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Just like the sun shining over the mountain top
You know I'll always come again
You know I love to spend my morning time
Watchin' sunlight dancing on your skin
I've never gone so wrong for telling lies to you
What you see is what I've been
There is nothing that I can hide from you
You see me better than I ever can
Out on the road that lies before me now
There are some turns where I will spin
D...
If you ever plan to motor west
Take my way that's the highway that's the best,
Get your kicks on route 66.
Well, it winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles of motorway,
Get your kicks on route 66.
Well, it winds from St. Louis down to Missouri
Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty.
You'll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico,
Flagstaff Arizona, don't forget Pamona,
South Park Garden and San Be...
I've been up and, and down the highway
And I've seen what a man can do
To some little girl along the byway
That's why I sing this song to you
If you find your baby's gone
And you don't know where or when
You wonder, yes you wonder
If you'll ever see him again
Just remember, remember
These simple words I brought
Soon it won't hurt half as much
No it won't hurt half as much
No it won't hurt half...
Well you know sometimes it gets so hard
And everything don't seem to rhyme
I take a walk out in my backyard and go
Do do loo do do, do do loo do do
Waiting for the sun to shine
And you know sometimes it gets so painful
Just like talking to yourself
When everything don't seem to have no rhyme or reason we all go
Do do loo do do, do do loo do do
Waiting for the sun to shine
We move along, keep s...
The management said they were sorry
For the inconvenience you are suffering
And mr. booking agent, please have mercy
Don't book the jobs so far apart
We went up to griffith park
With a fifth of johnny walker red
And smashed it on a rock and wept
While the old couple looked on into the dark
Oh, richard, tell me if it's poker
Oh, richard, tell me, who's got the joker and is it poker
Deuces wild,...
There's a voice cryin' out in the wilderness
All your trails have not been in vain
And you're doin' the best you know how to do
Gaining strength in the things that remain
You're part of the plan
For a new kind of man to come through
There's an angel that's watching right over you
All your trials have not been in vain
Won't you lift your head up to the starry night
Finding strength in the thing...
I walked in my greatcoat, down through the days of the leaves
No before after, yes after before
We were shining our light into the days of blooming wonder
In the eternal presence, in the presence of the flame
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder?
Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision bright?
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame?
On and on and on and on, we kept o...
Copycats ripped off my words
Copycats ripped off my songs
Copycats ripped off my melody
It doesn't matter what they say
It doesn't matter what they do
All that matters is my relationship to you
Gonna take you out, get you in my car
We're going for a long long drive
We're going down to a town called Paradise
Down where we can be free
We're gonna drink that wine
We're gonna jump for joy in a tow...
Across the bridge where angels dwell
Across the bridge where angels
Across the bridge where angels dwell
Children play
Beyond the place where time is still
Beyond the place where time is
Beyond the place where time is still
Night is day
Close your eyes in fields of wonder
Close your eyes and dream
Close your eyes in fields of wonder
Close your eyes and dream
Along the path where heaven lies
Al...
When you got a headache
And you try to soothe the pain
Go right back to sleep
And you'll feel alright again
When you got a backache
Little rubbin' will see you through
When you got a heartache
There ain't nothin' you can do
There ain't nothin' you can do
There ain't nothin' you can do
When you got a heartache
There ain't nothin' you can do
A man can't break a stone
So he tried another lick
Ice...
I'm Alabamy bound
They'll be no heebie-jeebies hangin' 'round
Just gave the meanest ticket man on earth
All I'm worth to put my tootsies in an upper berth
Just hear the choo-choo sound
I know that soon we're gonna cover ground
And then I'll holler so the world will know
Here I go, I'm Alabamy bound
I'm Alabamy bound
They'll be no heebie-jeebies hanging 'round
Just gave the meanest ticket man o...
Well, I'm taking some time with my quiet friend
Well, I'm takin' some time on my own
Well, I'm makin' some plans for my getaway
There'll be blue skies shining up above
When I'm cloud hidden, cloud hidden, whereabouts unknown
Well, I've got to get out of the rat race now
I'm tired of the ways of mice and men
And the empires all turning into rust again
Out of everything, nothing remains the same...
Here comes Sue and she looks crazy
Skipping down the hillside gaily
Looking like the flowers that bloom in May
Won't you make your reservation?
I will meet you at the station
Won't you come and see me, All Saints Day?
Follow my lead, it is no wonder, I seem to be so high
Living my dreams the way I ought to
As the days go rolling by
See me strolling through the meadow
With you baby by my side
W...
All the bits.
No, ya' see, ya' get, ya' get a thing goin' like that,
It's uh, uhh...
And then, you put it on the end, ya' go
quot;dahnt-dahn,quot; you know, like that,
At the end of the lyrics,
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;...
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;...
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;, that's nice,
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;, that kinda riff, ya' see, get it...
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;...
quot;dahnt-dahnq...
All work and no play
Makes Jack a dull chap
When it comes to the crunch
It's too much I've got to stop
No pain and no gain it's driving me insane
I'd like to be somewhere else
Like to be all by myself
Like to be down at the beach
Relaxing at the sugar shack
Hot dogs coffee black
Coca cola kicking back
I'm just a wild and crazy guy
But I'm tearing at the seams
Before you can say Jack Robinson
I...
I can hear them calling, way from Oregon
I can hear them calling, way from Oregon
And it's almost independence day
Me and my lady, we go steppin', we go steppin'
We go steppin', way out on China Town
All to buy some Hong Kong silver and the wadin' rushin' river
We go steppin'
We go out on the
Out on the town tonight
I can hear the fireworks
I can hear the fireworks
I can hear the fireworks
Up ...
There's a small cafe on the outskirts of town
I'll be there when the sun goes down
Where the roadside bends and it twists and it turns
Every new generation
And I'll be praying to my higher self
Don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground
There's a roadside jam playin' on the edge of town
In a town called Paradise near the ancient highway
When the train whistle blows
All the sadness that Hank...
Saw you shining in the sun this morning
Saw you shining in the moon at night
Saw you shining in the sun this morning
Saw you shining in the moon at night
Ancient of days, ancient of days
Ancient of day
Saw you standing by the winding river
Saw you standing by the shining stream
Saw you standing by the winding river
Saw you standing by the shining stream
Ancient of days, ancient of days
Ancient...
Half a mile from the county fair
And the rain keep pourin' down
Me and Billy standin' there
With a silver half a crown
Hands are full of a fishin' rod
And the tackle on our backs
We just stood there gettin' wet
With our backs against the fence
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Hope it don't rain all day
And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like Jelly Roll
And it stoned me
And it ...
And we'll walk down the avenue again
And we'll sing all the songs from way back when
And we'll walk down the avenue again
And the healing has begun
And we'll walk down the avenue in style
And we'll walk down the avenue and we'll smile
And we'll say baby ain't it all worthwhile
When the healing has begun
I want you to put on your pretty summer dress
You can wear your Easter bonnet and all the r...
Yeah, yeah
Oh, Angeliou, oh, Angeliou
Angeliou, oh, Angeliou
Oh, Angeliou, Angeliou
Oh my Angeliou
One more time
Angeliou, oh, Angeliou
Angeliou, oh, my Angeliou
Oh, Angeliou, Angeliou
Oh my Angeliou
In the month of May
In the city of Paris
In the month of May
In the city of Paris
And I heard the bells ringing
And I heard the bells ringing
In the month of May
And I called out your name
In the ...
Aryan mist, among the bridges
You hang by the river
You've been here forever
Aryan mist
What can the matter be
In a world full of glamor
Does it lift you up
Or is it the railway carriage charm?
You just sit here
And look from your carriage
As you watch the scene go by
Gurus from the east
Oh gurus from the west
Does it lift you up
Or is it railway carriage charm
Aryan mist, among the bridges
Yo...
If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where mobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down in silence easy
To be born again, to be born again
From the far side of the ocean
If I put the wheels in motion
And I stand with my arms behind me
And I'm pushin' on the door
Could you find me?
Would yo...
Tell me what do you get
At the end of the day
Is it all worth the while
Can you put on a smile
Does it fill you with pride
All the feelings inside
Or do you just wanna hide
Can you still walk away
At the end of the day
At the end of the day
Are you lonely or sad
Do you think you've been had
Is your heart ever glad
Or are you afraid
'cause you don't have it made
That you don't make the grade
Or...
Leaves of brown they fall to the ground
And it's here, over there leaves around
Shut the door, dim the lights and relax
What is more, your desire or the facts
Pitter patter the rain falling down
Little glamor sun coming round
Take a walk when autumn comes to town
Little stroll past the house on the hill
Some more coal on the fire if you will
And in a week or two it'll be Halloween
Set the page...
On down by Avalon, Avalon of the heart
On down by Avalon, gonna make a brand new start
Oh, the holy grail, baby, behind the sun
Oh, the holy grail down by Avalon
Well, I came upon the enchanted vale down by the viaducts of my dreams
Down by Camelot hangs the tale in the ancient vale
Oh, the Avalon sunset, Avalon of the heart
I'm with my lady goin' down by Avalon
Well, I came upon the enchanted...
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby, please don't go
Well, your mind done gone
Well, your mind done gone
Well, your mind done gone
Left the county farm
You had the shackles on
Baby, please don't go
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
To get you way down here
I make you walk alone
Baby, plea...
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby, please don't go
Well, your mind done gone
Well, your mind done gone
Well, your mind done gone
Left the county farm
You had the shackles on
Baby, please don't go
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
To get you way down here
I make you walk alone
Baby, plea...
You got me runnin'
You got me hidin'
You got me run, hide, hide, run
Anyway you want and I'll roll
A-yeah, yeah, yeah
You got me doin' what you want me
A-baby what you want me to do?
You got me up
You got me down
You got me up, down, down, up
Anyway you want and I'll roll
A-yeah, yeah, yeah
You got me doin' what you want me
A-baby what you want me to do?
You got me peepin'
You got me hidin'
Yo...
Well, it takes more than a robin
To make a winter cold
Then it takes two lips of fired
To melt away the snow
Yeah, and it takes two hearts a-cookin'
To make a fire glow
And baby, you got what it takes
Pullin' together
Well, it takes a lot of kissin'
To make a romance sweet
And it takes a lot of lovin'
To make my life complete
And it takes a lot of woman
To knock me off-a my feet
And baby, you ...
I'm back on th' corner
I'm right back on th' corner
I've been in this condition so many times before
Back by my lonesome
I'm right back by my lonesome
Just watching th' people going from door to door
I've got to change my ways
And try to quit this place
'cause one of these rainy days
I'm gonna need a friendly face
I'm back on th' corner
I'm right back on th' corner
I've been in this condition ...
You came to see me when the moon was new
Saw you standing in the pouring rain
Left my message on a window pane
Back on the street again
Back on the beat again
I'm back on the top again
You saw me climbing to the top of the hill
You saw me meeting with the fools on the hill
Learned my lesson and I had my fill
Learned it all in vain
Went through it all again
Now I'm back on the top again
Always ...
In the back room
In the back room
I waited for you
Ya waited for me
Rain came down, pitter-pat
Say, what you think, it's raining outside, you said, "So what"
You turned the record player on, had a smoke, stood up
Walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist, couldn't resist
A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
Walked into the...
You didn't know I wasn't free
When you fell in love with me
And with all your young heart
You learned to care
It brought you shame and disgrace
The world has tumbled in your face
Because they call our love
A back street affair
They say you wrecked my home
I'm a husband that's gone wrong
They don't know the sorrow
That we had to bear
While the one I was tied to
Was the first to be untrue
How ca...
Everybody got some soul
I don't care about young or old
Gotta hold on when all is gone
Make out like it's fine
While we say yeah
Bad or good
Oh yeah
Bad or good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Bad or good, bad or good
That'll ever happen
Bad or good
Everybody
Bad or good
Sometimes, oh, oh yeah
Bad or good
Don't even have to say one word
And ain't nothing that we've seen or heard
Get out, ge...
I've been on this roller coaster
Just too many times
And always it seems like the blind
Keep on leading the blind
Tried to get them on the phone
Tried to find my way back home
Tied and failed and tried and failed again
But baby, I don't want you 'cos you look so good
I don't want you 'cos I know I should
I don't want you to come in from the rain
I want you to be my ball and chain
I want you to...
Spread your wings, come on fly awhile
Straight to my arms, little angel child
You know you only
Lonely twenty-two story block
And if somebody, not just anybody
Wanted to get close to you
For instance, me, baby
All you gotta do is ring a bell
Step right up, step right up
And step right up, ballerina
Crowd will catch you
Fly it, sigh it, try it
Well, I may be wrong
But something deep in my heart...
Spread your wings,
come on fly awhile
straight to my arms,
oh,little angel child.
You know you're only
lonely twenty-two story block.
And if somebody, not just anybody,
wanted to get close to you,
for instance, me, baby?
All you gotta do
Is ring the bell.
Step right up, step right up.
And step right up
Ballerina...
Grab it, Catch it
Fly it, Sigh it,
Try it...
Well, I may be wrong,
but somethin...
Yea yea,
Na na na na na
Bayou girl
Can you come out tonight
Bayou girl
Can you come out tonight
Iv'e been waitin' on you
Right down by the bayou
Yea yea yea ,
Bayou girl ,
Come on and let your hair down
Bayou girl ,
Come on and let your hair down
I want to dance with you,
All night, uh
By the light of the moon
Thats what I want to do
Na na na na na
Bayou girl
Can you hear me when I call ?
Bayo...
Be Thou my vision, oh Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me, save that thy art
Thou my best thought in the day and the night
Waking or sleeping, Thou presence my light
Be Thou my wisdom, be Thou my true word
I ever with Thee and Thou with me Lord
Thou my great Father and I Thy true son
Thou in me dwelling and I with Thee one
Be Thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight
Be Thou my armor a...
And it goes out, and it comes back
It is a feeling it's a feelin'
And when you do it
And the more you do it
And the more you do it
It becomes a beautiful obsession
A beautiful obsession
A beautiful a beautiful obsession, obsession, yeah
It's a feelin'
It's a feelin'
It's a feelin'
In your heart, in your soul
In your being, yeah
It's a beautiful obsession
And it makes you feel
And it's more tha...
Beautiful vision
Stay with me all of the time
Beautiful vision
Stay ever on my mind with your beautiful
Mystical rapture
I am in ecstasy
Beautiful vision
Don't ever separate me from your beautiful
In the darkest night
You are shining bright
You are my guiding light
You show me wrong from right
Beautiful vision
Stay ever on my mind
Beautiful vision
Stay with me all of the time with your beautif...
If I paint the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And your lips more scarlet
Ask if it'll all be right
And it's mirror after mirror
No vanities displayed
You're just looking for the face you had
Before the world was made
Before the world was made
Before the world was made
And if I look upon you now
As though I have my view
With the earth beneath your feet
And heaven up above
Would you think ...
Drinking wine in the alley, drinking wine in the alley
Making time, drinking that wine
Out of my mind in the days gone by
Making time with Sally, drinking that wine
In the days gone by, talking all out of my mind
Drinking that wine, talking all out of my mind
Spin and turning in the alley, spin and turning in the alley
Like a Whirling Dervish in the alley, drinking that wine
Drinking wine, mak...
It's not easy bein' green
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
When I think it could be nicer bein' red or yellow or gold
Or something much more colorful like that
It's not easy bein' green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over
'cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles
On the water or stars in the sky
But green is the co...
My message this evenin'
Is simple indeed
Wherever you wander
Whatever your breed
There's just one thing baby
That comes from above
When push comes to shove
Thank God for self love
Thank him, thank him
God for self love
Thank him, thank him
God for self love
When push comes to shove
Thank God for self love
When livin' gets heavy
And hope starts to fade
You just can't continue
That old masquerad...
Little Jimmy?s gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain
And he?s right on time, right on time
That?s why broken arrow waved his finger
Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the Sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the highway
All the dogs are barkin? way down below
And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin? Nor...
Big Blue Diamonds 2:56 Trk 4
Earl 'Kitt' J. Carson
Van Morrison
Van Morrison - lead vocal, Bob Loveday - violin
Geraint Watkins - piano, Paul Godden - steel Guitar
Mick Green - guitar, Johnny Scott - guitar
Paul Riley - electric Bass, Bobby Irwin - drums
Johnny Scott, Crawford Olwin Bell, Karen Hamill
Aine Whelan Leon Mc Crum -backing vocals.
Album: Pay The Devil - Lost Highway, Polydor '06
Tr...
Well, they told me to come on over
I made my way to New York
And they tried to have me deported
Stop me from getting work
Blacklisted me all over
They were vicious and they were mean
They were big time operators
Baby, on the music business scene
Oh, they looked like politicians
But underneath they were thugs
And they spread malicious rumors
Threatened to have me busted for drugs
They had nothi...
Well, they told me to come on over
I made my way to new york
And they tried to have me deported
Stop me from getting work
Blacklisted me all over
They were vicious and they were mean
They were bigtime operators
Baby, on the music business scene
Oh, they looked like politicians
But underneath they were thugs
And they spread malicious rumours
Threatened to have me busted for drugs
They had nothi...
Well I'm learnin'
how to love you.
Yes I'm learnin'
how to love you
in my own,
in my own
special way.
I been bad to you,
baby, you know it.
I been bad to you,
baby, don't you know it,
and sometimes
you just can't help but show it.
But I'm learnin', learnin'
how to love you.
Well I'm learnin', learning
how to love you
in-a my own,
in my own
special way.
Day by day,
bit by bit.
Day by day,
a-bit...
Oh operator, give me long distance.
It's a person-to-, yeah, yeah, go ahead, yeah, go ahead, go, alright, alright, just...
quot;um,
Hello?
Hello,
Um...
We got a, we, we put an album together and we're releasing it next week.
It's called blowin' your nose.
It's got a psychedelic jacket,
And it's called blowin' your nose.
It's a gorgeous album cover; you should see it.
It's groovy.quot;
quot;you...
Photographer smile
Take a break for a while
Take a rest
Do your very best
Take five, honey
Five, honey
Search in your bag
Light up a fag
Think it's a drag
But you're so glad
To be alive, honey
Alive, honey
Say, when this is all over
You'll be in clover
We'll go out and spend
All a your blue money, blue money
Well the cameraman smiles
Take a break for a while
Do your best
Your very best
Take fi...
My mama done tol' me
When I was a little
My mama done tol' me, son
A woman will sweet talk
And give you the big eye
But when that sweet talk is done
A woman's a two faced
A woman's something that would leave you
Singing the blues in the night
Now the rain is falling
Heaven can hear you calling
Doo wee
Heaven blows the lonesome whistle
Blowing across the threshold
Doo wee
Doo wee ta too tee
A c...
When I first came to town, people
I was walking down Hasting Street
Everybody was talkin' about, Henry Swing Club
I decided to stop in there for awhile
And man, when I got there
Yeah, they were really havin' a ball
Well, I feel so good
I wanna boogie
I wanna boogie, I wanna boogie
Well, to the break of day
Say it again
Well, I feel so good
I wanna boogie
I wanna boogie, I wanna boogie
Well, to...
When all the dark clouds roll away
And the sun begins to shine
I see my freedom from across the way
And it comes right in on time
Well, it shines so bright and it gives so much light
And it comes from the sky above
Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me
And lights my life with love
And it seems like and it feels like
And it seems like yes it feels like
A brand new day, yeah
A brand new da...
Bright lights big city went to my baby's head,
Bright lights big city went to my baby's head.
I tried to tell her mama, but she wouldn't hear what I said.
So long pretty baby, you're gonna need my help someday,
So long pretty baby, you're gonna need my help someday.
You're gonna wish you had listened to something that I had to say.
Go on, pretty baby, and knock yourself out,
Go ahead, pretty b...
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road
We'll be lovers once again
On the bright side of the road
Little darlin', come with me
Won't you help me share my load
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road
And into this life we're born
Baby, sometimes, sometimes we don't know why
And time seems to go by so fast
In the twinkling of an eye
Let's enjoy it wh...
If you ever change your mind
About leavin' a, leavin' a me behind a
Bring it to me, bring your sweet lovin' home
Bring it on, bring it on, bring it on, bring it on
Home to me
I've given you jewelry and money too
Then I know, huh, I can do for you
Oh, honey, bring it to me
Bring your sweet lovin'
Bring it on
God, knows I've tried to treat you right
I just stayed out, stayed out all night
Oh, wa...
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainb...
I'm kicking off from center field
A question of being down for game
The one shot deal don't matter
And the other one's the same
Oh my friend I see you
Want you to come through alright
And she's standing in the shadows
Where the street lights all turn blue
She's leaving for an American
Suitcase in her hand
I said her brothers and her sisters
Are all on Atlantic sand
She's screaming through the ...
And I take you down to the burning ground
And you change me up and you turned it around
In the wind and rain I?m gonna see you again
In the morning sun and when the day is done
And you take my hand and you walk with me
Sometimes it feels like eternity
And I turn the tide, I get back my pride
And I make you proud, won?t you say it out loud?
When I take you down to the burning ground
To the burn...
You've got to try, for the kingdom
You've got to try, for the kingdom
On high, you've got to try
By His grace, by His grace
You've got to live your religion
Deep inside, when you try
For the kingdom on high
By His grace, by His grace
Open your mind to the wisdom
When you try for the kingdom, on high
By His grace, by His grace, ooh
Open your heart to the wisdom
In your mind when you try
For the...
I don't want no cadillac
C-a-d-i-l-l-a-c
One I got gonna take it back
C-a-d-i-l-l-a-c
Came out the house early this mornin'
C-a-d-i-l-l-a-c
Old cadillac don't give me no warnin'
C-a-d-i-l-l-a-c
Ooh, ooh, cadillac
Cadillac
Looked in the trunk and there weren't no jack
C-a-d-i-l-l-a-c
I'm gonna take this cadillac back
C-a-d-i-l-l-a-c
Oh, willy and lilly came walkin' up the street
C-a-d-i-l-l-a-c...
Yeah
This one's called
Caledonia
Soul music
Yeah
Starts out like this
It gets
Gets low
Do a little
Little pick
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah alright
Alright
It gets low
Make it mellow
Get some horn
You got it
Yeah
And we get down
John, play a taste of mandolin
Yeah
Play it
Yeah, alright
Hey
Hey hey alright
Whoa whoa caledonia soul
Caledonia soul music
Tell me what it is
Caledonia soul music
Caledon...
Well I tried and I tried
But the river seems so wide
And my head hurts and my hands are tied
And it's so hard
When you're standing on the yard
Every time that your number comes around
Call me up in dreamland
Radio to me man, alright
Get the message to me
Anyway you can
Well let your river roll
A way down in your soul
Never to grow old
On the saxophone
From the airport to the plane
A way to the...
When this old world has let you down
And friends no longer want you around
When you feel burdened down with care
And troubles seem so hard to bear
Call my name
Hear me talkin' to ya baby
Call my name
Don't ya hear what I'm sayin'?
Call my name
A-whoa-oh-oh-oh
call my name
And I'll be there
If ya feel that you're all alone
And sick inside away from home
When you no longer want to try
Or care if...
When this old world has let you down
And friends no longer want you around
When you feel burdened down with care
And troubles seem so hard to bear
Call my name
Hear me talkin' to ya baby
Call my name
Don't ya hear what I'm sayin'?
Call my name
A-whoa-oh-oh-oh
Call my name
And I'll be there
If ya feel that you're all alone
And sick inside away from home
When you no longer want to try
Or care if...
And the caravan is on it's way
I can hear the merry gypsies play
Mama, mama look at Emma Rose
She's playin' with the radio
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
And the caravan has all my friends
It will stay with me until the end
Gypsy Robin and sweet Emma Rose
Tell me everything I need to know
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
Turn up your radi...
I wished I had you in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrand
I would swim over the deepest ocean
The deepest ocean to be by your side
But the sea is wide and I can't swim over
And neither have I wings to fly
I wish I could find me a handy boatman
To ferry me over to my love and die
My childhood days bring back sad reflections
To happy times spend so long ago
My boyhood friends and my own ...
Carry on regardless, in spite of the music business scam
Carry on regardless, in spite of all the petty minded little women and men
Carry on regardless, when everybody don't give a damn
Carry on and start all over again, in spite of all the TV trash
Carry on regardless, in spite of all the media rehash
And the white wash, the brain wash and all the white trash
Carry on regardless, baby, baby, ...
I'm carryin' a torch for you
I'm carryin' a torch
You know how much it costs
To keep carryin' a torch
Flame of love it burns so bright
That is my desire
Keep on liftin' me, liftin' me up
Higher and higher
You're the keeper of the flame
And you burn so bright
Baby, why don't we re-connect
Move into the light?
I've been going to and fro on this
And I'm still carryin' a torch
You must know how mu...
If I don't see you through the week
See you through the window
See you next time that we're talking on the telephone
And don't see you in that Indian summer
Then I want to see you further on up the road
I said, ?Oh won't you come back?
I have to see you, my dear
Won't you come back in the Celtic New Year?
In the Celtic New Year?
If I don't see you when I'm going down Louisiana
If I don't see y...
When Lewellyn comes around
And he goes through Market Town
You'll be on the Celtic Ray
Are you ready?
When McMannus comes around
On his early morning rounds
Crying "Heron 'a' lay"
You'll be on the Celtic Ray
Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales
I can hear the mothers' voices calling
"Children, children, children"
When the coal brick man comes 'round
On a cold November day
You'll be on the Celt...
Gotta spread the news in the regions again
I'm gonna sing my blues in the regions again
Gonna blow my fuse 'cause I wanna cut loose
In the regions again
Wanna dance by you by the light of the moon
I wanna see you there on a bright afternoon
I wanna sing my song, won't you play me the tune
In the regions again
In the celtic spring
In the celtic spring
Won't you come and go
Wanna go to the regio...
The more I'm with you, pretty baby
The more I feel my love increase
I'm building all my dreams around you
Our happiness will never cease
But nothing's any good without you
'Cause, baby, you're my centrepiece
I buy a house and garden somewhere
Along a country road, a piece
A little cottage on the outskirts
Where we can really find release
But nothing's any good without you
'Cause, baby, you're ...
We've got to put our heads together
I'm sure that we can work it out
I'm weighin' up the situation
And checkin' it out
Takin' it further
Takin' it further
Checkin' it out
This is a workin' situation
I'm tellin' you without a doubt
We've gotta pull it all in tight, baby
Checkin' it out
Takin' it further
Takin' it further
Checkin' it out
And all the obstacles along the way
Sometimes may feel so ...
Hey girl, when ya' swish and sway
In your yellow dress
'Cross the crowded room
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Hey girl, freckles on your arms
Freckles on your face
Can we find a place
In a crowded room, we go?
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a, chic-a, chick-a-boom
Hey, girl, I'm gone away
But ...
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-chicka-chicka, chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-chicka-chick-oooh, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho.
Chucka-chicka-chicka-chicka, chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho.
Chicka-chicka-chicka-chicka, uungh-ahh, chicka-chicka-chicka, uungh-ahh, chicka, uungh-ahh-...
You wired the trains and went back home to St. Claire's shores
Before you became a spark down at the yard
You were passing through those hungry years alone
You were just trying to make a living out in Detroit
When you came back off the boats, you didn't want to go anywhere
You sit down to TV in your favorite chair
You watch the big picture fade away down at Harland and Wolff
But you still kept...
I'm thinkin' 'bout a place
I'm waitin' for the day
When I will make my get away
Because as any fool can see
There's nothin' here for me but
Hurry up boy bring that water
Don't do things you shouldn't oughta
But when I go away and find my easy street
I'll have a smile for all I meet
And they will welcome me I know
Everywhere I go
No more thinkin' that I've missed it how can anyone resist it
And...
Oh, the smell of the bakery from across the street, got in my nose
As we carried our ladders down the street with the wrought-iron gate rows
I went home and listened to Jimmie Rodgers in my lunch-break
Bought five woodbines at the shop on the corner
And went straight back to work
Oh, Sam was up on top and I was on the bottom with the V
We went for lemonade and Paris buns at the shop and broke ...
I waited for you, you waited for me
That it seemed like
Seemed like a mighty long time
Baby, I had to have you
Oh, I had to have you
Come rain, rain or shine
It was a cold wind in August
Shivers up and down my spine
I was standin' in your garden
In the California pine
I was standing shivering
I've got the fever in the rain
But I can't come on back to see you
Again and again and again
I said, I...
Come here my love
This feeling has me spellbound
Yet the storyline in paragraphs
Laid down the same
In fathoms of my inner mind
I'm mystified, oh, by this mood
This melancholy feeling
That just don't do no good
Come here my love
And I will lift my spirits high for you
I'd like to fly away
And spend a day or two
Just contemplating the fields and leaves
And talking about nothing
Just layin' down...
Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonligh...
I wanna comfort you
I wanna comfort you
I wanna comfort you
Just let your tears run wild
Like when you were a child
I'll do what I can do
I wanna comfort you
You put the weight on me
You put the weight on me
You put the weight on me
When it gets too much for me
When it gets too much, much too much for me
I'll do the same thing that you do
And I'll put the weight on you
Huh
I'll put the weight ...
Hello
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax
I need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move bu...
Coming down from Downpatrick
Stopping off at St. John's Point
Out all day birdwatching
And the craic was good
Stopped off at Strangford Lough
Early in the morning
Drove through Shrigley taking pictures
And on to Killyleagh
Stopped off for Sunday papers
At the Lecale District
Just before Coney Island
On and on, over the hill
To Ardglass in the jamjar
Autumn sunshine, magnificent
And all shining...
Contacting my angel, contacting my angel
She's the one, she's the one, that satisfies
Contacting my angel she's the one that satisfies
She's the one that I adore
Got a telepathic message from my baby
In a little village through the fog
Here comes my baby, I can tell, I can tell
By the way she walks
Said I've been on a journey up the mountain side
And I drank the water from the stream
It was pu...
Puerto Rican nursery rhymes
Angels in the snow and thyme
And I'm keeping my mind on that rose
In a church in Spanish Harlem
Got watchtowers and awakes for free
In a laundromat for you and me
But you can't take me down that way
As I'm not sinking
And if we go down one time
Next time's not gonna be the last time
And I'm contemplating that rose
In a church in Spanish Harlem
Didn't I bring you pre...
Could you, a-would you
Um, hold me in your arms
A-show me all your charms
Or make me sad or make-a me blue
Could you love me
Like I love you-ooo
Like I love you-ooo-ooo
Could you, a-would you
Um, a-squeeze a-hold me tight
A-love me all through the night
And never ever let me go
Could you love me
Like I love you so
Like I love you so, oh
Every time I see you walkin' down my avenue
I say, quot;h...
We stood and watched the river flow
We were too young to really know
In the country fair, oh, in the country fair
We laid out in the long green grass
And never thought that it would pass
In the country fair, in the country fair
On an old, on an old open day
On an old rain shine open day
In the country fair
In the cool night air
In sweet summer time
We counted pebbles in the sand
Sand like time...
Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel
That old storm brewin' in this heart of mine
Someday your crazy arms will hold somebody new
But now I'm so lonesome all the time
Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
While your yearnin' heart keeps sayin' you're not mine, not mine
My troubled mind grows blue, to another you'll be wed
But now I'm so lonesome all the time
Now take all those p...
All the people were waiting for our Crazy Face
He said he'd meet them at his favorite place
Dressed in black satin, white linen and lace
His head held high, with a smile on his face
And he said, "Ladies and gentlemen the prince is late"
As he stood outside the church-yard gate
And polished up on his 38
And said, "I got it from Jesse James"
All the people were waiting for Crazy Face
He said he'...
That lover of a night
Came when he would,
Went in the dawning light
Whether I would or no;
Men come, men go;
All things remain in god.
All things remain in god.
Banners choke the sky;
Men-at-arms tread;
Armoured horses neigh
In the narrow pass:
All things remain in god.
All things remain in god.
I had wild jack for a lover;
Though like a road
That men pass over
My body makes no moan
But sings ...
I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles
And the heaven's open every time she smiles
And when I come to her that's where I belong
Yet I'm running to her like a river's song
She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She's got a fine sense of humor when I'm feeling low down
And when I come to her when the sun goes down
Take away my troubl...
I'll be waiting, I'll be waiting on that shore
To hear cry for home
You won't have to worry anymore
When you hear cry for home
When you hear, hear the call
You won't have to fake at all
Hear cry for home
I'll be standing, I'll be standing within reach
When you hear, hear the call
I'll be waiting, I'll be waiting in the breach
For you, when you hear
When you hear, hear the call
You won't have t...
In the Cul De Sac, so smooth, I look down
Be less sure, sir and take your rest
It's been much too long since we drifted in song
Lay it down wet in this hide away
Oh I traveled far to the nearest star
And met Palomar, mar, mar
And we don't care just who you know
It's who you are
And when they all go home
Down the cobblestones
You can double back
This is it
To a Cul De Sac, mmm
Oh, I traveled fa...
Well, I'm caught one more time
Up on Cyprus Avenue
Caught one more time
Up on Cyprus Avenue
And I'm conquered in a car seat
Not a thing that I can do
I may go crazy
Before that mansion on the hill
I may go crazy
Before that mansion on the hill
But my heart keeps beating faster
And my feet can't keep still
And all the little girls rhyme something
On the way back home from school
And all the lit...
Well, I'm caught one more time
Up on Cyprus Avenue
Caught one more time
Up on Cyprus Avenue
And I'm conquered in a car seat
Not a thing that I can do
I may go crazy
Before that mansion on the hill
I may go crazy
Before that mansion on the hill
But my heart keeps beating faster
And my feet can't keep still
And all the little girls rhyme something
On the way back home from school
And all the lit...
In the daring night when all the stars are shining bright
Squeeze me don't leave me, in the daring night
Galactic swirl in the firmament tonight
Oh, with the lord of the dance
With the lord of the dance, in the daring night
I see Orion and the hunters standing by the light of the moon
In the daring night, in the daring night
And the heart and the soul
As we look up in awe and wonder at the hea...
When it's not always raining there'll be days like this
When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this
When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch
Well, my mama told me, "There'll be days like this"
When you don't need to worry there'll be days like this
When no one's in a hurry there'll be days like this
When you don't get betrayed by that old Judas kiss
Oh, my mam...
Well the new sheriff sent me a letter
Yes the new sheriff sent me a letter
He said, quot;come up and see me dead or alive,
Come up and see me dead or alivequot;.
Well it's a hard road dead or alive
It's a hard road dead or alive
Well it's a hard road dead or alive
It's a hard road dead or alive
Well I really don't like your hard rock hotel yeah sheriff
Well I really don't like your hard rock h...
I wanna know did you get the feelin'?
Did you get it down in your soul?
I wanna know, oh, did you get that feelin'?
And did the feelin' grow?
Sometimes, when the spirit moves me
I can do many wondrous things
Oh, I wanna know when the spirit moves you
Oh, did ye get healed?
I begin to realize
It manifest in my life in oh, so many ways
Everyday I wanna talk about it and walk about it
Everyday I ...
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it, do it.
Do your thing.
Do your thing.
Do your thing.
Ssshhgguuuhh, do your thing.
Do it.
Aaannwww.
Ooohhh.
Put voices in the background,
And, uhh, uhh,
We'll get,
And we'll get herbie lovelle to play drums.
Do it.
Do it, do it.
Don't want to discuss it
I think it's time for a change
You may get disgusted
And start thinkin' that I'm actin' strange
In case I'll go underground
Get some heavy rest
Never have to worry
About what is worst and what is best, hit it
Oh, oh, Domino
Roll me over, Romeo, there you go
Lord have mercy, I said
Oh, oh, Domino
Roll me over, Romeo, there you go
Say it again
I said oh, oh, Domino
I sai...
Girl, you're my sunshine,
Take away the raindrops,
You make it all worthwhile,
Make all the pain stop.
Just like a river,
Keep love flowin',
Don't let our world stop,
Gotta keep it goin'.
Well, I love you just the way you are,
Honey, don't change on me,
Don't change on me,
Don't change on me, yeah.
Girl, you're my lucky star,
Honey, don't change on me,
Don't change on me,
I said, don't ya' cha...
Don?t get around much anymore
The smoke has driven me out the door
All night I used to walk the floor
Don?t go to nightclubs anymore
Don?t see my old friend Mose
I don?t run into Mr. Clive
I cut out all that off the wall jive
Don?t go to nightclubs no more
I?m not a legend in my own mind
Don?t need juice to unwind
And don?t have no need to pretend
Ain?t got no huckleberry friend
Alcohol was to...
Don't look back to the days of yesteryear,
You cannot live on in the past,
Don't look back.
And I've known so many people
That still try to live on in the past,
Don't look back, oh no.
And if I could call back all those days of yesteryear,
I would never grow old and I'd never be poor,
But darlin', those days are gone, oh yeah.
Stop dreaming
And live on in the future,
But darlin', don't look ba...
You ain't never had to cry baby
Don't start cryin' now
You ain't never had to cry baby
Don't start cryin' now
You never did it before
Don't do you know good no how
Cry cry baby, cry cry, all night long
Cry cry baby, cry cry, all night long
You're gonna wake up in the mornin'
And find your good man gone
Well you brag 'bout your woman
Take one look at mine
Well you brag 'bout your woman
A take o...
If this life is driving you to drink
Sitting round what's the use what to think
Well I've got some consolation
Give it to you if I might
You know I don't worry about a thing because
Nothing's gonna turn out right
Well this world's just one big troubled spot
Some have plenty, some have not
I've used to be troubled but
I finally saw the light
Now I don't worry about a thing because I know
Nothin...
Don't worry about tomorrow
That ain't gonna help you none
Don't worry about tomorrow
That ain't gonna help you none
You've gotta live and take each day as it comes
It may not be exactly what you're looking for
It may not be exactly what you're looking for
But what you're looking for
Ain't gonna come walking through your front hall door, oh no
So don't worry about tomorrow
Gotta live each day a...
Don't ya know, don't ya know
That it hurts to be treated like a fool?
A don't ya know, don't ya know
That it's mean and it's oh so cruel?
When you said you were home
It was just a lie
You were seen on the town
With another guy
Gonna break my heart in two
Oh baby don't ya know?
A don't ya know, don't ya know
That your cheatin's breakin' us apart?
A don't ya know, don't ya know
That you'll tear ...
