In the days of my youth,
I was told what it means to be a man.
Now I've reached the age,
I've tried to do all those things the best I can.
No matter how I try,
I find my way to do the same old jam.
Good times, bad times,
You know Ive had my share.
When my woman left home
With a brown eyed man,
Well I still don't seem to care.
Seventeen I fell in love,
With a girl as sweet as could be.
It only took a couple of days,
Till she was rid of me.
She swore that she would be all mine,
And love me till the end.
When I whispered in her ear,
I lost another friend.
Good times, bad times,
You know Ive had my share.
When my woman left home
With a brown eyed man,
Well I still don't seem to care.
I know what it means to be alone,
I sure do wish I was at home.
I don't care what the neighbors say,
I'm gonna love you each and every day.
You can feel the beat within my heart.
Realize sweet babe we aint ever gonna part.
Babe, baby, baby, I'm gonna leave you.
I said baby, you know I'm gonna leave you.
I'll leave you in the summer time,
Leave you when the summer comes a rollin.
Leave you when the summer comes along.
Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe,
Baby, baby, I don't wanna leave you,
I ain't joking woman, I got to ramble.
Oh, yeah, baby, baby, I won't be there,
Really got to ramble.
I can hear it calling me the way it used to do,
I can hear it calling me back home.
Babe, oh, babe, I'm gonna leave you.
Oh, baby, you know I really got to leave you.
Oh, I can hear it calling me.
I said, don't you hear it calling me, now baby do, do, oh.
I know, I know,
I know, I never, never, never, never, never gonna leave you baby.
But I got to go away from this place,
I've got to quit you yeah.
Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,
Baby, ooh don't you hear it calling?
Woman, woman, I know, I know it's good to have you back again
And I know that one day baby, it's really gonna grow yes it is.
We gonna go walking through the park every day.
Every day,
Oh, I'm gonna let you go away.
Sweet baby, it was really really going,
You made me happy every single day,
But now I've got to go away, oh.
Baby, baby, baby,
That's when it's calling me,
That's when it's calling me back home.
You know you shook me,
You shook me all night long.
You know you shook me baby,
You shook me all night long.
You shook me so hard baby,
Baby baby please come home.
I have a bird that whistles,
And I have birds that sing.
I have a bird that whistles,
And I have birds that sing.
I have a bird won't do nothing,
Oh buy a diamond ring.
You know you shook me baby,
You shook me all night long.
I said you shook me baby,
You shook me all night long.
You shook me so hard baby,
You shook me all night long.
Been dazed and confused for so long
it's not true,
Wanted a woman never bargained for you.
Lots of people talk and few of them know,
Soul of a woman was created below.
You hurt and abused telling all of your lies,
Run arounds sweet baby lord how they hypnotize.
Sweet little baby I don't know where you've been,
God I love you baby here I come again.
Every day I work so hard bringing home my hard earned pay
Try to love you baby but you push me away.
Don't know where you're going only know just where you've been,
Sweet little baby I want you again.
Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true,
Wanted a woman never bargained for you.
Take it easy baby let them say what they will.
(Did your) tongue wag so much when I sent you the bill?
Lying cheating hurting,
That's all you seem to do.
Messing around with every guy in town,
Putting me down for thinking of someone new.
Always the same playing your game,
Drive me insane troubles gonna come to you.
One of these days and it won't be long,
You'll look for me but baby I'll be gone.
Your time is gonna come.
Made up my mind to break you this time,
Won't be so fine it's my turn to cry.
Do want you want I won't take the brunt.
It's fading away can't feel you anymore.
Don't care what you say because I'm gone away to stay,
Gonna make you pay for that great big hole in my heart.
People talking all around watch out woman,
No longer is the joke gonna be on my heart.
You been bad to me woman,
But it's coming back home to you.
Hey girl stop what you're doing.
Hey girl you'll drive me to ruin.
I don't know what it is about you but I like it a lot.
Oh let me hold you.
Let me feel your loving charms.
Communication Breakdown,
It's always the same.
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane.
Hey girl I got something I think you ought to know.
Hey babe I wanna tell you that I love you so.
I wanna hold you in my arms, yeah.
I'm never gonna let you go.
Yes I like your charms.
Communication Breakdown,
It's always the same.
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane.
Communication Breakdown,
It's always the same.
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane.
I can't quit you babe.
So I think I'm gonna put you down for a while.
I can't quit you babe.
I think I'm gonna put you down for a while.
I said you messed up my happy home.
Made me mistreat my only child.
You know I love you babe.
My love for you I could never hide.
You know I love you babe.
My love for you I could never hide.
When I feel you near me little girl,
I know you are my one desire.
When you hear me moaning and groaning babe,
You know it hurts me deep down inside.
When you hear me moaning and groaning babe,
You know it hurts me deep down inside.
When you hear me, You know you're my one desire.
How many more times,
Treat me the way you wanna do.
How many more times,
Treat me the way you wanna do.
When I give you all my love,
Please please be true.
I'll give you all I've got to give,
Rings pearls and all.
I'll give you all I've got to give,
Rings pearls and all.
I've got to get you together baby,
I'm sure you're gonna crawl.
I was a young man I couldn't resist.
Started thinking it all over just what I had missed.
Got me a girl and I kissed her and then,
Whoops oh lord well I did it again.
Now I got ten children of my own.
I got another child on the way that makes eleven.
But you know I'm in constant heaven.
I know it's all right in my mind.
I got a little schoolgirl and she's all mine.
I can't get through to her because it doesn't permit.
But I'm gonna give her everything I've got to give.
Oh Rosie,
Oh, girl.
Oh Rosie,
Oh, girl.
Steal away now, steal away.
Steal away baby, steal away.
Little Robert Anthony wants to come and play.
Why don't you come to me baby.
Steal away.
They call me the hunter,
That's my name.
They call me the hunter,
That's how I got my fame.
Ain't no need to hide.
Ain't no need to run.
Because I've got you in the sights of my gun.
How many more times,
Barrelhouse all night long.
How many more times,
Barrelhouse all night long.
I've got to get to you baby.
Please come home.
Why don't you please come home.
Why don't you please come home.
You need cooling,
Baby I'm not fooling.
I'm gonna send you,
Back to schooling.
Way down inside,
Honey you need it.
I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you my love.
Wanna whole lotta love.
You've been learning,
Baby I been learning.
All them good times,
Baby baby I've been yearning.
Way way down inside,
Honey you need I.
I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you my love.
Wanna whole lotta love.
You've been cooling,
Baby I've been drooling.
All the good times,
I've been misusing.
Way way down inside,
I'm gonna give you my love.
I'm gonna give you every inch of my love,
Gonna give you my love.
If I say to you tomorrow,
Take my hand child come with me,
It's to a castle I will take you,
Where what's to be they say will be.
Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.
And if you say to me tomorrow,
Oh what fun it all would be,
Then what's to stop us pretty baby,
But what is and what should never be.
Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.
So if you wake up with the sunrise,
And all your dreams are still as new,
And happiness is what you need so bad,
Girl the answer lies with you.
Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.
Everybody I know seems to know me well,
But does anybody know I'm gonna move like hell?
I should have quit you,
Long time ago.
Yeah,
Long time ago.
I wouldn't be here, my children,
Down on this killing floor.
I should have listened baby,
To my second mind.
I should have listened baby,
To my second mind.
Every time I go away and leave you darling,
You send me the blues way down the line.
Treat me right baby.
People telling me baby,
Can't be satisfied.
They try to worry me baby,
But they never hurt you in my eyes.
Said people worry,
I can't keep you satisfied.
Let me tell you baby,
You ain't nothing but a two-bit no-good jive.
Went to sleep last night,
Worked as hard as I can.
Bring home my money,
You take my money give it to another man.
I should have quit you baby,
Such a long time ago.
I wouldn't be here with all my troubles,
Down on this killing floor.
Squeeze me baby,
Till the juice runs down my leg.
Squeeze me baby,
Till the juice runs down my leg.
The way you squeeze my lemon,
I'm gonna fall right out of bed.
I'm gonna leave my children down on this killing floor.
If the sun refused to shine,
I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea,
There will still be you and me.
Kind woman,
I give you my all.
Kind woman,
Nothing more.
Little drops of rain,
Whisper of the pain,
Tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong,
With you there is no wrong,
Together we shall go until we die.
Inspirations what you are to me,
Inspiration, look see.
And so today,
My world it smiles,
Your hand in mine we walk the miles.
Thanks to you it will be done,
For you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad,
Happiness, I'm glad.
If the sun refused to shine,
I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea,
There will still be you and me.
