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Can't Take My Eyes Off You
by Frankie Valli

You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.
You'd be like Heaven to touch.
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.

Pardon the way that I stare.
There's nothing else to compare.
The sight of you leaves me weak.
There are no words left to speak,
But if you feel like I feel,
Please let me know that it's real.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.

I love you, baby,
And if it's quite alright,
I need you, baby,
To warm a lonely night.
I love you, baby.
Trust in me when I say:
Oh, pretty baby,
Don't bring me down, I pray.
Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay
And let me love you, baby.
Let me love you.

You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.
You'd be like Heaven to touch.
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off you.

I love you, baby,
And if it's quite alright,
I need you, baby,
To warm a lonely night.
I love you, baby.
Trust in me when I say:
Oh, pretty baby,
Don't bring me down, I pray.
Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay..
 
Small fruit song by Al Stewart


Said the apple to the orange:
"Oh I wanted you to come
Close to me and kiss me to the core
Then you might know me like no other orange
Has ever done before"

I first came upon this song when I was penniless in Haight Asbury SF, and a free and happy teenager.
 
2020hindsight said:
lol - that where you lost your cherry garpal ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoBXAUNU1HE charlie drake apparently died last year as well. - boomerang wont come back.
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Charlie Drake was a fine guy and provided my family as a kid with many laughs. He won't come back and neither will his boomerang.

Unsure of your sentiments, if negative you are a Capable User Needing Trauma. If positive thank you, in those days cherry wasn't something one counted.

Garpal
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
cherry wasn't something one counted.
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yep - good time to be alive - between the advent of the pill and the onset of aids.
I had a car was a real lemon - used to put bananas in the diff - closest i can contribute to your fruit theme. :2twocents
 
Right Said Fred
Right Said Fred (Cup of Tea)
(Myles Rudge, lyrics & Ted Dicks, music)

"Right," said Fred, "Both of us together
One on each end and steady as we go."
Tried to shift it, couldn't even lift it
We was getting nowhere
And so we had a cuppa tea and

"Right," said Fred, "Give a shout for Charlie."
Up comes Charlie from the floor below.
After strainin', heavin' and complainin'
We was getting nowhere
And so we had a cuppa tea.

And Charlie had a think, and he thought we ought to take off all the handles
And the things wot held the candles.
But it did no good, well I never thought it would
"All right," said Fred, "Have to take the feet off
To get them feet off wouldn't take a mo."

Took its feet off, even took the seat off
Should have got us somewhere but no!
So Fred said, "Let's have a cuppa tea."
And we said, "right-o."

"Right," said Fred, "Have to take the door off
Need more space to shift the so-and-so."
Had bad twinges taking off the hinges
And it got us nowhere
And so we had a cuppa tea and

"Right," said Fred, " Have to take the wall down,
That there wall is gonna have to go."
Took the wall down, even with it all down
We was getting nowhere
And so we had a cuppa tea.

And Charlie had a think, and he said, "Look, Fred,
I get a sort of feelin'
If we remove the ceilin'
With a rope or two we could drop the blighter through."

"All right," said Fred, climbing up a ladder
With his crowbar gave a mighty blow.
Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.
So Charlie and me had another cuppa tea
And then we went home.

(I said to Charlie, "We'll just have to leave it
Standing on the landing, that's all
Trouble with Fred is, he's too hasty
Never get nowhere if you're too hasty.")

(c)1962, by Myles Rudge (lyrics) & Ted Dicks (music)
Recorded by Gordon Bok & Cindy Kallet
and by Cindy Mangsen and Steve Gillette
early recording by Bernard Cribbens
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2020 you are an absolute classic, Thank you so very very much.
My dads name is Fred & he use to sing a few verses of that. (he was a carpenter too.0 :D
I sing a few verses in the shower too, but I knew even less of the words. I've copied & pasted the whole song now, I'll have to print it out for my dad. :D (& learn it for the shower) :eek:

My favourite all time lyric/line though is
Imagine all the people living life in peace,

Thank you forever John Lennon, the world is an emptier place without you!
:) :)
 
OTS - m8, I've been waiting for yonks to get the actual song on youtube - but hasn't happened yet ( that I can find anyway) , so I just took the first step of getting the words at least -
but maybe the song will be available soon as well ( and when it does, I'll have to work out a way to copy youtube, because the posts there are frequently taken off pretty quickly ;)
hope your dad doesnt try moving too many pianos - like this Fred anyway, lol.
 
:)
Its no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest
Its no secret ambition bites the nails of success
Every artist is a cannibal every poet is a thief
All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief

U2 - The Fly
(killer guitar solo too)
 
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