SoTD: Bing Crosby – Feudin’ And Fightin’

Feudin’ and fussin’ and a-fightin,’
Sometimes it gets to be excitin,’
Don’t like them ornery
neighbors down by the creek,
We’ll be plumb out of neighbors next week.
Grandma, poor ol’ grandma,
Why’d they have to shoot poor grandma.
She lies ‘neath the clover
Someone caught her bending over
Pickin’ up a daisy!
Feduin’ and fussin’ and a-fightin’
This is a wrong that needs a rightin,’
Let’s get that funeral service over
So then we can start in a-feudin’ again.

Feudin’ and fightin’ and a-fussin,’
That’s all that’s goin’ on with us’n.
We are such neighborly people peaceful and sweet,
All except when we happen to meet.
Daughter, baby daughter,
Poisened all the neighbors chickens.
Daughter hadn’t oughter
Least ’till she could run like the dickens.
They hit her with a shovel!
Feudin’ and fightin’ and a-fussin’
No use a-standin’ here a-cussin,’
Let’s give our daughter a
pistol now that she’s four
And go feudin’ and fightin’ some more.

Artist: Bing Crosby
Album: The Vintage Years
Release Date: 2007

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SoTD: Simply Red – Money’s Too Tight To Mention

I been laid off from work
My rent is due
My kids all need
Brand new shoes

So I went to the bank
To see what they could do
They said son – looks like bad luck
Got-a hold on you

Money’s too tight to mention
I can’t get an un-em-ploy-ment ex-ten-sion
Money’s too tight to mention

I went to my brother
To see what he could do –
He said bro-ther like to help you
But I’m unable to
So I called on my fa-ther fa-ther
Oh my fa-ther
He said

Money’s too tight to mention
Oh mo-ney mo-ney mo-ney mon-ey
Mo-ney’s too tight to mention
I can’t even qual-i-fy for my pension

We talk a-bout rea-gan-om-ics
Oh lord down in the con-gress
They’re passing all kinds – of bills
From down cap-it-ol hill – (we’ve tried them)

Money’s too tight to mention
(spoken) cut-back!
Mo-ney mo-ney mo-ney mon-ey
We’re talk-in’ a-bout mon-ey mon-ey
We’re talk-in’ a-bout mon-ey mon-ey
We’re talk-in’ ’bout the dollar bill
Now what are we all to do
When the mon-ey’s got a hold on you?
Mo-ney’s too tight to mention
Oh mon-ey mon-ey mon-ey mon-ey
Mo-ney’s too tight to mention
A-mero – mon-ey oh yeah
We’re talk-in’ a-bout mon-ey mon-ey
We’re talk-in’ a-bout mon-ey mon-ey
We’re talk-in’ a-bout mon-ey mon-ey
We’re talk-in’ a-bout mon-ey mon-ey…

Artist: Simply Red
Album: Picture Book
Release Date: 1985

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SoTD: Sheryl Crow – If It Makes You Happy

I’ve been long, a long way from here
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitoes,
And drank til I was thirsty again
We went searching through thrift store jungles
Found Geronimo’s rifle, Marilyn’s shampoo
And Benny Goodman’s corset and pen

Well, o.k. I made this up
I promised you I’d never give up

If it makes you happy
It can’t be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?

You get down, real low down
You listen to Coltrane, derail your own train
Well who hasn’t been there before?
I come round, around the hard way
Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread
And serve you French toast again

Well, o.k. I still get stoned
I’m not the kind of girl you’d take home

If it makes you happy
It can’t be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?

We’ve been far, far away from here
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitoes
And everywhere in between
Well, o.k. we get along
So what if right now everything’s wrong?

If it makes you happy
It can’t be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?

Artist: Sheryl Crow
Album: Sheryl Crow
Release Date: 1996

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SoTD: Morrissey – All You Need Is Me

You hiss and groan and you constantly moan
But you don’t ever go away
That’s because
All you need is me

You roll your eyes up to the skies
Mock horrified
But you’re still here
All you need is me

There’s so much destruction
All over the world
And all you can do is
Complain about me

You bang your head against the wall
And say you’re sick of it all
Yet you remain
‘Cause all you need is me

And then you offer your one and only joke
And you ask me what will I be
When I grow up to be a man
Uhm, nothing!

