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This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's
Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in.Havin' all that room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't
have to take out their garbage for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd be
a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump.So
we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed
on toward the city dump.
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the
dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving."And we had never heard of a dump
closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off
into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the
side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the
cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile
is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we
decided to throw ours down.
That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving
dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the
next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie.He said, "Kid,
we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
under that garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about forty-five minutes on the telephone we
finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down
and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the
police officer's station.So we got in the red VW microbus with the
shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the
police officer's station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at
the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for
being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and
we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out
and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,
which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was
both immediately arrested.Handcuffed.And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on."He said, "Shut up, kid.
Get in the back of the patrol car."
And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the
quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where this happened here, they got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of
cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us.Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to
mention the aerial photography.
After the ordeal, we went back to the jail.Obie said he was going to put
us in the cell.Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want your
wallet and your belt."And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my
wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you
want my belt for?"And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings."I
said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?"
Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the
toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he took
out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the - roll the
toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape.Obie
was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and with a few
nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back
to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat,
and didn't get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.
We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one, sat down.Man came in said, "All rise."We all stood up,
and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy
pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the
judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy
pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each
one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.And
we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but thats not
what I came to tell you about.
Came to talk about the draft.
They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street,
where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,
neglected and selected.I went down to get my physical examination one
day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so
I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning.`Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted
to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all
kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave
me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the psychiatrist, room 604."
And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill.I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill.Kill.I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth.Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL."And I started jumpin' up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin' up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL."And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
Didn't feel too good about it.
Proceeded on down the hall gettin' more injections, inspections,
detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that they was doin' to me
at the thing there, and I was there for two hours, three hours, four
hours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of mean nasty
ugly things and I was just having a tough time there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was leaving no
part untouched.Proceeded through, and when I finally came to the see the
last man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing there,
and I walked up and said, "What do you want?"He said, "Kid, we only got
one question. Have you ever been arrested?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,
with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all
the phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you ever
go to court?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten
color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on
the back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, I want
you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W .... NOW kid!!"
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there.Mother rapers.Father stabbers.Father
rapers!Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me!And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?"I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage."He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering."And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance."And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin' about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench.And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of
things, until the Sargent came over, had some paper in his hand, held it
up and said.
"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargent, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin' here on the Group W bench
'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug."He looked at me and
said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."
And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints.And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.".And walk out.You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him.And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization.And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out.And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the
guitar.
With feeling.So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and
sing it when it does.Here it comes.
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
That was horrible.If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for another twenty five minutes.I'm not proud... or tired.
So we'll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part
harmony and feeling.
We're just waitin' for it to come around is what we're doing.
All right now.
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Excepting Alice
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Da da da da da da da dum
At Alice's Restaurant
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If all the doors were closed in heaven Where would all the angels go Would they just fly around forever Or would they come down here below If the...
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Bad news, bad news, come to me where I sleep Turn, turn, turn again Sayin' one of my friends is in trouble deep Turn, turn, to the wind and the rai...
Gonna sit right here and sing myself a tune That I wrote one afternoon After everyone had gone And I know that this won't mean a lot to you You've...
Precious Friend You Will Be There
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now am found Was blind but now I see 'Twas grace that taught m...
I'll race you down the moun-tain, I'll race you down the moun-tain, I'll race you down the moun-tain, We'll see who gets there first. Let's run a...
You said you didn't know, that the cats with the bugs were there, and you never go along with that kind of stuff no where, but that just isn't the...
From this valley they say you are going We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile For they say you are taking the sunshine That has brightened...
This world is not my home Passing through me As clouds before the moon The great depths of the ocean Barely take notice Of wind upon the waters...
In the event of my demise Be sure to include this statement When you are bent on closing my eyes Thinking about what my life meant Alone on a hil...
Put your finger in the air, in the air. Put your finger in the air, in the air. Put your finger in the air, and hold it right up there. Put your fi...
Don't you know it's darkest before the dawn And it's this thought keeps me moving on If we could heed these early warnings The time is now quite ea...
If you'll gather 'round me, children, A story I will tell 'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well. It was in the town of Shawnee...
And for myself I have no regrets That time has taken what it soon forgets A gambler's paradise in short vignettes These stolen moments from the ho...
Ramblin' around your city Ramblin' around your town I never see a friend I know As I go ramblin' 'round boys As I go ramblin' 'round My mother h...
I remember when I met you Underneath the evening sky Now it seems I could forget you Rescue me, I'm bound to die All the promises we made there...
I had a friend, a friend I could trust He went into the park and got busted Doing the ring-a-round-a-rosy rag Went in the park late at night And h...
Where have you been all the day, Henry my son? Where have you been all the day, My currant bun? In the woods, dear mother In the woods, dear moth...
