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Little Girl (with a laughing face)

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Written by:
Sulvers
Van Heusen
(1945)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb

Album:
Barry Gibb sings Sinatra <bootleg>


If I don’t see her each day I miss her
Gee, what a thrill each time I kiss her
I’ve got a terrible case
On little girl with the laughin’ face

She takes the winter and makes it summer
But summer could take some lessons from her
Picture a tomboy in lace
That’s little girl with the laughin’ face

Have you ever heard mission bells ringin’?
Well, she’ll give you the very same glow
When she speaks you would think it was singin’
Just hear her say “hello”

I swear to goodness you can’t resist her
Sorry for you, she has no sister
No angel could replace
little girl with the laughin’ face

Keep Betty Grable, Lamour, and Turner
She makes my heart a charcoal burner
It’s heaven when I embrace
My little girl with the laughin’ face

Little Boy

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1969)
 
Lead vocals:
Trevor Gordon
 
Album:


Little boy, with your smile so pretty now
What are you doing in my town?
Little boy, do you have a mother now?
And are you planning on settling down?

Do you know, when your head grows grey
Will you feel the same as you did before?
‘Cause when your old and grey
You’ll still feel the way you do today
And nothing’s gonna change

Little boy, now you’re growing older
You’ll need a shoulder to guide you through
And you find when you fall in love
You know you’ll cry just the way that I do

Don’t you know there’s a little girl to love
That’s what makes the world go ‘round
But when you’re old and grey
You’ll still think the way you do today
And nothing’s gonna change

Little boy, with your face so pretty now
What are you doing in my town
Little boy, do you have a mother now
Are you planning on settling down

Lion In Winter

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
(1971)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb

Album:
Trafalgar
(1971)


Lion in my winter.
I’m a lion with no crown.

You wanna make me big man,
a star on a screen,
some kind of James Brown,
or something in between.

But when I look for money
you smother me in charms.
I can’t live on glory
when you’re bending both my arms.

I, I was a lion in winter.
And, man, I had friends
for miles around.
I was a lion in my winter.
What good’s a lion, lord,
without a crown?

You’re living in a cave, man,
upon your marble throne.
You think you own the heavens,
but you’ve got to be alone.

You know, you know I prayed for sunshine,
a woman with my name.
I don’t want to live, man,
you gave away the game.

I, I was a lion in winter.
And, man, I had friends
for miles around.
I was a lion in my winter.
What good’s a lion, lord,
without a crown?

I was a lion in my winter.
What good’s a lion, lord,
without a crown?

Like Nobody Else

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
(1966)
 
Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Brilliant from birth
<compilation>
(1998)


Everything I want I got, and I got you girl.
You really fool me, baby, to my little world.
I love you like nobody else,
I love you like nobody else,
I love you like nobody else.
 
Put yourself in my place.
Do you love me too?
Take a look at my face.
The world I say is you.
I love you and nobody else,
I love you and nobody else,
I love you and nobody else.
 
Play you no games girl (play you no games, girl).
I tell you no lies (I tell you no lies).
Oh, take my loving hands, girl, (take my hands, girl)
when you look in my eyes, (look in my eyes)
I love you like nobody else,
I love you like nobody else,
I love you like nobody else.

Like A Fool

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1985)
 
Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb
 
Album:
Robin Gibb:
Walls have eyes
(1985)


So many lovers, too many nights.
Face in the mirror that keeps you alive.
So close together, so far apart.
I’m so afraid without you.
 
Rain on the river I’ll never cross.
Wind on the ocean, the feeling is lost.
I still believe that you cry for me.
Will I survive without you?
 
Like a fool, I was waiting,
Like a fool, for you to come back.
Fool, I was standing alone in the rain.
Like a fool, I was dreaming,
Like a fool, to lose you this way.
And now I’m just fooling myself.
 
Hearts go beating, love out of time.
Streets without pity, I search for a sign.
Oh, I keep running into the night
but I’m still lost without you.
 
Too many lovers, too many nights.
Face in the window that keeps me alive.
So close together, so far apart.
Will I survive without you?
 
Like a fool, I was waiting,
like a fool, for you to come back.
Like a fool, I was standing alone in the rain.
Like a fool, I was dreaming,
like a fool, to lose you this way.
Like a fool, I was standing alone in the night.
 
