1. Top Of The Hill2. Hoist That Rag
3. Sins Of My Father
4. Shake It
5. Don't Go Into That Barn
6. How's It Gonna End
7. Metropolitan Glide
8. Dead And Lovely
9. Circus
10. Trampled Rose
11. Green Grass
12. Baby Gonna Leave Me
13. Clang Boom Steam
14. Make It Rain
15. Day After Tomorrow
TOP OF THE HILL
I'm gonna get me on the ride up
I'm gonna get...
(...Can I have a little more on my voice? ...)
... get me on the ride up
I'm on the top of the hill
I'm only goin' to the top of the hill
New corn yellow and slaughterhouse red
The birds keep singing, baby after your dead
I'm gonna miss you plenty big old world
With our abalone earrings and your mother of pearl
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Oh, I'm only goin’ to the top of the hill
Oh, I'm only goin’ to the top of the hill
I need your moon to be the sky against
Don't get your trouser button stuck on the fence
Diego red and bedlam money are fine
Why don't you come up here and see me sometime
Stop and get me on the ride up
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
I'm only goin’ to the top of the hill
I’m only goin’, I’m only goin’, I'm only goin’ to the top of the hill
There's very little leeway
I seen a mattress on the freeway
The moon rises over Dog Street
Jefferson said that every thing’s reet
Have all the lights burned out on heaven again
I'll never roll the number seven again
I'm made of bread and I'm on an ocean of wine
I hear all the birdies on the phone just fine
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
I'm only goin’, I'm, only goin’, I'm only goin’ to the top of the hill
Black joke and the bean soup
Big sky and the Ford Coupe
Old maid and the dry bones
Red Rover and the Skinny Bones Jones
47 mules to pull this train
We're getting married in the pouring rain
You need your differential and plenty of oil
You load the wagon till the end of the world
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Hey you, stop and get me on the ride up
I'm only goin’, I'm only goin’, I'm only goin’ to the top of the hill
I'm only goin to the top of the hill
What's your throttle made of, is it money or bone
Don't you doddle or you'll never get home
Opium, fireworks, vodka and meat
Scoot over and save me a seat
Oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Stop and get me on the ride up
I'm only goin’, I'm only goin’, I'm only goin’ to the top of the hill
If I had it all to do all over again
I'd try to rise above the law of man
Why don' cha gimme ‘nother sip of your cup
Turn a Rolls Royce into a chicken coup
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
Stop and get me on the ride up
Oh, stop and get me on the ride up
I'm only goin’, I'm only goin’, I'm only goin’ to the top of the hill
Only goin’ to the top of the hill, hey
Stop and get me on the ride up
Ooh oh, stop and get me on the ride up
I'm only goin’ to the top of the hill, ah ah ah ah
HOIST THAT RAG
Well I learned the trade from Piggy Knowles
And Sing Sing Tommy Shay boys
God used me as hammer boys
To beat his weary drum today
Hoist that rag
Hoist that rag
Hoist that rag
The sun is up and world is flat
Damn good address for a rat
The smell of blood, the drone of flies
You know what to do if the baby cries
Hoist that rag
Hoist that rag
Hoist that rag, hoist that rag
Hoist that rag, hoist that rag
Hoist that rag
Well we stick our fingers in the ground
Heave and turn the world around
Smoke is blacking out the sun
At night I pray and clean my gun
The cracked bell rings as the ghost bird sings
And the gods go begging here
So just open fire as you hit the shore
All is fair in love and war
Hoist that rag
Hoist that rag
Hoist that rag
Hoist that rag, hoist that rag
Hoist that rag, hoist that rag
Hoist that rag, hoist that rag
SINS OF MY FATHER
God said don't give me your tin horn prayers
Don't buy roses off the street down there
Took it all and took the dirt road home
Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair
Night is falling like a bloody axe
Lies and rumors and the wind at my back
Hand on the wheel gravel on the road
Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold
I'm gonna take the sins of my father
I'm gonna take the sins of my mother
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother
Down to the pond
Birds cry warning from a hidden branch
Carving out a future with a gun and an axe
I'm way beyond the gavel and the laws of man
Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand
The world’s not easy, the blind man said
Turns on nothing but money and dread
Dog’s been scratching at the door all nite
Long neck birds flying out of the moon light
I'm gonna take the sins of my father
I'm gonna take the sins of my mother
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother
Down to the pond
Down to the pond
Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie
The star spangled glitter of his one good eye
Everybody knows that the game was rigged
Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig
Dark town alleys been a-hiding you
Long bell tolling is your waterloo
Oh baby what can you do
Does the light of god blind you or lead the way home for you?
