The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103108   Message #2096226
Posted By: Joybell
07-Jul-07 - 04:18 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Other Side (Bill Dorsey)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE OTHER SIDE (Bill Dorsey/Tiny Tim)
Yes Joe, OK. The lyrics come from the album. We had to play it and get them that way. No sign of them anywhere else.

(mad laughter)
Oh!
(bass ostinato)
One eye is brown. The other is brown.
I am a fish. I swim around.
You say I'm lost. I disagree.
The map has changed, and with it, me.

Flying through the seaweed, what strange things I see below.
Cars are waiting, windshields wiping, nowhere left to go.

Ooh!
The icecaps are melting, oh, oh, oh, oh!
All the world is drowning, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
The icecaps are melting. The tide is rushing in.
All the world is drowning, to wash away the sin.

(instrumental break)

The seagull flies in search of land.
The children hide beneath the sand.
As golden toys come floating down.
I play the fish. I swim around.

Flying through the seaweed, what strange things I see below.
Cars are waiting, windshields wiping, nowhere left to go.

Ooh!
The icecaps are melting, oh, oh, oh, oh!
All the world is drowning, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
The icecaps are melting. The tide is rushing in.
All the world is drowning, to wash away the sin.

(spoken)
Now, everybody sing!
I tell you, my dear friends, oh, how wonderful it is, no matter wherever you are, we can all be happy singing, no matter if you're out there parked in that car along the highway, or whether you're at home, sitting by the radio, or whether you're having a meal, or whether you're by the TV set, let everyone sing about the melting icecaps, how they're coming down into the sea, and let us all have a swimming time,
as we sing....

(chorus with orchestra, fade out)

by Bill Dorsey
arr: Artie Butler

Wonderful aren't they. It's wild and very cheery-sounding. If you can get to hear it I recommend it.
Cheers, Joy