There’s a soft voice singing in your head
Who could this be?
I do believe it’s me

There’s a naked man standing, laughing in your dreams
You know who it is
But you don’t like what it means

There’s so much destruction
All over the world
And all you can do is
Complain about me

I was a small, fat child in a council house
There was only one thing I ever dreamed about
And Fate has just
Handed it to me – whoopee

You don’t like me, but you love me
Either way you’re wrong
You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone
You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone

Artist: Morrissey
Album: Greatest Hits
Release Date: 2008

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SoTD: The Bee Gees – Omega Man

We set the same scene
Circumstances different than they
Might have been
People in two places can be
Pulled into a scheme
Never what you’re fighting for

Life alone
Lose a lover’s arms
Never makes it easy when you try too hard
I wish you would define what you feel
Hard on or letting go

I’m the Omega Man
Stand tall and understand
Everybody needs a plan
Mine is a better way
There’ll be trouble in the world
Sex and the single girl
I’m an over-eager man
Find me a better way
Find me a better way

We share the same pain
Underneath the covers I will set you free
I will prove to you my love is
Older than the sky
Stronger than the night is long

Lord of hearts
Leader of us all
Let it be together if we rise or fall
Or is it just my imagination
Or the light of a precious stone
(You’ll never be alone)

I’m the Omega Man
I travel over land
Everybody needs a plan
Find me a better way
There’ll be trouble in the world
Sex and the single girl
I’m an over-eager man
Find me a better way
Find me a better way

Here at the scene of the crime
Laid in your arms I will die
I know it’s more than infatuation
That’s keeping this man alive

I’m the Omega Man
I travel over land
Everybody needs a plan
Find me a better way
There’ll be trouble in the world
Sex and the single girl
I’m an over-eager man
Find me a better way
Find me a better way

I’m the Omega Man
I travel over land
Everybody needs a plan
Find me a better way
There’ll be trouble in the world
Sex and the single girl
I’m an over-eager man
Find me a better way
Find me a better way

Artist: The Bee Gees
Album: Size Isn’t Everything
Release Date: 1993

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SoTD: Devo – Big Mess

I am cowboy Kim
Cowboy Kim I am
I am a lucky cowboy
Let me tell you why

I’m a man with a mission
A boy with a gun
I got a picture in my pocket of the lucky one

I’ll announce the winner
On the radio
With my microphone
I do a super show

I wear a cowboy hat
It is my business hat
I’m on till 1:00 a.m.
I must tell you that

I’m a man with a mission
A boy with a gun
I got a picture in my pocket of the lucky one

Who doesn’t know I’m a big mess
I mean a really big mess
A big big mess he was all mixed up and a
Big mess he was a
Big mess he was a
He was really mixed up

Cowboy Kim I am
Mr. Reality
The most important thing
I put away my toys
With my microphone
I do a super show
I’ll announce the winner
On the radio

I’m a big mess
I mean a really big mess
A big big mess he was all mixed up and a
Big mess he was a
Big mess he was a
He was really mixed up

Artist: Devo
Album: Oh, No! It’s Devo!
Release Date: 1982

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SoTD: The Band – Up On Cripple Creek

When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go?
Straight down the Mississippi river, to the Gulf of Mexico
To Lake Charles, Louisiana, little Bessie, girl that I once knew
She told me just to come on by, if there’s anything she could do

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don’t have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one

Good luck had just stung me, to the race track I did go
She bet on one horse to win and I bet on another to show
The odds were in my favor, I had ‘em five to one
When that nag to win came around the track, sure enough she had won

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don’t have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one

I took up all of my winnings, and I gave my little Bessie half
And she tore it up and threw it in my face, just for a laugh
Now there’s one thing in the whole wide world, I sure would like to see
That’s when that little love of mine, dips her doughnut in my tea

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don’t have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one

Now me and my mate were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box
She said, "I can’t take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk"
Now that just gave my heart a throb, to the bottom of my feet
And I swore and I took another pull, my Bessie can’t be beat

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don’t have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one

Now there’s a flood out in California and up north it’s freezing cold
And this living on the road is getting pretty old
So I guess I’ll call up my big mama, tell her I’ll be rolling in
But you know, deep down, I’m kind of tempted
To go and see my Bessie again.

