Leah Marie Remini (born June 15, 1970) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Carrie Heffernan on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens and as Stacey Carosi on the NBC sitcom Saved by the Bell. She was also one of the co-hosts on daytime CBS network talk show/series, The Talk, before being released in 2011.
Leah Remini was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of Vicki Marshall, a private school teacher, and George Remini, who owned an asbestos removal company. Her mother is of Austrian Jewish background and her father was Sicilian. Remini has an older sister, Nicole Remini (born 1969), who was her assistant on The King of Queens. She also has four half-sisters, including Christina (born 1969).
Remini moved to Los Angeles at the age of 13 with her mother. When Remini was 14, she left school and worked as a hostess at a restaurant while auditioning for acting jobs.
Donald Adeosun Faison (pronounced /feɪˈzɒn/; born June 22, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, and voice actor best known for his role as Dr. Chris Turk in the ABC (formerly NBC) comedy-drama Scrubs (2001–2010) as a leading role, and as Murray in the film Clueless (1995) playing a minor role (reprised in the subsequent television series of the same name). His most recent project is a starring role in the TV Land original situation comedy, The Exes.
Faison has also co-starred in the films Remember the Titans (2000), Uptown Girls (2003), Something New (2006), Next Day Air (2009), and Skyline (2010).
Faison was born in Harlem, New York, the son of Shirley, a talent agent, and Donald Faison, a building manager. His parents were active with the National Black Theatre in Harlem.
Before his debut on Scrubs and "Clueless", Faison appeared in a 1991 commercial for Folgers Coffee at the age of 17, in which he played the younger brother of a soldier returning from war. He then became famous for his role as "Murray Lawrence Duvall" in the film Clueless, the 1995 movie, and its subsequent television series, which ran from 1996 to 1999. In 1995, he also appeared in Waiting to Exhale as "Tarik", the son of Loretta Devine's character, "Gloria." He was featured in New Jersey Drive. He also starred in Big Fat Liar alongside Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, and Amanda Bynes. He had a recurring role as, "Tracy," on Felicity, appeared in Remember the Titans, as the running back-turned-linebacker Petey Jones, and provided voice work for various characters in the MTV animated series Clone High. He had minor roles in the sitcoms Sister Sister and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and in the film Josie and the Pussycats. In 2005, Faison produced one episode of MTV's Punk'd involving his Scrubs co-star Zach Braff. He has also appeared in the music videos for Brandy's "Sittin' Up In My Room", Fall Out Boy's cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It," and Gavin Degraw's "Chariot."
Kristen Johnston (born September 20, 1967) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She may be most famous for her role as Sally Solomon in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun. She also starred as Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.
Johnston is of English ancestry and was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of a real estate agent and a Republican state senator from Wisconsin. Johnston was raised mostly in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where she attended St. Eugene's Catholic Grade School and Whitefish Bay High School. She spent some of her teen years as an exchange student in Sweden and in South America. She earned a B.F.A. degree in drama at New York University.
Johnston made her professional stage debut with New York's Atlantic Theater Company, which was founded by playwright David Mamet. During her association with that company, she appeared in such productions as As You Like It, Girl's Talk, Stage Door, Author's Voice, Portrait of a Woman and Rosemary for Remembrance. She teaches acting at New York University.
Tyler Garcia Posey (born October 18, 1991) is an American actor and musician. Tyler is best known for his role as Scott McCall in MTV's show Teen Wolf.
Working steadily in film and television for the last decade, Posey is also the frontman of the band 'Lost In Kostko', in which he sings and plays guitar. One of his first, and one of his most unrecognized roles was Maid in Manhattan, in which he co-starred with Jennifer Lopez.
In his breakout role, Posey was cast as the lead in the MTV television series of Teen Wolf (a re-imagining of the 1985 film of the same name), as the soft-spoken Scott, a high school student bitten by a werewolf, who has to keep his secret from his loved ones and keep them safe from impending dangers. Because of this role, he has received many comparisons to Taylor Lautner of The Twilight Saga. Posey has known Lautner for a number of years, and actually finds the similarities laughable.[citation needed] He jokes about when a new kid moved into his town who had a similar name to him, and that Lautner later started dating a girl that Tyler liked. He, as a matter of fact, auditioned for, and was the runner up for the role of Jacob Black in Twilight, that later went to Lautner.[citation needed]
(B. Cummings - D. Troiano)
Rich world, poor world, everyday it's gettin' modified.
Rich world, poor world, aren't you glad you're on the Western side,
Individual luxury just might be the trump of the game,
If you come back round with a gun at your head, I'm sure the view will never be the same.
I heard something that you never been told,
You'll have trouble just trying' to get old,
I got something, gonna give you the word,
I'm interested if you have heard,
I don't really mean to bring you right down,
The safest place for you's way under the ground,
A "HOT SOMETHIN'" that you never been told,
Told, you been told, you been told, you been told, you been told, you been told.
Rich world, poor world, fewer places every day to hide,
Rich world, poor world, I like it better on the Western side,
A growing epidemic of ignorance been keeping me on the run,
With a jaded ear and a whole lot of fear, we're gonna wither up one by one.
I got something that you never been told,
Gonna have trouble just tryin' to get old,
I got something that you never heard,
Come on now, just spread the word,
I got somethin', gonna make you hip,
Now don't go blabbin' and let it slip,
For what you got I think you over paid,
I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid.
"Hi there little starving Asian child with bloated belly, open sores, and look of despair. My, you are hungry, aren't you? You know, I'd love to help you get enough nutrition to perpetuate your misery a little further, but right now I've just got to finish this thesis on the Divine Right of Kings. See you tomorrow."
