Golden Earring: The Best Of Golden Earring

 

Record Info:

 

Manufactured: Karussell
Catalogue Number: 2499 053
Released: 1974
Produced by Freddie Haayen
Printed in Germany by Gerhard Kaiser
Recorded by Polydor Nederland

 

Side 1

 

Buddy Joe (3:55) (1972)
(G. Kooymans)

She Flies On Strange Wings, Part 1 (4:30) (1971)
(G. Kooymans)

This Is The Time Of The Year (3:36) (1970)
(G. Kooymans)

Gipsy Rhapsody (3:19) (1968)
(R. Gerritsen / G. Kooymans)

Landing (4:26) (1970)
(R. Gerritsen)

Stand By Me (4:30) (1972)
(G. Kooymans)
 

Side 2

 

Back Home (3:49) (1970)
(G. Kooymans)

The Wall Of Dolls (3:34) (1970)
(M. Gerritsen / B. Hay)

Born A Second Time (2:37) (1968)
(R. Gerritsen / G. Kooymans)

Big Tree Blue Sea (6:09) (1970)
(G. Kooymans / B. Hay)

One Huge Road (3:04) (1969)
(G. Kooymans)

See See (3:10) (1970)
(B. Hay)

 

Record Sleeve Front

Record Sleeve Back

Record Label Side 1

 

Record Label Side 2

1.1 - Buddy Joe

Let me tell you about Buddy Joe
When he came down from Mexico
With his pockets full of gold
With his pockets full of gold

Have you something to declare
Are you sure there is nothing there
And if there is, don't say
You're not been told
You're not been told

Oh Buddy Joe, what have you done with the gold
Oh Buddy Joe, what have you done with the gold
What have you done with the gold
Well, I don't really know

Well Buddy Joe searched all his life
Through Mexico all the riversides
Not for the money but for the gold
He needs to hold

Well Buddy Joe proud as he was
Couldn't stand all the fuss
When they got to all his gold
He was ready to go
He was ready to go

Oh Buddy Joe, what have you done with the gold
Oh Buddy Joe, what have you done with the gold
What have you done with the gold
Well, I don't really know.

He’ll understand he has no change
Everybody was shouting commands
When Buddy Joe said in a hurry
And he was ready to be buried whole
He was ready to be buried

Oh Buddy Joe, what have you done with the gold
Oh Buddy Joe, what have you done with the gold
Oh Buddy Joe, what have you done with the gold
Oh Buddy Joe, what have you done with the gold
Oh Buddy Joe, what have you done with the gold
Oh Buddy Joe, what have you done with the gold

1.2 - She Flies On Strange Wings, Part 1

Lonely is the night without you
Just as lonely as the shepherd without sheep
And where flies the falcon in the high sweet air
Without hunting in the Sprain Valleys deer

She wears softness as a gown
She spreads magic all around
Her feathers still untouched
She takes nothing and she gives so much

She flies on strange wings
She flies on strange winds
She brings strange things
She flies on strange wings.

She takes off when she desires
Silence grows on her lips
She can bring you so much higher
She spreads love on all her trips yeah

She flies on strange wings
She flies on strange winds
She brings strange things
She flies on strange wings.

1.3 - This Is The Time Of The Year

This is the time of the year
that love is coming unexpectedly
Knocking on your door
Begging to come in
Baby won’t you spread your wings
Won’t you come on down
and follow me

And if you do, you’re like an arrow
and I’m your only bow
Baby, baby, and I can shoot you higher
Than you would ever go

This is the time of the year
This is the time of the year
This is the time of the year
This is the time of the year

Thinking about you baby, baby baby
I see mountains flying
I hear dark woods sighing
My love is getting higher
Won’t you come on down
and follow me

This is the time of the year
and I dance with you on a silver string
and after feeling music
We both fly into the world
and I’m the only man
who could ever reach you

This is the time of the year
This is the time of the year
This is the time of the year
This is the time of the year

1.4 - Gipsy Rhapsody

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1.5 - Landing

When daylight and night time feel the same
It’s time for your mind to play a game
Close all your eyes and touch the air
Reach for the hand that must be there

You know how it close you
And you know how it is
You can hide away from reality
and you can’t escape

Yesterday I felt it
and the first thing I thought
Never let go
I held it as close as I could
When it didn’t grow like it should
and then, after hours, I opened my head
Found myself back on the floor near my bed
Nothing has changed, it was all the same again

Oh, yeah,........