Hey fellas have you heard the news?
You know that Annie's back in town.
It won't take long just watch and see,
How the fellas lay their money down.
Her style is new but the face is the same,
As it was so long ago.
But from her eyes a different smile,
Like that of one who knows.
Well it's been ten years and maybe more,
Since I first set eyes on you.
The best years of my life gone by,
Here I am alone and blue.
Some people cry and some people die,
By the wicked ways of love.
But I'll just keep on rolling along
With the grace of the lord above.
People talking all around,
About the way you left me flat.
I don't care what the people say,
I know where their jive is at.
One thing I do have on my mind,
If you can clarify please do,
It's the way you call me by another guy's name,
When I try to make love to you.
Work so hard I couldn't unwind,
Get some money saved.
Abuse my love a thousand times,
However hard I tried.
Heartbreaker your time has come,
Can't take your evil way.
Go away heartbreaker.
With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent
hat,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
Shes going aroung town in her aged Cadillac,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
Come on babe on the round about,
Ride on the merry-go-round.
We all know what your name is,
So you better lay your money down.
Alimony alimony paying your bills,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
When your conscience hits you knock it back with pills.
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
Come on babe on the round about,
Ride on the merry-go-round.
We all know what your name is,
So you better lay your money down.
Telling tall tales of how it used to be,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
With the butler and the maid and the servants three,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
Nobody hears a single word you say,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
But you keep on talking till your dying day,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
Come on babe on the round about,
Ride on the merry-go-round.
We all know what your name is,
So you better lay your money down.
Leaves are falling all around,
It's time I was on my way.
Thanks to you I'm much obliged,
For such a pleasant stay.
But now it's time for me to go,
The autumn moon lights my way.
For now I smell the rain,
And with it pain,
And it's headed my way.
Sometimes I grow so tired,
But I know I've got one thing I got to do,
Ramble on,
And now's the time the time is now.
To sing my song,
I'm going around the world,
I got to find my girl.
On my way,
I've been this way ten years to the day.
Ramble on,
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams.
Got no time to for spreading roots,
The time has come to be gone.
And though our health we drank a thousand times,
It's time to ramble on.
Ramble on,
And now's the time the time is now.
To sing my song,
I'm going around the world,
I got to find my girl.
On my way,
I've been this way ten years to the day.
Ramble on,
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams.
I ain't telling no lie.
Mine's a tale that can't be told,
My freedom I hold dear.
How years ago in days of old,
When magic filled the air.
It was in the darkest depths of Mordor,
I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum and the evil one crept up,
And slipped away with her.
Ain't nothing I can do no,
I guess Ill keep on rambling.
Im gonna shake.
Gonna ramble on, sing my song.
Gonna work my way around the world.
I can't stop this feeling in my heart,
Gotta keep searching for my baby.
Baby, baby.
I'm gonna bring it on home to you.
I've got my ticket, I've got that load.
Got up, gone higher, all aboard.
Take my seat, right way back, ooh yeah.
Watch this train roll down the track.
I'm gonna bring it on home,
Bring it on home to you.
Watch out,
Watch out,
Man move.
Try to tell you baby,
What you trying to do.
Trying to love me baby,
Love some other man too.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.
Went a little walk downtown,
Messed and got back late.
Found a note there waiting,
It said, daddy I just can't wait.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.
Bring it back home.
Bring it back home to me baby.
Tell you pretty baby,
You love to mess me round.
I'm gonna give you loving baby,
Gonna move you out of town.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.
Sweetest little baby,
Daddy ever saw.
I'm gonna give you loving baby,
I'm gonna give you more.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.
All right.
We come from the land of the ice and
snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
The hammer of the gods,
Will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde singing and crying:
"Valhalla I am coming!"
On we sweep,
With thrashing oar.
Our only goal will be the western shore.
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
How soft your fields so green,
Can whisper tales of gore,
Of how we calmed the tides of war,
We are your overlords.
On we sweep,
With thrashing oar.
Our only goal will be the western shore.
So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins,
For peace and trust can win the day despite all your losing.
Her face is cracked from smiling,
All the fears that she's been hiding,
And it seems that pretty soon everybody's gonna know.
And her voice is sore from shouting,
Cheering winners who are losing,
And she worries if their days are few,
And soon they'll have to go.
My my my I'm so happy,
I'm gonna join the band,
We gonna dance and sing in celebration,
Were in the promised land.
She hears them talk of new ways,
To protect the home she lives in.
Then she wonders what it's all about,
When they break down the door.
Her name is Brown or White or Black,
You know her very well,
You hear her cries of mercy,
As the winners toll the bell.
My my my I'm so happy,
I'm gonna join the band,
We gonna sing and dance in celebration,
Were in the promised land.
There is a train that leaves the station,
Heading for your destination,
But the price you pay to nowhere has increased a dollar more.
Yes it has.
And if you walk you're gonna get there,
And though it takes a little longer,
And when you see it in the distance,
You will wring your hands and moan.
Working seven to eleven every night,
It really makes my life a drag.
I don't think that's right.
I've really been the best of fools,
I did what I could.
Beause I love you baby.
But baby, since I've been loving you,
I'm about to lose my worried mind.
Everybody trying to tell me,
That you didn't mean me no good.
I've been trying let me tell you,
Let me tell you I really did the best I could.
I've been working seven to eleven every night,
It kinda makes my life a drag.
Lord you know it ain't right.
Since I've been loving you,
I'm about to lose my worried mind.
Said I've been crying,
My tears they fell like rain.
Don't you hear,
Don't you hear them falling?
Don't you hear,
Don't you hear them falling?
Do you remember mama when I knocked upon your door?
I said you had the nerve to tell me you didn't want me no more.
I open my front door hearing my back door slam.
You must have one of them new fangled,
New fangled back door man.
I've been working from seven to eleven every night,
It kinda makes my life a drag.
Since I've been loving you,
I'm about to lose my worried mind.
As I walk down the highway all I do
is sing this song,
And a train thats passing my way helps the rhythm move along.
There is no doubt about the words are clear,
The voice is strong is oh so strong.
I'm just a simple guy and I live from day to day,
A ray of sunshine melts the clouds and blows my blues away,
There's nothing more that I can say but on a day like today,
I pass the time away and walk a quiet mile with you.
All I need from you is all your love.
All you got to give to me is all your love.
All I need from you is all your love.
All you got to give to me is all your love.
I'm so glad I'm living and gonna tell the world I am,
I got me a fine woman and she says that I'm her man.
One thing that I know for sure gonna give her all the loving,
Like nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody can.
Standing in the noonday sun trying to flag a ride,
People go and people come see my rider right by my side.
It's a total disgrace they set the pace it must be a race,
And the best thing I can do is run.
All I need from you is all your love.
All you got to give to me is all your love.
All I need from you is all your love.
All you got to give to me is all your love.
Hangman hangman hold it a little while,
Think I see my friends coming,
Riding many a mile.
Friends did you get a some silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me my dear friends,
To keep me from the gallows pole?
What did you bring me,
To keep me from the gallows pole?
I couldn't get no silver,
I couldn't get no gold.
You know that we're too damn poor,
To keep you from the gallows pole.
Hangman hangman hold it a little while,
I think I see my brother coming,
Riding many a mile.
Brother did you get me some silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me my brother,
To keep me from the gallows pole?
Brother I brought you some silver,
I brought a little gold.
I brought a little of everything,
To keep you from the gallows pole.
Yes I brought you to keep you from the gallows pole.
Hangman hangman turn your head awhile,
I think I see my sister coming,
Riding many a mile.
Sister I implore you,
Take him by the hand.
Take him to some shady bower,
Save me from the wrath of this man.
Please take him,
Save me from the wrath of this man.
Hangman hangman upon your face a smile,
Pray tell me that I'm free to ride,
Ride for many mile.
Yes you got a fine sister,
She warmed my blood from cold.
She warmed my blood to boiling hot,
To keep you from the gallows pole.
Your brother brought me silver,
Your sister warmed my soul,
But now I laugh and pull so hard,
And see you swinging on the gallows pole.
I don't know how I'm gonna tell you,
I can't play with you know more.
I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me,
My friend the boy next door.
I can't believe what people saying,
You're gonna let your hair hang down.
I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long,
You're on the darker side of town.
And when I'm out I see you walking,
Why don't your eyes see me.
Could it be you've found another game to play,
What did mama say to me.
That's the way,
That's the way it ought to be.
Mama say,
That's the way it ought to stay.
And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes?
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,
Had they got you hypnotized?
Yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry.
