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 Let It Grow   1
#1201479 - 01/08/03 03:06 PM (22 years, 13 days ago) |
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Morning comes, she follows the path to the river shore,
Lightly sung, her song is the latch on the morning's door.
See the sun sparkle in the reeds, silver beads, pass into the sea.
She comes from a town where they call her the woodcutter's daughter,
She's brown as the bank where she kneels down to gather her water, and
She bears it away with a love that the river has taught her.
Let it flow, greatly grow, wide and clear.
Round and round, the cut of the plow in the furrowed field,
Seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal,
Broken ground, open and beckoning to the spring,
Black dirt live again!
The plowman is broad as the back of the land he is sowing,
As he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing
That the work of his day measures more than the planting and growing
Let it grow, Let it grow, Greatly yield.
What shall we say, shall we call it by a name,
As well to count the angels dancing on a pin.
Water bright as the sky from which it came,
And the name is on the earth that takes it in.
We will not speak but stand inside the rain,
And listen to the thunder shouting "I am! "
Nothin' more, the love of the women, work of men.
Seasons round, creatures great and small, up and down as we rise and fall.
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The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
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 Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1201687 - 01/08/03 03:52 PM (22 years, 12 days ago) |
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Treetop Flyer
By Stephen Stills
I could be a rambler from the Seven Dials
I don't pay taxes 'cause I never file
I don't do bid'ness that don't make me smile
I love my aeroplane 'cause she's got style
I'm a treetop flyer
Treetop flyer
I fly any cargo that you can pay to run
The bush league pilots, they just can't get the job done
You've got to fly down the canyon, don't never see the sun
There's no such thing as an easy run
I'm a treetop flyer
Treetop flyer
I fly low, I'm in high demand
Go 15 feet over the Rio Grande
I blow the mesquite right up off the sand
I'm seldon seen, 'specially when I land
I'm a treetop flyer
Born survivor
Now people been askin' me where'd you learn to fly that way
Was over in Vietnam, chasin' the NVA
The government taught me, and they taught me right
Stay down below the treeline and you'll be alright
I'm a treetop flyer
Born survivor
So I'm comin' home, I'm runnin' low and fast
Promised my woman this is gonna be my last
I get the ship down, I tie her fast
And then some old boy wakes up, and he says, "Hey son,
wanna make some fast cash?"
I'm a treetop flyer
Well there's things I am
And there's things I am not
Yes I'm a smuggler and I could get shot
I ain't gonna die, I ain't going to get caught
You see I'm a flying fool, and this aeroplane is, whoo, hot
I'm a treetop flyer
Born survivor
Workin' alone
Edit: Oops! Ripple tricked me -- I thought I was in the Chill Out Room!  
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Papaver]
#1202536 - 01/08/03 11:58 PM (22 years, 12 days ago) |
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Tricked Myself Pap because thats where I thought I posted it....too much wine!!!
My bad
One of you mods can kick this over to chill.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1202539 - 01/09/03 12:01 AM (22 years, 12 days ago) |
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Consider it done. 
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: ]
#1202901 - 01/09/03 02:52 AM (22 years, 12 days ago) |
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Edited by PhishCubes (01/09/03 03:55 AM)
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1203664 - 01/09/03 08:03 AM (22 years, 12 days ago) |
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Sara
I laid on a dune, and I looked at the sky,
When the children were babies and played on the beach.
You came up behind me, I saw you go by,
You were always so close and still within reach.
Sara, Sara,
Whatever made you want to change your mind?
Sara, Sara,
So easy to look at, so hard to define.
I can still see them playin' with their pails in the sand,
They run to the water their buckets to fill.
I can still see the shells fallin' out of their hands
As they follow each other back up the hill.
Sara, Sara,
Sweet virgin angel, sweet love of my life.
Sara, Sara,
Radiant jewel, mystical wife.
Sleepin' in the woods by a fire in the night.
Where you fought for my soul and went up against the odds
I was too young to know you were doin' it right
And you did it with strength that belonged to the gods.
Sara, Sara,
Wherever we travel, we're never apart
Sara, Sara,
Beautiful lady so dear to my heart.
I can still hear the sounds of those Methodist bells,
I'd taken the cure and had just gotten through,
Stayin' up for days in the Chelsea Hotel,
Writin' "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" for you.
Sara, Sara,
It's all so clear, I could never forget
Sara, oh Sara,
Lovin' you is the one thing I'll never regret
Now the beach is deserted except for some kelp
And a piece of an old ship that lies on the shore.
You always responded when I needed your help,
You gave a map and a key to your door.
Sara, oh Sara,
Glamorous nymph with an arrow and bow,
Sara, oh Sara,
Don't ever leave me, don't ever go.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1206226 - 01/10/03 05:46 AM (22 years, 11 days ago) |
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Cats Down Under the Stars by Garcia/Hunter
cats on the blacktop
birdy in the treetop
someone plays guitar that
sounds like clavinette
i ain`t ready yet
to go to bed
think i`ll take a walk
downtown instead
cats on the bandstand
give em each a big hand
anyone who sweats that hard
must be allright
no one wants to fight
no black eye
just another cat beneath
the stars tonight
cats in the limelight
feels like it`s alright
everybody wants something
they may not get
i ain`t ready yet
i ain`t complete
thats why i`m heading down
alley cat street
a satin blouse unbuttoning
times a stripper
doing it just for you
knock in the brass tacks
cover up your tracks jack
you ain`t nowhere till
you pay your own way back
what else do you lack
to make it right
but cats down under
the stars tonight
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Some rise
Some fall
Some climb
To get to Terrapin!!!
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Too Far Gone
by Neil Young (Who else?)
When I woke up you were gone
And the sun was on the lawn
Empty pillow with perfume on
I smelled it.
Well, we met in my favorite bar
Took a ride in my old car
But I still don't know how
We made it home.
Was I too far gone
Too far gone
Too far gone
For you.
We had drugs and we had booze
But we still had something to lose
And by dawn I wanted
To marry you.
With our attitudes by day
And our secret dreams by night
Can we really live our lives
That way.
Am I too far gone
Too far gone
Too far gone
For you.
Was I too far gone
Too far gone
Too far gone
For you.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1208153 - 01/10/03 08:39 PM (22 years, 10 days ago) |
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Not to be a hardass or anything Ripple but you omitted the line,
"So it goes, we make what we made since the world began"
Lay off the wine man.
Weather Report Suite
Winter rain, now tell me why,
Summers fade, and roses die.
The answer came; The wind and rain.
Golden hills, now veiled in grey,
Summer leaves have blown away
Now what remains? The wind and rain.
And like a desert spring,
My lover comes and spreads her wings,
Knowing, like a song that's born to soar the sky,
Flowing, flowing 'til the waters all are dry,
Growing, the loving in her eyes.
Circle songs and sands of time,
Seasons will end in tumbled rhyme,
And little change, the wind and rain.
And like a desert spring,
My lover comes and spreads her wings,
Knowing, Like a song that's born to soar the sky,
Flowing, Flowing 'til the rivers all are dry,
Growing, the loving in her eyes.
Winter gray and falling rain,
We'll see summer come again,
Darkness falls and seasons change
(gonna happen every time).
Same old friends the wind and rain,
(we'll see summer by and by)
Winter gray and falling rain,
(summers fade and roses die)
We'll see summer come again,
Like a song that's born to soar the sky.
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I love all these beautiful words i'm in my glory:
Chinacat i always loved Cats Down Under the Stars !
Pap: one of my favorites! nice choice but you always come through!
Kosmic C : you know I love my wine dude thanks for the missing line
live five years if I take my time,
ballin' that jack and a drinkin' my wine.
El Paso
Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican
girl.
Nighttime would fine me in Rose's Cantina,
Music would play and Felina would whirl.
Black as the night were the eyes of Felina,
Wicked and evil while casting a spell.
My love was strong for this Mexican maiden,
I was in love, but in vain I could tell.
One night a wild young cowboy came in, wild as the West Texas wind...
Dashing and daring, a drink he was sharing,
With wicked Felina, the girl that I love.
So in anger I challenged his right for the love of this maiden;
Down went his hand for the gun that he wore.
My challenge was answered, in less than a heartbeat
The handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor.
Just for a moment I stood there in silence,
Shocked by the foul evil deed I had done.
Many thoughts ran through my mind as I stood there;
I had but one chance and that was to run.
Out through the back door of Rose's I ran, out where the horses were
tied...
I picked a good one; he looked like he could run,
Up on his back and away I did ride.
Just as fast as I could from the West Texas town of El Paso,
Out thru the badlands of New Mexico.
Back in El Paso my life would be worthless;
Everything's gone in life nothing is left.
But it's been so long since I've seen the young maiden,
My love is stronger that my fear of death.
I saddled up and away I did go, riding alone in the dark...
Maybe tomorrow a bullet may find me,
Tonight nothing's worse than this pain in my heart.
And as last here I am on the hill overlooking El Paso,
I can see Rose's Cantina below.
My love is strong and it pushes me onward, down off the hill to Felina
I go.
Off to my right I see five mounted cowboys,
Off to my left ride a dozen or more.
shouting and shooting; I can't let them catch me,
I've got to make it to Rose's back door.
Something is dreadfully wrong for I feel a deep burning pain in my
It's getting harder to stay in the saddle.
I'm getting weary, unable to ride.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1208719 - 01/11/03 06:34 AM (22 years, 10 days ago) |
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Walking the valleys and straining through
Leaving nothing behind but ignorance.
I've relinquished all without sacrifice.
And still I feel more and more.
The rest is mine and is for me alone.
All I need is all I have
With nothing and everything
Alone and alive, always alive
I find myself better, constantly better
Without the hassle, always looking back
Finding nothing worthy, yet forced to accept
Lately angry at the core
Who has stolen too easily.
When will it end, all this needless bullshit.
All I need is all I have
With nothing and everything
Alone and alive, always alive
I find myself better, constantly better
Without the grip on my throat.
All would be awake, and all
Would be understood, and everyone
Could be all that was possible, but
The grip is tighter than ever.