Artist: The Band
Album: The Band
Release Date: 1969

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SoTD: Rush – Presto

If I could wave my magic wand…

I am made from the dust of the stars
and the oceans flow in my veins
Here I hide in the heart of the city
like a stranger coming out of the rain

The evening plane rises up from the runway
over constellations of light
I look down into a million houses
and wonder what you’re doing tonight

If I could wave my magic wand
I’d make everything all right
I’m not one to believe in magic
But I sometimes have a second-sight
I’m not one with a sense of proportion
When my heart still changes overnight

I had a dream of a winter garden
A midnight rendezvous
Silver, blue, and frozen silence
What a fool I was for you

I had a dream of the open water
I was swimming away out to sea
So deep I could never touch bottom
What a fool I used to be

if I could wave my magic wand
I’d set everybody free
I’m not one to believe in magic
Though my memory has a second-sight

I’m not one to go pointing my finger
When I radiate more heat than light
Don’t ask me
I’m just improvising
my illusion of careless flight
Can’t you see
my temperature’s rising
I radiate more heat than light
Don’t ask me
I’m just sympathizing
my illusions a harmless flight
Can’t you see
my temperature’s rising
I radiate more heat than light

Artist: Rush
Album: Presto
Release Date: 1989

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SoTD: Usher – Yeah!

Peace up! A Town Down!

Yeah, (Yeah!) OK!

(Usher! Usher! Usher! Usher!)

Lil’ Jon!

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Yeah, Yeah! Yeaah!
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Yeah, Yeah! Yeaah!

Up in the club with my homies, tryna get a lil’ V-I, but keep it down on the low key, ’cause you know how it is.
I saw shorty she was checkin’ up on me, from the game she was spittin’ in my ear you would think that she knew me.
So we decided to chill

Conversation got heavy, she had me feelin’ like she’s ready to blow!
(Watch Out! Oh! Watch Out!)
She’s saying "Come get me! Come get me",
So I got up and followed her to the floor, she said "Baby, let’s go",
That’s when I told her I said

Yeah (yeah) Shorty got down low and said come and get me
Yeah (yeah) I got so caught up I forgot she told me
Yeah (yeah) Her and my girl used to be the best of homies
Yeah (yeah) Next thing I knew she was all up on me screaming:

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Yeah, Yeah! Yeaah!
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Yeah, Yeah! Yeaah!

So she’s all up in my head now, got me thinking that it might good idea to take her with me,
‘Cause she’s ready to leave (ready to leave)
But I gotta keep it real now, ’cause on a one to ten she’s a certified twenty, but that just ain’t me. Hey.

Because I don’t know if I take that chance just where it’s gonna lead,
But what I do know is the way she dance makes shorty alright with me.
The way she (get low!)
I’m like yeah, just work that out for me.
She asked for one more dance and I’m
Like yeah, how the hell am I supposed to leave?
And I said

Yeah (yeah) Shorty got down low and said come and get me
Yeah (yeah) I got so caught up I forgot she told me
Yeah (yeah) Her and my girl used to be the best of homies
Yeah (yeah) Next thing I knew she was all up on me screaming:

Hey, Luda!

Watch out!
My outfit’s ridiculous, in the club lookin’ so conspicuous.
And Rowl! These women all on the prowl, if you hold the head steady I’m a milk the cow.
Forget about the game, I’m a spit the truth, I won’t stop till I get ‘em in they birthday suits.
So gimmie the rhythm and it’ll be off with their clothes, then bend over to the front and touch your toes.
I left the Jag and I took the Rolls, if they aint cutting then I put em on foot patrol.
How you like me now, when my pinky’s valued over three hundred thousand,
Lets drank you the one to please, Ludacris fill cups like double D’s.
Me and Ursh once more and we leave ‘em dead, we want a lady in the street but a freak in the bed to say

Yeah (yeah) Shorty got down low and said come and get me
Yeah (yeah) I got so caught up I forgot she told me
Yeah (yeah) Her and my girl used to be the best of homies
Yeah (yeah) Next thing I knew she was all up on me screaming:

Take that and rewind it back, Lil’ Jon got the beat to make ya booty go (clap)
Take that and rewind it back, Ursher got the voice to make ya booty go (clap)
Take that and rewind it back, Ludacris got the flow to make ya booty go (clap)
Take that and rewind it back, Lil’ Jon got the beat to make ya booty go (clap)

Artist: Usher
Album: Confessions
Release Date: 2004

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SoTD: ABBA – Mamma Mia

I’m feeling lazy tonight so no lyrics.

Artist; ABBA
Album: ABBA
Release Date: 1975

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