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My feet, they are naked, my hands on my hips
My eyes to the ocean and open my lips Eeeee-aaaaa ooooh los pescadores They come with a crash on the crest of a roar And they're out of their boats and they're on to the shore Eeeee-aaaaa ooooh los pescadores And they wrench with the rain and they strain with the rope They dig I the sand and they bend to the smoke Eeeee-aaaaa ooooh los pescadores And the weight of the men and the sound of the sea The hardness of them and the softness of me Eeeee-aaaaa ooooh los pescadores And I'll stand with the fishermen, silent and gay I'll eat of the sun and I'll drink of the spray Eeeee-aaaaa ooooh los pescadores Eeeee-aaaaa ooooh los pescadores |
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You're not a dream
You're not an angel You're a woman I'm not a king, I'm a man, Take my hand We'll make a space In the lives that we planned And here we'll stay Until it's time for you to go Yes, we're diff'rent worlds apart We're not the same We laughed and played At the start like in a game You could have stayed Outside my heart But in you came And here you'll stay Until it's time for you to go Don't ask why, Don't ask how Don't ask forever, Love me now This love of mine Had no beginning It has no end I was an oak, Now I'm a willow Now I can bend And tho' I'll never In my life see you again I still stay Until it's time for you to go |
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Well, Johnny be fair and Johnny be fine and wants me for to wed
And I would marry Johnny, but my father up and said I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew But Johnny is a son of mine and so he's kin to you Well, Jimmy be fair and Jimmy be fine and wants me for to wed And I would marry Jimmy, but my father up and said I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew But Jimmy, too, is a son of mine and so he's kin to you Well, Billy be fair and Billy be fine and wants me for to wed And I would marry Billy, but my father up and said I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew But Billy, too, is a son of mine and so he's kin to you You never seen a girl so sad and sorry as I was The boys in town are all my kin and my father is the pa If this continue I shall die a single miss So I'll go to mother and complain to her of this Oh daughter, haven't I taught you to forgive and to forget Even if this all is true, still you needn't fret Your father may be father to all the boys in town, still He's not the one who sired you, so marry who you will |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Many A Mile (1965)
I've damn near walked this world around
Another city, another town Another friend to say goodbye And another time to sit and cry Oh, it's many a mile I have spent on this road It's many a mile I have gone Well, there was one, he knew me best You know, he gave my poor heart rest He was my world, my heart, my dear And now he's gone to God knows where Oh, it's many a mile I have spent on this road It's many a mile I have gone I've seen your towns, they're all the same The only difference is in a name And the only home I ever known Was a suitcase and the open road Oh, it's many a mile I have spent on this road It's many a mile I have gone So, I'll fill my glass up to the brim And through my glass, my world looks dim I know outside there's love somewhere Maybe, my rambling will take me there Oh, it's many a mile I have spent on this road It's many a mile I have gone And it's many a mile I have spent on this road It's many a mile I will go |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
Hey, Baby I just got back from town
Where the bribes are paid Honey, they turned my offer down They say the deal's already made So now I gotta stand and watch While it all comes down And the buzzards and the hawks And the judges and the mob Circle round Now if I were the queen of all the world I would go in chains just to see you free Of the ropes that bind you And the role you play And the pride that hooks you While the big ones get away Love junkies wanna change the world: It quickly stays the same Money junkies hire all the smart ones Power junkies run the game One step at a time Polarity Hill If the bad guys don't get you, baby Then the good guys will With angels on the take And the gangsters in the yard Hey don't the wars come easy Hey don't the peace come hard Now if I had a way to reach the sky I'd grab that crescent moon Wield it like a knife Save you from the lies From the ropes that bind you And the role you play And the game that hooks you While the big ones get away |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels I got a man in the business line He power hungry, he's a money mine Smooth as satin he's a big time shark Fallen Angel I got a brother, oo he mean as sin He got a brother who's just like him Livin' over in Moscow, 2 of a kind. How come the great power got the junkie mind Fallen Angels They never get enough Fallen Angels oo oo They got the addictions Fallen Angels They litter the skies Fallen Angels Don't you wanna turn 'em around Turn 'em around I got a man in the USA He runnin' guns with the CIA He's the best