Blood, Sweat & Tears

Forty thousand headmen couldn't make me change my mind If I had to take the choice between the deafman and the blind I know just where my feet should go and that's enough for me I turned around and knocked them down and walked across the sea Hadn't travel...

I sit alone here in my one room Waiting for the company to call Four times around the wheel is enough for anyone I’m on my own And I’m almost sorry that I left you A blind man me I thought to be happy you just have to be free Almost sorry that I left...

I'm so alone I'm on my own now I'm going home You've gone away Hung up my day now I just can't stay When I tell you that I love you I love you much more than you will ever realize I do I'm by myself Up on the shelf now I'm getting off When you...

I'm not scared of dying, And I don't really care. If it's peace you find in dying, Well then let the time be near. If it's peace you find in dying, And if dying time is near, Just bundle up my coffin 'Cause it's cold way down there. I hear that its col...

I'll sell my soul for a song Pay the price and carry on And share with you some memories of dreams I can't forget Lovers I have met Applause, applause, let's give the prize To the little lady with the stars in her eyes Applause, applause, give the singer...

See yourself at 65 you all getting set to die As your life goes flashing by Were you glad to be alive? Are you satisfied? Did the music you hear make you dance? Did you step to the rhythm of the chance? Did the beat of your drum keep the time? Did the...

I was dealin' up and down the highway Till they caught me with a heavy load They sentenced me to hard labor Workin' on the side of the road Now I don't deny I was guilty And I know I broke the law I was hungry and broke and couldn't see no hope And my b...

It's funny how our lives are like a prize fight One day you're up and then you get knocked down But I have learned the hurt can end We can come up smelling like a rose again Blue Street is a place that's in my past now A few blocks down, but not too far...

Mmm Mmmm There's been some women in my life, yeah you could say I've known my share Some of them cried for me some of them just didn't care, mmmm some of them been hard on me some of them tore me up deep inside some of them were good to me, mmm...

Looking back to when I was a kid All I wanted was to be a cowboy A city cowboy Wore a hat and had two silver guns And I'd get a friend to be the Indian He never would win Him and me, fought a battle Chased each other through the alley Super me, winni...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Hush now, don't explain Just say you'll remain I'm glad you’re back, Don't explain Quiet, don't explain What is there to gain Don't lie, don't cry, Don't explain You know that I love you And what love endures All my thoughts are of you For I'm co...

Crash on the levee, mama, water's gonna overflow Swamp's gonna rise, no boat's gonna row Now you can train on down to Williams Point You can bust your feet, you can rock this joint But, oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now? You're gonna have...

The morning dove singing Her sweet lullaby Her love is still thinking Of how he replied As I reach for you You open your eyes As if somehow you knew The need in my life As you always do Slowly you come And though we sleep as two We're d...

Found someone who can comfort me but there are always exceptions And she's good at appearing sane but I just want you to know. She's the one makes me feel so good when everything is against me Picks me up when I'm feeling down, so I've got something to sho...

Well here I am in rainy Rio de Janeiro Play it again Sam I really got nowhere to go Putin’ in time Til that early morning fly For the woman looks fine Dance the samba til daylight And I know it’s just a fantasy stage And I believe what you tell me An...

Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone Susanne the plans they made put an end to you I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song I just can’t remember who to send it to I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain I’ve seen sunny days that I thou...

The silence of your smile Your fingers whisper slowly My lady walks a mountain mile And I want her only, only I'll walk with you awhile And whistle with the swallows My lady walks a mountain mile And children, they will follow, follow I'll give you b...

Well my wife got tired of me running 'round, So she tried to keep me home She hid my clothes, She broke my nose But I continued to roam. Then she finally hit my weak spot - When she threw my bottle out Well, from the basement to the rooftop, Everyb...

Born a natural loser - can't recall just where Raised on brew and poker and a dollar here and there Blackjack hand, dealer man, you better pay off that last bet Two-bit hand, a 21 is all I ever get Go down gamblin', say it when you're runnin' low Go down...

Them that's got shall get And them that's not shall lose So the Bible says and it still is news Mama may have, Papa may have God bless the child that's got his own, That's got his own And the strong gets more While the weak ones fade Empty pockets don't eve...

I was alone, I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there Another road where maybe I could find another kind of mind there Ooo, then I suddenly see you Ooo, did I tell you I need you Every single day of my life You didn't run, you didn't lie, you...