Oh, don't you feel my leg, don't you feel my leg
'Cos if you feel my leg, you'll want to feel my thigh
Don't you feel my thigh, you'll wanna move up high
So don't you feel my leg
Don't you buy no rye, don't you buy no rye
'Cos if you buy me some rye, you gonna make me high
If you make me high, you'll wanna loosen my tie
Don't you buy no rye
Now you say, you'll take me out, buy me gin and wine
...
Me and my daddy was comin' into town
sail away lady sail away
Round the billygoat leadin' a hound
sail away lady sail away
Hound got dumped, billygoat jumped
sail away lady sail away
Throw'd my brother right over that stump
sail away lady sail away
Don't you rock me daddio
Don't you rock me daddio
Don't you rock me daddio
Don't you rock me daddio
Don't you rock me daddio
Don't you rock me dadd...
Well, it's down the road I go
And I got those worried
Lonesome homesick Jones
Way on down the road
Well, it's down the road I go
Well, I got the blues
From way down in New Orleans
Way on down the road
And I got to be so far away
Oh, don't you see
All our memories, dreams and reflections
That keep haunting me
Well, it's down the road I go
And I hear those gypsy voices
Calling me way on down the...
Well, I wake up
And I'm slowly
A-comin' down.
I'm just tryin'
To get my feet back
On the ground.
I got more
Of an idea
Just exactly
What I'm worth.
Baby, baby, I wake up
And I'm comin'
Down to earth.
Yeah, baby, baby, I wake up
And I'm comin'
Down to earth.
Was i
Ever wrong
About so much?
That's all you get,
Get completely
Out of touch.
And it's a very, very, very, very painful thing
When you ...
Drive and wail, go to jail
You look so pale
When ya' do the drive and wail
Sock it to me, baby
One more time
Just a one more time
Sock it to me, baby
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Sock it to me, baby
Oh yeah, sock it to me
Drive and wail, baby
Lord, have mercy, feel so good
I think I'm gonna work
I was talking to the judge, just before we left the countryside
Piece of paper in his hand, tryin' to find the way
Tryin' to rip it out, well, now I've got it all around
Tore the pages up before they brought the curtain down
I remember the day, the Drumshanbo Hustle
When you couldn't hear a bird
It was making not a sound
They were trying to...
Lord, have mercy, feel so good
I think I'm gonna work
I was talking to the judge, just before we left the countryside
Piece of paper in his hand, tryin' to find the way
Tryin' to rip it out, well, now I've got it all around
Tore the pages up before they brought the curtain down
I remember the day, the Drumshanbo Hustle
When you couldn't hear a bird
It was making not a sound
They were trying to...
This here's the story about
Dumb, dumb george,
Who came up to boston
One sunny afternoon.
He drove up from new york city,
And he was freaky,
And he wanted to record me,
And I said,
quot;george,
You're dumb.quot;
And he said, quot;i know.
Why do you think I make so much money.
I wanna do
A record
That'll make number one.quot;
Dumb, dumb.
This here's the story about dumb, dumb George
Who came up to Boston one sunny afternoon
He drove up from New York City and he was freaky
And he wanted to record me and I said
"George, you're dumb", and he said, "I know
Why do you think I make so much money?
I wanna do a record that'll make number one"
Dumb, dumb
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
I have seen without perceiving
I have been another man
Let me pierce the realm of glamor
So I know just what I am
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
Feel the angel of the present
In the mig...
Early in the morning and I can't get right
Had a little date with my baby last night
Now it's early in the morning, well, it's early in the morning
Now it's early in the morning and I ain't got nothing but the blues
Went to all the places where we used to go
Went to our house but you don't live there no more
Now it's early in the morning, well, it's early in the morning
Early in the morning an...
When too many demands have destroyed all my plans
Going down to the end of the land
If I have to drive all night just to feel all right
Going down to the end of the land
When it gets out of hand and I fail to agree
Just what?s in it for me, going down to the sea
Then I?ve got to run towards the setting sun
Going down to the end of the land
When it gets out of hand and I beg to disagree
Just wh...
Chop that wood, carry water
What's the sound of one hand clapping
Enlightenment, don't know what it is
Every second, every minute
It keeps changing to something different
Enlightenment, don't know what it is
Enlightenment, don't know what it is
It says it's non attachment
Non attachment, non attachment
I'm in the here and now, and I'm meditating
And still I'm suffering but that's my problem
En...
By the light of the moon
When the night holds the secrets
Of the sleepy lagoon
I'm contemplating moonlight on the water
When I'm walking with you
On an evening in June
On an evening in June
It can get so sentimental
When I'm thinking of you
And I can't think of anything
Except being with you
When the summer is through
On an evening in June
On an evening in June
Well, it lifts me up
When I'm ta...
When evening shadows fall
Minutes seem so long
When evening shadows fall
I'm waiting for the dawn
I miss you every night
Just about this time
You're always on my mind
When evening shadows fall
When evening shadows fall
End up staring at the wall
Even when you're gone
The feeling's all so strong
Want you to come on back
Back where you belong
So I can sing my song
When evening shadows fall
Well ...
Love to hear that evening train go by
Love to hear that evening train go by
Especially when my baby's in my mind
Love to hear that lonesome whistle blow
Love to hear that lonesome whistle blow
When I make my way on down the road
My my, bye bye
Don't cry, don't sigh
When you hear that evening train go by, alright
Love to hear that evening train on time
Love to hear that evening train on time
Es...
We shall walk again
All along the lane
Down the avenue
Just like we used to do
With our heads so high
Smile at the passers by
And we'll softly sigh
Ay, ay, ay
Everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone
By the winding stream
We shall lie and dream
We'll make dreams come true
If we want them to
Yes, all will come
Play the pipes and drum
Sing a happy song
And we'l...
Fair play to you
Killarney's lake are so blue
And the architecture I'm taking in
With my mind is so fine
Tell me of Poe
Oscar Wilde and Thoreau
Let your midnight and your daytime
Turn into love of life
It's a very fine line
But you've got the mind child
To carry it on when it's just
About to be carried on
And there's only one meadow's way to go
And you say Geronimo
And there's only one meadow'...
Oh, fame
They've taken everything and twisted it
Oh, fame they say
You never could have resisted it
What's in a name
And everybody's jaded by fame
Oh, fame again
The press has gone and made another mess of it
Oh, just because they got
So much invested in it
But they say you're to blame it's your own fault
'Cos you got mixed up in fame
Oh, no, don't believe all that old Andy Warhol guff
It take...
Well, you've been on a fast train and it's going off the rails
And you can't come back, can't come back together again
And you start breaking down in the pouring rain
Well, you've been on a fast train
When your lover has gone away, don't it make you feel so sad
And you go on a journey way into the land
And you start breaking down 'cause you're under the strain
And you jump on a fast train
You ...
Feedback
Out on highway 101.
Feedback
Out on highway 101.
Cruisin' easy,
And your favorite dj
Havin' fun.
Look out, stand back,
There's a fool out on the road.
Look out,
Stand back,
There's a fool out on the road.
Had one too many drinks
And he just may overload.
Stand back.
Night time
Cruisin' 'long,
Cruisin' along.
Night time cruisin',
Night time cruisin' along.
You don't see the setting sun...
Call of the wildest, it?s got the best of you
Fire in my heart, fire in my belly too
Got a heart and a mind and a fire inside
And I?m crazy about you
You, you on your high flying cloud
You, you when you?re laughing out loud
You, you with your hidden surprise
You
Stoke up my engine, bring me my driving wheel
Once I get started you?ll see just how I feel
And I?m crazy about you
And I?m crazy abo...
Lie by my side in the still of the night
And morning brings forth all its wondrous delight
You couldn't have made it more plain
When I hear that soft refrain and I hear you gently sigh
I wanna take you where flamingos fly, flamingos fly
Way over yonder in the clear blue sky
That's where flamingos fly
Lie in the dark with the sweet sound of the nightingale
And listen for lark and I will tell yo...
Lie by my side in the still of the night
And morning brings forth all its wondrous delight
You couldn't have made it more plain
When I hear that soft refrain and I hear you gently sigh
I wanna take you where flamingos fly, flamingos fly
Way over yonder in the clear blue sky
That's where flamingos fly
Lie in the dark with the sweet sound of the nightingale
And listen for lark and I will tell yo...
I'm standing by my window
And I'm waiting on the summer rain
And I'm standing by my window
And I'm waiting on the summer rain
Well, I felt this way before and
No, I'm gonna feel this way again
I've been listening to this music
Ever since the age of three
I've been listening to this music
Ever since the age of three
I want you to play me "T" for Texas
Or play me "T" for Tennessee
I want a plain...
From faded newsprint used to wrap a fish
Inscrutably the muse selects your face
As I sit drinking famously in an Irish bar
Five thousand miles and thirty years away
With the usual ceremonial you were crowned one night
King of the field where doctors nail the cows
To make of the c***'s quill the rights of language
And the pricking heart a sword against the hours
Let smirking scholars writhe in ...
I saw you from a foreign window
Bearing down the sufferin' road
You were carryin' your burden
To the palace of the Lord
To the palace of the Lord
I spied you from a foreign window
When the lilacs were in bloom
And the sun shone through your window pane
To the place you kept your books
You were reading on your sofa
You were singin' every prayer
That the masters had instilled in you
Since Lord B...
[l.d.] quot;we'll take it a bit slowerquot;
quot;this is, this is the, huh, this is the first song I ever learned, actuallyquot;
Frankie and johnny were sweethearts
Lordy, how they could love
Swore to be true to each other
Yeah, true to the skies above
He was her man, wouldn't do her no wrong
And frankie and johnny went walkin'
And johnny had on a new suit
Yeah, frankie spent one-hundred dolla...
Freaky, freaky
If you got this far
You came a long way
But you're freaky
And we can do something with you
If you got this far
You should be freaky
You should be freaky
If you got this far, we'll put you in a jar
And sell you as a freak
We think you're freaky
Two, two, three
From the north
To the south,
Ya' walked all the way.
Ya' know ya' left your,
Left your home
For good to stay,
While ya' built all,
All of your castles
In the sun,
And I watched ya' knock 'em down,
Knock 'em down, each and every one.
Whoa-oh, friday's child
Ya' can't stop now.
No.
Whoa-oh, friday's child
Ya' can't stop now.
And I watched you
'fore you 'came too ol' ? ?
And I tol' ya'
A long tim...
Like a full force gale, I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by the Lord
And no matter where I roam
I will find my way back home
I will always return to the Lord
In the gentle evening breeze
By the whispering shady trees
I will find my sanctuary in the Lord
I was headed for a fall
Then I saw the writing on the wall
Like a full force gale, I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by t...
Georgia, Georgia
Whole day through
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
Oh, on my mind, on my mind
Well, well, well, well, well
Well, well, well
I said hey now, hey now, hey now
Hey now, Georgia
Just the thought of you
Comes as sweet and clear
As the moonlight through the pines
Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
For that peaceful dreams I see
The road, the road, th...
I just can't seem to take much more of this
Got too much hassle, baby and not enough bliss
Got to give these hangers on a miss
'Cos I need some help, I just don't get
No one seems to understand what's up, what's up
What's up, so called friends come and go and things
Just don't add up, trying to make my way through
All this illusion and myth, I don't even have no safety net
Nero fiddled while R...
Honey, just one sweet kiss
Baby, from your sweet lips
Honey, just one sweet kiss
Baby, from your sweet lips
That's all I want
That's all I need
I'm satisfied
Honey, just one of your smiles
To know, it makes it all worthwhile
Honey, just of one a your smiles
To know, it makes it all worthwhile
That's all I want
That's all I need
I'm satisfied
We could go walkin' down the lane
Together, hand in ...
There are strange things happening every day
I hear music up above my head
Fill me up with your wonder
Give me my rapture today
Let me contemplate the presence so divine
Let me sing all day and never get tired
Fill me up from your loving cup
Give me my rapture
Won?t you guide me through the dark night of the soul
That I may better understand your way
Let me be just and worthy to receive
All th...
And they'll lay you down, low and easy
And it looks like you kids will stay Christmas
It demands that you travel the distance
So believe no lies
Dry your eyes and realize by surprise
La, la, la
And the business will shake hands and talk in numbers
And the princess will wake up from her slumber
Then all the knights will step fourth with their arm bands
And every stranger you meet in the street ...
She come 'round here 'bout midnight
She come 'round here 'bout midnight
Make me feel so good
Every night about midnight
Come around
Make me feel alright
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Come in my room, room
Make me feel so good
[Incomprehensible] woman do
Well, why did you make me feel alright?
She's a natural born woman
Natural born so...
Hey, where you gonna go for yourself?
I think you should go for yourself
I think you should go for yourself this time
I think this time you should go for yourself
I think you should go for yourself this time
This time I think you should go down funky Broadway
Oh, baby, baby
Baby, I wanna get a job down funky Broadway
Go for yourself, go for yourself
Go for yourself, go for yourself baby
Go for...
Here she comes on a midnight train
She says she's gotta see me again
She's so young, I know I should send her away
Leave me alone, I say, leave me alone
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Well I feel so broke up, I'm choked up
Go on home, baby
Her hair hangs down so straight
When she moves she looks so great
And nobody else's lips have touched hers, but mine
Leave me alone, I say, leave me alone
Yeah-yeah-yeah
I ...
Goin' down Geneva, give me a helping hand
I'm goin' down Geneva, give me a helping hand
It's not easy baby, living on the exile plan
Down on the bottom, down to my new pair of shoes
Down on the bottom, down to my new pair of shoes
I'm down by the lakeside, thinking about my baby blue
Last night I played a gig in Salz burg, outside in the pouring rain
Last night I played a gig in Salz burg, out...
lead out with chris barber on trombone
Goin' home, he's goin' home
He'll be leavin', leavin' here today
Well if he don't leave now
Won't be goin' nowhere
Well home is where the heart is
Then my home's in new orleans
Take me to that land of dreams
Lord, and if I don't leave now
I won't be goin' nowhere, nowhere
Goin' home
He's goin' home yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah he leaving, leaving here today
Well...
Well, I heard the bells ringing
I was thinking about winning
In this God forsaken place
When my confidence was well
Then I tripped and I fell
Right flat on my face
Now I'm standing erect
And I feel like coming back
And the sun is shining gold
Put a smile on my face
Get back in the human race
And get on with the show
And I'm taking in the Indian Summer
And I'm soaking it up in my mind
And I'm p...
What will it take for them to leave me alone?
Don't they know I'm just a guy who sings songs?
I'm not promoting no hit record
And I don't have no t.v. show
An' I don't have no reason
To live in the gold fish bowl
I'm just doin' my gigs
An' I'm on an' off the road
Ev'rything I say is not meant to be
Set in stone
Just because they call me a celebrity
That does not make it true
'Cause I don't bel...
Good mornin' blues, blues how do ya do?
Good mornin' blues, blues how do ya do?
Well I'm doin' alright this mornin', how are you?
I woke up this mornin'
Couldn't get outta my bed
Oh I woke up this mornin'
Couldn't get you outta my bed
Went to eat my breakfast and
The blues was all in my bread
Good mornin' blues, blues how do you do?
Good mornin' blues, blues how do you do?
Well I'm doin' alrig...
sonny boy williamson
Good mornin' little school girl
Good mornin' little school girl
Can I go home, can I go home, with you?
Tell your mommy and you poppy
Oh, I once was a school boy, too
Well, I don't want to well I don't want to
Well, I don't want to well I don't want to
Be jivin' your boyfriend be jivin' your boyfriend
Be jivin' your boyfriend around
Well, you jive so easy, yeah
That I don'...
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
Goodbye george,
George, goodbye, goodbye.
You gotta go.
Too bad.
Goodbye, goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Here come
A-number forty-five
In argentina baby.
Goodbye.
Last saturday night I got married
Me and my wife settled down
But me and my wife have parted
I'm gonna take another stroll downtown
Irene goodnight goodnight irene
Irene goodnight
Goodnight irene, goodnight irene
I'll get you in my dream
Stop your ramblin'
Stop your gamblin'
Stop stayin' out late, late at night
Go home to your wife and your family
Sit down by your fireside so bright
Irene good...
When I was a young boy back in Orangefield
Used to look out my classroom window and dream
And go home and listen to Ray sing
'I Believed In My Soul' after school
Ah, that love that was within me
You know it carried me through
Well it lifted me up, it'd filled me
Meditation contemplation too
Got to go back, we've got to go back
Got to go back, got to go back
For the healing go on with the dream...
Green mansions, high upon a hill
Green mansions, quiet and still
Big wall all around
It's where my baby will be found
Waiting for that day, to come
Green mansions, high upon a hill
In the countryside where the birds begin to sing
Free from the glamour of the world
Where the story does unfurl
Waiting on that day to come
Tried in vain to forget
Just how it ought to be
Over and over and over and ...
If I don't love you baby,
Grits ain't groceries,
Eggs ain't poultry,
And mona lisa was a man.
All around the world
I'd rather be a fly
And light on my baby's head,
I'll stay with that
Woman 'til I die.
A toothpick in my hand,
I dig a 10-foot ditch
And ride through the jungle
Fightin' lions with a switch,
Because ya' know I love ya' baby,
Well, you know I love you baby,
And if I don't love you ...
You can make out pretty good
When you're on your own
And you know just where you are
When you wanna roam
Got the moon above your head
And the road beneath your feet
Pull into a wooded glen
Make your own retreat
La da di di di di di
La da di di di di di
La da di di di di di da
La da di di di di di
La da di di di di di
La da di di di di di da
Gypsy
Laying underneath the stars
Can be so much fun
...
It's just the gypsy in my soul
Make me pack up my things and go
It may seem like I'm on a roll
But it's just the gypsy in my soul
Layin' out in the midday sun
Tryin' so hard not to run
Looking out at the deep blue sea
I guess it's just the gypsy in me
Jump on that train
Catch that plane
Here and there
And back again
Well it seems like some kind of cruel fate
Keep me moving in this restless sta...
Dance on Gypsy Queen
If it's all night, it's alright
Rave on let your love come tumblin' down
If you let your love come tumblin' down i's alright
Dance on
You know it's alright
Gypsy Queen
Dance on
You know it's alright
Gypsy Queen
Rave on, right beneath the silver moon
Don't stop your carburetor let your car run
And if it starts to rain keep on dancin' in the rain
If it's all night, it's alri...
If you love me half as much as I love you
You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
You only build me up to let me down
If you missed me half as much as I miss you
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
I know that I would never be this blue
If you only loved me half as much as I love you
If you love me half as much as I love you
You ...
Hang on groovy, groovy hang on
Hang on groovy, groovy hang on
Hang on groovy, groovy hang on
Hang on groovy, groovy hang on
Let your hair hang down groovy
Groovy, groovy, groovy, groovy
Hang on groovy, you're in the groove
Groovy, groovy, groovy, groovy, hang on
Hey kids, dig the first takes
Ain't that some interpretation
When Sinatra sings against Nelson Riddle Strings
Then takes a vacation
Seen some hard times
Drawn some bad lines
No time for shoeshines
Hard nose, the highway
I was tore down at the dead's place
Shaved head at the organ
But that wasn't half as bad, as it was, oh no
Belfast and Boston
Put your money where your mouth is
Then we can get...
Beside the garden walls
We walk in haunts of ancient peace
At night we rest and go to sleep
In haunts of ancient peace
The love and light we seek
The words we do not need to speak
Here in this wondrous way we keep
These haunts of ancient peace
Let us go there again
Oh, when we need some relief
Oh, when I can't find my feet
When I need rest and sleep
The Sunday bells they chime
Around the count...
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there's no one above you?
Fill my heart with gladness, take away my sadness
Ease my troubles that's what you do
Oh, the morning sun in all it's glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
And you fill my life with laughter, you can make it better
Ease my troubles that's what you do
There's a love that's divine
And it's yours and it's m...
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there's no one above you?
Fill my heart with gladness, take away my sadness
Ease my troubles that's what you do
Oh, the morning sun in all it's glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
And you fill my life with laughter, you can make it better
Ease my troubles that's what you do
There's a love that's divine
And it's yours and it's m...
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
I don't wanna stop rockin' and rollin' with you.
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Caught you this morning before your daddy came home.
And I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
Gave you my jell...
Ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day
Ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day
Ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day
Heathrow shuffle, Heathrow shuffle, yeah, ba ba, doo day
Heathrow shuffle, Heathrow shuffle, yeah, ba ba, doo day
Gotta go to Heathrow, gotta go to Heathrow, yeah, ba ba, doo day
In the land of a thousand dances
I dance with you
I was out I was taking my chances
When dreams came true
When you came into my dream
Like from a whisper to a scream
And it's a real heavy connection
It's just a real heavy connection
It's a real heavy connection
La la la
I remember when I
Got your message in Amsterdam
I was going through my letters
And found a picture-postcard of the reeperbahn...
Hello Josephine, a how do you do?
Do you remember me, baby, like I remember you?
You used to laugh at me, I was a fool, fool, fool
Oh, you used to shake it over yonder by a railroad track
When it rained you couldn't walk, I used to tote you on my back
It is a cryin' shame, it had to be like that
Hello Josephine, how do you do?
Do you remember me, baby, like I remember you?
You used to laugh at...
Help Me Track7 3:00 Disc 1
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Rice Miller, Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon
Van Morrison The Caledonia Soul Orchestra
Van Morrison - vocals, guitar, keyboads, sax producer.
D. Hayes - bass, T. Adams - cello, B. Atwood - trumpet
N. Ellis - viola, T. Haplin - violin, T. Kovatch - violin
J. Labes - keyboards, J. Platania - guitar, N. Rubin - strings
J. Schroer - piano, sax, D. Shaw...
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Everybody together on the chorus.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george, boogaloo
Boogaloo baby.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
On the road with my sword
And my shield in my hand
Pressing on to the new day
This love will surely last forever
This love will surely last always
In the valley I see horsemen pass
Baby, baby, baby, they don't want this love to last
There's a battle for the throne
And it's raging down in your soul
It says this love will surely last forever
This love will surely last always
I've been accused of...
Here Comes The Night Track15 4:16 Disc2
Bert Berns
Van Morrison The Caledonia Soul Orchestra
Van Morrison - vocals, guitar, keyboads, sax producer.
D. Hayes - bass, T. Adams - cello, B. Atwood - trumpet
N. Ellis - viola, T. Haplin - violin, T. Kovatch - violin
J. Labes - keyboards, J. Platania - guitar, N. Rubin - strings
J. Schroer - piano, sax, D. Shaw - clarinet, percus.
Album: It's Too Lat...
Let's go walking where the boats go by
And watch them sail across the bay
Let me hold your hand in the morning fog
Little child I want to walk your dog
Hey, hey girl
Hey, hey girl
You're so young
I don't know what to do
And let's go walking up that mountain slope
And look down on the city down below
I will make a fool of you
Hey, hey girl
Hey, hey girl
You're so young
You make me lose my mind
...
Listen Mr. DJ
Won't you play me something slow?
Play me the songs for the lonely ones
Play me something that I know
Hey, Mr. DJ
I'm in a sad mood tonight
Play me something just for me and my baby
Won't you make everything alright?
I'm gonna turn it way down low
Leave it on all night long 'til the morning comes
Like my lover, my friend, until the end
And that special someone
Hey, Mr. DJ
Play me...
And the raincoat shone into the sun
As we walked down the street as one
Into the [all pleasant ? ] bloom
Of a saturday afternoon.
And we strolled the walls and kicked our heels
Upon the grass on which we fell and sang a song
We loved to sing so well,
And the raindrops came on down on sally's head
As she cuddled up inside a coat of red and said,
quot;hey, where are you?
Where you goin' to? yeah...
By the mansion on the hillside
Red sports car comes driving down the road
And pulls up into the driveway
And a story does unfold
She's standing by the rhododendrons
Where the roses are in bloom
Looking out at the Atlantic ocean
And in her head, she hums this tune
Thank God, the dark nights are drawing in again
'Cos high summer has got me down
Can we wait till the end of August
And get off this...
Well, I'm higher than the world
And I'm livin' in my dreams
I'll make it better
Than it seems, today
And I'm higher than a cloud
And I'm living in the sound
I'll make it better
Than it seems, today
Higher than the world
But my head is in a swirl
I gotta give life
A whirl, today
Higher than the clouds
Wrapped up in the sound
I'll make it better
All around, today
Higher than the world
But my hea...
Hold on, George
George, hold on
Hold on, George
George, hold on
Hold on, George
George, hold on, yeah
Sock it to me
Hold on
Hold on, George
Sock it to me
Do the boogaloo
Anything you wanna do
Hold on
Had my congregation, had my flock
When I was a shepherd of men
Chased the wild goose, chased the pot of gold
Chased the rainbows end
How can a poor boy
Deliver this message to you?
How can a poor boy?
You don?t believe anything that?s true
Had my rise, had my downfall
Now I?m gonna rise up again
Had my degrees, my initiations
Not speaking to the profane
How can a poor boy
Get this message to y...
How long, how long, baby
Can this love of ours go on?
How long, how long, baby?
'Cause I know, I know you've been doin' me wrong
You've been seen all over town
Playin' the field, puttin' me down
How long can this go on?
How long, how long, baby
Must you treat me like a fool?
How long, how long, baby
Don't you know, you're breakin' the rules?
Do you think it's only a game?
Way that you're actin...
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I'm hungry for your love
I'm hungry for your love
I'm hungry for your love
But I can wait now
I'm on the telephone
And I am all alone
I'm on the telephone
And we're connected
I got such a lot of love
I wanna give it to you
I got such a lot of love
I wanna give it to you
I got such a lot of love
I wanna give it to you
And though we're far apart
You are here in my heart
And though we're far apar...
Oh my dear, oh my dear sweet love
Oh my dear, oh my dear sweet love
When I'm away from you, when I'm away from you
Well, I feel, yeah, well, I feel so sad and blue
Well, I feel, well, I feel so sad and blue
Oh my dear, oh my dear, oh my dear sweet love
When I'm away from you, I just have to sing my hymns
Hymns to the silence, hymns to the silence
Hymns to the silence, hymns to the silence
Oh m...
One of these days and it won't be long
You're gonna look for me an' I'll be gone
'Cause I believe, yes, I believe
Said I believe right now
I believe, yes, I believe
Oh, I believe to my soul
Tryin' to make a fool out of me
I believe it, I believe it
Oh, goin' 'round here wit' yo' head so hard, huh
I think I'm gonna have to use my rod
'Cause I believe, I believe, yes, I believe
Said, I believe r...
I can't give you more than what I've got
I can't expect to give what I have not
I-i-i can only give ya lovin' 'till the sun goes down
And, until the leaves of summer turn to shades of brown
I try and I try
But baby, you know that i
Can only give you evra'thing
I can't argue with you to a-understand
'cause afterall, I am just a man
A you-ooo-ooo are on my mind
When stars appear and shadows fall...
I can't stop loving you
Since I made up my mind
To live in memories
Of a lonesome time
I can't stop wanting you
It's useless to say
So I just live my life
In dreams of yesterday
Those happy hours
Oh, those happy hours
That we once knew
Oh, that we once knew
So long ago
So long ago, baby
Still make me blue
Yeah, still make me blue
They say the time
They say that time
Heals a broken heart
Heal a...
I don't want much in this world
It's th' simple things I treasure
'till I die I would get by on fame, riches and sensual pleasure
I don't ask much in this life
No special consideration
Just treat me like his majesty
Of a friendly opec nation
Some people
Just don't know when to stop
Some people
Just won't quit until they reach the top
But I'm so easy going
I'd make my way through life
On love a...
I forgot that love existed troubled in my mind
Heartache after heartache, worried all the time
I forgot that love existed, then I saw the light
Everyone around me make everything alright
Oh, oh, Socrates and Plato, they praised it to the skies
Anyone who's ever loved, everyone who's ever tried
If my heart could do my thinking and my head begin to feel
I would look upon the world anew and know ...
I gave my love a diamond, a ten cent stone
I gave her lonely teardrops and nights alone
I gave my love a promise that had no truth
What good is a promise without no truth?
I gave my love a fortune in silver and gold
I gave it to her lie by lie by lie by lie that I had told
I gave my love a story that had no end
What good is a story that's got no end? Tell me
I wrote her that we'd get married i...
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I have finally come to realize
Child, don't do what I have done
Cut my nose to spite my face
Made my own odds ten thousand to one
I saw the empire slowly fade away
Tried to grasp it with my hand
Then I saw that it was not up to me
I'm just one tiny, tiny grain of sand
Oh, sweet release, oh, how you soothe me
When I let go, I love how you use me
I have finally come to realize, it's somethin' th...
I Just Wanna Make Love To You Track10 4:45 Disc 1
Willie Dixon
Van Morrison The Caledonia Soul Orchestra
Van Morrison - vocals, guitar, keyboads, sax producer.
D. Hayes - bass, T. Adams - cello, B. Atwood - trumpet
N. Ellis - viola, T. Haplin - violin, T. Kovatch - violin
J. Labes - keyboards, J. Platania - guitar, N. Rubin - strings
J. Schroer - piano, sax, D. Shaw - clarinet, percus.
Album: ...
If you want my love oh baby,
You've gotta give me all the love you've got.
If you want my love, you gotta give me all the love you've got.
Oh yeah, you know I like it like that,
It's o.k., yeah, you know I like it like that.
Every saturday night when you wonder where I'm at,
Every saturday night when you wonder where I'm at,
Don't call me, I'll call you, I like it like that,
When I'm feeling s...
Smile you smile is you and I
See through your laughing eyes
Smile you smile is you and I
See through your laughing eyes
Oh baby
In the whirlpool of them, I
Can be in paradise
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
Ever and a day with you
Oh yes, I will
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
Ever and a day with you
Oh baby, sit between the stars and say
That's my point of view, oh yeah
I love you, I love you
I...
Well my baby's gone, so's summer
And it brings on a cool night breeze
And I wish we could go walking
By the river, by the shady trees
By the river with the shady trees
Well, I love you in the wintertime
Baby when the snow is on the ground
Well I love you in the autumn most of all
When the leaves come tumbling down
When the leaves come tumbling down
Baby I need your kind of loving
For to last m...
See notes below
Well I'm sick and tired
Of your alibis,
And your indiscreet lies
Just won't get you by,
Over and over and over and over again.
And your family,
Your forced superiority,
Your azure delusions of grandeur,
Are gonna cut you free,
Over and over and over and over again.
You're as cold as ice.
Ahh, you're not miss nice,
And I paid the price.
Ahh, you can count me out.
Oh, without a d...
I put a spell on you
'Cause you're mine
You better stop the things you do
I ain't lyin', no I ain't lyin'
You know I can't stand it
You're runnin' around
You know better daddy
I can't stand it 'cause you put me down, yeah yeah
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine, you're mine
I love ya, I love you
I love you, I love you anyhow and I don't care
If you don't want me, I'm your's right now
You...
I shall sing,
Sing my song,
Be it right,
Be it wrong.
In the night,
In the day,
Any how,
Any way,
I shall sing.
La la la la la la la la la
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Oh, oh,
Na na na na na naaa na
With my heart,
With my soul,
[from ? ] the young
Or the old,
When I'm high,
When I'm low,
When I'm fast,
When I'm slow,
I shall sing.
La la la la...
Intro:
quot;here's a very good old good one, see if you remember this one, see if we do
quot;this is gonna be nice, this is gonna be very nicequot;
Sailed on the sloop john b
My granddaddy and me
'round nassau town we did roam
We'd been drinkin' all night
Well I got into a fight
Yeah and I feel so broke up
I wanna go home
Hoist up the john b sail's
See how the mainsail sets
Send for the captai...
Twenty-third of December, covered in snow
You in the kitchen with the lights way down low
I?m in the parlor playing my old guitar
Speaking to you, darling, find out how you are
I wanna roo you, wanna get through to you
I wanna woo you, woo you tonight
I wanna roo you, wanna get through to you
I wanna woo you, woo you tonight
Come to me softly, come to me quiet
Know what I'm after and I'm gonna...
Whenever the sunshine comes through
Whenever my thoughts turn to you
Whatever you want me to do, I will be there
Whether I crawl uphill, try to not being through the mill
Just as long as I fit the bill, I will be there
If it's on a lazy afternoon in summertime
And you're drinking champagne and wine
Anytime I don't mind and even if I've got the blues
After I pay all my dues you decide to go for...
I'd love to write another song
But nothing seems to come
I'd love to write another song
To carry me along
Make some money, pay the bills
Keep me busy too
I'd love to write another love song
I'd love to write another song
I'm searching everywhere
Though I look for inspiration
Sometimes it's just not there
I have to work, I have to play
I have to get in step
If I could write another love song
I ...
I'll be your man
I'll understand
Do my best to take good care of you
Yes I will
You'll be my queen
I'll be your king
And I'll be your lover too
Yes, I will
Derry down green
Color of my dream
A dream that's daily
Coming true
I'll tell you
When day is through
I will come to you
And tell you of your many charms
And you'll look at me
With eyes that see
And melt into
Each other's arms
And so I come...
Each time I hold somebody new
My arms go cold thinking of you
No one can take your place
Darling, in my embrace
I'll never be free
And when my lips burn with desire
No other kiss can put out the fire
Though I may try and try
No one can satisfy
This longing in me
I'll never be free from your smile so tender
The sweet surrender in your eyes
I cannot be free when I remember
Oh, how you fill me wi...
You, you've loved and lost someone else
I can tell by the way that you carry yourself
Baby, if you'll let me, here's what I'll do
I'll take care of you
I've loved, I've loved and lost
Just the same as you
So I know exactly what
You've been going through
If you'll let me
Here's what I'll do
I'll take care of you
You may never, never, never have to worry no more
You may never have to cry
I'll be...
I'll tell me ma when I go home
The boys won't leave the girls alone
They'll pull my hair, they stole my comb
Well, that's alright till I go home
She is handsome, she is pretty
She is the belle of Belfast City
She is courtin' one, two, three
Please won't you tell me, who is she?
Albert Mooney say's he loves her
All the boy's are fighting for her
They knock at the door and ring at the bell
Oh my...
I'm confessin' that I love you
Tell me, do you love me too?
I'm confessin' that I need you
Honest, honest I do, I do, oh yeah
In your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes
Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes
I read such strange things
But your lips deny that they are true
Baby, will your answer really change things?
Making me blue
I'm afraid some day you're gonna leave me
Saying, why can't we stil...
I'm walking the long road to Georgia
Yeah, the long road that's taking me back
Gonna live in the hills, far away in the hills
And I'm gonna dress in black
Way high in the hills in Georgia
Gonna live in an old tin shack
Nobody I'll see and no one will see me
And I'm gonna dress in black
'Cause I went down big city
Had money, had money in my sack
Found a girl so fine I thought she was mine
But s...
Have to get back, have to get back the base
I need to talk to somebody, I can trust
Too many cooks are tryin? to spoil the broth
I can?t feel it in my throat, that?s all she wrote
I?m not feeling it no more, I?m not feeling it anymore
Not feeling it no more, not feeling it anymore
When I was high at the party, everything looked good
I was seein? through rose colored glasses
Not seein? the wood...
Tired Joey Boy
While you're out with the sheep
My life is so troubled
Now I can't go to sleep
I would walk myself out
But the streets are so dark
I shall wait till the morning
And walk in the park
This life is so simple
When one is at home
And I'm never complaining
When there's work to be done
Oh, I'm tired Joey Boy
Of the makings of men
I would like to be
Cheerful again
Ambition will take you...
I've been workin'
I've been workin' so hard
I've been workin'
I've been workin' so hard
I come home
I'll make a love to you
I'll make a love to you
I've been grindin'
I've been grindin' so long
I've been grindin'
I've been grindin' so long
Been up thruway, down thruway
Up thruway, down thruway
Up, down, back and up again
And I said
"Woman, woman, woman, woman
Woman, woman, woman, woman
Make me...
Lord if I ever needed someone, I need You
Lord if I ever needed someone I need You
To see me through the daytime
And through the long lonely night
To lead me through the darkness
And on into the light
To stand with me when I'm troubled
And help me through my strife
When times get so uncertain to turn to You
Turn to You in my young life
Lord if I ever needed someone, I need You
Lord if I ever n...
'twas on a sunday and the autumn leaves were on the ground.
It kicked my heart when I saw you standing there in your dress of blue.
The storm was over, my ship sailed through.
What is this feeling, what can I do?
If you and I could be relieved
To walk and talk and be deceived
I'd give my all and all and more I would do, oh yeah,
If darling only you and I could be as two.
If we could dream and ...
If you live your time will come
I say if you live your time will come
So child don't mess with that cotton sack
It will scratch your knees and bend your back
And if you live your time will come
If you live your day will come
If you live your day will come
So child don't play with those pots and pans
They will soon enough ruin your pretty hands
And if you live your time will come
If you live a ...
If you love me
You will give your heart
Why should we be apart
If you love me
If you love me
Baby you will know the truth
I wasn't born to lose
And I love you
Affinity and communication
That makes reality
Understanding is the first thing
It means so much to me
If I love you
I will find the key
If it's meant to be
Because, 'cause I love you
Alright
Affinity and communication
That makes, that ma...
If you only knew all the problems
That a man like me has to face.
If you only knew all the silly
Things that keep a man from his place.
I wouldn't want to sing your own song.
Your gonna have to lose a few.
If you only knew.
If you only knew all the dealing
That goes on in back of the store.
If you only knew how that one that's
Got a lot can't wait to get more.
I wouldn't want to cramp your sty...
The light is fading in the afternoon
Won?t you see me baby, in my room?
There?s something that I wanna say to you
Tell me baby, am I getting through?
Wanna make, wanna make, wanna make
Wanna make love to you
Wanna make, wanna make, wanna make
Wanna make love to you
Wanna make, wanna make, wanna make
Wanna make love to you in the afternoon, in the afternoon
The light is fading from across the w...
Justin, gentler than a man
I am down on my knees
At the wireless knobs
I am down on my knees
At those wireless knobs
Telefunken, Telefunken
And I'm searching for
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Athlone, Budapest, A F N
Hilversum, Helvetia
In the days before rock 'n' roll
In the days before rock 'n' roll
In the days before rock 'n' roll
When we let, then we bet
On Lester Piggott when we met
We let the g...
