The Grateful Dead - Lyrics of 308 songs. Table Of Contents Aiko Aiko Ain't It Crazy (The Rub) Ain't Superstitious / Meet Me on the Bottom Alabama Getaway Alligator All Over Now Althea And We Bid You Goodnight Around and Around Attics of My Life Babe, It Ain't No Lie Baby, What Do You Want Me To Do Ballad of Casey Jones Bear Tracks Beat it on Down The Line Bertha Big Boss Man Big Boy Pete Big Railroad Blues Big River Bird Song . Black Muddy River Black Peter Black Throated Wind Blues For Allah Bo Diddley Bondi Pier Born Cross-Eyed Box of Rain Boys in the Barroom Bring Me My Shotgun Brokedown Palace Brother Esau Brown-Eyed Women Built to Last Byte Me Babe Candyman Can't Come Down Casey Jones Cassidy Catfish John Cats Under the Stars Caution C. Rider China Cat Sunflower China Doll Chinatown Shuffle Cocaine Cocaine Habit Blues Cold Jordan Cold Rain and Snow Comes A Time Confusion Prince Cosmic Charlie Crazy Fingers Cream Puff War Cumberland Blues Dancing in the Streets Dark Hollow Dark Star Day Job Day Tripper Deal Dear Mr. Fantasy Dear Prudence Death Don't Have No Mercy Deep Elem Blues Desolation Row Dire Wolf Doin' That Rag Don't Ease Me In Don't Need Love Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Drink Up and Go Home Dupree's Diamond Blues Early Morning Rain Easy To Love You Easy Wind The Eleven El Paso Empty Pages Estimated Prophet Eyes Of The World Far From Me Feel Like A Stranger Fire On The Mountain Forever Young France Franklin's Tower Friend of the Devil From the Heart of Me Get Back Gimme Some Lovin' Gloria Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad The Golden Road (to unlimited devotion) Gomorrah Good Lovin' Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Goodnight Irene Got My Mojo Working Greatest Story Ever Told Green, Green Grass of Home The Harder They Come Hard to Handle Heaven Help The Fool Hell in a Bucket Help on the Way Henry Here Comes Sunshine He's Gone He Was A Friend of Mine Hey Little One High Heeled Sneakers High Time Hitch Hiking Woman How Long Blues How Sweet It Is Hully Gully Hurts Me Too I Believe If I Had The World To Give I Hear A Voice Calling I Just Wanna Make Love To You I Know You Rider I'll Take A Melody I'm A Hog For You I Need A Miracle I Saw Her Standing There It Must Have Been The Roses It's All Over Now Baby Blue It's A Man's World It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry I've Been All Around This World I Wash My Hands Jack-A-Roe Jack Straw Johnny B. Goode Kansas City Katie Mae C. Road Keep On Growing King Bee Knockin' On Heaven's Door Last Train to Jacksonville Lazy Lightnin' Let It Rock Let Me In 83968 Let Me Sing Your Blues Away Lindy Little Red Rooster Little Sadie Little Star ? Logger Song Long Black Limousine Looks Like Rain Loose Lucy Loser Lost Sailor Louie, Louie Love in the Afternoon Mama Tried Man Smart, Women Smarter Mason's Children Maybe You Know Me and Bobby McGee Me and My Uncle Mercy of a Fool Mexicali Blues Midnight Hour Midnight Moonlight Might As Well Mission in the Rain Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo Mister Charlie Money, Money Monkey and the Engineer Morning Dew Mountains of the Moon The Music Never Stopped My Baby Mystery Train Never Trust A Woman New Minglewood Blues All New Minglewood Blues New Orleans New Potato Caboose New Speedway Boogie Next Time You See Me The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down Nobody"s Fault But Mine Not Fade Away No Tomorrow Oh Boy Oakie From Muskogee One More Saturday Night One Thing To Try On The Road Again Opperator Palm Sunday Passenger Playin' In The Band Positively 4th Street Pretty Peggy-O Pride of Cucamonga Promised Land Promontory Rider Queen Of Santa Fe I Queen Of Santa Fe II (Poor Michael Went Down) Quin The Eskimo The Race Is On Rain Ramble On Rose Revolution Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues Rhapsody In Red Ripple Road Runner Rockin' Pneumonia Rosalie McFall Rosemary Row Jimmy Rubin and Cherise Run for the Roses Run, Rudolph Run Saint of Circumstance Saint Stephen The Same Thing Samson and Delilah Satisfaction Save the Whales Sawmill Scarlet Begonias Searchin' I Second That Emotion Shakedown Street She Belongs To Me She's Mine Ship of Fools Silver Threads and Golden Needles Simple Twist Of Fate Sing Me Back Home Sitting In Limbo Sitting on Top of the World Smokestack Lightnin' So Far From Me Spoonful Stagger Lee Stealin' Stella Blue Sugaree Sugar Magnolia Sunrise Supplication Swing Low Sweet Chariot Tangled Up In Blue Tell Mama Tennessee Jed Terrapin Station That's All Right, Mama That's It For The Other One They Love Each Other This Time Forever Throwing Stones Till The Morning Comes To Lay Me Down Tom Dooley Tomorrow Is Forever Tom Thumb Blues Tons of Steel Tore Up Over You Touch of Grey Truckin' Turn On Your Love Light Two Souls in Communion Two Women Unbroken Chain Uncle John's Band Blues Valerie Viola Lee Blues Visions of Johanna Wake Up Little Susie Walking Blues Walking the Dog Walk in the Sun Walk in the Sunshine Wang Dang Doodle Wave That Flag Weather Report Suite (Part I) Weather Report Suite (Part II) - Let It Grow Werewolves of London West L.A. Fadeaway Wharf Rat What's Become of the Baby What Will You Raise The Wheel When I Paint My Masterpiece When Push Comes to Shove Who Do You Love Why Don't We Do It In The Road Willie and the Hand Jive Wining Boy Blues Yellow Moon You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man You Don't Have To Ask Youngblood You Win Again Aiko Aiko My spy boy saw you spy boy sittin' by the fi-yo My spy boy told your spy boy, "I'm gonna set you flag on fi-yo." I said, "Hey now," "Hey now," Aiko Aiko all day, jockomo feno na na nay, jockomoa feena nay. My grandma and your grandma were sitting by the fire Said my grandma to your grandma, "Gonna get your tail on fire." I said, "Hey now," "Hey now," Aiko Aiko all day, jockomo feno na na nay, jockomo feena nay. Ain't It Crazy (The Rub) Man got the rub on, sister got the rub They're goin' around doing the rub, the rub Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy Ain't it crazy one day keep on rubbin' that thing. Two old ladies was lying around in bed One turned over and this is what she said, Mama tell the chicken her body was a duck Put him on the table with his feet sticking up Two old ladies playing in the sand, each one wishing the other was a man Well I see that woman goin behind the hill I'm gonna find that girl, I'm gonna do my will Well I feel so good, well I feel so fine All I gotta do is drink that wine I say the little old rooster called the little old hen He said he had no lungs, ain't got no wing. Ain't Superstitious / Meet Me on the Bottom Meet me on the bottom, bring me my running shoes, When I come out the window, we ain't got time to lose. Well I ain't superstitious, but a black cat crossed my trail, Don't brush me with my broom, Babe, I just might land in jail. Well my right hand itchin', Babe, I get smothered by the shore, Look down you engine, Babe, but somebody got to go. Meet me on the bottom, Babe, bring me my running shoes, When I come out the window, Babe, we ain't got time to lose. Well I hope you are listening, when I come streaking by, Got a bad old man, Babe, and I'm too young to die. Well I ain't superstitious, but a black cat crossed my trail, Don't brush me with my broom, Babe, I just might land in jail. Dogs been barking all around my neighborhood, You give a sign, Babe, ain't do nobody no good. Alabama Getaway 32 teeth in a jawbone, Alabama trying for none, Before I have to hit him, I hope he's got the sense to run. Reason the poor girls love him, promise them everything, Why they all believe him? He wears a big diamond ring. Alabama getaway, getaway. Alabama getaway, getaway, Only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away. Major Domo Billy Bojangles, sit down and have a drink with me, "What's this about Alabama? It keeps a coming back to me. Heard your plea in the courthouse, Witness box began to rock and rise, 49 sister states all had Alabama in there eyes. Alabama getaway, getaway. Alabama getaway, getaway, Only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away. Major said why don't we give him rope enough to hang himself? No need to worry the jury, this kind takes care of themselves. 23rd psalm Major Domo, reserve me a table for three, Down in the valley of the shadow, just you, Alabama, and me. Alabama getaway, getaway. Alabama getaway, getaway, Only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away. Alligator Sleepy Alligator in the noon day sun, Lyin' 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 for me. Oh no! I've been there before, And I ain't gonna come around here any more. Creepy alligator coming all around the bend, Shoutin' about the times when we was mutual friends, I checked my memory and I checked it quick, yes I will. I checked it runnin' some old kind of trick. Oh no! Well I've been there before, And I ain't gonna come around here any more. Sailin' down the river in an old canoe, A bunch of and an old tennis shoe. Out of the river all ugly and green, Came the biggest old alligator that I've ever seen! Teeth big and pointy and his eyes were buggin' out, Contracted the union, put the beggars to rout. Screamin' and yellin', he was pickin' his chops, He never runs he just stumbles and hops. Just out of prison on ten dollars bail, Mumblin' bitches and waggin' his tail. All Over Now Well now baby used to stay all night long, made me cry, Lord she done me wrong. Hurt my eyes open, and that's no lie, tables turnin', now it's her turn to cry, Cuz I used to love her, but it's all over now. Well I used to wake up in the morning, get my breakfast in bed, When I got worried, you know she eased my achin' head, But now she's here and there with every man in town' Still tryin' to take for that same old clown. Cuz I used to love her, but it's all over now. Well she used to run around with every man in town, Spend all my money, Lord I better pass "go", Put me out, it was a pity how I cried, table's turnin', now it's her turn to cry, Cuz I used to love her, but it's all over now. Yes and I used to love her, but it's all over now. Althea I told Althea I was feeling lost, lacking in some direction. Althea told me upon scrutiny that my back might need protection. I