that being bad can be Who'd think he do it all for me What's it matter if you're green or red The Yankee dollar or the commie threat When the real power in the real world Gonna deny it all anyway Fallen Angels They never get enough Fallen Angels oo oo They got the addictions Fallen Angels They litter the skies Fallen Angels Don't you wanna turn 'em around Turn 'em around You believe in the system from the top on down Potential is a beautiful thing It's hard to keep believing in the big time Now you're sinking in the wind Star light, star bright Somebody going down tonight Told the truth when it was time to lie Got it right Fallen Angels They never gel enough Fallen Angels hoo hoo They got the addictions Fallen Angels They litter the skies Fallen Angels Don't you wanna turn 'em around Turn 'em around Fallen Angels They never gel enough Fallen Angels hoo hoo They got the addictions Fallen Angels |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
You'd better watch yourself
That's what people say It's too late for that I believe I've had my day Oo, I've had a hard time With this soft thing of mine Seems like bad boys always Knew how to get through to me Blow my mind And I believe I'm coming to a bad end Oh. I believe I'm coming to a bad end A bad end Mmm there was a time I was okay And yo I loved to baby him Do anything he say Then he start to turn on me And it ain't no fun no more Now there's bruises in the bed at night Needles in the drawer There's blood all in the mirror And there's strangers at the door And I believe I'm coming to a bad end Bad end A bad end Aah, coming to a bad end I'm coming to a bad end Oh, bad end I believe I'm coming to a bad end |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
Emma Lee
Lord, she want what she can't have Emma Lee don't mind Emma Lee she take the power in her own hands She just take her time Emma Lee she never worry bout nothing at all Her loving loves a storm Emma Lee she got that Heyo ha ah ha a ha yo She calm the waters and she step on board And she sing about He got that attitude He got them bayou ways Got what l want Lord The sunshine's in love with the man She sing about He never hurry away He love to take his time Month of June, lord The sunshine's in love with the man Women's ways You never know how they gonna do it, Women's ways There's really nothing to it It's like Emma Lee she see him And she point him out she sing about Oo, he gonna taste like wine His time will come, lord The sunshine's in love with the man Women's ways You never know how we goin' to do it Do it Women's ways There's really nothing to it Women's ways You never know how we goin' to do it Do it Women's ways There's really nothing to it Women's ways |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
Starwalker, he's a friend of mine
You've seen him looking fine He's a straight talker, he's a Starwalker Don't drink no wine Ay way hey o heya Wolf Rider she's a friend of yours You've seen her opening doors, She's a history turner, she's a sweetgrass burner And a dog soldier Ay hey way hey way heya Holy light, guard the night. Pray up your medicine song. Oh, stake dealer you're a spirit healer, Keep going on. Ay hey way hey way heya Lightning Woman, Thunderchild Star soldiers one and all oh Sisters, Brothers all together Aim straight, Stand tall Starwalker he's a friend of mine You've seen him looking fine He's a straight talker, he's a Starwalker Don't drink no wine Ah way hey o hey... Aya hey hey heyo way hey heyo ay hey hey heya Hey way hey way heya Heya wey yoh Ay hey way hey way heya |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
Who brought the bomb wrapped up in business cards
And stained with steak? Who hires a maid to wash his money? Who keeps politicians on the take? Who puts outspoken third-worlders in jail Just to shut them down? Oh the lies vary from place to place but the truth is still the same, Even in this town Money junkies all over the world Trample us on their way to the bank They run in every race Windego Third-worlders see it first: The dynamite, the dozers, the cancer and the acid rain The corporate caterpillars come into our backyards And turn the world to pocket change Reservations are the nuclear frontline; Uranium poisoning kills We're starving in a handful of gluttons We're drowning in their gravy spills Their tongues are silver forks There's a lack of wisdom, You can hear it on their breath Windego It's delicate confronting these priests of the golden bull They preach from the pulpit of the bottom line Their minds rustle with million dollar bills You say Silver burns a hole in your pocket And Gold burns a hole in your soul Well, uranium burns a hole in forever It just gets out of control There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile He raised a crooked sixpence to hide a crooked style He won a crooked vote and smiled a crooked smile Windego Their tongues are silver forks There's a lack of wisdom, You can hear it on their breath Windego |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
Coincidence and likely stories
