Album: Little Arrows (1968)

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• There's a boy a little boy
  Shooting arrows in the blue
  And he's aiming them at someone
  But the question is at who.
  Is it me or is it you
  It's hard to tell until you're hit
  But you know it when they hit you
  'Cause they hurt a little bit.
  
  Here they come
  pouring out of the blue
  Little arrows for me
  and for you
  You're falling in love
  again
  Falling in love again.
  
  Little arrows in your clothing
  Little arrows in your hair
  When you're in love you'll find
  Those little arrows everywhere
  Little arrows that will hit you once
  And hit you once again
  Little arrows that hit everybody
  Every now and then.
  
  Oh oh oh the pain.
  
  Some folks run and others hide
  But ain't nothing they can do
  And some folks put on armor
  But the arrows go straight through.
  So you see there's no escape
  So why not face it and admit
  That you love those little arrows
  When they hurt a little bit.
  
  Here they come pouring out of the blue. Writer/s: ALBERT HAMMOND, MIKE HAZLEWOOD
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• AnonymousSeptember 25th 2021 Dear Leapy lee Hi my name is jenny holloway im 64 years old what do you think about the covid 19 outbreak thats still going around the world and in indianapolis too i dont like it at all because its making me upset and deppressed and i have to keep wearing my face mask at the day program that i go to in indianapolis called otb it stands for outside the box what is the song called little arrows about i know you said theres a little boy shooting arrows in the blue are you the little boy that was shooting arrows in the blue where did the arrows come from how old were you in 1968 when you started singing little arrows how old are you now how much longer is it going to be till i can ditch my face masks i have a lot of face masks in the drawer in my bedroom at the apartment.
• Kevin from Tokyo, JapanI loved this song when it came out in 1968. I had always thought the singer was a US country singer, because I remember hearing it on the local country music station. I didn't even know his name until I looked up the song much later based on the fragments of lyrics I remembered. After I rediscovered this song, it rose to the top of my personal charts! And as Barry from Sauquoit noted, it was No. 2 when "Those Were the Days" was No. 1, and that's probably why I associate the two songs together.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 7, 1968, Leapy Lee performed "Little Arrows*" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
  At the time "Little Arrows" was at #16 on Billboard's Top 100, that would also be it's peak position on the chart, and it spent fourteen weeks on the Top 100...
  The song would be his only Top 100 record...
  It reached #11 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart, he had two other records make the Hot Country Singles chart, "Good Morning" {#55 in 1970} and "Every Road Leads Back To You" {#82 in 1974}...
  Leapy Lee, born Graham Pulleyblank & aka Lee Graham, will celebrate his 79th birthday come next July 2nd {2018}...
  * As noted above, "Little Arrows" peaked at #2 {for 1 week} on the United Kingdom's Singles chart {October 6th, 1968}, the week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Those Were The Days" by Mary Hopkin.
• Joe from Santa Ponsa, SpainForty years after the initial release, the new official version of "Little Arrows II" EP by Leapy Lee includes hits by Albert Hammond: "Little Arrows", "When I Need You" and "One Moment In Time".
  
  This EP is available at the following stores:
  
  iTunes US - http://alturl.com/cmeq
  iTunes UK - http://alturl.com/wrih
  iTunes Aus/NZ - http://alturl.com/ojwf
  iTunes - Japan - http://alturl.com/6ksd
  Amazon UK - http://tiny.cc/amazonUK
  Amazon US - http://tiny.cc/amazonUS
• Zabadak from London, EnglandI was given a copy of this by my parents for my 6th birthday!

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