told Althea that treachery was tearing me limb from limb. Althea told me better cool down boy, settle back, easy Jim. You may be Saturday's child, all alone, moving with a tinge of grace. You may be a clown in the burying ground, or just another pretty face. You may meet the fate on Ophelia, sleeping and penchence to dream. Honest to the point of recklessness, self-centered in the extreme. Ain't nobody messing with you, but you, your friends are getting most concerned. Loose with the truth, baby, it's your fire, but baby don't get burned. When the smoke has cleared, she said, that's what she said to me. Gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy. There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. The time has come to weigh those things. This space is getting hot, you know this space is getting hot. I told Althea I'm a roving son, and I was born to be a bachelor. Althea told me, okay, that's fine, so now I'm trying to catch her. Can't talk to you without talking to me, we're guilty of the same old thing. Been talking alot about less and less and forgetting the love we bring. And We Bid You Goodnight Lay down my dear brother, lay down and take your rest, Won't you lay your head upon your savior's chest, I love you all, but Jesus loves you the best And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight. Walking in Jerusalem just like John (goodnight, goodnight) I would never ride, well, I would never ride (goodnight, goodnight) But His rod and His staff, they comfort me (goodnight, goodnight) Tell "A" for the ark, that wonderful boat (goodnight, goodnight) Tell "B" for the beast at the ending of the wood (goodnight, goodnight) You know it ate all the children when they wouldn't be good, Walking in Jerusalem just like John (goodnight, goodnight) I go walking in the valley of the shadow of death, And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight. Around and Around Well the joint was jumpin', going 'round and 'round, Hey! realin' and a rockin', what a crazy sound, Well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down. Well it sounds so sweet I had to take me a chance, I rose out of me seat Lord, I had to dance, Started moving my feet, well a clapping my hands. Well I kept on dancin', going 'round and 'round, Hey! realin' and a rockin', what a crazy sound, Well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down. Well at twelve o'clock Lord, the place was packed, The front doors was locked Lord, the place was packed, When the police knocked, those doors they flew back. Well I kept on dancin', going 'round and 'round, Hey! realin' and a rockin', what a crazy sound, Well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down. Attics of My Life In the attics of my life, full of cloudy dreams unreal. Full of tastes no tongue can know, and lights no eyes 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. Babe, It Ain't No Lie Been all around this whole round world, Lord, I just got back to day. Worked all the way honey and I gave it all to you Honeybabe, what more can I do? Oh babe, it ain't no lie. Oh babe, it ain't no lie. Oh babe, it ain't no lie. You know this life I'm living is mighty high. One more woman, Lord in this town. Keep her telling her lies on me. Wish to my soul that old woman would die. Keep her telling her lies on me. Baby, What Do You Want Me To Do You got me running, you got me hiding, You got me running, hiding, hiding, running, Anywhere you want it, let it roll, yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, you got me where you want me, baby doing what you want me to do. Going up, going down, going up, down, down, up, Anyway you want it, let it roll, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, you got me where you want me, baby doing what you want me to do. I say, honey baby, honey you don't have to go, I'm going to pack my bag, baby, down that road I go, Roll on, roll on baby, honey what is wrong with you? Now baby, baby, baby,... Oh baby, honey what is wrong with you? You don't treat your baby, treat me like you used to do. Ballad of Casey Jones Casey Jones was an old engineer, Call for his family tonight, they will fear, All I need is my water and coal, Look out the windows, see my drag wheel roll. One sunday morning in a driving rain, Around the curve came a passenger train, In the cabin stood Casey Jones, Bold engineer but he's dead and gone. Mrs. Casey when she heard the news Sitting at her bedside she was lacing up her shoes Children, children now catch your breath, You will draw a pension if your Papa's dead. Children, children now can you hear, Tell me Mama what do you mean by that? Get your hat, put it on your head, Go to town, see your Daddy's dead, Casey said just before he died, Fix the blinds so that the bums can ride, If they ride, let them ride rock, Put their trust in the hands of God. Casey said just before he died, Two more roads that I want to ride. People said, what roads, Casey, can they be? Gold Colorado and the Santa Fe. Bear Tracks High on the mountain tell me what do you see, Bland shacks and railroad tracks looking back at me, Better take Chicago Forest to the plain, There's a Colorado River running through the green, You been hanging around this world far too long, Lord, at night for countless hours certainly are gone, Never been an outlaw, never been this free, Except for tales of Colorado spring, Take up my money, thought I'd be free, Saw that man a commin' thought they were that free, Chopped down that tree and my worries were all gone, All of a sudden bullets were ringing through that home, You been hanging around this world for far too long, Hanging around the mountain home, back in half an hour, Way back in the swamp, boys way back in the trees, Colorado payroll in the Colorado spring, You hear them coming, the voices of love, You must come courting through this world or go, Texas in the dell, running in the well, You know all you can do is raise hell, Stick around this world for far too long, Back in half an hour with the... Way back in the swamps, way back in the trees, Never been this free in the Colorado spring, As sun come up as alive as I can be. Beat it on Down The Line Well this job I've got is just a little too hard, Running out of money, Lord, I need more pay. Gonna wake up in the morning Lord, gonna pack my bags, 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 I'll be waiting at the station Lord, when that train pulls on by, I'm going back where I belong. I'm going 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. Yeah, I'm goin' back to that shack way across that 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 I had a hard run, runnin' from your window. I was all night running, running, Lord I wonder if you care, I had a run in, run around, and run down. Run around the corner, corner, Lord run smack in to a tree. I had to move, really had to move, That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' knees, Bertha don't you come around here anymore. Dressed myself in green, I went down unto the sea. Try to see what's goin' down, try to read between the lines. I had a feelin' I was fallin', fallin', fallin', I turned around to see, Heard a voice al callin', Lord you was commin' after me. I had to move, really had to move, That's why if you please, I am on my bendin knees, Bertha don't you come around here anymore. Ran into a rainstorm, I ducked back into Novato. It's all night pourin', pourin', pourin', 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 in to the jailhouse, Lord until the sun goes down, 'till it goes down. I had to move, really had to move, That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' 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 bendin' knees, Bertha don't you come around here anymore. Big Boss Man 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' around the clock, I want a little drink of 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 drunk 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 Boy Pete The joint was jumping on the corner down on Honky Tonk Street, All of a sudden up pulled a Cadillac and out stepped a can named Pete. A diamond on every finger, he wore he wore a tailor made suit, Black cigar, he wore a Stetson hat, He wore a pair on cowboy boots, Busted on through the door mad as he could be, Don't mess around, I'll cut you down 'cause my name is Big Boy Pete. The music stopped, there wasn't a sound, Up in the corner stood Bad Man Brown. He smiled and grinned, he said you know my friend, Take two steps further I'm going kick you in the hide, Forty-Five keep it alive, seven bullets on my side. Brown pulled a knife, jumped on Pete, Fought from the counter right on out to the street. They swung from the north, swung from the south, Pete got the blackjack out. Brown went out his mind, yes he did, now we deeply see, If you're ever down on the corner, down on Honky Tonk Street, Don't mess around he'll cut you down, Take a lesson from Big Boy Pete. Big Railroad Blues Well my mama told me, my papa told me too, Now my mama told me, papa told me too, Well I shouldn't be here tryin' to sing these railroad blues. Wish I had a'listened to what my mama said, Wish I had a'listened to what my mama 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 away now, don't tell me no lies, Mister jailer go away, don't tell me no lies, When the train's going down, she's rollin' down the line. Well my mama told me, my papa told me too, Now my mama told me, papa told me too, Well I shouldn't be here tryin' to sing these railroad blues. Big River 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 St. Paul, Minnesota, She tore me up everything I heard her drawl, that southern drawl. Well I heard my dream went back downstream, cavortin' in Davenport, And I follow you big river when you called. Well I followed her down to St. Louie, later on down the river, Trader said she's been here, but she's gone, boy, she's gone. Well I followed her down to Memphis, but she just walked off the bus, She raised a few eyebrows and she went on down alone. Well I've gotten 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, followed my blues on down to the gulf, She loves you big river more than me. Bird Song All I know is something like a bird