Old brown clock ticking on my shelf
Take my mind to someplace else
Little gold clock ticking by my bed
Funny little people dancing 'round my head
Morning brings me things to do
Morning brings me thoughts of you
Gentle sunshine through the curtain lace
Some of which shining on your sweet face
Counting hours making days
Watching time throwing love away
Nothing golden never stays
That's what I heard the poets say Mmm ...
Time is always taking me
Places I don't want to be
But when the morning rise the moon
I know a bird day's coming soon
Counting hours making days
Watching time throwing love away
Nothing golden never stays
That's what I heard the poets say Mmm ...
Morning brings me things to do
Morning brings me thoughts of you
Gentle sunshine through the curtain lace
Holly's in the window
Home where the wind blows
The cane foam's a-runnin'
Christmas Time's A-Comin'
Can't you hear them bells ringin', ringin'
Joy, don'tcha hear them singin'
When it's snowin', I'll be goin'
Back to my country home
Christmas Time's A-Comin'
Christmas Time's A-Comin'
Christmas Time's A-Comin'
And I know I'm goin' home
White candle's burnin'
My old heart's a-yearnin'
For the folks at home when
Christmas Time's A-Comin'
Snow flake's a-fallin'
My old heart's a-callin'
Tall pine's a-hummin'
A light shines from my window
Just can't sleep no more
Lord, it hurts so much to be alone
But the real men never do admit
It's them that might be wrong
At least that's what he told me in his song
He rode all the way to Texas
On an old freight train
Didn't miss the girl he left behind
He rode all the way to Texas
Didn't shed a tear
He's lettin' you know that he's the movin' kind
The freedom that he sings about
I guess, I'll never know
Just can't shake the guilt or kill the pain
But he lets me ride when the lights turn low
Get on board the radio
And take a ride to Texas on his train
He rode all the way to Texas
On an old freight train
Didn't miss the girl he left behind
He rode all the way to Texas
Didn't shed a tear
Lettin' you know that he's the movin' kind
Last night I thought I felt your arms around me
But woke to find that it was just a dream
Though you're gone I find you constantly surround me
Ohh, just something else that keeps your memory green
I go out and try my hand at startin' over
But find it hard to break the old routine
'Cause I wind up seein' you in each new lover
Ohh, just something else that keeps your memory green
Time should be a cure for a heartache
A healing melody for shattered dreams
But I swear sometimes I hear you say you love me
Ohh, just something else that keeps your memory green
Time should be a cure for a heartache
A healing melody for shattered dreams
Oh, but I swear sometimes I hear you say you love me
Ohh, just something else that keeps your memory green
Oh, oh deep water, black and cold like the night
I stand with arms wide open
I've run a twisted line
I'm a stranger in the eyes of the Maker
I could not see for the fog in my eyes
I could not feel for the fear in my life
From across the great divide, In the distance I saw a light
Of Jean Baptiste's he's walking to me with the Maker
My body, my body is bent and broken by long and dangerous sleep
I can't work the fields of Abraham and turn my head away
I'm not a stranger in the hands of the Maker
Brother John, have you seen the homeless daughters
Standing there with broken wings
I have seen the flaming swords
There over east of Eden
Burning in the eyes of the Maker
Burning in the eyes of the Maker
Burning in the eyes of the Maker
Oh, river rise from your sleep
Oh, river rise from your sleep
(Jimi Hendrix)
Waterfall
Nothing can go wrong
Nothing can go wrong
My sweet waterfall
When I go
When I go down deep
I want you here with me
My sweet waterfall
I can see
A rainbow calling me
Through your mystery
My sweet waterfall
Waterfall
For a million day
Fall with me for a million days
My sweet waterfall
Waterfall
Nothing can go wrong
Nothing can go wrong
My sweet waterfall
Nothing can go wrong
The wind can blow cold, it moans and it cries
When it carries the sound of a thousand goodbyes
But if you listen tonight on that high lonely plain
You'll just hear my voice as it calls out your name
You'll just hear my voice as it calls out your name
You've been on a road that just don't seem to end
Where that broken old heart of yours won't ever mend
You've crossed over bridges and bridges they burn
So many rivers and so much to learn
So many bridges and so much to learn
But the moon is so full, the stars are so bright
And my hand is steady, my touch is light
Look in my eyes, hold on real tight
And I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
We both have known hard luck and love that's gone wrong
When the ghosts take the shadows and the night takes too long
We folded our cards when the hand wasn't strong
But that wheel will keep spinning long after we're gone
Yeah, that wheel will keep spinning long after we're gone
And the moon is so full, the stars are so bright
And my hand is steady, my touch is light
Look in my eyes, hold on real tight
And I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
Look in my eyes, hold on real tight
And I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
I remember holdin' on to you
All them long and lonely nights I put you through
Somewhere in there I'm sure I made you cry
But I can't remember if we said goodbye
But I recall all of them nights down in Mexico
One place I may never go in my life again
Was I just off somewhere or just too high
But I can't remember if we said goodbye
I only miss you every now and then
Like the soft breeze blowin up from the Caribbean
Most Novembers I break down and cry
'Cause I can't remember if we said goodbye
But I recall all of them nights down in Mexico
One place I will never go in my life again
Was I just off somewhere or maybe just too high
But I can't remember if we said goodbye
(Bob Dylan)
In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
There's a dyin' voice within me reaching out somewhere,
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair.
Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake,
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break.
In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles and, in every grain of sand.
Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear,
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer.
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name.
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.
I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light,
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space,
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face.
I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me.
I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand
If I could only win your love
I'd make the most of everything
I'd proudly wear your wedding ring
My heart would never stray when we're away
If I could only win your love
I'd give my all to make it live
You'll never know how much I'd give
If I could only win your love
Oh, how can I ever say
How I crave your love when you're gone away?
Oh, how can I ever show
How I burn inside when you hold me tight?
If I could only win your love
I'd give my all to make it live
You'll never know how much I'd give
If I could only win your love
Oh, how can I ever say
How I crave your love when you're gone away?
Oh, how can I ever show
How I burn inside when you hold me tight?
