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     This is a continuously ongoing project. I will update this book
as I get hold of words to new tunes, and old ones alike. We all know
the Dead take alot of liberties in concert, so the lyrics may vary. I
have included the versions that appear on studio albums and as are
written by their author. The live versions are usually always the same
or very close. The Dates beside the titles are the first time played.
I got these from Deadbase V. If it is a Jerry song and the Dead does
not play it, it will not have a date. If it is a Jerry song and the
Dead DO play, then the date is the first time the Dead played it.
     Also included is a short summary of some of the important events
that have happened since the early 60's. The Family Tree, and Albums
are current to this printing, usually equal to the last date of the
Tour list. I have created this as a supplement to Deadbase. Even
though theres more than you need there, they left out a few things. 
     I would like very much to give these out for nothing, but as I am
not a millionaire, and ribbons and paper cost quite a bit, I will ask
for a small donation so that I may break even on this project.

                              Keep On, Keeping On

Aiko Aiko                                                    5-15-77 

       My spy boy saw you spy boy sittin' by the fi-yo 
       My spy boy told your spy boy, 
       "I'm gonna set you flag on fi-yo." 
       I said, "Hey now," "Hey now," 
       Aiko Aiko all day, jockomo feno na na nay, jockomoa feena nay. 
       My grandma and your grandma were sitting by the fire 
       Said my grandma to your grandma, "Gonna get your tail on fire." 
       I said, "Hey now," "Hey now," 
       Aiko Aiko all day, jockomo feno na na nay, jockomo feena nay. 
 
 
Ain't It Crazy (The Rub) 
 
       Man got the rub on, sister got the rub 
       They're goin' around doing the rub, the rub 
       Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy 
       Ain't it crazy one day keep on rubbin' that thing. 
       Two old ladies was lying around in bed 
       One turned over and this is what she said, 
       Mama tell the chicken her body was a duck 
       Put him on the table with his feet sticking up 
       Two old ladies playing in the sand, 
       each one wishing the other was a man 
       Well I see that woman goin behind the hill 
       I'm gonna find that girl, I'm gonna do my will 
       Well I feel so good, well I feel so fine 
       All I gotta do is drink that wine 
       I say the little old rooster called the little old hen 
       He said he had no lungs, ain't got no wing. 
 

Ain't Superstitious / Meet Me on the Bottom 
 
       Meet me on the bottom, bring me my running shoes, 
       When I come out the window, we ain't got time to lose. 
       Well I ain't superstitious, but a black cat crossed my trail, 
       Don't brush me with my broom, Babe, I just might land in jail. 
       Well my right hand itchin', Babe, I get smothered by the shore, 
      Look down you engine, Babe, but somebody got to go. 
       Meet me on the bottom, Babe, bring me my running shoes, 
       When I come out the window, Babe, we ain't got time to lose.  
       Well I hope you are listening, when I come streaking by, 
       Got a bad old man, Babe, and I'm too young to die. 
       Well I ain't superstitious, but a black cat crossed my trail, 
       Don't brush me with my broom, Babe, I just might land in jail. 
       Dogs been barking all around my neighborhood, 
       You give a sign, Babe, ain't do nobody no good. 
 
 
Alabama Getaway                                              11-4-79 
 
       32 teeth in a jawbone, Alabama trying for none, 
       Before I have to hit him, I hope he's got the sense to run. 
       Reason the poor girls love him, promise them everything, 
       Why they all believe him? He wears a big diamond ring. 
       Alabama getaway, getaway.  Alabama getaway, getaway, 
       Only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away. 
       Major Domo Billy Bojangles, sit down and have a drink with me, 
       "What's this about Alabama?  It keeps a coming back to me. 
       Heard your plea in the courthouse, 
       Witness box began to rock and rise, 
       49 sister states all had Alabama in there eyes. 
       Alabama getaway, getaway.  Alabama getaway, getaway, 
       Only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away. 
       Major said why don't we give him rope enough to hang himself? 
       No need to worry the jury, this kind takes care of themselves. 
       23rd psalm Major Domo, reserve me a table for three, 
       Down in the valley of the shadow, just you, Alabama, and me. 
       Alabama getaway, getaway.  Alabama getaway, getaway, 
       Only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away. 


It's All Too Much
(George Harrison)

When I look into your eyes, your love is there for me.
And the more I go inside, the more there is to see.
It's all too much for me to take, the love that's shining all around you.
Everywhere it's what you make, for us to take it's all too much.

Floating down the stream of time, from life to life with me.
Makes no diff'rence where you are, or where you'd like to be.
It's all too much for me to take, the love that's shining all around you.
Everywhere it's what you make, for us to take it's all too much.

Sail me on a silver sun, where I know that I'm free.
Show me that I'm ev'rywhere, and get me home for tea.
It's all too much for me to take, the love that's shining all around you.
Everywhere it's what you make, for us to take it's all too much.

..... It's too much, too much, Too much!!, too much...


Alligator                                                     1-27-67 
 
       Sleepy Alligator in the noon day sun, 
       Lyin' by the river just like he usually done. 
       Call for his whiskey, he can call for his tea, 
       Call all he want to, but he can't call for me. 
       Oh no! I've been there before, 
       And I ain't gonna come around here any more. 
       Creepy alligator coming all around the bend, 
       Shoutin' about the times when we was mutual friends, 
       I checked my memory and I checked it quick, yes I will. 
       I checked it runnin' some old kind of trick. 
       Oh no! Well I've been there before, 
       And I ain't gonna come around here any more. 
       Sailin' down the river in an old canoe, 
       A bunch of and an old tennis shoe. 
       Out of the river all ugly and green, 
       Came the biggest old alligator that I've ever seen! 
       Teeth big and pointy and his eyes were buggin' out, 
       Contracted the union, put the beggars to rout. 
       Screamin' and yellin', he was pickin' his chops, 
       He never runs he just stumbles and hops.  
       Just out of prison on ten dollars bail, 
       Mumblin' bitches and waggin' his tail. 


All Over Now                                                11-20-70 
 
       Well now baby used to stay all night long, made me cry, 
       Lord she done me wrong. 
       Hurt my eyes open, and that's no lie, tables turnin', 
       now it's her turn to cry, 
       Cuz I used to love her, but it's all over now. 
       Well I used to wake up in the morning, get my breakfast in bed, 
      When I got worried, you know she eased my achin' head, 
       But now she's here and there with every man in town' 
       Still tryin' to take for that same old clown. 
       Cuz I used to love her, but it's all over now. 
       Well she used to run around with every man in town, 
       Spend all my money, Lord I better pass "go", 
       Put me out, it was a pity how I cried, table's turnin', 
       now it's her turn to cry, 
       Cuz I used to love her, but it's all over now. 
       Yes and I used to love her, but it's all over now. 
 
 
Althea                                                         8-4-79 
 
       I told Althea I was feeling lost, lacking in some direction. 
       Althea told me upon scrutiny 
       that my back might need protection. 
       I told Althea that treachery was tearing me limb from limb. 
       Althea told me better cool down boy, settle back, easy Jim. 
       You may be Saturday's child, all alone, 
       moving with a tinge of grace. 
       You may be a clown in the burying ground, 
       or just another pretty face. 
       You may meet the fate on Ophelia, 
       sleeping and penchence to dream. 
       Honest to the point of recklessness, 
       self-centered in the extreme. 
       Ain't nobody messing with you, but you, 
       your friends are getting most concerned. 
       Loose with the truth, baby, it's your fire, 
       but baby don't get burned. 
       When the smoke has cleared, she said, 
       that's what she said to me. 
       Gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy. 
       There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. 
       The time has come to weigh those things. 
       This space is getting hot, you know this space is getting hot. 
       I told Althea I'm a roving son, 
       and I was born to be a bachelor. 
       Althea told me, okay, that's fine, 
       so now I'm trying to catch her. 
       Can't talk to you without talking to me, 
       we're guilty of the same old thing. 
       Been talking alot about less and less 
       and forgetting the love we bring. 

And We Bid You Goodnight                                      11-1-68 
 
       Lay down my dear brother, lay down and take your rest, 
       Won't you lay your head upon your savior's chest, 
       I love you all, but Jesus loves you the best 
       And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight. 
       Walking in Jerusalem just like John (goodnight, goodnight) 
       I would never ride, well, I would never ride  
       (goodnight, goodnight) 
       But His rod and His staff, they comfort me 
       (goodnight, goodnight) 
       Tell "A" for the ark, that wonderful boat 
       (goodnight, goodnight) 
       Tell "B" for the beast at the ending of the wood 
       (goodnight, goodnight) 
       You know it ate all the children when they wouldn't be good, 
       Walking in Jerusalem just like John (goodnight, goodnight) 
       I go walking in the valley of the shadow of death, 
       And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight. 
 

Around and Around                                             11-8-70 
 
       Well the joint was jumpin', going 'round and 'round, 
       Hey! realin' and a rockin', what a crazy sound, 
       Well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down. 
       Well it sounds so sweet I had to take me a chance, 
       I rose out of me seat Lord, I had to dance, 
       Started moving my feet, well a clapping my hands. 
       Well I kept on dancin', going 'round and 'round, 
       Hey! realin' and a rockin', what a crazy sound, 
       Well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down. 
       Well at twelve o'clock Lord, the place was packed, 
       The front doors was locked Lord, the place was packed, 
       When the police knocked, those doors they flew back. 
       Well I kept on dancin', going 'round and 'round, 
       Hey! realin' and a rockin', what a crazy sound, 
       Well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down. 


Attics of My Life                                            5-15-70a 
 
       In the attics of my life, full of cloudy dreams unreal. 
       Full of tastes no tongue can know, and lights no eyes can see. 
       When there was no ear to hear, you sang to me. 
       I have spent my life seeking all that's still unsung. 
       Bent my ear to hear the tune, and closed my eyes to see. 
       When there was no strings to play, you played to me. 
       In the book of love's own dream, where all the print is blood.  
     Where all the pages are my days, and all the lights grow old. 
       When I had no wings to fly, you flew to me, you flew to me. 
       In the secret space of dreams, where I dreaming lay amazed. 
       When the secrets all are told, and the petals all unfold. 
       When there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me. 
Babe, It Ain't No Lie                                         9-25-80 
 
       Been all around this whole round world, 
       Lord, I just got back to day. 
       Worked all the way honey and I gave it all to you 
       Honeybabe, what more can I do? 
       Oh babe, it ain't no lie. 
       Oh babe, it ain't no lie. 
       Oh babe, it ain't no lie. 
       You know this life I'm living is mighty high.  
       One more woman, Lord in this town. 
       Keep her telling her lies on me. 
       Wish to my soul that old woman would die. 
       Keep her telling her lies on me. 
 
 
Baby, What Do You Want Me To Do 
 
       You got me running, you got me hiding, 
       You got me running, hiding, hiding, running, 
       Anywhere you want it, let it roll, yeah, yeah, yeah, 
       Hey, you got me where you want me, 
       baby doing what you want me to do. 
       Going up, going down, going up, down, down, up, 
       Anyway you want it, let it roll, yeah, yeah, yeah, 
       Yeah, you got me where you want me, 
       baby doing what you want me to do. 
       I say, honey baby, honey you don't have to go, 
       I'm going to pack my bag, baby, down that road I go, 
       Roll on, roll on baby, honey what is wrong with you? 
       Now baby, baby, baby,... 
       Oh baby, honey what is wrong with you? 
       You don't treat your baby, treat me like you used to do. 


Ballad of Casey Jones                                       5-15-70b 
 
       Casey Jones was an old engineer, 
       Call for his family tonight, they will fear, 
       All I need is my water and coal, 
       Look out the windows, see my drag wheel roll. 
       One sunday morning in a driving rain, 
       Around the curve came a passenger train, 
       In the cabin stood Casey Jones, 
       Bold engineer but he's dead and gone. 
       Mrs. Casey when she heard the news 
       Sitting at her bedside she was lacing up her shoes 
       Children, children now catch your breath, 
       You will draw a pension if your Papa's dead. 
       Children, children now can you hear, 
       Tell me Mama what do you mean by that? 
       Get your hat, put it on your head, 
       Go to town, see your Daddy's dead, 
       Casey said just before he died, 
       Fix the blinds so that the bums can ride, 
       If they ride, let them ride rock, 
       Put their trust in the hands of God. 
       Casey said just before he died, 
       Two more roads that I want to ride. 
       People said, what roads, Casey, can they be? 
       Gold Colorado and the Santa Fe. 

Beat it on Down The Line                                      3-12-66 
       Well this job I've got is just a little too hard, 
       Running out of money, Lord, I need more pay. 
       Gonna wake up in the morning Lord, gonna pack my bags, 
       I'm gonna beat it on down the line. 
       I'm goin' down the line, goin down the line, 
       Goin' down the line, goin down the line, 
       Goin' down the line, goin down the line, 
       Beat it on down the line. 
       Yes I'll be waiting at the station Lord, 
       when that train pulls on by, 
       I'm going back where I belong. 
       I'm going back to that same old used-to-be, 
       Down in Joe Brown's coal mine. 
       Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, coal mine. 
       Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, coal mine. 
       Coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, coal mine. 
       Down in Joe Brown's coal mine. 
       Yeah, I'm goin' back to that shack 
       way across that railroad track, 
       Uh huh, that's where I think I belong.        
       I got a sweet woman Lord, she's waitin' there for me, 
       And that's where I'm gonna make my happy home. 
       Happy home, happy home, happy home, happy home. 
       Happy home, happy home, happy home, happy home. 
       Happy home, happy home, happy home, happy home. 
       That's where I'm gonna make my happy home. 


Believe it or Not  (Hunter/Garcia)

One or two moments
a piece of your time
is all I am asking
and I'll give you mine
One or two moments
out of all you have got
to show how I love you
believe it or not

Remember the day
I rolled into town
with my heart in my shoes,
my head hanging down?
Now my only trouble
the rest I forgot
is to show how I love you
believe it or not

Done time in the lockup
Done time in the street
Done time on the upswing
and time in defeat
I know what I'm asking
and I know it's a lot
when I say that I love you
believe it or not

I know I'm no angel
my prospects are high
as the flood line in summer
when the river's gone dry
but I'll roll up my shirt-sleeves
and make my best shot
to show how I love you
believe it or not

Right now while the sun shines
on the crest of the hill
with a breeze in the pines
and a gray whippoorwill
making music together
that guitars never caught
let me show how I love you
believe it or not



Bertha                                                        2-18-71 
 
       I had a hard run, runnin' from your window. 
       I was all night running, running, Lord I wonder if you care, 
       I had a run in, run around, and run down. 
       Run around the corner, corner, Lord run smack in to a tree. 
       I had to move, really had to move, 
       That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' knees, 
       Bertha don't you come around here anymore. 
       Dressed myself in green, I went down unto the sea. 
       Try to see what's goin' down, try to read between the lines. 
       I had a feelin' I was fallin', fallin', fallin', 
       I turned around to see, 
       Heard a voice al callin', Lord you was commin' after me. 
       I had to move, really had to move, 
       That's why if you please, I am on my bendin knees, 
       Bertha don't you come around here anymore. 
       Ran into a rainstorm, I ducked back into Novato. 
       It's all night pourin', pourin', pourin', 
       Lord but not a drop on me. 
       Test me, test me, 
       Test me, test me, test me, 
       Why don't you arrest me? 
       Throw me in to the jailhouse, 
       Lord until the sun goes down, 'till it goes down. 
       I had to move, really had to move, 
       That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' knees, 
       Bertha don't you come around here anymore. 
       I had to move, really had to move, 
       That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' knees, 
       Bertha don't you come around here anymore. 
 
 
Big Boss Man                                                   7-3-66 
 
       Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? 
       Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? 
       You ain't so big, you just tall, that's just about all. 
       You got me working boss man, a workin' around the clock, 
       I want a little drink of whiskey, you sure won't let me stop. 
       Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? 
       You ain't so big, you just tall, that's just about all. 
       I'm gonna get me a boss man, one gonna treat me right, 
       I work hard in the daytime, sure get drunk at night. 
        Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? 
       You ain't so big, you just tall, that's just about all. 


Big Boy Pete                                                11-29-66 
 
       The joint was jumping on the corner down on Honky Tonk Street, 
       All of a sudden up pulled a Cadillac 
       and out stepped a cat named Pete. 
       A diamond on every finger, he wore he wore a tailor made suit, 
       Black cigar, he wore a Stetson hat, 
       He wore a pair on cowboy boots, 
       Busted on through the door mad as he could be, 
       Don't mess around, 
       I'll cut you down 'cause my name is Big Boy Pete. 
       The music stopped, there wasn't a sound, 
       Up in the corner stood Bad Man Brown. 
       He smiled and grinned, he said you know my friend, 
       Take two steps further I'm going kick you in the hide, 
       Forty-Five keep it alive, seven bullets on my side. 
       Brown pulled a knife, jumped on Pete, 
       Fought from the counter right on out to the street. 
       They swung from the north, swung from the south, 
       Pete got the blackjack out. 
       Brown went out his mind, yes he did, now we deeply see, 
       If you're ever down on the corner, down on Honky Tonk Street, 
       Don't mess around he'll cut you down, 
       Take a lesson from Big Boy Pete. 
 
 
Big Railroad Blues                                           6-24-70b 
 
       Well my mama told me, my papa told me too, 
       Now my mama told me, papa told me too, 
       Well I shouldn't be here tryin' to sing these railroad blues. 
       Wish I had a'listened to what my mama said, 
       Wish I had a'listened to what my mama said, 
       Well I wouldn't be here tryin' to sleep in this cold iron bed. 
       Well I went to the depot, I never got there on time, 
       Went down to the depot, never got there on time. 
       Well my train done left, she's a rollin' down the line. 
       Mister jailer go away now, don't tell me no lies, 
       Mister jailer go away, don't tell me no lies, 
       When the train's going down, she's rollin' down the line. 
       Well my mama told me, my papa told me too, 
       Now my mama told me, papa told me too, 
       Well I shouldn't be here tryin' to sing these railroad blues. 
 

Big River                                                   12-31-71 
 
       Well I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry cry, 
       Taught the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky. 
       Tears I cried for that woman are gonna flood you big river, 
       And I'm a gonna sit right here until I die. 
       I met her accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota, 
       She tore me up everything I heard her drawl, 
       that southern drawl. 
       Well I heard my dream went back downstream, 
       cavortin' in Davenport, 
       And I follow you big river when you called. 
       Well I followed her down to St. Louie, later on down the river, 
      Trader said she's been here, but she's gone, boy, she's gone. 
       Well I followed her down to Memphis, 
       but she just walked off the bus, 
       She raised a few eyebrows and she went on down alone. 
       Well I've gotten on down to Baton Rouge, River Queen roll on, 
       Take that woman down to New Orleans, New Orleans. 
       I give up, I've had enough, 
       followed my blues on down to the gulf, 
       She loves you big river more than me. 
 
 
Bird Song                                                     2-19-71 
 
       All I know is something like a bird within her sang, 
       All I know she and a little while and then flew on, 
       Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain. 
       If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why? 
       Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by, 
       Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, 
       fly through the night. 
       Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore. 
       Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind. 
       All I know is something like a bird within her sang, 
       All I know she and a little while and then flew off, 
       Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain. 
 

Black Muddy River                                           12-15-86 
 
       When the last rose of summer pricks my finger, 
       And the hot sun chills me to the bone, 
       When I can't hear the song for the singer, 
       And I can't tell my pillow from a stone, 
       I will walk alone by the black muddy river, 
       And sing me a song of my own, 
       I will walk alone by the black muddy river, 
       And sing me a song of my own. 
       When the last bolt of sunshine hits the mountain, 
       And the stars start to splatter in the sky, 
       When the moon hits the southwest horizon, 
       With the scream of an eagle on the fly, 
       I will walk alone by the black muddy river, 
       And listen to the ripples as they moan, 
       I will walk alone by the black muddy river, 
       And sing me a song of my own. 
       Black muddy river, roll on forever, 
       I don't care how deep or wide, if you've got another side, 
       Roll muddy river, roll muddy river, black muddy river, roll. 
       When it seems like the night will last forever, 
       And there's nothing left to do but count the years, 
       When the strings of my heart begin to sever, 
       And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears, 
       I will walk alone, by the black muddy river, 
       And dream me a dream of my own, 
       I will walk alone, by the black muddy river, 
       And sing me a song of my own, sing me a song of my own. 

Black Peter                                                   12-4-69 

       All of my friends come to see me last night, 
       I was laying in my bed and dying. 
       Annie Bonneau from St. 
       Angel say the weather down there so fine. 
       Just then the wind came squalling through the dark, 
       But who can the weather command? 
       Just want to have a little peace to die, 
       And a friend or two I love at hand. 
       Fever roll up to a hundred and five. 
       Roll on up, gonna roll back down. 
       One more day I find myself alive, 
       Tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground. 
       See here how everything led up to this day, 
       And it's just like any other day that's ever been. 
       Sun going up and then the sun going down.        
       Shine through my window and my friends they come around, 
       Come around, come around. 
       The people might know, but the people don't care, 
       That a man can be as poor as me. 
       Take a look at poor Peter, he's lying in pain, 
       Now let's come run and see, run and see, 
       Run and see, run, run and see, and see. 
Black Throated Wind                                            3-5-72 
 
       You're bringing me down, I'm running aground, 
       Blind in the lights of the interstate cars, 
       Passing me by, the busses and the semis, 
       Plugging like stones from a slingshot from mars. 
       But I'm here on the road, bound to the load, 
       That I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars. 
       Alone with the rush of the drivers that won't pick me up, 
       The highway, the moon, and clouds and the stars. 
       Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in, 
       With it's words of a life where nothing is new, 
       Ah, mother american night, I pass from the light, 
       Ah, I'm drownin' in you. 
       I left St. Louie, city of blues, 
       In the midst of a storm I'd rather forget. 
       I tried to pretend it came to an end, 
       Cause you weren't the women I once thought I'd met. 
       But I can't deny, times have gone by, 
       Well I never had doubts or thoughts of regret, 
       And I was a man when all this began, 
       Who wouldn't think twice about being there yet. 
       Black throated wind, whisper in sin, 
       And speaking on life that passes like dew. 
       It's forced me to see you've done better by me, 
       Better by me that I've done by you. 
       Now what's to be found by racing around, 
       you carry your pain wherever you go, 
       Full of blues, and tryin' to lose, 
       You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know. 
       So I give you my eyes and all of their lies, 
       Please help them to learn as well as to see. 
       Capture a glance, and make it dance, 
       But looking at you is looking at me. 
       Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in, 
       With it's words of a life that could almost be true, 
       Ah, mother American night, here comes a light. 
       I'm turning around, that's what I'm gonna do. 
       Going back home that's what I'm gonna do. 
       I'm turning around, that's what I'm gonna do. 
       Going back home that's what I'm gonna do. 
       Cause you've done better by me than I've done by you, 
       I'm drowning in you. 


Blues For Allah                                              10-6-81 
 
       Arabian wind, The needle's eye is thin, 
       The ships of state sail on mirage, 
       And drown in sand, 
       Out in no-man's land where Allah does command. 
       What good is spilling blood?  It will not grow a thing; 
       Taste eternity the swords sing: Blues of Allah In 'sh'Allah. 
       They lie where they fall,  There's nothing more to say, 
       The desert stars are bright tonight lets meet as friends, 
       The Flower of Islam, The Fruit of Abraham. 
       The thousand stories have come round to one again, 
       Arabian night, Our Gods pursue their fight, 
       What fatal flowers of darkness bloom from seeds of light. 
       Bird of paradise fly in white sky, 
       Blues for Allah In 'sh'Allah, 
       Let's see with our heart, These things our eyes have seen, 
       And know the truth must still lie somewhere in between. 
       Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue, 
       Bird of paradise fly in white sky, 
       Blues for Allah In 'sh'Allah. 
 
Bondi Pier 
 
       I was down by Bondi Pier, drinkin' tubes of ice cold beer, 
       With a bucket full of prawns upon my knee, 
       When I swallowed the last prawn, 
       I had a technicolor yawn 
       and I chundered in the old Pacific Sea. 
       Drink it up, drink it up, 
       crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me, 
       If you want to throw your voice, 
       mate you won't have any choice, 
       But to chunder in the Old Pacific Sea. 
       I was sittin in the surf, when a mate of mine called Murf, 
       Asks if he can crack a tube or two with me. 
       The bastard barely swallowed it, 
       When he went for the big split, 
       and he chundered in the Old Pacific Sea. 
       Drink it up, drink it up, 
       crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me, 
       If you want to throw your voice, 
       mate you won't have any choice, 
       But to chunder in the Old Pacific Sea. 
       I've had liquid laughs in cars, 
       and I've hurled from moving cars, 
       And I've chuckled when and where it suited me. 
       But if I could choose the spot, 
       To regurgitate me lot, then I'd chunder in the Old Pacific Sea. 
       Drink it up, drink it up, 
       crack another dozen tubes and prawns with me, 
       If you want to throw your voice, 
       mate you won't have any choice, 
       But to chunder in the Old Pacific Sea. 
Born Cross-Eyed                                               1-20-68 
 
       Seems like I've been here before, 
       Fuzzy then and still so obscure, 
       goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. 
       And I don't want to see anybody cry, 
       Meet me some mornin' in the sweet by and by, 
       by and by, by and by. 
       Song commin' on, 
       So pleasin' to see, come and gone, 
       goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, 
       You don't have to tell me why, 
       Meet me some mornin' in the sweet by and by, 
       by and by, by and by. 
       It ain't cause I'm the only one left darlin', 
       Bout the time the sun rises west, 
       Feelin' groovy, lookin' fine. 
       Think I'll come back here again, 
       Every now and then from time to time. 
       My how lovely you are, my dear, 
       The ball game has gone much too far my dear, 
       Sing to me, do your thing to me, 
       I'll meet you some mornin', meet you some mornin', 
       In the sweet by and by, by and by, by and by. 


Box of Rain                                                  10-9-72 
 
       Look out of any window, any morning, any evening, any day. 
       Maybe the sun is shining, birds are singing, 
       No rain is falling from a heavy sky. 
       What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through? 
       For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago. 
       Walk out of any doorway, feel your way, 
       feel your way like the day before. 
       Maybe you'll find direction, 
       Around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you. 
       What do you want me to do, 
       to watch for you while you are sleeping? 
       The please don't be surprised when you find me dreaming too. 
       Look into any eyes you find by you, 
       you can see clear to another day, 
       Maybe been seen before, 
       through other eyes on other days while going home. 
       What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through? 
       It's all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago. 
       Walk into splintered sunlight, 
       Inch your way through dead dreams to another land. 
       Maybe you're tired and broken, 
       Your tongue is twisted with words half spoken 
       and thoughts unclear 
       What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through? 
       A box of rain will ease the pain, 
       and love will see you through. 
       Just a box of rain, wind and water,        
       Believe it if you need in, if you don't just pass it on. 
       Sun and shower, wind and rain, 
       In and out the window like a moth before a flame. 
       And it's just a box of rain, I don't know who put it there, 
       Believe it if you need it, or leave it if you dare. 
       And it's just a box of rain, or a ribbon for tour hair; 
       Such a long long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.

Boys in the Barroom 
       Does God look down on the boys in the barroom, 
       Mainly forsaken but surely not judged. 
       Jacks, kings, and aces, their faces in wine, 
       Do lord deliver our kind. 
       From singing for whiskey three strings on the fiddle, 
       Four on the guitar and a song that I love. 
       Many's the night we spent picking and singing, 
       In hopes it be pleasing both here and above. 
       Jack's string fiddle to my sawtooth bow, 
       Who loves lonlieness loves it alone. 
       I love the dim lights like some love the dew, 
       Only thing I wonder sometimes: 
       Does God look down on the boys in the barroom, 
       Mainly forsaken but surely not judged. 
       Jacks, kings, and aces, their faces in wine, 
       Do lord deliver our kind. 
Bring Me My Shotgun 
 
       Oh bring me my shotgun, bring me back some shells, 
       Why don't you just bring me my shotgun, 
       Bring me back a pocket full of shells, 
       Well you know if I don't get myself a little competition, 
       You know there's gonna be some trouble 'round here. 
       Well you know my mama told me, she said, 
       You gonna have bad luck, son, don't care where you go, 
       So why don't you bring me my shotgun. 
       Early in the morning when the sun gonna rise, 
       She lets her rolling go moonshine bright, 
       In the morning bring me my shotgun, 
       Well I can stand in the mist for a while, 
       But I can't stand it for very long. 


Brokedown Palace                                              8-18-70 
 
       Fare you well, my honey, fare you well my only true one. 
       All the birds that were singing are flown, except you alone. 
       Going to leave this brokedown palace, 
       On my hand and knees, I will roll, roll, roll. 
       Make myself a bed in the waterside, 
       In my time, I will roll, roll roll. 
       In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head. 
       Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul. 
       River going to take me, sing sweet and sleepy, 
       sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home. 
       It's a far gone lullaby, sung many years ago. 
       Mama, mama many worlds I've come since I first left home. 
       Goin' home, goin' home, by the riverside I will rest my bones, 
       Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul. 
       Going to plant a weeping willow, 
       On the bank's green edge it will grow, grow, grow. 
       Sing a lullaby beside the water, 
       Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll. 
       Fare you well, fare you well, 
       I love you more than words can tell, 
       Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul. 
 

Brother Esau                                                 3-25-83 
 
       My brother Esau killed the hunter, back in 1969, 
       Before the killing was done his inheritance was mine. 
       When at first my brother walked away, 
       Before a weary band, 
       Esau gave his sleeplessness for a piece of moral land. 
       Our father favored Esau, he was eager to obey, 
       All the wild commandments, the old man shot his way. 
       But all this ended when, my brother failed at war, 
       He staggered home and found me in the door. 
       Esau he's on rollerskates today, 
       And he make a statement to someone in L.A. 
       Sometimes at night I dream, he's still that hairy man, 
       Shadow boxing the apocalypse, wandering the land. 
       Esau holds the blessing, brother Esau holds the curse, 
       I was thinking that the blame was mine, 
       But suspected something worse. 
       The more my brother looks like me, the more I understand, 
       The silent war it bloodied both our hands.        
       Sometimes at night I think I understand. 
       None of us can win. 
       Outside that dream, still that hairy man. 
       Well sometimes at night I think I understand. 
       Shadowboxing the apocalypse, wandering the land. 


Brown-Eyed Women                                             8-23-71 
 
       Gone are the days when the ox fall down, 
       Take up the yoke and plow the fiends around. 
       Gone are the days when the ladies said' "Please, 
       Gentle Jack Jones won't you come to me." 
       Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, 
       The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. 
       Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down, 
       And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. 
       1929 when he stepped to the bar, 
       drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar. 
       1030 when the wall caved in, 
       he made his way selling red-eyed gin. 
       Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, 
       The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. 
       Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down, 
       And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. 
       Delilah Jones was the mother of twins, 
       Two times over and the rest were sins. 
       Raised eight boys, only I turned bad, 
       Didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had. 
       Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, 
       The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. 
       Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down, 
       And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. 
       Tumble down shack on Big Foot country. 
       Snowed so hard that the roof caved in. 
       Delilah Jones went to meet her God, 
       And the old man never was the same again. 
       Daddy made whiskey and he made it well. 
       Cost two dollars and it burned like hell. 
       I cut hick'ry just to fire the still, 
       Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill. 
       Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, 
       The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. 
       Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down, 
       And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. 
       Gone are the days when the ox fall down, 
       Take up the yoke and plow the fiends around. 
       Gone are the days when the ladies said' "Please, 
       Gentle Jack Jones won't you come to me." 
       Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, 
       The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. 
       Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,        
       And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. 


Built to Last                                               10-20-88 
 
       There are times when you must beckon, 
       There are times when you must fall. 
       You can take a lot of wrecking, 
       But you can't take it all. 
       There are times when I can help you out, 
       And times when you must fall. 
       There are times when you must live in doubt, 
       And I can't help at all. 
       Two blue stars, shine o'er the hill. 
       Plead no more, now just be still. 
       Through the night, now safely there. 
       Show me something built to last. 
       Been held by the fire, 
       Yes and I'm, held by the ring. 
       You can walk on balls of fire, 
       But sometimes you might bleed. 
       There are times when I have begged you 
       And you do the same to me. 
       If you can't or won't admit it, 
       At least we pulled you through. 
       Three blue stars, set o'er the hill. 
       Call them back; you never will. 
       All these trials, soon be dead. 
       We all need something built to last. 
       Built to last 'till time of seven, 
       Falls tumbling from the sky. 
       Built to last 'till lightness fades, 
       And darkness falls on all. 
       Built to last 'till years roll back 
       Our couch perched in the sky 
       Show me something different, 
       Or something built to try. 
       There are times when you get hit up on, 
       Try hard but you cannot give. 
       Other times, you'd gladly go 
       with what you need to give. 
       Don't be afraid to save your face, 
       When you have done your best 
       Now I won't forget, 
       Next day try the rest. 
       All the stars, are gone but one. 
       Morning dreams, we found the Sun.        
       Through the night, now safely there, 
       Show me something built to last 
       Two blue stones, shine o'er the hill. 
       Call it back; you never will 
       All these trials, now are dead. 
       Show me something built to last. 
       All the stars, are gone but one. 
       Morning dreams. Here comes the sun. 
       Through the night, now sinking fast. 
       Show me something built to last. 
Candyman                                                       4-3-70 
 
       Come on all you pretty women, with your hair a hanging down, 
       Open up your windows cuz the Candyman's in town. 
       Come on boys and gamble, roll those laughing bones, 
       Seven come eleven, boys I'll take your money home. 
       Look out, look out the Candyman, 
       Here he comes and he's gone again. 
       Pretty lady ain't got no friend till, 
       The Candyman comes around again, around again. 
       I come from Memphis where I learned to talk the jive, 
       When I get back to Memphis be one less man alive. 
       Good morning Mr. Benson, I see you're doing well, 
       If I had me a shotgun I'd blow you straight to hell. 
       Look out, look out the Candyman, 
       Here he comes and he's gone again. 
       Pretty lady ain't got no friend till, 
       The Candyman comes around again, around again. 
       Come on boys and wager if you have got the mind, 
       If you've got a dollar boys, lay it on the line, 
       Hand me my old guitar, pass the whiskey round, 
       Won't you tell everybody you meet that the Candyman's in town. 
       Look out, look out the Candyman, 
       Here he comes and he's gone again. 
       Pretty lady ain't got no friend till, 
       The Candyman comes around again, around again. 
 
