ACT NATURALLY
They're gonna put me in the movies,
They're gonna make a big star outta me,
We’ll make a film about a man that’s sad and lonely,
And all I gotta do is act naturally.
Well I bet you I'm gonna be a big star,
Might win an Oscar, you can never tell,
The movies gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well.
Well I hope you’ll come and see me in the movies,
Then I know you will plainly see,
The biggest fool that ever hit the big time,
And all I gotta do is act naturally.
We'll make the scene about a man that's sad and lonely,
And begging down upon his bended knee,
I'll play the part and I won't need rehearsing,
And all I have to do is act naturally.
Well I bet you I'm gonna be a big star,
Might win an Oscar, you can never tell,
The movies gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well.
1
AFTER MIDNIGHT
After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out,
After midnight, we gonna shake it up and shout,`\
We gonna stimulate some action,
We gonna get some satisfaction,
We gonna find out what it's all about,
After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out.
After midnight, we’re gonna shake your tambourine,
After midnight, it's all gonna be peaches and cream,
We gonna cause talk and suspicion,
We’re gonna give an exhibition,
We’re gonna find out what it's all about,
After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out.
We gonna cause talk and suspicion,
We’re gonna give an exhibition,
We’re gonna find out what it's all about,
After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out.
2
AGAINST ALL ODDS
How can I just let you walk away,
Just let you leave without a trace,
When I stand here,
Taking every breath with you ooh,
You’re the only one who really knew me at all.
How can you just walk away from me,
When all I can do is watch you leave,
‘Cause we shared the laughter and the pain,
And even shared the tears,
You’re the only one who really knew me at all,
So take a look at me now,
There’s just an empty space,
And there’s nothing left here to remind me,
Just the memory of your face.
Well take a look at me now,
‘Cause there’s just an empty space,
And you coming back to me is against the odds,
And that’s what I’ve got to face.
I wish I could just make you turn around,
Turn around and see me cry,
There’s so much I need to say to you,
So many reasons why,
You’re the only one who really knew me at all.
So take a look at me now,
There’s just an empty space,
And there’s nothing left here to remind me,
Just the memory of your face.
Well take a look at me now,
‘Cause there’s just an empty space,
And you coming back to me is against the odds,
And that’s what I’ve got to face.
But to wait for you is all I can do,
And that’s what I’ve got to face,
Take a good look at me now,
‘Cause I’ll still be standing here,
And you coming back to me is against all odds,
It’s the chance I’ve got to take,
Take a look at me now.
3
AIN’T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING
Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing.
Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing.
Ooh baby ooh, I got your picture hanging on the wall,
But it can’t see or come to me when I call your name,
I realise it’s just a picture inside a frame,
I read your letters when you’re not near,
But they don’t move me and they don’t groove me,
Like when I hear your sweet voice whispering in my ear.
Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing.
I play this game of fantasy,
I pretend that I’m not in reality,
I need the shelter of your arms to comfort me,
No other sound is quite the same as your name,
No touch can do half as much to make me feel better,
So let’s stay together.
Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing.
I’ve got some memories ,
To look back on though they help,
When you phone I’m well aware,
Nothing can take the place,
Of you being there,
So glad we’ve got the real thing baby.
Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby,
Ain’t nothing like the real thing.
4
AIN'T SHE SWEET
Oh, ain't she sweet, I see her walking down the street,
Yes, I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet.
Oh, ain't she nice, well look her over once or twice,
Yes, I ask you very confidentially, ain't she nice.
Just cast an eye in her direction, oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection.
Oh, I repeat, well don't you think that's kinda neat,
Yes, I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet.
Just cast an eye in her direction, oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection.
Oh, ain't she sweet, I see her walking down the street,
Yes, I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet.
Oh, ain't she nice well look her over once or twice,
Yes, I ask you very confidentiallyain't she nice.
Just cast an eye in her direction oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection.
Oh, I repeat, well don't you think that's kinda neat,
Yes, I ask you very confidentially ain't she sweet .
Just cast an eye in her direction oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection.
Oh, ain't she sweet, I see her walking down the street,
Yes, I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet.
5
AIN’T THAT A SHAME
You made me cry,
When you said goodbye,
Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,
Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.
You broke my heart ,
When you said we’d part,
Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,
Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.
Oh well goodbye,
Although I cry,
Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,
Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.
You made me cry,
When you said goodbye,
Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,
Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.
Oh well goodbye,
Although I cry,
Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,
Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.
You made me cry,
When you said goodbye,
Ain’t that a shame my tears fell like rain,
Ain’t that a shame you’re the one to blame.
6
ALI'S GEBURTSTAG LIED
Ali's neunädzwangst etz!
Di ganze Zaid gibds blous an Schdress,
Ka Uarlaub mehr, und allas hie,
Laudä Griesn, ouwäi, ouwäi.
Ich waas ned, anner had gsachd,
Schdress und Griesn fian blous ins Groob,
Kumm Ali, mach widdä a Schbass,
Wir dringn nuä Mous.
Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,
Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,
Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,
Ka Lebm lang.
Kumm Ali, schau ned su schdier,
Dar Jäggi is gor, dei Pils is sauä,
Trink Englisch Beiä 'n Whisky too,
Hör Englisch music, die Stones und Who.
Ade zu Griesn, Tschüs zum Schdress,
In Rainbow der Gaudi's best,
Komme Ali und wink a mol,
Und trink dei Seidlar gor.
Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,
Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,
Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,
Ka Lebm lang.
Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,
Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,
Schdress, Schdress, Schdress,
Ka Lebm lang.
7
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
There must be some way out of here,
Said the joker to the thief,
There is too much confusion,
I can't get no relief.
Businessmen there drink my wine,
Ploughmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line,
Know what any of it is worth.
No reason to get excited,
The thief he later spoke,
There are many here amongst us,
Who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I we've been through that,
And this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now,
The hour is getting late.
All along the watchtower,
Princess kept her view,
While all the people came and went,
Barefoot servants too.
Outside in the cold distance,
A wild cat did growl,
Two riders were approaching,
And the wind began to howl.
8
ALL I SEE
Saw you, that was all I had to see
Wanted you, had to have you next to me
From that moment, I knew that you'd be all I'll ever need
And there's a place inside my heart nobody's ever touched before
And when I found you I found all that I've been searching for
You turned my world around
All I know is that it feels like forever
All I know is I love the way it feels
All I see is how good we are together
And I never want to see it slip away
I'll never let you go
Hold me love as you've rushed to me
Stay with me let's put our hearts in the hands of fate
Time will tell us if what we've got was worth the wait
And there's a fire that's been burning deep inside of me
And I don't need nobody else 'cause now you're here with me
You turned my world around
I might have never met you in another time or place
Now I never could forget you I can never walk away
It's all right with love
'Cause there's a place inside my heart nobody's ever touched before
And when I found you I found all that I've been searching for
You turned my world around
All I know is that it feels like forever
All I know is I love the way it feels
All I see is how good we are together
And I never want to see it slip away
I'll never let you go
All I know is that it feels like forever
All I know is I love the way it feels
All I see is how good we are together
And I never want to see it slip away
I'll never let you go
9
ALL RIGHT NOW
There she stood in the street
Smiling from her head to her feet
I said hey what is this now baby maybe
Maybe she's in need of a kiss
I said hey what's your name baby
Maybe we can see things the same
Now don't you wait or hesitate
Let's move before they raise the parking rate
All right now baby it's a all right now
All right now baby it's a all right now
Let me tell you now
I took her home to my place
Watching every move on her face
She said look what's your game now baby
Are you trying to put me to shame
I said slow don't go so fast
Don't you think that love will last
She said love lord above
Now you're trying to trick me in love
All right now baby it's a all right now
All right now baby it's a all right now
All right now baby it's a all right now
All right now baby it's a all right now
10
ALL SHOOK UP
Well bless a my soul what’s a wrong with me
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree
My friends say I'm acting wild as a bug
I'm in love I'm all shook up
Uhum hum hum yeah yeah
Well my hands are shaking and my knees are weak
I can't seem to stand on my own two feet
Who do you think of when you have such luck
I'm in love I'm all shook up
Uhum hum hum yeah yeah
Well please don't ask me what’s a on my mind
I'm a little mixed up but I'm feeling fine
When I meet a girl that I love the best
My heart beats so it scares me to death
When she touched my hand what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano that's hot
And I'm proud to say that she's my buttercup
I'm in love I'm all shook up
Uhum hum hum yeah yeah
My tongue gets tired when I try to speak
My insides shaking like a leaf on a tree
There's only one cure for this body of mine
That's to have that girl that I love so fine
When she touched my hand what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano that's hot
And I'm proud to say that she's my buttercup
I'm in love I'm all shook up
Uhum hum hum yeah yeah
Uhum hum hum yeah yeah
I'm all shook up
11
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love is all you need
There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game.
It's easy ...
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be in time.
It's easy ...
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love is all you need
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be, that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy ...
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
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12
ALL YOU LOVING
All your loving is loving all your kissing is kissing
All your loving is loving all your kissing is kissing
Before I met you baby I never knew what I was missing
All your loving pretty baby that I got in store for you
All your loving pretty baby that I got in store for you
When I say I love you baby gotta say you love me too
All your loving pretty baby that I got in store for you
All your loving pretty baby that I got in store for you
When I say I love you baby gotta say you love me too
All your loving pretty baby all your loving pretty baby
All your loving pretty baby all your loving pretty baby
Before I met you baby I never knew what I was missing
All your loving pretty baby all your loving pretty baby
All your loving pretty baby all your loving pretty baby
Before I met you baby I never knew what I was missing
13
ALLENTOWN
Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms, standing in line
Well our fathers fought the second world war
Spent their weekends on the Jersey shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance, danced with them slow
And we're living here in Allentown
But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to stay
Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard, if we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke, chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away
Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face
Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be getting up today
And it's getting very hard to stay
And we're living here in Allentown
14
AMERICAN PIE
A long, long time ago I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance that I could make those people dance and maybe they'd be happy for a
while
But February made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver bad news on the doorstep I couldn't take one
more step
And I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside the day the music died I started singing
Bye bye Miss American Pie drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing, this will be the day that I die this will be the day that I die
Did you write the book of love and do you have faith in god above if the Bible tells you so
Now do you believe in rock’n’roll can the music save your mortal soul and can you teach me how to
dance real slow
Well, I know that you're in love with him 'cause I saw you dancing in the gym
You both kicked off your shoes man, I dig those rhythm and blues
I was a lonely teenage broncing buck with a pink carnation and a pick up truck
But I knew I was out of luck the day the music died I started singing
Bye bye Miss American Pie ...
Now, for ten years we've been on our own and moss grows fat on a rolling stone but that's not how it
used to be
When the jester sang for the king and queen in a coat he'd borrowed from James Dean and a voice that
came from you and me
And while the king was looking down the jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned no verdict was returned
And while Lenin read a book on Marx the quartet practised in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark the day the music died we were singing
Bye bye Miss American Pie ...
Helter Skelter in the summer swelter the birds flew off with a fallout shelter eight miles high and falling
fast
And as it landed on the grass the players tried for a forward pass with the jester on the sidelines in a cast
Now, the half-time air was sweet perfume while the sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance but we never got the chance
And as the players tried to take the field the marching band refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died we were singing
Bye bye Miss American Pie ...
And there we were all in one place a generation lost in space with no time left to start again
So come on Jack be nimble, Jack be quick Jack Flash sat on a candle stick 'cause fire is the devil's only
friend
Oh and as I watched him on the stage my hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in hell could break that Satan spell
And as the flames climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial rite
I saw Satan laughing with delight the day the music died he was singing
Bye bye Miss American Pie ...
I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news but she just smiled and turned away
So I went down to the sacred store where I heard the music years before but the man there said the music
couldn't play
And on the streets the children screamed the lovers cried and the poets dreamed
Not a word was spoken the church bells lay all broken
And the three man I admire the most the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast the day the music died and they were singing
Bye bye Miss American Pie ...
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15
AMPHETAMINE ANNIE
I wanna tell you all a story
About this chick I know
They call her Amphetamine Annie
She's always shovelling snow
I sat her down and told her
I told her crystal clear
I don't mind you getting high
But there's one thing you should fear
Your mind might think it's flying baby
On those little pills
But you ought to know it's dying 'cause
Speed kills
But Annie kept on speeding
Her health was getting poor
She saw things in the window
She heard things at the door
Her mind was like a brandy mill
Her lips were cracked and sore
Her skin was turning yellow
I just couldn't take it no more
She thought her mind was flying yeah
On those little pills
She didn't know it's going down fast 'cause
Speed kills
Well I sat her down and told her
I told her one more time
The whole wide human race has taken
Far too much methedrine
She said I don't care what a limey says
I've got to get it on
I'm not hip to the scene of a man
Who doesn't come and cross my palm
She would not hear my warning
No she wouldn't hear what I said
Now she's in the graveyard and she's
Awfully dead
16
ANGEL
Angel came down from heaven yesterday
She stayed with me just long enough to rescue me
And she told me a story yesterday
About the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea
And then she spread her wings high over me
She said she's gonna come back tomorrow
And I said fly on my sweet angel
Fly on through the sky
Fly on my sweet angel
Tomorrow I'm gonna be by your side
Sure enough this morning came unto me
Silver wings silhouette against a giant sunrise
And my angel she said unto me
Today is the day for you to rise
Take my hand you're gonna be my man you're gonna rise
And then she took me high over yonder
And I said fly on my sweet angel
Fly on through the sky
Fly on my sweet angel
Forever I will be by your side
17
ANGIE
Angie Angie when will these dark clouds disappear
Angie Angie where will it lead us from here
With no loving in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But Angie Angie you can't say we never tried
Angie you're beautiful yeah but ain't it time to say goodbye
Angie I still love you remember all the nights we cried
All the dreams we held so close
Seemed to all go up in smoke
Let me whisper in your ear
Angie Angie where will it lead us from here
Oh Angie don't you weep and your kisses still taste sweet
I hate the sadness in your eyes
But Angie Angie ain't it time we said goodbye
With no loving in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But Angie Angie you can't say we never tried
Angie I still love you baby everywhere I see your eyes
There ain't a woman that comes close to you
Come on baby dry your eyes
Angie Angie ain't it good to be alive
Angie Angie they can't say we never tried
18
THE ANIMAL TRAINER AND THE TOAD
For many a year I was so confused
I didn’t know what to play
But then I met a man who picked a guitar
And showed me just what to say
He was skinny and lean and he kept his nose clean
And he knew how to rock them too
And then came the day we started to play
And then we caught up with the blues
I’m in a band
A rock and roll band
I’m in a band yeah
We called him Beethoven and then we showed him
Exactly where we wanted to go
So we started to play and toured right away
A rocking and rolling show
He spoke of VC but played at the gigs
And never missed a single one
We called in the States and hit the Great Lakes
And boy did we have us some fun
I’m in a band
A rock and roll band
I’m in a band yeah
I’m in a band
A rock and roll band
I’m in a band yeah
We had an idea so we put it in gear
And soon we were out on the road
We did it to play they started to say
The animal trainer and the toad
I’m in a band
A rock and roll band
I’m in a band yeah
19
ANOTHER DAY
Every she takes a morning bath
She wets her hair, wraps a towel around her
As she’s heading for the bedroom chair
It’s just another day
Slipping’ into stockings, stepping into shoes
Dipping in the pocket of her raincoat
It’s just another day
As the office where the papers grow
She takes a break, drinks another cup of coffee
And she finds it hard to stay awake
It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du,
It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du,
It’s just another day
So sad, so sad, sometimes she feels so sad
Alone in her apartment she’d dwell
Till the man of her dreams comes to break the spell
Ah...stay, don’t stand around
And he comes and he stays but he leaves the next day
So sad, sometimes she fells so sad
As she posts another letter to the sound of five
People gather round her and she finds it hard to stay alive
It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du,
It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du,
It’s just another day
20
ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT
Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I got some money 'cause I just got paid
Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way
I got in town a month ago
I've seen a lot of girls since then
If I could meet them, I could get them
But as yet I haven't met them
That's how I'm in the state I'm in
Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I got some money 'cause I just got paid
Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way
Another fellow told me
He had a sister who looked just fine
Instead of being my deliverance
She had a strange resemblance
To a cat named Frankenstein
Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I got some money 'cause I just got paid
Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way
It's hard on a fellow
When he don't know his way around
If I don't find me a honey
To help me spend my money
I gonna have to blow this town
Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I got some money 'cause I just got paid
Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way
21
APEMAN
I think I'm sophisticated 'cause I'm living my life
Like a good homosapien
But all around me everybody's multiplying
And they're running round like flies man
So I'm no better than the animals sitting
In their cages in the zoo man
'Cause compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees
I am an apeman
I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilised
'Cause I'm a strict vegetarian
And with the overpopulation and inflation and starvation
And the crazy politicians
I don't feel safe in this world no more
I don't want to die in a nuclear war
I wanna sail away to a distant shore
And make like an apeman
I'm an apeman I'm an ape ape man oh I'm an apeman
I'm a king Kong man I'm a voodoo man oh I'm an apeman
'Cause compared to the sun that sits in the sky
Compared to the clouds as they roll by
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies
I am an apeman
La la la la la la la la la la la la
Come on and love me
Be my apeman girl
And we'll be so happy
In my apeman world
Repeat...
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AQUALUNG
Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent
Snot running down his nose greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes hey Aqualung
Drying in the cold sun watching as the frilly panties run hey Aqualung
Feeling like a dead duck spitting out pieces of his broken luck oh Aqualung
Sun streaking cold an old man wandering lonely
Taking time the only way he knows
Neck hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog end
He goes down to the bog and warms his feet
Feeling alone the Army’s up the road
Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea
Aqualung my friend don’t you start away uneasy
You poor old sod you see it’s only me
Do you still remember December’s foggy freeze
When the ice that clings on to your beard was screaming agony
Hey when you snatched your rattling last breaths with deep sea dive sounds
And the flowers bloom like madness in the Spring
Sun streaking cold an old man wandering lonely
Taking time the only way he knows
Neck hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog end
He goes down to the bog and warms his feet
Feeling alone the Army’s up the road
Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea
Aqualung my friend don’t you start away uneasy
You poor old sod you see it’s only me oh oh oh oh oh
De de de de, de de de de de dee
De de de de de de, de de de de
Aqualung my friend don’t you start away uneasy
You poor old sod you see it’s only me
Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent
Snot running down his nose greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes hey Aqualung
Drying in the cold sun watching as the frilly panties run hey Aqualung
Feeling like a dead duck spitting out pieces of his broken luck hey Aqualung
Woh Aqualung
23
ARTHUR McBRIDE
I had a first cousin called Arthur McBride
He and I took a stroll down by the seaside
A seeking good fortune and what might the tide
It was just as the day was a dawning
And after resting we both took a tramp
We met sergeant Carter and corporal Cramp
Besides a wee drummer who beat up for camp
With his rowdy dow dow in the morning
He said my fine fellows if you will enlist
A shilling you quickly shall have in your fist
Besides a crown to kick up the dust
And drink the queen's health in the morning
Had we been such fools as to take the advance
The wee bit of morning we had to run chance
You'd think it no scruple to send us to France
Where we would be killed in the morning
He said my young fellows if I hear but one word
I instantly now will out with my sword
And into your bodies as strength will afford
So now my brave fellows take warning
But Arthur and I we took on the odds
We gave them no chance to draw out their swords
Our whacking shillelaghs came over their heads
And paid them right smart in the morning
As for the wee drummer we rifled his pouch
And made a football of his rowdy dow dow
And into the ocean to rock and to roll
And to float on the tide in the morning
As for the old rapier that hung by his side
We flung it as far as we could in the tide
To the devil I pitch you said Arthur McBride
To temper your steel in the morning
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AS I ROVED OUT
As I roved out on a bright May morning
To view the meadows and the flowers gay
Whom should I espy but my on true lover
As she sat under yon willow tree
I took off my hat and I did salute her
I did salute her most graciously
When she turned around as the tears fell from her
Saying false young man you have deluded me
The diamond ring I owned I gave to you
A diamond ring to wear on your own right hand
But the vows you made love you went and broke them
And married the lassie who had the land
If I married the lassie who had the land my love
It’s that I'll rue till the day I die
When misfortune falls sure no man can shun it
I was a blind fool that I'll ne'er deny
Now at night when I go to my bed of slumber
The thoughts of my true love run in my mind
When I turn around to embrace my darling
Instead of gold sure 'tis brass I find
And I wish that the queen would call home her armies
From the West Indies Americay and Spain
And every man to his own wedded woman
In hope that you and I will meet again
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AS TEARS GO BY
It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Smiling faces I can see but not for me
I sit and watch as tears go by
My riches can't buy everything
I want to hear the children sing
All I hear is the sound of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch as tears go by
It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Doing things I used to do they think are new
I sit and watch as tears go by
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AWAY WITH RUM
Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,
Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.
We never eat biscuits because they have yeast
And one little bite turns a man into a beast
Oh can you imagine a sadder disgrace
Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face
Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,
Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.
We never eat fruitcake because it has rum
And one little slice turns a man into a bum
Oh can you imagine a sorrier sight
Than a man eating fruitcake until he get’s tight
Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,
Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.
We’re coming we’re coming our brave little band
On the right side of temperance we now take a stand
We don’t use tobacco because we do think
That people who use it are likely to drink
Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,
Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.
And we never use hair oil ‘cause that’s got bay rum
Which everyone knows sends you blind deaf and dumb
The addict buy’s bottles whatever the cost
Then rubs it all in ‘till his senses are lost
Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,
Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.
The breakfast of champions will give a boy the shakes
Because of the malt mixed in with the flakes
Just picture the shame and disgrace of his ma
When the dear little fellow acts just like his pa
Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum,
Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army.
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BABY CAN I HOLD YOU
Sorry is all that you can say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like sorry like sorry
Forgive me is all that you can say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like forgive me forgive me
But you can say baby
Baby can I hold you tonight
Baby if I told you the right words
Ooh at the right time you'd be mine
I love you is all that you can say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like I love you I love you
But you can say baby
Baby can I hold you tonight
Baby if I told you the right words
Ooh at the right time you'd be mine
Baby can I hold you tonight
Baby if I told you the right words
Ooh at the right time you'd be mine
You'd be mine you'd be mine
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BACK IN THE OLD ROUTINE
I get up in the morning in the usual state
I listen to the breakfast show and know that I’m late
I clock in at the factory and pick up my tools
I got to get a shift because the union rules
We’re back in the old routine
Back in the old routine
We’re back in the old routine
Back in the old routine
I come off after work get my fags and a chat
And in the back I tinker with the Siamese cat
The wife is watching telly in a blue negligee
The good-night horror movie it really was late
We’re back in the old routine
Back in the old routine
We’re back in the old routine
Back in the old routine
I look forward to the weekend
And Match Of The Day
And we’re back in the old routine
If I can win the pools and be a millionaire
I’d get myself a stud farm and a sexy au-pair
I’d buy myself a yacht and sail away for a year
With soothing girls for company and plenty of beer
We’re back in the old routine
Back in the old routine
We’re back in the old routine
Back in the old routine
We’re back in the old routine
Back in the old routine
We’re back in the old routine
Back in the old routine
I look forward to the weekend
And Match Of The Day
And we’re back in the old routine
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BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG
I found a picture of you
Would patch up my world at night
To a place in the past that we've been passed out of
Now we're back in the fight
We're back on the train hey
Oh back on the chain gang
A circumstance beyond our control
The phoney T and the News of the World
Got in the house like a pigeon from hell oh
Put sand in our eyes and descended like flies
Put us back on the train hey
Oh back on the chain gang
The powers that be
That force us to live like we do
Bring me to my knees
When I see what they've done to you
Well I'll die as I stand here today
Knowing that deep in my heart
They'll fall to ruin one day
For making us part
I found a picture of you
Those were the happiest days of my life
Like a break in the battle was your part
In the wretched life of a lonely heart
Now I'm back on the train hey
Oh back on the chain gang
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BAD MOON RISING
I see bad moon a rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning
I see bad times today
Don't go round tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
I hear hurricanes a blowing
I know the end is coming soon
I feel rivers overflowing
I hear the voice from rage and ruin
Don't go round tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
Hope you have got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye
Don't go round tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
Don't go round tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
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BADGE
Thinking 'bout the time you drove in my car
Thinking that I might have drove you too far
And I'm thinking 'bout the love that you laid on my table
I told you not to wander out in the dark
I told you 'bout the swans that they live in the park
And I told you 'bout our kid now he's married to Mabel
Yes I told you that the life goes up and down
Don't you notice how the reel goes round
And you'd better pick yourself up from the ground
Before they bring the curtain down
Talking 'bout a girl that looks just like you
She didn't have the time to wait in the queue
She cried away her life since she fell out the cradle
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BAKER STREET
Winding your way down to Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well it's another crazy day
You drink the night away
And forget about everything
This city desert makes you feel so cold
It's got so many people but it's got no soul
And it's taken you so long
To find out you were wrong
When you thought it held everything
You used to think that it was so easy
You used to say that it was so easy
But you're trying, you're trying now
Another year and then you'll be happy
Just one more year and then you'll be happy
But you're crying, you're crying now
Way down the street there's a light in his place
He opens the door he's got that look on his face
And he asks you where you've been
You tell him who you've seen
And you talk about anything
He's got his dream about buying some land
He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
And then he'll settle down
In some quiet little town
And forget about everything
But you know he'll always keep moving
You know he's never gonna stop moving
'Cause he's the rolling, he's the rolling stone
When you wake up it's a new morning
The sun is shining it's a new morning
You're going, you're going home
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BALLAD OF THE ANCIENT BRIT
I woke up this evening, I was feeling blue, wasn’t all that surprising, I'm an ancient Briton, who
takes pride in his appearance, I indulge in every new visage. I don't argue,
With the leaders of the druids, ‘cause even if they knowed, that I think I have to bear a far too
heavy woad. When they send me to battle down by the Roman road, they don't argue, I don't
argue, you don't argue with druids.
I got up and went outside, a stranger was about. It was a Roman in the gloaming’, and he gave an
awful shout when I whipped off me fig leaf, and flashed myself about, he didn't argue.
I ain’t got a secret weapon, it’s there for all to see, and in my turquoise birthday suit, I’m blue
from head to knee. When the village maidens see it, they invite me up for tea, I don’t argue.
Now Merlin was a plumber, but he had got on quite far. An honoury druid appointed by queen
Boudica, He was devious and shifty, like used khasi dealers are, one didn't argue with Merlin.
When he heard about the Roman, he looked shifty and he hissed "The time has come to rid out
land of the imperialist" He jumped about as if possessed, I think that he was pissed, I didn't
argue.
He said "Now take this liquid, put it in their aqueduct. It's made from special mushrooms that I
myself have plucked, Eeh when the Romans drink it, they'll be rightly screwed up" I didn't argue,
I didn't think much of his poetry though.
Well, I was going through the forest. when whom should I see there, but a beautiful camp
follower, a camping in the air. She said “ Hello sailor, would you like to see me bare?” I didn't
argue, I love animals.
Well being on a mission, I should have had more sense, but the sight of her proportions made me
lower my defence, for I've heard with campers, the excitement is intense, I didn't argue.
As we lay down, a voice said "What’re you doing with my wife?” and I said "Just the usual",
then a Roman stuck a knife halfway up me fundament, I shouted "Spare me life, and all" he didn't
argue.
He said “You're for Londinium, where you will have to face, trial by cross section of the Roman
populace, they'll be cross enough to crucify you in a market place, they don't argue in
Londinium”
I was a manacled depressive, then I had an idea, I said “You must be weary soldier, have some
British beer” and I pulled out Merlin's bottle, he said “Oh you are a dear” I didn't argue.
He took off my handcuffs, and we sat down on the grasses, and his bird pulled out a corkscrew
and three plastic army glasses, and I said “Cheers, and strange how quickly one’s life passes” he
didn’t argue.
He said “I'll drink to that, ‘cause I wish I was at home, or even on ‘le continent’ where all roads
lead to Rome, but ‘till you lot join the market, I'm stuck in this battle zone” I didn't argue.
While we were sitting there and drinking, and it wasn't very late, when suddenly the ground
turned pink and began to undulate, the Roman turned to me and said "was it something that we
ate?” I didn’t argue, I couldn’t argue.
And suddenly I began to understood the true meaning of life and the nature of the universe, at
last I understood.
Well, we thank you druid Merlin for your mushroom soup with weed in, Cause man, now I know
where it’s at,
I'm through with tears, sweat and bleeding.
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Me and the Roman's getting political asylum up in Sweden. They don't argue up there. Peace
brother !
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BARREL HOUSE WOMAN
I got a barrel house woman
She stay’s drunk all the time
I got a barrel house woman
She stay’s drunk all the time
She’s got a heart big and loving
She fuss and fight all the time
She wakes me up in the morning
Serves my breakfast in the bed
She wakes me up in the morning
Serves my breakfast in the bed
She washes my face and hands
And comb my doggone hair
She drinks so much whisky
She stays drunk all the time
She drinks so much whisky
She stays drunk all the time
She then raise hell with me
And talk talk all the time
Oh yes she do now
But she’s all right though
She only drinks a little bit a half a case
But she’s all right you know
That’s my woman
Yeah baby do what you want
I got a barrel house woman
She stay’s drunk all the time
I got a barrel house woman
She stay’s drunk all the time
Yeah but tell you baby
You sure have been good to me
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
My baby makes me proud lord don't she make me proud
She never makes a scene by hanging all over me in a crowd
'Cause people like to talk lord don't they love to talk
But when they turn out the light I know she'll be leaving with me
And when we get behind closed doors
And she let's her hair hang down
And she makes me glad that I'm a man
Oh no one knows what goes on behind closed doors
My baby makes me smile lord don't she make me smile
She's never cross with me or too tired to say I want you
She's always a lady just like a lady should be
But when they turn out that light she'll still be a baby to me
And when we get behind closed doors
And she let's her hair hang down
And she makes me glad that I'm a man
Oh no one knows what goes on behind closed doors
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BELL BOTTOM BLUES
Bell bottom blues you make me cry
I don’t want to lose this feeling
And if I could choose a place to die
It would be in your arms
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you
Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because
I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please
I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay
It’s all wrong but it’s all right
The way that you treat me baby
Once I was strong but I lost the fight
You won’t find a better loser
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you
Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because
I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please
I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you
Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because
I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please
I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay
Bell bottom blues don’t say goodbye
Surely gonna meet again
And if we do don’t you be surprised
If you find me with another lover
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you
Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because
I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please
I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay
I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please
I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay
I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please
I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay
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BERRY RIDES AGAIN
Well thinking of my schooldays I remember Maybelline
I used to dance with her all night she was a little sweet sixteen
Her brother used to chase me he thought I did but I never could
I used to call him little queenie his name was Johnny B Goode
I used to hold her 'till I was older
Then I got bolder her brother used to scold her
I left her in the morning went back to Memphis Tennessee
You know her father never found me and that's all right with me
You know I went to New York city to find what could be found
Just for kicks style sixty six stomping outta town
Yes I went to California just to see what I could see
Well nobody knew just where I was and that's all right with me
You know I met a girl named Carol and her girlfriend sweet Nadine
Played rock and roll music used to kiss me in between
Roll over Beethoven that had to be my favourite song
But we never did much rolling I didn't stay there long
I used to hold her and try to mould her
Somebody told her Nadine and I were bolder
I left her in the morning went back to Memphis Tennessee
You know I never saw her face again and that's all right with me
I used to hold her and try to mould her
Somebody told her Nadine and I were bolder
I left her in the morning went back to Memphis Tennessee
You know I never saw her face again and that's all right with me
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THE BEST OF MY LOVE
Every night I’m lying in bed
Holding you close in my dreams
Thinking about all the things that we said
And coming apart at the seams
We try to talk it over
But the words come out too rough
I know you were trying
To give me the best of your love
Beautiful faces and loud empty places
Look at the way that we live
Wasting our time on cheap talk and wine
Left us so little to give
The same old crowd was like a cold dark cloud
That we could never rise above
But here in my heart
I give you the best of my love
Oh, sweet darling you get the best of my love
Oh, sweet darling you get the best of my love
I’m going back in time and it’s a sweet dream
It was a quiet night and I would be all right
If I could go on sleeping
But every morning I wake up and worry
What’s gonna happen today
You see it your way, and I see it mine
But we both see it slipping away
You know we always had each other baby
I guess that wasn’t enough, oh
Oh, sweet darling you get the best of my love
Oh, sweet darling every night and day
You get the best of my love
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BETTY BAPS THE BUXOM BARMAID
Now there’s a little ale house in the middle of our town
It’s sleazy and it’s grotty and they ought to pull it down
The food is always awful and the beer is always flat
But they’ve got one attraction that makes up for all that
The place is always crowded fellers come from near and far
By bus by train by bicycle by motorbike and car
To try and catch a glimpse of what is stood behind the bar
It’s Betty Baps the buxom barmaid
One day into our bar a Yankee film producer came
When he saw Betty’s bazookas he said crikey what a dame
You could be a megastar now what d’you think of that
And on the wide screen cinerama you could really knock them flat
Just sign this piece of paper and come across the sea
You’ll be bigger than Brigitte Bardot from the bits that I can see
Oh no said Betty, Brigitte’s only half as big as me
I’m Betty Baps the buxom barmaid
The navy came to see her once and said Betty dear we hope
You will launch our brand new warship with a bottle on a rope
We’ve a model of your bust in front, the enemy to scare
So we’re going to call it after you we think it’s only fair
But a splinter from the bottle caught the bodice of her gown
As she rapidly deflated, said the captain with a frown
All hands to the pumps my lads, me vessels going down
So’s Betty Baps the buxom barmaid
But a little boy scout standing by said “I have come prepared”
And with patches from his cycle bag her bosom he repaired
Then with his cycle pump her proportions he proceeded to restore
But when he had finished she was even larger than before
Now although we know that Betty isn’t everything she seems
We’re still by the bar indulging in our fantasies and dreams
Surrounded by the noise of Levi’s bursting at the seams
For Betty Baps the buxom barmaid
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BIG BAD BILL IS SWEET WILLIAM NOW
In the town called Louisville
They got a man they call Big Bad Bill
I wanna tell you he sure was tough
And he certainly did strut his stuff
He had the folks all scared to death
When he walked by they all held their breath
He was the fightingest man sure enough
Then Bill took himself a wife
Now he leads a different life
‘Cause
Big Bad Bill is sweet William now
Married life has changed him somehow
He’s the man that they all used to fear
Now the people call him sweet papa Willy dear
Stronger than Samson I declare
‘Till a brown skinned woman went and bobbed his hair
Big Bad Bill don’t fight anymore
He washes dishes and he mops up that floor
Well he used to spend his evenings looking for a fight
But now he’s got to see his mamma every night
Big Bad Bill is sweet William now
Yes Big Bad Bill is sweet William now
Big Bad Bill is sweet William now
Married life has changed him somehow
He’s the man that they all used to fear
Now the people call him sweet papa Willy dear
Stronger than Samson I declare
‘Till a brown skinned woman went and bobbed his hair
Big Bad Bill don’t fight anymore
He washes dishes and he mops up that floor
Well he used to spend his evenings looking for a fight
But now he’s got to see his mamma every night
Big Bad Bill is sweet William now
Yes Big Bad Bill is sweet William now
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BINTANG GLASS
Ha ha ha he he he
Bintang glass do I love thee
Come and live on my sideboard
Because my own I can’t afford
My wife and I live all alone
In a great big mansion we call home
The problem is, it’s bare you see
So Bintang glass come home with me
Ha ha ha he he he
Bintang glass do I love thee
Come and live on my sideboard
Because my own I can’t afford
Your contents down my throat I’ll throw
Then in my pocket you will go
When we get home some friends you’ll meet
My collection’s growing week by week
Ha ha ha he he he
Bintang glass do I love thee
Come and live on my sideboard
Because my own I can’t afford
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BLACK DIAMONDS
Oh the clubs’ll make you wonder so don’t make that mistake
Way down black diamonds to be found
Spades are made for digging lads and hearts’ll only break
Looking for black diamonds a mile beneath the ground
And it’s way down black diamonds to be found
Down in the darkness that’s where we abound
And it’s way down black diamonds to be found
Shining in the lamplight a mile beneath the ground
Oh the dust’ll surely kill you but what else can you do
Way down black diamonds to be found
It’ll make your blood like ashes and your cuts and scars go blue
Looking for black diamonds a mile beneath the ground
And it’s way down black diamonds to be found
Down in the darkness that’s where we abound
And it’s way down black diamonds to be found
Shining in the lamplight a mile beneath the ground
Will you take a look around you the industry is ill
Way down black diamonds to be found
If McGregor doesn’t kill it then Scargill surely will
Looking for black diamonds a mile beneath the ground
And it’s way down black diamonds to be found
Down in the darkness that’s where we abound
And it’s way down black diamonds to be found
Shining in the lamplight a mile beneath the ground
See them wearing chains of silver and they’re wearing chains of gold
Way down black diamonds to be found
They’ll be grateful of black diamonds when the winter’s drawing cold
Looking for black diamonds a mile beneath the ground
And it’s way down black diamonds to be found
Down in the darkness that’s where we abound
And it’s way down black diamonds to be found
Shining in the lamplight a mile beneath the ground
Oh the clubs’ll make you wonder so don’t make that mistake
Way down black diamonds to be found
Spades are made for digging lads and hearts’ll only break
Looking for black diamonds a mile beneath the ground
And it’s way down black diamonds to be found
Down in the darkness that’s where we abound
And it’s way down black diamonds to be found
Shining in the lamplight a mile beneath the ground
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BLACK IS BLACK
Black is black I want my baby back
It’s grey it’s grey since she went away oh ho
What can I do ‘cause I__ I’m feeling blue
If I had my way she’d be back today
But she don’t intend to see me again
What can I do ‘cause I__ I’m feeling blue
I can’t choose it’s too much to lose
My love’s too strong
Maybe if she would come back to me
Then it can’t go wrong
Bad is bad that’s why I feel so sad
It’s time it’s time that I found peace of mind
What can I do ‘cause I__ I’m feeling blue
I can’t choose it’s too much to lose
My love’s too strong
Maybe if she would come back to me
Then it can’t go wrong
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BLACK MAGIC WOMAN
I got a black magic woman
I got a black magic woman
Yes I got a black magic woman
She's got me so blind I can't see
But she's a black magic woman
And she's trying to make a devil out of me
Don't turn your back on me baby
Don't turn your back on me baby
Don't turn your back on me baby
Stop messing round with your tricks
Don't turn your back on me baby
'Cause you just might wake up my magic sticks
You've got your spell on me baby
You've got your spell on me baby
Yes you've got your spell on me baby
Turning my heart into stone
I need you so bad magic woman
I can't leave you alone
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BLACK PEARL
Black pearl precious little girl
Let me put you up where you belong
Black pearl precious little girl
You've been in the background much too long
You've been working so hard your whole life through
Tending other people's houses raising up their children too
How about something for me and you
You're in my arms you're gonna reign supreme
No other people's children they've gotta serve my dream
So just to happiness
And our day has come
Leaving for our own life and answering to my one
Black pearl precious little girl
Let me put you up where you belong
Black pearl precious little girl
You've been in the background much too long
Together we stand so great and so tall
Created by love to love one and all
Heart to heart and soul to soul
No other one could ever take your place
My world is built around every smile that is on your face
You'd never win a beauty show
Though they won't need you
But you're my miss phenomenal and I love you
Black pearl precious little girl
Let me put you up where you belong
Black pearl precious little girl
You've been in the background much too long
Black pearl precious little girl
Let me put you up where you belong
Black pearl precious little girl
You've been in the background much too long
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BLACK VELVET BAND
As I went walking down Broadway not intending to stay very long
I met with a frolicsome damsel as she came tripping along
A watch she pulled out of her pocket and slipped it right into my hand
On the very first day that I met her bad luck to the black velvet band
And her eyes they shone like diamonds
I thought her the queen of the land
And her hair hung over her shoulders
Tied up with a black velvet band
‘Twas in the town of Tralee an apprentice to trade I was bound
With plenty of bright amusement to see the days go round
Till misfortune and trouble came over me which caused me to stray from my land
Far away from my friends and relations to follow the black velvet band
And her eyes they shone like diamonds
I thought her the queen of the land
And her hair hung over her shoulders
Tied up with a black velvet band
Before the judge and the jury the both of us had to appear
And the gentleman swore to the jewellery the case against us was clear
For seven years transportation right unto Van Diemens Land
Far away from my friends and relations to follow the black velvet band
And her eyes they shone like diamonds
I thought her the queen of the land
And her hair hung over her shoulders
Tied up with a black velvet band
Oh come all you brave young Irish lads a warning take by me
Beware of the pretty young damsels that are knocking around in Tralee
They’ll treat you to whiskey and porter until you’re unable to stand
And before you have time for to leave them you’re off unto Van Diemen’s Land
And her eyes they shone like diamonds
I thought her the queen of the land
And her hair hung over her shoulders
Tied up with a black velvet band
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BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night
Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night
Madman drummers bummers and Indians
In the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps
As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder feelin’ kinda older
I tripped the merry go round
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing
This calliope crashed to the ground
Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night
Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night
Some silicone sister with her manager’s mister
Told me I got what it takes
She said I’ll turn you on sonny to something strong
If you play that song with the funky break
A go cart Mozart was checking out the weather chart
To see if it was safe to go outside
And little Early Pearly came by in her curly wurly
And asked me if I needed a ride
Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night
Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night
Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night
Blinded by the light record like a deuce another runner in the night
49
BLOODY WELL RIGHT
So you think your schooling's phoney
I guess it's hard not to agree
You say it all depends on money
And who is in your family tree
Right right you're bloody well right
You've got a bloody right to say
Right you're bloody well right
You know you've got a right to say
Ha ha you're bloody well right
You know you've got a right to say
Yeah yeah you're bloody well right
You know you've got a right to say
Me I don't care anyway
Write your problems down in detail
Take them to a higher place
You've had your cry no I shouldn't say where
And in the meantime hush your face
Right right you're bloody well right
You've got a bloody right to say
Right you're bloody well right
You know you've got a right to say
Ha ha you're bloody well right
You know you've got a right to say
Yeah yeah you're bloody well right
You know you've got a right to say
You've got a bloody right to say
You've got a bloody right to say
You've got a bloody right to say
You've got a bloody right to say
50
BLOWIN' IN THE WIND
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand
How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free
How many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry
And how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
51
BLUE COAT MAN
Well the house was rocking
And we were having fun
The house was rocking
And we were having fun
Till that blue coat man
Walked in with that big gun
You know I got scared
And my baby she broke and run
I got scared
And my baby she broke and run
She knocked over that whisky jug
Don’t you know I didn’t get none
Well they’ve taken us to jail
But they let my baby go free
They’ve taken us to jail
But they let my baby go free
‘Cause I took the blame
And my gal paid the fine for me
Well they’ve taken us to jail
But they let my baby go free
They’ve taken us to jail
But they let my baby go free
‘Cause I took the blame
And my gal paid the fine for me
Now me and my baby
We’re gonna take a long long ride
Me and my baby
We’re gonna take a long long ride
She got me out of that jail
Don’t you know that I’m satisfied
52
BLUE SUEDE SHOES
Well it's one for the money two for the show
Three to get ready now go cat go
But don't you step on my blue suede shoes
Well you can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes
You can knock me down step on my face
Slander my name all over the place
Well do anything that you want to do
But aha honey lay off of them shoes
And don't you step on my blue suede shoes
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes
Well you can burn my house steal my car
Drink my liquor from an old fruit jar
Well do anything that you want to do
But aha honey lay off of them shoes
And don't you step on my blue suede shoes
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes
Well it's one for the money two for the show
Three to get ready now go cat go
But don't you step on my blue suede shoes
Well you can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes
Well it's blue blue blue suede shoes
Blue blue blue suede shoes
Blue blue blue suede shoes
Blue blue blue suede shoes
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes
53
BOAT ON THE RIVER
Take me back to my boat on the river
I need to go down, I need to come down
Take me back to my boat on the river
And I won't cry out anymore
Time stands still as I gaze in her water
She eases me down, touching me gently
With the waters that flow past my boat on the river
So I don't cry out anymore
Oh, the river is wide
The river it touches my life like the waves on the sand
And all roads lead to tranquillity base
Where the frown on my face disappears
Take me down to my boat on the river
And I won't cry out anymore
Oh, the river is deep
The river it touches my life like the waves on the sand
And all roads lead to tranquillity base
Where the frown on my face disappears
Take me down to my boat on the river
I need to go down, won't you let me go down
Take me back to my boat on the river
And I won't cry out anymore
And I won't cry out anymore
And I won't cry out anymore
54
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Is this the real life, is this just fantasy ?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see,
I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I’m easy come, easy go, little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn’t really matter to me, to me,
Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger now he’s dead.
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away.
Mama, ooh, didn’t mean to make you cry,
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters.
Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine,
Body’s aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody, I’ve got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
Mama, ooh, I don’t want to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all.
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango,
Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me,
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Figaro, magnifico.
I’m just a poor boy, nobody loves me,
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go.
Bismillah, no, we will not let you go, let him go,
Bismillah, we will not let you go, let him go,
Bismillah, we will not let you go, let me go,
Will not let you go, let me go,
Will not let you go, let me go, ah, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go,
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.
So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye,
So you think you can love me and leave me to die,
Oh, baby, can’t do this to me baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right out of here.
Nothing really matters, anyone can see, nothing really mattered, nothing really matters, to me.
Any way the wind blows.
55
BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN
Ye maidens and widows I pray give attention
Unto these few lines I’m going to mention
Here’s a maid in distraction she’s now going to wander
She relies on King George for the loss of hew lover
Broken hearted I’ll wander for the loss of my lover
He’s my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain
Three long years and six months since he left England’s shore
My bonny light horseman I’ll see him no more
When he’s mounted on horseback so gallant and brave
And among all the soldiers respected he was
Broken hearted I’ll wander for the loss of my lover
He’s my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain
See how she laments for the loss of her mate
Oh where shall I wander my true love she says
There’s no mortal breathing my favour shall gain
Since my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain
Broken hearted I’ll wander for the loss of my lover
He’s my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain
If I was an eagle in the air I would fly
Till I came to the field where my true love does lie
And with these fond wings I’d spread over his grave
And kiss the dead lips that lie cold in the clay
Broken hearted I’ll wander for the loss of my lover
He’s my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain
When Boney commanded his troops for to stand
And bow to the banners so gay and so grand
He fixed up his cannons the victory to gain
And my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain
Broken hearted I’ll wander for the loss of my lover
He’s my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain
56
BORN TO BE WILD
Get your motor running
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way
Yeah darling gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of the guns and watch them
Explode into space
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racing with the wind
And the feeling that I'm under
Yeah darling gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of the guns and watch them
Explode into space
Like a true nature's child
We were born born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Get your motor running
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way
Yeah darling gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of the guns and watch them
Explode into space
Like a true nature's child
We were born born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild
57
THE BOXER
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles such are promises
All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest lie la la la la la la la la la la
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of a railway station running scared
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Were the ragged people go
Looking for the places, only they would know
Lie la lie lie la lie la la lie la lie lie la la la la la la la la la la
Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job
But I get no offers,
Just a Come on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there lie la la la la la la la la la la
Lie la lie lie la lie la la lie la lie lie la la la la la la la la la la
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone
Going home,
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
Leading me, going home
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down or cut him 'til he cried out
In his anger and his shame, I am leaving, I am leaving
But the fighter still remains lie la la la la la la la la la la
Lie la lie lie la lie la la lie la lie lie la la la la la la la la la la
Lie la lie lie la lie la la lie la lie lie la la la la la la la la la la
58
BREAKIN' UP IS HARD TO DO
Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down
Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down
Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down
Breaking up is hard to do
Don't take your love away from me
Don't you leave my heart in misery
If you go then I'll be blue
'Cause breaking up is hard to do
Remember when you hold me tight
And then you kissed me all through the night
Think of all that we've been through
'Cause breaking up is hard to do
Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down
Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down
Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down
Breaking up is hard to do
I beg of you don't say good-bye
Can't we give our love another try
And maybe it'll start anew
'Cause breaking up is hard to do
I beg of you don't say good-bye
Can't we give our love another try
And maybe it'll start anew
'Cause breaking up is hard to do
Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down
Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down
Come-a, come on down, doobie do down down
Breaking up is hard to do
59
BRITISH BOBBY
I’m a British bobby, I pound the bobby’s beat
You can tell it’s me what’s pounding by the banging of me feet
It’s the bobby’s way of keeping warm inside his stylish uniform
I am a British bobby from the wilds of old Dock Green
Why I joined the police force I will never know
‘Cause I was almost human ‘till about a year ago
But one consolation to me song the customer is always wrong
I am a British bobby from the wilds of old Dock Green
Pounding on me beat boys makes me very tired
But I’m not looking foreward to when they put me out to grass
Some day I’ll get a panda car and I’ll get blisters on me elbow
I am an idle bobby from the wilds of old Dock Green
Good old cannibis resin we like it quite a lot
And if the truth be known boys what a lot we’ve got
It’s issued to us every day for planting in a crafty way
I am a turned on bobby freaking out in old Dock Green
Some days are not so good and some are even worse
Every day’s a pint a day, after hours of course
Me ‘elmet tucked beneath me arm, I please the landlord with me charm
I am a tanked up bobby driving back to old Dock Green
I caught a girl soliciting where I knew I would
I took her in me bobby box and cautioned her right good
I took down her name with a frown and that’s not all that I took down
I am a virile bobby populating old Dock Green
And when I gets too old for it a fight I just can’t win
Me ‘elmet and me truncheeon I’ll ‘ave to ‘and ‘em in
Hang me whistle on an ‘ook close me little notey book
I’ll be a clapped out bobby carried out from old Dock Green
60
BROWN EYED GIRL
Hey where did we go days when the rains came
Down in the hollow playing a new game
Laughing and a running hey hey skipping and a jumping
In the misty morning with our hearts a thumping
And you my brown eyed girl you my brown eyed girl
Whatever happened to Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine with a transistor radio
Standing in the sunlight laughing hiding 'neath a rainbow wall
Slipping and a sliding all along the waterfall
With you my brown eyed girl you my brown eyed girl
Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la te da
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la te da la te da
So hard to find my way now that I'm on my own
I saw you just the other day my how you have grown
Cast my memory back there lord sometimes I'm overcome thinking 'bout it
Laughing and a running hey hey behind the stadium
With you my brown eyed girl you my brown eyed girl
Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la te da
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la te da la te da
61
BROWN SUGAR
Gold coast slave ship round the cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doing all right
Hear him whip the women just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good
Brown sugar just like a young girl should
Drums beating cold English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wondering where it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doing all right
You should have heard him just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good
Brown sugar just like a young girl should
Brown sugar how come you taste so good
Brown sugar just like a black girl should
I bet your mamma was a tent show queen
And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like
You should have heard me just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good
Brown sugar just like a young girl should
I said yeah yeah yeah ooh
How come yer how come yer taste so good
Yeah yeah yeah ooh
Just like a just like a black girl should
Yeah yeah yeah ooh
62
BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP
Why do you build me up buttercup baby
Just to let me down and mess me around
And then worst of all you never call baby
When you say you will but I love you still
I need you more than anyone darling
You know that I have from the start
So build me up buttercup
Don't break my heart
I'll be over at ten you tell me time and again
But you're late I wait around and then
I run to the door I can't take any more
It's not you you let me down again
To you I'm a toy but I could be the boy
You adore if you just let me know
And though you're untrue I'm attracted to you
More and more why do I need you so
Baby baby try to find
A little time and I'll make you happy
I'll be home waiting beside the 'phone
Waiting for you ooh ooh
Why do you build me up buttercup baby
Just to let me down and mess me around
And then worst of all you never call baby
When you say you will but I love you still
I need you more than anyone darling
You know that I have from the start
So build me up buttercup
Don't break my heart
63
BULLFROG BLUES
Did you ever wake up with them bullfrogs on your mind
Well did you ever wake up with them bullfrogs on your mind
You had to sit down laughing laughing just to keep from crying
Did you ever wake up with that one woman on your mind
Did you ever wake up with that one woman on your mind
You had to sit down laughing laughing just to keep from crying
My mamma got ‘em my father got ‘em my sister got ‘em my brother got ‘em
I woke up this morning grandmother had them too
What d’you know about that I’ve got the bullfrog blues bullfrog
My mamma got ‘em my father got ‘em my sister got ‘em my brother got ‘em
I woke up this morning grandmother had them too
What d’you know about that I’ve got the bullfrog blues
I called up the doctor I wasn’t feeling so well
I called up the doctor I wasn’t feeling so well
He looked inside his bag and said well well
You don’t need no doctor you don’t need no pill
You don’t need no doctor you don’t need no pill
Just take my advice I sure know how to cure your ills
If you go down to New Orleans prettiest place you’ve ever seen
Get on down to the river bed that’s where the music never ends
Open your ears and don’t it feel good get one hell of a shot of rhythm and blues
Go on down to New Orleans the greatest place you’ve ever been
Head on down to the river bed hear the music of them Cajun bands
Honky tonk piano makes you feel good open your ears rhythm and blues
Did you ever wake up with them bullfrogs on your mind
Well did you ever wake up with them bullfrogs on your mind
You had to sit down laughing laughing just to keep from crying
Did you ever wake up with that one woman on your mind
Did you ever wake up with that one woman on your mind
You had to sit down laughing laughing just to keep from crying
64
BYE BYE JOHNNY
She drew out all her money from the Southern Trust
And put her little boy upon a greyhound bus
Leaving Louisiana for the golden west
Down came the tears from her happiness
Her own little son name of Johnny B Goode
Was gonna make some motion pictures down in Hollywood
She said bye bye bye bye
Bye bye bye bye
She said bye bye Johnny
Goodbye Johnny B Goode
She remembered making money from the gallery crop
The father joined his kids around the broker's shop
As long as she could play around the railroad side
And he wouldn't get in trouble she'd be satisfied
She never thought there'd ever come a day like this
When she would have to give her son a goodbye kiss
She said bye bye bye bye
Bye bye bye bye
She said bye bye Johnny
Goodbye Johnny B Goode
She finally got the letter she'd been dreaming of
When Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love
As soon as they were married he would bring her back
And build for her a mansion by the railroad track
So every time they heard the locomotives roar
They’d be standing waiting by the kitchen door
She said bye bye bye bye
Bye bye bye bye
She said bye bye Johnny
Goodbye Johnny B Goode
65
BYE BYE, LOVE
Bye bye, love
Bye bye, happiness
Hello loneliness, I think I'm gonna cry
Bye bye, love
Bye bye, sweet caress
Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die
Bye bye, my love, goodbye
There goes my baby with someone new
She sure looks happy, I sure am blue
She was my baby, 'til he stepped in
Good-bye to romance that might have been
Bye bye, love
Bye bye, happiness
Hello loneliness, I think I'm gonna cry
Bye bye, love
Bye bye, sweet caress
Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die
Bye bye, my love, goodbye
I'm through with romance, I'm through with love
I'm through with counting the stars above
And here's the reason why I'm so free
My loving baby is through with me
Bye bye, love
Bye bye, happiness
Hello loneliness, I think I'm gonna cry
Bye bye, love
Bye bye, sweet caress
Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die
Bye bye, my love, goodbye
66
CAN BLUE MEN SING THE WHITES
I was lying in my bed pulled the silken sheets up tight
I’ve gotta keep my strength up gonna do a show tonight
I have a sip of coffee while I’m taking in the news
Don’t need to have a shave ‘cause I’ve gotta sing the blues
Oh shit man
Then I think I’ll get a massage maybe lose a little fat
So I have to go down town in my brand new cadillac
My bodyguard addresses me I light a big cigar
‘Cause I like to look like Nimrod when I’m riding in my car
Can blue men sing the whites or are they hypocrites for singing blues
And now it’s getting near the time I’ve gotta make the scene
I change out my dark brown mohair suit put on my dirty jeans
The band comes round to pick me up I holler “Hello boys”
I gotta mess my hair up I’m gonna make some noise
Can blue men sing the whites or are they hypocrites for singing blues
67
CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE
Well I take whatever I want
And baby I want you
You gave me something I need
Now tell me I got something for you
Come on come on come on and do it
Come on honey do what you do
I can't get enough of your love
I can't get enough of your love
I can't get enough of your love
Well it's late and I want love
Love is gonna break me in two
Don't hang me up in the doorway
Don't hang me up like you do
Come on come on come on and do it
Come on honey do what you do
I can't get enough of your love
I can't get enough of your love
I can't get enough of your love
68
CANADIAN IN JAKARTA
I woke up this morning with a hard-on
Which threatened to block out the sun
I thought I would take it to Tambora
And show it how to have some fun
I picked up a doggy in the Top Gun
Which looked good enough to take home
But when I felt and groped it in the becak
I found that the dog had a bone
Too drunk to eject it from the becak
Too sober to take it to bed
We rode round town for about an hour
Whilst it was still giving me head
We went to a club in deepest Blok-M
It was called the intercourse
Where the girls all spoke softly in whispers
Cause to give too much head makes them hoarse
It happened that night there was a floor show
Where ladies pulled things from their cunts
They must have thought I looked pretty horny
Cause they gave me a seat at the front
At first she pulled out a bunch of flowers
All tied up in ribbons and bows
But when she pulled out my bloody wallet
I thought it was time to go home
I bummed round town for a little longer
Having the time of my life
Suddenly I heard gun-fire
Oh shit, I’ve been shot by my wife
Now ashtrays can hurt you pretty badly
Especially when thrown by a whore
A knife can fuck you up in a bad way
But a bullet fucks you a lot more
When we got home she said she wasn’t angry
And said she wanted to fuck
But she pulled out a knife and chopped my cock off
And fed it with rice to the duck
So if you ever wake without a hard-on
Or worse it’s been chopped off instead
I know a girl by the name of Molly
Who’s damned good at raising the dead
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
I'm a pogeen from Cholowogeen
I've got money and acres of land
I'm looking for a honey with a bit of money
So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man
And I'm off to Listonvarna at the end of the year
I'm off for a bit of crack and the women and the beer
I'm awful shifty for a man of fifty
So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man
I like the ceilidh the Stack of Barley
I like the waltzes the jigs and the reels
I like the swinging when big Tom is singing
So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man
And I'm off to Listonvarna at the end of the year
I'm off for a bit of crack and the women and the beer
I'm awful shifty for a man of fifty
So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man
I've got a brother who's in the Gardy
I've got an uncle who's down at the Doyle
He's quite a farmer he's a mighty charmer
So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man
And I'm off to Listonvarna at the end of the year
I'm off for a bit of crack and the women and the beer
I'm awful shifty for a man of fifty
So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man
And to conclude now and finish my story
If there's a young woman looking for a man
Take the bus from Barna down to Listonvarna
Catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man
And I'm off to Listonvarna at the end of the year
I'm off for a bit of crack and the women and the beer
I'm awful shifty for a man of fifty
So catch me if you can my name is Dan sure I'm your man
70
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Got the summons served on a Sunday see what I’ve done
Couldn’t see much sense in the charges but they sure sounded like fun
So I went down town up to Bow Street to see the company man
Hey boy you’re in a heap of trouble but I’ll do everything that I can
But the judge is a grudge man yes that’s a fact
The judge is a grudge man you know that’s a fact
Hope you don’t ever get caught in the act
Sorry for the damage I’ve done, I’ll try to pay it back
The only crime I’ve ever committed was being caught in the act
So the next time that you feel good don’t forget the fact
There’s a man in blue when he want’s you to be caught in the act
Yeah the judge is a grudge man yes that’s a fact
The judge is a grudge man you know that’s a fact
Hope you don’t ever get caught in the act
Well the judge is a grudge man yes that’s a fact
The judge is a grudge man you know that’s a fact
Hope you don’t ever get caught in the act
Hope you don’t ever get caught in the act
71
CAUGHT SHORT
Once a poor old hasher ,
Got caught short upon a hash run,
Under the rain of the Bandung skies.
