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| 1. |
| 5:26 | 
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Close one there
Choking in clean underwear Bleeding tongue Eight ball pounding in my lungs Ship to shore I can't see the coastline anymore I shouldn't be here I thought I made that loud and clear But the master of disaster Gets tangled in his telecaster He can't play it any faster When he plays the blues When he had the heart to ask her And every note just shook the plaster Now he's just a mean old bastard When he plays the blues China town Chasing that old dragon down Madam Wong's We play the blues with the curtains drawn Sidewalks of white While the la sun beat out the night Pounding brain My last transmission down the drain And the master of disaster Gets tangled in his telecaster He can't play it any faster When he plays the blues When he had the heart to ask her And every note just shook the plaster Now he's just a mean old bastard When he plays the blues There's a debt I owe I'll never pay before I go So I sing the blues Hand me down my walking shoes You're in my heart Though we may be miles apart There's my point I'll see you in another joint When the master of disaster Gets tangled in his telecaster He can't play it any faster When he plays the blues When he had the heart to ask her And every note just shook the plaster Now he's just a mean old bastard When he plays the blues |
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| 2. |
| 3:45 |
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Caught like a deer in my own headlights
Frozen on this road tonight I had a fix on the brightest star Now I'm not sure where you are North is south and east is west Where's the love that I knew best Shifting in this icy wind Howlin' down the cumberland You're in this valley that I love Cold and far as the stars above Do I have to wait 'til spring is here? Just to hold you warm and near Dead of winter, dead of night Not much time to make it right I know where that lonesome sound begins Howlin' down the cumberland Just a creature in the dark Longing for one blessed spark To burn the sky and hear the night With love reborn by morning light But nature doesn't heed the call Nature just commands that's all Now my love's a cutting wind Howlin' down the cumberland Now my love's a cutting wind Howlin' down the cumberland |
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| 3. |
| 4:05 |
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My Thunderbird, my Thunderbird
Put your head on my shoulder Don't say a word We'll cut across town in my Thunderbird There's a burial ground Beneath a cattle herd Mr. Henry Ford's building me a Thunderbird My Thunderbird, my Thunderbird Put your head on my shoulder Don't say a word We'll cut across the country in my Thunderbird We're from Pennsylvania Welsh men of words My daddy drove a Desoto I drive a Thunderbird My Thunderbird, my Thunderbird She's the voice of the future Baby, have you heard Tomorrow's taken wing on my Thunderbird My Thunderbird, my Thunderbird Put your head on my shoulder Don't say a word We'll cut across town in my Thunderbird Got electric windows Tilt away wheel Slide across the bucket seat For that sexy leather feel of My Thunderbird, my Thunderbird Put your head on my shoulder Don't say a word We'll cut across town in my Thunderbird From the old Volkswagen Back to the Model T A lot of men died Just so you could ride with me in My Thunderbird, my Thunderbird She drives like a dream Baby rest assured It don't get any better than a Thunderbird My daddy was a salesman My brother was too I would sell anything Just to try to stay with you But not my Thunderbird No not my Thunderbird Willy Loman's saying something I can't hear a word I'm going too fast in my Thunderbird They make 'em that way Yeah they make 'em that way Well they make 'em that way Yeah they make 'em that way Well they make 'em that way |
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| 4. |
| 4:19 |
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I've been too long with my nose in a book
I hope you sing just as good as you look Come on over baby, I got a song for you A little jump of something I call The wintertime blues I wanna hear those mockingbird wings I want gravy on everything Lovin' in the kitchen What have we got to lose Just a nasty case of These ol' wintertime blues Cold as snot with a big frozen smile Ain't foolin' nobody after a while Time to let the cat out I've got a real short fuse I'm just about to blow up These ol' wintertime blues There's no spring There was never any spring Spring's a long gone thing There won't ever be a spring no more At least that's the way it feels when your Skin is cracked and peeled And you've been livin' under Sixty pounds of blanket And the snow's drifting up to your window And you're out of firewood And the wolf is howling at your door Three hours of day light And all of them gray The suicide prevention group has all run away I'm running out of groceries I ain't got no rubber shoes Bring the bacon baby I got the wintertime blues I could cut a hole in the floor Catch you a fish by a quarter to four But I'm stuck up this mountain Where I got a bird's eye view Of couple more months of these Ol' wintertime blues And it's a one, two My lips are turning blue Come on over baby What have we got to lose Just a nasty case of These ol' wintertime blues And it's three, four I'm stiff as Al Gore Come on over baby What have we got to lose Just a nasty case of these ol' Wintertime blues Well, it's the same old drill For Punxsutawney Phil If he sees his own shadow I'm shootin' to kill Come on over baby I stand accused There's a man going crazy up here With the wintertime blues |
