Colin James

Nobody knows Atlanta like I do, nobody knows Atlanta like I do!
The reason I know's '€?cause I traveled it through and through.
They've taken my woman, and they've cut her to the bone.
They've taken my woman, and cut her to the bone.
That's the reason you don't hear me cry any more.

Can't you hear that steamboat whistle blow
Can't you hear that steamboat whistle blow
You know it blows just like it's never blown before.

Come here darlin? and lay down by my side
The big star?s fallin? and the moon will turn the tide
The whistle of the wind will lead us on
Here we are, not too far
Before the dawn

Pictures keep on fallin? from the walls
The ghosts are still careenin? through the halls
The drunken neighbour sings his favourite song
In the stardust of the night
Before the dawn

You never really know just who your friends are
Till you find out at last who they are not
You never recognize the things you really want
Till you remember all the dreams that you forgot

We?ve been runnin? for so long against the grain
Tryin? to find a way to turn around again
Trouble in your heart will soon be gone
It?s lonely blue, it?s only true
Before the dawn

Come here darlin? lay down by my side
Well the big star?s falling and the moon will turn the tide
The whistle of the wind will lead us on
Here we are, not too far
Before the dawn
Well here we are, not too far
Before the dawn

Better Days ? Colin James

What's good about a good thing
That turns it's back and walks away.
What's the point in a good love.
That never has the time to stay.

Well it has to be a cruel mind
To have the time to make up this game
Oh I'll put on a brave face
But inside I'm really not the same

So if You're callin' to see how I'm doing
You're rubbing salt into my wound
But if you really want to know the truth
I've had better days
But nobody's gotta better you
Well I might have had a better love
But I really don't remember who

It's not unusual to hope for things you ain't gunna get
It's not a crime to keep on wishin' for more again
I've been waiting for the sweet words from lips
Ah, you know the sound of your voice is something that i can't resist.

So if you're callin' to see how I'm doing
you're rubbin salt into my wounds
But if you really wanna know the truth
It ain't easy getting over you
I've had better, but nobody's gotta better you
Well I might have had a better love
But i really don't remember who.

So if you're callin' to see how I'm doing
you're rubbin salt into my wounds
But if you really wanna know the truth
I've had better days, but nobody's gotta better you
Well I might have had a better love
But i really don't remember who.

Taken down from helping to hard time
Close the door and stick in a dime
Traffic all around us is heavy
Better move before we're buried alive

Throwin the weight is, is hard to bear
There's no gettin over, nobody said it's fair

Have you heard?
It's a big bad world


Push it a little bit further
Make you feel like you're sinkin on down
Cant get any lower, it's further
When you're trynna pick yourself up off the ground

Why do you listen to everyone else
When you gotta make your way, thinkin for yourself

Have you heard?
Baby it's a big bad world
Have you heard?
Alright, it's a big bad world

Now it's time for lovin
Dont you think that we've had enough
If there's a power above us
Dont you think it's makin it tough

In a big bad world
It's a big bad world
Have you heard
It's a big bad world
Have you heard
Careful, it's a big bad world
Dontcha know, dontcha know
Have you heard
Alright, it's a big bad world
Have you heard
It's a big bad world
Have you ... HEARD
That it's a big bad, big bad world
It's a big bad world
Have you heard

Black-eyed dog
he called at my door

Black-eyed dog
he called for more

Black-eyed dog
he knew my name

Black-eyed dog
he knew my name

Black-eyed dog
Black-eyed dog

Growin' old and I wanna go home
I'm growin' old and I don't wanna know
Growin' old and I wanna go home
I'm growin' old and I don't wanna know

Black-eyed dog
he knew my name

Black-eyed dog
he knew my name

Black-eyed dog he called at my door
Black-eyed dog he called for more

Growin' old and I wanna go home
I'm Growin' old and I don't wanna know
Growin' old and I wanna go home
I'm Growin' old and I don't wanna know

Black-eyed dog
he called at my door

Black-eyed dog
he called for more

Black-eyed dog
Black-eyed dog

Breakin' Up The House

Over in the house every night
I bet they have a meetin' and some kind of fight
Yes, they're breakin' up the house
Yeah, breakin' up the house
If we don't have a meetin' they're gonna have some kind of fight

Monday's this, Tuesday's that
Wednesdays is the neighborhood chewin' up the fat

Yes, we're breakin' up the house
Yeah, breakin' up the house
If we don't have a meetin'
then everybody's gonna get real tight

Sax

I walked to the corner called the raisin' sun
Raisin' up the roof for as all they've done

Yeah, they're breakin' up the house
They're breakin' up the house
If they open up the bottle
Then everybody gets real tight

Last night and the night before
55 people came walkin' through my door
Yeah, they're breakin' up the house
Aw, they're breakin' up the house
And if they don't have a meetin'
They gonna have some kind of fight

Sax

Well, they party in the attic and the cellar too
Call me so crazy man I don't know what to do

Yes, they're breakin' up the house
They're breakin' up the house
And if they don't have a meetin'
They sure gonna have some kind fight

In walked Cindy Lou
She brought her whole family too
Took off the hats, coats and shoes
They ate up all the food then they took
a little snooze

Yes, they're breakin' up the house
They're breakin' up the house
If they don't have a meetin'
They still gonna have a ...

