Friend
of the Devil
(Original by The
Grateful Dead)
I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds
Didn't get to sleep last night 'till the morning came around.
Set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.
Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills
I spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills.
Set out runnin' but I take my time, a friend of the devil is a
friend of mine,
If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.
I ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there
He took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air.
Set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night,
The first one's named Sweet Anne Marie, and she's my hearts delight.
The second one is prison, babe, the sheriff's on my trail,
And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail.
Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee
The first one says she's got my child, but it don't look like
me.
Set out runnin' but I take my time,
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine,
If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.
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Return of the Grevious Angel
(Original by Gram
Parsons)
Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich
and welcome me back to town
Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor
and I'll show you how it all went down
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
and a good saloon in every single town
Oh, and I remember something you once told me
and I'll be damned if it did not come true
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
and they all lead me straight back home to you
`Cause I headed west to grow up with the country
Across those prairies with the waves of grain
And I saw my devil,
and I saw my deep blue sea
And I thought about a calico bonnet from
Cheyenne to Tennessee
We flew straight across that river bridge,
last night at half past two
The switchman wave his lantern goodbye
and so long as we went rolling through
Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel
And now I know just what I have to do
And the man on the radio won't leave me alone
He wants to take my money for something
that I've never been shown
And I saw my devil,
and I saw my deep blue sea
And I thought about a calico bonnet from
Cheyenne to Tennessee
The news I could bring I met up with the king
On his head an amphetamine crown
He talked about unbuckling that old Bible belt
And lighted out for some desert town
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
And a good saloon in every single town
Oh, but I remembered something you once told me
and I'll be damned if it did not come true
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
and they all lead me straight back home to you
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
And they all lead me straight back home to you
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Wiseblood
(Kurt Stevenson, Patrick Winningham, & Chris Boesel)
I'm an outcast that no one can save anymore
and the days of my youth, have all long gone by
I was the kind of boy the devil would offer a
smoke or a drink to or a ride downtown to some God forsaken land.
One Sunday morning at dawn you know they baptized my soul
but they held me down so long Christ I almost drowned
Yeah I was the kind of boy who never learned to smile
so I kicked and I screamed
'till I tore myself lose from all
these great big hands Oh Yeah Chorus:
Wiseblood knows I walk the way the wind blows
Wiseblood hears grace whisper right behind
My momma, she turned around and said
"Little boy you better wake up.... cause you're the walking dead"
Oh she was the kind a girl
who never touched a smoke or a drink she just smoldered like an
empty church left to burn in the wind
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The Ghost In You
(Original by the Psychedelic
Furs
A man in my shoes runs a light
All the papers lie tonight
But falling over you
is the news of the day
Angels fall like rain
and love , is all of heaven way
inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade away
The race is on, I'm on your side
but hearing you my engines died
I'm in the mood for you
or for running away
All the stars come down in you
but love, love, love you cant give it away
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade away
don't you know she don't fade
don't you go it makes no sense
And all these talking superman
just take away the time just to get it away
aint it just like the rain
cause love,love,love,love is only heaven away
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade away
Inside you the time moves and she don't fade away
the ghost in you she don't fade
A man in my shoes runs a light
but all the papers lie tonight
falling over you is the news of the day
and love will not fade away
and love love love will not fade away
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The Richest Man
(Original By C.J
Chenier)
If I had a dollar
For every time
you broke my heart
messed up my mind
I'd be the richest man
I'd be the richest man
in the world
If bad times paid interest
I'd have you to thank
I'd be driving a new car
Have money in the bank
I'd be the richest man
I'd be the richest man
in the world
baby baby
Money cant buy love
the kind I dream of
that's so hard to find
A good woman's touch
in the morning when I rise
baby I'd give up every single dime
Money cant buy love the kind I dream of
that's so hard to find
For a good woman's touch in the morning when I rise
baby I'd give up every single dime
If teardrops were diamonds
from the African mines
if heartaches were silver
my whole life would shine
I'd be the richest man
I'd be the richest man
in the world
baby baby... ooOOOOoooo
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Maggie May
(Original by Rod
Stewart)
Wake up Maggie, I think I've got something to say to you
It's late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused
But I feel I'm being used
Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that's what really hurts
The morning sun when it's in your eyes really shows your age
But that don't worry me none, in my eyes you're everything
I laughed at all of your jokes
My love you didn't need to coax
Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my soul and that's a pain I can do without
All I needed was a friend to lend a helping hand
But you turned into a lover and mother, what a lover, you wore
me out
All you did was wreck my bed
and in the morning kick me in the head
Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more
You led me away from home
'Cause you didn't want to be alone
You stole my heart, I couldn't leave you if I tried
I suppose I could collect my books and go on back to school
Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living at playing pool
Or find myself a rock and roll band
That needs a helping hand
Oh Maggie, I wished I'd never seen your face
You made a first class fool out of me
But I'm as blind as a fool can be
You stole my heart but I love you anyway
I'd never seen your face
I'll get on back home, one of these days
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How Can I Live Without You..
(original by
Cracker)
You can still come and make me coffee in the mornin
You can still come and cook me chicken fried steak
You can live your life with whomever you please to,
As long as someone takes good care of me
you know I don't mind.
How can I live without you
if it means I gotta get a job?
You could still come, bring me those fancy pastries.
You can still come round, crawl into my bed.
You can live your life with whomever you please to,
as long as someone takes good care of me
you know I don't mind.
How can I live without you
if it means I gotta get a job?
