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Irish '60s Songbook page 8

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  Morning Papers And Margarine
Recorded by Derrick & The Sounds
1969 - Target 7N17801 / Winter Of Your Love
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I pass that way every day,
I see you there at the corner shop.
You look at me, but you don’t see
You are too busy to even notice.
 
I’d like to chat about this and that
But when I walk in the corner shop,
There’s always a queue, oh what can I do,
You’re always too busy selling
 
Morning papers and margarine
I’ve spent all of my money,
I guess I’ll buy one more magazine,
But when is it all gonna stop?
I love you but forget that corner shop.
 
I’ve got a house, a neat little house,
It’s full of the things from your corner shop,
I’ve got some socks, still in the box,
I just don’t need them so why unwrap them?
 
I’ve got enough, with all of the stuff
To start off my own little corner shop,
But I delay and hope that one day,
You won’t be too busy selling
 
Morning papers and….
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  Love And The Country
Recorded by Shea Cribben & The Riviera
1967 - Target 7N17419 / The Girl Next Door
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I wake in the morn’, and just after dawn,
I look through my window and see
The sun in the sky, the birds how they fly,
The country’s where I love to be.
 
I walk down the lane to the blackbird’s refrain,
My heart is as light as a feather,
The soft-running stream, the fish how they dream,
Love the country in all kinds of weather.
 
When the sun goes down and there’s no one around
I see my sweet, sweet lovin’ baby,
We’ll sit ‘neath the trees, alone in the breeze,
I’ll ask her if she would maybe
 
One day come with me, where we would be free
To live and to love forever,
All peaches and cream, we’ll live in a dream,
The country’s where I love to be.
 
Oh to be in the country,
Love to be, the country’s where I love to be.
 
Repeat from “When the sun goes down….”
 
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  Mendocino (Doug Sahm)
Recorded by Doc Carroll & The Royal Blues
1969- Pye 7N17732 / Hi Lee Hi Lo
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Teeny-bopper, my teenage lover,
I caught your waves last night, it set my mind a-wandering,
You’re such a groove, please don’t move,
Please stay in my love-house by the river.
 
Fast-talking guys with strange red eyes
Have put things in your mind and set your mind a-wandering,
I love you so, please don’t go,
Please stay here with me in Mendocino.
 
Mendocino, Mendocino,
Where life’s such a groove you blow your mind in the morning,
We used to walk through the park,
Make love along the way in Mendocino.
 
Like I told you, can you dig it?
If you wanna groove I’ll be glad to have you;
I love you so, please don’t go,
Please stay here with me in Mendocino.

(Originally recorded by Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet)
 
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  My Heartaches Got Heartaches
Recorded by the Jack Ruane Showband
1966 - Pye 7N17045 / Wow, Wow, Wow
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You went away and you broke my heart in two,
And before this heart of mine got over you
You came back and said that this time you’d be true,
But I’m worse off than before
‘Cause now you’ve gone once more
 
Now my heartaches got heartaches
My teardrops got tears
And my blues are getting bluer all the time;
And my heartaches got heartaches
My teardrops got tears,
And my troubles are troubled,
My problems are doubled,
Baby since you’re no longer mine.
 
Oh just some ordinary heartache’s bad enough,
But to have to live with two gets mighty rough,
If you stayed away I’d be much better off,
But you came back and then
You broke my heart again.
 
Now my heartaches got……
 
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  I've Just Seen a Face (Lennon / McCartney)
Recorded by The Cotton Mill Boys
1977 - Hawk HASP407 / Heathery Breezes
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I've just seen a face,
I can't forget the time or place
Where we just met;
She's just the girl for me
And I want all the world to see
We've met, mmm-mmm-mmm-m'mmm-mmm.

Had it been another day
I might have looked the other way
And I'd have never been aware
But as it is I'll dream of her
Tonight, di-di-di-di'n'di.

Falling, yes I am falling,
And she keeps calling
Me back again.

I have never known the like of this,
I've been alone and I have missed things
And kept out of sight
But other girls were never quite
Like this, da-da-n'da-da'n'da.

Falling, yes I am falling,
And she keeps calling
Me back again.

Falling, yes I am falling,
And she keeps calling
Me back again.

(Originally recorded by The Beatles on the album 'Help!' - 1965)
 
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