Ray Charles

[fox69]

"Simpatica"

"Simpatica"


Simpatica
One look in your eyes and I knew you
Touching your hand bound me to you
You understand, for you are simpatica.
Simpatica
You don't have to talk to inspire me
Don't have to say you desire me
Day after day you are so simpatica.
You speak and it's the sweetest music
I have ever heard
You taught me how to live again
The day you taught me
That single word
Simpatica
I know that our love must be deathless.
Your little kiss leave me breathless
You must know this if you are simpatica
And you are so
Simpatica!

 

[fox69]

"Sing For Your Supper"

"Sing For Your Supper"


Hawks and crows do lots of things,
But the canary only sings.
She is a courtesan on wings,
So I've heard.
Eagles and storks are twice as strong.
All the canary knows is song.
But the canary gets along --
Gilded bird!
Sing for your supper, and you'll get breakfast.
Songbirds always east
If their song is sweet to hear.
Song for your luncheon, and you'll get dinner.
Dine with wine of choice,
If romance is in your voice.
I heard from a wise canary
Trilling makes a fellow willing,
So little swallow, swallow now.
Now is the time to
Song for your supper, and you'll get breakfast.
Songbirds are not dumb:
They don't buy a crumb of bread, it's said.
So sing and you'll be fed.

 

[fox69]

"Single-O"

"Single-O"


Single-O, all the way
Rain or shine
Gonna stay, Single-O
Till you're mine
Like the peach,
At the top, of the tree
Gonna stay, Single-O
Till it's me
And though I don't know what caresses
You expect to find
I know my address is
Lonesomeville till you make up your mind
When you do
And it's me
You adore
Then I'll be
Single-O no more
And though I don't know what caresses
You expect to find
I know my address is
Lonesomeville till you make up your mind
When you do
And it's me
You adore
Then I'll be
Single-O no more

 

[fox69]

"Sinner's Prayer"
(feat. B.B. King)

"Sinner's Prayer"
(feat. B.B. King)



Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.
Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.
Well if I've done somebody wrong, Lord, have mercy if you please.

I used to have plenty of money, the finest clothes in town,
But bad luck and trouble overtaken me, bound to get me down.
Please have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.
Well if I've done somebody wrong, Lord, have mercy if you please.

Keep on working now, child.
Lord every morning.

Well if I've been a bad boy, baby, I declare I'll change my ways.
I don't want bad luck and trouble to follow me all my days.
Please have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.
Well if I've done somebody wrong, Lord, have mercy if you please.

 

[fox69]

"Sittin' On Top Of The World"

"Sittin' On Top Of The World"


I'm sitting on top of the world, just rolling along, just rolling along
I'm quitting the blues of the world, just singing a song, just singing a
Song
Glory halleluha, I just phoned the parson
Hey "Par", get ready to call, Just like humpty dumpty, I'm going to fall
I'm sitting on top of the world, just rolling along, just rolling along

 

[fox69]

"Skylark"

"Skylark"


Skylark
Have you anything to say to me?
Won't you tell me where my love can be?
Is there a meadow in the mist
Where someone's waiting to be kissed?
Oh skylark
Have you seen a valley green with spring?
Where my heart can go a journeying
Over the shadows and the rain
To a blossom covered lane
And in your lonely flight
Haven't you heard the music in the night?
Wonderful music
Faint as a will o' the wisp
Crazy as a loon
Sad as a gypsty serenading the moon
Oh skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there
Oh skylark
Won't you lead me there?

 

[fox69]

"Sleepyhead"

"Sleepyhead"


Some day is always a glum day,
You lose all your spirit;
Bleak day, that workaway weekday,
And oh how you fear it!
Closing, your heavy eyes closing,
Till nearly asleep, dear,
Dozing, while dreaming dozing,
Your troubles will keep, dear;

Sleepyhead, you'd better go dreaming
Sleepyhead, don't open your eyes!
Sleepyhead, or why should you worry away?
You'd better hurry away
Into your daydreams
Gay dreams!
Sleepyhead, when tears come a-streaming
Oh, weepyhead, no sorrow is wise;
Sleep away,
Deep away,
Keep away your sighs.
Sleepyhead, don't open your eyes!