By the sacred grove, where the waters flow
We will come and go, in the forest
In the summer rain, we will meet again
We will learn the code of the ancient ones
In the forest
By the waterfall, I will hold you in my arms
We will meet again by the leafy glade
In the shade of the forest
With your long robes on, we will surely roam
By the ancient roads, I will take you home
To the forest
In the for...
The streets are always wet with rain
After a summer shower when I saw you standin'
Standin' in the garden, in the garden wet with rain
You wiped the teardrops from your eye in sorrow
Yeah we watched the petals fall down to the ground
And as I sat beside you I felt the great sadness that day
In the garden
And then one day you came back home
You were a creature all in rapture
You had the key to ...
In the lonely dead of midnight
In the dimness of the twilight
By the streetlight, by the lamplight
I'll be around
In the sunlight, in the daylight
And I'm workin' on the insight
And I'm tryin' to keep my game uptight
I'll be around
And your memory, I heard this lonely lonely music once
And your memory has been haunting me ever since
When I'm tryin', tryin' to come down
In my world, my room kee...
Inarticulate speech
Inarticulate speech of the heart
Inarticulate speech
Inarticulate speech of the heart
I'm a soul in wonder
Ahahah
I'm a soul in wonder
Ahahah
I'm a soul in wonder
Ahahah
I'm a soul in wonder
Ahahah
Inarticulate speech
Inarticulate speech of the heart
Inarticulate speech
Inarticulate speech of the heart
I'm just wild about it
I can't live without it
I'm just wild about it
I ...
Inarticulate speech
Inarticulate speech of the heart
Inarticulate speech
Inarticulate speech of the heart
Inarticulate speech
Inarticulate speech of the heart
Inarticulate speech
Inarticulate speech of the heart
I'm a soul in wonder
I'm a soul in wonder
I'm a soul in wonder
I'm a soul in wonder
Inarticulate speech
Inarticulate speech of the heart
Inarticulate speech
Inarticulate speech of the ...
We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won
As we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows
I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows
I wanna hear it, I don't have to fear it
And I wanna rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in t...
Oh, won't you stay
Stay a while with your own ones
Don't ever stray
Stray so far from your own ones
For the world is so cold
Don't care nothing for your soul
You share with your own ones
Don't rush away
Rush away from your own ones
One more day
One more day with your own ones
Yes, the world is so cold
Don't care nothing for your soul
You share with your own ones
There's a stranger
And he's sta...
There's something going on
It fill you up, it fill you up, it fill you up now
There's something going on
It fill you up, it fill you up, it fill you up now
But you don't know what it is
But you don't know what it is
But you don't have to know
You just take it for what it is
Within this melody, it fill you up, it fill you up, it fill you up now
There's more then you can see, it fill you up, it ...
It's a lot like bein' little
And wantin' a brand new toy.
It's a lot like bein' little
And wantin' a baby boy
To call brother,
And it hurts
When you want it
So bad.
It's a lot like bein' a young boy
Who cannot make the team.
It's a lot like bein' a young girl
Who cannot help but dream
Of her best friend's brother,
And it hurts
When you want it
So bad.
When it's love
You've had and lost,
If tha...
The sun is shining, it's everywhere
Don't have no worry, don't have no care
It must be true, this is the season
Baby, it must be you
It was raining the other day
But that lonely feeling has gone away
It must be true, it's so pleasing
It must be you
That's what they say
In those old storybooks of old
You light my way
And you satisfy my soul
It must be magic, it must be love
Oh, what could I hav...
There were people on the sidewalks
Strolling down the avenues
They were sitting outside in cafes
We were looking for the muse
Well, I was locked in by the system
Where no freedom is the rule
Now, I spend all my time just trying
To make it understood
"It once was my life", that?s what everybody said
All the things I used to do and the people that we're friends
I?ve got to make it mean something...
Oh it takes a worried man, sing a worried song
Takes a worried man, come sing a little worried song
Well it takes a worried man to sing a worried song
I'm worried now, won't be worried long
I went down to the riverside and I laid me down to sleep
Went down to the riverside, laid me down to sleep, lord
A-well I went down to the riverside, laid me down to sleep
When I woke up there were shackles...
Many a tear has to fall
But it's all in the game
All in the wonderful game
That we know as love
You had words with him
And your future's looking dim
But these things your heart can rise above
Once in a while he won't call
But it's all in the game
Soon he'll be there by your side
With a small bouquet
And he'll kiss your lips
And caress your fingertips
And your heart will fly away
You had words ...
You must leave, now take what you need
You think will last
But whatever you wish to keep
You better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the Sun
Look out baby, the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, baby blue
The highway is for gamblers
Better use your sense
Take what you have gathered
From coincidence
The empty handed painter from your street...
If it matters how you do it
And how you do it is your thing
If it matters which way you go
That's your way to go
And if you get it like that
That's the way you get it
'Cause you get it like that
When you want to be that way
When you wanna be that way
That's the way you wanna be, see
Hey, it's all right
Hey, it's all right
Now what you try to do to me
Out there a-walking doesn't matter, baby
Ai...
When you come down
From your Ivory Tower
You will see how it really must be
To be like me, to see like me
To feel like me
Take a look at me, I'm a poor man's son
I never did no harm to no one
You've got money in the bank
And I don't have none
When you come down
From your Ivory Tower
You will see how it really must be
To be like me, to see like me
To feel like me
You can see through your rose c...
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Jackie Wilson said
"It was, Reet-Petite"
Kinda love you got
Knock me off my feet
Let it all hang out
Oh, let it all hang out
And you know
I'm so wired up
Don't need no coffee
In my cup
Let it all hang out
Let it all hang out
Watch this
Ding a ling a ling
Ding a ling a...
Goodbye Joe, me gotta go down the bayou
Me gotta go, pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne, sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we gonna have big fun on the bayou
Well, jambalaya an' a crawfish pie an' a fil'e gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar an' be gay-o
Son of a gun, we gonna have big fun on the bayou
Thibodaux, Fontaineaux, the place is ...
When you thought I was a stranger, when you looked upon me
When I came back
But to take you from disaster, I cannot master
The four winds in your shack
In the roamin', in the gloamin', you have brought
And set before me
And I think that it's an omen, I'm just not
What so many people see
And you shined your glory all around
Do not disguise what you did
I asked you for half a pound and you said
...
When John Henry was a little baby
Sittin' on his mama's knee
Well, he picked up a feather and a piece of steel
And said that's gonna be the death of me
Lord, Lord, Lord, that's gonna be the death of me
Well, John Henry had a little woman
Name of Polly Ann
Well, John got sick had to lay down on the bed
Polly drove steel like a man
Lord, Lord, Lord, Polly drove steel like a man
Well, John Henry ...
How sweet that joyous sound
Whenever we meet, whenever we meet
How sweet that joyous sound
Whenever we meet again
I think you know it well
Whenever we meet, whenever we meet
I think you know it well
Whenever we meet again
Just let it in and let it out, yeah alright
And you will begin to know without a doubt
That grace will follow us
Wherever we go, wherever we go
That grace will follow us
Unti...
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Jump and thump.
When you're drunk,
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump,
When you're drunk.
Jump and thump.
Jump and thump.
When you're drunk.
Jump and thump.
I don't want it all, I just want a little bit.
No, I don't want it all, I just want a little bit,
Just a teeny weeny bit, baby, a teeny weeny bit of your love.
Turn your lights down low, baby I just want a kiss,
Honey then I know I just can't resist,
Just a teeny weeny bit, baby, a teeny weeny bit of your love.
I wanna love you forever, I just want peace of mind.
Say you'll leave me never, hon...
Just ball, just ball
Just ball, just ball
Just ball, just ball
That's all, that's all
Just ball, that's all, just ball
[Incomprehensible]
Some days it gets completely crazy
And I feel like howlin' at the moon
Then sometimes it feels so easy
Like I was born with a silver spoon
Other times you just can't reach me
Seem like I've got a heart of stone
Guess I need my solitude
And I have to make it on my own
Well, I guess I'm going A.W.O.L
Disconnect my telephone
Just like Greta Garbo
I want to be alone
Need to make some real connecti...
Mocked me when I was singing the songs
Trying to get back to something more simple than we have
They mocked me ?cause I told it like it was
Wrote about disappointment and greed
Wrote about what we really didn?t need in our lives
Make us feel alive and whole
Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold
Saying something hard edged is off the wall
And it might see...
You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay
You got to fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay
Got to fight with all your might not to get in the bleeding heart's way
You got to fight for your rights, you can't bury your head in the sand
You gotta fight for your rights, you can't just bury your head in the sand
Politics and religion, superstition go hand in hand
Well you're going thr...
So glad to see you, so glad you?re here
Come here beside me now, we can clear inhibition away
All inhibitions throw them away
And when we dance like this, like we?ve never been dancin? before
Oh, they were swingin? down at kingdom hall
Oh, bells were ringin? down at the kingdom hall
A choir was singin? down at the kingdom hall
Hey, liley, liley, liley, hey, liley, liley, low
Do do do do do do,...
La la la la mambo
La la la mambo, mambo, mambo
Mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo
Mambo, mambo, mambo
Chicka, yeah
Mambo, mambo
Mambo, mambo, mambo
Mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo
La mambo
La la mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo, mambo
Laughing in the wind, cryin' in the rain
I've felt this way before, I'll feel this way again
And in a small cafe, just passing time away
I'm giving you the eye, no need to wonder why
And it's hazy, lazy waitin' for springtime
Roll along, roll along and all you gotta do is
Listen to the song, to the melody
I would do it for you, would you do it for me?
And it's hazy, lazy waitin' for springtime...
Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field
Let him look up into the heavens and laugh in the bright air
Let the enchained soul shut up in darkness and in sighing
Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years
Rose and look out, his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open
And let his wife and children return from the oppressor's scourge
They look behind at every ste...
We talked about the birdies
That fly up in the trees
We talked about the moon
And the stars we couldn't see
But you keep on pretending
You don't know what's wrong with me
Come on, let's talk, about us
We talked about the good times
That made us laugh and sigh
We talked about the bad times
That brought tears to our eyes
Now, I think it's about time
For you to realize
Come on, let's talk, about ...
You sit in silence and the river answers
And I have loved you many, many years
I saw you standing by the wondrous river
And I have come today to calm your fears
Those lifetimes
So many lifetimes with you
The boatman singin' far across the water
What is this feelin' in my heart and soul
The nighttime angel spreads her wings around me
And I feel the sadness and the river flows
Those lifetimes
So...
Well you know sometimes it gets so hard
And everything don't seem to rhyme
I take a walk out in my backyard and go
Do do loo do do, do do loo do do
Waiting for the sun to shine
And you know sometimes it gets so painful
Just like talking to yourself
When everything don't seem to have no rhyme or reason we all go
Do do loo do do, do do loo do do
Waiting for the sun to shine
We move along
Keep si...
Linden Arden stole the highlights
With one hand tied behind his back
Loved the morning sun, and whiskey
Ran like water in his veins
Loved to go to church on Sunday
Even though he was a drinking man
When the boys came to San Francisco
They were looking for his life
But he found out where they were drinking
Met them face to face outside
Cleaved their heads off with a hatchet
Lord, he was a drink...
And all my love come down
All my love come tumblin' down
All my love come tumblin' down
All my love come tumblin' down
Oh, listen to the lion
Oh, listen, listen, listen to the lion
Inside of me
Oh, oh, oh
And I shall search my soul
I shall search my very soul
And I shall search my very soul
I shall search my very soul
For the lion, for the lion
For the lion, for the lion
Inside of me
Oh, oh, y...
Little girl, little girl, little girl
You were on your way to school
Little girl, yes you were on your way to school
You went and broke
You went and broke your teacher's rule
I passed by your classroom
Just had to take a look
And I watched, looked
What you had writ' in your book
'Cause I love ya
And I don't care, what they say
I don't care what, what they say
I saw you from a window
Standing a...
Little girl, little girl, little girl
You were on your way to school
Little girl, yes you were on your way to school
You went and broke
You went and broke your teacher's rule
I passed by your classroom
Just had to take a look
And I watched, looked
What you had writ' in your book
'Cause I love ya
And I don't care, what they say
I don't care what, what they say
I saw you from a window
Standing a...
Little village, baby
Ain't large enough to be a town
From a little village, baby
Ain't large enough to be a town
You gotta get away from the city
It's gonna bring you down
Heard the voice of the silence
In the evening, in the long cool summer nights
Heard the voice of the silence
In the evening, in the long cool summer nights
Telling me not to worry
Everything's gonna be all right
There's only...
Old empty bed, springs hard as lead
Something I said made you see red
What did I do
To feel so lonely and blue
Even the mouse
Up and ran from the house
Laughed at me so scornfully
What did I do
To feel this lonely and blue
I cried and I sighed
But that don't help my game no no no no
I tried to hide
But things don't seem the same, oh
How will it end, I ain't got no friend
My only sin is your gr...
Well, my room has got two windows
But the sun don't ever shine through
And I've been so sad and lonely
Since I broke off, baby, with you
I live on a lonely avenue
Since you said that we were through
I feel so sad and lonely
And it's all because of you
I could cry or I could die
I live on a lonely avenue
Yes I do, lonely avenue
Well, my pillow is made of lead
And my cover is made of stone
And I...
Baby, look down, look down that lonesome road
And before you travel, travel on
Look up, look up and see your maker
Before Gabriel blows his horn
Life gets weary when you're carrying such a heavy load
Traveling down that lonesome road
Baby, look down, look down, oh, that lonesome road
Before you travel on, travel on
Life gets weary when you're carrying such a load
Traveling down that lonesome r...
Look here, what you think you gon' be doin' next year
No lie, how you know you no gon' up and die
No doubt, soon enough your friends will find you out
Take care you know you might not have much time to spare
I say, how long have you acted up this way
What know, when you gonna get your own floor show
I'm hip, you could use a button on your lip
Look here, what you think you gon' be doin' next year
They were drinkin' his wine
They were usin' his name
They were takin' the time to take
His name in vain
Look what the good people done to him
Look what the good people done to him
They were havin' their fun
Look what the good people done
Well, the good people say things that they
Don't really mean
They look so convincing 'cause they're
So squeaky clean
Look what the good people done to him
Loo...
See you smile
Angel child,
That's all I ever wanted to do.
See your laugh
In a photograph,
That's all I ever wanted to do.
See your swishin' walk,
And talk your baby talk,
That's all I ever wanted to do.
Lorna,
Lorna,
That's all I ever wanted to do.
Carry you,
Carry you down by the banks of the river,
All along down,
All along down the grasses' [throne ? ].
Carry you, carry you,
By the banks o...
Yeah baby
This here's a story about Lost John
Lost John done flew the coop
How many long gone?
Lost John standin' by the railroad track
Waitin' for the freight train to come back
Freight train come back and never made no stop
Lost John thought he'd have to ride on top
Well, he's long, long, long gone
And he's long, long, long gone
Yeah, Lost John came into the country woman's house
Sat down th...
The sound of the evening breeze
Is calling you back to me
The sun behind the clouds
Reminds me that you?re not around
Lover come back to my arms
Lover come back to my heart
The sound of the roar of the waves
The misty evening haze
Playing that sad refrain
Going through it all over again
Lover come back to my arms
Lover come back to my heart
Since you went away
I?m a lonely, lonely, lonely one
...
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
Just wanna be with my love tonight
Don't want no jive artists call me on the telephone
Don't wanna watch 'Carson Show' all alone
Just wanna lay back, take my rest
I love's head resting on my chest
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
Just wanna be with my lov...
Down on Cyprus Avenue, with a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle top...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
All the men would turn their head
When she walked down the street
Clothes are fine and hair that shine
Smiling, oh so sweet, smiling, oh so sweet
Got a taste of all religion
Comes on with the new
In her hair a yellow ribbon
And she's decked out all in blue
Oh yes, in decked out all in blue
Steppin' lightly then steppin' brightly
With her books in hand
Going to the university to teach them
Help...
Don't lose the wonder in your eyes
I can see it right now when you smile
Let me go back, for a while
Let me go back, for a while
To that magic time
You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind
Standing on that windswept hillside
Listenin' to the church bells chime
Listen to the church bells chime
In that magic time
Oh the road it never ends
Good to see you my old friend
Once again we sit right down...
Man makes his money and they call him rich
Deep down inside he knows that life's still a b****
Man tries to keep things but they're taken away
Man has to struggle all the live long day
Man has to sweat and toil his life filled with trouble
Man got to step and fetch it on the double
Man has to work so hard to make it all pay
Man has to struggle all the live long day
Man keeps on moving 'cause h...
Step we gaily on we go
Heel and heel and toe for toe
Arm and arm and row and row
All for Marie's wedding
Over hillways, up and down
Myrtle green and bracken brown
Past the sheilings through the town
All for the sake of Marie
Step we gaily on we go
Heel and heel and toe for toe
Arm and arm and row and row
All for Marie's wedding
Red her cheeks as Rowan's are
Bright her eyes as any star
Fairest ...
Spike milligan, peter sellers, michael bentine, harry secombe,
Arthur askey, tommy cooper, norman wisdom, frankie howerd,
Norman vaughan, dave allen,
Max wall, max wall, max wall, max wall
John cleese, terry gilliam, michael palin, graham chapman,
Eric idle, ministry of silly walks, benny hill,
Max wall, max wall, max wall, max wall
Steve davis, alex higgins gf, jimmy white, terry griffith gf,...
Lost in a strange city, nowhere to turn
Far cry from the streets that I came from
It can get lonely when you're traveling hard
But you can even be lonely, standing in your own backyard
Nobody knows the existential dread
Of the things that go on inside someone else's head
Whether it be trivial or something that Dante said
But baby, nobody knows the meaning of loneliness
No matter how well you k...
Mechanical bliss is striking me for what I believe in
A ribbon on the line, and getting in and getting out
Huh, huh, huh ...... huh, huh huh
Was not like this
No, mechanical bliss was not like this at all
The ribbon on the line, and getting in and getting out was not like this
Was not like this, was not like this
Caruthers and smith said that they couldn't come at all
They said that their back...
Well, don't you know, how much I love you?
Don't you know, how much I care?
It's beyond my comprehension
'Cos I love you on the square
It's not bound by any definition
It isn't written in the stars
It's not limited like Saturn
Isn't ruled by Mercury or Mars
Oh, won't you meet me in the Indian summer?
Where we'll go walking down by the weeping willow tree
Won't you meet me in the Indian summer?...
In the afternoon, baby in my room
When the lights are dim way beyond the hill
In the afternoon, baby in my room
When I'm really down get me off the ground
Melancholia
Melancholia
Melancholia
In the morning time when I go outside
In the morning time it's like that all the while
In the afternoon when I'm in my room
Every single day, it won't go away
Melancholia
Melancholia
Melancholia
And it's i...
Memories
All I have is memories
All I have is memories
Memories of you
Now you're gone
They linger on, these memories
All these precious memories
Memories of you
How they linger in the twilight
In the morning in the small hours
Just before dawn
Memories
Of summer days so long ago
Yeah, people in the places
That we used to know
Oh those memories
How they linger in the twilight
And in the wee sm...
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight special
Shine it's light on me
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on me
Yonder come miss Rosey
How in the world do you know?
How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by her apron
And the dress she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
A piece of paper in her hand
She gonna te...
You have drowned
A thousand sorrows
All in one,
And mixed with mugs, ?
And millionaires
You have done.
Ya' been and gone and done it
For a quid,
And just what you don't know,
Up there you got hid.
Lord, you're only
Fourteen summers
And God knows,
Yeah, child,
You're gettin' mighty
Like a rose.
You got pulled ?
For tryin' to straighten
Up this town,
And looked bashful
Bribin' old, bent
Barriste...
There I go, there I go
There I go, there I go, there I go
Pretty baby, you are the soul
That snaps my control
Such a funny thing
But every time I'm near you
I never can behave
You give me a smile
And then I'm wrapped up in your magic
The music all around me
Crazy music, music that keeps calling me
So very close to you
And it turns me your slave
Come and do with me
Anything you want to
Anything...
Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are fallin'
To the sound of the breezes that blow
An' I'm trying to please to the callin'
Of your heart strings that play soft and low
And all the nights magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight...
Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm tryin' to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
You know the night's magic, seems to whisper and hush
You know soft moonlight...
Oh, she give me moonshine whiskey
Oh, she give me southern love
Deep in the heart of Texas
There beneath the stars above
Oh, she give me southern comfort
Oh, she give me moonshine love
Deep in the heart of Texas
There beneath the stars above
Here I am riding on a train
Just about thunder balls down the line
Just can't wait any longer
See that little darling of mine
See that little darling of m...
More and more, I'm forgetting the past
More and more, I'm living at last
Day by day, I'm losing my blues
More and more, I'm forgetting about you
You know how I tried keep you by my side
You know how I cried the day you said goodbye
Day by day, I'm losing my blues
More and more, I'm forgetting about you
But oh, how I tried keep you by my side
And oh, how I cried the day you said goodbye
Day by ...
Good mornin' captain, good mornin' shine
Good mornin' captain, good mornin' shine
Do you need another mule skinner,
Workin' on your new road line?
My line's been rollin'
I'm rollin' all the time
My line is work
I'm rollin' all the time
I can carve my initials ha
On an old mule's behind
I said hey, little waterboy hey
Bring that water bucket 'round
bring it 'round, bring it 'round, bring it 'ro...
Well, I'm standing on the corner
With my bucket in my hand
Just waiting for a woman
Ain't got no man
Well, my bucket's got a hole in it
Well, my bucket's got a hole in it
Bucket's got a hole in it
Can't buy no beer
Well, I went up on the mountain
Looked down in the sea
Seen the crabs and the fishes
Doing the be bop beat
Well, my bucket's got a hole in it
Well, my bucket's got a hole in it
Buck...
Where pagan streams sing lullabies
There blows a lily fair
The twilight gleam is in her eye
The night is on her hair
And like a lovesick lenashee
She hath my heart in thrall
No life have I, no liberty
For love is Lord of all
And often when the beetles horn
Has lulled the eve to sleep
I'll steal into her shielding lorn
And through the doorway creep
There on the cricket's singing stone
She makes...
My little baby, oh yeah
I love you so, oh oh
Why did you leave me, oh no
Why did you ever go?
So many faces, oh yeah
Along the way, oh oh
But none replaces, oh no
The one that's gone away
Gone away, gone away from me
I keep counting the memories of your kisses
Darling, your picture's in my pocket
And your chain is on the high wrist
Forever and ever and ever and ever
My little baby, oh yeah
Oh ...
transcribed from them's them again album, 1966
Fill me my cup
And I'll drink your sparkling wine
Pretending everything is fine
Till I see your sad eyes
Throw me a kiss
Across a crowded room
Some sunny windswept afternoon
There's none too soon for me to miss
My sad eyes
Woh oh ou, not bad eyes
A glad eyes, but you my sad eyes
Fortunate and free
And there go you and i
Between the other sky
But w...
Transcribed from Them's Them Again album, 1966
Fill me my cup
and I'll drink your sparkling wine
pretending everything is fine
till I see your sad eyes
Throw me a kiss
across a crowded room
some sunny windswept afternoon
there's none too soon for me to miss
my sad eyes
woh oh ou, not bad eyes
a glad eyes, but you my sad eyes
Fortunate and free
and there go you and I
between the other sky
but w...
One sunday morning
We'd been walking
Down by
The old graveyard
The morning fog
I looked at you
Yeah
Those mystic eyes
Mystic eyes
Mystic eyes
Mystic eyes
Mystic eyes
Mystic eyes
Mystic eyes
Ah, mystic eyes, ah.
Naked in the jungle, naked to the world
Naked in the jungle, naked to the world
Well, you gotta keep it humble, else it'll come unfurled
Lions and the tigers, grazin' in the grass
Lions and the tigers, grazin' in the grass
As I keep a-watching over, I make sure no one can pass
Speak out, speak out, speak out, speak out
Speak out, speak out, speak out, speak out
Speak out, speak out, speak out,...
I'm walkin' down the street
I'm on that midnight beat, I'm on a lonely avenue
Baby, won't you walk with me, baby, won't you talk with me
Oh, that's all I want you to do, now
Walk with me, talk to me, call your name out
Na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na
Na na, na na, na na, Natalia
Here on a summer night
I wanna kiss and hold you tight just the way we used to do
Walkin' down the same old...
See you've got the new biography
Where did they get the info from?
Same as before some so called friends
Who claim to have known me then
How come they've got such good memories
When I can't even remember last week
Got to question where they're coming from
What knowledge of [Incomprehensible] they speak?
So far away, way back when
The people that claim to have known me then
Down not on my wavel...
Trad. arr. Lonnie Donegan
Well, I can hear the hammer ringin'
On somebody coffin
I can hear the hammer ringin', Lord
On somebody coffin
Well, I can hear the hammer ringin'
On-a somebody coffin
Way over, over on my new buryin' ground
A well, it must have been my captain
Must-a have been my captain, Lordy
The people was-a buryin'
Must have been my captain, Lordy
Must-a have been my captain, Lord...
Been workin' in nightclubs so long, can hardly stand the break of day
Been workin' in nightclubs so long, can hardly stand the break of day
Run down rooms and bad places
But it's still the only way
Gonna be here through sunday evening, be someplace else on tuesday night
Gonna be here through sunday evening, be someplace else on tuesday night
If I get home with all my money
Everything will be a...
We didn?t know no better
And they said it could be worse
Some people thought it was a blessing
Other people think that it?s a curse
It?s a choice between fact and fiction
And the whole world has gone astray
That?s why there?s no religion
No religion, no religion here today
And there?s no straight answers
Of what this thing called love is all about
Some say it?s unconditional
Other people just ...
People come and people go
One monkey don?t stop no show
I?m getting too tired to start all over again
'Cause it ain?t gonna change no thing
There?s just all of this here land
Been trampled on by man
And all around me, all these birds of prey
And all I?m trying to do is just get by one more day
Only a fool would ever think
Things could ever be the same
Only a fool would surmise
Everyone is sane...
Don't talk to me 'bout life problems or
How you wish that things could be
'cause I don't have no trouble livin'
It's jus' dyin that bothers me
Don't offer me no sad stories or
Tell me that you're all at sea
'cause I don't have no trouble livin'
It's jus' dyin that bothers me
You doin' great
You gettin' straight
You get your call
That's all
So don't tell me your misgivings
Or not to be or not t...
No way Pedro, no way Jose
I just wanna know, are you goin' my way?
Oh, I saw you standin' by the borderline
You can never make up your mind
No way Cisco, no way Pancho
Why don't you meet me back at the rancho?
Well, if you get there, please don't be late
How can I get you now if I hesitate?
No way Kemosabe, no way Tonto
Come here quick, you'll make it, Pronto
Well, when you head them, off at t...
We stood outside the city,
Six feet in the snow,
And everyone was stranded
And I stopped to say, quot;helloquot;.
Everybody kept on walkin'
Who didn't have no place to go.
Everybody kept on walkin'
That had no place to go,
And everybody's talkin'
But nobody really knows,
Nobody really knows.
And say, I think you'll stay awhile,
You know just where it's at.
Pull up a chair and
Stay awhile,
We'l...
And she moves on the solid ground
And she shines light all around
And she moves on the solid ground
In the County Down
And she moves on the solid earth
And she knows what her wisdom is worth
And she moves on the solid ground
In the County Down
She lifts me up
Fill my cup
When I'm tired and weary, Lord
And she keeps the flame
And she gives me hope
Carry on
If you see her, say hello
Well, she's ...
Nosin' your blow
In the wintertime baby,
Nosin' your blow.
Nosin' your blow baby.
And, you're crazy.
You go crazy.
You're going in-sane
Baby,
Don't worry about it.
Have another sandwich.
Nosin' your blow.
Got nowhere to go
In the snow.
You're not supposed to be human
You're not supposed to really feel
Not supposed to get involved with
Anything completely real
Fifteen families starving
All around the corner block
Here we're standing so alone
Just like Gibraltar rock
Not supposed to break down
You're not supposed to break down
Swallow the dirt, keep listening to the hurt
You'll be safe and sound
Supposed to be super human
Cove...
See notes below
Diabolic pressure.
It keeps getting worse before it gets better.
It keep killin' ya', killin' ya', killin' ya', killin' ya',
bringin' ya' down.
Killin' ya', killin' ya', killin' ya', killin' ya', bringin' ya' down.
Pleasin' everybody.
Ya' know it gets ya' nowhere.
Pleasin' everybody.
A-what the f*** do they care.
They're only killin' ya, killin' ya', killin' ya', killin' ya', b...
Oh, the warm feeling
As we sat beside the sea
Oh, the warm feeling as I
Sat by you
Like a child within the kingdom
As we sat beside the sea
Oh, the warm feeling as I
Sat by you
And it filled with devotion
And it made me plainly see
And it healed all my emotions
As I sat by you
As we sat inside the sunshine
And we sat beside the sea
Oh, the warm feeling as I
Sat by you
And it filled me with rel...
Gone are the days
When my heart was young and gay
Gone are toils
Of the cotton fields away
Gone to the fields
Of a better land, I know
I hear those gentle voices callin' me
Old black joe
I'm comin', I'm comin'
Though my head is bendin' low
I hear those gentle voices calling
Old black joe
I'm comin' home I'm comin' home
Well, I'm comin' home I'm comin' home
Though my head my head, my head is be...
Oh, don't it get you, get you when you?re through
Feel the breezes blowing all around your coat
Oh, don't it get you when you gotta roam
Hear the children singing, 'My daddy's coming home'
Going down to old, old woodstock
Feel the cool night breeze
Going down to old, old woodstock
Going down, give my baby a squeeze
Going down to old, old woodstock
Feel the cool night breeze
Going down to old, ...
Take me back, take me way, way, way back
On Hyndford Street
Where you could feel the silence at half past eleven
On long summer nights
As the wireless played Radio Luxembourg
And the voices whispered across Beechie River
In the quietness as we sank into restful slumber in the silence
And carried on dreaming, in God
And walks up Cherry Valley from North Road Bridge, railway line
On sunny summer...
When you found somebody new I thought I never would
Forget you for I thought then that I never could
But time has taken all my pain away
Until now I'm down to hurtin' once a day
Once a day, all day long
And once a night from dusk till dawn
The only time I wish that you weren't gone
Is once a day, every day, all day long
And I'm so glad I'm not like a friend that I knew one time
He lost the one...
Once in a blue moon
Somethin' good comes along
Once in a blue moon
Every thing's not goin' wrong
When you get weary
Beatin' on the same old gong
Once in a blue moon
Someone like you comes along
Once every once in a while
Something comes along that feels just right
Once every once in a while
Just like switchin' on an electric light
And sometimes you try
Till you?re blue in the face
But when you...
Tell me the story now, now that it's over
Wrap it in glory for one Irish Rover
Tell me you're wiser now, tell me you're older
Wrap it in glory for one Irish Rover
I can tell by the light in your eye
That you're, you're so far away
Like a ship out on the sea
Without a sail you've gone astray
Tell me the facts real straight, don't make me over
Wrap it in glory for one Irish Rover
Tell me you'll ...
It's been so long
Since I seen ya smilin'
Made me think about, when you were a child
It won't be long, I'm comin' home
Gonna get you in my arms
And make love, to you darlin'
One more time
When I left, you didn't even say goodbye
The tears kept rollin' from my eyes
It won't be long, I'm comin' on home
Gonna get you in my arms and make love
To you darlin' just one more time, umm
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Yes...
One of these days I've got to get things right
I'm gonna do my business in th' daylight
One of these days you know I've got to get things right
I'm gonna do my business out in the broad daylight
One of these days I've got to get things straight
I'm gonna stop acting like a reprobate
One of these days you know I've got to get things straight
I'm gonna stop staying out late
And acting like a rep...
I went out last night walkin'
I heard someone talkin'
You better stop stayin out late at night
A straighten up and fly right
You better stop tellin' those lies
A gonna cut you down to my size
You got one, you got two
Brown eyes
Hypnotize, hypnotize, hypnotize
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Whoa oh oh ooh ooh
Oh oh oh
Whoa whoa oh oh oh
Whoa whoa oh oh oh
instrumental
You got such very good looks
But don'...
Only a dream that I had in the night
Only a dream but It felt so right
We were standing in the moonlight
I was holding you tight but it was only a dream
Only a dream and that knocked me off of my feet
Only a dream, it was dancing in the street
And the big band kept on playing of Bonaparte's retreat
But it was only a dream
Only a dream but somebody tried to knock it down
Only a dream but that d...
On a gold Autumn day
You came my way in Orangefield
Saw you standing by the river in Orangefield
How I love you then, in Orangefield
Like I love you now, in Orangefield
And the sun shone on your hair
When I saw you there, in Orangefield
Saw you standing by the river, in Orangefield
How I loved you then in Orangefield
Like I love you now in Orangefield
And the sun shone so bright
And it lit up ...
Sinking fast, hold tight just remember ordinary life
More trouble, than it's worth know it when you see the sign
Nothing feels right, step out of line just remember ordinary mind
Nagging wife, starts a fight trying to make you uptight
Workaholic, on your bike take a look at it in the daylight
Nothing feels right, step out of line think ordinary mind
Ordinary life, be my rock in times of troubl...
Ordinary people just don't comprehend
Ordinary people just don't seem to comprehend
The thing you feel they don't even know about
Cut yourself, that never did you no good
You cut yourself, that never did you no good
Nobody watching you
You gotta take care of yourself, real thing
When I came down your avenue
Blew you every, blew you every which way
When I came down your avenue, blew you ever wh...
Got your high-heel sneakers on
You know you're steppin' new
Got your high-heel sneakers on
You know you're steppin' new
Oh lord, you're alright, you're alright
You know you're outta sight
The way you take that fight baby
The way you're steppin' too
They way you shake that thing mama
The way you're steppin too
Oh lord, you're too much
You know you're outta sight
Yeah, hey hey
instrumental
Woo
i...
I'm gonna move you, baby
Way on the outskirts of town
Oh, I'm gonna move you, darlin'
I said, "Way on the outskirts of town"
Because I don't want nobody
Who's always hangin' 'round
Mmm, maybe funny, baby
Funny as can be
We have any children
I want 'em all to look like me
Well, I'll move you, darlin'
Way on the outskirts of town
'Cause I don't want nobody
Nobody always hangin' 'round
Play it no...
And we walked the pagan streams
And searched for white horses on surrounding hills
We lived where dusk had meaning
And repaired to quiet sleep, where noise abated
In touch with the silence
On honey street, on honey street
What happened to a sense of wonder?
On yonder hillside, getting dim
Why didn't they leave us, alone?
Why couldn't we just be ourselves?
We could dream and keep bees
And live ...
One man's meat is another man's poison
One man's gain can be another man's loss
I'm traveling down the lonely highway
'Cause a rolling stone don't gather no moss
Once I thought I could live the kind of life I wanted
But the wayward wind made me restless and a fool of me
'Cause I thought I could settle for the nine to five life
Well, I guess it just was never meant to be
Now people talk and the...
Now baby, just lately you've been holding back too much
Your looks and my language, this could be the perfect touch
What you are asking fits with everything on my list
This could be the perfect fit
Tell me that it's madness to want something quite like this
But they don't understand the magic that I can't resist
Oh, and wouldn't it be so tragic if everything just went amiss
And this could be t...
Sunset glow from a hill
Let it flow take your fill
Such a perfect moment
Mona lisa smile
One such perfect moment
Makes it all worthwhile
Autumn night crystal clear
Mystic night seems so near
Such a perfect moment
Nothin' you can say
One such perfect moment
Gets you through the day
Mountain sheen, ocean shine
Miocene valentine
One such perfect moment
Never twice th' same
Such a perfect moment
W...
Out on the highways and the by-ways all alone
I'm still searching for, searching for my home
Up in the morning, up in the morning out on the road
And my head is aching and my hands are cold
And I'm looking for the silver lining
Silver lining in the clouds and I'm searching for
And I'm searching for the philosophers stone
And it's a hard road, it's a hard road daddy-o
When my job is turning lea...
Told ya' darlin'
All along,
I was right and you were wrong.
A-pleasin' you,
So hard to do.
Cried all night long,
Was beatin' through.
Can't sow wild oats
'spect to gather corn.
Can't take right
And make it wrong.
Told ya' darlin',
Long time ago,
You gotta reap
What you sow, and what you sow, yeah,
Is gonna make you weep,
A-some day,
A-some day,
A-some day.
Yeah, what you sow, yeah,
's gonna ma...
The coolness of the riverbank
And the whispering of the reeds
Daybreak is not so very far away
Enchanted and spellbound
In the silence they lingered
And rowed the boat
As the light grew steadily strong
And the birds were silent
As they listened for the heavenly music
And the river played the song
The wind in the willows
And the piper at the gates of dawn
The wind in the willows
And the piper a...
Tear your playhouse
Tear your playhouse, tear your playhouse down
Tear your playhouse, tear your playhouse down
Oh, all that money, it's going underground
Baby, all that money
All that money, don't it make you frown
All that money, don't it make you frown
Careless love done, tore your playhouse down
All that money, all that money
All that pounds, shillings and pence
All that money, all that po...
Precious time is slipping away
But you're only king for a day
It doesn't matter to which God you pray
Precious time is slipping away
It doesn't matter what route you take
Sooner or later the hearts going to break
No rhyme or reason, no master plan
No nirvana, no promised land because
Precious time is slipping away
You know, you're only king for a day
It doesn't matter to which God you pray
Pre...
Professional jealousy can bring down a nation
And personal invasion can ruin a man
Not even his family will understand what's happening
The price that he's paying or even the pain
Professional jealousy started a rumor
And then it extended to be more abuse
What started out as just black propaganda
Was one day seen to be believed as truth
They say the truth is stranger than fiction
But a lie is ...
Well, the summertime has gone
And the leaves are gently turnin?
And my love, I wanna take you
To the place heart-a-yearnin?
Will you go? Lassie go
And we?ll all go together
In the wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go?
And I will build my love a tower
At the foot of yonder mountain
And visit by the hour
From a lonely wooden tower
Will you go? Lassie go
And we?ll all g...
I've seen, so many lovers cry
Lost love, makes me wonder why
I've found a love, a once in a lifetime love
Angel on high, from heaven so high above
So I thank God for sending me you
I have heard of playing around with numbers
But one is all I need
She can't be beat, she makes me complete
On Quality Street
I have heard of playing around with numbers
But one is all I need
She can't be beat, she m...
