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Even the old folks never knew Why they call it like they do I was wondering since the age of two Down on Copperline Copper head, copper beech Copper kettles sitting side by each Copper coil, cup o'Georgia peach Down on Copperline Half a mile down to Morgan Creek Leaning heavy on the end of the week Hercules and a hog-nosed snake Down on Copperline We were down on Copperline One Summer night on the Copperline Slip away past supper time Wood smoke and moonshine Down on Copperline One time I saw my daddy dance Watched him moving like a man in a trance He bought it back from the war in France Down onto Copperline Branch water and tomato wine Creosote and turpentine Sour mash and new moon shine Down on Copperline Down on Copperline First kiss ever I took Like a page from a romance book The sky opened and the earth shook Down on Copperline Down on Copperline Took a fall from a windy height I only knew how to hold on tight And pray for love enough to last all night Down on Copperline Day breaks and the boys wakes up And the dog barks and the birds sings And the sap rises and the angels sigh, yeah I tried to go back, as if I could All spec house and plywood Tore up and tore up good Down on Copperline It doesn't come as a surprise to me It doesn't touch my memory Man I'm lifting up and rising free Down on over Copperline Half a mile down to Morgan Creek I'm only living for the end of the week Hercules and a hog-nosed snake Down on Copperline, yeah Take me down on Copperline Oh, down on Copperline Take me down on Copperline |
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Watch your head on that root, got to let your eyes adjust. I'm sorry about your suit, can't do nothing about the dust. Welcome down underground, hunker down a spell. Gets to feel like home to me though I know it looks like hell. Down in the hole, Lord, it's deep and the sides are steep. And the nights are long and cold, down in the hole. Light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole. (Don't mean nothing to the mole.) Never gets real hot down here, fifty five degrees. It's always a little bit damp, I fear but I've never seem to freeze. Mushrooms and earthworms, fancy stuff to eat. A world of quiet contemplation, oh, yes, just below the street. Down in the hole, Lord, it's deep and the sides are steep. And the nights are long and cold, down in the hole. Light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole. (Don't mean nothing to the mole.) I'm in a hole since I lost my baby, living in a hole since I lost my girl. Would you play in the moonlight, would you dance in the dirt, come home way past daybreak, cockleburs all stuck in your shirt? Come back home to twilight, come back home to me, subterranean river you are meets the molten sea. Down in the hole, Lord, it's deep and the sides are steep. And the nights are long and cold, down in the hole. Light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole. (Don't mean nothing to the mole.) |
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Let us turn our thoughts today To Martin Luther King And recognize that there are ties between us All men and women Living on the Earth Ties of hope and love Sister and brotherhood That we are bound together In our desire to see the world become A place i |
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Last thing I remember is the freezing cold Water reaching up just to swallow me whole Ice in the rigging and howling wind Shock to my body as we tumbled in Then my brothers and the others are lost at sea I alone am returned to tell thee Hidden in ice for a century To walk the world again Lord have mercy on the frozen man Next words that were spoken to me Nurse asked me what my name might be She was all in white at the foot of my bed I said angel of mercy I'm alive or am I dead My name is William James McPhee I was born in 1843 Raised in Liverpool by the sea But that ain't who I am Lord have mercy on the frozen man It took a lot of money to start my heart To peg my leg and to buy my eye The newspapers call me the state of the art And the children, when they see me, cry I thought it would be nice just to visit my grave See what kind of tombstone I might have I saw my wife and my daughter and it seemed so strange Both of them dead and gone from extreme old age See here, when I die make sure I'm gone Don't leave 'em nothing to work on You can raise your arm, you can wiggle your hand And you can wave goodbye to the frozen man I know what it means to freeze to death To lose a little life with every breath To say goodbye to life on earth To come around again Lord have mercy on the frozen man Lord have mercy on the frozen man |
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Take all the money that we need for school and to keep the street people in out of the cold. Spend it on a weapon you can never use, make the world an offer that they can't refuse. Open up the door and let the shark-men feed, Hoover of the future in the land of greed. Sell the Ponderosa to the Japanese, slap leather, head for that line of trees, yeah. Slap leather, go on Ron, just about to go myself. Turn the whole wide world into a TV show so it's just the same game wherever you go. You never meet a soul that you don't already know, one big advertisement for the status quo. As if these celebrities were your close friends, as if you knew how the story ends. As if you weren't sitting in a room alone and there was somebody real at the other end of the phone, yeah. Squibnocket, phone sex, just about to dial your number. Get all worked up so we can go to war, we find something worth killing for. Tie a yellow ribbon around your eyes, big McFalafel and a side of fries. Yeah, big McFalafel, stormin' Norman, I just love a parade. Slap leather, phone love, big McFalafel, just about to dial myself. |