I travelled so far
in the lonely, lonely night,
in the lonely night and me,
like a fool, I was waiting,
like a fool, for you to come back.
Like a fool, I was standing alone in the rain.
Like a fool, I was dreaming
like a fool, to thing you would stay.
Like a fool, and now I’m just fooling myself.

Life Story

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
(1979)
 
Lead vocals:
B. Streisand
<demo:
Barry Gibb>
 
Album:
-B.Streisand:
Guilty (1980)
-Bee Gees:
Guilty demos
<bootleg>
 


Don’t want to stay here.
Not very nice.
You boiled me over.
Now you’re cold as ice.
From what you gave me
to what you made me
I should be homeward bound.
Why am I hanging around knowing…
…your life story began with somebody else.
Find your glory out there with somebody else
I’ll be where you find me.
I’ll be somebody else,
somebody else.
Dog in the manger,
teller of lies,
I see a stranger laughing in your eyes.
Though I don’t know how
I’m in the way now.
No matter what you do
I go on loving you knowing…
…your life story began with somebody else.
Find your glory out there with somebody else.
I’ll be where you find me.
I’ll be somebody else.
Deeper than your valleys,
longer than your memory,
I got to your story’s end.
Your life story began with somebody else.
Find your glory out there with somebody else.
I’ll be where you find me.
I’ll be somebody else,
somebody else, somebody else…

Life Goes On

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1982)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Stayin’ alive
<soundtrack>
(1983)


Pardon me, if I use you in my dreams.
You throw those angel eyes at me.
Or could the beautiful woman be more than she seems?
But she is not in love with me.
 
All of my life I been looking for someone to carry my love away.
A chip on my shoulder, a misery, suddenly there you are.
Nobody knows, but she knows that I love her.
It’s got to be growing.
I can’t wait no longer.
 
Life goes on for the lonely man.
When love goes wrong only love knows why
life goes on for the lonely man.
We’ll be the dreams, we’ll be the seasons,
you and I, I.
 
Suddenly, all the world gets in the way.
You disappear into the crowd.
Maybe the beautiful woman never really came.
But I still call your name out loud.
 
I wanna know you, but I never met you.
Reality can be cruel.
If a wandering soul meets another,
they shouldn’t be separated.
 
Better in love with your head on my shoulder.
But I’ll never be satisfied.
And if I can’t see you,
 
Life goes on for the lonely man.
When love goes wrong, only love knows why
life goes on for the lonely man.
We’ll be the dreams, we’ll be the seasons,
you and I, I.
 
Living your life in someone else’s heart.
A lover’s dream that has no end.
There may be somebody you can base your world upon.
I’ll never be the same again.
 
And there’s a part of me here.
And there’s a part of me with you.
But all of me loves you.
Nobody gave me the feeling you gave me.
I’m so proud of
all of my days I will be here for you.
And the love keeps running.
And if I can’t hold you.
 
Life goes on for the lonely man.
And there’s a million words for the one goodbye.
Life goes on for the lonely man.
We’ll be the dreams, we’ll be the seasons,
you and I, I.

Life I’m Wasting My Time

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Written by:
Barry Gibb

Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1972)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb

Robin Gibb

Album:
Bootleg: One kick in the head is worth eight in the pants

Transcript by Luis Alberto Gonzales


[Barry]
Life, it is strange.
It gets good, it gets bad.
And my life, there’s no change.
There’s no time for turning back.
Why do I go from day to day?

[Robin]
Life, I’ve been wasting my time.
And they say that love’s a crime,
Since I last saw you.

Well, maybe tomorrow
I’ll wait up and see.
And all of my sorrows
Will all be well behind me.

[Barry]
Life, it is strange.
It gets good, it gets bad.
And my life, there’s no change.
There’s no time for turning back.
Why do I go from day to day?

