Ry Cooder

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Cooder, Ry Filmography

Village Music: Last of the Great Record Stores
2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
The People Speak
2009, role: actor
The New Haven Raids
2007, role: composer
Talking Guitars
2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
My Blueberry Nights
2007, role: composer
Mississippi Rising
2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
John Lee Hooker: Come and See About Me
2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart
2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
2003, role: composer
Buena Vista Social Club
1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
Primary Colors
1998, role: composer
The End of Violence
1997, role: composer
Last Man Standing
1996, role: composer
The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True
1995, role: actor
The Great Music Experience
1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993, role: composer
Trespass
1992, role: composer
John Lee Hooker and Friends
1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
Johnny Handsome
1989, role: composer
Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball
1988, role: producer
Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball
1988, role: actor , character name: Himself
Cowboy Joe
1987, role: composer
The 29th Annual Grammy Awards
1987, role: actor , character name: Himself
Blue City
1986, role: composer
Crossroads
1986, role: composer
Alamo Bay
1985, role: composer
Brewster's Millions
1985, role: composer
Paris, Texas
1984, role: composer
Streets of Fire
1984, role: composer
Randy Newman: Live at the Odeon
1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Border
1982, role: composer
Southern Comfort
1981, role: composer
The Long Riders
1980, role: composer
The Long Riders
1980, role: actor , character name: Musician

Ry Cooder Live at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz 1987

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Updated: 06 Sep 2014
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Ry Cooder at Nashville

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Duration: 62:14
Updated: 14 Feb 2015

Americana Music Honors & Awards

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Ry Cooder & David Lindley - Full Concert - 04/27/94 - Fillmore Auditorium (OFFICIAL)

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Updated: 04 Nov 2014

Ry Cooder & David Lindley - Full Concert Recorded Live: 4/27/1994 - Fillmore Auditorium (San Francisco, CA) More Ry Cooder & David Lindley at Music Vault: http://www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault: http://goo.gl/DUzpUF Setlist: 0:00:00 - Intro by Jerry Pompili 0:00:33 - The Promised Land 0:05:42 - Hold That Snake 0:08:43 - Jesus On The Mainline 0:13:59 - Song Intro: "This is about our favorite automobile" 0:14:50 - Mercury Blues 0:19:52 - Song Intro: "This is a real old song about death" 0:20:28 - Oh Death 0:25:34 - The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor) 0:30:23 - Thirteen Question Method 0:34:11 - Down In Mississippi Personnel: Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals David Lindley - guitar, fiddle, vocals Bobby King - tenor vocal Terry Evans - baritone vocal Willie Green - bass vocal Joachim Cooder - percussion

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Ali Farka Toure Ry Cooder Talking

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Duration: 60:11
Updated: 29 Nov 2014

Ali Farka Touré, né le 31 octobre 1939 à Kanau et décédé le 7 mars 2006 à Bamako, est un musicien et chanteur malien. Touré est l'une des figures musicales les plus importantes d'Afrique. Ses compositions sont marquées par une volonté d'associer musique malienne traditionnelle et blues. Martin Scorsese affirme la relation étroite entre les deux genres, considérant la musique de Touré comme étant l'« ADN du blues » extrait Source Wikipédia : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Farka_Touré A propos de l'album : Talking Timbuktu est le 7e album d'Ali Farka Touré sorti en 1994 en duo avec Ry Cooder sur le label World Circuit. Cet album a reçu un Grammy Award en 1994. Extrait source Wikipédia Titres : 1. Bonde 2. Soukora 3. Gomni 4. Sega 5. Amandrai 6. Lasidan 7. Keito 8. Banga 9. Ai Du 10. Diaraby Bonne écoute ;-)

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John Lee Hooker and Ry Cooder 10/10/1992 complete set

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Updated: 06 Sep 2014
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John Lee Hooker and Ry Cooder October 10, 1992 "All Our Colors" Benefit* Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA ***Under Law of Fair Use. For educational p...

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Ry Cooder - Vigilante Man (live)

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Duration: 3:23
Updated: 05 Sep 2014
author: MikeSedated

Ry Cooder, back in the '70s. Live @ the Old Grey Whistle Test! This man has S.O.U.L..

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The Old Grey Whistle Test - Ry Cooder (1977)

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Duration: 39:01
Updated: 05 Sep 2014
author: Lance Merde

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Ry Cooder The Concert for New Orleans

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Updated: 10 Apr 2015

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Ry Cooder Live From Austin ‘75

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Duration: 38:04
Updated: 31 Mar 2015

Flaco Jiménez and his Conjunto

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Southern Comfort - Ry Cooder

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Duration: 8:36
Updated: 06 Sep 2014
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Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu (Album)

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Duration: 60:11
Updated: 16 Dec 2014

Album: Talking Timbuktu

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Ry Cooder My Girl Josephine

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Duration: 3:07
Updated: 29 Apr 2014

From The Big Apple To The Big Easy 2005

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Ry Cooder - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live

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Duration: 9:10
Updated: 04 Sep 2014
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From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Very beauti...

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Ry Cooder, Terry Evans - Down In Mississippi

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Duration: 7:42
Updated: 05 Sep 2014
author: mbroders

From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Look out fo...

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Ry Cooder - Crazy 'Bout An Automobile

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Updated: 17 Dec 2007

From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Look out for "Delta Time" by Terry Evans & Hans Theessink out Sept. 21. Terry and Hans is joined by Ry Cooder, Bobby King and Arnold McCuller - all from this concert. See "The making of Delta Time" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO7B6TPWLZk&feature;=youtube Comment from MrBillindallas: Concert was from a two night run - the last of nine total dates on the NorCal tour. Shot on 16mm film with an audio remote truck in the alley. Movie was released in Europe but not in the US. Great band, at one of the best venues in the 'States, the last two nights of the mini-tour they were truly on fire. One venue was so small the band filled the stage and the dance floor. Setlist for the two nights in Santa Cruz: 3-24-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst): Showtime Little Sister Smack Dab In The Middle Lets Have A Ball Me and Frank unknown title [Spanish lyrics] Hell Have To Go If Walls Could Talk Jesus on The Mainline How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live? One Meatball Atom Bomb Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love Why Dont You Try Me? Down In The Boondocks The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know) encores: Chain Gang Down In Hollywood Goodnight Irene 3-25-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst): Smack Dab In The Middle Lets Have A Ball unknown title [Spanish lyrics] Hell Have To Go If Walls Could Talk Jesus On The Mainline How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live? One Meatball Atom Bomb Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love Down In Mississippi instrumental The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know) Chain Gang Down In Hollywood Goodnight Irene Band: Ry Cooder: guitar, vox Jim Keltner: drums Van Dyke Parks: keys Jorge Calderon: bass Flaco Jimenez: accordion Miguel Cruiz: percussion Steve Douglas: sax George Bohannon: trombone Singers: Bobby King: tenor Terry Evans: baritone Arnold McCuller: tenor Willie Green Jr: bass

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Ry Cooder - Maria Elena

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Duration: 6:26
Updated: 01 Sep 2014
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From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. With wonder...

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Ry Cooder - Jesus On The Mainline

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Duration: 5:13
Updated: 30 Aug 2014
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From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Awesome sol...

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Taj Mahal with Ry Cooder Statesboro Blues

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Duration: 4:38
Updated: 21 Sep 2014

Americana Music Awards 2014

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Ry Cooder 1970 mini documentary

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Duration: 14:04
Updated: 28 Aug 2014
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Previews of Past Attractions — Ry Cooder. This is Van Dyke Parks' first music video production as Warner Brothers Records Director of Audio Visual Services, ...

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Ry Cooder - Borderline - Full Vinyl Album

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Duration: 44:05
Updated: 22 Mar 2015

Track Listing Side 1. 1. [0:00] 634-5789 2. [3:01] Speedo 3. [6:24] Why Don't You Try Me 4. [11:23] Down In The Boondocks 5. [14:48] Johnny Porter Side 2. 1. [20:07] The Way We Make A Broken Heart 2. [24:39] Crazy 'Bout An Automobile 3. [29:46] The Girls From Texas 4. [34:31] Borderline 5. [37:54] Never Make Your Move Too Soon

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Steve Vai & Ry Cooder - Crossroad Blues Duel (1986) Full Version (sort of)...

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Duration: 4:07
Updated: 06 Sep 2014
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Steve Vai & Ry Cooder play this duel in the movie Crossroad Blues. The dude in red is Steve Vai. The slide guitar part (Ralph Machio) is played by Rye Cooder...

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Ry Cooder - Feelin' bad blues

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Updated: 05 Sep 2014
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I love this song.

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Ry Cooder Hold Whatcha Got

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Updated: 12 Jul 2015

with Ricky Skaggs & Sharon White

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Ry Cooder - How can a poor man stand such times and live [Record plant 1974]

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Updated: 05 Sep 2014
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RY COODER July 7, 1974 The Record Plant Sausalito, California. Cooder was promoting his third solo album, Paradise & Lunch, which most critics still regard a...

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Ry Cooder - Smack Dab In The Middle - Live 1977

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Duration: 5:46
Updated: 03 Sep 2014
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Ry Cooder and the Chicken Skin Band play 'Smack Dab In The Middle' ( written by 'Charles E. Calhoun' (a pen name of Jesse Stone)) live at Shepherd's Bush Tel...

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Ry Cooder - The Very Thing That Makes Her Rich

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Duration: 7:09
Updated: 01 Sep 2014
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From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Comment fro...

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Ry Cooder - Down In Hollywood full live version

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Updated: 28 Apr 2015

From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987.

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Ry Cooder - Crazy About An Automobile Live

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Updated: 03 Sep 2014
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Ry Cooder and David Lindley Live in 1990.

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Ry Cooder - At The Dark End Of The Street - Live 1977

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Duration: 6:36
Updated: 31 Aug 2014
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Ry Cooder and the Chicken Skin Band play 'At The Dark End Of The Street' (written by James Carr), live at Shepherd's Bush Television Theatre, London in 1977....

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Ry Cooder, Bobby King - Chain Gang

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Duration: 5:48
Updated: 06 Sep 2014
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From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank filmed at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Exquisite ...

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Jesus on the Mainline Ry Cooder and David Lindley mirrored from user with thanks

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Updated: 04 Sep 2014
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This is for my Sister Kathy Rubio.

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Ry Cooder - He'll Have To Go - Live 1977

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Ry Cooder and the Chicken Skin Band play 'He'll Have To Go' (written by by Joe and Audrey Allison) live at Shepherd's Bush Television Theatre, London in 1977...

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Ry Cooder - Do Re Mi - Live 1977

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Duration: 6:40
Updated: 05 Sep 2014
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Ry Cooder and the Chicken Skin Band play 'Do Re Mi' (written by Woody Guthrie) live at Shepherd's Bush Television Theatre, London in 1977. Band Lineup: Guita...

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Ry Cooder live in japan 1988

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Updated: 27 Aug 2014
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00:00 Low-Commotion 03:40 Little Sister 08:00 He'll Have To Go 13:30 Jesus On The Mainline 19:00 Down In Mississippi 27:20 Do Re Mi 32:00 Get Rhythm 36:00 Ch...

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Ry Cooder - The Tattler - Live 1977

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Updated: 31 Aug 2014
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Ry Cooder and the Chicken Skin Band play 'The Tattler' live at Shepherd's Bush Television Theatre, London on 31st January 1977. Song originally written by Wa...

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【ALMA015】Ry Cooder

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Updated: 29 Aug 2015

VPRO Radio, Hilversum, The Netherlands 03/10/1973 Song List: 01 - Death Valley 02 - stationcall 03 - Blind Man 04 - Vigilante Man 05 - The Tattler 06 - F.D.R in Trindad 07 - Folding Bridge 08 - Dark Is The Night 09 - Instrumental (Joseph Spence song) 10 - Happy All The Time 11 - Great Dreams From Heaven Musician: ・Ry Cooder (Guitar, Bottle-Neck Guitar, Mandolin) 【ALMA015】Ry Cooder 08/29/2015

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Ry Cooder Into The Mill Valley

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Sweetwater Music Hall, Ca, USA

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Ry Cooder - 1987 Monterey

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Ry Cooder Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey May 10, 1987 Soundboard This is fantastic - a pearl... an outstanding show with incredible vocals by all! To the best of my knowledge the best guitar player in Santa Monica... Ry Cooder (Nick Lowe words on the Little Village recording) 00:00 Little Sister 03:52 Smack Dab In The Middle 08:44 Hold That Snake 16:59 Go Home Girl 22:40 Jesus On The Mainline 28:48 That Atom Bomb 31:35 If Walls Could Talk 38:55 Just A Little Bit 44:09 Down In The Boondocks 48:42 The Very Thing That Makes You Rich 55:56 Crazy 'Bout An Automobile 1:01:12 Down In Hollywood ~ Band Intro 1:11:22 Working On The Chain Gang Ry Cooder - Vocals, Guitar Van Dyke Parks - Keyboards Bobby King - Vocals Terry Evans - Vocals Willie Green - Vocals Arnold Letelier - Vocals Steve Douglas - Saxophone Jorge Calderon - Bass Miguel Cruz - Percussion Jim Keltner - Drums Wikipedia: Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder is an American musician. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries. His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing folk, blues, Tex-Mex, soul, gospel, rock, and much else. He has collaborated with many musicians, notably including Ali Farka Touré, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Randy Newman, David Lindley, and The Doobie Brothers. He briefly formed a band named Little Village. Ry Cooder produced the Buena Vista Social Club album, which became a worldwide hit. Wim Wenders directed the documentary film of the same name, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000. He was ranked eighth on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". A 2010 ranking by Gibson placed him at number 32.

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Ry Cooder Morning Becomes Eclectic

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Updated: 03 May 2015

Tribute to Don Normark

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Ry Cooder - 1987 Cotati

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Ry Cooder Cotati Cabaret, Cotati, CA; March 23, 1987. Excellent soundboard. Even without releasing the covers album, Bop Till You Drop, in 1979, Ry Cooder was already a formidable musician steeped in the blues with a Tex-Mex feel. His ’7s albums such as Into The Purple Valley, Boomer’s Story, Paradise And Lunch and Chicken Skin Music are classics but Bop Till You Drop, the first major-label digitally recorded album of pop music, put Cooder right in the spotlight. The venue for this show was The Cotati Cabaret in Cotati, CA. It was a small club that held about 3 people. Cotati is a small town located about an hour north of San Francisco. The Cabaret was an outgrowth of another venue that had been across the street called The Inn of The Beginning, a resurrected version of which has since ‘risen from the ashes’ once or twice since the ’8s. Cotati is next to Sonoma State University, which was called Granola State University back in the days. SSU is where the great recording of Old & In The Way with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott opening was made in 1973. 00:00 Showtime 02:13 Little Sister 05:59 Smack Dab In The Middle (fades in) 07:08 I Wanna Ball Let’s Have A Ball 13:52 Go On Home Girl 21:32 Ay Te Dejo Déjo En San Antonio 26:12 He’ll Have To Go 32:28 Jesus On The Mainline 40:37 Dark End Of The Street 47:29 When He Comes 50:04 Teeny Weeny Bit I Don’t Want Much 57:32 One Meatball 1:04:54 Maria Elena 1:10:57 If Walls Could Talk 1:20:49 The Very Thing That Makes You Rich Makes Me Poor 1:28:54 Crazy ‘Bout An Automobile 1:35:49 Chain Gang 1:42:33 Down In Hollywood 1:56:27 Good Night Irene Ry Cooder - guitar and vocals Bobby King - vocals (baritone) Flaco Jimenez - accordian Terry Evans - vocals (tenor) Van Dyke Parks - keyboards Arnold McCuller - vocals (tenor) Jorge Calderon - bass guitar Willie Greene Jr. - vocals (bass) Jim Keltner - drums Steve Douglas - saxophone Miguel Cruz - percussion George Bohannon - trombone

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Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy & Ry Cooder - Blues Jam

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Updated: 01 Sep 2014
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Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy & Ry Cooder - Blues Jam.

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John Lee Hooker & Friends ( Live 1984- 1992) Ry Cooder, John Hammond, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, A

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Updated: 05 Sep 2014
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John Lee Hooker & Friends ( Live - dvd -1984-1992) - Ry Cooder - Bonnie Raitt - Robert Cray - Albert Collins - Charlie Musselwhite - John Hammond - Johnnie J...

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Ry Cooder, Laguna Seca Raceway Monterey, CA 1987

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Updated: 19 Aug 2014
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Ry Cooder, Laguna Seca Raceway Monterey, CA 1987 Laguna Seca Raceway Monterey, CA May 10, 1987 Soundboard bootleg.

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The great music experience - Japan 1994 - Bob Dylan, INXS, Ry Cooder, Jon Bon Jovi, Roger Taylor....

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Updated: 02 Sep 2014
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The Great Music Experience was a concert starring Japanese and international musicians staged at the eighth century Buddhist temple of Tōdai-ji, in Nara, Jap...

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Ry Cooder - 1987 Catalyst Santa Cruz

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Duration: 79:03
Updated: 06 Aug 2015

Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces 'Let's Have A Ball' Film by Les Blank Catalyst, Santa Cruz, California March 25th, 1987 WEBRip Following a brief statement by Ry Cooder on his thoughts about performing - and improvising - on stage, this concert film depicts Cooder's 1987 live show in Santa Cruz, California, which was part of his "Get Rhythm" world tour. The film was screened in Europe and elsewhere but not in the US, and for now remains unavailable in any official capacity for unspecified reasons; Les Blank’s site says Cooder doesn’t want it released. This is surprising since it’s a fantastic concert film, the sound quality and performances are easily as good as anything on his live albums. In addition to great renditions of Cooder’s back catalogue you get to see several of his regular collaborators in action, not least Van Dyke Parks playing some typically idiosyncratic piano. The high spot is a 16-minute version of Down In Hollywood where everyone, singers included, gets to show off their solo prowess. 00:00 Intro Talk Ry 2:33 02:33 Let’s Have A Ball 09:38 Jesus On The Mainline 14:40 How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? 23:50 Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb 26:30 Down In Mississippi 34:07 Maria Elena 40:34 Just A Little Bit 43:44 The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor) 50:40 Crazy About An Automobile 58:02 Working On The Chain Gang 1:03:44 Down In Hollywood / Band Introduction (hard cut) - The end song 'Good Night Irene' is missing !! but you will find it on YT.. Musicians: Ry Cooder: guitar, vocals Jim Keltner: drums Van Dyke Parks: keyboards Jorge Calderon: bass Flaco Jiménez: accordion Miguel Cruiz: percussion Steve Douglas: sax George Bohannon: trombone Singers: Bobby King, tenor; Terry Evans, baritone; Arnold McCuller, tenor; Willie Green Jr, bass

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My Blueberry Nights: Music from the Motion Picture (OST)

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Duration: 48:31
Updated: 03 Sep 2014
author: Márcio Tavares

The soundtrack album of the movie "My Blueberry Nights" was released on April 1, 2008, under Blue Note Records. Produced by Wong Kar Wai and Eli Wolf. 1- Nor...

