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Tim Buckley

I can't see you

Summer princess, midnight maidenWhen I first saw you I just breathed

Into your smile my past went fadin'

Inside your voice, my mind was sheathed

In lost lagoon, we waited, wadin'

Along the streets we went paradin'

Never looking back to where we'd been

Autumn temptress, sundown angel

Inside your blood you aren't so young

I came to you a loving vandal

And heard your heart and touched your tongue

Day became a lighted candle

Sky fell down beneath your sandal

In your eye I began to spin

Winter harlot, moontime lover

I can't speak when I feel this way

Don't keep your feelings undercover

Tell me what you want todayDon't leave me in the air to hover

Sing it out don't make me suffer

Don't be ashamed love is no sin

Springtime woman, sunrise girl

I am hiding behind the sea

Trick or treat, the Hallowe'en world

Hide and seek but you can't catch me

I won't chase you until you hurlYour wing to me, and make me twirl

You're alive underneath my skin

Wings

Although you've spoken many times before,

A sight of birth he leaves you by a door.

And now you know he doesn't understand.

And all you need is the warmth of his hand.

And if he'd smile your loving blood would dance,


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One silent kiss leaves you in a trance.

And now you know you cannot live alone,

But you will find your future is unknown.

One day the questions rise.

On wings of chance you fly.

And on that day your laughs and tears will die,

And fall as free as seabirds climb the skies.

And you will love when love comes your way.

And when it comes there's nothing more to say.

And now you know he doesn't understand,

And now you know you don't need his hand.

One day the questions die,

On wings of chance you fly.

Song of the magician

When I sing I can't bring everything on the wing

Flying down from dizzy air

To the ground because I care

You will be love and your love will live

When I smile I beguile all the while every mile

As I walk across the skyOf the clockwork of your eye


Casting spells from the well I can tell you the bells

listen to my magic voice

Learn the tune of children's toys


When I die do not cry hear my sigh passing byAfter I have turned to win

I will try to help you then


*** Thanx a lot to Merve for this one ***

Strange street affair under blue

Just for you with your open hands

Waiting for the touch of manClutching with your blackened gloves
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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You try to capture all the doves

That flee into

The forest before you

You wish to catch and cage me nowI wonder if you remember how

Hard it was to say the names

Of mirror dreams and cheated games

And on the wall

You framed your first lover

Your form intrigues me with the glow

I'll remember you I know

Though I forgot to lock the chain

Around you with a prayer for rain

To bring the call

To drive you back into my bed

Ahhh....

She turns away

Telling me to follow for a while

Ahhh....

She waits

You'd be touched if you would touch

But you only reach and taunt

Will my taste stay grey and blue

If I try to turn from you

Valentine Melody

You came to me with fire inside

Your movements and your prideAnd asking to be rescued from

The pain you had become

I tore apart the prison and I hid you in my hand

In the blue light of Christmas-time Santa Claus was kind

I wonder if you'll ever grow

Oh far enough to throw

Away the lies of no and yesAnd love my quietness


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Or will you only freeze and frown and lose what you have found?

In the white light of Easter seas'n will you live again?

Today the coin is in the air

And we are here and thereAnd where and when have caught us in

The web of violence

I pray to all the world as one that day will bring the sun

In the scarlet light of Valentine's our paper hearts are blind.

Aren't You The Girl

Aren't you the girl who used to call me names?

Aren't you the girl who used to play at games?

Weren't you the one who said she'd never fall?

Now you're the one who's cryin' not so tall.

Yes you're the one,

Shall I throw you a crumb?

Shall I come and pass you by?

Would that make you want-a try?

Shall I come and kiss your lips?

Would that make your rain slip?Shall I come and dry your eyes?

Will that make you realize?

Oh I know what it's like.

It's happened many times to me.

Oh do you ache inside,

Do your eyes want-a cry?

Do you want me back again?

Aren't you the girl who used to call me names?

Aren't you the girl who used to play at games?

Weren't you the one who used to run and hide?

Now you're the one who's cryin' way inside.

Oh I know what it's like.

It's happened many times to me.

Oh do you ache inside,

Do your eyes want-a cry?Do you want me back again?


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Song Slowly Song

( Larry Beckett )

With your beautiful hairAnd your sixteen years

You kissed me as I lay still

If I can see you never,

Then I'll sleep forever

All my lonely love to kill.

It Happens Every Time

It happens every time.

Give my love,

She leaves me behind.

It happens every time.

The sorrow makes me lose my mind.

If she'd only be as true as I am,

And listen to my love that's sayin',

Oh baby won't you stay mine

Your lovin' makes me feel so fine

And someday baby you'll findMy love was gentle and kind.

Someday you'll know that leaving me was wrong.

But don't bother all that time is gone.

And it happens every time.

Now I know it's not worth the tryin'

So baby don't turn around

Let my tears fall to the ground.

If she'd only be as true as I am,And listen to my love that's sayin',

Oh Oh Oh Oh....

Song For Jainie

You've got the untortured mind of a woman

Who has answered all the questions before.

You've got the free-givin' ways of a woman

Who has kicked all the heartache out the door.And Jainie, don't you know?

Jainie, don't you know? I been tryin'


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Jainie, don't you know?


Yes, I truly love to be with you

If I wasn't with the one that I'm with.Yes, I truly love to lie with you

If I didn't have to give what I give.





I brought to you my tired plans and weary faith to you

And with a smile you took me in and showed me love again

Now it has to be say good-bye or stayin', I don't know

But remember please I gave you love that's only mine to give

And Jainie, don't you know?



Jainie, don't you know? I been tryin'.

Grief In My Soul

I've got ten thousand troubles, a million woes.I got grief in my soul nobody knows.

I got heartaches, I got stingin' water fallin' out of the sky.

I got a long lost lover, got a reason to die.

I got ten thousand troubles, a million woes.

I got grief in my soul nobody knows.

I got sorrow.

I'm in a storm that'll spare no travelin' man.I fear tomorrow.

Got a love that died long before it began.



Got a cold chain.

I got rain fallin' on my head from above.

I got a bad pain.

I got a gal don't know the meaning of love.I got ten thousand troubles, a million woes.



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I got heartaches, I got stingin' water fallin' out of the sky.

I got a long lost lover, got a reason to die.



She Is

( Larry Beckett )

She is the day that gives me time to live and linger love my life

Till night comes on with sundown scythe to end the puzzled pantomime

She is a day of love

She is the bridge on which I wait to watch the river 'neath me flow

All spinning surging far below along the deep and ending straights

She is a bridge of love

She is the air I breathe entranced, awake, asleep in storm or calm

A wind to wash my lifted palm, a sky that calls me out to dance

She is the air of love

She is the day through which I walk toward the bridge where she stands

She is the air I breathe to sing, she is a smile without demands

She is a smile that keeps me warm with matchless laughter, eyes ablaze

A mischief mystery she plays upon the flute of early morn

She is a smile of love

She is the air of love

She is the day of love

*** Thanx a lot to localizer for this one ***

Understand Your Man

Well let me tell all you pretty women

One tiny word of advice

Tell you pretty woman

One tiny word of advice

Just do me one favor

Won't you understand your man

You gotta wake up in the mornin'

Keep your lovin' daddy by your side


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Wake up in the mornin'

Keep your lovin' daddy by your side

Just do me one favor

Won't you please understand your man

Well let me tell you, Miss Molly

Tell you 'bout my lovin' back home

I got a sweet little woman

You know that she'd never make me roam

She's the only woman that I know ever understand her man

Goodbye And Hello

No Man Can Find The War

( Larry Beckett )

Photographs of guns and flame

Scarlet skull and distant game

Bayonet and jungle grin

Nightmares dreamed by bleeding men

Lookouts tremble on the shore

But no man can find the war

Tape recorders echo scream

Orders fly like bullet stream

Drums and cannons laugh aloud

Whistles come from ashen shroud

Leaders damn the world and roar


Is the war across the sea?Is the war behind the sky?