They dog your trail like a pack of lies They whine at night when the lights are out You toss and turn, you pitch and roll Disinformation, you spin it like a silkworm Just when I need another point of view Here you come from nowhere, from over the ways I stand amazed, I see your greatest hits They blow back down the chimney into everyone's eyes Creative thinking in the first degree You're a three-way mirror of a one-way world It's a perverse company you work for They build the past, it just can't last It's obsolete by design They send you out rerouting history To make the same old mistakes in a brand new way Come out from under cover Ollie Ollie in free Come out, come out wherever you are And virgin places don't mean a thing To people who never bring their hearts along And fools like them never fall at all They're tough as sin, let nobody in They turn and spin your wheels and nobody wins Coincidence and likely stories They dog your trail like a pack of lies They whine at night when the lights are out You toss and turn, you pitch and roll Disinformation, you spin it like a silkworm |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
Oo down Tipi Town
Hoping around Seeking inspiration I been out here on the edge of space, In the human race I guess I'd gotten lonely but That's okay Now it's not the way it should be and That's okay I know it's not the way it could be but That's okay It's pretty good for kindergarten and That's okay Come on, we're only getting started Thumb-hand, human band can understand out among the far locations that the Music's Heaven-sent we can fly on instruments beyond our isolation and That's okay No it's not the way it could be but That's okay Here and now it's how it is and That's okay It's pretty good for kindergarten and That's okay Come on, we're only getting started Womb-world paradigm Understand in time It's a sweet investigation We're learning rope by rope Climbing hope by hope in every combination and That's okay No it's not the way it should be but That's okay It's wild and it's unique and That's okay Love's the magic number and That's okay Come on, We're only getting started. That's okay Now it's not the way it should be and That's okay I know it's not the way it could be but That's okay It's pretty good for kindergarten and That's okay Come on, we're only getting started That's okay We're only getting started That's okay We're only getting started That's okay We're only getting started |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
Heaven isn't so far away as people say
I got a home high in my heart Heaven is right where I come from; I never throw it away I know the place and I'm going home I'm going home I'm going home See up there, it's not the same They know your name And I'm not ashamed to need it I'm going home I'm going home I'm going home You keep on knocking but I'm not coming out of this state I'm in I'm travellin' right, I'm gonna get there soon I'm standing up praying, I'm singing Saying "Heyo ha ha heyo ha hey ya" I know the way and I'm going home. I'm going home I'm going home That's where the heart can rest The best is there And only a fool would leave it. I'm going home I'm going home I'm going home I'm going home I been around, I been to town Hey, where you think I learned right from wrong And I'm going home I'm going home |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
Indian legislations on the desk of a do-right Congressman
Now, he don't know much about the issue So he picks up the phone and he asks advice from the Senator out in Indian country A darling of the energy companies who are Ripping off what's left of the reservations. Huh. I learned a safety rule I don't know who to thank Don't stand between the reservation And the corporate bank They'll send in federal tanks It isn't nice but it's reality Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Deep in the Earth Cover me with pretty lies Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Huh. They got these energy companies who want the land And they've got churches by the dozens Want to guide our hands And sign Mother Earth over to pollution, war and greed Get rich... get rich quick. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Deep in the Earth Cover me with pretty lies Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Huh. We get the federal marshals We get the covert spies We get the liars by the fire And we get the FBIs They lie in court and get nailed And still Peltier goes off to jail Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (eighth of the reservation) Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (transferred it secret) Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (of murder and intimidation) Bury my heart at Wounded Knee My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped The FBI cut off her hands and told us she'd died of exposure Loo loo loo loo loo Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Deep in the Earth Cover me with pretty lies Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Bury my heart at Wounded Knee We had the Goldrush Wars Aw, didn't we learn to crawl And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl They tell 'ya "Honey, you can still be an Indian d-d-down at the 'Y' on Saturday nights" Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Deep in the Earth Cover me with pretty lies Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Deep in the Earth Cover me with pretty lies Bury my heart at Wounded Knee Bury my heart at Wounded Knee |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Coincidence & Likely Stories (2003)
