Johnny Hickman

Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up

Well the year of the redneck mama
It was announced by the sign of a comet
Hanging in the sky at 3 AM
Again and again again and again
and I say

100 flower power maximum
100 flower power maximum
100 flower power maximum
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up

Well the year of the redneck mama
It was announced by the sign of a comet
Hanging in the sky at 3AM
That's right!
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up
100 flower power maximum
100 flower power maximum
100 flower power maximum
Let's pick it up

And it's a long long way to the top
But when you come down
It's one headlong rush

You've got an itch to scratch
The shiny bits of light
Hanging like stars
Hanging like stars

And Mary says you're such a restless soul
My bicycle spaniard
My magyar of cold

You've got an itch to find what's best left lost and cold
My bicycle spaniard
My poor restless soul
My bicycle spaniard
My poor restless soul

Cigarettes and carrot juice
And get yourself a new tattoo
For those sleeveless days of June

I'm sitting on the Caf?Xeno's steps
With a book I haven't started yet
Watching all the girls walk by...

Could I take you out?
I'll be yours without a doubt
On that Big Dipper

And if the sound of this it frightens you
We could play it real cool
And act somewhat indifferent

And hey June why'd you have to come
Why'd you have to come around, so soon?
I wasn't ready for all this nature
The terrible green green grass
And violent blooms of flowered dresses
And afternoons that make me sleepy

But we could wait awhile
Before we push that dull turnstile
Into the passage

The thousands they have tread
And others sometimes fled
Before the turn came

And we could wait our lives
Before a chance arrives
Before the passage

From the top you can see Monterey
Or think about San Jose
Though I know it's not that pleasant

And hey Jim, Kerouac
Or so he likes to say.
Lucky bastard

He's sitting on the cafe Xeno's steps
With a girl I'm not over yet
Watching all the world go by

"Boy you're looking bad
Did I make you feel that sad?
I'm honestly flattered."

But if she asks me out,
I'll be hers without a doubt
On that Big Dipper

Cigarettes, and carrot juice
And get yourself a new tattoo
For those sleeveless days of June...

I'm sitting on the Caf?Xeno's steps...
I haven't got the courage yet
I haven't got the courage yet
I haven't got the courage yet

We went down
to the old part of town
by the stinking canal
and the cotton mill

Under a ghetto palm
with her bicycle shorts on
with a gesture she said to me:

"I really must confess
I'd like to get undressed
with you."

And though the thought
had never really crossed my mind
Oh that was a line
So I went along.

We ran out
Under the turning leaves
The fetid earth
it was damp and cool
Well Autumn's feeble light
on her salty neck
all innocence, it was lost

I really must confess
I am feeling quite distressed
My stars are always crossed
And I have always taken
more than I have given back,
and as a matter of fact,
I've given nothing up

Well I've been up to Paris
And I've slept in a park
Went down to Barcelona
Someone broke in my car
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl

Took the train down to Athens
And I slept in a fountain
Some Swiss junkie in Turin
Ripped me off for my cash
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl

The CRS on the metro
Shook me down for a bribe
On my knees for the sergeant
When my passport arrived
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl

Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl
Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl

Called my mom from a payphone
I said "I'm down to my last."
She said "I sent you to college
Now go call your dad."
And the waitress that he married
Well she hung up the phone
You know she never did like me
But I can stand on my own

Sold my plasma in Amsterdam
Spent it all in a night
Buying drinks at the Melk Weg
For a soldier in drag
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl

Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl
Euro-trash Girl, I'm a Euro-trash girl

Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl

Solo Johnny

Got a tattoo in Berlin
And a case of the crabs
A rose and a dagger
On the palm of my hand
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl

Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl
Euro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl

Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl

Well I've been up to Paris
And I've slept in a park.
Went down to Barcelona
Someone broke in my car
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Eurotrash Girl.
Took the train down to Athens
And I slept in a fountain.
Some Swiss junkie in Turin
Ripped me off for my cash.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, search the world over
For a Eurotrash Girl.
The CRS on the metro
Shook me down for a bribe.
On my knees for the sergeant
When my passport arrived.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Eurotrash Girl

