JOE BONAMASSA: Royal Tea (2020)

 

1. When One Door Opens

2. Royal Tea

3. Why Does It Take So Long To Say Goodbye

4. Lookout Man!

5. High Class Girl

6. A Conversation With Alice

7. I Didn't Think She Would Do It

8. Beyond The Silence

9. Lonely Boy

10. Savannah

11. Don't You Do Me No Favours

12. Don't Hand Me Your Hangups

WHEN ONE DOOR OPENS

It starts close to the heart

The way waters part

I was straight up to my neck

Heard no warnings of the wreck

Had a shot to top it all

Never feared the fall

A lifetime of gold

Hope it lasts until I'm old

 

Are you a tycoon or a Moses

Do you see what light exposes

Every time one door opens

One closes on me

Are you a time clock or a wrist watch

A minuteman or a door lock

Every time one door opens

One closes on me

 

To be king of the heap

Don't matter if you sleep

I was cool to be steered

Thinked and missed, the abyss is near

Champagne all the ready

My hands never steady

My head's always down

All around I hear the sounds

 

Are you a tycoon or a Moses

Do you see what light exposes

Every time one door opens

One closes on me

Are you a time clock or a wrist watch

A minuteman or a door lock

Every time one door opens

One closes on me

 

Lay me deep in my grave

Lay me down with a silver spade

There's a long road for a man

Long road that has no end

 

Eight white horses in a line

Eight white horses outta time

Gonna lay me down

Lay me deep in that cold ground

 

In all of you I confide

All my demons inside

Execution's been stayed

No decisions have been made

ROYAL TEA

(Royal tea)

Story about my past and future

(Royal tea)

Had to bow to kiss her

I done give you life

All first class

Let you make your own photographs

Chandeliers and crazy cars

Paid in full with my guitars

(Royal tea)

Wake up in your garden

(Royal tea)

Champagne from the fountain

Bring me back, keep me gone

Reel me in and waste my life all the time

Royal tea

(Royal tea)

And check out your future

(Royal tea)

Gettin' away with murder

Breaking hearts 'round this town

Making fools of all you clowns

Razor's edge, my life's a beam

The likes of which you've never seen

(Royal tea)

Wake up in your garden

(Royal tea)

Champagne from the fountain

Bring me back, keep me gone

Reel me in and waste my life all the time

Royal tea

(Royal tea)

Wake up in your garden

(Royal tea)

Champagne from the fountain

Hiding out in your palace

Diamonds dipping from your chalice

Honey's sweet but the bees will sting

At the door of your reckoning

(Royal tea)

Wake up in your garden

(Royal tea)

Champagne from the fountain

Bring me back, keep me gone

Reel me in and waste my life all the time

Royal tea

WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG TO SAY GOODBYE

Tired of running

I've seen these times before

Desperation

Our candle burns no more

Everything we know

Takes us so far away

Trace your steps back

Don't let 'em guide your way

When I leave

Oh, I leave for good

No coming back

Like you said I would

You’ve crossed the line

Why does it take so long to say goodbye?

Every time

I'm just a castaway

Cast out into the sea

Another rainy night

Tears from the endless fights

Oh, I carried you

Carried you on my own

So take the love you've had

And pretend you always know

When I leave

Oh, I leave for good

No coming back

Like you said I would

You’ve crossed the line

Why does it take so long to say goodbye?

Every time

Say goodbye

Every time

When I leave

Oh, I leave for good

No coming back

Like you said I would

You've crossed the line

Why does it take so long to say goodbye?

Every time

Say goodbye

Every time, yeah

LOOKOUT MAN!

(Look out)

(Look out)

(Look out)

Look out, man, I'm coming down the pike

Look out, man, I'm wearing tiger stripes

Look out, man, I'm coming through your wall

Look out, babe, satisfaction ten feet tall

(Look out)

Look out, man, I'm coming from big scene

Look out, man, steak frites and Burgundy

Look out, people, I'm coming from the sun

Look out, people, it's good for everyone

Oh, berry in the champagne

Messing up my campaign

No shame in the fame game

Cause look out here I come

(Look out)

Look out, man, I'm trying for the set

Look out, man, something you won't regret

Look out, people, I'm a force of nature

Look out, people, hеre come signs of The Rapturе

(Look out)

Look out, man, I'm as quick as I am fast

Look out, man, just ask the Caveman

Look out, people, don't keep me in a cage

Look out, people, the storm's about to rage

Oh, berry in the champagne

Messing up my campaign

No shame in the fame game

Cause look out, here I come

(Look out)

Look out, man, I'm the one who can't be beat

Look out, man, I'm the one who won't repeat

Look out, people, I'm lean, mean, and dazed

Look out, people, I'm the one who won't be fazed

(Look out)

(Look out)

(Look out)

(Look out)

HIGH CLASS GIRL

I took it on the low

I took it in my home

When I found you and another man

Baby, someone's got to go

And you know it ain't me

Cause this house ain't for free

When you choose to lie and you take his side

That's the way it's gonna be

Cause I'm nobody's fool

But you kicked out my stool

From underneath my life you made a mess this time

But do what you got to do

You're pure upper class

You're kicking my ass

You took your time

Twisting the knife once inside my heart that's beating fast

You're a high-class girl

Low-class ways

If I stay any longer and I sit and I ponder

Gonna throw it all away

I'd be in the right

To stand here and fight

So, brеak it down for me like the child you see

For thе wrong reasons you are right

Bring on the motion

But you're weak on your potion

To keep me around after you beat me down

Baby, I revel in your devotion

You're a high-class girl

Low-class ways

If I stay any longer and I sit and I ponder

Gonna throw it all away

I'm a different breed of brother

Don't believe me ask my mother

I'm a stone-crazy roll another girl off my shoulder

As evil as I can be

You're a high-class girl

Low-class ways

If I stay any longer and I sit and I wonder

Gonna throw it all away

You're a high-class girl

With low-class ways

If I stay any longer and I sit and I ponder

Gonna throw it all away

(High-class girl)

Throw it all away

(Low-class ways)

