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"Friend of the Devil" Words by Robert Hunter
I lit out from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds Didn't get to sleep that night Till the morning came around
I set out running but I take my time A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I might get some sleep tonight
I ran into the Devil, babe He loaned me twenty bills I spent that night in Utah In a cave up in the hills
I set out running but I take my time A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I might get some sleep tonight
I ran down to the levee But the Devil caught me there He took my twenty dollar bill And he vanished in the air
I set out running but I take my time A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I might get some sleep tonight
Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night First one's named sweet Anne Marie and she's my heart's delight Second one is prison, baby the sheriff's on my trail If he catches up with me I'll spend my life in jail
Got a wife in Chino, babe And one in Cherokee First one says she's got my child But it don't look like me
I set out running but I take my time A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I might get some sleep tonight
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1236233 - 01/21/03 08:48 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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"The Apostle In Triumph" Opeth
In solitude I wander.... Through the vast enchanted forest
The surrounding skies are one Torn apart by the phenomenon of lightning Rain is pouring down my (now) shivering shoulders In the rain my tears are forever lost
The darkened oaks are my only shelter Red leaves are blown by the wind An ebony raven now catches my eye Sitting in calmness Before spreading his black wings Reaching for the skies
In this forest Where wolves cry their agony unto the moon My spirit is hidden In the form of wisdom carved on a black stone The only way to follow
Open your soul Redeem, I am immortal
Blinded by a light My soul is held up in glory I engulf the skies The apostle in triumph
Through the eternal flame I travel As the rain keeps falling....
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1236312 - 01/21/03 09:18 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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palm sunday / robert hunter
the river so white the mountain so red and with the sunshine over my head the honky tonks are all closed and hushed it must be palm sunday agian
the sky is so green clouds of canary blood moon rise like a fat ripe cherry sunset quiet as a benediction one true love the rest is fiction
if i stay longer trouble will find me an epitaph and a sheet to wind me a passable day for the least of men it must be palm sunday agiain
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Ripple
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blood moon rise like a fat ripe cherry sunset quiet as a benediction one true love the rest is fiction
What a great verse!!!
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1242378 - 01/23/03 08:00 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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The Music Never Stopped
There's mosquitoes on the river Fish are rising up like birds It's been hot for seven weeks now, Too hot to even speak now, Did you hear what I just heard?
Say it might have been a fiddle Or it could have been the wind But there seems to be a beat now I can feel it my feet now Listen here it comes again!
There's a band out on the highway, They're high steppin' into town It's a rainbow full of sound, It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns Everybody dancin' C'mon children, C'mon children, Come on clap your hands.
Sun went down in honey And the moon came up in wine, You know stars were spinnin' dizzy, Lord the band kept us so busy We forgot about the time.
They're a band beyond description, Like Jehovah's favorite choir People joining hand in hand While the music played the band, Lord, they're setting us on fire.
Crazy rooster crowin' midnight, Balls of lightin' roll along Old men sing about their dreams, Women laugh and children scream And the band keeps playin' on.
Keep on dancin' thru the daylight, Greet the mornin' air with song No ones's noticed, but the band's all pack and gone. Was it ever there at all? But they keep on dancin' C'mon children, C'mon children, Come on clap your hands
Well the cool breeze came on Tuesday, And the corn's a bumper crop And the fields are full of dancin' Full of singin' and romancin' The music never stopped.
-------------------- Goin' where the water tastes like wine.
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Ripple
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Re: Cosmic Charley [Re: ]
#1245956 - 01/24/03 11:39 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Crazy Fingers
Your rain falls like crazy fingers Peals of fragile thunder keeping time Recall the days that still are to come some sing blue. Hang your heart on laughing willow stray Down to the water, deep sea of love beneath the sweet calm face of the sea swift undertow.
Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know, See how it feels in the end. May Lady Lullaby sing plainly for you soft, strong, sweet and true. Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow tapping at the window, touch your hair So swift and bright strange figures of light float in air.
Who can stop what must arrive now? Something new is waiting to be born Dark as the night you're still by my side shine inside . Gone are the days we stopped to decide where we should go, we just ride. Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams gone, both dream and lie.
Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know, Feels like it might be alright, While Lady Lullaby sings plainly through you Love still rings true. Never could reach it, just slips away but I try.