Sleepless nights don't bother me at all
If dawn comes I won't worry Something deep inside keeps me awake Wish that you were here right beside me Recall when I was very young And could not go to sleep My father sang me songs to make me tired But memories don't make it easier So goodnight Wherever you are sleeping And I hope that if you dream You dream of me. Oh goodnight Wherever you are sleeping And I hope that if you dream You dream of me Now I lie awake and it's no fun Tossing and turning I'd call you if it weren't so very late But telephones don't bring you close to me I recall the times we stayed up late Wide awake but still dreaming There was nothing on this earth could make me tired But memories don't make it easier So goodnight Wherever you are sleeping And I hope that if you dream You dream of me. Goodnight Wherever you are sleeping And I hope that if you dream You dream of me |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - It`S My Way (2001)
Hey, I got a girl at the head of the creek
Goin up to see her about 2 times a week Kiss her on the mouth, sweet as any wine Wrap herself around me like a sweet potato vine Goin up Cripple Creek, goin on a run Goin up Cripple Creek to have a little fun Goin up Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl Goin up Cripple Creek to see my little girl Now the girls up Cripple Creek about half-grown Jump on a boy like a dog on a bone Roll my britches up to my knees Wade ol Cripple Creek whenever I please Goin up Cripple Creek, goin on a run Goin up Cripple Creek to have a little fun Goin up Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl Goin up Cripple Creek to see my little girl Now, Cripple Creek's wide and Cripple Creek's deep Wade old Cripple Creek before I sleep Hills are steep and the roads are muddy and I'm so dizzy that I can't stand steady I'm Goin up Cripple Creek, goin on a run Goin up Cripple Creek to have a little fun Goin up Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl Goin up Cripple Creek to see my little girl. |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - It`S My Way (2001)
He lived alone in town
His friends were many and true He drank and took the easy love Of street girls that he knew And he met a girl one day Said "come home with me tonight" "Oh no!" she cried "I never will." And she left him there alone And the days went by, and days Went by and they did long For each other every hour But still she'd not be bound "In the places of young men I never will be found But think you not that I don't love For my heart is ripe and full" "How cold you are!" he said "I guess you must not care For me. But tell me, Where it is you'd go For I'd take you anywhere" "Then come to a forest green Where I may love you free Beyond the confines of your walls And beyond the sweetest words" "And beyond the mountains high Beyond the fields of shame And beyond the prettiest wedding ring For I'd never take your name" "And wander with me now Or wander all forlorn But know I love you, tearful one, Much more than I can show" He could not understand He thought she could not care "Oh, take me far away," she'd cried And he could not hear her prayer And he wandered off alone To never know her dream And she still dwells within the forest Longing for his love "So, wander with me now Or wander off alone But know I love you, tearful one, Much more than I can show" |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - It`S My Way (2001)
Word is up to the king's dear daughter
And word is spreading all over the land That's she's been betrayed by her own dear brother That he has chosen another fair hand Many young man had a song of her beauty And many a grand deed for her had been done But within her sights she carried the child Of her father's youngest, fairest son Tell to me no lies Tell to me no stories But saddle my good horse and I'll go and see my own true love If your words be true ones, then that will mean the end of me Brother oh brother what lies be these ones They say your love to another I lose There's a child within me of thy very own lineage And I know it's I that thou would chose And have you yet told your father or mother All that thou has told here to me And he's taken off his good braided sword And I am down beside his knee No I've not told no one but you my dear one For it's a secret between us two And I would come home and quit all my roaming And spend my days only waiting on you Too late too late for change my sister My father has chosen another fair bride And he stabbed her easy and lovingly lay her Down in her grave by the green wood side And when he's come home to his own wedding of feasting And his father asks why he's weeping all so He says such a bride as a I've seen on this morning Never another man shall know |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - It`S My Way (2001)
Eyes of blue