Eurotrash Girl
Eurotrash Girl
Eurotrash Girl
Eurotrash Girl

Called my mom from a payphone
I said "I'm down to my last."
She said "I sent you to college
Now go call your dad."
And the waitress that he married
Well she hung up the phone.
Ya know she never did like me
But I can stand on my own.
Sold my plasma in Amsterdam.
Spent it all in a night
Buying drinks at the Melk Weg
For a soldier in drag.
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Eurotrash Girl

Eurotrash Girl
Eurotrash Girl
Eurotrash Girl
My Eurotrash Girl

Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Eurotrash Girl
Got a tattoo in Berlin
And a case of the crabs.
A rose and a dagger
On the palm of my hand.
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Eurotrash Girl.

Eurotrash Girl
Eurotrash Girl
Eurotrash Girl
Eurotrash Girl

Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Eurotrash Girl.

Origin: Kerosene Hat
Soraya Rozkuszka: "Someone at the San Francisco shows, Bugs I think, was talking about the recording of Kerosene Hat--the snoring (on Hi-Desert Biker Meth Lab) was supposedly the security guard for the sound stage they built, who dozed off so they lowered a boom mike over him. The hammering and sawing is supposedly all them building the stage/set/whatchamacallit."

Origin: Kerosene Hat
Soraya Rozkuszka: "Someone at the San Francisco shows, Bugs I think, was talking about the recording of Kerosene Hat--the snoring (on Hi-Desert Biker Meth Lab) was supposedly the security guard for the sound stage they built, who dozed off so they lowered a boom mike over him. The hammering and sawing is supposedly all them building the stage/set/whatchamacallit."

You can still come and bring me coffee in the morning.
You can still come and make me chicken fried steak.
Or you can live your life with whomever you please to
As long as someone takes good care of me.
You know I don't mind.

How can I live without you
if it means I gotta get a job?

You could still come and bring me those fancy pastries.
You can still come and crawl into my bed.
Or you can live your life with whomever you please to,
As long as someone takes good care of me.
You know I don't mind.

How can I live without you
if it means I gotta get a job

Cold summer wheat
It sways in the breeze
till it fades in the autumn
to brown

Cool summer grass
it beckons and calls
and I lie here with you
in my heart

I can't forget you
I can't forget you
I can't forget you
at all

Birds take to the sky
they never alight
they circle around
forever

Now I tried but I failed
to hide and disguise
this one simple
sentiment

I can't forget you
I can't forget you
I can't forget you
No No

I can't forget you
I can't forget you
I can't forget you
at all
No No

I hate my generation
I offer no apologies
I hate my generation, yeah

I hate my generation
I picked it up and threw it away
I hate my generation

It's alright
It's alright

I hate my generation
Now that I said it
I feel liberated
I hate my generation now

I hate my generation
I offer no apologies
I hate my generation now

It's alright
alright
alright

I hate my
I hate my
I hate my

I'm standing in your corridor
I wonder what I'm waiting for
The Leaves are drifting out to sea
I'm waiting for you desperately

All things beautiful
All things beautiful
I want everything
I want everything

You call us with your silent seas
You call us in our tiny boats
Gather us up with the storm
And cast us out upon the shore

All things beautiful
All things beautiful
I want everything
I want everything
I want everything
I want everything

You're deep inside this fecund swamp
Or let it be your beating heart
You're deep inside this fecund swamp
You call us in our tiny boats

All things beautiful
All things beautiful
I want everything
I want everything
I want everything
I want everything
I want everything
I want everything
I want everything
I want everything

I'm a little rocket ship
I'll take you on a little trip
We'll leave this planet far behind

I'm a little tired of it
and you're a little weary I can tell
yeah yeah

Well I'm a little rocket ship
And you are Queen Andromeda
of all the stars
those with names
and those in clusters

You are on account of the infinite
So can't you see
that I'm a little rocket ship

I'm a little rocket ship
I'll take you on a little trip
And leave this planet far behind

Do you suppose that they've been here?
I don't know, but I've been there.
Do you wanna come along?

