We're Gonna Groove"
Hear my baby comin' down the track Betcha my baby's comin' back Someday she'll get back to me We're gonna raise a family
We're gonna groove, Yeah groove Yeah we're gonna groove
We're gonna love... until the break of day
Sweet as sweet as sweet can be You don't know whatcha do to me Let me say you're my one desire You just set my soul on fire
Oh we're gonna groove,Yeah groove Yeah we're gonna groove We gonna love... until the break of day
Sweet as sweet as sweet can be Lemme tell ya you don't know whatcha do to me You just set my soul on fire Woman you know you're my one desire...
We gonna groove... [repeat]
Poor Tom"
Here's a tale of Tom Who worked the railroads long His wife would cook his meal As he would change the wheel
Poor Tom, Seventh Son, Always knew what's goin on Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom There ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom
Worked for thirty years Sharing hopes and fears Dreamin' of the day He could turn and say
Poor Tom, work's done, been lazin' out in the noonday sun
Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
His wife was Annie Mae With any man a game she'd play When Tom was out of town She couldn't keep her dress down
Poor Tom, Seventh Son, always knew what's goin on
Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
And so it was one day People got to Annie Mae (?) Tom stood, a gun in his hand And stopped her runnin' around
Poor Tom, Seventh Son, gotta die for what you've done
All those years of work are thrown away To ease your mind is that all you can say?
But what about that grandson on your knee? Them railroad songs, Tom would sing to me
Ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom
Keep-a Truckin'
I Can't Quit You Baby"
I can't quit you babe Woman I think I'm gonna put you down for a little while I can't quit you babe I... think I'm gonna put you down for a while I said you messed up my happy home Made me mistreat my only child
You built my hopes so high Baby then you let me down so low You built my hopes so high then ya let me down... so low Don'tcha realize sweet baby? Woman I don't know... which way to go
Woman I can't quit you babe I think I'm gonna put you down for a while
Walter's Walk"
Ooh...know I feel so strange looking out the door oooh...tryin hard to change but can't let go oooh...cryin' tears of pain and more and more oooh...everyday is the same as the one before
I'm walkin the floor over you I'm walkin the floor
Every heart that breaks is a heart that's cold To the hand that takes your dreamless soul
Ooh...Is it long to wait, is it much to pay? oooh...Sometimes it's hard waiting for the day.
you know it's hard. I said it's hard You know it's true. I said it's hard you know it's hard. You know it's true
Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost When you hear the call can you count the cost? As you stand alone do you wonder how? Can you step aside, does it matter now?
Every love that's changed ?-?-? In the eye of the night ?-?-? In the day everything ?-?-? She was smilin' a tear at her waters fall ??
you know it's true. You know it's true now
I'm walkin the floor over you I'm walkin' the floor Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost When you hear the call can you count the cost? As you stand alone do you wonder how? Can you step aside, does it matter now?
Does it matter now? [repeat]
Ozone Baby"
I hear ya knock on my door I ain't been saving this scene for ya honey Don't wantcha ringin my bell It's too late for you to be my honey
ooh, it's my love ooh, it's my own true love [X2]
Don't want you wasting my time Tired of ya doing the things that you do It's no use standing in line Follow the line, you better follow queue
I say, ooooh, it's my love oooh, it's my own true love [X2]
I could sail a river run dead, but I know it's dead I could I wish for a million, yeah. But I know it's dead I could cry within the darkness, I sail away I save a lifetime forever But you know, you know, you know what I say
And I say Ooh, it's my love Oooh, it's my own true love [repeat]
Darlene"
Darlene, oooh Darlene, oooh Darlene, Darlene, oh oh Darlene, oh oh Darlene oooh Come on baby give me some
When I see you at that dance with your tight dress on Whatcha got it sure is fine I wanna get me some
Darlene, woooh baby baby Darlene, oooh be my baby Darlene, ooh, come on baby... be my baby
Darlene, ooh, Darlene, hey! hey! Darlene, oh oh Come back and be my sweet little girl When I see you on the street, it makes my heart go flitter I see you walkin with all those guys It makes me feel so sick
And I don't care what people say And I don't care what they do Sweet child I gotta make you mine You're the only thing that I want: You! Baby Baby when you walk down the block, See the people (??) Woooh! Child! Oh ya drive me wild! I gotta do it really gonna try
Oh baby, I got my car I'll take you as far I'm gonna take you every place I'm gonna boogie-woogie-woogie-woogie that's fine
I'm gonna prove it, Darlene I'm gonna make ya my girl I'm gonna boogie, Darlene I'm gonna send ya in another world
Cause I love Darlene, I gotta love 'er, Yes I do I've been savin all my money I've been workin all day long I gotta give it all back to you!
