(You've Got To) Sing It Nice And Loud For Me Sonny

(album: Basic - 1978)

Well, I was a little baby way back in the country
I heard Buddy Holly singing Peggy Sue
Ever'body told me someday you'll be bigger
We've seen you doing ever'thing that man can do
And ever'body told me

You've got to sing it nice and loud for me sonny
You've got to sing it nice and loud for me
You've got to sing it nice and loud for me sonny, yeah

Well he said what's your name, mine is Al and I'm from Brooklyn
I set around and smoke a big cigar
You just do the singing son and boy I'll do the thinking
And we can make enough to pay for my car
You just remember boy

You've got to sing it nice and loud for me sonny
You've got to sing it nice and loud for me
You've got to sing it nice and loud for me sonny, yeah

Well, so I sang out in many tiny places
I mean way, way out where the buffalo roam
I saw many things I was filled with awesome wonder
Wonder awesome day when I make it back home

Listening to the people boy
You've got to sing it nice and loud for me sonny
You've got to sing it nice and loud for me
You've got to sing it nice and loud for me sonny

Yeah, you just listen to the people boy
And you sing it nice and loud for me sonny
You got to sing it nice and loud for me
You've got to sing it nice and loud for me sonny, yeah
You just listen to the people, yeah