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Pancho & Lefty
(Original
by Townes Van Zandt)
Livin' on the road, my friend
Was gonna keep you free and clean
But now you wear your skin like iron
And 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, boys
His horse as 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
No one heard his dyin' 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
All the federales say
They could have had him any day
We only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose
The poets tell how Pancho fell
And Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
The desert's quiet and 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 growin' old
All the federales say
We could have had him any day
They only let him go so long
Out of kindness, I suppose
A few old gray federales still say
We could have had him any day
We only let him go so long
Out of kindness, I suppose
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Bad Time
(Original by - Grand
Funk Railroad)
I'm in love with a girl
I'm talking about
I'm in love with a girl I cant live without
I'm in love but I sure picked a bad time to be in love
a bad time to be in love
Let her be somebody else's queen
I don't want to know about it
too many others who know what I mean
that's why I got to live without it
said I'm in love with a girl
I'm talking about
I'm in love with a girl
I cant live without
I'm in love
but I feel like I'm wearing it out
I'm in love
but I must have picked a bad time to be in love
a bad time to be in love
a bad time to be in love
a bad time to be in love
a bad time to be in love
The story is coming back to me
from my friends and the people I don't want to see
The things they're saying I know just couldn't be true
at least not until I hear it from you
cause I love a little girl
I'm talking about
I'm in love with a girl
I can't live without
I'm in love
but I feel like I'm wearing it out
i'm in love
but I must have picked a bad time to be in love
a bad time to be in love
a bad time to be in love
a bad time to be in love
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Thunder Road
(Original by Bruce
Springsteen)
(done as an alternate in Rain King)
The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me
Oh oh come take my hand
Driving out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
oh Thunder Road
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me
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Dancing Days
(Original by - Led
Zeppelin)
Dancing days are here again
As the summer evenings grow
I got my flower, I got my power
I got a woman who knows.
CHORUS
I said it's alright
You know it's alright
I guess it's all in my heart
You'll be my only, my one and only
Is that the way it should start?
Crazy ways are evident
In the way that you're wearing your clothes
Suppin' boze is precedent
As the evening starts to glow.
CHORUS
I told your mamma I'd get you home
But I didn't tell her I had no car
I saw a lion he was standing alone
With a tadpole in a jar.
CHORUS
Dancing days are here again
As the summer evening grows
You are my flower, you are my power
You are my woman who knows.
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A Good Year For The Roses
(Original by - George
Jones)
I can hardly stand the sight of lipstick
on the cigarettes there in the ashtray.
Lying cold the way you left them,
but at least your lips caressed them
while you packed.
Or the lip print on a half-filled cup
of coffee that you poured
and didn't drink.
But at least you thought you wanted it
which is so much more than I can say for me.
REFRAIN
It's been a good year for the roses
Many blooms still linger there.
The lawn could stand another mowing
it's funny, I don't even care
But as you turned and walked away
As the door behind you closes
The only thing I thought to say
was what a good year for the roses
After three, four years of marriage
it's the first time that you haven't made the bed
I guess the reason we're not talking,
is there's so little left to say that we haven't said
While a million thoughts go racing through my mind
I guess I haven't said a word
From the bedroom, the familiar sound
of our one baby's crying goes unheard
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Four White Stallions
(Original by Patrick Winningham)
She had four white stallions coming around the bend
Four strong angels at her command descend
four more seasons for all that's broken to mend
I got four more reasons why I
can't go back there again
She had skin like a statue
milky white and pure
carved by an artist
who's hand is demure
Got a mind I like a saber
razor sharp and sure
God how I hate myself
for still wanting her...
Damn these nights are dreaming..
Visions soft and sure
Cause I wake to find there's
nothing left of me in her..
Nothing more than a heart still at war..
She had four white stallions coming around the bend..
Four strong angels already sinned
I got four good reasons for all that's broken to mend..
I got four more seasons for all that's broken to mend..
I got four more reasons why I cant go back there again..
I got four good reasons why I cant go back there again.
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Mercy (Kurt Stevenson,
Patrick Winningham, & Chris Boesel)
Originally recorded for the Georgia
soundtrack
I got a feeling
of unrighteousness
bitter cold
hollow bitterness
down the road
I walk with loneliness
mercy will follow me I'm told
Beneath this skin
there lies a heart of stone
It's growing old
so very far, from home
but a heart of gold
I may someday own?
and mercy will follow me, I'm told
mercy will you follow me
mercy will you follow me
to the final breath at last I take
mercy will you follow me
mercy will you follow me
Till the chain of this old world I finally break.
My sister sang
songs so sweet and sad
bout a man
whos love I never had
there's a train
bound for gilead
mercy will follow me I'm told
mercy will you follow me
mercy will you follow me
till my final breath at last I take
mercy will you follow me
mercy will you follow me
Till the chains of this old world I finally break
Till the chains of this old world I finally break
Till the chains of this old world I finally break
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Blue Eyes Crying in the
Rain
(Written by Fred Rose. Recorded by Willie
Nelson, Elvis Presley, and Hank Williams SR.)
In the twilight glow I see her
Blue eyes crying in the rain
When we kissed goodbye and parted
I knew we'd never meet again
Love is like a dying ember
Only memories remain
Through the ages I remember
Blue eyes crying in the rain
Someday when we meet up yonder
We'll stroll hand in hand again
In a land that knows no parting
Blue eyes crying in the rain
Blue eyes crying in the rain
Blue eyes crying in the rain
Blue eyes crying in the rain
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Flesh #1 (Beatle Dennis)
(Original by Robyn
Hitchcock & The Egyptians)
There's a house burning down on the radio, but
We're in luck, we don't mind, we're as far as I can tell
Everyone worries so much about themselves
There's nothing happening to you that means anything at all
There's a plane crashing down on the studio, but
We're in luck, we're not there, so we're somewhere else instead
Everyone wishes so much upon themselves
There's not a thing that you can do that'll make me come again
There's a house burning down on the radio, but
We're in love, we don't mind, we're as far as I can tell
Everyone worries so much about themselves
There's nothing happening to you that means anything at all
There's not a thing that you can do that'll make you live again
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My Winding Wheel
(Original by Ryan
Adams)
Well night time let her through
Yeah I am talking to you
I wanna see her
Precious little thing
with eyes that dance around without their clothes
So buy a pretty dress
Wear it out tonight
For anyone you think could out do me
Or better still, be my winding wheel
Cause I feel just like a map
Without a single place to go of interest
And I am further north than south
If I could shut my mouth she'd probably like this
So buy a pretty dress
And wear it out tonight
For all the boys you think could out do me
Or better still, be my winding wheel
Be my winding wheel
Well the children laugh and sing a song that ushers in her driving
rain
And I am standing in the station like some old record waiting
on a train
So buy a pretty dress
Wear it out tonight
For anyone you think could out do me
Or better still be my winding wheel
Be my winding wheel
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Baby Blue
(Original by Badfinger
)
Guess I got what I deserve,
Kept you waiting there, too long my love
All that time, without a word,
Didn't know you'd think, that I'd forget, or I'd regret
The special love I have for you, my baby blue
All the days became so long,
Did you really think, I'd do you wrong
Dixie, when I let you go,
Thought you'd realize, that I would know, I would show
The special love I have for you, my baby blue
What can I do, what can I say
except that I want you by my side
How can I show, you, show me a way
Don't you know, the times I tried (solo)
Guess that's all I have to say,
Except the feeling just gets stronger everyday
Just one thing, before I go
Take good care, baby, let me know, let it grow
The special love, you have for me, my Dixie dear
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Thirteen
(Original by Big
Star)
Won't you let me walk you home from school
Won't you let me meet you at the pool
Maybe Friday I can
get tickets for the dance
and I'll take you
Won't you tell your dad, "Get off my back"
Tell him what we said 'bout 'Paint It Black'
Rock 'n Roll is here to stay
Come inside where it's okay
And I'll shake you.