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Like everyone she knows, she's holding out for true love, waiting on an answer, ready for a change. And everywhere she goes, she's just a little bit on the lookout. A day might mean tomorrow, questions still remain. It's not that she's so sad, she always was a happy soul. But lately she gets to wonder to herself, what's the good of going on anymore? I see her in her room, sitting at the window, wondering if she's pretty, feeling just a little small tonight. She thinks of going home, giving up on the city, maybe moving back down to Mobile, it's not that far to fall. I know she won't see me but I might just say anyhow, if I could be right there right now as I myself was told. Hold tight to your heart's desire, never ever let it go. Let nobody fool you into giving it up too soon. Tend your own fire, lay low and be strong, wait awhile, wait it out, wait it on out, wait it out, it'll come along. I know she won't see me but I might just say anyhow, if I could be right there right now as I myself was told. Hold tight to your heart's desire, never ever let it go. Let nobody fool you into giving it up too soon. Tend your own fire, lay low and be strong, Wait it out, wait it out, wait it on out. Wait it out, let it come along, oh, wait awhile, wait awhile. |
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| 4:41 |
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Workin' on a thing, workin' on a thing, funny little thing I know, sure got to like it. Only thing I got to show you, running around the room in my Fruit O' The Loom, a cup of coffee from King Tut's tomb. Save me, Lumalammalu Sure enough I must have been mokus and so out of focus to miss the first half of the show. Oh, It gets to the end, we get to run it again just like before, one more go round. Drank myself some wine back in '69, I was fooling around with my friends in my spare time. Life along the river, knobby little knees in the Summer breeze, hammock and a couple of trees, swing low, if you please. Oh, I must have been mokus and so out of focus, I missed the whole half of the show. Come to the end and they run it again, same as before, one more go round. After all this time of fooling around it and never having nothing to show, yeah, I'm happy to say that I finally found it right underneath my own nose. Oh, I must have been mokus and so out of focus, I missed the first half of the show. Please don't let it end, I want it again just like before, one more go round. |
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| 3:37 |
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Took my baby to the hop last night, what to my surprise, when we got there she hit me with the news right between the eyes- she said she couldn't do the cha, cha, cha. I told her not to worry now, they'd play some other dance, but we sat there for an hour and a half and we never got a chance cause every song they played was the cha, cha, cha. I told her not to worry, there's still one thing we can do, let me take you by your hand tonight, I want to teach this dance to you. I taught my baby how to cha, cha, cha. We kept on dancing for an hour or two, what do you think I'd see? We hadn't practiced for a time or two around, she was doing it better than me. You know my baby loves to cha, cha, cha. Everybody loves to cha, cha, cha. Little children love to cha, cha, cha. Everybody loves to cha, cha, cha. Sam Cooke himself in the midnight hour. Everybody loves to cha, cha, cha. |
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| 3:48 |
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Mount up, move on, may you find the way back home. Down and down we go, down into bright October, brothers in arms no more now that the war is over. Have you waded in and been to hell? Will you lie upon the sofa, see to the decoration of your shell now that the war is over? Mount up, move on, damn the darkness, speed the dawn, they lost, we won. Try to find your way back home, native son. Down and down we go, down into bright October, brothers in arms no more now that the war is over. Have you waded in and been to hell? Will you lie upon the sofa, see to the decoration of your shell now that the war is over? Mount up, move on, damn the darkness, speed the dawn, they lost, we won. Try to find your way back home, native son. |
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| 4:23 |