I don't know what to say about it,
When all you ears have turned away.
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?
That's the way,
That's the way it ought to be.
Mama say,
That's the way it ought to stay.
I caught you smiling at me,
That's the way it should be,
Like a leaf is to a tree so fine.
Ah all the good times we had,
I sang love songs so glad,
Always smiling never sad so fine.
As we walk down a country lane,
I'll be singing a song,
Hear me calling your name.
Hear the whisper in the trees,
Telling mother nature bout you and me.
Well, if the sunshines so bright,
Or on our way it's darkest night,
The road we choose is always right so fine.
Ah can your love be so strong,
When so many loves go wrong,
Will our love go on and on and on and on and on and on.
As we walk down a country lane,
I'll be singing a song,
Hear me calling your name.
Hear the whisper in the trees,
Telling mother nature bout you and me.
My my, la de la, come on now it ain't too far,
Tell your friends all around the world,
Ain't no companion like a blue eyed merle.
Come on now well let me tell you,
What you're missing missing round them brick walls.
So, of one thing I am sure,
It's a friendship so pure,
Angels singing all around my door so fine.
Yeah, ain't but one thing to do
Spend my natural life with you,
You're the finest dog I knew so fine.
When you're old and your eyes are dim,
There ain't no old Shep gonna happen again.
We'll still go walking down country lanes,
I'll sing the same old songs,
Hear me call your name.
When I done quit hollering baby,
I believe I shake 'em on down.
Get my baby, won't be late,
You know by that I mean seconds late,
Must I shake 'em on down.
Well I've been mistreated babe,
I believe I'll shake 'em on down.
Well I ain't no monkey,
I can't climb no tree.
No brown skin woman gonna make
No monkey out of me.
I ain't no monkey,
I can't climb no tree.
I been mistreated babe,
I believe I'll shake 'em on down.
Well I've been mistreated babe,
I believe I'll shake 'em on down.
Listen mama,
Put on your morning gown.
Put on your night shirt mama,
We gonna shake em on down.
Were both gonna shake em on down.
Well I've been mistreated babe,
I believe I'll shake 'em on down.
Gave my baby a twenty dollar bill.
If that don't get her,
Im sure my shot gun will.
I gave my baby a twenty dollar bill.
If that don't get that woman,
I'm sure my shot gun will.
Hey hey mama said the way you move,
Gonna make you sweat gonna make you groove.
Oh oh child way you shake that thing,
Gonna make you burn gonna make you sting.
Hey hey baby when you walk that way
Watch your honey drip can't keep away.
I gotta roll can't stand still,
Got a flaming heart can't get my fill.
Eyes that shine burning red,
Dreams of you all through my head.
Hey baby,
Oh baby,
Pretty baby.
Hey baby,
Oh baby,
Pretty baby.
Didn't take too long before I found out,
What people mean by down and out.
Spent my money took my car,
Started tellin' her friends she gonna be a star.
I don't know but I been told,
A big legged woman ain't got no soul.
All I ask for when I pray,
Steady rollin' woman gonna come my way.
Need a woman gonna hold my hand,
And tell me no lies make me a happy man.
It's been a long time since I rock and
rolled,
It's been a long time since I did the stroll.
Let me get it back let me get it back,
Let me get it back where I come from.
It's been a long time been a long time,
Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.
It's been a long time since the book of love,
I can't count the tears of a life with no love.
Carry me back carry me back,
Carry me back baby where I come from.
It's been a long time been a long time,
Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.
Seems so long since we walked in the moonlight,
Making vows that just can't work right.
Open your arms opens your arms,
Open your arms baby let my love come running in.
It's been a long time been a long time,
Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.
There's a lady who's sure,
All that glitters is gold,
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows,
If the stores are all closed,
With a word she can get what she came for.
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
There's a sign on the wall,
But she wants to be sure,
Because you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook,
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
It makes me wonder.
There's a feeling I get,
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen,
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
It makes me wonder.
And it's whispered that soon,
If we all call the tune,
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn,
For those who stand long,
And the forests will echo with laughter.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow,
Don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes there are two paths you can go by,
But in the long run,
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it won't go,
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him.
Dear lady can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know,
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
And as we wind on down the road,
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know,
Who shines white light and wants to show.
How everything still turns to gold,
And if you listen very hard,
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all.
To be a rock and not to roll.
Walking in the park just the other day
baby,
What do you think I saw?
Crowds of people sitting on the grass with flowers in their hair said,
"Hey boy, do you wanna score?"
And you know how it is,
I really don't know what time it was,
So I asked them if I could stay a while.
I didn't notice but it had got very dark and I was really,
Really out of my mind.
Just then a policeman stepped up to me and asked us said please hey would we care,
To all get in line.
Get in line.
Well you know,
They asked us to stay for tea and have some fun,
He said that his friends would all drop by.
Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see,
And baby baby baby do you like it?
There you sit, sitting spare like a book on a shelf rusting,
Not trying to fight it.
You really don't care if they're coming,
I know that it's all a state of mind.
If you go down in the streets today baby you better,
You better open your eyes.
Folk down there really don't care really don't care don't care really don't,
Which way the pressure lies.
So I've decided what I'm gonna do now.
So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains,
Where the spirits go now,
Over the hills where the spirits fly.
Oh baby it's crying time,
Oh baby I got to fly.
Got to try to find a way,
Got to try to get away.
Cause you know I gotta get away from you.
Oh baby, the river's red,
Oh baby, in my head.
There's a funny feeling going on.
I don't think I can hold out long.
And when the owls cry in the night,
Oh baby baby, when the pines begin to cry.
Baby baby baby how do you feel.
If the river runs dry baby,
How do you feel.
Craze baby the rainbow's end,
Mmm baby it's just a den for those who hide.
Who hide their love to depths of life,
And ruin dreams that we all knew so babe.
And when the owls cry in the night,
And baby when the pines begin to cry,
Oh baby baby how do you feel.
If the rivers run dry baby,
How do you feel.
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank of my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to California with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there's a girl out there,
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that they're all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake,
As the children of the sun began to awake.
Seems that the wrath of the gods,
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow.
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time,
I'll meet you up there where the path.
Runs straight and high.
To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn,
Tryin' to find a woman who's never never never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard hard hard as it seems.
If it keeps on raining,
Levee's going to break.
If it keeps on raining,
Levee's going to break.
When the levee breaks,
I'll have no place to stay.
Mean old levee,
Taught me to weep and moan.
Mean old levee,
Taught me to weep and moan.
Its got what it takes,
To make a mountain man leave his home.
Don't it make you feel bad,
When you're trying to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're going down South,
They got no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.
Crying won't help you,
Praying won't do you no good.
Crying won't help you,
Praying won't do you no good.
When the levee breaks,
Mama you got to move.
All last night,
Sat on the levee and moaned.
All last night,
Sat on the levee and moaned.
Thinking about my baby,
And my happy home.
This is the springtime of my loving,
The second season am to know.
You are the sunlight in my growing,
So little warmth I felt before.
It isn't hard to feel me glowing,
I watched the fire that grew so low.
It is the summer of my smiles,
Flee from me Keepers of the Gloom.
Speak to me only with your eyes,
It is to you I give this tune.
It isn't hard to recognize,
These things are clear to all from time to time.
Talk talk,
I felt the coldness of my winter.
I never thought it would ever go.
I cursed the gloom that set upon us.
But I know that I love you so.
But I know that I love you so.
These are the seasons of emotion,
And like the winds they rise and fall.
This is the wonder of devotion,
I see the torch we all must hold.
This is the mystery of the quotient,
Upon us all a little rain must fall.
I wanna tell you bout my good thing,
I aint disclosing no names,
But he is a good friend.
I aint gonna tell you where he comes from.
If I tell you you wont come again.
I aint gonna tell you nothing that I do will but I know.
Now let me tell you about my girl.
I open up a newspaper and what do I see?
See my girl looking at me.
And when she walks she walks.
And when she talks she talks.
And when she looks at me in the eye,
Shes my baby I wanna make her mine.
Tell me baby what you want me to do.
And if you want me to love you,
Love some other man too.
Aint gonna call me Mr. Pitiful.
I dont need no respect from nobody no.
I aint gonna tell you nothing I cant tell you no more.
Shes my baby let me tell you I love her so.
And shes the woman I really wanna love and let me tell you more,
Shes my baby she lives next door.
Shes the one a woman the one a woman that I know.
I aint gonna tell you one thing that you really ought to know,
But shes my baby and I love her so.
Shes the one that really makes me whirl and twirl.
And shes got the kind of love that makes me fill the whole world.