Won't you tell me what you're thinking of
Would you be an outlaw for my love
If it's so, well, let me know
If it's "no", well, I can go
I won't make you
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Come Pick Me Up
(Original by Ryan
Adams)
When they call your name
will you walk right up
with a smile on your face?
Or will you cower in fear
in your favorite sweater
with an old love letter?
I wish you would
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends
They're all full of shit
With a smile on your face
And then do it again
I wish you would
When you're walking downtown
do you wish I was there?
Do you wish it was me?
With the windows clear and the mannequins eyes
Do they all look like mine?
You know you could
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends behind my back
With a smile on your face
and then do it again
I wish you would
I wish you'd make up my bed
So I could make up my mind
Try it for sleeping instead
Maybe you'll rest sometime
I wish I could
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Outside Chance
(Original by The
Turtles/Warren Zevon)
You can try to please me
But it won't be easy
Stone walls surround me
I'm surprised that you even found me
Chorus:
And you don't stand an outside chance
(you don't stand an outside chance)
You don't stand an outside chance
But you can try
Whatever you do girl
You know you can't get through girl
Can't bring me down
Hang me up or even hang around
[repeat chorus]
I know you think you'll get me
I'm only flesh and bone
But you may as well forget me
'Cause my heart is stone
You better leave me alone
Stand an outside chance
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Unsatisfied
(Original by The
Replacements)
Look me in the eye
then, tell me that I'm satisfied
Was you satisfied?
Look me in the eye
then, tell me that I'm satisfied
Hey, are you satisfied?
And it goes so slowly on
Everything I've ever wanted
Tell me what's wrong
Look me in the eye
and tell me that I'm satisfied
Were you satisfied?
Look me in the eye
then, tell me I'm satisfied
And now are you satisfied?
Everything goes
Well, anything goes all of the time
Everything you dream of
is right in front of you
And every dream is a lie
Look me in the eye
And tell me that I'm satisfed
Look me in the eye
Unsatisfied
I'm so, I'm so unsatisfied
I'm so dissatisfied
I'm so, I'm so unsatisfied
I'm so unsatisfied
Well, I'm-a
I'm so, I'm so unsatisfied
I'm so dissatis,dissattis...
I'm so
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The Ballad Of El Goodo
(Original by Big
Star)
Years ago, my heart was set to live, oh
and I've been trying hard against unbelievable odds
It gets so hard in times like now to hold on
But guns they wait to be stuck by, at my side is God
And there ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round
Ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round
There's people around who tell you that they know
And places where they send you, and it's easy to go
They'll zip you up and dress you down and stand you in a row
But you know you don't have to, you can just say no
I've been built up and trusted, broke down and busted
But they'll get theirs and we will get ours if you can
just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Years ago my heart was set to live, oh
but I've been trying hard against strong odds
It gets so hard at times like now to hold on
Well, I'll fall if I don't fight, and at my side is God
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Some Day I Will Treat You Good
(Original by Sparklehorse)
there's something going on around here
I could not crawl back if I tried
I couldn't wait around
I couldn't wait another second
something going on around here
I left my baby on the side of the highway
she just couldn't see things my way
someday I will treat you good
someday I will treat you fine
someday I will treat you good
you know I should
everything that's made is made to decay
well I'm shrinking bones in the sun
won't you tell me why that
the beautiful ones are always crazy
she's whispering like morticia now
I left my baby on the side of the road
I left her with a heavy load
someday I will treat you good
someday I will treat you fine
someday I will treat you good
you know I should
something going on around here
I could not crawl back if I tried
I left my baby on the side of highway
she just couldn't see things my way
someday I will treat you good
someday I will treat you fine
someday I will treat you good
you know I should
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Start Again
(Original by Teenage
Fan club)
I don't know if you can hear me
I'm feeling down and can't think clearly
Even though it's complicated
We've got time to start again
I don't know if you can hear me
Some things I'd change but it's too late
I'd take the past and make it straight
Even though it's complicated
We've got time to start again
I don't know if you can hear me
I'm sorry for the things I've said
But some thoughts just won't leave my head
Even though it's complicated
We've got time to start again
I don't know if you can hear me
Even though it's complicated
We've got time to start again
I don't know if you can hear me
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Blues Run the Game
(Original by Jackson
C Frank)
Catch a boat to England baby
Maybe to Spain
Whereever I have gone
Whereever I've been and gone
Whereever I have gone
The blues are all the same
Send out for whisky baby
Send out for gin
Me and room service honey
Me and room service babe
Me and room service, well
We're living a life of sin
When I'm not drinking baby
You are on my mind
When I'm not sleeping honey
When I ain't sleeping Mama
When I'm not sleeping
You know you find me crying
Try another city baby
Another town
Whereever I have gone
Whereever I've been and gone
Whereever I have gone
The blues come following down
Living is a gamble baby
Loving's much the same
Whereever I have played
Whenever I've thrown them dice
Whereever I have played
The blues have run the game
Maybe tomorrow honey
Some place down the line
I'll wake up older
So much older Mama
I'll wake up older
And I'll just stop all my trying
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You Ain't Going Nowhere
(Original by Bob
Dylan)
Clouds so swift
Rain won't lift
Gate won't close
Railings froze
Get your mind off wintertime
You ain't goin' nowhere
Whoo-ee! Ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
I don't care
How many letters they sent
Morning came and morning went
Pick up your money
And pack up your tent
You ain't goin' nowhere
Whoo-ee! Ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
Buy me a flute
And a gun that shoots
Tailgates and substitutes
Strap yourself
To the tree with roots
You ain't goin' nowhere
Whoo-ee! Ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
Genghis Khan
He could not keep
All his kings
Supplied with sleep
We'll climb that hill no matter how steep
When we get up to it
Whoo-ee! Ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
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Cecilia
(Original by Simon
and Garfunkel)
Cecilia, you're breaking my heart You're
shaking my confidence daily. Oh Cecilia, I'm down on my knees,
I'm begging you please to come home.
