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Greatful Dead lyrics
Request: LYRICS/AUTHOR=GREATFUL DEAD
Author: Greatful Dead
Album title: Greatful Dead (LOTS)
Alabama Getaway
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32 teeth in a jawbone
Alabama's trying for none
before I have to hit him
I hope he's got the sense to run
The reason the call girls love him
promise him everything
and why they all believe him
he wears a big diamond ring
Alabama getaway, getaway
Alabama getaway, getaway
only way to please me
just sit down with me and walk away
Lady Domo, Billy Bojangles
sat down and had a drink with me
said while I got Alabama
he keeps 'em coming back to me
I heard your plea in the courthouse
witness box began to rock and rise
49 sister states
had Alabama in their eyes
Alabama getaway, getaway
Alabama getaway, getaway
only way to please me
just sit down with me and walk away
Lady said why don't we give him
a rope and let him hang himself
don't need to worry the jury
they'll probably take care of themselves
23rd psalm, Major Domo
reserve me a table for three
down in the valley of the shadows
you, Alabama and me
Alabama getaway, getaway
Alabama getaway, getaway
only way to please me
just sit down with me and walk away
Alligator
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Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun
lying by the river just like he usually done
Call for his whiskey,
he can call for his tea,
call all he want to, but he can't call on me.
Oh no! well, I been there before,
and I'm not coming back around here no more.
Creepy alligator coming all around the bin,
talkin' about the times when we was mutual friends
I take my memory and I take good care of you (?), yes I will.
Woh oh, waiting for a rainy day
Woh oh, waiting for a rainy day
I think you're running some old kind of trick
Oh no! well, I been there before,
and I'm not coming back around here no more.
Riding down the river in an old canoe
a bunch of bottles and old tennis shoes
out of the river, all ugly and green
the biggest old alligator that I've ever seen!
Teeth big and pointy, and his eyes were bugging out
Contract the union, put the ??? to ???
Screaming and yelling, he was liking his chops
He never run, he just stumbles and hops
Just out of prison on six dollars bail
Mumbles and bitches and a wagging his tail
Alligator running round my door
Alligator running round my door
Alligator running round my door
Alligator's creeping round and crawling round my cabin floor,
He'll be coming round to bother me some more.
Althea
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I told Althea I was feeling lost
lacking in some direction
Althea told me about scrutiny
and that might need protection
I told Althea a treachery
was tearing me limb from limb
Althea told me "Now, cool down boy,
settle back, easy kid."
You may be Saturday's child, all alone
and moving with a tinge of grace
You may be a cloud in the varying crowd
or just another pretty face.
You may meet the fate of Ophelia
sleeping and the chance to dream
honest to the point of recklessness
self-centered to the extreme
Ain't nobody messing with you, but you
Your friends are getting most concerned
Loose with the truth, baby it's your find
Baby, don't get burned
When the smoke has cleared she said,
that's what she said to me
I only want a bed to lay your head
and a little smypathy
There are things you can replace
and others you can not,
the time has come to weigh those things
this space is getting hot
You know this space is getting hot
I told Althea I'm a roving son
and I was born to be a bachelor
Althea told me, OK, that's fine,
so now I'm trying to catch her.
I can't talk to you without talking to me
we're guilty of the same old thing
Thinking a lot about less and less
and forgetting the love we bring
Attics of My Life
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In the attics of my life,
full of cloudy dreams unreal.
Full of tastes no tounge can know,
and lights no eye can see.
When there was no ear to hear, you sang to me.
I have spent my life
seeking all that's still unsung.
Bent my ear to hear the tune,
and closed my eyes to see.
When there was no strings to play, you played to me.
In the book of love's own dream
where all the print is blood,
where all the pages are my days
and all the lights grow old.
When I had no wings to fly, you flew to me.
You flew to me.
In the secret space of dreams
where I, dreaming, lay amazed.
When the secrets all are told
and the petals all unfold.
When there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me.
Beat it on Down the Line
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Well, this job I've got is just a little too hard,
Runnin' out of money, Lord, I need more pay.
Gonna wake up in the mornin', Lord, gonna pack my bag
I'm gonna beat it on down the line.
I'm goin' down the line, goin' down the line.
Goin' down the line, goin' down the line.
Goin' down the line, goin' down the line.
Beat it on down the line.
Yes and I'll be waiting at the station, Lord, when that train pulls on by,
I'm a'goin' back where I belong.
I'm goin' back to that same old used-to-be.
Down in Joe Brown's coal mine.
Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, coal mine.
Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, coal mine.
Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, coal mine.
Down in Joe Brown's coal mine.
Yeh, I'm goin' back to that shack that's 'way across the railroad track.
Uh huh, that's where I think I belong.
I got a sweet woman, Lord, she's waitin' there for me,
And that's where I'm gonna make my happy home.
Happy home, happy home, happy home, happy home.
Happy home, happy home, happy home, happy home.
Happy home, happy home, happy home, happy home.
That's where I'm gonna make my happy home.
Bertha
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I had a hard run, runnin' from your window.
I was all night runnin', runnin'; Lord, I wondered if you cared.
I had a run in, run around, and a run down.
Run around the corner, Lord, I run smack into a tree.
I had to move, really had to move.
That's why, if you please, I am on my bended knees,
Bertha, don't you come around here anymore.
Dressed myself in green, Lord, been down under the sea.
Try to see what's goin' down, Lord, try to read between the lines.
I had a feelin' I was fallin', fallin', fallin', Lord, I turned around to see,
Heard her voice a'callin', Lord, it's a runnin' back to me, back to me.
I had to move, really had to move.
That's why, if you please, I am on my bended knees,
Bertha, don't you come around here anymore.
Ran into a rainstorm, I ducked back into Novato.
It's all night fallin', pourin' rain,
Lord, but not a drop on me.
Test me, test me,
Test me, test me, test me,
Why don't you arrest me?
Throw me into the jail house,
Lord, until the sun goes down, 'til it goes down.
I had to move, really had to move.
That's why, if you please, I am on my bended knees,
Bertha, don't you come around here anymore.
I had to move, really had to move.
That's why, if you please, I am on my bended knees,
Bertha, don't you come around here anymore.
Big Boss Man
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Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call,
Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call,
You ain't so big, you just tall, that's just about all.
You got me working boss man,
a workin' round the clock,
you wanna little drink a whiskey,
you sure won't let me stop.
Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call,
You ain't so big, you just tall, that's just about all.
I'm gonna get me a boss man,
one gonna treat me right,
I work hard in the daytime,
sure get stoned at night.
Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call,
You ain't so big, you just tall, that's just about all.
Big Railroad Blues
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Well, my momma told me, my poppa told me too
Now, my momma told me, pGXpa told me too
Well, I shouldn't be here tryin' to sing these railroad blues.
Wish I had a'listened to what my momma said.
Wish I had a'listened to what my momma said.
Well, I wouldn't be here tryin' to sleep in this cold iron bed.
Well, I went to the depot, I never got there on time
Went down to the depot, never got there on time.
Well, my train done left, she's a'rollin' down the line.
Mister jailer go 'way now, don't tell me no lies.
Mister jailer go 'way, don't tell me no lies.
When my train come down, she can roll up and down the line.
Well, my momma told me, my poppa told me too
Now, my momma told me, poppa told me too
Well, I shouldn't be here tryin' to sing these railroad blues.
Wish I had a'listened to what my momma said.
Wish I had a'listened to what my momma said.
Well, I wouldn't be here tryin' to sleep in this cold iron bed.
Big River
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Well, I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry cry,
taught the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
Tears I cried for that woman are gonna flood you big river,
and I'm a gonna sit right here until I die.
I met her accidentally in Saint Paul, Minnesota,
tore me up everytime I heard her drawl, that southern drawl.
I heard my dream went back downstream, cavortin' in Davenport,
and I follow you big river where you go.
