Just Once in my Life

I wanna to listen to Beefheart while looking up at the northern lights

Take you Dancing on a Mississippi steamboat on a starry starry night

Topkapi museum, Taj Mahal and Jellystone park

All these things I’d like to try

Just once in my life

Before I die

Check out the Apollo in downtown Harlem

Or hear Pavarotti way down in Covent Garden

Maybe I’ll just Sit in with a kicking little band at Ronnie Scott’s

All these things I’d like to try

Just once in my life

Before I die

Go see Michelangelo in Florence, Van Gogh and Monet getting down at Le Louvre in style

Make love on a sweltering afternoon, whilst drifting slowly down the Nile

Smoke a cigar in Havana, I think that’ll make you smile

All these things I’d like to try

Just once in my life

Before I die

Have breakfast with Tiffany, lunch’s a salt beef bagel in Brick Lane

Let’s go for dinner at La Gavrouche let Michel Roux Junior take the blame

Take the time to learn more magic tricks for the kids

All these things I’d like to try

Just once in my life

Before I die

What’s to stop me Water skiing around Sydney Harbour

Take me to the Mardi Gras, I Might even Learn to cha cha cha

Then we’ll Listen to the jazz on Basin St. ‘til it’s real late and our time to sleep

All these things I’d like to try

Just once in my life

Before I die

April in Paris, Autumn in New York

Dance naked in the rain on some plain way over in Spain

Why I want to do all this stuff I really really really can’t explain

There’s all these things I’d like to try

Just once in my life

Before I die.

Song Lyrics by Maxwell Saxty