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Glass House

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Written by:
Robin Gibb (1966)
 
Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb
 
Album:
-Monday’s rain (1966)
-Brilliant from birth
<compilation>
(1998)


Glass house,
that once was mine,
the sun will shine
in on me.
 
You,
change your mind,
you weren’t the kind
to live on me.
 
I remember yesterday,
turn my tears to laugher.
Then you left and like a stray,
I came running after.
 
I remember you at night,
palm trees softly swaying.
I remember all the words
you were softly saying.
 
Glass house
upon the hill,
so big and still, the shady lane-
It’s ours,
my love, until the day
we say auf wiedersehen.

Giving Up The Ghost

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1987)

Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb

Album:
E.S.P.
(1987)


One, two..
There’s a young girl lost on the edge of town,
don’t see no future, it’s blind.
Don’t give up when you’re upside down,
you just keep it inside.

You know we all cry when we’re alone,
someone like you
and the promise that we won’t be.

Giving up the ghost
Giving up the ghost
Never you and I
Giving up the ghost.

Giving up the ghost
We can never stop
Giving up the ghost.

Don’t be a hero in the name of love,
don’t leave me waiting in line.
No ties that bind, no ball and chain,
the ghost is waiting outside.

I’m searching so high,
I’m searching low
someone like you.
Baby, I’m not…

giving up the ghost
Giving up the ghost
Never you and I
Giving up the ghost.

Giving up the ghost
We can never stop
Giving up the ghost.

You know we all cry when we are alone,
someone like you, we know oh,
I’m searching so high,
I’m searching low,
someone like you,
we know oh, oh, oh.

Giving up the ghost
Giving up the ghost
Never you and I
Giving up the ghost.
Giving up the ghost…

Give Your Best

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1968)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb

Album:
Odessa
(1969)


It’s a square dance Mr Marshall.
It’s a square dance on the floor.
It’s a square dance Mr Perkins.
It’s a square dance to be sure, to be sure.

Mrs Ralley! Grab the partners.

I’m just a clown that used to run around.
I used to have a million friends.
I used to start where everybody ends.
But I just give my best to my friends.

Ah.
I’ve done my shows.
Everybody knows.
I nearly sold all my clothes.
One man can give, another has to lend.
So I just give my best to my friends.
And so you should.

And when you think that your life isn’t right.
You know the day isn’t always like night.
You’ve had your peace, now it’s time for you to fight.
Just give your best to your friends.

I’m just a clown that used to run around.
I used to have a million friends.
I used to start where everybody ends.
So I just give my best to my friends.

And when you think that your life isn’t right.
You know the day isn’t always like night.
You’ve had your peace, now it’s time for you to fight.
Just give your best to your friends.
Ha ha. And when you think that your life isn’t right.
You know the day isn’t always like night.
You’ve had your peace, now it’s time for you to fight.
Just give your best to your friends.
And just give your best to your friends.

Give Me A Smile

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Written by:
Robin Gibb
(1969)
 
Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb
 
Album:
Robin Gibb:
Robin’s reign
(1970)


Ah…
It’s not the way you say to me, I’ll wave goodbye.
It’s not the search to try to say the tears you’ll cry.
Because I am crying too for the thought of leaving you.
 
You have to give me a smile as I leave you, treasure.
Do it in style and believe in yourself.
‘Cause while I’m away I will stay firm beside you.
And then I will go with the thought that you tried not to break.
 
You mean heaven to me and when I return to thee
we’ll see our own love.
You may not know but I do miss you earnestly.
 
Of all the moments in our time, there’s none like this.
And every day when our lips met, there’s none so bliss.
For when I say sweet c’est la vie,
I laugh and leave with tears on me.
 
You better give me a smile as I leave you, Heather,
Treasure yourself and find time for no else.
For while I’m away I will stay firm beside you.
And then I will leave with the thought that you tried not to cry.
 
Ah…

Give A Hand Take A Hand

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1969)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb

Album:
Mr Natural
(1974)


I wish the world was run
by all the little children.
We could be happy once again.

We won’t hurt
when we’re like little children.
And we won’t ever feel the pain.

Now when my fight
for life on earth is over
and I leave ‘cause I can’t stay,
all my love
belongs to you hereafter
and we’ll all join hands another day.

Everybody’s got to give a hand.
Everybody’s got to take a hand.

Everybody’s got to fall in love, yeah,
to make everybody understand
everybody’s got to give, take a hand.

I love you, yes I do.
I told you a million times now.
Now, do you believe the words I say?

All my life
belongs to you hereafter
and we’ll all join hands another day.

