The Definitive Tom Jones 1964-2002 lyrics

REFUGEECAMP
TURN ME UP GIVE ME SOME MORE
TOM JONES YOUR READY BABY
YEAH THAT’S IT
LET’GO

REFREIN:
1, 2 TOM’S COMING FOR YOU
3, 4 GONNA BUST THROUGH YOUR DOOR
5, 6 YOU BETTER LOCK UP YOUR CHICKS
7, 8 BEFORE IT’S TO LATE

ACT RIGHT LADIES SEEM FORGOT BODY
FEELS LIKE PUSSYCATS COME OUT
LATE NIGHT NO MATTER WHERE THEY ROME

Ow!!
Yeah ...
Yeah
Home grown, on the bone
All the channels show the same old war zone
As I walk alone in the city
Makin' me an offer, now don't they look pretty
New cinema
Live action, all the noise of attraction beats up
On the streets, the sellers do mark up
Better than tellin' em off, don't stock up
Shark, they don't bite
All that matters is you're not here tonight
And now that I wonder

Baby
take off your coat
real slow.
Baby take off your shoes
I'll help you take off your shoes.
Baby, take off your dress
yes
yes
yes.
You can leave your hat on -
You can leave your hat on -
You can leave your hat on.
You can leave your hat on -
You can leave your hat on -

Go on over there
turn on the light
no, all the lights.

Come back here
stand on that chair

Want some whiskey in your water?

Sugar in your tea?

What's all these crazy questions they're askin' me?

This is the craziest party that could ever be

Don't turn on the lights 'cause I don't wanna see

Mama told me not to come

Mama told me not to come

She said "That ain't the way to have fun, son"

"That ain't the way to have fun, son"

Some radio is blastin'

Sometimes we know
Sometimes we don't
Sometimes we give
And sometimes we won't

Sometimes we're strong
And sometimes we're wrong
Sometimes we cry
Sometimes we cry

Sometimes it's bad
When the going gets tough
Help me look in the mirror
Help me wanna give up

Sometime you know leave it
Want to try
Sometimes we cry

Well we gonna have to sit down
And think it through

This is TJ, dedicating this song to Leadbelly

Whoa Black Betty, bambalam
Whoa Black Betty, bambalam

Shes from Birmingham, bambalam
Way down in Alabama, bambalam
The way she shake that thing, bambalam
Oh she make me sing, bambalam

Whoa Black Betty, bambalam
Whoa Black Betty, bambalam

She really get me high, bambalam
You know thats no lie, bambalam
Shes so rock steady, bambalam

I’M STILL YOUNG AT HEART
I PLAY THE PART
I FEEL SO GOOD, I FEEL SO GOOD
WHEN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NO LONGER SCREAMS FOR ME
AND THE RECORD COMPAGNIE DON’T SEND NO LIMO’S FOR ME
AND THE YOUNG GIRLS THEY THINK THAT I’M TOO OLD

REFREIN:
I KNOW I BE OKE WHEN I THINK OF THE YOUNG DAYS, THE YOUNG DAYS

You go to sleep, I want to sail in your hair

And when you speak, you know you got to make sense

You want to say that it's me you know less

I say a girl like you, she was born to be blessed

My hands are yours, and you can take them from me

And take my mouth, I have nothing to say

I want to fly to some other place

I say a girl like you, she was born to be kissed

Born to be kissed

Watch out you might get what youre after
cool babies strange but not a stranger
i'm an ordinary guy
burning down the house

hold tight wait till the party's over
hold tight we're in for nasty weather
there has got to be a way
burning down the house

here's your ticket pack your back: time for jumpin' overboard
the transportations here
close enough but not too far, maybe you know where you are

Aw, Aw baby, Yeah, ooh Yeak, huh, listen to this
Spy on me baby use satellite
Infrared to see me move through the night
Aim gonna fire shoot me right
Aim gonna like the way you fight
And I love the way you fight

