Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is a singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores.
Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from Newman's own biography. For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as a slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political Science" is a U.
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Gm In Germany before the war A/C# There was a man who owned a store CmGm In nineteen hundred thirty-four in Dusseldorf
Gm And every night at five-o-nine A/C# He'd cross the park down to the rhine CmGm And he'd sit there by the shore
Chorus: GmCm I'm looking at the river but I'm thinking of the sea DD# Thinking of the sea, Thinking of the sea GmCmDD# I'm looking at the river but I'm thinking of the sea
A little girl has lost her way With hair of gold and eyes of gray Reflected in his glasses As he watches her
A little girl has lost her way With hair of gold and eyes of gray
Chorus
We lie beneath the autumn sky My little golden girl and I And she lies very still