When daylight and night time feel the same
It’s time for your mind to play a game
Close all your eyes and touch the air
Reach for the hand that must be there

You know how it close you
And you know how it is
You can hide away from reality
and you can’t escape

1.6 - Stand By Me

I don’t care if you need more lovin’
More than I can give you everyday
I don’t mind if you sleep all over town
If you only care for me, than I don’t have to say
Stand by me, stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me

I don’t mind if you need more money
Go out with friends and dance all night
And give your body when you’re stoned and wasted
When you’re with me, I want you on my side
Stand by me, stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me

I don’t care if you drive my car
and go ridin’ with some rock ‘n roll star
You wanna make love and you tell him you’re free
But when we’re together, please stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me

Stand by me, stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me

 

2.1 - Back Home

Going back right through the cities
Through the country, rivers so pretty
People wonder why I’m going back home
Just the place where I belong
Back home

Well I’m around the world rambler
Just a fortune gambler
It’s always good to be back home

Well I’m around the world rambler
Just a fortune gambler
It’s always good to be back home

Round and round
The world goes round
Got my friends in every town
From border to border every place I’ve been
I’ve gotta be back if you know what I mean
Back home, Back Home, Back Home
Back home

Well I’m around the world rambler
Just a fortune gambler
It’s always good to be back home

Well I’m around the world rambler
Just a fortune gambler
It’s always good to be back home

2.2 - The Wall Of Dolls

This is the wall of dolls
Secret world of smalls
Look at them all my friend
You'll be one of them in the end

Frozen smiles and frowns
Lives of ups and downs
Aren't you - Aren't we all
Part of the wall of dolls

Listen to the puppet clown
His tales might bring you down
Hang dwarfs and trolls
Hang on the wall of dolls

This is the wall of dolls
Secret world of smalls
Look at them all my friend
You'll be on of them in the end

2.3 - Born A Second Time

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2.4 - Big Tree Blue Sea

Morning sunshine, praise the earth
Fill your glass with wine and dirt
I don't mind - I'm the big tree
I don't mind - I'm the blue sea

Paper castle filled with words
Limbo policeman leads the herd
I don't mind - I'm the big tree
I don't mind - I'm the blue sea

I'm sun, I'm warm, I'm child of the moon
Ever when it's dark, I'll send the dune
Can't you hear there's fishermen laughing
The whale dips down, I hear him crying for me

I'm shade, I'm good, I'm beams in June
Ever when it's dark, I'll light your room
Don't you know the clown has feelings
He's talking revolution, secret meetings
Who's free?

Who’s free? Who’s Free?

Morning sunshine, praise the earth
Fill your glass with blood and dirt
I don't mind - I'm the big tree
I don't mind - I'm the blue sea

2.5 - One Huge Road

Sunshine, I’m late back and happy
I wish I could stay here forever
When the sun’s gone
I just can’t be lazy
Gotta move on, to see my baby
So I pack my things and I’m going
to the highway, going on my way
Gotta move on, the road is much too long
Too long
One huge road for one

Sunshine, I’m late back and happy
I wish I could stay here forever
When the sun’s gone
I just can’t be lazy
Gotta move on, to see my baby
So I pack my things and I’m going
to the highway, going on my way
Gotta move on, the road is much too long
Too long
One huge road for one

Da da da .............................

2.6 - See See

He was the only key
She was the only door
What more could they please

Her eyes are ponds of blue
His wishes all came true
What was there to loose in the midnight

See, see, see, he said
Seagulls screamin’ down in the morning sky
Gee, gee, gee, he said
Come on girl, let’s leave this world behind

But then, after weeks
The weeks they got weak
Little did they speak about the future

Her eyes still were blue
But thoughts soon got black
Time that he went back to where he came from

See, see, see, she said
Broken dreames fill the starless night
Gee, gee, gee, she said
and her tears were sparklin’ bright in the mornin’ light