B i o g r a p h y
 (by Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

Led Zeppelin was the definitive heavy metal band. It wasn't just their crushingly loud interpretation of the blues — it was how they incorporated mythology, mysticism, and a variety of other genres (most notably world music and British folk) — into their sound. Led Zeppelin had mystique. They rarely gave interviews, since the music press detested the band. Consequently, the only connection the audience had with the band was through the records and the concerts. More than any other band, Led Zeppelin established the concept of album-oriented rock, refusing to release popular songs from their albums as singles. In doing so, they established the dominant format for heavy metal, as well as the genre's actual sound. Led Zeppelin formed out of the ashes of the Yardbirds. Jimmy Page had joined the band in its final days, playing a pivotal role on their final album, 1967's Little Games, which also featured string arrangements from John Paul Jones. During 1967, the Yardbirds were fairly inactive. While the Yardbirds decided their future, Page returned to session work in 1967. In the spring of 1968, he played on Jones' arrangement of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man." During the sessions, Jones requested to be part of any future project Page would develop. Page would have to assemble a band sooner than he had planned. In the summer of 1968, the Yardbirds' Keith Relf and James McCarty left the band, leaving Page and bassist Chris Dreja with the rights to the name, as well as the obligation of fulfilling an upcoming fall tour. Page set out to find a replacement vocalist and drummer. Initially, he wanted to enlist singer Terry Reid and Procol Harum's drummer B.J. Wilson, but neither musician was able to join the group. Reid suggested that Page contact Robert Plant, who was singing with a band called Hobbstweedle. After hearing him sing, Page asked Plant to join the band in August of 1968, the same month Chris Dreja dropped out of the new project. Following Dreja's departure, John Paul Jones joined the group as its bassist. Plant recommended that Page hire John Bonham, the drummer for Plant's old band, the Band of Joy. Bonham had to be persuaded to join the group, as he was being courted by other artists who offered the drummer considerably more money. By September, Bonham agreed to join the band. Performing under the name the New Yardbirds, the band fulfilled the Yardbirds' previously booked engagements in late September 1968. The following month, they recorded their debut album in just under 30 hours. Also in October, the group switched its name to Led Zeppelin.

The band secured a contract with Atlantic Records in the United States before the end of the year. Early in 1969, Led Zeppelin set out on their first American tour, which helped set the stage for the January release of their eponymous debut album. Two months after its release, Led Zeppelin had climbed into the U.S. Top Ten. Throughout 1969, the band toured relentlessly, playing dates in America and England. While they were on the road, they recorded their second album, Led Zeppelin II, which was released in October of 1969. Like its predecessor, Led Zeppelin II was an immediate hit, topping the American charts two months after its release and spending seven weeks at number one. The album helped establish Led Zeppelin as an international concert attraction, and for the next year, the group continued to tour relentlessly. Led Zeppelin's sound began to deepen with Led Zeppelin III. Released in October of 1970, the album featured an overt British folk influence. The group's infatuation with folk and mythology would reach a fruition on the group's untitled fourth album, which was released in November of 1971. Led Zeppelin IV was the band's most musically diverse effort to date, featuring everything from the crunching rock of "Black Dog" to the folk of "The Battle of Evermore," as well as "Stairway to Heaven," which found the bridge between the two genres. "Stairway to Heaven" was an immediate radio hit, eventually becoming the most played song in the history of album-oriented radio; the song was never released as a single. Despite the fact that the album never reached number one in America, Led Zeppelin IV was their biggest album ever, selling well over 16 million copies over the next two and a half decades. Led Zeppelin did tour to support both Led Zeppelin III and Led Zeppelin IV, but they played fewer shows than they did on their previous tours. Instead, they concentrated on only playing larger venues. After completing their 1972 tour, the band retreated from the spotlight and recorded their fifth album. Released in the spring of 1973, Houses of the Holy continued the band's musical experimentation, featuring touches of funk and reggae among their trademark rock and folk. The success of Houses of the Holy set the stage for a record-breaking American tour. Throughout their 1973 tour, Led Zeppelin broke box-office records — most of which were previously held by the Beatles — across America. The group's concert at Madison Square Garden in July was filmed for use in the feature film The Song Remains the Same, which was released three years later. After their 1973 tour, Led Zeppelin spent a quiet year during 1974, releasing no new material and performing no concerts. They did, however, establish their own record label, Swan Song, which released all of Led Zeppelin's subsequent albums, as well as records by Dave Edmunds, Bad Company, the Pretty Things, and several others. Physical Graffiti, a double album released in February of 1975, was the band's first release on Swan Song. The album was an immediate success, topping the charts in both America and England.

Led Zeppelin launched a large American tour in 1975, but it came to a halt when Robert Plant and his wife suffered a serious car crash while vacationing in Greece. The tour was canceled and Plant spent the rest of the year recuperating from the accident. Led Zeppelin returned to action in the spring of 1976 with Presence. Although the album debuted at number one in both America and England, the reviews for the album were lukewarm, as was the reception to the live concert film The Song Remains the Same, which appeared in the fall of 1976. The band finally returned to tour America in the Spring of 1977. A couple of months into the tour, Plant's six-year-old son Karac died of a stomach infection. Led Zeppelin immediately canceled the tour and offered no word whether or not it would be rescheduled, causing widespread speculation about the band's future. For a while, it did appear that Led Zeppelin was finished. Robert Plant spent the latter half of 1977 and the better part of 1978 in seclusion. The group didn't begin work on a new album until late in the summer of 1978, when they began recording at ABBA's Polar studios in Sweden. A year later, the band played a short European tour, performing in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and Austria. In August of 1979, Led Zeppelin played two large concerts at Knebworth; the shows would be their last English performances. In Through the Out Door, the band's much-delayed eighth studio album, was finally released in September of 1979. The album entered the charts at number one in both America and England. In May of 1980, Led Zeppelin embarked on their final European tour. In September, Led Zeppelin began rehearsing at Jimmy Page's house in preparation for an American tour. On September 25, John Bonham was found dead in his bed — following an all-day drinking binge, he had passed out and choked on his own vomit. In December of 1980, Led Zeppelin announced they were disbanding, since they could not continue without Bonham. Following the breakup, the remaining members all began solo careers. John Paul Jones returned to producing and arranging, finally releasing his solo debut, Zooma, in 1999. After recording the soundtrack for Death Wish II, Jimmy Page compiled the Zeppelin outtakes collection Coda, which was released at the end of 1982. That same year, Robert Plant began a solo career with the Pictures at Eleven album. In 1984, Plant and Page briefly reunited in the all-star oldies band the Honeydrippers.

After recording one EP with the Honeydrippers, Plant returned to his solo career and Page formed the Firm with former Bad Company singer Paul Rogers. In 1985, Led Zeppelin reunited to play Live Aid, sparking off a flurry of reunion rumors; the reunion never materialized. In 1988, the band re-formed to play Atlantic's 25th anniversary concert. During 1989, Page remastered the band's catalog for release on the 1990 box set Led Zeppelin. The four-disc set became the biggest-selling multi-disc box set of all time, which was followed up three years later by another box set, the mammoth ten-disc set The Complete Studio Recordings. In 1994, Page and Plant reunited to record a segment for MTV Unplugged, which was released as No Quarter in the fall of 1994. Although the album went platinum, the sales were disappointing considering the anticipation of a Zeppelin reunion. The following year, Page and Plant embarked on a successful international tour, which eventually led to an all-new studio recording in 1998, the Steve Albini-produced Walking Into Clarksdale. Surprisingly, the album was met with a cool reception by the record-buying public, as Page and Plant ended their union shortly thereafter, once again going their separate ways (Page would go on to tour with the Black Crowes, while Plant would resume his solo career). Further Zeppelin compilation releases saw the light of day in the late-'90s, including 1997's stellar double-disc BBC Sessions, plus Zep's first true best-of collections — 1999's Early Days: The Best Of, Vol. 1 and 2000's Latter Days: The Best Of, Vol. 2.




Led zeppelin
- 1969-01-12 -



Good times bad times
Babe I'm gonna leave you
You shook me
Dazed and confused
Your time is gonna come
Black mountain side (Instrumental)
Communication breakdown
I can't quit you baby
How many more times

Led zeppelin II
- 1969-10-12 -



Whole lotta love
What is and what should never be
The lemon song
Thank you
Heartbreaker
Living loving maid
Ramble on
Moby dick (Instrumental)
Bring it on home

Led zeppelin III
- 1970-10-05 -



Immigrant song
Friends
Celebration day
Since I've been loving you
Out on the tiles
Gallows pole
Tangerine
That's the way
Bron-y-aur stomp
Hats off to (Roy) Harper

Led zeppelin IV
- 1971-11-08 -



Black dog
Rock and roll
The battle of evermore
Stairway to heaven
Misty mountain hop
Four sticks
Going to California
When the levee breaks

Houses of the holy
- 1973-03-28 -



The song remains the same
The rain song
Over the hills and far away
The crunge
Dancing days
D'yer mak'er
No quarter
The ocean

Physical Graffiti
- 1975-02-24 -



Custard pie
The rover
In my time of dying
Houses of the holy
Trampled under foot
Kashmir
In the light
Bron-yr-aur (Instrumental)
Down by the seaside
Ten years gone
Night flight
The wanton song
Boogie with stu
Black country woman
Sick again

Presence
- 1976-03-31 -



Achilles last stand
For your life
Royal Orleans
Nobody's fault but mine
Candy store Rock
Hots on for nowhere
Tea for one


 

In through the out door
- 1979-08-15 -



In the evening
South bound saurez
Fool in the rain
Hot dog
Carouselambra
All my love
I'm gonna crawl

 


Coda
- 1982-11-19 -



We're gonna groove
Poor Tom
I can't quit you baby
Walter's walk
Ozone baby
Darlene
Bonzo's Montreux (Instrumental)
Wearing and tearing


Non Albums Tracks
- Misc -

Around and around
Baby come on home
C’mon Everybody
Hey Hey what can I do
Hush little baby
I gotta move
I'll never get over you
I'm moving on
I'm a man
I've got a girl
Let's have a party
Love me like a hurricane
Move on down the line
Mystery train
Nadine
Shaking all over
Sittin' here thinkin'
Somethin' Else
Sugar mama
Sunshine woman
Stand by me
The girl I love she got long black wavy hair
Think it over
Travelling riverside blues

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Led Zeppelin

Good times bad times

In the days of my youth
I was told what it means to be a man
And now I've reached that age
I've tried to do all those things the best I can
No matter how I try
I find my way to the same old jam

Good times, bad times, you know I've had my share
When my woman left home for a brown-eyed man
But I still don't seem to care

Sixteen, I fell in love with a girl as sweet as could be
It only took a couple of days 'till she was rid of me
She swore that she would be all mine and love me 'till the end
But when I whispered in her ear, I lost another friend, oh

Good times, bad times, you know I've had my share
When my woman left home for a brown-eyed man
but I still don't seem to care

Good times, bad times, you know I've had my share
When my woman left home for a brown-eyed man
But I still don't seem to care

I know what it means to be alone
I sure do wish I was at home
I don't care what the neighbors say
I'm gonna love you each and every day
You can feel the beat within my heart
Realize, sweet babe, we ain't never gonna part
I feel good when I look into your eyes

 Babe I'm gonna leave you

Babe, baby, baby, I'm Gonna Leave You.
I said baby, you know I'm gonna leave you.
I'll leave you when the summertime,
Leave you when the summer comes a-rollin'
Leave you when the summer comes along.

Baby, baby, I don't wanna leave you,
I ain't jokin' woman,
I got to ramble.
Oh, yeah, baby, baby, I believin',
We really got to ramble.
I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do,
I can hear it
callin' me back home!

Babe... I'm gonna leave you
Oh, baby, you know,
I've really got to leave you
Oh I can hear it callin 'me
I said don't you hear it
callin' me the way it used to do?

I know I never never never
gonna leave your babe
But I got to go away from this place,
I've got to quit you, yeah
Baby, ooh don't you hear it callin' me?
Woman, woman, I know, I know
It feels good
to have you back again
And I know that one day baby,
it's really gonna grow, yes it is.

We gonna go walkin' through the park
every day.
Come what may, every day

It was really, really good.
You made me happy every single day.
But now... I've got to go away!

Baby, baby, baby, baby
That's when it's callin' me
I said that's
when it's callin' me back home...


You shook me

You know you shook me, you shook me all night long
You know you shook me baby, you shook me all night long
You shook me so hard baby, baby, baby, please come home

I have a bird that whistles, and I have birds that sing
I have a bird that whistles, and I have birds that sing
Ha-ha-ha, I have a bird won't do nothin', aah-ah, oh-whoa
Buy a diamond ring, yeah

Ow, ow
Huh, hah
Alright, ah, yeah

You know, you shook me, baby, you shook me all night long
I know you really, really did, babe
I said, you shook me, baby, you shook me all night long
You shook me so hard, baby
Babe, ah-ah, ah-ow, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-da-da, ah-ah-ah-da-da
You shook me aw-ooh-aw-ooh-aw-ooh-aw-ooh
aw-ooh-aw-ooh-aw-ooh-all night lo-ooh-ong

 Dazed and confused

Ba da ba da ba da
Ba da ba da got me feeling like
Ba da ba da ba da
(Yeah!)
Ba da ba da ba da

Look girl you got me faded
Like I downed the whole bottle
Yeah you walked in the room
Looking like a Victoria Secret model
Throw your number in my iPhone

And then let me take you home
I swear I think I fell in love
Either that or my drink's too strong

Took a walk on the clouds

Fell asleep on the moon
And I'm not coming down now
That am with you
If we ever wake up
Don't know what I would do
Are we really in love?
Or Dazed and Confused
Ba da ba da ba da
Ba da ba da got me feeling like
Ba da ba da ba da

Ba da ba da ba da

Yeah you taking selfies with your girls

And dancing with your ass out
The way your drop it down low
I swear got me 'bout to pass out
Feeling tippsy everytime you kiss me
Girl you got me high
Yeah this love we got is trippy

But it's all good
We just Dazed and Confused
Wake up in the morning
What the hell do we do?

