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Be True To Your Heart
04:41
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Be true to your heart ride in the cavalry
Come tear me apart, engage in revelry
Be true to you heart 'round here there's nothing else to do
I told my lover to be a-moaning, like all the good lovers do
She said "open up to me honey, then I sure will moan for you"
I tore my shirt apart and I thought it was funny, it wasn't what she thought or wanted of course
She only wanted my soul
Be true to your heart ride in the cavalry
And look for the stars, engage in revelry
Be true to your heart ‘round here there's nothing else to do
I told Bojangles to be dancing like all the good Bojangles do
He said "Move your own hips yourself baby, you already got those dancing shoes."
"But when I do it always gets rainy, can't you see I still need you."
"Just go to Hollywood, will you?"
Be true to your heart, ride in the cavalry
And look for the stars, your eyes are shimmery
Be true to your heart, 'round here there's nothing else to do
I told the church bells to be a-ringing, like all the good church bells do
They cried "boy don't you see that we're broken", I said "hell that just ain't no excuse.
Look at me and see I am broken, but all them spectators want me to work
Well I guess I am the jerk?"
I told my eyes to be seeing
my ears to be hearing
my voice to speak the truth
They were not quite in the mood
I’m true to my heart, true whenever I can
I'm true to my heart, whenever I feel like
Being true to my heart, when there is nothing else to do
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I'm Your Man
05:09
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There's a sea full of fish
There's a fisherman's family in need of a dish
There's a sky full of air
There's a skull breathing oxygen and he doesn't care
There's a field full of grain
There's a fool by the fire dancing for rain
There's your breasts sweet and small
There's my mind never thinking any other thing at all
I'm your fool I'm your man
I got nothing but the salt of the earth in my hands
In the city, in the cave
I got nothing but a smile and the need of a shave
There's a sea short of fish
There's a fisherman's family in need of a dish
There's a sky lacking air
There's a skull breathing pheromones and he doesn't care
There's a field full of grain
There's a fool's silver iodide making it rain
There's your breasts sweet and small
There's my mind never thinking any other thing at all
I'm your fool I'm your man
I got nothing but the salt of the earth in my hands
In the city, in the cave
I got nothing but a smile and the need of a shave
I'm your doll, I'm your ape
There's a man on a cloud looking into my face
From the cradle to the grave
I got nothing but a love that I need to embrace
Ain't that the love for you?
As a cobra skin, as a merchant
As a broken sinner I'll be your man
As football player, as a drunken hand
As the Holy Spirit I'll be your man
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I was caught by the meadow wasted
And then I hasted into the brush
It was the strangest situation
I saw a nation in a rush
They beat me up and my body was naked
I didn't know but I was unashamed
Before I could wonder to much about it
I sat down and changed my name
So bring me your love tenderly
And hold out your arms right for me
For I am as good as can be
If you'd bring me your love tonight
They'd tell you it wasn't right
So how come you never even tried
I would call myself the mystery man
But none of them would ask me why
They just called me anything I liked
I don't believe they have been polite
I let them punch me into my face
But quite frankly that didn't feel right
So I ask what kind of love can this be
That goes from bad to worse but never dies
So bring me your love tenderly
And hold out your arms right for me
For I am as good as can be
If you'd bring me your love tonight
I'd tell you it wasn't right
So how come that you never tried
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Companion
02:56
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I take a look at the prickly pear and take a walk around it
Naked rock forms a simple chair so I take my seat upon it
Barren thoughts must now cross my mind so I better not think about it
Juniper tree in the desert heat in the mouth of the mountain
All other things must now come and face
Me so I can contemplate
I think I'll go now and I leave this song undone
My mind’s my companion but he might be on the run
Scorpio on the arid plains better hide from the beating sun
Eagle up in the crystal blue sky will you show him how it's done
Specter hide in the spacious minds there's no facing you tonight
I may kiss you or maybe no we'll sleep alone this time
All other things must now come and face
Me so I can contemplate
I think I'll go now and I leave this song undone
My mind’s my companion but he might be on the run
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I Sure Threw It Away
03:54
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Sometimes I don't see the reason why
Why I spend my whole life doing everything twice
Sometimes I don't see how I can try
The abyss is among me the stream is filled with ice
I gave my heart to the gambler and the bride
There's nothing left for me though, I don't know where they hide
Mama told me not to run
Not to throw my heart away
She was begging in my arms
And I sure threw it away
And death, it's not an end it's not grotesque
There's nothing that is ending, just the things that you have left
And life it ain't got nothing as a start
There's nothing that is starting, just the things that fall apart
Mama told me not to run
Not to throw my heart away
She was begging in my arms
And I sure threw it away
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Mellow's the night, the moons hangin' blue
The devil is claiming cahoots over you
But mellowness might be all that you'd find
If you tried to see him through
And when it all comes crashing there will be a light
To keep you safely through the night
A pandemonium and wild are the beasts
That race through the city and cry in the woods
And I know our hearts are filled with the same heat
Our minds with an unsettling cold
And when it all comes crashing there will be a light
To keep you safely through the night
Tombstones are tumbling the waters are hot
The streets seem abusive elusive and scathed
I sit on the beach the man comes and nods
And I impassively gaze
And when it all comes crashing there will be a light
To keep you safely through the night
The painter's polluting the beaches with dye
He stretches the truth for a glimpse of my soul
Covers my eyes uncovers my mind
And makes me feel as a fool
So when it all comes crashing there will be a light
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Caroline
04:36
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Look at me I praise blood and desire
I was raised by the orchestras fire
You see I am hung on the same old song that they were all along
So come on dance me to the moon
You know that we will be there soon
Anyway, so if it’s okay, we can start right away
Caroline, Caroline
Won’t you be a friend of mine
I’ve been trying so very hard just to find you
Caroline, oh Caroline
With your mouth so sweet and your eyes divine
I’ve been trying so very hard just to catch a glimpse of you
Caroline, Caroline
If you say it’s hard to breathe
Cause the atmosphere seems out of reach
You’re not wrong, your breath like in every old song, it shall be gone
If I say come on and teach
Everything you deem within reach
Can you read my mind, to see what’s inside or is that unkind?
