The Fleetwoods

Well, I went and lost her To the great imposter I stood and watched her fall Couldn't help her at all Poetry, so sweet, has her at his feet She thinks she's the one but he has just begun All her friends they just watch her For they know the great imposter Do...

How gentle is the rain That falls softly on the meadow? Birds high up on the trees Serenade the flowers with their melodies Whoa, oh, see there beyond the hill The bright colors of the rainbow Some magic from above Made this day for us just to fall in love N...

You're a thousand miles away but I still have your love To remember you by Oh, my darling, I'll dry my eyes My daddy's coming home soon On my knees everyday all I do is pray Baby, just for you Hope you always want me too My daddy's coming home soon It maybe...

I ain't lookin' to compete with you, Beat or cheat or mistreat you, Simplify you, classify you, Deny, defy or crucify you. All I really want to do Is, baby, be friends with you. No, and I ain't lookin' to fight with you, Frighten you or uptighten you, Drag yo...

He wears a smile I wear a frown And I can tell whenever he's around (he's around) That all the eyes of everyone are staring And I know that they're comparing the two Yes, whispering and saying when they do See the difference between the old and new Before and...

Please understand me Please understand me Please understand me Please understand me Pack up all my care and woe Here I go Singing low Bye, bye, blackbird Where somebody waits for me Sugar's sweet So is she Bye, bye, blackbird No one here can love or underst...

Climb every mountain Search high and low Follow every highway Every path you know Climb every mountain Ford every stream Follow every rainbow Till you find your dream A dream that will need All the love you can give Every day of your life For as long as you...

Dom dom dom dom dom Dom be dooby Dom dom dom dom dom Dom be dooby Dom dom dom dom dom Dom be dooby dom Whoa whoa whoa whoa I love love you darling Come and go with me Come home with me Baby I'm to see I need you darling Come and go with me Whoa w...

Mm dooby do, dahm dahm, dahm do dahm ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm, ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm, ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm ooh dahm Mm dooby do (Come softly, darling) (Come softly, darling) (Come softly, darling) (Come softly, darling) (Come softly, darl...

Confidential as a church at twilight (confidential) Sentimental as a rose in the moonlight (I love you) My love for you will always be (confidential) Confidential to me (ooh ooh ooh ooh) Confidential as a mother's prayer (confidential) Too beautiful for other...

Days dwindle by Dwindle by What do you know? I'm starting to cry Cause I never get a letter Never get a letter From you Leaves of the autumn fell to the ground Making a lie of the love that we found Cause you promised to be with me Promised you'd be with me l...

Earth angel Earth angel Will you be mine? My darling dear Love you all the time I'm just a fool A fool in love with you Earth angel Earth angel The one I adore Love you forever and evermore I'm just a fool A fool in love with you I fell for you And I knew Th...

Since you've gone The moon, the sun, the stars in the sky Know the reason why I cry Love divine once was mine Now you've gone Since you've gone My heart, my lips, my tear dimmed eyes A lonely soul within me cries I acted smart, broke your heart Now you've gon...

Goodnight, my love, pleasant dreams and sleep tight, my love May tomorrow be sunny and bright and bring you closer to me Before you go there's just one thing I'd like to know If you love is still warm for me or has it gone cold? If you should awake in...

Graduation, graduation, graduation High school parties are over Things won't be the same The day to grow up finally came Graduation's here, graduation Our trips to the ocean Were so much fun Remember the games we almost won Graduation's here Our senior ye...

Hurt him (hurt him) Like he hurt me Win his heart then break it please Show him what it's like To cry, cry, cry Hurt him like hurt me Put him Through his own test (hurt him) Optical love Please do your best (hurt him) Make him blue both day and night Hurt him...

I care so much (I care so much) Want to feel your warm, warm touch (want to feel that touch) Honey, can't you see? (can't you see) What you mean to me Always out having fun (having so much fun) With your heart on the run (always on the run) Baby, come to me (...

Imagination is funny It makes a cloudy day sunny Makes a bee think of honey Just as I think of you Imagination is crazy Your whole perspective gets hazy Starts you asking a daisy What to do, what to do? Have you ever felt a gentle touch Then a kiss, and then...

In the still of the night I held you Held you tight Cause I love Love you so Promise I'll never Let you go In the still of the night (in the still of the night) I remember (I remember) That night in May (I remember) The stars (I remember) were bright above (I...

Go 'way from my window, Leave at your own chosen speed. I'm not the one you want, babe, I'm not the one you need. You say you're lookin' for someone Never weak but always strong, To protect you an' defend you Whether you are right or wrong, Someone to open eac...

One night as I lay tossing turning in my bed An image of a girl danced into my head A girl I used to love, and this is what she said, "Beware, Jimmy beware" "Jimmy beware, Jimmy beware There is danger lurking there She's just a bubble, not worth the trouble S...

Dilly, dilly, dilly Lavender blue, dilly, dilly Lavender green If I were king, dilly, dilly I’d need a queen Who told me so? Dilly, dilly Who told me so? I told myself, dilly, dilly I told me so If your dilly, dilly heart Feels a dilly, dilly way And if you'...