Cecilia, you're breaking my heart You're shaking my confidence
daily. Oh Cecilia, I'm down on my knees, I'm begging you please
to come home.
Come on home.
Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia Up in my bedroom,
I got up to wash my face
When I come back to bed, someone's taken my place.
Cecilia, you're breaking my heart You're shaking my confidence
daily. Oh Cecilia, I'm down on my knees, I'm begging you please
to come home.
Jubilation, She loves me again,
I fall on the floor and I'm laughing, Jubilation, She loves me
again,
I fall on the floor and I'm laughing
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Meet on the ledge
(Original by Fairport
Convention)
We used to say that come the day We'd all
be making songs
Or finding better words
These ideas never lasted long
The way is up along the road
The air is growing thin
Too many friends who tried
Blown off this mountain with the wind
Chorus
Meet on the ledge,
we're gonna meet on the ledge When my time is up
I'm gonna see all my friends
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
If you really mean it, it all comes round again
Yet now I see I'm all alone
But that's the only way to be
You'll have your chance again
Then you can do the work for me (2x Chorus)
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Borderline
(Original by Madonna)
Something in the way you love me
won't let me be
I don't want to be your prisoner
so baby won't you set me free
Stop playing with my heart
Finish what you start
When you make my love come down
If you want me let me know
Baby let it show
Honey don't you fool around
Just try to understand,
I've given all I can,
'Cause you got the best of me [Chorus:] Borderline
feels like I'm going to lose my mind
You just keep on
pushing my love
over the borderline
[repeat chorus again]
Keep on pushing me baby
Don't you know you drive me crazy
You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline
Something in your eyes is makin' such a fool of me
When you hold me in your arms you love me till I just can't see
But then you let me down,
when I look around,
baby you just can't be found
Stop driving me away,
I just wanna stay,
There's something I just got to say
Just try to understand,
I've given all I can,
'Cause you got the best of me [chorus]
Keep on pushing me baby
Don't you know you drive me crazy
You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline
Look what your love has done to me
Come on baby set me free
You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline
You cause me so much pain,
I think I'm going insane
What does it take to make you see?
You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline.
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CCKMP (Cocaine cannot
kill my pain)
(Original by Steve
Earle)
Cocaine cannot kill my pain
Like a freight train through my vein
Cocaine cannot kill my pain
Whiskey got no hold on me
Left them chains in Tennessee
Whiskey got no hold on me
Don't come knockin' on my door
Even that won't work no more
Don't come knockin' on my door
Heroin is the only thing
The only gift the darkness brings
Heroin is the only thing
Guess you'd best leave me alone
At least until these blues have gone
Guess you'd best leave me alone
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Crazy for you
(Original by Madonna/John
Bettis/Jon Lind)
Swaying room as the music starts
Strangers making the most of the dark
Two by two their bodies become one
I see you through the smoky air
Can't you feel the weight of my stare
You're so close but still a world away
What I'm dying to say, is that
I'm crazy for you
Touch me once and you'll know it's true
I never wanted anyone like this
It's all brand new, you'll feel it in my kiss
I'm crazy for you, crazy for you
Trying hard to control my heart
I walk over to where you are
Eye to eye we need no words at all
Slowly now we begin to move
Every breath I'm deeper into you
Soon we two are standing still in time
If you read my mind, you'll see
I'm crazy for you
Touch me once and you'll know it's true
I never wanted anyone like this
It's all brand new, you'll feel it in my kiss
I'm crazy for you, crazy for you
It's all brand new, I'm crazy for you
And you know it's true
I'm crazy, crazy for you
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Oh! Susanna
(Original by Stephen
Foster)
I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee;
I'm goin' to Lou'siana my true love for to see.
It rained all night the day I left,
the weather it was dry;
The sun so hot I froze to death,
Susanna don't you cry.
Oh! Susanna, don't you cry for me;
I come from Alabama,
with my banjo on my knee.
I had a dream the other night,
When everything was still;
I thought I saw Susanna dear,
A-coming down the hill.
The buckwheat cake was in her mouth,
The tear was in her eye,
Said I, I'm coming from the south,
Susanna don't you cry.
Oh! Susanna, don't you cry for me;
I come from Alabama,
with my banjo on my knee.
I soon will be in New Orleans,
And then I'll look all 'round,
And when I find Susanna,
I'll fall upon the ground.
But if I do not find her,
This darkey'll surely die,
And when I'm dead and buried,
Susanna don't you cry.
Oh! Susanna, don't you cry for me;
I come from Alabama,
with my banjo on my knee.
