• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Main Squeeze - Tony Joe White
• Cool Town Woman - Tony Joe White
• Closer To The Truth - Tony Joe White
• Bi-yo Rhythm - Tony Joe White
• Bare Necessities - Tony Joe White
• Willie And Laura Mae Jones - Tony Joe White
• Rainy Night In Georgia - Tony Joe White
• As The Crow Flies - Tony Joe White
• UNDERCOVER AGENT FOR THE BLUES - Tony Joe White
• Tunica Motel - Tony Joe White
• The Other Side - Tony Joe White
• The High Sheriff Of Calhoun Parish - Tony Joe White
• Taking The Midnight Train - Tony Joe White
• STEAMY WINDOWS - Tony Joe White
• Selena - Tony Joe White
• Not One Bad Thought - Tony Joe White
• Ain't Going Down This Time - Tony Joe White
• (you're Gonna Look) Good In Blues - Tony Joe White

Wanna be your main squeeze, baby
Wanna be your only love
Wanna be your main squeeze, baby
Wanna be your only love
When you close your eyes at night
Wanna be the one you're dreaming of
Wanna be your main squeeze, baby
Wanna be close to you
Wanna be your main squeeze, baby
Just wanna be close to you
Wanna be a part of your life
Wanna be involved with you
If there's anything that you want
If there's anything that you're missing
If there's anything that you need
Well baby, you know I'm listening
Wanna be your main squeeze, baby
Wanna be close to you
Just loving you baby
That's all I want to do
I wanna be your main squeeze, baby
Your prize in your cracker jacks
Wanna be your main squeeze, baby
Your prize in your cracker jacks
Give me all of your love

I was dreaming about you baby
When th
I was dreaming about you baby
And the dog just howled all night
I just laid there thinking about you
'Til the morning light
I been missing you baby
But my alimony ain't been paid
I been missing you baby
But my alimony ain't been paid
And that cool town woman is so bad to
Carry a blade
I'm no good for you baby
You know I'll never be free
No good for you baby
You know my heart ain't free
That cool town woman has still got
A hold on me
I ought to move to the country
And find me a piece of ground
Move out to the country
Find a little piece of ground
But that cool town woman would
Sure enough hunt me down
I was dreaming about you baby
When the dog woke me up last night
I was dreaming about you baby
And the dog just howled all night
I just laid there thinking about you

Strong instinct for survival
Romantically insane
Moving soft along the edge of time
Like a panther in the rain
Manipulated rebels
With a total disregard for the rules
When pride comes tumbling off the great white stallion
You move closer to the truth
And the search continues for the meaning
They build the cathedrals high
But we keep our weapons ready
Looming dark against the sky
They're taking down the rain forest
Changing it to a room without a view
And the big trees fall like dominoes
And we move closer
The eagle watches from the mountain
As the warriors turn into fools
And the dice are thrown on sacred ground
And they move closer to the truth
And who's gonna tell the children
How the rivers used to flow cystal blue
And we keep leaving scars on Mother Earth

The moss hangs like witches hair from the big oak tree
And from across the swamp there comes riding on the breeze
The sound -- the sound -- Bi-Yo rhythm -- Bi-Yo rhythm
The rooster is born a fighter
Wears those surgeon blades on his legs
Hot blood, cold eyes
Headed for an early grave
He moves -- he moves with the sound
And he'll fight until they lay him in the ground
Bi-Yo rhythm -- Bi-Yo rhythm
The gator rides low in the water
But his eyes see everything
He watches the cities moving closer
Turning his home into a four lane
He moves -- he moves with the sound
He waits until it all comes down

I try to be cool but you turn on the heat
You got sexy ways tantalize me
It's there between us and you know it's true
Just roll with it baby I'm gonna take care of you
We got the feeling and that's all we need
Gonna get down to the bare necessities
I don't need a mo joe John the conqueror root
You're my good luck woman I'll just rub on you
I don't need to ride in a limousine
But a little Jag baby wouldn't hurt anything
It don't take much to satisfy me
I like to keep it down to the bare necessities
Wouldn't mind a little condo way down in Cancun
So me and my woman could have a little breathing room
Money talks if it's the right amount
A little nest egg baby in an overseas bank account
It may be true the best things are free

