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Inga Liljestrom is an Australian experimental singer-songwriter. Her musical style is broad and crosses many genres, from electronic to rock, folk, country, and avant garde. Originally from Bellingen on the north coast of New South Wales in Australia, Inga Studied jazz vocals at Southern Cross University, and it wasn't until moving to Sydney that she discovered an aptitude for composing. Her first group 'Helgrind' explored avant-garde rock with co-composer Felicity Fox. This led to solo explorations into electronics and string instruments for her two first albums 'Urchin' and later her critically acclaimed album 'Elk' on the Groovescooter label. She has been given four grants from the Australia Council for the Arts to compose her original music. She has performed and toured as guest singer with numerous groups such as jazz experimental group 'd.i.g' (Directions in Groove) for their album Curveystrasse; with Australian iconic group The Church, for their album El Momento Siguiente; made vocal contributions to "Dust Me Selecta" by Gerling which became a hit song and remixed Gotye's Mixed Blood. Since 1998, Liljestrom has released 5 albums (with a new one almost completed for release in 2013), one DVD and has performed many shows, including sold out performances at The Studio, Sydney Opera House; The Vanguard; 505; Sydney and Adelaide festivals; and also festivals in Europe including Czech Republique, Poland, France and more. Liljestrom toured and composed with the Branch Nebula production 'Paradise City', touring South America and regional Australia. In 2009 she relocated to Paris, France, and recorded 'Black Crow Jane', which resulted in a publishing and record deal with Emergence music, based in France. Her compositions and voice has also contributed to many films and television programs including feature 'Left Ear' by Andrew Wholley; and ABC's Rake series. In the last few years, she has been teaching University students in Europe and Australia as part of Residency programs, creating multi-media shows with art, music and film students.



Urchin
- 1998-01-xx -



Holding Still
Yellohead
The Drowning Song
Cut
Coma
Tightness
Oxygen Boy
Marmalade
Coma Remix
The Wait
Deeper Things
10 Smiles
Touch Tongue


Elk
- 2004-06-01 -

 

Film Noir
Phoenix
Lira
Knotted
All Of This
Glow
Diamond Horseshoe
Deer
29 Poisons
Stardust
Bullet
Stolen

Ghostlike (Hidden track)


Sprawling Fawns
- 2006-06-01 -



High flying birds
You shine
Lira (Lake Lustre remix)
29 poisons (Kevin Purdy remix)
Some velvet morning
Wild is the wind
Awkward like a boy
All of this (Jacob Cook remix)
Stolen (Saddleback remix)
Deer (Ben frost remix)
Lira (Pimmon remix)
 


Quiet Music For Quiet People

- 2006-09-12 -

 

Slowly surfacing
Everything feels real
Fall
Red afternoon
Strange days
Lost highway
Sleep longer
A place near the mouth
Lumen
 


Black Crow Jane
- 2011-04-18 -



The Rain and the Sea
Dogs and Wolves
Bittersweet
Drowning Song
Mascara Black
His Thieving Ways
Wishing Bone Hands
Bloodstain
Lovers Gun
Rama
Wildest Horse

Two Dangers
- 2014-03-24 -



Katie Cruel
Wishing Bone Hands
Bloodstain
Leaves
Wooden Leg
Bird
Two Dangers
Take Hold of my Heart
Some Say
Crestfallen
Warfaring Ways
Black is the Colour
Trouble

We Have Tigers
- 2015-08-25 - With Michael Lira



Woman of Constant Sorrow
Leaves
In the Pines
Finally We Rest
Bloodstain
(Reprise)
Coo-Coo
Bury Me Beneath the Willow
When I Was a Young Girl
Horses
Ash 'n' Smoke
Tea to Boil
Girl of Fire

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Urchin

Holding Still

I could feel you leaving
I could feel me leaving too
Now it's oh so quiet
Now it's oh so quiet
I can almost hear you breath
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
I'm holding still
But i'm holding still

I could feel the earth moving
I could feel you moving through a crowd
You're lost in a crowd
You're on edges
But I'm holding still

I'm holding still
But I'm holding still

And when you break
I'm breaking with you

I'm holding still
I'm holding still
I'm holding still
You're lost in crowd
I'm holding still

Yellohead

Will you materialise
Before me today
Hours seem like lifetimes
My blood feels thin
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
Maybe you can fill me
To my core
So I no longer
Feel this crevasse
Between breastbone
And vertebrae

How could I go on
For so long
Without touching my truth

Maybe you can fill me
To my core
So I no longer
feel this crevasse
Between breastbone and vertebrae

Drowning song

Hold me down here underwater
Hold me down here
I breathe more freely here underwater
I breathe more freely here
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
This ship is casting an anchor he said
Her waters are safer, calmer

I thought we both were hooked, line and sinking
Hooked, line and sinking
Hooked, line
And sinking
And sinking

Cut

When the sun comes
The moon goes
When the moon goes
The sun comes

Sometimes cutting
Circulation
Sometimes my words
Too thin for purpose
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
To contain this
Would turn
To poison

When the sun comes
The moon goes
When the moon goes
The sun comes

The grit
The teeth
Denture

When the sun comes
The moon goes
When the moon goes
The sun comes

I feel it I feel I feel it all
I feel it all
I feel it all

To contain this would turn to poison

Coma

Me and my magical existence
You and your love intertwined
In the threads of my hair
In the needles of porcupine
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
My sweetest apple pie
iIm all dumplings and fat
With ecstasy and you in my belly
I swim and never tire

Coma has my lovers heart
Coma had him right from the start

I'm a present of god
Undo me someone
I'm all strings and barbed wire
Undo me someone

Coma has my lovers heart
Coma had him right from the start

Has anyone seen my love
Has anyone seen my heart
Has anyone seen him

Tightness

He hush me down
He blow my brow
Silence gathers ‘round
Hush now hush now
Just hold tighter

He hush me down
He blow my brow
Silence gathers ‘round

I've always been
A child who beguiles you
I spin a tale about you
I spin a tale about you
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
To you I do bind
And hell can't find us here

Your freckled skin
I know what constellation you're in boy
I know what constellation you're in

To you I do bind
And hell can't find us here

Your eyes are blue
You've got blue eyes
You've got green hair
You've got blue eyes
I see god there
Oh I see god there
In your tightness
I am found

In your tightness
I am bound
In your tightness
I am found
In your tightness
I am bound