If I could only win your love
I'd give my all to make it live
You'll never know how much I'd give
The day breaks your mind aches
You find that all her words
Of kindness linger on
She no longer needs you
She wakes up, she makes up
She takes her time
And doesn't feel she has to hurry
She no longer needs you
And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
You want her, you need her
And yet you don't believe her
When she said her love is dead
You think she needs you
She goes out, you stay home
She says that long ago
She knew someone but now he's gone
She doesn't need him
And in her eyes, you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
Your day breaks your mind aches
There will be time when all the things she said
Will fill your head
(Dolly Parton)
Back through the years I go wondering once again
Back to the seasons of my youth
I recall a box of rags that someone gave us
And how my mamma put these rags to use
There were rags of many colours, and every piece was small
And I didn't have a coat and it was way down in the fall
Mamma sewed the rags together, sewing ever piece with love
She made my coat of many colours, that I was so proud of
As she sewed she told the story from the bible she had read
About a coat of many colours, Joseph wore and they she said
Perhaps this coat will bring you, much love and happiness
And I just couldn't wait to wear it, and mamma blessed it with a kiss
My coat of many colours that mamma made for me
Made only rags, but I wore it so proudly
Although we had no money. oh I was rich as I could be
In my coat of many colours, my mamma made for me
So with patches on my breaches and holes in both my shoes
In my coat of many colours, I hurried off to school
Just to find the others laughing and makin' fun of me
In my coat of many colours, my mamma made for me
Oh, I couldn't understand it, for I felt I was rich
And I told them of the love my mamma sewed in ever stitch
And I told them all the story, mamma told me while she sewed
And how my coat of many colours is worth more than all of their clothes
They didn't under stand it and I tried to make them see
That one is only poor only if they choose to be
Now I know we have no money, but I'm as rich as I could be
In my coat of many colours, my mamma made for me
When I stop dreaming
That's when I'll stop loving you
The worst that I've ever been hurt in my life
The first time I ever have wanted to die
Was the night when you told me, you loved someone new
And you asked me if I could forget
When I stop dreaming
That's when I'll stop loving you
You may teach the flowers to bloom in the snow
You may take a pebble and teach it to grow
You may teach all the raindrops to return to the clouds
But you can't teach my heart to forget
When I stop dreaming
That's when I'll stop loving you
When I stop dreaming
That's when I'll stop loving you
When I stop dreaming
Making believe, that you still love me
It's leaving me alone and so blue
Still I'll always dream, but I'll never own you
Making believe, it's all I can do
Can't hold you close when you're not with me
You're somebody's love, you'll never be mine
Making believe, I'll spend my lifetime
Loving you and making believe
Making believe, I never lost you
But my happy hours, I'll find now so few
My plans for the future will never come true
Making believe, what else can I do
Making believe, I'll spend my lifetime
If they'll play another love song
If that Miller High life light stays dim
And if you'll keep my glass full of whiskey
I'll whisper words I wish I'd said to him
Just ask me to dance all the slow ones
Hold me close and take me 'cross the floor
I'll gently lay my head on your shoulder
And pretend this never happened before
I don't want to hear a sad story
We both already know how it goes
And if you'll be my tall dark stranger
I'll be your San Antone Rose
Well I wish I could tell you I love you
And I wish that he weren't always on my mind
If wishes were fast trains to Texas
Oh I'd ride and I'd ride, how I'd ride
I don't want to hear a sad story
We both already know how it goes
So if you'll be my tall dark stranger
I'll be your San Antone Rose
(Steve Rhymer/Elizabeth Rhymer)
Hail, hail to the newborn king
Let our voices sing him our praises
Hail, hail to the guiding light
That brought us tonight to our savior
Ale, alleluia, alle, alleluia
Ale, alleluia, alle, alleluia
Come now, there it shines so bright
To the knowing light of the stable
Lean close to the child so dear
Cast aside your fear and the thankful
Ale, alleluia, alle, alleluia
Ale, alleluia, alle, alleluia
We used to have good times together dear
But now, I feel them slip away
It makes me cry to see love die
So sad to watch good love go bad
Remember, how you used to feel dear
You said nothing could change your mind
It breaks my heart to see us part
So sad to watch good love go bad
Is it any wonder that I'm feeling so blue
When I know for certain that I'm losing you?
It breaks my heart to see us part
So sad to watch good love go bad
(Rodney Crowell)
Well, it's only rock and roll keep you running from yourself
When the only way to slow down is to fall
And it's only rock and roll that caused you to leave home
When the only way to get back is to crawl
But the record people love you they can get you on the bill
Change your name to money dress up fit to kill
People all around you everywhere you go
Don't worry if they love you son it's only rock and roll
Yes and it's only rock and roll keep you jumping all the time
When you really ought to sit this one out
And it's only rock and roll keep on messin' with your mind when
You don't know what they're talkin' about
All around the world everywhere you go
People got to have it 'cause it's only rock and roll
It's only rock and roll yes it's only rock and roll
People all around you everywhere you go
Don't worry if they love you, 'cause it's only rock and roll
Well it's only rock and roll when your money's in the mail
And your love's on the back of the bus
And it's only rock and roll when your records start to sell
And you don't know why they're making such a fuss
Telephone receiver ringin' off the wall
Can I get witness each and every call
Second that emotion chased into your soul
Don't worry lest you linger, son it's only rock and roll
It's only rock and roll yes it's only rock and roll
People all around you everywhere you go
Don't worry if they love you, 'cause it's only rock and roll
It's only rock and roll. yeah it's only rock and roll
All around the world everywhere you go
Well, all I want is a love that's hot
Can't be sold, can't be bought
Yeah, love that don't try to be somethin' it's not
Well, all I need is a love that's real
None can rob and none can steal
Hey, love that moves like a drivin' wheel
Well, all I want is drivin' wheel
All I want is a drivin' wheel
All 'round love my ideal
Well, all I want is love that's right
Hold onto with all my might
Hey, early in the mornin' and late at night
Well, all I want is drivin' wheel
All I want is a drivin' wheel
Hey, all 'round love my ideal, yeah
All I want is a drivin' wheel
All I want is a drivin' wheel
Hey, all 'round love my ideal
All I want is a drivin' wheel
All I want is a drivin' wheel
(Leo Robin/Jule Styne)
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
We all lose our charm in the end
But square cut or pear shape
These rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Yeah diamonds are a girl's best friend
Let's rock
There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
There may come a time when a hardboiled employer
Thinks you're awful nice, but get that ice or else no dice
He's your guy when stocks are high
But beware when they start to descend
It's then that those spouses
And diamonds are a girl's best friend
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Yeah diamonds are a girl's best friend
Let's rock again
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
(Rodney Crowell)
In this modern world we're livin'
The rules ain't like they've ever been
Speakin' of spreading it thin
That's what you do, flashing your soul
That ain't no way to treat your lover
Ain't no way to act with feelings
Baby, better start turnin' em down
Now it's a brave new wave we're roarin' in
Hanging out, out on the rock 'n roll fringe
Speaking of running around
All over town, lettin' it show
That ain't no way to treat your lover
Ain't no way to act in public
Baby, don't better start turnin' em down, start to turnin' down
Sure is clear ain't nothin' easy any more
Sure gets cloudy when I look in all directions
Sure is rainin' like this feeling in my heart
Sure is crazy how you're acting
In this latest craze or current trend
Burnin' money every way that you can
Speakin' of goin' for broke
That's how it is and lettin' it slow
That ain't no way to treat your lover
Ain't no way to act with strangers
Baby, you'd better start turnin' em down, start to turnin' down
Baby, better start turnin'
Baby, better start turnin' 'em down
God's given us years of happiness here
Now we must part
And as the angels come and call for you
The pains of grief tug at my heart
Oh my darling
My darling
My heart breaks as you take your long journey
Oh the days will be empty
The nights so long without you my love
And when God calls for you I'm left alone
But we will meet in heaven above
Oh my darling
My darling
My heart breaks as you take your long journey
Fond memories I'll keep of happy ways
That on earth we trod
And when I come we will walk hand in hand
As one in Heaven in the family of God
Oh my darling
My darling
You're free to go, darling
I'll break the ties that bind
Somehow the plans we made have gone astray
You're free to go, darling
So ease your worried mind
I'll never stand in your way
There's no ream of shining gold
So strong that it can hold
A heart that longs to be near
The lips are cold, darling
That once said yes to me
The tender love is gone, I know
You're free to go
There's no ream of shining gold
So strong that it can hold
A heart that longs to be free
The lips are cold, darling
That once said yes to me
The tender love is gone, I know
You're free to go
The tender love is gone, I know
(Iry LeJeune)
O ye yaie mais rappelle toi
Petite fille tout les accroires
Les promesses ca tu m'as fait
Tu connais je merite pas ca
Tu m'as dit toi tu m'aimais
Chere mais aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui t'es apres me quitter
Moi je connais ca me fait du mal
O ye yaie mais rapelle toi
Petite fille tout les promesse
Les accroires ca tu m'as fait
Tu connais je peux pas oublier
Que toi mais tu m'as dit
Chere toi tu serais venue
Tu serais venue mais avec moi
Mary took to running with a travelin' man
Left her momma crying with her head in her hands
Such a sad case, so broken hearted
She say, ?Momma, got to go, gotta get outta here
Gotta get out of town, tired of hanging around
I gotta roll on between the ditches?
It's just an ordinary story 'bout the way things go
'Round and around nobody knows
But the highway goes on forever
Oh, that ol' highway goes on forever
Lord, she never would've done it if she hadn't got drunk
Hadn't started running with a travelin' man
If she hadn't started taking those crazy changes
She said, ?Daughter, let me tell you 'bout the travelin' kind
Everywhere they go such a very short time
He'll be long gone before you know it
Oh, he'll be long gone before you know it?
She say never have I known it when it felt so good
Never have I knew it when I knew I could
Never have I done it when it looked so right
Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight
This is down in the swampland, anything goes
It's alligator bait and the bars don't close
It's the real thing down in Louisiana
Did you ever see a Cajun when he really got mad
When he really got trouble like a daughter gone bad
It gets real hot down in Louisiana
The stranger better move it or he's gonna get killed
He's gonna have to get it or a shotgun will
It ain't no time for lengthy speeches
Lord, there ain't no time for lengthy speeches
She say, ?Never have I know it when it felt so good
Never have I knew it when I knew I could
Never have I done it when it looked so right
Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight?
