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Lady with a Fan
Let my inspiration flow
In token rhyme suggesting rhythm
That will not forsake me
Till my tale is told and done
While the firelights aglow
Strange shadows from the flames will grow
Till things weve never seen
Will seem familiar
Shadows of a sailor forming
Winds both foul and fair all swarm
Down in Carlisle, he loved a lady
Many years ago
Here beside him stands a man
A soldier from the looks of him
Who came through many fights
But lost at love
While the storyteller speaks
A door within the fire creaks
Suddenly flies open
And a girl is standing there
Eyes alight with glowing hair
All that fancy paints as fair
She takes her fan and throws it
In the lions den
Which of you to gain me, tell
Will risk uncertain pains of hell?
I will not forgive you
If you will not take the chance
The sailor gave at least a try
The soldier being much too wise
Strategy was his strength
And not disaster
The sailor coming out again
The lady fairly leapt at him
Thats how it stands today
You decide if he was wise
The storyteller makes no choice
Soon you will not hear his voice
His job is to shed light
And not to master
Since the end is never told
We pay the teller off in gold
In hopes he will come back
But he cannot be bought or sold
Terrapin Station
Inspiration move me brightly
Light the song with sense and color
Hold away despair
More than this I will not ask
Faced with mysteries dark and vast
Statements just seem vain at last
Some rise, some fall, some climb
To get to Terrapin
Counting stars by candlelight
All are dim but one is bright:
The spiral light of Venus
Rising first and shining best
From the northwest corner
Of a brand-new crescent moon
Crickets and cicadas sing
A rare and different tune
Terrapin Station
In the shadow of the moon
Terrapin Station
And I know well be there soon
Terrapin - I cant figure out
Terrapin - if its the end or beginning
Terrapin - but the trains put its brakes on
And the whistle is screaming: Terrapin
At a Siding
While you were gone
These faces filled with darkness
The obvious was hidden
With nothing to believe in
The compass always points to Terrapin
Sullen wings of fortune beat like rain
Youre back in Terrapin for good or ill again
For good or ill again |
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
Would you hear my voice come through the music?
Would you hold it near as it were your own?
Its a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken
Perhaps theyre better left unsung
I dont know, dont really care
Let there be songs to fill the air
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
Reach out your hand, if your cup be empty
If your cup is full, may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go, no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
You who choose to lead must follow
But if you fall you fall alone
If you should stand then whos to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home |
As I was walking round Grosvenor Square
Not a chill to the winter
But a nip to the air
From the other direction
She was calling my eye
It could be an illusion
But I might as well try
Might as well try
She had rings on her fingers and
Bells on her shoes
And I knew without asking she was
Into the blues
She wore scarlet begonias
Tucked into her curls
I knew right away
She was not like other girls
Other girls
In the thick of the evening
When the dealing got rough
She was too pat to open
And too cool to bluff
As I picked up my matches and
Was closing the door
I had one of those flashes:
Id been there before
Been there before
I aint often right
But Ive never been wrong
It seldom turns out the way
It does in the song
Once in a while
You get shown the light
In the strangest of places
If you look at it right
Well, there aint nothing wrong
With the way she moves
Or scarlet begonias or a
Touch of the blues
And theres nothing wrong with
The look thats in her eye
I had to learn the hard way
To let her pass by
Let her pass by
The wind in the willows played tea for two
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue
Strangers stopping strangers
Just to shake their hand
Everybodys playing
In the Heart of Gold Band
Heart of Gold Band |
I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds
Didnt get to sleep that night til the morning came around
Set out runnin but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
Just might get some sleep tonight
Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills
Spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills
Set out runnin but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
Just might get some sleep tonight
I ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there
He took my twenty dollar bill and he vanished in the air
Set out runnin but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
Just might get some sleep tonight
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night:
The first ones named sweet Anne Marie, and shes my hearts delight
The second one is prison, babe, and the sheriffs on my trail
And if he catches up with me, Ill spend my life in jail
Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee
The first one says shes got my child, but it dont look like me
Set out runnin but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
Just might get some sleep tonight
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night:
The first ones named sweet Anne Marie, and shes my hearts delight
The second one is prison, babe, the sheriffs on my trail
And if he catches up with me, Ill spend my life in jail
Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee
The first one says shes got my child, but it dont look like me
Set out runnin but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
Just might get some sleep tonight |
Truckin, got my chips cashed in
Keep truckin, like the do-dah man
Together, more or less in line
Just keep truckin on
Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street
Chicago, New York, Detroit and its all on the same street
Your typical city involved in a typical daydream
Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings
Dallas, got a soft machine;
Houston, too close to New Orleans;
New Yorks got the ways and means
But just wont let you be, oh no
Most of the cats that you meet on the streets speak of true love
Most of the time theyre sittin and cryin at home
One of these days they know they gotta get goin
Out of the door and down to the street all alone
Truckin, like the do-dah man
Once told me Youve got to play your hand
Sometimes your cards aint worth a dime
If you dont layem down
Sometimes the lights all shinin on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long, strange trip its been
What in the world ever became of sweet Jane?
She lost her sparkle, you know she isnt the same
Livin on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine
All a friend can say is Aint it a shame
Truckin, up to Buffalo
Been thinkin, you got to mellow slow
Takes time to pick a place to go
And just keep truckin on
Sittin and starin out of the hotel window
Got a tip theyre gonna kick the door in again
Id like to get some sleep before I travel
But if you got a warrant, I guess youre gonna come in
Busted, down on Bourbon Street
Set up, like a bowlin pin
Knocked down, it gets to wearin thin
They just wont let you be, oh no
Youre sick of hangin around and youd like to travel
Get tired of travelin and you want to settle down
I guess they cant revoke your soul for tryin
Get out of the door and light out and look all around
Sometimes the lights all shinin on me;
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long, strange trip its been
Truckin, Im a goin home
Whoa whoa baby, back where I belong
Back home, sit down and patch my bones
And get back truckin on
Hey now get back truckin home |
Well, the first days are the hardest days
Dont you worry anymore
Cause when life looks like Easy Street
There is danger at your door
Think this through with me
Let me know your mind
Woah, oh, what I want to know
Is are you kind?
Its a buck dancers choice my friend
Better take my advice
You know all the rules by now
And the fire from the ice
Will you come with me?
Wont you come with me?
Woah, oh, what I want to know
Will you come with me?
Goddamn, well, I declare
Have you seen the like
Their walls are built of cannon balls
Their motto is dont tread on me
Come hear Uncle Johns Band
Playing to the tide
Come with me or go alone
Hes come to take his children home
Its the same story the crow told me
Its the only one he know
Like the morning sun you come
And like the wind you go
Aint no time to hate
Barely time to wait
Woah, oh, what I want to know
Where does the time go?
I live in a silver mine
And I call it Beggars Tomb
I got me a violin
And I beg you call the tune
Anybodys choice
I can hear your voice
Whoa-ho what I want to know
How does the song go?
Come hear Uncle Johns Band
By the riverside
Got some things to talk about
Here beside the rising tide
Come hear Uncle Johns Band
Playing to the tide
Come on along or go alone
Hes come to take his children home
Whoa-ho what I want to know
How does the song go?
Come hear Uncle Johns Band
By the riverside
Got some things to talk about
Here beside the rising tide
Come hear Uncle Johns Band
Playing to the tide
Come on along or go alone
Hes come to take his children home
Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh
Songwriters: Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter |
Must be getting early
Clocks are running late
Paint by number morning sky looks so phony
Dawn is breaking everywhere
Light a candle, curse the glare
Draw the curtains, I dont care cause its alright
I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive
I see youve got your fist out
Say your piece and get out
Yes, I get the gist of it, but its alright
Sorry that you feel that way
The only thing there is to say
Every silver linings got a touch of grey
I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive
Its a lesson to me
The Ables and the Bakers and the Cs
The ABCs we all must face
Try to keep a little grace
Its a lesson to me
The Deltas and the East and the Freeze
The ABCs we all think of
To try to win a little love
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
Its even worse than it appears, but its alright
Cow is given kerosene
Kid cant read at seventeen
The words he knows are all obscene, but its alright
I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive
The shoe is on the hand it fits
Theres really nothing much to it
Whistle through your teeth and spit cause its alright
Oh, well, a touch of grey, kind of suits you anyway
Thats was all I had to say, but its alright
I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive
We will get by
We will get by
We will get by
We will survive |
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
This old engine
Makes it on time
Leaves Central Station
About a quarter to nine
Hits river junction
At seventeen to
At a quarter to ten
You know its traveling again
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
Trouble ahead
A lady in red
Take my advice
Youd be better off dead
Switch-man sleeping
Train hundred and two
Is on the wrong track
And headed for you
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
Trouble with you is
The trouble with me
Got two good eyes
But we still dont see
Come round the bend
You know its the end
The fireman screams and
The engine just gleams
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
And you know that notion
Just crossed my mind |
Look out of any window
Any morning, any evening, any day
Maybe the sun is shining
Birds are winging or rain is falling from a heavy sky
What do you want me to do
To do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed
One afternoon, long ago
Walk out of any doorway
Feel your way, feel your way like the day before
Maybe youll find direction
Around some corner where its been waiting to meet you
What do you want me to do
To watch for you while you are sleeping?
Then please dont be surprised
When you find me dreaming, too
Look into any eyes you find by you
You can see clear through to another day
Maybe its been seen before through other eyes
On other days while going home
What do you want me to do
To do for you, to see you through?
Its all a dream we dreamed
One afternoon, long ago
Walk into splintered sunlight
Inch your way through dead dreams to another land
Maybe youre tired and broken
Your tongue is twisted with words half spoken and thoughts unclear
What do you want me to do
To do for you, to see you through?
A box of rain will ease the pain
And love will see you through
Just a box of rain, wind, and water
Believe it if you need it, if you dont, just pass it on
Sun and shower, wind and rain
In and out the window like a moth before a flame
And its just a box of rain
I dont know who put it there
Believe it if you need it
Or leave it if you dare
And its just a box of rain
Or a ribbon for your hair
Such a long long time to be gone
And a short time to be there |
I told Althea I was feeling lost
Lacking in some direction
Althea told me upon scrutiny
My back might need protection
I told Althea that treachery
Was tearing me limb from limb
Althea told me: now cool down boy
Settle back easy Jim
You may be Saturdays child all grown
Moving with a pinch of grace
You may be a clown in the burying ground
Or just another pretty face
You may be the fate of Ophelia
Sleeping and perchance to dream
Honest to the point of recklessness
Self centered to the extreme
Aint nobody messing with you but you
Your friends are getting most concerned
Loose with the truth
Maybe its your fire
But baby...dont get burned
When the smoke has cleared, she said
Thats what she said to me
Youre going to want a bed to lay your head
And a little sympathy
There are things you can replace
And others you cannot
The time has come to weigh those things
This space is getting hot
You know this space is getting hot
I told Althea
Im a roving sign
That I was born to be a bachelor
Althea told me: Ok thats fine
So now Im out trying to catch her
Cant talk to you without talking to me
Were guilty of the same old thing
Talking a lot about less and less
And forgetting the love we bring |
Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming
Heads all empty, and I dont care
Saw my baby down by the river
Knew shed have to come up soon for air
Sweet blossom come on under the willow
We can have high times if youll abide
We can discover the wonders of nature
Rolling in the rushes down by the riverside
Shes got everything delightful
Shes got everything I need
Takes the wheel when Im seeing double
Pays my ticket when I speed
She comes skimmin through rays of violet
She can wade in a drop of dew
She dont come, and I dont follow
Waits backstage while I sing to you
Well, she can dance a Cajun rhythm
Jump like a willys in four wheel drive
Shes a summer love in the spring, fall, and winter
She can make happy any man alive
Sugar magnolia
Ringing that bluebell
Caught up in sunlight
Come on out singing, Ill walk you in the sunshine
Come on honey, come along with me
Shes got everything delightful
Shes got everything I need
A breeze in the pines and the sun and bright moonlight
Crazy in the sunlight, yes, indeed
Sometimes when the cuckoos crying
When the moon is halfway down
Sometimes when the night is dying
I take me out and I wander around
I wander round
Sunshine daydream
Walking in the tall trees
Going where the wind goes
Blooming like a red rose
Breathing more freely
Ride out singin, Ill walk you in the morning sunshine
Sunshine daydream
Sunshine daydream
Walking in the sunshine |
Fare you well, my honey
Fare you well, my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone
Goin to leave this brokedown palace
On my hands and my knees, I will roll, roll, roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time - in my time - I will roll, roll roll
In a bed, in a bed
By the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul
River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
All the way back home
Its a far-gone lullaby
Sung many years ago
Mama, Mama many worlds Ive come
Since I first left home
Going home, going home
By the water-side I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul
Going to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow, grow, grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go - the river roll, roll, roll
In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head
Fare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul |
Long distance runner, what you standin there for?