I'm gonna take the sins of my father
Take the sins of my mother
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother
Down to the pond
Down to the pond
I'm gonna take the sins of my father
Take the sins of my mother
And take the sins of my brother
Down to the pond
Down to the pond
God all mighty for righteousness sake
Humiliation of our fallen state
Written in the book of tubold Cain
A long black over coat will show no stain
Feel the heat and the burn on your back
The rip and the moan and the stretch of the rack
All my belongings in a flour sack
Will the place I come from take me back
I'm gonna take the sins of my father
Take the sins of my mother
And take the sins of my brother
Down to the pond
Down to the pond
They'll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big
To dance upon nothing to the tyborn jig
Treats you like a puppet when your under his spell
The heart is the heaven but the mind is hell
Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds
I's born at this time for a reason you see
When I'm dead and I'll be dead a long time
The wines so pleasing and so sublime
I'm gonna take the sins of my father
Take the sins of my mother
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother
Down to the pond
Down to the pond
Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree
Everything I done is between God and me
Only he will judge how my time was spent
29 days of sinning and 40 to repent
The horse is steady but the horse is blind
Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind
The roots grow upward and the branches grow down
It’s much too late to throw the dice again I've found
I'm gonna take the sins of my father
Take the sins of my mother
Take the sins of my brother
Down to the pond
I'm gonna wash them
I'm gonna wash them
I'm gonna wash the sins of my father
I'm gonna wash the sins of my mother
Wash the sins of my brother
Till the water runs clear
Till the water runs clear
Till the water runs clear
SHAKE IT
Strip Poker Motel
Got a small blue tail
Hot ice, cold cash
I never been no good at staying out of jail
Wheel spin, roulette
Who's giving, don't get
Ripped shirt, black eye
To Tuxedo, bow tie
Dark sound, straight road
Get lost, get loaded
Enlisted men, off duty
Stolen clouds, dark beauty
Cold gun, wild rose
Night clerk, door closed
Lie down baby
Your love is a faucet
ahhhh
Called China, cell phone
Chun King, not home
You know I feel like a preacher waving a gun around
Shake it , shake it , shake it baby
Shake it , shake it , shake it now
Shake it , shake it , shake it baby
Shake it , shake it , shake it now
Shake it , shake it , shake it baby
Shake it , shake it , shake it now
Outside, it's damp
Put a towel on that lamp
You look hot in this light
I can love you all night
Shoes off, hair down
Got a pink night gown
Mike Tyson, KO'ed
On the wild, blue road
Small town, straight road
That rooster, done crowed
Flat tire, homemade cross
You know I feel like a preacher waving a gun around
Shake it , shake it , shake it baby
Shake it , shake it , shake it now
Shake it , shake it , shake it baby
Shake it , shake it , shake it now
DON’T GO INTO THAT BARN
Don't go into that barn, yeah
I said, don't go into that barn, yeah
Black cellophane sky at midnite
A big blue moon with three gold rings
I called Champion to the window
I pointed up above the trees
That's when I heard my name in a scream
Coming from the woods, out there
I let my dog run off of the chain
I locked my door real good with a chair
Don't go into that barn, yeah
I said, don't go into that barn, yeah
Everett Lee broke loose again
It’s worse than the time before
‘Cause he's high on potato and tulip wine
Fermented in the muddy rain of course
A drunken wail, a drunken train
Blew through the birdless trees
Oh, you're alone alright
Your alone alright
How did I know
How did I know
Don't go into that barn, yeah
I said, don't go into that barn, yeah
An old black tree
Scratching up the sky
With boney, claw like fingers
A rusty black rake
Digging up the turnips
Of a muddy cold grey sky
Shiny tooth talons
Coiled for grabbing a stranger happening by
And the day went home early
And the sun sank down into the muck of a deep dead sky
Don't go into that barn, yeah
I said, don't go into that barn, yeah
Bank since Saginaw Calinda was born
It's been cotton and soybeans, tobacco and corn
Behind the porticoed house of a long dead farm
They found the falling down timbers of a spooky old barn
Out there like a slave ship, upside down
Wrecked beneath the waves of grain
When the river is low
They find old bones and they plow they always dig up chains
Don't go into that barn, yeah
I said, don't go into that barn, yeah
Did you bury your fire?