Took a walk on the clouds
Fell asleep on the moon
And I'm not coming down now
That am with you
If we ever wake up
Don't know what I would do
Are we really in love?
Or Dazed and Confused
Ba da ba da ba da
Ba da ba da got me feeling like
Ba da ba da ba da
Ba da ba da ba da

Yeah! It's Travie
Aight here's how it's going down
You me and your homegirl
Can get a little freaky in my hotel
Just don't let me catch up being sneaky
With your phone girl
This a quick way to get dismissed
Now I hope we on the same page
But that's what I love about college chicks
I keep getting older and they stay the same age
Now turn around let me get a peek
Good Lord that's a miracle
But don't get too geek
Feel them sheets that's not boyfriend material
She got a body like mmh
And a face like eeh
I got one head saying mmh mmh
And the other one saying yes

Took a walk on the clouds
Fell asleep on the moon
And I'm not coming down now
That am with you
If we ever wake up
Don't know what I would do
Are we really in love?
Or Dazed and Confused
Ba da ba da ba da
Ba da ba da got me feeling like
Ba da ba da ba da
Dazed and Confused
Ba da ba da ba da
Ba da ba da got me feeling like
Ba da ba da ba da
Ba da ba da ba da

 Your time is gonna come

Lyin', cheatin', hurtin, that's all you seem to do.
Messin' around with every guy in town,
Puttin' me down for thinkin' of someone new.
Always the same, playin' your game,
Drive me insane, trouble is gonna come to you,
One of these days and it won't be long,
You'll look for me but baby, I'll be gone.
This is all I gotta say to you woman:

Your Time Is Gonna Come
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Your Time Is Gonna Come

Made up my mind to break you this time,
Won't be so fine, it's my turn to cry.
Do want you want, I won't take the brunt.
It's fadin' away, can't feel you anymore.
Don't care what you say 'cause I'm goin' away to stay,
Gonna make you pay for that great big hole in my heart.
People talkin' all around,
Watch out woman, no longer
Is the joke gonna be on my heart.
You been bad to me woman,
But it's coming back home to you.

Your Time Is Gonna Come
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Your Time Is Gonna Come

  Communication breakdown

Hey, girl, stop what you're doin'
Hey, girl, you'll drive me to ruin
I don't know what it is I like about you, but I like it a lot
Won't you let me hold you, now, let me feel your lovin' touch

Communication breakdown, it's always the same
Havin' a nervous breakdown, a-drive me insane

Hey, girl, I got somethin' I think you oughta know
Hey, babe, I wanna tell you that I love you so
I wanna hold you in my arms, yeah
I'm never gonna let you go, 'cause I like your charm

Communication breakdown, it's always the same
Havin' a nervous breakdown, drive me insane, ow, suck

Communication breakdown, it's always the same
Havin' a nervous breakdown, a-drive me insane, yeah

Communicate, I want you to love me all night
I want you to love me all night, I want, hey, I want, yeah
I want you to love me, I want you to love, babe
I want you to love, yeah, I want you to love
Hey, I want you to love, yeah, I want you to

*** Thanx a lot to Sophie who corrected this one ***

I can't quit you baby

I-I, I can't quit you, babe
So I'm gonna put you down for a while
I said, I can't quit you, babe
I guess I got to put you down for a while
Said, you messed-up my happy home
Made me mistreat my only child
Yes, you did, babe, oh

Said, you know I love you, baby
My love for you I could never hide
Oh, you know I love you, babe
My love for you I could never hide
A-when I feel you near me, little girl
I know you are my one desire, whoa-oh, oh-oh, yeah

Oh, that's wonderful, whoa
Whoa
That's wonderful yeah!

When you hear me moanin' and groanin', baby
You know it hurts me deep down inside
Oh, when you hear me moanin' and groanin', babe
You know it hurts me deep down inside
Oh, a-when you hear me hollar, baby
You know you're my one desire, yes, you are, oh alright

 How many more times

How many more times, treat me the way you wanna do
How many more times, treat me the way you wanna do
When I give you all my love, please, please be true

I give you all I've got to give, rings, pearls and all
I give you all I've got to give, rings, pearls and all
I got to get you together, baby
I'm sure, sure you're gonna call
Oh, wanna love some other man too

I was a young man, I couldn't resist
Started thinkin' it over just what I had missed
Got me a girl and I kissed her, and then, and then
whoops, oh, no, yeah, well I did it again
Now I've got ten children of my own
I got another child on the way, that makes eleven
But I'm in constant Heaven

I know it's alright in my mind
'cause I got a little schoolgirl and she's all mine
I can't get through to her 'cause it doesn't permit
but I'm gonna give her everything I've got to give

Oh, Rosie, oh, girl
Oh, Rosie, oh, girl
Steal away, now, steal away
Steal away, baby, steal away
Little Robert Anthony wants to come and play
A-why don'tcha come with me, baby, steal away
Alright, alright

Well, they call me the Hunter, that's my name
Call me the Hunter, that's how I got my fame
Ain't no need to hide, ain't no need to run
'cause I got you in the sights of my gun

How many more times, barrelhouse all night long, alright
How many more times, barrelhouse all night long
Well, I've got to get to you, baby
So-whoa-whoa-whoa please come home
Why don't you listen to me, babe
Why don't you please come home
Why don't you please come home
Why don't you please come, home

Led Zeppelin II

Whole lotta love

You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin',
I'm gonna send you back to schoolin',
Way down inside honey, you need it,
I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you my love.

Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love

You've been learnin', baby, I bean learnin',
All them good times, baby, baby, I've been yearnin',
Way, way down inside honey, you need it,
I'm gonna give you my love... I'm gonna give you my love.

Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love

You've been coolin', baby, I've been droolin',
All the good times I've been misusin',
Way, way down inside, I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you every inch of my love,
Gonna give you my love.

Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love
Wanna Whole Lotta Love

Way down inside... woman... You need... love

Shake for me, girl. I wanna be your backdoor man
Keep it coolin', baby.

What is and what should never be

And if I say to you tomorrow
Take my hand, child, come with me
It's to a castle I will take you
Where what's to be, they say will be

A-catch the wind, see us spin
Sail away, leave today
Way up high in the sky
It won't, but the wind won't blow, we really shouldn't go
It only goes to show that you will be mine, by takin' our time
Oooh, ho-whoa

And if you say to me tomorrow
Oh, what fun it all would be
then what's to stop us, pretty baby
but what is and what should never be

A-catch the wind, see us spin
Sail away, leave today
Way up high in the sky
It won't, but the wind won't blow, we really shouldn't go
It only goes to show that you will be mine, by takin' our time
Oooh, ohh, oh-ho

So if you wake up with the sunrise
and all your dreams are still as new
and happiness is what you need so bad
Well, girl, the answer lies with you, yeah

A-catch the wind, see us spin
Sail away, leave today
Way up high in the sky
It won't, but the wind won't blow, we really shouldn't go
It only goes to show that you will be mine, by takin' our time
Oooh, ho-whoa

Hey, ho, ma
A-well, the wind won't blow, and we really shouldn't go
and it only goes to show-whoa-whoa-whoa
Catch the wind, we're gonna see us spin
We're gonna sail, little girl
A-do-do-do, ba-ba-n-do, oh
Ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, yeah
Everybody I know seems to know me well
but does anyody know I'm gonna move like hell
A-baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, ho, I love you
Baby, baby, babe, huh, oh, I love you
Do, no, no, no, no, no, no, come on, now
I want you

The lemon song

I should have quit you long time ago
Yeah long time ago.
Oh yeah long time ago.
I wouldn't be here my children
Down on this killin' floor.
I should have listened baby to my second mind x2
Everytime i go away and leave you darling
You send me the blues way down the line.
Babe treat me right baby oh my my my
People tellin' me baby can't be satisfied;
They try to worry me baby
But they never hurt you in my eyes.
Said, people worry i can't keep you satisfied.
Let me tell you baby,
You ain't nothin but a two-bit, no-good jive.
Went to sleep last night, worked as hard as i can,
Bring home my money, you take my money, give it to another man;
I should have quit you, baby, such a long time ago,
I wouldn't be here with all my troubles
Down on this killing floor.
Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg, x2
The way you squeeze my lemon,
I.i'm gonna fall right out of bed, yeah.
Hey!

Baby baby baby...
I'm gonna leave my children down on this killin floor

Thank you

If the sun refused to shine
I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea
There will still be you and me.

Kind woman I give you my all
Kind woman nothing more.
Little drops of rain whisper of the pain
Tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong with you there is no wrong
Together we shall go until we die.
My my my an inspiration is what you are to me
Inspiration, look see.
And so today, my world it smiles
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles
For you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad

Happiness
I'm glad

If the sun refused to shine
I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea
There will still be you and me.

Heartbreaker

Hey fellas, have you heard the news?
You know that Annie's back in town?
It won't take long just watch and see
How the fellas lay their money down.
Her style is new but the face is the same
As it was so long ago
But from her eyes, a diff'rent smile
Like that of one who knows

Well, it's been ten years and maybe more
Since I first set eyes on you
The best years of my life gone by
Here I am alone and blue
Some people cry and some people die
By the wicked ways of love
But I'll just keep on rollin' along
With the grace of the Lord above

People talkin' all around 'bout the way you left me flat
I don't care what the people say, I know where they're drivin at
One thing I do have on my mind, if you can clarify please do,
It's the way you call me by another guy's name when I try to make love to you, yeah
I try to make love but it ain't no use
Give it to me, give it

Work so hard I couldn't unwind
Get some money saved
Abuse my love a thousand times,
However hard I tried.
Heartbreaker, your time has come,
Can't take your evil way;
Go away,
Heartbreaker.
Heartbreaker!

*** Thanx a lot to Sophie who corrected this one ***

Living loving maid

With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
Missus cool rides out in her aged Cadillac.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

*Come on, babe on the round about, ride on the merry-go-round
We all know what your name is, so you better lay your money down.

Alimony, alimony payin' your bills
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
When your conscience hits, you knock it back with pills.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

*Come on, babe on the round about, ride on the merry-go-round

We all know what your name is, so you better lay your money down.
Tellin' tall tales of how it used to be.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
With the butler and the maid and the servants three.

Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
Nobody hears a single word you say.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
But you keep on talkin' till your dyin' day.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
*Come on, babe on the round about, ride on the merry-go-round
We all know what your name is, so you better lay your money down.
Livin', Lovin', She's just a woman

Ramble on

Leaves are fallin' all around, time I was on my way,
But now it's time for me to go, the autumn moon lights my way
For now I smell the rain, and with it, pain
And it's headed my way
Aw, sometimes I grow so tired
But I know I've got one thing I got to do
A-ramble on, and now's the time, the time is now

Sing my song, I'm goin' 'round the world, I gotta find my girl
On my way, I've been this way ten years to the day
Ramble on, gotta find the queen of all my dreams
Got no time to for spreadin' roots, the time has come to be gone

And though our health we drank a thousand times
it's time to ramble on
A-ramble on, and now's the time, the time is now

Sing my song, I'm goin' 'round the world
I've gotta find my girl
On my way, I've been this way ten years to the day
I gotta ramble on, I gotta find the queen of all my dreams
I tell you no lie
Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear

How years ago in days of old when magic filled the air
'twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, mm-I met a girl so fair
but Gollum and the evil warg crept up and slipped away with her
her, her, yeah, and ain't nothin' I can do, no
I guess I'll keep on ramblin', I'm gonna

Sing my song/Sh-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, I've gotta find my baby
I'm gonna ramble on, sing my song
Gonna work my way all around the world
Baby, baby/Ramble on, yeah
A-do-do-n-do-n-do-n-do, my baby/Baby

A-ramble on, baby
A-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-de-do-de-do-de-do-de-do-de, yeah, yeah/
I can't stop this feelin' in my heart
Everytime I feel I will leave, I really gotta part
Gotta keep searchin' for my baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, babe
I've gotta keep a-searchin'for my baby
My, my, my, my, my, my, my baby
Yeah-yeah, a-yeah-yeah, a-yeah-yeah
My, my, my, my, my, my baby
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Ooh, my, my, my-my, my-my, my-my, yeah
I can't find my bluebird, I'd listen to my bluebird sing
but I, I can't find my bluebird
I keep a-ramblin' baby
Ah, ah, yeah
I keep a-ramblin', baby
I keep, keep, keep, keep, keep
Babe, babe, babe, babe
I keep a-ramblin', baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
My, my babe
Bay-you-by
A-goodbye, goodbye, a-goodbye, baby
Well, something's wrong

Bring it home

Baby, ooh, baby, mm-gon' bring it on home to you
I've got my ticket, I've got that load
Join up, gone higher, all aboard
I'm-a take my seat, ride way back
Ooh, yeah, a-watch this train roll down the track
Gonna bring it on home, mm-bring it on home to you
Watch out, watch out, make me room

Try to tell you, baby, "Whatcha tryin' to do"
Try to love me, baby, love some other man, too
Bring it on home, bring it on home

Went a little walk downtown, honey, messed 'n got back late
Found a note there waitin', it said, "Daddy, I just can't wait"
Bring it on home, bring it on home
Bring it back home, bring it back home to me, baby

Tell you, pretty baby, love to mess me 'round
I'm gonna give you lovin', baby, gonna move you outta town
Bring it on home, bring it on home

Sweetest little baby daddy ever saw
I'm gonna give you lovin', baby, I'm gonna give you more
Bring it on home, bring it on home
Bring it on home, alright

Bring it on home, bring it on home to you

Led Zeppelin III

Immigrant song

We come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow

The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde and sing and cry, Valhalla, I am coming

On we sweep with, with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

We come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun where the hot springs FLOW
How soft your fields, so green can whisper tales of gore
Of how we calmed the tides of war
We are your overlords

On we sweep with, with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

S-so now you better stop and rebuild all your ruins
for peace and trust can winthe day despite of all you're losin'

Friends

Bright light, almost blindin'
Black night still there shinin'
I can't stop, keep on climbin'
Lookin' for what I knew

Had a friend, she once told me
"You got a love, you ain't lonely"
Now she's gone and left me only
Lookin' for what I knew

Mm, I'm tellin' you, now
The greatest thing you ever can do, now
Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now
It's very easy, just-a

Met a man on the roadside cryin'
Without a friend, there's no denyin'
You're incomplete, there'll be no findin'
Lookin' for what you knew

So anytime somebody needs you
Don't let 'em down, although it grieves you
Someday you'll need someone like they do
Lookin' for what you knew

Mm, mm, I'm tellin' you, now
The greatest thing you ever can do, now
Is trade a smile with someone who's blue, now
It's very easy, just-a, oh, yeah
Ah, nah, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, yeah

I'm tellin' you, now
The greatest thing you ever can do, now
Is trade a smile with someone who's blue, now
It's very easy, it's very easy
It's very easy, it's easy, easy, yeah, yeah, yeah

Celebration day

Her face is cracked from smiling,
All the fears that she's been hiding,
And it seems pretty soon ev'rybody's gonna know.
And her voice is sore from shouting,
Cheering winners who are losing,
And she worries if their days are few
And soon they'll have to go.