Get up, get out, get out of the door
Youre playin cold music on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core
Theres a dragon with matches thats loose on the town
Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Almost ablaze still you dont feel the heat
It takes all you got just to stay on the beat
You say its a livin, we all gotta eat
But youre here alone, theres no one to compete
If mercys a business, I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Long distance runner, what you holdin out for?
Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had. why you wanna give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which you really cant fake
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain! |
Saint Stephen with a rose
In and out of the garden he goes
Country garland in the wind and the rain
Wherever he goes, the people all complain
Stephen prospered in his time
Well he may and he may decline
Did it matter? Does it now?
Stephen would answer if he only knew how
Wishing well with a golden bell
Bucket hanging clear to Hell
Hell halfway twixt now and then
Stephen fill it up and lower down
And lower down again
Ladyfinger dipped in moonlight
Writing What for? across the morning sky
Sunlight splatters dawn with answers
Darkness shrugs and bids the day good-bye
Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned
Several seasons with their treasons
Wrap the babe in scarlet covers, call it your own
Did he doubt or did he try?
Answers aplenty in the bye and bye
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills
One man gathers what another man spills
Saint Stephen will remain
All hes lost he shall regain
Seashore washed by the suds and foam
Been here so long hes got to calling it home
Fortune comes a-crawling, Calliope woman
Spinning that curious sense of your own
Can you answer? Yes I can
But what would be the answer to the answer man? |
Please dont dominate the rap, Jack
If youve got nothing new to say
If you please, dont back up the track
This trains got to run today
I spent a little time on the mountain
I spent a little time on the hill
Heard some say: Better run away
Others say: You better stand still
Now I dont know but I been told
Its hard to run with the weight of gold
Other hand I have heard it said
Its just as hard with the weight of lead
Who can deny? Who can deny?
Its not just a change in style
One step done and another begun
And I wonder how many miles?
Spent a little time on the mountain
Spent a little time on the hill
Things went down we dont understand
But I think in time we will
Do we keep on coming or stand and wait
With the sun so dark and the hour so late?
You cant overlook the lack, Jack
Of any other highway to ride
Its got no signs or dividing lines
And very few rules to guide
Spent a little time on the mountain
Spent a little time on the hill
I saw things getting out of hand
I guess they always will
I dont know but I been told
If the horse dont pull you got to carry the load
I dont know whose backs that strong
Maybe find out before too long
One way or another
One way or another
One way or another
This darkness got to give
One way or another
One way or another
One way or another
This darkness got to give
One way or another
One way or another
One way or another
This darkness got to give |
Gone are the days when the ox fall down
Take up the yoke and plow the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said Please
Gentle Jack Jones, wont you come to me
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty, but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin down
And it looks like the old mans gettin on
1920 when he stepped to the bar
Drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar
1930 when the wall caved in
He made his way selling red-eyed gin
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty, but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin down
And it looks like the old mans gettin on
Delilah Jones was the mother of twins
Two times over, and the rest were sins
Raised eight boys, only I turned bad
Didnt get the lickins that the other ones had
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty, but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin down
And it looks like the old mans gettin on
Tumble down shack on Big Foot county
Snowed so hard that the roof caved in
Delilah Jones went to meet her God
And the old man never was the same again
Daddy made whiskey and he made it well
Cost two dollars and it burned like hell
I cut hickry just to fire the still
Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty, but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin down
And it looks like the old mans gettin on
Gone are the days when the ox fall down
Take up the yoke and plow the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said Please
Gentle Jack Jones, wont you come to me?
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty, but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin down
And it looks like the old mans gettin on |
As we rowed up to Fennario
As we rowed up to Fennario
Our captain fell in love
With a lady like a dove
And he called her by name, Pretty Peggy-O
Come steppin down the stairs Pretty Peggy-O
Come steppin down the stairs Pretty Peggy-O
Come steppin down the stairs, holding back your yellow hair
In the hand??? ???, William-O
Will you marry me Pretty Peggy-O?
Will you marry me Pretty Peggy-O?
If you will marry me, I will set your cities free
And free all the people of the area-O
I would marry you sweet William-O
I would marry you sweet William-O
I would marry you but your guineas are too few
And I fear my mama would be angry-O
What would your mama think Pretty Peggy-O
What would your mama think Pretty Peggy-O
What would your mama think if she heard my guineas clink
Saw me riding at the head of my soldiers-O
If ever I return Pretty Peggy-O
If ever I return Pretty Peggy-O
If ever I return, all your cities I will burn
Destroy all the people in the area-O
Come steppin down the stairs Pretty Peggy-O
Come steppin down the stairs Pretty Peggy-O
Come steppin down the stairs, holding back your yellow hair
Bid a last farewell to your William-O
Sweet William he is dead Pretty Peggy-O
Sweet William he is dead Pretty Peggy-O
Sweet William he is dead and he died for a maid
And he spent the loot he had in the country-O
As we rowed up to Fennario
As we rowed up to Fennario
Our captain fell in love
With a lady like a dove
And he called her by name, Pretty Peggy-O |
You tell me this town aint got no heart
The sunny side of the street is dark
Maybe thats because its midnight
In the dark of the moon besides
Maybe the dark is from your eyes
You know you got such dark eyes!
Nothing shaking on Shakedown Street
Used to be the heart of town
Dont tell me this town aint got no heart
You just got to poke around
You think youve seen this town clear through
Nothing here that could interest you
Its not because you missed out
On the thing that we had to start
Maybe you had too much too fast
Or just over played your part
Nothing shaking on Shakedown Street
Used to be the heart of town
Dont tell me this town aint got no heart
You just got to poke around
Since Im passing your way today
I just stopped in because I want to say
I recall your darkness
When it crackled like a thundercloud
Dont tell me this town aint got no heart
When I can hear it beat out loud! |
In another times forgotten space
Your eyes looked through your mothers face
Wildflower seed on the sand and stone
May the four winds blow you safely home
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Ill tell you where the four winds dwell
In Franklins tower there hangs a bell
It can ring, turn night to day
It can ring like fire when you lose your way
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
God save the child who rings that bell
It may have one good ring left, baby, you cant tell
One watch by night, one watch by day
If you get confused just listen to the music play
Some come to laugh their past away
Some come to make it just one more day
Whichever way your pleasure tends
If you plant ice youre gonna harvest wind
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
In Franklins tower the four winds sleep
Like four lean hounds the lighthouse keep
Wildflower seed in the sand and wind
May the four winds blow you home again
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Youd better roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Youd better roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Youd better roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Roll away the dew
Roll away |
Dark star crashes
Pouring its light
Into ashes
Reason tatters
The forces tear loose
From the axis
Searchlight casting
For faults in the
Clouds of delusion
Shall we go
You and I
While we can?
Through
The transitive nightfall
Of diamonds
Mirror shatters
In formless reflections
Of matter
Glass hand dissolving
To ice petal flowers
Revolving
Lady in velvet
Recedes
In the nights of goodbye
Shall we go
You and I
While we can?
Through
The transitive nightfall
Of diamonds |
Right outside this lazy summer home
You aint got time to call your soul a critic no
Right outside the lazy gate of winters summer home
Wondering where the nuthatch winters
Wings a mile long just carried the bird away
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world
The heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings
But the heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own
There comes a redeemer
And he slowly too fades away
There follows a wagon behind him
Thats loaded with clay
And the seeds that were silent
All burst into bloom and decay
And night comes so quiet, its close on the heels of the day
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world
The heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings
But the heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own
And sometimes we visit your country and live in your home
Sometimes we ride on your horses, sometimes we walk alone
Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world
The heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings
But the heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own |
In the timbers of Fennario
The wolves are running round
The winter was so hard and cold
Froze ten feet neath the ground
Dont murder me
I beg of you, dont murder me
Please dont murder me
I sat down to my supper
It was a bottle of red whiskey
I said my prayers and went to bed
Thats the last they saw of me
Dont murder me
I beg of you, dont murder me
Please dont murder me
When I awoke, the dire wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was, Come on in
Dont murder me
I beg of you, dont murder me
Please dont murder me
The wolf came in, I got my cards
We sat down for a game
I cut my deck to the queen of spades
But the cards were all the same
Dont murder me
I beg of you, dont murder me
Please dont murder me
Dont murder me
In the backwash of Fennario
The black and bloody mire
The dire wolf collects his due
While the boys sing round the fire
Dont murder me
I beg of you, dont murder me
Please dont murder me
Dont murder me
I beg of you, dont murder me
Please dont murder me
No, no, no
Dont murder me
I beg of you, dont murder me
Please dont murder me
Please dont murder me |
Look for a while at the china cat sunflower
Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun
Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono
Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind
Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandanna
Like a one-eyed cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack
A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle
To a double-e waterfall over my back
Comic book colors on a violin river crying leonardo
Words from out a silk trombone
I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls
In the eagle-winged palace of the Queen Chinee |
Come on all you pretty women
With your hair a-hanging down
Open up your windows cause
The Candymans in town
Come on, boys, and gamble
Roll those laughing bones
Seven come eleven, boys
Ill take your money home
Look out, look out, the Candyman
Here he come and hes gone again
Pretty lady aint got no friend
Till the Candyman comes round again
I come in from Memphis
Where I learned to talk the jive
When I get back to Memphis
Be one less man alive
Good mornin, Mr. Benson
I see youre doing well
If I had me a shotgun
Id blow you straight to hell
Look out, look out, the Candyman
Here he come and hes gone again
Pretty lady aint got no friend
Till the Candyman comes round again
Come on, boys, and wager
If you have got the mind
If you got a dollar, boys
Lay it on the line
Hand me my old guitar
Pass the whiskey round
Wont you tell everybody you meet that
The Candymans in town
Look out, look out, the Candyman
Here he come and hes gone again
Pretty lady aint got no friend
Till the Candyman comes round again |
Winter rain, now tell me why
Summers fade, and roses die
The answer came
The wind and rain
Golden hills, now veiled in gray
Summer leaves have blown away
Now what remains? The wind and rain
And like a desert spring
My lover comes and spreads her wings
Like a song thats born to soar the sky
Flowing till the waters all are dry
The loving in her eyes
Circle songs and sands of time
And seasons will end in tumbled rhyme
And little change
The wind and rain
And like a desert spring
My lover comes and spreads her wings
Like a song thats born to soar the sky
Flowing till the rivers all are dry
The loving in her eyes
Gonna happen every time
Well see summer by and by
Summers fade and roses die
Like a song thats born to soar the sky
Morning comes, she follows the path to the river shore
Lightly sung, her song is the latch on the mornings door
See the sun sparkle in the reeds, silver beads, pass into the sea
She comes from a town where they call her the woodcutters daughter
Shes brown as the bank where she kneels down to gather her water
And she bears it away with a love that the river has taught her
Let it flow, greatly grow, wide and clear!
Round and round, the cut of the plow in the furrowed field
Seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal
Broken ground, open and beckoning to the spring
Black dirt live again!
The plowman is broad as the back of the land he is sowing
As he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing
That the work of his day measures more than the planting and growing
Let it grow, let it grow, greatly yield!
What shall we say, shall we call it by a name?
As well to count the angels dancing on a pin
Water bright as the sky from which it came
And the name is on the earth that takes it in
We will not speak but stand inside the rain
And listen to the thunder shout I am! I am! I am! I am!
