Gerard Jouannest

Jacques Brel

Names

Food and Drink

Memories/Nostalgia

Dreams

Places

Novelty

Jazz

Pop

1965

Meme si un jour a Knocke-le-Zoute
Je deviens comme je le redoute
Chanteur pour femmes finissantes
Meme si je leur chante "Mi Corazon"
Avec la voix bandoneante
D'un Argentin de Carcassonne
Meme si on m'appelle Antonio
Que je brule mes derniers feux
En echange de quelques cadeaux
Madame je fais ce que je peux
Meme si je me saoule a l'hydromel
Pour mieux parler de virilite
A des memeres decorees
Comme des arbres de Noel
Je sais que dans ma saoulographie
Chaque nuit pour des elephants roses
Je chanterai la chanson morose
Celle du temps ou je m'appelais Jacky

Etre une heure une heure seulement
Etre une heure une heure quelquefois
Etre une heure rien qu'une heure durant
Beau beau beau et con a la fois

Meme si un jour a Macao
Je deviens gouverneur de tripot
Cercle de femmes languissantes
Meme si lasse d'etre chanteur
J'y sois devenu maitre chanteur
Et que ce soit les autres qui chantent
Meme si on m'appelle le beau Serge
Que je vende des bateaux d'opium
Du whisky de Clermont-Ferrand
De vrais pedes de fausses vierges
Que j'aie une banque a chaque doigt
Et un doigt dans chaque pays
Et que chaque pays soit a moi
Je sais quand meme que chaque nuit
Tout seul au fond de ma fumerie
Pour un public de vieux Chinois
Je rechanterai ma chanson a moi
Celle du temps ou je m'appelais Jacky

Etre une heure une heure seulement
Etre une heure une heure quelquefois
Etre une heure rien qu'une heure durant
Beau beau beau et con a la fois

Meme si un jour au paradis
Je deviens comme j'en serais surpris
Chanteur pour femmes a ailes blanches
Meme si je leur chante alleluia
En regrettant le temps d'en bas
Ou c'est pas tous les jours dimanche
Meme si on m'appelle Dieu le Pere
Celui qui est dans l'annuaire
Entre Dieulefit et Dieu vous garde
Meme si je me laisse pousser la barbe
Meme si toujours trop bonne pomme
Je me creve le coeur et le pur esprit
A vouloir consoler les hommes
Je sais quand meme que chaque nuit
J'entendrai dans mon paradis
Les anges les saints et Lucifer
Me chanter la chanson de naguere
Celle du temps ou je m'appelais Jacky

Etre une heure une heure seulement
Etre une heure une heure quelquefois
Etre une heure rien qu'une heure durant
Beau beau beau et con a la fois

Feature not available - Coming Soon

Jacques Brel

Rod McKuen

Baby/Children

Body

Names

Love

Weather

Country/Nature

Colours

Time

Animals

Memories/Nostalgia

Pop

1974

Good bye to you my trusted friend, we've known each other since we were
Nine or ten; together we climbed hills and trees,
Learned of love A B C.
Skinned our harts and skinned our knees.
Good bye my friend it's hard to die, when all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere, think of me and I'll be there

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun,
but the hills that we climb were just seasons out of time.

Goodbye papa please pray for me, I was the black sheep of the family,
you tried to teach me right from wrong, too much wine and too much song,
wonder how I got along.
Goodbye papa it's hard to die, when all the birds are singing in the sky,
now that the spring is in the air,
little children everywhere ,
when you see them I'll be there.

We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun,
but the wine and the song like the seasons out of time.

Goodbye Michelle my little one,
you gave me love and helped me find the sun,
and every time that I was down,
you always come around and
get my feet back on the ground,
Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
now that the spring is in the air,
whit the flowers everywhere,
I wish that we could both be there.

We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
but the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach
"Every thing was better in the good old days,
when everybody was in pain"

Feature not available - Coming Soon

Jacques Brel

Rod McKuen

Baby/Children

Body

Names

Memories/Nostalgia

Love

Weather

Country/Nature

Colours

Time

Animals

Pop

1999

Good bye to you my trusted friend, we've known each other since we were
Nine or ten; together we climbed hills and trees,
Learned of love A B C.
Skinned our harts and skinned our knees.
Good bye my friend it's hard to die, when all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere, think of me and I'll be there

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun,
but the hills that we climb were just seasons out of time.