Down in the scrub oak timber of the Southeast Texas Gulf There used to ride a brakeman and a brakeman double tough He worked the town of Kilgore a...
Every hand in the land Shakes along with me It don't seem that I can dream Like I used to dream Maybe that somebody is shaking me If I fell I co...
Running down the road Make my get away Everything I told you was just yesterday Yes, You know I'm off again Oh, and I've been told You were ther...
I ain't got a nickle to call mine The goverment has made me pay my tax on time The've takin' all my bread And left me here for Dead I ain't even g...
My life flows on in endless song Above earth's lamentation. I hear the real, thought far off hymn That hails the new creation Above the tumult and...
I dream in the morning That she brings me water And I dream in evening That she brings me wine Just a poor man's daughter From Puerto Penasco Ev...
I ride an old paint, I lead an old dan I'm goin' to Montana to throw the hooligan They feed in the coulees, they water in the draw Their tails are...
Let's not sit here, talk about it baby It's got to start in your heart or else it'll pass on by It's what pleases you when your love seems new That...
When evening chores are over at the ranch house on the plains And there's nothing left to do but lay around I saddle up my pony and go riding down t...
Gabriel's Mother's Hiway Ballad #16 Blues
Woke up this morning with my head in my hand Come on, children, come on Snow was falling all over the land Come on, children, come on I don't know...
Sitting down on a country fence post Sitting down watchin' trucks roll by Sitting down under the light of day now You know that I won't tell you no...
Irene goodnight Irene goodnight Goodnight Irene Goodnight Irene I'll guestyou in my dream Sometimes I live in the country Sometimes I live in town S...
Of war and peace the truth just twists Its curfew gull just glides Upon four-legged forest clouds The cowboy angel rides With his candle lit into...
Too many women growing up wrong Get an education thinking thoughts on their own Making decisions telling men what to do Look at the trouble that we...
Sail with me into the unknown void That has no end Swept along the open road That don't seem to begin Come with me a love me, Babe I may be back...
It's okay if you're alright It's good to be here with you tonight Dressed in moonlight and faded jeans It ain't no mystery, all it means is I can'...
Guabi guabi kuzwan le toum diome Ize les gambi shooey entana Guabi guabi kuzwan le toum diome Ize les gambi shooey entana Ni izome tingy la ma bo...
I went down to the grocery store To get in, I had to pay a dime or more I hadn't yet begun to start When I had to pay the rent on the shopping cart...
CHORUS: Inch by inch, row by row Gonna make this garden grow Gonna mulch it deep and low Gonna make it fertile ground Inch by inch, row by row...
If I could only hear my mother sing again If I could close my eyes and hear your voice as then All the friends and family would sing along with me,...
I could be singing forever I guess you could say I'm in love The universe is getting together You know that I can't say it enough You and your fri...
Here We Are / Way Out In The Country
Here I am Won't you take me in your arms tonight And there you are Looking like the stars are in your eyes Here we go You know it's been so long...
Sailing Down This Golden River
Sailng down my golden river Sun and water all my own Yet I was never alone Sun and water, old life givers l'll have them where ere I roam And I...
Go to sleep you weary hobo Let the towns drift slowly by Can't you hear the steel rail humming That's a hobo's lullaby Do not think about tomorro...
Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crecen las palmas Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crecen las palmas Y antes de morirme quiero Echar mis verso...
It was late last night when the boss came home Asking about his lady The only answer that he got was She's gone with the Gypsy Davey Gone with the...
Remember back when I was born High up in the sky Looking down upon the scene I can't recall just why A white love light come up to me I followed...
I'm Changing My Name To Chrysler
Oh the price of gold is rising out of sight And the dollar is in sorry shape tonight What the dollar used to get us now won't buy a head of lettuce...
I'd like to tell you a story For just a minute or two And if you don't want to hear it Just be quiet if some others do I'd like to get me a satell...
My name is Juanano de Castro My father was a Spanish Grandee But I won my wife in a card game To hell with those lords o'er the sea Well the Sout...
Every now and again when the world seems blue And all of the trials there disappear in you They say that there's a way to get across the bridge But...
Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleep you little sleep eye Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleep you little sleep eye Close the eye, close the eye...
Someday l'll be there with you When you're there I'll be there too If you only knew I will be with you Someday we will meet again When we meet I...
If I could go back home to the place I was raised I'd catch the next bus and be there in a few days But I just can't do it, I was raised on the road...
Every morning just as soon as it's light Get out of bed and I'm feeling alright Make me some coffee and I sit down alone The rest of the day I'm on...
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo As I walked out in Laredo one day I spied a poor cowboy wrapped up in white linen All wrapped in white lin...
The Ross Perot Guide To Answering Embarrassing Questions
When something in my history is found Which contradicts the views that I propound Or shows that I perhaps am not the guy I claim to be Here's what...
