Bette Midler

Released: January 8, 1976

Featuring: Bob Dylan

Songwriter: Bob Dylan

Producer: Mark Klingman

(Bette:) Ohh-oh, Ohh-oh, ah
Sing to me baby, baby
Buckets, nuggets of rain

(Bette & Bob:) Nuggets of rain
Nuggets of tears
Got all the nuggets
Comin' out of my ears
Nuggets of moonbeams
In my hand
You got all the love
Honey baby, I can stand

I been down, high like an oak
I've seen pretty people
Disappear like smoke
Friends will arrive
Friends will disappear
You want me
Honey baby, I'll be here

(Bette:) Oh-oh, I'll be here
Ooooooh
Sing to me baby, baby, baby
Buckets of rain

(Bette & Bob:) I like your smile
And your fingertips
I like the way that you move your lips
I like that heavenly way
You look at me
Everything about you is bringing me ecstasy

Little red wagon
Little red bike
I ain't no monkey
But I know what I like
I like the way you monkey around
Stick with me baby
And we'll never be found

Life is heavy
And life is sad
Life is a bust
When you think you've been had
You lose, you must do
And you do it bad
I do it for you
Honey baby, ain't you glad?

(Bette:) Oh, Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, ooooh
Bobby, Bobby
Hey there Mister D
You set me free. Yeah
I don't believe I really said that

(Bob:) "Hum, meany."
(Bette:) "Oooh, you don't even know. You have no idea."
(Bob:) "I don't want to know . . . .
You and Paul Simon should have done this one."

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.

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