Oxygen Boy

Oxygen boy
Oxygen boy
Tanked and on my back
You ride
Your mouth
Gets me high
Free basing ethers again
Tripping over her love strings
Every cell feels love
I'm breathing again
I'm pulsing again

Comes on like like smacking your mouth again mine
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
Hard core
Pornographic
In your movements
Oxygen boy
Oxygen boy

Marmalade

Come take some life out of me
I need to wear down
I'm strung out on a clothes line
Hung up on you
I'm hung up and slightly misconstrued

I'm washing and wearing
Torn at my seams
I need to get my body close to you

Maybe like a favourite shirt
Come wear me thin
Wear my bones to breaking
I'm constantly in sin
Constantly
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
Sometimes too much
I feel too much
Some times too little
I feel small and equal
But today in my unhemmed dress
Will you notice
The creases where your body lay
And a little stain of marmalade


The Wait

Can't wait to see you
I can't wait
Can't wait to see you
I can't wait

But you got your new love
I know this now
You got your new love
I know this now

I'm going out of my fuckin' brain
Waiting for you
I'm going out of my fuckin' brain
Waiting for you
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
'Cause you got your new love
And I've got mine
Yes you've got your new love
And yes i've got mine

Such sad fucking
When you know you're losing
For a taste of love
For a taste of love


Deeper things

Caught out
I'm caught red handed
Bloodied fingernails
They're at my neck again
Lover kill this fear in me
I fear there's no-one hear but me

An angel cuts her wing
To bring on deeper things
An angel cuts her wing
To bring on deeper things
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
Traffic breathes
Like a demented lover
And i'm running still
I fear i am the hunted
I hear the sirens
And i wonder if it's me who has died

An angel cuts her wing
To bring on deeper things
An angel cuts her wing
To bring on deeper things

10 Smiles

Everything broken
Glued to your big marching shoes
My heart
Ballooning
Somewhere safer

Maybe sunstroked
Maybe love chocked
Teething pains
Knock me down again
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
Now I am ten
Now I am ten smiles
Now I am ten smiles from happiness

Fly blown and swollen
We've left it for too long now
We're still avoiding what could be god send

Now I am ten
Now I am ten smiles
Now I am ten smiles from happiness

Touch Tongue

I'm sending you a message of love
I'm sending you a message of love
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
You're travelling I'm trembling
You're travelling I'm trembling

Elk

Film Noir

Monkey shines
Snow capped strangers
Blind folded we hold hands
Going nowhere and far
A signpost empty

I forget who I am
No road is forever dear friend
So dangerous
This place inside you

Lantana honey on my tongue
Tastes like winter but warm inside
Ah - I will dress red for you

I forget who I am
No road is forever dear friend
So dangerous
This place inside you
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
Now I forget who I am
The red sun
Glacier melts
Inside my mouth
Heart and lung
I belong to you now
So dangerous
This place inside you

I forget who I am
No road is forever dear friend
Like cars and foreign places
We lose ouselves here

So dangerous
This place we've found

Phoenix

Loss of your heart
You fall into danger
A hawksept boy
Two moons around him
I watch him break the dawn this morning

He's all I needed
He's all I've wanted

For a new day will rise
We meet the dawn with sleepless eyes
Don't we love
I trace the lines around your eyes
Try to recognize the signs
North wind is cold today
Ain't it love
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
This place I waited all day for you
Rainjacket pulled over your head
Your face is all agrin
My lovers like the sun
He's come to warm me
Thaw this ice
It goes right through
To the core in me

For a new day will rise
We meet the dawn with sleepless eyes
Don't we love
I trace the places you have been in me
Come my love only you can
Thaw this ice to me now
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
And a new day has come
You lose your heart
And forget about danger
And you, my wildest love
You fly the phoenix way, don't you
You're too high for me now

Heaven's above
We can't go wrong
Angels watching us
I'm sure of it
Angels are watching us
Just crash your body with mine love
It won't be long now

Lira

Distant
Mountains
Cause his heart to race
Race

Your wings
In flight
Dark and sharp
Asphalt road

Headed for a head on
Collision with love
I could sense it
I could taste it a mile off
Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot
Hold me, hold me with your eyes
Hold me, hold me with your eyes

We drive on in the dark
Gas station
You smoke a cigarette
And she's dancing like diamonds
The wind is wild
But you are wilder love

Dangerous place in me you've found
Dangerous place

Headed for a head on
Collision with love
I could sense it

The lights of your eyes
The wind is wild

Headed for a head on
Collision with love
I dress lightly
So you see the curves in me
We drive on in the dark
We drive on in the dark
Dangerous place you've found in me

Knotted

Dirt road
Row edges of you
Last sun has cought you
And framed you love
Lite waking up
I imagine my escape with you
A mountain peak cracked open
I don't know how to move
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
(Gibberish)
My hands still knotted
And my belly
It burns with desire

Harsh the wind
And harsh your mouth love
Stormy seas I live for it now
A restless head a restless heart
A silver thread
To catch my love upon

(Gibberish)
My hands still knotted
And my belly
It burns with desire

What's this fire
In your eyes, love
I want my lover pure still
Want him come take his fill

All of this

All of this
Is yours
You can lose yourself here
Your name bursts inside my mouth
I will never be the same

I will never be the same
For your love it leaves a stain in me

I am stunned
By your beauty
I am quivering
Now my life's begun
Speak to me
With tongues of angels
Return to me
At night
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
I will never be the same
For your love it leaves a stain in me
I know you've been wild before now
Won't try to tame you
The tangled hair of you
Just lay me down now
Lay me down now
Lay me down

All of this
Is yours
You can lose yourself here
I'm an elk and you're a deer
we have our differences
I am all yours love
I am all yours love

Lay me down
Lay me down here
Let me hear
The lose change in your pocket
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down here

*** Thanx a lot to Jessica & Inga who corrected this one ***

Glow

Unfold myself
Eyes wide and liquid
Awaken by falling
While you sleep
I pour myself into you
Speak with angels
They know you

Can hardly speak
Can hardly make sense of
All that has happened lately

As I fall in the dark
Things so beautiful
Only seen at night
For only you I will fall
Things so beautiful
Only seen at night

This landscape of you
The glow in you
See at night
All I am is in your hands now
Take whatever you may find here

Find me out here
I'm wide awake
Fear of falling too hard

Can hardly speak
Can hardly make sense of
All that has happened lately

As I fall in the dark
Things so beautiful
Only seen at night
For only you I will fall
Things so beautiful
Only seen at night

As I fall in the dark
Things so beautiful
Only glow at night
For only you I will fall
Things so beautiful
Only glow at night