Well, I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry cry,
taught the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
Tears I cried for that woman are gonna flood you big river,
and I'm a gonna sit right here until I die.
Well, I follow her down to Saint Louie, later on down the river,
a freighter said she's been here but she's gone, boy, she's gone.
Well I follow her down to Memphis, but she just walked off the bluff,
she raised a few eyebrows and she went on down alone.
Well, I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry cry,
taught the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
Tears I cried for that woman are gonna flood you big river,
and I'm a gonna sit right here until I die.
Well, I'm bound on down to Baton Rouge, River Queen roll on,
Take that woman down to New Orleans, New Orleans.
I give up, I've had enough, forget my blues on down to the gulf,
she loves you big river more than me.
Well, I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry cry,
taught the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
Tears I cried for that woman are gonna flood you big river,
and I'm a gonna sit right here until I die.
Well, I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry cry,
taught the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
Tears I cried for that woman are gonna flood you big river,
and I'm a gonna sit right here until I die.
and I'm a gonna sit right here until I die
and I'm a gonna sit right here until I die.
Bird Song
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All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew on,
tell me all that you know, I'll show you
snow and rain.
If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by,
Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark,
fly through the night.
Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore.
Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind.
All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew off,
tell me all that you know, I'll show you
snow and rain.
Black Peter
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All of my friends, come to see me last night,
I was lying in my bed and dying.
Annie Bonneau from Saint Angel
say the weather down here so fine.
Just then the wind come squalling thru the dark,
but who can the weather command?
Just want to have a little peace to die,
and a friend or two I love at hand.
Fever roll up to a hundred and five,
roll on up gonna roll back down.
One more day I find myself alive,
tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground.
See here how everything lead up to this day,
and it's just like any other day that's ever been.
Sun going up and then the sun going down.
Shine thru my window and my friends they come around,
come around, come around.
The people might know, but the people don't care
that a man can be as poor as me,
take a look at poor Peter, he's lying in pain,
now let's come run and see, run and see,
run and see, run, run and see, and see.
Black Throated Wind
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Bringing me down, I'm running aground,
blind in the lights of the interstate cars,
passing me by, the buses and semis,
plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars.
But I'm here by the road, bound to the load
that I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars.
Alone with the rush of the drivers that won't pick me up,
the highway, the moon, the clouds and the stars.
Black throated wind, keeps on hurryin'
with it's words of a life where nothing is new,
another American night, across from the light,
woh-oh I'm drownin' in you.
I left Saint Louie, the city of blues,
in the midst of a storm I'd rather forget.
I tried to pretend it came to an end,
cause you weren't the woman I once thought I'd met.
But I can't deny, woh the time has gone by,
when I ever had doubts or thoughts of regret,
And I was a man when all this began
who wouldn't think twice about being there yet.
Black throated wind, whisperin' sin
and speaking of life that passes like dew.
It's forced me to see you've done better by me,
better by me than I've done by you.
Now what's to be found in racing around,
ya carry your pain wherever you go,
full of the blues, and tryin' to lose,
you ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.
So I give you my eyes and all of their lies,
please help them to learn as well as to see.
And capture a glance, woh and make a dance
of lookin at you looking at me.
Black throated wind, keeps on hurryin'
with it's words of a life that could almost be true,
another American night, here comes a life.
I'm turning around that's what I'm gonna do.
Going back home that's what I'm gonna do.
I'm turning around that's what I'm gonna do.
Going back home that's what I'm gonna do.
Cause you've done better by me than I've done by you,
woh-oh drowning in you
woh-oh I'm drowning in you
Yes I'm going back home that's what I'm gonna do.
Going back home that's what I'm gonna do.
Blues for Allah
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Arabian wind
The needle's eye is thin
The ships of state sail on mirage
and drown in sand
Out in no-man's land
Where Allah does command.
What good is spilling blood?
It will not grow a thing;
"Taste eternity" the swords sing:
Blues for Allah
In 'sh'Allah.
They lie where they fall
There's nothing more to say
The desert stars are bright tonight
let's meet as friends
The Flower of Islam
The Fruit of Abraham
The thousand stories have
Come round to one again,
Arabian night
Our gods pursue their fight,
What fatal flowers of darkness
bloom from seeds of light.
Bird of Paradise fly in white sky
Blues for Allah
In 'sh'Allah
Let's see with our heart
These things our eyes have seen,
and know the truth must still lie
somewhere in between.
Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue
Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue
Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue
Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue
Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue
Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue
Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue
Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue
Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue
Bird of Paradise fly in white sky
Blues for Allah
In 'sh'Allah
Bondi Pier
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I was down by Bondi Pier,
Drinkin tubes of ice cold beer,
With a bucket full of prawns upon my knee,
When I swallowed the last prawn,
I had a technicolor yawn,
And I chundered in the old Pacific Sea.
Drink it up, drink it up,
Crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me,
If you want to throw your voice,
Mate you won't have any choice,
But to chunder in the old Pacific Sea.
I was sittin in the surf,
When a mate of mine called Murf,
Asks if he can crack a tube or two with me,
The bastard barely swallowed it,
When he went for the big spit,
And he chundered in the old Pacific Sea.
Drink it up, drink it up,
Crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me,
If you want to throw your voice,
Mate you won't have any choice,
But to chunder in the old Pacific Sea.
I've had liquid laughs in bars,
And I've hurled from moving cars,
And I've chuckled when and where it suited me,
But if I could choose the spot,
To regurgitate me lot,
Then I'd chunder in the old Pacific Sea..
Drink it up, drink it up,
Crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me,
If you want to throw your voice,
Mate you won't have any choice,
But to chunder in the old Pacific Sea.
Born Cross Eyed
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Seems I have been here before
fuzzy then and still so obscure, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
And I don't want to see anybody cry
meet me some moment in the sweet by and by, by and by, by and by.
Song comin' on
so pleasin' to see, come and gone, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
you don't have to tell me why
meet me some moment in the sweet by and by, by and by, by and by.
It ain't cause I'm the only one left darlin'
'bout the time the sun rises west,
feelin' groovy, lookin' fine.
Think I'll come back here again
every now and then, come time to try.
My how lovely you are,
the war game has gone much too far
seems to me, do your thing to me,
meet me some moment in the sweet by and by, by and by, by and by.
Box of Rain
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Look out of any window,
Any morning, any evening, any day.
Maybe the sun is shining,
Birds are winging, no rain is fallin' from a heavy sky.
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago.
Walk out of any doorway,
Feel your way, feel your way like the day before.
Maybe you'll find direction
Around some corner where it's been waitin' to meet you.
What do you want me to do, to watch for you while you're sleepin'?
Then please don't be surprised when you find me dreamin' too.
Look into any eyes you find by you,
you can see clear to another day.
Maybe been seen before,
through other eyes on other days while goin' home.
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
It's all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago.
Walk into splintered sunlight,
Inch your way through dead dreams to another land.
Maybe you're tired and broken,
Your tongue is twisted with words half spoken and thoughts unclear.
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
A box of rain will ease the pain and love will see you through.
Just a box of rain, wind and water,
Believe it if you need it, if you don't just pass it on.
Sun and shower, wind and rain,
In and out the window like a moth before a flame.
And it's just a box of rain; I don't know who put it there;
Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare.
And it's just a box of rain or a ribbon for your hair;
Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there.
Brokedown Palace
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Fare you well, my honey,
fare you well my only true one.
All the birds that were singing
are flown, except you alone.
Goin' to leave this brokedown palace,
on my hands and my knees I will roll, roll, roll.
Make myself a bed by the waterside,
in my time, in my time I will roll, roll, roll.
In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head.
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
River goin' to take me, sing me sweet and sleepy,
sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home.
It's a far gone lullaby, sung many years ago.
Mama, mama many worlds I've come since I first left home.
