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Lover Man

music and lyrics: Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman (1941)
(6:06)

song in a concert in Bø (Norway) on January 26. 1999
song in a concert with the Silje Trio (Silje with Stian Carstensen and Thomas Strønen) on September 11. 1999

song in Silje's first TV appearance in Flimra's ('Flimra' was a programserie for adolescence) "Musikk landet rundt" on December 5. 1983, participating in a Hamar trio with Bård Slagsvold (piano) and Johannes Eik (acoustic bass)

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[text from the original TV registration]

I don’t know why, I feel so sad
I long to try something I never had
Never had no kissin’
Oh, what I’ve been missin’
Lover man, oh, where can you be?

The night is cold and I’m all alone
I’d give my soul just to call you my own
Got a moon above me
But nobody to love me
Lover man, oh, where where can you be?

I’ve heard it said
That the thrill of romance
Can be like oh heavenly dream
I go to bed with a prayer
That you shall make love
Oh, make love to me

Someday you’ll come
And you’ll dry all my tears
Then whisper sweet
Little things in my ear
Hugging and kissing
Oh, I say God what I've been missing
Lover man, oh, where where can you be?

<instrumental interlude>

I've heard it said
That the romance
Can be like oh heavenly dream
I go to bed with a prayer
That you tell me make love
Make make love to me

Someday you’ll come
And you’ll dry all my tears
And whisper sweet
Litte little things in my ear
Hugging and kissing
Oh, I say God what I've been missing
Lover man, where can you be?