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Southern Comfort Soundtrack

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Duration: 28:24
Updated: 10 Mar 2015

Southern Comfort Soundtrack and ambient video by Mirorfloydka; Track arrangement, click time to jump to song: 23 End Credit Theme - Ry Cooder 0:00 22 Last Cajun Live Song 1:58 14 Cajun Wisdom - Brion James 3:42 13 Rainy Night 2 - Cooder 5:16 12 Rainy Night 1 - Cooder 5:56 9. Wading Through the Bayou 2 - Cooder 6:53 8. Wading Through the Bayou 1 - Cooder 7:55 15 Parlez nous à Boire - Dewey Balfa 8:15 4 Good Time - Cooder 10:48 2 Bajou Theme part 2 - Cooder 11:57 18 The Good Cajuns - Longest Cajun Live Song - Dewey Balfa 13:04 7 Marching through the Bayou - Cooder 18:09 5 Even Money - Cooder 19:04 3 Turkey Fat - Cooder 20:49 17 2nd Cajun Live Song - Dewey Balfa 21:57 20 4th Cajun Live Song - Dewey Balfa 22:34 1 Main Southern Comfort Theme - Ry Cooder 24:45

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Ry Cooder, Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White

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Live at the Telluridge Bluegrass Festival 06-21-2015

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Ry Cooder - Interview with Jools Holland (2005) -HD-

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Ry Cooder - Interview with Jools Holland (2005) -HD-

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Paris, Texas Interview with Ry Cooder

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available on Paris, Texas (The Criterion Collection) 2010

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Ry Cooder Interview TV

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Updated: 29 Oct 2014

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Ry Cooder interview - part 1

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Updated: 31 Jul 2014
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Futsal Records presents a 1988 interview with Ry Cooder. Ry was in Tokyo to promote his new record "Get Rhythm" but ended up talking about the hard road musi...

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Ry Cooder interview - part 2

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author: futsal1958

Futsal Records presents a 1988 interview with Ry Cooder. Ry was in Tokyo to promote his new record "Get Rhythm" but ended up talking about the hard road musi...

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Ry Cooder interview - part 3

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Futsal Records presents a 1988 interview with Ry Cooder. Ry was in Tokyo to promote his new record "Get Rhythm" but ended up talking about the hard road music had taken him on. Interviewers: Steve Harris and Ken Sato Date: June 23, 1988 - Part 3 of 4 - We're now on Facebook: Look up the group "Musicians in Their Own Words"!

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Ry Cooder interview - part 4

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Ry was in Tokyo to promote his new record "Get Rhythm" but ended up talking about the hard road music had taken him on. Interviewers: Steve Harris and Ken Sato Date: June 23, 1988 - Part 4 of 4 - We're now on Facebook: Look up the group "Musicians in Their Own Words"!

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Ry Cooder Interview TV3

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Updated: 29 Oct 2014

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Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Touré - 25. Jazzfestival New Orleans 1994 + Interview with Ry Cooder

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Updated: 04 Aug 2014
author: Dominik Briongloid

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david lindley - about to make me leave home - live - audio + ry cooder interview

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This is good ..... Interview (Ry Cooder) + David Lindley's "about to make me leave home girl" (as opposed to Bonnie Raitt's "about to make me leave home boy"...

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Ry Cooder –Interview (Chávez Ravine)

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Aktuellt SVT 2005

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Ry Cooder –Interview (Chávez Ravine)

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Ry Cooder –Interview (Chávez Ravine) Aktuellt SVT 2005. Ry Cooder - Interview with Jools Holland (2005) -HD- Though the album referenced is more than a few years old seeing the Dodgers in the playoffs reminded me of the history of Chavez Ravine. I wonder if anyone . Ry Cooder - Chávez Ravine Label: Nonesuch Catalog#: 7559-79877-2 Format: CD, Album Country: Europe Released: 2005 Genre: Latin, Rock Style: Country . Track Nr 4 of the cd Chávez Ravine a record by Ry Cooder The song talks about Carlos and Favela Chávez, who lives in the neighborhoods of Palo Verde and .

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Ry Cooder Interview TV6

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Ry Cooder - interview (with Subtitles In Japanese)

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Updated: 08 May 2013
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on jools holland's tv pgm.

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Ry Cooder Interview TV4

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Danny Bramson: The Interview Part 3 on Q Score

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From Backstreet Records and Tom Petty's Damn the Torpedoes to making movies with Cameron Crowe . . . in Part III of The Interview, Bramson shares the beginning of music supervision, where coordinating talents like Peter Gabriel and Led Zeppelin was a yet "under-acknowledged" job category. Together with Joel Sill (Forrest Gump, Castaway), Becky Shargo (Urban Cowboy, Footloose) and Gary Goetzman (Stop Making Sense, Something Wild), the job of music supervisor was born and music began to earn it's place as a character in any creative narrative. Enjoy the entire six part interview with Danny. From the Universal Amphitheater to his prolific partnership with Cameron Crowe, the Rolling Stone writer-turned-uber-successful-film-director whose path was immortalized in the semi-autobiographical Almost Famous, legendary music industry impresario Danny Bramson joins Q Score's own Jonathan McHugh for a six part interview. They discuss everyone and everything from Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty to Say Anything, Singles, Jerry Maguire and, of course, Almost Famous. SUBSCRIBE TO emPOWERme.tv https://www.youtube.com/user/emPOWERmetv http://www.dailymotion.com/empowermetv FOLLOW US ON TWITTER https://twitter.com/emPOWERmedottv https://twitter.com/jonathanmchugh LIKE US ON FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/emPOWERme.tv https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.mchugh FOR MORE Q SCORE http://www.empowerme.tv/qscore/

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Interview with Ry Cooder

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Interview with Ry Cooder Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band ℗ 2008 Ozit Released on: 2008-09-01 Auto-generated by YouTube.

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David Lindley - More Than Ava Braun - 1991 + Cooder interview - audio only

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Updated: 29 Jul 2012
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First a CBC radio interview with Ry Cooder about David Lindley followed by David Lindley playing More Than Ava Braun. Recorded live at the Winnipeg Folk Fest...

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Steve Vai - Crossroads Duel Live - Fire Garden Tour

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author: Eddie Stanley

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Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires Cover Me Up

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Updated: 23 Nov 2014

with Ry Cooder

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Anger at Sumatra tame elephant death: Probably poisoned, 3-foot tusks hacked off

The Examiner

22 Sep 2015

The death of a tame Sumatra elephant has caused anger and outrage that has now spread across the globe. Yongki lived in a wild life refuge and he was a very friendly elephant that often worked with rangers who would patrol the forest looking for poachers ... ....

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Palm trees and building at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California

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US tech companies must not be complicit in China’s internet repression (Amnesty International Australia)

Public Technologies

23 Sep 2015

(Source. Amnesty International Australia). American tech companies seeking access to China's domestic market must not turn a blind eye to the country's severe internet-related human rights abuses, Amnesty International said, ahead of a meeting between China's President Xi Jinping and top US tech firms on Wednesday ... "US tech firms need to put people and principles before profit, and defend internet freedom ... distributed by ... (noodl....

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A Syrian refugee boy cries while he and his family try to board a train at the station in Tovarnik, Croatia, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015.

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Bush AND Obama Lied, Refugees Died

WorldNews.com

22 Sep 2015

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It was a rare and memorable moment when the father of a soldier killed in Iraq accused then-President George W. Bush of being responsible for his son's death. This is especially true since few Americans ever have access to the dominant media and inner circles of American power, specifically the presidency and secretary of defense ... with Muslims and radical Islamists ... September 26, 2003....

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File - President Barack Obama waits in the Blue Room of the White House before announcing personnel changes in the East Room, April 28, 2011. Standing with the President, from left, are: Vice President Joe Biden, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and General David Petraeus.

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David Petraeus urges Obama to credibly threaten Assad’s force in Syria

The Guardian

22 Sep 2015

In a return to the foreign-policy stage, former CIA director told a Senate panel that US must offer protection to Syrian fighters in order to team up against Isis. @attackerman. David Petraeus, the former commander of the US war in Iraq, urged Barack Obama to credibly threaten Bashar al-Assad’s air force as a way through the bloody morass in Syria on Tuesday ... He called the overall war against Isis a “fairly dynamic stalemate” ... ....

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File - Alaskan National Guard Sgt. Brain Reid talks with a local Afghan child during a dismounted patrol to a Department of Public Works facility Aug. 8, 2012, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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US soldiers say they’re ordered to ignore Afghan soldiers who sexually abuse young boys

The Independent

22 Sep 2015

The last time Lance Corporal Gregory Buckley Jr spoke to his father, the Marine told him in 2012 that he could hear Afghan police sexually abusing children. “At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” George Buckley Sr told the New York Times. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.” ... They don’t know our Marines are sick to their stomachs.”. --> ... ....

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Sturgill Simpson, Shakey Graves win Americana awards

Palm Beach Post

17 Sep 2015

The Kentucky-born Simpson won song of the year for his psychedelic-honky-tonk jam, "Turtles All The Way ......

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Shakey Graves, Sturgill Simpson, John Leventhal, The Mavericks and Lucinda Williams Claim Top Honors at ...

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17 Sep 2015

Performances By Buffy Sainte-Marie, Don Henley, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Ricky Skaggs And Los Lobos, Houndmouth, Ry Cooder, Esme Patterson, Rhiannon Giddens, John Hiatt, Jason Isbell, Nikki Lane, The Lone Bellow, Keb Mo, Robert Randolph With The Fairfield Four And McCrary Sisters, Doug Seegers, Lee Ann Womack And More....

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Sturgill Simpson, Lucinda Williams win Americana awards

Denver Post

17 Sep 2015

Click photo to enlarge. Ry Cooder, left, presents the Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist to Ricky Skaggs at the Americana Music Honors and Awards show Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski). «12345» ... "When he came up with the reptilian line, I couldn't hold it in," Cobb said ... 16, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn ... ....

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September 17, 2015 Johnny Depp embodies Sauvage, the new men’s fragrance from Dior (LVMH - ...

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17 Sep 2015

(Source. LVMH - Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA). Parfums Christian Dior has created an olfactory shockwave with Sauvage, the new men's fragrance that expresses bold freshness and radically heightened notes ... As a haunting soundtrack of rock riffs composed by guitarist Ry Cooder plays, he buries his city belongings, reinventing the voyage of initiation and a new beginning, more sincere, raw and wild ... distributed by ... (noodl. 29914489) ....

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Sturgill Simpson, Lucinda Williams win big at 2015 Americana Music Awards

The Examiner

17 Sep 2015

The 2015 edition of the Americana Music Awards and Honors was held Sept. 16 at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium ... While many expected Sturgill Simpson to sweep the 2015 Americana Awards like Jason Isbell did in 2014 ... The other three-category nominee, Shakey Graves, did not walk away without a trophy ... The Award for Instrumentalist was given to bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs and presented by his current tour partner Ry Cooder ... ....

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Austin360 music shows, Sept. 18- Sept. 24

Austin American Statesman

17 Sep 2015

Friday. The ABGB. The BlueBonnets Jay Janner Catfish and the Bottlemen will perform Tuesday at Emo’s. BD Riley’s. Davey Arwine, Sean Orr’s Celtic Trio. The Blackheart. Wildfires, Annabelle Chairlegs, the Sour Notes, Bantam Foxes, All in the Golden Afternoon, Suburban Slang. Brass House ... The Broken Spoke. Jason Roberts Band, Ben Rogers. C-Boy’s Heart and Soul ... Cactus Café ... Emo’s ... Ry Cooder, Sharon White and Ricky Skaggs ... Ry Cooder, Ricky Skaggs....

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Music and Film Virtuosos Coming to Seattle's Paramount Theatre

Huffington Post

16 Sep 2015

I first learned about The Buena Vista Social Club watching German filmmaker Wim Wenders 1999 documentary in which he followed Ry Cooder and his son Joachim to Cuba where they assembled a group of the country's best musicians to record an album eventually titled The Buena Vista Social Club ... I first learned about Shimabukuro watching the 2012 PBS documentary Jake Shimabukuro ... ....

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Wim Wenders Joins 'Buena Vista Social Club' Sequel

IMDb

15 Sep 2015

... "Buena Vista Social Club," which he co-wrote and directed in 1999, that put Cuban music culture on the global stage, following Ry Cooder as he brought prominent Cuban musicians out of retirement....

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Wim Wenders to Exec Produce ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Sequel

IMDb

15 Sep 2015

Wenders’ film, which was nominated for a best documentary Oscar, centered on efforts by Ry Cooder to bring together prominent Cuban musicians to record an album and to perform in Amsterdam and New York ......

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Buena Vista Social Club - Jake Shimabukuro: Music & Film Virtuosos at Paramount

The Examiner

15 Sep 2015

The Buena Vista Social Club became internationally famous when German filmmaker Wim Wenders followed Ry Cooder and his son Joachim to Cuba where they assembled a group of the country’s best musicians to record an album eventually titled The Buena Vista Social Club ... ....

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Vieux Farka Toure Malian guitarist: "We are...

Topix

09 Sep 2015

North African blues from Mali entered Stateside consciousness in 1994 when Ry Cooder and the region's Ali Farka Toure staged a guitar summit on Talking Timbuktu for the same label that brought the world the Buena Vista Social Club two years later.... ....

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Americana Music Association Announces 14th Annual Honors & Awards Performers And Presenters (Shore Fire Media ...

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08 Sep 2015

Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale of the Milk Carton Kids, Rosanne Cash, Marc Ribot; Rob Bleetstein and John Grimson; Abigail Washburn and Noam Pikelny; Ron Sexsmith and Mary Gauthier; Ry Cooder; Rodney Crowell; Sara and Sean Watkins; John Kay and Ken Paulson; and Robyn Hitchcock ... 21 in the Austin City Limits time slot -- will feature Ry Cooder and ......

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Five can't miss legends at the 2015 Americana Music Festival

The Examiner

01 Sep 2015

The 2015 edition of the Americana Music Festival is just over two weeks away, being held Sept ... Inevitably, someone you want to see will be playing in a venue all the way across town from someone else you want to see ... Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White, and Ry Cooder- Thurs. Sept ... Rounding out the trio is guitar hero Ry Cooder. Considered one of the greatest guitar players of all time, Cooder is also someone who isn't afraid to bend a few genres ... ....

Top Ry Cooder, DON'T MESS UP A GOOD THING

(O. Sain)
Good thing, good thing, good thing
You been cheating on me, now, baby
You know I know it's true
Ain't nobody in this whole wide world
Gonna love you like I do
Don't you be no fool, don't you be no fool
Gonna keep on fooling 'round now, baby
Gonna mess up a good thing
Gonna mess up a good thing, all right
Well, I might of cheated just a little bit baby
Like many others do
But when I get my little old paycheck now
It goes right back to you
Don't you be no fool, don't you be no fool
'Cause if you keep on fooling around now, baby
Gonna mess up a good thing, you're going to mess up a good thing
They tell me you got a part-time lover
Who's living way cross town
It won't be but a little while, baby
Before you put me down
Don't you be no fool, don't you be no fool
Gonna keep on fooling 'round now, baby
Gonna mess up a good thing
Gonna mess up a good thing, all right
Let me tell you something
Now, don't you go sneaking across town,baby
To catch me doing wrong
Don't you know everybody's jealous, baby
'Cause we got a thing going on
Don't you be no fool, don't you be no fool
If you keep on fooling 'round now baby
Gonna mess up a good thing
Gonna mess up a good thing
Good thing [You're messing up a good thing]
Messing up a good thing
Good thing
Good thing

Top Ry Cooder, DOWN IN HOLLYWOOD

(T. Drummond/R. Cooder)
(C#7)
Well, did you hear the good news ?
There's gonna be some bad blues
Somebody said they're playing all night long
So go and fill your brown bag and put on all your clean rags
Let's go downtown and see what's going on
You take me down the Vine Street
Stop when you hear the back beat
And I'll sneak past the bounccer at the door
Now I know that he ain't looking
Not when the band is cooking
Because he's watching the ladies dancing on the floor
Going down in Hollywood
You better hope that you don't run out of gas
Down in Hollywood
He'll drag you right out of your car and kick your ass
Down in Hollywood
They're standing on a corner waiting for a sucker like you
Down in Hollywood
Now, if you want to stay healthy just keep a-moving right on through
Be careful, don't look back, keep moving, keep moving
Well, the scotch has started flowing
And some girls she is showing everything she's got
Folks, it's a sight!
Some men will give a week's pay if she would just dance down their way and say
";Baby, I'm gonna take you home with me tonight";
Outside the streets is shaking and I hear the windows breaking
Some poor fool's gonna land in jail tonight
Well, all those hookers trying to pull your coat and the pimps reach out to cut your throat
Ain't no way out of here without a fight
(What's that fool saying ?)
Going down in Hollywood
You better hope that you don't run out of gas
Down in Hollywood
He'll drag you right out of your car and kick your ass
Down in Hollywood
They're standing on a corner waiting for a sucker like you
Down in Hollywood
Now, if you want to stay healthy just keep a-moving right on through
Be careful, don't look back, keep moving, keep moving
Voice of gay male: ";Hi. You know that you're going to get arrested the way that those pants fir around your thighs. Oh, come back honey! Don't leave now.";
Voice of pimp: ";Hey, bud. Come here, let me talk to you for a second. Give me that";
[Sounds of fists, a robbery]
";Cops coming";
Voice of policeman (Ry): ";869 Victor."; [radio code] ";Jesus, this guy's a mess";
Voice of other cop: ";Well, he's just drunk. Come on, pick him up, put him in the car and take him downtown";
Well, his mama told him not to go
Little sister told him too
But the poor boy just didn't listen
Like he should have, that's too bad
He hitchhiked all the way from Burbank
Now, he's gonna end up in drunk tank
Some old man say, ";Yeah, well, that's just the way it goes down in Hollywood";
Going down in Hollywood
You better hope that you don't run out of gas
Down in Hollywood
He'll drag you right out of your car and kick your ass
Down in Hollywood
They're standing on a corner waiting for a sucker like you
Down in Hollywood
Now, if you want to stay healthy just keep a-moving right on through
For truth! Man, I'm telling you
Well, they'll do anything down in that low-down Hollywood
He'll be in a world of trouble now
Lord, have mercy
Can I get a witness

Top Ry Cooder, Chan Chan

(Francisco Repilado)
(Dm) - (F) - (C) - (A7)
De (Dm) Alto Cedro voy (F) para Marcane
(C) Luego a Cueto voy (A7) para Mayari.
El cariiao a,ue te tengo
Yo no lo puedo negar
Se me sale la babita
Yo no lo puedo evitar.
Cuando Juanica y Chan Chan
En el mar cernian arena
Como sacudia el 'jibe'
A Chan Chan le daba pena.
Limpia el camino de paja
Que yo me qriero sentar
En aquel tronco que veo
Y asi no puedo llegar.
De Alto Cedro voy para Marcane
Luego a Cueto voy para Mayari.

