Pronto Monto

Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Pronto Monto - Album (1978) 1.  Oh My Heart 2.  Side Of Fries 3.  Just Another Broken Heart 4.  Na Cl 5.  Pronto Monto (Prends Ton Manteau) 6.  Stella By Artois 7.  Bundle Of Sorrow Bundle Of Joy 8.  Come Back Baby 9.  Tryin’ To Get To You 10. Fixture In The Park 11. Dead Weight 12. Cover Up My Head ================================================================== Track 1 - Oh My Heart [Intro]      [Verse 1] Oh my heart Let us stay together Oh my heart Together we can weather stormy days Whose darkened skies would blacken moods All these we must elude             [Chorus] Oh my heart my dove my lark We are birds of a feather You’re my beau my Fidelio___ Oh my heart my dove my lark We are birds of a feather I’m your Cathy on the heather            [Verse 2] Oh my heart Oh my heart Let us stay together Oh my heart Together but not tethered or not too much Though times seem tough too tiresome We still must not succumb             [Chorus] Oh my heart my dove my lark We are birds of a feather You’re my beau my Fidelio___ Oh my heart my dove my lark We are birds of a feather I’m your Cathy on the heather            [Outro] Oh my heart Let us stay together Oh my heart Oh my heart ================================================================== Track 2 - Side Of Fries [Intro]        [Verse 1] I was walking down the street one day And my mind was in a slide When this well-dressed all-dressed hot dog said “French fries on the side” He was golden brown and about six feet long His bun was toasted fast As he turned away he did remark “Frankfurts built to last” [Chorus] Well my momma didn’t tell me And my poppa didn’t say This world’s a busy place And time just wastes away Brother didn’t happen And sister never stayed Momma hardly opened And Poppa never played          [Verse 2] Once I came home with a brand new suit And a charge account to boot There was a Chevrolet sitting on the couch With a Cadillac ready to toot After drinks and conversation too ’Bout the meaning of inner need Said you’re a man for real Yes it’s a deal Satisfaction’s guaranteed [Chorus] Well my momma didn’t tell me And my poppa didn’t say This world’s a busy place And time just wastes away Brother didn’t happen And sister never stayed Momma hardly opened And Poppa never played [Instrumental]                          [Chorus] Well my momma didn’t tell me And my poppa didn’t say This world’s a busy place And time just wastes away Brother didn’t happen And sister never stayed Momma hardly opened And Poppa never played          [Verse 3] I was lying on my desk at ease Cancelling the afternoon When the door swung open to a fruit of the loom Screaming “Smoke me to the moon” He was a xenophobe with a .38 Besides a ruptured spleen But I kept my cool as he slowly drooled Only Brand X cleans to clean [Chorus] Well my momma didn’t tell me And my poppa didn’t say This world’s a busy place And time just wastes away Brother didn’t happen And sister never stayed Momma hardly opened And Pappa never played          ================================================================== Track 3 - Just Another Broken Heart CAPO: 5th Fret [Intro]        [Verse 1] A serenade in vain    You share the love but you hide the pain__ We flew too high this time    And tore our wings on a lover’s climb__ [Chorus] Now it’s just another broken heart Two lovers meet the night before they part It’s just another dream gone wrong Fading like the moon before the dawn             [Verse 2] No one else will know     We mustn’t let out feelings show__ Tomorrow she’ll return     So put out the fire but let the embers burn__ [Chorus] And it’s just another broken heart Two lovers meet the night before they part It’s just another dream gone wrong Fading like the moon before the dawn [Instrumental]             Asus2                       Asus2         [Chorus] It’s just another broken heart Two lovers meet the night before they part It’s just another dream gone wrong Fading like the moon before the dawn [Chorus] And it’s just another broken heart Two lovers meet the night before they part It’s just another dream gone wrong Fading like the moon before the dawn ================================================================== Track 4 - Na Cl ## NOTE: Notes in parentheses( ) are single-note Bass Walk-Ups ## [Intro]            / [Verse 1] Just a little atom of Chlorine valence minus one      Swimming through the sea digging the scene just having fun               She’s not worried about the shape or size of her outside shell It’s fun to ionize Just a little atom of Cl with an unfilled shell         [Verse 2] But somewhere in that sea lurks handsome Sodium   With enough electrons on his outside shell plus that extra one              Somewhere in this deep blue sea there’s a negative For my extra energy Yes somewhere in this foam my positive will find a home       [Bridge] Then unsuspecting Chlorine felt a magnetic pull She looked down and her outside shell was full   Sodium cried “What a gas be my bride And I’ll change your name from Chlorine to chloride” [Verse 3] Now the sea evaporates to make the clouds for the rain and snow      Leaving her chemical compounds in the absence of