He's a runner and he'll run away, Soon there'll be no man. Woman ain't been born that can make him stay, Woman get away while you can. He's a runner and he'll run away On the midnight train. Woman ain't been born who can make him stay, Come the j...

Hi de ho Hi de hi Gonna get me A piece of the sky Gonna get me Some of that old sweet roll Singin' Hi de hi de hi de hi de ho I've been down so low Bottom looked like up Once I thought that seconds saves Was enough to fill my cup So I proffered all...

High on a mountain where the sun still shines And the water runs a little lazy Wild-eyed and lonely, running out of time Some will say I died half-crazy One time a hustler took me for a ride All because I tried to deceive her She broke me down and laugh...

Did not know you had a showdown Did not know he went away Now you’re heading for a breakdown Can I help in any way Hold on to me now, hold on to me Hold on to me now, hold on to me Wishing he would show weakness Wishing he wasn’t living with you If my...

I play the clavinet My friend play bass Mister we’ll play you a song We got a million of them We’re going some place Mister won’t you help us along Oh Hollywood, Hollywood some paradise At least we have been starving in style Oh Hollywood, Hollywood s...

Spoken: House in the country take one No need to worry Folks in a hurry leave them behind you no one can find you House in the country House in the country All the relaxin' Will soon fill the cracks in Good for your head too If you are le...

Can't stop the rain or keep the night from falling Sometimes I just don't hear you when you're calling I'm not a one man band, can't write no songs about you Can't even tell you I'd be lost without you But I can do things that will keep you smiling Keep y...

I can't quit her She's got a hold on me She got her hand on my soul I can't quit her 'cause I see her face everywhere I go In the city streets, in the country fields In the back of my mind I know it can't be real For a woman to possess all th...

Our love’s not at the beginning It had a little time to grow But it keeps me amazed how your loving never changed And there’s nothing to stop the flow Words are so often mistaken The meaning becomes unclear But I love you more and more and each and every...

I saw a little boy today I saw a little boy today who didn't want this fight The other children laughed at him It was a frightening sight And I, I began to cry Someone asked why Someone asked what for But something inside of me, something inside of me...

It brings a tear into my eyes, When I begin to realize I've cried so much Since you've been gone, I guess I'll drowning in my own tears. I sit and cry just like a child, My pourin' tears are runnin' wild. If you don't think you'll be home soon, I guess...

If I ever leave you You can say I told you so And if I ever hurt you babe You know I hurt myself as well Chorus:Is that any way for a man to carry on d'you think he wants his little loved one gone? I love you Baby, more than you'll ever know More...

Holy John lives down by the water Saving sinners and he wants your dollar Tell the people that they'd better repent Telling your daughter it was him who was sent I saw him down there in a long white gown Taking sinners and holding them down John, John,...

Can I cry a little bit there's nobody to notice it Can I cry if I want to No one cares Why can't I pretend that you love me again? All I had has been taken from me now I'm cryin' and tears don't become me Chorus: Just one smile, Pain's fo...

Going down the shady dell Where the honeysuckles grow I met lovely Katy Bell (Sweet Katy Bell) With her dimpled cheeks aglow. Oh! the beauties of her face. As she flitted by apace, With a step of fairy grace, My poor words can never tell. Kat...

Lady, put the light out, come and love me one more time I will disconnect the 'phone Then we will be all alone Lady, put the light out, come and love me one more time Lady, I want to tell you just how good you've always been There were times when I thoug...

Mother, mother, just look what they done, done to your son Father, Father, just look what they done, done to your son Look 'e here, Mother, Mother I have felt the mark of ten thousand teeth I done seen my body lying limply at my feet As I've seen my soul...

Once a girl I knew, all alone and unprepared. Everyone she knew, running scared. Then she found him or maybe he found her. His were gentle words she had never heard before. He said, "Lisa, listen to me, Don't you know where you belong? Darling, Lisa, yo...

Lonesome Susie Never got the breaks She's always losing So she sits and cries and shakes It's so hard just to watch her And if I touch her, Oh poor Susie I'm wondrin' what to do She just sits there, hoping for a friend I don't fit here, but...

There’s days in my life when I just assume are mine Thinking about the good times the kind that’s hard to find There’s nights I’m awake memories lingers on The night will soon be over with the break of dawn Look up to the sky look up to the sky Look up t...