All I need is all I have
With nothing and everything
Alone and alive, always alive
I find myself better, constantly better
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"It's only wrong if you get caught.
If consequences dictate
my course of action
I should play GOD."
Maynard James Keenan, Tool
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1208758 - 01/11/03 07:02 AM (22 years, 10 days ago) |
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Big Iron
Marty Robbins
* Nothing beats the original Marty Robbins version of this song -- a classic! But Mike Ness snarls out an excellent cowpunk version, and I have heard that the Dead have covered it to... 
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
The stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
He came riding from the south side, slowly looking all around
He's an outlaw loose and running, came a whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
He was vicious and a killer, though a youth of twenty four
And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
One and nineteen more
Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around
He was an Arizonia Ranger, wouldn't be too long in town
He was here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter that he was after Texas Red
After Texas Red
Wasn't long before this story was relayed to Texas Red
But the outlaw didn't worry, men that tried before were dead
Twenty men had tried to take him, twenty men had made a slip
Twenty one would be the Ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
Now the morning passed so quickly and it was time for them to meet
It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
Folks were watching from their windows, everybody held their breath
They knew this handsome Ranger was about to meet his death
About to meet his death
There was twenty feet between them when they stopped to make their play
And the swiftness of the Ranger is still talked about today
Texas Red had not cleared leather when a bullet fairly ripped
And the Ranger's aim was deadly, with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was over in a moment and the crowd all gathered 'round
There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
Big iron, big iron
Oh when he tried to match the Ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1209686 - 01/11/03 02:02 PM (22 years, 10 days ago) |
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Althea
I told Althea I was feeling lost
Lackin? in some direction
Althea told me upon scrutiny that my
Back might need protection
I told Althea that treachery
Was tearin? me limb from limb
Althea told me, now, cool down boy
Simmer back, easy Jim
You may be Saturday?s child all grown
Movin? with pinch of grace
You may be a clown in the burying ground
Or just another pretty face
You my be the fate of Ophelia
Sleepin? and perchance to dream
Honest to the point of recklessness
Self-centered to the extreme
Ain?t nobody messin? with you but you
Your friends are getting most concerned
Loose with the truth baby, it?s your fire
Baby, I hope you don?t get burned
When the smoke has cleared she said,
That?s what she said to me
Gonna want a bed to lay your head
And a little sympathy
There are things you can replace
And others you can not
The time has come to weigh those things
This space is getting hot
You know this space is getting hot.
I told Althea I?m a roving sign
And I was born to be a bachelor
Althea told me, OK, that?s fine
So now I?m tryin? to catch her
Can?t talk to you without talkin? to me
We?re guilty of the same old thing
Thinkin? a lot about less and less
And forgetting the love we bring
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Papaver]
#1211168 - 01/12/03 04:32 AM (22 years, 9 days ago) |
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I know that Bob Weir's band covered the song not sure that the Dead ever have anthough I would not be surprised!
Me and My Uncle
By John Phillips
Me and my uncle went ridin' down,
South Colorado, West Texas bound.
We stopped over in Santa Fe,
That bein' the point just about half way,
And you know it was the hottest part of the day.
I took the horses up to the stall,
Went to the barroom, ordered drinks for all.
Three days in the saddle, you know my body hurt,
It bein' summer, I took off my shirt,
And I tried to wash off some of that dusty dirt.
When Texas cowboys, they's all around,
With liquor and money, they loaded down.
So soon after payday, know it seemed a shame;
You know my uncle, he starts a friendly game,
High-low jack and the winner take the hand.
My uncle starts winnin'; cowboys got sore.
One of them called him, and then two more,
Accused him of cheatin'; Oh no, it couldn't be.
I know my uncle, he's as honest as me,
And I'm as honest as a Denver man can be.
One of them cowboys, he starts to draw,
And I shot him down, Lord he never saw.
Well I grabbed a bottle, cracked him in the jaw,
Shot me another, oh damn he won't grow old.
In the confusion, my uncle grabbed the gold,
And we high-tailed it down to Mexico.
I love those cowboys, I love their gold,
I loved my uncle, God rest his soul,
Taught me good, Lord, Taught me all I know
Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold
And I left his dead ass there by the side of the road.
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The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
Edited by Ripple1958 (01/12/03 04:40 AM)
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
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Ripple
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Nice choice PhishCubes! 
How about:
Terrapin Station - Lady With a Fan
Let my inspiration flow in token rhyme, suggesting rhythm,
That will not forsake you, till my tale is told and done.
While the firelight's aglow, strange shadows from the flames will grow,
Till things we've never seen will seem familiar.
Shadows of a sailor, forming winds both foul and fair all swarm.
Down in Carlisle, he loved a lady many years ago.
Here beside him stands a man, a soldier from the looks of him,
Who came through many fights, but lost at love.
While the story teller speaks, a door within the fire creaks;
Suddenly flies open, and a girl is standing there.
Eyes alight, with glowing hair, all that fancy paints as fair,
She takes her fan and throws it, in the lion's den.
Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell?
I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance.
The sailor gave at least a try, the soldier being much too wise,
Strategy was his strength, and not disaster.
The sailor, coming out again, the lady fairly leapt at him.
That's how it stands today. You decide if he was wise.
The story teller makes no choice. Soon you will not hear his voice.
His job is to shed light, and not to master.
Since the end is never told, we pay the teller off in gold,
In hopes he will return, but he cannot be bought or sold.
Terrapin Station
Inspiration, move me brightly. Light the song with sense and color;
Hold away despair, more than this I will not ask.
Faced with mysteries dark and vast, statements just seem vain at last.
Some rise, some fall, some climb, to get to Terrapin.
Counting stars by candlelight, all are dim but one is bright;
The spiral light of Venus, rising first and shining best,
On, from the northwest corner, of a brand new crescent moon,
While crickets and cicadas sing, a rare and different tune,
Terrapin Station.
In the shadow of the moon, Terrapin Station.
And I know we'll get there soon, Terrapin Station.
I can't figure out, Terrapin, if it's the end or beginning, Terrapin,
But the train's put it's brakes on, Terrapin,
And the whistle is screaming, TERRAPIN.
Terrapin Station - At the Siding
While you were gone, these faces filled with darkness.
The obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in,
Sullen wings of fortune beat like rain.
You're back in Terrapin for good or ill again, for good or ill again.
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The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1211916 - 01/12/03 12:11 PM (22 years, 9 days ago) |
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HERE COMES SUNSHINE
wake of the flood
laughing water
`49
get out the pans
don`t just stand there dreamin
get out the way
here comes sunshine
here comes sunshine
line up a long shot
mabet try it two times
mabey more
good to know
you got shoes to wear
when you find the floor
why hold out for more
here comes sunshine
here comes sunshine
askin you nice now
keep the mother rollin
one more time
been down before
but you just don`t have to
go no more
here comes sunshine
here comes sunshine
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Some rise
Some fall
Some climb
To get to Terrapin!!!
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Simple Twist of Fate
(Dylan song performed by Jerry Garcia Band)
They sat together in the park
As the evening sky grew dark
She looked at him and he felt a spark
Tingle to his bones
Twas then he felt alone
And wished that he'd gone straight
And watched out for a simple twist of fate
They walked along by the old canal
A little confused, I remember well
And stopped into a strange hotel
With a neon burnin' bright
He felt the heat of the night
It hit him like a freight train
Moving with a simple twist of fate
A saxophone someplace far off played
As she was walkin' by the arcade
As the light bust through a beat-up shade
Where he was wakin' up
She dropped a coin into the cup
Of the blind man at the gate
And forgot about a simple twist of fate
He woke up, the room was bare,
He didn't see her anywhere
He told himself he didn't care,
Pushed the window open wide
Felt an emptiness inside
To which he just could not relate
Brought on by a simple twist of fate
He hears the ticking of the clocks
And walks along with a parrot that talks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks
Where the sailors all come in
Maybe she'll pick him out again,
How long must he wait
One more time, for a simple twist of fate
People tell me it's a sin
To know and feel too much within
I still believe she was my twin,
But I lost the ring
She was born in spring,
But I was born too late
Blame it on a simple twist of fate
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Goin' where the water tastes like wine.
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Love the Dylan covers!
Pride of Cucamonga
Out on the edge of an empty highway, howling at the blood on the moon,
Big diesel Mack truck rolling down my way, can't hit that border too soon.
Running hard out of Muskrat Flats, it was sixty days or double life,
Hail on my back like a shotgun blast, high wind chimes in the night.
Oh, oh the Pride of Cucamonga, oh, oh bitter olives in the sun,
Oh, oh I had me some lovin', and I done some time.
Since I came down from Oregon, there's a lesson or two I've learned
By standing in the road alone, standing watching the fires burn.
The northern sky it stinks with greed, you can smell it for miles around,
Good ole boys in the Greystone Hotel, sitting doing that git on down.
Oh, oh the Pride of Cucamonga, of, of silver apples in the sun,
I see your silver shining town, but I know I can't go there --
Your streets run deep with poisoned wine, your doorways crawl with fear.
So I think I'll drift for ol' where it's at, where the weed grows green and fine
And wrap myself around a bush of that bright, whoa, on Oaxaca vine.
Yes, it's me, I'm the Pride of Cucamonga, I can see golden forests in the sun.
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The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1214536 - 01/13/03 11:32 AM (22 years, 8 days ago) |
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Pride of Cucamonga! Love that song. Did they ever play that song live?
Foolish Heart
Carve your name, carve your name in ice and wind
Search for where, search for where the rivers end,
Or where the rivers start
Do everything that's in you you feel to be your part,
Never give your love my friend,
Unto a foolish heart, unto a foolish heart.
Dare to leap, leap from ledges high and wild,
Learn to speak, speak with the wisdom of a child,
Directly to the heart
Call yourself the king of clowns or stand way back apart,
But never give your love my friend,
Unto a foolish heart, unto a foolish heart.