Or eyes of green Eyes of amber Eyes of starlight Have come again as they have Come before Heart of fire light Heart of the flowers of the Jungle Heart of snow You come again and you are Midnight wind With hands of Moon beams And clouds And call me "Come" To you And though I never know you Wistful lover Until you're gone You're here to teach me How to love A dream of loving love Breath of jasmine Breast of silk Breast of music The desert sands That take my tears Are of your magic too Eyes of blue Or eyes of onyx, Eyes of amber Eyes of starlight You come again as you have Come before |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Little Wheel Spin And Spin (2002)
Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around
Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Merry Christmas, Jingle Bells Christ is born and the devil?s in Hell Hearts they shrink pockets swell Everybody know and nobody tell Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Oh the sins of Caesar's men Cry the pious citizens Who petty thieve the 5 and 10s And the big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Blame the angels, blame the fates Blame the Jews or your sister Kate Teach your children how to hate And the big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Turn your back on weeds you?ve hoed Silly sinful seeds you?ve sowed Add your straw to the camel?s load Pray like Hell when your world explode Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Swing your girl fiddler say Later on the piper pay Do see do, swing and sway Dead will dance on judgment day Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around Little wheels spin and spin, big wheels turn around and around |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Little Wheel Spin And Spin (2002)
We are drifting and rolling along the road
Tryin' to bear my heavy load Like a log that's been passed on the side I'm so heavy and so tired And I know me a few men in my time None of them worth a lousy dime And they make me work like a doggone slave Won't be happy till I'm in my grave And I've been drifting and rolling along the road Tryin' to bear my heavy load And like a log that's been passed on the side I'm so heavy and so tired My world you don't took it and torn it in two Who'd ever thought it of a boy like you It looked hot, I thought it was a sugar and spice Salty water turned to ice I've been drifting and rolling along the road Tryin' to bear my heavy load And like a log that's been passed on the side I'm so heavy and so tired |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Little Wheel Spin And Spin (2002)
Sweet William rose one morning bright
And dressed himself in blue "Come tell to me the long lost love Between Lady Margaret and you" "I know no harm of Lady Margaret," said he "And I hope she knows none of me But tomorrow morning before eight o'clock Lady Margaret my bride shall be" As Lady Margaret was in her chamber high A-combing up her hair She spied sweet William and his bride As they to the church drew near She threw down her ivory comb And tossed back her hair And from the room a fair lady came That was seen in there no more The day being gone and the night being come When most men were asleep Sweet William spied Lady Margaret's ghost A-standing at his bed feet "How do you like your bed?" she said "And how do you like your sheet? And how do you like the fair lady That lies in your arms asleep?" "Very well do I like my bed," said he "Very well do I like my sheet But better do I like the fair lady That is standing at my bed feet" The night being gone and the day being come When most men were awake Sweet William said he was troubled in his head From a dream he had last night He called his weary waiting maids By one, by two, by three And last of all, with his bride's consent Lady Margaret he went to see He went unto the parlor door He knocked until he made things ring But none was so ready as her own dear brother To arise and let him in "Is Lady Margaret in the parlor?" said he "Or is she in the hall Or is she in her chamber high Among the gay ladies all?" "Lady Margaret is not in the parlor," said he "She is neither in the hall She is in her coffin And a-lying by the wall" "Tear down, tear down, those milk white sheets They are made of silk so fine That I may kiss Lady Margaret's cheek For ofttimes she has kissed mine" The first that he kissed was her rosy cheek The next was her dimpled chin The last of all was her clay-cold lips That pierced his heart within "Tear down, tear down those milk white sheets They are made of silk so fine Today they hang around Lady Margaret's corpse And tomorrow they will hang around mine" Lady Margaret died of pure, pure love Sweet William died of sorrow They are buried in one burying ground Both side and side together Out of her grave grew a red rose And out of his a briar They grew in a twining true lover's knot The rose and the green briar |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Little Wheel Spin And Spin (2002)
Winter boy, born on a snowy day