My, my, my, I'm so happy,
I'm gonna join the band,
We are gonna sing and dance in celebration,
We are in the promised land.

She hears them talk of new ways
To protect the home she lives in,
Then she wonders what it's all about
When they break down the door.
Her name is Brown or White or Black,
You know her very well,
You hear her cries of mercy
As the winners toll the bell.

My, my, my, I'm so happy,
I'm gonna join the band,
We are gonna sing and dance in celebration,
We are in the promised land.

There is a train that leaves the station
Heading for your destination,
But the price you pay to nowhere has increased a dollar more.
Yes, it has!
And if you walk you're gonna get there
Tho' it takes a little longer,
And when you see it in the distance
You will wring your hands and moan

Since I've been loving you

Working from seven to eleven every night
It really makes life a drag, I don't think that's right
I've really, been the best, the best of fools
I did what I could, yeah

'Cause I love you, baby
How I love you, darling
How I love you, baby
How I love you, girl, little girl

Baby, since I've been loving you, yeah
I'm about to lose my worried mind, oh yeah

Everybody trying to tell me
That you didn't mean me no good
I've been trying, Lord, let me tell you
Let me tell you I really did the best I could

I've been working from seven to eleven every night
I said it kinda makes my life a drag, drag, drag, drag, Lord, that ain't right

Since I've been loving you
I'm about to lose my worried mind
Said I've been crying, my tears they fell like rain
Don't you hear, don't you hear them falling

Do you remember, mama, when I knocked upon your door?
I said you had the nerve to tell me you didn't want me no more, yeah
I open my front door, hear my back door slam
You must have one of them new fangled back door man

I've been working from seven, seven, seven, to eleven every night
It kinda makes my life a drag, drag, drag
Baby, since I've been loving you
I'm about to lose, I'm about lose to my worried mind

I just want more chanced woman
Since I've been loving
I wanna move my worried mind

Out of the tiles

As I walk down the highway, all I do is sing a song
And a train that's passin' my way helps the rhythm move along
There is no doubt about, the words are clear
The voice is strong, it's oh, so strong

Just a simple guy, and live from day to day
A ray of sunshine melts my frown, blows my blues away
There's nothin' more that I can say
But on a day like today, I'll pass the time away
And walk a quiet mile with you

All I need from you is all your l-love
All you gotta give to me is all your love
All I need from you is all your love
All you gotta give to me is all your love
Ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah

I'm so glad I'm livin', (stop), gonna tell the world I am
I got me a fine woman and she says that I'm her man
A-one thing that I know for sure
Gonna give her all the lovin' like nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody can

Standin' in the noon-day sun tryin' to flag a ride
People go and people come, see my rider right by my side
It's a total disgrace, they set the pace
It must be race
The best thing I can do is run

All I need from you is all your love
All you gotta give to me, all your love
All I need from you is all your love
All you gotta give to me is all your love
Ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah, hey

Aw, yeah, aw, yeah, aw, yeah
Oh, just remember said you'd be my one
All I really said was 'be my one'
Ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah
Ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah
Ah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah, yeah, yeah
Ah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah, yeah, yeah

Gallows pole

Hangman hangman hold it a little while
Think i see my friends coming
Riding a many mile.
Friends did you get some silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me my dear friends
To keep me from the gallows pole?
What did you bring me to keep me from the gallows pole?

I couldn't get no silver i couldn't get no gold
You know that we're too damn poor
To keep you from the gallows pole.

Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while,
I think I see my brother coming,
Riding a many mile.

Brother, did you get me some silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me, my brother,
To keep me from the gallows pole

Brother, I brought you some silver,
I brought a little gold,
I brought a little of ev'ry thing
To keep you from the gallows pole.
Yes, I brought you to keep you from the gallows pole.

Hangman, hangman, turn your head awhile,
I think i see my sister coming,
Riding a many mile, mile, mile.

Sister, I implore you, take him by the hand,
Take him to some shady bower,
Save me from the wrath of this man,
Please take him,
Save me from the wrath of this man, man.

Hangman, hangman, upon your face a smile,
Pray tell me that I'm free to ride,
Ride for many mile, mile, mile.

Oh, yes, you got a fine sister,
She warmed my blood from cold,
Brought my blood to boiling hot
To keep you from the gallows pole.
Your brother brought me silver,
Your sister warmed my soul

But now i laugh and pull so hard
And see you swinging on the gallows pole
Keep-a-swingin'!
Swingin' on the gallows pole!

Ah-ha-ha
Swingin'
Swingin' on the gallows pole!
See-saw marjory daw
See-saw knock at my door

Tangerine

Measuring a summer's day,
I only finds it slips away to grey,
The hours, they bring me pain.

Tangerine, Tangerine,
Living reflection from a dream
I was her love, she was my queen,
And now a thousand years between.

Thinking how it used to be,
Does she still remember times like these?
To think of us again?
And I do.

Tangerine, Tangerine,
Living reflection from a dream
I was her love, she was my queen,
And now a thousand years between.

That's the way

I don't know how I'm gonna tell you,
I can't play with you no more,
I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me,
My friend, the boy next door.
I can't believe what people saying,
You're gonna let your hair hang down,
I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long,
You're in the darker side of town.

And when I'm out I see you walking,
Why don't your eyes see me,
ould it be you've found another game to play,
What did mama say to me.

That's the way, oh,
That's the way it ought to be,
Yeah, yeah, mama say
That's the way it ought to stay.

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes,
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,
Had they got you hypnotized?

And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry.

I don't know what to say about it,
When all you ears have turned away,
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?

That's the way...
That's the way it oughtta be
Oh don't you know now, mama said.
That's the way it's gonna stay, yeah.
Mama said, mama said...
That's the way it's gonna stay, yeah

 
Bron-y-aur stomp

Ah, I caught you smilin' at me, that's the way it should be
Like a leaf is to a tree, so fine
Ah, all the good times we had, I sung love songs so glad
Always smilin', never sad, so fine

As we walk down the country lanes
I'll be singin' a song, you hear me callin' your name
Hear the wind whisper in the trees
Tellin' Mother Nature 'bout you and me

Well, if the sun shines so bright, or our way is dark as night
The road we choose is always right, so fine
Ah, could any love be so strong when so many loves go wrong
Will our love go on and on and on and on and on and on?

As we walk down the country lanes
I'm singin' a song, hear me callin' your name
Hear the wind whisper in the trees
Tellin' Mother Nature 'bout a-you and me

My, my, law-de-law, come on, now, it ain't too far
Tell your friends all around the world
Ain't no companion like a blue-eyed Merle

Come on, now, well, let me tell you
What you're missin', messin' around them brick walls

So, of one thing I am sure, it's a friendship so pure
Angels singin' all 'round my door, so fine
Yeah, ain't but one thing to do, spend my natural life with you
You're the finest dog I knew, so fine

When you're old and your eyes are dim
There ain't no 'Old Shep' gonna happen again
We'll still go walkin' down country lanes
I'll sing the same old song, hear me call your name

*** Thanx a lot to Jamon who corrected some mistakes ***

Hats off to (Roy) Harper

Mu-mu-mu-mu-mu, down
When I done quit hollerin', babe
I believe I'll shake 'em on down

Forgive me, baby, won't be late
You know by that I mean-ah seconds late
Ahh-hah, must I, must I shake 'em on down
When I done quit hollerin', babe
I believe I'll shake 'em on down
Shake it, ah-ah

Well, I ain't no monkey, I can't climb no tree
No brown-skinned woman gonna make no monkey outta me
Yeah, and I ain't no monkey, sure can't climb no tree
I been mistreated, babe, I believe I'll shake 'em on down
Well, I been mistreated, babe, I believe I'll shake 'em on down

Listen, mama, put on your mornin' gown
Put on your nightshirt, mama, we gonna shake 'em on down
Yeah, yay, must I-ha, must I, must I, must I shake 'em on down
Ooh, well, I done been mistreated baby
I believe I'll shake 'em on down-ow-own

Gave my baby twenty-dollar bill
If that don't finish her, I'm sure my shot-shot-shotgun will
Yeah, yeah, I gave my babe twenty-dollar bill
Well, if that don't get that woman out, I'm sure my shotgun will
Yeah, I'll go shoot her, now

Led Zeppelin IV

Black dog

Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.

Ah, ah, child, way you shake that thing
Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting.

Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way
Watch your honey drip, can't keep away.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, ah, ah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, ah, ah.

I gotta roll, can't stand still
Got a flamin' heart, can't get my fill.

Eyes that shine, burnin' red
Dreams of you all through my head.

Ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ahhh.

Hey, baby, whoa baby, pretty baby
Darlin' makes 'em do me now
Hey, baby, oh baby, pretty baby
Move me like you're doin' now.

Didn't take too long 'fore I found out
What people mean by down and out.

Spent my money, took my car
Started tellin' her friends she gonna be a star.

I don't know, but I been told
A big-legged woman ain't got no soul.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, ah, ah, ah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, ah, ah, ah.
All I ask for, all I pray
A steady rollin' woman gonna come my way.
Need a woman gonna hold my hand
Won't tell me no lies, make me a happy man.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ahh
Ooh, ooh-wah, yeah, oh, yeah, gotta move
Yeah- yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Gotta move you, now, babe, babe, move, you move, yeah
Push, push, babe, push, babe, push, babe
Push it, now,push, baby, push, baby, push, move, move
Ooh, yeah, ooh, move
Well-done
I'm gonna get you groovin', now, gonna get you groovin', now

*** Thanx a lot to Sophie & Alice who corrected this one ***

Rock and Roll

It's been a long time since I rock and rolled
It's been a long time since I did the stroll
Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back
Mmm baby, where I come from

It's been a long time, been a long time
Been a long, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time
Yes, it has

It's been a long time since the book of love
I can't count the tears of a life with no love
Carry me back, carry me back, carry me back
Mmm baby, where I come from, whoa whoa

It's been a long time, been a long time
Been a long, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time
Ah, ah, ah

Oh, it seems so long since we walked in the moonlight
Makin' vows that just couldn't work right
Haw yeah, open your arms, open your arms, open your arms
Baby, let my love come running in, yeah

It's been a long time, been a long time
Been a long, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time

Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey
Ooh yeah, ooh ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh ooh yeah
It's been a long time, been a long time
Been a long, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time
Ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ahhh.
Ah, yeah!

The battle of evermore

Queen of Light took her bow
And then she turned to go,
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom
And walked the night alone.

Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morn-ing light.
The dark Lord rides in force tonight
And time will tell us all.

Oh, throw down your plow and hoe,
Rest not to lock your homes.
Side by side we wait the might
Of the darkest of them all.

I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley below,
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon,
Waiting for the eastern glow.

The apples of the valley hold
The seeds of happiness,
The ground is rich from tender care,
Repay, do not forget, no, no.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.

The apples turn to brown and black,
The tyrant's face is red.

Oh the war is common cry,
Pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad
That mortals never know.

Oh, well, the night is long
The beads of time pass slow,
Tired eyes on the sunrise,
Waiting for the eastern glow.

The pain of war cannot exceed
The woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall,
The ringwraiths ride in black,
Ride on.

Sing as you raise your bow,
Shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night
That lights the face so cold.

Oh dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the mornin' light.
The magic runes are writ in gold
To bring the balance back.
Bring it back.

At last the sun is shining,
The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes.

Oh, bring it back, bring it back...

Stairway to heaven

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Oh, it makes me wonder,
Oh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune,
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long,
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

*** Thanx a lot to Sophie & Lisa & Vanda who corrected this one ***

Misty mountain hop

Walkin' in the park just the other day, Baby,
What do you, what do you think I saw?
Crowds of people sittin' on the grass with flowers in their hair said,
"Hey, Boy, do you wanna score?"
And you know how it is;
I really don't know what time it was, woh, oh,
So I asked them if I could stay awhile.
I didn't notice but it had got very dark and I was really,
Really out of my mind.
Just then a policeman stepped up to me and asked us said,
"Please, hey, would we care to all get in line,
Get in line."
Well you know,
They asked us to stay for tea and have some fun,
Oh, oh, he said that his friends would all drop by, ooh.
Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see,
And Baby, Baby, Baby, do you like it?
There you sit, sitting spare like a book on a shelf rustin'
Ah, not trying to fight it.
You really don't care if they're coming, oh, oh,
I know that it's all a state of mind, ooh.
If you go down in the streets today, Baby, you better,
You better open your eyes.
Folk down there really don't care, really don't care,
don't care, really don't
Which, which way the pressure lies,
So I've decided what I'm gonna do now.
So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains
Where the spirits go now,
Over the hills where the spirits fly, ooh, I really don't know.

Four sticks

Oh, Baby, it's cryin' time,
Oh, Baby, I got to fly.
Got to try to find a way,
Got to try to get away,
'Cause you know I gotta get away from you, Babe.

Oh, Baby, the river's red,
Oh, Baby, in my head.
There's a funny feelin' goin' on,
I don't think I can hold out long.

And when the owls cry in the night,
Oh, Baby, Baby, when the pines begin to cry,
Baby, Baby, Baby, how do you feel?
If the river runs dry, Baby,
How do you feel?

