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Hey, hey, honey, what's on your mind?
Well, you said that sleeping with a poor band's not your style
Ain't that just a little unkind
Hey, Marlon Brando, what would you do in a spot like this?
I don't play as your pawn tonight
Doing the New York Hustle with a hundred dollar miss
Summer night in the city
New York girls, they always make you feel so fine

I'm sittin' in my room,
I'm starin' out my window
And I wonder where you've gone
Thinking back on the happy hours just before the dawn
Outside the wind is blowin'
It seems to call your name again
Where have you gone
City streets and lonely highways

Since you're the delegate from Kansas
Will you kindly take the floor?
Now tell us, what is Kansas thinkin'?
What is Kansas for?

Well Kansas is for the farmer
We stand behind the little man
We need a fire house in Topeka

Well, I built me a raft and she`s ready for
floatin`
Ol` Mississippi, she`s callin` my name
Catfish are jumpin`
That paddle wheel thumpin`
Black water keeps rollin` on past just the same

Old black water, keep on rollin`

Standing on the back porch talking to your sister
The walls came down and hit me like a Twister
Been locked up and they've thrown away the key
Now we've all got a show on the real TV

Going back, yeah, yeah
Going back, whoa, whoa
Going back, yeah, yeah

When the sun comes up on a sleepy little town
Down around San Antone
And the folks are risin' for another day
'Round about their homes

The people of the town are strange
And they're proud of where they came
Well, you're talkin' 'bout China Grove

Playin' easy somewhere, shade across my mind
Thoughts that pass I cannot catch, I reach for you and find
That I have learned how not to get burned now
Wind in the tree blows, even the sea knows
That I have learned how, think I can see now
Lookin' through dreams is not what it seems
They handed me the bottle and said drink it 'til it's gone
But now that it's half empty I'm not sure I can go on

I just looked in the mirror, was that me
I'm older now than I used to be
The sky above me, Lord, it's turnin' red
There's a hard rain fallin' 'round my head
Oh, Lord, fallin' 'round my head
Oh, Lord, fallin' 'round my head
Oh, Lord, fallin' 'round my head
Oh, Lord, fallin' 'round my head

Red eyed momma keep cryin'
Blue eyed cat keeps a lyin'
Catfish keep his eye on the string
And that cotton mouth keep on windin'
Sing, sing, sing

Dark moon keeps hidin'
And 'gator, he keeps right on slidin'

Pat simmons

Come on over baby got nothin' to lose
Well you never get enough o' those
Highway blues
Just another road to freedom and you know that
It ain't no crime
Can't you hear it baby

I think back to the time
When I first saw your face
You were walkin' across the delta
To your cold and lonely place
You know, I took you for a small girl
Really not quite seventeen
Oh, Lord, but I was wrong, oh so wrong
You're like a woman I've never seen

Night time, I jumped back in the alley
Saw a shadow closin' in
And blue smoke all around the figure
A knife blade flashing grim

I made my move to get away
Seems like nowhere to run
All of a sudden I was blinded by a flash

When I think about you, baby
I want you here
I wanna put my arms around you
And feel you, dear

Girl, you've touched my heart, I'm so in love
And you're the only girl I'm thinking of, ooh

I been workin' the whole day long
On these railroad ties singin' a sad, sad song
Down the track is a bad way to live
The boss man's whip is all he's got to give
And late at night in the twilight of the South
They put you in a cell and let the bulldogs out
The old cat down the way
Well he's singin' out the blues

Day after day I'm more confused
When I look for the light in the pouring rain
I know that's a game that I hate to lose
And I'm feeling the strength
Ain't it a shame
(Chorus)

Give me the Beat Boys to free my soul

Well, the light's turnin' gray, nearly every day
Come a walkin' into town and try to find the way
Well, I've only got a nickel, got to score myself a dime
And try to make it 'til tomorrow, buy a little more time

Evil woman
Evil woman
Evil woman

Eyes of silver hungry and aware
Eyes of silver, your mystic love I share
'Cause I'm hungry baby
For the love you give away
Kick out all that stupid pride
That's standin' in my way
Inside my loving eyes are open wide
Eyes of silver, on which I shall rely

Well, the sun is shinin? a new day is here
All the people smilin? and the sky is clear
Not an hour wasted will I share with you
Got to keep lovin?, mama no matter what I do

Ooh, ooh, ooh I got to tell you
Feelin? down farther, feelin? farther down
Feelin? down farther, baby, feelin? farther down

Tiran porter

Well, I thought you'd be back on the track
But I guess I was wrong, man
For the look in your eyes was the same
Empty high that you'd shown
As I ran down the road I'd forgotten this load was upon you
So the band packed it's bags and played on, goodbye