Shes the one that makes me jump and shout.
Shes the kind of girl lets me know what its all about.
Dancing days are here again,
As the summer evenings grow.
I got my flower,
I got my power,
I got a woman who knows.
I said it's alright,
You know it's alright,
I guess it's all in my heart.
You'll be my only,
My one and only,
Is that the way it should start?
Crazy ways are evident,
In the way you're wearing your clothes.
Sipping booze is precedent,
As the evening starts to glow.
You know it's alright,
I said it's alright,
You know it's all in my heart.
You'll be my only,
My one and only,
Is that the way it should start?
You told your mamma I'd get you home,
But you didn't say that I had no car.
I saw a lion he was standing alone,
With a tadpole in a jar.
You know it's alright,
I said it's alright,
I guess it's all in my heart.
You'll be my only,
My one and only,
Is that the way it should start?
So dancing days are here again,
As the summer evenings grow.
You are my flower,
You are my power,
And you are my woman who knows.
I said it's alright,
You know it's alright,
You know it's all in my heart.
You'll be my only,
My one and only,
Is that the way it should start?
I know it is.
Oh oh oh oh oh,
You don't have to go.
You don't have to go.
You don't have to go.
Ay ay ay ay ay ay,
All those tears I cry.
All those tears I cry.
Baby please don't go.
When I read the letter you wrote me,
It made me mad mad mad.
When I read the words that it told me,
It made me sad sad sad.
But I still love you so,
I can't let you go.
I love you,
Baby I love you.
Oh oh oh oh oh oh,
Every breath I take.
Every move I make.
Baby please don't go.
Ay ay ay ay ay ay,
You hurt me to my soul.
You hurt me to my soul.
Darling please don't go.
When I read the letter you sent me,
It made me mad mad mad.
When I read the news that it broke,
It made me sad sad sad.
But I still love you so,
I can't let you go.
I love you,
Baby I love you.
Oh oh oh oh oh oh,
You don't have to go.
You don't have to go.
Baby please.
Singing in the sunshine,
Laughing in the rain.
Hitting on the moonshine,
Rocking in the grain.
Got no time to pack my bag,
My foots outside the door.
I got a date and I can't be late for the high hopes hailla ball.
Singing to an ocean,
I can hear the ocean's roar.
Play for free and play for me.
And play a whole lot more.
Sing about the good things,
And the sun that lights the day.
I used to sing on the mountains,
Has the ocean has the ocean lost its way?
Sitting round singing songs,
Till the night turns into day.
Used to sing on the mountains,
But the mountains washed away.
Now I'm singing all my songs,
To the girl who won my heart.
She is only three years old,
And it's a real fine way to start.
Drop down baby let daddy see.
Drop down mama just dream of me.
Mama allow me Id fool around all night long.
Well I may look like Im crazy,
I still know right from wrong.
See me coming slowly on by your door.
Ain't no stranger, I been this way before.
See me coming mama slowly on by your door.
I ain't no stranger I been this way before.
Put on your night shirt and your morning gown.
You know by night I'm gonna shake 'em on down.
Put on your night shirt,
Mama and your morning gown.
Well you know by night,
I'm surely gonna shake 'em on down.
Your custard pie: sweet and nice.
When you cut it mama save me a slice.
Your custard pie I declare ain't seen the like.
I like your custard pie.
When you cut it mama,
Mama please save me a slice.
Ill chew on a piece of your custard pie.
Chew on a piece of your custard pie.
Drop down.
Drop down.
I've been to London,
Seen seven wonders,
I know to trip is just to fall.
I used to walk it,
Sometimes I'd roll it,
I always knew what it was for.
There can be no denying,
That we'll really shake em down.
And the flag we're flying,
Is the new flag of the land.
If we could just join hands.
If we could just join hands.
If we could just join hands.
Converse the planet,
When heaven send me,
I saw the kings who rule them all.
Still by the firelight,
And purple moonlight,
I hear the rusting rivers call.
And the wind is crying,
Of a love that won't grow cold.
My lover she is lying,
On the dark side of the globe.
If we could just join hands.
If we could just join hands.
If we could just join hands.
You got me rocking when I ought to be alone,
Darling come on tell me darling which way to go.
You keep me rocking baby then you keep me spinning,
Won't you tell me darling which way to go.
Oh how I wonder,
Oh how I worry,
And I would dearly like to know.
I always wonder,
If earthly plunder,
Will leave us anything to show.
And our time is flying,
See the candle burning low.
Is the new world rising,
From the shambles of the old?
If we could just join hands.
If we could just join hands.
If we could just join hands.
In my time of dying,
Want nobody to moan.
All I want for you to do,
Is take my body home.
Well well well so I can die easy.
Well well well so I can die easy.
Jesus got to make you shiver.
Jesus gonna make you.
Jesus gonna make you my dying bed.
Meet me Jesus meet me,
Meet me in the middle of the air.
If my wings should fail me lord,
Please meet me with another pair.
Well well well so I can die easy.
Well well well so I can die easy.
Jesus gonna make you somebody.
Jesus gonna make you.
Jesus gonna make you my dying bed.
Oh Saint Peter,
I can make amends,
Won't you let me in.
I never did no wrong,
I never did no wrong.
Oh Gabriel,
Let me blow your horn,
Let me blow your horn.
I never did no wrong,
Did no wrong.
I only can be young once.
I never thought I'd do anybody no wrong,
No not once.
Oh I did somebody so good,
Somebody some good.
Oh did somebody some good,
I must have did somebody some good,
Oh I believe I did.
I seen the smiling faces.
I know I must have left some traces.
And I see them in the streets.
And I see them in the theater.
And I even felt my feet.
And I never tried to be real.
Oh lord deliver me,
All the wrongs I've done.
Oh you can deliver me lord,
I only wanted to have some fun.
Oh keep the angels marching,
Keep them marching,
Keep them marching,
Oh my Jesus...
That's got to be my Jesus.
It's got to be my Jesus.
Oh take me home.
Come on, come on.
I can hear the angels singing,
Here they come,
Bye bye.
Oh feels pretty good up here.
I'll touch Jesus.
I seen him,
Come on.
Oh don't you make it my dying dying dying.
Oh let the sun beat down upon my face,
And stars fill my dreams.
I'm a traveller of both time and space,
To be where I have been.
To sit with elders of a gentle race,
This world has seldom seen.
They talk of days for which they sit and wait,
All will be revealed.
Talk in song from tongues of lilting grace,
Sounds caress my ear.
And not a word I heard could I relate,
The story was quite clear.
Ooh baby Ive been blind,
Oh yeah mama in your denying.
Ooh yes I been blind,
Mama, ain't no denying.
All I see turns to brown,
As the sun burns the ground.
And my eyes fill with sand,
As I scan this wasted land.
Trying to find, trying to find where I've been.
Oh pilot of the storm who leaves no trace,
Like sorts inside a dream,
Leave the path the led me to that place,
Yellow desert stream.
Like Shangri-la beneath the summer moon,
I will return again,
As the dust that floats finds you,
Will move and search Kashmir.
Oh father of the four winds fill my sails,
Cross the sea of years.
With no provision but an open face,
Along the straits of fear.
Oh when I walk, when I'm on my way,
When I see, when I see the way to stay.
But I'm down.
But I'm down, so down.
Ooh my baby,
Ooh my baby,
Let me take you there.
And if you feel that you can't go on,
And your will's sinking low,
Just believe and you can't go wrong,
In the light you will find the road.
Hey, did you ever believe,
That I could leave you,
Standing out in the cold?
Hey baby I know how it feels,
Because I have slipped through,
To the very depths of my soul.
Oh baby I just want to show you,
What I'd give you,
In case you ever been on the road.
Now listen as I was and would do for you too,
Honey, as you would do for me.
I would share your load.
Let me share your load.
And if you feel that you can't go on,
In the light you will find the road.
Hey, the winds of change my blow around you,
And that will always be so.
Oh, when love is pain it can devour you,
If you are never alone.
I'll share your load.
I will share your load.
Baby let me,
Oh, let me.
In the light.
Everybody needs the light.
Then as it was,
Then again it will be.
Though the course may change sometimes,
Rivers always reach the sea.
Like stars of fortune,
Each has separate rays.
On the wings of maybe,
Down in birds of prey.
Kind of makes me feel sometimes,
I didn't have to grow.
But as the eagle leaves the nest,
He got so far to go.
Changes fill my time,
Baby that's all right with me.
In the midst I think of you,
And how it used to be.
Did you ever really need somebody?
And really need them bad.
Did you ever really want somebody?
