We Be Friends
-Artist: Barry Manilow as sung on "Greatest Hits" -Arista A2L 8601
-did NOT chart on Billboard
-Words and Music by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman
(doot, doot, doot doo, yeah)
(doot, doot, doot doo, yeah)
(doot, doot, doot doo, yeah)
(doot, doot, doot doo, yeah)
Well, not too long ago in nineteen forty-four
When every mother's son was goin' off to war
They had to lift they spirits high (High!)
For Uncle Sam, motherhood and apple pie
Instead of spendin' money that they didn't have
In hot spots in the Bronx
The
STRAW-FLOWER ME
Look at me. Won't you tell me
What you see behind the tinsel
Flower lady that you made
Me feel I must be.
Don't you know even tinsel flowers
Grow uneasy shining all the time.
Sometimes they find they can't even glow.
Could you love a blue straw-flower
With no mystic magic power?
Would you miss the glitter
Of your fantasy?
You know she isn't really me, baby.
Just to please you maybe
I can be a silver rose, but
Don't you know it's only straw-flower me?
Could you love a blue straw-flower
With no mystic magic power?
Would you miss the glitter
Of your fantasy?
You know she isn't really me, baby,
Baby, baby.