Tom johnston

Smell the fragrance of the old pine tree
See the woman, she's down on her knees
She own some land, and a good crop she seeks
Down along the banks of greenwood creek

I can hear that southbound rollin'

Well, music, sweet music
Lord, is gonna be played, mm-hmm
And the sound of Billy's banjo
Is like honey on your day
When they promenade down through the square
They'll hear you say
I'm comin' your way
And I'm only just a growin'

I've heard it said that the weight of the world's problems
Is enough to make the ball fall right through space
That it ain't even worth it to live
With all that's goin' wrong

Well, let me just go down as saying
That I'm glad to be here
Here with all the same pain

Early in the mornin' when the sun come up
You'll find me sittin' at the table, drinkin' from a wooden cup
The mortgage is a comin' tryin' to take my home away
I'm not gonna let it turn my head away
It won't be right
No matter what they say
Won't be right
Tryin' to take my home away

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo

Jesus is just alright with me
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me

Don't you feel it growin',
Day by day
People
Gettin' ready for the news
Some are happy,
Some are sad
Wo, we got to let the music play
Wo, oh yeah

Underneath us all
There’s a world that we always forget ’til it moves us
Where the moon on the bay dances all alone
Ramone, he draw the razor swift, it slice the air
No more lovely dreams of those summer nights
Down in Santo Domingo
They laugh and play in the sleepy harbor town
So unaware of the danger that’s around Livin’ on the fault line

(Guitar intro)

Down around the corner,
A half a mile from he-ere
See them long trains runnin
And you watch them disappear.
Without love where would you be now?
{Without lo-o-o-ove}...

down around the corner half a mile from here
see them both feet run and you watch them dissapear

without love where would you be now
without love

though i saw miss lucy down along the track
she lost her home and her family and she won t be coming back

Patrick simmons

Layin' back and sittin' in the sunshine
Hot wind, I drink me little wine
Straw hat down across my eyes
Lettin' the world go by
Music, it start my toes a tappin'
Drum beat, it set my hands a clappin'

People outside my window
Goin' everywhere
People that are happy
People without a care
We all got to be loved
It's a nat'ral thing don't you know
The sooner we find what we need
Gonna be feeling it, happy to show

Evil ways of practice may surround you
Callin' on your inner core of life
But your father was just a complex man of business
And your mother merely portioned out your fright

But run the risk of a sudden loss
You got no mama to bear your cross beside you
As midnight angels shine their wings

Where and why I'm destined to go
Right here and now that's all I know
On either side future or past
Neither is real both fade so fast
So one by one we're given these moments to live Just as one by one they're taken away
So one by one I'm taking each day in my stride
And one by one the memories stay

Baby, there's a chance you ought to take
Chance of a mistake you gotta make
Maybe I'm mistaken too
To take my chance with you
I need you like a shadow needs a light
I'll follow you like morning follows night
When nothin's left ahead of you
I'll be right behind you

In between the doubts and the dreamin'
Comes my humble quest for a plan.
I've been out there hoverin' by,
Don't forget to pull me in sometimes.

Will you be with me as I make my journey
Through the labyrinth of time?
And I'm still waitin' for the good Lord

On a cross town bus in the city
I spied a lady all dressed in black
High heeled shoes and her dress cut loose
Her front was saggin' out on the rack

I believe, I believe
That the lady's gonna bring me luck
I believe, I believe

I was ridin' down that highway
Silver Harley by my side
When I thought I saw my lady
She was headed for the Berkely Hill
Pistol on her hip in case she needed a thrill

I don't believe it
Don't believe a word

Got those highway blues, can`t you hear my motor runnin`
Flyin` down the road with my foot on the floor
All the way in town they can hear me comin`
Ford`s about to drop, she won`t do no more
And I smell my motor burnin`
Underneath the hood is smoke
Can`t stop, and I can`t stop
Got to keep on movin` or I`ll lose my mind

Down along the river
Where the big bulrushes grow
You find the old frog jumpin the water
He won't come up no more, babe
He won't come up no more, baby
He won't come up no more, woo
He won't come up no more, sugar mama
He won't come up no more

Up all night I could not sleep
The whiskey that I drank was cheap
With shakin' hands I went and I lit up my last cigarette
Well the sun came, night had fled
And sleepy eyed I reached my bed
I saw you sleepy dreamin' there all covered and warm
South city midnight lady
I'm much obliged indeed

Tom johnston

There's a town south of the border
South of el paso they say
Where the nights are long and the winds are warm
And the women they love to play
In an old adobe tavern
Mescal flows like water

