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Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
Words & Music by Leon René & Emerson ScottRecorded by The Ink Spots, 1941 (#17
Intro: | D - Cdim | Em7 - A7 |
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Someone's rocking my dream - boat,
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Someone's invading my dream.
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We were sailing along, so peaceful and calm;
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Suddenly, something went wrong.
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Someone's rocking my dream - boat,
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Disturbing a beautiful view.
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It's a myst'ry to me this mutiny at sea --
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Who can it be?
Bridge:
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A friendly breeze gave us a start
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To a paradise of our own;
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All at once a storm blew us apart
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And left me drift - ing a - lone.
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Someone's rocking my dream - boat,
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I'm captain without any crew.
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But love as my guide, I'll follow the tide
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I'll keep sailing 'til I find you.
*Suggested by two recent visitors -- one of whom told me it had not only been recorded by the Ink Spots, but by Bugs Bunny as well, in "Gorilla My Dreams." Months later, another visitor wrote it in to say it's true that Bugs sang it, but that the cartoon was actually 1946's "The Big Snooze." All of which illustrates what wierd things actually stick in our heads after all those years.
But don't laugh too hard about songs in cartoons-- if you give some thought to it, it will dawn on you just how much of the background music of cartoons and TV shows that appealed to us Baby Boomers as kids wasn't written for that medium at all..or even for us. The producers were secretly and deviously exposing us to good music. You need only remember the introduction to "The Lone Ranger" to realize that's true, because "The William Tell Overture" certainly wasn't written for a half-hour TV western.