Top Ry Cooder, 1970 - 1987

(Traditional)
Yes, we'll rally 'round the flag, boys
We'll rally 'round again
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
We will rally from the hillside
We'll gather from the plain
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
The Union forever, hurrah boys, hurrah
Down with the traitor, up with the star
While we rally 'round the flag, boys
Rally once again
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
We will welcome to our numbers
The loyal, true and brave
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
And although he may be poor
Not a man shall be a slave
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
So we're springing to the call
From the East and from the West
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
And we'll prove a loyal crew
To the land we love the best
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom

Top Ry Cooder, BOURGEOIS BLUES

(Huddie Ledbetter/Alan Lomax)
(G7) - (C7) - (G) - (D7)
(G7) Me and my wife went all over town
And everywhere we went people turned us down
Lord, in a (C7) bourgeois town
It's a (G) bourgeois town
I got the (D7) bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all a- (G) round
Home of the brave, land of the free
I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie
Lord, in a bourgeois town
Uhm, the bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around
Well, me and my wife we were standing upstairs
We heard the white man say "I don't want no niggers up there"
Lord, in a bourgeois town
Uhm, bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around
Well, them white folks in Washington they know how
To call a colored man a nigger just to see him bow
Lord, it's a bourgeois town
Uhm, the bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around
I tell all the colored folks to listen to me
Don't try to find you no home in Washington, DC
â'Cause it's a bourgeois town
Uhm, the bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around

Top Ry Cooder, Borderline

(James Lewis, Jimmy Holiday, Cliff Chambers)
Well, I met a girl from Texas 'bout a year ago
Hadn't known her for too long when I had to let her go
You see, she had a razor, was ten inches or so
And every night you'd hear her knocking at my door
She said, "Baby, I'll give you the clothes on my back
You can have everything that I've got in my shack
But if you ever try to leave they'll take your out in sack
'Cause me and my razor will see to that"
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
I thought about my situation, decided not to tarry
For my own self preservation I decided we should marry
When the preacher started reading 'bout 'till death do us part
I told him, "Skip it, we had that understanding right from the start"
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Houston to San Antone)
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Got to love 'em right or leave
'em alone)
Well, we settled down, got me a little old job, '65 Fairlane Ford
Every Friday night I would stop in and cash my pay check down at the
grocery store
They had a little girl worked in there, must have been about seventeen
She was the cutest thing I had ever seen
It's the same old story and I'm afraid it wasn't too very long
Before we had fallen deeply in love and I knew it was wrong
I said baby, we got to stop this thing right here
Or my woman is gonna cut my throat from ear to ear, that's right
Tearful suffocation, she looked up in my face
I could feel her heart was breaking as these sad words she did say
"You should have told me you was married, baby
She pulled out a forty-five and let me have it, right smack between the
eyes
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
She was guilty, I was dead
Now, what'd you think that the old judge said ?
"Ah, that's just the way the girls are down here in Texas
Case dismissed!"
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Houston to San Antone)
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Got to love 'em right or leave
'em alone, boy)

Top Ry Cooder, COLE YOUNGER POLKA

(D. Lindley-R. Cooder)
Instrumental

Top Ry Cooder, Cherry Ball Blues

[Instrumental]

Top Ry Cooder, Ridin With The Blues

It's gettin'-out time down at the high school
We're checking out all the little cheerleaders like you
With your cheerleadin' dress and your cheerleadin' shoes,
Step over here baby shake hands with the blues
Ol' blues like to ride in my Cadillac
Likes to ride up in front likes to ease down in back
Slide over baby this ain't what you think
Ol' blues is gonna drive while I get us a drink
Baby you can ride with me
Hope you don't mind bein' three
Pull up your dress and kick off your shoes
You're gonna have a god time ridin' with the blues
Goin' to take a little ride and see an old friend of mine
Do a little business down on the state line
If it don't feel right we'll bust right through
Hang on baby you're ridin' with the blues
If the police ask better give 'em the slip
Tell 'em you been out on a high school field trip
If your teachers been wonderin' just where you been gone
Tell 'em you're learnin' the blues from now on
So pull up your dress and kick off your shoes
Gonna have a good time ridin' with the blues

Top Ry Cooder, Hold That Snake

I love my baby like a bull dog loves his bone
Last night she got crazy, called me up on the phone
Said, "Come on over, daddy
'Cause I hates drinkin' alone"
Said, "I had me a little and I had to have a little more
Try to get up, could not get out the door
And there's a big ole snake
That's crawlin' right across the floor"
My baby's not afraid to take a chance
Drinkin' whiskey starts her thinkin' about romance
That's when she wants what I keep in my pants
I know she's got a few tricks up her sleeve
When she gets hot it's not hard to believe
So I told my baby
Just what Adam said to Eve
Hold that snake 'til I make it
Hold on 'til your daddy gets there
Just grab his head and shake it
Tell him be ain't goin' nowhere
Take it easy but take it
But don't let go of that snake
'Til I make it

Top Ry Cooder, Billy The Kid

(Traditional, arranged by Ry Cooder)
(G) - (D)
(G) I'll sing you a true song of (D) Billy the (G) Kid
I'll (D) sing the record of (G) deeds that he did
Way out in New Mexico a long time (D) ago
When a (G) man's only friend was his (D) own forty- (G) four
Now when Billy the Kid was a very young lad
In old Silver City he went to the bad
Way out west with a knife in his hand
At the age of twelve years he killed his first man
Fair Mexican maidens play guitars and sing
Songs about Billy their boy bandit king
Before this young manhood reached its sad end
He'd a notch on his pistol for twenty one men
It was on one black night that poor Billy died
He said to his friends, ";I'm not satisfied
There's twenty one men that I've put bullets through
And sheriff Pat Garrett's gonna make twenty-two";
Well, this is how Billy the Kid met his fate
A big moon was shining and the hour was late
Shot down by Pat Garrett, Silver City's best friend
The poor outlaw's life have reached its sad end

Top Ry Cooder, BETTER THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

(Ry Cooder)
Instrumental

Top Ry Cooder, Always Lift Him Up, Kanaka Wai Wai

(Alfred Reed/Traditional)
When a fellow has the blues he feels discouraged
And there's nothing else but trouble all his life
When he's always crumbled there and never happy
Living with a scold and aggravating wife
If he's sick and tired of life takes the drinking
Do not pass him by, don't greet him with a frown
Do not fail to lend a hand and try to help him
Always lift him up and never knock him down
If he stays out late at night because he's worried
And because his home is not what it should be
Ever smile for him wherever you should meet him
It would help him the right way, don't you see
If he gambles when he's in the town or city
Tell him what he ought to do to gain the crown
Lend a hand and do not fail to show him pity
Always lift him up and never knock him down
[He cannot pace this, he feels disgusted ]???
If he's blue he doesn't have a word to say
Let him know you as friend can be trusted
It would cheer this lonely fellow on his way
If he finds it hard for him to keep his family
[Let a kind word greet him when he's around ]???
Don't say anything at all to make against him
Always lift him up and never knock him down
[If he has no friends, never warns against him ]???
If he's failed at everything that he has tried
Try to lift his load, help him bear his burden
Let him know that you are walking by his side
And if he feels that all is lost, he's falling
[Try to place ... and feet on solid ground ]???
Just remember he's a mother precious darling
Always lift him up and never knock him down
Always lift him up and never knock him down

Top Ry Cooder, The Slide Area

From out of nowhere, through a caravan
Around the campfire light
Came a lovely woman in motion
With hair as dark as night
Her eyes were like those of a cat in the dark
And she hypnotized me with love
She was a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman
She danced around and 'round to a guitar melody
From the fire, her face was all a glow
How she enchanted me, how I'd love to hold her near
And kiss, and forever whisper in her ear
I love you, gypsy woman
I need you, gypsy woman
I want you, gypsy woman
Just gotta have a gypsy woman
All through the caravan
She was dancing with all the men
Waiting for the rising sun
Everyone was having fun
I hate to see the lady go knowing she'll never know
That I love her, I love her
I love you, gypsy woman
I need you, gypsy woman
I want you, gypsy woman
Just gotta have a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman
Gypsy woman, gypsy woman
I love you, gypsy woman
I need you, gypsy woman
Just gotta have a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman
Can't you get the gypsy woman
Gypsy woman, gypsy woman

Top Ry Cooder, DARK IS THE NIGHT

[Instrumental]

Top Ry Cooder, The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed

PERCY SLEDGE - DARK END OF THE STREET
At the dark end of the street
that is where we always meet
hiding in shadows where we don't belong
living in darkness, to hide alone
You and me, at the dark end of the street
You and me
I know a time has gonna take it's toll
we have to pay for the love we stole
It's a sin and we know it's wrong
Oh, our love keeps going on strong
Steal away to the dark end of the street
You and me
They gonna find us, they gonna find us
They gonna find us love someday
You and me, at the dark end of the street
You and me
When the daylight all goes around
And by chance we're both down the town
Please meet, just walk, walk on by
Oh, darling, please don't you cry
You and me, at the dark end of the street
You and me

Top Ry Cooder, Paradise and Lunch

It's a sin for you to get a Mexican divorce
Down below El Paso lies Juarez
Mexico is different, like a travel folder says
Cross the Rio Grande and you will find
An old adobe house
Where you leave your past behind
One day married, next day free
Broken hearts for you and me
Takes no time for you to get a Mexican divorce
As I came into this lonely house last night
I looked at all my windows but I couldn't find one light
I found you on that road to Mexico
And now, my love, I beg
Please, oh, please, don't go
One day married, next day free
Broken hearts for you and me
It's a sin for you to get a Mexican divorce
Finding love takes so long
Walking out, well, must be wrong
It's a sin for us to get a Mexican divorce
One day married, next day free
Broken hearts for you and me
It's a sin for you to get a Mexican divorce

Top Ry Cooder, Music By Ry Cooder

Jesse James we understand
Has killed him many a man
He robbed the Union trains
But history does record
That Bob and Charlie Ford
Have laid Jesse James in his grave
It was on a Saturday night
The stars were shining bright
When they robbed that Union train
And it was one of the younger boys
That gathered in the spoils
And carried that money away
In his small home unaware
A-straightening pictures there
He thought he heard a noise
And as he turned his head
Well, the bullet killed him dead
Fired by Bob Ford, one of the boys
Poor Jesse had a wife
She lived a lady all her life
The children they were brave
But history does record
That Bob and Charlie Ford
Have laid poor Jesse, laid poor Jesse
Have laid Jesse James in his grave

Top Ry Cooder, Chávez Ravine

Antes se bailaba swing
Boogie-woogie, jitterbug
Pero esto ya torcio
Y este es lo que sucedio
Pachucos suaves bailan rumba
Bailan la rumba y le zumba
Bailan guaracha sabroson
El botecito y el danzon
Cada Sabado en la noche
Yo me voy a borlotiar
Con mi linda pachucona
Las caderas a menear
Ella le hace muy de aquellas
Cuando empieza a guarachar
Al compas de los timbales
Yo me siento petetear
Pachucos suaves bailan rumba
Bailan la rumba y le zumba
Bailan guaracha sabroson
El botecito y el danzon

Top Ry Cooder, Election Special

1, 2, 3, 4
Now boss Mitt Romney went for a ride
Pulled up on a highway side
Tied me down up on the roof
Boss I hollered, woof woof woof
Please master boss!
Dont look right, it dont seem right
Hot in the day, cold all night
Where I'm goin I just dont know
Poor dogs got to bottle up and go
Oh Mr Boss, cut me down!
Woof, woof, woof
He had a ride, sure not ridin
Poor dog he really had a ride
He had a ride, sure not ridin
Up on the rooftop here I'm sat

Top Ry Cooder, Jazz

When I was born they christened me plain Samuel Johnson Brown
But I hadn't grown so very big, 'fore some folks in this town
Had changed it 'round to, "Sambo", I was "Rastus" to a few
Then "Chocolate Drop" was added by some others that I knew
And then to cap the climax, I was strolling down the line
When someone shouted, "Fellas, hey! Come on and pipe the shine!"
But I don't care a bit
Here's how I figure it
Well, just because my hair is curly
And just because my teeth are pearly
Just because I always wear a smile
Likes to dress up in the latest style
Just because I'm glad I'm livin'
Takes trouble smilin', never whine
Just because my color's shady
Slightly different maybe that's why they call me shine
Say, just because my hair is curly
And just because my teeth are pearly
And just because I always wear a smile
I wear my jeans like a man I mean
He always dresses in the latest style
Just because I'm glad I'm livin'
Takes trouble smilin', never whine
Just because my color's shady
Slightly different maybe that's why they call me shine

Top Ry Cooder, Show Time

(F. Z. Maldonado)
(C) - (F) - (G)
(C) Este amor apasionado
Anda todo alborotado por vol (F) ver
Hoy camino a (G) la locura
Y aunque todo me tortura, sé que (C) rer
Nos dejamos hace tiempo
Pero llegó el momento de perder
Tú tenías mucha razón
Le hago caso al corazón
Y me muero por volver
Y volver, volver, volver
A tus brazos otra vez
Llegaré hasta donde estés
Yo sé perder, yo sé perder
Quiero volver, volver, volver
Muchas gracias, thank you!
Translation:
This impassioned love
goes on, compelling me to return;
I'm on the road to madness
and although everything tortures me,
I know how to love.
We parted ways some time ago
But the moment of loss arrived.
You had every reason;
I heed my heart
And I'm dying to return.
And to return, to return, to return
To your arms again
I will arrive where you are
I know how to lose, I can take it
I want to return, return, return.

Top Ry Cooder, CROW BLACK CHICKEN

(Laurence Wilson)
Well, I went on the mountain
And I gave my horn a blow
Thought I heard some purty gal say
";Yonder come my beau";
Crow black chicken and crow for a day
Crow black chicken and fly away
Crow black chicken and-a ...
I like chicken pie Well, the hardest work that ever I done
Is plowin' a field of rye
The easiest work that ever I done
Was eatin' chicken pie
Chicken crow for midnight
And chicken crow for a day
Along come an owl, Lord, have mercy
And stole my chicken away

Top Ry Cooder, Dark End Of The Street

[Instrumental]

Top Ry Cooder, BOOMER'S STORY

(Traditional, adapted by Ry Cooder)
Come and gather all around me
Listen to my tale of woe
Got some good advice to give you
Lots of things you oughta know
Take a tip from one who's travelled
And never stopped a-ramblin' 'round
'Cause once you get the roamin' fever
You never want to settle down, boy
You never want to settle down
I met a little gal in Frisco
And I asked her to be my wife
Told her I was tired of roamin'
Goin' to settle down for life
Then I heard the whistle blowin'
And I knew it was the Red Ball Train
And I left that gal beside the railroad
And I never saw the gal again, boy
I never saw the gal again
Saw the gal again
I never saw the gal again
Left that gal beside the railroad
And I never saw the gal again Travelled all over the country
I've travelled everywhere
I been on every Branch Line railroad
And I never paid a nickel fare
I been from Maine to Califor'ny
And from Canada to Mexico
I never tried to save no money
And now I got no place to bo, boy
Now I got no place to go
Listen to a Boomer's story
Pay attention to what I say
Well, I hear another train a-comin'
Guess I'll be on my way
If you wanna do me a favor
When I lay me down and die
Just dig my grave beside the railroad
So I can hear the trains go by, boys
So I can hear the trains go by
Hear the trains go
Hear the trains go by
Just dig my grave beside the railroad
So I can hear the trains go by

Top Ry Cooder, Blue Suede Shoes

Well, it's one for the money, two for the show
Three to get ready and it's go man go
You can do anything that you want to do
But uh-huh honey, lay off of my shoes
And don't you step on my shoes
Don't you step on my blue suede shoes
You can do anything that you want to do
But uh-uh honey stay off of my shoes
And don't you step on my blue suede shoes
You can burn my house, steal my car
And drink my liquor out of my fruit jar
You can do anything that you want to do
But uh-uh honey stay off of my shoes
And don't you step on my shoes
Don't step on my blue suede shoes
You can do anything that you want to do
But uh-uh honey stay off of my shoes
And don't you step on my blue suede shoes
Well, it's down on beale street late one night
A woman got mad and started a fight
Split my chin and bust my nose
Tore out the back of my best suit of clothes
I said, "knock me down, step in my face
Slander my name all over the place
Do anything that you want to do
But uh-uh honey stay off of my shoes"
And don't you step on my shoes
Don't step on my blue suede shoes
You can do anything that you want to do
But uh-uh honey stay off of my shoes

Top Ry Cooder, LOW-COMMOTION

[Instrumental]

