This is the rare and unabridged video for the Spinning Topps "hit" "Cry Like a Man" that appeared briefly during the end credits of the pilot episode.
Until now the song, written by show co-creator Tracy Tormé and Paul Kelly with an arrangement by Hummie Mann, has only appeared in its entirety in one other place — the official website of Cleavant Derricks. Earth Prime has been able to obtain a copy independently of Cleavant and Universal Studios and is happy to share it with you now.
You will need the latest version of Quicktime to view the contents of the video. Forgive the video quality at the beginning; the tape dub was for Rembrandt impersonators in The King is Back to learn the lyrics and tempo should they need to perform it, not for posterity.
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Lyrics
Written By: Tracy Tormé & Paul Kelly
Arranged By: Hummie Mann
Performed by Cleavant Derricks
Ohhhhhhhhhh...
My friends ask me why I cry (cry)
It's cause I feel like I wanna die (die)
These tears spring from my eye
Ever since you said goodbye (goodbye)
Chorus:
I'm gonna cry like a man (cry like a man)
Hard as I can (as I can)
And if you had a heart
Maybe you'd start
to understand
Oh, I know you understand me brothers
See me walking down the street (walkin' down the street)
And everybody that I meet (everybody that I meet)
They say hello, goodbye (goodbye)
And tears spring from my other eye (walk on by)
Chorus
Listen baby
The long and lonely nights go by (they go on by)
Alone and lonely, I sit and cry (I cry, I cry)
I cry! Oh! (All alone I sit and cry)
Moaning! Groaning! Dyin'! (cry like a man)
Cryin' like a man
Hard as I can (as I can)
If you had a heart
Maybe you'd start
to understand
You're breaking my heart here! (cry like a man)
I feel a tear comin' out of this eye! (cry like a man)
Oh! And a tear, fallin' from my other eye! (cry like a man)
Brothers! Somebody!
Somebody hand me a handkerchief!
Please! (cry like a man)