Throw it all away

Throw it all away

Throw it all away

Throw it all

Away

A CONVERSATION WITH ALICE

I'm a victim of absolution

I'm a casualty of life

So bring on a revolution

Couldn't come at a better time

I'm a part of a rise and fall

Mostly fall in current times

Need to make the most of what I got

Need to make the most of mine

I'm tired of being stuck in the middle

I'm tired of being out on my ass

A conversation with Alice

Been from rags to riches so fast

I'm growing old and I'm weary

Sick and tired of tired and sick

My conversation with Alice

Was the best thing I ever did

Was the best thing I ever did

So I'm sticking to my excuses

Founding out who's to blame

All I see is a man in a mirror

All I see is more the same

I'm tired of being stuck in the middle

I'm tired of being out on my ass

A conversation with Alice

I've been from rags to riches so fast

I'm growing old and I'm weary

Sick and tired of tired and sick

My conversation with Alice

Was the best thing I ever did

Was the best thing I ever did

A conversation with Alice

A conversation with Alice

A conversation with Alice

A conversation with Alice

A conversation with Alice

A conversation with Alice

A conversation with Alice

Was the best thing I ever did

Was the best thing I ever did

I DIDN'T THINK SHE WOULD DO IT

I thought we would sail on such a kind sea

I thought we were being what we wanted to be

I had no warning of what was dawning

Shock of the world, so stop your freaking moaning

I didn't think she would do it

I didn't think she would do it

I didn't think she would do it

I didn't think she would do it

But she did it anyway

I thought we were driving such a straight line

What's mine is yours and what's yours is mine

I had no premonition of nuclear fission

My whole world blew up on live television

I didn't think she would do it

I didn't think she would do it

I didn't think she would do it

I didn't think she would do it

But she did it anyway

And sometimes I know it's all my fault

I took her for granted 'til I called it a halt

I had it no idea, I was now in the rear

My dreams are gone and I'm nowhere frеaking near

I didn't think she would do it

I didn't think she would do it

I didn't think she would do it

I didn't think she would do it

But she did it anyway

She did it anyway

Oh, she did it anyway

BEYOND THE SILENCE

You know the truth hurts, it stings like hell

From the deep fires and the ringing bells

I know it's time to end my days

With a shovel and cross I've dug my grave

I know I have my cross to bear

As I sit in silent soulless stare

I recall a smile as I think of you

And out of nowhere I have these blues

Beyond the silence

Beyond the silence in my mind

Beyond the silence

Beyond the silence in my mind

I rise

I rise

When the storm rages

I know it hides in plain sight

I fight it now with all my might

Like a tree in the yard that bears no fruit

I know it's little comfort to you

Beyond the silence

Beyond the silence in my mind

Beyond the silence

Beyond the silence in my mind

I rise

I rise

When the storm rages

Oh, I can't let it fall on me

Oh, all I had to do was breathe

Let me breathe

Let me breathe

I know you're sad to see this day

And I know I'm stuck here in my ways

Your words all fall upon deaf ears

Behind the veil of hidden fears

Beyond the silence

Beyond the silence in my mind

Beyond the silence

Beyond the silence in my mind

I rise

I rise

When the storm rages

When the storm rages

When the storm rages

When the storm rages

LONELY BOY

Oh, I had my mother tell me son

You have brothers but you're only one

She knew what she had to do

All my life reaching out for you

I believe

Lonely boy this time

I'm alone on this matter

Lonely boy kind

Well she strut her stuff down Oxford Street

She looking like she hadn't eat

I tell myself what could go wrong

Another tale of the same old song

I believe

Lonely boy this time

Oh, I'm alone on this matter

Lonely boy kind

Early morning starting school

Soon became the classroom fool

Went to church in my Sunday shoes

People talk about my point of view

I believe

Lonely boy this time

I'm alone on this matter

Lonely boy kind

Well spoonful of white

Just to try to get her black

I know my baby's gone

She makes me blow my stack

I believe

Lonely boy this time

I'm alone on this matter

Lonely boy time

I'm alone on this matter

Lonely boy time

SAVANNAH

Oh, Savannah

Lay my burden down

Spent my life in the same old rust town

Oh, Savannah

Time is moving fast

Living life in the land of the long grass

I'm a man who knows

Which way the river flows

I'm a man of means

But nothing will set me free

Nothing will set me free

Oh, Savannah

Oh, Savannah

You're more than home to me

Oh, Savannah

Pick up your heart and run

I've raised some Cain and I sure did have my fun

Oh, Savannah

Down on wounded knee

When it all comes down it's always you and me

When I found my pride

For digging deep inside

I bared my soul

But this is the way to go

This is the way to grow

Oh, Savannah

Oh, Savannah

Life on the long road

Oh, Savannah

It's good to be the king

You broke me down but again I'm rising

Oh, Savannah

Now that it's all begun

I took the money but forgot to run

When I was running wild

At least I did in style

When I sang my song

I knew this day would come

I knew it all along

Oh, Savannah

Oh, Savannah

Oh, Savannah

Oh, Savannah

You're more than home to me

DON'T YOU DO ME NO FAVOURS

So what’s to say after all these years

It’s been so long, cause so many tears

So long now that I’ve been all alone

Wasted time on my own

Goodbye, my love, it’s over now

A precious time, faded somehow

Long, lonely days and I can’t sleep at night

My peace of mind ain’t worth the fight

Don’t you do me no favours

Or I’ll put that blame on you

Don’t you do me no favours

That’s all I ask for you

It’s a sign of the times, to bring it on home

I’m a desperate man, with a heart of stone

Don’t pity me for what’s on my face

I long for the day in a better place

Don’t you do me no favours

Or I’ll put that blame on you

Don’t you do me no favours

That’s all I ask for you

Don’t you do me no favours

Or I’ll put that blame on you

Don’t you do me no favours

That’s all I ask for you

Don’t you do me no favours

Or I’ll put that blame on you

Don’t you do me no favours

That’s all I ask for you

Don’t you do me no favours

Or I’ll put that blame on you

Don’t you do me no favours

That’s all I ask for you

DON'T HAND ME YOUR HANGUPS

Don’t hand me your hangups

When I got my own hangups for free

Don’t hand me your hangups

When I got my own hangups for free

I got me a woman who knows how to make me cry

I got me a woman, so petrified

I got me a woman looks good in a wig

I got me a woman who loves to dance that jig

Don’t hand me your hangups

When I got my own hangups for free

Don’t hand me your hangups

When I got my own hangups for free

I got me a woman who likes to mess around

I got me a woman from the southside of town

I got me a woman who drinks a lot of wine

I got me a woman, hell, she’s drunk all the time

Don’t hand me your hangups

When I got my own hangups for free

Don’t hand me your hangups

When I got my own hangups for free

I got me a woman with sexy legs

I got me a woman, so damn good in bed

I got me a woman who likes to drain my will

I got me a woman, man, she’s crazy as hell

Don’t hand me your hangups

When I got my own hangups for free

Don’t hand me your hangups

When I got my own hangups for free

Don’t hand me your hangups

When I got my own hangups for free

Don’t hand me your hangups

When I got my own hangups for free

Don’t hand me your hangups

Don’t hand me your hangups

Don’t hand me your hangups

DEEP PURPLE: Whoosh! (2020)

 

1. Throw My Bones

2. Drop the Weapon

3. We're All the Same in the Dark

4. Nothing at All

5. No Need to Shout

6. Step by Step

7. What the What

8. The Long Way Round

9. The Power of the Moon

10. Remission Possible

11. Man Alive

12. And the Address

13. Dancing in My Sleep

THROW MY BONES

I don't know what lies ahead

It's all a mystery man, I heard it said

You do your thing, you do your best

I take a guess at what happen next

All I've got is what I need

And that's enough, as far as I can see

Why should I walk into the great unknown

When I can sit here, and throw my bones?

I hear the future is so divine

But I'll just wait until I get a sign

'Cause what I've got here, what I'm holding in my hand

Is better for me than some promised land

All I've got is what I need

And that's enough, as far as I can see

Why should I walk into the great unknown

When I can sit here, and throw my bones?

What's the rush? Who's to say?

You can't escape tomorrow, it's another day

I'm hanging here, I'm here on solid ground

'Cause heaven's full, or closing down

All I've got is what I need

And that's enough, as far as I can see

Why should I walk into the great unknown

When I can sit here, and throw my bones?