Everybody’s got to give a hand.
Everybody’s got to take a hand.

Everybody’s got to fall in love, yeah,
to make everybody understand
everybody’s got to give, take a hand.

Everybody’s got to give a hand.
Everybody’s got to take a hand.

Everybody’s got to fall in love, yeah,
to make everybody understand
everybody’s got to give, take a hand.

Ghost Train

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1990)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb

Album:
High civilization
(1991)

 


Take me to your world of wonder.
Let me come inside your room,
invisible.
Now you see nothing.
Some investigation as to the state of us.
No misunderstanding girl,
on either side.

I couldn’t lie if I try any other way.
I can’t stop thinking of that girl of mine.
I’m for the rise and the fall.
Any other way and…

Oh. Ride on my ghost train.
Oh.You shouldn’t do it, you shouldn’t do it.
Oh. Ride on my ghost train.
Oh. Who can stop your past from rushing by.
Born to live one million stories high.

Into the night,
into the day.

Take me to a town or country.
Stranger in a strange land.
And I’m an alien.
No, you can’t find me.
You be there at the station
when the train arrives.
When it leaves I get my hands on you.

I fool myself if I turn any other way.
I still keep searching for that girl of mine.
I’m for the hell of it all.
Do it anyway and

Oh. Ride on my ghost train.
Oh. Hearts can break and hearts can turn the tide.
All is love and love is open wide.

Ghost train.
Ghost train
into the night,
into the day.

 

 

Garden Of My Home

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb

(1967
)

Lead vocals:
Esther and Abi Ofarim

Album:
—-

b-side of ‘Morning of my life
(1967)

Transcript by
Mohamad Farghaly

 Here in the garden of my home
I sit and watch the flowers grown,
sometimes I think that I’m alone
here in the garden of my home.

My mind is falling down,
the sky is all around,
someone is standing there
and now he’s gone, I don’t know where

Sometimes I think I’m much too loud
and then I’m standing on a cloud,
it all depends on what I hear
and then again there’s nothing clear.

I want to take a dive,
or watch a street car drive
in spite of all I fall
and watch the colours on the wall.

Here in the garden of my home
Here in the garden of my home
I sit and watch the flowers grown
and watch the flowers grown
sometimes I think that I’m alone
I think that I’m so alone
here in the garden of my home,
the garden of my home.

I want to take a dive,
or watch a street car drive
in spite of all I fall
and watch the colours on the wall.

Here in the garden of my home
I sit and watch the flowers grown,
sometimes I think that I’m alone
here in the garden of my home.

Here in the garden of my home,
here in the garden of my home.

  

From Me To You

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 Written by:
Lennon
McCartney
(1963)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Briiliant from birth
<compilation>
(1968)
 

Da da da da da dum dum dum
Da da da da da dum dum dum
Da da da da da dum dum dum

If there’s anything that you want
If there’s anything I can do
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you

I’ve got everything that you want
Like a heart that’s oh, so true
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you

I got arms that long to hold you
And keep you by my side
I got lips that long to kiss you
And keep you satisfied, oooh

If there’s anything that you want
If there’s anything I can do
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you

From me, to you
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you

I got arms that long to hold you
And keep you by my side
I got lips that long to kiss you
And keep you satisfied, oooh

If there’s anything that you want
If there’s anything I can do
Just call on me and I’ll send it along
With love from me to you
To you, to you, to you

For Whom The Bell Tolls

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 Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1991)

Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb
Barry Gibb

Album:
Size isn’t everything
(1993)

 I stumble in the night.
Never really knew what it would’ve been like.
You’re no longer there to break my fall.

The heartache over you.
I gave it everything but I couldn’t get through.
I never saw the signs.
You’re the last to know when love is blind.

All the tears and the turbulent years
when I would not wait for no one.
I didn’t stop, take a look at myself
and see me losing you.

When the lonely heart breaks
it’s the one that forsakes,
it’s the dream that we stole.

And I’m missing you more,
and the fire that will roar,
there’s a hole in my soul.

For you it’s goodbye
and for me it’s to cry,
for whom the bell tolls.
(oh baby)

I’ve seen you in a magazine,
a picture at a party
where you shouldn’t have been,
hanging on the arm of someone else.

I’m still in love with you.
Won’t you come back to your little boy blue?
I’ve come to feel inside
this precious love was never mine.

Now I know but a little too late
that I could not live without you.
In the dark of the broad daylight
I promise I’ll be there.

When the lonely heart breaks
it’s the one that forsakes,
it’s the dream that we stole.