Shun a friend, shun a brother and a friend
Never look, never look around the bend,
Or check the weather chart
Sign the Mona Lisa with a spray can, call it art,
But never give your love, my friend,
Unto a foolish heart, unto a foolish heart
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nope they never played it live 
but they did play unbroken chain and i was there in philly when they busted it out the whole place cried. one of the most magical moments of my life
UNBROKEN CHAIN lesh/peterson
blue light rain
well unbroken chain
looking for familiar faces
in an empty window pane
listening for the secret
searching for the sound
but i could only hear the preacher
and the baying of his hounds
willow sky
i walk and wonder why
they say love your brother
but you will catch it when you try
roll you down the line boy
drop you for a loss
ride you out on the cold railroad
and nail you to a cross
november and more
as i wait for the score
there tellin me forgivness
is the key to every door
a slow winter day
a night like forever
sink like a stone
float like a feather
lilac rain, unbroken chain
song of the saw-whet owl
out on the mountain, it`ll drive you insane
listening to the wind howl
unbroken chain of sorrow and pearls
unbroken chain of sky and sea
unbroken chain of the western wind
unbroken chain of you and me
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Good question I have never seen it done and it's not on any tape I own. Guess I gotta check Deadbase. .........Never mind ChinaCat already answered!
I believe I saw unbroken chain at the Spectrum....
Saw it live at least once.
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Loose Lucy
Loose Lucy is my delight, she come runnin' and we ball all night,
round and round and round and round and round and round and round,
don't take much to get me on the ground.
She's my yo-yo, I'm her string, listen to the birds on the hot wire sing,
yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh, singing, "Thank you, for a real good time!"
I got jumped coming home last night,
Shadow in the alley turned out all my lights,
round and round and round and round and round and round and round,
don't take much to get me on the ground.
Loose Lucy, she was sore, says I know you don't want my love no more,
yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh, singing, "Thank you, for a real good time!"
Be-bop baby how can this be? I know you been out a' cheating on me,
round and round and round and round and round and round and round,
don't take much to get the word around.
Cross my heart and hope to die, I was just hanging out with the other guys,
yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh, singing, "Thank you, for a real good time!"
Went back home with two black eyes, you know I'll love ya till the day I die,
round and round and round and round and round and round and round,
don't take much to get the word around.
I like your smile but I ain't your type,
don't shake the tree when its fruit ain't ripe,
yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh, singing yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh,
singing yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh-yeh yeh,
singing, "Thank you, for a real good time!"
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
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This is fun. I could post Dead songs all day long.
Did any of you read the recently released "What A Long Strange Trip" by Dennis Mcnally? I'm about 1/4 of the way through and I think it's amazing. I didn't know Bob stopped taking LSD intentionally in 1967! I guess he just couldn't handle it. I just read about how Pigpen, who wouldn't touch psychedelics, was secretly dosed at an acid test. The Dead had to perform that night without him. The more I read about the lives of the people in the Dead family, the more I realize how lackluster my life is. Maybe that will change some day.
Black Peter
All of my friends come to see me last night
I was layin' in my bed and dyin'
Annie Bonneau, from Saint Angel,
Say the weather down here, so fine
Just then the wind came squalling through the dark
But who can the weather command
Just want to have a little peace to die
And a friend or two I love at hand
Fever roll up to a hundred and five
Roll on up, gonna roll back down
One more day, I find myself alive
Tomorrow, maybe go beneath the ground
See here how everything lead up to this day
And it's just like any other day that's ever been
Sun goin' up and then, the sun, it goin' down
Shine through my window and my friends they come around
Come around, come around
The people might know, but the people don't care
That a man can be as poor as me
Take a look at poor Peter, he's lyin' in pain
Now, let's go run and see
Run and see.
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No I have to pick that up...last book I read was Blair Jacksons latest about Jerry. So little is written about Bobby though.....I did read about the incident with Pig at the acid test in another book though.
This is fun I love Hunters lyrics
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Attics of My Life
In the attics of my life
Full of cloudy dreams unreal
Full of tastes no tongue can know
And lights no eye can see
When there was no ear to hear
You sang to me
I have spent my life
Seeking all that's still unsung
Bent my ear to hear the tune
And closed my eyes to see
When there were no strings to play
You played to me
In the book of love's own dream
Where all the print is blood
Where all the pages are my days
And all my lights grow old
When I had no wings to fly
You flew to me
You
flew
to me
In the secret space of dreams
Where I dreaming lay amazed
When the secrets all are told
And the petals all unfold
When there was no dream of mine
You dreamed of me
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: ]
#1217160 - 01/14/03 07:42 AM (22 years, 7 days ago) |
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Box of Rain
Look out of any window
any morning, any evening, any day
Maybe the sun is shining
birds are winging or
rain is falling from a heavy sky -
What do you want me to do,
to do for you to see you through?
this is all a dream we dreamed
one afternoon long ago
Walk out of any doorway
feel your way, feel your way
like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction
around some corner
where it's been waiting to meet you -
What do you want me to do,
to watch for you while you're sleeping?
Well please don't be surprised
when you find me dreaming too
Look into any eyes
you find by you, you can see
clear through to another day
I know it's been seen before
through other eyes on other days
while going home --
What do you want me to do,
to do for you to see you through?
It's all a dream we dreamed
one afternoon long ago
Walk into splintered sunlight
Inch your way through dead dreams
to another land
Maybe you're tired and broken
Your tongue is twisted
with words half spoken
and thoughts unclear
What do you want me to do
to do for you to see you through
A box of rain will ease the pain
and love will see you through
Just a box of rain -
wind and water -
Believe it if you need it,
if you don't just pass it on
Sun and shower -
Wind and rain -
in and out the window
like a moth before a flame
It's just a box of rain
I don't know who put it there
Believe it if you need it
or leave it if you dare
But it's just a box of rain
or a ribbon for your hair
Such a long long time to be gone
and a short time to be there
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dennis mcknally`s book is great
he does as good of a job as you can do with words to explain something so sacred. he is a dr. of history and was asked by jerry to document the dead.
rock scully`s book was total trash. a junkies perspective that made the dead seem like just another drug crazed rock band. no wonder he`s not allowed in the scene anymore. i wish they would burn every copy of that book.
hopefully the future heads that want to learn about the dead will read mcknally`s book
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Sugaree
When they come to take you down
When they bring that wagon 'round
When they come to call on you
And drag your poor body down
Just one thing I ask of you,
Just one thing for me
Please forget you knew my name,
My darling Sugaree
Shake it, shake it sugaree,
Just don't tell them that you know me
Shake it, shake it sugaree,
Just don't tell them that you know me
You thought you was the cool fool
Never could do no wrong
You had everything sewed up tight.
How come you lay awake all night long?
Well in spite of all you gained
You still have to stand out in the pouring rain
One last voice is calling you
And I guess it's time you go
Well shake it up now Sugaree,
I'll meet you at the jubilee
And if that jubilee don?t come,
Maybe I?ll meet you on the run
Just don't tell them that you know me
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rock scully`s book was total trash. a junkies perspective that made the dead seem like just another drug crazed rock band.
I agree. I read Scully's book and a lot of it sounded fabricated. Mcnally's book, on the other hand, is so intelligently written and you can tell he did some serious research. He not only captures the events that happened, but also the thoughts and philosophies of people that shaped the culture. It's fascinating.
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no wonder he`s not allowed in the scene anymore.
Why isn't Rock allowed in the scene anymore?
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Why isn't Rock allowed in the scene anymore?
he was a negative infuence on jerry. he was his junkie buddy. jerry would have used herion even if rock wasn`t around, but he was seen as a bad seed. he also used alot of the deads expense money poorly and was thought of as a thief.
his book was written for the wrong reasons and is full of stuff that never happened. hunter and lesh were pissed when it came out and urged everybody not to by it. he basicaly sold the dead out. bear has also gone on record saying the book is bullshit. the dead was a sacred, magical band. i feel they were the most important event in mankinds history. i truelly believe this. and rock publicly trashed them. if he came within a mile of the scene he would be beat senseless
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: ]
#1219294 - 01/14/03 07:15 PM (22 years, 6 days ago) |
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You're in for a good read. Be sure to tell me what you think about it.
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Eyes Of The World
Right outside this lazy summer home
you ain't got time to call your soul a critic no.
Right outside the lazy gate of winter's summer home,
wond'rin' where the nut-thatch winters,
wings a mile long just carried the bird away.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.
There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away,
And there follows his wagon behind him that's loaded with clay.
And the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom, and decay,
and night comes so quiet, it's close on the heels of the day.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own,
And sometimes we visit your country and live in your home,
sometimes we ride on your horses, sometimes we walk alone,
sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1230997 - 01/19/03 10:09 AM (22 years, 2 days ago) |
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if i had the world to give hunter/garcia
if i had the world to give
i`d give it to you
as long you live
would you let it fall
or hold it all in your arms
if i had a song to sing
i`d sing it to you
as long as you live
lullabye or mabey a plain serenade
wouldn`t you lagh dance and cry
or be afraid at the trade you made
i may not have the world to give to you
but mabye i have a tune or two
only if you let me be your world
could i ever give this world to you
could i ever give this world to you
but i will give what love i have to give
i will give what love i have to give
i will give what love i have to give
long as i live
if i had a star to give
i`d give it to you
long as you live
would you have the time
to watch it shine
watch it shine
or ask for the moon or heaven too
i`d give it to you
mabye i got no star to spare
or anything fine or even rare
only if you let me be your world
would i ever give this world to you
could i ever give this world to you
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1231011 - 01/19/03 10:16 AM (22 years, 2 days ago) |
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Stella Blue
All the years combine,
They melt into a dream,
A broken angel sings from a guitar.
In the end there's just a song
Comes cryin' up the night
Through all the broken dreams and vanished years.
Stella Blue. Stella Blue.
When all the cards are down,
There's nothing left to see,
There's just the pavement left and broken dreams.
In the end there's still that song
Comes cryin' like the wind.
Down every lonely street that's ever been
Stella Blue. Stella Blue.
I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel,
Can't win for trying.