Little miss sad one (so sad) Why are you crying? (crying) Did your lover leave you all alone (so alone and blue) and blue? Little miss sad one (sad one) You should never stop trying (trying) A new love will come to you Little miss sad one Dry your eyes (no m...

Blow me a kiss from across the room Say I look nice when I'm not Touch my hair as you pass my chair Little things mean a lot Give me your arm as we cross the street Call me at six on the dot Align a day when you're far away Little things mean a lot Don't hav...

Just a lonely cup of coffee For a lonely boy tonight Need a dime to call my baby How I long to hold her tight Got no car to take her riding Can't take her to a show I just sit and stir my coffee Wondering how my love will go Just a lonely cup of coffee For a...

Though he loved and then he told you goodbye Well, that's no reason for you to sit and cry For as your tears fall Remember this You're just a kiss away from happiness Lonely is as lonely does So if you come with me I'll take you places You'll see new faces a...

Love Like a candle in a windstorm Left me all alone in darkness With no one to kiss me gently Love And you'll always love alone Love Like the foam of the ocean Has gone slipping through my fingers But her memory still lingers Love And you'll always love alone...

I gave her a pearl on a chain for a gift Said "It's called a love drop And my heart is in it Please wear it every day And at night-time, too To prove your love Is always true" She wore the little love drop Both day and night Showing her love Very plainly in s...

Darling hold my hand Let me know that you understand That till I'm free from the girl who loves me We must be secretly Lovers by night, strangers by day Till the time you can be in my arms endlessly Lovers by night, strangers by day She's been good to me But...

Magic star, shine on me Magic star in the sky Tell me why you don't shine on me Magic star up above Shine your light on my love In your glow, magic star You can make the world all mine Magic star up above Shine your light on my love Magic star Shine on me M...

Late in the evening, out in the square A man in a raincoat, standing there We met by the lamp where the newsboy cries He stole my heart with his laughing eyes He smiled as we climbed on the old street-car I blushed when he asked, "Are you traveling far?" The...

Our guardian star lost all his glow The day that I lost you He lost all his glitter the day you said, no And his silver turned to blue Like him, I am doubtful that your love is true But if you decide to call on me Ask for Mr. Blue I'm Mr. Blue (wah-a-wah-ooh...

Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream Make her complexion like peaches and cream Give her two lips like roses in clover Then tell me that my lonesome nights are over. Sandman, I'm so alone (he's so alone) Don't have nobody to call my own So please turn on your magic...

Who makes the robin sing? My love, my love Who brings the joy to spring? Who else, but you, my love Who makes my poor heart cry? My love, my love Whose eyes are stars on high? None else, but yours, my love As sweet as morning mist Are the lips that...

Night comes We're alone You're the one I can call my own very special lover Own special lover Blue stars (blue stars) In the sky Tell the wind To sing a special song (song) for lovers For my (my) special lover I've been searching Through the years...

Oh, Donna Oh, Donna Oh, Donna Oh, Donna I had a girl Donna was her name Since she left me I've never been the same Cause I love my girl Donna, where can you be? Where can you be? Now that you're gone I'm left all alone All by myself To wander and roam Caus...

She doesn't love me My heart keeps saying But to the Lord I'll keep praying "Oh, Lord, let it be" She may not long for me She may be wrong for me But to the Lord I'll keep praying "Oh, Lord, let it be" As time goes by She may realize That true...

Once in a while Won't you try to give One little thought to me Though someone else may be Nearer your heart Once in a while Won't you dream of those moments I shared with you Moments before we two Drifted apart In love's smoldering embers One spar...

I went walking down the street Very sad and blue Feeling all alone inside Wondering what to do (what to do, what to do) Then I looked up to the sky Happening to see (happening to see) One little star all alone All alone like me Oh, little star (oh, l...

Outside my window You're walking by with someone new (outside my window) Outside my window The way I used to walk with you (outside my window) Smiling while you're walking Laughing while you're talking Happy as can be (happy, happy, happy) With your ar...

Ooo, ooo, poor little fool, oh, yeah Ooo, ooo, poor little fool, oh, yeah I used to play around with hearts That hastened at my call But when I met that little girl I knew that I would fall Poor little fool, oh, yeah I was a fool, uh huh (Oh, oh, p...

I heard a poor girl praying (he heard her praying) I heard a poor saying (he heard her saying) "Please forgive me For having hurt him so" She'd prayed that love would restore them (she prayed, ah) To what they had been before they drifted apart (before t...

Rain, rain go away Raindrops, falling raindrops Teardrops, lonely teardrops Raindrops from the sky, listening to raindrops from the skies Teardrops from my eyes, feeling of the teardrops from my eyes Rain, rain go away Come again another day When you...

Ruby red, baby blue What do colors mean to you? If I ruled the heavens And the stars in the sky I'd still be a slave To baby blues eyes Ah, ruby red, baby blue I'd still be a slave to you My happiness came The day that you said You'd love me forev...

