The Complete Warner Bros. Albums: 1970–1976

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Sweet Baby James

1. Sweet Baby James

   Sweet Baby James

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   There is a young cowboy lives on the range
   His horse and his cattle they’re his only companions
   He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons
   Just waiting for summer his pastures to change

   Yes, and as the moon rises he sits by his fire
   Just thinking about women and glasses of beer
   And closing his eyes as the dogies retire
   He sings out a song which is soft but it’s clear
   Just as if maybe someone could hear

   He says good night all you moonlight ladies
   Rockabye sweet baby James
   Deep greens and blues for the colors I choose
   Won’t you let me go down in my dreams
   Oh, and rockabye sweet baby James

   Now the first of December it was covered with snow
   Yes, and so was the Turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston
   Oh, the Berkshires seemed dreamlike
   On account of that frosting
   With 10 miles behind me and 10,000 more to go, you know

   There’s a song that they sing when they take to the highway
   A song that they sing when they take to the sea
   A song that they sing of their home in the sky
   Maybe you can believe it if it helps you to sleep
   Just that singing seemed to work fine for me

   So, good night all you moonlight ladies
   Rockabye my sweet baby James
   Deep greens and blues for the colors I choose
   Won’t you let me go down in my dreams
   Oh, and rockabye my sweet baby James

2. Lo and Behold

   Lo and Behold

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   Lonely by day
   Empty and cold
   Only to say
   Lo and behold
   Deep in the night
   Down in my dreams
   Glorious sight
   This soul has seen

   There’s a well on the hill
   You just can’t kill for Jesus
   There’s a well on the hill
   Let it be

   I don’t build no heathen temples
   Where the Lord has done laid his hand
   There’s a well on the hill
   Let it be

   Everyone’s talking ’bout the gospel story
   Some shall sink and some shall rise
   Everyone’s talking ’bout the train to glory
   Long, long time ’til it gets here to you, baby

   There’s a well on the hill
   You just can’t kill for Jesus
   There’s a well on the hill
   Let it be

   I don’t build no heathen temples
   Where the Lord has done laid a hand
   There’s a well on the hill
   Let it be

3. Sunny Skies

   Sunny Skies

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   Sunny skies sleeps in the morning
   He doesn’t know when to rise
   He closes his weary eyes upon the day
   Look at him yawning
   Throwing his morning hours away
   He knows how to ease down slowly
   Everything is fine in the end
   And you will be pleased to know
   That Sunny Skies hasn’t a friend

   Sunny skies weeps in the evening
   It doesn’t much matter why
   I guess he just has to cry from time to time
   Everyone’s leaving
   And Sunny skies has to stay behind

   Still he knows how to ease down slow
   Everything is fine in the end
   And you will be pleased to know
   That Sunny Skies hasn’t a friend

   Sunny skies sleeps in the morning
   He doesn’t know when to rise
   He closes his weary eyes upon the day
   And throws it all away

   Looking at the snow and trees that grow
   Outside my window
   Looking at the things that passed me by
   Wondering if where I’ve been is worth
   The things I’ve been through
   Ending with a friend named Sunny Skies

4. Steamroller Blues

   Steamroller Blues

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   Well, I’m a steamroller, baby
   I’m bound to roll all over you
   Yes, I’m a steamroller now, baby
   I’m bound to roll all over you
   I’m gonna inject your soul with some sweet rock ‘n roll
   And shoot you full of rhythm and blues

   Well, I’m a cement mixer
   A churning urn of burning funk
   Yes, I’m a cement mixer for you, baby
   A churning urn of burning funk
   Well, I’m a d-d-demolition derby (yeah)
   A hefty hunk of steaming junk

   Now, I’m a love bomb, baby
   Just guaranteed to blow your mind
   Yeah, I’m a love bomb for you, baby
   Oh, guaranteed, just guaranteed to blow your mind
   And if I can’t have your love for my own (now)
   Sweet child, won’t be nothing left behind
   It seems how lately, baby
   Well I’m a steamroller for you, baby, child

5. Country Road

   Country Road

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   Take to the highway won’t you lend me your name
   Your way and my way seem to be one and the same
   Mamma don’t understand it
   She wants to know where I’ve been
   I’d have to be some kind of natural born fool
   To want to pass that way again
   But you know I could feel it
   On a country road

   Sail on home to Jesus won’t you good girls and boys
   I’m all in pieces, you can have your own choice
   But I see hear a heavenly band full of angels
   And they’re coming to set me free
   I don’t know nothing ’bout the why or when
   But I can tell that it’s bound to be
   Because I could feel it, child, yeah
   On a country road

   I guess my feet know where they want me to go
   Walking on a country road

   Take to the highway won’t you lend me your name
   Your way and my way seem to be one and the same, child
   Mamma don’t understand it
   She wants to know where I’ve been
   I’d have to be some kind of natural born fool
   To want to pass that way again
   But I could feel it
   On a country road
   Walk on down, walk on down, walk on down
   Walk on down, walk on down a country road
   Country road
   Walking on a country road

6. Oh, Susanna

   Oh, Susanna

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   Well I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee
   And I’m bound for Louisiana, my own true love for to see
   It did rain all night the day I left
   The weather was bone dry
   The sun was so hot I froze myself
   Susanne, don’t you go on and cry

   I said, Oh, Susanna
   Now, don’t you cry for me
   As I come from Alabama with this banjo on my knee

   Well I had myself a dream the other night
   When everything was still
   I dreamed that I saw my girl Susanne
   She was coming around the hill
   Now, the buckwheat cake was in her mouth
   A tear was in her eye
   I said, that I come from Dixie land
   Susanne, don’t you break down and cry

   I said, Oh, Susanna
   Now, don’t you cry for me
   ‘Cause I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee

7. Fire and Rain

   Fire and Rain

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   Just yesterday morning
   They let me know you were gone
   Suzanne, the plans we made put an end to you
   I walked out this morning
   And I wrote down this song
   Just can’t remember who to send it to

   I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain
   I’ve seen sunny days I thought they’d never end
   I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
   But I always thought I’d see you again

   Won’t you look down on me, Jesus
   You’ve got to help me to make a stand
   You just got to see me through another day
   My body’s aching
   And my time is at hand
   And I won’t make it any other way

   Oh, I have seen fire and I’ve seen rain
   I’ve seen sunny days I thought they’d never end
   I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
   But I always thought I’d see you again

   So I’ve been walking my mind to an easy time
   My back turned towards the sun
   Lord knows the cold wind blows
   It’ll turn your head around
   Well, there’s hours of time on the telephone line
   Talkin’ about things to come
   Sweet dreams and flying machines
   in pieces on the ground

   Oh, I have seen fire and I’ve seen rain
   I’ve seen sunny days I thought they’d never end
   I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
   But I always thought I’d see you somehow
   one more time again
   Thought I’d see you one more time again
   There’s just a few things coming my way
   this time around
   Thought I’d see you, thought I’d see you,
   fire and rain
   Thought I’d see you just one more time,
   Suzanne

8. Blossom

   Blossom

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   Blossom, smile some sunshine down my way
   Lately, I’ve been lonesome
   Blossom, it’s been much too long a day
   Seems my dreams have frozen
   Melt my cares away

   Send the sunshine down my way whenever you call my name
   I know what you mean to say to me, girl, it’s all the same

   Blossom, there’s any empty road behind
   Sit you down beside me
   Blossom, there’s a sweet dream on my mind
   There’s a song inside me
   Take these chains away

   Now, send the sunshine down my way whenever you call my name
   I know what you mean to say to me, girl, it’s all the same

   Blossom, smile some sunshine down my way
   Lately, I’ve been lonesome
   Blossom, it’s been much too long a day
   Seems my dreams have frozen
   Melt my cares away

9. Anywhere Like Heaven

   Anywhere Like Heaven

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   When I walk along your city streets
   And look into your eyes
   When I see that simple sadness
   That upon your features lies
   If my spirit starts to sink
   It comes as no surprise
   It’s been a long way from anywhere
   Like Heaven to your town, this town

   There’s a pasture in the countryside
   I used to call my own
   There’s a natural pillow for my head
   The grass there’s overgrown
   I think of that place from time to time
   When I want to be alone
   It’s been a long way from anywhere
   Like Heaven to your town, this town

   Now, people live from day to day
   But they do not count the time
   They don’t see the days slipping by
   And neither do I

   Now, people live from day to day
   But they do not count the time (you know)
   They don’t see their days slipping by
   And neither do I

   When I walk along your city streets
   And look into your eyes
   When I see that simple sadness
   That across your features lies (I see lies)
   If my spirit starts to sink
   It comes as no surprise
   I’ve come a long way from anywhere
   Like Heaven to this town, your town

10. Oh Baby, Don’t You Loose Your Lip On Me

    Oh Baby, Don’t You Loose Your Lip On Me

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    Oh, baby, don’t you loose your lip on me (No, no now)
    Lord, have mercy (Baby, now)
    Now, don’t you loose your lip on poor old loving man JT (No)
    Now, I’ve tried so hard to be your good boy
    Good God almighty, don’t you know
    Tell me what more, what more in this world
    In this whole wide world can one good boy
    Just one by himself man be, no