You're the queen of the slipstream with eyes that shine
You have crossed many waters to be here
You have drank of the fountain of innocence
And experienced the long cold wintry years
There's a dream where the contents are visible
Where the poetic champions compose
Will you breathe not a word of this secrecy?
Will you still be my special rose?
Goin' away far across the sea
But I'll be back for ...
On Raglan Road on an autumn day
I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I may one day rue
I saw the danger, yet I walked
Along the enchanted way
And I said, ?Let grief be a falling leaf
At the dawning of the day?
I said, on Grafton Street in November
We tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worst of passions pledged
The 'Queen of He...
Railroad bill we're gonna railroad bill
He never works and he never will
I'm gonna ride on a railroad bill
I'm gonna ride on a railroad bill
Railroad bill he was a mighty bad man
Kill anybody that he think he can
Gonna ride old railroad bill
Gonna ride old railroad bill
I'm singin' railroad bill,
I'm talkin' railroad bill, uh-huh-huh
He never worked and he never will
I'm gonna ride on railroad...
It's not high finance
It's called heart and soul
If it's rock and roll
Got to go, go, go, go, go
Gon' keep moving on up
To the higher ground
Gon' keep on moving on up
I got to stand my ground
Gon' keep on moving on up
I wanna stick around
Won't let the bastards grind me down
Won't let the bastards grind me down
Won't let the bastards grind me down
Call me Raincheck
In the afternoon
Call me Rai...
Rave on, John Donne, rave on thy holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools
Rave on down through the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors
Rave on words on printed page
Rave on, you left us infinity
And well pressed pages torn to fade
Drive on with wild abandon
Up tempo, frenzied h...
I'm a real gone lover
I'm hip, I'm in the know
I'm a real gone lover
I'm hip, I'm in the know
And if you love me one time
You'll soon come back for more
Come over to my pad
Come over to my pad and play
Come over to my pad
Come over to my pad and play
Like the old saying goes
When sun shines, let's make hay
Well, I'm a nervous fella, he's a nervous fella
I'm a nervous fella, he's a nervous fell...
Real real gone
I got hit by a bow and arrow
Got me down to the very marrow
And I'm real real gone
Real real gone
I can't stand up by myself
Don't you know I need your help
And I'm real real gone
Some people say
You can make it on your own
Oh, you can make it if you try
I know better now
You can't stand up alone
Oh, baby, that is why
I'm real real gone
I can't stand up by myself
Don't you know?...
Really don?t know, really don?t know
Just what?s wrong
Feel like I don?t belong
And I just can?t get together
Today, anyway
Keep on raining, more and more
Everyday, yeah, in a wider sense
Yeah, in a wider sense
Keep on raining
Keep on raining, everyday
Look to the sky
But the sky may fall
See through my eye
But my eye don?t see at all
Keep on raining
Look to the sky
But the sky may fall
See th...
Boy and his dog
Went out looking for the rainbow
You know what did they learn
Since that very day
Walking by the river
And running like a blue streak
Through the fields and streams and meadows
Laughing all the way
Oh, redwood tree
Please let us under
When we were young we used to go
Under the redwood tree
And it smells like rain
Maybe even thunder
Won't you keep us from all harm
Wonderful redw...
I miss you so much, I can't stand it
Seems like my heart is breaking in two
The head says, no, but my soul demands it
Everything I do reminds me of you
I miss you so much in this house full of shadows
While the rain keeps pouring down my window too
When will the pain recede to the darkness
From whence it has come and I'm feeling so blue
Ain't goin' down, no more to the well
Sometimes it feels ...
Say that richard cory
Owns one-half of this here town
With political connections
To spread his wealth around
Born into society, a banker's only child
He had everything a man could want
Power, grace and style
But i, I work in his factory
And I curse the life that I'm livin'
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be
Yeah, hey I wish that I could be
Lord, I wish that I could be, richard c...
Say that Richard Cory
Owns one-half of this here town
With political connections
To spread his wealth around
Born into society, a banker's only child
He had everything a man could want
Power, grace and style
But I, I work in his factory
And I curse the life that I'm livin'
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be
Yeah, hey I wish that I could be
Lord, I wish that I could be, Richard C...
I can see
By the look on your face
That you've got ringworm.
I'm very sorry but,
I have to tell you that
You've got ringworm.
It's a very common disease.
Actually, you're very luck to have
Ringworm
'cause you may have
Had somethin' else.
Oooh, aaahhh...
Uuunnnhhhaaahhnnn...
You've got ringworm.
Oooh-oooh, oooh, oooh-oooh, oooh, oooh-oooh....
Heart and soul, body and mind
Heart and soul, body and mind
Heart and soul, body and mind
Meet me on the river of time
Meet me on the river of time
Meet me on the river of time
Brother of mine, sister of mine
Brother of mine, sister of mine
Heart and soul, body and mind
Meet me on the river of time
Meet me on the river of time
Meet me on the river of time
Lover of soul, lover of mine
Lover of ...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
[false start]
We just sat there
[rock roll band]
We just sat there
Never ever thinkin'
We'd get much older.
Layin' out on the beach
With our heads on each other's shoulder,
And we flagged the highway drivers down,
And get a ride to nowhere.
That means sit somewhere out of town,
We never ever had a care.
Wasn't that a time,
Yeah, so wasn't that a soul time.
Wasn't that a time,
Wasn't that a sou...
Among the rolling hills, I'll live my life in Him
Oh, I will live my life in Him among the rolling hills
I'll be with my wife and child, I'll do no man no ill
Oh, I will do no man no ill among the rolling hills
Well, among the rolling hills, I'll read my Bible still
Oh, I will read my bible still among the rolling hills
And with my pen I'll write my song among the rolling hills
With my pen I'l...
Oh, the mud splattered victims
Have to pay out all along the ancient highway
Torn between half-truth and victimisation
Fighting back with counter attacks
It?s when that rough God goes riding
When the rough God goes gliding
And then rough God goes riding
Riding on in
I was flabbergasted by the headlines
People in glasshouses throwing stones
Gaping wounds that will never heal
Now they?re moaning...
If you ever plan to motor west
Take my way that's the highway that's the best,
Get your kicks on route 66.
Well, it winds from chicago to l.a.
More than 2000 miles of motorway,
Get your kicks on route 66.
Well, it winds from st. louis down to missouri
Oklahoma city looks mighty pretty.
You'll see amarillo, gallup, new mexico,
Flagstaff arizona, don't forget pamona,
South park garden and san be...
'Take it or leave it', I've heard it been said
All this spring fevers just way over my head
Stealin' my moments, takin' up all my time
It's playin' Russian roulette with my mind
None of my business baby just what's goin' on
I'm not goin' to wait till somebody throw me a bone
I'm way out on a limb now and nothin' seems to rhyme
It's playin' Russian roulette with my mind
I think that you've caug...
Always screaming 'cause I'm suffering so
Life's done never such a terrible blow
The bag I'm in is just a sack o' woe
Misery, company and I'm feeling low
Trouble follows me wherever I go
The bag I'm in is just a sack o' woe
Trouble, one thing I understands
Seems to be a part of me
Misery and me go hand in hand
Never ever let me be
Sure as I'm born, one thing I know
The bag I'm in is just a sack...
Shammy [unverified] cleaning all the windows
Singing songs about Edith Piaf's soul
And I hear blue strains of no regredior
Across the street from Cathedral Notre Dame
Meanwhile back in San Francisco
We're trying hard to make this whole thing blend
As we sit upon this jagged
Storey block, with you my friend
And it's a long way to Buffalo
It's a long way to Belfast city too
And I'm hoping the ch...
I went down to Saint James Infirmary
For to see, for to see my baby there
Man, she was laid out on a long white table
She was so cold and so cool and so fair
Let her go, let her go, God bless her
Wherever she might be
Lord, you can search this whole
Search this whole wide world over
But she ain't never gonna find
Another lover man like me
When I die, I want you to dress me in straight lace sho...
Train wheels runnin' down an open track
In my mem'ry time to take me back
Are you goin are you goin'
To santa fe
Do you need it
Can you feel it in the same old way
I can feel it from the mountain top
Runnin' down to the foamy brine
In a rest'rant 'cross a table top
Looking into a glass of wine
Whispering in the evening breeze
Green leaves?glist'ning eucalyptus trees
Can you hear them
Or get ne...
Let's go walkin' up that mountainside
Look down in the valley down below
And we survey this wondrous scene
Wait a minute, hold that dream, hold that dream
Don't want to change my name and write a book
Just like 'Catcher in the Rye'
Settle down in a shady nook
Talkin' to my baby now
I'm satisfied
With my world
'Cause I made it
The way it is
Satisfied
Satisfied
Satisfied
Satisfied
Satisfied
Sati...
Sing your Hollywood sixteen
Runnin' 'round the gravel green
Sing your Hollywood sixteen
Runnin' 'round the gravel green
Yes, now get it, now get it together, go
Bum bum
Now bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum
And then we'll get, we'll get six guit, six guitars
And then we'll get six guitars and we'll
We'll get fourt, get, and we'll get
We get Herbie Lovelle to play drums
And we'll have a good sess...
I was educated by the school of hard knocks
Tell me who?s gonna patronize me now?
They've brainwashed the suckers again
And perpetrated the myth, propaganda far and wide
No wavelength, no mileage
No current, currency
No answers, just silence
And nothing is what it?s supposed to be
I was educated by the school of hard knocks
Tell me who?s gonna patronize me now?
I got shipwrecked and got strand...
Scream and holler baby.
Scream and holler baby.
Scream and holler baby.
Oooh-oooh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah baby.
Scream and holler baby.
All night long baby.
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm.
When I feel like l'can't get over
The solid white cliffs of dover
When I don't know what to do
Baby see me through yeah
Well I've been too long in this storm
I feel so sad and forlorn
And perhaps I'm counting on you
See me through yeah
When I think of that dear rugged cross
Where the dear saviour gave his all
When I feel like I'm on my last go round
See me through
See me through the days of wi...
Just a closer walk with thee
Grant it jesus if you please
I'll be satisfied as long, as I walk, dear lord, close to thee
I am weak but thou art strong
Jesus keep me from all wrong
I'll be satisfied as long, as I walk, dear lord, close to thee
See me through days of wine and roses
By and by when the morning comes
Jazz and blues and folk, poetry and jazz
Voice and music, music and no music
Silen...
Just a closer walk with Thee
Grant it Jesus if you please
I'll be satisfied as long, as I walk, dear Lord, close to Thee
I am weak but Thou art strong
Jesus keep me from all wrong
I'll be satisfied as long, as I walk, dear Lord, close to Thee
See me through days of wine and roses
By and by when the morning comes
Jazz and blues and folk, poetry and jazz
Voice and music, music and no music
Silen...
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Well, you're out there on the highway
While you're drivin' a-roll on by
Goin' south between the bridges
While the river's runnin' dry
And if ya can't come home
Please send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Now you're talkin', where ya goin'?
On the train that sees the road
'Cross the nation, passing...
Shake and roll
Shake and roll, baby
All night long
All night long
You can shake
You can roll
All night long
You can shake and roll baby
Just like that
Yes, yes, yes
Shake and roll baby
Shake it mable.
You look so good.
Everytime you shake it, mable.
Hey mable,
A-where ya' gonna shake it, mable?
quot;i'm goin' down to shake it down funky broadway, baby.quot;
Can I come along with you?
quot;no you can't.
I'm gonna shake it all over funky broadway, baby.quot;
Hey mable, can I come down to funky broadway, baby?
I wanna come along with you.
I wanna come down to funky broadway, ma...
Down the mystic avenue
I walk again
Remembering the days gone by
And I'm knockin' with my heart
And all the girls walk by
In all their summer fashions
And the church bells chime
On a summer Sunday afternoon
She gives me religion
She gives me religion
And the Angel of imagination
Opened up my gate
She said "Come right in
I saw you knockin' with your heart"
And the Angel of imagination
She lit y...
My young love said to me
My mother won't mind
And my father won't slight you
For your lack of kind
She stepped away from me
And this she did say
?It will not be long love
Till our wedding day?
She stepped away from me
And she moved through the fair
And fondly I watched her move here
And move there
And she went her way homeward
With one star awake
As the swan in the evening
Moved over the lake
...
Well, I'm so blue
I'm thinking about you
I'm feeling so blue
I'm feeling so sad
I just don't understand
I'm feeling so sad
And in the midnight
I don t turn off the light
Until the daylight
Well, I toss and I turn
And my heart it still burns
Till I see her again
She's my lady, she's my baby, she's my lady
She's my baby, she's my lady, she's my baby
She's my lady, now, now, now, now
In the morni...
Well, I'm so blue
I'm thinking about you
I'm feeling so blue
I'm feeling so sad
I just don't understand
I'm feeling so sad
And in the midnight
I don t turn off the light
Until the daylight
Well, I toss and I turn
And my heart it still burns
Till I see her again
She's my lady, she's my baby, she's my lady
She's my baby, she's my lady, she's my baby
She's my lady, now, now, now, now
In the morni...
A-when your hands start a clappin'
And your fingers start a poppin'
When your feet wanna move around
And you'll start to swing and sway
And the band begins to play
With a real cool way out sound
Then you'll get the 'Can't help-it's'
And you can't sit down
Feel like ya wanna move 'round an 'round
Need a shot of rhythm and blues
With just a little rock n' roll on the side
Just for good measure
N...
Say you wanna be in show business
See the man on the TV with a phoney smile
Bring you up, bring you down
He can turn your head around
In show business, show business
See the man on a silver screen
With the phoney smile
Bring you up, bring you down
He can turn your head around
Show business, show business
Have a hit maybe two
Make mincemeat out of you
Come back in two years time
Lay your heart ...
Well, I never felt more like singin' the blues
'cause I never thought that I'd ever lose your lovin'
You got me singin' the blues
Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night
'cause ev'rythings wrong an' nothin' ain't right without you
You got me singin' the blues
The moon and stars no longer shine
A dream is gone I thought was mine
Nothin' left for me to do
But cry-i-i-i over you
Well, I nev...
Slim slow slider
Horse you ride white as snow
Slim slow slider
Horse you ride is white as snow
Tell it everywhere you go
Saw you walking
Down by the Ladbroke Grove this morning
Saw you walking
Down by the Ladbroke Grove this morning
Catching pebbles for some sandy beach
You're out of reach
Saw you early this morning
With your brand new boy and your Cadillac
Saw you early this morning
With your...
The smile you smile is you
And I see through your laughing eyes
The smile you smile is you
And I see through your laughing eyes
And in the whirlpool of them, I can be in paradise
An I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
And ever and a day with you
And I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
And ever and a day with you
An' sit between the stars and say that's my point of view
I yi-yi, yi-yi, I love you
I love ...
Snow in San Anselmo
The deer cross by the lights
The mission down in old San Rafael
And a madman looking for a fight
A madman looking for a fight
And the Massage parlor?s open
And the clientele come and they go
And the classic music station
Plays in the background soft and low
Plays in the background soft and low
And the silence 'round the cascades
And the ice crisp and clear
And the beginning...
So complicated, so complicated
Just wanna blow my horn
So complicated, so complicated
Just wanna know the score
Are you telling me that every thing's fine
When I can't even tie my shoes
Better get into a new frame of mind
When I don't have to think about the business no more
'Cause I just wanna blow my horn
The telephone is ringing out
But it don't understand my blues
And how much longer will ...
Foghorns blowing in the night
Salt sea air in the morning breeze
Driving cars all along the coastline
This must be what it's all about
Oh this must be what it's all about
This must be what paradise is like
So quiet in here, so peaceful in here
So quiet in here, so peaceful in here
The warm look of radiance on your face
And your heart beating close to mine
And the evening fading in the candle g...
You see me on the street, well you guess I'm doing fine
Oh but it's fantasy baby, almost all the time
I've got to get away, by myself
Oh the way it's going, soon be needing help
'Cause I'm just a man, doing the best I can
Don't you understand, I just want some peace of mind
You see me on the stage, doing my job
I learn to do it well, keep on singing the song
But sometimes it gets, so lonely ou...
I?ve been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
I?ve been traveling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through
Someone like you
Make it all worth while
Someone like you
Keeps me satisfied
Someone exactly like you
I?ve been travelin? a hard road
Had been lookin? for someone exactly like you
I?ve been carryin? my heavy load
Waiting for the light to come shining through
Som...
We met, deep down in Somerset
A time I can't forget
When we were sippin' cider in the shade
Oh, the sun was setting in the West
You looked your very best that night
Stars were shining in your eyes
And we walked, walked all along the sand
And it felt, felt like a wonderland
And when the summer breeze was gone
The memory lingered on
You and me down in Somerset
Oh we walked, walked and walked and...
Now, something you got makes me work all day
Girl something you got makes me bring home my pay
Now, something you got you ought to know
My, my woah, woah, I love you so
Hey, something you got makes the world go on
Now, something you got keeps me happy all the time
Now, something you got you ought to know
My, my, my, woah, woah, I love you so
Hey, something you got keeps me home every night
Wel...
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Long way from my home
Sometimes I wish, I could fly
Like a bird up in the sky
Oh, sometimes I wish, I could fly
Fly like a bird up in the sky
Sometimes I wish, I could fly
Like a bird up in the sky
Little closer to home
Motherless children have a hard time
Motherless child...
Sometimes we know
Sometimes we don't
Sometimes we give
And sometimes we won't
Sometimes we're strong
Sometimes we're wrong
Sometimes we cry
Sometimes we cry
Sometimes it's bad
When the going gets tough
And me look in the mirror
And me wanna give up
Sometime we don't even
Want to try, sometimes we cry
Well we gonna have to sit down
And think it through
If we're only human
What more can we do
Th...
When the child was a child
It walked with arms hanging
Wanted the stream to be a river and the river a torrent
And this puddle, the sea
When the child was a child
It didn't know it was a child
Everything for it was filled with life and all life was one
Saw the horizon without trying to reach it
Couldn't rush itself and think on command
Was often terribly bored and couldn't wait
Passed up greet...
Well, it?s written in the wind, 'fore the story does begin
I will go back to my kin across the sea
That's a bird that?s on the wing and is flying free
He can hear the song of home endlessly
Well, the further I must go then the nearer I must stay
Men have sailed the seven seas to be free
Then like that bird that?s on the wing and is flying free
He can hear the song of home endlessly
I can see t...
I'm a songwriter and I know just where I stand
I'm a songwriter, pen and paper in my hand
Get the words on the page, please don't call me a sage
I'm a songwriter
I'm a songwriter and I do it for a living
I'm a songwriter and I write about men and women
I can write about love and the stars up above
I'm a songwriter
I'm a songwriter and I'm hot on your trail
I'm a songwriter and my cheque's in t...
Soul is a feeling, feeling deep within
Soul is not the color of your skin
Soul is the essence, essence from within
It is where everything begins
Soul is what you?ve been through
What?s true for you
Where you going to
What you?re gonna do
Soul is your station for the folk of your nation
Something that you wear with pride
Soul can be your vision or something that is hidden
It?s not something tha...
The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, quot;it a...
Why not lie here
In-a my arms
And just listen to the night.
You must know that you have
Certain charms,
And I feel,
And I feel the time is right.
Spare me a little,
Spare me a little,
Spare me a little of your love.
Spare me a little,
Spare me a little,
Spare me a little of your love.
And I know that i
Feel much more
In-a
Every single way,
[ended / and it's ? ] not the same
As before, it gets
...
When you've given up hope and you're down in despair
When you've given up hope and you're down in despair
When you've given up hope and you're down in despair
When you've given up
And you sit in your room and you're all alone
And you turn to the one and you turn inside
For a while
Say, help me, angel
Oh, no, never let spirit die
Oh, no, spirit don't ever die
Oh, no, never let spirit die
Oh, no...
In banbridge town in the county down
One morning last july,
From a boreen green came a sweet colleen
And she smiled as she passed me by.
She looked so sweet fronn her two bare feet
To the sheen of her nut brown hair.
Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself
For to see I was really there.
Chorus:
From bantry bay up to derry quay and
From galway to dublin town,
No maid I've seen like the brown co...
The way you see me walking on
That's why I'm telling you in song
There's only one way to get ahead
You've got to give it up instead
Start all over again
You see me standing on the bridge
I see the sunset in my view
The field looks colorful to me
I know there's more than I can see
We can start all over again
Made it, made it, made it
Made it through the winter time
Made it through the spring
Ma...
When I hear that robin sing
Well, I know it's coming on spring
Ooo, we and we're starting a new life
I've been shoveling the snow away
Working hard for my pay
All I gotta say is we're starting a new life
We're gonna move
Way on down the line
Girl, we been standing
In one place for too long a time
When I hear that robin song
Well, I know it won't be long
Frank, I know we belong
And we're starti...
I can hear the sound of violins
I can hear the piper playin'
And every time the song begins
You just steal my heart away
And journey's longer than I thought, my love
There's lots of things get in the way
But every time I think of you
You just steal my heart away
Just like a morning in May like this
See the heather on the hill
There's a place way up the mountainside
Where the world keeps standi...
Put on your lipstick, apply your make-up
Sometimes you'll be living, living in a dream
And then, then, then you go steppin' out queen
Well you go to a party, and you laugh loud and hearty
And you stay all night long, well you know you make the scene
And then you go steppin' out queen, steppin' out
It's just a windfall, just a windfall away
It's keeps getting stronger everyday
May be you gotta ...
It seems like it must have been something that I said
Something that somebody must have done
This is a song, it's got a whole lot of soul
When I seen you by the way before in New York City
I think it was on Eighth Street, right?
Or was it in San Francisco, whatever
Always put the first one first
And the second one second
Come in the garden and look at the flowers
That's what you were saying, r...
Stomp and scream baby.
Oh baby.
Stomp and scream baby.
Wail baby.
Do the thing.
Move it 'round.
Just a little bit.
Come on baby.
Ya' got a good thing goin'.
Yes, yes.
Baby.
Stomp and scream baby.
Don't mean maybe.
You're my baby.
You're my baby.
I don't mean maybe.
You gotta stop drinking that wine, sonny boy
You gotta stop drinking that wine, sonny boy
If you don't stop drinking that wine it's gonna poison your mind
You gotta stop drinking that old wine, sonny boy
You drink champagne it's gonna be better for you
You drink champagne it's gonna be better for you
Everybody's going out, going out to enjoy
You gotta stop drinking that wine, sonny boy
You dri...
They called it stormy Monday
The Tuesday's just as bad
They called it stormy Monday
But Tuesday's just as bad
Wednesday's worse
Right on to Thursday
Both so sad
You know the eagle flies on Friday
Saturday I go out to play, baby
The eagle flies on Friday
Saturday, Saturday I go out to play, babe
Please, listen to me love
Sunday I go to church
And I kneel right down and start to pray
And this is...
I'm stranded at the edge of the world
It's a world I don't know
Got nowhere to go
Feels like I'm stranded
And I'm stranded
Between that ol' devil and the deep blue sea
And nobody's gonna tell me
Tell me what, what time it is
Everyday, everyday
It's hustle, hustle time, hustle time
Everyday and every way
One more, one more mountain to climb
It's leaving me stranded
In my own little island
With ...
Street choir, sing me the song for the new day
Don't make it long and remember to sing it the old way
Let it all out, let your voice ring in the street now
My fun, shall be this one to complete now
Why did you leave America?
Why did you let me down?
And now that things seem better off
Why do you come around?
You know I just can't see you now
In my, in my new world crystal ball
You know I just ...
Come on out, child
We gonna ring doorbells and run
Come on out, child, child
We gonna ring doorbells and run
We gonna shake up the neighborhood
Lord, we're bound to have some fun
We can take a plane to Paris
Lord, we can fly to Rome
We can take a plane to Paris
Lord, we can fly to Rome
I get a lump in my throat
Every time I go back home
I'm gonna go to church on Sunday
Just like my mama did
I'...
And as we walked through the streets of Arklow
Oh, the color of the day wore on
And our heads were filled with poetry
And the morning a-comin' on to dawn
And as we walked through the streets of Arklow
And gay perfusion in God's green land
And the gypsy's rode with their hearts on fire, they say
"We love to wander, Lord, we love, Lord, we love to roam"
And as we walked through the streets of Ar...
Can you meet me in the country
In the summertime in England?
Will you meet me?
Will you meet me in the country
In the summertime in England?
Will you meet me?
We'll go riding up to Kendal in the country
In the summertime in England
Did you ever hear about
Did you ever hear about
Did you ever hear about
Wordsworth and Coleridge, baby?
Did you ever hear about
Wordsworth and Coleridge?
They were ...
Oh sweet Jannie, won't you come out tonight?
Oh sweet Jannie, girl won't you come out tonight?
I want to take you walkin' way out in the clear moonlight
Oh baby, baby come on take me by my hand
Oh baby come on take me by my hand
I don't want to stop walkin'
Till we get up to the preacher man
I've been in love with you baby
Ever since you were back in Sunday school
I've been in love with you ba...
Well, well, I loved you
Like I never loved before
First time I saw you
Standing home at your front door
Do you remember
You created quite a scene
When you were walking
Down by the village green
Chorus
When you were only
When you were only
When you were only
When you were only
Sweet sixteen
Baby, how I loved you
Sweet sixteen
How I really loved you
Sweet sixteen
Baby, how I loved you
Sweet sixt...
And I will stroll the merry way
And jump the hedges first
And I will drink the clear clean water
For to quench my thirst
And I shall watch the ferry boats
And they'll get high on a bluer ocean
Against tomorrow's sky
And I will never grow so old again
And I will walk and talk
In gardens all wet with rain
Oh sweet thing, sweet thing
My, my, my, my, my sweet thing
And I shall drive my chariot
Dow...
Words and music by Van Morrison
Now listen Julie baby,
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight,
It ain't natural for you to cry
Way in the midnight through,
Until the wee small hours
Long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord.
Now Julie there ain't nothin' on my mind
More further away than what you're lookin' for,
I see the way they jump at me
Lord, from behind the door, and look into my ey...
Ta mo chleamhnas deanta o athru areir
S'ni mo na go dtaithnioonn an bhean liom fein
Ach fagfaidh me I mo dhiaidh i
'gus imeoidh me liom fein
Ar fud na gcoillte craobhach
My match it was made here last night
To a girl I neither love nor like
But I'll take my own advice
And leave her behind
And go roaming the wild woods all over.
Shiuil mise thoir agus shiuil mise thiar.
Shiuil mise corcaigh 'gu...
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books, thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it, can't leave it alone
You will find a purpose to carry it on
Mainly, when you find it, your heart will be strong about it
Many's the road I have walked upon
Many's the hour between dusk and dawn
Many's th...
I've been walking by the river
I've been walking down by the water
I've been walking down by the river
I've been feeling so sad and blue
I've been thinking, I've been thinking, I've been thinking
I've been thinking, I've been thinking, I've been thinking
There's so much suffering and it's too much confusion
Too much, too much confusion in the world
Take me back, take me back, take me back
Take...
Take Your Hands Out Of My Pockets Track 13 3:58 Disc 2
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Rice Miller
Van Morrison The Caledonia Soul Orchestra
Van Morrison - vocals, guitar, keyboads, sax producer.
D. Hayes - bass, T. Adams - cello, B. Atwood - trumpet
N. Ellis - viola, T. Haplin - violin, T. Kovatch - violin
J. Labes - keyboards, J. Platania - guitar, N. Rubin - strings
J. Schroer - piano, sax, D. Sh...
Kicked your gift-horse in the teeth
Crowd gathered round in the street
You killed your savior new one can't be found
Talk is cheap your savior's highway bound
You read the tabloids every day
They're giving lots of things away
They went to build you up so they can bring you down
Talk is cheap it's gonna could make them a million pounds
Now baby, don't put your business on the telephone
Tell you...
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me
All about your love, all about your love
Every little bit
Every little bit of my heart sings
Every little song
Every little song that your love brings
And every day, in every little way
Your love shows
And every day, in every way
Our love grows
You've gotta tell me
Tell me, tell me, tell me
All about your love, all about your love
Lovin' only you, lovin' that...
You say the world is mad
You say that you've been had
You don't like your part in the floor show
You say it's all a bust
There's no one you can trust
Well, tell me something that I don't know
You say the world's a mess
It's anybody's guess
As to who will deliver that low blow
You suffer from the strain
You don't dig pain
Well, tell me something that I don't know
You say there's some mistake
Yo...
Tell me what you want, tell me what it is
Tell me what you want, tell me what it is
Everybody's got me moaning
Every single night and day
Can't stand it anyway
Everybody's got me moaning
Tell me what you want, yeah,
Tell me what you need
Tell me what it is, say what
Tell me what you want, tell me what it is
Tell me what you need, see if I can get it
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me, ...
Thanks for the information
Never give a sucker an even break
When he's breaking through to a new level of consciousness
There always seems to be more obstacles in the way
Thanks for the information I know
It's only a combat zone
Thanks for the memory
I'll just have to carry on on my own
And it's wonderful and it's marvelous
How we can ever make it through
Sometimes I wonder how we can ever
Mak...
You by the countryside
Oh you, when you reach the sky
You and you?re climbing up that hill
Well you, when we?re listening to the little whippoorwill
You, when the sun goes down, you in the evening
In the morning when the sun comes 'round
You with your ballerina dance
Well, you put me back in a trance
Well, you take my breath away
Oh you, even on a cloudy day
You make me holler when you come ar...
That's life
That's what the people say
You're riding high in April
Shot down in May
I know I've got to change my tune
When I get back up on top in June
That's life
Funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks from
Stepping on a dream
I don't let it get me down, no, no, no
This big old world keeps spinning round
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate
A poet, a pawn and a king
I've been up, ...
Jesse james was a man
And he killed many men
He robbed the glendale train
And he took from the richer
And he gave that to the poorer
He'd a hand and a heart and a brain
Oh jesse had a wife to mourn for his life
Three children they were so brave
But that dirty little coward
That shot mr. howard
Has laid jesse james in his grave
instrumental
On wednesday night
When the moon was shining bright
Th...
When I recall just how it felt
When I went walking down by the take
My soul was free, my heart awake
When I walked down into the town
The mountain air was fresh and clear
The sun was up behind the hill
It felt so good to be alive
On that morning in spring
I want to sing this song for you
I want to lift your spirits high
And in my soul I want to feel
The beauty of the days gone by
The beauty of...
I'm waiting
For my royalty check to come,
And it still hasn't come yet.
It's about a year
Over due.
I guess it's coming
From the big royalty check in the sky.
I waited and the mailman
Never dropped it in my letterbox.
Oh, oh-oh, oh...
I guess it's a big royalty check in the sky.
Oooh baby.
But you can't
Beat the tax man
And me
All at once.
Do you see what they are
Do you hear what they say
People it is sad but true
They're dressed really stupid
But they think they're O.K.
And they got no use for you
The dead girls of London
Why do they act that way?
Maybe it's the water, mama
Maybe it's the tea
Maybe it's the way they was raised
Maybe it's the stuff what they read in the papers
Keeps them lookin' sorta half in a daze
Well the de...
Excuse me, do you know the way to Kansas city?
Excuse me, do you know the way to Kansas city?
Excuse me, do you know the way to Kansas city?
Excuse me, do you know the way to Kansas city?
Do you know the way to Kansas city?
Excuse me, do you know the way to Kansas city?
Do you know the way to Kansas city?
Excuse me, do you know the way to Kansas city?
Do you know the way to Kansas city?
Excuse...
Did you ever hear about the great deception?
Well the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run
Have you ever been down to love city?
Where they rip you off with a smile and it don't take a gun
Don't it hurt so bad in love city
Don't it make you not want to bother at all
And don't they look so self righteous
When they pin you up against the wall
Did you ever, ever see the people
With the ...
Here I am again
Back on the corner again
Back where I belong
Where I've always been
Everything the same
It don't ever change
I'm back on the corner again
In the healing game
Down those ancient streets
Down those ancient roads
Where nobody knows
Where nobody goes
I'm back on the corner again
Where I've always been
Never been away
From the healing game
Where the choirboys sing
Where I've always ...
From the sailing to philadelphia album
Don't you love the sound
Of the last laugh, my friend
Don't you love the sound
Of the last laugh, at the end
Down in the gutter
With the mad old soldiers
Down in the scuppers
With the drunken sailors
Down in the gutter
With the mad old soldiers
But the last laugh, baby is yours
And don't you love the sound
Of the last laugh goin' down
Games you thought yo...
The lion this time again
He's in the circus in a cage
He's trying to break out of the frame
The lion this time
He hears that same old sad refrain
But they can't hold him with no chain
And they just can't denounce his claim
The lion again
And he's trying to get free
He knows that something's bothering me
That I'm not too blind to see
The lion again
Oh, the love that's in his soul
Is trying to g...
How the light shone from the master
How the light shone from the master
How the light shone from the master's eyes
Or how the truth shone, from the master
How the truth shone, from the master
How the truth shone, from the master's eyes
Why didn't they leave us to wander through buttercup summers
Why didn't they leave us to wander when there was no other
And my questions all were answered
When ...
Let go into the mystery
Let yourself go
You've got to open up your heart
That's all I know
Trust what I say and do what you're told
Baby and all your dirt will turn into gold
Let go into the mystery
Let yourself go
And when you open up your heart
You get everything you need
Baby, there's a way and a mystic road
You've got to have some faith to carry on
You've got to open up your heart
To the s...
Symphony sid is grooving
Man this whole house is moving
Symphony sid is grooving
Symphony sid
Symphony sid is swinging
That radio is ringing
Symphony sid is swinging
Symphony sid
Bing-bang bing-bang bing-bang ...
Bing-bing-bing-bang ...
Symphony sid is jumping
Man this whole house is romping
Symphony sid is jumping
Symphony sid
Tune in and listen
Check out what you're missin'
You're finally cl...
When friends were friends
And company was right
We'd talk and talk and sing
All through the night.
Morning came leisurely and bright
Downtown we'd walk
And passers by
Would shudder with delight
Mmmmmm
Good times...
All the cats were there
Just dirty enough to say
quot;we don't care.quot;
But the management had had complaints
About some cats with long long hair
quot;look look lookquot;
And the ...
Your street, rich street or poor
Used to always be sure, on your street
There's a place in your heart and you know from the start
Can't be complete outside of the street
Keep moving on through the joy and the pain
Sometimes you got to look back to the street again
Would you prefer all those castles in Spain
Or the view of the street from your window pane
And you walked around in the heart of t...
We strolled through fields, all wet with rain
And back along the lane again
There in the sunshine, in the sweet summertime
The way that young lovers do
I kissed you on the lips once more
And we said goodbye, just adoring the nighttime
Yeah, that's the right time
To feel the way that young lovers do
Then we sat on our own star
And dreamed of the way that we were
And the way that we were meant t...
Do the wobble baby.
Do the wobble.
Do the wobble.
Do the wobble baby.
Do the wobble baby.
Do the wobble baby.
Come on baby,
Do the wobble.
Come on baby,
Do the wobble.
Do the wobble.
Do the wobble baby.
Wobble baby.
Come on baby.
Come on baby.
Do the wobble baby, baby, baby.
Do the wobble.
Do the wobble baby.
Do the wobble.
Do the wobble baby.
There stands the glass
That will ease all my pain
That will settle my brain
It's my first one today
There stands the glass
That will hide all my tears
That will drown all my fears
Brother, I'm on my way
I wonder where you are tonight
I wonder if you are all right
I wonder if you think of me
In my misery
There stands the glass
Fill it up to the brim
While my troubles grow dim
It's my first one ...
There, there child, there, there child
Don't it make you feel alright?
There, there child
Don't it all look good tonight?
And you feel like going but you gotta stay
Ain't no time for to hop on a freight train
And you feel like laying in the morning hay
'Cause it's time for a nap now, before rain
There, there child
Don't it make you satisfied?
There, there child
You can rest your weary eyes
And...
These are the days of the endless summer
These are the days, the time is now
There is no past, there's only future
There's only here, there's only now
Oh, your smiling face, your gracious presence
The fires of spring are kindling bright
Oh, the radiant heart and the song of glory
Crying freedom in the night
These are the days by the sparkling river
His timely grace and our treasured find
This ...
I dreamed you paid your dues in Canada
And left me to come through
I headed for there right away
I knew exactly just what to do
I dreamed we played cards in the dark
And you lost and you lied
Wasn't very hard to do
But hurt me deep down inside
These dreams of you
So real and so true
These dreams of you
So real and so true
My back was up against the wall
And you slowly just walked away
You neve...
Sold me out for a few shekels and divided up my robes
They sold me out
It's the oldest story that's ever been told
They sold me out
Didn't even give it no shred of doubt, no, no
They sold me out
Didn't even sit down and try to figure it out
They just sold me out
For the few shekels more, they didn't even think twice
For a few shekels more, another minute in the spotlight
My own people did it t...
Oh, the faucet started dripping in the kitchen
Last night your picture fell down from the wall
And today the boss said, I'm sorry son, I can't use you anymore"
And tonight the light bulb went out down the hall
Oh, things have gone to pieces since you left me
Nothing turns out half right, now it seems
There ain't nothin' in my pocket but three nickels and a dime
And I'm holding to pieces of my ...
Think twice before you go
Baby, this will be the end
Think twice before you go
Baby, this will be the end
Can you leave me one time?
Baby, you will leave again
Stay and suffer with me, baby
Then I'll know you paid your due
Stay and suffer with me, baby
Then I'll know you paid your due
If you're not there when I need you
Then you know you stand accused
Think twice before you go
Baby, this will ...
I see, you see, we'll get a guitar,
Yeah, we'll get a guitar
And, oh, we'll get, we'll get three guitars,
No, no, we'll get four guitars
And we'll get herbie lovelle to play drums,
And we'll do, the
quot;sha-laquot;, sha...
We'll do the sha-, sha-la bit.
quot;sha-la, sha-, sha-la, sha-laquot;, we'll do it,
We'll get together, uunghh, we'll get
Uunghh, ttcchh, uugnhh-uunghh-uunghh, like that,
A...
I'm giving you my heart and my soul
I've given you more than you'll ever know
I'm giving you just about everything I can
Can't you see that I'm just only one man, yeah?