Have you each and all gone blind:

Is the war inside your mind?

Humans weep at human death

All the talkers lose their breath

Movies paint a chaos tale

Singers see and poets wail

All the world kows the score



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Carnival Song

The singer cries for people's lies

He will sing for the day to bring him night

The circus burns in carnival flameAnd for a while you won't know my name at all

But sing and dance and love for pennies and gold

The juggling clown smiles to me

And every frown we agree is glad

The nighttime comes to bring the bums

From Bowery heat to crimson streets of wine

But magic lands will never touch our sands

Your children smile in single file

They learn mistakes that others make

They see although they cannot know

The needs they'll need to have their greed grow wild

But dance and sing, for others bring the shame

And for a while you won't know my name

Pleasant Street

You don't remember what to sayYou don't remember what to do

You don't remember where to go

You don't remember what to choose

You wheel, you steal, you feel, you kneel down

All the stony people

Walking 'round in Christian licorice clothes

I can't hesitate

And I can't waitFor Pleasant Street

The sunshine reminds you of concreted skies

You thought you were flying but you opened your eyes

And you found yourself falling back to yesterday's lies

Hello, Pleasant Street, you know she's back again


All the stony peopleWalking 'round in Christian licorice clothes

I can't hesitate


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And I can't wait

For Pleasant Street

At twilight your lover comes to your room

He'll spin you, he'll weave you 'round his emerald loomAnd softly you'll whisper all around his ear

"Sweet lover, I love Pleasant Street

I wheel, I steal, I feel my way down to kneel"

All the stony people

Walking 'round in Christian licorice clothes

I can't hesitate

And I can't wait

For Pleasant Street

You don't remember what to say

You don't remember what to do

You don't remember which way to go

You don't remember who to choose


Hallucinations

( Larry Beckett )

I saw you walking

Only yesterday

When I ran to catch you

You disappeared

And the street was gray

The candle died

Now you are goneFor the flame was too bright

Now you are gone

I heard you laughing

With your laugh of gold

When I called out to you

Silence returned

And the air was cold

The castle fell

Now you are gone


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No more rings the bell

Now you are gone

I found a letter

On the day it rainedWhen I tore it open

There in my hands

Only ash remained

The castle fell

Now you are gone

No more rings the bell

Now you are gone

I felt you breathing

As I fell asleep

When I reached out to touch you

No one was there

And the night was deep

The candle died

Now you are gone

For the flame was too bright

Now you are gone

I saw you walking

Only yesterday

When I ran to catch you

You disappeared

And the street was gray

The castle fell

Now you are goneNo more rings the bell

Now you are gone

I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain

O I never asked to be your mountain

I never asked to fly

Remember when you came to me

And told me of his liesYou didn't understand my love

You don't know why I try


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And the rain was falling on that day

And damn the reason why

The Flying Pisces sails for time

And tells me of my childWrapped in bitter tales and heartache

He begs for just a smile

O he never asked to be her mountain

He never asked to fly

And through his eye he comes his love

And tells her not to cry

She says, "Your scoundrel father flies

With a dancer called a queen

And with her stolen cards he plays

And laughs, but never wins"

O the child dreams to be his hands

In the counting of the rain

But only barren breasts he feels

For her milk will never drain

As I die I can't remember

Where I saw the rain:

Could it be that her laughterDrove me down again?

Charming dancer will you stop,

Stop and talk to me?

Is there someone else you feel

In your dreams? you will, you see:

In midnight gazes

I've found you far from me:

If you lead me on

Please leave me down

O Flying Flying Fish

Please flutter by my door:

Yes you can drink my lies

If first you read my eyes:

Each one is titled

"I'm drowning back to you":

I can't swim your waters

And you can't walk my lands:I'm sailing all my sins

And I'm climbing all my fears


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And soon now I'll fly

O I never asked to be your mountain

I never asked to fly

Remember when you came to meAnd told me of his lies

You didn't understand my love

You don't know why I try

And the rain was falling on that day

And that's the reason why

Sweet lover, will you come back

And love me for a while?

Please take my hand

Leave all your fears behind

I've been gone too long

Now I'm home to stay

Please don't leave me

Again this way

Please come home

Once I Was

Once I was a soldier

And I fought on foreign sands for you

Once I was a hunter

And I brought home fresh meat for you

Once I was a lover

And I searched behind your eyes for you

And soon there'll be another

To tell you I was just a lie

And sometimes I wonder

Just for a while

Will you remember me

And though you have forgotten

All of our rubbish dreams

I find myself searching

Through the ashes of our ruinsFor the days when we smiled

And the hours that ran wild


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With the magic of our eyes

And the silence of our words

And sometimes I wonder

Just for a whileWill you remember me

Phantasmagoria In Two

If a fiddler played you a song, my love

And if I gave you a wheel

Would you spin for my heart and loneliness

Would you spin for my love

If I gave up all of my pride for you

And only loved you for now

Would you hide my fears and never say

"Tomorrow I must go"

Everywhere there's rain my love

Everywhere there's fear

If you tell me a lie I'll cry for you

Tell me of sin and I'll laughIf you tell me of all the pain you've had

I'll never smile again



I can plainly see that our parts have changed

Our sands are shifting around

Need I beg to you for one more dayTo find our lonely love



Knight-Errant

O whither has my lady wandered?

I'll search until I know I've found her

One green day she left her wings


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And cut away her childhood strings

But dropping smiles along the trail

She left a trace I will not fail

O whither has my lady wandered?I'll search until I know I've found her

When I catch my sudden maid

I'll deck her out in lace and jade

I will take her to her room

I will take her to her room

I love her upstairs

I love her downstairs

But I love my lady's chamber

O whither has my lady wandered?

I'll search until I know I've found her

Goodbye and Hello

( Larry Beckett )

The antique people are down in the dungeonsRun by machines and afraid of the tax

Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes

Hauling their hearts around circular tracks

Pretending forever their masquerade towers

Are not really riddled with widening cracks

And I wave goodbye to iron

And smile hello to the air

O the new children dance ------ I am youngAll around the balloons ------ I will live

Swaying by chance ------ I am strong

To the breeze from the moon ------ I can give

Painting the sky ------ You the strange

With the colors of sun ------ Seed of day

Freely they fly ------ Feel the change

As all become one ------ Know the Way

The velocity addicts explode on the highwaysIgnoring the journey and moving so fast

Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe


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They run from the cops of the skeleton past

Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger

Into nowhere at all and they look up aghast

And I wave goodbye to speedAnd smile hello to a rose

O the new children play ------ I am young

Under the juniper trees ------ I will live

Sky blue or gray ------ I am strong

They continue at ease ------ I can give

Moving so slow ------ You the strange

That serenely they can ------ Seed of day

Gracefully grow ------ Feel the change

And yes still understand ------ Know the Way

The king and the queen in their castle of billboards

Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind

All their possessions and transient treasures

As they go to worship the electronic shrine

On which is playing the late late commercial

In that hollowest house of the opulent blind

And I wave goodbye to Mammon

And smile hello to a stream

O the new children buy ------ I am young

All the world for a song ------ I will live

Without a dime ------ I am strong

To which they belong ------ I can give

Nobody owns ------ You the strange

Anything anywhere ------ Seed of day

Everyone's grown ------ Feel the change

Up so big they can share ------ Know the Way

The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage

And shatter their audience with submachine guns

And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns

Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons

While the tapdancing Emperor sings "War is peace"