So it goes, we make what we make since the world began
Nothing more, the love of the women, the work of men
Seasons round, creatures great and small
Up and down as we rise and fall
What shall we say, shall we call it by a name?
As well to count the angels dancing on a pin
Water bright as the sky from which it came
And the name is on the earth that takes it in
We will not speak but stand inside the rain
And listen to the thunder shout I am! I am! I am! I am! |
I have seen where the wolf has slept by the
Silver stream
I can tell by the mark he left you were in his
Dream
Ah, child of countless trees
Ah, child of boundless seas
What you are, what youre meant to be
Speaks his name, though you were born to me
Born to me
Cassidy...
Lost now on the country miles in his cadillac
I can tell by the way you smile hes rolling back
Come wash the nighttime clean
Come grow this scorched ground green
Blow the horn, tap the tambourine
Close the gap of the dark years in between
You and me
Cassidy...
Quick beats in an icy heart
Catch-colt draws a coffin cart
There he goes now, here she starts:
Hear her cry
Flight of the seabirds, scattered like lost words
Wheel to the storm and fly
Fare thee well now
Let your life proceed by its own design
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, Im done with mine
Flight of the seabirds, scattered like lost words
Wheel to the storm and fly |
Paradise waits on the crest of a wave, her angels in flames
She has no pain, like a child she is pure, she is not to blame
Poised for flight, wings spread bright, spring from night into the sun
Dont stop to run, she can fly like a lie, she cant be outdone
Tell me the cost, I can pay, let me go, tell me love is not lost
Sell everything, without love day to day insanitys king
I will pay day by day, anyway, lock, bolt and key
Crippled but free, I was blind all the time, I was learning to see
Help on the way, well, I know only this, Ive got you today
Dont fly away cause I love what I love and I want it that way
I will stay one more day, like I say, honey, its you
Making it too, without love in a dream, it will never come true
Honey, its you
Making it too
Without love in the dream
It will never come true |
I want to tell you how its going to be
Youre going to give your love to me
I want to love you night and day
You know my love will not fade away
You know my love will not fade away
Not fade away
My love is bigger than a cadillac
I try to show you but you drive me back
Your love for me has got to be real
Youre going to know just how I feel
Our love is real, not fade away
Not fade away |
Went to see the captain, strangest I could find
Laid my proposition down, laid it on the line
I wont slave for beggars pay, likewise gold and jewels
But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools
Ship of fools on a cruel sea
Ship of fools sail away from me
It was later than I thought when I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools
Saw your first ship sink and drown, from rocking of the boat
And all that could not sink or swim was just left there to float
I wont leave you drifting down but whoa it makes me wild
With thirty years upon my head
To have you call me child
Ship of fools on a cruel sea
Ship of fools sail away from me
It was later than I thought when I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools
The bottles stand as empty
As they were filled before
Time there was and plenty
But from that cup no more
Though I could not caution all
I still might warn a few
Dont lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools
Ship of fools on a cruel sea
Ship of fools sail away from me
It was later than I thought when I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools
It was later than I thought when I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools |
Cherise was brushing her long hair gently down
It was the afternoon of carnival
As she brushes it gently down
Reuben was strumming his painted mandolin
It was inlaid with a pretty face in jade
Played the carnival parade
Cherise was dressing as Pirouette in white
When a fatal vision gripped her tight
Cherise beware tonight
Reuben, Reuben, tell me truly true
I feel afraid and I dont know why I do
Is there another girl for you?
If you could see my heart, you would know its true
Theres none Cherise, except for you, except for you
Id swear to it on my very soul
If I lie, may I fall down cold
Reuben was strumming his painted mandolin
The breeze would pause to listen in
Before going on its way again
Masquerade began when nightfall finally woke
Like waves against the bandstand, dancers broke
To the painted mandolin
Looking out on the crowd, who is standing there
Sweet Ruby Claire at Reuben stared, at Reuben stared
She was dressed as Pirouette in red
And her hair hung gently down
The crowd pressed round, Ruby stood as though alone
Reubens song took on a different tone
And he played it just for her
The song that he played was the carnival parade
Each note cut a thread of Cherises fate
It cut through like a blade
Reuben was strumming his painted mandolin
When Ruby froze and turned to stone
For the strings played all alone
The voice of Cherise from the face of the mandolin
Singing Reuben, Reuben tell me true
For I have no one but you
If you could see my heart, you would know its true
Theres none Cherise, except for you, except for you
Id swear to it on my very soul
If I lie, may I fall down cold
The truth of love an unsung song must tell
The course of love must follow blind
Without a look behind
Reuben walked the streets of New Orleans til dawn
Cherise so lightly in his arms
And her hair hung gently down |
I had a hard run
Running from your window
I was all night running, running, running
I wonder if you care?
I had a run-in
Run around and run down
Run around a corner
Run smack into a tree
I had to move
Really had to move
Thats why, if you please
I am on my bended knees
Bertha, dont you come around here anymore
Dressed myself in green
I went down to the sea
Try to see whats going down
Try to read between the lines
Had a feeling I was falling, falling, falling
Turned around to see
Heard a voice a-calling, calling, calling
You was coming after me
Back to me
I had to move
Really had to move
Thats why, if you please
I am on my bended knees
Bertha, dont you come around here anymore
Ran into a rainstorm
Ducked into a bar door
It was all night pouring, pouring rain
But not a drop on me
Test me, test me
Why dont you arrest me?
Throw me in the jail house
Until the sun goes down
Till it go down
I had to move
Really had to move
Thats why, if you please
I am on my bended knees
Bertha, dont you come around here anymore |
My time coming, any day
Dont worry about me, no
Been so long I felt this way
But Im in no hurry, no
Rainbows end down that highway
Where ocean breezes blow
My time coming, voices saying
And they tell me where to go
Dont worry bout me
No, no, dont worry bout me, no
And Im in no hurry
No, no, no, I know where to go
California
Preaching on the burning shore
California
Ill be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel
Standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise
I know Im going to shine
My time coming, any day
Dont worry about me, no
Its going to be just like they say
Them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way
And time sure passin slow
Still I know I lead the way
They tell me where I go
Dont worry bout me
No, no, dont worry bout me, no
And Im in no hurry
No, no, no, I know where to go
California
A prophet on the burning shore
California
Ill be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel
Standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise
I know Im going to shine
Youve all been asleep, you would not believe me
Them voices telling me you will soon receive me
Standing on the beach, the sea will part before me
You will follow me and we will ride to glory
And Ill call down thunder and speak the same
And my work fills the sky with flame
And might and glory going to be my name
And men going to light my way
My time coming, any day
Dont worry bout me, no
Its gonna be just like they say
Them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way
And time sure passin slow
My time coming, any day
Dont worry about me, no
Dont worry about me
No, no, dont worry about me, no
And Im in no hurry
No, no, no, dont worry about me, no
And Im in no hurry
No, no, no, dont worry about me, no
And Im in no hurry
No, no, no, time coming any day
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
No, no, no |
Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb
You know better but I know him
Like I told you, what I said
Steal your face right off your head
Now, hes gone, now hes gone, Lord, hes gone
Hes gone, like a steam locomotive
Rolling down the track, hes gone, hes gone
And nothins going to bring him back, hes gone
Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride
Hot as a pistol but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile
Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
Going where the wind dont blow so strange
Maybe off on some high cold mountain chain
Lost one round but the price wasnt anything
A knife in the back and more of the same
Same old, rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb
You know better but I know him
Like I told you, what I said
Steal your face right off your head
Ne
Like a steam locomotive
Rolling down the track, hes gone, hes gone
And nothings going to bring him back, hes gone
Ooh, nothings going to bring him back |
I know you, rider, going to miss me when Im gone
I know you, rider, going to miss me when Im gone
Going to miss your baby, from rolling in your arms
Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest
Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest
My mind was wandering like the wild geese in the West
The sun will shine in my back door someday
The sun will shine in my back door someday
March winds will blow all my troubles away
I wish I was a headlight, on a northbound train
I wish I was a headlight, on a northbound train
Id shine my light through cool Colorado rain
I know you, rider, going to miss me when Im gone
I know you, rider, going to miss me when Im gone
Going to miss your baby, from rolling in your arms
I know you, rider, going to miss me when Im gone
I know you, rider, going to miss me when Im gone
Going to miss your baby, from rolling in your arms |
Let my inspiration flow in token rhyme, suggesting rhythm
That will not forsake you, till my tale is told and done
While the firelights aglow, strange shadows from the flames will grow
Till things weve never seen will seem familiar
Shadows of a sailor, forming winds both foul and fair all swarm
Down in Carlisle, he loved a lady many years ago
Here beside him stands a man, a soldier from the looks of him
Who came through many fights, but lost at love
While the story teller speaks, a door within the fire creaks;
Suddenly flies open, and a girl is standing there
Eyes alight, with glowing hair, all that fancy paints as fair
She takes her fan and throws it, in the lions den
Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell?
I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance
The sailor gave at least a try, the soldier being much too wise
Strategy was his strength, and not disaster
The sailor, coming out again, the lady fairly leapt at him
Thats how it stands today. You decide if he was wise
The story teller makes no choice. Soon you will not hear his voice
His job is to shed light, and not to master
Since the end is never told, we pay the teller off in gold
In hopes he will return, but he cannot be bought or sold
Terrapin Station
Inspiration, move me brightly. Light the song with sense and color;
Hold away despair, more than this I will not ask
Faced with mysteries dark and vast, statements just seem vain at last
Some rise, some fall, some climb, to get to Terrapin
Counting stars by candlelight, all are dim but one is bright;
The spiral light of Venus, rising first and shining best
On, from the northwest corner, of a brand new crescent moon
While crickets and cicadas sing, a rare and different tune
Terrapin Station
In the shadow of the moon, Terrapin Station
And I know well get there soon, Terrapin Station
I cant figure out, Terrapin, if its the end or beginning, Terrapin
But the trains put its brakes on, Terrapin
And the whistle is screaming, TERRAPIN
Terrapin Station - At the Siding
While you were gone, these faces filled with darkness
The obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in
The compass always points to Terrapin
Sullen wings of fortune beat like rain
Youre back in Terrapin for good or ill again, for good or ill again |
We can share the women, we can share the wine
We can share what we got of yours cause we done shared all of mine
Keep on rollin, just a mile to go;
Keep on rollin my old buddy, youre movin much too slow
I just jumped the watchman, right outside the fence
Took his rings, four bucks in change, aint that Heaven sent?
Hurts my ears to listen, Shannon, burns my eyes to see;
Cut down a man in cold blood, Shannon, might as wellve been me
We used to play for silver, now we play for life;
And ones for sport and ones for blood at the point of a knife
And now the die is shaken, now the die must fall
There aint a winner in the game, he dont go home with all
Not with all
Leavin Texas, fourth day of July
Sun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles filled the sky
Catch the Detroit Lightning out of Santa Fe
The Great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea
Gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride
Gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride
There aint a place a man can hide, Shannon, will keep him from the sun
Aint a bed can give us rest now, you keep us on the run
Jack Straw from Wichita
Cut his buddy down
Dug for him a shallow grave
And laid his body down
Half a mile from Tucson
By the morning light
One man gone and another to go
My old buddy, youre moving much
Too slow
We can share the women, we can share the wine |
Walk me out in the morning dew my honey
Walk me out in the morning dew today
I cant walk you out in the morning dew my honey
I cant walk you out in the morning dew today
I thought I heard a baby cry this morning
I thought I heard a baby cry today
You didnt hear no baby cry this morning
You didnt hear no baby cry today
Where have all the people gone my honey
Where have all the people gone today
Theres no need for you to be worrying about all those people
You never see those people anyway
I thought I heard a young man mourn this morning
I thought I heard a young man mourn today
I thought I heard a young man mourn this morning
I cant walk you out in the morning dew today
Walk me out in the morning dew my honey
Walk me out in the morning dew today
Ill walk you out in the morning dew my honey
I guess it doesnt really matter anyway
I guess it doesnt matter anyway
I guess it doesnt matter anyway
Guess it doesnt matter anyway |
The other day they waited, the sky was dark and faded
Solemnly they stated, He has to die, you know he has to die.
