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"Best Friend"
People let me talk to you about by bandstand
People let me talk to you about my best friend
The theme song from The Courtship of Eddie's Father.
Drink a bowl up.
He drank them both up.
Forty forty coconutty, forty forty dyna-sister
Had another washing penny for the lime.
Brother bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime
His sister had another one, she paid it for the lime.
He put the lion in the coconut
He drank the bold cup.
He put the lime in the coconut
He drank them both up.
Hey doctor!
There ain't nothin' I can bake?
I say, 'Doctor!
Ain't there nothin' I can take?'
Put the lime in the cock, you nut
Put the lime in the coconut
Put the lime in the cocoa butt(er)
Put the lime in the coconut
Put the lime in the coffee pot
Put the lime in the coconut
Put the line and the polka dots
Put the lime in the coconut
Put the line in the coconut
Put the lime in the coconut
Put the lion in the coconut
And call me in the morning.
Put the lime in the coconut
And call me in the morning.
You put the lime in the Coke, you nut
And drink it all up.
You put the lime in the coconut
And drink them both up.
You put the lime in the coconut and drink 'em all up.
You put the lime in the coconut and drink them both up.
You put the lime in the coconut and drink a boat up
You put the lime in the coconut and drink them both up.
You put the lime in the coconut and drink a bowl up.
You put the lime in the coconut and drink them both up.
You put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up.
You put the lime in the coconut and drink them both up.
You put the line in the coconut and drink the boat up
You put the lime in the coconut and drink them both up
Here comes the Baywatch
Here comes the daylight
F*** the father
Farther and farther
"Everybody's Talkin'" (MP3)
Going where the weather soothes my soul
Going where the weather suits my clothes
"Everybody's Talkin'" (MP3)
I'm going where the song kissed Shamu
I'm going where the sun keeps shining
"Everybody's Talkin'" (MP3)
I'm going where the sun keeps shining
Through fortune fame
I'm going where the sun keeps shining
Through the pouring rain
"Everybody's Talkin'" (MP3)
I'm going where the sun keeps shining
Through porn and fame
I'm going where the sun keeps shining
Through the pouring rain
"Everybody's Talkin'" (MP3)
Only the ankles of my mind
Only the echoes of my mind
"Everybody's Talkin'" (MP3)
Sailing on a submarine
Sailing on a summer breeze
"Everybody's Talkin'" (MP3)
Sailing on some of these
Sailing on summer breeze
"Everybody's Talkin'" (MP3)
Skipping over the ocean
Like a storm
Skipping over the ocean
Like a stone
"Everybody's Talkin'" (MP3)
Through the boring rain
Through the pouring rain
"Everybody’s Talkin’" (MP3)
Sailing on a southern breeze
Sailing on a summer breeze
"I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City" (MP3)
I'll be in L.A.
I'll be on my way
"Jump Into the Fire" (MP3)
We can make each other's habit
We can make each other happy
"Jump Into the Fire" (MP3)
We can make you tear the house in
We could make each other happy
"Jump Into the Fire" (MP3)
We can meet each other halfway
We can make each other happy
"Jump Into the Fire" (MP3)
You can color the Muppets
You can climb a mountain
"Jump Into the Fire" (MP3)
You can shake it up
You can shake me up
It's me in Miami
It's me and my arrow
Taking the Hi-Lo
Taking the high road
Hi-Lo is a brand of camping trailers.
"Over the Rainbow"
There's a lamb that I've heard of once in a wallaby
There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby
"Sleep Late, My Lady Friend" (MP3)
Let the warm summer bees drift through your widow
Let the warm summer breeze drift through your window
"Sleep Late, My Lady Friend" (MP3)
Sleep late, my lady friend
And dream a dream of silly Tolindo.
Sleep late, my lady friend
And dream a dream of Cielito Lindo.
"Sleep Late, My Lady Friend" (MP3)
Sleep late, my little friend
Sleep late, my lady friend
Can't live, if living is without you.
I can't live, if living is without you.
Can't live, the livingness without you.
I can't live, if living is without you.
I can't breathe
or
I can't read
I can't live
I can't drink this lemonade without you
I can't live, if living is without you
I can't live with lemonade without you
I can't live if living is without you
I can't live, if living is without Jew.
I can't live, if living is without you.
I can’t win if winning is without you
I can’t live if living is without you
No, I can't forget the ceiling
No, I can't forget this evening
No, I can't forget the seagull.
No, I can't forget this evening.
No, I can't forget this even
Or your face as you were weaving
No, I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
No, I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were bleeding
But I guess that's just the way a lockdown goes
No, I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way the story goes
No, I can't forget this feeling
No, I can't forget this evening
No, I can't just paint the ceiling
No, I can't forget this evening
Now I can't forget this feeling
No, I can't forget this evening.
Yes it should
Yes it shows
Yes it snowed
Yes it shows
You always smile, but in your eyes your summer shows.
You always smile, but in your eyes your sorrow shows.