Yes sir
Did you cover your tracks?
Yes sir
Did you bring your knife?
Yes sir
Did they see your face?
No sir
Did the mom see you?
No sir
Did you go cross the river?
Yes sir
Did you fix your rake?
Yes sir
Did you stay down wind?
Yes sir
Did you hide your gun?
Yes sir
Did you smuggle your rum?
Yes sir
I said, how did I know
How did I know
How did I know
Don't go into that barn, yeah
I said, don't go into that barn, yeah
Don't forget that I warned you
I said, don't go into that barn, yeah
Don't go into that barn, yeah
I said, don't go into that barn, yeah
No shirt no coat
Put me on a flat boat
Dover down to Covington
Covington to Louisville
Louisville to Henderson
Henderson to Smithland
Smithland to Memphis
Memphis down to Vicksburg
Vicksburg to Natchez
Going down to Natchez
Put me on a flat boat
Dover down to Covington
Covington to Louisville
Louisville to Henderson
Henderson to Smithland
Smithland to Memphis
Memphis down to Vicksburg
Vicksburg to Natchez...
HOW’S IT GONNA END
He had three whole dollars
A worn out car
And a wife who was leaving for good
Life's made of trouble
Worry pain and struggle
She wrote good bye in the dust on the hood
They found a map of Missouri
Lipstick on the glass
They must of left in the middle of the nite
And I want to know the same thing
Everyone wants to know how’s it going to the end?
Behind a smoke colored curtain
The girl disappeared
They found out that the ring was a fake
A tree born crooked
Will never grow straight
She sunk like a hammer into the lake
A long lost letter
And old leaky boat
Promises are never meant to keep
And I want to know the same thing
I want to know how’s it going to the end?
The barn leaned over
The vultures dried their wings
The moon climbed up an empty sky
The sun sank down behind the tree on the hill
There's a killer and he's coming thru the rye
But maybe he's the father
Of that lost little girl
It's hard to tell in this light
And I want to know the same thing
Everyone wants to know
How’s it going to the end?
Drag your wagon and your plow
Over the bones of the dead
Out among the roses and the weeds
You can never go back
And the answer is no
And wishing for it only makes it bleed
Joel Tornabene was broken on the wheel
Shane and Bum Mahoney on the lamb
The grain was as gold
As Sheila's hair
All the way from Liverpool
With all we could steal
He was robbed of twenty dollars
His body found stripped
Cast into the harbour there and drowned
And I want to know the same thing
We all want to know how’s it going to the end?
The sirens are snaking
Their way up the hill
It's last call somewhere in the world
The reptiles blend in
With the color of the street
Life is sweet at the edge of a razor
And down in the front row of an old picture show
The old man is asleep
As the credits start to roll
I want to know the same thing
We all want to know how’s it going to the end?
I want to know the same thing
We all want to know how’s it going to the end?
And I just want to know the same thing
I wanna know how’s it going to the end?
METROPOLITAN GLIDE
Are you ready?, are you ready?, are you ready?
Knocky Parker told Bowlegged Sal
They all know how to kick it in Cal
They're playing this dope and this money tune
Dancing baby with a seven mile broom
Things are bulging out the rafters like hell
Dddddown there at the Hush Hotel
They're jumping right out of their seats
Dddddancing to the bran' new beat
Do, oh... the Metropolitan Glide
Do, do, do... the Metropolitan Glide
Hey, you
The floor is polished and you Momma's gone
You can quake and roll and moan
29 gypsies in a Cadillac stoned
Turn off the ringer on your cellular phone
Whip the air like a Rainbow Trout
Drag your tail pipe till you bottom out
And do... the Metropolitan Glide
Do... the Metropolitan Glide
Hey, hey
Do... the Metropolitan Glide
The low bottom of the china moon
The black swan and the way too soon
Ace pocket and the dog bone gone
The peacock and the mean black swan
The rain shower and high heeled shoe
Bombay money and I know I can do it
The sink hole and the victory dance
Its in the pocket in the real tight pants
Do... the Metropolitan Glide
Do, do, do, do... the Metropolitan Glide
The Metropolitan
The Metropolitan
Show your teeth bray like a calf
You kill me with your machine gun laugh
You make me trouble with the floor that's creaking
I've been ready to ka boom for a week
Put on your stockings and your powder and blush
Keep it all on the hush, hush, hush
Do... the Metropolitan Glide
And you do... the Metropolitan Glide
Do... the metropolitan Glide
And you do... the Metropolitan Glide
The Metropolitan...
