edgarblythe wrote:I warned her of the dangers --
Don't speak to strangers.
If by chance she finds new romance,
Warmer lips to kiss her,
Arms to hold her tighter,
Stirring new fires inside her --
How I wish that it was me, instead of he
That stands beside her.
Engine, engine number nine,
Comin' down the railroad line,
I know she got on in Baltimore.
A hundred and ten miles ain't much distance,
But it sure do make a difference --
I don't think she loves me anymore.
your life's a dimestore novel
this town is full of guys like you
and you're looking for someone to take the place of her
(you must be readin' my mail)
and you're bitter cause he left you
that's why you're drinkin in this bar
well only suckers fall in love
with perfect strangers
I've got my angel on my mind that's why I'm walkin'
There's such an ache in this old heart that I ain't talkin'
The little hand that held mine tight just waved goodbye tonight
I've got my angel on my mind that's why I'm walkin'
With an old love on your mind life's ain't worth livin'
I breathe your name with every breath I'm breathin'
Why could I never see how much you meant to me
I've got my angel on my mind that's why I'm walkin'
[ guitar - piano ]
Should I pass you on the street and I miss speakin'
Would you charge it to this mem'ries that I'm keepin'
Should my head be bowed low hear my song and then you'll know
I've got my angel on my mind that's why I'm walkin'
I've got my angel on my mind that's why I'm walkin'
There´s just one more thing I need to know
If this is love why does it scare me so
There must be something only you can see
Cause girl I feel it when you look at me
So tonight I´ll ask the stars above
How did I ever win your love
What did I do, what did I say
To turn your angel eyes my way
Pretty little angel eyes,
Pretty little angel eyes,
Pretty little angel, pretty little angel,
Pretty little, pretty little, pretty little angel
(Ba-bom) ooooo-oo, ooooo-oo (ha-ha-ha-ha)
Ooooo-oo, pretty, pretty, pretty little angel eyes...
Angel eyes, I really love you so.
Angel eyes, I'll never let you go
Because I love you, my darlin' angel eyes.
(Pretty, pretty, pretty little angel eyes.)
Angel eyes, you are so good to me.
And when I'm in your arms you be so heavenly.
You know I love you, my darlin' angel eyes.
(Angel eyes, bom-bom-bom-bom)
I know you were sent from heaven a-bo-ove,
You rule my life with your wonderful lo-ove.
I know we'll be hap-py
For e-ter-ni-ty,
'Cause I know-wow-wow-wow-wow-wow-wow
That our love is really real.
Angel eyes, I really love you so.
Angel eyes, I'll never let you go,
Because I love you, my darlin' angel eyes, angel eyes.
Pretty little angel eyes,
Pretty little angel eyes,
Pretty little angel, pretty little angel,
Pretty little, pretty little, pretty little angel
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(Pretty, pretty,pretty)
(Angel eyes) Angel eyes, I really love you so.
Angel eyes, I'll never let you go.
Because I love you,
My darlin' angel eyes.
(Pretty, pretty, pretty little angel eyes)
Oooooo-oo, oooooo-oo (ha-ha-ha-ha)
Oooooo-oo, oo, oo, oooooo
Oo-oo-oo-oo . . . .
Wake up you sleepy head
Put on some clothes, shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I've made some breakfast and coffee
I look out my window what do I see
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay
What are we coming to
No room for me, no fun for you
I think about a world to come
Where the books were found by the Golden ones
Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we work here for
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh You Pretty Things (Oh You Pretty Things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and Papas insane
Oh You Pretty Things (Oh You Pretty Things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and Papas insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the Homo Superior
Look at your children
See their faces in golden rays
Don't kid yourself they belong to you
They're the start of a coming race
The earth is a bitch
We've finished our news
Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh You Pretty Things (Oh You Pretty Things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and Papas insane
Oh You Pretty Things (Oh You Pretty Things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and Papas insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the Homo Superior
Your breath is sweet
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.
Your back is straight, your hair is smooth
On the pillow where you lie.
But I don't sense affection
No gratitude or love
Your loyalty is not to me
But to the stars above.
One more cup of coffee for the road,
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.
Your daddy he's an outlaw
And a wanderer by trade
He'll teach you how to pick and choose
And how to throw the blade.
He oversees his kingdom
So no stranger does intrude
His voice it trembles as he calls out
For another plate of food.
One more cup of coffee for the road,
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.
Your sister sees the future
Like your mama and yourself.
You've never learned to read or write
There's no books upon your shelf.
And your pleasure knows no limits
Your voice is like a meadowlark
But your heart is like an ocean
Mysterious and dark.
One more cup of coffee for the road,
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.
