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Living now here but for fortune Placed by fate’s mysterious schemes Who’d believe that we’re the ones asked To try to rekindle the patriot’s dreams Arise sweet destiny, time runs short All of your patience has heard their retort Hear us now for alone we can’t seem To try to rekindle the patriot’s dreams Can [...]
In the candle, lights burn away Leaving nothing, except the day Just to blow your mind away Coming thus, this daily change You sit and pose the very strange He sits and hums ‘Home on the Range”” And just wouldn’t you believe it Now the hallway, now the doors Locking out your deathlike chores Locking [...]
It’s okay if you’re all right It’s good to be here with you tonight Dressed in moonlight and faded jeans It ain’t no mystery, all it means is I can’t believe I’ll be with you tonight I can’t believe I’ll be with you tonight We’ll be all right if it’s ok I know I’m crazy [...]
Everything seems to be going in the wrong direction The doctor wants to give me more injections He’s given me shots for a thousand rare infections And they don’t know if they’ll Iet me go CHORUS: Connection No I just can’t make no connection And all I want to do Is just to get back [...]
CHORUS: Inch by inch, row by row Gonna make this garden grow Gonna mulch it deep and low Gonna make it fertile ground Inch by inch, row by row Please bless these seeds I sow Please keep them safe below ‘Till the rain comes tumbling down Pullin’ weeds and pickin’ stones We are made of [...]
words and music by Arlo Guthrie CHORUS: I don’t want a pickle Just want to ride on my motorsickle And I don’t want a tickle ‘Cause I’d rather ride on my motorsickle And I don’t want to die Just want to ride on my motorcy…cle It was late last night the other day I thought [...]
Beneath this balcony of stars Beyond the searchlight stage where we’ve become The stuff of time amid the waves Whose nets are cast along the shore when day is done As the seabird flies aboce My songs are sung to those I’ve come to love The petals strung into the leis The flowering of days [...]
Truth is you’ve been waiting so long You’re ripe and so insane Can the tentacles of your mind stop the pain How long will you sit there wondering What’s happening to your heart Can’t you fell the love surround you – That’s a start CHORUS: I’ll take to the road in a little while Under [...]
Ridin’ on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday mornin’ rail 15 cars & 15 restless riders Three conductors, 25 sacks of mail All along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee Rolls along past houses, farms & fields Passin’ graves that have no name, freight yards full of old black men [...]
Just me and a friend roamin’ around Him a magician and I was a clown Playin’ the streets for a dollar a day Waitin’ for the right time and a sign to lead the way Crossed over the border to a mystical land Sort of unexpected didn’t quite understand On a razor’s edge on a [...]
by T-Bone Burnett The power of love can make a blind man see Can bring a man to his knees The power of love can make a sultan grieve Can make a skeptic believe CHORUS: The power of love is south of south And scorches out all the doubt The power of love is the [...]
It ain’t so much the boredom But the fire in her soul That made her life unbearable While living in that hole Of her dark surburban nightmare ‘Till she went to see the Dead And the self esteem she valued Was immediately spent And she had no one to turn to So she just turned [...]
My name is Juanano de Castro My father was a Spanish Grandee But I won my wife in a card game To hell with those lords o’er the sea CHORUS: Well the South Coast is wild coast and lonely You might win in a game at Cholon But a lion still rules the Barranca And [...]
There’s sometimes I don’t believe in nothing Sometimes I do That’s why it hurts to believe in you Though I know that pain and sorrow Ain’t nothing new It really hurts to be hurt by you Lost my job to no one Lost my baby to another man That’s what I get for going to [...]
I am a little Beggar and a Beggar I have been For three score’r more in this little Isle of green And I’m known from the Liffy down to Segue And I’m known by the name of bold Donahue Of all the trades a-goin’ now sure beggin is the best When a man gets tired [...]
Wanna hear something? You know that Indians never ate clams. They didn’t have linguini! And so what happened was that clams was allowed to grow unmolested in the coastal waters of America for millions of years. And they got big, and I ain’t talking about clams in general, I’m talking about each clam! I mean [...]
My love, you are the song That sings inside of me The song is always the same It starts with love and ends with your name The more that I love you There’s more in you to love And yet I just don’t know how I could love you more than I do right now [...]
I dream in the morning That she brings me water And I dream in evening That she brings me wine Just a poor man’s daughter From Puerto Penasco Evangelina in old Mexico There’s a great hot desert South of Mexicali And if you don’t have water Then you better not go Tequila won’t get you [...]
I want to hop on the last train in the station Won’t need to get yourself prepared When you’re on that last train to glory You’ll know you’re reasonably there Maybe you ain’t walked on any highway You’ve just been flyin’ in the air But if you’re on that last train to glory You’ll know [...]
One day, one day, Sir I was walking along I heard that special Singing a lonesome song Chorus: Oh, let the Midnight Special Shine her light on me Let the Midnight Special Shine her ever lovin light on me If you ever go to Houston You know you better walk right You know you better [...]