Top Ry Cooder, LOOK AT GRANNY RUN RUN

(J. Ragovoy/M. Shuman)
Said, look at Granny run, run
Grandpa runnin' close behind.
Look at Granny run, run, ah... there's something on Grand-daddy's mind.
Because he went to the doctor, got a brand new pill.
The doctor said, ";Son, you ain't over the hill.";
He can't sit still.
Great, gosh, almighty, won't you...
Look at Granny run, run, faster than a Greyhound bus. [Granny, you better run]
Look at Granny run, run, now Grandpa is gettin' serious. [Somebody's calling you]
Well, he woke up in the middle of the night.
Said, ";Look-a here baby, everything's alright.";
It was such a sight
Great, gosh, almighty, won't ya...
Well, look at Granny run, run
Grandpa runnin' closer now.
No matter how she run, run, he gonna catch her anyhow.
Well, he jumped up and he began to shout
Granny come a-running with the mouth poked out
Said, ";Look here, pretty Mama, stop your carrying on
All I want's a little loving just before I'm gone
Ain't nothing wrong";
Hear my Lord, singing
Great, gosh, almighty
[You better run]
[Somebody's calling you]
Look at Granny run, run.
Well, I feel like my time ain't [long], time ain't [long] time ain't [long]

Top Ry Cooder, Soundtracks

(Traditional, arranged by Ry Cooder)
Oh, I'm a good old Rebel
Now that's just what I am
For this fair land of freedom
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fought against it
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.
I hates the Yankee nation
And everything they do,
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too;
I hates the glorious Union-
'Tis dripping with our blood-
And I hates their striped banner,
I fought it all I could.
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Stiffen in Southern dust
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot
And I wish it was three million
Instead of what we got.
I won't be reconstructed
I'm better now than then
and for that carpetbagger
I do not give a damn
so I'm off for the frontier
soon as I can go
I'll prepare a weapon
and start for Mexico

Top Ry Cooder, OLD KENTUCKY HOME

(Randy Newman)
(D) - (G) - (A) - (E7) - (A7) - (Bm)
(D) Turpentine and dandelion wine
I've turned the corner and I'm (G) doing fine
Shooting at the birds on the (D) telephone line
(A) Picking 'em off with this (D) gun of mine
I got a (G) fire in my belly and a (D) fire in my head
Going (A) higher and higher till I'm dead
Sister Sue, short and stout
She didn't grow up - she grew out
Papa says she's plain but she's just being kind
Mama says she's pretty but she's almost blind
Don't let her out much 'cept at night
But I don't care 'cause I'm all right
Oh, the (D) sun shines bright on my (G) old Kentucky (D) home
And the young folks roll on the (E7) floor (A7)
Oh, the (D) sun shines bright on my (G) old Kentucky (D) home
Keep them hard times (G) a (Bm)way (A7) from my (D) door
Brother Gene, he's big and mean
And he didn't have much to say
He had a little woman that he whupped each day
But now she's gone away
He got drunk last night
Kicked mama down the stairs
But I'm all right so I don't care

Top Ry Cooder, NEVER MAKE YOUR MOVE TOO SOON

(Will Jennings/Nesbert Hooper Jr.)
Three days of snow out in Birmingham
Thought you would wonder where I am
Called up your number all night long
No consolations on the telephone
Ran out and caught that midnight flight
Thought a little loving would make everything all right
But, no!
Landlord said, ";You'd moved away
And left me all your bills to pay";
It's too bad, baby, you might have made your move too soon
I think you might have made your move too soon, girl
Now, look here
Left me out here with a Keno card
Life in Vegas really ain't so hard
Ran it up to about fifty grand
Cashed it in and held it in my hand
That kinda money gets the word around
And makes a lost love come up found
I hear you knocking baby at my door
You ain't living here no more
I tried to tell you before
But you made your move too soon
Now I'm gonna play!
All right, now I'm just going to tell you one more thing
Well, I've been from Texas down to Tokyo
Okinawa back to Ohio
Never tried to make the news
I'm just a man that loves to play the blues
Take my guitar everywhere
Now, if you people don't like it, I really don't care
Crowd jumps up and the band falls down
Love to see us rolling into town
Because the people know, well, we never make our move too soon
Never make your move too soon
Ya made your move too soon, girl
Ya made your move too soon, baby....babe
I think ya made your move too soon
Let's hear it for all the chickens that died in the heat wave
Two millions chickens, God Almighty
In Arkansas, down in Oklahoma, by God
Texas, Arizona

Top Ry Cooder, Money Honey

(Jesse Stone)
(A) - (D) - (E) Capo on 1
(A) Well, the landlord rang my frontdoor bell
(E) I let it rang for a long, long spell
(D) Went to the window, peeped through the blind
(E) Asked him to tell me what was on his mind
He said, (A) "Money honey, (D) money honey, (A) money
honey
(E) If you wanna stay here with (A) me"
I was clean and screened and so hard pressed
I called the woman that I loved the best
Finally found my baby 'bout a quarter to three
She said, "I'd like to know what you want with me"
And I said, "Money honey, money honey, money honey
If you wanna get along with me"
Well, she screamed and said
"What's wrong with you, from this day forth
Our romance is through"
I said, "Tell me baby, face to face
How could another man take my place ?"
She said, ""Money honey, money honey, money honey
If you wanna get along with me"
I've learned a lesson and now I know
Sun may shine, wind may blow
Women may come and women may go
But before I tell 'em that I love 'em so
I want "Money honey, money honey, money honey

Top Ry Cooder, MEXICAN DIVORCE

Top Ry Cooder, MEDLEY: FOOL FOR A CIGARETTE/FEELIN' GOOD

(Sidney Bailey)/(J.B. Lenoir/Jim Dickinson)
Uhm, I'm a fool for a cigarette
Lord, I'm fool for a cigarette
When you've finished choke it 'cause I wanna smoke it
Lord, I'm fool for a cigarette
Mind when you throw your cigarette
Mind when you throw your cigarette
When you've finished choke it 'cause I wanna smoke it
Lord, I'm fool for a cigarette
Lord, I'm fool for a cigarette
Uhm, I'm fool for a cigarette
When you've finished choke it 'cause I wanna smoke it
Lord, I'm fool for a cigarette Feelin' good, feelin' good
All the money in the world spent onl feelin' good
Well, the wino met me on the streets
Said, ";Help me on to some Sneakin' Pete
Please, help me brother, I wish you would
'Cause I feel so bad and I wanna feel good";
Feelin' good, feelin' good
All the money in the world is spent on feelin' good
Well, you see them folks all dressed so fine
Dancing, drinking champagne and wine
They'd pinch your pockets now if they could
'Cause they ain't doing nothing but feelin' good
Feelin' good, feelin' good
All the money in the world is spent on feelin' good
Red, yellow, black or tan
Makes no difference: a man's a man
They oughta live together now if they could
Then the whole wide world would be feelin' good
Feelin' good, feelin' good
All the money in the world spent on feelin' good
Feelin' good, feelin' good
All the money in the world spent on feelin' good

Top Ry Cooder, MARRIED MAN'S A FOOL

Had a friend, Louie Brown, he was a deacon,
Just as wise as he could be.
Now I realize he could read the Good Book
Back from Revelations down to Genessee.
You know last Sunday morning we was over to the church,
My buddy wants to take him a stand,
And he looks out upon that whole congregation
The Good Book in his hand.
Now he cast his eye about, and then he looks over in the Amen Corner;
All the sisters commenced to shout. [What'd he say ?]
He said a man's a fool to think that his wife love nobody else but him.
She stick by you all your life, the chances is mighty slim.
Now you read the Good Book, chapter twenty-one:
Every married woman got to have a little fun.
Read on over chapter twenty-two:
It's a sin to let that woman make a fool outta you.
Now you read a little further, chapter twenty-three:
She two-time you, brother, like she double-crossed me.
Read on back, over chapter ten:
She shimmy one time, she like to wobble again.
'Cause a man's a fool to think that his wife
Love nobody else but him, I mean, love nobody else but him.
Well, a man's a fool to think that his wife
Love nobody else but him.
She stand by you all of your life, the chances is mighty slim.
Now you read on over twenty-fifth page:
Married woman's loyalty is hard to engage.
Read kinda careful, chapter twenty-six:
Back door slamming, you got to run and get it fixed.
Read on out, chapter twenty-eight:
Who's that back slidin' out through your back gate?
I believe I'll close on chapter twenty-nine:
Woman get tired of the same man all the time.
'Cause a man's a fool to think that his wife love nobody else but him.

Top Ry Cooder, Maria Elena

[Instrumental]

Top Ry Cooder, MAMA, DON'T TREAT YOUR DAUGHTER MEAN

(Ry Cooder)
Hey, mama, don't you treat your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don't you treat your daughter mean
'Cause you treat her so mean and she's only sweet sixteen
It was late last Friday evening, when everything was still
I heard somebody calling my name outside my window sill
I got up and I looked outside strainin' my eyes to see
And my heart went wild when I realized just who was calling me
I hollered
Hey, mama, don't you treat your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don't you treat your daughter mean
'Cause you treat her so mean and she's only sweet sixteen
Now, her eyes were blazing up at me
Her hair was black as night
And her naked skin shone like gold
Out in the pale moonlight
She took my hand and she pulled me down
Where the grass had grown up tall
The she moved her body all around
Just like a cannon ball
Hey, mama, don't you treat your daughter mean
Hey, mama, don't you treat your daughter mean
'Cause you treat her so mean and she's only sweet sixteen
Yonder comes your mama, girl, 'cross the field
Runnin' and a-shakin' like an automobile
Daddy's got a shotgun in his hand
They just don't understand
The first time I seen that sweet girl
She was runnin' home from Sunday school
And the next time I seen that sweet little girl
Was when she broke her mama's rule
But the last time I seen that sweet little girl
She was filled with a strange desire
Rollin' and tumblin' out on the cold wet ground
Her skin burnin' up just like a cane fire
She called my name a thousand ways
The tears came streaming down her face
But just when I was 'bout to blow my stack
Her daddy came a-creepin' and a-crawlin' up behind
And he shot me in the back

Top Ry Cooder, TATTLER

(Ry Cooder/Russ Titelman/Washington Phillips)
Whenever you find a man that loves every woman he sees,
There's always some kind of woman that's a-puttin' him up a tree.
Now that kind of man, he ain't got as much sense as a mule.
You know, everyone don't love you, they're just a-playin' you for a fool
Mmmm, oh, no,
It's not hard for you to understand.
True love can be such a sweet harmony
If you do the best that you can.
If you marry the wrong kind of woman and you get where you can't agree,
Well, you just as well could get your hat and let that woman be.
But a man oughta make a good husband and quit tryin' to lead a fast life.
Goin' about dressin' up other women won't put clothes on his own wife
Well, there's lots of good women who wants to marry, and they want to live well at home.
But they're 'fraid they'll might get hold of a rowdy man, can't let other women alone.
And there's lots of good men wants to marry, and they wants to live well at home.
But every time they turn their back, there's another man there askin', ";Darlin', is he gone?";

Top Ry Cooder, TAMP 'EM UP SOLID

(Traditional)
Tamp 'em up solid, so they won't come down
Tamp 'em up solid, buddy, so they won't come down
Tamp 'em up solid, so they won't come down
Tamp 'em up solid, buddy, so they won't come down
Baby, when you marry your railroad man
Every day'll be pay day, dollar bill in your hand
Baby, in your hand, baby, in your hand
Baby, in your hand, baby, in your hand
Mary and the baby laying in the bed
Thinking about the money that I ain't made
So tamp 'em up solid so they won't come down
Tamp 'em up solid, buddy, so they won't come down
Captain called the water boy and the water boy laughed
Captain kicked the water boy yelling, ";Yes, yes, yes";
So tamp 'em up solid, so they won't come down
Tamp 'em up solid, buddy, so they won't come down
And you can do it, and you can do it, and you can do it
So they won't come down

Top Ry Cooder, CRAZY 'BOUT AN AUTOMOBILE (Every Woman I Know)

(William R. Emerson)
-Man, I'm gonna tell you my story
-Go on and tell about it, go on and tell about it more
-Just what I've been doing
-What you've been doing, Ry ?
-Well, you know I used to be particular about the womens that I picked
-Aha!
-Yeah! They used to be tender, lean and tall, that's all
-But the way things has been going, I'll take 'em knock-kneed and bow-legged
-What ?
-I'll even take 'em bald! Man. I'll tell you why
-Please, tell me why!
Every woman I know is crazy 'bout an automobile
Every woman I know is crazy 'bout an automobile
And here I am standing with nothing but rubber heels.
He-hey, every woman I know, crazy 'bout an automobile
Oh, every woman I know, crazy 'bout an automobile
And here I am standing with nothing but rubber heels.
Now look'it here!
They say, walking women home is a thing of the past
Women want to ride and ride around in class
Some like Cadillacs, boys, some like Fords
Some like anything as long as it rolls.
Crazy 'bout an automobile [That's right]
And here I am standing with nothing but rubber heels
Well, every woman I know she's crazy 'bout an automobile
Every woman I know is crazy 'bout an automobile
And here I am standing with nothing but rubber heels
One more thing I wanna tell you
Said, riding and loving just can't be beat,
You and your woman in your own front seat.
Now, she can play with your keys, shift the gears,
Turn on your radio just loud enough to hear.
Now, she can turn up the heat and flip on your fan,
And then you start rolling just as fast as you can.
Crazy 'bout an automobile
And just here I am standing with nothing but rubber heels
Man, when I get some money I just got to get me some kind of automobile
You don't seem like the women in this town just don't pay no attention to ya 'less you're driving
Look at that big, fine Buick over there
Oh, I like that one
Yeah, now, looks like somebody left the keys in it
Oh, let's take a ride
Nothing but rubber heels

Top Ry Cooder, THE VERY THING THAT MAKES YOU RICH (MAKES ME POOR)

(S. Bailey)
(C#m) - (G#m7) - (G#7) - (F#7) - (E) - (B)
My father (C#m) told me, lying (G#m7) on his bed of (C#m) death,
";Boy,"; he says, ";woman she's gonna make it, don't fool your (G#7) self
'Cause she's got (C#m) something to make a man (F#7) lay that money, uh, right in her hand
And the very (E) thing that makes her (B) rich will make you (C#m) poor (F#7)
The very thing that makes her (G#7) rich will make you (C#m) poor";
That's right!
Well, I put you behind the wheel of a deuce and a quarter, yes I did
Had you living like a rich man's daughter, yes I did, I sure did
While you were living high on the hog
You had me down here scuffling like a dog
Well, the very thing that makes you rich makes me poor
The very thing that makes you rich makes me poor
Don't you never ever make such a bad mistake
You know I'd rather climb into bed with a rattlesnake
Then to work hard every day bringing that woman all my pay
The very thing that makes you rich makes me poor,
Makes me so damn poor
The thing that makes her rich makes me poor
The very thing that makes you rich make me poor
Very thing that makes you rich makes me poor
Makes me so damned poor
Money won't change it, no no...

Top Ry Cooder, THE LONG RIDERS

(Ry Cooder)
Instrumental

Top Ry Cooder, TROUBLE YOU CAN'T FOOL ME

(F. Knight/A. Varnell)
(C) - (F) - (G)
(C) Trouble you can't fool me (F) I see you behind that tree
(C) Trouble you can't fool me (G) trying to get the ups on me
(C) Trouble you can't fool me (F) I see you behind that tree
(C) You want to (F) jump (G) on (C) me
Work hard for living, wanted just to get paid
But, sure'd be stealing for a year and a day
Would like to see a little sunshine, just to guide my way
Would like to have a little peace of mind
That's why I wanna say you better look out !
Trouble you can't fool me I see you behind that tree
Look out! Trouble you can't fool me trying to get the ups on me
Trouble you can't fool me I see you behind that tree
You want to jump on me
Trouble taught me a lesson I never never will forget
Now, he took my love, she ain't paid it back yet
I had to find another just to take her place
And I sure do love her, I said we're doing ok
So look out!
Trouble you can't fool me I see you behind that tree
Look out! Trouble you can't fool me trying to get the ups on me
Trouble you can't fool me I see you behind that tree
You want to jump on me
Well, you know, everyday can't be Sunday [That's right!]
It's a funny thing, it seem just before daylight is your darkest hour
And you know one thing [what's that ?] behind every silver lining, there isn't a dark cloud
[And you just ain't got time to go 'round subtracting and adding 'cause you'll just be too late]
You know one thing ? [What's that ?]
Every time you get around a tree, you better stop and grab a brick [Why ?]
Old man trouble... laying and waiting on you
That's what I wanna say...
Trouble you can't fool me I see you behind that tree
Look out! Trouble you can't fool me trying to get the ups on me
Trouble you can't fool me I see you behind that tree
You want to jump on me
Trouble took my money, Cadillac's gone
Best suit of clothes, all raised up in the closet, oh Lord
But I'm so glad
Trouble don't last ...always
You can't fool me

Top Ry Cooder, COMIN' IN ON A WING AND A PRAYER

(Harold Adamson & Jimmie McHugh)
One of our planes was missing
Two hours overdue
One of our planes was missing
With all its gallant crew
The radio sets were humming
We waited for a word
Then a noise broke
Through the humming and this is what we heard
Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
Though there's one motor gone
We can still carry on
Comin' in on a wing and a prayer What a show, what a fight, boys
We really hit our target for tonight
How we sing as we limp through the air
Look below, there's our field over there
With just one motor gone
We can still carry on
Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
With our full crew on board
And our trust in the Lord
We're comin' in on a wing and a prayer

Top Ry Cooder, TEARDROPS WILL FALL

(Dickey Doo-Marion Smith)
(E) - (A) - (B7)
(E) I read your letter and (A) tears filled my (E) eyes
All of your promises fading, was (B7) nothing but (E) lies
So I turned your photograph over, (A) face to the (E) wall
And when I (A) dim the (E) lights in my (A) room (E) tonight
(B7) Teardrops will (E) fall
(E) Teardrops will fall tonight
(A) Tears I can't (E) hide
Tears that I tried to keep
(B7) Deep down inside
(E) Tears fall, a love that's gone
(A) Beyond re (E) call
And when I (A) dim the (E) lights in my (A) room to (E) night
(B7) Teardrops will (E) fall
I'm gonna pray tonight, baby
Hoping you will hear
Maybe you'll right the wrong, now
And dry each tear
I'll sit alone tonight hoping you will call
And when I dim the lights in my room tonight
Teardrops will fall