Freedom don't come easy, babe
When your spirit's flyin' up among the clouds
And when you're faced with the wise man's road
You gotta know where to go
Sun and the stars are a travelin' man's companion
Leadin' the way for his journey
East and west, wherever you go, mm
Leadin' the way

Just look my way
And I'm ready to go
Oooo-oo-oo, your sweet lovin'
I can't leave it alone
You start my heart to pumpin'
Just walkin' my way
I don't care if I feel like a fool

Drove my car to the top of the hill
And I looked out across the town
I got the urge to move again
I guess I'll never settle down

We talked about things getting better
But they still looked the same to me
Could be a near sighted heart

You don’t know me but I’m your brother
I was raised here in this living hell
You don’t know my kind in your world
Fairly soon the time will tell
You, telling me the things you’re gonna do for me
I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see Takin’ it to the streets
Takin’ it to the streets
Takin’ it to the streets

Sittin' by myself in the summertime, when the heat is burnin' down
Watchin' the golden crops in the field just growin' without a sound
I was a boy raised in the country and it's still a part of me
And you see no matter where I go it's a beautiful memory
Rise with sun at the break of day, lookin' out my window
It's the same as yesterday
Sittin' under an old oak tree, pickin' my guitar in the shade
That old tree spreadin' over my head is the closest friend I made

I'm a man who lives in the city
I'm a man who lives in the street
From F.L.A. to Frisco Bay
And everywhere in between
Coast to coast there's a question
Everybody's always askin' me
People want to know everywhere I go

Just don't know why I keep on tryin'
Must be a better way out
I hope I find it soon
Every night, I just can't keep from cryin'
Even my old dog
Keeps howlin' at the moon
Even my old dog
Keeps howlin' at the moon

There's a light that shines on all people
Sees them through
It waits and watches them move
Through their lives like people do
There's only so much we can be sure of
We can see
The rest belongs to time
And things that are meant to be

I'm walkin' in shadows, I cannot see
Faces, they smile when I fall or flee
Doors without windows all shuttered tight again
I just might pass this way again
I just might pass this way again
I just might pass this way
I just might pass this way again

The sun brings up another day
Near the little fishin' town
The nets are hung out in the wind
The sails are down
A seagull flies above my head
Spinning slowly towards the sea
He seems so free, and just like me
He rides the wind

People all around me
Everywhere I go
I thought I had a grip on things
Now I just don't know
People turn their backs on me
My feet are movin' slow
I done time, I been shined
Ain't gonna fight no more

People rushin' everywhere
If they'd only slow down once
They might find something there
Green trees and timber land
People workin' with their hands
For sure a different way to live
Gonna keep my cabin at hand
Retreat and live off the land

There's a stormy vision
Stars before my eyes
I seem to have this fear of the dark
That only love defies
And I'm walkin' as if in a trance
And I'm talkin' like a man possessed
Makes me wonder if I'll ever get straight
When you snap your fingers and change my fate, baby

Caught up in wheels of fortune while you've been asleep
Come on, give it up, you got what's comin' to you
No use for you to struggle, now you're in too deep
It's gonna be a long, long time before it's through

Changin' wheels of fortune
Drivin' us on and on
Winnin', sometimes losin'

Horizon of blue, hills are rollin'
Walkin' with you through a field of red stones
I been confused from voices callin', callin' to me
Where the white sun has shown
And I slip away
Down by the water
And I slip away
Down by the sea

I get a feelin', lost without you baby
Livin' alone is drivin' me crazy
Don't you know
I got nowhere to go
You should be the one that's hurtin'
You got everything you need
Back in the days when love was so easy
I was fancy free and laughin' with no reason

Working real hard in the heart of the city
Noon day sun feeling hot and sweaty
Trying to make my pay, trying to make my monthly rent
Working real hard for the US dollar
Living real poor gonna make me holler
I don't wanna live in the street like some folks do.

I was raised up on the corner

Telephone down the hall
Dark and dusty on a dirty wall
Funky number scratched up above
Call this number if you need some love
Another number that's hard to read
Fools 'round here call it endlessly
But I know better, just leave it alone
Sugar man sellin' dreams on the phone

You're still playing that time-worn melody
Play it now for old time's sake once more
When you want me, you won't be usin' me
Like you've done a thousand times before
'Cause I found out now
You never change
Ain't no use in foolin' myself
You never change at all

Now there ain't no rules or regulations
when you're playing rock'n'roll
You got your backbeat in the driver's seat
you're rollin' and it's out of control
Now they say that it's a young man's game
and that is who is fanning the flame
But they seem to forget
who shot the rocket out of the hole