Oh yeah

DROP THE WEAPON

Everybody shouting, working up a sweat

Stepping over lines, you know what happen next

More trouble than anyone can use

It's a predetermined thing, you lose your right to choose

No way to turn it around

You got no more time, no time to calm yourself down

Once you press the button man it's coming to a head

Pretty soon, babe, you'll be a long time dead

Little brother, I'm telling you now

Your pride can take a hit

Little brother, take a deep breath

Cool off, man, forget about it!

Oh, oh, oh

Drop the weapon

Kick it away

Drop your gun

Look the other way

Drop the weapon

Live another day

Drop your blade

Listen to what I say

Who you're trying to impress? You making a bid

To be a big shot brother, but you're just a small kid

Now your reputation got a minor stain

It'll be washed away by tomorrow's rain

Little brother, I'm telling you now

Your pride can take a hit

Little brother, take a deep breath

Cool off, man, forget about it!

Mmh, mmh, mmh

Drop the weapon

Kick it away

Drop your gun

Look the other way

Drop the weapon

Live another day

Drop your blade

Listen to what I say

No sound of silence

Just streets of violence

We're in overload

Wrong side of the road

Oh, San Francisco

Where the Hell did you go?

We have enough of that peace and love

Drop the weapon

Kick it away

Drop your gun

Look the other way

Drop the weapon

Live another day

Drop your blade

Listen to what I say

No sound of silence

Just streets of violence

We're in overload

Wrong side of the road

Oh, San Francisco

Where the Hell did you go?

We have enough of that peace and love

Come and hold my hand

Then we can all stand

And say a prayer to someone out there

Anyone out there

WE'RE ALL THE SAME IN THE DARK

Baby, won't you be my friend?

And love me right until the end?

I don't care what shape you're in

What you've done or where you've been

Yeah

I've got nothing to hide from you

We can sit and talk about the past

We don't need to tell the truth

To tell the truth now

We're all the same in the dark

Baby, won't you be my friend?

And love me right until the end?

I guess we'll never know

What happened down in Mexico

Like what I see, I like the view

We can stay as long as it lasts

There's no difference 'tween me and you

To tell the truth now

We're all the same in the dark

I don't need to see a doctor, no

I know exactly who I am

I'm just like you

Baby, won't you be my friend?

And love me right until the end?

You know that fashion come and fashion go

Melting like the summer snow

I don't know what you see in me

Some would say that we're miles apart

But when everything is said and done

And the lights go down

We're all the same, we're all the same in the dark

NOTHING AT ALL

I'm talking to myself again

And waving to a passing friend

I've know her since I don't know when

Ah, it's nothing at all

Just the few of us walk arm in arm

It's innocent and charming

But the children seem to be getting alarmed

Don't worry kids, it's nothing at all

When I hear about the doom and gloom

That's around the corner and coming soon

I take a sip of mother's ruin

And sit with my back to the wall

It's nothing at all

Nothing at all

And the old lady smiled

It's nothing at all

Then she blew all the leaves off my tree

And the junk that sails our seven seas

Is very nearly up to my knees

But the platitudes and pleasantries

Keep saying it's nothing at all

I'll deal with it on another day

If I close my eyes it'll go away

So bottoms up, boys, and what do you say?

Really, it's nothing at all

It's nothing at all

Nothing at all

And the old lady smiled

It's nothing at all

And the summer passed away

Nothing at all

It's nothing at all

And the old lady smiled

It was nothing at all

Then she blew all the leaves off my tree

NO NEED TO SHOUT

You stand there on your soapbox without fear

Like a chanting wild demented auctioneer

It's just a bunch of crap, ha, you're talking out your hat

And, I don't want you chewing off my ear

(No need to shout)

I'm hearing what you say

(No need to shout)

Just shut your mouth and go away

You preach to the converted, it's insane

We're here already swinging like a train

I can only hope that you won't ram it down my throat

Don't make me swallow it again

(No need to shout)

Alright, I'm hearing what you say

(No need to shout)

No, no, just shut your mouth and go away

Your manifesto, stuffed inside your suitcase

Blah blah blah, you're never wrong

And even when you're stooping, tying up your shoelace

You keep droning on and on and on and on

Ha, I got your message loud and clear

The meaningless is ringing in my ear

Oh, what a bunch of trash you got exuding from your ass

That's not the shit I wanna hear

(No need to shout)

No need to shout, man

I'm hearing what you say

(No need to shout)

No, no, wrap it up

On your way

(No need to shout)

Woo-hoo-hoo

(No need to shout)

No, no, just shut your mouth and go away

STEP BY STEP

Step by step

Rattle through the night

Don't look now

There's no end in sight

Step by step

Moving on through the graveyard shift

No way out

That's the truth 'bout the size of it

Inch by inch

Shuffle through the heat

Stay in time

Don't you miss a beat

Inch by inch

Stay in line, never dance alone

Stand close

Holding on to a bag of bones

Worming your way into my life

Little by little, we're getting too tight

Taking me over and stealing my soul

Oh, oh, stealing my soul

Step by step

Step by step

WHAT THE WHAT

We goin' out tomorrow, gonna do it right

Celebrate the fact that we're still alive

In that case, we better make it tonight

I'll drink for us all and you can drive

My mojo working and I paid my dues

I'm gonna break out my dancing shoes

I'm gonna do what I do best

I'm gonna spend my money till there's nothing left

So bad, I been so bad, I been so bad

What the what happened to you last night?

Every bar in London had an old joanna

And cats who could play rock and roll piano

No-one cared a few teeth gone missing

Everybody got up to sing

Five string guitars, and old skin drums

On a river boat shuffle, bunch a-drunken bums

No way of knowing when the temperature dropped

The moment was hot, there was no time to stop

So bad, we were so bad, we been so bad

What the what happened to you last night?

Long tall Sally and short fat Dave

Arms and legs going every-ways

They didn't care about shape or size

The fever of love was in their eyes

Called every bad name under the sun

They did the same to us, we was just having fun

He went up and she went down

It didn't really matter, they just went to town

So bad, they were so bad, they been so bad

What the what happened to you last night?

I was so bad, I been so bad, I been so bad

What the what happened to you last night?

THE LONG WAY ROUND

You can't get me down

I got the 'Things are looking up' blues

I know it happens

But it never sticks to my shoes

It's been a long time coming

I never thought it would last

I think about the future

Who knows what might have happened in the past

Nothing is real

But it feels pretty good all the same

I know you from somewhere

But I can't remember your name

I don't need much space

But you don't have to step on my toes

I was looking over there

And all the time it was under my nose

Yeah, I should have known

Which way the wind was blowin'

I was facing the wrong way

Always taking the long way round

Never looking the right way

Always going the wrong way

Always taking the long way round

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Ah, ah, ah, ah

Never looking the right way

Always going the wrong way

Always taking the long way round

You can reel me in slowly and surely

But there's a catch to this deal

It's not over yet

I get one more spin of the wheel

I promised myself

I would not get trashed again

But the way I'm feeling right now

That promise is going down the drain, yeah

I, I should have known

You were coming and I was gone

I was facing the wrong way

Always taking the long way round

THE POWER OF THE MOON

Who am I to say things may not all be what they seem?