11. Suite For 20 G

    Suite For 20 G

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    Slipping away what can I say
    Won’t you stay inside me month of May
    And hold on to me golden day, slipping away

    Sunshine on my wall
    To keep my mind on the things I’m saying
    Footsteps in the hall
    To tell me I’ve been this way before, nevermore

    Let it rain sweet Mary Jane
    Let it wash your love down all around me
    Come inside and put it down
    Let it rain

    I’ve been trying hard to find a way to let you know
    That we can make it shine most all the time
    This time ’round I’m searching down to where I used to go
    And it’s been on my mind to make it shine

    You can say I wanna be free
    I can say someday I will be

    You can say I wanna be free
    I can say someday I will be

    When I catch a common cold
    Wanna hear a saxophone
    When I let the good times roll, baby
    Slide me a bass trombone

    Walk me down old Funky Street
    Lord knows I feel good enough to eat (now)
    Hold my soul. Now, I’m sure enough fond of my rock ‘n roll

    When I go to sleep at night
    Wanna hear a slide guitar
    When I’m feeling loose and right
    Riding in my automobile
    Boney Maroney and Peggy Sue
    Got the rocking pneumonia, got the boogey-woogey flu
    Baby, hold my soul. Said, I’m sure enough fond of my rock ‘n roll
    Good God

Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon

1. Love Has Brought Me Around

   Love Has Brought Me Around

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   (Carole King piano, Joni Mitchell vocal)

   Don’t come to me with your sorrows anymore
   I don’t need to know
   How bad you’re feeling today
   I declare I’ve had my share
   And I’ve heard it all before
   It’s time for me to be stealing away
   Let those rain clouds roll out on the sea
   Let the sun shine down on me, hey, hey

   Love has brought me around
   Love has brought me around (yes, it has)
   Love has brought me around
   Love has brought me around

   When my sky was full of gray
   And my day was full of blue
   There was nothing I could do
   To see myself through
   Now my head is full of springtime
   And my heart is full of you
   Good-bye lonely blue
   It shall all come true

   Miss November I detect a frown
   Close your eyes and turn it upside down

   Love has brought me around
   Love has brought me around (don’t you know)
   Love has brought me around
   Love has brought me around

   I know you know what
   I’ve got to say is an old clich? Anyway so they say

   Love has brought me around
   Love has brought me around
   Love has brought me around
   Love has brought me around (yes, it has)

2. You’ve Got A Friend

   You’ve Got A Friend

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   When you’re down and troubled
   And you need some loving care
   And nothing
   Oh, nothing is going right

   Just close your eyes and think of me
   Yes, and soon I will be there
   To brighten up
   Oh, even your darkest nights

   You just call out my name
   And you know wherever I am
   I’ll come running
   To see you again

   It’s winter, spring, summer or fall
   Now all you got to do is call on me
   And I will be there, yeah, yes, I’ll be there
   You’ve got a friend

   If the sky high above you
   Should grow dark and full of clouds
   And that old cold north wind
   Should begin to blow

   Just keep your poor head together now
   And call my name out loud, you know
   Pretty soon
   I’ll be knocking on your door

   You just call out my name
   And you know wherever I am
   I’ll come running
   To see you again

   It’s winter, spring summer or fall
   Really, all you got to do is call
   And I’ll be there
   You know I’ll be there

   Oh, ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend
   When people can be so cold
   They’ll hurt you, yes, and desert you
   Well, they’ll take your soul if you let them
   But don’t you let them

   You just call out my name
   And you know wherever I am
   I’ll come running like as fast as I can
   To see you again

   Oh, yes, don’t you know about that

   Winter, spring, summer or fall
   Oh, all you’ve got to do is call
   And I will be there
   Yeah, yes, I’ll be there
   You’ve got a friend
   You’ve got a friend
   Ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend
   Walking and talking and everything friend
   Well, I said everybody here tonight in Pittsfield
   No matter how low you may go sometimes
   Ought to take some consolation in one thing, oh, yeah
   Ain’t it good to know
   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
   You’ve got a friend

3. Places In My Past

   Places In My Past

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   There are ladies in my life
   Lovely ladies in these lazy days
   And though I never took a wife
   May I say that I have loved me one or two
   Of the people in my past
   Fading faces in a waking dream
   And though they never seemed to last very long
   There are faces I remember
   From the places in my past
   I said all the dead head miles
   And the insincere smiles
   Sometimes I can laugh and cry
   And I can’t remember why
   But I still love those
   Good times gone by
   Hold on to them close or let them go, oh no
   I don’t know
   I just seem to sing these songs
   And say I’m sorry for the friends I used to know

4. Riding On A Railroad

   Riding On A Railroad

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   We are riding on a railroad, singing some else’s song
   Forever standing by the cross road. Take a side and step along.
   We are sailing away on a river to the sea. Maybe you an me can meet again.
   We are riding on a railroad, singing someone else’s song Sing along.

   Time to time I tire of the life that I’ve been leading
   Town to town, day by day
   There’s a man up here who claims to have his hands upon the reins.
   There are chains upon his hands and he’s riding upon a train.

   We are riding on a railroad, singing some else’s song
   Forever standing by the cross road. Take a side and step along.
   We are sailing away on a river to the sea. Maybe you an me can meet again.
   We are riding on a railroad, singing someone else’s song.
   [instrumental and fade].

5. Soldiers

   Soldiers

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   It was just after sunrise and down by the sea
   Down on the sandflats where nothin’ will grow
   Come drummin’ and footsteps like out of a dream
   Where the golden green waters come in

   Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night
   Half of them wounded and barely alive
   Just nine out of twenty was a headed for home
   With eleven sad stories to tell

   I remember quite clearly when I got out of bed
   I said “Oh good morning. What a beautiful day”

6. Mud Slide Slim

   Mud Slide Slim

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   (with Carole King, Kate Taylor, et al)

   Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
   Oh, Mud Slide, I’m dependent on you
   I don’t know but I’ve been told
   There’s a time from time to time
   I can’t eat, I can’t sleep
   But I just might move my feet
   ‘Cause there’s nothing like
   The sound of sweet soul music
   To change a young lady’s mind
   And there’s nothing like a
   Walk on down by the bayou
   To leave the world behind
   Mud Slide I’m depending upon you
   Mister Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon

   I’ve been letting the time go by
   Letting the time go by
   Yes, I’m letting the time go by
   Letting the time go by

   I’m gonna cash in my hand and
   Pick up on a piece of land
   And build myself a cabin back in the woods
   Lord, it’s there I’m gonna stay
   Until there comes a day
   When this old world starts to changing for the good
   Now the reason I’m smiling is over on a island
   On a hillside in the woods where I belong
   I wanna thank Jimmy, Jimmy, John, Nick and Laurie
   The No Jets Construction for setting
   Me down a homestead on the farm

   Mud Slide, I’m depending upon you
   Mister Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon

7. Hey Mister, That’s Me Up On The Jukebox

   Hey Mister, That’s Me Up On The Jukebox

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   Hey mister, that’s me up on the jukebox
   I’m the one that’s singing this sad song
   Well, I’ll cry everytime that you slip in one more dime
   And let the boy sing the sad one, one more time

   Southern California that’s as blue as the boy can be
   Blue as the deep blue sea
   Won’t you listen to me now
   I need your golden gated cities like a hole in the head
   Just like a hole in the head, I’m free

   Hey mister, that’s me up on the jukebox
   I’m the one that’s singing this sad song
   Well, I’ll cry everytime that you slip in one more dime
   And let the boy sing the sad one, one more time

   I do believe I’m headed home
   Hey mister, can’t you see that I’m as dry as a bone
   I think I’ll spend some time alone
   Yes, unless you’ve found a way of squeezing water from a stone

   Let the doctor and the lawyer do as much as they can
   Let the springtime begin
   Let the boy become a man
   I done wasted too much time just to sing you this sad song
   I done been this lonesome picker a little too long

   Hey mister, that’s me up on the jukebox
   I’m the one that’s singing this sad song
   Well, I’ll cry everytime that you’re up and slip in one more dime
   And let the boy sing the sad one, one more time

   Well, I’ve been spreading myself thin these days
   Don’t you know
   Good-bye

8. You Can Close Your Eyes

   You Can Close Your Eyes

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   (with Joni Mitchell)

   Well, the sun is surely sinkin’ down
   But the moon is slowly risin’
   So this old world must still be spinnin’ ’round
   Yes, and I still love you

   So close your eyes
   You can close your eyes
   It’s all right
   I don’t know no love songs
   And I can’t sing the blues anymore
   Yes, but I can sing this song
   And you can sing this song when I’m gone

   It won’t be long before another day
   We’re gonna have a good time
   And no one’s gonna take that time away
   You can stay as long as you like

   Only close your eyes
   You can close your eyes
   It’s all right
   Oh, I don’t know no love songs
   And I can’t sing the blues anymore
   Sure, but I can sing this song
   Yes, and you can sing this song when I’m gone

