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Music: chan kinchla Lyrics: john popper Ivory tusk, smash into thine own To show thee fit to continue I weep for them and i weep for me We rally to charge to die And laugh when it’s through Well rise and walk now you’re a man Don’t try to play catch me if you can [...]
I’m taken aback But still I let it ride No sudden movements I ease my hand real slow Then my hands are like lightning And the bullets start to fly I was almost in the clear too With just inches left to go – [Chorus] And, if it’s a fool who likes to rush in [...]
Music & lyrics: john popper Have you ever seen an atom Little bits of everything floating by Take a good look at them Collectively they compose all you see including your eye Brilliant puzzle A living rubix cube we think we can figure out and solve But we’re just monkeys Scratching our heads trying to [...]
Sweet talking hippie Cross your killing floor, baby Gonna come a little closer Cause you know i want more, baby Don’t run off Don’t you be afraid of me You know you are what you made you baby I am what i try to be You know i need your love And i could use [...]
Lyrics & music: john popper Maxwellton’s braes are bonnie Where early fa’s the dew And it’s there that annie laurie Gave me her promise true Gave me her promise true Which ne’er forgot will be And for bonnie annie laurie I’d lay me doon and dee Her brow, is like the snowdrift Her neck is [...]
Tryin’ to make a train at sunrise Gonna have to run a red light Tryin’ to make a train at sunrise Gonna have to run a red light Travelin’ with my Carolina You know, the girl kept me up all night And when my Carolina throw down You know, the girl know how to fight [...]
Music & lyrics: john popper If cyrano de bergerac Fell prey to the blades of fifty men With a heart and a sword he’d drive them back Perchance to see roxanne’s eyes light up the sky again And when beauty kind and full of grace Again denied the beast her hand The beast he turned [...]
Music: chan kinchla Lyrics: john popper I’m gonna ride you Gonna ride you out like a witch on a broom I’m gonna ride you Gonna ride you out like a witch on a broom It’s the old give and take And i’ve been took again So give me room I’m gonna watch you Gonna watch [...]
Music & lyrics: john popper As i Was taught to lead I was fed well On what had come before Everyone Who had ever lived Left a lesson Regarding what’s in store They Were just like you and me Guessing their asses off Oh yes, they tried to guess well It’s our turn now I [...]
Well, it seems no one can protect you And your friends just don’t understand When your hopes and your courage neglect you And no arm long enough to lend a hand When your road seems like any other Cold and dry, wonder why You’ve just gotta believe one way or another It’s just gotta be [...]
Music & lyrics: john popper Sometimes when you worry The tendency to hurry Can make your vision blurry And blind you You might shake and you might stammer Or dance like mc hammer But could that pomp and glamour Remind you Of who you are and where you’re going And whose mind that you’re blowing [...]
Original performer: sly & the family stone Hey! hey! hey! hey! Music all night Music’s getting longer too Music is the fire to me I wanna I wanna I wanna take you higher I wanna take you higher Baby baby take me higher I wanna take you higher Baby baby light my fire Boomchakalakalaka boomlaka [...]
Original performer: taj mahal She caught the katy Left me a mule to ride She caught the katy Left me a mule to ride Well my baby caught the katy Left me amule to ride The train pulled out I walked on behind Crazy bout her That hard-headed woman of mine Man, my baby long [...]
Autumn air it carries me there Less than an hour ago Six hundred miles an hour And still it feels so slow I’m trying to get back to Burlington To a square in the center of town To a spot on a wooden table Where her feet didn’t reach the ground And when she kisses [...]
Low rider gonna get a little lower Low rider gonna ride a little slower Low rider gonna get out in the street now Low rider gonna move your feet now Take a little trip Take a little trip Take a little trip with me Take a little trip Take a little trip Take a little [...]
In the picture is a tepee I can handle this every day I’m down here at johnny’s restaurant, and so I don’t care about em lagging in their way Oh, the principles of power Grow balanced every year Though i may not survive, it’s the next man For whom the crowd should cheer And this [...]
Music: bobby sheehan Lyrics: john popper I walk right by him and he’s freezing his ass off He could be dead i’m supposed to walk away I won’t remember a thing come the summertime Handful of quarters make me feel okay Ah ah who’s gonna have to pay Ah ah who do i love today [...]
Ya know, There’s this park, you see, in new york That’s what this song is about Where we used to grow up And, um, hang around And then we started moving on And started going on the road We weren’t home that much But, back then they had this really great idea When we hit [...]
A thousand times a prophet A New York City prophet They lie there all forgotten I wonder who will hear them next Well it won’t be me and it won’t be you Kind of makes you wonder who Any sympathetic ear would do Who’s gonna hear them next Well, lie prophet lie For the sky [...]
By Blues Traveler (abeddow@moose.uvm.edu) Support your local emperor, Pay him tribute every time, Let it be known he holds your fate, From his fingertips shall flow the wine, Tell him when he speaks the air is sweet, Wherever he walks, rosebeds be laid, So that he may always feel secure, In the vast empire that [...]