As he slipped, and he slid,
And he squelched all through the shiggy pit,
This sudden call of nature took him quite by surprise.
On-out you hashers, on-on you hashers,
On-in you hashers, and down down a beer.
There's still somebody lost in the paddy fields and undergrowth,
And it'll be goodnight hashers, before he gets here.
He then ran out of paper,
And lost sight of other runners,
It was hours since he'd heard "On-on" from anyone.
Then the thought came to his head,
"Sod this for a game of soldiers"
And he stopped for a beer, in the nearest kampung.
On-out you hashers, on-on you hashers,
On-in you hashers, and down down a beer.
There's still somebody lost in the paddy fields and undergrowth,
And it'll be goodnight hashers, before he gets here.
He supped a few warm Bintangs,
And they offered him some rice wine,
Under a palm tree he stopped for a nap.
Then he caught an angkutan,,
'Till he thought he saw some paper,
And ran down to the on-in, as his strength began to sap.
On-out you hashers, on-on you hashers,
On-in you hashers, and down down a beer.
There's still somebody lost in the paddy fields and undergrowth,
And it'll be goodnight hashers, before he gets here.
Under the umbrella,
Was only Fanta and some cherryade,
He'd slept until Wednesday, it was the puppy bash.
So let this be a lesson,
Don't run out of paper,
If you get caught short, especially on the hash !
On-out you hashers, on-on you hashers,
On-in you hashers, and down down a beer.
There's still somebody lost in the paddy fields and undergrowth,
And it'll be goodnight hashers, before he gets here.
72
CHAINS OF MYSTERY
People what have you done
Locked him in a golden cage golden cage
Made him bend to your religion
Him resurrected from the grave from the grave
He is the god of nothing
If that is all that you can see
You are the god of everything
He’s inside you and me
So lean upon him gently
And don’t call upon him to save
You from your social graces grow
And a sense you’re used to brave you’re used to brave
And the bloody church of England
In chains of mystery
Requests your earthly presence
At the bigger wreck from sea
And the graven image you know who
With his plastic crucifix he’s got him fixed
Confuses me as to who and where and why
After how he gets his kicks he gets his kicks
Confessing to the endless sin
The endless whining sounds
You’ll be praying till next birthday
To all the gods that you can count
73
THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
Riding on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty five sacks of mail
All out on a southbound odyssey
The train pulls out of Kankakee
Rolling past the houses farms and fields
Passing towns that have no name
And freight yards full of old black men
And graveyards full of rusted Automobiles
Singing good morning America how are you
Don’t you know me I’m your native son
I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Dealing cards with the old men in the club car
Penny a point and no one’s keeping score
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels a rumbling ‘neath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their fathers’ magic carpet made of steel
And mothers with their babes asleep
Are rocking to the gentle beat
The rhythm of the rails is all they feel
Singing good morning America how are you
Don’t you know me I’m your native son
I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changing cars at Memphis Tennessee
Halfway home and we’ll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling to the sea
But all the towns and people seem
To fade into one bad dream
And the steel rail hasn’t heard the news
The conductor sings his song again
Passengers will please refrain
This train has got the disappearing railroad blues
Singing good morning America how are you
Don’t you know me I’m your native son
I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
74
CITY TO CITY
Now the night train is waiting, to take me away
And I’m still feeling guilty about wanting you to stay
Well I know, how I know, it’s harder on you
But then you said it yourself, there’s nothing else we can do
When the wheels start turning, taking me through the night
Out there in the darkness, there’s a star shining bright
And the needs treated better, just to see you down there
Hope you’re thinking about it, and you know I still care
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
Now I know you’ve been waiting, I’ll be seeing you soon
Meanwhile I’ll just stay here, and stare at the moon
And that light painted silver, through my window it creeps
And the train keeps on rolling and just rocks me to sleep
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
Now from city to city, it’s four hundred miles
And I’m bound to wake up every once in a while
And each day that I call up, Just somehow you come
And you can go back to sleep, cause I’ll be home in an hour
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
So goodnight, yeah goodnight, goodnight train is gonna carry me home
I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home
I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home
I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home
I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home
75
COCAINE
If you want to hang out,
You've got to take her out,
Cocaine.
If you want to get down,
Get down on the ground,
Cocaine.
She don't lie, she don't lie,
She don't lie,
Cocaine.
If you got bad news,
You want to kick them blues,
Cocaine.
When your day is done,
And you want to ride on,
Cocaine.
She don't lie, she don't lie,
She don't lie,
Cocaine.
If your thing is gone,
And you want to ride on,
Cocaine.
Don't forget this fact.
You can't get back,
Cocaine.
She don't lie, she don't lie,
She don't lie,
Cocaine.
She don't lie, she don't lie,
She don't lie,
Cocaine.
76
COME BACK
Come back,
Baby come back,
Baby come back,
Baby come back,
This is the first time I feel today
That you have run away
I'm asking you for the first time
Love me so fine and stay stay stay stay
Come back,
Baby come back,
Baby come back,
Baby come back,
There ain't no use in crying
'Cause I'm more hurt than you
I should not have been that flirting
But now my love it isn't true true true true
Come back,
Baby come back,
Baby come back,
Baby come back,
Come back baby don't you leave me
Baby, baby, don't you go
Oh won't you give me a second chance
Baby, I love you so so so so
Come back,
Baby come back,
Baby come back,
Baby come back,
77
COSMIC AND FREAKY
It was cosmic and freaky on a midsummer’s day
And the vibes from the meadows man they blew me away
And the blackbirds and thrushes they were into their own thing
And the larks got off on music man like all they did was sing
And the larks got off on music
And the larks got off on music
And the larks got off on music man like all they did was sing
Now a freak and his old lady were a tripping through the heather
Said the freak to his old lady man my head’s not together
So I’m off to San Francisco where the alpha waves roam free
And the highs you get on skateboards have transcended LSD
And the highs you get on skateboards
And the highs you get on skateboards
And the highs you get on skateboards
And the highs you get on skateboards have transcended LSD
Now a picture of his earth shoes she instantly drew
Saying man that’s where my head’s at and I’m still in tune with you
And as they dug each other’s head space tears in her eyes he could see
She said can I come and he said no, man don’t lay that trip on me
She said can I come and he said no
She said can I come and he said no
She said can I come and he said no
She said can I come and he said no, man don’t lay that trip on me
He said listen babe it’s getting heavy and I’m not into what’s going down
For my taxi meter’s ticking and I’m turned off this town
But you’ll still be my old lady if you’re ever in San Francisco
After all man you’re a Pisces and I’m a Scorpio
After all man you’re a Pisces
After all man you’re a Pisces
After all man you’re a Pisces
After all man you’re a Pisces and I’m a Scorpio
78
COUNTRY ROADS
Almost heaven West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenendoa river
Life is old there older than the trees,
Younger than the mountains flowing on the breeze
Country road take me home to the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama take me home country roads
All my memories gather round her
Miners lady stranger to Blue Water
Dark and dusty painted on the sky
Dusky taste of moonshine teardrops in my eyes
Country roads take me home to the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama take me home country roads
I hear her voice in the morning how she calls to me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And driving down the road I get the feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday
Country roads take me home to the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama take me home country roads
79
COWPOKE SONG
Well I was sitting by the campfire picking my nose
Using my toothbrush to clean between my toes
When who should I see up on the horizon
Who should it be but the girl I adore
Charlotte the starlet the Hollywood bore
And when I saw her I had to break into this song
Yippee yi yo yippee yi yay
I like to see those udders sway from side to side
I want to be a cowpoke just poking cows all day
Well Charlotte’s forty fat and fruity hear my song
Her foundation garments are by Dormond Long
She’s so to speak my little prairie flower
I pine for her wine and dine her but she won’t give in
So I feed her brandy vodka whisky rum and paraffin
She’s given up sex and lighting cigarettes so I sing my song to you
Yippee yi yo yippee yi yay....etc.
Well I’ve been sitting here all day long
Waiting for Rolf Harris to discover this song
And take it to the U.K. and play it on T.V.
It might even win the Eurovision song contest
The tune really stinks so it should come off best
I let the coyotes coyote by the light of the moon in June
Yippee yi yo yippee yi yay....etc.
Now I like to sing a country and western
With my cowboy Stetson and my cowboy vest on
And my cowboy boots pulled up to my cowboy knees
Hitch up my horse hitch up my pants
Adopt my cowboy song singing stance
When I get to the part where the song comes right from the heart
Yippee yi yo yippee yi yay....etc.
Now Sitting Bull was sitting sullenly carving his totem
When the silly bugger dropped a nine inch chisel on his left foot
His cries they lasted all through the prairie night
He used to be a stud but now his sex life’s dropped off
The squaws all ignore him they laugh and they scoff
He gets no more love calls since they heard about his accident
So I sing my song to you
Yippee yi yo yippee yi yay....etc.
80
CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE
This thing called love I just can’t handle it
This thing called love I must get around to it
I ain’t ready crazy little thing called love
This thing called love it cries in the cradle all night
It swings it jives shakes all over like a jellyfish
Kinda like it crazy little thing called love
There goes my baby she knows how to rock and roll
She drives me crazy she gives me hot and cold fever
She leaves me in a cool cool sweat
I’ve gotta be cool relaxed get in and get on my tracks
Take a back seat hitch hike take a long ride on a motorbike
Then I’m ready a crazy little thing called love
I’ve gotta be cool relaxed get in and get on my tracks
Take a back seat hitch hike take a long ride on a motorbike
Till I’m ready a crazy little thing called love
This thing called love I just can’t handle it
This thing called love I must get around to it
I’m ain’t ready crazy little thing called love
Crazy little thing called love
Crazy little thing called love
Crazy little thing called love
81
CROSSROADS
I went down to the crossroads
Fell down on my knees
Down to the crossroads
Fell down on my knees
I tried to beg for mercy
Baby if you please
I went down to the crossroads
Tried to pack a ride
I went down to the crossroads
Tried to pack a ride
Nobody wanna stop for me
Everybody passed me by
I'm going down to Rosedale
Take my rider by my side
I'm going down to Rosedale
Take my rider by my side
You can still buy a house babe
On the riverside
I'm going down to Rosedale
Take my rider by my side
I'm going down to Rosedale
Take my rider by my side
You can still buy a house babe
On the riverside
You can run you can run
Tell my old friend Willie Brown
You can run you can run
Tell my old friend Willie Brown
And I'm standing at the crossroads
Believe I'm sinking down
82
D’YER MAKER
Oh oh oh oh oh you don’t have to go
Oh oh oh oh you don’t have to go
Oh oh oh oh you don’t have to go
You don’t have to go
I I I I I all those tears I cried
I I I I all those tears I cried
Oh oh ah I baby please
Don’t go
When I read the letter you wrote me you made me mad mad mad
When I read the words that it told me you made me sad sad sad
But I still love you so I can’t let you go
I love you oh baby I love you
Oh oh oh oh oh every breath I take
Oh oh oh oh you oh every move I make
Oh baby please don’t go
I I I I I I you hurt me to my soul
Oh oh oh oh you hurt me to my soul
Darling please don’t go
When I read the letter you sent me you made me mad mad mad
When I read the news that it broke you made me sad sad sad
But I still love you so and I can’t let you go
I love you oh baby I love you
Oh oh oh oh oh you don’t have to go
Oh oh oh oh you don’t have to go
Oh oh oh oh oh baby babe please
Please please please
Ah ah ah ah ah ah baby
Ah ah I really love you baby
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh darling
Oh ... oh ... ah ... baby I still love you so
Oh baby I still love you so
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah ah
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah ah
83
DA DOO RON RON
I met her on a Monday and my heart stood still
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Somebody told me that her name was Jill
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Yes, my heart stood still,
Yes, her name was Jill
And when she walked me home
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
She knew what she was doing when she caught my eye
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
She looked so quiet, but my oh my
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Yes, she caught my eye
Yes, but my oh my
And when she walked me home
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
She picked me up at seven and she looked so fine
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Some day soon I'm gonna make her mine
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Yes, she looked so fine
Yes, I'm gonna make her mine
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
84
DANCE DANCE DANCE
My grandpa he’s ninety five
He keeps on dancing he’s still alive
My grandma she’s ninety two
She likes to dance and sing some too
I don’t know but I’ve been told
If you keep on dancing you’ll never grow old
Come on darling put a pretty dress on
We’re gonna go out tonight
Dance dance dance
Dance dance dance
Dance dance dance
All night long
I’m a hard working man I’m a son of a gun
I’ve been working all week in the noon day sun
The wood’s in the kitchen and the cow’s in the barn
I’m all cleaned up my chores are all done
Take my hand and come along
Let’s go out and have some fun
Come on darling put a pretty dress on
We’re gonna go out tonight
Dance dance dance
Dance dance dance
Dance dance dance
All night long
Come on darling don’t look that way
Don’t you know when you smile I’ve got to say
You’re my honey bumpkin lover you’re my hearts delight
Don’t you want to go out tonight
You’re such a pretty lady, you’re such a sweet girl
When you dance it lightens up my world
Come on darling put a pretty dress on
We’re gonna go out tonight
Dance dance dance
Dance dance dance
Dance dance dance
All night long
85
DAYDREAM BELIEVER
I could hide 'neath the wings
Of a blue bird as she sings
The six o'clock alarm would never ring
But it rings and I rise
Wash the sleep out of my eyes
The shaving razor's cold and it stings
Cheer up sleepy Jean
Oh what can it mean
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen
You once thought of me
As a white knight on a steed
Now we know how useless this can be
And our days start and end
Without dollar one to spend
Now we know how happy we can be
Cheer up sleepy Jean
Oh what can it mean
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen
Cheer up sleepy Jean
Oh what can it mean
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen
86
DESPERADO
Desperado why don't you come to your senses
You've been out riding fences for so long now
Oh you're a hard one but I know you've got your reasons
These things that are pleasing you can hurt you somehow
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
Now it seems to me some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get
Desperado oh you ain't getting no younger
Your pain and your hunger they're driving you home
And freedom oh freedom that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone
Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losing all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away
Desperado why don't you come to your senses
Come down from your fences and open the gate
It may be raining but there's a rainbow above you
You'd better let somebody love you let somebody love you
You'd better let somebody love you before it's too late
87
DIANE
Oh no here I go again
Falling in love again
Love is like a grain of sand
Slowly slipping through your hand
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh Diane
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh Diane
Will I love you I will always
Will you stand by me always
Love is like a grain of sand
Slowly slipping through your hand
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh Diane
Oh oh oh oh, oh oh Diane
Oh oh Diane
Oh oh Diane
Oh oh Diane
Oh oh Diane
Talking 'bout Diane
Oh oh Diane
88
DIRTY WORLD
He loves your sexy body he loves your dirty mind
He loves when you hold him, grab him from behind
Oh baby you’re such a pretty thing
I can’t wait to introduce you to the other members of my gang
You don’t need no wax job you’re smooth enough for me
If you need your oil changed I’ll do it for you free
Oh baby the pleasure’ll be all mine
If you let me drive your pick-up truck and park it where the sun don’t shine
Every time he touches you his hair stands up on end
As your legs begin to quiver and his mind begins to bend
Oh baby you’re such a tasty treat
And I’m under doctors orders I’m afraid to over-eat
He loves your sense of humour disposition too
There’s absolutely nothing that he don’t love about you
Oh baby I’m on my hands and knees
Life would be so simple if I only had you to please
Oh baby turn around and say goodbye
You go to the airport now and I’m going home to cry
He loves your electric door plank
He loves your red bell pastas
He loves your fuel injection
He loves your service chart
He loves your five speed gear box
He loves your long endurance
He loves your quest for junk food
He loves your big refrigerator
He loves your Travelling Willbury
He loves your marble earrings
He loves your ugly curtains
He loves your power steering
He loves your bottled water
He loves your parts and service
Dirty world the dirty world it’s a F***ing dirty world
89
DO IT AGAIN
In the morning you go gunning
For the man who stole your water
And you fire till he is done in
But they catch you at the border
And the mourners are all singing
As they drag you by your feet
But the hangman isn’t hanging
And they put you on the street
Yeah you go back Jack do it again
Wheel turning round and round
You go back Jack do it again
When you know she’s no high climber
Then you find your only friend
In a room with your two timer
And you’re sure you’re near the end
Then you love a little wild one
And she brings you only sorrow
All the time you know she’s smiling
You’ll be on your knees tomorrow
Yeah you go back Jack do it again
Wheel turning round and round
You go back Jack do it again
Now you swear and kick and beg us
That you’re not a gambling man
Then you find you’re back in Vegas
With a handle in your hand
Your black cards could make you money
So you hide them when you’re able
In the land of milk and honey
You must put them on the table
Yeah you go back Jack do it again
Wheel turning round and round
You go back Jack do it again
90
DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME
Do that to me one more time
Once is never enough with a girl like you
Do that to me one more time
I can never get enough of a girl like you oh
Kiss me like you just did
Oh, baby do that to me once again
Passing by me one more time
Once just isn’t enough for my heart to hear
Oh, tell it to me one more time
I can never hear enough while I got you near, woh...
Say those words again like you just did
Oh, baby tell it to me once again
Do that to me one more time
Once is never enough with a girl like you
Do that to me one more time
I can never get enough of a girl like you oh
Oh, baby do that to once again, woh baby
Do that to me one more time
Do it one more time
Do it again, one more time
Do it again, one more time
91
DO WAH DIDDY
There she was, just a-walking down the street
Singing, Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
Snapping with her fingers and shuffling her feet
Singing, Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
She looked good (looked good)
She looked fine (looked fine)
She looked good, she looked fine
And I nearly lost my mind
Before I know it she was walking next to me
Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
Holding my hand just as natural as can be
Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
We walked on (walked on)
To my door (my door)
We walked on to my door
Then we kissed a little more
Whow-ouh whow-ouh, I knew I was falling in love yes I did,
So I told her all the things I've been dreaming of
Now we're together nearly every single day
Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
We're so happy and that's how we're gonna stay
Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
Well I'm hers (I'm hers)
She's mine (She's mine)
I'm hers, she's mine
Wedding bells are gonna chime
Whow-ouh whow-ouh, I knew I was falling in love yes I did,
So I told her all the things I've been dreaming of
Now we're together nearly every single day
Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
We're so happy and that's how we're gonna stay
Singing, do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
Do wah diddy, diddy, do wah diddy, diddy
Do wah diddy, diddy damm, diddy do
92
DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE
I was walking down a one way street
Just a looking for someone to meet
One woman who is looking for a man
And I'm hoping that the feeling is right
And I'm wondering if you'll stay for the night
So I'm coming I don't want to be lonely baby
Please help me I want to love you all over
Do you believe in love
Do you believe in love
Do you believe in love
Well you're making me believe it too
Now the feeling is beginning to grow
And the meaning is something you only know
If you believe it keep my hand and I'll take your heart
Now I wonder where does true love begin
I'm going under so I'm letting you win
My woman I don't want to be lonely baby
Please help me I want to love you all over
Do you believe in love
Do you believe in love
Do you believe in love
Well you're making me believe it too
I used to have you in a photograph
I'm so glad it's changed
But now I've got you baby and it's going to last
Do you believe it babe
Do you believe in love
Do you believe in love
Do you believe in love
Well you're making me believe it too
93
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME
Give me time to realise my crime
Let me love and steal
I have danced inside your eyes
How can I be real
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Precious kisses words that burn me
Lovers never ask you why
In my heart the fire’s burning
Choose my colour, find a star
Precious people always tell me
That’s a step, a step too far
Do you
Do you
Do you
Do you
really want to hurt me
really want to make me cry
really want to hurt me
really want to make me cry
Words are few I have spoken
I could waste a thousand years
Wrapped in sorrow words are token
Come inside and catch my tears
You’ve been talking but believe me
If it’s true, you do not know
This boy loves without a reason
I’m prepared to let you go
If it’s love you want from me
Then take it away
Everything is not what you see
It’s over again
Do you
Do you
Do you
Do you
really want to hurt me
really want to make me cry
really want to hurt me
really want to make me cry
Do you
Do you
Do you
Do you
really want to hurt me
really want to make me cry
really want to hurt me
really want to make me cry
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
94
DOG END IN MY BEER CAN
I took you out to dinner to a fancy restaurant
It took you half an hour to tell the waiter what you want
And when he brought the soup you let it fall down on your knee
Then when he brought another one you spilt it over me
You’re the dog-end in my beer can
You’re the stone in my left shoe
An when I think of great disasters
You know I always think of you
You’re the snowdrift on my motorway
The snake in my grass
But most of all baby
You’re a pain in my arse
I took you on an aeroplane and as we soared through the clouds
You scared all the other passengers when you said your prayers out loud
But worst was still to come before we ever touched the ground
As a present to the pilot you passed your hat around
You’re the dog-end in my beer can
You’re the stone in my left shoe
An when I think of great disasters
You know I always think of you
You’re the snowdrift on my motorway
The snake in my grass
But most of all baby
You’re a pain in my arse
You were an hour late for the wedding I thought you’d left me in the lurch
Oh you really shocked the guests when you smoked your pipe in church
And in the middle of the service I was stunned to say the least
When you answered all the questions wrong and I got married to the priest
You’re the dog-end in my beer can
You’re the stone in my left shoe
An when I think of great disasters
You know I always think of you
You’re the snowdrift on my motorway
The snake in my grass
But most of all baby
You’re a pain in my arse
95
DOGRUFF DAN
'Twas in the rains we built the drains from Salford to West Ham
I've been a ganger for thirty years and I've never stopped a man
But I'm sorry Joe you'll have to go
I'm signing Dogruff Dan
How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da
Betimes he’d work for Wimpy's, Mc Alpine he'd sign on
But he preferred the council jobs a working in the sun
And when the sun was sinking low he'd maybe get a sub
And he would lead a gang of lads down to the local pub
How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da
He was down there Monday morning wi' his hankie on his head
Brewing himself a mug of tea down in the foreman's shed
When up came a plasterer, said "you're drinking from me pot"
Said Dan to the plasterer "begorrah sure I'm not”
How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da
Like a mighty clap of thunder or a dumper’s skidding wheels
Dan began to shake and jerk and do an Irish reel
He punched the plasterer on the nose and when he came to land
He looked just like a flower stuck all in a heap of sand
How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da
Severely discontentered he gave his pick a wrench
And went to eat a buttie down in his favourite trench
When up came the plasterer, tipper at the double
And filled in Dogruff Daniel's trench with half a ton of rubble
How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da
How are you Dan ? DOGRUFF a doopie diddly da
96
DON'T BE CRUEL
You know I can't be found
Sitting home all alone
If you can't come around
At least please telephone
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
Baby you may be mad
With something I might have said
Please forget my past
The future looks bright ahead
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
I don't want no other love
Baby it's just you I'm thinking of
Don't stop a thinking of me
Don't make me feel this way
Come on over here and love me
You know what I wanted you to say
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
Why should we be apart
I really love you baby cross my heart
Let's walk up to the preacher
And let us say I do
Then you know you'll have me
And I know that I'll have you
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
I don't want no other love
Baby it's just you I'm thinking of
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
I don't want no other love
Baby it's just you I'm thinking of
97
DON’T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD
Baby do you understand me now
Sometimes I feel a little mad
And don’t you know that no one alive can always be an angel
When things go wrong I seem to be bad
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood
Baby sometimes I’m so carefree
With a joy that’s hard to hide
And sometimes it seems that all I have to do is worry
And then you’re bound to see my other side
But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood
If I seem edgy I want you to know
That I never mean to take it out on you
Life has it’s problems and I get my share
And that’s one thing I never mean to do ‘cause I love you
Oh oh oh baby don’t you know I’m human
I have thoughts like any other one
Sometimes I find myself long regretting
Some foolish thing some little sinful thing I’ve done
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood
Yes I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood
Yes I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord please don’t let me be misunderstood
98
DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME
I can’t light no more of your darkness
All my pictures seem to fade to black and white
I’m growing tired and time stands still before me
Frozen here on the ladder of my life
Too late to save myself from falling
I took a chance and changed your life
But you misread my meaning when I met you
Closed the door and left me blinded by the light
Don’t let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself it’s always someone else I see
I’d just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me
I can’t find oh the right romantic line
But see me once and see the way I feel
Don’t discard me just because you think I mean you harm
But these cuts I have oh they need love to help heal them up
Don’t let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself it’s always someone else I see
I’d just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me
99
DON’T STOP
If you wake up and don't wanna smile
If it takes just a little while
Open your eyes and look at the day
you'll see things in a different way
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop it'll soon be here
It'll be better than before
Yesterday's gone yesterday's gone
Why not think about times to come
And not about the things that you've done
If your life was bad to you
Just think what tomorrow will do
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop it'll soon be here
It'll be better than before
Yesterday's gone yesterday's gone
All I want is to see you smile
If it takes just a little while
I know you don't believe that it's true
I never meant any harm to you
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop it'll soon be here
It'll be better than before
Yesterday's gone yesterday's gone
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop it'll soon be here
It'll be better than before
Yesterday's gone yesterday's gone
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop it'll soon be here
It'll be better than before
Yesterday's gone yesterday's gone
Oh don't you look back
Oh don't you look back
Oh don't you look back
100
DON’T STOP ME NOW
Tonight I’m gonna have myself a real good time
I feel ali-hi-hi-hive
And the world, we’ll turn it inside out yeah
And float it around in ecstasy so
Don’t stop me now
Don’t stop me, ‘cause I’m having a good time, having a good time
I’m a shooting star leaping through the sky
Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
I’m a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
I’m gonna go, go, go, there’s no stopping me
I’m burning through the sky yeah two hundred degrees
That’s why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit
I’m travelling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you
Don’t stop me now I’m having such a good time, I’m having a ball
Don’t stop me now If you wanna have a good time, just give me a call
Don’t stop me now, I’m having a good time
Don’t stop me now, I’m having a good time
I don’t wanna stop at all
I’m a rocket ship on my way to Mars
On a collision course, I am a satellite, I’m out of control
I’m a six shooter ready to reload like an atom bomb that’s about to woh woh woh woh woh
explode
I’m burning through the sky yeah two hundred degrees
That’s why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit
I’m travelling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic woman of you
(Don’t stop me don’t stop me don’t stop me) hey hey hey
(Don’t stop me don’t stop me ooh hoo hoo) I like it
(Don’t stop me don’t stop me) have a good time good time
(Don’t stop me don’t stop me) ooh
Oh burning through the sky yeah two hundred degrees
That’s why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit
I’m travelling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you
Don’t stop me now I’m having such a good time, I’m having a ball
Don’t stop me now If you wanna have a good time, just give me a call
Don’t stop me now, I’m having a good time
Don’t stop me now, I’m having a good time
I don’t wanna stop at all
101
DON'T THINK TWICE, IT'S ALRIGHT
It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe.
It don't matter anyhow.
It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe.
If you don't know by now.
When the rooster crows at the break of dawn,
Look out your window, and I'll be gone.
You're the reason, I'm travelling on.
Don't think twice, it's alright.
It ain't no use in turning on your light, babe.
The light, I never knowed.
It ain't no use in turning on your light, babe.
I'm on the dark side of the road.
But I wish, there was something, you could do or say,
To try to make me change my mind, and stay.
But never did too much talking anyway,
So, don't think twice, it's alright.
It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal,
Like you never done before.
It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal,
I can't hear you anymore.
I'm a-thinking and a-wondering, walking down the road,
I once loved a woman, a child, I'm told.
I'd give her my heart, but she wanted my soul,
But don't think twice, it's alright.
So long, honey babe.
Where I'm bound, I can't tell.
Good-bye is too good a word, babe,
So I just say fare thee well.
I ain't a-saying, you treated me unkind,
You could have done better, but I don't mind.
You just kinda wasted my precious time,
But don't think twice, it's alright.
102
DOWN BY THE RIVER
City life was getting us down so we spend a weekend out of town
Fixed our tent on a patch of ground down by the river
Lit a fire and drank some wine you put your jeans on top of mine
Said come in the water's fine down by the river
Down by the river, down by the river
I said, come in the water's fine down by the river
Didn't feel too good all night so we took a walk in the morning light
We came across a stranger sight down by the river
Silver fish lay on it's side it was washed up by the early tide
I wonder how it died down by the river
Down by the river, down by the river
Silver fish lay on it's side down by the river
Doctor put us both in bed he dosed us up and shook his head
Only foolish people go he said down by the river
Why do willows weep said he because they're dying gradually
From the waste from the factories down by the river
Down by the river, down by the river
Why do willows weep said he down by the river
In time the river banks will die and the reed will wilt and the ducks won't fly
There'll be a tear in the author's eye down by the river
The banks will soon be black and dead and where the author raised his head
Will be a clean white stony bed down by the river
Down by the river, down by the river
The banks will soon be black and dead down by the river
103
DOWN ON THE CORNER
Early in the evening just 'bout supper time
Over by the court house they're starting to unwind
Four kids on the corner trying to bring you up
Willie picks a tune out and he blows it on the harp
Down on the corner out in the street
Willie and the poor boys are playing
Bring a nickel tap your feet
Rooster hits the washboard and people just got to smile
Blinky thumps the gutbass and solos for a while
Poor boy twangs the rhythm out of his kalamazoo
And Willie goes into a dance doubles on kazoo
Down on the corner out in the street
Willie and the poor boys are playing
Bring a nickel tap your feet
Down on the corner out in the street
Willie and the poor boys are playing
Bring a nickel tap your feet
You don't need a penny just to hang around
But if you've got a nickel won't you lay your money down
Over on the corner there's a happy noise
People come from all around just to hear the magic boys
Down on the corner out in the street
Willie and the poor boys are playing
Bring a nickel tap your feet
Down on the corner out in the street
Willie and the poor boys are playing
Bring a nickel tap your feet
104
DOWN THE DUSTPIPE
Going down the dustpipe now
Got a ten dollar bill in my jeans
Ain't no room for a kosher cowboy
In a town like New Orleans
But I'm doing all right now
Going down the dustpipe
Na na na na na na na na
Guess I didn't make it in the city
But that's just the way that it goes
What a lunatic crazy fool for being
They don't like the shape of my clothes
But I'm doing all right now
Going down the dustpipe
Na na na na na na na na
Going down the dustpipe now
Got a ten dollar bill in my jeans
Ain't no room for a kosher cowboy
In a town like New Orleans
But I'm doing all right now
Going down the dustpipe
Na na na na na na na na
105
DOWN UNDER
Travelling in a fried out combi
On a heavy trail head full of zombie
I met a strange lady she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said
Do you come from a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder
You'd better run you'd better take cover
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I said do you speaka my language
He just smiled and gave me a Vegamite sandwich
He said
I've come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder
You'd better run you'd better take cover
Dyin' in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw and not much to say
I said to the man are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty
And he said
Do you come from a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder
You'd better run you'd better take cover
Cause you are
Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder
You'd better run you'd better take cover
We are
Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear can't you hear the thunder
You'd better run you'd better take cover
106
DREAMER
Dreamer you know you are a dreamer
Can you put your hands in your head oh no
Dreamer you know you are a dreamer
Can you put your hands in your head oh no oh no
I said oh no what a day a year a life it is
You know well you know you had it coming to you
Know there's not a lot I can do
Dreamer stupid little dreamer
So you put your head in your hands oh no
I said oh no what a day a year a life it is
You know well you know you had it coming to you
Know there's not a lot I can do
You got something
If I can see something
You can see anything you want boy
If I can be someone
You can be anyone celebrate boy
Well if I can do something
You can do something
If I could do anything
Can you do something out of this world
Oh take a dream on a subway
Take a life take a holiday
Take a life in a dreamer
Dream dream dream dream dream dream dream dream alone
Come on and dream alone
Come on and dream alone
Come on and dream alone
Come on and dream alone
Dreamer you know you are a dreamer
Can you put your hands in your head oh no
Dreamer you know you are a dreamer
Can you put your hands in your head oh no oh no
107
DUST IN THE WIND
I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Passed before my eyes in curiosity
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Now don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
108
DYNAMO
Joey couldn't stand it so he left to join the band that really saved his soul
Tried it to a bring it on and to play it in a week but baby could it roll
He could make a bad drummer swing
You wouldn’t believe it to stand see him doing his thing
You couldn’t leave it alone
See him rock, see him roll, from his heart and his soul
Ah I know from his head to toe he's a dynamo
He could eat your fibulator he could tame an alligator
Baby could he move
When the band starts to play honey if you walk away
You've just gotta groove
When the smoke's rising high from his strings
It’s hard to take it too low
Like those Cadbury sweets
And you don’t fake it alone
See him rock, see him roll, from his heart to his soul
Ah I know from his head to toe he's a dynamo
He could make a bad drummer swing
You wouldn’t believe it to stand see him doing his thing
You couldn’t leave it alone
See him rock, see him roll, from his heart to his soul
Ah I know from his head to toe he's a dynamo
He could make you laugh he could make you want to cry
He could even make you fly fly fly
See him rock, see him roll, from his heart to his soul
Ah I know from his head to toe he's a dynamo
He’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo
He’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo he’s a dynamo
109
EASY
I know it sounds funny but I just can’t stand the pain
And I’m leaving you tomorrow
Seems to me girl you know I’ve done all I can
You see I beg stole and I borrow yeah
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like Sunday morning
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like Sunday morning
Why in the world would anybody put chains on me
I’ve paid my dues to make it
Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be
I’m not happy when I try to fake it no
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like Sunday morning
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like Sunday morning
I wanna to be high so high
I wanna be free to know the things I do are right
I wanna be free just free woh babe high
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like Sunday morning
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like Sunday morning
‘Cause I’m easy
Easy like Sunday morning
‘Cause I’m easy
Easy like Sunday morning
‘Cause I’m easy
Easy like Sunday morning
‘Cause I’m easy
Easy like Sunday morning
110
THE EFDSS
Young man there’s no need to feel down
I said young man don’t you worry or frown
Young man there’s a club in your town
Where you can wear a dangling tankard
Folkies live on barrels of beer
I said folkies fingers stuck in their ear
Folkies oh it’s all very queer
With their money belts and patches
You’ve got to go to the EFDSS
You’ve got to go to the EFDSS
They have everything for a man to enjoy
You can soon feel one of the boys
That’s if you go to the EFDSS
Why don’t you go to the EFDSS
You can reel you can jig be as sick as a pig
You can even dance like fairies
Well in the morris you can wear some budgie bells
In the morris we don’t play with sissy girls
In the morris you can sweat and give off smells
In the morris
In the morris wave your hankies round and round
In the morris bang your sticks upon the ground
In the morris all you do is piss around
In the morris
In the morris
They want you they want you they want you as a new recruit
They want you they want you they want you as a new recruit
In the quarry in Headington we danced all day
‘Till a man came by who said his name was Cecil
And he said to us where did you learn that dance
And we replied we learned it on the Generation Game
They want you they want you they want you as a new recruit
They want you they want you they want you as a new recruit
You’ve got to go to the EFDSS
You’ve got to go to the EFDSS
They have everything for a man to enjoy
You can soon feel one of the boys
That’s if you go to the EFDSS
Why don’t you go to the EFDSS
You can reel you can jig be as sick as a pig
You can even dance like fairies
111
END OF THE WORLD
Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to the shore
Don’t they know its the end of the world
‘Cause you don’t love me anymore
Why do the birds go on singing
Why do the stars glow above
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love
I wake up every morning and I wonder
Why everything’s the same as it was
I can’t understand, no I can’t understand
How life goes on the way it does
Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye
112
EVE OF DESTRUCTION
The eastern world it is exploding
Violence flaring, bullets loading
You're old enough to kill,
But not for voting
You don't believe in war
But what's that gun you're toting
And even the Jordan river has bodies floating
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
Don't you understand what I'm trying to say
Can't you feel the fears that I'm feeling today
If the button is pushed
There's no running away
There'll be no one to save
With the world in a grave
Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you boy
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulating
I'm sitting here just contemplating
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation
Handful of Senators don't pass legislation
When marches alone can't bring integration
When human respect is disintegrating
This whole crazy world is just too frustrating
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
Think of all the hate there is in Red China
Then take a look around you to Salma, Alabama
Ah, you may leave here for four days in space
But when you return it's the same old place
The pounding of the drums, the pride and disgrace
You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace
Hate you next-door neighbour, but don't forget to say grace
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
113
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE
Every breath you take, every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take
I’ll be watching you
Every single day, every word you say
Every game you play, every night you stay
I’ll be watching you
Oh can’t you see, you belong to me
How my poor heart aches with every step you take
Every move you make, every vow you break
Every smile you fake, every claim you stake
I’ll be watching you
Since you’ve been gone, I’ve been lost without a trace
I dream at night, I can only see your face
I look around but it’s you I can’t replace
I feel so cold and long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby, please
Oh can’t you see, you belong to me
How my poor heart aches with every step you take
Every move you make, every vow you break
Every smile you fake, every claim you stake
I’ll be watching you
Every move you make, every step you take
I’ll be watching you
114
EVERY LITTLE THING SHE DOES IS MAGIC
Though I’ve tried before to tell her
Of the feeling I have for her in my heart
Every time that I come near her
I just lose my heart as I’ve done from the start
Every little thing she does is magic
Every thing she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Do I have to tell the story
Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
It’s a big enough umbrella
But it’s always me that ends up getting wet
Every little thing she does is magic
Every thing she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
I resolved to call her up a thousand times a day
And ask her if she’ll marry me in some old fashioned way
But my silent fears have gripped me long before I reach the phone
Long before my tongue has tripped me must I always be alone
Every little thing she does is magic
Every thing she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Every little thing she does is magic
Every thing she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Every little every little thing
Every little thing she does is magic
Ki oh ki oh ki oh ki oh ...
Every little thing she does is magic
Magic magic magic magic
Way oh way oh
115
EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY
If we can solve any problem why do we lose so many tears
I saw you go again when the leading man appeared
It’s always the same scene
Can’t you see we’ve got everything going on and on
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
Go on and go free baby you’re too close to see
I feel your body move it doesn’t mean that much to me
It’s always the same scene
Can’t you see we’ve got everything going on and on
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
It’s always the same scene
Can’t you see we’ve got everything going on and on
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
Go on and go free baby you’re too close to see
I feel your body move it doesn’t mean that much to me
It’s always the same scene
Can’t you see we’ve got everything going on and on
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
116
EVERYBODY NEEDS A FRIEND
Trust in me I'll try to do
Everything to help you that I can
Broken wings can heal and mend again
Don't be afraid to cry your tears out loud
Everybody needs to have a friend
Show me now that I can give
Give to you the only love I have
When I see you're in misery
It makes me want to try and understand
Everybody needs a helping hand
It's only love that I can give
I'll give to you the only love I have
When I see you're so unhappy
It makes me want to try and understand
Everybody needs a helping hand
If everything should turn around
And it's me who feels so down and out
You could be the kind of company
To share the load and know how bad it feels
Everybody needs to have a friend
117
EVERY THING I DO I DO IT FOR YOU
Look into my eyes you will see
What you mean to me
Search your heart search your soul
And when you find me there you’ll search no more
Don’t tell me it’s not worth trying for
You can’t tell me it’s not worth dying for
You know it’s true everything I do
I do it for you
Look into you heart you will find
There’s nothing there to hide
Take me as I am take my life
I would give it all I would sacrifice
Don’t tell me it’s not worth fighting for
I can’t help it there’s nothing I want more
You know it’s true
Everything I do I do it for you , oh yeah......
There’s no love like your love
And no other could give more love
There’s nowhere unless you’re there
All the time, all the way
Look in to your heartbreak
Yeah........
Oh yeah....
Oh you can’t tell me it’s not worth trying for
I can’t help it there’s nothing I want more
Yeah I would fight for you I’d lie for you
What do I for you yeah I die for you
You know it’s true everything I do
Oh... I do it for you
118
EXCOMMUNICATE ME
When I was young and they packed me off to school
And they taught me how not to play the game
I didn’t mind if they groomed me for success
Or if they said I was just a fool
So I left there in the morning with their god tucked underneath my arm
Their half-arsed smiles and the book of rules
And I asked this god a question and by way of firm reply
He said I’m not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays
So I told my old headmaster I’m twenty-one who cares
Before I’m through I’d like to say to say my prayers
I don’t believe you you have the whole damn thing all wrong
He’s not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays
Well you can excommunicate me on my way to Sunday school
And have all the bishops harmonise these lines
How d’you dare to tell me that I’m my father’s son
When that was just a natural man’s birth
I’d rather look around me compose a better song
‘Cause that’s the honest measure of my worth
In your pomp and all your glory you’re a poorer man than me
As you lick the boots of death born out of fear oh ho ho ho
When I was young and they packed me off to school
And they taught me how not to play the game
I didn’t mind if they groomed me for success
Or if they said that I was just a fool
So I left there in the morning with their god under my arm
Their half-arsed smiles and the book of rules
Well you can excommunicate me on my way to Sunday school
And have all the bishops harmonise these lines
When I was young and they packed me off to school
And they taught me how not to play the game
I didn’t mind if they groomed me for success
Or if they said I was just a fool
So I told my old headmaster I’m twenty-one who cares
Before I’m through I’d like to say to say my prayers
Well you can excommunicate me on my way to Sunday school
And have all the bishops harmonise these lines
I don’t believe you you have the whole damn thing all wrong
He’s not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays
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FINAL COUNTDOWN
We're leaving together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To Earth who can tell
I guess there is no one to blame
We're leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again
It's the final countdown
We're heading for Venus
And still we stand tall
Cause maybe they've seen us
And welcome us all
With so many light years to go
And things to be found
I'm sure that we'll all miss her so
It's the final countdown
The final countdown
The final countdown
The final countdown
It's the final countdown
The final countdown
The final countdown
It's the final countdown
We're leaving together
The final countdown
Where love is to serve
It's the final countdown
It's the final countdown
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THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST
I would have given you all of my heart
But there's someone who's torn it apart
And she's taken almost all that I've got
But if you want I'll try to love again
Baby I'll try to love again but I know
The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
The first cut is the deepest,
Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed
When it comes to loving me she's the worst
But when it comes to being loved she's the first
That's how I know
The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
The first cut is the deepest,
Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed
When it comes to loving me she's the worst
But when it comes to being loved she's the first
I still want you by my side
Just to help me dry the tears that I've cried
'Cause I'm sure gonna give you a try
And if you want I'll try to love again
Baby I'll try to love again but I know
The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
The first cut is the deepest,
Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed
When it comes to loving me she's the worst
But when it comes to being loved she's the first
That's how I know
The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
The first cut is the deepest,
Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed
When it comes to loving me she's the worst
But when it comes to being loved she's the first
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FIRST SONG
I’ve written words to say I’m leaving
The words express the pain
Old songs lose young meanings
But the new ones they gain
From changes that I’ve been through
Or new ones I’m coming to
You were my first song
And I still ...
Well sure I still get feelings
To get back on the road
And I still get leanings
To forget the things I know
About myself and changes
Going through and coming to
You were my first song
And I still ...
Do words express true meaning
I mean the words are still the same
Old loves lose young feelings
But the new ones they gain
From changes that I’ve been through
And the new ones I’m coming to
You were my first song
And I still ...
Yes you were my first song and I still love you
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THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE
The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the empty skies, my love
To the dark and the empty skies
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hand
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love
That was there at my command
The first time ever I lay with you
And felt your heart beat close to mine
I thought our joy would fill the earth
And last till the end of time, my love
And last till the end of time
123
FOG ON THE TYNE
Sitting in a sleazy snack bar sucking
Sickly sausage rolls
Slipping down slowly slipping down sideways
Think I’ll sign off the dole
‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
Could a copper catch a crooked coffin maker
Could a copper comprehend
That a crooked coffin maker’s just an undertaker
One it takes to be your friend
‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
Tell it to tomorrow today will take it’s time
To tell you what tonight may bring
Presently we’ll have a pint or two together
Everybody do their thing
We can swim together we can have a wee wee
We can have a wet on the wall
If someone slips a whisper that his simple sister
Slap ‘em down and slap it on their smalls
‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
‘Cause the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine
The fog on the Tyne is all mine
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FOGGY FOGGY DEW
When I was a bachelor I lived all alone and I worked at the weaving trade
And the only thing I ever did wrong was courting a servant maid
I courted her in the Winter time and part of the Summer too
And the only thing I ever did wrong was to keep her from the foggy foggy dew
One night she came to my bedside as I lay fast asleep
She lay her head upon my bed and bitterly began to weep
She wept she moaned she tore out her hair crying “Oh what shall I do ?”
So all night long I held her in my arms just to keep her from the foggy foggy dew
So all the first part of the night how we did sport and play
And all the latter part of the night she in my arms did lay
And when the daylight did appear she cried I am undone
Oh shut your mouth you pretty fair maid for the foggy foggy dew has gone
Suppose that we should have a child it would make you laugh and smile
Suppose that we should have another it would make you think awhile
And if we had another my dear and another too
Why we must leave our kissing my dear and think of the foggy foggy dew
One night she starts to moan and cry says I what’s up with you
Says she I should never have been this way if it hadn’t been for you
I got my boots and my trousers on I got my neighbour too
But do what we could we could do her no good and she died in the foggy foggy dew
So I am a bachelor and with my son we work at the weaving trade
And every time I look into his eyes it reminds me of that fair young maid
He reminds me of the Wintertime and part of the Summertime too
And the many many times I held her in my arms just to keep her from the foggy foggy dew
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THE FOLKER
I am but a folker and my story’s seldom told
But I massacre folk music with a piece of German plywood and a capo
I do requests just the ones that have two chords in and I disregard the rest
But with Burt Weedon’s help one day I’ll be the best
Seeking twenty plus expenses I went looking for a gig
But I got no offers just a come on from a groupie in the tap room
I do declare I was feeling kind of randy so I had her then and there
Ooh la la way hey I didn’t care
I have sung the folk tradition with my finger in my ear
‘Cause half the tripe I’m singing I just can’t bear to hear (it’s a load of cobblers)
Bar after bar to the rhythm of an off key British one string thatched guitar
La la la la la la la la la la la
In “Sir Patrick Spens” I clean forgot the forty second verse
So I sung the twenty seventh twice as loud and in reverse and no one noticed
I laughed for hours ‘till the tears ran down my trouser leg I nearly wet my drawers
La la la la la la la la la la la
Right fol la toora loora laddie ay fol de ra shooly shooly rolly day
Wass fink of ‘e o ar cor blimey oy diddly oy diddly oy dee diddle oy de day
On the stage I stand a hero and a martyr to my trade
‘Cause I carry the reminders of every gig I’ve been to like last Sunday at the Irish club in Clifton
Where I fled in mortal fear with the imprint of a Guinness bottle stamped upon my ear
And a voice that shouted “no surrender here”
Nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya
Nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya
Now I’ve got me thing together man I’m really freaking out
Dropping black Old Holbourne resin mainlining on draught stout and having hang-ups
I’m like the rest I’ve got problems with my sex life since I fell and sprained my wrist
And my other songs are twice as bad as this
Ly la ly ly la ly ly ly ly ly ly la ly ly la ly ly ly ly ly ly ly ly ly ly
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FOLLOW ME UP TO CARLOW
Lofy MacCahir Og your face brooding o’er the old disgrace
Black Fitzwilliam stormed your place and drove you to the Fern
Grey said victory was sure soon the fire brand he’d secure
Until he met at Glen malure with Feach MacHugh O’Byrne
Curse and swear Lord Kildare feach will do what Feach will dare
Now Fitzwilliam have a care fallen is your star now
Up with halbert out with sword on we’ll go for by the Lord
Feach MacHugh has given his word follow me up to Carlow
See the swords of Glen Imayle flashing o’er the English pale
See all the children of the Gael beneath O’Byrne’s banners
Rooster of the fighting stock would you let a Saxon cock
Crow out upon an Irish rock fly up and teach him manners
Curse and swear Lord Kildare feach will do what Feach will dare
Now Fitzwilliam have a care fallen is your star now
Up with halbert out with sword on we’ll go for by the Lord
Feach MacHugh has given his word follow me up to Carlow
From Tassagart to Clonmore flows a stream of Saxon gore
Och great is Rory Oge O’More at sending loons to Hades
White is sick and Lane is fled now for black Fitzwilliam’s head
We’ll send it over dripping red to Liza and the ladies
Curse and swear Lord Kildare feach will do what Feach will dare
Now Fitzwilliam have a care fallen is your star now
Up with halbert out with sword on we’ll go for by the Lord
Feach MacHugh has given his word follow me up to Carlow
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FOR YOUR LOVE
For your love for your love for your love
I’d give you everything and more and that’s for sure (for your love)
I’d bring you diamond rings and things right to your door (for your love)
To thrill you with delight I’d give you diamonds bright
There’ll be days that will excite and make you dream of me at night
For your love
For your love
For your love
For your love for your love I would give the stars above
For your love for your love I would give you all I could
For your love for your love (for your love)
I’d give the moon if it were mine to give (for your love)
I’d give the stars and the sun before I live (for your love)
To thrill you with delight I’d give you diamonds bright
There’ll be days that will excite and make you dream of me at night
For your love
For your love
For your love
For your love
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FREE BIRD
If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me
For I must be travelling on now
‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see
But if I stayed here with you girl
Things just couldn’t be the same
‘Cause I’m free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can’t change
Bye bye baby it’s been sweet love
Though this feeling I can’t change
But please don’t take it so badly
‘Cause the lord know’ I’m to blame
But if I stayed here with you girl
Things just couldn’t be the same
‘Cause I’m free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can’t change
Lord help me I can’t change
Lord help me I can’t change
Lord help me I can’t change
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FREE ELECTRIC BAND
My father is a doctor, he's a family man
My mother works for charity whenever she can
They're both good clean Americans who abide by the law
They both stick up for liberty and they both support the war
My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down
For summer in a summer camp and winter in the town
My future in the system was talked about and planned
But I gave it up for music and a free electric band
I went to school in hand washed shirts with neatly ordered hair
And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air
And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn and keep
And they clipped the ear of any idle kid who went to sleep
My father organised for me a college in the east
But I went to California for the sunshine and the beach
My parents and my lecturers could never understand
Why I gave it up for music and the free electric band
Well, they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career
A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer
Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand
'Cause all I need is music and the free electric band
My father sent me money and I spent it very fast
On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class
Yes and we learned about her body, but her mind we didn't know
Until the deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show
She wanted to get married even though she never said
And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head
She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land
So I gave her up for music and the free electric band
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FREIGHT TRAIN
Freight train, freight train going so fast
Freight train, freight train going so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I am gone
When I die Lord, please bury me deep
Way down on old Chestnut Street
So I can hear old number nine
As she comes a-rolling by
Freight train, freight train going so fast
Freight train, freight train going so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I am gone
When I'm dead and in my grave
No more good times here I'll crave
Place the stones at my head and feet
And tell them all that I'm gone to sleep
Freight train, freight train going so fast
Freight train, freight train going so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I am gone
131
FÜRSTENFELD
Langsam find der Tag sei End und die Nacht beginnt
In der Kärntner Straß'n da singt oaner "Blowing in the wind"
Hot a grianes Reckerl an, steht da ganz verlurn
Und der Steffl der schaut obi auf den oarmen Steirer Buam
Wochenlang steh' i scho do,
Wochenlang plag i mi o
I spui mir die Finger wund
Und so guat "Hier kummt die Sun"
Doch es is zum narrisch wern,
Koana wui mi singa hern
Langsam kriag i wirklich gnua,
I frag mi was i da tua
I wui wieder ham,
I fui mi da so allan
I brauch' ka große Welt,
I wui ham nach Fürstenfeld
In der Zeitung da hams g'schrie'm,
Da gibt's a Szene da mußt hin
Was die woll'n das soll'n sie schrei'm,
Mir kann die Szene g'stolen blei'm
Da geh' i gestern in's U4,
Fangt a Dirndl o zum Red'n mit mir
Schwarze Lippen, grüne Haar
Da kannst ja Angst kriag'n, wirklich woar
I wui wieder ham,
I fui mi da so allan
I brauch' ka große Welt,
I wui ham nach Fürstenfeld
Niemals spiel' ich mehr in Wien
Wien hat mich garnet verdient
I spiel' höchstens noch in Graz, Sinnappel, Kirchen und Spinats
I brauch' kan Gürtel, i brauch' kann Ring
I wui z'ruck hinter'n Semmering
I brauch' nur das bisserl Geld
Für die Fahrt nach Fürstenfeld
I wui wieder ham,
I fui mi da so allan
I brauch' ka große Welt,
I wui ham nach Fürstenfeld
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THE FURZE FIELD
Well I have a furze field my own dearest jewel
Where all my fine pheasants do fly
And if you come shooting when pheasant’s in season
I’ll show you love how to get by
You bring your dogs with you your gun in your hand
All loaded and primed and at your command
When the pheasants take flight you must get them in sight
And shoot straight and you’ll hit them all right
Some do like hunting for sport and for fame
And shooting and fishing the gentleman claim
But I take delight in another wee game
And I’m up from the night ‘till the morning
Now I have a fishpond my own darling jewel
Where all the young fishes do swim
And if you come fishing in coarse fishing season
I’ll show you love how to cast in
You bring your rods with your nets in your hand
Your hooks and your angles and at the bank stand
And when you throw in your tackle the fishes will come
And swim straight in the palm of your hand
Some do like hunting for sport and for fame
And shooting and fishing the gentleman claim
But I take delight in another wee game
And I’m up every night ‘till the morning
Now I have a warren my own darling jewel
Where all the young conies do play
And if you come rabbiting when rabbit’s in season
I’ll show you the right proper way
You bring your dogs with you your nets in your hand
Your spade and your ferret all at your command
When you stick in your ferret the rabbits will bolt
Straight into the palm of your hand
Some do like hunting for sport and for fame
And shooting and fishing the gentleman claim
But I take to poaching another mans game
And I’m up every night ‘till the morning
Now I have a game park my own darling jewel
Where I keep the red deer at the bay
And if you come hunting when hunting’s in season
I’ll show you the right proper way
Your dog pack will prowl and your horse it will stand
All saddled and bridled and at your command
And the deer will bound off with a blow of the horn
And it’s tally ho lads ain’t it grand
Some do like hunting for sport and for fame
And shooting and fishing the gentleman claim
But I take to poaching another mans game
And I’m up every night ‘till the morning
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GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
Oh the games people play now every night and every day now
Never meaning what they say now never saying what they mean
For they while away the hours in their ivory towers
'Til they’re covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine
Shalalalalalalalaa shalalalalalalalee
I'm talking about you and me and the games people play
Well, we make one another cry, we break a heart and say goodbye,
We cross our hearts and we hope to die when the other was to blame.