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I'm not much for making little wishes, but I'd like a little wish to come true for you. I'm not talking about loaves and fishes but I wish that there was something I could do for you. Here's a little bit of cheap advice to be taken in an hour of need, don't assume that the life you left is the life you have to lead. When you come home, what you gonna do oh brother, oh brother. Don't you try to deny what you know to be true, the same mess of misery that you done been through, standing in line and it's waiting for you. One kiss leads to another, brother, when you come back home. I'd like to know who's knocking on door, I'd like to know what they come here for. You'd like to say no but the words won't come, come in and sit down, seem to roll off your tongue. You forget to remember, to never die young, one kiss leads to another. Brother when you come back home, standing in line, all of your friends, standing in line, party never ends, standing in line, the river flows, the river bends, standing in line, all of your friends. When you come home, what you gonna do oh brother, oh brother. Don't you try to deny what you know to be true, the same mess of misery that you done been through, standing in line and it's waiting for you. One kiss leads to another, brother, when you come back home. And that moon will be shining in the trees all night long, something bound to happen for sure. Soon you'll be stopping by talking to a friend again, swear you ain't never tasted nothing so pure. When you come home, what you gonna do oh brother, oh brother. Don't you try to deny what you know to be true, the same mess of misery that you done been through, standing in line and it's waiting for y |
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The water is wide, I can't cross over, and neither have I wings to fly. Build me a boat that can carry two and both shall row, my love and I. There is a ship and she sails the sea. She's loaded deep, as deep can be. But not so deep as the love I'm in, I know not how I sink or swim. Oh love is handsome and love is fine, the sweetest flower when first it's new. But love grows old and waxes cold and fades away like Summer dew. Build me a boat that can carry two and both shall row, my love and I, And both shall row, my love and I. |
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We were ring-around-the-rosy children, they were circles around the sun. Never give up, never slow down, never grow old, never ever die young. Synchronized with the rising moon, even with the evening star, they were true love written in stone, they were never alone, they were never that far apart. And we who couldn't bear to believe they might make it, we got to close our eyes. Cut up our losses into doable doses, ration our tears and sighs. Oh, you could see them on the street on a Saturday night. Everyone used to run them down. They're a little too sweet, they're a little too tight, not enough tough for this town. Couldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole, no, it didn't seem to rattle at all. They were glued together body and soul, that much more with their backs up against the wall. Oh, hold them up, hold them up, never do let them fall prey to the dust and the rust and the ruin that names us and claims us and shames us all. I guess it had to happen someday soon- wasn't nothing to hold them down. They would rise from among us like a big balloon, take the sky, forsake the ground. Oh, yes, other hearts were broken, yeah, other dreams ran dry but our golden ones sail on, sail on to another land beneath another sky. (Let other hearts be broken, let other dreams run dry) but our golden ones sail on, sail on to another land beneath another sky, beneath another sky. Hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold them up... (Hold them up, don't let them fall). |
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| 3:48 |
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Me and T-Bone on the road to town, it's like I'm walking with a talking machine. Just as soon as he thinks of something else, he won't wait to interrupt himself. Must be something that he can't quite say, he just doesn't want to leave it that way. Although he may not know it yet, unless I miss my bet, he's just trying to forget what his heart remembers. I see that T-Bone got an automobile, low-loping and open to the sky. All night behind the hurricane wheel, riding in the eye. All day underneath the hood, Mondo Bondo, plastic, wood. He needs a mile of masking tape if he wants to keep his ship in shape, someday to escape what his heart remembers, yes, what his heart remembers. T-Bone's not alone, not alone, looks like he gets a second chance. It's Mamarama and Lumalamalu want to take him to recovery dance. He's looking like he gets his meat suit back, I guess he must have missed the crack attack. Still he's riding for a fall 'cause it's written upon the wall, that now he must recall what his heart remembers, what his heart remembers. |
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| 5:00 |
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Somehow the season always brings a picture of you, baby boom baby. Holding on for everything you figured you're due, little turtleneck girl. The moon on your shoulder, the wind in your lovely hair, oh what a night. We sat on the beach and watched as the sun rose into the Summer air. You said we couldn't miss what we never knew, something about something that you had to do, sitting on the sand with a hole in my shoe. I had no way of knowing where you might have been, time goes by. All on my own I imagine you a life in between, all own my own. Wrote a long letter but it never made it out of my head, oh, oh, somehow reading your name it wasn't the same as leaving the thing unsaid. How come I miss what I never knew, drag out the past just to paint it blue, and spend my days with a dream of you? Oh, after the fall, here I'm trying to find our name on the wall. It was neither yours nor mine, it was something of the two combined, from a time spent out of time. I work hard to see that you remember my name, nod your head yes, Do all I can to make you want to see me again, oh what a night. Got a letter from the mail, got a message from the telephone. Seems you're working in town, moving around, living alone. Now I'm caught in the spotlight, walking the wire, my feet are frozen and my heart's on fire, what do I do if my dream come true? La la la, la la la la la... |
