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( Are You ) The One That I've Been Waiting For?
I've felt you coming girl, as you drew near I knew you'd
find me, cause I longed you here Are you my desitiny Is this ....
Abattoir Blues
The sun is high up in the sky and I’m in
my car
Drifting down into the abattoir
Do you see what I see, ....
Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore
Once there came a storm in the form of a girl It
blew to pieces my snug little world Sometimes I swear I can still ....
All Tomorrow's Parties
And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties
A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties And where ....
And No More Shall We Part
And no more shall we part It will no longer be necessary
And no more will I say, dear heart I am alone and she ....
As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
As I sat sadly by her side At the window through the
glass She stroked a kitten in her lap And we watched the world ....
Babe I'm On Fire
Father says it, mother says it Sister says it, brother says it
Uncle says it, Auntie says it Everyone at the party says Babe, I'm ....
Babe, I Got You Bad
Oh babe, I've got you bad, Dreaming blood-wet dreams Only mad men
have; Baby, I got you bad, I wish to God I never had ....
Black Betty
Look-a look-a yonder [3x] Well the sun done gone The captain can't
hold her [3x] The way I do now Ada got a gold mine ....
Black Crow King
Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm I am the black crow king Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm
I am the black crow king Keeper of the nodding corn Bam! Bam! ....
Black Hair
Last night my kisses were banked in black hair And in my
bed, my lover, her hair was midnight black And all her mystery dwelled ....
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Bline Lemon Jefferson is a-coming. Tap tap tappin with his cane. Bline
Lemon Jefferson is a-coming. Tap tap tappin with his cane. His last ditch ....
Blue Bird
I got a blue bird A blue bird on my shoulder I
got a blue bird A blue bird on my shoulder I saw her ....
Bring It On
This garden that I built for you That you sit in now
and yearn I will never leave it, dear I could not bear to ....
Brompton Oratory
Up those stone steps I climb Hail this joyful day's return Into
its great shadowed vault I go Hail the Pentecostal morn The reading is ....
Brother, My Cup Is Empty
Brother, my cup is empty And I haven't got a penny For
to buy no more whiskey I have to go home I am the ....
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising And she'll
find that note that I left hanging on the door And she'll laugh ....
Cassiel's Song
We've come to bring you home Haven't we, Cassiel? To cast aside
your loss and all of your sadness And shuffle off that mortal coil ....
Christina The Astonishing
Christina the Astonishing Lived a long time ago SHe was stricken with
a seizure At the age of twenty-two They took her body in a ....
City Of Refuge
You better run You better run and run and run You better
run You better run You better run to the City of Refuge You ....
Come Into My Sleep
Now that mountains of meaningless words And oceans divide us; And we
each have our own set of stars To comfort and guide us... Come ....
Crow Jane
Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow Jane Horrors in her head That her
tongue dare not name She lives alone by the river The rolling rivers ....
Darker With The Day
As so with that, I thought I'd take a final walk The
tide of public opinion had started to abate The neighbours, bless them, had ....
Dead Man In My Bed
She sat in a wicker chair, her eyes they were downcast She
breathed in the future, by breathing out the past The die is done, ....
Deanna
O DEANNA O Deanna! O DEANNA Sweet Deanna! O DEANNA You know
you are my friend, yeah O DEANNA And I ain't down here for ....
Death Is Not The End
When you're sad and when you're lonely And you haven't got a
friend Just remember that death is not the end And all that you ....
Do You Love Me?
I found her on a night of fire and noise Wild bells
rang in a wild sky I knew from that moment on I'll love ....
Do You Love Me? (Part 2)
Onward! And Onward! And Onward I go Where no man before could
be bothered to go Till the soles of my shoes are shot full ....
Everything Must Converge
Everything must converge, In time And so it goes, by and by.
Everything must converge, Some day, Somehow, some way... Everything must converge, In time, ....
Far From Me
For you dear, I was born For you I was raised up
For you I've lived and for you I will die For you I ....
Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
Where is Mona? She's long gone Where is Mary? She's taken her
along But they haven't put their mittens on And there's fifteen feet of ....
Foi Na Cruz
Foi na cruz, foi na cruz Que um dia Meus pecados castigados
em Jesus Foi na cruz Que um dia Foi na cruz Love comes ....