Came to me on a rainy afternoon And there'd been summer love Love I trusted far too well, got away and winter's spell had broke my heart and left me all alone And looking for a home to rest my weary heart for just a while Then I found it in the smile of a boy A little boy with midnight in his hair And promise in his eyes of days and nights still yet to be Days and nights he'd cling to me For I am winter's lady and he is winter's child Though there be summers yet And the smell of pine comes crying to my heart Still my joy and my security will lie beside the boy of less impurity The little boy with midnight in his hair and diamonds in his eyes Diamonds made of trust and love for me and gleaming at me all the afternoon |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Fire & Fleet & Candlelight (2005)
Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons Skated over ten clear frozen streams Words like, when you're older, must appease him And promises of someday make his dreams And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town And they tell him, Take your time, it won't be long now Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty Before the last revolving year is through And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return, we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Fire & Fleet & Candlelight (2005)
This ae night, this ae night
Every night and a' Fire and sleet and candle lighte, And Christ receive thy saule When from hence away art past Every ... To whinny moor thou com'st at last And ... If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon Sit thee down and put them on. If hosen and shoon thou ne'er gav'st nane The whinnies shall prick thee to the bare bane. From whinny moor when thou may'st pass To Brig o' Dread thou com'st at last. If ever thou gavest meat or drink The fire shall never make thee shrink. If meat or drink thou ne'er gav'st nane The fire will burn thee to the bare bane. This ae night, this ae nighte Fire and sleet and candle lighte. |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - I`M Gonna Be A Country Girl Again (2005)
The rain is falling lightly on the buildings and the cars
I've said goodbye to city friends, department stores and bars The lights of town are at my back, my heart is full of stars And I'm gonna be a country girl again Oh yes, I'm gonna be a country girl again With an old brown dog and a big front porch and rabbits in the pen I tell you, all the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre green And I'm gonna be a country girl again I spent some time in study, oh, I've taken my degrees And memorized my formula, my A's and B's and C's But what I know came long ago and not from such as these And I'm gonna be a country girl again Oh yes, I'm gonna be a country girl again With an old brown dog and a big front porch and rabbits in the pen I tell you, all the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre green And I'm gonna be a country girl again I've wandered in the hearts of men looking for the sign But here I might learn happiness, I might learn peace of mind The one who taught my lesson was the soft wind through the pines I'm gonna be a country girl again Oh yes, I'm gonna be a country girl again With an old brown dog and a big front porch and rabbits in the pen I tell you, all the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre green And I'm gonna be a country girl again Oh yes, I'm gonna be a country girl again With an old brown dog and a big front porch and rabbits in the pen I tell you, all the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre green And I'm gonna be a country girl again |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - I`M Gonna Be A Country Girl Again (2005)
I'm a rambler and a rover and a wanderer it seems
I've travelled all over chasing after my dreams But a dream should come true and a heart should be filled And a life should be lived in the Piney Wood Hills I'll return to the woodlands, I'll return to the snow I'll return to the hills, and the valley below I'll return as a poor man or a king if God wills But I'm on my way home to the Piney Wood Hills I was raised on a song there I done right, I done wrong there And it's true I belong there And it's true it's my home From ocean to ocean I've rambled and roamed And soon I'll return to my Piney Wood home Maybe someday I'll find someone who will Love as I love my Piney Wood Hills I was raised on a song there I done right, I done wrong there And it's true I belong there And it's true it's my home I'll return to the woodlands, I'll return to the snow I'll return to the hills and the valley below I'll return as a poor man or a king if God wills But I'm on my way home to the Piney Wood Hills |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - I`M Gonna Be A Country Girl Again (2005)
Can you remember the times