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| 4:16 |
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Fetch down the fiddle, rosin up the bow, don't play me nothing on the radio. Don't make me remember the Alamo, I'm feeling like a little bit of Cotton Eyed Joe. No raging Cajun crawfish stew, fat batter coming in a Lumalamalu. Boy howdy and howdy damn do, something like fine setting eyes on you. Let me come down, I won't never go back up again, oh, hold me down. Let me come home, I won't never go away no more, oh let me come down. In a younger day back in Tennessee, the muddy Mississippi used to call to me, float on a river and set yourself free. Run from the farm and the family tree, run from the runaway boy. So I've been all the places that I ever want to be, I've seen all the people that I ever want to see. I'm sick and tired of being lonely and free, I'm ready today for what's waiting on me. I'm gonna give up believing I was born to run, stop acting like a man that gets shot from a gun. I'm putting down roots, I want to soak up sun and stay right here until my days are done. Let me back down, I will never go up again. Hold me down, tie me on down. Let me go home, I will never go away no more, oh let me come home, oh let me go down. [Indecipherable grunting] |
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Beneath the tide the fishes glide, fin to fin and side to side. For fishy love has now begun, fishy love, finny fun. Paper moon, paper heart, pink balloon, work of art. Al Capone, Bugs Moran, Valentine's Day. Bootleg gin, porkpie hat, dew Drop Inn, dirty rat, through the heart Cupid's dart, Valentine's Day. Oh, day to repay the one that you love, Gentlemen, take off your hats as I speak thereof. Just a brief break from the push and the shove, we may go a few rounds without boxing gloves. Land your punch, I stand my ground, we break for lunch and a second round. We set them up, we knock them down, Valentine's Day. Me and you, you and him, him and her, us and them, we keep score love as war, Valentine's Day. I lost my teeth, I lost my hair, I lost my mind, you don't care. Love is war, all is fair on Valentine's Day. |
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In line, in line, it's all in line, my ducks are all in a row. They do not change, they do not move, they have nowhere to go. I've been talking to a friend of mine, he says making money's just a waste of time. He's a lazy gent, he don't pay no rent, he's all bent out of shape from living in a tent. It's hard to hear what he has to say cause everyone around me is just the same way. More, more, Daddy gimme some, gimme some more, more, Daddy gimme some more. Some kind of funny looking money machine it is, saddest looking people that I've ever seen. Living in a hole, body and soul, strung out on the company dole. One for a nickel and two for a dime, time may be money but your money won't buy time. In line, in line, it's all in a line, my ducks are all in a row, They do not shift, they do not move, they have nowhere to go. Me and my flea we were down by the water, fell in a hole with Superman's daughter. Living alone, chewing on a bone, pretty as homemade sin. She had to be high by the look in her eye, her hands were wet and her mouth was dry. The sun on the moon, the sun on the moon, the sun on the moon made a mighty nice light. Bow wow wow, honk your horn. In line, in line, it's all in a line, my ducks are all in a row, They do not shift, they do not move, they have nowhere to go. Sometimes I'm hungry, I don't know what to do. You can take a taco to Katama too. |
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| 3:31 |
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Oh Lord I feel fine today, I'm walking on cloud nine today. I'm over that line today, happiness is finally mine today. I guess I'm just a lucky guy and I'm prepared to tell you why. It's strictly on account of my Sweet Potato Pie. I'm the fellow that she loves the most, the main reason why she left the coast. She's my little girlzina, that much hotter that a jalapeno. Tender like a night in June, sweeter than a honeymoon, brighter than a silver spoon, just as crazy as a loon. Softer than a lullaby, deeper than the midnight sky, soulful as a baby's cry, my Sweet Potato Pie. I used to see her around the neighborhood, I wonder how she grew up so good. She belonged to Freddy and he was bad and I never was ready to make him mad. I'm glad I had to wait awhile, a little bit too juvenile. I needed to refine my style, a silk suit and a crocodile smile. So let the whole damn world go by cause I just want to testify from now on it's me and my Sweet Potato Pie. |
