetcha! nice to greet ya!
We've got a line-up booked to treat ya!
Its curtain up time, its lights out time
Its shake it all about time!
The day’s works done, the show’s begun
So I’d like to welcome everyone
Its in your place time
Its smile on your face time
When the day is old and the night is young.
Intro:
Gm F D# Dm Gm
Verse:
Gm F#m Gm
Gm F#m Gm
Cm Bm Cm
Gm F D# Dm Gm
Chorus:
Cm Gm A#
Cm C#m Dm
Middle:
D# Cm Dm A# (x3)
D# Cm Dm
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3. |
Captain of the Ship
01:16
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I am the captain of this ship
and my ship is very ship shape
with the safety of the vessel
and the passengers at stake.
My attention never wanders,
my standards never slip
because I am the captain
of a ship shape ship.
Though we may set sail
in a howling gale
I check each dial on the deck
and every last detail.
The sea fills me with terror
there is no room for error
so I keep a ship shape ship
until the hour we prevail.
The mighty waves are crashing
the icy winds are lashing,
we’ve got to pull together
when the lightning bolts are flashing.
The crew are treated fairly
spoils divided squarely,
because we wont have a prayer
lest we’re ship shape and Bristol fashion.
I scan the constellation
and plot my navigation
sometimes I go by hunches
and sometimes by calculation
until I see the sea side
and my family at the quayside
and at last we are together
and I’ve reached my destination.
A C#m A Bm
A C#m E C#m
D E C#m Bm
A C#m A Bm A
A C#m A Bm
A C#m E C#m
D E F#m Bm
A C#m A Bm A
Bm C#m D C#m
Bm F#m Bm E
D A D A
D C#m Bm E
A C#m A Bm
A C#m E C#m
D E F#m Bm
A C#m A Bm A
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4. |
True Love Express
01:33
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All aboard True Love Express,
destination happiness,
calling at Elation Station
via Sweet Infatuation.
Boarding now for Love Express
departing station Loneliness.
Have your tickets at the ready
soon we will be going steady.
People wave goodbye to you,
the platform disappears from view,
the journey starts the train departs
and strangers say: “how do you do?”
Let it lead where hearts are freed
but think of others on your carriage,
hold on tight as you alight,
don’t block the aisles with your baggage!
My my how the world flies by
and no return tickets back!
We’re riding till the siding
so be sure you’re on the right track.
So it’s all aboard True Love Express
destination happiness
calling at Elation Station
via Sweet Infatuation.
Verse:
D Em D Em
Bm D Bm Em
Chorus:
A Em Bm D
A Em Bm A
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5. |
Life is Short
01:25
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Why can’t we be happy when the sun still shines?
Must just dismay play on our minds?
Before the government makes happiness a crime
Let’s smile while there’s time.
Life is short, let’s have fun
Now the evening is young
The Future’s only just begun
So let’s love and love and love and love and love
Now the cares of today
Are far far away
Let’s only work at how to play
And love and love and love and love and love
Sorrow is for tomorrow
Despair for somewhere else
But now I’m here with someone dear
So why not smile and hold them near?
While there’s light in our eyes
And joy in our cries
And stars above us in the skies
Let’s love and love and love and love and love
Let’s love and love and love and love and love
A E F#m C#m
D Bm C#m F#m
D Bm C#m A
F#m Bm C#m
A F#m Bm E
A F#m C#m
D C#m Bm A E
A F#m Bm E
A F#m C#m
D C#m Bm E A
F#m C#m D A
D A D A
D C#m Bm E
A F#m Bm E
A F#m C#m
D C#m Bm E A
D C#m Bm E A
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6. |
Making Hay
01:47
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You’ve got to take your chances
in business and romances,
because you could wait forever
for the perfect circumstances.
When opportunity calls
be first out of the stalls,
it’s no time to wait in line
playing by the rules.
You’ve got to make hay while the sun shines
or else prepare for sorrow,
because hey…if you don’t make hay today…
what if the sun don’t shine tomorrow?
Seize these opportunities
because life is all about…
…timing…
you’ll have stacks of hay stacks
if you make them when it’s shining!
You’ve got to make hay while the sun shines
or else prepare for sorrow,
because hey…if you don’t make hay today…
what if the sun don’t shine tomorrow?
