Episode 4 Singer-Songwriters at the BBC

I can't wait to introduce you to my next guest,

who is very famous as a singer, as well as a composer.

It must be marvellous

when you can't find a song to suit your style,

to be able to sit down and write one for yourself,

especially when it gets into the top ten,

and it always happens with Donovan.

Here he is. Donovan.

APPLAUSE

# Jennifer Juniper

# Lives upon the hill

# Jennifer Juniper

# Sitting very still

# Is she sleeping?

# I don't think so

# Is she pretty?

# Yes, ever so

# Whatcha doing, Jennifer, my love?

# Jennifer Juniper

# Rides a dappled mare

# Jennifer Juniper

# Lilacs in her hair

# Is she dreaming?

# Yes, I think so

# Is she pretty?

# Yes, ever so

# Whatcha doing, Jennifer, my love?

# I'm thinking of

# What it would be like

# If she loved me

# You know, just lately

# This happy song, it came along

# And I had to somehow

# Try and tell you

# Jennifer Juniper

# Hair of golden flax

# Jennifer Juniper

# Longs for what she lacks

# Do you like her?

# Yes, I do, Sir

# Would you love her?

# Yes, I would, Sir

# Whatcha doing, Jennifer, my love?

# Jennifer Juniper

# Jennifer Juniper

# Jennifer Juniper

# Jennifer Juniper

# Vit sur la colline

# Jennifer Juniper

# Assise tres tranquille

# Dors t'elle?

# Je ne crois pas

# Respire t'elle?

# Oui, mais tout bas

# Qu'est-ce que tu fais

# Jenny, mon amour?

# Jennifer Juniper. #

APPLAUSE

# Can I have my money back

# Please, sir?

# Don't hear what you're sayin'

# Don't care what you're doin'

# Can I have my money back

# Money back, money back?

# Can I have my money back

# Please, sir?

# Went to the movies

# And the movie broke down

# The picture on the screen

# Was going round and round

# I'd spent all I had

# Getting in to see the show

# So I walked up to the man

# And I said I'd like to go

# Can I have my money back

# Money back, money back?

# Can I have my money back

# Please, sir?

# I don't hear what you're sayin'

# Don't care what you're doin'

# Can I have my money back

# Money back, money back?

# Can I have my money back

# Please, sir?

# I heard a preacher man

# Say his way was the best

# So, I took up his religion

# And forgot about the rest

# Then I heard another one

# Calling out my name

# I went and took a closer look

# He was just the same

# Can I have my money back

# Money back, money back?

# Can I have my money back

# Please, sir?

# I don't hear what you're sayin' Don't care what you're doin'

# Can I have my money back

# Money back, money back?

# Can I have my money back

# Please, sir?

# Listen to the lies

# From the politician man

# Saying that we live

# In a democratic land

# One law for the rich

# Another for the poor

# And if you try to change it

# They'll nail you to the floor

# Can I have my money back

# Money back, money back?

# Can I have my money back

# Please, sir?

# I don't hear what you're sayin' Don't care what you're doin'

# Can I have my money back

# Money back, money back?

# Can I have my money back

# Please, sir?

# There is a young cowboy

# He's living on the range

# His horse and his cattle

# Are his only companions

# He works in the saddle

# And he sleeps in the canyons

# Just waiting for summer

# His pastures to change

# And as the moon rises

# He sits by his fire

# Just thinking about women

# And glasses of beer

# And closing his eyes

# As the doggies retire

# He sings out a song

# Which is soft, but it's clear

# As if maybe someone could hear

# He says, Goodnight

# You moonlight ladies

# Rockabye, sweet baby James

# Deep greens and blues

# Are the colours I choose

# Won't you let me

# Go down in my dreams

# Yes, and rockabye

# Sweet baby James

# Now, the first of December

# Was covered with snow

# Yes, and so was the turnpike

# From Stockbridge to Boston

# The Berkshires seemed dream-like

# On account of that frosting

# Ten miles behind me

# And ten thousand more to go

# There's a song that they sing

# When they take to the highway

# A song that they sing

# When they take to the sea

# A song that they sing

# Of their home in the sky

# Maybe you can believe it

# If it helps you to sleep

# But singing seems

# To work fine for me

# So, goodnight, you moonlight ladies

# Rockabye, my sweet baby James

# Deep greens and blues

# Are the colours I choose

# Won't you let me go down in my dreams

# Yes, and rockabye Sweet baby James. #

This is a song that was made popular in the US,

and maybe here, by Aretha Franklin.