Now you found the secret code
I use to wash away my lonely blues well
So I can't deny or lie cause you're a
Sexbomb sexbomb you're a sexbomb uh, huh

Words and music - traditional

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

A long long way from home

A long long way from home

Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone

Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone

Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone

You don't have to be beautiful
To turn me on
I just need your body, baby
From dusk till dawn
You don't need experience
To turn me out
You just leave it all up to me
I'll show you what it's all about

You don't have to be rich to be my girl
You don't have to be cool to rule my world
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
I just want your extra time and your KISS

The nights grow cold, my search for gold
Is leading nowhere
Whichever lonely road I take
It seems to go where
It's a fight to survive just until tomorrow
How can I display what I know I'm worthy of
When they turn me away

The doors are closed to such as I
A boy from nowhere
But not to those who merely buy the right
to go where
They'll be met with respect, not humiliation

Hey' baby
You go your way
And I'll go mine
But in the meantime

Move closer

When we're together
Touching each other
And our bodies
Do what we feel

When we're dancing
Smooching and swaying
Tender love song
Softly playing

Move closer (move closer)
Move your body' real close until we
Feel like we're making love

Get closer

So when I say sugar
And I whisper i love vou (I love you)

Rickie Lee Jones
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Dutch took 'em on the slow train to Peking on La Brea Avenue
To find the Stax and Sun
They were reaching to get to
They was a rapping the flat scat
Diamond dialectos of points and taps
Between the chicken and the back

Well she's all you'd ever want,
She's the kind they'd like to flaunt and take to dinner.
Well she always knows her place.
She's got style, she's got grace, She's a winner.
She's a Lady. Whoa whoa whoa, She's a Lady.
Talkin' about that little lady, and the lady is mine.
Well she's never in the way
Something always nice to say, Oh what a blessing.
I can leave her on her own

In a town near Albuquerque
lived a most concerned young boy.
He said
lately I have noticed
folks don't live with peace and joy.
With frowns and worries in their faces
they're lost and don't know where to go.
He said I'll get the people straightened
by putting on a puppet show.

The young New Mexican puppeteer
he saw the people all lived in fear.
He thought that maybe they listen to

Somebody, please, if somebody will
Let them take a letter to my girl, Lucille
Let them tell her, Lord, how I'm missing
her still
I think about her constantly
Somebody, please, if somebody can
Let them take a letter from this
lonely man
All I ask is Lord, make her understand
I'll die if she don't wait for me

I heard a rumor from the guys in Cell A
You've served your time and you are

[Backup girls voices]
Puppet man
Puppet ma-an
Puppet man
Puppet ma-an

[Enter Jones Vocals]

Baby, Baby you know it's true
I'm a puppet just for you
I'll do any little thing you say
I wouldn't have it any other way
Take my heart and take my soul
I'm givin' you complete control
If you wanna see me do my thing, Baby pull my string Huh, yea

[Backup Girls next section]

Puppet man, puppet man-an

In a town near Albequerqe
Lived a most concerned young boy
He said lately I have noticed
Folks don't live with peace and joy
With frowns and worry on their faces
They're lost and don't know where to go
He said I'll get the people straightened
By putting on a puppet show

The young New Mexican puppeteer
He saw the people all lived in fear
He thought that maybe they'd listen to

I know that it's late and I really must leave you alone
But you're too good to hold that I feel such a long way from home
Yes I know that our love is too new, But I promise Its going to be true
Please let me stay and don't you send me away Oh no no

Aaahh

Tell me baby that you need me, say you'll never leave me
Love me tonight
Hold me now my heart is aching, until the dawn is breaking

Woman, I can remember a woman
Warm were her kisses and tender was she lying there in my arms
Why
Why, did you deceive me so
What devil inside made you go when I needed you most of all-ll
Oh Daughter of Darkness
Stay out of my life, my life
You took my heart and broke it apart, you daughter of darkness
Daughter of darkness
Please, leave me alone forever

I watch the leaves falling to the ground
I'm walking up and down
The streets of my hometown
You're here with me like it used to be
I look around and then I'm on my own again

Can't stop loving you
Can't stop wanting you
Can't stop now that you
Made me part of you
I've heard some people say
I'm dreaming my life away
But what else can I do
Can't stop loving you

To live for today and to love for tomorrow

is the wisdom of a fool

because tomorrow is promised to noone
you see
love is that wonderful thing
that the whole world needs plenty of.
If you think for one minute that you can live without it

then you are only fooling yourself.
Listen
please
I like to tell you something
that happened to me just the other day.