H2O              But the crystals that wash upon the shore are happy ones So if you never thought before Think of the love that you eat when you salt you meat ================================================================== Track 5 - Pronto Monto (Prends Ton Manteau) CAPO: 5th Fret [Intro]     [Verse 1] Prends ton manteau tes souliers tes soucis Marche lentement dans le matin endormi   L’heure a sonné et seul maintenant Tu t’enfonces dans la brûme un souvenir un moment         [Chorus] Tristes rêves troublent mon sommeil Et braillent que cet adieu ce n’est qu’un au revoirs [Verse 2] Conserve tes regrets tes pleurs précieusement Pour tes après-midis sombres de tourment Sachant que le soir n’apporte qu’inquiètude Et que le matin n’éveille que solitude        [Chorus] Tristes rêves troublent mon sommeil Et braillent que cet adieu ce n’est qu’un au revoirs [Verse 3] Ecoute je te souhaite qu’un jour bientôt Dans un endroit tranquille tu trouves le repos Et peut-être délaissant les joies éphèmeres Oublieras-tu enfin tes défaites amères         [Chorus] Tristes rêves troublent mon sommeil Et braillent que cet adieu ce n’est qu’un au revoirs       [Verse 4] Prends ton manteau tes souliers tes soucis Marche lentement dans le matin endormi   L’heure a sonné et seul maintenant Tu t’enfonces dans la brûme un souvenir un moment         [Chorus] Tristes rêves troublent mon sommeil Et braillent que cet adieu ce n’est qu’un au revoirs [Instrumental]                        [Chorus] Tristes rêves troublent mon sommeil Et braillent que cet adieu ce n’est qu’un au revoirs                   **English Translation Of Above Lyrics** [Verse 1] Tie your shoes collect your coat your woes and discontent Walk slow into the morning asleep The hour has come grey and quite alone You’re fading with the mist haunted an afterthought [Chorus] Such sad dreams troubling my sleep with that howl “Farewell is only goodbye” [Verse 2] Preserve every regret each tear so preciously For your late afternoons heavy with the thought The night time hardly the right time to brood The sun will just awaken solitude   [Chorus] [Verse 3] But listen I hope that soon you may find A quiet place to rest                  And maybe forego the fleeting joys And maybe there forget the bitterness of your defeats [Chorus] [Verse 4]    (Verse 1 repeat) [Chorus] [Chorus] ================================================================== Track 6 - Stella By Artois CAPO: 5th Fret [Intro] [Verse 1] In Rotterdam ’Seventy-Seven   I had a birthday   We were on the road to nowhere   Looking for somewhere to make it a night To call it a day___          [Verse 2] And we drank cheap champagne from Italy       It was pink alcoholic and bubbly     And the boys in the band gave me a candle   Matches to light it for my bedside table And I let you light it for the first time that night   [Instrumental]   Eaug                              [Verse 3] So light the candle one more time       For tomorrow I’ll be going And I’ve grown used to the light   Night after night the same flame glowing Won’t you light it just one more time    [Verse 4] God knows I want to stay       By your side night and day And to hold you and be held in return   As we did from the south of France clear through to Galway I can’t help the things that I say    [Outro] In Rotterdam ’Seventy-Seven   I had a birthday                      ================================================================== Track 7 - Bundle Of Sorrow Bundle Of Joy CAPO: 2nd Fret [Intro]       Ddim7/    Ddim7/ [Verse 1] In middle fall when northern winds blow the clouds every which way    And the temperature is variable in the course of a shortened day The ghost of summer lingers on in the dying rays of the sun And winter waits to heap its snow upon us by the ton I jam a log into the stove and hasten to shut the door In the room upstairs sleeps a baby boy who wasn’t there before__ before [Chorus] I love my kid my baby my boy Bundle of sorrow bundle of joy           Bundle of sorrow bundle of joy [Verse 2] Who knows what this year will bring for us just what’s in store While the whistlepigs are bedded down beneath the woodshed floor How many pounds the child will gain the inches that he grows Will depend upon the measure of the love that we show Chainsaws whine out in woods the geese have taken flight And the daytime sounds of birds give way to coyotes in the night the night [Chorus] I love my kid my baby my boy Bundle of sorrow bundle of joy           Bundle of sorrow bundle of joy [Verse 3] Once there were just two of us now there’s another mouth to feed   And when he’s taken from the breast can we meet his every need? We filled our home with the toys and clothes to suit his every whim And he’s filled our hearts with wondrous love that flows right back to him The young grass grows up through the old the lilac lives again Upon a painted latticework a little rose ascends ascends [Chorus]    (fade to end) I love my kid my baby my boy Bundle of sorrow bundle of joy I love my kid my baby my boy Bundle of sorrow bundle of joy I love my kid       (my baby my boy) Bundle of sorrow bundle of joy             (my baby my boy) Bundle of sorrow bundle of joy ================================================================== Track 