# Looking out on the morning rain

# I used to feel uninspired

# And when I knew

# I'd have to face another day

# Lord, it made me feel so tired

# Before the day I met you

# Life was so unkind

# Your love was the key

# To my peace of mind

# Cos you make me feel

# You make me feel

# You make me feel

# Like a natural woman

# Oh, when my soul

# Was in the lost-and-found

# You came along

# To claim it

# I didn't know

# Just what was wrong with me

# Till your kiss helped me name it

# Now I'm no longer doubtful

# Of what I'm living for

# Cos if I make you happy

# I don't need to do more

# You make me feel

# You make me feel

# You make me feel

# Like a natural woman

# Oh, baby

# What you've done to me

# You make me feel so good inside

# And I just want to be

# Close to you

# You make me feel so alive

# You make me feel

# You make me feel

# You make me feel

# Like a natural

# Natural woman

# You make me feel

# You know, you make me feel

# You make me feel

# Like a natural woman

# Natural woman. #

APPLAUSE

# LA's fine

# The sun shines most of 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

# LA'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 being a king

# And then became one?

# Well, except for the names And a few other changes

# You talk about me

# The story's 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

# Leavin' me lonely still

# Oh. #

APPLAUSE

Welcome to the Whistle Test Studio for Mickey Newbury.

# Oh, I wish I was

# In the land of cotton

# Old times, they are not forgotten

# Look away, look away

# Look away, Dixieland

# Oh, I wish I was in Dixie

# Away, away

# In Dixieland

# I take my stand

# To live and die in Dixie

# Dixieland

# That's where I was born

# Early, Lord, one frosty morning

# Look away, look away

# Look away, Dixieland

# Glory, glory

# Hallelujah

# Glory, glory

# Hallelujah

# Glory, glory

# Hallelujah

# His truth

# Is marching

# On

# So hush, little children

# Don't you cry

# You know your daddy's

# Bound to die

# But all my trials, Lord

# Soon be over. #

HE WHISTLES

And now, Elton John, with two songs from his latest album,

Madman Across The Water.

This one's called Tiny Dancer.