I took you out to the picture show
Then I took you walkin' outdoors
I walked you up and down the block
Then I warned you, baby, this has got to stop
This has got to stop, you're way over the top
Pack my things and walk, we can'...
The lion this time again
He's in the circus in a cage
He's trying to break out of the frame
The lion this time
He hears that same old sad refrain
But they can't hold him with no chain
And they just can't denounce his claim
The lion again
And he's trying to get free
He knows that something's bothering me
That I'm not too blind to see
The lion again
Oh, the love that's in his soul
Is trying to g...
This love of mine goes on and on
Though life is empty since you have gone
You're always on my mind, though out of sight
It's lonesome through the day but oh the lonely night
I cry my heart out it's bound to break
Since nothing matters, just let it break
I ask the sun and the moon and the stars that shine
What's to become of it, this love of mine?
I cry my heart out it's bound to break
'Cause s...
This weight is weighin' on my heart
This weight is tearin' us apart
This weight is weighin' on my soul
And it just won't leave me alone
You know, I'm talkin' about this weight
You know, I'm talkin' about this weight
In the neighborhood people watchin' me
Got to move to protect my sanity
Anonymity is all I want you see
You may think it's mediocrity
But you know, I'm talkin' about this weight
Yo...
Just like the sun shining over the mountain top
You know I'll always come again
You know I love to spend my morning time
Watchin' sunlight dancing on your skin
I've never gone so wrong for telling lies to you
What you see is what I've been
There is nothing that I can hide from you
You see me better than I ever can
Out on the road that lies before me now
There are some turns where I will spin
D...
Down those old ancient streets
Down those old ancient roads
Baby, there together we must go
Till we get the healing done
Till we get the healing done
Till you're satisfied with your life
Till you're satisfied with your life
Till you're satisfied with your life
And it's running right
And it's running right
Till you deal with the poison inside
Sometime you've got to sit down and cry
When you dea...
A well money's gettin' cheaper
Price is gettin' steeper
I found a little woman
But I just couldn't keep her
Times gettin' tougher than tough
Times gettin' rougher than rough
Well I make alot of money
I just keep spendin' the stuff
Oh well pork chops on the market
Ask the butcher for a pound
I couldn't get no pork chop
When I laid my money down
Times gettin' tougher than tough
Times gettin' rou...
We were standing in the kingdom
And by the mansion gate
We stood enraptured by the silence
As the birds sang their heavenly song
In Tir Na Nog
We stopped in the church of Ireland
And prayed to our father
And climbed up the mountainside
With fire in our hearts
And we walked all the way to Tir Na Nog
I said with my eyes that
I recognized your chin
It was my long lost friend
To help me from anoth...
Over in killarney
Many years ago,
Me mither sang a song to me
In tones so sweet and low.
Just a simple little ditty,
In her good ould irish way,
And l'd give the world if she could sing
That song to me this day.
Chorus:
quot;too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, hush now, don't you cry
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, that's an irish lul...
Living in exile too long
Too long in exile
Too long not singing my song
Too long in exile
Too long like a rolling stone
Too long in exile
Too long in exile
Baby those people just ain't
Just ain't your friends
Too long in exile, my friend
You can never go home again
Well, that isolated feeling
Drive you so close up against the wall
Till you feel like you can't go on
You've been in the same plac...
Too many myths
People just assuming things that aren't true
There's too many myths
Coming between me and you
You might have your name up in lights
But you still have to keep your game uptight
Too many myths
Tell me, tell me how you gonna cope with this
Too many myths
You act like you've never been kissed
You put your name up in lights
And now you gotta keep your game uptight
You got problems
I...
Showed me pictures in the gallery
Showed me novels on the shelf
Put my hands across the table
Gave me knowledge of myself
Showed me visions, showed me nightmares
Gave me dreams that never end
Showed me light out of the tunnel
When there was darkness all around instead
Tore down a la Rimbaud
And I wish my message would come
Tore down a la Rimbaud, you know it's hard some time
You know it's hard...
From the ancient sun to the old heart stove, say the troubadours
From the city gates to the castle walls
I wish it was the troubadours
On a sunlit day it was bright and clear
And the people came from far and they came from near
To hear the troubadours
Well the troubadours sang their songs of love to the lady fair
She was sitting outside on a balcony
In the clear night air
It was a starry night...
It's four o'clock in the morning
And there's a new full moon shining down through the trees
But don't leave the room now, oh, ah, leave it in doubt
Pretend not to know what I'm talking about
I try all night long, I try, I want you to come along
I feel it when you touch me, I'm already wet
But how are you supposed to know what you get
Wake me when it's over but don't turn on the light
Call me b...
You can take all the tea in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around all the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree
She's as sweet, she's as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey, baby, from the bee
You can't stop us on the road to freedom
You can't keep us 'cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, ...
Got a woman, broke my heart
Took it darlin', tore it apart
You left me sitting by the fire cryin'
You said your love for me was dyin'
And I'm beggin' you, baby
Baby, please
I'm beggin' you, baby
I'm down on my knees
Turn on your light
Let is shine on me
Turn on your love light
Let it shine on me
Let it shine, shine, shine
Let it shine
Now, I wanna know
I gotta know, baby
Feel alright
Feel alri...
The rain is all over, it's only stopped for an hour
And I stop you, and I stop you when you go too far
And you stop me when I go too far
And it tried to freak me but I should have known
It's not the twilight zone, no, it's not the twilight zone
Yeah, it's just a party phone, pure honeycomb, honeycomb, honeycomb
You tried to take me in a slow poke draw
Like the cowboy wished and you got just wh...
Twist and shake baby
Twist and shake baby
Do the twist
Do the shake
Baby, hey, hey, hey
Twist and shake baby
Do the twist baby
Twist and shake baby
Do the shake baby
Shake it up baby
Twist and shake baby
Do the twist
How long baby
Can you do the twist?
How long
Can you do the shake?
Twist and shake
Twist and shake
Underlying depression, have to crawl into my room
Underlying depression don't want to know about the moon in June
Outside there's a cavalcade of clowns
But they're bringing me down with underlying depression
Underlying depression and it's starting in my backyard
Underlying depression and these times ain't even so hard
Lord I was born with the blues and my blue suede shoes
And underlying depres...
Up your mind,
If you've got a mind.
Up your mind,
If you've got a...
I think you've got
About one living cell in your brain.
But that's alright, that's cool.
Up your mind.
Wooo-oooh-oooh-oooh-ooh.
Baby, baby, baby.
Send me your picture
Send me your pillow
Send it through Krishna
On the Vanlose stairway
Send me your Bible
Send me your Gita
I want to reach you
On the Vanlose stairway
On the Vanlose stairway
And your stairway
Reaches up to the moon
And it comes right back
It comes right back to you
Send me some loving
Send me some kissing
You know what I'm missing
On the Vanlose stairway
On the Vanlose stai...
Found myself, found myself, oh, in a restaurant in Venice
Found myself, oh, in a restaurant in Venice
I was talkin' to my baby, in a restaurant down in Venice
When I found myself down in Venice and I'm cryin'
But my tears, but my tears are filled with joy
And I'm walkin' in Venice and I'm cryin'
Dum, derra, dum, dum, diddy, diddy, dah, dah
Dum, derra, dum, dum, diddy, diddy, dah, dah
Dum, derr...
Did you see the lad on the corner
He was standing drinking wine
Wears his overcoat in the summer
And short sleeves in the winter time
Takes his holidays, down at the bookies
Well he knows how to pick a horse
Village tramping round the countryside
He wears a smile, but he doesn't say much
Village idiot, he's complicated
Village idiot, simple mind
Village idiot, he does know something
But he's j...
Let us free you from the pain
Let us see you smile again
Let us unlock all the chains
You're broken-hearted
Let us help you to forget
Let us help you unlock it
It's not nearly time to quit
You've only started
You gotta
Sit down, funny face
Oh let your laughter
Fill the room
Light up your golden smile
And take away all your misery and gloom
Oh let your laughter fill the room
Oh let your laughte...
On a golden autumn day returning
Where each moment never is the same
Sometimes pure joy it comes with patience
When I'm waiting on, waiting game
When I'm waiting on, waiting game
There must be reason for all this inaction
Does it mean that everything must change
Sometimes I'm looking for perfection
When I'm waiting on, waiting game
When I'm waiting on, waiting game
I am the observer who is obs...
Walk that walk
Talk that talk
Walk that walk
Talk that talk
Walk that walk
Talk that talk
Walk that walk
Talk that talk
Walk that walk
Oh, talk that talk and walk that walk
Talk that talk
Walk that walk
Talk that talk, baby, you look so good
Come on baby, walk and talk
Come on baby, walk and talk
Oh, when ya' talk to me
You know, you look so good
You want a danish?
No, I just ate
I've just eaten
Do ya' want
Like, I want some bread up front
Oh, bread up front
You want a sandwich?
Have a danish
Want a sandwich?
Have a sandwich
Have a seat
Have a seat
Have a sandwich
Have a danish
Look at the ivy on the old clinging wall
Look at the flowers and the green grass so tall
It's not a matter of when push comes to shove
It's just a hour on the wings of a dove
It's just warm love
It's just warm love
I dig it when you're fancy dressed up in lace
I dig it when you have a smile on your face
This inspiration's got to be on the flow
But these invitation's got to see it and know
It's...
When I become was and we become were
Will there be any sign or a trace of th' lovely contour of your face
And will there be someone around
With essentially my kinda sound
When am turns to was and now is back when
Will someone have moments like this
Moments of unspoken bliss
And will there be heroes and saints
Or just a dark new age of complaints
When I become was and we become were
Will there ...
Wasted years been brainwashed by lies
Oh yes, I have, oh, wasted years
I'm talking about wasted years
Oh, I'm not seeing eye to eye
I just can't see the things I should see
Wasted years, baby
I was taking the wrong advice
I know you was, I know you was
And I was too all alone
I'm traveling, traveling through these wasted years
For so long, so long, so long I was
Oh, I must have gained some wis...
This is a song about your wavelength
And my wavelength, baby, you turn me on
When you get me on your wavelength
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
With your wavelength
Oh, with your wavelength
With your wavelength
With your wavelength
Oh mama, oh mama, oh mama
Oh mama, oh mama, oh mama
Wavelength
Wavelength
You never let me down, no
You never let me down, no
When I'm down you always comfort me
When ...
When I was in trouble
Out on the western plains
When I was in trouble
Out on the western plains
Well I made a half a million
A-swingin' on the battery?
Come ti yi yippe
Ti yi yippee yippee yay
Come ti yi yippe
Ti yi yippee yippee yay
Well bullets was a-fallin'
Out on the western plain
Bullets was a-rainin'
Why me and a buncha cowboys
Run into Jesse James
Come ti yi yippe
Ti yi yippee yippee ya...
What am I living for, if not for you?
Tell me what am I living for, if not for you?
What am I living for, if not for you?
Oh, nobody else, nobody else will do
What am I longing for each lonely night?
To feel your lips to mine and hold you tight
You'll be my only love my whole life through
Baby, nobody else, nobody else will do
I want you close to me, oh, that's all I know
I want you all the ti...
All that trouble all that grief that's why I had to leave
Staying away too tong is in defeat
Why I'm singing this song, why I'm heading back home?
That's what makes the Irish heart beat
I'm just like a hobo riding a train, I'm like a gangster living in Spain
Have to watch my back and I'm running out of time
When I roll the dice again if lady luck will call my name
That's what makes the Irish h...
If you leave me, if you grieve me
What would I do without you to see me through.
If you hurt me, if you desert me
What would I do, without you, to see me through.
What would I do
Tell me I wanna know
Who would I see
What would I know.
Well I'm crazy about my baby
What would I do without you, to see me through.
What would I do
Tell me I wanna know
Who would I see
Where would I go.
Well I'm craz...
What's wrong with this picture?
There's something I'm not seein' here
What's wrong with this picture?
Something's not exactly clear
What's wrong with this picture?
Does it look like it's just another sting, sting?
'Cos it don't mean a thing
If it ain't got that swing and ring a ding ding
What's wrong with this picture?
Doesn't anybody see
That's who everyone thought
That I used to be
What's wr...
Whatever happened to PJ Proby?
Wonder can you fix it Jim
Where the hell do you think is Scott Walker?
My memory's getting so dim
Don't have no frame of reference no more
Not even Screaming Lord Sutch
Without him now there's no Raving Loony Party
Nowadays I guess there's not much
To relate to anymore
'Less you wanna be mediocre
Ain't nothin' new under the sun
And the moon, and the stars now chu...
And when heart is open and when heart is open
You will change just like a flower slowly openin'
And when heart is open
You will change just like a flower slowly openin'
When there's no comin' and there's no goin'
And when heart is open you will meet your lover
You will tarry, you will tarry with your lover?
And when heart is open you will meet your lover
When there's no comin' and there's no g...
I want you, be around
When that evening sun goes down
I want you, be around
Keep my both feet on the ground
When that evening sun goes down
I want you, understand, little girl, take me by my hand
I want you, understand, I wanna be your loving man
When that evening sun goes down
If it's nice, we'll go for a walk, a stroll in the clear moonlight
Singing a song, won't take long
Everything gonna b...
I saw you standing with the wind and the rain in your face
And you were thinking 'bout the wisdom of the leaves and their grace
When the leaves come falling down
In September, when the leaves come falling down
And at night the moon is shining on a clear cloudless sky
And when the evening shadows fall, I'll be there by your side
When the leaves come falling down
In September, when the leaves co...
The sun was setting over Avalon
The last time we stood in the west
Suffering long time angels enraptured by Blake
Burn out the dross innocence captured again
Standing on the beach at sunset all the boats
All the boats keep moving slow
In the glory of the flashing light in the evening's glow
When will I ever learn to live in God?
When will I ever learn?
He gives me everything I need and more
Wh...
Do, do, do
Whenever God shined a light on me
He opened up my eyes so I could see
When I look up in the darkest night
Then I know that everything's gonna be alright
In deep confusion and great despair
When I reach out for help, He is there
When I'm lonely as I can be
Then I know that God shines His light on me
Reach out for help, He'll be there
With Him your troubles you can share
And if you li...
Whenever God shines his light on me
Opens up my eyes so I can see
When I look up in the darkest night
I know everything's going to be alright
In deep confusion, in great despair
When I reach out for him he is there
When I am lonely as I can be
I know that God shines his light on me
Reach out for him, he'll be there
With him your troubles you can share
If you live the life you love
You get the ...
Drop that coin right into the slot
Get it whether you're ready or not
Let the whinin' boy moan
Let the whinin' boy moan
Let the whinin' boy moan
If you don't know how to do it yourself
Well they call him Mr. Jellyroll
Just the way he rolls his dough
Let the whinin' boy moan
Let the whinin' boy moan
Let the whinin' boy moan
If you don't know how to do it yourself
Well well well well, let the wh...
Leslie Bricusse Anthony Newley
Who can I turn to
When no body needs me
My heart wants to go
So I must know
Where my destiny leads me
With no star to guide me
No one beside me
I will go on my way
And after today
The darkness will hide me
Maybe tomorrow
I going to find what I'm after
Throw out my sorrow
Beg steal or borrow
My share of laughter
With you I can cling to
I can learn too with you
I'm...
Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summer time
And who done me out high time fashion
And made me read between the lines
And who said, "Follow the man
It's your only chance, sit on your throne
You got to make it on your own, on your own"
And who said, "Look at you, look at you, you got jam on your face
And who did your homework and read your Bible
And signe...
Oh, ain't it lonely
When you're living with a gun
When you can't slow down and you can't turn 'round
And you can't trust anyone
You just sit there like a butterfly
And you're all encased in glass
You're so fragile you just may break
And you don't know who to ask
Oh, ain't it lonely
When you're living with a gun
Well, you can't slow down and you can't turn 'round
And you can't trust anyone
You ...
Why don't you love me like you used to do?
How come you treat me like a worn out shoe?
My hair's still curly and my eyes are still blue
Why don't you love me like you used to do?
Ain't had no lovin' like a huggin' and a kissin'
In a long, long while
We don't get nearer, further
Closer than a country mile
Why don't you spark me like you used to do?
And say sweet nothing's like you used to coo
I...
Have to toe the line, I've got to make the most
Spent all the years going from pillar to post
Now, I'm standing on the outside and I'm waitin' in the rain
Tell me, why must I always explain?
Bared my soul to the crowd, eh but oh, what the cost?
Most of them laughed out loud like nothing's been lost
There were hypocrites and parasites and people that drain
Tell me, why must I always explain?
Wh...
We were the war children born 1945
When all the soldiers came marching home
Love looks in their eye
Tennessee, Tennessee Williams
Let your inspiration flow
Let it be around when we hear the sound
When the spring time rivers flow, when the rivers flow
Rod Steiger and Marlon Brando
Standing with their heads bowed on the side
Crying like a baby thinking about the time
James Dean took that fatal r...
Open your arms in the early mornin'
When the light comes shinin' through
Can't you hear my heart beat just for you?
It's beating so wild, honey
And light comes shinin'
Singin' my song and the band is playin'
And the music is tried and true
Can't you hear my heart beat just for you?
It's beating so wild, honey
And light comes shinin'
I'll be waiting for you, I'll be waiting here for me
Way up o...
As you brush your shoes
Stand before the mirror
And you comb your hair
Grab your coat and hat
And you walk wet streets
Tryin' to remember
All the wild night breezes
In your memory ever
And everything looks so complete
When you're walkin' out on the street
And the wind catches your feet
Sends you flyin', cryin'
Ooh, woo, wee
Wild night is calling, alright
Ooh, woo, wee
Wild night is calling
All...
Wobble and ball.
Wobble and ball baby.
Do the wobble.
Do the ball.
Do the ball.
Do the wobble.
Boogaloo,
Down broadway baby.
Do the boogaloo
All 'round broadway baby.
Do the ball.
Baby.
All 'round broadway baby.
Do the ball.
Do the ball baby.
All over broadway baby.
How can you stand the silence
That pervades when we all cry?
How can you watch the violence
That erupts before your eyes?
How can you tell us something
Just to keep us hangin' on?
Somethin' that just don't mean nothing
When we see it you are gone
Clinging to some other rainbow
While we're standing, waiting in the cold
Tellin' us the same old story
Knowin' time is growin' old
That was a wonderf...
How can you stand the silence
That pervades when we all cry?
How can you watch the violence
That erupts before your eyes?
How can you tell us something
Just to keep us hangin' on?
Somethin' that just don't mean nothing
When we see it you are gone
Clinging to some other rainbow
While we're standing, waiting in the cold
Tellin' us the same old story
Knowin' time is growin' old
That was a wonderf...
Let's talk it over, let's get get it straight
Don't let th' situation escalate
You know there's always problems when a man is wrapped up in his art
But don't you worry baby you can count on me to do my part
You keep on working, I'm looking round
Don't let your girlfriend put me down
You know it's tough these days for a proud man to make a start
But don't you worry baby you can count on me to d...
Mose Allison
Let's talk it over, let's get get it straight
Don't let th' situation escalate
You know there's always problems when a man is wrapped up in his art
But don't you worry baby you can count on me to do my part
You keep on working, I'm looking round
Don't let your girlfriend put me down
You know it's tough these days for a proud man to make a start
But don't you worry baby you can cou...
You give your hand to me and then you say hello
And I can hardly speak my heart is beating so
And anyone can tell, you think, you know me well
You don?t know me
Now if you don?t know the one who longs at you each night
And longs to kiss your lips and longs to hold you tight
You know I am just a friend, that?s all I?ve ever been
You don?t know me
I never knew the art of making love
?Til my hear...
When you were a child, you were a tomboy
Your sole satisfaction way back in shady lane
Do you remember, darlin'?
And it's the woman in you and it's the woman in you
You're sole satisfaction and it take the child in you to know
The woman and you are one
We're goin' out in the country to get down to the real soul,
I mean the real soul, people, talkin' 'bout the real soul people
We're goin' out i...
Well, let them take you for a clown
And they're bound to bring you down
You got to make it through the world if you can
Think they're doing you wrong, but you got here on your own
You got to make it through the world if you can, I said if you can
If you can, you got to make it through the world if you can
I said if you can, if you can
Ooh, lord
You got to make it through the world if you can
W...
One more coffee
One more cigarette
One more morning trying to forget
If I had the chance
To join your dance
I wouldn't like to bet
Your game is something yet
It's a shame
Ain't natural for you
Baby, it's a sin
You know you just can't win
When you are in
You used to ride on buses
Take a tube to Camden Town
Now you go by aeroplane
Don't let nothing bring you down
It's a shame
Ain't natural for y...
You know what they're writing about
Baby you know what they're writing about
It's a thing called love down through the ages
Makes you wanna cry sometimes
Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes
Makes you high sometimes
But when you really get in it lifts you right up
Ain't it a wonderful game
Ain't it a marvellous game
And when there's no more words to say about love I go
Meet...
Some people spend their time just runnin? round in circles
Always chasing some exotic bird
I prefer to spend some time just listening for that special something
That I?ve never ever heard
I like a new song to sing, another show
Or somewhere entirely different to be
But baby you make me feel so free
And so I yearn for mistress calling me
That?s the muse, that?s the muse
But we only burn up with...
I like my coffee in the mornin',
Crazy 'bout my tea at night.
I like my coffee in the mornin',
Crazy 'bout my tea at night.
If I don't get my sugar three times a day,
Boy, you know I don't feel right.
Well, I know my hound dog
When I hear him bark.
Well, I know my hound dog
When I hear him bark.
And I know my baby when I feel her
In the dark.
Ya' move me,
Ya' move me, ya' move me, ya' move me ...
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know where I'm goin', yeah
Oh Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night
You really got me
You really got me
You really got me
Please, don't ever let me be
I only wanna be by your side
Plea...
You say "France" and I'll whistle
You say "France" and I'll whistle
I'll whistle, you say "France"
No, you say "France" and I'll whistle
No, no, you whistle and I'll say "France"
No, no, you say "France" and I'll whistle
Yeah, you whistle, I'll say, "France", yeah
No, no, you say "France" and I'll whistle
The news is out all over town
That you've been seen out runnin' 'round
I know that I should leave but then
I just can't go, you win again
This heart of mine could never see
What everybody knows but me
Just trustin' you was my great sin
Ya gotta trust in me, baby
What can I do? You win again
This heart of mine, oh, I could never see
What everybody knows but me
Just trustin' you was my great sin...
You're my woman and you're my woman
You bore my child, Lord, you bore my child, Lord
I want to thank you, I want to thank you
And no one else will do, and no one else will do
And no one else will do
Baby, yes you, you are my sunshine
I am your guiding light
To like a ship out in the night
Returning for a light
I love you, I really love you
My heart is for you, my heart is for you
I long to fee...
Your cheatin' heart will make you weep
You'll cry and cry, you'll try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
When tears come down like pourin' rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk the floor the way I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
When tears come down like fallin' rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk t...
Sitting there yakkin' right in my face
Coming on like you own the place
If silence was golden
You couldn't raise a dime
Cause your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime
You're quoting figures, you're dropping names
You're telling stories, you're playing games
You always laugh when things ain't funny
You try to sound like you don't need money
If talk was criminal, you'd lead a ...
He's the youth of a thousand summers
He's the youth of a thousand summers
Like a sweet bird of youth
Like a sweet bird of youth
In my soul, in my soul, in my soul
In my soul, in my soul, in my soul
And he looks so radiant
And he shines like the sun
And he looks so radiant
And he lights up the world
He's the youth of a thousand summers
He's the youth of a thousand summers
Like a sweet bird of y...
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Beautiful vision
Stay with me all of the time
Beautiful vision
Stay ever on my mind with your beautiful
Mystical rapture
I am in ecstasy
Beautiful vision
Don't ever separate me from your beautiful
In the darkest night
You are shining bright
You are my guiding light
You show me wrong from right
Beautiful vision
Stay ever on my mind
Beautiful vision
Stay with me all of the time with your beautif...
sonny boy williamson
Good mornin' little school girl
Good mornin' little school girl
Can I go home, can I go home, with you?
Tell your mommy and you poppy
Oh, I once was a school boy, too
Well, I don't want to well I don't want to
Well, I don't want to well I don't want to
Be jivin' your boyfriend be jivin' your boyfriend
Be jivin' your boyfriend around
Well, you jive so easy, yeah
That I don'...
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there's no one above you?
Fill my heart with gladness, take away my sadness
Ease my troubles that's what you do
Oh, the morning sun in all it's glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
And you fill my life with laughter, you can make it better
Ease my troubles that's what you do
There's a love that's divine
And it's yours and it's m...
There's something going on
It fill you up, it fill you up, it fill you up now
There's something going on
It fill you up, it fill you up, it fill you up now
But you don't know what it is
But you don't know what it is
But you don't have to know
You just take it for what it is
Within this melody, it fill you up, it fill you up, it fill you up now
There's more then you can see, it fill you up, it ...
You can take all the tea in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around all the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree
She's as sweet, she's as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey, baby, from the bee
You can't stop us on the road to freedom
You can't keep us 'cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, ...
Some people spend their time just runnin? round in circles
Always chasing some exotic bird
I prefer to spend some time just listening for that special something
That I?ve never ever heard
I like a new song to sing, another show
Or somewhere entirely different to be
But baby you make me feel so free
And so I yearn for mistress calling me
That?s the muse, that?s the muse
But we only burn up with...
|
 A Sense Of Wonder |
There's a voice cryin' out in the wilderness
All your trails have not been in vain
And you're doin' the best you know how to do
Gaining strength in the things that remain
You're part of the plan
For a new kind of man to come through
There's an angel that's watching right over you
All your trials have not been in vain
Won't you lift your head up to the starry night
Finding strength in the thing...
I walked in my greatcoat, down through the days of the leaves
No before after, yes after before
We were shining our light into the days of blooming wonder
In the eternal presence, in the presence of the flame
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder?
Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision bright?
Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame?
On and on and on and on, we kept o...
Saw you shining in the sun this morning
Saw you shining in the moon at night
Saw you shining in the sun this morning
Saw you shining in the moon at night
Ancient of days, ancient of days
Ancient of day
Saw you standing by the winding river
Saw you standing by the shining stream
Saw you standing by the winding river
Saw you standing by the shining stream
Ancient of days, ancient of days
Ancient...
If you only knew all the problems
That a man like me has to face.
If you only knew all the silly
Things that keep a man from his place.
I wouldn't want to sing your own song.
Your gonna have to lose a few.
If you only knew.
If you only knew all the dealing
That goes on in back of the store.
If you only knew how that one that's
Got a lot can't wait to get more.
I wouldn't want to cramp your sty...
If you leave me, if you grieve me
What would I do without you to see me through.
If you hurt me, if you desert me
What would I do, without you, to see me through.
What would I do
Tell me I wanna know
Who would I see
What would I know.
Well I'm crazy about my baby
What would I do without you, to see me through.
What would I do
Tell me I wanna know
Who would I see
Where would I go.
Well I'm craz...
|
 Astral Weeks |
If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where mobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down in silence easy
To be born again, to be born again
From the far side of the ocean
If I put the wheels in motion
And I stand with my arms behind me
And I'm pushin' on the door
Could you find me?
Would yo...
Spread your wings, come on fly awhile
Straight to my arms, little angel child
You know you only
Lonely twenty-two story block
And if somebody, not just anybody
Wanted to get close to you
For instance, me, baby
All you gotta do is ring a bell
Step right up, step right up
And step right up, ballerina
Crowd will catch you
Fly it, sigh it, try it
Well, I may be wrong
But something deep in my heart...
Slim slow slider
Horse you ride white as snow
Slim slow slider
Horse you ride is white as snow
Tell it everywhere you go
Saw you walking
Down by the Ladbroke Grove this morning
Saw you walking
Down by the Ladbroke Grove this morning
Catching pebbles for some sandy beach
You're out of reach
Saw you early this morning
With your brand new boy and your Cadillac
Saw you early this morning
With your...
|
 Astral Weeks Live At the Hollywood Bowl |
If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where mobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down in silence easy
To be born again, to be born again
From the far side of the ocean
If I put the wheels in motion
And I stand with my arms behind me
And I'm pushin' on the door
Could you find me?
Would yo...
Spread your wings,
come on fly awhile
straight to my arms,
oh,little angel child.
You know you're only
lonely twenty-two story block.
And if somebody, not just anybody,
wanted to get close to you,
for instance, me, baby?
All you gotta do
Is ring the bell.
Step right up, step right up.
And step right up
Ballerina...
Grab it, Catch it
Fly it, Sigh it,
Try it...
Well, I may be wrong,
but somethin...
Little Jimmy?s gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain
And he?s right on time, right on time
That?s why broken arrow waved his finger
Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the Sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the highway
All the dogs are barkin? way down below
And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin? Nor...
Well, I'm caught one more time
Up on Cyprus Avenue
Caught one more time
Up on Cyprus Avenue
And I'm conquered in a car seat
Not a thing that I can do
I may go crazy
Before that mansion on the hill
I may go crazy
Before that mansion on the hill
But my heart keeps beating faster
And my feet can't keep still
And all the little girls rhyme something
On the way back home from school
And all the lit...
And all my love come down
All my love come tumblin' down
All my love come tumblin' down
All my love come tumblin' down
Oh, listen to the lion
Oh, listen, listen, listen to the lion
Inside of me
Oh, oh, oh
And I shall search my soul
I shall search my very soul
And I shall search my very soul
I shall search my very soul
For the lion, for the lion
For the lion, for the lion
Inside of me
Oh, oh, y...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
Slim slow slider
Horse you ride white as snow
Slim slow slider
Horse you ride is white as snow
Tell it everywhere you go
Saw you walking
Down by the Ladbroke Grove this morning
Saw you walking
Down by the Ladbroke Grove this morning
Catching pebbles for some sandy beach
You're out of reach
Saw you early this morning
With your brand new boy and your Cadillac
Saw you early this morning
With your...
And I will stroll the merry way
And jump the hedges first
And I will drink the clear clean water
For to quench my thirst
And I shall watch the ferry boats
And they'll get high on a bluer ocean
Against tomorrow's sky
And I will never grow so old again
And I will walk and talk
In gardens all wet with rain
Oh sweet thing, sweet thing
My, my, my, my, my sweet thing
And I shall drive my chariot
Dow...
We strolled through fields, all wet with rain
And back along the lane again
There in the sunshine, in the sweet summertime
The way that young lovers do
I kissed you on the lips once more
And we said goodbye, just adoring the nighttime
Yeah, that's the right time
To feel the way that young lovers do
Then we sat on our own star
And dreamed of the way that we were
And the way that we were meant t...
|
 Avalon Sunset |
Contacting my angel, contacting my angel
She's the one, she's the one, that satisfies
Contacting my angel she's the one that satisfies
She's the one that I adore
Got a telepathic message from my baby
In a little village through the fog
Here comes my baby, I can tell, I can tell
By the way she walks
Said I've been on a journey up the mountain side
And I drank the water from the stream
It was pu...
In the daring night when all the stars are shining bright
Squeeze me don't leave me, in the daring night
Galactic swirl in the firmament tonight
Oh, with the lord of the dance
With the lord of the dance, in the daring night
I see Orion and the hunters standing by the light of the moon
In the daring night, in the daring night
And the heart and the soul
As we look up in awe and wonder at the hea...
On a gold Autumn day
You came my way in Orangefield
Saw you standing by the river in Orangefield
How I love you then, in Orangefield
Like I love you now, in Orangefield
And the sun shone on your hair
When I saw you there, in Orangefield
Saw you standing by the river, in Orangefield
How I loved you then in Orangefield
Like I love you now in Orangefield
And the sun shone so bright
And it lit up ...
These are the days of the endless summer
These are the days, the time is now
There is no past, there's only future
There's only here, there's only now
Oh, your smiling face, your gracious presence
The fires of spring are kindling bright
Oh, the radiant heart and the song of glory
Crying freedom in the night
These are the days by the sparkling river
His timely grace and our treasured find
This ...
|
 Back On Top |
You came to see me when the moon was new
Saw you standing in the pouring rain
Left my message on a window pane
Back on the street again
Back on the beat again
I'm back on the top again
You saw me climbing to the top of the hill
You saw me meeting with the fools on the hill
Learned my lesson and I had my fill
Learned it all in vain
Went through it all again
Now I'm back on the top again
Always ...
Well, I heard the bells ringing
I was thinking about winning
In this God forsaken place
When my confidence was well
Then I tripped and I fell
Right flat on my face
Now I'm standing erect
And I feel like coming back
And the sun is shining gold
Put a smile on my face
Get back in the human race
And get on with the show
And I'm taking in the Indian Summer
And I'm soaking it up in my mind
And I'm p...
By the mansion on the hillside
Red sports car comes driving down the road
And pulls up into the driveway
And a story does unfold
She's standing by the rhododendrons
Where the roses are in bloom
Looking out at the Atlantic ocean
And in her head, she hums this tune
Thank God, the dark nights are drawing in again
'Cos high summer has got me down
Can we wait till the end of August
And get off this...
In the lonely dead of midnight
In the dimness of the twilight
By the streetlight, by the lamplight
I'll be around
In the sunlight, in the daylight
And I'm workin' on the insight
And I'm tryin' to keep my game uptight
I'll be around
And your memory, I heard this lonely lonely music once
And your memory has been haunting me ever since
When I'm tryin', tryin' to come down
In my world, my room kee...
See you've got the new biography
Where did they get the info from?
Same as before some so called friends
Who claim to have known me then
How come they've got such good memories
When I can't even remember last week
Got to question where they're coming from
What knowledge of [Incomprehensible] they speak?
So far away, way back when
The people that claim to have known me then
Down not on my wavel...
Out on the highways and the by-ways all alone
I'm still searching for, searching for my home
Up in the morning, up in the morning out on the road
And my head is aching and my hands are cold
And I'm looking for the silver lining
Silver lining in the clouds and I'm searching for
And I'm searching for the philosophers stone
And it's a hard road, it's a hard road daddy-o
When my job is turning lea...
Precious time is slipping away
But you're only king for a day
It doesn't matter to which God you pray
Precious time is slipping away
It doesn't matter what route you take
Sooner or later the hearts going to break
No rhyme or reason, no master plan
No nirvana, no promised land because
Precious time is slipping away
You know, you're only king for a day
It doesn't matter to which God you pray
Pre...
I miss you so much, I can't stand it
Seems like my heart is breaking in two
The head says, no, but my soul demands it
Everything I do reminds me of you
I miss you so much in this house full of shadows
While the rain keeps pouring down my window too
When will the pain recede to the darkness
From whence it has come and I'm feeling so blue
Ain't goin' down, no more to the well
Sometimes it feels ...
I saw you standing with the wind and the rain in your face
And you were thinking 'bout the wisdom of the leaves and their grace
When the leaves come falling down
In September, when the leaves come falling down
And at night the moon is shining on a clear cloudless sky
And when the evening shadows fall, I'll be there by your side
When the leaves come falling down
In September, when the leaves co...
|
 Bang Masters |
In the back room
In the back room
I waited for you
Ya waited for me
Rain came down, pitter-pat
Say, what you think, it's raining outside, you said, "So what"
You turned the record player on, had a smoke, stood up
Walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist, couldn't resist
A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
Walked into the...
|
 Beautiful Vision |
Across the bridge where angels dwell
Across the bridge where angels
Across the bridge where angels dwell
Children play
Beyond the place where time is still
Beyond the place where time is
Beyond the place where time is still
Night is day
Close your eyes in fields of wonder
Close your eyes and dream
Close your eyes in fields of wonder
Close your eyes and dream
Along the path where heaven lies
Al...
Aryan mist, among the bridges
You hang by the river
You've been here forever
Aryan mist
What can the matter be
In a world full of glamor
Does it lift you up
Or is it the railway carriage charm?
You just sit here
And look from your carriage
As you watch the scene go by
Gurus from the east
Oh gurus from the west
Does it lift you up
Or is it railway carriage charm
Aryan mist, among the bridges
Yo...
|
 Before The Fame |
Little Jimmy?s gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain
And he?s right on time, right on time
That?s why broken arrow waved his finger
Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the Sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the highway
All the dogs are barkin? way down below
And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin? Nor...
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
I don't wanna stop rockin' and rollin' with you.
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Caught you this morning before your daddy came home.
And I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
Gave you my jell...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight special
Shine it's light on me
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on me
Yonder come miss Rosey
How in the world do you know?
How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by her apron
And the dress she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
A piece of paper in her hand
She gonna te...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, quot;it a...
Words and music by Van Morrison
Now listen Julie baby,
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight,
It ain't natural for you to cry
Way in the midnight through,
Until the wee small hours
Long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord.
Now Julie there ain't nothin' on my mind
More further away than what you're lookin' for,
I see the way they jump at me
Lord, from behind the door, and look into my ey...
Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summer time
And who done me out high time fashion
And made me read between the lines
And who said, "Follow the man
It's your only chance, sit on your throne
You got to make it on your own, on your own"
And who said, "Look at you, look at you, you got jam on your face
And who did your homework and read your Bible
And signe...
|
 Blowin' Your Mind |
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainb...
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
I don't wanna stop rockin' and rollin' with you.
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Caught you this morning before your daddy came home.
And I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
Gave you my jell...
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight special
Shine it's light on me
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on me
Yonder come miss Rosey
How in the world do you know?
How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by her apron
And the dress she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
A piece of paper in her hand
She gonna te...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, quot;it a...
Words and music by Van Morrison
Now listen Julie baby,
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight,
It ain't natural for you to cry
Way in the midnight through,
Until the wee small hours
Long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord.
Now Julie there ain't nothin' on my mind
More further away than what you're lookin' for,
I see the way they jump at me
Lord, from behind the door, and look into my ey...
Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summer time
And who done me out high time fashion
And made me read between the lines
And who said, "Follow the man
It's your only chance, sit on your throne
You got to make it on your own, on your own"
And who said, "Look at you, look at you, you got jam on your face
And who did your homework and read your Bible
And signe...
|
 Brown Eyed Beginnings |
In the back room
In the back room
I waited for you
Ya waited for me
Rain came down, pitter-pat
Say, what you think, it's raining outside, you said, "So what"
You turned the record player on, had a smoke, stood up
Walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist, couldn't resist
A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
Walked into the...