9. Machine Gun Kelly

   Machine Gun Kelly

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   (with Peter Asher)

   I’ll tell you ’bout Machine Gun Kelly
   he rode along the outlaw trail
   Machine Gun Kelly was a simple man
   But the woman was as hard as hell

   (Chorus)
   Watch out Machine Gun
   Don’t let her run you ’round
   Don’t let a woman put you six feet in the ground
   Machine Gun

   I’ll tell you ’bout Katherine Kelly
   Tired of being such small time
   Figured they’d kidnap a rich man’s son
   And make it in the world of crime

   – Chorus –

   You’d better watch out Machine Gun Kelly
   Careful of what you do now
   If you keep listening to your old lady
   Ain’t no telling what’ll happen to you now
   Machine Gun

   The government boys they came for Machine Gun
   And took the poor boy away
   They stuck him in a hole in Leavenworth prison
   Where he lived until his dying day

   Watch out Machine Gun
   Don’t let her put you down
   Don’t let a woman make you out to be a clown
   Machine Gun

   Watch out Machine Gun

10. Long Ago And Far Away

    Long Ago And Far Away

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    (with Joni Mitchell)

    Long ago a young man sits
    And plays his waiting game
    Things are not the same it seems
    As in such tender dreams

    Slowly passing sailing ships
    And Sunday afternoons
    Like people on the moon I see
    Are things not meant to be

    Where do those golden rainbows end
    Why is this song so sad
    These are the dreams I’ve dreamed my friend
    Loving the love I love to love
    Is just a word I’ve heard
    When things are being said

    Stories my poor head has told me
    Cannot stand the cold
    And in between what might have been
    And what has come to pass
    A misbegotten guess alas
    And bits of broken glass

    Where do your golden rainbows end
    Why is the song I sing so sad
    Dreaming the dreams I’ve dreamed my friend
    Loving the love I love to love
    To love to love to love

    Oh no no no no

11. Let Me Ride

    Let Me Ride

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    (with Kate Taylor)

    Hand me down my golden crown and let me ride
    Don’t deny the highway in my soul
    Jump and sing that silver thing that I feel inside
    Hallelujah let that big wheel roll

    It’s time to give me just a little bit of old time glory
    I’m talking ’bout the coming of the sunshine story
    Set this poor soul free
    Let it be

    Break these bonds that hold my soul and I’m on my way
    I can’t help feeling there’s no time to lose
    I done made my mind up yesterday that I just can’t stay
    So hand me down my highway shoes

    It’s time to give me just a little bit of old time glory
    I’m talking ’bout the coming of the sunshine story
    Set this poor soul free
    Let it be

12. Highway Song

    Highway Song

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    (with Kate Taylor and Peter Asher)

    Father, let us build a boat and sail away
    There’s nothing for you here
    And brother, let us throw our lot out upon the sea
    It’s been done before

    I’m thinking ’bout a broken heart
    I’m talking ’bout the break of dawn
    You love me while I’m here
    Then you can miss me when I’m gone
    Sweet misunderstanding
    Won’t you leave a poor boy alone
    I’m the one eyed seed of a tumbleweed
    In the belly of a rolling stone

    (Chorus)
    Back on the highway, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Back on the road again

    I had a little woman in Memphis
    She wanted to be my bride
    She said, settle on down, traveling man
    You can stay right by my side
    I tried so hard to please her
    But I couldn’t hold out too long
    ‘Cause one Saturday night I was laying in bed
    And I heard that highway song

    – Chorus –

    Now one of these days that highway song will lose its appeal to me
    I’m gonna settle on down like a natural born man
    I’m gonna live my life naturally (Free and easy)
    Until that day the thunder’s gonna roll
    And I notice there’s a sign of rain
    So I grab my bags and I pack my clothes
    And I’m back on the road again

    – Chorus –

    I’m thinking ’bout a broken heart
    I been talking ’bout the break of dawn
    You loved me while I’m here
    and you can miss me when I’m gone
    And I said sweet misunderstanding
    Won’t you leave a poor boy alone
    ‘Cause I’m the one eyed seed of a tumbleweed
    In the belly of a rolling stone

    – Chorus –

    Here I am again
    Holiday Inn
    Same old four walls again
    Gee, but it’s fine to be back home again (whoa, now)
    Say, Holiday Inn, I’m on the road again

13. Isn’t It Nice To Be Home Again

    Isn’t It Nice To Be Home Again

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    Late last night so far away
    I dreamed my-self a dream
    Well I dreamed I was so all alone
    Isn’t it nice to be home again?
    I said welcome home
    Didn’t we miss your smiling face
    Well the sun was nice in L.A.
    Sun-shine
    Isn’t it nice to be home again?
    Well I said isn’t it nice to be home a-gain?

One Man Dog

1. One Man Parade

   One Man Parade

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   (with Carole King, Abigale Haness, Cary Simon, Alex Taylor, Hugh Taylor and Kate Taylor)

   Do believe I’m gonna clap my hands
   Think I might tap my feet
   Put together a one man band
   Take a walk on down the street
   Have a one man parade
   Nobody needs to know
   ‘Cause I’m right good of holding on to secrets
   And don’t believe they show

   All I want is a little dog
   To be walking at my right hand
   Taking a breeze just as free as you please
   Maybe checking out occasional garbage cans
   Talking bout a one dog, y’all
   Nobody’s friend but mine
   Hey now, you can say he’s looking kind of funky
   But I do believe it suits me just fine

   We were off road again
   A was wondering what to do
   Ah, but Honalei,
   It was pouring down rain
   Baby she had the low down blues

   Hey now, I was looking for my walking cane
   Tying on my highway shoes
   Thinking ’bout a one man parade, y’all
   Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody

   I’m right good at holding on, holding on, holding on

   Honalei, it’s raining
   Honalei, (sure ‘nuf) it’s raining (listen here)
   Honalei (it’s rainin’)
   Honalei (muddy waters)

   Talking ’bout a one man parade, y’all
   Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody
   I’m right good at holding on, holding on, holding on
   La, la, la

2. Nobody But You

   Nobody But You

   X

   ---

   Everybody knows that I’m just a Joe
   That likes to hang around
   Talkin’ about my problems
   Bringing other people down
   Well this may be so, but not long ago
   I was sitting on the top of the world
   Sure is strange how things can turn themselves around

   When I’m in need of a little bit of consultation
   Used to call on my Uncle John
   Took a trip down to West Virginia
   Found him dead and gone
   And as some sort of silly little consolation
   They gave me my ticket back
   What you gonna do with folks like that?

   You can talk about bands of angels
   And you think you come with your soul in your hands
   To set their children free
   But you talk about little bit of understanding
   Things that happen day to day
   Some of you folks sure ‘nuf have been good to me

   You come on talkin’ about angel bands
   You think that you come with your soul in your hands
   Just to set their children free
   But you talk about a little bit of understanding
   Things that happen day to day
   Some one has been good to me, yeh.

   Nobody but you, nobody but you, nobody but you, nobody but you
   Nobody but you, nobody but you, nobody but you, nobody but you
   Nobody, nobody but you
   Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody
   Nobody but you

3. Chili Dog

   Chili Dog

   X

   ---

   Make my bed out of Wonder Bread
   Spread some mustard upon my head
   I don’t want no onions or sauerkraut, Mamma
   Hold on to the bun baby, work it on out.

   I’m a chili dog
   I guess you guessed by now
   Sure ‘nuf I’m a chili dog, baby (you and me)
   Delicious!

   Don’t get jealous
   Better not up and get over zealous (watch out now y’all).
   Come on now fellas,
   Pass me down the relish.

   Don’t read no Ann Landers
   Just can’t feed me no Colonel Sanders
   I ain’t trying to fool us
   Don’t bring home no Orange Julius.

   Gotta have–one more time–get on down again
   Woh, woh, chili dog, baby
   Yes indeed, I want a chili dog, yeh
   Talkin’ about stone delicious
   Good for you too!

4. Fool For You

   Fool For You

   X

   ---

   My lady don’t allow the life I lead
   She don’t abide by some of the company that I keep
   She takes occasion to criticize, and carry on
   I love her so, I just can’t stand it no more
   I’m a fool for you babe, don’t you know
   Mess around momma, I’m a fool for you mommaroo…

   I should say
   My baby knows that I’m crazy ’bout her lovin’
   That’s alright, she takes unfair advantage now and then
   She jumps at the chance to tease me with her body
   Lord, I love that thing so
   Just can’t stand it no more
   I’m a fool for you babe
   Look around I’m a fool for you
   Have a sweet thang today

5. Instrumental I

   Instrumental I

   X

   ---

   Instrumental

6. New Tune

   New Tune

   X

   ---

   Its written in the surface of her skin
   There’s been a baby within (I think it is lady grin, not baby within)
   Given away in love
   I see it in the little lines
   Around her eyes, across her brow
   She’ll be driftin’ away from me now

   See the shape of feeling that’s not quite there
   Inside her soul
   Love has gone away now, leaving behind an empty hole
   Who am I to try to compete with the din
   As the silence so easily rushes in
   I will fly away

   It was something I only dreamed of
   Something that I’m not quite sure of
   Something that I’ll never tell you about

7. Back on the Street Again

   Back on the Street Again

   X

   ---

   I don’t care if I got no money
   I don’t care if I got a dime
   All I want to do is to dance with you honey
   Please tell me you have the time
   ‘Cause I gotta get back on my feet again
   Gotta get back on the street again.

