PHOTO: (L to R) JON STRIDER (producer/artist) with ARMAND-SABAL LECCO, bassist extraordinaire (...Paul Simon, Stanley Clarke, Stewart Copeland) moments after tracking "Little Napoleon" at Pacific Songworks/Intermix Studio (Los Angeles), circa 1993. Mixed at Indigot Ranch Studios, Malibu by Richard Kaplan and Chuck Johnson. Photo by Reiko Matsudaira Posner
lyrics
LITTLE NAPOLEON
(Strider)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Look at the grown-ups, they're just like children
Some learn to give and get along
Others are fighters, bullies and liars
Thinking they're right, but doing wrong
Look in the mirror, you'll see it clearer
The selfish little game that you play
No one can ever get near you
With that lonely pride in the way, oh
Why must you be the Number 1?
Little Napoleon
So much to share beneath the sun
Little Napoleon
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Look at the world, it's like a playground
Takes just a few to spoil the fun
Runaway leaders, royal deceivers
Taking their power from everyone
We've got to show them, we'll overthrow them
If they can't settle down and behave
We've got to do this together, so all the people can play, oh
Why must you be the Number 1?
Little Napoleon
So much to share with everyone
Little Napoleon
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
(Instrumental solo: organ - Jon Strider)
Ooo - Ooo
Little Napoleon
Ooo - Ooo - Ooo
Little Napoleon
When your day is over
what will you have left?
The same old sad reminder
of the way you served yourself___
(spoken): "Now Napoleon, I want you to listen to me. We've had enough of this behavior! We want you to cool out! Just cool out!!"
Oh, why must you be the Number 1?
Little Napoleon
So much to share with everyone
Little Napoleon
Little Napoleon
Little Napoleon!
Yeah, yeah,yeah,yeah!
Number 1, Little Napoleon
So much to share beneath the sun
Little Napoleon
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Ooo___, Number 1
Little Napoleon
Ooo___ everyone
Little Napoleon
(Spoken: "Napoleon? Napoleon?")
Ooo___ Number 1
Little Napoleon
from 2000 CALLING,
released November 27, 1999
Produced, arranged & recorded by Jon Strider at Pacific Songworks/Intermix, Los Angeles, California USA
Additional recording by Richard Kaplan at Indigo Ranch Studio, Malibu, California, USA
Mixed by Brian Soucy at Pacific Songworks/Intermix
Mastered by Eddie Schrayer, Oasis Mastering, Studio City, California USA
Words & Music by Jon Strider
Published by Pacific Songworks (BMI); All Rights Reserved Worldwide
M U S I C I A N S :
ARMAND SABAL-LECCO: bass / CHUCK JOHNSON: "kitchen" percussion - right channel / JON STRIDER: lead vocal, keyboards, electric guitar & "kitchen" percussion - left channel, programming / Background vocals: LAURA AHLSTRAND - SANDI GRIFFITH - SKYLER JETT - CLAYTOVEN RICHARDSON
Performing singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from California - 9 solo CD's on New Sky Records - Music style:
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