h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Story of your Life - leading men astray?


All the old paintings on the tombs
They do the sand dance don't you know
If they move too quick (oh whey oh)
They're falling down like a domino

All the bazaar men by the Nile
They got the money on a bet
Gold crocodiles (oh whey oh)
They snap their teeth on your cigarette

Foreign types with the hookah pipes say
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Egyptian

(Mississippi-Nile)

The Bangles

Sundown all around
Walking thru the summer's end
Waves crash baby, don't look back
I won't walk away again
Oh, baby, anywhere you go,
We are bound together
I begin, baby, where you end
Some things are forever !
Circle in the sand
'Round and 'round
Never ending love is what we've found
And you complete the heart of me
Our love is all we need
Circle in the sand

Belinda Carlisle

No comment btw

Come with me, oh my love
To the sea, the sea of love
I want to tell you, just how much I love you

Do you remember the day we met
That's the day I knew you were my pet
I want to tell you, just how much I love you


[Sea of Love: The Honeydrippers]

Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor
A beautiful day, we had lunch on the way and all for under a pound you know
But on the way back I cuddled with Jack and we opened a bottle of cider
Singing a few of our favourite songs as the wheels went around

Do you recall the thrill of it all as we walked along the sea grand
Then on the sand we heard a brass band that played the Diddlely-Bump-Terrara
Elsie and me had one cup of tea then we took a Paddler boat out
Splashing away as we sat on the bay and the wheels went 'round

Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor
A beautiful day, we had lunch on the way and all for under a pound you know
But on the way back I cuddled with Jack and we opened a bottle of cider
Singing a few of our favourite songs as the wheels went around

Fiddlers Dram

Really GREAT song, Milady.


Now:

I was walkin' down the street
concentratin' on truckin' right
i heard a dark voice beside of me
and I looked 'round in a state of fright
I saw four faces one 'mother' a brother from the gutter
They looked me up and down a bit and turned to each other

(I say) I don't like cricket-A OH NO I love it-A Yeah
I don't like cricket-A NO NO I love it-A Yeah

You'd better understand that you're a long, a long way from home...

(and I say) I don't like reggae-A NO NO I love it-A HEY
I don't like reggae-A Yeah Yeah I love it-A Oh Yeah

Don't you cramp me style don't you queer me pitch
Don't you walk through my words 'cause you
Ain't heard me out yet

[From: Dreadlock Holiday: 10cc]

I'm sitting in the railway station.
Got a ticket for my destination.
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.
And ev'ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.

Paul Simon
and I wish I was allowed to put ALL of the lyrics to this song which is great!

You left us here, in a cloud of stardust
Disappeared, never even called us
And most of us got over you
But baby, as for me, I never quite recovered
Every night I dream of you
It's killing me to live without you
Baby do you ever dream of me

Look homeward angel
Your heart knows the way
Down a rearview mirror road that leads to yesterday
I'm leaving a light on
Won't you look homeward angel

Look homeward angel
Let me see those eyes of green
A lonely choir sings
Come and lay down in my arms and rest your weary wings
Before you're too far gone
Won't you look homeward angel

How?
How can I?
How can I be back here again?
It was just the other day
That I
I said I
I said I would be moving on
Seems to me I'm going 'round and 'round
It's the only way I know

Every road that I take is the same
Every way I go, every day I go
Leading me back the way I've just come
Every road that I take is the same
Don't be sorry please, don't you worry please
I will be back again very soon

(Every Road-Mike Rutherford)

I will be home again
Don't you worry dear
I'll be home again
So won't you dry the tear
The promise in your eyes
Will see me through
There'll be brighter skies
When i come back to you


Elvis Presley

You light up another cigarette
And I pour the wine
It’s four o’clock in the morning
And it’s starting to get light
Now I’m right where I want to be
Losing track of time
But I wish that it was still last night
You look like you’re in another world
But I can read your mind
How can you be so far away
Lying by my side
When I go away I’ll miss you
And I will be thinking of you
Every night and day just ...

Promise me you’ll wait for me
’cos I’ll be saving all my love for you
And I will be home soon
Promise me you’ll wait for me
I need to know you feel the same way too
And I’ll be home, I’ll be home soon

Beverly Craven

Go far enough and you will reach
A place where the sea runs underneath
We'll see our shaddows high in the sky
Dying away in the night

I've sailed the world for seven years
And left all I loved behind in tears
Oh won't you come hear wherever you are
You've been all alone long enough

You, you have your own special way
Of holding my hand 'bove the water don't ever let go
No no no
You, you have your own special way
Of turning the world so it's facing the way that I'm going don't ever
Don't ever stop.

I am sailing, I am sailing,
Home again cross the sea.
I am sailing, stormy waters,
To be near you, to be free.

I am flying, I am flying,
Like a bird cross the sky.
I am flying, passing high clouds,
To be with you, to be free.

Rod Stewart

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus' garden in the shade



I'd ask my friends to come and see
An octopus' garden with me
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade.

Are you making these up bm?

Anyway - here goes - no idea who sang it or the origin.

How many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Daffodils, heart's ease and phlox
Meadowsweet and lady smocks
Gentian, lupin and tall hollyhocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, forget-me-nots
In an English country garden

LadyC - Country Garden - Origin - trad.English. Travesty American-style hit in 50's/60's by Jimmie Rodgers (not THE Jimmie Rodgers of CnW greatness but some fly-by-night impostor). bm - can you label your lyrics? I recognise the 2nd as Beatles/Ringo Starr, but I don't recognise 13551. Thanks, Jab

This is from the Disney version of Alice, (The Garden of Live Flowers):

Little bread-and-butterflies kiss
the tulips, and the sun is like a
toy balloon. There are get up in
the morning glories, in the golden
afternoon. There are dizzy daffodils
on the hillside, strings of violets
are all in tune, Tiger lilies love
the dandy lions, in the golden afternoon.

Me?

Make them up?

If I did I'm owed some serious back royalties!!

Do you think I should sue




I could promise you things like big diamond rings
But you don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover
So you better think it over
Well, if sweet talking you could make it come true
I would give you the world right now on a silver platter
But what would it matter.

So smile for a while and let's be jolly love shouldn't be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine there's gotta be a little rain sometimes
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden.

Even when it's obvious can you still label them, (usually by singer most associated with them or title or origin or all three). It's very helpful to all concerned. Thanks - Jab

keep forgetting

13551/ Genesis

last one was Lynne Anderson (which you'd most likely know anyway)

You could try sueing me lol

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend

(famously) Marilyn Monroe