   La, la, la

   Well I don’t care if I got no fame
   All I want to do is to hold your hand
   Don’t care if nobody knows my name
   ‘Cause I just want to try the best I can (yes I do)
   I gotta get back on my feet again
   Gotta get back on the street again.

   La, la, la

   Well, I don’t know just what the world is coming to
   And I don’t know just what is going on among you
   Well all I really know is I gotta get back on my feet again
   Help me up now.

   I don’t care if I got no money
   I don’t care if I got dime
   All I want to do is to dance with you baby
   Please tell me that you got the time.
   ‘Cause I’ve gotta get back on my feet again
   Gotta get back on the street again.

   La, la, la

   Stand it up for me now momma.

8. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight

   Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight

   X

   ---

   Do me wrong, do me right
   Tell me lies but hold me tight
   Save your goodbyes for the morning light
   But don’t let me be lonely tonight

   Say goodbye and say hello
   Sure enough good to see you, but it’s time to go
   Don’t say yes, but please don’t say no
   I don’t want to be lonely tonight

   Go away then damn you
   Go on and do as you please, yeah
   You ain’t gonna see me getting down on my knees
   Undecided and your heart’s been divided
   You’ve been turning my world upside down

   Do me wrong, do me right right now baby
   Go on and tell me lies but hold me tight
   Save your goodbyes for the morning light, morning light
   But don’t let me be lonely tonight

   I don’t want to, I don’t need to
   I can’t stand it, I don’t have to
   I don’t want to be lonely tonight

   I don’t want to be lonely tonight

   No…..

9. Woh, Don’t You Know

   Woh, Don’t You Know

   X

   ---

   (with Alex and Hugh Taylor)

   Talkin’ ’bout jumping jim
   Talkin’ ’bout a mud slide slim
   Don’t you know that a fish got to swim
   Don’t a goose got to fly high
   Little dog got to die
   And I’m goin’ home
   Woh, don’t you know
   Woh, don’t you know

   Talkin’ ’bout a life on the street
   Gonna think about an itch in my feet
   Can’t you hand me down them highway shoes
   Lord knows I’m talkin’ ’bout the walkin’ blues
   I got the rockin’ pneumonia blues
   And I’m headed home, bye-bye
   Woh, don’t you know
   Woh, don’t you know

   Listen here now, don’t you come ’round

   Talkin’ bout over yonder
   Bound to wake up the walkin’ man in me
   And I’m bound to wanderin’
   Hey now, talkin’ all about ‘spooning into bone
   Looking just like sherlock holmes
   Looking for a needle in a haystack
   Seein’ and eatin’ lots of fatback
   Talkin’ ’bout a railroad track
   And I’m going home, goodbye
   Woh, don’t you know
   Woh, don’t you know
   Woh, don’t you know

   You oughta know
   You oughta know
   You oughta know
   You oughta know like a fish in the stream
   Oughta know like a leaf on the tree
   Oughta know like a boat in the sea.

10. One Morning in May

    One Morning in May

    X

    ---

    (with Linda Rondstadt)

    One morning, one morning, one morning in May
    I spied a young couple, a making their way
    One was a lady so dainty and fair
    And one was a soldier a brave volunteer

    Good morning, good morning, good morning said he
    Where be you going my pretty lady
    Oh I’m going out walking because it is spring
    Just to see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing
    Just to see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing

    They had not been standing but a minute or two
    When out of his knapsack a fiddle he drew
    And the tune that he played thru the valley did ring
    Oh hark said the maiden hear the nightingale sing
    Oh hark said the maiden hear the nightingale sing

    Said the soldier to the lady its time to give o’er
    Oh no pretty soldier play just one tune more
    For I’d rather listen to the touch of your string
    Than to see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing
    Than to see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing

    Said the lady to the soldier will you marry me
    Oh no pretty lady that never can be
    I’ve a wife in olde England and children twice three
    One wife and the army is a plenty for me
    One wife and the army is a plenty for me

    Well I’ll go back to olde England and I’ll stay there a year
    And it’s often that I’ll think of you my little dear
    And if I return it will be in the spring
    Just to see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing
    To see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing

11. Instrumental II

    Instrumental II

    X

    ---

    Instrumental

12. Someone

    Someone

    X

    ---

    Someone
    I’m searching for someone who’ll be true
    Who’ll change my life of blue
    Into a dream of golden rainbows
    Where are you?

    I seems I’ve been searching
    Searching more than just one lifetime
    My heart is a magnet all for you
    I’ll know you when I see you
    Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love

    Life is worth less than nothing without love
    Love is the force from which all beings live
    Don’t you see, it’s the purpose of living to love and be loved
    Again and again
    Where are you
    My heart cries for you
    My eyes long to see you
    My soul is all for you
    Oh where are you, someone?

    Don’t you see, it’s the purpose of living to love and be loved
    Again and again
    Where are you
    My heart cries for you
    My eyes long to see you
    My soul is all for you
    Oh where are you, someone?

13. Hymn

    Hymn

    X

    ---

    I got holy children to show me the light
    Singing hallelujah, brother how ’bout you.
    Yeah, we got a holy scriptures here that prove us to be right,
    In believing out loud what we wish to be true.

    I got stoned out neighbors to take me in tow
    Singin’ close your eyes, singin’ open wide.
    Watch the world fall away below, let the winter wind blow;
    And where will we hide when it comes from inside?

    Oh, hear me now, hear me now, hear me now,
    hear me now, hear me now, hear me now,
    hear me now, listen I got sweet, sweet music inside.

    Is a child inside me was alone in the night
    Now has come to me, love has set my soul free.
    Is a man and a woman stand alone in the night;
    Here is reason to be like sun on the sea.

14. Fanfare

    Fanfare

    X

    ---

    (with Abigale Haness and Carole King)

    Someone turn the time on
    Another day, dead and gone
    A lifetime is slippin’ away, babe
    But as far as I can see
    That doesn’t apply to you and me
    We are high above the family tree
    Hidden in the deep blue sea

    Industry on parade
    Punch a clock 9-to-5
    But beginning is beginning to fade away
    Ah, but look out from now on, baby
    As far as the eye can see
    Unafraid to be free
    Shinin’ on the silver sea
    You and me, we got to be movin’

    Pickin’ up, carry on
    Lead you children right on
    Carry on, carry on

    Heaven knows I love you
    Don’t you know that it’s true yourself
    Looks like you and me baby
    Dancin’ by the shinin’ sea

15. Little David

    Little David

    X

    ---

    (with Carole King and Abigale Haness)

    Little David, play on your harp
    Hallelu, hallelu, little David
    Play on your harp, hallelujah
    Little David, play on your harp
    hallelu, hallelu, little David
    Play on your harp, hallelujah

    Hey now, I don’t know for sure
    It’s gets said, I got told
    Some one said that the streets of heaven
    Are paved with solid gold
    It must make a might fine road

    Little David
    Little David, play on your harp
    Hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah
    Play on your harp, hallelujah

16. Mescalito

    Mescalito

    X

    ---

    Mescalito has opened up my eyes
    Mescalito has set my mind at ease
    Mescalito has opened up my eyes
    Set my mind at ease…
    Ah!

17. Dance

    Dance

    X

    ---

    Come on, baby, while the moon is high
    Kick up your heels and dance
    Don’t be nervous, don’t be shy
    And give yourself a chance
    You can dance
    Kick off your shoes and lose your blues
    Pick em up, Lord, put em back down
    And around, and around, and around, and around.

    Come on, baby, it must be fun
    To be dancin’ in the clear moonlight
    Otherwise, would everyone be out on
    Such a cold and windy night?
    We can dance.
    Throw yourself away
    Holy month of may
    You can dance.

    Listen to the music of the steel guitar
    Don’t it sound good
    Hey now, nobody here tonight came to look at you,
    No, no, no
    Well I bet you five dollars that somebody starts a fire
    Back in the woods, hey now
    Everybody here tonight came to boogie
    Have a good time, too

    Come on, baby, while the moon is high
    Kick up your heels and dance
    Don’t be nervous, don’t be shy
    And give yourself a chance
    You can dance
    Kick off your shoes and lose your blues
    Pick em up, Lord, put em back down
    And around, and around, and around, and around
    If I could lose my mind
    If I could throw myself away.

18. Jig

    Jig

    X

    ---

    La La LA LAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    da da deeeee

    I love you baby
    I love you baby
    Lets go get drunk

Walking Man

1. Walking Man

   Walking Man

   X

   ---

   Moving in silent desperation
   Keeping an eye on the Holy Land
   A hypothetical destination
   Say, who is this walking man?