And how can I disturb the facts of life?

And who am I to speak about the fabric of a dream?

And who's to say that dreams cannot be right?

It's the power of the moon

The power

Who am I to talk about the lunacy at hand?

Burnishing the madness in my head

And who am I to mention that before it all began

Everything I heard was never said at all?

It's the power of the moon

The power

Ah, it's a green balloon that travels so benign

On a path that goes along the shoreline

Ah, it's a green balloon that travels so benign

It's the only thing that's keeping me in line

Oh, the tides will rise and then they fall on time

And everything on earth begins to rhyme

REMISSION POSSIBLE

(Instrumental)

MAN ALIVE

(Eye-eye-eye)

(Ooh-ooh)

Sun sets in the west (Ooh-ooh)

Boy has gone to rest (Ooh-ooh)

Mama clutch her breast (Ooh-ooh)

All creatures great and small

Graze on blood-red soil

And grass that grows on city streets

It's been a quiet town

Since the juice went down

Now something's washed up on the beach

A man alive

After some thousands of years

Fewer than the smallest imaginable intake of breath

The wisest guys in the evolution of humanity became extinct

Mother Nature loves a vacuum

And so, the Earth was cleansed

In no time at all

All creatures great and small

Graze on blood-red soil

And grass that grows on city streets

It's been a quiet town

Until the word got round

That something washed up on the beach

A man alive

A man alone

Washed up on the beach

Just a man

Whoosh...

AND THE ADDRESS

(Instrumental)

DANCING IN MY SLEEP

I'm flying through the night

To the rhythm of the street

I don't know what happen, babE

But my blood rise every time we meet

I come alive

I get the feeling

Everything will be alright

Lights are pure magenta

There's something going down

I don't know what happen, babe

I'm in the right place, my feet don't touch the ground

To my surprise

I'm all alone

Dancing in my sleep

Oh yeah, dancing in my sleep

Don't you love my fancy footwork

I ain't no Fred Astaire

I can tap into your life, babe

I can take you anywhere

I come alive

Oh, yes I do

I get the feeling, ah-ha-ah

I come alive, oh-woo-ooh-ooh

When I get the feeling, I'm dancing in my sleep

Dancing in my sleep

I'm dancing in my sleep

I'm dancing in my sleep

DEEP PURPLE: Infinite (2017)

 

1. Time for Bedlam

2. Hip Boots

3. All I Got Is You

4. One Night in Vegas

5. Get Me Outta Here

6. The Surprising

7. Johnny's Band

8. On Top of the World

9. Birds of Prey

10. Roadhouse Blues

TIME FOR BEDLAM

Descending the cold steps of the institution for the politically insane 

Never to be seen again 

Saying farewell to daylight 

From henceforth I shall rot in a stinking bed of wet straw 

Right from the ashes of life I learned to behave 

What to believe, what not to say, from cradle to grave 

Ah, like a good little slave 

Sucking my milk from the venomous tit of the state 

This clearly designed to suppress every thought of escape 

Ah, I surrender to fate 

No pity, no pity 

Don't want no pity for me in this filthy cell 

I'll see you in hell 

See you in hell 

Frozen in time, I'm a specimen pinned to my throne 

With an army of butterflies pilloried placid and prone 

Ah, we were never alone 

No pity, no pity 

Don't want no pity for me in this filthy cell 

I'll see you in hell 

After centuries of living with nothing but my convictions 

Broken fingers clawing through the walls of my incarceration 

Escaping the clutches of eternal damnation 

I was justified

HIP BOOTS

You can bury me up to my knees in shit 

Or anything else, I don't mind one bit 

You think I'm gonna drown but you're wrong 

'Cause man, I got my hip boots on 

Get your ass in the water and swim like me 

It's the only way you're going free 

If you blink an eye I'm down the road and gone 

It's plain to see that I don't belong 

I got my hip boots on 

And it's so cool 

It's beautiful 

Those rusty chains can't tie me down 

'Cause man, I got my hip boots on 

I never give it up 

Tear it up 

Rip it up 

I can't get enough 

Oh yeah 

Oh yeah 

Oh yeah 

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah 

Before that shit starts going down 

When I hear the dogs I go to ground 

That's me high steppin' through the swamp 

That's why I got these hip boots on 

I got my hip boots on 

And it's so cool 

It's beautiful 

And it's so cool

ALL I GOT IS YOU

Oh yeah, I see the way you roll your eyes, the way your purse your lips

Throw your stuff into a suitcase, put your hands upon your hips

I'm not moved by your evil glare, the way you toss your hair

You make stupid accusations by which time I've lost the thread

Sometimes I wonder how it is you get to piss me off this much

I may be heavier handed and I like the tender touch

You moan and groan about me staying out and drinking with the guys

I bet I bring them home, try this one for size

Something awfully wrong with this deal babe

Any fool could see it's true

Can't you understand how I feel, babe?

You got me, but all I got is you

I guess I just don't have it in me to keep you satisfied

To be honest with you babe, I'm only in it for the ride

And you may never bring yourself to take me as I am

But in case you hadn't noticed, I don't give a fucking damn!

ONE NIGHT IN VEGAS

Yeah

Ooh, what a night it was, the night I fell apart

I begged a lover not to go away but she went and broke my heart

I found myself in a Vegas bar with a whole new set of friends

Seen through the bottom of an empty glass

Like looking through a fisheye lens

One night in Vegas

It was a morning of revenge for what I did the night before

Which accompanied me to the following day to even up the score

In a stone cold sober mood next afternoon at ten

I found my tongue back in my mouth

I told myself not to drink again

One night in Vegas

I was three sheets to the wind

The three shots did me in

Three angels there above me

As I was lying on the floor

I knew I should have run for the hills

But I still wanted more

I don't remember the chapel but I woke up with a wife

I looked at her, she looked at me and now we're hooked for life

How strange the situation, it's now been thirty years

Since I met that girl in Vegas

Would you believe it, and she's still here

One night in Vegas, oh yeah

I gotta tell you, one night in Vegas

Hey, one night in Vegas

Oh yeah

GET ME OUTTA HERE

Well I'm out of work, out of hope

I got mouths to feed and I'm stony broke

The rum's all gone and I could sure use a smoke

I can't help thinking how it used to be

Everybody danced till a quarter to three

Living on the wild side, getting our kicks

How'd I ever end up in a place like this?

Oh, get me outta here

Somebody get me outta here

Three blind bastards parked on a bench

One said to the other, hey who's your friend?

