RORY GALLAGHER: Rory Gallagher (1971)

1. Laundromat
2. Just The Smile
3. I Fall Apart
4. Wave Myself Goodbye
5. Hands Up
6. Sinner Boy
7. For The Last Time
8. It's You
9. I'm Not Surprised
10. Can't Believe It's True
11. Gypsy Woman
12. It Takes Time

LAUNDROMAT
What do you think of that?
I'm sleeping down at the laundromat
If you should pass by be sure to drop my bag
Come 'round and meet my friends
They'll be there with me right through to the end
Right through to the end
Right through to the end

What do you think of that?
I'm sleeping down at the laundromat
If you should pass you should drop my bag

But I don't have no clothes to clean,
to put inside the machine
It was the craziest place I've ever been

Oh, come around and meet my friends
They'll be there with me right through to the end

Say I told you so
Maybe bad times come and go
You don't know that right now but then you'll never know

What do you think of that
I'm on the street like an old stray cat
If you should look for me you'd know exactly where to go

Oh, come around and meet my friends
They'll be there with me, with me to the end

What do you think of that
I'm sleeping down at the laundromat
If you should pass by drop right in

But I have no clothes to clean
To put inside the machine
It was the craziest place I've ever been

Oh, come around and meet my friends

They'll be there with me right through to the end

JUST THE SMILE
Just the smile that is spreading all over her face,
Could warm up the room and set fire to the place.
Yes it could, you know it could.

Now the fog is clinging all over the town,
Put one foot in front then you just might fall down.
On the ground, she's in town.

But like the rain that is falling all over the land,
She cools down my mind when she touches my hand.
Feels so good, yeah so good.

Just the smile that is spreading all over her face,
Could warm up the room and set fire to the place.
Yes she could, you know it could.

I FALL APART
Like a cat that's playing with a ball of twine that you call my heart
Oh but baby is it so hard to tell the two apart
and so slowly you unwind it 'til I fall apart

I don't mind waiting for your love for of time
I've got plenty of rain or shine
Please bring out your love make it shine like the stars above

Like a cat that's playing with a ball of twine that you call my heart
Oh, but baby is it so hard to tell the two apart
and so slowly you unwind it 'til I fall apart

I'm only living for the hour that I see your face
When that happens I don't wanna be no other place
'Til the end of time you'll be on my mind

I don't mind waiting for your love,
for of time I've got plenty of
Rain or shine please bring out your love,
make it shine like the stars above

I'm only living for the moment that I hear your voice
Oh, I'm waiting
I don't have any choice and the day is long
So won't you come where you should be

Like a cat that's playing with a ball of twine that you call my heart
Oh baby, is it so hard to tell the two apart

and so slowly you unwind it 'til I fall apart

WAVE MYSELF GOODBYE
Well I don't know anymore
I don't know why I feel so sore
I only know I love you more
I feel so blue I think I'll wave myself goodbye

The people say you fade away
From my mind you wouldn't stay
But you get stronger there everyday
You know I feel so alone I think I'll wave myself goodbye

This time next time it's all the same
I'll just go on playin a losin game
Until one day baby Ill even forget your name
Someday someday

It takes a fool too long to see
Cant make out the wood for the trees
I must have been blind as I could be
But now I feel so blue I think I'll wave myself goodbye

Well I don't know anymore
I've lost you for sure
I only know I want you more

I feel so blue I think I'll wave myself goodbye

HANDS UP
Hands up reach for the sky
And I will tell you why
This is just a game I'm playin
You won't feel the same I'm betting now

Get up you know this time
That you made up your mind
Think of all the dreams you're chasin
Think of all the time you're wastin now

My world is upside down
My inside is inside out
I'm hangin to a leaf that's shakin
That's hangin to a branch that's breakin off now

Go out into the night
Left to the sky
You'll walk out the shoes you're wearin

Might even lose your blues, no tellin now

SINNER BOY
City streets and rolling cars,
The only sound you can hear.
But you know you might be wrong,
Just look right over here.
Back up against the wall,
Hands on the bottle.
You're gonna walk on by,
Then he cries you gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta.
Take that sinner boy home,
Wrap him up, keep him warm,
He won't do no harm.

Take him home right away,
He's got no place to stay,
Let him walk right inside your home.

Go on and ask him his name,
Let him try and explain,
What in the world done him wrong.

Tell the man, lift him up,
Take away the paper cup.
One more inside him won't do him no good.
Sinner boy,

Take that sinner boy home,
Wrap him up, keep him warm,
He won't do no harm.

