Lyr Req: song that means 'let's be friends'

Subject: Need help to say right words with a song
From: GUEST,D.D. (aka M.S.)
Date: 03 Mar 03 - 05:51 PM

I need a song that has a specific meaning or some lines in it that express the feeling that we should be friends now to make things easier but maybe later more will arise. Obviously it doesn't have to be exactly that but anyting close. Thanks

Subject: RE: Need help to say right words with a song
From: mg
Date: 03 Mar 03 - 10:58 PM

I don't know the words..but "you've got a friend.." James Taylor?

Subject: RE: Need help to say right words with a song
From: GUEST,Gene
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 12:22 AM

You're A Real Good Friend...E.T. & Red Foley

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'You're A Real Good Friend' - Red Foley and Ernest Tubb (RQ-5)

Subject: RE: Need help to say right words with a song
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 03:19 AM

"My Best Friend" on the Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow" LP ??

Subject: Lyr Add: GETTING TO KNOW YOU (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 09:20 AM

How about Getting To Know You ?

Music by: Richard Rogers
Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein II

Getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you,
Getting to hope you like me.

Getting to know you,
Putting it my way but nicely.
You are precisely,
My cup of tea.

Getting to know you,
Getting to feel free and easy.
When I am with you,
Getting to know what to say.
Haven't you noticed,
Suddenly I 'm bright and breezy,
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by day.

I remember James Taylor doing a nice version of this on a childrens' charity album.

BJ

Subject: RE: Need help to say right words with a song
From: michaelr
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 08:49 PM

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong
So I'll have to say I love you in a song
(Jim Croce)

Subject: Lyr Add: LET'S BE FRIENDS (Mark Cohen)
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 12:36 AM

Well, here's one that doesn't have a tune yet...it's supposed to be in a bouncy, syncopated, 1940s swing style. (The model was Steve Allen's "This Could Be the Start of Something".) If you can make a tune for it, let me know!

Aloha,
Mark


LET'S BE FRIENDS
(c)2002 Mark Cohen

I slept all night the day that I met you
Didn't see the world through a rose-colored lens
When I looked into your eyes
I didn't get hypnotized
What do you say? Let's be friends

I don't want to fly so high I'll never be landing
I don't want to dive so deep I come up with the bends
I'll keep my feet on the ground
But I'm happy that you're around
What do you say? Let's be friends

(bridge)
I know we've both been in love before
We've had our share of joy and of pain
We don't want to find ourselves on the wrong track
So let's not rush onto the train

I know the book of love has plenty of heartaches
Nobody knows just how the next chapter ends
Let's open a different book
Let's keep ourselves off the hook
What do you say? Let's be friends


(There's also Lean On Me by Bill Withers.)

Subject: RE: Need help to say right words with a song
From: Mudlark
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 12:59 AM

Very nice, Mark!