That's how it started way back when

A shit-load of ways to communicate

One hates love, another loves hate

And now you're gonna tell me there's no end in sight

And next thing you know we're getting ready to fight

Oh yeah, get me outta here

Get me outta here

I got to tell you that I'm feeling rough

Been good to know you but I've had enough

You say pull yourself together and get a grip

You can stick it up your jacksie 'cause I'm jumping ship

Oh yeah, get me out of here

That's it away, oh yeah

Outta here

Adiós, muchachos

Au revoir

Outta here

Auf wiedersehen, my darling

Get me outta here

Auf wiedersehen, mama

See you, suckers

THE SURPRISING

It wasn't quite the curse of Tutankhamen

Or the kiss of death from Judas in the night

And it felt so far beyond the blue horizon

Tempting me with transports of delight

And then the devil took my hand and said

Come along with me

Oh, there I was, wide awake and dreaming

Reaching out for something in the sky

But I could not control that trembling feeling

Everything I want is slipping by

Oh, and the devil took my hand and said

Something you should see

Come along with me

I never knew what happened to my nightmare

Everything went dark that August day

And the eclipse was on the other side of somewhere

But I was on the upside of afraid

And then an angel took my hand and said

Come along with me (Come along with me)

JOHNNY'S BAND

Ooh, Johnny Jones woke up one day from dreaming

Told Bill the bass and soon they had a plan

He passed it on to Pete and Crazy Benny

Ah, suddenly they had a band

Hey Johnny's Band

He sure knew how to work up a crowd

The sound that they made put the rest in the shade

And the word soon got around

They played every dance hall in the city

Wrote themselves a cool forty-five

With a bullet it shot to the top of the pops

Oh man it was good to be alive

Hail Johnny's Band

Hear them on the radio

Smash after smash now they're rolling in the cash

Whatever they touch turns to gold

Poor old Benny went down with the hard stuff

And Pete joined a cult in LA

Johnny and Bill started going downhill

And the crowds began melting away

Yeah, but hey, it's Johnny's Band

Playing Saturday nights at The Crown

The beards may be long and the money's long gone

It's a wonder that they're still around

But hey, it's Johnny's Band

Playing all those wonderful songs

Making the rounds with that old fashioned sound

And here we are singing along

ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Hot summer night, the working girls were on their way back home

It was getting late so I tagged along, couldn't let them walk alone

I followed them up some greasy steps to a rooftop in the sky

No walls around, just a sea of stars, my throat was getting dry

Everyone could feel the heat that's why we all disrobed

Our clothes and inhibitions went off flying 'cross the globe

Dancing crazy, getting loose and closer to the edge

I could feel my blood was up and it was pounding in my head

So there I was, just me and the girls

Under the moonlight on top of the world

Oh yeah, on top of the world

So there I was, just me and the girls

Under the moonlight on top of the world

As things were dying down we retreated from the precipice

I lay beside the most beautiful girl in the universe

Her name was Venus in Heaven

She fed me rice and offered me wine

I accepted ambrosia and nectar

From an amber goddess

I collapsed between the thighs of Morpheus

Next thing I felt was a sharp pain at sunrise

My mouth was open and full of rice

As I managed to prize open one of my eyes

I saw Luigi the cockroach carry off his prize

And there lay Venus still sprawled out and naked for sure

But not quite what she was the night before

I made my excuses and left through the door

Stepped into space at the twentieth floor

And that's why I don't like heights no more

BIRDS OF PREY

Alarm bells ringing clear

Break the calm before the fall

Bad news travels at the speed of flight

Good news not at all

And here we are again

Playing endless games of war

Birds of prey

Without a word of warning

We dive in to attack

Vengeful and self-righteous

We turn the blue sky black

And a wretched few escape

They'll be forever looking back

At our sacrifice

And the golden sun is rising

At the dawn of a beautiful day

In the name of all that's holy

In the name of history

In the face of life and nature

We are driven by belief

Our faith a crumbling fortress

Once perfect and sublime

Will fail again and rise again

Until the death

Until the death of time

ROADHOUSE BLUES

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel

Hmm, keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel

Yeah, we're going to the roadhouse

We're gonna have a real good time, oh yeah

Back at the roadhouse, some bungalows

Well, back at the roadhouse they got some bungalows

And that's for the people

Who like to go down slow

Let it roll, baby, roll

Let it roll, baby, roll

Let it roll, baby, roll

Let it roll, yeah, all night long

Hey, Stevie!

What's up?

Oh, ashen lady, hmm, ashen lady

You gotta give up your vows, said you gotta give up your vows

You got to save our city

You got to save our city

Right now, baby, right now

I woke up this morning, I got myself a beer

I woke up this morning, I got myself a beer

The future's uncertain and the end is always near

Well, let it roll, baby, roll

Let it roll, baby, roll

Let it roll, baby, roll

All night long

Let it roll, roll, roll

Let it roll, baby, roll

You gotta eat your bone

Eat your bean

You got a gunky tune

You got a honky-tonk

You gotta linger on

Linger on a ling

You gotta ease back

You gotta ease back

BOB DYLAN: Rough and Rowdy (2020)

1. I Contain Multitudes

2. False Prophet

3. My Own Version of You

4. I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You

5. Black Rider

6. Goodbye Jimmy Reed

7. Mother of Muses

8. Crossing the Rubicon

9. Key West (Philosopher Pirate)

10. Murder Most Foul

I CONTAIN MULTITUDES

Today, tomorrow, and yesterday, too

The flowers are dyin' like all things do

Follow me close, I'm going to Bally-Na-Lee

I'll lose my mind if you don't come with me

I fuss with my hair, and I fight blood feuds

I contain multitudes

Got a tell-tale heart, like Mr. Poe

Got skeletons in the walls of people you know

I'll drink to the truth and the things we said

I'll drink to the man that shares your bed

I paint landscapes, and I paint nudes

I contain multitudes

A red Cadillac and a black mustache

Rings on my fingers that sparkle and flash

Tell me, what's next? What shall we do?

Half my soul, baby, belongs to you

I rollick and I frolic with all the young dudes

I contain multitudes

I'm just like Anne Frank, like Indiana Jones

And them British bad boys, The Rolling Stones

I go right to the edge, I go right to the end

I go right where all things lost are made good again

I sing the songs of experience like William Blake

I have no apologies to make

Everything’s flowing all at the same time

I live on a boulevard of crime

I drive fast cars and I eat fast foods

I contain multitudes

Pink pedad-pushers red blue jeans

All the pretty maids and all the old queens

All the old queens grom all my past lives

I carry four pistols and two large knives

I’m a man of contradictions, I’m a man of many moods

I contain multitudes

You greedy old wolf I’ll show you my heart

But not all of it only the hateful part

I’ll sell you down the river

I’ll put a price on your head

What more can I tell you?