Willie and Laura Mae Jones
Were our neighbors as long time back
They lived right down the road from us
In a shack just like our shack
We worked in the fields together
And we learned to count on each other
When you live off the land
You don't have time to think
About another man's color
The cotton was high
And the corn was growing fine
But that was another place and another time
We sit out on the front porch
In the evening when the sun went down
Willie would play and Laura would sing
And the children would dance around
And I'd bring over my guitar
And we'd play into the night
And every now and then
Willie would grin and say
"Boy, you play all right"
And that made me feel so good
Lord the cotton was high
And the corn was growing fine
But that was another place and another time
I remember we'd hitch up the mules
When Saturday rolled around
We'd always stop by Willies house and say
"Do you'll need anything from town?"
He'd say, "No, but why don't you'll
Stop on your way back home
And I'll get Laura Mae
To cook up some corn porns?"
You know they're good
Lord the cotton was high
And the corn was growing fine
But that was another place and another time
The years rolled past our land
They took back what they'd given
And we all knew we'd have to move
If we was gonna make a living
So we all moved off
And went our separate ways
And it sure was hard to say goodbye
To Willies and Laura Mae Jones
The cotton was high
And the corn was growing fine, yes it was
But that was another place and another time
The years rolled past our door
And we heard from them no more
Till I saw Willie down town the other day
I said, "Just stop by tonight
And we can sit down and eat a bite
We'd love to see your children and Laura Mae"
He shook his head real slow
And spoke with his eyes so can
This is another place and another time
Lord the cotton was high
And the corn was growing fine
But that was another place and another time
Lord, Lord the cotton was high
And the corn was growing fine
But that was another place and another time
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
The cotton was high
And the corn was growing fine

Hoverin' by my suitcase
Tryin' to find a warm place to spend the night
Heavy rain fallin'
Seems I hear your voice a callin', it's all right
Rainy night in Georgia
A rainy night in Georgia
Oh, it is rainin' all over the world
Neon signs flashin'
Taxicabs and buses passin' through the night
The distant moanin' of a train
Seems to play a sad refrain onto the night
Rainy night in Georgia
Rainy all night in Georgia
Lord, it's rainin' all over the world
Rain
How many times I wondered
But it still comes out the same
No matter how you look at it or think of it
You just got to do your own thing, oh, yes
I find me a place in a boxcar
Take out my old guitar to pass some time
Late at night when it's hard to rest
I hold your picture to my chest and I'm all right
But it's rainin' down Georgia
Such a cold, old lonesome night in Georgia
Sometimes y'all it just rains
Rains
One of them old slow drizzling

As the crow flies, baby
Well I ain't too far from you
As the crow flies, baby
Well I ain't too far from you
Yeah, but since I don't have wings
Well I can't get home as fast as I want to
Well, you don't know, baby
I've missed your sweet caress
Well, you don't know, mama
I've missed your sweet caress, oh yeah
Yeah, now when I'm in your lovin' arms
Oh, I'm at my very best
In a dream last night
Well I heard you call my name
In a dream last night
Well I heard you call my name
Yeah, I took it as an omen
And I jumped on the very fast freight train
As the crow flies, baby
Well I ain't too far from you, oh no no
As the crow flies, mama
Well I ain't too far from you
Yeah, but since I don't have wings

She was my lover
She was working undercover
Oh the woman knew all of the moves
She really had me romping
We were barefoot stomping
She just kept igniting my fuse
I was blinded by the blackness of her long silk stockings
She was rocking with an optical illusion
This ain't how I thought it'd be
She just kept on keeping me in a state of total confusion
She took me for a ride
Rattled me
I found out
She was an undercover agent for the blues
She never really needed love
Omnidirectional
I was just an innocent bystander
She kept on getting kinkier
I say hook, line, and sinker, she was
Just, just too hot to handle
She took me by storm
It must have been a season for the fools
She was so bad
An undercover agent for the blues
I was blinded by the blackness of her long silk stockings
She was rocking with an optical illusion
This ain't how I thought it'd be
She just kept on keeping me in a state of total confusion
She took me for a ride
Rattled me down to my shoes
And I found out
She was an undercover agent for the blues
She was so bad

