| Lay down my dear brother, lay down and take your rest, Won’t you lay your head upon your savior’s chest, I love you all, but Jesus loves you the best And we bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight. |
| My love is bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you but you drive me back, Your love for me has got to be real, your gonna know just how I feel. |
| Where to go, who to go, where to be, who to be. That means you’re driftin’…. driftin’ Yeah driftin’ and dreamin’, really goin’ on a dream now. Really goin’ on a feelin’, really goin’ on a feelin’. Driftin’, driftin’ and dreamin’. |
| The news is out, all over town that you’ve been seen, out runnin’ ’round. I know that I should leave her there, 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. |
| If you can’t believe me, it’ll make it hard to believe in you Cause we all need each other, well you know it’s true |
| Comic book colors on a violin river crying Leonardo words from out a silk trombone I rang a silent bell beneath a shower of pearls in the eagle wing palace of the Queen Chinee |
| 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 |
| Fare you well, fare you well I love you more than words can tell Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul |
| 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. |
| My time coming, anyday, don’t worry about me, no It’s gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin’ slow Still I know I lead the way, they tell me where I go. |
| This is the last time I wanna say so long This song is my last song for you There’s just nothing here to hold on to Baby, nothing to hold on to |
| 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 |
| She’s got everything delightful, she’s got everything I need, A breeze in the pines and the sun and bright moonlight, lazing in the sunshine yes indeed. |
| When the shadows grow, it’ll do you fine When the cold winds blow, it’ll ease your mind The shape it takes could be yours to choose, What you may win, what you may lose |
| 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. |
| The girl I love, she’s sweet and true, You the dress she wears, sweet mama, it’s pink and blue, She brings me coffee, she brings me tea, She brings me ’bout every damm thing but the jailhouse keys. |
| Well I kept on dancin’, going ’round and ’round, Hey! realin’ and a rockin’, what a crazy sound, Well they never stopped rockin’ till the moon went down. |
| One eyed jacks and the deuces are wild The aces are crawling up and down your sleeve Come back here, Baby Louise, and tell me the name of the game that you play |
| Then God way up in heaven, for whatever it was worth, Thought He’d have a big old party, thought He’d call it planet Earth. Don’t worry about tomorrow, Lord, you’ll know it when it comes, When the rock and roll music meets the risin’ sun. |
| Down by the water, the Marsh King’s daughter, did you know? Clothed in totters always will be. Tom, where did you go? |
| 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. |
| 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 wander ’round. |
| 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, I’ll meet you some mornin’, meet you some mornin’, In the sweet by and by, by and by, by and by. |
| 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. |
| Delilah Jones was the mother of twins Two times over and the rest were sins Raised eight boys, only I turned bad Didn’t get the lickin’s that the other ones had |
| 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. |
| The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before. Time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more. Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few: Don’t lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools. |
| I’d meet you anywhere in the country or anywhere on the sea All over the world it could be I would follow you with the heart of me |
| When I was just a little young boy, Papa said “Son, you’ll never get far, I’ll tell you the reason if you want to know, ’cause child of mine, there isn’t really very far to go” |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, the heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin’ brings, But the heart has its seasons, its evenin’s and songs of its own. |
| I come in from Memphis where I learned to talk the jive When I get back to Memphis be one less man alive Good Mornin Mr. Benson I see you’re doin well If I had me a shotgun I’d blow you straight to Hell |
| Little stranger, don’t try to hide now You look so young when you’re afraid There is no danger, but from the devil He may want you, but I’m in his way |
| Without a warning you broke my heart, takin’ it baby, tore it apart And you left me standin’ in the dark, shine your love for me was dark. |
| Esau holds a blessing; Brother Esau bears a curse. I would say that the blame is mine But I suspect it’s something worse. The more my brother looks like me, The less I understand The silent war that bloodied both our hands. Sometimes at night, I think I understand. |
| The eyes are blind, blue visions, all a seer can own, And touching makes the flesh to cry out loud This ground on which the seed of love is sown, All graceful instruments are known. |
| Shun a friend Shun a brother and a friend Never look Never look around the bend Or check a weatherchart Sign the Mona Lisa With a spraycan, call it art But never give your love, my friend Unto a foolish heart |
| November and more, as I wait for the score They’re telling me forgiveness is the key to every door A slow winter day, a night like forever Sink like a stone, float like a feather |
| Mississippi River so big and wide, blond haired woman on the other side. Now she’s gone, gone, gone and I don’t worry ’cause I’m sitting on top of the world. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| The summer sun looked down on him, His mother could but frown on him, And all the other sound on him, He had to die, you know he had to die. |
| Boots were of leather, a breath of cologne the mirror was a window she sat by alone. All around the garden grew scarlet and purple and crimson and blue. She came dead and she went, and at last went away, the garden was sealed when the flowers decayed. On the wall of the garden a legend did say, no one may come here since no one may stay. |
| I have always heard that virtue oughta be its own reward, But it never comes so easy when you’re living by the sword It’s even harder to be heartless when you look at me that way You’re as mighty as the flower that will grow the stones away |
| But I’ll get back on my feet again someday, The good Lord willin’, if He says I may. I know that the life i’m livin’s no good, I’ll get a new start, live the life I should. I’ll get up and fly away, I’ll get up and fly away, fly away. |
| He hums, there are drums, four winds, rising suns We are singing and playing, I hear what he’s saying |
| You love another man; Oh, but I love you But you love him darlin’, stick to him just about like glue. But when things go wrong, wrong with you… it hurts me too. |
| 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 |
| You fancy me to be the master of your feelings You barely bruise me with your looks to kill Though I admit we were sometimes brutal in our dealings I never held you against your will |
| 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 |
| I need a woman ’bout twice my height Statuesque, raven-dressed, a goddess of the night. Her secret incantations, a candle burning blue We’ll consult the spirits maybe they’ll know what to do. |
| Upside out or inside down False alarm, the only game in town No man’s land, the only game in town Terrible, the only game in town |
| Help on the way, well, I know only this, I’ve got you today. Don’t fly away, cause I love what I love and I want it that way. I will stay one more day, like I say, honey it’s you. Making it too, without love in a dream it will never come true. |
| Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night, The first one’s named Sweet Anne Marie, and she’s my hearts delight. The second one is prison, babe, the sheriff’s on my trail, And if he catches up with me, I’ll spend my life in jail. |
| Goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, Maybe off on some high cold mountain chain. Lost one round but the price wasn’t anything, A knife in the back and more of the same. |
| There are times when you get hit upon Try hard but you cannot give Other times you’d gladly part With what you need to live Don’t waste the breath to save your face When you have done your best And even more is asked of you Let fate decide the rest. |
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