The Bobby Darin Story

Bobby Darin The Bobby Darin Story Lyrics
1.Splish Splash

Splish Splash
Bobby Darin
Splish Splash, I was takinU a bath
Long about a Saturday night
A rub-a-dub, just relaxinU in the tub
ThinkinU everything was alright
Well, I stepped out the tub, put my feet on the floor,
I wrapped the towel around me and I
Opened the door, and then I
Splish, Splash! I jumped back in the bath.
Well how was I to know there was a party going on?
They was a-splishinU and a-splashinU,
Reelin with the feelin, movinU and a-groovinU,
Bing bang, I saw the whole gang
DancinU on my living room rug, yeah!
Flip flop, they was doinU the bop
All the teens had the dancinU bug
There was lollipop with-a Peggy Sue
Good Golly, Miss Molly was-a even there, too!
A-well-a, Splish Splash, I forgot about the bath
I went and put my dancinU shoes on, yay...
I was a rollinU and a strollinU, reelinU with the feelinU,
moving and a groovin, splishinU
and a splashinU, yeah!
Yes, I was a-splishinU and a splashinU...
I was a-rollinU and a-strollinU...
Yeah, I was a-movinU and a-groovinUI
We was a-reelinU with the feelinUI
We was a-rollinU and a-strollinUI
MovinU with the groovinU
Splish splash, yeah!


2.Early In The Morning

When a girl reach the age of 18
She begins to think she's grown,
And hat's the kind of little girl
You can never find at home.

Come and see me early in the morning,
Just about the break of day.
Want to see me hug my pillow
Where my baby used to lay?

One drink of wine,
Two drinks of gin.
Pretty young got me
In the shape I'm in.

Chorus

I pass by the juke joint,
Look through the door.
She's doing the boogie-woogie
In the middle of the floor.

Chorus

First Verse

Chorus


3.Queen Of The Hop

Lyrics:Walden-Tweed
Music:Woody Harris

Well, you can talk about your Julie and your Peggy Sue.
You can keep your Miss Molly and your Mary Lou.
Can your prom do the chicken or doin' the bop?
I got a girl they call the queen of the hop.

Oh well I love my queen.
Do you know who I mean?
Sweet little sixteen
Yes, that's my queen.

Well, she wears short shorts and a rock 'n roll shoes.
You ought to see her dance to the yellow dog blues.
She's my sugar time baby, I'm her lollipop,
An' everybody knows I love my queen of de hop


Oh well she tunes in to Bandstand every day
To watch the kids dancin' 'cross the USA.
She don't care 'bout a thing 'ceptin rock 'n roll.
My baby drives me crazy when she does the stroll. yeah

Well she tunes in to Bandstand every day
To watch the kids dancin' 'cross the USA.
She don't care 'bout a thing 'ceptin' rock and roll.
My baby drives me crazy when she does the stroll.


Well, that's my queen.
Yes, that's my queen.
Oh, well that's my queen.
Yes, that's my queen.


4.Plain Jane

Lyrics:Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman
Music:Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman

My plain Jane never wear
A-no lipstick or paint
You know she'll never try
To be what she ain't.

Come early in the mornin'
You can hear the fellas call woo!
Well, plain Jane won't-cha come out tonight
So we can have a ball.

Help me now

Plain Jane won't-cha come out tonight
Come out tonight, come out tonight
Plain Jane won't-cha come out tonight
An' spend some time with me.

Her mouth's a little too wide
And her nose a wee bit long
And when you take a good look at her
Her shape seems all wrong.

But, she got this certain somethin'
That's so hard to define
And I wish that certain somethin'
Was mine, all mine, all mine woo!

Well, now plain Jane won't-cha come out tonight
Come out tonight, come out tonight
A-plain Jane won't-cha come out tonight
Spend some time with me.

Ooh, wee!
Oh, yeah!

I used to go with glamour girls
Who wore silks day and night
But plain Jane's gotta cotton dress
And it don't fit her right.

I could never, never tell you
Why I love her like I do
But if you took her out for one fine night
You'd feel the same way too.