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These Days
(Original by Jackson
Browne)
Well I've been out walking
I don't do that much talking
these days
These days--
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
For you
And all the times I had the chance to
And I had a lover
It's so hard to risk another these days
These days--
Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life I have made in song
Well it's just that I've been losing so long
I'll keep on moving
Things are bound to be improving
these days
These days--
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten,
my friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them
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Caravan
(Original by Van
Morrison)
And the caravan is on its way
I can hear the merry gypsies play
Mama mama look at Emma Rose
she's out playing with her radio
lets go say la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
and the caravan have all my friends
they will stay with me until the end
Gypsy Robin, Sweet Emma Rose
tell me everything I need to know
So here we go say..la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la
Turn up your radio
let me hear let me hear your song
Switch on your electric light
so we can get down to what is really wrong
cause I long to hold you tight so that I can feel you.
Sweet lady of the night.
I shall revere you... through the door say
turn it up, turn it up little bit higher radio
turn
it up
just enough so you know radio said
la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la
and the caravan is painted red and white that means every body
staying
overnight...
Barefoot gypsy player round the campfire sing and play
And a woman tells us of her ways
..Everybody say..
La la la la la la la la la la la
turn up your radio..
Listen closer so we can get down to the show
(shake it ven shake it ven)
switch on your electric light
we can get down to what is really right
I long to hold you tight so that I can feel you
sweet little witch, sweet little witch of..
I shall I shall revere you baby
turn it up- turn it up ah well
little bit higher...
radio said turn it up..just enough..
So you know you know it's go soul then..
radio come
radio said..
Turn that little bit up said lalallalallallallalalallalallala
Turn up your radio then listen to the witch say goodnight darlin
turn up the radio listen to the witch cry...llala lalallala lallala
won't ya take me down to the river baby wash my hands wash my
feet
take me down to the river darlin where the sun don't sleep I said
sweet
lady of the night..I shall revere you
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This Must Be The Place
(Original by Talking
Heads)
Home is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me around
I feel numb - burn with a weak heart
(So I) guess I must be having fun
The less we say about it the better
Make it up as we go along
Feet on the ground
Head in the sky
It's okay I know nothing's wrong . . nothing
Hi yo I got plenty of time
Hi yo you got light in your eyes
And you're standing here beside me
I love the passing of time
Never for money
Always for love
Cover up and say goodnight . . . say goodnight
Home - is where I want to be
But I guess I'm already there
I come home - -she lifted up her wings
Guess that this must be the place
I can't tell one from another
Did I find you, or you find me?
There was a time before we were born
If someone asks, this is where I'll be . . . where I'll be
Hi yo We drift in and out
Hi yo sing into my mouth
Out of all those kinds of people
You got a face with a view
I'm just an animal looking for a home
Share the same space for a minute or two
And you love me till my heart stops
Love me till I'm dead
Eyes that light up, eyes look through you
Cover up the blank spots
Hit me on the head Ah ooh
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Live Forever
(Original by Oasis)
Sung as an intro to A Long December
Maybe I don't really want to know
how your garden grows
'cause I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain
in the morning rain
as it soaks you to the bone
Maybe I just want to fly
I want to live I don't want to die
Maybe I just want to breathe
Maybe I just don't believe
Maybe you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
I said
maybe I don't really want to know
how your garden grows
'cause I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain
in the morning rain
as it soaks you to the bone
Maybe I will never be
all the things that I want to be
Now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
Maybe I don't really want to know
how your garden grows
'cause I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain
in the morning rain
as it soaks you to the bone
Maybe I just want to fly
I want to live I don't want to die
Maybe I just want to breathe
Maybe I just don't believe
Maybe you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
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Useless Stuff
(Original by Cracker)
I'm so fucking sick
I'm the king of the world
I'm a genius of useless stuff
Some people they gotta work
well I just hang around
dreaming up useless stuff
So if I call you from time to time
I said my life is such a drag
I feel like a hag please shut me up
Girl would you like to live my life
And I'll be with you tonight
I'll be your useless stuff
Now everybody wants to be our friend
so we act real Zen
and hang around with movie stars
So if I call you from time to time
I said my life is such a drag
I feel like a hag kick me in the ass
Girl would you like to live my life
and I'll be with you tonight
I'll be your useless stuff
I'll be your useless stuff
Can I be your useless stuff?
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Six Different Ways
(Original by The
Cure)
This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And every one I'll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside
I'll tell them anything at all
I know I'll give them more and more
I'll tell them anything at all
I know I'll give the world and more
They think I'm on my hands and head
This time they're much too slow
Six sides to every lie I say
It's that American voice again
"It was never quite like this before
Not one of you is the same... "
This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I'll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside
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Jumpin Jesus
(Original by Sordid Humor)
Jumpin Jesus my oh my
he's got a great big bottle of sunshine
Jumpin Jesus why oh why
take the time to get inside
to get inside
So what's a wall with so much yellow for?
I don't know what it's for
So what's a wall have so much yellow for?
I don't know what it's for
Jumpin Jesus my oh my
he's got a great big bottle of sunshine
Jumpin Jesus why oh why
take the time to get inside
to get inside get inside get inside get inside get inside
Well Armand Hammer in Odessa
- he lives with his life and his child on a
house boat Yea he likes sunflowers and big pictere frames and
Van Goghs
Jumpin Jesus my oh my
he's got a great big bottle of sunshine
Jumpin Jesus why oh why
take the time to get inside
to get inside get inside get inside get inside get inside get
inside
na na na na na na na na
lala la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la laaaaa laaaa
laaaa
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She Doesn't Exist Anymore
(Original by Robyn Hitchcock)
I used to ring you and put down the phone,
once wore a hole in your dress.
Even tried Voodoo outside your home,
but these days I couldn't care less.
She doesn't exist any more,
She doesn't exist any more.
I let her go like the fool that I was,
thought I'd get over her soon.
I smell her perfume when my eyes are closed,
and I see her face in the moon.
She doesn't exist any more,
She doesn't exist any more.
I tell myself it would be different now,
I wouldn't treat her that way.