The best love you ever had.
Do you ever remember me baby?
Did it feel so good.
Because it was just the first time,
And you knew you would.
Turn the eyes and I sparkle,
Senses growing keen.
Tasting love along the way,
See your feathers preen.
Kind of make you feel sometimes,
Didn't have to go.
We are eagles of one nest,
The nest is in our souls.
Vixen in my dreams,
With great surprise to me.
Never thought I'd see your face,
The way it used to be.
Oh darling, oh darling.
I'm never gonna leave you.
Ten years gone, holding on, ten years gone.
I received a message from my brother
across the water,
He sat laughing as he wrote "the ends in sight."
So I said goodbye to all my friends,
And packed my hopes inside a matchbox,
Because I know it's time to fly.
Oh yeah come on meet me in the morning,
Meet me in the middle of the night.
Oh yeah the morning light is coming,
Don't it make you wanna feel all right.
I just jumped a train that never stops,
So now so how'll they know I never,
Finished paying for my ride.
Just now someone pushed a gun into my hand,
Tell me I'm the type of man,
To fight the fight that I'll require.
Oh yeah come on meet me in the morning,
Meet me in the middle of the night.
Oh yeah the morning light is coming,
Don't it make you wanna feel all right.
Oh mama well I think it's time I'm leaving,
Nothing here to make me stay.
Oh mama well it must be time I'm going,
They're knocking down them doors,
And trying to take me away.
Please Mr. Brakeman won't you ring your bell,
And ring it loud and clear.
Please Mr. Fireman won't you ring your bell,
Tell the people they got to fly away from here.
I once saw a picture of a lady with a baby,
Southern lady had a very very special smile.
We are in the middle of a change in destination,
When the train starts all together we will smile.
Oh yeah come on meet me in the morning,
Meet me in the middle of the night.
Everybody know the morning time is coming,
Don't it make you wanna feel all right.
Been in town my baby,
We just got to run home.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah darling,
We just got to go home.
I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop,
Come on baby just rock, rock, rock.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah honey,
We been shaking all night.
Oh, darling we just got to run right,
Aah, my head, rock on.
Rock On.
Hey babe, hey babe.
Hey babe, hey babe.
Hey babe, hey babe.
Hey babe, hey babe.
I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop,
Come on, baby, just rock, rock, rock.
I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop,
Come on, baby, just rock, rock, yeah.
Hey hey mama, what's the matter here.
Hey hey mama, what's the matter here.
You didn't have to tell me that you love me so,
Didn't have to love me mama let me go.
Hey hey mama, what's the matter here.
You didn't have to make me a total disgrace,
Didn't have to leave me with that beer in my face.
Hey hey mama, what's the matter here.
Oh that's all right, it's awful doggone clear.
Hey hey baby, why you treat me mean.
Oh oh baby, why you treat me mean.
You didn't have to crucify me like you did,
You didn't have to tell me I was just your kid.
Hey hey mama, why'd you treat me mean.
You didn't have to say you'd always be by my side,
Didn't have to tell me you'd be my blushing bride.
Hey hey mama, why you treat me mean.
But that's all right, I know your sister too.
You didn't have to tell me that you love me so,
You didn't have to leave me mama, let me go.
Hey hey mama, what is wrong with you.
You didn't have to leave me like a total disgrace,
You didn't have to leave me with that beer on my face.
Hey hey mama, what is wrong with you.
Oh but that's all right, I'd be the same way too, oh yeah.
Now my baby you didn't have to crucify me like you did,
You didn't have to tell me I was just your kid.
Hey hey mama, what's the matter here.
You didn't have to tell me you would be my own,
You didn't have to tell me baby, let me go.
Hey hey mama, what is wrong with you.
Oh that's all right, I know your sister too.
What's the matter with you mama.
On the window of your ready little scene,
I'm looking in your eyes.
One day soon you're gonna reach sixteen,
Ain't a lady in the city of lights.
Do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
You know I'm the one you want,
I must be the one you need.
Reflections baby from your teenage dream,
In the lobby of a hotel cafe dive.
Through the circus of the L. A. queens,
I passed you round went right on by.
How you play the game,
Still don't know your name.
You know I'm the one you want,
Yes I'd love to be the one you need.
Lips like cherries on the frown of a queen,
Come on flash it right in my eyes.
Said you dug me since you were thirteen,
Then you giggle as you hurt inside.
Do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
I got to tell you I'm the one you want,
And everybody knows I'm the one you need.
Hours hours and the moments in between,
Oh baby I could count the times.
I've thought of coming on a plane and leaving,
Baby dry those silver eyes.
Do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
You know I'm the one you want,
I'm the one you need.
It was an April morning
When they told us we should go.
And as I turned to you you smiled at me
How could we say no?
Whoa the fun to have,
To live the dreams we've always had.
Whoa the songs to sing,
When we at last return again.
We swept New York a glancing kiss,
To those who claim they know.
Under the streets the steam and hiss,
The devil's in his hold.
Whoa to sail away,
Sandy lands and holidays.
Whoa to touch the dream,
Eyes inside have never seen yeah.
And to the sun the south the north,
Flocks of birds have flown.
The shackles of commitment fell,
In pieces on the ground.
Whoa to ride the wind,
To tread the air above the din.
Whoa to laugh aloud,
Dancing eyes above the crowd yeah.
Seek a man whose pointing hand,
A giant step unfolds.
Guide us from the curving path,
That churns up into stone.
If one bell should ring,
In celebration for a king.
So fast the heart should beat,
As proud for him [?he can't be beat?] yeah.
Days went by when you and I,
Bathed in eternal summer's glow.
It's far away and distant,
A mutual time to grow.
Whoa the sweet refrain,
Soothes the soul and calms the pain.
Oh I'll here remain,
Sleeping now to rise again.
Wandering and wandering,
One place to rest the search.
Where the mighty arms of Atlas,
Hold the heavens from the Earth.
Where the mighty arms of Atlas,
Hold the heavens from the earth.
From the earth.
Well, well.
Ho, ho, ho!
You said I was your only,
We've been livin' in your head,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ho.
Exhibition is your habit,
Emotion's second hand,
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Had to pull away to save me,
Maybe next time around.
Oh..., and she said, don't you wannit?
Don't you want cocai cocai cocai?
Hadn't planned to, could not stand to,
Try it, friend, na, na, na, na, yeah.
Whoo ooh ooh ooh,
Heard a cry for mercy,
In the city of the damned.
Oh oh babe, deep down.
Impossible to go lower,
The next stop's on the ground,
Oh, low on the ground.
You want to know is it quite over,
To fame and tears and losing hair.
And I said didn't mean to,
Did not [?mean to profit?].
If you can plan you are a brave man.
Do you wanna? Do you wanna do it?
Do it when you wanna.
Do you wanna? Do you wanna do it?
Do it when you wanna.
When you blow it babe,
You got to blow it right.
Oh baby, if you fake it mama,
Baby, fake with all your might.
When you fake it, mama,
Please fake it right, for yourself babe,
When you fa-fa-fa-fake it baby,
You're fakin' it for your life.
For your life.
For your life.
For your life.
Do it, do it, do it, do it,
Do it when you wanna.
Do it, do it, do it, do it,
Do it when you wanna.
Oh, I can help you baby,
But I don't know what to do, yeah.
Sometime baby, nothin' I could do.
Wanna find myself a crystal,
Payin' through the nose.
And when they couldn't resist you,
I sought to go with the flow.
And now your stage is empty,
But now the curtain baby, please,
Fold up your show.
Hadn't planned to
Could not stand to fry in it.
I hadn't planned it,
I over ran it, fryin,
For your life.
For your life.
One time love,
Take care how you use it,
Try to make it last all night.
And if you take your pick,
Be careful how you choose it,
Sometimes it's hard to feel it bite.
Feel it bite.
A man who I know,
Went down to Louisiana,
Had himeself a bad, bad fight.
And when the sun peeks through,
John Cameron he sees sunny,
He kissed her whiskers left and right
Whiskers!
Now, now, now,
A fight subsides,
Out at a hotel in the Quarter,
A friendship took a bash tonight,
Now love gets hot,
Look far for a sea with water,
Grew whiskers sittin' there through the night,
Whiskers!
Down on Bourbon Street,
You know it's right,
You can see my friends
When they run around us in the night
Most everywhere
Until the closet's bare
Run for the razor fun
Doin' up my head
New Orlean's queens,
Sure know how to shmooze it.
Maybe for some that seems allright.
When I step out,
I'm struck down with my sugar
She wears my cloak like fairy white
Now, one time love,
Take care how you use it.
