Smile

Getting Smile 1969

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WARNING:  This is nearly verbatim off the japanese lyric sheet (these

are known for being inaccurate).  I would not be at all surprised

to find that there are errors herein.





@SONG: Doin' Alright (Staffell/May)

 
Yesterday my life was in ruin

Now today I know what I'm doin'

Gotta feelin' I should be doin' alright

Doin' alright



Where will I be this time tommorow

Jumping with joy or sinking in sorrow

Anyway I should be doin' alright

Doin' alright



Should be waiting for the sun

Anyway I've got to hide

Going back to where the skies are blue

Going home to find the one





@SONG: Blag

 
Take away my sunshine

You take away my rain

I can see it in you eyes

There must be a dance floor somewhere

You can find a way

I can see it in your eye





@SONG: April Lady (S. Lukas)

 
She won our hearts the art she loved

Is painting pictures free

When she was done she hung them up

For all the children to see



Goodbye April Lady

It's been good to have you around

Goodbye April Lady

You've done alot for the folks in this town



Children learned to read

She strung their beads

It's sorry she was the one

As you can isn't she good

She don't leave nothing undone



repeat



She taught them all to love

She was their cream

And we don't want her to go

But we know too well

She fell in love

And there's no stopping her now





@SONG: Polar Bear

 
In the bright shop window sits the polar bear

Makes the children's eyes light up to see him there

Amongst the tinsel he gives everyone a smile

To see him and he'll be a star

Love him from where you are



He's not for, not for, not for sale



Past an open window walks the pretty girl

Does she see me at her feet its hard to tell

But if I ask her  she might turn her smile away

To see him and he'll be a star

Love her from where you are



I guess I'll learn to look

Without addressing her

Minor contentment wears a smile

I love her from where I lie





@SONG: Earth (Staffell)

 
I might be at a table

And suddenly I'll catch

A fleeting vision of her crystal seas

Or I might be standing in a crowded dockyard faraway

Beneath the sun I've never seen

'Cos I have seen many worlds

For what it's worth

But I'll never see again

The planet earth

My earth

I might be chasing waves of light

Out towards the grim

Where stars are sparse

And the cold of space seeps in

But I might be in a barroom

Drinking menthylated gin

And thinking of places I have been



Yes I have seen many worlds

For what it's worth

But I'll never see again the planet earth

My earth



Cast adrift amongst the stars

I float from sun to sun

Dreaming of the world that gave me birth

All the places I have been

Remind me there is none to match the green living hills of earth.





@SONG: Step On Me (Staffell/May)

 
Know what I said when I saw you crying 

Hang on that's folly

I was weak in the head out to meet your lying

You're just a bad memory

My life was going to be better

My why did I never ever see she'd step on me



Well I talked to your friend just the other day

I was gonna look and raise a smile

And she hid a smile and she ain't like you

Been asleep from all the journeys a little while



My life was going to be better

My why did I never ever see she step on me

Step on me, step on me, step on me



Now it's so good I won't waste my time

On a two year old picture of you

Oh now that you're gone everything's fine