Monday looked like a downer
Tuesday looked like rain
A bad altitude
And I knew I needed a change
Head out on the highway
Cruising way down south
I knew a little place
Where I might could work it all out
I'm so tired of fighting with myself
Gonna spend a little time at the Tunica Motel
Just outside of Memphis,
Highway 61
Sleepy little town down by the
Mississippi River
I'm gonna lay out on a houseboat
Until my hide turns brown
Ain't gonna move 'till the
Evening sun goes down
Fried chicken to go and they got live bait for sale
Anything you need at the Tunica Motel
I find myself at midnight
Moving to the back porch blues
The guitar cries, telling me
About the hard times
Something moves in the shadows
Giving me a little chill
I thought I saw Robert Johnson
Walking out across the field
There ain't hardly anybody left who even knows the tale

They say these are dangerous times
Got to be on guard
Bad news across the land
Rumors of war
And all along the border lines
You can feel the strain
And loking back through the years
Ain't nothing changed
They shook the redman's hand
And forever changed his destiny
Put him on some Godforsaken land
And took away his dignity
Now he floats in dreams where eagles fly
Sinking in the stream of wasted lives
They're just standing by
Until they reach the other side
Homeless people shuffle alone in the dark
With everything they own in a grocery cart
And still the lines are drawn between colours of skin
Just a broken wing that never mends
They took their heavy load
With discrimination on the run
Marching down the dusty roads
Singing we shall overcome
Standing up for all they believe was right
They knew that God was on their side
Will we ever see the light
Before we reach the other side
Far across the sea
Young people gather on the square
Trying to set their spirits free
There was revolution in the air
Singing songs of freedom through the night
Who could know they would have to lay down their lives
And never know the reason why

THE HIGH SHERIFF OF CALHOUN PARISH
IT WAS SAID OF THE SHERIFF TO CALHOUN PARISH
NOT TO EVER TOUCH HIS DAUGHTER EMILY,
FOR TO LOOK AT HER WITH LUSTFUL EYES WAS CERTAIN
TO GET YOU A TIME IN THE PENITENTIARY.
IT WAS TRUE, SHE WAS QUITE VELOPTUOUS
IT WAS TRUE, SHE HAD EYES FOR ME;
THEN ONE NIGHT AT A DANCE SHE WALKED UP TO ME
AND ASK ME WOULD I, MEET HER DOWN BY THE CREEK
AS I LISTENED TO HER DANGEROUS PROPOSAL
I THOUGHT ABOUT THE HIGH SHERIFF CATCHING ME;
AS I SHOOK MY HEAD QUIETLY AND LEFT THE PARTY,
I HEARD HER LAUGH AND SAY "YOU'LL BE SORRY"
THEN CAME UPON MY DOOR A LOUD DISTURBANCE,
I OPENED IT TO THE SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTY.
HE SAID, "SON, DID YOU MOLEST MY DAUGHTER?"
I SAID, "SHERIFF, I DO NOT KNOW OF WHAT YOU SPEAK."
THEN HE GRABBED ME ROUGHLY BY THE COLLAR
AND HE FLUNG ME SPRAWLING OUT INTO THE STREET;
THERE WERE DAYS IN THE JAIL WITH CLAUSTROPHOBIA
AND ALL ON ACCOUNT OF THAT WENCH EMILY
WHEN I FINALLY WORKED A BAR LOOSE FROM MY WINDOW
AND I MADE MY WAY INTO THE WOODS OF CALHOUN,
LATE AT NIGHT I CAME UPON THE CABIN;
IT WAS THE HOME OF HARHAM CROSS, A FRIEND I KNEW.
WOULD YOU MIND IF I SAT DOWN AT YOUR TABLE
'CAUSE IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I'VE HAD TIME TO EAT
AND I'LL PAY Y'ALL BACK WHEN I'M ABLE,

Taking the midnight train
Taking the midnight train
I can't stand this pain
Just can't stand this pain
To have somebody hurt me for no reason
For no cause, for no cause
Left home very young
Left home very young
To the California sun
The California sun
And there a woman took me for her lover
She was the one, she was the one
Saying we were made for each other
And I could've been more satisfying
But then one night she packed her bags and left without a word
I guess I'll never know the reason why
It ain't no use in saying I never loved her
'Cause I did, God knows I did
Taking the midnight train
Taking the midnight train
I can't stand this pain
I just can't stand this pain, oh, Lord
To have somebody hurt me for no reason