Top Ry Cooder, TAXES ON THE FARMER FEEDS US ALL

(Traditional, adapted by Ry Cooder)
(D) - (A) - (E)
(A) We worked through Spring and Winter, through (D) Summer and through (A) Fall
But the mortgage worked the hardest and the (E) steadiest of us all
It (A) worked on nights and Sundays, it (D) worked each holiday
(E) Settled down among us and it never went (A) away
The farmer comes to town with his wagon broken down
The farmer is the man who feeds us all
If you only look and see I know you will agree
That the farmer is the man who feeds us all
(A) The farmer is the man, the farmer is the man
He buys on his credit until (E) Fall
Then they (A) take him by the hand
And they (D) lead him from his land
And the (E) merchant is the man who gets it (A) all
The farmer is the man, the farmer is the man
He lives on his credit until Fall
With the interest rates so high
It's a wonder he don't die
But the taxes on the farmer feeds us all
Well, the banker says he's broke and the merchant stops and smoke
But they forget that it's the farmer that feeds them all
It would put them to the test if the farmer took a rest
And they'd know that it's the farmer that feeds them all
The farmer is the man, the farmer is the man
Lives on his credit until Fall
Well, his pants are wearing thin
His condition, it's a sin
'Cause the taxes on the farmer feeds us all

Top Ry Cooder, THE GIRLS FROM TEXAS

(James Lewis/Jimmy Holiday/Cliff Chambers)
Well, I met a girl from Texas 'bout a year ago
Hadn't known her for too long when I had to let her go
You see, she had a razor, was ten inches or so
And every night you'd hear her knocking at my door
She said, ";Baby, I'll give you the clothes on my back
You can have everything that I've got in my shack
But if you ever try to leave they'll take your out in sack
'Cause me and my razor will see to that";
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
I thought about my situation, decided not to tarry
For my own self preservation I decided we should marry
When the preacher started reading 'bout 'till death do us part
I told him, ";Skip it, we had that understanding right from the start";
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Houston to San Antone)
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Got to love 'em right or leave 'em
alone)
Well, we settled down, got me a little old job, '65 Fairlane Ford
Every Friday night I would stop in and cash my pay check down at the grocery
store
They had a little girl worked in there, must have been about seventeen
She was the cutest thing I had ever seen
It's the same old story and I'm afraid it wasn't too very long
Before we had fallen deeply in love and I knew it was wrong
I said baby, we got to stop this thing right here
Or my woman is gonna cut my throat from ear to ear, that's right
In tearful supplication, she looked up in my face
I could feel her heart was breaking as these sad words she did say
";You should have told me you was married, baby
She pulled out a forty-five and let me have it, right smack between the eyes
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
She was guilty, I was dead
Now, what'd you think that the old judge said ?
";Ah, that's just the way the girls are down here in Texas
Case dismissed!";
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Houston to San Antone)
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Got to love 'em right or leave 'em
alone, boy)

Top Ry Cooder, THAT'S THE WAY LOVE TURNED OUT TO BE

(Quinton Claunch, Dave Hall & Ry Cooder)
Brand new day, brave new man
It's a miracle what love can do
All the joys romance can bring
Come smiling down on a heart that's true
When love is real, you can't turn it around
It's like a river running down to the sea
This old world turns around for lovers like you
It's not the way love turned out for me
People in love build a house they can share
Takes a long time to get it just right
But a fire can start in the kitchen somewhere
And burn that little house down over night
That flame burning bright in your heart, I believed that
You turned it on just for me
Another man held that fire, burned our house to the ground
That's the way love turned out for me
People turn out for the big show
Pretty flowers turn out in the spring
And the light turns out in the kitchen
When somebody pulls on the string
But there's no light burning in my kitchen
And no doors open up with my key
And I ain't got no one to turn to
That's the way love turned out for me

Top Ry Cooder, Gypsy Woman

Top Ry Cooder, GREAT DREAM FROM HEAVEN

(Joseph Spence)
Instrumental

Top Ry Cooder, Goodnight Irene

(Huddie Ledbetter/John Lomax)
(E) - (E7) - (A) - (B7)
(E) I asked your mother for (B7) you
She told me that you was too (E) young
I wish dear (E7) Lord never have (A) seen your face
And I'm (B7) sorry that you ever been (E) born.
(E) Irene good (B7) night, Irene good (E) night
Goodnight I (E7) rene, good (A) night Irene
I'll (B7) get you in my (E) dreams
Sometimes I lives in the country
Sometimes I lives in town
Sometimes I have a great notion
To jump into the river and drown
I loves Irene, God knows I do
Loves her till the sea runs dry
If Irene turns her back on me
I'm gonna take morphine and die
Stop ramblin' and stop gamblin'
Quit staying out late at night
Come home into your wife and your family
Sit down by the fireside bright
Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I'll get you in my dreams

Top Ry Cooder, GOOD MORNING MR. RAILROAD MAN

(Traditional)
Good morning, Mr. Railroad Man
What time do your trains roll by ?
";At 9:16 and 2:44 and 25 minutes 'till 5";
";At 9:16 and 2:44 and 25 minutes 'till 5";
Thank you, Mr. Railroad Man
I want to watch your trains go by
Standing on a platform, smoking a cheap cigar
And waiting for an old freight train that carries an empty car
Well, I pulled my hat down over my eyes
And I walked across the tracks
And I caught me the end of an old freight train
And I never did come back
Well, I sat down in a gamblin' game
But I could not play my hand
I was thinkin' about the woman I loved
Run away with another man, poor boy
Run away with another man
I was thinking about the woman that I loved
Run away with another man

Top Ry Cooder, GOING TO BROWNSVILLE

(John Estes, adapted by Ry Cooder)
I'm going to Brownsville, take that right hand road
Well, I'm going to Brownsville, take that right hand road
And I ain't gonna stop walking till I get in sweet mama's door
The girl I'm loving she's got great long curly hair
The girl I'm loving she's got great long curly hair
And her mama and her papa well, they sure don't allow me there
If you catch my jumper (?), babe, hanging upside your wall
Well, if you catch my jumper (?), babe, hanging upside your wall
Well, you know by that I need my ashes hauled
I'm going to Brownsville, take that right hand road
I'm going to Brownsville, take that right hand road
And I ain't gonna stop walking till I get in sweet mama's door

Top Ry Cooder, GOING BACK TO OKINAWA

(Ry Cooder)
Goin¡¯ back down to Okinawa
Sorry, baby, but I can¡¯t take you
You better stay at home in California
There¡¯s nothing over there that you can do
Goin¡¯ back down to Okinawa
Ain¡¯t gonna do me like you¡¯ve done before
They treat me like a king down in Okinawa
And I may never come back no more
It¡¯s just an island floating in the sun
Everybody is having so much fun
Pretty mamas laying in the sand
Sure to know how to treat your man Okinawian baby, won't you come by me ?
Sun going down in the China Sea
Making love on the beach all night
Okinawa moon is shining so bright
Folks in Okinawa sure have fun
They get together when the working day is done
Drinking cheap wine. and making romance
While some old man's doing the Okina dance
Back in the days of World War II
Fought against the Japanese like me and you
Everybody¡¯s worried ¡®bout World War III
Okinawa's just the place where I¡¯m gonna be
Going back to Okinawa
Sorry, but I can¡¯t take you
Never coming back no more, baby

Top Ry Cooder, GO HOME, GIRL

Well, me and Frank we're the best of friends
And our friendship will never end
But it would hurt him so for him to know
That I'm in love with his girlfriend
Now, the love of a girl and the love of a friend
Are two things you can't compare
Though my heart will ache I will let it break
'Cause I know that it just ain't fair
So go on home girl, let's call it a night
You better go home girl, this just ain't right
But before you go I want you to know
That I love you, yes I do
And though it breaks my heart for us to part
Still I know Frank loves you too
Well, you say that a we can make him see
We have a love that's really real
But I think that he is just like me
And I don't know just how he'd feel
Darling, people know it would hurt him so
If you told him that it must end
And I could never hold the love I stole
From a man I call my best friend
Go on home girl, you better go home, girl
Go on home, you better move on
Me and Frank been friends for so long
And our friendship is really strong
He gives me his car to go for a ride
Never knows how long I'll be gone
Well, I'm trying to forget all the things that we've
done
While Frank is just a-waiting back home
Girl you can't go ride with me anymore
That's the way it's got to be from now on
Go on home!
Uhn, hun. Better go home, girl
Uhn, hun. Now you better move on, girl
Uhn, hun. Better go home, girl

Top Ry Cooder, Get Rhythm

[Incomprehensible] get rhythm when you get the blues
Get rhythm, people, when you get the blues
Get a rock n' roll, feel it in your bones
Tap on your toes and just get gone
Get rhythm when you get the blues
Little shoeshine boy never gets low down
He's got the dirtiest job in town
Bendin' low at the people's feet
On the windy corner of the dirty street
When I asked him while he shined my shoes
How'd he keeps from gettin' the blues
He grinned and he shook his little head
Popped a shoeshine rag and then he said
"Get rhythm, get rhythm when you get the blues
Get rhythm when you get the blues
Get a rock n' roll, feel it in your bones
Tap on your toes and just get gone
Get rhythm when you get the blues"
"[Incomprehensible] get rhythm when you get the blues
Get rhythm when you get the blues
Get a rock n' roll feel it in your bones
Tap on your toes and just get gone
Get rhythm when you get the blues"
Well, I stopped to listen to the shoeshine boy
And I thought I was gonna jump for joy
Slapped on the shoe polish, left and right
He took a shoeshine rag, and he held it tight
He stopped once to wipe the sweat away
"You're a mighty little boy to be a workin' that way"
He said, "I like it" with a big wide grin
And he kept on poppin' and he said again
"Get rhythm, get rhythm when you get the blues
[Incomprehensible] get rhythm when you get the blues
Well, a jumpy rhythm make you feel so fine
[Incomprehensible] all the troubles from your worried mind
Get rhythm when you get the blues"
"Get rhythm when you get the blues
Get rhythm when you get the blues
Get a rock n' roll, feel it in your bones
Tap on your toes and get gone

Top Ry Cooder, FRANCE CHANCE

(Joe Callicott)
Drop down baby, just like showers of rain
I hate to hear my fair brown call my name, yeah
I hate to hear my fair brown call my name
Well, she calls so loud, and the poor girl calls so plain
Walks to the station, tears running down
I got news, my baby, done left town, yeah
I got news, my baby, 'cause he done blow this town
Well, I got great news, my baby, he done blow this town
Blues started calling me like Ronny and France
Looks like that other guy won't allow me no chance, yeah
Well, it looks like, to me, that other guy won't allow me all chance
Hum, hum, hum

Top Ry Cooder, F.D.R. IN TRINIDAD

(Fitz MacLean)
(C) - (G) - (Am) Capo on 2
(C) When Roosevelt came to the land of the (G) hummingbird shouts of welcome were (C) heard
Roosevelt came to the land of the (G) hummingbird shouts of welcome were (C) heard
His visit to their (Am) island is bound to be an epoch in (G) local (C) history
Definitely (Am) marking the new e (G) ra, keeping Trinidad in Ameri (C) ca
For this great man jubilation, was evinced by the entire population
Friendship for the U.S.A. was shown and from his house to stars and the stripes were flown
For the state to open the gate to the president of these United States
In fact everybody was glad to welcome Roosevelt to Trinidad
We are privileged to see the democratic president of the great republic
With his charming and genial personality and his wonderful urbanity
We were struck by his modest style and we were intrigued by the famous Roosevelt smile
No wonder why everybody was glad to welcome Roosevelt to Trinidad
Now we understand that the president has just been on a visit to Brazil and the Argentine
Mr. Cordell Hull in attendance they took part in a peace conference
To stop war and atrocity and make the world safe for democracy
The greatest event in the century in the interest of suffering humanity

Top Ry Cooder, It's All Over Now

Well, baby used to stay out, all night long
She made me cry and she did me wrong
She had my nose open, that's no lie
The table's have turned, now it's her turn to cry
Because I used to love her, but it's all over now
Because I used to love her, but it's all over now
Well, she used to run around with every man in town
She spent all my money trying to play that high class game
She put me down, it was a pity how I cried
The table's have turned, now it's her turn to cry
Because I used to love her, but it's all over now
Because I used to love her, but it's all over now
I used to wake up in the morning, get my breakfast in bed
Whenever I got worried, she would rub my aching head
But now she's here and there, with every man in town
Still trying to take me for that same old clown
Because I used to love her, but it's all over now
Because I used to love her, but it's all over now
Well, baby used to stay out, all night long
She made me cry and she did me wrong
She had my nose open, that's no lie
The table's have turned, now it's her turn to cry
Because I used to love her, but it's all over now
Because I used to love her, but it's all over now

Top Ry Cooder, Jesse James

Top Ry Cooder, JESSE JAMES (Another version)

Top Ry Cooder, JESUS ON THE MAINLINE

(Traditional)
I know Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Call Him up and tell Him what you want
Well, the line ain't never busy
Tell Him what you want
Wo, that line ain't never busy
Tell Him what you want
Well, the line ain't never busy
Tell Him what you want
Keep on calling Him up
And tell Him what you want
Well, if you want His kingdom
Tell Him what you want
If you want His kingdom
Tell Him what you want
If want His kingdom
Tell Him what you want
Call Him up, call Him up, call Him up, call Him up
You can call Him up and tell Him what you want Well, if you're sick and wanna get well
Tell Him what you want
Well, if you're sick and you wanna get well
Tell Him what you want
If you're sick and you wanna get well
Tell Him what you want
Call Him up and tell Him what you want
And if you're feeling down and out
Tell Him what you want
And if you're feeling down and out
Tell Him what you want
And if you're feeling down and out
Tell Him what you want
Call Him up and tell Him what you want
I know Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Jesus is on that mainline
Tell Him what you want
Call Him up, call Him up, call Him up, call Him up
Call Him up and tell Him what you want

Top Ry Cooder, JOHNNY PORTER

(Bobby Ray Appleberry/William Cuomo)
Johnny Porter was the oldest in his family
And I remember he was almost twenty one
Y'know I can't quite explain the situation
But he broke into his father's truck and stole a gun
Mother running down the highway screaming
Johnny it's too bad, oh it's too and it's bad
And it's too bad
Well, his father wonders where he got the money
And he wonders if he got it right or wrong
Then Johnny killed a man in Pensacola, Florida
And he caught a freight train and and took off on the run
Well, run, Johnny, run
They're rolling right behind you
Run, Johnny, run
You know they're gonna find you
You come out late at night, 'cause you're running for your life
Hum, Johnny Porter
Johnny Porter
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Well, it's a shame the way you make your mother worry
And it's hurts inside to sit and watch her cry
And it will be a long time before she knows the answer
But it won't be long before she will see ya die
Well, I was standing in my front door early this morning
So sad, when I heard my name was said
Johnny Porter was no good than anybody
But I hate to see him throw his life away
Now, run, Johnny, run
They're rolling right behind you
Run, Johnny, run
You know they're gonna find you
You come out late at night, 'cause you're running for your life
Well, Johnny Porter, Johnny Porter
Found him holed up in some dark and dirty building
Heard his mother begging, ";Please, let Johnny go!";
That's when John fired his pistol
As a warning and he said,
";I was born to die by the gun";
";I was born to die by the gun";
";I was born to die by the gun";

Top Ry Cooder, LEAVING MISSOURI

(David Lindley)
Instrumental

Top Ry Cooder, LET'S HAVE A BALL

(Bunn)
I wanna ball like I never did ball before [Before, before, before]
I wanna ball like I never did ball before [Before, before, before]
I may never get a break like this in life no more
Well, I wanna ball like I never did ball before [Before, before, before]
I wanna ball like I never did ball before [Before, before, before]
I may never get a break like this in life no more
Got money in my pocket
I ain't begging for bread
Cadillac El Dorado
Well, it's gone to my head
I got a short time living and a long greasy time to pay (play) dead
Ain't doing no favours, ain't asking for none
Honey, I got money, I can pay for my fun
That's the way I want it, that's the way it must be done
[Because]
I wanna ball like I never did ball before [Before, before, before]
I wanna ball like I never did ball before [Before, before, before]
I may never get a break like this in life no more
A certain little mama [You ???? for me]
Gonna jump and shout [Oh, yeah]
When the El Dorado rolls up [ Ah]
And I'll come walking out [???]
Gonna tell ya pretty baby [Say you like nothing]
You don't know what it's all about
(I've got) No special woman [No special woman]
Want no special friend [No special friend]
Want a good time today [Good time today]
Tomorrow may be down again [May be down again]
Don't dial my number [Oh, Lord]
I'll tell you when [I'll tell you when]
I wanna ball like I never did ball before [Before, before, before]
Really wanna...never did ball before [Before, before, before]
I may never get a break like this in life no more

Top Ry Cooder, Little Sister

(M. Shuman-D. Pomus)
(Bþ) - (Eþ) - (Gm) - (F) - (C9) - (F7) - (Gm7)
(Bþ) Little sister won't you (Eþ) please, please, (Bþ) please
Little sister don't you (Eþ) cheat on (Bþ) me
Little sister don't you (Eþ) kiss me once and twice
Say it's very nice and then you (Gm) run (F)
(Eþ) Little sister don't you (C9) do what your (F) big sister (Bþ) done
Well, I (Bþ) dated your big sister
And I (Eþ) took her to a show (Bþ)
I (Eþ) went out for some candy
Along came Jim Dandy
And they (F) snuck right out the door
Little sister won't you please, please, please
Little sister don't you cheat on me
Little sister don't you kiss me once and twice
Say it's very nice and then you run
Little sister don't you do what your big sister done
Ev'ry time I see your sister
Seems she's got somebody new
Well, she's mean and evil
Like that little old Boll Weevil
Got to try my luck with you
Sister won't you please, please, please
Little sister don't you cheat on me
Little sister don't you kiss me once and twice
Say it's very nice and then you run
Little sister don't you do what your big sister done
Well, now I used to pull your pigtails
And I pinched your turned-up nose
Baby you been a-growin'
Yes, it's been a-showin'
From your head down to your toes