"Hi there little golden Greekette, Capri-bound modern Venus, with fenced beach and medically transformed nose and midriff... I know how heartbroken you are that your best friend beat you to Paris for the unveiling of the latest fashions, and I'd love to console you but, you see, I lost my right leg yesterday trying to scrounge up a shot of antibiotics. Oh well..."
Rich world, poor world, everyday it's gettin' modified.
Rich world, poor world, I like it better on the Western side,
A growing epidemic of ignorance been keepin' us on the run,
With a jaded ear and a whole lot of fear, we're gonna wither up one by one.
I heard somethin', gonna make you blue,
Don't get excited cause you know it ain't new,
I got somethin' gonna make you hip,
Now don't go blabbin' and let it slip, you hear,
Now I don't mean to be bringing' you down,
You won't be safe till you're layin' in the ground,
For what you got I think you overpaid,
I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid.
(B. Cummings)
Parking€™ cars, sleazy bars
Workin€™ on my next hot meal
Sudden chance, career romance
Changin€™ all the things that I€™d feel
Wondering€™ as I€™m walkin€™ if my choice was wrong
All the vows I had were gone
And there€™s one small favour I€™ll ask
Before you ramble on
Let me sing a tune if you come around to see me
Let me sing a song if you stop by to say hello
Baby let me croon a tune if you come around to see me
€˜Cause I never get a chance to sing the blues much anymore
Lost my Jew, things got blue
The kid was sinkin€™ first and fast
Empty bed, lies in my head
Comes from livin€™ deep in the past
Wonderin€™ as I€™m lovin€™ if my choice was wrong
All the vows I had were still gone
And there€™s one small favour
I€™d like to ask before you€™re gone
Just let me sing
(Bachman/Cummings)
The reverend who doesn't exist 'till you need him smiles understandingly
McCartney and Lennon just paid all the bills and made Great Britain free
And the Pink Wine Sparkles in the Glass know
How small can the world be as seen through Cleveland
Different patterns that's tall
I like them all
A bunch of young fellows from way down under led a journey that never could be
And NY no longer means New York City 'cause he once said hello to me
And the Pink Wine Sparkles in the Glass know
How small can the world be as seen through Cleveland
Different patterns that's tall
I like them all
The colour of skin still beats education
And christmas is a time to sell
And all that we know can soon be forgotten
Because what we don't know we can't tell
And the Pink Wine Sparkles in the Glass know
How small can the world be as seen through Cleveland
Different patterns that's tall
I like them all.
(K. Winter - B. Wallace)
Rock and roller steam, pulp and paper shack
Wrinkles on my head, people on my back
All going nowhere, never coming back
Got to be rich to be poor
Keeps me satisfied
Keeps me satisfied
Spending money for the time I buy
Keeps me satisfied
Man back from the dead, weasels in the pack
Approval from the Pope to stretch them on the rack
All going nowhere, never coming back
Got to be rich to be poor
Keeps me satisfied ....
(Cummings-Winter-Wallace-McDougall-Peterson)
Sail away over northern waters
Sail away for free
Get a holiday
You€™re in the thick of it
Who makes the music when you die
Musicione
You€™re in the thick of it
Sail away over northern waters
Sail away for free
Get a holiday, musicione
Who makes the music when you die
Musicione
(Bachman/Cummings)
(Cummings)
Gonna leave the city
Leave my woman troubles far behind
Gonna leave the city
Leave my woman troubles far behind
One time she say she love me
Next day treat me so unkind....
I hop down to the station
Get me a leavin€™ ticket just one way
I hop down to the station
Get me a leavin€™ ticket just one way
One time she say she love me
Next day say, "little boy, go away."
(Cummings/Winter/Kale)
Lookin€™ through a pair of sad eyes
Never feelin€™ glad eyes
Wantin€™ things they never had eyes
In the middle of up stream
Want the pictures in the green frame
Reputation with a clean name
Sing a tune without the dream fame
For a hundred maybe two
So smoke big factory
Now they€™re blowin€™ up the islands
And they€™re shootin€™ in the highlands
Soon I know they€™ll be on my lands
€˜Tis a bitter tale for true
So smoke big factory
(Bachman/Cummings)
A little boy sat crying on the floor
His daddy won't be coming home no more
He cannot reason why
His daddy had to die
And the Minstrel Boy's not singing any more.
So play violin, play
Play 'til the night is over
Music will wash away all your sorrow.
At seventeen he thought he'd never cry
And then his angel had to say goodbye
But living must go on
To face another dawn
And the Minstrel Boy's not singing any more.
So play violin, play
Play 'til the night is over
Music will wash away all your sorrow.
A moment later, life was just a dream
Remembering the things he'd done and seen
He now can reason why
He soon will have to die
And the Minstrel Boy's not singing any more.
And the Minstrel Boy's not singing any more.
(B. Cummings - D. Troiano)
Rosanne, I gotta take it on the lam,
What do you think you been doin'
Rosanne, you need another kind of man,
What do you think you been doin'
I left my evil ways back in my burnin' days
Nights were spent just to hold you,
You left your lovin' charms in someone else's arms
What do you think you been doin', you're my ruin,
Rosanne.
The way a lovebird flies a foolish heart just dies,
Trapped in your situation,
There's nothin' I can say, I guess it's been that way
Since the dawn of creation,
Rosanne, I gotta take it on the lam,
What do you think you been doing'
Rosanne, you need another kind of man,
What do you think you been doing', you're my ruin, Rosanne.
