Arthouse Glam - Get in the Swing Sounds of the 70s 2

# I met her in a club down in old Soho

# Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola

# C-O-L-A Cola

# She walked up to me and she asked me to dance

# I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola

# L-O-L-A Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy

# But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine

# Oh, my Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Well, I'm not dumb, but I can't understand

# Why she walk like a woman and talk like a man

# Oh, my Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Well, we drank champagne and danced all night

# Under electric candlelight

# She picked me up and sat me on her knee

# And said, "Little boy won't you come home with me?"

# Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy

# But when I looked in her eyes Well, I almost fell for my Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# I pushed her away

# I walked to the door

# I fell to the floor

# I got down on my knees

# I looked at her, and she at me

# Well, that's the way that I want it to stay

# And I always want it to be that way for my Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Girls will be boys and boys will be girls

# It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Well, I left home just a week before

# And I'd never ever kissed a woman before

# But Lola smiled and took me by the hand

# And said, "Little boy, gonna make you a man"

# Well, I'm not the world's most masculine man

# But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man

# And so's Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola

# Lola

# Lo lo lo lo Lola... #

I'll phone you when I'm free.

-What's all that about, then?

-We've known each other for ages.

-We see a lot of each other.

-What, you and that gorgeous thing?!

-She's a very good friend of mine.

-Look at those legs!

-Hm, that is a very lovely person.

-You're telling me!

And I'll tell you something else.

She's much more settled since she's had the operation.

LAUGHTER

# Make me a deal and make it straight

# All signed and sealed, I'll take it

# To Robert E Lee I'll show it

# I hope and pray he don't blow it cos

# We've been around a long time

# Just try t-try t-trying to m-make the big time

# Take me on a rollercoaster

# Take me on an airplane ride

# Take me for a six days wander, but don't you

# Don't you throw my pride aside besides

# What's real and make believe?

# Baby Jane's in Acapulco, we are flying down to Rio-o-o

# Throw me a line, I'm sinking fast

# Clutching at straws, can't make it

# Havana sound, we're trying

# Hard edge the hipster jiving

# Last picture shows down the drive-in

# You're so sheer, you're so chic, teenage rebel of the week

# Flavours of the mountain streamline

# Midnight blue casino floors

# Dance the cha-cha through till sunrise

# Opens up exclusive doors, ow wow

# Just like flamingos look the same

# So me and you, just we two got to search for something new. #

'Bowie is a skinny lad with a pasty complexion and ochre-dyed hair

'in the Teddy Boy style of 20 years ago.'

'Yet with a dash of make-up, he's transforming himself

'into an object worshipped by millions of girls.'

-Why are you so upset?

-He's smashing!

-I kissed him!

-I kissed his hand!

-I kissed his hand!

I kissed his hand, I kissed his hand! I went "Oh!" He's lovely!