Piano

Yeah, breakin' up the house
Yeah, we're breakin' up the house
Oh, breakin' up the house
Well, we're breakin' up the house

If they don't have a meetin'
They gonna have some kind a fight
Yeah, if they don't have a meetin'
They sure gonna have a fight

Cadillac Baby
How that woman loves to ride
Yeah, Cadillac Baby
How that woman loves to ride
She's crazy 'bout that hydromatic
Cause its such an easy ride

She loves her rollin, how she loves to ball the jack
Crazy bout her rollin, how she loves to ball the jack
She's crazy about that easy ridin, crazy bout that Cadillac

Turn on the radio and cruise on down
the avenue
Yeah, turn on the radio and cruise on
down the avenue
She's crazy about my caddy
and I 'm crazy for my baby too

Sax

Well, long about midnight she came
knockin on my door
Yeah, long about midnight she came
knockin' on my door
Gotta take out that caddy
Baby wants to ride some more

Yeah at night we went riding
Riding in the rain
She was my baby
And I was her man

She said honey ride a long long time
You rock so easy, so mellow and fine
If you get tired of ridin, give yourself a rest
Park it in the spot that your baby loves the best
Cadillac baby
How that woman loves to ride
yeah cadillac baby
How that woman loves to ride
Crazy bout that easy ridin'
How she loves that cadillac

Go
Trumpet
Let it Roll

Guitar

I gotta Roll
All night long
Gotta Roll
All night long
Yes we gotta roll pretty darlin'
Roll all night long

(Booker T. Washington (Bukka) White)

Feeling funny in my mind, Lord,
I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die
Feeling funny in my mind, Lord
I believe I'm fixing to die
Well, I don't mind dying
But I hate to leave my children crying
Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground
Look over yonder to that burying ground
Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

Feeling funny in my eyes, Lord,
I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die
Feeling funny in my eyes, Lord
I believe I'm fixing to die
Well, I don't mind dying but
I hate to leave my children crying
There's a black smoke rising, Lord
It's rising up above my head, up above my head
It's rising up above my head, up above my head
And tell Jesus make up my dying bed.

I'm walking kind of funny, Lord
I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die
Yes I'm walking kind of funny, Lord
I believe I'm fixing to die
Fixing to die, fixing to die
Well, I don't mind dying
But I hate to leave my children crying.

I wore my .44 so long, I've made my shoulder sore.
I wore my .44 so long, I done made my shoulder sore.
Well, I'm wondrin everybody, where'd my baby go.
Well, I'm so mad this mornin, I don't know where in the world to go.
Well, I'm so mad this mornin, I don't know where in the world to go.
Well, I'm lookin for me some money, pawned gun to have some gold.

Night, is the time for the hunger
Through these rooms, you and I, we wander
Too much, too long, holding back the tears
I wait, do hard labour and I count the years
(heah)Soon the angels will unlock the sun
Break away these chains and turn away the gun
Nothing is better than the freedom....
Yeah-eah nothing is better yeah than the freedom

Let the law take a man from his family
See the evil on the fences down the highway
Too bad, so sad to be on the lam
From my home I must crawl on my knees and hands
(Hey-hey)And soon the angels will unlock the sun
Break away these chains, yeah and yurn away the gun

Nothing is better than the freedom....
Yeah-eah nothing is better than the freedom
Yeah-eah nothing is better than the freedom
Yeah-eah nothing is better than the freedom

SOLO

Nothing is better than the freedom
Nothing is better than the freedom
Nothing is better than the freedom
Nothing is better than the freedom

ooo baby nothing
nothing is better
nothin's better
yeaaah hey

Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away
Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away

Better take back the glance that you shot across the room at me back before the lights were low
Cause that got me thinking bout not going home and that you might even have a better place to go
That smile and the curve of the lip under eyes that must have sank about a thousand ships
That shift of the hips to the side that does me in no matter how had I try
Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away
Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away

You move better then water over rocks or a breeze through the trees on the hottest of days
Everybody wants to feel what you deal and then wait for the chance. I guess some even pray
But I pray that the voice inside that says hey what's the harm in taking that for a ride?
Don't win out over rhyme and reason and I lose what I have for having something on the side
Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away
Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away
Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away

I realize that I gotta take a breath and start thinking about something thatll cool me down
When you get up from the chair and start dancing and I break out into a sweat as you shake it around
I aint moving a muscle but ive run about a mile just fighting with myself and putting on this smile
Im leainin on the wall just to hold me up trying to get my mind to move to less dangerous stuff
Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away
Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away
Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away

So I pray that the voice inside that says what's the harm in taking that for a ride
Don't win out over rhyme and reason and I lose what I have for having something on the side
Better watch what we do tonight
Or were gonna get carried away
Or were gonna get carried away
Or were gonna get carried away
Or were gonna get carried away

Feelin that old story every time we kiss,
I taste somethin' strange you're leavin on my lips,
Now we're gonna hit the bottom when you tell me what it is,
I recommend that you trust me and take a risk.

We're gonna dig right down and get to the bottom of this,
Get to the bottom of this,
Get to the bottom of this.

I'm hangin out to dry, waitin for the word,
I'm trynna make a lick of sense of anything I've heard,
I'll believe it when you tell me, baby, then I can be sure,
(Alright) Before we lose each other by not sayin what it is,

We'd better dive right in and get to the bottom of this
Get to the bottom of this,
Get to the bottom of this.

(Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Get to the bottom of this.

Get to the bottom of this,
Get to the bottom of this,

Tell me, tell me now and help me get to the bottom of this
Get to the bottom of this,
Get to the bottom of this.

Dig right down, and get to the bottom of this.
Yeah, yeah, dig right down.

Sittin' on the front step
Watch the world goin' by
And looking up
Through the buildings, to the sky
Yeah

I can see a jet stream
Someone else is moving on
So I walk,
And let the world just pull me along

Mmm, well well

I'm starting to roll
On my greatest hits
When I get on a roll I got to go with it
Moving out into space
Going in a blur
This is how if feels getting higher

It's stormy but the sun's out
Everything is up in the air
To slow me down
Cause half the fun is getting there
I'm giving in to something
I really know nothing about
But it feels good
To let go, and let it out

I'm starting to roll
I can never resist
When I get on a roll I got to go with it
Moving out into space
Going by in a blur
This is how if feels getting higher

Nothing is certain
Everything's moving around me
Nothing is certain
Everything's good that surrounds me

guitar solo

I'm starting to roll
I can never resist
When I get on a roll I got to go with it
Moving out into space
Going by in a blur
This is how it feels getting higher

I'm starting to roll
On the greatest hits
When I get on a roll I got to go with it
Moving out into space
Going in a blur
This is how it feels getting higher

When you get on a roll
You gotta go with it
When you get on a roll
You gotta go with it
When you get on a roll
You gotta go higher

[Taj Mahal]

Gonna move up to the country
Paint my mailbox blue
Gonna move up to the country
Paint my mailbox blue
Put some flowers on it baby
Paint some trailin' vines and dew

You know I'm leavin' LA baby
Don't you know this smog's got me down
I'm leavin' LA baby
Don't you know this smog has got me down
I'm goin' up to the country
Where there ain't no doggone smog around

Well, come here baby
Sugar, let your papa take you by the hand
Well, come here baby
Sugar, let your papa take you by the hand
Well, you be my woman
And I'll be your city-boy, country man.

I'm gonna move up to the country
Gonna paint, gonna paint, gonna paint, my mailbox blue
Move up to the country
Gonna paint my mailbox blue
Put some flowers on it honey
Paint some trailin' vines and dew

What you don't like to think about
Is what you probably should forget
You cant take it with you where you go
Get out while you can and try to clear you head

Go where the going's good
Been where the going's been

I hope those tickets are in your hand
There's keys in the car for you when you land
If I dont hear from you again
I know you'll grab the reins and listen to what I said

Go where the going's good
Been where the going's been
It don't feel like it should
Go where the going's good

And you can waste all of your life
Waiting for your time to come around
But you know it dont seem right
Sitting around to lose this happiness you've found

Go where the going's good
Been where the going's been
It don't feel like it should
Go where the going's good

solo

Go where the going's good
Been where the going's been
It don't feel like it should
Go where the going's good

solo

Go where the going's good
Been where the going's been
It dont feel like it should
Go where the going's good

Train is ready
To break in the sunlight
Heading full speed downtown
But here inside it
In the last compartment
Feels like the suns never coming around

But I know
The luck's is gonna change
Cuz, we're together
Your luck will be the same

You know I hate when I see you cry
I hate it when i see you cry

Useta be so easy
We were lost in eachother
Just wild through the days
And other peoples troubles
In the morning paper
Just Seemed a million miles away

Before We knew it
The luck was ours
It meant bad news
When I brought you flowers

You know I hate it when I see you cry
I hate when I see you cry
I hate when I see you cry
I hate when I see you cry

Hope is rare
So when I feel it I try
To share it with you
And I'll tell you why

I never get use to it
And You know I cant lie
Its a fact of life
You Know I cant deny

You know I hate it when I see you cry
I hate it when I see you cry
I hate it when I see you cry(x7)

Tell me which way is up, cuz I never get there
Feels like I'm stuck in the mud,
(Feels like I'm goin' nowhere)

I need a new kind of sign, not just "stop" every time
You try to talk and just keep on tryin'

C'mon, throw me a bone (C'mon throw me a bone)
Thought you'd leave me alone (Thought you'd leave me alone)
Spend another night goin' over and over
all the things that you said we shoulda known

You're hidin', baby
In the time it takes me
to see what I've done wrong you'll be gone.
(x2)

Something set you right off,
so you took off without sayin'
If I'd have known what it was
(I mighta stopped all the playin')

Now I'm lyin' like lead,
on your side of the bed,
Feelin' something unwind in my head

You gotta turn out a shine (gotta turn out a shine)
on your two-dollar shoes (on your two-dollar shoes)
Will the nail in your heart,
stop it flyin all apart,
when what you've done dawns on you

You're hidin' baby
In the time it takes me
To see what I've done wrong
You'll be gone
You're hidin' baby
In the time it takes me
To see what I've done wrong
You'll be gone

Oh if it gets too much
All of my messing it up
I keep on trying to read your mind
And figure out what makes you want to run

Come on Baby tell me what I got now
Come on Baby tell me what I got now
I got the house rocking Boogie everybody's on the ball

Let's swing baby let's have a time
Let's swing let's swing baby, let's have a time
This is a house rocking boogie baby that's on the line