within her sang, All I know she and 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 and a little while and then flew off, Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain. Black Muddy River When the last rose of summer pricks my finger, And the hot sun chills me to the bone, When I can't hear the song for the singer, And I can't tell my pillow from a stone, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own. When the last bolt of sunshine hits the mountain, And the stars start to splatter in the sky, When the moon hits the southwest horizon, With the scream of an eagle on the fly, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And listen to the ripples as they moan, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own. Black muddy river, roll on forever, I don't care how deep or wide, if you've got another side, Roll muddy river, roll muddy river, black muddy river, roll. When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my heart begin to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears, I will walk alone, by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone, by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own, sing me a song of my own. Black Peter All of my friends come to see me last night, I was laying in my bed and dying. Annie Bonneau from St. Angel say the weather down there so fine. Just then the wind came squalling through 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 led 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 through 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 You're bringing me down, I'm running aground, Blind in the lights of the interstate cars, Passing me by, the busses and the semis, Plugging like stones from a slingshot from mars. But I'm here on 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, and clouds and the stars. Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in, With it's words of a life where nothing is new, Ah, mother american night, I pass from the light, Ah, I'm drownin' in you. I left St. Louie, 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 women I once thought I'd met. But I can't deny, times have gone by, Well I never 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, whisper in sin, And speaking on life that passes like dew. It's forced me to see you've done better by me, Better by me that I've done by you. Now what's to be found by racing around, you carry your pain wherever you go, Full of 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. Capture a glance, and make it dance, But looking at you is looking at me. Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in, With it's words of a life that could almost be true, Ah, mother American night, here comes a light. 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, I'm drowning in you. Blues For Allah 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 of Allah In 'sh'Allah. They lie where they fall, There's nothing more to say, The desert stars are bright tonight lets meet as friends, The Flower of Islam, The Fruit of Abraham. The thousand stories have come round to one again, Arabian night, Our Gods pursue their fight, What fatal flowers of darkness 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, Bird of paradise fly in white sky, Blues for Allah In 'sh'Allah. Bo Diddley Hey, Bo Diddley dee. Bondi Pier 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 split, 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 cars, 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 Seems like I've 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 mornin' in the sweet by and by, by and by, by and by. Song commin' on, So pleasin' to see, come and gone, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, You don't have to tell me why, Meet me some mornin' 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 from time to time. My how lovely you are, my dear, The ball game has gone much too far my dear, Sing to me, do your thing to me, I'll meet you some mornin', meet you some mornin', In the sweet by and by, by and by, by and by. Box of Rain Look out of any window, any morning, any evening, any day. Maybe the sun is shining, birds are singing, No rain is falling from a heavy sky. What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through? For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago. Walk out of any doorway, feel your way, feel your way like the day before. Maybe you'll find direction, Around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you. What do you want me to do, to watch for you while you are sleeping? The please don't be surprised when you find me dreaming 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 going 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 in, 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 tour hair; Such a long long time to be gone, and a short time to be there. Boys in the Barroom Does God look down on the boys in the barroom, Mainly forsaken but surely not judged. Jacks, kings, and aces, their faces in wine, Do lord deliver our kind. From singing for whiskey three strings on the fiddle, Four on the guitar and a song that I love. Many's the night we spent picking and singing, In hopes it be pleasing both here and above. Jack's string fiddle to my sawtooth bow, Who loves lonlieness loves it alone. I love the dim lights like some love the dew, Only thing I wonder sometimes: Does God look down on the boys in the barroom, Mainly forsaken but surely not judged. Jacks, kings, and aces, their faces in wine, Do lord deliver our kind. Bring Me My Shotgun Oh bring me my shotgun, bring me back some shells, Why don't you just bring me my shotgun, Bring me back a pocket full of shells, Well you know if I don't get myself a little competition, You know there's gonna be some trouble 'round here. Well you know my mama told me, she said, You gonna have bad luck, son, don't care where you go, So why don't you bring me my shotgun. Early in the morning when the sun gonna rise, She lets her rolling go moonshine bright, In the morning bring me my shotgun, Well I can stand in the mist for a while, But I can't stand it for very long. Brokedown Palace Fare you well, my honey, fare you well my only true one. All the birds that were singing are flown, except you alone. Going to leave this brokedown palace, On my hand and knees, I will roll, roll, roll. Make myself a bed in the waterside, 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 going to take me, sing 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 rest my bones, Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul. Going to plant a weeping willow, On the bank's green edge it will grow, grow, grow. Sing 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. Brother Esau My brother Esau killed the hunter, back in 1969, Before the killing was done his inheritance was mine. When at first my brother walked away, Before a weary band, Esau gave his sleeplessness for a piece of moral land. Our father favored Esau, he was eager to obey, All the wild commandments, the old man shot his way. But all this ended when, my brother failed at war, He staggered home and found me in the door. Esau he's on rollerskates today, And he make a statement to someone in L.A. Sometimes at night I dream, he's still that hairy man, Shadow boxing the apocalypse, wandering the land. Esau holds the blessing, brother Esau holds the curse, I was thinking that the blame was mine, But suspected something worse. The more my brother looks like me, the more I understand, The silent war it bloodied both our hands. Sometimes at night I think I understand. None of us can win. Outside that dream, still that hairy man. Well sometimes at night I think I understand. Shadowboxing the apocalypse, wandering the land. Brown-Eyed Women Gone are the days when the ox fall down, Take up the yoke and plow the fiends around. Gone are the days when the ladies said' "Please, Gentle 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 pourin' down, And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. 1929 when he stepped to the bar, drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar. 1030 when the wall caved in, he made his way selling red-eyed gin. Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down, And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. Delilah Jones was the mother of twins, Two times over and the rest were 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 pourin' down, And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. Tumble down shack on Big Foot country. Snowed so hard that the roof caved in. Delilah Jones went to meet her God, And the old man never was the same again. Daddy made whiskey and he made it well. Cost two dollars and it burned like hell. I cut hick'ry just to fire the still, Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill. Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down, And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. Gone are the days when the ox fall down, Take up the yoke and plow the fiends around. Gone are the days when the ladies said' "Please, Gentle 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 pourin' down, And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. Built to Last There are times when you must beckon, There are times when you must fall. You can take a lot of wrecking, But you can't take it all. There are times when I can help you out, And times when you must fall. There are times when you must live in doubt, And I can't help at all. Two blue stars, shine o'er the hill. Plead no more, now just be still. Through the night, now safely there. Show me something built to last. Been held by the fire, Yes and I'm, held by the ring. You can walk on balls of fire, But sometimes you might bleed. There are times when I have begged you And you do the same to me. If you can't or won't admit it, At least we pulled you through. Three blue stars, set o'er the hill. Call them back; you never will. All these trials, soon be dead. We all need something built to last. Built to last 'till time of seven, Falls tumbling from the sky. Built to last 'till lightness fades, And darkness falls on all. Built to last 'till years roll back Our couch perched in the sky Show me something different, Or something built to try. There are times when you get hit up on, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times, you'd gladly go with what you need to give. Don't be afraid to save your face, When you have done your best Now I won't forget, Next day try the rest. All the stars, are gone but one. Morning dreams, we found the Sun. Through the night, now safely there, Show me something built to last Two blue stones, shine o'er the hill. Call it back; you never will All these trials, now are dead. Show me something built to last. All the stars, are gone but one. Morning dreams. Here comes the sun. Through the night, now sinking fast. Show me something built to last. Candyman Come on all you pretty women, with your hair a hanging down, Open up your windows cuz 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 till, The Candyman comes around again, around again. I come 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 till, 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 everybody 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 till, The Candyman comes around again, around again. Can't Come Down Well I'm flying down desert streets wrapped in mother's wine and sheets, Asbestos boots on flaming feet dreaming of forbidden treats, When uniforms on nighttime beats ask me where I'm going and what I eat. I answer them with a voice so sweet, I can't come down till it's plain to see. I can't come down I've been set free. Who you are and what you don't make no difference to me. Well someone trying to tell me where it's at, And how I do this and why I do that, With secret smiles like a Chesire cat, And little wings like a vampire bat, I fly away to my cold water flat and eat my way to a bone of fat, And I say to the man with the funny hat, They say I'll be good to lose my grip, My hold on reality is starting to slip, To tell me to got off with this trip, The say its like a sinking ship, Life is sweet it's too warm to sip, And if I drink I'll chuck and flip, I'll just say as I take a nip, Oh I dream of cotton seas and granite walls and redwood trees, And ugly eye that only sees endless mirrors and infinite me's, About the winter's coming freeze this afterthought I say with ease, To all of you who make your fees. Casey Jones Driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones is ready, 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 travlin' again. Driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones is ready, watch your speed. Trouble ahead, trouble behind, And you know that notion just crossed my mind. Trouble ahead, Lady in red, Take my advice you'd be better off dead. Switchman's sleeping, train hundred and two is On the wrong track and headed for you. Driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones is ready, 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 you still don't see. Come round the bend, you know it's the end, The fireman screams and the engine just gleams... Cassidy I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream. I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream. Ah child of countless trees, ah child of boundless seas. What are you, what are you 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 you smile he is rolling back. Come wash the nighttime clean, come grow the scorched ground green. Blow the horn, tap the tambourine. Close the gap on the dark years in between. You and me, Cassidy. Quick beats in an icy heart, catch colt draws a coffin cart, There he goes and now here she starts, hear her cry. Flight of the seabirds, Scattered like lost words, Wheel to the storm and fly. Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by it's 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 it's own design. Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I'm done with mine. Catfish John Mama said, "Don't go near that river, Don't be hanging around old Catfish John." Come in 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 in 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 chestnut mare, Lord her 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 in 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. Cats Under the Stars Cats on the blacktop, birdie in the treetop, Someone plays guitar that sounds like clarinet. I ain't ready to go to bed, I think I'll take a walk downtown instead. Cats on the bandstand, Give'em each a big hand, Anyone who sweats like that must be all right. No one wants to fight; no blackeye, Just another cat beneath the stars tonight. Cats in the limelight, feels like it's alright, Everybody wants something they might not get. I ain' ready yet, it ain't complete, That's why I am headin' down to Alleycat Street. Satin blouse unbuttoning, satin blouse unbuttoning, Time is a stripper's doin', it's just for you. Time is a stripper's doin', it's just for you. Knock in the brass tacks, cover up your tracks Jack, You ain't nowhere till you can pay your own way back. What else do you lack to make it right, But cats down under the stars tonight. Caution I went down one day, I went down one day to see a Gypsy woman, Just one old day, yes I did, I want to find out, I want to find out, I want to find out, I want to find out now, What's wring with me and my baby. We ain't gettin' down like we used to do, I mean it's pretty good now, but there was a time, When it didn't work too well. I went down to see this Gypsy woman, you understand, I told her my story, I told her what was goin' on. And she told me, man she said, all you need, all you need, She said all you got to have, oh Lord, Just a touch of Mojo's hand, oh bring it back on, And it feels pretty good, yes indeed. C. C. Rider Well now C., C. C. Rider, well now see, see what you have done. Well now C., C. C. Rider, well now see, see what you have done. Well you made me love you woman, now your man is gone. So I'm goin' away now baby and I won't be back till fall, I'm goin' away now baby and I won't be back till fall, Just might find me a good girl might not be commin' back at all. Well now C., C. C. Rider, see now the moon is shining bright, Well now C., C. C. Rider, see now the moon is shining bright, Just might find me that good girl and everything would be alright. China Cat Sunflower Look for a while at the China Cat sunflower, Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun. Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono, Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind. Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandanna, Like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack. A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle, To a double-E waterfall over my back. Comic book colors on a violin river Cryin' Leonardo, Words from out a silk trombone. I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls, In the eagle-winged palace of the Queen Chinee. China Doll 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 fallin 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, Cocaine Take a snip of this then play a little riff, don't be afraid to try Don't need no airplane to get off the ground there's more than one way to fly Have a little taste, Baby, don't hesitate, every hit don`t have to be a song Gonna take you to the cosmos, Baby, and boogie with you all night long Riding out on a rail, feels so fine Talking 'bout that cocaine express, mainline, got a good head of steam Never lived down on the Bayou, but I been busted in New Orleans, New Orleans I can roll all night with you, Baby got a land? I'm just in from Marin Can't get it off, but I can get it on and we'll be truckin' 'till the break of day Here comes the doo-dah dealer on his Hog three wheeler, 250 pounds of sin He's made your car the main attraction. you wanna beef up his action But he will cut you, before he would cut you in, the only place to win Riding out on a rail, feels so fine Talking 'bout that cocaine express, mainline, taking a midnight cruise Never lived up in the Northlands, but I been snowblind out in Sandford Dew Snowblind in Sanford Dew, that's enough for you, snowblind Cocaine Habit Blues Tell it to me, tell it to me Drink cold liquor let the cocaine be Cocaine'll kill my honey dead Walking down the street with a dollar in my hand Looked for a woman ain't got no man Cocaine'll kill my honey dead Love my whiskey, I'll love my gin But the way I love coke is all of a sin Cocaine'll kill my honey dead Cocaine's dose is not for a man Doctor said pretty soon, but he don't say when Cocaine'll kill my honey dead Cold Jordan Oh sinning is a gentilized journey, take Jesus as your daily guide Though you may feel pure and saintly without Him walking by your side And when you come to make your crossing at the end of the pilgrim's way If you ever will meet your savior, you will surely meet him on that day Now look at that cold Jordan, look at its deep water Look at that wide river Oh heavy mighty billows roll You better take Jesus with you, he's a true companion Oh I'm sure without him that you never will make it home That awful day of judgement is coming in the by and by We'll see our Lord descending in the glory from on high Oh, let us get in touch with Jesus and in the special love of God And maybe ever get ready when he comes on Jordan's tide Now look at that cold Jordan, look at its deep water Look at that wide river Oh heavy mighty billows roll You better take Jesus with you, he's a true companion Oh I'm sure without him that you never will make it home Now what you gonna do, Oh what you gonna say Oh how you gonna feel when you come to the end of the way? Cold Rain and Snow Well I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life Run me out in the cold rain and snow Rain and snow, run me out in the cold rain and snow Well she's coming down the stairs, combin' back her yellow hair And I ain't goin be treated this ol' way Well she went up to her room where she sang her faithful tune Well I'm goin where those chilly winds don`t blow Comes A Time Comes a time when the blind-man 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 blind-man takes your hand, says "Don't you see? Gotta make it somehow on the 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 fall, But the day may come when you can't feel at all. The words come