Wearing And Tearing"
It starts out like a murmur Then it grows like thunder Until it bursts inside of you Try to hold it steady Wait until you're ready Any second now will do Throw the door wide open Not a word is spoken Anything that you want to do
Ya know, ya know, ya know...
Don't you feel the same way? Don't you feel the same way? But you don't know what to do No time for hesitatin' Ain't no time for hesitatin' All you got to do is move They say you're feeling blue, well I just found a cure It's a thing you gotta do, yeah
Ya know, ya know, ya know...
Now listen: You say your body's aching? I know that it's aching Chill bumps come up on you Yeah, the funny fool I love the funny fool ?Just like foolin' after school? And then you ask for medication Who cares for medication When you've worn away the cure
Ya know, ya know, ya know... Go back to the country Yeah, go back to the country Feel a change is good for you When you keep convincin' Ah, don't keep convincin' What's that creeping up behind a you? It's just an old friend It's just an old friend And what's that he's got for you?
Ya know, ya know, ya know...
Do your dance do your dance do your dance Oooooh, medication. Medication! Medication!
Baby, Come On Home"
There was a time, I used to call you on my very own We were so happy woman, Talkin' for hours and hours on the telephone
Then one day, I set you up to walk right outta my life Leavin' me all by myself, All alone, to cry every night
(Babe...) oooh, I want you to come back home yeah (come on home) (oooh yeah) Sweet little girl (ooh yeah, been gone so long) been away so long
Now listen to me: I said I made up my mind Woman when you left me there, oh I was gonna find another sweet lover Who's gonna feel all of my... cares
So I met a sweet little girl, Just about as nice as she could be, oh I fell in love with that woman, But she turned around, and did the same thing again to me...
(Babe...) Baby, please come home (come on home) hoome yeah... I know, (ya been gone too long) been away so long (Babe...) I want you to please come home, oh (come on hooome...)
So I made up my mind, I gonna crawl right back to you woman I'm gonna plead and plead and plead, yeah, 'Till you're here by my side I can't even walk down the same old streets we used to walk down 'Cause I keep thinkin about all the good times Keep thinkin' about it, I wanna make you mine
Babe, babe, babe, please (come on home, yeah) (come on home) (You've been gone too long)
Hey Hey What Can I Do"
Wanna tell you about the girl I love My she looks so fine She's the only one that I been dreamin' of Maybe someday she will be all mine I wanna tell her that I love her so I thrill with her every touch I need to tell her she's the only one I really love
I got a woman, wanna ball all day I got a woman, she won't be true, no I got a woman, stay drunk all the time I said I got a little woman and she won't be true
Sunday morning when we go down to church See the menfolk standin' in line I said they come to pray to the Lord With my little girl, looks so fine In the evening when the sun is sinkin' low Everybody's with the one they love I walk the town, Keep a-searchin' all around Lookin' for my street corner girl
I got a woman, wanna ball all day I got a woman, she won't be true, no no I got a woman, stay drunk all the time I said I got a little woman and she won't be true
In the bars, with the men who play guitars Singin', drinkin' and rememberin' the times My little lover does a midnight shift She followed around all the time I guess there's just one thing a-left for me to do Gonna pack my bags and move on my way Cause I got a worried mind Sharin' what I thought was mine Gonna leave her where the guitars play
I got a woman, she won't be true, no no I got a woman, wanna ball all day I got a woman, stay drunk all the time I got a little woman and she won't be true
(Hey hey what can I do)
I said she won't be true
(Hey Hey, What can I say?)