Top Ry Cooder, I'M DRINKING AGAIN

(Ry Cooder & Jim Keltner)
Yes, it's me and I'm drinking again
Tell everybody I'm drinking again
Doctor said it'd kill me
But he didn't say when
Have mercy, I'm drinking again
Yes, it's me and I'm drinking again
I'd like to dry out but I doubt if I can
My baby said she'd quit me but she didn't say when
'Cause I'm drinking again
Working two jobs, tryin' to get straight
Don't need the money, just want to lose weight
Gonna get you all the things that you lack
Diamond ring and a red Cadillac
Came home drunk and pushed you around
Don't you quit me baby, don't you put me down
I'll never do it again
I'll never do it again
I'll never do it again
I promise this time
I came home last night about half past four
Whole neighborhood was rocking out on my floor
And my baby was working up under the sheet
With a teenage boy that lives down the street
I grabbed a bottle, he grabbed a gun
I heard somebody holler: "Shoot him 'fore he runs"
And that's the reason why I'm drinking again
Tell everybody I'm drinking again
You can't lick 'em and you just can't win
Yes, it's me and I'm drinking again
Ain't it enough to start you drinking again
We got to live in a world full of sin
Thank you Jesus for what you have done
I'm sick and tired tryin' to be number one
Change my suit, change my shirt
Change what I dig and get out of the dirt
I'll never do it again
I'll never do it again
I'm going to get back in my gin
I'm drinking again

Top Ry Cooder, IF WALLS COULD TALK

(Bobby Miller)
Well, if things could talk then I'm sure you'd hear
A lot of things to make you cry my dear
Ain't you glad [Ain't you glad]
Oh, ain't you glad [Ain't you glad]
Ain't you glad [Glad]
Glad that things don't talk
Now, if shoes could tell where they've been
When you say you've been visiting a friend
Ain't you glad [Ain't you glad]
He-he-hey, ain't you glad [Ain't you glad]
But ain't you glad [Glad]
Glad that shoes don't talk Now, if doors could tell who's turned the knob
When he's away out on his job
If cars could tell who's been inside
And who's been taking you out for a ride
Ain't you glad [Ain't you glad]
Oh, ain't you glad [Ain't you glad]
But ain't you glad [Glad]
Glad that cars don't talk
In a world of trouble I'd be
If things ever told on me
My whole life would be through
'Cause I'm guilty, how about you ?
If things ever talk that way
Ain't no telling what they might say
Ain't you glad [Ain't you glad]
Oh, ain't you glad [Ain't you glad]
Ain't you glad [Glad]
Glad that things don't talk

Top Ry Cooder, ON A MONDAY

(Huddie Ledbetter)
(D) - (A) - (C) - (E)
(D) On a Monday, I was ar (A) rested
On a Tuesday, I was locked up in (D) jail
On a Wednesday, my trial was at (A) tested
On a Thursday, nobody would go my (D) bail
(D) Al (C) most (A) done, I'm almost (E) done, (D) al (C) most (A) done
And I ain't gonna bring them yellow women no (D) pail
Take these stripes, stripes from around my shoulder
Take these chains, these chains from around my legs
Lord, these stripes, it sure don't worry me
But these chains, these chain's gonna kill me dead
Yes, I'm almost done, almost done, almost done
And I ain't gonna bring them yellow women no pail
On Friday, my baby went a-walking
On a Saturday, she locked me outa the door
On a Sunday, we were sitting down a-talking
On a Monday, she pawned all of my clothes

Top Ry Cooder, ONE MEAT BALL

(L. Singer-H.Zaret)
The little man walked up and down
To find an eating place in town
He read the menu through and through
To see what fifteen cents could do
One meat ball, one meat ball
Well, he could afford but one meat ball He told the waiter near at hand
A simple dinner he had planned
The guests were startled one and all to hear
That waiter loudly call
One meat ball, one meat ball
Well, this here gent wants one meat ball
Little man felt very bad
One meat ball was all he had
And in his dreams he hears that call
Ya gets no bread with one meat ball
One meat ball, one meat ball
Well, you get no bread with one meat ball
Well, he could afford but one meat ball
One meat ball, one meat ball
All he could afford was one meat ball
One meat ball

Top Ry Cooder, SPEEDO

(Esther Navarro)
Well, now they often call me Speedo but my real name is Mr. Earl [Earl, Mr. Earl]
Well, now they often call me Speedo but my real name is Mr. Earl [Earl, Mr. Earl]
And I'm just the kind fellow's always takin' other folks' girls [Girls, taking their girls]
They often call me Speedo 'cause I don't believe in wastin' time [Time (don't believe in) wastin' time]
They often call me Speedo but I don't believe in wastin' time [Time (don't believe in) wastin' time]
I've known some pretty women and I've caused them to change their mind [Mind, change their mind]
Some they call me Moe and some they call me Joe
But just remember Speedo, he don't never take it slow
Now they often call me Speedo but my real name is Mr. Earl [Earl, Mr. EArl]
Well, I said it now
They often call me Speedo but my real name is Mr. Earl [Earl, Mr. Earl]
Now I'm just the kind fellow's always takin' other folks' girls [Taking their girls]
They often call me Speedo 'cause I don't believe in wastin' time [Time (I don't believe it) wastin' time]
They often call me Speedo but I don't believe in wastin' time [Time (I don't believe it) wastin' time]
Now I've known some pretty women and I've caused them to change their mind
Uuh, honey, here comes that old Mr. Earl again, honey
He's so fine!
Oh, get on away from here, girl. I ain't going to be bothered with you tonight
He can get low down too, can get to be a low down son of a bitch
Don't you be holding on to me now, get away!
Hello, Mr. Earl!
Hey, you look good to me.
You too, baby.
What's your name ?
My name is Mary Lou

Top Ry Cooder, Stand By Me

(Ben E. King/Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
(G) - (Em) - (C) - (D7) - (Am)
(G) When the night is come and the (Em) land is dark
And the (C) moon is the (D7) only light we'll (G) see
I won't be afraid, (Em) I won't be afraid
Just as (C) long as you (D7) stand by (G) me
(G) Stand by me, (Em) stand by me, (Am)sta (D7) nd by (G) me
Won't you (G) stand by me
Oh woo oh, (Em) stand by me, (Am) stand by (D7) me (G)
And when the sky that we look upon
Should crumble and fall
And the mountain should crumble to the sea
I won't be afraid, I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me
Stand by me
Oh woo oh, you oughta stand by me, stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me
Oh woo oh, stand by me

Top Ry Cooder, SENECA SQUARE DANCE

(Traditional, arranged by Ry Cooder)
Instrumental

Top Ry Cooder, SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE

(Charles E. Calhoun)
(G) - (G7) - (C) - (D7) - (F)
Well, (G) pick me a town in any clime
People like a rockin' time
Stay awake both day and night
And everybody's feeling good and right
Then (G7) throw me
(C) Smack dab in the middle
Smack dab in the middle
(D7) Smack dab in the middle
Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my (F) soul (G)
I want ten Cadillacs and a diamond mill
Ten suits of clothes all dressed to kill
Ten room house and-a some barbecue
And-a fifty chicks none over twenty-two
Then throw me
Smack dab in the middle
Smack dab in the middle
Smack dab in the middle
Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul
I want a lotta bread and gangs of meat
Oodles of butter and something sweet
Gallons of coffee to wash it down
And bi-carbonated soda by the pound
Smack dab in the middle
Smack dab in the middle
Smack dab in the middle
Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul
Well, I want a big jazz band, a lotta dancing girls
A street that's paved with natural pearl
Bring me a wagonload of bonds and stocks
And then open up the doors to Fort Knox
Then throw me
Smack dab in the middle
Smack dab in the middle
Smack dab in the middle
Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul
Soul, soul, soul
Smack dab, smack dab, smack dab...

Top Ry Cooder, PRESIDENT KENNEDY

(Sleepy John Estes)
Late one Friday evening everybody was sad
We lost the best president we ever had
But he's gone home, gone back home
He's staying away too long
Rode from town to town holdin' up for our rights
Some low down rascal took the President's life
But he's gone home, gone back home
He's staying away too long
Mrs. Kennedy got a mansion on the Island, stayed 9 months, all she'd be
She have another mansion, soon as she reach Washington, D.C.
But he's gone home, gone back home
He's staying away too long
Everybody votes, they don't know what's goin' on
If Goldwater get it, we won't have no home
But he's gone home, gone back home
He's staying away too long
While horses and cars all in a row
I think Mr. Kennedy have a right to this long white robe
But he's gone home, gone back home
He's staying away too long

Top Ry Cooder, RALLY 'ROUND THE FLAG

(Traditional)
Yes, we'll rally 'round the flag, boys
We'll rally 'round again
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
We will rally from the hillside
We'll gather from the plain
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
The Union forever, hurrah boys, hurrah
Down with the traitor, up with the star
While we rally 'round the flag, boys
Rally once again
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom We will welcome to our numbers
The loyal, true and brave
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
And although he may be poor
Not a man shall be a slave
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
So we're springing to the call
From the East and from the West
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
And we'll prove a loyal crew
To the land we love the best
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom

Top Ry Cooder, PIG MEAT

(Huddie Ledbetter)
(C7) - (C) - (F7) - (C) - (G7)
(C7) Just look here mama
Don't pick pig meat the way you (C) do
(F7) Don't pick pig meat the way you (C) do
(C7) Don't be (G7) lieve it's pig meat
Ask (F7) anybody in the neighborhood (C)
Don't believe it's pig meat
Kind that you won't regret
Don't believe it's pig meat
Kind that you won't regret
I got something about this pig meat
Sweet mama ain't told you yet
I was born and raised in the country
Mama but I'm staying in town
I was born and raised in the country
Mama but I'm staying in town
You don't believe it's pig meat
Mama from my head on down

Top Ry Cooder, POLICE DOG BLUES

(Arthur Blake, adapted by Ry Cooder)
All my life I've been a travellin' man
All my life I've been a travellin' man
Stayin' alone and doing the best I can
I ship my trunk down to Tennessee
Ship my trunk down to Tennessee
It's hard to tell 'bout a man like me
I had a gal, I couldn't get her off my mind
I had a gal, I couldn't get her off my mind
She passed me up saying she didn't like my kind Scared to bother around the house that night
I'm scared to bother around the house that night
Got police dogs cravin' for a fight
His game is rambling when he gets the chance
His game is rambling when he gets the chance
He leaves his mark on everybody's pants
Guess I'll travel, guess I'll let her be
Guess I'll travel, guess I'll let her be
Before she sets that police dog on me

Top Ry Cooder, HE'LL HAVE TO GO

(Allison/Allison)
(F) - (Bþ) - (Dm) - (C7) - (F7)
Put your (F) sweet lips a little (Bþ) closer to the (F) phone
And let¡¯s pretend that we¡¯re to (Dm) gether all a (C7) lone
I¡¯ll tell the (F) man to turn the (F7) jukebox way down (Bþ) low
And you can (F) tell your friend there (C7) with you
He¡¯ll have to (F) go
Whisper to me, tell me do you love me too ?
Or is he holding you the way I do ?
Though love is blind, make up your mind
I¡¯ve got to know
Should I hang up or will you tell him
He¡¯ll have to go ?
(F7) You can (Bþ) say the words I wanna hear
When you¡¯re (F) with some other man
(F7) Do you (Bþ) want to answer yes or no
Darling, (F) I will under (C7) stand

Top Ry Cooder, Hey Porter

(Johnny Cash)
(C) - (G) - (F)
(C) Hey, Porter, Hey Porter! Would you tell me the (F) time?
(C) How much longer will it be 'til we cross that (G) Mason Dixon Line? (C)
At daylight would you tell the engineer to slow it (F) down;
Or better still, just stop the train 'cause I (G) wanna look a (C) round.
Hey, Porter! Hey Porter! What time did you say ?
How much longer will it be 'till I can see the light of day ?
When we hit Dixie would ya tell the engineer to ring his bell;
And tell everybody that ain't asleep to stand right up and yell.
Hey, Porter! Hey, Porter! Please, go on and get my bags for me,
I don't need nobody to tell me now that I'm in Tennessee.
We're not so far from home, you know, and it's a-getting light outside
This old train is a-puffin' smoke and I have to strain in my eyes
Hey Porter! Hey Porter! Please open up the door.
When they stop this train I'm gonna get off first 'cause I can't wait no more.
Tell the engineer I say, ";Thanks a lot. And I didn't mind the fare.
I'm gonna set my feet on Southern soil, I'm gonna breathe the Southern air.";

Top Ry Cooder, HOW CAN A POOR MAN STAND SUCH TIMES AND LIVE ?

(Alfred Reed)
(G) - (C) - (G7) - (D) - (D7) - (Am)
(G) I remember a time when every (D) thing was (G) cheap
Now prices nearly puts a man to (D) sleep
(D7) Well, when we (G) get our grocery (G7) bill
We (C) feel like making our (Am) will
Tell me, (G) how can a poor man (D7) stand such times and
(G) live ?
Tell me, (G) how can a poor man (D7) stand such times and
(G) live ?
Well, the doctor comes around with his face all bright
And he says, "In a little while you'll be all right!"
Well, all he gives is a humbug pill
Dose of dope and a great big bill
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live ?
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live ?
Most preachers, well, they preach for gold and not for
soul
Well, that's what keeps us poor folks always in a hole
Now, we can hardly get our breath
Taxed and schooled and preached to death
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live ?

Top Ry Cooder, HOW CAN YOU KEEP ON MOVING (UNLESS YOU MIGRATE TOO)

(Agnes Cunningham)
(C) - (F) - (G)
(C) How can you keep on moving un (F) less you migrate (C) too
They tell ya to keep on moving but (G) migrate, you must not do
The (C) only reason for moving and the (F) reason why I (C) roam
To move to a new lo (G) cation and find myself a (C) home
I can't go back to the homestead, the shack no longer stands
They said I was uneeded, had no claim to the land
They said, ";Come on, get moving, it's the only thing for you";
But how can you keep moving unless you migrate too
Now if you pitch your little tent along the broad highway
The Board of Sanitation says, ";Sorry, you can't stay";
Come on, come on, get moving it's their everlasting cry
Can't stay, can't go back, can't migrate, so where the hell am I
How can you keep on moving unless you migrate too
They tell ya to keep on moving but migrate, you must not do
The only reason for moving and the reason why I roam
To move to a new location and find myself a home

Top Ry Cooder, I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE THE ONE

(David Lindley)
Instrumental

Top Ry Cooder, I CAN TELL BY THE WAY YOU SMELL

(Walter Davis)
Hey, look here baby, what's going on ?
Step over in the light
Oh, no! Look here.
Your hair is all wrecked, you're full of sweat
Your underskirt is wringing wet
You come in here walking just like a goose
It looks like somebody just tranked you to loose
You've been doing something
You've been doing something wrong
You've been doing something
You've been doing something wrong
I can tell by the way you smell
And there's grandma and grandpa out on the porches
Must be kidding 'bout her ninety years
Ain't too old, God almighty, just keep shifting them gears
Well, you ain't too old, said you ain't too old
Ain't too old, doing the boogie, you ain't too old
I can tell by the way they smell
Well, it's a-run here mama! Just look at little sis'
Got her hand in her toodle, way up to her wrist
She's doing something wrong, she's doing something wrong
She's doing something wrong, God knows she's doing it
I can tell by the way she smell
Go on and change your clothes!

Top Ry Cooder, I Can't Win

(L. Johnson/D. Richardson/C. Knight)
I've been trying so hard to find a way to your heart
I can't win, I can't win, I can't win, I can't win
Win your love, win your love
I gave you my love, I gave you my heart
Instead of taking it, keeping it, baby, you tore it apart
But I can't win, I can't win, I can't win, no, I can't win
Win your love, win your love
I go to church every Sunday [And there ain't nothing wrong with that]
I stand work on time, every Monday [I do the best I can]
I can't win, I can't win, I can't win, oh, no, I can't win
Win your love,
Can't seem to win your love, baby
Win your love
No matter how hard I try
Win your love, can't win your love, baby
Win your love, oh-hoo, I can't win
I just can't win, baby
I can't win
I try hard enough, girl
I can't win, I still can't win
I work eight days a week, baby
What more, what more you want me to do ?
I'm down on my knees, baby, I do that
I can't win, please, please, please
Just can't seem to win your love
Come on, and bring it to me, girl
Win your love, win your love

Top Ry Cooder, I GOT MINE

(Traditional)
(C) - (F) - (G) - (Am)
(C) And I went down to a big crap game,
'Twas (F) certainly against my (C) will.
I lost every doggone nickel I had
But a (G) greenback dollar bill.
(C) Forty dollar that laid on the floor
My (F) buddy's point was (C) nine
Well, the (F) police they come in there
And (Am) caught all of 'em
But (C) I (G) got (C) mine.
I got mine, let me tell ya
(F) I got (C) mine.
I grabbed that money
Out the back door (G) I went flying
Well, (C) ever since the big crap game
I've been (F) livin' on chicken and (C) wine.
I'm the (F) leader of so (Am) ciety
Since (C) I (G) got (C) mine.
I know a barber shop
It's a way cross town
Down on Norfolk street
It's the only place on a Saturday night
That us gamblers gets to meet
Some comes for a haircut
And others come for a scrap
And when you see me and my buddies up there, man
We means to shoot some crap
Hollering: "Seven, eleven, won't you come, come, come!!!
If you don't seven, eleven them
You're done, done, done"
If I see the police before he sees me
I'm gonna run, run, run
I'm the leader of society
Since I got mine
Well, I went down to my best girl's house
The hour was just about nine
I wasn't dressed up like Henry Ford
But I was feeling just as fine
I caught her sitting on another man's knee
And I didn't like that sign
Well, I told them what I thought about it, boys
And I got mine
I got mine, I got mine
I grabbed my hat and through the window
I went flying
I ran as fast as I could run
But I didn't get there in time
Because the rascal grabbed a shotgun, Lord
And I got mine

