Expert: Bong Santos - 5/6/2009

Question
i use to listen to a song in the early eightys 82 to be specific and pretty sure it
was called harmony.
it went like you and me in harmony, trying to track this down
any ideas????

Answer
Dear Toni,

Maybe, just maybe, you are looking for EBONY AND IVORY by PAUL McCARTNEY & STEVIE WONDER. That's the first song that came to my mind when I read your letter. For the record, it came out in 1982 as well. It was from PAUL's TUG OF WAR album. It was a number song on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart spending a total of 7 consecutive weeks from May 15, 1982. Here's its lyrics:

EBONY AND IVORY / Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh lord, why dont we?
We all know that people are the same where ever we go
There is good and bad in evryone,
We learn to live, we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive together alive.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh lord why dont we?

Ebony, ivory living in perfect harmony
Ebony, ivory, ooh

We all know that people are the same where ever we go
There is good and bad in evryone,
We learn to live, we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive together alive.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh lord why dont we?

Ebony, ivory living in perfect harmony (repeat and fade)


Maraming salamat po!!

BONG M. SANTOS
Manila, Philippines