Love looks good on you Love looks good on you Every time I see your face I wonder how the sun feels be in second place The Mona Lisa for many she is pleased But put her next to you she’s nothing but a tease With due respect I must confess The look of l...

Lucretia MacEvil Little girl what's your game? Hard luck and trouble Bound to be your claim to fame Tail-shakin' home-breakin' truckin' through town Each and every country-mother's son, hangin' 'round Drive a young man insane Evil that's your nam...

Ah, here she comes Truckin' Well, Lucy Walkin' down main street lookin' down Looks like a Wow! Talk about it! Stop lyin' Stop lyin' Stop lyin' Lucy 

Mama gets high when a good man in the morning Gives her tea and takes her milk and apple pie Mama don't cry when a main man is gone and Has left her with that sweet ol' "bye and bye" Mama couldn't pay the rent The price of booze no cheaper Lonely nights...

Manic depression is touching my soul I know what I want but I just don't know, how to, go about gettin' it Feeling sweet feeling drops from my fingers, fingers Manic depression is catchin' my soul, yeah. Woman so weary, the sweet cause in vain You make l...

Did I hear you say, you need to hide away. Don't you know it's all inside your head? Kindness is your tool, yes a general rule. Don't you know what people say is not all there is? When there come a time and you lose your mind. I'll be there to lend a he...

Meagan's Gyspy eyes The lyres surround me purple drops of rain the sun shone around me Death that clouds her life will be forever [Thee?] Is loved yet cannot love, not never Mystic thoughts of love And her's completely taught her how to r...

Uh huh, Hey yeah, yeah yeah... Like medicine baby you're good for me Like honey, darlin' girl I know you're sweet to me Each passing day, brings us much closer together and the love you bring me darlin' just gets better and better that's wh...

I lit my purest candle close to my window hoping it would catch the eye of any vagabond who passed it by and I waited in my fleeting house Before he came I felt him drawing near Passing near I felt the ancient fear that he had come to my door...

I woke up and found No one beside me No hand to hold onto and no lips to guide me what a hard world to face in the light of an angry sun ain't it hard to get on, if you ain't got that someone Chorus: And it seems that my days are numbered do...

I don’t to have to tell her where I’m going She never thinks to ask me were I’ve been She’s got a way of being her And letting me be me Loving her is something that just comes naturally My old lady, I’m talking about my old lady The words should have a...

Old lady lost in the city in the middle of a cold, cold night It was fourteen below And the wind starts to blow There wasn't a boy scout in sight Pull down the shades cause he's coming, turn out the lights cause he's here Running down the street Throu...

What you think this world is coming to What you think the man is going to do? I got the nothing I can do about it Paranoia nuclear blues Mustang Sally got no place to drive, Tambourine Man got no place to hide I got to the talking to myself about it...

I've been sitting here thinking in my one room country shack I've been sitting here just thinking in my one room country shack Well all I've got to show for this life Is these raggy old clothes upon my back I think I'll go down town, leave me one room co...

29 years and it's over the hill at 30 They got your wheelchair ready And your hiking boots are not even dirty Lady luck, a-stepping up beside you greet her You'll do some climbing together But then she runs out for somebody younger There's a shining...

Toil and labour on the Ark, Noah, God meant it Scorn and pity's all the world around, you'll ever know Rain and thunder in the dark, Noah, God sent it Sing redemption everywhere you go Praise the Lord, he has led you, Noah Thirst and hunger on the rock,...

Seventy-three men sailed up, from the San Francisco Bay, Rolled off of their ship and here's what they had to say. "We're calling everyone to ride along, to another shore. Where we can laugh our lives away and be free once more." But no one heard them cal...

She was wild, as a raging river She was free as an earth blown wind Rock and roll queen, rock and roll queen Wow, wow, rock, rock, rock, rock Her Daddy was a stud-dealing gentleman, known as the Golden Hand Mama was a good-timing lady, ran off with a tra...

I recall when I was young My papa said, "Don't cry Life is full of ups and downs Like a roller coaster ride" There'll be times you'll get so scared Rollin' down these hills But you hold on tight with all your might 'Coz you don't know what you feel Y...