Won't-cha now

Plain Jane won't-cha come out tonight
Come out tonight, come out tonight
Plain Jane won't-cha come out tonight
An' spend some time with me.

I said spend the time with me
Woo plain Jane
I love her just the same
Oh plain Jane.


5.Dream Lover

Dream dream lover
Dream dream lover
Every night I hope and pray
A dream lover will come my way
A girl to hold in my arms
And know the magic of her charms
Because I want a girl to call my own
Chorus
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone
Dream lover where are you
With a love oh so true
And a hand that I can hold
To feel you near when I grow old
Because I want a girl to call my own
Chorus
Someday I don't know how
I hope you'll hear my plea
Someway I don't know how
She'll bring her love to me
Dream lover until then
I'll go to sleep and dream again
That's the only thing to do
Until my lover's dream come true
Because I want a girl to call my own
Chorus
Oh?I got to hold on (someway)
But I don't know how
She'll bring her love to me
Her love to me
Dream lover until then
I'll go to sleep and dream again
That's the only thing to do
Until my lover's dream come true
Because I want a girl to call my own
Chorus 3 X
Dream dream lover
Dream dream lover


6.Mack the Knife

Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, yeah
And he shows them, pearly white
Just a jack knife has old Mack Heath, Babe
And he keeps it out of sight

You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves though wears old Mack Heath, babe
So there's never, never a trace of red

Now, on the sidewalk, Ooh Sunday mornin', ah ha
Lies a body just oozin' life, eek
And someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife

There's a tug boat down by the river don't you know
Well, the cement bags just a droopin' on down
Oh, that cement is just, it's there for the weight, yeah
Five will get you ten ol' Mackey's back in town

Now, did you hear about Louie Miller
He disappeared, babe, after drawin' out
All his hard earned cash
And now Mack Heath Spends just like a sailor
Could it be our boys done something rash

Now Jenny Diver, Soupy Tawdry,
Ohh, Miss Lonnie Linya, And Ol' Lucy Brown
Oh, the line forms on the right, babe
Now that Mackey's back in town

I said Jenny Diver, Whoa Soupy Tawdry
Look out for Miss Lonnie Linya and Ol' Lucy Brown
Yes, That Line forms on the right, babe
Now that Mackey's back in town

Look out ol' Mackey is back


7.Beyond The Sea

Somewhere beyond the sea
Somewhere waiting for me
My lover stands on golden sands
And watches the ships that go sailing

Somewhere beyond the sea
She's there watching for me
If I could fly like birds on high
Then straight to her arms
I'd go sailing

It's far beyond the stars
It's near beyond the moon
I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon

We'll meet beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailing

I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon
We'll meet (I know we'll meet) beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailing

No more sailing
So long sailing
Bye, bye sailing...


8.Clementine

Lyrics:Woody Harris
Music:Woody Harris

In a cavern
Down by a canyon
Excavatin' for a mine
There lived a miner
From North Carolina
And his daughter
Chubby Clementine.

Now, every mornin'
Yeah just about dawnin'
When the sun
Began to shine
You know she would rouse up
Wake all-a-dem cows up
And walk 'em down to her Daddy's mine.

I took the footbridge
Way 'cross the water
Though she weighed
Two ninety-nine
The old bridge trembled
And disassembled oops!
Dumped her into the foamy brine.

Hey crack like thunder hut, hut
You know she went under hut, hut
Blowin' bubbles down the line
Hey! I'm no swimm'a
But were she slimm'a
I might'a saved
That Clementine.

Ho she broke the record
Way under water
I thought that she was doin' fine
I wasn't nervous
Not until the service
That they held
For Clementine.

Hey you sailor hut, hut
Way out in your whaler
A-with your harpoon an' your trusty line
If she shows now,yell...
A-there she blows now!
It just may be
Chunky, Clementine.

One more time!

Oh, my darlin' oh, my darlin'
Oh, my darlin' oh, my darlin'
Oh, my darlin' sweet Clementine
You may be gone but
You're not forgotten
Fare thee well
So long
Clementine
Bye!


