A Family Thing Lyrics





Flower Bar

We Can Fly | Consider Yourself
A Doodlin' Song | Indian Lake
Happiness | In Need Of A Friend
Old Soft Shoe| Sweet Adeline
You Are My Sunshine | Zip-a-dee-doo-dah | Leonard Nimoy
Old Time Melody | What The World Needs Now Is Love<

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We Can Fly
(Artie Kornfeld, Steve Duboff, Bill Cowsill)
Lead Singer: Bill

See how the fluffy clouds move by us,
(See how the clouds move by)
See how the morning mist can hide us away,
(hide us away)
And how the day is so much fun.

Isn't it groovy in a daydream,
(Dreaming today),
Doesn't the day seem like it could never end,
(could never end)
And so my friend, we're one.

Baby, it's funny, how I can feel so sunny,
When you're beside me,
We Can Fly.

Oh We Can Fly.
Hey, Mister Wind, just keep us sailing,
(Oooh keep us sailing along).
High in the sky there's no curtailing our fun,
(yes we'll have fun)
So ev'ryone come on. Hey you on the ground,
(you on the ground)
Take a look up and see what we're found
(see what we've found).

Nothing to tie us, bluebirds come up to guide us,
When you're beside me,
We Can Fly.

Oh We Can Fly.
We Can Fly,
Hey everyone on the ground, let's fly.

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Consider Yourself
from the musical Oliver
(Lionel Bart)
Lead Singer: All

Consider yourself at home.
Consider yourself one of the family.
They've taken to you so strong.
I'm sure you're going to get along.

Consider yourself well in
Consider yourself part to the furniture.
There isn't a lot to spare.
Who cares?..What ever we got we share!

If it should chance to be
We should see
Some harder days
Empty larder days
Why grouse?

Always a-chance we'll meet
Somebody to foot the bill
Then the drinks are on the house!

Consider yourself our mate.
We don't want to have no fuss,
For after some consideration, we can state...
Consider yourself
(Barry) ONE
(Barbara)TWO
(Paul)THREE
(Bob)FOUR
(John)FIVE
(Bill)SIX
(Susan)SEVEN
One of us!

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A Doodlin' Song
(Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh )
Lead Singer: All Individual: Barbara and Susan

Do do-de-oo do-de-oo do-de-oo-de-oo
Do do-de-oo do-de-oo do-de-oo-de-oo
Do do-de-oo do-de-oo do-de-oo-de-oo
Why don't you join the group?
It's better than being a party-poop
Obbligato, pizzicato
Guy Lombardo, it's the craziest
When you noodle with a doodlin' song
Two, three, four
My family will doodly doo do it some more
Little softer, Perry Como
Even softer, pianissimo
Love your brother with a doodlin' song
B, C, D
A doodle-de-do in the family tree.

Say you love me, really love me
Say you love me true
Say you love me, please believe me
When you do, that makes two who
Go together, bet your boodle
Like the apples in a strudel do
When you noodle with a doodlin' song
All through, thank you.

Just a noodle with a doodlin' song.

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Indian Lake
(Tony Romeo)
Lead Singer: Bill

You take a bus marked Lakewood Drive,
And you keep on ridin' 'til you're out of the city.
Where the air is fine with the sweet smellin' pine,
And the countryside's pretty.
And you see daffodils, peepin' over the hills,
Or a honey lovin' mama bear.
Just take a left at the bridge, (left of the bridge)
Go down to Quakertown Ridge, (go to the ridge now)
And in a minute you're there. (in a minute you're there)

Let's go to-

Indian Lake is a scene you should make with your little one.
Just keep it in mind if you're lookin' to find,
A place in the summer sun.
Swim in the cove, (swim in a cove)
Have a snack in the grove or you can rent a canoe (you can rent a
canoe). At Indian Lake you'll be able to make the way the Indians do.

Let's go ah -

Indian Lake is a scene you should make with your little one.
Keep it in mind if you're lookin' to find,
A place in the summer sun.
Swim in the cove, (swim in a cove)
Have a snack in the grove or you can rent a canoe. (you can rent a canoe)
At Indian Lake you'll be able to make the way the Indians do.

Indian Lake is a scene you should make with your little one

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Happiness
from the musical You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
(Clark Gesner)
Lead Singer: Susan, Barry and John

Happiness is two kinds of ice cream,
Finding your skate key,
Telling the time.

Happiness is learning to whistle,
Tying a shoe
For the very first time.

And happiness is playing the drum,
In your own school band.
And happiness is walking hand in hand.

Happiness is five different crayons,
Knowing a secret,
Climbing a tree.

Happiness is finding a nickel,
Catching a firefly,
Setting him free.

And happiness is being alone every now and then.
And happiness is those who sing with you.

Happiness is morning and evening,
Daytime and nighttime too.
Happiness is anyone and anything at all
That's loved by you.

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In Need Of A Friend
(Bob Cowsill, Bill Cowsill)
Lead Singer: Bill

You say you know somebody,
Someone who feels down when you're feeling sad,
Who's up when you're glad.

(pause)

I think I know somebody,
Someone who feels just the way that you do,
He reminds me of you.

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Old Soft Shoe
(Nancy Hamilton and Morgan Lewis)
Lead Singer: Susan and Buddy Ebsen

When Me and my Alice were playing the palace in '25,
There never was a word of ,
We never had heard this thing called jive
We got the change to go into a dance
There was just one dance alive.
We gave them the old soft shoe.

Dances come, dances go like the changes of the moon.
For that is always short and sweet.
But you could still stop the show with a lazy, dazy tune and,
The easy pitter patter of your feet.

We gave them the old soft shoe
Yes Sir,
We gave them the old
Not the new again
Soft
Just the two again
Shoe.

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Sweet Adeline
(Harry Armstrong and Richard H. Gerard)
Lead Singer: The Boys


Sweet Adeline, my Adeline
At night, dear heart,
My lovely Adeline

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You Are My Sunshine
(Jimmie Davis)
Lead Singer: The boys

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey
You'll never know how much I, just how much I love you
You can't take my sunshine away

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Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
from the musical Song of the South
(Allie Wrubel, Ray Gilbert )
Lead Singer: The boys

Zip, Zip, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Zip, Zip, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay,
What a wonderful feeling,
What a beautiful day,
Everything is coming up shunshine.
Is what I say
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay,
Zip, Zip, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Zip, Zip, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah

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Leonard Nimoy
(???)
Lead Singer: The boys

Leonard Nimoy, Leonard Nimoy,
We love you, We love you
Saw you in the movies
Gee your ears are groovey
Your records are too
Your records are too
Your records are too
Your records are too
Your records are too
Your records are too

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Old Time Melody
(???)
Lead Singer: The boys

Rockabye baby with that Old Time Melody
Sing it low, just as low as you're singing out for me
(Singing out for me)
???
With a rock & roll of Swanne River
Rockabye your rockabye baby with an Old Time Melody
Old Time Melo, Old Time Melo, Old Time Melody

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What The World Needs Now Is Love
(Burt Bacharach)
Lead Singer: All - solo Bill

Lord, we don't need another mountain,
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross,
Enough to last till the end of time.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.

Lord, we don't need another meadow
There are cornfields and wheat fields enough to grow
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
Oh listen, Lord, if you want to know.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
No, not just for some but for everyone.
No, not just for some but for everyone.

What the World Needs now is love.

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