SINGER: Wink Martindale

SONG:Hats Off To The Stranger

Hats off (to the stranger)lighthouse- written by skip prokop, bob mcbride and p. mcgraw- as recorded by lighthouse on the 1971 album "one fine morning"- peaked at #27 on the chum chart (toronto, canada) in april 1971walkin' down by the riverhangin' down my headi chanced to stop for a momenta stranger beckoned and then he said:"walk down the road of life, a-happy as can bebut not so happy, yeah, that you can't seebe very careful, mm-hmm, everywhere you gotake it very slow" hats off to the stranger for tellin' me what he knows i said, lord, i here ya and i'm walkin' slow just a singin' hallelujah, hallelujah let a little sunshine down on me make this feelin' grow-ow-ow-owwalkin' down by the riverhis words warmin' up my soulhe called to me from the other side:"there's one more thing ya gotta know, yeah""nobody's perfect, boy, not me or youit doesn't matter what you say or dobut you could be singin', yeah, a better tunesingin' whoa-oh-oh"------ brief instrumental break ------"yeah, all the things that i have saidyou've probably heard them all beforebut the way that you'll hear them from meis like you never heard them before" hats off to the stranger for tellin' me what he knows i said, lord, i here ya and i'm walkin' slow, yeah hats off to the stranger for tellin' me what he knows i said, lord, i here ya and i'm walkin' slow yeah, i said hats off to the stranger for tellin' me what he knows i said, lord, i here ya and i'm walkin' slow just a singin' hallelujah, oh yeah, hallelujah let a little sunshine down on me make this feelin' grow a little louder hallelujah, sing it out loud, hallelujah let a little sunshine down on me make this feelin' grow