I fall into him
I fall into him
I fall into him

Diamond horseshoe

You shine with coals inside
Like diamond horseshoe
Dying for you now
Dying for you now

And when you move
You remind me of all things
Chaos and anarchy
Come warm me now
With your hot hands

I'll break like China cups
Falling to the sound of autumn leaves
Spread by your wings
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
And when the bullets lie
And when the daggers fly
I'll be there to watch
A panther to her prey
To deepen the wound in you
To find your heart again
To find your heart again
Keep you breathing

I'll break like China cups
Falling to the sound of autumn leaves
I'll break like China cups
Falling to the sound of autumn leaves
Spread by your wings
Your shining things
Spread by your wings
Your shining things

Deer

Hunters seeking clues
Tracks are fresh
Swift to the kill
Deep into it
You'll lose all sense
He goes by touch
Deciphering
Broken codes in me

I don't know how to move
This state I'm in

Hold fast my beating heart
Here's a deer amongst the hunted
A gentle anarchist who knows no fear
See, I'm an elk and you're a deer

Hunter you've found the clue
Silver lines around his eyes
The sprawling fawn
Try not to speak
Caught by his eyes
It was blood on ice

I don't know how to move
This state I'm in

Hold fast my beating heart
Here's a deer amongst the hunted
A gentle anarchist who knows no fear
See, I'm an elk and you're a deer

Hold fast my beating heart
Here's a deer amongst the hunted
A gentle anarchist who knows no fear
See, I'm an elk and you're a deer

Warm is the mouth
That feeds
You love
And his heart
Beat so loud
It's all
I'm wanting now

29 poisons

If you don't come
Rescue me soon
If you don't come
Take me away soon
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
Twenty-nine poisons
Try to keep my mind from you
But only your sweet love
Finds in me the cure

You light a spark
Where others saw danger
Forever more I belong to this stranger

A shot in the dark
You cure me
You still my trembling heart
You cure me
A shot in the dark
You still me
You cure my trembling heart
You still me

So wake up
I'm wanting to go
Far far away with you
And maybe there
We can lose our shadows

Twenty-nine poisons
Try to keep my mind from you
But only your sweet love
Finds in me the cure

You light a spark
Where others saw danger
Forever more I belong to this stranger

A shot in the dark
You cure me
You still my trembling heart
You cure me
A shot in the dark
You cure me
You still my trembling heart
You cure me

Stardust

I'm the girl with sad eyes
You're the boy with warm hands
It all makes sense doesn't it

I hear a ricochet did
Almost touch the radar
Underneath you dress me
Undress me tonight

Stardust
Falls on us
Stardust
Falls on us

Destiny unfolds in me
Stretching out her arms
You can fold me in the middle obscene

Sex a dress I try on
Loves and kitten and God
You're a bomb
About to go off in me

Stardust
Falls on us
Stardust
Falls on us

Stardust
Falls on us
Stardust
Falls on us

Stardust
Falls on us
Stardust
Falls on us

Dust becomes of us
We become dust
Just becomes of us
I become like dust
Just becomes of us
I'm like that

Dust becomes of us
We become dust
Just becomes of us
I am one of us
I'm like that
Can come between us

Dust becomes of us
We become like dust

Bullet

Your love
A foreign
Landscape

Your mouth
The colour
Of Rubies

Your words
They cut
Right through me
I wouldn't have it
Any other way
Just stay

Sometimes
You feel so far away
My love I beg you
To stay with me

Your love's like a bullet
Your love
Your love's like a bullet
Your love
Like a bullet
Your love

Your love
An arid landscape
The wells dry
The water is dirty
Filthy like the grin
You wear at night
I wouldn't have it
Any other way
Just stay

Sometimes
You feel so far away
My love I beg you
To stay with me

Your love's like a bullet
Your love's like a bullet
Your love
Your love's like a bullet
Your love

Your love's like a bullet
Your love
Your love's like a bullet
Your love
It goes right through me
Oh your love it goes right through

Stolen

Tundra, fjords and ice
A small silent man
The lines on his hands change
I'll unravel him

You're stolen me with love
I'd have given it anyway

A mountain top
No need for air
Keep me breathing
So high here

You're stolen me with love
I'd have given it anyway

You're stolen me with love
I'd have given it anyway

I cried into his beard
A wolfman into beard
Melt into your hands
Suck into your mouth

Ghostlike

( Hidden track )

Small people
Ways of escape
Lost highway
Telegraph wires
To the sky
I woke up
Closed my eyes
Watched you
Walk away
Can hardly
Remember
Falling

You're sending me
Feeling like you do
I walked all night
A long tangled road
Led back to you

Sun comes
Illuminate
Tie her to the bedpost
Leave her most of the day
Write your name here
I lose you
Just the same
Can hardly remember
Falling
I can't start again
I can't start again
I stand and say it
Under a bullet sky tonight
Under a bullet sky tonight

Sprawling Fawns

High Flying Birds

Wash me clean
My silence
The search is over
Like someone else is alive
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
The most beautiful day
backed against the door
Low flying birds
High flying birds

High flying birds
They take me away

And in a book
I found the birds and aeroplanes
Soaring across the sky
You asked me if i wanted to stay here
Is this your home?

And on this most beautiful day
Backed against the door
High flyings birds
They take us away
They take us away

You Shine

Oh I feel all warm inside
And your colours
They burn my eyes
I couldn't use my arms
Until you let me out
Your secret
And with questions
You closed your eyes
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
You shine
You blind

The glow from your body
Like a landscape
Unreal worlds of waking up
With the aid of a little rope
Two bodies read as one

I stood as far as I could
From your fire

And with questions
You closed your eyes

You shine
You blind
You shine
You blind

Some Velvet Morning

(Lee Hazlewood)

Some velvet morning when I'm straight
I'm gonna open up your gate
Maybe tell you about Phaedra
How she gave me life
How she made it end
Some velvet morning when I'm straight

Flowers growing on a hill
Dragonflies and daffodils
Learn from us very much
Look at us but do not touch
Phaedra is my name

Some velvet morning when I'm straight
I'm gonna open up your gate
Maybe tell you about Phaedra
How she gave me life
How she made it end
Some velvet morning when I'm straight
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
Flowers are the things we know
Secrets are the things we grow
Learn from us very much
Look at us but do not touch
Phaedra is my name
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
Some velvet morning when I'm straight
Flowers growing on a hill
I'm gonna open up your gate
Dragonflies and daffodils
Maybe tell you about Phaedra
Learn from us very much
How she gave me life
Look at us but do not touch
How she made it end

