New Moon Shine

1. Copperline

   Copperline

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   Even the old folks never knew
   Why they call it like they do
   I was wonderin’ since the age of two
   Down on Copperline

   Copperhead, copper beech
   Copper kettles sitting side by each
   Copper coil, cup o’ Georgia peach
   Down on Copperline

   Half a mile down to Morgan Creek
   Leanin’ heavy on the end of the week
   Hercules and a hog-nosed snake
   Down on Copperline
   We were down on Copperline

   One summer night on the Copperline
   Slip away past supper time
   Wood smoke and moonshine
   Down on Copperline

   One time I saw my daddy dance
   Watched him moving like a man in a trance
   He brought it back from the war in France
   Down onto Copperline

   Branch water and tomato wine
   Creosote and turpentine
   Sour mash and new moon shine
   Down on Copperline, down on Copperline

   First kiss, ever I took
   Like a page from a romance book
   The sky opened and the earth shook
   Down on Copperline, down on Copperline, yeah

   Took a fall from a windy height
   I only knew how to hold on tight
   And pray for love enough to last all night
   Down on Copperline

   Day breaks and the boy wakes up
   And the dog barks and the birds sings
   And the sap rises and the angels sigh, yeah

   I tried to go back as if I could
   All spec house and plywood
   Tore up, tore up good
   Down on Copperline

   It doesn’t come as a surprise to me
   It doesn’t touch my memory
   Man, I’m lifting up and rising free
   Down over Copperline

   Half a mile down to Morgan Creek
   I’m only living for the end of the week
   Hercules and a hog-nosed snake
   Down on Copperline, yeah
   Take me down on Copperline
   Ohhh, down on Copperline
   Take me down on Copperline

2. Down In The Hole

   Down In The Hole

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   Watch your head on that root
   Got to let your eyes adjust
   I’m sorry about your suit
   Can’t do nothing about the dust
   Welcome down underground
   Hunker down a spell
   Gets to feel like home to me
   Though I know it looks like hell

   Down in the hole
   Lord, it’s deep and the sides are steep
   And the nights are long and cold
   Down in the hole
   Light and love and the world above
   Mean nothing to the mole
   (Don’t mean nothing to the mole)

   Never gets real hot down here
   Fifty five degrees
   It’s always a little bit damp, I fear
   But I’ve never seem to freeze
   Mushrooms and earthworms
   Fancy stuff to eat
   A world of quiet contemplation (Oh, yes)
   Just below the street

   Down in the hole
   Lord, it’s deep and the sides way steep
   And the nights are long and cold
   Down in the hole
   Light and love and the world above
   They show nothing to the mole

   I’m in a hole
   Since I lost my baby (oh, oh)
   Living in a hole
   Since I lost my girl

   Would you play in the moonlight
   Would you dance in the dirt
   Come home way past daybreak
   Cockleburs stuck in your shirt
   Come back home to twilight
   Come back home to me
   Subterranean river you are
   Meets the molten sea

   Down in the hole
   Lord, it’s deep and the sides are steep
   And the nights are long and cold
   Down in the hole
   Light and love and the world above
   They show nothing to the mole

   Down in the hole
   Light and love and the world above
   Got nothin’ for the mole
   I mean ain’t got nothin’
   For the mole

   Look out for that
   Look out for that
   Look out for that root
   Look out for that root

   Welcome down underground
   Welcome

3. (I’ve Got To) Stop Thinkin’ ‘Bout That

   (I’ve Got To) Stop Thinkin’ ‘Bout That

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   Whoa, Lucy said, God have mercy
   I’ve got to stop thinkin’ ’bout that
   Yeah

   I’m sure I love thinkin’ about the time I met you
   Living with your people in New Orleans
   Mad at your mom ’cause she’d never let you
   Ride in those nasty limousines
   Met on the levy with the moon up above
   Lost my heart and confessed my love

   I said, whoa, Lucy said, God have mercy
   I’ve got to stop thinkin’ ’bout that

   It was one summer night in a field of wheat
   God’s sweet lanterns hanging in the sky
   Moving light on your tiny feet
   I knew I had to love you ’till the day I die
   Think about talkin’ about Amazing Grace
   It meant something when I saw your face