My song it goes on, it goes on.
It goes on.
My song it goes on, it goes on.
It goes on.
My song it goes on, it goes on.
It goes on…

Life

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Written by:
Robin Gibb
(1970
)

Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb

Album:
Robin Gibb:
Sing slowly sisters
(bootlegs)

Transcript by
Mohamad Farghaly

Corrections by
Natalia



You saw me this morning
Wasn’t that a funny thing?
Because you once stood by my side
And kissed the tears I cried
But suddenly you’ve changed
And ran to someone strange
Because that’s life, life
You must be my wife
That’s life

I watched you this evening
Walking hand in hand with him
And because I am a man
I’ll do the best I can
To get you back with me
The way we used to be
Because that’s life, life
You must be my wife
That’s life

That’s life, life
That’s life – you must be my wife
Life – you must be my wife
Life – you must be my wife

Let’s Stomp, Australia Way

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Devlin
(1964)
 
Lead vocals:
Tony Brady
 
Album:


Everybody’s doing it, stomping Australia way

Let’s stomp, Australia way
That’s what they’ll do today
Let’s stomp to the surfing wave
everybody in this here land
Come on,
get yourself some sun
We’re gonna stomp till the night is gone
stomp, stomp, stomping Australia way

It all began in Sydney town, down Avalon way
Then Surf City came along
Well, you’ve got to stomp to stay
The Denver man had, ah-oo, stomp fever
What more can I say, ooh
everybody’s doing it, stomping Australia way
Well, well, well

Let’s stomp, Australia way
That’s what they’ll do today
Let’s stomp to the surfing wave
everybody in this here land
Come on,
get yourself some sun
We’re gonna stomp till the night is gone
stomp, stomp, stomping Australia way

Let’s stomp it now
everybody’s doing it, stomping Australia way

They’re doing it down in Melbourne now
stomping Australia way
In Brisbane and the Gold Coast too
They stomp all night and day
In Adelaide town it’s a getting around
stomp is here to stay, yeah
everybody’s doing it, stomping Australia way

Let’s stomp Australia way
That’s what they’ll do today
Let’s stomp to the surfing wave
everybody in this here land
Come on,
get yourself some sun
We gonna stomp till the night is gone
stomp, stomp, stomping Australia way

Let Your Heart Out

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Written by:
Barry Gibb

Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1968)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb

Album:
Lost And Found

(bootleg)

Transcript by
Luis Alberto Gonzales


Hmm…
Let your heart out
For somebody else
For somebody else like me

I’m nothing but trouble
And I’ve let you down
Be careful, my woman,
Stop playing around

Let your heart out
For somebody else
Let your heart out
Don’t keep it to yourself
Let your heart out
And, babe, don’t keep it in your mind,
Keep it in your mind (oh)

Everyday now
When you come around
Throwing yourself at me
I never loved you
And I never will
Stop giving me everything
You’re not getting your fill

Let your heart out (oh)
For somebody else (oh)
Let your heart out
Don’t save to yourself (and, baby)
And, babe, don’t keep it in your mind,
Keep it in your mind,
Don’t keep it in your mind,
Don’t keep it in your mind,
Don’t keep it in your mind

Let your heart out
For somebody else
Let your heart out
Don’t keep it to yourself
Let your heart out
And, babe, don’t keep it in your…

[Barry speaking: That’s ridiculous!]

Letting Go

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Bitzer
(1986)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Hawks
<soundtrack>
(1988)


A child
that hides behind a chair,
almost afraid to grow
without you there.
Whisper words that make you see
what you’ve come to mean to me.
 
A voice
that rises from the heart,
the hunger that seizes me
and tears my soul apart.
And serving only to renew
how I came to feel for you.
 
Through your love I’d seen
forever.
We became as one.
I never saw you turn away.
My love was blind.
 
You call me when your storm is over.
Crying over love that I can give you.
When the night is the colder.
Holding on to me.
 
‘Cause it’s so hard letting go.
And it’s so hard not to cry.
With your face that lies,
you memorize
the reason why.
 
And when the  love is gone
then one of us will know
it’s so hard letting go.
 
Foolish that I still believe
that love should never die.
It makes me cry to witness
where the story ends.
 
All the lovers in the world will
echo all the words that I will leave you,
When the night is lonely
only goes to show…
 
…that it’s so hard letting go.
And it’s so hard not to cry.
And I kneel for yesterday,
when you were mine.
 
And when the love is gone,
then one of us will know
it’s so hard letting go.

Let There Be Love

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1968)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
 
Album:
Idea
(1968)


Let there be love,
so I can be loved by you
in Paradise Avenue.
 
