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Seven lonely days and a dozen towns ago
I reached out one night and you were gone Don't know why you'd run, what you're running to or from All I know is I want to bring you home So I'm walking in the rain, thumbin' for a ride On this lonely Kentucky backroad I've loved you much too long; my love's too strong To let you go, never knowing what went wrong. Kentucky rain keeps pouring down, And up ahead's another town that I'll go walking through With the rain in my shoes, searchin for you In the cold Kentucky rain, in the cold Kentucky rain. Showed your photograph to some old gray bearded men Sitting on a bench outside a general store They said "Yes, she's been here" But their memory wasn't clear. Was it yesterday? No, wait the day before. Finally got a ride, with a preacher man who asked, "Where you bound on such a cold, dark afternoon?" As we drove on through the rain, as he listened I explained And he left me with a prayer that I'd find you. |
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As the snow flies
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin' A poor little baby child is born In the ghetto And his mama cries 'cause if there's one thing that she don't need it's another hungry mouth to feed In the ghetto People, don't you understand the child needs a helping hand or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day Take a look at you and me, are we too blind to see, do we simply turn our heads and look the other way Well the world turns and a hungry little boy with a runny nose plays in the street as the cold wind blows In the ghetto And his hunger burns so he starts to roam the streets at night and he learns how to steal and he learns how to fight In the ghetto Then one night in desperation the young man breaks the rules He buys a gun, steals a car, tries to run, but he don't get far And his mama cries As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man face down on the street with a gun in his hand In the ghetto As her young man dies, on a cold and gray Chicago mornin', another little baby child is born In the ghetto And his mama cries |
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Back porch preacher preaching at me
Acting like he wrote the golden rules Shaking his fist and speeching at me Shouting from his soap box like a fool Come Sunday morning he's lying in bed With his eye all red, with the wine in his head Wishing he was dead when he oughta be Heading for Sunday school Clean up your own backyard (Amen) Oh don't you hand me none of your lines (Hallelujah) Clean up your own backyard You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine (Clean it up mister, clean it up mister) Drugstore cowboy criticizing Acting like he's better than you and me Standing on the sidewalk supervising Telling everybody how they ought to be Come closing time 'most every night He locks up tight and out go the lights And he ducks out of sight and he cheats on his wife With his employee Clean up your own backyard (Amen) Oh don't you hand me none of your lines (Hallelujah) Clean up your own backyard You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine (Clean it up mister, clean it up mister) Armchair quarterback's always moanin' Second guessing people all day long Pushing, fooling and hanging on in Always messing where they don't belong When you get right down to the nitty-gritty Isn't it a pity that in this big city Not a one a'little bitty man'll admit He could have been a little bit wrong Clean up your own backyard (Amen) Oh don't you hand me, don't you hand me none of your lines (Hallelujah) Clean up your own backyard You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine (Clean it up mister, clean it up mister) Clean up your own backyard You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine. |
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Lord Almighty, I feel my temperature rising
Higher higher It's burning through to my soul Girl, girl, girl You gonna set me on fire My brain is flaming I don't know which way to go Your kisses lift me higher Like the sweet song of a choir You light my morning sky With burning love Ooh, ooh, ooh, I feel my temperature rising Help me, I'm flaming I must be a hundred and nine Burning, burning, burning And nothing can cool me I just might turn into smoke But I feel fine Cause your kisses lift me higher Like a sweet song of a choir You light my morning sky With burning love With burning love Ah, ah, burning love I'm just a hunk, a hunk of burning love Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love |
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I know you're a lonely woman and I love you
But someone else is waiting and he owns you If he should ever wake up, make sure that your story is straight love If you talk in your sleep don't mention my name And if you walk in your sleep forget where you came Walking every night here in the shadows So afraid that sometime he may follow There's always the chance he'll find us I don't need to remind you If you talk in your sleep don't mention my name If you walk in your sleep forget where you came Love is so much sweeter when it's borrowed I'll feel a little easier tomorrow Don't give our secret away, be careful what you say If you talk in your sleep don't mention my name If you walk in your sleep forget where you came Forget where you came, now Forget where you came Don't mention my name Don't mention my name Forget where you came |
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Had a dream about you baby, had a dream about me and you
Had a dream and woke up crying Well I can roll but I just can't rock And the time's going by, tick-tock For the heart, I just can't love no-one but you Well I'm high and dry and lonely, I'm as lonely as can be And I stare out of my window Well I can play but I just can't win And the weather's looking dim For the heart I just can't love no-one but you For the heart For the heart For the heart I just can't love no-one but you For the heart For the heart For the heart I just can't love no-one but you Had a dream about you baby, had a dream about me and you Had a dream and woke up crying Well I can roll but I just can't rock And the time's going by, tick-tock For the heart, I just can't love no-one but you For the heart For the heart For the heart I just can't love no-one but you For the heart For the heart For the heart I just can't love no-one but you Well, for the heart For the heart For the heart I just can't love no-one but you Yes, for the heart For the heart For the heart I just can't love no-one but you |
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Babe, you're getting closer
The lights are goin' dim The sound of your breathin' Has made the mood I'm in All of my resistance Is lying on the floor Taking me to places I've never been before Ooh, and I can feel it, Feel it, feel it, feel it Way down where the music plays Way down like a tidal wave Way down where the fires blaze Way down, down, way, way on down Ooh, my head is spinnin' You got me in your spell, A hundred magic fingers On a whirling carousel The medicine within me No doctor could prescribe Your love is doing something That I just can't describe Ooh, and I can feel it, Feel it, feel it, feel it Way down where the music plays Way down like a tidal wave Way down where the fires blaze Way down, down, way, way on down Hold me again, Tight as you can I need you so, Baby, let's go Way down where it feels so good Way down where I hoped it would Way down where I never could Way down, down, way, way on down |
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Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call?
Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? Can't you hear me when I call? Well you ain't so big, you know you're just tall that's all, All right Well you got me workin' boss man Workin' round the clock I wanna little drink of water But you won't let big Al stop Big boss man now can't you hear me when I call? All right I said you ain't so big, you know you're just tall that's all Big boss man, why can't you hear me when I call? All right You know you ain't so big, I said you're just tall that's all, All right I'm gonna get me a boss man One who's gonna treat me right I work hard in the day time Rest easy at night Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? Can't you hear me when I call? I said you ain't so big, you're just tall that's all I'm gonna get me a boss man One that's gonna treat me right I work hard in the evenin' Rest easy at night Big boss man, big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? I said you ain't so big, you're just tall that's all All right, big boss man It's all right |
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Well, I quit my job down at the car wash
Left my mama a goodbye note By sundown I'd left Kingston With my guitar under my coat I hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis Got a room at the YMCA For the next three weeks I went huntin' them nights Just lookin' for a place to play Well, I thought my pickin' would set 'em on fire But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man Well, I nearly 'bout starved to death down in Memphis I run outta money and luck So I bought me a ride down to Macon, Georgia On a overloaded poultry truck I thumbed on down to Panama City Started pickin' out some o' them all night bars Hopin' I could make myself a dollar Makin' music on my guitar I got the same old story at them all night piers There ain't no room around here for a guitar man We don't need a guitar man, son So I slept in the hobo jungles Roamed a thousand miles of track Till I found myself in Mobile Alabama At a club they call Big Jack's A little four-piece band was jammin' So I took my guitar and I sat in I showed 'em what a band would sound like With a swingin' little guitar man Show 'em, son If you ever take a trip down to the ocean Find yourself down around Mobile Make it on out to a club called Jack's If you got a little time to kill Just follow that crowd of people You'll wind up out on his dance floor Diggin' the finest little five-piece group Up and down the Gulf of Mexico, Guess who's leadin' that five-piece band Well, wouldn't ya know, it's that swingin' little guitar man. Well, I came a long way from the carwash Got to where I said I'd get Now that I'm here I know for sure I really ain't got there yet Think I'll start all over Swing my guitar over my back I'm gonna get myself back on the track I'll never, never ever look back I'll never be more than what I am Wouldn't you know I' m a swinging little Guitar man |
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I walk along a thin line darling
Dark shadows follow me Here's where life's dream lies disillusioned The edge of reality Oh I can hear strange voices echo Laughing with mockery The border line of doom I'm facing The edge of reality On the edge of reality she sits there tormenting me The girl with the nameless face On the edge of reality where she overpowers me With fears that I can't explain She drove me to the point of madness The brink of misery If she's not real then I'm condemned to The edge of reality On the edge of reality she sits there tormenting me The girl with the nameless face On the edge of reality where she overpowers me With fears that I can't explain She drove me to the point of madness The brink of misery If she's not real then I'm condemned to The edge of reality Reality, reality, reality, reality, Reality, reality, reality, reality |
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Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind
Memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine Quiet thought come floating down And settle softly to the ground Like golden autumn leaves around my feet I touched them and they burst apart with sweet memories, Sweet memories Of holding hands and red bouquets And twilight trimmed in purple haze And laughing eyes and simple ways And quiet nights and gentle days with you Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind Memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine, Memories, memories, sweet memories |
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There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue If I can dream of a better land Where all my brothers walk hand in hand Tell me why, oh why, oh why can't my dream come true There must be peace and understanding sometime Strong winds of promise that will blow away All the doubt and fear If I can dream of a warmer sun Where hope keeps shining on everyone Tell me why, oh why, oh why won't that sun appear We're lost in a cloud With too much rain We're trapped in a world That's troubled with pain But as long as a man Has the strength to dream He can redeem his soul and fly Deep in my heart there's a trembling question Still I am sure that the answer gonna come somehow Out there in the dark, there's a beckoning candle And while I can think, while I can talk While I can stand, while I can walk While I can dream, please let my dream Come true, right now Let it come true right now Oh yeah |
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