 

[fox69]

"Smack Dab In The Middle"

"Smack Dab In The Middle"


Pick me a town in any clime
Where people like, a rockin' time
And stay awake both day and night
Till everybody's feelin good an' right

Then throw me
(Smack dab in the middle)
I wanna be
(Smack dab in the middle)
Ahh, smack dab in the middle, boys now
So I can rock and roll to satisfy my soul

Ten Cadillacs, a diamond mill
Ten suits of clothes to dress to kill
A ten room house, some barbecue
And fifty chicks not over twenty-two

Then throw me
(Smack dab in the middle)
Oh, I wanna be
(Smack dab in the middle)
Ahh, now boys you can see why I wanna be smack dab in the middle now
So I can rock and roll to satisfy my soul

One hundred beds with chorus girls
A street that's paved with natural pearls
A wagon load of bonds and stocks
Then open up the door at Fort Knox

Then throw me
(Smack dab in the middle)
I wanna be
(Smack dab in the middle)
Ahh, now listen boys throw me smack dab in the middle right now
So Ray can rock and roll to satisfy his soul

That's all right!

A lot of bread and gangs of meat
Oodles of butter and somethin' sweet
Gallons of coffee to wash it down
Bicarbonated soda by the pound

Then throw me
(Smack dab in the middle)
Ah, picture it
(Smack dab in the middle)
Ahh, throw me now, smack dab in the middle right now
So I can rock and roll to satisfy my soul

Alright!

 

[fox69]

"Soliciting Subscriptions"

"Soliciting Subscriptions"


We bring drama to your great metropolis,
We are the little theatre group.
Each of us has built a small acropolis
To hold our little theatre troupe.
We'd be very glad to meet you, and greet you, and seat you and treat you just
Great.
For all commercial art is hollow;
So follow Apollo and swallow our bait
Help to serve the art of your Cosmopolis,
If you'll be one of us,
Each son of us will welcome you at the gate.
The neighborhood playhouse may shine below the Macy Gimbel line,
It was built to make a ride for people on Fifth Avenue.
To Yeats and Synge and Shaw and such we add an oriental touch,
We bring out the aesthetic soul you didn't know you have in you.
We like to serve a mild dish of folk lore quaintly childish
Or something Oscar Wildeish, in pantomime or dance.
Grand Street folk we never see'em, they think the place is a museum
And we know just what we do, because we always take a chance.
The Provincetown Playhouse still owns the art of Robert Edmond Jones,
]From the classic drama we're a notable secessionist.
We've even made the censors feel the verity of Gene O'Neill.
The meaning doesn't matter if the manner is expressionist!
Our one great contribution to art is revolution!
Our mood is very "Roosh-in" you can tell it at a glance.
Our bare stage may look funny but it saves us lots of money.
And we know just what we do, Because we always take a chance.
For your attention, many thanks we've brought along subscription blanks,
For actor's Theatre that the audience may glory in.
The dear old "Servant in the House" the "Pride of Mister Rankin Touse,"
And plays by Henrik Ibsen in a manner quite Victorian!
We spurn the bedroom dramas with heroes in pajamas,
For things that pleased our Mamas such as Candida's romance.
We wear the sock and buskin to the taste of old John Ruskin
And we know just what we do, because we never take a chance!

 

[fox69]

"Some Day Baby"

"Some Day Baby"


Oh Lordy Lord, oh Lordy Lord
It hurts me so bad for us to part
But some day baby
I ain't gonna worry my life anymore

So may mornings since you been gone
I been worryin' and grievin' my life alone
But some day baby
I ain't gonna worry my life anymore

So many days since you went away
I had to worry both night and day
But some day baby
I ain't gonna worry my life anymore

No boy, I ain't gonna worry my life no more

You on my mind every place I go
How much I love you nobody knows
But some day baby
I ain't gonna worry my life anymore

So that's my story, that is all I have to say to you
Goodbye baby and I don't care what you do
But some day baby
I ain't gonna worry my life anymore