Neither one of us will give in and don't you know, it's a sin
When you think of things that might have been, it's a goddamn shame.
Shalalalalalalalaa shalalalalalalalee
I'm talking about you and me and the games people play
People walking up to you, yeah singing glory hallelujah
And they try to sock it to ya in the name of the Lord
And they teach you how to meditate, read your horoscope and seal your fate
And it's almost "to hell with hate", come on, brother, get on board.
Shalalalalalalalaa shalalalalalalalee
I'm talking about you and me and the games people play
So look around you, tell me what you see, what is happening to you and me.
God gave us the serenity but he said "Remember who I am".
For you've thrown away your sanity for your pride and your vanity.
You turned your back on humanity and you don't give a damn.
Shalalalalalalalaa shalalalalalalalee
I'm talking about you and me and the games people play
Shalalalalalalalaa shalalalalalalalee
I'm talking about you and me and the games people play
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GASTHAUS IN ROETHENBACH
There is a gasthaus in Roethenbach
It's called the Kronenbrau
And it's where the F.C. Kickers live
But they're only drinking now
They like to fussball spielen
And often play a game
But they're better far at drinking
That's their real claim to fame
The kickers have a mascot
A giant of a man
They call him "Animal Hingson"
He'll bite you if he can
And when the Kickers have a match
He's in there heart and soul
But he always has to play right back
Right back behind the goal
But now that he is thirty years
And old age begins to loom
He'll have a new position
Left back in the changing room
There is a gasthaus in Roethenbach
It's called the Kronenbrau
And it's where the F.C. Kickers live
But they're only drinking now
135
GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Georgia Georgia the whole day through
Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind
I said Georgia a song of you
Comes as sweet and clear as moonlight through the pines
Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you
Georgia oh Georgia no peace I find
Just an old sweet song it's Georgia on my mind
Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you
Georgia oh Georgia no peace I find
Just an old sweet song it's Georgia on my mind
136
GET BACK
Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn’t last
Jo Jo left his home in Tucson Arizona
For some California grass
Get back! get back! get back to where you once belonged
Get back! get back! get back to where you once belonged
Sweet Loretta Modern thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she’s got it coming
But she gets in while she can
Get back! get back! get back to where you once belonged
Get back! get back! get back to where you once belonged
137
GIVE A LITTLE BIT
Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your love to me
I'll give a little bit
I'll give a little bit of my love to you
There's so much that we need to share
So send a smile and show you care
I give a little bit
I give a little bit of my life to you
So give a little bit
So give a little bit of your time to me
See the man with the lonely eyes
Oh take his hand he'll be surprised
Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your love to me
I give a little bit
I give a little bit of my life for you
Now's the time that we need to share
So find yourself we're on our way back home
Oh going home
Such a need,
Such a need to feel at home
Oh yeah we gotta see
Oh you gotta get a feeling
Oh you come along too
Come along feel it
Come along
Oh you come along too
Come along feel it
Take a look
Come along too,
Come along right,
Come along way
Sing it tonight
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GO YOUR OWN WAY
Loving you isn't the right thing to do
But how can I ever change things that I feel
If I could baby I'd give you my world
How can I when you won't take it from me
You can go your own way (you can go your own way)
You can call it under but don't you dare
You can go your own way
You can go your own way
Tell me why everything turned around
Back in the checking up self you won't do
If I could baby I'd give you my word
Open up everything's waiting for you
You can go your own way (you can go your own way)
You can call it under but don't you dare
You can go your own way
You can go your own way
You can go your own way (you can go your own way)
You can call it under but don't you dare
You can go your own way
You can go your own way
You can go your own way (you can go your own way)
You can call it under but don't you dare
You can go your own way
You can go your own way
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GOLD WEDDING BAND
And her breasts they hung like used condoms
Her dress it would make a marquee
A pound of cheese sits in her belly-button
But she is the girl for me
In the pub she squinted right at me
She said I’m the woman for you
And my eye is as good as it could be
Though it’s been years since I’ve seen out of two
And her breasts they hung like used condoms
Her dress it would make a marquee
A pound of cheese sits in her belly-button
But she is the girl for me
A cripple I’m not you derate me
Thought lame of the leg I’ll admit
But my acne has calmed down quite recently
And my fits have subsided a bit
And her breasts they hung like used condoms
Her dress it would make a marquee
A pound of cheese sits in her belly-button
But she is the girl for me
Last week on Sunday we married
And I’m happy as I could be
Though I close my eyes when we’re in bed
She’s a millionaire for a daddy
And her breasts they hung like used condoms
Her dress it would make a marquee
A pound of cheese sits in her belly-button
But she is the girl for me
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GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY
Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball
Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball
When you're rocking and a rolling
You can’t hear your mamma call
From the early early morning to the early early night
When I caught miss Molly rocking at the house of blue lights
Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball
When you're rocking and a rolling
You can’t hear your mamma call
My mum and papa told me son you'd better watch your step
If they knew about miss Molly I’d have to watch my papa myself
Good Golly miss Molly you sure like to ball
When you're rocking and a rolling
You can’t hear your mamma call
Going to a store gonna buy a diamond ring
When she hugs me and she kisses makes me ting a ling a ling
Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball
When you're rocking and a rolling
You can’t hear your mamma call
Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball
Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball
When you're rocking and a rolling
You can’t hear your mamma call
From the early early morning to the early early night
When I caught miss Molly rocking at the house of blue lights
Good golly miss Molly you sure like to ball
When you're rocking and a rolling
You can’t hear your mamma call
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GOOD OLD ROCK AND ROLL (MEDLEY)
When I was just a little boy you know my one and only joy
Was listening to that good old rock and roll
Now I’m just turned twenty three and if you wanna get a message to me
All you’ve gotta do is play that good old rock and roll
They’re really rocking in Boston in Philadelphia PA
Deep in the heart of Texas and down in ‘Frisco bay
Well all over St Louis and down in New Orleans
All the cats are gonna dance with sweet little sixteen
Sweet little sixteen she’s just got to have
About a half a million framed autographs
Her album’s filled with pictures she gets them one by one
She gets so excited won’t you look at her run
I’m gonna tell Aunt Mary ‘bout Uncle John
He say’s he’s got the blues but I know he’s having fun
Oh baby yeah baby woo hoo hoo maybe
We’re having us some fun tonight
Chantilly lace her pretty face her pony tail a hanging down
A little wiggle when you walk a giggle when you talk
That makes the world go round round round
Ain’t nothing in the world makes me feel so good
That makes me act so funny makes me spend my money
Make me feel so loose like a long legged goose
Ah baby that’s a what I like
Come on over baby whole lotta shaking going on
Come on over baby whole lotta shaking going on
I ain’t thinking whole lotta shaking going on
Well you can knock me down stamp on my face
Slander my name all over the place
Do anything that you wanna do
But oh ho honey lay off of my shoes
And don’t you step on my blue suede shoes
You can do any thing but lay off of my blue suede shoes
When I was just a little boy you know my one and only joy
Was listening to that good old rock and roll
Now I’m just turned twenty three and if you wanna get a message to me
All you’ve gotta do is play that good old rock and roll
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GOODBYE
Please don’t wake me up too late tomorrow comes
And I will not be late
Late today when it becomes tomorrow
I will leave and go away
Goodbye goodbye goodbye
Goodbye my love goodbye
Songs that lingered on my lips excite me now
And linger on my mind
Leave your flowers at my door I’ll leave them there
For the one who waits behind
Goodbye goodbye goodbye
Goodbye my love goodbye
Far away my lover sings a lonely song
And calls me to his side
When a song of lonely love invites me on
I must go to his side
Goodbye goodbye goodbye
Goodbye my love goodbye
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GOODBYE TO LOVE
I'll say goodbye to love
No one ever cared if I should live or die
Time and time again the chance for love has passed me by
And all I know of love is how to live without it
I just can't seem to find it
So I've made my mind up I must live my life alone
And though it's not the easy way I guess I've always known
I'd say goodbye to love
There are no tomorrows for this heart of mine
Surely time will lose these bitter memories
And I'll find that there is someone to believe in and to live for
Something I could live for
All the years of useless search have finally reached an end
Loneliness and empty days will be my only friends
From this day love is forgotten I'll go on as best I can
What lies in the future is a mystery to us all
No one can predict the wheel of fortune as it falls
There may come a time when I see that I've been wrong
But for now this is my song
And it's goodbye to love
I'll say goodbye to love
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GRANDE AFFAIR
Let’s take a bus who needs a car
Or let’s walk it’s not very far
I’m not hungry much now are you
Do you mind if I share yours with you
You see I’ve no money but I think that you knew
Remember the moon on the walls didn’t she shine
The taste of the sheets and the feel of the wine
Wasn’t I glad that you were once mine
In the Grande affair
Now I stay in the best hotels
Where white coated waiters attend me
And I look at the beautiful girls
Do they really believe they can bend me
I ride now seldom I walk
I see friends but I’d rather not talk
I order red then I change it to white
And go drunk to my bed at night
You brought me from darkness back into the light
Remember the moon on the walls didn’t she shine
The taste of the sheets and the feel of the wine
Wasn’t I glad that you were once mine
In the Grande affair
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GREAT BALLS OF FIRE
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will but what a thrill
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
I laughed ‘cause I thought it was funny
You came along and moved me honey
I changed my mind this love is fine
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
Kiss me baby ooh it feels good
Hold me baby yeah you’ve got to love me love a lover should
You’re fine so kind
I’m gonna tell this world that you’re mine mine mine
I chew my nails I twiddle my thumbs
I’m really nervous but it sure is fun
Come on baby you’re driving me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
Kiss me baby ooh it feels good
Yeah let me love you like a lover should
You’re fine so kind
I’m gonna tell this world that you’re mine mine mine
I chew my nails I twiddle my thumbs
I’m really nervous but it sure is fun
Come on baby you’re driving me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
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GREAT PRETENDER
Oh yes, I'm the great pretender
Pretending that I'm doing well
My need is such, I pretend too much
I'm lonely but no one can tell
Oh yes, I'm the great pretender
Laughing out loud like a clown
I seem to be what I'm not, you see
I'm wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you're still around
Too real is this feeling, when I've made believe
Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal
Oh yes, I'm the great pretender
I drift in a world of my own
I play the game but to my real shame
You've left me today on my own
Pretending that I'm not alone
Too real is this feeling, when I've made believe
Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal
Oh yes, I'm the great pretender
Pretending that I'm doing well
My need is such, I pretend too much
I'm lonely but no one can tell
I'm lonely but no one can tell
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THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE
So how do you do Private William McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside
And I’ll rest for a while in the warm summer’s sun
I’ve been walking all day and now I’m nearly done
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen sixteen
Well I hope you died quickly and I hope you died clean
Or Willy McBride was it slow and obscene
Did they beat the drums slowly did they sound the fifes lowly
Did the rifles fire o’er you as they lowered you down
Did the bugles sing last post in chorus
Did the Pipes play the flowers of the forest
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
And in some faithful heart does your memory shine
And though you died back in nineteen sixteen
To that loyal heart are you always nineteen
Or are you a stranger without even a name
For ever enshrined behind some glass pane
In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame
Did they beat ...
Well the sun’s shining now on these green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the ground
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard it’s still no man’s land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man’s blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned
Did they beat ...
And I can’t help but wonder now Willy McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause
Did you really believe that this war would end wars
The suffering the sorrow the glory the shame
The killing the dying it was all done in vain
For Willy McBride it’s all happening again
And again and again and again and again
Did they beat ...
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GROCER JACK
Pass the days into years
Yes eighty two brings many fears
Yesterday’s laughter turns to tears
His arms and legs don’t feel so strong
His heart is weak there’s something wrong
Opens windows in despair tries to breathe in some fresh air
His conscience cries get on your feet
Without you Jack the town can’t eat
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Go into town don’t let them down oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Go into town don’t let them down oh no no
The people that live in the town
Don’t understand he’s never been known to miss his round
It’s ten o’clock the housewives yell
When Jack turns up we’ll give him hell
Husbands moan at breakfast tables
No milk no eggs no marmalade labels
Mothers send their children out
To Jack’s house to scream and shout
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Come into town don’t let us down oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Come into town don’t let us down oh no no
It’s Sunday morning bright and clear
Lovely flowers decorate a marble square
People cry and walk away
And think about the fateful day
Now they wish they’d given Jack
More affection and respect
The little children dressed in black
Don’t know what’s happened to old Jack
Grocer Jack grocer Jack is it true what mummy says
You won’t come back oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack is it true what mummy says
You won’t come back oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack is it true what mummy says
You won’t come back oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack is it true what mummy says
You won’t come back oh no no
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GROOVY KIND OF LOVE
When I'm feeling blue all I have to do
Is take a look at you then I'm not so blue
When you're close to me I can feel your heartbeat
I can hear you breathing in my ear
Wouldn't you agree
Baby you and me
Got a groovy kind of love
Anytime you want to you can turn me on to
Anything you want to anytime at all
When I kiss your lips ooh I start to shiver
Can't control the quivering inside
Wouldn't you agree
Baby you and me
Got a groovy kind of love
We got a groovy kind of love
When I'm feeling blue all I have to do
Is take a look at you then I'm not so blue
When I'm in your arms nothing seems to matter
My whole world can shatter I don't care
Wouldn't you agree
Baby you and me
Got a groovy kind of love
We got a groovy kind of love
We got a groovy kind of love
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HAMPSTEAD FAIR
As I did walk by Hampstead Fair I came upon Mother Goose
So I turned her loose and she was screaming
And a foreign student said to me was it really true
There are elephants and lions too at Picadilly Circus
Walked down by the bathing pond to try and catch some sun
I saw at least a hundred schoolgirls sobbing into handkerchiefs as one
I don’t believe they knew I was a schoolboy
And the bearded lady said to me if you start your raving
And your misbehaving you’ll be sorry
And the chicken fancier came to play
With his long red beard and his sister’s weird she drives a lorry
Laughed down by the buttery I popped them in their holes
Four and twenty labourers were labouring and digging up their gold
I don’t believe they knew that I was Long John Silver
Saw Johnny Scarecrow make his rounds in his jet black Mac
Which he won’t give back stole it from a snowman
As I did walk by Hampstead Fair I came upon Mother Goose
So I turned her loose and she was screaming
Walked down by the bathing pond to try and catch some sun
I saw at least a hundred schoolgirls sobbing into handkerchiefs as one
I don’t believe they knew I was a schoolboy
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HANDLE WITH CARE
Been beat up and battered around
Been sent up but I’ve been shot down
You’re the best thing that I’ve ever found
Handle me with care
Reputation’s changeable
Situation’s tolerable
But baby you’re adorable
Handle me with care
I’m so tired of being lonely
I still have some love to give
Won’t you show me
That you really care
Everybody’s got somebody to lean on
Put your body next to mine and dream on
I’ve been fobbed off and I’ve been fooled
I’ve been robbed and ridiculed
In Baker Centres and night schools
Handle me with care
Been stuck in a pot, terrorised
Sent to meetings, hypnotised
Over-exposed, commercialised
Handle me with care
I’m so tired of being lonely
I still have some love to give
Won’t you show me
That you really care
Everybody’s got somebody to lean on
Put your body next to mine and dream on
I’ve been uptight and made a mess
But I’m cleaning up myself I guess
Oh the sweet smell of success
Handle me with care
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HANG ON SLOOPY
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town
And everybody yeah, tries to put my Sloopy down
Sloopy, I don't care what your daddy do
'Cause you know, Sloopy-Girl, I'm in love with you
And so I sing now
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
Sloopy let your hair down, girl, let it hang down on me
Sloopy let your hair down, girl, let it hang down on me
Come on Sloopy (Come on, come on)
Come on Sloopy (Come on, come on)
Come on Sloopy (Come on, come on)
Come on Sloopy (Come on, come on)
Well it feels so good (Come on, come on)
Well it feels so good (Come on, come on)
Shake it, shake it , shake it, Sloopy (Come on, come on)
Shake it, shake it , shake it, Sloopy (Come on, come on)
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
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HAPPY WE SHALL BE
In a cottage in a wood,
Little old man at the window stood,
Saw a rabbit running scared,
Knocking at his door,
Help me, help me, help he said,
Before the farmer shoots me dead,
Come little rabbit, come inside,
Happy we shall be.
Little old man at the window stood,
Saw a rabbit running scared,
Knocking at his door,
Help me, help me, help he said,
Before the farmer shoots me dead,
Come little rabbit, come inside,
Happy we shall be.
Saw a rabbit running scared,
Knocking at his door,
Help me, help me, help he said,
Before the farmer shoots me dead,
Come little rabbit, come inside,
Happy we shall be.
Knocking at his door,
Help me, help me, help he said,
Before the farmer shoots me dead,
Come little rabbit, come inside,
Happy we shall be.
Help me, help me, help he said,
Before the farmer shoots me dead,
Come little rabbit, come inside,
Happy we shall be.
Before the farmer shoots me dead,
Come little rabbit, come inside,
Happy we shall be.
Come little rabbit, come inside,
Happy we shall be.
Happy we shall be.
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HARD TO SAY I’M SORRY
Everybody needs a little time away
I heard her say from each other
Even lovers need a holiday
Far away from each other,
Hold me now
It’s hard for me to say I’m sorry
I just want you to stay
After all that we’ve been through
I will make it up to you I’ll promise to
And after all that’s been said and done
You’re just the part of me I can’t let go
Couldn’t stand to be kept away
Just for the day from your body
Wouldn’t wanna be swept away
Far away from the one that I love
Hold me now
It’s hard for me to say I’m sorry
I just want you to know,
Hold me now
I really want to tell you I’m sorry
I could never let you go
After all that we’ve been through
I will make it up to you I’ll promise to
And after all that’s been said and done
You’re just the part of me I can’t let go
After all that we’ve been through
I will make it up to you, I promise to
Love is gonna be the lucky one
When we get there gonna jump in the air
Don’t want to see this country nobody there
After all you know we really don’t care
Hold on I’m gonna take you there
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HASH ON THE TOWN
I see bodies fall and rising,
I know they will come quite soon,
Virgins from their maidenheads they're prising,
Many a young girl faces ruin.
Tie your virgins down,
The hash is on the town,
And their passion’s on the rise.
Hope you won't keep your legs together,
And on the feather bed you'll lie,
Then we can all go hell for leather,
Later we'll have another try.
Tie your virgins down,
The hash is on the town,
And their passion’s on the rise.
I hear botty burps a blowing,
I know the reason is quite clear,
Effects of Monday night are showing,
That they've all drunk too much beer.
Tie your virgins down,
The hash is on the town,
And their passion’s on the rise.
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HAVE A DRINK ON ME
In 1880 down a dusty road along came a miner with a big fat load
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
He was dressed in dirt from his head to his foot his hair was so black that it looked like soot
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
Well, he put away his load and he hitched it to the rail and he said old fellow it's the end of the
trail.
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
Well, he ambled down to the old saloon he said, I know it's early and it ain't quite noon
But, hey, hey everybody drink on me
Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
Well, I just got a letter from down in Tennessee it said, my uncle Donald left an oil well to me
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
I've been digging all my life and I nearly dug to hell but my uncle digs potatoes and he struck an
oil well
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
Well, black gold, yellow gold, I guess it's all the same take my tip and give up the mining game
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
Sell your shovel and your old long Johns you can make a fortune writing "I don't fail songs"
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
Have a drink, have a drink, have a drink on me everybody have a drink on me
Hey, hey everybody drink on me
157
HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there’s no one above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles that’s what you do
Oh, the morning sun in all it’s glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
And you can fill my heart with laughter
You make it better
Ease my troubles that’s what you do
There’s a love that’s divine
And it’s yours and it’s mine
Like the sun
At the end of the day
We should give thanks and pray to the one
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there’s no one above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles that’s what you do
There’s a love that’s divine
And it’s yours and it’s mine
Like the sun
At the end of the day
We should give thanks and pray to the one
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HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN
Have you ever loved a woman
So much you tremble in pain
Have you ever loved a woman
So much you tremble in pain
But all the time you know yeah
She bears another man’s name
But you just love that woman
So much it’s a shame and a sin
You just love that woman
So much it’s a shame and a sin
But all the time you know yes you know
She belongs to your very best friend
Have you ever loved a woman
You know you can’t leave it alone
Have you ever loved a woman
And you know you can’t leave it alone
Something deep inside of you
Won’t let you rape your best friend’s woman
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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN
Someone told me long ago
There's a calm before the storm
I know, it's been coming for some time
When it's over so they say
It'll rain a sunny day
I know shining down like water
I wanna know have you ever seen the rain
I wanna know have you ever seen the rain
Coming down on a sunny day
Yesterday and days before
Sun is cold and rain is hot
I know, been that way for all my time
You're forever comin' and goin'
Through the circle fast and slow
I know, I can't stop but wonder
I wanna know have you ever seen the rain
I wanna know have you ever seen the rain
Coming down on a sunny day
I wanna know have you ever seen the rain
I wanna know have you ever seen the rain
Coming down on a sunny day
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HE AIN’T HEAVY HE’S MY BROTHER
The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where
But I’m strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain’t heavy
He’s my brother
So on we go
His welfare is my concern
No burden is he to bear
We’ll get there
For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain’t heavy
He’s my brother
If I’m laden at all I’m laden with sadness
That everyone’s heart isn’t filled
With the gladness of love for one another
It’s a long long road
From which there is no return
While we’re on the way to there
Why not share
And the load
Doesn’t weigh me down at all
He ain’t heavy
He’s my brother
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HEAR ME CALLING
Hear me calling, hear me call on you
Hear me calling, hear me call on you
If you don’t come soon
I’ll know your love ain’t true
Hear me calling, hear me calling loud
Hear me calling, hear me calling loud
If you don’t come soon
I’ll be wearing a shroud
Hear me calling, hear me call on you
Hear me calling, hear me call on you
If you don’t come soon
I’ll know your love ain’t true
Hear me calling, hear me calling loud
Hear me calling, hear me calling loud
If you don’t come soon
I’ll be wearing a shroud
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HEART OF GOLD
I wanna live, I wanna give
I've been a miner for a heart of gold
It's these expressions I never give
That keeps me searching for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
Keep me searching for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
I've been to Hollywood, I've been to Redwood
I've crossed the ocean for a heart of gold
I've been in my mind, it's such a fine line
That keeps me searching for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
Keep me searching for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
Keep me searching for a heart of gold
You keep me searching and I'm growing old
Keep me searching for a heart of gold
I've been a miner for a heart of gold
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HEARTACHE TONIGHT
Somebody's gonna hurt someone
Before the night is through
Somebody's gonna come undone
There's nothing we can do
Everybody wants to touch somebody
If it takes all night
Everybody wants to take a little chance
Make it come out right
There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know
There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know, Lord, I know
Some people like to stay out late
Some folks can't hold out that long
But nobody wants to go home now
There's too much going on
This night is gonna last forever
Last all, last all summer long
Sometime before the sun comes up
The radio's gonna play that song
There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know
There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know, Lord, I know
There's gonna be a heartache tonight the moon's shining bright
So turn out the light and we'll get it right
There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know
Somebody's gonna hurt someone
Before the night is through
Somebody's gonna come undone
There's nothing we can do
Everybody wants to touch somebody
If it takes all night
Everybody wants to take a little chance
Make it come out right
There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know
There's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know, Lord, I know
We can beat around the bushes
We can get down on the floor
We can leave it in the parking lot
But either way there's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know
I know there's gonna be a heartache tonight a heartache tonight, I know
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HECTOR THE DOPE SNIFFING HOUND
Hector the dope sniffing hound
Used to be seen around town
With inspectors and pigs
He was one of the bigs
A bark from that nark sent you down
One night they was casing a joint
On point duty Hector did point
At the small herbal fag
Then he took a sly drag
Saying bow wow wow wow, what's the point
Hector the dope sniffing hound
Now among the butterflies and flies he flies, closing his eyes
Ladybirds and beetles passing him by
Lazy days and summer ways in skies cornflower blue
Hector defector frolicking in the dew
Hector the dope sniffing hound
Was out through the door in a bound
Now he wanders at large
Shouting out “What’s the charge
Afghan black or Mongolian brown ?”
Hector the dope sniffing hound
Was the most dogmatic dog in the pound
But now he’s a dropout
His eyes nearly pop out
Going round and around and around
Hector the dope sniffing hound
Among the butterflies and flies he flies, closing his eyes
Ladybirds and beetles passing him by
Lazy days and summer ways in skies cornflower blue
Hector defector frolicking in the dew
His number was PC K9
But now he's smashed all the time
Under floorboards and mats
He goes chasing cats
Instead of unearthing cocaine
Hector the dope sniffing hound
Has recently gone underground
He’s the only coyote
Who’s dropped pure peyote
Hector the dope sniffing hound
Hector the dope sniffing hound
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HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT
Take that ribbon from your hair.
Shake it loose and let it fall.
Lay it soft upon my skin,
Like the shadows on the wall.
Come and lay down by my side,
'Till the early morning light.
All I'm taking is your time,
Help me make it through the night.
I don't care, who's right or wrong,
I don't try to understand.
Let the devil take tomorrow,
Lord, tonight I need a friend.
Yesterday is dead and gone,
And tomorrow's out of sight.
It's so sad to be alone,
Help me make it through the night.
I don't care, who's right or wrong,
I don't try to understand.
Let the devil take tomorrow,
Lord, tonight I need a friend.
Yesterday is dead and gone
And tomorrow's out of sight.
I don't want to be alone,
Help me make it through the night.
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KING HENRY V AND THE KING OF FRANCE
Our King lay dreaming all on his bed a happy thought came to his head
That he should send to the King of France and cause his tribute to be paid
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
Come here to me my trusty page my trusty page come here to me
For you shall go to the King of France and fetch the tribute here to me
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
So then uprose his trusty page his trusty page then uprose he
And he has gone to the King of France and there he bowed on bended knee
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
What news what news my trusty page from the English King what news for me
Oh I have come from the English King to fetch the tribute due from thee
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
Your King is young and of tender years he is not like to our degree
So we will send him three tennis balls that with them he may play may he
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
So then uprose his trusty page his trusty page then uprose he
Until he came to the English King and there he bowed on bended knee
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
What news what news my trusty page from the King of France what news for me
Oh he has sent you three tennis balls that with them you may play may thee
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
Come here to me my trusty page my trusty page come here to me
And we will send him such English balls the King of France he ne’er did see
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
Recruit me Cheshire and Lancashire and men of Derby that are so free
But no married man or widow's son no widows curse shall lie on me
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
They recruited Cheshire and Lancashire and men of Derby that are so free
And when the numbers were counted o'er it came to fifty thousand men and three
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
They fought the French and they fought the King until they gained the victory
They brought the King down until he cried have mercy on my men and me
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
And if I pay this tribute owed then don't bring soldiers unto me
And the fairest lily in all of France to the Rose of England give I free
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
Our King lay dreaming all on his bed a happy thought came to his head
That he should send to the King of France and cause his tribute to be paid
Right fol de rol right fol de ray
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HERE COMES THE NIGHT
Wow, here it comes, here comes the night,
Here comes the night oh yeah
I can see right out my window
Walking down the street, my girl with another guy
His arms around her like it used to be with me
It makes me want to die
Yeah, here it comes, here comes the night
Here comes the night oh yeah
There they go it’s funny how they look so good together
Wonder what is wrong with me
Why can’t I accept the fact that she’s chosen him
And simply let them be, woh, woh, woh
Yeah, here it comes, here comes the night
Here comes the night oh yeah
She’s with him, he’s turning down the lights
And now he’s holding her the way I used to do
I can see her closing her eyes and telling him lies
Exactly like she told me too
Yeah, here it comes, here comes the night
Here comes the night oh yeah
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HESITATION BLUES
Nickel is a nickel
Dime is a dime
I got a house full of kids
One of them must be mine
Oh how long must I wait
Can I get you now oh no must I hesitate
Never been to heaven
But I've been told
Old Saint Peter knows
How to get it on
Oh how long must I wait
Can I get you now oh no must I hesitate
Hesitation stockings
Hesitation shoes
Lord almighty got them
Hesitation blues
Oh how long must I wait
Can I get you now oh no must I hesitate
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HEY JOE
Hey Joe where you going with that gun in your hand
Hey Joe I said where you going with that gun in your hand
I'm goin’ down to shoot my old lady
You know I caught her messing round with another man
I'm goin’ down to shoot my old lady
You know I caught her messing round with another man
And that ain't too cool
Hey Joe I heard you shot your woman down you shot her down down
Hey Joe I heard you shot your lady down you shot her down in the ground
Yes I did I shot her
You know I caught her messing round messing round town
Yes I did I shot her
You know I caught my old lady messing round town
And I gave her the gun and I shot her
Hey Joe where you going to run to now where you going to run to
Hey Joe where you going to run to now where you going to go
I'm going way down south way down to Mexico way
I'm going way down south way down where I can be free
Ain't nobody gonna find me
Ain't no hangman gonna he ain't going to put a rope around me
You'd better believe man now I gotta go now
170
HEY JUDE
Hey Jude don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
Hey Jude don't be afraid
You have found her now go and get her
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you can begin to make it better
And anytime you feel the pain hey Jude refrain
Don't carry the world upon your shoulder
And don't you know that it's the fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder
Hey Jude don't make it bad
You were made to go out and get her
The minute you let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
Better better better better Aaahhh
La la la la la la la la la la la hey Jude
La la la la la la la la la la la hey Jude
La la la la la la la la la la la hey Jude
La la la la la la la la la la la hey Jude
171
HEY TONIGHT
Hey tonight,
Gonna be tonight,
Don't you know I'm flying
Tonight, tonight
Hey, come on
Gonna chase tomorrow
Tonight, tonight
Gonna get it to the rafters
Watch me now
Jody’s gonna get religion
All night long
Hey, come on
Gonna hear the song
Tonight, tonight
Gonna get it to the rafters
Watch me now
Jody’s gonna get religion
All night long
Hey tonight,
Gonna be tonight,
Don't you know I'm flying
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight
172
HIDE IN YOUR SHELL
Hide in your shell 'cause the world is out to bleed you for a ride
What will you gain making your life a little longer
Heaven or hell was the journey cold that gave you eyes of steel
Sheltered behind painting your mind and playing joker
Too frightening to listen to a stranger
Too beautiful to put your pride in danger
You're waiting for someone to understand you
But you've got demons in your closet (you've got demons in your closet)
And you're screaming out stop it (you're screaming out stop it)
Saying life's begun to cheat you
Friends are out to beat you
Grab on to what you can scramble for
Don't let the tears linger on inside now
'Cause it's sure time you gained control
If I can help you If I can help you
If I can help you just let me know
All through the night as you lie awake and hold yourself so tight
What do you need a second hand movie star to tell you
I as a boy believed the only cure for pain was love
How would it be if you could see the world through my eyes
Too frightening the fire's becoming colder
Too beautiful to think you're getting older
You're looking for someone to give an answer
What you see is just illusion (what you see is just illusion)
You're surrounded by confusion (you're surrounded by confusion)
Saying life's begun to cheat you
Friends are out to beat you
Grab on to what you can scramble for
Don't let the tears linger on inside now
'Cause it's sure time you gained control
If I can help you If I can help you
If I can help you just let me know
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I gotta know
I wanna know you I wanna know you well let me know you
I wanna feel you oh I wanna touch you
Please let me near you please let me near you
Can you hear what I'm saying well I'm hoping I plead and I'm praying
I know what you're thinking see what you're seeing
Never never let yourself go hold yourself down
Hold yourself down why don't you hold yourself down
Why don't you listen and trust me oh listen please I know the way
A place there is no feeling a feeling to feel at last you've got to know
173
HIGH GERMANY
Oh Polly love oh Polly the rout has now begun
And we must go a marching to the beating of a drum
Go dress yourself all in your best and come along with me
And I’ll take you to the wars my love in high Germany
Oh Willy love oh Willy come list what I do say
My feet they are so tender, I cannot march away
Besides my darling Willy I am with child by thee
Not suited for the cruel wars in high Germany
I’ll buy for you a horse my love and on it you shall ride
And all my delight shall be in riding by your side
We’ll stop at every alehouse and drink when we are dry
Be true to one another get married by and by
Oh cursed be those cruel wars that ever they should rise
And out of merry England pressed many a man likewise
They took my true love from me likewise my brothers three
And sent them to the cruel wars in high Germany
My friends I do not value, my foes I do not fear
And since my love has left me I’ve wandered far and near
And when the baby it is born a crying on my knee
I’ll think of darling Willy in high Germany
174
HIGHWAY STAR
Nobody gonna take my car gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car it's gonna break the speed of sound
Oh it's a killing machine it's got everything
Like a driving power big fat tyres and everything
I love it and I need it I feel it
Yeah it's a wild machine
All right hold tight I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my girl I'm gonna keep her till the end
Nobody gonna have my girl she stays close on every bend
Ooh she's a killing machine she's got everything
Like a moving mouth body control and everything
I love her I need her I seed her
Yeah she turns me on
All right hold tight I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my head I've got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head now that I'm on the road again
Ooh I'm in heaven again I've got everything
Like a moving frown over control and everything
I love it I need it I feel it
Eight cylinders all mine
All right hold tight I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my car gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car it's gonna break the speed of sound
Oh it's a killing machine it's got everything
Like a driving power big fat tyres and everything
I love it and I need it I feel it
Yeah it's a wild machine
All right hold tight I'm a highway star
175
HIPPIES AND THE HAIRIES
It was late one night Mr. Jones came home
On the nine forty-seven from Euston O
He was big, he was fat and he wore a bowler hat
And he hated the hippies and the hairies O
As he stopped before his mock Tudor door
He called to his wife I am home dear O
The train was delayed, I'm late I'm afraid
Must have been the hippies and the hairies O
As he stepped inside a note he espied
The au-pair came to greet him O
Saying Madam is not here she has gone I fear
She has gone with the hippies and the hairies O
Go prepare for me the MGB GT
The Roller's not so speedy O
And I shall drive 'till I find her alive
Or dead with the hippies and the hairies O
So he rode North and he rode South
'Till he came to a field near Knebworth O
And there she did stand with a joint in her hand
Getting into Harper with the hairies O
What makes you leave your house and car
Your Habitat kitchen and your freezer O
And the children three, not to mention me
And go with the hippies and the hairies O
Oh what care I for my house and car
My Habitat kitchen and my freezer O
A fuse I've primed and the whole thing's timed
To explode in the middle of the Jimmy Young show
So now I'm free of the Bourgeoisie
And the cosmic twits at the golf club O
So Chorleywood you can stuff for good
I'm spaced with the hippies and the hairies O
176
HIT THE ROAD JACK
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more
Oh woman, oh woman, don't treat me so mean
You're the meanest old woman I've ever seen
I've guess if baby, you said so
I'll have to pack my things and go
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more
Now, baby, listen, baby, don't you treat me this a way
‘Cause I'll be back on my feet some day
Don't care if you do, 'cause it's understood
You ain't got no money, you just ain't no good
Well, I guess if baby, you said so
I'll have to pack my things and go (That's right)
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more
177
HOLE IN THE GROUND
There I was digging this hole
Hole in the ground so big and sort of round it was
There I was digging it deep
It was flat at the bottom and the sides were steep
When along came this bloke in a bowler
Which he lifted and scratched his head
He looked down the hole for all his blinkin’ soul
And he said “Do you mind if I make a suggestion ?”
Don’t dig there dig it elsewhere
You’re digging it round and it ought to be square
The shape of it’s wrong and it’s much too long
And you can’t put a hole where a hole don’t belong
Well there we was discussing this hole
Hole in the ground so big and sort of round it was
And there was him standing up there
All grand and official with ‘is nose in the air
So I gave ‘im a look sort of sideways
Which I lifted and scratched my ‘ead
I looked out of me ‘ole for all me blinkin’ soul and I said
I’m digging it here ‘cause I don’t want it there
And I’m digging it round ‘cause I don’t want it square
And if you disagree it doesn’t bother me
‘Cause that’s the place where the hole’s gonna be
There I was digging this hole
Hole in the ground so big and sort of round it was
There’s no hole now the ground’s all flat
And beneath it is the bloke in the bowler hat
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HOLY GROUND ONCE MORE
Fare thee well my lovely Dinah a thousand times adieu
We’re bound away from the holy ground and the girls we love so true
We’ll sail the salt seas over and we’ll return to shore
And still I live in hope to see the holy ground once more
Fine girl you are
You’re the girl I do adore
And still I live in hopes to see
The holy ground once more
And when we’re out a sailing and you are far behind
Fine letters I will write to you with the secrets of my mind
The secrets of my mind my girl you’re the girl I do adore
And still I live in hopes to see the holy ground once more
Fine girl you are
You’re the girl I do adore
And still I live in hopes to see
The holy ground once more
And now the storm is raging and we are far from shore
And the poor old ship is sinking fast and the riggings they are tore
The night is dark and dreary we can scarcely see the shore
And still I live in hopes to see the holy ground once more
Fine girl you are
You’re the girl I do adore
And still I live in hopes to see
The holy ground once more
And now the storm is over and we are safe on shore
And we’ll drink one toast to the holy ground and the girls we do adore
We’ll drink strong ale and porter and we’ll make the tap room roar
And when our money is all spent we’ll go to sea once more
Fine girl you are
You’re the girl I do adore
And still I live in hopes to see
The holy ground once more
179
HOMBURG
Your multi-lingual business friend
Has packed her bags and fled
Leaving only Nashville ashtrays
And the lipstick unmade bed
The mirror on reflection
Has climbed back upon the wall
For the floor she found descended
And the ceiling was too tall
Your trouser cuffs are dirty
And your shoes are laced up wrong
You’d better take off your Homburg
‘Cause your overcoat is too long
The town clock in the market square
Stands waiting for the hour
When it’s hands they’ve both turned backward
And on meeting will devour
Both themselves and also any fool
Who dares to tell the time
And the sun and moon will shatter
And the signposts cease to shine
Your trouser cuffs are dirty
And your shoes are laced up wrong
You’d better take off your Homburg
‘Cause your overcoat is too long
Your trouser cuffs are dirty
And your shoes are laced up wrong
You’d better take off your Homburg
‘Cause your overcoat is too long
Your trouser cuffs are dirty
And your shoes are laced up wrong
You’d better take off your Homburg
‘Cause your overcoat is too long
180
HONESTY
If you search for tenderness it isn't hard to find
You can have the love you need to live
But if you look for truthfulness you might just as well be blind
It always seems so hard to give
Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty is hardly ever heard
But mostly what I need from you
I can always find someone to say they sympathise
If I wear my heart out on my sleeve
But I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies
All I want is someone to believe
Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty is hardly ever heard
But mostly what I need from you
I can find a lover I can find a friend
I can have security until the bitter end
Anyone can comfort me with promises again
I know I know
When I'm deep inside of me don't be too concerned
I won't ask for nothing while I'm gone
But when I want sincerity tell me where else can I turn
Cause you're the one that I depend upon
Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty is hardly ever heard
But mostly what I need from you
181
HONKY TONK BANDUNG
I met a beer soaked Adrian in Bandung
He said we should go downtown for the night
We thought we’d make our first pit stop the Braga
He said a chicken lady would see me all right
It’s the honky tonk, honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the Marabu girls
The Marabu was just around the corner
A young girl came to me out of the blue
She said we don’t have music like the Lingga
But boy do I have something better for you
It’s the honky tonk, honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the Marabu girls
I took this lady home up to my bedroom
By this time I was pissed as could be
When she undressed I found it was a banshee
From now on I’ll just stick to drinking tea
It’s the honky tonk, honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the Marabu girls
It’s the honky tonk, honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the Marabu girls
182
HONKY TONK WOMAN
I met a conjureva down in Huston
She went and told me about something that I lack
I sat there in that tiny two way rebuff refusal
She couldn’t smile tells you when she saw my crack
It’s the honky tonk women
Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues
It’s the honky tonk women
Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues
She told me that she’d really like to see me
Standing in the corner standing all by myself
Muck to baby I’ve got no time for your easing
All I wanna do is turn round and be myself
It’s the honky tonk women
Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues
It’s the honky tonk women
Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues
She said you’d never leave me standing all by myself now
Oh babe yeah I have to find my head
I’m in love baby with somebody else dear
Always gonna see I’m standing way on the wings
It’s the honky tonk women
Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues
It’s the honky tonk women
Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues
183
HONKY TONK WOMAN
I met a gin soaked bar room queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
I had to lean her right across my shoulder
'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues
I laid a divorcee in New York city
I had to put up some kind of a fight
She laid me then she covered me in roses
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme gimme gimme the honky tonk blues
184
HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN
Gypsy woman told my mother
Before I was born
You've got a boy child coming
He'll be a son of a gun
He'll make pretty women
Jump and shout
Then the world'll wanna know
What it's all about
But you know I'm here
Everybody knows I'm here
Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here
I got a black cat bone
I got a mojo too
I got a jolly cockeroo
I'm gonna mess with you
I'm gonna make you girls
Lead me by my hand
Then they'll really know
I'm your hoochie coochie man
Well you know I'm here
Everybody knows I'm here
Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here
On the seventh hour
Of the seventh day
On the seventh month
Seven doctors did say
He was born for good luck
And that you'd see
I've got seven hundred dollars
And don't you mess with me
But you know I'm here
Everybody knows I'm here
Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here
185
HOT PATOOTIE
Whatever happened to Saturday night
When you left a job and you felt all right
Don't seem the same since cosmic light
Came into my life I thought I was divine
I used to gopher round to Chooku cove
And listen to the music on the radio
A saxophone was blowing on a rock and roll show
Reclined in the back seat really had a good time
Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll
My head used to swim from the perfume I smelt
My hands kinda fumbled with that black plastic belt
My taste of daily hook-up stick and that's when it melt
She gets her in my kitchen and she really was mine
Get back in bond with some hell at home
But the Hollywood scene and it's very last song
Their entourage was fairly trying to sing along
They're stepping it up really had a good time
Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie bless my soul I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll
Hot patootie I really loved that rock and roll
186
HOTEL CALIFORNIA
On a dark desert highway cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitis rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself this could be heaven or this could be hell
Then she lit up the candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor I thought I heard them say
Welcome to the hotel California
Such a lovely place such a lovely face
Plenty of room in the hotel California
Any time of year you can find it here
Her mind is Tiffany twisted she's got a Mercedes Benz
She got a lot of pretty boys that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard sweet summer's sweat
Some dance to remember some dance to forget
So I called up the captain please bring me my wine
He said we haven't had that spirit here since 1969
And still those voices keep calling from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night just to hear them say
Welcome to the hotel California
Such a lovely place such a lovely face
They’re living it up at the hotel California
What a nice surprise bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling drink pink champagne on ice
And she said we are all just prisoners here of our own device
And in the master's chambers they gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember I was running for the door
I had to find my passage back to the place I was before
Relax said the nightman we are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like but you can never leave
187
HOUND DOG
You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time
You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time
you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine
Well they said you were high class well that was just a lie
Yeah they said you were high class well that was just a lie
Well you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine
You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time
You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time
you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine
Well they said you were high class well that was just a lie
Yeah they said you were high class well that was just a lie
Well you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine
Well they said you were high class well that was just a lie
Yeah they said you were high class well that was just a lie
Well you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine
You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time
You ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time
you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine
188
HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy,
And God, I know, I'm one.
My mother was a tailor,
She sewed my new blue jeans,
My father was a gambling man
Down in New Orleans.
Now, the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time he is satisfied
Is when he's all a drunk.
Oh, Mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done,
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the house of the Rising Sun.
Well I’ve got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm going back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy,
And God, I know, I'm one.