Craze, Baby, the rainbow's end, Baby, it's just a den
For those who hide, Who hide their love to depths of life
And ruin dreams that we all knew so, Babe.

And when the owls cry in the night,
Oh, Baby, Baby, when the pines begin to cry,
Baby, Baby, Baby, how do you feel?
If the river runs dry, Baby,
How do you feel?

Going to California

Spend my days with a woman unkind
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine
Made up my mind, make a new start
Goin' to California with an achin' in my heart
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

Took my chances on a big jet-plane
Never let 'em tell you that they're aw-ooh-all the same
Hoh, the sea was red and the sky was grey
I wonder how tomorrow could ever follow today-hee
Mountains and the canyons start to tremble and shake
The children of the sun begin to awake
Now
Watch out

It seems that the wrath of the gods got a punch on the nose
And it's startin' to flow, I think I might be sinkin'
Throw me a line, if I reach it in time
Meet you up there where the path runs straight and high

Find a queen without a king
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings, la-la-la-la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born
Standin' on a hill in the mountain of dreams
Tellin' myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems

When the levee breaks

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
When the levee breaks, I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, Lord
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
It's got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home
Oh well, oh well, oh well

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down south
They got no work to do
If you're going down to Chicago.

A-ah, a-ah, a-ah.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good
No, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move, ooh.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned
All last night sat on the levee and moaned
Thinkin' 'bout my baby and my happy home
Ah-oh.

Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah

Goin'
I'm goin' to Chicago
Goin' to Chicago
Sorry, but I can't take you, ahhh
Goin' down, goin' down now
Goin' down, goin' down now
Goin' down, goin' down
Goin' down, goin' down.

Goin' down, goin' down now
Goin' down, goin' down now
Goin' down, goin' down now
Goin' down, goin' down-down-down-down-down.

Houses of the holy

The song remains the same
 
I had a dream,
oh, now,
Crazy dream, ohh-ohh
Anything I wanted to know,
Any place I needed to go

Hear my song, now,
People, don't you listen, now
Sing along,
You don't know what you're missin', now
Any little song that you know
Everything that's small has to grow
And so it grows, yeah, push, push, yeah-ah

Na-na-na-na-na-ah-ah
California sunlight
Sweet Calcutta rain
Honolulu starbright
The song remains the same
Ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-hohh-ohh

Head-on
Keep on

All you got to do, all the night
All you, all you gotta do now,
All you gotta do now, ooh with me

Sing out Hare, Hare
Ooh, dance the Hoochie-Koo
City lights are oh, so bright
As we go slidin', slidin'
Slidin', slidin', slidin' slidin' slidin' slidin'
Slidin-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah on.

The rain song

It is the springtime of my loving
the second season I am to know
You are the sunlight in my growing
so little warmth I've felt before.
It isn't hard to feel me glowing
I watched the fire that grew so low.

It is the summer of my smiles
flee from me Keepers of the Gloom.
Speak to me only with your eyes
It is to you I give this tune.
Ain't so hard to recognize
These things are clear to all from time to time.

Talk Talk
I've felt the coldness of my winter
I never thought it would ever go.
I cursed the gloom that set upon us...
But I know that I love you so

These are the seasons of emotion
and like the winds they rise and fall
This is the wonder of devotion
I seek the torch we all must hold.
This is the mystery of the quotient
Upon us all, upon us all a little rain must fall...
It's just a little rain...

Over the hills and far away

Hey lady, you got the love I need
Maybe more than enough
Oh darling walk a while with me

Ooh, youve got so much

Many times I loved
Many times been bitten
Many times Ive gazed
Along the open road

Many times Ive lied
Many times Ive listened
Many times Ive wondered
How much there is to know

Many dreams come true
And some have silver linings
I live for my dream
And a pocketful of gold

Mellow is the man
Who knows what he's been missing
Many many men
Cant see the open road

Many is a word
That only leaves you guessing
Guessing bout a thing
You really ought to know, ooh!
You really ought to know
I really ought to know!
Oooh, you know I should,
you know I should,
you know I should

The crunge

I wanna tell you bout my good thing
I ain't disclosing no names but--
He sure is a good friend and!
I ain't gonna tell you where he comes from, no!
If i tell you you wont come again! Hey!
I ain't gonna tell you nothin but i do will, but i know, yeah!
I should do but i know now let me tell you bout my girl:
Open up a newspaper and what do i see? Ahh, ah
See my girl, ah, looking at me
Ooh, and when she walks, ooh, lemme tell you:
She walks and when she talks, she talks and
When she looks at me in the eye
She's my baby lord i wanna make her mine
Tell me baby what you want me to do!
You want me to love you, love some other man too?
Ain't gonna call me mr. Pitiful, no!
I don't need no respect from nobody no! No!
Ooh yeah! No no! Ahh!
I ain't gonna tell you nothing i ain't gonna no more, no!
She's my baby let me tell you that i love her so and
And! She's the woman i really wanna love
And let me tell you more, oooh!
She's my baby she lives next door
She's the one a woman the one a woman that i know.
I ain't gonna... Tell you one thing that you really ought to know ooh!
She's my lover baby and i love her so and
She's the one that really makes me whirl and twirl!
And she's the kind of lover that makes me me fill the whole world and
She's the one who really makes me jump and shout, ooh!
She's the kind of girl--i know what it's all about!
Take it take it
Excuse me
Oh will you excuse me
I'm just trying to find the bridge
Has anybody seen the bridge?
Please!
(have you seen the bridge?)
I ain't seen the bridge!
(where's that confounded bridge?)

Dancing days

Dancing days are here again,
As the summer evenings grow.
I got my flower, I got my power,
I got a woman who knows.

I said it's alright,
You know it's alright,
I guess it's all in my heart.
You'll be my only,
My one and only,
Is that the way it should start?

Crazy ways are evident,
By the way you wearin' your clothes.
Sippin' booze is precedent,
As the evening starts to glow.

You know it's alright,
I said it's alright,
You know it's all in my heart.
You'll be my only,
My one and only,
Is that the way it should start?

Do You?

You told your mother I'd get you home,
But you didn't say that I got no car.
I saw a lion, he was standin' alone,
With a tadpole in a jar.

You know it's alright,
I said it's alright,
I guess it's all in my heart, heart, heart.
You'll be my only,
My one and only,
Is that the way it should start?

So dancing days are here again,
As the summer evenings grow.
You are my flower, you are my power,
You are my woman who knows.

I said it's alright,
You know it's alright,
You know it's all in my heart.
You'll be my only, yes
My one and only, yes
Is that the way it should start?
I know it isn't.

D'yer mak'er

Oh oh oh oh oh oh, You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh
You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh, Baby please don't go.
Ay ay ay ay ay ay, All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay
All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay, Baby please don't go.

When I read the letter you wrote, it made me mad mad mad
When I read the news that it brought me
It made me sad sad sad, But I still love you so
I can't let you go, I love you- ooh baby I love you.

Oh oh oh oh oh oh, Every breath I take oh oh oh oh oh
Every move I make oh oh oh oh oh, Baby please don't go.
Ay ay ay ay ay ay, You hurt me to my soul ay ay ay ay ay
You hurt me to my soul ay ay ay ay ay,
Darling please don't go.

When I read the letter you wrote, it made me mad mad mad
When I read the news that it brought me
It made me sad sad sad, But I still love you so
I can't let you go, I love you- ooh baby I love you.

Oh oh oh oh oh oh, You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh
You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh
(Baby please don't go)
(Whatever happened to Rosie and the Originals?)

No quarter

Close the door, put out the light
Y' know they won't be home tonight.
The snow falls hard and don't you know
The winds of Thor are blowin' cold.
They're wearin' steel that's bright and true,
They carry news that must get through
They choose the path where no-one goes.
They hold no quarter,
They hold no quarter.

Ahh-ah~ahh~ah~ahh-hahhh-hahhh.
Walkin' side by side with death
The devil mocks their every step
The snow drives back the foot that's slow
The dogs of doom are howlin' more
They carry news that must get through
To build a dream for me and you
They choose the path where no-one goes.
They hold no quarter,
They ask no quarter.

They hold no quarter.
They ask no quarter.
The pain without quarter.
The pain, the pain without quarter.
They ask no quarter

The ocean

(We've done four already but now we're steady and then they went: One, two, three, four)

Singing in the sunshine, laughing in the rain
Hitting on the moonshine, rocking in the grain
Ain't no time to pack my bag, my foots outside the door
Got a date, I can't be late, for the high hopes hailla ball.
'got a hell hound on my t(r)ail'
'cause it's hell I'm headed for'
(No one really knows which one it is)
Uh-huh! oh oh yeah!
Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean's roar
Play for free, play for me and play a whole lot more, more!
Singing 'bout good things and the sun that lights the day
I used to sing on the mountains, then the ocean lost it's way.
I've been there (I don't know?)
Oh oh yeah!
Oh, yeah!
na na na..., La la la...
Sitting round singing songs til the night turns into day
Used to sing on the mountains but the mountains washed away
Now I'm singing all my songs to the girl who won my heart
She is only three years old and it's a real fine way to start.
Oh yeah. Sure is fine. I blow my mind.
And the tears all go away now.
Yeah yeah
Do wop a diddly diddly........
Oh, so good!

*** Thanx a lot to StyxNC who corrected a mistake on this one ***

Physical graffiti

Custard pie
 
Drop down, baby, let your daddy see.
Drop down, mama, just dream of me
Well, my mama allow me to fool around all night long
Well, I may look like I'm crazy, I should know right from wrong

See me comin', throw your man out the door
Ain't no stranger, been this way before
See me comin', mama, throw your man out the door
I ain't no stranger, I been this way before.

Put on your night shirt and your morning gown
You know by night I'm gonna shake 'em down
Put on your night shirt Mama, and your morning gown
Well, you know by night I'm gonna shake 'em down

Your custard pie, yeah, sweet and nice
When you cut it, mama, save me a slice
Your custard pie, I declare, it's sweet and nice
I Like your custard pie
When you cut it, mama... mama, please save me a slice.

Save me a slice of your custard pie.
Drop down

The rover

I've been to London, seen seven wonders
I know to trip is just to fall
I used to rock it, sometimes I'd roll it
I always knew what it was for

There can be no denyin' that the wind'll shake 'em down
And the flag we're flyin' is the new flag of the land
Just join hands
If we could just join hands
If we could just join

With fields aplenty when Heaven sent me
I saw the kings who ruled them all
Still by the firelight and purple moonlight
I hear the rustic river's call

And the wind is cryin' from a love that won't grow cold
My lover, she is lyin' on the dark side of the globe

Could just join hands
If we could just join hands
If we could just join hands, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Do it, ow

You got me rockin' when I oughta be rollin'
Darlin', tell me, darlin', which way to go
Keep me rockin' baby, can you keep me strollin'
Won'tcha tell me, darlin', which way to go, that's right

Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry
and I would dearly like to know
How all this squander of earthly plunder
Will leave us anything to show

And our time is flyin'
See the candle burnin' low
Is the new world risin'
from the shambles of the old

If we could just join hands
If we could just join hands
If we could just, if we could just
If we could just, if we could just
If we could just join hands, hey

That's all it takes, that's all it takes
That's all it takes, that's all it takes
Hey-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, ooh yeah, ah, ah, yeah
That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right

In my time of dying

In my time of dying
Want nobody to mourn
All I want for you to do
Is take my body home.

Well, well, well, so I can die easy
Well, well, well, so I can die easy.

Jesus gotta make up, sure know
Jesus gotta make up
Jesus gonna make up my dyin' bed.

Meet me, Jesus, meet me
Ooh, meet me in the middle of the air
If my wings should fail me, Lord
Oh, please meet me with another pair.

Well, well, well, so I can die easy
Oh-oh, well, well, well, so I can die easy.

Jesus gotta make up, somebody, somebody
Oh, oh, Jesus gotta make up
Jesus gonna make it my dyin' bed.

Oh, Saint Peter, at the gates of heaven
Won't you let me in?
I never did no harm
I never did no wrong.

Oh, oh, Gabriel, oh, let me blow your horn
Let me blow your horn
Oh, I never did no harm
Did no wrong.

I've only been young once
I never thought I'd do anybody no wrong,
No, not once, oh.

Oh, good!

Oh, I did somebody so good
Somebody some good, yeah, I saw.

Oh, did somebody some good, yeah
I musta did somebody some good, yeah
Oh, I believe I did.

I see the smiling faces, yeah
I know there must be lipstick traces, oh.

And I see them in the streets
And I see them in the fields, yeah,
And I hear them under my feet
And I know it's got to be real
Oh, Lord, deliver me
All the wrong I've done
Oh, you can deliver me, Lord, yeah
I only wanted to have some fun.

Oh, hear, the angels marching, marching
They been marching, keep it marching, yeah, marching.

Oh, my Jesus, oh, my Jesus, oh, my Jesus
Oh, my Jesus, oh, my Jesus, oh, my Jesus
Oh, my Jesus, oh, my Jesus, oh, my Jesus
Oh, my Jesus, oh, my Jesus, oh, my Jesus
Oh, my Je... ah-oh, ah, my Je...
Hey, yeah, that's got to be my Jesus
Whoa-whoa!

It's got to be, it's got to be my Jesus
It's got to be, oh
It's got to be my Jesus
Oh, oh, take me home.

Come on, come on
I can hear the angels singing
Oh, here they come, here they come, here they come.

Bye-bye, bye-bye
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
Oh, feels pretty good up here, pretty good up here.

I'll touch Jesus, I'll touch Jesus, I'll touch Jesus
I'll touch Jesus, I'll touch Jesus
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah
Oh, I see him
Come on
Take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, take it,
Take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, take it
Ooh, yes, come on, oh, oh, yeah!

Oh, don't you make it my dyin', dyin', dyin'... cough.

That's gonna be the one, asn't it?
Come 'n have a listen, then.
Oh, yes, thank you.

Houses of the holy

Let me take you to the movies.
Can I take you to the show
Let me be yours ever truly.
Can I make your garden grow

From the houses of the holy,
we can watch the white doves go
From the door comes Satan's daughter,
and it only goes to show. You know.

