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Favorite Countries Song,Tell us your Favorite-USA-Italy-etc-in-Title,Lyrics~Freeper Canteen~10-8-09

Posted on 10/07/2009 5:11:07 PM PDT by fatima

~Favorite Countries Song~





Rains Down In Africa




But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say, "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"


It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serangetti

I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become

It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had


*Video*


Spanish Harlem
Her name it doesn't matter

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem

A red rose up in Spanish Harlem

It is a special one, it's never seen the sun

It only comes out when the moon is on the run

And all the stars are gleaming

It's growing in the street right up through the concrete

But soft and sweet and dreamin'


There is a rose in Spanish Harlem

A red rose up in Spanish Harlem

With eyes as black as coal that look down in my soul

And starts a fire there and then I lose control

I have to beg your pardon

I'm going to pick that rose and watch her as she grows in my garden


<instrumental interlude>


I'm going to pick that rose and watch her as she grows in my garden


(There is a rose in Spanish Harlem)

La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la-la

(There is a rose in Spanish Harlem)

La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la-la

(There is a rose in Spanish Harlem)

FADE



*Video*







Celtic Thunder-Ireland's Call



With the heartbreak open
So much you can't hide
Put on a little makeup makeup

Make sure they get your good side good side

Refrain 1:
If the words unspoken
Get stuck in your throat
Send a treasure token token
Write it on a pound note pound note

Chorus:
Good two shoes

Don't drink don't smoke - what do you do?
Don't drink don't smoke - what do you do?
Subtle innuendos follow
There must be something inside

We don't follow fashion
That would be a joke

You know we're going to set them set them
So everyone can take note take note

When they saw you kneeling
Crying words that you mean
Opening their eyeballs eyeballs
Pretending that you're Al Green, Al Green

(chorus)


No one's gonna tell me
What's wrong or what's right
Or tell me who to eat with sleep with
Or that I've won the big fight big fight

Look out or they'll tell you

You're a "Superstar"
Two weeks and you're an all time legend
I think the games have gone much too far

(refrãin 1)

(chorus)

Don't drink don't smoke - what do you do?

Don't drink don't smoke - what do you do? (repeat)
Subtle innuendos follow,
must be something inside





*Video*








Time To Say Goodbye Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman

Time to say goodbye     --     I'll go with you

Sarah
When I'm alone
I dream of the horizon
and words fail;
yes, I know there is no light
in a room where the sun is absent,
if you are not here with me.
At the windows

show everyone my heart
which you set alight;
enclose within me
the light you
encountered on the street.

Time to say goodbye.     --     I'll go with you
to countries I never

saw and shared with you,
now, yes, I shall experience them.
I'll go with you
on ships across seas
which, I know,
no, no, exist no longer;
it's time to say goodbye.     --     with you I shall experience them.

Andrea
When you are far away
I dream of the horizon
and words fail,
and, yes, I know
that you are with me;
you, my moon, are here with me,
my sun, you are here with me

with me, with me, with me.

Time to say goodbye.     --     I'll go with you
to countries I never
saw and shared with you,
now, yes, I shall experience them.
I'll go with you
on ships across seas

which, I know,
no, no, exist no longer,

Both
with you I shall experience them again.
I'll go with you
on ships across seas
which, I know,
no, no, exist no longer,

with you I shall experience them again.
I'll go with you.

You and me.




*Video*





Waylon Jennings.... He Went to Paris





Verse 1:
He went to Paris lookin' for answers to questions

That bothered him so
He was impressive, young and agressive
Savin' the world on his own
Warm summer breezes, French wine and cheeses
Put his ambition at bay
The summers and winters scattered like splinters

And four or five years slipped away

Verse 2:
He went to England, played the piano, and married
An actress named Kim
They had a good life, she was a good wife

And bore him a young son named Jim
All of the answers and all of the questions
He locked in his attic one day
'Cause he liked the quiet clean country livin'
And twenty more years slipped away

Verse 3:
War took his baby,
Bombs killed his lady and left him
With only one eye
His body was battered, his whole world was shatteredD
All he could do was just cry

While the tears were fallin' he was recallin'
Answers that he never found
So he hopped in a freighter, skidded the ocean
And left England without a sound

Verse 4:

Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin' and drinks
His Green label each day
Writing his memoirs, losin' his hearin'
But he don't care what most people say
After eighty-six years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he'll smile and say

"Jimmy, some of it's magic, probably tragic,
But I had a good life all the way"
He went to Paris lookin' for answers to questions
That bothered him so




*Video*





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To: Kathy in Alaska
Thanks, Kathy. That's the one I remember.

-PJ

381 posted on 10/08/2009 6:11:56 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
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To: SkyDancer

((((((((Hugs))))))))))


382 posted on 10/08/2009 6:16:56 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Lady Jag

Do you ever get to the Scottish festival in Quechee, Vt.? I would like to attend that one someday.


383 posted on 10/08/2009 6:17:46 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Political Junkie Too

You are most welcome.


384 posted on 10/08/2009 6:21:57 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: fatima
Thanks for the link! I didn't know Celtic Cross did F&F.
(She's a cutie, aint she?)
385 posted on 10/08/2009 7:29:42 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
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To: fatima

How about “The Rain in Spain?” (I loved MY FAIR LADY, even though the premise was silly.)


386 posted on 10/08/2009 8:16:22 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: fatima
One of my favorite songs with the name of a country in it is Tulips are Blooming in Holland Michigan, we had to sing it every year in school Tulips are blooming in Holland, Michigan

Some more: Calcutta, Lawrence Welk show

and then there's Hindustan

Istanbul not Constantinople

Turning Japanese by the Vapors

Canadian Sunset, Andy Williams

Portuguese Love, Teena Marie, 1981

Last Train to London, ELO

Electric Light Orchestra - Calling America

Only in America, Brooks and Dunn

Cherokee People, Cherokee Tribe

Seminole Wind, John Anderson

Seminole Wind, Shea Keck

387 posted on 10/08/2009 9:40:02 PM PDT by Prodigal Daughter
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To: fatima
Do you come from the Land Down Under
Where the rivers flow and the men chunder
388 posted on 10/09/2009 6:26:19 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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