She say, ?Never have I know it when it felt so good
Never have I knew it when I knew I could
Never have I done it when it looked so right
Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight
Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight?
It's just an ordinary story 'bout the way things go
'Round and around nobody knows
But the highway goes on forever
I live on a big blue ball
I never do dream I may fall
But even the day that I do
I'll jump off and smile back at you
I don't even know where we are
But they tell us we're circling a star
Well, I'll take their word I don't know
But I'm dizzy so maybe that's so
I'm riding a big blue ball
I never do dream I may fall
But even the high may lay row
Keep that candle burnin' bright, mama
I'll be kind of late tonight, mama
There's a yellow moon above me, mama
Shinin' on the one I love, mama
Burn that candle night and day
Burn that candle, honey, light our way
Keep that doorway open wide
Until we come slowly strollin' side by side
While that candle's shinin' high, mama
I'll be with my sugar pie, mama
We'll be comin' home you know, mama
Lookin' for that candle glowin', mama
Burn that candle night and day
Burn that candle, honey, light our way
Keep that doorway open wide
Until we come slowly strollin' side by side
After we have had the wedding, mama
To that candle we'll be headin', mama
So before we're runnin', dinin', mama
Keep that candle light a-shinin', mama
Burn that candle night and day
Burn that candle, honey, light our way
Keep that doorway open wide
Until we come slowly strollin' side by side
Burn that candle night and day
Burn that candle, honey, light our way
Keep that doorway open wide
(Dolly Parton)
Mama never seemed to miss the finer things of life
If she did she never did say so to daddy
She never wanted to be more than a mother and a wife
If she did she never did say so to daddy
The only thing that seemed to be important to her life
Was to make our house a home and make us happy
Mama never wanted any more than what she had
If she did she never did say so to daddy
He often left her all alone but she didn't mind the staying home
If she did she never did say so to daddy
And she never missed the flowers and the cards he never sent her
If she did she never did say so to daddy
Being took for granted was a thing that she accepted
And she didn't need those things to make her happy
And she didn't seem to notice that he didn't kiss and hold her
If she did she never did say so to daddy
One morning we awoke just to find a note
That mama carefully wrote and left to daddy
And as we began to read it
Our ears could not believe it
The words that she had written there to daddy
She said the kids are older now they don't need me very much
And I've gone in search of love I need so badly
I have needed you so long but I just can't keep holding on
She never meant to come back home
If she did she never did say so to daddy
There he goes gone again
Same old story's gotta come to an end
Lovin' him was a one way street
But I'm gettin' off where the crossroads meet
Quarter moon in a ten cent town
It's time for me to lay my heartaches down
Saturday night gonna make myself a name
Take a month of Sundays to try and explain
It's gonna be easy to fill the heart of a thirsty woman
Harder to kill the ghost of a no good man
And I'll be ridin' high in a fandangled sky
It's gonna be easy, it's gonna be easy from now on
Raw as whip but clean as a bone
Soft to touch when you take me home
When the mornin' comes and it's time for me to leave
Don't worry 'bout me, I got a wild card up my sleeve
It's gonna be easy to fill the heart of a thirsty woman
Harder to kill the ghost of a no good man
And I'll be ridin' high in a fandangled sky
It's gonna be easy, it's gonna be easy
(Neil Young)
My life's an open book, you read it on the radio
We've got no where to hide, we got no where to go
But' if you still decide you want to take a ride
Meet me at the Wrecking ball
Wrecking Ball, I'll wear something pretty and white
And we'll go dancing tonight
Meet me at the Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball, I'll wear something pretty and white
And we'll go dancing tonight
I see smokey eyes right across the bar
I've seen that look before shining from star to star
Though I can't take that change
If you've got time for one dance
The restless line of cars goes stretching down the road
But I won't telephone cause you might say hello
What is it makes me feel this way
(Buck Owens)
Oh the sun's gonna shine in my life once more
Love's gonna live here again
Thing's are gonna be the way they were before
Love's gonna live here again
Love's gonna live here
Love's gonna live here
Love's gonna live here again
No more loneliness
Only happiness
Love's gonna live here again
I hear bells a ringing
I hear birds a singing
Love's gonna live here again
I hear bees a humming
And I know the days a coming
We've been through some things together
With trunks of memories still to come
We found things to do in stormy weather
Long may you run
Long may you run
Long may you run
Although these changes have come
With your chrome heart shining in the sun
Long may you run
Well it was back in Blind River in 1962
When I last saw you alive
Rollin' down that empty ocean road
Gettin' to the surf on time
Long may you run
Long may you run
Although these changes have come
With your chrome heart shining in the sun
Long may you run
Long may you run
Long may you run
Although these changes have come
With your chrome heart shining in the sun
(Rodney Crowell)
When you look at me
Like you don't know me
And you talk to me
Like you've never met me
I can leave you alone if i try
If I tried I could tell you goodbye
If I wanted to
I could be long gone
And I don't have to crawl
Then you call on me
As if I should run to you
You make your move
as if I should follow you
Well I don't have to be nobody's fool
I won't make no exception of you
I don't have to be nobody's fool
I don't make no exception of you
I don't have to crawl
I can just walk away
No I don't have to crawl
I don't have to get down on my knees
I don't have to crawl
I can just walk away
She's a devil in disguise, you can see it in her eyes
She's tellin' dirty lies, she's a devil in disguise, in disguise
Now a woman like that, all she does is hate you
She doesn't know what makes a man a man
She'll talk about the time that she's been with you
She'll speak your name to everyone she can
She's a devil in disguise, you can see it in her eyes
She's tellin' dirty lies, she's a devil in disguise, in disguise
Unhappiness has been her close companion
Her world is full of jealousy and doubt
It gets her off to see a person crying
She's just the kind that you can do without
She's a devil in disguise, you can see it in her eyes
She's tellin' dirty lies, she's a devil in disguise, in disguise
Her number always turns up in your pocket
Whenever you are looking for a dime
It's alright to call her but I'll bet you
The moon is full and you're just wasting time
She's a devil in disguise, you can see it in her eyes
She's tellin' dirty lies, she's a devil in disguise, in disguise
In disguise, in disguise
(Bill Payne)
Well, there's a place down Kentucky
Said right down near Ohio
You can watch the planes at night
People line up to watch each flight
I said a-watchin' them planes
Well I wish I was on one
Sittin' here thinkin' 'bout my crazy dream
If I could only see him tonight
Oh Atlanta, Oh Atlanta
Whoah whoah Atlanta
Got to get back to you
You can drop me off on Peachtree
I got to feel that Georgia sun
And the people in Atlanta
They make you awful glad you come
I said a-watchin' them planes
Well I wish I was on one
Sittin' here thinkin' 'bout my crazy dream
If I could only see him tonight
Oh Atlanta, Oh Atlanta
Whoah whoah Atlanta
Got to get back to you
We'll go down, just you and me
Where the music plays all night
They've got the boogie band playin' that's bound for hell
When they get to movin' they never stop
They just keep on playin' that down home beat
(Keep on layin' down harmony)
Yeah I wish I was on one
Sittin' here thinkin' 'bout my crazy dream
(James Taylor)
Now my grandfather was a sailor,
He blew in off the water
My father was a farmer
I, his only daughter,
Took up with a no-good millworking man from Massachusetts
Who dies from too much whiskey
And leaves me these three faces to feed
Millwork ain't easy; mill-work ain't hard
Millwork, it ain't nothing but an awful boring job
I'm waiting for a day dream
To take me through the morning
And put me in my coffee break
Where I can have a sandwich and remember
Then it's me and my machine
For the rest of the morning
For the rest of the afternoon
And the rest of my life
Now my mind begins to wander
To the days back on the farm
I can see my father smiling at me,
Swingin' on his arm
I can hear my grand-dad's stories
Of the storms out on Lake Erie
Where vessels and cargos and fortunes
And sailor's lives were lost
Yes, but it's my life has been wasted,
And I have been the fool
To let this manufacture use my body for a tool.