# Blue jean baby

# LA lady

# Seamstress for the band

# Pretty eyed, pirate smile

# You'll marry a music man

# Ballerina, you must have seen her

# Dancing in the sand

# And now she's in me

# Always with me

# Tiny dancer in my hand

# Jesus freaks out on the street

# Handing tickets out for God

# Turning back, she just laughs

# The boulevard is not that bad

# Piano man, he makes his stand

# In the auditorium

# Looking on, she sings the songs

# The words she knows The tune she hums

# Oh, how it feels so real

# Lying here with no-one near

# Only you and you can hear me

# When I say softly, slowly

# Hold me closer, tiny dancer

# Count the headlights on the highway

# Lay me down in sheets of linen

# You had a busy day today

# Hold me closer, tiny dancer

# Count the headlights on the highway

# Lay me down in sheets of linen

# You had a busy day today

# Blue jean baby

# LA lady

# Seamstress for the band

# Pretty eyed, pirate smile

# You'll marry a music man

# Ballerina, you must have seen her

# Dancing in the sand

# And now she's in me

# Always with me

# Tiny dancer in my hand

# Oh, how it feels so real

# Lying here with no-one near

# Only you

# And you can hear me

# When I say softly, slowly

# Hold me closer, tiny dancer

# Count the headlights on the highway

# Lay me down in sheets of linen

# You had a busy day today

# Hold me closer, tiny dancer

# Count the headlights on the highway

# Lay me down in sheets of linen

# You had a busy day today, oh. #

# Look what they done to my song, Ma

# Look what they done to my song

# It was the only thing

# That I could do half right

# And it's turning out all wrong, Ma

# Look what they done to my song

# Look at what they done to my brain, Ma

# Look what they done to my brain

# Well, they picked it like a chicken bone

# And I think I'm half insane, Ma

# Look what they done to my song

# I wish that I could find a good book to live in

# I wish I could find a good book

# Well, if I could find

# A real good book

# I'd never have

# To come out and look at

# What they done to my song

# Ils ont change ma chanson, Ma

# Ils ont change ma chanson

# C'est la seule chose

# Que je peux faire

# Et ce n'est pas bon, Ma

# Ils ont change ma chanson

# But maybe it'll all be all right, Ma

# Maybe it'll all be OK

# Well, if the people are buying tears

# I'll be rich someday, Ma

# Look what they done to my song

# Look at what they done

# To my song, Ma

# Look what they done to my song, Ma

# You know that they tied it up

# In a plastic bag

# And turned it upside down

# Oh, Ma-ma

# Look at what they done to my song

# Da-da, da-da, la, da-da da-da

# La-da da-da da-da la-da-da la-da-da

# It was the only thing

# I could do all right

# And it's turning out all wrong

# Oh, Ma-ma, look what they done to my song, mm-mm-mm-mm. #

APPLAUSE

# Late at night, somewhat tight

# Guardian angels put to flight

# Freddie's doused the neon light

# That promised while it shone

# Time to go, time to blow

# They don't push me cos they know

# I am still in my long ago

# When Annie took me home

# There was I, wondering why

# Annie'd choose to ask me over

# But she did. Sure, she did

# She called me her Irish Rover

# Sat me there in her chair

# Ran her fingers through my hair

# Talk of Heaven, I've been there

# When Annie took me home

# Rafters rung, songs were sung

# Like Spanish is the loving tongue

# Ribbons on my life were hung

# When Annie took me home

# There was wine, there was time

# All the while, guitars were playing

# When the day came my way

# Then she told me I'd be staying

# Love can grow, love can go

# Did she love me? I don't know

# Though she often told me so

# I've never really known

# Was I blind? I don't mind

# I think life's been more than kind

# Thanks to life, there was a time

# When Annie took me home

# Thanks to life, there was a time

# When Annie

# Took me

# Home. #

# My man and me

# We're close as anyone

# Could ever be

# For two

# Ooh, and when I see his face

# The worries of the day

# Just disappear

# Don't ask me why

# My man and me

# We never seem to quarrel

# 'Bout a thing

# It's true

# Ooh, for anything he says

# I know is good enough for me

# Don't ask me why

# But I won't let him down

# And I want it just that way

# Forever and ever

# One and one together

# That's my man and me

# My man and me

# Du-du-du-du du-du

# Du-du du-du du du-du du-du

# Du-du du du du-dun-du

# My man and me

# We're close as anyone

# Could ever be

# For two

# Ooh, and when I see his face

# The worries of the day

# Just disappear

# Don't ask me why

# But I won't let him down

# And it's gonna be that way

# Forever and ever

# One and one together

# That's my man and me

# My man and me

# That's my man and me

# My man and me

# My man and me

# My man and me

# My man and me

# My man and me

# My man and me. #

# Dear Abby. Dear Abby

# My feet are too long

# My hair's falling out

# And my rights are all wrong

# My friends, they all tell me

# That I've no friends at all

# Won't you write me a letter?

# Won't you give me a call?

# Signed, Bewildered

# Bewildered, Bewildered

# You have no complaint

# You are what you are

# And you ain't what you ain't

# So listen up, Buster

# And listen up good

# Stop wishing for bad luck

# And knocking on wood

# Dear Abby. Dear Abby

# My fountain pen leaks

# My wife hollers at me

# And my kids are all freaks

# Every side I get up on

# Is the wrong side of bed

# If it weren't so expensive

# I'd wish I were dead

# Signed, Unhappy

# Unhappy, Unhappy

# You have no complaint

# You are what you are

# And you ain't what you ain't

# So listen up, Kiddo

# And listen up good

# Stop wishing for bad luck

# And knocking on wood

# Dear Abby. Dear Abby

# You won't believe this

# But my stomach makes noises

# Whenever I kiss

# My girlfriend tells me

# It's all in my head

# But my stomach tells me

# To write you instead

# Signed, Noise-maker

# Noise-maker. Noise-maker

# You have no complaint

# You are what you are

# And you ain't what you ain't

# So listen up, Buster

# And listen up