B i o g r a p h y (by William Ruhlmann)
In the 1970s, Tom Waits combined a lyrical focus on desperate, lowlife characters with a persona that seemed to embody the same lifestyle, which he sang about in a raspy, gravelly voice. From the '80s on, his work became increasingly theatrical as he moved into acting and composing. Growing up in southern California, Waits attracted the attention of manager Herb Cohen, who also handled Frank Zappa, and was signed by him at the beginning of the 1970s, resulting in the material later released as The Early Years and The Early Years, Vol. 2. His formal recording debut came with Closing Time (1973) on Asylum Records, an album that contained "Ol' 55," which was covered by labelmates the Eagles for their On the Border album. Waits attracted critical acclaim and a cult audience for his subsequent albums, The Heart of Saturday Night (1974), the two-LP live set Nighthawks at the Diner (1975), Small Change (1976), Foreign Affairs (1977), Blue Valentine (1978), and Heart Attack and Vine (1980). His music and persona proved highly cinematic, and, starting in 1978, he launched parallel careers as an actor and as a composer of movie music. He wrote songs for and appeared in Paradise Alley (1978), wrote the title song for On the Nickel (1980), and was hired by director Francis Coppola to write the music for One from the Heart (1982), which earned him an Academy Award nomination. While working on that project, Waits met and married playwright Kathleen Brennan, with whom he later collaborated. Moving to Island Records, Waits made Swordfishtrombones (1983), which found him experimenting with horns and percussion and using unusual recording techniques. The same year, he appeared in Coppola's Rumble Fish and The Outsiders, and, in 1984, he appeared in the director's The Cotton Club.
In 1985, he released Rain Dogs. In 1986, he appeared in Down By Law and made his theatrical debut with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in Frank's Wild Years, a musical play he had written with Brennan. An album based on the play was released in 1987, the same year Waits appeared in the films Candy Mountain and Ironweed. In 1988, he released a film and soundtrack album depicting one of his concerts, Big Time. In 1989, he appeared in the films Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale, Cold Feet, and Wait Until Spring. His work for the theater continued in 1990 when Waits partnered with opera director Robert Wilson and beat novelist William Burroughs and staged The Black Rider in Hamburg, Germany. In 1991, he appeared in the films Queens' Logic, The Fisher King, and At Play in the Fields of the Lord. In 1992, he scored the film Night on Earth; released the album Bone Machine, which won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album; appeared in the film Bram Stoker's Dracula; and returned to Hamburg for the staging of his second collaboration with Robert Wilson, Alice. The The Black Rider was documented on CD in 1993, the same year Waits appeared in the film Short Cuts. A long absence from recording resulted in the 1998 release of Beautiful Maladies, a retrospective of his work for Island. In 1999, Waits finally returned with a new album, Mule Variations. The record was a critical success, winning a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk album, and was also his first for the independent Epitaph Records' Anti subsidiary. A small tour followed, but Waits jumped right back into the studio and began working on not one but two new albums. By the time he emerged in the spring of 2002, both Alice and Blood Money were released on Anti Records. Blood Money consisted of the songs from the third Wilson/Waits collaboration that was staged in Denmark in 2000 and won Best Drama of the year. After limited touring in support of these two endeavors, Waits returned to the recording studio and issued Real Gone in 2004. The album marked a large departure for him, in that it contained no keyboards at all, focusing only on rhythm-stringed instruments.
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Blood Money - 2002-05-07 -
Misery Is The River Of The World Everything Goes To Hell Coney Island Baby All The World Is Green God's Away On Business Another Man's Vine Knife Chase (Instrumental) Lullaby Starving In The Belly Of A Whale The Part You Throw Away Woe Calliope (Instrumental) A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Non Albums Tracks - Misc - 2.19 Adios Lounge Annie's Back In Town Apartment For Rent Back In The Good Old World Bend Down The Branches Big Face Money Big Rock Candy Mountain Blue Skies Books Of Moses More Oar Bronx Lullabye/Smugglers Waltz Brother Can You Spare A Dime Buzz Fledderjohn Candy Apple Red Coattails Of A Dead Man Date To Church Diamond In Your Mind Do You Know What I Idi Amin Down There By The Train Downtown Empty Pockets
Non Albums Tracks - Misc -
Fall Of Troy Falling down Fannin Street Filipino Box Spring Hog Heigh Ho! Highway Café Helium Reprise Home I'll Never Be I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know I'll Never Let Go Of Your Hand I'm Crazy About My Baby I'm Not Your Fool Anymore It Rains On Me It's Alright With Me It's Over Jayne's Blue Wish Jersey Girl Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet Just Another Dime Store Novel Little Man Long Way Home
Non Albums Tracks - Misc - Louise Martin Goes And Does Where It's At Mr Henry A Nickel's Worth Of Dreams Old Time Feelin' No One Can Forgive Me But My Baby On The Other Side Of The World On The Road Once More Before I Go Papa's Got A Brand New Bag Paradise Alley Piano Has Been Drinking Playin' Hooky Pontiac Poor Little Lamb Purple Avenue Putting On The Dog Rainbow Sleeves River Of Men Sea Of Love Scarecrow
Silent Night Sleep Tonight Standing On The Corner Strange Weather Stray Dog Sweet And Shiny Eyes Take Care Of My Children Tie Undone (aka Mr Henry) Tommy The Cat Trash Day Walk Away What Else Is New What Keeps Mankind Alive Whistlin' Past Whose Sports Coat Is That With A Suitcase World Keeps Turning World Of Adventure
The Black Rider
Lucky Day Overture
Ladies and gentlemen Harry's Harbour Bizarre is proud to present Under the Big Top tonight Human Oddities That's right You'll see the Three Headed Baby You'll see Hitler's brain See Lea Graff the German midget who sat in J.F. Morgan's lap You'll see Priscilla Bajano The monkey woman Jo Jo the dog face boy I'm Milton Malone, the human skeleton See Grace McDaniel's The mule faced woman And she's the homeliest woman in the world Under the Big Top tonight Never before seen And if you have a heart condition, please be warned Don't forget to visit our snack bar at Charleston Grotto Al lsales are final Void where prohibited by law You'll see Sealo the seal boy who has flippers for arms You'll see Johnny Eck, the man born without a body He walks on his hands He has his own orchestra and is an excellent pianist See Gerd Bessler, the human pincusion And don't forget, it's ladies' night at Harvy's Harbour Bizarre You'll see Ko Ko the bird girl Mortando, the human fountain Step a little A little closer ladies and gentlemen and don't be shy Dig deep in your pockets You'll see Radion, the human torso Deep from the jungles of Africa Ladies and gentlemen, Harry's Harbour Bizarre Ladies and gentlemen The Black Rider
Wait a minute, wait a minute here Come on along with the Black Rider We'll have a gay old time Lay down in the web of the black spider I'll drink your blood like wine So come on in it ain't no sin Take off your skin and dance around your bones So come along with the Black Rider We'll have a gay old time Hey hold on there little sheriff, have your tickets ready You just come on along Anchors away with the Black Rider I'll drink your blood like wine I'll drop you off in Harlem with the Black Rider Out where the bullets shine And when you're done you cock your gun The blood will run like ribbons through your hair Just come on along with the Black Rider We'll have a gay old time Have your tickets ready, see the dog faced boy Pay little sheriff Well just come on along with the Black Rider I've got just the thing for thee Come on along with the Black Rider I want your company Well I think I'll have the veal A lovely meal, that's how I feel Oh may I use your skull for a bowl? Just come on along with the Black Rider We'll have a gay old, we'll have a gay old We'll have a gay old, we'll have a gay old, We'll have a gay old time Walk right up, have your tickets ready Step right up, have your tickets ready Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Your too kind November
No shadows, no stars There's no moon and no cars, November It only believes in a pile of dead leaves And a moon that's the color of bone No prayers for November to linger longer Stick your spoon in the wall and we'll slaughter them all November has tied me to an old dead tree Get word to April to rescue me November's cold chain made of wet boots and rain Shiny black ravens on chimney smoke lanes November seems odd, you're my firing squad, November With my hair slicked back with carrion shellac With the blood from a pheasant and the bone from a hare Tied to the branches of a roebuck stag Left to wave in the timber like a buck shot flag Go away you rainsnout Go away, blow your brains out, November Just The Right Bullets
There is a light in the forest There's a face in the tree I'll pull you out of the chorus And the first one's always free You can never go a hunting With just a flintlock and a hound You won't go home with a bunting If you blow a hundred rounds It takes much more than wild courage Or you'll hit just the tattered clouds You must have just the right bullets And the first one's always free You must be careful in the forest Broken glass and rusty nails If you're to bring back something for us I have bullets for sale Why be a fool when you can chase away Your blind and your gloom I have blessed each one of these bullets And they shine just like a spoon To have sixty silver wishes Is a small price to pay They'll be your private little fishes And they'll never swim away I just want you to be happy That's my only little wish I'll fix your wagon and your musket And the spoon will have it's dish And I shudder at the thought of your Poor empty hunter's pouch So I'll keep the wind from your barrel And bless the roof of your house 'T' ain't No Sin
When you hear sweet syncopation And the music softly moans T'ain't no sin to take off your skin And dance around in your bones When it gets too hot for comfort And you can't get ice cream cones T'ain't no sin to take off your skin And dance around your bones Just like those bamboo babies Down in the South Sea tropic zone T'ain't no sin to take off your skin And dance around your bones When you hear sweet syncopation And the music softly moans T'ain't no sin to take off your skin And dance around in your bones When it gets too hot for comfort And you can't get ice cream cones T'ain't no sin to take off your skin And dance around your bones Just like those bamboo babies Down in the South Sea tropic zone T'ain't no sin to take off your skin And dance around your bones That's The Way
That's the way the stomach rumbles That's the way the bee bumbles That's the way the needle pricks That's the way the glue sticks That's the way the potato mashes That's the way the pan flashes That's the way the market crashes That's the way the whip lashes That's the way the teeth knashes That's the way the gravy stains That's the way the moon wanes The Briar And The Rose
I fell asleep down by the stream And there I had the strangest dream Down by Brennan's Glenn there grows The briar and the rose There's a tree in the forest But I don't know where And I built a nest out of your hair Climbing up into the air The briar and the rose I don't know how long it has been But I was born in Brennan's Glenn Near the end of spring there grows A briar and the rose Picked the rose one early morn Pricked my finger on a thorn It had grown so close It's winding wove the briar around the rose I tried to tear them both apart I felt a bullet in my heart And all dressed up in springs new clothes The briar and the rose When I'm buried in my grave Tell me so I will know Your tears will fall To make love grow The briar and the rose When I'm buried in my grave Tell me so I will know Your tears will fall To make them grow The briar and the rose Your tears will fall To make them grow The briar and the rose I'll Shoot the Moon
I'll shoot the moon right out of the sky for you baby I'll be the pennies on your eyes for you baby I want to take you out to the fair Here is a red rose ribbon for your hair I'll shoot the moon right out of the sky for you baby I'll shoot the moon for you A vulture circles over your head for you baby I'll be the flowers after you're dead for you baby I want to build a nest in your hair I want to kiss you and never be there I'll shoot the moon right out of the sky for you baby I'll shoot the moon for you Ah, you know I love you baby So why don't you call me? You know my number, 392 7704, call anytime, ah I'll shoot the moon right out of the sky for you baby I'll shoot the moon for you I'll shoot the moon right out of the sky for you baby I'll be the flowers after you're dead for you baby I want to build a nest in your hair I want to kiss you and never be there I'll shoot the moon right out of the sky for you baby I'll shoot the moon for you Flash Pan Hunter
The flash pan hunter sways with the wind And his rifle is the sound of the morning Each sulfurous bullet must have it's own wit And each cartridge comes with a warning Beware of elaborate telescopic meat It will find their way back to the forest For Wilhelm can't wait to be Peg Leg's crown And the briar is strangling the rose back down His back shall be my slender new branch It will bend, it will sway in the breeze As the devil does his polka With a hatchet in his hand As a sniper in the branches of the trees As the vulture flutters down The snake sheds his dove Wilhelm's cutting off his fingers So they'll fit into the glove For Wilhelm can't wait to be Peg Leg's crown And the briar is strangling the rose back down The briar is strangling the rose back down Crossroads
Now, George was a good straight boy to begin with There's bad blood in him someway and he got into the magic bullets And that leads straight to Devil's work, just like marijuana leads to heroin You think you can take them bullets or leave 'em, do you? Just save a few for your bad days Well, well we all have those bad days when we can't hit it for shit And the more of them magics you use, the more bad days you have without them So it comes down to finally all your days being bad without the bullets It's magics or nothing Time to stop chippying around and kidding yourself, kid, you're hooked, heavy as lead And that's where old George found himself out there at the crossroads Moulding the Devil's bullets Now a man figures it's his bullets, so it will take what he wants But it don't always work out that way You see, some bullets is special for a single target A certain stag, or a certain person And no matter where you aim, that's where the bullet will end up And in the moment of aiming, the gun turns into a dowser's wand And points where the bullet wants to go (George Schmid was moving in a series of convulsive spasms Like someone with an epileptic fit With his face contorted and his eyes wild like a lassoed horse bracing his legs But something kept pulling him on. And now he is picking up the skulls and making a circle) I guess old George didn't rightly know what he's getting himself into The fit was on him and it carried him right to the crossroads Gospel Train
Come on people got to get on board Train is leavin' and there's all room for one more God, don't listen to the devil he got ways to move you This train don't carry no smokers This train Well, come on people 'Cause it's startin' to rain Get on board, it's the gospel train, yeah Don't listen to the devil now People don't listen to the devil Satan will fool you Satan will fool you I said Satan will fool you Well, this train don't carry no smokers This train, this train Wooo, wooo, wooo Come on people get on board Train is leavin' and there's room for one more Just trust in the Lord Wooo, wooo Lucky Day
The prettiest girl in all the world Is in a little Spanish town But I left her for a Bonnie lass And I told her I'd see her around But that Bonnie lass and her heart of glass Would not hold a candle to bumming around So don't cry for me cause I'm going away I'll be back some lucky day Well tell the boys back home that I'm doing just fine I've left my troubles and woe So sing about me for I can't come home I've many many many more miles to go Why, there's Miss Kelsey, she taught dance at our school And old Johnny O'Toole I still beat you at pool So don't cry for me for I'm going away And I'll be back some lucky day Well when I was a boy my daddy sat me on his knee And he told me, he told me many things And he said son, there's a lot of things in this world That you're gonna have no use for And when you get blue and you've lost all your dreams There's nothin' like a campfire and a can of beans Why, there's Miss Kelsey she taught dance at our school And old Johnny O'Toole I'll still beat you at pool So don't cry for me for I'm going away And I'll be back some lucky day So don't cry for me for I'm going away And I'll be back some lucky day The Last Rose Of Summer
I love the way the tattered clouds Go wind across the sky As summer goes and leaves me With a tear in my eye I'm taking out my winter clothes My garden knows what's wrong The petals of my favorite rose Be in the shadows dark and long Though every year it's very clear I should be carrying on But I can be found in the garden Singing this song When the last rose of summer is gone The last rose of summer is gone, gone
Mule Variations
Big In Japan
I got the style but not the grace I got the clothes but not the face I got the bread but not the butter I got the winda but not the shutter But I'm big in Japan, I'm big in Japan, heh but I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan I got the house but not the deed I got the horn but not the reed I got the cards but not the luck I got the wheel but not the truck But heh I'm big in Japan, I'm big in Japan, but hey I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan I got the moon I got the cheese I got the whole damn nation on their knees I got the rooster I got the crow I got the ebb I got the flow I got the powder but not the gun I got the dog but not the bun I got the clouds but not the sky I got the stripes but not the tie But heh I'm big in Japan, I'm big in Japan, I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan, I'm big in Japan Heh ho they love the way I do it Heh ho there's really nothing to it I got the moon I got the cheese I got the whole damn nation on their knees I got the rooster I got the crow I got the ebb I got the flow I got the sizzle but not the steak I got the boat but not the lake I got the sheets but not the bed I got the jam but not the bread But heh I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan But hey I'm big in Japan, I'm big in Japan, I'm big in Japan Lowside Of The Road
I'm on a black elevator goin down Little Joe from Kokomo it rattles to the ground The dice is laughin at the man that he throwed I'm rollin over to the Lowside of the road The moon is red and your dancin real slow 29 miles left to go The chain monkeys help you with your load You're rollin over to the Lowside of the road Jezebel is naked with an axe The prosecution tell you to relax Your head feels like it's ready to explode You're rollin over, you're rollin over Well the clapper has been ripped out of the bell The flapper has been kicked right out of hell When the horse whips the man that he rode You're rollin over to the Lowside of the road The dog won't bite if you beat him with a bone She's so shy when she's talkin on the phone The ground rises up and starts to groan You're rollin over to the Lowside of the road To the Lowside of the road, to the Lowside of the road Hold On
They hung a sign up in our town "If you live it up, you won't live it down" So, she left Monte Rio, son Just like a bullet leaves a gun With charcoal eyes and Monroe hips She went and took that California trip Well, the moon was gold, her hair like wind She said don't look back just come on Jim Oh you got to hold on, hold on You got to hold on Take my hand, I'm standing right here You gotta hold on Well, he gave her a dimestore watch And a ring made from a spoon Everyone is looking for someone to blame When you share my bed, you share my name Well, go ahead and call the cops You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops She said baby, I still love you Sometimes there's nothin left to do Oh but you got to hold on, hold on Baby got to hold on Take my hand, I'm standing right here You got to hold on Well, God bless your crooked little heart St. Louis got the best of me I miss your broken-china voice How I wish you were still here with me Oh, you build it up, you wreck it down And you burn your mansion to the ground Oh there's nothing left to keep you here But when you're falling behind in this big blue world Oh you got to hold on, hold on Baby got to hold on Take my hand, I'm standing right here You got to hold on Down by the Riverside motel It's 10 below and falling By a 99 cent store She closed her eyes and started swaying But it's so hard to dance that way When it's cold and there's no music Oh your old hometown so far away But, inside your head there's a record that's playing A song called Hold on, hold on, baby got to hold on Take my hand, I'm standing right there, you gotta hold on You gotta hold on, hold on, baby gotta hold on Take my hand, I'm standing right there, you gotta hold on You gotta hold on, hold on, baby gotta hold on Take my hand, I'm standing right there, you gotta hold on You gotta hold on, hold on, baby gotta hold on And take my hand, I'm standing right there, you gotta hold on You gotta hold on, you gotta hold on, you gotta hold on You gotta hold on, you gotta hold on baby, you gotta hold on You gotta hold on, you gotta hold on Get Behind The Mule
Alright Molly be damned smote Jimmy the Harp With a horrid little pistol and a lariat She's goin to the bottom and she's goin down the drain Said she wasn't big enough to carry it She got to get behind the Mule yeah in the morning and plow Got to get behind the Mule in the morning and plow She got to get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Choppity chop goes the axe in the woods You gotta meet me by the fall down tree Shovel of dirt upon a coffin lid And I know they'll come lookin for me boys I know they'll come a-lookin for me Got to get behind the Mule yeah in the morning and plow Get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Big Jack Earl was 8 foot 1 And he stood in the road and he cried He couldn't make her love him couldn't make her stay But tell the good Lord that he tried Got to get behind the Mule yeah in the morning and plow Get behind the Mule in the morning and plow You gotta get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Got to get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Dusty trail from Atchison to Placerville On the wreck of the Weaverville stage Beaula fired on Beatty for a lemonade I was stirring my brandy with a nail boys Stirring my brandy with a nail Got to get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Get behind the Mule in the morning and plow You gotta get behind the Mule in the morning and plow, yeah Get behind the Mule in the morning and plow The rampaging sons of the widow James Jack the cutter and the pock marked kid Had to stand naked at the bottom of the cross Tell the good lord what they did Tell the good lord what they did You got to get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Get behind the Mule yeah in the morning and plow You gotta get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Punctuated birds on the power line In a Studebaker with the Birdie Joe Joaks I'm diggin all the way to China with a silver spoon While the hangman fumbles with the noose, boy The hangman fumbles with the noose You got to get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Get behind the Mule in the morning and plow You gotta get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Pin your ear to the wisdom post Pin your eye to the line Never let the weeds get higher than the garden Always keep a sapphire in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind You got to get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Got to get behind the Mule in the morning and plow You gotta get behind the Mule in the morning and plow Gotta get behind the Mule in the morning and plow House Where Nobody Lives
There's a house on my block That's abandoned and cold The folks moved out of it a long time ago And they took all their things and they never came back It looks like it's haunted with the windows all cracked And everyone call it the house, the house where nobody lives Once it held laughter Once it held dreams Did they throw it away Did they know what it means Did someone's heart break Or did someone do somebody wrong? Well the paint is all cracked It was peeled off of the wood The papers were stacked on the porch where I stood And the weeds had grown up just as high as the door There were birds in the chimney and an old chest of drawers Looks like no one ever come back to the house were nobody lives Oh well Once it held laughter Once it held dreams Did they throw it away Did they know what it means Did someone's heart break Or did someone do somebody wrong? So if you find someone Someone to have, someone to hold Don't trade it for silver No, don't trade it for gold Cause I have all of life's treasures And they are fine and they are good They remind me that houses are just made of wood What makes a house grand Oh it Ain't the roof or the doors If there's love in a house It's a palace for sure Without love it ain't nothin but a house A house where nobody lives Without love it ain't nothin but a house, a house where Nobody lives Cold Water
Well I woke up this morning with the cold water With the cold water, with the cold water Woke up this morning with the cold water With the cold water, with the cold Well the police at the station and they don't look friendly Well they don't look friendly, Well they don't look friendly Police at the station and they don't look friendly Well they don't look friendly, well they don't Blind or crippled, sharp or dull I'm reading the Bible by a 40 watt bulb What price freedom, dirt is my rug Well I sleep like a baby With the snakes and the bugs Well the stores are open but I ain't got no money Well ain't got no money, well I ain't got no money Stores are open but I ain't got no money Well ain't got no money, well I ain't Found an old dog and he seems to like me Seems to like me, well he seems to like me Found an old dog and he seems to like me Seems to like me, well he seems Seen them fellows with the card board signs Scrapin up a little money to buy a bottle of wine Pregnant women and the Vietnam vets I say Beggin on the freeway bout as hard as it gets Well I slept in the graveyard it was cool and still Cool and still, it was cool and still Slept in the graveyard it was cool and still Cool and still and it was cool Slept all night in a Cedar grove I was born to ramble, born to rove Some men are searchin for the Holy Grail But there ain't nothin sweeter than ridin the rail I look 47 but I'm 24 Well they shooed me away from here the time before Turned their backs and they locked their doors I'm watching T.V. in the window of a furniture store And I woke up this morning with the cold water With the cold water, with the cold water I woke up this morning with the cold water With the cold water, with the cold Well I woke up this morning with the cold water Cold water, with the cold water Woke up this morning with the cold water Cold water, with the cold Pony
I've seen it all boys, I've been all over Been everywhere in the whole wide world I rode the high line with old blind Darby I danced real slow with Ida Jane I was full of wonder when I left Murfreesboro Now I am full of hollow on Maxwell street And I hope my Pony, I hope my Pony I hope my Pony knows the way back home I walked from Natchez to Hushpukena I built a fire by the side of the road And I worked for nothin in a Belzoni saw mill I caught a blind out on the B and O Talullah's friendly Belzoni ain't so A 44'll get you 99 I hope my Pony, I hope my Pony I hope my Pony knows the way back home I run my race with burnt face Jake Gave him a Manzanita cross And I've lived on nothin but dreams and train smoke Somehow my watch and chain got lost I wish I was home in Evelyn's Kitchen With old Gyp curled around my feet I hope my Pony, I hope my Pony I hope my Pony knows the way back home I hope my Pony, I hope my Pony I hope my Pony knows the way back home What's He Building?