I can ride home in the evening,
Staring at my hands
Swearing by my sorrow that a young girl
Ought to stand a better chance
So may I work the mills
Just as long as I am able
And never meet the man whose
Name is on the label
It be me and my machine
For the rest of the morning
For the rest of the afternoon
Somewhere there's music, how faint the tune
Somewhere there's heaven, how high the moon
There is no moon above and love is far away too
'Till it comes true that you love me and I love you
Somewhere there's music, how near, how far
Somewhere there's heaven that's where you are
The darkest night would shine if you would come to me soon
Until you will, I'll still, my heart, how high the moon
Somewhere there's music, how faint the tune
Somewhere there's heaven, how high the moon
The darkest night would shine if you would come to me soon
Until you will, I'll still, my heart, how high the moon
The darkest night would shine if you would come to me soon
(Gram Parsons/Chris Ethridge)
Yes, you loved me and you sold my clothes
I love you, but that's the way that it goes
So it goes
Yes, you know how I feel
So it goes
It just couldn't be real
And we know it's wrong
And I don't think it's gonna go on
When I come home carrying my shoes
I've been waiting to tell you some news
And you want me home all night
And you don't want another fight
But you better love
Find some love
You better love me, Jesus Christ
Yes, you loved me and you sold all my clothes
I love you, baby, but that's the way that it goes
So it goes
I guess you know how I feel
So it goes
Yes, it couldn't be real
And you want me home all night
You just don't want another fight
But you better love
Find some love
Love me baby, Jesus Christ
Sweet dreams of you
Every night I go through
Why can't I forget you
And start my life a new
Instead of having
Sweet dreams about you
You don't love me it's plain
I should have known you'll never wear my ring
I know I should hate you
The whole night through
Instead of having
Sweet dreams about you
Sweet dreams of you
Every night I go through
Why can't I forget you
Start loving someone new
Instead of having
Sweet dreams about you
Instead of having
Together again my tears have stopped falling
The long lonely nights are now at an end
The key to my heart you hold in your hand
And nothing else matters 'cause we're together again
Together again the gray skies are gone
You're back in my arms now where you belong
The love that we knew is living again
And nothing else matters 'cause we're together again
Together again my tears have stopped falling
The long lonely nights are now at an end
The love that we knew is living again
And nothing else matters 'cause we're together again
Now if I were a queen and a ruler of nations
With diamonds and jewels profound
Well, I'd rather know that I had salvation
Than to know my reward would be Satan's jewel crown
Satan's jewel crown I've worn it so long
But God for my soul has reached down
His love set me free, He made me His own
And helped me cast off Satan's jewel crown
Oh, the life that I live so sinful and needless
Drinkin' and runnin' around
All the things that I do for the love of the Devil
I know my reward will be Satan's jewel crown
Satan's jewel crown I've worn it so long
But God for my soul has reached down
His love set me free, He made me His own
I won't have to chop no wood
I can be bad or I can be good
I can be any way that I feel
One of these days
Might be a woman that's dressed in black
Be a hobo by the railroad track
I'll be gone like the wayward wind
One of these days
One of these days it will soon
Be all over cut and dry
And I won't have this urge
To go all bottled up inside
One of these days I'll look back
And I'll say I left in time
'Cause somewhere for me
I know there's peace of mind
I might someday walk across this land
Carrying the Lord's book in my hand
Goin' across the country singin' loud as I can
One of these days
But I won't have trouble on my back
Cuttin' like the Devil with a choppin' axe
Got to shake it off my back
One of these days
One of these days it will soon
Be all over cut and dry
And I won't have this urge
To go all bottled up inside
One of these days I'll look back
And I'll say I left in time
'Cause somewhere for me
I know there's peace of mind
There's gonna be peace of mind for me
Here making each day of the year
Changing my life with one wave of his hand
Nobody can deny that there's something there
Running my hands through his hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
Someone is speaking but he doesn't know she's there
I want him everywhere and if he's beside me
I know I need never care
But to love him is to meet him everywhere
Knowing that love is to share
Each one believing that love never dies
Watching his eyes and hoping I'm always there
To be there and everywhere, here, there and everywhere
I want him everywhere and if he's beside me
I know I need never care
Oh, but to love him is to meet him everywhere
Knowing that love is to share
Each one believing that love never dies
Watching his eyes, hoping I'm always there
Who can tell just how it starts
Angry words and broken hearts
Till silently we sit apart
You and I
But in awhile the anger's gone
And we forget who's right or wrong
Then one of us will end it all
With just a smile
We believe in happy endings
Never breaking, only bending
Taking time enough for mending
The hurt inside
We believe in new beginnings
Giving in and forgiving
We believe happy endings
You and I
Just a word is all it takes
And so it pass the silence breaks
And looking back it makes us ache
For what we've done
And so we cling together now
And wonder why we're oh, so proud
When all that matters anyhow
Is our love
We believe in happy endings
Never breaking, only bending
Taking time enough for mending
The hurt inside
We believe in new beginnings
Giving in and forgiving
We believe in happy endings
I'm not much on mystery, yeah
You gotta be careful what you dream
I thought I was satisfied
I thought love would pass in time
Honey, let me tell you
I got a thing about you
Baby, let me tell you
I got a thing about you
Don't matter what you say
Don't matter what you do
I, I, I got a thing about you
I, I, I got a thing about you
Somewhere deep in the middle of the night
Lovers hold each other tight
Whispers in their anxious ears
Words of love that disappear
Honey, let me tell you
I got a thing about you
Baby, let me tell you
I got a thing about you
Don't matter what you say
Don't matter what you do
I, I, I got a thing about you
I, I, I got a thing about you
Baby, you hold some strange control over me
It's so wild, it's hypnotizing me
Honey, let me tell you
I got a thing about you
Baby, let me tell you
I got a thing about you
Don't matter what you say
Don't matter what you do
I, I, I got a thing about you
I, I, I got a thing about you
Thing about you
Got a thing about you
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
Said, oh baby, I got a thing about you
Oh baby, I got a thing about you
Said, oh baby, I got a thing about you
Oh baby, I got a thing about you
Said, oh baby, I got a thing about you
Oh baby, I got a thing about you
Oh baby, I got a thing about you
Ain't it hard when you wake up in the morning
And you find out that those other days are gone?