There's an angel on my shoulder,
In my hand a sword of gold
Let me wander in your garden.
And the seeds of love I'll sow.
You know.

So the world is spinning faster.
Are you dizzy when you stall?
Let the music be your master.
Will you heed the master's call
Oh... Satan man.

Said there ain't no use in crying.
Cause it will only, only drive you mad
Does it hurt to hear them lying?
Was this the only world you had? Oh-oh

So let me take you, take you to the movie.
Can I take you, baby, to the show.
Why don't you let me be yours ever truly.
Can I make your garden grow
You know.

Trampled under foot

Grease me straight down, good electric
I could lay it on the road, mama, it ain't no trick
Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout
Ooh, trouble-free transmission, helps your oil's flow
Mama, let me pump your gas, mama, let me do it all
Talkin' 'bout love, huh, Talkin' 'bout love, ooh, Talkin' 'bout
Take that heavy metal underneath your hood
Baby, I could work all night, leave a big pile of tubes
Talkin' 'bout lo-ove, Talkin' 'bout lo-ove, Talkin' 'bout
Automobile club-covered, really built in style
Special is tradition, mama, let me feast my eyes
Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout
Factory air-conditioned, wind begins to rise
Guaranteed to run for hours, mama, and brand-new tires
Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout
Groovin' on the freeway, blazes on the road
From now on my gasoline is even gonna conk your hair
Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout
I can't stop talkin' about, I can't stop talkin' about
Ooh, yeah-yeah, yes, ah, drive on
Ooh, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yes, I'm comin' through
Come to me for service every hundred miles
Baby, let me check your valves, fix your overdrive
Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout
Ooh, yes, fully automatic, comes in any size
Makes me wonder what I did, before I got synchronized
Talkin' 'bout lo-ove, Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout
Ooh, feather-light suspension, coils just couldn't hold
I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors
Talkin' 'bout love, Talkin' 'bout lo-oo-oh-ove, Talkin' 'bout
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Oh, I can't stop talkin' about love
I can't stop talkin' about love
Ooh, let me go in down, go in down, go in down, go in down, go in down, yes, I can't stop talkin' about
I can't stop talkin' about lo-oh', baby
I can't stop talkin' about love, or my baby
I can't stop talkin' about love, my baby, uh, my baby,
My baby, yeah, Unnh, push, push, push it, push, push

Kashmir

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
with stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space to be where I have been
To sit with elders of a gentle race this world has seldom seen
who talk of days for which they sit and wait
When all will be revealed

Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace
Sounds caress my ear
Though not a word I heard could I relate
The story was quite clear, whoa-oh-hoh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh

Oooh, oh, baby, I've been flyin' No, yeah
Mama cares, ain't no denyin'
Oh, oooh yes, I've been flyin'
My mama, ain't no denyin', no denyin', no

Oh, all I see turns to brown as the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand as I scan this wasted land
Tryin' to find, tryin' to find where I've been, ah-ah, ah-ah

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
like thoughts inside a dream
who hid the path that led me to that place
with yellow desert screen
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again
sure as the dust that blows high in June
when movin' through Kashmir

Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails
Across the sea of years
with no provision but an open face along the straits of fear
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh-hoh, oh, ohh

Whoa, when I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah
When I see, when I see the way you stay, yeah-eah
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down, oh
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, ooh, my baby, let me take you there
Oh, oh, come on, come on, oh, let me take you there
Let me take you there, woo, yeah-yeah, woo, yeah-yeah
Let me take you there
let me take you there

In the light

And if you feel that you can't go on
And your will's sinkin' low
Just believe and you can't go wrong
In the light you will find the road, you will find the road.

Hey, ooh, did you ever believe that I could leave you
Standing out in the cold?
Hey, yeah, baby, I know how it feels 'cause I have slipped through
To the very depths of my soul, yeah.
Oh-whoa, baby, I just wanna show what I'd give you
It is from every bend in the road
Now listen to me
Oh, whoa-whoa, as I was and really would be for you, too, honey
As you would for me,
Oh, I would share your load
Let me share your load
Ooh, let me share, share your load.

And if you feel that you can't go on
In the light you will find the road.

Hey, oh, though the winds of change may blow around you,
But that will always be so
Oh, whoa, whoa, when love is pain, it can devour you
If you are never alone
I would share your load
I would share your load
Baby, let me, oh, let me

In the light
Everybody needs the light, ooh, yeah-yeah
Ooh, baby, everybody, everybody, everybody
Sure 'nuff they do.

Light, light, light, in the light
Light, light, light, in the light, ooh, yeah
Light, light, light, in the light.

Light, light, light, in the light
Light, light, light, in the light, ooh, yeah-yeah
Light, light, light, in the light
Everybody, come on now...

Down by the seaside

Down by the seaside
See the boats go sailin'
Can the people hear, oh
What the little fish are sayin'?

Oh, oh, people turned away
Ah, people turned away.

Down in the city streets
See all the folk go racin', racin'
No time left, no-no
To pass the time of day.

Yea-yea-yeah, ah,
People turned away
People turned away
So far away, so far away.

See how they run, see how they run,
See how they run, see how they run.

Do you still do the twist?
Do you find you remember things that well?
I wanna tell you
Some go twistin' every day
Though sometimes it's awful hard to tell
Ah-huh, ah-huh, ah-huh, oh.

Out in the country
Hear the people singin',
Singin' 'bout their progress,
Knowin' where they're goin'
Yeah, yeah.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, people turned away
Yeah, people turned away.

Sing loud for the sunshine,
Pray hard for the rain
And show your love for Lady Nature
And she will come back again
Yes, she will, yes, she will.

Oh, oh, oh, people turned away
The people turned away.

Don't they know that they're goin'?

Ten years gone

Then as it was, then again it will be
An' though the course may change sometimes
Rivers always reach the sea
Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays
On the wings of maybe, down in birds of prey
Kind of makes me feel sometimes, didn't have to grow
But as the eagle leaves the nest, it's got so far to go

Changes fill my time, baby, that's alright with me
In the midst I think of you, and how it used to be

Did you ever really need somebody, And really need 'em bad
Did you ever really want somebody, The best love you ever had
Do you ever remember me, baby, did it feel so good
'Cause it was just the first time, And you knew you would

Dewy eyes now sparkle, Senses growing keen
Taste your love along the way, See your feathers preen
Kind of makes makes me feel sometimes, Didn't have to grow
We are eagles of one nest, The nest is in our soul

Vixen in my dreams, with great surprise to me
Never thought I'd see your face the way it used to be
Oh darlin', oh darlin'
I'm never gonna leave you. I never gonna leave
Holdin' on, ten years gone
Ten years gone, holdin' on, ten years gone

Night flight

I received a message from my brother across the water
He sat laughin' as he wrote the end's in sight
So I said goodbye to all my friends
And packed my hopes inside a matchbox
'Cause I know it's time to fly.

Oh-oh-oh, yeah, come on, meet me in the morning,
Meet me in the middle of the night
Ah-oh, yeah, the morning light is comin'
Don't it make you wanna go and feel alright?

I just jumped a train that never stops,
So now somehow I'll know I never finished payin' for my ride
Someone pushed a gun into my hand
Tell me I'm the type of man
To fight the fight that I'll require.

Oh-oh-oh, yeah, ha, come on, meet me in the morning
Won't you meet me in the middle of the night, night, night? Yeah
Ho, well, the morning light is comin'
Well, don't it make you wanna kinda feel alright?

Oh, mama, well, I think it's time I'm leavin'
Nothin' here to make me stay
Whoa, mama, well, it must be time I'm goin'
They're knockin' down them doors
They're tryin' to take me away.

Please Mr. Brakeman, won't you ring your bell
And ring loud and clear?
Please Mr. Fireman, won't you ring your bell?
Tell the people they got to fly away from here.

Oh, I once saw a picture of a lady with a baby
Southern lady, have a very, very special smile
We are in the middle of a change in destination
When the train stops, all together we will smile.

Oh-oh-oh, come one, come on now, meet me in the mornin',
Won't you meet me in the middle of the night, night, na-na-night-night?
Ho-ho-yeah, everybody know the mornin' time is comin'
Don't it make you wanna a-feel alright?

Ah, ah, yeah, a-make me feel alright, fly now, baby
I gotta fly, yeah, fly now, baby.

The wanton song

Silent woman, in the night you came
Took my seed from my shaking frame
Same old fire, yeah, another flame
And the wheel rolls on

Silent woman, through the flames you come
From the deep behind the sun
It's my nightmares, my lovin' done
Left me barely holding on

With blazin' eyes see my tremblin' hand
When we know the time has come
Lose my senses, lose command
Feel your healin' rivers run

Is it every time I fall
That I think this is the one
Ooh, in the darkness can you hear me call
Another day has just begun, another day, yeah

Silent woman, my face has changed
Some know ways to come
Feel my fire needs a brand new flame
And the wheel rolls on
Rolls on, rolls on, rolls on, ah

Boogie with stu

Been in town, my baby
We just gotta rock on
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, darlin'
We just gotta go home
I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop
Oh, c'mon, baby, just rock, rock, rock.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, honey
We been shakin' all night
Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa, darlin'
We just gotta roll right
Ah...
Ooh, my head rock on, rock on.

Hey, yeah.

Hey, babe, hey, babe, hey, babe, hey, babe
Hey, babe, hey, babe, hey, babe, hey, babe
I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop
Oh, c'mon, baby, just rock, rock, rock.

Let's go out!

I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop
Oh, come on, baby, just rock, rock, yeah.

Black country woman

Shall we roll it, Jimmy?
We're rolling on, uh -- what, one? No.
One again.
I'm tryin' to get this airplane off.
Nah, leave it, yeah.

Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
You didn't have to tell me that you love me so
You didn't have to love me, mama, let me go
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
You didn't have to make me a total disgrace
You didn't have to leave me with that beer in my face
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
Uh, that's alright, it's awful doggone clear

Hey, hey, baby, why you treat me mean
Oh, oh, baby, why you treat me mean
Aw, baby
You didn't have to crucify me like you did
You didn't have to tell me I was just your kid
Hey, hey, mama, why'd you treat me mean
You didn't have to say you'd always be by my side
You didn't have to tell me you'd be my blushin' bride
Hey, hey, mama, why you treat me mean
But that's alright, I know your sisters too
(Aw, yeah)

You didn't have to tell me that you love me so
You didn't have to leave me, mama, let me go
Hey, hey, mama, what is wrong with you
You didn't have to leave me like a total disgrace
You didn't have to leave me with that beer on my face
Hey, hey, mama, what is wrong with you
Oh, but that's alright, I'd be the same way too
Oh, yeah-yo, go, man, go

Now, my baby, now, you didn't have to crucify me like you did
You didn't have to tell me I was just your kid
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
You didn't have to tell me you would be my own
You didn't have to tell me, "Baby, let me go"
Hey, hey, mama, what is wrong with you
Ah, that's alright, I know your sister too

Oh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah, oh
What's the matter with you, mama

Sick again

From the window of a rented limousine,
I caught your pretty blue eyes.
One day soon you're gonna' reach sixteen,
Painted lady in the city of lies.

Ooh, do you, know my name?
Do I, look the same?
You know I'm the one you want, baby,
I must be the one you need, yeah!

Clutchin' pages from your teenage dream,
In the lobby of the Hotel Paradise.
Through the circus of the L.A. queens,
How fast you learn the downhill slide.

Oh, how you, play the game.
Still don't, know your name.
You know I'm the one you want, baby,
Whooh, yes, I got to be the one you need, need, need, need,
yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah.

Oh, you got to tell me.

Just a minute, just a minute.
Lips like cherries, and the brow of a queen,
Come on, flash across your eyes.
Said you dug me since you were thirteen,
Then you giggle as you heav an' sigh.

Ooh, do 'you, know my name,
Do I, look the same?
Baby, I got to tell you, I'm the one you want,
And everybody knows I'm the one you need, yeah-yeah.

Oh, get it, get it
Come on now
Come on now
Come on now

Hours, hours, with the moments in between,
Oh, baby, how the time flies? I couldn't count the times,
The thought of comin', and the pain in leavin'.
Oh, baby, dry those silver eyes

Oh, do you, know my name?

Do I, look the same?
You know I'm the one you want,
Whoo-ooh, ye-yes, I'm the one you need, yeah-yeah!

Ooh, that's right!
Ooh, yeah, that's right!
Ooh, that's right!
That's right.
That's right.
Oooh, yeah, that's right.
That's right.

Presence

Achilles last stand

It was an April morning when they told us we should go
As I turn to you, you smiled at me
How could we say no?

With all the fun to have, to live the dreams we always had
Oh, the songs to sing, when we at last return again

Sending off a glancing kiss, to those who claim they know
Below the streets that steam and hiss,
The devil's in his hole

Oh to sail away, To sandy lands and other days
Oh to touch the dream, Hides inside and never seen.

Into the sun the south the north, at last the birds have flown
The shackles of commitment fell, In pieces on the ground

Oh to ride the wind, To tread the air above the din
Oh to laugh aloud, Dancing as we fought the crowd

To seek the man whose pointing hand, The giant step unfolds
With guidance from the curving path, That churns up into stone

If one bell should ring, in celebration for a king
So fast the heart should beat, As proud the head with heavy feet.

Days went by when you and I, bathed in eternal summers glow
As far away and distant, Our mutual child did grow

Oh the sweet refrain, Soothes the soul and calms the pain
Oh Albion remains, sleeping now to rise again

Wandering & wandering, What place to rest the search
The mighty arms of Atlas, Hold the heavens from the earth

The mighty arms of Atlas, Hold the heavens from the earth
From the earth...

I know the way, know the way, know the way, know the way
I know the way, know the way, know the way, know the way

Oh the mighty arms of Atlas, Hold the heavens from the earth.