189
THE HUNTER
They call me the hunter that's my name
A pretty little woman like you is my only game
I bought me a love gun just the other day
And I aim to aim it your way
Ain't no use to hide ain't no use to run
Cause I've got you in the sight of my gun
The first time I saw you standing on the street
I said to myself ain't she sweet
I got my love gun loaded with hundreds of kisses
As soon as I pull that trigger baby there will be no missing
Ain't no use to hide ain't no use to run
Cause I've got you in the sight of my gun
Ain't no use to hide ain't no use to run
Cause I've got you in the sight of my gun
The first time I saw you standing on the street
I said to myself ain't she sweet
I got my love gun loaded with hundreds of kisses
As soon as I pull that trigger baby there will be no missing
Ain't no use to hide ain't no use to run
Cause I've got you in the sight of my gun
190
HURTS SO GOOD
When I was a young boy
Said put away those young boy ways
Now that I’m getting older so much older
I long for those young boy days
With a girl like you, with a girl like you
Lord knows there are things we can do baby
Just me and you, come on and make it
Hurt so good
Come on baby make it hurt so good
Sometimes love don’t feel like it should
You make it hurt so good
Don’t have to be so exciting
Just trying to get myself a little bit of fun yeah
You ain’t as green as you are young
Hey baby it’s you, come on girl now it’s you
Sink your teeth right through my bones baby
Let’s see what we can do
Come on and make it
I ain’t talking no big deals
I ain’t made no plans myself
I ain’t talking no high heels
Maybe we could walk around all day long
Walk around all day long
Hurt so good
Come on baby make it hurt so good
Sometimes love don’t feel like it should
You make it hurt so good
Hurt so good
Come on baby make it hurt so good
Sometimes love don’t feel like it should
You make it hurt so good
191
I CAN HELP
If you got a problem, don't care what it is
If you need a hand, I'm gonna show you this
I can help, I got two strong arms I can help
It would sure do me good to do you good let me help
Was it bad two people get lonely, ain't nothing new
But a woman like you baby, should never have the blues
Let me help, I got two strong arms let me help
It would sure do me good to do you good let me help
When I go to sleep at night
You're always a part of my dream
Holding me tight and telling me everything
I wanna hear
Don't forget me, baby, all you got to do is call
You know how I feel about it, I can do anything at all
I can help, if your child needs a daddy I can help
It would sure do me good to do you good I can help
When I go to sleep at night
You're always a part of my dream
Holding me tight and telling me everything
I wanna hear
Don't forget me, baby, all you got to do is call
You know how I feel about it, I can do anything at all
I can help, if your child needs a daddy I can help
It would sure do me good to do you good I can help
192
I DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT
I can tell by your eyes
That you're probably been crying forever
And the stars in the sky
Don't mean nothing to you but a mirror
I don't wanna talk about about it
How you broke my heart
If I stay here just a little bit longer
If I stay here won't you listen
To my heart, oh my heart
If I stand all alone
Will the shadows hide the colours of my heart
Blue for the fears, black for the nights
Still the stars in the sky
Don't mean nothing to you but a mirror
I don't wanna talk about about it
How you broke my heart
If I stay here just a little bit longer
If I stay here won't you listen
To my heart, oh my heart
193
I DON’T WANT TO KNOW
I don't want to know the reason why our love keeps
Right on walking on down the line
I don't wanna stand between you love and money
I just want you to feel fine
I don't want to know the reason why our love keeps
Right on walking on down the line
I don't wanna stand between you love and money
I just want you to feel fine
Finally baby the truth has been told now
Take a listen to your spirit
It's crying out loud trying to believe
Oh you say you love me but you don't though
You've got me rocking and a reeling oh yeah
I don't want to know the reason why our love keeps
Right on walking on down the line
I don't wanna stand between you love and money
I just want you to feel fine
Finally baby the truth has been told
Now you tell me that I'm crazy
It's nothing that I didn't know trying to survive
Oh you say you love me but you don't though
You've got me rocking and a reeling oh yeah
Hey you know it's you oh yeah
I don't want to know the reason why our love keeps
Right on walking on down the line
I don't wanna stand between you love and money
I just want you to feel fine
I don't want to know the reason why our love keeps
Right on walking on down the line
I don't wanna stand between you love and money
Take a little time
194
I FEEL LIKE A MILLIONAIRE
Well I feel just like a millionaire
Well I feel just like a millionaire
Not a penny in my pocket that I could spare
Woh lord I feel just like a millionaire
When you’re raggedy and dirty broke and hungry too
Don’t have nobody to tell your troubles to
When you’re all alone way down by yourself
Oh you worry about that millionaire
Oh yes I feel just like a millionaire
I feel just like a millionaire
Not a penny in my pocket that I could spare
Woh yeah I feel just like a millionaire
Well I once was raggedy broke and hungry too
Meet all my friends nothing I could do
They’d all shake my hand and they’d all walk with me by
They wouldn’t leave me starving there to die
Oh yes I feel just like a millionaire
Yes I feel just like a millionaire
Not a penny in my pocket that I could spare
Woh yeah I feel just like a millionaire
Well I feel just like a millionaire
Well I feel just like a millionaire
Not a penny in my pocket that I could spare
Woh lord I feel just like a millionaire
195
I GO TO EXTREMES
Call me a joker call me a fool
Right at this moment I'm totally cool
Clear as a crystal sharp as a knife
I feel like I'm in the prime of my life
Sometimes it feels like I'm going too fast
I don't know how long this feeling will last
Baby it's only tonight
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in betweens
And if I stand or I fall it's only nothing at all
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Sometimes I'm tired sometimes I'm shot
Sometimes I don't know how much more I've got
Baby I'm heading over the hill
Maybe I set myself up for the kill
Tell me how much do you think you can take
Until the heart in you's starting to break
Sometimes it feels like it will
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
You can be sure when I'm gone
I won't be up there too long
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Out of the darkness into the light
Leaving the scene of the crime
Either I'm wrong or I'm perfectly right every time
Sometimes I lie awake night after night
Coming apart at the seams
Eager to please, ready to fight
Why do I go to extremes
And if I stand or I fall it's only nothing at all
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in betweens
You can be sure when I'm gone
I won't be up there too long
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
I don't know why I go to extremes
I don't know why I go to extremes
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I GOT YOU BABE
They say we’re young and we don’t know
Won’t find out until we grow
Well I don’t know baby if that’s true
‘Cause you got me and baby I got you baby
I got you babe, I got you babe
They say our love won’t pay the rent
Before it’s earned our moneys always spent
I guess that’s so we don’t have a lot
But at least I’m sure of all the things we got baby
I got you babe, I got you babe
I got flowers in the spring
I got you to wear my ring
And when I get sad you’re around
And if I get scared you’re always around
Don’t let them say your hair’s too long
I don’t care with you I can’t go wrong
Then put your little hand in mine
There ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb baby
I got you babe, I got you babe, I got you babe
I’ve got you to hold my hand and I’ve got you to understand
I’ve got you to walk with me I’ve got you to talk with me
I’ve got you to kiss goodnight I’ve got you to hold me tight
I got you and I won’t let go I got you to love me so
I got you babe, I got you babe, I got you babe
197
I HEAR YOU KNOCKING
You went away and left me long time ago
And now you're knocking on my door
I hear you knocking but you can't come in
I hear you knocking go back where you been
I begged you not to go but you said goodbye
And now you're tellin' me all your lies
I hear you knocking but you can't come in
I hear you knocking go back where you been
I told your baby sister too
That I would never go with you
I hear you knocking but you can't come in
I hear you knocking go back where you been
You’d better go back to your old used to be
‘Cause your kind of loving ain’t good for me
I hear you knocking but you can't come in
I hear you knocking go back where you been
198
I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU
No new year’s day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring, no song to sing
In fact, it’s just another ordinary day
No April rain, no flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up from these three words that I must sing to you
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
No summer’s high, no warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender August night
No autumn breeze, no falling leaves
Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies
No Libra sun, no Halloween
No given things to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old, some new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
199
I LAY DOWN
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Oh my soul
By still waters I lay down with the light
And I could feel I made peace with my soul
And I care not for the night, while my guiding star shone bright
By still waters I lay down, I lay down
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Oh my soul
After all that I’ve been hurt all my time
From dirty streams I’m not looking for my soul
In a magic pool divine, I will leave it far behind
By still waters I lay down, I lay down
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Oh my soul
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Oh my soul
In sorrow I did fly with the sun
Now mountains all around take care of my soul
And I’ve found that I’m possessed, where my spirit lay’s to rest
In deep sorrow I lay down, I lay down
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Oh my soul
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Lay down, I lay me down
Oh my soul
200
I LOOKED AWAY
She took my hand and tried to make me understand
That she would always be there
Well I looked away and she ran away from me today
I’m such a lonely man
It came as no surprise to me
She left me in misery
Seemed like only yesterday she made a vow
That she’d never go away
She took my hand and tried to make me understand
That she would always be there
Well I looked away and she ran away from me today
I’m such a lonely man
Her voice seemed to say
You love another man’s woman baby
I guess I’ll keep on sinning and
Loving you lord till my very last day
Well I looked away and she ran away from me today
I’m such a lonely man
201
I SAW HER STANDING THERE
Well she was just seventeen well you know what I mean
And the way she looked was way beyond compare
So how could I dance with another ooh
When I saw her standing there
Well she looked at me and I I could see
That before too long I'd fall in love with her
She wouldn't dance with another ooh
When I saw her standing there
Well my heart went boom when I crossed that room
And I held her hand in mine
Well we danced through the night and we held each other tight
And before too long I fell in love with her
I'll never dance with another ooh
When I saw her standing there
Well my heart went boom when I crossed that room
And I held her hand in mine
Well we danced through the night and we held each other tight
And before too long I fell in love with her
I'll never dance with another ooh
Since I saw her standing there
Since I saw her standing there
Since I saw her standing there
202
I SHOT THE SHERIFF
I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot the deputy
I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy
All around in my hometown
They're trying to track me down
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy
For the life of a deputy but I say
I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defence
I shot the sheriff and they say it is a capital offence
Sheriff John Brown always hated me
For what I do not know
Every time I plant a seed
He said, Kill it before it grows
He said Kill it before it grows but I say
I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defence
I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defence
Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town
All of a sudden I see sheriff John Brown
Aiming to shoot me down
So I shot, I shot him down and I say
I shot the sheriff - But I didn't shoot no deputy
I shot the sheriff - But I didn't shoot no deputy
Reflexes got the better of me
And what is to be must be
Every day the bucket goes to the well
One day the bottom will drop out
One day the bottom will drop out - I say
I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy
I shot the sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy
203
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS
Gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I’d better read between the lines
In case I need it when I’m older
This mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
Through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder
In my life there’s been heartache and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
Can’t stop now, I’ve travelled so far
To change this lonely life
I want to know what love is
I want you to show me
I want to feel what love is
I know you can show me, oh
I’m gonna take a little time
A little time to took around me
I’ve got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me
In my life there’s been heartache and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
Can’t stop now, I’ve travelled so far
To change this lonely life
I want to know what love is
I want you to show me
I want to feel what love is
I know you can show me, oh
I want to know what love is
I want you to show me
I want to feel what love is
I know you can show me
Let’s talk about love ( I want to know what love is )
Love, when you feel it inside
I want you to show me
I feel so much love ( I want to know what love is )
204
I WANNA WAKE UP WITH YOU
I wanna wake up with you
I wanna be there when you open your eyes
I want you to be the first thing that I see
I wanna wake up with you
I wanna lay by your side baby
I wanna feel every beat of your heart
And throughout the night I wanna hold you tight
I wanna wake up with you
All the love inside of me has been sleeping
Waiting ‘till the right one came along
You can share the love that I’ve been keeping
You can put the music to my song
I wanna wake up with you
I wanna reach out and know that you’re there
I want you to be the first thing that I see
I wanna wake up with you
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
And throughout the night I wanna hold you tight
I wanna wake up with you
All the love inside of me has been sleeping
Waiting ‘till the right one came along
You can share the love that I’ve been keeping
You can put the music to my song
I wanna wake up with you
I wanna reach out and know that you’re there
I wanna you to be the first thing that I see
I wanna wake up with you
I wanna lay by your side baby
I wanna feel every beat of your heart
And throughout the night I wanna hold you tight
I wanna wake up with you
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,
I wanna you to be the first thing that I see
I wanna wake up with you
205
I WILL
Who knows how long I've loved you
You know I love you still
Will I wait a lonely lifetime
If you want me to, I will
For if I ever saw you
I didn't catch your name
But it never really mattered
I will always feel the same
Love you forever and forever
Love you with all my heart
Love you whenever we're together
Love you when we're apart
And when at last I find you
Your song will fill the air
Sing it loud so I can hear you
Make it easy to be near you
For the things you do endear you to me
Oh you know I will,
I will
206
I’D LOVE YOU TO WANT ME
When I saw you standing there
I ‘bout fell out of my chair
And when you moved your mouth to speak
I felt the blood go to my feet
Now it took time for me to know
What you tried so not to show
Something in my soul just cries
I feel the want in your blue eyes
Baby I’d love you to want me
The way that I want you
The way that it should be
Baby you’d love me to want you
The way that I want to
If you’d only let it be
You told yourself a year ago
You’d never let your feelings show
The obligations that you made
For the title that they gave
Baby I’d love you to want me
The way that I want you
The way that it should be
Baby you’d love me to want you
The way that I want to
If you’d only let it be
Now it took time for me to know
What you tried so not to show
Something in my soul just cries
I feel the want in your blue eyes
Baby I’d love you to want me
The way that I want you
The way that it should be
Baby you’d love me to want you
The way that I want to
If you’d only let it be
207
I’LL BE TRUE TO MY LOVE
There was a Lord in the north country bow down bow down to me
There was a Lord in the north country and he had daughters one two three
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
A young man came a courting them bow down bow down to me
A young man came a courting them and he’s made the choice of the youngest one
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
He’s offered the youngest a gay gold ring bow down bow down to me
He’s offered the youngest a gay gold ring but he never gave the eldest a single thing
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
Oh sister sister will you walk about bow down bow down to me
Oh sister sister will you walk about to see the ships a going sailing round
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
They waked until they came to the river’s brim bow down bow down to me
They waked until they came to the river’s brim and the eldest’s pushed the youngest in
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
Oh sister sister will you lend me your hand bow down bow down to me
Sister sister will you lend me your hand and you can have my houses and land
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
I wouldn’t give you the finger of my glove bow down bow down to me
I wouldn’t give you my hand nor glove and I will steal your only love
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
Away she sank and away she swam bow down bow down to me
Away she sank and away she swam and into the miller’s fishpond she ran
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
The miller came out with a long gaff hook bow down bow down to me
The miller came out with a long gaff hook and he fished young Polly out of the brook
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
He’s robbed her of her gay gold ring bow down bow down to me
He’s robbed her of her gay gold ring and into the ditch he’s flung her again
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
The miller was hung at his own mill gate bow down bow down to me
The miller was hung at his own mill gate and the oldest sister was burned at the stake
I’ll be true to my love if my love’ll be true to me
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I'LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT
Close your eyes close the door
You don't have to worry anymore
I'll be your baby tonight
Shut the light shut the shade
You don't have to be afraid
I'll be your baby tonight
Oh well that mocking bird is gonna stay away
We're gonna forget it
Big fat moon's gonna shine like a spoon
We're gonna let it you won't regret it
Take your shoes off do not fear
Bring that bottle over here
I'll be your baby tonight
Be my baby
Be my baby
Be my baby
Be my baby
I'll be your baby tonight
209
I'M MOVING ON
I warned you baby from time to time
But you wouldn't listen
You don't pay me no mind
So I'm moving on
Now baby don't moan
I'm rolling on
You've broken your vow and it's all over now
So I'm moving on
That big eight wheeler rolling down the track
With your true lovin' daddy ain't coming back
Well I'm moving on I'm rolling on
You were flying too high for my little sky
So I'm moving on
Some day baby when you've had your play
You're gonna want your daddy but your daddy will say
Keep moving on keep rolling on
I'm through with you too bad you're blue
But I'm moving on
Mr Engineer take your throttle in hand
And take me down to that southern land
Keep moving on keep rolling on
You can ease my mind if you get me there on time
I'm moving on
Mr fireman please won't you listen to me
Cause I've got a burning (pretty?) woman in Tennessee
Keep moving on keep rolling on
She's fine as could be and she's good for me
Keep moving on
I'm gonna move
I'm gonna move
I'm gonna move
I'm gonna move
210
ICARUS
I never wanted to fly high, I was too fond of walking
And when you said you’d touched the sky, thought it was your way of talking
Then you said you’d built some wings, found out how it could be done
But I was doubtful ‘bout everything, never thought you’d reach the sun
You were so clever with your hands, I’d watched you for hours
The glue and the rubber bands, feathers and lace and flowers
And the finished wings they glowed so bright, like some bird of glory
I began to envy you your flight, like some old hero story
You tried to get me to go with you, tried all ways to dare me
But I looked up at the skies so blue, and I thought the height would scare me
But I carried your wings for you, up the path to the cliff face
Kissed you goodbye and watched your eyes, already bright with sunlight
And it was grand at the start, to watch you soaring higher
But there was a pain deep in my heart, the wings seemed tipped with fire
Like a seagull or a lark, rising up forever
Like an ember or some spark, rising from earth to heaven
And I believe you touched the sun, I believed everything you told me
You’d done a thing no man has done, you touched the stars to please me
And then I saw the wide wings fail, and I saw the feathers falter
Watched you drop like a ball of gold, into the wide green water
For some are born to fly high, some are born to follow
And some are born to touch the sky, while some walk in the hollow
And as I watched your body fall, I knew that really you had won
For your grave was not the earth, but the reflection of the sun
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IF I SAID YOU HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel
Would you treat me like a devil tonight
If I was dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come and quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
Now we could talk all night about the weather
Tell you about my friends out on the coast
I could ask a lot of crazy questions
Or ask you what I really wanted to know
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel
Would you treat me like a devil tonight
If I was dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come and quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
Now rain can fall so soft against the window
The sun can shine so bright up in the sky
But daddy always told me don’t make small talk
He said come on out and say what’s on your mind
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
If I swore you were an angel
Would you treat me like a devil tonight
If I was dying of thirst
Would your flowing love come and quench me
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me
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IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW
If you leave me now
You’ll take away the biggest part of me
Ooh no baby please don’t go
And if you leave me now
You’ll take away the very heart of me
Ooh no baby please don’t go
Ooh girl I just want you to stay
A love like ours is love that’s hard to find
How could we let it slip away
We’ve come too far to leave it all behind
How could we end it this way
When tomorrow comes then we’ll both regret
The things we said today
A love like ours is love that’s hard to find
How could we let it slip away
We’ve come too far to leave it all behind
How could we end it this way
When tomorrow comes then we’ll both regret
The things we said today
If you leave me now
You’ll take away the biggest part of me
Ooh no baby please don’t go
Ooh girl just got to have you by my side
Ooh no baby please don’t go
Ooh mama I just got to have your love inside me
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IMAGINE
Imagine there’s no heaven it’s easy if you try
No hell below us above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today ah
Imagine there’s no countries it isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger a brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
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AN INNOCENT MAN
Some people stay far away from the door cause there's a chance of it opening up
They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it's just passers by
Some people live with the fear of the touch and the anger of how to play the fool
They won't listen to anyone so nobody tells them the lie
I know you're only protecting yourself I know you're thinking there's somebody else
Don't want to hurt you but I'm not above making up for the love
You've been denying you could ever feel
I'm not above doing anything to restore your faith if I can
Some people see through the eyes of the old only angry to look at the young
Only willing to hear you cry because I am an innocent man
I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am
Some people say they will never believe another promise they hear in the dark
Because they only remember too well they heard somebody tell them before
Some people sleep all alone every night instead of taking their lover to bed
Some people find that it's easier to hate than to wait any more
I know you don't wanna hear what I say I know you're gonna keep turning away
I've been there and if I can survive I can keep you alive
I'm not above going through it again not above being cool for a while
If you're true to me I'll be spared some people run from a possible fight
Some people figure they can never win although this is a fight I can lose
The accused is an innocent man
I am an innocent man oh yes I am an innocent man
You know you only hurt yourself by the spites but you should rather be a father tonight
That's your decision but I'm not below anybody I know if there's a chance of resurrecting the love
Not above going back to the start to find out where the heartache began
Some people hope for a miracle cure some people just accept the world as it is
Me I'm not willing to lay down and die because I am an innocent man
I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am an innocent man
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IT’S A HEARTACHE
It’s a heartache, nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it’s too late
Hits you when you’re down
It’s a fool’s game, nothing but a fool’s game
Standing in the cold rain, feeling like a clown
It’s a heartache, nothing but a heartache
Love him till your arms break
Then he lets you down
It ain’t right with love to share
When you find he doesn’t care for you
It ain’t wise to need someone
As much as I depend on you
It’s a heartache, nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it’s too late
Hits you when you’re down
It’s a fool’s game, nothing but a fool’s game
It ain’t right with love to share
When you find he doesn’t care for you
It ain’t wise to need someone
As much as I depend on you
It’s a heartache, nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it’s too late
Hits you when you’re down
It’s a fool’s game, noting but a fool’s game
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IT’S ALL OVER NOW
Baby used to stay yeah all night long
She made me weak you know she’s done me wrong
She held my eyes open and that’s no lie
Still the tables are turning now it’s her turn to cry
Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now
Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now
I used to wake in the morning get my breakfast in bed
But now I’ve got nothing to ease my aching head
And now she’s here and there with every single man in town
Still trying to take me for that same old crap
Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now
Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now
Still see her running round with every single man in town
Spend all of my money playing her fast game
It used to put me down it’s just pathetic how she cried
But the tables are turning now it’s her turn to cry
Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now
Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now
Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now
Because I used to love her, but it’s all over now
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IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME
What's the matter with the clothes I'm wearing
Can't you see that your tie's too wide
Maybe I should buy some old tab collars
Welcome back to the age of jive
Where have you been hiding out lately honey
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money
Everybody's talking 'bout the new sound funny
But it's still rock and roll to me
What's the matter with the car I'm driving
Can't you tell that it's out of style
Should I get a set of white wall tyres
Are you going to cruise the miracle mile
Nowadays you can't be too sentimental
Your best bet's a true baby blue continental
Hot funk cool punk even if it's old junk
It's still rock and roll to me
Oh it doesn't matter what they say in the papers
Cause it's always been the same old scene
There's a new band in town
But you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine
Aimed at your average teen
How about a pair of pink sidewinders
And a bright orange pair of pants
You could really be a Beau Brummel baby
If you just give it half a chance
Don't waste your money on a new set of speakers
You get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers
Next phase new wave dance craze anyways
It's still rock and roll to me
What's the matter with the crowd I'm seeing
Don't you know that they're out of touch
Well should I try to be a straight A's student
If you are then you think too much
Don't you know about the new fashion honey
All you need are looks and a whole lotta money
It's the next phase new wave dance craze anyways
It's still rock and roll to me
Everybody's talking 'bout the new sound funny
But it's still rock and roll to me
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IT’S TOO LATE
Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time
There’s something wrong here there can be no denying
One of us is changing or maybe we just stopped trying
And it’s too late baby now it’s too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died
And I just can’t hide and I just can’t fake it
It used to be so easy living here with you
You were light and breezy and you knew just what to do
Now you look so unhappy and I feel like a fool
And it’s too late baby now it’s too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died
And I just can’t hide and I just can’t fake it
There’ll be good times ahead for me and you
But we just can’t stay together don’t you feel it too
Still I’m glad for what we had and how I once loved you
And it’s too late baby now it’s too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died
And I just can’t hide and I just can’t fake it
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JACK AND ANNABEL AT THE SEASIDE
Annabell were waiting in the shadow of the pier
You could see the sea through her see through blouse
And smell the smell of beer
Flasher Jack came walking ‘till he reached where she were hid
Annie said “Eh Jack yer late” and straight away Jack did
But that’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee
I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be
Annie said “What’s that your smoking? that’s a funny smell”
Flasher said “I’ll tell yer when I marry you Annabell”
“Just a little puff Jack, I just want to see
Ooh I’m not feeling myself” Jack said “No your feeling me”
But that’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee
I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be
Annie said “Give over,” Flasher said “Give in
For I do like to see beside the B side bay the A side of your skin
Let me be a gay Don Juan behind the harbour wall
‘Cause it’s not true what people say, done one you’ve done them all”
That’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee
I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be
Flasher said “I love yer” Annie said “Go on
But there’s something about you Jack I like, that I can’t put my finger on
I feel as if I’m falling, push me over the edge
‘Cause I can’t stop it once I feel the sin edge if the wedge”
But that’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee
I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be
Constable McLagen came creeping up the sand
“I’m gonna do you for possession lad, I can see it in your hand
Anything you answer now will be taken down by me”
Annabel said “Underpants” and Flasher said “Feel free”
But that’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee
I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be
But that’s all right in the silver night in the season of whoopee
I’m never uptight in Scarborough I’m as happy as can be
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JACKIE WILSON SAID
Da da da da da
Jackie Wilson said it was "reet petite"
Kinda love you got knocks me off my feet
Let it all hang out, oh let it all hang out
And you know I'm so wired up
Don't need no coffee in my cup
Let it all hang out let it all hang out
Watch this Ding a ling a ling, ding a ling a ling a ling
Ding a ling a ding, ding a ling a ling a ding, do da do da
I'm in heaven, I’m in heaven
I'm in heaven when you smile
When you smile when you smile when you smile
And when you walk across the road
You make my heart go boom boom boom
Let it all hang out baby let it all hang out
And every time you look that way
Honey chile you make my day
Let it all hang out
Like the man said let it all hang out
Watch this Ding a ling a ling, ding a ling a ling a ling
Ding a ling a ding, ding a ling a ling a ding, do da do da
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JACOB'S LADDER
I met a fan dancer in south side Birmingham
She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand
And now he's trying to save me when I'm doing all right the best that I can
Just another fallen angel trying to get through the night
Step by step one by one higher and higher
Step by step rung by rung I'm climbing Jacob's ladder
Coming over the airwaves a man say's I'm overdue
Sing along send some money join the chosen few
Hey mister I'm not in a hurry and I don't want to be like you
All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today
Step by step one by one higher and higher
Step by step rung by rung I'm climbing Jacob's ladder
All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today
Step by step one by one higher and higher
Step by step rung by rung I'm climbing Jacob's ladder
Climbing and climbing
Step by step one by one higher and higher
Step by step rung by rung I'm climbing Jacob's ladder
222
JAILHOUSE ROCK
Warden threw a party in the county jail
Prison man was there and they began to wail
The band was jumping and the joint began to swing
You should have heard them knocked out jailbirds sing
Let's rock everybody let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock
Spider Murphy playing the tenor saxophone
Little Joe was blowing on the slide trombone
Drummer Corchinelli going crash boom bang
The whole rhythm section was a purple gang
Let's rock everybody let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock
Number forty seven said to number three
You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see
I'd sure be delighted with your company
Come on and do the jailhouse rock with me
Let's rock everybody let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock
Centre sack was sittin’ on a block of stone
Over in the corner weeping all alone
The warden said nobody don't you be no square
If you can't find a partner use a wooden chair
Let's rock everybody let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock
Shifty Head was saying folks for heaven's sake
The warden's looking out a chance to make a break
His brother turned to Shifty and he said nix sticks
I want to stick around while I get my kicks
Let's rock everybody let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock
Dancing to the jailhouse rock
Dancing to the jailhouse rock
Dancing to the jailhouse rock
Dancing to the jailhouse rock
Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock
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J.C.
Five foot nine, he’s divine
He turns water into wine
Has anybody seen J.C.
He’s the greatest he’s real cool
He’s just walked across my pool
Has anybody seen J.C.
If you should run into a five nine Jew
Head all covered in thorns
Turning water into wine
Well you bet your life that he’s divine
Mother Mary she’s the most
She got banged by the Holy Ghost
Has anybody seen J.C.
Five foot nine, he’s divine
He turns water into wine
Has anybody seen J.C.
He’s the greatest he’s real cool
He’s just walked across my pool
Has anybody seen J.C.
If you should run into a five nine Jew
Head all covered in thorns
Turning water into wine
Well you bet your life that he’s divine
Mother Mary she’s the most
She got banged by the Holy Ghost
Has anybody seen J.C.
Not since Ascension
Has anybody seen J.C.
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JEANS ON
When I wake up in the morning light
I put on my jeans and I feel all right
I pull my blue jeans on,
I pull my old blue jeans on
I pull my blue jeans on,
I pull my old blue jeans on
It's the weekend and I know that you're free
So pull on your jeans and come on out with me
I need to have you near me,
I need to feel you close to me
I need to have you near me,
I need to feel you close to me
You and me we'll go motorbike riding
In the sun and the wind and the rain
I got money in my pocket, the tiger in my tank
And I'm King of the Road again
I meet you in the usual place
I can’t wait to see such a pretty face
I need to have your near me,
I need to feel you close to me
I need to have your near me,
I need to feel you close to me
You and me we'll go motorbike riding
In the sun and the wind and the rain
I got money in my pocket, the tiger in my tank
And I'm King of the Road again
When I wake up in the morning light
I put on my jeans and I feel all right
I pull my blue jeans on,
I pull my old blue jeans on
I pull my blue jeans on,
I pull my old blue jeans on
225
JEZAMINE
What am I supposed to do with a girl like Jezamine
Though my eyes are open wide she’s made my life a dream
When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living
A butterfly so free and so wild and so full of living
When Jezamine stays though time goes fast this is my world at last
Beautiful days lost in her eyes but then the whole world dies
When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living
What can you say when a girl doesn’t want to know
She’s too far away And she makes my life a dream
When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living
A butterfly so free and so wild and so full of living
When Jezamine stays though time goes fast this is my world at last
Beautiful days lost in her eyes but then the whole world dies
When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living
What can you say when a girl doesn’t want to know
She’s too far away And she makes my life a dream
When Jezamine cries what am I supposed to do with a girl like Jezamine
Though my eyes are open wide she’s made my life a dream
La la la l a la la l a la la l a la la l a la la l a la
When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living
La la la l a
When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living
A butterfly so free and so wild and so full of living
When Jezamine stays though time goes fast this is my world at last
Beautiful days lost in her eyes but then the whole world dies
When Jezamine goes a part of me knows I’m not really living
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JOCK STUART
Oh my name is Jock Stuart
I’m a canny goin’ man
But a rovin’ young fellow I’ve been
So be easy and free when you’re drinking with me
I’m a man you’ll not meet every day
Well I’ve ta’en out my gun
With my dogs I did go
Down by the banks of the Tay
So be easy and free when you’re drinking with me
I’m a man you’ll not meet every day
I’ve got acres of land
I’ve got men at command
But my money is easily spent
So be easy and free when you’re drinking with me
I’m a man you’ll not meet every day
So be easy and free when you’re drinking with me
I’m a man you’ll not meet every day
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JOHN OF DREAMS
When midnight sings the people homeward tread
Seek now your blanket and your feather bed
Home is the rover his journey over
Yield up the night time to old John o'dreams
Yield up the night time to old John o'dreams
Across the hill the sun has gone astray
Tomorrow’s cares are many dreams away
The stars are flying your candle's dying
Yield up the darkness to old John o'dreams
Yield up the darkness to old John o'dreams
Both man and master in the night are one
All things are equal when the day is done
The prince and the ploughman the slave and the freeman
All find their comfort in old John o'dreams
All find their comfort in old John o'dreams
Now as you sleep the dreams come winging clear
The hawks of morning cannot harm you here
Sleep is your river float on forever
And for your boatman choose old John o'dreams
And for your boatman choose old John o'dreams
228
JOHNNY B GOODE
Way down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Back up in the woods amongst the evergreens
In an old log cabin made of earth and wood
There lived a country boy name of Johnny B Goode
Who never ever learned to read and write so well
But he could play a guitar just like a ringing a bell
Oh go, go Johnny, go, go, go,
Go Johnny, go, go, go,
Go Johnny, go, go, go,
Go Johnny, go, go, go, go, go,
Johnny B Goode
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Go sit beneath the trees by the railroad track
Old engineers would say, sitting in the shade
Strumming with the music that the drivers made
People passing by the would stop and say
Oh my but that little country boy could play
Oh go, go Johnny, go, go, go,
Go Johnny, go, go, go,
Go Johnny, go, go, go,
Go Johnny, go, go, go, go, go,
Johnny B Goode
Well his mother told him someday you will be a man
And you will be the leader of a big rock band
All kinds of people’ll come from miles around
To hear you play your guitar ‘till the sun goes down
Maybe someday your name will be in lights saying
Johnny B Goode tonight
Oh go, go Johnny, go, go, go,
Go Johnny, go, go, go,
Go Johnny, go, go, go,
Go Johnny, go, go, go, go, go,
Johnny B Goode
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JOHNNY COME GOOD
Down amongst the harlots where the punters come,
To the rhythm of the falling and the rising bum,
And a flaccid phallus droops now, where a horn once stood,
Lived a country boy called Johnny come good,
Who was blessed with the world's most enormous wick,
It was six feet long, and it was two feet thick.
Oh come, come Johnny come come come,
Come Johnny, come come come,
Come Johnny, come come come,
Come Johnny come come come, Johnny come good.
He would carry his great tool in a pick-up truck,
And travel fifty miles or more just for a friendly conversation,
Experienced whores would cry out when he had them splayed,
Gasping to recover from each thrust he made,
Sometimes he would split them right from arse to tit,
Because they couldn't take the length or width of it.
Oh come, come Johnny come come come,
Come Johnny, come come come,
Come Johnny, come come come,
Come Johnny come come come, Johnny come good.
Along came a lady of the endless night,
Who challenged him to fuck her 'till the morning light,
He gave his wick a rub 'till it was yards around,
And in between her legs he went and ground and ground,
But this devious old harlot then let fly a fart,
That blew both of his balls and his prick apart.
Well bye bye bye,
Well bye bye bye bye,
Bye bye Johnny,
Johnny come good.
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THE JOKER
Some people call me the space cowboy yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
‘Cause I speak of the pompetus of love
People talk about me baby
Say I’m doing you wrong doing you wrong
Well don’t you worry baby don’t worry
‘Cause I’m right here right here right here right here at home
‘Cause I’m a picker I’m a grinner I’m a lover and I’m a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I’m a joker I’m a smoker I’m a midnight toker
I get my loving on the run
You’re the cutest thing that I ever did see
I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey lovey dovey lovey dovey all the time
Ooh wee baby I’ll sure show you a good time
‘Cause I’m a picker I’m a grinner I’m a lover and I’m a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I’m a joker I’m a smoker I’m a midnight toker
I sure don’t want to hurt no one
People keep talking about me baby
Say I’m doing you wrong
Well don’t you worry don’t worry no don’t worry mamma
‘Cause I’m right here at home
You’re the cutest thing I ever did see
I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree
Lovey dovey lovey dovey lovey dovey all the time
Come on baby now I’ll show you a good time
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JOLLY BEGGARMAN
It’s of a jolly beggar man came tripping o’er the plain
He came unto a farmers door some lodgings for to gain
The farmer’s daughter she came down and viewed him cheek and chin
She said he is a handsome man I pray you let him in
We’ll go no more a roving a roving in the night
We’ll go no more a roving let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
He would not lie within the barn nor yet within the byre
But he would in the corner lie down by the kitchen fire
The beggar’s bed then it was made of good clean sheets and hay
And down besides the kitchen fire the jolly beggar lay
We’ll go no more a roving a roving in the night
We’ll go no more a roving let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
The farmer’s daughter she came down to bolt the kitchen door
And there she saw the beggar standing naked on the floor
He took the girl in both her arms and to the bed he ran
Kind Sir she said go easy now you’ll waken our good man
We’ll go no more a roving a roving in the night
We’ll go no more a roving let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
So now you are no beggar man you are some gentleman
For you have stole my maidenhead and I am quite undone
I am the lord I am the squire of beggars I be one
And beggars they are robbers all and you are quite undone
We’ll go no more a roving a roving in the night
We’ll go no more a roving let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
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JOY TO THE WORLD
Jeremiah was a bullfrog was a good friend of mine
Never understood a single word I said
But he always helped me drink my wine
Yes we always had some mighty fine wine
Singing joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
If I was the king of the world
Tell you what I’d do
Throw away all the cars and bar all the wars
And make sweet love to you
Yes I’d make sweet love to you
Singing joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
You know I love the ladies love to have fun
I’m a high night flier and a rainbow rider
A straight shooting son of a gun
Yes a straight shooting son of a gun
Singing joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
233
JUMP
I get up and nothing gets me down
You got it tough I’ve seen the toughest soul around
And I know baby just how you feel
You’ve got to roll with the punches and get to what’s real
So can’t you see me standing here
I’ve got my back against the record machine
I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen
Ah can’t you see what I mean
I might as well jump jump
Might as well jump
Go ahead and jump jump
Go ahead and jump
Oh oh hey you who said that
Baby how you been
You say you don’t know
You won’t know until you’ve begin
So can’t you see me standing here
I’ve got my back against the record machine
I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen
Ah can’t you see what I mean
I might as well jump jump
Go ahead and jump
Might as well jump jump
Go ahead and jump jump
I might as well jump jump
Go ahead and jump
Go ahead and jump jump
Go ahead and jump jump
Jump jump jump jump
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JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH
I was born in a cross fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain
But it’s all right now
In fact it’s a gas
But it’s all right
I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas gas gas
I was raised by a toothless bearded hag
I was schooled with a strap right across my back
Well it’s all right now
In fact it’s a gas
But it’s all right
I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas gas gas
I was drowned I was washed up and left for dead
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled
I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread
I was crowned with a spike right through my head
But it’s all right now
In fact it’s a gas
But it’s all right
I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas gas gas
Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas
Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas
Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas
Jumpin’ Jack Flash it’s a gas
235
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
Don't go changing to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are
I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you
I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are
I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are
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JUST TO HAVE YOU BACK AGAIN
You sheltered me from harm
Kept me warm, kept me warm
You gave my life to me
Set me free set me free
The finest years I ever knew
I s all the years I had with you
I would give everything I own
Give up my life, my heart, my own
I would give anything I own
Just to have you back again
Is there someone you know
That won’t let you go
And taking it all for granted
You may lose them one day
Someone takes them away
And you don’t hear a word they say
I would give everything I own
Give up my life, my heart, my own
I would give anything I own
Just to have you back again
Is there someone you know
That won’t let you go
And taking it all for granted
You may lose them one day
Someone takes them away
And you don’t hear a word they say
237
KEY TO THE HIGHWAY
I got the key to the highway
Yes all packed up and bound to go
I’m going to leave here running
‘Cause walking’s much too slow
I’m going down to the river
Yes I’m going to take my rocking chair
I’m going to have blues in trouble
I’m gonna rock away from here
I’m going down to the border
Yes, baby where in better know
You know I don’t do nothin’ here little girl
That would drive a good man away from home
Now give me one whole kiss baby
Yeah just before I go
,Cause I know it’s time little girl
I was back out on that road
Now when the man peeps over the mountain
You know I’ll be on my way
I’m going to walk walk this old highway
Just until the break of day
So long goodbye
Yes I have to say goodbye
I’m gonna walk walk this old highway
Just until the day I die
I got the key to the highway
Yes all packed up and bound to go
I’m going to leave here running
‘Cause walking’s much too slow
238
KILLER QUEEN
She keeps Moet and Chandon in a pretty cabinet
Let them eat cakes she says just like Marie Antoinette
Building a remedy for Kruschev and Kennedy
And in it signed an invitation you can’t decline
Caviar and cigarettes well versed in etiquette
Extraoardinarily nice she’s a killer queen
Gunpowder gelatine dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind (anytime)
Ooh recommended at the Pru
Unsatiable appetite (wanna try ?)
To avoid complications she never kept the same address
In conversation she spoke just like a baroness
Made a mine in China the corporation bought her
But then again incidently she went about it with class
Perfume came right through here from Paris (naturally)
Because she couldn’t care less
Fastidious and precise she’s a killer queen
Gunpowder gelatine dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind (anytime)
Drop of a hat she’s as elegant
Grateful as a prison camp
Momentarily out of action temporarily out of use
Absolutely grand
She’s out to get you she’s a killer queen
Gunpowder gelatine dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind (anytime)
Ooh recommended at the Pru
Unsatiable appetite (wanna try ?)
239
KILLING FLOOR
I should have quit you a long time ago
I should have quit you babe a long time ago
I should have quit you and went on to Mexico
If I had a followed my first mind
If I had a followed my first mind
I’d been gone it’s my second time
I should have went home when my friend come from Mexico
I should have went home when my friend come from Mexico again
But now I’m fooling with you baby I’m down on this killin’ floor
God knows I should have been gone
God knows I should have been gone
And I wouldn’t been here down on the killin’ floor
240
KILLING ME SOFTLY
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
I heard he sang a good song.
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
To listen for a while
And there he was this young boy,
A stranger to my eyes
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
I felt all flushed with fever
Embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he found my letters
And read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish
But he just kept right on
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
He sang as if he knew me
In all my dark despair
And then he looked right through me
As if I wasn't there
But he was there this stranger
Singing clear and strong
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
241
KING OF THE ROAD
Trailer for sale or rent rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but two hours of pushing broom buys an eight by twelve four bit room
I'm a man of means by no means king of the road
Third box car, midnight train destination Bangor, Maine
Old worn out suit and shoes I don't pay no union dues
I smoke old stogies I have found short, but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means king of the road
I know every engineer on every train
All of the children and all of their names
And every hand out in every town
And every lock that ain't locked when no one's around I sing
Trailer for sale or rent rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but two hours of pushing broom buys an eight by twelve four bit room
I'm a man of means by no means king of the road
Third box car, midnight train destination Bangor, Maine
Old worn out suit and shoes I don't pay no union dues
I smoke old stogies I have found short, but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means king of the road
I know every engineer on every train
All of the children and all of their names
And every hand out in every town
And every lock that ain't locked when no one's around I sing
Trailer for sale or rent rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but two hours of pushing broom buys an eight by twelve four bit room
I'm a man of means by no means king of the road
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KINGDOM COME
I have no one to call my friend
The road I travel has no end
And so I turn my face up to the sun
And walk on down the road to kingdom come
And as I walk this lonely road
Nobody helps me bear my load
Won’t somebody tell me what I’ve done
Condemned to walk the road to kingdom come
And if you pass me on the side
Why don’t you stop and let me ride
You just had a better deal than some
Walking down the road to kingdom come
Walking down the road to kingdom come
Walking down the road to kingdom come
243
KINGSTON TOWN
The night seems to fade
But the moonlight lingers on
There are wonders for everyone woh oh
The stars shine so bright
But they’re fading after dawn
There is magic in Kingston town
Oh Kingston town
The place I long to be
If I had the whole world I would give it away
Just to see the girls at play
When I am king
Surely I will meet a queen
And a palace and everything yeah
And now I am king
And my queen will come at dawn
She’ll be waiting in Kingston town
Oh Kingston town
The place I long to be
If I had the whole world I would give it away
Just to see the girls at play yeah
When I am king
Surely I will meet a queen
And a palace and everything yeah
And now I am king
And my queen will come at dawn
She’ll be waiting in Kingston town
She’ll be waiting in Kingston town right on
She’ll be waiting in Kingston town oh yeah
She’ll be waiting in Kingston town oh yeah
She’ll be waiting in Kingston town oh yeah
244
KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR
Mama, take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark, too dark to see
I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door
Mama, take these guns off me
I can't shoot them anymore
A long black cloud is coming down
I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door
Mama, take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark, too dark to see
I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door
I feel I'm knocking on heaven's door
245
LA BAMBA
Para bailar la bamba. para bailar la bamba se necesita
Una poca de gracia, una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti.
Ay arriba, y'arriba, ay arriba, y'arriba,
Por ti sere por ti sere, por ti sere.
Yo no soy marinero, yo no soy marinero,
Soy capitan.soy capitan, soy capitan.
Bamba, bamba, bamba, bamba,
Bamba, bamba, bamba.
Para bailar la bamba. para bailar la bamba se necesita
Una poca de gracia, una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti.
Ay arriba, y'arriba, ay arriba, y'arriba,
Por ti sere por ti sere, por ti sere.
Ay arriba, y'arriba.
Para bailar la bamba. para bailar la bamba se necesita
Una poca de gracia, una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti.
Ay arriba, y'arriba, ay arriba, y'arriba,
Por ti sere por ti sere, por ti sere.
Bamba, bamba, bamba, bamba,
Bamba, bamba, bamba.
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LADY IN BLACK
She came to me one morning, one lonely Sunday morning
Her long hair flowing in the midwinter wind
I know not how she found me for in darkness I was walking
And destruction lay around me from a fight I could not win
Ah ...
She asked me name my foe then I said the need within some men
To fight and kill their brothers without thought of love or god
And I begged her give me horses to trample down my enemy
So eager was my passion to devour this waste of life
Ah ...
But she would not think of battle that reduces man to animals
So easy to begin and yet impossible to end
For she the mother of all men did counsel me so wisely then
I feared to walk alone again and asked if she would stay
Ah ...
Oh Lady, lend your hand I cried or let me rest here at your side
Have faith and trust in me, she said and filled my heart with life
There is no strength in numbers. Have no such misconception.
But when you need me be assured I won't be far away
Ah ...
Thus having spoke she turned away and though I found no words to say
I stood and watched until I saw her black cloak disappear
My labour is no easier, but now I know I'm not alone
I find new heart each time I think upon that windy day
Ah ...
And if one day she comes to you,
Drink deeply from her words so wise
Take courage from her as your prize
And say hello for me
Ah ...
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LADY JANE
My sweet Lady Jane when will I see you again
Your servant am I and will humbly remain
Just hear this plea my love
On bended knees my love
I pledge myself to Lady Jane
My dear Lady Anne I’ve done what I can
I must take my leave for promised I am
This play is run my love
Your time has come my love
I pledge myself to Lady Jane
Oh my sweet Marie I wait at your ease
The sands have run out for your lady and me
Wedlock is nigh my love
Her station is right my love
Life is secure with Lady Jane
My Lady Jane
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LANCASHIRE LASSES
Well I know a girl and she’s called Annabella
She stands on our grid every night with a fella
And how do I know that her knickers are yellow
I go down our cellar for coal
I love them all, all the Lancashire lasses
The tall ones the short ones the ones that wear glasses
The fat ones the thin ones the ones that make passes
It’s Lancashire lasses for me
Now my brother Bongo had a ten foot six dongo
His friends all remarked saying how it was longo
But Bongo’s long dongo is longer no longo
Since our Rover’s got a new bone
I love them all, all the Lancashire lasses
The tall ones the short ones the ones that wear glasses
The fat ones the thin ones the ones that make passes
It’s Lancashire lasses for me
I once knew a fellow by name Albert Dooley
Nature endowed him with different sized goolies
Now one of then was small and it looked rather poorly
But the other two were large and won prizes
I love them all, all the Lancashire lasses
The tall ones the short ones the ones that wear glasses
The fat ones the thin ones the ones that make passes
It’s Lancashire lasses for me
The couple next door whose name it was Kelly
Discovered one night they’d stuck belly to belly
They thought they’d been using petroleum jelly
But our Michael had swapped it for Bostik
I love them all, all the Lancashire lasses
The tall ones the short ones the ones that wear glasses
The fat ones the thin ones the ones that make passes
It’s Lancashire lasses for me
And my brother Paul who works as a baker
In matters of sex is a little match maker
Cause he’s just invented a dance called the Quaker
Once round then out for your oats
I love them all, all the Lancashire lasses
The tall ones the short ones the ones that wear glasses
The fat ones the thin ones the ones that make passes
It’s Lancashire lasses for me
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LAST OF BARRETTS PRIVATEERS
Oh the year was seventeen seventy eight how I wish I was in Sherbrook now
A letter of mark came from the King to the scummiest vessel I’d ever seen
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold
We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers
Oh Barrett he cried throughout the town how I wish I was in Sherbrook now
With twenty bold men all fishermen free I could give you more gold than you ever did see
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold
We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers
Now the Antelope sloop was a sickening sight how I wish I was in Sherbrook now
She’d a list to the port and her sails in rags the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and the jags
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold
We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers
On the Kings birthday we put to sea how I wish I was in Sherbrook now
With ninety six days to Montego Bay and pumping like madmen all the way
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold
We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers
Now Barrett he worked us to the bone how I wish I was in Sherbrook now
With maggoty meat and weevily bread and watered down rum we’d be better off dead
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold
We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers
On the ninety ninth day we sailed again how I wish I was in Sherbrook now
When a Yankee sloop came into sight with our crack five pounders we made to fight
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold
We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers
Now the Yankee lay low down with gold how I wish I was in Sherbrook now
She was broad and fat and loose in the stays but to catch her took three whole days
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold
We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers
And at length we stood two cables away how I wish I was in Sherbrook now
Our crack five pounders made an awful din but with one fat ball the Yank stove us in
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold
We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers
Well the Antelope shook and she pitched on her side how I wish I was in Sherbrook now
Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs and the main truck carried off both my legs
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold
We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers
So here I lay in my twenty third year how I wish I was in Sherbrook now
It’s been six years since we sailed away and I just made Halifax yesterday
God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American Gold
We’d fire no guns shed no tears I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barretts privateers
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LAY DOWN SALLY
There is nothing that is wrong
In wanting you to stay here with me
I know you’ve got somewhere to go
But won’t you make yourself at home
And stay with me
And don’t you ever leave
Lay down Sally and rest you in my arms
Don’t you think you want someone to talk to
Lay down Sally no need to leave so soon
I’ve been trying all night long just to talk to you
The sun ain’t nearly on the rise
And we still got the moon and the stars above
Underneath the velvet skies love is all that matters
Won’t you stay with me
And don’t you ever leave
Lay down Sally and rest you in my arms
Don’t you think you want someone to talk to
Lay down Sally no need to leave so soon
I’ve been trying all night long just to talk to you
I long to see the morning light
Colouring your face so dreamily
So don’t you go and say goodbye
You can lay your worries down and stay with me
And don’t you ever leave
Lay down Sally and rest you in my arms
Don’t you think you want someone to talk to
Lay down Sally no need to leave so soon
I’ve been trying all night long just to talk to you
Lay down Sally and rest you in my arms
Don’t you think you want someone to talk to
Lay down Sally no need to leave so soon
I’ve been trying all night long just to talk to you
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LAYLA
What'll you do when you get lonely
With nobody waiting by your side
You’ve been running hiding much too long
You know it's just your foolish pride
Layla you've got me on my knees
Layla I beg you darling please
Layla darling won't you ease my worried mind
I try to give you consolation
Your old man has let you down
Like a fool I fell in love with you
You've turned my whole world upside down
Layla you've got me on my knees
Layla I beg you darling please
Layla darling won't you ease my worried mind
Let's make the best of the situation
Before I finally go insane
Please don't say we'll never find a way
And tell me all my love's in vain
Layla you've got me on my knees
Layla I beg you darling please
Layla darling won't you ease my worried mind
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LAZY
You’re lazy you just stay in bed
You’re lazy you just stay in bed
You don’t want no money
You don’t want no bread
If you’re drowning you don’t clutch no straw
If you’re drowning you don’t clutch no straw
You don’t want to live
You don’t want to cry no more
Well my trying ain’t done no good
Well my trying ain’t done no good
You don’t make no effort
No not like you should
Lazy you just stay in bed
Lazy you just stay in bed
You don’t want no money
You don’t want no bread
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LAZY SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Oh wouldn’t it be nice to get on with me neighbours
But they make it very clear they’ve got no room for ravers
They stop me from grooving they bang on me wall
They’re doing me crust in it’s no good at all
Ah lazy Sunday afternoon I’ve got no mind to worry
I close my eyes and drift away
Here we all are sitting in a rainbow
Cor blimy ‘ello Mrs. Jones how’s your bird’s lumbago (mustn’t grumble)
I’ll sing you a song with no words and no tune
I’m flinging a party while you suss out the moon
Ah lazy Sunday afternoon I’ve got no mind to worry
Close my eyes and drift away
A rootie dootie doo a rootie dootie die day
A rootie dootie dum a rootie dootie do dee do
There’s no one to hear me there’s nothing to say
And no one can stop me from feeling this way
Yeah lazy Sunday afternoon I’ve got no mind to worry
Close my eyes and drift away
Lazy Sunday afternoon I’ve got no mind to worry
Close my eyes and drift a
Close my mind and drift away
Close my eyes and drift away
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LE VOYEUR
He like to ring the changes le voyeur
He doesn’t mind the dangers le voyeur
If there’s something quite obscure
And a little less than pure
A fascinated viewer is le voyeur
He’s got an interest in leather le voyeur
And he’s handy with a feather le voyeur
He’s got whipping on the brain
Though he doesn’t mind the cane
It’s really not the same for le voyeur
He often climbs quite high le voyeur
To see what he can spy le voyeur
Of heights he’s not afraid
The drainpipe is an aid
It’s all part of the trade for le voyeur
He’ll search for dusk ‘till dawn le voyeur
To view a bit of porn le voyeur
He roams around quite free
Dressed up as a tree
It’s tough up mais ce la vie pour le voyeur
He’s follower of fashion le voyeur
He finds rubber rather dashing le voyeur
Though you may think it fay
To see a fetish every day
It makes a dull life gay for le voyeur
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THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL
Farewell to Prince’s landing stage river Mersey fare thee well
I am bound for California a place I know right well
So fare thee well my own true love
When I return united we will be
It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me
But my darling when I think of thee
I am bound for California by way of stormy Cape Horn
And I will write to thee a letter, love, when I am homeward bound
So fare thee well my own true love
When I return united we will be
It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me
But my darling when I think of thee
I’ve shipped on a Yankee clipper ship Davy Crockett is her name
And Burgess is the captain of her and they say that she’s a floating hell
So fare thee well my own true love
When I return united we will be
It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me
But my darling when I think of thee
I have sailed with Burgess once before, I think I know him well
If a man ‘sailor, he will get a long if not, then , he’s sure in hell
So fare thee well my own true love
When I return united we will be
It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me
But my darling when I think of thee
Farewell to Lower Frederick Street, Anson Terrace and Park Lane
I am bound away for to leave you and I’ll never see you again
So fare thee well my own true love
When I return united we will be
It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me
But my darling when I think of thee
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LEROY BROWN
Well now south side of Chicago is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there you’d better just beware of a man name of Leroy Brown
Now Leroy’s more than trouble you see he stands about six feet four
All the downtown ladies called him treetop lover all the men just called him Sir
He’s bad bad Leroy Brown baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder then old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog
Now Leroy, he’s a gambler and he likes his fancy clothes
And he likes to poke his diamond rings in front of everybody’s nose
He’s got a custom Continental, he’s got an Eldorado too
He’s got a thirty two gun in his pocket for fun he’s got a razor in his shoe
He’s bad bad Leroy Brown baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog
Well Friday about a week ago, Leroy shooting dice
At the edge of the bar sat a girl name of Doris and ooh that girl looked nice
He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began
And Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man
He’s bad bad Leroy Brown baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog
Well these two men took to fighting
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy Brown looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone
He’s bad bad Leroy Brown baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog
He’s bad bad Leroy Brown baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog
Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog
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LET IT BE
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom
Let it be
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom
Let it be
Let it be let it be let it be let it be
Speaking words of wisdom let it be
And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree
There will be an answer
Let it be
And though they may be parted
There is still a chance that they might see
There will be an answer
Let it be
Let it be let it be let it be let it be
Speaking words of wisdom let it be
And in my hour of darkness
There is still a light that shines on me
Shine until tomorrow
Let it be
I wake up to the sound of music
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom
Let it be
Let it be let it be let it be let it be
Speaking words of wisdom let it be
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LET IT BE ME
I bless the day I found you
I want to stay around you
And so I beg you
Let it be me
Don’t take this heaven from one
If you must cling to someone
Now and forever
Let it be me
Each time I meet love
I find complete love
Without your sweet love
What would life be
So never leave me lonely
Tell me you love me only
And that you’ll always
Let it be me
If for each bit of gladness
Someone must taste the sadness
I’ll bear the sorrow please
Let it be me
And no matter what the price is
I’ll make the sacrifices
For each new tomorrow just
Let it be me
Each time I meet love
I find complete love
Without your sweet love
What would life be
Each time I meet love
I find complete love
Without your sweet love
What would life be
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LET ME DOWN EASY
How can I say it
It's just something I feel way down inside
So hard for me to try and explain it
But something's gone wrong you're unable to hide
So let me down easy baby
Be so kind as to let me down slow
Let me down easy darling
It's so hard to let go
We are not drifting
Not with one of us still left holding the line
And the wind that has moved you set your sails lifting
Blows cold on the one who got cut loose behind
So let me down easy baby
Be so kind as to let me down slow
Let me down easy darling
It's so hard to let go
How can I say it
It's just something I know from way down inside
No need for you to try to explain it
It's enough for me to know that you tried
So let me down easy baby
Be so kind as to let me down slow
Let me down easy darling
It's so hard to let go
It's so hard so hard to let go
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LET YOUR LOVE FLOW
There's a reason for the sunshiny sky
And there's a reason why I'm feeling so high
Must be the season when that love light shines all around us
So let the feeling grab you deep inside
And send you reeling where your love can't hide
And then go steeling through the moonlit nights with your lover
Just let your love flow like a mountain stream
And let your love grow with the smallest of dreams
And let your love show and you'll know what I mean it's the season
Let your love fly like a bird on a wing
And let your love bind you to all living things
And let your love shine and you'll know what I mean that's the reason
There's a reason for the warm sweet nights
And there's a reason for the candle lights
Must be the season when those love light shines all around us
So let that wonder take you into space
And lay you under his loving embrace
Just feel the thunder as it warms your face, you can't hold back.
Let your love fly like a bird on a wing
And let your love bind you to all living things
And let your love shine and you'll know what I mean that's the reason
Let your love fly like a bird on a wing
And let your love bind you to all living things
And let your love shine and you'll know what I mean that's the reason
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LET'S HAVE A PARTY
Some people like to rock, some people like to roll
But moving and a-grooving gonna satisfy my soul
Let's have a party, ooh,
Let's have a party
We're swinging to the store, let's rock some more
Let's have a party tonight
I never kissed a bear, I never kissed a goon
But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room
Let's have a party, ooh,
Let's have a party
We're swinging to the store, let's rock some more
Let's have a party tonight
Honky Tonky Joe is knocking at the door
Bring him in and fill him up and sit him on the floor
Let's have a party, ooh,
Let's have a party
We're swinging to the store, let's rock some more
Let's have a party tonight
The meat is on the stove the brandy’s getting hot
Everybody come and take some punch and have a shot
Let's have a party, ooh,
Let's have a party
We're swinging to the store, let's rock some more
Let's have a party tonight
262
THE LETTER
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I’m a going home
'Cause my baby just wrote me a letter
Well, she wrote me a letter
Saying how she couldn't live without me no more
Listen Mister, can't you see
I've got to get back to my baby once more, anyway, yeah
I don't care how much money I got to spend
Got a ticket back to where my baby's been
Lonely days ago, I am going home
'Cause my baby just wrote me a letter
Well, she wrote me a letter
Saying how she couldn't live without me no more
Listen Mister, can't you see
I've got to get back to my baby once more, anyway, yeah
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I’m a going home
'Cause my baby just wrote me a letter
Well, she wrote me a letter
Saying how she couldn't live without me no more
Listen Mister, can't you see
I've got to get back to my baby once more, anyway, yeah
I don't care how much money I got to spend
Got a ticket back to where my baby's been
Lonely days ago, I am going home
'Cause my baby just wrote me a letter
Well, she wrote me a letter
Saying how she couldn't live without me no more
Listen Mister, can't you see
I've got to get back to my baby once more, anyway, yeah
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LIFE IN THE FAST LANE
He was a hard headed man
He was brutally handsome and she was terminally pretty
She held him up, and he held her for ransom
In the heart of the cold, cold city
He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude
They said he was ruthless, they said he was cruel
They had one thing in common, they were good in bed
She said faster, faster the lights are turning red
Life in the fast lane surely make you lose your mind
Life in the fast lane mm...
(Are you with me so far)
Eager for action and hot for the game
The coming attraction, the drop of a name
They knew all the right people, they took all the right pills
They threw outrageous parties, they paid heavily bills
There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face
She pretended not to notice, she was caught up in the race
Out in the evening until it was light
He was too tired to make it, she was too tired to fight about it
Life in the fast lane surely make you lose your mind
Life in the fast lane yeah
Life in the fast lane everything all the time,
Life in the fast lane uh uh
Loaded and burning blinded by thirst
They didn’t see the stop sign, took a turn for the worse
She said listen baby you can hear the engine ring
We’ve been up and down this highway haven’t seen a goddam thing
He said “call the doctor I think I’m gonna crash”
The doctor say he’s coming, but you gotta pay in cash
They were rushing down that freeway messing round and got lost,
They didn’t care they were just dying to get off, and it was
Life in the fast lane surely make you lose your mind
Life in the fast lane uh uh
Life in the fast lane everything all the time,
Life in the fast lane uh uh
Life in the fast lane
Life in the fast lane
264
LIKE A ROLLING STONE
Once up on a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime didn’t you?
People’d call say beware doll you’re bound to fall
You thought they all were kidding you?