Could have prevented all this, if we had taken the time,
Could have prevented all this, if we had made up our minds,
Rosanne.
(Cummings/Wallace)
Nothing much left to say at social gatherings
Nothing much left behind from the time before
Got to learn about losing and pushin' your time
And trying just a bit too hard
You're on a one way road to Hell
You're on a one way road to Hell
With every step that you been taking now
You're finding out you can't turn around.
Working like the Devil at my desk all day
Wishing that my paperwork would fly away
I got a paper clip holder and my desk is clean
Woe wo wo wo wo wo wo is me.
Nothing much left of faith in the Martian industry
Genuine coon skin cap was the prize before
Got to learn about selling and pushin' your luck
And trying just a bit too hard
You're on a one way road to Hell
You're on a one way road to Hell
And the deeper that you're diggin' now
You're finding out you can't turn around.
Punching lovely buttons for my family
And, if I might add, quite unregrettably
I've got a friend who's a Doctor and my blood is clean
Dip dip dip dip dip hooray for me.
You're on a one way road to Hell
You can't turn around
What you gonna do
You're on a one way road.
No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature
The Guess Who
- "No Sugar Tonight" written by Randy Bachman
- "New Mother Nature" written by Burton Cummings
- "No Sugar Tonight" was the 'B' side of the "American Woman" single
{"No Sugar Tonight"}
Lonely feelin' deep inside
Find a corner where I can hide
Silent footsteps crowdin' me
Sudden darkness, but I can see
No sugar tonight in my coffee
No sugar tonight in my tea
No sugar to stand beside me
No sugar to run with me
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow
Da-un-do-dow dow no no
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow
Da-un-do-dow dow
In the silence of her mind
Quiet movements, well, I can find
Grabbin' for me with her eyes
Now I'm fallin' from her skies
No sugar tonight in my coffee
No sugar tonight in my tea
No sugar to stand beside me
No sugar to run with me
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow
Da-un-do-dow dow un-dow-dow
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow
Da-un-do-dow dow
{"New Mother Nature"}
Jocko says yes and I believe him
When we talk about the things I say
She hasn't got the faith or the guts to leave him
When they're standin' in each other's way
You're driven back now to places you've been to
You're wonderin' what you're gonna find
You know you've been wrong but it won't be long
Before you leave 'em all far behind
'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over
It's the new splendid lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature takin' over
She's gettin' us all
She's gettin' us all
Jocko said no when I came back last time
It's lookin' like I lost a friend
No use callin' 'cause the sky is fallin'
And I'm gettin' pretty near the end
A smoke-filled room in a corner basement
The situation must be right
A bag o' goodies and a bottle o' wine
We're gonna get it on right tonight
'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over
It's the new splendid lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature takin' over
She's gettin' us all
She's gettin' us all
{1st verse of "No Sugar Tonight" sung simultaneously with
1st verse of "New Mother Nature"}
Lonely feelin'
Jocko says yes and I believe him
Deep inside
When we talk about the things I say
Find a corner
She hasn't got the faith or the guts to leave him
Where I can hide
When they're standin' in each other's way
Silent footsteps
You're driven back now to places you've been to
Crowdin' me
You're wonderin' what you're gonna find
Sudden darkness
You know you've been wrong and it won't be long
But I can see
Before you leave 'em all far behind
'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over
It's the new splendid lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature takin' over
She's gettin' us all
She's gettin' us all
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow
Da-un-do-dow dow no no
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow
Da-un-do-dow dow
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow
Da-un-do-dow dow no no
Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow
Da-un-do-dow dow
{fade}
D. McDougall
So I packed my bags and I said I'm goin' away
Out of Toronto on the next flight I was gone
And it felt so good when I called my folks
But nothing like it felt to be alone
Lost and found town
You look so good to me
Lost and found town
You're all I'll ever see
Now I'm writin' songs for a rock and roll band
Seein' places, people from a different stand
Countin' my time
And it's still the feeling of being alone
Lost and found town
You look so good to me
Lost and found town
You're all I'll ever see
Life In The Bloodstream
The Guess Who
Written by Burton Cummings
You don't believe that this whole universe
Could be inside your little sister's purse
You don't believe you're just a living glob
Like Lucy, Freddy, Ricky, Frank and Bob
We're life in the bloodstream, baby
That's the natural progression
We're life in the bloodstream
I hope the little boy don't fall and skin his knee
Ain't it hard when you discover
Your energy has to leave you for another
Don't it make you wanna lay down and cry
When they tell you it's time you have to die
We're life in the bloodstream, baby
That's the natural progression
We're life in the bloodstream
I hope the little boy don't fall and skin his knee
------ saxophone ------
We're life in the bloodstream, baby
That's the natural progression
We're life in the bloodstream
I hope the little boy don't fall and skin his knee
(Cummings/Wallace)
Well you asked me to be your escort baby
On Graduation Day
Wrote me a note and here's what you wrote
You cried boo hoo hoo
And your tears were killin' me babe
Wah wah wah.
I think you better straighten out
Gimme a break
Straighten out ... if you can
I heard you knockin' but you couldn't come in
And we went walkin' down the road to the bin
That was when you were ten, now is now, then was then
Ha ha ha.
Well I telephoned you and I asked if I might just happen to be your chaperone
To the Highbridge comin'-out do
You said goodbye and I began to cry
I said boo hoo hoo
'Cause your leavin' was shakin' me up
Wah wah wah.
I think you better straighten out.
