Clang Of The Yankee Reaper

Lyrics taken from the lyric sheet of the Japanese Warner Bros. Records album release # P-10092W. Authors as noted below. Publishers imprints on Rykodisc CD-release #RCD 10454 for the songs reprinted below: All songs published by Warner Bros Music Corp. except "Clang Of The Yankee Reaper" (T-IRA Music), "City On The Hill" (Jobette Music Co., Inc), You're A Real Sweetheart" (EMI Feist Catalog Inc./EMI Music).

This transcription includes corrections courteously supplied by Mr. Van Dyke Parks.

Clang Of The Yankee Reaper

(Kibbee, Lawrence and Parks)

The sun never set on the empire
Prince Albert came in a can
If you expire before you retire
And end up an "also-ran"
It's fine time to drink tea from China
Do drop a line
Let me know I am fine

Sun in the moonlight, in the moonlight
Gone, just like I said
The good old days are dead
(Better get it through your head)
As you harken to
The clang of The Yankee Reaper
It's like I said
The good old days are dead
As you harken to
The clang of the Yankee Reaper

Out in the rude wild abandon
The Shah of Iran bought the plan
Seen with the Queen he was all smiles
He just bailed out the British Isles
It's time to drink tea from fine china
Just think of him when your light
Starts to dim

Harken to the clang of the Yankee Reaper
The good old days are dead
As you harken to the clang ...

There'll Be No City On The Hill

(W.Monseque)

The ghetto's hungry people cry
Food is wasted on the hill
Hands stretched upwards to the sky
That hill seems high and higher still
Summer's gone and winter's near
The valley's restless, you can hear
Seems lest they batter, burn and kill
Till their hungry mouths are filled
There'll be no city on the hill

There might be time to change the course
Let's appoint a meeting place
Till hill and valley wears the cross
And cleanse each other of disgrace
This land's a model of the world
That's been a dream that's been ignored
But let's take haste and settle bills
Till their hungry mouths are filled
There'll be no city on the hill (Repeat and fade)

Pass That Stage

(S. Francisco)

We don't hesitate to try and create
And then perpatuate fictious impressions
Courteous words like "thank you, I'm sorry
Please and world you forgive me"
Which we once knew
Have now become a forgotten thing
Of the past

But "convict and condemn" in our minds
Our bosom pals, without a trial
But this wickedness, crookedness
Stupid and malicious gile is out of style
Can't people construct and try to engage
In something to alleviate this present shortage
Control the urge to damage
And as the people be less savage

In this day and age
Remember we pass that stage

We share disrespect and then we object
When people reject us and call us low class
Saturday night infideliy's a damn joke
We're cussing, we're whoring
We're smoking dope
Sunday morning we're holier than the pope

When we critisize we tend to dramatize
Thereby exercising ignorance and folly
Why can't we forget about the pride and scrimmage
Ignore the old talk and gossip in the village
Cease the damn wastage
And as the people be less savage

In this day and age
Remember we pass that stage

Another Dream

(The Sandpebbles)

You gave me a dream of love
Then you took it away
You melted my heart
The same way heat loves candle

Oh you really hurt my pride
When you took me for a ride
You left me with more grief
Than I can handle

Someone will bring another dream for me
Someone will bring another dream you see
A dream with hope for tomorrow
A dream to take away my sorrow
Someone will bring another dream for me

Oh you layed heaven at my feet
Then you took it away
Every morning I wake up
Hopin' you'll be there

Oh I want to scream and shout
Gotta let my feelings out
'Cause my blues keeps gettin' bluer
Day by day

Someone will bring another dream for me
Someone will bring another dream you see
A dream with hope for tomorrow
A dream to take away my sorrow
Someone will bring another dream for me

You gave me a dream of love
Then you took it away
You melted my heart
The same way heat loves candle

Oh I want to scream and shout
Gotta let my feelings out
'Cause my blues keeps gettin' bluer
Day by day

Someone will bring another dream for me
Someone will bring another dream you see
A dream with hope for tomorrow
A dream to take away my sorrow
Someone will bring another dream for me

You're A Real Sweetheart

(J. Nocentelli)

When my pals turned me down
You're the best pal I've found
You're a real sweet heart
When my darkest day came
You smiled just the same
You're a real sweet heart
But now that I find
Fate has been kind
I'll build you a love nest
That's all silver-lined
And I'll work and I'll slave
For the things that you crave
You're a real sweetheart

Love Is The Answer

(E.Williams)

I'll find a love sometime, someday
And when I do
I'm gonna love her all the way
I'm gonna love her more each day, yeah
I'll search everywhere I can think of
And someday I know I'll find a love

