Basil Poledouris

Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for the world that I come from
'Cause I've been looking around
In the lost and found of my heart...
No one understands me
They view it as such strange eccentricities...
'Cause I keep kidding around
Like a child, but pardon me...

People say I'm not okay
'Cause I love such elementary things...
It's been my fate to compensate,
for the Childhood
I've never known...

Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like pirates and adventurous dreams,
Of conquest and kings on the throne...

Before you judge me, try hard to love me,
Look within your heart then ask,
Have you seen my Childhood?

People say I'm strange that way
'Cause I love such elementary things,
It's been my fate to compensate,
for the Childhood I've never known...

Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like fantastical stories to share
The dreams I would dare, watch me fly...

Before you judge me, try hard to love me.
The painful youth I've had
Have you seen my Childhood

A girl went back to Napoli
Because she missed the scenery
The native dances and the charming songs
But wait a minute, something's wrong

Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano!
Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano
Go, go, go you mixed up sigialiano
All you calabraise-a do the mambo like a crazy with a

Hey mambo, don't wanna tarantella
Hey mambo, no more a mozzarella
Hey mambo! Mambo italiano!
Try an enchilada with da fish a bac a lan and a
Hey goombah, I love a how you dance a rhumbah
But take a some advice paisano
Learn how to mambo
If you gonna be a square
You ain't a gonna go nowhere

Hey mambo! mambo italiano!
Hey mambo! mambo italiano!
Go, go, Joe, shake a like a Giovanno
Hello kess-a-deetch-a you getta happy in the feets a
When you mambo italiano

Shake-a Baby shake-a cause I love a when you take a me
Mama say "stop-a or I'm gonna tell a papa"

And a hey ja drool you don't a have to go to school
Just make-a wid da beat bambino
It's a like a vino
Kid you good a lookin' but you don't a-know what's cookin' till you

Hey mambo, Mambo italiano
Hey mambo, Mambo italiano
Ho, ho, ho, you mixed up Sigiliano
it's a so delish a ev'rybody come copisha
How to mambo italianoooooo!
'Ats nice!
UNH

I don't know why I love you but I do
I don't know why I cry so but I do
I only know I'm lonely and that I want you only
I don't know why I love you but I do

I can't sleep nights because I feel so restless
I don't know what to do, I feel so helpless
And since you've been away, I cry both night and day
I don't know why I love you but I do

My days have been so lonely
My nights have been so blue
I don't know how I manage, but I do

Each night I sit alone and tell myself
That I will fall in love with someone else
I guess I'm wastin' time but I've got to clear my mind
I don't know why I love you but I do

Como e' bella ce' la luna brille e' strette
strette como e' tutta bella a passeggiare
Sotto il cielo di Roma

Down each avenue or via, street or strata
You can see 'em disappearing two by two
On an evening in Roma
Do they take 'em for espresso
Yeah, I guess so
On each lover's arm a girl I wish I knew
On an evning in Roma

Though there's grining and mandolining in sunny Italy
The beginning has just begun when the sun goes down
So please meet me in the plaza near your casa
I am only one and one is one too few
On an evening in Roma

Don't know what the country's coming to
But in Rome do as the Romans do
Will you on an evening in Roma

Como e' bella ce' la luna brille e' strette
strette como e' tutta bella a passeggiare
Sotto il cielo di Roma
Don't know what the country's coming to
But in Rome do as the Romans do
Will you on an evening in Roma
Sott'er celo de Roma
On an evening in Roma

Guardali, dai treni in corsa si sbilanciano
in cannottiera ti sorridono
come di, come di

Come di, come di orchestra illusa a Napoli
e poi sgridata a Minneapoli
comi di, Comedie…

La comedie d'un jour, la comedie de ta vie,
la comedie, la comedie

Ma cos'e la luce piena di vertigine,
sguardo di donna che ti fulmina
come di, come di

Come di antica amante vista a Napoli
con lontanissimi binocoli
comedie, comedie d'un jour

La comedie

Parlami, dunque il ricordo si semplifica
nel suono dolce ed infelice, qui,
come di, come di, come di

Come di, come di orchestra che precipita
in un ventilatore al Grand-Hotel
comedie, comedie

La comedie

I'm Just a gigolo, and everywhere I go
people know the part I'm playing
Paid for every dance, selling each romance
Oh what their saying

There will come a day, And youth will pass away
What will they say about me
When the end comes I know, they'll say just a gigolo
Life goes on without me

I'm just a gigolo, everywhere I go
people know the part I'm playing
paid for every dance, starting each romance
oh what their saying

And there will come a day, And youth will pass away
What will they say about me
When the end comes I know, They'll say just a gigalo
Life goes on without me

Cause I ain't got nobody
oh and theres nobody cares for me
theres nobody cares for me
I'm so sad and lonely, sad and lonely sad and lonely
Won't some sweet mamma
come and take a chance with me
cause I ain't so bad
And I'll sing out, sweet love songs, All of the time
She will only be, only be, Bip bozadee bodzee bop le bop

I ain't got nobody
oh and theres nobody cares for me
theres nobody cares for me

Hummala bebhuhla zeebuhla boobuhla
hummala bebhuhla zeebuhla bop

I ain't got nobody, nobody,
nobody cares for me, Nobody
theres nobody cares for me
I'm so sad and lonely, oh lonely, oh lonely, lonely lonely
Won't some sweet mama
come and rescue me
cause I ain't so bad
And I'll sing out, sweet love songs, all of the time
she will only be, only, only, only only be, baby, sugar darling

I ain't got nobody baby
And there's nobody, there's nobody
there's nobody, theres nobody
there's no one, there's no one, nobody, nobody, nobody
nobody cares for me

Buona sera signorina buona sera
It is time to say goodnight to Napoli
Though it's hard for us to whisper buona sera
With that old moon above the Mediterranean sea
In the morning signorina we'll go walking
Where the mountains help the moon come in to sight
And by the little jewelry shop we'll stop and linger
In the meantime let me tell you that I love you
Buona sera signorina kiss me goodnight
Buona sera signorina kiss me goodnight

(Buona sera signorina buona sera)
(It is time to say goodnight to Napoli)
Though it's hard for us to whisper buona sera
With that old moon above the Mediterranean sea

In the morning signorina we'll go walking
Where the mountains help the moon come in to sight
And by the little jewelry shop we'll stop and linger
In the meantime let me tell you that I love you
Buona sera signorina kiss me goodnight
Buona sera signorina kiss me goodnight