Run For Cover

Maybe if i pray every night
You will come back to me
Maybe if i try every day
You'll come back to stay
Maybe...maybe maybe maybe

Oh, maybe if i hold your hand
You will understand
Maybe if i kiss your lips
I'll be at your command
Maybe...maybe maybe maybe


I prayed and prayed
To the lord
To send you back, my love
I found instead
You'd come to me
Only in my dreams


Maybe if i pray every night
You'll come back to me
Maybe if i try every day
You'll come back to stay
Maybe...maybe maybe maybe


Maybe if i pray every night
You will come back to me
Maybe if i try every day
You will come back to stay
Maybe...maybe maybe maybe

See how they run

Lady madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet
Who finds the money when you pay the rent
Did you think that money was heaven sent


Friday night arrives without a suitcase
Sunday morning creeping like a nun
Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlace
See how they run


Lady madonna, baby at your breast
Wonders how you manage to feed the rest


Tuesday afternoon is neverending
Wednesday morning papers didn't come
Thursday night your stockings needed mending
See how they run


Lady madonna, lying on the bed
Listen to the music playing in your head


See how they run


Lady madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet

My cherie amour, lovely as a summer day
My cherie amour, distant as the milky way
My cherie amour, pretty little one that i adore
You're the only girl my heart beats for
How i wish that you were mine

In a cafe, or sometimes on a crowded street
I'd be near to you, but you never notice me
My cherie amour, won't you tell me how could you ignore
That behind that little smile i wore
How i wish that you were mine


Maybe someday, you'll see my face among the crowd
Maybe someday, i'll share your little distant cloud
Oh cherie amour, pretty little one that i adore
You're the only one my heart beats for
How i wish that you were mine

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave
For the love that you need
Will never be found at home
And the answer you seek
Will never be found at home


Pushed around and kicked around
Always a lonely boy
You were the one
That they'd talk about around town
As they put you down
And as hard as they would try
They'd hurt to make you cry
But you'd never cry to them
Just to your soul
No you'd never cry to them
Just to your soul


Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

If she walks by the men all stand engrossed
She can't help it, the girl can't help it
If she winks an eye bread slices turn to toast
She can't help it, the girl can't help it
Yes, she's got a lot of what they call the most
She can't help it, the girl can't help it

The girl can't help it if she was born to please
And if she's got a figure made to squeeze
Oh won't you kindly be aware
The girl can't help it


She mesmerizes every mother's son
She can't help it, the girl can't help it
And if she smiles their steak becomes well done
She can't help it, the girl can't help it
She makes grampa feel like twenty-one
She can't help it, the girl can't help it


The girl can't help it if she was born to please
She can't help it, the girl can't help it
And if i go to her on bended knees
She can't help it, the girl can't help it
Oh won't you kindly be aware that i can't help it
Just can't help it
Cause oh, i'm hopin' obviously
That someday the answer will be
The girl can't help it if she's in love with me


She walks by the men all stand in rows
Yes she winks an eye ...
Yes she's got a lot of what they call the most


Well, the girl can't help it if she was born to please
And if she's got a figure made to squeeze
Cause oh i'm hopin' obviously
That someday the answer will be
The girl can't help it if she's in love with me

I crashed in the jungle while trying to keep a date
With my little girl who was back in the states
I was stranded in the jungle, afraid, alone
Trying to figure a way to get a message back home
But how was i to know that the wreckage of my plane
Had been picked up and spotted and my girl in lover's lane

Meanwhile, back in the states


Baby, baby, let's make romance
You know your old-time lover hasn't got a chance
He's stranded in the jungle, sad as he can be
So come on pretty baby, just you and me


Meanwhile, back in the jungle


The boys in the jungle had me on the run
When something heavy hit me like an atomic bomb
When i woke up and my head started to clear
I had a strange feeling i was cooking gear
I smelled something cooking and i looked to see
That's when i found out they was cookin' me
Ooga booga, lemme outta here!


Meanwhile, back in the states


Baby, baby, let's make romance
You know your old-time lover hasn't got a chance
He's stranded in the jungle sad as he can be
So come on pretty baby just you and me


Meanwhile, back in the jungle


I jumped out of the pot, i finally got away
I was frantic, worried about what my baby would say
So i jumped in the ocean and started to swim
My chance of surviving was gettin' slim
So i thumbed down a whale that was headed my way
And i reached the states in about half a day
When i got to lover's lane i was almost dead
Heard him talkin' to my baby, and this is what he said


Baby, baby, the man's no good
Baby, baby, should have understood
You can trust me just as long as you please
So come back pretty baby where you used to be
Cause i love you (i love you, i love you, you're fine baby)
Cause i love you (so damn fine)
Cause i love you (i got a job; i have money too)
Cause i love you (did i show you my vehicle)
Cause i love you (i'll take you for a ride)
Cause i love you