I like coffee,I like tea
I like you baby next to me
You're as cool as red hot lava
Jumpin' East of Java
Cream and sugar,sure tastes sweet
But baby you got all that beat
Your that chick with the
Swingin' feet
Jumpin' East of Java
It takes a lot of coffee beans
Just to make a single cup
You got me perculatin'
Let's hit that place
Where the cats all meet
East of China past Bourbon street
We'll be as cool as red hot lava
Jumpin' East of Java
Man we're jumpin'
We're really jumpin'
Jumpin' East of Java
Ev'rything to keep me from sleepin'
A lot of sailor boys they were leavin'
And everybody there were jumpin'
To hear the sailor boys in our chorus singin'
Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
I'm goin away, in a sailing boat
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind baby
Now de Americans made an invasion
We thought it was a help to the island
Until they left from here on vacation
They left de native boy home to mind their children
Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
I'm goin away, in a sailing boat
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind baby
Now I tell you de story 'bout Millie
Well she made a nice blue-eyed baby
And dey say she fancy the mother
But the blue-eyed baby ain't know she father
Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
I'm goin away, in a sailing boat
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind baby
Now de Americans all have their pleasure
While the music played to their leisure
Everybody there they were jumpin'
To hear the sailor boys in our chorus singin'
Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
Brown skin girl stay home and mind baby
I'm goin' away, in a sailing boat
And if I don't come back
Stay home and mind baby
Golden brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown
Every time just like the last
On her ship tied to the mast
To distant lands
Takes both my hands
Never a frown with golden brown
Golden brown finer temptress
Through the ages she's heading west
From far away
Stays for a day
Never a frown with golden brown
Never a frown
With golden brown
Never a frown
With golden brown
Brown shoes don't make it
Brown shoes don't make it
Do you love it
Do you hate it
There it is the way you made it
Waugh------
Someday
When I'm awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight
Yes, you're lovely
With your smile so warm
And your cheek so soft
There is nothing for me but to love you
And the way you look tonight
JUST OUT OF REACH (OF MY TWO EMPTY ARMS)
Solomon Burke
A love that runs away from me
Dreams that just won't let me be
Blues that keeps on bothering me
Chains that just won't set me free
So far away from you and all your charm
Just out of reach of my two empty arms
Each night in dreams I see your face
Memories and time cannot erase
Then I awake and find you're gone
Then I'm so blue and all alone
So far away from you so sweet and warm
Just out of reach of my two empty arms
SPOKEN: That lonesome feeling all the time
Knowing you could not be mine
Dreams that hurt me in my sleep
Vows that we could never keep
SING: So far away from you and all your charm
Just out of reach of my two empty arms, Empty arms
I'd smoked my mind the night before
With cigarettes and songs I'd been picking.
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playing with a can that he was kicking.
Then I walked across the street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken.
And Lord, it took me back to something that I'd lost
Somewhere, somehow along the way.
On a Sunday morning sidewalk,
I'm wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothing short a' dying
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleeping city sidewalk
And Sunday morning coming down.
I THINK IT'S GOING TO RAIN TODAY - Judy Collins
Broken glass and empty hallways
A pale dead moon in a sky streaked with gray
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today
Scarecrow dressed in the latest styles
With frozen smiles to chase love away
Human kindness is oveflowing
And I think it's going to rain today
Tin can at my feet
Think I'll kick it down the street
That's the way to treat a friend
Bright before me the signs implore me
Help the needy and show them the way
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today
Tin can at my feet
Think I'll kick it down the street
That's the way to treat a friend
a dress of lace and a pint of gin
a little heaven in a needle full of sin
and do the sights you remember
scare you less than the sights you've left unseen
but i can't go on living
in your brokrn whiskey glass
someday you'll find an epitaph
that reads
here lie's jason, strangled by love that wouldn't breathe
Color in sky prussian blue
Scarlet fleece changes hue
Crimson ball sinks from view
Wear your love like heaven
Wear your love like heaven
Wear your love like heaven
Lord kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven
Wear my love like heaven
Color sky havana lake
Color sky rose carmethene
Alizarian crimson
Lord kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven
Wear my love like heaven
Lord kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven
Wear my love like heaven
Cannot believe what I see
All I have wished for will be
All of our race proud and free
Lord kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven
Wear my love like heaven
Everyone is trying to get to the bar.
The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven.
The band in Heaven plays my favorite song.
They play it once again, they play it all night long.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
There is a party, everyone is there.
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.
Its hard to imagine that nothing at all
could be so exciting, and so much fun.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
When this kiss is over it will start again.
It will not be any different, it will be exactly
the same.
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
could be so exciting, could be so much fun.
Heaven is a place where nothing every happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing every happens.
Well they took some honey from a tree
Dressed it up and they called it me
Everybody's trying to be my baby
Everybody's trying to be my baby
Everybody's trying to be my baby, now
Well half past nine, half past four
fifty women knocking on my door
Everybody's trying to be my baby
Everybody's trying to be my baby
Everybody's trying to be my baby, now
Went out last night, I didn't stay late
'fore I got home I had nineteen dates
Everybody's trying to be my baby
Everybody's trying to be my baby
Everybody's trying to be my baby, now
Went out last night, I didn't stay late
'fore I got home I had nineteen dates
Well they took some honey from a tree
Dressed it up and they called it me
Everybody's trying to be my baby
Everybody's trying to be my baby
Everybody's trying to be my baby, now