All you have is memories of happiness
Lingerin' on
All your dreams and your lovers won't protect you
They're only passing through you in the end
They'll leave you stripped of all that they can get to
And wait for you to come back again
Yet still a light is shining
From that lamp on down the hall
Maybe the star of Bethlehem
When I saw you standing there on the street
I found myself by your side
I started wanting you again
There's just no way to hide
From that old loving you feeling again
It's really got me reeling again
It only seems to stop to start
All over again with you
I remember how you always give
That certain look in your eyes
You're not easy to resist
But I just walked on by
With that loving old feeling again
It's really got me reeling again
Only seems to stop to start
All over again with you, loving you feeling with you
We were so close, we were too far apart
I gave you my love, I wanted your heart
Without yesterday haunting the way
Maybe we'd still be together
Sharing that loving you feeling again
It's really got me reeling again
Will it ever stop and not start over again
That loving you feeling again
No matter how much I try this loving you feeling
It's taken such a long time to say goodbye
And getting over you is so hard to do
With this feeling loving you, that loving you feeling again
Loving you feeling again
Loving you feeling again
Loving you feeling again
Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars
Any heart not tough nor strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud, holds a lot of rain
Love hurts, love hurts
I'm young, I know but even so
I know a thing or two I've learned from you
I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot
Love hurts, love hurts
Some fools think of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
But they're not fooling me
I know it isn't true, know it isn't true
Love is just a lie made to make you blue
Love hurts, love hurts
Love hurts, love hurts
She stands on the banks of mighty Mississippi
Alone in the pale moonlight
Waitin' for a man, a riverboat gambler
Said that he'd return tonight
They used to waltz on the banks of the mighty Mississippi
Lovin' the whole night through
He was a riverboat gambler off to make a killin'
And bring it on back to you
Evangeline, Evangeline
Curses the soul of the Mississippi Queen
That pulled her man away
Bayou Sam from South Louisian'
Had gamblin' in his veins
Evangeline from the maritime
Was slowly goin' insane
High on the top of a Hickory Hill
She stands in the lightning and thunder
Down on the river the boat was a sinkin'
She watched that Queen go under
Evangeline, Evangeline
Curses the soul of the Mississippi Queen
That pulled her man away
Evangeline, Evangeline
Curses the soul of the Mississippi Queen
Castles tall, houses small
Left alone, all fall down
Dreams so clear, disappear
Without a sound, all fall down
Lovers meet, lovers quarrel
Lonely boy, lonely girl
I lost him and I have found
Dreams like walls, all fall down
All fall down
(All fall down)
All fall down
(All fall down)
She don't want me to call her
And she's told me not to bother comin' round
All fall down
(All fall down)
All fall down
(All fall down)
When you take love for granted like I did
You're bound too see it all fall down
Castles tall, houses small
Left alone, all fall down
Dreams so clear, disappear
You give your hand to me and then you say hello
And I can hardly speak, my heart is beating so
And anyone could tell, you think you know me well
But you don't know me
No, you don't know the one, who dreams of you at night
And longs to kiss your lips and longs to hold you tight
Oh I'm just a friend that's all I've ever been
'Cause you don't know me
For I never knew, the art of making love
Though my heart, aches with love for you
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by
The chance that you might love me too
You know, I never knew the art of making love
Though my heart aches with love for you
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by
The chance that you might love me too
You give your hand to me and then you say goodbye
I watch you walk away and in my heart I cry
You'll never never know the one who loves you so
There's a valley of sorrow in my soul
Where every night I hear the thunder roll
Like the sound of a distant gun
Over all the damage I have done
And the shadows filling up this land
Are the ones I built with my own hand
There is no comfort from the cold
Of this valley of sorrow in my soul
There's a river of darkness in my blood
And through every vein I feel the flood
I can find no bridge for me to cross
No way to bring back what is lost
Into the night it soon will sweep
Down where all my grievances I keep
But it won't wash away the years
Or one single hard and bitter tear
And the rock of ages I have known
Is a weariness down in the bone
I use to ride it like a rolling stone
Now just carry it alone
There's a highway risin' from my dreams
Deep in the heart I know it gleams
For I have seen it stretching wide
Clear all across to the other side
Beyond the river and the flood
And the valley where for so long I've stood
With the rock of ages in my bones
Someday I know it will lead me home
Oh, ho, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, ho, oh, oh
(David Olney)
Man you should have seen me way back then
I could tell a tale, I could make a spin
I could tell you black was white I could tell you day was night
Not only that I could tell you why
Back then I could really tel a lie
Well I'd hire a kid to say he was lame
Then I'd touch him and make him walk again
Then I'd pull some magic trick I'd pretend to heal the sick
I was takin' everything they had to give
It wasn't all that bad a way to live
Well I'm in this desert town and it's hot as hell
But no one's buyin' what I got to sell
I make my lame kid walk I make a dumb guy talk
I'm preachin' up a storm both night and day
But everyone just turns and walks away
Well I can see that I'm only wasting time
So I head across the road to drink some wine
This old man comes up to me He says I seen you on the street
You're pretty good if I do say myself
But the guy that come thru here last month he was somethin' else
Instead of callin' out for fire from above
He just gets real quiet and talks about love
And I'll tell you somethin' funny He didn't want nobody's money
Now I'm not exactly sure what this all means
But it's the damndest thing I swear I've ever seen
Well since that time every town is the same
I can't make a dime, I don't know why I came
I decide I'll go and find him And find out who's behind him
He has everyone convinced that he's for real
Well I figure we can work us out a deal
So he offers me a job and I say fine
He says I'll get paid off on down the line
Well I guess I'll string along Don't see how too much can go wrong
As long as he pays my way I guess I'll follow
We're headed for Jerusalem tomorrow
Everybody's had a few, now they're talking about who knows who?
I'm going back to the Crescent City, where everything's still the same
This town has said what it has to say, now I'm after that back highway
And the longest bridge I've ever crossed over Pontchartrain
?Tous les temps sans temps?, that's what we say
We used to dance the night away
Me and my sister, me and my brother
We used to walk down by the river
Mama lives in Mandeville, I can hardly wait until
I can hear my zydeco and laissez les bon temps roulet
I take rides in open cars, my brother knows where the best bars are
Let's see how these blues'll do in the town where the good times stay
?Tous les temps sans temps?, that's what we say
We used to dance the night away
Me and my sister, me and my brother
We used to walk down by the river
?Tous les temps sans temps?, that's what we say
We used to dance the night away
Me and my sister, me and my brother
I hear a call, now will I answer?
Forsake my all to serve another
Though darkness falls stay a believer
I hear a call, now will I answer?
I see a light, now will I follow?
Fill up this life that grows more hollow
Make joy reside where there lives sorrow
I see a light, now will I follow?
I hear a call
From out of nowhere
And from everywhere I go
I hear a call, now will I answer?
I feel a touch, now will I hold on?
Be there with love for those with no one
With a kindness such, it lives though I'm gone
I feel a touch, now will I hold on?
I hear a call
From out of nowhere
And from everywhere I go
I see a light, now will I follow
I feel a touch, now will I hold on?
I've been running low on inspiration
Tired of that physical intrigue
There's nothing left to imagination
Living in a world that treats love so carelessly
I don't want no smooth talkin' lover
I can't play the role
It just leaves me cold
I need a high powered love
I wanna feel that lightning streak
High powered love
Got to be down in the heart with me
Sometimes it's hard to keep believing
There are too many pretty faces all skin deep
Now is there anyone left with teeth just a little uneven
And won't spend more time with a mirror than he does with me
If you're looking for a good time
A notch on your gun
Well I ain't the one
I want a high powered love
Got to have intensity
High powered love
Don't start the fire if you can't take the heat
I can't turn back
I'm on a mission