Little Jimmy?s gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain
And he?s right on time, right on time
That?s why broken arrow waved his finger
Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the Sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the highway
All the dogs are barkin? way down below
And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin? Nor...
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainb...
Hey girl, when ya' swish and sway
In your yellow dress
'Cross the crowded room
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Hey girl, freckles on your arms
Freckles on your face
Can we find a place
In a crowded room, we go?
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a, chic-a, chick-a-boom
Hey, girl, I'm gone away
But ...
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
I don't wanna stop rockin' and rollin' with you.
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Caught you this morning before your daddy came home.
And I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
Gave you my jell...
Smile you smile is you and I
See through your laughing eyes
Smile you smile is you and I
See through your laughing eyes
Oh baby
In the whirlpool of them, I
Can be in paradise
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
Ever and a day with you
Oh yes, I will
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
Ever and a day with you
Oh baby, sit between the stars and say
That's my point of view, oh yeah
I love you, I love you
I...
If it matters how you do it
And how you do it is your thing
If it matters which way you go
That's your way to go
And if you get it like that
That's the way you get it
'Cause you get it like that
When you want to be that way
When you wanna be that way
That's the way you wanna be, see
Hey, it's all right
Hey, it's all right
Now what you try to do to me
Out there a-walking doesn't matter, baby
Ai...
When you thought I was a stranger, when you looked upon me
When I came back
But to take you from disaster, I cannot master
The four winds in your shack
In the roamin', in the gloamin', you have brought
And set before me
And I think that it's an omen, I'm just not
What so many people see
And you shined your glory all around
Do not disguise what you did
I asked you for half a pound and you said
...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight special
Shine it's light on me
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on me
Yonder come miss Rosey
How in the world do you know?
How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by her apron
And the dress she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
A piece of paper in her hand
She gonna te...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Well, you're out there on the highway
While you're drivin' a-roll on by
Goin' south between the bridges
While the river's runnin' dry
And if ya can't come home
Please send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Now you're talkin', where ya goin'?
On the train that sees the road
'Cross the nation, passing...
The smile you smile is you
And I see through your laughing eyes
The smile you smile is you
And I see through your laughing eyes
And in the whirlpool of them, I can be in paradise
An I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
And ever and a day with you
And I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
And ever and a day with you
An' sit between the stars and say that's my point of view
I yi-yi, yi-yi, I love you
I love ...
The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, quot;it a...
Words and music by Van Morrison
Now listen Julie baby,
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight,
It ain't natural for you to cry
Way in the midnight through,
Until the wee small hours
Long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord.
Now Julie there ain't nothin' on my mind
More further away than what you're lookin' for,
I see the way they jump at me
Lord, from behind the door, and look into my ey...
Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summer time
And who done me out high time fashion
And made me read between the lines
And who said, "Follow the man
It's your only chance, sit on your throne
You got to make it on your own, on your own"
And who said, "Look at you, look at you, you got jam on your face
And who did your homework and read your Bible
And signe...
|
 Brown Eyed Girl |
In the back room
In the back room
I waited for you
Ya waited for me
Rain came down, pitter-pat
Say, what you think, it's raining outside, you said, "So what"
You turned the record player on, had a smoke, stood up
Walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist, couldn't resist
A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
Walked into the...
Little Jimmy?s gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain
And he?s right on time, right on time
That?s why broken arrow waved his finger
Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the Sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the highway
All the dogs are barkin? way down below
And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin? Nor...
Hey girl, when ya' swish and sway
In your yellow dress
'Cross the crowded room
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Hey girl, freckles on your arms
Freckles on your face
Can we find a place
In a crowded room, we go?
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a, chic-a, chick-a-boom
Hey, girl, I'm gone away
But ...
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
I don't wanna stop rockin' and rollin' with you.
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Caught you this morning before your daddy came home.
And I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
Gave you my jell...
If it matters how you do it
And how you do it is your thing
If it matters which way you go
That's your way to go
And if you get it like that
That's the way you get it
'Cause you get it like that
When you want to be that way
When you wanna be that way
That's the way you wanna be, see
Hey, it's all right
Hey, it's all right
Now what you try to do to me
Out there a-walking doesn't matter, baby
Ai...
When you thought I was a stranger, when you looked upon me
When I came back
But to take you from disaster, I cannot master
The four winds in your shack
In the roamin', in the gloamin', you have brought
And set before me
And I think that it's an omen, I'm just not
What so many people see
And you shined your glory all around
Do not disguise what you did
I asked you for half a pound and you said
...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight special
Shine it's light on me
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on me
Yonder come miss Rosey
How in the world do you know?
How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by her apron
And the dress she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
A piece of paper in her hand
She gonna te...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Well, you're out there on the highway
While you're drivin' a-roll on by
Goin' south between the bridges
While the river's runnin' dry
And if ya can't come home
Please send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Now you're talkin', where ya goin'?
On the train that sees the road
'Cross the nation, passing...
The smile you smile is you
And I see through your laughing eyes
The smile you smile is you
And I see through your laughing eyes
And in the whirlpool of them, I can be in paradise
An I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
And ever and a day with you
And I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
And ever and a day with you
An' sit between the stars and say that's my point of view
I yi-yi, yi-yi, I love you
I love ...
The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, quot;it a...
Words and music by Van Morrison
Now listen Julie baby,
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight,
It ain't natural for you to cry
Way in the midnight through,
Until the wee small hours
Long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord.
Now Julie there ain't nothin' on my mind
More further away than what you're lookin' for,
I see the way they jump at me
Lord, from behind the door, and look into my ey...
Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summer time
And who done me out high time fashion
And made me read between the lines
And who said, "Follow the man
It's your only chance, sit on your throne
You got to make it on your own, on your own"
And who said, "Look at you, look at you, you got jam on your face
And who did your homework and read your Bible
And signe...
|
 Brown Eyed Girl amp; Blue Eyed Soul |
In the back room
In the back room
I waited for you
Ya waited for me
Rain came down, pitter-pat
Say, what you think, it's raining outside, you said, "So what"
You turned the record player on, had a smoke, stood up
Walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist, couldn't resist
A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
Walked into the...
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainb...
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
I don't wanna stop rockin' and rollin' with you.
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Caught you this morning before your daddy came home.
And I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
Gave you my jell...
When you thought I was a stranger, when you looked upon me
When I came back
But to take you from disaster, I cannot master
The four winds in your shack
In the roamin', in the gloamin', you have brought
And set before me
And I think that it's an omen, I'm just not
What so many people see
And you shined your glory all around
Do not disguise what you did
I asked you for half a pound and you said
...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, quot;it a...
Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summer time
And who done me out high time fashion
And made me read between the lines
And who said, "Follow the man
It's your only chance, sit on your throne
You got to make it on your own, on your own"
And who said, "Look at you, look at you, you got jam on your face
And who did your homework and read your Bible
And signe...
|
 Common One |
Let's go walkin' up that mountainside
Look down in the valley down below
And we survey this wondrous scene
Wait a minute, hold that dream, hold that dream
Don't want to change my name and write a book
Just like 'Catcher in the Rye'
Settle down in a shady nook
Talkin' to my baby now
I'm satisfied
With my world
'Cause I made it
The way it is
Satisfied
Satisfied
Satisfied
Satisfied
Satisfied
Sati...
When you've given up hope and you're down in despair
When you've given up hope and you're down in despair
When you've given up hope and you're down in despair
When you've given up
And you sit in your room and you're all alone
And you turn to the one and you turn inside
For a while
Say, help me, angel
Oh, no, never let spirit die
Oh, no, spirit don't ever die
Oh, no, never let spirit die
Oh, no...
Can you meet me in the country
In the summertime in England?
Will you meet me?
Will you meet me in the country
In the summertime in England?
Will you meet me?
We'll go riding up to Kendal in the country
In the summertime in England
Did you ever hear about
Did you ever hear about
Did you ever hear about
Wordsworth and Coleridge, baby?
Did you ever hear about
Wordsworth and Coleridge?
They were ...
And when heart is open and when heart is open
You will change just like a flower slowly openin'
And when heart is open
You will change just like a flower slowly openin'
When there's no comin' and there's no goin'
And when heart is open you will meet your lover
You will tarry, you will tarry with your lover?
And when heart is open you will meet your lover
When there's no comin' and there's no g...
Open your arms in the early mornin'
When the light comes shinin' through
Can't you hear my heart beat just for you?
It's beating so wild, honey
And light comes shinin'
Singin' my song and the band is playin'
And the music is tried and true
Can't you hear my heart beat just for you?
It's beating so wild, honey
And light comes shinin'
I'll be waiting for you, I'll be waiting here for me
Way up o...
|
 Days Like This |
There's a small cafe on the outskirts of town
I'll be there when the sun goes down
Where the roadside bends and it twists and it turns
Every new generation
And I'll be praying to my higher self
Don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground
There's a roadside jam playin' on the edge of town
In a town called Paradise near the ancient highway
When the train whistle blows
All the sadness that Hank...
When it's not always raining there'll be days like this
When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this
When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch
Well, my mama told me, "There'll be days like this"
When you don't need to worry there'll be days like this
When no one's in a hurry there'll be days like this
When you don't get betrayed by that old Judas kiss
Oh, my mam...
The light is fading in the afternoon
Won?t you see me baby, in my room?
There?s something that I wanna say to you
Tell me baby, am I getting through?
Wanna make, wanna make, wanna make
Wanna make love to you
Wanna make, wanna make, wanna make
Wanna make love to you
Wanna make, wanna make, wanna make
Wanna make love to you in the afternoon, in the afternoon
The light is fading from across the w...
In the afternoon, baby in my room
When the lights are dim way beyond the hill
In the afternoon, baby in my room
When I'm really down get me off the ground
Melancholia
Melancholia
Melancholia
In the morning time when I go outside
In the morning time it's like that all the while
In the afternoon when I'm in my room
Every single day, it won't go away
Melancholia
Melancholia
Melancholia
And it's i...
We didn?t know no better
And they said it could be worse
Some people thought it was a blessing
Other people think that it?s a curse
It?s a choice between fact and fiction
And the whole world has gone astray
That?s why there?s no religion
No religion, no religion here today
And there?s no straight answers
Of what this thing called love is all about
Some say it?s unconditional
Other people just ...
Now baby, just lately you've been holding back too much
Your looks and my language, this could be the perfect touch
What you are asking fits with everything on my list
This could be the perfect fit
Tell me that it's madness to want something quite like this
But they don't understand the magic that I can't resist
Oh, and wouldn't it be so tragic if everything just went amiss
And this could be t...
It's not high finance
It's called heart and soul
If it's rock and roll
Got to go, go, go, go, go
Gon' keep moving on up
To the higher ground
Gon' keep on moving on up
I got to stand my ground
Gon' keep on moving on up
I wanna stick around
Won't let the bastards grind me down
Won't let the bastards grind me down
Won't let the bastards grind me down
Call me Raincheck
In the afternoon
Call me Rai...
'Take it or leave it', I've heard it been said
All this spring fevers just way over my head
Stealin' my moments, takin' up all my time
It's playin' Russian roulette with my mind
None of my business baby just what's goin' on
I'm not goin' to wait till somebody throw me a bone
I'm way out on a limb now and nothin' seems to rhyme
It's playin' Russian roulette with my mind
I think that you've caug...
I'm a songwriter and I know just where I stand
I'm a songwriter, pen and paper in my hand
Get the words on the page, please don't call me a sage
I'm a songwriter
I'm a songwriter and I do it for a living
I'm a songwriter and I write about men and women
I can write about love and the stars up above
I'm a songwriter
I'm a songwriter and I'm hot on your trail
I'm a songwriter and my cheque's in t...
Underlying depression, have to crawl into my room
Underlying depression don't want to know about the moon in June
Outside there's a cavalcade of clowns
But they're bringing me down with underlying depression
Underlying depression and it's starting in my backyard
Underlying depression and these times ain't even so hard
Lord I was born with the blues and my blue suede shoes
And underlying depres...
|
 Down The Road |
All work and no play
Makes Jack a dull chap
When it comes to the crunch
It's too much I've got to stop
No pain and no gain it's driving me insane
I'd like to be somewhere else
Like to be all by myself
Like to be down at the beach
Relaxing at the sugar shack
Hot dogs coffee black
Coca cola kicking back
I'm just a wild and crazy guy
But I'm tearing at the seams
Before you can say Jack Robinson
I...
You wired the trains and went back home to St. Claire's shores
Before you became a spark down at the yard
You were passing through those hungry years alone
You were just trying to make a living out in Detroit
When you came back off the boats, you didn't want to go anywhere
You sit down to TV in your favorite chair
You watch the big picture fade away down at Harland and Wolff
But you still kept...
Well, it's down the road I go
And I got those worried
Lonesome homesick Jones
Way on down the road
Well, it's down the road I go
Well, I got the blues
From way down in New Orleans
Way on down the road
And I got to be so far away
Oh, don't you see
All our memories, dreams and reflections
That keep haunting me
Well, it's down the road I go
And I hear those gypsy voices
Calling me way on down the...
Georgia, Georgia
Whole day through
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
Oh, on my mind, on my mind
Well, well, well, well, well
Well, well, well
I said hey now, hey now, hey now
Hey now, Georgia
Just the thought of you
Comes as sweet and clear
As the moonlight through the pines
Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
For that peaceful dreams I see
The road, the road, th...
Listen Mr. DJ
Won't you play me something slow?
Play me the songs for the lonely ones
Play me something that I know
Hey, Mr. DJ
I'm in a sad mood tonight
Play me something just for me and my baby
Won't you make everything alright?
I'm gonna turn it way down low
Leave it on all night long 'til the morning comes
Like my lover, my friend, until the end
And that special someone
Hey, Mr. DJ
Play me...
Man makes his money and they call him rich
Deep down inside he knows that life's still a b****
Man tries to keep things but they're taken away
Man has to struggle all the live long day
Man has to sweat and toil his life filled with trouble
Man got to step and fetch it on the double
Man has to work so hard to make it all pay
Man has to struggle all the live long day
Man keeps on moving 'cause h...
Well, don't you know, how much I love you?
Don't you know, how much I care?
It's beyond my comprehension
'Cos I love you on the square
It's not bound by any definition
It isn't written in the stars
It's not limited like Saturn
Isn't ruled by Mercury or Mars
Oh, won't you meet me in the Indian summer?
Where we'll go walking down by the weeping willow tree
Won't you meet me in the Indian summer?...
Only a dream that I had in the night
Only a dream but It felt so right
We were standing in the moonlight
I was holding you tight but it was only a dream
Only a dream and that knocked me off of my feet
Only a dream, it was dancing in the street
And the big band kept on playing of Bonaparte's retreat
But it was only a dream
Only a dream but somebody tried to knock it down
Only a dream but that d...
I can hear the sound of violins
I can hear the piper playin'
And every time the song begins
You just steal my heart away
And journey's longer than I thought, my love
There's lots of things get in the way
But every time I think of you
You just steal my heart away
Just like a morning in May like this
See the heather on the hill
There's a place way up the mountainside
Where the world keeps standi...
Kicked your gift-horse in the teeth
Crowd gathered round in the street
You killed your savior new one can't be found
Talk is cheap your savior's highway bound
You read the tabloids every day
They're giving lots of things away
They went to build you up so they can bring you down
Talk is cheap it's gonna could make them a million pounds
Now baby, don't put your business on the telephone
Tell you...
When I recall just how it felt
When I went walking down by the take
My soul was free, my heart awake
When I walked down into the town
The mountain air was fresh and clear
The sun was up behind the hill
It felt so good to be alive
On that morning in spring
I want to sing this song for you
I want to lift your spirits high
And in my soul I want to feel
The beauty of the days gone by
The beauty of...
All that trouble all that grief that's why I had to leave
Staying away too tong is in defeat
Why I'm singing this song, why I'm heading back home?
That's what makes the Irish heart beat
I'm just like a hobo riding a train, I'm like a gangster living in Spain
Have to watch my back and I'm running out of time
When I roll the dice again if lady luck will call my name
That's what makes the Irish h...
Whatever happened to PJ Proby?
Wonder can you fix it Jim
Where the hell do you think is Scott Walker?
My memory's getting so dim
Don't have no frame of reference no more
Not even Screaming Lord Sutch
Without him now there's no Raving Loony Party
Nowadays I guess there's not much
To relate to anymore
'Less you wanna be mediocre
Ain't nothin' new under the sun
And the moon, and the stars now chu...
|
 Enlightenment |
On down by Avalon, Avalon of the heart
On down by Avalon, gonna make a brand new start
Oh, the holy grail, baby, behind the sun
Oh, the holy grail down by Avalon
Well, I came upon the enchanted vale down by the viaducts of my dreams
Down by Camelot hangs the tale in the ancient vale
Oh, the Avalon sunset, Avalon of the heart
I'm with my lady goin' down by Avalon
Well, I came upon the enchanted...
Chop that wood, carry water
What's the sound of one hand clapping
Enlightenment, don't know what it is
Every second, every minute
It keeps changing to something different
Enlightenment, don't know what it is
Enlightenment, don't know what it is
It says it's non attachment
Non attachment, non attachment
I'm in the here and now, and I'm meditating
And still I'm suffering but that's my problem
En...
Memories
All I have is memories
All I have is memories
Memories of you
Now you're gone
They linger on, these memories
All these precious memories
Memories of you
How they linger in the twilight
In the morning in the small hours
Just before dawn
Memories
Of summer days so long ago
Yeah, people in the places
That we used to know
Oh those memories
How they linger in the twilight
And in the wee sm...
When I feel like l'can't get over
The solid white cliffs of dover
When I don't know what to do
Baby see me through yeah
Well I've been too long in this storm
I feel so sad and forlorn
And perhaps I'm counting on you
See me through yeah
When I think of that dear rugged cross
Where the dear saviour gave his all
When I feel like I'm on my last go round
See me through
See me through the days of wi...
Foghorns blowing in the night
Salt sea air in the morning breeze
Driving cars all along the coastline
This must be what it's all about
Oh this must be what it's all about
This must be what paradise is like
So quiet in here, so peaceful in here
So quiet in here, so peaceful in here
The warm look of radiance on your face
And your heart beating close to mine
And the evening fading in the candle g...
The way you see me walking on
That's why I'm telling you in song
There's only one way to get ahead
You've got to give it up instead
Start all over again
You see me standing on the bridge
I see the sunset in my view
The field looks colorful to me
I know there's more than I can see
We can start all over again
Made it, made it, made it
Made it through the winter time
Made it through the spring
Ma...
|
 Hard Nose The Highway |
Leaves of brown they fall to the ground
And it's here, over there leaves around
Shut the door, dim the lights and relax
What is more, your desire or the facts
Pitter patter the rain falling down
Little glamor sun coming round
Take a walk when autumn comes to town
Little stroll past the house on the hill
Some more coal on the fire if you will
And in a week or two it'll be Halloween
Set the page...
Hey kids, dig the first takes
Ain't that some interpretation
When Sinatra sings against Nelson Riddle Strings
Then takes a vacation
Seen some hard times
Drawn some bad lines
No time for shoeshines
Hard nose, the highway
I was tore down at the dead's place
Shaved head at the organ
But that wasn't half as bad, as it was, oh no
Belfast and Boston
Put your money where your mouth is
Then we can get...
Well, the summertime has gone
And the leaves are gently turnin?
And my love, I wanna take you
To the place heart-a-yearnin?
Will you go? Lassie go
And we?ll all go together
In the wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go?
And I will build my love a tower
At the foot of yonder mountain
And visit by the hour
From a lonely wooden tower
Will you go? Lassie go
And we?ll all g...
Snow in San Anselmo
The deer cross by the lights
The mission down in old San Rafael
And a madman looking for a fight
A madman looking for a fight
And the Massage parlor?s open
And the clientele come and they go
And the classic music station
Plays in the background soft and low
Plays in the background soft and low
And the silence 'round the cascades
And the ice crisp and clear
And the beginning...
Did you ever hear about the great deception?
Well the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run
Have you ever been down to love city?
Where they rip you off with a smile and it don't take a gun
Don't it hurt so bad in love city
Don't it make you not want to bother at all
And don't they look so self righteous
When they pin you up against the wall
Did you ever, ever see the people
With the ...
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 His Band And The Street Choir |
Photographer smile
Take a break for a while
Take a rest
Do your very best
Take five, honey
Five, honey
Search in your bag
Light up a fag
Think it's a drag
But you're so glad
To be alive, honey
Alive, honey
Say, when this is all over
You'll be in clover
We'll go out and spend
All a your blue money, blue money
Well the cameraman smiles
Take a break for a while
Do your best
Your very best
Take fi...
Well I tried and I tried
But the river seems so wide
And my head hurts and my hands are tied
And it's so hard
When you're standing on the yard
Every time that your number comes around
Call me up in dreamland
Radio to me man, alright
Get the message to me
Anyway you can
Well let your river roll
A way down in your soul
Never to grow old
On the saxophone
From the airport to the plane
A way to the...
All the people were waiting for our Crazy Face
He said he'd meet them at his favorite place
Dressed in black satin, white linen and lace
His head held high, with a smile on his face
And he said, "Ladies and gentlemen the prince is late"
As he stood outside the church-yard gate
And polished up on his 38
And said, "I got it from Jesse James"
All the people were waiting for Crazy Face
He said he'...
Honey, just one sweet kiss
Baby, from your sweet lips
Honey, just one sweet kiss
Baby, from your sweet lips
That's all I want
That's all I need
I'm satisfied
Honey, just one of your smiles
To know, it makes it all worthwhile
Honey, just of one a your smiles
To know, it makes it all worthwhile
That's all I want
That's all I need
I'm satisfied
We could go walkin' down the lane
Together, hand in ...
Dance on Gypsy Queen
If it's all night, it's alright
Rave on let your love come tumblin' down
If you let your love come tumblin' down i's alright
Dance on
You know it's alright
Gypsy Queen
Dance on
You know it's alright
Gypsy Queen
Rave on, right beneath the silver moon
Don't stop your carburetor let your car run
And if it starts to rain keep on dancin' in the rain
If it's all night, it's alri...
Lord if I ever needed someone, I need You
Lord if I ever needed someone I need You
To see me through the daytime
And through the long lonely night
To lead me through the darkness
And on into the light
To stand with me when I'm troubled
And help me through my strife
When times get so uncertain to turn to You
Turn to You in my young life
Lord if I ever needed someone, I need You
Lord if I ever n...
Street choir, sing me the song for the new day
Don't make it long and remember to sing it the old way
Let it all out, let your voice ring in the street now
My fun, shall be this one to complete now
Why did you leave America?
Why did you let me down?
And now that things seem better off
Why do you come around?
You know I just can't see you now
In my, in my new world crystal ball
You know I just ...
Oh sweet Jannie, won't you come out tonight?
Oh sweet Jannie, girl won't you come out tonight?
I want to take you walkin' way out in the clear moonlight
Oh baby, baby come on take me by my hand
Oh baby come on take me by my hand
I don't want to stop walkin'
Till we get up to the preacher man
I've been in love with you baby
Ever since you were back in Sunday school
I've been in love with you ba...
Let us free you from the pain
Let us see you smile again
Let us unlock all the chains
You're broken-hearted
Let us help you to forget
Let us help you unlock it
It's not nearly time to quit
You've only started
You gotta
Sit down, funny face
Oh let your laughter
Fill the room
Light up your golden smile
And take away all your misery and gloom
Oh let your laughter fill the room
Oh let your laughte...
|
 How Long Has This Been Going On |
My mama done tol' me
When I was a little
My mama done tol' me, son
A woman will sweet talk
And give you the big eye
But when that sweet talk is done
A woman's a two faced
A woman's something that would leave you
Singing the blues in the night
Now the rain is falling
Heaven can hear you calling
Doo wee
Heaven blows the lonesome whistle
Blowing across the threshold
Doo wee
Doo wee ta too tee
A c...
Early in the morning and I can't get right
Had a little date with my baby last night
Now it's early in the morning, well, it's early in the morning
Now it's early in the morning and I ain't got nothing but the blues
Went to all the places where we used to go
Went to our house but you don't live there no more
Now it's early in the morning, well, it's early in the morning
Early in the morning an...
Ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day
Ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day
Ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day, ba ba, doo day
Heathrow shuffle, Heathrow shuffle, yeah, ba ba, doo day
Heathrow shuffle, Heathrow shuffle, yeah, ba ba, doo day
Gotta go to Heathrow, gotta go to Heathrow, yeah, ba ba, doo day
Symphony sid is grooving
Man this whole house is moving
Symphony sid is grooving
Symphony sid
Symphony sid is swinging
That radio is ringing
Symphony sid is swinging
Symphony sid
Bing-bang bing-bang bing-bang ...
Bing-bing-bing-bang ...
Symphony sid is jumping
Man this whole house is romping
Symphony sid is jumping
Symphony sid
Tune in and listen
Check out what you're missin'
You're finally cl...
Sitting there yakkin' right in my face
Coming on like you own the place
If silence was golden
You couldn't raise a dime
Cause your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime
You're quoting figures, you're dropping names
You're telling stories, you're playing games
You always laugh when things ain't funny
You try to sound like you don't need money
If talk was criminal, you'd lead a ...
|
 Hymns To The Silence |
Here comes Sue and she looks crazy
Skipping down the hillside gaily
Looking like the flowers that bloom in May
Won't you make your reservation?
I will meet you at the station
Won't you come and see me, All Saints Day?
Follow my lead, it is no wonder, I seem to be so high
Living my dreams the way I ought to
As the days go rolling by
See me strolling through the meadow
With you baby by my side
W...
Be Thou my vision, oh Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me, save that thy art
Thou my best thought in the day and the night
Waking or sleeping, Thou presence my light
Be Thou my wisdom, be Thou my true word
I ever with Thee and Thou with me Lord
Thou my great Father and I Thy true son
Thou in me dwelling and I with Thee one
Be Thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight
Be Thou my armor a...
You've got to try, for the kingdom
You've got to try, for the kingdom
On high, you've got to try
By His grace, by His grace
You've got to live your religion
Deep inside, when you try
For the kingdom on high
By His grace, by His grace
Open your mind to the wisdom
When you try for the kingdom, on high
By His grace, by His grace, ooh
Open your heart to the wisdom
In your mind when you try
For the...
I'm carryin' a torch for you
I'm carryin' a torch
You know how much it costs
To keep carryin' a torch
Flame of love it burns so bright
That is my desire
Keep on liftin' me, liftin' me up
Higher and higher
You're the keeper of the flame
And you burn so bright
Baby, why don't we re-connect
Move into the light?
I've been going to and fro on this
And I'm still carryin' a torch
You must know how mu...
Green mansions, high upon a hill
Green mansions, quiet and still
Big wall all around
It's where my baby will be found
Waiting for that day, to come
Green mansions, high upon a hill
In the countryside where the birds begin to sing
Free from the glamour of the world
Where the story does unfurl
Waiting on that day to come
Tried in vain to forget
Just how it ought to be
Over and over and over and ...
Oh my dear, oh my dear sweet love
Oh my dear, oh my dear sweet love
When I'm away from you, when I'm away from you
Well, I feel, yeah, well, I feel so sad and blue
Well, I feel, well, I feel so sad and blue
Oh my dear, oh my dear, oh my dear sweet love
When I'm away from you, I just have to sing my hymns
Hymns to the silence, hymns to the silence
Hymns to the silence, hymns to the silence
Oh m...
Well my baby's gone, so's summer
And it brings on a cool night breeze
And I wish we could go walking
By the river, by the shady trees
By the river with the shady trees
Well, I love you in the wintertime
Baby when the snow is on the ground
Well I love you in the autumn most of all
When the leaves come tumbling down
When the leaves come tumbling down
Baby I need your kind of loving
For to last m...
The sun is shining, it's everywhere
Don't have no worry, don't have no care
It must be true, this is the season
Baby, it must be you
It was raining the other day
But that lonely feeling has gone away
It must be true, it's so pleasing
It must be you
That's what they say
In those old storybooks of old
You light my way
And you satisfy my soul
It must be magic, it must be love
Oh, what could I hav...
Take me back, take me way, way, way back
On Hyndford Street
Where you could feel the silence at half past eleven
On long summer nights
As the wireless played Radio Luxembourg
And the voices whispered across Beechie River
In the quietness as we sank into restful slumber in the silence
And carried on dreaming, in God
And walks up Cherry Valley from North Road Bridge, railway line
On sunny summer...
Sinking fast, hold tight just remember ordinary life
More trouble, than it's worth know it when you see the sign
Nothing feels right, step out of line just remember ordinary mind
Nagging wife, starts a fight trying to make you uptight
Workaholic, on your bike take a look at it in the daylight
Nothing feels right, step out of line think ordinary mind
Ordinary life, be my rock in times of troubl...
And we walked the pagan streams
And searched for white horses on surrounding hills
We lived where dusk had meaning
And repaired to quiet sleep, where noise abated
In touch with the silence
On honey street, on honey street
What happened to a sense of wonder?
On yonder hillside, getting dim
Why didn't they leave us, alone?
Why couldn't we just be ourselves?
We could dream and keep bees
And live ...
Professional jealousy can bring down a nation
And personal invasion can ruin a man
Not even his family will understand what's happening
The price that he's paying or even the pain
Professional jealousy started a rumor
And then it extended to be more abuse
What started out as just black propaganda
Was one day seen to be believed as truth
They say the truth is stranger than fiction
But a lie is ...
I've seen, so many lovers cry
Lost love, makes me wonder why
I've found a love, a once in a lifetime love
Angel on high, from heaven so high above
So I thank God for sending me you
I have heard of playing around with numbers
But one is all I need
She can't be beat, she makes me complete
On Quality Street
I have heard of playing around with numbers
But one is all I need
She can't be beat, she m...
So complicated, so complicated
Just wanna blow my horn
So complicated, so complicated
Just wanna know the score
Are you telling me that every thing's fine
When I can't even tie my shoes
Better get into a new frame of mind
When I don't have to think about the business no more
'Cause I just wanna blow my horn
The telephone is ringing out
But it don't understand my blues
And how much longer will ...
You see me on the street, well you guess I'm doing fine
Oh but it's fantasy baby, almost all the time
I've got to get away, by myself
Oh the way it's going, soon be needing help
'Cause I'm just a man, doing the best I can
Don't you understand, I just want some peace of mind
You see me on the stage, doing my job
I learn to do it well, keep on singing the song
But sometimes it gets, so lonely ou...
I've been walking by the river
I've been walking down by the water
I've been walking down by the river
I've been feeling so sad and blue
I've been thinking, I've been thinking, I've been thinking
I've been thinking, I've been thinking, I've been thinking
There's so much suffering and it's too much confusion
Too much, too much confusion in the world
Take me back, take me back, take me back
Take...
Did you see the lad on the corner
He was standing drinking wine
Wears his overcoat in the summer
And short sleeves in the winter time
Takes his holidays, down at the bookies
Well he knows how to pick a horse
Village tramping round the countryside
He wears a smile, but he doesn't say much
Village idiot, he's complicated
Village idiot, simple mind
Village idiot, he does know something
But he's j...
|
 In Session |
Oh operator, give me long distance.
It's a person-to-, yeah, yeah, go ahead, yeah, go ahead, go, alright, alright, just...
quot;um,
Hello?
Hello,
Um...
We got a, we, we put an album together and we're releasing it next week.
It's called blowin' your nose.
It's got a psychedelic jacket,
And it's called blowin' your nose.
It's a gorgeous album cover; you should see it.
It's groovy.quot;
quot;you...
Sing your Hollywood sixteen
Runnin' 'round the gravel green
Sing your Hollywood sixteen
Runnin' 'round the gravel green
Yes, now get it, now get it together, go
Bum bum
Now bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum
And then we'll get, we'll get six guit, six guitars
And then we'll get six guitars and we'll
We'll get fourt, get, and we'll get
We get Herbie Lovelle to play drums
And we'll have a good sess...
You want a danish?
No, I just ate
I've just eaten
Do ya' want
Like, I want some bread up front
Oh, bread up front
You want a sandwich?
Have a danish
Want a sandwich?
Have a sandwich
Have a seat
Have a seat
Have a sandwich
Have a danish
|
 Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart |
I'll be waiting, I'll be waiting on that shore
To hear cry for home
You won't have to worry anymore
When you hear cry for home
When you hear, hear the call
You won't have to fake at all
Hear cry for home
I'll be standing, I'll be standing within reach
When you hear, hear the call
I'll be waiting, I'll be waiting in the breach
For you, when you hear
When you hear, hear the call
You won't have t...
Well, I'm higher than the world
And I'm livin' in my dreams
I'll make it better
Than it seems, today
And I'm higher than a cloud
And I'm living in the sound
I'll make it better
Than it seems, today
Higher than the world
But my head is in a swirl
I gotta give life
A whirl, today
Higher than the clouds
Wrapped up in the sound
I'll make it better
All around, today
Higher than the world
But my hea...
Rave on, John Donne, rave on thy holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools
Rave on down through the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors
Rave on words on printed page
Rave on, you left us infinity
And well pressed pages torn to fade
Drive on with wild abandon
Up tempo, frenzied h...
Heart and soul, body and mind
Heart and soul, body and mind
Heart and soul, body and mind
Meet me on the river of time
Meet me on the river of time
Meet me on the river of time
Brother of mine, sister of mine
Brother of mine, sister of mine
Heart and soul, body and mind
Meet me on the river of time
Meet me on the river of time
Meet me on the river of time
Lover of soul, lover of mine
Lover of ...
|
 Into The Music |
And we'll walk down the avenue again
And we'll sing all the songs from way back when
And we'll walk down the avenue again
And the healing has begun
And we'll walk down the avenue in style
And we'll walk down the avenue and we'll smile
And we'll say baby ain't it all worthwhile
When the healing has begun
I want you to put on your pretty summer dress
You can wear your Easter bonnet and all the r...
Yeah, yeah
Oh, Angeliou, oh, Angeliou
Angeliou, oh, Angeliou
Oh, Angeliou, Angeliou
Oh my Angeliou
One more time
Angeliou, oh, Angeliou
Angeliou, oh, my Angeliou
Oh, Angeliou, Angeliou
Oh my Angeliou
In the month of May
In the city of Paris
In the month of May
In the city of Paris
And I heard the bells ringing
And I heard the bells ringing
In the month of May
And I called out your name
In the ...
Among the rolling hills, I'll live my life in Him
Oh, I will live my life in Him among the rolling hills
I'll be with my wife and child, I'll do no man no ill
Oh, I will do no man no ill among the rolling hills
Well, among the rolling hills, I'll read my Bible still
Oh, I will read my bible still among the rolling hills
And with my pen I'll write my song among the rolling hills
With my pen I'l...
From the ancient sun to the old heart stove, say the troubadours
From the city gates to the castle walls
I wish it was the troubadours
On a sunlit day it was bright and clear
And the people came from far and they came from near
To hear the troubadours
Well the troubadours sang their songs of love to the lady fair
She was sitting outside on a balcony
In the clear night air
It was a starry night...
|
 Irish Heartbeat |
I wished I had you in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrand
I would swim over the deepest ocean
The deepest ocean to be by your side
But the sea is wide and I can't swim over
And neither have I wings to fly
I wish I could find me a handy boatman
To ferry me over to my love and die
My childhood days bring back sad reflections
To happy times spend so long ago
My boyhood friends and my own ...
When Lewellyn comes around
And he goes through Market Town
You'll be on the Celtic Ray
Are you ready?
When McMannus comes around
On his early morning rounds
Crying "Heron 'a' lay"
You'll be on the Celtic Ray
Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales
I can hear the mothers' voices calling
"Children, children, children"
When the coal brick man comes 'round
On a cold November day
You'll be on the Celt...
Oh, won't you stay
Stay a while with your own ones
Don't ever stray
Stray so far from your own ones
For the world is so cold
Don't care nothing for your soul
You share with your own ones
Don't rush away
Rush away from your own ones
One more day
One more day with your own ones
Yes, the world is so cold
Don't care nothing for your soul
You share with your own ones
There's a stranger
And he's sta...
Where pagan streams sing lullabies
There blows a lily fair
The twilight gleam is in her eye
The night is on her hair
And like a lovesick lenashee
She hath my heart in thrall
No life have I, no liberty
For love is Lord of all
And often when the beetles horn
Has lulled the eve to sleep
I'll steal into her shielding lorn
And through the doorway creep
There on the cricket's singing stone
She makes...
On Raglan Road on an autumn day
I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I may one day rue
I saw the danger, yet I walked
Along the enchanted way
And I said, ?Let grief be a falling leaf
At the dawning of the day?
I said, on Grafton Street in November
We tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worst of passions pledged
The 'Queen of He...
My young love said to me
My mother won't mind
And my father won't slight you
For your lack of kind
She stepped away from me
And this she did say
?It will not be long love
Till our wedding day?
She stepped away from me
And she moved through the fair
And fondly I watched her move here
And move there
And she went her way homeward
With one star awake
As the swan in the evening
Moved over the lake
...
In banbridge town in the county down
One morning last july,
From a boreen green came a sweet colleen
And she smiled as she passed me by.
She looked so sweet fronn her two bare feet
To the sheen of her nut brown hair.
Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself
For to see I was really there.
Chorus:
From bantry bay up to derry quay and
From galway to dublin town,
No maid I've seen like the brown co...
|
 It's Too Late To Stop Now |
Well, I'm caught one more time
Up on Cyprus Avenue
Caught one more time
Up on Cyprus Avenue
And I'm conquered in a car seat
Not a thing that I can do
I may go crazy
Before that mansion on the hill
I may go crazy
Before that mansion on the hill
But my heart keeps beating faster
And my feet can't keep still
And all the little girls rhyme something
On the way back home from school
And all the lit...
Don't want to discuss it
I think it's time for a change
You may get disgusted
And start thinkin' that I'm actin' strange
In case I'll go underground
Get some heavy rest
Never have to worry
About what is worst and what is best, hit it
Oh, oh, Domino
Roll me over, Romeo, there you go
Lord have mercy, I said
Oh, oh, Domino
Roll me over, Romeo, there you go
Say it again
I said oh, oh, Domino
I sai...
