Roger Whittaker - Legendary Roger Whittaker (2001) by Roger Whittaker (보컬) on maniadb.com

There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

Though death and darkness gather all about me
My ship be torn apart upon the seas
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
And should I return home safe again to England
I shall watch the English mist roll through the dale

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

Now if you load your rifle right
And if you fix your bayonet so
And if you kill that man my friend
The one we call the foe
And if you do it often lad
And if you do it right
You'll be a hero overnight
You'll save your country from her plight
Remember God is always right
If you survive to see the sight
A friend now greeting foe
No you won't believe in If anymore
It's an illusion
It's an illusion
No you won't believe in If anymore
If is for children
If is for children
Building daydreams
If I knew then what I know now
(I thought I did you know somehow)
If I could have the time again
I'd take the sunshine leave the rain
If only time would trickle slow
Like rain that melts the fallen snow
If only Lord if only
If only Lord if only
Oh I don't believe in If anymore
It's an illusion
It's an illusion
No I don't believe in If anymore
If is for children
If is for children
Building daydreams
No I don't believe in If anymore
It's an illusion
It's an illusion
No I don't believe in If anymore
If is for children
If is for children
Building daydreams

Have you seen the old man
In the closed down market
Picking up the papers, with his worn out shoes
In his eyes, you see no pride
Hand held loosly by his side
Yesterday's paper, telling yesterday's news

So how can ya tell me you're lonely
and say for you the sun doesn't shine
let me take you by the hand
and lead you through the streets of london
I`ll show you something
to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old girl
who walks the streets of london
dirt in her hair and her cloth in rags
she's no time for talking
she keeps right on walking
carrying her home in 2 carrier bags

so how can ya tell me you're lonely
and say for you the sun doesn't shine
let me take you by the hand
and lead you through the streets of london
I`ll show you something
to make you change your mind

In the all-night cafe
at a quarter past 11
same old man sitting there on his own
looking at the world
at the rim of his teacup
each tea last a hour
and he wanders home
alone

so how can you tell me your lonely
and say for you the sun doesn't shine
let me take you by the hand
and lead you through the streets of london
I`ll show you something
to make you cange your mind

have you seen the old man
outside the seaman's mission
memory fading with the medal ribbons he whares
in our winter city the rain cries little bitty
for one more forgotten hero
and a world that doesn't care

so how can you tell me your lonely
and say for you the sun doesn't shine
let me take you by the hand
and lead you through the streets of london
I`ll show you something
to make you cange your mind

I've gotta leave ol' Durham town. I've gotta leave ol' Durham town. I've gotta leave ol' Durham town and that leavin's gonna get me down.
Back in 1944, I remember Daddy walking out the door. Mama told me he was going to war, he was leaving. Leavin', leavin', leavin', leavin' me.
Now I've gotta leave ol' Durham town, I've gotta leave ol Durham town. I've gotta leave ol' Durham town and that leavin's gonna get me down.
When I was a boy, I spent my time sitting on the banks of the River Thyme. Watching all the ships going down the line. They were leavin'...leavin', leavin', leavin', leavin' me..
Now I've gotta leave ol' Durham town. I've gotta leave ol' Durham town. I've gotta leave ol' Durham town and that leavin's gonna get me down.
Last week Mama passed away. "Goodbye, son." is all she'd say. "There's no call for me to stay, so I'm leavin'...leavin', leavin', leavin', leavin' free."
Now I've gotta leave ol' Durham town. I've gotta leave ol' Durham town. I've gotta leave ol' Durham town and that leavin's gonna get me....I've gotta leave ol' Durham town. I've gotta leave ol' Durham town. I've gotta leave ol' Durham town and that leaving' gonna get me...La la la la la la la la...la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la

They say when you gain a lover
You begin to lose a friend
That the end of the beginning's
The beginning of the end
They say the moment that you're born
Is when you start to die
And the first time that we said hello
Began our last goodbye

We know each summer's coming
Means the winter's waiting there
And gold would not be precious
If we all had gold to spare
You only know how low is low
The first time that you fly
And the first time that we said hello
Began our last goodbye

If I could live forever
It is certain I could never
Know another single second so sublime
That moment of our meeting
When our hands first touched in greeting
How I wanted to hold back the hands of time

When they begin the overture
They start to end the show
When you said "I'll never leave you,"
Then I knew that you would go
The sound of all our laughter
Is now echoed in a sigh
And the first time that we said hello
Began our last goodbye

If I could live forever
It is certain I could never know
Another single second so sublime
That moment of our meeting
When our hands first touched in greeting
How I wanted to hold back the hands of time (hands of time)

When they begin the overture
They start to end the show
When you said "I'll never leave you,"
Then I knew that you would go
The sound of all our laughter
Is now echoed in a sigh
And the first time that we said hello
Began our last goodbye
And the first time that we said hello
Began our last goodbye