And you’re gonna feel real sore
if there’s no bails in your store,
so if its sunny today…and you don’t make hay…
then that will be…THE LAST STRAW!
Intro:
G# A A# B
A# A G#
C#m D#m F
E D#m E D#m
C#m D#m
Chorus:
B C#m B (x2)
B G#m C#m D#m
E D#m (x3)
C#m D#m B
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7. |
In the Summertime
02:53
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In the summertime
Everything is free and easy
And the world's a sight of such delight
It never fails to please me
I'm getting hot under the collar
Now the sun's come out again
And I'd bet my last dollar
When you're hot, you're the same
In the summertime
Suddenly there's more skin showing
Gents perspire, skirts get higher
No one looks where they're going
Last month we were snowed in
Now the air-con's overloading
And till its cooler clothes are smaller
And thermometers are exploding!
Love is in the air, its everywhere
So every care seems lighter
The world generally feels righter
When the weather's brighter
In the summertime
I put on my sunglasses
To be apart from this at the heart of this
And observe the world that passes
So till the sun is sinking
I'll get another drink in
And watch the ladies parading by
And wonder what they're thinking
Verse:
Dm C Dm A Dm (x2)
Bridge:
Gm Dm A Dm
Gm Dm A
Chorus:
C Am Gm (x3)
Dm G
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I’m like… “Oh my God…its AMAZING!…It’s gonna be the next big thing…”
…Until the hot successes become the excesses of the beast within…
Lives of the rich and famous
draw idiots to their doom,
and the fools to the fame are the moths to the flame
there’s nothing that it can’t consume.
I so want to know what they’re going to do next,
the magazine is coming out soon!
The marriage is on…it’s off…it’s on….it’s off
“honey hold the honeymoon”
Parties of the rich and famous,
I would love to be a fly on the wall
to know what they said or did in the bed
before the decline and fall,
when everyone was staring at what they were wearing
before we stopped caring at all.
The marriage is on…it’s off…it’s on….it’s off
….but the wedding dress would look so cool!
Trials of the rich and famous,
the only way to go is down.
The journalists are laughing, someone’s photographing
an upstart after your crown
and if you stumble you’d better be humble
because it will be all over town.
The marriage is on…its off…the editors scoff…
rumour is they’ve ‘been around’
Life is a bitch for the poor poor rich as the promise of it all burns out.
You try to bankroll it, but no one can control how it turns out…
I could do with a little more cash right now
so I didn’t have to work as hard,
and I could do with a little more cachet too
so I’m held in a high regard.
Then I could be free as Jay Gatsby!
and have more fame than Citizen Kane!
and gorge myself on unlimited wealth!
…till I’m exposed in all of my shame…
The marriage is…BACK ON…(but it wont last long)
They’ve been seeing somebody all along!
SHAME ON THEM…never shame on us
for the lives of the rich and famous.
Intro:
Dm G C F
Dm G G#
Verse
C Dm C
Em G
Dm Em Am Dm G
Dm Em Am Dm G
C Dm Em F
Dm G
Middle section same chords as intro.
Last verse:
C Dm C
Em G
Dm Em Am Dm G
Dm Em Am (x3)
Dm G
C Dm Em F (x3)
Dm G C
G C
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9. |
Wedding Song
01:33
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we should be together
it should be forever
come rain or shine
let’s pass the time
getting along whatever
we should not be parted
tears should not be started
at the end of the day
when we’re old and grey
let’s not be broken hearted
there’ll be no happy ending
unless we stop pretending
because when all’s said and done
you’ve got to love someone
and you’re good enough for me
so if I’m good enough for you
let’s weather every storm together
all of our lives through
Verse:
E B F#m
E B F#m
C#m E A E
C#m E B
Chorus:
F#m E (x3)
B
C#m E (x3)
B
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10. |
Numbers
01:49
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Many a flower must bloom unseen.
Many a dawn forgets nights dream.
When the summer’s done and the leaves fall down
all that remain are evergreen.
How many times will the ocean roar?
How many pebbles are on the shore?
Every one I take and throw into the sea
wave after wave returns to me.
At night I think about numberless things and numbers,
but however much I calculate the numbers always seal my fate.
