Songs with a Twist

SONGS WITH A TWIST 

SHE LOVES ME! (“She Loves You” By The Beatles) 
You think you’ve lost your love 
Well I saw her yesterday 
It’s true you lost your love 
For this is what she said 
She said she loves me 
And you know that can be bad 
She loves me 
That’s why I am so glad. 
She loves me, yea yea yea. 

DON’T SEND ME THE PILLOW (“Send Me the Pillow” by Johnny Tillotson)
 Don’t send me the pillow that you dream on 
Don’t you know it’s filthy and it stinks 
With the dripping of your saliva 
It’d only make me lose my forty winks 

I DON’T WANT TO GO (original by Dusty Springfield) 
I don’t want to go for a walk with you 
I don’t want to go to the dance 
I don’t want to go anywhere with you 
So listen and won’t you get lost! 

LOVE IS ….. (Original “Love is Like a Violin”) 
Love is like a kettle-drum 
Makes my heart goes tum-tum-tum 
Makes me seem I’m drinking rum 
Sometimes I feel like a bum. 

IF YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR WIFE (Original by Harry Belafonte) 
If your mother and your wife were drowning 
I want to know which one you would be saving 
If your mother and your wife were drowning 
I want to know which one you would be saving 
As for me, I’ll go for dear wife 
And my ma, she has to excuse me sonny 
For my father can get another wife 
And I can always get another mother in my life 

WHEN THE TOILET IS GONE 
(From “My Prayer-When the Twilight is Gone” by The Platters) 
When the toilet is gone 
There’s nothing I can do 
But just sit down and wait 
Hope that they will not come through 
For my tummy is so sore 
And I can’t stand it no more

Congo Blues (sung to the tune of G.I. BLUES) 
(In 1960 Malaysia sent its first military contingent to the Congo) 
They gave us a room with the view of the blackie Congo 
They gave us a room with the view of the blackie Congo 
Give me a muddy old Sungei Pinang to end my woes. 

Chorus I got the up, two, three, four occupation Congo Blues 
From my Congo shoes to the canvas of my haversack 
And if I don't go Penang soon I might be turned to black. 

We had Congo koay-teow and black Congo rojak for dinner 
We had Congo bee-hoon and black Congo bahpow for dinner 
Unless I have some Penang satay I gonna get thinner. 

We saw Pat Lumumba and the President Kasavubu 
We saw Mister Tsombe and the Colonel Mobutu 
Because of those people the world is feeling very blue. 

The ladies are blacker than charcoal that's why we have to run 
The ladies are pretty as ducklings that's why we have to run 
So you can see why living in Congo is no fun. 

(Stools: Please help me I’m falling 
Backside: It’s Now or Never!) 

I’M LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW (From Cliff Richard) 
I’m looking out of the window 
And just what do I see 
But the window was shut, good and tight 
There’s nothing in front of me 
Only curtains facing me 

I SEE BONES (by Allan Shearman to the tune “C’est Si Bon”) 
I see bones 
I see gizzard and bones 
And a few kidney stones 
Among the lovely bones 
I see hips 
And fourteen paper clips 
A few asparagus tips 
Among the lovely bones 

If you were the only girl in the world…. I guess I don’t have much choice!