I'll never be the one to part You've found a place here in my heart Go have your fun (I'll have my fun) Runaround I'll never leave you I'm forever bound The streets are noisy I'm all alone I sit and wait, dear, for you to phone Go have your fun (I'll...

Sad little girl Don't be blue That little boy who made you cry Is as sad as you Just as sad as you Sad little girl Wonder what she'll do Would you take him back with open arms If he asked you to? Wonder what you'd do He misses you so very much He'...

In the sleepy town of San Juanita, There's a story that a Padre tells, Of a gay senor and senorita, And the Serenade of the Bells. Simply asked the Padre for permission, To be married early in the spring, But the Padrehad made just one condition, That the mis...

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? Skylark Have you seen a valley green with spring? Where my heart can go a journeying Over the shadows a...

Oh, soft eyes Speak to me with your soft eyes Tell me I am the only boy The boy Heaven meant for your arms Whisper That you long to embrace me That you'll never replace the boy You hold close in your arms tonight Promise me You'll kiss no other lips...

Softly I will leave you Softly For my heart would break If you should wait And see me go So I leave you softly Long before you miss me Long before your arms Can make me stay For one more hour Or one more day After all the years I can't bear the t...

He took your love from me He took uptown Donna, Donna without you here Sure is lonesome downtown His fancy clothes and high class friends Have lured you uptown Donna, Donna without you here Sure is lonesome downtown Uptown he's giving you sophisticat...

You don't remember me But I remember you It was not so long ago You broke my heart in two Tears on my pillow Pain in my heart Caused by you If we could start anew I wouldn't hesitate I'd gladly take you back And tempt the hand of fate Tears on my pillow Pai...

I'm sadder than sad Lonelier than lonely And you can add misery Just like five times two equals ten Ten times blue equal me I was your only love You were my one girl But when he came along My world went wrong And time broke down And all my dreams ca...

I saw a friend as I walked down the street He said "Let's sit down Get a load off our feet" We found a table inside a cafe I smiled as we ordered and wondered what he had to say He said "I'm sorry I just found out" I asked him what he was talking about...

You ask me how much I need you Must I explain I need you oh my darling Like roses need rain You ask how long I'll love you I'll tell you true Until the Twelfth of Never I'll still be loving you Hold me close Never let me go Hold me close Melt my heart like Ap...

They tell me it's summer (it's summer) But I know it's a lie Cause summer's for laughing So why do I cry? (cry) They tell me it's summer (it's summer) And the sun shines, it's true But it just can't be summer When I'm not with you (it's just can't be s...

Long, long before the time Time of love You were there Yet, long before that time I warned my heart Always beware I'd closed my eyes and lived alone For till that time Love was unknown Then, then you came to me And kissed my eyes That I might see...

Wind and storm Gone's the sun From the stars My dark has come You've gone from me, whoa, whoa Tragedy Oh, come back (come back) Have me here (come here) Hold me love (my love) Be sincere You've gone from me, whoa, whoa Tragedy Like smoke (like...

Hey, baby, don't you cry Hey, baby, don't you pass me by Remember the boy Used to sing this song When the summer nights were long I love you Truly do Love you for your hair of brown And the way you walk When you go downtown I love you Truly do...

Don't you see your turtle dove Flying from vine to vine Looking for his own true love As I, my love, for mine, for mine As I, my love, for mine What he knows Nothing But pecking on a bough Bough up in the blue Never knew till I met you What love, oh...

Two little figurines on my bookcase When lights are low, do you embrace? Is she just waiting for the lights to dim So she can be alone with him? A boy, a girl, I know the love they feel And with their smile, they look so very real I know that love like this w...

Oh, my love, my darling, I've hungered for your touch a long, lonely time. Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much. Are you still mine? I need your love. I need your love. God speed your love to me. Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to th...

Wind and storm (wah-ooh) Gone's the sun (wah-ooh) From the stars (wah-ooh) My dark has come You've gone from me, whoa, whoa, tragedy Oh, come back (come back) Have me here (right here) Hold me love (my love) Be sincere You've gone from me, whoa, whoa...

You're mine and we belong together Yes, we belong together for all eternity You're mine Your lips belong to me Yes, they belong to only me For all eternity You're mine, my baby And you will always be I swear by everything I own You'll always, always...

Gone is the romance that was so divine 'Tis broken and cannot be mended You must go your way and I must go mine But now that our love dreams have ended What'll I do When you are far away And I am blue What'll I do What'll I do When I am wondering who Is kiss...

Before you learned to stand You had to fall Before you learned to walk You had to crawl Before you learn to love, girl Ah, you're gonna cry And you're gonna need somebody To show you the way And dry the tears in your eyes Who's gonna teach you about...

To me, oh yes, to me You know (you know) I would cry for you You know, I would die for you You mean (you mean) Everything to me, oh yes, to me You're the girl (yes, you) In my dreams I see The one that I long I to see You mean (you mean) Everything...