Dad Loves His Work

1. Hard Times

   Hard Times

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   We’ve seen some hard times, hard times
   Holding it together ain’t always easy
   An angry man, hungry woman
   They’re driving each other crazy
   It’s so low down, show down
   There’s nothing else safe to say
   Baby’s on the town, baby’s looking ’round
   talking ’bout walking away

   Don’t let go
   Got to give it one more chance
   We’ve got to hold on
   Loving me may not make much sense
   But I’m gone on you, baby
   Baby, I’m gone
   And I want you back again
   I may be wrong for you, baby
   Maybe I’m wrong
   But I love you just the same

   Now, we’ve got to hold on, got to hold on
   We’ve got to hold on, got to hold on
   We’ve got to hold on, got to hold on
   We’ve got to hold on, got to hold on
   We’ve got to hold on, got to hold on

   Hard times, hard times
   Holding it together ain’t always easy
   Angry man, hungry woman
   Driving each other crazy
   We’ve got to hold on through all
   Those hard times

2. Her Town Too

   Her Town Too

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   She’s been afraid to go out
   She’s afraid of the knock on her door
   There’s always a shade of a doubt
   She can never be sure
   Who comes to call
   Maybe the friend of a friend of a friend
   Anyone at all
   Anything but nothing again

   It used to be her town
   It used to be her town, too
   It used to be her town
   It used to be her town, too

   Seems like even her old girlfriends
   Might be talking her down
   She’s got her name on the grapevine
   Running up and down
   The telephone line
   Talking ’bout
   Someone said, someone said
   Something ’bout, something else
   Someone might have said about her
   She always figured that they were her friends
   But maybe they can live without her

   It used to be her town
   It used to be her town, too
   It used to be her town
   It used to be her town, too

   Well, people got used to seeing them both together
   But now he’s gone and life goes on
   Nothing lasts forever, oh no
   She gets the house and the garden
   He gets the boys in the band
   Some of them his friends
   Some of them her friends
   Some of them understand
   Lord knows that this is just a small town city
   Yes, and everyone can see you fall
   It’s got nothing to do with pity
   I just wanted to give you a call

   It used to be your town
   It used to be my town, too
   You never know ’till it all falls down
   Somebody loves you
   Somebody loves you
   Darling, somebody still loves you
   I can still remember
   When it used to be her town, too
   It used to be your town
   It used to be my town, too

3. Hour That The Morning Comes

   Hour That The Morning Comes

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   Mama makes the music and she makes the news
   She dances all night in her golden shoes
   She’s high flying
   Going, going , gone
   She’ll be halfway to Heaven by
   The hour that the morning comes

   And papa’s kacked out with his head in his lap
   Mama likes to think that he’s taking a nap
   ‘Cause he’s working so hard
   Working all night long
   He’ll be halfway to hell in
   The hour that the morning comes

   Like a bat out of hell in the moonlight
   Like the pieces of the picture
   That you broke last night
   I’m sure it’s going to be all right
   I’ll be halfway heavy by
   The hour that the morning comes

   Oh, look at that fool with the lampshade on
   Somebody told him he was having fun
   But they were wrong
   Wrong, wrong, wrong
   If he’s fool enough he might open his eyes
   When the morning comes along

   Now look at that secret agent man
   Sneaking out of church with blood on his hands
   He’s for sale
   Going, going, gone
   He’ll be the first to know and the last to go
   When the shit hits the fan

   Give me a little water
   Give me a little wine
   You’re looking at a man who’s been out in the sunshine
   Just a little too long
   Little bit too long
   But I’ll be halfway home in
   The hour that the morning comes

4. I Will Follow

   I Will Follow

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   Yonder mountain so high
   I can’t make it all on my own, no
   Rolling river why so wide?
   To sweep me up and to bear me on
   Up against the sky so bright
   That I can’t even close my eyes

   I know I will follow (Follow love)
   Yes, yes, I will follow (Follow love)
   I will follow (Follow love)
   Follow love

