Genius Loves Company

Ray Charles Genius Loves Company Lyrics
1.Here We Go Again

Written:Donnie Lanier/Russell Steagall
Artist:Ray Charles/Norah Jones

Here we go again
She's back in town again
I'll take her back again
One more time
Here we go again
The phone will ring again
I'll be her fool again
One more time

I've been there before
And I'll try it again
But any fool knows
That there's no way to win
Here we go again
She'll break my heart again
I'll play the part again
One more time


2.Sweet Potato Pie

Artist:Ray Charles/James Taylor

Oh lord i feel fine today
I'm walking on cloud nine today
I'm over that line today
Happiness is finally mine today

I guess i'm just a lucky guy
And i'm prepared to tell you why
It's strictly on account of my
Sweet potato pie

I'm the fellow that she loves the most
The main reason why she left the coast
She's my little girlziña
That much hotter that a jalapeño

Tender like a night in june
Sweeter than a honeymoon
Brighter than a silver spoon
Just as crazy as a loon

Softer than a lullabye
Deeper than the midnight sky
Soulful as a baby's cry
My sweet potato pie

I used to see her around the neighborhood
I wonder how she grew up so good
She belonged to freddy and he was bad
And i never was ready to make him mad

I'm glad i had to wait awhile
A little bit too juvenile
I needed to refine my style
A silk suit and a crocodile smile

So let the whole damn world go by
'cause i just want to testify
From now on it's me and my
Sweet potato pie


3.You Don't Know Me

Written:Cindy Walker/Eddy Arnold
Artist:Ray Charles/Diana Krall

You give your hand to me
And then you say hello
I can hardly speak
My heart is beating so
And anyone can tell
You think you know me well
But you don't know me

Oh you don't know the one
That thinks of you at night
Who longs to kiss your lips
And yearns to squeeze you tight
No I'm just a friend
That's all I've ever been
You just don't know me

I never knew the art of making love
Though my heart aches with love for you
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by
The chance that you might love me too

You give your hand to me
And then you say goodbye
I watch you walk away
Beside the lucky guy
You'll never, never know
The one who loves you so
You just don't know me

I never knew the art of making love
Though my heart aches with love for you
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by
The chance that you might love me too

You give your hand to me
And then you say goodbye
I watch you walk away
Beside the lucky guy
Who'll never, never know
The one who loves you so
You just don't know me

You'll never, ever know
mmmm, cause you just don't know me


4.Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Lyrics:Bernie Taupin
Music:Elton John
Artist:Ray Charles/Elton John

What have I got to do to make you love me
What have I got to do to make you care
What do I do when lightning strikes me
And I wake to find that you're not there

What do I do to make you want me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I say when it's all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word

It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word

What do I do to make you love me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I do when lightning strikes me
What have I got to do
What have I got to do
When sorry seems to be the hardest word


5.Fever

Written:John Davenport/Eddie Coole
Artist:Ray Charles/Natalie Cole

Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me
I get a fever that's so hard to bear

You give me fever when you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever in the morning
Fever all through the night.

Ev'rybody's got the fever
that is something you all know
Fever isn't such a new thing
Fever started long ago

Sun lights up the daytime
Moon lights up the night
I light up when you call my name
And you know I'm gonna treat you right

You give me fever when you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever in the morning
Fever all through the night

Romeo loved Juliet
Juliet she felt the same
When he put his arms around her
He said 'Julie, baby, you're my flame
Thou giv-est fever when we kisseth
Fever with the flaming youth
Fever I'm afire
Fever yea I burn for sooth'

Captain Smith and Pocahantas
Had a very mad affair
When her daddy tried to kill him
She said 'Daddy, o, don't you dare
He gives me fever with his kisses
Fever when he holds me tight
Fever, I'm his misses,
Oh daddy, won't you treat him right'

Now you've listened to my story
Here's the point that I have made
Cats were born to give chicks fever
Be it Fahrenheit or centigrade
They give you fever when you kiss them
Fever if you live and learn
Fever till you sizzle
What a lovely way to burn
What a lovely way to burn
What a lovely way to burn


6.Do I Ever Cross Your Mind

Written:Dorsey Burnette/Michael Smotherman
Artist:Ray Charles/Bonnie Raitt

Do I ever cross your mind
Darlin' do you ever see
Some situation somewhere, somehow
Triggers your memory