good

# Stop wishing for bad luck

# And knocking on wood

# Dear Abby. Dear Abby

# Well, I never thought

# That me and my girlfriend

# Would ever get caught

# We were sitting in the back seat

# Just shooting the breeze

# With her hair up in curlers

# And her pants to her knees

# Signed, Just Married

# Just Married. Just Married

# You have no complaint

# You are what you are

# And you ain't what you ain't

# So listen up, Buster

# And listen up good

# Stop wishing for bad luck

# And knocking on wood

# Signed, Dear Abby. #

# I learned the truth at seventeen

# That love was meant

# For beauty queens

# And high school girls

# With clear-skinned smiles

# Who married young and then retired

# The valentines I never knew

# The Friday night charades of youth

# Were spent on one more beautiful

# At seventeen, I learned the truth

# And those of us with ravaged faces

# Lacking in the social graces

# Desperately remained at home

# Inventing lovers on the phone

# Who called to say

# "Come dance with me"

# And murmured vague obscenities

# It isn't all it seems at seventeen

# A brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs

# Whose name I never could pronounce

# Said, "Pity, please

# "The ones who serve

# "They only get what they deserve"

# And the rich relationed

# Hometown queens

# Marry into what they need

# With a guarantee of company

# And haven for the elderly

# Remember those who win the game

# They lose the love

# They sought to gain

# In debentures of quality

# And dubious integrity

# Their smalltown eyes

# Will gape at you

# In dull surprise when payments due

# Exceed accounts

# Received at seventeen

# To those of us who knew the pain

# Of valentines that never came

# And those whose names

# Were never called

# When choosing sides for basketball

# It was long ago and far away

# The world was younger than today

# When dreams were all they gave for free

# To ugly duckling girls like me

# We all play the game And when we dare

# To cheat ourselves at solitaire

# Inventing lovers on the phone

# Repenting other lives unknown

# They call and say, "Come dance with me"

# And murmur vague obscenities

# At ugly girls like me

# At seventeen. #

APPLAUSE

# I lived with the decent folks

# In the hills of old Vermont

# Where what you might do all day

# Well, that depends on what you want

# And I took up with a woman there

# Although I was still just a kid

# And I smile like the sun

# To think of the loving that we did

# She rose each morning

# And went off to work

# And she kept me with her pay

# And I was making sweet love all night

# And playing this old guitar all day

# And I got me apple cider and homemade bread

# That would make a man kneel down to say grace

# And clean linens on our bed

# And a warm feet fire place

# Yankee lady

# You're so good to me

# Yankee lady

# Just a memory

# Yankee lady

# You were so good to me

# But your memory's

# Gonna have to do for me

# An autumn walk on an old country road

# With a million flaming trees

# And I was feeling a little uneasy

# Because there was winter chilly in the breeze

# And she said

# "Oh, look, Jesse, look over there

# "I see birds and they all are southward bound

# "Oh, Jesse, man, I am so afraid

# "That we might lose all this love

# "That we've found"

# Yankee lady

# You were so good to me

# Yankee lady

# Just a memory

# Yankee lady

# You were so good to me

# But your memory's going to have to do for me

# Well, I don't know just what called to me

# But I know that our plane had to go

# I left that little Vermont town

# With a lift to sunny Mexico

# And now when I can see my own self

# As a stranger by my birth

# The Yankee lady's old memory

# Can remind me of my worth

# Yankee lady, you were so good to me

# Yankee lady

# Just a memory

# Yankee lady, you were so good to me

# But your memory's going to have to just do for me

# Unfortunately. #

# You've travelled so far

# The wind in your face

# You're thinking you've found the one special place

# Where all of your dreams will walk out in line

# And follow the course you've made in your mind

# Hey, it isn't gonna be that way

# It isn't gonna be that way

# I came on my own

# And felt much like you

# I thought I was King

# And knew what to do

# But everything burned

# And fell from my hand

# I had to turn back

# Or build a new plan

# Cos it isn't gonna be that way

# It isn't gonna be that way

# Hey, it isn't gonna be that way

# It isn't gonna be that way

# If I were a god

# I'd give you a clue

# This minute would crack

# And I could go through

# And walk out in time

# Where no-one has been

# I'd come back to you

# And tell what I'd seen

# But it isn't gonna be that way

# It isn't gonna be that way

# You'll just have to live

# And see what you find

# And take it from there

# And follow the signs

# You think you can live

# And dream your own fate

# You think you can wish

# And walk through the gate

# Well, it isn't gonna be that way

# It isn't gonna be that way

# Oh, it isn't gonna be that way

# It isn't gonna be that way

# Oh...

# Oh, no. #

# Dying flame

# You're free again

# Who could love

# And do that to you?

# All dressed in black

# He won't be coming back

# Save your tears

# You've got years and years

# The pains at seventeen

# Aren't real, they're only dreams

# Save your crying

# For the day

# Fool if you think it's over

# Cos you said goodbye

# Fool if you think it's over

# I'll tell you why

# Newborn eyes always cry with pain

# First look at the morning sun

# Fool if you think it's over

# It's just begun

# Miss teenage dream

# Such a tragic scene

# He knocked your crown

# And ran away

# First wound of pride

# And how you cried and cried

# But save your tears

# You've got years and years

# Fool if you think it's over

# Cos you said goodbye

# Fool if you think it's over

# I'll tell you why

# I'll buy your first good wine

# Ooh, we'll have a real good time

# Save your crying for the day

# Newborn eyes always cry with pain

# First look at the morning sun

# Fool if you think it's over... # APPLAUSE