I was thinking about parking the other night
We was out on a back road
Me and my woman was just gettin' right
All systems on overload
The radio blasting in the front seat
Turning out the music fine
We was snuggled up in the back seat
Making up for lost time
Steamy windows -- zero visibility
Steamy windows -- coming from the body heat
You can wine and dine with a woman all night
With good intent
But there's soemthing about a confrontation on a back road
Breaks down the defense
Steamy windows -- ain't nobody can see
Steamy windows -- coming from the body heat
There's a sound outside the front door
And I know it's just the wind
But it makes her snuggle up just a little bit closer
And it starts things happening again
Steamy windows -- zero visibility
Steamy windows -- coming from the body heat
Steamy windows -- zero visibility
Steamy windows -- coming from the body heat
Steamy windows

The evening falls on Padre Island
Something is wrong, the birds don?t fly
They sit quietly in the sand dunes
And watch the sky
They seem to know someone is missing
Even the ocean settles down
They've wait patiently since sunrise
But she don?t come around
Selena, they cry
Without your smile, none of us can fly
Selena, this can?t be true
It?s gonna be a lonely world without you
There is no one here on this good earth
Who cannot hear the laughter in your song
You made us dance when hearts were heavy
And our feet were made of stone
Time goes by, there is no answer
It?s hard to think this moment ever came
So many bow their heads in silence
It don?t stop the pain, no
Selena, they pray
How could something such as this take you away?
Selena, you were the one
Just when we think it?s all over
Maybe it?s just begun
Selena, so full of life
You never had a chance to say goodbye
But it will be whispered now and then
And your name will last forever
Riding on the Corpus Cristi wind
Selena, they pray

It was pretty this morning
Put some flowers in the ground
Sun was shining this morning
Planted flowers all around
Got my business out of the way
And all I want to do is not one bad thought
One bad thought
Oh, yeah
I got a mockingbird
It sings the song out on the breathe
Sometime they sit up on my chimney
Then they take it up to the trees
Lord, he must have been hearing my old guitar
I believe he does it better than me
Don't have not one bad thought
Not one bad thought, no
My mama was a Cherokee
Spread her little laugh on a river fall
She had seven kids and let us know
There was plenty of room in her arms
She would start the day with a smile on her face
And not one bad thought, not one bad thought
Not one bad thought, not one bad thought
Not one bad thought
Not one bad thought
Just wondering
Not one bad thought

I've been laying low
Living in the shadows
Spending time alone
Conversations with the wall
Hanging on
I'm just trying to matter
And I remain
Trying to make some sense of it all
I've been here before I'm familiar with the pain
But I ain't running no more there's one thing changed
Ain't going down this time
This time I ain't going down
Like an undertow
I feel the promise of the nighttime
But I've been down that road
And my search came to an end
I hit the motherload
Enough blues for a lifetime
Now I'm digging deep inside
Trying to find my way back again
You know you've entered the danger zone
When you look in the eyes and there's no one home
Ain't going down this time
This time I ain't going down
Deep in the night
I miss a woman's touch
The fire burns strong
And I'm drawn to the flame
But I pay the price
When I get caught up in the heartbeat
And passion flows
Unrestrained
No one left to blame I'm faced with the truth
And it's all too plain when there's nothing left to lose
Ain't going down this time

There's a cold wind blowing
Downtown tonight
Oh, I'm all done
Walking around, I don't feel right
I'm so used to feeling warm
Having you hanging on my arm
I can't believe you just cut me loose
You're gonna look good in blues
They still got a cool band
In the little club where we used to go
But I don't feel the dance
Tonight I'm just too low
Oh, I gave it all I had
You say "Baby, well that's too bad"
But you'll have to pay the dues
And you're gonna look good in blues
Back in the real world
No dreams no plans
Keeping a low profile
Just getting by the best I can
But you can't kick a heart around
And leave it in pieces on the ground
Baby, it's gonna catch up with you
And you'll look good in blues