All the children learnin, from books that they were burnin
Every leaf was turnin; to watch him die, you know he has to die
The summer sun looked down on him, his mother could but frown on him
And all the others sound on him, but it doesnt seem to matter
And when the day had ended, with rainbow colors blended
His mind remained unbended, he had to die, you know he had to die
Spanish lady comes to me, she lays on me this rose
It rainbow spirals round and round it trembles and explodes
It left a smoking crater of my mind I like to blow away
But the heat came round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day
Comin, comin, comin around, comin, around
Comin, around, in a circle
Comin, comin, comin around, comin around, in a circle
Comin, comin, comin around, comin in a circle
Skippin through the lily fields I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded, left a bus stop in its place
The bus came by and I got on, thats when it all began
There was cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land
Comin, comin, comin around, comin, around
Comin, around, in a circle
Comin, comin, comin around, comin around, in a circle
Comin, comin, comin around, comin in a circle
And when the day had ended, with rainbow colors blended
Their minds remained unbended
He had to die, Oh, you know he had to die |
When they come to take you down
When they bring that wagon round
When they come to call on you
And drag your poor body down
Just one thing I ask of you, is just one thing for me
Please forget you know my name, my darling Sugaree
Shake it, shake it, Sugaree
Just dont tell them that you know me
Shake it, shake it, Sugaree
Just dont tell them that you know me
You thought you was the cool fool
And never could do no wrong
You had everything sewed up tight
How come you lay awake all night long?
Just one thing I ask of you, is just one thing for me
Please forget you know my name, my darling Sugaree
Shake it, shake it, Sugaree
Just dont tell them that you know me
Shake it, shake it, Sugaree
Just dont tell them that you know me
Well, in spite of all you gained
You still had to stand out in the pouring rain
One last voice is calling you
And I guess its time you go
Just one thing I ask of you, is just one thing for me
Please forget you know my name, my darling Sugaree
Shake it, shake it, Sugaree
Just dont tell them that you know me
Shake it, shake it, Sugaree
Just dont tell them that you know me
Well shake it up now, Sugaree
Ill meet you at the Jubilee
If that Jubilee dont come
Maybe Ill meet you on the run
Just one thing I ask of you, is just one thing for me
Please forget you know my name, my darling Sugaree
Shake it, shake it, Sugaree
Just dont tell them that you know me
Shake it, shake it, Sugaree
Just dont tell them that you know me
Shake it, shake it, Sugaree
Just dont tell them that you know me
Shake it, shake it, Sugaree
Just dont tell them that you know me |
All I know is something like a bird
Within her sang
All I know she sang a little while
And then flew on
Tell me all that you know
Ill show you
Snow and rain
If you hear that same sweet song again
Will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet
Is passing by
Laugh in the sunshine
Sing
Cry in the dark
Fly
Through the night
Dont cry now
Dont you cry
Dont you cry
Anymore
La-la-la-la
Sleep
In the stars
Dont you cry
Dry your eyes on the wind
La-la-la-la
La... |
1948, Christmas eve, with a full moon over town
Stagger Lee shot Billy DeLions
And he blew that poor boy down
Do you know what he shot him for?
What do you make of that?
Because Billy DeLions threw the lucky dice
Won Stagger Lees Stetson hat
Bayo, Bayo, tell me how can this be?
You arrest the girls for turning tricks
But youre scared of Stagger Lee
Stagger Lee is a madman and he shot my Billy D
Bayo go get him or give the job to me
Delia DeLions, dear sweet Delia-D
How the hell can I arrest him? Hes twice as big as me
Well dont ask me to go downtown, I wont come back alive
Not only is that mother big but he packs a .45
Bayo, Delia said, just give me a gun
He shot my Billy dead now Im going to see him hung
She went into the DeLions club through Billy DeLions blood
Stepped up to Stagger Lee at the bar
Said, Buy me a gin fizz, love.
As Stagger Lee lit a cigarette she shot him in the balls
Blew the smoke off her revolver, had him dragged to city hall
Bayo, Bayo, see you hang him high
He shot my Billy dead and now hes got to die
Delia went a walking down on Singapore Street
A three-piece band on the corner played Near My God to Thee
But Delia whistled a different tune, what tune could it be?
The song that woman sung was Look Out Stagger Lee
The song that Delia sung was Look Out Stagger Lee |
Just like Jack the Ripper, just like Mojo Hand
Just like Billy Sunday, in a shotgun ragtime band
Just like New York City, just like Jericho
Pace the halls and climb the walls and get out when they blow
Did you say your name was Ramblin Rose?
Ramble on baby, settle down easy
Ramble on Rose
Just like Jack and Jill, Mama told the sailor
One heat up, and one cool down, leave nothing for the tailor
Just like Jack and Jill, Papa told the jailer
One go up, and one go down, do yourself a favor
Did you say your name was Ramblin Rose?
Ramble on baby, settle down easy
Ramble on Rose
Im going to sing you a hundred verses in ragtime
I know this song it aint never going to end
Im going to march you up and down along the county line
Take you to the leader of a band
Just like Crazy Otto, just like Wolfman Jack
Sittin plush with a royal flush, aces back to back
Just like Mary Shelly, just like Frankenstein
Clank your chains and count your change and try to walk the line
Did you say your name was Ramblin Rose?
Ramble on baby, settle down easy
Ramble on Rose
Im going to sing you a hundred verses in ragtime
I know this song it aint never going to end
Im going to march you up and down along the county line
Take you to the leader of a band
Goodbye Mama and Papa, goodbye Jack and Jill
The grass aint greener, the wine aint sweeter
Either side of the hill
Did you say your name was Ramblin Rose?
Ramble on baby, settle down easy
Ramble on Rose
Ramble on Rose |
On the day when I was born, Daddy sat down and cried
I had the mark just as plain as day which could not be denied
They say that Cain caught Abel rolling loaded dice
Ace of Spades behind his ear and him not thinking twice
Half-step, Mississippi uptown toodeloo
Hello, baby, Im gone, goodbye
Half a cup of rock and rye
Farewell to you old Southern skies
Im on my way, on my way
If all you got to live for is what you left behind
Get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine
Lost my boots in transit, baby, pile of smoking leather
I nailed a retread to my feet and prayed for better weather
Half-step, Mississippi uptown toodeloo
Hello, baby, Im gone, goodbye
Half a cup of rock and rye
Farewell to you old Southern skies
Im on my way, on my way
They say that when your ship comes in, the first man takes the sails
Second takes the afterdeck, the third, the planks and rails
Whats the point of calling shots
This cue aint straight in line
Cue balls made of Styrofoam and no ones got the time
Half-step, Mississippi uptown toodeloo
Hello, baby, Im gone, goodbye
Half a cup of rock and rye
Farewell to you old Southern skies
Im on my way, on my way
Across the Rio Grandio, across the lazy river |
Since it cost a lot to win
And even more to lose
You and me bound to spend some time
Wondering what to choose
It goes to show you dont ever know
Watch each card you play
And play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Dont you let that deal go down
I been gambling hereabouts
For ten good solid years
If I told you all that went down
It would burn off both your ears
It goes to show you dont ever know
Watch each card you play
And play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Dont you let that deal go down
Since you poured the wine for me
And tightened up my shoes
I hate to leave you sitting there
Composing lonesome blues
It goes to show that you dont ever know
Watch each card you play and
Play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Dont you let that deal go down
Dont you let that deal go down
Dont you let that deal go down |
In the attics of my life
Full of cloudy dreams unreal
Full of tastes no tongue can know
And lights no eye can see
When there was no ear to hear
You sang to me
I have spent my life
Seeking all thats still unsung
Bent my ear to hear the tune
And closed my eyes to see
When there were no strings to play
You played to me
In the book of loves own dream
Where all the print is blood
Where all the pages are my days
And all my lights grow old
When I had no wings to fly
You flew to me
You
Flew
To me
In the secret space of dreams
Where I dreaming lay amazed
When the secrets all are told
And the petals all unfold
When there was no dream of mine
You dreamed of me |
Red and white, blue suede shoes
Im Uncle Sam, how do you do?
Give me five, Im still alive
Aint no luck, I learned to duck
Check my pulse, it dont change
Stay seventy-two come shine or rain
Wave the flag, pop the bag
Rock the boat, skin the goat
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my
Im Uncle Sam, thats who I am
Been hiding out in a rock and roll band
Shake the hand that shook the hand of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan
Shine your shoes, light your fuse
Can you use them old U.S. Blues?
Ill drink your health, share your wealth
Run your life, steal your wife
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my
Back to back chicken shack
Son of a gun, better change your act
Were all confused, whats to lose?
You can call this song the United States Blues
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my
My my my oh my my my my
Summertime done, come and gone, my |
Old man down, way down down, down by the docks of the city
Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story
My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best, more than my wine
More than my wine, more than my maker, though hes no friend of mine
Everyone said, Id come to no good, I knew I would pearly, believe them
Half of my life, I spent doing time for some other fuckers crime
The other half found me stumbling round drunk on burgundy wine
But Ill get back on my feet again someday
The good lord willing, if he says I may
I know that the life Im livings no good
Ill get a new start, live the life I should
Ill get up and fly away, Ill get up and fly away, fly away
Pearlys been true, true to me, true to my dying day he said
I said to him, I said to him, Im sure shes been.
I said to him, Im sure shes been true to you.
Got up and wandered, wandered downtown, nowhere to go but just hang around
Ive got a girl, named bonnie lee, I know that girls been true to me
I know shes been, Im sure shes been true to me |
The judge decreed it, the clerk he wrote it
Clerk he wrote it down indeed-e
Judge decreed it, clerk he wrote it down
Give you this jail sentence, youll be Nashville bound
Some got six months, some got one solid
Some got one solid year indeed-e
Some got six months, some got one solid, yeah
But me and my buddies all got lifetime here
I wrote a letter, I mailed in the...mailed it in the air indeed-e
I wrote a letter, I mailed in the air
You may know by that Ive got a friend somewhere
I wrote a letter, I mailed in the...mailed it in the air indeed-e
I wrote a letter, I mailed in the air
You may know by that Ive got a friend somewhere |
Me and my uncle went riding down
South Colorado, West Texas bound
We stopped over in Santa Fe
That being the point just about half way
And you know it was the hottest part of the day
I took the horses up to the stall
Went to the barroom, ordered drinks for all
Three days in the saddle, you know my body hurt
It being summer, I took off my shirt
And I tried to wash off some of that dusty dirt
West Texas cowboys, theys all around
With liquor and money, theyre loaded down
So soon after payday, know it seemed a shame;
You know my uncle, he starts a friendly game
High-low jack and the winner take the hand
My uncle starts winning; cowboys got sore
One of them called him, and then two more
Accused him of cheating; oh no, it couldnt be
I know my uncle, hes as honest as me
And Im as honest as a Denver man can be
One of them cowboys, he starts to draw
And I shot him down, lord he never saw
Shot me another, oh damn he wont grow old
In the confusion, my uncle grabbed the gold
And we high-tailed it down to Mexico
I love those cowboys, I love their gold
I loved my uncle, god rest his soul
Taught me good, Lord, taught me all I know
Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold
And I left his dead ass there by the side of the road |
First Set:
China Cat Sunflower>
I Know You Rider
Estimated Prophet
Built to Last
Samson and Delilah
Mountains of the Moon
Throwing Stones
Second Set:
Truckin
Cassidy
Althea
Terrapin Station
Drums>
Space
Unbroken Chain
Days Between
Not Fade Away
Encore:
Donor Rap
Touch of Grey
Encore 2:
Attics of My Life |
Merry run around, sailin up and down
Looking for a shove in some direction
Got it from the top, its nothing you can stop
Lord, you know they made a fine connection
They love each other
Lord, you can see that its true
Lord, you can see that its true
Lord, you can see that its true
He could pass his time, around some other line
But you know he chose this place beside her
Dont get in their way, theres nothing you can say
Nothing that you need to add or do
They love each other
Lord, you can see that its true
Lord, you can see that its true
Lord, you can see that its true
Its nothing, they explain, its like a diesel train
You better not be there when it rolls over
And when that train rolls in, you wonder where its been
You gotta try and see a little further
Though youll make a noise, just cant hear your voice
All the dizzy ride on your cold shoulder
Wont you believe what I say is true?
