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| 3:38 | 
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If I had a dollar bill
Yes, I believe I surely will Go to town and drink my fill Early in the morning Little darling, she's a red haired thing Man, she makes my legs to sing Gonna buy her a diamond ring Early in the morning Mother was a golden girl I slit her throat just to get her pearls Cast myself into a whirl Before a bunch of swine It's a long way down the Harlan road Busted back and a heavy load Won't get through to save my soul Early in the morning I've always been a gambling man I've rolled them bones with either hand Seven is the promised land Early in the morning Whiskey'd be my dying bed Tell me where to lay my head Not with me is all she said Early in the morning If I had a dollar bill Yes, I believe I surely will Go to town and drink my fill Early in the morning |
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| 2. |
| 3:55 | 
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| 3. |
| 2:52 |
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Ride the blue wind high and free
She'll lead you down through misery Leave you low, come time to go Alone and low as low can be If I had a nickel I'd find a game If I won a dollar I'd make it rain If it rained an ocean I'd drink it dry And lay me down dissatisfied Legs to walk and thoughts to fly Eyes to laugh and lips to cry A restless tongue to classify All born to grow and grown to die So tell my baby I said so long Tell my mother I did no wrong Tell my brother to watch his own And tell my friends to mourn me none I'm chained upon the face of time Feelin' full of foolish rhyme There ain't no dark till something shines I'm bound to leave this dark behind Ride the blue wind high and free She'll lead you down through misery Leave you low, come time to go Alone and low as low can be |
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| 4. |
| 4:24 |
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> The folks - they just can't take no more
Throw you in the back seat, slam the door No stoppin' as down the road you go Got not time to lose Gigantic one-way gate ahead You're thinkin', man, I'd as soon be dead They decided to give you life instead The sanitarium blues Big ol' nurse all dressed in white Slaps you on a table in the middle of the night Then he straps you down real tight You're wonderin', what'd I do? They hose you down, make sure you're clean Wrap you up in hospital green Shoot you full of Thorazine The sanitarium blues Could be TB or maybe a tumor Eavesdropping on the doctors, listening to the rumors Can't see your friends, hear the hum of the wheels Hey, my man, you know how it feels Like the sanitarium blues Then upon some sunlit day They figure there's no need for you to stay They're pretty sure you can't be cured So they send you on your merry way You hit the pavement, hang around Nobody's on the outside to be found You're just tryin' to stay above the ground You start to thinkin', what's the use? The sanitarium blues |
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| 3:02 |
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Mister Gator he's a-glidin' down the bayou
Mister Buzzard he's a-slidin' through the air Mister Turtle be a-hittin' the highway I ain't goin' nowhere I ain't leavin you love, babe I ain't leavin you love, babe Not for heaven above, babe I ain't leavin you love, babe The poor man got him an airplane Tryin to cruise across the traffic jam The rich man got him a Chevrolet I'm stayin' right where I am Now Hannibal he climbed the mountains Cleopatra danced down the Nile Lucky Lindy made it all the way to gay Paris I'm stayin right here awhile |
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| 6. |
| 2:58 |
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| 7. |
| 2:36 |
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by Townes Van Zandt
Mr ten dollar man let me tell where you're bound drink your green liqour, Lord you'll roll to the ground but you come around here with your money in your hand taste of my woman well, you die where you stand Snake mountain blues got me down low I could die in the morning but no one would know when my woman come around my body she'd find go down to Dundee have her a time Snake mountain gonna crumble and fall from the sky before that woman of mine stops tellin' her lies If I'd die, Lord, she'd weep she'd weep and she'd mourn soon as I's buried forget I'd been born Love of blackskin woman she won't do you no wrong slow to start moaning she don't moan for long yellow headed woman brings nothing but pain take all you give her she leaves only shame My daddy, Lord, he rides on a long holy train first winds of winter I see him again In this farewell to this yellow headed misery I've known Snake mountain's calling calling me home Snake mountain blues got me down low I could die in the morning but no one would know when my woman come around my body she'd find go down to Dundee have her a time |
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| 8. |
| 3:02 |
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Living on the road my friend,