Dust off those rusty strings just one more time,
Gonna make them shine, shine
It all rolls into one
And nothing comes for free,
There's nothing you can hold, for very long.
And when you hear that song
Come crying like the wind,
It seems like all this life was just a dream.
Stella Blue. Stella Blue.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1231092 - 01/19/03 11:00 AM (22 years, 2 days ago) |
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He's Gone
Rat in a drain ditch
Caught on a limb
You know better, but I know him
Like I told you
Like I said
Steal your face right off your head
And now he's gone
Now he's gone, Lord he's gone
He's gone
Like a steam locomotive
Rolling down the track
He's gone, gone, and nothing's gonna bring him back
He's gone
Nine mile skid
On a ten mile ride
Hot as a pistol but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof
Dogs in a pile
Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
Going where the wind don't blow so strange
Maybe off on some high cold mountain range
Lost one round but the price wasn't anything
A knife in the back and more of the same
Same old
Rat in a drain ditch
Caught on a limb
You know better, but I know him
Like I told you
Like I said
Steal your face right off your head
Ooh, nothing's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothing's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothing's gonna bring him back
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1231143 - 01/19/03 11:36 AM (22 years, 2 days ago) |
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MASON`S CHILDREN hunter/garcia
mason died on monday
we bricked him in the wall
all his children grew and grew
they never grew so tall before
they may never grow so tall again
we dug him up on tuesday
he hardly aged a day
taught us all we ever knew
we never knew so much
we may never know so much again
mason was a mighty man
a mighty man he was
all he said, when i`m dead and gone
don`t you weep for me
the wall collapsed on wednesday
we chalked it up to fate
all his children ran and hid
we never hid so well before
swore we`d never show are face again
thursdat came and friday
the fires tall and bright
masons children cooked the stew
and cleaned up when the feast was through
swore we never had such times before
take me to the reaper man
to pay back what was loaned
if he`s in some other land
write it off as stoned
mason was a mighty man
a mighty man was he
all he said , when i`m dead and gone
don`t you weep for me
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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 (22 years, 6 hours 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 (22 years, 6 hours 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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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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#1242378 - 01/23/03 08:00 AM (21 years, 11 months 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.
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Re: Cosmic Charley [Re: ]
#1245956 - 01/24/03 11:39 AM (21 years, 11 months 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.
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Re: Cosmic Charley [Re: Ripple]
#1245997 - 01/24/03 11:57 AM (21 years, 11 months 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
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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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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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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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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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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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I love the lyrics to Mountains of the Moon
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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.
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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."
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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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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?
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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
There are a few Weir / Barlow songs that are that way, not many most read like poems.
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#1247588 - 01/25/03 07:50 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cassidy
I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream.
I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream.
Ah child of countless trees, ah child of boundless seas.
What are you, what are you meant to be?
Speaks his name for you were born to me,
Born to me, Cassidy.
Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac.
I can tell by the way you smile he is rolling back.
Come wash the nighttime clean, come grow the scorched ground green.
Blow the horn, tap the tambourine.
Close the gap on the dark years in between.
You and me, Cassidy.
Quick beats in an icy heart, catch colt draws a coffin cart,
There he goes and now here she starts, hear her cry.
Flight of the seabirds,
Scattered like lost words,
Wheel to the storm and fly.
Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by it's own design.
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I'm done with mine.
Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by it's own design.
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I'm done with mine.
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#1247597 - 01/25/03 07:54 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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The Wheel... Great song.
Ripple
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung,
Would you hear my voice come thru the music?
Would you hold it near as it were your own?
It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken;
Perhaps they're better left unsung.
I don't know, don't really care.
Let there be songs to fill the air.
Ripple in still water, when there is no pebble tossed,
Nor wind to blow.
Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,
If your cup is full may it be again.
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men.
There is a road, no simple highway,
Between the dawn and the dark of night,
And if you go, no one may follow,
That path is for your steps alone.
Ripple in still water, when there is no pebble tossed,
Nor wind to blow.
You who choose to lead must follow,
But if you fall, you fall alone.
If you should stand, then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home.
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It's about time
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Cassidy is one of my favorite songs ever. I'm gonna sign off for a little while. This thread is really growing. Greatly growing. I'm going to see Dark Star Orchestra tonight. I can't wait.
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Black Throated Wind
You're bringing me down, I'm running aground,
Blind in the lights of the interstate cars,
Passing me by, the busses and the semis,
Plugging like stones from a slingshot from mars.
But I'm here on the road, bound to the load,
That I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars.
Alone with the rush of the drivers that won't pick me up,
The highway, the moon, and clouds and the stars.
Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in,
With it's words of a life where nothing is new,
Ah, mother american night, I pass from the light,
Ah, I'm drownin' in you.
I left St. Louie, city of blues,
In the midst of a storm I'd rather forget.
I tried to pretend it came to an end,
Cause you weren't the women I once thought I'd met.
But I can't deny, times have gone by,
Well I never had doubts or thoughts of regret,
And I was a man when all this began,
Who wouldn't think twice about being there yet.
Black throated wind, whisper in sin,
And speaking on life that passes like dew.
It's forced me to see you've done better by me,
Better by me that I've done by you.
Now what's to be found by racing around,
you carry your pain wherever you go,
Full of blues, and tryin' to lose,
You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.
So I give you my eyes and all of their lies,
Please help them to learn as well as to see.
Capture a glance, and make it dance,
But looking at you is looking at me.
Black throated wind, keeps on pourin' in,
With it's words of a life that could almost be true,
Ah, mother American night, here comes a light.
I'm turning around, that's what I'm gonna do.
Going back home that's what I'm gonna do.
I'm turning around, that's what I'm gonna do.
Going back home that's what I'm gonna do.
Cause you've done better by me than I've done by you,
I'm drowning in you.
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It's about time
Yeah, I had a strange suspicion that you might like that song. Yay, I have four mushrooms now instead of three!
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Wow you gotta tell me about it have a great time!
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Yea..I realized I had not rated you so you got five from Ripple!
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#1249531 - 01/26/03 05:24 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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The show last night was incredible. I danced my ass off! I can't believe how much skill these guys have. They played 4-1-85:
Set One: Bertha ; Greatest Story Ever Told ; West L.A. Fadeaway ; Little Red Rooster ; Bird Song ; Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues ; Looks Like Rain > Might As Well
Set Two: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider ; Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Around And Around > Not Fade Away
Encore: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
End of the night extras: Dear Mr. Fantasy, St. Stephen, Cosmic Charley
I can't believe they ended the night with Cosmic Charley. It was a great night. I recommend seeing this band to anyone that likes the Dead.
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sweet!! these guy`s are playing about 20min. away from me in feb.
i`ll have to check them out. i have always tried to stay away from dead cover bands, but have heard there good from a number of people.
i was reading in the GD almanac that bob wier sat in with them at the warfield in frisco last year
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Yeah you should go check them out. Granted, these guys have no originality but their incredible skill and the way they connect with the audience make up for that. These guys were just on fire last night. I've seen them four times and I've never been disappointed.
Bird Song
All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew off,
Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain.
If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by,
Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night.
Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore, la-da-da-da.
Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind, la-da-da-da-da.
All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew off,
Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain.
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Yes Weir did sit in with them it was in relix...what I like about them that differs from other cover bands is that they play a specific show rather than random songs.
I would love to check them out does anyone have a link to their tour schedule ?
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Where did you see them KC?
Deal
Since it costs a lot to win, and even more to lose,
You and me bound to spend some time wond'rin' what to choose.
Goes to show, you don't ever know,
Watch each card you play and play it slow,
Wait until that deal come round,
Don't you let that deal go down, no, no.
I been gamblin' hereabouts for ten good solid years,
If I told you all that went down it would burn off both of your ears.
Goes to show you don't ever know
Watch each card you play and play it slow,
Wait until that deal come round,
Don't you let that deal go down, no, no.
Since you poured the wine for me and tightened up my shoes,
I hate to leave you sittin' there, composin' lonesome blues.
Goes to show you don't ever know
Watch each card you play and play it slow,
Wait until that deal come round, don't you let that deal go down.
Wait until that deal come round, don't you let that deal go down,
Wait until that deal come round, don't you let that deal go down,
Don't you let that deal go down, don't you let that deal go down.
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I saw them at the Barrymore Theatre in Madison, WI. It's an excellent venue. The sound, especially the bass, is always phenomenal. I was in reaching distance of the speakers for most of the show. For the entire first set I danced in the Phil zone. I used up too much of my energy throughout the first set so I had to sit down during the first half of the second set (China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider ; Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space). I then danced on Jerry's side for the remainder of the show. I love being by the speakers. I almost needed ear plugs but my ears are pretty used to loud music. Maybe that's not such a good thing. The guy dancing next to me had pot but he needed a piece. I let him use mine and he kept packing bowl after bowl during the encore songs. I was so high walking out of that place. But I think it was the music that got me the most high. Here is but one of the songs that I went crazy to:
Around and Around (Chuck Berry cover)
Well the joint was jumpin',
Goin? 'round and 'round,
Hey! reelin' and rockin',
What a crazy sound,
Well they never stopped rockin'
Till the moon went down.
Well it sounded so sweet
I had to take me a chance,
I rose out of me seat
Lord, I had to dance,
Started moving my feet,
Yes?n clapping my hands.
Well they never stopped rockin?,
Goin? 'round and 'round,
Hey! reelin' and rockin',
What a crazy sound,
You know, they never stopped rockin'
Till the moon went down.
Well at twelve o'clock,
The place was packed,
The front doors was locked
The place was packed,
When the police knocked,
Them ol? doors they flew back.
Well they never stopped rockin?,
Goin? 'round and 'round,
Hey! reelin' and rockin',
What a crazy sound,
You know, they never stopped rockin'
Till the moon went down.
