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Irish '60s Songbook page 6

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  I Need You
Recorded by Declan Ryan & The Regal Showband
1965 - Emerald 45MD1014 / Hurtin’ Inside
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If you should ever think of leaving me, don't let it go too far
The love of a lifetime, darling that's what you are,
And now that I've found you, I'll be counting on you
To love me forever, 'cause I need you, honest I do.

Every single day my love for you keeps growing more and more,
The lips of an angel never kissed me before,
And now that I've found you, I'll be counting on you
To love me forever, 'cause I need you, honest I do.

It took an awful lot of looking to find you
Oh what a time I've been through
But darling it's not very easy
Finding an angel like you

Two of us together hand in hand, we stand at heaven's door,
Together forever, I'll be yours ever more,
And now that I've found you, I'll be counting on you
To love me forever, 'cause I need you, honest I do.
I need you, honest I do.

(Originally recorded by Ricky Nelson)

 
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  Make Me An Island (Hammond & Hazelwood)
Recorded by Joe Dolan
1969 - Pye 7N17738 / If You Care A Little About Me
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Different eyes, different sighs, different girls every day
Different names, different games took my breath clean away;
But I'm changed, rearranged, I'm enlightened and how
you have caught me, you have taught me and I'm different now.
 
Take me and break me and close all your windows and doors,
Shut me off, cut me off, make me an island, I'm yours;
Take me away from the world, take me away from the girls,
Take me and break me and make me an island, I'm yours.
 
Running round, shifting ground, that's the life I have seen,
But I'm tired, uninspired and I've wiped my slate clean;
You are mine, I am yours if the Lord will allow,
You have caught me, you have taught me and I'm different now.

(This song reached No.1 in 14 different countries in 1969
and reached No.3 in the British charts)
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  Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow (Diamond)
Recorded by The Strangers
1967 - Pye 7N17274 / Mary, Mary
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Look out, here comes tomorrow,
That's when I'll have to choose.
How I wish I could borrow,
Someone else's shoes.
 
Mary, oh what a sweet girl,
Lips like strawberry pie.
Sandra, the long hair and pig tails,
Can't make up my mind.
 
I see all kinds of sorrow,
Wish I only loved one.
Look out, here comes tomorrow,
Oh how I wish tomorrow would never come
 
Told them both that I loved them,
Said it, and it was true.
But I can't have both of them
Don't know what to do.
 
I see all kinds of sorrow,
Wish I only loved one.
Look out, here comes tomorrow,
Oh how I wish tomorrow would never come

(Originally recorded by The Monkees)
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  It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Recorded by Brendan O'Brien & The Dixies
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There you go and baby here am I,
Well you left me here so I could sit and cry;
Golly gee what have you done to me,
Well I guess it doesn't matter anymore.
 
Do you remember baby last September,
How you held me tight each and every night;
Whoops a-daisy how you drove me crazy,
But I guess it doesn't matter any more.
 
There's no use in me a-cryin',
I've done everything and now I'm sick of trying,
I've thrown away my nights, wasted all my days over you.
 
Now you go your way baby and I'll go mine,
Now and forever 'till the end of time;
And I'll find somebody new and baby
We'll say we're through and you won't matter any more.

(Written by Paul Anka and originally recorded by Buddy Holly)
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  Take A Letter Maria (Greaves)
Recorded by Roly Daniels
1970 - CBS4748 / Run Diane
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Last night as I got home, about a half past ten
There was the woman I thought I knew in the arms of another man.
I kept my cool, I ain't no fool, let me tell you what happened then
I packed some clothes and I walked out and I ain't goin' back again.

So take a letter Maria, address it to my wife
Say I won't be coming home, gotta start a new life
Oh Take a letter Maria, address it to my wife
Send a copy to my lawyer, gotta start a new life.

You've been many things but most of all a good secretary to me
And it's time like this I feel, you've always been close to me
Was I wrong to work nights, to try to build a good life?
All work and no play has just cost me a wife.

So take a letter Maria....

When a man loves a woman, it's hard to understand
That she would find pleasure in the arms of another man;
I never really noticed, how sweet you are to me
It just so happens I'm free tonight, would you like to have dinner with me?

So take a letter Maria....
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