I wouldn't be me if she wasn't her,
and it's far too late, anyway.
'Cause she doesn't exist any more,
She doesn't exist any more.
Only inside you the ghost of the love,
that is wordless and painful and old.
There's no one else in the whole outside world,
that matches to her in your soul.
But she doesn't exist any more,
She doesn't exist any more.
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Sweet Home Alabama
(Original by Lynyrd
Skynard)
Big wheels keep on turning carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the southland
I miss my family once again and I think it's a sin
Well I heard Mr. Young sing about her
Well I heard Ol' Neil put her down
Well I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow
CHORUS:
Sweet home Alabama where the skies are so blue
Sweet home Alabama Lord I'm coming home to you
In Birmingham they love the governor boo-hoo-hoo
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you tell me true
CHORUS:
Here I come Alabama
SOLO
Now Muscle Shoals has got the swampers, they've been known to
pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feelin' blue
Now how about you
CHORUS:
Sweet home Alabama where the skies are so blue oh sweet home
Sweet home Alabama Lord I'm coming home to you And the gov'nor's
true
Sweet home Alabama where the skies are so blue oh yeah
Sweet home Alabama Lord I'm coming home to you yeah yeah
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Oceanside (Original
by ROBYN HITCHCOCK)
Did you ever hover in the distance?
Did you ever swoop down from the sky
to the bright green rocks all draped with seaweed
and the deep blue ocean rolling by?
Maybe I will find today
Maybe I will lose tomorrow
Gonna rock on to the oceanside
Did you ever see into the future?
See the big red sun that won't go down?
And the giant moths upon the cliffside
In the deep red scar that was our town?
Maybe I will find today
Maybe I will lose tomorrow
Gonna rock on to the oceanside
Baby, we're the king and queen of nothing
Everybody glows and then they're numb
We can make a moment last forever
Gaze across the ocean to the sun
Maybe I will find today
Maybe I will lose tomorrow
Gonna rock on to the oceanside
Gonna rock on to the oceanside
Gonna rock on to the oceanside
Baby, we're the king and queen of something
Everybody goes and then they come
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Low
(Original by Cracker)
Sometimes I wanna take you down.
Sometimes I wanna get you low.
Brush your hair back from your eyes.
Take you down let the river flow.
Sometimes I go and walk the street
Behind the green sheet of glass.
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles
CHORUS:
I'll be with you girl
Like being low
hey hey hey like being stoned.
I'll be with you girl
Like being low
hey hey hey like being stoned.
A million poppies gonna make me sleep.
Just one rose and knows your name
The fruit is rusting on the vine
The fruit is calling from the trees
Hey don't you wanna go down
Like some junkie cosmonaut
A million miles below their feet
A million miles a million miles
CHORUS
Blue blue is the sun.
Brown brown is the sky.
Green green of her eyes.
A million miles a million miles
Hey hey don't you wanna go down
Like some disgraced cosmonaut
A million miles below their feet
A million miles a million miles
CHORUS
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Crossing Muddy Waters
(Original by John
Hiatt - Recorded by Adam Duritz and David Immergluck on I-10
chronicles 2)
My baby's gone and I don't know why
She let out this morning
like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
Left me without warning
sooner than the dogs could bark
and faster than the sun rose
Down to the banks in an old mule car
she took a flatboat across the shallow
CHORUS:
Left me in my tears to drown
she left a baby daughter
Now the water's wide and deep and brown
She's crossing muddy waters
Tobacco standing in the fields
be rotten come November
And a bitter heart will not reveal
a spring that love remembers
When that sweet brown girl of mine her black eyes are ravens
We broke the bread and drank the wine
from a jug that she'd been saving
REPEAT CHORUS
Baby's crying and the daylight's gone
That big oak tree is groaning
In rush of wind and river of song
I can hear my sweetheart moaning
Crying for her baby child
or crying for her husband
Crying for that river's wild
to take her from her loved ones
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
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For the Sake of the Song
(Original by Townes
Van Zandt)
Why does she sing
her sad songs for me,
I'm not the one
to tenderly bring
her soft sympathy
I've just begun
to see my way clear
and it's plain,
if I stop I will fall
I can lay down a tear
for her pain,
just a tear and that's all.
What does she want me to do?
she says that she knows
that moments are rare
I suppose that it's true
then on she goes
to say I don't care,
and she knows
that I do
Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song
and who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong.
She'd like to think that I'm cruel,
but she knows that's a lie
for I would be
no more than a tool
if I allowed her to cry
all over me.
Oh my sorrow is real
eventhough
I can't change my plan
If she could see how I feel
then I know
that she'd understand
Oh does she actually think I'm to blame?
Does she really believe
that some word of mine
can relieve
all her pain?
Can't she see that she grieves
just because she's been blindly deceived
by her shame?
Nothin's what it seems,
maybe she'll start someday
to realize
If she abandons her dreams,
then all the words she can say
are only lies
when will she see
that to gain
is only to lose?
All that she offers me
are her chains,
I got to refuse
Oh but it's only to herself that she's lied
she likes to pretend
it's something that she must defend,
with her pride
and I don't intend
to stand here and be the friend
from whom she must hide
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Atlantic City
(Original by Bruce
Springsteen)
Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly
last night now they blew up his house too
Down on the boardwalk
they're gettin' ready for a fight
gonna see what them racket boys can do
Now there's trouble busin'
in from outta state and the D.A.
can't get no relief
Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade
and the gamblin' commission's hangin' on by
the skin of its teeth
(Chorus)
Well now everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay
So I drew what I had from the Central Trust
And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus
(Chorus)
Now our luck may have died
and our love may be cold
but with you forever I'll stay
We're goin' out
where the sand's turnin' to gold
so put on your stockin's baby `cause
the night's getting cold
And everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Now I been lookin' for a job
but it's hard to find
Down here it's just winners and losers
and don't get caught on the wrong side of that
line
Well I'm tired of comin' out on the losin' end
So honey last night I met this guy and
I'm gonna do a little favor for him
Well I guess everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your hair up nice and set up pretty
and meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Meet me tonight in Atlantic City
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Always on My Mind
(words & music by Wayne Thompson - Mark James - Johnny Christopher)
Made popular by Willie
Nelson and Elvis
Presley.
