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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Lyrics

You're like a sailor with a girl on every shore
Stay with them now for they won't see you no more
Like a gypsy forever on the run
Stay for a while, while ya look for a home
Like that sailor leaves, come back again
Stay for a while, and they won't see you again
Like that gypsy caravan forever on the run
Ya stay for a while, then you pick up and go

[Chorus:]
That's how you show
Your love for me
That's how you show
Your love for me
You're like
Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you call
You leave a little sorrow
You're like

Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you come
You leave a little sorrow
You're like

You're like that big, big storm, that's tore the town apart
Leavin' everyone to console their aching heart
Like that snow that fell, looks so wrong and out of place
Stay for a while, then you leave without a trace
Your 'xactly like that storm, that tore the town apart
Leave everyone to console their aching heart
Like that snow that fell, looks so wrong and out of place
Stay for a while, leave without a trace

[Chorus:]

You're like
Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you call
You leave a little sorrow
You're like

Like
Oooh-huh
Oh-ho
Here today
Gone tomorrow
Hmmm, like
You're like
You're like
Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you call
You leave a little sorrow
You're like
You're like
Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you call
You leave a little sorrow
You're like

Yeah
Here today
Here today but gone tomorrow
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Cover art for Here Today, Gone Tomorrow lyrics by David Bowie

Written by the Ohio Players in about 1968. Fabulous soul sound - fully captured by Bowie's version. Such a glorious song The original was a bit faster, but I just love this version - very well covered with a huge amount of reverence to the original

Cover art for Here Today, Gone Tomorrow lyrics by David Bowie

This was an interesting cover that he added in David Live...I still wait to listen to the original...but I loved it, anyway.

Cover art for Here Today, Gone Tomorrow lyrics by David Bowie

Someone very kindly rated up a comment I had made on this, so I revisited the comment and saw that someone had altered the composers names to the Ramones - who have a different song with same name - although David Live was released in the same year the Ramones formed (spooky!). This version was written by the Ohio Players themselves. There are a few different songs with this title, not suprisingly, as it is such a good phrase.