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The Best Thing About London Town (is me and you)

1. I got to thinking
Just the other day
If Camden and the flat we shared
Looks different today
I still smile when I hear
That bed still squeaking in my ear
The beer stains on the wall
And all tomorrow's parties
You liked dancing - I liked to play
Reabok-a-rebop saxaphone
Tramp and Jo Jo's Jazz Cafe
Meet new people at the disco
Love on the green
Two hearts beating on the step machine
And life rolled into one day - and

Ch 1: Everyone's your friend
All around the City
And Everything is beautiful
When you're young and pretty
The streets are paved with diamonds
And there's just so much to do
But the best thing about London town
Is me and you

2. We crossed the river
(Now) you don't dance anymore
And I can't play while I'm away
We got loaded - you got bored
We got a house - it's so nice
To SW your money -
So why did you go?
But life's a gas - and if you ask
What are you doing Sunday (I say)
One and one - can be fun

(Look out - there's a monster coming)
And I can't touch my toes
I've forgotten how this song goes
And there's a saxaphone
At the bottom of the River Wandle

Ch 2: But everyone's my friend
Everyone's my buddy
They're riding in my car
They're trying to help me spend my money
And I could buy a diamond
Hold it up so I could see
That the best thing around London town
Is me and me

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3. I got to thinking
Just the other day
If I'd learnt to dance
Would it be different today?
Cos it's raining, it's pouring
God I hate this weather
Put me on the bus
To where the dance goes on forever

CH 3: And everyone's your friend
All around the City
Everything is beautiful
And we're still young and pretty
The streets are paved with diamonds
And there's just so much to do
And the best thing about London town's
Still me and you

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Na Na Na Na Na Na

1. Standing on a bridge at midnight
Midnight people crawling all around
Scare me half to death
It's bad for my breath
Well it's a funny kind of pleasure ground
Some people take to praying
Some people talk a lot on the phone
I hear them talk on the 0898
You're gonna get wet
But that's all you're gonna get on your own
And so you might as well be
Singing with me
It's so easy

Ch: Sing - na na na na na
Is there anybody out there
Can anyone get out of their car
Na na na na na
I know you can try
To show me
Just what kinda people you are

2. What the hell is do wap
Bop bop showaddywaddy
I don't need it anyway
One for the money sounds fine
But tell me why I can't rhyme
With any thing you say
I let you hear me playing
I sing it to you over the phone
I don't know why communicating's
Got to seem like I do it on my own
And so I might as well
Just sing my song
Cos' it's so easy

Ch

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Real Amour

Tonight we all slip out of stream
Danny looks right, Patty looks right
They copied from a magazine
The stuff was tailor-made
But it never fitted anyway
And when it all came away
We laughed like a drain

And it was real amour
Lights out on the second floor
And we were really gone
We jumped right overboard
Yes we were really gone
For just one moment of our own

Looking at the handbags, take a little drag
Staying out of the light that's green
Danny said "Isn't that the girl?"
"Yes", I said - I don't need a go-between
She knows we know
And all her friends know it too
We don't need a tarot
To say it's just me and it's you

We got a ride in Ken and Betty's car
And Kenny shook his furry dice
And Patty took us down the Rock Lobster bar
And Betty had hers with rice
Everybody split the tab
And Danny left his magazine
Patty took a radio cab
And I watched it on TV
Just like real amour ... etc

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La La La

J'ai besoin de quelqu 'un
Besoin de paillason
Si on va faire la bringue, fais la noce, fais la nouba
Voila le m'as-tu-vu
Comme il est bien foutu
Pas comme ci, fais comme ca
On peut faire la foire, la bomboula

I hear you talking
I hear you shout about it
I see the light flash in your eyes
I mean that walking
I can't get by without it
Let it take us over tonight

Let my arms hold you tight
Let's go faster than light
Say goodbye to the world
Let's get out of control
Entre tes bras
J'ai le béguin pour toi
La danse et la chanson
Un amour de rencontre
It took us over tonight

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Now stop that talking
I can't make out that inflection
I say the whole thing's out of sight
And let's stop stalling
Take a step in my direction
It'll take us over tonight

Let my arms hold you tight
Let's go faster than light
Say goodbye to the world
Let's get out of control
Entre tes bras
J'ai le béguin pour toi
La danse et la chanson
Un amour de rencontre
It took us over tonight

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Another Life

1. Maybe I could make a stand
With a bible in my hand
A prophet in the making
A billion dollar baby
Crawling on the bottom line

Ch:
In another life
Another life

2. I could wreck creation with my hands
Like a trader from Japan
I could turn to Jesus
I could be a Philistine
Or be as rich as Croesus
If I was a different sign

Ch:
Or had another life
Another life

Break:
But I still sit around and wonder
How the dragon flies
And how to make believe
I'm just a very planetary
Ordinary guy

SOLO

Ch:
Another life
Another life