Goin' home, goin' home, by the riverside I will lay my bones,
listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
Going to plant a weepin' willow;
on the bank's green edge it will grow, grow, grow.
Sings a lullaby beside the water,
lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll.
Fare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell,
listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
Doo doot doo doo doo doot doo, doo doot doo doo doot
doo doot doo.
Doo doot doo, doo doot doo, doo doot doo doot doo doo
doot doo doot doo.
Brown Eyed Women
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Gone are the days when the ox fall down
Take up the yoke and plow the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said please
Gen'ral Jack Jones won't you come to me.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down
And it looks like the old man's getting on.
1920 when he steped to the bar
drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar,
1930 when the wall caved in
he made his way selling red eyed gin.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down
And it looks like the old man's getting on.
Delilah Jones was the mother of twins
Two times over and the rest was sins
Raised eight boys, only I turned bad
Didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down
And it looks like the old man's getting on.
Tumble down shack in Big Foot County
Snowed so hard that the roof caved in
Delilah Jones went to meet her god
And the old man never was the same again.
Daddy made whiskey and he made it well
Cost two dollars and burned like hell
I cut hickory just to fire the still
Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down
And it looks like the old man's getting on.
Gone are the days when the ox fall down
You take up the yoke and plow the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said please
Gen'ral Jack Jones won't you come to me.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down
And it looks like the old man's getting on
And it looks like the old man's getting on.
Candyman
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Come all you pretty women with your hair a hanging down
Open up your windows cause the Candyman's in town.
Come on boys and gamble, roll those laughing bones,
Seven come eleven, boys I'll take your money home.
Look out, look out the Candyman
Here he comes and he's gone again.
Pretty lady ain't got no friend til
the Candyman comes around again, around again.
I come in from Memphis where I learned to talk the jive
When I get back to Memphis be one less man alive.
Good morning, Mr. Benson, I see you're doing well,
if I had me a shotgun I'd blow you straight to hell.
Look out, look out the Candyman
Here he comes and he's gone again.
Pretty lady ain't got no friend til
the Candyman comes around again, around again.
Come on boys and wager if you have got the mind
If you've got a dollar boys, lay it on the line
Hand me my old guitar, pass the whiskey round,
won't you tell ev'rybody you meet that the Candyman's in town.
Look out, look out the Candyman
Here he comes and he's gone again.
Pretty lady ain't got no friend til
the Candyman comes around again, around again.
Casey Jones
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Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed,
trouble ahead, trouble behind
and you know that notion just crossed my mind.
This old engine makes it on time
leaves Central Station bout a quarter to nine
hits River Junction at seventeen to
at a quarter to ten you know it's travelin' again.
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed,
trouble ahead, trouble behind
and you know that notion just crossed my mind.
Trouble ahead ...oh lady in red
take my advice, you'd be better off dead
switchman sleeping, train a hundred and two is
on the wrong track and headed for you,
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed,
trouble ahead, trouble behind
and you know that notion just crossed my mind.
Trouble with you is the trouble with me
got two good eyes but ya still don't see,
comin' round the bend, you know it's the end
though the fireman screams and the engine just gleems,
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed,
trouble ahead, trouble behind
and you know that notion just crossed my mind.
Cassidy
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I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream
I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream.
Oh, child of countless dreams
Oh, child of boundless scenes.
What you are, what you are meant to be
Speaks his name for you were born to me
Born to me, Cassidy.
Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac
I can tell by the way his smile is rolling back
Come watch the nighttime cling,
Come grow the scorched ground green.
Blow the horn, tap the tambourine
Close the gap of the dark years in between
You and me, Cassidy.
Quick beats in an icy heart,
catch colt draws a coffin cart,
There he goes, now here she starts, I hear her cry.
Fly like the seabirds,
Scattered like lost words,
Wheel to the storm and fly.
Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by its own design
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I'm done with mine.
Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by its own design
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I'm done with mine.
Catfish John
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Mama said, "Don't go near that river,
don't be hanging around old Catfish John."
Come the morning I'd always be there
walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.
Take me back to another morning
To a time so long ago
When the sweet magnolia blossomed
Cotton fields as white as snow.
Catfish John was a river hobo
who lived and died by the river's bed
Looking back I still remember
I was proud to be his friend.
Mama said, "Don't go near that river,
don't be hanging around old Catfish John."
Come the morning I'd always be there
walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.
Born a slave in the town of Vicksburg
Traded for a chesnut mare,
Lord, he never spoke in anger
though his load was hard to bear.
Mama said, "Don't go near that river,
don't be hanging around old Catfish John."
Come the morning I'd always be there
walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn,
walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.
China Cat Sunflower
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Look for a while at the China Cat sunflower
Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun.
Copperdome bodhi, drip a silver
kimmona like a crazy quilt stargown
through a dream night wind.
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
Like a one-eyed Cheshire
Like a diamond-eyed jack
A leaf of all colors plays a golden-stringed fiddle
To a double-E waterfall over my back.
Comic book colors on a violin river
Cryin' Leonardo
words from out a silk trombone.
I rang a silent bell
Beneath a shower of pearls
In the eagle-wing palace of the Queen Chinee.
China Doll
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A pistol shot, at five o'clock,
the bells of heaven ring,
tell me what you done it for,
No I won't tell you a thing.
Yesterday I begged you
before I hit the ground,
all I leave behind me
is only what I found.
If you can abide it,
let the hurdy-gurdy play,
stranger ones have come by here
before they flew away.
I will not condemn you
nor yet would I deny,
I would ask the same of you,
but failing, will not die.
Take up your china doll,
take up your china doll,
it's only fractured
and just a little nervous from the fall.
La-la-la-la-la-la-la.
Chinatown Shuffle
-----------------
Take it, you can have it,
what I got baby, I can't hold
and if you find the secret
tell me how to build the mold.
And I can't handle your problems
so don't try to handle mine,
get yourself a shotgun, a pocketful of shells
and we can while away the time.
Look up the wall, do it right,
make a mistake, you're going to pay for it twice,
but if you need it, got to have it
get yourself a shotgun and bring it back home.
Look up the wall, you know you got to call
before you start falling, get ready to fall,
and if you fall in my direction
don't expect no help at all. . .don't.
Get it right, do it nice
and if you make a mistake, you're going to pay for it twice,
but if you need it, got to have it
get yourself a shotgun and bring it back home.
Look up the wall, you know you got to call
but if you start falling, be ready to fall,
and if you fall in my direction
don't expect no help at all,
don't expect no help at all,
don't expect no help at all,
and if you fall in my direction
don't expect no help at all.
Cold Rain and Snow
------------------
Well, I'll marry me a wife,
she's been trouble all my life--
walk me out in the cold rain and snow.
Rain and snow!
Walk me out in the cold rain and snow.
Well she's coming down the stairs,
holding back her yellow hair,
and I ain't gonna be treated this a way--
this a way,
and I ain't gonna be treated this a way.
She went up to her room,
and she sang a fateful tune,
and I'm going where those chilly winds don't blow.
Winds don't blow,
and I'm going where those chilly winds don't blow.
But I'm married to her life,
she's been trouble all my life,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow.
Rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow,
walk me out in the cold rain and snow.
Comes A Time
------------
Comes a time
when the blindman takes your hand,
says don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow
on the dreams you still believe
don't give it up, you got an empty cup
only love can fill, only love can fill.
Been walking all morning
went walking all night
I can't see much difference
between the dark and light
And I feel the wind
And I taste the rain
Never in my mind
to cause so much pain.
Comes a time
when the blindman takes your hand,
says don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow
on the dreams you still believe
don't give it up, you got an empty cup
only love can fill, only love can fill.
From day to day
just letting it ride
You get so far away
from how it feels inside
You can't let go
cause you're afraid to find
That the day may come
when you can't feel at all.