Can't Come Down                                              11-3-65 
       Well I'm flying down desert streets 
       wrapped in mother's wine and sheets, 
       Asbestos boots on flaming feet dreaming of forbidden treats, 
       When uniforms on nighttime beats 
       ask me where I'm going and what I eat. 
       I answer them with a voice so sweet, 
       I can't come down till it's plain to see. 
       I can't come down I've been set free. 
       Who you are and what you don't make no difference to me. 
       Well someone trying to tell me where it's at, 
       And how I do this and why I do that, 
       With secret smiles like a Chesire cat, 
       And little wings like a vampire bat, 
       I fly away to my cold water flat 
       and eat my way to a bone of fat, 
       And I say to the man with the funny hat, 
       They say I'll be good to lose my grip, 
       My hold on reality is starting to slip, 
       To tell me to got off with this trip, 
       The say its like a sinking ship, 
       Life is sweet it's too warm to sip, 
       And if I drink I'll chuck and flip, 
       I'll just say as I take a nip, 
       Oh I dream of cotton seas and granite walls and redwood trees, 
       And ugly eye that only sees endless mirrors and infinite me's, 
       About the winter's coming freeze 
       this afterthought I say with ease, 
       To all of you who make your fees. 
 

Casey Jones                                                 6-20-69b 
 
       Driving that train, high on cocaine, 
       Casey Jones is ready, watch your speed. 
       Trouble ahead, trouble behind, 
       And you know that notion just crossed my mind. 
       This old engine makes it on time, 
       Leaves Central Station 'bout a quarter to nine, 
       Hits River Junction at seventeen to, 
       At a quarter to ten you know it's travlin' again. 
       Driving that train, high on cocaine, 
       Casey Jones is ready, watch your speed. 
       Trouble ahead, trouble behind, 
       And you know that notion just crossed my mind. 
       Trouble ahead, Lady in red, 
       Take my advice you'd be better off dead. 
       Switchman's sleeping, train hundred and two is 
       On the wrong track and headed for you. 
       Driving that train, high on cocaine,        
       Casey Jones is ready, watch your speed. 
       Trouble ahead, trouble behind, 
       And you know that notion just crossed my mind. 
       Trouble with you is the trouble with me, 
       Got two good eyes but you still don't see. 
       Come round the bend, you know it's the end, 
       The fireman screams and the engine just gleams... 
 
Cassidy                                                       3-23-74 
 
       I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream. 
       I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream. 
       Ah child of countless trees, ah child of boundless seas. 
       What are you, what are you meant to be? 
       Speaks his name for you were born to me, 
       Born to me, Cassidy. 
       Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac. 
       I can tell by the way you smile he is rolling back. 
       Come wash the nighttime clean, 
       come grow the scorched ground green. 
       Blow the horn, tap the tambourine. 
       Close the gap on the dark years in between. 
       You and me, Cassidy. 
       Quick beats in an icy heart, catch colt draws a coffin cart, 
       There he goes and now here she starts, hear her cry. 
       Flight of the seabirds, 
       Scattered like lost words, 
       Wheel to the storm and fly. 
       Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by it's own design. 
       Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, 
       I'm done with mine. 
       Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by it's own design. 
       Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, 
       I'm done with mine. 

Catfish John 
 
       Mama said, "Don't go near that river, 
       Don't be hanging around old Catfish John." 
       Come in the morning I'd always be there, 
       Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn. 
       Take me back to another morning, to a time so long ago, 
       When the sweet magnolia blossomed, 
       cotton fields as white as snow. 
       Catfish John was a river hobo 
       who lived and died by the river's bed, 
       Looking back I still remember I was proud to be his friend. 
       Mama said, "Don't go near that river, 
       Don't be hanging around old Catfish John." 
       Come in the morning I'd always be there, 
       Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn. 
       Born a slave in the town of Vicksburg, 
       traded for a chestnut mare, 
       Lord her never spoke in anger though his load was hard to bear. 
      Mama said, "Don't go near that river,        
       Don't be hanging around old Catfish John." 
       Come in the morning I'd always be there, 
       Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn. 
       Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn. 


Cats Under the Stars 
 
       Cats on the blacktop, birdie in the treetop, 
       Someone plays guitar that sounds like clarinet. 
       I ain't ready to go to bed, 
       I think I'll take a walk downtown instead. 
       Cats on the bandstand, Give'em each a big hand, 
       Anyone who sweats like that must be all right. 
       No one wants to fight; no blackeye, 
       Just another cat beneath the stars tonight. 
       Cats in the limelight, feels like it's alright, 
       Everybody wants something they might not get. 
       I ain' ready yet, it ain't complete, 
       That's why I am headin' down to Alleycat Street. 
       Satin blouse unbuttoning, satin blouse unbuttoning, 
       Time is a stripper's doin', it's just for you. 
       Time is a stripper's doin', it's just for you. 
       Knock in the brass tacks, cover up your tracks Jack, 
       You ain't nowhere till you can pay your own way back. 
       What else do you lack to make it right, 
       But cats down under the stars tonight. 


Caution                                                      11-3-65 
 
       I went down one day, I went down one day to see a Gypsy woman, 
       Just one old day, yes I did, 
       I want to find out, I want to find out, 
       I want to find out, I want to find out now, 
       What's wring with me and my baby. 
       We ain't gettin' down like we used to do, 
       I mean it's pretty good now, but there was a time, 
       When it didn't work too well. 
       I went down to see this Gypsy woman, you understand, 
       I told her my story, I told her what was goin' on. 
       And she told me, man she said, all you need, all you need, 
       She said all you got to have, oh Lord, 
       Just a touch of Mojo's hand, oh bring it back on, 
       And it feels pretty good, yes indeed. 


C. C. Rider                                                   12-1-79 
 
       Well now C., C. C. Rider, well now see, see what you have done. 
      Well now C., C. C. Rider, well now see, see what you have done.  
     Well you made me love you woman, now your man is gone. 
       So I'm goin' away now baby and I won't be back till fall, 
       I'm goin' away now baby and I won't be back till fall, 
       Just might find me a good girl 
       might not be commin' back at all. 
       Well now C., C. C. Rider, see now the moon is shining bright, 
       Well now C., C. C. Rider, see now the moon is shining bright, 
       Just might find me that good girl 
       and everything would be alright. 
 
 
China Cat Sunflower                                            2-3-68 
 
       Look for a while at the China Cat sunflower, 
       Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun. 
       Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono, 
       Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind. 
       Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandanna, 
       Like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack. 
       A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle, 
       To a double-E waterfall over my back. 
       Comic book colors on a violin river Cryin' Leonardo, 
       Words from out a silk trombone. 
       I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls, 
       In the eagle-winged palace of the Queen Chinee. 
 
China Doll                                                    2-9-73 
 
       A pistol shot, at five o'clock, the bells of heaven ring, 
       tell me what you done it for, No I won't tell you a thing. 
       Yesterday I begged you before I hit the ground, 
       all I leave behind me is only what I found. 
       If you can abide it, let the hurdy-gurdy play, 
       stranger ones have come by here before they flew away. 
       I will not condemn you nor yet would I deny, 
       I would ask the same of you, but failing, will not die. 
       Take up your china doll, take up your china doll, 
       it's only fractured and just a little nervous from the fall. 
       La-la-la-la-la-la-la. 


Chinatown Shuffle                                            12-31-71 
 
       Take it, you can have it, what I got baby, I can't hold 
       and if you find the secret tell me how to build the mold. 
       And I can't handle your problems so don`t try to handle mine, 
       get yourself a shotgun, a pocketful of shells 
       and we can while away the time. 
       Look up the wall, do it right, make a mistake, 
       you're going to pay for it twice, 
       but if you need it, got to have it get yourself 
       a shotgun and bring it back home 
       Look up the wall, you know you got to call 
       before you start falling, get ready to fall. 
       and if you fallin my direction 
       don't expect no help at all....don't 
       Get it right, do it nice 
       and if you make a mistake, you're going to pay for it twice, 
       but if you need it, got to have it get yourself 
       a shotgun and bring it back home 
       Look up the wall, you know you got to call 
       but if you start falling, be ready to fall, 
       and if you fall in my direction 
       don't expect no help at all, don't expect no help at all, 
       don't expect no help at all, and if you fall in my direction 
       don't expect no help at all, 


Cocaine 
 
       Take a snip of this then play a little riff, 
       don't be afraid to try 
       Don't need no airplane to get off the ground 
       there's more than one way to fly 
       Have a little taste, Baby, don't hesitate, 
       every hit don`t have to be a song 
       Gonna take you to the cosmos, Baby, 
       and boogie with you all night long 
       Riding out on a rail, feels so fine 
       Talking 'bout that cocaine express, 
       mainline, got a good head of steam 
       Never lived down on the Bayou, 
       but I been busted in New Orleans, New Orleans 
       I can roll all night with you, Baby got a land? 
       I'm just in from Marin 
       Can't get it off, but I can get it on and we'll be truckin'     
      'till the break of day 
       Here comes the doo-dah dealer on his Hog three wheeler, 
       250 pounds of sin 
       He's made your car the main attraction. 
       you wanna beef up his action 
       But he will cut you, before he would cut you in, 
       the only place to win 
       Riding out on a rail, feels so fine 
       Talking 'bout that cocaine express, 
       mainline, taking a midnight cruise 
       Never lived up in the Northlands, 
       but I been snowblind out in Sandford Dew 
       Snowblind in Sanford Dew, that's enough for you, snowblind 
 
 
Cocaine Habit Blues                                           7-12-70 
 
       Tell it to me, tell it to me 
       Drink cold liquor let the cocaine be 
       Cocaine'll kill my honey dead 
       Walking down the street with a dollar in my hand 
       Looked for a woman ain't got no man 
       Cocaine'll kill my honey dead 
       Love my whiskey, I'll love my gin 
       But the way I love coke is all of a sin 
       Cocaine'll kill my honey dead 
       Cocaine's dose is not for a man 
       Doctor said pretty soon, but he don't say when 
       Cocaine'll kill my honey dead 
 
 
Cold Jordan                                                 6-20-69b 
 
       Oh sinning is a gentilized journey, 
       take Jesus as your daily guide 
       Though you may feel pure and saintly 
       without Him walking by your side 
       And when you come to make your crossing 
       at the end of the pilgrim's way 
       If you ever will meet your savior, 
       you will surely meet him on that day 
       Now look at that cold Jordan, look at its deep water 
       Look at that wide river Oh heavy mighty billows roll 
       You better take Jesus with you, he's a true companion 
       Oh I'm sure without him that you never will make it home 
       That awful day of judgement is coming in the by and by 
       We'll see our Lord descending in the glory from on high 
       Oh, let us get in touch with Jesus 
       and in the special love of God 
       And maybe ever get ready when he comes on Jordan's tide  
       Now look at that cold Jordan, look at its deep water 
       Look at that wide river Oh heavy mighty billows roll 
       You better take Jesus with you, he's a true companion 
       Oh I'm sure without him that you never will make it home 
       Now what you gonna do, Oh what you gonna say 
       Oh how you gonna feel when you come to the end of the way? 
 

Cold Rain and Snow                                            3-25-66 
 
       Well I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life 
       Run me out in the cold rain and snow 
       Rain and snow, run me out in the cold rain and snow 
       Well she's coming down the stairs, combin' back her yellow hair 
      And I ain't goin be treated this ol' way 
       Well she went up to her room where she sang her faithful tune 
       Well I'm goin where those chilly winds don`t blow 
 
 
Comes A Time                                                10-19-71 
 
       Comes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, 
       says "Don't you see? 
       Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe." 
       Don't give it up, you got an empty cup only love can fill, 
       only love can fill. 
       Been walking all morning went walking all night 
       I can`t see much difference between the dark and light 
       And I feel the wind And I taste the rain 
       Never in my mind to cause so much pain. 
       Comes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, 
       says "Don't you see? 
       Gotta make it somehow on the the dreams you still believe." 
       Don't give it up, you got an empty cup only love can fill, 
       only love can fill. 
       From day to day just letting it ride. 
       You get so far away from how it feels inside. 
       You can't let go cause you're afraid to fall, 
       But the day may come when you can't feel at all. 
       The words come out like an angry stream. 
       You hear yourself say things you could never mean. 
       When you cool down you find your mind. 
       You got a lot of words you've got to stand behind. 
       Comes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, 
       says "Don't you see? 
       Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe." 
       Don't give it up, you got an empty cup only love can fill, 
       only love can fill, only love can fill, only love can fill. 
 
 
Confusion Prince 
 
       If only I could be less blind, if only I knew what to find 
       Everywhere and all of the time, it's bending my mind 
       Confusion Prince is at my door 
       The crown I wear is the one he wore 
       He's here to bring me down some more and bend my mind  
       The friendly stranger call my name 
       He only wants me for his game 
       But it don't matter just the same I bend his mind 
       I'll wave my flags into the sun 
       I fought my wars and now they're won 
       And I didn't need nobody's gun, I bend their mind 
 
 
Corinna  (as performed on the 24th of Feb 1992)
  -----
 
  Corinna, shake it up baby
  Corinna, shake it up now
  Corinna, Corinna
 
  Born  on a Sunday
  Gone on a Monday
  coming back someday
  what i say
  if you get closer
  cut from emotion
  ..
  ready or not
  Corinna, shake it up baby
  Corinna, shake it up now
  Corinna, Corinna
 
  ..stop sign
  .. short time
  ..
  what i say
  soft on ..
  what can I do
  play it on a downbeat
  but I'm true to you, true to you.
  Corinna, shake it up baby
  Corinna, shake it up now
  Corinna, Corinna
 
  (bridge)
  ..when and how
  all in the proper time
  ..
  ..
  ...ocean
  ..
  ..
  ..bring back to me
  Corinna, shake it up baby
  Corinna, shake it up now
  Corinna, Corinna
 
 
  so wake it up baby
  shake it down easy
  ...
  what i say, what i say
  ...emotion
  ...on a downbeat
  ready or not, ready or not
  Corinna, shake it up baby
  Corinna, shake it up now
  Corinna, Corinna
 
  if we...
  it don't mean a thing to me
  i will love you...
  ..even if you
  ...  ...
  .. what love is for
  never fails for me
  Corinna, shake it up baby
  Corinna, shake it up now
  Corinna, Corinna



Cosmic Charlie                                              10-19-68 
 
       Cosmic Charlie how do you do? 
       Truckin' in style along the avenue. 
       Dum de dum de dooodley do.  Go on home your mama's calling you. 
      Kalico, Kahlia, come tell me the news. 
       Calamity's waiting for a way to get to her. 
       Rosy red and electric blue 
       I bought you a paddle for your paper canoe. 
       Say you'll come back when you can 
       Whenever your airplane happens to land. 
       Maybe I'll be back here too It all depends on what's with you. 
       Hung up waiting for a windy day 
       kite on ice since the first of February. 
       Mama keeps saying that the wind might blow , 
       But standing here I say I just don't know. 
       New ones comin' as the old ones go, 
       Everything's moving here but much too slow now, 
       A little bit quicker and we might have time, 
       To say "How do you do?" before we're left behind. 
       Calliope wail like a seaside zoo. 
       The very last lately inquired about you, 
       It's really very one or two.  
       The first you wanted, the last I knew. 
       I just wonder if you shouldn't feel, 
       Less concerned about the people unreal. 
       The very first word is "How do you do?", 
       The last "Go home your mama's callin' you." 
       Calling you, calling you, calling you, calling you, 
       Go on home your mama's calling you. 
 
 
Crazy Fingers                                                6-17-75 
 
       Your rain falls like crazy fingers 
       Peals of fragile thunder keeping time 
       Recall the days that still are to come some sing blue. 
       Hang your heart on laughing willow stray 
       Down to the water, deep sea of love 
       beneath the sweet calm face of the sea swift undertow. 
       Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know, 
       See how it feels in the end. 
       May Lady Lullaby sing plainly for you 
       soft, strong, sweet and true. 
       Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow tapping at the window,
       touch your hair 
       So swift and bright strange figures of light float in air. 
       Who can stop what must arrive now? 
       Something new is waiting to be born 
       Dark as the night you're still by my side shine inside . 
       Gone are the days we stopped to decide where we should go, 
       we just ride. 
       Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams gone, 
       both dream and lie. 
       Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know, 
       Feels like it might be alright, 
       While Lady Lullaby sings plainly through you 
       Love still rings true.        
       Midnight on a carousel ride reaching for the gold ring 
       down inside, 
       Never could reach it, just slips away but I try. 
 
 
Cream Puff War                                                10-7-66 
 
       No, no!  She can't take your mind and leave 
       I know it's just another trick she's got up her sleeve 
       I can't believe that she really wants you to die 
       After all it's more than enough to pay for your lie 
       Wait a minute, watch what you're doin' with your time 
       All the endless ruins of the past must stay behind, yeah 
       Well, can't you see that you're killing each other's soul 
       Well, you're both out in the streets and you got no place to go 
      Your constant battes are getting to be a bore 
       So go somewhere else and continue your cream puff war 
 
 
Cumberland Blues                                             11-8-69 
 
       I can't stay much longer, Melinda, The sun is getting high. 
       I can't help you with your troubles, 
       If you won't help with mine. 
       I gotta get down, I gotta get down, 
       I gotta get down to the mine. 
       You keep me up just one more night, 
       I can't sleep here no more. 
       Little Ben clock says quarter to eight; 
       You kept me up 'till four. 
       I gotta get down, I gotta get down, 
       Or I can't work there no more. 
       A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill, 
       Keep him happy all the time. 
       Some other fella's makin nothin' at all 
       And you can hear him cry, 
       "Can I go, buddy, can I go down Take your shift at the mine?" 
       Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine. 
       Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine. 
       That's where I mainly spend my time. 
       Make good money, five dollars a day.  
       Made anymore, I might move away. 
       Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues He can't win for losin' 
      Lotta poor man got to walk the line Just to pay his union dues.  
     I don't know now, I just don't know If I'm goin' back again. 
 
 
Dancing in the Streets                                         7-3-66 
 
       Hey, comin' out around the world be ready for a brand new beat 
       Oh, summer's here and the time is right, 
       oh, for dancing in the street 
       Dancing in Chicago (dancing in the street) 
       Down in New Orleans (dancing in the street) 
       In New York City (dancing in the street) 
       All we need is music, sweet music (sweet, sweet music) 
       They'll be music everywhere (everywhere) 
       They'll be laughing, singing, 
       music swinging and dancing in the street 
       It doesn't matter what you wear just as long as you are there   
     So come on every guy and grab a girl 
       everywhere around the world 
       They're dancing (dancing in the street) oh oh 
       This is an invitation across the nation 
       the chance for folks to meet 
       There'll be swinging, swaying, music playing 
       and dancing in the street 
       Philadelphia, PA now (dancing in the street) 
       Baltimore and D.C. (dancing in the street) 
       Can't forget them other cities (dancing in the street) 
 
 

Dark Hollow                                                   2-14-70 
 
       I'd rather be in some dark hollow 
       where the sun don't ever shine 
       Then to be at home alone and knowin' that you're gone 
       Would cause me to lose my mind. 
       Well blow your whistle freight train 
       carry me far on down the track 
       Well I'm going away, I'm leaving today 
       I'm goin', but I ain't comin' back. 
       I'd rather be in some dark hollow 
       where the sun don't ever shine 
       Then to be in some big city, in a small room, 
       with you upon my mind. 
       Well I'm going away, I'm leaving today 
       I'm goin' but I ain't comin' back. 
 
Dark Star                                                    12-13-67 
 
       Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes. 
       Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis. 
       Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion. 
       Shall we go, you and I while we can 
       Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds? 
       Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter. 
       Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving. 
       Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of goodbye. 
       Shall we go, you and I while we can 
       Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds? 
  
Day Job                                                       8-28-82 
 
       Maybe you collect or maybe you pay (whether) 
       Still got to work that eight hour day 
       Whether you like that job or not 
       You'd better keep it on ice 
       while you're lining up your long shot 
       Which is to say, hey hey, keep yer day job 
       Don't give it away, keep yer day job, whatever they say 
       Keep yer day job 'till your night job pays. 
       Steady boys starting that eight day hour 
       Never underrate that paycheck power 
       By now you know that the face on your dollar 
       Got a thumb on its nose and a hand on your collar 
       With a chance to say, hey hey, keep yer day job.... 
       Daddy may drive a V-8 'Vette 
       Mama may bathe in champagne yet 
       God bless the child that's got his own stash 
       Nine to five and a place to crash 
       which is to say...  
       Sunday comes forget about work, 
       Ring that bell for whatever it's worth. 
       If you ask me like I know you won't 
       I'll tell you what to do what I know that you won't. 
Day Tripper                                                  12-28-84 
 
       Got a good reason for taking the easy way out 
       Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now 
       She was a day tripper, one way ticket yeah 
       It took me so long to find out, and I found out. 
       She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there 
       She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there now 
       She was a day tripper, one way ticket yeah 
       It took me so long to find out, and I found out. 
       Tried to please her, she only played one night stands 
       Tried to please her, she only played one night stands now 
       She was a day tripper, Sunday driver yeah 
       It took me so long to find out, and I found out 
       Say tripper, day tripper yeah. 
 
 
 DAYS BETWEEN: By Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia
 
  There were days
 and there were days
 and there were days between
 Summer flies and August dies
 the world grows dark and mean
 Comes the shimmer of the moon
 on black infested trees
 the singing man is at his song
 the holy on their knees
 The reckless are out wrecking
 The timid plead their pleas
 No one knows much more of this
 than anyone can see      anyone can see
 
 There were days
 and there were days
 and there were days besides
 when phantom ships with phantom sails
 set to sea on phantom tides
 Comes the lightning of the sun
 on bright unfocused eyes
 the blue of yet another day
 a springtime wet with sighs
 a hopeful candle lingers
 in the land of lullabies
 where headless horsemen vanish
 with wild and lonely cries     lonely cries
 
 There were days
 and there were days
 and there were days I know
 when all we ever wanted
 was to learn and love and grow
 Once we grew into our shoes
 we told them where to go
 Walked halfway around the world
 on promise of the glow
 Stood upon a mountain top
 Walked barefoot in the snow
 Gave the best we had to give
 How much we'll never know    we'll never know
 
 There were days
 and there were days
 and there were days between
 polished like a golden bowl
 The finest ever seen
 Hearts of Summer held in trust
 still tender, young and green
 left on shelves collecting dust
 not knowing what they mean
 Valentines of flesh and blood
 as soft as velveteen
 hoping love would not forsake
 the days that lie between      lie between




Deal                                                          2-19-71 
 
       Since it costs a lot to win, and even more to lose, 
       You and me bound to spend some time wond'rin' what to choose. 
       Goes to show, you don't ever know, 
       Watch each card you play and play it slow, 
       Wait until that deal come round, 
       Don't you let that deal go down, no, no. 
       I been gamblin' hereabouts for ten good solid years, 
       If I told you all that went down 
       it would burn off both of your ears. 
       Goes to show you don't ever know 
       Watch each card you play and play it slow, 
       Wait until that deal come round, 
       Don't you let that deal go down, no, no. 
       Since you poured the wine for me and tightened up my shoes, 
       I hate to leave you sittin' there, composin' lonesome blues. 
       Goes to show you don't ever know 
       Watch each card you play and play it slow, 
       Wait until that deal come round, 
       don't you let that deal go down. 
       Wait until that deal come round, 
       don't you let that deal go down, 
       Wait until that deal come round, 
       don't you let that deal go down, 
       Don't you let that deal go down, 
       don't you let that deal go down. 
 
 
Dear Mr. Fantasy                                             6-14-84 
 
       Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune, 
       something to make us all feel happy. 
       Do anything to take (keep) us out of this gloom 
       Sing a song, play guitar, make us happy. 
       You are the one who makes us feel glad        
       By doin' that you break out in tears. 
       Please don't be sad to take up the straight life you had 
       We wouldn't have known you all these years. 
       Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune, something to treat us happy. 
       Do anything to take (keep) us out of this gloom 
       Sing a song, play guitar, make us happy. 
 
  
Dear Prudence 
 
       Dear Prudence, Won't You Come Out And Play ? 
       Dear Prudence Meet The Brand New Day 
       The Sun Is Up, The Sky Is Blue, It's Beautiful and So Are You 
       Dear Prudence, Won't You Come Out And Play? 
       Dear Prudence, Open Your Eyes. 
       Dear Prudence, Greet The Sunny Sky 
       The Sky Is Blue, The Birds Will Sing, 
       That You Are Part Of Everything 
       Dear Prudence, Open Your Eyes. Look Around, 'Round, 'Round 
       Dear Prudence, Let Me See You Smile. 
       Dear Prudence, Like A Little Child 
       The Clouds Will Be A Daisy-Chain So Let Me See You Smile Again 
       Dear Prudence,Won't You Let Me See You Smile? 
       Look Around, 'Round,' Round 
 
 
Death Don't Have No Mercy                                     1-7-66 
 
       Y' Know Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land 
       Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land, In This Land 
       Come To Your House, You Know He Don't Take Long 
       Look In Bed This Morning, Children Find Your Mother Gone. 
       I Said Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land. 
       Death Will Leave You Standing And Crying In This Land, 
       Death Will Leave You Standing And Crying In This Land, 
       In This Land, Yeah! 
       Whoa! Come To Your House, Y' Know He Don't Stay Long, 
       Y' Look In Bed This Morning, 
       Children You Find That Your Brothers And Sisters Are Gone. 
       I Said Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land. 
       Death Will Go In Any Family In This Land. 
       Death Will Go In Any Family In This Land. 
       Come To Your House, you know he don't take long. 
       Look in the bed on the morning, 
       Children Find That Your Family's Gone. 
       I Said Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land. 
       Death Will Leave You Standing And Crying In This Land, 
       In This Land. Whoa! Come To Your House, 
       Y' Know It Don't Stay Long, Y' Look In Bed This Morning, 
       Children Find That Your Brothers And Sisters Are Gone. 
       I Said Death Don't, Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land. 
 
 
Deep Elem Blues                                               12-1-66 
 
       If You Go Down To Deep Elm Put Your Money In Your Shoes 
       The Women In Deep Elem They Give You The Deep Elem Blues 
       Oh, sweet Mama, Your Daddy's Got Them Deep Elem Blues 
       Once I Had A Girlfriend, She Meant The World To Me 
       She Went Down To Deep Elem, Now She Ain't What She Used To Be 
       Once I Knew A Percher, Preached THe Bible Thru And Thru 
       He Went Sown To Deep Elem, Now His Preaching Days Are Thru 
       When You Go Down To Deep Elem To Have A Little Fun, 
       Have Your Ten Dollars Ready When The Police Man Comes 
       When yo go down to Deep Elem put your money in your pants 
       Cause the women in Deep Elem they don't give a man a chance 
       Oh, Sweet Mama, Your Daddy's Got Them Deep Elem Blues. 
 
 
Desolation Row                                               3-25-86 
 
       They're selling postcards of the hanging 
       They're painting the passports brown 
       The beauty parlor is filled with sailors 
       The circus is in town here comes the blind commissioner 
       They've got him in a trance 
       one hand is tied to the tight-rope walker 
       The other is in his pants and the riot squad they're restless 
       They need somewhere to go as Lady and I look out tonight 
       From Desolation Row. 
       Cinderella, she seems so easy 
       "It takes one to know one," she smiles 
       And puts her hands in her back pockets 
       Bette Davis style and in comes Romeo, he's moaning 
       "You Belong to Me I Believe" 
       And someone says, "You're in the wrong place, my friend 
       You Better leave" and the only sound that's left 
       After the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up 
       On Desolation Row 
       Now the moon is almost hidden the stars are beginning to hide 
       the fortune telling lady Has even taken all her things inside 
       All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame 
       Everybody is making love or else expecting rain 
       And the Good Samaritan, 
       he's dressing he's getting ready for the show 
       He's going to the carnival tonight 
       On Desolation Row 
       Now Ophelia, she's neath the window for her I feel so afraid 
       On her twenty-second birthday she already is an old maid 
       To her, death is quite romantic she wears an iron vest 
       Her profession's her religion her sin is her lifelessness 
       And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah's great rainbow 
       She spend her time peeking 
       Into Desolation Row 
       Einstein disguised as Robin Hood with his memories in a trunk 
       Passed this way an hour ago with his friend, a jealous monk 
       He looked so immaculately frightful as he bummed a cigarette 
       As he went off sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet 
       Now you would not think to look at him 
       but he was famous long ago 
       For playing the electric violin 
       On Desolation Row 
       Dr. Filth, he keeps his world inside of a leather cup 
       But all his sexless patients they're trying to blow it up 
       Now his nurse, some local loser 
       she's in charge of the cyanide hole 
       And she also keeps the cards that read "Have Mercy on His Soul" 
      They all play on the penny whistles you can hear then blow 
       If you lean your head out far enough 
       From Desolation Row 
  
 
 
Dire Wolf                                                      6-7-66 
 
       In the timbers to Fennario, the wolves are running round, 
       The winter was so hard and cold, 
       froze ten feet 'neath the ground. 
       Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me.  
       Please, don't murder me. 
       I sat down to my supper, 'twas a bottle of red whisky, 
       I said my prayers and went to bed, 
       that's the last they saw of me. 
       Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me.  
       Please, don't murder me. 
       When I awoke, the Dire Wolf, six hundred pounds of sin, 
       Was grinning at my window, all I said was "Come on in". 
       Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me.  
       Please, don't murder me. 
       The Wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game. 
       I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, 
       but the cards were all the same. 
       Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me.  
       Please, don't murder me. 
       In the backwash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire, 
       The Dire Wolf collects his dues, 
       while the boys sing 'round the fire. 
       Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me.  
       Please, don't murder me. 
       No, no, no don't murder me.  I beg of you, 
       Don't murder me.  Please, don't murder me. 
 
 
Doin' That Rag                                               2-15-69 
 
       Da da da da da da da da da da da 
       Sittin in Mangrove valley chasing light beams 
       Everything wanders from baby to Z 
       Baby Baby pretty it up on Tuesday 
       Old like a rum-drinking demon at tea. 
       Baby Baby tell me what's the matter, what, 
       what tell me what's your why how? 
       Tell me why will you never come home 
       Tell me what's your reason, if you've got a good one. 
       Everywhere I go, the people all know 
       Everyone's doin' that rag. 
       Everywhere I go, the people all know Everyone's doin' that rag. 
      Take my line, go fishin' for a Tuesday, 
       Maybe take my supper, eat it down by the sea. 
       Gave my baby twenty or forty good reasons, 
       Couldn't find any better ones in the morning at three. 
       THe rain gonna come, but the rain gonna go y'know. 
       Steppin' off sharply from the rank and file. 
       Awful cold and dark like a dungeon 
       Maybe get a little bit darker before the day. 
       Hipsters, flipsters, real cool chicksters 
       Everyone's doin' that rag. 
       You needn't gild the lily, offer jewels to the sunset. 
       No one is watchin' or standin' in your shoes. 
       Wash your lonely feet in the river in the morning, 
       Everything promised is delivered to you. 
       Don't neglect to pick up what your share is, 
       All the winter birds are winging home now. 
       Hey love go, and look around you, 
       Nothing out there you haven't seen before now. 
       Wading in the water and you'll never get wet, 
       If you keep on doin' that rag. 
       Wading in the water and you'll never get wet, 
       If you keep on doin' that rag. 
       One eyed jacks and the deuces are wild 
       And the aces are crawlin' up and down your sleeve. 
       Come back here pretty baby Louise 
       And tell me the name of the game that you play. 
       Is it All Fall Down?  Is it All Go Under? 
 
Don't Ease Me In                                              10-7-66 
 
       Don't ease, don't ease, don't ease me in. 
       I've been all night long commin' home, don't ease me in. 
        I was standin' on the corner, talkin to Miss Brown 
       When I turned around sweet mama, she was way across town 
       So I'm walkin' down the street with a dollar in my hand 
       I've been lookin' for a woman sweet mama, ain't got no man. 
       The girl I love, she's sweet and true, 
       You the dress she wears, sweet mama, it's pink and blue, 
       She brings me coffee, she brings me tea, 
       She brings me 'bout every damm thing but the jailhouse keys. 
Don't Need Love                                               3-28-84 
 
       I don't need love anymore, I don't need love anymore, 
       I don't need anyone to tell me that I do 
       I don't need love and I don't need you. 
       I try and I try to make it work, 
       I try and I try to make it work 
       I try and I try, yeah, I won't forget, I know, 
       Love gets you nowhere slow. 
       I want no more heartaches, no more goodbyes 
       Ain't no more real good love, only new love, but old love dies. 
      Ain't worth the time that it takes, 
       Ain't worth the time that it takes, 
       Ain't worth the endless hours of changes I go through, 
       I don't need love and I don't need you. 
       I don't need love anymore, I don't need love anymore, 
       I don't need anyone to tell me that I do 
       I don't need love and I don't need you. 
 
 
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right                              7-2-86 
 
       It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe, 
       It don't matter, anyhow, 
       An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe, 
       If you don't know by now 
       When your rooster crows at the break of dawn, 
       Look out your window and Ill be gone, 
       You're the reason I'm travelin' on, 
       Don't think twice, it's all right. 
       It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe, 
       That light I never knowed, 
       An' it ain't no use in turnin, on your light, babe, 
       I'm on the dark side of the road 
       Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say 
       To try and make me change my mind and stay. 
       We never did too much talkin' anyway. 
       So don't think twice, it's all right. 
       It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal, 
       Like you never did before, 
       It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal, 
       I can't hear you anymore, 
       I'm a-thinkin' and a-wonderin' all the way down the road. 
       I once loved a woman, a child I'm told. 
       I give her my heart but she wanted my soul, 
       But don't think twice, it's all right. 
        I'm walking down that long, lonesome, road, babe, 
       Where I'm bound I can't tell, 
       But goodbye's too good a word, gal, 
       So I'll just say fare thee well. 
       I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind, 
       You could have done better but I don't mind, 
       You just kinda wasted my precious time, 
       But don't think twice, It's all right. 
Drink Up and Go Home                                           8-5-70 
 
       You sit there in crying, braiding your hair, 
       You say you got trouble, my friend has a fair, 
       Don't tell me your troubles, I got enough of my own, 
       Be thankful for living, drink up and go home. 
       Now there is still some blind man, blind he can't see, 
       You think he's complaining, why should you appeal? 
       Don't tell me your troubles, I got enough of my own, 
       Be thankful for living, drink up and go home. 
 