Some velvet morning when I'm straight

Wild Is The Wind

(Ned Washington/Dimitri Tiomkin)

Love me, love me
Say you do
Let me fly away with you

For my love is like the wind
And wild is the wind

Give me more than one caress
Satisfy this hungriness
For my love is like the wind
And wild is the wind

You touch me
I hear the sound of mandolins
You kiss me
With your kiss my life begins

You are spring to me
All things to me
You're life itself

Like a leaf clings to a tree
Oh my darling, cling to me

For your love is like the wind
And wild is the wind

Wild is the wind
We're creatures of the wind
Wild is the wind
We're creatures of the wind
We're creatures of the wind

Wild is the wind

Awkward Like A boy

Restless moves
Lost in a crowd

Slow motion
This state I'm in
I'm weak
With the want of him
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
Bite your lip
Awkward like a boy
Can't read your heart yet
But I'm drunk with it

This state I'm in
Slow motion
For I'm
I am weak with that love

The state I'm in

An empty space
For you to fill
For you to fill

Slow motion
Lost in a crowd

The state I'm in
You leave without a trace

Quiet Music For Quiet People

Slowly surfacing

Here suspended
Here time has ended
Like cars and foreign places
I try to lose myself here

A break in the traffic
Reminds you to breath
A break in the net
And you swim free

I'm slowly
I'm slowly surfacing
I'm slowly surfacing
I'm coming up for air

A crack in the sunset
Your butterfly wings are crumbling

I'm slowly surfacing
I'm slowly surfacing

Ah sun
Here she comes
Oh sun
Here it comes
Sun
Here it comes

I'm slowly surfacing
I'm slowly surfacing

I feel the heat rising in you
Tricking of water on the spine
I can the angels singing
They're saying your name

Everything feels real

Everything
Everything feels real
Feels real with you

Everything
Everything
It feels real with you

Everything feels close
I can touch inside
Curled up inside with you

He doesn't recognise the love I have for him yet
Stored up in my insides
Worn on the inside for so long now
I carry him home with me
Through the dark you can lead me
Blindfolded
You can lead me on
Lead me on

Like the sky the sunset
Finally wake
In the palm of gods hand I lie
I just have to wait
I just have to wait

'Cause the truth is
I haven't put my hands where they belong
I hope they belong with you
I hope they belong with you

Fall

Fall for the first time
Knowing it won't be the last
Fall for the first time
Knowing it won't be the last

Early morning
You walk quietly away
Leave without a trace
Don't you

All the days beauty unravels
You're dressed in a sunset
About to meet the moonset
You wear shiseido red to turn my head
To turn my head

You fall for the first time
Knowing it won't be the last
It won't be the last

Early morning
Walk quietly away
Leave without a trace

My wild dove
My Lizard heart
How could you love me
With words like that
With words like that

And how could you love me
With words like that
With words like that

Alone with you
Hotel room
Lights are flickering
Your smoked stained hands
I light a match
To light you up inside
And like this match
I come alive
Second line is yin
A woman
The ice is too thin
You cannot cross
Bird finds it's nest
The traveller first laughs
Then he cries
Then he cries

My wild dove
My lizard heart
It's early morning
I'll fall into love
I'll fall into love
I'll fall into love

Act as if you're asleep
Pour from her so lazy
Silver fox
Camellia
Milk and the crush as you moan
Tiny lights will tear us apart
Tiny lights will tear us apart

How could you love me with words like that
How could you love me with words like that

Red Afternoon

It's a red afternoon
Stop your moanin'
I dress lightly

Forecasting temperatures
Rise to the point
Of catastrophe

Of course he loves her
She's waking up
waking up
Of course he loves her
She's waking up
She's waking up

She hiding things from him
Poems and broken heart strings
Raw like diamonds
They fall from her mouth
He gathers her words
And swallows hard

It's in your hands now love
Of course he loves her
She's waking up
Of course she feels him
She's waking up

Lost in the world
Anoraks and parkers
Buses and trains
I forget to say your name

Lost in the world
Anoraks and parkas
Buses and trains
I forget to say your name

Strange days

Take mine
You can take all of this
Too much
Already had enough
It's all getting too loaded
From my lovers tongue
Words run through me
His words they run right through me

I'm city bound
And bound to fall soon
You make me so god damn high
You make me so high

I can't get through
So much beauty before
All you do and speak
Is such beautiful anarchy

Shivering you stun me
Blue eyes they gun me down

City bound and bound to fall soon
You make me so god damn high
Almost reaching you

Oh love what have I done
To kill the thrill we had
You don't talk anymore
Ain't it strange
Ammunition from my lovers tongue
Words run right through me

Strange days
I can't trust this one
I expect my heart to brake
Fatalist my heart
See, you've broken me before

Strange Days
Can't trust this one
Oh strange days
Expect my heart to break

Fatalist my heart
Fatalist my heart
The thrill it nearly kills you honey
The thrill it nearly kills you honey
It nearly kills

Lost Highway

When you take your love away from me
When I'm left to look at all this
We've come to far haven't we
Without knowing
Without knowing
With your hot hands

If i could turn your heart like a key
Unlock the sparks
They would fly like darts
I can't explain how this happened
I can't explain it

A lost highway
I will run
With wild geese that fly
Without the weight of you dear
I can't go through
Without the weight of you

Sleep longer

I'm just going to sleep through all this
I'm just going sleep through all this
My head is full of ramblings
My mind is full of you

But I come alive with you love
I come alive with you

Just sleep he said
I'll watch from here
His crooked teeth
And hands so warm
I lose myself here

And I come alive with you love
I come alive with you
And I come alive with you love
And I come alive with you
With you love

A Place Near The Mouth

There's a place for us
The sun is shining there
It's a place near the mouth
Touches the tongue
Catches the breath
Finds a home in the heart

There's a place for us
The sun is shining there
is a place near the mouth
Touches the tongue
Caught in the throat
Catches the breath
Finds a home in the heart
Hitching up her skirt

He said ‘I think you're the one I prayed to god about'
I crash against him
It's the weave we make
It's the weave we make

He says he wants to shine
Delicate, tiny and drunk
Delicate, tiny and drunk

Lumen

See in heart
I am all blood
It beats through me

See in my hands
I carry a part
Keep me close to remind me

See in my eyes
A place for your to fill

See in my mouth
A taste I have
Thirst for you still

See into me
As I see into you

Close your eyes now love
Close your eyes now love
Nothing to fear
Nothing at all
Nothing to fear
Nothing at all