I'm a little rocket ship
and you are crowned with them magnificent
all the stars
those with names
and those in dingy drag bars

They plead with you not to go
to Pleiades or Scorpio
and I'm a little rocket ship

How can I fly with these old doggy wings
While the magpie sings some shiny song
Old corn face row of teeth, she says sweetly to me
In the elevator

Everything seems like a dream
And life's a scream

Here come old Kerosene Hat
With his ear flaps waxed, a courting his girl
Come clattering in here on your old cloven skates
With that devilish spoon

Everything seems like a dream
And life's a scream
When you're submarine

So don't you bother me, death, with your leathery ways
And your old chaise lounge
Wickerman's fence of leathery tires
And the cook's gone mad, started several fires

Everything seems like a dream
When you're submarine

Head like a stream she says softly to me
From the rattling chair
Bring me a steak and my old pair of crows
My medicine lamp

Everything seems like a dream
So life's a scream

How can I fly with these old doggy wings
While the magpie sings some shiny song
Old corn face row of teeth, she says sweetly to me
In the elevator

Everything seems like a dream
And life's a scream

Here come old Kerosene Hat
With his ear flaps waxed, a courting his girl
Come clattering in here on your old cloven skates
With that devilish spoon

Everything seems like a dream
And life's a scream
When you're submarine

So don't you bother me, death, with your leathery ways
And your old chaise lounge
Wickerman's fence of leathery tires
And the cook's gone mad, started several fires

Everything seems like a dream
When you're submarine

Head like a stream she says softly to me
From the rattling chair
Bring me a steak and my old pair of crows
My medicine lamp

Everything seems like a dream
So life's a scream

How can I fly with these old doggy wings
While the magpie sings some shiny song
Old corn face row of teeth, she says sweetly to me
In the elevator

Everything seems like a dream
And life's a scream

Here come old Kerosene Hat
With his ear flaps waxed, a courting his girl
Come clattering in here on your old cloven skates
With that devilish spoon

Everything seems like a dream
And life's a scream
When you're submarine

So don't you bother me, death, with your leathery ways
And your old chaise lounge
Wickerman's fence of leathery tires
And the cook's gone mad, started several fires

Everything seems like a dream
When you're submarine

Head like a stream she says softly to me
From the rattling chair
Bring me a steak and my old pair of crows
My medicine lamp

Everything seems like a dream
So life's a scream

Oh, yeah I feel alright tonight
Oh, man the stars are bright tonight
Like we could reach right out
And help yourself to them

Cause what we want and what we need
Will one day bring us to our knees
Well, I am over it
You know that I've accepted it

Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Go for a ride

Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Go for a ride

So, drive real fast through the underpass
And if we die or if we crash
Well I'd be flattered to
Be buried right next to you

Cause what's yours is yours
What's mine is mine
In the summertime
Under the blackened sky
The world belongs to us
Baby lets use it up.

Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Go for a ride

Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Go for a ride

Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Go for a ride

Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Go for a ride

Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Go for a ride

Go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Go for a ride

Well, lucky number seven passed me by
Lucky number seven called my name and passed on by
Well he came back don't you know
With his brother six in tow
And that is how number thirteen wound up at my side

And that is how I got these lonesome Johnny blues
How I got these lonesome Johnny blues
Got the lonesome Johnny blues
And there's nothing I can do
'Cept sing these sad old weary lonesome Johnny blues

Here we go

Grim reaper he pulled up into my drive
Grim reaper pulled his little old chevrolet right up onto the goddamn drive
Johnny, I haven't come up for you
But I want someone who's dear to you
And the price you pay is to remain alive

And I'll stay here with these lonesome Johnny blues
Stay here with these lonesome Johnny blues
With the lonesome Johnny blues
And there's nothing I can do
'Cept sing these sad old weary lonesome Johnny blues

Woah, no more trouble send him down the road, won't you please.
No more trouble won't you beat him up, won't you send him down the road
Trouble dumped out the trash
Ransacked the place for cash
And he wound up taking much more than I own

And he left me with these lonesome Johnny blues
Left me with these lonesome Johnny blues
With the lonesome Johnny blues
And there's nothing I can do
'Cept sing these sad old weary lonesome Johnny blues

Johnny blues
The sad old weary lonesome Johnny blues
Johnny blues
The sad old weary lonesome Johnny blues

If I had a gun for every ace I have drawn,
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me baby,
Cause I'm all alone and you know I'm only in it for the gold

All that I am asking is for ten gold dollars
And I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around about the wide world over
And you'll never find another honest man.

