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Raindrops fall and you feel low
Do you ever feel it's useless, yeah yeah ? Do you feel like letting go ? Well do you ever stop and do you wonder ? Will the world ever change ? Yes, well just how long will it take to have it all re-arranged ? Tell me why these things are still the same ? Tell me why no one can seem to learn from mistakes ? Take my hand if you don't know where you're goin' I'll understand I've lost the way myself Oh, won't you, oh don't take that old road, it leads to nowhere We must return before the clock strikes twelve. Oh, it's so easy to do nothin' when you're busy night and day Take a step in one direction, ooh yeah take a step the other way So, don't quit tryin' when you stumble, don't give up should you fall Oh, won't you keep on searchin' for the pathway that leads you through the wall. Don't look back or you'll be left behind Don't look back or you will never find peace of mind. Take my hand if you don't know where you're goin' I'll understand, you know I've, I've lost the way myself Now listen here, I don't want to, I don't want to take that old road, it leads to nowhere We must return before the clock strikes twelve. |
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Working every day of my life
See what you can under candlelight A dollar a day don't go so far My mowan's alive and I know she strive for me I know that times are bad but I'm so glad My woman come back to me and soon we be three A dollar a day don't go so far My mowan's alive and I know she strive for me Put me on a stick shift Put me on a stick shift |
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She pays no mind to methods you employ
She wants a big city man, not a country boy Go get your long hair cut Scrape the mood off your boots Wash the hell behind those eyes Buy yourself some tailored suits Buttermilk Boy better gain some pounds Before she lets her knickers down She wants a musclely man all gristle and bone Makes no difference how you strive She couldn't care if you're dead or alive A burly, beefy, strong arm man Is all she cares to meet Before you ever heard the word guitar Your mother used to see her as a star Yes, she spent her teens In chauffeured limousines And I heard tell you can't get insured For a clapped out '45 drop head Ford Buttermilk Boy better gain some pounds Before she lets her knickers down She wants a musclely man all gristle and bone She'll tear you down like a steer comin' through Like I said she ain't no use to you A lumpy hairy mundaine brain Is all she cares to make So let me put you straight Marry farm-yard Kate She weights two hundred pounds it's said But she'll keep you warm in bed Buttermilk Boy better gain some pounds Before she lets her knickers down She wants a musclely man all gristle and bone So you think you know where it's about But she will suck you in and then she'll blow you out Yes, Kate will keep you satisfied Until your dying day In chauffeured limousines |
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Here I am with dust in my pants
I don't know what to do Been on the road for almost a week I just wanna be with you Makes no difference where I am Feeling hard to breathe If I thought you felt the same Wouldn't be so bad for me Thought I know all about it from the start Took a short cut to nowhere To make it feel alright Got to cut this travelling out I hate sayin' goodbye We leave the day we arrive Or I'll wanna know why Crowing closer, comin' in out of the dark Here I am with dust in my pants I don't know what to do Been on the road for almost a week I just wanna be with you |
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Can I face tomorrow
With the news you bring me My soul feels cold like ice A pinprick makes no pain Hear me, listen, help me I felt our thing change From love to something else How can it plague my mind A pinprick makes no pain Hear me, listen, help me I shall find myuself But I must have the time To sow the seeds of something new Farmer plough the field Harvest all you can A corn field smells so sweet A pinprick makes no pain Hear me, listen, help me But to follow the weaver of dreams Behind the sun that knows, it seems that I am foresworn - a naked troubadour I sit at court and I sing To the Princess of Beauty and Light She favours me though I'm merely A minstrel of the night There on my right Sits the King with his clowns He pays to laugh While his queen lives on downs And the smile on his brow is the crown Morning bird sing, fill my ears With the joy of our sorrow unmasked Lend me your wings for the sunrays of dawn Are here to last I take my leave, as I leave I must take All I have seen in my dream - then I wake And it is as safe as yesterday is |
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Muskets aimed right at my head
It's just our job to do they said Have you anything to say A preacher whispered and swayed Why a man in a checked shirt shot him down on the ground Tell the dream I have all alone And I know when I go I'll go alone You make me fell like I am What I am I seem much older than then But I'm young, why feel down My eyes are closed I cannot speak Though I hear you talk to me Where's a man I saw dead cold I'll count ten and make sure Here I am with my hands bound in a plane going down fast Tell the dream I have all alone And I know when I go I'll go alone Where can I find you to tell you the truth I'll raise a flag of white satin brocade Why feel down Muskets aimed right at my head I closed my eyes there in my bed People talk and I don't hear a word All that they say I can say with a nod Why feel down The captain cried out to his mate That man has had his time don't wait Have you anything to say A preacher whispered and swayed Why a man in a checked shirt shot him down on the ground Tell the dream I have all alone And I know when I go I'll go alone |