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Those magic men the Magi, some people call them wise or Oriental, even kings. Well anyway, those guys, they visited with Jesus, they sure enjoyed their stay. Then warned in a dream of King Herod's scheme, they went home by another way. Yes, they went home by another way, home by another way. Maybe me and you can be wise guys too and go home by another way. We can make it another way, safe home as they used to say. Keep a weather eye to the chart on high and go home another way. Steer clear of royal welcomes, avoid a big to-do. A king who would slaughter the innocents will not cut a deal for you. He really, really wants those presents, he'll comb your camel's fur until his boys announce they've found trace amounts of your frankincense, gold and myrth. Time to go home by another way, home by another way. You have to figure the Gods, saying play the odds, and go home by another way. We can make it another way, safe home as they used to say. Keep a weather eye to the chart on high and go home another way. Home is where they want you now, you can more or less assume that you'll be welcome in the end. Mustn't let King Herod haunt you so or fantasize his features when you're looking at a friend. Well it pleasures me to be here and to sing this song tonight, they tell me that life is a miracle and I figured that they're right. But Herod's always out there, he's got our cards on file. It's a lead pipe cinch, if we give an inch, old Herod likes to take a mile. It's best to go home by another way, home by another way. We got this far to a lucky star, but tomorrow is another day. We can make it another way, safe home as they used to say. Keep a weather eye to the chart on high and go home another |
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If I could go down now while the whole town is sleeping, see the sun creeping up on the hill, I know the river and the railroad would run through the valley still. I guess it never was much to look at, just a one-horse town, the kind of place young people want to leave today, store fronts pretty much boarded up, Main Street pretty much closed down. The church bell still rings on Sunday, old folks still go, the young ones listen on the radio. Saturday night nothing but a stray dog running wild like nobody's child. And little by little, light after light, that's how it died. They say you never go home again, that's no lie. Its like a letter in the mail to a brother in jail, it's a matter of time until you can do a little bit better time. It used to be part of the heartland, awful proud and strong. But deep, deep down peaceful and serene. When people used to talk about the country that's what they used to mean. I might go down come the weekend, go on my own, drop off Annie and the baby, maybe drive alone. Pay my last respects to a time that has all but gone. We said, Mama come look at the mountain, fire in the sky, it's lit up like the Fourth of July, the mill burning down, the jobs leaving town, the trains rolling by. And little by little, light after light, that's how it died. They say you never go home again, that's no lie. Its like a letter in the mail to a brother in jail, it's a matter of time until you can do a little bit better time. |
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And the light between us which we could not quite extinguish, which we see at dawn burns on. First day of May, things are beginning, our side is winning, hip hip hooray. Made in the shade, deep in the shadow, down by the meadow, lie in my arms. And the moon will rise before our very eyes, we will rise too, I'll be with you. It's a rite of spring, a horizontal thing, the sweetest sort of dance hidden in among the plants. Ha ha ha ha, people are laughing, children are singing, come join the dance. And the walls around us which we kept at such a cost when we turned around came tumbling down. Ha ha ha ha, she can't stop laughing, he can't stop singing, first day of May. |
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Person to person
And man to man I'm back in touch With my long lost friend Listen to reason And understand And think of me From way back when He said me and Melissa Well, we fell out of love Ran out of luck Seems like lightning struck I've been thinkin' of leavin' But I can't raise a buck James, I'm wondering Could I borrow your truck I said that's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) Got no better reason That's why I'm standing before you (That's why I'm here) That's why I'm here John's gone found dead He dies high he's brown bread Later said to have Drowned in his bed After the laughter The wave of the dread It hits us like a ton of lead It seems "learn not to burn" Means turn on a dime Walk on if you're walking Even if it's an uphill climb Try to remember that Working's no crime Just don't let 'em take And waste your time That's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) There'll be no more messes tonight That's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) Whoa, that's why I'm here This is an I.O.U. I reckon I owe you one now Listen Wendy and listen Gloria This'll be better tomorrow Oh, fortune and fame's Such a curious game Perfect strangers Can call you by name And pay good money to hear "Fire And Rain" Again and again and again Oh, some are like summer Coming back every year Got your baby, got your blanket Got your bucket of beer I break into a grin From ear to ear And suddenly It's perfectly clear That's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) Singing tonight, tomorrow And every day That's why standin' (That's why I'm here) Whoa, that's why I'm here This is the part About Kitty and Bim He loved her And she loved him Wake 'em up, shake 'em up The middle of the night You got to tell me Everything's all right I said that's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) You got me walkin' and Talkin' like a natural man That's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) Whoa, that's why I'm here That's right |