Into a hidden part of me
He comes quietly
Please

Into a hidden part of me
He comes quietly
Please

All I am is here

Black Crow Jane

The rain and the sea

Somewhere between the rain and the sea
That's where i last saw thee
With limping bone and breathing heavy
And carrying stones in your pockets like jewels and finery
They told me my love, my love, you belong to me

Somewhere between the rain and sea
I will come and find thee
And through your tangled hair of starfish and weeds
I'll run my fingers my love, do you belong to me
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Speak to me of rain and seas
For that is where I know to find thee
With our hearts in our mouths too dry to bleed
My love, my love, can we go back to the rain and the sea

Oh it's true, it's true
I tried to own thee
I tried to hold you tight inside of me
Oh, with fists, clenched
And teeth gritted hard
I gave you over
To the rain and the sea
To the rain and the sea

Oh my love be gentle with me
For I know now love
Of the wild sea
You're like me
You belong to the song
To the song of the rain and the sea

So with a mast and a boat
To carry us home
Our lives
Our loves
Our burdens and bones
We will sink, we will sink
With our stoney hearts
And rust away
Like old tin parts

Oh the rain and the sea
If only, if only I could belong
But we are not strong
We are one
With the rain and the sea

Dogs and wolves

Here I am
My own crowded room
Memories and signs
Of having loved you
Slowly fades this girl from view
Darker than the darkest dark
Is how she loved you

We were lost in this world
Only the sound of your song
Could bring me back home

Oh lead me on
With your pipe and your song
I have dogs running inside of me
I have wolves at my door

I belong to the man
Who belongs to the night
He said
He'll be riding late
In the milkwood light
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I have dogs running inside of me
I have wolves at my door
I have dogs running inside of me
I have wolves at my door
I have wolves at my door

Bittersweet

Oh my heart is a bird
And its stirred by you
Never one to lose heart
My bittersweet tune

Harpooned my heart
You have
Without knowing
I was caught
Caught red handed
Come to me in the silence of snow
And I will fall at your feet

Sailor
(Sir tom, I think I've got it now)
Sailor
(Sir tom, I think I've got it now)

I think I was caught on your sleeve sir
I think I was caught
I think I was caught out

In the marrow of the morrow
Will I be the song you'll sing
A whistling, whistling
Every sailor has his tune
And oh God, God
I'm a fallen women for you
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Sailor
(Sir tom, I think I've got it)
Sailor
(Sir tom, I think I've got it)

I think I was caught on your sleeve sir
I think I was caught
I think I was caught out...

Drowning song

Hold me down here
Underwater
Hold me down here
I breath more freely here
Underwater
I breath more freely here

This ship is casting an anchor he said
Her waters are safer, calmer

This ship is casting
An anchor he said
Her waters are safer, calmer
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I thought we both we
Hooked
Line and sinking
Hooked line and sinking
And sinking

Mascara black

Mascara back
This love for you
Painting her eyelashes
This love for you
In the review mirror
Her love is true
Going nowhere and far
Just take me with you

I've religion
Jesus hold me tighter
In your sacred arms
In your destined palms
Mary magdalene
Do i give him everything
Do i give up my boots
Bad and brazen

Oh love, the birds are singing
And what will we do with our love
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Oh this love has been so sweet
Honey fed to birds and knees are weak
Make the grown men cry we do
And my heart that was cut out
Cut out for you

Beatrice Dalle
You can turn me on
You marry a jailbird
And you whistle his song
Throw your caution to a flock of winds
And they carry you home
Sweet lady sin

(if you love him
You must leave him
This is what she said to me
For his heart
It is burdened
And he belongs to god
And not thee)

His thieving ways

You're the thief aren't you
Stolen me with love
Mouth so warm
All the birds have flown
His heart
The quickening of breath
His heart beat so loud
Do you hear it too
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Act as if you're asleep
The beating of pleasure
Goes straight to my head
Body is wet
Blushes
His heart
The quickening of breath
His heart beat so loud
Do you hear it too

Whishing bone hands

Under the misletoe
Cuckoo shrieks
And woodswallow
I'll make my fire with you
Going to my fire with you

Under the curious gaze
Of a moon in a headlight haze
The towns people are disgraced
As you make a lover
Of me you do
Make a lover

Oh how beautifully tied to you I am
Oh your fire
And your wishing bone hands
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Under his black beard I'm sleeping
His heart is a gambler
And me i'm a weeping willow
With my limbs so long
And i carry his heart in my song

Under a roof top steepled
A whittled girl meets her wooden maker
Oh carve a heart out of me sir
With his name writ in me
I am stirred

Oh how beautifully tied to you I am
Oh your fire
And your wishing bone hands

Bloodstain

This is all I've known
This is all that is
How could you love me
With words like that

It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the kill
It's the bloodstain

Words with no mouth
And you touch with no meaning
With sure footedness
I'll crack the heart of him
Beautifully human
I'm crying out for him now
Crying out for him now
Crying out
I'd lost all meaning
I'm crying out for him now
I'm crying out for him now
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It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the way he says my name
Over and over and over again

It's the kill, it's the kill
It's the bloodstain, it's the bloodstain
It's the way she says my name
Over and over and over again

It's the kill, it's the kill
It's the bloodstain, it's the bloodstain
It's the way she says my name
Over and over and over and over and over and over
Over and over, over and over, over, over, over again

Lovers gun

The lovers gun
When it shines
Oh when it shines

With a pistol and a jesus shrine
She blew her brain
And lost her mind

The lovers gun
When it shines
Oh when it shines
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And the butterflies came out alive
And the butterflies
Shortly after died

Oh when it shines

Rama

His years though not many
Sit lonely and heavy
But he sweeps the church sweetly
His yearning unnoticed
And dreams of a beach
That does not need sweeping
The waves will not judge him
The birds will embrace him
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Where once again softly
In timeless love sweetly
Upon the waves lapping
Jesus is walking
Great oceans to wash away
Sins long forgotten
Sky full of forgiveness
Lord of the birds

Rama goes back to the birds

The church floor is dusty
And full of grey silence
But out on the water
Where sea birds are wheeling
Jesus is walking
And he holds out his arms
A whispered farewell
In life never ending

Rama goes back to the birds

Wildest horse

I rode my wildest horse
It knew the way home
And the storms and my weathered soul
And on his strong backbone
I let him feel the weight of me
I let him feel the weight of me

