Songwriter: Frank Wilson Vincent DiMirco Don Raye Hughie Prince Buzzy Linhart Mark “Moogy” Klingman

Producer: Aaron Russo Arif Mardin Lew Hahn

[Up the Ladder to the Roof]
Come with me, come with me
And we shall run across the sky

We illuminate the night
Oh, I, I will try and guide you
To better times and brighter days
Just don't be afraid

Come on up the ladder to the roof
Where we can see heaven much better
Let's go up the ladder to the roof
Where we can be closer to heaven

Stay with me, stay with me
And we shall let expression sing
Hear freedom ringin'
Ohhh, memories of yesterday's broken dreams
Hey, don't you know, don't you know
That they are gonna fade away?
Don't be afraid

Come on up the ladder to the roof
Where we can see heaven much better
Let's go up the ladder to the roof
Where we can be closer to heaven

We'll laugh, I'll tell you the story of love
How it is, the happiness in it, baby
Combine these thoughts and together we'll travel
To the fountain of lovingness
I will never, never, never, never
Never leave you, baby
As we grow older and older and older, babe

Stand with song and sing:
Say, don't you wanna go?
Say, don't you wanna go?
Say, don't you wanna go?
Say, don't you wanna go?
Say, don't you wanna go?
Say, don't you wanna go?
Say, don't you wanna go?
Say, don't you wanna go

Up the ladder to the roof
Where we can see heaven much better
Let's go up the ladder to the roof
Where we can be closer to heaven

Let's go up the, up the, up the ladder to heaven
Heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven

[Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy]
He was a famous trumpet man from out Chicago way
He had a boogie style that no one else could play
He was the top man at his craft
But then his number came up, and he was gone with the draft
He's in the Army now, a-blowin' Reveille
He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B

They made him blow a bugle for his Uncle Sam
It really brought him down because he could not jam
The Captain seemed to understand
Because the next day the Cap' went out and drafted a band
And now the Company jumps when he plays Reveille
He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B

A-root, a-toot, a-toot-diddely-ada-toot
He blows it eight-to-the-bar, in boogie rhythm
He can't blow a note unless the bass and guitar is playin' with 'im
A-ha-ha-hand the company jumps when he plays Reveille
He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B

He was some boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B
And when he plays boogie-woogie bugle he was busy as a "bzzzy" bee
And when he plays he makes the company jump eight-to-the-bar
He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B

A toot-diddelyada, toot-diddelyada, toot-toot
He blows it eight-to-the-bar
Can't blow a note if the bass and guitar isn't with 'im
A-ha-ha-hand the Company jumps when he plays Reveille
He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B

(Bugle solo)

He puts the boys to sleep with boogie every night
And wakes 'em up the same way in the early bright
They clap their hands, and stamp their feet
'Cause they know how he blows when someone gives him a beat
Whoa-whoa he breaks it up when he plays Reveille
The boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B

A-root, a toot, a-toot-diddely-ada-doot to-to-toot
He blows, eight to the bar
He can blow a note if the bass and guitar isn't, whoa, with him
And the company jumps when he plays Reveille
He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B!

[Friends]
And I am all alone
There is no one here beside me
And my problems have all gone
There is no one to deride me

But yah got to have friends
The feeling's oh so strong
Yah got to have friends
To make that day last long

I had some friends but they're gone
Somethin' came and took them away
And from the dusk 'til the dawn
Here is where I'll stay

Standing at the end of the road, boys
Waiting for my new friends to come
I don't care if I'm hungry or poor
I'm gonna get me some of them

'Cause you got to have friends
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, friends
That's right you, oh you, yeah you
I said you gotta have some friends
I'm talkin' about friends, that's right, friends
Friends, friends, friends

I had some friends, oh, but they're all gone, gone
Somethin' came and snatched them away
And from the dusk until the ran ran dawn, you know
Here is where I gotta stay, here is where I gotta stay

And I'm standing at the end of a real long road
And I'm waiting for my new friends to come
I don't care if I'm hungry or freezin' cold
I'm gonna get me some of them

'Cause you gotta have friends
That's right, friends, friends
I gotta get my, I gotta get my, I gotta get my
Look around and see all of my friends
Oh, friends, that's right, friends, friends
Friends, friends, friends, friends, oh
Friends, you gotta have friends...

Bette Midler

Bette Midler is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, comedienne and actress. Named in honor of Bette Davis, Midler’s career began performing off-broadway until she developed the stage persona The Divine Miss M while singing at the world-famous Continental Baths gay bathhouse. A pre-fame Barry Manilow, the venue’s in-house piano player, produced her Grammy-nominated debut album which scored three US top 40 singles including the Grammy-nominated “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. Midler took home the Best New Artist Grammy that year, her first of three career wins.

Throughout the 1970s, Midler found further success with music, Broadway, television and film. The Rose, Midler’s 1979 acting debut, earned her both Oscar and Academy Award nominations, and its namesake song won her a Golden Globe and another Grammy – also giving Midler her first success overseas.

The early 1980s proved less successful for Midler with four under-performing singles and a box office flop with the film Jinxed. However, the second half of the decade would prove far more fruitful with a handful of very successful films including Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune and Beaches, the latter featuring a chart-topping cover of “Wind Beneath My Wings” that won Midler her third Grammy and is considered one of the greatest songs in American film history.