   Growing slowly like a tree
   Someday soon, darling I love you
   I love you
   Soft and gentle, full Summer moon
   Set my soul free
   Thank you, baby
   Drifting like a cloud in the sky
   I can see myself from high above

   I know I must follow (Follow love)
   Somehow I will follow (Follow love)
   I must follow (Follow love)
   Follow love

   Oh, half the future and half the past
   They’re waiting inside your eyes
   Yes, and after all of this
   To last and last
   Till at last it’s your time to rise, rise

   True believer that I am
   I am blind, lead me on (lead me on)
   Blessed receiver of your love
   I own my own time
   And I’ve been holding on (holding on)
   Leave the word unspoken
   And the spell will not be broken

   And I’m bound to follow, now (Follow love)
   I know I must go (Follow love)
   I must follow (Follow love)
   Yes, I must follow (Follow love)
   Someone to hold my hand (Follow love)
   Somebody to lead me on(Follow love)
   Somebody to walk beside me (Follow love)
   Someone to follow me now (Follow love)
   I must follow love (Follow love)
   I will fall in love
   I will follow love (Follow love)
   Anywhere it leads me
   I will follow love (Follow love)
   Follow love

5. Believe It Or Not

   Believe It Or Not

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   Believe it or not
   I’ve been waiting for you to come through
   Love of my life
   Believe it or not
   I’ve been waiting for you to come through
   Love of my life

   And though the hour grew later and later
   I would hold on for one more heartbeat
   While my friends around me were calling
   “Today, today, today, today”

   As strange as it seems
   I remember your face from before
   Believe it or not
   Before you and I were washed up
   On this alien shore
   As strange as that seems

   Though the hour grew later and later
   Still I’d hold on for one more heartbeat
   While my friends around me were calling
   “Today, today, today, today”

   Today the world seems brighter
   Light and bright and right somehow
   I could not have held on tighter
   Waiting for the past to come to pass, no

   Once in a dream I’ve seen myself through your eyes
   This you should know
   Wading the stream that flows in between you and I
   Once in a dream

   And though the hour grows later and later
   I would hold on for one more heartbeat
   While my friends around me were calling
   “Today, today, today, today”

6. Stand And Fight

   Stand And Fight

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   Lonely hearted hunter don’t say nothing
   The hunger and the hurt
   Got only one law
   Never mind your words
   Unseen, unheard, unsung, undone
   Ain’t bot one place left to run

   Stand up, stand and fight

   Undercover creature that don’t see sunshine
   Make it in the dark
   Don’t think twice
   Never mind making nice
   Black eyes, black sights, black magical rites tonight
   There comes a time, babe

   Stand up, stand and fight

   Don’t you worry ’bout me little darling
   No, I ain’t breaking
   I’m shaking and aching
   ‘Cause I can’t stand waiting
   There comes a time to stand and fight

   Maximum destruction
   Blood red deadheads
   Tearing it up, wearing it down
   Never mind my name
   I’m unclaimed, unnamed and unashamed

   I’d like to say
   Fan the flames
   Stand and fight

   You ain’t doing nobody no kind of favors
   Lying around like a rug on the floor
   Sooner or later you’ve got to stand up
   And say you won’t take it any more
   Stand up, stand and fight

7. Only For Me

   Only For Me

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   Down the end of this barroom,
   Out of sight of the light in the window
   His mind in his whiskey
   And his body in a folding chair
   Far beyond repair
   I enter his vision
   He watches me look for my seat
   He makes his decision
   And he stands to his feet
   Lord, it’s a long way down

   It happened to me
   Wonderful sight
   Only for me
   Only for you
   It happened to be a light shining through
   Form one who was lost and found
   Just like me and you

   Old man says, “Young man, my you’re looking
   Pretty Green
   Like a stranger to this kind of place
   Come sit at my table
   Come and look into my face
   I’ve got a story to tell.