That you have held your head high And told all your friends of your Indian claim Proud good lady and proud good man Your great-great grandfather from Indian blood sprang And you feel in your heart for these ones Oh it's written in books and in song That we've been mistreated and wronged Well over and over I hear the same words From you good lady and you good man Well listen to me if you care where we stand And you feel you're a part of these ones When a war between nations is lost The loser, we know, pays the cost But even when Germany fell to your hands Consider dear lady, consider dear man You left them their pride and you left them their land And what have you done to these ones Has a change come about Uncle Sam Or are you still taking our lands A treaty forever George Washington signed He did dear lady, he did dear man And the treaty's being broken by Kinzua Dam And what will you do for these ones Oh, it's all in the past you can say But it's still going on here today The government now want the Iroquois land That of the Senaca and the Cheyenne It's here and it's now you can help us dear man Now that the buffalo's gone. |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations (2001)
God is alive; Magic is afoot
God is alive; Magic is afoot God is afoot; Magic is alive Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened; many poor men lied many sick men lied Magic never weakened Magic never hid Magic always ruled God is afoot God never died. God was ruler Though his funeral lengthened Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled Though his shrouds were hoisted the naked God did live Though his words were twisted the naked Magic thrived Though his death was published round and round the world the heart did not believe Many hurt men wondered many struck men bled Magic never faltered Magic always led. Many stones were rolled but God would not lie down Many wild men lied many fat men listened Though they offered stones Magic still was fed Though they locked their coffers God was always served. Magic is afoot. God rules. Alive is afoot. Alive is in command. Many weak men hungered Many strong men thrived Though they boasted solitude God was at their side Nor the dreamer in his cell nor the captain on the hill Magic is alive Though his death was pardoned round and round the world the heart did not believe. Though laws were carved in marble they could not shelter men Though altars built in parliaments they could not order men Police arrested Magic and Magic went with them, for Magic loves the hungry. But Magic would not tarry it moves from arm to arm it would not stay with them Magic is afoot it cannot come to harm it rests in an empty palm it spawns in an empty mind but Magic is no instrument Magic is the end. Many men drove Magic but Magic stayed behind Many strong men lied they only passed through Magic and out the other side Many weak men lied they came to God in secret and though they left him nourished they would not tell who healed Though mountains danced before them they said that God was dead Though his shrouds were hoisted the naked God did live This I mean to whisper to my mind This I mean to laugh with in my mind This I mean my mind to serve 'til service is but Magic moving through the world and mind itself is Magic coursing through the flesh and flesh itself is Magic dancing on a clock and time itself the magic length of God |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations (2001)
Yonder I see a star
Oh see how bright it's burning Joseph my time is come The Son of God is yearning To come, to come Ask the man for some room to spare And a candle dimly burning Joseph my time is come The Son of God is yearning To come, to come Pain of birth is surely great And yet my fate's been told me Do I see an Angel bright Descending to behold me He comes, he comes, he comes |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations (2001)
Every little baby that's ever been born,
Been spanked and made to cry Every young woman that's ever been loved, Been shaken and made to sigh Every young woman that's ever been loved, Has told, told me true Take his heart and run away as he would do to you Every young man I've ever seen, Been mean as he could be Every last one I've loved, And run as he would do to me Take it from me that a man can be more trouble, Than you'll ever know He'll love you some and when he's done, He'll laugh and let you go So they told me, and they told me little else But I tell you to better find out for yourself Handsome stride and shoulders wide disguise a heart of stone Lovers' wiles and tender smiles are better left alone With his head hung low and his shoulders down And a tear in the bottom of his shoe He'll beg and tease and vow on his knees, And then betray you, true He'll say I'm tired, I'm broke, I'm sick I love you, while he cries He'll say I'm sorry through his tears and all the time he lies Shudder and sulk when he's at his best Try one if you will You can have mine and all the rest, you know I've had my fill So they told me, and they told me little else But I tell you to better find out for yourself |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations (2001)
Shall I tell you of the night
It was long ago Late November and the snow Just about to fall And the moon was big and bright Cold and sharp and clear And the air was biting Softly, swiftly down the road - Never made a sound- Someone came from far away As I looked into his eyes No reflections came And I gave him bedding Oh my little rosary How I miss you so Never used you very well Now I never will. I am farther from you now Than the two ends of Eternity Now I do his bidding. |
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School bell go "Ding! Dong! Ding!"
