Superman - Five For Fighting
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me
I'm more than a bird...I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me
Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see
It may sound absurd...but don't be nieve
Even Heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed...but won't you concede
Even Heroes have the right to dream
It's not easy to be me
Up, up and away...away from me
It's all right...You can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy...or anything...
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees
I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
It's not easy to be me.
Superman's Song - Crash Test Dummies
Tarzan wasn't a ladies' man
He'd just come along and scoop 'em up under his arm
Like that, quick as a cat in the jungle
But Clark Kent, now there was a real gent
He would not be caught sittin' around in no
Junglescape, dumb as an ape doing nothing
[Chorus:]
Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will never see
Another man like him
Hey Bob, Supe had a straight job
Even though he could have smashed through any bank
In the United States, he had the strength, but he would not
Folks said his family were all dead
Their planet crumbled but Superman, he forced himself
To carry on, forget Krypton, and keep going
Tarzan was king of the jungle and Lord over all the apes
But he could hardly string together four words: "I Tarzan, You Jane."
Sometimes when Supe was stopping crimes
I'll bet that he was tempted to just quit and turn his back
On man, join Tarzan in the forest
But he stayed in the city, and kept on changing clothes
In dirty old phonebooths till his work was through
And nothing to do but go on home
Sunshine Superman - Husker Du
O Superman - Laurie Anderson
Girl you'll be a woman soon - Neil Diamond and Urge Overkill
American Woman - The Guess Who
(took away my Urge Overkill reply :wink: )
Woman of the World / Aerosmith
World shut your mouth - Julian Cope
Mad World - Tears for Fears :wink:
We Are The World - Various Artists
make the world go away - ray price
What a wonderful world - Louis Armstrong
Oh, Inverted World ~ The Shins
Me and you versus the world - Space
me and you and a dog named Boo - can't remember :wink:
You are so beautiful to me - Joe Cocker
Sarah Morgan wrote:me and you and a dog named Boo - can't remember :wink:
written by Stonewall Jackson, but I'm betting you are thinking of the version made popular by Lobo :wink:
emkay, apologies: back on topic with:
You are so beautiful to me - Joe Cocker
Just a quick note, in the spirit of scholarly pursuit, and not to dis FY:
Kent Lavoie wrote Me And You.. and Lobo was the first artist to put it out.
"b. Roland Kent Lavoie, 31 July 1943, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
Lobo was the pseudonym of Roland Lavoie, a singer-songwriter who was successful in the early 70s. He was raised in the town of Winter Haven, Florida, where he began his musical career as a member of the Rumors.
He apprenticed in several other groups during the 60s as well, notably, the Legends from Tampa, Florida, which included Gram Parsons and Jim Stafford,(Spiders And Snakes) who would also enjoy success in the early 70s with two US Top 10 hits, produced by Lavoie. (Other members of the Legends included Gerald Chambers and Jon Corneal, the latter remaining an associate of Parsons for many years.)
Lavoie also performed with bands called the Sugar Beats and Me And The Other Guys, neither of which had any success outside of their region. In 1971, former Sugar Beats member Phil Gernhard signed Lavoie, calling himself Lobo (Spanish for wolf) to Big Tree Records, where he was an executive, and released their first single, "Me And You And A Dog Named Boo".
It reached number 5 in the US and launched a successful series of singles. The song became his only hit in the UK, where it reached number 4. Back-to-back Top 10 hits in 1972, "I'd Love You To Want Me" and "Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend", were the last major hits for Lobo.
However, he continued to chart with Big Tree until 1975 (six albums also charted, but only the second, Of A Simple Man, in 1972, made the Top 40). In 1979, Lobo resurfaced on MCA Records, "Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love", reached number 23. After the end of that decade his recording career ended.
Stonewall covered (Me And You..)it some time later:
Stonewall Jackson could make "Ave Maria" sound like a country song, so Lobo's "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" was much less of a stretch. Jackson's remake of the then-recent pop hit produced his final Top Ten country hit and probably earned him a few younger fans.