For your life

You said I was the only, with my lemon in your hand (uh-oh, uh-oh)
Exhibition is your habit - emotion second hand (uh-oh, uh-oh)
Had to pull away to save me - maybe next time around
And she said: Don't you wanna - don't you wanna cocai-cocai-cocaine?
Hadn't planned to - could not stand to try it, fry it (na na na na yeah)

Heard a cry for mercy in the city of the damned (uh-oh, baby, damn)
In the pits you go no lower - the next stop's underground (hello underground)
Your wine and roses ain't quite over - fate deals a losing hand
And I said: didn't mean to - did not mean to fail
You didn't plan it - you over-ran it

You wanna do it - you wanna do it when you wanna
You wanna do it - wanna do it - do it when you wanna

When you blow it, baby, you got to blow it right
Oh, if you fake it, mama; baby, fake with all your might
When you fake it, mama, please fake it right (for yourself, baby)
When you f-f-f-fake it, baby, you're fakin' it for your life
For your life, for your life, for your life

Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it when you wanna
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it when you wanna

Oh, I can have you, baby, But I don't know what to do, yeah
Sometime, baby, nothin' I could do

On the balance of the crystal - payin' through the nose
And when they couldn't resist you, I thought you'd go with the flow.
And now your stage is empty, bring down the curtain, baby please.
Fold up your show

Hadn't planned to, Could not stand to fry in it
Hadn't planned it, I over-ran it, (fryin)
For your life, For your life.


Royal Orleans

One-time love,
Take care how you use it
Try to make it last all night
And if you take your pick,
Be careful how you choose it
Sometimes it's hard to feel it bite.

Feel it bite.

A man I know
Went down to Louisiana,
Had himself a bad, bad fight
And when the sun peeked through
John Cameron with Suzanna,
He kissed the whiskers, left and right.

Whiskers!

Now, now, now, fright subsides
Out at a hotel in the quarter,
Our friends check in to pass the night
Now love gets hot,
But fire preceded water
Poor whiskers set the room alight.

Whiskers!

Down on Bourbon Street,
You know, it's right
You can see, my friend,
They run around all through the night
Most everywhere
Until the closet's bare
Run for the razor fun
Doin' up my hair.

New Orleans queens
Sure know how to schmooze it
Maybe for some that seems alright
When I step out,
strut down with my sugar
She'd best not talk like Barry White!

Now one town love,
Take care how you use it
Try to make it last all night
Take your pick
Be careful how you choose it
Sometimes it's hard to feel it bite, ah.


Nobody's fault but mine

Oh, nobody's fault but mine, yeah
Nobody's fault but mine, yeah
Trying to save my soul to light
Oh, it's nobody's fault but mine

Devil he told me to roll-ah
The devil he told me to roll-oll-oll-oll
How to roll the line tonight
Nobody's fault but mine

Brother, show me the door
Brother, show me the ding dong ding dong
I will get down rolling tonight
Oh, it's nobody's fault but mine

Gotta monkey on my back
The m-m-m-m-monkey on my back, back, back, back
Gonna change my ways tonight
Nobody's fault but mine

I will get down rolling tonight
Nobody's fault but mine


Candy store rock

Well... Oh baby baby. Don't you want a man like me?
Oh baby baby, I'm just as sweet as anybody could be
Oh baby baby, I want to look to your eyes, of blue
Oh baby baby, It's more than anybody else could do

Well... Oh baby baby. You know when I see you walkin down the street
Oh baby baby, Well you lookin good enough to eat
Oh baby baby, I dont believe I've tasted this before
Oh baby baby, I want it now
And every mouthfull more of you.

Talk about you, Yeah.

Oh baby baby, You know that I wanted it more
Oh baby baby, I'm about to kiss goodbye to this store
Oh baby baby, It ain't the wrapping that sells the goods
Oh baby baby, I got a sweet tooth when my mouth is full of you.

Ooh baby oh baby its alright, its alright
Ohh baby its alright... its alright

Well, oh baby, baby, oh you sting like a bee
Oh baby, baby, I like your honey and it sure likes me
Oh baby, baby, I got my spoon inside your jar
Oh baby, baby, don't give me too much, don't make me starve

Oh baby, baby, sugar sister on a silver plate
Oh baby, baby, I need a mouthful and I just can't wait
Oh baby, baby, see the shaking in my hand
Oh baby, baby, don't mean to fumble but it tastes so grand
Tastes so grand, tastes so grand, baby it's alright

Oh baby it's alright, oh it's alright
It's alright... (repeat)

Hots on for nowhere

I was burned in the heat of the moment
No, it coulda been the heat of the day
When I learned how my time had been wasted,
Dear fellows, I turned away.

Now I've got friends who will give me their shoulder
When I should happen to fall
The timing is right growin' older
I've got friends who will give me fuck fall.

La la la la la la, yeah,
La la la la la na na, my baby
La la la la la la, yeah,
La la la la la la.

The corner of Bleeker and nowhere
In the land of not quite day
A shiver runs down my backbone
Face in the mirror turns grey.

So I looked 'round to hitch up the reindeer
Searching hard trying to brighten the day
I turned around to look for the snowman
To my surprise he'd melted away, yeah.

La la la la la la, yeah,
La la la la la na na, my baby
La la la la la la, yeah,
La la la la la la.

As the moon and the stars call the order
Inside my tides dance the ebb and sway
The sun in my soul's sinking lower
While the hope in my hands turns to clay.

I don't ask that my field's full of clover
I don't moan at opportunity's door
And if you ask my advice, take it slower
Then your story'd be your finest reward.

La la la la la la, yeah,
La la la la la na na, my baby
La la la la la la, yeah,
La la la la la la
Now do it.

Lost on the path to attainment
Search in the eyes of the wise
When I bled from the heart of the matter
I started bleeding without a disguise.

Now everything's fine under heaven
Now and then you've got to take time to pause
When you're down on the ground, don't be messin' around
You can land in a boat without oars.

La la la la la la, yeah,
La la la la la na na, my baby
La la la la la la, yeah,
La la la la la la.

Hey, babe, oh, hey, babe, oh, hey, babe,
I lost my way.

Hey, babe, oh, hey, babe, oh,
I really, really did.

Hey, babe, oh, hey, babe, oh,
I don't know where I'm gonna find it.

Hey, babe, oh, hey, babe, oh,
Do you wanna know?
Do you really, really wanna help me, yeah?

Let me tell you now, babe
Oh, let me tell you, oh
That it feels so good, that it must be right.

Come on, babe
Oh, let me tell you
If it feels so good, then it must be right.

Come on, babe
Oh, let me tell you, oh
If it feels, if it feels, if it feels, if it feels
So good, oh, so good, oh, so good
Oh, yes.

Tea for one

How come twenty four hours, Baby sometimes seem to slip into days?
Oh twenty-four hours, Baby sometimes seem to slip into days
A minute seems like a lifetime, baby when I feel this way
Sittin, lookin at the clock, time moves so slow
I've been watchin for the hands to move
Until I just can't look no more
How come twenty four hours, Baby sometimes seems to slip into days?
A minute seems like a lifetime, Baby when I feel this way.

To sing a song for you, I recall you used to say
"Oh baby this one's for we two", Which in the end is you anyway

How come twenty four hours, Baby sometimes slip into days?
A minute seems like a lifetime, baby when I feel this way.

There was a time that I stood tall, In the eyes of other men
But by my own choice I left you woman, And now I can't get back again

How come twenty-four hours, sometimes slip into days?
A minute seems like a lifetime, Baby when I feel this way
A minute seems like a lifetime
When I feel this way... I feel this way

In through the out door

In the evening

In the evening
When the day is done,
I'm looking for a woman,
Oh, but the girl don't come
So don't let her
Play you for a fool
She don't show no pity baby,
No, no, she don't make no rules.

Oh, oh, I need your love
I need your love
Oh, I need your love
I just gotta have.

So don't you let her,
Oh, get under your skin
It's only bad luck and trouble,
Oh, from the day that you begin
I hear you crying in the darkness,
No, don't ask nobody's help
Oh, ain't no pockets full of mercy baby,
'Cause you can only blame yourself.

Oh, I need your love
Oh, oh, I need your love
Ooh, yeah, I need your love
I've gotta have.

Ooh, it's simple
All the pain that you go through
You can turn away from fortune, fortune, fortune,
'Cause that's all that's left to you
Hey, it's lonely at the bottom
Man, it's dizzy at the top
But if you're standing in the middle, oh,
Ain't no way you're gonna stop.

Oh, baby
Oh, oh, I need your love
Oh, oh, I need your love
Oh, oh, I need your love
I've got to have.

Ooh, whatever
That your days may bring
No use hiding in a corner, oh, no
'Cause that won't change a thing
If you're dancing in the doldrums,
One day soon it's got to stop, it's got to stop
When you're the master of the off-chance,
Well, you don't expect a lot, oh.

Oh, I need your love
Oh, oh, I need your love
Ooh, yeah, I need your love,
I've got to have, I've got to have.

Baby, I've got to have your love
I've got to have
Oh, baby, I've got to have your love, whoa
Oh, oh, oh, oh, I've got to have your love
Just got, I've just got
I've just got to have your love
Oh, oh, oh...


South bound saurez

Baby, when you walk that sweet walk
Oh, you walk it good, yes you walk it good
I said, baby, when you talk that sweet talk
It sounds so good, oh, so good.

With a little bit of concentration
And a little bit of helpin' hands, yeah
And a little bit of raving madness
You know, it makes me feel, baby
Both my feet are back on the ground.

And when the rhythm takes me
It feels so good, oh, so good
Baby, if it keeps a-shaking
It will do you good, oh so much good

With a little bit of stop-a-shakin', shakin'
And a little bit of slow right down
And a little bit of sweet con-carne
It makes me feel, makes me feel, yeah
I got my feet on the ground.

Ooh, now, baby, when you move, it makes me, yeah
A-really feel so good, oh, so good
And I'm so glad, so glad, so glad, so glad
And I'm good, oh, so good.

With a little bit of, ooh, ah, concentration
Just a little bit of a-helping hand, yeah
With a little bit of raving madness
It makes me feel, oh, it makes me feel
Like I'm back on the ground, oh, yes, it sure does.

It makes me feel, hey, yeah
Back on the ground.

Saurez! Saurez!
Baby, baby, you back on the ground, yeah.

I'm good, yeah
I'm feeling good, yeah, hey
I'm feeling good, yeah
I'm feeling good yeah, hey.

Down on the ground
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)
I'm feelin' good, yeah
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la)
I feel good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la)
I feel good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la).

I'm feelin' good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la)
I'm feelin' good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la,
Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la,
Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la).

(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la,
Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la)
I feel good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la)
I feel good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la).

I feel good yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la,
Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la)
Suarez
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la)
Suarez
(Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la)
Suarez
(Sha-la-la-la)...


Fool in the rain

Oh baby

Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shinin'
Like a star that can't wait for night.
I hate to think I been blinded baby.
Why can't I see you tonight?
An' the warmth of your smile starts a burnin'
An' the thrill of your touch give me fright
And I'm shakin' so much, really yearnin'.
Why don't you show up and make it alright-yeah?
It's alright-right.

And if you promised you'd love so completely
An' you said you would always be true
You swore that you never would leave me baby
Whatever happened to you?
An' you thought it was only in movies
As you wish all your dreams would come true, hey.
It ain't the first time believe me baby
I'm standin' here feelin' blu_e, blue-hah!.
Baby I'm blue.

Oh babe

Now I will stand in the rain on the corner
I watch the people go shufflin' downtown.
A-nother ten minutes no longer
An' then I'm turnin' around 'round.
An' the clock on the wall's movin' slower
Oh my heart it sinks to the ground
An' the storm that I thought would blow over
Clouds the light of the love that I found, found.

Light of the love that I found.
Light of the love that I found.
Oh that I found.

Hey babe.

Oooh hand that ticks on the clock
Just don't seem to stop
When I'm thinking it over.

Oooh tired of the light
I just don't seem to find.
Have you wait, yeah played.

Whoah oooh, I see it in my dreams
But I just don't seem to be with you, you
I gotta get it all, gotta get it all, gotta get it all
I've got to get all.

Ooh now my body is starting to quiver
An' the palms of my hands gettin' wet oh.
I got no reason to doubt you baby
It's all a terrible mess.
An' I'll run in the rain 'til I'm breathless
When I'm breathless I'll run 'til I drop, hey!
An' the thoughts of a fool's gotta count
I'm just a fool waitin' on the wrong block ohh-yeah.
Hey now. Ohhhhoh hohh.
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I ...
Light of the love that I found
Light of the hey now
Light of the hey now
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found

Hot dog

Well I just got into town today
To find my girl who's gone away
She took the Greyhound at the General Store
I searched myself I searched the town
When I finally did sit down
I find myself no wiser than before
She said we couldn't do no wrong
No other love could be so strong
She locked up my heart in her bottom drawer
Now she took my heart she took my keys
>From in my old blue dungarees
And I'll never go to Texas anymore
Now my baby's gone I don't know what to do
She took my love and walked right out the door
And if I ever find that girl I know one thing for sure
I'm gonna give her something like she never had before
I took her love at seventeen
A little late these days it seems
But they said heaven is well worth waiting for
I took her word I took it all
Beneath the sign that said U-haul
She left angels hangin round for more
Now my baby's gone I don't know what to do
She took my love and walked right out the door
And if I ever find that girl I know one thing for sure
I'm gonna give her something like she never had before
I thought I had it all sewn up
Our love, a plot, a pick-up truck
But folks said she was after something more
I never did quite understand
All that talk about rockin' bands
But they just rolled my doll right out the door
Oh yeah, they just rolled my doll right out the door!

Carouselambra

Sisters of the way-side bide their time in quiet peace,
Await their place within the ring of calm;
Still stand to turn in seconds of release,
Await the call they know may never come.
In times of lightness, no intruder dared upon
To jeopardize the course, upset the run;
And all was joy and hands were raised toward the sun
As love in the halls of plenty overrun.

Ah, ah, ah, ah.

Still in their bliss unchallenged mighty feast,
Unending dances shadowed on the day.
Within their walls, their daunting formless keep,
Preserved their joy and kept their doubts at bay.
Faceless legions stood in readiness to weep,
Just turn a coin, bring order to the fray;
And everything is soon no sooner thought than deed,
But no one seemed to question in anyway.

Ah, ah, ah, ah.