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| 5. |
| 4:21 |
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We made a pact
Lying there on our backs Swearing to every star That the sky did hold Promising our love was true Promising to see it through Then we headed due southwest Across the muscle shoals We slid down a riverbank In the pouring rain giving thanks For the strength just to carry on Through the fog and the cold There at the water's edge She tugged my arm And I nodded my head Just one more step And that river took a hold When my love crosses over I'm coming over too To cross that mighty river that's before us To the new western world Mountains high and plain unfurled Desert stretching out To touch the californias We said we'd never look back We never have and that's a fact That Mississippi washed us clean Down to the bone The journey's been long my friend Hell, you never know what state you're in Yeah, but the unknown It's always the unknown When my love crosses over I'm coming over too To cross that mighty river that's before us To the new western world Mountains high and plain unfurled Desert stretching out To touch the californias I lost track of you a while But you were waiting for me with a smile Made me feel like a little child With a brand new view Let's do it all over babe It'd just be another trip we made When my love crosses over I'm coming too |
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| 6. |
| 5:18 |
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In the forest of no gravity
Where birds mock reality We laid out some bread crumbs Yeah but somebody ate 'em Always thought we'd make it here But here keeps movin' How much blood How many tears It's never been proven Love's not where we thought we left it Who took the last of love and kept it Caged love in tried to protect it Love's not where we thought we left it The apostles were jealous Of Mary Magdalene and jesus Said why do you love her more than us Jesus turned back in disgust Said why do I love her more than you The answer is a question Just ask yourself what can I do To gain my lord's affection Love's not where you thought you left it Who took the last of love and kept it Caged love in tried to protect it Love's not where we thought we left it When men become more ladylike I'll see you in the candlelight When women come to be like men We'll be ashamed to fight again No jealous god's the only one Father, mother, ghost and son Love's unorthodox Changes all of nature's clocks To time remaining Just twenty-four hours For lovers in training Bitter, salty, sweet and sour Love's not where we thought we left it Who took the last of love and kept it Love's not where we thought we left it Who took the last of love and kept it Love's not where we thought we left it |
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| 7. |
| 5:40 |
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Come out of a fireball
Notes burning and the letters scrawled I ain't ever goin' back no more Bare light blub and a hotplate Was there that I finally met my fate And I ain't ever goin' back no more She danced the room and she made it fine I sang a song about a crooked line And I ain't ever goin' back no more She's my first love and she's my last Don't ask me how it ever came to pass 'cause I ain't ever goin' back no more I ain't going back no more Wouldn't even try to find that door And I ain't ever goin' back no more I don't care what the past has in store I ain't ever goin' back no more I ain't ever goin' back no more A pint of gin and a long bus trip Somebody said you just get over it I ain't ever goin' back no more I see her face at every shitty bar I have to play to pay for this guitar I ain't ever goin' back no more I'm singing every song for her tonight So bartender would you hit the lights 'cause I ain't ever goin' back no more A little something to remember me It's been so long lord she musn't see I ain't ever goin' back no more I ain't ever goin' back I ain't goin' back no more Wouldn't even try to find that door I ain't ever goin' back no more I don't care what the past has in store I ain't ever goin' back no more I ain't ever goin' back no more Dust settles in a darkened room Whiskey steals away the sense of doom I ain't ever goin' back no more We made love and we made hate Never could seem to get it straight I ain't ever goin' back no more baby You're branded on my soul and in my mind I keep running up and down this old fence line I ain't ever goin' back no more Only one thing in my life is true Honey I will remember you I ain't ever goin' back no more I ain't ever goin' back no more Wouldn't even try to find that door I ain't ever goin' back no more I don't care what the past has in store I ain't ever goin' back no more I ain't ever goin' back no more |
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| 8. |
| 5:34 |
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Well he packed up his suitcase