Maybe I didn't treat you
quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died
Give me, give me one more chance
to keep you satisfied, satisfied
Maybe I didn't hold you
all those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
I'm so happy that you're mine
If I make you feel second best
girl, I'm sorry I was blind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died
Give me, give me one more chance
to keep you satisfied, satisfied
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
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I wanna Be Sedated
(Original
by The
Ramones)
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothing to do
Nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport
And put me in a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers
I can't control my brain
Oh no oh ho
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothing to do
Nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair
And get me to the show
Hurry hurry hurry before I go loco
I can't control my fingers
I can't control my toes
Oh no oh ho
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Cigarettes and Alcohol
(original by Oasis)
Is it my imagination
or have I finally found
something worth living for?
I was looking for some action
but all I found was cigarettes and alcohol
You could wait for a lifetime
to spend your days in the sunshine
You might as well do the white line
cos when it comes on top . . .
You've gotta make it happen!
You gotta make it happen
You gotta make it happen
You gotta make it happen
Is it worth the aggravation
to find yourself a job
when there's nothing worth working for?
It's a crazy situation
but all I need are cigarettes and alcohol
You could wait for a lifetime
to spend your days in the sunshine
You might as well do the white line
cos when it comes on top . . .
You've gotta make it happen!
You've gotta make it happen!
You gotta make it happen!
You gotta make it happen!
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta make it
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta fake it
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta make it
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta fake it
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Ooh-La-La
(original by Faces)
Poor old granddad I laughed at all his words
I thought he was a bitter man
He spoke of women's ways
They'll trap you then they use you & before you even know
For love is blind and you're far too kind
Don't ever let it show
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was stronger
The can-can such a pretty show
will steal your heart away
But backstage back on earth again
The dressing rooms are grey
They come on strong and it ain't too long
For they make you feel a man
But love is blind and you soon will find
you're just a boy again
When you want her lips, you get her cheek
Makes you wonder where you are
if you want some more then she's fast asleep
Leaves you twinkling with the stars
Poor young grandson there's nothing I can say
You'll have to learn, just like me
And that's the hardest way, ooh la la
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was stronger
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Shake Some Action
(Original by Flamin'
Groovies)
Shake Some Action
I will find a way
to get to you some day.
Oh, but I, babe,
I'm so afraid I'll fall,
yeah. Now can't you hear me call?
Shake some action's what I need
To let me bust out at full speed.
I'm sure that's all you need
to make it all right.
It's taken me so long
to get where I belong
Oh, but, oh, please don't send me back that way, yeah.
For I will make you pay. (refrain)
if you don't dig what I say
Then I will go away.
and I won't come back this again.
No. 'Cause I don't need a friend.
(refrain)
(guitar solo again)
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SuperSonic
(original
by Oasis)
I need to be myself
I can't be no one else
I'm feeling supersonic
Give me gin and tonic
You can have it all but how much do you want it?
You make me laugh
Give me your autograph
Can I ride with you in your BMW ?
You can sail with me in my yellow submarine
You need to find out
'Cos no one's gonna tell you what I'm on about
You need to find a way for what you want to say
But before tomorrow
'Cos my friend said he'd take you home
He sits in a corner all alone
He lives under a waterfall
Nobody can see him
Nobody can ever hear him call
You need to be yourself
You can't be no one else
I know a girl called Elsa
She's into Alka Seltzer
She sniffs it through a cane on a supersonic train
She made me laugh
I got her autograph
She done it with a doctor on a helicopter
She's sniffin in her tissue
Sellin' the Big Issue
She needs to find out
'Cos no one's gonna tell you what I'm on about
She needs to find a way for what she wants to say
But before tomorrow
'Cos my friend said he'd take you home
He sits in a corner all alone
He lives under a waterfall
No body can see him
No body can ever hear him call
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Carmelita (Original
by Warren
Zevon - Performed by Adam Duritz and David Immergluck on I-10
Chronicles)
I hear mariachi static on my radio
And the tubes, they glow in the dark
And I'm there with you in Ensenada
And I'm here in Echo Park
Carmelita, hold me tighter.
I think I'm sinkin' down.
And I'm all strung out on heroin
on the outskirts of town.
Well, I pawned my Smith and Wesson,
and I went to meet my man.
He hangs out down on Alvarado Street,
at the Pioneer Chicken stand
(back to chorus)
Well, I'm sittin' here playin' solitaire
with my pearl handled deck.
The county won't give me no more methadone
and they cut off your welfare check
(back to chorus)
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Oh My Sweet Carolina
(Original by Ryan
Adams)
I went down to Houston
and I stopped in San Antone
I passed up the station for the bus
I was trying to find me something
but I wasn’t sure just what
Man I ended up with pockets full of dust
So I went on to Cleveland and I ended up insane
I bought a borrowed suit and learned to dance
I was spending money like the way it likes to rain
Man I ended up with pockets full of cane
Oh my sweet Carolina
What compels me to go?
Oh my sweet disposition
May you one day carry me home
I ain’t never been to Vegas, but I gambled up my life
Building newsprint boats I race to sewer mains
Was trying to find me something but I wasn’t sure just what
Funny how they say that some things never change
Oh my sweet Carolina
What compels me to go?
Oh my sweet disposition
May you one day carry me home
Up here in the city feels like things are closing in
The sunset’s just my light bulb burning out
I miss KENTUCKY and I miss my family
All the sweetest winds they blow across the south
Oh my sweet Carolina
What compels me to go?
Oh my sweet disposition
May you one day carry me home
May you one day carry me home
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Big Yellow Taxi
(original
by Joni
Mitchell)
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
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Girl from
the north country
(Original by
Bob Dylan)
Well, if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.
Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howlin' winds.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
That's the way I remember her best.
I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all.
