Donovan

[fox69]

"Hi It's Been A Long Time"

"Hi It's Been A Long Time"



Hi, it's been a long time, you're looking fine,
Proud as any woman should be, proud of womankind.
My, your hair is longer now, it's prettier by far,
Hope you don't feel too unusual riding in my flash car.
Hi, it's been a long time, you're looking good,
Proud as any woman should be, proud of womanhood.
Changes, many I've been through, pretty much like you,
Now as then I feel it would be pretty to touch you.
Hi, it's been a long time, you're looking fine,
Proud as any woman should be, proud of womankind.
Changes, many I've been through, pretty much like you,
Now as then I feel it would be pretty to touch you.
Hi, it's been a few years, you're looking down,
Dragged as any hippie should be in old hippie town.
My, your eyes are sadder now, it's understandable,
I'm amazed you spend your days keeping up all the "cod".
Hi, it's been a long time
Hi, it's been a long time
Hi, it's been a long time
Hi, it's been a long time
Hi, it's been a long

 

[fox69]

"High Your Love"

"High Your Love"



All for the love of leaving am I
All for the love of grieving am I
Looking for you in the longing of life
When all along you were here by my side
It's a high your
It's a high, it's a high your love
Far in the future or in the past
I was a drifting bound to the mast
Searching for you on the ocean of loss
And all along no ocean to cross
It's a high your
It's high, it's a high your love
All on the island she danced
Sleep of forgetfulness entranced
Gazing on new some distance star
Om-Shri Sai-Baba, so near, so far
It's a high your
It's high, it's a high your love
All for the love of grieving am I
All for the love of leaving am I
Looking for you in the longing of life
When all along you were here by my side
It's a high your
It's a high, it's a high your love

 

[fox69]

"Homesickness"

"Homesickness"


Homesickness, it is driving me out of my mind
Homesickness, it is driving me out of my mind
Homesickness, it is driving me out of my mind.

Homesickness, tour-sick
Homesickness, tour-sick, tour-sick.

Home cooking, you know it treats ma belly kind
Home cooking, you know it treats ma belly kind
Home cooking, you're driving me out of my mind.

Homesickness, tour-sick
Homesickness, tour-sick, tour-sick.

Home coming, with a Vogue or two across my knee
Home coming, boom azoom azoom a boom boom be
Home coming, it's coming up soon 'cross the moon.

Tour sickness, tour-sick
Hey look at me.

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Took a walk in the wild wood ..

 

[fox69]

"House Of Jansch"

"House Of Jansch"



Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree
Swaying in a summer breeze,
You'll never change what has to be.
Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree.
Sometimes I don't know what I said till I did,
I want to be the father of your kid.
Dragonfly he sleeps till dawn,
I knew I'd be here when love has gone.
Crystal ball is what I wish for you,
Get it straight, I love the both of you.
Someone's goin' through a cold turkey.
Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree.
I give your baby a contact high
I love another is what I sigh -ha-
Looks like rain, I do declare,
Your baby wants to take my chocolate eclair.
I couldn't cry, I could not laugh,
Incident about a silken scarf.
I know what a jealous trip can be.
Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree.
Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree
Swaying in a summer breeze,
You'll never change what has to be,
Girl ain't nothing but a willow tree.
Weep for me, willow tree,
Weep for me, willow tree.

 

[fox69]

"How Silly"

"How Silly"



HOW SILLY The politician look
Wearing his public smile
Trying to hide his incapacity
When it's sticking out a mile
With his papier mache wife
And his papier trashy life
If he sees himself as the man for the job
His mirror's telling lies.

HOW SILLY the priest of parson looks
Striking a holy pose
Trying to hide their nakedness
With mediaval clothes
They're holding a golden key
But what it looks like to me
If they're holding all the real estate
That's your neighborhood poverty.

These are just few of the things
I've been noticing
Dear Politician, Priest & Parson
If you really feel like helping:
Open up your heart.. That's the helpin' part
Open up your heart.. That's at least a start

HOW SILLY the Queen of England looks
Slipping her royalty
The essence of noncommitalness
In the grand democracy.
It's the Hanoverian Strain
Erin's isle is not the same
For the poet's rhyme, she give us wine
We hope for better things from Charles.

These are just of the things
I've been noticing.
Your Royal Majesty, Dear Madame
If you really feel like helping:
Open up your heart.. That's the helpin' part
Let your Christmas message start: «Open up your hearts...»

HOW SILLY The politician looks
Wearing his public smile
HOW SILLY the Priest or Parson looks
Stricking a holy pose
HOW SILLY the Queen of England looks
HOW SILLY, HOW SILLY, HOW SILLY!

 

[fox69]

"I Like You"

"I Like You"



You're such a good friend.
I'd had to have you as an enemy.
From the first time we met,
I knew you were the one to set me free.