I struck the trail in seventy-nine The herd strung out behind me As I jogged along my mind went back To the gal I left behind If I ever get off th...
The Missouri, she's a might river Away you rolling river The red man's camp lies on her borders Away, we're bound away across the wide Missouri...
On a long lonesome Journey I'm going Oh darling, and please don't you cry Though in shackles and chains they will take me In prison to stay till I...
The Sinking Of The Reuben James
Have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James Manned by hard fighting men both of honor and fame? She flew the Stars and Stripes of the land...
I went down to Saint James Infirmary Heard my baby groan I felt so broken hearted She used to be my own I tried to keep from cryin' My heart felt jus...
Words end Music by Gus Cannon Arranged and Adapted by Arlo Guthrie Put your arms around me Like a circle 'round the sun You know I'll love you ba...
VERSE: Standing at the threshold of a moment in my life Looking far into the ceaseless wonders of this day Calling from the mountain top "Come giv...
Friends I used to know are coming by To ask me if my situation's high 'Cause sometimes I just stare at the sky Up is down before Her crown I cry...
The Story Of Reuben Clamzo & His Strange Daughter In The Key Of A
Wanna hear something? You know that Indians never ate clams. They didn't have linguini! And so what happened was that clams was allowed to grow unmo...
Just me and a friend roamin' around Him a magician and I was a clown Playin' the streets for a dollar a day Waitin' for the right time and a sign t...
I've been to wild Montana I went there in a storm My boots were Texas leather My Levis wet and torn I loved it in Montana Loved it in the storm...
Down the way where the nights are gay And the sun shines daily on the mountain top I took a trip on a sailing ship And when I reached Jamaica I mad...
Loose the bonds that tie me Let the world I live in let me Take these chains from off my thumb Let the world just know you've come Everyone is th...
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, Alive as you and me. Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead" "I never died" said he, "I never died" said he....
Riding on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday morning rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three conductors and twenty-five s...
If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warning I'd hamm...
Along about eighteen and twenty-five I left Tennessee very much alive I never would have got through the Arkansas mud If I hadn't been a-ridin on t...
Take my little hoe, dig a hole in the ground Take my little seed and I plant it down; Tooky, tooky, tooky, tooky, tidalo, We'll all dance around an...
Like the tree that grows so tall Leaves turn gold and then they fall They've gone down, now they've grown They're going home Mountain streams may...
If I should die before I wake, All my bone and sinew take Put me in the compost pile To decompose me for a while. Worms, water, sun will have the...
If I Could Only Touch Your Life
Where are the dreams We dreamed when we were younger Where are the songs we never got to sing Oh how cold were the nights we slept without each oth...
A sunny disk, The sky's around (it) This is a drawing by a young boy. He drew it on a sheet (of paper) And signed in the corner May there always...
Chorus: This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters Th...
Coming down the highway, running like a wind Gonna beat the sunset to the coast and back again Moving thru the shadows, almost going blind Living l...
We are climbing Jacob's ladder We are climbing Jacob's ladder We are climbing Jacob's ladder Brothers, sisters, all Every rung goes higher and hi...
Well, I went to the dance and the animals come, Jaybird danced with horse-shoes on. Grasshopper danced till he fell on the floor Jig along, jig alo...
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
Last night I had the strangest dream I'd ever dreamed before I dreamed the world had all agreed To put an end to war I dreamed I saw a mighty roo...
I don't need no diamond ring I don't need no Cadillac car Just want to drink my Ripple wine Down in the Lightnin' Bar Down in the Lightnin' Bar...
I've just seen a face, I can't forget the time or place That we'd just met, she's just the girl for me And I want all the world to see we've met Na na...
I want to hop on the last train in the station Won't need to get yourself prepared When you're on that last train to glory You'll know you're reaso...
Lonely sunshine, days come easy, Spend my time alone at rest, And if I were the last to leave here, Now would these roads be any less? Oh, I'm th...
There's a river running underground That roll along the clay That took my body when I laid it down And carried it far away It's too damned dark f...
Truth is you've been waiting so long You're ripe and so insane Can the tentacles of your mind stop the pain How long will you sit there wondering...
CHORUS: Lying on the side of the road Feeling like he heard a sound Shivered with the feelin' that he knowed John looked down, John looked down J...
Now there's a new craze a-goin' 'round It's gettin' bigger in most every town From New York City out to Hollywood Got everybody in the neighborhood...
Me and my goose Me and my pal We had some very good times Me and my goose his name was Al And he cost only a dime Over meadows we'd stray Playi...
There's sometimes I don't believe in nothing Sometimes I do That's why it hurts to believe in you Though I know that pain and sorrow Ain't nothing...
