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If you want a lover
  • I been watchin' you now for quite a while
    I love the things you do and I love the way you smile
    I was spoken for but now you know I'm free
    So I'll do the talkin’ for me
  • Chorus
    If you want a lover, oh-oh
    To while away the hours
    If you want a lover, oh-oh
    To chase away the showers
    If you want a lover and none of those others will do
    I been wantin' somebody too
  • Love's a mystery, it comes and then it goes
    First it's poetry and then it's tired prose
    You know that all I'm looking for is inspiration sweet
    And someone to keep up the heat
  • Chorus
  • You know that I don't mind if we never find
    Any overwhelmin' bliss
    All I see is that you and me
    Should be sharin' one long kiss
    And I confess that my loneliness
    Has been makin' me so bold
    You look very fine and I'll make you mine
    Before we're too much older
  • ©1988 Anna Gutmanis/Ban-Anna Music (SOCAN)
Baby doll
  • He's caught up in a moment's passion
    He wants to do what fits the fashion
    He says "I will" and doesn't think of tomorrow
    He loves the thought of dinner waiting
    But how he misses torrid mating
    He says the boss wants extra hours
    And so begins a bond that will break in sorrow
  • Chorus
    Baby doll, some kind of baby doll
    Some kind of plaything for sure
    You are a baby doll, some kind of baby doll
    Somethin' he'll leave on the floor
  • You are the pretty second fiddle
    You love the man who loves the middle
    And if you leave he gonna find another
    Don’t matter that his wife's gonna be a mother
  • Chorus
  • You only see him at his best
    He never puts you to the test
    And you don't have to make his meals
    That's what you call a deal of deals
  • ©1987 Anna Gutmanis/Ban-Anna Music (SOCAN)
Still in love
  • After all these bountiful years
    After all the laughs and all of the tears
    After all that we've been through,
    I'm still in love with you
    After all the joy and the pain
    After all the luck and labour in vain
    After all that we've been through,
    I'm still in love with you
  • Chorus
    Still in love, still in love
    No matter what you do
    I'm still in love with you
  • After all those little regrets
    After all those times we'd rather forget
    After all that we've been through,
    I'm still in love with you
  • Chorus
  • I had my share of love affairs
    But I walked away time after time
    Now I can see we're meant to be
    Say that you'll stay
    Say you’ll be mine
  • Chorus
  • After all these bountiful years
    After all the laughs and all of the tears
    After all that we've been through,
    I'm still in love with you
  • ©1987 Anna Gutmanis/Ban-Anna Music (SOCAN)
Then came you
  • You said hello and then you walked on by
    I must admit you didn't catch my eye
    No bolt of lightning and no sound of thunder
    My little heart was never torn asunder
    How was I to know you'd be the star of my show?
  • Chorus
    I walked all alone on the cold cobblestone
    Then came you, then came you
    I walked all alone, never found me a home
    Then came you
  • You always took the time to lend a hand
    You always took the time to understand
    When I was with you I was never lonely
    And soon I wanted to be with you only
    Now you have my heart, and we are never apart
  • Chorus
  • **Now all I want is to be by your side
    To keep you warm and keep you satisfied
    And when you put your lovin' arms around me
    I know I'm lucky that you came and found me
    I can truly say I love you more every day
  • Chorus
  • **Third verse only on Marigold Sampler version, 1993;
    original 1989 album version has only two verses.
  • ©1986 Anna Gutmanis/Ban-Anna Music (SOCAN)
Til Doomsday
  • Can't take it, just can't take it
    They used to all be friends of mine
    Can't fake it, just can't fake it
    Without my powder white divine
    Not lyin', really tryin'
    Then I seem to get a chill
    Can't make it, just can't make it
    Without my little pills yeah
  • Chorus
    Til doomsday, til doomsday, til doomsday
    I won't be afraid of you
    Til doomsday, til doomsday, til doomsday
    I won't be afraid of you
  • When I party, do it hearty
    Really go and paint the town
    Bartender, just befriend her
    She sets 'em up, I drink 'em down
    Next mornin', without a warnin'
    Seems I got two burning heads
    I endure it, then I cure it
    With all my little reds yeah
  • Chorus
  • Some day far away from it all
    I'll begin to slow my pace
    I won't have my back to the wall
    I won't have to run any races
  • Chorus
  • Can't take it, just can't take it
    They used to all be friends of mine
    Can't fake it, just can't fake it
    Without my powder white divine
    Not lyin', really tryin'
    Then I seem to get a chill
    Can't make it, just can't make it
    Without my little pills yeah
  • Chorus
  • ©1986 Anna Gutmanis/Ban-Anna Music (SOCAN)
Out of time
  • Now it seems our love lies peacefully sleepin'
    Nothin' I can do is gonna rouse it today
    Is it laid to rest or has it been keepin'
    I'm afraid of wastin' all my tears
    I'm afraid of wastin' my best years
  • Chorus
    Honey I'm out of time and I'm in a state
    Honey I'm out of time and I cannot wait
    Baby I'm out of time and I think it's fate
    'Cause we're out of what it takes to try
  • Where is all the steam heat, where is the romance
    And where are all the soothin' words we could say
    You know I can't remember when we last danced a slow dance
    I can't remember when we put aside
    All the feelin' we once could not hide
  • Chorus
  • These words of mine confuse you
    But this I know
    I could not bear to lose you
    I care for you so
  • ©1988 Anna Gutmanis/Ban-Anna Music (SOCAN)
©1989 Ban-Anna Records. All rights reserved. All words and music written and performed by Anna Gutmanis.

Discography

Anna Gutmanis - Album
Anna's self titled ep available for
download for the first time ever!

Anna's 6-song self-titled EP released in 1989 on her own Ban-Anna Records label is now available for download. The Record called this Canadian pop/rock album a "promising debut" and its catchy reggae-tinged single "Then Came You" continues to receive airplay almost 20 years after its release.

Special thanks to Mom, Iris, Ana, Robert Webber, Ken Tobias, Joe Wood, Todd Trepanier, Chris Grim, Larry Fitzpatrick, Liz Janik and to everybody who has come out to see me perform. I also thank my friends for their moral support.

This album is dedicated to my grandmother Milda Celms
(1892-1988)

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  • Album design by Helen Breznik
  • Typesetting by Hawligraph Design
  • Produced and arranged: Robert Webber
  • Engineered: Robi Banerji and Ormond Jobin
  • Recorded/Mixed: Reaction Studios, Toronto
  • Manufactured by Ban-Anna Records
  • Anna Gutmanis: Keyboards, Lead & Back-up Vocals
  • Ken Tobias: Back-up Vocals
  • Craig Manning: Back-up Vocals on "Baby doll"
  • Sean McDermott: Back-up Vocals on "Baby doll" & "Til doomsday"
  • Robert Webber: Back-up Vocals "If you want a lover"
  • Don Zablotny: Electric Guitar
  • Robert Webber: Electric & Accoustic Guitar, Percussion
  • Rob Laidlaw: Bass
  • Mark Heine: Bass on "Baby doll"
  • Bob Mahaney: Slide Guitar on "If you want a lover"
  • Randy Cook: Drums
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