out like an angry stream. You hear yourself say things you could never mean. When you cool down you find your mind. You got a lot of words you've got to stand behind. Comes a time when the blind-man 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. Confusion Prince If only I could be less blind, if only I knew what to find Everywhere and all of the time, it's bending my mind Confusion Prince is at my door The crown I wear is the one he wore He's here to bring me down some more and bend my mind The friendly stranger call my name He only wants me for his game But it don't matter just the same I bend his mind I'll wave my flags into the sun I fought my wars and now they're won And I didn't need nobody's gun, I bend their mind Cosmic Charlie Cosmic Charlie how do you do? Truckin' in style along the avenue. Dum de dum de dooodley do. Go on home your mama's calling you. Kalico, Kahlia, come tell me the news. Calamity's waiting for a way to get to her. Rosy 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. Hung up waiting for a windy day kite one ice since the first of February. Mama keeps saying that the wind might blow , But standing here I say I just don't know. New ones comin' as the old ones go, Everything's moving here but much too slow now, A little bit quicker and we might have time, To say "How do you do?" before we're 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 callin' you." Calling you, calling you, calling you, calling you, Go on home your mama's calling you. Crazy Fingers 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 shine inside . 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 but I try. Cream Puff War 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 After all it's more than enough to pay for your lie Wait a minute, watch what you're doin' with your time All the endless ruins of the past must stay behind, yeah Well, can't you see that you're killing each other's soul Well, you're both out in the streets and you got no place to go Your constant battes are getting to be a bore So go somewhere else and continue your cream puff war Cumberland Blues 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 mine. 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 'till 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 get down to the Cumberland Mine. Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine. That's where I mainly spend my time. Make good money, five dollars a day. Made anymore, I might move away. Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues He can't win for losin' Lotta poor man got to walk the line Just to pay his union dues. I don't know now, I just don't know If I'm goin' back again. Dancing in the Streets Hey, comin' out around the world be ready for a brand new beat Oh, summer's here and the time is right, oh, for dancing in the street Dancing in Chicago (dancing in the street) Down in New Orleans (dancing in the street) In New York City (dancing in the street) All we need is music, sweet music (sweet, sweet music) They'll be music everywhere (everywhere) They'll be laughing, singing, music swinging and dancing in the street It doesn't matter what you wear just as long as you are there So come on every guy and grab a girl everywhere around the world They're dancing (dancing in the street) oh oh This is an invitation across the nation the chance for folks to meet There'll be swinging, swaying, music playing and dancing in the street Philadelphia, PA now (dancing in the street) Baltimore and D.C. (dancing in the street) Can't forget them other cities (dancing in the street) Dark Hollow I'd rather be in some dark hollow where the sun don't ever shine Then to be at home alone and knowin' that you're gone Would cause me to lose my mind. Well blow your whistle freight train carry me far on down the track Well I'm going away, I'm leaving today I'm goin', but I ain't comin' back. I'd rather be in some dark hollow where the sun don't ever shine Then to be in some big city, in a small room, with you upon my mind. Well I'm going away, I'm leaving today I'm goin' but I ain't comin' back. 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? Day Job Maybe you collect or maybe you pay (whether) Still got to work that eight hour day Whether you like that job or not You'd better keep it on ice while you're lining up your long shot Which is to say, hey hey, keep yer day job Don't give it away, keep yer day job, whatever they say Keep yer day job 'till your night job pays. Steady boys starting that eight day hour Never underrate that paycheck power By now you know that the face on your dollar Got a thumb on its nose and a hand on your collar With a chance to say, hey hey, keep yer day job.... Daddy may drive a V-8 'Vette Mama may bathe in champagne yet God bless the child that's got his own stash Nine to five and a place to crash which is to say... Sunday comes forget about work, Ring that bell for whatever it's worth. If you ask me like I know you won't I'll tell you what to do what I know that you won't. Day Tripper Got a good reason for taking the easy way out Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now She was a day tripper, one way ticket yeah It took me so long to find out, and I found out. She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there now She was a day tripper, one way ticket yeah It took me so long to find out, and I found out. Tried to please her, she only played one night stands Tried to please her, she only played one night stands now She was a day tripper, Sunday driver yeah It took me so long to find out, and I found out Say tripper, day tripper yeah. Deal Since it costs a lot to win, and even more to lose, You and me bound to spend some time wond'rin' what to choose. Goes to show, you don't ever know, Watch each card you play and play it slow, Wait until 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 you 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, Wait until 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 sittin' there, composin' lonesome blues. Goes to show you don't ever know Watch each card you play and play it slow, Wait until that deal come round, don't you let that deal go down. Wait until that deal come round, don't you let that deal go down, Wait until 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. Dear Mr. Fantasy Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune, something to make us all feel happy. Do anything to take (keep) us out of this gloom Sing a song, play guitar, make us happy. You are the one who makes us feel glad By doin' that you break out in tears. Please don't be sad to take up the straight life you had We wouldn't have known you all these years. Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune, something to treat us happy. Do anything to take (keep) us out of this gloom Sing a song, play guitar, make us happy. 29 Dear Prudence Dear Prudence, Won't You Come Out And Play ? Dear Prudence Meet The Brand New Day The Sun Is Up, The Sky Is Blue, It's Beautiful and So Are You Dear Prudence, Won't You Come Out And Play? Dear Prudence, Open Your Eyes. Dear Prudence, Greet The Sunny Sky The Sky Is Blue, The Birds Will Sing, That You Are Part Of Everything Dear Prudence, Open Your Eyes. Look Around, 'Round, 'Round Dear Prudence, Let Me See You Smile. Dear Prudence, Like A Little Child The Clouds Will Be A Daisy-Chain So Let Me See You Smile Again Dear Prudence,Won't You Let Me See You Smile? Look Around, 'Round,' Round 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 Bed This Morning, Children Find Your Mother 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! Whoa! Come To Your House, Y' Know He Don't Stay Long, Y' Look In Bed This Morning, Children You 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 on the 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. Whoa! Come To Your House, Y' Know It Don't Stay Long, Y' Look In 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. Deep Elem Blues If You Go Down To Deep Elm Put Your Money In Your Shoes The Women In Deep Elem They Give You The Deep Elem Blues Oh, sweet Mama, Your Daddy's Got Them Deep Elem Blues Once I Had A Girlfriend, She Meant The World To Me She Went Down To Deep Elem, Now She Ain't What She Used To Be Once I Knew A Percher, Preached THe Bible Thru And Thru He Went Sown To Deep Elem, Now His Preaching Days Are Thru When You Go Down To Deep Elem To Have A Little Fun, Have Your Ten Dollars Ready When The Police Man Comes When yo go down to Deep Elem put your money in your pants Cause the women in Deep Elem they don't give a man a chance Oh, Sweet Mama, Your Daddy's Got Them Deep Elem Blues. Desolation Row They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance one hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants and the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go as Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row. Cinderella, she seems so easy "It takes one to know one," she smiles And puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style and in comes Romeo, he's moaning "You Belong to Me I Believe" And someone says, "You're in the wrong place, my friend You Better leave" and the only sound that's left After the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up On Desolation Row Now the moon is almost hidden the stars are beginning to hide the fortune telling lady Has even taken all her things inside All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame Everybody is making love or else expecting rain And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing he's getting ready for the show He's going to the carnival tonight On Desolation Row Now Ophelia, she's neath the window for her I feel so afraid On her twenty-second birthday she already is an old maid To her, death is quite romantic she wears an iron vest Her profession's her religion her sin is her lifelessness And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah's great rainbow She spend her time peeking Into Desolation Row Einstein disguised as Robin Hood with his memories in a trunk Passed this way an hour ago with his friend, a jealous monk He looked so immaculately frightful as he bummed a cigarette As he went off sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet Now you would not think to look at him but he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On Desolation Row Dr. Filth, he keeps his world inside of a leather cup But all his sexless patients they're trying to blow it up Now his nurse, some local loser she's in charge of the cyanide hole And she also keeps the cards that read "Have Mercy on His Soul" They all play on the penny whistles you can hear then blow If you lean your head out far enough From Desolation Row Dire Wolf In the timbers to 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 whisky, I said my prayers 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 backwash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire, The Dire Wolf collects his dues, 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, Don't murder me. Please, don't murder me. Doin' That Rag Da da da da da da da da da da da Sittin in Mangrove valley chasing light beams Everything wanders from baby to Z Baby Baby pretty it 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 why how? 