I sleep with life and death in the same bed

Get lost madame, get up off my knee

Keep your mouth away from me

I’ll keep the path open, the path in my mind

I’ll see to it that there’s no love left behind

I’ll play Beethoven’s sonatas and Chopin preludes

I conatin multitudes

FALSE PROPHET

Another day without end - another ship going out

Another day of anger - bitterness and doubt

I know how it happened - I saw it begin

I opened my heart to the world and the world came in

Hello Mary Lou - Hello Miss Pearl

My fleet footed guides from the underworld

No stars in the sky shine brighter than you

You girls mean business and I do too

I’m the enemy of treason - the enemy of strife

I’m the enemy of the unlived meaningless life

I ain’t no false prophet - I just know what I know

I go where only the lonely can go

I’m first among equals - second to none

I’m last of the best - you can bury the rest

Bury ’em naked with their silver and gold

Put ’em six feet under and then pray for their souls

What are you lookin’ at - there’s nothing to see

Just a cool breeze encircling me

Let’s walk in the garden - so far and so wide

We can sit in the shade by the fountain side

You don’t know me darlin’ - you never would guess

I’m nothing like my ghostly appearance would suggest

I ain’t no False Prophet - I just said what I said

I’m here to bring vengeance on somebody’s head

I’ve searched the world over for the Holy Grail

I sing songs of love - I sing songs of betrayal

Don’t care what I drink - don’t care what I eat

I climbed a mountain of swords on my bare feet

Put out your hand - there’s nothin’ to hold

Open your mouth - I’ll stuff it with gold

Oh you poor Devil - look up if you will

The City of God is there on the hill

Hello stranger - Hello and goodbye

You rule the land but so do I

You lusty old mule - you got a poisoned brain

I’m gonna’ marry you to a ball and chain

You know darlin’ the kind of life that I live

When your smile meets my smile - somethings got to give

I ain’t no false prophet - I’m nobody’s bride

Can’t remember when I was born and I forgot when I died

MY OWN VERSION OF YOU

All through the summers, into January

I've been visiting morgues and monasteries

Looking for the necessary body parts

Limbs and livers and brains and hearts

I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do

I wanna create my own version of you

Well, it must be the winter of my discontent

I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went

They talk all night and they talk all day

Not for a minute do I believe anything they say

I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen

You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean

I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando

Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando

If I do it upright and put the head on straight

I'll be saved by the creature that I create

I'll get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice

I don't gamble with cards and I don't shoot no dice

Can you look at my face with your sightless eyes?

Can you cross your heart and hope to die?

I'll bring someone to life, someone for real

Someone who feels the way that I feel

I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind

I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind

I say to the willow tree, "Don't weep for me"

I'm saying to hell to all things that I used to be

Well, I get into trouble, then I hit the wall

No place to turn, no place at all

I'll pick a number between a-one and two

And I ask myself, "What would Julius Caesar do?"

I will bring someone to life in more ways than one

Don't matter how long it takes, it'll be done when it's done

I'm gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell

Like Liberace, like St. John the Apostle

I'll play every number that I can play

I'll see you maybe on Judgment Day

After midnight, if you still wanna meet

I'll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street

Two doors down, not that far a walk

I'll hear your footsteps, you won't have to knock

I'll bring someone to life, balance the scales

I'm not gonna get involved any insignificant details

You can bring it to St. Peter

You can bring it to Jerome

You can bring it all the way over

Bring it all the way home

Bring it to the corner where the children play

You can bring it to me on a silver tray

I'll bring someone to life, spare no expense

Do it with decency and common sense

Can you tell me what it means, to be or not to be?

You won't get away with fooling me

Can you help me walk that moonlight mile?

Can you give me the blessings of your smile?

I'll bring someone to life, use all of my powers

Do it in the dark, in the wee, small hours

I can see the history of the whole human race

It's all right there, it's carved into your face

Should I break it all down? Should I fall on my knees?

Is there light at the end of the tunnel, can you tell me, please?

Stand over there by the cypress tree

Where the Trojan women and children were sold into slavery

Long before the first Crusade

Way back before England or America were made

Step right into the burning hell

Where some of the best-known enemies of mankind dwell

Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his ax

See the raw hide lash rip the skin from their backs

Got the right spirit, you can feel it, you can hear it

You've got what they call the immortal spirit

You can feel it all night, you can feel it in the morn'

It creeps in your body the day you were born

One strike of lightning is all that I need

And a blast of electricity that runs at top speed

Shimmy your ribs, I'll stick in the knife

Gonna jumpstart my creation to life

I wanna bring someone to life, turn back the years

Do it with laughter and do it with tears

I'VE MADE UP MY MIND TO GIVE MYSELF TO YOU

I'm sittin' on my terrace, lost in the stars

Listening to the sounds of the sad guitars

Been thinking it all over and I've thought it all through

I've made up my mind to give myself to you

I saw the first fall of snow

I saw the flowers come and go

I don't think that anyone ever else ever knew

I've made up my mind to give myself to you

I'm giving myself to you, I am

From Salt Lake City to Birmingham

From East L.A. to San Antone

I don't think I can bear to live my life alone

My eye is like a shooting star

It looks at nothin' here or there, looks at nothin' near or far

No one ever told me, it's just something I knew

I've made up my mind to give myself to you

If I had the wings of a snow white dove

I'd preach the gospel, the gospel of love

A love so real, a love so true

I've made up my mind to give myself to you

Take me out traveling, you're a traveling man

Show me something I don't understand

I'm not what I was, things aren't what they were

I'll go far away from home with her

I traveled a long road of despair

I met no other traveler there

Lot of people gone, lot of people I knew

I've made up my mind to give myself to you

Well, my heart's like a river, a river that sings

Just takes me a while to realize things

I've seen the sunrise, I've seen the dawn

I'll lay down beside you when everyone's gone

I've traveled from the mountains to the sea

I hope that the gods go easy with me

I knew you'd say yes, I'm saying it too

I've made up my mind to give myself to you

BLACK RIDER

Black rider, black rider, you've been living too hard

Been up all night, have to stay on your guard

The path that you're walking, too narrow to walk

Every step of the way, another stumbling block

The road that you're on, same road that you know

Just not the same as it was a minute ago

Black rider, black rider, you've seen it all

You've seen the great world and you've seen the small

You fell into the fire and you're eating the flame

Better seal up your lips if you wanna stay in the game

Be reasonable, mister, be honest, be fair

Let all of your earthly thoughts be a prayer

Black rider, black rider, all dressed in black

I'm walking away, you try to make me look back

My heart is at rest, I'd like to keep it that way

I don't wanna fight, at least not today

Go home to your wife, stop visiting mine

One of these days I'll forget to be kind

Black rider, black rider, tell me when, tell me how

If there ever was a time, then let it be now

Let me go through, open the door

My soul is distressed, my mind is at war

Don't hug me, don't flatter me, don't turn on the charm

I'll take a sword and hack off your arm

Black rider, black rider, hold it right there

The size of your cock will get you nowhere

I'll suffer in silence, I'll not make a sound

Maybe I'll take the high moral ground

Some enchanted evening I'll sing you a song

Black rider, black rider, you've been on the job too long

GOODBYE JIMMY REED

I live on a street named after a Saint

Women in the churches wear powder and paint

Where the Jews, and Catholics, and the Muslims all pray

I can tell they're Proddie from a mile away

Goodbye Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Reed indeed

Give me that old time religion, it's just what I need

For thine is kingdom, the power, the glory

Go tell it on the mountain, go tell the real story

Tell it in that straightforward, puritanical tone

In the mystic hours when a person's alone

Goodbye Jimmy Reed, godspeed

Thump on the Bible, proclaim a creed

You won't amount to much, the people all said

'Cause I didn't play guitar behind my head

Never pandered, never acted proud

Never took off my shoes, throw 'em in the crowd

Goodbye Jimmy Reed, goodbye, goodnight

Put a jewel in your crown and I put out the lights

They threw everything at me, everything in the book

I had nothing to fight with but a butcher's hook

They had no pity, they never lend a hand

I can't sing a song that I don't understand

Goodbye Jimmy Reed, goodbye, good luck

I can't play the record 'cause my needle got stuck

Transparent woman in a transparent dress

Suits you well, I must confess

I'll break open your grapes, I'll suck out the juice

I need you like my head needs a noose

Goodbye Jimmy Reed, goodbye and so long

I thought I could resist her but I was so wrong

God be with you, brother dear

If you don't mind me asking what brings you here?

