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Room For Everyone

We live close together in worlds apart
And need plenty of room inside our hearts.
We share the sky we share the sun.
Can’t we share the world with ev’ryone?

Sometime soon the time must come
When there’ll be room for ev’ryone
A place to walk and a place to run.
Got to be room for ev’ryone.

We’ve got diff’rent dreams with diff’rent names
But it seems our hearts still beat the same.
It’ll take some love it’ll take some trust
To make some room for all of us.

Sometime soon the time must come … etc.

Rippin’ Along

Got started in grammar school,
Saw Chuck Berry and I thought he was cool,
Right then it was plain to see
I was destined for the boogie.Rippin’ along with the music on,
You and me and the boogie, can’t go wrong.
Rippin’ along, rippin’ along with the boogie.On a bridge sat a salty dog,
And up come a sassy little groundhog,
Said the hog to the salty dog
There’s a dance down by the log, let’s boogie.

Rippin’ along … etc.

If it feels good, well, it’s rock-‘n-roll
And if it moves you it’s soul.
Where the two do meet,
You can’t control your feet with a boogie…

At the drive-in on a Saturday night
One sip and mm I thought I was tight.
Best girl right by my side,
I’m gonna take her for a Sunday drive and we’ll boogie.

Rippin’ along … etc.

Rhythm Of The World

VERSE
Walls are falling down,
The search goes on for freedom,
And no battle sound
Will drown the drums of peace.

CHORUS
Winter whispers good-bye,
Tears of hope are in our eyes.
Could this be the rhythm of the world?

VERSE
Doors have opened up
As hearts beat with compassion.
With a little luck
We’ll all be side by side.

CHORUS
Winter whispers good-bye … etc.

BRIDGE
Le-o-le-o-le-o-lo
Feel the rhythm

VERSE
Walls are falling down,
The search goes on for freedom,
And no battle sound
Will drown the drums of peace.

CHORUS
Winter whispers good-bye,
Tears of hope are in our eyes.
Could this be the rhythm of the world?
Oh, let this be the rhythm of the world.

Power With

CHORUS
Power with a sister a brother
is stronger than power over each other (2X)

VERSE
If you feel lonely and confused
There is a place where you can go to.
Reach deep within yourself and let the power show through

There’s a much easier road
that leads to a brighter tomorrow
Let your power take control

CHORUS

VERSE
We all need a little respect
not too much to ask not much to expect.
Nobody needs rejection a mask for protection.

Deep down we all want to know:
is there someone to turn to to show to ask a question
in good time there’s a chance we will find
We’re growin’ stronger and we’re getting’ closer

CHORUS

BRIDGE
Power can you feel it growing? It comes from knowing:
Power if we work with each other not against each other
You’re my sister my brother.

CHORUS

Pocket Full Of Dimes

Alright ladies and gentlemen, right now I’d like to take a moment to tell you
About a very important person in your family neighborhood.
Now, this person you get to know and love very well.
Without him, your Sunday mornings just wouldn’t be the same.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, the person who I am referring to happens to be your paper boy.
I wanna tell ya, I wanna tell ya’ ‘bout the paper boy.
My office hours start in the morning ‘bout five, I can’t be late.
Gotta be there when the printer’s truck drops the papers by the gate, yeah.
I got a lot of customers and responsibility, daily press from the editor’s desk
And I deliver it personally.

I’m the paper, paper boy.

Like Colonel Sanders’ recipe, I got a secret too:
I can wrap about twenty papers a minute, yeah, you know I do.
Hit the street, can’t stop to eat, I gotta make my route on time.
I got to keep on hustlin’ or I won’t make a dime.

I’m a poor boy, selling the daily news
I’m a rich, rich man.
Got a pocket full ‘a dimes,
Pocket full ‘a dimes.

Of all my business hazards, only one gives me a chill:
A St. Bernard on Cherry Street who I nickname Buffalo Bill.
They say that Bill is friendly and that he won’t hurt you none.
My head says play it cool but my feet tell me to run.

No, I don’t need no big fine car, got myself a better deal,
I run out the door with two on the floor – my Adidas foot-mobile.
I throw my papers with style and grace and believe me, that’s the truth.
If you don’t find it on your doorstep, try lookin’ on the roof.

I’m a poor boy … etc.

One Person (What Can I Do?)

VERSE
Someone once told me history’s always repeating.
Deep down I can’t believe that’s true.
‘cause I’m still young I’m dreaming and I’m learning
and I’m hoping I can’t stop hoping.

I saw a young girl feeding her little brother
Her last scrap of food on a far off roadside.
And I thought of the millions of others just like her but
What can I do what can I do?

PRE-CHORUS
Sometimes the faces overtake me
Emotions fall on me like rain.
You can’t stop time or hold back the tide and
You can’t move a mountain. Can anybody ever stop the pain?