And do you ever wonder
What became of all the time
And darlin' do I ever, ever cross your mind

And do I ever cross your mind
Uninvited -
Or when you're lonely
Or does it only, happen to me

Do you ever want to know
Do old dreams go on endlessly
Or do they just run down
Somehow and gradually become
The custody
Of that melancholy jailer
Father time
Ohh, darlin' do I ever, ever cross your mind

Honey, do you ever wonder
What became of all the time
Tell me now
Do I ever, ever cross your mind
Oh darlin', I got to know
If I ever, ever cross your mind


7.It Was A Very Good Year

Written:Ervin M.Drake
Arranger:Quincy Jones/Billy Byers
Artist:Ray Charles/Willie Nelson

When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
We'd hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen

When I was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one

When I was thirty-five
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
We'd ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five

But now the days grow short
I'm in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage wine
From fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year

It was a mess of good years


8.Hey Girl

Artist:Ray Charles/Michael Mcdonald

Hey girl, I want you to know
I'm gonna miss you so much if you go
Hey girl, I'll tell you no lie
Something deep inside of me's going to die
If you say so long, if this is goodbye

Hey girl, this can't be true
How am I supposed to exist without you?
Hey girl, don't put me on
What's gonna happen to me when you're gone?
How will I live, how can I go on?
How can I go on?

Hey girl, now sit yourself down
I'm not afraid to get down on the ground
And beg you, beg you to stay
Don't go away
Hey girl


9.Sinner's Prayer

Written:Lowell Glenn/Lowell Fulson
Artist:Ray Charles/Bb King

Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.
Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.
Well if I've done somebody wrong, Lord, have mercy if you
please.

I used to have plenty of money, the finest clothes in town,
But bad luck and trouble overtaken me, bound to get me down.
Please have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.
Well if I've done somebody wrong, Lord, have mercy if you
please.

Keep on working now, child.
Lord every morning.

Well if I've been a bad boy, baby, I declare I'll change my
ways.
I don't want bad luck and trouble to follow me all my days.
Please have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.
Well if I've done somebody wrong, Lord, have mercy if you
please.


10.Heaven Help Us All

Artist:Ray Charles/Gladys Knight

Heaven help the child who never had a home,
Heaven help the girl who walks the street alone
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall,
Heaven help us all.

Heaven help the black man if he struggles one more day,
Heaven help the white man if he turns his back away,
Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl,
Heaven help us all.

Heaven help us all, heaven help us all, help us all.
Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call
Oh, yeah!

Heaven help the boy who won't reach twenty-one,
Heaven help the man who gave that boy a gun.
Heaven help the people with their backs against the wall,
Lord, Heaven help us all.

Heaven help us all, heaven help us all, heaven help us all, help
us all.
Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call.

Now I lay me down before I go to sleep.
In a troubled world, I pray the Lord to keep, keep hatred from
the mighty,
And the mighty from the small,
Heaven help us all.
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Heaven help us all.


11.Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Lyrics:E.Y.Harburg
Music:Harold Arlen
Featuring:Ray Charles/Johnny Mathis

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star,
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops,
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow, why then oh why can't I?

***music***

If happy little bluebirds fly, beyond the rainbow,
Why oh why can't I?


12.Crazy Love

Artist:Ray Charles/Van Morrison

I can hear her heartbeat for a thousand miles
Hear the heavens open everytime she smiles
And when I come to her that's where I belong
Yet, I'm running to her like a river strong

Chorus:
She gives me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She gives me love, love, love, love, crazy love

She's got a fine sense of humor when I'm feeling low down
And when I come to her when the sun goes down
Takes my troubles away, takes away my grief
Takes away my heartache, in the night like a theif

Chorus

Yes I need, yes I need her in the daytime
And oh I need, yes I need her in the night
I want to throw my arms all around her
To kiss and hug and kiss and hug her tight
And oh.............

And when I'm returning from so far away
She gives me sweet sweet lovin', brighten up my day
It makes me righteous and it makes me whole
Makes me mellow, down into my soul

She gives me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She gives me love, love, love, crazy love
One more time, she gives love, just a little love
When I wake up in the morning
She gives me love, love, love,
Crazy Love