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I got my daughter, I got my gun
You got a nerve, you’ve had your fun
Placing your bets, taking your time
What once was ours is now just mine
You got another, you gotta leave
I my got heart broke, I gotta grieve
I’m moving out, you’re moving on
They’re saving my place out at Forest Lawn
Let’s say goodbye like we said hello
With sweet smiles and laughter as if we don’t know
Your Somebodys waiting and now you must go
Let’s say goodbye like we said hello
She says it’s “mee-know”, I say it’s “my-know”
She says “we’re fee-no”, I say “that’s fine-oh”
I’m playing the game tho’ I’m long in the tooth
I feel like a beer ‘n’ she’s cravin’ vermouth
So let’s throw a party lasting till dawn
With jugglers on horseback & all kinds of songs
With friends of the bride a-whispering to
The one who spent life in love with you
Let’s say goodbye like we said hello
Why should we try, does anyone know?
We’ll call it a day, like a sun setting low
Let’s say goodbye, like we said hello
(so) hurry up honey, I’ll put down the gun
I’ll redo the lyrics, I’ll put in more fun
You’ll get to laugh n’ you’ll get to smile
And I’ll get to cry like I ain’t for awhile
Let’s say goodbye like we said hello
with sweet smiles and laughter, as if we don‘t know
Your Somebodys waiting and now you must go
Let’s say goodbye like we said hello
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No More Chains
04:02
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No more chains around my neck, Lord
No more chains to keep me beat
No more chains around my ankles
I’ll walk along a free man’s street
No more chains to weigh my arms down
No more chains to hold me back
No more chains to sound my capture
The air I breathe tastes mighty sweet
One of these days and that day’s arrivin’
One of these days full of joyful noise
The road to joy awaits my footprints
where Angels rock my soul to sleep
No more chains from dawn to dusk, Lord
No more chains now the whip don’t crack
No more chains a new day’s coming
I’ve come along way ain’t goin’ back
No more chains no more darkness
No more chains no more incomplete
My soul is one with the brightest Heaven
The air I breathe tastes mighty sweet
All souls are one with the Almighty Heaven
This air I breathe tastes mighty sweet
This air I breathe tastes mighty sweet
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Moonlight Midnight
03:28
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If you ever feel lonesome
And your down in San Antone
Beg steal or borrow two nickles or a dime
and call me on the phone
And I'll meet you at Alamo mission
Where we can say our prayers
The Holy Ghost and the Virgin mother will heal us
As we kneel there
In the moonlight in the midnight
In the moonlight midnight moonlight
In the moonlight in the midnight
In the moonlight midnight moonlight
If you ever feel sorrow
For the love you have wronged
With no hope for tomorrow
In the setting of the sun
And the ocean is howling
With dreams that might have been
The last good morning sunrise
Will be the brightest you've ever seen
In the moonlight in the midnight
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I'm Not Going Away
04:06
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The wind is rising & the sun ain’t shining
The rain rules the roost all day
Come in & come hither n’ don’t ‘ya dare dither
Honey, I got something to say
While you’re sitting there lonely I love you only
I’m gonna, gonna beg you to stay
as the flames in our fire stretch ever higher
‘cause I’m not going away
Chorus
I’m not going away
No packing the very first bag
Not gonna miss all the fun
I’m not going away
I’m not going away
Why let the love we can share
Drift off on the air
When we can waltz our way to the sun
A Cadillac gleaming & a red rose teeming
Each full of grace & power
Is little compared to the time that we shared
Or the way we could spend the next hour
So your heart took a beatin’ from all of his cheatin’
Well, your singing solo days are through
Come to my café n’ share a warm latte
I’ll tell you all about the view
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One Is Way Too Many
03:29
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One is way too many
Three thousand's not enough
Before I tasted any
I was counting on that stuff
Water is too wet for me
Martini's way too dry
Milk's a drink for cows and kids
And gin just makes me cry
A beer and whiskey diet
Is sure to lose me pounds
I swear my wallet's lighter
I can't hardly get around
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My soup is cold my room’s too small my train is late
Is that my main course or just a dirty plate?
I used to wonder, ask myself is it just me?
Who has to turn the tables, spin a protest melody
Chorus
The squeaky wheel gets the oil
no lubrication in a quiet nation
The squeaky wheel gets the oil,
no peace I there’s no grease
The squeaky wheel gets the oil,
no conversation if there’s no libation
A quiet kettle will not boil,
The squeaky wheel gets the oil
Thank God I’m in the bar, I raise my glass and cheer
My pint is genuine, it’s looking bright and clear
I say “bartender, could you fit a dram in here?”
He says “I think there’s space” I say “If that’s the
case, why don’t you fill it up with beer?"
Chorus
The squeaky wheel gets the oil
no lubrication in a quiet nation
The squeaky wheel gets the oil,
no peace I there’s no grease
The squeaky wheel gets the oil,
no conversation if there’s no libation
Pedals crank and the cheques are blank,
the squeaky wheel gets the oil
I think the manager respects a range of views
I read the comment book on any page I choose
I don’t agree with everything I read in there
I’m satisfied somebody wrote enough to care
It’s all gone quiet why is everyone so glum?
We threw a party we said anyone could come
Our bar ran dryer than we ever thought it would
We kept on way part closing time ‘cos we never understood
Chorus
The squeaky wheel got the oil
The loudest mule drank all the fuel
The squeaky wheel got the oil
Now it’s too dry to cry
The squeaky wheel got the oil,
no rotation, no irrigation
Can’t bank on an empty tank,
as the squeaky wheel got the oil
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Pretty Polly
03:35
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There used to be a gambler who courted all around
There used to be a gambler who courted all around
He courted Pretty Polly such beauty had never been found
Pretty Polly, Pretty Polly come go along with me
Pretty Polly, Pretty Polly come go along with me
Before we get married some pleasures to see
She jumped up behind him and away they did go
She jumped up behind him and away they did go
Down into the valley that was far below
They went a little further and what did they spy?
