Songwriter: Robin Gibb Barry Gibb
Producer: Ossie Byrne Robert Stigwood
On a hill , inside a house in covewell reach
Stands a man who's feeling very tired
Looking at a song he wrote some time ago
Could have made it big inside a broadway show
Every day I go away and find ideas
Think, I'll climb on top of somewhere high
Couldn't I write a song about a man who's dead
Didn't really know if he was off his head
Ev'rybody knows, that's the way it goes
Too bad for gilbert green
We can tell the world that he was right
Sitting in his attic on a sunny day
Mending 50 goblets that are worn
Humming to himself a song of yesteryear
His hearing wasn't good but his eyes were clear
Ev'rybody knows, that's the way it goes
Too bad for gilbert green
We can tell the world that he was right
Now the house is burnt along with gilbert green
Sad to see his sisters stand and cry
And in the basement lies a song that wasn't seen
Tells the tale of laughing men and yellow beans
Ev'rybody knows, that's the way it goes
Too bad for gilbert green
Now we can tell the world that he was right
Stands a man who's feeling very tired
Looking at a song he wrote some time ago
Could have made it big inside a broadway show
Every day I go away and find ideas
Think, I'll climb on top of somewhere high
Couldn't I write a song about a man who's dead
Didn't really know if he was off his head
Ev'rybody knows, that's the way it goes
Too bad for gilbert green
We can tell the world that he was right
Sitting in his attic on a sunny day
Mending 50 goblets that are worn
Humming to himself a song of yesteryear
His hearing wasn't good but his eyes were clear
Ev'rybody knows, that's the way it goes
Too bad for gilbert green
We can tell the world that he was right
Now the house is burnt along with gilbert green
Sad to see his sisters stand and cry
And in the basement lies a song that wasn't seen
Tells the tale of laughing men and yellow beans
Ev'rybody knows, that's the way it goes
Too bad for gilbert green
Now we can tell the world that he was right
more tracks from the album
Bee Gees’ 1st
- New York Mining Disaster 1941
- One Minute Woman
- Holiday
- Turn of the Century
- In My Own Time
- Craise Finton Kirk Royal Academy of Arts
- Please Read Me
- House of Lords
- Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You
- Gilbert Green
- Close Another Door
- I Close My Eyes
- I Can’t See Nobody
- Cucumber Castle
- To Love Somebody
- Red Chair, Fade Away
From the album
- Bee Gees’ 1st (1967)
Bee Gees popular songs
- How Deep Is Your Love
- Stayin’ Alive
- You Should Be Dancing
- To Love Somebody
- I Started a Joke
- More Than a Woman
- Too Much Heaven
- Night Fever
- Words
- Tragedy
- Islands in the Stream
- How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
- Massachusetts
- Emotion
- You Win Again
- New York Mining Disaster 1941
- Alone
- I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You
- Holiday
- Love You Inside Out
- Nights on Broadway
- Rest Your Love on Me
- World
- Jive Talkin’