Playlist Sam Cooke

sam cooke - a change is gonna come

I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh and just like the river I've been running ever since
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die
Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

I go to the movie and I go downtown
Somebody keep telling me don't hang around
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

Then I go to my brother
And I say brother help me please
But he winds up knockin' me
Back down on my knees

There been times that I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

sam cooke - a whole lotta woman

I've got a rocking chair that rocks
a rubber ball that rolls
I need a whole lot of woman
to satisfy my soul
it takes a lot woman yeah
to satisfy my soul

you know a boy needs a girl
she needs a ring that's made of gold
but I need a whole lot of woman, yeah
to satisfy my soul
it takes a lot woman
to satisfy my soul

I don't need no woman
I don't need her cause she's fine
I need a girl
a sweet little thing
to love me all of the time
you know fire makes me a hot
and ice keep 'em cold
but I need a whole lot of woman
to satisfy my soul
it takes a lot woman
to satisfy my soul

sam cooke - accentuate the positive

You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmitive
But don't mess with mister inbetween

You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minumum
Have faith, a pandemonium
Libel to walk up on the scene

To illustrate my last remark
Jonah in the Whale, Noah in the arc
What did they do
just when everything looked so dark

They said we better
Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affimitive
But don't mess with mister inbetween

To illustrate my last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the arc
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark
Don't mess, don't mess, don't mess
With mister inbetween

sam cooke - all of my life

All of my life, yes all of my life
I've waited, waited, waited for you
I dreamed and dreamed and thought and schemed
For someone, someone, someone like you

Now that you're here, please my dear
don't ever, ever, ever go

All of my life, yes all of my life
I've dreamed and longed for you so

Once a voice whispered inside me:
Wait for someone who's true
Don't love another for love is forever
and no one else will do

Now that you're here, I'm happy my dear
I've waited, waited, waited, waited for you
All of my life, yes all of my life
I've dreamed and dreamed of you

I've waited for you all of my life

sam cooke - all the way

when somebody loves you
its no good unless he loves you
all the way
happy to be near you
when you need someone to cheer you
all the way
taller than the tallest tree is
know thats how it s gotta feel
deeper than the deep blue see is
that how deep it goes if it is real, baby

when somebody needs you its no good
unless he needs you
all the way
through all the good and lean years
and all the inbetween years
come what may
how knows where the road will lead us
and only a fool would say
but if you let me love you
its for sure I am gonna love you
all the way
all the way

who knows where the road will lead us
only a fool would say

but if you let me love you
its for sure I am gonna love you
all the way

sam cooke - almost in your arms

You're here, that moment's near,
I'm almost in your arms
Tonight, the mood is right,
I'm almost in your arms

One sigh, one word
and I will rush to your embrace
Say that certain word,
sigh that certain sigh
And with all my heart,
to your arms I'll fly
It's strange, how we are changed
by things that seem so small
One look can write a book,
one touch can say it all

We know those nights alone,
and now we found our way
I'm almost in your arms,
nearly in your arms to stay

{repeat first and last verse)

sam cooke - along the navajo trail

Every day a lullabout evening
When the sunlights beginning to fail
I ride through the slumbering shadows
Along the Navajo Trail

When it's nigth and crickets are calling
And coyotes are making a wail
I dream by a smouldering fire
Along the Navajo Trail

{part 3}
When the wind is strumming a sage-brushed guitar
And over yonder hill the moon is climbing
It always finds me whistling on a star
What do you know it's morning already
There's the dawning, so silver and pale
It's time to climb in my saddle
I want to ride the Navajo Trail

I love the lie and listen to all the music
{repeat part 3}
I want to ride the Navajo Trail

with fellows like Maverick and Cheyenne,
the indians and their bow and arrows
the boys and guns and love to travel
along the Navajo Trail

sam cooke - amazing grace

Amazing grace how sweet it sounds (Hmmmm)
Amazing grace how sweet it sounds (Hmmmm)
Amazing grace how sweet it sounds (Hmmm)
saved a wretch like me

(I once was lost but now I'm found)
I once was lost but now I'm found (Yes I was)
I once was lost but now I'm found (I once was lost lost)
I once was lost but now I'm found (I once, yes I was)
-I was blind but now I see-

(Too many dangers, toil and snares)
Too many dangers, toil and snares (too many dangers)
Too many dangers, toil and snares (Lord.. I can overhear ?)
Too many dangers, toil and snares (yes I did)
(Lord you know)
I've already come

(It was Grace that brought me safe thus far)
T'was Grace that brought me safe thus far (oh yes it was)
(when I did not have a God on my side)
T'was Grace that brought me safe thus far (sometimes freed? to talk about it)
T'was Grace that brought me safe thus far (yeah, Lord
and Grace will lead me home
(One more thing I want to say)
(One day I came to Jesus)

(One day I came to Jesus as I walked)
I came to Jesus as I walked (sometimes I cried all night long)
I came to Jesus as I walked
(but I stayed on my knees, I said father I want you to help me)
I came to Jesus as I walked
(because all my friends are gone)
I came to Jesus as I walked (yeah)
???

(Let me tell you)
(as I stayed on my knees)
I found in him a resting place (yes I did)
I found in him a resting place (I stay here right down on my knee children
I found in him a resting place
(I said Lord if you see me)
I found in him a resting place
(ooh Lord)
he has ???

(let me tell you one more thing)
(I told him father I stretch my hand to thee)
My Lord I stretch my hand to thee
(I don't know nobody else to go to ya)
My Lord I stretch my hand to thee
(sometimes when I walk the floor all night long)
My Lord I stretch my hand to thee
(oooh)
Lord Where can I go.