CHORUS
Woah, what can I do?
I’m just one person … one person.
Woah, what can I do?
I’m just one person same as you.

VERSE
Could there be a time of peace an age of mercy
Beyond the promises that lie in the dust.
Beyond all the borders and lines that divide us
Could it be now? Find a way now.

PRE-CHORUS
How can we fix a world that’s broken
Pull together what’s been torn apart?
Someone has to make a stand so just look in the mirror
It starts inside a solitary heart.

CHORUS

BRIDGE
We’ve seen walls tumble down seen chains fall as freedom sings.
Because one person stood and answered the question:
What can I do? What can I do?”

CHORUS

Moon Rider

The painter tries to paint it the poet tries to say it
The philosopher tries to convey the meaning to your mind.
But here I am – a quarter million miles away
One human being – one human seeing it for the first time.

I can see the white of snow-capped mountains
The blues and turquoise of the oceans blend.
Australia and Asia coming round the corner
And I can’t tell where one country starts and the other one ends.

The sun is setting on the Pacific
They’re just getting up in Rome.
I don’t see the lights of my city
All I can see is home.

I saw the world without any borders
Without any fighting without any fear
So Captain give the order
We’re going to cross the next frontier.

I know this view won’t last forever
Soon I’ll be back to reality.
But isn’t it the way we perceive things
That makes them what they will be?

I see the world without any borders … etc.

Keep The Beat

VERSE
There’s a rhythm that is you, and a rhythm that is me
A progression and a tune, all connected to a beat
An orchestra that grows, everywhere the people go
Gotta keep the music going, ’til the rhythm’s overflowin’ 

PRE-CHORUS
There was a time when the rhythm in the world
Was a simple little beat that people would keep together
Just a simple beat, just a simple beat
Now everybody’s from a different culture
Living in a thousand corners of the world
Different corners of the world it’s time to get together now

CHORUS
It’s up to you and me, let’s keep the beat together
It works so naturally to keep the beat together, together

VERSE
There are many ways to rock it, when the melody is strong
Gotta keep it in the pocket it’s the power of the song
Gotta let your rhythm move you it’s what makes you who you are
If some rhythm’s unfamiliar, trust the beat that’s in your heart

PRE-CHORUS
There was a time when the people of the world
were closer to the beat they’d keep together to survive
they kept the beat together
now everybody’s got a different rhythm
So we gotta give ‘em room to wear their,
Gotta give ‘em room to wear their rhythmic pride

CHORUS

BRIDGE
Keep the beat, let’s keep the beat, keep the beat, gotta keep the beat

Instrumental Break

CHORUS

It Takes A Whole Village

Papa’s out in the field mama’s down by the well
Grandma’s away at the market with manioc to sell.
A neighbor is watching the children
they’re playing down by the path.
An old man comes along and tells them a story
Always makes them laugh and he says:
“When you go down by the river watch out for those crocodiles.”
You see in Africa the old saying goes:

It takes a whole village to raise a child. (4X)
Ina chukua kijiji kizima kum lea m’ toto

The world is a village now and it isn’t very large.
It’s a struggle for survival families working so hard.
And who is watching the children in front of the big TV
And helping them to understand everything they see?
Who is going to sit down with them and listen for awhile?
You see in Africa the old saying goes:

It takes a whole village … etc.

Leave ‘em a dream tell ‘em a tale
Teach ‘em to read and hammer a nail.
Uncles and aunts grandparents and teachers
Big sisters big brothers neighbors shopkeepers.

It takes a whole village … etc.

Home Foundation

VERSE
When we think of what it is that makes us who we are today,
We must stop and tell the story of the family.
Whether it was good or bad, maybe happy, maybe sad,
We are made of what we had in the family.
It’s the fundamental education that we all receive,
And the better we can make it, the better life can be.

CHORUS
So we must never give up on our home foundation.
Whatever it is, don’t stop givin’ it dedication.

VERSE
There’s a young man on the corner, makin’ deals.
His fam’ly are five other guys who vandalize and steal.
They just don’t see any other way to go,
No father figure to explain there is another road.

And the young girl who’s run away and walks the streets alone,
Never felt the love of fam’ly since the day that she was born.

CHORUS
No, we must never give up … etc.

BRIDGE
Oh, the little ones, bearing witness to ev’rything they see,
Imitate in detail what they will grow up to be.
We can teach them to love,
We can teach them to hate,
We can break the chain of madness someday.

VERSE
Oh, you might be a single parent, you might be a teenage mom,
You might live in suburbia, or maybe you don’t have a job.
But the backbone of the future is in the fam’ly log.
If there is no hope in family, then there is no hope at all.

CHORUS
Never give up … etc.