Orly
The Guess Who
Written by Burton Cummings
Well, if you ever been to Paris and you ever missed a plane
Nothin' much to do but sit around
Think a little ???? will laugh at where you come from
Have another glass of Paris Brown
I'm alone and they're still jivin'
He plugged himself in and left her screamin'
Planes are goin' up
Planes are comin' down
Bells around here about enough to drive a poor boy mad
Planes are goin' up
Planes are comin' down
Better get to Rome and have a look at younger sister of my Dad
------ short instrumental break ------
Well, the mission was accomplished on the day that you arrived
Maria hung you out and let you dry
You never understood the language lesson that she gave you
Caught it in reflection of her eye
I'm alone and they're still jivin'
He plugged himself in and left her droolin'
Planes are goin' up
Planes are comin' down
Bells around here about enough to drive a poor boy mad
Planes are goin' up
Planes are comin' down
Better get to Rome and have a look at younger sister of my Dad
(B. Cummings-K. Winter)
One man army
Have you shot somebody down?
(B. Cummings-K. Winter)
Well he moved out of the city from his little tiny place alone
Yes he moved out of the city from his little tiny place alone
So long Bannatyne, hello my Chevrier home.
Well now there might be a few things missin€™
Like the Indians on a Saturday night
Yes there might be just a few things missin€™
Like the odd hotel bar fight
So long Bannatyne, hello my Chevrier home.
Maybe in the summer I can build myself a rec room
And buy a power mower for the lawn,
Or maybe that depends on the orders from the office and accountants and the label and Don
The Emperor...
Hello my Chevrier
Hello my Chevrier
Hello my Chevrier adobe,
I€™m so proud of it, speak so loud of it, always.
Yes I moved out of the city and I left my Bannatyne behind
Oh I moved out of the city and I left my Bannatyne behind
I really like it here,
The people are kind to me, at quarter to three
When I sail my red Chevy past the house on the breeze
I€™m huggin€™ and a kissin€™ and a smoochin€™ and a lovin€™
Ballin€™ and a partyin€™, fightin€™ day and night
And everybody knows that that€™s the way it goes,
So long Bannatyne.
(Cummings-Bachman)
Tell your city slicking€™ cousin
Lay that peppermint twister down
She€™s been shakin€™ up my biscuits
Draggin€™ my feet all over town
There€™s some bacon in the kitchen
And a clean towel behind the door
Yes I€™ll meet you at the warehouse
Then I€™ll never see you no more
And it€™s too much for me
All that lovin€™ for one man
Yeah she€™s too much for me
But I€™ll do the best I can
She used to call me "Rascal"
But now she calls me "Dapper Dan"
Shakin' All Over
Chad Allan & The Expressions (The Guess Who)
Written by Johnny Kidd
- peaked at #22 in 1965
When you move in right up close to me
That's when I get the chills all over me
Quivers down my backbone
I got the shakes in my thigh bone
I got the shivers in my knee bone
Shakin' all over
Just the way you say goodnight to me
Brings the feelin' on inside of me
Quivers down my backbone
I got the shakes in my thigh bone
I got the shivers in my knee bone
Shakin' all over
------ short instrumental break ------
Quivers down my backbone
I got the shakes in my thigh bone
I got the shivers in my knee bone
Shakin' all over
Well, you make me shake and I like it, baby
You make me shake and I like it, baby
Well, shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake
(D. McDougall)
The family's in the front room cheering,
Old Dad's in the corner snoring.
Mother's helping baby walk
And Auntie Jean is yawning
In Samantha's living room.
Granddad's at the punchbowl drinking cordial,
While Grandma sees the children play
Blindman's bluff and chess, and the music plays.
All in all it's time for fun
In Samantha's living room
In Samantha's living room, in the year 1921.
In Samantha's living room
In Samantha's living room
In Samantha's living room, in the year 1981.
Runnin' Back To Saskatoon
The Guess Who
Written by Burton Cummings and Kurt Winter
~~~~~
{Spoken}
There's a province up in Canada that's right next door to ours.
It's called Saskatchewan. And, uh, in that province there's a
small town, uh, where nothing much ever happens, called
Saskatoon. This is a tune about that town. This is called
"Runnin' Back To Saskatoon".
~~~~~
------ harmonica ------
I been hangin' around gas stations
I been learnin' 'bout tires
I been talkin' to grease monkeys
I been workin' on cars
Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune
I been hangin' around libraries
I been learnin' 'bout books
I been talkin' to playwriters
I been workin' on words, phrases
Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune
I been hangin' around hospitals
I been learnin' 'bout dyin'
I been talkin' to heart doctors
I been workin' on disease
Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune
This tune is home grown
Don't come from Hong Kong
This tune is home grown
Don't come from Hong Kong
I been hangin' around grain elevators
I been learnin' 'bout food
I been talkin' to soil farmers
I been workin' on land
Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune
I been hangin' around camera stores
I been learnin' 'bout sight
I been talkin' to film makers
I been workin' on eyes
Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune
This tune is home grown
Don't come from Hong Kong
This tune is home grown
Don't come from Hong Kong
(Bachman-Cummings)
Dark day, windy city
Raincoat on my shoulder
So take my hand and show me where to go
€˜Cause don€™t you know I€™m the proper stranger
Traffic lights, dusty sidewalks
Freeway people on the move
So take my hand and show me where to go
€˜Cause don€™t you know I€™m the proper stranger
I€™m the proper stranger
Nobody knows my face or
Knows my name
Nobody knows where I€™m goin€™ or
How I came
Lost and found, no one claimed me
All alone with a million others
So take my hand and show me where to go
€˜Cause don€™t you know I€™m the proper stranger
Broke my mind, had no spare
Nothing left and no tomorrow
so take my hand and show me where to go
€˜Cause don€™t you know I€™m the proper stranger
(McDougall/Cummings)
Order some cash, we've got another tour to make
Workin' so hard, just to pass the time away
Connie my love, our movie was great and so was the taste
It was pleasin' for reason.
