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Chorus:
Baby, baby, don’t you cry anymore
Mama’s gonna make it all better like before
Gonna wipe away your tears
Kiss away the pain
Mama’s gonna make it all better again
When I fell off the merry-go-round
And dropped my ice cream cone on the ground
Daddy bought me a rainbow balloon
But I let loose of the string too soon
I remember when ever I was hurt
Mama sang a little song and it always worked
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Now I’m grown up and left all alone
'Cause my best friend just broke up my home
People warned me, but I laughed at them
I couldn’t see she was after him
She’s just using me
I can’t believe he’s gone
As I cry myself to sleep I can hear this little song
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Who broke your heart and made you write that song
Every time you sing I want to cry along
Everything was right till your love went wrong
Who made you write that song
I remember the happy things
In the songs that you used to sing
Sunny blue skies and wedding rings
This morning their gone
Cloudy skies have begun to form
There's a ring in your bureau gone
And you're really alone once more
I can tell by your song
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When you asked me if I could see
That the songs only make believe
If you think that you're fooling me
Let me tell you you're wrong
Anyone who has loved will know
After hearing a verse or so
You smile but your tears still show
In the words to your songs
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In Another Woman's Arms
03:12
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Every night I used to get warm
By the bathroom heater
A cold one-bedroom house
My father was the neighborhood cheater
Oh, how I dreaded wearing
My one dress to the summer dance
Strutting along
With a back wood boy in baggy pants
Chorus:
How I dreamed to change my life some way
Or end it in a bayou bay
I wanted love, I always thought
But every man I loved I always caught
Wrapped up in another woman's arms
One night I drove in and watch a drive-in movie
The hero rode a motorbike
And every word he said was groovy
He picked up a girl, who looked a lot like me
And rode her all around
The movie ended when they fell in love and settled down
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Searching too hard, I fell in love with a married man
He gave me a son
And day and night, the back of his hand
Every morning when I woke up
I felt an empty space
He was living down at Rosie's drinking up the whole damn place
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Take Me To Heaven
02:50
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I know you love to make love like I love it
And though we made oceans of it
We're still, my love, oceans apart
And I can remember those long, lonely mornings
After loving you all night long
It's not easy, not easy to do
So take me to Heaven tonight, my love
But tomorrow, please take me with you
Take my word for it, there's no place for it
Love means nothing when it's part-time
And you need someone, need someone like I do
So take me to Heaven tonight, my love
But tomorrow, please take me with you
Take me to Heaven tonight, my love
But tomorrow, take me with you
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Cameo
02:30
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When she was handed down to me
I held her very close to see
How many lovers left their secrets in their eyes
She lived in love a hundred years
So many arms have held her near
And now she's here to bring her magic to my life
Chorus:
Cameo, Cameo
Let me wear your magic spell
Cameo, Cameo
And learn the secrets your eyes tell
You'll be here forever
So while we're together
Find me a beautiful life we'll both remember
A love like mama said would come
Stronger than the morning sun
I'll live as two
But love as one my whole life through
'Cause I've been lonely much too long
But there're some changes coming on
Good vibrations coming strong since I got you
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Ships in the Night
03:05
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I saw her look and I realized
She was seducing my man with her eyes
And yet I couldn't blame you
For she was delicious
And smiled me assurance and still I was jealous
Then you took me home and finally alone
You set myself down and you sang me this song
Baby, ships in the night
Eyes that are flashing
Flirting and passing with time on their hands
She's a ship in the night looking for love
And nobody's taking your man
You remember the fight on the way to the party
And we both went inside, neither saying we're sorry
And because he was handsome
And you were disturbed
Through his whole boring story, I hung on each word
Acting as though I enjoyed him so
Playing a game
I'm a woman, you know
And nothing was said in the car going home
And my ego exploded, 'cause your jealousy showed
And then in our bedroom you stalked and you talked
And I quieted your thunder and sang you this song
Baby, ships in the night
Eyes that are flashing
Bragging about all his trips around the world
He's a ship in the night
Looking for love and nobody's taking your girl
I cannot follow through each waking day
And I know some lovely eyes get in your way
But then you're a big boy
Baby, I know when the day's sun surrenders
My ship sails home to me
Ships in the night
Eyes that are flashing
Flirting and passing with time on their hands
She's a ship in the night
Looking for love and nobody's taking my man
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Funny Girl
03:31
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I didn't need you when you found me
You barely fit into my world
But you were sweet and hung around me
And you called me your funny girl
I did my part and made you happy
I make you laugh and that brought you up
You pat my head instead of squeezing my body
A patted head ain't quite enough
I brought you through the trials and tribulations
Silly fool, now, don't you know a funny girl gets sad
Somewhere along the line you sure forgot to touch me
I needed touching mighty bad
Chorus:
Funny girl's got feelings, too
She's not made just to entertain you
Come on, let's hear you laugh
(Well) A funny girl gets sleepless nights
And cries of loss of appetite
Now, mister, how do you like that?
