When a man has got the blues and feels discouraged And has nothing else but trouble all his life But he's just an honest man like any other Living in a world that's tearing at his mind If he's sick and tired of life and takes to drinking Do not pass him by don't greet him with a frown Do not fail to lend your hand and try to help him Always lift him up and never knock him down
If he stays out late at night because he's troubled Or because his home is not what it should be Have a smile for him wherever you might meet him It will help him find the right way don't you see If he gambles when he's in the town or city Tell him what he ought to do to win the round
Do not fail to lend your hand to show him pity Always lift him up and never knock him down
If he has no friends and everything's against him If he's failed in everything he has tried Try to lift his load and help him bear his burden Let him know that you are walking by his side If he feels that all is lost and he has fallen Help to place this poor man's feet on solid ground And when this world has turned its back against him Always lift him up and never knock him down
When the summer is come and gone As the leaves fall on the lawn I think about pleasures pass me bye And I am thinking of my old home And the love I left behind No I couldn't I go back there if I try
On my next go round I'm gonna keep it to The dreams we new Before I broke them down Gonna take your hand Wanna be the man Who pulls you from the ground I won't let you down On my next go round
We were standing on the edges Of a thousand burning bridges Sifting through the ashes every day What we thought would never end Now is nothing more than a memory The way things were before I lost my way
On my next go round I'm gonna keep it to The dreams we new Before I broke them down Gonna take your hand Wanna be the man Who pulls you from the ground I won't let you down On my next go round
Now the winds are blowing steady My bags are awful heavy I wish that I could stop and turn around But there are no second chances In a world of circumstances Oh in this life you don't get no next round
On my next go round Gonna start again Gonna let you in Gonna lay our burdens down Gonna be the one to never turn and run I'll always be around I won't let you down On the next go round
They say you were born in St. Clare's Hospital I say you were born up in the sky You come floatin' down over New Orleans To the sweet green levee on the riverside And your voice chirped like old squeaky shoes And mama always said we had nothin' to lose And so we danced on the street corner Oh Caroline Heartbroken hard times, they never got us down Walkin' the same line through every single southern town Hand-in-hand, your arm 'round mine Oh Caroline Oh Caroline Seen it all changin', watch it change some more Seen hard times standin' right outside your door Tell me gal, what's on your mind Oh Caroline We were the Cardinals' biggest fans Turnin' flips like Ozzy Smith all through the night Till we got traded away To the red clay southern league up on the Georgia line You'd be the pitcher and the catcher too I'm the homerun king for his muscles grew Gonna knock the cover off this time Oh Caroline Heartbroken hard times, they never got us down Walkin' the same line through every single southern town Hand-in-hand, your arm 'round mine Oh Caroline
Oh Caroline Seen it all changin', and watch it change some more Seen hard times standin' right outside your door Tell me gal what's on your mind Oh Caroline These are different days And the pace of the world has us thinkin' there's no time To turn the other way Take my hand, we'll walk on down the line Though we may be a thousand miles apart A brother and a sister have a single heart And the beat don't stop for nothin' Oh Caroline Heartbroken hard times, they never got us down Walkin' the same line through every single southern town Hand-in-hand, your arm round mine Oh Caroline Oh Caroline I seen it all changin', watch it change some more Seen hard times standin' right outside your door Tell me gal what's on your mind Oh Caroline Oh Caroline, Oh Caroline Oh Caroline, Oh Caroline Oh Caroline, Oh Caroline
You told me one You told me two You told me ten thousand lies, little girl You told me ten thousand lies Well you told me more lies Than stars in the sky You'll never get to heaven when you die, little girl You'll never get to heaven when you die
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I'm fallin' on my knees And I'm beggin' you please Won't you come along and stand by me, little girl Won't you come along and stand by me
I wished to the Lord That I never had been born That I'd died when I was young, little girl That I'd died when I was young I never would have kissed Your red rosy lips
Never heard your lying tongue, little girl No never heard your lying tongue
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I'm going down that road
That long lonesome road So won't you hang down head and cry little girl Oh hang down your little head and cry I give you all my money I give you all my time But you give me the back of your head, little girl Oh you give me the back of your head
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You'll never never
Never never Never never Never never
Never get to heaven when you die, little girl No you'll never get to heaven when you die
James River blues I just heard the awful news I could steer around the rocks But they're bustin' down the docks
James River blues That train came on through And the work's gotten slow So where's a boat man to go?