Comes a time
when the blindman takes your hand,
says don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow
on the dreams you still believe
don't give it up, you got an empty cup
only love can fill, only love can fill,
only love can fill, only love can fill.
Cosmic Charlie
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Cosmic Charlie how do you do
Truckin' in style along the avenue
Dum de dum de do da lee do
Go on home your mama's calling you.
Calico Cal, ya come tell me the news
Calamity's waiting for a way to get to her
Rosey red and electric blue
I bought you a paddle for your paper canoe.
Say you'll come back when you can
Whenever your airplane happens to land
Maybe I'll be back here too
It all depends on what's with you.
Woke up waiting for a windy day
Cat on I (?) since the first of February
Mama keeps saying that the wind might blow
But standing here I say I just don't know.
New ones come in as the old ones go
Everything's moving here but much too slowly
A little bit quicker and we might have time
To say how do you do before we left behind.
Calliope wail like a seaside zoo
The very last lately inquired about you
It's really very one or two
The first you wanted the last I knew.
I just wonder if you shouldn't feel
less concerned about the people unreal
The very first word is how do you do
The last go home your mama's calling you.
Calling you oo oo oo oo oo
Calling you oo oo oo
Calling you oo oo oo
Calling you oo oo oo
Calling you oo oo oo
Go on home your mama's calling you
Calling you oo oo oo
Go on home your mama's calling you
Calling you oo oo oo
Go on home your mama's calling you
Go on home your mama's calling you
Crazy Fingers
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Your rain falls like crazy fingers
peals of fragile thunder keeping time
Recall the days
that still are to come
some sing blue.
Hang your heart on laughing willow
stray down to the water, deep sea of love
beneath the sweet
calm face of the sea
swift undertow.
Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know
see how it feels in the end.
May Lady Lullaby sing plainly for you
soft, strong, sweet and true.
Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow
tapping at the window, touch your hair
So swift and bright
strange figures of light
float in air.
Who can stop what must arrive now
something new is waiting to be born
Dark as the night
you're still by my side
Shininside.
Gone are the days we stopped to decide
where we should go, we just ride.
Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams
gone, both dream and lie.
Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know
Feels like it might be alright,
While Lady Lullaby sings plainly through you
Love still rings true.
Midnight on a carousel ride
reaching for the gold ring down inside,
Never could reach it, just slips away
When I try.
Cream Puff War
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No, no! She can't take your mind and leave
I know it's just another trick she's got up her sleeve
I can't believe that she really wants you to die
And your heart is more than enough to pay for your lies
Wait a minute, watch what you're doing with your time
All the others who would jump fast must stay behind, yeah
Wait a minute, watch what you're doing with your time
All the others who would jump fast must stay behind, yeah
Well, can't you see that you're killing each other slow
Well, you're both out on the streets and you got no place to go
Your constant friends are getting to be a bore
So go somewhere else and continue your cream puff war
Cumberland Blues
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I can't stay much longer, Melinda,
The sun is getting high.
I can't help you with your troubles,
If you won't help with mine.
I gotta get down,
I gotta get down,
I gotta get down to the mi-ine.
You keep me up just one more night,
I can't sleep here no more.
Little Ben clock says quarter to eight;
You kept me up 'til four.
I gotta get down,
I gotta get down,
Or I can't work there no more.
A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill,
Keep him happy all the time.
Some other fella's makin' nothin' at all
And you can hear him cry,
"Can I go, buddy, can I go down
Take your shift at the mine ?"
Gotta git down to the Cumberland Mine.
Gotta git down to the Cumberland Mine.
That's where I mainly spend my time.
Make good money, five dollars a day.
Make anymore, I might move away.
A lot of poor man got the Cumberland Blues
He can't win for losin'
Lot of poor man got to walk that line
Just to pay their union dues.
I don't know now, I just don't know
If I'm goin' back again.
I don't know now, I just don't know
If I'm goin' back again.
I don't know now, I just don't know
If I'm goin' back again.
Dark Star
---------
Dark star crashes,
pouring its light into ashes.
Reason tatters,
the forces tear loose from the axis.
Searchlight casting
for faults in the clouds of delusion.
Shall we go,
you and I while we can
through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
Mirror shatters
in formless reflections of matter.
Glass hand dissolving
to ice petal flowers revolving.
Lady in velvet
recedes in the nights of goodbye.
Shall we go,
you and I while we can
through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
Deal
----
Since it costs a lot to win,
and even more to lose,
you and me bound to spend some time,
wonderin' what to choose,
Goes to show, you don't ever know,
watch each card you play and play it slow,
Waitin' til that deal come round,
don't you let that deal go down, no, no.
I been gamblin' hereabouts
for ten good solid years,
if I told ya all that went down,
it would burn off both of your ears.
Goes to show you don't ever know
watch each card you play and play it slow,
Waitin' til that deal come round,
don't you let that deal go down, no, no.
Since you poured the wine for me
and tightened up my shoes,
I hate to leave you sitting there,
composing lonesome blues.
Goes to show you don't ever know
watch each card you play and play it slow,
Waitin' til that deal come round,
don't you let that deal go down.
Waitin' til that deal come round,
don't you let that deal go down.
Waitin' til that deal come round,
don't you let that deal go down,
don't you let that deal go down,
don't you let that deal go down.
Death Don't Have No Mercy
-------------------------
Y'know Death don't have no mercy in this land,
Death don't have no mercy in this land, in this land.
Come to your house,
you know he don't take long,
look in the bed this morning,
children find your mother's gone.
I said Death don't have no mercy in this land.
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land,
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land,
In this land Yeah!
Woh! Come to your house,
Y'know it don't stay long,
Y'look in the bed this morning,
children find that your brothers and sisters are gone.
I said Death don't have no mercy in this land.
Death will go in any family in this land.
Death will go in any family in this land.
Come to your house,
you know he don't take long,
look in the bed this morning,
children find that your family's gone.
I said Death don't have no mercy in this land.
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land,
In this land.
Woh! Come to your house,
Y'know it don't stay long,
Y'look in the bed this morning,
children find that your brothers and sisters are gone.
I said Death don't, Death don't
Have no mercy in this land.
Dire Wolf
---------
In the timbers of Fennario,
the wolves are running round,
the winter was so hard and cold,
froze ten feet 'neath the ground.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me,
please, don't murder me.
I sat down to my supper;
'twas a bottle of red whiskey,
I said my pray'rs and went to bed,
that's the last they saw of me.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me,
please, don't murder me.
When I awoke, the dire wolf,
six hundred pounds of sin,
was grinning at my window,
all I said was "Come on in."
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me,
please, don't murder me.
The wolf came in. I got my cards,
we sat down for a game.
I cut my deck to the queen of spades
but the cards were all the same.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me,
please, don't murder me.
In the backwoods of Fennario,
the black and bloody mire,
the dire wolf collects his due
while the boys sing round the fire.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me,
please, don't murder me.
No, no, no don't murder me, I beg of you, please don't murder me,
please don't murder me.
Doin' That Rag
--------------
Da da da da da da da da da da da
Sing in rainbow valley chasing light beams
Everything wanders from baby to Z
Baby baby pretty up on Tuesday
Old like a rum-drinking demon at tea.
Baby baby tell me what's the matter
What, what tell me what's your whine now?
Tell me why will you never come home
Tell me what's your reason, if you've got a good one.
Everywhere I go, the people all know
Everyone's doin' that rag.
Everywhere I go, the people all know
Everyone's doin' that rag.
Take my line, go fishin' for a Tuesday,
Maybe take my supper, eat it down by the sea.
Gave my baby twenty or forty good reasons,
Couldn't find any better ones in the morning at three.
The rain gonna come, but the rain gonna go y'know.
Steppin' off sharply from the rank and file.
Often cold and dark like a dungeon
Maybe get a little bit dark for the day.
All these tripsters, real cool chicksters (???)