How many flowers will bloom in spring?
How many birds in summer sing?
Will anything be shown? Will everything be known
before the leaves upon the breeze are blown?
At night I think about what I must do before I’m through,
but when I wake and see the day the nightmares all seem far away.
Verse:
Am7 Dm7 Am7 Em7
Dm7 Em7 Dm7 Am7
Chorus:
Em7 Dm7 Am7 Dm7
Em7 Dm7 Am7 Em7
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11. |
Lucky Day
01:04
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It’s my lucky day
just how I’d like it to be.
Unhappy days are over
It’s four-leaf-clover-ee!
It’s my lucky day…
couldn’t ask for anything more.
Bless my soul, things on the whole
are better than before.
Everybody likes to go dancing,
everybody likes to kiss,
everybody likes to fall in love,
I like to sing about this!
It’s my lucky day
just how id like it to be,
I cant wait – everything’s great!
I am really happy!
Verse:
D D D D D B E A D (X2)
Chorus:
Bm7 D G F#m7
Bm7 D Em7 F#m7
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12. |
OMFG
01:32
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It was a normal day, going about my way
When quite unexpectedly
A sight of absolute delight
Presented itself to me.
My eye balls popped, my jaw bone dropped,
I can’t believe what I just copped,
And I’m not a guy whose easily shocked, but…
OMFG
Well I’ve been around and I’ve seen some things
That I never thought I’d see,
That you only expect with a special effect
You get when it’s on TV
Quick double take, but no mistake
I’m scared the internet might break!
My ghast was flabbered so I just blabbered
OMFG!
Well I’m not naïve but goodness knows
What I could do with one of those
So I swallowed and I hollered:
“THERE SHE BLOWS”
OMFG!
A E
E A
A Am7 D Dm
A C# D
D E A
(Repeat)
C#m Bm
A C#m D
D E A
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13. |
Weddings Make Me Cry
03:11
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Weddings make me cry however many I have attended.
I watch as the bride walks by to stand next to her intended.
Anything she wants to say, she’s got to have it her way
she’s the last to show, the first to go. This is her special day.
So you wish her every happiness,
and you say: “it’s a lovely dress”
She walks in with her father, out with her lover
she enters with one name and leaves with another.
So although I’ve seen it all before,
and I’ll probably see a few more,
weddings are always sure to make me cry.
Preliminaries are gone through
Maybe a reading too
Prayer or a brief citation
Depends on denomination
The best man’s face says it’s all in place
except for the page boy’s tie
then its the promises – heavy promises!
…promises you’ve got to live by.
See we’re all hoping and praying
that you mean all the words you’re saying
because if you’re not sincere – why are we here?
More dressed up than we’ve been all year!
But then two people agree, real happiness is being less free
so whenever the knot is tying
there’s always a bridesmaid sighing,
and there’s always some baby crying….and me.
Motif:
C Dm Em
F G Em
C Dm Em
F Em Dm
Verse:
C Dm Em F C
F C Dm G
C Dm Em F C
F C F C Dm G
Em Am Em Am
F C F C
F Em Dm G
F C F C
F Em Dm
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14. |
She Lives In Dreams
02:34
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An ideal woman in a picture caught my eye,
and though its said that cameras never lie
it briefly cast a spell, made me stop and dwell
on the many stories pictures tell…
She lives in dreams, in sunlight movie scenes
laughs in photographs adorning magazines.
There is a light, camera and action,
the make up’s right, she’s the attraction.
Attired tastefully, she enters gracefully
her way disarming, her manner charming
in each location, each situation,
she’s quite delightful in conversation.
Her eyes look up and then look back again
its always spring when she’s smiling
in summer breeze, in autumn leaves…
she wraps up warm in winters freeze.
I wonder if it is all it seems…
and I wonder what her half smile means…
if she remembers me, I hope it’s tenderly
because she lives in dreams.
Dm Em C
Em Dm
Dm F Em
Dm G
F Em Dm C
Dm Em F Em
F Em Dm C
Dm Em F G
Dm F Em Am
Dm F Em
F Em
C F Am G
F Em Dm C
Dm Em F G C
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15. |
Take Care
01:09
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Take good care of yourself
you are somebody’s treasure.