Top Ry Cooder, I NEED A WOMAN

(Bob Dylan)
It's been raining in my mouth all day
Dripping down to my clothes
My patience it is wearing thin
Got a fire inside my nose
Searching for the truth the way God designed it
The truth is I might drown before I find it
Well, I need a woman
Yes, I do
Need a woman
Yes, I do
Someone who can see me as I am
Give the kind of love that don't have to be condemned
And I want you to be that woman
Every night
Be that woman
Treat me right
I've had my eyes on you, baby
For about five long years
You probably don't know me at all
But I've seen your laughter and I've seen your tears
Now you don't frighten me
I ain't no defendant
And you look like it wouldn't hurt you none
To have a man of understanding
Well, I need a woman
Oh, don't I
Need a woman
Bring it home safe at last
I've seen you standing on the corner
Seen you sitting down in the park
Been watching you in the sunshine
Walking with you in the dark
And I want you to be that woman
Treat me right
Be that woman
Every night
Well, if you believe in something long enough
You just naturally come to think it's true
There ain't no wall you can't crossover
Ain't no fire you can't walk through
Well, believing is all right
Just don't let the wrong people know what it's all about
They might put the evil eye on you
Use their hidden powers to try to turn you out
Well, I need a woman
Just to be my queen
Need a woman
Black, white, yellow, brown, blue or green
Riding out with me at midnight
Like two Spanish desperadoes
Gazing down upon the futile world
In her Cadillac Eldorado
We will penetrate the storm
In search of truth that has not been tested
But she better bring along her checkbook
Just in case we get arrested
And I want you to be that woman

Top Ry Cooder, I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL

(Traditional, arranged by Ry Cooder)
Oh, I'm a good old Rebel
Now that's just what I am
For this fair land of freedom
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fought against it
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.
I hates the Yankee nation
And everything they do,
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too;
I hates the glorious Union-
'Tis dripping with our blood-
And I hates their striped banner,
I fought it all I could. Three hundred thousand Yankees
Stiffen in Southern dust
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot
And I wish it was three million
Instead of what we got.
I want to reconstruct it
I'm better now than then
And for that carpet beggar
I don't give a damn
So I'm a forward the frontier
Soon as I can go
I could bear a weapon
And start for Mexico

Top Ry Cooder, THE WAY WE MAKE A BROKEN HEART

(John Hiatt)
Just a one more kiss
He'll have to miss
This night with you
Now you're guilty of this secret love as I am too
You'll get used to telling lies
And feeling sorry when he cries
Now that the strings are attached
He'll catch on, we've done our part
'Cause this is the way we make a broken heart
Lesson number one
We've just begun
To hurt him so
And with lesson two
He'll long for you
When lights are low
Then we get to lesson three
Where he gets down on his knees
And begs you to stop at the door
Just before he comes apart
And this is the way we make a broken heart Now we've layed a trail of tears
For him to follow
And we've thought of every line
That he might swallow
And with lesson four
There'll be no more
For him to bear
And on some dark night
We'll dim the lights
On this affair
Then he'll find somebody new
And she will hurt him too
'Cause there must be millions just like you and me
Practiced in the art
This is the way we make a broken heart
Oh, this is the way we make a broken heart
This is the way we make a broken heart

Top Ry Cooder, Mutt Romney Blues

Top Ry Cooder, Shine

Top Ry Cooder, Chinito Chinito

Chinito, chinito, toca la maraca chinito
Chinito, chinito, no preocupes más
Chinito, chinito, me lava la ropa
Chinito, chinito, no preocupes más
Cuando la maraca come mucho arroz
Chinito ni trabaja, a 5 y a 2
Lava la camisa, me plancha pantaloon
Cuando la maraca la lleva al canton
Chinito, chinito, toca la maraca, chinito
Chinito, chinito, no proecupes más
Vaya Chino
Chinito, chinito
Chinito finito
Chinito bonito
Ay chinito bonito, donde vas?
Donda vas chinito con su maraca
Y donde estan mis pantalones, chinito?
Pinche chinito, con mi camisa, dame la ropa
Chinito, chinito, toca la maraca, chinito
Chinito, chinito, no preocupes más
Chinito, chinito, me lava la lopa
Chinito, chinito, no preocupes más
Cuando la maraca come mucho arroz
Chinito ni trabaja a 5 y a 2
Lava la camisa, me plancha pantaloon
Cuando la maraca la lleva al canton
Chinito, chinito, toca la maraca chinito
Chinito, chinito, no preocupes más
Chinito, chinito, me lava la ropa

Top Ry Cooder, Long Ride

Looking back over my life
I can see where I caused you strife
But I know, oh yes I know
I'd never make that same mistake again
Looking back over my deeds
I can see signs a wise man heeds
And if I just had the chance
I'd never make that same mistake again
Once my cup was overflowing
But I gave nothing in return
Now I can't begin to tell you
What a lesson I have learned
Looking back over the slate
I can see love turned to hate
But I know, oh yes I know

Top Ry Cooder, Los Chucos Suaves

Top Ry Cooder, Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)

In the town of Louisville
They got a man they call Big Bad Bill
I want to tell you, he sure was tough
And he certainly did strut his stuff
He had folks all scared to death
When he walked by they all held their breath
He was a fighting man, sure enough
Now Bill got himself a wife and he leads a different life
'Cause Big Bad Bill is Sweet William now
Married life has changed him some how
Well, he's the man the town used to fear
But now the people call him sweet papa Willie dear
Stronger than Samson I declare
'Til the brown skinned woman bobbed his hair
Big Bad Bill don't fight anymore
Well, he wash his dishes and he might swob the floor
Well, he used to spend his evenings lookin' for a fight
Now he gotta see his mama every night
Big Bad Bill is Sweet William now
Well, he used to spend his evenings lookin' for a fight
Now he gotta see his mama every night

Top Ry Cooder, Medley: Fool For A Cigarette-feelin' Good

Uhm, I'm a fool for a cigarette
Lord, I'm fool for a cigarette
When you've finished choke it 'cause I wanna smoke it
Lord, I'm fool for a cigarette
Mind when you throw your cigarette
Mind when you throw your cigarette
When you've finished choke it 'cause I wanna smoke it
Lord, I'm fool for a cigarette
Lord, I'm fool for a cigarette
Uhm, I'm fool for a cigarette
When you've finished choke it 'cause I wanna smoke it
Lord, I'm fool for a cigarette
Feelin' good, feelin' good
All the money in the world spent onl feelin' good
Well, the wino met me on the streets
Said, "Help me on to some Sneakin' Pete
Please, help me brother, I wish you would
'Cause I feel so bad and I wanna feel good"
Feelin' good, feelin' good
All the money in the world is spent on feelin' good
Well, you see them folks all dressed so fine
Dancing, drinking champagne and wine
They'd pinch your pockets now if they could
'Cause they ain't doing nothing but feelin' good
Feelin' good, feelin' good
All the money in the world is spent on feelin' good
Red, yellow, black or tan
Makes no difference: a man's a man
They oughta live together now if they could
Then the whole wide world would be feelin' good
Feelin' good, feelin' good
All the money in the world spent on feelin' good
Feelin' good, feelin' good

Top Ry Cooder, 3 Cool Cats

three cool cats
three cool cats
parked on the corner in a beat up car
devouring up a liquor candy bar
talking all about how sharp they are
these three cool cats
three cool chicks
three cool chicks
walking down the street just swinging their hips
sw...ing up a bag of potato chips
and three cool cats did three big flips
for these three cool chicks
up pop that first cool cat
he said, “man look at that
men do you see what I see?”
“I want the middle chick”
“and I want the little chick”
“hey men, save one chick for me!”
three cool chicks
three cool chicks
they look like angels from up above
three cool cats really fell in love
three cool chicks made three fools
of these three cool cats
that's what they did
three cool chicks
made fools of these
three cool cats
I'm a fool for you baby
three cool chicks

Top Ry Cooder, Ry Cooder

Top Ry Cooder, Fool Who Knows

Well a love won`t last the night if it`s built on sand
If it`s built on rock there ain`t nothing that it can`t
withstand
I guess you know by now how this story goes
A very true story, take it from a fool who knows
I was high as a bird in the sky in the month of may
With a true fine love all mine forever and one day
Now my eyes overflowing with the memories such as those
They`re tear-stained memories, take it from a fool who
knows
Now my tears are falling and I feel the pain
Here comes all that hurt again
But while my heart keeps beating I`ll go on repeating
The same mistakes that I did before
The ones that made me walk the floor
I`ve got a sack full of those, take it from a fool who
knows
But well my tongue gets tired I `ll be getting wired
While my heart keeps beating I `ll go on repeating
The same mistakes that I did before
The ones that made love walk out the door
I got a sack full of those that I´ll keep digging into
A lonesome road with a cold wind blowing

Top Ry Cooder, Do You Want My Job

Cool breezes from the mountains blow
As I wake up and dress to go
On the island dawn is breaking
In the harbour tanker`s waiting
From the land of the rising sun
They bring their old plutonium
And we unload it in the bay
For two dollars forty cents a day
Chorus:
Do you want my
Do you want my
Do you want my
Do you want my job
I hump the stuff I take the cash
So my kids can wear Adidas
And if you live here home you know
We ain`t got no place else to go
I remember when the air was sweet
And I brought home the fish to eat
Now we buy Spam from the grocery store
Cause you can eat the fish no more

Top Ry Cooder, Viola Lee Blues

The judge decreed it, clerk he wrote it
I say he wrote it down indeed
The judge decreed it, clerk he wrote it down
Give you this jail sentence you must be Nashville bound
Some got six month, some got one solid
Some got one solid year indeed
Some got six month, some doing solid here

Top Ry Cooder, Brother Is Gone

We met old Satan down where the two roads crossed
Just me and brother Dave by my side
It was in the prairie town of Wichita
We shook hands with Satan on a deal that night
You will be exalted in the evil works of men
High powered, rolling over land and sea
But some dark night I’ll be coming round again
And take one of you down back to Hell with me
Oil spills and cancer towns was our steppin’ stones
Immigration bills and foreclosure homes
States’ rights we proclaimed like in the good old Jim Crow days
Our highest aim was to take your vote away
Brother is gone
Brother is gone
Brother is gone
Little brother is gone
Brother is gone
When I woke up this morning, he was gone
His bed was made
And there’s his Bible, too
I wonder did he have time
To put on his travelin’ shoes
Brother is gone
Brother is gone
Little brother is gone
Brother is gone
He’s gone
Brother is gone
Old Satan, he’s a man of his word

Top Ry Cooder, YELLOW ROSES

I just received, sweetheart, your yellow roses
You tell me that they mean that we're all through
You tell me that tonight your heart is broken
But you should know I was never untrue
I'll place them near your photograph and as the petals fall
They'll hide from you my lonely tears that shouldn't fall at all
Then they will slowly fade away and die
But I still love you, oh yellow roses say, "Good bye"
I'll place them near your photograph and as the petals fall
They'll hide from you my lonely tears that shouldn't fall at all
Then they will slowly fade away and die

Top Ry Cooder, WHICH CAME FIRST

(Willie Dixon & Ry Cooder)
You may be a hater, you may be a lover
You can bet your life one destroys the other
I don't know how it all began, which came first
The egg or the hen
The moon comes up and the sun goes down
This old world keeps spinning around
Just as sure as the day turns into the night
What you do in the dark will turn up in the light
Masked man ridin' out across the land
Spreading destruction and moving his hand
He carries a ray-gun, shoots from the hip
Got your past in his pocket, your future's in his grip
You may be a hater, you may be a lover
You bet your life one destroys the other
I don't know how it all began, which came first
The egg or the hen
Now, you bet your life without a doubt
Asking a masked man to leat you out
He's got you so tight that you can't even see
That ray-gun is pointed right at you and me You won't see it coming
You won't feel the blow
You won't get no warning
You won't never know
You can't start it sooner
And fix it up later
And you ain't going to read about it in the newspaper
Rich or poor, mighty and meek
Don't need no ticket, you've all got a seat
High up on the mountain, low down in the alley
We'll all watch the world turn into death valley
You may be a hater, you may be a lover
You can bet your life one destroys the other
I don't know how it all began, which came first
The egg or the hen
Better shake my hand 'cause time is winding up
Shake your neighbor's hand 'cause time is winding up
You may be a hater, you may be a lover
You can bet your life one destroys the other
I don't know how it all began, which came first
The egg or the hen

Top Ry Cooder, WHY DON'T YOU TRY ME

(E. Young)
If your man has got you on the run why don't you try me ?
If you wanna have a little fun, oh baby, why don't you try me ?
If you tote more that you can bear, if your troubles been more than your share
And if things are not going just right why don't you try a man like me tonight ?
Why don't you try me tonight ?
Why don't you try me ?
Why don't you try me tonight ?
Why don't you try me ?
Last night while I was trying to sleep
I heard a racket from the room next door, hum
And that was you and your man havin' a fight
Like you've done so many nights before
"Woman, I'll turn you every which way but loose"
Is what I heard him shout, uh-oh, look out!
So I jumped out of the bed and I opened the door
Just as you came runnin' out
And I hollered: why don't you try me tonight ?
Why don't you try me ?
Why don't you try me tonight ?
Why don't you try me ?
I ain't saying I'm all that you need
And I won't tell you, honey, you will be free
But all night, well, I will keep trying
And when I say I want ya, girl, you know I'm not lyin'
You see a good woman out on the streets these days, friends
Ah, a bad old man can't be hard to find, no, no
Kind of man who'd steal your heart
And call true love a crime
That's why I keep asking ya, baby
Why don't you try me tonight ?
Do yourself a favor
Why don't you try me ?
Regular man ain't treatin' you right
Why don't you try a man like me tonight ?
Why don't you try me ?
Why don't you try a man like me tonight ?
Why don't you try me ?

Top Ry Cooder, WILDWOOD BOYS

(J. Dickinson-R. Cooder)
This here was our situation
We was just young wildwood boys
New as the birth of the nation
The kind that the Army employs
High riding Rebs from Missouri
Fought for the grey ???
Caught up by the battle and the fury
Back when just living was hell
After the battle was over
And after the Union had won
It was quitting that made us the loser
So we kept doing just what we'd done
Riding as comrads together
We looted the trains and the banks
Removing that carpetbag money
And sticking it hard to the Yanks Death always follows behind you
When you ride down that old outlaw trail
Someday a bullet will find you
Or you'll rot like a corpse in some jail
Turning your back to the danger
Is a wager no man can afford
'Cause gold turns a friend to a stranger
Like old Judas turned on our Lord
Men are revered and remembered
While they lay in that coffin and rot
Some live in the legends of history
Most are forever forgot
The victory it goes to the strongest
And only the strong will survive
Survival is living the longest
But nobody gets out alive
The questions don't never get answered
And the rights, they're remembered all wrong
The facts, they can get plenty confusing
So someday if you happen to be singing this song
Remember it's just for the record
You can't change the handwork of fate
And tell 'em I lived for the moment
And I died when I tried to go straight

Top Ry Cooder, WOMEN WILL RULE THE WORLD

(Raymond Quevedo)
How different the ladies of long ago to the modern women that we all know
If you observe you are bound to see that sex has changed entirely
A long ago their one ambition in life, was to be a mother and a wife
Now they go out imitating the males by smoking cigarettes and drinking cocktails
Girls used to like to be school teachers, gradually becoming stenographers
We next hear of them as lecturers, authors and engineers
There is no limit to their ambition, they've even gone in for aviation
And if you men don't assert control your women will rule the world
Play a bridge!
Now they say anything that your man can do, they also can achieve too
And they've openly boasted to do their part in the literature and art
We will next hear of them as candidates for the president of these United States
And if you men don't assert control your women will rule the world
Now you hear on the radio and TV of a great national calamity
Story of tragic proportion coming from the White House in Washington
The facts in the case are clearly stated the president is being cruely dominated
By a international conspiracy that threatens world peace and security

Top Ry Cooder, UFO HAS LANDED IN THE GHETTO

(Ry Cooder & Jim Keltner)
Lonesome outerspace invader blasting through the night
Tuning in the soul music on the satellite
All that low-down funky rhythm makes him jump and shout
Just got to find that ghetto planet that everyone's talkin' about
Tuning in the local scene on the radio
The D.J. on the radar screen is telling him where to go
The funky fever's getting louder, sounds just like a soul encounter
Cruisin' for some bar-b-que right up Central Avenue
And he's got a little dance he wants to do
He pulls up to a big night club in his UFO
Gets right in with all the folks out on the big dance floor
It really stops the action, everybody's mystified
To see that little step he's got as he goes glidin' by
Now, he ain't doin' the Gigolo 'cause he ain't got no hips
Looks like the Funky Chicken man, 'cept he ain't got no hips
Those shiny metal threads he's wearin' really got some class
I'd say he was doin' the Bomp, but I can't seem to find his ass
Now, everybody fall in love
He's reet, he's neat, he can't be beat
You shake your shimmy like I shake mine
He's hand held and he's jet propelled
Shake it up from sun to sun
He's fast and loose, he's full of juice
Shake it like an atomic bomb
He's got the goose so what's the use
That UFO has landed in the ghetto

Top Ry Cooder, Vigilante Man

(Woody Guthrie)
(E) - (A) - (B7) Capo on 1
(E) Have you seen that (A) vigilante (E) man ?
(A) Have you (E) seen that (A) vigilante (E) man ?
(A) Have you (E) seen that (A) vigilante (E) man ?
I've been hearin' his (B7) name all over the (E) land.
Rainy nights down in the engine house,
Sleepin' just as still as a mouse,
A man came along and he chased us out in the rain.
Was that a vigilante man ? Well, I rambled around from town to town,
Now, I rambled around from town to town,
And they herded us around like a wild herd of cattle.
Was that the vigilante man ?
Well, why does a vigilante man ?
Tell me why does a vigilante man ?
Carry that sawed-off shot-gun in his hand ?
Would he shoot his brother and sister down ?
Have you seen that vigilante man ?
Have you seen that vigilante man ?
Have you seen that vigilante man ?
I've been hearin' his name all over the land.