   I said, whoa, now Lucy said, God have mercy
   I’ve got to stop thinkin’ ’bout that
   Whoa, Lucy said
   I’ve got to stop thinkin’ ’bout that

   I think of all the little things that I never told you
   I think I may get to hold you someday
   It’s in my brain just like a man possessed
   I can’t do me no work I can’t get me no rest

   Walk on
   Walk on

   I hate thinkin’ ’bout the way it ended
   I hate remembering the things that I said
   I dream a dream of love so splendid
   I wake up hot in an empty bed
   I wonder who’ll be loving you next
   Some fool who will be writing bad checks

   I said, whoa, Lucy said, God have mercy
   I’ve got to stop thinkin’ ’bout you
   Somehow, baby, Lord have mercy
   I’ve got to stop thinkin’ ’bout you
   Oh, whoa, oh, whoa

4. Shed A Little Light

   Shed A Little Light

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   Oh let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King
   And recognize that there are ties between us
   All men and women, living on the earth
   Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood
   That we are bound together
   With a desire to see the world become
   A place in which our children can grow free and strong
   We are bound together by the task that stands before us
   And the road that lies ahead, we are bound then we are bound

   There is a feeling like the clenching of the fist
   There is a hunger in the center of the chest
   There is a passage through the darkness and the mist
   Though the body sleeps the heart will never rest

   (Shed a little light ohh lord) Shed a little light oh lord
   (So that we can see) Ohh now
   (Just a little light ohh lord) Just a little light oh lord
   (Gonna stand it on up) Stand it on up
   (Stand it up ohh Lord) Get down
   (Gonna walk it on down) Gonna shed a little
   (Shed a little light ohh lord)

   (Can’t get no light from a dollar bill)
   (Don’t give no light from the TV screen) No No No No
   (When I open my eyes, I want to drink my fill)
   (From the well on the hill)
   Then you know where I’ll be

   (Shed a little light ohh lord) Shed a little light oh lord
   (So that we can see) Ahh yes
   (Just a little light ohh lord) Just a little light oh lord
   (We’re gonna stand it on up) Stand it on up
   (Stand it up ohh Lord, Stand it up ohh lord)
   (Gonna walk it on down) Gonna shed a little
   (Shed a little light ohh lord)

   There is a feeling like the clenching of the fist
   There is a hunger in the center of the chest
   There is a passage through the darkness and the mist
   Though the body sleeps the heart will never rest

   Oh let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King
   And recognize that there are ties between us
   All men and women, living on the earth
   Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood
   That we are bound together
   With a desire to see the world become
   A place in which our children can grow free and strong
   We are bound together by the task that ties before us
   And the road that lies ahead, we are bound and we are bound

5. The Frozen Man

   The Frozen Man

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   Last thing I remember is the freezing cold
   Water reaching up just to swallow me whole
   Ice in the rigging and howling wind
   Shock to my body as we tumbled in

   My brothers and the others were lost at sea
   And I alone am returned to tell thee
   Hidden in ice for a century
   To walk the world again
   Lord have mercy on the frozen man

   Next words that were spoken to me
   Nurse asked me what my name might be
   She was all in white at the foot of my bed
   I said angel of mercy, I’m alive or am I dead

   My name is William James McPhee
   I was born in 1823
   Raised in Liverpool by the sea
   But that ain’t who I am
   Lord have mercy, I’m the frozen man

   It took a lot of money to start my heart
   Just to peg my leg and to buy my eye
   The newspapers call me state of the art
   And the children, when they see me, they cry

   Well, I thought it’d be nice just to visit my grave
   See what kind of tombstone I might have
   There lay the wife and daughter and it seemed so strange
   (So strange)
   Both of them dead and gone from extreme old age

   I say, when I die make sure I’m gone
   Don’t leave ’em nothing to work on
   You can raise your arm, you can wiggle your hand
   (Unlike myself)
   So you can wave good-bye to the frozen man
   Good-bye

   I know what it means to freeze to death
   To lose a little life with every breath
   To say good-bye to life on earth
   To come around again
   Lord have mercy, I’m the frozen man
   God have mercy on the frozen man
   Have mercy on the frozen man