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people around me are at it again god only knows how they do it one to another then back again something keeps putting them through it me i've been watching more than fifteen years and it hasn't changed a bit people keep talking 'bout a different line but |
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more than a distant land over a shining sea more than the steaming green more than the shining eyes well they tell me it's only a dream in rio nothing could be as sweet as it seems on this very first day down they remind me "son have you so soon forgotten often as not it's rotten inside and the mask soon slips away" strange taste of a tropical fruit romantic language of the portuguese melody on a wooden flute somba floating in the summer breeze it's alright you can stay asleep you can close your eyes you can trust the people of paradise to call your keeper and tender your goodbyes oh what a night wonderful one in a million frozen fire brazillian stars oh holy southern cross later on take me way downtown in a tin can; can't come down from the bandstand i'm never thrown for such a loss when they say quando a nossa mae acordar andareimoz au sol quando a nossa mae acordar cantara' pelos sertao quando a nossa mea acordar todos os filios saberao todos os filios saberao e regozilarao caught in the rays of the rising sun on the run from the soldier's gun shouting out loud from the angry crowd the mild the wild and the hungry child i'll tell you there's more than a dream in rio i was there on the very day and my heart came back alive there was more more than the singing voices more than the upturned faces and more than the shining eyes but it's more than the shining eye more than the steaming green more than the hidden hills more than the concrete christ more than a distant land over a shining sea more than a hungry child more like another time born of a million years more than a million years |
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i open my arms to hold you
you turn away you turn away i feel it just like i told you how can you turn away the things that we said last saturday night you turn away you turn away now you want to throw that away how can you turn away bridge it was true love it was you and me and the sliver moon and the shining sea] it was new but it felt to me just like love was suppsosed to be finally and now your eyes won't meet mine you turn away you turn away i never want to taste that sweet wine again how can you turn away bridge and after this love i'm keeping for you you turn away you turn away i never want to taste that sweet wine again how can you turn away bridge and after this love i'm keeping for you you turn away you turn away i'll dry these tears that i'm weeping for you and take my turn to turn away yeah |
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my heart had been broken
and i couldn't take no more i shuttered up my windows and i bolted tight my door then i took one look at you and i nearly lost my mind chorus: now i'm going 'round going 'round going 'round going around one more time yes i'm going 'roung going 'round going 'round goung around one more time betty was a little heartbreaker it didn't quite work out she did a number on my confidence i was riddled with self doubt i said that's it i'm through i quit the juanita she looked so fine. chorus 'round and 'round in a circle it's always the same one moment you swear you've had enough the next you've got to know her name all on my own it wasn't that bad i was getting by as i could get i stopped into a drug store for one pack of cigarettes she did't have a quarter had to call her cousin kate and could i lend her maybe one thin dime chorus |
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My romance doesn't need to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by No month of May No shining star No hideaway No soft guitar My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true 'Cause my romance doesn't need a thing but you |
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| 3:17 |
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everyday it's getting closer going faster than a roller coaster a love like yours would surely come my way everday seems a little faster all my friends they say go on up and ask her a love like yours would surely come my way everyday it seems a little s |
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| 8. |
| 3:51 |
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Limousine driver