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Re: Cosmic Charley [Re: ]
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Newt: I was waiting for someone to post St. of Circumstance after my Lost Sailot post. That's cool that you've seen DSO too. The last time I saw them (before last night) was at a three day camping/ music festival called Farmapalooza in Black River Falls, WI on 6-14-2002. It was show #670, 6/14/1984 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO:
Set One: Iko Iko ; Cassidy ; It Must Have Been The Roses ; New Minglewood Blues ; Brown Eyed Women ; Jack Straw > Keep Your Day Job
Set Two: Shakedown Street ; Playing In The Band > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Drums > Space > Playing In The Band > Black Peter > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away
Encore: U.S. Blues
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#1250577 - 01/26/03 02:21 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Catfish John
Mama said, "Don't go near that river,
Don't be hanging around old Catfish John."
Come in the morning I'd always be there,
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.
Take me back to another morning, to a time so long ago,
When the sweet magnolia blossomed, cotton fields as white as snow.
Catfish John was a river hobo who lived and died by the river's bed,
Looking back I still remember I was proud to be his friend.
Mama said, "Don't go near that river,
Don't be hanging around old Catfish John."
Come in the morning I'd always be there,
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.
Born a slave in the town of Vicksburg, traded for a chestnut mare,
Lord her never spoke in anger though his load was hard to bear.
Mama said, "Don't go near that river,
Come in the morning I'd always be there,
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1250759 - 01/26/03 03:42 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Jack Straw
We can share the women, we can share the wine.
We can share what we got of yours
'Cause we done shared all of mine.
Keep on rollin', just a mile to go;
Keep on rollin' my old buddy,
You're movin' much too slow.
I just jumped the watchman,
right outside the fence.
Took his rings, four bucks in change,
Ain't that Heaven sent?
Hurts my ears to listen, Shannon,
Burns my eyes to see;
Cut down a man in cold blood, Shannon,
Might as well been me.
We used to play for silver,
Now we play for life;
And one's for sport and one's for blood
At the point of a knife.
And now the die is shaken,
Now the die must fall.
There ain't a winner in the game,
Who don't go home with all.
Not with all.
Leavin' Texas,
Fourth day of July,
Sun so hot, the clouds so low,
The eagles filled the sky
Catch the Detroit
Lightnin' out of Sante Fe,
The Great Northern out of Cheyenne,
From sea to shining sea.
Gotta go to Tulsa,
First train we can ride.
Gotta settle one old score,
One small point of pride.
There ain't a place a man can hide, Shannon
Will keep him from the sun
Ain't a bed can give us rest now,
You keep us on the run.
Jack Straw from Wichita
Cut his buddy down,
And dug for him a shallow grave
And laid his body down.
Half a mile from Tucson,
By the morning light,
One man gone and another to go,
My old buddy you're moving too slow.
We can share the women, we can share the wine.
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Doin' That Rag
Da da da da da da da da da da da
Sittin in Mangrove valley chasing light beams
Everything wanders from baby to Z
Baby Baby pretty it up on Tuesday Old like a rum-drinking demon at tea.
Baby Baby tell me what's the matter, what, what tell me what's your why how?
Tell me why will you never come home
Tell me what's your reason, if you've got a good one.
Everywhere I go, the people all know Everyone's doin' that rag.
Everywhere I go, the people all know Everyone's doin' that rag.
Take my line, go fishin' for a Tuesday,
Maybe take my supper, eat it down by the sea.
Gave my baby twenty or forty good reasons,
Couldn't find any better ones in the morning at three.
THe rain gonna come, but the rain gonna go y'know.
Steppin' off sharply from the rank and file.
Awful cold and dark like a dungeon
Maybe get a little bit darker before the day.
Hipsters, flipsters, real cool chicksters Everyone's doin' that rag.
You needn't gild the lily, offer jewels to the sunset.
No one is watchin' or standin' in your shoes.
Wash your lonely feet in the river in the morning,
Everything promised is delivered to you.
Don't neglect to pick up what your share is,
All the winter birds are winging home now.
Hey love go, and look around you,
Nothing out there you haven't seen before now.
Wading in the water and you'll never get wet,
If you keep on doin' that rag.
Wading in the water and you'll never get wet,
If you keep on doin' that rag.
One eyed jacks and the deuces are wild
And the aces are crawlin' up and down your sleeve.
Come back here pretty baby Louise
And tell me the name of the game that you play.
Is it All Fall Down? Is it All Go Under?
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1261254 - 01/30/03 07:59 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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High Time
You told me goodbye,
How was I to know
You didn't mean goodbye,
You meant please don't let me go
I was having a high time,
Living the good life,
Well I know
The wheels are muddy,
Got a ton of hay,
Now listen here, Baby,
'cause I mean what I say.
I'm having a hard time,
Living the good life,
Well I know
I was losing time, I had nothing to do,
No one to fight, I came to you.
Wheels broke down, leader won't draw,
The line is busted, the last one I saw.
Tomorrow come trouble,
Tomorrow come pain,
Now don't think too hard Baby,
'cause you know what I'm saying.
I could show you a high time,
Living the good life,
Don't be that way.
Nothing's for certain,
It could always go wrong,
Come in when it's raining
Go on out when it's gone
We could have us a high time,
Living the good life,
Well I know.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: ]
#1261446 - 01/30/03 08:49 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Its Dylan vs. The Dead!
As I Went Out One Morning
As I went out one morning
To breathe the air around Tom Paine's,
I spied the fairest damsel
That ever did walk in chains.
I offer'd her my hand,
She took me by the arm.
I knew that very instant,
She meant to do me harm.
"Depart from me this moment,"
I told her with my voice.
Said she, "But I don't wish to,"
Said I, "But you have no choice."
"I beg you, sir," she pleaded
From the corners of her mouth,
"I will secretly accept you
And together we'll fly south."
Just then Tom Paine, himself,
Came running from across the field,
Shouting at this lovely girl
And commanding her to yield.
And as she was letting go her grip,
Up Tom Paine did run,
"I'm sorry, sir," he said to me,
"I'm sorry for what she's done."
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commit more crimes hate more people think of new original ways to do it go on man just go out and really piss someone off
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: triptones]
#1261543 - 01/30/03 09:11 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Love Minus Zero/No Limit
My love she speaks like silence,
Without ideals or violence,
She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
People carry roses,
Make promises by the hours,
My love she laughs like the flowers,
Valentines can't buy her.
In the dime stores and bus stations,
People talk of situations,
Read books, repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.
Some speak of the future,
My love she speaks softly,
She knows there's no success like failure
And that failure's no success at all.
The cloak and dagger dangles,
Madams light the candles.
In ceremonies of the horsemen,
Even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Statues made of match sticks,
Crumble into one another,
My love winks, she does not bother,
She knows too much to argue or to judge.
The bridge at midnight trembles,
The country doctor rambles,
Bankers' nieces seek perfection,
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
The wind howls like a hammer,
The night blows cold and rainy,
My love she's like some raven
At my window with a broken wing.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1261576 - 01/30/03 09:21 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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they love each other /hunter
merry run around
sailing up and down
looking for a shove
in some direction
got it from the top
it`s nothing you can stop
lord you know
they made a fine connection
they love each other
lord can`t you see it`s true
he could pass his time
around some other line
but you know he
chose this place beside her
don`t get in the way
nothin you can say
nothing that you need to add or do
they love each other
lord you can see that it`s true
it`s nothing they explain
it`s like a diesel train
you better not be there
when it rolls over
though you make a noise
they just can`t hear your voice
there on a dizzy ride
and you cold sober
they love each other
lord can`t you see it`s true
heard your news report
y`know your falling short
pretty soon won`t trust you
for the weather
when the ship comes in
you won`t know where it`s been
got to try to see
a little farther
they love each other
lord you can see it`s true
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Some fall
Some climb
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: ]
#1261613 - 01/30/03 09:34 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Newt I already posted Black Peter here. But this thread is growing so much that repeats are inevitable.
So Many Roads
Thought I heard a blackbird singin'
Up on Bluebird Hill
Call me a whinin' boy if you will
Born where the sun don't shine
And I don't deny my name
Got no place to go, ain't that a shame
Thought I heard that KC whistle
Moanin sweet and low
Thought I heard that KC when she blow
Down where the sun don't shine
Underneath the Kokomo
Whinin boy - got no place to go
So many roads I tell you
So many roads I know
All I want is one to take me home
Mountain high, river wide
So many roads to ride
So many roads - so many roads
Thought I heard a jug band playin' "If you don't who else will?"
From over on the far side of the hill
All I know is the sun don't shine
And the rain refuse to fall
And you don't seem to hear me when I call
Wind inside, the wind outside
Tangled in the window blind
Tell me why you treat me so unkind
Down where the sun don't shine
Lonely and I call your name
No place left to go - ain't that a shame
New York to San Francisco
So many roads I know
All I want is one to take me home
From the high road to the low
So many roads I know
So many roads - so many roads
From the land of the midnight sun
Where the ice blue roses grow
Along the roads of gold and silver snow
Howlin' wide or moanin' low
So many roads I know
So many roads to ease my soul
So Many roads to ease my soul ....
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Bertha
I had a hard run, runnin' from your window.
I was all night running, running, Lord I wonder if you care,
I had a run in, run around, and run down.
Run around the corner, corner, Lord run smack in to a tree.
I had to move, really had to move,
That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' knees,
Bertha don't you come around here anymore.
Dressed myself in green, I went down unto the sea.
Try to see what's goin' down, try to read between the lines.
I had a feelin' I was fallin', fallin', fallin',
I turned around to see,
Heard a voice al callin', Lord you was commin' after me.
I had to move, really had to move,
That's why if you please, I am on my bendin knees,
Bertha don't you come around here anymore.
Ran into a rainstorm, I ducked back into Novato.
It's all night pourin', pourin', pourin',
Lord but not a drop on me.
Test me, test me,
Test me, test me, test me,
Why don't you arrest me?
Throw me in to the jailhouse,
Lord until the sun goes down, 'till it goes down.
I had to move, really had to move,
That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' knees,
Bertha don't you come around here anymore.