Everything I did I heard it first from you
Everything I tell you, I heard it first from you
Heard your news report, you know youre falling short
Pretty soon, well trust you for the weather
When that ship comes in, you wont know where its been
You got to try to see a little further
They love each other
Lord, you can see that its true
Lord, you can see that its true
Lord, you can see that its true |
I went down to the mountain, I was drinking some wine
Looked up into heaven, Lord, I saw a mighty sign
Writ in fire across the heaven, plain as black and white
Get prepared, theres going to be a party tonight
Uh-huh, Hey! Saturday Night!
One more Saturday night
Hey, Saturday night!
Everybodys dancing down the local armory
With a basement full of dynamite and live artillery
The temperature keeps rising, everybody getting high
Come the rocking stroke of midnight, the whole place going to fly
Uh-huh, Hey! Saturday Night!
One more Saturday night
Hey, Saturday night!
Turn on Channel Six, the President comes on the news
Says, I got no satisfaction, thats why I sing the blues
His wife say Dont get crazy, Lord, you know what to do
Crank up that old Victrola, put on your rocking shoes
Uh-huh, Hey! Saturday Night!
One more Saturday night
Hey, Saturday night!
Then God way up in heaven, for whatever it was worth
Thought hed have a big old party, thought hed call it Planet Earth
Dont worry about tomorrow, Lord, youll know it when it comes
When the rock and roll music meets the rising, shining sun
Uh-huh, Hey! Saturday Night!
One more Saturday night
Hey, Saturday night!
Uh-huh, Hey! Saturday Night!
One more Saturday night
Hey, Saturday night! |
I cant stay much longer, Melinda, the sun is getting high
I cant help you with your troubles, if you wont help with mine
I gotta get down, I gotta get down, I gotta get down to the mine
You keep me up just one more night, I cant sleep here no more
Little Ben clock says quarter to eight; you kept me up till four
I gotta get down, I gotta get down, or I cant work there no more
A lot of poor man make a five dollar bill, keep him happy all the time
Some other fellas making nothing at all and you can hear him cry
Can I go, buddy, can I go down take your shift at the mine?
Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
Thats where I mainly spend my time
Make good money, five dollars a day
Made anymore, I might move away
Lotta poor man got the Cumberland blues he cant win for losing
Lotta poor man got to walk the line just to pay his union dues
I dont know now, I just dont know if Im going back again
I dont know now, I just dont know if Im going back again
I dont know now, I just dont know if Im going back again |
Let my inspiration flow
In token lines suggesting rhythm
That will not forsake me
Til my tale is told and done
While the firelight’s aglow
Strange shadows from the flames will grow
Til things weve never seen
Will seem familiar
Shadows of a sailor forming
Winds both foul and fair all swarm
Down in Carlisle, he loved a lady
Many years ago
Here beside him stands a man
A soldier from the looks of him
Who came through many fights
But lost at love
While the storyteller speaks
A door within the fire creaks
Suddenly flies open
And a girl is standing there
Eyes alight with glowing hair
All that fancy paints as fair
She takes her fan and throws it
In the lion’s den
Which of you to gain me, tell
Will risk uncertain pains of hell?
I will not forgive you
If you will not take the chance
The sailor gave at least a try
The soldier being much too wise
Strategy was his strength
And not disaster
The sailor coming out again
The lady fairly leapt at him
Thats how it stands today
You decide if he was wise
The storyteller makes no choice
Soon you will not hear his voice
His job is to shed light
And not to master
Since the end is never told
We pay the teller off in gold
In hopes he will come back
But he cannot be bought or sold |
Blue light rain, whoa
Unbroken chain
Looking for familiar faces
In an empty window pane
Listening for the secret
Searching for the sound
But I could only hear the preacher and the baying of his hounds
Willow sky, whoa
I walk and wonder why
They say love your brother
But you will catch it when you try
Roll you down the line, boy
Drop you for a loss
Ride you out on a cold railroad And nail you to a cross
November and more
As I wait for the score
Theyre telling me forgiveness is the key to every door
A slow winter day, a night like forever
Sink like a stone, float like a feather
Lilac rain, unbroken chain
Song of the sawhet owl
Out on the mountain, itll drive you insane
Listening to the winds howl
Unbroken chain of sorrow and pearls
Unbroken chain of shy and sea
Unbroken chain of the western wind
Unbroken chain of you and me |
Sunshine, daydream, walking in the tall trees, going where the wind goes
Blooming like a red rose, Now come on over sweetly
Ride out singin, I got you in the morning sunshine.
Sunshine, daydream, Now come on over daydream
Sunshine, daydream. Hey come on, Never gonna sweet dream
Sunshine, daydream, Wading in a cold stream
Say calling out your window, Wake Up!
Going where the wind goes, Never gonna miss that, No no no!
Ride out singin, I got you in the morning sunshine.
Sunshine, daydream, Street coming daydream
Hey, hey, Im moving on a daydream,
Hey, Sweet coming daydream,
Sun coming daydream, Come on over daydream
Come on over, Come on over daydream
Sweet coming daydream, Hey, never fade away dream
Yea, Hey hey, Sweet coming daydream, Never fade away dream |
All of my friends come to see me last night
I was laying in my bed and dying
Annie Beauneau from Saint Angel
Say The weather down here, so fine
Just then, the wind
Came squalling through the door
But who can
The weather command?
Just want to have
A little peace to die
And a friend or two
I love at hand
Fever roll up to a hundred and five
Roll on up
Gonna roll back down
One more day
I find myself alive
Tomorrow
Maybe go
Beneath the ground
See here, how everything
Lead up to this day
And its just like
Any other day
Thats ever been
Sun going up
And then the
Sun, it going down
Shine through my window and
My friends, they come around
Come around
Come around
The people may know but
The people dont care
That a man could be
As poor as me
Take a look at poor Peter
Hes lying in pain
Now, lets go
Run and see
Run and see
Run and see
Run, run, and see
Hey, hey
See |
If I had a gun for every ace I have drawn
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Dont you push me, baby, because Im moanin low
And you know Im only in it for the gold
All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars
And I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around about the wide world over
And youll never find another honest man
Last fair deal in the country, Sweet Suzie
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is, baby
Before you let my deal go down
Dont you push me, baby, cause Im moanin low
And I know a little something you wont ever know
Dont you touch hard liquor, just a cup of cold coffee
Gotta get up in the morning and go
Everybodys braggin and drinkin that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on an inside straight
Well I got no chance of losin this time
Last fair deal in the country
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is, baby
Before you let my deal go down
Everybodys braggin and drinkin that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on an inside straight
Well I got no chance of losin this time |
Cold iron shackles, ball and chain
Listen to the whistle of the evening train
You know you bound to wind up dead
If you dont head back to Tennessee, Jed
Rich man step on my poor head
When you get up, you better butter my bread
Well, you know its like I said
You better head back to Tennessee, Jed
Tennessee, Tennessee
There aint no place Id rather be
Baby, wont you carry me?
Back to Tennessee
Drink all day and rock all night
Law come to get you if you dont walk right
Got a letter this morning and it, all it read:
You better head back to Tennessee, Jed
I dropped four flights and cracked my spine
Honey, come quick with the iodine
Catch a few winks down under the bed
Then head back to Tennessee, Jed
Tennessee, Tennessee
There aint no place Id rather be
Baby, wont you carry me?
Back to Tennessee
I run into Charlie Phogg
He blacked my eye and he kicked my dog
My dog, he turned to me and he said:
Lets head back to Tennessee, Jed
I woke up a-feeling mean
Went down to play the slot machine
The wheels turned round and the letters read:
Better head back to Tennessee, Jed
Tennessee, Tennessee
There aint no place Id rather be
Baby, wont you carry me?
Back to Tennessee
Tennessee, Tennessee
There aint no place Id rather be
Baby, wont you carry me?
Back to Tennessee |
The wheel is turning and you cant slow down
You cant let go and you cant hold on
You cant go back and you cant stand still
If the thunder dont get you, then the lightning will
Wont you try just a little bit harder?
Couldnt you try just a little bit more?
Wont you try just a little bit harder?
Couldnt you try just a little bit more?
Round, round, robin run round
Got to get back to where you belong
Little bit harder, just a little bit more
A little bit further than you gone before
The wheel is turning and you cant slow down
You cant let go and you cant hold on
You cant go back and you cant stand still
If the thunder dont get you, then the lightning will
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod
Big wheel turn by the grace of God
Every time that wheel turn round
Bound to cover just a little more ground
The wheel is turning and you cant slow down
You cant let go and you cant hold on
You cant go back and you cant stand still
If the thunder dont get you, then the lightning will
Wont you try just a little bit harder?
Couldnt you try just a little bit more?
Wont you try just a little bit harder?
Couldnt you try just a little bit more? |
Let us put men and women together
See which one is smarter
Some say men, but I say no
The women got the men like a puppet show
It aint me, its the people that say
That the men are leading the women astray
But I say that the women today
Are smarter than the men in every way
Thats right, the women are smarter
Thats right, the women are smarter
Thats right, the women are smarter
The women are smarter thats right
Little boy sit on the corner and cry
Big man come and he ask him why
Says I cant do what the big boys do
Man sat down and he cried too
It aint me, but the people who say
That the men are leading the women astray
But I say that the women today
Are smarter than the men in every way
Thats right, the women are smarter
Thats right, the women are smarter
Thats right, the women are smarter
The women are smarter thats right
Ever since the world began
Women been imitating the ways of men
But listen, boys cause Ive got a plan
Give it up, dont try to understand
It aint me, its the people that say
That the men are leading the women astray
But I say that the women today
Are smarter than the men in every way
Thats right, the women are smarter
Thats right, the women are smarter
Thats right, the women are smarter
The women are smarter thats right |
See that girl, bare-footing along
Whistling and singing, shes a carrying on
Theres laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet
Shes a neon-light diamond and she can live on the street
Hey hey, hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day
Hey hey, hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day
Well, everybodys dancing in a ring around the sun
Nobodys finished, we aint even begun
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat
Try on your wings and find out where its at
Hey hey, hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day
Hey hey, hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day
Take a vacation, fall out for a while
Summers coming in, and its going out of style
Well, light up smoking honey, have yourself a ball
Cause your mothers down in Memphis, wont be back til the fall
Hey hey, hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day
Hey hey, hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day
Hey hey, hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day
Hey hey, hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day |
Standing on the moon
I got no cobweb on my shoe
Standing on the moon
Im feeling so alone and blue
I see the Gulf of Mexico
As tiny as a tear
The coast of California
Must be somewhere over here, over here
Standing on the moon
I see the battle rage below
Standing on the moon
I see the soldiers come and go
Theres a metal flag beside me
Someone planted long ago
Old Glory standing stiffly
Crimson, white and indigo
Old Glory standing stiffly
Crimson, white and indigo
Indigo
I see all of Southeast Asia
I can see El Salvador
I hear the cries of children
And the other songs of war
Its like a mighty melody
That rings down from the sky
Standing here upon the moon
I watch it all roll by, all roll by
All roll by, all roll by
Standing on the moon
I see a shadow on the sun
Standing on the moon
The stars go fading one by one
I hear a cry of victory
And another of defeat
A scrap of age-old lullaby
Down some forgotten street
Standing on the moon
Where talk is cheap and vision true
Standing on the moon
But I would rather be with you
Somewhere in San Francisco
On a back porch in July
Just looking up at heaven
At this crescent in the sky, in the sky
Standing on the moon
With nothing left to do
A lovely view of heaven
But Id rather be with you
A lovely view of heaven
But Id rather be with you, be with you
Be with you, Id rather be with you
Be with you, Id rather be with you
Id rather be with you, be with you
Be with you, be with you |
Well, shes coming down the stairs
Combing back her yellow hair
And I aint going to be treated this old way
This old way
And I aint going to be treated this old way
Well, she went up to her room where she sang her faithful tune
Well, Im going where those chilly winds dont blow
Winds dont blow
Well, Im going were those chilly winds dont blow
Well, I married me a wife
Shes been trouble all my life
Run me out in the cold rain and snow
Rain and snow
Run me out in the cold rain and snow
Run me out in the cold rain and snow
Run me out in the cold rain and snow |
Operator, can you help me
Help me if you please
Give me the right area code
And the number that I need
My rider left upon the midnight flyer
Singing like a summer breeze
I think shes somewhere down South
Down about Baton Rouge
But I just cant remember no number
A number I can use
Directory dont have it, central done forgot it
Ive gotta find a number to use
Trying to check out her number
Trying to run down her line
Operator said thats privileged information
And it aint no business of mine
Its flooding down in Texas, the poles are out in Utah
Got to find a private line
She could be hanging round the steel mill
Working in a house of blue lights
Riding a getaway bus out of Portland
Talking to the night
I dont know where shes going, I dont care where shes been
Long as shes been doing it right
Long as shes been doing it right |
I been ballin a shiny black steel jack-hammer
Been chipping up rocks for the great highway
Live five years if I take my time
Ballin that jack and a drinking my wine
I been chipping them rocks from dawn till doom
While my rider hide my bottle in the other room
Doctor say better stop balling that jack
If I live five years I gonna bust my back, yes I will
Easy wind cross the bayou today
Cause theres a whole lot of women, mama
Out in red on the streets today
And the rivers keep a talking
But you never heard a word it said
Gotta find a woman be good to me
Wont hide my liquor try to serve me tea
Cause Im a stone jack baller and my heart is true
And Ill give everything that I got to you, yes I will
Easy wind going cross the bayou today
Theres a whole lot of women
Out in red on the streets today
And the rivers keep a talking
But you never heard a word it said |
Cold mountain water, the jade merchants daughter
Mountains of the moon, Electra bow and bend to me
Hi ho the carrion crow, fol de rol de de riddle
Hi ho the carrion crow, bow and bend to me
Hey, Tom Banjo
Hey, a laurel
More than laurel you may sow
More than laurel you may sow
Hey, the laurel
Hey, the city in the rain
Hey, hey, hey, the wild wheat waving in the wind
Twenty degrees of solitude, twenty degrees in all
All the dancing kings and wives assembled in the hall
Lost is the long and loneliest town
Fairy sybil flying
All along the—
All along the mountains of the moon
Hey, Tom Banjo
Its time to matter
The earth will see you on through this time
The earth will see you on through this time
Down by the water
Marsh Kings daughter
Did you know?