Last fair deal in the country,
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold dollars where your love is baby,
Before I let my deal go down

Last fair deal in the country,
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold dollars where your love is baby,
Before I let my deal go down

Don't you push me baby, cause I'm all alone
And I know a little something you might never know
Don't you touch our liquor, just a cup of cold coffee
I'm gonna wake up in the morning and go

Everybody prayin' and drinkin' that wine
I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines
Come to papa on an inside straight,
Causel I got no chance of losing this time
No I got no chance of losing this time
No I got no chance of losing this time

Sometimes I wanna take you down
Sometime I wanna get you low
Brush your hair back from your eyes
Take you down let the river flow

Sometimes I go and walk the street
Behind a green sheet of glass
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles

I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

A million poppies gonna make me sleep
Just one rose it knows your name
The fruit is rusting on the vine
A fruit is calling from the trees

Hey don't you wanna go down
Like some junky cosmonaut
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles

I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

Blue, blue is the sun
Brown, brown is the sky
Green, green are her eyes
A million miles, a million miles

Hey don't you wanna go down
Like some disgraced cosmonaut
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles

I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

Well the movie star, well she crashed her car
But everyone said she was beautiful even without her head
Everyone said she was dangerous

Well the chief of police kept the crime off the streets
Deep in his heart, we all knew he felt differently
We all knew he was an anarchist

Well I, I'd like to devour you
But you, you'd probably devour me

For your golden wheat, for your oat bran head
Deep in my heart
Girl you're a beautiful animal
I'll put a tag on your ear

Here we go!

Well the movie star, well she crashed her car
But everyone said she was beautiful even without her head
Everyone said she was dangerous

Well the chief of police kept the crime off the streets
Deep in his heart we all knew he felt differently
We all knew he was an anarchist

Well I, I'd like to devour you
But you, you'd probably devour me

Well I, I'd like to devour you
But you, you'd probably devour me

Girl you're a beautiful animal
Girl you're a beautiful animal
Girl you're a beautiful animal
Girl you're a beautiful animal
Girl you're a beautiful animal
Girl you're a beautiful animal
Girl you're a beautiful animal
Girl you're a beautiful animal

And here's Ivanovich
In his rocket ship
Spinning helplessly
Up above the earth

While his heart is splintered
All the girls of winter
Are buried in their coats, anonymous

While winter girls are waiting
Ivanovich in high rotation
Is just another star
Up in the sky

And while the world was waiting
We're overwhelmed by some sensation
Of something long ago and far away

Like General Jackson's arm
It's buried on some farm
While the fever
Pushes words from his lips

And by the drunken river
Where the soldiers shiver
We rest beneath the shade of the trees

While winter girls are saying
"Each of us a tiny nation
You're just another star
But so am I."

And while the world was waiting
We're overwhelmed by some sensation
Of something long ago and far away

Where ya going to?
If you want me let me take you
Where ya going to?
If you want me let me take you

'Cause in my life
I got nothing to believe in
Except for you
I got nothing to believe in

Whatcha looking for?
If you want it I will find it.
Yeah whatcha looking for?
If you want me let me find it.