And Love the Magician disappears in the fun

And I wave goodbye to murder

And smile hello to the rain

O the new children can't ------ I am young


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Tell a foe from a friend ------ I will live

Quick to enchant ------ I am strong

And so glad to extend ------ I can give

Handfuls of dawn ------ You the strange

To kaleidoscope men ------ Seed of dayCome from beyond ------ Feel the change

The Great Wall of Skin ------ Know the Way

The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen

Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives

And the men who aren't men leave the women alone

See them all faking love on a bed made of knives

Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies

And in secret divorce they will never survive

And I wave goodbye to ashes

And smile hello to a girl

O the new children kiss ------ I am young

They are so proud to learn ------ I will live

Womanwood bliss ------ I am strong

And the manfire that burns ------ I can give

Knowing no fear ------ You the strange

They take off their clothes ------ Seed of day

Honest and clear ------ Feel the changeAs a river that flows ------ Know the Way

The antique people are fading out slowly

Like newspapers flaming in mind suicide

Godless and sexless directionless loons

Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide

They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily

The new children will live for the elders have died

And I wave goodbye to AmericaAnd smile hello to the world

Morning Glory

( Larry Beckett )

I lit my purest candle close to my

Window, hoping it would catch the eye

Of any vagabond who passed it by,And I waited in my fleeting house


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Before he came I felt him drawing near;

As he neared I felt the ancient fear

That he had come to wound my door and jeer,

And I waited in my fleeting house

"Tell me stories," I called to the Hobo;

"Stories of cold," I smiled at the Hobo;

"Stories of old," I knelt to the Hobo;

And he stood before my fleeting house

"No," said the Hobo, "No more tales of time;

Don't ask me now to wash away the grime;

I can't come in 'cause it's too high a climb,"

And he walked away from my fleeting house

"Then you be damned!" I screamed to the Hobo;

"Leave me alone," I wept to the Hobo;

"Turn into stone," I knelt to the Hobo;

And he walked away from my fleeting house

Happy Sad

Strange Feelin'

I got this strange strange feelin'

Deep down in my heart

I can't tell what it is

But it won't let go

It happens every time

I give you more than what I have

But now all I need is a little time to sing this song

And I think we're gonna find a way to lose this strange feelin'

All around I feel ya, darlin', feel ya darlin'

When you're home all alone

Oh, don't you need somebody to talk your troubles to

Ah, lord I know I wanna catch the morning train, lord the first thing

Oh, I wanna hear you say we're gonna take that strange feelin'

Oh, take it all away

Well it's just like a mockingbird a-singing on a hillsideChurping at his morning song

But don't you weep don't you fret don't you wail don't you moan


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Can't you hear that whiporwill a-callin?

Now don't you worry

Your daddy's comin' home

He's gonna chase those blues away

And believe me when I sayWe're gonna lose that strange feelin' all around all around...

Buzzin' Fly

Just like a buzzin' fly

I come into your life

Now I float away

Like honey in the sun

Was it right or wrong

I couldn't sing that song anyway

Oh, but darlin'

Now I remember

How the sun shown down

And how it warmed your prayin' smile

When all the love was there

You're the one I talk about

You're the one I think aboutEverywhere I go

And sometimes honey

In the mornin'

Lord, I miss you so

That's how I know I found a home


Oh, hear the mountains singingLord, I can hear them ringing, darlin',

Out your name

And tell me if you know

Just how the river flows

Down to the sea

Now I wanna know

Everything about you

I wanna knowEverything about you


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What makes ya smile

What makes ya wild

What makes ya love me this way

Darlin' I wanna know

Darlin' I wanna know

You're the one I talk about

You're the one I think about

Everywhere I go

And sometimes honey

In the mornin'

Lord, I miss you so



A-walkin' hand in hand

And all along the sand

A seabird knew your name

He knew your love was growin'

Lord, I think it knows it's flowin'

Thru you and me

Ah, tell me darlin'When I should leave you,

Ah, tell me darlin'

I don't want to grieve you....

Just like a buzzin' fly

I come into your life

Now I float away

Like honey in the sun

Was it right or wrongI couldn't sing that song anyway

Oh, but darlin'

Now I remember

How the sun shown down

And how it warmed your prayin' smile

When all the love was there

You're the one I talk aboutYou're the one I think about

Everywhere I go


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And sometimes honey

In the mornin'

Lord, I miss you so....

Love from Room 109 at the Islander (on Pacific Coast Highway)

I was lost without a song without a melody

You came into my hotel life

You made my room a home

Ah now, mama, don't you know what you done

Ah, you made the sunshine in the city

Oh, you warmed my heart

You changed an old man filled with pity

Back to a child again

Ah now, mama, can't you see what you done

So tell me darlin' if the feeling's wrong

Don't waste another day

Lord, the saddest thing I've ever known

Was to watch it die away

Ah now, mama, don't you lie don't you lie

Oh, how can my giving find the rhythm and the time of youUnless you sing your songs to me

The smell of your sweet skin does entangle my dream

Oh may I stand here awhile living your smile

Oh, how could you ever know what you've done

You warmed my heart when I was so all alone

But all I have to give

Are my dreams of coming and going forever

Inside the rivers of time you'll find me waitingFor you to find peace in your mind

So we can love again

I feel what you feel,

If you feel what you feel,

And I see what you see,

If you see what you see,

So it goes on and on

On it goes, on and on

It's my heart and your heart,


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It's our hearts together,

You sing and I'll bring,

We'll both love together,

And all I know is let it grow

All you'll find is peace of mind.

Dream Letter

Lady time fly away

I've been thinking 'bout my yesterday

Oh, please listen darlin' to my empty prayers

Sleep inside my dreams tonight

All I need to know tonight are you and my child

Oh, is he a soldier or is he a dreamer?

Is he mama's little man?

Does he help you when he can?

Or does he ask about me?

Just like a soldier boy

I been out fighting wars

That the world never knows about

But I never win them loud

There's no crowds around me

But when I get to thinkin'

'Bout the old days

When love was here to stay

I wonder if we'd ever tried

Oh, what I'd give to hold him.

Gypsy Woman

Yes I come around

Never know a little sooner

Casts a spell on me

Casts a spell on me

Casts a spell on me

Casts a spell on me....

Gypsy woman

Gypsy woman

Gypsy woman....

Well, you were out trying to turn the tide this morning


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Now mama don't you lie

You knew it was in the moon and you knew it was in the sky

Oh, gypsy woman

Tell me please, gypsy woman

Casts a spell on me, darlin'Casts a spell on me, mama

Casts a spell on me, darlin'

Oh, gypsy woman

Mama, everytime you turn around the fire

Mama, keep me inbetween the devil and the sky

And every time you look my way

Mama how you hypnotize



Casts a spell on me, mama

Casts a spell on me

That gypsy woman casts a spell on me

But if you come runnin' with desire

Oh, gypsy woman knows how to get your blood hot higher

Well, asked your daddy

Your papa wouldn't deny itAsked your mama

Lord, she was quick to agree

I didn't have to fight your brother

And your sister's still standin' in line

Oh, please tell me gypsy woman

How do you hypnotize me?

We're gonna go down to the river

Walk in the waterOh, we're gonna get all clean

Then we're gonna do, gonna do

Exactly darlin' what you

Came and set your mind on

Casts a spell on me

Casts a spell on me...

Well, you were out trying to turn the tide this morningNow mama don't you lie

You knew it was in the moon and you knew it was in the sky


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Casts a spell on me, mama

Casts a spell on me, darlin'.....

