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 "En el CENTRAL"

1. TROUBLE MAN (MARVIN GAYE)


I come up hard baby, but now I’m cool

I didn’t make it sugar playing by the rules

I come up hard but now I’m fine

I’m checking trouble sugar, moving down the line

I come up hard but that’s ok ‘cause trouble man don’t get in my way


I come up hard baby

I play for real with the trouble man

Gonna keep moving, gonna go to town 

I get up from hard, I get up from coming down

There’s only three things for sure

Death, taxes and trouble

This I know, baby

This I know


I come up hard, baby

I had to fight

To pay my business with all of my might

I come up hard, oh yes, I had to win

Then start all over and win again

I come up hard but that’s ok

‘cause trouble man don’t get in my way

Hey, hey, hey


I know some places and I seen some faces

I got the connections that take my directions

But people say that’s ok they don’t bother me


I’m ready to make it, don’t care ‘bout the weather 

Don’t care ‘bout no trouble got myself together 

I get a kind of protection that’s all ‘round me, yeah, yeah, yeah


Let me hear you say yeah

Let me hear you say yeah


Trouble man, don’t you come knocking ‘round my door 

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2. I’M NOT BLUE (DORIS CALES)


Saturday morning is a fine time to say goodbye

I think I’ll give it a try

I haven’t got a thing to lose, but these blues.


When Sunday comes along, when I’m alone

Will I care?

When Monday stumbles by

Oh, my crying eyes

Who’s fooling who?


Now Tuesday’s finally here and my dear

Not a call from you


Well I guess I was wrong once again

Now I can pretend that I’m not blue


I thought I could do what I had to do

I thought I could stay away

But darling you’re such a part of me

Who can I blame, who can I blame, who can I blame?


Now Saturday is here and I fear

You’re not coming through

Well I guess I was wrong once again

Now I can pretend that I’m not blue

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3. NOTHING BUT THE BLUES (ELLINGTON / D. GEORGE)


Ain’t got the change for a nickel

I don’t have no bounce left in my shoes

Don’t have no fancy for you to tickle

I ain’t got nothing but the blues


Ain’t got no coffee that is perkin’

Don’t got no feelings for you to bruise

I don’t have no dreams that is workin’

I ain’t got nothing but the blues


The band is swaying and the folks are singing

I just can’t get up off the ground

Believe me Pruitt, there ain’t nothing to it

Since my baby left this town


I ain’t got no rest in my slumber

I don’t have no winners to lose

I even lost all of my telephone numbers

I ain’t got nothing but the blues

Dirty low down blues


The band is stomping and everybody is stomping romping

I just can’t get up off the ground

Believe me Bridget, I just can’t get with it

Since my baby went and left this town


I ain’t got no house in Westchester

I don’t have no crisp grass to groom

Sold my albums with Basie and Lester

I ain’t got nothing but the blues

Low down dirty blues.

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4. REFLECTIONS (CALES / MARTIN / DIAZ)


I look into your eyes and see my eyes are there reflected

Words I hear you say to me

In a voice of my own


Your smile is my own smile

Your love is my whole world

You can’t know what you mean to me


I’ll take you in my arms

And sing ‘till you’re asleep

You’ve nothing to fear I’ll be here


And I know the time will come when you will need to fly

Fly away from me

Spread your open wings


I’ll be there to catch you I’ll be silent by your side

Silent by your side


I look into your eyes and see

My eyes are there before me

Words I hear you say to me

In a voice all my own

Your smile is my own smile

You’re love is my whole world

You can’t know what you mean to me

I’ll take you in my arms

And sing ¡till you’re asleep

You’ve nothing to fear I’ll be here

My angel my sweet. I’ll be here


Sleep my darling sleep

Close your eyes

Hold my hand and I will guide you

Through yesterdays, tomorrows

That will be yours

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5.WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (M. LEGRAND / BERGMAN)


I want to see your face in every kind of light

In a sea of dawn and the darkness of the night

And when you stand before the candles on a cake

Oh, let me be the one to hear the silent wish you make


What are you doing the rest of your life

Winter, Summer, Spring and Fall of your life

I have only one request of your life

That you spend it all with me


All the seasons and the times of your days

All the reasons and the rhymes of your days

All the nickels and the dimes of your days

All begin and end with me


I want to see your face in every kind of light

In a sea of dawn and the darkness of the night

And when you stand before the candles on a cake

Oh let me be the one to hear the silent wish you make


All those tomorrows waiting deep in your eyes

In a world of love that you keep in your eyes

I’ll awaken what’s asleep in your eyes

It may take a kiss or two

Or two


Through all of my life

Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall of my life

All I ever will recall of my life

Is all of my life

With you

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6. THE ONLY THING I CAN DO IS JUST PLAY THE BLUES (LARRY MARTIN) 

