타운스 반젠트는 컨트리 포크 싱어송라이터 중 컬트적인 인물로서 살아 생전 본인의 히트곡이 없이 기타를 들고 클럽을 전전하며 공연하는 떠돌이 가수였다. 그러나 그가 발표한 'Pancho and lefty'와 'If I needed you'를 윌리 넬슨, 에밀루 해리스가 부르며 히트를 친 뒤 그의 이름이 알려지기 시작했다. 오히려 죽은 뒤에 더 유명해졌고, 2000년대 그의 미공개 라이브 앨범이 열 장 가까이 출시되었다. .... ....
Living on the road my friend, Is gonna keep you free and clean Now you wear your skin like iron, Your breath as hard as kerosene. You weren't your mama's only boy, But her favorite one it seems She began to cry when you said goodbye, And sank into your dreams.
Pancho was a bandit boy, His horse was fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel. Pancho met his match you know On the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dying words, Ah but that's the way it goes.
All the Federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose.
Lefty, he can't sing the blues All night long like he used to. The dust that Pancho bit down south Ended up in Lefty's mouth The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go, There ain't nobody knows
The poets tell how Pancho fell, And Lefty's living in cheap hotels The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold, And so the story ends we're told Pancho needs your prayers it's true, But save a few for Lefty too He only did what he had to do, And now he's growing old
If I needed you Would you come to me, Would you come to me, And ease my pain? If you needed me I would come to you I'd swim the seas For to ease your pain
In the night forlorn The morning's born And the morning shines With the lights of love You will miss sunrise If you close your eyes That would break My heart in two
The lady's with me now Since I showed her how To lay her lily Hand in mine Loop and Lil agree She's a sight to see And a treasure for The poor to find
If I needed you Would you come to me, Would you come to me, And ease my pain? If you needed me I would come to you I'd swim the seas For to ease your pain
Living on the road my friend, Is gonna keep you free and clean Now you wear your skin like iron, Your breath as hard as kerosene. You weren't your mama's only boy, But her favorite one it seems She began to cry when you said goodbye, And sank into your dreams.
Pancho was a bandit boy, His horse was fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel. Pancho met his match you know On the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dying words, Ah but that's the way it goes.
All the Federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose.
Lefty, he can't sing the blues All night long like he used to. The dust that Pancho bit down south Ended up in Lefty's mouth The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go, There ain't nobody knows
The poets tell how Pancho fell, And Lefty's living in cheap hotels The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold, And so the story ends we're told Pancho needs your prayers it's true, But save a few for Lefty too He only did what he had to do, And now he's growing old
The wicked king of clubs awoke it was to his queen turned his lips were laughing as they spoke his eyes like bullets burned the sun's upon a gambling day his queen smiled low and blissfully let's make some wretched fool to play plain it was she did agree
He send his deuce down into diamond his four to hart, and his trey to spade three kings with their legions come preparations soon where made they voted club the days commander gave him an army face and number all but the outlaw jack of diamonds and the aces in the sky
He give his sevens first instructions spirit me a game of stud stakes unscarred by limitation 'tween a man named Gold and man named Mud Club filled Gold with greedy vapors 'til his long, green eyes did glow Mud was left with the sighs and trembles watching his hard earned money go
Flushes fell on Gold like water tens they paired and paired again but the aces only flew through heaven and the diamond jack called no man friend The diamond queen saw Muds ordeal began to think of her long lost son fell to her knees with a mother's mercy prayed to the angels every one
The diamond queen, she prayed and prayed and the diamond angel filled Muds hole the wicked king of clubs himself fell in face down in front of Gold now three kings come to Clubs command but the angels from the sky did ride three kings up on the streets of Gold three fireballs on the muddy side
The club queen heard her husband's call but Lord that queen of diamond's joy when the outlaw in the heavenly hall turned out to be a wandering boy Now Mud he checked and Gold bet all and Mud he raised and Gold did call and the smile just melted off his face when Mud turned over that diamond ace
Now here's what this story's told if you feel like Mud you'll end up Gold if you feel like lost, you'll end up found so amigo, lay them raises down
Don't you take it too bad if you're feelin' unlovin' if you're feelin unfeelin' if you're feelin' alone Don't take it too bad
'Cause it ain't you to blame, babe Lord, it's just some kind of game made out of all of this living that we got left to do
And if you go searchin' for rhyme or for reason then you won't have the time that it take just for talkin' about the places you've been, babe about the places you've seen, babe and how soft the time flies past your window at night
And we just can't have that, girl 'cause it's a sad, lonesome, cold world and a man need a woman just to stand by his side and whisper sweet words in his ears about daydreams and roses and playthings and the sweetness of springtime and the sound of the rain
Well, the clouds didn't look like cotton they didn't even look like clouds I was underneath the weather my friends looked a crowd The swimmin' hole was full of rum I tried to find out why All I learned was this my friend you got to swim before you fly
I got two girls one's in heaven and one's below Oh, one I love with all my heart and one I do not know.