Sing a Song for You

In my heart is where I long for you

In my smile I search for you

Each time you turn and run away I cry inside

My silly way, just too young to know any more

In my world the devil dances and dares

To leave my soul just anywhere,

Until I find peace in this world

I'll sing a song everywhere I can

Just too young to know any more

The wind covers me cold

The starry skies all around my eyes

Far behind the city moans

Well worthy of the people there

Oh, the psalms they love to hear

So let me sing a song for you

Just to help your day along

Let me sing a song for you

One I've known so very long

Oh, please could you find the time.


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Lorca

Lorca

Let the sun sing in your smile

Let the wind hold your desire

Let your womans voice run through your veins

Let her be your blood don't feel ashamed

She's your home when no one wants youShe'll give you life when you're so tired

She'll ease your fears ah when you're a stranger

She's born to give faith to you

Oh, just to you

You're just a man on death's highways

It's life you owe you're here to praise it

If love flows your way then be a river

And when it dries just stand there and shiver

Oh, let the sun sing in your smile


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Let the wind hold your desire

And let your womans voice run through your veins

Let her be your blood don't feel ashamed

It's her life you owe

I owe you love

Anonymus proposition

Love me as if someday you'd hate me

For what i give is yours without a name

To fill your night long needs

Only as long as you say

This time you'll learn that love is just a slave

To where the heart beats stronger

This time you'd need in turn or promise forever

I could have been a boy from long ago you've left forgotten

And lately you've wondered where he's gone

Oh, it's never hold to me not as long as love lives in this house

Take me after all you've lost and never wanted

Somewhere between all the nights you've tatsted wine of men forever

Untill they left you to wake alone

Aw, but it's never said to me

Not when the years live in these hours

And darling love me as if someday you'd hate me

For what i am is here in front of you longing to know

How long you'd care for me

This time you'll learn that love is just a slave

To where your heart beats stronger

That's where you stay

I had a talk with my woman

I had a talk with my woman late last night

And she reassured me everything was alright

And time hung still like a falling rain

Now i know at last that my love is safe

Ah but when i go away my love i leave

Lord i'm but half a man without her by my sideShe's this memory that i hold all around

She's this dream that i always hold to believe


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I wanna go upon a mountain

And sing my love and sing my love

I wanna sing it high, sing it down low

Then i'm gonna know how long it's gonna lastThen i'm gonna know how long it's gonna last

Well you know your moses, oh lord he lost his way

Ah, and your jesus don't remember the words

Well then i guess it's just you and me brother

All alone in this cold world

All alone in this cold world

Ah, you gotta go upon a mountain

And learn to sing your love, learn to sing your love

You know i can sing it high, sing it down low

Then we gonna know how long it's gonna last

Then we gonna know how long it's gonna last

Hard rain, sweet rain, fall a little while longer

Wash down the city skies

Lord bring the streets alive

Make it like it was long before i was born

Driftin'

When there's wine in your belly

Love rhythm's on your tongue

For you are a woman

And each man has been too young

But for me you were a lover

Gently under your coverYour sheet reeks of odours

Oh i came here to hold and be held for a while

I've been drifting like a dream out on the sea

I've been drifting in between you and me

Everytime i think about you

I can't remember what i said or did

Was right or wrong, you know i just don't rememberAll i wanna be is what you mean to me

All i wanna be is what you mean to me


28/66

Late last night as i dreamed in dizzy sunlight

I thought i heard your bare feet up the stairs

Just like a fool, just like a fool

I've been driftingLike a dream out on the sea

I've been drifting in between what used to be

Nobody walkin'

I left my baby standing in the backdoor crying

I left my baby standing in the backdoor crying

She said "you got a home as long as i got mine"

She said "you got a home as long as i got mine"

And nobody walking, nobody talking

Ever pay the price i owe her

Ah, there ain't nobody living, nobody giving


But sometimes you gotta turn your back

Ah, sometimes you gotta turn your back

Just to show that little girl

That there is something she's gonna lackJust to show that little girl

There's something more that you desire

Nobody walking nobody talking

Ever pay the price

Nobody living, anybody giving


I don't need it to rainI don't need it to rain

I don't need it to rain

Oh to rain

Well i know you've been turning tricks honey

Up and down the avenue

And i've been trying to tease you

Oh, just to see what you'd do

I don't need it to rainI don't need it to rain

No more


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When that storm comes raining down

When that storm comes raining down

There ain't gonna be nobody, honey

Oh to keep you warmAin't gonna be nobody mama here to keep you warm

No more

Ah there ain't nobody walking nobody talking

Ever pay the price not for you honey

There ain't nobody living nobody giving

Ever pay the price i owe

Not to rain not to rain not to rain

Mama not to rain

Blue Afternoon

Happy Time

Ah, it's a happy time inside my mind

When a melody does find a rhyme

Says to me I'm comin' home to stay

Oh, Lord, home to stayI'm comin' home to stay

Home to stay

Ah, lord, it's just the same old story

Something about love for glory

A nickel and a dime a dozen

Fame

Ah, it's such a shame

Ah, the way they use your nameAh, you know it's such a shame

When it's only mine to sing a song

Hoping that you'd cross along my way

Before I have to move along

Ah, now move along

Ah, but I'll be back again

Ooh back again

Ah, it's a happy time inside my mindWhen a melody does find a rhyme

Says to me I'm comin' home to stay


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Oh, Lord, home to stay

I'm comin' home to stay

Home to stay

Sleep late now mamaLet the mornin' sun warm your bed

While I'm away

While I'm away

Chase The Blues Away

Well come along walk with me

And learn the songs that lovers sing

When they believe

We'll dance along the river's edge

Just arm and arm along the moonlit shore

The midnight cries

Well I just came to chase the blues away

For awhile

Just like a child you'll cling to me

From every sound along that rushes near

It's just the breeze that licks your skinand rubs your breast

And as we lay our river's flow away

Your woman fear

Well I just came to chase the blues away

For awhile

With the morning sun we'll wake

And lift our eyes and watch the eagle flyUp mountain high

And on his wings our love will climb

And never fail until he soars and dives

Oh, he'll take your breath away

Well, he just came to chase the blues away

For awhile

I Must Have Been Blind

Here I am believin' words again


31/66

Here I am tryin' to find your love again

Here I am down on my knees again

Prayin' for a love

That we used to know

Both of us know

How hard it is to love

And let it go

Both of us know

How hard it is to go on living that way

When so few understand what it means

To fall in love

And so few know how hard it is to live without it

I must have been blind


Lord, I must have been blind

To hold something real

And not believe it

To live in her life

And never trustin'

To give all you know and never feel it

To hold back each day

Until it dies away

Both of us know

How hard it is to love

And let it go

Both of us know

How hard it is to go on

Living that way

When so few undersand what it means

To fall in loveAnd so few know how hard it is to live without it



Lord, I must have been blind

The River

I live by the river

And I hide my house awayThen just like the river

I can change my ways


32/66

Oh, if you come to love me

You would stay forever

Inside my heart

Inside my dreams

And time will fadeIn time we'll love

In the street we walk as beggars

In the alley faithless kings

Ah, but it's the truth of life

That chains us in between

Those lost moments we steal

To keep our love alive

And our prize so tired after all the pain

And time will fade

In time we'll love

So Lonely

Oh, I don't get no letters

Nobody calls

Nobody comes 'round here no more

No pretty ladies

Nor pretty boysNobody comes 'round my door no more

It's just lonely, yeah

Mama you don't know


Mama you don't know

Cops treat ya dirty

And the children treat ya meanThis is the lowest town I've ever seen

People keep draggin' their bodies around

Ain't enough pride to even look around


Mama you don't know


Mama you don't know

Now honey you got on little light

Now you keep it burning bright


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If you keep it lit every night

