Barbra Streisand - ACLU Tribute To Alan & Marilyn Bergman Lyrics

Lyrics ACLU Tribute To Alan & Marilyn Bergman - Barbra Streisand



Two of my favorite songs are "The way we were"
Um, you see, there's the one "The way we were" that you all know
From the movie "The way we were"
But there were two "Way we weres" because Marilyn and Alan being very creative and very prolific writers
Finished the song eight weeks before we needed it
And they said, "Well, gee, we never had the opportunity to write a second lyric to the same song"
So, they wrote another lyric to it
To another melody by the way by Marvin Hamlisch
I thought It'd be interesting to, you know, to sing it tonight
Because it wound up on the cutting room floor and
Tonight we figured we'd pick it up and
Sing the other "The way we were" which we don't call "Way we were 2"
But to distinguish it from "The way we were 1"
We call it "The way we weren't"
That's what we call it
When I wander through my mind
In corners I can find
The way we were
In the places memories see
I keep the day we were
The way we were
We were wistful, we were young
All the smiles of love were waiting in our eyes
And we were neither innocent nor wise
As we are now
No, we hope to make the memories last
But time's been known to change the past
Only in some yesterday we safely stay
The way we were
"Isn't that pretty?"
Can it be that it was all so simple then
Or has time rewritten every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we?
Could we?
Memories, may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So it's the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember
The way we were
The way we were, ooh



Writer(s): Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch


Barbra Streisand - Just for the Record...
Album Just for the Record...
date of release
18-10-1991

1 A Sleepin' Bee
2 Miss Marmelstein (I Can Get It for You Wholesale)
3 Happy Days Are Here Again (The Garry Moore Show)
4 I Hate Music
5 Cry Me A River
6 I Had Myself a True Love
7 Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (The Tonight Show)
8 My Honey's Lovin' Arms (The Barbra Streisand Album)
9 Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home (The Second Barbra Streisand Album)
10 When the Sun Comes Out (The Ed Sullivan Show)
11 Get Happy / Happy Days Are Here Again (Duet With Judy Garland)
12 I'm the Greatest Star (Funny Girl - Broadway)
13 My Man/Auld Lang Syne
14 1965 Emmy Awards
15 You Wanna Bet
16 Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead (Duet With Harold Arlen)
17 Belle Of 14th Street
18 Don't Rain On My Parade
19 1969 Academy Awards
20 Richard Rodgers
21 Hello, Dolly (With Louis Armstrong)
22 When You Gotta Go/In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning/Happy Days
23 We've Only Just Begun
24 Between Yesterday And Tomorrow
25 Cryin' Time (Duet With Ray Charles)
26 1977 Academy Awards
27 ACLU Tribute To Alan & Marilyn Bergman
28 Guilty
29 I Know Him So Well - Session Outake
30 Warm All Over




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