What's he building in there? What the hell is he building in there? He has subscriptions to those magazines Never waves when he goes by He's hiding something from the rest of us He's all To himself, I think I know why He took down the tire swing from the Peppertree He has no children of his own you see He has no dog, he has no friends and His lawn is dying What about all those packages he sends What's he building in there? With that hook light on the stairs What's he building in there? I'll tell you one thing He's not building a playhouse for the children What's he building in there? Now what's that sound from underneath the door? He's pounding nails into a hardwood floor I swear to God I heard someone moaning low And I keep seeing the blue light of a T.V. show He has a router and a table saw And you won't believe what Mr. Sticha saw There's poison underneath the sink of course There's also enough formaldehyde to choke a horse What's he building in there? What the hell is he building in there? I heard he has an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia But what's he building in there? He has no friends but he gets a lot of mail I'll bet he spent a little time in jail I heard he was up on the roof last night signaling with a flashlight What's that tune he's always whistling? What's he building in there? What's he building in there? We have a right to know... Black Market Baby
She lives in a house that's way back off the road There's a man with a lantern and he carries her soul A coal stove and a bed A skillet and a hound She drove a camel through the needle In this sinking board walk town She's my Black Market Baby She's my Black Market Baby She's a diamond who wants to stay coal Wants to stay coal I swang out wide with her on hells iron gate Anything that you wanted you could have My eyes say their prayers to her Sailors ring her bell When a moth mistakes a light bulb For the moon and goes to hell She's my Black Market Baby She's my Black Market Baby She's a diamond who wants to stay coal Wants to stay coal There's no prayer like desire There's amnesia in her kiss She's a swan and a pistol And she will follow you like this In Moverly, Missouri at the Iroquois Hotel She checked in with the President And she ran up quite a Bill She's my Black Market Baby She's my Black Market Baby She's a diamond who wants to stay coal Wants to stay coal Well she's whiskey in a teacup She gives blondes a lousy name She's a Bonzai Aphrodite And a ticket back to Spain She's a hard way to go And there ain't no way to stop Every time you play the red The black is coming up She's my Black Market baby She's my Black Market baby She's a diamond who wants to stay coal She wants to stay coal My baby wants to stay coal, coal, coal My baby wants to stay coal Eyeball Kid
Hey you, hey you, hey you Zenora Bariella and Coriander Pyle They had sixteen children in the usual style They had a curio museum and they had no guile All they ever wanted was a show biz child The 7th of December 1949 They got what they'd been wishing for all of the time He grew up in a trailer by the time he was 9 He rolled off to join the circus Telling fortunes on the side Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid Well the first time I saw him was a Saigon jail Cost me 27 dollars just to go his bail I said your name will be in lights and that's no doubt But you got to have a manager that's what it's all about Yeah yeah yeah Well people would point, people would stare I'll always be here to protect you and to cut down on the glare I know you can't speak, I know you can't sign So cry right here on the dotted line Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid Well he was born with out a body, not even a brow I made the kid a promise, I made the kid a vow He's not conventionally handsome, he'll never be tall He said "all you got to do is book me into Carnegie Hall" Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid Oh, he's just a little bitty thing He's just a little guy But women go crazy for the big blue eye How does he dream? How does he think? When he can't ever speak and he can't ever blink? I said Hail Hail, Eyeball kid Hail Hail, the Eyeball kid Hail Hail, the Eyeball Give it up and throw me down a couple of quid Everybody wants to see the Eyeball kid They say how does he dream? How does he think? When he can't even speak and he can't even blink We are all lost in the wilderness We're as blind as can be He come down to teach us how to really see Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Give it up and throw me down a couple of quid Everybody wants to see the Eyeball kid Give it up and throw me down a couple of quid Everybody wants to see the Eyeball kid Give it up, give it up, give it up and throw me down a couple of quid Everybody wants to see the Eyeball kid Eyeball kid, Eyeball kid, oh the Eyeball kid Eyeball kid Picture In A Frame
The sun come up it was blue and gold Sun come up it was blue and gold Sun come up it was blue and gold Ever since I put your picture in a frame I come calling in my Sunday best I come calling in my Sunday best I come calling in my Sunday best Every since I put your picture in a frame I'm gonna love you till the wheels come off Oh yeah I love you baby and I always will I love you baby and I always will I love you baby and I always will Ever since I put your picture in a frame I love you baby and I always will Ever since I put your picture in a frame Ever since I put your picture in a frame Ever since I put your picture in a frame Chocolate Jesus
Well I don't go to church on Sunday Don't get on my knees to pray Don't memorize the books of the Bible Got my own special way I know Jesus loves me Maybe just a little bit more I fall down on my knees every Sunday At Zerelda Lee's candy store Well I've got to be a chocolate Jesus Make me feel good inside Got to be a chocolate Jesus Keep me satisfied Well I don't want no Abba Zabba Don't want no Almond Joy There ain't nothing better suitable for this boy Well it's the only thing that can pick me up Better than a cup of gold See only a chocolate Jesus can satisfy my soul When the weather gets rough And it's whiskey in the shade It's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane He flows like the big muddy but that's ok Pour him over ice cream for a nice parfait Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus Good enough for me Got to be a chocolate Jesus Good enough for me Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus Make me feel so good inside Got to be a chocolate Jesus Keep me satisfied Georgia Lee
Cold was the night and hard was the ground They found her in a small grove of trees And lonesome was the place where Georgia was found She's too young to be out on the street Why wasn't God watching? Why wasn't God listening? Why wasn't God there for Georgia Lee? Ida said she couldn't keep Georgia From dropping out of school I was doing the best that I could But she just kept runnin away from this world These children are so hard to raise good Why wasn't God watching? Why wasn't God listening? Why wasn't God there for Georgia Lee? Close your eyes and count to ten I will go and hid but then Be sure to find me, I want you to find me And we'll play all over We will play all over We will play all over again There's a toad in the witch grass There's a crow in the corn Wild flowers on a cross by the road And somewhere a baby is crying for her mom As the hills turn from green back to gold Why wasn't God watching? Why wasn't God listening? Why wasn't God there for Georgia Lee? Why wasn't God watching? Why wasn't God listening? Why wasn't God there for Georgia Lee? Filipino Box Spring Hog
I hung on to Mary's stump I danced with a soldier's glee With a rum soaked crook and a big fat laugh I spent my last dollar on thee I saw Bill Bones, gave him a yell Kehoe spiked the nog With a chain link fence and a scrap iron jaw Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog Spider rolled in from Hollister Burn On a one-eyed stolen Mare Donned himself with chicken fat Sawin on a jaw bone violin there Kathleen was sittin down in little reds recovery room In her criminal underwear bra I was naked to the waist with my fierce black hound And I'm cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road Fill it with madrone and bay Stinks like hell and the neighbors complain Don't give a hoot what they say Gotta slap that hog Roll em over twice Gotta baste him with a sweeping broom You gotta swat them flies and chain up the dogs Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Rattle snake piccata with grapes and figs Old brown Betty with a yellow wig Tain't the mince meat filagree And it ain't the turkey neck stew And it ain't them bruleed Okra seeds Though she made them especially for you Worse won a prize for her bottom black pie The beans got to thrown to the dogs Jaheseus Christ I can always make room Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Take It With Me
Phone's off the hook No one knows where we are It's a long time since I drank champagne The ocean is blue As blue as your eyes I'm gonna take it with me when I go Old long since gone Now way back when we lived in Coney Island Ain't no good thing ever dies I'm gonna take it with me when I go Far far away a train whistle blows Wherever you're goin Wherever you've been Waving good bye at the end of the day You're up and you're over And you're far away Always for you and forever yours It felt just like the old days We fell asleep on Beaula's porch I'm gonna take it with me when I go All broken down by the side of the road I was never more alive or alone I've worn the faces off all the cards I'm gonna take it with me when I go Children are playing at the end of the day Strangers are singing on our lawn It's got to be more than flesh and bone All that you're loved is all you own In a land there's a town And in that town there's a house And in that house there's a woman And in that woman there's a heart I love I'm gonna take it with me when I go I'm gonna take it with me when I go Come On Up To The House
Well the moon is broken and the sky is cracked Come on up to the house The only things that you can see is all that you lack Come on up to the house All your cryin don't do no good Come on up to the house Well come down off the cross we can use the wood You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a passin thru You gotta come on up to the house There's no light in the tunnel, no irons in the fire Come on up to the house And your singin lead soprano in a junkman's choir You gotta come on up to the house Does life seem nasty, brutish and short Come on up to the house The seas are stormy and you can't find no port Gotta come on up to the house, yeah You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a passin thru You gotta come on up to the house,yeah You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a passin thru You gotta come on up to the house,yeah There's nothin in the world that you can do You gotta come on up to the house And you've been whipped by the forces that are inside you Gotta come on up to the house Well you're high on top of your mountain of woe Gotta come on up to the house Well you know you should surrender but you can't let go You gotta come on up to the house,yeah Gotta come on up to the house Gotta come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a passin thru You gotta come on up to the house,yeah Gotta come on up to the house You gotta come on up to the house Oh yeah
Alice Alice
It's dreamy weather we're on You waved your crooked wand Along an icy pond with a frozen moon A murder of silhouette crows I saw And the tears on my face And the skates on the pond They spell Alice I disappear in your name But you must wait for me Somewhere across the sea There's a wreck of a ship Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide And the raindrops on my window And the ice in my drink Baby all I can think of is Alice Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier And so a secret kiss Brings madness with the bliss And I will think of this When I'm dead in my grave Set me adrift and I'm lost over there And I must be insane To go skating on your name And by tracing it twice I fell through the ice Of Alice And so a secret kiss Brings madness with the bliss And I will think of this When I'm dead in my grave Set me adrift and I'm lost over there And I must be insane To go skating on your name And by tracing it twice I fell through the ice Of Alice There's only Alice Everything You Can Think
Everything you can think of is true Before the ocean was blue We were lost in a flood Run red with your blood Nigerian skeleton crew Everything you can think of is true The dish ran away with the spoon Dig deep in your heart for that little red glow We're decomposing as we go Everything you can think of is true And fishes make wishes on you We're fighting our way up dreamland's spine Red flamingos and expensive wine Everything you can think of is true The baby's asleep in your shoe Your teeth are buildings with yellow doors Your eyes are fish on a creamy shore Flowers Grave
Someday the silver moon and I will go to dreamland I will close my eyes and wake up there in dreamland And Tell me who will put flowers on a flower's grave? Who will say a prayer? Will I meet a China rose there in dreamland? Or does love lie bleeding in dreamland? Are these days forever and always? And if we are to die tonight Is there a moonlight up ahead? And if we are to die tonight Another rose will bloom For a faded rose Will I be the one that you save? I love when it showers But no one puts flowers On a flower's grave As one rose blooms and another will die It's always been that way I remember the showers But no one puts flowers On a flower's grave And if we are to die tonight Is there a moonlight up ahead? I remember the showers But no one puts flowers On a flower's grave No One Knows I'm Gone
Hell above and Heaven below All the trees are gone The rain made such a lovely sound To those who are six feet under ground The leaves will bury every year And no one knows I'm gone Live me golden tell me dark Hide from Graveyard John The moon is full here every night And I can bathe here in his light The leaves will bury every year And no one knows I'm gone Kommienezuspadt
(Pretend German) Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt And we can't be late And we can't be late (Pretend German) And we can't be late Kommiene, Kommiene Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt (Pretend German) And we can't be late And we can't be late And we can't be late And we can't be late Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Kommienezuspadt Kommienezuspadt Ha, ha, ha, ha Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha Ha, ha, ha, ha Kommienezuspadt (Pretend German) And we can't be late And we can't be late And we can't be late Sei punktlich Sei punktlich Kommienezuspadt Kommiene, kommiene, kommiene, kommiene Kommienezuspadt Poor Edward
Did you hear the news about Edward? On the back of his head he had another face Was it a woman's face or a young girl? They said to remove it would kill him So poor Edward was doomed The face could laugh and cry It was his devil twin And at night she spoke to him Things heard only in hell But they were impossible to separate Chained together for life Finally the bell tolled his doom He took a suite of rooms And hung himself and her from the balcony irons Some still believe he was freed from her But I knew her too well I say she drove him to suicide And took poor Edward to hell Table Top Joe
I knew one day One, one, two, one, two, three Well my mama didn't want me On the day I was born I was born without a body I got nothing but scorn But I always loved music All I had was my hands I dreamed I'd be famous And I'd work at The Sands Singing, Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe Now everyone will know That I'm Tabletop Joe I had trouble with the pedals But I had a strong left hand And I could play Stravinsky On a baby grand I said, 'I'm gonna join the circus Cause that's where I belong' So I went to Coney Island I was singing this song Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe Now everyone knows Yeah I'm Tabletop Joe They gave me top billing In the Dreamland show I had my own orchestra Starring Tabletop Joe And the man without a body Proved everyone wrong I was rich and I was famous I was where I belonged, yeah Tabletop Joe, Tabletop Joe Now everyone knows, yeah Tabletop Joe Take it home boy Lost In The Harbour
Over here the ladies all want sweet perfume But there's never a rose And over the roses are frightened to bloom So they never can grow And over here they need wool For weaving their baby's new clothes But nobody has any wool And the sheep are all lost in the harbour Lost in the harbour And over here they want diamonds to wear But there aren't any here And over there everyone's hiding their tears But they're crying inside And the wall won't come down Till they're no longer afraid of themselves And if you don't believe me ask yourselves And then I can come down to the harbour Down to the harbour And then I will fill the ocean back up with my tears I still have a couple more years And then I can come back to the harbour Down to the harbour We're All Mad Here
You can hang me in a bottle like a cat Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat Where the wailing of a baby Meets the footsteps of the dead We're all mad here As the devil sticks his flag into the mud Mrs Carol has run off with Reverend Judd Hell is such a lonely place And your big expensive face will never last And you'll die with the rose still on your lips And in time the heart-shaped bone that was your hips And the worms, they will climb the rugged ladder of your spine We're all mad here And my eyeballs roll this terrible terrain And we're all inside a decomposing train And your eyes will die like fish And the shore of your face will turn to bone Watch Her Disappear
Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair That rose in strangled ebony curls Moving in a yellow bedroom light The air is wet with sound The faraway yelping of a wounded dog And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat A light goes on and the door opens And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard A wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air I hear your champagne laugh You wear two lavender orchids One in your hair and one on your hip A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk Circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo And I hear a banjo tango And you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree And I watched you as you disappeared I watched you as you disappeared I watched you as you disappeared I watched you as you disappeared Reeperbahn
Around the curve of The Parrot Bar A broken-down old movie star Hustling and Easterner Bringing out the beast in her A high dive on a swimming pool Filled with needles and with fools The memories are short but the tales are long When you're in the Reeperbahn Oh, they called her Rosie when she was a girl For her bright red cheeks and her strawberry curls When she would laugh the river would run She said she'd be a comedian Oh what a pity, oh what a shame When she said, 'come calling', nobody came Now her bright red cheeks are painted on And she's laughing her head off in the Reeperbahn Now little Hans was always strange Wearing womens underthings His father beat him but he wouldn't change He ran off with a man one day Now his lingerie is all the rage In the black on every page His father proudly calls his name Down there in the Reeperbahn Now if you've lost your inheritance And all you've left is common sense And you're not too picky about the crowd you keep Or the mattress where you sleep Behind every window, behind every door The apple has gone but there's always the core And the seeds will sprout up right through the floor Down there in the Reeperbahn Down there in the Reeperbahn Down there in the Reeperbahn I'm Still Here
You haven't looked at me that way in years You dreamed me up and left me here How long was I dreaming for What was it you wanted me for You haven't looked at me that way in years Your watch has stopped and the pond is clear Someone turn the lights back off I'll love you til all time is gone You haven't looked at me that way in years But I'm still here Fish & Bird
They bought a round for the sailor And they heard his tale Of a world that was so far away And a song that we'd never heard A song of a little bird That fell in love with a whale He said, 'You cannot live in the ocean' And she said to him 'You never can live in the sky' But the ocean is filled with tears And the sea turns into a mirror There's a whale in the moon when it's clear And a bird on the tide Please don't cry Let me dry your eyes So tell me that you will wait for me Hold me in your arms I promise we never will part I'll never sail back to the time But I'll always pretend you're mine Though I know that we both must part You can live in my heart Please don't cry Let me dry your eyes And tell me that you will wait for me Hold me in your arms I promise we never will part I'll never sail back to the time But I'll always pretend that you're mine I know that we both must part You can live in my heart Barcarolle
A cloud lets go of the moon Her ribbons are all out of tune She is skating on the ice In a glass in the hands of a man That she kissed on a train And the children are all gone into town To get candy and we are alone in the house here And your eyes fall down on me And I belong only to you The water is filling my shoes In the wine of my heart there's a stone In a well made of bone That you bring to the pond And I'm here in your pocket Curled up in a dollar And the chain from your watch around my neck And I'll stay right here until it's time The girls all knit in the shade Before the baby is made And the branches bend down To the ground here to swing on I'm lost in the blond summer grass And the train whistle blows And the carnival goes Till there's only the tickets and crows here And the grass will all grow back And the branches spell 'Alice' And I belong only to you
Blood Money
Misery Is The River Of The World
The higher that the monkey can climb The more he shows his tail Call no man happy 'til he dies There's no milk at the bottom of the pail God builds a church The devil builds a chapel Like the thistles that are growing 'Round the trunk of a tree All the good in the world You can put inside a thimble And still have room for you and me If there's one thing you can say about Mankind There's nothing kind about man You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again Misery's the river of the world Misery's the river of the world Misery's the river of the world The higher that the monkey can climb The more he shows his tail Call no man happy till he dies There's no milk at the bottom of the pail God tempers all the winds for the new shorn lambs The devil knows the bible like the back of his hand All the good in the world You can put inside a thimble And still have room for you and me If there's one thing you can say about Mankind There's nothing kind about man You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again For want of a bird The sky was lost For want of a nail A shoe was lost For want of a life A knife was lost For want of a toy A child was lost And misery's the river of the world Misery's the river of the world Everybody row, everybody row Misery's the river of the world Misery's the river of the world Misery's the river of the world Everybody row, everybody row Everybody row, everybody row Misery's the river of the world Misery's the river of the world Everybody row, everybody row Everybody row, everybody row Everybody row Misery's the river of the world Misery's the river of the world Misery's the river of the world Misery's the river of the world Everybody row, everybody row Everybody row Everything Goes To Hell
Why be sweet, why be careful, why be kind? A man has only one thing on his mind Why ask politely, why go lightly, why say please? They only want to get you on your knees There's a few things that I never could believe A woman when she weeps A merchant when he swears A thief who says he'll pay A lawyer when he cares A snake when he is sleeping A drunkard when he prays I don't believe you go to heaven when you're good And everything goes to hell, anyway Laissez-faire mi amour, ce la vie Shall I return to shore or swim back out to sea? The world don't care what a sailor does in town It's all hanging in the windows by the pound I don't believe you go to heaven when you're good Everything goes to hell, anyway I only want to hear you purr and to hear you moan You have another man who brings the money home I don't want dishes in the sink Don't ask me what I feel or what I think There's a few things that I never could believe A woman when she weeps A merchant when he swears A thief who says he'll pay A lawyer when he cares A snake when he is sleeping A drunkard when he prays I don't believe you go to heaven when you're good Everything goes to hell, anyway Everything goes to hell, anyway Oh, everything goes to hell, anyway Coney Island Baby
Every night she comes To take me out to dreamland When I'm with her I'm the richest man in the town She's a rose, she's a pearl She the spin on my world All the stars make their wishes on her eyes She's my Coney Island Baby She's my Coney Island Girl She's a princess in a red dress She's the moon in the mist to me She's my Coney Island Baby She's my Coney Island Girl Every night she comes To take me out to dreamland When I'm with her I'm the richest man in the town She's a rose, she's a pearl She the spin on my world All the stars make their wishes on her eyes She's my Coney Island Baby She's my Coney Island Girl She's a princess in a red dress She's the moon in the mist to me She's my Coney Island Baby She's my Coney Island Girl She's my Coney Island Baby She's my Coney Island Girl All The World Is Green
I fell into the ocean When you became my wife I risked it all against the sea To have a better life Marie you are the wild blue sky Men do foolish things You turn kings into beggars And beggars into kings Pretend that you owe me nothing And all the world is green We can bring back the old days again When all the world is green The face forgives the mirror The worm forgives the plow The questions begs the answer Can you forgive me somehow? Maybe when our story's over We'll go where it's always spring The band is playing our song again And all the world is green Pretend that you owe me nothing And all the world is green Can we bring back the old days again? And all the world is green The moon is yellow silver On the things that summer brings It's a love you'd kill for And all the world is green He's balancing a diamond On a blade of grass The dew will settle on our graves When all the world is green Pretend that you owe me nothing And all the world is green We can bring back the old days again When all the world is green He's balancing a diamond On a blade of grass The dew will settle on our graves When all the world is green God's Away On Business
I'd sell your heart to the junkman baby For a buck, for a buck If you're looking for someone to pull you out of that ditch You're out of luck, you're out of luck Ship is sinking The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's a leak, there's a leak in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who are the ones that we kept in charge? Killers, thieves and lawyers God's away, God's away God's away on business, business God's away, God's away God's away on business, business Digging up the dead with a shovel and a pick It's a job, it's a job Bloody moon rising with a plague and a flood Join the mob, join the mob It's all over, it's all over It's all over There's a leak, there's a leak in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who are the ones that we kept in charge? Killers, thieves and lawyers God's away, God's away God's away on business, business God's away, God's away on business, business Godddamn there's always such a big temptation To be good, to be good There's always free cheddar in a mousetrap, baby It's a deal, it's a deal God's away, God's away God's away on business, business God's away, God's away God's away on business, business I narrow my eyes like a coin slot baby Let her ring, let her ring God's away, God's away God's away on business, business God's away, God's away God's away on business, business Another Man's Vine
Bougainvillea's bloom and wind Be careful mind the strangle vines The roses climbing through the blind Cause the sun is on the other side The bees will find their honey The sweetest everytime Around a red rose I see a red rose Red rose blooming on another man's vine Golden Willies gone to war He left his young wife on the shore Will she be steadfast everyday? While Golden Willie is far away Along the way her letters end She never reads what Willie sends I see a red rose I smell a red rose A red rose blooming on another man's vine Lullaby