Someday a good man come and make it alright

It's just so lonely, yeah

Mama you don't knowIt's just lonely, yeah

Mama you don't know

Cafe

I was just a curly-haired mountain boy

On my way

Passing thru I heard a voice

Whisper good evening

I turned to a shadow

And saw her there

So all alone

She had those sad china eyes

That sang each time she smiled

Ah, but the song

It seemed to linger

So long it deepened

My love for her

Until she called me nearAnd then we waltzed to our heart beat

All around

The sea was swaying

The breeze was praying

Never to leave her alone

Alone

Oh, the time just slipped on by

And with the time

So did our loveAh, her every move

Just like a fever

Just like a fever

Burnin' inside would not leave me

Blue Melody

Well I was born a blue melody

A little song my mama sang to meIt was a blue melody

Such a blue


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You've never seen

There ain't no wealth

That can buy my pride

There ain't no painThat can cleanse my soul

No just a blue melody

Sailing far away from me

One summer mornin'

I was raised

But I don't know

One summer morning

I was left

But I don't know

One summer morning

So all alone

Late in ev'ning

I'll sing in your dreaming

Down from the mountain

Along with the breezes

So close inside

Love grew smiles

So if you hear that blue melody

Won't you please send it home to me

It's just my

Blue melody

Callin' far away to me

The Train

Ah, tell me mama

Ah, tell me darlin'

Now that it's time for me to go

Ah, don't you hold me down

And kill the man you love

Sweet mama what you gonna do

Ah, now darlin' what you gonna do

Mama what you gonna do for love

Ah, when that sun shinesAh, honey

And I'm living in your love again


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Ah, won't you let me know

Do I stay or do I go

Oh, yeah,

Ah, darlin', what you gonna do now

I said now mama what you gonna doNow mama what you gonna do for love

When I'm gone

When I'm gone

When I'm gone

When I'm gone

Ah, when I'm gone

Gone gone gone gone gone gone

When I'm gone

Darlin' so young and tender,

So quick to surrender

Everything that you don't own,

Know that you've got not

You make love like a skinned cat

Crawlin' across a highway

Tryin' to git to the other side,

Don't know why you just gotta try

Ah, when that devilWhen that devil gets you honey

Oh, I want to know

That's when I'll come home and start to

Ah, sweet mama what you gonna do

Ah, sweet mama what you gonna do now

Aw Daddy what you gonna do for love

When I'm gone, when I'm gone, when I'm gone, LordWhen I'm gone, gone, gone, mama, when I'm gone

When I'm gone, yeah, sweet mama,

Yes, ah, when I'm gone

Get that devil get that devil

Gonna go back home, so long,

Just want to get some sun on my shoulder

And get a bit of sand in my shoes

I love you New York City, but I see that sun shinin'

And I don't want to stay here no moreOh, what you gonna do

Oh yeah...


36/66

Starsailor

Come Here Woman

You caught me staring so gently

You tease me and turn away

Unlike the young ones

Your movements you savor

Like a tango

My hideaways are longing for you

You shyly conjure

These moments surrounding

Keep me tonight

All your practiced ways you secretly entice me

Come here woman!

Like an old window

I need a little shade

Like an old tomcat

Lord I love to parade

Like a broken old man

Lord I need sun

Ah, I need you darlin'

Cause I just ain't done

While wheel waters set

Now my blood yearns

Your mouth opens woman

Give me broken lies

When you don't feel pain

Let me smell your thighs, mamaLet me drink down a little rain, man

While we're drifting cold

Out beyond the seas

We wither time into a coil of fear

I Woke Up

Now the sun sits on my hand

O where are you ?Walking the wind I fly above the shore of the town

To the hills where I can hear


37/66

The harbor bells ring slavery

Where the fortune teller sighs to me

O I see your woman in the raw

Ride a mare of stone and howl

I woke up

While morning built

The world with light,

Crossing their hearts,

Twelve sailor boys all stood in a ring

Round our bed,

And from the grass a dancer rose,

Shivering,

Oh the sailors pointing

Out to sea

And the dancer diving

Up the sky

'Til we forgot the day

Monterey

( Larry Beckett )

Under a loop of stars in the vulgar coldThe dead airport lay

By the pebbles of the highway

Through the snail clouds

You soared to your lover

I hurried away my darling

With a howl in my throat.

Hiding inside the weeds

In the orange grove,The black rooster crowed

Through the hollow of the midnight.

With my shot blood,

With stains on my fingers,

I run with the damned, my darling:

They have taught me to laugh.

Moulin Rouge

( Larry Beckett )


38/66

"Comme la chanson est belle"

Chantez la Mademoiselle

Dansant dans le Moulin Rouge

"Love is a leap" she sighed"Someday I'll be your bride,

When I leave the Moulin Rouge"

Je vais marier ma fille de danse

Et habiter en France






"Oh la la la" she sang

Spinning till midnight swang,

Dancing in the Moulin Rouge

I love her love I do,

All of her children too,

Oh I thank you, Moulin Rouge!

Je vais marier ma fille de danseEt habiter en France






Song To The Siren

( Larry Beckett )

Long afloat on shipless oceans

I did all my best to smile

'Til your singing eyes and fingers

Drew me loving into your isle

And you sang

"Sail to me, sail to me, let me enfold you"Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you


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is improvised in at least three ranges, the vertical effect

of which is atonal tone clusters and arhythmic counterpoint.

Performance: the written melody is to be sung, after which

the lines of lyric are to be reordered at will and sungto improvised melody, taking advantage of the opportunity

for quartertones, third note lengths, and flexible tempo.

The Healing Festival

Black tan brown and white

Repeat the order and we've tried

All the lovely little steps

That hope turn the eyes

And footsteps of you

Friend to lend for once

Behold that healing festival

Complete for an instant

The dance figure pure constellation

Down By The Borderline

Way down on the borderline

Down where white folks tread easyThat sun beats so hot sun beats so hot

When a little girl pass by

You can smell the way she walks

You can smell, you can smell the way she walks

In late afternoon

Ah, in late

Little girl little girl little girl

Smile so brightly

Come on boy come on boyOh Take a walk with me

Greetings from L.A.

Move With Me

I went down to the meat rack tavern

And found myself a big ol' healthy girlNow she was drinkin' alone

Aw what a waste of sin


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So I went on over to sweet talk that girl

Lord I moved on in

Lord I whispered come on and move with me

Move with me move with me move with me darlin'

Aw don't be shyI'm gonna mess witcha, mess witcha, mess witcha,

Mess witcha, mess witcha mind

Well, I don't care if you tell me you're married

Cause I can be your man when your husband ain't home

Now if he should walk in you just tell him I'm your houseboy

And that you just can't stand to sleep here alone...no more

I wanna move with you, move with you, move with you,

Move with you darlin'

I wanna mess witcha mess witcha mess witcha

Mess witcha mind

Well now he finally walked in

And Lord that man filled up the doorway

Well he grabbed me by my throat

And he bounced me down the stairs

And Lord I swear, he broke every bone in my body

But it was worth every second that I was thereCause she would whisper to me...