And I’m missing you more,
and the fire that will roar,
there’s a hole in my soul.

For you it’s goodbye
and for me it’s to cry,
for whom the bell tolls.

I never knew there’d be times like this
when I couldn’t reach out to no one.
Am I never gonna find someone
that knows me like you do?

Are you leaving me a helpless child
when it took so long to save me?
Fight the devil and the deep blue sea,
I’ll follow you anywhere.
I promise I’ll be there.

When the lonely heart breaks
it’s the one that forsakes,
it’s the dream that we stole.

And I’m missing you more,
and the fire that will roar,
there’s a hole in my soul.

For you it’s goodbye
and for me it’s to cry,
for whom the bell tolls.
(oh baby, oh baby)

When the lonely heart breaks
it’s the one that forsakes,
it’s the dream that we stole (oh baby).

And I’m missing you more,
and the fire that will roar,
there’s a hole in my soul (a hole in my soul).
(oh baby)

For you it’s goodbye
and for me it’s to cry,
for whom the bell tolls.

When the lonely heart breaks
it’s the one that forsakes,
it’s the dream that we stole.

And I’m missing you more,
and the fire that will roar,
there’s a hole in my soul…

  

Forever Forever

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 Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1978)
 
Lead vocals:
Jimmy Ruffin
 
Album:
Jimmy Ruffin:
Sunrise
(1980)
 

Hush, my darling, sleep, my lover.
There’ll be rain till we run for cover.
Lost in love in a world of strangers.
Something only the Lord arranges.

Oh my darling, now I found you.
Want to live all my life around you.
You’re my light in a world of sorrow.
Scared of losing this dream tomorrow.

I just want to hold you forever, forever.
Loving one another that’s how it should be.
Needing you beside me, together. No, never
try to rediscover no other but me.

Oh my darling, if you leave me
I lose the love that has always freed me.
Not knowing, angel, what’s coming after.
Never hearing your golden laughter.

Oh my baby, hearts like thunder,
can’t escape from the spell I’m under.
I surrender to all your treasure,
endless nights of pain and pleasure.

I just want to hold you, forever, forever.
Loving one another, that’s how it should be.
Needing you beside me, together. No, never
try to rediscover no other but me.

I just want to hold you, forever, forever.
Loving one another, that’s how it should be.
Needing you beside me, together. No, never
try to rediscover no other but me….

 

Forever

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1966)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb

Album:
Brilliant from birth
<compilation>
(1998)

Transcript by Dawnette Owens

 Your kind of love’s my kind, and
My kind of love’s your kind, and
This kind of love, we can last forever.

I need you girl, you need me.
Now you must believe me
This kind of love, we can last forever.

When the city lights are turnin’ down,
You and I can sit around
Talk about the million of tomorrows.

I need you girl, you need me.
Now you must believe me
This kind of love, we can last forever.

When the city lights are turnin’ down,
You and I can sit around
Talk about the million of tomorrows.

Your kind of love’s my kind, and
My kind of love’s your kind, and
This kind of love, we can last forever.

  

Fool For A Night

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 Written by:
Andy Gibb

Performed by:
Andy
Gibb

Album:
Shadow Dancing
(1978)

Transcript by
Xavi Parellada, SeeGeeB

 You don’t want to come home cryin’
Lose that magic in your smile
Give it up before you start it
Start to die

Why be a fool for a night
You’d be a fool to fall for a night
Gotta let it grow
Someone you don’t really know

A fool for a night
You’d be a fool to fall for a night
Gotta let it show
Someone you don’t really know

Old emotions time has borrowed
Tend to make you think you’re right
You’re the one I’ll always follow
For all times

Why be a fool for a night
You’d be a fool to fall for a night
Gotta let it grow
Someone you don’t really know

A fool for a night
You’d be a fool to fall for a night
Gotta let it show
Someone you don’t really know

And if you run away
You can’t escape from the price you pay,oh no
And when you realize nobody else will care
Where are the friends you made

No one is left who can show the way, oh no
And when the burden ends, I will heal you
Time will turn you back to me

A fool for a night
You’d be a fool to fall for a night
Gotta let it grow
Someone you don’t really know

A fool for a night
You’d be a fool to fall for a night
Gotta let it show
Someone you don’t really know

 

  

Fly Me To The Moon

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 Written by:
Howard
(1964)
 
Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb
 
Album:
Barry Gibb sings Sinatra
<bootleg>
 

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me
 
Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you
 
Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, in other words
I love  you  

Flowing Rivers

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 Written by:
Andy Gibb

Performed by:
Andy
Gibb

Album:
Flowing Rivers
(1977)