Oh, nothing much, I'm just looking for the man

Need to see where he's lying in this lost land

Goodbye Jimmy Reed, and everything within ya

Can't you hear me calling from down in Virginia

MOTHER OF MUSES

Mother of Muses sing for me

Sing of the mountains and the deep dark sea

Sing of the lakes and the nymphs of the forest

Sing your hearts out, all your women of the chorus

Sing of honor and fate and glory be

Mother of Muses sing for me

Mother of Muses sing for my heart

Sing of a love too soon to depart

Sing of the heroes who stood alone

Whose names are engraved on tablets of stone

Who struggled with pain so the world could go free

Mother of Muses sing for me

Sing of Sherman, Montgomery, and Scott

And of Zhukov, and Patton, and the battles they fought

Who cleared the path for Presley to sing

Who carved the path for Martin Luther King

Who did what they did and they went on their way

Man, I could tell their stories all day

I'm falling in love with Calliope

She don't belong to anyone, why not give her to me?

She's speaking to me, speaking with her eyes

I've grown so tired of chasing lies

Mother of Muses, wherever you are

I've already outlived my life by far

Mother of Muses, unleash your wrath

Things I can't see, they're blocking my path

Show me your wisdom, tell me my fate

Put me upright, make me walk straight

Forge my identity from the inside out

You know what I'm talking about

Take me to the river, release your charms

Let me lay down a while in your sweet, loving arms

Wake me, shake me, free me from sin

Make me invisible, like the wind

Got a mind that ramble, got a mind that roam

I'm travelin' light and I'm a-slow coming home

CROSSING THE RUBICON

I crossed the Rubicon on the 14th day

Of the most dangerous month of the year

At the worst time, at the worst place

That's all I seem to hear

I got up early

So I can greet the goddess of the dawn

I've painted my wagon, abandoned all hope

And I crossed the Rubicon

Well, the Rubicon is a red river

Goin' gently as she flows

Redder than your ruby lips

And the blood that flows from the rose

Three miles north of purgatory

One step from the great beyond

I prayed to the cross, I kissed the girls

And I crossed the Rubicon

What are these dark days I see?

In this world so badly bent

I cannot redeem the time

The time so idly spent

How much longer can it last?

How long can it go on?

I embrace my love, put down my hair

And I crossed the Rubicon

I can feel the bones beneath my skin

And they're tremblin' with rage

I'll make your wife a widow

You'll never see old age

Show me one good man in sight

That the sun shines down upon

I pawned my watch, I paid my debts

And I crossed the Rubicon

Put my hide up on a hill

Where some happiness I'll find

If I survive, then let me love

Let the hour be mine

Take the high road, take the low

Take any one you're on

I poured the cup, I passed it along

And I crossed the Rubicon

Well, you defiled the most lovely flowers

In all her womanhood

Others can be tolerant

Others can be good

I'll cut you up with a crooked knife

Lord, and I'll miss you when you're gone

I stood between Heaven and Earth

And I crossed the Rubicon

You won't find any happiness here

No happiness or joy

Go back to the gutter, try your luck

Find you some nice pretty boy

Tell me how many men I need

And who can I count upon

I strapped my belt, I buttoned my coat

And I crossed the Rubicon

I feel the holy spirit inside

See the light that freedom gives

I believe it's in the reach of

Every man who lives

Keep as far away as possible

It's darkest 'fore the dawn (Oh Lord)

I turned the key, I broke it off

And I crossed the Rubicon

Mona, baby, are you still in my mind?

I truly believe that you are

Couldn't be anybody else but you

Who's come with me this far

The killing frost is on the ground

And the autumn leaves are gone

I lit the torch, I looked to the east

And I crossed the Rubicon

KEY WEST (PHILOSOPHER PIRATE)

McKinley hollered, McKinley squalled

Doctor said, "McKinley, death is on the wall

‪Say it to me, if you got something to confess"

‪I heard all about it, he was going down slow

‪I heard it on the wireless radio

‪From down in the boondocks way down in Key West

‪I’m searching for love, for inspiration

‪On that pirate radio station

‪Coming out of Luxembourg and Budapest

‪Radio signal, clear as can be

‪I'm so deep in love that I can hardly see

‪Down on the flatlands, way down in Key West

‪Key West is the place to be

‪If you're looking for immortality

‪Stay on the road, follow the highway sign

‪Key West is fine and fair

‪If you lost your mind, you will find it there

‪Key West is on the horizon line

‪I was born on the wrong side of the railroad track

‪Like Ginsberg, Corso and Kerouac

‪Like Louis and Jimmy and Buddy and all the rest

‪Well, it might not be the thing to do

‪But I'm sticking with you through and through

‪Down in the flatlands, way down in Key West

‪I got both my feet planted square on the ground

‪Got my right hand high with the thumb down

‪Such is life, such is happiness

‪Hibiscus flowers, they grow everywhere here

‪If you wear one, put it behind your ear

‪Down in the bottom, way down in Key West

‪Key West is the place to go

‪Down by the Gulf of Mexico

‪Beyond the sea, beyond the shifting sand

‪Key West is the gateway key

‪To innocence and purity

‪Key West, Key West is the enchanted land

‪I've never lived in the land of Oz

‪Or wasted my time with an unworthy cause

‪It’s hot down here, and you can't be overdressed

‪Tiny blossoms of a toxic plant

‪They can make you dizzy, I'd like to help you but I can't

‪Down in the flatlands, way down in Key West

‪Well, the Fishtail Palms, and the orchid trees

‪They can give you that bleeding heart disease

‪People tell me I ought to try a little tenderness

‪On Amelia Street, Bayview Park

‪Walking in the shadows after dark

‪Down under, way down in Key West

‪I played Gumbo Limbo spirituals

‪I know all the Hindu rituals

‪People tell me that I'm truly blessed

Bougainvillea blooming in the summer, in the spring

Winter here is an unknown thing

Down in the flat lands, way down in Key West

Key West is under the sun, under the radar, under the gun

You stay to the left, and then you lean to the right

Feel the sunlight on your skin, and the healing virtues of the wind

Key West, Key West is the land of light

Wherever I travel, wherever I roam

I'm not that far from the convent home

I do what I think is right, what I think is best

Mystery Street off of Mallory Square

Truman had his White House there

East bound, West bound, way down in Key West

Twelve years old, they put me in a suit

Forced me to marry a prostitute

There were gold fringes on her wedding dress

That's my story, but not where it ends

She's still cute, and we're still friends

Down on the bottom, way down in Key West

I play both sides against the middle

Trying to pick up that pirate radio signal

I heard the news, I heard your last request

Fly around, my pretty little Miss

I don't love nobody, give me a kiss

Down on the bottom, way down in Key West

Key West is the place to be

If you're looking for immortality

Key West is paradise divine

Key West is fine and fair

If you lost your mind, you'll find it there

Key West is on the horizon line

MURDER MOST FOUL

‘Twas a dark day in Dallas - November ‘63

The day that will live on in infamy

President Kennedy was riding high

A good day to be living and a good day to die

Being led to the slaughter like a sacrificial lamb

Say wait a minute boys, do you know who I am?