8 - Come Back Baby CAPO: 4th Fret [Intro] [Verse 1] Somebody I know’s gone away But I wish he hadn’t left me here to stay Sitting here singing a song But I’d rather he had taken me along [Verse 2] Somebody I love I know I ought to hate Runs me ’round in circles and then he makes me wait Got no head got no brain Just got a heart and my heart is in pain [Chorus] So won’t you come back baby Won’t you come back now Won’t you come back baby Won’t you come back now Won’t you come back babe [Verse 3] You know my head it is heavy And my heart feels sick Ah my head is heavy And my heart feels sick Yeah my head it is heavy And my heart feels sick So won’t you come back quick [Verse 4] You’re my earth and heaven You’re my sun you’re my moon You’re my earth and heaven You’re my sun you’re my moon Yeah you’re my earth and heaven You’re my sun you’re my moon So won’t you come back soon [Instrumental]                  [Verse 5] You’re my one and only You’re my first you’re my last You’re my one and only You’re my first my last Yeah you’re my one and only You’re my first you’re my last So won’t you come back fast ================================================================== Track 9 - Tryin’ To Get To You CAPO: 4th Fret [Intro] [Verse 1] I’ve been travelling over mountains Even through the valleys too I’ve been travelling night and day I’ve been running all the way Baby trying to get to you [Verse 2] Ever since I read your letter Where you said you loved me true I’ve been travelling night and day I’ve been running all the way Baby trying to get to you [Chorus] When I read your loving letter Then my heart began to sing There were many miles between us But they didn’t mean a thing [Verse 3] I just had to reach you baby In spite of all that I’ve been through I kept travelling night and day I kept running all the way Baby trying to get to you [Instrumental]              [Chorus] When I read your loving letter Then my heart began to sing There were many miles between us But they didn’t mean a thing [Verse 4] Lord above me knows I love you It was he who brought me through When my way was darkest night He would shine his brightest light When I was trying to get to you [Outro]   (repeat and fade)        When my way was darkest night He would shine his brightest light When I was trying to get to you ================================================================== Track 10 - Fixture In The Park CAPO: 2nd Fret [Intro]      [Verse 1] This park is my living room This bench is my love seat Green grass is my broadloom Lying beneath my feet [Verse 2] It takes me back to when I was a girl It was here that I came to my young world A victim in the dark Of love’s near fatal spark By the light of the moon____ Our fervour sustained By the night hawk’s refrain What bliss what sweet ruin___ [Instrumental]            [Verse 3] These memories are fixed in time Though faintly gossamer I hope that yours will be like mine And stay with you all your years [Verse 4] To take you back to when you were a girl Your first rendezvous in a younger world A fixture in the park Where I stay till it’s dark Then I go to my room____ I seldom complain Sitting out in the rain This earth must consume___ [Instrumental]                              [Outro]     (repeat 4x - fade to end) By the light of the moon What bliss what sweet ruin___ ================================================================== Track 11 - Dead Weight [Verse 1] You say that it’s hard I’m saying it’s easily done Buddy won’t you make up your mind I’m saying that it’s easy that I’ll have no regrets Get your things together and get yourself out of my home [Chorus] You’re a dead weight And I can’t wait To see the back of you [Verse 2] You’re like a sore spot that never would heal So leave my mind and body alone You’re driving me crazy and you’re wasting my time I have not forgotten that a stitch in time saves nine [Instrumental]                                 [Chorus] You’re a dead weight And I can’t wait To see the back of you [Verse 3] You never fooled anyone we all know your kind Trying so hard to be a Casanova Your charm’s wearing thin and your voice rings like tin I won’t tolerate you you’re bugging me and my friends [Chorus] You’re a dead weight And I can’t wait To see the back of you          ================================================================== Track 12 - Cover Up My Head [Intro]            [Verse 1] The night is cold now The world is old now I guess I’ll go to bed now Cover up my head [Verse 2] The candle’s out now The night owl’s about now I guess I’ll go to bed now Dream old dreams instead [Chorus] Maybe I’ll dream of a time When the world and love were young Maybe I’ll dream of a time Before I heard your swan song sung [Verse 3] I’m all alone now I’m on my own now I guess I’ll go to bed now Cover up my head [Instrumental]                          [Chorus] Maybe I’ll dream of a time When the world and love were young Maybe I’ll dream of a time Before I heard your swan song sung [Verse 4] I’m all alone now I’m on my own now I guess I’ll go to bed now Cover up my head [Outro]        Go to bed now Cover up my head The night is cold now ==================================================================