   Well, the leaves have come to turning
   And the goose has gone to fly
   And bridges are for burning
   So don’t you let that yearning
   Pass you by
   Walking man, walking man walks
   Well, any other man stops and talks
   But the walking man walks

   Well the frost is on the pumpkin
   And the hay is in the barn
   And Pappy’s come to rambling on
   Stumbling around drunk
   Down on the farm

   And the walking man walks
   Doesn’t know nothing at all
   Any other man stops and talks
   But the walking man walks on by
   Walk on by

   Most everybody’s got seed to sow
   It ain’t always easy for a weed to grow, oh no
   So he don’t hoe the row for no one
   Oh for sure he’s always missing
   And something is never quite right
   Ah, but who would want to listen to you
   Kissing his existence good night

   Walking man walk on by my door
   Well, any other man stops and talks
   But not the walking man
   He’s the walking man
   Born to walk
   Walk on walking man
   Well now, would he have wings to fly
   Would he be free
   Golden wings against the sky
   Walking man, walk on by
   So long, walking man, so long

2. Rock ‘N’ Roll Is Music Now

   Rock ‘N’ Roll Is Music Now

   X

   ---

   (with Paul and Linda McCartney, Carly Simon, and Rick Marotta)

   Mama knows and papa knows
   That rock ‘n roll is music now
   Baby’s been cutting his teeth on
   Bo Diddley’s, I’m a man, man
   Listen to the wolf-man howl

   See the white man sailing his ship up on the sea
   Watch the white man shackle
   The black man to a tree
   To the invader go the fruits of war
   He misses home and his boots are sore
   He has not got no roots no more
   He comes for your gold
   Watch out for your soul

   Cause tennis shoes, and rhythm and blues

   Are second generation
   All across the nation, now
   And mama knows, papa too
   Rock ‘n roll is music
   Rock ‘n roll is music, now

   To the invader go the fruits of war
   He misses home and his boots are sore
   He has not got no roots no more
   He comes for your gold
   But watch out for your soul

   Mama knows and papa knows
   That rock ‘n roll is music
   Rock ‘n roll is music, now

3. Let It All Fall Down

   Let It All Fall Down

   X

   ---

   (with McCartneys and Simon)

   Sing a song for the Wrong
   And the Wicked and the Strong
   And the Sick, as thick as thieves
   For the faceless fear that was never so near
   Too clear to misbelieve

   Well the sea is jumping salty
   And the porpoise has the blues
   My recollection’s faulty
   And I cannot find my shoes
   And my wiring is misfiring
   Due to cigarettes and booze
   I’m behind in my dues
   I just now got the news
   He seems to tell us lies
   And still we will believe him
   Then together he will lead us
   Into darkness, my friends

   REFRAIN:
   Let it fall down, let it fall down
   Let it all fall down
   Let it fall down, let it fall down
   Let it all fall down

   The man says stand to one side, son
   We got to keep this big ball rolling
   It’s just a question of controlling
   For whom the bell is tolling

   REFRAIN

   There’ll be suffering and starvation
   In the streets young man
   Just where have you been, old man
   Just look out of your window, man

   REFRAIN

   Well, it ain’t nobody’s fault but our own
   Still, at least we might could show the good sense
   To know when we’ve been wrong
   And it’s already taken too long
   So we bring it to a stop
   Then we take it from the top
   We let it settle on down softly
   Like your gently falling snow
   Or let it tumble down and topple
   Like the temple long ago

   REFRAIN

4. Me And My Guitar

   Me And My Guitar

   X

   ---

   (with Peter Asher and Simon)

   Me and my guitar
   Always in the same mood
   I am mostly flesh and bones
   And he is mostly wood
   Never does grow impatient
   For the changes I don’t know
   If he can’t go to heaven
   Maybe, I don’t want to go, no

   Picture me in the key of E
   Call me Uncle John
   Any fool can easily see
   That we go back a long time
   Feel something like fine to me
   There’s no such thing as the wrong time
   He hops up on my knee
   Singing, get down pops it’s song time

   Every now and then I’m a lonely man
   It’s nice to know that I’ve got a friend, yeah
   Puts his power right in my hand
   All l’ve got to do is the best I can
   If I can
   Uh!

   Got a dog named David
   Got a bird named Dinah
   Got a birthmark on my thigh
   In the shape of Mainland China
   Got a somewhat southern accent
   ‘Cause I come from Carolina
   And if you want to find us
   We’ll be walking right behind you

   I hear horns
   I hear voices
   I hear strings
   Seems I was born
   With too many choices
   Now what am I going to do
   With all these extra things
   As they serve to confuse me, really

   It’s me and my guitar
   Essentially me and my guitar
   Maybe one or two friends fall by for tea
   A little bit of who do you love (Who do you love)
   But pay no attention
   To the man behind the curtain
   It’s me and my guitar
   Having fun, boogie, woogie, uh-huh
   Me and my guitar

5. Daddy’s Baby

   Daddy’s Baby

   X

   ---

   (with Carly Simon)

   Daddy’s baby, what’s got you thinking,
   What’s got you sinking so low?
   Is there something I should know,
   Something new to you?

   Daddy’s baby, fussing and fretting,
   Keeping on getting it wrong.
   She can only last so long,
   She’s going for a song,

   So sing her a lullaby … by,
   Baby, don’t like to cry.
   So sing her a lullaby … by,
   Swaddle and swing her,
   Sing her a lullaby.

   She makes her feelings known to me,
   Her ev’ry side is shown to me.
   And in our time alone
   My love has surely grown of its own,
   Solid as a stepping stone,
   As silently as the dawn was breaking,
   Soft and clear,
   And my tears were dry
   And my fears had flown,
   So I called my love my home.

6. Ain’t No Song

   Ain’t No Song

   X

   ---

   (with Carly Simon and Asher)

   There ain’t no melody
   And I can’t find a harmony
   If there were a way to say it
   You know I would have played it

   Well, I’m a man of few words
   Trying to find a rhyme
   And finally it occurred to me
   That I’m wasting my time
   There ain’t no rhyme or reason
   Ain’t no time or season
   Ain’t no way around it
   I know I would have found it

   There ain’t no song in the whole wide world
   Could hardly sing without you
   There ain’t no song in the whole wide world
   To tell you the way that I feel

   Painters use their eyes
   To show us what they see
   But when that canvas dries
   We all see it differently

   There ain’t black or white
   There ain’t no day or night
   There ain’t no way around it
   You know I would have found it

   CHORUS

   No, No, No, I might as well pack it on up
   Not even this song’s gonna tell you the way that I feel

7. Hello Old Friend

   Hello Old Friend

   X

   ---

   Paris’ rooftops were lovely to see
   Switzerland’s vertical landscape
   Crossed my mind’s eye just now
   Canada’s shoreline has been calling out to me
   But it’s been too long a time
   Since last I crossed
   That vast Nantucket sound

   REFRAIN
   Hello old friend
   Welcome me home again
   Well, I’ve been away
   But that’s all over now
   Say I can stay for October, now
   Stay a while and play

   Little dog David
   I must look like a fool
   I should’ve remembered
   You’d be forgetting my smell, well
   Give me a week or two to recapture my cool
   I’ve got stories to tell
   About how I snatched the devil’s catch
   And out ran the hounds of hell

   REFRAIN

8. Migration

   Migration

   X

   ---

   Distant hands in foreign lands
   Are turning hidden wheels
   Causing things to come about
   Which no one seems to feel
   All invisible from where we stand
   The connections come to pass
   And though too strange to comprehend
   They affect us nonetheless, yes

   Once again a time of change
   O the change makes music
   And the children will dance

   See the pieces of the picture rearrange themselves
   It feels just like a symphony to me,
   With nothing left to chance

   Just look over your shoulder
   It’s out of you hands
   It’s over for now
   Leave behind what you can
   You can always return

   The rhythm remains unbroken
   Unspoken but loud and clear
   It’s a slow vibration. Migration

   Mystery muse, how I hunger for an answer
   Unsung song, how I long to play the changes
   Hidden rhythm, haven’t I always been your dancer
   Sacred secrets of the meaning to my dreaming. Migration

9. The Promised Land

   The Promised Land

   X

   ---

   Left my home in Norfolk, Virginia
   California on my mind
   Straddled that Greyhound
   And rode it into Raleigh
   And on across Caroline
   We stopped in Charlotte
   But we bypassed Rockhill
   We never was a minute late
   We were ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown
   Rolling out of Georgia state

   Had some motor trouble
   That turned into a struggle
   Half way ‘cross Alabam
   That hound broke and left us
   All stranded in downtown Birmingham

   So right away I bought me a through train ticket
   Right across Mississippi clean
   And I was on that Special Flyer
   Out of Birmingham
   Smoking into New Orleans

   Someone’s got to help me get out of Louisiana
   Just to help me get to Houston town
   There’s an uncle there who cares a little about me
   And he won’t let the poor boy down

   Sure as you’re born
   He bought me a silk suit
   Put some luggage in my hand
   And I woke up high over Albuquerque
   On a jet to the Promised Land