Hey now baby, baby let's ball a while
Hey now baby, baby let's ball a while
This is a house rocking boogie everybody's on the ball

Yes you better sing a ball
Everybody's really enjoying fine
Everybody's really enjoying fine
This is a house rocking boogie baby that's on the line

Come on Baby tell me what I got now
Come on Baby tell me what I got now
I got the house rocking Boogie everybody's on the ball

Yeah, house rocking boogie
Everybody's on the ball

[Elmore James]

I just talked to my baby on the telephone
She said, "Stop what you're doing and baby come on home"
I can't hold out, I can't hold out too long

I get a real good feeling talking to you on the phone
You said, "Baby don't you worry, you're my heart's desire
You know that I love you, I can't stand to see you cry"
I can't hold out, I can't hold out too long

I get a real good feeling talking to you on the phone
She said, "Baby you can run, you can walk or fly
You know that I love you, you're my heart's desire"
I can't hold out, I can't hold out too long

I get a real good feeling talking to you on the phone, oh yeah
I talked to my baby, I talked to my baby
I talked to my baby, I talked to my baby
I get a real good feeling talking to you on the phone

[Mose Allison]

I see you watching me just like a hawk
I don't mind the way you talk
But if you touch me something's got to give
I live the life I love
And I love the life I live

A diamond ring and my money too
Tomorrow night they could belong to you
The girls move me at their will
I live the life I love
And I love the life I live

May lay a hundred-dollar bet this time
Tomorrow night I can't cover your dime
Next week I could be over the hill
Just trying to tell you people how I feel

I see you rocking and you pass me by
Talk about me ‘cause I might be high
Just forgive me if you will
I live the life I love
And I love the life I live

May lay a hundred-dollar bet this time
Tomorrow night I can't cover your dime
Next week I could be over the hill
Just trying to tell you people how I feel

I see you rocking and you pass me by
Talk about me ‘cause I might be high
Just forgive me if you will
I live the life I love
And I love the life I live

Live the life I love
I love the life I live
I live the life I love
The life I live

(John Lennon)

Here in some stranger's room
Late in the afternoon
What am I doing here at all?
Ain't no doubt about it
I'm losing you
I'm losing you
Somehow the wires got crossed
Communication's lost
Can't even get you on the telephone
Just got to shout about it
I'm losing you
I'm losing you
Well, here in the valley of indecision
I don't know what to do
I feel you slipping away
I feel you slipping away
I'm losing you
I'm losing you
Well now, you say you're not getting enough
But I remind you of all that bad, bad, bad stuff
So what the hell am I supposed to do?
Just put a bandaid on it?
And stop the bleeding now
Stop the bleeding now
I'm losing you
I'm losing you
Well, well, well
I know I hurt you then
But hell, that was way back when
Well, do you still have to carry that cross? (drop it)
Don't want to hear about it
I'm losing you
I'm losing you
Don't want to lose you now
Wellll!
So long ago

[Robert Johnson]

I've got a kind hearted woman,
she studies evil all the time.
I've got a kind hearted woman,
she studies evil all the time.
You would do to quit me
just to have it on your mind.
I've got a kind hearted woman,
do anything in this world for me.
I've got a kind hearted woman,
do anything in this world for me.
But these evil hearted women,
Lord, and they will not let me be.

Now it ain't but one thing
makes Mr. Johnson drink.
I swear about how you treat me baby,
I begin to think.
Oh baby, my life don't feel the same.
It breaks my heart when you call
Mr. So-and-So's name.

She's a kind hearted woman,
she studies evil all the time.
She's a kind hearted woman,
she studies evil all the time.
You're best to quit me baby
as just to have it on your mind.

sometimes it takes a little more than luck
sometimes it takes a piece right a you
and when you think that youve seen enough
you realize that your breaking all through
sometimes the deeper you go
brings you closer to the lighter day

0:59
let me love you
let me love you
i dont wanna talk about it
I dont wanna talk any more
let me feel you
let me feel you
I'm starting to know how
how to love you

1:34
does it make any more sense
do i ever get to close the book
i get so tired of paying the rent
and sing these same old blues
and try not to think so much
i really should let it be

2:23
let me love you
let me love you
i dont wanna talk about it
I dont wanna talk any more
let me feel you
let me feel you
I'm starting to know how
how to love you

3:13
let me love you
let me love you
i dont wanna talk about it
I dont wanna talk any more
let me feel you
let me feel you
I'm starting to know how
how to love you
I'm starting to know how

how to love you

Oh how could this be
this jealousy
I'm starting now to understand
but everything you do
and every single move
is under my skin again

And I take it harder than I should
Cuz' when you play around with something this good.