Goodbye papa please pray for me, I was the black sheep of the family,
you tried to teach me right from wrong, too much wine and too much song,
wonder how I got along.
Goodbye papa it's hard to die, when all the birds are singing in the sky,
now that the spring is in the air,
little children everywhere ,
when you see them I'll be there.

We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun,
but the wine and the song like the seasons out of time.

Goodbye Michelle my little one,
you gave me love and helped me find the sun,
and every time that I was down,
you always come around and
get my feet back on the ground,
Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
now that the spring is in the air,
whit the flowers everywhere,
I wish that we could both be there.

We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
but the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach
"Every thing was better in the good old days,
when everybody was in pain"

Feature not available - Coming Soon

Jacques Brel

Rod McKuen

Baby/Children

Body

Names

Memories/Nostalgia

Love

Weather

Country/Nature

Colours

Time

Animals

Pop

2004

Good bye to you my trusted friend, we've known each other since we were
Nine or ten; together we climbed hills and trees,
Learned of love A B C.
Skinned our harts and skinned our knees.
Good bye my friend it's hard to die, when all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere, think of me and I'll be there

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun,
but the hills that we climb were just seasons out of time.

Goodbye papa please pray for me, I was the black sheep of the family,
you tried to teach me right from wrong, too much wine and too much song,
wonder how I got along.
Goodbye papa it's hard to die, when all the birds are singing in the sky,
now that the spring is in the air,
little children everywhere ,
when you see them I'll be there.

We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun,
but the wine and the song like the seasons out of time.

Goodbye Michelle my little one,
you gave me love and helped me find the sun,
and every time that I was down,
you always come around and
get my feet back on the ground,
Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
now that the spring is in the air,
whit the flowers everywhere,
I wish that we could both be there.

We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
but the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach
"Every thing was better in the good old days,
when everybody was in pain"

Feature not available - Coming Soon

Dominic Muldowney

Memories/Nostalgia

Dreams

Instrumental

Sadness

Instrumental

1984

Instrumental

Feature not available - Coming Soon

David Appell

Kal Mann

Body

Love

Weather

Celebration

Memories/Nostalgia

Rock 'n' Roll

1961

Come on everybody, clap your hands
Aw, yer lookin' good
I'm gonna sing my song, it won't take long
We're gonna do the twist and it goes like this

Come on, let's twist again
Like we did last summer
Yeah, let's twist again
Like we did last year
Do you remember when
Things were really hummin'?
Yeah, let's twist again
Twistin' time is here

Ee-ya, 'round and round
And a up and down we go again
Oh, baby, make me know
You love me so and then

Twist again
Like we did last summer
Come on, let's twist again
Like we did last year
Twist! Yo!

[Instrumental]

Who's that flyin' up there, is it a bird?
No!
Is it a plane?
No!
Is it The Twister?
Yeah!

Yeah, twist again
Like we did last summer
Come on, let's twist again
Like we twist last year
Do you remember when
Things were really hummin'? Come on, let's twist again
Twistin' time is here

Ee-ya, 'round and round
And a up and down we go again
Oh, baby make me know
You love me so and then

Come on, twist again
Like we did last summer
Girl, let's twist again
Like we did last year

Come on, let's twist again
Twistin' time is here!
Bop, bop!

Feature not available - Coming Soon

David Appell

Kal Mann

Body

Memories/Nostalgia

Love

Celebration

Weather

Rock 'n' Roll

Pop

1961

Come on everybody, clap your hands
Aw, yer lookin' good
I'm gonna sing my song, it won't take long
We're gonna do the twist and it goes like this

Come on, let's twist again
Like we did last summer
Yeah, let's twist again
Like we did last year
Do you remember when
Things were really hummin'?
Yeah, let's twist again
Twistin' time is here

Ee-ya, 'round and round
And a up and down we go again
Oh, baby, make me know
You love me so and then

Twist again
Like we did last summer
Come on, let's twist again
Like we did last year
Twist! Yo!

[Instrumental]

Who's that flyin' up there, is it a bird?
No!
Is it a plane?
No!
Is it The Twister?
Yeah!