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. Awful cold and dark like a dungeon Maybe get a little bit darker before the day. Hipsters, flipsters, real cool chicksters Everyone's doin' that rag. You needn't gild the lily, offer jewels to the sunset. No one is watchin' or standin' 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. Wading in the water and you'll never get wet, If you keep on doin' that rag. Wading in the water and you'll never get wet, If you keep on doin' that rag. One eyed jacks and the deuces are wild And the aces are crawlin' up and down your sleeve. Come back here pretty baby Louise And tell me the name of the game that you play. Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under? Don't Ease Me In Don't ease, don't ease, don't ease me in. I've been all night long commin' home, don't ease me in. I was standin' on the corner, talkin to Miss Brown When I turned around sweet mama, she was way across town So I'm walkin' down the street with a dollar in my hand I've been lookin' for a woman sweet mama, ain't got no man. The girl I love, she's sweet and true, You the dress she wears, sweet mama, it's pink and blue, She brings me coffee, she brings me tea, She brings me 'bout every damm thing but the jailhouse keys. Don't Need Love I don't need love anymore, I don't need love anymore, I don't need anyone to tell me that I do I don't need love and I don't need you. I try and I try to make it work, I try and I try to make it work I try and I try, yeah, I won't forget, I know, Love gets you nowhere slow. I want no more heartaches, no more goodbyes Ain't no more real good love, only new love, but old love dies. Ain't worth the time that it takes, Ain't worth the time that it takes, Ain't worth the endless hours of changes I go through, I don't need love and I don't need you. I don't need love anymore, I don't need love anymore, I don't need anyone to tell me that I do I don't need love and I don't need you. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe, It don't matter, anyhow, An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe, If you don't know by now When your rooster crows at the break of dawn, Look out your window and Ill be gone, You're the reason I'm travelin' on, Don't think twice, it's all right. It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe, That light I never knowed, An' it ain't no use in turnin, on your light, babe, I'm on the dark side of the road Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say To try and make me change my mind and stay. We never did too much talkin' anyway. So don't think twice, it's all right. It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal, Like you never did before, It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal, I can't hear you anymore, I'm a-thinkin' and a-wonderin' all the way down the road. I once loved a woman, a child I'm told. I give her my heart but she wanted my soul, But don't think twice, it's all right. I'm walking down that long, lonesome, road, babe, Where I'm bound I can't tell, But goodbye's too good a word, gal, So I'll just say fare thee well. I ain't sayin' 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 all right. Drink Up and Go Home You sit there in crying, braiding your hair, You say you got trouble, my friend has a fair, Don't tell me your troubles, I got enough of my own, Be thankful for living, drink up and go home. Now there is still some blind man, blind he can't see, You think he's complaining, why should you appeal? Don't tell me your troubles, I got enough of my own, Be thankful for living, drink up and go home. Dupree's Diamond Blues When I was just a little young boy, Papa said son, you'll never get far, Tell you the reason, if you wanna know, Cause child of mine, there isn't really far to go. Well, baby baby wants a gold diamond ring, Wants it more than any old thing, Well when I get those jelly-roll blues, Why I go and get anything in this world for you. Down to the jewelry store packin' a gun, Says, "Wrap it up I think I'll take this one." "A thousand dollars please," the jewelry man said, Dupree 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 to pull that trigger, And it's no wonder, your reason goes bad, Jelly-roll will drive you so mad. Judge said, "Son, it's gonna cost you some time." Dupree said, "Judge you know that crossed my mind." Judge said, "Fact it's gonna cost you your life." Dupree said, "Judge you know that seems to me to be about right." Baby baby you gonna lose her sweet man, Dupree come out with a losin' hand, Baby's gonna weep it up for a while, 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 secret I can never tell." Dupree said, "Judge well it's well understood, But you got to admit that sweet Jelly's so good." Well you know son, you just can't figure, First thing you know you're gonna to pull that trigger, And it's no wonder, your reason goes 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 shinin' diamond ring. Early Morning Rain In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved one so In the early morning rain with no place to go Out on runway number nine big 707 set to go But I'm stuck here on the grass where the cold winds they do blow And where whiskey was and bars and the women they were fine There she goes my friend, she rolling down at last Here the mighty engines roar, see the silver bird on high She's away and westward bound, far above the clouds she'll fly There the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shines She'll be flying over my home in about three hours time This old airport's got me down it ain't no earthy good to me Because I'm stuck here on the ground, cold and drunk as I can be You can't hop a jet plane like you can a railroad train So I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain Easy To Love You Good, good morning, so good to see you weren't just a dream of mine Real as a raven, real as thunder, real as the sun shinin' But still so very undefined Can't imagine what's behind those sleepy eyes Little stranger, don't try to hide now You look so young when you're afraid There is no danger, but from the devil He may want you, but I'm in his way You don't know how easy it is You don't know how easy it is to love you And come the moonrise when the dew falls Don't be the sun that fades away Don't leave me darkness, she's no lover, she hides the day 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' them 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 I 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 out in red on the streets today. And the rivers keep a talkin', but you never heard a word it said. The Eleven High green chilly winds and windy vines In loops around the twisted shafts of lavender, They're crawling to the sun. Underfoot the ground is patched With arms of ivy wrapped around the manzanita, Stark and shiny in the breeze. Wonder who will water all the children of the garden When they sigh about the barren lack of rain and Droop so hungry neath the sky. William Tell has stretched his bow till it won't stretch No furthermore and/or it may require a change that hasn't come before. 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 great 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. Nighttime would fine 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 casting 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... Dashing and daring, a drink he was sharing, 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 thru 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 that my fear of death. I saddled up and away I did go, riding alone in the dark... Maybe tomorrow a bullet may find me, Tonight nothing's worse than this pain in my heart. And as last here I am on the hill overlooking 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. shouting and shooting; 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. El Paso... 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. Empty Pages Empty pages before my eyes, you not deny or criticize Empty bedrooms where I paid my dues Watching the ceiling instead of you Can you tell me where you're goin', can't hold on to hear my song I've got some songs I'd love to sing Always bring down some other thing Where can I go my hands are broken It seems like your love is just a token, why won't you stay with me? Up in the morning and out the door She won't come in I gotta live alone Back in the evening with the darn poor fool out I got on mind just this gal, just this gal. 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 and down that highway where ocean breezes blow My time coming, voices saying 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, 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 sure passin' slow Still I know I lead the way, they tell me where I go. Don't worry about me, no no no, don't worry about me, no and I'm in no hurry, no no no, I know where to go. California, a prophet on the burning shore California, 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. You've all been asleep, you would not believe me Them voices tellin' me, you will soon receive me Standin' on the beach, the sea will part before me Fire wheel burning in the air! 