Help with The Shaggs lyrics
Steve
I've been killing time recently by transcribing the lyrics to the first
album of The Shaggs 'Philosophy of the World' (1969). If you've ever
heard this album, you know the devotion (or horror) it can inspire in
people.
Anyway, I'm stuck on a few lines in three of the songs; My Companion,
It's Halloween and We Have A Saviour. If anyone can fill in the gaps
below, I'd be most grateful. I'll deposit the lyrics in www.lyrics.ch
and a Shaggs webpage when they're complete.
Many thanks
Steve
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5.My Companion
My companion is with me
Wherever I go, it goes too
My companion is with me
No matter what I do
When I ride my horse
I take my companion too, of course
When I go to the beach and run in the sand
I have my companion close at hand
My companion is with me when I drive my car
Even when I go real far
No matter where I am or what I do
My companion is always there too
When I walk my pets
No one dare *** (?)
I take my companion
It never has passed (?)
My companion is with me wherever I go
Even when I go to a show
My companion is, of course
My radio
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9.It's Halloween
It's Halloween
It's Halloween
It's time for scares
It's time for screams
It's Halloween
It's Halloween
The ghosts will spook
The spooks will scare
Why, even Dracula will be there
It's time for games
It's time for fun
Not for just one
But for everyone
The jack-o-lanterns are all lit up
All the dummies are made and stuffed
By just looking you will see
It's this time of year again
It's Halloween
It's Halloween
All the kids are happy and gay
There doesn't seem to be a cloud in their way
But when it's over and they've had all their fun
They'll wish that Halloween had just begun
Oh, there are witches, goblins, ***, ***, Frankensteins and zombies (?)
And there are tramps, Cinderallas, pirates, angels and gypsies
So let's have lots of fun and give many cheers
For Halloween comes but once a year
It's time for games
It's time for fun
Not for just one
But for everyone
It's Halloween
It's Halloween
It's Halloween
It's Halloween
It's Halloween!
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12.We Have a Saviour
Why does the world go unholy (?)
Why does everyone fight more and more
Don't they know we have a saviour
All we have to do is believe and pray
Why must we go unheathen (?)
Why does anyone have to run (?)
Don't they know we have a saviour
That's what God told us guys (?)
I often sit and wonder
Why people do the things they do
And I can't understand, no I can't understand
Why they don't have faith in the Lord, like I do
Why do the people go on killing
Why do they feel sad and blue
Don't they know we have a saviour
Just watching over me and you
I often sit and wonder
Why people do the things they do
And I can't understand, no I can't understand
Why they don't have faith in the Lord, like I do
Why do the people go on killing
Why do they feel sad and blue
Don't they know we have a saviour
Just watching over me and you
Don't they know we have a saviour
All we have to do is believe and pray