Barry Bailey

Paper fans in sweaty hands
Shooing flies away
Reflections on a porch
A shelter from the scorch
When dog days came around

Babies squalled as August crawled
Past old folks in the shade
The weather vane was stuck
And white oak creek would drop
When dog days came around

The dog days were scorchers
Southern torture
But we found an answer to the plight
It was a dog day's night

Evening brings a front porch scene
But time to rest your bones
And pray you won't be here
Come this time next year
When dog old days come along

The dog days were scorchers
Southern torture
But we found an answer to the plight
It was a dog day's night

The dog days were scorchers
Southern torture
But we found an answer to the plight
It was a dog day's night
Oh, yeah, more dog days oh, yeah

All night rain
It's an all night rain
Can't you hear the thunder
See the lightning cross the sky
Don't you feel it in the wind
A storm is settin' in
We'd better stay inside

It's an all night rain
Let me hold you 'til the sun comes up
It's an all night rain
Made for all night love

Some folks curse the weather
But it don't bother us at all
Like a dream comin' true
I'm stranded here with you
So let it fall, oh let it fall

It's an all night rain
Let me hold you 'til the sun comes up
It's an all night rain
Made for all night love, all night love

Do do do, do do do
Thunder and lightning
Aw, Aw

It's an all night rain
Let me hold you 'til the sun comes up
It's an all night rain
Made for all night love

(Repeat)

In the dawning of the social revolution
In an age when "do you your thing" was never done
I met a woman like I'd never known
A girl with a mind of her own
She spoke freely

She began to talk about a new horizon
She said "come with me babe, we shall overcome"
She said "excuse me while I kiss the sky
You see, some folks were going to die
I was born to run"

She was a free spirit
A gypsy with an angel's wings
She was a free spirit
The answer to a dreamer's dreams

I still dream about the first time we were lovers
And I can't forget how beautiful it was (yes it was)
It wasn't guilty and it wasn't a shame
It wasn't something that you've got to explain
No, it was free love

She was a free spirit
A gypsy with an angel's wings
She was a free spirit
The answer to a dreamer's dreams

A free spirit

She was a woman way ahead of her time
She had vision when the world was blind
Liberty

She was a free spirit
A gypsy with an angel's wings
She was a free spirit
The answer to all my dreams

You made a sane man
Go mad about you
You said you loved
Nobody but me

But now I’ve found out
You have another
And I got to meet you
At the dark end of the street

It’s so hard
Loving you
It’s no hard
What can I do?
It’s so hard, clinging to
Another man's woman
Yaah hey hey

I got to meet you
In smoky places
Way over town
Where nobody goes
So no one sees us
We hide our faces
I ain’t complaining
But I want you to know

It’s so hard
Loving you
It’s no hard
What can I do?
It’s so hard, clinging to
Another man's woman

Whoo
Yaah hey hey
Whoo
Ah ha
Ya ya ya
Whoo

It’s so hard
Loving you
It’s no hard
What can I do?
It’s so hard, clinging to
Another man's woman

Yaah hey hey
Yaah hey hey hey hey hey
Whoo hoo hoo hoo
Ya ha ha
Whoo hoo hoo

I'm gonna haunt you like a ghost in the dark
I'm gonna haunt you for breaking my heart
I'm gonna track you like a thief in the night
I'm gonna stick around and see

Who you gonna run to when you're through walkin' on me

I'm gonna spite you till my dyin' day
I'm gonna fight you every inch of the way, yeah
Don't ever turn your back and think that I'm gone
I'll always be around to see

Who you gonna run to when you're through walkin' on me?
Tell me, who you gonna run to when you're through walkin' on me?

I ain't no fool
[Incomprehensible]

I'm gonna haunt you like a ghost in the dark
I'm gonna get you for breaking my heart
I'll tell the world what a devil you are
I'll get you back for gettin' me

Baby, who you gonna run to when you're through walkin' on me?
Tell me, who you gonna run to when you're through walkin' on me?
Who'll your next fool be, who you gonna run to