Lyrics
/ S /Smokie / The Montreux Album(1978)
1. The Girl Can't Help It 3.48 2. Power Of Love 1.56 3. No More Letters 3.30 4. Mexican Girl 4.00 5. You Took Me By Surprise 3.40 6. Oh Carol 3.42 7. Liverpool Docks 2.58 8. Petesey's Song 2.50 9. For A Few Dollars More 3.37 THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT --------------------------- (Norman/Spencer) Little Jenny came out of school Givin' boys the eye But the smile she gave to me, Was for some other guy - other guy. Took her do a movie show, A dollar - fifty treat, Went out to the car and came right back, Some guy was in my seat - ain't she sweet. Chorus: I can't help feeling this way Thinking it over it's crazy to stay. Well I know that it's got to be, The girl can't help it, She's in love with me Jenny, Jenny, wonder why, Kiss the boys and see me cry, Don't you know there'll come a day, All the boys will walk away - walk away. Chorus - repeat When I'm close to you at night, I just can't tell wrong from night, Jenny, Oh I love you so, I will never let you go - let you go. Chorus - repeat POWER OF LOVE ---------------- (Chinn/Chapman) When you can't sleep nights and you wonder why, Without a friend and you wanna die. Situation desperation, all you want is sympathy And sympathy is all you'll get, Enough - you ain't found nothing yet, Till you found the power of love. Your beauty ain't so hard to see, Your looks can make a fool of me, Your say the things I want to hear, And tell me it won't disappear But I won't know until I find if There is any truth behind, What you call the power of love. It takes you, it makes you and Sometimes it breaks you, It fills you and thrills you and Sometimes it kills you, But I've been looking so hard to find it, I ain't giving it any more time, There's nothing you can do about it You will never live without it, This is the power of love. NO MORE LETTERS ------------------- (Norman/Spencer) Gotta rubber stamp on my jumbo, Gotta rubber stamp on my brain, Gotta rubber stamp on my jumbo, Hey - got to get, I got to get, I got to get away. Ain't got no grease on my finger, Ain't got no dirt on my glove, Ain't got no grease on my finger, Hey - got to get, I got to get, I got to get away. Long time you say, No more letters No more letters No more letters No more letters No more letters Get away. Long legged man in the corner Watching the time pass away Long legged man in the corner Hey - got to get, I got to get, I got to get away. Long time you say, No more letters No more letters No more letters No more letters No more letters Oooh dirty dog on the night flight, Oooh dirty dog see the door, Oooh dirty dog on the night flight, Hey - got to get, I got to get, I got to get away. Oooh dirty dog don't give a damn If you're wrong or right, Oooh dirty dog sitting there looking At me all night, Oooh dirty dog, Oooh dirty dog. MEXICAN GIRL ------------------ (Norman/Spencer) Juanita came to me last night and She cried over and over, Ooh Daddy I love you you know and I think it's the moonlight She looked so fine well she looked alright And she moaned, Ooh Daddy move over oh baby you know What I like and I think It's the moonlight. Made in Mexico, schooled in France Ooh la lovin' she needed no teachin' Oh man I can say international Ways I believe in. Chorus: Mexican girl don't leave me alone, I gotta heart as big as a stone and I need you believe me to be Here and love me tonight. Mexican girl I want you to stay You know my heart is longing to Say that as long as live I will always Remember the one that I called my Mexican girl Her skin was soft as the velvet sky and Her hair it shone in the moonlight, And as the music did play well the Night turn today and I held her tight, Then she looked at me with her dark brown Eyes and she whispered hasta la vista Sounded so good so I kissed her. YOU TOOK ME BY SURPRISE ---------------------------- (Silson/Uttley) You took me by surprise, The things you said, you know I never realized That I was just another fool within your eyes, But now I know just what to do. So I'll be on my way The games you play are not the games I care to play, So keep your distance, I'll soon find another day, There's nothing I would rather do. Chorus: Oh woman ! When you hurt my pride it cut Me deep inside, Oh woman ! You led me to believe it was only me, Your sweet talkin' Oh woman ! Oh I wonder if you know all The pain you put me through, But how could I see what was in your eyes, With your lies and your alibis, Oh woman. You took me for a ride Looking back, you know I laugh, but then I cried, And now you see that slowly time has Changed the tide, So now the tables turned on you. Chorus: Oh woman ! When you hurt my pride it cut Me deep inside, Oh woman ! You led me to believe it was only me, Oh woman ! You really took me in with all Your sweet talkin' Oh woman ! Oh wonder if you knew all the Pain you put me through, And I'm still in love with you. OH CAROL -------------- (Chinn/Chapman) Well