How keen the storied hunter's eye prevails upon the land
To seek the unsuspecting and the weak;
And powerless the fabled sat, too smug to lift a hand
Toward the foe that threatened from the deep.
Who cares to dry the cheeks of those who saddened stand
Adrift upon a sea of futile speech?
And to fall to fate and make the 'status plan'
And the Lord there in heaven would never preach.

I'm singin',
Ah, ah, ah, ah.

Where was your word, where did you go?
Where was your helping, where was your bow? Bow.

Dull is the armor, cold is the day.
Hard was the journey, dark was the way. Way.

I heard the word; I couldn't stay. Oh.
I couldn't stand it another day, another day,
Another day-ay, day-ay, another day, another day.

Touched by the timely coming,
Roused from the keeper's sleep,
Release the grip, throw down the key.

Held now within the knowing,
Rest now within the peace.
Take of the fruit, but guard the seed.

They had to stay!

Held now within the knowing,
Rest now within the beat.
Take of the fruit, but guard the seed.

Oh, take of the fruit, but guard the seed.

All my love

Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light
To chase a feather in the wind
Within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight
There moves a thread that has no end.

For many hours and days that pass ever soon
The tides have caused the flame to dim
At last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom
Is this to end or just begin?

All of my love, all of my love
Oh, all of my love to you now
All of my love, all of my love
Oh, all of my love to you now.

The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again
One voice is clear above the din
Proud Aryan one word, my will to sustain
For me, the cloth once more to spin.

Oh, all of my love, all of my love
Oh, all of my love for you now
All of my love, all of my love
Yes, all of my love to you, child.

Yours is the cloth, mine is the hand that sews time
His is the force that lies within
Ours is the fire, all the warmth we can find
He is a feather in the wind.

Oh, all of my love, all of my love
Oh, all of my love to you now
All of my love, oh-oh
Yes, all of my love to you now.

All of my love, all of my love
All of my love, love
Sometimes, sometimes, alright
Sometimes, sometimes, oh, all
Hey-hey-hey, hey-hey-hey
Ooh, ooh, yeah,
It's, all, all, all, all, all of my love, all of my love
All of my love to you now
All of my love, all of my love
All of my love
To, to you and you and you and you and yeah
I get a little bit lonely, just a little, just a little
Just a little bit lonely, just a little bit lonely
Hey, hey, hey, hey...


I'm gonna crawl

Oh, she's my baby,
Let me tell you why
Hey, she drives me crazy
She's the apple of my eye
'Cause she is my girl
And she can never do wrong
If I dream too much at night,
Somebody please bring me down.

Hey, I love that little lady
I got to be her fool
Ain't no other like my baby,
I can break the golden rule
'Cause I get down on my knees,
Oh, I pray that love won't die
And if I always try to please,
I don't know the reason why, yeah.

If she would come back,
Only stay with me
Every little bit, every little bit
Every little bit of my love
I give to you, girl
Every little bit, every little bit
Every little bit, every little bit of my love.

Hit me!

I don't have to go by plane
I ain't gotta go by car
I don't care just where my darling is
People I just don't care how far.

I'm gonna crawl
I'm gonna crawl
Ah, hooh-hooh
I don't wanna crawl, baby
Ah, say-yeah-hey-yeah-hey.

She give me good love, yeah
She give me good lovin'
She give me good love, yeah
She give my good lovin'
My baby give me good lovin'
Ooh, yes, I love her, I guess I love her
Yes, I love her
I wanna crawl.

Coda

We're gonna groove

See my baby comin' down the track
Mm-betcha my baby's comin' back
Someday she get back to me
Whoa, and we gonna raise a family.

We're gonna groove, yeah, groove
And we're gonna groove, whoa
Well, my baby, we're gonna love, love, love
Until the break of day.

Sweet as sweet as sweet can be
You don't know what you do to me
A-let me say you're my one desire
You just set my soul on fire.

And we're gonna groove, a-yeah, groove
And we're gonna groove, baby, babe, baby
We're gonna love, a-love, love, love
Until the break of day.

Sweet as sweet as sweet can be
Lemme tell you, you don't know whatcha do to me
A-you just set my soul on fire
A-woman, you know you're my one desire,
My one desire, my one.

We're gonna groove
Whoa, we gonna groove
We're gonna groove, yeah
And we're gonna love, love, love
Until the break of day.

We're gonna groove, yeah, groove,
And we're gonna groove
A-lonely, mama, yeah.

Poor Tom

Here's a tale of Tom
Who worked the rivers run
His wife would cook his meals,
As he would check the wheels.

Singin' poor Tom, Seventh Son,
Always knew what's goin on.

Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
And there ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom.

He worked for thirty years
Sharin' hopes 'n' fears
Dreamin' of the day
He could turn and say

Poor Tom, work's gone,
Lazin' out in the noonday sun.

Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
And there ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom.

His wife was Emmie May
One of many games she played
When Tom was out of town,
She couldn't keep her dresses down.

A-poor Tom, Seventh Son,
Always knew what's goin on.

Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
And there ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom.

And so it was one day
People got to Emmie May
A-Tom took a gun in his hand
And stopped all the runnin' around.

Poor Tom, Seventh Son,
Gotta die for what you've done.

All those years of work are thrown away.
To ease your mind, is that all you can say?
But what about that grandson on your knee?
And then wrote songs as well as he could be.

Ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom
And there ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom
And there ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom
And there ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom.

Hey
Keep-a truckin',
Keep-a truckin'
Yeah.


Walter's walk

Oh, know I feel's so strange lookin' at the door
Ah-oh, tryin' hard to change and can't let go
Oh, cryin' tears of pain hurtin' more an' more
Oh, every day's the same as you walk the floor.

I'm walkin' the floor over you
I'm walkin' the floor.

Every heart that breaks is a heart that's cold
Oh, to the hand that takes your dreamless soul
Ah, is it long to wait, is there much to pay?
Oh-ah, sometimes it's hard waitin' the day.

You know, it's hard, I said it's hard, you know, it's true
I said it's hard, you know, it's hard, still know it's true.

Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost.
When you hear the call, can you count the cost?
And you stand alone, do you wonder how?
Can you step aside; does it matter now?

Every love that's changed (every love that's changed)
Spend it fully (spend it fully)
In the eyes of the night (in the eyes of the night),
Was it hard to see (was it hard to see)?
If it never fails (if it never), in spite of it all (all),
So you hide in the tears, enter Walter's walk.

Know it's true now
You know, it's true now, woo, yeah.

I'm walkin' the floor over you
I'm walking the floor.

Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost.
When you hear the call, can you count the cost?
As you stand alone, do you wonder how?
Can you step aside? Does it matter now?

Does it matter now?
Does it?
Now does it matter?
Now does it matter?

Ooh, yeah!
Ooh, yeah!
Ooh, little baby, don't you know?

Every tear that falls, does it matter now?
Does it matter now? Oh, yeah!
Oh, yeah! Oh, yes! Oh, yes!


Ozone baby

I hear you knock on my door
I ain't been saving this scene for you honey
Don't wantcha ringin my bell
It's too late for you to be my honey

Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love

Don't want you wasting my time
Tired of you doing the things that you do
It's no use standing in line
Follow the line, you better follow queue

I say, ooooh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
I say, ooooh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love

I could sail a river run dead,
But I know it's dead
I could I wish for a million, yeah.
But I know it's dead
I could cry within the darkness,
I sail away
I save a lifetime forever
But you know, you know, you know what I say

And I say Ooh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love

Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
My own true love
My own true love
My own true love
My own true love

And I say Ooh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love

Oh, it's my love
Oh, it's my own true love
My own

Darlene

Oh, yeah!

A-Darlene
Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, Darlene
Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, Darlene
Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, yeah!

Darlene
Oh-oh, Darlene
Oh-oh-oh, Darlene
Ooh-ooh-ooh
C'mon, baby, give a me, me some.

When I see you at that dance
With your tight dress on
What you got, it sure is fine
I wanna get me some.

Darlene
Ooh, baby, baby, Darlene
Ah, be my baby, Darlene
Oh, come on, baby
Come on, come on, come on, my babe.

Darlene
Ooh, ooh, Darlene
Hey, hey, Darlene
Oh, oh,
Come back 'n' be my, mmm, sweet little girl.

When I see you on the street
It makes my heart go flitter
I see you walkin' with all those guys
It makes me feel so sick.

Now I don't care what people say
And I don't care what they do
Sweet child, I gotta make you mine
You're the only thing that I want: you, yeah.

And, baby, baby, when you walk down the block
See the people fight
Whoa, child, y'know you drive me wild
I gotta do it with you, come on try.

Ooh, baby, I got my car
I'll take you where it's fine
I'm gonna take you every place
D'you wanna boogie-woogie-woogie-woogie-woogie that's fine?

I'm gonna boogie, Darlene
I'm gonna make you, my girl
I'm gonna boogie, ah, Darlene
I'm gonna send you in another world.

'Cause I love, ah, Darlene
And I love you, yes, I do
I've been savin' all my money
I've been workin' all day long
I gotta give it all back to you.

Oh, but I love you, Darlene
Yes, I love you, yes, I do
I've been workin', it's true
I've been workin' every day
I've been tryin' a-get it home to you.

And I love you, Darlene
Yes, I love you, I do
I got a pink carnation and a pickup truck
A-savin' it all for you.

Oh, I love you!

Go!

Go, go, go, go, go!

Oh...


Wearing and tearing

It starts out like a murmur
Then it grows like thunder
Until it bursts inside of you
Try to hold it steady
Wait until you're ready
Any second now will do
Throw the door wide open
Not a word is spoken
Anything that you want to do

You know, you know, you know...

Don't you feel the same way?
Don't you feel the same way?
But you don't know what to do
No time for hesitatin'
Ain't no time for hesitatin'
All you got to do is move
They say you're feeling blue, well
I just found a cure
It's a thing you gotta do, yeah

You know, you know, you know...

Now listen: You say your body's aching?
I know that it's aching
Chill bumps come up on you
Yeah, the funny fool
I love the funny fool
? Just like foolin' after school?
And then you ask for medication
Who cares for medication
When you've worn away the cure

You know, you know, you know...
Go back to the country
Yeah, go back to the country
Feel a change is good for you
When you keep convincin'
Ah, don't keep convincin'
What's that creeping up behind a you?
It's just an old friend
It's just an old friend
And what's that he's got for you?

You know, you know, you know...

Do your dance do your dance do your dance
Oh, medication. Medication! Medication!

Non Albums Tracks

Around and around

( Chuck Berry )

I say the joint was rockin'
a goin' 'round and round
Yeah reelin' and a rockin' what a crazy sound
Well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down

Twelve o'clock
Well the place as packed
Front doors was locked
Well the place was packed
When the police knocked
Both doors flew back
But they kept on rocking

Rockin' Going 'Round and around
Yeah reelin' and a rockin' what a crazy sound
A well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down

Oh it sounds so sweet I gotta take me a chance
Rose out of my seat I just had to dance
Started movin' my feet well a clappin' my hands
Well the joint started

Rockin' Going 'Round and around
Yeah reelin' and a rockin' what a crazy sound
A well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down

Twelve o'clock
Well the place as packed
Oh twelve o'clock
Well the place was packed
When the police knocked
Ouh Both doors flew back
Mama they kept on rocking

Rockin' Going 'Round and around
Yeah reelin' and a rockin' what a crazy sound
They never stopped never stopped never stopped never stopped never stopped
Rockin' till the moon went down...


Baby Come On Home

There was a time
I used to call you all my very own.
We were so happy woman,
Talkin' for hours an' hours on the telephone.
An' then one day
I said you up'd and walked-a righta outa my life,
Leavin' me all by myself,
All alone to cry every night.

Babe, babe, babe
Whoah,
Come on home.
I want you to come back home yeah.
Ohhh yeah.
Sweet little girl ahh,
You been gone too long.
You been away so long

Now listen to me.

I said I made up my mind,
A-woman when you left me there oh.
I was gonna find another sweet lover
A-gonna feel all-a-my, all-a-my, all-a-my care.
So I met a sweet little girl,
Just about as nice as she could be ahh.
I fell in love with that woman
But she turned around and did the same
thing again to me ohh~ohh.

Babe, Oh! babe, babe
Baby, baby
Come on home.
Please come home ho__ yeah, it's alright.
Ohhh yeah.
I know
You been gone too long.
You been away so long.

Babe, babe, babe
I want you to please
Come on home.
Come home ohh.
Ohhh yeah.
You been gone too long.

So I made up my mind:
I'm gonna crawl right back to you woman,
I'm gonna plead and plead and plead yeah,
'Til you're here by my side.
I can't even walk down the same
Old streets we used to walk down
'Cause I keep thinkin' 'bout all the good times.
Keep thinkin' 'bout it, I wanna make you mine.

Ohh babe,
Babe, babe, babe, babe babe
Please
Come on home. come home yeah.
Ohhh yeah.
You been gone too long.

I want you to ohh-ah,
Babe, babe, babe
I want you to come back runnin'
Come on home.
Home to me woman.
Ohhh yeah.
I want you to sing about
when we walked through the trees together.
You been gone too long.
You know we had such a real good time.

Whoah, here they come!

Babe, babe, babe
I believe it's always callin'.
Can you feel the brown leaf against your face?
You oughta sing and shout and say
Ohhh yeah.
Baby, baby, baby
You been gone too long.
I want you to come home.

C’mon Everybody

(Eddie Cochran / Jerry Capehart)

Well c'mon everybody and let's get together tonight
I got some money in my jeans and I'm really gonna spend it right
Well been a-doin' my homework all week long
And now the house is empty and my folks have gone
Oh c'mon everybody

Well my baby's number one but I'm gonna dance with three or four
And the house'll be a-shakin' from the bare feet a-slappin' on the floor
When you hear that music you can't sit still
If your brother won't rock you then your sister will
Oh c'mon everybody

Well we'll really have a party but we gotta put a guard outside
If the folks come home I'm afraid they're gonna have my hide
They'll be no more movies for a week or two
No more runnin' round with the usual crew
Who cares, c'mon everybody
C'mon everybody

Hey Hey What Can I Do

Wanna tell you 'bout the girl I love.
My, she looks so fine
An' she's the only one that I've been dreamin' of,
Maybe someday she will be all mine.
I wanna tell her that I love her so,
I thrill with her every touch,
I need to tell her she's the only one I really lo__ve.