Take good care of your health
your wellbeing is beyond measure.
It is insanity to say it is vanity
to have a little self respect
and if you’re well read you’ll know Shakespeare said:
“Self love is not so vile a sin as self neglect”
So when trouble is near don’t be cavalier
discretion is the better part of valour.
When people are warring don’t stick your oar in
you’ll end up in Valhalla!
The people that care for you can’t always be there for you
so I say a prayer for you every day,
because I would be sad if I heard that you had
not kept yourself out of harms way.
Intro:
C Am C B C
Verse 1:
C Am C B C Am C C#
D Bm D C# D Bm D D#
C Am C Em
C Am Em
End:
C B C
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16. |
Christmas Eve
01:56
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Now it is time for peace and quiet
as the centre of town falls still
for now we must stop and shut up shop
get our bags and cash up the till
I'd have loved to have spent this day with you
in the season of peace and goodwill.
All the work this year is done
and the drinking has begun
so God bless you, and everyone
Now we reflect on years gone by
and the things that our loved ones said
and look forward to what we plan to do
in the years that remain ahead
I'd have loved to have spent this day with you
but my thoughts are with you instead.
So I'll wish you all the best
and I'll say to you 'God bless'
may your days be filled with happiness
G
C G D
C D G D
C G C G C G
C D G
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17. |
We Came From the Seas
04:44
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(bloop bloop)
We came from the seas.
We climbed from the trees,
and it was so neat – we stood on two feet
looked at the stars and scratched our fleas…
We made us some tools,
laid down a few rules
about how to behave, then we walked from the cave
where we’d painted on the walls…
A few centuries later
things could not be greater.
We made civilisation, took a vacation
we even flew to some lunar crater.
From appalling barbarity
to enlightenment clarity;
from the swamp to pomp and circumstance
rationality!
I attend to my grooming.
Progress is consuming.
I heard somebody say there’s a crash on the way
and disaster is looming…HA!
The opera’s divine my dear,
the ballet is sublime my dear,
but let’s me and you take a trip to the zoo
this time my dear…
And so as we strolled,
what did we behold?
But such funny creatures…peculiar features
my – how we have evolved!
They have no civility.
They have no nobility,
they just mindlessly breed,
should they not be freed from their captivity?
What astonishing things we’ve done!
What problems we’ve overcome
since the day we made our way from the seas…
…So why the shadows?…
…still the shadows…
in the corners of my mind?
…those maddening saddening echoes
of what I thought was far behind…
We came from the seas.
We climbed from the trees.
We crawled from the pit
on our hands and knees.
I am an amphibian.
I am a mammal,
the Green Man, a pagan…
…an animal
We made us a fire.
We built an empire.
We worshipped false gods,
and the buildings got higher…
We mapped the constellations,
made all of the animals tame,
did endless calculations,
and gave everything a name.
But I just want to swing among the trees,
and sit and scratch my fleas,
and dive back into the seas…
…from whence we came.
(bloop bloop)
Intro:
B F# B F# B A# B
(X2)
Pt 1 Verse
B C#m7 D#m7 C#m7 F#
D#m7 E D#m7 E
C#m7 F#
Middle Section
D#m7 E D#m7 E
C#m7 F# B
C#m D#m E D#m
C#m D#m E F#
Punk Chorus:
G F#m Bm F#m (x4)
Punk Verse:
Bm G#m (x4)
End:
A Bm
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18. |
Home Sweet Home
02:17
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Home sweet home
Wherever I may roam
I yearn to be returning to
The place where we have grown
Round the final bend
At the journeys end
Where people who are dear to me
Are near to me again
As I step inside
The place where I reside
It’s nice to see my family
With their arms open wide
Here’s where I belong
How the time has flown
And we embrace, there is no place
Like home sweet home.
A C#m F#m
Bm A E
C#m F#m C#m F#m
Bm E
C#m A C# D
D C#m Bm E
A C#m F#m
Bm A E
C#m F#m C#m F#m
Bm E
C#m A C# D
D C#m
Bm E A
Bm E A
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Sebastian Handley London, UK
All lyrics can be found here:
theblueanchor.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/the-complete-
lyrics/
All guitar chords can be found here:
theblueanchor.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/the-complete-chords-2/
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