Let there be life,
so everyone lives to love.
Let it happen to me and you.
 
I am a man,
so take me for what I am.
I’ll never have everything,
but let there be love.
Let there be love,
let there be love.
 
I can be nothing,
or I can be something,
I’ve got to give you my life.
 
I’m tired of living
without your giving.
I’ve got to get you for my wife.
 
Can’t hold on much longer.
Feeling’s getting stronger.
I never begged,
but I’m begging now.
 
Let there be love,
so I can be loved by you
in Paradise Avenue, oh yeah.
 
Let there be life,
so we can all live to love
and let it be both of us.
 
I am a man,
so take me for what I am
I’ll never have everything,
but let there be love.
Let there be love,
let there be love.

 

Let Me Wake Up In Your Arms

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1991)
 
Lead vocals:
Lulu
 
Album:
Lulu:
Independence
(1992)


Another lonely Monday morning
and I don’t want to face the world outside
No control
You got someone there to make you smile
But I cry alone
Giving those secret feeling

You never cooperate,
share your love with me
I try in vain to seize your heart
Please don’t keep me waiting for that sign
Give me one good reason why
you say goodnight and mean goodbye
Please let me

Let me wake up in your arms
Let me go down in your dreams
There is so much we can do before tomorrow
and what tomorrow means
I want to get close to you
Every single word I swear is true
On bended knees,I beg you
Let me wake up in your arms

It’s gotta be now or never that heaven in your eyes
You touch me hand and I just die
If you got no one there to see you through,
I’m standing by
I give you my secret feelings

Another lonely Monday morning
and I don’t want to face the truth inside
‘cause you’re not mine
Maybe I’ve been reaching far too high
I may be somebody you don’t know
But I won’t let you forget me, let me

Let me wake up in your arms
Let me go down in your dreams
There is so much we can do before tomorrow
and what tomorrow means
Baby I want to get close to you
Every single word I swear is true
On bended knees I beg you
Let me wake up in your arms

I won’t let you forget me
Let me, let me, let me

Let me wake up in your arms
Let me go down in your dreams
There is so much we can do before tomorrow
and what tomorrow means
Baby I want to get close to you
Every single word I swear is true
On bended knees, I beg you
Let me wake up in your arms

Nobody wants to sleep alone

Let Me Love You (Clip)

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
(1959
)

Lead vocals:
Tommy Steele

Album:
—-
Single, 1965

Transcript by
Mohamad Farghaly



let me love you
I never let you go
let me love you
and as I need you
so let me love you
nobody else will do

Lesson In Love

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Maurice Gibb
Bitzer
(1984)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Barry Gibb:
Now voyager
(1984)


On the dark side of the street.
Just about midnight on the way
to the bright side when she calls.
 
She turned out the light.
I’m just a beginner when it comes
from a number on the wall.
 
All God’s children
need someone to love.
And you know, you know I found mine.
 
I’ve been waiting for the one.
After her you will see me gone.
I got a question answered anyway.
She turned out to be a lesson in love.
A lesson in love.
 
Bad girls cross the line.
Get it for nothing anytime.
I am a victim of the blues.
 
She don’t know the truth.
Nobody told her how to cry.
She got a back against the wall.
 
All God’s children need someone to love.
And you know, baby, you know I found mine.
 
She can show me I’m the one.
After me she’ll be on the run.
And lightning strikes in my bedroom.
The satisfaction was to me a lesson in love.
 
If you give your love for the first time,
-a lesson in love-
you could learn from me.
It’s gonna be
-a lesson.
 
All God’s children need someone to love.
And you know, baby, you know I found mine.
 
She can show me I’m the one.
After me she’ll be on the run.
And lightning strikes in my bedroom.
The satisfaction was to me a lesson in love.
 
If you give your love for the first time,
-a lesson in love-
you could learn from me.
It’s gonna be
-a lesson in love.
 
There are ways and means for your pleasure.
-a lesson in love.
Now just you wait and see.
It’s gonna be
-a lesson in love.
 
If you give your love for the first time,
-a lesson in love-
you could learn from me
-a lesson in love.
 
There are ways and means for your pleasure..

Lemons Never Forget

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1967)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Horizontal
(1968)


Incidentally there should some changes made.
You’ve got to work if you should have to save.
An apple is a fool but lemons never do forget.
You’ve got to play it cool before they come and throw the net.
 