(Search) To wash my tears away
(Love) When I'm feelin' blue
(Search) To wipe my fears away
(Love) Love alone will do
Oh love is the answer
Love is a better life
If we people learn to love a little more
Everything will be all right
Love is the answer
Love is a better life
If we people learn to love a little more
Everything will be all right

From east to west time lingers on
Somewhere in the wilderness
There will come a happy morn
Life to me will be just born, yeah
When the rays of a golden dawn
Shine from above
Little birds will sing the song of love

From day to day I'll hope and pray
And somehow, someway
I will know the glory of
Having that someone to love, yeah
True happiness and peace of mind
And sometime, someday I'll find a love

If we people learn to love a little more
Everything will be all right
If we people learn to love a little more
Everything will be all right

Iron Man

(S.Cummings)

No lie, no lie
Last carnival I was beatin' iron
In an all star band
When I meet up a nice big young woman
And hse come and she tell me
That she want me to beat my iron for she
And she windin' up she body
If you hear she

Give me the eye, eye
Give me thy eye, eye
I tell she I am the man
And I am the champion
I come down from Iron Land
If you hear she
Give me the eye, eye
Give me the eye, eye
If you see me sittin' in the band
With an iron in my hand
Sock it to me, rock it to me, man

She tell me in the midst of a good jam session
I remend she of an iron man
That took I and tried
She said that is the man
And I'm kind of late for she
She'd be surprised

Give me the eye, eye
Give me they eye, eye
I tell she I am the man
And I am the champion
I come down from Iron Land
If you hear she
Give me the eye, eye
Give me the eye, eye
If you see me sittin' in the band
With an iron in my hand
Sock it to me, rock it to me, man
No lie, no lie
No lie, no lie
No lie, no lie
No lie, no lie

Downtown the woman get drunk and fall down
And she raise up her dress and she run
And she wind up in front of policeman
Sayin' how can you work
With a man beatin' pan
So she grab on to the same man

Give me the eye, eye
Give me theyeye, eye
I tell she I am the man
And I am the champion
I come down from Iron Land
If you hear she
Give me the eye, eye
Give me the eye, eye
If you see me sittin' in the band
With an iron in my hand
Sock it to me, rock it to me, man
No lie, no lie

Now is midnight, still beatin' I
And forget that woman
If you hear a tune in a steel band
Well now she gone crazy
She said how can you beat I
And still...
Hear she callin'

Give me the eye, eye
Give me they eye, eye
I tell she I am the man
And I am the champion
I come down from I ron Land
If you hear she
Give me the eye, eye
Give me the eye, eye
If you see me sittin' in the band
With an iron in my hand
Sock it to me, rock it to me, man

Tribute To Spree

(A. Roberts)

Steel band man, yes you beatin' pan
But my friend you won't understand
Has it ever dawned on you
Who invented pan
I ask you to join me
In offerin' tribute to this man

(oh no) Everybody wonderin'
How the steelband start
(Oh no) When you get to know
Well, it's gonna break your heart

I tell you now
It's founded by one Winston Spree
And this is how
He started his first melody

Bless the day in 1939
The genius say he recall to mind
Saw an ol' empty oil drum
Beatin' in the storm
Just before the sky darkened
You know it was the steel band was born

(oh no) Everybody wonderin'
How the steelband start
(Oh no) When you get to know
Well, it's gonna break your heart

I tell you now
It's founded by one Winston Spree
And this is how
He started his first melody

He went along beatin'blow by blow
He thought it sound like a piano
This really inspired him to a great extent
So he continued poundin'
Until he found this new instrument

(oh no) Everybody wonderin'
How the steelband start
(Oh no) When you get to know
Well, it's gonna break your heart

I tell you now
It's founded by one Winston Spree
And this is how
He started his first melody

Now the world waiting anxiously
We strike gold all because of Spree
But what are we doin' now to conserve his name
We should reimburse him
And have it placed in the hall of fame

(oh no) Everybody wonderin'
How the steelband start
(Oh no) When you get to know
Well, it's gonna break your heart

Soul Train

(A.Roberts)

This train is leavin'
Trip 'round the world
Before you join in
Be sure you have soul
Stop hesitating and get in the groove
The engine is reavin'
Be ready to move

Soul train, soul train
Coming down the track
Coming down the track
Soul train, soul train
Coming down the track
Coming down the track

Coming down the track
Coming down the track
Coming down the track
Coming down the track

Let's have some action
Come, form a line
Let's see a motion
In front and behind
Make sure your timing
Is under control
You have to be moving
With rhythm and soul

Soul train, soul train
Coming down the track
Coming down the track
Soul train, soul train
Coming down the track
Coming down the track

Cannon In D

(Pachelbel)

[Instrumental --- VDP on this song: 'It may be noted that Canon in D is in Ab, and is not a canon.
Nor is it by Pachelbel. It is a melody by Martin Luther "Ein Feste Berg Ist Unser Gott"....']