Sun is red, moon is cracked Daddy's never coming back Nothing's ever yours to keep Close your eyes, go to sleep If I die before you wake Don't you cry, don't you weep Nothing's ever as it seems Climb the ladder to your dreams And if I die before you wake Don't you cry, don't you weep Nothing's ever yours to keep close your eyes, go to sleep Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
Life is whittled Life's a riddle Man's a fiddle that life plays on When the day breaks and the earth quakes Life's a mistake all day long Tell me, who gives a good goddamn You'll never get out alive Don't go dreaming Don't go scheming A man must test his mettle In a crooked ol' world Starving in the belly Starving in the belly Starving in the belly of a whale Starving in the belly Starving in the belly Starving in the belly of a whale Don't take my word Just look skyward They that dance must pay the fiddler Sky is darkening Dogs are barking But the caravan moves on You tell me, who gives a good goddamn You'll never get out alive Don't go dreaming Don't go scheming A man must test his mettle In a crooked ol' world Starving in the belly Starving in the belly Starving in the belly of a whale Oh we're starving in the belly Starving in the belly Starving in the belly of a whale As the crow flies It's there the truth lies At the bottom of the well E-o-Leven goes to heaven Bless the dead here as the rain falls Don't trust a bull's horn A doberman's tooth A runaway horse or me Don't be greedy, don't be needy If you live in hope You're dancing to a terrible tune Starving in the belly Starving in the belly Starving in the belly of a whale Oh starving in the belly Starving in the belly Starving in the belly of a whale The Part You Throw Away
You dance real slow You wreck it down Then you walk away you turn around What did that old blonde gal say? That is the part you throw away I want that beggar's eyes A winning horse A tidy Mexican divorce St. Mary's prayers, Houdini's hands And a barman who always Understands Will you loose the flowers Hold on to the vase? Will you wipe all those teardrops away from your face? I can't help feeling as I close the door I have done all of this Many times before But the bone must go The wish can stay The kiss don't know what the lips will say Forget I've hurt you Put stones in our bed And remember to never Mind instead But all of your letters burned up in the fire And time is just memory mixed with desire That's not the road t is only the map, I say Gone just like matches From a closed down cabaret In a Portuguese saloon A fly is circling around the room You'll soon forget the tune that you play Cause that is the part You throw away Oh that is the part You throw away Woe
The ribbon round your neck Against your skin it's pale as bone It is my favorite thing you've worn The band is playing our song And we won't go home 'til morn A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Well I always play Russian Roulette in my head Seventeen black, Oh twenty-nine red How far from the gutter How far from the pew I'll always remember to forget about you A good man is hard to find Only strangers sleep in my bed And my favorite words are goodbye And my favorite color is red A long dead soldier looks out from the frame No one remembers his war, no one remembers his name Go out to the meadow, scare off all the crows It does nothing but rain here, nothing will grow A good man is hard to find Only strangers sleep in my bed And my favorite words are goodbye And my favorite color is red My favorite color is red My favorite color is red
Real Gone
Top Of The Hill New corn yellow and slaughterhouse red The birds keep singing Baby after you're dead I'm gonna miss you plenty Big old world With our abalone And your mother of pearl Stop and get me on the ride up [3x] I'm only goin I'm, only goin I'm only goin to the top Of the hill I need your moon to be the sky Sky against Don't get your trouser button Stuck on the fence Diego red and bedlam money are fine Why don't you come up here And see me sometime Stop and get me on the ride up [3x] I'm only goin I'm, only goin I'm only goin to the top Of the hill There's very little leeway I seen a mattress on the freeway The moon rises over Dog Street Jefferson said every things reet Have all the lights burned Out on heaven again I'll never roll the number 7 again I'm made of bread and I'm on an Ocean of win I hear all the birdies On the phone just fine Stop and get me on the ride up [3x] I'm only goin I'm, only goin I'm only goin to the top Of the hill Black joke and the bean soup Big sky and the Ford Coupe Old maid and the dry bones Red Rover and the Skinny Bones Jones 47 mules to pull this train We're getting married In the pouring rain You need your differential and Plenty of oil You load the wagon till The end of the world Stop and get me on the ride up [3x] I'm only goin I'm, only goin I'm only goin to the top Of the hill What's your throttle made of IS it money or bone Don't doddle or you'll Never get home Opium, fireworks, vodka and meat Scoot over and save me a seat Stop and get me on the ride up [3x] I'm only goin I'm, only goin I'm only goin to the top Of the hill If I had it all to do all Over again I'd try to rise above the law of man Why don'cha gimme nother Sip of your cup Turn a Rolls Royce into a Chicken coup, uh huh Stop and get me on the ride up [3x] I'm only goin I'm, only goin I'm only goin to the top Of the hill Hoist That Rag Well I learned the trade From Piggy Knowles Sing Sing Tommy Shay Boys God used me as hammer boys To beat his weary drum today Hoist that rag [2x] The sun is up the world is flat Damn good address for a rat The smell of blood The Drone of flies You know what to do if The baby cries Hoist that rag [2x] Well we stick our fingers in The ground, heave and Turn the world around Smoke is blacking out the sun At night I pray and clean my gun The cracked bell rings as The ghost bird sings and the gods Go beggin here So just open fire As you hit the shore All is fair in love And war Hoist that rag [4x] Sins Of My Father God said don't give me your Tin horn prayers Don't buy roses off the street down there Took it all and took the dirt road home Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair Night is falling like a bloody axe Lies and rumors and the wind at my back Hand on the wheel gravel on the road Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Birds cry warning from a hidden branch Carving out a future with a gun and an axe I'm way beyond the gavel and the laws of man Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand The worlds not easy the blind man said Turns on nothing but money and dread Dogs been scratching at the door all nite Long neck birds flying out of the moon light I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie The star spangled glitter of his one good eye Everybody knows that the game was rigged Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig Dark town alleys been hiding you Long bell tolling is your waterloo Oh baby what can you do Does the light of god blind you Or lead the way home for you? I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond God all mighty for righteousness sake Humiliation of our fallen state Written in the book of tubold Cain A long black over coat will show no stain Feel the heat and the burn on your back The rip and the moan and the stretch of the rack All my belongings in a flour sack Will the place I come from Take me back I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond They'll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big To dance upon nothing to the tyborn jig Treats you like a puppet when your under its spell Oh the heart is heaven But the mind is hell Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds I's born at this time for a reason you see When I'm dead I"ll be dead a long time But the wines so pleasing and so sublime I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree Everything I done is between God and me Only he will judge how my time was spent 29 days of sinning and 40 to repent The horse is steady but the horse is blind Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind The roots grow upwared and the branches grow down Its much too late to throw the dice again I've found I'm gonna take the sins of my father I'm gonna take the sins of my mother I"m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond I'm gonna wash them [2x] I'm gonna wash the sins of my Father I'm gonna wash the sins of my Mother I'm gonna wash the sins of my Brother Till the water runs clear [2x] Shake It Strip Poker Motel Got a small blue tail Hot ice, cold cash I never been no good at staying out of jail Wheel spin, roulette Who's giving, don't get Ripped shirt, black eye Tuxedo, bow tie Dark sound, straight road Get lost, get loaded Enlisted men, off duty Stolen clouds, dark beauty Cold gun, wild rose Night clerk, door closed Lie down baby Your love is a faucet Called China, cell phone Chun King, not home You know I feel like a preacher waving a gun around Shake it, shake it. shake it baby! Shake it, shake it, shake it now Shake it, shake it, shake it baby Shake it, shake it, shake it now Shake it, shake it, shake it baby Shake it, shake it, shake it now Outside, it's damp Put a towel on that lamp You look hot in this light I can love you all night Shoes off, hair down Got a pink night gown Mike Tyson, KO'ed On the wild, blue road Small town, straight road That rooster, done crowed Flat tire, homemade cross You know I feel like a preacher waving a gun around Shake it, shake it, shake it baby! Shake it, shake it, shake it now Shake it. shake it, shake it baby Shake it, shake it, shake it now Don't Go Into That Barn Don't go into that barn, yea [2x] Black cellophane sky at midnite Big blue moon with three gold rings I called Champion to the window And I pointed up above the trees That's where I heard my name in a scream Coming from the woods, out there I let my dog run off the chain I locked my door real good with a chair Don't go into that barn, yea [2x] Everett Lee broke loose again Its worse than the time before Cause he's high on potato and tulip wine Fermented in the muddy rain of course A drunken wail a drunk train Blew through the birdless trees Oh, you're alone alright Your alone alright How did I know [2x] Don't go into that barn, yea [2x] An old black tree Scratching up the sky With boney, claw like fingers A rusty black rake Digging up the turnips Of a muddy cold grey day Shiny tooth talons Coiled for grabbing a stranger Happening by And the day when home early And the sun sank down into The much of a deep dead sky Don't go into that barn, yea [2x] Bank since Saginaw Calinda was born It's been cotton, soybeans, tobacco and corn Behind the porticoed house of a Long dead farm They found the falling down timbers Of a spooky old barn Out there like a slave ship Upside down Wrecked beneath the waves of a rain When the river is low They find old bones and When they plow they always Dig up chains Don't go into that barn, yea [2x] Did you bury your fire? Yes sir Did you cover your tracks? Yes sir Did you bring your knife? Yes sir Did they see your face? No sir Did the Mom see you? No sir DId you go cross the river? Yes sir Did you fix your rake? Yes sir Did you stay down wind? Yes sir Did you hide your gun? Yes sir Did you smuggle your rum? Yes sir How did I know [3x] Don't go into that barn, yea [2x] Don't forget that I warned you Don't go into that barn, yea [3x] No shirt no coat Put me on a flat boat Dover, down to Covington Covington to Louisville Louisville to Henderson Henderson to Smithland Smithland to Memphis Down to Vicksburg to Natchez put me on a Flat boat Dover Dam To Covington, Covington to Louisville, Louisville to Henderson... How's It Gonna End He had 3 whole dollars A worn out car And a wife who was LEaving for good LIfe's made of trouble Worry pain and struggle She wrote good bye in The dust on the hood THey found a a map of Missouri Lipstick on the glass They must of left In the middle of the nite And I want to know The same thing Everyone wants to know How it going to end? Behind a smoke colored Curtain, the girl Disappeared, the found out The ring was a fake A tree born crooked Will never grow straight She sunk like a hammer in to the lake A long lost letter and And old leaky boat Promises are never meant To keep And I want to know The same thing Everyone wants to know How it going to end? The barn leaned over The vultures dried their wings The moon climbed up an empty sky The sun sank down behind the tree On the hill There's a killer and he's coming Thru the rye But maybe he's the Father Of that lost little girl It's hard to tell in this light And I want to know The same thing Everyone wants to know How it going to end? Drag your wagon and your plow Over the bones of the dead Out among the roses and the weeds You can never go back And the answer is no And wishing for it only Makes it bleed Joel Tornabene was broken On the wheel Shane and Bum Mahoney on the lamb The grain was as gold As Sheila's hair All the way from Liverpool With all we could steal He was robbed of twenty dollars His body found stripped Cast into the harbour There and drowned And I want to know The same thing Everyone wants to know How it going to end? THe sirens are snaking their Way up the hill It's last call somewhere in The world The reptiles blend in with the Color of the street Life is sweet at the edge Of a razor And down in the front row of An old picture show The old man is asleep As the credits start to roll And I want to know The same thing Everyone wants to know How it going to end? Metropolitan Glide Are you ready, are you ready Knocky Parker told Bowlegged Sal They all know how to kick it in Cal They're playing this dope and this Money tune Dancing baby with a 7 mile broom Things are bulging out the rafters Like hell Dddddown there at the Hush Hotel They're jumping right out of their Seats, dancing to the bran' new beat Do... the Metropolitan Glide [2x] The floor is polished and you Momma's gone You can quake and roll and moan 29 gypsies in a Caddilac stoned Turn off the ringer on your cellular phone Whip the air like a Rainbow Trout Drag your tail pipe till you bottom out Do... the Metropolitan Glide [4x] The low bottom of the china moon The black swan and the way too soon Ace pocket and teh dog bone gone The peacock and the mean black swan The rain shower and high heeled shoe Bombay money and I know I can do it The sink hole and the victory dance Its in the pocket in the real tight pants Ddddo the Metropolitan Glide [2x] Show your teeth bray like a falf You kill me with your machine gun laugh You make me trouble with the floor THat's creaking I"ve been ready to ka boom for a week Put on your stockings and your powder and blush Keep it all on the hush, hush, hush Do... the Metropolitan Glide [2x] Dead And Lovely She was a middle class girl She was in over her head She thought she would Stand up in the deep end He had a bullet proof smile He had money to burn She thought she had the moon In her pocket But now she's dead She's so dead Forever dead and lovely now I've always been told to Remember this... Don't let a fool kiss you Never marry for love He was hard to impress He knew everyone's secrets He wore her on his arm Just like jewelry He never gave but he got He kept her on a leash He's not the kind of wheel You fall asleep at But now she's dead Forever dead Forever dead and lovely now Come closer, look deeper You've fallen fast Just like a plane on a Stormy sea She made up someone to be She made up somewhere to be from This is one business in the World where that's no Problem at all Everything that is left They will only plow under Soon every one you know Will be gone And now she's dead Forever dead Forever dead and lovely now Now she's dead Forever dead Forever dead and lovely now I've always been told to Remember this... Don't let a kiss fool you Never marry for love Everything has it's price Everything has it's place What's more romantic Then dying in the moonlight? Now they're all watching the sea What's lost can never be broken Her roots were sweet But they were so shallow And now she's dead Forever dead Forever dead and lovely now And now she's dead Forever dead And she's so dead and lovely now Circus We put up our tent on a dark Green knoll, outside of town by The train tracks and a seagull dump Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel And her 'Marvellous Pigs In Satin' We pounded our stakes in the ground All powder brown And the branches spread like scary Fingers reaching We were in a pasture outside Kankakee And One Eyed Myra, the queen of The galley who trained the Ostrich and the camels She looked at me squinty with her One good eye in a Roy Orbison T-shirt as she bottle fed An orangutan named Tripod And then there was Yodeling Elaine the Queen of the air who wore a Dollar sign medallion and she Had a tiny bubble of spittle Around her nostril and a Little rusty tear, for she had Lassoed and lost another Tipsy sailor And over in The burnt yellow tent By the frozen tractor, the Music was like electric sugar And Zuzu Bolin played 'Stavin' Chain' and Mighty Tiny on the saw and he Threw his head back with a Mouth full of gold teeth And they played 'Lopsided heart' And 'Moon over Dog Street' And by the time they played "Moanin Low" I was soakin' wet and wild eyed And Doctor Bliss slipped me a Preparation and I fell asleep with 'Livery Stable Blues' in my ear And me and Molley Hoey drank Pruno and Koolaid and she had a Tattoo gun made out of a cassette Motor and a guitar string and She soaked a hanky in 3 Roses And rubbed it on the spot And drew a rickety heart and A bent arrow and it hurt like hell And Funeral Wells spun Poodle Murphy on the target As he threw his hardware, Only once in Sheboygan did he miss At a matinee on Diamond Pier and She'd never let him forget it They were doing two shows and she Had a high fever and he took Off a piece of her ear and Tip Little told her she should Leave the bum But Poodle said, "He fetched me Last time I run." But I'd like to hammer this ring into a bullet And I wish I had some whiskey and a gun My dear And I wish I had some whiskey and a gun My dear Trampled Rose Long way going to Get my medicine Sky's the autumn grey of a lonely wren Piano from a window played Gone tomorrow, gone yesterday I found it in the street At first I did not see Lying at my feet A trampled rose Passing the hat in church It never stops going around You never pay just once To get the job done What I done to me, I done to you What happened to the trampled rose? In the muddy street With the fireworks and leaves A blind man with a cup I asked Would he sing 'Kisses Sweeter Than Wine' I know that rose, Like I know my name The one I gave my love, It was the same Now I find it in the street, A trampled rose Green Grass Lay your head where my heart used to be Hold the earth above me Lay down in the green grass Remember when you loved me Come closer don't be shy Stand beneath a rainy sky The moon is over the rise Think of me as a train goes by Clear the thistles and brambles Whistle 'Didn't He Ramble' Now there's a bubble of me And it's floating in thee Stand in the shade of me Things are now made of me The weather vane will say... It smells like rain today God took the stars and he tossed 'em Can't tell the birds from the blossoms You'll never be free of me He'll make a tree from me Don't say good bye to me Describe the sky to me And if the sky falls, mark my words We'll catch mocking birds Lay your head where my heart used to be Hold the earth above me Lay down in the green grass Remember when you loved me Baby Gonna Leave Me Well I stood on the corner Until my feet got wet I stood by the faucet Till the sink filled up I stood by the window Until the moon came up My baby's bought a ticket Long as my clothes line Na na na na, na-na-na Na na na na My baby went and left me in a '49 Ford Going down the highway in a 49 sword My baby ripped my heart out With every turn of the moon Somebody told me There's never been a rose without a thorn Na na na na, na-na-na Na na na Well I'm just another sad guest On this dark earth And if I was a tree I'd be a cut down tree And if I was a bed I'd be an unmade bed I'll get my 32/20 and it'll have to do Na na na na, na-na-na Na na na na Gone like the wind in the meadow And the rain on the hill You even left your lipstick And your powder and your blush Baby gonna leave me On a Grey Hound bus The stars are melting All across the sky Na na na na, na-na-na Na na na na I let the dog out But he didn't come back Stood on the corner until My feet got wet Baby leave me in a '49 Ford I stood by the window Untill the moon came up Na na na na, na-na-na Na na na na Clang Boom Steam Well my baby's so fine Even her car looks good From behind Well my baby's so fine Even her car looks good From behind But the train that took My baby... It went clang, boom and steam Make It Rain She took all my money And my best friend You know the story Here it comes again I have no pride I have no shame You gotta make it rain Make it rain! Since you're gone Deep inside it hurts I'm just another sad guest On this dark earth I want to believe In the mercy of the world again Make it rain, make it rain! The nite's too quiet Stretched out alone I need the whip of thunder And the wind's dark moan I'm not Able, I'm just Cain Open up the heavens Make it rain! I'm close to heaven Crushed at the gate They sharpen their knives On my mistakes What she done, you can't give it a name You gotta make it rain Make it rain, yeah! Without her love Withour your kiss Hell can't burn me More than this I'm burning up all this pain Put out the fire Make it rain! I'm born to trouble I'm born to fate Inside a promise I can't escape It's the same old world But nothing looks the same Make it rain! [2x] Got to make it rain Make it rain You got to make it rain Got to make it rain You got to... I stand alone here! [2x] Sing it... Make it rain! [2x] Day After Tomorrow I got your letter today And I miss you all so much, here I can't wait to see you all And I'm counting the days, dear I still believe that there's gold At the end of the world And I'll come home To Illinois On the day after tomorrow It is so hard And it's cold here And I'm tired of taking orders And I miss old Rockford town Up by the Wisconsin border But I miss you won't believe Shoveling snow and raking leaves And my plane will touch tomorrow On the day after tomorrow I close my eyes Every night And I dream that I can hold you They fill us full of lies Everyone buys About what it means to be a soldier I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel About all the blood that's been spilled Look out on the street Get me back home On the day after tomorrow You can't deny The other side Don't want to die Any more than we do What I'm trying to say, Is don't they pray To the same God that we do? Tell me, how does God choose? Whose prayers does he refuse? Who turns the wheel? And who throws the dice On the day after tomorrow? Mmmmmmm... I'm not fighting For justice I am not fighting For freedom I am fighting For my life And another day In the world here I just do what I've been told You're just the gravel on the road And the one's that are lucky One's come home On the day after tomorrow And the summer It too will fade And with it comes the winter's frost, dear And I know we too are made Of all the things that we have lost here I'll be twenty-one today I've been saving all my pay And my plane will touch down On the day after tomorrow And my plane it will touch down On the day after tomorrow Chick A Boom A - Chick a boom...
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
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Lie To Me You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby Lie to me baby Lie to me baby, move on You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby Lie to me baby, move on I know you got another jockey at home Let me be your rider till your real man comes Whip me baby, lie like a dog I really don't care if you do You got to You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby Lie to me baby, move on You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby Lie to me baby, move on I know you got yourself a skinny ol' man Let me be your baby, I know that I can Slap me baby, give me all of your grief I have no use for the truth You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby Lie to me baby, move on Alright I know you got another jockey at home Let me be your rider till your real man comes Whip me baby, lie like a dog Never stop telling me lies You got to lie to me baby Lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby Lie to me baby, move on You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby You got to lie to me baby Lie to me baby, move on Lie to me baby, move on
Lowdown She's a crooked sheriff in a real straight town She openend the door, shake shake shake the lights go down Clover honey and the Jimson Weed Red leather skirt way up above her knees Oh yeah, my baby's lowdown She's a gone lost dirt road There ain't no way back I been told Well she's a story they all tell She's a rebel, she's a yell Oh yeah, my baby's lowdown White heat in a cold rain I'm a mergin here in your mergin lane Jockey La Fayette, Big Eyed Al The second hand moon's shining for my gal She's a big red flag in a mean bullpen She'll steal it from you, sell it right back to you again Well, she's a wild rose, she's not settled Cold gun of ice blue metal, Oh, my baby's lowdown White heat in a cold rain I'm a mergin here in your mergin lane Jockey La Fayette, Big Eyed Al She's a cheap motel with a burned out sign She'll take care of you definitely every time She got a stolen check book and legs up to there Singing into a hairbrush, right in front of the mirror Oh yeah, my baby's lowdown
2:19 I lost everything I had in the '29 flood The barn was buried 'neath a mile of mud Now, I've got nothing but the whistle and the steam My baby leaving town on the 2:19 Now there's a fellow that's preaching 'bout hell and damnation Bouncing off the walls in the Grand Central Station I treated her bad, I treated her mean My baby leaving town on the 2:19 I said: hey, hey, I don't know what to do Hey, hey, I will remember you Hey, hey, I don't know what to do My baby leaving town on the 2:19 Now I've always been puzzled by the yin and the yang It'll come out in the wash, but it always leaves a stain Sturm and Drang, the luster and the sheen My baby leaving town on the 2:19 Lost the baby with the water, and the preacher stole the bride Sent her out for a bottle, but when she came back inside She didn't have my whiskey, she didn't have my gin With a hat full of feathers and a wicked grin Hey, hey, I don't know what to do Hey, hey, I will remember you Hey, hey, I don't know what to do My baby's leaving town on the 2:19 On the train you get smaller, as you get farther away The roar covers everything you wanted to say Was that a raindrop in the corner of your eye Were you drying your nails or waving goodbye I said: hey, hey, I will remember you Hey, hey, I don't know what to do Hey, hey, I will remember you My baby's leaving town on the 2:19 I said: Hey, hey, I don't know what to do Hey, hey, I will remember you Hey, hey, I don't know what to do My baby's leaving town on the 2:19 I said: Hey, hey, I don't know what to do Hey, hey, I will remember you Hey, hey, I don't know what to do My baby's leaving town on the 2:19 I said: Hey.
Fish In The Jailhouse Peoria Johnson told Dudlow Joe I can break out of any old jail, you know The bars are iron, the walls are stone All I need me is an old fish bone They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight Oh boy They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight Corbina, opaleye, hammerhead shark Steelhead salmon or a mud bank carp Sand me one side dull, whittle the other side sharp By Saturday night I'll be in Central Park They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight Oh boy They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight Ask Little Son Jackson, on the 44 Kid Or Whitfield Faraday, what I did From Yazoo city up to Rollin Fork From Natchez to Kinosha, from New Dime to New York They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight Oh boy They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight Gimme a nice totuava or a chicken of the sea I'm gonna fashion me a fishbone skeleton key Tell Skullion Childs I won't be late You can bet your freedom, I'm gonna clean my plate Fish in the jailhouse tonight They're serving fish in the jailhouse tonight They're serving fish in the jailhouse Fish in the jailhouse tonight Serving fish in the jailhouse tonight Serving fish in the jailhouse tonight All right.
