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ONCE MORE WITH FEELING

by Nick Taylor

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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 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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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 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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PRELUDE 06:26
This is an instrumental track
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MAGIC BOY 03:42
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 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 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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ERGO 04:46
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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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 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
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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1919 Album of songs written over the last few years and recorded in 2019. I have no idea into which 'Genre" these songs fall .. I just write them as I feel the muse takes me. Because we live out in the country I have to play all the instruments .. thank heaven for real samples from Garageband and Roland .. and midi editing.

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released October 17, 2019

Thanks to the Garageband Guide and Rob Mayzes for inspiring me to get to grips with the tech challenges of recording digital and acoustic instruments .. I used to just write the notes and others played them. This is a solo effort bound by my many musical limitations.

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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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