You used to laugh about every body that was hanging out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal
How does it feel how does it feel to be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
You’ve gone to the finest school all right Miss lonely
But you know you used to get juiced in it
And nobody’s ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you’re gonna have to get used to it
You said you’d never compromised
with the mystery tramp but now you realise
He’s not selling any alibis as you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel how does it feel to be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all came down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain’t no good
You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain’t it hard when you discovered that he really wasn’t where it’s at
After he took from you everything he could steal
How does it feel how does it feel to be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people’re
Drinking, thinking that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you’d better lift your diamond ring you’d better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused at Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel how does it feel to be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
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LISTEN TO THE MUSIC
Don't you feel it growing day by day
People getting ready for the news
Some are happy some are sad
Oh oh we're got to let the music play
What the people need is a way to make them smile
It ain't so hard to do if you know how
Gotta give a message get it on through
Oh oh now mama’s goin’ to to after a while
Woh oh woh listen to the music
Woh oh woh listen to the music
Woh oh woh listen to the music
All the time
Well I know you know better everything I say
Meet me in the country for a day
We'll be happy and we'll dance
Oh we're gonna dance the blues away
And if I’m feeling good to you and you're feeling good to me
There ain't nothing we can't do or say
Feeling good feeling fine
Oh oh baby let the music play
Woh oh woh listen to the music
Woh oh woh listen to the music
Woh oh woh listen to the music
All the time
Like a lazy flowing river surrounding castles in the sky
And the crowd is growing bigger
Listening for the happy sounds
You've gonna have to let them cry
Woh oh woh listen to the music
Woh oh woh listen to the music
Woh oh woh listen to the music
All the time
Woh oh woh listen to the music
Woh oh woh listen to the music
Woh oh woh listen to the music
All the time
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LITTLE BIT OF LOVE
I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with
A little bit of love oh it's got to come your way
Well in my mind it's easy to lose sight of the truth
But in my heart I can't deny my feeling inside
Cause I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with
A little bit of love oh it's got to come your way
Man in the sky he'll say you're flying you'll lose sight of the role
You wanna stay high then don't deny your feeling inside
Cause I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with
A little bit of love oh it's got to come your way
I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with
A little bit of love oh it's got to come your way
I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with
A little bit of love oh it's got to come your way
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LITTLE TIM MAGUIRE
Little Tim Maguire loved to play with fire
Always hated water, never used to wash
Loved the smell of burning, of bonfires burning
Loved to play all day with his little tinder box
When he was young they put him in a uniform
Sent him to school with iron railings all around
Hated the school and the rules and the railings
Had just one ambition to burn the whole place down
When Maguire grew older, they made him wear a bowler
Sent him to work in an office in the town
Hated the people, the pens and the paper
Took his little tinder box and burned it to the ground
The judge said at his trial “your behaviour has been vile
You’re a menace to society, though you may think you’re big
You’ll have to go to prison”, and then what a commotion
Smoke and flames were pouring from the judge’s wig
They never found Tim Maguire’s little tinder box
They never found a trace of little Tim Maguire
Perhaps he’s up in heaven, setting fire to angels’ halos
Perhaps he’s down in hell, dancing round the fire
Little Tim Maguire loved to play with fire
Always hated water never used to wash
Loved the smell of burning, of bonfires burning
Loved to play all day with his little tinder box
Fire, fire, there’s fire down below
It’s fetch a bucket of water girls, there’s fire down below
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LITTLE WING
Well she's walking through the clouds
With a circus mind that's running wild
Butterflies and zebras moonbeams fairy tales
That's all she ever thinks about riding with the wind
When I'm sad she comes to me
With a thousand smiles she gives to me free
It's all right it's all right she says it's all right
Take anything you want from me anything at all
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LONELY DAYS
Good morning mister Sunshine
You brighten up my day
Come and sit beside me
In your way
I see you every morning
Outside the restaurant
The music plays so nonchalant
Ah ah ah
Lonely days lonely nights
Where would I be without my woman
Lonely days lonely nights
Where would I be without my woman
Where would I be without my woman
Lonely days lonely nights
Where would I be without my woman
Good morning mister Sunshine
You brighten up my day
Come and sit beside me
In your way
I see you every morning
Outside the restaurant
The music plays so nonchalant
Ah ah ah
Lonely days lonely nights
Where would I be without my woman
Lonely days lonely nights
Where would I be without my woman
Where would I be without my woman
Lonely days lonely nights
Where would I be without my woman
270
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
The long and winding road
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I’ve seen that road before
It always leads me here
Lead me to your door
The wild and windy night
That the rain washed away
Has left them full of tears
Crying for the day
They meet me standing here
Let me know the way
Many times I’ve been alone
And many times I’ve cried
Anyway you’ll never know
The many ways I’ve tried
And still they lead me back
To the long and winding road
You left me standing here
A long long time ago
Don’t leave me waiting here
Lead me to your door
But still they lead me back
To the long and winding road
You left me standing here
A long long time ago
Don’t keep me standing here
Lead me to your door
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LONG AS I CAN SEE THE LIGHT
Put a candle in the window
But I feel I've got the blues
But I'm going going I'll be coming home soon
Long as I can see the light
Pack my bag and let's get moving
Cause I'm bound to trip a while
I'll be gone gone you don't have to worry no more
Long as I can see the light
Guess I've got that old travelling bug
And the feeling won't leave me alone
But I won't no I won't lose my way
Long as I can see the light
Put a candle in the window
But I feel I've got the blues
But I'm going going I'll be coming home soon
Long as I can see the light
Long as I can see the light
Long as I can see the light
Long as I can see the light
Long as I can see the light
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LONG TALL SALLY
Gonna tell aunt Mary 'bout uncle John
He say's he's got no rhythm but he has a lot of fun
Oh baby yeah baby uh uh uh baby
Having us some fun tonight
Long tall Sally she was built to please
She's got everything that uncle John needs
Oh baby yeah baby uh uh uh baby
Having us some fun tonight
Saw uncle John with long tall Sally
She showed him how to come and then he got me in the alley
Oh baby yeah baby uh uh uh baby
Having us some fun tonight
Long tall Sally got her love on the ball
Nobody cares if she's long and tall
Oh baby yeah baby uh uh uh baby
Having us some fun tonight
Saw uncle John with long tall Sally
She showed him how to come and then he got me in the alley
Oh baby yeah baby uh uh uh baby
Having us some fun tonight
Well we're gonna have some fun tonight
Have some fun tonight have some fun tonight
Everything's all right
We're gonna have some fun have some fun tonight
273
LONG TRAIN RUNNING (WITHOUT LOVE)
Down around the corner
Half a mile from here
You see them old trains runnin’
And you watch them disappear
Without love
Where would you be now
Without love
You know I saw Miss Lucy
Down along the tracks
She lost her home and family
And she won't be coming back
Without love
Where would you be right now
Without love
Well the Illinois Central
And the Southern Central freight
Can't keep on pushing mama
‘Cause you know they're running late
Without love
Where would you be now
Without love
Well the Illinois Central
And the Southern Central freight
Can't keep on pushing mama
‘Cause you know they're running late
Without love
Where would you be now
Without love
Where pistons keep on turning
And the wheels go round and round
And steel rails are cold and hard
For the miles that they go down
Without love
Where would you be now
Without love
Ooh where would you be now
Got to get it baby baby won’t you move it down
Won’t you move it down
Baby baby baby baby won’t you move it down
When the big train runs
And the train is movin’ on
I gotta keep on moovin’
Keep on movin’
Keep on movin’
Gonna keep on movin’
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THE LONGEST TIME
Woh oh oh oh for the longest time
Woh oh oh for the longest
If you said goodbye to me tonight
There would still be music left to write
What else could I do I'm so inspired by you
That hasn't happened for the longest time
Once I thought my innocence was gone
Now I know that happiness goes on
That's where you found me when you put your arms around me
I haven't been there for the longest time
Woh oh oh oh for the longest time
Woh oh oh for the longest
I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall
And the greatest miracle of all
Is how I need you and how you needed me too
That hasn't happened for the longest time
Maybe this won't last very long
But you feel so right and I could be wrong
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
But I've gone this far and it's more than I hoped for
Who knows how much further we'll go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone
I'll take my chances I forgot how nice romance is
I haven't been there for the longest time
I had second thoughts at the start
I said to myself hold on to your heart
Now I know the woman that you are
You're wonderful so far and it's more than I hoped for
I don't care what consequence it brings
I have been a fool for lesser things
I want you so bad I think you ought to know that
I intend to hold you for the longest time
Woh oh oh oh for the longest time
Woh oh oh oh for the longest time
Woh oh oh oh for the longest time
Woh oh oh oh for the longest time
275
LOOK AT ME
Who am I but you in the sun
A sad reflection of everyone
Was it me who let you walk away
Were you the one or is it we’re the same
What are we in time going by
The simple story of a younger life
Half in dreams and somehow through the day
We haven’t come so far to lose our way
Look at me I believe it’s true
You’re a part of me I’m a part of you
Love is only what we’ve come to live
Waking breathing and all we give
A crystal passing reflected in our eyes
Eclipsing all the jealousy and lies
Look at me can’t you see it’s true
You’re a part of me I’m a part of you
Quiet as the voices in a dream
Without you shadow the things I’ve seen
Were not for the evening I let you walk away
Were you the one or is it we’re the same
Look at me I believe it’s true
You’re a part of me I’m a part of you
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LOOKING IN YOUR BIG BROWN EYES
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
Staring across the room I saw you smile
I said I want to talk to you woo woo for a little while
But before I make my move my emotions start running wild
My tongue is tied and that’s no lie
I’m looking in your eyes yeah I’m looking in your big brown eyes
Ooh girl I’ve got this to say to you yeah
Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more
And if you cry out I’m gonna push it some more
Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more
And if you cry out I’m gonna push you push it push it some more
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
So I say to myself if she loves me or not
But it’s great I know that love is his to take
It’s a little bit of this a little bit of that the lyrics goes on besides
My tongue get’s tied and that’s no lie
I’m looking in your eyes yeah I’m looking in your big brown eyes
Ooh girl I’ve got this to say to you yeah
Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more
And if you cry out I’m gonna push it some more
Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more
And if you cry out I’m gonna push you push it push it some more
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
I’m looking in your eyes yeah I’m looking in your big brown eyes
Ooh girl I’ve got this to say to you yeah
Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more
And if you cry out I’m gonna push it some more
Girl I want to make you sweat sweat ‘till you can’t sweat no more
And if you cry out I’m gonna push you push it push it some more
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
A la la la la long a la la la la long longly long long long
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LOVE IS IN THE AIR
Love is in the air everywhere I look around
Love is in the air every sight and every sound
And I don’t know if I’m being foolish
Don’t know if I’m being wise
But it’s something that I must believe in
And it’s there when I look in your eyes
Love is in the air in the whispering of the trees
Love is in the air in the thunder of the seas
And I don’t know if I’m just dreaming
Don’t know if I feel sane
But it’s something that I must believe in
And it’s there when I call out your name
Love is in the air in the rising of the sun
Love is in the air when the day is nearly done
And I don’t know if you are illusion
Don’t know if I see it true
But you’re something that I must believe in
And you’re there when I reach out for you
Love is in the air everywhere I look around
Love is in the air every sight and every sound
And I don’t know if I’m being foolish
Don’t know if I’m being wise
But it’s something that I must believe in
And it’s there when I look in your eyes
Love is in the air in the rising of the sun
Love is in the air when the day is nearly done
And I don’t know if you are illusion
Don’t know if I see it true
But you’re something that I must believe in
And you’re there when I reach out for you
278
LOVE ME TENDER
Love me tender love me sweet
Never let me go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so
Love me tender love me true
All my dream fulfil
For my darling I love you
And I always will
Love me tender love me long
Take me to your heart
For it’s there that I belong
And we’ll never part
Long me tender love me true
All my dreams fulfil
For my darling I love you
And I always will
Love me tender love me dear
Tell me you are mine
I’ll be yours through all the years
Till the end of time
Love me tender love me true
All my dreams fulfil
For my darling I love you
And I always will
279
LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE
Living on free food tickets
Blowing in the milk from a hole in the roof
where the rain came through
What can you do if we move
Tears from your little sister
Crying because she doesn’t have a dress without a patch
But a party to go but oh you know she’ll get by
‘Cause she’s living in the love of the common people
Smiles through the heart of the family man
Daddy’s gonna buy her a dream to cling to
Mamma’s gonna love her just as fast as she can and she can
It’s a good thing you don’t have busfare
It would fall through the hole in your pocket
And you’d lose it in the snow on the ground
You gotta walk into town to find a job
Trying to keep your toes warm
But the hole in your shoe lets the snow come through
And it chills them to the bone so you’d better go home where it’s warm
You can live in the love of the common people
Smiles through the heart of the family man
Daddy’s gonna buy you a dream to cling to
Mamma’s gonna love you just as fast as she can and she can
Living on a dream ain’t easy the closer the lip the tighter the flip
And then you stay away go round trying the family crowd
You know that fate is their foundation
The whole of the love and the warm conversation but don’t forget to pray
Just make it strong where you belong
You can live in the love of the common people
Smiles through the heart of the family man
Daddy’s gonna buy you a dream to cling to
Mamma’s gonna love you just as fast as she can and she can
You can live in the love of the common people
Smiles through the heart of the family man
Daddy’s gonna buy you a dream to cling to
Mamma’s gonna love you just as fast as she can and she can
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LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH
If you’re down and confused
And you don’t remember who you’re talking to
Concentration slip away
‘Cause your baby is so far away
Well there’s a rose in the fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can’t be with the one you love
Honey love the one you’re with
Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with
Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with
Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit
Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit
Dit dit dit, dit dit dit
Don’t be angry don’t be sad
And don’t sit crying over good times you’ve had
There’s a girl right next to you
And she’s just waiting for something to do
Well there’s a rose in the fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can’t be with the one you love
Honey love the one you’re with
Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with
Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with
Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit
Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit
Dit dit dit, dit dit dit
Love the one you’re wit love the one you’re with
Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with
Turn your heartache right into joy
She’s a girl and you’re a boy
Get it together make it nice
You ain’t gonna need any more advice
Well there’s a rose in the fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can’t be with the one you love
Honey love the one you’re with
Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with
Love the one you’re with love the one you’re with
Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit
Dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit
Dit dit dit, dit dit dit
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LOVE YOU HOLD YOU
I’m gonna take you down to my place
And give you all I can
I’m gonna prove to you girl
That I really am a man
I’ll hold you so close girl
That you can feel the heat from me
I’m gonna love you
I’m gonna hold you
Ooh baby feel that for me
I want you to feel baby
What it’s like to be loved
I want you to come willingly
And not feel you’re being shoved
I want you to come with me girl
You’re pretty safe in my hands
I’m gonna love you
I’m gonna hold you
Ooh baby feel that for me
If you really want me
Don’t be afraid to say
If you need my love girl
You’re gonna have it every day
If you feel for me girl
I can feel for you
I’m gonna love you
I’m gonna really hold you
282
LOVE YOU MORE THAN I CAN SAY
Woh oh woh yeah yeah
I love you more than I can say
I’ll love you twice as much tomorrow
Oh oh love you more than I can say
Woh oh woh yeah yeah
I’ll miss you every single day
Why must my life be filled with sorrow
Woh woh love you more than I can say
Oh don’t you know I need you so
Oh tell me please I’ve gotta know yeah
Do you mean to make me cry
Am I just another guy
Woh oh woh yeah yeah
I’ll miss you more than I can say
Why must my life be filled with sorrow
I miss you more than I can say
Oh don’t you know I need you so
Oh tell me please I’ve gotta know yeah
Do you mean to make me cry
Am I just another guy
Woh oh woh yeah yeah
I love you more than I can say
I’ll love you twice as much tomorrow
Love you more than I can say
283
LOVER’S CONCERTO
How gentle is the rain
That falls softly on the meadow
Birds high up in the trees
Serenade the flowers with their melodies
See there beyond the hill
The bright colours of the rainbow
Some magic from above
Made this day for us just to fall in love
Now I belong to you
From this day until forever
Just love me tenderly
And I will to you every part of me
Don’t ever make me cry
Through long lonely nights without love
Be always true to me
Keep this day in your heart eternally
Some day we shall return
To this place upon the meadow
We’ll walk out in the rain
Hear the birds above
Singing once again
Oh hold me in your arms
And say once again you love me
And if your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful
284
LOVERS CROSS
They said that it was bound to happen
Just a matter of time
Now I’ve come to my decision
It’s one of the painful kind
Now it seems that you wanted a martyr
Just a regular guy wouldn’t do
But baby I can’t hang upon a lover’s cross for you
Well I’ve really got to hand it to you
‘Cause girl you really tried
But for every time that we spent laughing
There were two times that I cried
And you were trying to make me a martyr
That’s one thing I just couldn’t do
‘Cause baby I can’t hang upon a lover’s cross for you
‘Cause tables are meant for turning
And people are bound to change
Bridges are meant for burning
And the people and memories they join up the same
Still I hope that you can find another
Who can take what I could not
He’s have to be some kind of super guy
Or maybe a super god
‘Cause I never was much of a martyr before
And I ain’t ‘bout to start something new
‘Cause baby I can’t hang upon a lover’s cross for you
‘Cause tables are meant for turning
And people are bound to change
Bridges are meant for burning
And the people and memories they join up the same
Still I hope that you can find another
Who can take what I could not
He’d have to be some kind of super guy
Or maybe a super god
‘Cause I never was much of a martyr before
And I ain’t ‘bout to start something new
‘Cause baby I can’t hang upon a lover’s cross for you
285
LUCILLE
Lucille you don't do your daddy's will
Lucille you don't do your daddy's will
Well there ain't nothing to you
But I I I love you still
I woke up this morning
And Lucille was not in sight
Asked her friends about it
But all their lips were tight
Lucille you don't do your daddy's will
Well there ain't nothing to you
But I I I love you still
I woke up this morning
And Lucille was not in sight
Asked her friends about it
But all their lips were tight
Lucille you don't do your daddy's will
I give it to you baby
I I I love you still
Lucille please come back where you belong
Lucille please come back where you belong
I give it to you baby please don't leave me alone
Lucille you don't do your daddy's will
Lucille you don't do your daddy's will
Well there ain't nothing to you
But I I I love you still
286
LUCKY MAN
He had white horses and ladies by the score
All dressed in satin and waiting by the door
Ooh what a lucky man he was
Ooh what a lucky man he was
White lace and feathers they made up his bed
A rose covered mattress on which he was led
Ooh what a lucky man he was
Ooh what a lucky man he was
He went to fight wars for his country and his king
Of his honour and his glory the people still sing
Ooh what a lucky man he was
Ooh what a lucky man he was
A bullet it found him his blood ran as he cried
Nobody could save him so he lay down and he died
Ooh what a lucky man he was
Ooh what a lucky man he was
He had white horses and ladies by the score
All dressed in satin and waiting by the door
Ooh what a lucky man he was
Ooh what a lucky man he was
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LYING EYES
City girls just seem to find out early
How to open doors with just a smile
A rich old man and she won't have to worry
She'll dress up all in lace and go in style
Late at night a big old house gets lonely
I guess every form of refuge has it's price
And it breaks her heart to think her love is only
Given to a man with hands as cold as ice
So she tells him she must go out for the evening
To comfort an old friend who's feeling down
But he knows where she's going as she's leaving
She's heading for the cheating side of town
You can't hide your lying eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realise
Ain't no way to hide your lying eyes
On the other side of town a boy is waiting
With firey eyes and dreams no one can see
She drives on through the night anticipating
'Cause he makes her feel the way she used to feel
She rushes to his arms they fall together
She whispers that it's only for a while
She swears that soon she'll be coming back for ever
She pulls away and leaves him with a smile
You can't hide your lying eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realise
Ain't no way to hide your lying eyes
She gets up and pours herself a strong one
And stares out at the stars up in the sky
Another night it's going to be a long one
She draws the shades and hangs her head to cry
She wonders how it ever got this crazy
She thinks about a boy she knew in school
Did she get tired or did she just get lazy
She's so far gone she feels just like a fool
My oh my you sure know how to arrange things
You set it up so well so carefully
Ain't it funny how your new life didn't change things
You're still the same old girl you used to be
You can't hide your lying eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realise
Ain't no way to hide your lying eyes
Aint no way to hide your lying eyes
Honey you can't hide your lying eyes
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MADNESS
Madness madness they call it madness
Madness madness they call it madness
It's plain to see that is what they mean to me
Madness madness they call it gladness
Madness madness they call it madness
Madness madness they call it madness
I'm about to explain I've had someone including their brain
Madness madness they call it gladness
Propaganda ministers propaganda ministers
I've a got a heavy due I'm gonna walk all over you
Madness madness they call it madness
Well if this is madness then I know I'm filled with gladness
It's gonna be rougher it's gonna be tougher banana banana
And I won't be the one who's gonna suffer oh no
I won't be the one who's gonna suffer
You know I won't be the one You
289
MAGGIE
I wandered today to the hills Maggie
To watch the scene being old
The creek and the creaking old mill Maggie
As we used to long long ago
The green grove is gone from the hills Maggie
Where first the daisies brown
The creaking old mill is still Maggie
Since you and I were young
Oh they say that I’m feeble with age Maggie
My steps are much slower than then
My face is a well written page Maggie
And time all alone was the pen
They say we have outlived our time Maggie
As dated as songs that we’ve sung
But to me you’re as fair as you were Maggie
When you and I were young
They say we have outlived our time Maggie
As dated as songs that we’ve sung
But to me you’re as fair as you were Maggie
When you and I were young
When you and I were young
290
MAGGIE MAY
Wake up Maggie I think I've got something to say to you
It's late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused but I feel I'm being used
Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore
You led me away from home just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that's what really hurts
The morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age
But that don't worry me none, in my eyes you're everything
I laughed at all your jokes, my love you didn't need to coax
Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore
You led me away from home just to save you from being alone
You stole my soul and that's a pain I can do without
All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand
But you turned into a lover and mother what a lover you wore me out
All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head
Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore
You led me away from home 'cause you didn't want to be alone
You stole my heart, I couldn't leave you anyway
I suppose I could collect my books and go on back to school
Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool
Or find myself a rock and roll band that needs a helping hand
Oh Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face
You made a first class fool out of me but I'm as blind as a fool can be
You stole my heart but I love you anyway
Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face
I'll get on back home one of these days
291
MAGINOT WALTZ
All off to Brighton in a charabanc
Albert played his banjo and how we sang
The beer was expensive but the laughter was free
How we all love to be beside the sea
Albert had a cousin called Marjorie
And I’d begun to notice she’d begun to notice me
I quickly decided if she didn’t mind it
I would spend the day in her glad company
We shared a plate of whelks walking side by side
I said she weren’t to old to take a donkey ride
But I didn’t mind when she laughed and said no
So we paused for a while and listened to a minstrel show
There was a notice on the Palace pier
It said there was to be a dance that night and it wasn’t dear
I explained of course that I could only waltz
And so we waltzed to every tune and air
Nine o’clock came round we had to take the charabanc
Albert was too drunk to play but still we sang
All except Marjorie I could tell at a glance
Because me and Albert were leaving for France
I said we’d both be home in a week or two
Me and Albert and Lord Kitchener were gonna teach the Hun a thing or two
I’m bound to return so for me do not yearn
And we will waltz together all our lives through
292
MAN OF THE WORLD
Shall I tell you about my life
They say I’m a man of the world
I’ve flown across every time
And I’ve seen lots of pretty girls
I guess I’ve got everything I need
I wouldn’t ask for more
And there’s no one I’d rather be
But I just wish I had never been born
And I need a good woman
To make me feel like a good man should
I don’t say I’m a good man
Or that I would be if I could
I could tell you about my life
And keep you amused I’m sure
About all the times I’ve cried
And how I don’t want to be sad any more
And how I wish I was in love
293
MARMOR, STEIN UND EISEN BRICHT
Weine nicht wenn der Regen fällt,
Damm-damm, damm-damm
Es gibt einen, der zu Dir hält
Damm-damm, damm-damm
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
Aber unsere Liebe nicht
Alles, alles geht vorbei
Doch wir sind uns treu
Kann ich einmal nicht bei Dir sein
Damm-damm, damm-damm
Denk' daran, Du bist nicht allein
Damm-damm, damm-damm
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
Aber unsere Liebe nicht
Alles, alles geht vorbei
Doch wir sind uns treu
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
Aber unsere Liebe nicht
Alles, alles geht vorbei
Doch wir sind uns treu
Nimm den goldenen Ring von mir
Damm-damm, damm-damm
Bist Du traurig dann sagt er Dir
Damm-damm, damm-damm
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
Aber unsere Liebe nicht
Alles, alles geht vorbei
Doch wir sind uns treu
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
Aber unsere Liebe nicht
Alles, alles geht vorbei
Doch wir sind uns treu
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
Ins Gras müß' 'mer beißen, ob's uns schmeckt oder nicht
Alles, alles, alles geht vorbei
Durch die Pershing 2.
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MATTIE’S RAG
Oh Matti open up the door
That's right I'm home again
You've got a big surprise in store
Turn round and count to ten
Wait till you see what I've got you well
You'll say it's a magic thing
(Wait till you see it in motion)
Wind them up and you start to sing
I've been away for quite a while
And I wanna hear all your news
Speak to me let me see you smile
'Cause I've got those homesick blues
When I go down to the city
I just don't know wrong from right
When I come back to you Matti
You make me see the light
Love is a singular thing
It can take you up or bring you down
Yes love is a song that I sing
So come on now Matti listen to this sound
When you grow up we'll sit and talk
Of how things used to be
I'll be your (friend no matter what)
With all these memories
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MATTY GROVES
A holiday a holiday and the first one of the year
Lord Donald’s wife went into the church the gospel for to hear
And when the meeting it was done she cast her eyes about
And there she saw little Matty Groves a walking in the crowd
Come home with me little Matty Groves come home with me tonight
Come home with me little Matty Groves and sleep with me ‘till light
Oh I can’t come home and I won’t come home and sleep with you tonight
By the rings on your finger I can see you are Lord Donald’s wife
Oh what if I am Lord Donald’s wife Lord Donald’s not at home
He is out in the far corn fields bringing the yearlings home
A servant who was standing by on hearing what was said
He swore Lord Donald he would know before the sun was set
And in his hurry to carry the news he bent his breast and he ran
And when he came to the broad mill stream he took off his shoes and swam
If this be false Lord Donald cried then hanged you shall be
But if this be true then half my lands I’ll freely give to thee
Little Matty Groves he lay down and took a little sleep
When he arose Lord Donald was standing at his feet
Saying how d’you like my feather bed and how d’you like my sheets
And how d’you like my lady fair that lies in your arms asleep
Oh ‘tis well I like your feather bed and well I like your sheets
But it’s better I like your lady who lies in my arms asleep
Well get up get up Lord Donald cried get up as quick as you can
It’ll never be said in all the land that I slew a naked man
Oh I can’t get up and I won’t get up and I can’t get up for my life
For you have two long beaten swords and I but a pocket knife
It’s true I’ve two long beaten swords and they cost me deep in the purse
But you shall have the better of them and I shall have the worst
And you shall strike the very first blow and strike it like a man
And I shall strike the very next blow and I’ll kill you if I can
So Matty struck the very first blow and it hurt Lord Donald sore
Lord Donald struck the very next blow and Matty struck no more
So then Lord Donald took his wife and he sat her on his knee
Saying who d’you like the best of us Matty Groves or me
And then up spoke his only wife never heard to speak so free
I’d rather a kiss from dead Matty’s lips than you and your finery
And then Lord Donald he got up and loudly he did bawl
He struck his wife through the heart and pinned her against the wall
A grave a grave Lord Donald cried to put these lovers in
But bury my lady on the top for she was of noble kin
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MAXWELL'S SILVER HAMMER
Joan was quizzical, studied paraphysical
Science in the home.
Late night, all alone with the test-tube, oh, ohoh, oh.
Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine,
Calls her on the phone.
Can I take you out to the pictures, Joan
But as she's getting ready to go,
A knock comes from the door.
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down on her head.
Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead.
Back in school again, Maxwell plays the fool again.
Teacher gets annoyed,
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant scene.
She tells Max to stay, when the class has gone away,
So he waits behind.
Writing fifty times, I must not be so.
But when she turns her back to the boy,
He creeps up from behind.
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down on her head.
Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead.
P.C. Thirty-one said: "We've caught a dirty one."
Maxwell stands alone.
Painting testimonial pictures, oh, ohoh, oh.
Rose and Valerie, screaming from the gallery,
Say he must go free.
The judge does not agree, and he tells them so.
But as the words are leaving his lips,
A noise comes from behind.
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down on her head.
Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead.
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MAYBELLINE
Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true
You've started back doing the things you used to do
As I was motoring over the hill
I saw Maybelline in a cool Hillile
Cadillac rolling on an open road
Nothing ought to run my vehicle
Cadillac doing about ninety five
A pumping up we're side by side
Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true
You've started back doing the things you used to do
Peeked in the mirror at the top of the hill
Just like swallowing a medicine pill
First thing I saw was that Cadillac grille
Doing one hundred and ten dropping over the that hill
A hock wheel curve a down hill stretch
Me and that cadillac neck and neck
Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true
You've started back doing the things you used to do
Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true
You've started back doing the things you used to do
Cadillac pulled up to one hundred and four
The Falcon got hot and wouldn't do no more
Jumpin’ Jack Flowery started to rain
Tooted my horn but I passed the name
Rain water blowing under my hood
But I knew that was doing my motor good
Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true
You've started back doing the things you used to do
The motor cooled down the heat went down
That's when I heard that highway sound
Cadillac sitting like a ton of lead
A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead
Cadillac looked like a steady steal
And I caught Maybelline at the top of the hill
Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true
You've started back doing the things you used to do
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MEET ME ON THE CORNER
Hey Mr. dream seller where have you been
Tell me have you dreams I can see
I came along just to bring you this song
Can you spare one dream for me
You won’t have met me and you’ll soon forget
So don’t mind me tugging at your sleeve
I’m asking you if I can fix a rendezvous
For your dreams are all I believe
Meet me on the corner when the lights are coming on
And I’ll be there I promise I’ll be there
Tell me empty streets will disappear until the dawn
If you have dreams enough to share
Lay down your bundles of rags and reminders
And spread your wares on the ground
Well I’ve got time if you’re dealing round
I’m just hanging around
Meet me on the corner when the lights are coming on
And I’ll be there I promise I’ll be there
Tell me empty streets will disappear until the dawn
If you have dreams enough to share
Hey Mr. dream seller where have you been
Tell me have you dreams I can see
I came along just to bring you this song
Can you spare one dream for me
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MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
Long distance information
Give me Memphis Tennessee
Help me find the party
Trying to get in touch with me
She would not leave her number
But I know whose place to call
My uncle took the message
And he wrote it on the wall
Last time I saw Marie
She was kissing me goodbye
With hurry home drops on her cheek
That trickled from her eye
We were torn apart because
Her mum did not agree
And broke apart our happy home
In Memphis Tennessee
Long distance information
More than that I cannot add
Only that I miss her
And all the fun we had
Help me find the number
Information please
She's the only one who'd call me here
From Memphis Tennessee
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MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
Wake up early in the morning you hear the church bell ring
You go in a marching to the table you see the same old thing
Knife and fork upon the table nothing in the pan
But you’d better not complain boy
You’ll get trouble with the man
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
And let the midnight special shine a light on me
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
And let midnight special shine your ever loving light on me
If you ever go to Houston well you’d better walk right
And you’d better not stagger and you’d better not fight
‘Cause the sheriff will arrest you and his boys’ll pull you down
And they’re sure to find you guilty, you know you’re prison bound
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
And let the midnight special shine a light on me
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
And let the midnight special shine your ever loving light on me
Yonder comes miss Molly how in the world d’you know
I can tell her by apron and the clothes she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand
She’s came to see the governor she wants to free her man
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
And let the midnight special shine a light on me
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
And let the midnight special shine your ever loving light on me
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
And let the midnight special shine a light on me
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
And let the midnight special shine your ever loving light on me
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
And let the midnight special shine a light on me
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
And let the midnight special shine your ever loving light on me
301
MONEY FOR NOTHING
I want my, I want my MTV I want my, I want my MTV
I want my, I want my MTV I want my, I want my MTV
Now look at them yo-yos, that’s the way to do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain’t working, that’s the way you do it
Money for nothing and your chicks for free
Now that ain’t working that’s the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain’t dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb
We got to install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We got to move these refrigeratoes
We got to move these colour TVs
See that little faggot with the earring and the make up
Yeah buddy that’s his own affair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he’s a millionaire
We got to install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We got to move these refrigeratoes
We got to move these colour TVs
We got to install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We got to move these refrigeratoes
We got to move these colour TVs
I should have learned to play the guitar
I should have learned to play them drums
Look at that mama she’s got it sticking in the camera
Man we could have some fun
And he’s up there what’s that Hawaiian noises
Banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee
Oh that ain’t working that’s the way you do it
Get your money for nothing and your chicks for free
We got to install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We got to move these refrigeratoes
We got to move these colour TVs
Listen her now that ain’t working that’s the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain’t working that’s the way you do it
Money for nothing and your chicks for free
Money for nothing and chicks for free
Get your money for nothing and chicks for free
Get your money for nothing and chicks for free
Get your money for nothing and chicks for free
I want my, I want my MTV I want my, I want my MTV
I want my, I want my MTV I want my, I want my MTV
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MONSTER MASH
I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
He did the mash he did the monster mash he did the mash it was a graveyard smash
He did the mash it caught on in a flash he did the mash he did the monster mash
Mash good easy Igor you impetuous young boy uh uh uh uh
From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroom where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To catch a jolt from my electrodes
They did the mash they did the monster mash they did the mash it was a graveyard smash
They did the mash it caught on in a flash they did the mash they did the monster mash
The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolfman,
Dracula and his son
The scene was rocking; all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group “The Crypt Kicker Five”
They did the mash they did the monster mash they did the mash it was a graveyard smash
They did the mash it caught on in a flash they did the mash they did the monster mash
Out from his coffin Drac’s voice did ring
Seems he was troubled by just one thing
He opened the lid and he shook his fist
And said “Whatever happened to my Transylvanian twist ?”
He did the mash he did the monster mash he did the mash it was a graveyard smash
He did the mash it caught on in a flash he did the mash he did the monster mash
Now everything’s cool, Drac’s a part of the band
And my monster mash is the hit of the land
For you, the living this mash is meant too
When you get to my door tell them Boris sent you
And do the mash you did the monster mash do the mash it was a graveyard smash
Do the mash it caught on in a flash do the mash you did the monster mash
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MONTEGO BAY
Girl there to meet me when the Boeing lands
Keys to the MG will be in her hands
Just do the driving and I’m on my way
Sun on the right side Montego Bay
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Come sing me love come sing me Montego Bay
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Girl you no meet me like a brother would
I think I remember girl it’s twice as good
Light cooled Bacardi rum is from a silver tray
Just to be thirsty in Montego Bay
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Come sing me love come sing me Montego Bay
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Late in the night we’ll turn the lobster red
I still feel the motion even home in bed
I tell you it’s hard for me to stay away
Do anything ‘till you’ve been down Montego Bay
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Come sing me love come sing me Montego Bay
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
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MOON SHADOW
Oh, I'm being followed by a moon shadow,
Moon shadow, moon shadow.
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow,
Moon shadow, moon shadow.
And if I ever lose my hands,
Lose my plough, lose my land,
Oh, if I ever lose my hands,
Way oh way oh oh oh oh
I won't have to work no more.
And if I ever lose my eyes,
If my colours all run dry,
Yes, if I ever lose my eyes,
Way oh way oh oh oh oh
I won't have to cry no more.
Oh, I'm being followed by a moon shadow,
Moon shadow, moon shadow.
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow,
Moon shadow, moon shadow.
And if I ever lose my legs,
I won't moan, and I won't beg.
Oh, if I ever lose my legs,
Way oh way oh oh oh oh
I won't have to walk no more.
And if I ever lose my mouth,
All my teeth, north and south,
Yes, if I ever lose my mouth,
Way oh way oh oh oh oh
I won't have to talk ...
Did it take long to find me ?
I asked the faithful light.
Did it take long to find me,
And are you gonna stay tonight ?
Oh, I'm being followed by a moon shadow,
Moon shadow, moon shadow.
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow,
Moon shadow, moon shadow.
305
MORRIS MAN’S LAMENT
As I walked by the brewery one morning so fair
To view the still vats and to sniff the malt air
I spied an old morris man singing this song
Oh bury me here ‘cause me gallup has gone
Wrap me up in me bells and me baldricks
No more in the pubs I’ll be seen
Just tell me old side mates I’ve taken a slide mates
And I’ll see you someday when your bells have turned green
Now “Bells have turned green” is a pub I’ve heard tell
Where morris men go when they don’t go to hell
Where the beer is so pretty and the girls are all free
They take you to heaven and don’t ask a fee
Wrap me up in me bells and me baldricks
No more in the pubs I’ll be seen
Just tell me old side mates I’ve taken a slide mates
And I’ll see you someday when your bells have turned green
Where it always rains when you dance “Shepherd’s hey”
And you don’t need a squire to show you the way
And the bagman is there buying drinks by the score
And everyone say’s good let’s have twenty more
Wrap me up in me bells and me baldricks
No more in the pubs I’ll be seen
Just tell me old side mates I’ve taken a slide mates
And I’ll see you someday when your bells have turned green
My time has been good boys I’ve had a fair part
And from your kind company I sadly do part
These words slowly dropped from his lips and his jaw
As he sank down contented in booze on the floor
Wrap me up in me bells and me baldricks
No more in the pubs I’ll be seen
Just tell me old side mates I’ve taken a slide mates
And I’ll see you someday when your bells have turned green
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A MOTHER’S LAMENT
A muvver was washing ‘er baby one night
The youngest of ten and a delicate mite
The muvver was poor and the baby was thin
It was nought but an skelington covered with skin
The muvver turned round , picked the soap off the rack
She was only a moment but when she looked back
‘Er baby had gorn and in anguish she cried
“Oh where has my baby gorn ?” the angels replied ...
Oh your baby has gorn down the plug ‘ole
Your baby ‘as gorn down the plug
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin
It should ‘ave been washed in a jug (in a jug)
Oh your baby is perfectly ‘appy
It won’t need a barf no more
It’s a muckin’ abaht wiv the angels above
Not lorst but gone before
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MOVING ON
I'm gonna leave this place tomorrow
I'm gonna leave this town behind
I'll be gone before the morning
I'll be outta sight and outta mind
That's why I'm moving on I'm moving on
I've been hanging round too long
It's time I was moving on
Well I'm tired of the same old faces
And I'm sick of the same old things
I'm getting bored with the same old places
Everybody starts to look the same
That's why I'm moving on I'm moving on
I've been hanging round too long
It's time I was moving on
I was trying to settle down here
But my feet just a won't stay still
And I felt that the grass is greener
On the other side of the hill
That's why I'm moving on I'm moving on
I've been hanging round too long
It's time I was moving on
I'm gonna leave this town tomorrow
I'm gonna leave this place behind
You can bet your bottom dollar
All my troubles will be far behind
That's why I'm moving on I'm moving on
I've been hanging round too long
It's time I was moving on
I've been hanging round too long
It's time I was moving on
I've been hanging round too long
It's time I was moving on
308
MR. TAMBOURINE MAN
Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.
Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following
you.
Though I know that evening's empire has returned into sand,
Vanished from my hand, left me blindly here to stand,
But still not sleeping.
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet.
I have no one to meet, and the ancient, empty street's
Too dead for dreaming.
Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.
Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following
you.
Take me for a trip upon your magic whirling ship.
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,
My toes too numb to step,
Wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Onto my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.
I promise to go under it.
Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.
Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following
you.
Though you might hear laughing spinning swinging madly across the sun,
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escaping on the run,
But for the sky, there are no fences facing.
And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind.
I wouldn't play it any mind,
It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing.
Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.
Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following
you.
Then take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind.
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free.
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate, driven deep beneath the waves.
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.
Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.
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Hey Mr. Tambourine man play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following
you.
310
MRS FANSHAW
When Mrs. Fanshaw fantasised, things often got romanticised,
There was for those who liked a rock cake, no bolder cook, by grave mistake,
She put cement dust in the spice, and Fanshaw said “It's very nice”,
And ground his teeth and coughed and sighed, and very soon thereafter , died.
Now though England's a pagan land, some citizens still make a stand,
While Fanshaw's faith was lapsed RC, his wife was Christmas C of E,
Yet down the years she had forgot ,what an arse he was,
And what funerary pomps were meet, and which were poison for her sweet.
A representative of Rome was summoned quickly to the home,
To explain the Catholic rites, and wrongs, and ways, and mays, and mights,
Father Ignatius (29), not only godly, but divine,
Within minutes of the time he met her she found love at first sight in a buretta.
Unchecked by ultra monstrance guilt, her love ran wild and at full tilt,
From that day forth she planned, full spate, to swallow up this celibate
The very night her spouse chose to knock off in, she danced with glee upon his coffin,
And by his box was not a dirge she sang, but praises for the clergy.
With an ardour mostly found in latins, Mrs F. turned up at Mass, and matins,
And from the second row of pews, tried to communicate her views.
Rattling her rosary in her best clothes and hosiery,
With sad unconsummated sighs, Mrs.F. unfrocked him with her eyes.
Her fantasies began to grow, that she could die she loved him so,
What a man so strong and chaste, what a chest, oh what a waste,
If he could only leave his pedestal and clasp her close, or even better still,
Inflamed with lust and satyriasis, chase her naked round the diocese.
But Mrs. Fanshaw’s guile and gaiety, ‘though it might have laid the laity,
Sometimes coy, sometimes salacious, never did ignite Ignatius.
Her passions always animated, blew up one Sunday when he stated,
“Today I have this news to dish up, I'm leaving to become a bishop”
Mrs. Fanshaw blenched, Mrs. Fanshaw paled, Mrs. Fanshaw cried, Mrs. Fanshaw wailed,
My love won’t die, my love won’t cease, how can you leave the diocese?
She didn’t even get a kick from thinking of his bishopric,
A fallacy she said, that’s it, and threw a most unpleasant fit.
They saw her raise her head and shake it, no truth had ever seemed so naked
Since Adam's first defoliation, no Budda, or other holy Asian
Could calm the rage that boiled up in her breast now she was foiled,
And voicing vulgar unromanticals, she kicked him soundly in the canticles.
The congregation rose in wrath, to avenge this insult to the cloth,
Not lacking for a precedent, to burn her at the stake they went.
Hymn books and Psalters soon caught fire, they threw her screaming on the pyre,
And she remained though quickly slaked, for ever afterwards half baked.
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MRS. ROBINSON
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know,
Wow wow wow
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know,
Wow wow wow
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes
It's a little secret, just the Robinsons' affair
Most of all you've got to hide from the kids
Coo, coo, coo-ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know,
Wow wow wow
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates' debate
Laugh about it, shout about it when you've got to choose
Every way you look at it, you lose
Where have you gone, Joe Di Maggio
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you,
Woo woo woo
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson
"Jolting Joe" has left and gone away
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
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MY LIFE
Got a call from an old friend we used to be real close
Said he couldn't go on the American way
Closed his shop sold his house bought a ticket to the west coast
Now he gives them a stand up routine in L A
I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm all right
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore this is my life
Go ahead with your own life leave me alone
I never said you had to offer me a second chance
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
Don't get me wrong I still belong
You can speak your mind but not on my time
They will tell you you can't sleep alone in a strange place
Then they tell you you can't sleep with somebody else
Ah but sooner or later you sleep in your own space
Either way it's OK you wake up with yourself
I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm all right
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore this is my life
Go ahead with your own life leave me alone
I never said you had to offer me a second chance
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
Don't get me wrong I still belong
You can speak your mind but not on my time
I don't care anymore what you say anymore this is my life
Go ahead with your own life leave me alone
313
MY SWEET LORD
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
I really want to see you,
Really want to be with you
Really want to see you Lord
But it takes so long my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
I really want to know you
Really want to go with you
Really want to show you Lord
That it won't take long my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
I really want to see you
Really want to see you
Really want to see you Lord
Really want to see you Lord
But it takes so long my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
I really want to know you
Really want to go with you
Really want to show you Lord
That it won't take long my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
My sweet Lord, mm, my Lord, mm, my Lord
314
MY TOWN
When I awake I think of you
Only my heartbreak makes me feel like a fool
You led me on just to bring me down and I felt so low
So if the stars are out tonight I’ll get up and go
On my way I walked through town
Stopped at your house but you weren't around
The lights were on to ward off thieves but you stayed out all night
It's you who stole my heart when you hadn't any right
It's my town but I've got to leave it
And head south to where the climate is kind
And if the time comes when I'm feeling better
I'll be back with the birds in the spring
Paid my fare and took the train
I'd soon forget but now I feel the pain
Though I tried to think of better days lying in my berth
I pondered revenge for what it was worth
It's my town but I've got to leave it
And head south to where the climate is kind
And if the time comes when I'm feeling better
I'll be back with the birds in the spring
315
I NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD
I need someone’s hand to lead me through the night
I need someone’s arms to hold squeeze and squeeze me tight
Now when the night begins I’ve had enough
BecauseI need your love so bad
I need some lips to feel next to mine
I need someone to stand up and tell me when I’m lying
But when the lights are low and it’s time to go
That’s when I need your love so bad
So why don’t you give it up and bring it home to me
Or write it on a piece of paper baby so it can be read to me
Tell me that you love me and stop driving me mad
Because I, I need your love so bad
I need your soft voice to talk to me at night
I don’t want you to worry baby I know we can make everything all right
Listen to my plea baby bring it to me
Because I need your love so bad
316
NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN
She broke down and left me again
Made me see where I'd been
Been down one time been down two times
Never going back again
You don't know what it means to win
Come down and see me again
Been down one time been down two times
Never going back again
317
NEW KID IN TOWN
There’s talk on the street, it sounds so familiar
Great expectations, everybody’s watchin’ you
People you meet they all seem to know you
Even your old friends treat you like you’re something new
Johnny come lately, the new kid in town
Everybody loves you, so don’t let them down
You look in her eyes, they music begins to play
Hopeless romantics here we go again
But after a while you’re looking the other way
It’s those restless hearts that never mend
Johnny come lately, the new kid in town
Will she still love you, when you’re not around
There’s so many things you should have told her
But night after night you’re willing to hold her,
Just hold her tears on your shoulder
There’s talk on the street, it’s there to remind you
Doesn’t really matter which side you’re on
You’re walking away and they’re talking behind you
They will never forget you ‘till somebody new comes along
Where’ve you been lately, there’s a new kid in town
Everybody loves him don’t they?
And he’s holding her and you’re still around oh my my
There’s a new kid in town
Just another new kid in town
Everybody’s talking ‘bout the new kid in town, oo hoo
Everybody walking like the new kid in town
There’s a new kid in town, I don’t want to hear it
There’s a new kid in town, I don’t want to hear it
There’s a new kid in town
There’s a new kid in town
There’s a new kid in town everybody’s talking
There’s a new kid in town everybody’s walking
There’s a new kid in town
There’s a new kid in town
318
THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN
Virgil Caine is my name
And I served on the Danville train
‘Till Stoneman’s cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the tenth Richmond had fell
It’s a time I remember oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she said to me
Virgil quick come see
There goes the Robert E. Lee
Now, I don't mind them chopping wood
And I don't care if their money's no good
Just take what you need and leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
Like my father before me
I'm a working man
And like my brother before me
I took the rebel stand
Well, he was just eighteen, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he’s in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
319
NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN
Nights in white satin never reaching the end
Letters I've written never meaning to send
Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before
Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore
'Cause I love you, yes, I love you
Oh, how I love you
Gazing at people, some hand in hand
Just what I'm going through, they can't understand
Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend
Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end
And I love you, yes, I love you
Oh, how I love you
Nights in white satin never reaching the end
Letters I've written never meaning to send
Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before
Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore
'Cause I love you, yes, I love you
Oh, how I love you
320
NO MATTER WHAT
No matter what you are
I will always be with you
Doesn’t matter what you do girl
Ooh girl with you
No matter what you do
I will always be around
Won’t you tell me what you’ve found girl
Ooh girl won’t you
Knock down the old grey wall
Be a part of it all
Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do
If you would give me all
I would give it to you
Nothing would be,
Nothing would be,
Nothing would be
No matter where you go
There will always be a place
Can’t you see it in my face girl
Ooh girl won’t you
Ooh girl won’t you
321
NO MILK TODAY
No milk today, my love is gone away
The bottle stands forlorne, a symbol of the dawn
No milk today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by, don't know the reason why
How could they know just what that message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know a palace there had been
Behind the door, where my love reigned as queen
No milk today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay we turned night into day
But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in the main street back of town
Becomes a shrine when I think of you only
Just two up two down
No milk today, my love is gone away
The bottle stands forlorne, a symbol of the dawn
No milk today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by, don't know the reason why
As music played the faster we did dance
We felt both in at once the start of our romance
How could they know just what that message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know a palace there had been
Behind the door, where my love reigned as queen
No milk today, my love is gone away
The bottle stands forlorne, a symbol of the dawn
No milk today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by, don't know the reason why
But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in the main street back of town
Becomes a shrine when I think of you only
Just two up two down
322
NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS
I can wait another day until I call you
You’ve only got my heart on a string
And everything a flutter
But another lonely night might take forever
We’ve only got each other to blame
It’s all the same to love
‘Cause I know what I feel to be right
No more lonely nights
No more lonely nights
You’re my guiding light
Day or night I’m always there
No more lonely nights (never be another)
No more lonely nights
You’re my guiding light
Day or night I’m always there
And I won’t go away until you tell me so
No, I’ll never go away
Yes, I know what I feel to be right
No more lonely nights (never be another)
No more lonely nights
You’re my guiding light
Day or night I’m always there
And I won’t go away until you tell me so
No, I’ll never go away
No more lonely nights, no no
323
NO WOMAN, NO CRY
No woman, no cry no woman, no cry
No woman, no cry no woman, no cry
Say, I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
Observing the hypocrites
As they would mingle with the good people we meet
Good friends we have, good friends we've lost
Along the way
In this bright future you can forget your past
So dry your tears I say, and
No woman, no cry no woman, no cry
Eh, little darling, don't shed no tears no woman, no cry
Say, I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire light
As it was love would burning through the night
Then we would cook corn-meal porridge
Of which I'll share with you
My feet is my only carriage
So I've got to push on through
But while I'm gone
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
No woman, no cry no woman, no cry
No woman, no cry no woman, no cry
Say, I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire light
As it was love would burning through the night
Then we would cook corn-meal porridge
Of which I'll share with you
My feet is my only carriage
So I've got to push on through
No woman, no cry no woman, no cry
No woman, no cry no woman, no cry
No woman, no cry no woman, no cry
No woman, no cry no woman, no cry
324
NOTHING
It’s been seven hours and fifteen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away
Since you’ve been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing, I said nothing can take away these blues
‘Cause nothing compares, nothing compares to you
It’s been so lonely without you here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong
I could put my arms around every girl I see
But they’d only remind me of you
I went to the doctor, guess what she told me, guess what she told me
She said boy you’d better try to have fun no matter what you do
But she’s a fool
‘Cause nothing compare, nothing compare to you
All the flowers that you planted for me in the back yard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard
But I’m willing to give it another try
‘Cause nothing compares, nothing compares to you
‘Cause nothing compares, nothing compares to you
‘Cause nothing compares, nothing compares to you
325
NOW THAT THE MAGIC HAS GONE
In my life I’ve seen sorrow, heartache and pain
I’ve burned in the sunshine, been drowned in the pouring rain
Had too many lovers and not too much love
I’ve been tried and convicted of things I’m not guilty of
I was locked in a prison, ‘till you came and set me free
So how can you say you’re no good for me
Now that the magic has gone
You just wanna walk away, nothing left to say
Anyway, now that the magic has gone
There’s no sense in holding on, baby now
Now that the magic has gone
You know love can be tender, love can be cruel
It can smile like an angel while it treats you just like a fool
It captures and haunts you until you give in
And it stacks the dice against you in a game you never can win
Just when I was thinking lady luck was you and me
You tell me it’s over, it’s time for breaking free
Now that the magic has gone
You just wanna walk away, nothing left to say
Anyway, now that the magic has gone
There’s no sense in holding on, baby now
Now that the magic has gone
I won’t try to hold you down
I might as well let go
But my heart keeps asking how to
There’s no prize for the loser, only the winner takes the purse
Some say love’s a blessing, but for me it’s just a curse
Now that the magic has gone
You just wanna walk away, nothing left to say
Anyway, now that the magic has gone
There’s no sense in holding on, baby now
Now that the magic has gone
326
NUTTING GIRL
Come all you jovial fellows and listen to my song
It is a little ditty and it won’t contain you long
It’s of a fair young maiden was living down in Kent
Arose one Summer’s morning and she a nutting went
To me right fol rol to me rol tol tol
Sing wack for the doo ral day
And what few nuts this poor girl had
She threw them all away
It’s of this brisk young ploughboy was ploughing of his land
He called unto his horses and bid them gently stand
As he sat down upon his plough all for a song to sing
His voice was so melodious it made the valleys ring
To me right fol rol to me rol tol tol
Sing wack for the doo ral day
And what few nuts this poor girl had
She threw them all away
It’s of this fair young damsel was nutting in the woods
His voice was so melodious it charmed her where she stood
She could no longer stay
And what few nuts she had poor girl she threw them all away
To me right fol rol to me rol tol tol
Sing wack for the doo ral day
And what few nuts this poor girl had
She threw them all away
She came up to young Johnny as he sat on his plough
She said young man I really feel I cannot tell you how
So he took her to some shady broom and there he laid her down
She said young man I really feel the world go round and round (/up and down)
To me right fol rol to me rol tol tol
Sing wack for the doo ral day
And what few nuts this poor girl had
She threw them all away
So come all you local maidens this warning by me take
If you should a nutting go don’t stay out too late
For if you should stay too late to hear the ploughboy sing
You might have a young farmer to nurse up in the Spring
To me right fol rol to me rol tol tol
Sing wack for the doo ral day
And what few nuts this poor girl had
She threw them all away
327
OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA
Desmond has a barrow in the market place
Molly is the singer in a band
Desmond says to Molly, "Girl, I like your face."