Transcript by
Xavi Parellada, SeeGeeB

 The stage is set another show must go on
The spotlight’s burning down into my face
The drummer sits up high upon his rostrum
Guitarists play each other face to face
And when it’s over, I’ll stop and wonder
And never understand
‘cause leaving this was never in my plans
And when I’m playing all I see is things you’ll never
find
Flowing rivers passing through my mind

Deceiving and receiving was my pastime
to every girl who liked my written lines
They’d think that any moment I’d be their guy
But crying never justified my lies, oh no
And next time ‘round will be the same
They never understand

That hurting them was never in my plans
And my songs will slow like passing clouds
Something in each line
Flowing rivers passing through my mind

I’ve got to go, I’ve finished what I came for
Playing every city, state to state
Singing every town that learned to like me
Modest payments paid for what I ate
Ah, you’re standing there, tears in your eyes
You once called me a man
And loving you was never in my plans
We’ll go together, you and I, till we both find
Flowing rivers passing through my mind

We’ll go together, you and I, till we both find
Flowing rivers passing through my mind

 

  

Flesh And Blood

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 Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1988)

Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb

Album:
One
(1989)

 I‘m not that someone who’s got what you want.
I can do nothing but watch what you do.
You just want someone to kiss you good night,
but lips are never enough to get you through.
You stole my nights and you got your way,
now you got me dying inside, oh baby.

Ebony, don’t walk out on me.
Listen to what I say.
Pick up the pieces of my life
into the night of day.

How do you break this heart of steel.
Nobody ever could.
Open the pages of my life.
I’m only flesh and blood.

I’ll be your saviour but baby I swear
I’m not living my life over you.
Some satisfaction you get if you dare
but is it ever enough to get you through?
You stole my mind and you watch me fall.
Now you leave the scene of the crime, oh no.

Ebony, don’t walk out on me.
I never thought you could.
I’m only what you make of me.
I’m only flesh and blood.
I’m only flesh and blood.

When you’re gone,
you’ll be leaving behind
a broken man with something to hide.
Oh, lost in the night in a town without pity,
you learn how to cry, you learn how to cry.

Ebony, don’t walk out on me.
Listen to what I say (ooh),
Pick up the pieces of my life into the night of day (ooh).
How do you break this heart of steel?
Nobody ever could (ooh).
Open the pages of my life,
I’m only flesh and blood (ooh).

Gone are the days that came and went.
Houses are made of wood (ooh).
Live in a world of sand and stone.
I’m only flesh and blood (ooh).

Ebony, don’t walk out on me.
I never thought you could.
I’m only what you make of me.
I’m only flesh and blood.

  

First Of May

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

Thank you, Viet Dzung!

 

When I was small
and Christmas trees were tall,
we used to love while others used to play.
 
Don’t ask me why,
but time has passed us by,
someone else moved in from far away.
 
Now we are tall,
and Christmas trees are small,
and you don’t ask the time of day.
 
But you and I,
our love will never die,
but guess who’ll cry,
come first of May.
 
The apple tree
that grew for you and me,
I watched the apples falling one by one.
 
And I recall the moment of them all,
the day I kissed your cheek
and you were gone.
 
Now we are tall,
and Christmas trees are small,
and you don’t ask the time of day.
 
But you and I,
our love will never die,
but guess who’ll cry,
come first of May.
 
When I was small
and Christmas trees were tall,
do do do do, do do do do.
 
Don’t ask me why,
but time has passed us by,
some one else moved in from far away.

First And Last

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 Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
(1997
)

Lead vocals:
Simon Greiff

Album:
Saturday Night Fever – Original Cast (UK) (1998)

Transcript by
Mohamad Farghaly

 It’s appear I stand on the edge of the night
with nothing in my life
no-one to love me
I keep trying to be somebody
but nobody listens
nobody listens
and the pain don’t go away
it opens up the door to yesterday
I thought you’d be the first
I thought you’d be the last
but time is in control my love
and the dice cast
the dice cast

Tragedy.
When the feeling’s gone and you can’t go on
it’s tragedy.
When the morning cries and you don’t know why
it’s hard to bear.
With no-one to love you
you’re going nowhere.

Night and day,
there’s a burning down inside of me.
Burning love,
with a yearning that won’t let me be.
Down I go,
and I just can’t take it all alone.
I really should be holding you, holding you,
loving you, loving you

Tragedy.
When the feeling’s gone and you can’t go on
it’s tragedy.
When the morning cries and you don’t know why
 it’s hard to bear.
With no-one to love you
you’re going nowhere.