   Working on a T-Bone steak
   A la carte
   Flying over to the Golden State
   When the pilot told us that in thirteen minutes
   He would have us at the terminal gate

   Swing down chariot
   Come down easy
   Taxi to the terminal dome
   Cut your engines
   And cool your wings
   And let me make it to the telephone

   Los Angeles give me Norfolk, Virginia
   Tidewater four-ten-O-nine
   Tell the folks back home
   This is the Promised Land calling
   And the poor boy is on the line

10. Fading Away

    Fading Away

    X

    ---

    When I’ve got something to say
    Well, don’t I always let you know
    So that you and I can go my way together
    And if I get carried away
    Well, I could be sailing on a song
    And maybe we could carry on forever

    But lately this old dog
    Has been chasing his tail
    Round and round and round
    And the circles in my mind
    They have been winding slowly down
    Everybody’s breezing up
    But I’m seizing up
    I’m freezing up
    And I’m fading away

    I’ve got a hold on a night in June
    I’ve got room for you and me
    I’ve got moonlight up in the trees
    I’ve got sixty-eight degrees
    I’ve got nothing on my mind
    But I’ve got loving in my heart
    And I’ve got something out in the garden
    I want to show you

    Well, it really doesn’t matter after all
    If we quit this round about
    And no one will really notice
    If we can just sit this next one out
    You can strike up the band without me
    You may have your doubts about me
    But I’m just fading away
    You can hardly even see me
    Because I’m fading away

    Well, it’s hard to find a label
    For this feeling in my bones
    That this is all a make-believe
    But my cards are on the table
    And there ain’t nothing up my sleeve
    And here I thought I was a thinking man
    But I’m a shrinking man, I’m sinking man
    I’m fading, fading away

    Well, it’s really not so bad to be fading away
    Come on along with me and we’ll go fading away
    You can hardly even hear me because
    I’m fading away

Gorilla

1. Mexico

   Mexico

   X

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   Way down here
   You need a reason to move
   Feel like a fool
   Running your stateside games
   Lose your load,
   Leave your mind behind, Baby James

   Oh, Mexico
   It sounds so simple I just got to go
   The sun’s so hot I forgot to go home
   Guess I’ll have to go now

   “Americano” got the sleepy damn eye
   But his body’s still shaking
   Like a live wire
   Sleepy “Señorita”
   with the eyes on fire

   Oh, Mexico
   It sounds so sweet with the sun sinking low
   Moon’s so bright like to light up the night
   Make everything all right

   Baby’s hungry
   Money’s all gone
   The folks back home
   Don’t want to talk on the phone
   She gets a long letter,
   Sends back a postcard; times are hard

   Oh, down in Mexico
   I never really been so I don’t really know
   Oh, Mexico
   I guess I’ll have to go

   Oh, Mexico
   I never really been but I’d sure like to go
   Oh, Mexico
   I guess I’ll have to go now

   Talkin’ down in Mexico

2. Music

   Music

   X

   ---

   Things may always stay the way they are
   Still my head looks for a change from time to time
   I don’t really mean to look that far
   Turn on the music
   Strike up the music
   Let the music change my mind

   Now don’t I dig the big time rock and roll
   To sit in the darkness and be somebody else
   A time which after all is under control
   Crank out the music
   Give me music
   Let the music fill the air

   My dear friend your head’s been sinking like a stone
   You must try thinking like a cloud sometime
   Just leave a happy side out loud sometime
   There’s a symphony inside you
   There’s a thousand things for you to do
   So come on

   Let a hush fall on the movie crowd
   Boy turns to girl and says I love you so
   What I hear in here is violins
   Give me music, Mr. Music
   Let the music be there too
   I’ll never know what to do
   Unless you let the music be there too

   You see this man his head’s been sinking like a stone
   You must try thinking like a cloud sometime
   Just leave a happy side out loud sometime
   There’s a symphony inside you
   There’s a thousand things for you to do
   So come on

   Leave a hush fall on the movie crowd
   Boy turns to girl and says I love you so (well, you know)
   What I hear in here is violins
   Strike up the music, lay on the music
   Let the music be there too
   Let it be there too

3. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

   How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

   X

   ---

   (with Carly Simon)

   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, there you were
   I needed someone to understand my ups and downs,
   there you were
   With sweet love and devotion
   Deeply touching my emotion
   I just want to stop (stop) just to thank you baby
   I just want to stop (stop) just to thank you baby

   How sweet it is to be loved by you
   How sweet it is to be loved by you

   I close my eyes at night
   Wondering where would I be without you in my life
   Everything I did was just a bore
   Everywhere I went it seems I’d been there before
   But you brighten up for me all of my days
   With a love so sweet in so many ways
   I just want to stop (stop) just to thank you baby
   I just want to stop (stop) just to thank you baby

   How sweet it is to be loved by you
   How sweet it is to be loved by you

   You were better to me than I was to myself
   For me, there’s you and there ain’t nobody else
   I want to stop (stop) so I could thank you baby
   I just want to stop (stop) to thank you baby

   How sweet it is to be loved by you
   How sweet it is to be loved by you
   How sweet it is to be loved by you
   How sweet it is to be loved by you
   How sweet it is to be loved by you
   How sweet it is to be loved by you

   How sweet it is…

   And it feels just about right

   Ohhh…..

   Just to be loved
   Just to be loved by you, baby, yeah

4. Wandering

   Wandering

   X

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   I’ve been wanderin’ early late
   From New York City to the Golden Gate
   And it don’t look like
   I’ll ever stop my wanderin’

   My daddy was an engineer
   My brother drives a hack
   My sister takes in laundry
   While the baby balls the jack
   And it don’t look like
   I’ll ever stop my wanderin’

   I’ve been in the army
   I’ve worked on a farm
   And all I’ve got to show is the muscle in my arm
   And it don’t look like
   I’ll ever stop my wanderin’

   My ma she died when I was young
   My daddy took to stealin’ and he got hung
   And it don’t look like
   I’ll ever stop my wanderin’

   Snakes in the ocean
   Eels in the sea
   I let a redheaded woman make a fool out of me
   And it don’t look like
   I’ll ever stop my wanderin’

   I’ve been wanderin’ early and late
   From the New York City to the Golden Gate
   And it don’t look like
   I’ll ever stop my wanderin’
   No, it don’t look like
   I’ll ever stop my wanderin’

5. Gorilla

   Gorilla

   X

   ---

   He’s got arms like legs
   He’s got hands on his feet
   He’s got a nose like a doughnut
   He’s got a tendency to over eat
   He don’t use tools or weapons
   He don’t eat meat
   He likes to stick to the bushes
   Tends to avoid the street

   But he rides my El Dorado
   When he comes to town
   You know he’s out there somewhere
   Tryin’ to track you down
   Look up in the sky
   Mama that’s the one
   See the mighty profile
   Block the noonday sun

   He comes from the heart of darkness
   A thousand miles from here
   That’s the land where they understand
   What a woman might like to hear
   You know that he loves you baby
   For what you really are
   His love is a burning hot
   As a big old ten cent cigar

   Now most of y’all
   Have seen a gorilla
   In a cage at the local zoo
   He mostly sits around contemplating
   All the things that he’d prefer to do
   He dreams about the world outside
   From behind those bars of steel
   And no one seems to understand
   About the heartache the man can feel

   The people stop and stare
   But nobody seems to care
   It don’t seem right somehow
   It just don’t seem fair
   He’s still a gorilla

6. You Make It Easy

   You Make It Easy

   X

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   Gosh almighty baby
   Yes, indeed
   You supply the satisfy and I’ll supply the need
   I can’t help the way I feel though I know just where it leads
   You make it easy ( yes, you do)
   For a man to fall, for a man to fall

   Heaven knows I love my woman
   Just bound to fuss and fight
   Now I wind up on the barroom stool
   Buying drinks and keeping tight
   But you know I’ve never done
   What’s come in my mind tonight
   You make it easy just sitting there looking good
   For a man to fall, for a man to fall

   Now me and my wife
   We’ve got the rest of our life
   To make this thing right
   But you and me will only see tonight

   So baby, won’t you turn me down and point me out the door
   I’ll head home and sleep it off just like every time before
   You keep on lookin’ good my way
   I won’t hold out anymore
   You make it easy, you sure do make it easy, baby
   For a man to fall, for a man to fall

   You don’t have to make it so easy, baby , no,no,no
   For a man to fall
   For a man to fall
   For another wise good man to fall
   You don’t have to make it so easy, baby
   For another wise good man to fall
   You don’t have to make it so easy, baby

7. I Was A Fool To Care

   I Was A Fool To Care

   X

   ---

   I was a fool to care
   I was a fool to care
   I was a fool to care

   But I don’t care
   Even if I was a fool
   I’m still in love with you

   And had I listened to the grape vine
   I might have had my doubts
   But I did my level best
   Just to block them out

   Cuz love is so unwise
   And love has no eyes
   And it took a while for a fool to see
   What his friends were on about

   I was a fool to care
   I was a fool to care
   I was a fool to care

   Yeah, But I don’t care
   Even if I was a fool
   I’m still in love with you

   Imagining your face
   It almost fills the empty space before me
   I can see your eyes
   And almost hear your lovely lies
   Oh yeah

   I wish I was an old man
   And love was through with me
   I wish I was a baby on my mamas knee
   I wish I was a frieght train
   Moving down the line
   Just a keeping track of time
   Without all these memories

   Well I was a fool to care
   Well I was a fool to care
   I was a fool to care

   Hey but I don’t care
   Even if I was a fool
   I’m still in love with you
   Baby, yes I am

   I could have opened my eyes
   I could have seen through your lies
   I could have stood for no more
   I could have walked out the door

   But I was a fool to care
   I was a fool to care
   Well I was a fool to care
   And I was a fool to care

   (I was a fool) You weren’t nothing but a fool to care
   (I was a fool) Just a country fool to care
   (Repeat and fade out)

8. Lighthouse

   Lighthouse

   X

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   (with Nash and Crosby)

   Off the coast of Africa
   Bound for South America
   A world away from here
   Is a ship that sails the sea
   Is a man who’s just like me
   And I wish that I was there

   I’m a lonely lighthouse, not a ship out in the night
   I’m watching the sea
   She’s come half-way round the world to see the light
   and to stay away from me
   There is a shipwreck lying at my feet
   Some weary refugee from the rolling deep
   Ah, would you lose it all and fall for me?