Many times I've often prayed
In the darkness of my night,
In the brightness of my day.
So if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.
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Friday I'm
in Love
(Original by The
Cure)
i don't care if monday's blue
tuesday's grey and wednesday too
thursday I don't care about you
it's friday i'm in love
monday you can fall apart
tuesday wednesday break my heart
thursday doesn't even start
it's friday i'm in love
saturday wait
and sunday always comes too late
but friday never hesitate...
i don't care if monday's black
tuesday wednesday heart attack
thursday never looking back
it's friday i'm in love
monday you can hold your head
tuesday wednesday stay in bed
or thursday watch the walls instead
it's friday i'm in love
saturday wait
and sunday always comes too late
but friday never hesitate...
dressed up to the eyes
it's a wonderful surprise
to see your shoes and your spirits rise
throwing out your frown
and just smiling at the sound
and as sleek as a shriek
spinning round and round
always take a big bite
it's such a gorgeous sight
to see you in the middle of the night
you can never get enough
enough of this stuff
it's friday
i'm in love
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Night
Moves
(Original by
Bob Segar)
I was a little too tall
Could've used a few pounds
Tight pants points hardly reknown
She was a black haired beauty with big dark eyes
And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high
Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves
Trying' to make some front page drive-in news
Workin' on our night moves in the summertime
In the sweet summertime
We weren't in love oh no far from it
We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit
We were just young and restless and bored
Living by the sword
And we'd steal away every chance we could
To the backroom, the alley, the trusty woods
I used her she used me
But neither one cared
We were getting our share
Workin' on our night moves
Trying to lose the awkward teenage blues
Workin' on out night moves
In the summertime
And oh the wonder
Felt the lightning
And we waited on the thunder
Waited on the thunder
I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in
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We're
Only Love
(featured on the demo cd, original by Mr. Dog)
Who built the ball that is this earth?
Gave me life and water for my thirst.
Home for a heart till death from birth
And we're only love, at it's best or worst.
Love calling your name
I will live on
Calling your name
Who wrote the pages of our lives?
In black and white, and taught me wrong from right
It's your heart that held you tight
But we're only love
Spin me around and round and round
Love calling your name
I will live on
Calling your name
And the world seems like my enemy
The waterfall of frowns
And the wave of life will capture me
And I'm falling down upon love
C'mon now darling
I'm falling falling down on love
I'm falling down, falling down on love
I'm falling down on love
(Chorus)
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California Stars
(Written by Woody Guthrie/Recorded by Wilco)
I’d like to rest
my heavy head tonight
On a bed of California stars
I’d like to lay my weary bones tonight
On a bed of California stars
I’d love to feel your hand touching mine
And tell me why
I must keep working on
Yes, I’d give my life to lay my head tonight
On a bed of California stars
I’d like to dream my troubles all away
On a bed of California stars
Jump up from my starbed and make another day
Underneath my California stars They hang like grapes on vines that
shine
And warm the lovers glass like friendly wine
So, I’d give this world just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars
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Better Things
(Original by Ray
Davies/The Kinks)
Here's wishing you the bluest sky
And hoping something better comes tomorrow
Hoping all the verses rhyme,
And the very best of choruses to
Follow all the doubt and sadness
I know that better things are on their way.
Here's hoping that the days ahead
Won't be as bitter as the ones behind you
Be an optimist instead,
And somehow happiness will find you.
Forget what happened yesterday,
I know that better things are on their way.
It's really good to see you rocking out
And having fun,
Living like you've just begun.
Accept your life and what it brings,
I hope tomorrow you find better things.
I know tomorrow you'll find better things.
Here's wishing you the bluest sky
And hoping something better comes tomorrow
Hoping all the verses rhyme,
And the very best of choruses to
Follow all the drudge and sadness
I know that better things are on the way.
I know you've got a lot of good things happening up ahead.
The past is gone, it's all been said.
So here's to what the future brings,
I know tomorrow you'll find better things.
I know tomorrow you'll find better things.
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Fearless Heart
(Original by Steve
Earle)
Don't you worry bout what you've been told
Cause honey I ain't even close to cold
It's kinda soon to fall in love again
But sometimes the best that you can do is just jump back in
I got me a fearless heart
Strong enough to get you through the scary part
It's been broken many times before
A fearless heart just comes back for more
Folks'll tell you that I'm just no good
But I wouldn't hurt you honey if I could
I can't promise this'll work out right
But it would kill me darlin' if we didn't even try
I admit I fall in love a lot
But I nearly always give it my best shot
I know you must think I'm the reckless kind
But I want a lady with a fearless heart just like mine
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Here Comes Your
Man
(Original by The
Pixies)
outside there's a box car waiting
outside the family stew
out by the fire breathing
outside we wait 'til face turns blue
i know the nervous walking
i know the dirty beard hangs
out by the box car waiting
take me away to nowhere plains
there is a wait so long
here comes your man
big shake on the box car moving
big shake to the land that's falling down
is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
a big, big stone fall and break my crown
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man
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Sister Golden Hair
(Original by America/David
Beckley )
Well I tried to make it Sunday,
but I got so damn depressed
That I set my sights on Monday
and I got myself undressed
I ain't ready for the altar
but I do agree there's times
When a woman sure can be a friend of mine
Well, I keep on thinkin' 'bout you,
Sister Golden Hair surprise
And I just can't live without you;
can't you see it in my eyes?
I been one poor correspondent,
and I been too, too hard to find
But it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind
Will you meet me in the middle,
will you meet me in the air?
Will you love me just a little,
just enough to show you care?
Well I tried to fake it,
I don't mind sayin', I just can't make it
Well, I keep on thinkin' 'bout you,
Sister Golden Hair surprise
And I just can't live without you;
can't you see it in my eyes?
Now I been one poor correspondent,
and I been too, too hard to find
But it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind
Will you meet me in the middle,
will you meet me in the air?
Will you love me just a little,
just enough to show you care?
Well I tried to fake it,
I don't mind sayin',
I just can't make it
Doo wop doo wop ...
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