Anyone can make a mistake
But only you can cause my heart to break

You should know by now
that I've never known how
to let it go easily
So I'm asking you
to really think it through
You ask so much of me

As simple as it should be
cuz' when it comes to you
you're all I can see

Anyone can make a mistake
but only you can cause my heart to break

well now, ooh maryanne, you know you sure like fine
well now, ooh maryanne, you know you sure like fine
well now, ooh maryanne, i could love you all the time

well now, ooh maryanne, i said baby don't you know.
well now, ooh maryanne, don't you know, don't you know
know that i love you, that i love you so

well now, ooh maryanne, yeah, take it easy

well now, ooh maryanne, can i take you home tonight
well now, ooh maryanne, can i take you home tonight
if you love me baby, make everything alright

well now, ooh maryanne, yeah baby, know that i love you
well i've got a feelin'

Right in my face,
I guess I'm goin to have to put you in your place

If silence was golden,
You couldn't raise a dime,
Because your mind is on vacation
And you mouth is workin' overtime

You're quotin' figures,
And dropin' names,
You're tellin' stories,
About the days,
You're over laughin',
When things 'aint funny,
You're tryin' to sound like the big, big money

If talk was criminal,
You'd lead a life of crime,
Beacause you mind is on vacation,
And your mouth is workin' overtime

Your life is short,
And talk is cheap,
Don't be makin' promises,
That you can't keep,
Don't like my song,
Just grin and bear,
All I can say is, if the shoe fits, won't you wear it,
And if you must keep talkin',
Please try to make it a ryhm

Becasue your mind is on vacation,
And your mouth is workin' overtime

Your mind is on vacation,
Yeah, your mind is on vacation,
I said your mind is on vacation,
Well, your mind is on vacation

Becasue your mind is on vacation,
And your mouth if workin' overtime

It's time we recognized it,
It's time we tried to see it for what it is.
There's nothin underlyin' it, baby,
There ain't another picture as clear as this.

(Well, well) What you get's what you see,
There ain't no mystery to me.

Don't ever dance a double
No sleight of hand, no working behind the scenes.
The way you tell the story, baby,
So complicated, don't even know what it means.
(Don't know what it means.)

What you get's what you see,
There ain't no mystery to me.

What you get's what you see,
(there's nothin up my sleeve)
There ain't no mystery to me.

No double talkin (double talkin)
No sleight of hand (sleight of hand)
No behind the scenes (behind the scenes)
Cuz that's the way I am (thats the way i am)

No double talkin (double talkin)
No behind the back (hind the back)
No behind the scenes (behind the scenes)
No behind the scenes (no behind the scenes)

What you get's what you see,
There ain't no mystery to me.

Mind your step as you make your way
Through the church in to this world of sand
Picture an angle with a cigarette burnin
With a long slow drag
She welcomes you in where youa€?ll be
Dancing in the low light
Sweat dripping down like a dew
Scratchin metal and a cry and moan
Riding in a bottle in the back of a room

Fire, fire from the inside
Rhythm, like a hurricane rain
Mercy, comes after midnight
While youa€?re washing me down with the sound of your National Steel

Took its smile on a wild rose
Born in the heat of the south
Your kisses they went to my head like a whiskey
She was a bootlegged love with her stockings rolled down
People cried to cry as a wolf starts to howl, howled like a midnight train
Roll on, roll on, rolled like a river
A shot of burning silver pounding through my feet like fire

Fire, fire from the inside
Rhythm like a hurricane rain
Mercy, comes after midnight
While youa€?re washing me down with the sound of your National Steel

Mind your step as you make your way
Through the church in to this world of sand
Picture an angle with a cigarette burnin
With a long slow drag
She welcomes you in where youa€?ll be
Dancing in the low light
With the sweat dripping down like a dew
Scratchin metal with a cry and moan
And riding in a bottle at the back of the room

Fire, fire from the inside
Rhythm, like a hurricane rain
Mercy, comes after midnight
Wash me down, washin me down,
Fire, from the inside
Rhythm, like a hurricane rain
Mercy, comes after midnight
Wash me down with the sound of your National Steel

National Steel
Hmmm alright

Honey, no more doggin', foolin' 'round with you
Honey, no more doggin', foolin' 'round with you
I'm gonna let'cha out baby, and that's what I've got to do
Well, told you all the straights and I made you fine
You spend my money on whiskey, beer and wine
No more doggin', foolin' 'round with you,
I'm gonna let'cha out baby, and that's what I've got to do
Well, ya told me that'cha love me and you told me a lie
Yes, I'll love you until the day I die
No more doggin', foolin' 'round with you
I gotta let'cha out, baby, and that's what I've got, oh yes
Well, ya know I love ya baby and I can't help myself
Yes, I'll love you until the day I die
No more doggin', foolin' 'round with you
I gotta let'cha out, baby, and that's what I've got to do
I gotta let'cha out, baby, and that's what I've got to do
I gotta let'cha out, baby, and that's what I've got to do

Another day passes and you don't call
Getting to know every crack in the wall
If there's a good reason for this,
It's a secret you're keeping.

Can't make a move and I don't know why,
As if I don't have the reason to try.
But the sun keeps coming around,
Without me sleeping.

You're going away now, baby,
With nothing to say.
And nothing makes sense to me lately
Of all the things to throw away.

It's like cleaning up the streets after the fireworks,
All of this beauty's turned to dust and dirt.
No relief from the light of dawn,
When it takes over.

Hopin' you feel something missin'
what you had yesterday.
I'm wondering what you were thinkin'
I'm wonderin now, of all the things to throw away.
Of all the things to throw away.