Everybody talks about a new world in the morning. A new world in the morning so they say.
I, myself don't talk about a new world in the morning. A new world in the morning, that's today.
And I can feel a new tomorrow comin' on.
And I don't know why I have to make a song. Everybody talks a bout a new world in the morning. New world in the morning takes so long.
I met a man who had a dream he had since he was twenty. I met that man when he was eighty-one. He said too many people just stand and wait up til the mornin', Don't they know tomorrow never comes.
And he would feel a new tomorrow coming on. And when he'd smile his eyes would twinkle up in thought. Everybody talks about a new world in the morning. New world in the morning never comes.
And I can feel a new tomorrow coming on.
And I don't know why I have to make a song. Everybody talks about a new world in the morning. New world in the morning takes so long.

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about science books
Don't know much about the French I took
But I do know that I love you
and I know that if you loved me too
what a wonderful world it could be

Don't know much about geography
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide ruler's for
but I do know what this one wants to
and if this one could be with you
what a wonderful world it could be

Now, I don't claim to be an A-student,
but I'm trying to be
For maybe by being an A-student, baby
I could win your love for me?

Don't know much about the Middle Ages
Looked at the pictures and I turned the pages
Don't know much about the Rise and Fall
Don't know much about nothing at all
Girl, it is you that I've been thinking of
And if I could only win your love
What a wonderful world it could be

The stark of grass tasts sweet upon my tongue
the tiny bird begins above to scold me
I stretch my toes up to the morning sun
and dreamed your arms of golden brown
will always hold me

All of my life I will thank the good Lord
that I've found you
All of my life with my love
I'm going to surround you
taking the time to proof I love
sure as you see the stars above you
all of my life Yes all of my life
filling your life with love

I've shared my world with birds and beasts and space
I needed nothing else to satisfy me
but laying here I see your smiling face
I'm glad I didn't dress until you were beside me

All of my life I will thank the good Lord
that I've found you
All of my life with my love
I'm going to surround you
taking the time to proof I love
sure as you see the stars above you
all of my life Yes all of my life
filling your life with love

Now I knowb why I walked that dusty road
I had to go back where I was to find you
Now I'm not alone within my soul
you turned what was our house into a hold

All of my life I will thank the good Lord
that I've found you
All of my life with my love
I'm going to surround you
taking the time to proof I love
sure as you see the stars above you
all of my life Yes all of my life
filling your life with love
all of my life Yes all of my life

Oh Mammy, oh Mammy Mammy Blue
Oh Mammy Blue
Oh Mammy, oh Mammy Mammy Blue
Oh Mammy Blue

I may be your forgotten son
Who wandered off at twenty-one
It's sad to find myself at home
Without you
If I could only hold your hand
And say I'm sorry, yes I am
I'm sure you'll really understand
Oh Mammy

Oh Mammy, oh Mammy Mammy Blue
Oh Mammy Blue
Oh Mammy, oh Mammy Mammy Blue

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Sans dire un mot sans t'embrasser
Sans un regard sur le passй-й
Dиs que j'ai franchi la frontiиre
Le vent soufflait plus fort qu'hier
Quand j'йtais prиs de toi ma mиre-и-re

Oh Mammy, oh Mammy Mammy Blue
Oh Mammy Blue

Good morning starshine, the earth says "Hello"
You twinkle above us, We twinkle below
Good morning starshine, you lead us along
My love and me as we sing our early morning singing song
Gliddy glup gloopy nibby nabby nooby la la la lo lo
Sabba sibby sabba nooby abba nabba le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla nooby abba nabba
Early morning singing song

Good morning starshine, the earth says "Hello"
You twinkle above us, We twinkle below
Good morning starshine, You lead us along
My love and me as we sing our early morning singing song
Gliddy glup gloopy nibby nabby nooby la la la lo lo
Sabba sibby sabba nooby abba nabba le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla nooby abba nabba
Early morning singing song

Singing a song, humming a song, singing a song
Loving a song, laughing a song, sing the song
Sing the song, song the sing
Song, song, song, sing, sing, sing, sing song

You are my nights,
You are my days,
You are my miracle,
In so many ways.

You give me hope,
You carry on,
You are my miracle,
For you make me strong.

The wonder of the love
To feel and to share,
Does ev'ry lover feel as I do?

How happy when we meet,
How cheerful when we part,
To feel the joy and pain as I do.

You are my nights,
You are my days,
You are my miracle,
In so many ways.

You give me hope,
You carry on,
You are my miracle,
For you make me strong.

If I could have a wish,
I'd wish for everyone,
I'd wish that all could feel as I do.

I'd give to every heart,
The miracle of love,
To know the joy of life as I do.

You are my nights,
You are my days,
You are my miracle,
In so many ways.