6. Slap Leather

   Slap Leather

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   Want you to take all the money that we need for school
   To keep the people in out of the cold
   Spend it on a weapon you can never use
   Make the world an offer that they can’t refuse
   Open the door and let the shark men feed
   Hoover the future in the land of greed
   Sell the Ponderosa to the Japanese

   Slap leather, head for that line of trees
   Yeah, now
   Slap leather
   Go on, Ron
   Just about to go myself

   Turn the whole wide world into a TV show
   So it’s the same game wherever you go
   You never meet a soul that you don’t already know
   One commercial for the status quo
   As if these celebrities were your close friends
   As if you knew how the story ends
   As if you weren’t sitting in a room alone
   And there was somebody real at the other end of the phone, yeah

   Somebody read down there
   Phone love
   I’m just about to dial your number
   Dial `em up

   Get all worked up so we can go to war
   We’ll find something worth you killing for
   Tie that yellow ribbon around your eyes
   Big McFalafel and a side of goddamn fries
   Big McFalafel
   Stormin’ Norman
   I used to love a parade every day

   Slap leather
   Phone love
   Yeah, Big McFalafel
   Just about to go
   Just about to go my
   Just about to go myself
   I’m about to go myself

   Well, the thing now is I’m about to go myself
   Oh, oh
   It’s running like a Swiss watch
   Yeah
   About to go myself

7. Like Everyone She Knows

   Like Everyone She Knows

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   Like everyone she knows
   She’s holding out for truelove
   Waiting on an answer
   Ready for a change
   And everywhere she goes
   She’s just a little bit on the lookout
   A day might mean tomorrow
   Questions still remain
   It’s not that she’s so sad
   She always was a happy soul
   But lately she gets to wonder to herself
   What’s the good of going on anymore

   I see her in her room
   Sitting at the window
   Wondering if she’s pretty
   Feeling just a little small tonight
   She thinks of going home
   Giving up on the city
   Maybe moving back down to Mobile
   It’s not that far to fall
   I know she won’t see me
   But I might just say anyhow
   If I could be right there right now
   As I myself was told

   Hold tight to your heart’s desire
   Never ever let it go
   Let nobody fool you into giving it up too soon
   Tend your own fire
   Lay low and be strong
   Wait awhile
   Wait it out
   Wait it on out
   Wait it out
   It’ll come along

   I know she won’t see me
   But I might just say anyhow
   If I could be right there right now
   As I myself was told

   Hold tight to your heart’s desire
   Never ever let it go
   Let nobody fool you into giving it up too soon
   Tend your own fire
   Lay low and be strong
   Wait it out
   Wait it out
   Wait it on out
   Wait it out
   Let it come along
   Oh, wait awhile
   Wait awhile

8. One More Go Round

   One More Go Round

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   Workin’ on a thing
   Workin’ on a thing
   Funny little thing I know
   Sure got to like it
   Only thing I got to show you
   Running around the room
   In my Fruit O’ The Loom
   A cup of coffee from King Tut’s tomb
   Save me, Lumalammalu

   Sure enough I must have been mocus
   And so out of focus
   To miss the first half of the show
   Oh, It gets to the end
   We get to run it again
   Just like before
   One more go round

   Drank myself some wine
   Back in ’69
   I was fooling around with my friends
   In my spare time
   Life along the river
   Knobby little knees
   In the Summer breeze
   Hammock and a couple of trees
   Swing low, if you please

   Oh, I must have been mocus
   And so out of focus
   I missed the whole half of the show
   Come to the end
   And they run it again
   Same as before
   One more go round

   After all this time
   Of fooling around it
   And never having nothing to show
   Yeah, I’m happy to say
   That I finally found it
   Right underneath my own nose

   Oh, I must have been mocus
   And so out of focus
   I missed the first half of the show
   Please don’t let it end
   I want it again
   Just like before
   One more go round

9. Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha

   Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha

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   Took my baby to the hop last night
   But to my surprise
   When we got there, she hit me with the news
   Right between the eyes
   She said she couldn’t do the cha cha cha
   My baby couldn’t do the cha cha cha
   She couln’t. No! She couldn’t cha cha cha
   My baby coul