Bottom Of The World My daddy told me, lookin' back The best friend you'll have is a railroad track So when I was 13 said, I'm rollin' my own, And I'm leavin' Missouri and I'm never comin' home And I'm lost, and I'm lost I'm lost at the bottom of the world I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar I'm lost at the bottom of the world Satchel Puddin' and Lord God Mose Sitting by the fire with a busted nose That fresh egg yeller is too damn rare But the white part is perfect for slickin' down your hair And I'm lost, and I'm lost I'm lost at the bottom of the world I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar I'm lost at the bottom of the world Blackjack Ruby and Nimrod Cain The moon's the color of a coffee stain Jesse Frank and Birdy Joe Hoaks But who is the king of all these folks And I'm lost, and I'm lost I'm lost at the bottom of the world I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar I'm lost at the bottom of the world Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron On telapia fish cakes and fried black swan Razorweed onion and peacock squirell And I dreamed all night about a beautiful girl And I'm lost, and I'm lost I'm lost at the bottom of the world I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar I'm lost at the bottom of the world Well, god's green hair is where I slept last He balanced a diamond on a blade of grass Now I woke me up with a cardinal bird And when I wanna talk he hangs on every word And I'm lost, and I'm lost I'm lost at the bottom of the world I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar I'm lost at the bottom of the world
Lucinda Well, they call me William the Pleaser I sold opium, fireworks and lead Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers when the shadows get long I'll be dead Now, her hair was as black as a bucket of tar her skin as white as a cuttlefish bone I left Texas to follow Lucinda Now I'll never see heaven or home I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars Like a kid who captures a firefly and leaves it only to die in the jar As I kick at the clouds at my hanging As I swing out over the crowd I will search every face for Lucinda's And she will go off with me down to hell I thought I'd broke loose of Lucinda The rain returned and so did the wind I cast this burden on the god that's within me and I'll leave this old world and go free The devil dances inside empty pockets but she never wanted money or pearls No, that wasn't enough for Lucinda She wasn't that kind of girl Now I've fallen from grace for Lucinda Whoever thought that hell be'd so low I did well for an old tin can sailor but she wanted the bell in my soul I've spoken the god on the mountain And I've swam in the Irish sea I ate fire and drank from the Ganges and I'll beg there for mercy for me I thought I'd broke loose from Lucinda the rain returned and so did the wind I was standing outside the Whitehorse Oh but I was afraid to go in I heard someone pull the trigger her breasts heaved in the moonlight again There was a smear of gold in the window and then I was the jewel of her sin They call me William the Pleaser I sold opium, fireworks and lead Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers when the shadows get long I'll be dead Now her hair was a black as a bucket of tar Skin as white as a cuttlefish bone I left Texas to follow Lucinda I know I'll never see heaven or home I know I'll never see heaven or home I know I'll never see heaven or home
Ain't Goin' Down To The Well Ain't goin' down Ain't goin' down Mamma to the well, mamma to the well, mamma to the well, mamma to the well, no more Ain't goin' down Ain't goin' down Mamma to the well, mamma to the well, mamma to the well, Mamma to the well, no more Ain't goin' down I'm a true believer, I'm a true believer, believer Ain't goin' down Ain't goin' down Mamma to the well, mamma to the well, mamma to the well, Mamma to the well, no more Ain't goin' down Ain't goin' down If I ever get able, if I ever get able, able, to pay this debt I owe Ain't goin' down I ain't goin' down Mamma to the well, mamma to the well, Mamma to the well, no more Ain't goin' down Mamma to the well, mamma to the well, mamma to the well, mamma to the well, Mamma to the well, no more Ain't goin' down Ain't goin' down Ain't goin' down Ain't goin' down
Lord I've Been Changed Oh I, know I've been changed And I know I've been changed I know I've been changed Angels in heaven done sign my name Angels in heaven done sign my name Well, I know I got religion, Lord knows I'm not ashamed Well, a holy ghost is my witness and the angels done sign my name Oh, I said: I know I've been changed And I know I've been changed, yeah Know I've been changed Angels in heaven done sign my name Angels in heaven done sign my name Lord knows I've been converted Lord knows I've been redeemed Well, you can wake me up in the midnight hour I'm gonna tell ya just a what I seen I said: I know I've been changed And I know I've been changed, yeah Know I've been changed Angels in heaven done sign my name Angels in heaven done sign my name Angels in heaven done sign my name Angels in heaven done sign my name
Putting On The Dog You gotta stomp, whistle and scream You gotta wake right up in your dreams You gotta jump, whittle and drive And keep that feelin' alive You gotta kick, holler and shout I'm gonna tell you what it's all about You gotta tell me that you love me Tell me that you're mine We're puttin' on the dog tonight We're puttin' on the dog tonight We'll be p-puttin' on the dog tonight Puttin' on, puttin' on the dog tonight We'll be puttin' on the dog tonight Well, we'll be puttin' on the dog tonight Puttin' on the dog Puttin' on the dog We'll flip, follow and fly Just do it now and don't ask why You gotta strut, wiggle and slide Let everyone know that you're alive You gotta crank, gallop and twist Do it once, you'll never resist Tell me that you love me Tell me that you're mine We're puttin' on the dog tonight, yeah Puttin' on the dog tonight, all right Well, we could go into a zuki jump It's rainin', it pours Big ol' Lincoln with the suicide doors Tip that bottle from the brim to the dregs You ain't dancin' till you cross your legs Puttin' on the dog tonight We'll be puttin' on the dog tonight We'll be puttin' on the dog tonight Puttin' on the dog tonight Puttin' on the dog I'll be p-puttin' on the dog Puttin' on the dog Puttin' on the dog Puttin' on the dog Puttin' on the dog
Road To Peace Young Abdel Madi Shabneh was only 18 years old The youngest of 9 children, he'd never spent a nite away from home And his mother held his photograph, up in the New York Times You see the killing has intensified, along the road to peace A tall thin boy with a whispy moustache, disguised as an Orthodox Jew On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War II And the thunderous explosion blew out windows, 200 yards away More retribution and 17 dead, along the road to peace Now at King George Avenue and Jaffa Road, passengers boarded bus 14A In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Madi Shabneh And the last thing that he said on earth was "God is great and god is good" And he blew them all to kingdom come, upon the road to peace Now in response to this, another kiss of death was visited upon Yashir Tehah, Israel said is an Hamas Senior militant Israel sent 4 choppers in, flames engulfed his white Opel And it killed his wife and his 3-year-old child, leaving only blackened skeletons They found a toddler's bottle and a pair of small shoes, and they waved them in front of the cameras But Israel said they did not know that his wife and child were in the car There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV Neither side will ever give up their smallest right, along the road to peace Israel launched its latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday And two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers Though thousands dead and wounded on both sides, most of them Middle Eastern civilians They fill their children full of hate, to fight an old man's war and die, upon the road to peace "And this is our land we will fight with all our force", say the Palastinians and the Jews And each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the Resistance If the right eye offends thee, then you must pluck it out And Machoud Abbas and Sharon had been lost, along the road to peace Once Kissinger said: "We have no friends, America only has interests" And now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-election But Bush is reluctant to risk his future, with the fear of his political failures So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press, ten thousand miles from the road to peace In a video that they found at the home of Abdel Madi Shabneh He held a Kalashnikov riffle, and he spoke with the voice like a boy He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future He told his mother he had a test that day, out along the road to peace The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace And tell me, why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets? And if god is great and god is good, why can't he change the hearts of men? Well, maybe god himself is lost and needs help Maybe god himself he needs all of our help Maybe god himself is lost and needs help He's out upon the road to peace Maybe god himself is lost and needs help Maybe god himself he needs all of our help And he's lost upon the road to peace And he's lost upon the road to peace Out upon the road to peace
All The Time You're the tree that you can't eat the fruit from I heard horses came to ride me away I want shade and a good place to shoot from If it's a clock I'd be the end of the day You know you're not the boss of me You can lift your skirt, you can shake your hair But I got all the time in the world You're the ditch in the road where wheels keep spinning You're the same dead cat, clawing its way back grinning You know, you got a bad reputation and your nine lives way down the line I got a jacket to put on and a hat to wear I wouldn't waste a gallon on you out there And I got all the time in the world A bridge is only there for you to jump off of And there ain't no rain clouds that are blue I do declare my independence baby I shot off all my fireworks for you The river's burning and the trees are on fire There's lots of good rubber left on these tires And I've got all the time in the world Baby, you're the light that won't change, that I got stuck at You're the fan that won't work at the motel They were all out of red so I got me a blue one Baby, you're always using mine, why don't you get you one I know you won't go very far, you left your blonde wig in the car And I got all the time in the world
The Return Of Jackie And Judy Oh-yeah, oh-yeah Well, Jackie is a punk, and Judy is a runt They went down to the Mudd Club and they both got drunk Oh-yeah, oh-yeah Well, Jackie is a bookie, and Judy's taking loans They both came up to New York just to see the Ramones Oh-yeah, oh-yeah And oh, I don't know why she wrote that letter I don't know why, we can't forget her, oh-no Well, Jackie's playing hooky, Judy's playing pool They both got caught for cutting Now they're goin' to summer school Oh-yeah Now Jackie's playin' Hooky, Judy's getting rammed They both got kicked outside They ain't got no da da da da Oh-yeah, oh-yeah And oh, I don't know why she wrote that letter, oh yeah I don't know why, we can't forget her, oh-no Well, Jackie is a punk, and Judy is a runt They went down to the Mudd Club and they both got drunk Oh-yeah, oh-yeah Now Jackie's playing hooky, Judy's playing pool They both got caught for cutting Now they're goin' to summer school Oh-yeah, oh-yeah Oh-yeah, oh-yeah Oh-yeah, oh-yeah, oh-yeah Oh-yeah, oh-yeah, oh-yeah Oh-yeah, oh-yeah, oh-yeah Oh-yeah, oh-yeah, oh-yeah Oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah
Walk Away Dot King was whittled from the bone of Cain With a little drop of poison in a red, red blood She need a way to turn around the bend She said, I wanna walk away and start all over again There are things I've done I can't erase I wanna look in the mirror and see another face I said "never", but I'm doin' it again I wanna walk away and start over again No more rain, no more roses On my way Shake my thirst in a cool, cool pond There's a widower in every place There's a heart that's beatin' in every page The beginning of it starts at the end Well, it's time to walk away and start over again Weather's murder at a hundred and three William Ray shot Cora Belle Lee A yellow dog knows when he has sinned You wanna walk away and start over again No more rain, no more roses On my way Shake my thirst in a cool, cool pond Cooper told Molly the whole block's gone They're dyin' for jewelry, money, and clothes I always get out of the trouble I'm in I wanna walk away and start over again I left my bible by the side of the road Carved my initials in an old dead tree I'm goin' away but I'm gonna be back when It's time to walk away and start all over again Oh, oh yeah Yeah It's time to walk away You gotta walk away Gotta walk away Just wanna walk away, yeah I wanna walk away and start over again I wanna walk away Wanna walk away Wanna walk away Wanna walk away Wanna walk away
Sea Of Love Come with me, my love To the sea, the sea of love I wanna tell you how much I love you But I'm drowning in a sea of love Do you remember the night we met That's the night I knew you were my pet I wanna tell you how much I love you But I'm drowning in a sea of love Come with me to the sea, yeah Do you remember the night we met Well, that's the night I just knew you were my pet I wanna tell you how much I love you But I'm down here in the sea of love Come with me to the sea, yeah Oh and do you remember the night we met That's the night I just knew you were my pet I wanna tell you how much I love you Goin' down here in the sea of love Come with me to the sea, oh yeah Do you remember the night we met That's the night I just knew you were my pet I wanna tell you how much I love you But I'm down here in the sea of love Oh come with me to the sea, oh yeah Come with me, my love To the sea, the sea of love I wanna tell you how much I love you But I'm down here in the sea of love Oh come with me to the sea, oh yeah
Buzz Fledderjohn I stood on the roof, of Stuart's old Dodge To get a better look at the Fledderjohn's lodge Bait shop, pistols and ammo too Nothing but books about World War II Rottweiler, Doberman, a Pinkerton guard I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard I ain't allowed No, I ain't allowed I said, I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard I seen a python swallowing a Dobermann whole Piranha swimming in a mixing bowl Papers full of stabbings, the sky's full of crows She's singing in Italian while she's hanging out her clothes Carp in the bathtub and it's raining real hard I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard I said, that I ain't allowed No, I ain't allowed No, I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard. Well, a sailor's ringing doorbells, the sinner's in the pew Weather vane squeaking to the west I seen the cliffs of Dover and the deepest ocean blue One thing in the world I can't recommend to you Cause I ain't allowed I said, I ain't allowed No, I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard I said, I ain't allowed No, I ain't allowed I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard I ain't allowed I ain't allowed I said, I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard
Rains On Me This is how the world will be Everywhere I go it rains on me Forty monkeys drowning in a boiling sea Everywhere I go it rains on me I went down into the valley to pray Everywhere I go it rains on me I got drunk and I stayed all day Everywhere I go it rains on me Everywhere I go Everywhere I go Everywhere I go It rains on me All god's chilluns can't you see Everywhere I go it rains on me Louie Lista and Marchese Everywhere I go it rains on me Robert Sheehan and Paul Body Everywhere I go it rains on me I went down to Argyle, I went down to Dix Everywhere I go it rains on me To get my powders and to get my fix Everywhere I go it rains on me Everywhere I go Everywhere I go Everywhere I go It rains on me Everywhere I go Everywhere I go Everywhere I go It rains on me
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Bend Down The Branches The sky's as deep as it can be Bend down the branches Close your eyes and you will see Bend down the branches You're like a willow Once you were gold We're made for bending Even beauty gets old Climb the stairs they're not so steep Bend down the branches Close your eyes and go to sleep Bend down the branches
You Can Never Hold Back Spring You can never hold back spring You can be sure, I will never stop believing The blushing rose that will climb Spring ahead, or fall behind Winter dreams the same dream, every time Baby, you can never hold back spring And even though, you've lost your way The world is dreaming, dreaming of spring So close your eyes, open your heart to the one who's dreaming of you And, you can never hold back spring Remember everything that spring can bring Baby, you can never hold back spring Baby, you can never hold back spring
Long Way Home Well I stumbled in the darkness I'm lost and alone Though I said I'd go before us And show the way back home Is there a light up ahead I can't hold on very long Forgive me pretty baby but I always take the long way home Money's just something you throw Off the back of a train I got a head full of lightning And a hat full of rain And I know that I said I'd never do it again And I love you pretty baby but I always take the long way home I put food on the table And a roof over our head But I'd trade it all tomorrow For the highway instead Watch your back, keep your eyes shut tight Your love's the only thing I've ever known But one thing's for sure pretty baby, I always take the long way home You know I love you baby More than the whole wide world You are my woman You know you are my pearl Let's go out past the party lights Where we can finally be alone Come with me and we can take the long way home Come with me, together we can take the long way home Come with me, together we can take the long way home
Widow's Grove I met you in the saddle, rode you in the dust Held your hand to the heavens, pulled your heart to the earth There was something that blinded me more than the mist And the breath of the cottonwood buds lighter yet And you rode the maypole of dance hall legs And galloped to another's embrace And I bit the flowers from your wrist corsage And you waltzed too slowly, too slowly you waltzed With that girl from Widow's Grove Oh, I'd follow you to the river, that washes out to the sea Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night That's where I'll be Near the breath of a swallow, petals dropped as you fell And you grabbed then shyly held me, against the stone cold well In your hand was a glass, you held the ice against the night And it dripped and it sparkled and I laughed a wish Before it all slipped down the dark tunneled well I heard it melt quietly and I looked at you Bent to the earth with just one pleading wish Your skirts brushed to the furious pounding Oh, I'd follow you to the river, that washes out to the sea Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night That's where I'll be I hid in the elm and raised the bough, that hung even with your neck And I chased you and drowned you, there deep in the well And when your mouth was full and wet, I swallowed all your reckless fate And with your last breath, you moaned too drunk to wake Oh, I'd follow you to the river, that washes out to the sea Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night That's where I'll be Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night That's where I'll be
Little Drop Of Poison I like my town with a little drop of poison Nobody knows, they're lining up to go insane I'm all alone, I smoke my friends down to the filter But I feel much cleaner after it rains And she left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall She always had that little drop of poison Did the devil make the world while god was sleeping? You'll never get a wish from a bone Another long goodbye and a hundred sailors That deep blue sky is my home And she left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall She always had that little drop of poison Well, the rat always knows when he's in with weasels Here you loose a little every day Well, I remember when a million was a million They all have ways to make you pay And she left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall She always had that little drop of poison And she left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall She always had that little drop of poison
Shiny Things The things a crow puts in his nest They are always things he finds that shine best Somehow he'll find A shiny dime A silver twine From a Valentine The crows all bring Them shiny things Leave me alone you big ol' moon The light you cast is just a liar You're like the crows 'Cause if it glows You're dressed to go You guessed I know You'll always bring Them shiny things We'll, I'm not dancing here tonight But things are bound to turn around The only thing I want that shines is to be king there in your eyes To be your only Shiny thing
World Keeps Turning On our anniversary There'll be someone else where you used to be The world don't care and yet it clings to me And the moon is gold and silvery Who knows where the sidewalk ends Well, the road will turn and the road will bend They always say: he marks the sparrow's fall How can anyone believe it all Well, the band has stopped playing but we keep dancing The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning On his hand he wore the ring of another The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning We broke the bank and we tore up the place And we disappeared, oh without a trace Now the sun it falls into the sea I know I'm the only one for me I was so green and the dress you wore was yellow The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning The sun is down and the moon is in the meadow The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning Put a hat on your head Will you paint the whole damn town red with me Well, the band has stopped playing but we keep dancing The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning On his hand he wore the ring of another The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning
Tell It To Me They say you're seeing someone, you're wearing his ring They say you laughed when you heard my name They say he takes you dancing, he holds you so near They say he'll buy you anything Tell me am I foolish, I don't believe these stories And I'll be coming home soon Louise, Louise, if it's true Tell it to me I know, you will not see me, but I know you have a daughter And I hear she has my eyes They say she calls him "father", and he's proud of her And even believes all of your lies But for all your faithless beauty, I'd give all my tomorrows And if you're still thinking of me Louise, Louise, if it's true Tell it to me Oh Louise, Louise, if it's true Tell it to me Oh Louise, Louise, if it's true Tell it to me
Never Let Go Well, ring the bell backwards and bury the axe Fall down on your knees in the dirt I'm tied to the mast between water and wind Believe me, you'll never get hurt Now the ring's in the pawnshop, the rain's in the hole Down at the Five Points I stand I'll loose everything But I won't let go of your hand Now, Peter denied and Judas betrayed I'll pay with the roll of the drum And the wind will tell the turn from the wheel And the watchman's making his rounds Well, you leave me hanging by the skin of my teeth I've only got one leg to stand You can send me to hell But I'll never let go of your hand Swing from a rope on a cross-legged tree Signed with the one-eyed Jack's blood From Temple and Union, to Weyley and Grand Walking back home in the mud Now, I must make my best of the only way home Marley deals only in stones I'm lost on the midway, I'm reckless in your eyes Just give me a couple more throws I'll dare you to dine with the cross-legged knights Dare me to jump and I will I'll fall from your grace But I'll never let go of your hand I'll never let go of your hand I'll never let go of your hand
Fannin Street There's a crooked street in Houston town, It's a well worn path I've followed down Now there's ruin in my name, I wish I never got off the train, And I wished I'd listened to the words you said. Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Oh, yeah You'll be lost and never found you can never turn around Don't go down to Fannin Street Once I held you in my arms, I was sure Til I took that silent step through the gilded door But the desire to have much more, all the glitter and the roar Now I know that this is where the sidewalk ends. Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street You'll be lost and never found you can never turn around Don't go down to Fannin Street When I was young I thought only of getting out I said good-bye to my street, good-bye to my house Give a man gin, give a man cards, give an inch he takes a yard, And I rue the day that I stepped off this train. Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Oh, yeah You'll be lost and never found You can never turn around Don't go down to Fannin Street. Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Cause tou'll be lost and never found You can never turn around Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street
Little Man As sure as fire will burn There's one thing you will learn Is things you have cherished Are things that you have earned Luck is when opportunity Meets with preparation And the same is true for every generation Little man As you climb on my knee the whole future lies in thee Little man Little man Never hurry, take it slow Things worth-while need time to grow Little man Don't look back There are things that might distract Move ahead towards your goal And the answers will unfold Little man Love is always in the air It is there for those who care Little man Don't look back There are things that might distract Move ahead towards your goal And the answers will unfold Little man Love is always in the air It is there for those who care Little man Little man Little man Little man
It's Over I must have brought the bad weather with me The sky's the colour of lead All you've left me was a feather On an unmade bed It's always me whenever there's trouble The world does nothing but turn And the ring it fell off my finger I guess I'll never learn And it's over, it's over, it's over I'm getting dressed in the dark Our story ends before it begins I always confess to everyone's sins The nail gets hammered down And it's over, let it go So don't go and make a big deal out of nothing It's just a storm on a dime And I've always found there's nothing that money can not buy I've already gone to the place that I'm going There's no place left to fall And there's something to be said About saying nothing at all Cause baby then it's over, and it's over It's done forgotten and through Story ends before it begins I always confess to everyone's sins The nail gets hammered down And it's over, let it go You got to let me go I wanna let it go I wanna let it go I wanna let you go I want to let you go
If I Have To Go And if I have to go, will you remember me Will you find someone else, while I'm away There's nothing for me, in this world full of strangers It's all someone else's idea I don't belong here, and you can't go with me You'll only slow me down Until I send for you, don't wear your hair that way If you cannot be true, I'll understand Tell all the others, you'll hold in your arms That I said I'd come back for you I'll leave my jacket to keep you warm That's all that I can do And if I have to go, will you remember me Will you find someone else, while I'm away
Goodnight Irene Irene, goodnight Irene, Irene goodnight Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene I'll get you in my dreams Last Saturday night I got married Me and my wife settled down Now me and my wife are parted I'm gonna take me a little stroll uptown Oh, Irene, goodnight Irene, Irene goodnight Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene I'll get you in my dreams Oh, sometimes I live in the country Sometimes I live in town Sometimes I take a great notion To jump in the river and drown Oh, Irene, goodnight Irene, Irene goodnight Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene I'll get you in my dreams Well I love Irene, god knows I do I'll love her till the sea runs dry If she ever loves another Someone'll take morphine and die Oh, Irene, goodnight Irene, Irene goodnight Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene I'll get you in my dreams Stop your rambling, stop your gambling Stop staying out late at night Go home to your wife and your family Sit down by the firelight (Everybody!) Oh, Irene. goodnight Irene, Irene goodnight Oh, goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene I'll get you in my dreams Oh, goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene, Irene goodnight Oh, goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene I'll get you in my dreams (Goodnight!)
The Fall Of Troy It's the same with men as with horses and dogs Nothing wants to die Evelyn James they killed in a game With guns too big for their hands Just off St. Charles in no man's land And you'll have to find your own way home, boys You'll have to find your own way home The oldest was Troy, an eighteen year old boy Shot dead in March in a robbery His brother started out to hell and to ruin Troy's killer was never caught, they say Young Nick, he just went bad that day Now he'll have to find his own way home, boys He'll have to find his own way home Why cook dinner, why make my bed Why come home at all Out the door and through the woods There's a world where nothing grows It's hard to say grace and to sit in the place Of someone missing at the table Mom's hair sprayed tight and her face in her hands Watching TV for answers to me After all she's only human And she's trying to find her own way home, boys She's trying to find her own way home My legs ache My heart is sore The well is full of pennies
Take Care Of All Of My Children Oh, take care of all my children Don't let 'em wander and roam Oh, take care of all of my children For I don't know when I'm comin' back home You can put all of my possessions here in Jesus' name Nail a sign on the door Bright and early Sunday morning with my walking cane I'm going up to see my lord Oh, keep them together at the sundown Safe from the devil's hand You gotta make them a pillow on the hard ground I'll be goin' up to Beaula Land You can put all of my possessions here in Jesus' name And nail a sign on the door Bright and early Sunday morning with my walking cane I'm going up to see my lord Oh, remember you never trust the devil Stay clear of Lucifer's hand Oh, and don't let 'em wander in the meadow Or you'll wind up in the fryin' pan You can put all of my possessions here in Jesus' name And nail a sign on the door Bright and early Sunday morning with my walking cane I'm going up to see my lord Put all of my possessions here in Jesus' name And nail a sign on the door Bright and early Sunday morning with my walking cane I'm going up to see my lord
Down There By The Train There's a place I know, where the train goes slow Where the sinners can be washed in the blood of the lamb There's a river by the trestle down by Sinner's Grove Down where the Willow and the Dogwood grows Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train Goes slow You can hear the whistle, you can hear the bell From the halls of heaven to the gates of hell And there's room for the foresaken if you're there on time You'll be washed of all your sins and all of your crimes Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train Goes slow There's a golden moon that shines up through the mist And I know that your name will be on that list There's no eye for an eye, there's no tooth for a tooth I saw Judas Iscariot carrying John Wilkes Booth Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train Goes slow So, if you live in darkness, if you live in shame All of the passengers will be treated the same And, old Humpty Jackson and Gyp the Blood will sing And Charlie Witman is on the Dillinger's wings Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train Goes slow If you've lost all your hope, if you've lost all your faith I know you will be cared for and I know you will be safe And all the shameful and all of the whores And even the soldier who pierced the heart of the lord Is down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train Goes slow Well, I've never asked forgiveness and I've never said a prayer I've never given of myself, and I''ve never truly cared And I've hurt the ones who loved me and I'm still raising Cain And I've taken the low road and if you've done the same Meet me down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train Goes slow Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train Goes slow Down there where the train Goes slow
Danny Says Danny says we gotta go Gotta go to Idaho But we can't go surfin' 'cause it's 20 below Sound check's at 5:02 Record stores and interviews Oh, but I can't wait to be with you tomorrow Baby, oho-ho-ho, we got nowhere to go And it may sound funny, but it's true Hangin' out in 100 B Watching Get Smart on TV Thinkin' about you and me and you and me Hangin' out in L.A. and there's nowhere to go It ain't Christmas if there ain't no snow Listening to Sheena on the radio Oh-ho oh-ho Sound check's at 5:02 Record stores and interviews And I can't wait to be with you tomorrow Sound check's at 5:02 Record stores and interviews And I can't wait to be with you tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow
Jayne's Blue Wish The sky holds all our wishes The dish ran away with the spoon Chimney smoke ties the roofs to the sky There's a hole over head But it's only the moon Will there ever be a tree Grown from the seeds I've sown Life is a path lit only by the light of those I've loved By the light of those I love Life's a path lit only by The light of those I've loved By the light of those I love
Young At Heart Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you If you're young at heart For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind If you're young at heart You can go to extremes with impossible schemes You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams And life gets more exciting with each passing day And love is either in your heart or on its way Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on earth To be young at heart And as rich as you are it's much better by far To be young at heart And if you should survive to 105 Think of all you've derived out of being alive Then this is the best part You have a head start If you are among the very young at heart Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on earth To be young at heart Or as rich as you are it's much better by far To be young at heart And if you should survive to 105 Think of all you've derived out of being alive Then this is the best part You have a head start If you are among the very young at heart If you are among the very young at heart
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What Keeps Mankind Alive You gentlemen who think you have a mission To purge us of the seven deadly sins Should first sort out the basic food position Then start your preaching, that's where it begins You lot, who preach restraint and watch your waist as well Should learn, for once, the way the world is run However much you twist, or whatever lies that you tell Food is the first thing, morals follow on So first make sure that those who are now starving Get proper helpings, when we all start carving What keeps mankind alive What keeps mankind alive the fact that millions Are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance In keeping its humanity repressed And for once you must try not to shirk the facts Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts
Children's Story Once upon a time there was a poor child, With no father and no mother And everything was dead And no one was left in the whole world Everything was dead And the child went on search, day and night And since nobody was left on the earth, He wanted to go up into the heavens And the moon was looking at him so friendly And when he finally got to the moon, The moon was a piece of rotten wood And then he went to the sun And when he got there, the sun was a wilted sunflower And when he got to the stars, they were little golden flies. Stuck up there, like the shrike sticks 'em on a blackthorn And when he wanted to go back, down to earth, The earth was an overturned piss pot And he was all alone, and he sat down and he cried And he is there till this day All alone… Okay, there's your story! Night-night!
Heigh-Ho Well, we dig dig dig Well, we dig in our mine the whole day through Dig dig dig, that is what we like to do And it ain't no trick to get rich quick If you dig dig dig, with a shovel and a pick Dig dig dig, the whole day through Got to dig dig dig, it's what we like to do In our mine, in our mine Where a million diamonds shine We got to dig dig dig, from the morning till the night Dig dig dig up everything in sight We got to dig dig dig, in our mine, in our mine Dig up diamonds by the score A thousand rubies, sometimes more But we don't know what we are diggin' for Heigh-ho, heigh-ho It's off to work we go We keep on singing all day long Heigh-ho Heigh-ho, heigh-ho Got to make your troubles go Well, you keep on singing all day long Heigh-ho Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
Army Ants The Whirligig Beetles are wary and fast with an organ to detect the ripples. The Arachnid Moths lay their eggs inside other insects along the borders of fields or roads in clusters of white cocoons. The Ribbed Pine Borer is a longhorn beetle, their antenna's are half the length of their body and they feed on dead red pine. Robber Flies, with their immobile heads, inject a paralyzing fluid into their prey that they snatch from life in mid-air. The Snow Flea's mode of locomotion, strange and odd, with a spiny tail mechanism with hooks And a protracted tube from the abdomen to enable moisture absorption. The female Praying Mantis devours the male while they are mating. The male sometimes continues copulating even after the female has bitten off his head and part of his upper torso. Every night wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles into position Stretch out at right angles to the stem and, with legs dangling, they fall asleep. If one places a minute amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. The Bombardier Beetle, when disturbed, defends itself by emitting a series of explosions Sometimes setting off 4 or 5 reports in succession. The noises sound like miniature popgun blasts and are accompanied by a cloud of reddish coloured vile smelling fluid. It is commonly known that ants keep slaves. Certain species, the so-called Sanguinary Ants in particular, will raid the nests of other ant tribes And kill the queen and then kidnap many of the workers. The workers are brought back to the captor's hive where they are coerced into performing menial tasks. And as we discussed last semester, the Army Ants will leave nothing but your bones. Perhaps you've encountered some of these insects in your communities, displaying both their predatory And defense characteristics, while imbedded within the walls of flesh and passing for, what is most commonly recognized... as human.
