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If I never saw you
You'd still live in my dreams Calling out from stages And music magazines ?If I were a painter You'd be green and gold Carved out of matches But broken out of stone ?Taken from the fire of your fiddle Words of unspoken, blinding truth If I couldn't see it, I was lost in my youth But I'm going back to Memphis - after you. ?If I could have seen you With blood on your bones Poison in your fingers But music in your soul ?You could have been my lover Taught me everything I know But now we are your children Your flowers in the snow ?But all you ever wanted was to see the heart of the city, oh And all you ever got was hand to mouth So I know you'll be walking for a long, long time Cause you're going back to Memphis - heading South. ?Brothers till the night came And whispered in the pines Tempting me with secrets To play a game with time ?Now I feel you in the walls And I know you're in the air And it's just like I can touch you You're living everywhere ?But all you ever wanted was to be in the heart of the city, oh And all you ever got was handed out So I know we'll be walking for a long, long time Cause we're going back to Memphis - heading South Going back to Memphis - heading South. ? |
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| 2. |
| 5:20 |
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Take a silver dollar and put it in your pocket, A E Never let it slip away. G D A Always be a man, not a boy gone astray. D D/C# Bm Bm/A E A When ya get half cra-zy from the August heat D D/C# Bm Bm/A Or on a frozen, rotted road E With no one to complain to about your achin' feet. (Chorus:) A G D A You're gonna walk that endless highway, D E A Walk that high-way till you die. G D A All you children goin' my way, D E A Better tell your home-life sweet goodbye. When I see a detour up ahead, Well, I leave it far behind, Who knows what you're apt to find there. With the cost of livin, and the price of dyin', Well it look like t'me this time I wont be buyin' (Chorus) When they get a scapegoat by the throat, it's hard labour and cold beans. If ya get away real quick, You'll be eatin from the poison peanut machine. Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay. (Chorus) |
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| 4:18 |
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They say everything can be replaced
They say every distance is not near So I remember every face Of every man who put me here I see my light come shinin' From the west down to the east Any day now, any day now I shall be released They say every man needs protection They say that every man must fall Yet I swear I see my reflection Somewhere so high above this wall I see my light come shinin' From the west down to the east Any day now, any day now I shall be released Now, yonder stands a man in this lonely crowd A man who swears he's not to blame All day long, I hear him shouting so loud Just crying out that he was framed I see my light come shinin' From the west down to the east Any day now, any day now I shall be released |
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| 3:28 |
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| 4:02 |
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Don't ya tell Henry,
Apple's got your fly. I went down to the river on a Saturday morn, A-lookin' around just to see who's born. I found a little chicken down on his knees, I went up and yelled to him,"Please, please, please!" He said, "Don't ya tell Henry, Don't ya tell Henry, Don't ya tell Henry, Apple's got your fly." I went down to the corner at a-half past ten, I's lookin' around, I wouldn't say when. I looked down low, I looked above, And who did I see but the one I love. She said, "Don't ya tell Henry, Don't ya tell Henry, Don't ya tell Henry, Apple's got your fly." Now, I went down to the beanery at half past twelve, A-lookin' around just to see myself. I spotted a horse and a donkey, too, I looked for a cow and I saw me a few. They said, "Don't ya tell Henry, Don't ya tell Henry, Don't ya tell Henry, Apple's got your fly." Now, I went down to the pumphouse the other night, A-lookin' around, it was outa sight. I looked high and low for that big ol' tree, I did go upstairs but I didn't see nobody but me. I said, "Don't ya tell Henry, Don't ya tell Henry, Don't ya tell Henry, Apple's got your fly." |
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| 4:58 |
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Now when the rumor comes to your town
It grows, it grows, where it started no one knows Some of your neighbors will invite it right in Maybe it's a lie, even if it's a sin, they'll repeat the rumor again Close your eyes, hang down your head Until a fog blows away, let it blow away Open up your arms and feel the good It's a'comin', a brand new day Big men little men turn into dust Maybe it was all in fun, didn't mean to ruin no one Could there be someone among this crowd Who's been accused had his name so misused and his privacy refused Close your eyes, hang your head Until a fog blows away, let it blow away Open up your arms and feel the good It's a'comin', a brand new day Now all you vigilantes want to make a move Maybe they won't, you know I sure hope they don't For whether this rumor proves true or false You can forgive, a'you can regret, but you can never ever forget Close your eyes, hang down your head Until a fog blows away Open up your arms and feel the good It's a'comin', a brand new day |
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| 4:54 |
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The many roads I've covered, the many trails I've burned,
But when our paths did cross, love, whew! My whole world made a turn. And we've got time to kill, what a thrill, June and July. We've got all our love, buckets of the tears that we cried. Now we don't cry no more, gonna bolt the door. Don't know what we've got, but it feels like a lot, we don't need no more. When my day's work is done, we can take in a jamboree, But I just wanna sit down by the fire with my love right here beside me. We've got time to kill, Catskill, sweet by and by. We've got all our love, the sky above, the twinkle in your eye. Now where the wheel might roll, is where my love and I shall go. We're gonna plant the seed, there ain't nothing we need, we found our own rainbow. My love wants to have her fortune read, and I know that she's in a hurry. If we go along the straight and narrow, you don't even have to worry. We've got time to kill, standin' still, go on, give it a try! We've got all our love, mountains of, the trees are so high. We don't need no big car, don't eat no caviar. When we come to rest, we take to the nest, you know where we are. |
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| 3:03 |
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| 4:49 |
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When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go?
Straight down the Mississippi river, to the Gulf of Mexico To Lake Charles, Louisiana, little Bessie, girl that I once knew She told me just to come on by, if there's anything she could do Up on Cripple Creek she sends me If I spring a leak she mends me I don't have to speak, she defends me A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one Good luck had just stung me, to the race track I did go She bet on one horse to win and I bet on another to show The odds were in my favor, I had 'em five to one When that nag to win came around the track, sure enough she had won Up on Cripple Creek she sends me If I spring a leak she mends me I don't have to speak, she defends me A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one I took up all of my winnings, and I gave my little Bessie half She tore it up and threw it in my face, just for a laugh Now there's one thing in the whole wide world, I sure would like to see That's when that little love of mine, dips her doughnut in my tea Up on Cripple Creek she sends me If I spring a leak she mends me I don't have to speak, she defends me A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one Now me and my mate were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box She said, "I can't take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk" Now that just gave my heart a throb, to the bottom of my feet And I swore as I took another pull, my Bessie can't be beat Up on Cripple Creek she sends me If I spring a leak she mends me I don't have to speak, she defends me A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one Now there's a flood out in California and up north it's freezing cold And this living on the road is getting pretty old So I guess I'll call up my big mama, tell her I'll be rolling in But you know, deep down, I'm kind of tempted to go and see my Bessie again Up on Cripple Creek she sends me If I spring a leak she mends me I don't have to speak, she defends me A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one |
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