J IS FOR JUMP 1971

Jo Mama

 

KEEP ON TRUCKIN’ (Danny Kortchmar)

 

Get off your summer chair

Into the August air, take me there

Don’t think about the heat

It’s time to get on the street

Time to fly away from your lonely days

 

Chorus 1:

Keep on truckin'

Keep on truckin'

Keep on truckin'

Keep on, keep it on

 

Time to get around

Time to draw a track

To your bother, too

Never mind the cause

Can’t you power it from your lonely day

 

Chorus 1 (repeat)

Keep on, keep it on

Keep on, keep it on

Keep on, keep it on

 

Chorus 2:

Get off the Ferris wheel

Grab on to something you can feel

Don’t let yourself go down

Like your dog get out of town

Get your power from your lonely day

 

Chorus 1 (Repeat)

 

Keep on, keep it on

Keep on, keep it on

Keep it on, keep

Keep on, keep it on

Keep on, keep it on

 

Chorus 2 (Repeat)

Chorus 1 (Repeat)

 

Keep on, keep it on

Keep it on

Keep it, keep it on

Keep on, keep it on

Keep on, keep it on

Oh yeah

 

Portofino-Sho’Nuff-Walden, ASCAP

 

BACK ON THE STREET AGAIN (Danny Kortchmar)

 

I don't care if I’m getting no money
I don't care if I got the dime
All I want to do is dance with you honey
Please tell me you got the time


'Cause I gotta get back on my feet again
And I’ve got to get back on the street again.
La, la, la


And I don't care if I’m gettin’ no fame
All I wanna do is to hold your hand
Don't care nobody know my name
'Cause I just want to try the best I can


'Cause I gotta get back on my feet again
And I’ve got to get back on the street again.
La, la, la


I don’t know just what the world is coming to

Don't know just what’s goin’ on
all I know is

I’ve got to get back on the street again
 
I don't care if I’m getting no money
I don't care if I got the dime
All I want to do is dance with you honey
Please tell me you got the time


'Cause I gotta get back on my feet again
And I’ve got to get back on the street again.
La, la, la

 

Portofino-Sho’Nuff-Walden, ASCAP

SMACKWATER JACK (Carole King, Gerry Goffin)

 

I said, Smackwater Jack he bought a shotgun

Because he was in the mood for a little confrontation

He just let it all hang loose

He didn’t think about the noose

He couldn’t take no more abuse,

so he shot down the congregation

You can’t talk to a man with a shotgun in his hand

 

Well now, Big Jim the Chief stood for law and order (yes, he did)

He called for the guard to come and surround the border

Now from his bulldog mouth

As he led the posse south

Came the cry “We got to ride to clean up the street

for our wives and our daughters!”

You can’t talk to a man when he don’t want to understand

 

The account of the capture wasn’t in the papers

But you know, they hanged ol Smack right then instead of later

and the people were quite pleased

because the outlaw had been seized

And on the whole it was a very good year

for the undertaker

You can’t talk to a man with a shotgun in his hand

 

No you can’t

Yeah, shoot him up, baby

Smackwater Jack

Smackwater Jack (fade out)

 

Screen Gems-Columbia, BMI

 

IF I HAD A BILLION DOLLARS (Danny Kortchmar)

 

lf I had a billion dollars

Maybe I’ll find myself a crane

Just to knock down some of these buildings

Just so everybody could see the sky again

And if I had the power to change it

Wouldn't let nobody ruin the land

Wouldn't let no one rearrange it

No, no

If I had to walk around,

with a shot gun in my hand

And if I had a billion dollars

l'll declare a holiday

Everyone would have to follow

Turn off all the power and sail away

And if I had a billion dollars

To pay up everybody’s bear

Wouldn't leave nobody, 'cause ha didn’t have no money

Rottening some law down

Come to jail, come to jail

But I ain’t got no billion dollars

All I got is a beautiful sense, that's all

Pour me a whiskey, mister bar tender

Seems like this whole world just don't make no sense

Tell your people what I’ll do

Maybe I’ll give 'em all to you

If I had a billion dollars

If I had a billion (fade out)

 

Portofino-Sho’Nuff-Walden, ASCAP

MY LONG TIME (Danny Kortchmar)

 

I keep thinking 'bout what my world will be

If 4 or 5 years ago I’ve changed my destiny

I keep thinking about my love long time

 

And when I meet my friends they say I'm different now

They say I sure have changed

But I just don’t see how

I keep thinking about my love long time

When I take a different step

Arid when I shake some different hand

But I have the same old man

Gonna be singing the blues and the rocking roll, babe

 

I chased different star

What I wanted bad

Will I have a different sky

Will I be driving around in a Cadillac car?