You give me hope,
You carry on,
You are my miracle,
For you make me strong.

You are my nights,
You are my days,
You are my miracle,
In so many ways.

You give me hope,
You carry on,
You are my miracle,
For you make me strong.

Found my love by the gaswork croft
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town, dirty old town
I heard a siren from the dock
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on the sulfured wind
Dirty old town, whoa-oh, dirty old town
We're goin' to take a good sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
And we'll chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town, dirty old town
Dirty old town, whoa-oh, dirty old town
And oh we'll chop you down
Oh, dirty, dirty, dirty old town
Dirty old town, dirty old town
And oh whoa-oh dirty old town
Chop you down one of these days

The day the river freezes is the day it won't seem fair
'Cos they'll come to get the river lady
And I don't think they'll care

I know they'll scrape her paint off
In their same old foolish ways

Now the people see the river
But the old ship's gone away
Water turns cold and gets to freezing
Before you even know it the old girl's easing
Away from her berth round by the point and out of our view
Off in the mist her engines pounding
Back on the banks that old horn's sounding
A little good-bye
a little I'll do what I must do
A little good-bye
a little I'll do what I must do

I know I will remember when I cannot hear that horn
That would roll up by the mountains
As she took us through the storm
I know they've got to take her
But I can't say I approve
'Cos she's won so many battles
That I hate to see her lose

Water turns cold and gets to freezing
Before you even know it the old girl's easing
Away from her berth round by the point and out of our view
Off in the mist her engines pounding
Back on the banks that old horn's sounding
A little good-bye
a little I'll do what I must do
A little good-bye
a little I'll do what I must do

Water turns cold and gets to freezing...

Something is going wrong
With the singer and the song
And the music isn?t gentle anymore
There?s a mist across the moon
And the sun?s too hot at noon
And the house is dark behind the broken door
Where the flowers used to grow
With their leaves are hanging low
And the constant shadow lies across the floor
There?s a strange and empty sky
Where the wild birds used to fly
And I never tasted bitter rain before
And will the grass be gone from underneath the sky
Will the golden flower wither soon and die
Will the fire burn out the land
And the sea fill-up with sand
Will the last word ever spoken be why?
Will the last word ever spoken be why?
Someone?s lost the plan
For the brotherhood of man
And no one?s trying to find it anymore
And the winds become a sigh
For those who hate and those who die
And the waves are black and slow along the shore
And will the grass be gone from underneath the sky
Will the golden flower wither soon and die
Will the fire burn out the land
And the sea fill-up with sand
Will the last word ever spoken be why?
Will the last word ever spoken be why, why, why?
Will the last word ever spoken be ?WHY?

Is this the little girl I carried?
Is this the little boy at play?
I don't remember growing older,
When did they?
When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he grow to be so tall?
Wasn't it yesterday when they were small?
Sunrise, sunset. Sunrise, sunset,
Swiftly flow the days.
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers,
Blossoming even as we gaze.
Sunrise, sunset. Sunrise, sunset,
Swiftly fly the years.
One season following another,
Laden with happiness and tears.

What words of wisdom can I give them?
How can I help to ease their way?
Now they must learn from one another,
Day by day.
They look so natural together,
Just like two newlyweds should be.
Is there a canopy in store for me?
Sunrise, sunset. Sunrise, sunset,
Swiftly fly the years.
One season following another,
Laden with happiness and tears.

Albany, that once stood high over Norton Green
Albany, whose mighty walls the people sheltered under
Albany, proud symbol set in the Highlands free
(This is Gordon McKenzie's story)
Just like a song, a song that lasts forever
(And the story of Albany, his family home)

Albany, that once stood high over Norton Green
Albany, whose mighty walls the people shelter under
Albany, proud symbol set in the Highlands free
Just like a song, a song that lasts forever

Gordon was the eldest son, a golden eagle, so the story runs
His brother Charles, dark as the raven
One night in jealous rage and spite, the raven struck with all his might
The eagle turned as quick as light and slew the raven

Albany, that once stood high over Norton Green
Albany, whose mighty walls the people shelter under
Albany, proud symbol set in the Highlands free
Just like a song, a song that last forever

See the king's men come riding through the heather
McKenzie's life they cry and all his land
Silent clansmen stand motionless together
An English king won't have a Highland man

So the king by his decree did raze and fire poor Albany
To let the people see his power the island justice still prevails
And according to the clansman's tales
A golden eagle nests forever in her tower

Albany, that once stood high over Norton Green
Albany, whose mighty walls the people shelter under
Albany, proud symbol set in the Highlands free
Just like a song, a song that last forever

Albany, that once stood high over Norton Green
Albany, whose mighty walls the people shelter under
Albany, proud symbol set in the Highlands free
Just like a song, a song that last forever

Albany, that once stood high over Norton Green
Albany, whose mighty walls the people shelter