Everyone's doin' that rag.
Hipsters, tripsters, real cool chicksters
Everyone's doin' that rag.
You needn't gild the lily, offer jewels to the sunset.
No one is watchin', a'standing in your shoes.
Wash your lonely feet in the river in the morning,
Everything promised is delivered to you.
Don't neglect to pick up what your share is,
All the winter birds are winging home now.
Hey love go, and look around you,
Nothing out there you haven't seen before now.
Wade in the water and you'll never get wet
If you keep on doin' that rag.
Wade in the water and you'll never get wet
If you keep on doin' that rag.
One-eyed jacks and the dueces are wild
And the aces are crawlin' up and down your sleeve.
Come back here baby Louise
And tell me the name of the game that you play.
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down? Is it all go under?
Dupree's Diamond Blues
----------------------
When I was just a little young boy,
Papa said, "Son, you'll never get far,
I'll tell you the reason if you want to know,
cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go."
Well baby, baby wants a gold diamond ring
Wants it more than most any old thing
Well when I get those jelly roll blues
Why I'd go and get anything in this world for you.
And down to the jewelry store packing a gun,
says, "Wrap it up. I think I'll take this one."
"A thousand dollars please." the jewelry man said,
Dupree he said, "I'll pay this one off to you in lead."
Well you know son you just can't figure,
first thing you know you're gonna pull that trigger,
and it's no wonder your reason goes bad,
jelly roll will drive you stone mad.
Judge said, "Son, you know it's gonna cost you some time."
Dupree said, "Judge, you know that crossed my mind."
Judge said, "N'fact it's gonna cost you your life."
Dupree he said, "Judge, you know that seems to me to be about right."
Well baby, baby's gonna lose her sweet man,
Dupree come out with a losing hand,
Baby's gonna weep at home for awhile,
then go out and find another sweet man's gonna treat her with style.
Judge said, "Son, I know your baby well,
but that's a Cecrel I can never tell."
Dupree said, "Judge, well it's well understood,
and you got to admit that that sweet, sweet jelly's so good."
Well you know son you just can't figure,
first thing you know you're gonna pull that trigger,
and it's no wonder you reason most bad,
jelly roll will drive you so mad.
Same old story and I know it's been told,
some like jelly, jelly some like gold,
many a man's done a terrible thing,
just to get baby a shiny diamond ring.
Ah oh do do do do do dooo
Do do do da do do do do
Da do do do da da da de
Da do doo doo doo da da da doo
Easy Wind
---------
I been balling a shiny black steel jack-hammer,
been chippin' up rocks for the great highway,
live five years if I take my time,
ballin' that jack and a drinkin' my wine.
I been chippin' these rocks from dawn till doom,
while my rider hide my bottle in the other room.
Doctor say better stop ballin' that jack,
if I live five years gonna bust my back, yes I will.
Easy wind cross the bayou today
cause there's a whole lotta women, mama,
out in red on the streets today.
And the rivers keep a talkin',
but you never heard a word it said.
Gotta find a woman be good to me,
won't hide my liquor try to serve me tea,
cause I'm a stone jack baller and my heart is true
and I'll give everything that I got to you, yes I will.
Easy wind going cross the bayou today
there's a whole lotta women, mama,
out in red on the streets today.
And the rivers keep a talkin',
but you never heard a word it said.
The Eleven
----------
No more time to tell how,
this is the season of what,
now is the time of returning
with our thought jewels polished and gleaming.
Now is the time past believing
the child has relinquished the rein,
now is the test of the boomerang
tossed in the night of redeeming.
Eight sided whispering hallelujah hatrack,
seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll,
six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow,
five men writing with fingers of gold,
four men tracking down the geat white sperm whale,
three girls waiting in a foreign dominion
riding in the whalebelly,
fade away in moonlight,
sink beneath the waters
to the coral sands below.
El Paso
-------
Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
Night-time would find me in Rose's Cantina,
Music would play and Felina would whirl.
Black as the night were the eyes of Felina,
Wicked and evil while castin' a spell.
My love was strong for this Mexican maiden,
I was in love, but in vain I could tell.
One night a wild young cowboy came in,
Wild as the West Texas wind. . .
Dashin' and darin', a drink he was sharin',
With wicked Felina, the girl that I love.
So in anger I challenged his right for the love of this maiden;
Down went his hand for the gun that he wore.
My challenge was answered, in less than a heartbeat
The handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor.
Just for a moment I stood there in silence,
Shocked by the foul evil deed I had done.
Many thoughts ran through my mind as I stood there;
I had but one chance and that was to run.
Out through the back door of Rose's I ran,
Out where the horses were tied. . .
I picked a good one; he looked like he could run,
Up on his back and away I did ride.
Just as fast as I could from the West Texas town of El Paso,
Out to the badlands of New Mexico.
Back in El Paso my life would be worthless;
Everything's gone in life nothing is left.
But it's been so long since I've seen the young maiden,
My love is stronger than my fear of death.
I saddled up and away I did go, ridin' alone in the dark. . .
Maybe tommorrow a bullet may find me,
Tonight nothing's worse than this pain in my heart.
And at last here I am on the hill overlookin' El Paso,
I can see Rose's Cantina below.
My love is strong and it pushes me onward,
Down off the hill to Felina I go.
Off to my right I see five mounted cowboys,
Off to my left ride a dozen or more.
Shoutin' and shootin'; I can't let them catch me,
I've got to make it to Rose's back door.
Something is dreadfully wrong for I feel
A deep burning pain in my side. . .
It's getting harder to stay in the saddle.
I'm getting weary, unable to ride.
But my love for Felina is strong and I rise where I've fallen;
Though I am weary, I can't stop to rest.
I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle,
I feel the bullet go deep in my chest.
From out of nowhere, Felina has found me,
Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side.
Cradled by two loving arms that I'll die for,
One little kiss and Felina goodbye.
Estimated Prophet
-----------------
My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no
Been so long I felt this way, I'm in no hurry, no
Rainbows end down that highway where ocean breezes blow
My time coming, voices say, and they tell me where to go
Don't worry about me, nah nah nah, don't worry about me, no
and I'm in no hurry, nah nah nah, I know where to go.
California, preaching on the burning shore
California, and I'll be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine.
My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no
It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way and time's sure passing slow
Still I know I'll lead the way, they tell me where I'll go.
Don't worry about me, nah nah nah, don't worry about me, no
and I'm in no hurry, nah nah nah, I know where to go.
California, a prophet on the burning shore
California, and I'll be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine.
Now you are in a sleep, you would not believe me
And them voices telling me, you will soon receive me
Standing on the beach, the sea will part before me
Fire wheel burning in the air!
And you will follow me and we will ride to glory
Way up, the middle of the air!
And I'll call down thunder and speak the same
and my word fills the sky with flame
and might and glory gonna be my name
and they gonna light my way.
My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no
It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way and time's sure passing slow
My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no
Don't worry about me, nah nah nah, don't worry about me, no
and I'm in no hurry, nah nah nah, don't worry about me, no.
Don't worry about me, nah nah nah, don't worry about me, no
and I'm in no hurry, nah nah nah, I know where to go.
Eyes of the World
-----------------
Right outside this lazy summer home,
you ain't got time to call your soul a critic, no . . .
Right outside the lazy gate of winter's summer home,
wonderin' where the nut-thatch winters,
wings a mile long just carried the bird away.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own.
Wake now discover that you are the song that the morning brings,
the heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own.
There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away,
there follows his wagon behind him that's loaded with clay.
The seeds that were silent all burst into bloom, and decay,
and night comes so quiet, it's close on the heels of the day.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own.
Wake now discover that you are the song that the morning brings,
the heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own.
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own,
sometimes we visit your country and live in your homes,
sometimes we ride on your horses,
sometimes we walk alone,
sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own.
Wake now discover that you are the song that the morning brings,
the heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own.