For it's true what they say about love
It's a bird out of hand and my heart is full of dove

And I was warned of your loving ways
I was warned and i did stray
With your hair as black as jesus
And your words become my scriptures
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He said "you will lose yourself tonight
And in my arms you will find your flight"
For it's true what they saw about love
It's a bird out of hand and my heart is full of dove

So I rode my wildest horse
It knew the way home
And the storms and my weathered soul
And on his strong backbone
I let him feel the weight of me
I let him feel the weight of me

Two Dangers

Katie Cruel

(Traditional)

When I first came to town
They called me the roving jewel
Now they've changed their tune
They call me Katy Cruel

Through the woods I'm going
And through the boggy mire
Straight way down the road
'Til I come to my heart's desire

If I were where I would be
Then I'd be where I am not
Here I am where I must be
Where I would, I can not
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I know where I'm going
And I know who'll go with me
And I know who I love
And I know who loves me

When I first came to town,
They brought me drinks plenty
But now they've changed their tune
Hand me the bottles empty

I know where I'm going
And I know who'll go with me
And I know who I love
And I know who loves me

If I were where I would be
Then I'd be where I am not
Here I am where I must be
Where I would, I can not
I can not, I can not
I can not, I can not

I know where I'm going
And I know who'll go with me
And I know who I love
And I know who loves me

Wishing Bone hands

Under the mistletoe
Cuckoo shrieks and woodswallow
I'll make my fire with you
I'm gonna make my fire with you

Under the curious gaze
Of a moon in a headlight haze
Towns people are disgraced
As you make a lover of me you do
You make a lover

Oh, how beautifully tied
To you I am
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands

Oh, how beautifully tied
To you I am
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands
Your wishing bone hands

Under his dark beard I'm sleeping
His heart is a gambler and me I'm a weeping
Willow with my limbs so long
And I carry his heart in my song
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Under this roof top steepled
A whittled girl meets her wooden maker
Carve a heart out of me sir
With your name writ in me
I am stirred, I am stirred

Oh, how beautifully tied
To you I am
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands

Oh, how beautifully tied
To you I am
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands

Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands

Bloodstain

This is all I've known
And this is all that is
And how could you love me
Oh, with words like that

It's the kill, it's the bloodstain
It's the kill, it's the bloodstain
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Words with no mouth
And you touch with no meaning
With sure footedness
I'll crack the heart of him
Beautifully human
I'm crying out for him now
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I thought I'd lost all meaning
I'm crying out for him now
I'm crying out

It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the way he says my name
Over and over and over again

It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the way he says my name
Over and over and over again

Leaves

Leaves that have known
The pressure of your feet
Your weight and your women
Your laughter my sweet

Leaves that have blown
Across your beautiful face
And undressed you like winter
And you, you full of grace
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When you and I are finally no one
The weight from our hallowed bones
We will run, we will run
When you and I are finally no- one
The weight from our hallowed bones
We will run, we will run
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Darling, I remember
You in your sunday best
Your old car yard
Our rusted hearts
Tin cans blowing a din

In the tatters of my autumn dress
How in your arms i was blessed
In a song that only knew us
Only knew the notes of us

Wooden Leg

From the boat
Wooden and oared
Wooden leg
Anchor of stone
Light us a fire
We burn once again
Your pipe I smoke
You warm me again my friend

We've been afloat
On this girl for days
We crash on her rocks
Violent and grazed

This can't go on
This can't last
With our hearts of stone
And our paper mast
We just go down, down, down...
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From the boat
Wooden and oared
Foam in your mouth
Starfish afloat
The sinking sound
Cracks in my throat
We go down
We just go down

This can't last
This won't last
With our hearts of stone
And our paper mast

I will love
I will love again
I will love
I will love again
Not the same girl I was before

Bird

My dad he fell in love with a bird
My dad he fell in love with a bird
Sweetest words I ever heard
Sweetest words I ever heard

Fed her from the palm of his hand
Fed her from the palm of his hand

And this was his first love
This was his true love

One morning, one morning
She did come calling
Of death she had heard
Through the night

One morning, one morning
She did come calling
Of death she had heard
Through the darkest night

So she did cover him
With fern and braken
And lay atop of him
With her black beating wing

This murder of crows
They come from below
And gather your bones
And carry you home

This murder of crows
They come from below
And gather your bones
And carry you home
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My dad he told this story to me
My dad he told this story to me
My dad he told this story to me
Oh, with eyes black as coal
You look just like she

Oh, with eyes black as coal
You look just like she
Oh, with eyes black as coal
You look just like she

Two Dangers

Strange lights
In the trees that night
Come out
Anaraks and holding hands tight

We escape for a while
Don't know where you've been
Don't know where you've been
Don't know who you've been seeing

Between two dangers
Of finding love
And losing love

It was in your steps
Your movements
Your courage

Mouths never spoken
Such sweet sorrow
Such sweet sadness

Between two dangers
Of finding love
And losing love
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It breaks our bones
It breaks us open
With clothes unstitched
Our hearts in bits

Between two dangers
Of finding love
And losing love

Oh between
Finding love
And losing love

Oh between
Finding love
And losing love

Take Hold Of My Heart

Let go of my heart
Won't you do that for me
Let go of my heart
Let go of my heart, baby
Let go of my heart

What are you doing
On the other side of the world
The whistle is blowing
But I cannot hear a word

I'm here without you
It's the way it's gonna be
The nightingale is singing
But she is not free

Let go of my heart
I'm asking you please
Let go of my heart
Let go of my heart, baby
Let go of my heart

When the whistle blows
I'll be coming to you
You'll open your door
Let me into your room

Put down that glass
Put down that cigarette
Take off your stockings and your dress
Let down your hair
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Take hold of my heart
Would you do that for me
Take hold of my heart
Take hold of my heart, baby
Take hold of my heart

I'm asking you please
Take hold of my heart
Take hold of my heart and love me
Take hold of my heart
Take hold of my heart

Some Say I Got Devil

(Melanie Safka)

Some say I got devil
Some say I got angel
But I'm just a girl in trouble

I don't think that I'm in danger
Don't think I'm in danger
No, I know I'm not in danger

And some have tried to sell me
All kinds of things to save me
From hurting like a woman, and crying like a baby
Something like a woman, crying like a baby

And all the things that I have seen
Qualify me for a part in your dream
Qualify me for this dream