Tear me apart, like a river mad, polluted
Sad for a while, still it haunts and taunts me
My friend V.O. is keepin' me tight, and up every night
It is pleasin' for reason.
Should have stayed in bed this morning
Payin' much too bad
But when I think of you when I wake up
It makes me forget what I have to do,
Think I'll stay in bed this morning
Payin' much too bad
So I guess I'll dream about you baby
And forget about where I am
And forget about who I am
I'll forget about what I am ...
Hello L.A., I hope Miss Dee is waiting
Lonely for a while, but she'll be round by midnight
Pickin' me up, and telling me tales of magic
She is pleasin' for reason.
Try to remember just where you are
Try to remember just who you are
Try to remember just what you are ...
Nobody knows his name
Starting it over is never the same
Nobody knows his name
They just might someday...
Pullin€™ up stakes 1893
County Cork in Ireland way across the sea
Future made of dreams, wishes and a prayer
Knowing soon the one he loves will join him there
Over and over now he dreams of his bride to be
Over and over he prays that the life they find is what he hoped it would be.
Through the good and bad he stayed to make a stand
Things are never easy in a virgin land
Gettin€™ every day proud as he can be
Caring and providing for his family
Year after year he works to give them everything he can
Year after year he works so he€™ll never have to be someone else€™s man.
Nobody knows his name
Starting it over is never the same
Nobody knows his name
They just might someday...
Bachman)
Lonely feeling deep inside
Find a corner where I can hide
Silent footsteps crowding me
Sudden darkness but I can see
No sugar tonight in my coffee
No sugar tonight in my tea
No sugar to stand beside me
No sugar to run with me
(Dat'n-doo-dow-dow-dat'n-doo-dow...)
In the silence of her mind
Quiet movements where I can find
Grabbing for me with her eyes
Now I'm falling from her skies
No sugar tonight in my coffee
No sugar tonight in my tea
No sugar to stand beside me
No sugar to run with me
(Dat'n-doo-dow-dow-dat'n-doo-dow...)
(Cummings)
Jocko says "Yes," and I believe him
When we talk about the things I say
She hasn't got the faith or the guts to leave him
When they're standing in each other's way
You're tripping back now to places you've been to
You wonder what you're gonna find
You know you've been wrong but it won't be long
Before you leave â'em all far behind
â'Cause it's the new Mother Nature taking over
It's the new Splendid lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature taking over
She's gettin' us all
She's gettin' us all.
Jocko said "No," when I came back last time
It's looking like I lost a friend
No use callin' â'cause the sky is fallin'
And I'm getting pretty near the end
A smoke-filled room in a corner basement
The situation must be right
A bag of goodies and a bottle of wine
We're gonna get it on right tonight
â'Cause it's the new Mother Nature taking over
It's the new Splendid Lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature taking over
She's gettin' us all
She's getting' us all...
(Cummings)
Jocko says "Yes," and I believe him
When we talk about the things I say
She hasn't got the faith or the guts to leave him
When they're standing in each other's way
You're tripping back now to places you've been to
You wonder what you're gonna find
You know you've been wrong but it won't be long
Before you leave â'em all far behind
â'Cause it's the new Mother Nature taking over
It's the new Splendid lady come to call
It's the new Mother Nature taking over
She's gettin' us all
She's gettin' us all.
(Dat'n-doo-dow-dow-dat'n-doo-dow...)
(B. Cummings)
Have a disease-free summer in Asia
Have a good old roughy tumble in Japan
Have a disease-free winter in Dauphin
And lie down
Lie down
Why is it not good enough for you
It is genuine
Born in years of later forties
Never pampered, or advised it was wise
To be chasin€™ after something bright and tawny
If you totaled up the score and found
That my side of the board was winning
Then my ex-friend you might be a loser
I€™m too damn surly to be forgiven
Too damned unstable to be left all alone
Too damn lucky to be livin€™ the life I am
And livin€™ the life I€™m lookin€™at
Why is it not good enough for you
It is genuine
(Bachman/Cummings)
Although I see her
She's baiting
Baiting
Although she's gone
She's waiting
Waiting
She brought me love and a yellow rose
I took her love and her yellow rose
Before the day ends the rose will die
She comes each day with the morning, morning
She leaves each night with the evening, evening
She brought me love and her yellow rose
I took her love and her yellow rose
Before the day ends the rose will die
And when the evening comes she takes her life and night away from me once more
I can no longer see her face once more before the rose will die
Please come back without the rose
Although I see her
She's baiting
Baiting
Although she's gone
She's waiting
Waiting
She brought me love and a yellow rose
I took her love and her yellow rose
Before the day ends the rose will die
And when the evening comes she takes her life and night away from me once more
I can no longer see her face once more before the rose will die
Please come back without the rose
Please come back without the rose
Hand Me Down World
The Guess Who
Written by Kurt Winter
- peaked at #17 in 1970
Anybody here see the noise, see the fear and commotion
I think we missed it
Anybody here see the love, see the hate, the emotion
Don't give me no hand me down shoes
Don't give me no hand me down love
Don't give me no hand me down world
I got one already
Anybody here see the long-distance cheer for the notion
Well, I think we missed it
Anybody here see the sky weepin' tears for the ocean
Don't give me no hand me down shoes
Don't give me no hand me down love
Don't give me no hand me down world
I got one already
------ lead guitar ------
Anybody here see the fuzzy-wuzzy lovin' cup explosion
I think we missed it
Anybody here see the changing of the year and emotion
Don't give me no hand me down shoes
Don't give me no hand me down love