You've gone away from me, (goin' away)
All I've got to say (goin' away)
I hope that you'll come to your senses.
Why, of all the things to throw away
Of all the things to throw away,

Don't you think it's fair to say
Of all the things to throw away,
Throw away
throwin' it away
drivin' me crazy, mhm

[Mark Knopfler]

Please baby - please please baby
Won't you come back to your daddy one more time

Please baby - please please baby
When I get my money I will give you my last dime
When you left me babe, you left me feeling so blue
You know that I didn't love no-one but you

Please baby - please please baby
Won't you come back to your daddy one more time
I'm so blue baby, I'm, I'm so blue baby
I can't sleep at night I can't hardly talk from crying

You know baby, you, you know baby
You always forever on my mind
Since you've been gone I can't sleep at night
Why don't you take my meals I can't eat a bite

Please baby, please please baby
Won't you come back to your daddy one more time
When you left me babe you left me feeling so blue
You know that I didn't love no-one but you

Please baby - please please baby
Won't you come back to your daddy one more time

Well the postman came
And the postman went
And he brought the mail
That my baby sent
No, she didnt say yes
Yes, she didnt say no
But from what i read
Man it's time to go

I'm going put a stamp in the middle of my back
Gonna take a ride in that mailman's sack

I'll be wearin a tag
In the mailman's bag
Once i'm in the sack
Ain't no turnin back

Yeah!

Well if my baby
Ain't where she says she's at
Just be kind to me
And pass around my hat
I'll be broke and beat
Livin on the street
But i won't stay put
I gotta make it by foot

dat do dat do ri do day
Shat dat do ri do day
I'm riding in that mailman's bag

[original by Jimi Hendrix]

Rainy day, rain all day
Ain't no use in gettin' uptight
Just let it groove its own way
Let it drain your worries away yeah

Lay back and groove on a rainy day hey
Lay back and dream on a rainy day
Lay back and groove on a rainy day hey
Lay back and dream on a rainy day

Dream away, dream all day
Ain't no use in gettin' uptight
Just let it groove its own way
Let it drain your worries away

Lay back and groove on a rainy day
Lay back and groove on a rainy day
Lay back and groove on a rainy day
Lay back and dream on a rainy day

Rainy day dream away
Dream all day
Dream all day
Dream away

Lay back and dream on a rainy day
Lay back and dream on a rainy day
Lay back and dream on a rainy day
...

If looks could kill you’d put a man way down in his grave
I need a resurrection to get my condition straight
Yeah, yeah, show me what you’re hidin’ in the back
Hold me, like a brand new Cadillac
Want it full time, I don’t want to rent
I need a love that’s a hundred per cent

I want the real stuff
I want the real stuff

Don’t want no hand-me-downs, Lord, I won’t take second rate.
Don’t want to be the hound that takes the scraps right off of your plate.
So good, so good, it’s good enough
Diamond good love in the rough
Tender, two times it’s never tough
Too much is never enough

I want the real stuff
I want the real stuff
I want the real stuff

Give it to me straight; I’ve got a hard bad side to bone
And when it comes to lovin’ nobody wants to do it alone
Just under the covers must be hot
There’s a line up around the block
I want the best thing that you’ve got
Load me up ‘cause I’m strong enough
Send me right into the heart of love

I want the real stuff
I want the real stuff
I want the real stuff

Feel like flyin' baby gonna take a rocket to the moon
Feel like flyin' baby gonna take a rocket to the moon
Send somebody baby if I don't get back soon

When I come down honey land me in the middle of the sea
When I come down honey land me in the middle of the sea
I keep lookin' for my baby
I Know she's watchin' out for me

Well, got it flyin' on streamline it really ain't built for speed
Well, got it flyin' on streamline it really ain't built for speed
Gotta rock it to my baby
I give her everything she needs

Guitar Solo 2 Turnarounds

Well feel so good her love is like a sugar on a spoon
Well, I'm crazy for my baby she loves lickin' sugar from the spoon
When I'm flyin' with my baby
I'm out here on a rocket to the moon

Well gonna rock by the stars
Sail by the sun
Rock it to my baby
Till my work is done
Keep rockin' you baby till the break of day
Till the sound of your voice makes the stars go away

Feel like flyin' baby gonna take a rocket to the moon
Wont you send somebody baby if I don't get back soon

Trumpet
Guitar

Well, Bye... Baby Bye bye
Bye... Baby Bye bye
So long
Yeah, Baby I'm gone

She's as free as the blue horizon
I'm a slave to this gravity
And every night, I hope and pray
She came back down to me

I keep my eyes on the stars
I track the heavens above my lonely world
I'm tracking her trajectory
She's my baby, she's my little satellite

We met at the Lunar Hilton
On a sea of tranquility
And maybe I was dreamin'
But we was shacked up at the honeymoon suite

She was a wonderful girl
It was a heavenly night
But the stars were wrong
I woke up she was gone
Like a memory
She's probably just out of site
She's my little satallite

I look for the sun where the stardust shines in the twilight
Constantly searching the constallations
Trying to determine the destination
Since I let her drift away
My heart is always lost in space
She's my baby
She's my little satellite

I look for the sun where the stardust shines in the twilight
Constantly searching the constallations
Trying to determine the destination
Since I let her drift away
My heart is always lost in space

She's infinitely stebular
She's not exactly down to Earth
It's crazy but for what it's worth
She's my baby
She's probably just out of sight
She's my little satellite
She's my little satellite
Satellite, Satellite, Satellite
Oh she's my little satellite

