At Daydream
Junior High School,
we used to harmonize
Me and Frankie
and Jimmy
and some Italian guy
We were singing oldies
but they were
newies then
And today when
I play my
old forty-fives
I remember when
We'd practice
in a subway,
in a lobby or a hall
Crowded in a doorway,
singing "doo wops"
to the wall
And if we went
to a party and they
wouldn't let us sing
We'd lock ourselves
in the bathroom
and nobody could get in
'Cos we were looking
for an echo
An answer
to our sound
A place to be
in harmony
A place we
almost found
And the girls would
gather 'round us
and our heads
would really swell
We'd sing songs
by the Moonglows,
the Harptones
and the Dells
And when we
sang "Sincerely"
we really sang it high
Even though it
was falsetto,
we almost
reached the sky...
We've sung
a lot of changes
since nineteen-fifty-five
And a lot of bad
arrangements we've
tried to harmonize
Now they've turned
into oldies
but they were
newies then
And today when I
play my old forty-fives
I remember when
We were looking
for an echo
An answer to our sound
A place to be
in harmony
A place we
almost found
Ooh ooh
We were looking
for an echo
An answer to our sound
A place to be
in harmony
A place we
almost found