And though I'd like to tell it
Exactly how I feel it
Somehow the music
Hides it and conceals it
Oh it hides it and conceals it
Oh, it hides

And all the things that I have seen
Can be hidden in a part of this dream
Gonna hide it in this dream
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And some say I've got devil
And some say I got angel
But I'm just this girl in trouble
I don't think I'm in danger
I don't think I'm in danger
No, I know I'm not in danger

Crestfallen

In rabbit skin
In an old rusty tin
I'll hide it from him
I'll hide it from him

I beg with the gods
You'll be heavy on me
Heavy on my bones
And hard to breathe

The wind she blew
A spell in our room
A storm in us, we turn to lust
We snagged a deer with an arrow
And cried salty tears for the morrow
The morrow

We move like horses do in the dawn
With black mane and sunlight in your eyelashes form
A shadow for me to lie and be your faun

A pelt of fur
And your fingers worn
And your words cut through
This earthly form

And all I held back you robbed me of
Thieving ways unknown to love

The salt on your brow
I'll never forget
The taste of it
The taste of it

What's life after all
And yes, you will fall
Yes, you will fall
The crestfallen
The crestfallen
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We move like horses do in the dawn
With black mane and sunlight in your eyelashes form
A shadow for me to lie and be your faun

We move like horses do in the dawn
With black mane and sunlight in your eyelashes form
A shadow for me to lie and be your faun

Warfaring Ways

I met my love down by the sea
On a bridge he found me
His heart was full of arrows
Rib cage full of sparrows

All my war wounds he did bind
I was drunk on holy wine
Joan of arc heart shining clear
Dressed in armour as battles near

Me and my warfaring ways
Are nearly over
Me and my warfaring ways
Are nearly over

I am gonna run
With you
And I am gonna run
With you
I am gonna take this wounded heart
And run with you
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Oh my love where have you been
Fighting battles never win
I'm a soldier for your love
I heard the call from god above

Me and my warfaring ways
Are nearly over
Me and my warfaring ways
Are nearly over

I am gonna run
With you
And I am gonna run
With you
I am gonna take this wounded heart
And run with you

I surrender with a white flag
I surrender with a white flag
I surrender with a white flag
I surrender with a white flag

Black Is The Colour

(Traditional)

Black is the colour of my true loves hair
His face so soft and wondrous fair
The purest eyes
And the softest hands

I love the ground on where he stands
I love the ground on where he stands
I love the ground on where he stands
I love the ground on where he stands
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So, Black is the color of my true love's hair
Of my true love's hair

Oh, I love my lover
And well he knows
I love the ground on where he goes
And still I hope

That he and I will be as one
That he and I will be as one
That he and I will be as one
That he and I will be, will be, will be as one

So black is the color of my true love's hair
Of my true love's hair

Black is the color of my true
My true love's hair
My true love's hair

Trouble

(Cat Stevens)

Trouble
Trouble set me free
I have seen your face
And it's too much too much for me

And trouble
Oh trouble can't you see
You're eating my heart away
And there's nothing much left of me
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I've drunk your wine
You have made your world mine
So won't you be fair
So won't you be fair

I don't want no more of you
So won't you be kind to me
Just let me go where
I'll have to go there

Trouble
Oh trouble move away
I have seen your face
And it's too much for me today

Trouble
Oh trouble can't you see
You have made me a wreck
Won't you leave me in my misery

I've seen your eyes
And I can see death's disguise
Hangin' on me
Hangin' on me

I'm beat, I'm torn
Shattered and tossed and worn
Too shocking to see
Too shocking to see

Trouble
Oh trouble move from me
I have paid my debt
Won't you leave me in my misery

And trouble
Oh trouble please be kind
I don't want no fight
And I haven't got a lot of time

We Have Tigers

Woman Of Constant Sorrow

(Traditional)

I am a woman of constant sorrow
I've seen trouble all my day
I bid farewell to old Kentucky
The place where I was born and raised

For six long years I've been in trouble
No pleasures here on earth I found
For in this world I'm bound to ramble
I have no friends to help me now
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It's fare thee well my old lover
I never expect to see you again
For I'm bound to ride that northern railroad
Perhaps I'll die upon this train

Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger
My face you'll never see no more
But there is one promise that is given
I'll meet you on God's golden shore
I'll meet you on God's golden shore

Leaves

Leaves that have known
The pressure of your feet
Your weight and your women
Your laughter my sweet

Leaves that have blown
Across your beautiful face
And undressed you like winter
And you, you full of grace

When you and I are finally no one
The weight from our hallowed bones
We will run, we will run
When you and I are finally no- one
The weight from our hallowed bones
We will run, we will run
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Darling, I remember
You in your sunday best
Your old car yard
Our rusted hearts
Tin cans blowing a din

In the tatters of my autumn dress
How in your arms i was blessed
In a song that only knew us
Only knew the notes of us

In the Pines

(Traditional)

My love, my love, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
I shivered the whole night through

My love, my love, where will you go
I'm going where the cold wind blows
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
I shivered the whole night through
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My love, my love, what have I done
To make you treat me so
You caused me to weep
You caused me to mourn
You caused to lose my home

My husband was a railroad man
killed a mile and a half from here
His head was found in a driver's wheel
And his body has never been found

I buried my heart in the dirt and clay
I prayed to keep it safe
From the dogs that howl
And the wolves that prey
And the black bird and her temptress ways

I built me a nest from the wooded woods
And on the brambles I lay
In the pines, In the pines, Where the sun never shine
I shivered the long night through.

My love, my love, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
And the north winds blow

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
And the north winds blow

Finally We Rest

I shout it to the stars
I sing blind
And the wound in my heart
Cause the wind to cry

In the darkest night
I will be lost
I'll drink her wine
At the foot of her mountain
Where you lie

You with a heart like mine
You whose heart would beat like mine
I challenge you to love
I challenge you to come now

For the devil tries to tempt you away
But my widowers will
Is you'll stay
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And how the dogs bark and howl here at night
You, you would be smiling
They lament for you

And you whose blood is dark like mine
You slept at the foot of her mountain
And drank her wine

I challenge to stay with me
I challenge the air around you
I suck the life from it
For it's you
Who haunts me here

For the devil
Tries to tempt me to stray
But the widowers will is to stay

You who sang with a heart
Like mine
I'm buried here with you

Bloodstain

This is all I've known
This is all that is
How could you love me
With words like that

