Barbra Streisand

Released: June 29, 1993

Songwriter: Stephen Sondheim

Producer: Barbra Streisand David Foster

Everybody says don't
Everybody says don't
Everybody says
Don't it isn't right
Don't it isn't nice
Everybody says don't
Everybody says don't
Everybody says
Don't walk on the grass
Don't disturb the peace
Don't skate on the ice

Well, I say do
I say
Walk on the grass
It was meant to feel
I say sail
Tilt at the windmill
And if you fail you fail

Everybody says don't
Everybody says don't
Everybody says
Don't get out of line
When they say that then
Lady, that's a sign
Nine times out of ten
Lady, you're doing just fine

Make just a ripple
Come on be brave
This time a ripple
Next time a wave

Sometimes you have to start small
Climbing the tiniest wall
Maybe you're going to fall
But it's better than not starting at all

Everybody says no
Stop mustn't rock the boat
Mustn't touch a thing

Everybody says don't
Everybody says wait
Everybody says can't fight city hall
Can't upset the court
Can't laugh at the king

Well, I say try
I say
Laugh at the king till it makes you cry
Lose your poise
Fall if you have to
But lady make a noise
Yes

Everybody says don't
Everybody says can't
Everybody says wait around for miracles
That's the way the world is made

I insist on miracles
If you do them
Miracles
Knock on to them
I say don't
Don't be afraid

Barbra Streisand is an Oscar-winning, Tony-winning, Emmy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Broadway legend, film star, movie director and one of the biggest-selling recording artists of all time - a staggering amount of accomplishments for someone whose mother insisted she not to go into show business.

By the time she was sixteen, she’d graduated high school and was living on her own in Manhattan. After winning a talent contest at a gay bar on West 9th Street, Streisand’s ‘spellbinding’ voice quickly became popular at New York clubs and in Broadway shows. After appearances on a number of popular television shows including The Tonight Show, Streisand signed with Columbia Records and released several top 10 albums in the 1960s, scoring two US top 40 hits with “People” and “Second Hand Rose”.

Her success as a recording artist continued through the 1970s with several more gold/platinum-certified albums and four US “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, “No More Tears”, the Oscar-winning “The Way We Were”, and the Academy Award-winning “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)”. The 1980s would begin with Streisand’s biggest-selling release of her career Guilty, a collaborative effort with BeeGees member Barry Gibb. It topped the albums chart in several countries and as did its lead single “Woman In Love”.

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