Move with me, move with me, move with me,

Move with me darlin'

I'm gonna mess witcha, mess witcha, mess witcha,

Mess witcha mind

Well now I

Get On Top

Like a slow burn slow burn,

Ya move that mama over to me

Get on top of me woman

Get on top

Let me see what you learned tonight

Then I talk in tongues mama

Oh when I love youYes I talk in tongues


42/66


Get on top,


I just wanna see what you learned

Well like a bitch dog in heat we had those bed springs a

Squeakin' all day long

And didn't you hear those walls a talkin'

Sweet Surrender

Now you wanna know the reason

Why I cheated on you

Well I had to be a hunter again

This little man had to try

To make love feel new again

'Cause there's just a few things honey

I'm not old enough to do for you

You just never care to show me

Showed him how to tango

And when they tangoed it'd send their hearts a flutter

Young and tender

Seemed to surrender in so sweet surrender

In sweet surrenderAhh sweet surrender to love

But now you're gonna go out and get yourself

A reputation

But I'm gonna have to show you where to start

And then you're gonna bring back your little reputation

And prove to me what I could not prove to you

Nighthawkin'

I was a nighthawkin' in my taxi

My fare was a shaky ol' lush

So I kicked it over and took off

Then he whipped out this switch blade

Straight outta nowhere level to my throat

He said "See reb I've been over to the war boy"

I said "I was a combat paratrooper daddy"

Well now he slupped back cool and he pocket that steel

He said "Get me down to fourth and main"

Devil Eyes


43/66

I got so tired of meaningful looks

I got so tired of comin' up tame

I was so bothered by those balmy breezes

I was side swiped by smoke feverThey was a crawlin'

Oh down beneath my skin

Til mama come a runnin'

A mama came a runnin'

Mama came a runnin'

Lord said she got a recipe

Oh and she don't need no fancy sauce

Yah those devil eyes

Lord they stare right through me

Those devil eyes

Look right through me

Aww melt my soul down

Long for those devil eyes

Hong Kong Bar

Sittin' in a Hong Kong bar

Sweet dreams of you darling

Ah when we were sweet sixteenMama makin' love in the belly of an old freight train

Life was so simple and easy

Oh the sun went down

You took care of the children darlin'

Then you felt like movin' away,

Lord now you didn't stand and stare

You felt like movin' and leavin' darlin'

Didn't I treat you fair

It's all right now darlin'It's alright now darlin'

Make It Right

And those diesel rigs

Aw they're ramblin' by

Now if I go lame I just flag a ride

I'm lookin' out for

For a street corner girlI'm lookin' out

For a street corner girl


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And she's gonna beat me whip me spank me

Aw make it right again,

Come on and beat me whip me spank me

Mama make it right again

Sefronia

Dolphins

Sometimes I think about Saturday's child

And all about the times when we were running wild

I've been out searching for the dolphins in the sea

Ah, but sometimes I wonder, do you ever think of me

This old world will never change the way it's been

And all the ways of war won't change it back again

I've been out searchin' for the dolphin in the sea

Ah, but sometimes I wonder, do you ever think of me

This old world will never change

Honey Man

Well I wish I was your sweet little honey man,

Just a hanging 'round the rising sun,

You know you can't hold out against a boy who's

A whiskey fast and a honey slow;

I wish I was, I wish I was your,

I wish I was your honey man,

I wish I was your, sweet little honey man;

And when the bee's inside the hive,

You gonna holler in the thick of love,I'll buy you all the jag I can,

This honey man's gonna' sting you again;

A when I come a home to you honey,

Oh, your little eyes never flicker,

I wished I was that cool,

And then your love just a wouldn't matter at all

Because Of You

Because of you, I face the world with pride,


45/66

Because you are the breeze I drift upon

In heaven flows from your eyes,

Even though I've told lies,

It always seems so long

Since we made love this strong,I think it's time we tried,

To bring these dreams alive and drain 'em dry

Somehow, when I'm in your arms,

Deep in the blindness of love,

You become all the women,

I have ever known,

Searching your skin;

Because of you, I face the world with pride,

Because you are the breeze I drift upon

In heaven flows from your eyes,

Even though I've told lies,

It always seems so long

Since we made love this strong,

I think it's time we tried,

To bring these dreams alive and drain 'em dry

I hope you understand,What makes this man,

Want to you right

Peanut man

Drops of persperation johnny

Coming over me hey buddy

Pour another glass of cola

Pass it to me

Round of coca cola

Add some sweet potato to it

You know everybody wants to get a peanut butter heart

Drops of persperation johnny

Coming over me hey buddy

Pour another glass of cola

Pass it to me

Round of coca cola


46/66

Add some sweet potato to it

You know everybody wants to get a peanut butter heart

Im looking through you

Yes i canAnd that should do you

Peanut man


Yes i can

And that should do you

Peanut man

Lots of perseperation

Coming over me

Pour another cola

Pass it to me


Yes i can


Peanut man

Im looking through youYes i can


Peanut man


Martha

Operator, number please, it's been so many yearsShe'll remember my old voice while I fight the tears

Hello, hello there is this Martha,

This is ol' Tom Frost

Now I'm calling long distance don't worry 'bout the cost

It's been twenty years or more now Martha please recall

And meet me out for coffe where we'll talk about it all

And...those were days of roses of poetry and prose

And Martha all I had was you and all you had was me

There was no tomorrowWe packed away our sorrows and saved 'em for a rainy day and

I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you


47/66

I feel so much older now, you're much older too

How's the husband, and how's the kids, you know I got married too

Lucky that you found someone who makes you feel secure

We were all so young and foolish, now we are mature

I was always so impulsive, guess that I still am

But all that really mattered then was that I was a man

Guess that our bein' together was never meant to be

But, Martha, Martha, I love you, can't you see and...

Quicksand

Your sweet love is like a quicksand,

A pullin' me under, and I wonder,

How deep does it go,

You know the sky is closin' up above me,

Everytime you touch me woman,

I'm like a tiger prowlin' in the moonlight

Quicksand, quicksand a pullin' me under;

Sometimes a love takes a funny turn around

Can make a paradise out of flat champagne,

A but once the party's started,

Tell me who can complain;Quicksand, pulling me under

For love will find you,

Find you walkin' on the shore,

Inside the wind it calls out to you,

A longing melody pledges my soul to love,

To live in love for love,

To stay in love for love, alone

I know I'd recognize your face

It's been so long

Since you've been gone

I don't know where to begin this song

Whereever you are

I hope it's not to far

For you to hear me

It's been so wild

Lay next to me

Cry please don't run


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But i wouldn't fight or carry a gun

I went far away

To start a new life

If i had stayed there

You'd be my wife

And i know i'd recognize your face

Your memory keeps haunting me

And i can't forget what time won't erase

You know it's hard for me to come back now

There's prison to face though the filing is done (???)

Where can i find you

Daddy you have a son that's never seen you

He looks just like you


Your memory keeps haunting me

And i can't forget what time won't erase

I've sent this letter so many times

It keeps coming back

No one here about that knew

Are you still lingering backWell it's so hard to keep long (???) True love in winter

It's been so long


The season has come i can't let go

And i'd know your sweet smile any place


(any time you know now)Anyplace anytime you know i'm still in love with you



Stone In Love

Just like the sun chase the moon around,

Just like the fox--he chase the rabbit down,Well I've been wantin' you woman,

But it ain't no habit,


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No don't you come too near me,

'Cause I'm a liable to grab it:

'Cause I'm a stone in love,

I can almost taste it, I can almost taste it,

Lord I'm a and I was born not to waste it, mmm..,Born not to waste it Lord,

Oh, now baby; I got midnight fever,

You're young enough to catch me,

And you're old enough to tease me,

When we start shakin'

Down to the bone,

I get so crazy

I can't leave you alone;

Oh, now woman a we're gonna roll you,

We're gonna' shake it on down to the bone;

We're gonna party, honey

All night long

'Til the folks next door move back to Cocomo

Sefronia -- After Asklepiades After Kafka

Sefronia shook the black cat's bone at me

And I was only wax in the spell of fireOh my coal black sister,

When black coal burns it ripens

She pried the whip out of her master's hand

And lashed at her own skin

So she'd be master, how could she know

This was just a dream born,

Of a new knot in the bullwhip

Sefronia -- The King's Chain

I couldn't buy you with a hundred cattle

But you hike in shells and feathers

Up the African beach,

I am king here, tied to this hut by the King's chain

My power's like a tree and green taboo to me

The chameleon lies in your dusty fingers,

And blue flies circle your head like stars;Jump into me now, I must not see the water,

Let me sip weakness from your dark nipples


50/66

Sally go round the roses

Sally go round the roses (4x)

Oh, Sally don't you go down

Oh, darlin', don't you go down

Honey, the saddest thing in the whole wide world

Is to find your woman been with another girl

Sally, don't you do down

Aw, darlin', don't you go down

I'm going downtown

Lord, I'm drinkin' tonight

I'm goin downtown

Gonna drink myself blind

Goin' downtown

Gonna be dancin' tonight

Goin' down town

Gonna kick 'em up high (?)

