The Hollies' Greatest Vol 2

The Hollies The Hollies' Greatest Vol 2 Lyrics
1.Gasoline Alley Bred

Written:R.Cook/A.Greenaway/T.Macaulay

Woman get your hair out of curlers
Time to get your butt out of bed
Get down your hats and your baggage my child
Going back home, getting back to the homestead

I'm a-gonna heat me some water
Put a shine upon my shoes
Telephone my ma,
Keep the room above Joe's
'Cause we're coming back
Coming back to the homestead
Everything is packed, getting back to the homestead

This time, this time we'll stay, baby

I know that we could have made it
We had ideas in our heads
And I wish somehow we could have saved it
But we're Gasoline Alley bred
Yet the years haven't really been wasted
And I know it in my head
We did good for the life that we've tasted
'Cause we're Gasoline Alley, Gasoline Alley bred

Woman you can really believe it
I did everything a man could do
Breaking my back just to make us a dime
That won't mean a damn when no one wants to know you

Woman I know how you feel it
I've seen the hurt upon your face
How many time do you think that I've cried
Knowing every day that your heart was getting broken
Holding back your pride till you were nearly choking

Oh let's get away, baby

I know that we could have made it
We had ideas in our heads
And I wish somehow we could have saved it
But we're Gasoline Alley bred
Yet the years haven't really been wasted
And I know it in my head
We did good for the life that we've tasted
'Cause we're Gasoline Alley, Gasoline Alley bred

Gasoline Alley, Gasoline Alley Bred
Gasoline Alley, Gasoline Alley Bred
Gasoline Alley, Gasoline Alley Bred
Gasoline Alley, Gasoline Alley Bred


2.Searchin'

Lyrics:Leiber/Stoller
Music:Leiber/Stoller

Gonna find her
I'm gonna find her
I'm gonna find her, Yeah

Now searchin'
Been searchin'
searchin' every way which way oh yay
Oh Lord now searchin'
Yeah searchin'
Searchin' every way which way oh yay
I'm like that Northwest Mountie -
you know I'll bring her in someday

If I have to swim a river
you know I will
And if I have to climb a mountain
you know I will
And if I had to up-a on a Blueberry Hill
you know I'm gonna find that child you know I will

'Cos I've been searchin' Whoah Lord now searchin'
for goodness searchin' every way which way oh yay
I'm like the Northwest Mountie -
you know I'll bring her in someday

Yeah well Sherlock Holmes and old Sam Spade
They got and old Blackie
Sergeant Friday Charlie Chan
They got nothing child on me
'Cause no matter where she hides
Man she's gonna hear me comin'
I'm gonna walk right down that street
Just like a Bulldog Drummond

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3.Listen To Me

Lyrics:Hazzard
Music:Hazzard

Listen to me I'll sing a song to change your mind
Have you ever wondered why
When everything goes wrong
Nobody stops to lend a hand
Nobody seems to care
Then she looks you in the eye
And suddenly you're strong
And very soon you realise
That you didn't care about love

Listen to me I'll sing a song to change your mind
Your ears are deaf, your mouth is dumb, your eyes are blind
Listen to me and very soon I think you'll find
Somebody wants to help you, somebody seems to care
And very soon you've forgotten that you didn't care about love

Does it hurt to realise
You've been acting very strange
Refusing to take the love she gives
Pretending you don't care
Did it take you by surprise
To discover how you'd changed
How you forgot to remember
That you didn't care about love

Listen to me I'll sing a song to change your mind
Your ears are deaf, your mouth is dumb, your eyes are blind
Listen to me and very soon I think you'll find
Somebody wants to help you, somebody seems to care
And very soon you've forgotten
That you didn't care about love

Listen to me I'll sing a song to change your mind
Your ears are deaf, your mouth is dumb, your eyes are blind
Listen to me and very soon I think you'll find
Somebody wants to help you, somebody seems to care
And very soon you've forgotten
That you didn't care about love


4.Too Young To Be Married

Lyrics:Hicks
Music:Hicks

She wakes up early every morning
She get up long before the sunshine
Greets the milkman who's still yawning
And reads the paper for a short time
Calls the kids 'Get out of bed'
They never hear a word she says

Husband stands to leave the table
She says 'I hope you have a good day'
He thinks 'One day soon as I'm able
I'll get a job where I get good pay.'

They find it hard to make ends meet
But they don't mention it because they have each other
An love is free while they're supposed to be ...

Too young to be married
Too young to be free
Too young to be married
But what could they do, they were going to have a baby

After the kids have had their breakfast
Now they're off to get some schooling
She cleans the house and makes the beds
She starts to dreams but knows she's fooling

She swears one day she'll stay in bed
but for now she knows she's got to keep on working
'Cos round and round inside her head
She hears the words her mother said ...

chorus

Too young to be married
Too young to be free
Too young to be married
But what could they do?