   I told her not to worry now
   They’ll play some other dance
   But we sat there for an hour and a half
   And we never got a chance
   But every song they played was the cha cha cha
   They played nothing but the cha cha cha
   All night long, Even the midnight hour (All night)
   Every number was a

   I told her not to worry
   There’s still one thing we can do
   Let me take you by your hand tonight
   I’m gonna teach this dance to you
   Come on baby (baby)
   Taught my baby how to cha cha cha
   That night, right there, right on the spot
   Taught my baby how to cha cha cha

   Kept on dancing on dancing for an hour or two
   What do you think I see
   We hadn’t practiced for a time or two around
   She was doing it better than me
   You know my baby loves to cha cha cha (I know)
   Ooohh
   Yeah now
   Every night
   Every day
   Taught my baby how to cha cha cha

   Everybody loves to cha cha cha
   Little children love to cha cha cha
   Oh. Dadada Cha cha cha
   Everybody loves to cha cha cha
   Everybody loves to cha cha cha
   Come on yourself
   Come on
   Come on (Come on)
   Everybody loves to cha cha cha
   Even you now
   Oh, everyone
   They love to cha cha cha
   Every night
   Every night
   Everybody loves to cha cha cha (I)
   Everyone. Oh
   Sam Cooke himself in the midnight hour
   Everyone loves to cha cha cha
   Oh

10. Native Son

    Native Son

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    Mount up, move on
    May you find the way back home

    Down and down we go
    Down into bright October
    Brothers in arms no more
    Now that the war is over
    Have you waded in and been to hell
    Will you lie upon the sofa
    see to the decoration of your shell
    Now that the war is over

    Mount up, move on
    Damn the darkness, speed the dawn
    They lost, we won
    Try to find your way back home
    Native son

    Down and down we go
    Now that the war is over
    Brothers in arms no more
    Now that the war is over
    Have you waded in and been to hell
    Will you lie upon the sofa
    see to the decoration of your shell
    Now that the war is over

    Mount up, move on
    Damn the darkness, speed the dawn
    They lost, we won
    May you find your way back home
    Native son

11. Oh Brother

    Oh Brother

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    I’m not much for making little wishes
    But I’d like a little wish to come true for you
    I’m not talking about loaves and fishes
    But I wish that there was something I could do for you
    Here’s a little bit of cheap advice
    To be taken in an hour of need
    Don’t assume that the life you left
    Is the life you have to lead

    (Chorus)
    When you come home what you gonna do
    Oh brother, oh brother
    Don’t you try to deny
    What you know to be true
    The same mess of misery that you done been through
    Standing in line
    And it’s waiting for you
    One kiss leads to another
    Brother when you come back home

    I’d like to know who’s knocking on door
    I’d like to know what they come here for
    You’d like to say no
    But the words won’t come
    Come in and sit down, seem to roll off your tongue
    You forget to remember, to never die young
    One kiss leads to another
    Brother when you come back home
    Standing in line, all of your friends
    Standing in line, party never ends
    Standing in line, the river flows, the river bends
    Standing in line, all of your friends

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    And that moon will be
    Shining in the trees
    All night long
    Something bound to happen for sure
    Soon you’ll be
    Stopping by talking to a friend again
    Swear you ain’t never tasted nothing so pure

    – Chorus –

    When you come home, your friends are dropping by
    When you come home, the moon is gonna shine
    When you come home, I tell you no lie
    When you come home, they’re gonna offer you a line
    Standing in line, all of your friends
    Standing in line, party never ends now
    Standing in line, the river flows, the river bends
    Standing in line, all your so called friends
    Standing in line, when you come home
    Standing in line, oh brother, oh brother now
    Standing in line, when you come home
    Standing in line, what you’re gonna do now
    Standing in line…

12. The Water Is Wide

    The Water Is Wide

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    The water is wide
    I can’t cross o’er
    And neither I have wings to fly
    build me a boat that can carry two
    and both shall row my love and I

    There is a ship
    and she sails the sea
    She’s loaded deep
    as deep can be
    but not so deep as the love i’m in
    i know not how I sink or swim

    O love is handsome and love is fine
    the sweetest flower when first it’s new
    but love grows old and waxes cold
    and fades away like summer dew

    Build me a boat that can carry two
    and both shall row
    my love and I
    and both shall row
    my love and I