 
Dupree's Diamond Blues                                       2-11-69b 
 
       When I was just a little young boy, 
       Papa said son, you'll never get far, 
       Tell you the reason, if you wanna know, 
       Cause child of mine, there isn't really far to go. 
       Well, baby baby wants a gold diamond ring, 
       Wants it more than any old thing, 
       Well when I get those jelly-roll blues, 
       Why I go and get anything in this world for you. 
       Down to the jewelry store packin' a gun, 
       Says, "Wrap it up I think I'll take this one." 
       "A thousand dollars please," the jewelry man said, 
       Dupree said, "I'll pay this one off to you in lead." 
       Well you know son, you just can't figure, 
       First thing you know you're gonna to pull that trigger, 
       And it's no wonder, your reason goes bad, 
       Jelly-roll will drive you so mad. 
       Judge said, "Son, it's gonna cost you some time." 
       Dupree said, "Judge you know that crossed my mind." 
       Judge said, "Fact it's gonna cost you your life." 
       Dupree said, 
       "Judge you know that seems to me to be about right." 
        Baby baby you gonna lose her sweet man, 
       Dupree come out with a losin' hand, 
       Baby's gonna weep it up for a while, 
       Then go out and find another sweet man's 
       gonna treat her with style. 
       Judge said, "Son, I know your baby well, 
       But that's a secret I can never tell." 
       Dupree said, "Judge well it's well understood, 
       But you got to admit that sweet Jelly's so good." 
       Well you know son, you just can't figure, 
       First thing you know you're gonna to pull that trigger, 
       And it's no wonder, your reason goes bad,        
       Jelly-roll will drive you so mad. 
       Same old story and I know it's been told, 
       Some like Jelly Jelly, some like gold, 
       Many a man's done a terrible thing 
       Just to get, baby a shinin' diamond ring. 
 
 
Early Morning Rain                                            11-3-65 
 
       In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand 
       With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand 
       I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved one so 
       In the early morning rain with no place to go 
       Out on runway number nine big 707 set to go 
       But I'm stuck here on the grass 
       where the cold winds they do blow 
       And where whiskey was and bars and the women they were fine 
       There she goes my friend, she rolling down at last 
       Here the mighty engines roar, see the silver bird on high 
       She's away and westward bound, far above the clouds she'll fly 
       There the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shines 
       She'll be flying over my home in about three hours time 
       This old airport's got me down it ain't no earthy good to me 
       Because I'm stuck here on the ground, 
       cold and drunk as I can be 
       You can't hop a jet plane like you can a railroad train 
       So I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain 
 
 
Easy To Love You                                              8-14-79 
 
       Good, good morning, 
       so good to see you weren't just a dream of mine 
       Real as a raven, real as thunder, real as the sun shinin' 
       But still so very undefined 
       Can't imagine what's behind those sleepy eyes 
       Little stranger, don't try to hide now 
       You look so young when you're afraid 
       There is no danger, but from the devil 
       He may want you, but I'm in his way 
       You don't know how easy it is 
       You don't know how easy it is to love you 
       And come the moonrise when the dew falls 
       Don't be the sun that fades away 
       Don't leave me darkness, she's no lover, she hides the day 
 
 
Easy Wind                                                     9-1-69 
 
       I been balling a shiny black steel jack-hammer, 
       been chippin' up rocks for the great highway, 
       live five years if I take my time, 
       ballin' that jack and a drinkin' my wine. 
       I been chippin' them rocks from dawn till doom, 
       while my rider hide my bottle in the other room. 
       Doctor say better stop ballin' that jack, 
       if I live five years I gonna bust my back, yes I will. 
       Easy wind cross the Bayou today 
       cause there's a whole lotta women, mama, 
       out in red on the streets today. 
       And the rivers keep a talkin', 
       but you never heard a word it said. 
       Gotta find a woman be good to me, 
       won't hide my liquor try to serve me tea, 
       cause I'm a stone jack baller and my heart is true 
       and I'll give everything that I got to you, yes I will. 
       Easy wind going cross the Bayou today 
       there's a whole lotta women 
       out in red on the streets today. 
       And the rivers keep a talkin', 
       but you never heard a word it said. 
  
The Eleven                                                     2-3-68 
 
       High green chilly winds and windy vines 
       In loops around the twisted shafts of lavender, 
       They're crawling to the sun. 
       Underfoot the ground is patched 
       With arms of ivy wrapped around the manzanita, 
       Stark and shiny in the breeze. 
       Wonder who will water all the children of the garden 
       When they sigh about the barren lack of rain and 
       Droop so hungry neath the sky. 
       William Tell has stretched his bow till it won't stretch 
       No furthermore and/or it may require 
       a change that hasn't come before. 
       No more time to tell how, this is the season of what, 
       Now is the time of returning with our thought 
       Jewels polished and gleaming. 
       Now is the time past believing 
       the child has relinquished the rein, 
       Now is the test of the boomerang 
       tossed in the night of redeeming. 
       Eight sided whispering hallelujah hatrack, 
       Seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll, 
       Six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow, 
       Five men writing with fingers of gold, 
       Four men tracking down the great white sperm whale, 
       Three girls waiting in a foreign dominion 
       Riding in the whalebelly, fade away in moonlight, 
       Sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below. 
El Paso                                                       7-14-70 
       Out in the West Texas town of El Paso 
       I fell in love with a Mexican girl. 
       Nighttime would fine me in Rose's Cantina, 
       Music would play and Felina would whirl. 
       Black as the night were the eyes of Felina, 
       Wicked and evil while casting a spell. 
       My love was strong for this Mexican maiden, 
       I was in love, but in vain I could tell. 
       One night a wild young cowboy came in, 
       wild as the West Texas wind... 
       Dashing and daring, a drink he was sharing, 
       With wicked Felina, the girl that I love. 
       So in anger I challenged his right for the love of this maiden; 
      Down went his hand for the gun that he wore. 
       My challenge was answered, in less than a heartbeat 
       The handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor. 
       Just for a moment I stood there in silence, 
       Shocked by the foul evil deed I had done. 
       Many thoughts ran through my mind as I stood there; 
       I had but one chance and that was to run. 
       Out through the back door of Rose's I ran, 
       out where the horses were tied... 
       I picked a good one; he looked like he could run, 
       Up on his back and away I did ride. 
       Just as fast as I could from the West Texas town of El Paso, 
       Out thru the badlands of New Mexico. 
       Back in El Paso my life would be worthless; 
       Everything's gone in life nothing is left. 
       But it's been so long since I've seen the young maiden, 
       My love is stronger that my fear of death. 
       I saddled up and away I did go, riding alone in the dark... 
       Maybe tomorrow a bullet may find me, 
       Tonight nothing's worse than this pain in my heart. 
       And as last here I am on the hill overlooking El Paso, 
       I can see Rose's Cantina below. 
       My love is strong and it pushes me onward, 
       down off the hill to Felina I go. 
       Off to my right I see five mounted cowboys, 
       Off to my left ride a dozen or more. 
       shouting and shooting; I can't let them catch me, 
       I've got to make it to Rose's back door. 
       Something is dreadfully wrong 
       for I feel a deep burning pain in my side... 
       It's getting harder to stay in the saddle. 
       I'm getting weary, unable to ride. 
       But my love for Felina is strong and I rise where I've fallen; 
       Though I am weary, I can't stop to rest. 
       I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle, 
       I feel the bullet go deep in my chest. 
       From out of nowhere, Felina has found me, 
       Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side. 
       Cradled by two loving arms that I'll die for, 
       One little kiss and Felina goodbye. 
Empty Pages                                                   8-24-71 
       Empty pages before my eyes, you not deny or criticize 
       Empty bedrooms where I paid my dues 
       Watching the ceiling instead of you 
       Can you tell me where you're goin', 
       can't hold on to hear my song 
       I've got some songs I'd love to sing 
       Always bring down some other thing 
       Where can I go my hands are broken 
       It seems like your love is just a token, 
       why won't you stay with me? 
       Up in the morning and out the door 
       She won't come in I gotta live alone 
       Back in the evening with the darn poor fool out 
       I got on mind just this gal, just this gal. 

Estimated Prophet                                             2-26-77 
 
       My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no 
       Been so long I felt this way, I'm in no hurry, no 
       Rainbows and down that highway where ocean breezes blow 
       My time coming, voices saying they tell me where to go. 
       Don't worry about me, nah nah nah, don't worry about me, no 
       and I'm in no hurry, nah nah nah, I know where to go. 
       California, preaching on the burning shore 
       California, I'll be knocking on the golden door 
       Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light 
       Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine. 
       My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no 
       It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so 
       Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin' slow 
       Still I know I lead the way, they tell me where I go. 
       Don't worry about me, no no no, don't worry about me, no 
       and I'm in no hurry, no no no, I know where to go. 
       California, a prophet on the burning shore 
       California, I'll be knocking on the golden door 
       Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light 
       Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine. 
       You've all been asleep, you would not believe me 
       Them voices tellin' me, you will soon receive me 
       Standin' on the beach, the sea will part before me 
       Fire wheel burning in the air! 
       You will follow me and we will ride to glory, 
       way up, the middle of the air! 
       And I'll call down thunder and speak the same 
       and my work fills the sky with flame 
       and might and glory gonna be my name 
       and men gonna light my way. 
       My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no 
       It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so 
       Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin' slow 
       My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no 
       Don't worry about me, no no no, don't worry about me, no 
       and I'm in no hurry, no no no, don't worry about me, no. 
Eyes Of The World                                              2-9-73 
 
       Right outside this lazy summer home 
       you ain't got time to call your soul a critic no. 
       Right outside the lazy gate of winter's summer home, 
       wond'rin' where the nut-thatch winters, 
       wings a mile long just carried the bird away. 
       Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, 
       the heart has it's beaches, 
       it's homeland and thoughts of it's own. 
       Wake now, 
       discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings, 
       But the heart has it's seasons, 
       it's evenin's and songs of it's own. 
       There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away, 
       And there follows his wagon behind him that's loaded with clay. 
      And the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom, and decay,  
     and night comes so quiet, it's close on the heels of the day. 
       Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, 
       the heart has it's beaches, 
       it's homeland and thoughts of it's own. 
       Wake now, 
       discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings, 
       But the heart has it's seasons, 
       it's evenin's and songs of it's own. 
       Sometimes we live no particular way but our own, 
       And sometimes we visit your country and live in your home, 
       sometimes we ride on your horses, sometimes we walk alone, 
       sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own. 
       Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, 
       the heart has it's beaches, 
       it's homeland and thoughts of it's own. 
       Wake now, 
       discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings, 
       But the heart has it's seasons, 
       it's evenin's and songs of it's own. 
 
Far From Me                                                   3-30-80 
 
       You say you want to try again, wear it down between the lines 
       Well, 
       I have a better end in mind it doesn't seem to really have you 
       Close your eyes to see though I know you don't mean to be 
       You are so far from me 
       There was something I had caught inside 
       screaming hard to make it go 
       And tied me down low, it doesn't seem you really have to 
       Close you eyes to see, you've been all you'll be to me 
       Though I know you don't mean to be, it's just too late 
       And we can't relate at all 
       This is the last time I wanna say so long 
       This song is my last song for you 
       There's just nothing here to hold on to 
       Baby, nothing to hold on to 
Feel Like A Stranger                                          3-31-80 
 
       Inside you're burnin' I can see clear through 
       Your eyes tell more than you mean them to 
       Lit up and flashin' like the reds and blues 
       Out there on the neon avenue 
       Well I, feel like a stranger (feel like a stranger) 
       Well the music's thunderin', restless and hot 
       You keep firin' me glances across the room 
       And I can't stop wonderin' just what you got 
       Get the feeling I'm going to find out real soon 
       But I feel like a stranger (feel like a stranger) 
       So let's get on with the show, let's go 
       Yes, and the wheels it's smokin 'round midnight 
       You show me a look that says "Let's go" 
       Yes, and it feels about like running a red light 
       Now there ain't no point in looking behind us, no! 
       Still I feel like a stranger (feel like a stranger) 
       You know It's gonna get stranger, let's get on with the show 
       If this were love now how would I know?  How would I know? 
       Feel like a stranger 
       Gonna be a long, long, crazy, crazy night 
       Silky, silky, crazy, crazy night 
 
 
Fire On The Mountain                                          3-18-77 
 
       Long distance runner, what you standin' there for? 
       Get up, get out, get out of the door 
       Your playin' cold music on the barroom floor 
       Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core. 
       There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town 
       Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down. 
       Fire!  Fire on the mountain! 
       Almost ablaze still you don't feel the heat 
       It takes all you got just to stay on the beat. 
       You say it's a livin', we all gotta eat 
       But you're here alone, there's no one to compete. 
       If Mercy's a bus'ness, I wish it for you 
       More than just ashes when your dreams come true. 
       Fire!  Fire on the mountain! 
       Long distance runner, what you holdin' out for? 
       Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door. 
       The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor 
       You gave all you had.  Why you wanna give more? 
       The more that you give, the more it will take 
       To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake. 
       Fire!  Fire on the mountain! 
 
 




Forever Young 
 
       May God bless and keep you always, 
       may your wishes all come true. 
       May you always do for others and let others do for you. 
       May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung, 
       May you stay forever young. 
       Forever young, forever young, may you stay forever young. 
       May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. 
       May you always know the truth 
       and see the lights surrounding you. 
       May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. 
       May you stay forever young. 
       Forever young, forever young, may you stay forever young. 
       May your hands always be busy, may your feet always be swift. 
       May you have a strong foundation 
       when the winds of changes shift. 
       May your heart always be joyful, may your songs always be sung. 
      May you stay forever young. 
       Forever young, forever young, may you stay forever young. 
 
 
France                                            Not Yet Played Live 
 
       Way down in the south of France all the ladies love to dance 
       kick their heels up in the air snap their fingers for romance 
       While the gentlemen compare blonde or black or auburn hair 
       check the motion and the style Oh, 
       you know they take their while 
       Hey, to make the motion more complete, yeah, 
       to make it more a treat 
       Club D'Jour is where to go come on down and see the show 
       When the rhythm's really right you can burn it down tonight 
       when the singing's really fine sweet as Spanish sherry wine 
       When the club can't contain the beat 
       it just rolls out in the street 
       spills on down the avenue bringing dancers to their feet. 
       When it's good as it can be it gets better wait and see 
       oh, these folks don't ever sleep 
       till they're passed out in the street 
       Way down in the south of France all the ladies love to dance 
       clap their hands and walk on air, yeah, 
       the feeling's really there 
       won't you take a little taste raise it to your charming face? 
       When the rhythm's really right you can burn it down tonight 
       when the singing's really fine sweet as Spanish sherry wine 
       Go on take a chance, the ladies do love to dance. 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Franklin's Tower                                              6-17-75 
 
       In another times forgotten space 
       Your eyes looked from your mother's face 
       Wallflower seed on the sand and stone 
       May the four winds blow you safely home. 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       I'll tell you where the four winds dwell 
       In Franklin's tower there hangs a bell 
       It can ring, turn night to day 
       It can ring like fire when you loose your way. 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       God save the child that rings that bell 
       It may have one good ring, baby, you can't tell 
       One watch by night, one watch by day 
       If you get confused listen to the music play. 
       Some come to laugh their past away 
       Some come to make it just one more day 
       Whichever way your pleasure tends 
       If you plant ice you're gonna harvest the wind. 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       In Franklin's tower the four winds sleep 
       Like four lean hounds the lighthouse keep 
       Wildflower seed on the sand and wind 
       May the four winds blow you home again. 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       You'd better roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       Roll away the dew 
       You'd better roll away the dew - roll away.  
 

Friend of the Devil                                          2-28-70 
 
       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. 
  
From the Heart of Me                                          8-31-78 
       Voices slide down off the mountain, sunlight turning red 
       Falls on the earth and it spreads 
       Even the families lower their heads as they ride 
       Age old faces of the mountains looming naturally 
       I wonder if they're looking at me, 
       their monumental eyes I can feel 
       In the glow of the twilight the thought of home 
       Reminds me now I'm reaching out to you 
       Anything I can do to be safe and warm in your arms 
       All I have from the heart of you 
       I'd meet you anywhere in the country or anywhere on the sea 
       All over the world it could be 
       I would follow you with the heart of me 
        Love calls echo in the valley, dream come true tonight 
       Remembering you hold me tight in tomorrow morning's light 
       I will fine you 
       When I awoke the stars were out and shining, 
       shining for you and me 
       All I ever wanna be is save and warm in your arms 
       All I have, from the heart of me 
Get Back                                                      1-28-87 
 
       JoJo was a man who thought he was a woman, 
       but he knew it couldn't last 
       JoJo left his home in Tucson, Arizona 
       for some California grass. 
       Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged 
       Get back JoJO, go home, get back, get back Joe 
       Sweet Loretta Molin thought she was a woman, 
       but she was another man 
       All the other girls around here said she's got it coming 
       But she gets it while she can. 
       Oh, get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged 
       Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged 
       Get back Loretta, go home, 
       get back to where you where you once belonged 
       Get back, your monny's waiting for you 
       Wearing her high heeled shoes and her low neck sweater, 
       get back home Loretta 
 
Gimme Some Lovin'                                             11-2-84 
 
       Well my temperature is rising got my feet on the floor 
       Crazy people rocking  'cause they want to go more 
       Let me in baby I don't know what you got 
       But you better take it easy  'cause this place is hot 
       And I'm so glad you made it, so glad you made it 
       You got to gimme some lovin', gimme gimme some lovin' 
       Well I feel so good, everybody's getting high 
       You better take it easy  'cause the place is on fire 
       Been a hard day and I don't know what to do 
       Wait a minute Baby, this could happen to you 
       Well I feel so good, everybody's getting high 
       You better take it easy  'cause the place is on fire 
       Been a hard day nothing went too good 
       Now we're gonna relax just like everybody should. 
 
Gloria                                                       10-16-81 
 
       Wanna tell you about my baby, you know she comes around 
       Just about five feet-four from her head to the ground 
       You know she comes around here just about midnight 
       she makes me feel so good, she makes me feel alright 
       And her name is G.L.O.R.I.A  G.L.O.R.I.A 
       Gloria I wanna to shout it all night 
       Gloria I wanna to shout it all day 
       She comes around here just about midnight 
       She only come to make me feel good, she makes me feel alright 
       She comes walking down my street, she comes up to my house 
       Knockin' on my door, now she comes to my room 
       A she makes me feel alright 
       And her name is G.L.O.R.I.A.  G.L.O.R.I.A.        
       Gloria I wanna to shout it all night 
       Gloria I wanna to shout it all day 
Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad                              10-10-70 
 
       Goin' down the road feelin' bad. 
       Goin' down the road feelin' bad. 
       Goin' down the road feelin' bad. 
       I don't want to be treated this away. 
       Goin' where the climate suits my clothes. 
       Goin' where the climate suits my clothes. 
       Goin' where the climate suits my clothes. 
       I don't want to be treated this away. 
       Goin' down the road feelin' bad. 
       Goin' down the road feelin' bad. 
       Goin' down the road feelin' bad. 
       I don't want to be treated this away. 
       Goin' where the water tastes like wine. 
       Goin' where the water tastes like wine. 
       Goin' where the water tastes like wine. 
       I don't want to be treated this away. 
       Goin' down the road feelin' bad. 
       Goin' down the road feelin' bad. 
       Goin' down the road feelin' bad. 
       I don't want to be treated this away. 
       Goin' where the chilly winds don't blow. 
       Goin' where the chilly winds don't blow. 
       Goin' where those chilly winds don't blow. 
       I don't want to be treated this away. 
 
 
The Golden Road (to unlimited devotion)                       3-18-67 
 
       See that girl, barefootin' along, 
       Whistlin' and singin', she's a carryin' on. 
       There's laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet, 
       She's a neon-light diamond and she can live on the street. 
       Hey hey, hey, come right away 
       Come and join the party every day. 
       Well everybody's dancin' in a ring around the sun 
       Nobody's finished, we ain't even begun. 
       So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat. 
       Try on your wings and find our where it's at. 
       Hey hey, hey, come right away 
       Come and join the party every day. 
       Take a vacation, fall out for a while, 
       Summer's comin' in, and it's goin' outa style        
       Well, lie down smokin', honey, have yourself a ball 
       Cause your mother's down in Memphis, 
       won't be back 'till the fall. 
       Hey hey, hey, come right away 
       Come and join the party every day. 
 
 



Gomarrah
 
       Just a song of Gomorrah, I wonder what they did there 
       Must've been a bad thing to get shot down for 
       I wonder how they blew it up or if they burned it down 
       Get out, get out Mr. Lot and don't you turn around. 
       Who gave you your orders, someone from the sky 
       I heard a voice inside my head in the desert wind so dry 
       I heard a voice tellin' me to flee 
       the very same voice I always believe 
       Say alot of trouble comin', but it don't have to come to you 
       I'm telling you so you can tell 
       the rest what you've been through. 
       But don't you turn around, no, don't look after you 
       It's not your business how it's done, 
       you're lucky to get through 
       You're a good upstanding man, a credit to the flock 
       But if you don't face straight ahead 
       you could not take the shock 
       Blew the city off the man, left nothing there but fire 
       The wife of Lot got turned to salt, 
       because she looked behind her. 
 
 
Good Lovin'                                                   5-7-69 
 
       Well, I was feelin' so bad, 
       asked my family doctor 'bout what I had, 
       I said, "Doctor, Doctor, Mister M.D., 
       can you tell me, what's ailing me?" 
       He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 
      All you need, all you really need: good lovin' 
       Because you got to have lovin' (good lovin') 
       Everybody got to have lovin' (good lovin') 
       A little good lovin' now baby, good lovin'. 
       So come on baby, squeeze me tight 
       Don't you want your daddy to be alright? 
       I said baby, now it's for sure, 
       I've got the fever, you got the cure. 
       He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 
      All you need, all you really need: good lovin' 
       Because you got to have lovin' (good lovin') 
       Everybody got to have lovin' (good lovin') 
       A little good lovin' now baby, good lovin'. 
       Hey, got to have lovin' (good lovin') 
       Well, you got to have lovin' (good lovin') 
       Come on now and give me good lovin' (good lovin'). 
       Well, I was feelin' sort of bad now, 
       Asked my family doctor 'bout what I had, 
       I said, "Doctor, Doctor, mister M.D., 
       Can you tell me, what's ailing me?" 
       He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 
      All you need, all you really need: good lovin' 
       Hey, now you got to have lovin' (good lovin') 
       Everybody got to have lovin' (good lovin') 
       Give me, give me, give me some lovin' (good lovin'). 
       Come on now, everybody get right, (got to have lovin) 
       You may be weak or you may be blind (got to have lovin') 
       But even a blind man knows when the sun is shining 
       (got to have lovin') 
       So turn it on now (got to have lovin') 
       Turn on, turn on your light (got to have lovin'). 
       Gimme, gimme, gimme some lovin' (good lovin') 
       Hey, now you got to have lovin' (good lovin') 
       You need it, I need it, well you got to have lovin' 
       (good lovin') 
       Say it again now, good lovin'. 
       Well turn on your light, you won't regret it (good lovin') 
       You got to go for the good and get it (good lovin') 
       Everybody, they got to have lovin' (good lovin') 
       Hey, now you got to have lovin'. 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl                                9-16-66 
 
       Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you? 
       Tell your mama and your papa I'm a little schoolboy too. 
       Come on now pretty baby I just can't help myself 
       You're so young and pretty I don't need nobody else. 
       Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you? 
       Don't you hear me crying? 
       I'm gonna leave you baby about the break of day 
       On account of the way you treat me, I got to stay away. 
       Come on now pretty baby darling com on home 
       You know I love you baby, I got to get you all alone. 
       Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you? 
       Don't you hear me crying? 
       I'm gonna buy me an airplane and fly all over your town 
       Tell everybody baby, lord knows you're fine 
       Come on pretty baby now, I just can't help myself 
       You're so young and pretty I don't need nobody else. 
       Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you? 
       Don't you hear me crying? 
       Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you? 
       Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you? 
       Tell your mama and your papa I'm a little schoolboy too. 
       I'm a schoolboy, too.  Hey, I'm a schoolboy, too. 
       I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine 
      I want to be your chauffeur, I want to ride your little machine  
     I want to put a tiger, baby I want to put a tiger, baby. 
       I want to put a tiger, baby, hey in your sweet little tank. 
       Hey baby now yes I do ha, yes I do 
       Hey I got to hey, I got to come on home with you 
       Tell your mama, tell your papa, tell your mama and your papa 
       Hey, I'm a schoolboy, too, hey, hey, I'm a schoolboy, too. 
       Ha oww, I'm a schoolboy, too, ow, I wanna keep your company 
       Hey I wanna keep your company. 
 
 
Goodnight Irene                                              12-31-83 
 
       Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams 
       Sometimes I live in the country, sometimes I live in town 
       Sometimes I take a few notions, 
       I want to jump overboard in a river and drown. 
       Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams 
       One night I got married, now me and my wife settled down 
       Now me and my wife are parting, 
       I want to jump overboard in a river and drown.  
 
Got My Mojo Working                                           4-22-77 
 
       I got my mojo working, just don't work on you 
       Some time, child, I just don't know what to do 
       Let it work, let it, when it's 
       When it's, work all day, all day, all day, work, work, work. 
 
Greatest Story Ever Told                                      2-18-71 
 
       Moses come ridin' up on a quasar 
       His spurs were jingling, the door was ajar 
       His buckle was silver, his manner was bold 
       And I asked him to come in out of the cold. 
       His brain was boiling, his reason was spent 
       His motto is nothing is borrowed, nothing is lent 
       He ask me for mercy, I gave him a gun. 
       He said these things just got to be done. 
       Abraham and Isaac sitting on a fence 
       You'd get right to work if you had any sense 
       You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench. 
       Gideon come up with his eyes on the floor 
       Said "You ain't got a hinge, you can't close the door." 
       Moses stood up above his six foot and ten 
       Said "You can't close the door when the wall's caved in." 
       Ask him for water, he poured me some wine 
       We finished the bottle and broke into mine. 
       You get what you come for, ya ready to go 
       Well, it's one in ten thousand that come for the show. 
       Abraham and Isaac diggin' on a well 
       Mama came quick with the water witch spell 
       Well cool clear water well you can't ever tell. 
       Abraham and Isaac sitting on a fence 
       You'd get right to work if you had any sense 
       You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench. 
 
 
Green, Green Grass of Home                                     6-6-69 
 
       The old home town looks the same as I step off the train 
       Meeting every train in my mind's eye till the man in mail came 
       Hair like gold, lips like cherry 
       It's good to touch the green, green grass of home 
       Green, green grass of home, green green grass of home. 
       Only dream I know of is to be found hair like gold, 
       lips like a cherry 
       It's good to touch the green, green grass of home 
       They'll all come to greet me, on the steps of my sweet dream 
       It's good I dreamt the green, green grass of home 
       I wait and look around me at the broken walls that surround me 
       And out here I was on the ground. 
       There's a garden in the path of progress 
       unharmed through winter's day break 
       Then I'll touch the green, green grass of home 
       They'll all come to greet me 
       from the chains of the old dark hollow  
       The green, green grass of home 
       They'll all come to greet me on the steps, my sweet dream 
 
 
 
 
The Harder They Come 
 
       Well they tell me of a pie up in the sky 
       Waiting for me when I die 
       But between the day you're born and when you die 
       They never seem to hear you even your cry. 
       So as sure as the sun will shine 
       I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine 
       And the harder they come, the harder they fall 
       The harder they come, the harder they fall one and all. 
       Well the oppressors are trying to keep me down 
       Trying to drive me underground 
       And they think that they have got the battle won 
       I say forgive them Lord they know not what they've done. 
       Cause as sure as the sun will shine 
       I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine 
       And the harder they come, the harder they fall 
       The harder they come, the harder they fall one and all. 
       And I'll keep on fighting for the things I want 
       Though I know that when you're dead you can't 
       But I'd rather be a free man in my grave 
       Than living as a puppet or a slave. 
       So as sure as the sun will shine 
       I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine 
       And the harder they come, the harder they fall 
       The harder they come, the harder they fall one and all. 
 
 
Hard to Handle                                                3-15-69 
 
       Baby here I am and I'm a man upon the scene 
       I can give you what you want, but you got to come home with me 
       I got a whole lot of good ole loving and I got some in store 
       When I get through throwin' it on to you 
       got to come back for more 
       Boys and things will come by the dozen 
       Ain't nothin' but drug store love 
       Pretty little thing let me light your candle 
       Cause mama I'm sure hard to handle, now yes I am. 
       Action speaks louder than words 
       and I'm a man with great experience 
       I know you got another man, but I can love you better than him 
       Take my hand, don't be afraid I'm gonna prove every word I say 
       I'm advertising love for free 
       so won't you place your ad with me? 
       Boys and things will come by the dozen 
       Ain't nothin' but drug store love 
       Pretty little thing let me light your candle        
       Cause mama I'm sure hard to handle, now yes I am. 
       Give it to me baby, I got to have it, some of your love 
       It's all I need, early in the morning, late in the evening. 
 
 
 
Heaven Help The Fool                                          9-29-80 
 
       I was born in a flatland, USA and all my dreams led me to L.A. 
       Another case of rags to riches, 
       I learned to throw some fancy pitches. 
       I found out what ain't and which is just exactly cool, 
       well all right 
       Heaven help the fool, heaven help the fool 
       Got a place in Malibu like you never seen 
       Picking out your lady friend from Penthouse magazine 
       You oughta see the chrome gleam on my Mercedes 
       all shiny and new 
       Hey, I'm the Jack of Diamonds, the boy with all the clues 
       Not a pretty vanity (no, no, not me).  
       Glorified insanity (no, no, not me). 
       Ooh, I'm a hyper-supervisor, fast driver, star driver (fool). 
       Heaven help the fool, professional "gimme-fiver", 
       heaven help the fool. 
       Anything you could want to be you can buy, even get it free 
       Make yourself a smoother dancer, fill your head with answers. 
       Never a backward glancer, it's you who makes the rules (aah). 
       Heaven help the fool, heaven help the fool 
       No, no, never a backward glancer, (fool), heaven help the fool. 
      I meet alot of pentagram, 
       heart of the star (that's what you are) 
       You can trade your soul for an electric guitar 
       Ooh, not a pretty vanity (no, no, not me).  
       Glorified insanity (no, no, not me) 
       And when they offer golden apples, are you sure you'll refuse? 
       Heaven help the fool, are you sure you'll refuse it?  
       Heaven help the fool 
       It's like a deaf man dancing or a blind man shooting pool 
       Heaven help the fool, heaven help the fool 
 
 
Hell in a Bucket                                             5-13-83 
 
       Well I was drinkin' last night with a biker 
       And I showed him a picture of you 
       I said, "Pal get to know her, you'll like her 
       Seemed like the least I could do. 
       Cause when he's chargin' his chopper 
       Up and down your carpeted halls 
       You will think I am dressed up quite proper 
       Never mind how I stumble and fall. 
       You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot 
       For taste of your elegant pride 
       I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe 
       But at least I'm enjoying the ride, 
       at least I'll enjoy the ride. 
       Cause you're a sweet little softcore pretender 
       Somehow, babe, it got as hot as it gets 
       With her black leather and gold spike suspenders 
       And your chain, your black whip and pets. 
       Well we know you're the reincarnation 
       Of the infamous Catherine the Great 
       And we know how you love the ovation 
       And the scene that it seems to create. 
       You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot 
       For taste of your elegant pride 
       I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe 
       But at least I'm enjoying the ride, 
       at least I'll enjoy the ride. 
       You analyze me, tend to despise me 
       You laugh when I stumble and fall 
       There may come a say when I'll dance on your grave 
       Unable to dance I'll still crawl across it 
       Unable to dance I'll still crawl 
       Unable to dance I'll still crawl 
       Unable to dance I'll crawl. 
       You must really consider the circus 
       It just might be your kind of zoo 
       I can't think of a place that's more perfect 
       For a person as perfect as you. 
       And it's not like I'm leaving you lonely 
       Cause I wouldn't know where to begin 
       Well I know you wake up here only 
       When the snakes come marching in. 
       You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot 
       For taste of your elegant pride 
       I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe 
       But at least I'm enjoying the ride, 
       at least I'll enjoy the ride.  
       Ride, ride, ride 
       Ride, ride, ride 
       Ride, ride, ride 
       At least I'll enjoy the ride. 
       At least I'll enjoy the ride. 
       AT LEAST I'LL ENJOY THE RIDE. 
Help on the Way                                               6-17-75 
 
       Paradise waits, on the crest of a wave, her angels in flames. 
       She has no pain, like a child she is pure, she is not to blame. 
      Poised for flight, wings spread bright, 
       spring from night into the sun. 
       Don't stop to run, 
       she can fly like a lie, she can't be outdone. 
       Tell me the cost; I can pay, 
       let me go, tell me love is not lost. 
       Sell everything; without love day to day insanity's king. 
       I will pay day by day, anyway, lock, bolt and key. 
       Crippled but free, 
       I was blind all the time I was learning to see. 
       Help on the way, well, I know only this, I've got you today. 
       Don't fly away, 
       cause I love what I love and I want it that way. 
       I will stay one more day, like I say, honey it's you. 
       Making it too, without love in a dream it will never come true.

