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The Cowboy Life

By Don Edwards (1998)

On album The Best Of Don Edwards (1998)

The Best Of Don Edwards

The cowboy life is a dreary, dreary life Some say it's free from care Rounding up the cattle from morning till night In the middle of the

…with sleepy-feeling eyes As the short summer night passed away The cowboy life is a dreary, dreary life From dawn till the setting sun…

…us in our midnight dream When we layin' in our slickers on a cold, rainy night Way over on the Pecos stream The cowboy life is a dreary

The Pecos Stream

By Don Edwards (1997)

On album Saddle Songs (1997)

Saddle Songs

A cowboy life is a dreary dreary life Some say it's free from care Rounding up cattle from morning to night In the middle of the

…with sleepy feeling eyes The sweet dreamy night passed away The cowboy life is a dreary dreary life All out in the heat and the cold While the

…cowboy life is a dreary dreary life From dawn till setting sun And then his days work it is not done There's still his night guard to go on Now the wolves and the owls and the

Kansas City Hill

By Hannah May and the State Street Four (1936)

On album Just a Rank Stud / Kansas City Hill (1936)

Have you ever heard of the Kansas city hills Let me tell you 'bout it if you will You swing down…

…days are so dreary I'm 'bout to lose my mind I'm so lonely everything is so dead That's why by eight o'clock I'm in my bed Give…

…by my own Won't you come to see me sometime I'm so weary the days are so dreary I'm 'bout to lose my mind I'm so lonely everything is

The Day Off

By Stephen Sondheim (2006)

On album Sunday in the Park With George (The 2006 London Cast Recording) (2006)

Sunday in the Park With George (The 2006 London Cast Recording)

…puddle Where the poodle did the piddle [GEORGE] Taking the day on Sunday Now that the dreary week is dead Getting away…

…day on Sunday After another week is dead [OLD LADY] Nurse! [ENSEMBLE] Getting away on Sunday Brightens the dreary week ahead [OLD LADY] Nurse…

…! [ENSEMBLE] Leaving the city pressure Behind you Off where the air is fresher Where green, blue Blind you…

The Day Off

By 2017 Broadway Cast of Sunday in the Park with George (2017)

On album Sunday in the Park with George (2017 Broadway Cast Recording) (2017)

Sunday in the Park with George (2017 Broadway Cast Recording)

…[GEORGE] Taking the day on Sunday After the dreary week is dead Getting away on Sunday Brightens the dreary week ahead Everyone's…

…with your own Mothers may drone, mothers may whine Tending to his, though, is perfectly fine It pays for the nurse that is

…dead [OLD LADY, spoken] Nurse! [ALL] Getting away on Sunday Brightens the dreary week ahead [OLD LADY, spoken] Nurse! [ALL] Leaving the city

Modulate Back To The Tonic

By The Sound Of Animals Fighting (2005)

On album Tiger And The Duke (2007)

Tiger And The Duke

…there a way out, now? Brave friend horizon, bring me back to fourteen) There's a million ways out of the city I don't know one His way…

…as they rose and they spread, Black shadows began to dawn on them. The roar of the seas took prey, this is quite different now And above all, we'd lost the

…ankles (Is this exactly what you wished for?) I am through with it all My hand brings you back up on to dreary land, To form our end…

The Wanderer

By Anonymous (2008)

On album Netania Davrath Sings Russian, Israeli and Yiddish Folk Songs (2008)

Netania Davrath Sings Russian, Israeli and Yiddish Folk Songs

…heart, sare æfter swæsne. grievous (sare) with longing for (æfter) the lord. Sorg bið geniwad Sorrow is renewed þonne maga gemynd when the

…spirits of seafarers no þær fela bringeð never bring back there much cuðra cwidegiedda. in the way of known speech. Cearo bið geniwad Care is

…wulf one, the gray wolf deaðe gedælde, shared one with death, sumne dreorighleor one, the dreary-faced in eorðscræfe man buried…

Paris Is a Lonely Town (Variation)

By The Juju Orchestra (2003)

On album Gay Purr-ee O.S.T. (2003)

Gay Purr-ee O.S.T.