I had to move, really had to move,
That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' knees,
Bertha don't you come around here anymore.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: ]
#1267315 - 02/01/03 05:02 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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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 out 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
Well, lie down smokin', honey, have yourself a ball
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: Let It Grow [Re: ]
#1267432 - 02/01/03 06:50 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Dear landlord,
Please don't put a price on my soul.
My burden is heavy,
My dreams are beyond control.
When that steamboat whistle blows,
I'm gonna give you all I got to give,
And I do hope you receive it well,
Dependin' on the way you feel that you live.
Dear landlord,
Please heed these words that I speak.
I know you've suffered much,
But in this you are not so unique.
All of us, at times, we might work too hard
To have it too fast and too much,
And anyone can fill his life up
With things he can see but he just cannot touch.
Dear landlord,
Please don't dismiss my case.
I'm not about to argue,
I'm not about to move to no other place.
Now, each of us has his own special gift
And you know this was meant to be true,
And if you don't underestimate me,
I won't underestimate you.
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#1267446 - 02/01/03 06:57 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Newt that must have been an awesome encore. Golden Road seems like a good encore song. When I saw The Other Ones last December in Chicago they opened with Golden Road.
Fire on the Mountain
Long distance runner, what you standin' there for?
Get up, get up, get out of the door
Your playin' cold music on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core.
There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town
Take a whole pail of water just to cool him down.
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Almost ablaze still you don't feel the heat
It takes all you got just to stay on the beat.
You say it's a livin', we all gotta eat
But you're here alone, there's no one to compete.
If mercy's in bus?ness, I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true.
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Long distance runner, what you holdin' out for?
Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door.
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had, Why you wanna give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
Till the thin line beyond which you really can't fake.
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
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That's It For The Other One
The other day they waited, the sky was dark and faded,
Solemnly they stated, "He has to die, you know he has to die."
All the children learnin', from books that they were burnin',
Every leaf was turnin' ; to watch him die, you know he had to die.
The summer sun looked down on him, his mother could but frown on him,
And all the others sound on him, but it doesn't seem to matter.
And when the day had ended, with rainbow colors blended,
His mind remained unbended, he had to die, you know he had to die.
Spanish lady comes to me, she lays on me this roes.
It rainbow spirals round and round it trembles and explodes.
It left a smoking crater of my mind I like to blow away.
But the heat came 'round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day.
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin', around,
comin', around, in a circle
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, in a circle,
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' in a circle.
Skippin' through the lily fields I came across an empty space,
It trembled and exploded, left a bus stop in it's place.
The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began,
There was cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land.
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin', around,
comin', around, in a circle
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, in a circle,
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' in a circle.
And when the day had ended, with rainbow colors blended,
Their minds remained unbended,
He had to die, Oh, you know he had to die.
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songs about people, we already have: Althea, Lucy, Peter,Charlie, Stagger Lee, Cassidy, Catfish John, Jack Straw, Bertha, Jimmy....any others?
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
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You forgot Sugaree in that list. here's a mother load...
Casey Jones
Drivin? that train, high on cocaine,
Casey Jones you?d better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
This old engine makes it on time
Leaves central station at a quarter to nine
Hits River Junction at seventeen to,
At a quarter to ten you know it?s travelin? again
Drivin? that train, high on cocaine,
Casey Jones you?d better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
Trouble ahead, a lady in red
Take my advice you?d be better off dead
Switch man sleepin?, train a hundred and two
Is on the wrong track and headed for you
Drivin? that train, high on cocaine,
Casey Jones you?d better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
Trouble with you is the trouble with me,
Got two good eyes but we still don?t see
Come ?round the bend you know it?s the end
?Cause the fireman screams and the engine just gleams
Drivin? that train, high on cocaine,
Casey Jones you?d better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
Corrina
Hog of a Sunday
Dog of a Monday
Get it back some day
What'd I say?
Movin' in closer
Cut from a long shot
Fade on a down beat
Ready or not
Ready or not
Corrina
Shake it up, baby
Corrina
Shake it up now
Corrina
Corrina
Cruise thru a stop sign
Loggin' up short time
Bird on a phone line
Soakin' up sun
Salt on the crowtail
What can I do?
I'm down by law
But true to you
Corrina
Shake it up, baby
Corrina
Shake it up now
Corrina
Corrina
If, what, when and where
Told at the proper time
Big black wings beat at the wind
But they don't hardly climb
There's a silver ocean
Silver clouds on a silver sea
A bird on the horizon
Silver wingin back to me
Corrina
Shake it up, baby
Corrina
Shake it up now
Corrina
Corrina
Shake it up, baby
Shake it down easy
Bring it back someday
What'd I say?
Movin' in closer
Cut from a long shot
Fade on a down beat
Ready or not
Corrina
Shake it up, baby
Corrina
Shake it up now
Corrina
Corrina
If, what, when and where
Don't mean a thing to me
I would love you
Even if you flew away from me
I just stand here waiting
Where the circle is complete
There is no fear that lovers born
Could ever fail to meet
Corrina
Shake it up, baby
Corrina
Shake it up now
Corrina
Corrina
My Brother Esau
My brother Esau killed the hunter, back in 1969,
Before the killing was done his inheritance was mine.
When at first my brother walked away,
Before a weary band,
Esau gave his sleeplessness for a piece of moral land.
Our father favored Esau, who was eager to obey,
All the wild commandments, the old man shot his way.
But all this favor ended when, my brother failed at war,
He staggered home and found me in the door.
Esau he's on rollerskates today,
Selling real estate to someone in L.A.
Still sometimes at night I dream, he's still that hairy man,
Shadow boxing the apocalypse, wandering the land.
Esau holds the blessing, brother Esau holds the curse,
I was thinking that the blame was mine,
But suspected something worse.
The more my brother looks like me, the less I understand,
The silent war it bloodied both our hands.
Peggy-O
As we marched out to Fennerio
As we marched out to Fennerio
Our Captain fell in love
With a lady like a dove
And he called her by name, Pretty Peggy-O
Would you marry me, pretty Peggy-O?
Would you marry me, pretty Peggy-O?
If you would marry me,
I would set your cities free
Free all the ladies in the are-o
I would marry you, sweet William-O
I would marry you, sweet William-O
I would marry you but your Guineas are too few
And I fear my mama would be angry-o
What would your mama think, pretty Peggy-O
What would your mama think, pretty Peggy-O
If she heard my Guineas clink?
Saw me marching at the head of my soilders-o.
Come a-steppin down the stairs, pretty Peggy-O
Come a-steppin down the stairs, pretty Peggy-O
Come a-steppin down the stairs
Combin' back your yellow hair
Bid a last fair well to your William-O
For if ever I return, pretty Peggy-O
If ever I return, pretty Peggy-O
If ever I return
All your cities I will burn
Destroy all the ladies in the are-o
Sweet William he is dead, pretty Peggy-O
Sweet William he is dead, pretty Peggy-O
Sweet William he is dead,
And he died for a maid
And he's burried in Louisana country-O
As we marched out to Fenerio
As we marched out to Fenerio
Our Captain fell in love
With a lady like a dove
And he called her by name, Pretty Peggy-O
Queen Jane Approximately
When your mother sends back all your invitations
And your father to your sister he explains
That you're tired of yourself and all of your creations
Won't you come see me Queen Jane?
Won't you come see me Queen Jane?
Now when all of the flower ladies want back what they have lent you
And the smell of their roses does not remain
And all of your children start to resent you
Won't you come see me Queen Jane?
Won't you come see me Queen Jane?
Now when all the clowns that you have commissioned
Have all died in battle or in vain
And you're sick of all this repetition
Won't you come see me Queen Jane?
Won't you come see me Queen Jane?
When all of your advisers heave their plastic
At your feet to convince you of your pain
Trying to prove that your conclusions should be more drastic
Won't you come see me Queen Jane?
Won't you come see me Queen Jane?
Now when all the bandits that you turned your other cheek to
All lay down their bandanas and complain
And you want somebody you don't have to speak to
Won't you come see me Queen Jane?
Won't you come see me Queen Jane?
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You forgot some!
Dupree's Diamond Blues
When I was just a little young boy,
Papa said son, you'll never get far,
Tell you the reason, if you wanna know,
Cause child of mine, there isn't really far to go.
Well, baby baby wants a gold diamond ring,
Wants it more than any old thing,
Well when I get those jelly-roll blues,
Why I go and get anything in this world for you.
Down to the jewelry store packin' a gun,
Says, "Wrap it up I think I'll take this one."
"A thousand dollars please," the jewelry man said,
Dupree said, "I'll pay this one off to you in lead."
Well you know son, you just can't figure,
First thing you know you're gonna to pull that trigger,
And it's no wonder, your reason goes bad,
Jelly-roll will drive you so mad.
Judge said, "Son, it's gonna cost you some time."
Dupree said, "Judge you know that crossed my mind."
Judge said, "Fact it's gonna cost you your life."
Dupree said, "Judge you know that seems to me to be about right."
Baby baby you gonna lose her sweet man,
Dupree come out with a losin' hand,
Baby's gonna weep it up for a while,
Then go out and find another sweet man's gonna treat her with style.
Judge said, "Son, I know your baby well,
But that's a secret I can never tell."
Dupree said, "Judge well it's well understood,
But you got to admit that sweet Jelly's so good."
Well you know son, you just can't figure,
First thing you know you're gonna to pull that trigger,
And it's no wonder, your reason goes bad,
Same old story and I know it's been told,
Some like Jelly Jelly, some like gold,
Many a man's done a terrible thing
Just to get, baby a shinin' diamond ring.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1271228 - 02/02/03 01:05 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Samson & Delilah
If I had my way,
I would tear this old building down.
Delilah was a woman, she was fine and fair,
She had lovely looks, and coal black hair.
Delilah she gained old Samson's mind.
When first he saw this woman, she looked so fine.
Delilah she climbed up on Samson's knee,
Said, "Tell me where your strength lies if you please."
And She spoke so kind, God knows, she talked so fair,
Samson said, "Delilah, you cut off my hair.
You can shave my head, clean as my hand
My strength come's natural as any old man.