Clothed in tatters, always will be
Tom, where did you go?
Mountains of the moon, Electra, mountains of the moon
All along the—
All along the mountains of the moon
Hi ho the carrion crow, fol de rol de de riddle
Hi ho the carrion crow, bow and bend to me
Bend to me
Na da da da da da da da da da da da |
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity
Paint it with a skin of sky
Brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me
A peaceful place or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race
Full of hope, full of grace
Is the human face
But afraid we may lay our home to waste
Theres a fear down here we cant forget
Hasnt got a name just yet
Always awake, always around
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Now watch as the ball revolves
And the nighttime falls
Again the hunt begins
Again the bloodwind calls
By and by, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes
From some mens eyes
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
Staking turf, dividing up meat
Nightmare spook, piece of heat
Its you and me
You and me
Click flash blade in ghetto night
Rudies looking for a fight
Rat cat alley, roll them bones
Need that cash to feed that jones
And the politicians throwin stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Commissars and pin-stripe bosses
Roll the dice
Any way they fall
Guess who gets to pay the price?
Money green or proletarian gray
Selling guns stead of food today
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones
And the politicians throwin stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Heartless powers try to tell us
What to think
If the spirits sleeping
Then the flesh is ink
Historys page will thus be carved in stone
And we are here, and we are on our own
On our own
On our own
On our own
If the game is lost
Then were all the same
No one left to place or take the blame
We can leave this place and empty stone
Or that shinin ball we used to call our home
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones
And the politicians throwin stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing Black goes south and white comes north
In a whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours
And the current fashion sets the pace
Lose your step, fall out of grace
And the radical, he rant and rage
Singing someones got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home
Singing just leave well enough alone
But his pants are down, his covers blown...
And the politicians throwin stones
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones
And its all too clear were on our own
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Picture a bright blue ball
Just spinnin, spinnin, free
Dizzy with the possibilities
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down |
Till the morning comes, itll do you fine
Till the morning comes, like a highway sign
Showing you the way, leaving no doubt
Of the way on in or the way back out
Tell you what Ill do
Ill watch out for you
Youre my woman now
Make yourself easy
Make yourself easy
Make yourself easy
Till we all fall down, itll do you fine
Dont think about what you left behind
The way you came or the way you go
Let your tracks be lost in the dark and snow
Tell you what Ill do
Ill watch out for you
Youre my woman now
Make yourself easy
Make yourself easy
Make yourself easy
When the shadows grow, itll do you fine
When the cold winds blow, itll ease your mind
The shape it takes could be yours to choose
What you may win, what you may lose
Tell you what Ill do
Ill watch out for you
Youre my woman now
Make yourself easy
Make yourself easy
Make yourself easy
Youre my woman now
Make yourself easy
Youre my woman now
Make yourself easy
Youre my woman now
Make yourself easy
Youre my woman now
Make yourself easy |
All the years combine
They melt into a dream
A broken angel sings
From a guitar
In the end theres just a song
Comes crying like the wind
Through all the broken dreams
And vanished years
Stella blue, Stella blue
When all the cards are down
Theres nothing left to see
Theres just the pavement left
And broken dreams
In the end theres still that song
Comes crying like the wind
Down every lonely street
Thats ever been
Stella blue, Stella blue
Ive stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel
Cant win for trying
Dust off those rusty strings just
One more time
Going to make em shine
It all rolls into one
And nothing comes for free
Theres nothing you can hold
For very long
And when you hear that song
Come crying like the wind
It seems like all this life
Was just a dream
Stella blue, Stella blue |
Well I was drinkin last night with a biker
And I showed him a picture of you
I said, Pal, get to know her. Youll like her
Seemed like the least I could do...
Cause when hes driving his chopper
Up and down your carpeted halls
You will think me by contrast quite proper
Never mind how I stumble and fall
Never mind how I stumble and fall
You imagine me sipping champagne from
Your boot
For a taste of your elegant pride
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least Im enjoying the ride
At least Im enjoying the ride
At least Im enjoying the ride
Now miss sweet little soft-core pretender
Somehow baby got hard as it gets
With her black leather chrome-spiked
Suspenders
Her chain and her whip and her pets
Well we know youre the reincarnation
Of the ravenous Catherine the Great
And we know how you love your ovations
For the Z-rated scenes you create
The Z-rated scenes you create
You analyze me, pretend to despise me
You laugh when I stumble and fall
There may come a day I will dance on your grave
Unable to dance, I will crawl across it
Unable to dance, Ill still crawl
Unable to dance Ill crawl
You must really consider the circus
Cause it just might be your kind of zoo
I cant think of a place thats more perfect
For a person as perfect as you
And its not like Im leaving you lonely
Cause I wouldnt know where to begin
But I know that youll think of me only
When the snakes come marching in
When the snakes come marching in
You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot
For taste of your elegant pride
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least Im enjoying the ride, at least Ill enjoy the ride
Ride, ride, ride
At least Ill enjoy the ride |
Julie catch a rabbit by his hair
Come back stepping, like to walk on air
Get back home where you belong
And dont you run off no more
Dont hang your head, let the two time roll
Grass shack nailed to a pine wood floor
Ask the time, baby, I dont know
Come back later, gonna let it show
And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there?
I dont know
Seems a common way to go
Get down, row, row, row
Row row
Heres a half dollar if you dare
Double twist when you hit the air
Look at Julie, down below
The levee doing the do-pas-o
And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there, I dont know
Seems a common way to go
Get down and row
Row, row, row, row
Broken heart dont feel so bad
You aint got half of what you thought you had
Rock you, baby, to and fro
Not too fast, and not too slow
And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there, I dont know
Seems a common way to go
Get down and row
Row, row, row, row
Thats the way its been in town
Ever since they tore the jukebox down
Two-bit piece dont buy no more
Not so much as it done before
And I say row, Jimmy, row
Gonna get there, I dont know
Seems a common way to go
Get down and row
Row, row, row, row |
You told me goodbye, how was I to know
You didnt mean goodbye, you meant please dont let me go?
I was having a high time, living the good life, well I know
The wheels are muddy, got a ton of hay
Now listen here, baby, cause I mean what I say
Im having a hard time, living the good life, well I know
I was losing time, I had nothing to do
No one to fight, I came to you
Wheels broke down, leader wont draw
The line is busted, the last one I saw
Tomorrow come trouble, tomorrow come pain
Now dont think too hard baby, cause you know what Im saying
I could show you a high time, living the good life, dont be that way
Nothings for certain, it could always go wrong
Come in when its raining, go on out when its gone
We could have us a high time, living the good life, well I know |
Lay down my dear brothers, lay down and take your rest
Oh, wont you lay your head upon your saviors breast
I love you, oh but Jesus loves you the best
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Lay down my dear brothers, lay down and take your rest
Oh, wont you lay your head upon your saviors breast
I love you, oh but Jesus loves you the best
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Walking in Jerusalem, just like John
I remember right well, I remember right well
His rod and his staff shall comfort me
Tell A for the ark, that wonderful boat
Tell B for the beast at the ending of the wood
You know, it ate all the children that would not be good
Walking in the valley in the shadow of death
Lay down my dear brothers, lay down and take your rest
Oh, wont you lay your head upon your saviors breast
I love you, oh but Jesus loves you the best
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Lay down my dear brothers, lay down and take your rest
Oh, wont you lay your head upon your saviors breast
I love you, oh but Jesus loves you the best
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight |
My grand-ma and your grand-ma were
Sit-tin by the fire. - My grand-ma told
Your grand-ma: Im gon-na set your flag on fire.--
Talk-in bout, Hey now ! Hey now ! I-KO, I-KO, un-day
Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né. - Jock-a-mo fee na-né.-
Look at my king all dressed in red.-
I-KO, I-KO, un-day. I bet-cha five dol-lars hell kill you dead.--
Jock-a-mo fee na-né
Talk-in bout, Hey now ! Hey now ! I-KO, I-KO, un-day
Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né. - Jock-a-mo fee na-né.-
My flag boy and your flag boy were
Sit-tin by the fire. - My flag boy told
Your flag boy: Im gon-na set your flag on fire.
Talk-in bout, Hey now ! Hey now ! I-KO, I-KO, un-day
Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né. - Jock-a-mo fee na-né.-
See that guy all dressed in green ? -
I-KO, I-KO, un-day. Hes not a man;
Hes a lov-in ma-chine.--
Jock-a mo fee na-né.--
Talk-in bout, Hey now ! Hey now ! I-KO, I-KO, un-day
Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né. - Jock-a-mo fee na-né.- |
There were days
And there were days
And there were days between
Summer flies and August dies
The world grows dark and mean
Comes the shimmer of the moon
On black infested trees
The singing man is at his song
The holy on their knees
The reckless are out wrecking
The timid plead their pleas
No one knows much more of this
Than anyone can see anyone can see
There were days
And there were days
And there were days besides
When phantom ships with phantom sails
Set to sea on phantom tides
Comes the lightning of the sun
On bright unfocused eyes
The blue of yet another day
A springtime wet with sighs
A hopeful candle lingers
In the land of lullabies
Where headless horsemen vanish
With wild and lonely cries lonely cries
There were days
And there were days
And there were days I know
When all we ever wanted
Was to learn and love and grow
Once we grew into our shoes
We told them where to go
Walked halfway around the world
On promise of the glow
Stood upon a mountain top
Walked barefoot in the snow
Gave the best we had to give
How much well never know well never know
There were days
And there were days
And there were days between
Polished like a golden bowl
The finest ever seen
Hearts of Summer held in trust
Still tender, young and green
Left on shelves collecting dust
Not knowing what they mean
Valentines of flesh and blood
As soft as velveteen
Hoping love would not forsake
The days that lie between lie between |
I need a woman about twice my age
A lady of nobility, gentility and rage
Splendor in the dark, lightning on the draw
Well go right through the book and break each and every law
I got a feeling and it wont go away, oh no
Just one thing then Ill be okay
I need a miracle every day
I need a woman about twice my height
Statuesque, raven-dressed, a goddess of the night
Her secret incantations, a candle burning blue
Well consult the spirits maybe theyll know what to do
And its real and it wont go away, oh no
I cant get around and I cant run away
I need a miracle every day
I need a woman about twice my weight
A ton of fun who packs a gun with all her freight
Find her in a sideshow leave her in LA
Ride her like a surfer riding on a tidal wave
And its real, believe what I say, yeah
Just one thing I got to say
I need a miracle every day
It takes dynamite to get me up
Too much of everything is just enough
One more thing I just got to say
I need a miracle every day
I need a miracle
Everyday |
If I had the world to give
Id give it to you long as you live
Would you let it fall or hold it all in your arms?