   (Chorus)
   Couldn’t we shine?
   I’m rolling all my golden moments into one
   Like to shine like the sun for one more Summer day
   Shine like a lighthouse for one last Summer night
   Flashing on, flashing, fading away

   Well if you feel lost and lonely and don’t know where to go
   And you hear this song on the radio
   Or even if you’re feeling healthy and strong
   You might like to sing along
   But just because I might be standing here
   That don’t mean I won’t be wrong this time
   You could follow me and lose your mind

   – Chorus –

   Off the coast of Africa
   bound for South America
   A world away from here
   Is a ship that sails the sea
   Is a man who’s just like me
   And I wish that I was there

9. Angry Blues

   Angry Blues

   X

   ---

   I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good
   I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good
   If I had my way
   I’d be sitting on the top of the world
   I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good
   When the anger comes in him
   There’s no place for a man to hide
   When the anger comes in him
   There’s no place for a man to hide
   Would he do anything in the world
   To make him feel better inside
   When the anger comes in him
   There’s no place for a man to hide
   Gonna sit back here
   Gonna watch this cloud roll by
   The next time that you see me
   I should be shining like the Fourth of July
   Gonna sit back here
   Gonna watch this cloud roll by

   I ain’t lookin’ for details
   Won’t you just give me a clue
   Oh Lord what am I gonna do

10. Love Songs

    Love Songs

    X

    ---

    She doesn’t know what she’s done
    Little one doesn’t know when to stop
    Love must find her
    Love must find her a way

    She doesn’t know what he’s thinking
    She only knows how he behaves
    Love must find him
    Love must find him a way

    I reckon I must be just an old softy
    ‘Cause I still believe in love
    I think the best is yet to come
    ‘Cause where I’m from is also where I’m going

    And in the time that it takes to sing this song
    I hope you can see for yourself
    Love must find you
    Love must find you a way

    I reckon I must be just an old softy
    ‘Cause I still believe in love
    I think the best is yet to come
    ‘Cause where I’m from is also where I’m going

    And in the time that it takes to sing you this song
    I think I can see for myself
    Love has found me
    Love has found me a way (Oh, love has surely found a way)

    Never did I feel like this before
    Never was I so confused
    I don’t know if I’m up or down
    I guess I’ve got nothing to lose

    Never did I feel so good before
    Guess I might as well hold onto a feeling
    It feels so fine
    As long as it’s on my mind
    What a blue Monday talk about lonely
    Don’t look back don’t look down
    Don’t know how I made it through
    I guess it’s got something to do with you

    Never was I so in love before
    The world is like a collage
    Yes, and the only thing I can see clearly
    Is the slow steady glow of love in her eyes
    Talking about the slow steady glow of love in her eyes

11. Sarah Maria

    Sarah Maria

    X

    ---

    Well the moon is in the ocean
    And the starts are in the sky
    And all that I can see
    Is my sweet Maria’s eyes
    Sarah, Sarah Maria
    Sarah Maria, ya, ya, ya, ya

    Well, you know about the sugar cane
    That comes from way down South
    She’s got one end in her hand
    She’s got one end in her mouth
    Sarah, Sarah Maria
    Sarah Maria, ya, ya, ya, ya

    She took me out walking
    to the corner of the world
    Where everyone was a-talking
    About such a pretty little girl
    Sarah, Sarah Maria.
    Sarah Maria, ya, ya, ya, ya

In The Pocket

1. Shower The People

   Shower The People

   X

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   (with Carly Simon)

   You can play the game
   You can act out the part
   Though you know it wasn’t written for you
   Tell me how do you stand there
   With your broken heart
   All ashamed of playing the fool

   But one thing can lead to another
   It doesn’t take any sacrifice
   Oh, father and mother and sister and brother
   If it feels nice don’t think twice

   Just shower the people you love with love
   Show them the way that you feel
   Things are gonna turn out fine
   If we only will
   If we only will
   Just shower the people
   Show them the way that you feel
   Things are gonna be much better
   If you only will

   You can run but you cannot hide
   This is widely known
   Yes, and what you plan to do with your foolish pride
   When you’re all by yourself alone
   Once you tell somebody the way that you feel
   You can feel it beginning to ease
   I think it’s true what they say about the squeaky wheel
   Rascal’s always getting the grease

   Better to shower the people you love with love
   Show them the way that you feel
   Things are gonna turn out right
   If we only will
   If we only will
   Oh, just shower the people you love with love
   Show them the way that you feel
   Things are gonna be much better
   If you only will

   Shower the people you love with love
   Show them the way that you feel
   (Shower the people you love with love)
   Show them the way that you feel
   They say in every life
   (Shower the people you love with love)
   They say that the rain must fall
   (Show them the way that you feel)
   Just like pouring down rain, pouring down rain, make it rain
   (Show them the way that you feel)

   Make it rain
   (Shower the people you love with love)
   Make it rain
   (Show them the way that you feel)

   Make it rain
   (Shower the people you love with love)
   Love, love, love is sunshine
   (Show them the way that you feel)

   Shower the people you love with love
   Show them the way that you feel
   Things are gonna be much better
   If you only will

2. A Junkie’s Lament

   A Junkie’s Lament

   X

   ---

   (with Art Garfunkel)

   Ricky’s been kicking the gong
   Lickety split didn’t take too long
   A junkie’s sick
   A monkey’s strong
   That’s what’s wrong

   Well, I guess he’s been messing around downtown
   So sad to see the man losing ground
   Winding down behind closed doors
   On all fours

   Mama, don’t you call him my name
   He can’t hear you anymore
   And even if he seems the same to you
   That’s a stranger to your door
   Ask him what’s he come here for

   Oh my God, a monkey can move a man
   Send him to hell
   And home again
   With an empty hand in the afternoon
   Shooting for the moon

   It’s halfway sick
   And it’s halfway stoned
   He’d sure like to kick
   But it’s too far gone
   They wind him down with the methadone
   He’s all on his own

   But baby, don’t you throw your love away
   I hate to seem unkind
   It’s only that I understand the man
   That the monkey can leave behind
   I used to think he was a friend of mine

3. Money Machine

   Money Machine

   X

   ---

   When I was just a child
   My life was, oh, so simple
   And the ways of the great world
   Seemed strange and funny
   Then when I was a young man
   I learned of that machine
   That turns out all those bails of precious money

   Now you can measure your manhood by it
   You can get your children to try it
   You can bring your enemies to their knees
   With the possible exception of the North Vietnamese

   It takes a strong hit from the money machine
   Sitting on top, on top of the world
   Strong hit from the money machine
   Sitting on top, on top of the world

   General Motors and IBM
   AFL-CIO and all the king’s men
   When I began the game
   See me singing ’bout fire and rain
   Let me just say it again
   I’ve seen fives and I’ve seen tens

   It was a strong hit from the money machine
   Sitting on top, on top of the world
   Strong hit from the money machine
   Settle up top, on top of the world
   (Money, money, money)
   (Give me that dough)
   (Mine, mine, mine)
   Been living in the lap of luxury too long
   Please, Mr. DJ, won’t you play my song
   Maybe my baby will listen on the radio
   Come back home to me
   Help me spend my dough

   I need a strong hit from the money machine
   Sitting on top, on top of the goddamn world
   I need a strong hit from the money machine
   Strong hit from the money machine
   Sitting on top, on top of the world
   Money, money, money

4. Slow Burning Love

   Slow Burning Love

   X

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   (with Carly Simon)

   It was a hot and sultry day
   Somewhen in early September
   I don’t hardly remember the day
   Just the way the sun beat down
   Upon the bay, baby

   I did not even need to know your name
   It was, oh, so plain to see
   That you had eyes for me
   Halfway open, halfway closed
   Half naked eyes for me, baby