   There was a father and son
   But that was a long time ago
   And when the time came to run
   I just couldn’t say no
   So I left them behind.”

   It happened to me
   Wonderful sight
   Only for me
   Only for you
   It happened to be a light shining through
   Form one who was lost and found
   Just like me and you

   We have seen it before
   In times of great sorrow
   That human compassion will flow from a well
   That has long run dry

   It happened to me
   Wonderful sight
   Only for me
   Only for you
   It happened to be a light shining through
   Form one who was lost and found
   Just like me and you

8. Summer’s Here

   Summer’s Here

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   Summer’s here
   I’m for that
   Got my rubber sandals
   Got my straw hat
   Got my cold beer
   I’m just glad that I’m here

   Summer’s here
   That suits me fine
   It may rain today
   But I don’t mind
   It’s my favorite time of the year
   And I’m glad that I’m here

   Old man wintertime
   He goes so slow
   It’s ten degrees below, you know
   You can take your ice and snow
   And let my balmy breezes blow

   Yeah, the water is cold but I’ve been in
   Baby, lose the laundry and jump on in
   I mean all God’s children got skin
   And it’s summer again

   Old man wintertime
   He goes so slow
   It’s ten degrees below, you know
   You can take your ice and snow
   And let my balmy breezes blow

   Summer’s here
   I’m for that
   Got my rubber sandals
   Got my straw hat
   Drinking cold beer
   Man I’m just that I’m here
   It’s my favorite time of the year
   And I’m glad that I’m here, yeah

9. Sugar Trade

   Sugar Trade

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   Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel
   And back when your grandfather’s father was young
   Men of these shores made and gave up their lives
   Pulling up fish from the sea

   While down in the African slavery trade
   Stealing young men to cut sugar cane
   Rum to New Bedford and codfish from Maine
   They were building a wall that will always remain

   Oh, the crown and the cross the musket and chain
   The white man’s religion, the family name
   Two hundred years later and who is to blame?
   The captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane

   The doryman he knows when the riptides will run
   He sets out his nets and he sits in the sun
   He thinks of his family and drinks of his rum
   And he waits for the codfish to come

   It’s the same god-damned ocean that keeps them alive
   It will swallow you up, it will let you survive
   It will heal you and steal you and take you away
   Like a note in a bottle with nothing to say

   Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel
   And back when your grandfather’s father was young
   Men of these shores made and gave up their lives
   Pulling up fish from the sea

10. London Town

    London Town

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    I do believe
    I must believe
    I think I can begin again
    Become again the man I was back when

    So I’m walking on your streets again
    Feeling now as I did then
    I’ve since become a different man

    London Town, turn be around
    London Town, carry me back
    O London Town, lost and found
    And I feel like going back

    I can remember lots of time and space
    If I lose the name, still I know the faces
    Time as come and left its traces

    London Town, turn be around
    London Town, carry me back
    O London Town, lost and found
    And I feel like going back

    When I grew too old and dull to rock ‘n roll
    Like to hold on tight to you darling
    And when my fires have all burned out
    I’d like to think I can still think about
    The things I used to sing about
    When I was spending all my time alone
    By myself and on my own
    Seldom seen and quite unknown

    London Town, turn be around
    London Town, carry me back
    O London Town, lost and found
    And I feel like going back

11. That Lonesome Road

    That Lonesome Road

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    Walk down that lonesome road
    All by yourself
    Don’t turn your head
    Back over your shoulder
    And only stop
    To rest yourself
    When the silver moon
    Is shining high above the trees

    If I had stopped to listen
    Once or twice
    If I had closed my mouth
    And opened my eyes

    If I had cooled my head
    And warmed my heart
    I’d not be on this road tonight

    Carry on
    Never mind feeling sorry for yourself
    It doesn’t save you from your troubled mind

    Walk down that lonesome road
    All by yourself
    Don’t turn your head
    Back over your shoulder
    And only stop
    To rest yourself
    When the silver moon
    Is shining high above the trees