Take him home right away,
He's got no place to stay,
Let him walk right inside your home.

Take that sinner boy home,
Wrap him up, keep him warm,

He won't do you, he won't do you no harm.

FOR THE LAST TIME
You've done me wrong,
For the last time,
You've sung your song,
Now I'm going to sing mine,
Out loud, so loud,
Like the roaring sea.
You've played around,
For the last time,
You've shown your claws,
Now I'm going to show mine,
Watch out, I'll be about,
In the night.

You ran around,
Since the very first day,
You've had your moment,
Now I'm gonna have my play,
So long, I'll be gone,
In the night.

You put me down,
For the very last time,
I hit the floor,
But I got up on the count of nine,
Goodbye, don't cry,

When I'm gone.

IT’S YOU
when the days begin to climb on me
and I begin to feel that I can't please
there's only one thing I can do
call on the one who pulls me through
that is you, yeah you

When I'm lost in some old lonely town
and there ain't no sound of you around
a voice comes whispering through my ear
and I can almost feel you here
so near, so near

When the nights begin to drag me down
and there ain't nobody else around
there's only one place I must be
close to you, you close to me
to me, to me

When the days begin to climb on me
and I begin to feel that I can't please
there's only one thing I can do
call on the one who pulls me through
that is you, yeah you
call on the one who pulls me through

that is you, yeah you

I’M NOT SURPRISED
I'm not surprised, you didn't take the time to write me.
I'm not surprised, you didn't take the time to call.
But baby, you know it really shook me.
When baby, I heard you're not coming back at all.

I'm not surprised, you didn't stop to think about me.
I'm not surprised, you let me vanish from your brain.

But baby, you know it over took me.
When my freind said, you're gonna leave me here behind.

Whoa..hoa...

Why must it be? Why must it be?
Why must it be? Why must it be?

I'm not surprised, you started out without me.
I'm not surprised, you even stopped to care.

But baby, if you must desert me.

When you go, don't talk about me when I'm not there

CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S TRUE
Can't believe it's true,
I can't believe it's true,
Baby, where are you?
Baby, where are you?
In the night I'm walking in my sleep,
A lonely man who just can't get no peace.
Oh, how I wish I just could see your face,
Then I wouldn't walk the floor pace by pace.

Clock on the wall,
Why do you bother to chime at all?
Clock on the wall,
Why does this have to happen at all?

And in the day I'm walking on the street,
Hear the sound, steps walking after me.
That's just trouble following me about,
That is one thing I can do without.

Clock on the wall,
Why do you bother to chime at all?
Spot on the wall,
Did I really see it moving at all?

I can't believe it's true,
I can't believe it's true,
I wonder, where are you?
I wonder, where are you?

And in the night I'm talking in my sleep,
The things I say, I just , just can't repeat.
Don't need no fingerprints to know,
You've got your hands on my very soul.

Clock on the wall,
Why do you bother to chime at all?
Clock on the wall,

Why does this have to happen at all?

GYPSY WOMAN
The gypsy woman told me
you were your mother's bad luck child
the gypsy woman told me
you were your mother's bad luck child
you're having a good time now
you'll be having trouble after a while

Went to see the gypsy woman
to have my fortune told
she said run right home right away
and look through your keyhole
the gypsy woman told me
you were your mother's bad luck child
you're having a good time now
you'll be having bad times after a while

I believed everything the gypsy woman told me
every single word she said
i ran right home right away
and looked through my keyhole
another man in my bed
the gypsy woman told me
you were your mother's bad luck child
you're having a good time now

you'll be having bad times after a while

IT TAKES TIME
Well, my babe I had you on my mind,
Well, by little I watched my love slow down.
Yeah, yeah,
Do you know what it means to be alone?

Today you're laughing pretty baby,
Tomorrow you could be cryin'.

Well you live for the day you're gonna know,
You got Little Charlie,
Now come on and try to make it home.
Whoa-ohh.

Do you know what it means to be alone?

Today you're laughing woman,
Tomorrow you could be cryin'.
Yeah.

Well they tell me every dog has his day,
Tell me why all the good dogs can't ever run away.
Yeah, yeah,
Do you know what it means to be alone?

Today you're laughing pretty baby,
Tomorrow you could be cryin'.

Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you know what it means to be alone?

Today you're laughing pretty baby,

Tomorrow you could be cryin'.