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Here are the lyrics of this song:

Full Attendance is Great! 

1 
Don't take holidays in term time!
Don't turn up to school late!
Don't get sick – lead a healthy life!
Full attendance is great!

Full attendance is, full attendance is, full attendance is great!
Full attendance is, full attendance is, full attendance is great!*

LA LA LA, LA LA LA,
LA LA LA, LA LA LA.

LA LA LA, LA LA LA,
LA LA LA, LA LA LA.

2
Don't sneeze over the rest of us!
Covering faces is best.
If we're off too much, we'll miss work,
Won't do well in a test.

Won't do well in a, won't do well in a, won't do well in a test.
Won't do well in a, won't do well in a, won't do well in a test.

LA LA LA, LA LA LA,
LA LA LA, LA LA LA.

LA LA LA, LA LA LA,
LA LA LA, LA LA LA.

3
Keep the list of our At School dates somewhere that you can see.
Don't confuse our work days with breaks.
Be here when you should be.

Be here when you should, be here when you should, be here when you should be.
Be here when you should, be here when you should, be here when you should be.

LA LA LA, LA LA LA,
LA LA LA, LA LA LA.

LA LA LA, LA LA LA,
LA LA LA, LA LA LA.

4: the same as 1, ending at * 



Full Attendance Is Great! - Clip (See too American English version: Perfect Attendance Is Great!)

MP3
There is a vocal version, too:  https://soundcloud.com/laurence_conway/ok-i-get-it-vocal-version

OK, I Get It! (instrumental)

WAV
There is a vocal version, too:  https://soundcloud.com/laurence_conway/ok-i-get-it-vocal-version


YOU STRIDE MAGNIFICENTLY

Words and Music by Laurence Conway
© (all rights reserved) Laurence Conway, 2016

Rock Ballad

BPM 65

1:

Every single word of this song is colored by what you’ve done – and still do
You turned my life around by the way you are – just simply by being you

I can’t fathom how I survived all that time before you arrived
I’m just so fortunate you led me out of my gloom, and into a much, much happier room

Chorus:

YOU STRIDE MAGNIFICENTLY through my song, leaving your footprints everywhere, everywhere
And I’m certain that I’ll never – now or future – feel the least bit inclined to remove them

[8 bars link]

2:

I wouldn’t want this song to be about anyone else but you – and that’s true
Your influence is clear in my positive thoughts – my outlook on life’s renewed

I can’t fathom how I survived all that time before you arrived
I’m just so fortunate you led me out of my gloom, and into a much, much happier room

YOU STRIDE MAGNIFICENTLY through my song, leaving your footprints everywhere, everywhere
And I’m certain that I’ll never – now or future – feel the least bit inclined to remove them

YOU STRIDE MAGNIFICENTLY through my song, leaving your footprints everywhere, everywhere
And I’m certain that I’ll never – now or future – feel the least bit inclined to remove them

You Stride Magnificently

CATCH YOU LATER (Longer Version)

Words and Music by Laurence Conway
© (all rights reserved) Laurence Conway, 2016

Jazz Ballad
BPM 80

CATCH YOU LATER
Say about one million years from now
Wond'rin' what I'm talkin' about?
Don't look quite so mystified!
Caught you out!

CATCH YOU LATER
Say when I'm long over you - that's when
When my world has moved on around
And a whole new love I have found
That's the time...

...the pain of now won't seem as bad
Not by that happy chapter

CATCH YOU LATER
Say about one healed-up heart from now
If you're struggling, won't want to know
I'll delight in telling you so
Cos caught you out
Without a doubt
So CATCH YOU LATER
Much, much later

Instrumental Break

CATCH YOU LATER
Say about one healed-up heart from now
If you're struggling, won't want to know
I'll delight in telling you so
Cos caught you out
Without a doubt
So CATCH YOU LATER

Catch You Later - longer version remaster

Instrumental version of Simple Life Is Quite Alright:  SLIQA for short

Simple Life Is Quite Alright (SLIQA) - Instrumental

PHYSICAL EXPRESSION
Words, Music and © (all rights reserved) Laurence Conway, 2016

BPM 140

Verse 1:

Eggs and grits, let’s put on hold
Coffee beeped – let’s take it cold
Mine’s a raging appetite
But it ain’t for food and drink
What d’ya think?...