Gates To The Garden
Past the ivy-covered windows of The Angel Down Athenaeum Lane to the
cathedral Through the churchyard I wandered Sat for a spell there and I ....
God Is In The House
We've laid the cables and the wires We've split the wood and
stoked the fires We've lit our town so there is no Place for ....
Good Good Day
See the little cloud up in the sky. It's a good good
day today. See the little cloud pass on by. It's a good good ....
Green Eyes
Kiss me again, rekiss me and kiss me Slip your frigid hands
beneath my shirt This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt Doesn't care ....
Hallelujah
On the first day of May I took to the road I'd
been staring out the window most of the morning I'd watched the rain ....
Hard On For Love
It is for she that the cherry bleeds That the moon is
steeped in mild nad blood That I steal like a robber From her ....
He Wants You
In his boat and through the dark he rowed Chained to oar
and the night and the wind that blowed Horribly 'round his ears Under ....
Henry Lee
Get down, get down, little Henry Lee And stay all night with
me You won't find a girl in this damn world That will compare ....
Here Comes The Sun
(Harrison) Here comes the sun, here comes the sun And I say
it's all right Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter Little ....
Hey Joe
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? Hey
Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm gonna shoot ....
I Had A Dream, Joe
I had a dream I had a dream I had a dream,
Joe I had a dream, Joe You were standing in the middle of ....
I Let Love In
Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins Came a-knocking on my door,
I let them in Darling, you're the punishment for all of my former ....
I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
Yeah, my baby left me this morning And I don't care now,
I don't care what the people say Yeah, I did everything that I ....
Idiot Prayer
They're taking me down, my friend And as they uskher me off
to my end Will I bid you adieu? Or will I be seeing ....
Into My Arms
I don't believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that
you do But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him ....
Jack The Ripper
I got a woman SHe rules my house with an iron fist
I got a woman She rules my house with an iron fist She ....
Jack's Shadow
They dragged Jack and his shadow From the hole And the bulb
that burned above him Did shine both day and night And his shadow ....
Jangling Jack
Jangling Jack Goes Yackety Yack Visits the home of the brave Hails
a fat yellow cab Jack wanna celebrate Jack wanna big drink Driver drops ....
Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
Jesus met the woman at the well Jesus met the woman at
the well And he told her, everything that she'd done, that she'd done ....
John Finn's Wife
Well the night was deep and the night was dark And I
was at the old dance-hall on the edge of town Some big ceremony ....
King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-mi-o
Mr. Frog went a-courting and he did ride With a sword and
a pistol by his side And he rode 'til he came to Miss ....
Knockin' On Joe
These chains of sorrow, they are heavy, it is true And these
locks cannot be broken, no, not with one thousand keys O Jailer, you ....
Knoxville Girl
I met a little girl in Knoxville, A town we all know
well. And every Sunday evenin', Out in her home I dwell. We went ....
Lament
I've seen your fairground hair, your seaside eyes Your vampire tooth, your
little truth Your tiny lies I know your trembling hand, your guilty prize ....
Lay Me Low
They're gonna lay me low (Lay me low) They're gonna sink me
in the snow They're gonna throw back their heads and crow When I ....
Let It Be
(Lennon/McCartney) When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes
to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be And in my hour ....
Lime Tree Arbour
The boatman calls from the lake A lone dives upon the water
I put my hand over hers Down in the lime tree arbour The ....
Little Empty Boat
You found me at some party, you thought I'd understand... You barreled
over to me, with a drink in each hand. I respect your beliefs ....
Little Ghost Song
Please forgive me (it's impossible to say) if I appear unkind (it's
impossible to know) but any fool can tell you, it's all in your ....
Little Janey's Gone
Janey's gone now and she won't be back no more. It was
only yesterday I went knocking on her door. Now she's gone away. We ....
Long Black Veil
She walks these hills in a long black veil She visits my
grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows but ....
Long Time Man
Yeah, they came to take me away Said I'd be sitting here
for the rest of my life But I don't really care - I ....
Love Letter
I hold this letter in my hand A plea, a petition, a
kind of prayer I hope it does as I have planned Losing her ....
Lovely Creature
There she stands, this lovely creature There she stands, there she stands
With her hair full of ribbons And green gloves on her hands So ....
Loverman
There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer?) There's a
devil waiting outside your door It is bucking and braying and pawing at ....