It's been a long time

Since I've had my way

It's been a long time

Since I've had my way at allI want to do that (drunken?)belly rub

I want to sing that juke box melody

I want to stroll

Like we used to stroll

Way back home in Baltimore

Sally go round the roses (4x)

Sally, don't you go down

Oh, darlin' don't you go downThe saddest thing in this whole wide world

Is to find your baby been with another girl

Sally, don't you go down

Oh, mama, don't you go down town

I'm singin' Sally go round the roses...

*** Thanx a lot to Merve for this one ***


51/66

Look At The Fool

Look At The Fool

Each and every day, every little way,I've been a lovin' you,

I can't live without lovin' at night

Makes it hard to say it's wrong

When I know it's right

Even though the years won't be kind

I love you more than I care about myself,

I love ya, hate ya for what you're doin' to my health,

I love ya, hate ya for all the love ya make me feel,

I love ya darlin' 'cause ya know I can't leave

But when you're gone,

I'm little boy lost in the storm with the wolves,

Flames all around I talk to myself and pray to the rain

That this lonely curse won't drive me insane,

I run into the sea,

But the sea only sighs

Look at the fool that love made me

Bring It On Up

Seems like in every hip conversation honey

People brag about where they all come from

Seems like in every hip conversation, woman

I just end up sucking on my thumb

Lord I'm just a I'm just a pauper,

I been raised in a trailer park yeah,

Ain't got that much honey to brag about

I just drinkin' all alone in the darkI said bring it on up

To my room woman

I can't carry this load alone

Well I don't need none of that phony moaning woman

No, I don't need it to get it on honey

No, take off your wig darlin' now

Throw away those pills now woman;

No, highway we're gonna roll;

Ah, you know that good king lovin' gonna make it


52/66

All right now honey, no,

Ah woman we--we're gonna' turn the tide around;

Talk about tongue to tongue, woman

Helpless

I don't know why,

You bring my sense alive,

You know you look so foxy wise

You turn my head around

You know the talk's around town

You do a funky rumba

You make an old man stop

You make a young man wonder;

Come on and love me

Come on and love me

Until I'm helpless

Come on and love me

Until I'm helpless

Makin' love like a skin cat crawlin' across the highway

I don't know why

You bring my sense alive

Come on and love me

Unitl I'm helpless

Helpless,

Helpless,

Makin' love like a skin cat crawlin' 'cross the highway

Freeway Blues

I never swallowed that cheap booze

I keep my distance from straight dudes,

I joined the army just to get more fame,

I love my bluesy cause she walks so strange,

Ah, well you know I think we ought to have a party,

Just to break up the day,

Come on and meet me on an easy exit,

Of our brand new freeway

I've got the freeway it's sublime rocket ship blues,


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I got the tug boat high steppin' starstudded blues,

I got the kite flyin' double bubble Sunday school blues,

I got the hotel bump and grind money makin' blues

Ah, come on down and play in the trafficAnd watch the cars go crazy

We'll pull all over the starlight and disappear in the haze

I've got the hot dog hanky pankin' all night long blues

I've got the cop car shoot out whistle pig blues

I've got the rose bowl low tide lawn mower blues

I've got the freewa Dixieland rocketship blues;

I never swallowed that cheap booze,

I keep my distance from straight dudes,

I joined the army just to get more fame,

I love my bluesy cause she walks so strange

Yeah we oughta have a party

Yeah just to break up the day

Come on over 'cause I am high

Got to figure out which way to cruise

Tijuana Moon

They told me all the hymns were born

Out of the saxophone,

And I went down to test them all

Beneath the Tijuana moon,

I saw violence in the moon

Two broken lovers strong and strewn,

I drank myself into a dream:

Tiajuana moon,

My daddy Tiajuana moon,

Oh my darlin',

Tiajuana moon Lord my daddy

Tiajuana moon

You can keep the Texas blues,

Tequila and the bruning stone,

But my amigoNothin's good against the Tijuana moon


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Talk about daddy Tiajuana moon

Talk about lovin' Tiajuana moon

Talk about daddy Tiujuana moon

Ain't It Peculiar

Ain't it peculiar now

How our loves goes on and on

Ain't it peculiar honey,

We take the bad with the wrong

You know that time after time

A misfortune smiled,

Ain't it peculiar woman,

You know we'll laugh our way through

When will this long night of a prison ever end


You know I'm ready to sell

Lord you're the talk of the town

The next minute you're busted

Just listenin' to that jailhouse sound;

You know that time after timeA misfortune smiled,

Ain't it peculiar woman,

How we'll just laugh our way through;


when will this long night of a prison ever end

You know double talk is poison

But that's the rule of the game

Instead of back stabbing they practiceOf all the little things that drive you insane

You know that time after time

A misfortune smiled,

You know it's peculiar

I can still laugh our way through it,

When will this long night of a prison ever end,


Ain't it peculiar


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Who Could Deny You

I know your kind,

You've been throught the mill,

Now you're standing in line,Too proud to beg and too tired to cry,

About the one that got away,

Your first love

Oh he taught you how to pay

And now you're all alone

You've got your misery,

You were not taught so well sister

That's why you ended up with me

Now that you've found me,

Oh darling please don't tease me,

All of my naked years are in front of me,

Come here darling,

Lay down by my side

Lovin' the way you do,

Oh, woman won't you tell me,

Tell me who,

Tell me who can deny you;

You love and you lose, you're lost in the blue

Your turn again, you paid your way but it's under your skin

And it'll never let you go, under your skin so deep

It never really shows;

You're all alone but you've got your misery

The sea is raging honey reaching for you and me;

Now that you've found me,

Oh darling please don't tease me,

All of my naked years are here in front of me,Come here darling,

Lay down by my side

Lovin' the way you do,

Oh, woman won't you tell me,

Tell me who,

Tell me who can deny you

Mexicali Voodoo

You take the train from Yuma,

Down to Mexicali,


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And by the crack of midnight

You've got that border town fever,

Well down in Madam Woo's cafe

In back of She Cat AlleyMadam Woos mix some Mexicali voodoo

Mexicali Bella

Bella voodoo

Americano don't you know what he do

Three days later

In an elevator

Three days later Mexicali Bella

Bella voodoo

Americano don't know what he do

Down In The Street

Down in the street

There's a gunshot warnin'

Here comes that blue parade

Ready to save the day;

Down in the streetThere's a whole block burning

Shout out for rent control

I ride the gang patrol;

Oh it's just another sign

That summer's comin',

City wars and flash floods and tornados,

Festivals for rock and roll season

Beach talk baseball and a handy houshold hymns;

Yes it's true in the U.S. of A.