Wait a while and straighten out the tie you wear.
You’ve got to take it easy if you dare.
An apple is a fool but lemons never do forget.
You’ve got to play it cool before they come and throw the net.
 
Don’t be blind, you’ve got a thinking mind.
Stop the bells that ring so loud.
Don’t nod your head, you’ll draw a crowd.
Just think of everything you’ve worked so hard to bring.
The lemon sings my song. He’s known it all along.
 
Incidentally there should be some changes made.
You’ve got to work if you should have to save.
An apple is a fool but lemons never do forget.
You’ve got to play it cool before they come and throw the net.
 
Don’t be blind, you’ve got a thinking mind.
Stop the bells that ring so loud.
Don’t nod your head, you’ll draw a crowd.
Just think of everything you’ve worked so hard to bring.
The lemon sings my song. He’s known it all along.
 
Incidentally there should be some changes made.
You’ve got to work if you should have to save.
An apple is a fool but lemons never do forget.
You’ve got to play it cool before they come and throw the net.

Lay It On Me

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Written by:
Maurice Gibb
(1970)
 
Lead vocals:
Maurice Gibb
 
Album:
2 years on
(1970)


Don’t you drink with me ‘cause you know that I’m a loser,
and I’m proud of that fact as you can plainly see.
Never did what people said I should’ve.
I’m just a low down critter who never did any good.
I’m just a low down critter who never did any good.
 
I spend my life working up a sweat to be a bad boy,
getting girls into trouble every day,
going from town to town, now I tell you I’ve been around.
I’m just a low down critter who never did any good.
I’m just a low down critter who never did any good.
 
Lay it on me. Yeah.
Ha ha ha
Ha ha ha
 
Don’t you drink with me ‘cause I tell you that I’m a loser,
and I’m proud of that fact as you can plainly see.
Going from town to town, now I tell you I’ve been around.
I’m just a low down critter who never did any good.
I’m just a low down critter who never did any good.
Ha ha ha.

Lamplight

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1968)
 
Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb
 
Album:
Odessa
(1969)

Thanks to Stephan Koenig
for his help with the French part!


Allons, viens encore chérie
J’attendrai patiemment
Sous la lampe dans not’ vieille avenue

(Come home again, dear.
I will wait patiently
under the lamp in our old avenue)

10:05 a.m.
she had things to buy.
I close my eyes,
yet I don’t know why.

I gave her money.
Said she knew someone,
and she said she wouldn’t be long.

Lamplight, keep on burning
while this heart of mine is yearning.
Lamplight, keep on burning
till this love of yours is mine.

I sat alone
with my thoughts and laughed.
Then saw your face
in an old photograph.

I didn’t think
that I could live without you,
but what am I to do?

Lamplight, keep on burning
while this heart of mine is yearning.
Lamplight, keep on burning
till this love of yours is mine.

Come home again, dear.
I have waited year after year
under the lamp in our old avenue.

If all in the world that’s laughing,
why should it make us cry?

Ah…

Lady Is A Tramp

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Written by:
Hart
Rodgers
(1937)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Barry Gibb sings Sinatra
<bootleg>


She gets too hungry for dinner at eight
She likes the theater and never comes late
She never bothers with people she’d hate
That’s why the lady is a tramp
 
Doesn’t like crap games with barons or earls
Won’t go to Harlem in ermine and pearls
Won’t dish the dirt with the rest of the girls
That’s why the lady is a tramp
 
She likes the free, fresh wind in her hair
Life without care
She’s broke, and it’s “oke”
 
Hates California, it’s cold and it’s damp
That’s why the lady is a tramp
 
She gets too hungry to wait for dinner at eight
She loves the theater but never comes late
She’d never bother with people she’d hate
That’s why the lady is a tramp
 
She’ll have no crap games with sharpies and frauds
And she won’t go to Harlem in Lincolns or Fords
And she won’t dish the dirt with the rest of the broads
That’s why the lady is a tramp
 
She’d love the free, fresh wind in her hair
Life without care
She’s broke, but it’s “oke”
 
Hates California, it’s so cold and so damp
That’s why the lady
That’s why the lady
That’s why the lady is a tramp