Now And Then

Carpenters Now And Then Lyrics
1.Sing

Lyrics:Joe Raposo
Music:Joe Raposo

Sing, sing a song
Sing out loud
Sing out strong
Sing of good things not bad
Sing of happy not sad.

Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last
Your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not
Good enough for anyone
Else to hear
Just sing, sing a song.

Sing, sing a song
Let the world sing along
Sing of love there could be
Sing for you and for me.

Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last
Your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not
Good enough for anyone
Else to hear
Just sing, sing a song.


2.This Masquerade

Lyrics:Leon Russell
Music:Leon Russell

Are we really happy with this lonely game we play,
Looking for the right words to say?
Searching but not finding -- understanding anyway,
We're lost in this masquerade.

Both afraid to say we're just too far away
From being close together from the start.
We try to talk it over, but the words got in the way
We're lost inside this lonely game we play.

Thoughts of leaving disappear each time I see your eyes,
And no matter how hard I try
To understand the reason why we carry on this way
We're lost in this masquerade.

We try to talk it over, but the words got in the way
We're lost inside this lonely game we play.

We're lost in a masquerade.
And we're lost in a masquerade.


3.Heather

Music:John Pearson

Instrumental


4.Jambalaya(On The Bayou)

Lyrics:Hank Williams
Music:Hank Williams

Good-bye, Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou.
My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

(Chorus)
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

Thibodaux, Fontaineaux, the place is buzzin'
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style and go hog wild, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

(Chorus)
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

Settle down far from town, get me a pirogue
And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou
Swap my mon to buy Yvonne what she need-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

(Chorus)Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.


5.I Can't Make Music

Lyrics:Randy Edelman
Music:Randy Edelman

Here I am just sitting around
With an old piano in a vacant room
And the same old fellings come again
So uncertain, hurt and scared
I thought I grew, but here I am again
I should have seen the train be passing through
I thought I knew.

And I can't make music
No, I can't make rhymes
No, I can't do anything
To take me away this time.

I know it's an old cliche to say I fell I'm gonna die
And I here it's gone out to cry
So I'm gonna say some kind words to you
I like to wish you luck and hope
That life will be with someone else
Just like I thought it would be with me
But I can't see.
(repeat chorus)

I can't make music,
And I can't make rhymes
No, I can't do anything
To take me away this time.


6.Yesterday Once More

Written:Richard Carpenter/John Bettis

When I was young
I'd listen to the radio
Waitin' for my favorite songs
When they played I'd sing along
It made me smile.

Those were such happy times
And not so long ago
How I wondered where they'd gone
But they're back again
Just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well.

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine.

When they get to the part
Where he's breakin' her heart
It can really make me cry
Just like before
It's yesterday once more.

Lookin' back on how it was
In years gone by
And the good times that I had
Makes today seem rather sad
So much has changed.

It was songs of love that
I would sing to then
And I'd memorize each word
Those old melodies
Still sound so good to me
As they melt the years away.

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine.

All my best memories
Come back clearly to me
Some can even make me cry.

Just like before
It's yesterday once more.


















Sha-la-la-la
Wo-o-wo-o

shing-a-ling-a-ling









7.Fun, Fun, Fun

Lyrics:Brian Wilson/Mike Love
Music:Brian Wilson/Mike Love

Well, she got her daddy's car and
she cruised through the hamburger stand now;
Seems she forgot all about the library,
like she told her old man now,
And with her radio blastin',
goes cruisin' just as fast as she can now,
And she'll have fun, fun, fun,
till her daddy take the T-Bird away.

Well, the girls can't stand her
'cause she walks, looks, and drives like an ace now.
She makes the Indy five hundred look
like a Roman chariot race now.
A lotta guys try to catch her, but she leads,
'em on a wild goose chase now,
And she'll have fun, fun, fun,
till her daddy takes the T-Bird away.

A-well, you knew all along that your dad was gettin'
wise to you now,
And since he took your set of keys,
you've been thinkin' that your fun is all through now.
But you can come along with me,
'cause we gotta lotta things to do now,
And we'll have fun, fun, fun,
now that daddy took the T-Bird away.


8.The End Of The World

Lyrics:Sylvia Dee/Arthur Kent
Music:Sylvia Dee/Arthur Kent

Why does the sun go on shining?
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don't they know it's the end of the world,
'cause you don't love me anymore?

Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
Don't they know it's the end of the world?
It ended when I lost your love.

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
why ev'rything's the same as it was.
I can't understand, no I can't understand,
how life goes on the way it does!