Chorus 1:

…Let’s indulge in PHYSICAL EXPRESSION
Go back to bed for PHYSICAL EXPRESSION
Just feed this urge for PHYSICAL EXPRESSION instead
Oo
Yeah

Verse 2:

So let’s not dress to face the day
To hell with work! – we’ll stay away
Sure they’ll manage fine without us
They’ll just fill in, you know
Let’s not go

Chorus 2:  as before

Verse 3:

We’ll take a chance, make an excuse
Just this once won’t tell the truth
There’s a million others do it
Let’s just ‘phone in, sound rough
Fair enough?

Chorus 3:  as before

Guitar solo (12 bars), adding at start of 1st bar (spoken):  Mmm---!

Chorus 4:

Yeah let’s indulge in PHYSICAL EXPRESSION
Go back to bed for PHYSICAL EXPRESSION
Just feed this urge for PHYSICAL EXPRESSION instead
Oo
Yeah

Chorus 5:

So let’s indulge in PHYSICAL EXPRESSION
Go back to bed for PHYSICAL EXPRESSION
Just feed this urge for PHYSICAL EXPRESSION instead
(Spoken) Ah---!

Physical Expression

Sun Roof (instrumental)

Country ballad reminiscent of some of Doctor Hook's material,
such as "A Little Bit More" (1976) but still as relevant today.

Lyrics:

DON'T TRY TO CHANGE ME!

Words and Music by Laurence Conway
© (all rights reserved) Laurence Conway, 2017

Country
BPM 85

Verse 1:

I can do tender
You can do warm
Our one-on-one times are oh so precious
But cold light of day you're pressuring me to rein in
Don't jeopardize!

Verse 2:

When you were not yet part of my life
I did some things that gave me great pleasure
And now we're a pair won't stop doing them
Why should I?
Hell why should I?!

Chorus:

DON'T TRY TO CHANGE ME!
Just suppress that urge
Still need to run with my buds
Still need playin' like crazy
I want you to stay my 'significant other'
But you're not my mother
So don't you try to change me
You'd alienate me
DON'T TRY TO CHANGE ME!

Verse 3:

I'll share your straight-laced
You share my wild
We'll mix and match yet retain identities
Accept me as I'm accepting of you
Seems quite fair
Perfectly fair

Repeat Chorus

Repeat Chorus 3 semitones higher

Don't Try To Change Me (vocalist:  Laurence Conway)

TOT'LLY IMMUNE TO LOVE

Words, Music & © (all rights reserved) Laurence Conway, 2018

Country Rock-Funk

BPM 85

LYRICS:

Chorus:

Diff'rent girl ev'ry week
I'm livin' on Dumped Again Street
TOT'LLY IMMUNE TO LOVE
Know it sounds kinda bleak
My love-life's a losin' streak
TOT'LLY IMMUNE TO LOVE

Verse 1:

Politics and Sport I'm like an expert
But grind to a halt when the subject's Women

Repeat Chorus

Verse 2:

Drinks get sunk I join in on the Girl thing
But don't fool myself
Know I'm stuck up on Love Immunity Shelf

Repeat Chorus twice, 2nd time last line x2

Tot'lly Immune To Love

Cross song

EVERYONE’S A CRITIC

Words, Music & © (all rights reserved) Laurence Conway, 2018

Verse 1:

“Those clothes do you no favors cos they just accentuate bits you should hide
And when you talk take rough edges off your voice a tad
You should do that - sound more refined”

Chorus:

EVERYONE’S A CRITIC
Giving it their big “I know better than you”
Makes me fume when it’s not true
Turns me to a cynic
Most of what they say – I just treat it like spam
Flush it outa my program

Verse 2:

“You’re the first one to down your drinks
Each new acquaintance thinks you’re such a lush
And in your car use your mirrors more when you reverse
S’ppose some drive worse in this universe!”

