Joe Cocker - First we take Manhattan

FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN (Cocker-Version)


Intro : Klavier, dann alle 2x cm gm

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1. They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
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For trying to change the system from within
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I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them
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First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

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2. I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
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I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
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I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
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First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin


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B.:I'd really like to live beside you, baby
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I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
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But you see that line there moving through the station
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I told you I told you I told you I was one of those



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3. I don't like your fashion business, mister
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I don't like these drugs that make you thin
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I don't like what happened to my sister
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First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin (chorus)


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All the way
Then we take Berlin I don’t like your fashion business, mister

Then we take Berlin I don’t like those drugs that give you strengh

Then we take Berlin I’m guided by a signal in the heavens

Then we take Berlin I’m guided by this birthmark on my skin

Then we take Berlin, oh yeah.