Books Of Moses Books of Moses, bringing stone news Wet in the water, weeping in the sun Books of Moses, got some splinters, didn't you Books of Moses, brought me right here back to you Flaming heart, ain't it sweet Lighting the world at your feet Books of Moses, myth and truth Books of Moses, bring me back to you Hero's welcome, there stands your king Where the serpent shudders, and the angels sing Books of Moses, happening again Yes, he knows us. Well, welcome him, your friend Books of Moses, bringing stone news Wet is the water, blood covering the sun Books of Moses, myth and truth Books of Moses, bring me back to you
Two Sisters There was an old woman, lived by the seashore Bow and balance me There was an old woman, lived by the seashore A number of daughters: one, two, three, four And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me There was a young man come there to see them Bow and balance me There was a young man come there to see them and the oldest one got stuck on him And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me He bought the youngest a beaver hat Bow and balance me He bought the youngest a beaver hat and the oldest one got mad at that And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me Oh, sister oh, sister let's walk the seashore Bow and balance me Oh, sister oh, sister let's walk the seashore and see the ships as they're sailing on And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me While these two sisters were walking the shore Bow and balance me While these two sisters were walking the shore the oldest pushed the youngest o'er And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me Oh, sister oh, sister please lend me your hand Bow and balance me Oh, sister oh, sister please lend me your hand and you will have Willy and all of his land And then I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me I'll never, I'll never will lend you my hand Bow and balance me I'll never, I'll never will lend you my hand but I'll have Willy and all of his land And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me Some time she swam and some time she swam Bow and balance me Some time she sank and some time she swam untill she came to the old mill dam And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me The miller, he got his fishinghook Bow and balance me The miller, he got his fishinghook and fished that maiden out of the brook And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me Oh, miller oh, miller here's five gold rings Bow and balance me Oh, miller oh, miller here's five gold rings to push the maiden in again And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me The miller received those five gold rings Bow and balance me The miller received those five gold rings and pushed that maiden in again And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me The miller was hung in the old mill gate Bow and balance me The miller was hung in the old mill gate for drowning little sister Kate And I'll be true to my love If my love will be true to me
First Kiss She drove a big ol' Lincoln with suicide doors And a sewing machine in the back And a light bulb that looked like an alligator egg Was mounted up front on the hood And she had an Easter bonnet that had been signed by Tennessee Ernie Ford And she always had saw dust in her hair And she cut two holes in the back of her dress And she had these scapular wings that were covered with feathers and electrical tape And when she got good and drunk She would sing about Elkheart, Indiana Where the wind is strong and folks mind their own business And she had at least a hundred old baseballs that she'd taken from kids And she collected bones of all kinds And she lived in a trailer under a bridge And she made her own whiskey and gave cigarettes to kids And she'd been struck by lightning seven or eight times And she hated the mention of rain And she made up her own language And she wore rubber boots And she could fix anything with string And her lips were like cherries And she was stronger than any man And she smelled like gasoline and Rootbeer Fizz And she put mud on a bee sting I got at the creek And she gave me my very first kiss And she gave me my very first kiss Talking 'bout my little Kathleen She's just a fine young thing Someday she'll wear my ring My little Kathleen
Dog Door Well she's as mean as a needle Don't get too close to the heater She's like a mean shop keeper Who got an extra gun She about 6'4" and she's a wrecking ball Now go ahead and kiss her She brought the bad weather with her She got you coming through the dog door She got you coming through the dog door Now pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered You ought to walk away Well you can't but you ought to Climb the rickety stairs She got the long black hair But don't sit there Electricity chair She got you coming through the dog door She got you coming through the dog door Pitchfork Crowbar Claw hammer Hot tar She's got ruin in her name But she can make it rain She's a small town jail And you're starving in the belly of a whale She got you coming through the dog door She got you coming through the dog door Pitchfork Crowbar Claw hammer Hot tar
Nirvana Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, He was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere. And it began to snow. And the bus stopped at a little café in the hills and the passengers entered. And he sat at the counter with the others, and he ordered, the food arrived. And the meal was particularly good. And the coffee. The waitress was unlike the women he had known. She was unaffected, and there was a natural humor which came from her. And the fry cook said crazy things. And the dishwasher in back laughed a good clean pleasant laugh. And the young man watched the snow through the window. And he wanted to stay in that café forever. The curious feeling swam through him that everything was beautiful there. And it would always stay beautiful there. And then the bus driver told the passengers that it was time to board. And the young man thought: "I'll just stay here, I'll just stay here." And then he rose and he followed the others into the bus. He found his seat and looked at the café through the window. And then the bus moved off, down a curve, downward, out of the hills. And the young man looked straight forward. And he heard the other passengers speaking of other things, Or they were reading or trying to sleep. And they hadn't noticed the magic. And the young man put his head to one side, Closed his eyes, and pretended to sleep. There was nothing else to do, Just to listen to the sound of the engine, And the sound of the tires In the snow.
On The Road I left New York nineteen forty-nine To go across the country, without a dad-blame dime Montana in the cold cold fall Found my father in a gamblin' hall Father, father, where have you been I've been in the world since I was only ten 'Don't worry about me, I'm about to die of the pleurisy Cross the Mississippi, cross the Tennessee Cross the Niagara, home I'll never be Home in old Medora, home in ol' Truckee Apalachicola, home I'll never be Better or for worse, and thick and thin Well, I've been married to the little woman God loved me, just like I loved him I want you to do just the same for him Oh, the worms eat away But don't worry, watch the wind Oh, the worms eat away But don't worry, watch the wind Oh, the worms eat away But don't worry, watch the wind So I left Montana on an old freight train The night my father died in the cold cold rain Rode to Opelousas, rode to Wounded Knee Rode to Ogallala, home I'll never be Home in old Medora, home in ol' Truckee Apalachicola, home I'll never be Home I'll never be Home I'll never be
Poor Little Lamb Poor little lamb, now his fleece is all cold Wakes up in the morning alone Poor little lamb knows what's coming Life is an empty cup Poor little lamb, watch your shoulder Coyote's waiting out there Nobody will get any older If we don't find a way out of here So let's go on a bummer this summer Where we won't have to be afraid The world will be on a hummer, boys And we'll laugh and we'll drink lemonade
Altar Boy He's an ol' altar boy Lying out there in the street He's an ol' alter boy Bound up in leather and chains That's why I'm feeling so blue I'm an old altar boy What about you Now, I can order in Latin Make 'em au gratin, Joe I'm an old altar boy That's why I'm so depressed I never got the rest of the dream Just the ritual Now I'm habitual Majoring in crimes that are unspeakable Cause I'm an old altar boy That's what happened to me. I'm an old altar boy He's hoping he can meet a woman dressed like a nun He knows there's got to be some around here Drinking across from the church A little Father Cribari wine On a Sunday morn' time. I'm an old altar boy. Why is he winking at this time in his life? He never took a wife, cause he's an old altar boy Oh, yeah... What about you
The Pontiac Well, let's see... we had the eh Fairlane. Then the u-joints went out on that, and the bushings. And then your mother wanted to trade it in on the Tornado, so we got the Tornado. God, I hated the color of that sonufa bitch! And the dog destroyed the upholstery on the Ford. Boy, that was long before you were born. We called it the Yellowbird, two-door, three on the tree. Tight little mother. Threw a rod, sold it to Jacobs for a hundred dollar Now the special eh... four-holer, you've never seen body panels line up like that. Overhead cam, dual exhaust. You know I had... let's see I had... four Buicks, loved 'em all Now your Uncle Emmet, well he drives a Thunderbird, it used to belong to your Aunt Evelyn. Well, she ruined it, drove it to Indiana with no gear oil. That was the end of that! Sold that Cadillac to your mom. Your mom loved that Caddy. Independent rear suspension, Landau top, good tires. Gas hog. I swear it had the power to repair itself I loved the Olds... Dan Steele used to give 'em to me at a discount. Showroom models and that. And then there was the Pontiac and... God, I loved that Pontiac. Well, it was kind of an oxblood god But It handled so beautifully. Yeah, I miss that car. Well, that was a long time ago A long time ago
Spidey's Wild Ride The smoke from the battle fish and the rain soaked through And the wheelman left the shore And barns tumbled and silos flew across fifteen miles bad road tar And big Bull Trometer hung on to the side And the pig dogs trembled on Spidey's wild ride And big John Jizom from downtown Chizom Flew away with old mrs. Storm And they found Bird Lundy neath a keg of nails crooked as a dog's hind leg Keeping warm after twenty-nine days on hard assed bread He drilled to the big outside and clung like a tick to his waterfront Life mooned and clouded, blued and skied And all the clocks blew up on Spidey's wild ride And the hills stood up in a great big 3 And left me whipped by the forces that were inside me Loud as the ocean, cold as a desk, red as the water on the river of flesh And he was sewing up his pants while he was shoeing a mule And he was bucking a head wind gale But the crooked ass beauty was trapped to the side And he shook on Spidey's wild ride And all the statue ass makers, and the uprooted trees And I shouted way up to where the rabbit digs his hole And the wheelman, the jockeys the landlords and thee Were bucking a head wind south And with nine lives spent, he landed on his rent Composed with a steele head salmon in his mouth And I never did see another day outside 'Cause I'd had enough travel on Spidey's wild ride
King Kong They shot him down They shot him down They thought he was a monster But he was the King They came to his island And they brought her with them They wanted to get his picture But they were surprised by his enormous size And when he saw the woman He took her without question Because after all He was the King And he loved the woman He loved the way she looked And she wouldn't stop screaming But he loved the woman And he fought a Tyrannosaurus Rex And it was a bloody battle But he fought it for his woman And he climbed up a mountain And he looked around Some kind of forest With all these dinosaurs And he stripped his woman He stripped her bare But there was a pterodactyl There! And then a hero Came and took his woman And they fell off the mountain Into some water And then later He came looking for his woman But they were waiting And they threw a bomb And they tied him And took him across the ocean And they chained him And put him in the show And when he saw his woman He broke loose And everyone fled in terror And he was looking for her And he overtook a train And he was looking in the street And then he found her in her apartment And he climbed up the Empire State building It was like a phallic symbol And he took his woman To the top of that towering temple And he climbed up and looked around Some kind of city With all those skyscrapers And all the cars Just him and his screaming woman And they were finally alone He loved his woman You could see it in his eyes His great big eyes He loved his woman From the moment that he saw her He was all choked up inside But when the airplanes came He was soon to die But he hung on long enough to set his woman down And make sure that she was safe And as the bullets pierced He looked at her so sincere Before he fell Because he loved his woman And they shot him down They thought he was a monster But he was the King Who killed the monkey 'Twas beauty that killed the beast And Willis O'Brien died A tragic death There wasn't much That he had left And Ray Harryhousen said That when Willis died That's when the King was really dead They shot him down They shot him down They thought he was a monster But he was the King
Dog Treat Thanks, uh... You know uh, this is weird uh... Most of us have dogs, alright? (applause) I don't know if it's a local thing where I live, or if it's everywhere, and I'm checking it with you because uh, I don't get in the area that often and I'm just checking to see if... There's a new kind of a dog treat. And uh (where I live) and they're available in the pet store and for the longest time I just thought that it was some kind of a prank. Or uh... I wasn't really sure what it was, until I read the label on the back and it said "Bull Penis" (laughter). I was a little shocked! I know you can get just about ANYTHING in this world. You can get a whale's pancreas if you'd want one! I can get you one! (laughter) But com'on, a bull's penis! How busy they were their whole lives. And they throw it to a dog, like that, for a snack! (laughter) Now, are they available here in the Los Angeles area? They are, aren't they? Doesn't that make you a little weazy? Makes you wanna live a long time. And on the back, on the bottom it said: "100% natural"! I mean... that's the part that really got me. And it said: "A Real Meat Snack". There's just no dignity in that. Uh, anyway... The other thing is that they're 36 inches long! (laughter). They're so long they had to cut them into bite-size portions. And then they take two of them and braid them together. I know, I know! I never want it done. But uh... This is a song written for Gregory Peck for his dating my mom... That's a lie!
Missing My Son I was in a line at the supermarket the other day, and uhm... Y'know, I had all my things on the little conveyor belt there. And uh... there's a gal in front of me that is uh.. Well, she's staring at me and I'm getting a little nervous and uh, She continues to stare at me. And I uh, I keep looking the other way. And then, finally she comes over closer to me and she says: "I apologise for staring, that must have been annoying. I, I... You look so much like my son, who died. I just can't take my eyes off you." And she precedes to go into her purse and she pulls out a photograph of her son who'd died. And uh, he looks absolutely nothing like me. In fact he's... Chinese. Uh... anyway, we chatted a little bit. And uh, she says: "I'm sorry, I have to ask you. Would you mind, as I leave the supermarket here, would you mind saying "Goodbye mom" to me? I, I know it's a strange request but I haven't heard my son saying "Goodbye mom" to me, and "So long" and it would mean so much to me to hear it. And uh, if you don't mind I... " And I said: "Well, you know, okay, yeah, sure. Eh.. uh... I can say that." And, and so, she uh gets her groceries all checked out. And uh, as she's going out the door she waves at me and she hollers across the store: "Goodbye son!" And I look up and I wave and I say: "Goodbye mom!" And then she goes, and uh... So I get my few things there, on the conveyor belt and the checker checks out my things. And uh, and he gives me the total and he says: "That'll be four hundred and seventy nine dollars." Uh... and I said: "Well, how is that possible! I've only got a little tuna fish, and uh some skimmed milk, and uh mustard and a loaf of bread..." He goes: "Well, well you're also paying for the groceries for your mother. She uh, told me you'd take care of the bill for her." And I said: "Well, wait a minute! That's not my mother!" And he says: "Well I distinctly heard her say as she left the store "Bye son!" And you said "Bye mom!" and so what are you trying to say here, uh..." I said: "Well, JESUS!" And I looked out into the parking lot and she was just getting into her car. And I ran out there. And she was just closing the door, and she had a little bit of her leg sticking out of the door And she was pulling away and I grabbed her leg and I started PULLING it! Just the way... I'm pulling yours...
Bad As Me
Chicago The seeds are planted here But they won't grow We won't have to say goodbye If we all go Maybe things will be better in Chicago To leave all we've ever known For a place we've never seen Maybe things will be better in Chicago Well it's braver to stay Even braver to go Wherever she goes I go Maybe things will be better in Chicago What we need the lord will give us All we want we carry with us You know where I can be found Where the rainbow hits the ground I'm not alone I'm not afraid This bird has flown from his cage There's so much magic we have known On this sapphire we call home With my coat and my hat I say goodbye to all that Maybe things will be better in Chicago Maybe things will be better in Chicago
Raised Right Men There ain't enough raised right men It takes a raised right man to keep a happy hen I said there ain't enough raised right men Heavens to murkatroid Miners to coal A good women can make a diamond out of a measly lump of coal You need the patience of a glacier If you can wait that long Open up his window and admit it that you're wrong They're ain't enough raised right men It takes raised right men to keep a happy hen Mackey Debiasi Was a complicated man He quarreled with his woman And she quarreled with her man His head was just too thick So she knocked out a tooth He's that lonely man on the Turnpike in the Toll takers booth They're ain't enough raised right men Gunplay Maxwell and Flat Nose George Ice Pick Ed Newcomb On a slab in the morgue Flat Nose looked at Gunplay And they all looked at me With a good woman's love we Could have saved all three And there ain't enough raised right men It takes raised right men to keep a happy hen There ain't enough raised right men
Talking At The Same Time Get a job, save your money, listen to Jane Everybody knows umbrellas will cost more in the rain All the news is bad Is there any other kind? Everybody's talking at the same time Well it's hard times for some For others it's sweet Someone makes money when there's blood in the street Don't take any lip Stay in line Everybody's talking at the same time Well the dog is in the kitchen And the war drags on The trees wait by the freeway All the moneys all gone Well she told me she would leave me I ignored all the signs And now everybody's talking at the same time Everybody's talking at the same time Ain't no one coming to pull you from the mud You gotta build your nest high enough to ride out the flood I know you're leaving and there's no more next time Everybody's talking at the same time A tiny boy sat and he played in the sand He made a sword from a stick And a gun from his hand Well we bailed out all the millionaires They've got the fruit We've got the rind And everybody's talking at the same time Everybody's talking at the same time
Get Lost I don't want to feel all cooped up I feel like I'm on a chain I got my ride all souped up We're never coming back again Time it don't mean nothing Money means even less Don't bring nothin baby You're better then all the rest I wanna go get lost I wanna go get lost I wanna go get lost When you wear that real tight sweater You know I can't resist It's been that way forever baby Ever since we kissed Roll down all the windows Turn up Wolfman Jack Please, please love me tender Ain't nothin wrong with that Let's go get lost I wanna go get lost I wanna go get lost I wanna go get lost Whatever that they told you about me Well all of it's true You're never gonna be with out me baby I'm never gonna be without you Top it off, fill it with high test Think about it what cha gonna tell your boss? And get lost I just wanna get lost All night long…
Face To The Highway I'm going away I'm going away The cradle wants a baby Kitchen wants a pan The heart wants a certain kind of lover if it can Ocean wants a sailor Gun wants a hand money wants a spender And the road wants a man I turned my face to the highway And I turn my back on you Devil wants a sinner Sky wants a bird Table wants the dinner Lips want a word Glass wants the wine Fist wants to hurt Clock wants the time And the shovel wants to work I turned my face to the highway And I turn my back on you I'm going away I'm going away Coal wants a miner Soldier takes a stand The walls of the prison Want a solitary man The window wants a curtain The plow wants the land Diamond ring wants to Fit upon the finger Of her hand I turned my face to the highway And I turned my back on you I'm going away I'm going away I'm going away
Pay Me They pay me not to come home Keeping me stoned I won't run away They say it's easy to get Stuck in this town Just like Joan You know I gave it all up for the stage They fill my cup up in the cage It's nobody's business but mine when I'm low To hold yourself up is not a crime here you know At the end of the world I kick my foot at the lights I breathe it in all night There's a light on a canvas tree Money from home supporting me They pay me not to come I won't eat crow Ill stay away And though all roads will not lead you home my girl All roads lead to the end of the world I sewed a little luck up in the hem of my gown The only way down from the gallows is to swing And I'll wear boots instead of high heels And the next stage that I am on it will have wheels
Back In The Crowd If you don't want these arms to hold you If you don't want these lips to kiss you If you've found somebody new Put me back in the crowd Put the sun behind the clouds Put me back in the crowd There's a battle going on Between the blue and the grey And if you don't want my love Don't make me stay Take back your name Take back these wings Take my picture from the frame And put me back in the crowd Put the sun behind the cloud Put me back in the crowd Put me back in the crowd Put the sun behind the cloud Put me back in the crowd
Bad As Me You're the head on the spear You're the nail on the cross You're the fly in my beer You're the key that got lost You're the letter from Jesus on the bathroom wall You're mother superior in only a bra You're the same kind of bad as me I'm the hat on the bed I'm the coffee instead The fish or cut bait I'm the detective up late I'm the blood on the floor The thunder and the roar The boat that won't sink I just won't sleep a wink You're the same kind of bad as me No good you say Well that's good enough for me You're the wreath that caught fire You're the preach to the choir You bite down on the sheet But your teeth have been wired You skid in the rain You're trying to shift You're grinding the gears You're trying to shift And you're the same kind of bad as me They told me you were no good I know you'll take care of all my needs You're the same kind of bad as me I'm the mattress in the back I'm the old gunnysack I'm the one with the gun Most likely to run I'm the car in the weeds If you cut me I'll bleed You're the same kind of bad as me You're the same kind of bad as me
Kiss Me The fire's dying out All the embers have been spent Outside on the street Lovers hide in the shadows You look at me I look at you There's only one thing I want you to do Kiss me I want you to kiss me Like a stranger once again Kiss me like a stranger once again I want to believe that our love's a mystery I want to believe that our love's a sin I want you to kiss me like a stranger once again You wear the same kind of perfume You wore when we met I suppose there's something comforting in knowing what to expect But when you brushed up against me Before I knew your name Everything was thrilling Because nothing was the same I want you to kiss me I want you to kiss me Like a stranger once again Kiss me like a stranger once again I want to believe our loves a mystery I want to believe our loves a sin Oh will you kiss me like a stranger once again I want you to kiss me like a stranger Kiss me like a stranger once again
Satisfied When I'm gone When I'm gone Roll my vertebrae out like dice Let my skull be a home for the mice Let me bleach like the bones on a beach I'll be hard like a pit from a peach Now the ground has a branch Now the hound has a ranch The old tressel's just junk The Edsel is on blocks The old said so… won't talk I'm a blimp that's straining, cut'er ties I'm a moth in training, flutter by Huh… When I'm gone When I'm gone I said I will have satisfaction I will be satisfied I said I will be satisfied When I'm believing: satisfaction When I'm grieving: satisfaction When I'm shaking: satisfaction When I'm praying: satisfaction When I'm staying: satisfaction When I'm carousing When I'm a thousand I said I will have satisfaction I will be satisfied Before I'm gone Before I'm gone I will have satisfaction I will be satisfied I will have satisfaction I will be satisfied Now Mr. Jagger and Mr. Richards I will scratch where I've been itching Now Mr. Jagger and Mr. Richards I will scratch where I've been itching Before I'm gone Before I'm gone Before I'm gone Before I'm gone Let me go back into the barrel Let the bullet go back into the barrel Let the bullet go back into the barrel Let the bullet go back into the barrel Before I'm gone Before I'm gone I said I will have satisfaction Let the bullet go back into the barrel Let the bullet go back into the barrel Take a left off the straight and the narrow Let the bullet go back into the barrel Before I'm gone Before I'm gone
Last Leaf I'm the last leaf on the tree The autumn took the rest But they won't take me I'm the last leaf on the tree When the autumn wind blows They're already gone They flutter to the ground Cause they can't hang on There's nothing in the world That I ain't seen I greet all the new ones that are coming in green I'm the last leaf on the tree The autumn took the rest but they wont take me I'm the last leaf on the tree They say I got staying power Here on the tree But I've been here since Eisenhower And I've out lived even he I'm the last leaf on the tree The autumn took the rest but they won't take me I'm the last leaf on the tree I fight off the snow I fight off the hail Nothing makes me go I'm like some vestigial tail I'll be here through eternity If you want to know how long If they cut down this tree I'll show up in a song I'm the last leaf on the tree The autumn took the rest but they won't take me I'm the last leaf on the tree I'm the last leaf on the tree I'm the last leaf on the tree
Hell Broke Luce I had a good home but I left I had a good home but I left, right, left That big fucking bomb made me deaf, deaf A Humvee mechanic put his Kevlar on wrong I guarantee you'll meet up with a suicide bomb Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Big fucking ditches in the middle of the road You pay a hundred dollars just for fillin' in the hole Listen to the general every goddamn word How many ways can you polish up a turd Left, right, left, left, right Left, right Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Hell broke luce How is it that the only ones responsible for making this mess Got their sorry asses stapled to a goddamn desk Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Left, right, left What did you do before the war? I was a chef, I was a chef What was your name? It was Geoff, Geoff I lost my buddy and I wept, wept I come down from the meth So I slept, slept I had a good home but I left, left Pantsed at the wind for a joke I pranced right in with the dope Glanced at her shin she said nope Left, right, left Nimrod Bodfish have you any wool Get me another body bag the body bag's full My face was scorched, scorched I miss my home I miss my porch, porch Left, right, left Can I go home in March? March My stanch was a chin full of soap That rancid dinner with the pope Left, right, left Kelly Presutto got his thumbs blown off Sergio's developing a real bad cough Sergio's developing a real bad cough Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Hell broke luce Boom went his head away And boom went Valerie What the hell was it that the president said? Give him a beautiful parade instead Left, right, left When I was over here I never got to vote I left my arm in my coat My mom she died and never wrote We sat by the fire and ate a goat Just before he died he had a toke Now I'm home and I'm blind And I'm broke What is next