5.Dear Eloise

Lyrics:Clarke/Hicks/Nash
Music:Clarke/Hicks/Nash

Dear Eloise, I am writing to say
a number of funny thing I heard today.
I heard that he's left you and run off to sea.
Could be the best thing that's happened to me.

Writing a letter to make you feel better.
Sorry to hear that he left you that way.
I could have told you, he was much older,
so much older than you.

You rushed blindly, he treated you kindly
until he found out what he could get from you.
You should have departed before he got started.
Now you've been burned just like I said you would.

Please read my letter closely.
It's beneficial, too.
You must read in-between the lines,
a message you will see.
If you use your mind, you'll find
I want you back with me.

Verse 2
so much older than you, so much older than you.

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6.He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

Lyrics:B.Scott/B.Russell
Music:B.Scott/B.Russell

The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

So on we go

His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We'll get there

For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another

It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share

And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy he's my brother

He's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother


7.Hey Willy

Lyrics:Clarke/Cook/Greenaway
Music:Clarke/Cook/Greenaway

Hey Willy your mother calls you Billy
your father calls you silly
but you really are a pretty one

Hey baby you're dressing like a lady
The fellows call you Sadie
but you really are a pretty one

You don't care
what they say about your hair
'Cause the bad man's smiling
every time he sees you comin' yeah

Willy is the singer in a rock'n'roll band
Every time he shows his face
put away your

Oh yeah Willy's gonna show them now
No no no no Willy's gonna go somehow

My name's Willy gonna turn on the lights
playing rock'n'roll music to early early night
Can't stop dancing to the rhythm in your feet
Listen to the drummer Yeah listen to the beat

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Hey Willy your mother calls you Billy
your daddy calls you silly
but you really are a pretty one

verse 2

verse 3

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8.Ain't That Just Like Me

Lyrics:Carroll/Guy
Music:Carroll/Guy

Mary had a little lamb
His fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
the lamb was sure to go

Now ain't that just like me
well you know cracking up over you
you know that I love you (yeah)
love you (yeah)
Won't you come along there too

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
couldn't put him back again

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Hey diddle-diddle the cat had a fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon
The little dog laughed to see such fun
and the dish ran away with the spoon

chorus

verse 3

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It's all right now
Won't you come along there too
We're shaking now
Won't you come along there too
Come on baby


9.Sorry Suzanne

Lyrics:Stephens/Macaulay
Music:Stephens/Macaulay

I can't make it if you leave me
I'm sorry Suzanne believe me I was wrong
And I knew I was all along
Forgive me

I still love you more than ever
I'm sorry Suzanne for ever hurting you
You know I never wanted to
I'm truly sorry Suzanne

I could never ever justify
All the tears I made you cry
But I do regret it my Suzanne
You gotta believe me

I was lookin' 'round for someone new
What a foolish thing to do
All the time I knew it
Heaven knows what made me do it girl

I can't make it if you leave me
I'm sorry Suzanne believe me I was wrong
And I knew I was all along all along
I'm truly sorry Suzanne

If you would only take me back again
Things would be so different then
What I wouldn't give for
One more chance to live for you Suzanne

verse 1

verse 2


10.If I Needed Someone

Lyrics:Harrison
Music:Harrison

If I needed someone to love
you're the one that I'd be thinking of
If I needed someone

If I had some more time to spend
then I'd guess I'd be with you my friend
If I needed someone

Had you come some other day then
it might not have been like this
Can't you see how I'm too much in love

Carve your number on my wall
and maybe you will get a call from me
If I needed someone

verse 2
verse 3
verse 4

If I needed someone


11.I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top

Lyrics:Fletcher/Flett
Music:Fletcher/Flett

And every time I get to thinking
With every thought of you
I wanna shout aloud
And then I think about
The love I had inside me
And how you brought what's inside out

So now love's made it to the outside
I wanna to tell the world
Of everything I've found
Somehow your love released
A spring wound up inside me
You've turned my living upside-down

And I can't tell the bottom from the top
Am I standing on my head or on my heels
Is it cloudy is it bright
Is it day or is it night
Am I wrong or am I right
And is it real

Tell me where you learned the magic
The spell you used the day you made me fall
Baby now I know that love is no illusion
I'm upside-down but ten feet tall

And I can't tell the bottom from the top
Am I standing on my head or on my heels
Is it cloudy is it bright
Is it day or is it night
Am I wrong or am I right
And is it real

On and on I drifted with the tide
I didn't know that love could move me so
You filled my life with love and much more besides
And you showed me which way to go

And I can't tell the bottom from the top
Am I standing on my head or on my heels
Is it cloudy is it bright
Is it day or is it night
Am I wrong or am I right
And is it real

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12.Blowin' In The Wind

Lyrics:Bob Dylan
Music:Bob Dylan

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man
How many seas must the white dove sail
Before she can sleep in the sand

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
Yes, and how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry

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Well, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea
And how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free

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