-------------------- The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
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Re: Cosmic Charley [Re: Ripple]
#1245997 - 01/24/03 11:57 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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rosemary/ robert hunter
boots were of leather a breath of cologne her mirror was a window she sat quite alone
all around her the garden grew scarlett and purple and crimson and blue
she came and she went and at last went away the garden was sealed when the flowers decayed
on the wall of the garden a legend did say no one may come here since no one may stay
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Ripple
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The Eleven
High green chilly winds and windy vines In loops around the twisted shafts of lavender, They're crawling to the sun.
Underfoot the ground is patched With arms of ivy wrapped around the manzanita, Stark and shiny in the breeze.
Wonder who will water all the children of the garden When they sigh about the barren lack of rain and Droop so hungry neath the sky.
William Tell has stretched his bow till it won't stretch No furthermore and/or it may require a change that hasn't come before.
No more time to tell how, this is the season of what, Now is the time of returning with our thought Jewels polished and gleaming. Now is the time past believing the child has relinquished the rein, Now is the test of the boomerang tossed in the night of redeeming.
Seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll, Six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow, Five men writing with fingers of gold, Four men tracking down the great white sperm whale, Three girls waiting in a foreign dominion Riding in the whalebelly, fade away in moonlight, Sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below.
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Cosmic Charley! Good one Newt.
I Know You Rider (Old school version)
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms.
Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest My mind was wandering like the wild geese in the West.
The Sun will shine in my back door someday. The Sun will shine in my back door someday. March winds will blow all my troubles away.
I wish I was a headlight, on a North bound train I wish I was a headlight, on a North bound train I'd shine my light through cool Colorado rain.
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms.
I?d rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log I?d rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log Then stay here in ?Frisco, be treated like a dog
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Ripple
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Franklin's Tower
In another times forgotten space Your eyes looked from your mother's face Wallflower seed on the sand and stone May the four winds blow you safely home.
Roll away the dew
I'll tell you where the four winds dwell In Franklin's tower there hangs a bell It can ring, turn night to day It can ring like fire when you loose your way.
Roll away the dew
God save the child that rings that bell It may have one good ring, baby, you can't tell One watch by night, one watch by day If you get confused listen to the music play.
(instrumental)
Some come to laugh their past away Some come to make it just one more day Whichever way your pleasure tends If you plant ice you're gonna harvest the wind.
Roll away the dew
In Franklin's tower the four winds sleep Like four lean hounds the lighthouse keep Wildflower seed on the sand and wind May the four winds blow you home again.
Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew You'd better roll away the dew
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Re: Cosmic Charley [Re: Ripple]
#1246216 - 01/24/03 01:37 PM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Born Cross-Eyed
Seems like I've been here before, Fuzzy then and still so obscure, And I don't want to see anybody cry, (Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.) Meet me some mornin' In the sweet by and by, by and by, by and by.
Song comin' on, so pleasin' to see, come and gone, (Sing to me Your sweet lovin', bring to me) You don't have to tell me why, (Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye,) Meet me some mornin' In the sweet by and by, by and by, by and by.
It ain't cause I'm the only one left darlin', Bout the time the sun rises west, Feelin' groovy, lookin' fine. Think I'll come back here again, Every now and then from time to time.
My how lovely you are, my dear, The ball game has gone much too far my dear, Sing to me, do your thing to me, (Hop a-long, honey, come along) I'll meet you some mornin', meet you some mornin', In the sweet by and by, by and by, by and by.
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Ripple
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HeHe .....I love this
The Golden Road (to unlimited devotion)
See that girl, barefootin' along, Whistlin' and singin', she's a carryin' on. There's laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet, She's a neon-light diamond and she can live on the street.
Hey hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day.
Well everybody's dancin' in a ring around the sun Nobody's finished, we ain't even begun. So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat. Try on your wings and find our where it's at.
Hey hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day.
Take a vacation, fall out for a while, Summer's comin' in, and it's goin' outa style Cause your mother's down in Memphis, won't be back 'till the fall.
Hey hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day.
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Re: Cosmic Charley [Re: Ripple]
#1247475 - 01/25/03 06:48 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mountains of the Moon
Cold mountain water, the jade merchant's daughter, Mountains of the moon, electra bow and bend to me. Hi ho the carrion crow fol de rol de riddle Hi ho the carrion crow bow and bend to me.
Hey, Tom Banjo, hey a laurel, More than laurel you may sow. More than laurel you may sow. Hey, the laurel, hey the city in the rain, Hey, hey, hey the wild wheat waving in the wind.
Twenty degrees of solitude, twenty degrees in all, All the dancing kings and wives assembled in the hall. Lost is the long and loneliest town fairly sybil flying. All along the, all along the mountains of the moon.