# Small Jean Genie snuck into the city

# Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers

# Ate all your razors while pulling the waiters

# Talking 'bout Monroe and walking on Snow White

# New York's a no-go and everything tastes nice

# Poor Jean Genie

# Jean Genie, lives on his back

# Jean Genie, loves chimney stacks

# He's outrageous, screams and he bawls

# Jean Genie, let yourself go-o, whoa

# Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile

# She loves him, she loves him but just for a short while

# She'll scratch in the sand, won't let go of your hand

# He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition

# Keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear

# Poor Jean Genie

# Hey, hey

# Jean Genie, lives on his back

# Jean Genie, loves chimney stacks

# He's outrageous, screams and he bawls

# Jean Genie, let yourself go-o, whoa

# So simple minded, he can't drive his module

# He bites on the neon and sleeps in a capsule

# Oi!

# Jean Genie, lives on his back

# Jean Genie, loves chimney stacks

# He's outrageous, screams and he bawls

# Jean Genie, let yourself go-o, whoa

# Jean Genie, lives on his back

# Jean Genie, loves chimney stacks

# He's outrageous, screams and he bawls

# Jean Genie, let yourself go-o, whoa. #

# When are you gonna come down?

# When are you going to land?

# I should have stayed on the farm

# Should have listened to my old man

# You know you can't hold me forever

# I didn't sign up with you

# I'm not a present for your friends to open

# This boy's too young to be singing

# The blu-u-ues

# A-ah, a-ah, a-ah

# A-ah, ah, ah

# So goodbye yellow brick road

# Where the dogs of society howl

# You can't plant me in your penthouse

# I'm going back to my plough

# Back to the howling old owl in the woods

# Hunting the horny back toad

# Oh, I've finally decided my future lies

# Beyond the yellow brick ro-o-oad

# A-ah, a-ah, a-ah

# A-ah, ah, ah

# What do you think you'll do then?

# I bet that'll shoot down your plane

# It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics

# To set you on your feet again

# Maybe you'll get a replacement

# There's plenty like me to be found

# Mongrels, who ain't got a penny

# Sniffing for tidbits like you

# On the ground

# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah

# So goodbye, yellow brick road

# Where the dogs of society howl

# You can't plant me in your penthouse

# I'm going back to my plough

# Back to the howling old owl in the woods

# Hunting the horny-back toad

# Oh, I've finally decided my future lies

# Beyond the yellow brick road

# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

# Ah-ah-ah ah. #

THEY LAUGH

So what's your name?

Er, Elton John.

-Eh?

-Elton John.

-Elton?

-Yeah.

Elton!

Sounds like an exit on the motorway!

It's a ridiculous name!

# I always saw you just before the dawn

# When all the other kids were just draggin' along

# I couldn't believe the way it seemed to be

# Rememberin' the things you used to say to me

# About you know I can't be wastin' time

# Cos I got to have my fun

# I gotta get some fun

# I got to keep on movin'

# Can't stop till it's all done

# Ain't never done

# Listen when I tell you Got no time for fix

# Cos I just gotta make it Can't afford to miss

# And there's one reason I'm tellin' you this

# I feels bad

# And I'm lookin' for a kiss

# Won't you tell me why those kids are moving so slow?

# Is it that they just don't have a place to go?

# When the day starts breakin' The sun is going to shine

# It's hard to sleep if I been cryin'

# And all the old ladies They're all on their way

# To church You're going to church?

# I'm beggin' Will I be a' roamin'

# You'll conduct a search

# Keep on searchin'

# Listen when I tell you Got no time for fix

# Cos I just got to make it Can't afford to miss

# There's one reason I'm tellin' you this

# I feels bad, bad, bad

# And I'm lookin' for a kiss

# Well, I keep lookin' for the real hot kiss

# Come on, kiss me!

# Aaaaaaah!

# You think it's bad But you know it's true

# So why won't you just let me live, baby?

# When I'm lookin' for a kiss

# When everyone's going to your house To shoot up in your room

# Most of them are beautiful but so obsessed with gloom

# I ain't going to be here when they all get home

# They're always lookin' at me They won't leave me alone

# I didn't come here lookin' for no fix

# Uh-uh-uh no

# I been houndin' the streets all night late, baby

# Just a-lookin' for a kiss

# I need a fix and a kiss

# I need a fix and a kiss. #

Mock rock - the New York Dolls.

# Get in the swing, pal Get in the swing

# With everybody and everything

# Get in the swing, pal Get in the swing

# With everybody and everything

# My friends are here

# Will mind if you go out and not come back again

# Well, thanks a lot

# Hooray, hooray

# The night is younger than the girl who's got the touch

# But not by much

# Well, I ain't no Freud

# I'm from LA But I know certain things

# That they also serve who sit and wait

# They're cheaper than paintings

# And don't need explaining

# Get in the swing, pal Get in the swing

# With everybody and everything

# Get in the swing, pal Get in the swing

# With everybody and everything

# When salmon spawn

# A ton of water blocks their motion

# Spoils their game

# But on they go

# Thrashing till their mission is fulfilled or else

# Oh, but they have their friends

# And have a warm bed waiting

# Just like I do with you

# I'm happy, so happy I'm happy, oh happy...

# Get in the swing, pal Get in the swing

# With everybody and everything

# Get in the swing, pal Get in the swing

# With everybody and everything

# All for one, one for all

# All for one, one for all

# All for one, one for all

# Get in the swing, pal Get in the swing

# With everybody and everything

# Get in the swing, pal Get in the swing

# With everybody and everything

# Hello down there

# This is your creator with a questionnaire

# Hello up there

# I don't have the time to fill out questionnaires

# Get in the swing, pal Get in the swing

# With everybody and everything

# Get in the swing, pal Get in the swing

# With everybody and everything

# Get in the swing now Get in

# Get in the swing now Get in... #

Roger Scott, what group has these names -

Freddie, Brian, John, Roger?