Lucy
Last night I lay trembling The moon it was low It was
the end of love Of misery and woe The suddenly above me Her ....
Mercy
I stood in the water In the middle month of winter My
camel skin was torture I was in a state of nature The wind, ....
Muddy Water
Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising Muddy water taking back the
land The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating Ain't no use ....
New Morning
One morn I awakened A new sun was shining The sky was
a Kingdom All covered in blood The moon and the stars Where the ....
Nobody's Baby Now
I've searched the holy books I tried to unravel the mystery of
Jesus Christ, the saviour I've read the poets and the analysts Searched through ....
O'malley's Bar
I am tall and I am thin Of an enviable hight And
I've been known to be quite handsome In a certain angle and in ....
Oh My Lord
I thought I'd take a walk today It's a mistake I sometimes
make My children lay asleep in bed My wife lay wide-awake I kissed ....
Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
I went out walking the other day The wind hung wet around
my neck My head it rung with screams and groans From the night ....
People Ain't No Good
People just ain't no good I think that's welll understood You can
see it everywhere you look People just ain't no good We were married ....
Red Right Hand
Take a litle walk to the edge of town Go across the
tracks Where the viaduct looms, like a bird of doom As it shifts ....
Right Now I'm A-roaming
When I get home, I'm gonna clean up my house; When I
get home, I'm gonna kick out that mouse; When I get home, I'm ....
Right Out Of Your Hand
Please forgive me If I appear unkind But any fool can tell
you It's all in your mind Down in the meadow The old lion ....
Rock Of Gibraltar
Let me say this to you I'll be steadfast and true And
my love will never falter The sea would crash about us The waves ....
Running Scared
Just running scared, each place we go So afraid, that he might
show Yeah, running scared, what would I do If he came back and ....
Sad Waters
Down the road I look and there runs Mary Hair of gold
and lips like cherries We go down to the river where the willows ....
Sail Away
I climbed the hill, lay in the grass A little dark-eyes girl
drifted past She said, "All the best has come, it could not last ....
Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree
O say goodbye to the little girl tree. O you know that
I must say goodbye To the little girl tree. This wall I built ....
Scum
Well, I lived with one Well, I lived with one, I lived
with two, I even lived with a third I wanna tell you about ....
She Fell Away
Once she lay open like a road Carbed apart the madness that
I stumbled from But she fell away She fell away Shed me like ....
She Passed By My Window
She passed by my window Her eyes were all aglow And bent
to pick her glove she'd dropped From the bright and brittle snow Nature ....
Shoot Me Down
An old sentimental night you roll me at your sides you shot
me down Though I had no enemy here you get me very near ....
Sleeping Analeah
Yesterday the sun was shining but you're finding the sun it Don't
shine all the time A winter day suddenly came your way And you ....
Slowly Goes The Night
Lover, lover, goodbye So slowly goes the night I trace the print
of your body with my hand Like the map of some forbidden land ....
Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
Something's gotten hold of my heart Keeping my soul and my senses
apart Something's gotten into my life Cutting its way through my dreams like ....
Song Of Joy
Have mercy on me, sir Allow me to impose on you I
have no place to stay And my bones are cold right through I ....
Sorrow's Child
Sorrow's child sits by the river Sorrow's child hears not the water
Sorrow's child sits by the river Sorrow's child hears not the water And ....
Stagger Lee
It was back in '32 when times were hard He had a
Colt .45 and a deck of cards Stagger Lee He wore rat-drawn shoes ....
Still In Love
The cops are hanging around the house The cars outside look like
they've got the blues The moon don't know if it's day or night ....
Straight To You
All the towers of ivory are crumbling And the swallows have sharpened
their beaks This is the time of our great undoing This is the ....
Stranger Than Kindness
Stranger than kindness Bottled light from hotels Spilling everything Wet hand from
the volcano Sobers your skin Stranger than Kindness You caress yourself And grind ....
Sugar Sugar Sugar
Sugar Sugar Sugar That man is bad The road he drives you
down O sugar its a drag That road it twists That road is ....
Sunday's Slave
Sunday's got a slave Monday's got one too Sunday's got a slave
Monday's got one too Our sufferings are countless Our pleasures are motley few ....
Sweetheart Come
Come over here, babe It ain't that bad I don't claim to
understand The troubles that you've had But the dogs you say they fed ....