Fire On the Mountain
--------------------
Long distance runner, what you standing there for?
Get up, get off, get out of the door
You played cold music on the barroom floor
drown in your laughter and dead to the core.
There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town
take a whole pail of water just to cool him down.
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Almost ablaze still you don't feel the heat
it takes all you got just to stay on the beat.
You say it's a living, we all gotta eat
but you're here alone, there's no one to compete.
If mercy's a business, I wish it for you
more than just ashes when your dreams come true.
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Long distance runner,what you holding out for?
caught in slow motion in a dash for the door.
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
you gave all you had, why you wanna give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
to the thin line beyond which you really can't fake.
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
France
------
Way down in the south of France
all the ladies love to dance
kick their heels up in the air
snap their fingers for romance
All the gentlemen compare
blonde or black or auburn hair
check the motion and the style
ah, you know they take their while
Hey, to make the motion more complete
yeah, to make it more a treat
hope they show us where to go
come on down and see the show
When the rhythm's really right
you can burn it down tonight
when the singing's really fine
sweet as Spanish sherry wine
When the pub can't contain the beat
it just rolls out in the street
spills on down the avenue
bringing dancers to their feet.
When it's good as it can be
it gets better when they sing
oh, these folks don't never sleep
till they're passed out in the street
Way down in the south of France
all the ladies love to dance
clap their hands and walk on air
yeah, the feeling's really there
won't you take a little taste
raise it to your charming face?
When the rhythm's really right
you can burn it down tonight
when the singing's really fine
sweet as Spanish sherry wine
Go on take a chance
the ladies do love to dance.
Franklin's Tower (Roll Away the Dew)
------------------------------------
In another time's forgotten space
your eyes looked from your mother's face,
wildflower seed on sand and stone
may the four winds blow you safely home.
Roll away the dew, roll away the dew
Roll away the dew, roll away the dew
I'll tell you where the four winds dwell,
In Franklin's tower there hangs a bell,
It can ring -- turn night to day
It can ring like fire when you lose your way.
Roll away the dew, roll away the dew
Roll away the dew, roll away the dew
God save the child that rings that bell,
It may have one good ring, baby you can't tell,
One watch by night, one watch by day
If you get confused listen to the music play
Some come to laugh their past away
Some come to make it just one more day;
Whichever way your pleasure tends
If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind
Roll away the dew, roll away the dew
Roll away the dew, roll away the dew
In Franklin's tower the four winds sleep,
Like four lean hounds the lighthouse keep,
Wildflower seeds in the sand and wind
May the four winds blow you home again
Roll away the dew, roll away the dew
Roll away the dew, you better roll away the dew
Roll away the dew, you better roll away the dew --roll away!
Roll away the dew, you better roll away the dew --roll away!
Roll away the dew, roll away the dew --roll away!
Roll away the dew, roll away the dew
Friend of the Devil
-------------------
I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds.
Didn't get to sleep that night 'til the morning came around.
Set out runnin', but I take my time.
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine.
I get home before daylight, just might get some sleep tonight.
Ran into the Devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills.
He spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills.
Set out runnin', but I take my time.
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine.
I get home before daylight, just might get some sleep tonight.
I ran down to the levee, but the Devil caught me there;
Took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air.
Set out runnin', but I take my time.
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine.
I get home before daylight, just might get some sleep tonight.
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night;
The first one's named sweet Anne Marie, and she's my heart's delight.
Second one is prison, baby, the sheriff's on my trail
And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail.
Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee.
First one say she's got my child, but then it don't look like me.
Set out runnin', but I take my time.
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine.
I get home before daylight, just might get some sleep tonight.
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night;
The first one's named sweet Anne Marie, and she's my heart's delight.
Second one is prison, baby, the sheriff's on my trail
And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail.
Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee.
First one say she's got my child, but then it don't look like me.
Set out runnin', but I take my time.
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine.
I get home before daylight, just might get some sleep tonight.
From the Heart of Me
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Voices slide down off the mountain
sunlight turning red
falls on the earth and it spreads
even the families lower their heads
as they ride.
Age old faces of the mountains
looming naturally
I wonder if they're looking at me
their monumental eyes
I can feel.
In the glow of the twilight
the thought of home
reminds me now I'm reaching out to you
anything I can do to be safe and warm
in your arms.
All I have from the heart of you.
I'd met you anywhere in the country
or anywhere on the sea
all over the world it could be
I would follow you with the heart of me.
Love calls echo in the valley
dream come true tonight
remembering you hold me tight
in tomorrow morning's light
I will find you.
When I awoke the stars were out
and shining, shining for you and me
All I ever wanna be is safe and warm in your arms
All I have, from the heart of me
All I have, from the heart of me
All I have, from the heart of me
All I have, from the heart of me
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
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Goin' down the road feelin' bad.
Goin' down the road feelin' bad.
Goin' down the road feelin' bad.
I don't want to be treated this a away.
Goin' where the climate suits my clothes.
Goin' where the climate suits my clothes.
Goin' where the climate suits my clothes.
I don't want to be treated this a away.
Goin' down the road feelin' bad.
Goin' down the road feelin' bad.
Goin' down the road feelin' bad.
I don't want to be treated this a away.
Goin' where the water tastes like wine.
Goin' where the water tastes like wine.
Goin' where the water tastes like wine.
I don't want to be treated this a away.
Goin' down the road feelin' bad.
Goin' down the road feelin' bad.
Goin' down the road feelin' bad.
I don't want to be treated this a away.
The Golden Road (to unlimited devotion)
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See that girl, barefootin' along,
Whistlin' and singin', she's a carryin' on.
There's laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet,
She's a neon-bright fire and she can live on the street.
Hey hey, hey, hey in every way;
I'm a comin', uhuh honey, every day.
Yeh hey, hey, hey in every way;
I'm a comin', uhuh honey, every day.
Well everybody's dancin' in a ray of bright sun;
Nobody's finished, we ain't even begun.
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat.
Shine your wings and fly me out where it's at.
Hey hey, hey, hey in every way;
I'm a comin', uhuh honey, every day.
Yeh hey, hey, hey in every way;
I'm a comin', uhuh honey, every day.
Take a vacation, fall out for a while.
Summer's coming in, winter's goin' out in style
Well, light out smokin', honey, have yourself a ball
'Cause your mama's gone to Memphis, she won't be back 'til the fall.
Hey hey, hey, hey in every way;
I'm a comin', uhuh honey, every day.
Yeh hey, hey, hey in every way;
I'm a comin', uhuh honey, every day.
Hey hey, hey, hey in every way;
I'm a comin', uhuh honey, every day.
Yeh hey, hey, hey in every way;
I'm a comin', uhuh honey, every day.
Good Lovin'
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Well, I was feelin' so bad,
asked my family doctor 'bout what I had,
I said "Doctor, Mister M. D.,
can you tell me, what's ailin' me?"
He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
All you need, all you really need: good lovin'
Because you got to have lovin' (good lovin')
Everybody got to have lovin' (good lovin')
A little good lovin' now baby, good lovin'
So come on baby, squeeze me tight
don't you want your Daddy to be all right?
I said baby, now it's for sure,
I've got the fever, you got the cure.
She said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
All you need, all you really need: good lovin'
Because you got to have lovin' (good lovin')
Everybody got to have lovin' (good lovin')
A little good lovin' now baby, good lovin'
Hey, got to have lovin' (good lovin')
well, you got to have lovin' (good lovin')
Come on now give me good lovin' (good lovin')
Well, I was feelin' sort of bad now
asked my family doctor 'bout what I had,
I said "Doctor, Mister M. D.,
can you tell me, what's ailin' me?"