The Metropolitan Glide
DEAD AND LOVELY
She was a middle class girl
She was In over her head
She thought she could stand up in the deep end
He had a bullet proof smile
He had money to burn
She thought she had the moon in her pocket
But now she's dead
She's so dead
Forever dead and lovely now
I've always been told to remember this
Don't let a fool kiss you
Never marry for love
He was hard to impress
He knew everyone's secrets
He wore her on his arm just like jewelry
He never gave but he got
He kept her on a leash
He's not the kind of wheel you’ll fall asleep at
But now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now
Come closer look deeper
You've fallen fast
Just like a plane on a stormy sea
She made up someone to be
She made up somewhere to be from
This is one business in the world where that's no problem at all
Every thing that is left
They will only plow under
Soon every one you know
Will be gone
But now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now
But now she’s dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now
I've always been told to remember this
Don't let a kiss fool you
Never marry for love
Everything has its price
Everything has its place
What's more romantic then dying in the moonlight?
Now they're all watching the sea
What's lost can never be broken
Her roots were sweet
But they were so shallow
And now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now
And now she's dead
Forever dead
And she’s so dead and lovely now
CIRCUS
We put up our tent on a dark green knoll, outside of town by the train tracks and a seagull dump
Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel and her Marvelous Pigs in satin
Pounded our steaks in the ground all powder brown
And the branches spread like scary fingers reaching
We were in a pasture outside Kankakee
And one eyed Myra, the queen of the galley
Who trained the ostrich and the camels
She looked at me squinty with her one good eye in a Roy Orbison t-shirt
As she bottle fed an Orangutan named Tripod and
Then there was Yodeling Elaine the Queen of the air
Who wore a dollar sign medallion
And she had a tiny bubble of spittle around her nostril and a little rusty tear, for she had lassoed and lost
Another tipsy sailor
And over in the burnt yellow tent
By the frozen tractor, the music was like electric sugar
And Zuzu Bolin played "Stavin' Chain"
And Mighty Tiny on the saw
And he threw his head back with a mouth full of gold teeth
And they played lopsided heart and moon over Dog Street
And by the time they finished “Moanin Low”
I was soakin’ and wet and wild eyed
And Doctor Bliss slipped me a preparation
And I fell asleep with “Livery Stable Blues” in my ear
And me and Molly Hoey drank Pruno and Koolaid
She had a tattoo gun made out of a cassette motor and a guitar string
And she soaked a hanky in three roses and rubbed it on the spot
And she drew a rickety heart and a bent arrow
And it hurt like hell
And Funeral Wells spun Poodle Murphy on the target
As he threw his hardware
Only once in Sheboygan did he miss
At a matinee on Diamond Pier and she'd never let him forget it
They were doing two shows and she had a high fever
And he took off a piece of her ear
And Tip Little told her she should leave the bum
But Poodle said, "he fetched me last time I run"
And I'd like to hammer this ring into a bullet
And I wish I had some whiskey and a gun, my dear
I wish I had some whiskey and a gun, my dear
TRAMPLED ROSE
Long way going to
Get my medicine
Sky's the autumn grey of a lonely wren
Piano from a window played
Gone tomorrow, gone yesterday
Found it in the street
At first I did not see
Lying at my feet a trampled rose
Passing the hat in church
It never stops going round
You never pay just once
To get the job done
What I done to me
I done to you,
What happened to the trampled rose?