Of course we do, we know who you are

Then they blew off his head when he was still in the car

Shot down like a dog in broad daylight

‘Twas a matter of timing and the timing was right

You got unpaid debts and we’ve come to collect

We’re gon’ kill you with hatred and without any respect

We’ll mock you and shock you, we’ll grin in your face

We’ve already got someone here to take your place

The day that they blew out the brains of the king

Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing

It happened so quickly - so quick by surprise

Right there in front of everyone’s eyes

Greatest magic trick ever under the sun

Perfectly executed, skillfully done

Wolfman, oh wolfman, oh wolfman, howl

Rub a dub dub – it’s murder most foul

Hush li’l children, you’ll soon understand

The Beatles are coming they’re gonna hold your hand

Slide down the bannister, go get your coat

Ferry ‘cross the Mersey and go for the throat

There’s three bums comin’ all dressed in rags

Pick up the pieces and lower the flags

I’m going to Woodstock, it’s the Aquarian Age

Then I’ll go over to Altamont and sit near the stage

Put your head out the window, let the good times roll

There’s a party going on behind the grassy knoll

Stack up the bricks and pour the cement

Don’t say Dallas don’t love you, Mr. President

Put your foot in the tank and step on the gas

Try to make it to the triple underpass

Black face singer - white face clown

Better not show your faces after the sun goes down

I’m in the red-light district like a cop on the beat

Living in a nightmare on Elm Street

When you’re down on deep Ellum put your money in your shoe

Don’t ask what your country can do for you

Cash on the barrel head, money to burn

Dealey Plaza, make a left hand turn

I’m going to the crossroads, gonna flag a ride

That’s the place where Faith, Hope and Charity died

Shoot ‘em while he runs, boy, shoot ‘em while you can

See if you can shoot the Invisible Man

Goodbye, Charlie, goodbye Uncle Sam

Frankly, Miss Scarlet, I don’t give a damn

What is the truth and where did it go

Ask Oswald and Ruby - they oughta know

Shut your mouth, says the wise old owl

Business is business and it’s murder most foul

Tommy can you hear me, I’m the Acid Queen

I’m ridin’ in a long black Lincoln limousine

Ridin’ in the back seat, next to my wife

Heading straight on into the afterlife

I’m leaning to the left, got my head in her lap

Oh Lord, I’ve been led into some kind of a trap

We ask no quarter, no quarter do we give

We’re right down the street from the street where you live

They mutilated his body and took out his brain

What more could they do, they piled on the pain

But his soul was not there where it was supposed to be at

For the last fifty years they’ve been searching for that

Freedom, oh freedom, freedom over me

Hate to tell you, Mister, but only dead men are free

Send me some loving - tell me no lie

Throw the gun in the gutter and walk on by

Wake Up, Little Suzie, let’s go for a drive

Cross the Trinity River, let’s keep hope alive

Turn the radio on, don’t touch the dials

Parkland Hospital’s only six more miles

You got me Dizzy Miss Lizzy, you filled me with lead

That magic bullet of yours has gone to my head

I’m just a patsy like Patsy Cline

I never shot anyone from in front or behind

Got blood in my eyes, got blood in my ear

I’m never gonna make it to the New Frontier

Zapruder’s film, I’ve seen that before

Seen it thirty three times, maybe more

It’s vile and deceitful - it’s cruel and it’s mean

Ugliest thing that you ever have seen

They killed him once, they killed him twice

Killed him like a human sacrifice

The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son,

The age of the anti-Christ has just only begun.”

Air Force One coming in through the gate

Johnson sworn in at two thirty-eight

Let me know when you decide to throw in the towel

It is what it is and it’s murder most foul

What’s New Pussycat - wha’d I say

I said the soul of a nation been torn away

It’s beginning to go down into a slow decay

And that it’s thirty-six hours past judgment day

Wolfman Jack, he’s speaking in tongues

He’s going on and on at the top of his lungs

Play me a song, Mr. Wolfman Jack

Play it for me in my long Cadillac

Play that Only The Good Die Young

Take me to the place where Tom Dooley was hung

Play St. James Infirmary in the court of King James

If you want to remember, better write down the names

Play Etta James too, play I’d Rather Go Blind

Play it for the man with the telepathic mind

Play John Lee Hooker play Scratch My Back

Play it for that strip club owner named Jack

Guitar Slim - Goin’ Down Slow

Play it for me and for Marilyn Monroe

And please, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

Play it for the First Lady, she ain’t feeling that good

Play Don Henley - play Glenn Frey

Take it to the Limit and let it go by

And play it for Carl Wilson, too

Lookin’ far, far away down Gower Avenue

Play Tragedy, play Twilight Time

Take Me Back to Tulsa to the scene of the crime

Play another one and Another One Bites the Dust

Play the Old Rugged Cross and in G-d We Trust

Ride the Pink Horse down that Long, Lonesome Road

Stand there and wait for his head to explode

Play Mystery Train for Mr. Mystery

The man who fell down dead, like a rootless tree

Play it for the Reverend, play it for the Pastor

Play it for the dog that’s got no master

Play Oscar Peterson and play Stan Getz

Play Blue Sky, play Dickie Betts

Play Art Pepper, play Thelonious Monk

Charlie Parker and all that junk

All that junk and All That Jazz

Play something for The Birdman of Alcatraz

Play Buster Keaton play Harold Lloyd

Play Bugsy Siegel play Pretty Boy Floyd

Play all the numbers, play all the odds

Play Cry Me A River for the Lord of the Gods

Play number nine, play number six

Play it for Lindsey and Stevie Nicks

Play Nat King Cole, play Nature Boy

Play Down in the Boondocks for Terry Malloy

Play It Happened One Night and One Night of Sin

There’s twelve million souls that are listening in

Play the Merchant of Venice, play the merchants of death

Play Stella by Starlight for Lady Macbeth

Don’t worry Mr. President, help’s on the way

Your brothers are comin’, there’ll be hell to pay

Brothers? What brothers? What’s this about hell?

Tell ‘em we’re waitin’- keep coming - we’ll get ‘em as well

Love Field is where his plane touched down

But it never did get back up off of the ground

Was a hard act to follow, second to none

They killed him on the altar of the Rising Sun

Play Misty for me and that Old Devil Moon

Play Anything Goes and Memphis in June

Play Lonely at the Top and Lonely Are the Brave

Play it for Houdini spinning around in his grave

Play Jelly Roll Morton, play Lucille

Play Deep in a Dream and play Drivin’ Wheel

Play Moonlight Sonata in F sharp

And Key to the Highway by the king of the harp

Play Marchin’ Through Georgia and Dumbarton’s drum

Play Darkness and death will come when it comes

Play Love Me or Leave Me by the great Bud Powell

Play the Blood Stained Banner - play Murder Most Foul