I know there's someone out there for me
I need a high powered love
One that'll defy gravity
High powered love
Got to be strong and keep on lifting me
Yeah, I need a high powered love
I wanna feel the lightning streak
High powered love
Got to be down in the heart with me
(Lainie Marsh)
I hear the clock a tickin'
See the sweat upon my brow
I know my destination
Nothing's gonna stop me now
I'm running on desire
Baby I've got nerves of steel
Coming down to the wire
Lord above me guide the wheel
Keep me in your prayers tonight
I'll be weary upon that road
I know the finish line's in sight
But I still have a ways to go
There's a junkyard dog a barkin'
In the valley down below
He's wanting me to stop and
Gather up a heavy load
Ain't gonna heed his call
Ain't givin' him the time of day
You mangy mutt once and for all
I said I threw that stuff away
I won't have a bit of trouble
Heading down the straight and true
I'll fly solo on the double
Into the yonder blue
I might need some intervention
Out upon the icy turn
In a foggy situation
Squealin' on a hairpin curve
I'm running on desire
Baby I've got nerves of steel
Coming down to the wire
Lord above me guide the wheel
Keep me in your prayers tonight
I'll be weary upon that road
I know the finish line's in sight
But I still have a ways to go
Keep me in your prayers tonight
I'll be weary upon that road
I know the finish line's in sight
But I still have a ways to go
She's going to pieces when he walked in the door
She just has to see him, she can't wait no more
Tonight she'll be with him no matter the cost
As the band plays the Last Cheater's Waltz
And uh, huh, huh, don't they play lonely
Uh, huh, huh, don't they play sad
And uh, huh, huh, drink water only
See how he holds her, as the band plays the Last Cheater's Waltz
He tells her, he loves her as the music plays on
He tells her, he needs her but someone's at home
The ball game's all over and she knows she's lost
As the band plays the Last Cheater's Waltz
And uh, huh, huh, don't they play lonely
Uh, huh, huh, don't they play sad
And uh, huh, huh, three quarter only
See how he holds her, as the band plays the Last Cheater's Waltz
And uh huh huh don't they play lonely
Uh, huh, huh, don't they play sad
And uh, huh, huh, three quarter only
Well, it's a sweet dream that keeps me close to you dear
And it's a sad thing that we're apart, I'm blue dear
And there are times now I thank the heavens up above
When I'm with the one that I love
Now there are diamonds that some may long to see
And they may shine but not bright enough for me
I wouldn't take no, the whole world dipped in gold
For a night with my Tennessee rose
Take this love I am giving for it's truly the lasting kind
The gift I hold is believing that you will always be mine
Take this love that I am giving for it's truly the lasting kind
The gift I hold is believing that you will always be mine
Roll along, roll on, rose of Cimarron
Dusty days are gone, rose of Cimarron
Shadows touch the sand and
Look to see who's standing
Waiting at your window
Watching will they ever show
Can you hear them calling
You know they have fallen on
Campfires cold and dark now
Never see a spark burn bright
Roll along, roll on, rose of Cimarron
Dusty days are gone, rose of Cimarron
Trails that got them home
Kept the names they've known
Four days high and lonely
Coming to you only
You're the one they turn to
The only one they knew
If you're all the best to be around
When the chips were down
Roll along, roll on, rose of Cimarron
Dusty days are gone, rose of Cimarron
Roll along, roll on, rose of Cimarron
If I needed you would you come to me
Would you come to me for to ease my pain
If you needed me I would come to you
I would swim the seas for to ease your pain
Well the night's forlorn and the morning's born
And the morning shines with the lights of love
And you'll miss sunrise if you close your eyes
And that would break my heart in two
If I needed you would you come to me
Would you come to me for to ease my pain
If you needed me I would come to you
I would swim the seas for to ease your pain
Baby's with me now since I showed her how
To lay her lilly hand in mine
Who would I'll agree she's a sight to see
A treasure for the poor to find
If I needed you would you come to me
Would you come to me for to ease my pain
If you needed me I would come to you
(Clinton Codack/Wendy Special)
Another lonesome morning
Another long lonesome day
You'll have to live without him
The morning seemed to say
Another lonesome morning
You thought you didn't care
But morning breezes find you
Wishing he were there
Bobwhite sings his same old song
Trying hard to please
And you hear the sound
That he used to love
Thru the rustlin' of the leaves
Thru the rustlin' of the leaves
You losing him has taught you
That you wanted him to stay
And you know that all another lonesome morning brings
Is another lonesome day
All another lonesome morning brings
Is another lonesome day
Lonely tears roll down
As midnight comes around
But I can make it through
In sweet dreams of you
In the shadow of the night
I still hold you tight
Yes, it all comes true
In sweet dreams of you
In sweet dreams I see
The way things used to be
When your love was mine
And your heart was true
In sweet dreams of you
Oh, I call out your name
And you come to me again
The way you used to do
In sweet dreams of you
In sweet dreams of you
There'll never be anyone else
But you for me
Never ever be, just couldn't be
Anyone else but you
If I could take my pick of all
The boys I've ever known
Then I'd come and pick you out
To be my very own
There'll never be anyone else
But you for me
Never ever be, just couldn't be
Anyone else but you
A heart that's true and longs for you
Is all I have to give
All my love belongs to you
As long as I may live
There'll never be anyone else
But you for me
Never ever be, just couldn't be
Anyone else but you
Never will forget the way you kissed me
And when we're not together
I wonder if you miss me
For I hope and pray the day will come
When you'll belong to me
Then I'm gonna prove to you
How true my love can be
There'll never be anyone else
But you for me
Never ever be, just couldn't be
Anyone else but you
Never ever be, just couldn't be
At my door the leaves are falling
The cold wild wind will come
Sweethearts walk by together
And I still miss someone
No I never got over those blue eyes
I see them everywhere
I miss those arms that held me
When all the love was there
I go out to wild parties
To look for a little fun
But I find the darkened corner
For I still miss someone
No I never got over those blue eyes
I see them everywhere
I miss those arms that held me
When all the love was there
I wonder if he's sorry
For leaving what we begun
There's someone for me somewhere
And I still miss someone
Darlin', you're tired
I can see in your eyes
I know how you feel
We've been together
Too long to conceal
What's in our hearts?
Maybe we should part
But after so many years
That would only bring loneliness
Sorrow and tears and anyway
I never would, never could
Never will ever kill what's between us
So let's try again
We'll start a brand new dance
Between old friends
There will always be days
When it don't seem to pay
When it just doesn't rhyme
Well, that's bound to happen
Some of the time
Our best days aren't gone
We don't need to move on
Well, maybe we should try
But I don't think you could take it
And neither could I and anyway
I never would, never could
Never will ever kill what's between us
So let's try again
We'll start a brand new dance
Between old friends
Darlin', come here
Love's not disappeared
You're just feelin' low
Well, let me tell you, my darlin'
That's a feelin' I know
It don't mean too much
We just got out of touch
Well, it's easy to change
'Cause lovin' you's
Not too hard to arrange and anyway
I never would, never could
Never will ever kill what's between us
So let's try again
We'll start a brand new dance
Between old friends
We'll start a brand new dance
Between old friends
Yes, we'll start a brand new dance
(Kate McCarrigle/Anna McCarrigle/Jane McCarrigle)
Love is a shiny car
Love is a steel guitar
Love is a battle scar
Love is a morning song
Love is a twelve-bar blues
Love is your blue suede shoes
Love is a heart abused
Love is a mind confused
And love is the pleasures I'm told
And for some love is still a band of gold
My love has no reason, has no rhyme
My love cross the double line
Love is a mine of gold
Love is a man to hold
Love is a drowning soul
Love is it's own reward
And love is the pleasures I'm told
And for some love is still a band of gold
My love has no reason, has no rhyme
My love cross the double line
And love is the pleasures I'm told
And for some love is still a band of gold
My love has no reason, has no rhyme
My love cross the double line
Oh, my love cross the double line
If you were a bluebird you'd be a sad one
I'd give you a true word but you've already had one
If you were a bluebird you'd be crying
You'd be flying home
If you were a raindrop you'd shine like a rainbow
And if you were a train stop the conductor would sing low
If you were a raindrop you'd be falling
You'd be calling home
If you were a hotel honey, you'd be a grand one
But, if you hit a slow spell do you think you could stand one?
