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Stella Blue
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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 crying like the wind
through all the broken dreams
and vanished years
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 crying like the wind
down every lonely street
that's ever been
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 'em 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
"Written at the Chelsea Hotel in 1970." -- Robert Hunter
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Mississippi
Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
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On the day that I was born
Daddy sat down and cried
I had the mark just as plain as day
which could not be denied
They say that Cain caught Abel
rolling loaded dice,
ace of spades behind his ear
him not thinking twice
Halfstep
Mississippi Uptown Toodleloo
Hello baby I'm gone, good-bye
Half a cup of rock and rye
Farewell to you, old Southern sky
I'm on my way -- on my way
If all you got to live for
is what you left behind
get yourself a powder charge
and seal that silver mine
I lost my boots in transit, babe
A pile of smoking leather
Nailed a retread to my feet
and prayed for better weather
Halfstep
Mississippi Uptown Toodleloo
Hello baby I'm gone, good-bye
Half a cup of rock and rye
Farewell to you, old Southern sky
I'm on my way -- on my way |
They say that when your ship comes in
the first man takes the sails
The second takes the afterdeck
the third the planks and rails
What's the point to calling shots?
This cue ain't straight in line
Cueball's made of Styrofoam
and no one's got the time
Halfstep
Mississippi Uptown Toodleloo
Hello baby I'm gone, good-bye
Half a cup of rock and rye
Farewell to you, old Southern sky
I'm on my way -- on my way
Across the Rio Grand-eo
Across the lazy river
Across the Rio Grand-eo
Across the lazy river
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| Ship
of Fools |
Went to see the captain
strangest I could find
Laid my proposition down
Laid it on the line:
I won't slave for beggar's pay
likewise gold and jewels
but I would slave to learn the way
to sink your ship of fools
Ship of fools
on a cruel sea
Ship of fools
sail away from me
It was later than I thought
when I first believed you
now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of Fools
Saw your first ship sink and drown
from rocking of the boat
and all that could not sink or swim
was just left there to float
I won't leave you drifting down
but--whoa!--it makes me wild
with thirty years upon my head
to have you call me child
Ship of fools
on a cruel sea
Ship of fools
sail away from me |
It was later than I thought
when I first believed you
now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of Fools
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 yet may warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag
atop no ship of fools
Ship of fools
on a cruel sea
Ship of fools
sail away from me
It was later than I thought
when I first believed you
now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of Fools
No I cannot share your laughter
Ship of Fools
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| U.S.
Blues |
Red and white / blue Suede Shoes
I'm Uncle Sam / How do you do?
Gimme five / I'm still alive
Ain't no luck / Ilearned to duck
Check my pulse / it don't change
Stays seventy-two / come shine or rain
Wave the flag / pop the bag
Rock the boat / skin the goat
Wave that flag
Wave it wide and high
Summertime
Done come and gone
My, oh, my
I'm Uncle Sam / that's who I am
Been hidin' out / in a rock-and-roll band
Shake the hand / that shook the hand
Of P.T. Barnum / and Charlie Chan |
Shine your shoes / light yourfuse
Can you use / them ol' U.S. Blues?
I'll drink your health / share your wealth
Run your life / steal your wife
Wave that flag
Wave it wide and high
Summertime
Done come and gone
My, oh, my
Back to back / chicken shack
Sun of a gun / better change your act
We're all confused / what's to lose?
You can call this song / the United States Blues
Wave that flag
Wave it wide and high
Summertime done come and gone
My, oh, my
Summertime done come and gone
My, oh, my
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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
You thought you was the cool fool
Never could do no wrong
Had everything sewed up tight
How come you lay awake all night long?
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
You know in spite of all you gained
you still had to stand out in the pouring rain
One last voice is calling you
and I guess it's time you go |
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 up now, Sugaree
I'll meet you at the Jubilee
If that Jubilee don't come
Maybe I'll meet you on the run
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 'em that you know me
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| It
Must Have Been The Roses |
Annie laid her head down in the roses
She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons
in her long brown hair
I don't know, it must have been the roses
All I know is I could not leave her there
I don't know
it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons
in her long brown hair
I don't know
maybe it was the roses
All I know was
I could not leave her there
Ten years the waves rolled the
ships home from the sea
Thinking well how it may blow
in all good company
If I tell another what
your own lips told to me
may I lay 'neath the roses
and my eyes no longer see
I don't know
it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons
in her long brown hair
I don't know
maybe it was the roses
All I know was
I could not leave her there |
One pane of glass in the window
No one is complaining, though,
come in and shut the door
Faded is the crimson
from the ribbons that she wore
and it's strange how no one
comes round anymore
I don't know
it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons
in her long brown hair
I don't know
maybe it was the roses
All I know was
I could not leave her there
Annie laid her head down in the roses
She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons
in her long brown hair
I don't know, it must have been the roses
All I know was I could not leave her there
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| Casey
Jones |
Driving that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones, you 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 trav'lin' again
Driving that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones, you better
Watch your speed
Trouble ahead
Trouble behind
and you know that notion
just crossed my mind
Trouble ahead
The Lady in Red
Take my advice
you be better off dead
Switchman sleepin'
Train a hundred and two
is on the wrong track and
headed for you |
Driving that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones, you 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
The fireman screams and
The engine just gleams
Driving that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones, you 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
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