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on
Desmond takes a trolley to the jeweller's store
Buys a twenty carat golden ring
Takes it back to Molly waiting at the door
And as he gives it to her she begins to sing
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on
In a couple of years they have build a home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones
Happy ever after in the market place
Desmond lets the children lend a hand
Molly stays at home and does her pretty face
And in the evening she still sings it with the band
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on
In a couple of years they have build a home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on
Happy ever after in the market place
Molly lets the children lend a hand
Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
And in the evening she's a singer with the band
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on
Ob-la-di ob-la-da, life goes on, woh lala, how the life goes on
And if you want some fun
Sing ob-la-di-bla-da
328
OH BOY
All my love, all my kissing
You don't know what you've been missing
Oh boy, when you're with me, oh boy
The world would see that you were meant for me-e-e-e
All my life, I've been a-waiting
Tonight there'll be no hesitating
Oh boy, when you're with me, oh boy
The world would see that you were meant for me-e-e-e
Stars appear and shadows are a-falling
I can hear my heart a-calling
If you're not the lover making everything right
I'm gonna be your baby tonight
All my life, I've been a-waiting
Tonight there'll be no hesitating
Stars appear and shadows are a-falling
I can hear my heart a-calling
A little bit of loving makes everything all right
I'm gonna be your baby tonight
All my love, all my kissing
You don't know what you've been missing
Oh boy, when you're with me, oh boy
The world would see that you were meant for me-e-e-e
All my life, I've been a-waiting
Tonight there'll be no hesitating
Oh boy, when you're with me, oh boy
The world would see that you were meant for me-e-e-e
329
THE OLD DUN COW
Some pals and me in a public house, were playing dominoes one night
When all of a sudden in the pot man rushed, with his face all chalky white
What’s up said Brown, have you seen your Aunt, have you seen your Aunt Maria
My Aunt Marie be blowed said he, the bleeding pub’s on fire
And there was Brown upside down, mopping up the whisky on the floor
Booze booze the firemen cried, as they came knocking at the door
Don’t let them in ‘till it’s all mopped up, someone shouted McIntyre
And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk, when the Old Dun Cow caught fire
Oh fine said Brown what a bit of luck, come along with me he said
Down in the cellar if the fire’s not there, we’ll have a rare old spree
So we all went down with good old Brown, and the beer could not be missed
We hadn’t been there ten minutes or more, before we were quite pissed
And there was Brown upside down, mopping up the whisky on the floor
Booze booze the firemen cried, as they came knocking at the door
Don’t let them in ‘till it’s all mopped up, someone shouted McIntyre
And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk, when the Old Dun Cow caught fire
Old Johnson rushed to the port wine tub, and gave it a few hard knocks
Then he took off his pantaloons, likewise his shoes and socks
Hold on said Snooks if you want to wash your feet, there’s a drop of old ale right there
Don’t put your trotters in the port wine tub, when we’ve got some old stale beer
And there was Brown upside down, mopping up the whisky on the floor
Booze booze the firemen cried, as they came knocking at the door
Don’t let them in ‘till it’s all mopped up, someone shouted McIntyre
And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk, when the Old Dun Cow caught fire
Just then there was a terrible crash, and half the bloody roof gave way
We got soaked with the firemen’s hose, but still we were quite gay
Well we got some sacks and some old tin tacks, and bunged ourselves inside
And we kept on drinking good old scotch ‘till we were bleary eyed
And there was Brown upside down, mopping up the whisky on the floor
Booze booze the firemen cried, as they came knocking at the door
Don’t let them in ‘till it’s all mopped up, someone shouted McIntyre
And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk, when the Old Dun Cow caught fire
330
THE OLDEST SWINGER
When you tap up a bird in the folk club bar
Drive her home in your comfy car
Find you went to school with her ma and pa
You’re the oldest swinger in town
When you avoid a mirror by the light of the day
Think it looks distinguished when your hair turns grey
Zip up your Wranglers and your belly’s in the way
You’re the oldest swinger in town
There he goes with his wire wheels
Easy Rider specs and his nine inch heels
He never shows how old he feels
Cause he’s the oldest swinger in town
When you blow-wave your hair twice a week
The girls don’t understand a word you speak
You walk in the disco and they offer you their seat
You’re the oldest swinger in town
When you prefer beer to Bacardi and coke
Suffer next morning from the fags you smoke
When you’d have another dance but you’re scared of a stroke
You’re the oldest swinger in town
There he goes with his wire wheels
Easy Rider specs and his nine inch heels
He never shows how old he feels
Cause he’s the oldest swinger in town
When sex becomes a monthly chore
When you wonder how you every managed on the floor
When sometimes you even forget what it’s for
You’re the oldest swinger in town
And when you’re down to the last of your slim-jim ties
When the president of the Bill Haley Fan Club dies
When you’ve got suitcases instead of bags under your eyes
You’re the oldest swinger in town
331
ON THE BORDER
The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The winds wipe up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails amongst the clouds
And turns the rifles into silver on the border
On my wall the colours of the maps are running
From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming
The torches flare up in the night
The hand that sets the farms alight
Has spread the word to those who’re waiting on the border
In the village where I grew up nothing seems the same
Still you never see the change from day to day
No one sees the customs slip away
Late at night the rain was knocking on my window
I moved across the darkened room and in the lamp glow
I thought I saw down in the street
The spirit of the century
Telling us that we’re standing on the border
On the island where I grew up nothing seems the same
It’s just the patterns that remain an empty shell
But there’s a strangeness in the air
You feel it too well
The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The winds wipe up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails amongst the clouds
And turns the rifles into silver on the border
On the border on the border on the border
332
ONE MORE CHANCE
Calling all olive branches and laid off doves
There's work to do before we say goodbye
And the tears which welled beneath his sombre shroud
And hurt with the pain of somebody who knows
He can never be like the sort of a rose
Whose beauty remains even though the bloom goes
Oh one more chance
Naked tree of winter seems to stand so proud
Lord you know more mortal than we know
And who can see him turning to the face of love
And hear him pleading with her don’t let it die
And I see her leaning on my shoulder to cry
Oh one more chance
And is it too late to change the way we're bound to go
Is it too late for surely one of us must know
333
ONE MORE NIGHT
I've been trying oh so long to let you know
Let you know know how I feel
So if I stumble and if I fall just hold me back
So I can beat you see
Please just give me one more night
Give me that one more night
Oh one more night cause I can't wait forever
Please just give me one more night
Give me that one more night
Oh one more night cause I can't wait forever
I've been sitting here so long just wasting time
Just staring at the phone
And I was wondering should I call you then I thought
Well maybe you're not alone
Please just give me one more night
Give me that one more night
Oh one more night cause I can't wait forever
Please just give me one more night
Give me that one more night
Oh one more night cause I can't wait forever
Just give me one more night
Give me that one more night
Oh one more night cause I can't wait for ever
Please just give me one more night
Give me that one more night
Oh one more night cause I can't wait forever
Like a river to the sea I will always be with you
And if you sail away I will follow you
To give me one more night
Just give me that one more night
One more night cause I can't wait forever
I don't think there'll ever be a time you'll ever feel the same
And I know it's only words
But if you change your mind you know that I'll be here
And maybe we both can love
I'll give you just one more night
Give me that one more night
Just one more night cause I can't wait for ever
Just give me one more night
Give me that one more night
Just one more night cause I can't wait forever
334
ONE OF THESE NIGHTS
One of these nights one of these crazy old nights
We’re gonna find out pretty mama what turns on your lights
The full moon is calling the fever is high
And the wicked wind whispers and moans
You’ve got your demons you’ve got desires
Well I’ve got a few of my own
Ooh someone to be kind to
In between the dark and the light
Ooh coming right behind you
Swear I’m gonna find you one of these nights
One of these dreams one of these lost and lonely dreams now
We’re gonna find one girl one that really screams
I’ve been searching for the daughter of the devil himself
I’ve been searching for an angel in white
I’ve been waiting for a woman who’s a little of both
And I can feel her but she’s nowhere in sight
Ooh loneliness will blind you
In between the wrong and the right
Ooh coming right behind you
Swear I’m gonna find you one of these nights
One of these nights
In between the dark and the light
Coming right behind you
Swear I’m gonna find you
Get you baby one of these nights
One of these nights
One of these nights
One of these nights
One of these nights
One of these nights
One of these nights
One of these nights
One of these nights
One of these nights
335
ONLY LOVE
Some say a heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it you can’t mend it
And my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean
They say that death is a tragedy
It comes once and then it’s over
But my only wish is for that deep dark abyss
‘Cause what’s the use of living with no true lover
When harm is done no love can be won
I know it happens frequently
What I can’t understand and please God hold my hand
Is why it should happen to me
And it’s only love and it’s only love
That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out
That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out
336
ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
Come out Virginia don’t let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
But sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
Well they showed you a statue and told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
But they never told you the price that you’d pay
For things that you might have done
For only the good die young that’s what I said
Only the good die young, only the good die young
You might have heard that I run with a dangerous crowd
We ain’t too pretty, we ain’t too proud
We might be laughing a bit too loud
But that never hurt no one
So come on Virginia show me a sign
Send up a signal, I’ll throw you the line
The stained glass curtain you’re hiding behind
Never lets in the sun
Only the good die young I tell you
Only the good die young I tell you
You got a nice white dress and a party at your confirmation
You got a brand new soul and a cross of gold
But Virginia they didn’t give you quite enough information
You didn’t count on me when you were counting on your rosary
And they say there’s a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it’s better but I say it ain’t
I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun
You know that only the good die young, I tell yer
You know that only the good die young, I tell yer
You said your mother told you all that I could give you
Was a reputation
Oh she never cared for me
But does she ever say a prayer for me
Ooh woh woh
Come out, come out, come out Virginia don’t let me wait
You Catholic girls start too late
But sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
You know that only the good die young tell you baby
You know that only the good die young only the good die young
Only the good die young, only the good die young
337
OUT BEHIND THE BARN
You say the world’s in trouble
You say you don’t feel clean
You don’t have an answer but baby don’t ask me
I don’t give a darn in hell, out behind the barn
Oh out behind the barn, I’m chewing on a piece of hay
I’m up to my knees in cow shit, I’m shovelling my blues away
You say I was your leader, you say I turned you on
You’re starting to suspect now, it was all a con
I don’t give a darn in hell, out behind the barn
Oh out behind the barn, I’m chewing on a piece of hay
I’m up my knees in cow shit, I’m shovelling my blues away
You say I owe you something, you ask me for my plan
Just who were you expecting, Jesus Zimmerman
I don’t give a darn in hell, out behind the barn
Oh out behind the barn, I’m chewing on a piece of hay
I’m up to my knees in cow shit, I’m shovelling my blues away
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OUT MY BACK DOOR
Just got home from Illinois locked the back door oh boy
Got to set down take a rest on the porch
Imagination set's in fairly soon I'm singing
Toot toot toot looking out my back door
There's a giant doing cartwheels statue wearing high heels
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn
Dinosaur with troll there listening to Buck Owens
Toot toot toot looking out my back door
Tamarinds and elephants are playing in the band
Won't you take a ride on the flying spoon dood ju ju
A wondrous apparition provided by magician
Toot toot toot looking out my back door
Tamarinds and elephants are playing in the band
Won't you take a ride on the flying spoon dood ju ju
Bother me tomorrow today I found no sorrows
Toot toot toot looking out my back door
All our troubles Illinois locked the front door oh boy
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn
Bother me tomorrow today I found no sorrows
Toot toot toot looking out my back door
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OVER AND OVER
Over and over and over
I gotta baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head
When there’s no one looking over my shoulder
I like to write rock and roll but it doesn’t always hang together
So what do I know or any one know about love
You ask me how I feel I said my heart is not for real
Why don’t you listen to it sometimes
I’ve wandered round the moors on many misguided tours
Poor Emily and Charlotte pour their hearts out
What did they know what could they know about love
What do they know or any one know about love
Over and over and over
Baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head
Over and over and over
Baby baby baby what made you think I need it maybe
I’m going up here, rolling up over
I have to write rock and roll just to keep body and soul together
For what do I know or anyone know about love
You ask me how I feel I said my heart is not for real
Why don’t you listen to it sometimes
I’ve wandered round the moors on many misguided tours
Poor Emily and Charlotte pour their hearts out
What did they know what could they know about love
What do they know or any one know about love
Over and over and over
Baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head
Over and over and over
Baby baby baby what made you think I need it maybe
Over and over and over
Baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head
Over and over and over
Baby baby baby what made you think I need it maybe
Over and over and over
Baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head
Over and over and over
Baby baby baby what made you think I need it maybe
Over and over and over
Baby baby baby till my tongue spirals out of my head
Over and over and over
Baby baby baby what made you think I need it maybe
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OVER THE MOUNTAIN
Well it happened to be on a cold Winter’s night
That I first took a notion to marry
I lifted my rod and my hat in my hand
And I seemed for to be in a hurry
I jaunted along to her cabin I came
My heart it rejoiced when I viewed this fair dame
I lifted the latch and I bid her good day
Saying I’m going over the mountain
Now what foolish notions come into your head
But I’m glad for to see you so merry
It’s twelve of the clock and the old folks’ in bed
Speak low or me mummy will hear me
Well if this be jesting then jesting is true
I’ve courted a year and I think that will do
This night I’ve a notion to marry with you
If you’ll venture with me o’er the mountain
Oh no my fond charmer I’ll stay as I am
For I think it be fitter and better
I lifted my rod and my hat in my hand
Saying I’ll soon put an end to this chatter
Stop stop my bold laddie while I get my shoes
My heart it rejoiced when I heard the glad news
She ran to the door saying I’ll hope you’ll excuse
But I’d love to go over the mountain
So now you’re in earnest she said with a smile
Let providence be my director
I’ve love in my bosom I ne’er will deny
Though the sentence it seemed to affect her
I’m using no magic no potions or spells
I’ve a true honest heart and I love you right well
And if you’ll agree and my parents don’t tell
We’ll go pick our way o’er the mountain
Well the moon and the stars ‘luminated the sky
And the morning star brightly shining
When me and my darling set out our long journey
Till we came to the Alter of Hymen
‘Tween fiddling and dancing we spent the whole day
The fear of marriage it soon fades away
And often I turn to my darling and say
Do you rue going over the mountain
Oh no my fond charmer now why should I rue
When I took the advice of my laddie
And now that I’m over the mountain with you
I’ll regard not the scorn of my daddy
Let this be a lesson to all pretty maids
Slip out with your lad when the old folks’ in bed
And don’t be afraid your fair charmer to wed
Don’t you rue going over the mountain
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PARADISE
La la la la, la la la la
La la la la, la la la
La la la la la, la la la la la
If Paradise is half as nice
As Heaven that you take me to
Who needs Paradise
I’d rather have you
They say Paradise is up in the stars
But I needn’t sigh because it’s so far
‘Cause I know it’s worth a Heaven on Earth
For me where you are
The look from your eyes the touch from your hand
And I seem to fly to some other land
When you are around my heart always pounds
Just like a brass band
If Paradise is half as nice
As Heaven that you take me to
Who needs Paradise
I’d rather have you
La la la la, la la la la
La la la la, la la la
La la la la la, la la la la la
If Paradise is half as nice
As Heaven that you take me to
Who needs Paradise
I’d rather have you
Oh yes I’d rather have you
La la la la, la la la la
La la la la, la la la
La la la la la, la la la la la
They say Paradise is up in the stars
But I needn’t sigh because it’s so far
‘Cause I know it’s worth a Heaven on Earth
For me where you are
The look from your eyes the touch from your hand
And I seem to fly to some other land
When you are around my heart always pounds
Just like a brass band
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PARTING GLASS
Oh all the money e’er I had I spent it in good company
And all the harm I’ve ever done alas it was to none but me
And all I’ve done for want of wit to memory now I can’t recall
So fill to me the parting glass goodnight and joy be with you all
Oh all the comrades e’er I had they’re sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts e’er I had they’d wished me one more day to stay
But since it falls upon my lot that I should rise and you should not
I gently rise and softly call goodnight and joy be with you all
If I had money enough to spend and leisure time to sit awhile
There is a fair maid in this town that sorely has my heart beguiled
Her rosy cheeks and ruby lips I own she has my heart in thrall
Then fill to me the parting glass goodnight and joy be with you all
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PEACEFUL EASY FEELING
I like the way your sparkling earrings lay
Against your skin so brown
And I want to sleep with you in the desert tonight
With a billion stars all around
'Cause I've got a peaceful easy feeling
And I know you won't let me down
'Cause I'm already standing
On the ground
And I found out a long time ago
What a woman can do to your soul
Ah but she can't take you anyway
You don't already know how to go
And I've got a peaceful easy feeling
And I know you won't let me down
'Cause I'm already standing
On the ground
I get this feeling I may know you
As a lover and a friend
This voice keeps whispering in my other ear
Tells me I may never see you again
'Cause I get a peaceful easy feeling
And I know you won't let me down
'Cause I'm already standing
I'm already standing yes I'm already standing
On the ground
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PEMBANTU SAYA
I went out on the town last Friday
And brought home a nice take away
My wife left the following morning
‘Cause my pembantu had something to say
So I brought a girl home the next weekend
I was meaning to sport and to play
When I searched high and low for my condoms
My pembantu had thrown them away
So I had her that night without condoms
And then looked for my wallet to pay
My pembantu had been through my pockets
And taken my money away
But now I’m a man without problems
My pembantu has left me today
‘Cause I caught her using my condoms
So then I had something to say
So if you want to avoid having problems
And go out on the town and have fun
Before you employ a pembantu
Make sure that she’s blind, deaf and dumb
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PENNY LANE
Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he's had the pleasure to have known
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say hello
On the corner is a banker with a motor car
The little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a Mac
In the pouring rain, very strange
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit and meanwhile back
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with hourglass
And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen
He likes to keep his fire engine clean
It's a clean machine
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
Full of fish and finger pies in summer meanwhile back
Behind the shelter in the middle of the round about
A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway
In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim
And then the fireman rushes in
From the pouring rain, very strange
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
Penny Lane
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PIANO MAN
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
And the regular crowd shuffles in
There’s an old man sitting next to me
Making love to his tonic and gin
He says son can you play me a memory
I’m not really sure how it goes
But it’s sad and it’s sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man’s clothes
La la la lilly la, la la lilly la la dum
Sing us a song you’re the piano man sing us a song tonight
For we’re all in the mood for a melody and you’ve got us feeling all right
Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he’s quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there’s somewhere that he’d rather be
He says Bill I believe this is killing me
As a smile ran away from his face
Well I’m sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place
La la la lilly la, la la lilly la la dum
Sing us a song you’re the piano man sing us a song tonight
For we’re all in the mood for a melody and you’ve got us feeling all right
Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he’s talking with Davy who’s still in the navy
And probably will be for life
And the waitress is practising politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
And they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it’s better than drinking alone
La la la lilly la, la la lilly la la dum
Sing us a song you’re the piano man sing us a song tonight
For we’re all in the mood for a melody and you’ve got us feeling all right
It’s a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
‘Cause he knows that it’s me that they’re coming to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano it sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say man what are you doing here
La la la lilly la, la la lilly la la dum
Sing us a song you’re the piano man sing us a song tonight
For we’re all in the mood for a melody and you’ve got us feeling all right
347
PINBALL WIZARD
Ever since I was a young boy I’ve played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton I must have played them all
But I ain’t seen nothing like him in any amusement hall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball
He stands like a statue becomes part of the machine
Feeling all the bumpers always plays it clean
Plays by intuition the digit counters fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball
He’s a pinball wizard there has to be a twist
That pinball wizard’s got such a supple wrist
How do you think he does it I don’t know
What makes him so good
Ain’t got no distractions can’t hear no buzzers and bells
Don’t see no lights a flashing plays by sense of smell
Always gets a replay never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball
I thought I was the bally table king
But I’ve just handed my pinball crown to him
Even on my favourite table he can beat my best
His disciples lead him in and he just does the rest
It’s like crazy flipper fingers never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball
348
PITY ME POOR PIG
Was ever a pig maligned as this poor sow
Harried and hunted down as I am now
Condemned to die
On the gallows tree so high there I'll hang
With the rough rope on my neck like a common man
And there I'll jig poor pig
Pity me poor pig condemned to die for butchering a beggars baby
They'll take me out this cold cold morn and hanged I shall be
One morning I saw the wind it drove me wild
Then I came across a beggars boy and killed the child
All for to feel
Some people saw the deed and fell on me
To beat and bind me fast unable to flee
I'd squeal and whine poor swine
Pity me poor pig condemned to die for butchering a beggars baby
They'll take me out this cold cold morn and hanged I shall be
I was chained for many a day in a prison vile
Then grunting dragged from there and brought to trial
In deep disgrace
With the charge read to my face and evidence
And a lawyer came to plead in my defence
For this my crime poor swine
Pity me poor pig condemned to die for butchering a beggars baby
They'll take me out this cold cold morn and hanged I shall be
Rough justice soon was served the sentence read
To take and hang me high till I was dead
As dead as could be
'Twas then they forced on me gentlemen's clothes
With the jacket pulled on my back breeches and hose
Waistcoat and wig poor pig
Pity me poor pig condemned to die for butchering a beggars baby
They'll take me out this cold cold morn and hanged I shall be
No litter of mine shall come to see the show
They're stuck and slaughtered all so long ago
Every one
When my life is done they'll cut me down
My flesh they will divide around the town
No grave to dig for poor pig
Pity me poor pig condemned to die for butchering a beggars baby
They'll take me out this cold cold morn and hanged I shall be
349
PLAISIR D’AMOUR
Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment
Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie
The joys of love are but a moment long
The pains of love endure the whole life long
Your eyes kissed mine I saw the love in them shine
You brought me heaven right then when your eyes kissed mine
Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment
Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie
My love loves me and all the wonders I see
A rainbow shines in my window my love loves me
Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment
Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie
And now she’s gone like a dream that fades into dawn
But the words stay locked in my heart string my love loves me
Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment
Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie
The joys of love are but a moment long
The pains of love endure the whole life long
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POOR FELLOWS
Oh the times they are hard and the wages are poor
None of us poor fellows has money in store
So how can a good man keep the wolf from the door
Poor fellows you all will go down
When the work is scarce tell me how can we eat
How can we afford to buy shoes for our feet
How can we get clothing to keep off the sleet
Poor fellows we might as well drown
If we could find work we ne'er would complain
We'd work well for a master his favour to gain
We'd be honest and truthful with never a stain
Poor fellows how will we survive
We could plough the good land we could fish the salt sea
We could work in the woodland a felling the trees
But when only the breath in our bodies is free
Poor fellows how can we stay alive
Oh a man who is single is free from all care
He can soon leave a district if no work be there
There's no manner of hardship that he cannot bear
Poor fellow if he is alone
But a man with a family his hands they are tied
He must look to their comfort or lose all his pride
He can't wander away but must stay by their side
Poor fellow to maintain his home
And a man that is willing can't understand why
He can find no employment how hard he may try
And it breaks his poor heart for to see his wife cry
So poor fellow he'll do what he can
A man that is desperate and can't find a job
He will not be contented to sit down and sob
Be he ever so honest he'll turn out and rob
Poor fellow to prove he's a man
If a good man goes robbing you know it's a shame
He brings scorn and misfortune on his honest name
But in visible straits tell me who is to blame
Poor fellow you know he must try
So let's hope these hard times they soon pass away
Unto our sweet saviour we earnestly pray
That this dark cloudy morn brings a glorious day
Poor fellows sometime e'er we die
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POOR OLD MAN
Well they say old man your horse will die
And they say so and we hope so
They say old man your horse will die
Oh poor old man
And if he dies we'll tan his hide
And they say so and we hope so
And if he dies we'll tan his hide
Oh poor old man
And if he lives then we'll ride again
And they say so and we hope so
And if he lives then we'll ride again
Oh poor old man
And it's after years of much abuse
And they say so and we hope so
And we'll salt him down for the sailors' use
Oh poor old man
He's as dead as the nail in the lamp room floor
And they say so and we hope so
And he won't bother us no more
Oh poor old man
And it's Sally's in the garden and she's picking the peas
And they say so and we hope so
And her long black hair's hanging down to her knees
Oh poor old man
And it's Sally's in the kitchen and she's baking the dough
And they say so and we hope so
And the cheeks of her arse going chub chub chub
Oh poor old man
And it's down the long and winding road
And they say so and we hope so
It's mahogany beef and weevily bread
Oh poor old man
And I thought I heard the old man say
And they say so and we hope so
Just one more pull and then belay
Oh poor old man
Just one more pull and that will do
And they say so and we hope so
For we're the lads to pull her through
Oh poor old man
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POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN
I’m Popeye the sailor man
I’m Popeye the sailor man
I’m strong to the finich
‘Cause I eats me spinach
I’m Popeye the sailor man
I’m one tough Gazookus who hates all palookas
Wot ain’t on the up and square I biffs ‘em and buffs ‘em
And always out-roughs ‘em and none of ‘em gits nowhere
If anyone dasses to risk my fisk it’s a boff an’ it’s wham understand
So keep good behaviour that’s your one life saver
With Popeye the sailor man
I’m Popeye the sailor man
I’m Popeye the sailor man
I’m strong to the finich
‘Cause I eats me spinach
I’m Popeye the sailor man
353
POWER OF LOVE
The power of love is a curious thing
Make a one man weep make another man sing
Change your heart to a little white dove
More than a feeling that’s the power of love
Tougher than diamonds breaks like cream
Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream
Make a bad one good make a wrong one right
The power of love’ll keep you home at night
It don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need a credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's certain and it's cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That's the power of love
That's the power of love
First time you feel it it may make you sad
Next time you feel it it might make you mad
It could be glad baby you know when you've found
That's the power makes the world go round
It don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need a credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's certain and it's cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That's the power of love
That's the power of love
They say that only love is fair
Yeah but you don't care
But if you know what to do when it gets hold of you
And with a little help from above
You'll feel the power of love
You'll feel the power of love can you feel it
It don't take money, don't take fame
Don't need a credit card to ride this train
Tougher than diamonds and stronger than steel
You won’t feel nothing till you feel no
You feel the power, just feel the power of love
That's the power of love
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
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PRESSURE
You have to learn to pace yourself pressure
You're just like everybody else pressure
You only had to run so far so good
But you will come to a place
Where the only thing you feel
Are loaded guns in your face
And you'll have to deal with pressure
You used to call me paranoid pressure
But even you cannot avoid pressure
You turned the tap dance into your crusade
Now here you are with your faith
And your Peter Pan advice
You had no scars on your face
And you cannot handle pressure
All grown up and no place to go
Psyche one psyche two what do you know
All your life is child thirteen
Sesame street what does it mean
Pressure
I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale
Well here you are with your faith
And your Peter Pan advice
You had no scars on your face
And you cannot handle pressure
Pressure pressure one two three four pressure
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PROUD MARY
Left a good job in the city
Working for a man every night and day
And I never lost a minute of sleep
Worrying 'bout the way things might have been
Big wheel keep on turning
Proud Mary keep on burning
Rolling rolling rolling on the river
Seen a lot of plates in Memphis
Had a lot of wine down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
Till I hitched a ride on the riverboat queen
Big wheel keep on turning
Proud Mary keep on burning
Rolling rolling rolling on the river
Rolling rolling rolling on the river
Rolling rolling rolling on the river
Rolling rolling rolling on the river
If you come down to the river
There you're going to find some people who live
You don't have to worry 'cause you've got no money
People on the river are happy to give
Big wheel keep on turning
Proud Mary keep on burning
Rolling rolling rolling on the river
Rolling rolling rolling on the river
Rolling rolling rolling on the river
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RAISED ON ROBBERY
He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire hotel
He was clinking for diversion he was thinking for himself
A little money riding on the maple leaves
Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves
She said let me sit down you know drinking alone’s a shame it’s a shame it’s a cryin’ shame
Look at those jokers glued to that damn hockey game
Hey honey you’ve got lots of cash
Bring us out a bottle we’ll have some laughs
Gin’s what I’m drinking I was raised on robbery
I’m a pretty good cook sitting on my groceries
Come up to my kitchen I’ll show you my best recipes
I try and I try but I can’t save a cent
I’m up after midnight cooking tryin’ to make the rent
I’m rough but I’m pleasin’ I was raised on robbery
We had a little money once they were pushing through a four lane highway
The government gave us three thousand dollars you should have seen it fly away
First he bought a fifty seven Biscay and he put it in the ditch
He drunk up all the rest that son of a bitch
His blood’s bad whisky I was raised on robbery
You know you ain’t bad looking I like the way you hold your drinks
Come home with me honey I ain’t asking for no full length minks
Hey where you going don’t go yet
Your glass ain’t empty and we’ve just met
You’re mean when you’re loaded I was raised on robbery
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THE RANDY OLD PARSON
Oh it’s of an old farmer who lived up in Kent
With his wife and his daughter of sweet seventeen
She was as fair and as buxom a beauty
The fairest as ever was seen
When over the hill came a randy old parson
And though he was married he fancied her still
Often he swore with the farmer’s fair daughter
That parson he would have his will
Well the very next morning as she was out walking
To view of the fields and meadows so gay
This randy old parson he stepped up to her
And these were the words he did say
Many’s the time I’ve seen you out walking
And you from a distance I’ve often admired
Just one fine night for to lie in your arms
It’d be all my own heart desires
Oh well kind Sir well I’m sure I could please you
We’d have to be quick though tomorrow at night
My mother and father will both be from home
And it’s there you’ll enjoy my delight
And so the young maid agreed with the parson
And back to her cottage she quickly did run
Where she sat down for to think of a plan
How she might show the parson some fun
Well the very next evening the parson came calling
She opened the window to let him come in
She took the parson into her bedchamber
And then to undress did begin
And when he was down to his waistcoat and breeches
The maid for her father so loudly did call
Father come quick for here is a burglar
Come for to murder us all
So the farmer flew into the daughter’s bedchamber
He took up a stick and he beat him about
This randy old parson without any breeches
So loudly for mercy did shout
The poor old parson escaped through the window
And over the hillside he ran for his life
He never stopped until he came
To the arms of his nagging old wife
Now the very next morning they looked in his pockets
Found fifty shillings in silver and gold
The farmer remarked it’s a fitting reward
For a daughter so cunning and bold
The poor old parson awoke in the morning
Both light in the pocket and sore in the head
Then ever after his nagging old wife
Made him wish for the day he were dead
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RED HOUSE
There's a red house over yonder
That's where my baby stays
There's a red house over yonder
That's where my baby stays
I haven't been home to see my fuzzy headed baby
Not in ninety nine and one half days
Wait a minute something's wrong
My key won't unlock this door
Wait a minute something's wrong
My key won't unlock this door
I've got a bad bad feeling
My baby don't live here any more
Well I'll go back over yonder
Way back yonder cross the hill
Well I'll go back over yonder
Way back yonder cross the hill
Sad that my baby don't love me no more
But I know good and well that her sister will
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RED RED WINE
Red red wine goes to my head
Makes me forget that I
Still need her so
Red red wine it’s up to you
All I can do I’ve done,
Memories won’t go,
Memories won’t go
I have sworn that with time
Thoughts of you will leave my head
I was wrong now I find
Just one thing makes me forget
Red red wine stay close to me
Don’t let me be alone
This day we will find
My blue blue mind
I have sworn that with time
Thoughts of you will leave my head
I was wrong now I find
Just one thing makes me forget
Red red wine stay close to me
Don’t let me be alone
This day we will find
My blue blue mind
Red red wine stay close to me
Don’t let me be alone this day we will find
My blue blue mind
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REELIN’ IN THE YEARS
You’re everlasting summer and you see it fading fast
So you grab a piece of something that you think is gonna last
Well you wouldn’t even know a diamond if you held it in your hand
The things you think are precious I can’t understand
Are you reelin’ in the years
Stowin’ away the time
Are you gathering up the tears
Have you had enough of mine
Are you reelin’ in the years
Stowin’ away the time
Are you gathering up the tears
Have you had enough of mine
You’ve been telling me you’re a genius since you were seventeen
In all the time I’ve known you I still don’t know what you mean
The weekend in the college didn’t work out like you planned
The things that pass for knowledge I can’t understand
Are you reelin’ in the years
Stowin’ away the time
Are you gathering up the tears
Have you had enough of mine
Are you reelin’ in the years
Stowin’ away the time
Are you gathering up the tears
Have you had enough of mine
I’ve spent a lot of money and I’ve spent a lot of time
The trip we made to Hollywood is etched upon my mind
After all the things we’ve done and seen you find another man
The things you think are useless I can’t understand
Are you reelin’ in the years
Stowin’ away the time
Are you gathering up the tears
Have you had enough of mine
Are you reelin’ in the years
Stowin’ away the time
Are you gathering up the tears
Have you had enough of mine
361
REELING AND ROCKING
Some times I will then again I think I won’t
Some times I will then again I think I won’t
Some times I will then again I think I won’t
Some times I do then again I think I don’t
I looked at my watch it was a little past one
That’s when we rolled up and had some fun
We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling
Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn
I looked at my watch it was a little past two
She said she don't but I know she do
We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling
Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn
I looked at my watch it was a little past three
That's when she started coming on strong with me
We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling
Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn
I looked at my watch it was a little past four
We did it in the kitchen we did it in the hall
We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling
Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn
I looked at my watch it was a little past five
Man I was feeling more dead than alive
We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling
Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn
I looked at my watch it was a little past six
Gonna keep going till I get my kicks
We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling
Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn
I looked at my watch it was seven thirty
She turned round and called me something dirty
You know what you know why
I'm not gonna tell you why
I looked at my watch it was a little past eight
That's when I got to them pearly gates oh yeah
We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling
Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn
I looked at my watch it was a little past nine
Man we were going like a steam train line
We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling
Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn
I looked at my watch it was a little past ten
She turned round and said do it again
We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling
Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn
I looked at my watch it was a little past eleven
That’s when rolled up and took off to heaven
We were rolling reeling and a rocking rolling
Reeling and a rocking rolling till the break of dawn
362
REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE
The changing of sunlight to moonlight
Reflections of my life, oh how they fill my eyes
The greetings of people in trouble
Reflections of my life, oh how they fill my eyes
All my sorrow, sad tomorrow
Take me back to my own home
All my crying, feel like dying, dying
Take me back to my own home
I’m changing, arranging, I’m changing
I’m changing everything, ah everything around me
The world is a mad place, a bad place, a terrible place to live
Oh but I don’t want to die
All my sorrow, sad tomorrow
Take me back to my own home
All my crying, feel like dying dying
Take me back to my own home
All my sorrow, sad tomorrow
Take me back to my own home
All my crying, feel like dying dying
Take me back to my own home
363
RIGHT DOWN THE LINE
You know how much I need your love
You’ve got that hold over me
As long as I’ve got your love
You know that I’ll never leave
When I wanted you to share my life
I had no doubt in my mind
And it’s been you woman right down the line
You know how much I lean on you
Only you can see
Changes that I’ve been through
Have left their mark on me
You’ve been as constant as the Northern star
The brightest star that shines
And it’s been you woman right down the line
Just want to say this is my way of telling you
Everything I could never say before
Yeah this is my way of telling you
That every day I’ll be loving you so much more
‘Cause you believed in me
Through my darkest night
There’s something better inside of me
You’ve brought me into the light
I threw away all those crazy dream
I put them all behind
And it’s been you woman right down the line
If I should doubt myself
If I’m losing ground
I won’t turn to someone else
They’d only let me down
When I wanted you to share my life
I had no doubt in my mind
And it’s been you woman right down the line
Just want to say this is my way of telling you
Everything I could never say before
Yeah this is my way of telling you
That every day I’ll be loving you so much more
364
RIGHT SAID FRED
Right said Fred both of us together
One each end and steady as we go
Tried to lift it couldn’t even shift it
We was getting nowhere and so we
‘Ad a cup of tea and
Right said Fred ‘ave to take the door off
Need more space to shift the so and so
‘Ad bad twinges takin’ off the ‘inges
We was getting nowhere and so we
‘Ad a cup of tea and
Charley ‘ad a think and ‘e thought we ought
To take off all the ‘andles and the things what ‘eld the candles
But it did no good well I never thought it would
Right said Fred ‘ave to take the wall down
This ‘ere wall is gonna ‘ave to go
Took the wall down even with it all down
We was getting nowhere and so we
‘Ad a cup of tea and
Charley ‘ad a think and he said look Fred
I’ve got a sort of feeling if we removed the ceiling
With a rope or two we could drop the blighter through
Right said Fred climbing up a ladder
With ‘is crowbar gave a mighty blow
Was ‘e in trouble ‘alf a ton of rubble landed on the top of ‘is dough
So Charley and me ‘ad another cup of tea and then we went ‘ome
You know I said to Charley, the trouble with Fred is ‘e’s too ‘asty
And you never get nowhere when you’re too ‘asty !
365
RISING FOR THE MOON
Well I’ve travelled o’er the land
And ride the rolling sky
For that’s the way it is, that is my fortune
There are many years to please
Many people’s love to try
And every day’s begun rising for the moon
Rising for the moon, the sun has set and it is dark
But the sound of the enchanted tune is bright as any spark
The chorus of the dusk regales the evening lark
With the sinking of the sun rising of the moon
There’s a heart in every place
A tear for each farewell
For that’s the way it is, that is my fortune
I’ll lure you as the dust
That the wayward gypsies sell
And every day’s begun rising for the moon
Rising for the moon, the sun has set and it is dark
But the sound of the enchanted tune is bright as any spark
The chorus of the dusk regales the evening lark
With the sinking of the sun rising of the moon
366
ROBERT THE GAY RABBIT
Now people think it’s dandy if a rabbit’s always randy
They expect him to be at it night and day
He can do it on the Metro as long as he’s a hetro
But things are quite different if he’s gay
This happened to a rabbit whose name happened to be Robert
He was born it seems on the wrong side of the tracks
And relative to rabbits he had far from normal habits
Instead of jeans he fancied Petes and Jacks
Why can’t Robert my rabbit be gay?
Why must he make love in the old fashioned way?
They say that there is sexual freedom today
So why can’t Robert my rabbit be gay?
Now woman made him limp so he thought he’d be a pimp
And that way would make his life complete
But instead of being zealous he found he was rather jealous
Of what the girls were getting on the beat
Caught loitering with intent the judge pronounced him bent
And threatened the full wrath of rabbit law
But Robert’s lawyer squealed “That law has been repealed
Now he’s just the same as any other whore”
Now Robert was a honey when he played the Easter bunny
And I don’t mean he looked just like a bag
He could play that female vamp with a natural kind a camp
That made him look like Rupert Bear in drag
The plight of minor groups made him write to Marjorie Proops
And of course she lent a sympathetic ear
She said “My impression is of infantile repression”
Which simple means you’re raging bloody queer
The cruel called him fag when my rabbit slipped his bag
But now at least he’s happy with a man
For those that know of such Robert was more queen than butch
Now he’s found a Flemish giant who’s a ram
367
ROCK AND ROLL
It's been a long time since I rock and roll woman
It's been a long time since I did the stroll
Oh let me get it back let me get it back let me get it back
Baby where I come from
Been a long time
Been a long time
Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time
Yes it has
Been a long time since the book of love
I can't count the tears of a life with no love
Carry me back carry me back carry me back
Baby where I come from
Been a long time
Been a long time
Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time
Yes it has
Seems so long since I walked in the moon light
Making vows that just can’t work out right
Cryin’ open your arms open your arms open your arms
Baby let my love come running in
Been a long time
Been a long time
Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time
Yes it has
Been a long time
Been a long time
Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time
Yes it has
368
ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC
Just let me hear some of that rock and rolling music
Any old way you use it
It's got a back beat you can't lose it
Any old way you choose it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you gonna dance with me
If you gonna dance with me
Well down south they had a jubilee
The folks dancing had a jamboree
Drinking offer from a wooden cup
The folks dancing got all shook up
They started playing that rock and rolling music
Any old way you use it
It's got a back beat you can't lose it
Any old way you choose it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you gonna dance with me
If you gonna dance with me
I took my lover on across the tracks
To hear the tenor man play the sax
I must admit they had a rocking band
They were going like a hurricane
They started blowing that rock and rolling music
Any old way you use it
It's got a back beat you can't lose it
Any old way you choose it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you gonna dance with me
If you gonna dance with me
I've got no kick against modern jazz
Except for when they play it too darn fast
And change the beauty of the melody
Until it sounds just like a symphony
I just go for that rock and rolling music
Any old way you use it
It's got a back beat you can't lose it
Any old way you choose it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you gonna dance with me
If you gonna dance with me
I got no kick against the mambo
And it's too early for the conga
And while they usually take the rumba
Keep on rocking that piana
Well let me hear some of that rock and rolling music
Any old way you use it
It's got a back beat you can't lose it
Any old way you choose it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you gonna dance with me
If you gonna dance with me
369
ROCK IT UP
Well it's Saturday night and I just got paid
All of that money I've been tryin’ to save
My heart says go go every time
Saturday night baby I feel fine
Gonna rock it up gonna rip it up
Gonna shake it up gonna bawl it up
Gonna rip it up at the ball tonight
Along about ten I'm flying high
Band going on into the sky
I don't care about spending my dough
Tonight I'm gonna be one at the show
Gonna rock it up gonna rip it up
Gonna shake it up gonna bawl it up
Gonna rock it up at the ball tonight
Rock rock rock rock rock
Rock rock rock rock rock
Rock rock rock rock rock
Rock rock rock rock rock
Along about ten I'm flying high
Band going on into the sky
I don't care about spending my dough
Tonight I'm gonna be one at the show
Rock rock rock rock rock
Rock rock rock rock rock
Rock rock rock rock rock
Rock rock rock rock rock
Saturday and I'm gonna be there
Gonna go right up to the stairs
I don't care about spending my dough
Tonight I'm gonna be one at the show
Gonna rock it up gonna rip it up
Gonna shake it up gonna bawl it up
Gonna rock it up at the ball tonight
Well it's Saturday night and I just got paid
All of that money I've been tryin’ to save
My heart says go go every time
Saturday night baby I feel fine
Gonna rock it up gonna rip it up
Gonna shake it up gonna bawl it up
Gonna rock it up at the ball tonight
370
ROCK'N ME
Well, I've been lookin' real hard and I'm tryin' to find a job,
But it just gets gettin' tougher every day and I know in my heart
I got to do my part I got to please my sweet baby, yeah
Well, I ain't superstitious and I don't get suspicious
But my woman is a friend of mine and I know that it's true
That all the things that I do will come back to me in my sweet time
So keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
I went from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to Tacoma
Philadelphia and later L.A. Northern California
Where the girls are warm so I could be with my sweet baby, yeah
So keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n, rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n, rock'n me, baby
Don't get superstitious no, don't get suspicious
Baby, you know you are a friend of mine and you know that it's true
That all the things that I do are gonna come back to you in your sweet time
I went from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to Tacoma
Philadelphia and later L.A. Northern California
Where the girls are warm so I could hear my sweet baby say
So keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
So keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
So keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
Keep on rock'n me, baby
371
ROLL AWAY THE STONE
Baby if you just say you care
I’d follow you most anywhere
Roll away the stone
Roll away the stone
And in the darkest night
I’ll keep you warm and all right
Roll away the stone
Roll away the stone
Won’t you roll away the stone
Why’d you become so alone
Won’t you roll away the stone
Don’t you let it lie
No matter if fools say we can’t win
I know I’ll fall in love again
Roll away the stone
Roll away the stone
So seeing we’ve still got a change
Baby in love and sweet romance
Roll away the stone
Roll away the stone
Won’t you roll away the stone
Why’d you become so alone
Won’t you roll away the stone
Don’t you let it lie
There a rock-a-billy party on Saturday night
Are you gonna be there? I’ve got my invite
Are you gonna bring your records
Ooh will do
Won’t you roll away the stone
Why’d you become so alone
Won’t you roll away the stone
Don’t you let it lie
Won’t you roll away the stone
Why’d you become so alone
Won’t you roll away the stone
Don’t you let it lie
372
ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN
I'm gonna write a little letter gonna mail it to my local DJ
It's a jumpin' little record I want my jockey to play
Roll over Beethoven gotta hear it again today
You know my temperature's rising and the jukebox's blowing a fuse
It's a heart beating rhythm and my soul keeps singing the blues
Roll over Beethoven a rocking in two by two
Well if you feel it and like it go get your lover and reel and rock it
Roll it over and move on up just a trifle further
And reel and rock with one another
Roll over Beethoven dig these rhythm and blues
Early in the morning I'm a giving you the warning
Don't you step on my blue suede shoes
Hey diddle diddle gonna play my fiddle
I ain't got nothing to lose
Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikowsky the news
I've got the rocking pneumonia and I need a shot of rhythm and blues
I've got the rolling out writer sitting down to a rhythm review
Roll over Beethoven they're rocking in two by two
Roll over Beethoven roll over Beethoven
Roll over Beethoven roll over Beethoven
Roll over Beethoven and dig these rhythm and blues
373
ROMEO AND JULIET
A love struck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he’s made
Finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shade
Saying something like “You and me babe, how about it ?”
Juliet says “Hey it’s Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack”
He’s underneath the window, she’s singing “Hey la my boyfriend’s back
Shouldn’t come round here singing up to people like that
Anyway what you gonna do about it ?”
Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start
And I fell when you exploded in my heart
And I forget, I forget the movie song
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet
Come up on different streets, they’re both the streets of shame
Both dirty, both mean, yes, and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you, but now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals
When you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin
Now you say Romeo yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him
Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
Said I love you like the stars above, I’ll love you ‘till I die
There’s a place for us, you know the movie song
When’re you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong
I can’t do the talk like they do on TV
And I can’t the do a love song like the way it’s meant to be
I can’t do everything, but I’ll do anything for you
Can’t do anything except be in love with you
All I do is miss you, and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat and bad company
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet, do the stars with you any time Juliet
374
ROSE GARDEN
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine there’s got to be a little rain sometime
When you take you got to give so live and let live or let go oh oh oh oh
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden
I could promise you things like big diamond rings
But you don’t find roses growing on stalks of clover
So you’d better think it over
When it’s sweet talking you could make it come true
I would give you the world on a silver platter
But what would it matter
So smile for a while and let’s be jolly
Love shouldn’t be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine there’s got to be a little rain sometime
When you take you got to give so live and let live or let go oh oh oh oh
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden
I could sing you a tune and promise you the moon
But if that’s what it takes to hold you
I’d just as soon let you go but there’s one thing I want you to know
You’d better look before you leap still waters run deep
And there won’t always be someone there to pull you out
And you know what I’m talking about
But what would it matter
So smile for a while and let’s be jolly
Love shouldn’t be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine there’s got to be a little rain sometime
When you take you got to give so live and let live or let go oh oh oh oh
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden
375
ROSIE
Rosie oh Rosie I’d like to paint your face up in the sky
Sometimes when I’m busy relaxing I look up and catch your eye
Your eyes when they’re widening bring thunder and lightning
And sunset strokes the colour to your skin
Your eyes are so blue I just think of a blue sky
And bumble bees a buzzing on the wind
Rosie oh Rosie it’s raining when you look the other way
Rosie oh Rosie your laughter brings the sunshine out to play
And though I just met you will I silhouette you
Or highlight golden shadows in your hair
I’d paint in your mind’s eye a very good blue sky
And Summer birds swimming through the air
Rosie oh Rosie I’d paint your face for all the world to see
Rosie oh Rosie I’d like to paint your face eternally
376
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND BROKE DOWN
The merry-go-round went round
And made the darndest sound
The lights went low we both said oh
And the merry-go-round broke down
Oh what fun a wonderful time
Finding love for only a dime
The merry-go-round went round
And made the darndest sound
The lights went low we both said oh
And the merry-go-round broke down
Oh what fun a wonderful time
Finding love for only a dime
The merry-go-round went round
And made the darndest sound
The lights went low we both said oh
And the merry-go-round broke down
377
RUBY TUESDAY
She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don't matter if it's gone
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows she comes and goes
Good-bye Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
Don't question why she needs to be so free
She'll tell you it's the only way to be
She just can't be chained
To a life where nothing's gained
And nothing's lost at such a cost
Good-bye Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
There's no time to lose, I heard her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away
Dying all the times
Lose your dreams and you
Will lose your mind, ain't life unkind
Good-bye Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
378
RUN BABY RUN
Listen baby if you’re not adverse
The world is changing for the better or worse
And if I live your life for what it’s worth
Cause it’s a hell on earth
The world today I bet you see it clear
Has taken us about a thousand years
To those poor off it means they’ve never lived
‘Cause it’s a hell on earth
Run baby run when’re you gonna learn
The time to put out the fireball
Run baby run when’re you gonna learn
The earth is getting drier
The flames are growing higher
Your clothes are dirty and the sky is red
I don’t have anything to wash my head
Cause all the detergents are on the river bed
And it’s a hell on earth
If we make a levy on the telly and fax
We join everybody trying to fiddle their tax
If you don’t get bit they’re trying to run you back
Cause it’s a hell on earth
Run baby run when’re you gonna learn
It’s time to put out the fire ball
Run baby run when’re you gonna learn
The earth is getting drier
The flames are growing higher
Another child every second is born
And family planning we will never learn
Another mouth to feed is all it brings
And it’s a hell on earth
Run baby run when’re you gonna learn
It’s time to put out the fire ball
Run baby run when’re you gonna learn
The earth is getting drier
The flames are growing higher
Run baby run when’re you gonna learn
It’s time to put out the fire ball
Run baby run when’re you gonna learn
The earth is getting drier
The flames are growing higher
379
RUN RUN MISTER
It looked like a town where a family could grow
The streets would be safe every night
The pavements all clean and the people well dressed
The dirt and the drunks out of sight
I kicked off my shoes I had nothing to lose
The bad days seemed far behind me
And then that voice started talking inside me
It said
Run run mister don’t you look back
Get your feet on that road, your wheels on the track
You’re too young to start thinking ‘bout settling down
Get packed, get running, get right out of town
It seemed like a job that would please any man
Good hours, good prospects, good pay
I was up with the sun for three seasons or more
Clocked in and checked out every day
A rung at a time I’d willingly climb
And kept on moving up blindly
And then the voice started talking inside me
It said
Run run mister don’t you look back
Get your feet on that road, your wheels on the track
You’re too young to start thinking ‘bout settling down
Get packed, get running, get right out of town
I never believed in love at first sight
It seemed too good to be true
I knew that something had started to bite
So I asked a good friend what to do
He said it only happens just once in a life
I want her always beside me
And then the voice started talking inside me
It said
Run run mister don’t you look back
Get your feet on that road, your wheels on the track
You’re too young to start thinking ‘bout settling down
Get packed, get running, get right out of town
Run run mister don’t you look back
Get your feet on that road, your wheels on the track
You’re too young to start thinking ‘bout settling down
Get packed, get running, get right out of town
380
SAKSI GITAR TUA
Biar tuan caci aku takkan mau pergi
Biar nyonya maki aku tetap saja suka
Jeritkan tembang cinta kedamaian
Suburkan benih cinta kasih sayang
Gitar tua ini kujadikan saksi mati
Kata kata suci yang kusuarakan sang malam
Saat nyonya hantarkan tuan tidur hm...
Saat tuan temani nyonya mimpi
Aku lihat berjuta manusia
Yang berhimpit antara hidupnya oh...
Terperangkap kedalam jurang dusta
Terperosok ke dalam lembah nista
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Na selamat malam
381
SAN FRANCISCO
If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a loving day
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair
All across the nation, such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion, people in motion
For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in their hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a loving there
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a loving day
382
SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME
You can dance every dance with the guy
Who gives you the eye and let him hold you tight
You can smile every smile for the guy
That holds your hand in the pale moonlight
But don’t forget who’s talking you home
And in who’s arms you’re going gonna be
So darling save the last dance for me
Oh I know that the music’s fine
Like sparkling wine go and have your fun
Laugh and sing but while we’re apart
Don’t give your heart to anyone
And don’t forget who’s talking you home
And in who’s arms you’re gonna be
So darling save the last dance for me
Baby don’t you know I love you
Can’t you feel it when we touch
I will never ever let you go
Oh I love you oh so much
Baby don’t you know I love you so
Can’t you feel it when we touch
I will never ever let you go
Oh I love you oh so much
383
SATISFACTION
I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no satisfaction
‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can’t get no, I can’t get no
When I’m driving in my car
And the man comes on the radio
And he’s telling me more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination
I can’t get no, oh no no no,
Hey hey hey that’s what I say
I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no satisfaction
‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can’t get no, I can’t get no
When I’m watching my TV
And the man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts can be
Well he can’t be a man ‘cause he doesn’t smoke
The same cigarettes as me
I can’t get no, oh no no no,
Hey hey hey that’s what I say
I can’t get no satisfaction
I can’t get no satisfaction
‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can’t get no, I can’t get no
When I’m riding round the world
And I’m doing this and signing that
And I’m trying to make some girl who tells me
Baby better come back later next week
‘Cause you see I’m on a losing streak
I can’t get no, oh no no no,
Hey hey hey, that’s what I say
I can’t get no, I can’t get no
I can’t get no satisfaction
No satisfaction, no satisfaction
No satisfaction, I can’t get no satisfaction
384
SAVED
I used to smoke I used to drink
I used to smoke drink dance the hoochie coochie
I used to smoke and drink
Smoke and drink and dance the hoochie coo oh yeah
But now I'm standing on this corner
Praying for me and you Aha
That's why I'm saved saved
People let me tell you 'bout a kingdom come
You know I'm saved I'm saved
I won't care to preach here till I'm deaf and dumb
I'm in the soul saving army
Beating on the big base drum oh yeah
I used to cuss I used to fuss
I used to cuss fuss and boogie all night long
I used to cuss and fuss
Cuss and fuss and boogie all night long oh yeah
Now I'm standing on this corner
All I know is right from wrong ah yeah
That's what I'm saying that's what I'm saying
People let me tell you 'bout a kingdom come
You know I'm saved I'm saved
I can preach it to the deaf and dumb
I'm in the soul saving army
Beating on the big bass drum
I used to lie I used to cheat
I used to lie cheat step on people's feet
I used to lie and cheat
Lie and cheat and step on people's feet
But now I'm stepping all through glory
Salvation is my beat oh yeah
That's why I'm saved saved
People let me tell you 'bout a kingdom come
You know I'm saved I'm saved
I won't care to preach here till I'm deaf and dumb
I'm in the soul saving army
Beating on the big base drum oh yeah
385
SCHIFOAN
Am Freitag auf'd Nacht montier i di Schi
Auf mei Auto und dann begiab i mi
In's Stubai-Tal oder noch Zell am See
Weil durt auf die Berg o'm hom's immer an leiwandn Schnee
Weil i wui, Schifoan, Schifoan, wow wow wow wow
Schifoan, weil Schifoan is des leiwandste
Wos mer si nur vurstoin kann
In der Fruah bin i der erschte der wos afifoat
Damiat i net so long aufs afifoarn woart
Ob'm auf der Hütt'n kaaf i mar an Jagertee
Weil so a Tee macht den Schnee erst so richtig schee
Weil i wui, Schifoan, Schifoan, wow wow wow wow
Schifoan, weil Schifoan is des leiwandste
Wos mer si nur vurstoin kann
Und wann der Schnee staubt und wann die Sunn scheint
Dann hob' i olles Glück in mir vereint
I steh' am Gipfel schau obi ins Toi
A jeder is glicklich, a jeder fühlt si woi
Weil i wui, Schifoan, Schifoan, wow wow wow wow
Schifoan, weil Schifoan is des leiwandste
Wos mer si nur vurstoin kann
Am Sonntag auf'd Nacht montier i die Schi
Auf mei Auto doch dann überkommts mi
I schau no amoi aufi und denk' mer "Aber wo"
I foar no net z'Haus i bleib' am Montag a no do
Weil i wui, Schifoan, Schifoan, wow wow wow wow
Schifoan, weil Schifoan is des leiwandste
Wos mer si nur vurstoin kann
386
SCHOOL
I can see you in the morning
When you go to school
Don't forget your books
You know you've gotta learn the golden rule
The teacher tells you stop your playing
Get on with your work
And be like Johnny too good
Don't you know he never shirks
He's coming along
After school is over
No playing in the park
And don't go out too late
Don't let it get too dark
They tell you not to hang around
And learn what life's about
And grow up just like them
Won't let you work it out
And you're full of doubt
Don't do this and don't do that
What are they trying to do
Make a good boy of you
Do they know where it's at
Don't criticise
They're old and why
Do as they tell you to
Don't want the devil to
Come and pull out your eyes
Maybe I'm mistaken
Expecting you to fight
Or maybe I'm just crazy
I don't know wrong from right
But while I'm still living
I've just got this to say
It's always up to you
If you want to be that
Want to see that
Want to see that way
You're coming along
387
SCIENCE FICTION
Michael Renny was ill the day the Earth stood still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear
Claude Rains was the invisible man
Then something went wrong
Cause they reigned in King Kong
They got caught in a cellular jam
Then at a deadly pace it came from outta space
And this is how the message ran
Science fiction double feature
Doctor X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
And Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Rock on at the late night double feature picture show
I know Leo G Carrol was over a barrel when tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot when I saw Jim macScott fight a triffid that spit's poison and kills
Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But when worlds collide said George Pal to his bride
I'm going to give you some terrible thrills like a
Science fiction double feature
Doctor X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
And Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Rock on at the late night double feature picture show
I wanna go Rock on to the Late night picture show by RKO
Rock on to the late night double feature picture show in the back row
A ho oh to the late night double feature picture show
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.
.
Science fiction double feature
Frank has built and lost his creature
Darkness has conquered Brad and Janet
The servant's gone to a distant planet
Rock on at the late night double feature picture show
I wanna go oh oh to the late night picture show
388
SECOND HAND NEWS
I know there's nothing to say
Someone else has taken my place
When times go bad when things get rough
Won't you lay me down in the tall grass
And let me do my stuff
I know I've nothing on you
I know there's nothing to do
When times go bad you can't get enough
Won't you lay me down in the tall grass
And let me do my stuff
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
One thing I think you should know
I ain't gonna miss you when you go
I've been down so long I've been tossed around enough
Oh could you just let me go down
And do my stuff
I know you're hoping to find
Someone who's gonna give you peace of mind
When times go bad you can't get enough
Won't you lay me down in the tall grass
And let me do my stuff
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
I'm your second hand news I'm your second hand news yeah
I'm your second hand news I'm your second hand news yeah
I'm your second hand news
I'm your second hand news yeah
I'm your second hand news
I'm your second hand news yeah
389
SEE A TOAD
It’s not much of a life at all
When you can only hop
People in their great big cars
They never swerve or stop
Now we help our little feathered friends
With mouldy crusts and old fag ends
So to toads let’s make amends
And do this little thing for me
See a toad across the road
And make yourself a friend
See a toad across the road
It’ll help you in the end
I know how ugly a toad can be
But it’s got parents like you and me
So see a toad across the road
And make yourself a friend
The boy scouts help old ladies
And the lollipop man your child
What protection is there
For that creature green and wild
He may be stupid as they say
But there’s plenty more down Westminster way
Why should he be the one to pay
So do this little thing for me
390
SEE ME FEEL ME
See me feel me touch me heal me
See me feel me touch me heal me
See me feel me touch me heal me
See me feel me touch me heal me
Listening to you I get the music
Gazing at you I get the heat
Following you I climb the mountain
I get excitement at your feet
Right behind you I see the millions
On you I see the glory
From you I get opinions
From you I get the story
See me feel me touch me heal me
See me feel me touch me heal me
See me feel me touch me heal me
See me feel me touch me heal me
Listening to you I get the music
Gazing at you I get the heat
Following you I climb the mountain
I get excitement at your feet
Right behind you I see the millions
On you I see the glory
From you I get opinions
From you I get the story
Listening to you I get the music
Gazing at you I get the heat
Following you I climb the mountain
I get excitement at your feet
Right behind you I see the millions
On you I see the glory
From you I get opinions
From you I get the story
391
SEE MY BABY JIVE
Look out look out your mama washed out you might as well go home
Since then some man got into your hair so give me back my comb
But you you make things that get along turn out so wrong
Too long too long you’d better rock on the band might play our song
See my baby jive see my baby jive she hangs on to me and she really goes
Woh oh woh oh woh oh
See my baby jive such a lazy jive
Well everyone you meet coming down the street
Just to see my baby jive
They’ve taken her home it’s turning me on she dropped down to his knees
Oh boy that’s that it’s calling me back this dog ain’t got no fleas
But you you dance all the guys up town into the crown
You know you know you’ve gotta rock on your daddy ain’t coming home
See my baby jive see my baby jive she hangs on to me and she really goes
Woh oh woh oh woh oh
See my baby jive such a lazy jive
Well everyone you meet coming down the street
Just to see my baby jive
Too bad your game is driving me mad you’ve tucked down on my boy
I don’t suppose though everyone knows exactly who you are
But you you make things that get along turn out so wrong
Too long too long you’d better rock on the band might play our song
See my baby jive see my baby jive she hangs on to me and she really goes
Woh oh woh oh woh oh
See my baby jive such a lazy jive
Well everyone you meet coming down the street
Just to see my baby jive
Woh oh see my baby jive she hangs on to me and she really goes
Woh oh woh oh woh oh
See my baby jive such a lazy jive
Well everyone you meet coming down the street
Just to see my baby jive
See my baby jive
392
THE SEEDS OF LOVE
I sowed the seeds of love
And I sowed them in the spring
I gathered them up in the morning so soon
While the small birds so sweetly sing
While the small birds so sweetly sing
My garden was planted well
With flowers everywhere
But I had not the liberty to choose for myself
Of the flowers that I love so dear
Of the flowers that I love so dear
The gardener was standing by
And I asked him to choose for me
He choose for me the violet the lilly and the pink
But these I refused all three
But these I refused all three
The violet I forsook
Because it fades so soon
The pink and the lilly I did over look
And I vowed I would wait ‘till June
And I vowed I would wait ‘till June
For in June there’s a red rose bud
And that’s the flowers for me
And oft times I here plucked that red rose bush
Till I gained the willow tree
Till I gained the willow tree
For the willow tree will twist
And the willow tree will twine
And I oft times wished I were in that young man’s arms
That once had this heart of mine
That once had this heart of mine
Come all you false young men
Don’t leave me here to complain
For the grass that has optima been trampled under foot
Give it time it will rise again
Give it time it will rise again
393
SHALALALALEE
Picked her up on a Friday night.
Shalalalalee, yeah.
I knew everything's gonna be all right.
Shalalalalee, yeah, shalalalalee.
I asked her, where do you wanna go
Shalalalalee, yeah.
We went some place I don't know.
Shalalalalee, yeah, shalalalalee.
I held her close,
And I asked her if she's gonna, gonna be my baby.
It felt so good, when she answered me.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
She looked good, and she moved so fine.
Shalalalalee, yeah.
And all the guys knew that she was mine.
Shalalalalee, yeah, shalalalalee.
I held her close,
And I asked her if she's gonna, gonna be my baby.
It felt so good, when she answered me.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Wanna know, how my story ends
Shalalalalee, yeah.
We invited just a few close friends.
Shalalalalee, yeah, shalalalalee.
Shalalalalee, yeah, shalalalalee.
394
SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER
Shake your money maker
Shake your money maker
You’ve got to shake your money maker
Shake your money maker
Shake your money maker
You’ve got to
I’ve got a girl who lives up on the hill
I’ve got a girl who lives up on the hill
Says she’ll let me roll her
But I don’t believe she will
She won’t shake her money maker
Won’t shake her money maker
Gonna roll her I can’t break her
She won’t shake her money maker
Won’t shake her money maker
She won’t
I’ve got a girl and she just won’t be true
I’ve got a girl and she just won’t be true
Just won’t let her do
The one good thing you tell her to
She won’t shake her money maker
Won’t shake her money maker
Won’t shake her money maker
She won’t shake her money maker
Won’t shake her money maker
She won’t
395
SHE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN
She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child but she's always a woman to me
She can lead you to love, she can take you or leave you
She can ask for the truth but she'll never believe you
And she'd take what you'll give her as long as it's free
Yes she steals like a thief but she's always a woman to me
Oh, she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She's ahead of her time
Oh, and she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind
And she'll promise you more than the garden of Eden
And she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding
But she'll bring out the best and the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself 'cause she's always a woman to me
Hmmm ...
Oh, she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She's ahead of her time
Oh, and she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind
She is frequently kind and she’s suddenly cool
She can do what she pleases she's nobody's fool
And she can't be convicted she's earned her degree
And the most she will do is throw shadows at you
But she's always a woman to me
Hmmm ...
396
SHE’S NOT THERE
Well nobody told me about her
The way she lied
Well nobody told me about her
How many people cried
Well it’s too late to say you’re sorry
How should I know why should I care
Please don’t bother trying to find her
She’s not there
Well let me tell you ‘bout the way she looked
The way she acted and the colour or her hair
Her voice was soft and cool, her eye were clear and bright
But she’s not there
Well nobody told me about her
What could I do
Well nobody told me about her
Though they all knew
Well let me tell you ‘bout the way she looked
The way she acted and the colour or her hair
Her voice was soft and cool, her eyes were clear and bright
But she’s not there
But it’s too late to say you’re sorry
How should I know why should I care
Please don’t bother trying to find her
She’s not there
Well let me tell you ‘bout the way she looked
The way she acted and the colour or her hair
Her voice was soft and cool her eyes were clear and bright
But she’s not there
397
A SHROPSHIRE LAD
The gas was on in the institute
The flare was up in the gym
A man was running a miller a line
A lass was singing a hymn
When Captain Webb the Dawley man
Captain Webb from Dawley
Came swimming along the old canal
That carries the bricks to Lawley
Swimming along swimming along
Swimming along from Severn
Paying a call at Dawley Bank
While swimming along to Heaven
The sun shone low on the railway lines
And over the bricks and stacks
And in at the upstairs windows
Of the Dawley housing backs
When we saw the ghost of Captain Webb
Webb in a water sheeting
Come dripping along in a bathing dress
TO the Saturday evening meeting
Dripping along, dripping along
To the congregational hall
Dripping and still he rose over the sill
And he faded away in the wall
There wasn’t a man in Oakengates
Who hadn’t got hold of the tale
And over the valley in Ironbridge
And round by Coalbrookdale
How Captain Webb the Dawley man
Captain Webb from Dawley
Rose rigid and dead from the old canal
That carries the bricks to Lawley
Rigid and dead, rigid and dead
To the Saturday congregation
Paying a call at Dawley bank
On his way to his destination
398
SINGING THE BLUES
Well I never felt more like singing the blues
‘Cause I never thought
That I’d ever lose your love dear
Why’d you leave me this way
Well I never felt more like crying all night
‘Cause everything’s wrong
And nothing is right without you
You got me singing the blues
The moon and the stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There’s nothing left for me to do
But cry ay ay ay over you
Well I never felt more like running away
But why should I go
‘Cause I couldn’t stay without you
You got me singing the blues
Well I never felt more like singing the blues
‘Cause I never thought
That I’d ever lose your love dear
Why’d you leave me this way
Well I never felt more like crying all night
‘Cause everything’s wrong
And nothing is right without you
You got me singing the blues
The moon and the stars no longer shine
The dream is gone I thought was mine
There’s nothing left for me to do
But cry ay ay ay over you
Well I never felt more like running away
But why should I go
‘Cause I couldn’t stay without you
You got me singing the blues
399
SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY
Sitting in the morning sun
I'll be sitting when the evening comes
Watching all the ships roll in
Then I'll watch them roll away again
Sitting on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Sitting on the dock of the bay
Wasting time
I left my home in Georgia
Heading for the 'Frisco bay
I had nothing to live for
Looks like nothing's gonna come my way
So I 'm just sitting on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Sitting on the dock of the bay
Wasting time
Sitting here resting my bones
This loneliness won't leave me alone
Two thousand miles I've roamed
Just to make this dock my home
Yeah I 'm just sitting on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Sitting on the dock of the bay
Wasting time
400
SIXTEEN TONS
Now, some people say, a man's made out of mud,
But a poor man's made out of muscles and blood.
Muscle and blood, skin and bone,
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong.
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
I was born one morning in drizzling rain,
Fighting and Trouble is my middle name.
I was raised in the bottoms by a momma hound,
I'm mean as a dog, but I'm gentle as a lamb.
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
I was born one morning, when the sun didn't shine.
I picked up my shovel, and I walked to the mine.
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal,
And the straw boss hollered well bless my soul
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
If you see me coming, you better step aside.
A lot of men didn't, and a lot of men died.
