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TAKE IT FROM THE TOP
03:04
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TAKE IT FROM THE TOP
If you wanna go far hit the big time
You just take it from the top, start where you are
If you look and see that you happen to be
Way down the end of the line
Don't let it stop you bug you drop you
Take it from the top
If you wanna make friends take it easy
You just walk right up and take it from the top
Don't pretend to be anything or anyone
You can't really be
You just charm them boy, disarm them
Take it from the top
CHORUS
If you wanna know more .. and you wanna get smart
Life's never ever a bore when you follow your heart
Just check out the score and take it
Take it from the top
If you pick up a problem or two and things look black
Take it up the octave and you'll be on the right track
Don't dodge it or fake it take it
Take it from the top
Folks who don't know say a miss is as good as a mile
If you're gonna make a mistake then you do it with style
Don't give it up, pick it up .. take it
Take it from the top
If you hit rock bottom and you're hassled, bounce right back
A little bit of brass neck and sass will put you back on the track
So don't take the coda .. take it
Take it from the top
And you make a lot of friends when you hit the big time
So just walk right up and take it from the top
And if you make mistakes, thats just what it takes
To find you're still okay
You can make it if you take it boy ..
Take it easy, take it from the .. top
Take it easy, take it from the .. top
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JB. SONG FOR A GRANDFATHER
I can see the green of Barberton as he must have seen it lie
Splendid under summer rainclouds hanging from the sky
I can feel his heart though he never knew beat for one such as I
To say the things he never could, what a pity we have to die
I can look as he must have often through Gods Window in the sun
On forests that had been there even then since time begun
He led me down to Blyde where a shaky footbridge swung
And though the years were inbetween us God knows we were one
CHORUS
Just to think that years ago he walked this way
And I only wish I'd had the chance to know him
Must have been a man of substance kindly and remote
Still I'd like to have seen him smile
Or to have walked by his side
For at least one lonely mile of his life ..
For at least one lonely mile of his life ..
He will walk me down from Pilgrims down to Mac Mac and the pools
And we'll feel the chill of sundown as the awend windjie cools
We will hear the ghosts of miners machinery and tools
And we'll sing of gold and prospectors of mining men and fools
CHORUS
And to think ..
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ROCKING IN THE RSA
05:17
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ROCKING IN THE RSA
I'm an old rocker rocking in my rocking chair .. yeah
So when Altzheimers starts to kick in
I can say just look where I've been
And it looks like I'm going again and again and again and
I recall a barroom piano .. Vic Toweel fights Marciano
Smoke Cavalla and dance .. to those Blue Suede Shoes
I was young .. love was forbidden
I played guitar .. throbbing rhythm
Sang my life away .. to a twelve bar blues
Down at Joe's Cafe the juke box swinging
78s of Johnny Kongas singing
All the Teddy Boys and ducktails grooving
Down .. the street
Radio was playing “Vat hom Dawie”
Lemmy Special, Spokes Mashiani
Dickie Loader and the Blue Jeans
Knocking me off my feet .. and we were
Rocking rolling .. in the RSA .. yes we were ..
Rocking in the RSA .. Rocking in the RSA
Rocking .. rolling .. Rocking in the RSA .. yes we were
Rocking in the RSA .. Rocking in the RSA
Rolling .. strolling .. Rocking in the RSA
I'm not saying they were the best of times
Not saying they were bad .. I'm just saying they happened to be
The only times we had .. we were
Rocking .. rolling .. in the RSA
So you can stick your Sting and Madonna
Gonna dance to whoever I wanna
Township bru .. you .. started a brand new game
Kwaito Mapansula Baqanga
Vusi Mahlasela .. Louis Mahlanga
Still the more things change the more they stay the same
All at once the songs we used to thrill to
Are giving kids another sound to chill to
On the radio I can hum each song that they play
Cry to me, and Celebrate the rain ..
Quela Claude is jumping up again
Rock 'n Rolling in the RSA is here to stay and we are
Rocking .. rolling .. in the RSA .. yes we are ..
Rocking in the RSA .. Rocking in the RSA
Rocking .. rolling .. Rocking in the RSA .. yes we are
Rocking in the RSA .. Rocking in the RSA
Rolling .. strolling .. Rocking in the RSA
I'm not saying they are the best of times
Not saying they are not .. I'm just saying they happen to be
The only times we've got .. we are
Rocking .. rolling .. in the RSA .. yes we are ..