Is gonna keep you free and clean Now you wear your skin like iron, Your breath as hard as kerosene. You weren't your mama's only boy, But her favorite one it seems She began to cry when you said goodbye, And sank into your dreams. Pancho was a bandit boy, His horse was fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel. Pancho met his match you know On the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dying words, Ah but that's the way it goes. All the Federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose. Lefty, he can't sing the blues All night long like he used to. The dust that Pancho bit down south Ended up in Lefty's mouth The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go, There ain't nobody knows The poets tell how Pancho fell, And Lefty's living in cheap hotels The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold, And so the story ends we're told Pancho needs your prayers it's true, But save a few for Lefty too He only did what he had to do, And now he's growing old |
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| 9. |
| 2:40 |
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Why does she sing
Her sad songs for me, I'm not the one To tenderly bring Her soft sympathy I've just begun To see my way clear And it's plain, If I stop I will fall I can lay down a tear For her pain, Just a tear and that's all. What does she want me to do? She says that she knows That moments are rare I suppose that it's true Then on she goes To say I don't care, And she knows That I do Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong. She'd like to think that I'm cruel, But she knows that's a lie For I would be No more than a tool If I allowed her to cry All over me. Oh my sorrow is real Even though I can't change my plan If she could see how I feel Then I know That she'd understand Oh does she actually think I'm to blame? Does she really believe That some word of mine Can relieve All her pain? Can't she see that she grieves Just because she's been blindly deceived By her shame? Nothin's what it seems, Maybe she'll start someday To realize If she abandons her dreams, Then all the words she can say Are only lies When will she see That to gain Is only to lose? All that she offers me Are her chains, I got to refuse Oh but it's only to herself that she's lied She likes to pretend It's something that she must defend, With her pride And I don't intend To stand her and be the friend From whom she must hide |
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| 10. |
| 3:30 |
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| 11. |
| 3:49 |
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[Chorus:]
It's many a fine lady has laid down beside me With their flesh made of velvet and their eyes made of rain Some tried to hold me, to hurt me, to hide me Some turned away, not to look back again One stood among them, I remember most clearly Her sorrows were heavy, and her laughter was slow I courted her gently, for I loved her most dearly And I came her majestic reflections to know Her words, like the mountain, stood lonely and lofty With her face like a daydream and her hair like the shawl Worn by a mourner, who steals away softly From those that would have him mourn nothing at all Endlessly sorrow rode high on the north wind Slashing and slicing to take him his toll Endlessly creatures of darkness were cutting Their paths through the walls that shelter the soul No longer gypsy-like sadness unending Her eyes - they lie hollow and her face petrified Some will go laughing and others condemning But who there among you could have told her goodbye? [Chorus] |
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| 3:58 |
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So close and yet so far away
And all the things I'd hoped to say Will have to go unsaid today Perhaps until tomorrow Your fear has built a wall between Our lives and all what lovin' means Will have to go unfelt it seems And that leaves only sorrow You built your tower strong and tall Can't you see it's got to fall some day You close your eyes and speak to me Of faith and love and destiny As distant as eternity, Truth and understanding The wind blows cold outside your door It whispers words I've tried before But you don't hear me anymore Your pride's just too demanding The end is coming soon, it's plain A warm bed just ain't worth the pain And I will go and you'll remain With the bitterness we tasted A mother's breast, a newborn child A poet's tear, and drunken smile Can't help thinkin' all the while Their meaning won't be wasted |
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| 2:30 |
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> Headin' from El Paso
Ridin' down the highway Look out my window What do I see Some armadillo done gone crazy Flew in front of semi Man, looks like squash to me Thinkin' 'bout my my baby Livin' down in Houston Wonder if that squashes armadillo too Guess I'll stop in Greenland And have me some ol' veggies This highway will do that to you I'm thinkin' Squash On the highway Coyote and Armadillo, Possum too I'm talkin' Squash Out on the highway Vitamin D and A and be |
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