They went a little further and what did they spy?
But a new dug grave with a spade lying by
Oh Willy dear Willy, I’m afraid of your way
Oh Willy dear Willy, I’m afraid of your way
I’m afraid you might lead my poor body astray
Pretty Polly, Pretty Polly you’ve guessed it just right
Pretty Polly, Pretty Polly you’ve guessed it just right
I dug on your grave the better part of last night
He stabbed her in the heart til her heart’s blood did flo
He stabbed her in the heart til her heart’s blood did flo
Down into the grave Pretty Polly did go
Now a debt to the Devil that Willy must pay
Now a debt to the Devil that Willy must pay
For killing Pretty Polly and running away
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Like A Hurricane
03:51
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Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar
Dancing on the light from star to star
Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are
I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire
You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer where the feeling stays
I want to love you but I'm getting blown away
I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream
You could have been anyone to me
Before that moment you touched my lips
That perfect feeling when time just slips
Away between us on our foggy trip
Chorus
You are just a dreamer, and I am just a dream
You could have been anyone to me
Before that moment you touched my lips
That perfect feeling when time just slips
Away between us on our foggy trip
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Permanent Twilight
04:04
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Though my name is important you can pay it no mind
Till I’m sipping the breeze on those streets there outside
But today’s like the day that’s just gone before
As I lay frozen, quiet on this fifth V.A. floor
We were stationed in Bazra on our Captain’s orders
In a forcible change of some government’s borders
When I lay down my boot on a hidden tick mine
N’ the shrapnel near blind me as it severed my spine
My comrades, though wounded, did carry me back
To a surgical unit not safe from attack
Thru the heat & the dust & the dirt & the wind
Then they turned & went back to the battle again
I would march if I could to the sound of the guns
But I can’t move a muscle to walk or to run
& though perceptive to light I can’t see you at all
Yet here in my darkness I still watch comrades fall
From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli
I would fight my country’s battles if only I could see
If God gave me back my vision & they’d give me back my gun
Then I would will my body to any war we needed won
But your days are my evenings, your mornings my nights
My time is now spent in a permanent twilight
I’m pleased that you’d visit tho’ you know I can’t stand
Tho’ my looks my deceive you this soldier’s still a man
Though my name is important you can pay it no mind
Till I’m outside these walls on the streets feeling fine
But today’s like the day that’s just gone before
As I lay frozen, quiet on this hospital floor
Now all you young ramblers who think you’re so fine
N’ your country’s so noble its rivers run wine
Remember the man whose days are his nights
And the land mine that gave me permanent twilight
Permanent twilight
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Just like a little drop of water,
wets the branch to give it new leaves
I’d would lend you a hand or give you my ear
Its better that we speak than you just grieve
We have the kind of love which seems to confront us
To astound us and bring us to our knees
But I’m the kind of friend, who’ll be there in the end
Lookin’ for a soft place to fall
Just like my old landline phone, dear,
the one you never ring at all
I’ll quietly await for you to sound my bell
Our silence broken by your timely call
You are the only one who seems to consume me
To confuse me and make me feel so small
seems I’m the kind of friend who’ll cry into the wind
Lookin’ for a soft place to fall
Just like a shadow in the late night,
so hard to see the next step to take
To choose to walk with me & feel you’re never free
But baby, I would never let you crawl
You’re the only one who seems to soothe me
so stay with me & be there when I call
If not you’ll see me searchin’, stumblin’ on the ground
Lookin’ for a soft place to fall
Lookin’ for a soft place to fall
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Closing Time Genius
03:38
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Pass me the bottle, Do me no harm
I’ll have two fingers one from each arm
Say you can’t help me, say I can’t hear
I‘ll start on the whisky, I’ve finished the beer
Refrain
Smart when I walked in, I‘m much smarter now
This closing time genius, is thinking much more
than his brain will allow
Wit, yes, and wisdom, I got ‘em in spades
Leave the amateurs crying, in their lemonades
Set ‘em up join me, hey I can dream
This guy with no water, can’t run out of steam
Smart when I walked in, I‘m much smarter now
This closing time genius, is thinking much more than his brain will allow
Oh but I don’t understand why there’s no sparkle in this wedding band
Ah but it’s like it was planned my IQ rises with the minute hand
Smart when I walked in, I‘m much smarter now
This closing time genius, is thinking much more than his brain will allow
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Sail Away, Ladies!
03:23
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Ain't no use to sit and cry
sail away, ladies, sail away
you'll be an angel by and by
sail away, ladies, sail away
don't you rock 'im, daddy-o
don't you rock 'm, daddy-o
don't you rock 'im, daddy-o
sail away, ladies, sail away!
I got news from Charlotte Town
sail away, ladies, said away
big St. Louis a-burning down
sail away, ladies, said away
I got a home in Tennessee
sail away, ladies, sail away
that's the place I wanna be
sail away, ladies, sail away
come along, boys, and go with me
sail away, ladies, sail away
we'll go down to Tennessee
sail away, ladies, sail away
hush, little baby, don't you cry
sail away, ladies, sail away
you'll be an Angel by and by
sail away, ladies, sail away
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The Coal Porters London, UK
The Coal Porters claim to be the world’s first “alt-bluegrass” act, demonstrating the power of fiddle, mandolin, banjo,
acoustic guitar and doghouse bass when matched with four-part harmonies and memorable melodies.
They have taken this sound around the world being featured on NPR’s Morning Edition in the USA and having recorded a live session for Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2.
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