9.Bill Bailey


10.Artificial Flowers

Alone in the world was poor little Anne
As sweet a young child as you'd find.
Her parents had gone to their final reward
Leavin' their baby behind.

(Did you hear?)
This poor little child was only nine years of age
when mother and dad went away;
Still she brav-el-y worked
At the one thing she knew
to earn her few pennies a day.

She made artificial flowers, artificial flowers,
Flowers for ladies of fashion to wear;
She made artificial flowers, you know those artificial flowers,
Fashions from Annie's despair.

With paper and shears, with some wire and wax
She made up each tulip and mum.
As snowflakes drifted into her tenement room
Her baby little fingers grew numb.

From makin' artificial flowers, those artificial flowers
Flowers for ladies of high fashion to wear.
She made artificial flowers, artificial flowers
Made from Annie's despair.

They found little Annie all covered in ice
Still clutchin' her poor frozen shears
Amidst all the blossoms she had fashioned by hand
And watered with all her young tears.

There must be a heaven where little Annie can play
In heavenly gardens and bowers.
And instea-a-ad of a halo she'll wear 'round her head
A garland of genuine flowers.

No more artificial flowers;
Throw away those artificial flowers,
Flowers for ladies of society to wear.
Throw away those artificial flowers,
Those dumb-dumb flowers,
Fashioned from Annie's,
Fashioned from A-a-a-annie's
Des-pa-a-a-air.
(Give her the real thing!)


11.Somebody To Love

I've been all over this country
Been half way ?round the world
I've been traveling so dog gone much
That I haven't got a steady girl

Somebody to love (Somebody to love)
Somebody to love (Somebody to love)
Somebody to call me turtledove
Somebody to love

Yes I guess I've been lucky
I've had me fortune and fame
But I would give up my roman ways
Just to change some girlie's name

Somebody to love (Somebody to love)
Somebody to love (Somebody to love)
Somebody to call me turtledove
Somebody to love

I've been hurtin' (He's been hurtin')
Such a long, long time (long, long time)
I've been searchin' (He's been searchin')
Where's that girl of mine

Won't you hear me now,
If there's somebody listenin'
Won't you hear my plea?
Won't you send me a good, good girl
To spend her life with me

Somebody to love (Somebody to love)
Somebody to love (Somebody to love)
Somebody to call me turtledove
Somebody to love
I've been hurtin' (He's been hurtin')
Such a long, long time (long, long time)
I've been searchin' (He's been searchin')
Where's that girl of mine

Won't you hear me now,
If there's somebody listenin'
Won't you hear my plea?
Won't you send me a good, good girl
To spend her life with me

Somebody to love (Somebody to love)
Somebody to love (Somebody to love)
Somebody to call me turtledove
Somebody to love

Somebody to love (Somebody to love)
Somebody to love (Somebody to love)
Somebody to call me turtledove
Somebody to love . . .


12.Lazy River

Up a lazy river by the old mill run
Lazy river in the noon day sun
Linger awhile in the shade of a tree
Throw away your troubles, dream with me.

Up a lazy river where the robin's song
Wakes the mornin', we roll along.
Make me blue skies above,
Everyone's in love
Up a lazy river, how happy we'll be
Up a lazy river with me.

Up a lazy river by the old mill run
That lazy, lazy river in the noonday sun
You can linger for a while in the shade of a tree.
Throw!, away your troubles, baby, dream a dream of me.

Up a lazy river, where the robin's song
Wakes a bright new mornin' where we can roll along.
There may be blue skies up above
But as long as we're in love
Yeah, we'll be up a lazy river, how happy we could be,
Up a lazy river with me.

(from the half way mark !)

Yeah, up a lazy river where the robin's song
Awakes a brand new mornin', we can roll along.
A-a-a, there are blue skies up above
And as long as we're in love,
We'll be up a lazy river,
Up a crazy lazy river,
Up a lazy river,
I ain't goin' your way,
Get outta my way,
Up a lazy river with me....