If you were a hotel well I'd lean on your doorbell
I'd call you my home
If I was a highway I'd stretch alongside you
I'd help you pass by ways that had dissatisfied you
If I was a highway well I'd be stretching
(Jean Ritchie)
I hear the soft wind sighing
In every bush and tree
The sound of my heart crying
When you are far from me
When we're apart, my darlin'
There's sorrow in the wind
When we're apart, my darlin
Sweet sorrow in the wind
You leave me in the morning
Your footsteps die away
Tho' not a leaf is stirring
I hear the wind all day
When we're apart, my darlin'
There's sorrow in the wind
When we're apart, my darlin'
Sweet sorrow in the wind
They say when love grows older
It dies and fades away
Yet all our life together
One ever brightening day
When we're apart, my darlin'
There's sorrow in the wind
When we're apart, my darlin'
Sweet sorrow in the wind
When we're apart, my darlin'
There's sorrow in the wind
When we're apart, my darlin'
Sweet sorrow in the wind
(Charles Justice/Shoji Tabuchi)
Darlin' I have come to tell you
Tho' it almost breaks my heart
But before the mornin', darlin'
We'll be many miles apart
Don't this road look rough and rocky
Don't that sea look wide and deep
Don't my baby look the sweetest
When he's in my arms asleep
Can't you hear the nightbird's cryin'
Far across the deep blue sea
While others you are thinking
Won't you sometimes think of me
Don't this road look rough and rocky
Don't that sea look wide and deep
Don't my baby look the sweetest
When he's in my arms asleep
One more kiss before I leave you
One more kiss before we part
You have caused me lots of trouble
Darlin', you have broke my heart
Don't this road look rough and rocky
Don't that sea look wide and deep
Don't my baby look the sweetest
When he's in my arms asleep
In South Carolina, there are many tall pines
I remember the oak tree, that we used to climb
But it makes me feel better each time it begins
Callin' me home Hickory Wind
I started out younger at most everything
All the riches and pleasures, what else could life bring
But now when I'm lonesome, I always pretend
That I'm gettin' the feel of Hickory Wind
It's a hard way to find out that trouble is real
In a far away city with a far away feel
But it makes me feel better each time it begins
Callin' me home Hickory Wind
(Johnny Mullins)
You left me for the bright lights of the town
A country boy set out to see the world
Remember when those neon lights shine down
That big old moon shines on your Kentucky girl
I swear I love you by the moon above you
How bright is it shining in your world
Some morning when you wake up all alone
Just come on home to your blue Kentucky girl
Don't wait to bring great riches home to me
I need no diamond rings or fancy pearls
Just bring yourself, you're all I'll ever need
That's good enough for this blue Kentucky girl
I swear I love you by the moon above you
How bright is it shining in your world
Some morning when you wake up all alone
Just come on home to your blue Kentucky girl
Beneath still waters
There?s a strong undertow
The surface won?t tell you
What the deep water knows
Darling, I?m saying
I know something?s wrong
Beneath still waters
Your love is gone
Even a fool could see
That you?ll soon be leaving me
But each and every heart
Must take it?s turn at misery
And this time it?s me
And I?ll cry alone
Beneath still waters
Your love is gone
Even a fool could see
That you?ll soon be leaving me
But each and every heart
Must take it?s turn at misery
And this time it?s me
And I?ll cry alone
Beneath still waters
Your love is gone
Beneath still waters
Your love is gone
Beneath still waters
(Ray Park)
For many long years I've played a lone hand
I rode my horse in many strange lands
Until one day I stopped for awhile
For two blue eyes and a sunny smile
So howl away you old coyote
I hear your sad and lonesome song
You're calling me back to old Montana
Back to those hills where I belong
One day I rode away from home
I'm a' traveling back and it won't be long
I'll see you again in a little while
You're my darling sweet, my welcome smile
So howl away you old coyote
I hear your sad and lonesome song
You're calling me back to old Montana
Back to those hills where I belong
So howl away you old coyote
I hear your sad and lonesome song
You're calling me back to old Montana
Just about a year ago
I set out on the road
Seekin' my fame and fortune
Lookin' for a pot of gold
Things got bad and things got worse
I guess you know the tune
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again
Came in on a greyhound
I'll be walkin' out if I vow
I was just passin' through
It must be seven months or more
Ran out of time and money
Oh it looks like they took my friends
Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again
Well the man from the magazine
He said I was on the way
Somewhere I lost connection
And I ran out of songs to play
Came into town on a one-night stand
It looks like my plans fell through
Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again
Well if I only had a dollar
For every song I've sung
Every time I've had to play
While people sat there drunk
You know I'd catch the next train
Back to where I live
Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again
Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again
If I could be there
I'd be there tonight, comforting you
This road I'm on is so far away
Too far away
If God would grant me wings to fly
I'd be in your arms by and by
If I could be there
I'd be there tonight, comforting you
If I could be there
I'd look in your eyes and say, "I love you"
These hills and highways
Between us now keep us apart
If God would grant me wings to fly
I'd be in your arms by and by
If I could be there
I'd look in your eyes and say, "I love you"
If I could be there
I wouldn't have this pain in my heart
Tomorrow I'll wake up with joy for the day
Joy for the day
If God would grant me wings to fly
I'd be in your arms by and by
If I could be there
I wouldn't have this pain in my heart
Hey sweet daddy, are you ready for me
It's your good rockin' mama down from Tennessee
Well I'm just outta Austin bound for San Antone
With the radio blastin' and the bird dog on
There's a speed trap up ahead south of town
But no local yokel's gonna shut me down
'Cause me and my boys got this rig unwound
And we've come a thousand miles from the guitar town
Well nothin' ever happened round my home town
And I ain't the kind to just hang around
But I heard someone callin' my name one day
And I followed that voice down the lost highway
Well everybody told me you can't get far
On 37 dollars and a Jap guitar
Now I'm smokin' into Texas with the hammer down
And a rockin' little combo from the guitar town
Hey pretty baby, don't you know it ain't my fault
Love to hear the steel belts hummin' on the asphalt
Wake up in the middle of the night in a truck stop
Stumble in the restaurant, wonderin' why I don't stop
Well, I gotta keep rockin' while I still can
Got a two-pack habit and a motel tan
When my boots hit the boards it's a brand new hand
And my back to the risers and make my stand
Hey pretty baby, won't you hold me tight
I'm loadin' up and rollin' out of here tonight
But one of these days I'm gonna settle down
Well, you ask me if I'll forget my baby
I guess I will some day
I don't like it
But I guess things happen that way
You ask me if I'll get along
I guess I will some way
I don't like it
But I guess things happen that way
God gave me that girl to lean on
Then He put me on my own
Heaven help me be a man
And have the strength to stand alone
I don't like it
But I guess things happen that way
You ask me if I'll miss her kisses
I guess I will every day
I don't like it
But I guess things happen that way
You ask me if I'll find another
I don't know, I can't say
I don't like it
I won't have to chop no wood
I can be bad or I can be good
I can be any way that I feel
One of these days
Might be a woman that's dressed in black
Be a hobo by the railroad track
I'll be gone like the wayward wind one of these days
One of these days it will soon be all over cut and dry
And I won't have this urge to go all bottled up inside
One of these days I'll look back and I'll say I left in time
'Cause somewhere for me I know there's peace of mind
I might someday walk across this land
Carrying the Lord's book in my hand
Goin' cross the country singin' loud as I can
One of these days
But I won't have trouble on my back
Cuttin' like the devil with a choppin' axe
Got to shake it off my back, one of these days
One of these days it will soon be all over cut and dry
And I won't have this urge to go all bottled up inside
One of these days I'll look back and I'll say I left in time
'Cause somewhere for me I know there's peace of mind
On our wedding day did you lie
Did you know that someday you'd say goodbye
Now that you're gone another just won't do
I had my heart set on you
We were so young when we met
Sweet memories linger yet
You were the one who made my dreams come true
I had my heart set on you
As the years come and go does your heart mind
When you think of the girl you left behind
I still wear your ring 'cause when I said I do
I had my heart set on you
To know know know him is to love love love him
Just to see him smile makes my life worthwhile
To know know know him is to love love love him and I do
I'll be good to him I'll bring love too him
Everyone says, "There'll come a day when I'll walk alongside of him"
Yes just to know him is to love love love him and I do
Why can't he see how blind can he be?
Someday he will see that he was meant for me
To know know know him is to love love love him
Just to see him smile makes my life worthwhile
Written by Joseph More & Franz Gruber - Arranged by Brian Ahern
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,
Heavely hosts sing alleluia;
Christ the Saviour, is born!
Christ the Saviour, 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.
Today I started loving you again
I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend
Then today I started loving you again
What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I've cried
I should've known the worst was yet to come
And the crying time for me had just begun
'Cause today I started loving you again
I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend
There's a light, there's a light in the darkness
And the black of the night cannot harm us
We can trust not to fear for our comfort is near
There's a light, there's a light in the darkness
It will rain it will rain in the desert
In the cracks of the plain there's a treasure
Like the thurst of the seed we will await we believe
It will rain it will rain in the desert
We will fly we will fly we will let go
To this world we will die but our hearts know
We'll see more on that side when the door opens wide
We will fly we will fly we will fly we will fly
come all you fair and tender ladies
take warning how you court your men
there like a star on a summer morning
they first appear and then there gone
they'll tell to you some loving story
then they make you think that they love you well
then away they'll go to court some other
and leave you there in grief to dwell
(mandolin break)
i wish i was on some tall mountain
where the ivy rocks are black as ink
i'd write a letter to my false true lover
whose cheeks are like the morning dew
(dorbo and fiddle solo)
oh love is handsome love is charming
and love is pretty while it's new
but love grows cold as love grows old
and fades away like morning dew
Every time you leave
You tear the soul from me
I die a little more
Each time part
I can't control my dreams
My heart can't seem to learn
To turn and lock its door
When you return
I know that you'll come back again
As soon as you get blue
And I know what will happen then
One kiss and I'll give in to you
Every time you leave
You tear the soul from me
But I want to live so I'll forgive
Every time you leave
Every time you leave
You tear the soul from me
But I want to live so I'll forgive
(Traditional)
Bright morning stars are rising,
Bright morning stars are rising,
Bright morning stars are rising,
Day is a-breaking in my soul.
