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Everyone is right
Everything is wrong
Don't let the changes
Get you down, man
Everyone is wrong
Everything is all right now
Don't let the changes
Get you uptight

Butter your toast and let's go
Button up a coat and I'm gonna go
Off to the coast we must go
Don't wanna boast but I'll grow
Much better there

Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man
Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man
Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man
Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man

Vietnam, Biafra
The absurdity of greed
How much can one man
Possibly need?
Sickness and disease
And ignorance on every side
Don't let the changes
A-get you tight

Butter your toast and let's go
Button up a coat and I'm gonna go
Off to the coast we must go
Don't wanna boast but I'll grow
Much better there

Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man
Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man
Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man
Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man

Butter my toast and let's go
Button up a coat and we're gonna go
Off to the coast we must go
Don't wanna boast but I'll grow
Much better there

Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man
Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man
Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man
Don't let the changes
A-get you down, man...

You're my singer
Let me be your song
Celestial bodies
They get along
And I just want to sing along

You're my single
Let me be your chart
If you never make the hit parade
You're number one in my heart
As long as I can play a part

Vegetarian by choice
Not by fashion
It's not so much what you eat
As what you balance on
And watch me as I balance on

Instrumental passage here
We're playing it now
But you are not among us here
To play like you know how
Beg us to allow

You're my singer
Let me be your song
No matter what you want to do
Let me pick along
'Cause I just want to sing along

Country ladies
Take us by the hand
Soft eyed and cotton clothed
Through Parish meadowland
And John and I can be the band

Lady, you are my peace of mind
Were I to seek your par none I could find
You delicately went to curry land
And left a lonely man, ah, me, yogi blue

He thought to himself as he sat before
His stocks and shares a dreadful bore
"If I'm to live another happy day
I best make haste and be on my way"

He at his desk did write and indicate
To lawyer friend and intimate
His lamentable grief did necessitate
The need for one swift bird to sail the ocean over

A sailing schooner was soon seen sailing
Swift and silent around the sound
Salutating seagulls heralding
The wondrous transport upon the wing

Twenty days from Goa they did espire
A wealthy merchant bound for Arabie
Exchanging greetings had he heard the news?
The lady Hall had drowned the price of Ninevah rose

Storms and tempests his shatterd mind beset
Hurricanes of pains raged and tore
Truly drowned in grief he did repair
To haunted trinkets and gross despair

All in white 'neath shade in bamboo chair
Military disipline has replaced despair
Anchored in the bay of innocence
Is left a lonely man, lonely through and through
Through and through
Through and through

Long and lazy schooner
In lapislazuli
Aquamarina
In a southern sea

Soft and sensual sunset
Sommerset Maughm funset
The warm breeze of evening
Caresses silk dresses

The lazy leaning lady's languid way
The lovely leading lady in our play
Soft eyed and always thirty
Jasmine fills the air

The lazy leaning lady's languid way
The lovely leading lady in our play
Soft eyed and always thirty
Jasmine fills the air

Long and lazy schooner
In lapislazuli
Aquamarina
In a southern sea

Soft and sensual sunset
Sommerset Maughm funset
The warm breeze of evening
[...] silk dresses

The lazy leaning lady's languid way
The lovely leading lady in our play
Soft eyed and always thirty
Jasmine fills the air

When I hear Astrud
Jasmine fills the air
When I hear Astrud
Jasmine fills the air
When I hear Astrud
Jasmine fills the air
When I hear Astrud
Jasmine fills the air

People used to get together round a fire
Fishes were cooked, songs were sung
Moonlight used to guide our way home in the dark
Do you find it hard remembering?

And still you people tell me
Life is easy to get on with
But what I've got so far's enough
To be going on with
People tell me that it's so
I don't know anymore, I don't know

People used to get together round a problem
Eyes were looked at, tongues were true
People used to stop to say "how do you do?"
Do you find it hard remembering?

And still you people tell me
Llife is easy to get on with
But what I've got so far's enough
To be going on with
People tell me that it's so
I don't know anymore, I don't know

And still you people tell me
Life is easy to get on with
But what I've got so far's enough
To be going on with
People tell me that it's so
I don't know anymore, I don't know

People used to spend an hour making tea
Easy, easy, was the rule
People used to pause to think and contemplate
He who hustled was the fool

And still you people tell me
Life is easy to get on with
But what I've got so far's enough
To be going on with
You people tell me that it's so
I don't know anymore, I don't know anymore
I don't know anymore, I don't know

Down in the wood in the murky gloom
Trolls go marching two by two
Down through the cave and the mouth of doom
Down, down, down in the gloom, gloom, gloom
Hey, kala ho, kala ho la jai

Who should come by the mountain way
Young Finn Hanley a lute he play
Clothed in scarlet livery
All wide eyed in the bright noon day
Tiree, tiraloo, tiraloo i ay

Better get into what you gotta get into
Better get into it now, no slacking, please
United Nations ain't really united
And the organisations ain't really organised

Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Won't be coming around for to kill your snakes no more, my love
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone

Everybody who read the Jungle Book a-know that Riki Tiki Tavi's a mongoose who kills snakes. Well, when I was a young man I was led to believe there were organisations to kill my snakes for me: i.e. the church; i.e. the government; i.e. the school. But when I got a little older I learned I had to kill them myself. I said:

Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Won't be coming around for to kill your snakes no more, my love
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone

People walking around, they don't know what they're doing
They been lost so long they don't know what they're looking for
Well, I know what I'm a looking for but I just can't find it
I guess I gotta look inside of myself some more

Oh, oh, oh, inside of myself some more
Come on, now (baby)
Oh, oh, oh, inside of myself some more (baby)

Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone (last time)

I saw you today
On a number twelve bus
You were going my way (going)
My way

Clara Clairvoyant
Consultation 10 to 4
In the shadows
Leave skepticism at the door
Oh
Rap, tap, tap, table tap

If you've anyone you'd like to talk to?
Not quite living on the other side
Contact

Clara Clairvoyant
Her consultation is 10 to 4
Kathy Katholica
In the box from 3 to 4
In the shadows
Leave genitals at the door
Oh
But, but, tut, tut

Have you any perversion to confess?
To the lumpy cassock on the other side

Kathy Katholica
She's in the box from 3 to 4
Rocky Rock'n'Roller
Sometimes up, sometimes down
In the long run
Take the path down on the ground
Between
Lost belief and gross fear

Have you any idea how much you have?
Not quite nothing and not quite all

Psychedelic Yogi is not a very
Groovy, groovy guru
Psychedelic Yogi is not a very
Groovy, groovy guru
Psychedelic Yogi is not a very
Groovy, groovy guru
Psychedelic Yogi is not a very
Groovy, groovy guru

Kathy...

Shadow of cloud falls
And with it a chill
High over heather
Hawk hover the hill
Just begun is my journey
And Danu's my name
I am the juggler
Of fortune and fame

Let me not hear facts, figures and logic
Fain would I lore, legends and magic
Let me not hear facts, figures and logic
Fain would I lore, legends and magic
Let me not hear facts, figures and logic
Fain would I lore, legends and magic
Let me not hear facts, figures and logic
Fain would I lore, legends and magic

Feathers of raven
Slithers of coal
Armour of silver
In the mackerel shoal
Sun's in the west
'Tis ruby blood red
Travelers a-weary, so weary
Do make their bed

Let me not hear facts, figures and logic
Fain would I lore, legends and magic
Let me not hear facts, figures and logic
Fain would I lore, legends and magic
Let me not hear facts, figures and logic
Fain would I lore, legends and magic
Let me not hear facts, figures and logic
Fain would I lore, legends and magic

Finally
I realize
I'm to be
My own surprise

This is the season of farewell
And I've finally broken the spell
This is the season of farewell
And I want you to know
Before you go

Consequently
I'm very pleased
I used to be
Very cheesed

This is the season of farewell
And I've finally broken the spell
This is the season of farewell
And I want you to know
Before you go

Mystery (sorcery and guile)
Used to be (what made me the lonely one)
But now (I'll be the only one)
To plea

Finally
I realize
I'm to be
My own surprise

This is the season of farewell
And I've finally broken the spell
This is the season of farewell
And I want you to know
Before you go

Have you ever seen a picture of Pope Paul?
Have you ever asked yourself this question:
Would you trust this man with your soul now?
Would you trust this man? Ask yourself now
His eyes are sunken and his cheeks are hollow
While you dig the poor of the world they follow
He hoarding up their gold in the Vatican
Would you trust this man? Ask yourself now

Poke at the Pope, that's what we're having
Poke at the Pope, that's what we're having
Poke at the Pope, that's what we're having
Poke at the Pope, that's what we're having

Ave Maria, Ave Maria

Do you remember when the floods hit Italy?
How the things they treasured most were destroyed
All the paintings and the worshipped images
'Cause they lost their faith in the real God
He's going down and he's going down fast
You really didn't think the ignorance could last
All the little children are learning
And the constellation's turning

Poke at the Pope, that's what we're having
Poke at the Pope, that's what we're having
Poke at the Pope, that's what we're having
Poke at the Pope, that's what we're having

Mumbling by the tumbling tide
The king of America humbly cried
Save my soul, save it soon
The king of America fell in swoon

Oh, yeah, my honey
Oh, yeah, my honey
Oh, yeah, my honey
Oh, yeah, my honey

Do what you've never done before
See what you've never seen
Feel what you've never felt before
Go where you've never been
Sing what you've never sung before
Say what you've never said
Bear what you've never borne before
Hear what you've never heard

All is not as it would seem
Nothing ever remains the same
Change is life's characteristic
Bend and flow and play the game
Loose your chain

And do what you like, oh
Get on your bike and do what you like
Get on your bike and do what you like

So many times
I was the one who stopped myself from doing things
So many times
I was the one who grounded myself and clipped my wings
So I say

Do what you've never done before
For fear of losing face
You have nothing to defend now
In your state of grace

All is not as it would seem
Nothing ever remains the same
Change is life's characteristic
Bend and flow and play the game
Loose your chain

And do what you like
What you've never done before
(Get on your bike and do what you like)
You must see what you have never seen
(Get on your bike and do what you like)
Feel what you have never felt before
(Get on your bike and do what you like)
You must go where you have never been
(Get on your bike and do what you like)

So many times
I was the one who stopped myself from doing things
So many times
I was the one who grounded myself and clipped my wings
I clipped my wings, I clipped my wings, I clipped my wings

Love is the gift of man which he will not receive
Within is the judge of man, yet he cannot perceive
Without is the realm of man, he yet cannot perceive
Man is the plague of man but he will not believe
There go you, go I
There go you, go I
There go you, go I