I got a fist of iron and a fist of steel,
If the right one don't get you, then the left one will
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
401
SKINHEAD SONG
Oi woz walkin’ dahn veh streah wiv a duzzen pals or moah
Lookin’ fer some aggro ‘coz life is such a bore
We come across a ‘ippie an ‘e troid t’run away
So we smashed ‘is stoopid ‘ead in jus’ t’ pass veh toim away
Wiv ah greah big boots greah long laces
Jeans ‘eld up wiv scarleh braces
Don’ geh in our way or we’ll take you for a ride
Vair ain’t much on veh top of our ‘eads an’ even less inoid
We go t’ football matches it really is a laugh
We always get’s some bovver in befoah the second ‘alf
We ‘ave oursels a smashin’toim we ‘ave a lot a fun
Suspessly when the odds is ours boi twenty foif ta wun
Wiv ah greah big boots greah long laces
Jeans ‘eld up wiv scarleh braces
Cum an’ join veh party cum along wiv us
We never walks alone ‘coz we’re so gre-gair-re-yuss (‘ere wot duz ‘at mean)
Oi gets up in veh mornin’ an oi ‘as me reggae brek (hur hur)
Oi drinks me cup o’ bovveril an’ oi wrings me muvver’s neck
Ven goes into veh tahn kicks a pensioner or two
An’puts fruit gums in parkin’ meters coz vair’s sod all else t’ do
Wiv ah greah big boots greah long laces
Jeans ‘eld up wiv scarleh braces
Ev’ry phone for moiles arahnd is smashed t’ smivvereens
An’nah we’re goin’ off t’ do some cigarette machines
An’ wen oi gets to ‘evven an’ oi ‘ear vee angels call
Oi’ll go ver on me scootah me bovver boots an’ all
Oi’ll take me broken bottle me lump o’ lead as well
An oi’ll give ‘em so much aggro vey’ll send me dahn t’ ‘ell
Wiv ah greah big boots greah long laces
Jeans ‘eld up wiv scarleh braces
Oi knows oi’ll get some bovver there jus’ veh koind oi loike
‘Coz the devil is a greebo an’ ‘e roids a motorboike
402
SLOOP JOHN B
We sailed on the sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home
So hoist up the John B sails
See how the main sail’s set
Call for the captain ashore let me go home
Let me go home I wanna go home
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home
The first mate he got drunk
He broke up the captain’s trunk
A constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone why don’t you leave me alone
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home
So hoist up the John B sails
See how the main sail’s set
Call for the captain ashore let me go home
Let me go home I wanna go home
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home
The poor cook he got the fits
He threw away all my grits
Then he took and ate up all of my corn
Let me go home why don’t you let me go home
This is the worst trip I’ve ever been on
So hoist up the John B sails
See how the main sail’s set
Call for the captain ashore let me go home
Let me go home I wanna go home
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home
403
SMOKEY’S BAR
The good old gang down at Smokey’s bar
They couldn’t rightly understand
How Judy left without a word
But not without a man
That old routine that she had going
Was like the sun so sure
Which by surprise might fail to rise
But always had before
And I still remember what was on
The jukebox as she turned
The Dobro part out of Cheating Heart
She never has returned
She snapped her little plated latch
That closed her pocket book
And paid for all she had to drink
And gave us boys a look
And something in that little glance
Sent creeps about the room
No one stared or even dared
To breathe or even move
And I still remember what was on
The jukebox as she turned
The Dobro part out of Cheating Heart
She never has returned
Now I can’t say what the others thought
But likely I can guess
They’d be scared as to who and where
She’d take what we’d confess
Yes that good old gang up at Smokey’s bar
They’ve just about all busted up
With no one here to drink our tears
Or fill our empty cups
And I still remember what was on
The jukebox as she
The Dobro part out of Cheating Heart
She never has returned
And I still remember what was on
The jukebox as she
The Dobro part out of Cheating Heart
She never has returned
404
SO FAR AWAY
Here I am again in this mean old town
And you’re so far away from me
And where are you when the sun goes down
You’re so far away from me
So far away from me
So far I just can’t see
So far away from me
You’re so far away from me
I’m tired of being in love and being all alone
When you’re so far away from me
I’m tired of making out on the telephone
‘Cause you’re so far away from me
So far away from me
So far I just can’t see
So far away from me
You’re so far away from me
And I get so tired when I have to explain
When you’re so far away from me
See you’ve been in the sun and I’ve been in the rain
And you’re so far away from me
So far away from me
So far I just can’t see
You’re so far away from me
You’re so far away from me
So far away from me
Oh you’re so far away from me
Yeah you’re so far I just can’t see
So far away from me
You’re so far away from me
So far away from me
So far away from me
You’re so far away from me
405
SOMEONE’S GONNA GET THEIR HEAD KICKED IN TONIGHT
Well the band is rocking and everybody’s feeling all right
And the best of might there’s sure gonna be a fight
‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight
Well the joint is jumping and everybody’s shouting for more
Well there’s gonna be a pool of blood on the dance hall floor
‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight
We’re gonna rip up the chairs and tear down the walls
Smash up the band and really have a ball
We’ll leave everybody as a physical wretch
And the whole dance hall’ll be a darn gone mess
So while the dance is running everybody’s feeling all right
At the dance tonight there’s sure gonna be a fight
‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight
We’re gonna rip up the chairs and tear down the walls
Smash up the band and really have a ball
We’ll leave everybody as a physical wretch
And the whole dance hall’ll be a darn gone mess
Well the dance is rocking and everybody’s shouting for more
Well there’s gonna be a pool of blood on the dance hall floor
‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight
‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head smashed in tonight
‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight
‘Cause somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight
406
SOMETHING
Something in the way she moves,
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around, now it may show
I don't know, I don't know
Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around, now it may show
I don't know, I don't know
407
SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH
You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply
I’d rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie
And who am I to judge you on what you say or do
I’m only just beginning to see the real you
And sometimes when we touch the honesty’s too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you till I die till we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides
Romance with all its strategy leaves me battling with my pride
But through the insecurity some tenderness survives
I’m just another writer still trapped within my truths
A hesitant prize fighter still trapped within my youth
And sometimes when we touch the honesty’s too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you till I die till we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides
At times I’d like to break you and drive you to your knees
At times I’d like to break through and hold you endlessly
And sometimes when we touch the honesty’s too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you till I die till we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides
408
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Got on board a westbound seven forty seven
Didn't think before deciding what to do
All that talk of opportunities TV breaks and movies
Rang true it sure rang true
It seems it never rains in Southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California but girl don't they warn ya
It pours man it pours
I'm out of work I'm out of bread
Out of self respect I'm outta my head
I'm under loved I'm underfed
I wanna go home
It never rains in California but girl don't they warn ya
It pours man it pours
It seems it never rains in Southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California but girl don't they warn ya
It pours man it pours
Won't you tell the folks back home I nearly made it
I've had offers but don't know which ones to take
Please don't tell them how you found me
Don't tell them how you found me
Gimme a break, gimme a break
It seems it never rains in Southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California but girl don't they warn ya
It pours man it pours
409
SPANISH HARLEM
There is a rose in Spanish Harlem
A red rose up in Spanish Harlem
It is a special one
It only comes out when the moon is on the run
And all the stars are gleaming
It’s growing in the street
Right up through the concrete
But soft and sweet and dreaming
There is a rose in Spanish Harlem
A red rose up in Spanish Harlem
With eyes as black as coals
That look down in my soul
And start a fire there and then I lose control
I have to beg your pardon
I’m going to pick that rose
And watch her as she grows in my garden
410
SPENCER THE ROVER
These words were composed by Spencer the rover
Who travelled most parts of Great Britain and Wales
He’d been much reduced which caused great confusion
And that was the reason he went on the road
In Yorkshire near Rotherham he went on his rambles
Being weary of travelling he sat down to rest
At the foot of yon mountains there runs a clear fountain
With bread and cold water himself did refresh
More sweeter it tasted than the gold he had wasted
More sweeter than honey and gave more content
But the thoughts of his baby lamenting her father
Brought tears to his eyes and made him lament
The night fast approaching to the woods he resorted
With woodbine and ivy his bed for to make
He dreamed about sighing lamenting and crying
Go home to your family your rambling forsake
On the fifth of November I have reason to remember
When first I arrived home to my family and wife
She stood so surprised to see me arrived
To see such a stranger once more in their sight
My children flocked round me with their pretty prattling stories
With their pretty prattling stories that drive care away
Like birds of a feather we’ll all flock together
Like bees of one hive then contented we’ll be
Now I am well placed in my cottage contented
With woodbine and ivy hanging over my door
As happy as them that have plenty of riches
Contented I’ll stay and go rambling no more
411
SPIRIT IN THE SKY
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that’s the best
When they lay me down to die
Going up to the spirit in the sky
Going up to the spirit in the sky
That’s were I’m gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I’m gonna go to the place that’s the best
Prepare yourself you know it’s a must
Gotta have a friend in Jesus
So you know that when you die
He’s gonna recommend you to the spirit in the sky
Gonna recommend you to the spirit in the sky
That’s where I’m gonna go when I die
When you die and they lay you to rest
You’re gonna go to the place that’s the best
Never been a sinner I never sinned
I’ve got a friend in Jesus
So you know that when I die
He’s gonna set me up with the spirit in the sky
Gonna set me up with the spirit in the sky
That’s where I’m gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I’m gonna go to the place that’s the best
Go to the place that’s the best
412
SPOONFUL
Well it could be a spoonful of coffee
Could be a spoonful of tea
Just a little bit of your passion
Good enough for me
I’m wild about it
I’m crazy about it
I’m in love about it
Everybody’s talking ‘bout it
Everybody’s lying ‘bout it
Everybody loves it ooh
Well it could be a spoonful of wine
Straight from a girl’s hand
Could be a spoon of your percious love
Saved from another man
I’m wild about it
I’m crazy about it
I’m in love about it
Everybody’s talking ‘bout it
Everybody’s lying ‘bout it
Everybody loves it ooh
Everybody grooving
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
413
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to Heaven
When she gets there she knows if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh and she’s buying a stairway to Heaven
There’s sign on the wall but she want’s to be sure
‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook there’s a song bird who sings
Sometimes all of her thoughts are misgiven
Ooh and it makes me wonder, ooh and it makes me wonder
There’s a feeling I get when I look to the West
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
Ooh and it makes me wonder, ooh and it makes me wonder
And it’s whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stare long
And the forest will echo with laughter
If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow don’t be alarmed there
It’s just a sprinkling for the May queen
Yes there are two paths you can go back but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on
And it makes me wonder
Your head is humming and it won’t go in case you don’t know
The piper’s calling you to join him
Dear lady can you hear the wind blow and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our souls
There walks lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
Where all is one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
And she’s buying a stairway to Heaven
414
STAIRWAY TO OBLIVION
There’s a ‘Stralian who’s heard that old songs sell like gold
He’s recorded a “Stairway to Heaven”
With his didgeridoo and his wobble board too
With this song he should make a fast million
Ooh....and he also may pick up a Grammy
He’s been signed up before, but he was such a bore
With his paintings and songs of the outback
His tied down kangaroo and Coogee bear too
Jake the peg in an old plastic black Mac
Ooh what a sexual wonder, ooh and it makes me chunder
He has tried sniffing coke through his didgeridoo
But he just couldn’t handle the bubbles
And a bottle or two sends him straight to the loo
He’s found fanta gives him far less troubles
Ooh from down under, ooh and it makes me chunder
And it’s whispered that soon if we all hum the tune
He will get a gold disc for his labours
And the funny farm waits with wide open gates
And we’ll all end up starring in “Neighbours”
Oooh......
If there’s some trouble in the disco don’t be alarmed there
It’s just the fans want to lynch him
They’ll stuff his two little boys with both their two little toys
And pull off Jake the peg’s extra limb
Oooh...and it really makes me chunder
Your head is aching and it won’t go in case you don’t know
He must have bribed every DJ
Old ladies like to hear his wind blow, maybe “Hey Joe”
And “All right Now” will go the same way
And as he plummets down the charts
There’ll be relief in all our hearts
There is a fan club who will know
And more important want to show
That if you want to come along
There is a lesson for you all
For anyone who has the gall
To try and mock our rock and roll
By bastardising “Stairway to Heaven”
415
STAND BY ME
When the night has come and the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid, oh I won't be afraid
Not as long as you stand, stand by me
So darling, darling Stand by me,
Oh stand by me
Oh stand by me
Stand by me
If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall
Or the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand stand by me
So darling, darling Stand by me,
Oh stand by me
Oh stand by me
Stand by me
So darling, darling Stand by me,
Oh stand by me
Oh stand by me
Stand by me
When ever you're in trouble
Stand by me
416
STAY
People, stay just a little bit longer,
We want to play just a little bit longer.
Now the promoter don't mind,
And the union don't mind,
If we take a little time
And we leave it all behind and sing
One more song.
Oh, won't you stay just a little bit longer.
Please, please, stay say you will.
Say you will.
Stay just a little bit longer,
We want to play just a little bit longer.
Now the promoter don't mind,
And the union don't mind,
If we take a little time
And we leave it all behind and sing
One more song
Stay just a little bit longer.
Please, please, stay tell me that you're going to.
Now your mummy don't mind,
And your daddy don't mind,
If we take a little time
And we leave it all behind and sing
One more song.
Oh, won't you stay just a little bit longer.
Please, please, stay say you will.
Say you will.
Just to feel your sweet lips on mine,
Tell me that you love me all of the time.
Stay just a little bit longer,
We want to play just a little bit longer.
Now the promoter don't mind,
And the union don't mind,
If we take a little time
And we leave it all behind and sing
One more song
417
STAY WITH ME
In the morning please don’t say you love me
‘Cause you know I’ll only kick you out the door
I know your name is Rita ,’cause your perfume’s smelling sweeter
Than when I saw you down on the floor
You won’t need too much persuading
I don’t mean to sound degrading
But with a face like that you’ve got nothing to laugh about
Red lips, hair and fingernails, I hear you’re a mean old Jesebel
Let’s get upstairs and read my tarot cards
Stay with me stay with me
‘Cause tonight you’re gonna stay with me
Stay with me stay with me
‘Cause tonight you’re gonna stay with me
So in the morning please don’t say you love me
‘Cause you know I’ll only kick you out the door
Yes I’ll pay your cab fare home
You can even use my best cologne
Just don’t be here in the morning when I wake up
Stay with me stay with me
‘Cause tonight you’re gonna stay with me
Stay with me stay with me
‘Cause tonight you’re gonna stay with me
418
STILL GOT THE BLUES FOR YOU
Used to be so easy to give my heart away
But I've found out the hard way
There's a price you have to pay
I've found out that love is no friend of mine
I should have known time after time
So long it was so long ago
But I've still got the blues for you
Used to be so easy to fall in love again
But I've found out the hard way
It's a road that leads to pain
I've found out that love was more than just a game
You're playing to win but you lose just the same
So long it was so long ago
But I've still got the blues for you
So many years since I've seen your face
Here in my heart there's an empty space
You used to be
So long it was so long ago
But I've still got the blues for you
Though the days come and go
There is one thing I know
I've still got the blues for you
419
STOP MESSING AROUND
Oh baby please stop messing 'round
You're messing 'round with my heart
Oh baby please stop messing 'round
You're messing 'round with my heart
And if you don't stop messing baby
Pretty soon we're gonna have to part
Oh baby please stop messing 'round
You're messing 'round all the time
Oh baby please stop messing 'round
You're messing 'round all the time
And if you don't stop messing baby
You're gonna be somebody else’s baby not mine
Squeeze me baby 'till my face turns cherry red
Roll me so hard that I fall right out of bed
Please stop messin' 'round
You're messing' 'round all the time
And if you don't stop messing baby
You're gonna be somebody else’s baby not mine
Squeeze me baby 'till my face turns cherry red
Roll me so hard that I fall right out of bed
Please stop messin' 'round
You're messing' 'round all the time
And if you don't stop messing baby
You're gonna be somebody else’s baby not mine
420
STREET FIGHTING MAN
Everywhere I hear the sound of marching charging feet boy
Cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street boy
What can a poor boy do but to sing for a rock and roll band
Cause in sleepy London town there's just no place for a street fighting man no
Hey think the time is right for palace revolution
Cause where I live the games we play aren't finding a solution
Well what can a poor boy do but to sing for a rock and roll band
Cause in sleepy London town there's just no place for a street fighting man no
Hey so the name of god is terrible
I'll shout and scream I'll kill the gang I'll rail them all in circles
Well what can a poor boy do but to sing for a rock and roll band
Cause in sleepy London town there's just no place for a street fighting man no
421
STREETS OF LONDON
Have you seen the old man in the closed down market,
Kicking in the papers with his worn out shoes ?
In his eyes you see no pride,
Hands held loosely by his side
Yesterday's paper, telling yesterday's news.
So, how can you tell me, you're lonely,
And say for you that sun don't shine ?
Let me take you by the hand,
And lead you through the streets of London.
I'll show you something to make you change your mind.
Have you seen the old girl, who walks the streets of London,
Dirt in her hair, and her clothes in rags ?
She's no time for talking,
She just keeps right on walking,
Carrying her home in two carrier bags.
So, how can you tell me, you're lonely,
And say for you that sun don't shine ?
Let me take you by the hand,
And lead you through the streets of London.
I'll show you something to make you change your mind.
In the all-night cafe, at quarter past eleven,
Same old men are sitting there on his own.
Looking at the world over the rim of his tea-cup.
Each tea lasts an hour, and he wanders home alone.
So, how can you tell me, you're lonely,
And say for you that sun don't shine ?
Let me take you by the hand,
And lead you through the streets of London.
I'll show you something to make you change your mind.
Have you seen the old man outside the seaman's mission,
Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears ?
In our winter city, the rain cries a little pity
For one more forgotten hero, and a world that doesn't care.
So, how can you tell me, you're lonely,
And say for you that sun don't shine ?
Let me take you by the hand,
And lead you through the streets of London.
I'll show you something to make you change your mind.
422
STRIKE THE BELL LANDLORD
In our local boozer hear the rafters ring
Everybody's gathered there and just to have a sing
The atmosphere is warming up the choruses are prime
Then the landlord rings his little bell and calls out time
Strike the bell landlord serve another round
Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found
To break such jovial company would surely be a sin
So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in
Tom over there's chatting up a girl with class
She's drinking double vodkas and it's costing him all his brass
She's very understanding when she gets a little tight
Just another two or three and he'll be set up for the night
Strike the bell landlord serve another round
Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found
To break such jovial company would surely be a sin
So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in
Jim in the corner has been drinking very hard
But everything he's had tonight he's left out in the yard
He's got nothing left to show for all he's had to pay
It's only fair that he should have some more before he goes away
Strike the bell landlord serve another round
Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found
To break such jovial company would surely be a sin
So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in
I have to admit I've had a drop or two myself
My vision's kind of fuzzy and my legs aren't working well
If a copper stopped my car me breath would set his bag alight
So keep death off the road and let me stay all night
Strike the bell landlord serve another round
Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found
To break such jovial company would surely be a sin
So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in
Here comes our local copper a creeping up so sly
His beat is hot and dusty and he's looking very dry
Underneath that uniform he's just like me and you
So stuff a tankard in his fist and lock him in too
Strike the bell landlord serve another round
Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found
To break such jovial company would surely be a sin
So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in
Landlord if you'll be our friend and if you'll let us stay
We'll keep your till a ringing till the dawning of the day
The more we drink the more we sing and singing makes us dry
We'll drink the moon to bed and drink the sun into the sky
Strike the bell landlord serve another round
Such a thirsty crowd as this is seldom to be found
To break such jovial company would surely be a sin
So strike the bell and shut the door and lock us all in
423
STRIKE THE BELL SECOND MATE
Aft on the poop deck and walking all about
There stands the second mate so steady and so stout
What he is a thinking of he doesn’t know himself
But we’re wishing he would hurry up and strike strike the bell
Strike the bell second mate let us go below
Look well to windward you can see it’s going to blow
Look at your glass you can see that it has fell
Oh we wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell
Down on the main deck and working at the pumps
There is the larboard watch who’re longing for their bunks
Looking up to windward they can see a mighty swell
And they’re wishing that the second mate would strike strike the bell
Strike the bell second mate let us go below
Look well to windward you can see it’s going to blow
Look at your glass you can see that it has fell
Oh we wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell
Aft at the wheel poor Anderson he stands
Grasping at the spokes with his cold mittened hands
Looking at the compass the course is clear as hell
And he’s wishing that the second mate would strike strike the bell
Strike the bell second mate let us go below
Look well to windward you can see it’s going to blow
Look at your glass you can see that it has fell
Oh we wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell
For’ad on the fo’castle head and keeping sharp lookout
There is Johnny standing and he’s waiting for to shout
All lights burning bright sir and everything is well
But he’s wishing that the second mate would strike strike the bell
Strike the bell second mate let us go below
Look well to windward you can see it’s going to blow
Look at your glass you can see that it has fell
Oh we wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell
Down on the main deck our gallant captain stands
Looking out to windward with his glasses in his hand
What he is a thinking of we know very well
He’s thinking more of shortening sails than strike strike the bell
Strike the bell second mate let us go below
Look well to windward you can see it’s going to blow
Look at your glass you can see that it has fell
Oh we wish that you would hurry up and strike strike the bell
424
STUCK IN THIS OLD CITY NOW
Stuck in this old city now where living ain’t no fun
Where steel and glass and concrete cancel out the wind and sun
And I’m thinking of last winter now when we walked hand in hand
In the trails of the Colorado Rockies
The wind sang us a lullaby the snow was thick as cream
And icicles were chandeliers like crystals in a dream
And the streams were strips of diamonds and the hills were white as snow
And a bear ate all our soya beans in the night
Oh Colorado’s calling me
From her hillsides and her rivers and her mesas and her trees
When blizzards snapped the power lines and all the toilets freeze
In December in the Colorado rockies
We had time and space and freedom we had love and peace to spare
Though we ran out of things to smoke and say and eat and wear
And the morning of the avalanche a yeti kidnapped Blanche
Took her to his cave up in the rockies
Oh Colorado’s calling me (Hey you !)
From her glaciers and her canyons and her badlands and ravines
And infectious hepatitis was all that came to stay
In January in the Colorado rockies
The baby didn’t die until we burned up all our wood
Considering we ate her raw she tasted pretty good
And the Fascist health inspectors dug us out and mailed us home
Except for Blanche who wouldn’t leave her man
Oh Colorado’s calling me
From her mountains and her rivers and her meadows and her trees
They tell me I’ll be cured soon thawed and ready to return
When it’s April in the Colorado rockies
425
STUCK WITH YOU
We've had some fun, guess we've had our ups and downs
Been down that rocky road but here we are still around
We thought about someone else but neither one took the bait
We thought about breaking up but now we know it's much too late
We are bound by all the rest that’s the same for another
With all the same friends and all the same address
Yes it's true I am happy to be stuck with you
Yes it's true I'm so happy to be stuck with you
'Cause I can see that you're happy to be stuck with me
We've had our doubts we never took them seriously
And we've had our ins and outs but that's the way it's meant to be
We thought about giving up but we could never stay away
We thought about breaking up but now we know it's much too late
And it's love made history if we change our minds
Eventually it's up to you and me
Yes it's true I am happy to be stuck with you
Yes it's true I'm so happy to be stuck with you
'Cause I can see that you're happy to be stuck with me
We are bound by all the rest that’s the same for another
With all the same friends and all the same address
Yes it's true I am happy to be stuck with you
Yes it's true I'm so happy to be stuck with you
'Cause I can see that you're happy to be stuck with me
I'm so happy to be stuck with you
I'm so happy to be stuck with you
426
SUBSTITUTE
You think we look pretty good together
You think my shoes are made of leather
But I’m a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young but I’m just backdated yeah
Substitute your lies for fact
I see right through your plastic Mac
I look all white but my dad was black
My fancy suit’s really made out of sack
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town east isn’t east it was facing south
Now you dare to look me in the eye
Those crocodile tears are what you cry
But I’ll tell you one problem you won’t try
To work it out at all just pass it by, pass it by
Substitute me for him
Substitute my coat for Jim
Substitute you for my mum
At least I’ll get my washing done
I’m a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young but I’m just backdated yeah
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town east isn’t east it was facing south
And now you dare to look me in the eye
Those crocodile tears are what you cry
But it’s a genuine problem you won’t try
To work it out at all just pass it by, pass it by
Substitute me for him
Substitute my coat for Jim
Substitute you for my mum
At least I’ll get my washing done
Substitute your lies for fact
I see right through your plastic Mac
I look all white but my dad was black
My fancy suit’s really made out of sack
427
SULTANS OF SWING
You get a shiver in the dark, it’s a raining in the park, meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
You feel all right when you hear the music ring
Well you step inside but you don’t see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Too much competition in other places
But the horns they’re blowing that sound
Way on down South, way on down South, London town
Check out Guitar George he knows all the chords
Man it’s strictly rhythm he doesn’t want to make it cry or sing
And an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing
But Harry doesn’t mind if he doesn’t make the scene
He’s got a daytime job, he’s doing all right
He can play the honky-tonk like anything
Saving it up for Friday night
With the Sultans, with the Sultans of Swing
In the crowded young bars they’re fooling about in the corner
Dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They don’t give a damn about any trumpet playing band
It’s not what they call rock and roll
And the Sultans, yeah the Sultans play Creole
And than the man steps right up to the microphone
He says at last just as the time bell rings
Goodnight, and it’s time to go home
But he makes it fast with one more thing
We are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of Swing
428
SUMMER LIGHTNING
Come over here, come on sit down beside me
Closer now, come on put your arms, put your arms around me
Have you had a bad day too, and I feel the same as you
Come on sit down
It’s just when I get mad I end up saying things
If I thought about I would never say
And I think that you already know that
But I’ll say it anyway, I’ll say it anyway
Don’t let the sun go down the two of us still fighting
It’s not a storm at all no it’s only summer, only summer lightning
And we’ve still got the night so there’s time to put it right
Let’s go to bed
429
SUMMERTIME
Summertime and the living is easy
Fish are jumping and the cotton is high
Your daddy’s rich and your mamma’s good looking
So hush little baby don’t you cry
One of these days you’re gonna rise up singing
You’ll spread your wings and you’ll fly away
But ‘till then there’s nobody can harm you
With your mamma and papa standing close by
Summertime and the living is easy
Fish are jumping and the cotton is high
Your daddy’s rich and your mamma’s good looking
So hush little baby don’t you cry
One of these days you’re gonna rise up singing
You’ll spread your wings and you’ll fly away
But ‘till then there’s nobody can harm you
With your mamma and papa standing close by
430
SUNNY AFTERNOON
The taxman’s taken all my dough
And left me in my stately home
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
And I can’t sail my yacht
he’s taken everything I’ve got
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
Save me save me save me from this squeeze
I’ve got a big fat mama trying to break me
And I love to live so pleasantly
Love this life of luxury
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
In Summertime, in Summertime, in Summertime
My girlfriend’s gone off with my car
And gone back to her ma and pa
Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty
Now I’m sitting here
Sipping at my ice cold beer
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
Help me help me help me sail away
You give me two good reasons why I ought to stay
‘Cause I love to live so pleasantly
Love this life of luxury
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
In Summertime, in Summertime, in Summertime
Save me save me save me from this squeeze
I’ve got a big fat mama trying to break me
And I love to live so pleasantly
Love this life of luxury
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
In Summertime, in Summertime, in Summertime
431
SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE
It's getting near dawn
When lights close a tired eye
I'll soon be with you my love
Give you my dull surprise
I'll be with you darling soon
Be with you when the stars start falling
I've been waiting for so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love
I'm with you my love
The light shining down on you
Yes I'm with you my love
It's the morning and just we two
I'll stay with you darling now
Stay with you till my seas are dried up
I've been waiting for so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love
I've been waiting for so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love
432
SUSIE Q
Oh Susie Q
Oh Susie Q
Oh Susie Q
I love you
Susie Q
I like the way you walk
I like the way you talk
I like the way you walk
I like the way you talk
Susie Q
Well say that you'll be true
Well say that you'll be true
Well say that you'll be true
And never leave me blue
Susie Q
Well say that you'll be mine
Well say that you'll be mine
Well say that you'll be mine
Baby all the time
Susie Q
Oh Susie Q
Oh Susie Q
Oh Susie Q
Baby I love you
Susie Q
I like the way you walk
I like the way you talk
I like the way you walk
I like the way you talk
Susie Q
Oh Susie Q
Oh Susie Q
Oh Susie Q
Baby I love you
Susie Q
433
SWEET HOME ALABAMA
Big wheels keep on turning
Carrying me home as soon they can
Singing songs about the southway
I miss that old band once again
Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her
Well, I heard old Neil put it down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
Several men don't need him around
Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
In Birmingham they robbed the governor (Prouh-prouh-prouh)
Now, we all did what we had to do
Now, Watergate doesn't bother me
Does your conscience bother you
Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Now muscle shovellers got the swampers
They did in the summer too
Lord, they give me oh so much
They picked me up when I was blue
Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
434
SWEET JEAN VINCENT
Blue Jean man
Skinny white sailor the chances were slender the beauties were brief
Shall I mourn your decline with some thunderbird wine and a black handkerchief
I miss your sad but genial whisper I miss the voice that called my heart
Sweet Jean Vincent young and old and gone sweet Jean Vincent
Who who who’s that John
White face black shirt white socks black shoes black hair white strap bled white dyed black
Sweet Jean Vincent the blue cap’s road to love
At the surf club ball in the uniform bopping their delight
With the bob tail bandage and an uncanny act she’s the one with the flowing feet
You can wave her fringe back to the sick or frees the beat is incomplete
And the jumpered honey in the dungarees tough sweater and the ponytail
If you guess her age when she comes back stage the loony knobs bite their nails
Black gloves white frost black crepe white lead white sheet black night jet black deadly white
Sweet Jean Vincent there’s one in every town
And the dirt boy drives till the hearse arrives and laid that frisker down
Sweet Jean Vincent there’s nowhere left to hide
With lazy skin and ashtray eyes and perforated pride
So with the well met gel in the public hotel you’re bound to modify
When the lead’s still out in the leak house shout you’d better get out your gold
435
SWEET LITTLE ROCK AND ROLLER
Only nine years old and sweet as she can be
All dressed up like a downtown Christmas tree
Dancing and humming a rock and roll melody
She’s the daughter of a well respected man
Who taught her how to judge and understand
Since she became a rock and roll music fan
Talking ‘bout sweet little rock and roller
Sweet little rock and roller
Her daddy don’t have to scold her
Her partner can’t hardly hold her
She never gets any older
Sweet little rock and roller
Should have see her eyes when the band began to play
And the famous singer he sang and bowed away
When the star performs she screamed and yelled hooray
Ten thousand eyes were watching him leave the floor
Five thousand tongues were screaming “more, more”
About fifteen hundred of them waiting outside the door
She’s a sweet little rock and roller
Sweet little rock and roller
Her daddy don’t have to scold her
She never gets any older
Her partner can’t hardly hold her
She’s a sweet little rock and roller
She’s a sweet little rock and roller
Sweet little rock and roller
Her daddy don’t have to scold her
She never gets any older
Her partner can’t hardly hold her
She’s a sweet little rock and roller
436
SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN
They're really rocking in Boston Pittsburgh PA
Deep in the heart of Texas around the 'Frisco bay
All over Saint Louis way down in New Orleans
All the cats are gonna dance with sweet little sixteen
Sweet little sixteen she just got to have
About a half a million framed autographs
Her album’s filled with pictures she gets them one by one
She gets so excited won't you look at her run
Oh mummy mummy please may I go
Such a sight to see somebody steal a show
Oh daddy daddy I beg of you
Whisper to daddy it's all right with you
Sweet little sixteen she's got them grown up blues
Tight dresses and lipstick she's sporting high heeled shoes
But tomorrow morning she'll have to change her trend
Be sweet sixteen go back to class again
They're really rocking on bandstands Philadelphia PA
Deep in the heart of Texas around the 'Frisco bay
All over Saint Louis and down in New Orleans
All the cats are gonna dance with sweet little sixteen
437
SWEET MYSTERY
One of these days I’m gonna do it right
Take her out to dine by candlelight
Rent a suit and give my shoes a shine
And talk about nothing over a glass or two of expensive ...
One of these days I’m gonna do it right
Get to her door and just say goodnight
Even if she asks me to come on in
I’ll make myself say no so I can call again
But babe I really like you
There’s nothing wrong with you oh no
I said baby there is nothing that is wrong with me
I’ve just got to have you for my sweet mystery
Sweet mystery, sweet mystery
Nothing wrong with you, nothing wrong with me
Can’t you see how groovy it could be
If you’d agree to be my sweet mystery
One of these days I’m gonna do it right
Send her flowers and ask her out tomorrow night
Find a little place where maybe we can dance
And build it up slowly for the big romance
One of these days I’m gonna do it right
If I don’t get stoned in the candle light
Not get to her door and scream now you let me in
‘Cause if she said yes it’d be the same old thing
But babe I really like you
There’s nothing wrong with you oh no
I said baby there is nothing that is wrong with me
I’ve just got to have you for my sweet mystery
Sweet mystery, sweet mystery
Nothing wrong with you, nothing wrong with me
Can’t you see how groovy it could be
If you’d agree to be my sweet mystery
438
SWEET TRANSVESTITE
How d'you do I see you've met my faithful handyman
He's just a little brought down because when you knocked
He thought you were the candyman
Don't get strung out by the way I look
Don't judge a book by it's cover
I'm not much of a man by the light of the day
But by night I'm one hell of a lover
I'm just a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania
Let me show you around and maybe play you a sound
You look like you're both pretty groovy
Or if you want something visual
That's not too abysmal
We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie
I'm glad we caught you at home
Could we use your 'phone
We're both in a bit of a hurry
We'll just say where we are
And then go back to the car
We don't want to be any worry
Well you got caught with a flat
Well how about that
Well babies don't you panic
By the light of the night
It'll all seem all right
I'll get you a satanic mechanic
I'm just a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania
Why don't you stop for the night
And maybe a bite
I could show you my favourite obsession
I've been making a man
With blond hair and a tan
And he's good for relieving my tensions
I'm just a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania
I'm just a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania
So come up to the lab
And see what's on the slab
I see you shiver with anticipation
But maybe the rain is really to blame
So I'll remove the cause but not the symptom
439
TAKE IT EASY
Well I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand take it easy
Well I'm standing on a corner in Wilmslow Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl my lord in a flat Bedford
Slowing down to take a look at me
Come on baby don't say maybe
I've got to know if your sweet love is going to save me
We may lose and we may win but we will never be here again
So open up I'm climbing in take it easy
Well I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load
I've got a world of troubles on my mind
Looking for a lover who won't blow my cover
She's so hard to find Take it easy
Come on baby don’t say maybe
I've got to know if your sweet love is going to save me
Oh we've got it easy
We ought ta take it easy
440
TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT
All alone at the end of the evening
And the bright lights have faded to blue
I was thinking ‘bout a woman who might have loved me,
And I never knew
You know I’ve always been a dreamer spent my life running ‘round
And it’s so hard to change can’t seem to settle down
But the dreams I’ve seen lately
Keep on turning out and burning out
And turning out the same
So put me on a highway and show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time
You can spend all your time making money
You can spend all your love making time
If it all feel to pieces tomorrow
Would you still be mine?
And when you’re looking for your freedom nobody seems to care
And you can’t find the door can’t find it anywhere
When there’s nothing to believe in
Still you’re coming back, you’re running back
You’re coming back for more
So put me on a highway and show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit, take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time
441
TASTE AND TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
My mother told me when I was young
Some people try to con you son
You’ve got to separate the truth from the lie
Taste and try before you buy
The army say now sign on for five
The army give you a real man’s life
You know I don’t dig that army jive
Taste and try before you buy
My woman looks at me, my woman said
Go pack your things boy and get outta my bed
Five long years now you still ain’t do me right
Taste and try before you buy
This is my philosophy
It may not suit you but it sure suits me
You’ve got to live before you die
Taste and try before you buy
442
THE TAXMAN
The other day I had a little problem
I found another taxman at my door
Eh you know the kind of feeling this arouses
So I done what I've done many times before
I asked him very nicely if he'd like to step this way
And have a cup of coffee and a bun
Then I hit him with a shovel and I stuffed him in the cupboard
With the coal sacks and I turned around and sung
Oh what shall I do with the taxmen in the cupboard
Mother Hubbard had a cupboard it were bare
But I've got thirteen and another one just come
D'you think it's something that I should declare
I’m not raving, I’m just saving, on my income tax, I’m waiving
Regulations that would quickly strip me bare
So what shall I do with the taxmen in the cupboard
What shall I do with them there
The other day I went down to a post office
And I said I know it's really not the norm
But I've got a load of bodies I want shifting
I wonder if you’ve got the proper form
They said we're very sorry but we'll have to disappoint
We just can't undertake that kind of thing
I think they thought that I were barmy they said the salvation army
May be the people that you ought to ring
So what shall I do with the taxmen in the cupboard
I ask them but they only sit and stare
Now I've got thirty-two with another turning blue
Since I stuck a little poker through his hair
I’m not raving, I’m just saving, on my income tax, I’m waiving
Regulations that would quickly strip me bare
So what shall I do with the taxmen in the cupboard
What shall I do with them there
443
TEABAG IN MY COFFEE
Intro:
Darling, I’m 500 miles from home, I stopped over at
this lonely motel and had me forty seven beers at the bar, and
then, darling I staggered up to my lonely room and I yodelled
all over the floor, and darling, as I looked down, my thoughts
turned to you ....
You’re the teabag in my coffee, you’re the strychnine in my tea
You’re the water in my petrol, I’m so glad you picked on me
I love everything about you, from your head down to your toes
From the pimples on your legs dear, to the warts upon your nose
You’re the dog-end in my ashtray, I can say without regret
You’re the droppings in my bird cage, I wish you’d go and see a vet
You’re the fuse gone in my meter, you look just like a Whitehouse farce
You’re a very noisy eater, you’re a pain in the leg
You’re the abscess on my molars, guess you’ll always be a runt
When I see you in your rollers, can’t tell your backside from your front
You’re the gas bill every quarter, you’re inflation at it’s worst
I can say I love you dearly, like a boil that just won’t burst
Guess I’ll head for new horizons, guess I’ll walk right out the door
But I keep going round in circles, you nailed my left foot to the floor
You’re the nail stuck in my spare tyre, you put my head into a whirl
You’re the greenfly on my roses, how I wish you’d been a girl
444
TEAR THEM DOWN
Councillors, magistrates, men of renown
Who needs to live in a dirty old town
Yes come on tear it down
Who needs the trees and the flowers to grow
We can have a motorway with motorway dough
I know, I know, I know they’ve got to go
Tear them down mess them round
Bury them deep under the ground
And if you ever have a sleepless night
Just count out your money it’ll be all right
All right
Politicians, planners go look what you’ve done
Your madness is making a machine of everyone
But one day the machine might turn on
We’ll tear you down mess you round
Bury you deep under the ground
And we’ll dance on your graves ‘till the flowers return
And the trees tell us secrets that took ages to learn
We’ll tear you down mess you round
Bury you deep under the ground
And we’ll dance on your graves ‘till the flowers return
And the trees tell us secrets that took ages to learn
We’ll tear you down
445
TELL HER ABOUT IT
Listen boy I don't want to see you let a good thing slip away
You know I don't like watching anybody make the same mistakes I made
She's a real nice girl and she's always there for you
But a nice girl wouldn't tell you what you should do
Listen boy I'm sure that you think you got it all under control
You don't want somebody telling you the way to stay in someone's soul
You're a big boy now and you'll never let her go
But that's just the kind of thing she ought to know
Tell her about it tell her everything you feel
Give her every reason to accept that you're for real
Tell her about it tell her all your crazy dreams
Let her know you need her let her know how much she means
Listen boy it's not automatically a certain guarantee
To insure yourself you've got to provide communication constantly
When you love someone you're always insecure
And there's only one good way to reassure
Tell her about it let her know how much you care
When she can't be with you tell her you wish you were there
Tell her about it every day before you leave
Pay her some attention give her something to believe
Cause now and then she'll get to worrying
Just because you haven't spoken for so long
And though you may not have done anything
Will that be a consolation when she's gone
Listen boy it's good information from a man who's made mistakes
Just a word or two that she gets from you could be the difference that it makes
She's a trusting soul and she's put her trust in you
But a girl like that won't tell you what you should do
Tell her about it tell her everything you feel
Give her every reason to accept that you're for real
Tell her about it tell her all your crazy dreams
Let her know you need her let her know how much she means
Tell her about it tell her how you feel right now
Just tell her about it the girl don't want to wait too long
You got to tell her about it tell her now and you won't go wrong
You got to tell her about it before it gets too late
Tell her about it you know the girl don't want to wait
Tell her about it
446
TELL IT LIKE IT IS
If you want something to play with
Go and find yourself a toy
Baby my time is to expensive
And I'm not your little boy
If you are serious don't play with my heart it makes me furious
But if you want me to love you then baby I will
Yeah you know I will
Tell it like it is don't be ashamed
Let your conscience be your guide
But I know deep down inside of me
I believe you love me forget your foolish pride
Life is too short to have sorrow
You might be here today and gone tomorrow
You might as well get what you want
So leave me girl go and leave
Tell it like it is don't be ashamed
Let your conscience be your guide
But I know deep down inside of me
I believe you love me forget your foolish pride
Tell it like it is don't be ashamed
Let your conscience be your guide
But I know deep down inside of me
I believe you love me forget your foolish pride
447
TEQUILA SUNRISE
It's another tequila sunrise
Stirring slowly 'cross the sky
Said goodbye
He was just a hired hand
Working on the dreams he'd planned to try
The days go by
Every night when the sun goes down
Just another lonely boy in town
And she's out running round
She wasn't just another woman
And I couldn't keep from coming on
Been so long
Woh and it's a hollow feeling
When it comes down to dealing friends
It never ends
Take another shot of courage
Wonder why the fireworks never come
You just get numb
It's another tequila sunrise
This old world still looks the same
Another frame
448
TEXAS STRUT
Let me tell you about the Texas blues
I went down south to Dallas to hear those cowboys wail
Came across that Feelie Gibbons found out all that she is a trail
I just can't lose with the Texas beat
Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues the Texas blues
Found myself in double trouble when I saw that Texas flood
Stevie said that sky is crying silver Stetsons in his blood
I just can't lose with the Texas beat
Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues the Texas blues
I heard that Houston twister well he could run you off the tracks
When I faced that cold cold feeling you get the shivers down your back
I just can't lose with the Texas blues
Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues the Texas blues
Well I'm a going back to Dallas won't be waiting for no bus
Find it hard down to the sunset you won't see my feet for dust
I just can't lose with the Texas blues
Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues
Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues
Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues
Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues the Texas blues the Texas blues
Said I just can't lose with that Texas blues the Texas blues
449
THAT’S WHY I’M SO RICH
My manager he promised to make me a star
He wears a diamond ring, smokes a big cigar
I see him riding round town in a big black car
I said I need a lift are you going far
Then he tells me
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor
He said I got you a tour of the USA
And two lovely ladies along the way
Before you know it you’ll soon be a household name
But when I ask how much they are willing to pay
All he tells me
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor
Oh ho That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor
Now that I’m top of the charts and on T.V.
You might think I’m rich but pity me
When I ‘phone up to ask for my royalties
There is only a voice on the answering machine
I hear him tell me
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
All my life I give you nothing still you ask for more
That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor
Oh ho That’s why I’m so rich and you’re so poor
450
THEME FROM AN IMAGINARY WESTERN
When the wagons leave the city
For the forest and further on
Painted wagons of the morning
Dusty roads where they have gone
Sometimes travelling through the darkness
Met the Summer coming home
Fallen faces by the wayside
Looked as if they might have known
Oh the sun was in their eye
And the days with the trials
In a country town
Where the laughter sounds
Oh the dancing and the singing
Oh the music when they played
Oh the fires that they started
Oh the girls with no regrets
Sometimes they found it sometimes they kept it
Often they lost it along the way
For each other to possess it
Sometimes ride inside of day
Oh the sun was in their eye
And the days with the trials
In a country town
Where the laughter sounds
Oh the sun was in their eye
And the days with the trials
In a country town
Where the laughter sounds
451
THERE'S A LIGHT OVER AT THE FRANKENSTEIN PLACE
In the velvet darkness of the blackest night
Looming bright there's a guiding star
No matter what or who you are
There's a light over at the Frankenstein place
There's a light burning in the fireplace
There's a light light in the darkness of everybody's life
Darkness must go down the river of night's dreaming
Flow Morpheus slow let the sun and light come streaming
Into my life into my life
There's a light over at the Frankenstein place
There's a light burning in the fireplace
There's a light light in the darkness of everybody's life
452
THIRTY-NINE
In the year of thirty-nine assembled here the volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Said the ship roved out on a blue and sunny morn
Sweetest sight ever seen
And the nights they followed day and the storytellers say
That the score brave souls inside
Sailed out for many years way across the milky sea
Ne’er looked back never feared never cried
Don’t you hear my call though you’re many years away
Don’t you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew
In the year of thirty-nine came a ship in from the blue
Volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news of a world so newly born
But their hearts so heavily weigh
For the Earth is old and grey little darling we’ll away
But my love this cannot be
For so many years have gone though I’m older but a year
Your mother’s eyes from your eyes cry to me
Don’t you hear my call though you’re many years away
Don’t you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew
Don’t you hear my call though you’re many years away
Don’t you hear me calling you
All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand
For my life ahead pity me
453
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Once upon a time there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours
And dreamed of all the great things we would do
Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La la la la la la, la la la la la la
Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days
Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I'd see you in the tavern
We'd smile at one another and we'd say
Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La la la la la la, la la la la la la
Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days
Just tonight I stood before that tavern
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass I saw a strange reflection
Was this lonely fellow really me
Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La la la la la la, la la la la la la
Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days
through the door there came familiar laughter
I saw you face and heard you call my name
Oh my friend, we're older but no wiser
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same
Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La la la la la la, la la la la la la
Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days
454
THREE TIMES A LADY
Thanks for the times that you’ve given me
The memories are all in my mind
And now that we’ve come to the end of our rainbow
There’s something I must say out loud
You’re once twice three times a lady
And I love you
Yes you’re once twice three times a lady
And I love you I love you
(You’ve shared my dreams my joys my pains)
(You’ve made my life worth living for)
(And if I had to live my life over again dear)
(I’d spend each and every moment with you)
(You’re once twice three times a lady)
(And I love you)
(You’re once twice three times a lady)
(And I love you I love you)
When we are together the moments I cherish
With every beat of my heart
To touch you to hold you to feel you to need you
There’s nothing to keep us apart
You’re once twice three times a lady
And I love you I love you
455
TIE YOUR MOTHER DOWN
Get your party gown and get your pigtail down
And get your heart beating baby
Got my timing right and got my act all tight
It’s got to be tonight my little school babe
Your mother says you don’t
And your daddy says you won’t
And I’m boiling up inside
Ain’t no way I’m gonna lose out this time
Tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Lock your daddy out of doors
I don’t need him nosing around
Tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight
You’re such a dirty louse go get outta my house
That’s all I ever get from your family ties
In fact I don’t think I ever heard a single little civil word
From those guys
I don’t give a light I’m gonna make out all right
I’ve got a sweetheart hand to put a stop
To all that sniping and grousing
Tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Take your little brother swimming
With a brick that’s all right
Tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Or you ain’t no friend of mine
Your momma and your daddy gonna plague me ‘till I die
I can’t understand it cause I’m a peace loving guy
Tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Get that big big big big big daddy out the door
Tie your mother down, tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight
456
TIME AFTER TIME
Lying in my bed I hear the clock ticks I thing of you
All the things circled, confusion is nothing new
Flashed that warm night almost left behind
Suitcase so left me
Time after sometimes you pictured me
I’m walking to find a hope, you’re calling to me
I can’t hear what you’ve said
Then you said go slow, I fall behind
The second hand done right
If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time
If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time
If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time
If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time
I’ve done my pictured face
And darkness has turned to climb
Watch you through the window
You’re wondering it’s fine, O.K.