I think I'll float on down To Richmond town They don't need us anymore Hauling freight from shore to shore That big iron hauls much more Than we ever could before
I've seen good men going wrong I've seen bad ones get it right As that river rolls along I'll be steppin' out tonight
On the cool flow Floatin' down, down below The bridge till the waters edge From the ridge to the ledge
From the hills to the sea I'll become a memory James River blues James River blues James River blues
Well I swear your perfume babe is made out of turnip greens Every time I kiss you girl it tastes like pork and beans Even though you're wearing those uptown high heels I can tell from your giant step you've been walking through the cotton fields
Ohhhhh you're sooooo down home girl
Every time you monkey child takes my breath away Well every time you move like that girl I got to get down and pray Girl you know that dress you're wearing is made out of fiber glass Every time you move like that girl I got to go to Sunday Mass
Ohhhhh you're sooooo down home girl
I'm gonna to take you to the muddy river and push you in So I can watch the water roll on down your velvet skin I'm gonna take you down to New Orleans down in Dixie land So I can watch you do the second line with an umbrella in your hand
They say you were born in St. Clare's Hospital I say you were born up in the sky You come floatin' down over New Orleans To the sweet green levee on the riverside And your voice chirped like old squeaky shoes And mama always said we had nothin' to lose And so we danced on the street corner Oh Caroline Heartbroken hard times, they never got us down Walkin' the same line through every single southern town Hand-in-hand, your arm 'round mine Oh Caroline Oh Caroline Seen it all changin', watch it change some more Seen hard times standin' right outside your door Tell me gal, what's on your mind Oh Caroline We were the Cardinals' biggest fans Turnin' flips like Ozzy Smith all through the night Till we got traded away To the red clay southern league up on the Georgia line You'd be the pitcher and the catcher too I'm the homerun king for his muscles grew Gonna knock the cover off this time Oh Caroline Heartbroken hard times, they never got us down Walkin' the same line through every single southern town Hand-in-hand, your arm 'round mine Oh Caroline
Oh Caroline Seen it all changin', and watch it change some more Seen hard times standin' right outside your door Tell me gal what's on your mind Oh Caroline These are different days And the pace of the world has us thinkin' there's no time To turn the other way Take my hand, we'll walk on down the line Though we may be a thousand miles apart A brother and a sister have a single heart And the beat don't stop for nothin' Oh Caroline Heartbroken hard times, they never got us down Walkin' the same line through every single southern town Hand-in-hand, your arm round mine Oh Caroline Oh Caroline I seen it all changin', watch it change some more Seen hard times standin' right outside your door Tell me gal what's on your mind Oh Caroline Oh Caroline, Oh Caroline Oh Caroline, Oh Caroline Oh Caroline, Oh Caroline
Alabama high test....got me in a big mess Higher than a wild cat....runnin from the wolfpack They're gona put me in the slammer If they catch me with that Alabama high test
69 southbound, cruisin with a half pound Blue lights spinin round, better lay the hammer down Dirt road Tennessee, Aint nobody stoppin me Short run, state line, gotta keep makin time Alabama high test...
Huff paint, cocaine, playin chicken with a train Smack dab, Meth lab, mellow out, rehab Percocet, cigarette, I dont need no more of that Just gimmie some down home Dixie fried homegrown Alabama high test...