Hey hey, what can I do I got a woman, she won't be true Lord, hear what I say I got a woman, wanna ball all day
Travelling Riverside Blues"
Asked sweet mama, Let me be her kid She said, "You might get hurt if you don't keep it hid"
Well I know my baby, If I see her in the dark I said I know my rider, If I see her in the dark
Now, I goin' to Rosedale, Take my rider by my side Still barrelhouse, If it's on the riverside, yeah I know my baby, Lord, I said, "is really sloppy drunk" I know my mama, Lord, a brownskin, but she ain't no plum
See my baby, tell her, Tell her hurry home Had no lovin', since my baby been gone See my baby, Tell hurry on home I ain't had, Lord, my right mind, Since my rider's been gone
Hey, she promises, She's my rider I wanna tell you, She's my rider I know you're mine, She's my rider She ain't but sixteen, But she's my rider
I'm goin' to Rosedale, Take my rider by side Anybody argue with me man, I'll keep them satisfied Well, see my baby, tell her, Tell her the shape I'm in Ain't had no lovin', Lord, since you know when
Spoken: Why don't you come into my kitchen
She's a kindhearted lady. She studies evil all the time She's a kindhearted woman. She studies evil all the time
Squeeze my lemon 'til the juice runs down my leg Squeeze it so hard, I'll fall right out of bed Squeeze my lemon, 'til the juice runs down my leg
Spoken: I wonder if you know what I'm talkin' about
Oh, but the way that you squeeze it girl I swear I'm gonna fall right out of bed
She's a good rider She's my kindhearted lady I'm gonna take my rider by my side I said her front teeth are lined with gold She's gotta mortgage on my body, got a lien on my soul She's my brownskin sugar plum...
In The Evening"
In the evening, When the day is done I'm looking for a woman, but the girl don't come So don't let her, Play you for a fool She don't show no pity baby, she don't make no rules
[Chorus:] Oh, oh, I need your love, I need your love Oh, I need your love, I just got to have
So don't you let her, Oh, get under your skin It's only bad luck and trouble, From the day that you begin I hear you crying in the darkness, Don't ask nobody's help Ain't no pockets full of mercy baby, Cause you can only blame yourself
[Chorus]
Oh it's simple, All the pain that you go through You can turn away from fortune, fortune, Cause that's all that's left to you It's lonely at the bottom, Man, it's dizzy at the top But if you're standing in the middle, Ain't no way you're gonna stop
[Chorus]
Oh whatever that your days may bring No use hiding in a corner, Cause that won't change a thing If you're dancing in the doldrums, One day soon, it's got to stop, it's got to stop When you're the master of the off-chance, When you don't expect a lot
[Chorus]
South Bound Saurez"
Baby, when you walk that sweet walk Oh, you walk it good, yes you walk it good Baby, when you talk that sweet talk Oh, it sounds so good, oh so good
With a little bit of concentration And a little bit of helpin' hands, yeah And a little bit of raving madness You know it makes me feel, baby Both my feet are back on the ground
And when the rhythm takes me It feels so good, oh so good Baby if it keeps a-shaking It will do you good, oh so much good
With a little bit of stop-a-shakin' shakin' And a little bit of ?fly right down? And a little bit of sweet con-carne It makes me feel, makes me feel I got my feet on the ground
Ooh now baby, when you move it makes me Really feel so good, oh so good And I'm so glad, so glad, so glad, so glad And I'm good, oh, so good With a little bit of concentration And a little bit of helping hand And a little bit of ?saving madness? You know it makes me feel, baby I'm back on the ground oh yes, sure does It makes me feel back on the ground.
I'm feelin' good child! Down on the ground. Sha la la la...
Fool In The Rain"
Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining Like a star that can't wait for the night I hate to think I've been blinded baby Why can't I see you tonight?
And the warmth of your smile starts a-burnin' And the thrill of your touch gives me fright And I'm shaking so much, really yearning Why don't you show up, make it all right? Yeah, it's all right.
And if you promised you'd love so completely and you said you would always be true You swore that you would never leave me, baby: What ever happened to you?