In the muddy street
With the fireworks and leaves
A blind man with a cup I asked
Would he sing "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine"
I know that rose like I know my name
The one I gave my love
It was the same
Now I find it in the street a trampled rose
GREEN GRASS
Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down in the green grass
Remember when you loved me
Come closer don't be shy
Stand beneath a rainy sky
The moon is over the rise
Think of me as a train goes by
Clear the thistles and brambles
Whistle didn't he ramble
Now there's a bubble of me
And its floating in thee
Stand in the shade of me
Things are now made of me
The weather vane will say
It smells like rain today
God took the stars and he tossed 'em
Can't tell the birds from the blossoms
You'll never be free of me
He'll make a tree from me
Don't say good bye to me
Describe the sky to me
And if the sky falls mark my words
We'll catch mocking birds
Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down in the green grass
Remember when you loved me
BABY GONNA LEAVE ME
Well I stood on the corner
‘Til my feet got wet
I stood by the faucet
‘Till the sink filled up
I stood by the window
Till the moon came up
My baby bought a ticket
Long as my clothes line
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
My baby went and left me
In a '49 Ford
Going down the highway
In a 49 sword
My baby ripped my heart out
With every turn of the moon
Somebody told me there's never been a rose without a thorn
Na na na na na
Na na na na
Well I'm just another sad guest
On this dark earth
And if I was a tree
I'd be a cut down tree
And if I was a bed
I'd be an unmade bed
I'll get my 32/20 and it'll have to do
Na na na na na
Na na na na
Gone like the wind in the meadow
And the rain on the hill
You even left your lipstick
And your powder and your blush
Baby gonna leave me
On a Grey Hound Bus
The stars are melting
All across the sky
Na na na na na
Na na na na
I let the dog out
But he didn't come back
Stood on the corner
‘Till my feet got wet
Baby leave me in a 49 Ford
I stood by the window
Untill the moon came up
Na na na na na
Na na na na
CLANG BOOM STEAM
Well my baby's so fine
Even her car looks good from behind
Oh yeah
Well my baby's so fine
Even her car looks good from behind
But the train that took my baby
It went clang, boom and steam
MAKE IT RAIN
She took all my money
And my best friend
You know the story
Here it comes again
I have no pride
I have no shame
You gotta make it rain, make it rain
Since you gone
Deep inside it hurts
I'm just another sad guest
On this dark earth
I want to believe
In the mercy of the world again
Make it rain, make it rain
The nite's too quiet
Stretched out alone
I need the whip of thunder
And the winds dark moan
I'm not Abel, I'm just Cain
Open up the heavens
Make it rain
I'm close to heaven
Crushed at the gate
They sharpen their knives
On my mistakes
What she done
You can't give it a name
You gotta make it rain
Make it rain, yeah
Without her love
Without your kiss
Hell can't burn me
More than this
I'm burning up all this pain
Put on the fire
Make it rain
I'm born to trouble
I'm born to fate
Inside a romise
I can't escape
It's the same old world
But nothing looks the same
Make it rain
Make it rain
Gotta make it rain
Make it rain
You gotta make it rain
(Got to) Make it rain
(You gotta)
I stand alone here
I stan alone here
Sing it
Make it rain
Make it rain
Make it rain
DAY AFTER TOMORROW
I got your letter today
And I miss you all so much here
I can't wait to see you all
And I'm counting the days dear
I still believe that there's gold
At the end of the world
And I'll come home to Illinois
On the day after tomorrow
It is so hard and it is cold here
And I'm tired of taking orders
And I miss old Rockford town
Up by the Wisconsin border
What I miss you won't believe
Shoveling snow and raking leaves
And my plane will touch down
On the day after tomorrow
I close my eyes every nite
And I dream that I can hold you
They fill us full of lies, everyone buys
‘Bout what it means to be a soldier
I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel
‘Bout all the blood that's been spilled
Will God on this throne
Get me back home
On the day after tomorrow
You can't deny, the other side
Don't want to die anymore then we do
What I'm trying to say is don't they pray
To the same God that we do?
And tell me how does God choose
Who's prayers does he refuse?
Who turns the wheel
Who rolls the dice
On the day after tomorrow
Mmmmmm....
I'm not fighting for justice
I am not fighting for freedom
I am fighting for my life
And another day in the world here
I just do what I've been told
We're just the gravel on the road
And only the lucky ones come home
On the day after tomorrow
And the summer it too will fade
And with it rings the winter's frost dear
And I know we too are made
Of all the things that we have lost here
I'll be 21 today, I been saving all my pay
And my plane will touch down
On the day after tomorrow
And my plane it will touch down
On the day after tomorrow
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