I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again
I am an old woman
Named after my mother
My old man is another
child that grown old
If dreams were thunder
Lightnin' was desire
This old house woulda burned down
A long time ago
Make me an angel
that flies from Montgomery
We don't need a piece of paper
From the city hall
Keepin' us tight and true
MY OLD MAN is takin' away my blues
--Joni Mitchell
This ole house once knew his children
This ole house once knew his wife
This ole house was home and comfort
As they fought the storms of life
This old house once rang with laughter
This old house heard many shouts
Now he trembles in the darkness
When the lightnin' walks about
There's a darkness on the edge of town
There's a darkness on the e-e-e-edge of town
--Bruce Springsteen
Abilene, Abilene
Prettiest town I ever seen.
Folks down there don't treat you mean
In Abilene, my Abilene.
My kind of town
Chicago is
I left my heart in San Francisco
Where little cable cars
Climb half-way to the stars
The morning fog
May chill the air
I don't care
...
I don't care
Dark Star
I see you in the moring
Dark star
sleeping next to me
Dark star
Will the memory of the eveining be the first thing that you think of
when you open up your eyes and see me
dark star
I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as i got my plastic Jesus
Settin' on the dashboard of my car . . .
Drivin' ninety, it ain't scary
Long as i got my Virgin Mary
Settin' on the dashboard of my car . . .
Mother can't you hear your daughter crying
Father wake up her youth is dying
Her kids are grown . . . Husband's gone away
it's a shame cuz she had such a lovely face
Can't you see she needed more
than, "Oh, what a pretty child"?
You never taught her truth from lie
all you told her was to smile
In Texas back in sixty-nine
it was drive-in movies and dashboard lights
Wednesday morning and five o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen
Clutching her hankerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free.
She (We gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (Sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye.
Father smores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy our baby's gone.
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly
How could she do this to me.
She (We never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
Home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye.
Almost heaven west Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains Shenandoah river
Life is old there older than the trees
Younger than the mountains blowin' like a breeze
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads
All my memories gather round her
Miner's lady stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine teardrop in my eyes
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads
I hear a voice in the morning how she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Drivin' down the road I get a feelin'
That I should been home yesterday yesterday
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads
Take me home country roads
Take me home country roads
Younger than springtime are you
Gayer than laughter are you
Oo, I hear laughter in the rain,
walking hand in hand with the one I love.
Oo, how I love the rainy days
and the happy way I feel inside.
Oo, I hear laughter in the rain,
walking hand in hand with the one I love.
Oo, how I love the rainy days
Remember.
Walkin' in the rain
Remember.
The leaves of brown came tumbling down remember
That September in the Rain
To every word of love I heard you whisper
The raindrops seemed to play a sweet refrain
Just walkin' in the rain
Just getting soaked and wet...
Rainy days and Sundays
Always gets me down
I'm down
I'm down
I'm down
How can you laugh
When you know
I'm down
How can you laugh
When you know
I'm down
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