 
 
Henry 
 
       Every year along about this time it all goes dry 
       Nothing round for love or money that'll get you high. 
       Henry got pissed off and he run to Mexico 
       See if he could come back holdin' 29 keys of Gold. 
       Now the road to Acapulco is very hard indeed 
       And it isn't any better if you haven't any weed. 
       Henry struggled to hold it straight on twisty mountain roads 
       Fifty people waitin' back in hopes for Henry's load. 
       chorus: 
       Now he's rolling down the mountain goin' fast, fast, fast 
       And if he blows it this one's going to be his last 
       Run to Acapulco to turn the Golden Key 
       Henry keeps the brakes on for this corner if you please. 
       Henry got to Mexico and he turned his truck around 
       Talkin' with the man who has it growin' from the ground 
       Henry tasted, he got wasted, couldn't even see 
       How he's going to drive like that it's not clear to me. 
       Sunday afternoon, Tihajuana is a lovely town 
       Bullfight brings the tourist in, their money flowing down 
       Border guards are much too busy there at 5 o'clock 
       Henry truckin' right on through, he hardly even stopped. 
       CHORUS 
 
 






Here Comes Sunshine                                            2-9-73 
 
       Wake of the flood, laughing water, forty-nine, 
       Get out the pans, don't just stand there dreamin' 
       Get out of the way, get out of the way, 
       Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine. 
       Line up a long shot maybe try it two times, maybe more, 
       Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor, 
       Why hold out for more? 
       Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine. 
       Askin' you nice, now, keep the mother rollin' 
       One more time, been down before, 
       You just don't have to go no more, no more. 
       Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine. 
 
 
He's Gone                                                     4-17-72 
 
       Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb, 
       you know better but I know him. 
       Like I told you, what I said, 
       Steal your face right off your head. 
       Now he's gone, now he's gone, Lord he's gone, he's gone. 
       Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track 
       He's gone, gone, nothin's gonna bring him back...He's gone. 
       Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride, 
       hot as a pistol but cool inside. 
       Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile, 
       Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!! 
       Now he's gone, now he's gone Lord he's gone, he's gone. 
       Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track 
       He's gone, gone, nothin's gonna bring him back...He's gone. 
       Goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, 
       Maybe off on some high cold mountain chain. 
       Lost one round but the price wasn't anything, 
       A knife in the back and more of the same. 
       Same old, rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb, 
       You know better but I know him. 
       Like I told you, what I said, 
       Steal your face right off your head. 
       Now he's gone, now he's gone Lord he's gone, he's gone. 
       Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track 
       He's gone, gone, nothin's gonna bring him back...He's gone. 
       Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back.  
 
 
He Was A Friend of Mine                                       7-3-66 
 
       He was, he was a friend of mine 
       He was, he was a friend of mine 
       Now he's dead and gone 
       This morning my best friend was sleeping in his bed 
       His face like a jewel and he was dead 
       He liked to play games or push me on a swing 
       Or push me on a merry-go-round, so round and round 
 
 
Hey Little One                                                3-25-66 
 
       Hey, hey little one so far from home and so alone 
       Hey, hey little one I'm just like you I'm lonely too 
       The road we ride is a long, long road when you are all alone 
       But I found you and I found our love, a love I've never known 
       Hey, hey little one don't go away, tell me you'll stay 
       Tell me, tell me, tell me you'll stay 
 
 
High Heeled Sneakers                                         11-19-66 
 
       Put on your red dress baby 'cause we're going out tonight 
       Wear your boxing gloves in case some fool might wanna fight 
       Put on your high heeled sneakers 
       and put your wig hat on your head 
       May not win a prize, 
       I'm pretty sure you're gonna knock them dead 
 
 
High Time                                                    6-21-69a 
 
       You told me goodbye, how was I to know 
       you didn't mean goodbye, you meant please don't let me go? 
       I was having a high time, living the good life, well I know 
       The wheels are muddy, got a ton of hay, 
       now listen here, Baby, 'cause I mean what I say. 
       I'm having a hard time, living the good life, well I know. 
       I was losing time, I had nothing to do, 
       no one to fight, I came to you. 
       Wheels broke down, leader won't draw, 
       the line is busted, the last one I saw. 
       Tomorrow come trouble, tomorrow come pain, 
       now don't think too hard Baby, 'cause I know what I'm saying. 
       I could show you a high time, 
       living the good life, don't be that way. 
       Nothing's for certain, it could always go wrong,        
       come in when it's raining, go on out when it's gone. 
       We could have us a high time, 
       living the good life, well I know. 
 
 

How Long Blues                                                7-12-70 
 
       Now listen to me mama, I can't sleep no more around here 
       How long, how long, ain't had no loving, how long, how long 
       I hate that train, train that carried my babe away 
       And left me standing, how long, how long 
       Ain't had no loving since my babe been gone 
       Now listen to me mama, why did you make me go around here 
       Ain't had no loving, how long, how long? 
 
 
How Sweet It Is                                               3-25-72 
 
       How sweet it is to be loved by you 
       How sweet it is to be loved by you 
       I needed the shelter of someone's arms and there you were 
       With sweet love and devotion gently touching my emotion 
       I want to stop - to thank you baby 
       How sweet it is to be loved by you 
       How sweet it is to be loved by you 
       Open my eyes at night 
       I wonder what I would be without you in my life 
       Everything was just a bore 
       All the things I've done you know I've done them before 
       But you brightened up all of my days 
       With your love so sweet and in so may ways 
       I want to stop - to thank you baby 
       How sweet it is to be loved by you 
       How sweet it is to be loved by you 
       Sweeter than the honey from the bees, baby 
 
 
Hully Gully                                                  10-16-81 
 
       There is a dance going around like on the Scene, Hully Gully 
       Hully Gully, well shake your shoulders, jove with your feet 
       There's a dance going around from coast to coast, Hully Gully 
       When you hear this dance try to give it the most, Hully Gully 
       Mama Hully Gully, Papa Hully Gully, baby Hully Gully too 
       Papa Hully Gully, sister Hully Gully, you can Hully Gully too  
       Went to a party now under that hill, Hully Gully 
       I don't want to boogie child now, what makes you 
       Everybody's doing it coast to coast, Hully Gully 
       When you hear this dance try to give it the most, Hully Gully 
       Mama Hully Gully, Papa Hully Gully, baby Hully Gully too 
       Papa Hully Gully, sister Hully Gully, you can Hully Gully too 








Hurts Me Too                                                  9-16-66 
 
       You said you was hurtin', almost lost your mind; 
       'Cause the man you love, hurts you all the time. 
       But when things go wrong, wrong with you... it hurts me too. 
       You love him a little more, when you ought to love him less. 
       Why pick up behind him and take his best? 
       'Cause when things go wrong, wrong with you...it hurts me too. 
       You love another man; Oh, but I love you 
       But you love him darlin', stick to him just about like glue. 
       But when things go wrong, wrong with you... it hurts me too. 
       Well, he better leave you, or you best put him down. 
       'Cause you know, I just can't stand to see, 
       see you pushed around. 
       'Cause when things go wrong, wrong with you..it hurts me too. 
 
If I Had The World To Give                                    8-30-78 

       If I had the world to give, I'd give it to you 
       Long as you live, would you let it fall, 
       or hold it all in your arms? 
       If I had a song to sing, I'd sing it to you 
       as long as you live, lullaby or maybe a plain serenade 
       wouldn't you laugh, dance, and cry 
       or be afraid at the change you made 
       I may not have the world to give to you 
       But maybe I have a tune or two 
       Only if you let me be your world 
       Could I ever give this world to you 
       But I will give what love I have to give, 
       I will give what love I have to give, 
       I will give what love I have to give, long as I live. 
       If I had a star to give, I'd give it to you 
       long as you live, would you have the time 
       to watch it shine, watch it shine 
       or ask for the moon and heaven too? I'd give it to you. 
       Well maybe I've got no star to spare, 
       or anything fine or even rare, 
       only if you let me be your world, 
       could I ever give this world to you. 
       could I ever give this world to you. 
  
I Hear A Voice Calling                                       5-15-70b 
 
       I hear a voice calling it must be our Lord 
       Must be, must be our Lord 
       It's coming from on heaven high I hear a voice calling 
       I hear the reward, I hear the reward 
       On the land we shall never die 
       Jesus will die on cold calvary, He's shed His last blood 
       That the world might be free 
       So follow His footsteps up and down the way 
       I'll be preparing for the great judgement day 
  
I Just Wanna Make Love To You                                11-29-66 
 
       I don't want you to be no slave, 
       I don't want you to work all day 
       I don't want you to 'cause I'm set for you 
       I just wanna make love to you, love to you, love to you 
       I don't want you to wash my clothes, 
       I don't want you to keep my home 
       I don't want you to, I don't want you to 
       I can tell by the way she walks, 
       I can see by the way the baby talks 
       I can know by the way you treat your man 
       I can love you baby till the morning        
       I don't want you to cook my bread, 
       I don't want you to make my bed 
       I don't want you to 'cause I'm sad and blue 
       I just wanna make love to you, love to you, love to you 


I Know You Rider                                              11-3-65 
 
       I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone; 
       I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone; 
       Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms. 
       Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest; 
       Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest; 
       My mind was wandering like the wild geese in the West. 
       The Sun will shine in my back door someday. 
       The Sun will shine in my back door someday. 
       March winds will blow all my troubles away. 
       I wish I was a headlight, on a North bound train; 
       I wish I was a headlight, on a North bound train; 
       I'd shine my light through cool Colorado rain. 
       I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone; 
       I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone; 
       Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms. 
  
I'll Take A Melody 
 
       I've seen the rain pouring down 
       The sky was grey with a speck of blue 
       Peek through a hole in the clouds 
       The sun was screaming, "Hey You!". 
       As you ramble through your sorrow 
       Seems like everything come out wrong 
       I'm living in yesterday's tomorrows 
       I know something's helping me along 
       I'll take a melody and see what I can do about it. 
       I'll take a simple C and G and feel brand now about it. 
       I understand why the old fisherman 
       sail along, sail along, sail along. sail along, sail along, 
       someday he'll be gone I hear you talking about your troubles 
       Everybody's got their troubles too 
       You can make them burst like bubbles 
       If you know just what to do 
       You know I've been called a dreamer Dreams that never come true 
      But I've been called so many things before 
       Tell you what I'm gonna do 
       I'll take a melody and see what I can do about it. 
       I'll take a simple C and G and feel brand now about it. 
       I understand why the old fisherman 
       sail along, sail along, sail along. sail along, sail along, 
       someday he'll be gone 
       I'll take a melody and see what I can do about it. 
       I'll take a simple C and G and feel brand now about it. 
       Shine on, keep on shining, shine on, 
       keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining, 
       Shine on, keep on shining, shine on, 
       keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining, 
       Shine on, keep on shining, shine on, 
       keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining, 
       Shine on, keep on shining, shine on, 
       keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining, 


I'm A Hog For You                                             1-8-66a 
 
       I'm a hog for you baby, can't get enough of your love 
       When I go to sleep at night that's what I'm dreaming of 
       One little piggie went to London 
       One little piggie went to Hongkong 
       This little piggie's comin' over your house        
       'Cause it'll love you all night long 
       One little piggie ate pizza 
       One little piggie ate potato chips 
       This little piggie's comin' over your house 
       Gonna level with your sweet lips 
 
 


I Need A Miracle                                              8-30-78 
 
       I need a woman 'bout twice my age 
       A lady of nobility, gentility and rage 
       Splendor in the dark, lightning on the draw 
       We'll go right through the book and break each and every law. 
       I got a feeling and it won't go away, oh no 
       Just one thing then I'll be ok 
       I need a miracle every day. 
       I need a woman 'bout twice my height 
       Statuesque, raven-dressed, a goddess of the night. 
       Her secret incantations, a candle burning blue 
       We'll consult the spirits maybe they'll know what to do. 
       And it's real and it won't go away, oh no 
       I can't get around and I can't run away 
       I need a miracle every day. 
       I need a woman 'bout twice my weight 
       A ton of fun who packs a gun with all her freight 
       Find her in a sideshow leave her in L.A. 
       Ride her like a surfer running on a tidal wave. 
       And it's real, believe what I say, yeah 
       Just one thing I got to say 
       I need a miracle every day. 
       It takes dynamite to get me up 
       Too much of everything is just enough 
       One more thing I just got to say 
       I need a miracle every day, 
       I need a miracle every day, 
       I need a miracle every day, (got to be the only way) 
       I need a miracle 
 
 
I Saw Her Standing There 
 
       Well she was just seventeen, you know what I mean 
       And the way she looked was way beyond compare 
       So how could I dance with another, 
       oh when I saw her standing there 
       Well she looked at me and I, I could see 
       That before too long I'd fall in love with her 
       She wouldn't dance with another, 
       oh when I saw her standing there 
       Well my heart went boom when I crossed that room 
       And I held her hand in mine 
       Oh we danced through the night and we held each other tight 
       And before too long I fell in love with her 
       Now I'll never dance with another, 
       oh when I saw her standing there  
 
 
It Must Have Been The Roses                                   2-22-74 
 
       Annie laid her head down in the roses. 
       She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons, in her long brown hair. 
       I don't know, maybe it was the roses, 
       All I know I could not leave her there. 
       I don't know, it must have been the roses, 
       The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair. 
       I don't know, maybe it was the roses, 
       All I know I could not leave her there. 
       Ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea, 
       Thinkin' well how it may blow in all good company, 
       If I tell another what your own lips told to me, 
       Let me lay 'neath the roses, till my eyes no longer see. 
       I don't know, it must have been the roses, 
       The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair. 
       I don't know, maybe it was the roses, 
       All I know I could not leave her there. 
       One pane of glass in the window, 
       No one is complaining, no, come in and shut the door, 
       Faded is the crimson from the ribbons that she wore, 
       And it's strange how no one comes round any more. 
       I don't know, it must have been the roses, 
       The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair. 
       I don't know, maybe it was the roses, 
       All I know I could not leave her there. 
       Annie laid her head down in the roses. 
       She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons, in her long brown hair. 
       I don't know, maybe it was the roses, 
       All I know I could not leave her there. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It's All Over Now Baby Blue                                    1-7-66 
 
       You must leave, now take what you need you think will last 
       But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast. 
       yonder stands your orphan with his gun; 
       Crying like a fire in the sun. 
       Look out; all those saints are coming through 
       And it's all over know Baby Blue. 
       And it's all over know Baby Blue. 
       The highway is for gamblers, you better use your sense. 
       Take what you have gathered from coincidence. 
       The empty handed painter from your streets 
       Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets. 
       The sky too is folding under you, 
       And it's all over know Baby Blue. 
       All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home 
       All your empty-handed armies are all going home. 
       Your lover who has just walked out your door 
       has taken all his blankets from the floor. 
       The carpet too is moving under you, 
       And it's all over know Baby Blue. 
       Leave your stepping stones behind, 
       there's something calls for you 
       Forget about the dead you've left, they will not follow you 
       The vagabond who's rapping at your door 
       Is standing in the clothes that you once wore. 
       Strike another match go start anew, 
       And it's all over know Baby Blue. 
       And it's all over know Baby Blue. 
       And it's all over know Baby Blue. 
 
 
It's A Man's World                                             4-9-70 
 
       This is a man's world, this is a man's world 
       But it wouldn't be nothing without a woman or a girl 
       You know man made a car to take us over the road 
       Man made the train to carry heavy loads 
       Man made electric lights to take us out of the dark 
       Man made a boat for the water just like Noah made the ark 
       Think about a little baby girl and a little baby boy 
       Man makes then happy 'cause man makes them toys 
       And after man has made everything, 
       everything in the world he can 
       man makes money to buy some other man 
  
 
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry             6-10-73 
 
       Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby, can't buy a thrill 
       Well, I've been up all night, baby, leanin' on the window sill 
       Well, if I die on top of the hill 
       And if I don't make it, you know my baby will 
       Don't the moon look good, mama, shinin' through the trees? 
       Don't the brakeman look good, mama, 
       flagging down the "Double E"? 
       Don't the sun look good goin' down over the sea? 
       Don't my gal look fine when she's comin' after me? 
       Now the wintertime is coming, the windows are filled with frost 
      I want to tell everybody, but I could not get across 
       Well, I wanna be your lover, baby, I don't wanna be your boss 
       Don't say I never warned you when your train gets lost 
 
 
I've Been All Around This World                              12-19-69 

       Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand. 
       Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand. 
       A rifle on my shoulder, six shooter in my hand; 
       Oh Lord, I been all around this world. 
       Lulu, my Lulu come and open the door. 
       Lulu, my Lulu come and open the door. 
       Before I have to walk in with my old 'forty-four'. 
       Oh Lord, I been all around this world. 
       Mama and Papa, little sister makes three. 
       Mama and Papa, little sister makes three. 
       They're comin' in the mornin' ; 
       that's the last you'll see of me. 
       Oh Lord, I been all around this world. 
       Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone. 
       Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone. 
       I wouldn't mind your hangin', 
       boys but you wait in jail so long. 
       Oh Lord, I been all around this world. 
       Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand. 
       Up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there I'll take my stand. 
       A rifle on my shoulder, six shooter in my hand; 
       Oh Lord, I been all around this world. 
 
 
I Wash My Hands                                               12-5-71 
 
       I wash my hands in the muddy water 
       I wash my hands but they wouldn't come clean 
       I wash my hands in the muddy water 
       But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream 
        Well I was born in ol' Virginia 
       North Carolina, I did wrong 
       If I'd listen to what daddy told me 
       I would not be so rude and all alone 
 
Jack-a-Roe                                                     5-13-77
 
       There was a wealthy merchant, in London he did dwell 
       He had a Beautiful daughter, the truth to you we'll tell 
       Oh the truth to you we'll tell 
       She had sweethearts a plenty, and men of high degree 
       But none but Jack the sailor, her true love ever be 
       Oh her true love ever be 
       Jackie's gone a sailing, with trouble on his mind 
       He's left his native country and his darling girl behind 
       Oh his darling girl behind 
       She went down to a tailor shop and dressed in man's array 
       She climbed on board a vessel to convey herself away 
       Oh convey herself away 
       Before you get on board sir, your name we'd like to know 
       She smiled on her countenance, they called me Jack-A-Roe 
       Oh they called me Jack-A-Roe 
       I see your waist is slender, your fingers they are small 
       Your cheeks too red and rosy to face the cannonball 
       Oh to face the cannonball 
       I know my waist's  to slender, my fingers they are small 
       but it would not make me tremble to see ten thousand fall 
       Oh to see ten thousand fall 
       The war soon being over she went and looked around 
       among the dead and wounded her darling boy she found 
       Oh her darling boy she found 
       She picked him up on in her arms and carried him to the town 
       she sent for a physician to quickly heal his wounds 
       Oh to quickly heal his wounds 
       This couple they got married so well they did agree 
       This couple they got married so why not you and me? 
       Oh why not you and me? 
       Oh why not you and me? 
 
 
Jack Straw                                                  10-19-71 
       My time coming, any day, don't worry about me, no, 
       It's gonna be just like they say Jack Straw 
       We can share the women, we can share the wine. 
       We can share what we got of yours 
       'cause we done shared all of mine. 
       Keep on rollin', just a mile to go; 
       Keep on rollin' my old buddy, you're movin' much too slow. 
       I just jumped the watchman, right outside the fence. 
       Took his rings, four bucks in change, ain't that Heaven sent? 
       Hurts my ears to listen, Shannon, burns my eyes to see; 
       Cut down a man in cold blood, Shannon, might as well been me. 
       We used to play for silver, now we play for life; 
       And one's for sport and one's for blood 
       at the point of a knife. 
       And now the die is shaken, now the die must fall. 
       There ain't a winner in the game, he don't go home with all. 
       Not with all. 
       Leavin' Texas, fourth day of July, 
       Sun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles filled the sky. 
       Catch the Detroit Lightnin' out of Sante Fe, 
       The Great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea. 
       Gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride. 
       Gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride. 
       There ain't a place a man can hide, 
       Shannon will keep him from the sun 
       Ain't a bed can give us rest now, you keep us on the run. 
       Jack Straw from Wichita cut his buddy down, 
       And dug for him a shallow grave and laid his body down. 
       Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light, 
       One man gone and another to go, 
       my old buddy you're moving much too slow. 
       We can share the women, we can share the wine. 
 
Johnny B. Goode                                               2-18-71 
       Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans, 
       Way back in the woods among the evergreens 
       There in an old cabin made of earth and wood 
       There lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode. 
       He never learned to read or write so well, 
       But he could play a guitar like ringin' a bell. 
       Go go, go Johnny go, go; go Johnny go, go; 
       go Johnny go, go; Go Johnny go, go; Go Johnny B. Goode. 
       He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack, 
       Go sit up in the trees by the railroad track. 
       The engineers seen him sittin' in the shade 
       Strummin' to the rhythm that the drivers made. 
       People passin' by would stop and say 
       "My my, but that little country boy can play!" 
       His mamma told him "Someday you will be a man." 
       You will be the leader of a big old band 
       Many people comin' from miles around 
       To hear you play your music when the sun goes down. 
       Maybe someday your name will be in lights. 
Kansas City                                                  10-28-85 
 
       Kansas City, Kansas City here I come.  
       Kansas City, Kansas City here I come. 
       Got some pretty little women there, I'm gonna get me one. 
       Standing on the corner, crawl straight in my hand 
       With my Kansas City Baby, now by the Kansas City world. 
       Well the water in the city, well, taste like Georgia Pie 
       Going to Kansas City where it tastes like sugar, oh I know it. 
       Kansas City, Kansas City here I come. 
       Got some pretty little women there, I'm gonna get me one. 
       Kansas City, here every night you gave me none 
       Kansas City, surely looked like they were done 
       You know they turned it around now Baby, 
       gonna scratch it, gonna run. 
       And rock with my Baby, rock with my Baby, one more time 
       Rock with my Baby, Kansas City Baby, one more time 
       Went to the city for, for this souvenir in my hand. 
       Well I might take a plane, might take a train 
       If I have to walk you won't grind in the same. 
       Oh, Kansas City, Kansas City here I come. 
       Got some crazy little women there, I'm gonna get mo one. 
 
 
Katie Mae                                                     2-13-70 
 
       Well you know Katie Mae is a good girl 
       Folks say she don't run around at night 
       I made a mistake and she don't run around at night 
       Yes, you can bet your last dollar 
       Katie Mae will treat you right. 
       Well some folks say she must be a Cadillac 
       But I say she got to be a T-model Ford 
       Yes she got the shape alright, 
       but she can't carry no heavy load. 
       And she walks this life 
       Her daddy got oil wells in his backyard 
       Every time she got to working 
       that woman she never has to work too hard. 
       I say bye-bye poor Katie Mae 
       These are the last words I got to say 
       Cause if I don't meet you tomorrow 
       I'll get you early in the next day. 
 
 
K. C. Road 
 
       Well, I thought I had heard that diesel engine moan 
       Thought I heard that diesel engine moan 
       Thought I heard that diesel engine moan 
       Well, she sound like she got a heavy load 
       When I get back on the KC road 
       Left my woman out there alone. 
 
Keep On Growing                                               6-14-85 
 
       I was laughing, playing in the streets, 
       I wasn't moving, I didn't know my fate 
       Playing the game of life was never really showing, 
       I thought love would wait 
       I was a young man and I was sure to go astray 
       You walked right into my life and told me 
       "Love would find a way" 
       Got to keep on growing, Keep on going, 
       keep on flowing, yeah, yeah, yeah 
       I was standing looking in the face of one who loved me, 
       feeling so ashamed 
       Hoping and praying, Lord, that she could understand me, 
       but I didn't know her name 
       She took my little hand in hers and she told me I was wrong 
       She said "You're gonna be alright boy, whoa, 
       gonna take so long" 
       Got to keep on growing, Keep on going, keep on flowing, 
       yeah, yeah, yeah 
       Baby, someday Baby, who knows where or when girl, 
       just you wait and see 
       We'll be walking hand in hand alone as lovers, honest as can be 
      Time is gonna change us, Lord, I know it's true 
       Our love is gonna keep on growing and growing 
       is all we're gonna do 
       All we're gonna do is 
       Keep on growing, Keep on going, keep on flowing, 
       yeah, yeah, yeah 
       Keep on growing, Keep on knowing, keep on flowing, 
       yeah, yeah, yeah  
 
 
King Bee                                                     11-19-66 
 
       I'm a king bee buzzing around your hive 
       Now I'm a king bee darling buzzing around your hive 
       Yeah, I can make some honey babe if you let me fly up inside 
       Cause I'm young and able to buzz all night long 
       I'm young and able mama, Lord to buzz all night long 
       And you know together we can make some honey 
       Like the world ain't never known 
       Cause I'm asking king bee, won't you be my Queen 
       Now I'm a king bee rider, won't you be my Queen 
       Because you know we can make some sweet little honey 
       Like the world ain't never seen 
       Drive your car up in my driveway 
       Cut your bright lights way down low 
       Drive your car up in my driveway, mama 
       Cut your bright lights way down low 
       I'm gonna wind up your transmission 
       Till your motor won't run no more 
 
 
Knockin' On Heaven's Door                                      7-4-87 
 
       Mama, take this badge off of me, I can't use it anymore 
       It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see 
       I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door 
       Knock, Knock, Knockin' on heaven's door 
       Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore 
       That long black cloud is comin' down 
       I feel like I'm knockin' on Heaven's door 
 
 
Lazy Lightnin'                                                 6-3-76 
 
       Lazy lightnin' sleepy fire in your eyes 
       it's like desire in disguise 
       I keep on tryin' but I, I can't get through 
       Lazy lightnin' I'd like to find the proper potion 
       That's gonna capture your emotion 
       You're right beside me but I, I can't get through 
       You're a loop of lazy lightnin', just a loop of lazy lightnin'  
     Must admit you're kinda frightnin' but you really get me high 
       So exciting, when I hear your velvet thunder, 
       You seem so near I start to wonder 
       Would you come closer if, if I asked you to? 
       So inviting, the way you're messing with my reason 
       It's an exception but it's pleasing 
       Tell me a lie and I will swear, I'll swear it's true. 
       You're a loop of lazy lightnin' (Lazy lightnin') 
       Just a loop of lazy lightnin' (Lazy lightnin') 
       Must admit you're kinda frightening 
       Just a loop of lazy lightnin' 
       Put the fire in my eyes (Lightnin') 
       Put the fire every time (Lightnin') 
       Put the fire in my heart (Lightnin') 
       Well come on lazy lightning. 
       Just a loop of lazy lightning 
       Misty lightning, well you always electrify me 
       Someday I know you'll satisfy me 
       And all that lightnin' will be my lightnin' too. 
       My lightnin' too.  (My lightnin' too) 
       Just a loop of lazy lightnin' (My lightnin' too) 
       My lightnin' too.  (My lightnin' too) 
       Just a loop of lazy lightnin' (My lightnin' too) 
       My lightnin' too.  (My lightnin' too) 
       Oh come on lazy lightnin' (My lightnin' too) 
 
 
Let It Rock                                                  6-23-74 
 
       Well up in the evening, down in Mobile, Alabama 
       Working on a railroad with a steel driving hammer 
       Got to make some money, buy some brand new shoes 
       Try to find somebody take away these blues 
       She don't love me here, I'm singing in the sun 
       Payday's coming when my work is all done 
       Early in the evening when the sun is sinking low 
       All day I've been waiting for the whistle to blow 
       Sitting in a tee-pee built right on the track 
       Rolling them bones 'till the me fly up inside 
       Cause I'm young and able to buzz all night long 
       I'm young and able mama, Lord to buzz all night long 
       And you know together we can make some honey 
       Like the world ain't never known 
       Cause I'm asking king bee, won't you be my Queen 
       Now I'm a king bee rider, won't you be my Queen 
       Because you know we can make some sweet little honey 
       Like the world ain't never seen 
       Drive your car up in my driveway 
       Cut your bright lights way down low 
       Drive your car up in my driveway, mama 
       Cut your bright lights way down low 
       I'm gonna wind up your transmission 
       Till your motor won't run no more 
 
Let Me Sing Your Blues Away                                   9-11-73 
       Gonna hop in the hack then turn on the key, 
       Pop in the clutch, let the wheels roll free, 
       Not a cloud in the sky, such a sunny day, 
       Push in the button, let the top ten play. 
       Come on honey, let me sing 'em away, 
       Come on honey, let me sing 'em away, 
       Oh, honey, let me sing your blues away. 
       Give me a little of that old time love, 
       Cause I ain't never had near enough. 
       Honey, walk that walk with style and grace, 
       This ain't no knock-down drag-out race. 
       It don't matter much, pick any gear, 
       Brind you a pound and drop the rear. 
       Baby, baby what can I say, 
       I'm here to drive those blues away. 
       I sent a letter to a man I know, 
       Said, "One for the money and two for the show." 
       I wait all summer for his reply 
       Said, "Three to get ready and four to fly." 
       Only two things in the world I love, 
       That's rock 'n' roll and my turtle dove. 
       When I was a young man I needed good luck, 
       But I'm a little bit older now and I know my stuff. 
       Come on honey, let me sing 'em away, 
       Come on honey, let me sing 'em away, 
       Oh, honey, let me sing your blues away. 
Lindy                                                         9-16-66 
 
       I know they're gonna run take me 
       When they get across the sea 
       Ever' chance, those women; Watch-it's amazing 
       It's all safe and now sugar baby 
       Oh Mama, don't you weep and moan, 
       Uncle Sam got your man and gone. 
       Now then they're doin' the Lindy Bird across the sea. 
       Oh Mama, how can it be, You went way across the sea 
       Just to keep from doing that Lindy fight with me 
       Oh baby, well I done just told'ja now 
       Oh Mama, don't you weep and moan, 
       Uncle Sam got your man and gone. 
       Now then they're doin' the Lindy Bird across the sea. 
        I asked her for a piece of banana; 
       She said, "Let me play the blues on your piano 
       And then I'll do that Lindy thing with you." 
       Mary had a dream about a submarine. 
       I asked her for a glass of payolla; 
       She said, "Let me play the blues on your Victrola, 
       And then I'll do that Lindy fight with you." 
 
 
Little Red Rooster                                            8-19-80 
 
       I'm a little red rooster, too lazy to crow for days 
       Just a little red rooster, too lazy to crow for days 
       Keep everything in the barnyard people, upset in every way 
       Dogs begin to bark now and the hounds begin to howl 
       Dogs begin to bark now and the hounds begin to howl 
       Watch out stray cat people 
       the little red rooster is on the prowl 
       If you see the little red rooster, 
       won't you please drive him home 
       If you see my little red rooster, 
       won't you please drive him home 
       Been no peace in the barnyard people, 
       since the little red rooster's been gone 
       Yeah and the little red rooster, well you ain't shit to me 
       Think you're a stud boy, well I doubt you'll ever be 
       While your away I'm gonna fuck with your hens, boy 
       I'm just bein' neighborly 
 
 
Little Sadie                                                12-19-69 
 
       Went down last night to take a look around 
       Met little Sadie and I blew her down, 
       went right home, went to bed 
       Forty-four colt smokes under my head 
       And I began to think what a deed I'd done 
       Grabbed my hat and away I run, 
       made a good run, but a little too slow 
       They overtook me in Jericho 
       I'm standin' on the corner ringin' the bell 
       Along came the sheriff from Thomasville 
       Says "Young man, your name's Brown, 
       Remember the night you blew Sadie down?" 
       Oh, yes sir, my name is Lee, 
       I murdered little Sadie in the first degree 
       First degree and the second degree 
       Got any papers won't you read 'em to me. 
       They took me downtown all dressed in black 
       Put me on the train and sent me back 
       Sent me back to the county jail, I had nobody to go for my bail 
      The judge and the jury they took the stand 
       The judge hold the paper in his right hand 
       Forty-one days, forty-one nights, 
       Forty-one years to wear the ball and stripes. 
 
 
Looks Like Rain                                               3-23-72 
 
       Awoke today, felt your side of the bed; 
       The covers were still warm where you been layin'. 
       You were gone, oh gone, my heart was filled with dread; 
       You might not be sleeping here again. 
       But it's alright cause I love you, 
       and that's not going to change. 
       Run me around and make me hurt again and again. 
       But I'll still sing you love songs, 
       written in the letters of your name. 
       The rain is gonna come, oh it surely looks like rain 
       Did you ever waken to the sound of street cats making love? 
       You guess from the cries you were listening to a fight. 
       Well you know, oh know, 
       haste is the last thing they're thinking of. 
       You know they're only tryin' to make it thru the night. 
       I only want to hold you, I don't want to tie you down 
       Or fit you in the lines I might've drawn. 
       It's just that I, oh I, have gotten used to havin' you around. 
       The landscape would be empty, if you were gone; 
       But it's alright cause I love you, 
       and that's not going to change. 
       Run me around and make me hurt again and again. 
       But I'll still sing you love songs, 
       written in the letter of your name. 
       The rain is gonna come, oh it surely looks like rain. 
Loose Lucy                                                     2-9-73 
 
       Loose Lucy is my delight, 
       she come runnin' and we ball all night, 
       round and round and round and round 
       and round and round and round, 
       don't take much to get me on the ground. 
       She's my yo-yo, I'm her string, 
       listen to the birds on the hot wire sing, 
       yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh, 
       singing, "Thank you, for a real good time!" 
       I got jumped coming home last night, 
       Shadow in the alley turned out all my lights, 
       round and round and round and round 
       and round and round and round, 
       don't take much to get me on the ground. 
       Loose Lucy, she was sore, 
       says I know you don't want my love no more, 
       yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh, 
       singing, "Thank you, for a real good time!" 
 
       Be-bop baby how can this be?  
       I know you been out a' cheating on me, 
       round and round and round and round 
       and round and round and round, 
       don't take much to get the word around. 
       Cross my heart and hope to die, 
       I was just hanging out with the other guys, 
       yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh, 
       singing, "Thank you, for a real good time!" 
       Went back home with two black eyes, 
       you know I'll love ya till the day I die, 
       round and round and round and round 
       and round and round and round, 
       don't take much to get the word around. 
       I like your smile but I ain't your type, 
       don't shake the tree when its fruit ain't ripe, 
       yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh, 
       singing yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh, 
       singing yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh, 
       singing, "Thank you, for a real good time!" 
 