If I had a song to sing
Id sing it to you as long as you live
Lullaby or maybe a plain serenade
Wouldnt you laugh, dance, and cry
Or be afraid at the change you made
I may not have the world to give to you
But maybe I have a tune or two
Only if you let me be your world
Could I ever give this world to you
Could I ever give this world to you
But I will give what love I have to give
I will give what love I have to give
I will give what love I have to give
Long as I live
If I had a star to give
Id give it to you long as you live
Would you have the time to watch it shine, watch it shine
Or ask for the moon and heaven too?
Id give it to you
Well maybe Ive got no star to spare
Or anything fine or even rare
Only if you let me be your world
Could I ever give this world to you
Could I ever give this world to you |
Thirty two teeth in a jawbone
Alabamas tryin for none
Before I have to hit him, I hope hes got the sense to run
Reason the poor girls love him
Promise them everything
Why they all believe him? He wears a big diamond ring
Run, run!
Alabama getaway, getaway
Alabama getaway, getaway
Only way to please me, just get down and leave and walk away
Major Domo Billy Bojangles
Sat down and had a drink with me
Said What about Alabama that keeps a-coming back to me?
I heard your plea in the courthouse
Witness box began to rock and rise
Forty-nine sister states had Alabama in their eyes
Run, run!
Alabama getaway, getaway
Alabama getaway, getaway
Only way to please me, just get down and leave and walk away
Major said, Why dont we give him rope enough to hang himself?
No need to worry the jury
Theyll probably take care of themselves
Twenty-third Psalm, Major Domo
Reserve me a table for three
Down in the Valley of the Shadow, just you, Alabama and me
Run, run!
Alabama getaway, getaway
Alabama getaway, getaway
Only way to please me, just get down and leave and walk away
Alabama getaway, getaway
Alabama getaway, getaway
Only way to please me, just get down and leave and walk away
Alabama getaway, getaway
Alabama getaway, getaway
Only way to please me, just get down and leave and walk away
Alabama getaway, getaway
Alabama getaway, getaway
Only way to please me, just get down and leave and walk away
Alabama getaway, getaway
Alabama getaway, getaway |
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down
Well Delilah was a woman, she was fine and fair
She had good looks, God knows, and coal black hair
Delilah she gained old Samsons mind
When first he saw this woman, you know he couldnt believe his mind
Delilah she climbed up on Samsons knee
Said tell me where your strength lies, if you please
Then she spoke so kind, she talked so fair
That Samson said, Delilah you cut off my hair
You can shave my head, clean as my hand
My strength become as natural as any old man
If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down
You read about Samson, all from his birth
He was the strongest man ever has lived on earth
One day while Samson was walking along
Looked down on the ground he saw an old jaw bone
Then he stretched out his arm and his chains broke like threads
And when he got to move, ten thousand was dead
If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down
Now Samson and the lion, they got in attack
And Samson he crawled up on the lions back
You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paws
Samson got hands up round the lions jaws
He ripped that beast, killed him dead
And the bees made honey in the lions head |
A pistol shot at 5 oclock
The bells of heaven ring
Tell me what you done it for
No, I wont tell you a thing
Yesterday I begged you
Before I hit the ground
All I leave behind me
Is only what I found
If you can abide it
Let the hurdy-gurdy play
Stranger ones have come by here
Before they flew away
I will not condemn you
Nor yet would I deny
I would ask the same of you
But failing will not die
Take up your china doll
Its only fractured
And just a little nervous
From the fall |
Truckin, got my chips cashed in
Keep truckin, like the do-dah man
Together, more or less in line
Just keep truckin on
Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street
Chicago, New York, Detroit and its all on the same street
Your typical city involved in a typical daydream
Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings
Dallas, got a soft machine
Houston, too close to New Orleans
New York got the ways and means
But just wont let you be
Most of the cats that you meet on the streets speak of true love
Most of the time theyre sittin and cryin at home
One of these days they know they gotta get goin
Out of the door and down on the street all alone
Truckin, like the do-dah man
Once told me Youve got to play your hand
Sometimes your cards aint worth a dime
If you dont lay em down
Sometimes the lights all shinin on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long, strange trip its been
What in the world ever became of sweet Jane?
She lost her sparkle, you know she isnt the same
Livin on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine
All her friend can say is Aint it a shame
Truckin, up to Buffalo
Ive been thinkin, you got to mellow slow
It takes time to pick a place to go
And just keep truckin on
Sittin and starin out of the hotel window
Got a tip theyre gonna kick the door in again
Id like to get some sleep before I travel
But if you got a warrant, I guess youre gonna come in
Busted, down on Bourbon Street
Set up, like a bowling pin
Knocked down, it gets to wearin thin
They just wont let you be
Youre sick of hangin around and youd like to travel
Get tired of travelin, you wanna settle down
I guess they cant revoke your soul for tryin
Get out of the door and light out and look all around
Sometimes the lights all shinin on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long, strange trip its been
Truckin, Im goin home
Whoa whoa baby, back where I belong
Back home, sit down and patch my bones
And get back truckin on |
Some folks trust to reason
Others trust to might
I dont trust to nothing
But I know it come out right
Say it once again now
Oh, I hope you understand
When its done and over
Lord, a man is just a man
Playing
Playing in the band
Daybreak
Daybreak on the land
Some folks look for answers
Others look for fights
Some folks up in treetops
Just look to see the sights
I can tell your future
Look whats in your hand
But I cant stop for nothing
Im just playing in the band
Playing
Playing in the band
Daybreak
Daybreak on the land
Standing on a tower
World at my command
You just keep a turning
While Im playing in the band
If a man among you
Got no sin upon his hand
Let him cast a stone at me
For playing in the band
Playing
Playing in the band
Daybreak
Daybreak on the land
Playing
Playing in the band
Daybreak daybreak on the land |
As I was a-goin over Gilgarra mountains
I met Colonel Pepper and his money he was counting
I drew forth my pistol and I rattled my sabre
Saying stand and deliver, for I am a bold deceiver
Musha ringum duram da
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Theres whiskey in the jar
The shining yellow coins did sure look bright and jolly
I took the money home and I gave it to my Molly
She promised and she vowed that she never would deceive me
But the devils in the women for they never can be easy
Musha ringum duram da
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Theres whiskey in the jar
When I awoke between the hours of six and seven
Guards were standing round me in numbers odd and even
I flew to my pistols, but alas I was mistaken
I fired off my pistols and a prisoner was taken
Musha ringum duram da
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Theres whiskey in the jar
They put me in jail without a judge or jury
For robbing Colonel Pepper in the morning so early
They didnt take my fist so I knocked down the sentry
And I bid a long farewell to that cold penitentiary
Musha ringum duram da
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Theres whiskey in the jar
I think Ill find my brother, hes the one thats in the army
I dont know where hes stationed be in Cork or in Killarney
Together well go roving thru the Moutains of Kilkenny
I dare hell treat me fairer than my darling sporting Molly
Musha ringum duram da
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Theres whiskey in the jar
Some take delight in fishing and bowling
Others take delight in carriage a-rollin
I take delight in the juice of the barley
Courting pretty women in the morning so early
Musha ringum duram da
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Whack-fall the daddy-o
Theres whiskey in the jar |
I was born in the desert
Raised in a lions den
I was born in the desert
Raised in a lions den
Oh, my number one occupation
Is stealing women from their men
Well, now the doctor call me crazy
Sometimes I am, sometimes I aint
Said now the doctor call me crazy
Sometimes I am, sometimes I aint
Yes, and the preacher man call me sinner
But his little girl call me a saint
Well a couple shots of whiskey
Women around here start looking good
I said a couple shots of whiskey
Women round here start looking good
A couple more shots of whiskey
Im going down to Minglewood
Said, I was born in the desert
Raised in a lions den
Said, I was born in the desert
Raised in a lions den
Yes and my number one occupation
Is stealing women from their men
I was born in the desert
Raised in a lions den
I was born in the desert
Raised in a lions den
Oh, my number one occupation
Is stealing women from their men |
When the last rose of summer pricks my finger
And the hot sun chills me to the bone
When I cant hear the song for the singer
And I cant tell my pillow from a stone
I will walk alone by the black muddy river
And sing me a song of my own
I will walk alone by the black muddy river
And sing me a song of my own
When the last bolt of sunshine hits the mountain
And the stars start to splatter in the sky
When the moon splits the southwest horizon
With the scream of an eagle on the fly
I will walk alone by the black muddy river
And listen to the ripples as they moan
I will walk alone by the black muddy river
And sing me a song of my own
Black muddy river
Roll on forever
I dont care how deep or wide
If you got another side
Roll muddy river, roll muddy river
Black muddy river roll
Black muddy river
Roll on forever
I dont care how deep or wide
If you got another side
Roll muddy river, roll muddy river
Black muddy river roll
When it seems like the night will last forever
And theres nothing left to do but count the years
When the strings of my heart start to sever
And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears
I will walk alone by the black muddy river
And dream me a dream of my own
I will walk alone by the black muddy river
And sing me a song of my own
And sing me a song of my own |
Annie laid her head down in the roses
She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons
In her long brown hair
I dont know, it must have been the roses
All I know is I could not leave her there
I dont know, it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair
I dont know, maybe it was the roses
All I know was I could not leave her there
Ten years the waves rolled the
Ships home from the sea
Thinking well how it may blow
In all good company
If I tell another what
Your own lips told to me
Let me lay neath the roses
Let my eyes no longer see
I dont know, it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair
I dont know, maybe it was the roses
All I know was I could not leave her there
One pane of glass in the window
No one is complaining though
Come in and shut the door
Faded is the crimson from the
Ribbons that she wore
And its strange how no one
Comes round anymore
I dont know, it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair
I dont know, maybe it was the roses
All I know was I could not leave her there
Annie laid her head down in the roses
She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons
In her long brown hair
I dont know, it must have been the roses
All I know is I could not leave her there
I dont know, it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair
I dont know, maybe it was the roses
All I know was I could not leave her there |
Comes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, says Dont you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe.
Dont give it up, you got an empty cup only love can fill
Only love can fill
Been walking all morning went walking all night
I cant see much difference between the dark and light
And I feel the wind And I taste the rain
Never in my mind to cause so much pain
Comes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, says Dont you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe.
Dont give it up, you got an empty cup only love can fill
Only love can fill
From day to day just letting it ride
You get so far away from how it feels inside
You cant let go cause youre afraid to fall
But the day may come when you cant feel at all
The words come out like an angry stream
You hear yourself say things you could never mean
When you cool down you find your mind
You got a lot of words youve got to stand behind
Comes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, says Dont you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe.