If I had my way,
If I had my way,
If I had my way,
I would tear this old building down."
You read about Samson, all from his birth,
He was the strongest man that ever had lived on earth.
One day when Samson was walking along,
Looked down on the ground, he saw an old jawbone.
He stretched out his arm, God knows, chains broke like thread,
When he got to moving, ten thousand was dead.
Now Samson and the lion, they got in attack,
Samson he crawled up on the lion's back.
You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paws,
Samson got his hands up around that lion's jaws.
And he ripped that beast, God knows he killed him dead.
And the bees made honey in the lion's head.
Rubin & Cherise
Cherise was brushing her long hair gently down
It was the afternoon of carnival as she brushes it gently down
Rubin was strumming his painted mandolin
It was inlaid with a pretty face in jade
Played in the carnival parade
Cherise was dressing as Pirouette in white
When a fatal vision gripped her tight Cherise beware tonight
Rubin, Rubin tell me truly true
I feel afraid and I don't know why I do, Is there another girl for you?
If you could see in my heart you would know it's true
There's none Cherise, except for you,
Except for you
I'd swear to it on my very soul, If I lie, may I fall down cold
When Rubin played on his painted mandolin
The breeze would pause to listen in before going its way again
Masquerade began when nightfall finally woke
Like waves against the bandstand, dancers broke to the painted mandolin
Looking out on the crowd who was standing there
Sweet Ruby Claire at Rubin stared, at Rubin stared
She was dressed as Pirouette in red
And her hair hung gently down
The crowd pressed round, Ruby stood as though alone
Rubin's song took on a different tone and he played it just for her
The song that he played was the carnival parade
Each note cut a thread of Cherise's fate it cut through like a blade
Rubin was playing his painted mandolin
When Ruby froze and turned to stone for the strings played all alone
The voice of Cherise from the face of the mandolin
Singing Rubin, Rubin tell me true for I have no one but you
If you could see in my heart you would know it true
There's none Cherise, except for you, except for you
I'd swear to it on my very soul, If I lie, may I fall down cold
The truth of love an unsung song must tell
The course of love must follow blind without a look behind
Rubin walked the streets of New Orleans till dawn
Cherise so lightly in his arms and her hair hung gently down
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Tennessee Jed
Cold iron shackles, ball and chain,
Listen to the whistle of the evenin' train.
You know you bound to wind up dead,
If you don't head back to Tennessee Jed.
Rich man step on my poor head,
When you get back you better butter my bread.
Well, do you know it's like I said,
You better head back to Tennessee Jed.
Tennessee, Tennessee, there ain't no place I'd rather be,
Baby won't you carry me back to Tennessee.
Drink all day and rock all night,
The law come to get you if you don't walk right
Got a letter this morning, baby all it read,
You better head back to Tennessee Jed.
I dropped four flights and cracked my spine,
Honey, come quick with the iodine,
Catch a few winks, baby, under the bed
Then you head back to Tennessee Jed.
Tennessee, Tennessee, there ain't no place I'd rather be,
Baby won't you carry me back to Tennessee.
I run into Charlie Fog,
Blacked my eye and he kicked my dog,
My doggie turned to me and he said,
Let's head back to Tennessee Jed.
I woke up a felin' mean,
Went down to play the slot machine,
The wheels turned around, and the letters read,
You better head back to Tennessee Jed.
Tennessee, Tennessee, there ain't no place I'd rather be,
Baby won't you carry me back to Tennessee.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1271269 - 02/02/03 01:23 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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China Doll
A pistol shot, at five o'clock, the bells of heaven ring,
tell me what you done it for, No I won't tell you a thing.
Yesterday I begged you before I hit the ground,
all I leave behind me is only what I found.
If you can abide it, let the hurdy-gurdy play,
stranger ones have come by here before they flew away.
I will not condemn you nor yet would I deny,
I would ask the same of you, but failing, will not die.
Take up your china doll, take up your china doll,
it's only fractured and just a little nervous from the fall.
La-la-la-la-la-la-la.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1271270 - 02/02/03 01:25 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Dear Prudence
Dear Prudence, Won't You Come Out And Play ? Dear Prudence Meet The Brand New Day
The Sun Is Up, The Sky Is Blue, It's Beautiful and So Are You
Dear Prudence, Won't You Come Out And Play?
Dear Prudence, Open Your Eyes. Dear Prudence, Greet The Sunny Sky
The Sky Is Blue, The Birds Will Sing, That You Are Part Of Everything
Dear Prudence, Open Your Eyes. Look Around, 'Round, 'Round
Dear Prudence, Let Me See You Smile. Dear Prudence, Like A Little Child
The Clouds Will Be A Daisy-Chain So Let Me See You Smile Again
Dear Prudence,Won't You Let Me See You Smile? Look Around, 'Round,' Round
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: chinadoll]
#1271327 - 02/02/03 01:48 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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St. Stephen
Saint Stephen with a rose,
In and out of the garden he goes,
Country garland in the wind and the rain,
Wherever he goes the people all complain.
Did Stephen prospered in his time?
Well he may and he may decline.
Did it matter, does it now?
Stephen would answer if he only knew how.
Wishing well with a golden bell,
Bucket hanging clear to hell,
Hell halfway twixt now and then,
Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again.
Lady finger, dipped in moonlight,
Writing "What for?" across the morning sky.
Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer,
Darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye.
Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned.
Several seasons with their treasons,
Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own.
Did he doubt or did he try?
Answers aplenty in the bye and bye,
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills,
One man gathers what another man spills.
Saint Stephen will remain,
All he's lost he shall regain,
Seashore washed by the suds and foam,
Been here so long, he's got to calling it home.
Fortune comes a crawlin', calliope woman,
Spinnin' that curious sense of your own.
Can you answer? Yes I can.
But what would be the answer to the answer man?
Quinn, the Eskimo
Come all without, Come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
Everybody's building ships and boats,
Some are building monuments, others jotting down notes,
Everybody's in despair, every girl and boy,
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna jump for joy.
I like to go just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet,
But jumping cues and making haste just ain't my cup of meat,
Everyone's beneath the trees feeding pigeons on a limb,
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, all the pigeons gonna run to him.
Let me do what I want to do, I can't recite them all,
Just tell me where it hurts you and I'll tell you who to call,
Nobody can get no sleep, there's someone on everyone's toes,
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna want to dose.
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Dark Hollow
I'd rather be in some dark hollow where the sun don't ever shine
Then to be at home alone and knowin' that you're gone
Would cause me to lose my mind.
Well blow your whistle freight train carry me far on down the track
Well I'm going away, I'm leaving today
I'm goin', but I ain't comin' back.
I'd rather be in some dark hollow where the sun don't ever shine
Then to be in some big city, in a small room, with you upon my mind.
Well I'm going away, I'm leaving today
I'm goin' but I ain't comin' back.
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And we bid you good night
traditional
lay down my dear brother
lay down and take your rest
won`t you lay your head
upon your saviors chest
i love you but
Jesus loves you the best
and we bid you goodnight,goodnight,goodnight
and we bid you goodnight,goodnight,goodnight
walking in jerusalem just like john-goodnight,goodnight
i would never ride ,iwould never ride-goodnight,goodnight
his rod and staff they comfort me-goodnight,goodnight
tell"A" for the ark that wonderful boat-goodnight,goodnight
tell "B" for the beast at the ending of the wood-goodnight,goodnight
you know i ate all the children when they wouldn`t be good
walking in jerusalem just like john-goodnigh,goodnight
i go walking in the valley of the shadow of death
and we bid you good night.goodnight,goodnight
lay down my dear brother
lay down and take your rest
won`t you lay your head
upon your saviors breast
i love you but
Jesus loves you the best
and we bid you goodnight,goodnight,goodnight
and we bid you goodnight,goodnight,goodnight
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Some fall
Some climb
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Hard to Handle
Baby here I am and I'm a man upon the scene
I can give you what you want, but you got to come home with me
I got a whole lot of good ole loving and I got some in store
When I get through throwin' it on to you got to come back for more
Boys and things will come by the dozen
Ain't nothin' but drug store love
Pretty little thing let me light your candle
Cause mama I'm sure hard to handle, now yes I am.
Action speaks louder than words and I'm a man with great experience
I know you got another man, but I can love you better than him
Take my hand, don't be afraid I'm gonna prove every word I say
I'm advertising love for free so won't you place your ad with me?
Boys and things will come by the dozen
Ain't nothin' but drug store love
Pretty little thing let me light your candle
Give it to me baby, I got to have it, some of your love
It's all I need, early in the morning, late in the evening.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1278672 - 02/04/03 02:23 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Easy Wind
I been balling a shiny black steel jack-hammer,
Been chippin' up rocks for the great highway,
I'll live five years if I take my time,
Ballin' that jack and a drinkin' my wine.
I been chippin' them rocks from dawn till doom,
While my rider hide my bottle in the other room.
Doctor say better stop ballin' that jack,
If I live five years I gonna bust my back, yes I will.
Easy wind cross the Bayou today
Cause there's a whole lotta women, mama,
Out in red on the streets today.
And the river keeps a talkin',
But you never heard a word it said.
Gotta find a woman be good to me,
Won't hide my liquor try to serve me tea,
Cause I'm a stone jack baller and my heart is true
And I'll give everything that I got to you, yes I will.
Easy wind going cross the Bayou today
There's a whole lotta women
Out in red on the streets today.
And the rivers keep a talkin',
But you never heard a word it said.
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Me and Bobby McGee
Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train,
Feeling nearly faded as my jeans,
Bobby flagged a diesel down, just before it rained,
Took us all the way to New Orleans.
I took my harp on out of my dirty red bandanna,
I was blowin' sad while Bobby sang the blues,
With them windshield wipers slappin' time, Bobby clappin' hands,
We sang every song that driver knew.
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to do.
Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.
Feelin' good was easy Lord, when Bobby sang the blues.
Feelin' good was good enough for me, good enough for me and Bobby McGee.