Saviour, saviour
?Saviour, saviour
Gotta get to the river, gotta make it to the other side?
Gotta get to the river, gotta make it to the other side?
Take me to the river, help me get to the other side?
Get me to the river, gonna make it to the other side
Funky saviour
Saviour, saviour?
Saviour, saviour
When I'm breaking and I'm shaking and I'm looking for the riverside
?Shaking on this faking, help me get to the other side
?When I'm breaking and I'm shaking, trying to get to the other side
?Take me to the river, come on, take me to the other side
Funky saviour
?Funky saviour
Help me
Saviour, saviour
?Saviour, saviour
I gotta get to the river, gotta make it to the other side?
Nobody knows where the riverside will run?
Somebody saw the saviour down by the river
?Somebody tell me when the saviour comes
Where, where, where?
Where is that saviour?
?Where, where, beware
Where is that saviour??
Where is that saviour?
Saviour, saviour?
Saviour, saviour
Funky, funky, saviour

I`m gonna send my baby a brand new 20 dollar bill
If that don`t bring her I know something that will
Lake Michigan ain`t no river Chicago ain`t no hillie town
Lake Michigan ain`t no river Chicago ain`t no hillie town
She won`t do nothin`to tear my reputation down, well..
Shout baby shout
shout baby shout
shout baby shout
I know my baby she just shook and jumped and shout
my baby left town you know she left me a mule to ride
my baby left town you know she left me a mule to ride
train left the station my mule let down and died, well..
shout baby shout
shout baby shout
shout baby shout
I know my baby she just shook and jumped and shout
I know my baby she just shook and jumped and shout

I'm gonna sit right here and wait until my baby comes home
Well I know I never done anyone wrong
I hold my head up high, I never lose my smile
I'm half cryin' but it's down inside
I'm gonna sit right here and wait until my baby comes home

Tell me, tell me, tell me what have I done wrong
Well I'm outta my mind why, why can't we get along
This can't be life, this can't be death
Without you, ohh, I don't want no one else
I'm gonna sit right here and wait until my baby comes home

Well I've been sittin' right here such a long, long time
Watching these walls I'm gonna lose my mind
Won't you please come back and try me one more time
Before I go insane, yeah yeah

Tell me, tell me, tell me what have I done wrong
Well I'm outta my mind why, why can't we get along
This can't be life, this can't be death
Without you, ohh, I don't want no one else
I'm gonna sit right here and wait until my baby comes home

Here in some stranger's room
Late in the afternoon
What am I doing here at all?
Ain't no doubt about it
I'm losing you

Somehow the wires have crossed
Communication's lost
Can't even get you on the telephone
Just got to shout about it
I'm losing you

Here in the valley of indecision
I don't know what to do
I feel you slipping away
I feel you slipping away
I'm losing you
I'm losing you

You say you're not getting enough
But I remind you of all that bad stuff
So what the hell am I supposed to do?
Just put a band-aid on it?
And stop the bleeding now
Stop the bleeding now

I know I hurt you then
But that was way back when
And well, do you still have to carry that cross?
Don't want to hear about it
I'm losing you
I'm losing you

[Sam Cooke]

Somebody have mercy and tell me what is wrong with me
Somebody have mercy and tell me what is wrong with me
Sometimes i don't know how i stand the things this woman do to me

Let me tell you
When i think about how she do me, the tears fall down like rain, like rain
When i think about how she do me, the tears fall down like rain, like rain
When i think i've got her chained down, she starts actin' up again
Oh let me tell you
I'm goin' down to the bus station with a suitcase in my hand, yes i am
I'm goin' down to the bus station with a suitcase in my hand, yes i am
I'm gonna grab me an armful of greyhound and ride just as close i can
Do that thing for me now

Let me tell you one more time
Somebody have mercy i wonder what is wrong with me, lord have mercy
Somebody have mercy i wonder what is wrong with me, yeah
Sometimes i don't know how i stand the things this woman do to me
Do that one more time, my fellas
I'm standin' here wonderin', baby, with a matchbox hole in my clothes, yes I am
Standin', wonderin', baby, with a matchbox hole in my clothes, yes i am
Oh i got a long way to get there and i got-a some time to go
(scat singing, to fade)

Here's the reason
I try and make you feel better
I'm the reason
That you ever feel bad at all

At least I'm good at something
I just wish it was something good

Something good
Something good has gotta happen
And if I wait, it'll be too late
For something good

Take a picture
Of when we didnt know better
Take a look
How we looked so good together

What you dont know wont hurt you
You're hurtin now you know, you know

Something good
Something good has gotta happen
And if I wait, it'll be too late
For something good
Something good

At least I'm good at something
I just wish it was something good

Something good, Something good
Something good has gotta happen
And if I wait, it'll be too late
For something good
Something good
Something good

Late last nite I was dreamin'
I was dreamin' of your charms
And I was standin' on the edge of love baby
With you in my arms

Well you whispered sweet things and you told me
You told me that you'd love me
And you'd always be true
And that you'd stand on the edge of love with me
I'll stand with you

CHORUS:
That's why I'm standin' on the edge of love
And I'm just about to slip and fall
That's why I'm standin' on the edge of love baby
Waitin' on your call

Well a young man's mind will wonder
And wander off to distant shores
And if you'd just come here and stand with me
I won't wander no more

