Boney M

Groupe mytique des années '70

Au milieu des années 1970, le producteur Frank Farian, qui travaille pour la marque allemande Hansa, fait réaliser en studio par des chanteuses et des musiciens de séances Baby Do You Wanna Bump? sous le nom de Boney M, alors une coquille vide. Le titre connaît un grand succès aux Pays-Bas.

Pour profiter de l'aubaine, il assemble un groupe à la va-vite pour en assurer la promotion dans les boîtes de nuit et à la télévision. Il engage des choristes antillaises, dont l'une a succédé à Donna Summer dans la comédie musicale Hair.

Bobby Farrell a été recruté en tant que danseur puisque la vraie voix était celle de Frank Farian lui-même !

L'image de Boney M. — trois filles prosternées et offertes aux pieds d'un maître vaudou aux allures de proxénète — a été pour beaucoup dans le succès phénoménal que remporta le groupe en Europe avec des titres comme Daddy Cool (1977), Ma Baker (1978) et surtout leur version du classique reggae des Melodians Rivers of Babylon (1978), troisième meilleure vente de 45 tours de toute l'histoire des classements britanniques.

Après Rasputin (1978) et une reprise du Painter Man de The Creation (1979), le groupe connaît son dernier tube avec Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday! (1979).

Durant la vague disco, Boney M. a vendu environ 50 millions de disques.

Disparu, il se reformera cependant régulièrement (les membres n'étant plus ceux d'origine, excepté Bobby Farrell) pour favoriser la vente des compilations

Belfast {x3}

Got to have a believing {x3}
All the people
Cause the people are leaving
When the people believing {x3}
All the children cause the children
Are leaving

{Refrain:}
Belfast, Belfast
When the country rings the leaving bell youre lost
Belfast, Belfast
When the hate you have
For one anothers past
You can try (you can try)
You can try (you can try)
You can try
To tell the world the reason why
Belfast, Belfast, Belfast

Its the country thats changing {x3}
All the people
Cause the people are leaving
Its the world thats deceiving {x3}
All the people
Cause the people believing

{au Refrain}

When the children believing {x3}
All the people
Cause the people are leaving
When the people are leaving {x3}
All the children
Cause the children believing

{au Refrain}

Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
There's a brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la la
Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum

Show me your motion
Tra la la la la
Come on show me your motion
Tra la la la la la
Show me your motion
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum

All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths
All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths

I remember one Saturday night
We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes
I remember one Saturday night
We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

Beng-a-deng
Beng-a-deng

Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
There's a brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la la
Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum

Show me your motion
Tra la la la la
Come on show me your motion
Tra la la la la la
Show me your motion
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum

All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths
All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths

I remember one Saturday night
We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes
I remember one Saturday night
We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

Beng-a-deng
Beng-a-deng

Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
See, brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la la
Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum

All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths
All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths

Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
Look that brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la la
Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum

She's crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy Cool

She's crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy Cool
I'm crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy Cool

Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool

She's crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy Cool
I'm crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy Cool

Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool

(spoken) She's crazy about her daddy
Oh she believes in him
She loves her daddy

She's crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy Cool
I'm crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy Cool

Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool
Daddy, Daddy Cool

Freeze! I'm Ma baker - put your hands in the air,
Gimme all your money
This is the story of Ma baker, the meanest cat
From ol' Chicago town

She was the meanest cat
In old Chicago town
She was really moved them down
She had no heart at all
No no no herat at all

She was the meanest cat
Oh she was realy tough
She left her husband flat
He wasn't tough enough
She took her boys along
'Cause they were mean and strong

(chorus)
Ma Ma Ma Ma - Ma Baker - she taught her four sons
Ma Ma Ma Ma - Ma Baker - to handle their guns
Ma Ma Ma Ma - Ma Baker - she never could cry
Ma Ma Ma Ma - Ma Baker - but she knew how to die

They left a trail of crime
Across the U.S.A
And when one boy was killed
She realy made them pay
She had no heart at all
No no no heart at all

(chorus)

She met a man she liked
She thought she'd stay with him
One day he formed with them
They did away with him
She didn't care at all
Just didn't care at all

Here is special bulletin. Ma Baker is the FBI's most wanted woman.
Her photo is hanging on every post office wall. If you have any
Information about this woman please contact your nearst police
station...

Don't anybody move! The money or lives!