Dont give it up, you got an empty cup only love can fill
Only love can fill, only love can fill, only love can fill |
Without a warning you broke my heart
Taking it baby, tore it apart
And you left me standing in a dark clime
Said your love for me was dyin
So come on baby, baby please
Im begging you baby, Im on my knees
Turn on your light, let it shine on me
Turn on your love light, let it shine on me
Let it shine on me let shine, let it shine, let it shine
When I get a little lonely in the middle of
The night
And I need you darling to make things all right
So come on baby, baby please
And Im begging you baby, cause Im on my knees
Turn on your lights let it shine on me
Turn on your love light let it shine on me
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine
Without a warning, you broke my heart
Taken it baby, torn it apart
And you left me standing, in a dark clime
Said your love for me was dyin
So come on baby, Im on my knees
Well I get a little lonely in the middle of the night |
Mama said, Dont go near that river
Dont be hanging around old Catfish John
Come the morning, Id always be there
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn
Take me back to another morning, to a time so long ago
Where the sweet magnolia blossomed, cotton fields are white as snow
Catfish John was a river hobo who lived and died by the rivers bed
Looking back, I still remember, I was proud to be his friend
Mama said, Dont go near that river
Dont be hanging around old Catfish John
Come the morning, Id always be there
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn
Born a slave in the town of Vicksburg, traded for a chestnut mare
Lord, he never spoke in anger, though his load was hard to bear
Mama said, Dont go near that river
Dont be hanging around old Catfish John
Come the morning, Id always be there
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn
Mama said, Dont go near that river
Dont be hanging around old Catfish John
Come the morning, Id always be there
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn
That sounds cool |
Thought I heard a blackbird singin
Up on Bluebird Hill
Call me a whinin boy if you will
Born where the sun dont shine
And I dont deny my name
Got no place to go, aint that a shame?
Thought I heard that KC whistle
Moanin sweet & low
Thought I heard that KC when she blow
Down where the sun dont shine
Underneath the Kokomo
Whinin boy -- got no place else to go
So many roads I tell you
So many roads I know
So many roads --
So many roads --
Mountain high, river wide
So many roads to ride
So many roads
So many roads
Thought I heard a jug band playin
If you dont -- who else will?
From over on the far side of the hill
All I know the sun dont shine
The rain refuse to fall
And you dont seem to hear me when I call
Wind inside & the wind outside
Tangled in the window blind
Tell me why you treat me so unkind
Down where the sun dont shine
Lonely and I call your name
No place left to go, aint that a shame?
So many roads I tell you
New York to San Francisco
All I want is one
To take me home
From the high road to the low
So many roads I know
So many roads - So many roads
From the land of the midnight sun
Where ice blue roses grow
long those roads of gold and silver snow
Howlin wide or moanin low
So many roads I know
So many roads to ease my soul |
Theres mosquitoes on the river
Fish are rising up like birds
Its been hot for seven weeks now
Too hot to even speak now
Did you hear what I just heard?
Say it might have been a fiddle or it could have been the wind
But there seems to be a beat now I can feel it my feet now
Listen here it comes again!
Theres a band out on the highway
Theyre high stepping into town
Its a rainbow full of sound
Its fireworks, calliopes and clowns
Everybodys dancing
Come on children, come on children
Come on clap your hands
Sun went down in honey
And the moon came up in wine
You know stars were spinning dizzy, Lord
The band kept us too busy we forgot about the time
Theyre a band beyond description
Like Jehovahs favorite choir
People joining hand in hand
While the music played the band, Lord
Theyre setting us on fire
Crazy rooster crowing midnight
Balls of lighting roll along
Old men sing about their dreams
Women laugh and children scream
And the band keeps playing on
Keep on dancing thru the daylight
Greet the morning air with song
No ones noticed, but the bands all packed and gone
Was it ever there at all?
But they kept on dancing
Come on children, come on children
Come on clap your hands
Well the cool breeze came on Tuesday
And the corns a bumper crop
And the fields are full of dancing
Full of singing and romancing
The music never stopped |
Wake of the flood, laughing water, forty-nine
Get out the pans, dont just stand there dreaming
Get out the way, get out the way
Here comes sunshine
Here comes sunshine
Line up a long shot
Maybe try it two times, maybe more
Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor
Why hold out for more?
Here comes sunshine
Here comes sunshine
Asking you nice, now
Keep the mother rolling one more time
Been down before but you just dont have to go no more, no more
Here comes sunshine
Here comes sunshine |
I rode in to Nazareth, was feeling about half past dead
I just need someplace where I could lay my head
I said, Hey mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?
He just grinned and shook my hand and No is all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And you put the load right on me
I packed up my bags, I went looking for place to hide
Then I saw Carmen and the Devil, walking side-by-side
I said, Hey Carmen, cmon lets go downtown.
She said, I gotta go but my friend can stick around.
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And you put the load right on me
Go down Miss Moses, theres aint nothing you can say
Its just Old Luke, and Lukes waiting on the Judgement Day
Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee
He said, Do me a favor, son, wont you stay and keep Anna Lee company.
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And you put the load right on me
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, Ill fix you right, if you take Jack, my dog.
I said, Hey wait a minute, Chester. You know Im a peaceful man.
He said, Thats OK, boy, wont you feed him when you can.
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And you put the load right on me
Gonna catch the Cannonball, now, to take me down the line
My back is sinking low and I do believe its time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know shes the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And you put the load right on me |
Hog of a Sunday
Dog of a Monday
Get it back someday
Whatd I say?
Movin in close
Cut from a long shot
Fade on a downbeat
Ready or not ready or not
Chorus:
Corrina, Wake it up baby
Corrina, Shake it on down
Corrina, Corrina
Cruise through a stop sign
Loggin up short time
Bird on a phone line
Soakin up the Sun
Salt on a crowtail
What can I do?
Im down by law
But Im true to you true to you
Chorus:
If, what, where and when
Told at the proper time
Big black wings beat on the wind
But they dont hardly climb
Theres a silver ocean
Silver clouds and silver sea
A bird on the horizon
Silver wingin back to me
Chorus:
Wake it up baby
Shake it down easy
Bring it back someday
Whatd I say?
Movin in closer
Cut from a long shot
Fade on a downbeat
Ready or not ready or not
Corrina-Wake it up baby
Corrina-Shake it down easy
Corrina-Shake it up now
Corrina-Shake it back down
If, what, where, when and how
No it dont mean a thing to me
I would love you even if
You flew away from me
Ill just stand here waiting
On the far side of the sea
There is no fear that lovers born
Will ever fail to meet
Chorus: |
No, no! she cant take your mind and leave
I know its just another trick shes got up her sleeve
I cant believe that she really wants you to die
After all its more than enough to pay for your lie
Wait a minute, watch what youre doing with your time
All the endless ruins of the past must stay behind, yeah
Wait a minute, watch what youre doing with your time
All the endless ruins of the past must stay behind, yeah
Wait a minute, watch what youre doing with your time
All the endless ruins of the past must stay behind, yeah
Wait a minute, watch what youre doing with your time
All the endless ruins of the past must stay behind, yeah
Well, cant you see that youre killing each others soul
Well, youre both out in the streets and you got no place to go
Your constant baits are getting to be a bore
So go somewhere else and continue your cream puff war |
Arabian wind
The needles eye is thin
The Ships of State sail on mirage
And drown in sand
Out in No-mans Land
Where Allah does command
What good is spilling
Blood?It will not
Grow a thing
Taste eternity
The swords sings Blues for Allah
Insh Allah
They lie where they fall
Theres nothing more to say
The desert stars are bright tonight
Lets meet as friends
The Flower of Islam
The Fruit of Abraham
The thousand stories have
Come round to one again
Arabian night
Our gods pursue their fight
What fatal flowers of
Darkness spring from
Seeds of light
Bird of paradise - Fly
In white sky
Blues for Allah
InshAllah
Lets see with our heart
These things our eyes have seen
And know the truth must still lie
Somewhere in between
Under eternity
Under eternity
Under eternity
Blue
Bird of paradise
Fly
In white sky
Under eternity
Blues
For Allah
InshAllah |
Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun
Lying by the river just like he usually done
Call for his whiskey
He can call for his tea
Call all he want to but he cant call me
Oh no, well I been there before
And Im not coming back around
There no more
Hold up, waiting for a windy day
Creepy alligator coming all around the bend
Talking bout the times when we was mutual friends
Ill check my memory and I will check it quick
Yes I will
Ill check it running some old kind of trick
Whoa no
Oh no, well I been there before
And I aint coming back around there no more
No Im not
Riding down the river in an old canoe
A bunch of bugs and an old tennis shoe
Out of the river all ugly and green
The biggest old alligator that I have ever seen
Teeth big and pointy and his eyes were bugging out
Contract the union, put the beggars to rout
Screaming and yelling, he was picking his chops
He never run, he just stumbles and hops
Just out of prison on six dollars bail
Mumblin bitches and wagging his tail
Come on everybody
Get up and dance, it wont ruin ya
Alligator running round my door
Alligator running round my door
Alligator running round my door
Alligator running round my door
Alligators creepy friend
Been crawling round my cabin floor
Been comin around to bother me some more
Alligator!
Alligator! |
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa Im a little schoolboy too
Come on now pretty baby, I just cant help myself
Youre so young and pretty, I dont need nobody else
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Dont you hear me crying?
Ow, hey, oh
Im gonna leave you, baby, about the break of day
On account of the way you treat me, I got to stay away
Come on now pretty baby, darling come on home
You know I love you, baby, I got to get you all alone
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Cant you hear me crying?
Ow, hey, oh
Im gonna buy me an airplane, and fly all over your town
Tell everybody baby, Lord knows youre fine
Come on now pretty baby, I just cant help myself
Youre so young and pretty, I dont need nobody else
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Cant you hear me crying?
Ow, hey, oh
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa Im a schoolboy too
Im a schoolboy, too—hey, Im a schoolboy, too
I wanna be your chauffeur, I wanna ride your little machine
I wanna be your chauffeur, I wanna ride your little machine
I wanna put a tiger, baby I wanna put a tiger, baby
I wanna put a tiger, baby, hey, in your sweet little tank
Hey baby now, yes I do, ha, yes I do now
Hey, I got to, hey, I got to come on home with you
Tell your mama, uh baby, tell your papa, tell your mama and your papa
Hey, Im a schoolboy, too, hey, hey, Im a schoolboy, too
Ha oww, Im a schoolboy, too, ow, I wanna keep your company
Hey, I wanna keep your company |
Cosmic Charlie, how do you do?
Trucking in style along the avenue
Dum de dum de doodley do
Go on home your mamas calling you
Kalico, kahlia, come tell me the news
Calamitys waiting for a way to get to her
Rosy red and electric blue
I bought you a paddle for your paper canoe
Say youll come back when you can
Whenever your airplane happens to land
Maybe Ill be back here too
It all depends on whats with you
Hung up waiting for a windy day
Kite one ice since the first of February
Mama keeps saying that the wind might blow
But standing here I say I just dont know
New ones coming as the old ones go
Everythings moving here but much too slow now
A little bit quicker and we might have time
To say, How do you do? before were left behind
Calliope wail like a seaside zoo
The very last lately inquired about you
Its really very one or two
The first you wanted, the last I knew
I just wonder if you shouldnt feel
Less concerned about the people unreal
The very first word is, How do you do?
The last go home your mamas calling you
Calling you, calling you, calling you, calling you
Go on home your mamas calling you
Go on home your mamas calling you
Go on home your mamas calling you
Go on home your mamas calling you |
The Lyrics dataset parsed from Genius. This dataset is designed to generate lyrics with HuggingArtists. Model is available here.
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How to load this dataset directly with the datasets library:
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("huggingartists/the-grateful-dead")
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
This example was too long and was cropped:
{
"text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you\nNot to hurt your feelings\nBut I'm only going to get this one chance\nSomething's wrong, I can feel it..."
}
The data fields are the same among all splits.
text
: a string
feature.train | validation | test |
---|---|---|
2266 | - | - |
'Train' can be easily divided into 'train' & 'validation' & 'test' with few lines of code:
from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset, DatasetDict
import numpy as np
datasets = load_dataset("huggingartists/the-grateful-dead")
train_percentage = 0.9
validation_percentage = 0.07
test_percentage = 0.03
train, validation, test = np.split(datasets['train']['text'], [int(len(datasets['train']['text'])*train_percentage), int(len(datasets['train']['text'])*(train_percentage + validation_percentage))])
datasets = DatasetDict(
{
'train': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(train)}),
'validation': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(validation)}),
'test': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(test)})
}
)
@InProceedings{huggingartists,
author={Aleksey Korshuk}
year=2021
}
Built by Aleksey Korshuk
For more details, visit the project repository.