It would be Freddie Mercury and Brian May, which would mean Queen.

# I can dim the lights and sing you songs full of sad things

# We can do the tango just for two

# I can serenade and gently play on your heart strings

# Be your Valentino just for you

# Ooh, love

# Ooh, loverboy

# What you doin' tonight, hey boy?

# Set my alarm, turn on my charm

# That's because I'm a good old-fashioned loverboy

# Ooh, let me feel your heartbeat

# Grow faster, faster

# Ooh, can you feel my love heat?

# Come on and sit on my hot seat of love

# And tell me how do you feel right after all

# I'd like for you and I to go romancing

# Say the word your wish is my command

# Ooh, love

# Ooh, loverboy

# What you doin' tonight, hey boy?

# Write my letter Feel much better

# And use my fancy patter on the telephone

# When I'm not with you I think of you always

# I miss you

# When I'm not with you

# Think of me always

-# I love you

-Love you

# Hey, boy, where do you get it from?

# Hey, boy, where did you go?

# I learned my passion in the good old-fashioned school of loverboys

# Dining at the Ritz We'll meet at nine precisely

# I will pay the bill, you taste the wine

# Driving back in style in my saloon will do quite nicely

# Take me back to yours That will be fine

# Come on and get it Ooh, love

# Ooh, loverboy

# What you doin' tonight, hey boy?

# Everything's all right Just hold on tight

-# That's because I'm a good old-fashioned

-Fashioned

-loverboy. #

APPLAUSE

'Stewart, in Dublin's fruit market, tends to stand out in a crowd.'

'But then these people, or their kids at least, buy his discs,

'lap up his publicity,

'and in all fairness to his millions, he's not afraid to meet them.'

# Oh, yeah

# In these days of changing ways

# So-called liberated days

# A story comes to mind of a friend of mine

# Georgie Boy was gay, I guess Nothing more or nothing less

# The kindest guy I ever knew

# His mother's tears fell in vain

# The afternoon George tried to explain

# That he needed love like all the rest

# Pa said, "There must be a mistake

# How can my son not be straight

# "After all I've said and done for him?"

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do, do

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ooh

# Leaving home on a Greyhound bus Cast out by the ones he loves

# A victim of these gay days, it seems

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do, do

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ooh

# Georgie went to New York town

# Where he quickly settled down

# And soon became the toast of the Great White Way

# Accepted by Manhattan's elite In all the places that were chic

# No party was complete without George

# Along the boulevards he'd cruise And all the old queens blew a fuse

# Everybody loved Georgie Boy. #

HE WHISTLES

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do, do

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ooh

# The last time I saw George alive was in the summer of '75

# He said he was in love I said, "I'm pleased"

# George attended the opening night of another Broadway hype

# But split before the final curtain fell

# Deciding to take a shortcut home

# Arm in arm they meant no wrong

# A gentle breeze blew down Fifth Avenue

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do, do

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ooh

# Out of a darkened side street came A New Jersey gang with just one aim

# To roll some innocent passer-by

# There ensued a fearful fight

# Screams rang out in the night

# Georgie's head hit a sidewalk cornerstone

# A leather kid, a switchblade knife He did not intend to take his life

# He just pushed his luck a little too far that night

# The sight of blood dispersed the gang

# A crowd gathered, the police came

# An ambulance screamed to a halt on 53rd & 3rd

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do, do

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ooh

# Georgie's life ended there But I ask who really cares

# George once said to me and I quote

# He said, "Never wait or hesitate Get in kid, before it's too late

# "You may never get another chance

# "Cos youth's a mask, but it don't last

# Live it long and live it fast" Georgie was a friend of mine

# Oh, yeah

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do, do

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ooh.

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do, do

# Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, ooh. #

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