Why does my heart go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don't they know it's the end of the world?
It ended when you said good-bye.


9.Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)

Written:Ellie Greenwich/Jeff Barry/Phil Spector

I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still
Da Doo Ron Ron, Da Doo Ron Ron
Somebody told me that his name was Bill
Da Doo Ron Ron, Da Doo Ron Ron

Yeah my heart stood still
Yeah his name was Bill
And when he walked me home
Da Doo Ron Ron, Da Doo Ron Ron

Yeah he looks so fine
Yeah I'll make him mine
And when he walked me home
Da Doo Ron Ron, Da Doo Ron Ron


10.Deadman's Curve

Written:J.Berry/R.Christian/A.Kornfeld/B.Wilson

The street was deserted late Friday night
We were buggin' each other while we sat at the light
We both popped our clutch when that light turned green
You shoulda heard the whine from my screamin' machine
I flew past LaBrea, Schwab's and Crescent Heights.
And all the Jag could see were my six tail lights.
He passed me at Doheny and I started to swerve
But I pulled her out and there we were at Dead Man's Curve

Dead Man's Curve is no place to play
Dead Man's Curve, you'd best keep away.
Dead Man's Curve, I can hear them say:
Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve.

We'll the last thing I remember, Doc, I started to swerve
And then I saw the Jag slide into the curve
I know I'll never forget that terrible sight
I found out for myself that everyone right.

(repeat chorus)


11.Johnny Angel

Lyrics:Lyn Duddy/Lee Pockriss
Music:Lyn Duddy/Lee Pockriss

Johnny Angel, Johnny Angel
Johnny Angel, Johnny Angel
You're an angel to me.

Johnny Angel how I love him
How I tingle when he passes by
Everytime he says hello
My heart begins to fly.

Johnny Angel how I want him
He's got something that I can't resist
But he doesn't even know that I exist.

I'm in heaven, I get carried away
I dream of him and me and wonder how it's gonna be
All the fellows call me up for a date
But I sit and wait.
I'd rather concentrate
On Johnny Angel
'Cause I love him
And I pray that someday he'll love me
And together will see how lovely heaven will be.
And together will see how lovely heaven will be.


12.The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

Written:Ben Weisman/Dottie Wayne/Marilyn Garrett

They say that you are a run around lover
Though you say it isn't so
But if you put me down for another
I'll know, believe me, I'll know
'Cause the night has a thousand eyes
And a thousand eyes can't help but see
If you aren't true to me
So remember when you tell those little white lies
that the night has a thousand eyes

One of those days your ganna be sorry
'Cause your game I'm ganna play
And you'll find out with out really tryin'
Each time that my kisses stray
That the night has a thousand eyes
And a thousand eyes will see me through
And no matter what I do
I could never disguise all those little white lies
'Cause the night has a thousand eyes
So remember when you tell those little white lies
that the night has a thousand eyes


13.Our Day Will Come

Lyrics:Bob Hilliard/Mort Garson
Music:Bob Hilliard/Mort Garson

Our day will come
And we'll have everything
We'll share the joy
Falling in love can bring
No one can tell me that I'm too young to know
I love you so and you love me.

Our day will come
If we just wait awhile
No tears for us
Think love and wear a smile
Our dreams have magic because we'll always be
In love this way
Our day will come
Our day will come
Our day will come


14.One Fine Day

Lyrics:Carole King/Gerry Goffin
Music:Carole King/Gerry Goffin

One fine day you'll look at me
And you'll know our love was ment to be
One fine day you're gonna want for your girl.
Oh yeah!

The arms I long for will open wide
And you'll be proud to have me right by your side
One fine day your gonna want me for your girl
One fine day your gonna want me for your girl
One fine day you're gonna want me

One fine day. Oh yeah! Your gonna want me (repeat and fade)


15.Yesterday Once More(Reprise)

Written:Richard Carpenter/John Bettis

When I was young
I'd listen to the radio
Waitin' for my favorite songs
When they played I'd sing along
It made me smile.

Those were such happy times
And not so long ago
How I wondered where they'd gone
But they're back again
Just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well.

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine.

When they get to the part
Where he's breakin' her heart
It can really make me cry
Just like before
It's yesterday once more.

Lookin' back on how it was
In years gone by
And the good times that I had
Makes today seem rather sad
So much has changed.

It was songs of love that
I would sing to then
And I'd memorize each word
Those old melodies
Still sound so good to me
As they melt the years away.

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine.

All my best memories
Come back clearly to me
Some can even make me cry.

Just like before
It's yesterday once more.