New Year's Eve The door was open I was seething Your mother burst in it was freezing She said it looks like it's trying to rain I was lost I felt sea sick You convinced me that he'd left You said keep talking but don't use any names I scolded your driver and your brother We are old enough to know how long you've been hooked And we've all been through the war And each time you score Someone gets hauled and handcuffed and booked It felt like four in the morning What sounded like fire works Turned out to be just what it was The stars looked like diamonds Then came the sirens And everyone started to cuss All the noise was disturbing And I couldn't find Irving It was like two stations on at the same time And then I hid your car keys And I made black coffee And I dumped out the rest of the rum Nick and Socorro broke up And Candice wouldn't shut up Fin he recorded the whole thing Ray he said damn you And someone broke my camera And it was New Years And we all started to sing Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind Should auld acquaintance be forgot for the sake of auld lang syne I was leaving in the morning with Charles for Las Vegas And I didn't plan to come back I had only a few things Two hundred dollars And my records in a brown paper sack I ran out on Sheila Everything's in storage Calvin's right I should go back to driving truck Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind Should auld acquaintance be forgot for the sake of auld lang syne
Non Albums Tracks
2.19
(Wicked Grin - John Hammond)
I lost everything I had in the '29 flood The barn was buried 'neath a mile of mud Now I'm down to nothing but the whistle and the steam My baby's leaving town on the 2:19 I said, hey, hey, I don't know what to do I will remember you Hey, hey, I don't know what to do My baby's leaving town on the 2:19 Now there's a fellow that's preaching 'bout hell and damnation Bouncing off the walls of the Grand Central Station I treated her bad, I treated her mean Baby leaving town on the 2:19 I said, hey, hey, I will remember you Hey, hey, I don't know what to do Hey, I don't know what to do My baby's leaving town on the 2:19 Now I've always been puzzled by the yin and the yang It'll come out in the wash but it always leaves a stain Sturm and Drang, the luster and the sheen My baby's leaving town on the... Hey, hey, I don't know what to do Hey, hey, I will remember you Hey, hey, I will remember you My baby's leaving town on the 2:19 Lost the baby with the water and the preacher stole the bride Sent her out for a bottle but when she came back inside She didn't have my whiskey, didn't have my gin With a hat full of feathers and a wicked grin I said, hey, hey, I will remember you Yeah baby, I will remember you My baby's leaving town on the 2:19 On the train you get smaller as you get farther away The roar covers everything you wanted to say Was that a raindrop or a tear in your eye? Were you drying your nails or waving goodbye? Hey, hey, I will remember you Hey, hey, I don't know what to do Oh baby My baby's leaving town on the 2:19 I will remember you I don't know what to do, baby
Adios Lounge
(Beautiful Mess - Thelonious Monster)
I know an oldtimer Just a nickel-and-dimer At the bar down the Adios Lounge And for whiskey and smokes Recites poems and jokes But he's not just your average clown And he's entertaining nightly Down the Adios Lounge And he puts it politely But he does lay it down Now I lie here alone in my bed With these words running wild in my head He said... Don't let nobody go there for you Don't be satisfied with a second-hand life Don't let nobody stifle or bore you Handle your troubles or take on your strife Don't let nobody live your life for you Not your friends, not your kids, no not even your wife If you want to know where the rainbow ends It's you who´ve got to go there and find it my friend So I'm going back down To the Adios Lounge Where there's no one to wait up for me I hope he's still around Oh, that crazy old scrounge To tell us how things ought to be He said... Don't let nobody go there for you Don't be satisfied with a second-hand life Don't let nobody stifle or bore you Handle your troubles or take on your strife Don't let nobody live your life for you Not your friends, not your kids, no not even your wife If you want to know where the rainbow ends It's you who've got to go there and find it my friend So I buy him more drinks Just to hear what he thinks Oh, it's worth it to see him almost smile It's worth feeling free for a while At the bar down the Adios Lounge At the bar down the Adios Lounge At the bar down the Adios Lounge
Annie's Back In Town
(Paradise Alley Soundtrack)
In the evening he stumbles home with his tie undone And as the moon sweeps 7th Avenue as usual You lie awake at night You remember when Now that Annie's back in town Well I know why you're drinking I know your alibi Don't make up excuses For those are tears in your eyes And you're falling back in love again Now that Annie's back in town And it came down through the grapevine It put your business on the street I hear you've been hanging out 'til dawn In some lunch room Well you thought you've gotten over her But that was 'til you found That Annie's back in town And all the corner boys are trouble makers And the sailors are all fools You know it seems like some things round here I guess they'll never change Oh but it's always good for business Guess we'll be seeing you around Now that Annie's back in town
Apartment For Rent
(A Nickel's Worth Of Dreams Bootleg) Well, it ain't no use, it ain't no good And there's too many ghosts in this neighborhood A quaint little walk up is bringing me down I have to find another crib on the other side of town The old Murphey bed and the empty chest of drawers And a little dinette set, I'll stroll across the floor And the trash cans in the alley, well they're rattlin' and sayin' That there's an apartment for rent On a rainy September day Apartment for rent Furnished with blue lights, baby Apartment for rent And the market's open all night Well you see, I'm sweeping out the cobwebs The lady she got away There's an apartment for rent On a rainy September day Well, I'm pouring over the classified section You see, she's lost all her affection for me I was drinking and smoking I was staying out all night long When you needed me here with you at home There's an apartment for rent Furnished with blue lights baby Apartment for rent And the market's open all night Yeah, I've been sweeping up the cobwebs The lady got away There's an apartment for rent There's an apartment for rent There's an apartment for rent On a rainy September day Apartment for rent
Bend Down The Branches
(Bunny Soundtrack) The sky's as deep as it can be Bend down the branches Close your eyes and you will see Bend down the branches You're like a willow Once you were gold We're made for bending Even beauty gets old Climb the stairs they're not so steep Bend down the branches Close your eyes and go to sleep Bend down the branches Big Face Money (Hold On - Single) When the show is over and the work is through I want the big face money I'll get all that cash and bring it home to you I'll get the big face money I'll get the big face money I want the big face money I'll get the big face money Big Rock Candy Mountain (Ironweed Sountrack) On the big rock candy mountain The cops have wooden legs Bulldogs all have rubber teeth And the hens lay soft boiled eggs On the big rock candy mountain Never change your socks Little streams of alcohol Go trickling down the rocks Oh I wanna go Where the wind don't blow On the big rock candy mountain On the big rock candy mountain It's a land that's fair and bright Handouts grow on bushes And you sleep out every night Oh I wanna go Where the wind don't blow
Blue Skies (Heart Of Saturday Night Sessions) Blue skies over my head Give me another reason to get out of bed Blue skies as there shining in my face Gonna give me another woman to take her place Ain't got no money, the cupboards are bare No cigarettes and the kids got nothing to wear She walked out without a word And now the only sound left is a kind of sweet morning bird singing, blue skies over my head Give me another reason to get out of bed Blue skies as there shining in my face Gonna give me another woman to take her place That woman stuck by me through thick and through thin I was cold and hungry well she smiled at me But she wanted those fine things, those nights on the town It looks to me like she let me down Blue skies over my head Gotta give me another reason to get out of bed Blue skies as there shining in my face Gotta give me another woman to take her place Gotta give me another woman to take her place Books Of Moses More Oar (Tribute To The Alexander "Skip" Spence) Books of Moses, bringing stone news Wet in the water, weeping in the sun Books of Moses, got some splinters didn't you Books of Moses, brought me right here back to you Flaming heart, ain't it sweet Lighting the world at your feet Books of Moses, myth and truth Books of Moses, bring me back to you Hero's welcome, there stands your king Where the serpent shudders and the angels sing Books of Moses, happening again Yes he knows us Well welcome him, your friend Books of Moses, bringing stone news Wet is the water, blood covering the sun Books of Moses, myth and truth Books of Moses, bring me back to you Bronx Lullabye/Smugglers Waltz (Poetry In Motion documentary) Daggers of moonlight Murder the sheets And the stink of a four dollar room And Daddy's gone a hunting For a dime bag schoolboy Tied up with a yellow balloon So hush little baby, Daddy must go I cover you up with a blanket of snow By the time I make Jersey You'll be in heaven In a pretty blue shoe box I know So sing a song of ten grand With a pocket full of dough And I can't take you to Baltimore Wake God up in Heaven Have him look down below There's a little lost angel Blooming in the snow Brother Can You Spare A Dime? They used to tell me I was building a dream And so I followed the mob When there was earth to plow or guns to bear I was always there, right there on the job They used to tell me I was building a dream With peace and glory ahead Why should I be standing in line Just waiting for bread Once I built a railroad, I made it run I made it run against time Once I built a railroad and now it's done Buddy can you spare a dime? Once I built a tower way up to the sun With bricks and mortar and lime Once I built a railroad and now it's done Brother can you spare a dime? Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum Half a million boots went slogging through hell I was the kid with the drum Oh say, don't you remember? You called me Al It was Al all the time Say, don't you remember? I was your pal Buddy, can you spare a dime? Say, don't you remember? You called me Al It was Al all the time Say, don't you remember? I was your pal Buddy, can you spare a dime? Buddy, can you spare a dime? Buzz Fledderjohn (Hold On - Single) I stood on the roof, stood till dark To get a better look at the Fledderjohns' lawn Big sharp pistols, ammo too Nothing but books about World War II Rottweiler, Dobermann, a Pinkerton guard I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard I ain't allowed No, I ain't allowed I said, I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard I seen a python swallowing a Dobermann whole Piranhas swimming in a mixing bowl Buzz Fledderjohn Paper's full of stabbings, the sky's full of crows She's singing in Italian while she's hanging out her clothes Carp in the bathtub and it's raining real hard I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard I said that I ain't allowed No, I ain't allowed No, I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard Well, the sailor's ringing doorbells, the sinner's in the pew Weathervane's squeaking to the west I seen the cliffs of Dover and the deepest ocean blue One thing in the world I can't recommend to you Because I ain't allowed I said, I ain't allowed No, I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard I said, I ain't allowed No, I ain't allowed I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard I ain't allowed I ain't allowed I said, I ain't allowed in Buzz Fledderjohn's yard Candy Apple Red
( One from the Heart OST ) I don't care if she never comes back Singing candy apple red I'll never fall in love again, that's for sure Singing candy apple red I'm gonna drink just like a son of a bitch Singing candy apple red And drive my car into a drainage ditch Singing candy apple red
*** Thanx a lot to Micah for this one ***
Coattails Of A Dead Man (Antipop - Primus) One two three Well he wasn't lookin' for fanfare or fame But it all came around just the same He then met a girl with desire in her eye He gave her love, she took his name The times they were good, the times they were bad Most times it was just in between The hard pill he swallowed was the times that they had She put on display for all to be seen Some find their solace in work or the Lord She was quite content in her dream When his eyes they burned from the bright lime light He found comfort in the bottle of ol' Jimmy Beam One day from the depths of his deep darkened hole He reached out for somethin' to feel She offered back nothin' but lack of respect So he let himself out with two barrels of steel She cried in the day she cried in the night She cried loudest when someone was near Whether crying for him or she cried for herself The bigger the camera the bigger the tear Most folks agree she was living a hell And publicly she showed her pain And never once was there a thought for herself And the ever growing slices of fortune and fame Now on the coattails of a dead man she'll ride she'll ride On the coattails of a dead man she'll ride On the coattails of a dead man she'll ride she'll ride On the coattails of a dead man she'll ride she'll ride high Date To Church (Just Say Mao - The Replacements) Take you ? On a, a little date to church Take you and it hurt On a, a little date to church, yeah La la la la la La la la la Yeah, gimme one more La la la la la La la la la Take your partner fast I'm going to Leavenworth, Mass Come on, it can't hurt We're on a, a little date to church Come on sing La la la la la La la la la La la la la la La la la la Old Satan's looking out for you He'll get you by and my it's true Oh, we haven't much time alive Ah Sitting in a pew Well ain't we the chosen few? It might not help, but it can't hurt On a, a little date to church La la la la la La la la la La la la la la La la la la Deliver us, Reverend Deliver us What's that? Tell me Heaven's there I got down on my knees Tell me Heaven's there On a little date to church On a little date to church On a little date to church Diamond In Your Mind (Don't Give Up On Me - Solomon Burke) I shook the hand of the president and the pope in Rome I've been to parties where I've had to be flown They said everything was sacred, nothing was profane And money was something that you throw off the back of trains Oh always keep a diamond in your mind You gotta always keep a diamond in your mind Wherever you may wander Wherever you may roam You gotta always keep a diamond in your mind Steam of the gravy with little fried pearls Floating like a necklace on a beautiful girl Johan says thanks to the food and land And oh so ever grateful for God's on my hands Oh always keep a diamond in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind Wherever you may wander Wherever you may roam You gotta always keep a diamond in your mind She's got the milk of human kindness and the fat of the lamb Scared like a baby, well she drives like a man She lives outside of Natchez where she operates a crane She's like a wrecking ball no longer connected to the chain Oh Zerelda Samuel said she almost never prayed Said she lost her right arm, blown off in a Pinkerton raid Then they lashed her to a windmill with old 3-fingered Dave Now she's 102 drinking mint juleps in the shade Everybody, always keep a diamond in your mind You gotta always keep a diamond in your mind Wherever you may wander Wherever you may roam Your gotta always keep a diamond in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind Wherever you may wander Wherever you may roam Your gotta always keep a diamond in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind Wherever you may wander Wherever you may roam Your gotta always keep a diamond in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind Dog Door (It's a Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse) Oh mother I want a dog I want a little dog I saw a little dog His name is happy Well this is me ... ... old ... I could be a shopkeeper We'll call 'em ... She got a six foot pitchfork I see the wrecking-ball Back over here together She got me here with or without She got me coming through the dog door She got me coming through the dog door I said pitchfork Oh step-ladders You oughta walk away But you can't ... ... stairs She got me gone back here But don't sit there She let me keep the deck-chair She got me coming through the dog door She got me coming through the dog door Pitchfork (pitchfork) Crowbar (crowbar) Clawhammer (clawhammer) Hot tar (hot tar) She got me through her middle name But she can make it rain She got a small-town chill And she's starving in the belly wheel She got me coming through the dog door She got me coming through the dog door Pitchfork (pitchfork) Crowbar (crowbar) Clawhammer (clawhammer) Hot tar (hot tar) Do You Know What I Idi Amin (Extremely Cool - Chuck E. Weiss) Four blocks back I flipped my sack down At Roscoe's for some fatback Sheila Schwartz's sister Shomoe shucks schmeckels At the seashore on Shaboose Do you know what I Idi Amin Amin Do you know what I Idi Amin Do you know what I Idi Amin Amin Do you know what I Idi Amin ? kitten sitting on the stoop He's a Manhattan ? and looking so cute Vladimir Tittler was a hoo-hoo of a man His dad is on his back and his mama's eating spam Do you know what I Idi Amin Amin Do you know what I Idi Amin Do you know what I Idi Amin Amin Do you know what I Idi Amin Shark Skin Charles and Water Melon Head Woke up this morning with weevils in their bed And Hazel climbs the stairs, cause she don't give a damn I'm gonna eat all the mighty fine pudding that I can Down There By The Train (American Recordings - Johnny Cash) There's a place I know where the train goes slow Where the sinner can be washed in the blood of the lamb There's a river by the trestle down by sinner's grove Down where the willow and the dogwood grow You can hear the whistle, you can hear the bell From the halls of heaven to the gates of hell And there's room for the forsaken if you're there on time You'll be washed of all your sins and all of your crimes If you're down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train goes slow There's a golden moon that shines up through the mist And I know that your name can be on that list There's no eye for an eye, there's no tooth for a tooth I saw Judas Iscariot carrying John Wilkes Booth He was down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train He was down there where the train goes slow If you've lost all your hope, if you've lost all your faith I know you can be cared for and I know you can be safe And all the shamefuls and all of the whores And even the soldier who pierced the side of the Lord Is down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train goes slow Well, I've never asked forgiveness and I've never said a prayer Never given of myself, never truly cared I've left the ones who loved me and I'm still raising Cain I've taken the low road and if you've done the same Meet me down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train goes slow Meet me down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there by the train Down there where the train goes slow Downtown Train (NME Big Four) Outside another yellow moon Has punched a hole in the nighttime, yes I climb through the window and down to the street And I'm shining like a new dime The downtown trains are full with all of those Brooklyn girls They try so hard to break out of their little worlds Well you wave your hand and they scatter like crows They have nothing that will ever capture your heart They're just thorns without the rose Be careful of them in the dark Oh, if I was the one you chose to be your only one Oh baby can't you hear me now, can't you hear me now Will I see you tonight on a downtown train Every night it's just the same, you leave me lonely now I know your window and I know it's late I know your stairs and your doorway I walk down your street and past your gate I stand by the light at the four-way You watch them as they fall, oh baby they all have heart attacks They stay at the carnival, but they'll never win you back Will I see you tonight on a downtown train Where every night, every night it's just the same, oh baby Will I see you tonight on a downtown train All of my dreams they fall like rain, oh baby on a downtown train Will I see you tonight on a downtown train Where every night, every night it's just the same, oh baby Will I see you tonight on a downtown train All of my dreams just fall like rain, all on a downtown train All on a downtown train, all on a downtown train All on a downtown train, a downtown train Empty Pockets (Live at Montreal Jazz Festival, 3rd July 1981) All I've got is empty pockets now As I slow down Purple Avenues To march around in April's shoes Weathervanes remind Of the summertimes that I've left behind All the money's gone for Auld Lang Syne I spent on eastern standard time What happened to my roll September fell right through the hole All I've got is empty pockets now Oh why does August try so hard To hoist me on my own petard I've learned one thing from losing her That an ounce of prevention's worth a pound of cure The shadows fall, I cannot thread The tenor of the things you said All that's left is flesh and bone The lights are on but no one's home All I've got is empty pockets now I spill myself another drink I count the whiskers in the sink The orchestra is blind But I've never been the worrying kind Subsequently and furthermore I'll sleep right here on the draining board I will never be paroled I like to drink them while they're cold All I've got is empty pockets now Fall Of Troy (The Dead Man Walking Soundtrack) It's the same with men as with horses and dogs Nothing wants to die Evelyn James they killed in a game With guns too big for their hands Just off St. Charles in No-Mans Land And you'll have to find your own way home, boys You'll have to find your own way home The oldest was Troy, an eighteen year-old boy Shot dead in March with a robbery His brother started out to hell and to ruin Troy's killer was never caught they say Young nick he just went bad that day Now he'll have to find his own way home, boys He'll have to find his own way home Why cook dinner? Why make my bed? Why come home at all? Out the door and through the woods There is a world where nothing grows It's hard to say grace and to sit in the place Of someone missing at the table Mom's hair sprayed tight And her face in her hands Watching TV for answers to me After all she's only human And she's trying to find her own way home, boys She's trying to find her own way home My legs ache My heart is sore The well is full of pennies Falling Down (Big Time LP - Live Compilation) I have come 500 miles just to see a halo Come from St. Petersburg, Scarlett and me Well I open my eyes, I was blind as can be When you give a man luck, he must fall in the sea And she wants you to steal and get caught For she loves you for all that you are not When you're falling down, falling down When you're falling down, falling down, falling down You forget all the roses, don't come around on Sunday She's not gonna choose you for standing so tall Go on and take a swig of that poison and like it And don't ask for silverware, don't ask for nothing Go on and put your ear to the ground You know you will be hearing that sound......falling down. You're falling down, falling down Falling down, Falling down, falling down When you're falling down, falling down, falling down Go on down and see that wrecking ball come swinging on along Everyone knew that hotel was a goner They broke all the windows, they took all the door knobs And they hauled it away in a couple of days Now someone yell timber and take off your hat It's a lot smaller down here on the ground You're falling down, falling down, falling down Falling down, falling down, falling down Someone's falling down, falling down, falling down Falling down, falling down, falling down
Fannin Street (Wicked Grin - John Hammond) There's a crooked street in Houston town It's a well born path I've traveled down Now there's ruin in my name, I wish I never got off the train I wished I'd listened to the words you said Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street You'll be lost and never found You can never turn around Don't go down to Fannin Street Once I held you in my arms, I was sure But I took that silent stare through the guilded door The desire to have much more, all the glitter and the roar I know this is where the sidewalk ends Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street You'll be lost and never found You can never turn around Don't go down to Fannin Street When I was young I thought only of getting out I said goodbye to my street, goodbye to my house Give a man gin, give a man cards, give an inch he takes a yard And I rue the day that I stepped off this train Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street Don't go down to Fannin Street You'll be lost and never found You can never turn around Don't go down to Fannin Street Filipino Box Spring Hog (Born To Choose compilation) I hung on the Mary's stump I danced with a soldier's glee With a rum-soaked crook and a big fat laugh I spent my last dollar on thee I saw Bill Bones, I gave him a yell Kehoe spiked the nog With a chain link fence and a scrap iron jaw We're cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Old John broken and Jack the queer Bought a rabbit in a crawfish bag Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie Worse brought nothin' but a bulletproof vest And her criminal underwire bra I was naked to the waist With my fierce black hound And we're cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Spider rode in from Hollister Berm With a one-eyed stolen mare Donned himself with chicken fat Sawing on a jawbone violin there Livin' is easier than falling off a log When you're cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Dig a big pit in a dirty alley road Fill it with a Madrone bag Stinks like hell and the neighbors complain Don't give a hoot what they say Turn that hog, turn him over nice Baste him with a sweeping broom You gotta swat them flies and chain up the dogs When your cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Jerk meat possum with grapes and figs old Brown Betty in a yellow wig T'aint the mince meat filagree T'aint the turkey neck stew T'aint them brulee okra seeds Though she made them special for you Worse just won a prize for her Bottom Black Pie The beans got thrown to the dogs. Ja-he-se-us Christ, I can always make room When they're cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Heigh Ho! (The Dwarfs' Marching Song) (Stay Awake - Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Disney Films) Well, we dig dig dig Well, we dig in our mine the whole day through Dig dig dig, that is what we like to do And it ain't no trick to get rich quick If you dig dig dig, with a shovel and a pick Dig dig dig, the whole day through Got to dig dig dig, it's what we like to do in our mine, in our mine Where a million diamonds shine We got to dig dig dig, from the morning till the night Dig dig dig up everything in sight We got to dig dig dig, in our mine, in our mine Dig up diamonds by the score A thousand rubies, sometimes more But we don't know what we are diggin' for, yeah Heigh-ho, heigh-ho It's off to work we go We keep on singing all day long Heigh-ho Heigh-ho, heigh-ho Got to make your troubles go Well, you keep on singing all day long Heigh-ho Heigh-ho, heigh-ho Highway Café (Pearls In The Snow - The Songs Of Kinky Friedman) She was only a waitress in a highway café Poured coffee from dusk until dawn But she's heart-broken 24 hours a day For she longed for her trucker who'd gone "Will you make it a corned beef on rye" He'd sing with a gleam in her eye Oh, the headlights were burning And the big wheels were turning Her sweetheart would come by and by He'd park his great semi off Route 64 She'd blush with a sweet little sigh For at half past eleven, he'd walk in the door And order a corned beef on rye "Will you make it a corned beef on rye" He'd sing with a gleam in her eye The jukebox was blarin' His soft eyes were starin' And the corned beef would come by and by All the drivers remember that night, so they say She'd said her farewells to them all But when the hands on the clock reached a quarter past twelve Her suitcase still stood in the hall And the hours passed by even as the trucks passed by out on the highway And then two grim Highway Patrolmen came into the place They shook the rain from their hats And as the poor girl brought them their coffee These were the words that they said "Hey, Curly, did you see that old diesel flattened out Like your damned nose up by the predicament tonight? "Well, he jack-knifed that son of a bitch slicker than owl shit! "I'll have a chilli dog over here, baby. "Hell, you don't suppose that he had a little ol' hog way down the line somewhere, do you? "Hey now, Curly, don't you know that them damn truckers They got to take up a little filly at every café from here to Las Cruces!" Now there is a small truck-stop on Route 64 If you happen to be passin' by There's a trucker that never stops in anymore There's a waitress who wished she knew why "Oh, make it a corned beef on rye" She sings with a tear in her eye And as her dark eyes are glistening There's someone who's listening In that highway café in the sky "Oh, we'll make you the corned beef on rye" She sings with a tear in her eye And as her dark eyes are glistening There's someone who's listening In that highway café in the sky Helium Reprise (Helium - Tin Hat Trio) This blinding kiss breathes helium into my heart And erases the embraces of all other lovers With this kiss Your ruby lips speak for themselves, they tell nothing but lies I dissolve into the wax of a flickering candle With this kiss This isn't real, in Chinatown everything's cheap I'm shipwrecked on the coast of your shoulders And this kiss And this kiss And this kiss And this kiss And this kiss And this kiss This kiss With this kiss Home I'll Never Be (Allen Ginsberg tribute, Wadsworth Theatre, LA, 21st June 97) I left New York nineteen forty-nine To go across the country without a bad-blame dime Montana in the cold cold fall Found my father in a gamblin' hall Father, father, where have you been? I've been in the world since I was only ten Don't worry about me I'm