There's lots of room at the top,

Oh but you can't sit down,

On, no you can't sit down

And don't you know that boudoir

Looks just a ball and chain

Oh, no you can't sit down

All through the nightYou hear gunshot warnings

This time it wasn't you,


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But that don't really make it either

'Cause what's a song without a carnival?

The song of love is a sad song

For we have loved and it's soSo come and laugh a while Lily

Come and join the show

Hi lily lily hi

Lo lily lily hi

Lo lily lily hi lo

The circus comes once a year, Lily

Then we gotta go

So come and laugh a while Lily


Come dancin', dancin' dance a while

Come dancin', dancin' dance a while

Come dancin', dancin' dance a while with me

Me me me me me me me ...

More? see the people pass Lily

Don't mind what they say

Go on and be happy LilyThey'll just pass away

Hi lily lily hi

Lo lily lily hi

Lo lily lily hi lo

Don't let the Italian kids on your block make fun, Lily

(The) song of love is a sad song

We have loved and it's soSo come and laugh a while Lily


Hi lily hi lily

Hi lily lo

I've been out walking

Hey I've been out walking, ain't done too much talking these days

Ah Lord I sit alone and weep all the time to hesitate

Ah now darling don't you cry


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The earth is broken

Oh now my brother's been taken away

Gone are the old times when we used to say

Oh a woman was younger she knew what to doOh but I look around me, now that's not so

I'm lost on that open road no peace do I find

Maybe the wind'll blow a melody and ease my mind

But soon love is broken, they'll take you away

Oh the wars they been growing as no relief

And the old men who ruled them oh they're just like thieves

They rob from the sunshine, oh the air ain't so clean

Our rivers are dirty where once we could see

A smile from your lady friend looking down

Look at that river hey did you ever shiver

Well the earth is broken there is no one to save

I remember quite freely only yesterday

Ah the letter that I read from you read this way

Take care lonesome Timmy, ah don't you start

Thinking you're the only one year that's goneOut on your lonesome road hey lend a hand to your friend

Yes he's just as lonely and the wind keeps you cold

Remember the rivers that once did flow clean

Ah sometimes I wonder how this old world keeps spinning 'round

All the old folks have gone west, Lord preparing to die

All except for a few of us hangers on

Living each day with trivial hearts

We just stop once in a while cry over the news

In some foreign far city your brother's shot down

Because there was a reason a gun had a hand

And the old man killed youth, squeezed down its hope

Now I'm just waiting brother waiting for the land

Soon in my country there won't be a friend

Each one is trying so hard to defendThat one one last heartbeat before he's tugged away


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Lost in the mechanized efficient world logical skies

Ah but no song was written on without a tear in your eyes

Are we the last ones, the last ones to try

Who do you love

Now I woke up this morning yes there was rubbling in my mind

I was thinking about my baby I left her so far behind

Oh now I wonder Lord I wonder deep in my heart

If this is ever gonna stop this feeling mama don't you undestand

Oh no no no no

Oh the driver on that engine oh Lordy ain't no friend of mine

Ah he done took away my baby oh and left her so far behind

Ah but sometimes in the morning oh sweet lover don't you know

Your boy's gone to his room yeah

Ah I remember all about the good times hiney

And I forget all about the rain now

Well you never did it for me mama

How do you want your rolling done, oh yes

You know I do believe you wanna be rolled be rolled be rolled

from sun to sun hey now darlingDon't you know I cross that burning desert on my knees

Bring my pay cheque home every Friday night

Mama don't I treat you right

Yeah that green rocky road ah you gotta promenade now

You gotta promenade, mama who who do you love

Ah who do you love, who do you love

Who do you love, who do you love

Brother did you ever run up the mountainLord I went up to the top

Say your lover from above

Run down to the valley listen to it ring

Lord Lord listen to it ring from above

You gotta run to the river run to the river

Run to the river cleanse your soul

Cleanse your soul, cleanse your soul

I think that sooner or later we'll make it or break it

I mean your brother I mean it ain't matter what the colorLord we both gotta get out of here

We gotta rise up Lord away from the skin Lord up there a while


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You gotta look at your brother don't matter what the color

Lord if you want to get along

Everything will be.. oh green rocky road

You be promenade promenade in green

Talking 'bout love now, talking 'bout loveTalking 'bout love, talking 'bout love

Hey you gotta walk to the river brother

Swim in the river and cleanse your soul

You gotta sing hallelujah

Lord if you want to get along

You gotta sing hallelujah brother don't matter what the color

You gotta see the light all by yourself

You gotta run, shake and lie

Ah run shake it on your own

Oh run, shake and lie, oh shake it on your own

Thaere ain't no Moses, Jesus don't know the words

You gotta run, shake and lie

Run, shake and lie now, Run, shake and lie

Shake and lie, shake and lie, shake and lie, shake and lie,

shake and lie, shake and lie

Ah Lord I woke up this morning woh Lord rubbling on my mind

I was thinking' thinking 'bout my babyI left her so far behind

Oh sometimes in the morning Lord a voice comes ringing through

And I think o mama Lord I must be crazy mama

Not to be home with you

I'm going home I'm going home

I'm going home I'm going home

Every... O.K.

You keep me hangin' on

Set me free why don't you baby

Get out my life why don't you baby

Oh you don't really love me

You just keep me hanging on

Oh you don't really want me

You just keep me hanging on


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Why do you keep running around

Playing with my heart

Why don't you get out of my life

And let me get a fresh start

Oh let me get over you

The way you gonna get over me

Go ahead and set me free set me free

Set me free lover let me breath

I wanna breath yeah set me free

Set me free!!!

Troubadour

As she walks near me my blood feels the chance

All spinning and swirling it yearns for the dance

To become part of me poor one to take part of her

Don't say that tomorrow will bring me her love

Don't let me wait for words undestined from above

Let me laugh through her fingers and smile through her hair

Let me love the one I see for I know that she's thereFor tomorrow and today aren't here anymore

Lalalalala

Sing songs for pennies tip my hat couldn't get many

All around the city are the troubadours

Lalalalala

Sing songs for pennies tip my hat couldn't get many

All around the city see the troubadours

Singing songs sadly sing songs so lonely

All around the city see the troubadours

As she steps near me my blood feels the chance

All spinning and whirling it yearns for the dance

To take part of her fair one

To know part of her

Wayfaring stranger (I)


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Peepin' and a findin'

Ah I know I don't have that much love to give

Oh but I'll find a way to try

If that gate ain't swinging lowI got the key in my heart to try

Ah if you been passin' through that swingin' gate

Chances are you looked behind you and wonder where the hell you been goin'

Where you are and why you'll carry on.

Lord your mind wants to die but your heart keeps yelling back

"Buddy keep going"

Those voices from the sea keep calling out: "Don't let us down"

The wind's gonna howl and the baby's gonna cry

Keep runnin' and hidin' now, peepin' and a findin'

Slipping and a slidin' runnin' and a tryin'

Keep on tryin'

Ah now the room keeps buzzin' yes

It's like a beehive in the forest when the bears are down

Lord it hates to be caught hates to be brought down

I ain't gonna suck the life from you

Lord I got my roots back home

And I just tear on borrowed timeJust thought I passed by and say hello friend

It don't feel the same way I do

Think after that

You see I'm just a rusty henge

Keep on runnin' keep on listen to your heart

Ah listen to your heart

Don't take the sparkle out of those little children's eyes

Let them run and play let them run and play

Soon enough to be just like you

Wayfaring stranger (II)

I am a poor wayfaring stranger

Travelling through this world of woes

Lord and I find sickness sickness, oh toil and trouble oh

Everywhere everywhere everywhere I see

Lord I'm going there to find to find my brother

They told me that he'll be waiting there


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I'm going there Lord it's just over Jordan

Oh I'm going there to my new home

My new home

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