Here Comes The Night Track15 4:16 Disc2
Bert Berns
Van Morrison The Caledonia Soul Orchestra
Van Morrison - vocals, guitar, keyboads, sax producer.
D. Hayes - bass, T. Adams - cello, B. Atwood - trumpet
N. Ellis - viola, T. Haplin - violin, T. Kovatch - violin
J. Labes - keyboards, J. Platania - guitar, N. Rubin - strings
J. Schroer - piano, sax, D. Shaw - clarinet, percus.
Album: It's Too Lat...
Look at the ivy on the old clinging wall
Look at the flowers and the green grass so tall
It's not a matter of when push comes to shove
It's just a hour on the wings of a dove
It's just warm love
It's just warm love
I dig it when you're fancy dressed up in lace
I dig it when you have a smile on your face
This inspiration's got to be on the flow
But these invitation's got to see it and know
It's...
We were the war children born 1945
When all the soldiers came marching home
Love looks in their eye
Tennessee, Tennessee Williams
Let your inspiration flow
Let it be around when we hear the sound
When the spring time rivers flow, when the rivers flow
Rod Steiger and Marlon Brando
Standing with their heads bowed on the side
Crying like a baby thinking about the time
James Dean took that fatal r...
|
 Keep It Simple |
Drinking wine in the alley, drinking wine in the alley
Making time, drinking that wine
Out of my mind in the days gone by
Making time with Sally, drinking that wine
In the days gone by, talking all out of my mind
Drinking that wine, talking all out of my mind
Spin and turning in the alley, spin and turning in the alley
Like a Whirling Dervish in the alley, drinking that wine
Drinking wine, mak...
Don?t get around much anymore
The smoke has driven me out the door
All night I used to walk the floor
Don?t go to nightclubs anymore
Don?t see my old friend Mose
I don?t run into Mr. Clive
I cut out all that off the wall jive
Don?t go to nightclubs no more
I?m not a legend in my own mind
Don?t need juice to unwind
And don?t have no need to pretend
Ain?t got no huckleberry friend
Alcohol was to...
When too many demands have destroyed all my plans
Going down to the end of the land
If I have to drive all night just to feel all right
Going down to the end of the land
When it gets out of hand and I fail to agree
Just what?s in it for me, going down to the sea
Then I?ve got to run towards the setting sun
Going down to the end of the land
When it gets out of hand and I beg to disagree
Just wh...
Had my congregation, had my flock
When I was a shepherd of men
Chased the wild goose, chased the pot of gold
Chased the rainbows end
How can a poor boy
Deliver this message to you?
How can a poor boy?
You don?t believe anything that?s true
Had my rise, had my downfall
Now I?m gonna rise up again
Had my degrees, my initiations
Not speaking to the profane
How can a poor boy
Get this message to y...
Mocked me when I was singing the songs
Trying to get back to something more simple than we have
They mocked me ?cause I told it like it was
Wrote about disappointment and greed
Wrote about what we really didn?t need in our lives
Make us feel alive and whole
Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold
Saying something hard edged is off the wall
And it might see...
The sound of the evening breeze
Is calling you back to me
The sun behind the clouds
Reminds me that you?re not around
Lover come back to my arms
Lover come back to my heart
The sound of the roar of the waves
The misty evening haze
Playing that sad refrain
Going through it all over again
Lover come back to my arms
Lover come back to my heart
Since you went away
I?m a lonely, lonely, lonely one
...
People come and people go
One monkey don?t stop no show
I?m getting too tired to start all over again
'Cause it ain?t gonna change no thing
There?s just all of this here land
Been trampled on by man
And all around me, all these birds of prey
And all I?m trying to do is just get by one more day
Only a fool would ever think
Things could ever be the same
Only a fool would surmise
Everyone is sane...
I was educated by the school of hard knocks
Tell me who?s gonna patronize me now?
They've brainwashed the suckers again
And perpetrated the myth, propaganda far and wide
No wavelength, no mileage
No current, currency
No answers, just silence
And nothing is what it?s supposed to be
I was educated by the school of hard knocks
Tell me who?s gonna patronize me now?
I got shipwrecked and got strand...
Well, it?s written in the wind, 'fore the story does begin
I will go back to my kin across the sea
That's a bird that?s on the wing and is flying free
He can hear the song of home endlessly
Well, the further I must go then the nearer I must stay
Men have sailed the seven seas to be free
Then like that bird that?s on the wing and is flying free
He can hear the song of home endlessly
I can see t...
Soul is a feeling, feeling deep within
Soul is not the color of your skin
Soul is the essence, essence from within
It is where everything begins
Soul is what you?ve been through
What?s true for you
Where you going to
What you?re gonna do
Soul is your station for the folk of your nation
Something that you wear with pride
Soul can be your vision or something that is hidden
It?s not something tha...
You by the countryside
Oh you, when you reach the sky
You and you?re climbing up that hill
Well you, when we?re listening to the little whippoorwill
You, when the sun goes down, you in the evening
In the morning when the sun comes 'round
You with your ballerina dance
Well, you put me back in a trance
Well, you take my breath away
Oh you, even on a cloudy day
You make me holler when you come ar...
|
 Live At The Grand Opera House Belfast |
Oh, the smell of the bakery from across the street, got in my nose
As we carried our ladders down the street with the wrought-iron gate rows
I went home and listened to Jimmie Rodgers in my lunch-break
Bought five woodbines at the shop on the corner
And went straight back to work
Oh, Sam was up on top and I was on the bottom with the V
We went for lemonade and Paris buns at the shop and broke ...
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
I have seen without perceiving
I have been another man
Let me pierce the realm of glamor
So I know just what I am
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
Feel the angel of the present
In the mig...
Like a full force gale, I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by the Lord
And no matter where I roam
I will find my way back home
I will always return to the Lord
In the gentle evening breeze
By the whispering shady trees
I will find my sanctuary in the Lord
I was headed for a fall
Then I saw the writing on the wall
Like a full force gale, I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by t...
Beside the garden walls
We walk in haunts of ancient peace
At night we rest and go to sleep
In haunts of ancient peace
The love and light we seek
The words we do not need to speak
Here in this wondrous way we keep
These haunts of ancient peace
Let us go there again
Oh, when we need some relief
Oh, when I can't find my feet
When I need rest and sleep
The Sunday bells they chime
Around the count...
Down the mystic avenue
I walk again
Remembering the days gone by
And I'm knockin' with my heart
And all the girls walk by
In all their summer fashions
And the church bells chime
On a summer Sunday afternoon
She gives me religion
She gives me religion
And the Angel of imagination
Opened up my gate
She said "Come right in
I saw you knockin' with your heart"
And the Angel of imagination
She lit y...
Send me your picture
Send me your pillow
Send it through Krishna
On the Vanlose stairway
Send me your Bible
Send me your Gita
I want to reach you
On the Vanlose stairway
On the Vanlose stairway
And your stairway
Reaches up to the moon
And it comes right back
It comes right back to you
Send me some loving
Send me some kissing
You know what I'm missing
On the Vanlose stairway
On the Vanlose stai...
|
 Magic Time |
Carry on regardless, in spite of the music business scam
Carry on regardless, in spite of all the petty minded little women and men
Carry on regardless, when everybody don't give a damn
Carry on and start all over again, in spite of all the TV trash
Carry on regardless, in spite of all the media rehash
And the white wash, the brain wash and all the white trash
Carry on regardless, baby, baby, ...
If I don't see you through the week
See you through the window
See you next time that we're talking on the telephone
And don't see you in that Indian summer
Then I want to see you further on up the road
I said, ?Oh won't you come back?
I have to see you, my dear
Won't you come back in the Celtic New Year?
In the Celtic New Year?
If I don't see you when I'm going down Louisiana
If I don't see y...
Love to hear that evening train go by
Love to hear that evening train go by
Especially when my baby's in my mind
Love to hear that lonesome whistle blow
Love to hear that lonesome whistle blow
When I make my way on down the road
My my, bye bye
Don't cry, don't sigh
When you hear that evening train go by, alright
Love to hear that evening train on time
Love to hear that evening train on time
Es...
It's just the gypsy in my soul
Make me pack up my things and go
It may seem like I'm on a roll
But it's just the gypsy in my soul
Layin' out in the midday sun
Tryin' so hard not to run
Looking out at the deep blue sea
I guess it's just the gypsy in me
Jump on that train
Catch that plane
Here and there
And back again
Well it seems like some kind of cruel fate
Keep me moving in this restless sta...
I'm confessin' that I love you
Tell me, do you love me too?
I'm confessin' that I need you
Honest, honest I do, I do, oh yeah
In your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes
Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes
I read such strange things
But your lips deny that they are true
Baby, will your answer really change things?
Making me blue
I'm afraid some day you're gonna leave me
Saying, why can't we stil...
Some days it gets completely crazy
And I feel like howlin' at the moon
Then sometimes it feels so easy
Like I was born with a silver spoon
Other times you just can't reach me
Seem like I've got a heart of stone
Guess I need my solitude
And I have to make it on my own
Well, I guess I'm going A.W.O.L
Disconnect my telephone
Just like Greta Garbo
I want to be alone
Need to make some real connecti...
You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay
You got to fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay
Got to fight with all your might not to get in the bleeding heart's way
You got to fight for your rights, you can't bury your head in the sand
You gotta fight for your rights, you can't just bury your head in the sand
Politics and religion, superstition go hand in hand
Well you're going thr...
Old empty bed, springs hard as lead
Something I said made you see red
What did I do
To feel so lonely and blue
Even the mouse
Up and ran from the house
Laughed at me so scornfully
What did I do
To feel this lonely and blue
I cried and I sighed
But that don't help my game no no no no
I tried to hide
But things don't seem the same, oh
How will it end, I ain't got no friend
My only sin is your gr...
Don't lose the wonder in your eyes
I can see it right now when you smile
Let me go back, for a while
Let me go back, for a while
To that magic time
You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind
Standing on that windswept hillside
Listenin' to the church bells chime
Listen to the church bells chime
In that magic time
Oh the road it never ends
Good to see you my old friend
Once again we sit right down...
I'm stranded at the edge of the world
It's a world I don't know
Got nowhere to go
Feels like I'm stranded
And I'm stranded
Between that ol' devil and the deep blue sea
And nobody's gonna tell me
Tell me what, what time it is
Everyday, everyday
It's hustle, hustle time, hustle time
Everyday and every way
One more, one more mountain to climb
It's leaving me stranded
In my own little island
With ...
Sold me out for a few shekels and divided up my robes
They sold me out
It's the oldest story that's ever been told
They sold me out
Didn't even give it no shred of doubt, no, no
They sold me out
Didn't even sit down and try to figure it out
They just sold me out
For the few shekels more, they didn't even think twice
For a few shekels more, another minute in the spotlight
My own people did it t...
The lion this time again
He's in the circus in a cage
He's trying to break out of the frame
The lion this time
He hears that same old sad refrain
But they can't hold him with no chain
And they just can't denounce his claim
The lion again
And he's trying to get free
He knows that something's bothering me
That I'm not too blind to see
The lion again
Oh, the love that's in his soul
Is trying to g...
This love of mine goes on and on
Though life is empty since you have gone
You're always on my mind, though out of sight
It's lonesome through the day but oh the lonely night
I cry my heart out it's bound to break
Since nothing matters, just let it break
I ask the sun and the moon and the stars that shine
What's to become of it, this love of mine?
I cry my heart out it's bound to break
'Cause s...
|
 Midnight Special |
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
|
 Moondance |
Half a mile from the county fair
And the rain keep pourin' down
Me and Billy standin' there
With a silver half a crown
Hands are full of a fishin' rod
And the tackle on our backs
We just stood there gettin' wet
With our backs against the fence
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Oh, the water
Hope it don't rain all day
And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like Jelly Roll
And it stoned me
And it ...
When all the dark clouds roll away
And the sun begins to shine
I see my freedom from across the way
And it comes right in on time
Well, it shines so bright and it gives so much light
And it comes from the sky above
Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me
And lights my life with love
And it seems like and it feels like
And it seems like yes it feels like
A brand new day, yeah
A brand new da...
Yeah
This one's called
Caledonia
Soul music
Yeah
Starts out like this
It gets
Gets low
Do a little
Little pick
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah alright
Alright
It gets low
Make it mellow
Get some horn
You got it
Yeah
And we get down
John, play a taste of mandolin
Yeah
Play it
Yeah, alright
Hey
Hey hey alright
Whoa whoa caledonia soul
Caledonia soul music
Tell me what it is
Caledonia soul music
Caledon...
And the caravan is on it's way
I can hear the merry gypsies play
Mama, mama look at Emma Rose
She's playin' with the radio
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
And the caravan has all my friends
It will stay with me until the end
Gypsy Robin and sweet Emma Rose
Tell me everything I need to know
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
Turn up your radi...
Gotta spread the news in the regions again
I'm gonna sing my blues in the regions again
Gonna blow my fuse 'cause I wanna cut loose
In the regions again
Wanna dance by you by the light of the moon
I wanna see you there on a bright afternoon
I wanna sing my song, won't you play me the tune
In the regions again
In the celtic spring
In the celtic spring
Won't you come and go
Wanna go to the regio...
Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonligh...
I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles
And the heaven's open every time she smiles
And when I come to her that's where I belong
Yet I'm running to her like a river's song
She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She's got a fine sense of humor when I'm feeling low down
And when I come to her when the sun goes down
Take away my troubl...
We shall walk again
All along the lane
Down the avenue
Just like we used to do
With our heads so high
Smile at the passers by
And we'll softly sigh
Ay, ay, ay
Everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone
By the winding stream
We shall lie and dream
We'll make dreams come true
If we want them to
Yes, all will come
Play the pipes and drum
Sing a happy song
And we'l...
And they'll lay you down, low and easy
And it looks like you kids will stay Christmas
It demands that you travel the distance
So believe no lies
Dry your eyes and realize by surprise
La, la, la
And the business will shake hands and talk in numbers
And the princess will wake up from her slumber
Then all the knights will step fourth with their arm bands
And every stranger you meet in the street ...
We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won
As we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows
I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows
I wanna hear it, I don't have to fear it
And I wanna rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in t...
Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are fallin'
To the sound of the breezes that blow
An' I'm trying to please to the callin'
Of your heart strings that play soft and low
And all the nights magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight...
I dreamed you paid your dues in Canada
And left me to come through
I headed for there right away
I knew exactly just what to do
I dreamed we played cards in the dark
And you lost and you lied
Wasn't very hard to do
But hurt me deep down inside
These dreams of you
So real and so true
These dreams of you
So real and so true
My back was up against the wall
And you slowly just walked away
You neve...
|
 New York Sessions '67 |
When you thought I was a stranger, when you looked upon me
When I came back
But to take you from disaster, I cannot master
The four winds in your shack
In the roamin', in the gloamin', you have brought
And set before me
And I think that it's an omen, I'm just not
What so many people see
And you shined your glory all around
Do not disguise what you did
I asked you for half a pound and you said
...
|
 No Guru, No Method, No Teacher |
Copycats ripped off my words
Copycats ripped off my songs
Copycats ripped off my melody
It doesn't matter what they say
It doesn't matter what they do
All that matters is my relationship to you
Gonna take you out, get you in my car
We're going for a long long drive
We're going down to a town called Paradise
Down where we can be free
We're gonna drink that wine
We're gonna jump for joy in a tow...
I saw you from a foreign window
Bearing down the sufferin' road
You were carryin' your burden
To the palace of the Lord
To the palace of the Lord
I spied you from a foreign window
When the lilacs were in bloom
And the sun shone through your window pane
To the place you kept your books
You were reading on your sofa
You were singin' every prayer
That the masters had instilled in you
Since Lord B...
When I was a young boy back in Orangefield
Used to look out my classroom window and dream
And go home and listen to Ray sing
'I Believed In My Soul' after school
Ah, that love that was within me
You know it carried me through
Well it lifted me up, it'd filled me
Meditation contemplation too
Got to go back, we've got to go back
Got to go back, got to go back
For the healing go on with the dream...
On the road with my sword
And my shield in my hand
Pressing on to the new day
This love will surely last forever
This love will surely last always
In the valley I see horsemen pass
Baby, baby, baby, they don't want this love to last
There's a battle for the throne
And it's raging down in your soul
It says this love will surely last forever
This love will surely last always
I've been accused of...
The streets are always wet with rain
After a summer shower when I saw you standin'
Standin' in the garden, in the garden wet with rain
You wiped the teardrops from your eye in sorrow
Yeah we watched the petals fall down to the ground
And as I sat beside you I felt the great sadness that day
In the garden
And then one day you came back home
You were a creature all in rapture
You had the key to ...
When you come down
From your Ivory Tower
You will see how it really must be
To be like me, to see like me
To feel like me
Take a look at me, I'm a poor man's son
I never did no harm to no one
You've got money in the bank
And I don't have none
When you come down
From your Ivory Tower
You will see how it really must be
To be like me, to see like me
To feel like me
You can see through your rose c...
Oh, the warm feeling
As we sat beside the sea
Oh, the warm feeling as I
Sat by you
Like a child within the kingdom
As we sat beside the sea
Oh, the warm feeling as I
Sat by you
And it filled with devotion
And it made me plainly see
And it healed all my emotions
As I sat by you
As we sat inside the sunshine
And we sat beside the sea
Oh, the warm feeling as I
Sat by you
And it filled me with rel...
Tell me the story now, now that it's over
Wrap it in glory for one Irish Rover
Tell me you're wiser now, tell me you're older
Wrap it in glory for one Irish Rover
I can tell by the light in your eye
That you're, you're so far away
Like a ship out on the sea
Without a sail you've gone astray
Tell me the facts real straight, don't make me over
Wrap it in glory for one Irish Rover
Tell me you'll ...
Thanks for the information
Never give a sucker an even break
When he's breaking through to a new level of consciousness
There always seems to be more obstacles in the way
Thanks for the information I know
It's only a combat zone
Thanks for the memory
I'll just have to carry on on my own
And it's wonderful and it's marvelous
How we can ever make it through
Sometimes I wonder how we can ever
Mak...
We were standing in the kingdom
And by the mansion gate
We stood enraptured by the silence
As the birds sang their heavenly song
In Tir Na Nog
We stopped in the church of Ireland
And prayed to our father
And climbed up the mountainside
With fire in our hearts
And we walked all the way to Tir Na Nog
I said with my eyes that
I recognized your chin
It was my long lost friend
To help me from anoth...
|
 Pay the Devil |
You didn't know I wasn't free
When you fell in love with me
And with all your young heart
You learned to care
It brought you shame and disgrace
The world has tumbled in your face
Because they call our love
A back street affair
They say you wrecked my home
I'm a husband that's gone wrong
They don't know the sorrow
That we had to bear
While the one I was tied to
Was the first to be untrue
How ca...
Big Blue Diamonds 2:56 Trk 4
Earl 'Kitt' J. Carson
Van Morrison
Van Morrison - lead vocal, Bob Loveday - violin
Geraint Watkins - piano, Paul Godden - steel Guitar
Mick Green - guitar, Johnny Scott - guitar
Paul Riley - electric Bass, Bobby Irwin - drums
Johnny Scott, Crawford Olwin Bell, Karen Hamill
Aine Whelan Leon Mc Crum -backing vocals.
Album: Pay The Devil - Lost Highway, Polydor '06
Tr...
Oh, don't you feel my leg, don't you feel my leg
'Cos if you feel my leg, you'll want to feel my thigh
Don't you feel my thigh, you'll wanna move up high
So don't you feel my leg
Don't you buy no rye, don't you buy no rye
'Cos if you buy me some rye, you gonna make me high
If you make me high, you'll wanna loosen my tie
Don't you buy no rye
Now you say, you'll take me out, buy me gin and wine
...
If you love me half as much as I love you
You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
You only build me up to let me down
If you missed me half as much as I miss you
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
I know that I would never be this blue
If you only loved me half as much as I love you
If you love me half as much as I love you
You ...
More and more, I'm forgetting the past
More and more, I'm living at last
Day by day, I'm losing my blues
More and more, I'm forgetting about you
You know how I tried keep you by my side
You know how I cried the day you said goodbye
Day by day, I'm losing my blues
More and more, I'm forgetting about you
But oh, how I tried keep you by my side
And oh, how I cried the day you said goodbye
Day by ...
Well, I'm standing on the corner
With my bucket in my hand
Just waiting for a woman
Ain't got no man
Well, my bucket's got a hole in it
Well, my bucket's got a hole in it
Bucket's got a hole in it
Can't buy no beer
Well, I went up on the mountain
Looked down in the sea
Seen the crabs and the fishes
Doing the be bop beat
Well, my bucket's got a hole in it
Well, my bucket's got a hole in it
Buck...
When you found somebody new I thought I never would
Forget you for I thought then that I never could
But time has taken all my pain away
Until now I'm down to hurtin' once a day
Once a day, all day long
And once a night from dusk till dawn
The only time I wish that you weren't gone
Is once a day, every day, all day long
And I'm so glad I'm not like a friend that I knew one time
He lost the one...
One man's meat is another man's poison
One man's gain can be another man's loss
I'm traveling down the lonely highway
'Cause a rolling stone don't gather no moss
Once I thought I could live the kind of life I wanted
But the wayward wind made me restless and a fool of me
'Cause I thought I could settle for the nine to five life
Well, I guess it just was never meant to be
Now people talk and the...
Tear your playhouse
Tear your playhouse, tear your playhouse down
Tear your playhouse, tear your playhouse down
Oh, all that money, it's going underground
Baby, all that money
All that money, don't it make you frown
All that money, don't it make you frown
Careless love done, tore your playhouse down
All that money, all that money
All that pounds, shillings and pence
All that money, all that po...
There stands the glass
That will ease all my pain
That will settle my brain
It's my first one today
There stands the glass
That will hide all my tears
That will drown all my fears
Brother, I'm on my way
I wonder where you are tonight
I wonder if you are all right
I wonder if you think of me
In my misery
There stands the glass
Fill it up to the brim
While my troubles grow dim
It's my first one ...
Oh, the faucet started dripping in the kitchen
Last night your picture fell down from the wall
And today the boss said, I'm sorry son, I can't use you anymore"
And tonight the light bulb went out down the hall
Oh, things have gone to pieces since you left me
Nothing turns out half right, now it seems
There ain't nothin' in my pocket but three nickels and a dime
And I'm holding to pieces of my ...
I'm giving you my heart and my soul
I've given you more than you'll ever know
I'm giving you just about everything I can
Can't you see that I'm just only one man, yeah?
I took you out to the picture show
Then I took you walkin' outdoors
I walked you up and down the block
Then I warned you, baby, this has got to stop
This has got to stop, you're way over the top
Pack my things and walk, we can'...
Just like the sun shining over the mountain top
You know I'll always come again
You know I love to spend my morning time
Watchin' sunlight dancing on your skin
I've never gone so wrong for telling lies to you
What you see is what I've been
There is nothing that I can hide from you
You see me better than I ever can
Out on the road that lies before me now
There are some turns where I will spin
D...
What am I living for, if not for you?
Tell me what am I living for, if not for you?
What am I living for, if not for you?
Oh, nobody else, nobody else will do
What am I longing for each lonely night?
To feel your lips to mine and hold you tight
You'll be my only love my whole life through
Baby, nobody else, nobody else will do
I want you close to me, oh, that's all I know
I want you all the ti...
Your cheatin' heart will make you weep
You'll cry and cry, you'll try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
When tears come down like pourin' rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk the floor the way I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
When tears come down like fallin' rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk t...
|
 Poetic Champions Compose |
Well, I'm taking some time with my quiet friend
Well, I'm takin' some time on my own
Well, I'm makin' some plans for my getaway
There'll be blue skies shining up above
When I'm cloud hidden, cloud hidden, whereabouts unknown
Well, I've got to get out of the rat race now
I'm tired of the ways of mice and men
And the empires all turning into rust again
Out of everything, nothing remains the same...
I wanna know did you get the feelin'?
Did you get it down in your soul?
I wanna know, oh, did you get that feelin'?
And did the feelin' grow?
Sometimes, when the spirit moves me
I can do many wondrous things
Oh, I wanna know when the spirit moves you
Oh, did ye get healed?
I begin to realize
It manifest in my life in oh, so many ways
Everyday I wanna talk about it and walk about it
Everyday I ...
There are strange things happening every day
I hear music up above my head
Fill me up with your wonder
Give me my rapture today
Let me contemplate the presence so divine
Let me sing all day and never get tired
Fill me up from your loving cup
Give me my rapture
Won?t you guide me through the dark night of the soul
That I may better understand your way
Let me be just and worthy to receive
All th...
I forgot that love existed troubled in my mind
Heartache after heartache, worried all the time
I forgot that love existed, then I saw the light
Everyone around me make everything alright
Oh, oh, Socrates and Plato, they praised it to the skies
Anyone who's ever loved, everyone who's ever tried
If my heart could do my thinking and my head begin to feel
I would look upon the world anew and know ...
You're the queen of the slipstream with eyes that shine
You have crossed many waters to be here
You have drank of the fountain of innocence
And experienced the long cold wintry years
There's a dream where the contents are visible
Where the poetic champions compose
Will you breathe not a word of this secrecy?
Will you still be my special rose?
Goin' away far across the sea
But I'll be back for ...
I?ve been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
I?ve been traveling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through
Someone like you
Make it all worth while
Someone like you
Keeps me satisfied
Someone exactly like you
I?ve been travelin? a hard road
Had been lookin? for someone exactly like you
I?ve been carryin? my heavy load
Waiting for the light to come shining through
Som...
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Long way from my home
Sometimes I wish, I could fly
Like a bird up in the sky
Oh, sometimes I wish, I could fly
Fly like a bird up in the sky
Sometimes I wish, I could fly
Like a bird up in the sky
Little closer to home
Motherless children have a hard time
Motherless child...
Let go into the mystery
Let yourself go
You've got to open up your heart
That's all I know
Trust what I say and do what you're told
Baby and all your dirt will turn into gold
Let go into the mystery
Let yourself go
And when you open up your heart
You get everything you need
Baby, there's a way and a mystic road
You've got to have some faith to carry on
You've got to open up your heart
To the s...
|
 Saint Dominic's Preview |
I can hear them calling, way from Oregon
I can hear them calling, way from Oregon
And it's almost independence day
Me and my lady, we go steppin', we go steppin'
We go steppin', way out on China Town
All to buy some Hong Kong silver and the wadin' rushin' river
We go steppin'
We go out on the
Out on the town tonight
I can hear the fireworks
I can hear the fireworks
I can hear the fireworks
Up ...
You can make out pretty good
When you're on your own
And you know just where you are
When you wanna roam
Got the moon above your head
And the road beneath your feet
Pull into a wooded glen
Make your own retreat
La da di di di di di
La da di di di di di
La da di di di di di da
La da di di di di di
La da di di di di di
La da di di di di di da
Gypsy
Laying underneath the stars
Can be so much fun
...
Whenever the sunshine comes through
Whenever my thoughts turn to you
Whatever you want me to do, I will be there
Whether I crawl uphill, try to not being through the mill
Just as long as I fit the bill, I will be there
If it's on a lazy afternoon in summertime
And you're drinking champagne and wine
Anytime I don't mind and even if I've got the blues
After I pay all my dues you decide to go for...
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Jackie Wilson said
"It was, Reet-Petite"
Kinda love you got
Knock me off my feet
Let it all hang out
Oh, let it all hang out
And you know
I'm so wired up
Don't need no coffee
In my cup
Let it all hang out
Let it all hang out
Watch this
Ding a ling a ling
Ding a ling a...
And all my love come down
All my love come tumblin' down
All my love come tumblin' down
All my love come tumblin' down
Oh, listen to the lion
Oh, listen, listen, listen to the lion
Inside of me
Oh, oh, oh
And I shall search my soul
I shall search my very soul
And I shall search my very soul
I shall search my very soul
For the lion, for the lion
For the lion, for the lion
Inside of me
Oh, oh, y...
Boy and his dog
Went out looking for the rainbow
You know what did they learn
Since that very day
Walking by the river
And running like a blue streak
Through the fields and streams and meadows
Laughing all the way
Oh, redwood tree
Please let us under
When we were young we used to go
Under the redwood tree
And it smells like rain
Maybe even thunder
Won't you keep us from all harm
Wonderful redw...
|
 Spanish Rose |
Little Jimmy?s gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain
And he?s right on time, right on time
That?s why broken arrow waved his finger
Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the Sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the highway
All the dogs are barkin? way down below
And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin? Nor...
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainb...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, quot;it a...
|
 Super Hits |
Hey girl, when ya' swish and sway
In your yellow dress
'Cross the crowded room
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Hey girl, freckles on your arms
Freckles on your face
Can we find a place
In a crowded room, we go?
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a, chic-a, chick-a-boom
Hey, girl, I'm gone away
But ...
|
 T.B. Sheets |
Little Jimmy?s gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain
And he?s right on time, right on time
That?s why broken arrow waved his finger
Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the Sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the highway
All the dogs are barkin? way down below
And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin? Nor...
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainb...
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
I don't wanna stop rockin' and rollin' with you.
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Caught you this morning before your daddy came home.
And I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
Gave you my jell...
If it matters how you do it
And how you do it is your thing
If it matters which way you go
That's your way to go
And if you get it like that
That's the way you get it
'Cause you get it like that
When you want to be that way
When you wanna be that way
That's the way you wanna be, see
Hey, it's all right
Hey, it's all right
Now what you try to do to me
Out there a-walking doesn't matter, baby
Ai...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
Words and music by Van Morrison
Now listen Julie baby,
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight,
It ain't natural for you to cry
Way in the midnight through,
Until the wee small hours
Long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord.
Now Julie there ain't nothin' on my mind
More further away than what you're lookin' for,
I see the way they jump at me
Lord, from behind the door, and look into my ey...
Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summer time
And who done me out high time fashion
And made me read between the lines
And who said, "Follow the man
It's your only chance, sit on your throne
You got to make it on your own, on your own"
And who said, "Look at you, look at you, you got jam on your face
And who did your homework and read your Bible
And signe...
|
 The Bang Demos |
In the back room
In the back room
I waited for you
Ya waited for me
Rain came down, pitter-pat
Say, what you think, it's raining outside, you said, "So what"
You turned the record player on, had a smoke, stood up
Walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist, couldn't resist
A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
Walked into the...
Little Jimmy?s gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain
And he?s right on time, right on time
That?s why broken arrow waved his finger
Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the Sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the highway
All the dogs are barkin? way down below
And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin? Nor...
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainb...
Hey girl, when ya' swish and sway
In your yellow dress
'Cross the crowded room
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Hey girl, freckles on your arms
Freckles on your face
Can we find a place
In a crowded room, we go?
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a, chic-a, chick-a-boom
Hey, girl, I'm gone away
But ...
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
Little gal, little girl, lord, you know it's true,
I don't wanna stop rockin' and rollin' with you.
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Caught you this morning before your daddy came home.
And I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
I done more for you than your daddy has ever done,
Gave you my jell...
Smile you smile is you and I
See through your laughing eyes
Smile you smile is you and I
See through your laughing eyes
Oh baby
In the whirlpool of them, I
Can be in paradise
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
Ever and a day with you
Oh yes, I will
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
Ever and a day with you
Oh baby, sit between the stars and say
That's my point of view, oh yeah
I love you, I love you
I...
If it matters how you do it
And how you do it is your thing
If it matters which way you go
That's your way to go
And if you get it like that
That's the way you get it
'Cause you get it like that
When you want to be that way
When you wanna be that way
That's the way you wanna be, see
Hey, it's all right
Hey, it's all right
Now what you try to do to me
Out there a-walking doesn't matter, baby
Ai...
When you thought I was a stranger, when you looked upon me
When I came back
But to take you from disaster, I cannot master
The four winds in your shack
In the roamin', in the gloamin', you have brought
And set before me
And I think that it's an omen, I'm just not
What so many people see
And you shined your glory all around
Do not disguise what you did
I asked you for half a pound and you said
...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight special
Shine it's light on me
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on me
Yonder come miss Rosey
How in the world do you know?
How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by her apron
And the dress she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
A piece of paper in her hand
She gonna te...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Well, you're out there on the highway
While you're drivin' a-roll on by
Goin' south between the bridges
While the river's runnin' dry
And if ya can't come home
Please send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Now you're talkin', where ya goin'?
On the train that sees the road
'Cross the nation, passing...
The smile you smile is you
And I see through your laughing eyes
The smile you smile is you
And I see through your laughing eyes
And in the whirlpool of them, I can be in paradise
An I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
And ever and a day with you
And I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
And ever and a day with you
An' sit between the stars and say that's my point of view
I yi-yi, yi-yi, I love you
I love ...
The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, quot;it a...
Words and music by Van Morrison
Now listen Julie baby,
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight,
It ain't natural for you to cry
Way in the midnight through,
Until the wee small hours
Long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord.
Now Julie there ain't nothin' on my mind
More further away than what you're lookin' for,
I see the way they jump at me
Lord, from behind the door, and look into my ey...
Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summer time
And who done me out high time fashion
And made me read between the lines
And who said, "Follow the man
It's your only chance, sit on your throne
You got to make it on your own, on your own"
And who said, "Look at you, look at you, you got jam on your face
And who did your homework and read your Bible
And signe...
|
 The Best Of Van Morrison Vol. 1 |
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby, please don't go
Well, your mind done gone
Well, your mind done gone
Well, your mind done gone
Left the county farm
You had the shackles on
Baby, please don't go
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
To get you way down here
I make you walk alone
Baby, plea...
And I will stroll the merry way
And jump the hedges first
And I will drink the clear clean water
For to quench my thirst
And I shall watch the ferry boats
And they'll get high on a bluer ocean
Against tomorrow's sky
And I will never grow so old again
And I will walk and talk
In gardens all wet with rain
Oh sweet thing, sweet thing
My, my, my, my, my sweet thing
And I shall drive my chariot
Dow...
Do, do, do
Whenever God shined a light on me
He opened up my eyes so I could see
When I look up in the darkest night
Then I know that everything's gonna be alright
In deep confusion and great despair
When I reach out for help, He is there
When I'm lonely as I can be
Then I know that God shines His light on me
Reach out for help, He'll be there
With Him your troubles you can share
And if you li...
|
 The Best Of Van Morrison Vol. 2 |
Coming down from Downpatrick
Stopping off at St. John's Point
Out all day birdwatching
And the craic was good
Stopped off at Strangford Lough
Early in the morning
Drove through Shrigley taking pictures
And on to Killyleagh
Stopped off for Sunday papers
At the Lecale District
Just before Coney Island
On and on, over the hill
To Ardglass in the jamjar
Autumn sunshine, magnificent
And all shining...
|
 The Early Years |
Smile you smile is you and I
See through your laughing eyes
Smile you smile is you and I
See through your laughing eyes
Oh baby
In the whirlpool of them, I
Can be in paradise
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
Ever and a day with you
Oh yes, I will
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
Ever and a day with you
Oh baby, sit between the stars and say
That's my point of view, oh yeah
I love you, I love you
I...
|
 The Early Years: 1967-1968 |
In the back room
In the back room
I waited for you
Ya waited for me
Rain came down, pitter-pat
Say, what you think, it's raining outside, you said, "So what"
You turned the record player on, had a smoke, stood up
Walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist, couldn't resist
A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
Walked into the...
Little Jimmy?s gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain
And he?s right on time, right on time
That?s why broken arrow waved his finger
Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the Sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the highway
All the dogs are barkin? way down below
And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin? Nor...
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainb...
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight special
Shine it's light on me
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on me
Yonder come miss Rosey
How in the world do you know?
How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by her apron
And the dress she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
A piece of paper in her hand
She gonna te...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Well, you're out there on the highway
While you're drivin' a-roll on by
Goin' south between the bridges
While the river's runnin' dry
And if ya can't come home
Please send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Now you're talkin', where ya goin'?
On the train that sees the road
'Cross the nation, passing...
The smile you smile is you
And I see through your laughing eyes
The smile you smile is you
And I see through your laughing eyes
And in the whirlpool of them, I can be in paradise
An I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
And ever and a day with you
And I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
And ever and a day with you
An' sit between the stars and say that's my point of view
I yi-yi, yi-yi, I love you
I love ...
The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, quot;it a...
Words and music by Van Morrison
Now listen Julie baby,
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight,
It ain't natural for you to cry
Way in the midnight through,
Until the wee small hours
Long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord.
Now Julie there ain't nothin' on my mind
More further away than what you're lookin' for,
I see the way they jump at me
Lord, from behind the door, and look into my ey...
Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summer time
And who done me out high time fashion
And made me read between the lines
And who said, "Follow the man
It's your only chance, sit on your throne
You got to make it on your own, on your own"
And who said, "Look at you, look at you, you got jam on your face
And who did your homework and read your Bible
And signe...
|
 The Essential Van Morrison |
In the back room
In the back room
I waited for you
Ya waited for me
Rain came down, pitter-pat
Say, what you think, it's raining outside, you said, "So what"
You turned the record player on, had a smoke, stood up
Walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist, couldn't resist
A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
Walked into the...
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainb...
Hey girl, when ya' swish and sway
In your yellow dress
'Cross the crowded room
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Hey girl, freckles on your arms
Freckles on your face
Can we find a place
In a crowded room, we go?
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom
Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Boom, chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom
Chick-a, chic-a, chick-a-boom
Hey, girl, I'm gone away
But ...
Goodbye baby, so long girl
I know you ain't gonna like it
But I'm stepping right
Out in your world
But I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay
But I'm gonna kiss you
One more time then I'm going away
Goodbye baby, hmm
Baby goodbye
You made lonely
Yeah, you made me hurt
Just like a fool I gave you candy
And you fed me dirt
But I'm coming to your party
And just before the break of d...
Smile you smile is you and I
See through your laughing eyes
Smile you smile is you and I
See through your laughing eyes
Oh baby
In the whirlpool of them, I
Can be in paradise
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
Ever and a day with you
Oh yes, I will
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin'
Ever and a day with you
Oh baby, sit between the stars and say
That's my point of view, oh yeah
I love you, I love you
I...
When you thought I was a stranger, when you looked upon me
When I came back
But to take you from disaster, I cannot master
The four winds in your shack
In the roamin', in the gloamin', you have brought
And set before me
And I think that it's an omen, I'm just not
What so many people see
And you shined your glory all around
Do not disguise what you did
I asked you for half a pound and you said
...