Try to make it last all night.
You take your pick,
Be careful how you choose it.
Sometimes it's hard to feel it bite.
Well, oh baby baby
Don't you want a man like me
Oh baby baby
Im just as sweet as anybody could be
Oh baby baby
I want to look to your eyes of blue
Oh baby baby
It's more than anybody else could do
Well, oh baby baby
You know when I see you walkin' down the street
Oh baby baby
Well you lookin' good enough to eat
Oh baby baby
I dont believe I've tasted this before
Oh baby baby
I want it now and every mouthful more of you, yeah
Talk about you, yeah
Yeah, talk about yeah
Oh baby baby
You know that I wanted it more
Oh baby baby
Im about to kiss goodbye to this store
Oh baby baby
It aint the wrappin' that sells the goods
Oh baby baby
I got a sweet tooth when my mouth is full, yeah
Oh baby baby
Well now you sting me like a bee
Oh baby baby
I like your honey, it sure likes me
Oh baby baby
I got the spoon inside your jar
Oh baby baby
Don't give me too much, don't make me starve
Oh baby baby
Sugar sittin on a silver plate, huh
Oh baby baby
I'll eat em up, I just cant wait, you know
Oh baby baby
You see me shakin, my head
Oh baby baby
Don't give me more cuz it tastes so bad
Tastes so bad
Tastes so bad
Tastes so bad
I was burned in the heat of the moment
No, it could've been the heat of the day
When I learned how my time had been wasted
Dear fellows, I turned away
Now I've got friends who will give me their shoulder
When I should happen to fall
Time and his bride growing older
I've got friends who will give me some all
Corner of Bleeker and nowhere
In the land of not quite day
A shiver runs down my backbone
The face in the mirror turns grey
So, I looked 'round for a hitch from a reindeer
Said you oughta find him out in the day
I turned 'round to look for the snowman
To my surprise he'd melted away, yeah
The moon and the stars out of order
As the tide tends to ebb and sway
The sun in my soul's sinking lower
While the hope in my hands turns to clay
I don't ask that my feet fall on clover
I don't roam at opportunity's door
Why don't you ask my advice, take it slower
Then your story'd be your finest reward
Lost on the path to attainment
Search in the eyes of the wise
When I bled from the heart of the matter
I started bleeding without a disguise
Now everything's finally happened
Now and then you've got to take time to pause
When you're down on the ground, don't be messin' around
You can land in a boat without oars
Hey babe, Hey babe
Hey babe, I lost my way
Hey babe, Hey babe
I really, really did now
Hey babe, Hey babe
I don't know where I'm gonna find it
Hey babe, Hey babe
Do you wanna know
Do you really, really, wanna help me, yeah
Let me tell you now, babe
Let me tell you
That it feels so good that it must be right
C'mon babe
Let me tell you
That it feels so good that it must be right
C'mon babe
Let me tell you
If it feels, if it feels, if it feels
if it feels so good, so good, so good
Oh, yeah
How come twenty four hours,
Baby sometimes seem to slip into day.
Oh twenty-four hours,
Baby sometimes seem to slip into day.
When a minute seems like a lifetime,
Ooh baby when I feel this way.
Sittin lookin at the clock,
Oh time moves so slow.
I've been watchin for the hands to move,
Until I just can't look no more.
How come twenty four hours,
Baby sometimes slip into day.
A minute seems like a lifetime,
Baby when I feel this way.
To sing a song for you,
I recall you used to say.
Oh baby this one's for me to you,
Which in the end is you anyway.
How come twenty four hours,
Baby sometimes slip into day.
A minute seems like a lifetime,
Oh baby when I feel this way.
There was a time that I stood tall,
In the eyes of other men.
But by my own choice I left you,
And now I can't get back again.
How come twenty four hours,
Sometimes slip into day.
Well well well,
A minute seems like a lifetime,
Baby when I feel this way.
A minute seems like a lifetime,
Oh baby when I feel this way.
I feel this way.
In the evening,
When the day is done,
I'm looking for my woman,
But the girl don't come.
So don't let her,
Play you for a fool,
She don't show no pity baby,
No no she don't make no rules.
Oh I need your love,
I need your love.
Oh I need your love,
I just got to have.
So don't you let her,
Oh get under your skin,
It's only bad luck and trouble,
From the day that you begin.
I hear you crying in the darkness,
Don't ask nobody's help,
Ain't no pockets full of mercy baby,
Cause you can only blame yourself.
Oh I need your love,
I need your love.
Oh I need your love,
I just got to have.
Oh it's simple,
All the pain that you go through,
You can turn away from fortune,
Cause that's all that's left to you.
It's lonely at the bottom,
Man it's dizzy at the top,
But if you're standing in the middle,
Ain't no way you're gonna stop.
Oh I need your love,
I need your love.
Oh I need your love,
I just got to have.
Oh whatever,
What your days may bring,
No use hiding in a corner,
Cause that won't change a thing.
If you're dancing in the doldrums,
One day soon it's got to stop,
When you're the master of the off-chance,
Well you don't expect a lot.
Oh I need your love,
I need your love.
Oh I need your love,
Ive got pain.
Baby when you walk that sweet walk,
You walk it good.
Yes you walk it good.
Baby when you talk that sweet talk,
Oh it sounds so good.
With a little bit of concentration,
And a little bit of hold my hand,
And a little bit of raving madness,
You know it makes me feel,
Both my feet are back on the ground.
And when the rythm takes me,
It feels so good,
Oh so good.
Maybe if it keeps a-shaking,
It will do you good.
With a little bit of stop-a-shaking,
And a little bit of fly right down,
And a little bit of sweet con carne,
It makes me feel,
I got my feet on the ground.
Now baby when you move it makes me,
Really feel so good,
Oh so good.
And I'm so glad,
And I'm good.
With a little bit of concentration,
And a little bit of helping hand,
And a little bit of saving madness,
You know it makes me feel,
I'm back on the ground.
Well there's a light in your eye that
keeps shining,
Like a star that can't wait for the night.
I hate to think I've been blinded baby,
Why can't I see you tonight.
And the warmth of your smile starts a burning,
And the thrill of your touch gives me fright.
And I'm shaking so much really yearning,
Why can't you show up and make it all right.
And if you promised your love so completely,
and you said you would always be true.
You swore that you never would leave me baby,
What ever happened to you.
And you thought it was only in movies,
And you wish all your dreams would come true.
It ain't the first time believe me baby,
I'm standing here feeling blue.
Now I will stand in the rain on the corner,
I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown.
Another ten minutes no longer,
And then I'm turning around.
The clock on the wall's moving slower,
My heart it sinks to the ground.
And the storm that I thought would blow over,
Clouds the light of the love that I found.
Now my body is starting to quiver,
And the palms of my hands getting wet.
I've got no reason to doubt you baby,
It's all a terrible mess.
And I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless,
When I'm breathless I'll run till I drop.
The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless,
I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block.
Well I just got into town today,
To find my girl who's gone away.
She took the Greyhound at the General Store.
I searched myself I searched the town.
When I finaly did set down,
I find myself no wiser than before.
She said we couldn't do no wrong,
No other love could be so strong.
She locked up my heart in her bottom drawer.
Now she took my heart she took my keys,
From in my old blue dungarees,
And I'll never go to Texas anymore.
Now my baby's gone I don't know what to do.
She took my love and walked right out the door.
And if I ever find that girl I know one thing for sure,
I'm gonna give her something like she never had before.
I took her love at seventen,
A little late these days it seems.
But they said heaven's well worth waiting for.
I took her word I took it all,
Beneath the sign that said "U-haul",
She left angels hanging round for more.
Now my baby's gone I don't know what to do.
She took my love and walked right out the door.
And if I ever find that girl I know one thing for sure,
I'm gonna give her something like she never had before.
I thought I had it all sewn up.
Our love a plot a pickup truck.
But folks said she was after something more.
I never did quite understand,
All that talk about rocking bands,
But they just rolled my doll right out the door.
