Helen Reddy

Released: November 5, 1976

Songwriter: Paul McCartney Lennon-McCartney

Producer: Lou Reizner

[Verse 1]
Day after day, alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him, they can see that he's just a fool
And he never gives an answer

[Chorus]
But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning around

[Verse 2]
Well on the way, head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice

[Chorus]
But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning around

{Instrumental bridge}

[Verse 3]
And nobody seems to like him, they can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings

[Chorus]
But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning around

[Bridge]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Round and round and round and round and round

[Verse 4]
And he never listens to them, he knows that they're the fools
They don't like him

[Chorus]
The fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning around

[Outro]
Oh (Round and round and round)
Oh

Australian-American entertainer and activist, born on 25 October 1941; died on 29 September 2020. The daughter of an Australian vaudeville troupe, Reddy emigrated from Melbourne, Australia, to New York City, USA, to start her music career as a singer. She rose to prominence in 1971 with her debut song “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and two albums; both of which made their debut at the Billboard charts. She augmented her fame by releasing her single “I Am Woman” (1972), which became the anthem for second-wave (and beyond) feminists and earned her a Grammy Award in 1973 when she was the first Australian pop musician to be awarded so.

At the peak of her fame between 1973 and 1977, Reddy became the seasonal-regular host of NBC’s “The Midnight Special” in 1975, guest starred in several television shows and continued to dominate the Billboard’s Easy Listening charts with such songs like “Angie Baby”, “You and Me Against The World”, “Delta Dawn”, “Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)”, “Candle on the Water”, “You’re My World” and amongst others. By 1978 to 1983, her popularity and chart appearance waned, with “I Can’t Say Goodbye to You” being her final chart appearance in the 1980s.

She forayed into other actings on the screen, such as Airport 1975 and Pete’s Dragon, the latter in which she, portraying the tritagonist Nora, is most remembered as, in the 1970s. Later in the 1980s to the 1990s, she developed a career in theatres as an actress, where she starred in several plays such as “Anything Goes” and “Blood Brothers”. In 2002, she retired to become a hypnotherapist and moved back to Australia. In 2012, she resumed her music career albeit on an occasion.

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