Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine (1967)

Lemon Pipers (USA)

Green Tambourine

Year: 1967

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#1	USA
#2	Phillipines
#3	Australia, Canada, New Zealand
#6	South Africa
#7	Great Britain, Switzerland
#8	Malaysia
#9	Netherlands
#10	Germany
#21	Italy
#30	Belgium

Drop your silver in my tambourine
Help a poor man fill his pretty dream
Give me pennies, I'll take anything
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine

Watch the jingle jangle start to chime
Reflections of the music that is mine
When you toss a coin you'll hear it sing
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine

Drop a dime before I walk away
Any song you want I'll gladly play
Money feeds my music machine
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine

Listen while I play

Neil Diamond - I am... I said (1971)

Neil Diamond (USA)

I am... I said

Year: 1971

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#1	Ireland
#2	Canada, Switzerland
#3	Germany
#4	Great Britain, Singapore, USA
#6	Australia, Netherlands
#8	Belgium
#9	South Africa
#17	Italy

 L.A.'s fine, the sun shines most the time

And the feeling is "lay back"
Palm trees grow and rents are low
But you know I keep thinkin' about
Making my way back

Well I'm New York City born and raised
But nowadays
I'm lost between two shores
L.A.'s fine, but it ain't home
New York's home
But it ain't mine no more

"I am"... I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair

"I am"... I cried
"I am"... said I
And I am lost and I can't
Even say why
Leavin' me lonely still

Did you ever read about a frog
Who dreamed of bein' a king
And then became one
Well except for the names
And a few other changes
If you talk about me
The story is the same one

But I got an emptiness deep inside
And I've tried
But it won't let me go
And I'm not a man who likes to swear
But I never cared
For the sound of being alone

"I am"... I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
"I am"... I cried
"I am"... said I
And I am lost and I can't
Even say why
"I am"... I said
"I am"... I cried
"I am"

Barry Ryan - Kitsch (1970)

Barry Ryan (England)

Kitsch

Year: 1970

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#3	Netherlands
#10	Belgium, Germany
#37	Great Britain

I had a dream
oh what a dream
I saw the shape
of things to come
then I awoke
it was no joke
I'd seen the shape
of things to come.

Kitsch is a beautiful word
it's a beautiful word
it's a beautiful lullabye.

I saw a queen
all dressed in green
but I could see
she had no soul
I see the moon
shining in June
what we all need
is Rock and Roll.

Kitsch is a beautiful word
it's a beautiful word
it's a beautiful lullabye.

Old plastic macs
and caddilacs
prawn cocktails
steak
and lovely wine
just do your thing
and we'll all sing
so here we go
now take your time.

Kitsch is a beautiful word
it's a beautiful word
it's a beautiful lullabye

Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone (2008)

Glasvegas (Scotland)

Daddy's Gone 

Year: 2008

Chart history
Highest position	Country
#12	Great Britain

How you are my hero
How your never here though
Remember times when you put me on your shoulders
How I wish it was forever you would hold us
Right now I'm too young to know
How in the future it will affect me when you go
You could have had it all
You, me, and mum y'know
Anything was possible

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
A fifty year old
Reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
Forget your dad, he's gone

All I wanted was a kick-a-bout in the park
For you to race me home when it was nearly getting dark
How I could've been yours, and you be mine
It could've been me and you until the end of time
Do what you want, when you want
Be as fuckin' insincere as you can
What kind of way is that to treat your wife
To see your son on Saturdays
What way is that to live your life?

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
A fifty year old
Reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
Forget your dad, he's gone