Sisters of the wayside biding time in
quiet peace
Await their place within the ring of calm (Ahhh)
Still stand to turn in seconds of release
Await the call they know may never come
In times of lightness, no intruder dared upon
To jeopardize the course, upset the run (Ahhh)
And all was joy and hands were raised toward the sun
As love in the halls of plenty overrun
Ahh-ahhh
Ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahhh
Ahh-ahh
Still in their bliss unchallenged mighty feast
Unending dances shadowed on the day (Ahh)
Within their walls, their daunting formless keep
Preserved their joy and kept their doubts at bay
Faceless legions stood in readiness to weep
Just turn a coin, bring order to the fray (Ahhh)
And everything is soon no sooner thought than deed
But no one seemed to question in anyway
Ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahhh
Ahh-ahh
Ahh-ahhh
How keen the storied hunter's eye prevails upon the land
To seek the unsuspecting and the weak (Ohhh)
And powerless the fabled sat, too smug to lift a hand
Toward the foe that threatened from the deep
Who cares to dry the cheeks of those who saddened stand
Adrift upon a sea of futile speech (Ohhh)
And to fall to fate and make the status plan
And th' lord there in heaven would never preach
Should I fall out of love my fire in
the night,
To chase a feather in the wind.
Within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight,
There moves a thread that has no end.
For many hours and days that pass ever soon,
The tides have caused the flame to dim.
At last the arm is straight the hand to the loom,
Is this to end or just begin?
All of my love,
All of my love,
All of my love,
To you now.
All of my love,
All of my love,
All of my love,
To you now.
The cup is raised the toast is made yet again.
One voice is clear above the din.
Proud Aryan one word my will to sustain,
For me the cloth once more to spin.
All of my love,
All of my love,
All of my love,
To you now.
All of my love,
All of my love,
All of my love,
To you now.
Yours is the cloth mine is the hand that sews time.
His is the force that lies within.
Ours is the fire, all the warmth we can find,
He is a feather in the wind.
All of my love,
All of my love,
All of my love,
To you now.
All of my love,
Oh, yes.
All of my love,
To you now.
All of my love,
All of my love,
All of my love,
All of my love, love.
Sometime,
Sometime,
Sometime,
Sometime.
It's all, all, all, all,
All of my love,
All of my love,
All of my love,
To you now.
All of my love,
All of my love,
All of my love,
To, to you, and you, an you, and yeah.
I've got a little bit of love left.
Just a little bit,
Just a little bit.
Just a little bit of love left,
Just a little bit of love left.
Oh she's my baby,
Let me tell you why.
She drives me crazy,
She's the apple of my eye.
Because she is my girl.
And she can never do wrong.
If I dream too much at night.
Somebody please bring me down.
I love that little lady,
I got to be her fool.
Ain't no other like my baby,
I can can break the golden rule.
Because I am down on my knees.
I pray that love won't die.
And if I always try to please,
I don't no the reason why.
If she would come back,
Only stay with me.
Every little bit of my love.
Every little bit of my love.
I don't have to go by plane,
I ain't got to go by car.
I don't care just where my darling is,
People I just don't care how far.
I'm gonna crawl,
I'm gonna crawl,
I don't care if I got to go back home.
I don't care what I got to stand to get you.
I'm gonna crawl.
I'm gonna crawl.
I'm gonna move the car.
She give me good loving.
Yes I love her.
I wanna crawl.
Here's a tale of Tom,
Who worked the rivers run.
His wife would cook his meat,
But he wouldn't care to eat.
Poor Tom,
Seventh son,
Always knew what's going on.
Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom.
There ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom.
Worked for thirty years,
Sharing hopes and fears.
Dreaming of the day,
He could turn and say:
"Poor Tom,
Work's gone,
Lazing out in the noonday sun."
Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom.
There ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom.
His wife was Ellie May,
One of many games she played.
When Tom was out of town,
She couldn't keep her dresses down.
Poor Tom,
Seventh son,
Always knew what's going on.
Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom.
Ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom.
And so it was one day,
That Tom caught Ellie May.
Tom took a gun in his hand,
And stopped all the running around.
Poor Tom,
Seventh son,
Gotta die for what you've done.
All those years of work are thrown away.
To ease your mind is that all you can say?
But what about that grandson on your knee?
And railroad song is he could be.
Oooh, don't it feel so strange lookin'
at the door
Ahhh, tryin' hard to change but can't let go
Ohhh, cryin' tears of pain hurtin' more an' more
Ohhh, everyday's the same as you walk in the door
I'm walkin' the floor over you
I'm walkin' the floor
Every heart that breaks is a heart that's cold
Ohhh, to the hand that takes your dreamless soul
Ohhh, is it long to wait, is it much too late
Ohhh, sometimes it's hard when you pour in the day
You know it's hard
I said it's hard
You know
I said it's hard
You know it's hard
You know it's true
Everyday the hole in the smile is ours
When you hear the call, can you count the costs
As you stand alone do you wonder how
Can you step aside, does it matter now
Every love that's changed (Every love that's changed)
Spend it fully (fully)
In the eyes of the night (In the eyes of the night)
Was it hard to see (Was it hard to see)
And the day of the fail (And the day of the) my spite grow
So you fight the tears, enter Walter's Walk
You know it's true now
You know it's true now
Oooh, yeah
(Guitar Solo)
I'm walkin' the floor over you
I'm walkin' the floor
Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost
When ya hear the call, can you count the cost
Can you stand alone, do you wonder how
Can you step inside, does it matter now
Does it matter now
Does it
Now, does it matter
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Ooh, little baby don't you go
Every tear that's falls
Does it matter now
Does it matter now
Oh yeah, oh yes, oh yes
I hear ya knock on my door
I ain't been savin' this thing for ya, honey
Don't wantcha ringin' my bell
It's too late for you to be my honey
Ooh, it's my love
Ooh, it's my own true love
Ooh, it's my love
Ooh, it's my own true love, my own
I wantcha wastin' my time
Tired of ya doin' the things that ya do
It's no use standin' in line
Follow the line, you better follow queue
I say, ooooh, it's my love
Oooh, it's my own true love
Oooh, it's my love
Oooh, it's my own true, my my own
I could stay on the river run, yeah
But I know that's just
I could wish for a million years
But I know I'm still at home
I could cry within the darkness and sail away
I could trade a lifetime forever
'Cause you know, you know, you know what I said
And I say ooh, it's my love
Oooh, it's my own true love
Oooh, it's my love
Oooh, it's my own true love, my my own
Oooh, it's my love
Oooh, it's my own true love
Oooh, it's my love
Oooh, it's my own true love, my own true love,
my own true love, my own true love, my own true love
I said oooh, it's my love
Oooh, it's my love
Oooh, it's my own true love
Oooh, it's my love
Oooh, it's my own true love, my own.
Darlene.
Darlene.
Darlene.
Darlene.
Darlene.
Darlene.
Come on baby give me some.
When I see you at that dance,
With your tight dress on,
What you got it sure is fine,
I wanna get me some.
Darlene.
Darlene.
Darlene.
Be my baby.
Darlene.
Darlene.
Darlene.
Come back and be my sweet little girl.
When I see you on the street,
It makes my heart go flitter,
I see you walkin with all those guys,
It makes me feel so sick.
And I don't care what people say,
And I don't care what they do.
Sweet child I gotta make you mine.
You're the only thing that I want, you.
And baby baby when you walk down the block,
See the people [?look?],
You drive me wild.
I gotta do it really gonna try.
Oh baby I got my car,
I'll take you as far.
I'm gonna take you every place,
I'm gonna boogie-woogie-woogie-woogie.
I'm gonna prove it Darlene.
I'm gonna make you my girl.
I'm gonna boogie Darlene.
I'm gonna send ya in another world.
Cause I love Darlene,
I gotta love her,
Yes I do.
I've been savin all my money.
I've been workin all day long.
I gotta give it all back to you.
But I love Darlene.
Yes I love you, yes I do.
I've been working too, I've been working every day,
I've been trying to get home to you.
And I love you Darlene.
Yes I love you I do.
I got a pink carnation and a pickup truck,
Im saving it all for you.
Oh I love you.
It starts out like a murmur,
Then it grows like thunder,
Until it bursts inside of you.
Try to hold it steady,
Wait until you're ready,
Any second now will do.
Throw the door wide open,
Not a word is spoken,
Anything that you want to do.
Don't you feel the same way?
Don't you feel the same way?
But you don't know what to do.
No time for hesitating,
Ain't no time for hesitating,
All you got to do is move.
They say you're feeling blue,
I just found a cure,
It's a thing you gotta do.
You say your body's aching,
I know that it's aching,
Chill bumps come up on you.
Yeah the funny fool,
I love the funny fool,
Just like fooling after school.
And then you ask for mediciation,
Who cares for medication,
When you've worn away the cure.
Go back to the country,
Yeah go back to the country,
Feel a change is good for you.
When you keep convincing,
Don't keep convincing,
What's that creeping up behind a you?
It's just an old friend,
It's just an old friend,
And what's that he's got for you?
There was a time,
I used to call you on my very own.
We were so happy woman,
Talkin' for hours and hours on the telephone.