Don't give me no hand me down world
I got one already
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
I don't really need it and I'm not gonna take it
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
A-don't give it to me 'cause I really don't want it
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
I don't wanna take it and I really don't need it, no
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
I don't wanna take it and I really don't need it
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
I don't wanna take it, I don't wanna take it 'cause I really don't need it
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
You know I don't want it, know I don't need it
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
You know I don't want it, know I don't need it
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
You know I don't want it and I'm not gonna take it
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
I don't wanna take it 'cause I don't really need it
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
Just don't give it to me, don't wanna take it
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
Gimme no, gimme no, no-no no-no-no
(Don't give me no hand me down world)
Don't wanna take it 'cause I don't really need it
{fade}
(Greg Leskiw)
It€™s been 31 years since we€™ve had a grey day
Puffy white clouds reflecting city lights may
Cause my friends to run away
Gun metal grey is the color of this day
Puffy white clouds in front and behind say
Don€™t go back to gun metal grey day
Don€™t go back to-grey days
Try to find-some better ways
Try to shine-the old ways
I woke up this morning to a perfectly grey day
Like charcoal snow it hung in the air way
Puffy white clouds used lightning to tell me
It€™s just about time to have another grey day
Puffy white clouds above and below may
Send us back to the old ways
Don€™t go back to-grey days
Try to find-some better ways
Try to shine-the old ways
(Leskiw)
Been playin€™ in a band for 99 years
Been doin€™ these tunes just to please your ears
Follow the changes, there are but three
They can change, you know, any way you please
Now take this tune I€™m pickin€™ away
The way I pick is what I say
But ev€™ry once in a while it becomes a drag
So I come down off the money bag....
(Bachman-Cummings)
Vision of mine can you see it
I know a sound can you hear
I€™ve got a place have you been there
What time of day can you meet me
At 8:15
8:15
8:15
8:15
I know a song can you sing it
I€™ve gotten lost can you find me
I know a game can you play it
What time of night can you meet me
At 8:15
8:15
8:15
8:15
You have changed my style
Knowing all the while
I would thank you for it someday...
Gonna keep on lookin€™ till I find you...
(Cummings)
You know that you€™re steppin€™ on me
Draggin€™ my bone to bed
You know that you€™re real politely
Kickin€™ me right in my head
But I want to move
So leave me alone
Distress me
And give somebody else your own kind of lovin€™
Your kind of movin€™
You€™re kinda thinkin€™ about the wrong things too
Good-bye my baby
Arrivederci girl to you
(B. Cummings-K. Winter)
Train, comin€™ too fast
Pain, is it really gonna last
And you still refuse to see.
We love the dollar more than the collar
That Daddy used to wear
We love to holler more than the dollar
So take us to the fair.
We love the preacher more than the teacher
We used to have in school
We saw the teacher marry the preacher
Who do you think€™s the fool?
Can€™t you hear it like a train, comin€™ too fast
Pain, is it really gonna last
And you still refuse to see.
(Greg Leskiw)
One divided in two directions
Situation needs reflection yeah
close your eyes
You followed everyone€™s instructions
Never once you asked the question why
you closed your eyes
My help is here if you want it
Hold me close because I want you yeah
Hold me close
Situation needs reflection
Try to follow my instructions yeah
Don€™t be shy
One divided there€™s one direction
Only thing is introspection
yeah close your eyes
You followed everyone€™s instructions
Never once you asked the question why
you closed your eyes
(Cummings)
I dig your suspenders
I get it on for your jeans
But your Nashville sneakers always drag me down
I like your blue Cougar
And your bona fide keys
But your Nashville sneakers always drag me down
One by one, the sneakers they will fade, dear
Left out in the sun to dry
Sketching shots of good dates that we€™ve played, dear
Never to be forgotten but remembered
(B. Cummings - D. Troiano)
Colder women light a fire in me
Bolder women seem to tire of me
Older women put desire in me
But without â'em to hold, where would this poor man be?
Crazy women make a fool of me
Ruthless women seem so cruel to me
And painted women actin' cool with me
But without â'em to hold, where would this poor man be?
I wanna tell you what I know
I ain't sayin' it's a lot,
But I hope it's enough to teach you
To try to hang on to what you got, I wanna say
I'm only sayin' what I mean
And I'm backin' it up, cause I've already been there, son...
I know that colder women light a fire in me,
Bolder women seem to tire of me,
And older women put desire in me,
But without â'em to hold, where would this poor man be?
Sometimes you can't live with â'em,
But you can't live without â'em,
W-O-M-E-N.
(B. Cummings - D. Troiano)
Well now they started Skinny Minnie and it turned to Ginny Ginny
With the Dizzy Miss Lizzy Blues,
She smiled while we were strollin' and I knew that I was rollin'
Had to tell my big buddy the news.
It's not the magic
It's not the music
It's not the moonlight
I don't know when I felt like this before,
About ten years time ago...
When the band was singin' "Shakin' all Over."
Well now they gave us Juicy Lucy and we did the Watusi
In a rockin' pair of blue suede shoes,
What she don't know won't hurt her even though I might desert her
Got to tell my best buddy the news.
It's not the magic
It's not the music
It's not the moonlight
I don't know
I think I've only felt like this one time before,
About ten long years ago...
When the band was singin' "Shakin' All Over."