Top Ry Cooder, ALWAYS LIFT HIM UP/KANAKA WAI WAI

(Alfred Reed)/(Traditional)
(G) - (C) - (D)
(G) When a fellow has the blues and feels discouraged
And there¡¯s (C) nothing else but trouble all his (G) life
When he¡¯s always grumbled at and never happy
Living with a scolding, aggravating (D) wife
If he¡¯s (G) sick and tired of life and takes to drinking
Do not pass him by, don¡¯t greet him with a (C) frown
Do not fail to lend a hand and try to (G) help him
Always lift him up and (D) never knock him (C) down (G)
If he stays out late at night because he¡¯s worried
And because his home is not what it should be
Have a smile for him whenever you should meet him
It would help him just the right way, don¡¯t you see
If he gambles when he¡¯s in the town or city
Tell him what he ought to do to gain the crown
Lend a hand and do not fail to show him pity
Always lift him up and never knock him down
If he cannot pay his debts and feels disgusted
If he¡¯s blue and doesn¡¯t have a word to say
Let him know you are his friend who can be trusted
It would cheer this lonely fellow on his way
If he finds it hard for him to keep his family
Let a kind word greet his ear when he¡¯s around
Don¡¯t say anything at all to make against him
Always lift him up and never knock him down
If he has no friends and everyone's against him
If he¡¯s failed at everything that he has tried
Try to lift his load, to help to bear his burden
Let him know that you are walking by his side
And if he feels that all is lost, and he is falling
Try to place that poor man's feet on solid ground
Just remember he's some mother's precious darling
Always lift him up and never knock him down
Always lift him up and never knock him down

Top Ry Cooder, ARCHIE'S FUNERAL (HOLD TO GOD'S UNCHANGING HAND)

(Traditional, arranged by Ry Cooder)
Instrumental

Top Ry Cooder, AVAILABLE SPACE

(Ry Cooder)
Instrumental

Top Ry Cooder, AX SWEET MAMA

(Sleepy John Estes)
Well, I ax sweet mama, let me be her kid
She said ";I might but I'd like to keep it hid";
Well, she looked at me, she began to smile
She says ";I thought I might use you for my man awhile
But just don't let my husband catch you there
I say, just don't let my husband catch you there"; Well, I went upstairs to pack my leavin' trunk
I never saw no whiskey
The blues made me sloppy drunk
I ain't never saw no whiskey
The blues made me sloppy drunk
Well, I ain't saw no whiskey
The blues made me sloppy drunk
Well, some said it was beans, some said it was greens
But it's slow consumption killin' you by degrees
It's slow consumption killin' you by degrees

Top Ry Cooder, 634-5789

(S. Cropper/E. Floyd)
Hey, baby, if you need a little lovin', call on me
And if you want some kissin', call on me, baby
No more lonely nights will you be alone
All you got to do is pick up your telephone
And dial 634-5789, 634-5789, 634-5789
'Cause that's my number, 634-5789, 634-5789
Hey, baby, if you need a little lovin', call on me
And if you're beggin' me some good kissin', call on me
No more lonely nights, will you be alone
All you gotta do is pick up the telephone
And dial 634-5789, 634-5789, 634-5789
That's my number, 634-5789
Call me baby, I'll be right there just as soon as I can (Wait a minute)
And if I be just a bit little late, well, I hope that you understand
634-5789, 634-5789, 634-5789
It's not too late
634-5789, 634-5789
To call me on the phone, girl [Call me, baby]
634-5789, 634-5789, (use a dime), 634-5789 (call me up, hey)
Don't lose my number
634-5789, 634-5789
Call me on the phone, girl
634-5789, 634-5789, 634-5789
Put your hands on the telephone
Call me on the telephone
Hey, call me baby
Don't loose my number
That's my number
Call me right now

Top Ry Cooder, Across The Borderline

There's a land, so I've been told
Every street is paved with gold
And it's just across the borderline
And when it's time to take your turn
Here's a lesson you must learn
You could lose more than you ever hope to find
And when you reach the broken promised land
Every dream slips though your hand
Then you'll know it's too late to change your mind
'Cause you pay the price to come this far
Just to wind up where you are
And you're still just across the borderline
Up and down The Rio Grande
A thousand foot prints in the sand
Reveal the secret no one can define
The river flows on like a breath
In between our life and death
Tell me who the next to cross the borderline
And when you reach the broken promised land
Every dream slips through your hand
Then you'll know it's too late to change your mind
'Cause you pay the price to come this far
Just to wind up where you are

Top Ry Cooder, Alimony

(R. L. Jones/W. Young/R. Higginbotham)
(C) - (F) - (G)
(C) Look at this one, look at that one
Tell me do they look like me
All my (F) friends said, don't you worry
Said they'll testify for (C) me
Well, I (G) wonder which of (F) my friends had it in for (C) me
Alimony, alimony, alimony is killing me
I don't (F) want six extra children
When ain't but two that look like (C) me
Please, have (G) mercy, judge your (F)honor
Alimony is killing (C) me
Please, have mercy, judge your honor
I'm as poor as I can be
Ain't had money in my pockets
Since way back in fifty three
Can't you cut down all my payment ?
Alimony is killing me
Alimony, alimony, alimony is killing me
Alimony, alimony, alimony is killing me

Top Ry Cooder, All Shook Up

(Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley)
Yeah! Oh!
Well, bless my soul, what's wrong with me ?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree
The friends say I'm acting wild as a bug
I'm in love, I'm all shook up
I'm, I'm, I'm,
I'm, I'm, I'm, oh Lord
Yeah yeah yeah
My hands are shaky and my knees are weak
I can't seem to stand on my own two feet
Who do you thank when you have such luck ?
I'm in love, I'm all shook up
Well, please don't ask me what's on my mind
A little mixed up, but I'm feeling fine
I'm near the girl I love the best
My heart beats so it scares me to... She touched my hand and what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano when that's hot
I'm proud to say she's my buttercup
I'm in love and I'm all messed up
I'm, I'm, I'm...
Lawdy, Lawdy
I'm, I'm, I'm...
Yeah, yeah, yeah
My tongue gets tied when I try to speak
My inside's shaking like a leaf on a tree
There's only one cure for this body of mine
And that's to have that girl right here right now
She touched my hand and what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano when that's hot
I'm proud to say she's my buttercup
I'm in love and I'm all shook up

Top Ry Cooder, 13 QUESTION METHOD

(Chuck Berry)
Now, the thirteen question method is the one to use
Listen to me!
Thirteen question method is the one to use
I'm saying that the thirteen question method is the one you gotta use
If you wanna have some fun
'Cause the thirteen question method is the one to use
Uhn!
Question number one: you wanna have fun, uh hun
Question number two: what to do ?
Let's see!
Question number three: wanna go out and eat burger with me ?
God Almighty!
For the thirteen question method is the one to use
Now the question number five: don't give me no jive this morning
Question number six: don't try no tricks, this evening
Question number seven: I'll pick you up at a quarter to eleven, baby
And question number eight: it's a date
That's question number nine: where to dine, this evening ?
Question number ten: ah, can we get in ?
Question number eleven: gonna be just like heaven ?
God Almighty!
Question number twelve: we get by ourselves ?
'Cause the thirteen question method is the one to use
The thirteen question method is the one to use
Now the thirteen question method is the one gotta use if you wanna...
The thirteen question method is the one to use
And she says ah...
She says...
The thirteen question method is the one to use
The thirteen question method is the one to use
Now the thirteen question method is the one gotta use if you wanna have some fun
'Cause the...

Top Ry Cooder, Into the Purple Valley

Top Ry Cooder, 3rd Base Doger Stadium

Mister, you’re a baseball man, as anyone can plainly
see.
The straightest game in this great land. Take a little
tip from me.
I work here nights, parking cars, underneath the moon
and stars.
The same ones that we all knew back in 1952.
And if you want to know where a local boy like me is
coming from:
3rd base, Dodger Stadium.
2nd base, right over there. I see grandma in her
rocking chair.
Watching linens flapping in the breeze, and all the
fellows choosing up their teams.
Hand over hand on that Louisville. Crowning the top,
king of the hill.
Mound to home, sixty feet. Baseball been very good to
And if you want to know where a local boy like me is
coming from:
3rd base, Dodger Stadium.
3rd base, Dodger Stadium.
Back around the 76 ball, Johnny Greeneyes had his
shoeshine stall.
In the middle of the 1st base line, got my first kiss,
Florencia was kind.
Now, if the dozer hadn’t taken my yard, you’d see the
tree with our initials carved.
So many moments in my memory. Sure was fun, ‘cause the
game was free.
It was free.
Hey mister, you seem anxious to go. You’ll find that
seat, in the 7th row
Behind home plate, where we used to meet. When we were
young, we had dreams.
Just a place you don’t know, up a road you can’t go.
Just a thought, laid to rest in my mind, just a time.
If you care to know where I’m gonna go when I hit my
last homerun:
3rd base, Dodger Stadium.
3rd base, Dodger Stadium.
3rd base, Dodger Stadium.
Hey, Mister, you are a baseball man.
Yes, I’m a baseball man myself.
Yes, I’m a baseball man, too.
Baseball been very good to me.

Top Ry Cooder, Going To Tampa

Goodbye my honey, farewell my baby
Don't look for me around convention time
I'm bound for Tampa, in the great state of Florida
To see some distinguished friends of mine
Mitt and Rick and the pitbulls, the jolly ride and step
forth
To the highest bidder each will guarantee
I'd give all my money sir if Palin calls me honey
And shakes the pizzas on my tree
'Cause I'm goin' to Tampa in the morning
Got my credentials in my overalls
But I can't take you with me little darling
I'm going down to get my ashes hauled
Well here's a proposition to entertain a motion
Bring back Willie Horton to us now
We'll spook the congregation and petrify the nation
And blame the folks from Mexico somehow
And let me introduce a man who all know well
He can play a very important role
State rights is his game, Jim Crow is his name
And Jim's our little ace in the hole
'Cause I'm goin' to Tampa in the morning
Saints of latter days will heed the call
We'll shout hallelujah in the evening
I'm going down to get my ashes hauled
Well the int- woman told the tea party man
Gonna make love to you with a gun in my hand
That tea party man said, 'that's all right
Got a smoking bomb under my pillow at night
Well we're all going to Tampa in the morning
Honey will you miss me when I'm gone
Now hope you pack my old bed sheet
I'm going down to get my ashes hauled
Yes, I'm goin' to Tampa in the morning
Honey will you miss me when I'm gone
Now hope you pack my old bed sheet

Top Ry Cooder, Don't Call Me Red

Don't call me red, don't turn me down, I've got a plan.
Richard Neutra is my friend, and he's the man.
He's been to school and he can see what's best for all of
you.
Please trust me, my name is Frank, don't turn me down.
Don't call me red.
Every church has its prophets and its elders.
God will love you if you just play ball, that's right.
Fritz Burns, Chief Parker, and J Edgar.
I outlived those bastards after all.
We survived those dark days full of danger.
In the end fate has been good to me.
If you're in the neighbourhood, stranger,
You're welcome to drop in and see.
My name is Frank, don't turn me down.

Top Ry Cooder, DITTY WAH DITTY

(Arthur Blake)
There's a great big mistery
And it sure is worrying me
It's a ditty wah ditty
Mister ditty wah ditty
I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means
I went out and walked around
Somebody yelled, ";Now who's in town ?";
Mister ditty wah ditty
Mister ditty wah ditty
I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means
Some little girl 'bout four-feet-four
Said, ";Come on, papa, and gimme some mo'";
Your ditty wah ditty
Your ditty wah ditty
I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means
I went to church, put my hat on the seat
A lady sat on it and said, ";Daddy you sho' is sweet";
Mister ditty wah ditty
Mister ditty wah ditty
I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means
I said, ";Sister, I'll soon be gone
Just give me that thing that you're sitting on";
My ditty wah ditty
Mister ditty wah ditty
I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means
Then I got put outta the church
'Cause I talked about ditty wah ditty too much
Mister ditty wah ditty
Mister ditty wah ditty
I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means

Top Ry Cooder, Do Re Mi

(Woody Guthrie)
(G) - (C) - (G7) - (D) - (D7) - (Bm) - (Em)
(G) Lots of folks back east they say
(C) Leaving home most every day
(D7) Beating the hot old dusty way
To the (G) California line
'Cross the desert sands they roll
(C) Getting out of that Old Dust Bowl
(D) Think they're coming to a sugar bowl
But (G) here's (D7) what they (G) find
(D) Police at the port of entry say
You're number fourteen thousand for to (D7) day Hey, if you (G) ain't got the Do Re Mi, boy
If you ain't got the Do Re (D) Mi
Well, you (D7) better go back to beautiful Texas
Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennes- (G) see
California is the garden of Eden
It's a paradise to (G7) live in or (C) see
But be(G)lieve it or (D) not
You won't (Bm) find it so (C) hot
If you (Em) ain't got the Do Re (G) Mi
You want to buy a home or a farm
That can't do nobody harm
Take your vacation by the mountains or sea
Don't swap your old cow for a car
You better stay right where you are
Better take this little tip from me
Well, I look through the want ads every day
The headlines in the papers always say

Top Ry Cooder, I, Flathead

Three o'clock, thismorning, I woke up in a dream.
Thought I heard a flathead motor roar, I thought I smelled gasoline.
A feeling came upon me, that I ain't had in years.
Something like a hot dry wind, whistling past my ears.
Saying "time, time, time is all you got".
There's a memory that's still burning, way down in my mind.
And that's why, I'm going out and trying, a flathead one more time.
I ain't seen my racing buddies in thirty years, or more.
One by one I lost them, out on the dry leaf floor.
We learnt to push those flathead cars as hard as they could go.
Just like old Whiskey Bob, down on Thunder Road.
I hear their voices calling, just accross the finish line.
And that's why, I'm going out and trying, a flathead one more time.
I'll get back to you baby, don't you have no fear.
'Cos I been there, and I wrecked that, and baby I'm still here.
But I can't take you with me, when I cross the finish line.
And that's why, I'm going out and trying, a flathead, one, more, time.
Time, time, time is all you got.
//lyrics transcribed by doobi18

Top Ry Cooder, Chicken Skin Music

(tempo 3/4, key C)
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone.
Let's pretend that we're together, all alone.
I'll tell the man to turn the juke box way down low,
And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go.
Whisper to me, tell me do you love me true,
Or is he holding you the way I do?
Tho' love is blind, make up your mind, I've got to know,
Should I hang up, or will you tell him he'll have to go?
You can't say the words I want to hear
While you're with another man,
If you want me, answer "yes" or "no,"
Darling, I will understand.
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone.
Let's pretend that we're together, all alone.
I'll tell the man to turn the juke box way down low,
And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go.
words & music: Joe Allison & Audrey Allison
copyright: 1959 Central Songs/Beechwood Music Corp.
source: E-Z Play Speed Music-Country Pops
1972 by Big 3 for Sight & Sound Systems
transcribed: Dilly

Top Ry Cooder, Bop Till You Drop

(S. Bailey)
My father told me, lying on his bed of death,
"Boy," he says, "woman she's gonna make it, don't fool yourself
'Cause she's got something to make a man lay that money, uh, right in
her
hand
And the very thing that makes her rich will make you poor
The very thing that makes her rich will make you poor"
That's right!
Well, I put you behind the wheel of a deuce and a quarter, yes I did
Had you living like a rich man's daughter, yes I did, I sure did
While you were living high on the hog
You had me down here scuffling like a dog
Well, the very thing that makes you rich makes me poor
The very thing that makes you rich makes me poor
Don't you never ever make such a bad mistake
You know I'd rather climb into bed with a rattlesnake
Then to work hard every day bringing that woman all my pay
The very thing that makes you rich makes me poor,
Makes me so damn poor
The thing that makes her rich makes me poor
The very thing that makes you rich make me poor
Very thing that makes you rich makes me poor
Makes me so damned poor
Money won't change it, no no...

Top Ry Cooder, DENOMINATION BLUES

(Washington Phillips)
(G) - (C) - (D)
(G) I wanna tell you people it's a nat'ral fact
Ev'ry man don't understand 'bout the life
And that's (C) all, I tell you that's (G) all
'Cause you better have (D) Jesus
I tell you that's (G) all
Well, the denominations have the right to fight
They ought go on and treat each other right
And that's all, I tell you that's all
'Cause you better have Jesus
I tell you that's all
It's right to stand together, wrong to stand apart
When none will enter heaven but the pure at heart
And that's all, I'll tell you that's all
'Cause you better have Jesus
I'll tell you that's all
Well, the primitive Baptists they believe
That you can't go to heaven 'less you wash your feet
And that's all, I'll tell you that's all
'Cause you better have Jesus
I tell you that's all
Well, the African Methodists, they believe the same
'Cause they know demonination ain't a thing but a name
And that's all, I'll tell you that's all
'Cause you better have Jesus
I tell you that's all
Well, people that jump from church to church
You can bet their conversion don't amount too much
And that's all, I'll tell you that's all
'Cause you better have Jesus
I tell you that's all
Well, you can to your college, you can go to your school
But if you ain't got Jesus, you'se (you are) an educated fool
And that's all, I'll tell you that's all
'Cause you better have Jesus
I tell you that's all

Top Ry Cooder, DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS

Down in the boondocks, down in the boondocks
People put me down 'cause that's the side of town I was born in
I love her and she loves me but I don't fit in her society
Lord have mercy, I'm a boy from down in the boondocks
Now, every night I watch the lights from the house upon the hill
Well, I love a little girl who lives up there and I guess I always will
But I don't dare knock on her door 'cause her daddy is my boss man
So I'll just have to be content and see her whenever I can
Take a trip on down in the boondocks
Take a ride on down in the boondocks
People put me down 'cause that's the side of town I was born in
See, I love her and she loves me but I don't fit her society
Lord, have mercy, I'm a boy from down in the boondocks
One fine day, I'll find a way and move from this old shack
Well, I'll hold my head up like a king and I'll never, never will look back
'Til that morning I'll work and slave and I'll save every dime
But tonight she'll have to steal away to see me one more time
Get together, darling, down in the boondocks
Making love, darling, down in the boondocks
People put me down 'cause that's the side of town I was born in
I love her and she loves me but I don't fit her society
Lord, have mercy, I'm a boy from down in the boondocks
People put me down 'cause that's the side of town I was born in
I love her and she loves me but I don't fit her society

Top Ry Cooder, ESCAPE FROM NORTHFIELD

(Ry Cooder)
Instrumental