I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one
Adore you, and want you so
I'm just a no one,
With nothing to give you but Oh
I Love You

He, He buys you diamonds
Bright, sparkling diamonds
But believe me, dear when I say,
That he can give you the world,
But he'll never love you the way
I Love You

He can take you anyplace he wants
To fancy clubs and restaurants
But I can only watch you with

Now people you know I am
I need all I can do
(huh) - but I got a problem now
And I'm gonna tell you about it

I'm looking for this woman you see
Listen, this is the way the story goes

Looking out my window, looking at the rain
Nothing left but sorrow, nothing left but pain
Why you'd go and leave me
Set me alone and blue
Looking out my window, woman, trying to find you

I'm coming home to your loving heart
Till the one that I was
True way and broke apart

I want you I need you
A chance is on I'm asking now
I must get back to you so now
So I am coming home to you
'Cause I am nothing without you
May be you found somebody new
'Cause I'm still coming home to you

Please let me stay and forget your pride
Now my world is falling round
I got know when behind

I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window
I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind
She was my woman
As she deceived me I watched and went out of my mind
My, my, my, Delilah
Why, why, why, Delilah
I could see that girl was no good for me
But I was lost like a slave that no man could free
At break of day when that man drove away, I was waiting

Bist du wieder einmal pleite und das Glück läßt sich nicht sehn

dann zeig Nerven und mach dich nicht gleich verrückt.
Man darf alles nicht so eng sehn und ganz locker seinen Weg gehn
auch wenn dieser Weg nur scharfe Kurven hat.
Denn in diesem schönen Leben geht nunmal nicht alles glatt.
Denn auch Trouble hält die morschen Knochen jung

I've been in love so many times
Thought I knew the score
But now you've treated me so wrong
I can't take anymore
And it looks like
I'm never gonna fall in love again
Fall in love, I'm never gonna fall in love
I mean it
Fall in love again
All those things I heard about you
I thought they were only lies
But when I caught you in his arms
I just broke down and cried
And it looks like

I wake up crying
After tossin' and turnin'
And a-yearnin' the whole night long
Pretty baby since you went away
I haven't spent a happy day

I wake up crying
After sobbin' and sighin'
And a-wonderin' just what went wrong
Pretty baby I was good to you
Why'd you go and make me blue

I need your arms to hold me tight
I need your sweet lips to kiss me goodnight
I'm so unhappy on my own

Love is like candy on a shelf
You want to taste and help yourself
The sweetest things are there for you
Help yourself, take a few
That's what I want you to do.

We're always told repeatedly
The very best in life is free
And if you want to prove it's true
Baby I'm telling you
This is what you should do
Just help yourself to my lips
To my arms just say the word, and they are yours

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City,
and I dreamed about those cotton fields at home.
I dreamed about my mother,
dear old Papa, Sister and brother,

I dreamed about that girl
who's been waiting for so long.
I wanna go home, I wanna go home,
oh, how I wanna go home!