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops...
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight special
Shine it's light on me
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on me
Yonder come miss Rosey
How in the world do you know?
How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by her apron
And the dress she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
A piece of paper in her hand
She gonna te...
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie, pie
She's just sixteen, she's not yet grown
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the avenue of trees
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry, oh, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ...
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Well, you're out there on the highway
While you're drivin' a-roll on by
Goin' south between the bridges
While the river's runnin' dry
And if ya can't come home
Please send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Send your mind
Now you're talkin', where ya goin'?
On the train that sees the road
'Cross the nation, passing...
The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, quot;it a...
Words and music by Van Morrison
Now listen Julie baby,
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight,
It ain't natural for you to cry
Way in the midnight through,
Until the wee small hours
Long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord.
Now Julie there ain't nothin' on my mind
More further away than what you're lookin' for,
I see the way they jump at me
Lord, from behind the door, and look into my ey...
Twist and shake baby
Twist and shake baby
Do the twist
Do the shake
Baby, hey, hey, hey
Twist and shake baby
Do the twist baby
Twist and shake baby
Do the shake baby
Shake it up baby
Twist and shake baby
Do the twist
How long baby
Can you do the twist?
How long
Can you do the shake?
Twist and shake
Twist and shake
|
 The Great Van Morrison |
All the bits.
No, ya' see, ya' get, ya' get a thing goin' like that,
It's uh, uhh...
And then, you put it on the end, ya' go
quot;dahnt-dahn,quot; you know, like that,
At the end of the lyrics,
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;...
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;...
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;, that's nice,
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;, that kinda riff, ya' see, get it...
quot;dahnt-dahnquot;...
quot;dahnt-dahnq...
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-chicka-chicka, chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho.
Chicka-chicka-chick-oooh, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho.
Chucka-chicka-chicka-chicka, chicka-cho.
Chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho, chicka-cho.
Chicka-chicka-chicka-chicka, uungh-ahh, chicka-chicka-chicka, uungh-ahh, chicka, uungh-ahh-...
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it, do it.
Do your thing.
Do your thing.
Do your thing.
Ssshhgguuuhh, do your thing.
Do it.
Aaannwww.
Ooohhh.
Put voices in the background,
And, uhh, uhh,
We'll get,
And we'll get herbie lovelle to play drums.
Do it.
Do it, do it.
This here's the story about
Dumb, dumb george,
Who came up to boston
One sunny afternoon.
He drove up from new york city,
And he was freaky,
And he wanted to record me,
And I said,
quot;george,
You're dumb.quot;
And he said, quot;i know.
Why do you think I make so much money.
I wanna do
A record
That'll make number one.quot;
Dumb, dumb.
Freaky, freaky
If you got this far
You came a long way
But you're freaky
And we can do something with you
If you got this far
You should be freaky
You should be freaky
If you got this far, we'll put you in a jar
And sell you as a freak
We think you're freaky
Two, two, three
Hey, where you gonna go for yourself?
I think you should go for yourself
I think you should go for yourself this time
I think this time you should go for yourself
I think you should go for yourself this time
This time I think you should go down funky Broadway
Oh, baby, baby
Baby, I wanna get a job down funky Broadway
Go for yourself, go for yourself
Go for yourself, go for yourself baby
Go for...
Goodbye george,
George, goodbye, goodbye.
You gotta go.
Too bad.
Goodbye, goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Here come
A-number forty-five
In argentina baby.
Goodbye.
Hang on groovy, groovy hang on
Hang on groovy, groovy hang on
Hang on groovy, groovy hang on
Hang on groovy, groovy hang on
Let your hair hang down groovy
Groovy, groovy, groovy, groovy
Hang on groovy, you're in the groove
Groovy, groovy, groovy, groovy, hang on
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Everybody together on the chorus.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george, boogaloo
Boogaloo baby.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Here come dumb george.
Hold on, George
George, hold on
Hold on, George
George, hold on
Hold on, George
George, hold on, yeah
Sock it to me
Hold on
Hold on, George
Sock it to me
Do the boogaloo
Anything you wanna do
Hold on
Just ball, just ball
Just ball, just ball
Just ball, just ball
That's all, that's all
Just ball, that's all, just ball
[Incomprehensible]
Nosin' your blow
In the wintertime baby,
Nosin' your blow.
Nosin' your blow baby.
And, you're crazy.
You go crazy.
You're going in-sane
Baby,
Don't worry about it.
Have another sandwich.
Nosin' your blow.
Got nowhere to go
In the snow.
I can see
By the look on your face
That you've got ringworm.
I'm very sorry but,
I have to tell you that
You've got ringworm.
It's a very common disease.
Actually, you're very luck to have
Ringworm
'cause you may have
Had somethin' else.
Oooh, aaahhh...
Uuunnnhhhaaahhnnn...
You've got ringworm.
Oooh-oooh, oooh, oooh-oooh, oooh, oooh-oooh....
Shake it mable.
You look so good.
Everytime you shake it, mable.
Hey mable,
A-where ya' gonna shake it, mable?
quot;i'm goin' down to shake it down funky broadway, baby.quot;
Can I come along with you?
quot;no you can't.
I'm gonna shake it all over funky broadway, baby.quot;
Hey mable, can I come down to funky broadway, baby?
I wanna come along with you.
I wanna come down to funky broadway, ma...
I see, you see, we'll get a guitar,
Yeah, we'll get a guitar
And, oh, we'll get, we'll get three guitars,
No, no, we'll get four guitars
And we'll get herbie lovelle to play drums,
And we'll do, the
quot;sha-laquot;, sha...
We'll do the sha-, sha-la bit.
quot;sha-la, sha-, sha-la, sha-laquot;, we'll do it,
We'll get together, uunghh, we'll get
Uunghh, ttcchh, uugnhh-uunghh-uunghh, like that,
A...
Up your mind,
If you've got a mind.
Up your mind,
If you've got a...
I think you've got
About one living cell in your brain.
But that's alright, that's cool.
Up your mind.
Wooo-oooh-oooh-oooh-ooh.
Baby, baby, baby.
|
 The Healing Game |
And I take you down to the burning ground
And you change me up and you turned it around
In the wind and rain I?m gonna see you again
In the morning sun and when the day is done
And you take my hand and you walk with me
Sometimes it feels like eternity
And I turn the tide, I get back my pride
And I make you proud, won?t you say it out loud?
When I take you down to the burning ground
To the burn...
Call of the wildest, it?s got the best of you
Fire in my heart, fire in my belly too
Got a heart and a mind and a fire inside
And I?m crazy about you
You, you on your high flying cloud
You, you when you?re laughing out loud
You, you with your hidden surprise
You
Stoke up my engine, bring me my driving wheel
Once I get started you?ll see just how I feel
And I?m crazy about you
And I?m crazy abo...
If you love me
You will give your heart
Why should we be apart
If you love me
If you love me
Baby you will know the truth
I wasn't born to lose
And I love you
Affinity and communication
That makes reality
Understanding is the first thing
It means so much to me
If I love you
I will find the key
If it's meant to be
Because, 'cause I love you
Alright
Affinity and communication
That makes, that ma...
There were people on the sidewalks
Strolling down the avenues
They were sitting outside in cafes
We were looking for the muse
Well, I was locked in by the system
Where no freedom is the rule
Now, I spend all my time just trying
To make it understood
"It once was my life", that?s what everybody said
All the things I used to do and the people that we're friends
I?ve got to make it mean something...
The coolness of the riverbank
And the whispering of the reeds
Daybreak is not so very far away
Enchanted and spellbound
In the silence they lingered
And rowed the boat
As the light grew steadily strong
And the birds were silent
As they listened for the heavenly music
And the river played the song
The wind in the willows
And the piper at the gates of dawn
The wind in the willows
And the piper a...
Oh, the mud splattered victims
Have to pay out all along the ancient highway
Torn between half-truth and victimisation
Fighting back with counter attacks
It?s when that rough God goes riding
When the rough God goes gliding
And then rough God goes riding
Riding on in
I was flabbergasted by the headlines
People in glasshouses throwing stones
Gaping wounds that will never heal
Now they?re moaning...
Sometimes we know
Sometimes we don't
Sometimes we give
And sometimes we won't
Sometimes we're strong
Sometimes we're wrong
Sometimes we cry
Sometimes we cry
Sometimes it's bad
When the going gets tough
And me look in the mirror
And me wanna give up
Sometime we don't even
Want to try, sometimes we cry
Well we gonna have to sit down
And think it through
If we're only human
What more can we do
Th...
Here I am again
Back on the corner again
Back where I belong
Where I've always been
Everything the same
It don't ever change
I'm back on the corner again
In the healing game
Down those ancient streets
Down those ancient roads
Where nobody knows
Where nobody goes
I'm back on the corner again
Where I've always been
Never been away
From the healing game
Where the choirboys sing
Where I've always ...
This weight is weighin' on my heart
This weight is tearin' us apart
This weight is weighin' on my soul
And it just won't leave me alone
You know, I'm talkin' about this weight
You know, I'm talkin' about this weight
In the neighborhood people watchin' me
Got to move to protect my sanity
Anonymity is all I want you see
You may think it's mediocrity
But you know, I'm talkin' about this weight
Yo...
On a golden autumn day returning
Where each moment never is the same
Sometimes pure joy it comes with patience
When I'm waiting on, waiting game
When I'm waiting on, waiting game
There must be reason for all this inaction
Does it mean that everything must change
Sometimes I'm looking for perfection
When I'm waiting on, waiting game
When I'm waiting on, waiting game
I am the observer who is obs...
|
 The Philosopher's Stone |
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road
We'll be lovers once again
On the bright side of the road
Little darlin', come with me
Won't you help me share my load
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road
And into this life we're born
Baby, sometimes, sometimes we don't know why
And time seems to go by so fast
In the twinkling of an eye
Let's enjoy it wh...
Puerto Rican nursery rhymes
Angels in the snow and thyme
And I'm keeping my mind on that rose
In a church in Spanish Harlem
Got watchtowers and awakes for free
In a laundromat for you and me
But you can't take me down that way
As I'm not sinking
And if we go down one time
Next time's not gonna be the last time
And I'm contemplating that rose
In a church in Spanish Harlem
Didn't I bring you pre...
That lover of a night
Came when he would,
Went in the dawning light
Whether I would or no;
Men come, men go;
All things remain in god.
All things remain in god.
Banners choke the sky;
Men-at-arms tread;
Armoured horses neigh
In the narrow pass:
All things remain in god.
All things remain in god.
I had wild jack for a lover;
Though like a road
That men pass over
My body makes no moan
But sings ...
Lord, have mercy, feel so good
I think I'm gonna work
I was talking to the judge, just before we left the countryside
Piece of paper in his hand, tryin' to find the way
Tryin' to rip it out, well, now I've got it all around
Tore the pages up before they brought the curtain down
I remember the day, the Drumshanbo Hustle
When you couldn't hear a bird
It was making not a sound
They were trying to...
Lie by my side in the still of the night
And morning brings forth all its wondrous delight
You couldn't have made it more plain
When I hear that soft refrain and I hear you gently sigh
I wanna take you where flamingos fly, flamingos fly
Way over yonder in the clear blue sky
That's where flamingos fly
Lie in the dark with the sweet sound of the nightingale
And listen for lark and I will tell yo...
I'm standing by my window
And I'm waiting on the summer rain
And I'm standing by my window
And I'm waiting on the summer rain
Well, I felt this way before and
No, I'm gonna feel this way again
I've been listening to this music
Ever since the age of three
I've been listening to this music
Ever since the age of three
I want you to play me "T" for Texas
Or play me "T" for Tennessee
I want a plain...
When John Henry was a little baby
Sittin' on his mama's knee
Well, he picked up a feather and a piece of steel
And said that's gonna be the death of me
Lord, Lord, Lord, that's gonna be the death of me
Well, John Henry had a little woman
Name of Polly Ann
Well, John got sick had to lay down on the bed
Polly drove steel like a man
Lord, Lord, Lord, Polly drove steel like a man
Well, John Henry ...
How sweet that joyous sound
Whenever we meet, whenever we meet
How sweet that joyous sound
Whenever we meet again
I think you know it well
Whenever we meet, whenever we meet
I think you know it well
Whenever we meet again
Just let it in and let it out, yeah alright
And you will begin to know without a doubt
That grace will follow us
Wherever we go, wherever we go
That grace will follow us
Unti...
Laughing in the wind, cryin' in the rain
I've felt this way before, I'll feel this way again
And in a small cafe, just passing time away
I'm giving you the eye, no need to wonder why
And it's hazy, lazy waitin' for springtime
Roll along, roll along and all you gotta do is
Listen to the song, to the melody
I would do it for you, would you do it for me?
And it's hazy, lazy waitin' for springtime...
All the men would turn their head
When she walked down the street
Clothes are fine and hair that shine
Smiling, oh so sweet, smiling, oh so sweet
Got a taste of all religion
Comes on with the new
In her hair a yellow ribbon
And she's decked out all in blue
Oh yes, in decked out all in blue
Steppin' lightly then steppin' brightly
With her books in hand
Going to the university to teach them
Help...
Naked in the jungle, naked to the world
Naked in the jungle, naked to the world
Well, you gotta keep it humble, else it'll come unfurled
Lions and the tigers, grazin' in the grass
Lions and the tigers, grazin' in the grass
As I keep a-watching over, I make sure no one can pass
Speak out, speak out, speak out, speak out
Speak out, speak out, speak out, speak out
Speak out, speak out, speak out,...
You're not supposed to be human
You're not supposed to really feel
Not supposed to get involved with
Anything completely real
Fifteen families starving
All around the corner block
Here we're standing so alone
Just like Gibraltar rock
Not supposed to break down
You're not supposed to break down
Swallow the dirt, keep listening to the hurt
You'll be safe and sound
Supposed to be super human
Cove...
Ordinary people just don't comprehend
Ordinary people just don't seem to comprehend
The thing you feel they don't even know about
Cut yourself, that never did you no good
You cut yourself, that never did you no good
Nobody watching you
You gotta take care of yourself, real thing
When I came down your avenue
Blew you every, blew you every which way
When I came down your avenue, blew you ever wh...
Real real gone
I got hit by a bow and arrow
Got me down to the very marrow
And I'm real real gone
Real real gone
I can't stand up by myself
Don't you know I need your help
And I'm real real gone
Some people say
You can make it on your own
Oh, you can make it if you try
I know better now
You can't stand up alone
Oh, baby, that is why
I'm real real gone
I can't stand up by myself
Don't you know?...
Say you wanna be in show business
See the man on the TV with a phoney smile
Bring you up, bring you down
He can turn your head around
In show business, show business
See the man on a silver screen
With the phoney smile
Bring you up, bring you down
He can turn your head around
Show business, show business
Have a hit maybe two
Make mincemeat out of you
Come back in two years time
Lay your heart ...
When the child was a child
It walked with arms hanging
Wanted the stream to be a river and the river a torrent
And this puddle, the sea
When the child was a child
It didn't know it was a child
Everything for it was filled with life and all life was one
Saw the horizon without trying to reach it
Couldn't rush itself and think on command
Was often terribly bored and couldn't wait
Passed up greet...
Come on out, child
We gonna ring doorbells and run
Come on out, child, child
We gonna ring doorbells and run
We gonna shake up the neighborhood
Lord, we're bound to have some fun
We can take a plane to Paris
Lord, we can fly to Rome
We can take a plane to Paris
Lord, we can fly to Rome
I get a lump in my throat
Every time I go back home
I'm gonna go to church on Sunday
Just like my mama did
I'...
There, there child, there, there child
Don't it make you feel alright?
There, there child
Don't it all look good tonight?
And you feel like going but you gotta stay
Ain't no time for to hop on a freight train
And you feel like laying in the morning hay
'Cause it's time for a nap now, before rain
There, there child
Don't it make you satisfied?
There, there child
You can rest your weary eyes
And...
It's four o'clock in the morning
And there's a new full moon shining down through the trees
But don't leave the room now, oh, ah, leave it in doubt
Pretend not to know what I'm talking about
I try all night long, I try, I want you to come along
I feel it when you touch me, I'm already wet
But how are you supposed to know what you get
Wake me when it's over but don't turn on the light
Call me b...
The rain is all over, it's only stopped for an hour
And I stop you, and I stop you when you go too far
And you stop me when I go too far
And it tried to freak me but I should have known
It's not the twilight zone, no, it's not the twilight zone
Yeah, it's just a party phone, pure honeycomb, honeycomb, honeycomb
You tried to take me in a slow poke draw
Like the cowboy wished and you got just wh...
How can you stand the silence
That pervades when we all cry?
How can you watch the violence
That erupts before your eyes?
How can you tell us something
Just to keep us hangin' on?
Somethin' that just don't mean nothing
When we see it you are gone
Clinging to some other rainbow
While we're standing, waiting in the cold
Tellin' us the same old story
Knowin' time is growin' old
That was a wonderf...
|
 The Skiffle Sessions: Live In Belfast 1998 |
I'm Alabamy bound
They'll be no heebie-jeebies hangin' 'round
Just gave the meanest ticket man on earth
All I'm worth to put my tootsies in an upper berth
Just hear the choo-choo sound
I know that soon we're gonna cover ground
And then I'll holler so the world will know
Here I go, I'm Alabamy bound
I'm Alabamy bound
They'll be no heebie-jeebies hanging 'round
Just gave the meanest ticket man o...
Well the new sheriff sent me a letter
Yes the new sheriff sent me a letter
He said, quot;come up and see me dead or alive,
Come up and see me dead or alivequot;.
Well it's a hard road dead or alive
It's a hard road dead or alive
Well it's a hard road dead or alive
It's a hard road dead or alive
Well I really don't like your hard rock hotel yeah sheriff
Well I really don't like your hard rock h...
Last saturday night I got married
Me and my wife settled down
But me and my wife have parted
I'm gonna take another stroll downtown
Irene goodnight goodnight irene
Irene goodnight
Goodnight irene, goodnight irene
I'll get you in my dream
Stop your ramblin'
Stop your gamblin'
Stop stayin' out late, late at night
Go home to your wife and your family
Sit down by your fireside so bright
Irene good...
Intro:
quot;here's a very good old good one, see if you remember this one, see if we do
quot;this is gonna be nice, this is gonna be very nicequot;
Sailed on the sloop john b
My granddaddy and me
'round nassau town we did roam
We'd been drinkin' all night
Well I got into a fight
Yeah and I feel so broke up
I wanna go home
Hoist up the john b sail's
See how the mainsail sets
Send for the captai...
Oh it takes a worried man, sing a worried song
Takes a worried man, come sing a little worried song
Well it takes a worried man to sing a worried song
I'm worried now, won't be worried long
I went down to the riverside and I laid me down to sleep
Went down to the riverside, laid me down to sleep, lord
A-well I went down to the riverside, laid me down to sleep
When I woke up there were shackles...
Yeah baby
This here's a story about Lost John
Lost John done flew the coop
How many long gone?
Lost John standin' by the railroad track
Waitin' for the freight train to come back
Freight train come back and never made no stop
Lost John thought he'd have to ride on top
Well, he's long, long, long gone
And he's long, long, long gone
Yeah, Lost John came into the country woman's house
Sat down th...
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight special
Shine it's light on me
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on me
Yonder come miss Rosey
How in the world do you know?
How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by her apron
And the dress she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
A piece of paper in her hand
She gonna te...
Good mornin' captain, good mornin' shine
Good mornin' captain, good mornin' shine
Do you need another mule skinner,
Workin' on your new road line?
My line's been rollin'
I'm rollin' all the time
My line is work
I'm rollin' all the time
I can carve my initials ha
On an old mule's behind
I said hey, little waterboy hey
Bring that water bucket 'round
bring it 'round, bring it 'round, bring it 'ro...
I'm gonna move you, baby
Way on the outskirts of town
Oh, I'm gonna move you, darlin'
I said, "Way on the outskirts of town"
Because I don't want nobody
Who's always hangin' 'round
Mmm, maybe funny, baby
Funny as can be
We have any children
I want 'em all to look like me
Well, I'll move you, darlin'
Way on the outskirts of town
'Cause I don't want nobody
Nobody always hangin' 'round
Play it no...
Railroad bill we're gonna railroad bill
He never works and he never will
I'm gonna ride on a railroad bill
I'm gonna ride on a railroad bill
Railroad bill he was a mighty bad man
Kill anybody that he think he can
Gonna ride old railroad bill
Gonna ride old railroad bill
I'm singin' railroad bill,
I'm talkin' railroad bill, uh-huh-huh
He never worked and he never will
I'm gonna ride on railroad...
|
 Too Long In Exile |
If I paint the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And your lips more scarlet
Ask if it'll all be right
And it's mirror after mirror
No vanities displayed
You're just looking for the face you had
Before the world was made
Before the world was made
Before the world was made
And if I look upon you now
As though I have my view
With the earth beneath your feet
And heaven up above
Would you think ...
She come 'round here 'bout midnight
She come 'round here 'bout midnight
Make me feel so good
Every night about midnight
Come around
Make me feel alright
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Come in my room, room
Make me feel so good
[Incomprehensible] woman do
Well, why did you make me feel alright?
She's a natural born woman
Natural born so...
By the sacred grove, where the waters flow
We will come and go, in the forest
In the summer rain, we will meet again
We will learn the code of the ancient ones
In the forest
By the waterfall, I will hold you in my arms
We will meet again by the leafy glade
In the shade of the forest
With your long robes on, we will surely roam
By the ancient roads, I will take you home
To the forest
In the for...
Down those old ancient streets
Down those old ancient roads
Baby, there together we must go
Till we get the healing done
Till we get the healing done
Till you're satisfied with your life
Till you're satisfied with your life
Till you're satisfied with your life
And it's running right
And it's running right
Till you deal with the poison inside
Sometime you've got to sit down and cry
When you dea...
Living in exile too long
Too long in exile
Too long not singing my song
Too long in exile
Too long like a rolling stone
Too long in exile
Too long in exile
Baby those people just ain't
Just ain't your friends
Too long in exile, my friend
You can never go home again
Well, that isolated feeling
Drive you so close up against the wall
Till you feel like you can't go on
You've been in the same plac...
Wasted years been brainwashed by lies
Oh yes, I have, oh, wasted years
I'm talking about wasted years
Oh, I'm not seeing eye to eye
I just can't see the things I should see
Wasted years, baby
I was taking the wrong advice
I know you was, I know you was
And I was too all alone
I'm traveling, traveling through these wasted years
For so long, so long, so long I was
Oh, I must have gained some wis...
|
 Tupelo Honey |
Oh, she give me moonshine whiskey
Oh, she give me southern love
Deep in the heart of Texas
There beneath the stars above
Oh, she give me southern comfort
Oh, she give me moonshine love
Deep in the heart of Texas
There beneath the stars above
Here I am riding on a train
Just about thunder balls down the line
Just can't wait any longer
See that little darling of mine
See that little darling of m...
Oh, don't it get you, get you when you?re through
Feel the breezes blowing all around your coat
Oh, don't it get you when you gotta roam
Hear the children singing, 'My daddy's coming home'
Going down to old, old woodstock
Feel the cool night breeze
Going down to old, old woodstock
Going down, give my baby a squeeze
Going down to old, old woodstock
Feel the cool night breeze
Going down to old, ...
When I hear that robin sing
Well, I know it's coming on spring
Ooo, we and we're starting a new life
I've been shoveling the snow away
Working hard for my pay
All I gotta say is we're starting a new life
We're gonna move
Way on down the line
Girl, we been standing
In one place for too long a time
When I hear that robin song
Well, I know it won't be long
Frank, I know we belong
And we're starti...
I want you, be around
When that evening sun goes down
I want you, be around
Keep my both feet on the ground
When that evening sun goes down
I want you, understand, little girl, take me by my hand
I want you, understand, I wanna be your loving man
When that evening sun goes down
If it's nice, we'll go for a walk, a stroll in the clear moonlight
Singing a song, won't take long
Everything gonna b...
As you brush your shoes
Stand before the mirror
And you comb your hair
Grab your coat and hat
And you walk wet streets
Tryin' to remember
All the wild night breezes
In your memory ever
And everything looks so complete
When you're walkin' out on the street
And the wind catches your feet
Sends you flyin', cryin'
Ooh, woo, wee
Wild night is calling, alright
Ooh, woo, wee
Wild night is calling
All...
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 Van Morrison At The Movies: Soundtrack Hits |
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby, please don't go
Well, your mind done gone
Well, your mind done gone
Well, your mind done gone
Left the county farm
You had the shackles on
Baby, please don't go
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
Before I be your dog
To get you way down here
I make you walk alone
Baby, plea...
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game
Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl
And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainb...
And the caravan is on it's way
I can hear the merry gypsies play
Mama, mama look at Emma Rose
She's playin' with the radio
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
And the caravan has all my friends
It will stay with me until the end
Gypsy Robin and sweet Emma Rose
Tell me everything I need to know
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la
Turn up your radi...
Hello
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax
I need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move bu...
Don't want to discuss it
I think it's time for a change
You may get disgusted
And start thinkin' that I'm actin' strange
In case I'll go underground
Get some heavy rest
Never have to worry
About what is worst and what is best, hit it
Oh, oh, Domino
Roll me over, Romeo, there you go
Lord have mercy, I said
Oh, oh, Domino
Roll me over, Romeo, there you go
Say it again
I said oh, oh, Domino
I sai...
She come 'round here 'bout midnight
She come 'round here 'bout midnight
Make me feel so good
Every night about midnight
Come around
Make me feel alright
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Come in my room, room
Make me feel so good
[Incomprehensible] woman do
Well, why did you make me feel alright?
She's a natural born woman
Natural born so...
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there's no one above you?
Fill my heart with gladness, take away my sadness
Ease my troubles that's what you do
Oh, the morning sun in all it's glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
And you fill my life with laughter, you can make it better
Ease my troubles that's what you do
There's a love that's divine
And it's yours and it's m...
I'm hungry for your love
I'm hungry for your love
I'm hungry for your love
But I can wait now
I'm on the telephone
And I am all alone
I'm on the telephone
And we're connected
I got such a lot of love
I wanna give it to you
I got such a lot of love
I wanna give it to you
I got such a lot of love
I wanna give it to you
And though we're far apart
You are here in my heart
And though we're far apar...
Oh, won't you stay
Stay a while with your own ones
Don't ever stray
Stray so far from your own ones
For the world is so cold
Don't care nothing for your soul
You share with your own ones
Don't rush away
Rush away from your own ones
One more day
One more day with your own ones
Yes, the world is so cold
Don't care nothing for your soul
You share with your own ones
There's a stranger
And he's sta...
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Da da da da dat da, da da da da
Jackie Wilson said
"It was, Reet-Petite"
Kinda love you got
Knock me off my feet
Let it all hang out
Oh, let it all hang out
And you know
I'm so wired up
Don't need no coffee
In my cup
Let it all hang out
Let it all hang out
Watch this
Ding a ling a ling
Ding a ling a...
Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are fallin'
To the sound of the breezes that blow
An' I'm trying to please to the callin'
Of your heart strings that play soft and low
And all the nights magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight...
Real real gone
I got hit by a bow and arrow
Got me down to the very marrow
And I'm real real gone
Real real gone
I can't stand up by myself
Don't you know I need your help
And I'm real real gone
Some people say
You can make it on your own
Oh, you can make it if you try
I know better now
You can't stand up alone
Oh, baby, that is why
I'm real real gone
I can't stand up by myself
Don't you know?...
I?ve been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
I?ve been traveling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through
Someone like you
Make it all worth while
Someone like you
Keeps me satisfied
Someone exactly like you
I?ve been travelin? a hard road
Had been lookin? for someone exactly like you
I?ve been carryin? my heavy load
Waiting for the light to come shining through
Som...
As you brush your shoes
Stand before the mirror
And you comb your hair
Grab your coat and hat
And you walk wet streets
Tryin' to remember
All the wild night breezes
In your memory ever
And everything looks so complete
When you're walkin' out on the street
And the wind catches your feet
Sends you flyin', cryin'
Ooh, woo, wee
Wild night is calling, alright
Ooh, woo, wee
Wild night is calling
All...
How can you stand the silence
That pervades when we all cry?
How can you watch the violence
That erupts before your eyes?
How can you tell us something
Just to keep us hangin' on?
Somethin' that just don't mean nothing
When we see it you are gone
Clinging to some other rainbow
While we're standing, waiting in the cold
Tellin' us the same old story
Knowin' time is growin' old
That was a wonderf...
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 Veendon Fleece |
I'm kicking off from center field
A question of being down for game
The one shot deal don't matter
And the other one's the same
Oh my friend I see you
Want you to come through alright
And she's standing in the shadows
Where the street lights all turn blue
She's leaving for an American
Suitcase in her hand
I said her brothers and her sisters
Are all on Atlantic sand
She's screaming through the ...
Come here my love
This feeling has me spellbound
Yet the storyline in paragraphs
Laid down the same
In fathoms of my inner mind
I'm mystified, oh, by this mood
This melancholy feeling
That just don't do no good
Come here my love
And I will lift my spirits high for you
I'd like to fly away
And spend a day or two
Just contemplating the fields and leaves
And talking about nothing
Just layin' down...
I wanna comfort you
I wanna comfort you
I wanna comfort you
Just let your tears run wild
Like when you were a child
I'll do what I can do
I wanna comfort you
You put the weight on me
You put the weight on me
You put the weight on me
When it gets too much for me
When it gets too much, much too much for me
I'll do the same thing that you do
And I'll put the weight on you
Huh
I'll put the weight ...
We stood and watched the river flow
We were too young to really know
In the country fair, oh, in the country fair
We laid out in the long green grass
And never thought that it would pass
In the country fair, in the country fair
On an old, on an old open day
On an old rain shine open day
In the country fair
In the cool night air
In sweet summer time
We counted pebbles in the sand
Sand like time...
In the Cul De Sac, so smooth, I look down
Be less sure, sir and take your rest
It's been much too long since we drifted in song
Lay it down wet in this hide away
Oh I traveled far to the nearest star
And met Palomar, mar, mar
And we don't care just who you know
It's who you are
And when they all go home
Down the cobblestones
You can double back
This is it
To a Cul De Sac, mmm
Oh, I traveled fa...
Fair play to you
Killarney's lake are so blue
And the architecture I'm taking in
With my mind is so fine
Tell me of Poe
Oscar Wilde and Thoreau
Let your midnight and your daytime
Turn into love of life
It's a very fine line
But you've got the mind child
To carry it on when it's just
About to be carried on
And there's only one meadow's way to go
And you say Geronimo
And there's only one meadow'...
Linden Arden stole the highlights
With one hand tied behind his back
Loved the morning sun, and whiskey
Ran like water in his veins
Loved to go to church on Sunday
Even though he was a drinking man
When the boys came to San Francisco
They were looking for his life
But he found out where they were drinking
Met them face to face outside
Cleaved their heads off with a hatchet
Lord, he was a drink...
And as we walked through the streets of Arklow
Oh, the color of the day wore on
And our heads were filled with poetry
And the morning a-comin' on to dawn
And as we walked through the streets of Arklow
And gay perfusion in God's green land
And the gypsy's rode with their hearts on fire, they say
"We love to wander, Lord, we love, Lord, we love to roam"
And as we walked through the streets of Ar...
Oh, ain't it lonely
When you're living with a gun
When you can't slow down and you can't turn 'round
And you can't trust anyone
You just sit there like a butterfly
And you're all encased in glass
You're so fragile you just may break
And you don't know who to ask
Oh, ain't it lonely
When you're living with a gun
Well, you can't slow down and you can't turn 'round
And you can't trust anyone
You ...
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 Wavelength |
I'm hungry for your love
I'm hungry for your love
I'm hungry for your love
But I can wait now
I'm on the telephone
And I am all alone
I'm on the telephone
And we're connected
I got such a lot of love
I wanna give it to you
I got such a lot of love
I wanna give it to you
I got such a lot of love
I wanna give it to you
And though we're far apart
You are here in my heart
And though we're far apar...
So glad to see you, so glad you?re here
Come here beside me now, we can clear inhibition away
All inhibitions throw them away
And when we dance like this, like we?ve never been dancin? before
Oh, they were swingin? down at kingdom hall
Oh, bells were ringin? down at the kingdom hall
A choir was singin? down at the kingdom hall
Hey, liley, liley, liley, hey, liley, liley, low
Do do do do do do,...
You sit in silence and the river answers
And I have loved you many, many years
I saw you standing by the wondrous river
And I have come today to calm your fears
Those lifetimes
So many lifetimes with you
The boatman singin' far across the water
What is this feelin' in my heart and soul
The nighttime angel spreads her wings around me
And I feel the sadness and the river flows
Those lifetimes
So...
I'm walkin' down the street
I'm on that midnight beat, I'm on a lonely avenue
Baby, won't you walk with me, baby, won't you talk with me
Oh, that's all I want you to do, now
Walk with me, talk to me, call your name out
Na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na
Na na, na na, na na, Natalia
Here on a summer night
I wanna kiss and hold you tight just the way we used to do
Walkin' down the same old...
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books, thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it, can't leave it alone
You will find a purpose to carry it on
Mainly, when you find it, your heart will be strong about it
Many's the road I have walked upon
Many's the hour between dusk and dawn
Many's th...
This is a song about your wavelength
And my wavelength, baby, you turn me on
When you get me on your wavelength
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
With your wavelength
Oh, with your wavelength
With your wavelength
With your wavelength
Oh mama, oh mama, oh mama
Oh mama, oh mama, oh mama
Wavelength
Wavelength
You never let me down, no
You never let me down, no
When I'm down you always comfort me
When ...
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 What's Wrong With This Picture |
By the light of the moon
When the night holds the secrets
Of the sleepy lagoon
I'm contemplating moonlight on the water
When I'm walking with you
On an evening in June
On an evening in June
It can get so sentimental
When I'm thinking of you
And I can't think of anything
Except being with you
When the summer is through
On an evening in June
On an evening in June
Well, it lifts me up
When I'm ta...
Oh, fame
They've taken everything and twisted it
Oh, fame they say
You never could have resisted it
What's in a name
And everybody's jaded by fame
Oh, fame again
The press has gone and made another mess of it
Oh, just because they got
So much invested in it
But they say you're to blame it's your own fault
'Cos you got mixed up in fame
Oh, no, don't believe all that old Andy Warhol guff
It take...
I just can't seem to take much more of this
Got too much hassle, baby and not enough bliss
Got to give these hangers on a miss
'Cos I need some help, I just don't get
No one seems to understand what's up, what's up
What's up, so called friends come and go and things
Just don't add up, trying to make my way through
All this illusion and myth, I don't even have no safety net
Nero fiddled while R...
What will it take for them to leave me alone?
Don't they know I'm just a guy who sings songs?
I'm not promoting no hit record
And I don't have no t.v. show
An' I don't have no reason
To live in the gold fish bowl
I'm just doin' my gigs
An' I'm on an' off the road
Ev'rything I say is not meant to be
Set in stone
Just because they call me a celebrity
That does not make it true
'Cause I don't bel...
Little village, baby
Ain't large enough to be a town
From a little village, baby
Ain't large enough to be a town
You gotta get away from the city
It's gonna bring you down
Heard the voice of the silence
In the evening, in the long cool summer nights
Heard the voice of the silence
In the evening, in the long cool summer nights
Telling me not to worry
Everything's gonna be all right
There's only...
Lost in a strange city, nowhere to turn
Far cry from the streets that I came from
It can get lonely when you're traveling hard
But you can even be lonely, standing in your own backyard
Nobody knows the existential dread
Of the things that go on inside someone else's head
Whether it be trivial or something that Dante said
But baby, nobody knows the meaning of loneliness
No matter how well you k...
Once in a blue moon
Somethin' good comes along
Once in a blue moon
Every thing's not goin' wrong
When you get weary
Beatin' on the same old gong
Once in a blue moon
Someone like you comes along
Once every once in a while
Something comes along that feels just right
Once every once in a while
Just like switchin' on an electric light
And sometimes you try
Till you?re blue in the face
But when you...
I went down to Saint James Infirmary
For to see, for to see my baby there
Man, she was laid out on a long white table
She was so cold and so cool and so fair
Let her go, let her go, God bless her
Wherever she might be
Lord, you can search this whole
Search this whole wide world over
But she ain't never gonna find
Another lover man like me
When I die, I want you to dress me in straight lace sho...
We met, deep down in Somerset
A time I can't forget
When we were sippin' cider in the shade
Oh, the sun was setting in the West
You looked your very best that night
Stars were shining in your eyes
And we walked, walked all along the sand
And it felt, felt like a wonderland
And when the summer breeze was gone
The memory lingered on
You and me down in Somerset
Oh we walked, walked and walked and...
You gotta stop drinking that wine, sonny boy
You gotta stop drinking that wine, sonny boy
If you don't stop drinking that wine it's gonna poison your mind
You gotta stop drinking that old wine, sonny boy
You drink champagne it's gonna be better for you
You drink champagne it's gonna be better for you
Everybody's going out, going out to enjoy
You gotta stop drinking that wine, sonny boy
You dri...
Too many myths
People just assuming things that aren't true
There's too many myths
Coming between me and you
You might have your name up in lights
But you still have to keep your game uptight
Too many myths
Tell me, tell me how you gonna cope with this
Too many myths
You act like you've never been kissed
You put your name up in lights
And now you gotta keep your game uptight
You got problems
I...
What's wrong with this picture?
There's something I'm not seein' here
What's wrong with this picture?
Something's not exactly clear
What's wrong with this picture?
Does it look like it's just another sting, sting?
'Cos it don't mean a thing
If it ain't got that swing and ring a ding ding
What's wrong with this picture?
Doesn't anybody see
That's who everyone thought
That I used to be
What's wr...
Drop that coin right into the slot
Get it whether you're ready or not
Let the whinin' boy moan
Let the whinin' boy moan
Let the whinin' boy moan
If you don't know how to do it yourself
Well they call him Mr. Jellyroll
Just the way he rolls his dough
Let the whinin' boy moan
Let the whinin' boy moan
Let the whinin' boy moan
If you don't know how to do it yourself
Well well well well, let the wh...
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