Repeat Chorus

Verse 3:

Some opinions deserve respect
Lend them my ear and yet still filter out parts that don’t suit
Base that choice on my experience
I stay polite – I smile despite…

Repeat Chorus

[4 bars instrumental bridge]

Repeat Chorus twice

Everyone's A Critic

Don't Get Me Started! - Instrumental Version

LET’S STAY IN TOUCH

Words, Music and © - All Rights Reserved - Laurence Conway, 2019

A positive breakup song

Verse 1:

When love ends
Best change to friends
Friends who care
And make amends

Pre-chorus (only here):

Here’s my try
First overture
My pitch to smooth things better

Chorus:

LET’S STAY IN TOUCH
Then when we’ve problems and it’s hard to solve them
Tough, real-life issues
We can ask each other to help resolve them
Let’s do that ‘cause we reached sweet ecstasy
while sharing days and nights romantically
Though not now in love as such
LET’S STAY IN TOUCH

Verse 2:

When hands reached stop on love’s sad clock
Kept you in Contacts
Keep me
Please do that

Repeat Chorus, last two lines twice

Let's Stay In Touch

Topical (always)

I ONLY HOPE YOUR FINGER DON’T PRESS

Words, Music and © - All Rights Reserved - Laurence Conway, 2020

Country Folk
BPM 90

Got all the talk
Got the sabers to rattle
Strong rhetoric
Swear would win ev’ry battle
You got your hand on the button that counts
I ONLY HOPE YOUR FINGER DON’T PRESS

Dear Head of State at the top of the table
Well I for one ain’t set to meet with the angels
You got your mitt on the button that counts
I ONLY HOPE YOUR FINGER DON’T PRESS

Big explosion!
Oo ee oo
I only hope that Armageddon to you
You pledge to solve unemployment
But who cares
If no-one’s left
Not even the millionaires?

Dear Head of State at the top of the table
Well I for one ain’t set to meet with the angels
You got your duke on the button that counts
I ONLY HOPE YOUR FINGER DON’T PRESS

Big explosion!
Oo ee oo
I only hope that Armageddon to you
You pledge to solve unemployment
But who cares
If no-one’s left
Not even the millionaires?

Dear Head of State at the top of the table
Well I for one ain’t set to meet with the angels
You got your paw on the button that counts
I ONLY HOPE YOUR FINGER DON’T PRESS
Yes I do
I ONLY HOPE YOUR twitchy FINGER DON’T PRESS
(spoken) Goodnight!

I Only Hope Your Finger Don't Press

Love Forever (Instrumental)

IT'S WHAT I WANT!

Words, Music and © - All Rights Reserved – Laurence Conway, 2017

1960s Motown influenced

Lively – BPM 160 initially - see DETAILS OF TEMPO CHANGES (given after the lyrics)

1:

Do we read each other right or just think we do?
Do we share the same in terms of our feelings?
How deep do they run with you?
Do we dance to our same beat?
Tread the same yearning street?

Don’t want chill
I want heat
Want save not delete
I want full song not the sample
Just begin's bitter-sweet
You lovin' me long's what I want

Chorus:

Your love
IT'S WHAT I WANT babe
Guessin' you know that, don't ya?
Your love
IT'S WHAT I WANT babe
It's again I told ya

2:

Talk to me
I'm gonna hang on your ev'ry word
What you say may change the shape of our future
- decide where we go from here
- both one path or watch it divide
Here with ears open wide!

Won't you please make a start?
Just speak from your heart?
My own cards are on the table
Show the hand that you hold
I'd like us to play on, not fold

Chorus x4

You know that your lovin'
IT'S WHAT I WANT



IT’S WHAT I WANT! – DETAILS OF TEMPO CHANGES:

Note that BPM - initially 160 - changes from section to section.

Details:

Bars 1 - 31: 160
Bars 32 - 36: 145
Bars 37 - 68: Back to 160
Bars 69 - 72: 140 (slightly slower than the 1st time)
Bars 73 - 104: 165 (slightly faster than the 1st time)
Bar 105: 155 (slightly slower for breaking effect)
Bars 106 - 108: Back to 140
Bars 109 - 114 (end): 135 (rather slower than same section previously - maintained on Coda)

It's What I Want!

Bouncing Steel

Bouncing Steel.WAV

A new Rock song of mine that I'd like to place with an appropriate artist/band

Lyrics are below:

CLUTCHING AT STRAWS
Words, Music and © (All Rights Reserved) Laurence Conway, 2020

Rock

BPM 112

Verse 1:

She stroked my cheek with her rain-sodden mitten
I held her close to my soaked overcoat
Then kissed her poor nose that was blue from the icy cold

Verse 2:

She’s landed job – real estate in Australia
Said “Here’s the thing.  I’ll be there for two years”
And so to reverse her done deal I must clutch at straws

Chorus:

I’ll clutch at straws cos “I love ya - please stay!” don’t cut it
I must resort to now CLUTCHING AT STRAWS

Verse 3:

Some hold a job just to keep them from starving
But no she’s gotta be this go get ’em sales girl
And move half ‘round world with her “Buy from us!” flag unfurled 

Verse 4:

My plan – I will write “Out of Date” in her passport
And burn all her clothes so she’s nothing to wear
Then fall to my knees in an act of abject despair 

Chorus twice

Clutching At Straws

YOU’RE MY TRUE LOVE SONG
Words, Music and © (All Rights Reserved) Bryan Tribble and Laurence Conway, 2020

Country

Moderately (BPM 88)

Verse 1:

I could write a million songs to tell you how I feel
I could buy a thousand things
Each precious to the world
Still all those could never reveal how I really feel
Here’s the truth now baby
You’re my love song

Chorus:

Baby YOU’RE MY TRUE LOVE SONG
You’re everything in the world to me
You give me hope and inspiration
I’m down on my knees
Baby you are the true love song to me

Verse 2:

When first laid my eyes on you one thing I realised
It was you been waiting for
As made up as that sounds
Loved your looks
But loved your voice too
You’re music to my ears
Here’s the truth now baby
You’re my love song

Repeat Chorus twice

You are the true love song to me

You're My True Love Song

Feel Good, Light-hearted....Here are the lyrics:

SWEET START OLD FAMILIAR CAR

Words, Music and Copyright (All Rights Reserved) Laurence Conway, 2020

Lively Country

BPM 130

Verse 1:

Since I bought her ain’t no oil spill ice or pothole makes her swerve off
Her steering is sound
Fully functioning suspension
But the best thing ‘bout my car is how she starts
Gotta give her credit
She’s a senior gal who’s still able to get fired up

Chorus:

I love my SWEET START OLD FAMILIAR CAR
Flaking chrome
Muffler dangling low
Love that she drives me where I wanna go
Love that just turn her key and then 99 per cent she starts

Won’t trade my SWEET START OLD FAMILIAR CAR
Be like cheat on a lady that would
Ain’t just my wheels
She’s comfort blanket too
Sweet when just turn her key and then 99 per cent she starts

Verse 2:

Sure I do swear
On occasion
Mean that 1 per cent in my car
But then I cool down and speak calmly to her
Tell her “Yes I know you’re tired right now dear but need your help to get rollin’ outa here”
Then next 99 times she purrs just like she’s factory fresh

Repeat Chorus (as above)

Verse 3:

My girl’s like my car
99 per cent we’re great
It’s rare that we ain’t
Relationship works
Goes from special to ecstatic
Second thoughts my car’s real lovely
But she don’t do what my girl do for me
Hell with old car's appeal!
I’ll buy a NEW car today

Final Chorus:

I love my SWEET START OLD FAMILIAR CAR
Flaking chrome
Muffler dangling low
Love that she drives me where I wanna go
Love that just turn her key and then 99 per cent she starts

I love my SWEET START OLD FAMILIAR CAR
Flaking chrome
Muffler dangling low
Love that she drives me where I wanna go
Love that just turn her key and then 99 per cent she starts

Ending – vocal only:

I love my SWEET START OLD FAMILIAR CAR

Sweet Start Old Familiar Car

Politicians from the perspective of (some) of the electorate
Lyrics:

KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD

Words, Music and © - All Rights Reserved - Laurence Conway, 2019

BPM 142

1:

There’s this cheap n’ cheerful game kids on our street play
Call it KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD
But now our politicians choose to behave like kids
when they KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD big time
Their default: “We can’t decide.  We’d best delay”
means they KICK THE CAN conveniently DOWN THE ROAD
And so it goes!

2:

We’re hard-pressed to spot a backbone
It’s what most of them lack
So they KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD
If we shirked responsibility like them we’d be sacked
Yet they KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD so much
Plain to see our politics has reached new low
when they KICK THE CAN repeatedly DOWN THE ROAD
Long grass it goes!

Repeat 1

Kick The Can Down The Road

Laurence Conway writes songs and instrumentals in various genres for placement with suitable artists and soundtrack/sync/other uses.  He writes lyrics (where applicable) and music - he is also open to collaborating.
Obtain his Children's Educational Songs: "Songs for Positive Schools" (the whole range) from his website http://songsforpositiveschools.com and (some of them) from http://songsforteaching.com.  Hear clips and read the lyrics of them all right here at https://soundcloud.com/laurence_conway/sets/songs-for-positive-schools-clips-of-them-all.

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