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My Musical Life 9-5-26

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September 5th, 2026

#14 Smiling Faces Sometimes (The Undisputed Truth) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Smiling faces sometimes
Pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces
Of the evil that lurks within (can you dig it?)
Smiling faces, smiling faces, sometimes
They don’t tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces tell lies and I got proof
Oh, oh, yeah🪄
Let me tell you
The truth is in the eyes ’cause the eyes don’t lie, amen
Remember, a smile is just a frown turned upside down my friend
So, hear me when I’m saying
Smiling faces, smiling faces, sometimes, yeah
They don’t tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces tell lies and I got proof
(Beware) beware of the handshake
That hides the snake (can you dig it, can you dig it?)🪄
I’m a-tellin’ you beware of the pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Jealousy, (jealousy) misery (misery) envy (envy)
I tell you you can’t see behind
Smiling faces, smiling faces, sometimes
Hey, they don’t tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces tell lies and I got proof
Hey, your enemy won’t do you no harm
(Rap on) ’cause you’ll know where he’s comin’ from
Don’t let the handshake and the smile fool ya
Take my advice, I’m only tryin’ to school ya
Smiling faces, smiling faces, sometimes
They don’t tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces tell lies and I got proof
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes

My Musical Life 9-4-26

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September 4th, 2026

#12 Tired of Being Alone (Al Green) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
I’m so tired of being alone
I’m so tired of on-my-own
Won’t you help me girl
Just as soon as you can🪄
People say that I’ve found a way
To make you say that you love me
Hey baby, you didn’t go for that
It’s a natural fact
That I wanna come back
Show me where it’s at, baby🪄
I’m so tired of being alone
I’m so tired of on-my-own
Won’t you help me girl
Soon as you can🪄
I guess you know that I, uh, I love you so
Even though you don’t want me no more
Hey, hey, hey, hey, I’m cryin’ tears
All through the years
I’ll tell ya like it is
Honey, please love me if you will🪄
Yeah baby
Tired of being alone here by myself, now
I tell ya, I’m tired baby
I’m tired of being all wrapped up late at night
In my dreams, nobody but you, baby🪄
Sometimes I wonder
If you love me like you say you do
You see baby, I, I, I been thinkin’ about it, yeah
I been, I been wantin’ to get next to you baby
You see, sometimes I fold my arms, I say, mmh-hmm-mmh
Oh yeah
Oh baby
Meeting you has proven to me
To be my greatest dream, yeah🪄
I’m so tired of being alone (Tired, baby)
So tired of being alone (Yeah, you don’t know what I’m talkin’ about)
So tired of being alone
Sometimes late at night I get to wonderin’ about you baby
I’m so tired of being alone (Oh baby, baby)
So tired of being alone
So tired of being alone🪄
I’m so tired of being alone (Oh baby)
So tired of being alone (You’re my heart’s desire)
So tired of being alone

My Musical Life 9-3-26

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September 3rd, 2026

#11 Me And Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin’ for a train
When I’s feelin’ near as faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained
And rode us all the way into New Orleans🪄
I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana
I’s playin’ soft while Bobby sang the blues
Windshield wipers slappin’ time, I’s holdin’ Bobby’s hand in mine
We sang every song that driver knew🪄
Freedom is just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’, don’t mean nothin’ hon’ if it ain’t free, no-no
And feelin’ good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
You know feelin’ good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee🪄
From the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun
There Bobby shared the secrets of my soul
Through all kinds of weather, through everything we done
Yeah, Bobby baby, kept me from the cold🪄
One day up near Salinas, Lord, I let him slip away
He’s lookin’ for that home, and I hope he finds it
But, I’d trade all of my tomorrows, for one single yesterday
To be holdin’ Bobby’s body next to mine🪄
Freedom is just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’, and that’s all that Bobby left me, yeah
But feelin’ good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
That feelin’ good was good enough for me, mmm-hmm
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee🪄
La-da-da, la-da-da-da, la-da-da-da-da-da-da
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, Bobby McGee, yeah
La-da-da-da-da, la-da-da-da-da
La, la-la-la-da-da- Bobby McGee, oh yeah🪄
La-da-da, la-da-da, la, da-da, la, da-da
La-da-da, la-da-da, la-di-da
Hey now, Bobby now, now Bobby McGee, yeah
Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, lo-da-da, na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na-na
Hey now, Bobby now, now Bobby McGee, yeah🪄
Well, I wanna call him my lover, call him my man
I said, I call him my lover, did the best I can, come on
Hey now, Bobby now, hey now Bobby McGee, yeah
Lord, a Lord, a Lord, a Lord, a Lord, a Lord, a Lord, a Lord, oh
Hey-hey-hey, Bobby McGee, Lord

My Musical Life 9-2-26

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September 2nd, 2026

#10 Knock Three Times (Tony Orlando & Dawn) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Hey girl, whatcha doing down there
Dancing alone every night
While I live right above you?🪄
I can hear your music playing
I can feel your body swaying
One floor below me
You don’t even know me, I love you🪄
Oh, my darling, knock three time
On the ceiling if you want me
Twice on the pipe
If the answer is no🪄
Oh, my sweetness
Means you’ll meet me in the hallway
Oh-oh, twice on the pipe
Means you ain’t gonna show🪄
If you look out your window tonight
Pull in the string with the note
That’s attached to my heart🪄
Read how many times I saw you
How in my silence, I adored you
And only in my dreams did
That wall between us come apart🪄
Oh, my darling, knock three times
On the ceiling if you want me
Mm-mm, twice on the pipe
If the answer is no🪄
Oh, my sweetness
Means you’ll meet me in the hallway
Whoa, twice on the pipe
Means you ain’t gonna show🪄
Whoa, I can hear the music playing
I can feel your body swaying
One floor below me
You don’t even know me, I love you🪄
Oh, my darling, knock three times
On the ceiling if you want me
Whoa, twice on the pipe
If the answer is no
(I love you, I love you, I love you)🪄
Oh, my sweetness
Means you’ll meet me in the hallway
Mm-mm, twice on the pipe (twice on the pipe)
Means you ain’t gonna show…