Big cadillac car Rich and famous No matter who you are you are I seen a rock n roll rider I seen a cinema star Chorus: Won't you roll down the road Roll down the road roll down the Roll down the road with me Want you to roll down the road Roll down the road roll down the Roll down the road with me Deep into the night Blue velvet push Cut glass crystal I mean it means so much Long cool fingeroos Soft tenderloin touch Chorus City sidewalk shining wet with rain Run through the run through one more again Run through the jungle Fetch a lady's glove Kicking off a bundle Go on and give it a shove Speak up don't mumble Who do you love |
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| 9. |
| 4:20 |
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Oh, you are my only one
You are my only one Well, I'm telling you now Now you're my only one I've got two long legs like to carry me Two sharp eyes to look for the light I got two strong arms to hold on tight Two good friends on my left and right But only one, only one And you are my only one You are my only one Don't be leaving me now Now you're my only one Now there's only one road before me Too many turns in the way Thousands of things to do today Millions of moments I must admit But only one, only one And you are my only one You are my only one Well, I'm telling you now Now you're my only one Taken for granted and pushed aside All that it wanted was a place to run and hide Missing message in a hollow tree Hidden deep inside a memory And the memory seems like dreams Hundreds of hopes in the past Nevertheless it was never the last Hold on strong or you fade out fast And only one, only one Oh, you are my only one You are my only one Don't be leaving me now Believe in me now Believe in me now Well, I'm telling you know You're my only one Yeah, you are my only one You are my only one Don't be leaving me now Now you're my only one Yeah, you are my only one You are my only one Well, I'm telling you now Now you're my only one Yeah, you are my only one You are my only one Don't be leaving me now Believe in me now Oh, you are my only one You are my only one Well, I'm telling you now You're my only one Oh, you are my only one You are my only one Don't be leaving me now Believe in me now |
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| 2:50 |
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Life's good friends are hard to find
And now one of mine is dead The things I should have said to her I shall say to you instead Mona, Mona So much of you to love Too much of you to take care of Mona, Mona You got too big to keep And too damn old to eat When you where just a football At your mama's side I reckon everyone figured you For a bar-b-que when you died And here i'm thinking about you lying underground Pushing up a pine tree in my field Oh Mona, Mona You can close your eyes I've got a twelve gauge surprise Waiting for you Wince the day she passed away Everything's just the same Everywhere i go Somebody mentions her name Sometimes it's easiest to tell a friend a lie 'cause they don't understand the way i feel Oh Mona, Mona So much of you to love Too much of you to take care of So long Now she is gone and i am left alone as you can see But ever since i caused her death I do miss her company |
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| 3:46 |
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| 12. |
| 0:27 |
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Person to person
And man to man I'm back in touch With my long lost friend Listen to reason And understand And think of me From way back when He said me and Melissa Well, we fell out of love Ran out of luck Seems like lightning struck I've been thinkin' of leavin' But I can't raise a buck James, I'm wondering Could I borrow your truck I said that's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) Got no better reason That's why I'm standing before you (That's why I'm here) That's why I'm here John's gone found dead He dies high he's brown bread Later said to have Drowned in his bed After the laughter The wave of the dread It hits us like a ton of lead It seems "learn not to burn" Means turn on a dime Walk on if you're walking Even if it's an uphill climb Try to remember that Working's no crime Just don't let 'em take And waste your time That's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) There'll be no more messes tonight That's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) Whoa, that's why I'm here This is an I.O.U. I reckon I owe you one now Listen Wendy and listen Gloria This'll be better tomorrow Oh, fortune and fame's Such a curious game Perfect strangers Can call you by name And pay good money to hear "Fire And Rain" Again and again and again Oh, some are like summer Coming back every year Got your baby, got your blanket Got your bucket of beer I break into a grin From ear to ear And suddenly It's perfectly clear That's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) Singing tonight, tomorrow And every day That's why standin' (That's why I'm here) Whoa, that's why I'm here This is the part About Kitty and Bim He loved her And she loved him Wake 'em up, shake 'em up The middle of the night You got to tell me Everything's all right I said that's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) You got me walkin' and Talkin' like a natural man That's why I'm here (That's why I'm here) Whoa, that's why I'm here That's right |
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