The children all line up They do what they are told Take a little drink from the liar's cup Mama don't really care If what they learn is true Or if it's only lies Just get them through the factories Into production Ah, get them into line Late in the afternoon The children all come home They mind their manners well Their little lives are all laid out Mama don't seem to care If she may break their hearts She clips their wings off, they never learn to fly Poor Mama needs a source of pride A doctor son she'll have No what the cost to manhood or to soul Sun shine down, brightly shine Down on all the land Shine down on the newborn lambs A butcher's knife is in his hand Mama, she keeps them unprepared To meet the enemy That's comin' unto us Teach them that evil dwells across the sea Lives in a mountain Like they see on TV Down in the heart of town The Devil dresses up He keeps his nails clean Did you think he'd be a boogeyman? Oh, Mama's stuck with sagging dreams She'll sell a son or two into some slavery That's lucrative and fine Just teach them not to criticize Say "Yes" to bosses, impress the clients Ah teachers of the world teach them to fake it well School bell go "Ding! Dong! Ding!" The children all line up They do what they are told Take a little drink from the liar's cup |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations (2001)
La da da da da da
La da da da da da Guess who I saw in Paris Guess who I saw in Paris Standing in the street with his thumbs hooked in his belt Standing with his thumbs hooked in his belt Standing in the street with his thumbs hooked in his belt Looking all of seventeen Guess who invited him up to her room Guess who made him some tea Guess who got spaced with him, played his guitar Guess who fell asleep on his arm Guess who got lost in his eyes Guess who kissed him goodnight Guess who phoned me up this morning while I was still asleep Not like waking up at all La da da da da da Been dreaming of La da da da da da La da da da da da |
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from Buffy Sainte-Marie - She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina (2002)
I tell you a story, it's a true one
And I'll tell it like you'll understand And ain't gonna talk like some history man I look out and I see a land Young and lovely, hard and strong For fifty thousand years We've danced her praises Prayed our thanks and we've just begun This is, this is my country Young and growin' free and flowin' sea to sea Yes this is my country Ripe and bearing miracles in ev'ry pond and tree Her spirit walks the high country Givin' free wild samples And settin' an example how to give Yes, this is my country Retchin' and turnin', she's like a baby learnin' how to live I can stand upon a hill at dawn Look all around me, feel her surround me Soldier blue, can't you see her life has just begun? It's beating inside us Telling us she's here to guide us Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue Can't you see that there's another way to love her? Ooh Yes, this is my country And I sprang from her and I'm learnin' how to count upon her Tall trees and the corn is high country Yes, I love her and I'm learnin' how to take care of her Whenever the news stories get me down I take a drink of freedom to think of North America from toe to crown It's never long before I know just why I belong here Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue Can't you see that there's another way to love her? Soldier blue, soldier blue Can't you see that there's another way to love her? Soldier blue, soldier blue Can't you see that there's another way to love her? |
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