 
It's A Long Long Way (as performed on 24th of Feb 1992)
 --------------------
 
 Who do you think you are?
 what do you mean when you put us all down
 walking round in circles
 your nose to the ground
 you think you're saying some
 because you're makin a sound
 you say you've seen it all
 you don't care to see no more
 but you don't get up an go
 until they throw you out the door
 it's a long long long long way to go home
 it's a long long long long way to go home
 any which way you are tempted to go
 it's a long long long long long long way
 way to go home
 
 who do remind me of
 what do you do
 when you do your own time
 did you run away
 from the scene of your crime
 i feel as though i know you
 could you spare me a dime
 ...prison
 but it's more than a jail
 i'll tell you all about it
 but that's another day
 it's a long long long long way to go home
 it's a long long long long way to go home
 any which way you are tempted to go
 it's a long long long long long long long long way
 way to go home
 
      (bridge)
 you say you've seen it all
 you don't care to see no more
 but behind that you've been hopeless
 ..the sick and the poor
 you say you've seen enough
 to last you all your days
 ...
 
 who do you want to be?
 what do you need
 to set your body free
 i don't mean to pry
 ...the third degree
 but looking at you me baby
 you remind myself of me
 if there's anyway to tell you
 anyway you can say
 ...spare you
 ...
 it's a long long long long way to go home
 it's a long long long long way to go home
 any which way you are tempted to go
 it's a long long long long long long long long way
 way to go home
 it's a long long long long way to go home
 it's a long long long long way to go home
 any which way you are tempted to go
 it's a long long long long long long long long way
 way to go home
 it's a long long long long way to go home
 it's a long long long long way to go home
 any which way you are tempted to go
 t's a long long long long long long long long way
 



Loser                                                        2-18-71 
 
       If I had a gun for every ace I have drawn, 
       I could arm a town the size of Abilene 
       Don't you push me baby, 
       Cause I'm all alone and you know I'm only in it for the gold 
       All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars 
       And I could pay you back with one good hand 
       You can look around about the wide world over 
       And you'll never find another honest man. 
       Last fair deal in the country, 
       Sweet Suzie, last fair deal in the town 
       Put your gold money where your love is baby, 
       Before you let my deal go down 
       Don't you push me baby, cause I'm all alone 
       Well I know a little something you won't ever know 
       Don't you touch hard liquor, just a cup of cold coffee 
       I'm gonna get up in the morning and go 
       Everybody prayin' and drinkin' that wine 
       I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines 
       Come to daddy on the inside straight, 
       Well I got no chance of losin' this time 
       Last fair deal in the country, 
       Last fair deal in the town 
       Put your gold money where your love is baby, 
       Before you let my deal go down 
       Everybody prayin' and drinkin' that wine 
       I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines 
       Come to daddy on the inside straight, 
       Well I got no chance of losin' this time. 
 
 
Lost Sailor                                                   8-4-79 
 
       Compass card is spinning, helm is swinging to and fro 
       Oh, where is the dog star, oh, where's the moon. 
       You're a lost sailor, been away too long at sea. 
       Somedays the gales are howling, 
       sometimes the sea is still as glass. 
       Oh, raise the main sail, oh, lash the mast. 
       You're a lost sailor, been away too long at sea. 
       Now the shorelines beckon, there is a price for being free. 
       There's a sea bird cryin' and there's a ghost wind blowing 
       And it's calling you, to that misty swirling sea. 
       Till the chains of your dreams are broken, 
       No place in this world you can be. 
       You're a lost sailor, been away too long at sea. 
       Now the shorelines beckon, there is a price for being free. 
       You pay for being free, I'll tell ya freedom don't come easy, 
       Free don't always come for free, 
       Sometimes it's hard to know what to believe in. 
       Where to go, who to go, where to be, who to be. 
       That means you're driftin'.... driftin' 
       Yeah driftin' and dreamin', really goin' on a dream now. 
       Really goin' on a feelin', really goin' on a feelin'. 
       Driftin', driftin' and dreamin'. 
       Cause it's a place you've never been 
       Maybe a place you've never seen now 
       You can hear them callin' on the wind 
       Driftin' and dreamin', driftin' and dreamin'. 
       Really goin' on a dream now, really goin' on a dream now, 
       Really goin' on a dream now. 
 
 
Louie, Louie                                                  5-18-67 
 
       Louie, Louie, me gotta go.  Louie, Louie, me gotta go. 
       A fine little girl, she wait for me.  
       Me catch the ship across the sea. 
       I sailed the ship all alone.  I never think I'll make it home. 
       Louie, Louie, me gotta go.  Louie, Louie, me gotta go. 
       Three nights and days we sailed the sea.  
       Me think of girl constantly. 
       On the ship, I dream she there.  I smell the rose in her hair. 
       Louie, Louie, me gotta go.  Louie, Louie, me gotta go. 
       Me see Jamaican moon above.  It won't be long me see me love. 
       Me take her in my arms and then.  
       I tell her I never leave again. 
       Louie, Louie, me gotta go.  Louie, Louie, me gotta go. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
Love in the Afternoon 
 
       Love, love in the afternoon 
       Outside the window an organ grinder's tune 
       Rhythm, wine; touch of Jamaica, 
       twilight time with a Kingston lady 
       All the time in the world for me and that girl 
       Sweet, she sang sweetly; come back soon 
       Come back for more of that love in the afternoon 
       Breezes blow by me in the afternoon 
       She sings sweetly an organ grinder's tune 
       Finally recovered from last year's round of bye bye baby blues 
       All I crave today some love in the afternoon 
       Love, love in the afternoon 
       It's easy as she goes, like an organ grinder's tune 
       Gone with the moon any old trouble it can't leave too soon 
       Trouble's no part of what I want 'specially in the afternoon 
       Singin', sleepin' till two 
       Wakin' to make more love in the afternoon 
 
 
Mama Tried                                                    6-11-69 
 
       The first I remember knowin' was that lonesome whistle blowin' 
       And a youngin's dream of growin' up to ride. 
       On a freight train leavin' town, not knowin' where I was bound 
       No one could steer me right, but mama tried. 
       Was the only rebel child from a family meek and mild 
       Mama seemed to know what lay in store 
       In spite of all my Sunday learnin' 
       For the bad I kept on turnin' 
       and mama couldn't hold me anymore. 
       And I turned 21 in prison, doin' life without parole 
       No one could steer me right, but mama tried, mama tried 
       Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleadin' I denied 
       That leaves no one but me to blame cause mama tried. 
       Dear old daddy rest his soul, left my mom a heavy load 
       She tried so very hard to fill his shoes 
       Workin' hours without rest, wanted me to have the best 
       Oh she tried to raise me right, but I refused. 
       And I turned 21 in prison, doin' life without parole 
       No one could steer me right, but mama tried, mama tried 
       Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleadin' I denied 
       That leaves no one but me to blame cause mama tried.  
 
 
Man Smart, Women Smarter                                      7-2-81 
 
       Let us put men and women together, see which one is smarter, 
       Some say men, but I say no, 
       women got the men like a puppet show. 
       It ain't me it's the people that say, 
       men are leading women astray, 
       I say, it's the women today, smarter than the men in every way, 
      That's right the women are smarter, 
       the women are smarted that's right. 
       Little boy sitting in the corner and cry, 
       big man come and ask him why, 
       He said "I can't do what the big boys do", 
       the man sat down and he cried too. 
       It ain't me it's the people that say, 
       men are leading women astray, 
       I say, it's the women today, smarter than the men in every way. 
      That's right the women are smarter, 
       the women are smarted that's right 
       Ever since the world began 
       women been imitating the ways of men, 
       But listen cause I've got a plan, 
       give it up just don't try to understand. 
       It ain't me it's the people that say, 
       men are leading women astray, 
       I say, it's the women today, smarter than the men in every way. 
      That's right the women are smarter, 
       the women are smarted that's right. 
 
 
Mason's Children                                             12-19-69 
 
       Mason died on Monday, we bricked him in the wall 
       All his children grew and grew, 
       they ain't never grown so tall before 
       They may never grow so tall again 
       We dug him up on Tuesday, he hardly aged a day 
       Taught us all we ever knew, we ain't never known so much before 
      We may never know so much again 
       The wall collapsed on Wednesday, we chalked it up to fate 
       Mason's children ran and flew, 
       they ain't never run so fast before 
       Swore they'd never show their face again 
       Mason was a mighty man, a mighty man was he 
       Always said when I'm dead I'm gone, don't you weep for me 
       Thursday came then Friday, with buyers tall and bright 
       Mason's children cooked the stew 
       and cleaned up when the feast was through 
       Take me to the repo-man to pay back what is owed 
       If he's in some other land write it off as stole 
 
 


Maybe You Know                                                4-13-83 
 
       Have you ever wanted something, wanted it so fuckin' bad. 
       That you'd lie, that you'd cheat, 
       that you'd fight in the street. 
       A chance to lose what little you had. 
       Maybe you know I'll be there, maybe you know I'll be there 
       Maybe you know I'll be there, 
       compared to you, I don't seem so mean. 
       I've been hearin' for a long time. 
       I've been hearin' about some loser band. 
       Ain't gettin' younger, but I ain't goin' under. 
       I was promised to rock & roll, this is sad. 
       Time is only wasted, talkin' that will take your life 
       When it all comes down, we're a couple of bums. 
       I know I'll get more tonite. 
       Now you don't owe me nothin', don't take it so personally. 
       There's only one way to make it today 
       and I'm doing all I can for me. 
 
Me and Bobby McGee                                           11-29-70 
       
       Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train, 
       Feeling nearly faded as my jeans, 
       Bobby flagged a diesel down, just before it rained, 
       Took us all the way to New Orleans. 
       I took my harp on out of my dirty red bandanna, 
       I was blowin' sad while Bobby sang the blues, 
       With them windshield wipers slappin' time, 
       Bobby clappin' hands, 
       We sang every song that driver knew. 
       Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to do. 
       Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free. 
       Feelin' good was easy Lord, when Bobby sang the blues. 
       Feelin' good was good enough for me, 
       good enough for me and Bobby McGee. 
       From the coal mines of Kentucky to the California sun, 
       Bobby shared the secrets of my soul, 
       Standing right beside me, Lord, in everything I done, 
       Bobby's body kept me from the cold. 
       Then somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away, 
       Lookin' for that home, I hope she finds, 
       And I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday 
       Holding Bobby's body close to mine. 
       Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. 
       Nothin' was all she left for me. 
       Feelin' good was easy Lord, when Bobby sang the blues. 
       Feelin' good was good enough for me, 
       good enough for me and Bobby McGee.  
       Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to do. 
       Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free. 
       Feelin' good was easy Lord, when Bobby sang the blues. 
       Feelin' good was good enough for me, 
       good enough for me and Bobby McGee. 
Me and My Uncle                                              11-29-66 
 
       Me and my uncle went ridin' down, 
       South Colorado, West Texas bound. 
       We stopped over in Santa Fe, 
       That bein' the point just about half way, 
       And you know it was the hottest part of the day. 
       I took the horses up to the stall, 
       Went to the barroom, ordered drinks for all. 
       Three days in the saddle, you know my body hurt, 
       It bein' summer, I took off my shirt, 
       And I tried to wash off some of that dusty dirt. 
       When Texas cowboys, they's all around, 
       With liquor and money, they loaded down. 
       So soon after payday, know it seemed a shame; 
       You know my uncle, he starts a friendly game, 
       High-low jack and the winner take the hand. 
       My uncle starts winnin'; cowboys got sore. 
       One of them called him, and then two more, 
       Accused him of cheatin'; Oh no, it couldn't be. 
       I know my uncle, he's as honest as me, 
       And I'm as honest as a Denver man can be. 
       One of them cowboys, he starts to draw, 
       And I shot him down, Lord he never saw. 
       Well I grabbed a bottle, cracked him in the jaw, 
       Shot me another, oh damn he won't grow old. 
       In the confusion, my uncle grabbed the gold, 
       And we high-tailed it down to Mexico. 
       I love those cowboys, I love their gold, 
       I loved my uncle, God rest his soul, 
       Taught me good, Lord, Taught me all I know 
       Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold 
       And I left his dead ass there by the side of the road. 
 
 
 
Mexicali Blues                                              10-19-71 
 
       Laid back in an old saloon, with a peso in my hand, 
       Watchin' flies and children on the street, 
       And I catch a glimpse of black-eyed girls 
       who giggle when I smile, 
       There's a little boy who wants to shine my feet. 
       And it's three days ride from Bakersfield 
       and I don't know why I came. 
       I guess I came to keep from payin' dues. 
       So instead I've got a bottle and a girl who's just fourteen, 
       And a damn good case of the Mexicali Blues.  Yeh! 
       Is there anything a man don't stand to lose, 
       When the devil wants to take it all away? 
       Cherish well your thoughts, 
       and keep a tight grip on your booze, 
       Cause thinkin' and drinkin' are all I have today. 
       She said her name was Billy Jean and she was fresh in town. 
       I didn't know a stage line ran from Hell. 
       She had raven hair, a ruffled dress, a necklace made of gold, 
       All the french perfume you'd care to smell. 
       She took me up into her room and whispered in my ear, 
       "Go on, my friend, do anything you choose." 
       Now I'm payin' for those happy hours I spent there in her arms, 
      With a lifetime's worth of the Mexicali Blues. 
       Is there anything a man don't stand to lose, 
       When the devil wants to take it all away? 
       Cherish well your thoughts, and keep a tight grip on your booze 
      Cause thinkin' and drinkin' are all I have today. 
       And then a man rode into town, some thought he was the law. 
       Billy Jean was waitin' when he came. 
       She told me he would take her, if I didn't use my gun, 
       I'd have no one but myself to blame. 
       I went down to those dusty streets, blood was on my mind. 
       I guess that stranger hadn't heard the news 
       Cause I shot first and killed him, Lord, he didn't even draw 
       And he made me trade the gallows for the Mexicali Blues. 
       Is there anything a man don't stand to lose 
       When he lets a woman hold him in her hands? 
       He just might find himself out there on horseback in the dark 
       Just ridin' and runnin' across those desert sands. 
 
Midnight Hour                                                  1-7-66 
       I'm gonna wait 'till the midnight hour 
       That's when my love comes tumbling down 
       I'm gonna wait 'till the midnight hour        
       When there's nobody else around 
       I'm gonna take you girl and hold you 
       Do all things I told you in the midnight hour 
       I'm gonna hold you in my arms and see the twinkle in your eyes  
     I'm gonna wait 'till the midnight hour 
       That's when my love begins to shine 
       You're the only girl I know 
       Really love you so in the midnight hour 
Midnight Moonlight 
 
       If you ever feel lonesome when you're down in San Antone 
       Beg, steal or borrow two nickels or dime 
       to call me on the phone 
       And I'll meet you at Alamo Mission, 
       where we can say our prayers 
       The Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mother 
       will heal us as we kneel there 
       In the moonlight, in the midnight, 
       in the moonlight, midnight, moonlight 
       If you ever feel sorrow for the deeds you have done 
       With no hope for tomorrow in the setting of the sun 
       And the ocean is howling for the things that might have been 
       And that last good morning sunrise 
       will be the brightest you've ever seen 
       In the moonlight, in the midnight, 
       in the moonlight, midnight, moonlight 
  
Might As Well                                                  6-3-76 
 
       Great North Special, would you all board 
       You can't find a ride like that no more, 
       The night the chariot swung down low 
       Ninety-nine children had a chance to go. 
       One long party from front to end 
       Tune to the whistle going round the bend, 
       No great hurry, what do you say? 
       Might as well to be every way. 
       Might as well, might as well, might as well, might as well, 
       Might as well, might as well, might as well, might as well, 
       Might as well, might as well, might as well. 
       Ragtime slowly for twenty-five miles 
       Then switch over to the cajun style 
       Bar car blowing rhythm and blues, 
       Rock 'n' roll wailing in the old caboose. 
       Long train running from coast to coast 
       Bringing home a party when you need it the most 
       Work on the box car, beat on the bell 
       Nothing else shaking so you might just as well. 
       Might as well, might as well, might as well, might as well, 
       Might as well, might as well, might as well, might as well, 
       Might as well, might as well, might as well. 
       Never had such a good time in my life before 
       I'd like to have it one time more 
       Whoa!  One good ride from start to end, 
       I'd like to take that ride again, again! 
       Ran out of track and I caught the plane 
       Back in the county with the blues again 
       Great North Special been on my mind        
       I might like to ride it just one more time. 
       Might as well, might as well, might as well, might as well, 
       Might as well, might as well, might as well, might as well, 
       Might as well, might as well, might as well. 
Mission in the Rain                                            6-4-76 
 
       I turn and walk away then I come 'round again 
       It looks as though tomorrow I'll do pretty much the same. 
       I must turn down your offer but I'd like to ask a break 
       You know I'm ready to give everything for anything I take. 
       Someone called my name you know I turned around to see 
       It was midnight in the Mission and the bells were not for me. 
       Come again, walking along in the Mission in the rain, 
       Come again, walking along in the Mission in the rain, 
       Ten years ago, I walked this street my dreams were riding tall 
       Tonight I would be thankful Lord, for any dream at all. 
       Some folks would be happy just to have one dream come true 
       But everything you gather is just more that you can lose. 
       Come again, walking along in the Mission in the rain, 
       Come again, walking along in the Mission in the rain, 
       All the things I planned to do I only did half way 
       Tomorrow will be Sunday born of rainy Saturday. 
       There's some satisfaction in the San Francisco rain 
       No matter what comes down the Mission always looks the same. 
       Come again, walking along in the Mission in the rain. 
 
 
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo                          7-16-72 
 
       On the day when I was born Daddy sat down and cried. 
       I had the mark just as plain as day; which could not be denied. 
      They say that Cain caught Abel rollin' loaded dice; 
       Ace of Spades behind his ear and him not thinkin' twice. 
       Halfstep, Mississippi uptown toodeloo 
       Hello, baby, I'm gone, goodbye 
       Half a cup of Rock and Rye.  Farewell to you old Southern skies 
      I'm on my way, on my way. 
       If all you got to live for is what you left behind, 
       Get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine. 
       Lost my boots in transit, baby, pile of smokin' leather. 
       I nailed a retread to my feet and prayed for better weather. 
       Halfstep, Mississippi uptown toodeloo 
       Hello, baby, I'm gone, goodbye 
       Half a cup of Rock and Rye.  Farewell to you old Southern skies 
      I'm on my way, on my way. 
       They say that when your ship comes in, 
       the first man takes the sails;        
       Second takes the afterdeck, the third, the planks and rails. 
       What's the point of callin' shots; 
       this cue ain't straight in line. 
       Cue ball's made of styrofoam and no one's got the time. 
       Halfstep, Mississippi uptown toodeloo 
       Hello, baby, I'm gone, goodbye 
       Half a cup of Rock and Rye.  Farewell to you old Southern skies 
      I'm on my way, on my way. 
       Across the Rio Grandeeo, Across the lazy river. 
 
 
Mister Charlie                                                7-31-71 
 
       I take a little powder, take a little salt, 
       put it in my shotgun, I go walkin' 
       Jubba jubba, wolly bully, looking high, looking low, 
       Gonna scare you up and shoot ya, Mister Charlie told me so. 
       I won't even take your life, won't even take a limb, 
       Just unload my shotgun, take a little skin. 
       Jubba jubba, wolly bully, looking high, looking low, 
       Gonna scare you up and shoot ya, Mister Charlie told me so. 
       Well you take my silver dollar, take those silver dimes, 
       Fix it up together in some alligator wine. 
       I can hear the drums, voodoo all night long, 
       Mister Charlie tells me I can't do nothing wrong. 
       Jubba jubba, wolly bully, looking high, looking low, 
       Gonna scare you up and shoot ya, Mister Charlie told me so. 
       Now Mister Charlie told me, won't you like to know, 
       Give you little warning before I let you go. 
       Jubba jubba, wolly bully, looking high, looking low, 
       Gonna scare you up and shoot ya, Mister Charlie told me so. 
       Gonna scare you up and shoot ya, Mister Charlie, 
       Mister Charlie told me so. 

Money, Money                                                 5-17-74 
 
       My baby gives me the finance blues, 
       Tax me to the limit of my revenues. 
       Here she comes finger-poppin', clickety-click 
       She says furs or diamonds, you take your pick. 
       She wants money, what she wants, 
       She wants money, what she wants, 
       She wants money, what she wants, 
       She wants money, what she wants, 
       Money money, money money money.  
       Money money, money money money. 
       She say, "Money, honey", I'd rob a bank, 
       I just load my gun and mosey down to the bank. 
       Knockin' off my neighborhood savings and load, 
       To keep my sweet chiquita in eau de cologne. 
       She wants money, what she wants, 
       She wants money, what she wants, 
       Money money, money money money.  
       Money money, money money money. 
       Mama don't send me down to rob that bank again, 
       I got a notion that your leadin' me to sin. 
       Won't you relax, won't you lay way back, 
       Don't you bug your honey 'bout no Cadillac. 
       It's only bucks, you don't need no jack. 
       So won't you please relax and lay way back. 
       My baby's lovin' gives me such a thrill; 
       It gives me inspiration makin' counterfeit bills. 
       Now some folks say the best things in life are free,        
       I sure don't get no lovin' livin' honestly. 
       She wants money, what she wants, 
       She wants money, what she wants, 
       Money money, money money money.  
       Money money, money money money. 
       Lord made a lady out of Adam's rib, 
       next thing you know, you got women's lib. 
       Lovely to look upon, Heaven to touch; 
       It's a real shame that they got to cost so much. 
 
 
Monkey and the Engineer                                     12-19-69 
 
       Once upon a time there was an engineer. 
       Drove a locomotive both far and near. 
       Accompanied by a monkey that would sit on a stool 
       Watching everything the engineer would do 
       One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat, 
       He left the monkey sitting on the driver's seat, 
       The monkey pulled the throttle, the locomotive jumped the gun 
       And did 80 miles an hour down the mainline run. 
       Big locomotive right on time, 
       Big locomotive coming down the line. 
       Big locomotive No. 99, left the engineer with a worried mind. 
       The engineer called up the dispatcher on the phone, 
       To tell him all about his locomotive was gone. 
       Dispatcher got on the wire, switch operator to the right, 
       Cause the monkey's got the main line sewed up tight. 
       The switch operator got the message on time, 
       Said there's a Northbound livin' on the same main line, 
       Open up the switch I'm gonna let him through the hole, 
       Cause the monkey's got the locomotive under control. 
       Big locomotive right on time, 
       Big locomotive coming down the line. 
       Big locomotive No. 99, left the engineer with a worried mind. 
 
 
Morning Dew                                                  1-14-67a 
 
       Walk me out in the morning dew my honey, 
       Walk me out in the morning dew today. 
       I can't walk you out in the morning dew my honey, 
       I can't walk you out in the morning dew today. 
       I thought I heard a baby cry this morning, 
       I thought I heard a baby cry this today. 
       You didn't hear no baby cry this morning, 
       You didn't hear no baby cry today. 
       Where have all the people gone my honey, 
       Where have all the people gone today. 
       There's no need for you to be worrying about all those people, 
       You never see those people anyway. 
       I thought I heard a young man morn this morning, 
       I thought I heard a young man morn today. 
       I thought I heard a young man morn this morning, 
       I can't walk you out in the morning dew today. 
       Walk me out in the morning dew my honey, 
       Walk me out in the morning dew today. 
       I'll walk you out in the morning dew my honey, 
       I guess it doesn't really matter anyway,        
       I guess it doesn't matter anyway, 
       I guess it doesn't matter anyway, 
       I guess it doesn't matter anyway, 
       Guess it doesn't matter anyway. 
 
 
Mountains of the Moon                                       12-11-69b 
 
       Cold mountain water, the jade merchant's daughter, 
       Mountains of the moon, electra bow and bend to me. 
       Hi ho the carrion crow fol de rol de riddle 
       Hi ho the carrion crow bow and bend to me. 
       Hey, Tom Banjo hey a laurel, more than laurel you say sow. 
       More than laurel you may sow. 
       Hey, the laurel, hey the city in the rain, 
       Hey, hey, hey the wild wheat waving in the wind. 
       Twenty degrees of solitude, twenty degrees in all, 
       All the dancing kings and wives assembled in the hall. 
       Lost is the long and loneliest town fairly sybil flying. 
       All along the, all along the mountains of the moon. 
       Hey, Tom Banjo it's time to matter, 
       The earth will see you on through this time, 
       The earth will see you on through this time. 
       Down by the water, the Marsh King's daughter, did you know? 
       Clothed in totters always will be.  Tom, where did you go? 
       Mountains of the moon, Electra, mountains of the moon, 
       All along the, all along the mountains of the moon. 
       Hi ho the carrion crow fol de rol de riddle 
       Hi ho the carrion crow bow and bend to me. 
       Bend to me.  Na da da da da da da da da da da da. 
 
 
The Music Never Stopped                                      8-13-75 
 
       There's mosquitoes on the river  Fish are rising up like birds 
       It's been hot for seven weeks now, 
       Too hot to even speak now, Did you hear what I just heard? 
       Say it might have been a fiddle or it could have been the wind 
       But there seems to be a beat now I can feel it my feet now 
       Listen here it comes again! 
       There's a band out on the highway, 
       They're high steppin' into town 
       It's a rainbow full of sound, 
       It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns 
       Everybody dancin' C'mon children, 
       C'mon children, Come on clap your hands. 
       Sun went down in honey and the moon came up in wine, 
       You know stars were spinnin' dizzy, Lord 
       The band kept us too busy we forgot about the time. 
       They're a band beyond description, 
       Like Jehovah's favorite choir 
       People joining hand in hand While the music played the band,    
      They're setting us on fire. 
       Crazy rooster crowin' midnight, Balls of lightin' roll along 
       Old men sing about their dreams, 
       Women laugh and children scream 
       And the band keeps playin' on. 
       Keep on dancin' thru the daylight, 
       Greet the mornin' air with song 
       No ones's noticed, but the band's all pack and gone.  
       Was it ever there at all? 
       But they keep on dancin' C'mon children, 
       C'mon children, Come on clap your hands 
       Well the cool breeze came on Tuesday, 
       And the corn's a bumper crop 
       And the fields are full of dancin'  
       Full of singin' and romancin' 
       The music never stopped. 

Mystery Train                                                 11-8-70 
       Train I ride, sixteen coaches long.  
       Train I ride, sixteen coaches long. 
       Well, the woman I love, she's on that train and gone. 
       Train I ride, rollin' down the track.  
       Train I ride, rollin' down the track. 
       It took my baby, and it's never comin' back. 
       Well I went to the station, to meet my baby at the gate 
       Asked the station master, "Is your train running late?" 
       She said she'd be waiting on the 5:45 
       Well, I hate to tell you boys 
       that train don't stop here no more. 
       Mystery train, rolling down the track.  
       Mystery train, rolling down the track.        
       It took my Baby, you know it ain't bringing her home. 
       Heard that whistle blow across the middle of the night 
       When I got down to the station the train was way out of sight. 
Never Trust A Woman                                           5-22-82 
 
       I see some good times, I gotta get to ring that bell 
       I gotta see some good times 
       Sometimes you make up for when I'm not feeling well 
       It must be due to some great times 
       Cause right now I feel like hell 
       Never trust a woman who wears her pants too tight 
       She might love you tomorrow, but she'll be gone tomorrow night 
       Come tomorrow I'll get my pay to leave this town 
       She don't really love me 
       Ain't no reason to stick around 
 
 
New Minglewood Blues 
 
       I was born in a desert, Raised in a loin's den 
       And my number one occupation is stealing women from their men 
       If your down in Memphis, you best stop down minglewood 
       When I take a walk down there, all the women sure look good 
       If you can't believe me, it'll make it hard to believe in you 
       Cause we all need each other, well you know it's true 
 
 
All New Minglewood Blues                                     12-1-66 
 
       I was born in the desert Raised in a lion's den 
       I was born in the desert Raised in a lion's den 
       Oh, my number one occupation is stealing women from their men 
       Well, I'm a wanted man in Texas, 
       busted jail and I'm gone for good. 
       Said, I'm a wanted man in Texas, 
       busted jail and I'm gone for good. 
       Well, the sheriff couldn't catch me, 
       But his little girl sure wish she could. 
       Well now the doctor call me crazy, 
       sometimes I am, sometimes I ain't, 
       Said now the doctor call me crazy, 
       sometimes I am, sometimes I ain't, 
       Yes, and the preacher man call me sinner 
       But his little girl call me saint. 
       Well a couple shots of whiskey 
       women `round here start looking good, 
       I said a couple shots of whiskey 
       women `round here start looking good, 
       A couple more shots of whiskey, I'm going down to Minglewood. 
       Said, I was born in the desert Raised in a lion's den 
       Said, I was born in the desert Raised in a lion's den 
       Yes and my number one occupation 
       is stealing women from their men 
       I was born in the desert Raised in a lion's den        
       I was born in the desert Raised in a lion's den 
       Oh, my number one occupation is stealing women from their men 
 
 
New Orleans                                                    6-6-70 
 
       Well, come on everybody take a trip with me 
       Down the Mississippi, down to New Orleans 
       They got the honeysuckle blaming on the honeysuckle vine 
       And love is blaming there all the time 
       They got the French boys swinging from a big old tree 
       Down the Mississippi, down in New Orleans 
       Well, come on take a stroll down on Basin Street 
       And listen to the music and the Dixieland beat 
       Oh, Magnolia blossom fills the air 
       And you ain't been to heaven if you ain't been there 
       Every Southern Belle is a Mississippi Queen 
       Down the Mississippi, down in New Orleans 
 
 
New Potato Caboose                                           1-27-67 
 
       Last leaf fallen bare earth where green was born, 
       Black Madonna two eagles hang against a cloud, 
       Sun comes up blood red wind yells among the stone, 
       All graceful instruments are known. 
       When the windows all are broken 
       and your love's become a toothless crone, 
       When the voices of the storm sound like a crowd, 
       Winter morning breaks, you're all alone. 
       The eyes are blind, blue visions, all a seer can own, 
       And touching makes the flesh to cry out loud 
       This ground on which the seed of love is sown, 
       All graceful instruments are known. 
 
 
New Speedway Boogie                                          12-20-69 
 
       Please don't dominate the rap, jack, 
       if you've got nothing new to say. 
       If you please, don't back up the track 
       this train's got to run today. 
       I spent a little time on the mountain, 
       I spent a little time on the hill 
       I heard someone say "Better run away", 
       others say "better stand still". 
       Now I don't know, 
       but I been told it's hard to run with the weight of gold, 
       Other hand I have heard it said, 
       it's just as hard with the weight of lead. 
       Who can deny, who can deny, it's not just a change in style? 
       One step down and another begun and I wonder how many miles. 
       I spent a little time on the mountain, 
       I spent a little time on the hill 
       Things went down we don't understand, 
       but I think in time we will. 
       Now, I don't know but I was told 
       in the heat of the sun a man died of cold. 
       Keep on coming or stand and wait, 
       with the sun so dark and the hour so late. 
       You can't overlook the lack, jack, 
       of any other highway to ride. 
       It's got no signs or dividing lines and very few rule to guide. 
      I spent a little time on the mountain, 
       I spent a little time on the hill 
       I saw things getting out of hand, I guess they always will. 
       Now I don't know but I been told 
       If the horse don't pull you got to carry the load. 
       I don't know whose back's that strong, 
       maybe find out before too long. 
       One way or another, one way or another, 
       One way or another, this darkness got to give. 
 
 
Next Time You See Me                                          3-12-66 
 
       Next time you see me things won't be the same, 
       Next time you see me things won't be the same, 
       If it hurts you my darling, you only got yourself to blame. 
       Well, it's true, true saying, all that shines is not gold. 
       Well, it's true, true saying, all that shines is not gold. 
       Like the good book says, you gotta reap what you sow. 
       Well, you lied, cheated -- woh-oh! for so long, 
       Well, you lied, cheated -- woh-oh! for so long, 
       You were wrong to do it woman, 
       and another queen is on your throne. 
       Next time you see me things won't be the same, 
       Next time you see me things won't be the same, 
       If it hurts you my darling, you only got yourself to blame. 
       Well, it's true, true saying, all that shines is not gold. 
       Well, it's true, true saying, all that shines is not gold. 
       Like the good book says, you gotta reap what you sow. 
 
 
The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down 
 
       Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Denver train 
       Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again 
       In the winter of '65 we was hungry, just barely alive 
       By May 10, Richmond had fell, it was a time I remember, 
       oh so well 
       The night they drove ole Dixie down, all the bells were ringing 
      The night they drove ole Dixie down, 
       all the people were singing 
       Na, na na na na na na, na na na na na na, na na na na na na 
       Back with my wife in Tennessee one day she called for me 
       Virgil quick come see there goes the "Robert E. Lee" 
       I don't mind chopping wood 
       and I don't care if the money's no good 
       Take what you need and leave the rest 
       They should never have taken the very best 
       Like my father before me, I'm a peaceful man 
       Like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand 
       Just 18, proud and gray, but a Yankee laid him in his grave 
       Swear by the blood running through (on) my feet 
       You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat 
 
 
Nobody"s Fault But Mine                                       9-24-73 

       Nobody's fault but mine if I don't read my soul gets lost 
       Nobody's fault but mine 
       Had a Bible in my hand, had a Bible in my arm 
        My mother she taught me how to read 
       My mother she taught me how to read 
       If I don't read my soul gets lost 
       Nobody's fault but mine, nobody's fault but mine 
 
Not Fade Away                                                12-21-69 
 
       I wanna tell you how it's gonna be, 
       you're gonna give your love to me, 
       I wanna love you night and day, you know my love not fade away. 
      You know my love not fade away, not fade away! 
       My love is bigger than a Cadillac, 
       I try to show you but you drive me back, 
       Your love for me has got to be real, 
       your gonna know just how I feel. 
       Our love is real, not fade away, not fade away! 
 
Oh Boy                                                         4-6-71 
 
       All my love, all my kissin' 
       you don't know what you been missing 
       Oh boy, when you're with me 
       Oh boy, all the world would see that you were meant for me 
       All my life I've been waitin', 
       tonight there will be no hesitatin' 
       Oh boy, when you're with me 
       Oh boy, all the world would see that you were meant for me 
       Stars up here and the shadow is fallin' 
       You can hear my heart's been callin' 
       Little bit lonely every things right 
       I'm gonna see my baby tonight 
 
 
Oakie From Muskogee                                           4-27-71 
 
       We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee; 
       We don't take our trips on LSD; 
       We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street; 
       We like livin' right, and bein' free. 
       We don't make a party out of lovin'; 
       We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo; 
       We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy, 
       Like the hippies out in San Francisco do. 
       I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, 
       A place where even squares can have a ball. 
       We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, 
       And white lightin's still the biggest thril of all. 
       Leather boots are still in style for mainly footwear; 
       Beads and roman sandals won't be seen. 
       Football's still the roughest thing on campus, 
       And the kids here still respect the college dean. 
       And I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, 
       A place where even squares can have a ball. 
       We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, 
       And white lightin's still the biggest thril of all. 
       We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, 
       In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. 
 