about to die of the pleurisy Cross the Mississippi, cross the Tennessee Cross the Niagara, home I'll never be Home in old Medora, home in ol' Truckee Apalachicola, home I'll never be Better or for worse and thick and thin Well, I've been married to the little woman God loved me just like I loved him I want you to do just the same for him Oh, the worms eat away But don't worry watch the wind Oh, the worms eat away But don't worry watch the wind Oh, the worms eat away But don't worry watch the wind So I left Montana on an old freight train The night my father died in the cold cold rain Home in old Medora, home in ol' Truckee Apalachicola, home I'll never be Home I'll never be Home I'll never be I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know (Live at Beverly Theatre, LA, 4th Oct 1986) You think you've found in heaven a bliss With each caress from her fingertips But I forgot more than you'll ever know about her You think you know the smile on her lips The thrill and the touch from her fingertips But I forgot more than you'll ever know about her You stole her from me one day You didn't care how you hurt me But you can never steal away The memories of what used to be You stole her from me one day You didn't care how you hurt me But you can never steal away The memories of what used to be You think she's yours to have and to hold One day you'll find when the love grows cold That I forgot more than you'll ever know about her I forgot more than you'll ever know about her I'll Never Let Go Of Your Hand (American Heart Soundtrack) Well ring the bell backwards and bury the axe Fall down on your knees in the dirt I'm tied to the mast between water and wind Believe me you'll never get hurt Our ring's in the pawnshop the rains in the hull Down at the five point tyre stand I'll lose everything But I won't let go of your hand Well Peter denied and Judas betrayed I'll bear with the roll of the drum And the wind will tell the turn from the wheel And the watchman is making his rounds Well you'll leave me hanging by the skin of my teeth I've only got one leg to stand You can send me to hell But I'll never let go of your hand Swing from the rope on cross-legged tree Signed with one-eyed Jack's blood From Temple and Union To LA and Grand Walking back home in the mud I must make my best of the only way home Molly deals only in stone I'm lost on the midway, I'm reckless in your eye Just give me a couple more throws I'll dare you to dine with a cross-legged knife Dare me to jump and I will I'll fall from your grace But I'll never let go of your hand I'll never let go of your hand I'm Crazy About My Baby (American Heart Soundtrack) I'm walking on air Oh, I've left all my blue days behind me Oh baby, I've learned how to care And there's real love on my mind I'm the world's most happy creature Tell me, what can worry me? I'm crazy 'bout my baby and my baby's crazy 'bout me, yeah Oh, Mister Cupid was my teacher Oh, the reason we agree I'm crazy 'bout my baby and my baby's crazy 'bout me, yeah Oh, Parson, get that book out, get that book out Hold it steady, steady in your hand Understand, an A1 combination, the perfect he and she I'm crazy 'bout my baby and my baby's so crazy 'bout me Oh, Parson, get that book out Hold it steady in your hand Look out, you can understand It's an A1 combination, the perfect he and she Oh, I'm crazy 'bout my baby and my baby's crazy 'bout me, yeah I'm Not Your Fool Anymore (Mississippi Lad - Teddy Edwards) I'm not your fool I'm not your fool I'm not your fool Not anymore There was times when you were good to me Now you can go, go, go Never come back no more It's all over It's all over I'm not your fool Not anymore I'm not your fool Not anymore I tried, you know I tried I tried so hard I tried so hard I tried so hard to satisfy you I came runnin' at your every beck and call And there were times you wouldn't even call at all It's all over, It's all over I'm not your fool Not anymore Not, not anymore I don't need you I don't need you I don't need you Not anymore I used to lie awake at night Cryin' the whole night through But now I've found somebody new To take the place of you It's all over It's all over I'm not your fool I'm not your fool I'm not your fool Not anymore I'm not your fool I'm not your fool I'm not your fool Not anymore Not anymore Not anymore It Rains On Me (Extremely Cool - Chuck E. Weiss) This is how the world will be Everywhere I go it rains on me Forty monkeys drowning in a boiling sea Everywhere I go it rains on me I went down into the valley to pray Everywhere I go it rains on me I got drunk and I stayed all day Everywhere I go it rains on me Everywhere I go, everywhere I go Everywhere I go, it rains on me All God's chilluns can't you see Everywhere I go it rains on me Louie Lista and Marchese Everywhere I go it rains on me Robert Sheehan and Paul Body Everywhere I go it rains on me I went down to Argyle I went down to Dix Everywhere I go it rains on me To get my powders and to get my fix Everywhere I go it rains on me Everywhere I go, everywhere I go Everywhere I go, it rains on me Everywhere I go, everywhere I go Everywhere I go, it rains on me It's Alright With Me (Red Hot + Blue - A Tribute To Cole Porter) It's the wrong time and the wrong place Though your face is charming, it's the wrong face It's not her face, but such a charming face And it's alright with me It's the wrong song with the wrong style Though your smile is lovely, it's the wrong smile It's not her smile, but such a lovely smile That it's alright with me You can't know how happy I am we met I'm strangely attracted to you There's someone I'm trying so hard to forget Don't you wanna forget someone too It's the wrong game with the wrong chips Though your lips are tempting, they're the wrong lips They're not her lips, but they're such tempting lips That it's all right with me It's the wrong time and the wrong place Though your face is charming, it's the wrong face It's not her face, but such a charming face And it's alright with me It's the wrong song with the wrong style Though your smile is lovely, it's the wrong smile It's not her smile, but a lovely smile And it's alright with me You can not know how happy I am we met I'm strangely attracted to you There's someone I'm trying so hard to forget Don't you wanna forget someone too It's the wrong game and the wrong chips Though your lips are tempting, it's the wrong lips They're not her lips, but they're such tempting lips And it's all right with me And it's all right, it's all right It's all right with me It's all right with me It's the wrong time and the wrong place Though your lips are charming, it's the wrong face It's not her face but a charming face And it's alright with me It's Over (Liberty Heights Soundtrack) You must have brought the bad weather with you The sky's the colour of lead All you've left me is a feather On an unmade bed It's always me whenever there's trouble The world does nothing but turn And the ring it fell off my finger I guess I'll never learn But it's over, it's over, it's over I'm getting dressed in the dark Our story ends before it begins I always confess to everyones sins The nail gets hammered down And it's over, let it go So don't go and make a big deal out of nothing Well it's just a storm on a dime And I've always found there's nothing That money can't buy I've already gone to the place I'm going There's no place left to fall And there's something to be said For saying nothing at all And it's over, it's over, it's over It's done forgotten and through No one cares what it's all for You'll be buried in the clothes that you've never wore So keep your suitcase by the door It's over, let it go No one cares what it's all for You'll be buried in the clothes that you never wore So keep your suitcase by the door It's over, let it go You gotta let it go Let it go, let it go Jayne's Blue Wish (Big Bad Love Soundtrack) The sky holds all our wishes The dish ran away with the spoon Chimney smoke ties the roofs to the sky There's a hole overhead It's only the moon Will there ever be a tree Grown from the seeds I've sown Life is a path lit only by the light of those I've loved By the light of those I love Life's a path lit only by the light of those I've loved By the light of those I love Jersey Girl (Bounced Checks) Got no time for the corner boys Down in the street makin' all that noise Don't want no whores on Eighth Avenue Cause tonight I'm gonna be with you Cause tonight I'm gonna take that ride Across the river to the Jersey side Take my baby to the carnival And I'll take you on all the rides Down the shore everything's alright You with your baby on a Saturday night Don't you know that all my dreams come true When I'm walkin' down the street with you Sing sha la la la la sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la sha la la la la la I'm in love with a Jersey girl Sha la la la la sha la la la la la yeah yeah yeah Sha la la la la sha la la la la la You know she thrills me with all her charms When I'm wrapped up in my baby's arms My little angel gives me everything I know someday that she'll wear my ring So don't bother me cause I got no time I'm on my way to see that girl of mine Nothin' else matters in this whole wide world When you're in love with a Jersey girl Sing sha la la la sha la la la la la yeah yeah Sha la la sha la la sha la la la la I'm in love with a Jersey girl Sha la la la sha la la la la la la yeah yeah Sha la la sha la la sha la la la la la And I call your name, I can't sleep at night Sha la la la sha la la la la la la la la yeah Sha la la la la sha la la la la I'm in love with a Jersey girl Sha la la la yeah, don't bother me just ain't got no time Sha la la la la la la la la I'm in love, I'm in love with a Jersey girl Sha la la sha la la sha la la la la la
Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Gavin Bryars) Jesus' blood never failed me yet Never failed me yet Jesus' blood never failed me yet There's one thing I know For he loves me so Just Another Dime Store Novel (Foreign Affairs Sessions, July/August 1977) Stop me if you've heard this one. Well, I said, looky here, baby, I'm here for the same reason you are. I've been married to the same woman for twenty-five years, and not once has she asked me what I do for a living. She tells me that she loves me but I know that she's a gyppy. I find matchbooks in her purse from every goddam bar in town. Her mother's a transvestite and her father was always a poor brush man, but he was bald as door knob and hell, I was afraid to try. I had a vasectomy when I was thirteen years old, when I knocked up this thirteen hundred pound Mexican woman. I didn't have a green card and I worked for her father for seven years, at the Hermasillo Chamber of Commerce. Hell, I had minimum wage and shit, and I finally told him hey, he could have his job for crying out loud. And I told her I was going out for a pack of cigarettes one night. I got into a taxi cab and told him to take me to East St Louis, I'll pay whatever's on the meter. Now that's when I hooked up with this pharmacist, you see? Yeah, this pharmacist, crazy pharmacist, you see? Let me sweep up in the apothecary for a hot meal and some neosenefrin while I studied hotel management at night. Well, I finally got ready for the exam and I rented a room above a barber shop When Jimmy the Lock one night broke in, stole some Lucky Tiger, a half pint of Bay Rum, and a 'Field & Stream' magazine. I caught a cross-town bus. Well you see, I told the guy to let me off at the nearest bar and I walked inside and what do you know? That's right! A girl I hadn't seen in fifteen years recognized me after a shave and told me that she thought we could make beautiful music together And I said, 'Baby, I have a tin ear' and she said, 'Shit, I have a glass eye and a bum leg'. So we went to her place and I found she was running guns to Africa and selling Avon products without a license So I borrowed a car to go to the beach and meet new friends. Damn! Eh-he-he... Well, that ain't the half of it, man, you know... boy, have I got troubles, man... Well, I was pulled over for driving without sunglasses and Bermudas, and I was harassed and intimidated until we got to talking about Pete Kelly's blues And I know a guy named Webb, and they gave me a free color brochure booklet on how to avoid child molesting And I drove away with a new lease on life and ten dollars in my pocket, which I spent on an out-of-print Cozy Cole album at Music Man Murray's Which I considered an investment in the future. Along with a hi-fi recording of the 1959 Grand Prix at Sebring Which was in the wrong jacket and turned out to be a Rudy Ray Moore album. Well anyhow, I'd been trying to lay my hands on that sucker for years And needless to say I was beside myself, so I turned to myself and I said. 'Hey Earl! You gonna be a bum all your life?' You know. I said, 'Are you talking to ME?' Eh-he... Earl was one of my aliases at the time, you see. I was traveling under the name of Earl Scheib, maybe you've heard of me? Well anyhow, to make a long story short, I threw in with these Italian guys in Montabello. Well, they talked me into opening up a used-food restaurant, and hell you know You got used cars, used clothes, used furniture, why not used food, well? For the less fortunate people who don't get out much, you know what I mean. Anyhow, on opening night this one-armed bass-player goes berserk right in front of the goddam place With search lights and all, well that attracted the authorities over there.. eh-he... They were tipped off, you see. I always maintained that it was a real inside job And they discovered it was a front for a prosthetics supermarket and a pet hospital. Anyhow... I was at a loss for words, and I was sent to two years in prison But they suspended the sentence, and had me listen to a band called Mondray for six months and no parole Anyhow, I got out and I swore I was going straight I got the first flight to Vegas where I enrolled in a major university and spent two years studying to be a typing teacher My analyst said it was the healthiest thing he ever heard of Anyhow, before the end of the fiscal year I was living on chicken and wine, I'm not talking about bullshit here! No record. Clean. Every night I'd put on a tie and hit the after hours bars with my old beat-up Underwood typewriter I'd only read about these places in Tally's Corner , mind. Anyhow, here I was with shades on hanging out in the bar. Well, this trombone player named Marcel Tupee asked me if I wanted to sit in one night, and of course I was nervous and scared and shit. Well, he who hesitates is lost, and when I got on the bandstand and they hit me with the spotlight I knew that something was happening, and they kicked off a blues in B-flat and I just typed, man! Like a crazy man! Typed like a crazy man, all that woodsheddin' had paid off, and oh hell, baby, 'You Shiiiibe man', you've heard the story a thousand times, I know. I don't wanna bore you. It's a dime store novel, and hell, you know the rest. I got strung out and then I got my own group, and started playing the MYF meetings, like three shows a night, four on the weekends And I couldn't pay the band, they left me flat one night in Montgomery Wards. I was there, you know, bartering for some band uniforms, and hell, I ain't seen hide nor hair of 'em since, so I got out of the racket. Went back to my first wife and begged her to take me back, told her I'd changed, there'd be no more of them bondage scenes And I'm a new man. She slapped me with a fifteen dollar bill for an orthodontist who claimed I walked the check on some braces. Are you sure you wanna hear this, man? Anyhow, she gave me the bum's rest, Jack And I got a job sweeping up at Yonkers' race track. And one afternoon right in the middle of the daily double, I got inspiration. I remembered Hitler's phone number. That's right, thirteen thirteen, lucky number! And I put everything I had, sixty-eight bucks, on number thirteen, 'Big Blitz' And it paid ten to one, I got twelve hundred and sixty bucks. Quit my job, drove all night to New Orleans where I met the girl of my dreams Woke her up and played the long version of 'Harlem Nocturne' on my trumpet. She called the paramedics and they shot me full of thorozine And said take a long walk off a short pier, well I ain't no fool! No siree! I got me three hots and a flop and the first thing smokin' out of town, if you understand what I mean. And baby, I saw you in nineteen fifty-seven Nineteen fifty-seven in a Lincoln Continental with Rhode Island plates Passing me on Route 66 doing seventy-five miles an hour, with a blue scarf around your neck Smoking a Lucky Strike, and wearing Chanel No. 5, with a Rosemary Clooney record on the radio And I knew you didn't see me. But I saw you! And I told myself that night, that I gotta get next to that girl So what do you say you slide down a stool, and we could get acquainted? Little Drop Of Poison (The End Of Violence soundtrack) I like my town with a little drop of poison Nobody knows they're lining up to go insane I'm all alone, I smoke my friends down to the filter But I feel much cleaner after it rains She left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall She always had that little drop of poison She left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall She always had that little drop of poison Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping Someone said you'll never get a wish from a bone Another wrong goodbye and a hundred sailors That deep blue sky is my home She left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall She always had that little drop of poison She left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall She always had that little drop of poison A rat always knows when he's in with weasels Here you lose a little every day I remember when a million was a million They all have ways to make you pay They all have ways to make you pay Little Man (Mississippi Lad - Teddy Edwards) Sure as fire will burn There's one thing you will learn Those things you have cherished Are things that you have earned Luck is when opportunity Meets with preparation And the same is true for every generation Little man As you climb upon my knee The whole future lies in thee Little man Little man Never hurry, take it slow Things worth while need time to grow Little man Don't look back There are things that might distract Move ahead towards your goal And the answers will unfold Little man Love is always in the air It is there for those who care Little man Don't look back There are things that might distract Move ahead towards your goal And the answers will unfold Little man Love is always in the air It is there for those who care Little man Little man Little man Little man Long Way Home (Big Bad Love Soundtrack) Two, One two three four Well I stumbled in the darkness I'm lost and alone Though I said I'd go before us And show the way back home Is there a light up ahead? I can't hold on very long Forgive me pretty baby but I always take the long way home Money's just something you throw Off the back of a train Got a handful of lightening A hat full of rain And I know that I said I'd never do it again And I love you pretty baby but I always take the long way home I put food on the table And a roof overhead But I'd trade it all tomorrow For the highway instead Watch your back if I should tell you Loves the only thing I've ever known One thing for sure pretty baby I always take the long way home You know I love you baby More than the whole wide world You are my woman I know you are my pearl Let's go out past the party lights We can finally be alone Come with me and we can take the long way home Come with me, together we can take the long way home Come with me, together we can take the long way home Louise (Friends Of MineRamblin' Jack Elliot) They say you're seeing someone, you're wearing his ring They say you laughed when you heard my name They say he takes you dancing, he holds you so near They say he'll buy you anything Tell me am I foolish, I don't believe these stories Darling, I'll be coming home soon Louise, Louise, if it's true Tell it, tell it to me Well, I know you will not see me, but I hear you have a daughter I hear she has my eyes They say she calls him father, and that he's proud of her And that he believes all of your lies But for all your faithless beauty, I give all my tomorrows And if you're still thinking of me Louise, Louise, if it's true Tell it, tell it to me Took a job in Tennessee To build a life for us Give a kiss to win a heart Take a kiss to break apart They say you're seeing someone, you're wearing his ring They say you laughed when you heard my name They say he takes you dancing, he holds you so near They say he'll buy you anything Well, tell me am I foolish, I don't believe these stories Darling, I'll be coming home soon Louise, Louise, if it's true Tell it, tell it to me Oh Louise, Louise, if it's true Tell it, tell it to me Oh Louise, Louise, if it's true Tell it, tell it to me Martin Goes And Does Where It's At (I'm Everyone I've Ever Loved - Martin Mull) Martin Mull : Hey buddy, excuse me Tom Waits : Yeah Martin Mull : Can I get you over here for a second? I have... Tom Waits : Hold your horses, man. I'm busier than a set of jumper cables at a Puerto Rican wedding, man Waitress : I need a Mai Tai, a Brandy Alexander and a draught, light Tom Waits : Ai, ai, ai... Martin Mull : I, I could use another one though. I, I don't usually do this. It's just that, I'm in the music business. You ever get, you ever get anybody in here from... Tom Waits : Yeah, things are tough all over, man. What else is new? Yeah Martin Mull : Well today they made me do a disco record. I mean, it's just... As I said, I don't usually do this. I'd really like another one, if that's all right. You, You don't mind pennies do you? Tom Waits : Oh, we can always use pennies Martin Mull : Oh, fantastic. I think I eh, I think I got enough there for a double Tom Waits : I think you got enough there for a funeral Mr Henry (Bounced Checks) Mr Henry staggers home When the evenings done He's as poor as a church mouse High on the Meyers rum Tugging at his shirt tail Jiggling his church key Chewing on a toothpick On another binge Trampling a rosebush Whistling to himself (whistle) Now don't wake up a neighbour Spitting on a hinge Rattling the milkbottles Tripping on a skate Hiding from the Newsboy Before it's too late The Screen doors open Don't make no noise in the Kitchen Got no excuse For a cold grey wife that starts bitching That the no good bum is at it again After she's given him All the best years of her life He'll tell her he was celebrating Savage's divorce Played a hunch out at Yonkers You can never trust a horse And thrown in jail An sworn he'd never do these things again He's got an alibi But never tells her where he's been Henry! Henry! A Nickel's Worth Of Dreams (Foreign Affairs Sessions, July/August 1977) Well, the shoeshine boy's got lines around the block The bloodhound's let the convicts get away And after you're asleep, all the cheerleaders weep And the ham-and-eggers win the Irish Sweepstakes every day The paper boys make headlines and the janitors are winking As they're filling up their dustpans full of hundred dollar bills The never-do-wells and stingy-pins all ride around in taxis In the style that they have grown accustomed to And the parking lot attendants leave the money in the drawer And take that Corvette Stingray with a four-on-the-floor And pull into the filling station and instead of gasoline Say, 'Hey buddy, can you fill it with a nickel's worth of dreams?' Old Time Feelin' (Friends Of Mine - Ramblin' Jack Elliot) That old time feeling Goes sneaking down the hall Like an old grey cat in winter Keeping close to the wall No One Can Forgive Me But My Baby (Got Love If You Want It - John Hammond) Crack a mean whip, carry a big gun Cast a long shadow till the day is done Do ninety miles an hour down the Devil's trail Done hard time in a hundred jails No one can forgive me but my baby No one can forgive me but my baby No one can forgive me but my baby Now Jesus don't know, Mary don't know Preacher don't know, Mamma don't know Daddy don't know, my brother don't know St. John don't know, St. Peter don't know No one can forgive me but my baby I took a hundred dollars from a blind man's hand I slept with the whores on the burnin' sand Got twenty-seven children I've never seen Got blood on my hands that will never come clean I got long arms, tell big lies Stole the pennies from my dear mother's eyes I'm tall in the saddle, about six foot nine I beat up revenuers all the time No one can forgive me but my baby Oh, no one can forgive me but my baby I got a mean temper, I'm a big liar Broke all the laws, set the house on fire When I stand before Jesus and he asks me to kneel I'll tell him maybe we can make a deal No one can forgive me but my baby No one can forgive me but my baby I don't pay no bills, I don't say no prayers Give back nothin' and I take all dares Stole a car and I got me a gun If there ain't no road I'm gonna make me one Broke my baby's heart and I whip my dog I don't say nothin' when I meet my God No one can forgive me but my baby No one can forgive me but my baby No one can forgive me but my baby No one can forgive me but my baby No one can forgive me but my baby Forgive me, baby On The Road (Reads On The Road - Jack Kerourac) I left New York in 1949 To go across the country without a bad blame dime Montana in the cold cold fall Found my father in the gambling hall Father, Father where you been? I've been out in the world and I'm only ten Father, Father where you been? I've been out in the world and I'm only ten Don't worry about me if I should die of pleurisy Across to Mississippi, across to Tennessee Across the Niagara, home I'll never be Home in ol' Medora, home in Ol' Truckee Apalachicola, home I'll never be Better or for worse, thick and thin Like being married to the Little poor man God he loves me (God he loves me) Just like I love him (just like I love him) I want you to do (I want you to do) Just the same for him (just the same for him, yeah) Well the worms eat away but don't worry watch the wind So I left Monatana on an old freight train (on an old freight train) The night my father died in the cold cold rain (in the cold cold rain) Road to Opelousas, road to Wounded Knee Road to Ogallala home I'll never be Road to Oklahoma, road to El Cahon Road to Tahachapi, road to San Antone Hey, hey Road to Opelousas, road to Wounded Knee Road to Ogallala, home I'll never be Road to Oklahoma, road to El Cahon Road to Tahachapi, road to San Antone Home I'll never be, home I'll never be Home I'll never be, home I'll never be Home I'll never be, home I'll never be Once More Before I Go (Candy Mountain Soundtrack) Once more before I go Out to Killarney Once more before I go Beg me to stay As the wind blows across my grave I will be calling Once more before I go Once more forever more Once more before I go I will remember Once more before I go Beg me to stay Once more before I go I will be calling La la la la la la la La la la ever more Once more before I go I will be calling Once more before I go Beg me to stay Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Live at Massey Hall, Toronto - 7th August 1987) Come on sister, Papa's in the swing Ain't too hip now, about that new breed babe He ain't no drag Papa's got a brand new bag Come here mama and dig this crazy scene Ain't too hip now but his line is pretty clean He ain't no drag Papa's got a brand new bag He's doing the Jerk, he's doing the Fly Don't play him cheap cause you know he ain't shy He's doing the Monkey, the Mashed Potatoes Jump back Jack, see you later alligator Come on sister, Papa's in the swing Ain't too hip now about that new breed, babe He ain't no drag Papa's got a brand new bag Papa, he's doing the, doing the Twist He's doing the Twist just like this He's doing the Fly every day and every night And the Thing, like the Boomerang Papa! I said Papa! Come on Hey! Hey! Come on Hey! Hey! It's so nice, it's out of sight Come on Hey! Hey! Come on Hey! Paradise Alley (Paradise Alley Soundtrack) When the hawk's in the kitchen and the sirens in bloom And the losers have been swept from the gin mills Hello sucker, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 34th Street good tidings to you And will you meet me in Paradise Alley tonight? We'll leave town in a bottle of whiskey And come on you old scarecrow and be a wheel not a lamppost Just put a saddle on a wishbone and you're halfway there You know the heroes will wait where their dreams used to be Go on and ask the hooligans as they sweep down the midway I'm going waltzing tonight with the Statue of Liberty And come on you old lazy-bones let's get out of this place Will you meet me in Paradise Alley tonight? We'll leave town in a bottle of whiskey And come on you old scarecrow and be a wheel not a lamppost Just put a saddle on a wishbone and you're halfway there Now there's a counterfeit moon and I'm seeing right through it Cause the dawn spent it all in one place And we'll rise to the top of the morning tonight You can ride on my shoulders and I'll show you the way If you meet me in Paradise Alley tonight We'll leave town in a bottle of whiskey So come on you old scarecrow and be a wheel not a lamppost Just put a saddle on a wishbone and you're halfway there Piano Has Been Drinking (The Bounced Checks) The piano has been drinking My necktie's asleep The combo went back to New York, and left me all alone The jukebox has to take a leak Have you noticed that the carpet needs a haircut? And the spotlight looks just like a prison break And the telephone's out of cigarettes As usual the balcony's on the make And the piano has been drinking, heavily The piano has been drinking And he's on the hard stuff tonight The piano has been drinking And you can't find your waitress Even with the Geiger counter And I guarantee you that she will hate you From the bottom of her glass And all of your friends remind you That you just can't get served without her The piano has been drinking The piano has been drinking And the lightman's blind in one eye And he can't see out of the other And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid And he showed up with his mother And the piano has been drinking Without fear of contradiction I say The