Caroline, Caroline
You female fertile friend of mine
I’ve been trying so very hard just to catch a glimpse of you
Caroline, oh Caroline
No don't you dare get off my mind
I’ve been trying so very hard just to hear the smallest word about you
Caroline, Caroline
The moonshiner’s singing his tune
His heart is a wreck and a ruin
The wind’s telling lies, but he doesn’t mind, they are sweet in his eyes
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Magic Child
03:48
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Peasant man on the pleasant hill
Will you know what the wanderer will?
Pleasant hill in the auburn sky
Is it me or you passing by?
Will you tell me where to stay
Right at the marble furnished gate
Where all my saviors wait
Magic child in the dusty town
Is your heart as heavy as my own?
Will you tell me where to stay
Right in the weeping willows shade
Where all my lovers wait
Will you keep my wandering eyes
Right at your rocky pillow spine
With many a-passing by
Magic child will it be the same
Will the flowers all keep your name
Will you tell me where to stay
Right in the weeping willows shade
Where all my lovers wait
Will you keep my wandering eyes
Right at your rocky pillow spine
With many a-passing by
I can’t know what you can see
I can’t hold nobody here
I can’t hold the heavy feet from the beat
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I See You
04:26
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Lady midnight dance into the twilight
Comely waters rise, sweet is the bloom in your eyes
To resist or to fight
Is not in my might or try or even my mind
I climb your mountains so high
And I see you in the wild
Lady midnight we choke and desire
I'll cry your name and I'll write and I'll wire
I saw you a few days before, so easy and pure
A shiver of cold, of my brain it took hold
I taste your peaches to ripe
And I see you in the wild
Lady midnight you're cold in the morning
Your feet may be frozen when I'll be awoken
I'll warm your leg and caress your neck
Oh are we weeping and are we sleeping now
I hear your humming delight
And I see you in the wild
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Whisky Bar Dance Blues
06:08
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Our whiskey bar dance ended and it hurts me
Your sad-eyed lowland smiles they hurt me too
Your purple summer dress teases and hurts me
Your perfect body dizzies and makes me blue
And I know this ain't what you want
Humans never say they do
Come on and tell me that I'm wrong
But this is what you choose
This is what you choose to do
And if I would have just one last wish I'd hurt you
If I could I'd put a magic spell on you
So when the organ grinder'd play my song it'd hurt you
All the children playing on the beach they'd hurt you too
Oh you know this ain't what I want
It ain't what I came here for
But if it's too late to change the end
Well then this is what I'd choose
This is what I'd choose to do
If you must ever hear this song I'm truly sorry
Are you hurt by all these words, they hurt me too
It really took me by surprise
How much pain it can invoke
So that I wish you all this harm
singing the whiskey bar dance blues
I'm only trying to say I love you
And you leave me trying to
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Tangling
03:28
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When the summer comes
And the winter fades
And the shapeless forms
bloom and stain the ways
Then I put my ear
On a tambourine
Getting blue
Cause it's tangling
And the news is old
All the same and see
there's a restless heart
And it feeds my feet
And the summer's gone
And the winter's in
all the old
is getting new again
Then I'm tangling
From the restless way
And my feet are blue
And my ears astray
And my heart it fades
Cause the summer came
And the same
Must now be the same
And I'm tangling
From the restless blues
And my feet are ears
In the summer blooms
And my heart is shaped
And it forms a way
And the same
must now be astray
And now pink is black
black is blue
There are bluish reds
In a yellow moon
And I yell 'oh lord
Is this all there is?
your tulip garden
And the wilderness
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There's Little I Can Do
05:13
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I speak of a cold and windy room
Now enter a person a bit unknown
I start to imagine a place we might be from
But he says "Come on now, it's time to go"
If this is all you came here for there is little I can do
But if that's all need me for let me change just a little more
And I'll go there too
I speak of a faint, the smallest hint
Some weird promise with the least bit of honesty within
I don’t care for little sins, and these old ones I’ll try to ignore
Gimme something new that doesn't start me bored
If this is all you came here for there is little I can do
But if that's all need me for let me change just a little more
And I'll go with you
I break our bread in the early morning sun
I'll share with you even if you won't
I put my face into the water, it needs to be done
it still feels alien but sure is fun
If this is all you came here for there is little I can do
But if that's all need me for let me change just a little more
And off we go
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My Lady's a Sleeper
03:10
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My lady's a sleeper I think I might keep her stored away in a song
Where her head is roaming her thought waves are foaming i don't know but she'll tell me some
You wouldn't expect but once she might have slept so long her dream became true
My lady's a sleeper I think I might keep her stored away in a song
And when the dawn sees the sun arising I can't keep my eyes from her form
My lady's a keeper I think might sleep in her arms on the floor
My lady's a sleeper I think she might keep me stored away in her dream
Siberian plains and Tolstoian games St. Peter in shimmery rain
Sad Baltic oceans whatever is floating through her meandering brain
My lady's a sleeper I think she might keep me stored away in her dream
And when the dawn sees the sun arising I can't keep my hands from her skin
My lady's a keeper I think I might sleep in her arms till the end of her dream
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Lightcap Halle (Saale), Germany
Folk Musik from Halle an der Saale.
Named after Edward Abbey's Henry H. Lightcap.
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