   It was a slow burning love
   A fair-weather love affair
   A slow burning, smouldering love
   For you and I
   And like the sun on the edge of the Western sky
   It died

   Oh, the lights of the city were close at hand
   I might just as well have been another man
   You might just as well have been another girl
   It might just as well have been another world

   It was a slow burning love
   A fair-weather love affair
   A slow burning, smouldering love
   For you and I
   And like the sun on the edge of the Western sky
   It died

   Slow burning love…

5. Everybody Has The Blues

   Everybody Has The Blues

   X

   ---

   Poor puppy, you look so sad
   I guess you think that no one ever
   Felt so bad before

   Everybody has the blues
   Everybody has the blues
   Everybody knows the way that you feel today

   Everybody gets to sit and cry
   Everybody gets to wonder why
   Everybody gets to watch the sky turn grey

   Maybe you lost your job
   Maybe you lost your girl
   Maybe you feel like you’re losing your mind
   That’s not the end of the world

   Everybody gets to feel some pain
   Everyone got to get to caught out in the rain
   Everybody got some days that they can’t explain

   Everybody got the blues
   Everybody has the blues
   Everybody knows the way that you feel today

6. Daddy’s All Gone

   Daddy’s All Gone

   X

   ---

   I don’t have much to say
   Thought I’d call you up anyway
   Just to try to show you the way
   That I feel today
   Oh, I miss you, baby

   I sure am on the road
   I don’t need to say much more
   Just the same old well-known stranger
   That I was before
   It seems like yesterday now

   Daddy’s all gone
   Only ’bout halfway home
   He’s holdin’ on to the telephone
   Singin’ please
   Don’t make this show go on

   There’s a bus every other hour
   There’s even the midnight train
   But that don’t leave me the power
   To see your face again
   It’s not that simple, baby

   There’s a room full of smiling faces
   There’s a man standing by the door
   Says it’s time to change our places
   Get down on the floor
   Time to kill them, baby

   Daddy’s all gone
   Only ’bout halfway home
   He’s holdin’ on to the microphone
   Singin’ please
   Don’t make this show go on

7. Woman’s Gotta Have It

   Woman’s Gotta Have It

   X

   ---

   Once upon a time a good friend of mine
   Told me to tell y’all what I say today
   Do the things that keep a smile on her face
   Say the words that make her feel better ev’ry day
   You bet you better keep on you Ps and Qs
   If you don’t the woman you can easily lose
   Oh, I had a love, a true love and I lost it
   No one seems to understand about the pain that it cost me

   Woman’s got to have it
   I believe that I should know
   She’s got to know that she’s that she’s needed around
   When you kiss her
   You got to make her feel it everyday, boy
   She’s got to know that she’s not walking on shaky ground
   Think it over

   Don’t take for granted the smile upon her face
   Check a little bit closer, you might find a tear trace
   Maybe the little girl never said a mumbling word
   But she’s got to know that her voice is heard
   Oh, I had a love, it was a true love and I lost it
   Now I’m suffering all this pain that the true love cost me

   A woman’s got to have it
   I believe
   She’s got to know that she’s that she’s needed around
   When you kiss her
   You got to let her feel it everyday, boy
   She’s got to know that she’s not walking on shaky ground

   So if you’ve got a love
   And maybe you’ve got eyes to keep her
   You’ve got to give her what she wants when she wants it
   Where she wants it (all right)
   How she wants it
   And every doggone time she thinks she needs it

   Your woman needs it
   The same as mine
   A woman got to have it
   From time to time

8. Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream

   Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream

   X

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   (with Art Garfunkel)

   Well you country fools in your one horse town you can laugh at me
   but it’s plain as rain that you’ve never been down to the southern sea
   To see me now is like watching a fish swimmin on dry land
   I only wish you could see me down in the islands
   Mister, that’s my home.
   What a fool I was to leave the only happiness I’ve known

   You see me coming, you wink your eye and call me Captain Jim
   And when I don’t do nothin’ but walk on by you say baby get a load of him

   All I need is the sea and the sky and I know where I stand
   Instead of you hicks straight out of the sticks deciding I ain’t a man
   You’ll never understand

   Up here I’m a whisky bum but down there I’m a king
   Sounds just like the angels up in heaven
   When they sing
   Welcome home, welcome home
   Such a sight to see
   Instead of some salvation army sister
   Singing “Nearer My God To Thee”

   Now I know that yankee whisky has taken away my mind
   and I know that rum is the only drink suitable to mankind
   and I know this tree I’m under is shaped entirely wrong
   I need to see a gentle palm tree and I won’t wait to long
   I can feel that it’s coming on strong

   The first cold wind of winter is flapping in my clothes
   Showing me the way with the direction that it blows
   Welcome home, welcome home

9. Don’t Be Sad ‘Cause Your Sun Is Down

   Don’t Be Sad ‘Cause Your Sun Is Down

   X

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   (with Stevie Wonder)

   Don’t be sad ’cause your sun is down
   You can rise above it
   Don’t be sad ’cause you’re on your own
   You have to learn to love it
   Don’t be sad ’cause your sun is down
   You’re gonna find your way
   Don’t be sad ’cause your day is done
   There’s another day, everyday

   (Chorus)
   Everyday I wake up just the same
   Waiting for something new
   Every night I have myself to blame
   For the dreams that haven’t come true
   But especially today I’m feeling blue

   Don’t be sad ’cause your son is down
   Little mama he’s bound to feel it
   Don’t be sad ’cause your boy is blue
   It wouldn’t do to conceal it from you
   Don’t be sad ’cause your sun is down
   The night doesn’t need your sorrow
   Don’t be sad ’cause the light is gone
   Just keep your mind on tomorrow and carry on

   – Chorus –

10. Nothing Like A Hundred Miles

    Nothing Like A Hundred Miles

    X

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    (with David Crosby and Graham Nash)

    I have tried to forget about you
    And all the plans that we had planned
    Yes, and I’m bound to leave this town
    I don’t care where I may land

    If what they’re telling me is true
    And you have found somebody new
    To love you
    There ain’t but one thing I can do, baby
    To save my heart from being broken in two by you
    Baby, I’m moving through

    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    Between me and trouble in my mind
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    Show me the yellow line
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    When I’m only passing through
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    To make me forget about you
    Forget about you, baby

    Don’t we like our found farewells
    And don’t we like to keep our good-byes
    Nice and clean
    You may wish I’d go to hell
    While you tell me what a pleasure it’s been
    So long, baby, I’m moving on

    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    Between me and trouble in mind
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    Somebody show me the yellow line
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    When I’m only passing through
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    To make me forget about you
    Forget about you

    I have tried to forget about you
    Baby, I have failed
    Just as long as I stay in Houston
    I will

11. Family Man

    Family Man

    X

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    (with Carly Simon, Alex Taylor, and Bonnie Raitt)

    Woah Jocko, don’t expect me
    To come out drinking, messin’ around
    Spending my time
    With a bunch of crazy people
    Yes, I been there before
    I don’t need to go back no more

    I’m just a family man
    Like it or not
    I am a family man
    I’m a-holding onto what I’ve got
    I’m a family man
    Right by damn
    Finally, find out what I am
    Is a family man

    And don’t expect me
    To hit the road
    At a moment’s notice
    Without my suitcase
    With some crazy bunch of strangers
    In some unknown car
    I’m just not willing to go that far

    The life I used to lead was a little too frantic
    I guess I just got eyes to grow old and grey
    And if what I have in mind isn’t super romantic
    I guess I always saw myself this way

    I’m just a family man
    Like it or not
    Said I’m a family man
    Holding onto what I’ve got
    I’m a family man
    Right by damn
    I, finally, find out what I am
    Is a family man

    Sears and Roebuck
    Howard Johnson
    Colonel Sanders
    Station wagon
    Briggs and Stratton
    Second mortgage
    If I can ever lose my blues
    Walk on over and turn on the TV
    What I’d like to do is lie down on the sofa
    Later on
    I might walk my dog, baby
    Bo Diddley’s a family man

12. Golden Moments

    Golden Moments

    X

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    Now if all my golden moments
    Could be rolled into one
    They would shine just like the sun
    For a Summer day
    And after it was over
    We could have it back again
    With credit to the editor
    For striking out the rain (very clean)
    And all it really needed
    Was the proper point of view

    No one’s gonna bring me down
    No one’s gonna stop me now

    Now I gathered up my sorrows
    And I sold them all for gold
    And I gathered up the gold
    And I threw it all away
    It all went for a good time and a song (come on)
    The laughter was like music
    It did float my soul along for awhile
    And all it really needed was the proper point of view

    No one’s gonna reach me here
    No one’s gonna know I’m gone

    You may think I might be crazy
    And I guess you might be right
    But I know the way I feel today is out of sight
    I do not trust my senses to remember your name
    Without corrective lenses
    Things are never twice the same anyway
    And all it really needed
    Was the proper point of view

    No one’s gonna bring me down
    No one’s gonna stop me now
    No one’s gonna reach me here
    No one’s gonna know I’m gone