(O'Kun)
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I have got a minute, just a little minute,
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I have only got a minute, just minute,
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I have only got a minute that is all the time
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I have to sing this tiny minute waltz
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It isn't easy but I'll try it
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Than I gotta say goodbye
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But first I take a minute
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And put in it every note that Chopin wrote
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and I shall sing the little minute waltz
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And hope that I can sing with no faults
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and though it's difficult
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I'll give it every gust of air I got within in my body
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Hope that my performance will be very shiny
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Singing every note will not do wonders for my throat
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I probably will end up hoarse
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Of course I will have done it
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And a will for that I made
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That what I want is not the money
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but the satisfaction that I get
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from winning money on this silly kind of bet
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Though this kind of solo wasn't his intention
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Chopin isn't here to make an intervention
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So with your permission and no intermission
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I will sing each note that that composer wrote
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as you can hear my trilling isn't very thrilling
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but no one can say I wasn't very willing
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to attempt a thing that's not been done
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and just for fun to sing the minute waltz
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As I sing the seconds fly, oh too soon the minute waltzes by
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And now I ask you where am I halfway through the tune
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and I'm falling far behind
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I have less than 30 seconds
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less than 30 seconds
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less than 30
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less than half a minute
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I have less than 30 seconds
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I have less than half a minute
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to complete this little minute waltz
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And every note that's its score
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While the sands of time I know are pouring
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Let me win my bet and I'll run with the money
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Down to some drug store whare I will buy a honey
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Or a trophy for myself to put upon a shelf to show the world I've won
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Oh the second hand is rushing round the dial
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And though I'd like to end this torture with a smile
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Unless someone knows how to stop the clock
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you gonna see me cry before I said goodbye
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Eight little measures to complete this song
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But I'm afraid my little lungs will burst before to long if
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Only I can last the scale
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I won't have failed to sing the minute waltz!
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The Minute Waltz
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Barbra Streisand |