It's the kill, it's the bloodstain
It's the kill, it's the bloodstain

Words with no mouth
And you touch with no meaning
With sure footedness
I'll crack the heart of him
Beautifully human
I'm crying out for him now
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I thought I'd lost all meaning
I'm crying out for him now
I'm crying out

It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the way he says my name
Over and over and over again

It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the way he says my name
Over and over and over again

Coo-Coo

(Traditional)

Oh the coo-coo is a pretty bird
She warbles when she flies
Oh she never says nothin'
'Til the last day of July

Jack of diamonds, Jack of diamonds
oh I've known you I've know of old
rob my pockets, robb pockets
Of their silver and their gold
Well for working I'm too lazy
And for begging that's too low
Train robbin', that's too dangers
So to gambling I did go
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Oh I gambled down in England
Oh I gambled down in Spain
And it never brought me nothing
But this feel good and this pain

I'm goin' out on
Ten Killer Mountain
Gonna build me gonna build me a still
And i'll sell you
Ten gallons
For that two dollar bill

We'll it's bacon
When I'm hungry
And it's whiskey when I'm dry
And it's men for my lovin'
And religion when I die

Gonna build me a log cabin
On a mountain, a mountain so high
So I can see Willie
As he goes passing by

Will the coo-coo is a pretty bird
She warbles when she flies
She never says nothing
'Til the last day of July
Oh 'til the last day of July

Bury Me Beneath The Willow

My heart is sad and I'm in sorrow
For the only one I love
When shall I see him, oh, no never
Till I meet him in heaven above

Bury me deep beneath the willow
Under the weeping willow tree
So he may know where I'm sleeping
And maybe he'll weep for me
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They told me that he did not loved me
I could not believe it true
Until an angel softly whispered
He has proven untrue to you

Bury me beneath the willow
Under the weeping willow tree
So he may know where to find me
And maybe he'll weep for me

Tomorrow was our wedding day
But Lord, where is he?
He's gone to seek another bride
And he cares no more for me

Bury me deep beneath the willow
Under the weeping willow tree
So he may know where to find me
And maybe he'll weep for me

Bury me under the violets blue
To prove my love to him
Tell him that I would die to save him
For his love I could never win

Bury me deep beneath the willow
Under the weeping willow tree
So he may know where to find me
And maybe he'll weep for me

When I was a Young Girl

(Traditional)

When I was a young girl I used to seek pleasure
When I was a young girl I used to drink ale
Right out of the ale house and into the jail house
Right out of the bar room and into the jail
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Come mama come papa and sit you beside me
Come mama come papa and pity my case
My poor head is aching my sad heart in breaking
My body's salvated and hell is my doom

Go send for the preacher to come and pray for me
Go send for the doctor to heal all my wounds
My poor head is aching my sad heart in breaking
My body's salvated and I'm bound to die

I want three young ladies to bear up my coffin
I want three young ladies to carry me home
And each of them holding a bunch of white roses
To place on my body as I pass along

One morning one morning one morning in may
I spied this young lady all wrapped in white linen
All wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay

Horses

Where have I gone without the one
I let myself go
You around a part defined
And now i'm lined my face erased
It wasn't time
It wasn't time we could have spent
And leave without a trace

One day I'd like to be with you
The sad man
The sad man

Ride our ponies on the wind again
We're riding our ponies on the wind again
Ride our ponies on the wind again
We're riding our ponies on the wind again
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Bring your wild horses home to me
You're the drunkard in a storm
Bring your wild horses home

Bring your wild horses home to me
You're the drunkard in a storm
Bring your wild horses home
Horses home
Horses home
Bring your horses home

The boy that made me want to cry
And it wasn't out of sadness
The boy that made me want to die
And it wasn't a car crash or anything like it
He made me feel alive
He made me feel alive

Ride our ponies on the wind again
We're riding our ponies on the wind again
Ride our ponies on the wind again
We're riding our ponies on the wind again

Bring your wild horses home to me
You're the drunkard in a storm
Bring your wild horses home
Bring your wild horses home to me
You're the drunkard in a storm
Bring your wild horses home

Horses home
Bring your horses home

Ash N Smoke

The smell of fire on his clothes
I'm wearing them to carry him home
His high draped pants and shoes so worn
Oh my lover from me has gone

He was my man of the wandering eye
Gave me love on the bye-and-bye
Only my pretty heart he took
My autumn man of ash and smoke

Oh my man of the wandering eye
Took my love till I was dry
Left at night and when I woke
Naught was left but ash and smoke
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He had a lover for all the world to see
He had a lover who took his love from me
Her ribbons wild her hair so free
On her finger gold glistenin'

There was a fire in the hills tonight
And this fire burnt everything in sight
I lit a match, I lit it bright
I touched the tinder watched it light
Gold glistenin'

Five young men come looking for me
They're at my door, shotgun's ready
The hill's alight, town people woke
They found dead my man
Of ash and smoke

The scaffold's high, the shadows long
Bury me deep for my man is gone
My shroud be ash, embers my ring
Hell has fires
Gold glistening

The smell of fire on his clothes
I'm wearing them to carry him home
his high draped pants
Shoes so worn
Oh my lover from me has gone

Tea To Boil

Waiting for the tea to boil
Waiting for the tea to boil
Waiting for the tea to boil
Waiting for the tea to boil

Water's always boiling
Says my daddy with a grin
Water's always boiling
Waiting for the tea to boil

Tea leaves fresh or you will spoil
All your efforts all your toil
I'll read the leaves your fate i'll spin
So many beautiful women
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Ginger for a tired throat
Honey for the warmest coat
Add a pod of cardamom
Soon the heart will be mending

Hold this cup like it's your last
All your troubles that you clasp
Tell me all that isn't said
And we'll put all this to bed

Waiting for the tea to boil
Waiting for the tea to boil
Waiting for the tea to boil
Waiting for the tea to boil

Girl Of Fire

The sun would paw your back
Like ravenous dogs
Your back where
I'd etched our names my love
We were overgrown with weeds and spinifex
Lets burn it all down
Is what you said

The crows would stir in the morning light
And you'd come home
Holiest of sights
I cut out my heart each night for you
And by morning it grows back anew
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For I am your girl of fire
Of fire, of fire
For I am your girl of Fire
Of fire, of fire
And you are my boy
Of tinder and sticks

My last fire
Will be with you my love
My last desire
Will burn with you my love
There are diamonds on her thighs
There is fire is his eyes

For I am your girl of fire
Of fire, of fire
For I am your girl of Fire
Of fire, of fire
For I am your girl of Fire

And you are my boy
Of tinder and sticks

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