You liked me. I liked you.
You liked me. I liked you.

Holding my heart in the palm of your hand.
Headed out west for the Indian lands.
Dreams of the golden boy tangling your mind.
Burning your body to fill in the time.

Sad city sister on Avenue of Palm,
I knew naively that I was your man.
I followed after with heavy heart of lead.
Just like a man who walks, yet is dead.

I asked you to dance
and you wondered and you thought you might.
So we went and took a chance,
On the catwalk in the cold starlight.

I held you. You felt me.
I touched you. You kissed me.

Holding my heart in the palm of your hand.
Headed out west for the Indian lands.
Dreams of the golden boy tangling your mind.
Drugs aid your body to fill in the time.

Sad city sister on Avenue of Palm,
I knew naively that I was your man.
I followed after with heavy heart of lead.
Just like a man who walks, yet is dead.

 

[fox69]

"I Love My Shirt"

"I Love My Shirt"



Do you have a shirt that you really love,
One that you feel so groovy in?
You don't even mind if it starts to fade,
That only makes it nicer still.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.
Do you have some jeans that you really love,
Ones that you feel so groovy in?
You don't even mind if they start to fray
That only makes them nicer still.
I love my jeans, I love my jeans,
My jeans are so comfortably lovely.
I love my jeans, I love my jeans,
My jeans are so comfortably lovely.
When they are taken to the cleaners,
I can't wait to get them home again.
Yes, I take 'em to the cleaners
And there they wash them in a stream,
Scrub a rub dub dub
And there they wash them in a stream -
Know what I mean.
Do you have some shoes that you really love,
Ones that you feel so flash in?
You don't even mind if they start to get some holes in
That only makes them nicer still.
I love my shoes, I love my shoes,
My shoes are so comfortably lovely.
I love my jeans, I love my jeans,
My jeans are so comfortably lovely.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
In fact I love my wardrobe.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.
I love my shirt, I love my shirt,
My shirt is so comfortably lovely.

 

[fox69]

"I Love You Baby"

"I Love You Baby"


I love you baby
Ohhh
I really do
You don't have to think baby
I'm givin' all my love to you

When you're down in trouble just call on me
I'll set you free and easy
When you're feeling weird you got nothing to fear
Tell it to me and you'll soon see

I love you baby
Ohhh
I really do
You love me baby
I know it in my heart that you do

When I'm inside out and the wrong way around
You put my feet on the ground
When I'm inbetween a couple of scenes
You shook me from the bad dream

I love you baby
Ohhh
I really do
You love me baby
I see it in your eyes that you do
Oh yeah

[instrumental break]

When you're down in trouble just call on me
I'll set you free and easy
When you're feeling weird you got nothing to fear
Tell it to me and you'll soon see

I love you baby
Ohhh
I really do
You don't have to think baby
I'm givin' all my
I'm givin' all my love to you
baby
I'm livin' all my love for you
'Cause I love you baby
Ooh, I really do

I love you lady
I really do
I love you lady
I really do
I love you lady
I really do
I love you lady
I really do

 

[fox69]

"In An Old Fashioned Picture Book"

"In An Old Fashioned Picture Book"



Come take a look with me in an old fashioned picture book
Patience, the girl we see on the sand with the squint and the parasol low
Sweethearts are sewn 'tween the cloth of her cuff
A shell in her little tight hand
Soon she'll be going away with her bottle of sand tomorrow
From the shores of yesterday.

Come see her move and be in our old fashioned backward look
Just like an old movie, talking and real like when it was took
Bats, balls and Tomboys, cheeky and gruff
Faint sounds of a distant brass band
Who rides the donkey today?
Will our visions of tomorrow mingle with those of yesterday?

Come, close your eyes and hear melodies from an old music box
Tinkling as tandems and tears, go tumbling like tresses and small perfumed locks
Sweet dreams were sewn 'tween the years of her life
A tear in her little kerchief waving and fading away
With her bottled sand tomorrow from the shores of yesterday
Will her visions of tomorrow mingle with those of yesterday?

Come take a look with me in an old fashioned picture book.

 

[fox69]

"International Man"

"International Man"




I like a pale Caucasian
I like an olive Asian
I like a Polynesian
I like a slim Afrikaan
Ladies from every land - love!
The International Man
I like a Red Indi-an
I like a M-Mexican
I like a Carribe-an
I like a Brazilian
Ladies from every land - love!
The International Man
The International Man (that's me)
The International Man (I am he)
The International Man
The International Man (can't you see)
Ladies from every land - love!
The International Man
I like a Marvellous Martian
A Vivacious Venusian
I like a leggy-Libran
With just a touch of Scorpion
Ladies from every plane - love!
The Interplanetry Man
The Interplanetry Man
The International Man
The International Man
Ladies from every land - love!
The International-Man!