 
One More Saturday Night                                      10-19-71 
 
       I went down to the mountain, I was drinking some wine, 
       Looked up in the heavens Lord I saw a mighty sign, 
       Writt'n fire across the heaven, plain as black and white; 
       Get prepared, there's gonna be a party tonight. 
       Uhuh, Hey!  Saturday Night! 
       Yeh, uhuh one more Saturday night, 
       Hey Saturday night! 
       Everybody's dancin' down the local armory 
       With a basement full of dynamite and live artillery. 
       The temperature keeps risin', everybody gittin' high; 
       Come the rockin' stroke of midnite, the whole place gonna fly. 
       Uhuh, Hey!  Saturday Night! 
       Yeh, uhuh one more Saturday night, 
       Hey Saturday night! 
       Turn on channel six, the President comes on the news, 
       Says, "I get no satisfaction, that's why I sing the blues." 
       His wife say "Don't get crazy, Lord, you know just what to do, 
       Crank up that old Victrola, put on them rockin' shoes." 
       Uhuh, Hey!  Saturday Night! 
       Yeh, uhuh one more Saturday night, 
       Hey Saturday night! 
       Then God way up in heaven, for whatever it was worth, 
       Thought He'd have a big old party, 
       thought He'd call it planet Earth. 
       Don't worry about tomorrow, Lord, you'll know it when it comes, 
      When the rock and roll music meets the risin' sun. 
 
On The Road Again                                              1-7-66 
 
       Why I married me a bad girl, tell you the reason why 
       Bad girls will even do things on the sly 
       Look for your supper to be good and hot 
       She never even put a stew bone in the pot 
       She's on the road again, sure as you're born 
       Natural born easy on the road again 
       Friend come by, say looking for his hat 
       Wants to know where your husband's at 
       I don't know, he's on his way to the pen 
       Come on pretty mama, let's get on the road again 
       Went to my house the front door was locked 
       Went 'round to my window, but my window was locked 
       Jumped right back, shook my head, 
       Big old rounder in my folding bed 
       Jumped into the window, broke the glass 
       Never seen that little rounder run so fast 
       Come on pretty mama, let's get on the road again 
 
 




Opperator                                                     8-18-70 
 
       Operator, can you help me, help me if you please. 
       Give me the right area code and the number that I need. 
       My rider left upon the Midnight Flyer, 
       Singin' like a summer breeze. 
       I think she's somewhere down South, down about Baton Rouge, 
       But I just can't remember no number, a number I can use. 
       Directory don't have it, central done forgot it, 
       I've gotta find a number to use. 
       Trying to check out her number, trying to run down her line. 
       Operator said that's priv'ledged information, 
       And it ain't no business of mine. 
       It's floodin' down in Texas, poles are out in Utah, 
       Gotta find a private line. 
       She could be hangin' 'round the steel mill, 
       Working in a house of blue lights. 
       Riding a getaway bus out of Portland, talking to the night. 
       I don't know where she's going, I don't care where she's been, 
       Long as she's doin' it right.  Long as she's doin' it right. 
 
 
Palm Sunday 
 
       The river so white the mountain so red        
       And with the sunshine over my head 
       The honky-tonks are closed and hushed 
       It must be Palm Sunday again 
 
 
 
 
Passenger                                                     5-15-77 
 
       Firefly, can you see me? 
       Shine on, glowing, brief and brightly 
       Could you imagine?  One summer day, 
       That same night be on your way 
       Do you remember?  Hearts were too cold 
       Seasons have frozen us into our souls 
       People were sayin' the whole world is burning 
       Ashes have scattered too hard to turn 
       Upside out or inside down 
       False alarm, the only game in town 
       No man's land, the only game in town 
       Terrible, the only game in town 
       Passenger, don't you hear me? 
       Destination seen unclearly. 
       What is a man deep down inside, 
       What a raging beast with nothing to hide. 
       Upside out or inside down 
       False alarm, the only game in town 
       No man's land, the only game in town 
       Terrible, the only game in town 
Playin' In The Band                                           2-18-71 
 
       Some folks trust to reason others trust to might, 
       I don't trust to nothin', but I know it comes out right. 
       Say it once again now, Whoa, I hope you'll understand 
       When it's done and over, Lord, a man is just a man. 
       Playin', playin' in the band.  Daybreak, daybreak on the land. 
       Some folks look for answers others look for fights, 
       Some folks up in treetops just a looking for their kites. 
       Whoa, I can tell your future just look what's in your hand, 
       But I can't stop for nothin' I'm just playing in the band. 
       Playin', playin' in the band.  Daybreak, daybreak on the land. 
       Standin' on a tower world at my command 
       You just keep a turnin' while I'm playing in the band. 
       And if a man among you got no sin upon his hand 
       Let him cast a stone at me for playing in the band. 
       Playin', playin' in the band.  Daybreak, daybreak on the land. 

 
Positively 4th Street 
 
       You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend 
       When I was down you just stood there grinning 
       You got a lotta nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend 
       You just want to be on the side that's winning 
       You say I let you down you know it's not like that 
       If you're so hurt why then don't you show it 
       You say you lost your faith but that's not where it's at 
       You had no faith to lose and you know it 
       I know the reason that you talk behind my back 
       I used to be among the crowd you're in with 
       Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact 
       With the one who tries to hide what he don't know to begin with 
      You see me on the street you always act surprised 
       You say, "How are you?" "Good luck" but you don't mean it 
       When you know as well as me you'd rather see me paralyzed 
       Why don't you just come out once and scream it 
       No, I do not feel that good 
       when I see the heartbreaks you embrace 
       If I was a master thief perhaps I'd rob them 
       And now I know you're dissatisfied 
       with your position and your place 
       Don't you understand it's not my problem 
       I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes 
       And just for that one moment I could be you 
       Yes, I wish that for just one time 
       you could stand inside my shoes 
       You'd know what a drag it is to see you 
 
 
Pretty Peggy-O                                              12-12-73 
 
       As we rode out to fennario, as we rode on to Fennario 
       Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove 
       And called her by a name, pretty Peggy-O. 
       Will you marry me pretty Peggy-O, 
       Will you marry me pretty Peggy-O 
       If you will marry me, I'll set your cities free 
       And free all the ladies in the are_-O. 
       I would marry you sweet William-O, 
       I would marry you sweet William-O 
       I would marry you but your guineas are too few 
       And I fear my mama would be angry-O. 
       What would your mama think pretty Peggy-O, 
       What would your mama think pretty Peggy-O, 
       What would your mama think if she heard my guineas clink 
       Saw me marching at the head of my soldiers. 
       If ever I return pretty Peggy-O, 
       if ever I return pretty Peggy-O 
       If ever I return your cities I will burn 
       Destroy all the ladies in the area-O. 
       Come steppin' down the stairs pretty Peggy-O, 
       Come steppin' down the stairs pretty Peggy-O, 
       Come steppin' down the stairs combin' back your yellow hair 
       Bid a last farewell to your William-O. 
       Sweet William he is dead pretty peggy-O, 
       Sweet William he is dead pretty Peggy-O, 
       Sweet William he is dead and he died for a maid 
       And he's buried in the Louisiana country-O. 
       As we rode out to fennario, as we rode out to Fennario 
       Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove, 
       And called her by a name, pretty Peggy-O. 
 
 
Pride of Cucamonga                                 never played live 
 
       Out on the edge of an empty highway, 
       howling at the blood on the moon, 
       Big diesel Mack truck rolling down my way, 
       can't hit that border too soon. 
       Running hard out of Muskrat Flats, 
       it was sixty days or double life, 
       Hail on my back like a shotgun blast, 
       high wind chimes in the night. 
       Oh, oh the Pride of Cucamonga, oh, oh bitter olives in the sun, 
      Oh, oh I had me some lovin', and I done some time. 
       Since I came down from Oregon, 
       there's a lesson or two I've learned 
       By standing in the road alone, 
       standing watching the fires burn. 
       The northern sky it stinks with greed, 
       you can smell it for miles around, 
       Good ole boys in the Greystone Hotel, 
       sitting doing that git on down. 
       Oh, oh the Pride of Cucamonga, of, of silver apples in the sun, 
       Oh, oh I had me some lovin', and I done some time. 
       I see your silver shining town, but I know I can't go there --  
     Your streets run deep with poisoned wine, 
       your doorways crawl with fear. 
       So I think I'll drift for ol' where it's at, 
       where the weed grows green and fine 
       And wrap myself around a bush of that bright, 
       whoa, on Oaxaca vine. 
       Yes, it's me, I'm the Pride of Cucamonga, 
       I can see golden forests in the sun. 
 
 
Promised Land                                                 5-29-71
 
       I left my home in Norfolk Virginia, California on my mind. 
       Straddled that Greyhound, it rode me past Raleigh, 
       and on across Caroline. 
       Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill, 
       and we never was a minute late. 
       We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown, 
       rollin' 'cross the Georgia state. 
       Had motor trouble it turned into a struggle, 
       half way 'cross Alabam, 
       the 'hound broke down 
       left us all stranded in downtown Birmingham. 
       Straight off bought me a through train ticket, 
       right across Mississippi clean 
       And I was on the midnight flyer out of Birmingham 
       Smoking into New Orleans. 
       Somebody help me get out of Louisiana 
       Just help me get to Houston town. 
       People are there who care a little 'bout me 
       And they won't let the poor boy down. 
       Sure as she bore me, she bought me a silk suit, 
       put luggage in my hands, 
       And I woke up high over Albuquerque 
       On a jet to the promised land. 
       Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte, 
       Flying over to the Golden State; 
       When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes 
       We'd be headin' in the terminal gate. 
       Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy 
       Taxi to the terminal zone; 
       Cut your engines, cool your wings, 
       And let me make it to the telephone. 
       Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia, 
       Tidewater four ten on nine 
       Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin' 
       And the poor boy's on the line. 
 
 
Promontory Rider 
 
       Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger. 
       Promontory Rider, whats makes you ride so high? 
       Put a loving star back in an empty sky. 
       Once the wind was warm and sweet, the ladies in lace. 
       Up there on the prominence the tears just freeze your face. 
       From a statutory picture, passport out of hell. 
       Left here by a stranger, seem to wish as well. 
       Sighed, Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger. 
       Asked me, "Can you thread a needle?  Can you shoot the moon?" 
       Walk the silver screen, be a judgement at high noon? 
       Like any Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger, step up. 
       Ride on, ride on, ride 
       Ride upon the high ground, ride upon the low. 
       Promontory Rider what makes you ride so slow? 
       Pick me out with harden wings and fill my head with crowds. 
       I been crawlin' in this scene, but now I'm rollin' down. 
       Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger. 
       Promontory Rider used to ride so high. 
       I don't know these days just seem to ride on by. 
       Once the wind was warm and sweet, but this must be your place. 
       Cause you don't change this chilly range, for any other place. 
       Say, Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger. 
       Ride on, ride on, ride. 
       Promontory Rider, whats makes you ride so high? 
       Put a loving star back in an empty sky. 
       Movin' on the high ground, movin' on the low. 
       But Promontory Rider that was many years ago. 
       Pick me out with harden wings and fill my head with crowds. 
       I been crawlin' in this scene, but not I'm rollin' down. 
       Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger. 
       Movin' on the high ground, movin' on the low ground. 
       Promontory Rider step so high 
       I know I oculd be right and I maybe wrong. 
       But I'll think I'll miss you when your gone. 
       ABC WXYZ can ask for cover, just don't see me 
 
 
Quinn The Eskimo                                            12-30-85 
 
       Everybody's building the big ships and the boats. 
       Some are building monuments, others jotting down notes. 
       Everybody's in despair, every girl and boy, 
       But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here 
       everybody's gonna jump for joy. 
       Come all without, come all within. 
       You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. 
       Now I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet. 
       But guarding fumes and making haste, it ain't my cup of meat. 
       Everybody's just standing around 'neath the trees 
       feeding pigeons on a limb. 
       But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, 
       all the pigeons gonna run to him. 
       Come all without, come all within. 
       You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. 
       A cat's meow and a cow's moo, I can't recite 'em all. 
       Just tell me where it hurts and I'll tell you who to call. 
       Nobody can get any sleep, there's someone on everybody's toes. 
       But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, 
       everybody's gonna wanna doze. 
       Come all without, come all within. 
       You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. 
       Come all without, come all within. 
       You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. 
 
 
The Race Is On                                                6-11-69 
 
       I feel tears welling up from down deep inside, 
       Like my heart's got a big break 
       And a stab of loneliness sharp and painful 
       that I may never shake. 
       You might think that I'm taking it hard 
       since you broke me off with a call, 
       You might wager that I'll hide in sorrow 
       and I might lay right down and bawl. 
       Now the race is on and here comes pride up the back stretch, 
       Heartaches a goin' to the inside, my tears are holding back,    
   tryin' not to fall. 
       My heart's our of the running, 
       true love scratched for another's sake, 
       The race is on and it looks like heartaches, 
       and the winner loses all. 
       One day I ventured in love never once suspecting 
       What the final result would be. 
       Now I live in fear of waking up each morning, 
       And finding that you're gone from me. 
       There's an aching pain in my heart 
       for the name of the one that I hated to face, 
       Someone else came out to win her, 
       and I came out in second place. 
  
Ramble On Rose                                               10-19-71 
 
       Just like Jack the Ripper, just like Mojo Hand, 
       Just like Billy Sunday, in a shotgun ragtime band, 
       Just like New York City, just like Jerico, 
       Pace the halls and climb the walls and get out when they blow. 
       Did you say your name was Ramblin Rose? 
       Ramble on baby, settle down easy 
       Ramble on Rose. 
       Just like Jack and Jill, Mama told the jailor 
       One hear up, and one cool down, leave nothin' for the tailor. 
       Just like Jack and Jill, Papa told the jailer 
       One go up, and one go down, do yourself a favor. 
       Did you say your name was Ramblin Rose? 
       Ramble on baby, settle down easy 
       Ramble on Rose. 
       I'm gonna to sing you a hundred verses in ragtime, 
       I know this song it ain't never gonna end. 
       I'm gonna march you up and down along the county line, 
       Take you to the leader of a band. 
       Just like Crazy Otto, just like Wolfman Jack, 
       Sittin plush with a royal flush, aces back to back. 
       Just like Mary Shelly, just like Frankenstein, 
       Clank your chains and count your change 
       and try to walk the line. 
       Did you say your name was Ramblin Rose? 
       Ramble on baby, settle down easy 
       Ramble on Rose. 
       I'm gonna to sing you a hundred verses in ragtime, 
       I know this song it ain't never gonna end. 
       I'm gonna march you up and down along the county line, 
       Take you to the leader of a band. 
       Goodbye Mama and Papa 
       Goodbye Jack and Jill 
       The grass ain't greener 
       The wine ain't sweeter 
       Either side of the hill. 
       Did you say your name was Ramblin Rose? 
       Ramble on baby, settle down easy 
       Ramble on Rose. 
 
 
Revolution                                                  10-12-83 
 
       You say you want a revolution, 
       well you know, we all want to change the world 
       You tell me that it's evolution, well you know 
       We all want to change the world 
       But when you talk about destruction 
       Don't you know that you can count me out 
       Don't you know it's gonna be alright, alright, alright. 
       You say you got a real solution, 
       well you know, we'd all love to see the plan 
       You ask me for a contribution, 
       well you know, we are doing what we can 
       But if you want money for people with minds that hate 
       All I can tell you brother is you have to wait 
       Don't you know it's gonna be alright, alright, alright. 
       You say you'll change the constitution, well you know 
       We all want to change your head 
       You tell me it's the institution, well you know 
       You better free your mind instead 
       But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao 
       You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow 
       Don't you know it's gonna be alright, alright, alright. 
 
 
Rhapsody In Red 
 
       I love to hear that Rhapsody in Red 
       It just knocks me right outa my head 
       Lifts me up here just floatin' around 
       Sends me way up and it don't let down 
       I love to hear that Rhapsody in Red 
       On my feet or laid back in my bed 
       Takes me way back where I don't mind 
       Takes me way back in my time, in my time 
       Sail away on that Rhapsody in Red 
       Don't care where those other rainbows led 
       With all those Northern lights just blowin' away 
       Got no thought to relate in the same old way, anyway 
       Love to feel it flood down to my soul 
       Lovin' feel just like days of old 
       I sing blues where has it led 
       Gimmie some more Rhapsody in Red, in Red 
 
 
Ripple                                                       8-18-70 
 
       If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine 
       And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung, 
       Would you hear my voice come thru the music, 
       Would you hold it near as it were your own? 
       It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken, 
       Perhaps they're better left unsung. 
       I don't know, don't really care 
       Let there be songs to fill the air. 
       Ripple in still water, 
       When there is no pebble tossed, 
       Nor wind to blow. 
       Reach out your hand if your cup be empty, 
       If your cup is full may it be again, 
       Let it be known there is a fountain, 
       That was not made by the hands of men. 
       There is a road, no simple highway, 
       Between the dawn and the dark of night, 
       And if you go no one may follow, 
       That path is for your steps alone. 
       Ripple in still water, 
       When there is no pebble tossed, 
       Nor wind to blow. 
        You who choose, to lead must follow, 
       But if you fall you fall alone, 
       If you should stand then who's to guide you? 
       If I knew the way I would take you home. 
       La dee da da da, La da da da da, Da da da, Da da, Da da da da   
    La da da da, La da da, Da da, La da da da, La da, Da da. 
 
 
Road Runner                                                  3-21-86 
 
       Money, who needs it, let me live a life free and easy 
       Put the toothbrush in my hand and let me be a travelling man 
       I'm a road runner, I'm a road runner baby, 
       can't stay in one place too long 
       I'm a road runner, one look at me and I'll be gone 
       Well you can love me if you want to, but I do declare 
       When I get restless I got to move somewhere 
       Yes, I'm a road runner baby, got to keep on keeping on 
       And I love the life I live and I'm gonna live the life I love 
       Don't want love to tie me down, 
       you know I got to be free to roam around 
       All my life I've been like this, 
       you can love me at your own risk 
       When the dust hits my shoes, I got the urge to move 
       I'm a road runner baby, got to keep on keeping on 
       And I love the life I live and I'm gonna live the life I love 
       I'm a road runner baby, got to keep on keeping on 
       I'm a road runner, one look at me and I'll be gone 
       You can love me if you want to, but I do declare 
       When I get restless I got to move somewhere 
       Since I'm a road runner baby, got to keep on keeping on 
       And I love the life I live and I'm gonna live the life I love 
       Road runner, yeah 
 
 
Rockin' Pneumonia                                             5-23-72 
 
       I wanna jump, but I'm afraid I'll fall.  
       I wanna holler, but the joint's too small. 
       Young Man Rhythym got a hold on me too, 
       I got the Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu. 
       I wanna get in trouble, but that ain't all. 
       I wanna kiss her, but the gal's too tall. 
       I wanna scream, but that ain't all.  
       I wanna kiss her, but the gal's too small. 
       I wanna scream, but no one's around.  
       My baby's loving, Lord, she's carrying on. 
 
 
Rosalie McFall                                                7-12-70 
 
       Out on the lonely hillside in a cabin low and small 
       Lived the sweetest rose of color my Rosie McFall 
       Her eyes were bright and shining and her voice was sweet to me 
       Knew that I would always love her and I hoped that she loved me 
      My eyes turned to me, my darlin' and this is what she said: 
       You know that I would always love you when you and I are wed. 
       Then God way up in heaven one day for her did call 
       I lost my bride, oh how I loved her, my Rosie McFall 
       I searched this wide world over through cities great and small 
       But I never found another like my Rosie McFall 
  
Rosemary                                         never performed live 
 
       Boots were of leather, a breath of cologne 
       the mirror was a window she sat by alone. 
       All around the garden grew 
       scarlet and purple and crimson and blue. 
       She came  dead and  she went,  
       and at last went away, 
       the garden was sealed when the flowers decayed. 
       On the wall of the garden a legend did say, 
       no one  may come  here since  no one may stay. 
 
 
Row Jimmy                                                      2-9-73 
 
       Julie catch a rabbit by his hair 
       Come back steppin' like to walk on air 
       Get back home where you belong 
       And don't you run off no more. 
       Don't hang your head, let the two time roll 
       Grass shack nailed to a pine wood floor 
       Ask the time baby I don't know 
       Come back later, gonna let it show. 
       I say row Jimmy row, gonna get there, I don't know, 
       Seems a common way to go, get out and row, row, row, row, row. 
       Here's a half dollar if you dare 
       Double twist when you hit the air, 
       Look at Julie down below, 
       The levee doin' the do-pas-o. 
       I say row Jimmy row, gonna get there, I don't know 
       Seems a common way to go, get out and row, row, row, row, row. 
       Broken heart don't feel so bad, 
       You ain't got half of what you thought you had. 
       Rock you baby to and fro 
       Not too fast and not too slow. 
       I say row Jimmy row, gonna get there, I don't know, 
       Seems a common way to go, get out and row, row, row, row, row. 
       That's the way it's been in town, 
       Ever since they tore the jukebox down. 
       Two bit piece don't buy no more, 
       Not so much as it done before. 
       I say row Jimmy row, gonna get there I don't know 
       Seems a common way to go, get out and row, row, row, row, row. 
 
 
Rubin and Cherise                                            3-17-91 
 
       Cherise was brushing her long hair gently down 
       It was the afternoon of carnival as she brushes it gently down 
       Rubin was strumming his painted mandolin 
       It was inlaid with a pretty face 
       in jade played in the carnival parade 
       Cherise was dressing as Pirouette in white 
       When a fatal vision gripped her tight  Cherise beware tonight 
       Rubin, Rubin tell me truly true 
       I feel afraid and I don't know why I do, 
       Is there another girl for you? 
       If you could see my heart you would know it's true 
       There's none Cherise, except for you, except for you 
       I'd swear to it on my very soul, If I lie, say I fall down cold 
      When Rubin played on his painted mandolin 
       The breeze would pause to listen in 
       before going on its way again 
       Masquerade began when nightfall finally woke 
       Like waves against the bandstand, 
       dancers broke to the painted mandolin 
       Looking out to the crowd who is standing there 
       Sweet Ruby  Claire at Rubin stared, at Rubin stared 
       She was dressed as Pirouette in red 
       And her hair hung gently down 
       The crowd pressed round, Ruby stood as though alone 
       Rubin's song took on a different tone 
       and he played it just for her 
       The song he played was the carnival parade 
       Each note cut a thread of Cherise's fate 
       it cut through like a blade 
       Rubin was playing his painted mandolin 
       When Ruby froze and turned to stone 
       for the strings played all alone 
       The voice of Cherise from the face of the mandolin 
       Singing Rubin, Rubin tell me true for I have no one but you 
       If you could see my heart you would know it true 
       There's none Cherise, except for you, except for you 
       I'd swear to it on my very soul, If I lie, say I fall down cold 
      The truth of love an unsung song must tell 
       The course of love must follow blind without a look behind 
       Rubin walked the streets of New Orleans till dawn 
       Cherise so lightly in his arms and her hair hung gently down 


Run for the Roses 
 
       Run,run, run for the roses, 
       the bigger it opens, the sooner it closes. 
       Meddle, meddle, friend of mine, 
       all good things in all good time. 
       Reach for the sun, catch hold of the moon. 
       That ball too heavy, but what can you do. 
       Reach for the stars, smack into the sky. 
       You don't want to live but you're chicken to die. 
       Ohhh, you're chicken to die. 
       Run, run, run for the roses, 
       the bigger it opens the sooner it closes. 
       Meddle, meddle, friend of mine, 
       all good things in all good time. 
       Run for the money, caught short on the rent. 
       Big ideas, but the cash is all spent. 
       The trouble with love is it's on vase. 
       You just want a cup, but you don't want to race. 
       No, you don't want to race. 
       Run,run, run for the roses, 
       the bigger it opens, the sooner it closes. 
       Meddle, meddle, friend of mine, 
       all good things in all good time. 
       Run for the roses, get caught on the briar. 
       You wanted to love, next thing there's a fire. 
       You got the Do Re, I got the Mi. 
       I got the notion we're all at sea. 
       Yes, we're all at sea. 
       Run, run, run for the roses, 
       the bigger it opens, the sooner it closes. 
       Meddle, meddle, friend of mine, 
       all good things in all good time. 
 
 
Run, Rudolph Run                                              12-4-71 
 
       Out of all the reindeer you know you're the mastermind 
       Run, run Rudolph, Randalph's not too far behind 
       Run, run Rudolph, Santa's got to make it to town 
       Randalph he can hurry, he can take the freeway down 
       And away went Rudolph a whizzing like a merry-go-round 
       Said Santa to a boy child "What have you been longing for?" 
       "All I want for Christmas is a Rock and Roll electric guitar" 
       And away went Rudolph a whizzing like a shooting star 
       Run, run Rudolph, Santa's got to make it to town 
       Can't you make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down 
      And away went Rudolph a whizzing like a merry-go-round 
       Said Santa to a girl child "What would you like most to get?" 
       "I want a little baby doll that can cry, scream and wet" 
       And away went Rudolph a whizzing like a Saber jet 
       Run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, 
       a running like a son-of-a-gun. 
 
Saint of Circumstance                                         8-31-79 
 
       This must be heaven, tonight I cross the line. 
       You must be the angel, I though I might never find. 
       Was it you I heard singing, Oh while I was chasin' dreams. 
       Driven by the wind, like the dust that blows around, 
       And the rain fallin' down, but I never know. 
       Got to be heaven, cause here's where the rainbow ends. 
       If this ain't the real thing, 
       then it's close enough to pretend. 
       When that wind blows, when the night's about to fall. 
       You can hear the silence call, it's a certain sort of sound, 
       Like the rain fallin' down. 
       Holes in what's left of my reason, 
       holes in the knees of my blues. 
       Odds against me been increasin', but I'll pull through. 
       I never could read no road map, 
       I don't know what the weather might do. 
       But when that rich wind whines and I see the dark star shine, 
       I got a feeling there's no time to lose, no time to lose. 
       Never know now, just don't never know, no. 
       Well it's been heaven, but even the rainbows will end. 
       Now my sails are fillin' and the wind is willin'. 
       And I'm as good as gone again. 
       I'm still walkin', so I'm sure that I can dance. 
       Just a Saint of Circumstance, just a tiger in a trance. 
       And the rain fallin' down, 
       well, you never know, just don't know. 
       Listen, sure don't know what I going for, 
       but I'm gonna go for it for sure... 
 
 
Saint Stephen                                                8-31-79 
 
       Saint Stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes, 
       Country garden in the wind and the rain, 
       Wherever he goes the people all complain. 
       Stephen prospered in his time, well he may and he may decline. 
       Did it matter, does it now?  
       Stephen would answer if he only knew how. 
       Wishing well with a golden bell, bucket hanging clear to hell, 
       Hell halfway twixt now and then, 
       Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again. 
       Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, 
       writing "What for?" across the morning sky. 
       Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer, 
       darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye. 
       Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow, 
       What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned. 
       Several seasons with their treasons, 
       Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own. 
       Did he doubt or did he try?  
       Answers aplenty in the bye and bye, 
       Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, 
       One man gathers what another man spills. 
       Saint Stephen will remain, all he's lost he shall regain, 
       Seashore washed by the suds and foam, 
       Been here so long, he's got to calling it home. 
       Fortune comes a crawlin', calliope woman, 
       spinnin' that curious sense of your own. 
       Can you answer?  Yes I can. 
       But what would be the answer to the answer man? 
 
 
The Same Thing                                               11-19-66 
 
       What makes a man go crazy when a woman wears her dress so tight 
      What makes a man go crazy when a woman wears 
       that ol' dress so tight 
       Must be the same ol' thing that make a tom cat fight all night 
       Now, why do all the big men try to run a big-legged woman down  
     Now, why do all the big men try to run a big ol' woman down 
       Must be the same ol' thing
       that makes a bulldog a huggling 'round 
       It's that ol' same thing, now tell me who's to blame 
       The whole world is fighting about that ol' same thing 
       What make you feel so good when your baby's in her evening gown 
      When your baby get a little bit of an evening gown 
       Must be that same ol' thing 
       that makes a preacher lay his bible down 
       It's that ol' same thing, it's that ol' same thing 
 
 
 


Samson and Delilah                                             6-3-76 
 
       If I had my way, I would tear this old building down. 
       Well Delilah was a woman, she was fine and fair, 
       She had good looks, God knows, and coal black hair, 
       Delilah she gained old Samson's mind. 
       When first he saw this woman, 
       you know he couldn't believe his mind. 
       Delilah she climbed up on Samson's knee, 
       Said tell me where your strength lies if you please. 
       She spoke so kind and she talked so fair, 
       Well Samson said, Delilah cut off my hair. 
       You can shave my head, clean as my hand 
       And my strength will become as natural as any old man. 
       If I had my way, if I had my way, if I had my way, 
       I would tear this old building down. 
       You read about Samson, all from his works, 
       He was the strongest man that ever had lived on earth. 
       One day when Samson was walking along, 
       Looked down on the ground, he saw an old jawbone. 
       He stretched out his arm, God knows, chains broke like thread, 
       When he got to moving, ten thousand was dead. 
       If I had my way, if I had my way, if I had my way, 
       I would tear this old building down. 
       Now Samson and the lion, they got in a tack, 
       Samson he crawled up on the lion's back. 
       You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paws, 
       But Samson got his hands around that lion's jaws. 
       He ripped the beast till he killed him dead. 
       The bees made honey in the lion's head. 
       If I had my way, if I had my way, if I had my way, 
       I would tear this old building down. 
 
 
Satisfaction                                                 11-26-80 
 
       I can't get no, satisfaction. I can't get no satisfaction. 
       Cause I try and I try and I try and I try, 
       I can't get no, I can't get no. 
       When I'm driving in my car and that man comes on the radio 
       And he's telling me more and more 
       about some useless information 
       Supposed to fire my imagination 
       I can't get no, Oh, no, no, no.  
       Hey, hey, hey, that's what I say. 
       When I'm watching my TV and that man comes on 
       to tell me how white my shirts (?)        
       Well he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke 
       the same cigarettes as me 
       When I'm riding 'round the world 
       and I'm doin' this and I'm signin' that 
       And I'm trying to make some girl 
       Who tells me, baby maybe come back later next week 
       Cause you see I'm on a losing streak 
Sawmill                                                       4-19-70 
       Once I was a slave at the sawmill 
       Talk about a poor boy, talk about a poor boy 
       Let me have a dollar bill 
       My work was so hard at the sawmill 
       Talk about a poor boy, talk about a poor boy 
       Let me have a dollar bill 
       See my teardrops falling down my  wife left this sawmill town 
       She said sawmill's life had been a sin 
       The gravy were much too thin 
       I can't work no more at the sawmill 
       Talk about a poor boy, talk about a poor boy 
       Let me have a dollar bill 
       If you take your wife to the sawmill 
       How you gonna please her, how you gonna please her 
       When she wants a dollar bill 
       She'll run away and leave you at the sawmill 
       Women like a dollar, women like a dollar.  
       Yes and women always will. 
       See my teardrops falling down my wife left this sawmill town 
       She said sawmill's life had been a  sin 
       The gravy were much too thin.  
       I can't work no more at the sawmill 
       Yes and women like a dollar, yes and women like a dollar 
       Yes and women always will 
 
Scarlet Begonias                                              3-23-74 
       As I was walkin' 'round Grosvenor Square 
       Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air, 
       From the other direction, she was calling my eye, 
       It could be an illusion, 
       but I might as well try, might as well try. 
       She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes. 
       And I knew without askin' she was into the blues. 
       She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls, 
       I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls. 
       In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough, 
       She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff. 
       As I picked up my matches and was closing the door, 
       I had one of those flashes I'd been there before, 
       been there before. 
       Well, I ain't always right but I've never been wrong. 
       Seldom turns out the way it does in a song. 
       Once in a while you get shown the light 
       In the strangest of places if you look at it right. 
       Well there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves, 
       Scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues. 
       And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes,     
      I had to learn the hard way to let her pass by,let her pass by.  
     Wind in the willow's playin' "Tea for Two"; 
       The sky was yellow and the sun was blue, 
       Strangers stoppin' strangers just to shake their hand, 
       Everybody's playing in the heart of gold band, 
       heart of gold band. 
Searchin'                                                     11-8-70 
 
       Well, I've been searchin', I've been searchin' 
       I've been searchin' every week and day 
       Well, I've been searchin', I've been searchin' 
       I've been searchin' every which way 
       Like the North West Mountain you know I'll bring her in someday 
      Well, if I have to climb a mountain, you know I will 
       And if I have to swim a river, you know I will 
       No matter where she goes, Oh Lord, you know I will 
       And if I have to climb a mountain, you know I will 
       And if I have to swim a river, you know I will 
       I know she's hiding up there 
       If you marry him don't you know I'll find her, child I will 
       Well Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade gonna put that child on me 
       No matter where she's hiding 
       She gonna tell me you're coming 
       I'm gonna walk right down that street just like bulldog jumping 
      Cause I've been searchin', I've been searchin' 
       I've been searchin' every which way 
       Like the North West Mountain you know I'll bring her in someday

 
 
I Second That Emotion                                          4-8-71 
 
       Maybe you like to give a kiss so sweet 
       Only for one night you belong to me 
       Maybe you go away and drive a car 
       But the taste of wine is worse than none at all 
       In that case I don't want no part 
       That would only break my heart 
       Well, if you feel like loving me and if you got the notion 
       I second that emotion 
       Maybe you think that love would tie you down 
       You ain't got the time to hang around 
       Maybe you think that love would make you a fool 
       So it makes you wise to break the rule 
       In that case I don't want no part 
       That would only break my heart 
       Well, if you feel like loving me and if you got that notion 
       I second that emotion 
       Well, if you feel like giving me a lifetime of devotion 
       I second that emotion. 
 