(Bachman-Cummings)
The lone wolves howl
On Moonlight Bay
Dark moon is out
When friends fall out
When friends fall out
Birds aren€™t alone
You€™ve past all doubts
Their world has grown
When friends fall out
When friends fall out
A journey is plastic for
Someone who€™s walking on air
He falls through elastic and
There is no net waiting there
And it€™s so nice to be home again
So nice to be home again
Where I belong
No night, no day
No in, no out
No work, no play
When friends fall out
When friends fall out (listen to me talkin€™)
When friends fall out (Baby, you got nothin€™)
When friends fall out
And it€™s so nice to be home again
So nice to be home again
Where I belong.
(Cummings)
He comes home after working for so many many years
Lays down weary on his bed
So many worries, broken dreams and fears, hurting things that people said.
Is there something you could do for him right now if you were there?
Is there some kind word that you would say to him if you were there?
He don't remember mama
His mama never saw his face
The wounds he suffered from an angry, bitter world
Are something time cannot erase
Is there something you could do for him right now if you were there?
Is there some kind word that you would say to him if you were there?
Share The Land
The Guess Who
Written by Burton Cummings
- peaked at #10 in 1970
------ Lead Guitar ------
Have you been around
Have you done your share o' comin' down
On different things that people do
Have you been aware
You got brothers and sisters who care
About what's gonna happen to you in a year from now
Maybe I'll be there to shake your hand
Maybe I'll be there to share the land
That they'll be givin' away
When we all live together
I'm talkin' 'bout together now
Maybe I'll be there to shake your hand
Maybe I'll be there to share the land
That they'll be givin' away
When we all live together
I'm talkin' 'bout together now
------ Lead Guitar ------
Did you pay your dues
Did you read the news
This mornin' when the paper landed in your yard
Do you know their names
Can you play their games
Without losin' track and comin' down a bit too hard
Oh!
Maybe I'll be there to shake your hand
Maybe I'll be there to share the land
That they'll be givin' away
When we all live together
I'm talkin' 'bout together now
Maybe I'll be there to shake your hand
Maybe I'll be there to share the land
That they'll be givin' away
When we all live together
I'm talkin' 'bout together now
------ Lead Guitar Solo ------
Mmm, maybe I'll be there to shake your hand
Maybe I'll be there to share the land
That they'll be givin' away
When we all live together
I'm talkin' 'bout together now
Maybe I'll be there to shake your hand
Maybe I'll be there to share the land
That they'll be givin' away
When we all live together
Together, together
(Shake your hand, share the land)
You know I'll be standin' by to help you if you're worried
(Shake your hand, share the land)
No more sadness, no more sorrow, and no more bad times
(Shake your hand, share the land)
Every day comin' sunshine, every day everybody laughin'
(Shake your hand, share the land)
Walkin' together by the river, walkin' together and laughin'
(Shake your hand, share the land)
Everybody singin' together, everybody singin' and laughin'
(Shake your hand, share the land)
Good times, good times, everybody walkin' by the river now
(Shake your hand, share the land)
Walkin', singin', talkin', smilin', laughin', diggin' each other
(Shake your hand, share the land)
Everybody happy together, I'll be there, don't worry, if you're needin' me
(Shake your hand, share the land)
Call on me, call on me, call my name, I'll be runnin' to help you
(Shake your hand, share the land)
Everybody walkin' by the river now, everybody, everybody laughin'
(Shake your hand, share the land)
Everybody singin' and talkin', smilin', laughin', diggin' each other
(Shake your hand, share the land)
{fade}
(Cummings-Winter)
Meet my lady every morning half past nine when the bells begin to ring,
Looking out the window down the road and I see the same damn thing,
Three days to get it on, three days to get it off and three more days to die,
And I€™m six feet down and I€™m asking the good Lord up in heaven
Why
You can€™t find all the answers if you€™re always standing in the rain,
And once the chance goes by it just might not come round again,
Three days to build it up, three days to tear it down and three more days to die,
And I€™m still six feet down still wonderin€™, prayin€™ and asking
Why
We gotta have a reason and you know it
Freedom, paint me a picture,
Show it to me right now, Freedom, paint me a picture,
Where are you freedom
Meet my lady every morning half past nine when the bells begin to ring,
Looking out the window down the road and I see the same damn thing,
Three days to get it on, three days to get it off and three more days to die,
And I€™m six feet down and I€™m asking the good Lord up in heaven
Why,
Have you got any answers for sale....
(B. Cummings)
My girl's got some solution that's excellent for removing all the tuna and the oil
And though she laughs at the Constitution at least she'd end up owning up to being just my "goil"
The theater is raging
Destroy it
Ignorance is threatening
Ignore it
For trees
Maybe a breeze
DC hauler baby, blow the whistle mama, can't we get this aluminum woman off the ground
First class, coach, executive service now are the cakes and tarts a-runnin' freely all around
The citizen is crumbling
Destroy him
Ignorance is threatening
Ignore it
For trees
Maybe a breeze
For trees
Maybe a breeze
People comin' on about the way I greet the dawn
And how I can often seem overly rehearsed
Talkin' trash-drivel-reason-beams down on me
Matchin' me up against King James the First
And if only for an instant
Amid the hurly burly and rapid jive
I could look up at something I once thought I believed in
And thank it for the feeling of sometimes being alive
I could thank it for those show
I could thank it for those show
I could thank it for those show
I could thank it for those show
Those show biz shoes
Thank you for my show biz shoes
Thank you for my show biz shoes
Thank you for my show biz shoes
Thank you for my show biz shoes
Gon' get to heaven in my show biz shoes
Walking over heaven in my show biz shoes
If there's a heaven then there's show biz shoes
A million dollars worth of show biz shoes
Thank you for my show biz shoes
I got respect for my show biz shoes
Don't you step on my blue suede show biz shoes
I'll never give away my show biz shoes
Bright lights, big city in my show biz shoes
Impress the women with my show biz shoes
Going dancing in my show biz shoes
Whoa, I love my show biz shoes
I'm going walking in my show biz shoes
I got respect for my show biz shoes
Polishing my show biz shoes
A million dollars worth of show biz shoes
Gettin' gold records in my show biz shoes
(Wallace/Cummings)
ROAD FOOD
Jollywood, Jollywood, Chippa Chippa Chee Chee
ROAD FOOD
Drag queens, rhumba boogie, grabbin' for the prime time
ROAD FOOD
Bonafide, certified women in the washroom
ROAD FOOD
Better have a whiskey so I'll feel all right.