'cause the deal gone down She was slipping on her stockings Lord it made the sweetest sound There was a baby in the reeds Along the river outside of town As he wound his pocket watch To set time spinnin' 'em all around Wasn't long they'd be forgetting This old rainy Texas day Little fella wasn't meant For this old world anyway Gambling and whoring Hiding from plain view Tell me which one of us rounders Would you trust this poor child to You just roll on cold river Wash little moses down We've got business to attend to In Chicago Town In Chicago Town Well they rolled out of Austin On some kind of cattle train She'd been with him for a year Didn't know his second name He worked the small towns hustling nine ball She hooked the truck stops too They were trying to make Chicago Before the winter come blowing through Some trucker sprang a leak In California they supposed Started working Arizona Lord she missed the bloody rose They rambled through the southwest Making money and making time But they never could find no help Not a doctor, not that kind You just roll on cold river Wash little moses down We've got business to attend to In Chicago Town In Chicago Town Some women love their babies Some women won't have one Some Texas woman found him And we're still on the run The kind of life we're living He'd only slow us down Ain't good for nothing anyway Just rambling town to town You just roll on cold river Wash little moses down We've got business to attend to In Chicago Town In Chicago Town Well he unpacked his suitcase She pulled her stockings down Dreaming up a pool hall And shooting up a round She thought about tomorrow When the money rolled around That night they slept like babies In Chicago Town |
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| 9. |
| 4:48 |
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We were coming down the old turnpike
Horse hooves pounding, sledgehammer night You can tell 'em anything you like I was there with you baby Silver and diamonds and a skin full of tears The road narrowed then it disappeared Maybe you figured you might Wind up some place like here Acting like you never cared for me baby Now you shake me off Like the dust your boots are wearing The leather's soft but I'm cold and fast Makes me cough 'til I feel my lungs are tearing I'll never rest 'til I find you at last Find you at last The ground we covered's cracked and spit with rain Not enough here to fill the smallest vein Be all right if this god-forsaken terrain Just dried up and blew away baby Maybe my memory's just not right But we've been baptized by fire and light Eaten by the earth Swallowed up by the night I don't care where you think You're gonna stay baby Now you shake me off Like the dust your boots are wearing The leather's soft but I'm hard and fast Makes me cough 'til I feel my lungs are tearing I'll never rest 'til I find you at last Find you at last Find you at last Find you at last baby Find you at last I've been searching for an answer What a waste of time Should've picked your trail up sooner But I couldn't stop the pain That was breaking up my mind So I found some open country I forgot the past I don't care if you don't want me 'cause nothing matters any more baby 'til I find you at last Tonight you're sleeing on a cold dirt floor And in my dreams I'm crashing through your door But you don't recognize me anymore Do you baby 'til I find you at least Find you at last Find you at last baby Find you at last Find you at last 'til I find you at last Find you at last |
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| 10. |
| 3:19 |
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He's the old school
He don't say When he's hurtin' He'll just hide away 'till it 's over And tears are dry He's the old school And you can't see him cry He was young once Just like you A heart wide open To a love that is true He thought he found it Now she's gone And he's the old school Of love from now on He's just a student Like us all Learned a lesson By taking a fall There's noting new in This love game In the old school It's always the same He's the old school He don't say When he's hurtin' He'll just hide away 'till it 's over And tears are dry He's the old school And you can't see him cry He's the old school You can't see him cry. |
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| 11. |
| 3:52 |
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Back on the corner
I'm singing the blues I can see my reflection In the shine of your shoes Like momma used to say No news is good news And I'm back on the corner again Back on the corner Got my seeing-eye dog He's blind as justice And hungry as a hog I feel like a prince But I look like a frog And I'm back on the corner again Back on the corner Pitching pennies and dimes Hell, I don't even know How I got here this time Singing for my supper at 12th street and vine Back on the corner again Used to take seven pills Just to get up in the morning From seven different doctors With seven different warnings I'd call 'em up to say I'm coming apart They'd say call us back when the fireworks start Well I lost my address I lost my wife I lost my children I lost my knife But if you trifle with me It's my life against your life Back on the corner again Back on the corner Something's sticking in my craw How come everything I do Is up against the law You can't arrest a man, can you For trying to break his own fall Back on the corner again Back on the corner Got a pidgeon for a friend He said he'd come to see me But he did not say when One of these days He's gonna fly back home and then Back on the corner again Every long, drawn step it took to get me here Was full of best intentions Bright hopes and good cheer With dreams made out of silk Lined with silver and gold Too beautiful to mention Too heavy to ever hold Well, I'm back on the corner With the pimps and the whores Least I know what they're standing here for She smiles, tips me a dollar, And I play her one more Back on the corner again Back on the corner again Back on the corner again |
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