 
Shakedown Street                                             8-31-78 
 
       You tell me this town ain't got no heart.  
       Well, well, well, you can never tell. 
       The sunny side of the street is dark.  
       Well, well, well, you can never tell. 
       Maybe that's cause it's midnight, 
       in the dark of the moon besides. 
       Maybe the dark is from your eyes, 
       Maybe the dark is from your eyes, 
       Maybe the dark is from your eyes, 
       Maybe the dark is from your eyes, 
       Maybe the dark is from your eyes, 
       Maybe the dark is from your eyes, 
       You know you got such dark eyes! 
       Nothin' shakin' on Shakedown Street.  
       Used to be the heart of town. 
       Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart.  
       You just gotta poke around. 
       You think you've seen this town clear through. 
       Well, well, well, you can never tell. 
       Nothin' here that could int'rest you.  
       Well, well, well, you can never tell. 
       It's not because you missed out 
       on the thing that we had to start. 
       Maybe you had too much too fast.  
       Maybe you had too much too fast. 
       Maybe you had too much too fast.  
       Maybe you had too much too fast. 
       Maybe you had too much too fast.  
       Maybe you had too much too fast. 
       Or just over played your part. 
       Nothin' shakin' on Shakedown Street.  
       Used to be the heart of town. 
       Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart.  
       You just gotta poke around. 
       Since I'm passing your way today.  
       Well, well, well, you can never tell. 
       I just stopped in 'cause I want to say, 
       Well, well, well, you can never tell. 
       I recall your darkness when it crackled like a thundercloud. 
       Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart. 
       Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart. 
       Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart. 
       Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart. 
       Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart. 
       Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart. 
       When I can hear it beat out loud! 
       Nothin' shakin' on Shakedown Street.  
       Used to be the heart of town. 
       Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart.  
       You just gotta poke around. 
 
 
She Belongs To Me                                              1-7-66 
 
       She's got everything she needs, 
       she's an artist, she don't look back. 
       Takes the dark out of the nighttime, 
       she paints the daytime black. 
       You will start out standing, 
       proud to steal her anything she sees. 
       But you will wind up peeking through a key hole, 
       down upon your bended knees. 
       She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. 
       She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all. 
       She wears an Egyptian ring, that sparkles before she speaks. 
       She's a hypnotist collector, you are a walking antique. 
       Bow down to her on Sunday, salute her when her birthday comes.  
     For Halloween but her a trumpet, 
       and for Christmas, buy her drums. 
       She's got everything she needs, 
       she's an artist, she don't look back. 
       Takes the dark out of the nighttime, 
       you know she paints the daytime black. 
 
 
She's Mine                                                    4-19-70 
 
       Well she's little and she's low, right down on the ground 
       Well the way she acts makes a rabbit huddle 'round 
       She's mine, 
       well she's mine little and low crippled and she's blind 
       Everybody's laughin' where I go 'cause I'm leading my old lady  
     Down the road, but she's mine 
       Well she's mine little and low poor child crippled and blind 
       She's my baby crippled and blind 
       She's still my girl, she's mine 
 
 
Ship of Fools                                                2-22-74 
 
       Went to see the captain, strangest I could find, 
       Laid my proposition down, laid it on the line. 
       I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, 
       But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools. 
       Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me. 
       It was later than I thought when I first believed you, 
       Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools. 
       Saw your first ship sink and drown, from rockin' of the boat, 
       And all that could not sink or swim 
       was just left there to float. 
       I won't leave you drifting down, but woh it makes me wild, 
       With thirty years upon my head to have you call me child. 
       Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.  
     It was later than I thought when I first believed you, 
       Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools. 
       The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before. 
       Time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more. 
       Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few: 
       Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools. 
       Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me. 
       It was later than I thought, when I first believed you, 
       Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools. 
       It was later than I thought when I first believed you, 
       Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools. 
 
 
Silver Threads and Golden Needles                             4-26-69 
 
       I don't want your lonely mansion with a tear in every room 
       All I want's the love you've promised beneath the halo moon 
       But you think I should be happy with your money and your name 
       Sit alone and hide my sorrows while you play your cheatin' game 
      Silver threads and golden needles 
       cannot mend this heart of mine 
       And I dare drown my sorrow in the warm glow of your mind 
       You can't buy my love with money 
       'cause I ain't never been that kind 
       Silver threads and golden needles 
       cannot mend this heart of mine 
 
 
Simple Twist Of Fate                                         7-10-87 
 
       They sat together in the park as the evening sky grew dark 
       She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones 
       Twas then he felt alone and wished that he'd gone straight 
       And watched out for a simple twist of fate 
       They walked along by the old canal 
       a little confused, I remember well 
       And stopped into a strange hotel with a neon burnin' bright 
       He felt the heat of the night hit him like a freight train 
       Moving with a simple twist of fate 
       A saxophone someplace far off played 
       as she was walkin' by the arcade 
       As the light bust through a beat-up shade 
       where he was wakin' up 
       She dropped a coin into the cup of the blind man at the gate 
       And forgot about a simple twist of fate 
       He woke up, the room was bare, he didn't see her anywhere 
       He told himself he didn't care, pushed the window open wide 
       Felt an emptiness inside to which he just could not relate 
       Brought on by a simple twist of fate 
       He hears the ticking of the clocks 
       And walks along with a parrot that talks 
       Hunts her down by the waterfront docks 
       where the sailors all come in 
       Maybe she'll pick him out again, how long must he wait 
       Once more for a simple twist of fate 
       People tell me it's a sin to know and feel too much within 
       I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring 
       She was born in the spring, but I was born too late 
       Blame it on a simple twist of fate 
 
 
Sing Me Back Home                                              4-5-71 
 
       The warden led the prisoner down the hallway to his doom 
       I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest 
       And I heard him tell the warden 
       just before they reached my cell 
       Let my guitar playin' friend fill my request 
       Let him sing me back home a song I used to hear.  
       Make my old memories come alive. 
       Sing me away and turn back the year.  
       Sing me home before I die. 
       I recall last Sunday morning when the choir from off the street 
      Came in to sing a few old gospel songs 
       And I heard him tell the singers there's a song my mother sang 
       Can I hear it before you travel on. 
       Sing me back home a song I used to hear.  
       Make my old memories come alive. 
       Sing me away and turn back the year.  
       Sing me back home before I die. 
 
  
Sitting on Top of the World                                    7-3-66 
       Mississippi River so big and wide, 
       blond haired woman on the other side. 
       Now she's gone, gone, gone and I don't worry 
       'cause I'm sitting on top of the world. 
       I worked all summer, spring and fall, 
       blond haired woman the cause of it all. 
       Now she's gone, gone, gone and I don't worry 
       'cause I'm sitting on top of the world. 
       I saw her in Dallas and El Paso.  
       Said come back baby, I need you so. 
       Now she's gone, gone, gone and I don't worry 
       'cause I'm sitting on top of the world. 
       Mississippi River so big and wide, 
       blond haired woman on the other side. 
       Now she's gone, gone, gone and I don't worry 
       'cause I'm sitting on top of the world. 
 
Smokestack Lightnin'                                         11-19-66 
       Oh, smokestack lightnin', shinin' just like gold 
       Why can't you hear me cryin'? Ooooo 
       Oh, stop your train, let a hobo ride 
       Why can't you hear me cryin'? Ooooo 
       Oh, fare you well, I never see you no more 
       Why can't you hear me cryin'? Ooooo 
       Oh, stop your train, let a poor boy ride, callin' yes I do 
       Let a poor boy ride, let his foot step on 
       Oh, who've been you baby, since I've been gone        
       A little pretty boy?  Tell me all ooooh 
 
So Far From Me                                                3-30-80 
       You say you want to try again 
       Well you don't realize 
       That I have a better end in mind. 
       It doesn't seem you really have to 
       Close your eyes to see 
       Though I hope you don't need me 
       You are so far from me. 
       There was something I had caught inside 
       Screaming hard to make it go 
       And tied me down low 
       It doesn't seem you really have to 
       Close your eyes to see 
       You have been all you'll be 
       It's just you babe 
       And we can't relate at all. 
       It doesn't seem you really have to 
       Close your eyes to see 
       Though I hope you don't need me 
       You are so far from me. 
       This time's the last time i want to say so long 
       this song's my last song for you 
       There's just nothing here to hold on to babe 
       Nothing to hold on to. 


SO MANY ROADS

Thought I heard a bluebird sing up on a blackbird hill
Call me a whinin' boy if you will
Going where the sun don't shine
And I don't deny my name
No place to go, ain't that a shame.

Thought I heard that lonesome whistle blowin' sweet and low
Thought I heard that KC when she blow
Down where the sun don't shine
Underneath the Kokamo
Whinin' boy ain't got no place to go.

So many roads I tell you, so many roads I know
So many roads, so many roads.
Mountain high, river wide, so many roads to ride
So Many roads, so many roads.

Thought I heard a jugband sing
If you don't who else will
Over on the far side of the hill
All I know the sun don't shine
And the rain refuse to fall
You don't seem to hear me when I call.

You(?) inside and the wind outside
Tangled on a window blind
Tell me why you treat me so unkind
Down where the sun don't shine
Lonely and I call your name
No place else to go ain't that a shame.

New York to San Francisco, so many roads I know
All I want is one to take me home
High road (??) to the low road, so many roads I know
So many roads, so many roads.

>From the land of the midnight sun
Where the ice blue roses grow
Along those roads of gold and silver stone
Howlin'(?) wide or moanin' low
So many roads I know
So many roads to ease my soul
So many roads to ease my soul
[etc]



Spoonful                                                     10-15-81 
 
       Could have been a spoonful of coffee 
       Could have been a spoonful of tea 
       Just a little spoon of your precious love is good enough for me 
      Man lies about that, man cries about that 
       Man dies about that, spoonful, spoonful, spoonful 
       Could have been a spoonful of water 
       Spread out on the desert sand 
       Just a little spoon fortifies, save you from another man 
       Man lies about that, man cries about that 
       Even dies about that, spoonful, spoonful, spoonful 
       Could have been a spoonful of diamonds 
       Could have been a spoonful of gold 
       Just a little spoon of your precious love to satisfy my soul 
       Everybody's talking about spoonful 
       Spoonful, spoonful, spoonful 
       Everybody's fighting about spoonful 
 
  
Stagger Lee                                                   8-30-78 
 
       1948, Xmas eve, with a full moon over town 
       Stagger Lee shot Billy DeLions 
       And he blew that poor boy down. 
       Do you know what he shot him for? 
       What do you make of that? 
       Cause Billy DeLions threw the lucky dice 
       Won Stagger Lee's Stetson hat. 
       Bayo, Bayo, tell me how can this be? 
       You arrest the girls for turning tricks 
       But you're scared of Stagger Lee. 
       Stagger Lee is a madman and he shot my Billy D. 
       Bayo go get him or give the job to me. 
       Delia DeLions, dear sweet Delia-D 
       How the hell can I arrest him? He's twice as big as me. 
       Well don't ask me to go downtown, 
       I won't come back alive [no more]. 
       Not only is that mother big but he packs a .45 [four]. 
       Bayo, Delia said, just give me a gun 
       he shot my Billy dead now I'm gonna see him hung. 
       She went into the DeLion's club through Billy DeLions blood 
       Stepped up to Stagger Lee at the bar, 
       Said, "Buy me a gin fizz, love." 
       As Stagger Lee lit a cigarette she shot him in the balls 
       Blew the smoke off her revolver, had him dragged to city hall 
       Bayo, Bayo, see you hang him high 
       He shot my Billy dead and now he's got to die. 
       Delia went a walking down on Singapore Street 
       A three-piece band on the corner played "Near My God to Thee" 
       But Delia whistled a different tune, what tune could it be? 
       The song that woman sung was "Look Out Stagger Lee". 
       The song that Delia sung was "Look Out Stagger Lee". 
 
Stealin'                                                      3-25-66 
 
       Well, put your arms around me like a circle in the sun 
       Stay with me baby like my easy rider done 
       If you don't think I love you look what a fool I've been 
       If you don't think I'm sinking look what a hole I'm in 
       I'm stealin' pretty mama don't you tell on me 
       I'm stealin' back my good old used-to-be 
       Well, the woman I love she's about my size 
       She's a married woman, comes to see me sometimes  
 
 
Stella Blue                                                   6-17-72 
 
       All the years combine, they melt into a dream, 
       A broken angel sings from a guitar. 
       In the end there's just a song comes cryin' up the night 
       Thru all the broken dreams and vanished years. 
       Stella blue. Stella blue. 
       When all the cards are down, there's nothing left to see, 
       There's just the pavement left and broken dreams. 
       In the end there's still that song comes cryin' like the wind. 
       Down every lonely street that's ever been 
       Stella blue. Stella blue. 
       I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel, 
       can't win for trying. 
       Dust off those rusty strings just one more time, 
       Gonna make them shine, shine 
       It all rolls into one and nothing comes for free, 
       There's nothing you can hold, for very long. 
       And when you hear that song come crying like the wind, 
       It seems like all this life was just a dream. 
       Stella blue. Stella blue. 
 
 
Sugaree                                                      7-31-71 
 
       When they come to take you down 
       When they bring that wagon 'round 
       When they come to call on you and drag your poor body down 
       Just one thing I ask of you, just one thing for me 
       Please forget you know my name, my darling Sugaree 
       Shake it, shake it sugaree, 
       just don't tell them that you know me 
       Shake it, shake it sugaree, 
       just don't tell them that you know me 
       You thought you was the cool fool and never could do no wrong 
       Had everything sewed up tight. 
       How come you lay awake all night long 
       Just one thing I ask of you, just one thing for me 
       Please forget you know my name, my darling Sugaree 
       Shake it, shake it sugaree, 
       just don't tell them that you know me 
       Shake it, shake it sugaree, 
       just don't tell them that you know me 
       Well in spite of all you gained 
       you still had to stand out in the pouring rain 
       One last voice is calling you and I guess it's time you go 
       Just one thing I ask of you, just one thing for me 
       Please forget you know my name, my darling Sugaree 
       Shake it, shake it sugaree, 
       just don't tell them that you know me 
       Shake it, shake it sugaree, 
       just don't tell them that you know me 
       Well shake it up now Sugaree, I'll meet you at the jubilee      
     And if that jubilee don't come maybe I'll meet you on the run 
       Just one thing I ask of you, just one thing for me 
       Please forget you know my name, my darling Sugaree 
       Shake it, shake it sugaree, 
       just don't tell them that you know me 
       Shake it, shake it sugaree, 
       just don't tell them that you know me 
       Shake it, shake it sugaree, 
       just don't tell them that you know me 
 
 
Sugar Magnolia                                                6-7-70 
 
       Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, 
       heads all empty and I don't care, 
       Saw my baby down by the river, 
       knew she'd have to come up soon for air. 
       Sweet blossom come on, under the willow, 
       we can have high times if you'll abide 
       We can discover the wonders of nature, 
       rolling in the rushes down by the riverside. 
       She's got everything delightful, she's got everything I need, 
       Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double, 
       pays my ticket when I speed 
       She comes skimmin' through rays of violet, 
       she can wade in a drop of dew, 
       She don't come and I don't follow, 
       waits backstage while I sing to you. 
       Well, she can dance a Cajun rhythm, 
       jump like a willys in four wheel drive. 
       She's a summer love for spring, fall and winter. 
       She can make happy any man alive. 
       Sugar magnolia, ringing that bluebell, 
       caught up in sunlight, come on out singing 
       I'll walk you in the sunshine, 
       come on honey, come along with me. 
       She's got everything delightful, she's got everything I need, 
       A breeze in the pines and the sun and bright moonlight, 
       lazing  in the  sunshine yes indeed. 
       Sometimes when the cuckoo's crying, 
       when the moon is half way down, 
       Sometimes when  the night  is dying,  
       I take  me out  and I  wander around, I wander 'round. 
       Sunshine, daydream, walking in the tall trees, 
       going where the wind goes 
       Blooming like a red rose, breathing more freely, 
       Ride our singin', I'll walk you in the morning sunshine 
       Sunshine, daydream. Sunshine, daydream. 
       Walking in the sunshine. 
 
Sunrise                                                        5-1-77 

       Gazing at the fire, burning by the water 
       Before he speaks the world around us quiets. 
       With eyes as sharp as arrows and turning to the fire 
       He clears the air and cuts it with a feather. 
       Many in a circle slowly 'round the fire 
       When he is gone I want to know him better. 
       No one is forsaken, no one is a liar, 
       He plants the tree of life on our foreheads with water. 
       He hums, there are drums, four winds, rising suns, 
       We are singing and playing, I her him saying. 
       I remember breezes from winds inside your body 
       keep me high, like I told you, 
       I'll sing to them this story and know why.  
Supplication                                                   6-3-76 
 
       Well, dizzy ain't the word for the 
       way that you're making me feel now 
       Well, I need some indication, girl, 
       if all of this is real now, tell me girl now 
       Well, I've heard it said 
       there's something wrong in my head, now 
       Got to help me, girl, now 
       Could it be infatuation or am I just being misled now? 
       Little bolt of inspiration Way you strike me now 
       Sparking my imagination, got the lightning now 
       Cause me such excitation, got the lightning now 
       'Bout to end my suffocation, come on strike me now 
       Little bolt of inspiration 
       Way you strike me now, she's back in my imagination 
 
 
Swing Low Sweet Chariot                                        6-4-70 
 
       Swing low, sweet chariot coming for to carry me home 
       Swing low, sweet chariot coming for to carry me home 
       I looked over Jordan and what did I see 
       coming for to carry me home 
       A band of angels is coming after me, 
       coming for to carry me home. 
       If you come to heaven before I do, 
       coming for to carry me home, 
       Tell all my friends I'll be coming there too 
       coming for to carry me home. 
       Well I'm sometimes up and I'm sometimes down 
       coming for to carry me home, 
       But I'd steal my soul if it ever were down 
       coming for to carry me home. 
 
 
Tangled Up In Blue                                           7-10-87 
 
       Early one mornin' the sun was shinin', I was layin' in bed 
       Wond'rin if she'd changed at all if her hair was still red 
       Her folks they said our lives together sure was gonna be rough 
       They never did like Mama's homemade dress 
       Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough 
       And I was standin' on the side of the road 
       rain fallin' on my shoes 
       Heading out for the East Coast 
       Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through 
       tangled up in blue 
       She was married when we first met soon to be divorced 
       I helped her out of a jam, 
       I guess, but I used a little too much force 
       We drove that car as far as we could abandoned it out West 
       Split up on a dark sad night both agreeing it was best 
       She turned around to look at me as I was walkin' away 
       I heard her say over my shoulder, 
       We'll meet again someday on the avenue, tangled up in blue 
       I had a job in the great north woods 
       working as a cook for a spell 
       But I never did like it all that much 
       and one day the ax just fell 
       So I drifted down to New Orleans 
       where I happened to be employed 
       Workin' for a while on a fishin' boat 
       right outside of Delacroix 
       But all the while I was alone the past was close behind 
       I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, 
       And I just grew tangled up in blue 
       She was workin' in a topless place and I stopped in for a beer  
     I just kept lookin' at the side of her face 
       in the spotlight so clear 
       And later on as the crowd thinned out 
       I's just about to do the same 
       She was standing there in back of my chair 
       Said to me, "Don't you know my name?" 
       I muttered somethin' under my breath 
       She studied the lines on my face, 
       I must admit I felt a little uneasy 
       When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe, 
       tangled up in blue 
       She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe 
       I thought you'd never say hello, she said 
       You look like the silent type. 
       Then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me 
       Written by an Italian poet from the thirteenth century 
       And every one of them words rang true 
       and glowed like burnin' coal 
       Pourin' off of every page 
       like it was written in my soul from me to you 
       Tangled up in blue 

Tangled up in Blue  (cont.)

       I lived with them on Montague Street 
       in a basement down the stairs 
       There was music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air 
      Then he started into dealing with slaves 
       and something inside him died 
       She had to sell everything she owned and froze up inside 
       And when finally the bottom fell out I became withdrawn 
       The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keepin' on 
       Like a bird that flew, tangled up in blue 
        So now I'm goin' back again I got to get her to somehow 
       All the people we used to know they're an illusion to me now 
       Some are mathematicians some are carpenter's wives 
       Don't know how it all got started 
       I don't know what they're doin' with their lives 
       But me, I'm still on the road headin' for another joint 
       We always did feel the same 
       we just saw it from another point of view 
       Tangled up in blue 
 

Take me to the river
(Al Green & Mabon Hodges)


I don't know why I love you like I do
After all these changes that you put me through
You stole my money and my cigarettes
And I haven't seen hide nor hair of you yet

 I wanna know,    Wont you tell me, am I in love to stay?
 (Take me, take me) Take me to the river,  And wash me down
 Won't you cleanse my soul,   Get my feet on the ground

I don't know why you treated me so bad
After all these things that we could have had
Love is a notion that I wont forget
My sweet sixteen now I never regret

I wanna know,    Wont you tell me, am I in love to stay?
 (Take me, take me) Take me to the river,  And wash me down
 Won't you cleanse my soul?   Get my feet on the ground

Hold me,  Love me,  Squeeze me,  Tease me,  Till I die...Till I die

Take me baby, Take me to the river!   And wash me down
 Won't you cleanse my soul?   Get my feet on the ground

 I don't know why I love you like I do
After all these changes that you put me through
You stole my money and my cigarettes
And I haven't seen hide nor hair of you yet

 I wanna know,    Wont you tell me, am I in love to stay?
 (Take me, take me) Take me to the river,  And wash me down
 Won't you cleanse my soul?   Get my feet on the ground

Yeah, yeah         Yeah   yeah  yeah
Dip me in the water,   Drop me in the water baby!


 
Tell Mama                                                    12-30-82 
 
       Your dogs ain't found a good girl, 
       one that love you and give you warning 
       Now you find that you been misused, 
       well how many girls can think all right 
       She'd embarrass you anywhere, 
       she'd make her friends think that she didn't care 
       Give me the chance and I'd been begging 
       And I just want to take care of you and I want you to 
       Tell Mama, all about it, tell Mama, what you need 
       Tell Mama, what you want 
       and how that girl does things all right 
       Let me hear you say "Yash" 
       The girl you had didn't have no sense, 
       she wasn't worth all the time you spent 
       Had another man kick you out the door, 
       now that same dude is wearing your clothes 
       Tell your Mama, what you want, tell your Mama, what you need 
       Tell your Mama, what you got to have 
 
 
Tennessee Jed                                               10-19-71 
 
       Cold iron shackles, ball and chain, 
       Listen to the whistle of the evenin' train. 
       You know you bound to wind up dead, 
       If you don't head back to Tennessee Jed. 
       Rich man step on my poor head, 
       When you get back you better butter my bread. 
       Well, do you know it's like I said, 
       You better head back to Tennessee Jed. 
       Tennessee, Tennessee, there ain't no place I'd rather be, 
       Baby won't you carry me back to Tennessee. 
       Drink all day and rock all night, 
       The law come to get you if you don't walk right 
       Got a letter this morning, baby all it read, 
       You better head back to Tennessee Jed. 
       I dropped four flights and cracked my spine, 
       Honey, come quick with the iodine, 
       Catch a few winks, baby, under the bed 
       Then you head back to Tennessee Jed. 
       Tennessee, Tennessee, there ain't no place I'd rather be, 
       Baby won't you carry me back to Tennessee. 
       I run into Charlie Fog, 
       Blacked my eye and he kicked my dog, 
       My doggie turned to me and he said, 
       Let's head back to Tennessee Jed.  
       I woke up a felin' mean, 
       Went down to play the slot machine, 
       The wheels turned around, and the letters read, 
       You better head back to Tennessee Jed. 
       Tennessee, Tennessee, there ain't no place I'd rather be, 
       Baby won't you carry me back to Tennessee. 
 
 
Terrapin Station - Lady With a Fan                           2-26-77 
 
       Let my inspiration flow in token rhyme, suggesting rhythm, 
       That will not forsake you, till my tale is told and done. 
       While the firelight's aglow, 
       strange shadows from the flames will grow, 
       Till things we've never seen will seem familiar. 
       Shadows of a sailor, 
       forming winds both foul and fair all swarm. 
       Down in Carlisle, he loved a lady many years ago. 
       Here beside him stands a man, a soldier from the looks of him, 
       Who came through many fights, but lost at love. 
       While the story teller speaks, a door within the fire creaks; 
       Suddenly flies open, and a girl is standing there. 
       Eyes alight, with glowing hair, all that fancy paints as fair, 
       She takes her fan and throws it, in the lion's den. 
       Which of you to gain me, tell, 
       will risk uncertain pains of hell? 
       I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. 
       The sailor gave at least a try, 
       the soldier being much too wise, 
       Strategy was his strength, and not disaster. 
       The sailor, coming out again, the lady fairly leapt at him. 
       That's how it stands today.  You decide if he was wise. 
       The story teller makes no choice.  
       Soon you will not hear his voice. 
       His job is to shed light, and not to master. 
       Since the end is never told, we pay the teller off in gold, 
       In hopes he will return, but he cannot be bought or sold. 
 
Terrapin Station                                               2-26-77
 
       Inspiration, move me brightly.  
       Light the song with sense and color; 
       Hold away despair, more than this I will not ask. 
       Faced with mysteries dark and vast, 
       statements just seem vain at last. 
       Some rise, some fall, some climb, to get to Terrapin. 
       Counting stars by candlelight, all are dim but one is bright; 
       The spiral light of Venus, rising first and shining best, 
       On, from the northwest corner, of a brand new crescent moon, 
       While crickets and cicadas sing, a rare and different tune, 
       Terrapin Station. 
       In the shadow of the moon, Terrapin Station. 
       And I know we'll get there soon, Terrapin Station. 
       I can't figure out, Terrapin, 
       if it's the end or beginning, Terrapin, 
       But the train's put it's brakes on, Terrapin, 
       And the whistle is screaming, TERRAPIN. 
 
 



Terrapin Station - At the Siding 
       While you were gone, these faces filled with darkness. 
       The obvious was hidden.  With nothing to believe in,        
       The compass always points to Terrapin. 
       Sullen wings of fortune beat like rain. 
       You're back in Terrapin for good or ill again, 
       for good or ill again. 
 
That's All Right, Mama                                        6-10-73 

       My Mama told me, Papa done told me too 
       That gal you're foolin' with ain't no good for you 
       But that's allright, that's allright 
       That's allright now Mama, anyway you do 
       One and one is two, two and two is four 
       Don't leave me baby when you walk out the door 
       That's allright, that's allright 
       That's allright now Mama, anyway you do 
       That's allright Mama, that's allright with you 
       That's allright Mama, anyway you do 
 
That's It For The Other One                                  11-11-67 
       The other day they waited, the sky was dark and faded, 
       Solemnly they stated, "He has to die, you know he has to die." 
       All the children learnin', from books that they were burnin', 
       Every leaf was turnin' ; 
       to watch him die, you know he had to die. 
       The summer sun looked down on him, 
       his mother could but frown on him, 
       And all the others sound on him, but it doesn't seem to matter. 
      And when the day had ended, with rainbow colors blended, 
       His mind remained unbended, 
       he had to die, you know he had to die. 
       Spanish lady comes to me, she lays on me this roes. 
       It rainbow spirals round and round it trembles and explodes. 
       It left a smoking crater of my mind I like to blow away. 
       But the heat came 'round 
       and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day. 
       Comin', comin', comin' around, comin', around, 
       comin', around, in a circle 
       Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, in a circle, 
       Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' in a circle. 
       Skippin' through the lily fields I came across an empty space,  
     It trembled and exploded, left a bus stop in it's place. 
       The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began, 
       There was cowboy Neal at the wheel 
       of the bus to never ever land. 
       Comin', comin', comin' around, comin', around, 
       comin', around,  in a circle 
       Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, in a circle, 
       Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' in a circle. 
       And when the day had ended, with rainbow colors blended, 
       Their minds remained unbended, 
       He had to die, Oh, you know he had to die. 
They Love Each Other                                           2-9-79 
 
       Mary run around, sailin' up and down, 
       Looking for a shot in some direction. 
       Got it from the top, it's nothing you can stop, 
       Lord, you know they made a fire connection. 
       They love each other, Lord you can see that it's true, 
       Lord you can see that it's true, 
       Lord you can see that it's true. 
       He could pass his time, around some other line 
       But you know he choose this place beside her. 
       Don't get in their way, there's nothing you can say, 
       Nothing thay you need to add or do. 
       They love each other, Lord you can see that it's true, 
       Lord you can see that it's true, 
       Lord you can see that it's true. 
       Its' nothing, they explain, it's like a diesel train 
       you better not be there when it rolls, over, 
       And when that train rolls in, you wonder where it's been, 
       You gotta try and see a little further. 
 
       [ ADDITIONAL LYRICS FROM THE 1973 VERSION VYNAL] 
 
       Though you'll make a noise, just can't hear your voice. 
       All the dizzy ride on your cold shoulder. 
       Won't you believe what I say is true? 
       Everything I did I heard it first from you. 
       Everything I tell you, I heard it first from you. 
       Heard your news report, you know you're falling short. 
       Pretty soon, we'll trust you for the weather. 
       When that ship comes in, you won't know where it's been. 
       You got to try to see a little further. 
 
 
Throwing Stones                                              9-17-82 
 
       Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free 
       Dizzy with eternity. 
       Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea 
       Call it home for you and me. 
       A peaceful place or so it looks from space 
       A closer look reveals the human race. 
       Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face. 
       But afraid, we may our home to waste. 
       There's a fear down here we can't forget 
       hasn't got a name just yet 
       Always awake, always around singing 
       ashes to ashes all fall down. 
       Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime calls 
       And again the hunt begins and again the bloodwind calls 
       By and by again, the morning sun will rise 
       But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes. 
       It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets 
       Stalking turf, dividing up meat. 
       Nightmare spook, piece of heat, you and me, you and me. 
       Click, flashblade in ghetto night. Rudies looking for a fight. 
       Rat cat alley roll them bones. 
       Need that cash to feed that jones 
       And the politicians throwing stones 
       Singing ashes, ashes all fall down. 
       Commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice 
       Any way they fall guess who gets to pay the price. 
       Money green or proletarian gray, 
       selling guns instead of food today. 
       So the kids they dance, they shake their bones 
       While the politicians throwing stones 
       Singing ashes, ashes all fall down. 
       Heartless powers try to tell us what to think 
       If the spirit's sleeping, then the flesh is ink. 
       History's page, it is thusly carved in stone 
       The future's here, we are it, we are on our own. 
       If the game is lost then we're all the same 
       No one left to place or take the blame. 
       We will leave this place an empty stone 
       Or this shinning ball of bule we can call our home 
       So the kids they dance, they shake their bones 
       While the politicians are throwing stones 
       Singing ashes, ashes all fall down. 
       Shipping powders back and forth 
       Singing "black goes south while white comes north" 
       And the whole world full of petty wars 
       Singing "I got mine and you got yours." 
       And the current fashions set the pace. 
       Lose your step, fall out of grace. 
       And the radical he rant and rage, 
       Singing "someone got to turn the page" 
       And the rich man in his summer home, 
       Singing "Just leave well enough alone" 
Throwing Stones (cont.)       

       But his pants are down, his cover's blown 
       And the politicians are throwing stones 
       So the kids they dance they shake their bones 
       Cause its all too clear we're on our own        
       Singing ashes, ashes all fall down. 
       Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free 
       It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down. 
 
 
Till The Morning Comes                                        9-18-70 
 
       Till the morning comes, it'll do you fine. 
       Till the morning comes, like a highway sign, 
       Showing you the way, leaving no doubt, 
       Of the way on in or the way back out. 
       Tell you what I'll do, I'll watch out for you 
       You're my woman now, make yourself easy, make yourself easy 
       Make yourself eeeeeeasy 
       Till we all fall down, it'll do you fine, 
       Don't think about what you left behind 
       The way you came or the way you go 
       Let your tracks be lost in the dark and snow 
       Tell you what I'll do, I'll watch out for you 
       You're my woman now, make yourself easy, make yourself easy 
       Make yourself eeeeeeasy 
       When the shadows grow, it'll do you fine 
       When the cold winds blow, it'll ease your mind 
       The shape it takes could be yours to choose, 
       What you may win, what you may lose 
       Tell you what I'll do, I'll watch out for you 
       You're my woman now, make yourself easy, make yourself easy 
       Make yourself eeeeeeeasy 
       You're my woman now, make yourself easy. 
       You're my woman now, make yourself easy. 
       You're my woman now, make yourself easy. 
       You're my woman now, make yourself easy. 
 

To Lay Me Down                                               7-30-70 
 
       To lay me down, once more 
       to lay me down with my head in sparklin' clover 
       to lay me down, on e last time, to lay me down 
       To be with you, once more, to be with you. 
       With our bodies close together 
       let the world go by, like the clouds a'streamin' 
       to lay me down, on e last time, to lay me down 
       to lay me down, to lay me down, to lay me down, one last time, 
       to lay me down 
       to lie with you,  once more, to lie with you 
       with our dreams entwined together 
       to wake beside you, my love still sleepin' 
       to tell sweet lies, one last time and say good night 
       to lay me down, to lay me down, to lay me down, one last time,  
      to lay me down 
       to lay me down, one last time, to lay me down 
       to lay me down, to lay me down, to lay me down, to lay me down 
       to lay me down 
 
 
Tomorrow Is Forever                                           9-24-72 
 
       Take my hand and run with me out of the past called yesterday 
       and walk with me into the future on to tomorrow 
       Yesterday my sweetful life rolled again back no matter what 
       There is nothing left but memories that bring sorrows 
       Yesterday is gone but tomorrow is forever 
       No more cryin' and memories find their way back 
       Tomorrow's waiting let's journey there together 
       Yesterday is gone but tomorrow is forever 
       I care no for yesterday, I love you as you are today 
       We must forget the passing time 
       My love for you is the real kind of love 
       that won't hurt you forever 
       Yesterday is over. tomorrow is forever 
 
 
Tom Thumb Blues                                              3-27-85 
 
       When your lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Easter time too 
       When your gravity is down and negativity won't pull you through 
      Don't you put on any airs when you down on Rue Morgue Avenue. 
       They got some hungry creatures there 
       they'll surely make a mess out of you 
       If you see St Annie, please tell her thanks alot 
       My thoughts they are twisted, my tentacles are all in a knot 
       I don't even have the strength to get up and take another shot. 
      Now my best friend, my drummer, 
       won't even tell what it was that I dropped 
       Now sweet Melinda, the peasants call her the goddess of gloom.  
     She speaks good English as she invites you up into her room. 
       And you, you were so damn conscientious, 
       you couldn't go to her too soon 
       Still she takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon. 
       Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame 
       You must choose one or the other 
       though neither are to be what they claim 
       If you're looking to get silly, 
       you better get back from where you came 
       You know the cops don't need you and we all expect the same. 
       Now all the authorities, they just lay around and boast 
       About how they blackmailed the President into leaving his post. 
      And picking up Angel, 
       Who arrived up here from the coast, 
       Who looked so fine at first, but left looking like a ghost. 
       Now I started out heinakin, still hit the harder stuff 
       Everybody swore they stand behind me when the game got rough 
       But the joke was on me, 
       there was nobody even there to call my bluff 
       I'm goin' back to San Enselmo, I do believe I had enough. 
 