Tragedy.
When you lose control and you got no soul
it’s tragedy.
When the morning cries and you don’t know why
it’s hard to bear.
With no-one beside you
you’re going nowhere.

and the pain don’t go away
it opens up the door to yesterday
I thought you’d be the first
I thought you’d be the last
but time is in control my love
and the dise cast
the dise cast

Tragedy.
When the feeling’s gone and you can’t go on
it’s tragedy.
When the morning cries and you don’t know why
it’s hard to bear.
With no-one to love you
you’re going nowhere.

Tragedy.
When you lose control and you got no soul
it’s tragedy.
When the morning cries and you don’t know why
it’s hard to bear.
With no-one beside you
you’re going nowhere
you look for somebody
there’s nobody there
the tragedy is
that nobody cares

 

Fine Line

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 Written by:
Barry Gibb
Bitzer
(1984)

Lead vocals:
Barry Gibb

Album:
Barry Gibb:
Now voyager
(1984)

 Now I like the way you move.
Anyway that you make it work.
And you offer something new.
And the doorway is open for me.

Now a man needs a woman.
And I know that for me is true.
And life, we got too much reality.
There’s gotta be other things to do.

Me electrify you.
Simply mystify you.
Very strange but nice.

Now somebody wrong.
And somebody right.
And somebody knows
it’s neither one thing or the other.

It’s a fine line
between taking and giving.
It’s a fine line.

It’s fine line
between dancing and making love.
It’s a fine line.

I can see the possibility.
Anyway that you wanna be.
We all got secret emotions.
Anytime after the midnight hour.

Now love, don’t get short on the action.
Anyway you got the energy.
My heart is a part of the plans you made.
You’re the star of my sexual fantasy.

Me electrify you.
Simply mystify you.
Hope you stay all night.

I’ll have you for dinner
or breakfast in bed.
Either way I get you
for the worse or for the better.

It’s a fine line
between taking and giving.
It’s a fine line.

It’s a fine line
between dancing and making love.
It’s a fine line.

Oh oh

It’s wild, it’s weird, it’s what we think about.
This ain’t no strip, club, shame on you ‘cause
you know somebody that got a bead on what you need.
Don’t sacrifice your love.
You analyze, don’t minimize
what only you can rise above.

Now, I know that, don’t you think
I know you’re watching me.
You got no claim to make.
Well, that’s no excuse.
And know the truth.
You got brain drain, long as there’s a game to play.
Sad, but there’s only one fool to blame.

It’s a fine line, fine line…

You don’t think my love should tie you down.
I say love can turn your groove around.
Watch me please you.
Watch me play your game.
Someday love will make your water flow.

It’s a fine line, fine line…

Fight The Good Fight

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Written by:
Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
David English
(1986)

Lead vocals:
Eric Clapton

Album:
Summer Olympics Album 1988

 No matter how long it takes.
No mater how long.
No matter how long it takes.
We’ll never be alone.
Don’t wanna make a wrong headline.
No matter how strong.
They’ll be watching every move you make.
Don’t let ‘em know they can beat you.

Fortune favour the brave.
Learn how to use that muscle.
Take a little chance will get you
everything you see.
Living at the speed of light
gotta make your heart beat faster.
You gotta climb inside.
Set that spirit free.

Fight the good fight.
Fingers to the bone.
Gotta take a stand
And save this land of liberty.
Stumble on the ground that shakes you.
Push it to the point that breaks you.
Little bit of fire it gives you.
Soul of a winner.
Help you bring them to their knees.

In the face of the foe
Never let’em drag you under.
Don’t you wanna leave behind you
a legacy.
Catch another streak of lightning
by the god of fire and thunder.
Battle in the name of the nation.
Making history.

Fight the good fight.
Fingers to the bone.
Gotta take a stand
and save this land of liberty.
And, brother, when you’re down to zero,
everybody needs that hero.
Gotta be a star to follow
all the way there
and all the way home.

ome.

Farmer Ferdinand Hudson

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 Written by:
Robin Gibb
(1969)
 
Lead vocals:
Robin Gibb
 
Album:   
Robin Gibb:  Robin’s reign (1970)
 Now it is dawn and a new day is born,
but with a trail of despair.
The new day was shining but many had gone.
Farmer Ferdinand Hudson had lost much more than he’d won.
He sat by a table and cried in his rum.
 
The cobwebs hung heavy and dreary beside.
All that looked at him could barely decide.
He passed for one day so to sleep in that night.
And early that morning he died.