Rocking in the RSA .. Rocking in the RSA
Rocking .. rolling .. in the RSA
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4. |
EASTERN PEACEFUL LAND
03:02
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EASTERN PEACEFUL LAND
In the midday haze of the sunlights rays
You will lie in summer morning
Over fields of maize on these summer days
I will fly in wonder dreaming
Where the hills tumble down and the good earth is brown
And the water cascades in the cool mountain glades
I will come to you, I will sing to you
Oh my Eastern Peaceful Land
Neath a highveld sky pale in mid July
With the icy winds a'blowing
Where the stubble lies in my winter eyes
I will find great wonders growing
Where the grey craggy stone and the pines stand alone
On the slopes where they grow 'tween the high and the low
I will walk with you I will sing of you
Oh my Eastern Peaceful Land
I will come to you .. I will sing to you
I will walk with you .. I will sing of you
O my Eastern Peaceful Land
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INTO MY WORLD
03:30
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INTO MY WORLD
I used to be so cool and self assured
Thought I really had a life to live
Into my world you came
And nothing will ever be the same
I used to think that time was on my side
Everything was how it's s'posed to be
Into my world you came
Now nothing will ever be the same
You turn me inside out you turn me outside in
What do I do now .. where do I begin
CHORUS 1
All at once my friends are saying I'm so insecure
Sometimes I believe them sometimes I'm not so sure
How do I tell them it's … you
All at once I'm so aware of ..how it feels
To be falling wheeling turning head over heels
Where once I was so confused
Now I'm … bemused
The days and nights I used to spend alone
Even though someone was always there
Into my world you came
Now nothing will ever be the same
And all my days and nights are filled with love
Whether you are near or far away
Cos to my world you came
And nothing … will ever be the same
You turn me inside out you turn me outside in
What do I do now .. where do I fit in
Inst bridge
Now all my days and nights are filled with love
Whether you are near or far away
Cos to my world you came
And nothing … will e .. ver .. be .. the .. same
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6. |
PRELUDE
06:26
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This is an instrumental track
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7. |
MAGIC BOY
03:42
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MAGIC BOY – GROWING YOUNG
Growing young .. growing wild
Measuring time on the waving grasses
In the world of a child
Time is a thing that gently passes
Living with the wind
Holding hands with the rivers daughter
Growing oh so wild then
Learning things I shouldn't oughta know
Chasing sun on the beach
Feeling the sand up between my ten toes
Walking tall in the rain
Feeling the drops sliding down my backbone
Oh to be a child then
Child in slow motion
Growing oh so wild then
Gathering not such childish notions
Whenever I was lonely .. whenever I was sad
I would talk to my friend .. best friend I ever had
He would blow the clouds away
The trees would dance for joy
What did it matter no one else could see him
He would always be my
Yupedee-ido yupedee-ido yupedee-ido .. Magic Boy
Yupedee-ido yupedee-ido yupedee-ido .. Magic Boy
Trickle of time goes by my window pane
In the sun in the rain
Growing young .. growing old
Now the sun is a little lower
Walking tall in the rain
Maybe my step is a wee bit slower
Freer now than ever
Child in slow motion
Knowing what I know now
Savouring all those childish notions
Yupedee-ido yupedee-ido yupedee-ido .. Magic Boy
Yupedee-ido yupedee-ido yupedee-ido .. Magic Boy
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MOMENT OF SUNLIGHT
04:02
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MOMENT OF SUNLIGHT
Someday sometime we'll have to find .. somewhere where there'll be peace of mind
And looking back when we're safe I just know
You'll laugh at me when I remember and so ..
I'll keep this moment of sunlight .. loving you now as I do
Knowing how easy the thread of all that is real is broken in two
Just for a moment of sunlight .. we are together as one
And I ask no more than the chance to be where I am here under the sun
Having known you .. having loved you
Having lost you and then having found you again
I would ask for much more but I'll be content
To live like there'll be no tomorrow
Forgiving and living in now
Could this be our once in a lifetime
Our second chance to show the world how
To live and be loved for the moment
Just to be here in today
That's all we can ask of each other
Nothing but time can take it away
And time in good time will take it away
So I'll keep this moment of sunlight
While we're together as one
And I ask no more than the chance
To be where I am here under the sun
We'll keep this moment of sunlight
While we're together as one
And we'll ask no more than the chance
To be where we are here under the sun
To be in this moment under the sun …
Under the sun ..