Alabama high test....got me in a big mess Higher than a wild cat....runnin from the wolfpack They're gona put me in the slamer If they catch me with that Alabama high test
Drug bust, disgust, plead with the cucuit judge "Son dont be coy, send you up the river Boy" Jump suit, chain gang, shackles on my feet and hand Standin on I-65 wishin I was rolling by with Alabama high test
Alabama high test....got me in a big mess Higher than a wild cat....running from the wolf pack They're gonna put me in the slammer If they catch me with that Alabama high test
Well the alley dogs are barking Chickens crowing down the lane And I feel just like that hipster With his mournful low refrain With the sun down on my shoulders Just a hanging around the yard I'm leaving here tomorrow Gonna catch an empty car
There's a thousand constellations In that brilliant, beaming sky But the Earth is just one station On that lonesome, starry line There's a distant whistle blowing Down a rusty stretch of track And i'm just an empty coal car On that train not coming back
Well I hate to see that evening sun go down Well it's lonesome coming down my trail Well I know this train will take me where i'm bound But I hate to see that evening sun go down
Well the sidewalks have their streetlamps And the city has a glow And the poor boy has the moonlight Walking in his shadow But the night time can't be trusted To return the morning sun And my eyes have not adjusted To this black face I got on
Well I hate to see that evening sun go down Well it's lonesome coming down my trail Well I know this train will take me where i'm bound But I hate to see that evening sun go down
Well the night time makes you lonesome For that early morning sun For the light upon the engine Reaching towards the dawn You can spend your whole life racing Down rusty railroad lines It's the setting sun you're chasing In that dark and rolling sky
Yes I hate to see that evening sun go down Well it's lonesome coming down my trail Well I know this train will take me where i'm bound But I hate to see that evening sun go down Yes I hate to see that evening sun go down
Were you there when the man from Atlanta was murdered in Memphis? Did you see him laying at the Lorraine Motel? Did you hear them say that the CIA is witness To the murder of a man at a motel in Memphis
Motel in Memphis Motel in Memphis Run and tell somebody There's blood on the riverside Oh muddy water Rollin' to Memphis If you were there you'd swear It was more than a man who died
Did you see Coretta she sobbing on the corner in her black viel? Did you see Mr. Crump in a white coat grin? Did you walk downriver where the cottonwoods are swinging with ghostly bodies of men?
Motel in Memphis Motel in Memphis Run and tell somebody
There's blood on the riverside Oh muddy water Rollin' to Memphis If you were there you'd swear It was more than a man who died
Were you there with Mahalia wailing at the funeral? Did you watch them lower his casket in? Did you tremble when you thought about the future and cry out for a martyred man?
Motel in Memphis Motel in Memphis Run and tell somebody There's blood on the riverside Oh muddy water Rollin' to Memphis If you were there you'd swear It was more than a man who died
party of the century no cops allowed just me and seven hundred others come on, join the crowd
we got wine, whiskey, women and guns how can you afford to not be having any fun if you got a gal, bring 'er and we'll all have a humdinger
naked horseshoes without care body surfing on a river of beer all the neighbors are saying their prayers we'll lift our glasses high in the air
we got wine, whiskey, women and guns how can you afford to not be having any fun if you're not a right-winger
then we'll all have a humdinger
making mardi gras look like work the belly dancers have gone berserk the morning's here, we're all still awake just looking for some more drugs to take passed out on a mound of fire ants only lost a shoe and a pair of pants went down hard, got up like a champ to see a biker dancing on my amp
if you're not a folk singer then we'll all have a humdinger if you're not a folk singer then we'll all have a humdinger
times, they ain't like nothing they used to be from rocky mount' to northeast tennessee where the river flows with a dusty, cold disease and the babies whine cause they can't find nothing to eat
but, mama, she ain't hungry no more she's waiting for a knock on the trailer door
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don't need no phd for a hundred dollar card just find a crooked cop and that doctor disregard cause when it's either the mine or the kentucky national guard um, i'd rather sell him a line than to be dying in the coal yard
now, papa, he ain't hungry no more he's waiting for a knock on the trailer door
it's gonna rock you like a hurricane it's gonna rock you 'til you lose sleep
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well, it's a war out there, and it's fought by poor white men from the Plateau to the falls of the Cumberland you better watch your back, 'cause you just can't trust a friend and the method man is going to get you in the end
so listen to the whispering wind it sounds like a big storm rolling in
it's gonna rock you like a hurricane it's gonna rock you 'til you lose sleep it's gonna rock you 'til you're out of a job it's gonna rock you 'til you're out on the street it's gonna rock you 'til you're down on your knees it's gonna have you begging pretty please it's gonna rock you like a hurricane methamphetamine