piano has been drinking Our Father who art in ? Hallowed by thy glass Thy kindom come, thy will be done On Earth as it is in the lounges Give us this day our daily splash Forgive us our hangovers As we forgive all those who continue to hangover against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver from evil and someone you must all ride home Because the piano has been drinking And he's your friend not mine Because the piano has been drinking And he's not my responsibility The bouncer is this Sumo wrestler Kinda cream puff casper milk toast And the owner is just a mental midget With the I.Q. of a fencepost I'm going down, hang onto me, I'm going down Watch me skate across an acre of linoleum I know I can do it, I'm in total control And the piano has been drinking And he's embarassing me The piano has been drinking, he raided his mini bar The piano has been drinking And the bar stools are all on fire And all the newspapers were just fooling And the ash-trays have retired And I've got a feeling that the piano has been drinking It's just a hunch The piano has been drinking and he's going to lose his lunch And the piano has been drinking Not me, not me, The piano has been drinking not me Playin' Hooky (Foreign Affairs Sessions) I'm playin' hooky, I'm playin' hooky I can't walk cool when I got books underneath my arm I'm playin' hooky, I'm playin' hooky And I'm afraid I will be failing to be hearing the alarm I refuse to go to school, think I'll play a little pool And I will pass on the curriculum today I apologize to educational supplies Statistics just keep getting in my way How will they teach me how to learn I don't want to be no attorney Or receive a credential just like Raymond I'm playin' hooky, I'm playin' hooky I can't walk cool when I got books underneath my arm Playin' hooky, I'm playin' hooky And I'm afraid I would be failing to be hearing the alarm Maximum security is some peculiarity My educationality has brought me to a conclusion Institutionality that tries to blow the malady Can never seem to go to the release So can you blame me if I'm tempted And the chug down is pre-empted Playin' hooky, I'm playin' hooky I can't walk cool when I got books underneath my arm I'm playin' hooky, I'm playin' hooky And I'm afraid I would be failing to be hearing the alarm Counselors said I'm maladjusted and I never can be trusted Irreconcilable differences cause problems with the faculty Conflicting interests in the area But I should intend to be considering vocationally I must be dealt with very gently and I might say incidentally Playin' hooky, I'm playin' hooky Can't walk cool when I got books underneath my arm I'm playin' hooky, I'm playin' hooky And I'm afraid I would be failing to be hearing the alarm ? called detention, with the captives aforementioned Assuming the dilemma's to rile the guard Here's a memo to communicate or maybe you should demonstrate Instead of just divulging information in regard Beyond the shadow of a doubt, you can trample yourself out I can't walk cool when I got books underneath my arm I'm playin' hooky, I'm playin' hooky And I'm afraid I would be failing to be hearing the alarm Pontiac (Smack My Crack - Various Artists) Well let's see, we had the eh, we had the Fairlane. Then the u-joints went out on that and the bushings and then your mother wanted to trade it in on the Tornado, so we got the Tornado. God, I hated the color of that son of a bitch. And the dog destroyed the upholstery on the Ford. Boy, that was long before you were born. We called it the Yellowbird, two-door, three on the tree. Tight little mother. Threw a rod, sold it to Jacobs for a hundred dollar. Now the Special eh, four-holer, you've never seen body panels lining up like that. Overhead cam, dual exhaust. You know I had, let's see I had, four Buicks, loved them all. Now your Uncle Emmet, well he drives a Thunderbird, it used to belong to your Aunt Evelyn. Now, she ruined it, drove it to Indiana with no gear oil. That was the end of that! Sold that Cadillac to your mom. Your mom loved that Caddy. Independent rear suspension, Landau top, good tires. Gas hog. I swear it had the power to repair itself. I love the old, Dan Steele used to give 'em to me at a discount. Showroom models and that. And then there was the Pontiac and...God, I loved that Pontiac. Well, it was kind of an ox-blood. It just kinda handled so beautifully. Yeah, I miss that car. Well, it was a long time ago, a long time ago. Poor Little Lamb (Demo) Poor little lamb now his fleece is all cold Wakes up in the morning alone Poor little lamb knows what's coming Life is an empty cup Poor little lamb watch your shoulder Coyote's waiting out there Nobody will get any older If we don't find a way out of here So let's go on a bummer this summer Where we won't have to be afraid The world will be on a hummer, boys And we'll laugh and we'll drink lemonade Purple Avenue (Blame It On My Youth - Holly Cole) I slow down, Purple Avenue To march around in April's shoes Weathervanes remind Of the summertimes that I've left behind Money's gone, for Auld Lang Syne I spent on eastern standard time Whatever happened to my roll September fell right through the hole All I've got is empty pockets now Why does August try so hard To hoist me on my own petard I've learned one thing from how we were That an ounce of prevention's worth a pound of cure The shadows fall but I cannot thread The tenor of the things you said All that's left is flesh and bone Lights are on but no one's home All I've got is empty pockets now I spill myself another drink I count the silver in the sink The orchestra is blind But I've never been the worrying kind Subsequently and furthermore I'll sleep right here on the draining board I'll never be paroled I like to drink them while they're cold All I've got is empty pockets now Putting On The Dog (Liberty Heights Soundtrack) You gotta stomp, whistle and scream You gotta wake right up in your dreams You gotta jump, wheel and drive Keep that feeling alive You gotta kick, holler and shout I'm gonna tell you what it's all about You gotta tell me that you love me Tell me that you're mine We're putting on the dog tonight We're putting on the dog tonight We'll be p...putting on the dog tonight Putting on, putting on the dog tonight We'll be putting on the dog tonight We'll be putting on the dog tonight Putting on the dog Putting on the dog We'll flip, we'll follow and fly Just do it now and don't ask why You gotta strut, wiggle and slide Let everybody know that you're alive You gotta crank, gallop and twist Do it once, you'll never resist Tell me that you love me Tell me that you're mine We're putting on the dog tonight Putting on the dog tonight, alright Well we'll be going to a sooky jump it's rain and it pours Big old Lecky with his suicide doors Tip that bottle from the brim to the dregs You ain't dancing 'till you cross your legs Putting on the dog tonight We'll be putting on the dog tonight We'll be putting on the dog tonight Putting on the dog tonight Putting on the dog I've been p...putting on the dog Putting on the dog Putting on the dog Putting on the dog Putting on the dog Rainbow Sleeves (Girl At Her Volcano - Rickie Lee Jones) You used to dream yourself away each night To places that you've never been On wings made of wishes that you whispered to yourself Back when every night the moon and you would sweep away To places that you knew you would never get the blues Now whiskey gives you wings to carry each one of your dreams And the moon does not belong to you But I believe that your heart keeps young dreams Well, I've been told to keep from ever growing old And a heart that has been broken will be stronger when it mends Don't let the blues stop singing Darling, you only got a broken wing Hey, you just hang on to my rainbow Hang on to my rainbow Hang on to my rainbow sleeves River Of Men (Fishing With John Soundtrack) Fishers of men Fishers of men Up one side and back again Along the river of men Our trusty bows are in our boat Along the river of men Sing with me John Along the river of men Along the river of men Up one side and back again Along the river of men, of men, of men, of men He yells at the crew they get nothing to eat Along the river of men And it's up one side and back again Along the river of men, of men Along the river of men Along the river of men Along the river of men Sea Of Love (Sea Of Love soundtrack) Come with me my love to the sea The sea of love I want to tell you How much I love you I'm drowning in a sea of love Do you remember the night we met? That's the night I knew you were my pet I want to tell you How much I love you I'm drowning in a sea of love Come with me to the sea Do you remember the night we met? That's the night I just knew you were my pet I want to tell you How much I love you I'm down in a sea of love Come with me to the sea Do you remember the night we met? That's the night I just knew you were my pet I want to tell you How much I love you I'm down in a sea of love Come with me to the sea Do you remember the night we met? That's the night I just knew you were my pet I want to tell you How much I love you I'm down here in a sea of love Come with me to the sea Come with me my love to the sea The sea of love I want to tell you How much I love you I'm down here in a sea of love Come with me to the sea Scarecrow (Foreign Affairs Sessions, July/August 1977) Buzzards drive a crooked sky Make a junkie's promise in a courier's eye And a bankrupt corduroy wad on the thigh A strangled acre by a thirsty stream A crucified body, just a three day stubble On the chin of a nightmare stampede And tomorrow'll be hirin' a two dollar gun And I tell you that someone's gonna pay Cause when the weathervane's sleeping And the moon turns its back And crawl on the belly on the railroad tracks And keep well hidden till the porchlight's dim And pump sixteen shells in the belly of a scarecrow And blame it all on him Silent Night (S.O.S United) Silent night, Holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and Child Holy Infant so tender and mild Sleep in Heavenly peace Sleep in Heavenly peace Silent night, Holy night Shepherds quake at the sight Glories stream from Heaven afar Heavenly hosts sing Hallelujah Christ, the Savior is born Christ, the Savior is born Silent night, Holy night Son of God, love's pure light Radiant beams from thy Holy face With the dawn of redeeming grace Jesus, Lord, at thy birth Jesus, Lord, at thy birth Sleep Tonight (Dirty Work - Rolling Stones) You better get some sleep tonight You better get some sleep tonight Honey, just warn your friends You better get some sleep tonight They say you watch the sun go down The same old shadows crawl over town Those thoughts of you, it shivers me The moon grows cold in memory Baby, yeah, you better get some sleep tonight All you gotta do is close your eyes You better get some sleep tonight I wish you, baby, all the best If you turn out like all the rest This darkness, baby, it's chilling me The stars stare down in sympathy Baby, yeah, you better get some sleep tonight All you gotta do is close your eyes Baby You better get some sleep tonight Oh baby, you better get some sleep tonight Warn all your friends You better get 'em out of sight You better get some sleep tonight They robbed you of your dignity They even steal your heart from me It ain't revenge, you understand Babe, I just wanna know who dealt this hand Baby, that's alright Baby, git it up, git it up All you gotta do is close your eyes You better get some sleep tonight You better You better get 'em out of sight Maybe in your dreams Better get some sleep tonight Honey, warn all your friends Oh, you better Standing On The Corner (Live at Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio, 25th August 1976) Well, I'm standing on the corner watching all the girls go by I'm always standing on the corner underneath the springtime sky Well, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking Or for the 'woo' look in your eye You been standing on the corner watching all the girls Watching all the girls, watching all the girls, they go by And it's Saturday and I'm so broke And I couldn't buy a girl a nickel Coke I'm going, so what, I'm feeling just like a millionaire Now just take me down to Main Street And I'll survey the harem waiting for me there I'm gonna be standing on the corner watching all the girls go by Oh baby, what you do now? Standing on the corner giving all the girls the eye Well this ain't much of an occupation Give it a whirl, give it a try And you'll be standing on the corner watching all the girls Watching all the girls, watching all the girls, they go by You know that I'm the cat that's got the cream And I ain't got me a girl but I can dream I ain't got me a girl but I can wish Now just take me down to Main Street And I'll select my own, imagine my own imaginary dish I'm standing on the corner watching all the girls go by I'm gonna be standing on the corner underneath the springtime sky You know you can't get arrested for what you're thinking Or for the 'woo' look in your eye You been standing on the corner watching all the girls Watching all the girls, watching all the girls, they go by I'm gonna watch 'em go by Oh, hubba hubba, man Go by, yeah I'm gonna watch 'em go by Strange Weather (Big Time LP - Live Compilation) Will you take me across the Channel, London Bridge is falling down. Strange a woman tries to save What a man will try to drown. And he's the rain that they predicted, Its the forecast every time. The rose has died because you picked it And I believe that brandy's mine. And all over the world Strangers Talk only about the weather. All over the world It's the same It's the same It's the same. The world is getting flatter, The sky is falling all around. And nothing is the matter For I never cry in town. And a love like ours, my dear, Is best measured when its down. And I never buy umbrellas, For there's always one around. And all over the world Strangers talk only about the weather All over the world it's the same It's the same It's the same. And you know that its beginning, And you know that its the end When once again we are strangers And the fog comes rolling in. And all over the world Strangers Talk only about the weather. All over the world It's the same It's the same It's the same
Stray Dog (Small Change Session) Well that old stray hound dog by the meat market now Licking his chops for some greasy chow Top sirloin, pork chops, New York cut Salisbury ground 'round, hanging 'round downtown Dropped out of school, naturally cool Lift his leg on a fireplug With greasy gravy drippings and the gristle on his mug Stray dog help yourself Now he's scratching his ass, he be swatting them flies Gett involved with his dinnertime, and that's no lie I said, 'Stray dog, be cool boy. Go on pull your caper' Using yesterday's paper for a table cloth That old stray hound dog by the meat market now Licking his chops for some greasy chow And if they catch him on a trash can bin Stray dog help yourself Catch him on a trash can bin Stray dog help yourself Stray dog help yourself Sweet And Shiny Eyes (Homeplate - Bonnie Raitt) Your sweet and shiny eyes are like the stars above Laredo Like meat and potatoes to me In my sweet dreams we are in a bar, and it's my birthday Drinking salted Margaritas with Fernando Young and wild, we drove five hundred miles of Texas highway To the Mexican border as the day was coming on We crossed the Rio Grande river and we swore we'd have things our way When we happened to walk into Nuevo Leon Your sweet and shiny eyes are like the stars above Laredo Like meat and potatoes to me In my sweet dreams we are in a bar, and it's my birthday And we're having our picture taken with Fernando In my sweet dreams we are in a bar, and it's my birthday And we're having our picture taken with Fernando Take Care Of My Children (Streetwise Soundtrack) Oh, take care of all of my children Don't let 'em wander and roam Oh, take care of all of my children For I don't know when I'm comin' back home You can put all of my possessions here in Jesus' name Nail a sign on the door Bright and early Sunday morning with my walking cane I'm going up to see my Lord Oh, keep them together at the sundown Safe from the Devil's hand You gotta make them a pillow on the hard ground I'll be goin' up to Beulah land You can put all of my possessions here in Jesus' name And nail a sign on the door Bright and early Sunday morning with my walking cane I'm going up to see my Lord Oh remember you never trust the Devil Stay clear of Lucifer's hand Oh and don't let 'em wander in the meadow Or you'll wind up in the fryin' pan You can put all of my possessions here in Jesus' name And nail a sign on the door Bright and early Sunday morning with my walking cane I'm going up to see my Lord Put all of my possessions here in Jesus' name And nail a sign on the door Bright and early Sunday morning with my walking cane I'm going up to see my Lord Tie Undone (aka Mr Henry) (Foreign Affairs Sessions, July/August 1977) In the evening staggers home With his tie done He's as poor as a church mouse And whistling at the ? Tugging at his shirt tail Jiggling the church key Chewing on a toothpick On another binge Trampling a rosebush Whistling to himself (whistle) Now don't wake up the neighbours Spitting on a hinge And rattling the milkbottles Tripping on a skate Hiding from the paperboy Before it's too late The Screen doors open Don't make no noise in the Kitchen Got no excuse For a cold grey wife that starts bitching That the no good bum is at it again And after she's given him All the best years of her life You must be kidding He'll tell her he was celebrating Savage's divorce And he played a hunch out at Yonkers You can never trust a horse And thrown in jail An sworn he'd never do these things again He's got an alibi But never tells her where he's been Tommy The Cat (Sailing The Seas Of Cheese - Primos) "Well, I remember it as though it were a meal ago," Said Tommy the Cat, as he reeled back to clear whatever foreign matter may have nestled its way into his mighty throat. Many a fat alley rat had met its demise while staring point blank down the cavernous barrel of this awesome prowling machine. Truly a wonder of nature, this urban predator! Tommy the Cat had many a story to tell but it was a rare occasion such as this that he did: "She came slidin' down the alleyway like butter drippin' off a hot biscuit. The aroma, the mean scent, was enough to arouse suspicion in even the oldest of the Tigers that hung around the hot spot in those days. The sight was beyond belief! Many a head snapped double, even triple, takes as this vivacious feline made her way into the delta of the alleyway, where the most virile of the young tabbys were known to hang out. They hung out in droves. Such a multitude of masculinity could only be found in one place, and that was O'Malley's Alley! The air was thick with cat calls (no pun intended), but not even a muscle in her neck did twitch as she sauntered straight to the heart of the alleyway. She knew what she wanted! She was lookin' for that stud bull. She was lookin' for that He cat. And that was me. Tommy the Cat is my name, and I say unto thee, Say baby, do you wanna lay down with me? Say baby, do you wanna lay down by my side? Baby, do you wanna lay down with me? Say baby Say baby Say baby, do you wanna lay down with me? Say baby, do you wanna lay down by my side? Baby, do you wanna lay down with me? Say baby, Say baby" Trash Day (Beacon Theatre, New York, 15th Nov 1979) Well, my baby's gone and I feel so bad I lost the best girl that I ever had You ask me why I feel so blue But you'd feel the same way if it happened to you She didn't leave me on a Monday She didn't leave me on Tuesday She didn't leave me on Wednesday She didn't leave me on Thursday She didn't leave me on Friday She didn't leave me on Saturday She went and left me on trash day My baby left me on trash Day She went and left me on trash day She didn't leave me on Monday She didn't leave me on Tuesday She didn't leave me on no Wednesday She could have me on a Thursday No, no, no, no It was trash day It was god damn trash day My baby left me on trash Day And that's why I'm smelling like a brewery and I'm looking like a tramp And I ain't got a quarter, I got a postage stamp I got a five o'clock shadow boxing all around the town Talking with the old men sleeping on the ground Bazanti booting al zooting al hoot and Al Cohn And I'm sharing this apartment with a telephone pole Fishnet stockings and spike heel shoes Strip tease, prick tease, car keys blues Porno floor show, live nude girls Dreamy and creamy and brunette curls Chesty Morgan and Watermelon Rose Raisin' my rent, take off all your clothes Because my baby left me and I feel so bad I lost the best girl that I ever had Go on and ask me why I feel so blue You'd feel the same way if it happened to you She could've left me on a Monday She could've left me on a Tuesday She could've left me on a Thursday Or a Friday, or a Saturday No, she went and left me on Trash Day My baby left me on Trash Day She went and left me on Trash Day Trash Day Big John Thomassie on the trash can Oh, Trash Day Trash Day Trash Day Goddamn Trash Day Trash Day Walk Away (Dead Man Walking soundtrack) Dot King was whittled from the bone of Cain With a little drop of poison in the red red blood She need a way to turn around the bend She said I want to walk away and start over again There are things I've done I can't erase I want to look in the mirror see another face I said never wanna do it again I wanna walk away, start over again No more rain, no more roses On my way, shake my thirst in a cool cool pond There's a winner in every place There's a heart that's beating in every page The beginning of it starts at the end When it's time to walk away and start over again Weather's murder at a hundred and three William Ray shot Corabell Lee A yellow dog knows when he has sinned You wanna walk away and start over again No more rain, no more roses On my way, shaking my thirst in a cool cool pond Cooper told Maui the whole block's gone They're dying for jewelry, money, and clothes I always get out of the trouble I'm in I want to walk away, start over again I left my bible by the side of the road Carve my initials in an old dead tree I'm going away but I'm going to be back when It's time to walk away and start over again Ho ho yeah, hmm, yeah Gotta walk away, gotta walk away, gotta walk away Just wanna walk away yeah, wanna walk away and start over again Wanna walk away, wanna walk away, wanna walk away What Else Is New (Small Change Sessions) Well, your skeletons in the closet are introducing themselves The knick-knacks wisecrack there on the shelf You told him that you loved him, but he's hissing at you What else is new? What else is new? What else is new? Cause your old man's a counterfeit, your daughter's a lush It's you and Mickey Spillane, and the lady's in a ? Someone's stealing your heart, someone's stealing your car What else is new? Well now, your creditors hate you and so do your kids Your footballing sweetheart is down on the skids And now the parks are full of fugitives, the trees are on fire What else is new? What else is new? Now you see the cigarette machines are busted, you can't get no change And somebody cancels everything you arrange For every invitation gets your RSVP What else is new? What else is new? What else is new? what else is new? Well now, the rocking chair's busted, your ashtrays are full Your evenings and your afternoons are usually dull So you toast to the Toastmaster toaster and you What else is new? What else is new? What else is new? What else is new? You gotta tell me, what else is new? What else is new? What else is new? What else is new? What else is new? What else is new? What Keeps Mankind Alive (Lost In Stars) You gentlemen who think you have a mission To purge us of the seven deadly sins Should first sort out the basic food position Then start your preaching, that's where it begins You lot who preach restraint and watch your waist as well Should learn, for once, the way the world is run However much you twist or whatever lies that you tell Food is the first thing, morals follow on So first make sure that those who are now starving Get proper helpings when we all start carving What keeps mankind alive? What keeps mankind alive? The fact that millions are daily tortured Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance In keeping its humanity repressed And for once you must try not to shriek the facts Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts Whistlin' Past (The Graveyard Bounced Checks) I come in on a night train With an arm full of box cars On the wings of a magpie Cross a hooligan night I busted up a chifforobe Way out by the cocomo Cooked up a mess a mulligan And got into a fight Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin' on a crack A mean motherhubbard Papa one eyed jack You probably seen me sleepin' Out by the railroad tracks Go on and ask the prince of darkness What about all that smoke Come from the stack Sometimes I kill myself a jackel Suck out all the blood Steal myself a stationwagon Drivin' through the mud Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin' on a crack I'm mean motherhubbard Papa one eyed jack I know you seen my headlights And the honkin' of my horn I'm callin' out my bloodhounds Chase the devil through the corn Last night I chugged the Mississippi Now that suckers dry as a bone I'm Born in a taxi cab I'm never goin' home Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin' on a crack I'm mean motherhubbard papa one eyed jack My eyes have seen the glory Of the drainin' of the ditch I only come to baton rouge To find myself a witch I'm-ona snatch me up a Couple of em every time it rains You see a locomotive Probably thinkin' its a train Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin' on a crack I'm a mean motherhubbard papa one eyed jack What you think is the sunshine Is just a twinkle in my eye That ring around my finger Called the 4th of july I'm gonna tear me off a rainbow And wear it for a tie I never told the truth So I can never tell a lie Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin' on a crack I'm a mean motherhubbard papa one eyed jack Whose Sports Coat Is That (Beacon Theatre, New York, 15th Nov 1979) Well, I'd like to tell you a little story about a young man. He arrived home one afternoon to find various articles of clothing throughout his home area that did not belong to him. This made this particular gentleman extremely upset and rightly so. And he called his young lady to his side and he said 'Baby...' I just gotta know I just gotta know I just gotta know I just gotta know Whose sports coat is that on my rack? Whose sports coat is that? Whose sports coat is that? I ain't got me no coat like that Now whose hat is on the rack? Now whose hat is on the rack? Now whose hat is on the rack? I ain't got me no hat like that Now whose car is parked right outside? Whose car is parked right outside? Whose car is parked right outside? I drive a Chevolet, not a goddamn Ford Whose cigarettes are those? Whose cigarettes are those? Whose cigarettes are those? I smoke Winstons, he smokes Kools Whose whiskey is by the bed? Now whose whiskey is by the bed? Whose whiskey is by the bed? I drink Cutty, that's J&B, baby Now whose pistol is that? Whose pistol is that? Whose pistol is that? Whose sports coat is that? Whose sports coat is that? Whose sports coat is that? I ain't got me no coat like that With A Suitcase (Paradise Alley Sessions) With a suitcase and a couple of bucks I'm gonna skip this rhubarb, slide down the boulevard I ain't gonna take that dame with me She's full of malarkey Just as soon as it's dark I'll get a one-way token On the first thing smoking out of town And I'm going out to East St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago Wichita, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Miami, Florida Downtown Tulsa, Champaigne-Urbana Bangor, all aboard, Houston and Atlanta Going to Joliet, Bernadette, maybe Philadelphia Picket out to Tittsburgh, any burgh, hamburger Springfield Junction, Primrose Lane I may get me a nose-job and change my name Cause she drinks all my liquor and she steals all the covers And she swears like a sailor If I ever have to bail her out of jail again I'm gonna lose my mind Who needs the aggravation Charlie, take me to the station Get a one-way token on the first thing smoking out of town And go out to East St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago Wichita, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Miami, Florida Downtown Tulsa, Champaigne-Urbana Bangor, all aboard, Houston and Atlanta Going to Joliet, Bernadette, maybe Philadelphia Picket out to Tittsburgh, any burgh, cheeseburger Springfield Junction, Primrose Lane I may get me a nose-job and change my name World Keeps Turning (The Pollock Soundtrack) On our anniversary There'll be someone else where you used to be The world don't care and yet it clings to me And the moon is gold and silvery Who knows where the sidewalk ends? Well, the road will turn and the road will bend They always say he marks the sparrow's fall How can anyone believe it all? Well, the band has stopped playing but we keep dancing The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning On his hand he wore the ring of another And the world keeps turning, the world keeps turning We broke the bank and we tore up the place And we disappeared oh without a trace Now the sun it falls into the sea And around the only one for me I was so green and the dress you wore was yellow And the world keeps turning, the world keeps turning The sun is down and the moon is in the meadow And the world keeps turning, the world keeps turning Put a hat on your head Will you paint the whole damned town red with me? Well, the band has stopped playing but we keep dancing The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning On his hand he wore the ring of another The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning The world keeps turning, the world keeps turning World Of Adventure (Fishing With John Soundtrack) Adventure Men of adventure Conquering the world Conquering the world The world of adventure The world of adventure The world of adventure Our journey begins In a world of adventure