Come my love I'll tell you a tale
Of a boy and girl and their love story
And how he loved her oh so much
And all the charms she did possess
Now this did happen once upon a time
When things were not so complex
How he worshipped the ground she walked
And when he looked in her eyes he became obsessed
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings I feel
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings I feel
It's as real as the feelings I feel
This love was stronger than the powers so dark
A prince could have within his keeping
His spells to weave and steal a heart
Within her breast but only sleeping
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings I feel
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings I feel
It's as real as the feelings I feel
Now he said, "Don't you know I love you oh so much
And lay my heart at the foot of your dress?"
She said, "Don't you know that these storybook loves
Always have a happy ending?"
Then he swooped her up just like in the books
And on his stallion they rode away
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings I feel
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings I feel
Now you can do the watusi
You can do it if you try
Any puppy dog or pussy
Can do the jerk or do the fly
Now you can do the wooly bully
But can you pull the wooly wooly
Can you wag can you wag the dog
You got the shimmy and the hustle
It's all the rage downtown
Yeh you don't have to have the muscle
To get into the mess around
'Cos you can do the wooly bully
But can you pull the wooly wooly
Can you wag can you wag the dog
So make him sit make him stay
Come to hell go play
Roll him over lie still
Make him go kill attaboy
Wag the dog baby
You have the duck and mashed potato
Funky chicken on a roll
Move on up a little later
To the money and the stroll
Now you can do the wooly bully
But can you pull the wooly wooly
Can you wag can you wag the dog
Now go bow bow wow wow
Now go woof woof woof woof
Yeh that's right wag the dog
The locomation boogaloo
The hully gully and the limbo too
Wag the dog
Yeh hitchhike for me baby
Now we're barefootin'
The funky funky penguin
That's the dug and that's the frug
Yeh but can you wag the dog
Wag the dog can you wag the dog
Yearning, we were yearning
Greelight blinding on the rail
Burning, we were burning
And the line unwinding to the Holy Grail
To the future gleaming on the blue horizon
And a golden girl on golden sand
Dreaming, fantasizing
In another world from Metroland
I've danced in rain and I've been Django
And I've gone laid'
I've been a rolling stone
I've been Verlaine
And I've been Rimbaud
Not afraid to walk alone
And now I take my midnight ramble
Do I fold or play what's in my hand
What's at stake and what's the gamble
Do I stay in Metroland
Dreams, yesterday's laughter
Ghosts and lovers come back to play
But dreams have the morning after
Run for cover
In the light of day
I got something real worth holding on to
I can belong to and understand
I've made my deal
I will go on to
Make my peace with Metroland
Well they fly past the ghettoes and the factories
Ridin' on the Gravy Train
Leaving all the places that they really ought to brave
Ridin' on the Gravy Train
Past the coal mines black and scarred
Starter houses in the loading yard
On the Gravy Train
There's the lucky little mothers in their luxury cars
Ridin' on the Gravy Train
Never thank each other or their lucky stars
Ridin' on the Gravy Train
That's worse than ingratitude
Worse than a piss poor attitude
On the Gravy Train
Well the hanger-uppers and the hangers-on
Ridin' on the Gravy Train
Champagne suppers with their daggers all drawn
Ridin' on the Gravy Train
Some act tough, some act rude
Some bit of fluff complain about the food
You want to see somebody getting really rude
Get on the Gravy Train
Well the golden goose is clattering-a-down the track,
And they're gonna be ridin' in an old caboose
Coming back
There's the soldiers of fashion on the hit parade
Ridin' on the Gravy Train
Tongue lashing with the bitch brigade
Ridin' on the Gravy Train
Freeloader licks my boots
Tells me how he digs my suit
You got lucky son, don't get cute
Get on the Gravy Train
Well he's a big star now
But I've been a fan of his for years
The way he sings and plays guitar
Still brings me to tears
I wouldn't want to be a big deal
I wouldn't want to be a celebrity
I spend my life building ships of steel
That's all there ever was for me
Take a hammer to the sea belles
And shout my name
And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame
He spends his life in the studio
Jet planes and big black cars
Plays records on the radio
In all of the clubs and in all of the bars
By day he didn't have a choice
You had to take a trade
You had no money and you had no voice
That's the life I made
Take a hammer to the sea belles
And I shout my name
And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame
That's my claim to fame boys
That's my claim to fame
To sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame
Well a song can live forever and a day
An old ship goes to the breakers yard
In a hundred years you're going to hear him play
They won't remember me for working hard
Now they've all gone away, all the boys and the girls
They yard is a grave where the river runs through
We used to build the ships for the whole wide world
Now we couldn't do it if we wanted to
Take a hammer to the sea belles
And I shout my name
I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame
Take a hammer to the sea belles
And I shout my name
I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame
That's my claim to fame boys
That's my claim to fame
To sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame
Well give me a little loving in the morning
I want a little loving
But you want to get your loving in the evening
When I want to get some loving in the day
I tell her that I'm working in the morning
I tell her that I gotta get my rest
She tells me she's a-working on her loving
And she tells me that my loving is the best
Well it's a tall order baby
And it's a tall order now
Well it's a tall order baby
But we gotta get our loving somehow
Well I don't want to go to sleep on you baby
I don't want to go to sleep on you now
But if I'm going to go to sleep on you baby
Well I'm gonna do it any how
Well don't you turn your back on me darling
Don't you know I'd like to stay up and play
But if I turn my back on you darling
You're going to do it some other way
Well it's a tall order baby
And it's a tall order now
Well it's a tall order baby
But we gotta get our loving somehow
Well I don't want to go to sleep on you baby
I don't want to go to sleep on you now
But if I'm going to go to sleep on you baby
Well I'm gonna do it any how
Well don't you turn your back on me darling
Don't you know I'd like to stay up and play
But if I turn my back on you darling
You're going to do it some other way
Well it's a tall order baby
And it's a tall order now
Well it's a tall order baby
But we gotta get our loving somehow
Now if I was to sing for you
A song you never heard
And give it to you my finest treasure
Would you look at what I bring to you
Turn without a word
Leave me at your gate
Keep me waiting at your pleasure
What have I
What have I got
What have I got to do
To win your love
Maybe never
What have I
What have I got
What have I got to do
To win your love
Forever
Well I'll beat out a lion heart tattoo
I'll bring you pipes and drums
I'll bring you books of burnished leather
I'll set to sea in ships for you
Brave a thousand runs
Ride a hurricane
Laugh at any stormy weather
What have I
What have I got
What have I got to do
To win your love
Maybe never
What have I
What have I got
What have I got to do
To win your love
Forever
You set no store by gems and gold
You scorn my weather chart
You are not concerned with men's advances
I want you more a hundred-fold
When you lift my heart
I'll burn no other flame
Bear no one else's lances
What he got
The others have not
He's the man
I said what he got
The others have not
He's the man
Has to be done
To be number one
When the ... is down
He'll turn it around
'cause first there's the best
And then there's the rest
And he's the man
He's the man
He's the man
He's the man
What he got
The others have not
He's the man
I said what he got
The others have not
And he's the man
Has to be done
To be number one
When the ... is down
He'll turn it around
'cause first there's the best
And then there's the rest
And he's the man
He's the man
First there's the best
And then there's the rest
And he's the man
First there's the best
And then there's the rest
He's the man