Home, folks think I'm big in Detroit City.
From the letters that I write, they think I'm fine.
But by day, I make the cars,

[1vsl]
Some people say a man is made out of mud well a poor man's made outta
muscle and blood..Muscle and blood and skin and bone..and a mind
that's weak..but a back thats strong.
[2vs]
And he was born one morning when the sun didn't shine..
He picked up his shovel and he went to the mines
He loaded 16 tons of that number 9 coal..Til-
the Straw boss said Well-uh b-less my soul!
[CHR]

Bama Lama, Bama Loo

Got a gal named Lucinda

They call her the great pretender

Got a gal named Lucinda
They call her the great pretender

'Cause when she talks

She says Bama Lama, Loo

Welllllll, Bama Lama, Bama Loo

Bama Lama, Bama Loo

Bama Lama, baby, Bama Loo, yeah

Bama Lama, Bama Loo

The way she smiles, she drives me wild

Bama Lama, Bama Loo

Oh, yeah.....yoo....wah

Now let me ask you something:

Have you ever felt that you weren't responsible for the things that you do?

When the girl that you are with is just too much

She is so out of sight, baby, that all you can say is:
Well, all right!

I'm not responsible, not responsible

For anything I do when I'm with you

I'm not responsible, it's impossible

To be so very near and not feel part of you

The old home town looks the same as I step down from the train,
and there to meet me is my Mama and Papa.
Down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries.
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.
Yes, they'll all come to meet me, arms reaching, smiling sweetly.
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.

Last night, quietly, she walked through my mind
As I lay searching for sleep.
Her soft hand reached out, she whispered my name
As she brushed a tear from my cheek.
And then those funny familiar forgotten feelings
started walkin' all over my mind.
It's sad, so sad to watch love go bad,
but a true love would not have gone wrong.
I'm just thankful for the good times we've had

He always runs while others walk.
He acts while other men just talk.
He looks at this world, and wants it all,
So he strikes, like Thunderball.
He knows the meaning of success.
His needs are more, so he gives less.
They call him the winner who takes all.
And he strikes, like Thunderball.

Any woman he wants, he'll get.
He will break any heart without regret.
His days of asking are all gone.

There's a little truth in
every lie you tell me
A little good in all the bad
you do....yesss
So instead of running away
Why don't you listen
when I say
All I want is just a little you

I've been wanting you to say
the words, I love you
A little love is gonna make
all my dreams come true...ohhh...
So instead of running away
Why don't you listen to me
when I say

And I'll take with me the warmth of thee

A taste of honey

Tasting much sweeter than wine
I leave behind my heart to wear

And may it always remind you of

A taste of honey

Tasting much sweeter than wine

I'll return, I will return

I'll come back for the honey and you

He ne'er came back to his love so fair

And so she died dreaming of his kiss

His kiss was honey

It's not unusual to be loved by anyone
It's not unusual to have fun with anyone
but when I see you hanging about with anyone
It's not unusual to see me cry,
oh I wanna' die
It's not unusual to go out at any time
but when I see you out and about it's such a crime
if you should ever want to be loved by anyone,
It's not unusual it happens every day no matter what you say

Once upon a time there was an Eden,
woa
Once upon a time Adam and Eve,
A ...fell in love
Um...they fell in love
Like you and I
Like you and I

Once upon a time there was Delilah,
um
Once upon a time the devil and she
A...tempted man
Oh yes...a tempted man.
A..just like you
Are tempting me

Once upon a time
I knew just what to do
But that was long before
I met you, yes,
Once upon a time

What's new pussycat Woah, Woah
What's new pussycat Woah, Woah
Pussycat, Pussycat
I've got flowers
And lots of hours
To spend with you.
So go and powder your cute little pussycat nose!
Pussycat, Pussycat
I love you
Yes, I do!
You and your pussycat nose!
What's new pussycat Woah, Woah
What's new pussycat Woah, Woah
Pussycat, Pussycat
You're so thrilling
And I'm so willing
To care for you.

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

Without Love (There Is Nothing)
Elvis Presley
(Words & music by Danny Small)

I awakened this morning, I was filled with despair
All my dreams turned to ashes and gone, oh yeah
As I looked at my life it was barren and bare
Without love I've had nothing at all
Without love I've had nothing
Without love I've had nothing at all
I have conquered the world
All but one thing did I have