I'm growing tired of the big city lights Tired of the glamour and tired of the sights In all my dreams I am roaming once more Back to my home on the o...
Wake up, wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up. Open eyes, open eyes, open eyes. Ope...
Loving in golden temples, my love Is flowing on heavenly seas The silent commands and heard throughout the lands And are weaving his patterns with...
One day, one day, Sir I was walking along I heard that special Singing a lonesome song Chorus: Oh, let the Midnight Special Shine her light on...
Beneath this balcony of stars Beyond the searchlight stage where we've become The stuff of time amid the waves Whose nets are cast along the shore...
I am a little Beggar and a Beggar I have been For three score'r more in this little Isle of green And I'm known from the Liffy down to Segue And I'...
Busted flat in Baton Rouge Waitin' for the train Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down Just before it rained Rode us all the wa...
There's gonna be some changin' 'round Babe, when you come turn me down Trifled on me for your last time When I come home at night Why you always s...
CHORUS: Rolling, wheeling like I'm feeling Everything's gonna carry on You go your way, I'm going my way We will come and so be gone Wheel of fo...
Cattle prowl and the coyotes howl Out on the Great Divide Never done no wrong, just singin' a song As down the trail I ride Rattle snakes rattle...
Yes, I know I've been untrue And I have hurt you through and through But please have mercy on this heart of mine Won't you take me back and try me...
Uncle Jeff played the fiddle in his Colorado home And I backed him on the banjo so he didn't play alone We've got five generations of a fiddle playi...
I saw the splendor of the moonlight On Honolulu Bay There's something tender in the moonlight On Honolulu Bay And all the beaches are filled with...
I got a feelin' called blues, Lord Since my baby said goodbye Lord, I don't know what I'll do All I do is sit and sigh, oh, Lord That last long day s...
Like a dream in the night As the snow settles white There's a fire burning bright In Massachusetts And there's a house upon a hill That keeps us...
Sometimes when the sun goes down And I'm lost in some other town My thoughts may drift away To Manzanillo Bay And I can see a fisherman His day'...
So you ask me my kind friend Why I am sad and still And why my brow is darkened Like the clouds upon the hill Rein in your ponies closer And I'l...
There once was a union maid, she never was afraid Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid. She went to the un...
Wind's gonna blow so I'm gonna go Down on the road again Starting where the mountains Ieft me I'm up where I began Where I will go the wind only...
Oh, last night I sat by your side Oh, I was feelin' so lonely Would have given up my pride All night I was so lonely Then you took to the streets...
Poor Adam alone in Eden Taking off his shoes Tired of running around all morning From his animal interviews He awoke with a hand on his brow Ask...
When I was younger she'd come to me in dreams Her face was hidden in the mountain streams Her voice disguised as the sound of the wind The rustling...
Greedy people take what's mine I can leave them all behind And they can never cross that line When I get to the border Saw-bones standin' at the...
Will the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by There's a better home a-waiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky I was standing by my window, On o...
I'm a walkin' down the line, I'm walkin' down the line An' I'm walkin' down the line. My feet'll be a-flyin' To tell about my troubled mind. I'm...
Victor Jara of Chile Lived like a shooting star He fought for the people of Chile With his songs and his guitar His hands were gentle, his hands w...
I stood on the Atlantic Ocean The wide Pacific shore To the queen of the flowing mountains To the southbell by the door She's long and tall and ha...
Halfway around the world tonight In a strange and foreign land A soldier packs his memories As he leaves Afghanistan And back home, they don't kno...
There's trouble all around the world Well, it looks that way to me People don't know what to do They don't know where they should be But just one...
Oh the time will come up When the winds will stop And the breeze will cease to be a'breathin' Like the stillness in the wind Before the hurricane...
Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago Where have all the flowers gone? Girls have pic...
Not so long ago I set out on this road With my friends and my companions by my side And I think of you wherever I do go I'm a rambler, I ain't hard...
I went down in the valley to pray Learnin' about the good old way And who would wear the starry crown Oh Lord, show me the way Oh Brother, let's...
[Chorus] Well may the world go, The world go, the world go, Well may the world go, When I'm far away. Well may the skiers turn, The swimmers ch...
I've been keeping on the run I've been traveling with the sun I've been singing all my life and getting by Got to keep up with what's goung on In...
We are climbing Jacob's ladder We are climbing Jacob's ladder We are climbing Jacob's ladder Brothers, sisters, all Every rung goes higher and hi...
My love, you are the song That sings inside of me The song is always the same It starts with love and ends with your name The more that I love yo...
The sun is sinking down I'm standing 'round my window You say you're going away But I believe in love CHORUS: The power of love divine Will sur...
In the candle, lights burn away Leaving nothing, except the day Just to blow your mind away Coming thus, this daily change You sit and pose the ve...