Then one day,
I set you up to walk right outta my life,
Leavin' me all by myself,
All alone to cry every night.
Oooh, I want you to come back home, yeah.
Sweet little girl, been away so long.
Now listen to me.
I said I made up my mind,
Woman when you left me there, oh,
I was gonna find another sweet lover,
Who gonna feel all of my all of my all of my cares.
So I met a sweet little girl,
Just about as nice as she could be, oh.
I fell in love with that woman,
But she turned around and did the same thing again to me, oh.
Oh, baby, baby, please come home, home yeah.
I know, been away so long.
I want you to please come home, oh.
So I made up my mind,
I gonna crawl right back to you woman.
I'm gonna plead and plead and plead, yeah,
'Till you're here by my side.
I can't even walk down the same old streets we used to walk down,
'Cause I keep thinkin about all the good times.
Keep thinkin' about it I wanna make you mine.
Oh, babe, babe, babe, please come home, yeah.
I want you to, oh,
I want you to come back runnin home to me woman.
I want you to think about when we walked through the trees together.
You know we had such a real good time.
Woah here they come.
I believe it's always callin',
Do you feel the brown leaf against your face you oughta sing and shout.
Asked sweet mama,
Let me be her kid.
She said "You might get hurt,
If you don't keep it hid."
Well I know my baby,
If I see her in the dark.
I said I know my rider,
If I see her in the dark.
Now I going to Rosedale,
Take my rider by my side.
Still barrelhouse,
If it's on the riverside.
I know my baby,
Is really sloppy drunk.
I know my mama,
A brownskin but she ain't no plum.
See my baby tell her,
Tell her hurry home.
Had no loving since,
My baby been gone.
See my baby,
Tell hurry on home.
I ain't had my right mind,
Since my rider's been gone.
Hey she promises,
She's my rider.
I wanna tell you,
She's my rider.
I know you're mine,
She's my rider.
She ain't but sixteen,
But she's my rider.
I'm going to Rosedale,
Take my rider by side.
Anybody argue with me man,
I'll keep them satisfied.
Well see my baby tell her,
Tell her the shape I'm in.
Ain't had no loving,
Since you know when.
She's a kindhearted lady,
She studies evil all the time.
She's a kindhearted woman,
She studies evil all the time.
Squeeze my lemon,
Till the juice runs down my leg.
Squeeze it so hard,
I fall right out of bed.
Squeeze my lemon,
Till the juice runs down my leg.
The way that you squeeze it girl,
I swear I'm gonna fall right out of bed.
She's my kindhearted lady,
I'm gonna take my rider by my side.
I said her front teeth are lined with gold.
She's gotta mortgage on my body,
Gotta lien on my soul.
She's my brownskin sugar plum.
Wanna tell you about the girl I love,
My she looks so fine.
She's the only one that I been dreaming of,
Maybe someday she will be all mine.
I wanna tell her that I love her so,
I thrill with her every touch.
I need to tell her she's the only one I really love.
I got a woman, wanna ball all day.
I got a woman, she won't be true no.
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time.
I said I got a little woman and she won't be true.
Sunday morning when we go down to church,
See the menfolk standing in line.
I said they come to pray to the lord,
With my little girl looks so fine.
In the evening when the sun is sinking low,
Everybody's with the one they love.
I walk the town,
Keep a-searching all around,
Looking for my street corner girl.
I got a woman, wanna ball all day.
I got a woman, she won't be true no.
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time.
I said I got a little woman and she won't be true.
In the bars with the men who play guitars,
Singing drinking and remembering the times.
My little lover does a midnight shift,
She followed around all the time.
I guess there's just one thing a-left for me to do,
Gonna pack my bags and move on my way.
Cause I got a worried mind,
Sharing what I thought was mine.
Gonna leave her where the guitars play.
I got a woman, she won't be true no.
I got a woman, wanna ball all day.
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time.
I got a little woman and she won't be true.
Whoa, the girl I love
She got long black wavy hair
I do declare
The girl I love, yeah
She got long black wavy hair, ah yeah
Her mother and her father, lordy
Sure don't, sure don't like me there
Well, ah, I'm going back to my baby, lord I
I said I wouldn't lie, yeah
I never saw that sweet woman yeah-a
Five long years gone by, yeah
Well I'm going ho-whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa I
I'm going home
Well she's a sweet little darling, I
I said I been away ah far too long
I've been away too long
Take it Jimmy
Well she's my baby, ba-
She shakes just like a willow tree
Yes she does
My baby when she walks, you know
She shakes like a willow tree, yeah
Ah, that mean mistreater, baby, she knows ya
Haaa humps all over me, ooh
Yeah
Ohh ah
Asked sweet mama,
Let me be her kid.
She said "You might get hurt,
If you don't keep it hid."
Well I know my baby,
If I see her in the dark.
I said I know my rider,
If I see her in the dark.
Now I going to Rosedale,
Take my rider by my side.
Still barrelhouse,
If it's on the riverside.
I know my baby,
Is really sloppy drunk.
I know my mama,
A brownskin but she ain't no plum.
See my baby tell her,
Tell her hurry home.
Had no loving since,
My baby been gone.
See my baby,
Tell hurry on home.
I ain't had my right mind,
Since my rider's been gone.
Hey she promises,
She's my rider.
I wanna tell you,
She's my rider.
I know you're mine,
She's my rider.
She ain't but sixteen,
But she's my rider.
I'm going to Rosedale,
Take my rider by side.
Anybody argue with me man,
I'll keep them satisfied.
Well see my baby tell her,
Tell her the shape I'm in.
Ain't had no loving,
Since you know when.
She's a kindhearted lady,
She studies evil all the time.
She's a kindhearted woman,
She studies evil all the time.
Squeeze my lemon,
Till the juice runs down my leg.
Squeeze it so hard,
I fall right out of bed.
Squeeze my lemon,
Till the juice runs down my leg.
The way that you squeeze it girl,
I swear I'm gonna fall right out of bed.
She's my kindhearted lady,
I'm gonna take my rider by my side.
I said her front teeth are lined with gold.
She's gotta mortgage on my body,
Gotta lien on my soul.
She's my brownskin sugar plum.
Hey, look a-here
What's all this?
There's a car made just for me
To own that car would be a lot to me
A brand new convertible is out of my class
I'll buy that car and I'll go riding around
But that ain't no harm in thinking to myself
That's fine lookin' man, it's something else
Hey, look a-here
What's all this?
I never thought I'd see this look before
But here I am a-knockin' on her door
The car's out front and it's all mine
Just a '41 Ford, '69
That ain't stopping me from thinking to myself
It's okay, baby, it's a-something else
Ahh, you're really rockin', man
Hey, look a-here
I can't say it's right
I see that girl walking down the street
Ahh, she's the sweet I'd like to meet
I guess I'll ask if she'll come for a walk
Maybe we'll go walking in the park
And then I know right to myself
She's okay, baby, yes, I said, she's somethin' else
Hey girl stop what you're doing.
Hey girl you'll drive me to ruin.
I don't know what it is about you but I like it a lot.
Oh let me hold you.
Let me feel your loving charms.
Communication Breakdown,
It's always the same.
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane.
Hey girl I got something I think you ought to know.
Hey babe I wanna tell you that I love you so.
I wanna hold you in my arms, yeah.
I'm never gonna let you go.
Yes I like your charms.
Communication Breakdown,
It's always the same.
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane.
Communication Breakdown,
It's always the same.
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane.
Been dazed and confused for so long
it's not true,
Wanted a woman never bargained for you.
Lots of people talk and few of them know,
Soul of a woman was created below.
You hurt and abused telling all of your lies,
Run arounds sweet baby lord how they hypnotize.
Sweet little baby I don't know where you've been,
God I love you baby here I come again.
Every day I work so hard bringing home my hard earned pay
Try to love you baby but you push me away.
Don't know where you're going only know just where you've been,
Sweet little baby I want you again.
Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true,
Wanted a woman never bargained for you.
Take it easy baby let them say what they will.
(Did your) tongue wag so much when I sent you the bill?
If the sun refused to shine,
I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea,
There will still be you and me.
Kind woman,
I give you my all.
Kind woman,
Nothing more.
Little drops of rain,
Whisper of the pain,
Tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong,
With you there is no wrong,
Together we shall go until we die.
Inspirations what you are to me,
Inspiration, look see.
And so today,
My world it smiles,
Your hand in mine we walk the miles.
Thanks to you it will be done,
For you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad,
Happiness, I'm glad.
If the sun refused to shine,
I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea,
There will still be you and me.