Yeah, twist again
Like we did last summer
Come on, let's twist again
Like we twist last year
Do you remember when
Things were really hummin'? Come on, let's twist again
Twistin' time is here

Ee-ya, 'round and round
And a up and down we go again
Oh, baby make me know
You love me so and then

Come on, twist again
Like we did last summer
Girl, let's twist again
Like we did last year

Come on, let's twist again
Twistin' time is here!
Bop, bop!

Feature not available - Coming Soon

Dolly Parton

Body

Memories/Nostalgia

Love

Country/Nature

Animals

Sadness

Blues

Soul

2005

Little sparrow, little sparrow
Precious fragile little thing
Little sparrow, little sparrow
Flies so high and feels no pain

All ye maidens hede my warning
Never trust the hearts of men
They will crush you like a sparrow
Leaving you to never mend
They will vow to always love you
Swear no love but yours will do
Then they'll leave you for another
Break your little heart in two

Little sparrow, little sparrow
Precious fragile little thing
Little sparrow, little sparrow
Flies so high and feels no pain

If I were a little sparrow
O'er these mountains I would fly
I would find him, I would find him
Look into his lying eyes
I would flutter all around him
On my little sparrow wings
I would ask him, I would ask him
Why he let me love in vain

I am not a little sparrow
I am just the broken dream
Of a cold false-hearted lover
And his evil cunning scheme

Little sparrow, little sparrow
Precious fragile little thing
Little sparrow, little sparrow
Flies so high and feels no pain

All ye maidens fair and tender
Never trust the hearts of men
They will crush you like a sparrow
Leaving you to never mend

Little sparrow, little sparrow
Oh the sorrow never ends

Feature not available - Coming Soon

Merle Travis

Memories/Nostalgia

Country/Nature

Places

Money

Transport

Country and Western

1960

[Spoken:]
Ride this train up and down and across a strange wonderful land
It's almost like a fairyland when you to think about it
You go through places with names like Tuscaloosa, Kokomo, Muskogee, Oshkosh, Saginaw
Eureka, Bandera, Battle Creek, Sioux City, Chattanooga,
Hattiesburg, Lynchburg and Baltinare, Arkansas
You see I'm a million different people from all over the world
And I've been coming to this country for hundreds of years
This was the Promised Land for me
But let's not forget that when I came here
There were already millions of people living in teepees along the rivers
And hunting deer and buffalo for food and shelter
And it's with a little regret that I think of how I pushed them back
And crowded them out to claim this land for myself or for another country

But the Indians' hearts must have been full of music
For they left names with me that seem to sing
Names like Mohawk, Mandan, Kickapoo, Cree, Yacoma, Seminole, Crow, Shawnee,
Choctaw, Delaware, Fox, Paiute, Winnebago, Cheyenne, Blackfoot,
Navajo, Ute, Comanche, Quapaw Creek, Apache, Sioux Chippewa,
Ardua, Hupa, Shoshone, Mow, Hicano, Sage, Menomini,
Shinouk, Arapaho, Nez, Perce, Iroquois, Pony, Cutenai,
Flathead, Chickasaw, Pueblo, Yuma, Pima, Pomo, Caddo

Well a lot of them are still with me and I'm glad
It's for sure their names will always be with me
But let's look a little at the heart and muscle of this land
A few things you don't read in books, things that aren't taught in school
Now you take this little town we're goin' through here this is Beach Creek, Kentucky
And right down there in the valley, that's where our house used to be
It was a little shotgun shack with a spring out back
And a smokehouse and another little bitty house and that's about all
My pa was a coal miner like most ev'rybody in Mulenberg County
Worked in the mines all his life
I guess he didn't have much ambition to do anything else
Cause they say coal minin' kinda gets in your blood
Matter of fact pa said if they ever drained the blood outta him
It'd be blacker than black strap molasses

When I was a kid I used to sit at the fireplace there with ma
And we'd wait on pa to get in from the mine
And we'd sure get anxious if he was ever late
Ma would rock back and forth and watch the clock listin' for pa to hit the front porch
Then he'd come in nothin' clean but the whites of his eyes
And he'd reach for that lye-soap and starts scrubbin'
And I'd stand back and watch him and say to myself
Boy I'll be glad when I get big enough to work in the mines

[Song:]
My pappy said when I was seventeen
You're six feet tall and your face is clean
And it don't look right for a boy that old
To not make a livin' loadin' coal