From the coal mines of Kentucky to the California sun,
Bobby shared the secrets of my soul,
Standing right beside me, Lord, in everything I done,
Bobby's body kept me from the cold.
Then somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away,
Lookin' for that home, I hope she finds,
And I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Holding Bobby's body close to mine.
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.
Nothin' was all she left for me.
Feelin' good was easy Lord, when Bobby sang the blues.
Feelin' good was good enough for me, good enough for me and Bobby McGee.
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to do.
Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.
Feelin' good was easy Lord, when Bobby sang the blues.
Feelin' good was good enough for me, good enough for me and Bobby McGee.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1278691 - 02/04/03 02:28 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Midnight Moonlight
If you ever feel lonesome when you're down in San Antone
Beg, steal or borrow two nickels or dime to call me on the phone
And I'll meet you at Alamo Mission, where we can say our prayers
The Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mother will heal us as we kneel there
In the moonlight, in the midnight, in the moonlight, midnight, moonlight
If you ever feel sorrow for the deeds you have done
With no hope for tomorrow in the setting of the sun
And the ocean is howling for the things that might have been
And that last good morning sunrise will be the brightest you've ever seen
In the moonlight, in the midnight, in the moonlight, midnight, moonlight
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: chinadoll]
#1278936 - 02/04/03 03:30 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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The Race Is On
I feel tears welling up from down deep inside,
Like my heart's got a big break
And a stab of loneliness sharp and painful
That I may never shake.
You might think that I'm taking it hard
Since you broke me off with a call,
You might wager that I'll hide in sorrow
And I might lay right down and bawl.
Now the race is on and here comes pride up the back stretch,
Heartaches a goin' to the inside,
My tears are holding back,
Tryin' not to fall.
My heart's out of the running,
True love scratched for another's sake,
The race is on and it looks like heartaches,
Where the winner loses all.
One day I ventured in love never once suspecting
What the final result would be.
Now I live in fear of waking up each morning,
And finding that you're gone from me.
There's an aching pain in my heart for the name
Of the one that I hated to face,
Someone else came out to win her,
And I came out in second place.
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All Over Now
Well now baby used to stay all night long, made me cry, Lord she done me wrong.
Hurt my eyes open, and that's no lie, tables turnin', now it's her turn to cry,
Cuz I used to love her, but it's all over now.
Well I used to wake up in the morning, get my breakfast in bed,
When I got worried, you know she eased my achin' head,
But now she's here and there with every man in town'
Still tryin' to take for that same old clown.
Cuz I used to love her, but it's all over now.
Well she used to run around with every man in town,
Spend all my money, Lord I better pass "go",
Put me out, it was a pity how I cried, table's turnin', now it's her turn to cry,
Cuz I used to love her, but it's all over now.
Yes and I used to love her, but it's all over now.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: chinadoll]
#1279198 - 02/04/03 04:32 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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You Win Again
The news is out,
All over town
That you've been seen,
Out runnin' 'round.
I know that I
Should leave but then,
I just can't go,
You win again.
This heart of mine,
Could never see
What everybody
Knows but me.
Just trustin' you
Was my great sin,
I just can't go, Lord
You win again.
What can I do, Lord,
You win again.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: ]
#1283784 - 02/06/03 04:31 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Morning Dew
Walk me out in the morning dew my honey,
Walk me out in the morning dew today.
I can't walk you out in the morning dew my honey,
I can't walk you out in the morning dew today.
I thought I heard a baby cry this morning,
I thought I heard a baby cry this today.
You didn't hear no baby cry this morning,
You didn't hear no baby cry today.
Where have all the people gone my honey,
Where have all the people gone today.
There's no need for you to be worrying about all those people,
You never see those people anyway.
I thought I heard a young man moan this morning,
I thought I heard a young man moan today.
I thought I heard a young man moan this morning,
I can't walk you out in the morning dew today.
Walk me out in the morning dew my honey,
Walk me out in the morning dew today.
I'll walk you out in the morning dew my honey,
I guess it doesn't really matter anyway,
I guess it doesn't matter anyway,
I guess it doesn't matter anyway,
Guess it doesn't matter anyway.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Papaver]
#1285239 - 02/06/03 11:30 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Candyman
Come on all you pretty women, with your hair a hanging down,
Open up your windows cuz the Candyman's in town.
Come on boys and gamble, roll those laughing bones,
Seven come eleven, boys I'll take your money home.
Look out, look out the Candyman,
Here he comes and he's gone again.
Pretty lady ain't got no friend till,
The Candyman comes around again, around again.
I come from Memphis where I learned to talk the jive,
When I get back to Memphis be one less man alive.
Good morning Mr. Benson, I see you're doing well,
If I had me a shotgun I'd blow you straight to hell.
Look out, look out the Candyman,
Here he comes and he's gone again.
Pretty lady ain't got no friend till,
The Candyman comes around again, around again.
Come on boys and wager if you have got the mind,
If you've got a dollar boys, lay it on the line,
Hand me my old guitar, pass the whiskey round,
Won't you tell everybody you meet that the Candyman's in town.
Look out, look out the Candyman,
Here he comes and he's gone again.
Pretty lady ain't got no friend till,
The Candyman comes around again, around again.
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Ripple
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If I Had The World To Give
If I had the world to give, I'd give it to you
Long as you live, would you let it fall, or hold it all in your arms?
If I had a song to sing, I'd sing it to you
as long as you live, lullaby or maybe a plain serenade
wouldn't you laugh, dance, and cry or be afraid at the change you made
I may not have the world to give to you
But maybe I have a tune or two
Only if you let me be your world
Could I ever give this world to you
But I will give what love I have to give,
I will give what love I have to give,
I will give what love I have to give, long as I live.
If I had a star to give, I'd give it to you
long as you live, would you have the time
to watch it shine, watch it shine
or ask for the moon and heaven too? I'd give it to you.
Well maybe I've got no star to spare, or anything fine or even rare,
only if you let me be your world, could I ever give this world to you.
could I ever give this world to you.
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1289107 - 02/07/03 02:08 PM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hey now buddy
i posted that one on page 2
it`s such a sweet one though that twice is good
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Some climb
To get to Terrapin!!!
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Ripple
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It is a good one! How about this:
Death Don't Have No Mercy
Y' Know Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land
Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land, In This Land
Come To Your House, You Know He Don't Take Long
Look In Bed This Morning, Children Find Your Mother Gone.
I Said Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land.
Death Will Leave You Standing And Crying In This Land,
Death Will Leave You Standing And Crying In This Land, In This Land, Yeah!
Whoa! Come To Your House, Y' Know He Don't Stay Long,
Y' Look In Bed This Morning,
Children You Find That Your Brothers And Sisters Are Gone.
I Said Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land.
Death Will Go In Any Family In This Land.
Death Will Go In Any Family In This Land.
Come To Your House, you know he don't take long.
Look in the bed on the morning, Children Find That Your Family's Gone.
I Said Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land.
Death Will Leave You Standing And Crying In This Land,
In This Land. Whoa! Come To Your House,
Y' Know It Don't Stay Long, Y' Look In Bed This Morning,
Children Find That Your Brothers And Sisters Are Gone.
I Said Death Don't, Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land
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The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
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kosmic_charlie
Truckin' in style
Registered: 03/18/01
Posts: 5,203
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Ripple]
#1295588 - 02/10/03 05:30 AM (21 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm surprised this one hasn't been posted here yet...
Sugar Magnolia
Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming,
heads all empty and I don't care.
Saw my baby down by the river,
Knew she'd have to come up soon for air.
Sweet blossom come on, under the willow,
We can have high times if you'll abide.
We can discover the wonders of nature,
Rolling in the rushes down by the riverside.
She's got everything delightful,
she's got everything I need.
Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double,
Pays my ticket when I speed.
She comes skimmin' through rays of violet.
She can wade in a drop of dew.
She don't come and I don't follow,
Waits backstage while I sing to you.
Well, she can dance a Cajun rhythm,
Jump like a Willys in four-wheel drive.
She's my summer love in the spring, fall and winter;
She can make happy any man alive.
Sugar Magnolia,
ringing that bluebell,
Caught up in sunlight.
Come on out singing I'll walk you in the sunshine
Oooh, come on honey, come along with me.
She's got everything delightful,
she's got everything I need,
A breeze in the pines in the summer night moonlight,
Crazy in the sunlight, yes indeed.
Sometimes when the cuckoo's crying,
When the moon is half way down,
Sometimes when the night is dying,
I take me out and I wander around,
I walk around.
The sunshine daydream, walking in the tall trees.
Going where the wind goes, blooming like a red rose.
Breathing more freely. Ride out singing,
I'll walk you in the morning sunshine
Sunshine, daydream.
Sunshine, daydream
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Goin' where the water tastes like wine.
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Ripple
Ripple
Registered: 05/16/02
Posts: 21,014
Loc: the timbers of Fennario
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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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The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
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Ripple
Ripple
Registered: 05/16/02
Posts: 21,014
Loc: the timbers of Fennario
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Re: Let It Grow [Re: Papaver]
#1313125 - 02/17/03 01:58 AM (21 years, 10 months ago) |
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Promised Land
I left my home in Norfolk Virginia, California on my mind.
Straddled that Greyhound, it rode me past Raleigh, and on across Caroline.
Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill, and we never was a minute late.
We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown, rollin' 'cross the Georgia state.
Had motor trouble it turned into a struggle, half way 'cross Alabam,
the 'hound broke down left us all stranded in downtown Birmingham.
Straight off bought me a through train ticket, right across Mississippi clean
And I was on the midnight flyer out of Birmingham
Smoking into New Orleans.
Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
Just help me get to Houston town.
People are there who care a little 'bout me
And they won't let the poor boy down.
Sure as she bore me, she bought me a silk suit, put luggage in my hands,
And I woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the promised land.
Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte,
Flying over to the Golden State;
When the pilot told us in thirteen minutes
We'd be headin' in the terminal gate.
Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone;
Cut your engines, cool your wings,
And let me make it to the telephone.
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia,
Tidewater four ten on nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line.
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The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
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