He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
All you need, all you really need: good lovin'
Hey, now you got to have lovin' (good lovin')
Everybody got to have lovin' (good lovin')
Give me, give me, give me some lovin' (good lovin')
Woh-oh, got to have lovin'
Yeah, just a little lovin' going to make you feel alright
Say alright, so come on and help me say it now: Got to have lovin'!
Give me some lovin', Got to have lovin'
Some bit of good lovin', Got to have lovin'
Come on now, turn on your light, Got to have lovin'
Got to have lovin' Got to have lovin'
Got to have lovin' Got to have lovin'
Come on now, everybody get right, (got to have lovin')
You may be weak or you may be blind (got to have lovin')
But even a blind man knows when the sun is shining (got to have lovin')
So turn it on now (got to have lovin')
turn on, turn on your light (got to have lovin')
Give me, give me, give me some lovin' (good lovin')
Hey now, you got to have lovin' (good lovin')
You need it, I need it, well you got to have lovin' (good lovin')
Say it again now: Good Lovin'
Well turn on your light, you won't regret it (good lovin')
You got to go for the good and get it (good lovin')
Everybody, they got to have lovin' (good lovin')
Hey now, you got to have lovin'
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
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Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I come home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa
I'm a little schoolboy too.
Come on now pretty baby
I just can't help myself
You're so young and pretty
I don't need nobody else
Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I come home with you?
Don't you hear me crying?
Oww hey ooee
I'm gonna leave you baby
About the break of day
On account of the way you treat me
I got to stay away
Come on now pretty baby
Darling come on home
You know I love you baby
I got to get you all alone
Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I come home with you?
Can't you hear me crying?
Oww hey ooee
I'm gonna buy me an airplane
Fly all over your town
Tell everybody baby
Lord, know you're fine
Come on now pretty baby
Now, I just can't help myself
You're so young and pretty
I don't need nobody else
Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I come home with you?
Can't you hear me crying?
Oww hey ooee
Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I come home with you?
Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I come home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa
I'm a schoolboy too.
I'm a schoolboy too.
Hey, I'm a schoolboy too.
I want to be your chauffer
I want to ride your little machine
I want to be your chauffer
I want to ride your little machine
I want to put a tiger, baby
I want to put a tiger, baby
I want to put a tiger, baby
Hey, in your sweet little tank.
Hey, baby now yes I do
Ha, yes I do
Hey I got to
Hey I got to come on home with you
Tell your mama
Tell your papa
Tell your mama and your papa
Hey, I'm a schoolboy too
Hey, Hey, I'm a schoolboy too
Ha oww, I'm a schoolboy too
Ow, I wanna keep your company
Hey, I wanna keep your company
Greatest Story Ever Told
------------------------
Woh!
Moses come riding, high for the quasar,
Spurs was jingling, the door was ajar,
His buckle was silver, his manner was bold,
I asked him to come on in out of the cold.
His brain was boiling, his reason was spent,
nothing is borrowed, nothing is lent,
I asked him for mercy, he gave me a gun,
now and again these things got to be done.
Abraham and Isaac a sitting on a fence
get right to work if they had any sense,
you know the one thing we need is a left hand monkey wrench.
Injun come in with his eyes on the floor,
said "you ain't got a hinge, you can't close the door",
then Moses stood up, a full six foot ten,
said, "You can't close the door", when the walls caved in.
Asked him for water, he poured me some wine,
we finished the bottle and broke into mine,
you get what you come for, you're ready to go,
and it's one in ten thousand that come for the show.
Abraham and Isaac diggin' on the well,
moving too quick with the one who is there
cool clear water, well you can't ever tell.
Moses come riding, high for the quasar,
Spurs were jingling, the door was ajar,
His buckle was silver, his manner was bold,
I asked him to come on in out of the cold.
Help On the Way
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Paradise waits
on the crest of a wave
her angels in flame
She has no pain
like a child she is pure
She is not to blame
poised for flight
wing spread
bright spring from
night into
the sun
don't stop to run
she can fly like a lie she
can't be outdone
tell me the cost
I can pay
let me go
tell me love is not lost
sell everything
without love day to day
insanity is king
I will pay day by day anyway
Lock bolt and key
Crippled but free
I was blind all the time
I was learning to see
Help on the way
Well, I know only this
I've got you today
Don't fly away
cause I love what I love
and I want it that way
I will stay one more day
Like I say, honey it's you
making it too
without love in the dream
it'll never come true
Here Comes Sunshine
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Wake of the flood, laughing water, forty nights,
get out the pans, don't you stand there dreamin'
get out the way
get out the way,
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
Line up a long shot
maybe try it two times, maybe more,
good to know you got shoes to wear
when you find the floor,
why hold out for more?
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
Asking you nice now, keep the mother rollin'
one more time,
been down before,
you just don't have to go no more, no more.
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
He's Gone
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Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb
You know better but I know him.
Like I told you, what I said,
Steal your face right off your head.
Now he's gone, now he's gone
Lord he's gone, he's gone.
Like a steam locomotive rolling down the track
He's gone, he's gone
Nothin's gonna bring him back
He's gone.
Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride,
Hot as a pistol but cool inside.
Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a bind,
Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.
Now he's gone, now he's gone
Lord he's gone, he's gone.
Like a steam locomotive rolling down the track
He's gone, he's gone
Nothin's gonna bring him back
He's gone.
Going where the wind don't blow so strange,
Maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
Lost one round but the price wasn't anything,
A knife in the back and more of the same.
Same old rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb
you know better but I know him.
Like I told you, what I say
Steal your face right off your head.
Now he's gone, now he's gone
Lord he's gone, he's gone.
Like a steam locomotive rolling down the track
He's gone, he's gone
Nothin's gonna bring him back
He's gone.
Ohoo nothin's gonna bring him back
Ohoo nothin's gonna bring him back
Ohoo nothin's gonna bring him back
Ohoo nothin's gonna bring him back.
High Time
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You told me goodbye, how was I to know
you didn't mean goodbye, you meant please don't let me go?
I was having a high time, living the good life, well I know.
The wheels are muddy, got a ton of hay,
now listen here, Baby, cause I mean what I say.
I'm having a high time, living the good life, well I know.
I was losing time, I had nothing to do,
no one to fight, I came to you.
Wheels broke down, leader won't draw,
the line is busted, the last one I saw.
Tomorrow come trouble, tomorrow come pain,
now don't think too hard Baby, cause I know what I'm saying.
I could show you a high time, living the good life, don't be that way.
Nothing's for certain, it could always go wrong,
come in when it's raining, go on out when it's gone.
We could have us a high time, living the good life, well I know.
Hurts Me Too
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You said you was hurtin',
almost lost your mind;
'Cause the man you love
hurt you all the time.
But when things go wrong,
wrong with you,
It hurts me too.
You love him a little more,
when you should love him less.
Why pick up behind him
and take his best?
'Cause when things go wrong,
wrong with you..
It hurts me too.
You love another man;
little girl you know you know I love you.
But you love him darlin',
stick to him just about like glue.
But when things go wrong,
wrong with you...
It hurts me too.
Well, he better leave you,
or you best put it down.
'Cause you know, I just can't stand to see,
see you pushed around.
'Cause when things go wrong,
wrong with you...
It hurts me too.
If I Had the World To Give
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If I had the world to give
I'd give it to you
long as you live, would you let it fall
or hold it all in your arms?
If I had a song to sing
I'd sing it to you
as long as you live, lullabye
or maybe a plain sereade
wouldn't you laugh, dance, and cry or be afraid
at the trade you made
I may not have the world to give to you
but maybe I have a tune or two
only if you let me be your world
would I ever give this world to you,
could I ever give this world to you.
But I will give what love I have to give,
I will give what love I have to give,
I will give what love I have to give,
long as I live.
If I had a star to give
I'd give it to you
long as you live, would you have the time
to watch it shine, watch it shine
or ask for the moon and heaven too,
I'd give it to you.
Maybe I've got no star to spare
or anything fine or even rare
only if you let me be your world
would I ever give this world to you,
could I ever give this world to you.