Oh, where are our dear mothers,
Day is a-breaking in my soul.
They are down in the valley praying,
Day is a-breaking in my soul.
Oh where are our dear fathers,
Day is a-breaking in my soul.
They have gone to heaven shouting,
Day is a-breaking in my soul.
Bright morning stars are rising,
Well, tonight I'm gonna wear my dancin' shoes
'Cause I heard the word and I heard the news
There's a gal in town she's packin' 'em in
If you've seen her once you'll see her again
She's got a red hot dynamite band
They're burnin' down another one night stand
Headlinin' double shows everybody go see Sally Rose
She sure knows how to rock the crowd
Rocks 'em slow rocks 'em loud
So you better move fast 'cause tickets are tight
If you wanna see Sally Rose pick it tonight
She's got a red hot dynamite band
They're burnin' down another one night stand
I'm looking for that lonely street
I've got a sad, sad tale to tell
I need a place to go and weep
Where's this place called lonely street
A place where there's just loneliness
Where dim lights bring forgetfulness
Where broken dreams and memories meet
Where's this place called lonely street
Perhaps upon that lonely street
There's someone such as I
Who came to bury broken dreams
And watch an old love die
A place where there's just loneliness
Where dim lights bring forgetfulness
Where broken dreams and memories meet
Where's this place called lonely street
Praise God, I feel like singing
I'm on the other side of life now
All my days of sorrow and tears for my loved ones
I wish I could tell them the door that I feel
Though my body is weary my soul is uplifted
My sins are forgiven and my Jesus is real
Praise God, I feel like singing
I'm on the other side of life now
Though my eyes are dim I see heaven clearly
Though my voice grows feeble I sing just the same
In my heart there's a song as I see the gates open
I'll sing forever my joyous refrain
Praise God, I feel like singing
I'm on the other side of life now
Praise God, I feel like singing
You are learning what it's like to sit and cry
And wonder why your plans went wrong
You are learning how it feels when pain is real
To realize you're all alone
Yes, you're learning
We had the chance to be happy
Nothing stood in our way
If only you'd meant what you promised
We wouldn't crying today
You are learning that a lie can make you cry
For the truth your heart reveals
You are learning that a flirt can cause a hurt
Even though your love is real
Yes you're learning
We had the chance to be happy
Nothing stood in our way
If only you'd meant what you promised
We wouldn't crying today
You are learning that a lie can make you cry
For the truth your heart reveals
You are learning that a flirt can cause a hurt
Even though your love is real
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
Just to see him smile
Makes my life worthwhile
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
And I do
I'll be good to him
I'll bring love to him
Everyone says there'll come a day
When I'll walk alongside of him
Yes just to know him
Is to love love love him
And I do
Why can't he see
How blind can he be
Someday he will see
That he was meant for me
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
Just to see him smile
Makes my life worthwhile
To know know know him
Is to love love love him
You wore out a brand new trunk
Packin' and unpackin' all your junk
Your mama's mad, she done got peeved
You're gonna change or I'm gonna leave
Well, this ain't right and that is wrong
You just keep naggin' all the day long
It's gonna stop, I don't mean please
Now you're gonna change or I'm gonna leave
The way to keep a woman happy and her do what's right
Is love her every mornin' and do the same at night
Your mama's mad, she done got peeved
You're gonna change or I'm a-gonna leave
Every time you get mad
You pack your rags and go back to what you had
You tell her lies she don't believe
You're gonna change or I'm gonna leave
You're gonna change your way of livin'
Change the things you do
Stop doin' all the things that you aughten too
Your mama's mad, she done got peeved
You're gonna change or I'm a-gonna leave
You'll never be the sun turning in the sky
And you won't be the moon above us on a moonlit night
And you won't be the stars in heaven although they burn so bright
But even on the deepest ocean you will be the light
You may not always shine as you go barefoot over stone
You might be so long together or you might walk alone
And you won't find that love comes easy but that love is always right
So even when the dark clouds gather you will be the light
And if you lose the part inside
When loves turns round on you leaving the past behind
Is knowing you'll do like you always do holding you blind keeping you true
[ guitar ]
You'll never be the sun...
Don't bother sittin' at my table
Just because I'm on my own
Yes, I'm a woman and I'm lonely
But that don't mean I can't be strong
Once again he's not beside me
And tonight he won't be coming home
So I just need a place to miss my baby
When he goes out to do me wrong
Tonight I wanna do some drinkin'
I came to listen to the band
Yes, I'm as good as what you're thinkin'
But I don't wanna hold your hand
And I know I'm lookin' lonely
But there's nothin' here I wanna find
It's just the way of a woman
When she goes out to walk the line
Every night's a little longer
Than the one that came before
But when I hear them sing a sad song
I know just what I'm cryin' for
I don't wanna stay home waitin'
Don't have to wonder where he's been
He'll be someone else's baby
(Rodney Crowell)
Soul mate
I see you down there
Waiting for morning
To softly be coming
I find
I'm only in deeper
And you'd be a leaver
If you weren't so scared
Your true love
Has made you feel better
But look out for later
When she makes you feel worse
Times change
In daydreams and flashes
A taste of the past is
All I have seen
But you're supposed to be feeling good now
Cause everybody said you would
Honey, does it blow your mind
That the prophets would lie
You're supposed to be in your prime now
Not supposed to be wasting your time
Feeling like you're down and out
Over someone like me
Soul mate
The blues are deceiving
It keeps us believing
We're on the wrong road
One side
Is just like the other
Except for the color
And size of the load
You're running wild
How long can this go on?
You're leaving me alone
Stop running wild
You're always gone
My love you'll never change
It's more than I can bear
Stop running wild
You'll settle down someday
And find I've gone away
You'll think of what you've done
While running wild
You can't go home
You'll have to change your ways
You'll have to go or stay
(Chuck Berry)
It was a teenage wedding
And the old folks wished them well
You could see that Pierre
Did truly love the mademoiselle
And now the young monsieur and madame
Have rung the chapel bell
"C'est la vie", say the old folks
It goes to slow you never can tell
They furnished off an apartment
With a two room Roebuck sale
The coolerator was crammed
With T.V. dimmers and ginger ale
But when Pierre found work
The little money comin' worked out well
"C'est la vie", say the old folks
It goes to show you never can tell
They had a hi-fi phono
Boy did they let it blast
Seven hundred little records
All rockin' rhythm and jazz
But when the sun went down
The rapid tempo of the music fell
"C'est la vie", say the old folks
It goes to show you never can tell
they bought a souped-up jitney
T'was a cherry-red fifty nine
They drove it down to New Orleans
To celebrate their anniversary
It was there that Pierre
Was wedded to the lovely mad'moiselle
"C'est la vie", say the old folks
I see a million old memories each day
That remind me of what used to be
My aching heart tells me they are here to stay
Since you made a memory of me
I tossed and I turned night after night
Those memories just won't let me sleep
The flame in my heart is still burning bright
Though you made a memory of me
I passed by the house we once loved in
For a glimpse of what I thought was our dream
But these days I find the dream was all mine
'Cos you made a memory of me
I passed by the house we once loved in
For a glimpse of what I thought was our dream
But these days I find the dream was all mine
She, she came from the land of the cotton
A land that was nearly forgotten by everyone
And she, she worked and she slaved so hard
A big old field was her backyard in the delta sun
Oh, but she sure could sing, oh yeah she sure could sing
Then he looked down and he took a little pity
The whole town swore he decided, he'd help her some
And he didn't mind if she wasn't very pretty
For deep inside his heart he knew she was the only one
And oh, but she sure could sing, my, my she sure could sing
She had faith and she had believin'
Led all the people together in a singin'
And she prayed every night to the Lord up above
Hallelujah, oh hallelujah
They, would walk singin' songs by the river
Even when she knew for sure, she have to go away
And she never knew what her life was to give her
Never had to worry about it for one single day
Oh, but she sure could sing, na, na but she sure could sing