One day they robbed a bank
It was their last hooray
The cops appeared too soon
They could't get away
And all the loot they had
It made them mighty mad
And so they shot it out
Ma Baker and her sons
They didn't waant to hang
They died with blazing guns
And so the story ends
Of one who left no friends

(chorus) x2

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstacy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on

He ruled the Russian land and never mind the czar
But the kasachok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she'd heard the things he'd done
She believed he was a hole healer
Who would heal her son

(Spoken:)
But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger
for power became known to more and more people,
the demands to do something about this outrageous
man became louder and louder.

"This man's just got to go!" declared his enemies
But the ladies begged "Don't you try to do it, please"
No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms
Then one night some men of higher standing
Set a trap, they're not to blame
"Come to visit us" they kept demanding
And he really came

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
They put some poison into his wine
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
He drank it all and he said "I feel fine"

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
They didn't quit, they wanted his head
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
And so they shot him till he was dead

(Spoken:) Oh, those Russians...

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
Now how shall we sing the lord's song in a strange land

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Requiering of us a song
Now how shall we sing the lord's song in a strange land

Let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart
be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

Let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts
be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon (dark tears of Babylon)
there we sat down (You got to sing a song)
ye-eah we wept, (Sing a song of love)
when we remember Zion. (Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)

By the rivers of Babylon (Rough bits of Babylon)
there we sat down (You hear the people cry)
ye-eah we wept, (They need their God)
when we remember Zion. (Ooh, have the power)

digge ding ding ding digge digge ding ding
hey - di - hey - di - hoh
digge ding ding ding digge digge ding ding
hey - di - hey - di - hoh

there's a place I know where we should go - heydiheydihoh
won' t you take me there your lady fair - heydiheydihoh
there's a brook near-by the grass grows high - heydiheydihoh
where we both can hide side by side - heydiheydihoh

Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
what a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday
it's a holi-holiday

there's a country fair not far from there - heydiheydihoh
on a carousel the dingdong bell - heydiheydihoh
on the loop di loop we swing and swoop - heydiheydihoh
and what else we'll do is up to you - heydiheydihoh

Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
what a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday
it's a holi-holiday

Well, I'm game
fun is the thing I'm after
now let's a'live it up today
get set for love and laughter

Well, let's go
time isn't here for wasting
life is so full of sweet sweet things
I'd like to do some tasting

Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
what a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday
it's a holi-holiday

in the country side we take a ride - heydiheydihoh
where the stars will shine lots of time - heydiheydihoh
back of your old car we might get far - heydiheydihoh
in the summerbreeze we feel at ease - heydiheydihoh

Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
what a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday
it's a holi-holiday, it's a holi-holiday

Mary's Boy Child

Mary's boy child Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.
And man will live for evermore, because of Christmas Day.

Long time ago in Bethlehem, so the Holy Bible said,
Mary's boy child Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.

Hark, now hear the angels sing, a king was born today,
And man will live for evermore, because of Christmas Day.
Mary's boy child Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.

While shepherds watch their flocks by night,
they see a bright new shining star,
they hear a choir sing a song, the music seemed to come from afar.

Hark, now hear the angels sing, a king was born today,
And man will live for evermore, because of Christmas Day.

For a moment the world was aglow, all the bells rang out
there were tears of joy and laughter, people shouted
"let everyone know, there is hope for all to find peace".

How Joseph and his wife Mary came to Bethlehem that night
they found no place to bear her child not a single room was in sight
And then they found a little nook in a stable all forlorn,
and in a manger cold and dark, Mary's little boy was born.

Hark, now hear the angels sing, a king was born today,
And man will live for evermore, because of Christmas Day.
Mary's boy child Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.

For a moment the world was aglow, all the bells rang out
there were tears of joy and laughter, people shouted
"let everyone know, there is hope for all to find peace".


Oh My Lord

Oh my Lord
You sent your son to save us
Oh my Lord
Your very self you gave us
Oh my Lord
That sin may not enslave us
And love may reign once more

Oh my Lord
when in the crib they found Him
Oh my Lord
A golden halo crowned Him
Oh my Lord
They gathered all around Him
To see him and adore (this day will live forever)

Oh my Lord (so praise the Lord)
they had begun to doubt you
Oh my Lord (He is the truth forever)
what did they know about you?
Oh my Lord (so praise the Lord)
but they were lost without You
they needed You so bad (His light is shining on us)

Oh my Lord (so praise the Lord)
with the child's adoration
Oh my Lord (He is a personation)
there came great jubilation
Oh my Lord (so praise the Lord)
and full of admiration
they realized what they had (until the sun falls from the sky)

Oh my Lord (Oh praise the Lord)
You sent your son to save us
Oh my Lord (this day will live forever)
Your very self you gave us
Oh my Lord (so praise the Lord)...