I Know You Rider
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I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone;
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone;
Gonna miss your baby, from rollin' in your arms.
Lay down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest;
Lay down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest;
My mind was wanderin' like the wild geese in the West.
The sun will shine in my back door someday.
The sun will shine in my back door someday.
March winds will blow all my troubles away.
I wish I was a headlight, on a North-bound train.
I wish I was a headlight, on a North-bound train.
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain.
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone;
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone;
Gonna miss your baby, from rollin' in your arms.
I'd rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log.
I'd rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log.
Than stay here in Frisco, be treated like a dog.
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone, gone, gone;
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone, gone, gone;
Gonna miss your baby, from rollin' in your arms.
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone;
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone;
Gonna miss your baby, from rollin' in your arms.
I'll Take a Melody
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I've seen the rain pouring down
The sky was grey with a speck of blue
Peek through a hole in the clouds
The sun was screaming, "Hey, you!"
As you ramble through your sorrow
Seem like everything come out wrong
I'm living in yesterday's tomorrows
I know something's helping me along
I'll take a melody
and see what I can do about it.
I'll take a simple C to G
and feel brand new about it.
I understand why the old fishermen
sail along, sail along, sail along, sail along, sail along,
someday he'll be gone.
I hear you talking about your troubles
Everybody's got their troubles too
You can make them burst like bubbles
If you know just what to do
You know I've been called a dreamer
Dreams that never come true
But I've been called so many things before
Tell you what I'm gonna do
I'll take a melody
and see what I can do about it.
I'll take a simple C to G
and feel brand new about it.
I understand why the old fishermen
sail along, sail along, sail along, sail along, sail along,
someday he'll be gone.
I'll take a melody
and see what I can do about it.
I'll take a simple C to G
and feel brand new about it.
Shine on, keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining,
Shine on, keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining,
Shine on, keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining,
Shine on, keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining.
I Need a Miracle
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I need a woman 'bout twice my age
a lady of nobility, gentility and rage
splendor in the dark, lightning on the draw
we'll go right through the book and break each and every law
I got a feeling and it won't go away, oh no
just one thing then I'll be ok
I need a miracle every day.
I need a woman 'bout twice my height
Statuesque, raven-tressed, a goddess of the night
Her secret incantations, a candle burning blue
we'll consult the spirits maybe they'll know what to do.
And it's real and it won't go away, oh no
I can't get around and I can't run away
I need a miracle every day.
I need a woman 'bout twice my weight
a ton of fun who packs a gun with all her other freight
find her in a sideshow, leave her in L.A.
Ride her like a surfer running on a tidal wave.
And it's real, believe what I say, yeah
just one thing I got to say
I need a miracle every day.
It takes dynamite to get me up
too much of everything is just enough
one more thing I just got to say
I need a miracle every day,
I need a miracle every day,
I need a miracle every day, (got to be the only way)
I need a miracle
It Must Have Been the Roses
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Annie laid her head down in the roses,
she had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons in her long brown hair.
I don't know, maybe it was the roses,
all I know I could not leave her there.
I don't know, it must have been the roses,
the roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair.
I don't know, maybe it was the roses,
all I know, I could not leave her there.
Ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea,
thinkin' well how it may blow in all good company,
if I tell another what your own lips told to me,
let me lay neath the roses, let my eyes no longer see.
I don't know, it must have been the roses,
the roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair.
I don't know, maybe it was the roses,
all I know, I could not leave her there.
One pane of glass in the window,
no one is complaining, no, come in and shut the door,
Faded is the crimson from the ribbons that she wore,
and it's strange how no one comes round anymore.
I don't know, it must have been the roses,
the roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair.
I don't know, maybe it was the roses,
all I know, I could not leave her there.
Annie laid her head down in the roses,
she had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons in her long brown hair.
I don't know, maybe it was the roses,
all I know I could not leave her there.
It's All Over Now (Baby Blue)
--------------------------
You must leave, now take what you need you think will last
Whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun;
He is crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out; all those saints are coming through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue,
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
The highway is for gamblers, you better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty handed painter from your street
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
The sky too is folding under you,
And it's all over now Baby Blue.
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
Your empty-handed armies are going home.
Your lover who has just walked out your door
has taken all his blankets off the floor.
The carpet too is moving under you,
And it's all over now Baby Blue.
Leave your stepping stones behind, there's something calls for you
Forget about the dead you've left, they will not follow you
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew,
And it's all over now Baby Blue,
And it's all over now Baby Blue,
And it's all over now Baby Blue.
I've Been All Around the World
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Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand.
Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand.
A rifle on my shoulder, six shooter in my hand;
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.
Lulu, my Lulu, come and open the door.
Lulu, my Lulu, come and open the door.
Before I have to walk in with my old 'forty-four.
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.
Momma and Poppa, little sister makes three.
Momma and Poppa, little sister makes three.
They're comin' in the mornin'; that's the last you'll see of me.
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.
Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone.
Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone.
I wouldn't mind your hangin', boys, but you wait in jail so long.
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.
Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand.
Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand.
A rifle on my shoulder, six shooter in my hand;
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.
Jack-A-Roe
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There was a wealthy merchant, in London he did dwell
He had a beautiful daughter, the truth to you we'll tell
Oh the truth to you we'll tell
She had sweethearts a plenty, and men of high degree
But none but Jack the sailor, her true love ever be
Oh her true love ever be
Jackie's gone a sailing, with trouble on his mind
He's left his native country and his darling girl behind
Oh his darling girl behind
She went down to a tailor shop and dressed in man's array
She climbed on board a vessel to convey herself away
Oh convey herself away
Before you get on board sir, your name we'd like to know
She smiled on her countenance, they called her Jack-A-Roe
Oh they called her Jack-A-Roe
I see your waist is slender, your fingers they are small
Your cheeks too red and rosy to face the cannonball
Oh to face the cannonball
I know my waist's too slender, my fingers they are small
but it would not make me tremble to see ten thousand fall
Oh to see ten thousand fall
The war soon being over she went and looked around
among the dead and wounded her darling boy she found
Oh her darling boy she found
She picked him up on in her arms and carried to the town
she sent for a physician to quickly heal his wounds
Oh to quickly heal his wounds
This couple they got married so well they did agree
This couple they got married so why not you and me?
Oh why not you and me?
Oh why not you and me?
Jack Straw
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We can share the women, we can share the wine.
We can share what we got of yours cause we done shared all of mine.
Keep on rollin' , justa mile to go;
Keep on rollin', my old buddy, you're movin' much too slow.
I just jumped the watchman, right outside the fence.
Took his rings, four bucks in change, ain't that Heaven sent.
Hurts my ears to listen, Shannon, burns my eyes to see;
Cut down a man in cold blood, Shannon, might as well been me.
We used to play for silver, now we play for life;
And once for sport and once for blood at the point of a knife.
And now the die is shakin', now the die must fall.
There ain't no winner in the game, he don't go home with all.
Not with all.
Leaving Texas, fourth day of July,
Sun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles fill the sky.
Catch the Detroit Lightning out of Sante Fe,
The Great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea.
Gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride,
Gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride,
There ain't a place a man can hide, Shannon, we'll keep him from the sun,
Ain't a bed can give us rest now, you keep us on the run.
Jack Straw from Wichita cut his buddy down,
He dug for him a shallow grave and laid his body down.
Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light,
One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow
We can share the women, we can share the wine.
Johnny B. Goode
---------------
Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans,
Way back up in the pines 'mong the evergreens
There in an old cabin made of earth and wood
There lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode.
He never learned to read or write so well,
But he could play a guitar like ringin' a bell.
Go go, go Johnny go, go; Go Johnny go, go;
Go Johnny go, go; Go Johnny go, go;
Go Johnny B. Goode.
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