 

Sometimes I wonder, when I come taking my dues

1 get myself a piece of love and I can take off my shoes

I guess I found it in my love long time

Yeah, I guess I found it in my love long time

I guess I found it in my love  (fade out)

 

Portofino-Sho’Nuff-Walden, ASCAP

WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE WAY DOWN LOW

(Mac Rabenack)

 

Soon the moon will lose its glow

Hold him tight with all your might

Don’t you let him go

'Cause you can tell him that you love him

Why you're thrilled to his place

But if you don't watch out

I'm gonna take your place

When the lights are way down low

 

Hurry before the nights goes on

Before the music end, I might cut it

And I’ll steal him cold

And then I’ll tell him that I love him

Why, I'm thrilled to his place

So if you don’t watch out

I'm gonna take your place

When the lights are way down low

We were family introduced

I fell in love at first sight, that night

 

Soon the moon will lose its glow

Hold him tight with all of your might

Don’t you let him go

You better be in condition

Adjusting to strong competition

If you don't watch out

I'm gonna take your place

When the lights are way down low

 

Oh I fall in love at first sight, that night

You better be in condition

Adjusting to strong competition

If you don't watch out

I'm gonna take your place

When the lights are way down low

When the lights are way down low

When the lights...     (fade out)

 

Ten-East-At Last BMI

 

LOVE IS BLIND (Danny Kortchmar)

 

Don't be afraid to show me

What you don’t dig about yourself

'Cause you don’t have to show me

Ooh I love you for yourself

And you don't need to shut me

Darling, darling I turn my head around

And you don't have to tie me

No no no, to keep my feet on solid ground

 

Love is blind, love is blind

You have surely found

Lave is blind, love is blind

You can leave your fears behind

 

Love is blind, love is blind

And it's in a great resign

You know love is blind, aah yeah, baby

You know love is blind, ooh love is blind, baby

You know love is blind, yes it is, yes it is, baby

 

Don't hesitate to ask me

lf you don’t understand

To have me don’t look past me

I wanna lend a helpin' hand

 

Love is blind

Oh you have surely found

Love is blind, love is blind

You can leave your fears behind

Love is blind, love is blind

And it's in a great resign

Love love love love, is the best thing in the world, in the world

Love love love love, is the best thing in the world,

is the best thing in the world oh

Love love love love, is the best thing in the world,

is the best thing in the world

Love love love love, is the best thing...

 

Portofino-Sho’Nuff-Walden, ASCAP

 

3 A.M. IN L.A. (Danny Kortchmar)

 

When it’s 3 A.M. in L.A.

Watch that the hill don't tumble down on you

Try to keep away the freeway

Reading the signs that tell you what to do

 

When it's 3 A.M. in L.A.

Tryin' to sleep but sleepin' just won’t come

Hope that I will have a leeway

Keep my eyes closed until the night is gone

 

Take a look outside the window

Watch the city laughin' in your face

Take a look inside the window

Everything is really out of place

 

Smoke away the day in L.A.

In the same room 'most every afternoon

Give your soul away to L.A.

Burned by the sun and howling at the moon

 

Portofino-Sho’Nuff-Walden, ASCAP

SWEET AND SLOW (A. Dublin, H. Warren)

 

Sweet and slow

Rock-a-bye me to and fro

While the band is moanin' low

Honey take your time

 

Sweet and slow

We ain’t got no place to go

We ain’t gonna Buffalo

Honey take your time

 

Chorus 1:

You heard of how the turtle and the rabbit ran a race

You heard of how the rabbit ended up in second place

Sweet and slow

While the lights are burnin' low

Honey I know we can make it if we take it sweet and slow

 

Chorus 1 (Repeat)

 

Warner Bros., ASCAP

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO PITTSBURGH (D. Simon)

 

Haye you ever been to Pittsburgh?

Do you wanna go?

Have you ever been lo Pittsburgh?

You probably ask yourself, what for?

lf you wanna go to Pittsburgh

Just get on a bus and go

 

Pittsburgh's got a lot of restaurants

And some pizza stands too mmm

Sometimes in shiny office buildings

And a little kiddie zoo

Pittsburgh's just like Kansas City

Just like Kansas City moo

 

Now listen

Left my home in Kansas City

My baby said don’t cross the door

All I found was nitty gritty

Nobody loves me anymore

Soon I found my way to Pittsburgh

And I don't know what to do

 

I can’t stand it here in Pittsburgh

Think that I might have to go, I might have to go

Think that I’ll go someplace else

Some place where it don’t never snow

Ride the surf and get a suntan

Won’t have to worry anymore mmm

 

Have you ever been to Pittsburgh?

Do you wanna go?

 

Portofino-Sho’Nuff-Walden, ASCAP

 

SHO ’BOUT TO DRIVE ME WILD (A. Robinson, J. Hill, M. Rabenack, F. King)

 

Um-bah-dee you look good to me

There's something you got

It’s got a hold on me

My honey, my baby, my lovechild, my foxy lovin'

hip in a style

And you're sho 'bout, you're sho 'bout,

you're sho ‘bout, you're 'bout

You're 'bout to drive me wild

(sho ‘bout, sho ‘bout, sho 'bout..)

Hey yeah, hey yeah, I tell you yeah

you're sho 'bout lo drive me wild

(sho 'bout, sho 'bout, sho 'bout)

 

Now that we got this good understandin'

Give me the lovin' that l've been demandin'

You won't be sorry, you'll never be sad

I'm gonna show you the best thing you ever had

You're sho 'bout, you're sho 'bout, you're sho 'bout

Sho 'bout lo drive me wild

(sho 'bout, sho 'bout, sho 'bout...)

Yeah my man, I say you're gonna drive me wild (sho ‘bout, sho ‘bout, sho 'bout...)

 

Now that we got this good understandin'

Give me the lovin' that I've been demandin'

I called up my mama, I called my papa too

You're gonna be my lover

'Cause I'm so in love with you

And you're sho 'bout, sho 'bout,

oh sho 'bout to drive me wild

(sho ‘bout, sho ‘bout, sho 'bout...)

Oh yeah, woah yeah, yeah

you're gonna drive me wild

(sho 'bout, sho 'bout, sho 'bout...)

 

Marzique, BMI

 

 

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