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 work fills the sky with flame and might and glory gonna be my name and men 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 sure passin' slow My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no Don't worry about me, no no no, don't worry about me, no and I'm in no hurry, no no no, don't worry about me, no. 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, wond'rin' 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 it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings, But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own. There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away, And there follows his wagon behind him that's loaded with clay. And 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 it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings, But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own, And sometimes we visit your country and live in your home, sometimes we ride on your horses, sometimes we walk alone, sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own. Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings, But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own. Far From Me You say you want to try again, wear it down between the lines Well, I have a better end in mind it doesn't seem to really have you Close your eyes to see though I know you don't mean to be You are so far from me There was something I had caught inside screaming hard to make it go And tied me down low, it doesn't seem you really have to Close you eyes to see, you've been all you'll be to me Though I know you don't mean to be, it's just too late And we can't relate at all This is the last time I wanna say so long This song is my last song for you There's just nothing here to hold on to Baby, nothing to hold on to Feel Like A Stranger Inside you're burnin' I can see clear through Your eyes tell more than you mean them to Lit up and flashin' like the reds and blues Out there on the neon avenue Well I, feel like a stranger (feel like a stranger) Well the music's thunderin', restless and hot You keep firin' me glances across the room And I can't stop wonderin' just what you got Get the feeling I'm going to find out real soon But I feel like a stranger (feel like a stranger) So let's get on with the show, let's go Yes, and the wheels it's smokin 'round midnight You show me a look that says "Let's go" Yes, and it feels about like running a red light Now there ain't no point in looking behind us, no! Still I feel like a stranger (feel like a stranger) You know It's gonna get stranger, let's get on with the show If this were love now how would I know? How would I know? Feel like a stranger Gonna be a long, long, crazy, crazy night Silky, silky, crazy, crazy night Fire On The Mountain Long distance runner, what you standin' there for? Get up, get out, get out of the door Your playin' cold music on the barroom floor Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core. There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down. 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 livin', we all gotta eat But you're here alone, there's no one to compete. If Mercy's a bus'ness, I wish it for you More than just ashes when your dreams come true. Fire! Fire on the mountain! Long distance runner, what you holdin' out for? Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door. The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor You gave all you had. Why you wanna give more? The more that you give, the more it will take To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake. Fire! Fire on the mountain! Forever Young May God bless and keep you always, may your wishes all come true. May you always do for others and let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung, May you stay forever young. Forever young, forever young, may you stay forever young. May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. Forever young, forever young, may you stay forever young. May your hands always be busy, may your feet always be swift. May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift. May your heart always be joyful, may your songs always be sung. May you stay forever young. Forever young, forever young, may you stay forever young. 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 While the gentlemen compare blonde or black or auburn hair check the motion and the style Oh, you know they take their while Hey, to make the motion more complete, yeah, to make it more a treat Club D'Jour is 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 club 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 wait and see oh, these folks don't ever 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 In another times forgotten space Your eyes looked from your mother's face Wallflower seed on the sand and stone May the four winds blow you safely home. Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew 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 loose 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. (instrumental) 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 the 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 seed on 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'd better roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew You'd better roll away the dew - roll away. Friend of the Devil I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds Didn't get to sleep last night 'till the morning came around. Set out runnin' but I take my time A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight. Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills I spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills. Set out runnin' but I take my time, a friend of the devil is a friend of mine, If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight. I ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there He took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air. Set out runnin' but I take my time A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight, I 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 hearts delight. The second one is prison, babe, 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 The first one says she's got my child, but it don't look like me. Set out runnin' but I take my time, A friend of the devil is a friend of mine, If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight. From the Heart of Me 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 meet 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 fine you When I awoke the stars were out and shining, shining for you and me All I ever wanna be is save and warm in your arms All I have, from the heart of me Get Back JoJo was a man who thought he was a woman, but he knew it couldn't last JoJo left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass. Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged Get back JoJO, go home, get back, get back Joe Sweet Loretta Molin thought she was a woman, but she was another man All the other girls around here said she's got it coming But she gets it while she can. Oh, get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged Get back Loretta, go home, get back to where you where you once belonged Get back, your monny's waiting for you Wearing her high heeled shoes and her low neck sweater, get back home Loretta Gimme Some Lovin' Well my temperature is rising got my feet on the floor Crazy people rocking 'cause they want to go more Let me in baby I don't know what you got But you better take it easy 'cause this place is hot And I'm so glad you made it, so glad you made it You got to gimme some lovin', gimme gimme some lovin' Well I feel so good, everybody's getting high You better take it easy 'cause the place is on fire Been a hard day and I don't know what to do Wait a minute Baby, this could happen to you Well I feel so good, everybody's getting high You better take it easy 'cause the place is on fire Been a hard day nothing went too good Now we're gonna relax just like everybody should. Gloria Wanna tell you about my baby, you know she comes around Just about five feet-four from her head to the ground You know she comes around here just about midnight she makes me feel so good, she makes me feel alright And her name is G.L.O.R.I.A G.L.O.R.I.A Gloria I wanna to shout it all night Gloria I wanna to shout it all day She comes around here just about midnight She only come to make me feel good, she makes me feel alright She comes walking down my street, she comes up to my house Knockin' on my door, now she comes to my room A she makes me feel alright And her name is G.L.O.R.I.A. G.L.O.R.I.A. Gloria I wanna to shout it all night Gloria I wanna to shout it all day Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad 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 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 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 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 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 away. Goin' where the chilly winds don't blow. Goin' where the chilly winds don't blow. Goin' where those chilly winds don't blow. I don't want to be treated this away. The Golden Road (to unlimited devotion) 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-light diamond and she can live on the street. Hey hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day. Well everybody's dancin' in a ring around the sun Nobody's finished, we ain't even begun. So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat. Try on your wings and find our where it's at. Hey hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day. Take a vacation, fall out for a while, Summer's comin' in, and it's goin' outa style Well, lie down smokin', honey, have yourself a ball Cause your mother's down in Memphis, won't be back 'till the fall. Hey hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day. Gomorrah Just a song of Gomorrah, I wonder what they did there Must've been a bad thing to get shot down for I wonder how they blew it up or if they burned it down Get out, get out Mr. Lot and don't you turn around. Who gave you your orders, someone from the sky I heard a voice inside my head in the desert wind so dry I heard a voice tellin' me to flee the very same voice I always believe Say alot of trouble comin', but it don't have to come to you I'm telling you so you can tell the rest what you've been through. But don't you turn around, no, don't look after you It's not your business how it's done, you're lucky to get through You're a good upstanding man, a credit to the flock But if you don't face straight ahead you could not take the shock Blew the city off the man, left nothing there but fire The wife of Lot got turned to salt, because she looked behind her. Good Lovin' Well, I was feelin' so bad, asked my family doctor 'bout what I had, I said, "Doctor, Doctor, Mister M.D., can you tell me, what's ailing 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 alright? I said baby, now it's for sure, I've got the fever, you got the cure. 