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Thinking of the past I feel my life
Is slipping by at such a speed Things I knew have gone and those I loved I look for granted and deceived Call me anything you will I'll hide behind a purple pill And though it seems I'm laughing still I'm crying Looking from my window I see winter Almost too bare to believe People change with seasons And I wonder if it's my turn to receive But they avoid the things I ask Or quickly change their style of mask The faith I had is fading fast I'm dying Seems to me the only way to be Is like a business man And have bad colours round my head Getting drunk to find some peace of mind and consolation But there's still the problem of what happens when I'm dead |
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There she is again steppin' out of her limousine, well
Looking like the cover of a twenty-dollar magazine She's got it where you find it, if you know what I mean She's a natural born woman A natural born woman She's a natural born woman There she is again watch her stop the Main Street in its tracks Looking like Creole queen, hair hangin' down her back I say, don't look too long, boy, she'll make your glasses crack She's a natural born woman A natural born woman Natural born woman Get your track Yeah, natural born woman Yeah, yeah... Natural born woman Yeah, yeah... She's a natural born woman Well, I'm sweatin' and I'm shakin' when I'm bringin' you the news You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes That's why I'm standin' here today preachin' natural born woman blues Well, she's a natural born woman Well, yeah, natural born woman Well, yeah, natural born woman Well, I'm looking out my back door wonderin' which place to go Think I'll move on down to Memphis, pay my money to see a rock 'n' roll show Find me a sweet-heart Susie, together we can lose control Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah She's a natural born woman Yeah, yeah, natural born woman Yeah, natural born woman Yeah, ooh Ooh All right Ooh |
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Take me back where I come from
All I need, feeling blue Friends that I made in my youth Now I'm older, I love them more. Moon shines bright above never seems to change Ever smiling face, no one asks why Everyone wanted his soul All he gave them was a smile. People can change overnight You most of all, yeah that's right Find yourself on the ground Where you been ? What have you found ? Yeah, now you know the score, never want no more Ooh keep yourself in your own mind Can you believe what I say ? That I'm glad, feeling sad ? I'm feeling awful cold I've just been bought and sold In my eyes you'll see the sign of fear. Mmm take me back to see what I left behind, yeah Ooh superficial people told him where to go Everyone wanted his soul All he gave them was a smile, oh. |
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When I was just a kid back in Abeline
I had to use a gun, well for my own sake I shot a man down when I was just eighteen And from that day they call me Shaky Jake. Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do ? Texas Rangers coming after you Here's the price you pay for one mistake So get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake. Ma says I was born under bad sign I was lookin' for the chance to make or break I cut my teeth on a brandin' iron I'm the devil's own son, I'm Shaky Jake. Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do ? Texas Rangers coming after you Here's the price you pay for one mistake So get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake. I keep on the run now I travel by night I don't need anyone But someone, one day, somewhere's gonna see me right. Dig a hole about six foot deep Pray the Lord my soul to take I don't want flowers and nobody's gonna weep Here lies that outlaw, Shaky Jake. Oh Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do ? Texas Rangers coming after you Here's the price you pay for one mistake So get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake. Shakey Jake Shakey Jake Shakey Jake Shakey Jake Shakey Jake Shakey Jake. Oh Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do ? Texas Rangers coming after you Here's the price you pay for one mistake So get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake. |
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I, I love you
And I love the sun too They make bright my light The light of love, the light of life I know just how good it can be. My past leaves a trail, bitter and sweet Demands on my life were hard to meet Didn't know how or the reason for But when I found my love, I found much more I know just how good it can be. You're aware, what I ain't got But what I got is yours to share. My how it's good to see The little things that never used to be Now it's of some concern Like the old man say : 'If you live you learn' I know just how good it can be. I, I love you And I love the sun too They, they make bright my light With the light of love, the light of life I know just how good it can be. |
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Tell me, have you ever seen me sad before ?