 
100,000 Tons of Steel                                       12-28-84 
 
       I know these rails we're on like I know my lady's smile, 
       We see a dozen dreams in every passing mile. 
       Can't begin to count the trips she and I have made, 
       But I wish I had a dollar 
       for each time we've both been down this grade. 
       And 100,000 tons of steel, made to roll. 
       The brakes don't work and this grade's too steep, 
       her engine's sure to blow. 
       And 100,000 tons of steel, out of control, 
       She's more a rollercoaster than the train I used to know. 
       It's one hell of an understatement, to say she can't be beat. 
       She's tempermental, more a bitch than a machine. 
       She wasn't built to travel at speed or through mud slides. 
       These wheels are bound to jump the tracks 
       before they burn like the ties 
       And 100,000 tons of steel, made to roll. 
       The brakes don't work and this grade's too steep, 
       her engine's sure to blow 
       And 100,000 tons of steel, out of control 
       She's more a rollercoaster than the train I used to know. 
       Murphy sure out done himself to pick this stretch of track 
       I can only hope my luck is ridin' in the back. 
       Well I have pray to God this ain't the day we meet, 
       I've done about everything, but try dragging my feet. 
       And 100,000 tons of steel, made to roll. 
       The brakes don't work and this grade's too steep, 
       her engine's sure to blow 
       And 100,000 tons of steel, out of control, 
       She's more a rollercoaster than the train I used to know. 
       Oh, oh I want to go down slow. 
 
 
Tore Up Over You 
 
       Ever since you been gone I just cried the whole night long 
       Since the day you said goodbye left me sore, no lie, no lie 
       Tore up over you, and I just can't find my way. 
       Tore up! Yeah, yeah, yeah, tore up. 
       Woh-oh-oh tore up!  Yeah, yeah, yeah, tore up. 
       Tore up over you, and I just can't find my way. 
       Never loved me like ya told me so if you did how could you go? 
       It was you, not me, that left and went away with someone else 
       Tore up over you, and I just can't find my way. 
       Tore up! Yeah, yeah, yeah, tore up. 
       Woh-oh-oh tore up!  Yeah, yeah, yeah, tore up. 
       Tore up over you, and I just can't find my way. 
        Tell me what did I do to make you go away? 
       Tell me what can I do to make to come back and stay? 
       Tore up over you, and I just can't find my way. 
       Tore up! Yeah, yeah, yeah, tore up. 
       Woh-oh-oh tore up!  Yeah, yeah, yeah, tore up. 
       Tore up over you, and I just can't find my way. 
Touch of Grey                                                 9-15-82 
 
       Must be getting early, clock are running late. 
       Paint my love a morning sky, it's all cold. 
       Dawn is breaking everywhere, light a candle, curse the glare 
       Draw the curtains I don't care, but it's alright 
       I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive. 
       I see you've got your list out, say your piece and kiss off. 
       Guess I get the jist of it, but it's alright 
       Oh well anyway, sorry that you feel that way. 
       Every silver linings got a touch of grey 
       I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive. 
       It's a lesson to me, the ablers and the beggars and the theives 
      The abc's we all think of, try to win a little love. 
       I know the rent is in the rears, 
       the dog has not been fed in years 
       It's even worse than it appears, but it's alright 
       Cow is giving kerosene, kid can't read at seventeen 
       The words he knows are all obscene, but it's alright 
       I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive. 
       Shoe is on the hand that fits, that's all there really is to it 
      Whistle through your teeth and spit, but it's alright 
       Oh well a touch of gray, kinda suits you anyway, 
       That's all I had to say, but it's alright 
       I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive. 
       It's a lesson to me, the devils and the East and the free 
       The abc's we all must face, try to save a little grace. 
 
 
Truckin'                                                     8-18-70 
 
       Truckin' got my chips cashed in.  
       Keep truckin', like the do-dah man 
       Together, more or less in line, just keep truckin' on. 
       Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street. 
       Chicago, New York, Detroit and it's all on the same street. 
       Your typical city involved in a typical daydream 
       Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings. 
       Dallas, got a soft machine; Houston, too close to New Orleans;  
     New York's got the ways and means; 
       but just won't let you be, oh no. 
       Most of the cast that you meet on the streets 
       speak of true love, 
       Most of the time they're sittin' and cryin' at home. 
       One of these days they know they better get goin' 
       Out of the door and down on the streets all alone. 
       Truckin', like the do-dah man.  
       Once told me "You've got to play your hand" 
       Sometimes your cards ain't worth a dime, 
       if you don't lay'em down, 
       Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me; 
       Other times I can barely see. 
       Lately it occurres to me What a long, strange trip it's been. 
       What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? 
       She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same 
       Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine, 
       All a friend can say is "Ain't it a shame?" 
       Truckin', up to Buffalo.  Been thinkin', you got to mellow slow 
      Takes time, you pick a place to go, and just keep truckin' on. 
       Sittin' and starin' out of the hotel window. 
       Got a tip they're gonna kick the door in again 
       I'd like to get some sleep before I travel, 
       But if you got a warrant, I guess you're gonna come in. 
       Busted, down on Bourbon Street,  Set up, like a bowlin' pin. 
       Knocked down, it get's to wearin' thin.  
       They just won't let you be, oh no. 
       You're sick of hangin' around and you'd like to travel; 
       Get tired of travelin' and you want to settle down. 
       I guess they can't revoke your soul for tryin', 
       Get out of the door and light out and look all around. 
       Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me; 
       Other times I can barely see. 
       Lately it occurres to me What a long, strange trip it's been. 
       Truckin', I'm a goin' home.  
       Whoa whoa baby, back where I belong, 
       Back home, sit down and patch my bones, 
       and get back truckin' on. 
       Hey now get back truckin' home.  
 
 
 
 
 
Turn On Your Love Light                                        8-5-67 
 
       Without a warning you broke my heart, 
       takin' it baby, tore it apart 
       And you left me standin' in the dark, 
       said your love for me was dyin'. 
       Come on baby, baby please come on baby, cause I'm on my knees.  
     Turn on your lights let it shine on me shine on your love light   
    Let it shine on me let shine, let it shine, let it shine. 
       When I get lonely in the middle of the night 
       And I need you darlin' to make things alright 
       So come on baby, baby please and I'm beggin' you baby 
       cause I'm on my knees, 
       Turn on your lights let it shine on me 
       Turn on your love light let it shine on me 
       Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. 
       Without a warning you broke my heart, 
       takin' it baby, tore it apart 
       And you left me standin' in the dark, 
       shine your love for me was dark. 
       Come on baby, baby please come on baby, cause I'm on my knees.  
     Turn on your lights let it shine on me shine on your love light   
    Let it shine on me let shine, let it shine, let it shine. 
  
Two Souls in Communion                                        3-23-72 
       
       What are they seeing, when they look in each other's eyes? 
       What are they feeling, when they see each other smile? 
       Is it love, I don't know - or an emotion that I've outgrown? 
       Did I take a wrong turn - in on life's winding road? 
       Won't somebody help me find the right way to go? 
       My life need some correction, alteration and direction. 
       Wont somebody stand by me - yes, 
       I'm lost, yes, I'm lost, yes, I'm lost. 
       What is the secret of this time of mine? 
       Two souls in communion, both body and mind. 
       Is it special magic, or just the nature of things? 
       Come see the great spirit, not for beggars but for kings. 
       You who have found it please help me along. 
       I'm a man, I'm a man, - I'm not made out of stone. 
       My needs they are simple, I don't want anything, 
       but I surely want to fly on those wings, 
       on the run, one more time. 
       All I wanna do, fly up, fly home. 
       Fly on those wings of love, fly up, fly home, 
       I'm a staying in your town, fly up, fly home, 
       Help me somebody please! Fly up, fly home. 
       I wake up early in the morning, fly up, fly home, 
       you know I never saw you babe, fly up, fly home.  
       I just can't seem to understand, 
       can't seem to understand what's wrong, fly up, fly home. 
       What I wanna do is take a little ride with you, 
       on the wings of love, 
       woh-oh one more time, one more time. 
Unbroken Chain                                   never performed live 
        Blue light rain, whoa unbroken chain, 
       Looking for familiar faces in an empty window pane. 
       Listening for the secret, searching for the sound 
       But I could only hear the preacher 
       and the baying of his hounds. 
       Willow sky, whoa, I walk and wonder why, 
       They say love your brother, but you will catch it when you try. 
      Roll you down the line boy, drop you for a loss, 
       Ride you out on a cold railroad and nail you to a cross. 
       November and more, as I wait for the score, 
       They're telling me forgiveness is the key to every door. 
       A slow winder day a night like forever, 
       Sink like a stone, float like a feather. 
       Lilac rain, unbroken chain, Song of the sawhet owl. 
       Out on the mountain, it'll drive you insane, 
       Listening to the winds howl 
       Unbroken chain of sorrow and pearls, 
       Unbroken chain of shy and sea. 
       Unbroken chain of the western wind, 
       Unbroken chain of you and me. 
  
Uncle John's Band                                             12-4-69 
 
       Well the first days are the hardest days, 
       don't you worry any more, 
       'Cause when life looks like Easy Street, 
       there is danger at your door. 
       Think this through with me, let me know your mind, 
       Wo, oh, what I want to know, is are you kind? 
       It's a buck dancer's choice my friend; better take my advice. 
       You know all the rules by now and the fire from the ice. 
       Will you come with me?  Won't you come with me? 
       Wo, oh, what I want to know, will you come with me? 
       Goddamn, well I declare, have you seen the like? 
       Their wall are built of cannonballs, 
       their motto is "Don't tread on me". 
       Come hear Uncle John'n Band playing to the tide, 
       Come with me, or go alone, he's come to take his children home. 
      It's the same story the crow told me; 
       it's the only one he knows. 
       Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go. 
       Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait, 
       Wo, oh, what I want to know, where does the time go? 
       I live in a silver mine and I call it Beggar's Tomb; 
       I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune, 
       anybody's choice, I can hear your voice. 
       Wo, oh, what I want to know, how does the song go? 
       Come hear Uncle John's Band by the riverside, 
       Got some things to talk about, here beside the rising tide. 
       Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide, 
       Come on along, or go alone, 
       he's come to take his children home. 
       Wo, oh, what I want to know, how does the song go. 
U.S. Blues                                                    2-22-74 
 
       Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do? 
       Gimme five, I'm still alive, ain't no luck, I learned to duck. 
       Check my pulse, it don't change.  
       Stay seventy-two come shine or rain. 
       Wave the flag, pop the bag, rock the boat, skin the goat. 
       Wave that flag, wave it wide and high. 
       Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my. 
       I'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am; 
       Been hidin' out in a rock and roll band. 
       Shake the hand that shook the hand 
       of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan. 
       Shine your shoes, light your fuse.  
       Can you use them ol' U.S. Blues? 
       I'll drink your health, share your wealth, 
       run your life, steal your wife. 
       Wave that flag, wave it wide and high. 
       Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my. 
       Back to back chicken shack.  
       Son of a gun, better change your act. 
       We're all confused, what's to lose?        
       You can call this all the United States Blues. 
       Wave that flag, wave it wide and high. 
       Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my. 
 
 
Valerie 
 
       Hey Valerie, Baby what's the matter with you? 
       I did all of the things that you wanted me to 
       I went downtown with my picket knife, cut your other man, 
       Cut your other man, but I spared his life 
       Valerie won't you be good to me? 
       Hey Valerie, Baby what's the matter with you? 
       Come on, come Baby, and tell me true 
       Hey now Baby, what did I do?  
       I shot my dog 'cause he growled at you 
       Valerie won't you be good to me? 
       Valerie what's the matter with me?  
       I never ever done you no wrong 
       I sing the blues nearly all night long. 
       Valerie what the matter with me?  
       You know I'd do anything that you'd say 
       I can't understand why you tell me "Please go away" 
       I ain't afraid of the cold. cruel world outside 
       No chicken little running from a falling sky 
       The only thing trouble's me is you.  
       If you leave me what will I do? 
       Valerie won't you be good to me? 
       You got me down on the knees of my shaking feet 
       Can't play the blues 'cause for you I drop the beat 
       Valerie what your complaint?  I try to be everything I ain't 
       Valerie won't you be good to me? 
Viola Lee Blues                                               3-12-66 
 
       The judge decreed it, the clerk he wrote it. 
       Clerk he wrote it down indeed-e 
       Judge decreed it, clerk he wrote it down 
       Give you this jail sentence you'll be Nashville bound 
       Some got six month some got one solid. 
       Some got one solid year indeed-e 
       Some got six month some got one solid. 
       But me and my buddies all got lifetime here 
       I wrote a letter I mailed in the air, 
       Mailed it on the air indeed-e 
       I wrote a letter I mailed in the air. 
       You may know by that I've got a friend somewhere 
 
Wave To The Wind  (transcribed from the 24th)
 ----------------
 
 gonna wave, gonna wave
 gonna wave to the wind.
 gonna wave my way
 my way on to the wind.
 gonna wave, gonna wave
 gonna wave to the wind.
 
 gonna wave my way to place
 i've never been
 gonna wave to the people
 i've seen by the side of the road
 as i'm moving on by
 gonna wave..
 ...
 gonna wave to the
 ...
 gonna wave to the
 ...
 
 
 gonna wave, gonna wave
 gonna wave to the wind.
 gonna wave my way
 my way on to the wind.
 gonna wave, gonna wave
 gonna wave to the wind.
 gonna wave my way to
 the edge of the world
 and jump in.
 gonna wave to the thunder
 .sea ..
 ..rain
 ...
 ... to the mountain
 
 farewell to the
 ...
 ...
 gonna wave, gonna wave
 gonna wave to the wind.
 gonna wave my way
 my way on to the wind.
 gonna wave, gonna wave
 gonna wave to the wind.
 gonna wave to the future
 ...
 
 gonna wave to the people
 ...
 ..
 ..
 raise my voice for hte young man
 ..born on the 4th of July
 ...
 ...
 gonna wave, gonna wave
 gonna wave to the wind.
 gonna wave my way
 my way on to the wind.
 gonna wave, gonna wave
 gonna wave to the wind.
 
 gona wave till my arm dangles
 wearily in the socket and
  can wave no more.
  


Wake Up Little Susie                                          2-13-70 
 
       Wake up little Susie, wake up.  Wake up little Susie, wake up. 
       The movie wasn't so hot, it didn't have much of a plot 
       We fell asleep, out goose is cooked, our reputation is shot 
       Wake up little Susie, wake up little Susie 
       What are you gonna tell your mama, what you gonna tell your pa 
       What are you gonna tell your friend when they say ooo la la 
       Wake up little Susie, wake up little Susie 
       Well I told your mama that you'd be back by ten 
       Now Susie, baby looks like we goofed again 
       Wake up little Susie, wake up little Susie, we gotta go home 
       Wake up little Susie, wake up.  Wake up little Susie, wake up. 
       The bullfrog's sound asleep, wake up little Susie and weep 
       It's four o'clock and we're in trouble deep 
       Wake up little Susie, wake up little Susie 
 
 
Walking Blues                                                 10-7-66 
 
       Woke up this morning, felt around for my shoes 
       That's when I knew I had them old walking blues 
       I woke up this morning, felt around, felt around for my shoes 
       That's when I knew I had them old, mean old walking blues 
       Leaving in the morning if I have to, robbed blind 
       I've been mistreated and I don't mind dying 
       I'm leaving in the morning if I have to, robbed blind 
       I've been mistreated and I just don't mind dying 
       She got a Belgium movement from her head down to her toes 
       Breaking on a dollar 'most anywhere she goes 
       Well I got a good woman coming my way 
       Tried to try, some electric pantin', 
       some electric chillin' cryin' 
       But, ooh, mistook, misgiven 
       Got me up and walking Baby, but I'm walking blue, walking blue 
       Well some people say boy, the walking blues ain't bad 
       It's the worst old feelin' I 'most ever had 
 
Walking the Dog                                              3-21-70a 
 
       Baby's back all dressed in black.  
       Silver buttons all down her back 
       High ho tip the toes, she broke the needle now she can't sew 
       Walking the dog, I'm just a walking the dog 
       If you don't know how to do it, 
       I'll show you how to walk that dog 
       Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow 
       With silver bells and cockle shells 
       and pretty maids all in a row 
       I asked my mother for fifteen cents, 
       I see her ever I jump the fence 
       I jumped the sky I touched the sky, 
       never come down 'till the fourth of July 
 
 
Walk in the Sunshine                             never performed live 
 
       Look out cause here comes some free advice. 
       Walk in the sunshine, watch for the bright sun, 
       Be all those things you're able to be. 
       You got to listen to the heavens, you got to try to understand, 
      The grateness of their movement 
       is just as small as it is grand. 
       Try not to hurry, it's just not your worry. 
       Leave it to those all caught up in time. 
       You got to deep-six your wristwatch, 
       you got to try and understand, 
       The time it seems to capture is just the movement of its hands. 
      I ain't preachin', 'cause I don't know 
       How to make fast things move along slow 
       I can't stop it, can't make it go. 
       Just 'cause I say it, that don't mean that it's so, no, no, 
       Watch what you hear now, make sure it's clear now, 
       Just 'cause it's said that don't mean that it's true.  
       So all we say: 
       You got to make a revolution, you got to help me with my cause. 
      You got to burn down all the buildings, 
       you got to throw out all the laws. 
       I ain't burning, Lord, I'm still only learning 
       How to become a man of my own. 
        I ain't crazy, nor am I lazy, 
       Just want to find out what's right and what's wrong. 
       I ain't crazy, all the world keeps on turning, 
       I'm still trying to find out what's right and what's wrong. 
       I ain't crazy! 
 
 
Wang Dang Doodle                                             8-26-83 
 
       Tell Automatic Slim 
       Tell Razor Totin' Jim 
       Tell Butcher Knife Totin' Annie 
       Tell Fast Talkin' Fanny 
       Tonite we're gonna pitch a ball 
       Down to that union hall 
       Gonna romp and tromp 'till midnite 
       We're gonna fuss and fight 'till daylight 
       We're gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all nite long 
       Tell Poodle I'll tell him here 
       Tell Albert I'll see him near 
       Tell old Pistol Pete 
       Everybody gonna meet 
       Tonite we need no rest 
       We're really gonna throw a mess 
       We're gonna break out all the windows 
       Gonna kick down all the doors 
       We're gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all nite long 
       Tell Fats and Washboard Sam 
       That everybody's gonna jam 
       Just shake it Boxcar Joe 
       We got sawdust on the floor 
       Tell Chicken Head Till I Die 
       We're gonna have a time 
       When the fish head fills the air 
       Be snuff juice everywhere 
       We're gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all nite long 
 
Wave That Flag                                                 2-9-73 

       Wave that flag, pop the bag, skin the goat, learn to cope 
       Bell the rat, trap the cat, ball the jack, chew the fat 
       Read the signs, connect the lines, 
       pay your fines, save your dimes 
       Pick up time, light the fuse, making time, pass the juice 
       Eat at days, hide in caves, pull the tooth, stretch the truth 
       Feed the poor, starve the war, pick up chicks, catch the fix 
       Get your kicks, pick up sticks, trim your wick, take your pick 
       Try your tricks, impress the chicks 
       Wash the fence, dig the den, live the vain, die in shame 
       Catch the fool, burn the stew, shine your shoes, sing the blues 
      Wave the flag, pop the bag, bell the cat, trap the rat 
       Ball the jack, chew the fat, shoot the breeze, lose the keys 
       Read the signs, connect the lines,
       pay your fines, read the rhyme 
       Shhot the breeze, lose your keys, don't be late, what I say 
        Walk on waves, read the raves, eat at day, hide in caves 
       Stretch the truth, pull the tooth,feed the poor, starve the war 
      Cash the fix, get your kicks, trim your wick, take your pick 
       Try your tricks, impress the chicks 
       Wash the fence, dig the den, live the shame,die in vain 
       Catch the fool, burn the stew, shine your shoes, sing the blues
Weather Report Suite (Part I)                                  9-8-73 
       Winter rain, now tell me why, Summers fade, and roses die. 
       The answer came; the wind and rain. 
       Golden hills, now veiled in grey, Summer leaves have blown away 
      Now what remains?  The wind and rain. 
       And like a desert spring, 
       my lover comes and spreads her wings, Knowing, 
       Like a song that's born to soar the sky, Flowing, 
       Flowing 'til the waters all are dry, 
       Growing, the loving in her eyes. 
       Circle songs and sands of time, 
       and seasons will end in tumbled rhyme, 
       and little change, the wind and rain. 
       And like a desert spring, my lover comes and spreads her wings, 
      Knowing, Like a song that's born to soar the sky, 
       Flowing, Flowing 'til the rivers all are dry, 
       Growing, the loving in her eyes. 
       Winter grey and falling rain, we'll see summer come again, 
       Darkness falls and seasons change (gonna happen every time). 
       Same old friends the wind and rain, Summers fade and roses die, 
      You'll see summer come again, 
       Like a song that's born to soar the sky. 
  
Weather Report Suite (Part II) - Let It Grow                   9-7-73 
      
       Morning comes, she follows the path to the river shore, 
       Lightly sung, her song is the latch on the morning's door. 
       See the sun sparkle in the reeds, 
       silver beads, pass into the sea. 
       She comes from a town 
       where they call her the woodcutter's daughter, 
       She's brown as the bank 
       where she kneels down to gather her water, and 
       She bears it away with a love that the river has taught her. 
       Let it flow, greatly grow, wide and clear. 
       Round and round, the cut of the plow in the furrowed field, 
       Seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal, 
       Broken ground, open and beckoning to the spring, 
       Black dirt live again! 
       The plowman is broad as the back of the land he is sowing, 
       As he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing 
       That the work of his day 
       measures more than the planting and growing 
       Let it grow, Let it grow, Greatly yield. 
       What shall we say, shall we call it by a name, 
       As well to count the angels dancing on a pin. 
       Water bright as the sky from which it came, 
       And the name is on the earth that takes it in. 
       We will not speak but stand inside the rain, 
       And listen to the thunder shouting "I am! I am! I am! I am." 
       So it goes, we make what we made since the world began. 
       Nothin' more, the love of the women, work of men. 
       Seasons round, creatures great and small, 
       up and down as we rise and fall. 
Werewolves of London                                          4-19-78 
 
       I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand 
       Walking thru the streets of Soho in the rain 
       He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's 
       Going to get himself a big dish of beef chow mein 
       Hi ho, the werewolves of London 
       If you hear his howling around the kitchen door 
       You better not let him in 
       Little old lady got mutilated last nite 
       Werewolves of London again 
       Hi ho, werewolves of London 
       He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent 
       Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair 
       You better stay away from him, he'll rip your lungs out Jim 
       I'd like to meet his tailor 
       Hi ho, werewolves of London 
       Well, I saw Lon Cheney walking with the Queen 
       Doing the werewolves of London 
       I saw Lon Cheney Jr. walking with the Queen 
       I saw a werewolf dringing a pina colada at Trader Vic's 
       And his hair was perfect 
       Hi ho, the werewolves of London, draw blood 
 
 
West L.A. Fadeaway                                            8-28-82 
 
       I'm looking for a chateau, 21 rooms but one will do 
       I'm looking for a chateau, 21 rooms but one will do 
       I don't want to buy it 
       I just want to rent it for a minute or two 
       I met an old mistake walking down the street today 
       I met an old mistake walking down the street today 
       I didn't want to be mean about it 
       I couldn't think of one good thing to say. 
       West L.A. fadeaway, West L.A. fadeaway 
       Big red lite on the highway, little green lite on the freeway. 
       Got a steady job moving items for the mob 
       Got a steady job moving items for the mob 
       Know the pay's pathetic 
       It's a shame those boys couldn't be more copasetic 
       West L.A. fadeaway, West L.A. fadeaway 
       Big red lite on the highway, little green lite on the freeway. 
       I need a West L.A. girl, already know what I need to know 
       I need a West L.A. girl, already know what I need to know       
      A name, address and a phone number, 
       Lord, just how far to go. 
       West L.A. fadeaway, here's one chance you say. 
       She tries to live by the Golden Rule. 
       Said you treat other people right, 
       Other people probably treat you cool. 
 
 
 
Wharf Rat                                                     2-18-71 
 
       Old man down, way down down, down by the docks of the city. 
       Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime, 
       a dime for a cup of coffee. 
       I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story. 
       My name is August West, 
       and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine. 
       More than my wine - more than my maker, 
       though he's no friend of mine. 
       Everyone said, I'd come to no good, 
       I knew I would Pearly, believe them. 
       Half of my life, 
       I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime, 
       The other half found me stumbling 'round 
       drunk on Burgundy wine. 
       But I'll get back on my feet again someday, 
       The good Lord willin', if He says I may. 
       I know that the life i'm livin's no good, 
       I'll get a new start, live the life I should. 
       I'll get up and fly away, I'll get up and fly away, fly away. 
       Pearly's been true, true to me, true to my dyin' day he said, 
       I said to him, I said to him, "I'm sure she's been." 
       I said to him, "I'm sure she's been tru to you." 
       Got up and wandered, wandered downtown, 
       nowhere to go but just hang around. 
       I've got a girl, named Bonnie Lee, 
       I know that girl's been true to me. 
       I know she's been, I'm sure she's been true to me. 
 
 
What's Become of the Baby                       never performed live 
 
       Waves of violet go crashing and laughing 
       The rainbow winged singing birds fly 'round the sun 
       Sun bells rain down in a liquid profusion 
       Mermaids on porpoises draw up the dawn 
       What's become of the baby this cold December morning? 
       Songbirds frozen in their flight 
       Drifting to the earth, remnants of forgotten dreaming 
       Dawning answer comes there none. 
       Go to sleep you child, dream of never-ending always 
       Panes of crystal ice sparkle like waterfalls 
       Lighting the polished ice caverns of the dawn, 
       But where in the looking-glass fields of illusion 
       Wandered the child who was perfect as the dawn? 
       What's become of the baby this cold December morning? 
       What's become of the baby this cold December morning? 
       Racing in rhythm of the sun 
       All the world revolves captured in the eye of woman 
       Allah, where are you now? 
       All eyes are blinded by the sparkling waters 
       Scheherazade gethering stories to tell        
       From primal gold fantasy petals that fold, 
       But where is the child who played with the sunshines? 
       And chased the cloud shape to the regions of mind? 
       Standing stream cries the south wind 
       Lost in the regions of 
       Shadow-like chains of illusion, delusions of living and dead. 
 
 
The Wheel                                                     6-3-76 
 
       The wheel is turning and you can't slow down, 
       You can't let go and you can't hold on, 
       You can't go back and you can't stand still, 
       If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will. 
       Won't you try just a little bit harder, 
       Couldn't you try just a little bit more? 
       Won't you try just a little bit harder, 
       Couldn't you try just a little bit more? 
       Round, round robin run round, 
       got to get back to where you belong, 
       Little bit harder, just a little bit more, 
       A little bit further than you gone before. 
       The wheel is turning and you can't slow down, 
       You can't let go and you can't hold on, 
       You can't go back and you can't stand still, 
       If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will. 
       Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, 
       Big wheel turn by the grace of God, 
       Every time that wheel turn 'round, 
       Bound to cover just a little more ground. 
       The wheel is turning and you can't slow down, 
       You can't let go and you can't hold on, 
       You can't go back and you can't stand still, 
       If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will. 
       Won't you try just a little bit harder, 
       Couldn't you try just a little bit more? 
       Won't you try just a little bit harder, 
       Couldn't you try just a little bit more? 
 
 
When I Paint My Masterpiece                                  6-13-87 
       Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble, 
       Ancient footprints are everywhere. 
       You can almost think that you're seein' double 
       On a cold dark night on the Spanish Stairs. 
       Got to hurry on back to my hotel room, 
       Where I've got me a date with Botticelli's niece. 
       She promised that she'd be right there with me 
       When I paint my masterpiece. 
       Oh, the hours I've spent inside the Coliseum, 
       Dodging lions and wastin' time. 
       Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle, 
       I could hardly stand to see 'em, 
       Yes, it sure has been a long hard climb. 
       Train wheels runnin' thru the back of my memory, 
       When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese. 
       Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody, 
       When I paint my masterpiece. 
       Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola, 
       Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! 
       I left Rome and landed in Brussels, 
       On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried. 
       Clergymen in uniform and young girls pullin' muscles, 
       Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside. 
       Newspapermen eating candy 
       Had to be held down by big police. 
       Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent 
       When I paint my masterpiece. 
 
When Push Comes to Shove                                     12-15-86 
       Shaking in the forest, what have you to fear? 
       Here there may be tigers, to punch you in the ear. 
       With gloves of stainless steel, bats carved out of bricks 
       Knock you down and beat you up and give your ass a kick. 
       When push comes to shove, you're afraid of love. 
       Shaking in the desert, now wherefore do you cry? 
       Here there may be rattlesnakes, to punch you in the eye. 
       With Shotgun's full of silver and bullet's made of glass 
       String barbed wire at your feet, that will not let you pass. 
       When push comes to shove, you're afraid of love. 
       When push comes to shove, when push comes to shove, 
       You're afraid of love, when push comes to shove. 
       Shaking in the bedroom, covers on your head, 
       Are you still in fear of the hand beneath the bed? 
       Grabbing at the handle, scratching at the door, 
       Maybe it's mystery killer you saw on channel four. 
       When push comes to shove, you're afraid of love. 
       Shaking in the garden, the fear within you grows, 
       Here there may be roses, to punch you in the nose. 
       Put my arms around you, love you til you cry, 
       Wrap you in your sweet perfume and squeeze you 'til you die. 
       When push comes to shove, you're afraid of love. 
       When push comes to shove, when push comes to shove, 
       You're afraid of love, when push comes to shove. 
Who Do You Love                                               4-14-72 
 
       I walked 47 miles of barbed wire 
       I got a cobra snake for a necktie 
       Got a house down by the roadside made out of rattlesnake hide 
       Come on child take a walk with me and tell me who do you love 
 
 
Why Don't We Do It In The Road                                6-27-84 
 
       Why don't we do it in the road? 
       Why don't we do it in the road? 
       Why don't we do it in the road? 
       No one will be watchin' us, why don't we do it in the road? 
  
Willie and the Hand Jive                                      2-12-86 
 
       I know a cat named Way-Out Willie 
       Had a cool little chick named Rockin' Billie 
       Made a heart of stone Susie-Q, doin' that crazy hand jive too 
       Papa said "You will ruin my house.  
       You and that hand jive have got to go" 
       Willie said "Papa, don't you put me down, 
       Been doin' that hand jive all over town." 
       Hand jive, hand jive, hand jive, doin' that crazy hand jive 
       I don't want you to get on the floor 
       Gettin' low, getting down with sister go 
       Come on, get baby, little sister'll die 
       Said doin' that hand jive one more time 
       Hand jive, hand jive, hand jive, doin' that crazy hand jive 
       Doctor getting low and he getting check 
       Now they're all digging that crazy beat 
       Way-Out Willie gave 'em all a treat 
       Been doin' that hand jive with his feet 
       Hand jive, hand jive, hand jive, doin' that crazy hand jive 
       Willi and Billie got married last fall 
       Had to live with his sisters and that ain't all 
       Daddy got famous it's plain to see 
       Been doin' that hand jive on his knees 
       Hand jive, hand jive, hand jive, doin' that crazy hand jive 
  
You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man                         2-15-73 
 
       You come to tell me something, you say I ought to know 
       That he don't love me anymore and I have to let him go 
       Oh, you say you're gonna take him, but I don't think you can 
       'Cause you ain't woman enough to take my man 
       Oh, women like you they come a dime a dozen,        
       You can buy 'em anywhere 
       For you to get him I'll have to move over 
       And I'm gonna stay right here 
       Well it'll be over my dead body, 
       you better get out while you can 
       'Cause you ain't woman enough to take my man 
You Don't Have To Ask                                         3-25-66 
 
       If you wanna know what time it is, you don't have to ask 
       If you wanna know what something is, you don't have to ask 
       If you wanna know whats real or not, you don't have to ask 
       If you wanna know what time is now, you don't have to ask 
       You don't have to ask, you already know 
       If you wanna leave just close your eyes, you don't have to ask 
       If you wanna go and lose your mind, you don't have to ask 
       If it's peace that you're looking for 
       You got the key to every door, you already know 
       If there's a way out you'll find out     
       and free all and be all beyond 
       You never wonder what sky you been under 
       that made you forget all this time 
       If you're looking for it, you don't have to ask 
       You can see it plain as day, you don't have to ask 
       If you try to find us true, 
       just take a look at you, you don't have to ask 
 
 
Youngblood 
 
       I saw her standing on the corner, yellow ribbon in her hair 
       I knew at once I was a goner, said lookie there, lookie there 
       Youngblood, youngblood, youngblood, 
       I can't get you out of my mind 
       I tried to talk, my tongue was fractured 
       I tried to walk, but I was lame 
       Could'nt stop myseld from shouting 
       What's your name, what's your name? 
       Crazy stuff, sure look tough, 
       had to follow her all the way home 
       Things went bad, I met her dad 
       He said "You better leave my daughter alone" 
       I could'nt sleep that night for trying, 
       I saw the rising of the sun 
       All night long my heart felt like crying 
       You're the one, You're the one 
 
 
You Win Again                                                11-15-71 
 
       The news is out, all over town that you've been seen, 
       out runnin' 'round. 
       I know that I should leave her there, 
       But then I just can't go, you win again. 
       This heart of mine, 
       could never see what everybody knows but me. 
       Just trustin' you was my great sin, I just can't go, Lord 
       You win again.  What can I do, Lord, You win again. 
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