Each night smacks of new wonder
Catch her if you can, Kathy was a man
T.V. baby blue wires
Smile and nod your head, dead is live is dead.
I hear you walkin' down the hallway
I hear you sneakin' up the stairway
I hear you in the elevator
I know my name is in the paper
Hey, tell me what's this stuff you're sellin'
And all the stories that you're tellin'
I hear you walkin' down the hallway
I hear you sneakin' up the stairway.
ROAD FOOD
Appletown, Appletown, Chippa Chippa Chee Chee
ROAD FOOD
Hurricane wonder boy scratchin' for the scunge now
ROAD FOOD
Old Mark Mars is alive and well, Sir
ROAD FOOD
Better have a whiskey so I'll feel all right.
(Cummings-Leskiw)
I told you long ago
To stop comin€™ round
Your drinking and your gambling
Are a constant down
You€™re mock educated
And you€™re mock well read
Your mouth keeps moving
Not a word gets said
And it drags me down
To see you mess yourself this way
And I moan for you
Watching you every day.
(B. Wallace - B. Cummings)
What will become of the watcher
Whatever will happen to his soul
What will become of the watcher
When the band packs up
When the lights go out
When the band packs up and goes home
Left him sitting at his table
He could no longer raise his cane
All the people missed his message
When the band packed up
When the lights went out
When the band packed up and went home
His only friends lay in the ashtray
Each night he'd call them out by name
Before him always sat the same glass
And the townfolk thought him quite insane
What will become of the watcher
Will no one dig a grave for his soul
Whatever will become of the watcher
When the lights go out
When the lights go out
When the band packs up and goes home
It's no good anymore
When your hands are tied
Cause your friends found you out
When you broke down and cried
and the bright colored balls
That you held inside
Weren't the answer
No, no, no
Not the answer
It's no good anymore
When you know all the rules
Cause your friends pushed you out
And they all look like fools
And the stories that you sang
From the inside room
Weren't the answer
No, no, no
Not the answer
I'd like to help you but you're past that
I'd like to help you but it's too late
I'd like to look around the corner just to find what I could see
It's no good anymore
To abide by the rules
Cause you're graduating soon
From the loser's school
And the country tavern lady
In the house on the hill
Can't be the answer
No, no, no
She's not the answer
I'd like to help you but you're past that
I'd like to help you but it's too late
I'd like to look around the corner just to find what I could see
(Repeat)
Like to help you
But you're too far gone
I'd like to help you out
But it's too late now
(Bachman-Cummings)
Trinket worn with colours matching saddened eyes has lost its magic touch
People from a distant hill have crossed an ever-stretching sea of sand
Artificial flowers cannot die for life within them is illusion
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand.
Figures made of pedigrees control the non-existent soul of John Smith
Walk the creature let it run but slacken not the rope to which it€™s bound
Ships in bottles cannot sail and neither can a tombstone kill a feather
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand.
Kings are nothing more without the glory and the wealth behind their thinking
Let me feel the choice of seeing dawn or setting sun before I die
Myriads of painted faces rush behind the eye of the uncertain
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand.
(Recitative)
Let me live only to do
And let me do only to live
My steel image comes with the sun
And that€™s where it slumbers now.
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand.
(McDougall-Cummings)
Take it off of my shoulders
I don€™t need your heavy load
Take it off of my shoulders
Devil get out of my soul
Away from my soul
Wake up angel, I am calling
Don€™t want to drink this misery
Help me out so I can say now
Devil get out of my soul
Away from my soul
Dancin€™, prancin€™, high financin€™
No time left for love
There€™s only one life and you gotta make the best of it this time
Wheelin€™, dealin€™, never feelin€™
What you might have been dreamin€™ of
There€™s only one chance and you gotta grab just what you can
Take it off of my shoulders
Devil get out of my soul
Away from my soul
(Bachman-Cummings-Kale-Peterson)
Woke up late this morning
Found out my people gone away from me
(Nobody anywhere I looked)
Woke up late one morning
Found out my people gone away
Spinning â'round in circles
Oh how I hate to be alone
(It's no good)
Looking all around me
Trying to find out where ev'rybody's gone
(Can't find anybody)
Looking all around me
Trying to find out where the Hell ev'rybody's gone
(Can't find anybody now)
Spinning â'round in circles
Oh how I hate to be alone
(Can't stand being all alone)
If I could have been a carpenter
Could have run around looking for things to fix
Way back a long time ago if I could have been a carpenter
I could have found a lot of things to fix
(Fix â'em all up now)
Didn't end up bein' no carpenter
And that's why they call me
HUMPTY MIX