Hey, Tom Banjo it's time to matter, The earth will see you on through this time, The earth will see you on through this time. Down by the water, the Marsh King's daughter, did you know? Clothed in tatters always will be. Tom, where did you go?
Mountains of the moon, Electra, mountains of the moon, All along the, all along the mountains of the moon. Hi ho the carrion crow fol de rol de riddle Hi ho the carrion crow bow and bend to me. Bend to me.
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Stagger Lee
1948, Xmas eve, with a full moon over town Stagger Lee shot Billy DeLions And he blew that poor boy down. Do you know what he shot him for? What do you make of that? Cause Billy DeLions threw the lucky dice Won Stagger Lee's Stetson hat.
Bayo, Bayo, tell me how can this be? You arrest the girls for turning tricks But you're scared of Stagger Lee. Stagger Lee is a madman and he shot my Billy D. Bayo go get him or give the job to me.
Delia DeLions, dear sweet Delia-D How the hell can I arrest him? He's twice as big as me. Well don't ask me to go downtown, I won't come back alive [no more]. Not only is that mother big but he packs a .45 [four].
Bayo, Delia said, just give me a gun he shot my Billy dead now I'm gonna see him hung. She went into the DeLion's club through Billy DeLions blood Stepped up to Stagger Lee at the bar, Said, "Buy me a gin fizz, love."
As Stagger Lee lit a cigarette she shot him in the balls Blew the smoke off her revolver, had him dragged to city hall Bayo, Bayo, see you hang him high He shot my Billy dead and now he's got to die.
Delia went a walking down on Singapore Street A three-piece band on the corner played "Near My God to Thee" But Delia whistled a different tune, what tune could it be?
The song that woman sung was "Look Out Stagger Lee". The song that Delia sung was "Look Out Stagger Lee".
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Ripple
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I love the lyrics to Mountains of the Moon
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Re: Cosmic Charley [Re: Ripple]
#1247544 - 01/25/03 07:33 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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This song is meant to be heard, not read. It doesn't translate very well onto paper. But I love this song so I had to include it.
Lost Sailor
Compass card is spinning, Helm is swinging to and fro, Oh where's the dog star, Oh where's the moon? You're a lost sailor, you've been too long at sea.
Some days the gales are howling, Some days the sea is still as glass. Oh raise the mainsail, Oh lash the mast. You're a lost sailor, been way too long at sea.
Now the shore lights beckon, it is the price for being free. Yeah, the seabirds cryin' and there's a ghost wind blowing, And it's calling you to that misting swirling sea.
Till the chains of your dreams are broken, There's no place in this world you can be. You're a lost sailor, you've been way too long at sea. Now the shore lights beckon, there is a price for being free.
Driftin'. Yeah, driftin'. Yeah, driftin' and dreamin'. 'Cause there's a place you've never been. Maybe a face you've never seen. You can hear them callin' on the wind.
Go on and drift your life away, Driftin' and dreamin'. Drift your life away, Maybe goin' on a dream. Maybe goin' for a feelin', Goin' for a feelin' -- Drift your life away.
-------------------- Goin' where the water tastes like wine.
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Re: Cosmic Charley [Re: Ripple]
#1247558 - 01/25/03 07:39 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
I love the lyrics to Mountains of the Moon
Yeah. There's something so magical and nostalgic about those lyrics. My favorite line is:
"The Earth will see you on through this time."
-------------------- Goin' where the water tastes like wine.
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Ripple
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Twenty degrees of solitude, twenty degrees in all, All the dancing kings and wives assembled in the hall.
My favorite!
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Ripple
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The Wheel
The wheel is turning and you can't slow down, You can't let go and you can't hold on, You can't go back and you can't stand still, If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.
Won't you try just a little bit harder, Couldn't you try just a little bit more? Won't you try just a little bit harder, Couldn't you try just a little bit more?
Round, round robin run round, got to get back to where you belong, Little bit harder, just a little bit more, A little bit further than you gone before.
The wheel is turning and you can't slow down, You can't let go and you can't hold on, You can't go back and you can't stand still, If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, Big wheel turn by the grace of God, Every time that wheel turn 'round, Bound to cover just a little more ground.
The wheel is turning and you can't slow down, You can't let go and you can't hold on, You can't go back and you can't stand still, If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.
Won't you try just a little bit harder, Couldn't you try just a little bit more? Won't you try just a little bit harder, Couldn't you try just a little bit more?
-------------------- The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
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