My Musical Life 9-1-26

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September 1st, 2026

#9 Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) (The Temptations) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by
I say to myself, “You’re such a lucky guy”
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true
Out of all the fellows in the world, she belongs to you🪄
But it was just my imagination
Runnin’ away with me
It was just my imagination
Runnin’ away with me🪄
Ooh (Soon)
Soon we’ll be married and raise a family (Oh yeah)
A cozy little home out in the country
With two children, maybe three
I tell you I (I, I) can visualize it all
This couldn’t be a dream, for too real it all seems🪄
But it was just my imagination, once again
Runnin’ away with me
Tell you, it was just my imagination
Runnin’ away with me🪄
Ev’ry night on my knees I pray
“Dear Lord, hear my plea
Don’t ever let another take her love from me”
Or I will surely die, hmm
(Her love is) heavenly
When her arms enfold me
I hear a tender rhapsody
But in reality
She doesn’t even know me🪄
(Just my imagination) Once again
Runnin’ away with me, oh
Tell you it was just my imagination
Runnin’ away with me🪄
I’ve never met her but I can’t forget her
(Just my imagination) Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Runnin’ away with me, ooh
Just my imagination
Runnin’ away with me🪄
She’s never hard to find (Just my imagination)
She’s always on my mind (Runnin’ away with me)

My Musical Life 8-31-26

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August 31st, 2026

#8 Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze🪄
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads🪄
All my memories gather ’round her
Miner’s lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye🪄
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads🪄
I hear her voice in the mornin’ hour, she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Drivin’ down the road, I get a feelin’
That I should’ve been home yesterday, yesterday🪄
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads🪄
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads🪄
Take me home, (down) country roads
Take me home, (down) country roads

My Musical Life 8-30-26

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August 30th, 2026

#6 Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) (Paul Revere & The Raiders) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife
Took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan🪄
Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die🪄
They took the whole Indian nation
Locked us on this reservation
Though I wear a shirt and tie
I’m still part redman deep inside🪄
Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die🪄
But maybe someday when they learn
Cherokee nation will return, will return
Will return, will return, will return

My Musical Life 8-29-26

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August 29th, 2026

#5 How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (Bee Gees) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
I can think of younger days when living for my life
Was everything a man could want to do
I could never see tomorrow
But I was never told about the sorrows🪄
And, how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again🪄
I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees
And misty memories of days gone by
We could never see tomorrow
No one said a word about the sorrow🪄
And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
And how can you mend this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again🪄
La la la la la la, la la la la
La la la la la la, la la la la🪄
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again
Da da da da
Da da da da, da da da da da, da

My Musical Life 8-28-26

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August 28th, 2026

#4 One Bad Apple (The Osmonds) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Yeah, yeah🪄
I can tell you’ve been hurt
By that look on your face, girl
Some guy brought sad
Into your happy world🪄
You need love, but you’re
Afraid that if you give in
Someone else will come along
And sock it to you again🪄
One bad apple don’t
Spoil the whole bunch, girl
Oh, give it one more try
Before you give up on love🪄
One bad apple don’t
Spoil the whole bunch, girl
Oh, I don’t care what they say
I don’t care what you heard🪄
I could make you happy, baby
Satisfy you too (satisfy you now)
But how can I if you
Won’t give me a chance
To prove my love to you🪄
Won’t you just give me one
Little chance (one little chance now)
I’ll give you love’s guarantee
That you won’t be hurt again🪄
One bad apple don’t
Spoil the whole bunch, girl
Oh, give it one more try
Before you give up on love🪄
One bad apple don’t
Spoil the whole bunch, girl
Oh, I don’t care what they say
I don’t care what you heard now🪄
I’ve been noticing you, baby
For a long, long time
(Long, long time now)
I’m not ashamed to tell the world
That you really messed up my mind🪄
Girl, to me you’re like a
Dream come true
(Dream come true now)
I’d rather hurt myself
Than to ever hurt you🪄
One bad apple don’t
Spoil the whole bunch, girl
Oh, give it one more try
Before you give up on love🪄
One bad apple don’t
Spoil the whole bunch, girl
Oh, I don’t care what they say
I don’t care what you heard now🪄
One bad apple don’t
Spoil the whole bunch, girl
Oh, give it one more try
Before you give up on love🪄
One bad apple don’t
Spoil the whole bunch, girl
Oh, now, I don’t care what they say
I don’t care what you heard now

My Musical Life 8-27-26

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August 27th, 2026

#3 I Feel the Earth Move (Carole King) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
I feel the Earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you’re around🪄
Ooh, baby, when I see your face
Mellow as the month of May
Oh, darling, I can’t stand it
When you look at me that way🪄
Hey, I feel the Earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you’re around🪄
Ooh, darling, when you’re near me
And you tenderly call my name
I know that my emotions are something I just can’t tame
I just got to have you, baby
Uh, uh, uh
Uh, uh, uh, yeah🪄
I feel the Earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down
I feel the Earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down
I just a-lose control
Down to my very soul
I get-a hot and cold
All over, all over, all over, all over🪄
I feel the Earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down
I feel the Earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down
A-tumbling down, a-tumbling down
A-tumbling down, tumbling down