Loadin' coal, loadin' coal
I'm a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole
Never get rich for to save my soul
In forty 'leven years a loadin' coal, loadin' coal

Ain't never got acquainted with a dollar bill
And I don't ever reckon that I ever will
A dollar ain't made for a feller I'm told
That scoops up a livin' loadin' coal

Loadin' coal, loadin' coal
I'm a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole
Never get rich for to save my soul
In forty 'leven years a loadin' coal, loadin' coal

I cussed ev'rything in the minin' camp
From a shovel and my pick, to my carbide lamp
But I know mighty well till I grow old
I'll still be a cussin' but loadin' coal

Loadin' coal, loadin' coal
I'm a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole
Never get rich for to save my soul
In forty 'leven years a loadin' coal, loadin' coal

I know just as well as coal is black
One of these days the mines'll strike
And I'll sit around starvin' till I'm finally told
There's a nickel more a ton for loadin' coal

Loadin' coal, loadin' coal
I'm a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole
Never get rich for to save my soul
In forty 'leven years a loadin' coal, loadin' coal
Loadin coal, loadin' coal

Feature not available - Coming Soon

Bobby Darin

Memories/Nostalgia

Country/Nature

Places

Transport

Rock

Pop

1968

Wettin' it down, boss
Wet it down
Wipin' it off, boss
Wipe it off

Doin' ten to twenty hard
Swingin' twelve pounds in the yard
Every day
Every day

I came in with a group of twenty
There ain't left but half as many
In the clay
In the clay

Long line rider, turn away

There's a farm in Arkansas
Got some secrets in its floor
In decay
In decay

You can tell where they're at
Nothin' grows, the ground is flat
Where they lay
Where they lay

Long line rider, turn away

All the records show so clear
Not a single man was here
Anyway
Anyway

That's the tale the warden tells
As he counts his empty shells
By the day
By the day

Hey, long line rider, turn away

Someone screams investigate
Excuse me sir, it's a little late
Let us pray
Let us pray

This kinda thing can't happen here
'Specially not in an election year
Outta my way
Outta my way

Hey, long line rider, turn away

There's a funny taste in the air
Big bulldozers everywhere
Diggin' clay
Turnin' clay

And the ground coughs up some roots
Wearin' denim shirts and boots
Haul 'em away
Haul 'em away

Hey, long line rider, turn away

Well, I heard a brother moan
"Why they plowin' up my home?"
In this way
In this way

I said, "Buddy, shake your gloom
They're just here to make more room
In the clay"
U.S.A.

Feature not available - Coming Soon

Stephen Sondheim

Memories/Nostalgia

Love

Time

Sadness

Showtunes

1985

The sun comes up, I think about you
The coffee cup, I think about you
I want you so, it's like I'm losing my mind

The morning ends, I think about you
I talk to friends, I think about you
And do they know, it's like I'm losing my mind

All afternoon, doing every little chore
The thought of you stays bright
Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor
Not going left, not going right

I dim the lights and think about you
Spend sleepless nights to think about you
You said you loved me, or were you just being kind?
Or am I losing my mind?

I want you so, it's like I'm losing my mind

And do they know, it's like I'm losing my mind

All afternoon doing every little chore
The thought of you stays bright
Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor
Not going left, not going right

I dim the lights and think about you
Spend sleepless nights to think about you
You said you loved me
Or were you just being kind?
Or am I losing my mind?

Feature not available - Coming Soon

Stephen Sondheim

Love

Time

Memories/Nostalgia

Showtunes

Dance

Pop

1989

The sun comes up, I think about you
The coffee cup, I think about you
I want you so, it's like I'm losing my mind

The morning ends, I think about you
I talk to friends, I think about you
And do they know, it's like I'm losing my mind

All afternoon, doing every little chore
The thought of you stays bright
Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor
Not going left, not going right

I dim the lights and think about you
Spend sleepless nights to think about you
You said you loved me, or were you just being kind?
Or am I losing my mind?

I want you so, it's like I'm losing my mind

And do they know, it's like I'm losing my mind

All afternoon doing every little chore
The thought of you stays bright
Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor
Not going left, not going right

I dim the lights and think about you
Spend sleepless nights to think about you
You said you loved me
Or were you just being kind?
Or am I losing my mind?

Feature not available - Coming Soon