And Paris is only a lonely town Lonely, when love's a laugh and you're the clown Then Paris is only another town Dreary for the

…to gray, gray hues Sounds like wake up blues Paris is a lonely, dreary, oh so lonely town Where's that shining flower 'neath the

Eiffel Tower? Where's that fairy land of gold? Isn't it a pity that this magic city turned suddenly cold? The chimneys moan, the

Paris Is a Lonely Town (Demo)

By Harold Arlen (2003)

On album Gay Purr-ee O.S.T. (2003)

Gay Purr-ee O.S.T.

The glamour's gone The shades are down And Paris is only a lonely town Lonely When love's a laugh And you're the clown Then Paris is

Paris is a lonely Dreary Oh, so lonely town Where's that shining flower ‘neath the Eiffel Tower? Where's…

…that fairyland of gold? Isn't it a pity that this magic city turned suddenly cold? The chimneys moan The river cries Each glamorous bridge is

Paris Is A Lonely Town

By Judy Garland (1962)

On album Judy Goes Hollywood! Music From The Movies (Live) (2009), More Than A Memory... The Uncollected Judy Garland (1974)

Judy Goes Hollywood! Music From The Movies (Live)

The glamour's gone, The shades are down, And Paris is only a lonely town. Lonely When love's a laugh And you're the clown Then paris is

Paris is a lonely, dreary, oh so lonely town Where's that shining flower 'Neath the Eiffel tower? Where's that fairy land…

…of gold? Isn't it a pity that this magic city Turned suddenly cold? The chimneys moan The river cries Each glamorous bridge is

Olivia

By Matt Skiba (2012)

On album Babylon (2012)

Babylon

…at you sleepless its true For the last time tonight Think I'll be leaving now With Josephine into the light Sick of dreary town, City

…your gauze has been bled through Think I'll be leaving now With Josephine into the light Sick of dreary town, City

…light Sick of dreary town, City of endless night I'm leaving now I had my fill with killing time Tired of falling down, had it with this cruel and usual life…

Olivia

By Matt Skiba and the Sekrets (2012)

On album Babylon (2012)

Babylon

…at you sleepless its true For the last time tonight Think I'll be leaving now With Josephine into the light Sick of dreary town…

Olivia - your gauze has been bled through Think I'll be leaving now With Josephine into the light Sick of dreary town City

Olivia Think I'll be leaving now With Josephine into the light Sick of dreary town City of endless night I'm leaving now I had my fill with killing time Tired of falling down, had it with this cruel and usual life…

Robot City

By YTCracker

YTCracker

…[Random] Welcome to your guided tour of Robot City, the birthplace of complacency The weather is dreary, the system is ever Meet…

…& white golden color See Robot City in all of its wonder See the fearful fall in line To the mass's perception…

…of space and time See the copycats, massive rocks Your man YT Cracker think outside the box And Random, generate straight in tandem Robot City look…

Robot City

By Random (2007)

On album Mega Ran V.1.3 (2007), Random USB (2014)

Mega Ran V.1.3

…[Random] Welcome to your guided tour of Robot City, the birthplace of complacency The weather is dreary, the system is ever Meet…

…& white golden color See Robot City in all of its wonder See the fearful fall in line To the mass's perception…

…of space and time See the copycats, massive rocks Your man YT Cracker think outside the box And Random, generate straight in tandem Robot City look…

Scream Out Mellow

By Taj Weekes & Adowa (2013)

On album Pariah In Transit (2013), Hope & Doubt (2005), Hope & Doubt (2005) Pariah In Transit (2013)

Hope & Doubt

Lonesome in Babylon lonesome in babylon lonesome in babylon lonesome in babylon lonesome in babylon in a city of excess in the city

…light babel stand to fall encrusted city wall lonesome in babylon lonesome in babylon lonesome in babylon lonesome in babylon in a city of money for the

…city's fright child off center stage must pay for city rage lonesome in babylon lonesome…

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