I was out cruisin', getting late and I was losin' When I saw you walking my way, So nonchalant, I bet you get what you want, But so do I and I ain't losing today. Well your hips were swinging and your Jeans were clinging. You were driving me out of my mind, On a hot afternoon when there's nothing to do, Your not the sort of thing a fellow should find, So I pulled on over, tossed your hair off Your shoulder, When you turned and you looked my way, Oh you would have died or you'd have Skinned me alive, If I'd have said what I wanted to say So being polite said what you doin' tonight You said just so happens I'm free You got all the right curves and all the Right words, and that's alright by me. Chorus: Oh Carol you got me eatin' my heart away You got me countin' my nights and days Oh I am floatin' on the milky way, Oh Carol nobody's done it before Oh baby you've opened the door, Oh Carol you can do it some more. Well if you're ready for this when We started to kiss, She said hold on a minute or two. Well naturally I know it couldn't be me, I said baby what's just troublin' you, She said I'm just sixteen if you know What I mean, So we sat and we talked for a while. And when we finally kissed you know she Didn't resist, And I must say she did it with style. Chorus. Well was out cruisin' getting late and I was losin' When I saw you walking my way. So nonchalant, I bet you get what you want, But so do I and I ain't losin' today. Chorus. LIVERPOOL DOCKS -------------------- (Norman/Spencer) Once knew a man who thought he Was another guy, he was living a lie He took a chance by roaming streets In the night, till he learned how to fight. He met trouble one night, another man with his wife. So he brought out his knife, didn't mean to Take his life, Now he's got to get away, hear him say. Chorus 1: I'm going down to the Liverpool Docks, Try to hitch a ride, ain't gonna break no rocks. And I never had a friend, I never needed one, I'm going down to the silvery sea, I'm gonna go some place where they won't find me. And maybe I can go where I won't ever Have to come back again. He took his time, lived his life alone, An' his thoughts were his own. He lived in a place he'd never heard of before, In block number four. Then one night at his door, he stood facing the law On the paper he saw, what they wanted him for. They're gonna take him back, and he said. Chorus 2: I'm going back to the Liverpool Docks, Gonna take a ride, gotta break some rocks. And I never had a friend, but I never needed one. Take a ride on the silvery sea, I'm gonna go some place where they Won't find me An' I don't wanna go 'cos I know that I'll never come back again. Chorus 1. PETESEY'S SONG 2.50 -------------------- (Norman/Spencer) Monday morning was a V.I.P. Tuesday night they didn't wanna know me, Wednesday night drank sour grapes, Must'a smoked hear on fifty starlights a-huh-huh. Friday wondered where Thursday went, Saturday failed to pay my rent, Sunday found me in the church to say, If you got a little heaven won't you Send it my way Chorus: Remember me, I'm Petesey, Feeling like sixty, more like thirty-five, Remember me, I'm Petesey, Feeling like sixty, more like thirty-five, Remember me. Took a trip way across the sea, Right though Holland and Germany, Played the rourist at Frankfurt zoo, The monkeys said "Who the hell are you ?" (Who the hell are you) Chorus. I was sailing along yes I was singing my song, Yes I was singing my song to you, He was sailing along yes he was singing his song, Yes he was singing his song to you, Remember me. Well I wouldn't say that I was overproud. But it seems to me I've gotta shout out loud, No-one ever seems to recognize me, I think I'll become one of the other three, (Oh no you won't) Chorus. FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE 3.37 --------------------------- (Chinn/Chapman) Rich girl she buys her dreams. It's a rich world behind the scenes. Green eyes they tell it all. The more she takes the harder they fall. She ain't easy and she ain't tough. She's had it good, but then she's had it rough. And I guess it don't come to much. Cos with everything she's got she's Never got enough. Chorus: So she'll cry just a little for a few dollars more, She'll lie just a little like she's done it before. She'll take it, she'll fake it for a few dollars more She'll show you her heart, then show you the door. You know she'll die just a little for a few dollars more. Even fly just a little like she's done it before She'll take it, she'll fake it for a few dollars more She'll show you her heart, then show you the door. Strange things can happen to you. When you've got so much and you've Got nothing to do. Oh Oh Oh what do you know How do you get there when There's nowhere to do. And so you wonder just what she'll do, She's never known love but then She's never known you. And it's too bad those sad green eyes Are so full of questions and so full of lies. Chorus.