Shirley Bassey - The Living Tree / Big Spender (Duet with Dame Edna) (2007 Live)

2007 (Dame Shirley Bassey appears on the Dame Edna Everage (Treatment) Show and performs an abridged version of one of her latest hits, 'The Living Tree' and then she follows with a Duet with Edna on 'Big Spender' - In 2007 when Shirley appeared on this show she just turned 70 yo, but you'd never know it as her vocals are still powerful and flawless. I don't know of anyone else this age who would ever attempt 'The Living Tree' but Shirley still makes it look easy. Dame Edna Everage has a fun way of putting down guests, and is always a bunch of laughs!

ABOUT the song, 'The Living Tree'
"The Living Tree" was written by Catherine Feeney and Nikki Lamborn from Never The Bride, who recorded the song for their 2002 album Surprise. It was a Top 40 hit for Dame Shirley Bassey in 2007. Nikki Lamborn and Catherine Feeney personally requested Bassey to record the song; they had left a copy of their recording at her gym in Monaco with a note saying they knew it was a song for her.

LYRICS:
Let me breathe
'Cause I'm drowning in your shadow
Let me leave
Respect me, do not follow me
Believe
I can make my own tomorrow
Let me breathe

Does it make
You feel good 'cause you own me?
Does it take
Your puppet strings to hold me?
How I ache
As you're trying to control me
Let me breathe

[Refrain]
Let me dance
'Til my shoes cry
Let me laugh
Let me be

Let me dance
Let me choose my life
Let me climb the living tree

Picture this
When you wake up in the morning
And I kiss
Your sorry ass goodbye
What would I miss?
There's nothing I can think of
As I leave

[Refrain]

[Guitar solo]

[Refrain]

Let me climb......
The living tree

ABOUT the song, Big Spender:
"Big Spender" is a song written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields for the musical Sweet Charity. It is sung, in the musical, by the dance hostess "girls"; it was choreographed by Bob Fosse for the Broadway musical and the film. It is "set to the beat of a striptease" as the girls "taunt" the customers.

A hit version of the song by Shirley Bassey reached #21 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1967. This version featured in the 2004 film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, and in the 2005 film Nynne. The song has become one of Bassey's signature songs. She has performed the song numerous times, most notably for the 80th birthday of Prince Philip. She also sang it at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival. The song was also featured on Shirley's recent, 'Get The Party Started' CD.

LYRICS - Big Spender:
The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of
distinction, a real big spender
Good looking, so refined
Say, wouldn't you like to know
what's going on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point
I don't pop my cork for every man I see
Hey big spender!
Spend a little time with me
Wouldn't you like to have fun, fun, fun?
How's about a few laughs, laughs?
I could show you a good time
Let me show you a good time

The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of
distinction, a real big spender
Good looking, so refined
Say, wouldn't you like to know
what's going on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point
I don't pop my cork for every man I see
Hey big spender!
Hey big spender!
Hey big spender!
Spend a little time with me
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