And you thought it was only in movies As you wish all your dreams would come true It ain't the first time believe me, baby I'm standin here feeling blue Yeah I'm blue
Now I will stand in the rain on the corner I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown Another ten minutes no longer And then I'm turning around
The clock on the wall's moving slower My heart it sinks to the ground And the storm that I thought would blow over Clouds the light of the love that I found
Now my body is starting to quiver And the palms of my hands getting wet I've got no reason to doubt you baby, It's all a terrible mess
I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless When I'm breathless I'll run till I drop, hey The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah Light of the love that I found...
Hot Dog"
Well I just got into town today To find my girl who's gone away She took the Greyhound at the General Store I searched myself I searched the town When I finally did sit down I find myself no wiser than before
She said we couldn't do no wrong No other love could be so strong She locked up my heart in her bottom drawer Now she took my heart she took my keys From in my old blue dungarees And I'll never go to Texas anymore
[Chorus:] Now my baby's gone I don't know what to do She took my love and walked right out the door And if I ever find that girl I know one thing for sure I'm gonna give her something like she never had before
I took her love at seventeen A little late these days it seems But they said heaven is well worth waiting for I took her word I took it all Beneath the sign that said "U-haul" She left angels hangin round for more
[Chorus]
I thought I had it all sewn up Our love, a plot, a pick-up truck But folks said she was after something more I never did quite understand All that talk about rockin' bands But they just rolled my doll right out the door Oh yeah, they just rolled my doll right out the door!
Carouselambra"
Sisters of the way-side bide their time in quiet peace, Await their place within the ring of calm; Still stand to turn in seconds of release, Await the call they know may never come. In times of lightness, no intruder dared upon To jeopardize the course, upset the run; And all was joy and hands were raised toward the sun As love in the halls of plenty overrun.
Still in their bliss unchallenged mighty feast, Unending dances shadowed on the day. Within their walls, their daunting formless keep, Preserved their joy and kept their doubts at bay. Faceless legions stood in readiness to weep, Just turn a coin, bring order to the fray; And everything is soon no sooner thought than deed, But no one seemed to question in anyway.
How keen the storied hunter's eye prevails upon the land To seek the unsuspecting and the weak; And powerless the fabled sat, too smug to lift a hand Toward the foe that threatened from the deep. Who cares to dry the cheeks of those who saddened stand Adrift upon a sea of futile speech? And to fall to fate and make the 'status plan' Where was your word, where did you go? Where was your helping, where was your bow? Bow. Dull is the armour, cold is the day. Hard was the journey, dark was the way. Way. I heard the word; I couldn't stay. Oh. I couldn't stand it another day, another day, Another day, another day.
Touched by the timely coming, Roused from the keeper's sleep, Release the grip, throw down the key.
Held now within the knowing, Rest now within the peace. Take of the fruit, but guard the seed.
They had to stay!
Held now within the knowing, Rest now within the beat. Take of the fruit, but guard the seed...
All My Love"
Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light To chase a feather in the wind Within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight There moves a thread that has no end.
For many hours and days that pass ever soon the tides have caused the flame to dim At last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom Is this to end or just begin? [Chorus:] All of my love, all of my love, All of my love to you. [repeat]
The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again One voice is clear above the din Proud Aryan one word, my will to sustain For me, the cloth once more to spin
[Chorus]
Yours is the cloth, mine is the hand that sews time his is the force that lies within Ours is the fire, all the warmth we can find He is a feather in the wind
[Chorus]
I'm Gonna Crawl"
Oh she's my baby, Let me tell you why Hey, she drives me crazy, She's the apple of my eye 'Cause she is my girl, And she can never do wrong If I dream too much at night, Somebody please bring me down
Hey, I love that little lady, I got to be her fool Ain't no other like my baby, I can break the golden rule 'Cause I get down on my knees, Oh, I pray that love won't die And if I always try to please, I don't know the reason why, yeah
If she would come back, Only stay with me
Every little bit of my love, etc., I give to you girl
I don't have to go by plane I ain't gotta go by car I don't care just where my darling is People I just don't care how far I'm gonna crawl I don't care if I got to go back home I don't care what I got to stand to her back I'm gonna crawl I'm gonna move the car, baby She give me good lovin Yes I love her, I guess I love her I'm gonna crawl.
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