Have you seen the old man
In the closed-down market
Kicking up the paper,
with his worn out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride
And held loosely at his side
Yesterday’s paper telling yesterday’s news
So how can you tell me you’re lonely,
And say for you that the sun don’t shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I’ll show you something to make you change your mind
Have you seen the old girl
Who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
She’s no time for talking,
She just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home in two carrier bags.
So how can you tell me you’re lonely,
And say for you that the sun don’t shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I’ll show you something to make you change your mind
In the all night cafe
At a quarter past eleven,
Same old man is sitting there on his own
Looking at the world
Over the rim of his tea-cup,
Each tea last an hour
Then he wanders home alone
So how can you tell me you’re lonely,
And say for you that the sun don’t shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I’ll show you something to make you change your mind
And have you seen the old man
Outside the seaman’s mission
Memory fading with
The medal ribbons that he wears.
In our winter city,
The rain cries a little pity
For one more forgotten hero
And a world that doesn’t care
So how can you tell me you’re lonely,
And say for you that the sun don’t shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I’ll show you something to make you change your mind
oh to wander down memory lane but
should we?
or should we embrace what today and tommorow holds….
should we use our yesterdays
to learn
to rejoice in what has been
to know , to know that whatever our yesterdays held
it is now and will be forever printed
in our hearts
in our minds
in our souls
we should know
that our yesterdays
no matter how good
or how bad
how happy
or how sad
they made us feel
they were still our yesterdays
our yesterdays that have moulded us
moulded us into our todays
and yes , our tommorows
so fear not about those times
in your yesterdays
that held you hostage, that made you sad
and rejoice in your yesterdays
and its memories
the ones that made you glad
to thine own self be true a great poet once wrote
and that my freinds is what today,
and yes your tommorows
should be about.
a list of billboard 100s over the decades motown rocks!!!
Year Song title Performer Weeks #1 UK chart
1961 “Please Mr. Postman” The Marvelettes 1 –
1963 “Fingertips–Pt. 2” Little Stevie Wonder 3 –
1964 “My Guy” Mary Wells 2 5
1964 “Where Did Our Love Go” The Supremes 2 3
1964 “Baby Love” The Supremes 4 1
1964 “Come See About Me” The Supremes 2 27
1965 “My Girl” The Temptations 1 43*
1965 “Stop! In the Name of Love” The Supremes 2 7
1965 “Back in My Arms Again” The Supremes 1 40
1965 “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” Four Tops 2 23
1965 “I Hear a Symphony” The Supremes 2 39
1966 “You Can’t Hurry Love” The Supremes 2 3
1966 “Reach Out I’ll Be There” Four Tops 2 1
1966 “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” The Supremes 2 8
1967 “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone” The Supremes 1 17
1967 “The Happening” The Supremes 1 6
1968 “Love Child” Diana Ross & the Supremes 2 15
1968 “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” Marvin Gaye 7 1
1969 “I Can’t Get Next to You” The Temptations 2 13
1969 “Someday We’ll Be Together” Diana Ross & the Supremes 1 13
*Reached #2 when reissued in 1992.
[edit] 1970s
Year Song title Performer Weeks #1 UK chart
1970 “I Want You Back” The Jackson 5 1 2
1970 “ABC” The Jackson 5 2 8
1970 “The Love You Save” The Jackson 5 2 7
1970 “War” Edwin Starr 3 3
1970 “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” Diana Ross 3 6
1970 “I’ll Be There” The Jackson 5 5 4
1970 “The Tears of a Clown” Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 2 1
1971 “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)” The Temptations 2 8
1972 “Ben” Michael Jackson 1 7
1972 “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” The Temptations 1 14
1973 “Superstition” Stevie Wonder 1 11
1973 “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” Stevie Wonder 1 7
1973 “Touch Me in the Morning” Diana Ross 1 9
1973 “Let’s Get It On” Marvin Gaye 2 31
1973 “Keep on Truckin’ (Part 1)” Eddie Kendricks 2 18
1974 “You Haven’t Done Nothin'” Stevie Wonder 1 30
1976 “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)” Diana Ross 1 5
1976 “Love Machine (Part 1)” The Miracles 1 3
1976 “Love Hangover” Diana Ross 2 10
1977 “I Wish” Stevie Wonder 1 5
1977 “Don’t Leave Me This Way” Thelma Houston 1 13
1977 “Sir Duke” Stevie Wonder 3 2
1977 “Got to Give It Up (Pt. 1)” Marvin Gaye 1 7
1978 “Three Times a Lady” The Commodores 2 1
1979 “Still” The Commodores 1 4
[edit] 1980s
Year Song title Performer Weeks #1 UK chart
1980 “Upside Down” Diana Ross 4 2
1981 “Endless Love” Diana Ross & Lionel Richie 9 7
1983 “Ebony and Ivory” Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder 7 1
1982 “Truly” Lionel Richie 2 6
1983 “All Night Long (All Night)” Lionel Richie 4 2
1984 “Hello” Lionel Richie 2 1
1984 “I Just Called to Say I Love You” Stevie Wonder 3 1
1985 “Part-Time Lover” Stevie Wonder 1 3
1985 “Say You, Say Me” Lionel Richie 4 8
[edit] 1990s
Year Song title Performer Weeks #1 UK chart
1992 “End of the Road” Boyz II Men 13 1
1994 “I’ll Make Love to You” Boyz II Men 14 5
1994 “On Bended Knee” Boyz II Men 6 20
1997 “4 Seasons of Loneliness” Boyz II Men 1