Two lonesome dudes on an ugly horse Passed by not long ago They asked me where the action was I said I did not know As they disappeared into the brush I heard the driver say He's a little slow between the ears He's always been that way.
Jolly Jane just lays around and listens with her mouth she's had about a dozen husbands but the last one pulled out Now, who's gonna bring her dinner through the weary years ahead all she'll get from me is sympathy got no time to see she's fed.
It's cold down on the bayou they say it's in your mind but the moccasins are treadin' ice and leavin strange designs Cajuns say the last time that this happend they weren't here All Beaumont's full of penguins and I'm a-playin' it by ear.
If I needed you Would you come to me, Would you come to me, And ease my pain? If you needed me I would come to you I'd swim the seas For to ease your pain
In the night forlorn The morning's born And the morning shines With the lights of love You will miss sunrise If you close your eyes That would break My heart in two
The lady's with me now Since I showed her how To lay her lily Hand in mine Loop and Lil agree She's a sight to see And a treasure for The poor to find
If I needed you Would you come to me, Would you come to me, And ease my pain? If you needed me I would come to you I'd swim the seas For to ease your pain
I got a brand new companion Man, I'm gonna do my best this time I got a brand new companion Man, I'm gonna do my best this time You know she cools me with her breathin' Chases away those howlin' bottles of wine
She fits just like my guitar Man, she's near as tall as me She fits just like my guitar She's near as tall as me She lives way out the D train But she's Texas as can be
She got a home-spun disposition Man, she's just as gentle as you please She got a home-spun disposition Man, she's just as gentle as you please She got arms just like two rattle snakes Legs just like a billow in the breeze
I got a brand new companion Man, I'm gonna do my best this time I got a brand new companion Man, I'm gonna do my best this time I want to trace her with my body I want to track her with my mind
I'm goin out on the highway listen to them big trucks whine I'm goin out on the highway listen to them big trucks whine
White freight liner won't you steal away my mind Ah, New Mexico ain't bad, Lord and the people there they treat you kind and the people there they treat you kind
Well, it's bad news from Houston half my friends are dying Well, it's bad news from Houston half my friends are dying
Ah, Lord, I'm gonna ramble till I get back to where I came Ah, Lord, I'm gonna ramble till I get back to where I came
I'm goin out on the highway listen to them big trucks whine I'm goin out on the highway listen to them big trucks whine
Won't say I love you, babe, won't say I need you, babe, but I'm gonna get you babe and I will not do you wrong. Living's mostly wasting time and I'll waste my share of mine but it never feels to good, so let's don't take to long. You're soft as glass and I'm a gentle man; we got the sky to talk about and the earth to lie upon.
Days, up and down they come like rain on a congadrum forget most, remember some but don't turn none away. Everything is not enough and nothin' is to much to bear. Where you been is good and gone all you keep is the getting there.
To live is to fly Low and high, so shake the dust off of your wings and the sleep out of your eyes.
Goodbye to all my friends it's time to go again think of all the poetry and the pickin' down the line I'll miss the system here the bottom's low and the treble's clear But it don't pay to think to much on things you leave behind. I will be gone but it won't be long I will be a'bringin' back the melodies and rhythm that I find.
We all got holes to fill them holes are all that's real. Some fall on you like a storm, sometimes you dig your own. The choice is yours to make, time is yours to take; some sail upon/dive into the sea, some toil upon the stone.
To live is to fly Low and high, so shake the dust off of your wings and the sleep out of your eyes;
shake the dust off of your wings and the tears out of your eyes.
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