Well I promise that I'll stop all of my gamblin'
Stop stayin' out late all nite
Might even settle down baby
Treat ourselves right

Chorus

Guitar Solo

Chorus

That's why I'm standin' on the edge of love
And I'm just about to lose my mind
That's why I'm standin' on the edge of love baby
Waitin' on you one more time

Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah

Why did you mention it
You just want attention, it's
Something you can't help but do

'Stead of you helpin me,
You're lookin for sympathy,
So hold that thought and keep it under lock
come the half-beat a tock when you know what you wanna do

Stop movin' around,
Don't stand in the way,
Stop bringin' it down on a perfect day
Without thinkin at all
You play the perfect game
Stop bringin' it down on a perfect day

I'm on a tear and you're
Stuck to the chair and you
Ain't comin out of your room

You don't seem right
When you turn on the light
Cuz now you see more easily the things that might come back on you

Stop movin' around,
Don't stand in the way,
Stop bringin' it down on a perfect day
Without thinkin at all
You play the perfect game
Stop bringin' it down on a perfect day

guitar solo

Stop movin around,
Dont stand in the way
Stop bringin' it down on a perfect day
Without thinkin at all,
You play the perfect game
Stop bringin' it down on a perfect day
(x2)

Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah

Stop bringin' it down on a perfect day,
Stop bringin' it down on a perfect day.

I start a conversation and my mind goes blank

Well ask my name I can’t even think

I’m sure not hungry when it’s time to eat

My pants is on backwards, shoes on the wrong feet


That’s what you do to me, that’s what you do to me

I don’t care what you call it, that’s what you do to me


Well some say it’s luck, others say it’s a curse

And many people tell me I’m living in reverse

I use oil on my face and powder in my hair

I’m a stained jacket man but I just don’t care

Chorus

Sax Solo

Guitar Solo

Well here and there, I’ve travelled everywhere

But I’ve never been able to find this feeling so rare

Up and down and all around

I can get this crazy, crazy, crazy feeling when you’re ‘round

Chorus

Well here and there, I’ve travelled everywhere

Well here and there, I’ve travelled everywhere

That’s what you o to me........

These arms of mine,
They are loney,
Lonely, and feelin' blue

These arms of mine,
They are yearning,
Yeah yearning, from wanting you

And If you would,
Let them hold you,
How greatful, greatful,
I would be

These arms of mine,
They are burning,
burning, from wanting you

These arms of mine,
They are wanting,
Wanting, want to hold you

And if you,
You would let them,
Let them hold you,
Let them hold you,
Greatful,
Greatful I would be

Yeah, come on,
Come on baby,
Yeah, just me and my woman,
Me and my friend,
Yeah, come on, come on,
Come back to me baby,
Yeah, Yeah,
And I'm greatful, greatful,
I would be

If I give up my friends I know
And in return you
You give up yours
Before we think what would we do later on
Well, what kind of life would we have
Just in case we both were wrong?

I could give up my women
You could give up your man
But it don't make sense to
To take the chance

Before we think what would we do later on
What kind of life would we have
Just in case we both were wrong?
Yeah, yeah, yeah

'Cause her love is a gamble
And we know that's true
But why gamble on me
And why should I on you?

Before we think what will we do later on
Well, what kind of life would we have
Just in case we both were wrong?

Yeah, what would you think, baby?
Yeah, yeah, yeah

(Johnny "Guitar" Watson)

It is three hours past midnight
And my baby's nowhere around
Yes three hours past midnight
And my baby's nowhere around

Well, I listen so hard to hear her footsteps
I ain't even heard a sound
Well, I toss and tumble on my pillow
But I just can't close my eyes

Oh, I toss and tumble on my pillow
But I just can't close my eyes
If my baby don't come back pretty soon
Yes, I just can't be satisfied now

Look out
Look out
Keep right on

Well, I tried so hard to take
But my baby's drivin' me insane
Well, I tried so hard to take
Oh yeah

But my baby's drivin' me insane
Well if she's don't come back pretty soon
Yeah, gonna catch that midnight train
Yeah

They tell me tin pan alley
's the roughest place 'n town
it's got cuttin' and shootin'
as soon as the sun goes down

ohh...tell me..
what kind of place can the alley be
oh, every woman I guess
lord, the alley takes away from me

When i need my baby
well she can't be found
well she got up early in the morning
she was ten pound alley bound

ohh..tell me... chorus

Solo

I heard a pistol shoot
somebody groan
some woman shot my baby
left on that jokers arms

ohh.. tell me.. chorus

Ohh ill really miss my baby
because i really need my baby

ohh ill really miss my baby cause i really need my baby

(by robert johnson)

Woke up this morning, feel 'round for my shoes,
You know 'bout that babe, had them old walkin' blues.
Woke up this morning, i feel 'round for my shoes,
You know 'bout that babe, lord, i had them old walkin' blues.

Leavin' this morning, i had to go ride the blinds.
I've been mistreated, don't mind dying.
This morning, i had to go ride the blinds,
I've been mistreated, lord, i don't mind dying.

People tell me walkin' blues ain't bad;
Worst old feeling i most ever had.
People tell me the old walkin' blues ain't bad.
Well it's the worst old feeling, lord, i most ever had.