(But I told him these words)
(I said Lord if I was yours)
????
(sometimes I still awake in the midniight hour)
(yes sir where shall I go)
Where shall I go

(one more thing I'm gonna tell you)

Amazing grace how sweet it sounds
(it sounds so good to me)
Amazing grace how sweet it sounds
(when I sing this song I cry sometimes)
Amazing grace how sweet it sounds
(yes sir, and I used to hear my momma say these same words)
Amazing grace how sweet it sounds
(she said ooh, Lord)
save a wretch like me

(but what I like to hear you say, and she said)
(Lord I once was lost but now I'm found)
I once was lost but now I'm found
(yes I was)
(just walked the floor all night long
I once was lost but now I'm found
(sometime I would see her when she sit in her old rocking chair
and she said Lord have mercy)
I once was lost but now I'm found

sam cooke - another saturday night

Another Saturday nigt and I ain't got nobody
I have some money 'cause i just got paid
How I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in awful mess

I blew in town 1 week ago, I ain't seen a lotta girls sincethen
If I could find'em I could get'em but as yet I have'nt met'em
That's why I'm in the shape I'm in ohhhh

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I have some money 'cause I just got paid
How I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in awful mess

Another fella told me he had a sister that looked so fine
Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strong resemblance
to a cat named Frankenstein ohhhh....

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I have some money 'cause I just got paid
How I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in awful mess

It's hard for a fella, when he don't know his way around
If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money
I'm gonna have to blow this town ohhh....

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I have some money 'cause I just got paid
How I wish I had someone to talk to
Im in awful mess

sam cooke - any day now

One of these mornings
I'm a-going away
Any day now
I'm going to heaven to stay

I don't know how soon
maybe morning, night or noon
but I'm going to see the father
and by his side to stand

there'll be no sorrow no sadness
just only complete gladness
but any day
I know that I am going gome

that I'll shout hallelujah
and give praises to his name (?)
but any day
I know that I am going home

sam cooke - arriverdeci roma

Arrivederci Roma,
Goodbye, goodbye to Rome

City of a million moonlit places
City of a million warm embraces
Where I found the one of all the faces
Far from home

Arrivederci Roma
It's time for us to part

Save the wedding bells for my returning
Keep my lover's arms outstretched and yearning
Please be sure the flame of love keeps burning in her heart

City of a million moonlit places
City of a million warm embraces
Where I found the one of all the faces
Far from home

Arrivederci Roma
It's time for us to part

Save the wedding bells for my returning
Keep my lover's arms outstretched and yearning
Please be sure the flame of love keeps burning in her heart

Arrivederci roma,
Roma, roma, roma

sam cooke - baby won t you please come home

Baby won't you please come home
cause your bed is alone
I have tried so hard in vain
Nevermore to call your name.
When you left, you broke my heart,
oh darling why do have to part.
Every hour in the day you can hear me say,
Baby, won't you please come home?

I mean, baby, won't you please come home?
cause your dad is so alone
I tried so hard in vain
nevernomore to call you name
now when you left me you just broke my heart
why did we have to part
every hour in the day
people way across the street
if you loved me you better come home

sam cooke - baby baby bay

Baby, baby, baby
you got me crying in my sleep
Baby, baby, baby
you got me crying in my sleep
oh, you let the other fellows
steal your love away from me
one more time

Baby, baby, baby
I wake up calling your name
Baby, baby, baby
I wake up calling your name
oh, you get me so unhappy
and honey you're the one to blame
let me tell you about it

I gave it time, I gave you love
I thought we went together like a hand a glove
you took my love
you took my time
and I know you make me feel
you're trying to take my time

Baby, Baby, baby
why don't you stop your evil way
you're making me unhappy
you got me crying night and day
let me tell a story

I try to get to sleep at night
but all I do is toss and turn in broad daylight
my pillow is wet from crying tears
I feel a little better when you're picture's near
baby, baby, baby
I got your picture in my arms
I've giving it my kisses and my love until you come
but meanwhile

Baby, baby, baby
you got me crying in my sleep
Baby, baby, baby
you got me crying in my sleep
oh, you let the other fellows
steal your love away from me

sam cooke - baby we ve got love

you've got a smile
a crazy little smile
but everybody's got a smile
but if we get together and you smile when I hold you
then we've got love

I tell you that
we've got love
so much love baby
we've got love baby
now if we get together and you smile when I hold you
then we've got love

there's one more thing
you've got lips
such pretty little lips
but everybody's got lips
but if you kiss me back when I kiss your pretty lips baby
then we've got love

I keep on telling you
we've got love
so much love
we've got love baby now
if you kiss me back when I kiss your pretty lips baby
then we've got a love

you've got a heart
I know you've got a heart because
everybody's got a heart
if your hearts beats faster when you see me coming
then we've got love

we've got love
so much love baby
I know we've got love now
if your hearts beats faster when you see me coming
then we've got love

I wanna tell you
we've got love
so much love
great big bundle of love
if your hearts beats faster when you see me coming
then we've got love

sam cooke - bali ha i

Bali Ha'i may call you
any night, any day
In your heart you'll hear it call you
Come away, come away

Bali Ha'i will whisper
on the wind of the sea
Here am I your special island
Come to me, come to me

Your own special hopes
your own special dreams
Bloom on the hillside
and shine in the streets
If you try you'll find me
where the sky meets the sea
Here am I your special island
come to me, come to me

Bali Ha'i, Bali Ha'i, Bali Ha'i

If you try you'll find me
where the sky meets the sea
here am I your special island
Come to me, come to me

Bali Ha'i, Bali Ha'i, Bali Ha'i

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