Scene left, stone left from deep inside
If you’re a big sound of time
If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time
If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time
The second hand done right
If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time
If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time
457
TIME IS ON MY SIDE
Time is on my side oh yes it is
I said time is on my side oh yes it is
Now you always say
That you wanna be free
But you come running back
You come running back
You come running back to me
Time is on my side oh yes it is
I said time is on my side oh yes it is
You're searching for good times
But just wait and see
You'll come runnin' back
You'll come runnin' back
You'll come runnin' back to me
Girl girl go on I said go ahead a lot of the time
And baby do anything your heart desires
Remember I'll be around
But I know I know like I told you so many times before
That you are gonna turn back
Yeah you're gonna come back one of these days
Gonna hammer right on my door
Time is on my side oh yes it is
I said time is on my side oh yes it is
Cause I've got the real love
The kind that you need
You'll come runnin' back
You'll come runnin' back
You'll come runnin' back to me
Yes time time time is on my side oh yes it is
I said time is on my side oh yes it is
I said time time time is on my side oh yes it is
I said time is on my side oh yes it is
458
TIME WARP
It's astounding time is fleeting
Madness takes it's toll
But listen closely
Not for very much longer
I've got to keep control
I remember doing the time warp
Drinking those moments when
The blackness would hit me
And the voice would be calling
Let's do the time warp again
It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right
Put your hand on your hips and bring your knees in tight
It's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane
Let's do the time warp again
It's so dreamy
Oh fantasy free me
Till you can't see me no not at all
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention
Well secluded I see all
With a bit of a mind flip
You're into a time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You're spaced out on sensation
Like you're under sedation
Let's do the time warp again
It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right
Put your hand on your hips and bring your knees in tight
It's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane
Let's do the time warp again
Well I was walking down the street just a having a think
When this snake of a guy gave me an evil wink
He looked me up he took me by surprise
He had a pickup truck and the devils eyes
He stared at me and I felt the change
Time meant nothing after what I gained
Let's do the time warp again
It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right
Put your hand on your hips and bring your knees in tight
It's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane
Let's do the time warp again
459
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING
Come gather around people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changing
Come writers and critics, who prophecies with your pen
And keep your eyes wide the change won't come again
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
And there's no telling who that is naming
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changing
Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside and it's raging
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changing
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticise what you don't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is ripply again
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changing
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changing
460
TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON
When love with unconfined wings hovers within my gates
And my divine Althea brings to whisper at my grates
When thy light angled in her hair and fettered with her eye
Birds that wanton in the air know no such liberty
When flowing cups run swiftly round with no allay intends
Our careless heads with roses crowned our hearts with royal flames
When thirsty grief in wine we steep when healths and draughts run free
Fishes that tickle in the deep know no such liberty
Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage
Minds innocent and quiet take that as a hermitage
If I have freedom in my love and in my soul am free
Angels alone that soar above enjoy such liberty
461
TO BE A FARMER’S BOY
The sun had set behind yon hill across the dreary moor
Weary and lame a poor boy came unto a farmer’s door
Can you tell me if here it be that I can find employ
To plough and sow to reap and mow
And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy
My father’s dead my mother’s left with children great and small
And what is worse for mother still I’m the oldest of them all
Though small I be though I’ll work hard if you would me employ
To plough and sow to reap and mow
And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy
And if you will not me employ one favour I must ask
To shelter me ‘till break of day from this cold winter’s blast
At break of day away I’ll go elsewhere to seek employ
To plough and sow to reap and mow
And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy
Come try the lad the mistress said let him no further seek
Oh father do the daughter cried as the tears rolled down her cheek
A man that’ll work is hard to find so father him employ
Don’t turn him away but let him stay
And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy
As time the lad became a man and the good old farmer died
Leaving the lad the farm he had and his daughter for his bride
The lad that was a man now is oft smiles as he thinks with joy
And he blesses that day he came that way
To be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy
462
TO KNOW HER IS TO LOVE HER
To know know know her
Is to love love love her
Just to see her smile
Makes my life worthwhile
To know know know her
Is to love love love her
And I do and I do and I do
I’ll be good to her
I’ll bring love to her
Everyone says there’ll come a day
When I’ll walk alongside of her
Oh yes yes to know know know her
Is to love love love her
And I do and I do and I do
Why can’t she see me
How blind can she be
Someday she’ll see
That she belongs to me
To know know know her
Is to love love love her
Just to see her smile
Makes my life worthwhile
To know know know her
Is to love love love her
And I do and I do and I do
463
TO LOVE SOMEBODY
There’s a light a certain kind of light
That never shone on me
I want my life to be lived with you
Lived with you
There’s a way everybody say
To do each and every little thing
But what does it bring
If I ain’t got you ain’t got you baby
You don’t know what it’s like
You don’t know what it’s like
To love somebody to love somebody
The way I love you
In my brain I see your face again
I know my frame of mind
You ain’t got to be so blind
And I’m blind so so so very blind
I’m a man can’t you see what I am
I live and I breathe for you
But what good does it do
When I ain’t got you, ain’t got you baby
You don’t know what it’s like
You don’t know what it’s like
To love somebody to love somebody
The way I love you
464
TOO TIRED
I lay down last night too tired to wake
I had a chill this morning too tired to shake
I got a good poker hand too tired to win
I hear my baby knocking too tired to let her in
I'm tired yeah yeah yeah I'm tired
Too tired too tired for anything
I'm too tired to walk too tired to run
I can hear my baby calling too tired too tired
I'm tired yes I'm tired I'm tired too tired for anything
I'm tired of prosperity I'm tired of luck
I'm sitting on a pin I'm too tired to get up
I'm tired I declare I'm tired
Too tired too tired for anything
465
THE TORTOISE
He was just a lonely tortoise looking for a home
His little feet were blistered
With the miles he had to roam
I found him in a pet shop
On his cheek there was a tear
On his little back was painted
“Five new pence to clear”
He’s a faithful friend the tortoise
and he’ll love you to the end
And you’ll never need a person
With a tortoise for a friend
I took him from that pet shop
Tied to a piece of string
He was happy in his freedom
You know I think I heard him sing
Then I took him to my sports car
We’d twenty miles to go
I tied him to the bumper
He was grateful for the tow
In the winter we would hibernate
We would both retire
And if he ever got too cold
I’d stick him on the fire
In the summer at the swimming pool
I was so proud of him
I threw him in, he often sank
You know I don’t think he could swim
Then came that day as come it may
To creatures great and small
A drunken driver hit my friend
And he went to the wall
All I found here and there
Were little bits of shell
So I made them into plectrums
And friends I knew this plectrum well
466
TRAIN IN G
I know you’re travelling but I don’t know where
I’d leave here with you but I just can’t pay my fare
Take me to some better place to be
Now tell me baby don’t you want a man like me
I came in the summer with the bright lights on my mind
I tried to make it but I soon got left behind
If you deal me one good hand to play
Then I swear I’ll keep your secret when your man comes back one day
Hey now baby won’t you take me on your train
We’ll leave tomorrow and we won’t come back again
And if the sun don’t shine on our back door
Then you can leave me in the morning if you just let me know what for
467
TRAVELLING BAND
Seven thirty seven coming out of the sky
Won't you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride
I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah
Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand
Playing in a travelling band
Take me to the hotel baggage going nowhere
Come on come on won't you get me to my room
I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah
Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand
Playing in a travelling band
Listen to the radio talking 'bout the last show
Someone got excited and they called the state malitia
I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah
Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand
Playing in a travelling band
Here we come again on a Saturday night
With your fussing and your fighting won't you get me to the rock
I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah
Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand
Playing in a travelling band
Playing in a travelling band
Playing in a travelling band
Wanna give myself a hand
Cause I'm playing in a travelling band
Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand
Playing in a travelling band
468
TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
Oh she may get weary young girls they do get weary
Wearing that same old shaggy dress but when she gets weary
Try a little tenderness
You know she's waiting just anticipating
The things that she'll never never posses while she's there waiting
Try a little tenderness
That's all you gotta do
You won't regret it some girls they can't forget it
Love is their only happiness but it's all so easy
All you gotta do is try a little gentleness
All you gotta do is try a little gentleness
Hold her squeeze her never leave her
Try a little tenderness
Hold her squeeze her never leave her
Try a little tenderness
Try a little tenderness
All you gotta do is hold her squeeze her
Never leave her gotta please her
Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her
You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta
Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her
You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta
Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her
You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta
Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her
You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta
Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her
You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta
Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her
You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta
Try a little tenderness
469
TUNNEL OF LOVE
Getting crazy on the waltzer but it’s the life that I choose
Sing about the six blade, sing about the switchback and the torture tattoo
And I’ve been riding on the ghost train where the cars they scream and slam
And I don’t know where I’ll be tonight but I’ll always tell you where I am
In a screaming ring with faces I saw her standing in the light
She had a ticket for the races, just like me she was a victim of the night
I put my hand upon her lever said let it rock and let it roll
I had the one armed bandit fever there was an arrow through my heart and my soul
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning, up above
And I’m so high on the world come and take a slow ride with me girl
On a tunnel of love, love, love
It’s just a danger when you’re riding at your own risk
She said you are the perfect stranger and she said baby lets keep it like this
It’s just a kick, walk, twisting daily and step right up and see
Hey mister, hey mister gimme two, gimme two now `cause any two can play
And the big wheel keep on turning, neon burning up above
And I’m so high on the world come and take a slow ride with me babe
On a tunnel of love, love, love
Well It’s been money for muscle on another whirligig
Money for muscle and another girl I dig
Just a hustle just to make it big
And rock away, rock away, oh rock away, rock away
Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids
Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids
She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this
She put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss
And in the roar and dust and visa I stood I was to walk away
I could have caught up with her easy enough but someone must have made me stay
And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning, up above
And I’m so high on the world come and take a slow ride with me girl
On a tunnel of love, love, love
Hey now I’m searching through these carousel and carnival arcades
Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
In any shooting gallery where promises are made
To rock away, rock away, Coloured cove to Whitby bay
Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids
Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids
Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did
Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids
470
TURN AGAIN
The stage director stood up and he called the actors down
He asked them all to say three words up, down, and around
Up, down and around they cried with one accord and voice
And up, down and around they went for it was their only choice
I can only turn again, to the front again
Only to turn again, to the rear
Turn again, turn again, turn, turn, turn again
I can listen, but I can’t hear
My friend’s girl’s got a wireless aerial sticking out of her head
And a pile of true romances lying underneath the bed
And a giant poster of Ravi Nooks just beside the door
Well I know she’ll get along fine without him if he doesn’t see her any more
I can only turn again, to the front again
Only to turn again, to the rear
Turn again, turn again, turn, turn, turn again
I can listen, but I can’t hear
The strings were cut from the guitar puppet playing here on the stage
And his music became furious and he stamped his foot in rage
The girls all screamed in agony, the boys they gaped in fear
And the song was called have mercy, have mercy on my ears
I can only turn again, to the front again
Only to turn again, to the rear
Turn again, turn again, turn, turn, turn again
I can listen, but I can’t hear
I remember what the old man said on his little wooden stand
He spoke very quietly with a waving of his hand
Every pigeon to it’s own home was what he seemed to say
And no one should go looking for a better place to stay
I can only turn again, to the front again
Only to turn again, to the rear
Turn again, turn again, turn, turn, turn again
I can listen, but I can’t hear
I can only turn again, to the front again
Only to turn again, to the rear
Turn again, turn again, turn, turn, turn again
I can listen, but I can’t hear
471
TUTTI FRUTTI
A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bop
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bop
Got a gal name of Sue she knows just what to do
Got a gal name of Sue she knows just what to do
She bop to the east she bop to the west
She's the gal that I like the best
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bop
Got a gal named Adie she almost drives me crazy
Got a gal named Adie she almost drives me crazy
She knows how to love me yes indeed
I don't know how she do it to me
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bop
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bop
Got a gal named Adie she almost drives me crazy
Got a gal named Adie she almost drives me crazy
She knows how to love me yes indeed
I don't know how she do it to me
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
Tutti frutti oh rudi
A wop bop a loo bop a wop bop bam
472
25 OR 6 TO 4
Waiting for the break of day
Searching for something to say
Flashing lights against the sky
Giving up I close my eyes
Sitting cross-legged on the floor
25 or 6 to 4
Staring blindly into space
Getting up to splash my face
Wanting just to stay awake
Wondering how much I can take
Should I try to do some more
25 or 6 to 4
Feeling like I ought to sleep
Spinning wheel is spinning deep
Searching for something to say
Waiting for the break of day
25 or 6 to 4
Turning round the 6 to 4
Turning round the 6 to 4
473
TWISTING BY THE POOL
We’re going on a holiday now
Gonna take a bit of small chalet
Costa del Magnifico
The cost of living’s so low
Yeah, it’s gonna be so neat
Dancing to the eurobeat
Yeah it’s gonna be so cool
Twisting by the, twisting by the, twisting by the, by the pool
Sitting in a small cafe now
Swing swing swinging to the cabaret
Want to take in a movie, take in a show
Meeting new people at the disco yeah
Yeah, it’s gonna be so neat
Dancing to the eurobeat
Yeah it’s gonna be so cool
Twisting by the, twisting by the, twisting by the, by the pool
Spend the week selling information
Reading all about inflation
And were never gonna be out of reach
There’s a cover on the beach
Twisting by the pool
Uh um you’re gonna look so cute
Sunglasses and a bathing suit
Be the woman of my dreams
Like the ladies in the magazines
Yeah, it’s gonna be so neat
Dancing to the eurobeat
Yeah it’s gonna be so cool
Twisting by the, twisting by the, twisting by the, by the pool
Yeah, it’s gonna be so neat
Dancing to the eurobeat
Yeah it’s gonna be so cool
Twisting by the, twisting by the, twisting by the, by the pool
474
TWISTING THE NIGHT AWAY
Let me tell you ‘bout a place
Somewhere out the New York way
Where the people are so gay
Twisting the night away
Here they have a lot of fun
Putting trouble on the run
Oh man you find the old and young
Twisting the night away
See the man in evening clothes
How he got there I don’t know
But man you ought to see him go
Twisting the night away
He’s dancing with a chick in slacks
She’s moving up and back
Man there ain’t nothing like
Twisting the night away
Here’s a fella in blue jeans
Who’s dancing with an older queen
Cats dolled up in a diamond ring
Twisting the night away
Man you ought to see her go
Twisting to the rock and roll
Here you find the young and old
Twisting the night away
Twisting twisting everybody’s doing great yeah
Twisting twisting twisting the night away
Twisting twisting twisting the night away
Twisting twisting twisting the night away
Here they have a lot of fun
Putting trouble on the run
Oh man you find the old and young
Twisting the night away
See the man in evening clothes
How he got there I don’t know
But man you ought to see him go
Twisting the night away
475
UNCHAIN MY HEART
Unchain my heart baby let me be
Unchain my heart ‘cause you don’t care about me
You’ve got me sewed up like a pillow case
But you’re letting my love go to waste
So unchain my heart oh please please set me free
Unchain my heart baby let me go
Unchain my heart ‘cause you don’t love me no more
Every time I call you on the phone
Some fella tells me that you’re not at home
So unchain my heart oh please please set me free
Unchain my heart baby let me be
Unchain my heart ‘cause you don’t care about me
You’ve got me sewed up like a pillow case
But you’re letting my love go to waste
So unchain my heart oh please please set me free
I’m under your spell like a man in a trance
But I know darn well that I don’t stand a chance
So unchain my heart let me go my way
Unchain my heart you worry me night and day
Why lead me through a life of misery
When you don’t care a bag of beans for me
So unchain my heart oh please please set me free
I’m under your spell like a man in a trance
But I know darn well that I don’t stand a chance
So unchain my heart let me go my way
Unchain my heart you worry me night and day
Why lead me through a life of misery
When you don’t care a bag of beans for me
So unchain my heart oh please please set me free
Oh won’t you set me free oh set me free
476
UNCHAINED MELODY
Oh my love my darling
I’ve hungered for your touch a long lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much are you still mine
I need your love I need your love
God speed your love to me
Lonely rivers flow to the sea to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers sigh wait for me wait for me
I’ll be coming home wait for me
Lonely mountains gaze at the stars
Waiting for the dawn of the day
All alone I gaze at the stars at the stars
Dreaming of my love far away
Oh my love my darling
I’ve hungered for your touch a long lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much are you still mine
I need your love I need your love
God speed your love to me
477
UNDER THE BOARDWALK
When the sun beats down
And melts the tar upon the roof
And your shoes get so hot
You wish your tired feet were fire proof
Under the boardwalk down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby's where I'll be
Under the boardwalk, out of the sun
Under the boardwalk, we'll be having some fun
Under the boardwalk, people walking above
Under the boardwalk, we'll be making love
Under the boardwalk, boardwalk
From the park you hear
The happy sound of a carousal
And you can almost taste
Hot Dogs and French Fries they sell
Under the boardwalk down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby's where I'll be
Under the boardwalk, out of the sun
Under the boardwalk, we'll be having some fun
Under the boardwalk, people walking above
Under the boardwalk, we'll be making love
Under the boardwalk, boardwalk
When the sun beats down
And melts the tar upon the roof
And your shoes get so hot
You wish your tired feet were fire proof
Under the boardwalk down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby's where I'll be
Under the boardwalk, out of the sun
Under the boardwalk, we'll be having some fun
Under the boardwalk, people walking above
Under the boardwalk, we'll be making love
Under the boardwalk, boardwalk
478
UNICORNS
We were travelling north to sing and play
For friends that we had never met
Been working hard and didn't speak
The sky was grey and threatened wet
And I dreamed that I saw unicorns
Dreamed I saw them wild and white
Their sudden beauty lit the world
Like a star will light a winter's night
Pure as love with manes of milk
They danced and pranced and cried aloud
Bright as rainbows round the stars
Their eyes were soft and sad and proud
And I wept for the wild and dirty world
To which this beauty now was lost
And cursed the hungry mind of man
That feeds the future at such cost
My head was bowed my eyes were closed
When in my ears their voices rang
And these few words lodged deep inside
And in my very soul they sang
We never went away
You always knew that we were near
Remember how to look for us
You'll see we were always here
I raised my eyes to seek them out
The world was empty all around
Rain came tumbling from the sky
It drowned all dreams upon the ground
And when they asked me why I wept
Like one who for his dead love mourns
The only answer I could give
I dreamed that there were unicorns
We never went away
You always knew that we were near
Remember how to look for us
You'll see we were always here
We never went away
You always knew that we were near
Remember how to look for us
You'll see we were always here
479
UNION MAN
Now I’m a union man
Amazed at what I am
I say what I think that the company stinks
Cause I’m a union man
When we meet in the local hall
I’ll be voting with them all
With a hell of a shout, it’s “Out brothers out”
And the rise of the factory’s fall
Oh You don’t get me I’m part of the union
You don’t get me I’m part of the union
You don’t get me I’m part of the union
Till the day I die till the day I die
As a union man I’m wise
To the lies of the company spies
And I don’t get fooled by the factory rules
Cause I always read between the lines
And I always get my way
If I strike for higher pay
When I show my card to the Scotland Yard
And this is what I say
Oh You don’t get me I’m part of the union
You don’t get me I’m part of the union
You don’t get me I’m part of the union
Till the day I die till the day I die
Before the union did appear
My life was half as clear
Now I’ve got the power to the working hour
And every other day of the year
Now although I’m a working man
I can ruin the Government’s plan
I never know how this is all going to go
I’m just some kind of superman
Ooooh You don’t get me I’m part of the union
You don’t get me I’m part of the union
You don’t get me I’m part of the union
Till the day I die till the day I die
You don’t get me I’m part of the union
You don’t get me I’m part of the union
You don’t get me I’m part of the union
Till the day I die till the day I die
480
UP AROUND THE BEND
There's a place up ahead and I'm going
Just as fast as my feet can fly
Come away come away if you're going
Leave the sinking ship behind
Come on arise and win we're goin' up around the bend
Bring a song and a smile for the banjo
Better get while the getting's good
Hitch a ride to the end of the highway
Where the neons turn to wood
Come on arise and win we're goin' up around the bend
You can ponder perpetual motion
Fix your mind on a crisp filled day
Always time for a good conversation
There's a new form in what you say
Come on arise and win we' re goin’ up around the bend
Catch a ride to the end of the highway
And we'll meet by the big red tree
There's a place up ahead and I'm going
Come along come along with me
Come on arise and win we're goin’ up around the bend
481
UP WHERE WE BELONG
Who knows what tomorrow brings
In a world few hearts survive
All I know is the way I feel
When it’s real I keep it alive
The road is long
There are mountains in our way
But we climb a step every day
Love lift us where we belong
Where the eagles cry on a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong
Far from the world we know
Up where the clear winds blow
Some hang on to “used to be”
Live their lives looking behind
All we have is here and now
All our life out there to find
The road is long
There are mountains in our way
But we climb a step every day
Love lift us where we belong
Love lift us up where we belong
Where the eagles cry on a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong
Far from the world we know
Up where the clear winds blow
Time goes by, no time to cry
Life’s you and I, alive today
Love lift us up where we belong
Where the eagles cry on a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong
Far from the world we know
482
UPTOWN GIRL
Uptown girl she's been living in her uptown world
I bet she never had a back street guy
I bet her mama never told her why
I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am
And when she knows what she wants from her time
And when she wakes up and makes up her mind
She'll see I'm not so tough just because I'm in love
With an uptown girl
You know I've seen her in her uptown world
She's getting tired of her high class toys
And all the presents from her uptown boys
She's got a choice
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Uptown girl you know I can't afford to buy her pearls
But maybe someday when my ship comes in
She'll understand what kind of guy I've been
And then I'll win
And when she's walking she's looking so fine
And when she's talking she'll say that she's mine
She'll say I'm not so tough just because I'm in love
With an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Uptown girl she's my uptown girl
You know I'm in love with an uptown girl my uptown girl
Don't you know I'm in love with an uptown girl my uptown girl
Don't you know I'm in love with an uptown girl my uptown girl
Don't you know I'm in love with an uptown girl my uptown girl
483
I’M THE URBAN SPACEMAN
I’m the urban spaceman baby I’ve got speed
I’ve got everything I need
I’m the urban spaceman baby I can fly
I’m a supersonic guy
I don’t need pleasure I don’t feel the pain
If you were to knock me down
I just get up again
I’m the urban spaceman baby I’m making out
I’m all about
I wake up every morning with a smile upon my face
My natural exuberance spills out all over the place
I’m the urban spaceman I’m intelligent and clean
Know what I mean
I’m the urban spaceman baby as a lover second to none
It’s a lot of fun
I never let my friends down I’ve never made a boob
I’m a glossy magazine an advert in the tube
I’m the urban spaceman babe but here comes the twist
I don’t exist
484
THE VICAR AND THE FROG
A very holy man, a vicar by trade,
Was a walking in the woods one day,
When he heard a voice give a plaintive cry,
“Oh help me vicar” the voice did say,
And the vicar looked around
And all he could see was a tiny frog seated on the ground,
“My dear little froggy did you speak to me,
Was it you who spoke when I heard that sound ?”
“Oh yes” said the frog “please help me vicar,
I’m not really a frog you see,
I’m a choirboy really but a nasty fairy
Cast a wicked spell on me,
And the only way I can be saved
From this evil spell” the little frog said
“Is for someone to take me and put me in a place
Where a holy man has laid his head.”
So the vicar took him home and put him on his pillow,
And there he lay ‘till the break of day,
And in the morning a blessed miracle,
The spell was broken I’m glad to say,
And there was a choirboy in bed with the vicar
And I hope this all makes sense
For there my lord and members of the jury
Rests the case for the defence.
485
VINCENT
Starry, starry night, paint your pallet blue and grey
Look out on a summers day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the daffodils
And catch the breeze and winter chills
In colours on the snowy linen land
Now I understand, what you try to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they listen now
Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling colours in a violet haze
Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue
Colours changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand
Now I understand, what you try to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they listen now
For they could not love you, but still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
I could have told you Vincent,
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the stranger that you've met, the ragged man in ragged clothes
A silver thorn a bloody rose
Lying crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know, what you try to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried and set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
486
WAKE UP LITTLE SISTER
Wake up little sister tell me what you’ve got
I can see you’re dreaming quite a lot
And if the sun is shining we can make it to the top
Wake up little sister and tell me what is and what is not
Wake up little dreamer you’ve been dreaming too long
I can feel your heartbeat like a song
With you beside me I can feel both gentle and strong
Wake up little sister and tell me what’s right and what is wrong
Wake up little sister help me through the night
We’ve got to make it, we’ve got to make it all right
And in the morning when we have to say good night
We’ll say hello I know and walk off into the light
And in the morning when we have to say good night
We’ll say hello I know and walk off into the light
And if the sun is shining we can make it to the top
Wake up little sister and tell me what is and what is not
487
WALK OF LIFE
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Hey bopaluba listen what I say
Here comes Johnny singing I’ve got a woman
Down in the tunnel trying to make it pay
He’s got the action, he’s got the motion
Yeah, the boy can play
Dedication and devotion, turning the night time into the day
Do the song about the sweet loving woman
Do the song about the knife
Do the walk do the walk of life, yeah, the walk of life
Here comes Johnny gonna tell you a story
Hand me down my walking shoes
Here comes Johnny with the power and the glory
Back beat, the talking blues
He’s got the action, he’s got the motion
Yeah, the boy can play
Dedication and devotion, turning the night time into the day
Do the song about the sweet loving woman
Do the song about the knife
Do the walk do the walk of life, yeah, the walk of life
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Hey bopaluba listen what I say
Here comes Johnny singing I’ve got a woman
Down in the tunnel trying to make it pay
He’s got the action, he’s got the motion
Yeah, the boy can play
Dedication and devotion, turning the night time into the day
Do the song about the sweet loving woman
Do the song about the knife
Do the walk do the walk of life, yeah, the walk of life
And after all the violence and double talk
There’s just the song of all the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, yeah, you do the walk of life
488
WALTZING Mrs. THATCHER
Once an ageing yuppie passed by a juicy pension fund,
Under the protection of a loophole in the law.
And he watched, and he waited and he seized the opportunity,
Then he banked it in the Seychelles before anybody saw.
Rip off the punters rip off the punters,
Tax the buggers heavily come listen to my plea.
'Cause my cottage needs rethatchering and my Rolls Royce needs an overhaul,
The plebs'll only spend it so give it all to me.
Then this poor old yuppie found life getting sticky
Folks were asking questions especially of him
So he sailed off in his yacht to the sunny Costa Packet
And no one’s ever seen him since he went for a swim
Rip off the punters rip off the punters,
Tax the buggers heavily come listen to my plea.
'Cause my cottage needs rethatchering and my Rolls Royce needs an overhaul,
The plebs'll only spend it so give it all to me.
489
THE WANDERER
Well I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Where pretty girls are, well you know that I'm around
I kiss 'em and I love 'em, 'cause to me they're all the same
I hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my name
They call me the wanderer, yeah the wanderer,
I roam around, around around, around around
Well there is Bo on my left hand and there is Mary on my right
And Jenny is the girl that I'll be with tonight
And when she asked me which one I love the best
I tear off my shirt and show her Rosy on my chest
'Cause I'm a wanderer, yeah the wanderer,
I roam around, around around, around around
Well, I roam from town to town,
I roam through life without a care,
And I’m as happy as a clown.
With my two fists of iron
And I'm going nowhere
Yeah, I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around
I'm never in one place I roam from town to town
And when I find myself falling for some girl
I hop right into that car of mine and I drive around the world
Yeah, I'm the wanderer, yeah the wanderer,
I roam around, around around, around around
Well, I roam from town to town,
I roam through life without a care,
And I’m as happy as a clown.
With my two fists of iron
And I'm going nowhere
Yeah, I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around
I'm never in one place I roam from town to town
And when I find myself falling for some girl
I hop right into that car of mine and I drive around the world
Yeah, I'm the wanderer, yeah the wanderer,
I roam around, around around, around around
490
WATERS OF TYNE
I canna get to my love though I would dae
The waters of Tyne come between her and me
So here I must stand with a tear in my eye
Both sighing and longing my true love to see
Go fetch me a boatman my bonny Jimmy
Find me a boatman and bring him to me
To carry me over the Tyne to my hinnie
And I shall remember the boatman and thee
Oh where is that boatman my bonny Jimmy
Fetch me the ferryman where’er he may be
That I may cross over the Tyne to my hinnie
So me and my love united may be
I canna get to my love though I would dae
The waters of Tyne come between her and me
So here I must stand with a tear in my eye
Both sighing and longing my true love to see
491
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
I’ve paid my dues time after time
I’ve done my sentence but comitted no crime
And bad mistakes I’ve made a few
I’ve had my share of sand kicked in my face but I’ve come through
We are the champions my friends
And we’ll keep on fighting ‘till the end
We are the champions we are the champions
No time for losers ‘cause we are the champions of the world
I’ve taken my bows and my curtain calls
You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it I thank you all
But it’s been no bed of roses no pleasure cruise
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race and I ain’t gonna lose
We are the champions my friends
And we’ll keep on fighting ‘till the end
We are the champions we are the champions
No time for losers ‘cause we are the champions of the world
We are the champions my friends
And we’ll keep on fighting ‘till the end
We are the champions we are the champions
No time for losers ‘cause we are the champions of the world
492
WE CAN SWING TOGETHER
No one came to criticise no one to complain
Just to pass a little bit of time and play some human games
Some were smoking rolly rolls while others they had none
But everybody was holding hands and singing this little song
We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right
We can swing together, we can swing right through the night
Then when things were happening around about ten to four
There was a screeching of brakes, and dogs barking outside, and a hammering on the door
Then the voice of officialdom saying open up in the name of the law
We just kept on holding hands and singing this song some more
We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right
We can swing together, we can swing all through the night
Then they broke down all the doors, they kicked the windows in
Let their doggies off their leads and they ransacked everything
They stood us all against the wall their faces split with grins
We linked each other’s handcuffs and merrily began to sing
We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right
We can swing together, we can swing right through the night
They took us to see the county judge with a wig hat on his head
He heard our case with a smile on his face and this is what he said
I have to send you all to jail for doing this terrible thing
But as I walked down to the cells I swear I heard him sing
We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right
We can swing together, we can swing all through the night
We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right
We can swing together, we can swing all through the night
We can swing together, ‘cause we feel we’re doing it right
We can swing together, we can swing right through the night
493
WE USED TO KNOW
Whenever I get to feel this way
Hard to find new words to say
I think about the bad old days
We used to know
Nights of winter turn me cold
Fears of dying getting old
We ran the race the race was won
By running slowly
Could be soon we’ll cease to sound
Slowly upstairs faster down
Then to revisit stony grounds
We used to know
Remembering mornings shillings spent
Made no sense to leave the bed
The bad old days they came and went
You’ve been waiting fruitful years
Saving up the birds in hand
While in the bush the others land
Take what we can before the man
Says it’s time to go
Each to his own way I’ll go mine
Best of luck with what you find
But for your own sake remember times
We used to know
494
WEE WEE SONG
When I was a wee wee tot
They took me from my wee wee cot
And put me on my wee wee pot
To see if I’d wee wee or not
When they saw that I would not
They took me from my wee wee pot
And put me in my wee wee cot
And there I would wee wee or not
495
THE WEIGHT
We pulled into Nazareth, feeling 'bout half past dead
Just need to find a place, where we can lay our heads
Mister can you tell us, where a man might find a bed
He just grinned and shook our hands, "No" was 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 picked my bags and went looking for a place to hide
When I saw old Carmen and the devil walking side by side
Now I said, "Hey Carmen, come on let's go downtown !"
She said, "I got to 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, there's nothing that you can say
'Cause it's old Luke and Luke's a-waiting on judgement day
"Hey Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee"
He said, "Do me a favour son, won't 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, "I will fix your rack, if you just jack my dog."
I said, "Wait a minute Chester, I'm a peaceful man."
He said, "That's OK, won't you feed him, whenever 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
Catch a cannonball, take me on down the line
My bag is sinking low and I do believe that it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
She sent me here 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
496
WHAT'D I SAY
Hey mamma don't you treat me wrong
Come and love your daddy all night long
All night long hey hey all right
See that girl with the diamond ring
She sure knows how to shake that thing
All night long hey hey all right
Tell your papa tell your mam
I'm gonna send you back where you come from
You don't do right you don't do right hey hey
When you see me in misery
Come on baby set me free now
All night long hey hey all right
When you see me in misery
Come on baby set me free now
All night long hey hey all right
See the girl with the red dress on
She likes to rock and roll all night long
What'd I say yeah what'd I say
Well tell me what I say
Tell me what I say right now
Tell me what I say tell me what I say
Yeah I want to know
I want to know right now
Yeah tell me what I say
Baby feels so good
Baby you’re so good
Makes me feel all right
Shake that thing
Why don't you shake that thing right now
Yeah it'll make you feel all right
One more time
Yeah one more time right now
It's all right it's all right now
497
WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN
When a man loves a woman
Can't keep his mind on nothing else
He'll change the world
For the good thing he's found
If she's bad he can't see it
She can do no wrong
Turn his back on his best friend
If he puts her down
When a man loves a woman
Spends his very last dime
Trying to hold on
To what he needs
He'll give up all of his comforts
Sleep out in the rain
He'll pretend it's the way
It ought to be
When a man loves a woman
I gave you everything I had
Trying to hold on to your love
Baby please don't treat me bad
When a man loves a woman
Down deep in his soul
She can burn him
So easily
If she plays him for a fool
He's the last one to know
Loving eyes
Can never see
When a man loves a woman
He can do her no wrong
He can never walk some other girl
Yes when a man loves a woman
I know exactly how he feels
Baby baby baby you're my world
When a man loves a woman
I know exactly how you feel
498
WHEN I’M DEAD AND GONE
Oh I love you baby I love you night and day
When I leave you baby don’t cry the night away
When I die don’t you write no words upon my tomb
I don’t believe I want to leave no epitaph of doom
Oh, oh, oh, oh, when I’m dead and gone
I want to leave same happy woman living on
Oh, oh, oh, oh, don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave
Old mamma Linda she’s out to get my hide
She’s got a shotgun and her daughter by her side
Hey there ladies, Johnson’s free
Who’s got the love who’s got the love to keep a man like me
Oh, oh, oh, oh, when I’m dead and gone
I want to leave same happy woman living on
Oh, oh, oh, oh, don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave
499
WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR
When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine
If I'd been out 'til quarter to three, would you lock the door
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four
Hm
You'll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with you
I could be handy mending a fuse when your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride
Doing the garden, digging the weeds, who could ask for more
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four
Every summer we can rent a cottage
On the Isle of Wight if it's not too dear
We could scrimp and save
And grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck and Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line, stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four
500
WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT
Once I lived the life of a millionaire
Spent all my money just did not care
Took all my friends out for a mighty good time
Bought bootleg whisky, champagne and wine
Then I began to fall so low
Lost all my good friends just had nowhere to go
If I get my hands on a dollar again
I’m gonna hang on it ‘till that eagle grins
Nobody wants you
When you’re down and out
In your pocket not one penny
And your friends well you don’t have any
When you get back on your feet again
Everybody wants to be your long lost friend
Mighty strange without a doubt
Nobody wants you when you’re down and out
501
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don’t know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don’t know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you
I look at the world and I notice it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don’t know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don’t know how you were inverted
No one altered you
I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at you all still my guitar gently weeps
502
WHINNY’S RAG
Listen while I tell you about a little girl
I’ve been with over just three years
Some would say she’s slow but I would answer no
She knows how to shift them gears
We used to be so cosy everything was rosy
In our little love nest on the Old Kent Road
In our house of passion they could hear us thrashing
A good six houses down the road
But now that she has gone I can’t carry on
Every night I end up canned
I’m in and out of boozers I’m backing all the losers
Well I have to take myself in hand
I was s’posed to meet her by a parking meter
It was just outside the Coal Face Club
Then when I had got there I looked but couldn’t find her
I thought she must be taking a walk
I there and then decided
As swiftly home I strided
I’d have to make her sorry for crossing my path
I was really mad completely off my mettle
I can’t believe she left me all alone
I went to see her mother she wasn’t with her brother
I began to leap and groan
Then in disillusion
I came to this conclusion
My little bird had flown
If you see my Whinny she’s blonde and rather skinny
But you’ll know her by the wart on her nose
Her dress is very sweet she’s really rather neat
She always wears them beat up clothes
So Whinny if you’re near
Come home to me my dear
You know I’ll always understand
503
WHISKY IN THE JAR
As I was going over the Cork and Kerry mountains
I met with captain Ferrel as his money he was counting
I first produced my pistol and then got out my rapier
Saying stand and deliver for I am the bold receiver
Put your ring on a do on a di
Wack for my daddy oh
Wack for my daddy oh
There's whisky in the jar
I took all of his money and it was a pretty penny
I put it in my bag and I took it home to Molly
She swore that she’d love me and she ne'er again would leave me
The devil take the women for you know she tricked me easy
Put your ring on a do on a di
Wack for my daddy oh
Wack for my daddy oh
There's whisky in the jar
Being drunk and weary I went into Molly’s chamber
Taking my bounty with me and I never knew the danger
For round about six or seven in walked captain Ferrel
I jumped up fired off my pistols and I shot him with both barrels
Put your ring on a do on a di
Wack for my daddy oh
Wack for my daddy oh
There's whisky in the jar
Now some they like the fishing and some they like the fowling
And some men like to hear the cannon balls rolling
Me I like sleeping specially in my Molly’s chamber
But here I am in prison here I am with a ball and chain yeah
Put your ring on a do on a di
Wack for my daddy oh
Wack for my daddy oh
There's whisky in the jar
If there's anyone can help me it's my brother in the army
Maybe he's in Cork or maybe in Killarney
Together we'll go tramping through the golden fields of barley
He's sure to treat me better than my darling sporting Jenny
Put your ring on a do on a di
Wack for my daddy oh
Wack for my daddy oh
There's whisky in the jar
504
WHITE ROOM
In a white room with black curtains in the station
Black roof country no gold pavements tired starlings
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes
Dawn light smiles on you leaving my contentment
I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines
Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves
You said no strings could secure you at the station
Platform ticket restless diesel goodbye window
I walked out of such a sad time at the station
As I walked out felt my own need just beginning
And I'll wait in the queue wen the train comes back
Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves
At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd
Consolation for the old wound now forgotten
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes
She's just dressing goodbye windows tired starlings
I'll sleep in this place with the lonely crowd
Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves
505
A WHITER SHADE OF PALE
We skipped the light Fandango
And turned cartwheels cross the floor
I was feeling kind of sea sick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming hotter
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
And so it was later
As the mirror told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
She said there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see
As I wandered through my playing cards
That would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And the moment my eyes were open
They might just as well been closed
And so it was later
As the mirror told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
And so it was later
As the mirror told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
506
WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN
Long as I remember rain's been coming down
Clouds of mystery falling confusion on the ground
Goodness through the ages trying to find the sun
And I wonder still I wonder who'll stop the rain
I went down Virginia seeking shelter from the storm
Out up in the fable I watched the tower close
Obvious plans and new deals wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder still I wonder who'll stop the rain
Heard the singers playing how we cheered for more
Crowed rushed together trying to keep warm
Still the rain kept falling violence on my heels
And I wonder still I wonder who'll stop the rain
507
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
You need coolin’ baby I’m not foolin’
I’m gonna say it yeah get back to schoolin’
Way down inside honey you need it
I’m gonna give you my love
I’m gonna give you my love
Wanna whole lotta love
Wanna whole lotta love
Wanna whole lotta love
Wanna whole lotta love
You’ve been learnin’ baby I mean learnin’
All them good times baby baby I’ve been yearnin’
Way way down inside honey you need it
I’m gonna give you my love
I’m gonna give you my love
Wanna whole lotta love
Wanna whole lotta love
Wanna whole lotta love
Wanna whole lotta love
You’ve been coolin’ baby I’ve been droolin’
All the good times I’ve been misusin’
Way way down inside I’m gonna give you my love
I’m gonna give you every inch of my love
Gonna give you my love
Wanna whole lotta love
Wanna whole lotta love
Wanna whole lotta love
Wanna whole lotta love
Way down inside woman you need love
Shake for me I wanna be your back door man
Hey oh hey oh oh oh oh
Keep a coolin’ baby keep a coolin’ baby
508
WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOING ON
Come on over baby whole lotta shaking going on
I said come on over baby baby you can't go wrong
We ain't thinking whole lotta shaking going on
Come on over baby we've got a chicken in the barn
Come on over baby we've got the bull by the horns
We ain't thinking whole lotta shaking going on
I said shake baby shake shake baby shake
Shake baby shake shake baby shake
Come on over whole lotta shaking going on
Come on over baby we've got a chicken in the barn
Come on over baby we've got the bull by the horns
We ain't thinking whole lotta shaking going on
I said shake baby shake shake baby shake
Shake baby shake shake baby shake
Come on over baby whole lotta shaking going on
I said shake baby shake shake baby shake
Shake baby shake shake baby shake
Come on over whole lotta shaking going on
Come on over whole lotta shaking going on
509
WHY WORRY NOW
Baby, I see this world has made you sad
Some people can be bad, things they do and things they say
But baby, I’ll wipe away those bitter tears
I’ll chase away those restless fears
That turn your blue skies into grey
Why worry, there should be laughter after pain
There should be sunshine after rain
These things have always been the same
So, why worry now, why worry now
Baby, when I get down I turn to you
And you make sense of what I do
And all that isn’t hard to say
Why worry, there should be laughter after pain
There should be sunshine after rain
These things have always been the same
So, why worry now, why worry now
But baby, just when this world seems mean and cold
Our love comes shining red and gold
And all the rest is by the way
Why worry, there should be laughter after pain
There should be sunshine after rain
These things have always been the same
So, why worry now, why worry now
510
THE UNEXPURGATED WILD COLONIAL BOY
There was a wild colonial boy Bruce Clansky was his name
He was born and raised in Wooloomooloo A place of no great fame
Where men are men and girls are few and sheep will oft times do
And don’t forget your machine gun if you go to Wooloomooloo
Now Bruce grew up when times were hard and wandered near and far
He robbed the rich to help the poor and bought a brand new car
A T.V. and a stereo and beer and fags galore
In fact there wasn’t that much left to waste upon the poor
One morning in the wild outback as Bruce he rode along
An emu raped a parakeet down by a billabong
A wombat waltzed a dingo dozed a jumbuck jumped for joy
It’s like a flamin’ menagerie said the wild colonial boy
He took a trip to Adelaide to find himself a whore
He stacked the furniture round the room and up against the door
The Sheila asked what was his game he answered on the spot
If it’s anything like a kangaroo we’ll need all the space we’ve got
He went to his mates wedding and wished he’d stayed at home instead
The beer ran out too soon and someone took the bride to bed
But it ended well more beer turned up and to everyone’s surprise
The bloke who took the bride to bed came to apologise
He met a band of shearers on the road to Bungaree
They took him to their bivouac and had a rare old spree
Now what they did I cannot say I’d rather not be blunt
But that is why Australians wear their trousers back to front
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God bless Australia and all those who sail in her
God bless her jumbucks and billabongs too
For our country’s pure, our country’s white
We’ve locked the Abos out of sight
And if you like tasteless fizzy beer
We’ll waltz along with you
511
WILD ROVER
I've been a wild rover for many's the year
And I've spent all my money on whisky and beer
But now I'm returned with gold in great store
And it's never I'll play the wild rover no more
And it's no nay never
No nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover
No never no more
I went into an ale house I used to frequent
And I told the landlady my money was spent
I asked her for credit she answered me nay
Saying custom like yours I can get any day
And it's no nay never
No nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover
No never no more
So I pulled from my pockets sovereigns bright
And the landlady's eyes opened wide with delight
She said we've got brandy and wine of the best
And the words that I spoke they were only in jest
And it's no nay never
No nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover
No never no more
I'll go home to my parents confess what I've done
And ask them to forgive their prodigal son
And when they've caressed me as oft times before
It's never I'll play the wild rover no more
And it's no nay never
No nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover
No never no more
512
WILD THING
Wild thing you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild thing
Wild thing I think you move me
But I wanna know for sure
Come here and sock it to me one time
You move me
Wild thing you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild thing
Wild thing I think I love you
But I wanna know for sure
Come here and sock it to me one time again
I love you
Wild thing you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild thing
Wild thing
Wild thing
Wild thing
Wild thing
513
WILD WORLD
Now that I've lost everything to you
You say you want to start something new
And it's breaking my heart you're leaving, baby I'm grieving
But if you want to leave take good care
Hope you have a lot of nice things to wear
But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there
Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl
You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breaking my heart in two
'Cause I never want to see you sad girl. don't be a bad girl
But if you want to leave take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware
Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl
Baby I love you
But if you want to leave take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware
Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl
Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl
514
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW
Tonight you're mine completely
You give your love so sweetly
Tonight the light of love is in your eyes
Will you still love me tomorrow
Is this a lasting treasure
Or just a moment's pleasure
Tonight believe the of your sighs
Will you still love me tomorrow
Tonight with words unspoken
You say that I'm the only one
But will my heart be broken
When the night meets the morning sun
I'd like to know that your love
Is love that I can be sure of
So tell me now and I won't ask again
Will you still love me tomorrow
So tell me now and I won't ask again
Will you still love me tomorrow
515
THE WIND CRIES MARY
Well after all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind it cries Mary
The traffic lights they turn on blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on our bed
The tiny island sags down stream
Cause the light that lived is dead
And the wind screams Mary
Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past
And with it's crutch it's old age and it's wisdom
It whispers no this will be the last
And the wind cries Mary
516
WINGS OF A DOVE
Take time for your pleasure and laugh with love
Take the hand of another and sing for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Look up at the rooftops when you’re walking round
Don’t think for a moment of looking down
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Halleluia Halleluia
Look up at the rooftops when you’re walking round
Don’t think for a moment of looking down
Have a look at the top where he walks around
Tune to the ego and you’ll hear the sound
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
So sing yeah yeah yeah
So sing yeah yeah yeah
So sing yeah yeah yeah
So sing yeah yeah yeah
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
Woh oh woh oh for the wings of a dove
517
WISHING WELL
Take off your hat kick off your shoes
I know you ain't going anywhere
Run round the town singing your blues
I know you ain't going anywhere
You've always been a good friend of mine
But you're always saying farewell
And the only time that you're satisfied
Is with your feet in the wishing well
Throw down your gun you might shoot yourself
Or is that what you're trying to do
Put up a fight you believe to be right
And someday the sun will shine through
You've always got something to hide
Something you just can't tell
And the only time that you're satisfied
Is with your feet in the wishing well
You've always been a good friend of mine
But you're always saying farewell
And the only time that you're satisfied
Is with your feet in the wishing well
518
WITCHY WOMAN
Raven hair and ruby lips
Sparks fly from her finger tips
Echoed voices in the night
Restless spirits on an endless flight
Woo hoo witchy woman
See how high she flies
Woo hoo witchy woman
She’s got the moon in her eyes
She held me spell bound in the night
Dancing shadows and firelight
Crazy laughter in another room
And she drove herself to madness with a silver spoon
Ah ah
I know you want to love her
But let me tell you brother
She’s been sleeping in the devil’s bed
There’s some rumours going round
Someone’s underground
She can rock you in the night
Until your skin turns red
Woo hoo witchy woman
See how high she flies
Woo hoo witchy woman
She’s got the moon in her eyes
519
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
What would you do if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, I gonna try with a little help from my friends
What do I do when my love is away
Does it worry you to be alone
How do I feel by the end of the day
Are you sad because you're on your own
No, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, I gonna try with a little help from my friends
Do you need anybody
I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love
Would you believe in a love at first sight
Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time
What do you see when you turn out the light
I can't tell you, but I know it's mine
No, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, I gonna try with a little help from my friends
Do you need anybody
I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, I gonna try with a little help from my friends
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, I gonna try with a little help from my friends
I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends with a little help from friends
520
WONDERFUL TONIGHT
It's late in the evening,
She’s wondering what clothes to wear.
She puts on her make-up
And brushes her long blond hair.
And then she asks me "Do I look all right ?"
And I say "yes, you look wonderful tonight !"
We go to a party.
Everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady,
Walking around with me.
And then she asks me “Do you feel all right ?"
And I say "yes, I feel wonderful tonight !"
I feel wonderful, because I see
The love light in your eyes.
And the wonder of it all
Is that you just don't realise
How much I love you.
It's time to go home now,
And I've got an aching head.
So I give her the car-keys,
And she helps me to bed.
And then I tell her As I turn out the light,
I say "my darling, you are wonderful tonight !"
I say "my darling, you are wonderful tonight !"
521
WONDERFUL WORLD BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
Wonderful world beautiful people
You and your girl pleased to be pretty
But underneath this there is a secret
That nobody can be free
Take a look at the world and the state that it’s in today
I am sure you’ll agree we all could make it a better way
With some work put together everybody learn to love each other
Instead of fussing and fighting cheating by fighting
Scandalising and hating baby people now
Wonderful world beautiful people
You and your girl pleased to be pretty
But underneath this there is a secret
That nobody can be free
Man and woman girl and boy let us try to give a helping hand
This I know and I’m sure that the love we all could understand
This is our world if you see everybody wants to live and be free
Instead of fussing and fighting cheating by fighting
Scandalising and hating yeah people now
Wonderful world beautiful people
You and your girl pleased to be pretty
But underneath this there is a secret
That nobody can be free
Wonderful world beautiful people
You and your girl pleased to be pretty
But underneath this there is a secret
That nobody can be free
522
WORLD WITHOUT LOVE
Please lock me away and don’t allow the day
Here inside where I hide with my loneliness
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay in a world without love
Birds sing out of tune and raindrops hide the moon
I’m OK here I’ll stay with my loneliness
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay in a world without love
So I wait and in a while
I will see my true love smile
She may come I know not when
When she does I’ll know so baby until then
Lock me away and don’t allow the day
Here inside where I hide with my loneliness
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay in a world without love
So I wait and in a while
I will see my true love smile
She may come I know not when
When she does I’ll know so baby until then
Lock me away and don’t allow the day
Here inside where I hide with my loneliness
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay in a world without love
I don’t care what they say
I won’t stay in a world without love
523
WPC SADIE STICK
They say she ate desatiated need for love
She was breed above the average police woman
WPC Sadie Stick big and fat and round and thick
Eighteen stone with a hairy lip oh brother
McLagen hankered after her with hankering and greed
And frequently when drunk he’d sing behind his handkerchief
WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick
I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary
The night of the policeman’s ball McLagen met her in the hall
He said ‘ello ‘ello ‘ello ‘ello
She turned and looked him in the face as friendly as a can of mace
And said are you someone that I know
Is it the gay Lethario is it Don Giovanni
Don’t drop your balls into my court you nasty little mannie
WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick
I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary
When a bust is damned a dam is bust giving Sadie up for lust
McLagen said it’s hard to hold your own
Sadie Sadie I would like to stick my finger in your dike
I’ll drown of love if you leave me here alone
Drunk on an empty head he sought the porcine porcelain
And as he groped his drunken way they heard this sad refrain
WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick
I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary
Meanwhile back in Notting Hill the moon showed up like an anthrax pill
In the sky so high like everybody
Bomber Diana with delight stuffed her bra with gelignite
She’s a booby trap just for tonight and Noddy
Up in the sweaty ballroom things were swinging
As she cased the place she heard McLagen singing
WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick
I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary
Behind the hall Diana unseen laid bare her bulging magazine
When suddenly McLagen did appear
He muttered is this where the Gents is then a vision pierced his drunken senses
Big and bold and beautiful and bare
It must be Sadie half undressed if she was French she’d be from Brest
I always did like Bristols best I love you
WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick
I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary
Diana was not like other girls she had a twin set but no pearls
She shouted kill the pigs and then exploded
McLagen took off through the air wrapped in a red hot brassiere
He said I did not know the girl was loaded
A satellite was set alight high in the London sky
As it tumbled over Notting Hill you could hear it cry
WPC Sadie Stick hit me again with your big black stick
I’ll have a word with you when I find my dictionary
524
YANGTZE PO
I'll sing you a song of trouble and woe that'll cause you to shake and to shiver
Concerning a Chinese bumboat man who sailed the Yangtze river
He was a heathen of high degree as the doss-house records show
His family name was Win Chang Lu but the sailors just called him Jim Crowie-i-oe-i
Itchicum itchicum ya ya ya sailor man no likee me ya
Come savvy the story of Win Chang Lu too much of the Barbariee-yi-ya
Now Win Chang Lu he fell in love with a girl called Ah Chu Fong
Her eyes they were like pump-a-kine seeds and her slippers were two inches long
But Ah Chu Fong loved a pi-i-rate bold with all her heart and her liver
He was captain of a double decked junk and he sailed on the Yangtze river-i-iver-i
Itchicum itchicum ya ya ya sailor man no likee me ya
Come savvy the story of Win Chang Lu too much of the Barbariee-yi-ya
When Win Chang Lu he heard of this he swore a horrible oath
If I can’t marry Ah Chu Fong then I’ll make sausage meat of them both
So he hoisted up his big red battle flag and put into the Yangtze river
He sailed to the North and the South and the West the pirate for to disciver-i-iver-i
Itchicum itchicum ya ya ya sailor man no likee me ya
Come savvy the story of Win Chang Lu too much of the Barbariee-yi-ya
Now the drums they beat at quarters and the cannons did loudly roar
The red hot dump-i-lings filled the air the scuppers they ran with gore
The pirate he strode the quarter deck with neither a shake nor a shiver
He was shot up the arse by a hard boiled egg which pen-e-itrated his liver-i-iver-i
Itchicum itchicum ya ya ya sailor man no likee me ya
Come savvy the story of Win Chang Lu too much of the Barbariee-yi-ya
The dying pi-i-rate feebly called we’ll give that foe more shot
If I can’t marry Ah Chu Fong then Win Chang Lu shall not
Then a hot pease pud hit the bum-boat’s side which caused this horrible scene
It upset a pot of hot bow-wow soup and exploded the maga-zi-een-i-een-i
Itchicum itchicum ya ya ya sailor man no likee me ya
Come savvy the story of Win Chang Lu too much of the Barbariee-yi-ya
525
YEAR OF THE CAT
On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turned back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a water-colour in the rain
Don’t bother asking for explanations
She’ll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat
She doesn’t give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market
There’s a hidden door she leads you to
These days she says I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat
While she looks at you so coolly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her to find what’s waiting inside
The year of the cat
Well morning comes and you’re still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you’ve thrown away your choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you’re bound to leave her
But for now you’re gonna stay
In the year of the cat
The year of the cat
526
YESTERDAY
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believed in yesterday
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believed in yesterday
Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believed in yesterday
Mm mm mm mm
527
YOU AIN'T SEE NOTHIN YET
I met a devil woman
She took my heart away
She said I had it coming to me
But I wanted it that way
I think that any love is good loving
So I took what I could get, yeah I took what I could get
And then she looked at me with her big brown eyes and said
You ain't seen nothing yet baby
You just ain't seen nothing yet
Here's something that you never gonna forget
B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet
And now I'm feeling better
‘Cause I ran up for sure
She took me to her doctor
And he told me, I was cured
He said that any love is good loving
So I took what I could get, yeah I took what I could get
And then she looked at me with her big brown eyes and said
You ain't seen nothing yet baby
You just ain't seen nothing yet
Here's something that you never gonna forget
B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet
He said that any love is good loving
So I took what I could get, yeah I took what I could get
And then she looked at me with her big brown eyes and said
You ain't seen nothing yet baby
You just ain't seen nothing yet
Here's something that you never gonna forget
B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet
I met a devil woman
She took my heart away
She said I had it coming to me
But I wanted it that way
I think that any love is good loving
So I took what I could get, yeah I took what I could get
And then she looked at me with her big brown eyes and said
You ain't seen nothing yet baby
You just ain't seen nothing yet
Here's something that you never gonna forget
B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet
528
YOU AND I
I wake up with my eyes shut tight
Hoping tomorrow will never come
For you, you, you, you, you, and I
Keep your heart open and your eyes shut tight
What will be will be
Keep your heart open and your eyes shut tight
But don’t forget about me
Oh the phantoms crawl out of the night
Hoping tomorrow will never come
For you, you, you, you, you, and I
I wake up with my eyes shut tight
Hoping tomorrow will never come
For you, you, you, you, you and I
Hoping tomorrow will never come
For you, you, you, you, you and I
Hoping tomorrow will never come
For you, you, you, you, you and I
529
YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you'll stay in my heart
I feel like this is the beginning
Though I've loved you for a million years
And if I thought our love was ending
I'd find myself drowning in my own tears
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you'll stay in my heart
You must have known that I was lonely,
Because you came to my rescue.
And I know that this must be heaven.
How could so much love be inside of you.
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you'll stay in my heart
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you'll stay in my heart
530
YOU CAN GET IT IF YOU REALLY WANT
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try, try, try, try, try
You’ll succeed at last
Persecution you must feel
Win or lose you’ve got to get your share
You’ve got your mind set on a dream
You can get it though hard it may seem now
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try, try, try, try, try
You’ll succeed at last
Rome was not built in a day
Opposition will come your way
But the harder the battle you see
Is the sweeter the victory now
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try, try, try, try, try
You’ll succeed at last
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try, try, try, try, try
You’ll succeed at last
531
YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE
I need love love love to ease my mind
I need to find find someome to call my very own
But mama said you can't hurry love you just have to wait
She said love don't come easily it's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait
Just trust in the good times no matter how long it takes
But how many heartaches must I stand
Before I find a love to let me live again
Cause when I found a thing that keeps me hanging on
It's been a few nice days you know it's almost gone
I remember mama said
You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait
She said love don't come easily it's a game of give and take
How long must I wait how much more must I take
Before loneliness causes my heart heart to break
And now I can't bear to live my life alone
I'm only fishing for a lover to call my own
But when I feel that I I can't go on
I feel my strength you know it's almost gone
I remember mama said
You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait
She said love don't come easily it's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait
Just trust in the good times no matter how long it takes
And I break
Well now love love love don't come easily
I know I keep on waiting anticipating
For that soft voice to talk to me at night
For some tender arms to hold me tight
I keep waiting until that day
I thought it'd be easy you know it ain't easy
And my mama said
You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait
She said love don't come easily it's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love oh you just have to wait
Just trust in the good times no matter how long it takes
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YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU
You know I love you you know it's true
Give you all my loving what more can I do
Walking by myself I hope you understand
I just want to be your loving man
I love ya yes I love you with my heart and soul
I wouldn't mistreat you for my weight in gold
You know I love you you know it's true
I give you all my love babe what more can I do
I'm walking by myself I hope you understand
I just want to be your loving man
Keep on walking
You know I love you you know it's true
I give you all my loving what more can I do
I'm walking by myself I hope you understand
I just want to be your loving man
I said I'm walking by myself I hope you understand
I just want to be your loving
I just want to be your loving
I just want to be your loving man
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YOU MAKE LOVING FUN
Sweet wonderful you
You make me happy with the things you do
Oh can it be so
This feeling follows me wherever I go
I never did believe in miracles
But I’ve a feeling it’s time to try
I never did believe in the ways of magic
But I’m beginning to wonder why
I never did believe in miracles
But I’ve a feeling it’s time to try
I never did believe in the ways of magic
But I’m beginning to wonder why
Don’t, don’t break the spell
It would be different and you know it will
You, you make loving fun
And I don’t have to tell you but you’re the only one
You, you make loving fun
You, you make loving fun
You, you make loving fun
You, you make loving fun
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YOU MAY BE RIGHT
Friday night I crashed your party Saturday I said I'm sorry
Sunday came and trashed me out again
I was only having fun wasn't hurting anyone
And we all enjoyed the weekend for a change
I was stranded in the combat zone I walked through Bedford sty alone
Even rode my motorcycle in the rain
And you told me not to drive but I made it home alive
So you said that only proves that I'm insane
You may be right I may be crazy
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
Turn out the lights don't try to save me
You may be wrong for all I know but you may be right
Well remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair
I told you dirty jokes until you smiled
You were lonely for a man I said take me as I am
Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while
And I think of all the years you tried to find someone to satisfy you
I might be as crazy as you say
If I'm crazy then it's true that it's all because of you
And you wouldn't want me any other way
You may be right I may be crazy
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
It's too late to fight it's too late to change me
You may be wrong for all I know but you may be right
You may be right I may be crazy
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
Turn out the lights don't try to save me
You may be wrong for all I know but you may be right
You may be wrong but you may be right
You may be wrong but you may be right
You may be wrong but you may be right
You may be wrong but you may be right
You may be wrong but you may be right
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YOU SHOULDN’T DO THAT
I was five years old I was having a drag
And a cough now and then it was my very first fag
When in comes our teacher and stood on my toes
He pulled out my fag as he flattened my nose
He said ‘ey up you shouldn’t do that
‘Ey up you’ll drive yerself daft
Now ‘avn’t you ‘eard that yer eyes’ll go blurred
‘Ey up you shouldn’t do that
So I gave up the fags and I took to the beer
And spirits at times although they were quite dear
When I rolled home from school unsteady as a newt
My father spoke sternly as he laid in the boot
He said ‘ey up you shouldn’t do that
‘Ey up you’ll drive yerself daft
Now ‘avn’t you ‘eard that yer eyes’ll go blurred
‘Ey up you shouldn’t do that
I was out with a girl at the age of thirteen
She didn’t look much but I knew where she’d been
As I tickled her fancy she giggled and then
Her boyfriend came up and I copped it again
He said ‘ey up you shouldn’t do that
‘Ey up you’ll drive yerself daft
Now ‘avn’t you ‘eard that yer eyes’ll go blurred
‘Ey up you shouldn’t do that
I was down at the bank I was cashing a cheque
When a gunman walked in wearing tights round his neck
He pointed his gun said “Don’t move or you’re dead”
So I tapped on his shoulder and here’s what I said
He said ‘ey up you shouldn’t do that
‘Ey up you’ll drive yerself daft
Now ‘avn’t you ‘eard that yer eyes’ll go blurred
‘Ey up you shouldn’t do that
And then he shot me
‘Ey up you shouldn’t do that
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YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on walk on
With hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone
Walk on walk on
With hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone
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YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND
Ooh you make me live
Whatever this world can give to me
It’s you, you’re all I see
Ooh you make me live now honey
Ooh you make me live
Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had
I’ve been with you such a long time
You’re my sunshine
And I want you to know that my feelings are true
I really love you
Ooh you’re my best friend
Ooh you make me live
Ooh I’ve been wandering round
But I still come back to you
In rain or shine you’ve stood by me girl
I’m happy at home
You’re my best friend
Ooh you make me live
Whenever this world is cruel to me
I’ve got you to help me forgive
Ooh you make me live now honey
Ooh you make me live
Oh you’re the first one
When things turn out bad
You know I’ll never be lonely
You’re my only one and I love the things
I really love the things that you do
Ooh you’re my best friend
Ooh you make me live
Ooh I’ve been wandering round
But I still come back to you
In rain or shine you’ve stood by me girl
I’m happy at home
You’re my best friend
Ooh, ooh you’re my best friend
Ooh you make me live
Ooh you’re my best friend
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YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND
When you're down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, oh nothing's going right
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest nights
You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you've got to do is call
And I'll be there you've got a friend
If the sky above you
Should turn dark and full of clouds
And that old North wind should begin to blow
Keep your head together
And call my name out loud
Soon I'll be knocking upon your door
You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you've got to do is call
And I'll be there you've got a friend
If the sky above you
Should turn dark and full of clouds
And that old North wind should begin to blow
Keep your head together
And call my name out loud
Soon I'll be knocking upon your door
Now ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend
When people can be so cold
They’ll hurt you and desert you
They’ll take your soul if you let them
But don’t you let them
You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running to see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you've got to do is call
And I'll be there you've got a friend
539
YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING
You never close your eyes any more when I kiss your lips
And there’s no tenderness like before in your fingertips
You’re trying hard not to show it but baby baby I know it
You’ve lost that loving feeling woh that loving feeling
You’ve lost that loving feeling now it’s gone gone gone woh woh woh
Now there’s no local look in your eyes when I reach for you
And now you’re starting to criticise little things I do
It makes me just feel like crying ‘cause baby something you had is dying
You’ve lost that loving feeling woh that loving feeling
You’ve lost that loving feeling now it’s gone gone gone woh woh woh
Baby baby I’d get down on my knees for you
If you would only love me like you used to do yeah
We had a love a love a love you don’t find every day
So don’t don’t don’t don’t let it slip away
Baby baby baby baby I’m begging you please please please
I need your love I need your love now bring it on back
Bring it on back
Bring back that loving feeling woh that loving feeling
Bring back that loving feeling ‘cause it’s gone gone gone
And I can’t go on woh woh woh
Bring back that loving feeling woh that loving feeling
Bring back that loving feeling ‘cause it’s gone gone gone
And I can’t go on woh woh woh
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YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK
Young gifted and black
Oh what a lovely precious dream
To be young gifted and black
Open your heart to what I mean
In the whole world you know
There’s a part for those
Who are young gifted and black
And that’s all set
Young gifted and black
We must begin to tell our young
There’s a world waiting for you
Yours is the past that’s just begun
When you’re feeling real low yow
There’s a great truth you should know
To be young gifted and black
Your soul’s intact
Young gifted and black
Oh how I long to know the truth
There were times when I look back
And I am haunted by my youth
But my joys of today
Is that we can all be proud to say
To be young gifted and black
Is where it’s at
Young gifted and black
We must begin to tell our young
There’s a world waiting for you
Yours is the past that’s just begun
When you’re feeling real low yow
There’s a great truth you should know
To be young gifted and black
Your soul’s intact
Young gifted and black
Oh how I long to know the truth
There were times when I look back
And I am haunted by my youth
But my joys of today
Is that we can all be proud to say
To be young gifted and black
Is where it’s at
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YOUR LATEST TRICK
All the late night bargains have been struck
Between the satin beaus and their belles
And prehistoric garbage trucks
Have the city to themselves
Echos and roars of dinosaurs
They’re all doing the Monster Mash
And most of the taxis and most of the whores
Are only taking calls for cash
I don’t know how it happened
It all took place so quick
But all I can do is hand it to you
And your latest trick
Well now my door was standing open
Security were laid back and lax
But it was only my heart that got broken
You must have had a pass key made out of wax
You played robbery with insolence
And I played the blues in twelve bars down in lover’s lane
And you never did have the intelligence to use
The twelve keys hanging off of my chain
I don’t know how it happened
It all took place so quick
But all I can do is hand it to you
And your latest trick
Well now it’s past last call for alcohol
Fast recall has been here and gone
The landlord finally paid us all
The satin jazzmen have put away their horns
And we’re standing outside this wonderland
Looking so bereaved and so bereft
Like a bowery bum when he finally understands
The bottle’s empty and there’s nothing left
I don’t know how it happened
It was faster than the eye could flick
But all I can do is hand it to you
And your latest trick
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