'Cause in my life
I got nothing to believe in
Except for you
I got nothing to believe in

And I feel fine
I feel fine
Yeah I feel fine
I feel fine

'Cause in my life
I got nothing to believe in
Except for you
I got nothing to believe in
Except for you
I got nothing to believe in

I feel fine
Yeah I feel infe
I feel fine,
I feel fine,
Yeah I feel fine
Yeah I feel fine
I feel fine,
Yeah I feel fine

If I could just keep
My stupid mind together
Then my thoughts across
The land for you to see
The sun drags locomotives
To the ocean
No one knows this like I do
Seconds clicking which I'm
Change to dust
Whithered roots of hair
And nights of rust
I'm waiting in the currents
Of the ocean
I'm so sick of goodbyes, goodbyes

I'm so sick of goodbyes, goodbyes
I'm so tired of goodbyes, goodbyes
Goodbyes, goodbyes
Goodbyes

When night comes crawling in
On a horse
Soaking up my dreams
Through the pores
I'm so sick
I'm so sick of goodbyes, goodbyes
Goodbyes
Goodbyes

I'm so sick of goodbyes, goodbyes
I'm so tired of goodbyes, goodbyes
I'm so sick, so sick of goodbyes, goodbyes
I'm so, I'm so
Goodbyes
Goodbyes
Goodbyes

Be my sweet potato
Be my honey lamb
Dance around the campfire
Hang around a while

Well, I been caught stealing
Someone else's vibe
Everybody loves or hates us
But we're still alive

Well wake up in the morning
Cup of coffee, grab your bags
Jump into the caddie
'Cause this touring ain't a drag
They were overrated, educated
I suppose a little jaded
When I get off this
I think I'm gonna have to be sedated

Be my sweet potato
I'll be your honey lamb
Give me some black tupelo
I been caught again
Shit!

I went to New York City
But then I come right back
Everyone was cool there
I couldn't get no slack
You seen me in the papers
You seen me in the Voice
I think I'd stay in Dixie
If I had the choice

Well wake up in the morning
Cup of coffee, grab your bags
Jump into the caddie
'Cause this touring ain't a drag
They were overrated, educated
I suppose a little jaded
When I get off this
I think I'm gonna have to be sedated

Be my sweet potato
I'll be your honey lamb
Give me some black tupelo
I been caught again

It's been a long time since I had Sweet Thistle Pie.
It's been a long time since I had Sweet Thistle Pie.
She claps her hands and snaps her fingers
Knows my name but calls me Ginger
Been a long time since I had Sweet Thistle Pie.

Hey Hey Hey Yeah

Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie

It's been a long time since I've been so very low.
It's been a long time since I've been so very low.
When I was young, you were no stranger
Around the world and slipped through my fingers,
It's been a long time since I've been so very low.

Hey Hey Hey Yeah

Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie

Take me down
To the infirmary
Lay me down
On cotton sheets
Put a damp cloth
On my forehead
Lay me down
And let me sleep

I know the whiskey, it won't soothe my soul
And the morphine won't heal my heart
But if you take me down to the infirmary
I won't have to sleep or drink alone

So, take me down
To the infirmary
Walk a sound that's as blue as her eyes
Oh, sister Magdalene won't you fetch the doctor's flask
He is going to need a steady
A steady hand

I know the whiskey, it won't soothe my soul
And the morphine won't heal my heart
But if you take me down to the infirmary
I won't have to sleep or drink alone

So, take me down
To the infirmary
Lay me down on cotton sheets
Put a damp cloth on my forehead
Lay me down let me sleep
Lay me down let me sleep

This is the Golden Age
It's hard to imagine
With the way I feel today
That this is the Golden Age
The Golden Age

Somewhere I failed
Somewhere I lost you
In a black crowd of crows
And shiny things
I can't remember

This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age
The Golden Age

It seems like I'm high
But baby I'm crawling
In the unbearable days
I threw away
But I should have savored
The flaxen light
Off of the dying wheat
Your rye whiskey mouth
And your dandelion teeth

This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age

I'm so fucking sick
I'm the king of the world.
I'm a genius of useless stuff

Some people they gotta work
Well I just hang around.
A dreaming' up useless stuff

So if I call you from time to time
I said my life is such a drag
and I feel like a hag please shut me up.
Girl would you like to live my life
And I'll be with you tonight
and I'll be your useless stuff

Now everybody wants to be our friend
So we act real Zen,
and hang around with movie stars

So if I call you from time to time
I said my life is such a drag
and I feel like a hag, kick me in the ass.
Girl would you like to live my life
And I'll be with you tonight
and I'll be your useless stuff
yeah I'll be your useless stuff
Can I be your useless stuff