With thought of more than just a laugh ? You know that all I hope to do is make you understand Just what I am and what I'm trying to say. I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try To make you talk to me I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna cry The hidden fear, you won't see. And then if when I try, though I start to fall Down along the way Will you pick me up or would you put me down ? Surely sir, I really could not say, oh yeah. I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try To make you talk to me I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna cry The hidden fear, you won't see. And then I know I try to fly Like bird with broken wing And I'm running before I can walk I need, I need someone to take my hand Lead me through the wall. I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try To make you talk to me I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna cry The hidden fear, the hidden fear, you won't see, yeah .. |
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Well, the show's all over, I'll just pack my guitar
Well, what am I doing here, girl ? Get up, c'mon make for your car Head on back to where the air is clear. There's a young girl there who's part of my life She says I'm her only, I call her my wife I'm so glad to be back home again. Well, let me sit down slowly, put my feet up somewhere I let it all out of my head Well a day-dreamin' guitar-pickin', nothin'-doin' pint of milk Wakes up with the horrors of a hotel bed. But it's alright, there's a hand on my cheek And it belongs to the girl that makes my will power weak I'm so glad to be back home again. Oh, get on home. Well, there's a young girl there who's part of my life She says I'm her only but I call her my wife I'm so glad to be back home again, ooh, ooh. Get on home, yeah. I'm so glad to be back home again (I don't want your money but I just want your lovin') Well, I'm so glad to be back home again (I don't want your money but I just want your lovin') I'm so glad to be back home again (I don't want your money but I just want your lovin') I'm so glad to be back home again (I don't want your money but I just want your lovin') I'm so glad I'm back home again (I don't want your money but I just want your lovin') ... |
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1, 2, 3, 4
The last time I saw her, she was waving me goodbye She swore no other boy would take my place I took a Mississippi Queen through New Orleans and down the Bayou I hoped to find my destiny, my fortune and my face. Please tell her that I said hello Explain to her I didn't want to go But a message from her daddy said : 'He's gonna see me dead' And if I can get out now, she'll never know She'll never know, never know. I stayed around, I played around with all those Southern belles But they took away my money and my pride I had no place to go and the rest you know darn well Living out the gutter ain't so easy to describe. But I still had my guitar, so I joined a dirty band Working in a smoky downtown bar When comes along this big wheel with a contract in his hand Said : 'Put your mark along here boy, I'm gonna make you a rock'n'roll star'. Please tell her that I said hello Explain to her I didn't want to go But a message from her daddy said : 'He's gonna see me dead' And if I can get out now, she'll never know Never know, never know. Well the years have come and gone and I was passing through to find That my home town was still the same to see Well, the memory I had of her had crumbled from my mind I really didn't think she'd still be waiting here for me. Please tell her that I said hello Explain to her I didn't want to go But a message from her daddy said : 'He's gonna see me dead' And if I can get out now, she'll never know She'll never know, never know. Mmm ... If I can get out now, she'll never know Never know, never know Never know, never know Never know. |
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Heartbeat, why do you miss when my baby kisses me ?
Heartbeat, why does a love's kiss stay in my memory ? Riddle-dee pat, I know that new love thrills me I know what will be, will be Heartbeat, why do you miss when my baby kisses me ? Riddle-dee-pat and sing to me love stories Reveal to me love's glory. Heartbeat, why do you miss when my baby kisses me ? |
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Tell me what to say and I'll write a book today
About our love dear, oh People try to talk to me and they tell me who I ought to be Today dear, ooh-ooh. Only you can see that I love you That I love you, ooh. Tell me what to think and I'll fix myself a drink To drink to you dear, oh no no Why am I so ill at ease ? Don't people get down on their knees For me, dear. Girl, only you understand, hold my hand Hold my hand. Oh, only you can see that I love you Yeah that I love you. |
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You look to me like you know what you see
Every step that you take coming closer Yes I can see underneath your I.D. You're a woman, oh you're a woman. On your hands are the rings that a bond of love brings And your eyes tell a story of sorrow Yes I have the love of an elf and a dove And a woman, and a woman. Love sings like a nightingale lantern show I love you Your light is in me, me. If you held the key, would you share it with me ? And take me to where you belong ? Like a fly to a light, I'd be there every night With my woman. Feel a kiss from your soul here inside of me I love you Please say you want me, me Please say you want me, me Oh yeah, oh yeah My woman yeah, oh be my woman. |
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When she turns away I cry
All I want to know is why Shut the light out, close your eyes When you wake her, say goodbye. What does she do when I hide ? When can I be by her side ? Yes again, again, again. Strap me in a ship that flies Hit the ground, you breathe a sigh Kiss the ground, she smiles hello Time apart just makes love grow. What does she say to make me feel good ? Now that I'm here by her side Once again. I'll give you all I have Don't you see I'll give my life ? Autumn comes again so near Leaves are falling fast I fear Turn the heat on, wipe your eyes What you have can never die. Now is the time that I know why, know why When can I be by her side ? Yes again. I'll give you all I have Don't you see I'll give my life ? I'll give my life for you I'll give my life for you. |
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Little black train goin' down the track,
took my baby away. If she ever come back be a brand new day. Sittin' out here in the midnight cold, waitin' for the morning sun. I don't wanna be old, Lord, I just wanna die young. Lookin' out my back door I wonder which place to go. Get my ticket on the Rock Island Line, the Rock Island Line is a mighty fine road to ride. Lookin' out my back door baby, I'm wonderin' which place to go. Get my ticket on the Rock Island Line, I know the Rock Island Line is a mighty fine road to ride. Little black train goin' down the track, took my baby and gone. If she ever come back to me I'm gonna sing her this song. |
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