Swing Low
How is little Thomas Magee? Thomas Magee, he swallowed a key Jedediah,
little Thomas Magee Holly holly, just let him be... His wife now, little ....
The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane
There was a thick-set man with frog-eyes was standing at the door
And a little bald man with wing-nut ears was waiting in the car ....
The Carnival Is Over
Say goodbye, my one true lover And we'll steal a lover's song
How it breaks my heart to leave you Now the carnival has gone ....
The Carny
And no-one saw the carny go And the weeks flew by Until
they moved on the show Leaving his caravan behind It was parked out ....
The Curse Of Millhaven
I live in a town called Millhaven And it's small and it's
mean and it's cold But if you come around just as the sun ....
The Good Son
One more man gone One more man gone One more man is
gone The good son walks into the field He is a tiller, he ....
The Hammer Song
Oh please don't send me out Said the man with the hammer,
hammering the anvil I been walking on a road of rocks And I ....
The Kindness Of Strangers
They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed With a rag in
her mouth and a bullet in her head O poor Mary Bellows She'd ....
The Loom Of The Land
It was the dirty end of winter Along the loom of the
land When I walked with sweet Sally Hand upon hand And the wind ....
The Mercy Seat
It began when they come took me from my home And put
me in Dead Row, Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know. ....
The Ship Song
Come sail your ships around me And burn your bridges down We
make a little history, baby Every time you come around Come loose your ....
The Singer
As I walk these narrow streets Where a million passin feet have
trod before me With my guitar in my hand Suddenly I realize nobody ....
The Six Strings That Drew Blood
Guitar thug blew into town. His eyes like wheels spinnin' round. Jerkin-off
at every sound. Layin' all his crosses down. O yeah. He got Six ....
The Sorrowful Wife
I married my wife on the day of the eclipse Our friends
awarded her courage with gifts Now as the nights grow longer and the ....
The Train Song
Tell me how long's the train been gone? Tell me how long's
the train been gone? And was she there? And was she there? Tell ....
The Weeping Song
Go son, go down to the water And see the women weeping
there Then go up into the mountains The men, they are weeping too ....
The Witness Song
Yeah, yeah Well, well I took a walk down to the port
Where strangers meet and do consort All blinkered with desire And a winter ....
There Is A Kingdom
Just like a bird that sings up the sun In a dawn
so very dark Such is my faith for you Such is my faith ....
There Is A Town
There is a town Where I was born Far far away Across
the sea And in that town Where I was born I would dream ....
Thirsty Dog
I know you've heard it all before But I'm sorry for this
three year war For the setting up of camps and wire and trenches ....
Train Long-suffering
Woo-wooooooo Woo! In the name of pain! (In the name of pain
and suffering) In the name of pain! (In the name of pain and ....
Tupelo
Looka yonder! Looka yonder! Looka yonder! A big black cloud come! O
comes to Tupelo. Comes to Tupelo. Yonder on the horizon. Stopped at the ....
Up Jumped The Devil
O My O My What a wretched life I was born on
the day That my poor mother died I was cut from her belly ....
Wanted Man
I'm a wanted man, wanted man... I'm wanted, I'm a wanted man...
Oh yeah... yeah... ah honey, I'm a wanted man. I'm a wanted man ....
Watching Alice
Alice wakes It is morning She is yawning As she walks about
the room Her hair falls down her breast She is naked and it ....
We Came Along This Road
I left by the back door With my wife's lover's smoking gun
I don't know what I was hoping for I hit the road at ....
West Country Girl
With a crooked smile and a heart-shaped face Comes from the West
country where the birds sing bass She's got a house-big heart where we ....
When I First Came To Town
When I first came to town All the people gathered round They
bought me drinks Lord, how they quickly changed their tune When I first ....
Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere
I remember a girl so very well The carnival drums all mad
in the air Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell O where ....
Where The Wild Roses Grow
[Chorus:] They call me The Wild Rose But my name was Elisa
Day Why they call me it I do not know For my name ....
Wonderful Life
Come in, babe Across these purple fields The sun has sunk behind
you Across these purple fields That idiot-boy in the corner Is speaking deviated ....
Your Funeral... My Trial
I am a crooked man And I've walked a crooked mile Night,
the shameless widow Doffed her weeds, in a pile The stars all winked ....
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