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OH PEACEFUL LAND
03:45
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OH PEACEFUL LAND
Oh peaceful land .. oh peaceful land .. oh peaceful land
Your people are crying
Oh peaceful land .. oh peaceful land .. oh peaceful land
Your people are dying
What can we do about it .. people we have to try
If we don't do what's right .. this land will surely die
Goodbye to politicians .. they lead us astray
We can do what's right and show the way
Then if the people lead .. maybe the leaders will follow
Oh peaceful land .. oh peaceful land .. oh peaceful land
Your people are singing
Oh peaceful land .. oh peaceful land .. oh peaceful land
Your people are singing
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10. |
ERGO
04:46
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ERGO – HEART OF GOLD
Well the first time I saw the Joburg sky .. I couldn't believe my eyes
And the sun was a great ball of flame
A thousand golden flat topped hills on either side of me
That's when I thought of her name
She was rough as a bears ass but people there
Passed on what they'd been told
That the mother of all them barren hills
Was the ore with the heart of gold
Again and again in the wind and rain .. she never let me down
Silently showing the way
From Booysens Brakpan and Germiston .. to the Starlight drive in show
She never led me astray
And in all my time in that mining town
Where life is bought and sold
I could always find my way back home
To the whore with the heart of gold
And I remember a song called Mountains of Men
And stories my grandfather told
How the dust would fly in a yellow sky
And the streets would be paved with gold
Now the big men fed by the tunnels of a million small mens dreams
Have found another way to make their ends justify their means
And if that means progress I'm not really sure
If progress is what we need
But maybe it's how we learn to laugh at ourselves
In our indifference and our greed
Well it took so long to put them there
Seems a shame to watch them disappear
When the grass was beginning to grow
But what price history when you're making a buck
They loaded them hills in the back of a truck
And we stood and we watched them go
So look after your towers and lakes and flowers
If they're more than ten years old
Or they'll sell them too right from under you
Like they sold you heart of gold
And I remember ….
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11. |
CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW
03:41
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CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW
AFRICA
Molo sawubona helele hello
Dumela unjani .. hoe gaan dit met jou
Dipilile inkosi ketenga hokai
Avuxeni lotjhani thobela ndaa
Morho hujambo sharp-fede heita
WORLD
Salaam zdravstvujtie salut nihao
Hola kalimera shalom ciao
Konnichiwa gutentag merhaba halla
Namasta ola ahoj hei
Bojour dobriy-den dia-duit g'day
CHORUS
I see you .. you see me .. when we say hello
If our hearts and minds are free, we will be in harmony
Like the colours of the rainbow
We all have our own special way to say hello
Whoever we may be we are one humanity
We are children of the rainbow
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BREAKFAST IN PARIS
04:05
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BREAKFAST IN PARIS
Were we both on a roll .. or what .. when we first met
Spinning out of control .. I was not far behind you at all
Quite where I forget
You brought me in you made me welcome
You shared your dreams your home and then some
And you and I thought the world was fine
And through all our special friendship .. this is the greatest part
Oh we never made breakfast in Paris
But we journeyed into the heart
I remember the look .. on your face .. when you went down
Though you took it with grace .. how you kept up that smile on your face
Well I'll never know
They were your friends .. they came to get you
You wrote the book .. they threw it at you
And I knew you couldn't do a thing
And through all our special friendship .. this is the greatest part
Oh we never made breakfast in Paris
But we journeyed into the heart
I see no reason to regret it
Shit can happen anytime anywhere
When you are the wrong face
You're always in the wrong place
Only time it hurts is when you care
Now it's over and done .. you've begun .. to turn around
Every day's a surprise .. and your eyes .. how they tell such a tale
Of what you have found
Broke but not broken .. down but not out
And I know you'd do it all again
And through all our special friendship .. this is the greatest part
We may never make breakfast in Paris
But we'll journey into .. journey into .. journey into the heart
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BOY
03:57
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BOY
Boy .. when you were just so high .. remember how you laughed when I sang
My dog has fleas
Boy .. gentle breezes filled your sails .. remember Russian Fairytales
How you begged for more .. will-you please
Little “friend of all the world” .. so the story goes
Pictures come together under your turned up nose
Ah Boy
Boy .. maybe school was not your style .. remember how it used to wipe that
Smile off your face .. I think you do
Boy .. all those walks along the beach .. remember how I tried to teach you
Something of life .. well who's fooling who
Suddenly you're standing there saying “Can't you see?”
That's when I first realise .. your looking down at me
Ah Boy
CHORUS
So you grew up .. laughing at life and I .. I know it wasn't easy
All the nights you cried
But from the day you found my dog has fleas so very funny
Till my time has come you'll always be my funny sonny boy
Boy .. where're you going .. not so fast .. gonna need a gift to last you
More than a day .. hey don't turn away
Boy .. gotta mind your P's and Q's .. everybody pays their dues
Somewhere somehow .. what more can I say
That's the sum of my advice .. if you want to heed it
Oh and by the way good luck .. you won't need it
Boy … Sonny Boy
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Nick Taylor Western Cape, South Africa
Born in Somerset England. Grew up in South Africa. Made over 30 albums over a 50 year career in entertainment. Wrote and co- wrote several musicals. Appeared on television and hosted his own shows. Wrote and co-presented a hit children's TV show for 11 years. Now writing songs for online release. ... more
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