You hurt your funny girl
You'd hold my hand into the party
Until you heard some kitten purr
You'd dropped my hand
And next thing that I knew, darling
I'd see you standing next to her
You'd hold my hand in front
Of friends to prove you like me
Playing sympathetic tricks upon my head
And then because you were so unbearably handsome
You'd thought I'd leap into your bed
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Making Love In My Mind
02:36
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People say my head is in a cloud
When you're not around
But they don't know just what I'm thinking about
They don't know what I've found
When the one you love is far away
You've got to improvise
So anytime I want you in my arms, all I do is close my eyes
I'm making love in my mind
I'm loving you all the time
I'm making love in my mind with you, to you
My imagination runs away
To almost anywhere
If I took a penny for my thoughts
I would be a millionaire
I'm making love in my mind
I'm loving you all the time
I'm making love in my mind to you, just you
Oh, I'm making love in my mind
I'm loving you all the time
I'm making love in my mind with you, to you, with you
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Last Christmas morning
I opened my presents all alone
And last Thanksgiving
Where could I go but my married sister's home?
Well, this morning
I decided that you've had me way too long
I need a man who's free to be here
When everything's going wrong
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'Cause you see the plumber comes when the faucet drips
I call in the painter when the woodwork chips
The Yellow Pages always seem to help me through
But who do I call when I need you?
Every evening your children run
To kiss you at your door
You throw your arms around them
After leaving me alone and wanting more
In your life, I'm just the icing
On a many-layered cake
While I go hungry giving you much more than I can take
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The plumber comes when the faucet drips
I call in the painter when the woodwork chips
The Yellow Pages always seem to help me through
But who do I call when I need you?
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I turn down the covers and I smooth the satin sheets
Pretending I don't do that for every man I meet
And then I let my hair hand down and make myself smell pretty
With that special kind of perfume
That comes straight from New York City
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On the corner of Elm in the south side of town
Take the second right past Shelby's Hardware Store
There's a little white house where the curtains are drawn
And a dim red light on the back porch door
The streetlight on the corner shining circles on the floor
The music from the Hi-Fi slowly drifting through the door
Softly then I'll smile at you and take you by the hand
For a while I'll make you know how good it is to be a man
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Now we lie here in the darkness and we share a cigarette
Till it's time to turn and softly say goodnight with no regret
I know there're people in this world, who'd say "It just ain't right"
But there's no man who ever lived you'd trade places with tonight
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You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you'll stay in my heart
I feel like this is the beginning
Though I've loved you for a million years
And if I thought our love was ending
I'd find myself drowning in my own tears
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You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always stay around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you'll stay in my heart
You must have known that I was lonely
Because you came to my rescue
And I know that this must be heaven
How could so much love be inside of you?
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Old Home Movies
02:45
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Here it is, just another lonely night
Not an awful lot to do
But get out the old home movies
And take another look at you
Switch on some of my movies
Light up all of my dreams
And then I'll watch my life come tumbling down
Up on the silver screen
There she is reaching out to touch you
And that's you touching back again
Well it ain't no fun to watch old home movies
Knowing how the story ends
I think I'll have another look at your birthday
People stepping out to dance
And here's a scene where they're raising a champagne toast
To you and your fine romance
I figured they were talking about you and me
But the pictures plainly show
You had your eye on another girl
And I was the last to know
And there she is reaching out to touch you
And that's you touching back again
Well it ain't no fun to watch old home movies
Knowing how the story ends
Here's another scene from a party
Everybody having fun
Well, look at you, hanging on to what's-her-name
As if she were the only one
And this is you and her laughing and singing
And that's me walking out the door
And you probably noticed in the last few scenes
That I'm not around anymore
There she is reaching out to touch you
And that's you touching back again
Well it ain't no fun to watch old home movies
Knowing how the story ends
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The Other Woman
03:20
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I'm up early every Monday morning
There's some laundry to do
I'm emptying out his pockets
While the kids go off to school
And then I see the letter
And my heart just breaks in two
It's another woman's writing
Saying “Baby, I love you”
Well 10 years of being married to him
I haven't let myself letdown
So I make a quick appointment
To do some work at the gym downtown
What a shock to finally find out
That my nicest dress don't fit
So I sit down at my mirror and I get out my makeup kit
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The other woman is in for the fight of her life
I've loved him too much
And too long to have him taken away
Oh, that would be the day
I'm going to bury the hurt
Gonna get down to work
Roll up my sleeves and be what he needs
A lover at night, oh, and not just a wife; you bet your life
I'm gonna keep him
Well, I read the daily papers
And we discuss the latest news
And I love him each and every night
Just the way that I used to do
Well sometimes it just takes giving
To get something back again
Now there'll never be another woman
And a whole new life begins
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I'm Glad I'm Not Her
02:15
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He should be there by now
He said it wouldn't take long to pack
By now he must've told her
He won't be coming back
When he's emptied all his closets
And she has to watch him go
That's the kind of pain I hope
I'll never have to know
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I'm glad I'm not her
I'd hate to be standing in her shoes
I'm glad I'm not her
'Cause he'd be awfully hard to lose
She's the one woman
In the whole wide world I wouldn't want to be
'Cause he's walking out on her
And he's running to me
He'll be moving in tonight
He's finally coming here to stay
But even when his toothbrush
And his clothes are put away
And he's held me and he's loved me
And we're drifting off to sleep
Oh, God, now that he's mine
Please make him someone I can keep
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Vicki Lawrence Inglewood, California
Vicki Lawrence is an American actress, comedian, and pop singer known for the many characters she originated on The Carol Burnett Show, where she appeared from 1967 to 1978, for the entire series run. One such character, "The Family" matriarch Mrs.Thelma Harper, later was the central character of the television situation comedy series Mama's Family on NBC and, later, in first-run syndication. ... more
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