SEARCHIN' 
(Mike Leiber / Jerry Stoller)

The Coasters - 1957
The Beatles - 1962
The Crickets - 1963
Sly Stone - 1964
The Hollies - 1965
Spencer Davis Group - 1965
The Lovin' Spoonful - 1966
Gram Parsons - 1966
Also recorded by: Ace Cannon; Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers; Billy Lee Riley; The Mugwumps; 
Paul Revere & The Raiders; Ronnie Hawkins; Alvin Robinson; Neil Sedaka; The Drifters; The Bobs; 
Wanda Jackson; Otis Blackwell; Chubby Checker; Dave 'Baby' Cortez. 


Gonna find her, gonna find her. 

Well searching. 
Yeah I'm gonna searching, 
searching every which a-way, yeah, yeah. 
Oh lord I'm searching, 
my good lord, searching 
you know honey, 
searching every which away yeah, yeah, yeah. 
But I'm like that Northwest Mountie. 
You know I'll bring her in some day. 

Gonna find her, gonna find her. 

Well Charlie Chan, Simon Smith, 
got nothing, child, on me. 
Sergeant Friday, Peter Gunn 
and ooo Alan B. 
No matter where she's hiding, 
she's gonna see me coming, 
I'm gonna walk right down that street 
like Bulldog Drummon. 
'Cause I been searching, 
well searching, 
oh my goodness, 
searching every which a-way. 
But I'm like that Northwest Mountie. 
You know I'll bring her in some day. 

Gonna find her, gonna find her. 

Well Charlie Chan, Simon Smith, 
got nothing, child, on me. 
Sergeant Friday, Peter Gunn 
and ooo Alan B. 
No matter where she's hiding, 
she's gonna see me coming, 
I'm gonna walk right down that street 
like Bulldog Drummon. Aah searching, 
searching, oh my, my goodness. 
Searching every which a-way. 
But I'm like that Northwest Mountie. 
You know I'll bring her in some day. 
Gonna find her, gonna find her, 
yeah, yeah lord, gonna find her, 
gonna find her. 



(Contributed by Nancy - April 2003)