When I get out of my bed

I see dark clouds up ahead

I’ve got some holes in my shoes

Nothing good is coming soon

But until that day comes along

The only thing I can do is just play the blues


My unemployment’s overdue

And my landlord’s being cruel

Still I’m not losing my cool

Something good is coming soon

But until that day comes along

The only thing I can do is just play the blues


When I’m out on stage and the music’s playing I’m so happy

But that ain’t enough to pay my bills and buy some food


Still everything’s gonna change

And it’ll be a brand new day

My time for styling is due

Ready world I’m stepping through

But until that day comes along

The only thing I can do is just play the blues

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7. BALLAD OF THE SAD YOUNG MEN (WOLF / LANDESMAN)


Sing a song of sad young men

Glasses full of rye

All the news is bad again

Kiss their dreams goodbye 

All the sad young men

Sitting in the bars

Drinking up the nights

And missing all the stars


All the sad young men

Drifting through the clouds

Trying not to drown


All the sad young men

Singing in the cold

Trying to forget that they are growing old


All the sad choking on their youth

Trying to be brave

Running from the truth

The sad, sad young men


All the sad young men

They play at making love

Misbegotten moon

Shine for these sad young men

While a grimy moon blossoms up above

Let your gentle light

Guide them home tonight

All the sad young men.

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8.JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS (COLE PORTER)


It was just one of those things

Just one of those crazy things

One of those bells that now and then rings

Just one of those things


It was just one of those nights

One of those fabulous flights

A trip to the moon on gosemayer wings

Just one of those things


If we thought a bit

‘bout the end of it

When we started painting the town


We’d have been aware

That our love affair was too hot

Not to cool down


So goodbye dear, farewell and Amen

Here’s hoping that we’ll meet again

It was great fun

But it was just one of those things.


See you around, sweetie.

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9. WHEN I LOOK IN YOUR EYES ( LESLIE BRICUSSE)


When I look in your eyes

I see the wisdom of the world in your eyes

I se the sadness of a thousand goodbyes

When I look into your eyes


And it is no surprise

To see the softness of the moon in your eyes

The tender sparkle of the stars in your eyes

When I look into your eyes



In your eyes

I see the deepness of the sea

I see the deepness of the love

The love I feel you feel for me


Autumn comes and summer dies

I see the passing of the years in your eyes

And when we part there will be no tears, no goodbyes

I’ll just look into your eyes


In your eyes

I see the deepness of the sea

I see the deepness of the love

The love that I feel you feel for me 

Autumn comes and summer dies

I see the passing of the years in your eyes

And when we part there will be no tears

No goodbyes

I’ll just look into your eyes


Those eyes so wise

So warm so real

How I love the world that your eyes reveal.

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10. THE TURN AROUND BLUES ( DORIS CALES / ENRIQUE GARCIA)


I’m going to tell you a little story

About a girl from New York City

She was the meanest thing around there

Played all kinds of bad games

She took whatever she wanted never had to say please



One day a rico-suave came in

And when she saw him she said Amen

She thought her ship had finally sailed in

That same old story again

Was just a link in his chain

Lord did he make her run


She was big she was strong

The baddest girl you ever, ever laid your eyes on

Bur all he had to do was look her way 

And she was right there eating from his hand


Now there’s a lesson in this story

For all you girls that think that your bad

There’s always a rico-suave out there

Ready to chain you to him

So if you want to make a dance

You’ll have to pay that band


She was a bad girl

But now she’s got the turn around blues

She was a bad girl

But now she’s got those turn around blues

She was a bad girl

And now she’s got those turn around blues


Well, she used to be bad.

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11. THE LAST TRAIN (MARIANO DIAZ / DORIS CALES)


Won’t you, won’t you, won’t you please

Won’t you take that last rain to me


I see that look in your eyes

It means you’re walking away from me

And there ain’t nothing I’ll say to make you stay


You never said you’d be mine

No, not for too long a time

The flame was strong but now you’re on your way


Tell me why

Why is the road that you follow a lonely one

Oh, can’t you wait just a little bit longer

Before you leave me on that last train

That’ll take you away from me


I knew it wouldn’t be easy

And I don’t want to bring you down

If I’m weak please forgive me

‘Cause I don’t want to bring you down

There’s no use in my pleading

‘Cause I don’t want to bring you down

A part of me will be leaving

On that train.

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