I got a woman, wan' ball all day.
I got a woman, she won't be true no.
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time.
I said I got a little woman and she won't be true.

On Sunday mornin' when we go down to church
See the menfolk standin' in line.
Don't say they come to pray to the Lord
But when my little girl looks so fine.
An' in the evenin' when the sun is sinkin' low
Everybody's with the one they love.
I walk the town, keep-a searchin' all around,
Lookin' for my street corner girl.

I got a woman, wan' ball all day yeah.
I got a woman, she won't be true no, no.
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time.
I said I got a little woman and she won't be true.

An' in the bars with the men who play guitars,
Singin', drinkin' and rememberin' the time,
A-my little lover does a midnight shift,
She fool around-a all 'a' the time.
I guess there's just one thing then left for me to do:
Gonna pack my bags an' move on my way
A-'cause I got a worried mind sharin' what I thought was mine.
Gonna leave her where the guitars play.

I got a woman, she won't be true no, no.
I got a woman, wanna ball all day-yeah-yeah now, now.
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time.
I got a little woman and she won't be true.

Hey, hey what can I do?
I said she wont be true no. Yeah-no, yeah-no,
Whoah-ho what can I say?
Yeah-no, yeah-no. [ Ahhh__ ]

Hey, hey what can I do?
[ __hhh__ ] Keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin',
&nbspkeep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin'.
Whoah-ho what can I say?
[ __hhh. ] She wanna ball.

Hey, hey what can I do?
A-keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin', keep ballin',
&nbspkeep ballin' yeah, yeah.
Whoah-ho what can I say?
A-boogie, a-boogie chillun'. A-boogie, a-boogie chillun'.

Hey, hey what can I do?
Hahh-yeah, ah-yeah, ah-yeah, ah-yeah.
Whoah-ho what can I say?
Hey, hey what can I do? I got a woman, she won't be true.

Hey, hey what can I do?
Ah-whoah~whoah~whoah hear what I say.
I got a woman, wanna ball all day.
Whoah-ho what can I say?
Keep ballin', keep ballin'

Who__ahhh-ho-ho-ho-ho.
Hey, hey what can I do?
Ooh.

Hush little baby

Hush little baby
Don't you cry
Papa's gonna sing you a lullaby

Hush little baby
Don't say a word
Papa's gonna bring you baby a mocking bird

And if that mocking bird won't sing well
Papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring

If that ring don't shine
It would break this heart of mine

I gotta move

I told you baby
Long time ago
I don't want no woman
Baby, mess around my door
I gotta move
Baby, baby, baby, I got to move
I don't want you messin' woman
I don't want your foolin' round with me.

Hey.
I told you baby
Once upon a time
You would be my woman
Said oh, you'll be mine
But that is alright
That's alright, alright
Whoa that is alright baby
Treat me wrong tonight.

Whoa, don't want you baby
Always foolin' round with me
Oh no no no no
I don't want my baby
Always foolin' round with me
She tries to make me leave her
Always get away from me.

I'll never get over you

I'll never get over you
No I'll never get over you
I just can't ( ? )
( ? ) see her anymore
Whoah no no

It wasn't so long ago
That you told me you love me so
Then you went and said goodbye
And found another guy
I, I, I, I

I know someday
Somewhere I'll find
One love to take your place
One love to take your place

But in the meantime

I'll never get over you
No I'll never get over you
I just can't ( ? )
( ? ) see her anymore
Whoah no no

I'm a man

I see the writing
On the wall
I see you baby
Gonna make you feel small
Sweet darlin'
Ooh you gotta be mine
I'm gonna love you baby
For about a hours time

Cause I'm a man
Spelled M
Spelled A
Spelled N
Yes I'm a man
I'm a man
Oooh

I was motivated
Back in town
I saw a cadillac sign sayin'
No money down
So I eased my breaks
And I pulled in my Ford
I've gotta have that car
I go ridin' down the road

Mmm let me say it again
Ahh yeah let me tell you again

When I was a little boy
A-not but five years old
A-my mother told me son
A-you got a lotta lovin' in the fold
'Cause you gonna be a man
A-you're gonna be a man
A-you're gonna be a man, a you're gonna be be be a man

I'm moving on

I told my baby once upon a time
You will be yours mama
I will be mine
Well that's alright
Ooh well I mean that's alright
Every now and then I wonder
Who's ( ? )

I told you baby long time ago
I need you mama
Well don't be slow
Well that's alright
Don't love me no more that's alright
Every now and then I wonder
Who's ( ? )

Well that big big wheel rollin' down the track
Need a true lovin' daddy
Ain't drive you mad

I'm movin' on
Yeah I'm movin' on
( ? )
I'm movin' on oh

Warned you baby from time to time
You just don't listen
( ? )

I'm movin' on
I keep movin' on
I'm through with you too bad you're blue
Well I'm movin' on

Hey!

I've got a girl

I gotta tell you 'bout my baby
She's found another man
Gonna tell you 'bout my baby
She's found some other man
I know she don't love me
I think you will understand

I've got a girl, lives upon a hill
I've got a girl, and she lives upon a hill
I know she don't love me
But I beleive her sister will

Rollin' feet rollin' all day long
Rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' all day long
I keep on rollin' baby
Ooh

Let's have a party

Some people like to rock
Some people like to roll
But movin' and-a groovin' gonna
Satisfy my soul

Let's have a party
Let's have a party
Send 'im to the store let's
By some more
Let's have a party tonight

I never kissed ( ? )
I never kissed ( ? )
But I can shake it shake it in the
( ? )

Honky tonky Joe
Is knockin' at the door
So bring 'im in and fill 'im up
And send 'im ( ? )

We're gonna have
A party
Tonight yeah whoah whoah

Love me like a hurricane

You know it hurts so much
C'mon and please me
You know I need your tender touch

Love me like a hurricane
And then you start to ( ? )
You tell me that you'll come on over
Then you say you won't
Love me like a hurricane
And then you start to ( ? )
I'll give it to you straight right now
Please

Oh please don't tease me
You know it hurts so much
C'mon and squeeze me
You know I need your tender touch

Tell me that you love me babe
Then you say you don't
You tell me that you'll come on over
Then you say you won't

Move on down the line

You gonna be my lover baby
You ain't gonna stop
I'm gonna give you real good love
Gonna drive ( ? )

Well move, move on down the line
I'm gonna do right, do right all the time

Well I'm gonna move on down the line
I'm gonna get this girl to be mine
She'll be cool and she'll be tall
( ? ) we gotta go

Mystery train

Train I ride 16 coaches long
Train I ride 16 coaches long
Well that big black train
Took my baby along

Train, train movin' round the bend
Train, train movin' round the bend, round the bend
Well he took my baby
But he never will again

Nadine

( Chuck Berry )

I got on a city bus and found a vacant seat,
I thought I saw my future bride walking up the street,
I shouted to the driver hey conductor, you must slow down.
I think I see her please let me off this bus

Nadine, honey is that you?
Oh, Nadine. Honey, is that you?
Seems like every time I see you Darling you got something else to do

Downtown searching for her, looking all around.
See you coming to me, here we yellow cab,
She move around, look, go go. (?)

Oh Honey is that you ?

Shaking all over

When you move right up close to me
That's when I get shakes all over me

Quivers down my backbone
I got the shakes in my kneebone
I got the ( ? ) in my ( ? ) bone
Shakin' all over

When you move and say goodnight to me
That's when I get shakes all over me

Sittin' here thinkin'

You said you want to love my baby
But now you changed your mind
You said you're gonna be true babe
Until the end of time
Then you started messin' round with me baby
Tryin' to do lovin' daddy no good
Since you've been bad with my lovin' baby
I don't think I'm gonna move into your neighbourhood.

Eh, I don't need no grocery boy
I'm gonna fetch them ev'ry day
I don't want no grocery boy
You gotta keep that boy, keep that boy away.

I've been sittin' here thinkin'
About that baby, baby, on my mind.
Well, I've been lovin' you baby
But, Oh baby, always treat me unkind.

I'll buy you fur coat for Christmas
And a diamond ring
No matter how you treat me baby
I can hear my lonely heart sing
Yeah. I been sittin' here thinkin' baby
I've been missin' her, thinkin' about
That baby on my mind.
I've gotta leave you baby
Babe, woman you been, uah-ha-ha, aha-ha-ha,
She's been sittin' here thinkin'
About that baby, on my mind.
Whoa-whoa-whoa.

Somethin' else

( Eddie Cochran Cover )

Oh, look over there
Here she comes
Here comes that girl again
One that I know since I don't know when
But she don't notice me, when I pass
She goes with all the guys who are out of my class
But that can't stop me from thinkin' to myself
She's sure fine lookin' man, she's something else.

Hey, look over there
Across the street
There's a car just right for me
Took on a quality of luxery
But right now I can't afford the gas
I guessthe cars right out of my class
But that can't stop me from thinkin' to myself
That cars fine lookin' man, it something else.

Hey, look-a here
Just wait and see
I'm gonna work hard and save my dough
Gonna buy the car
Get me that girl and go ridin' around
We'll go to the shop a right block down
I'll keep on right on dreamin' and thinkin' to myself
If it all comes true man, wow, that's something else.

Look a-here
What's all this
Never thought I'd do this before
But here I am a-knockin' on a door
My cars out front
And it's all mine
Justa 41 Ford not a 59
I've got that girl and I'm a thinkin' to myself
She's sure fine lookin' man, wow, she's something else.

Stand by me

( Ben E.King / J. Leiber - L. Stoller )

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No, I won't be afraid
No, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me

So darling, darling,
Stand by me,
Oh, stand by me
Oh, stand,
Stand by me
Stand by me

If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
Or the mountains should crumble in the sea
I won't be afraid
I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me

So darling, darling,
Stand by me,
Oh, stand by me
Oh, stand,
Stand by me
Stand by me...

Sugar mama

Sugar mama, sugar mama, sugar mama,
Where you been?
Sugar mama, sugar mama, sugar mama,
Where you been?
Sugar mama!

Say you love me sugar mama
I'll never let you go

Sugar mama, sugar mama, sugar mama,
Love you babe
Sugar mama, sugar mama, sugar mama,
Drive me insane
Sugar mama gonna love you all I can

Say you love me sugar mama
I'll never let you go

Say you love me sugar mama
I'll never let you go

Say you love me sugar mama
I'll never let you go

Sunshine woman

I've got a baby y'know
She treats me fine
I've got a little woman wanna give me but her
A-give it all the time (?)

(?) baby
She's nice and kind to me
A-give me breakfast in the mornin' you know she
Also makes my tea

Let's go!

She got a little diamond
Shine like gold
Got a mortgage on my body
Got a lien on my soul

When my baby walks you know
Her front teeth they shine like gold, they do
Well-a you know she shine like diamond
But she got a mortgage on my soul, hah!

Get up, get up, get up

Hah! Alright, yeah, ah

My baby when she walks you know
Shakes just like a willow tree
Yes, my baby when she walks you know
Shakes just like a willow tree
She so mean and evil
She makes a monkey outta me

Whoah alright

The girl I love she got long black wavy hair

Whoa, the girl I love, she's got long black wavy hair
I do declare!
The girl I love, yeah, she's got long black wavy hair,
Ah yeah,
Her Mother and her Father, Lordy,
Sure don't, sure don't want me there.

Well I, I go back to my baby, Lord
I, I swear I wouldn't lie
I never saw that sweet woman yeah
For five long years gone by, yeah.
Well I, said I, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh, I
I'm goin' home
'Cos she's a sweet little darlin', whoa
I said I been away, ah for too long.
I been away too long.

Well, when my baby walks, she shakes
Just like a willow tree, yes she does.
Well my baby, when she walks, you know
Oh that sweeter baby
You know she walks, walks all over me.
Ooh yeah. Whoa. Love my baby.

Think it over

Think it over in your pretty little head
Think it over what you just said
Are you sure I'm not the one?
( ? )

Well think it over
Yes think it over
Oh my heart grows cold and old

Think it over and let me know
Think it over darlin' don't be slow
Are you sure I'm not the one?
( ? ) now let me know

Well think it over
Ahh think it over
Oh my heart grows cold and older

Hey! Think it over, over and over
Think it over, over and over

Travelling Riverside Blues

Hey!
That's right!

Asked sweet mama, let me
A-be her kid. She said-a
"You might get hurt if you do y'oughta
A-keep it hid". Well ah-hah,
I know my baby
If I see her in the dark,
I said I know my rider
If I see her in the dark.

Now, I'm goin' to Rosedale
Take my rider by my side.
Still barrelhouse
But it's on the riverside, yeah.
I know my baby Lord, I said
Beware there's something wrong.
I know my mama Lord, a brownskin
But she ain't no plum ah-hah.

See my baby, tell,
Tell her hurry home.
Ain't had no lovin' since
My baby been gone yeah.
See my baby,
Tell her hurry on home.
I ain't had no, my right mind
Since my rider's been gone.

Hey, gonna stay my, she's my rider.
I wanna tell you she's my rider.
Blow your mind, she's my rider.
She ain't but sixteen but she's my rider.

I'm goin'a Rosedale
Take my rider by side.
Anybody argue with me man I'll keep them
Satisfied. Well, I
See my baby, tell her,
Tell her the shape I'm in.
Ain't had no lovin',
Lord since you know when.

Ahhh yeah!
My, my, my, my.

Ah.
Why don't you come in my kitchen?

She's a kindhearted baby.
She studies evil all the time.
She's a kindhearted woman.
Studies evil all the time.

Squeeze my lemon
'Til the juice runs down my leg.
Squeeze it so hard
I fall right outa bed.
Can you squeeze my lemon
'Til the juice runs down my leg?
I wonder if you know what I'm talkin' about!
Oh, well the way that you squeeze it girl,
I swear I'm gonna fall right out of bed.

Ahh an' she's a good rider.
Hey~yeah.
She's my kindhearted baby.
I wanna take my rider by my side yeah.
I said her front teeth are lined with gold.
She's got a mortgage on my body,
Got a lien on my soul.
She's my brownskin sugar plum.
She makes me...

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