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'. Hey, got to have lovin' (good lovin') Well, you got to have lovin' (good lovin') Come on now and 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, Doctor, mister M.D., Can you tell me, what's ailing 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'). 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'). Gimme, gimme, gimme 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 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? 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 com 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? Don't you hear me crying? I'm gonna buy me an airplane and fly all over your town Tell everybody baby, lord knows you're fine Come on 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? Don't you hear me crying? 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 little schoolboy too. I'm a schoolboy, too. Hey, I'm a schoolboy, too. I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine I want to be your chauffeur, 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. Goodnight Irene Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams Sometimes I live in the country, sometimes I live in town Sometimes I take a few notions, I want to jump overboard in a river and drown. Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams One night I got married, now me and my wife settled down Now me and my wife are parting, I want to jump overboard in a river and drown. Got My Mojo Working I got my mojo working, just don't work on you Some time, child, I just don't know what to do Let it work, let it, when it's When it's, work all day, all day, all day, work, work, work. Greatest Story Ever Told Moses come ridin' up on a quasar His spurs were jingling, the door was ajar His buckle was silver, his manner was bold And I asked him to come in out of the cold. His brain was boiling, his reason was spent His motto is nothing is borrowed, nothing is lent He ask me for mercy, I gave him a gun. He said these things just got to be done. Abraham and Isaac sitting on a fence You'd get right to work if you had any sense You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench. Gideon come up with his eyes on the floor Said "You ain't got a hinge, you can't close the door." Moses stood up above his six foot and ten Said "You can't close the door when the wall's caved in." Ask him for water, he poured me some wine We finished the bottle and broke into mine. You get what you come for, ya ready to go Well, it's one in ten thousand that come for the show. Abraham and Isaac diggin' on a well Mama came quick with the water witch spell Well cool clear water well you can't ever tell. Abraham and Isaac sitting on a fence You'd get right to work if you had any sense You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench. Green, Green Grass of Home The old home town looks the same as I step off the train Meeting every train in my mind's eye till the man in mail came Hair like gold, lips like cherry It's good to touch the green, green grass of home Green, green grass of home, green green grass of home. Only dream I know of is to be found hair like gold, lips like a cherry It's good to touch the green, green grass of home They'll all come to greet me, on the steps of my sweet dream It's good I dreamt the green, green grass of home I wait and look around me at the broken walls that surround me And out here I was on the ground. There's a garden in the path of progress unharmed through winter's day break Then I'll touch the green, green grass of home They'll all come to greet me from the chains of the old dark hollow The green, green grass of home They'll all come to greet me on the steps, my sweet dream The Harder They Come Well they tell me of a pie up in the sky Waiting for me when I die But between the day you're born and when you die They never seem to hear you even your cry. So as sure as the sun will shine I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine And the harder they come, the harder they fall The harder they come, the harder they fall one and all. Well the oppressors are trying to keep me down Trying to drive me underground And they think that they have got the battle won I say forgive them Lord they know not what they've done. Cause as sure as the sun will shine I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine And the harder they come, the harder they fall The harder they come, the harder they fall one and all. And I'll keep on fighting for the things I want Though I know that when you're dead you can't But I'd rather be a free man in my grave Than living as a puppet or a slave. So as sure as the sun will shine I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine And the harder they come, the harder they fall The harder they come, the harder they fall one and all. Hard to Handle Baby here I am and I'm a man upon the scene I can give you what you want, but you got to come home with me I got a whole lot of good ole loving and I got some in store When I get through throwin' it on to you got to come back for more Boys and things will come by the dozen Ain't nothin' but drug store love Pretty little thing let me light your candle Cause mama I'm sure hard to handle, now yes I am. Action speaks louder than words and I'm a man with great experience I know you got another man, but I can love you better than him Take my hand, don't be afraid I'm gonna prove every word I say I'm advertising love for free so won't you place your ad with me? Boys and things will come by the dozen Ain't nothin' but drug store love Pretty little thing let me light your candle Cause mama I'm sure hard to handle, now yes I am. Give it to me baby, I got to have it, some of your love It's all I need, early in the morning, late in the evening. Heaven Help The Fool I was born in a flatland, USA and all my dreams led me to L.A. Another chase of rags to riches, I learned to throw some fancy pitches. I found out what ain't and which is just exactly cool, well all right Heaven help the fool, heaven help the fool Got a place in Malibu like you never seen Picking out your lady friend from Penthouse magazine You oughta see the chrome gleam on my Mercedes all shiny and new Hey, I'm the Jack of Diamonds, the boy with all the clues Not a pretty vanity (no, no, not me). Glorified insanity (no, no, not me). Ooh, I'm a hyper-supervisor, fast driver, star driver (fool). Heaven help the fool, professional "gimme-fiver", heaven help the fool. Anything you could want to be you can buy, even get it free Make yourself a smoother dancer, fill your head with answers. Never a backward glancer, it's you who makes the rules (aah). Heaven help the fool, heaven help the fool No, no, never a backward glancer, (fool), heaven help the fool. I meet alot of pentagram, heart of the star (that's what you are) You can trade your soul for an electric guitar Ooh, not a pretty vanity (no, no, not me). Glorified insanity (no, no, not me) And when they offer golden apples, are you sure you'll refuse? Heaven help the fool, are you sure you'll refuse it? Heaven help the fool It's like a deaf man dancing or a blind man shooting pool Heaven help the fool, heaven help the fool Hell in a Bucket Well I was drinkin' last night with a biker And I showed him a picture of you I said, "Pal get to know her, you'll like her Seemed like the least I could do. Cause when he's chargin' his chopper Up and down your carpeted halls You will think I am dressed up quite proper Never mind how I stumble and fall. You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot For taste of your elegant pride I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride. Cause you're a sweet little softcore pretender Somehow, babe, it got as hot as it gets With her black leather and gold spike suspenders And your chain, your black whip and pets. Well we know you're the reincarnation Of the infamous Catherine the Great And we know how you love the ovation And the scene that it seems to create. You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot For taste of your elegant pride I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride. You analyze me, tend to despise me You laugh when I stumble and fall There may come a say when I'll dance on your grave Unable to dance I'll still crawl across it Unable to dance I'll still crawl Unable to dance I'll still crawl Unable to dance I'll crawl. You must really consider the circus It just might be your kind of zoo I can't think of a place that's more perfect For a person as perfect as you. And it's not like I'm leaving you lonely Cause I wouldn't know where to begin Well I know you wake up here only When the snakes come marching in. You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot For taste of your elegant pride I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride. Ride, ride, ride Ride, ride, ride Ride, ride, ride At least I'll enjoy the ride. At least I'll enjoy the ride. AT LEAST I'LL ENJOY THE RIDE. Help on the Way Paradise waits, on the crest of a wave, her angels in flames. She has no pain, like a child she is pure, she is not to blame. Poised for flight, wings spread bright, spring from night into the sun. 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's 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 a dream it will never come true. Henry Every year along about this time it all goes dry Nothing roun