Rosemary, won't you come out tonight? The moon is shining and the stars are bright If you stay inside, how can I love you, dear When youre up there and Im down here? Come on down, well take a walk in the park I know a place there where its good and dar...

Well I heard that rumour that's going around? You got a business, way across town It's the same old story, tell me where does it end? Well I heard the news, it's the same old blues again Well I wrote you a letter, you must have read it wrong Stood in you...

The storms that we have weathered And battled us and bruised us The wind of change have blown us of our course The crew stands divided on what course should be decided And the captain cannot see that we are lost Save our ship she is slowly sinking Save...

I've been saved by the grace of your love Hallelujah to the power above. I've been raised by the grace of your love Oh, praise ye to the power of love. (Oh, praise ye to the power of love.) I've been saved by the grace of your love Hallelujah to the po...

Seems the wheels will not stop turning As I reach out for control Though the fire of love keeps burning Somehow I can’t escape the cold nights of being alone Don’t it just feel like my world ends when she’s gone Don’t it really feel like really like the...

Do yourself a favor, Wake up to your mind Life is what you make it You see, but still you're blind Get yourself together, Give before you take You'll find out the hard way, Soon you're gonna break Hey hey hey Smiling phases Showing traces...

High on a snow covered mountain From her throne she looks down at the clowns Who think youth can be found in a fountain High on the wings of her rhythms She will smile at the guys who come on with their eyes But she'll never dance with them And in smoke...

Lazy moon Magnolia bloom perfume And Dixie would receive A lady fading fast Still clinging to the past But she had you hating to leave So long, Dixie Sweet Dixie girl You sure had style Recalling times we've had With all your good and bad I'm glad...

More than enough to last a whole life through and it's all for you In the midst of all my darkness baby you know you came along to guide me you took pity on a lonely man when you said you'd stand beside me I'll never forget you for what you done...

Why should I worry when I know you're in love with me Why should I care when there's joy everywhere How can't I see the magic of the light When somebody I trusted, somebody I knew quite well Somebody I loved, reached up and turned out the light Turn my da...

Something coming on, don't know what it is but it's getting stronger Feeling in my bones, hope you let it last a little bit longer Breaking out my head, doing things I never even dreamed of Rolling up my spine, turning on the things that'd never been turned...

You know I woke up this mornin' people the first thing I did was to look into your eyes and in that space where I used to find so much truthfulness there was a stone cold pack of lies You know that somethin' goin' on Somethin' goin' on but I don't k...

Sometimes in Winter I gaze into the streets and walk through snow and city sleet behind your room Sometimes in Winter forgotten memories remember you behind the trees with leaves that cried By the window once I waited for you laughing sligh...

What goes up must come down Spinnin' wheel got to go 'round Talkin' 'bout your troubles it's a cryin' sin Ride a painted pony let the spinnin' wheel spin You got no money and you got no home Spinnin' wheel all alone Talkin' 'bout your troubles and you,...

They say she was a preacher Spoke the gospels soft and low Nobody had to teach her 'Cause it came from her heart, you know She could make wrong men cry Bring the spire to the sunken glide Saving sinners' souls was her life Sweet Sadie the Savior Sadi...

Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long, long years Stole many a man's soul and faith And I was 'round when Jesus Christ Had his moment of doubt and pain Made damn sure that Pilate Washed his hands...

I know you're leaving me behind I'm seeing you, darling, for the very last time Show a little tenderness before you go Please let me feel your embrace once more Take me in your arms, rock me, rock me a little while Hold me darling, rock me, rock me a lit...

Come on and tell me that I’m wrong Now you know just how I feel Show me how to be strong Girl, I need you more day by day. Let your heart take a chance Ain’t you tired of foolin’ yourself? Give it what it wants We’ll love like everyone else. It’s onl...

While the king and queen lie sleeping And their daughters smile so nice. Brothers wait through windows And the peasants die for rice. And here I'm standing naked Laughing madly at the sun. Though I wanted to sleep late today The Battle's just beg...

Father of my morning, Once my child to the night I see that you have minds to cop And I can only watch the sickened sorrow Little do you know of the progressions that you teach the people that you reach are tired of livin' in a world of elastic...

They are nameless almighty They are the numberless few They is the name we gave Jesus They is the God we pray to They are judgment, But they are blind They are mercy - of a kind Money hurts them Power rides them Poverty is a state of mind They a...

There’s a calendar on the wall I think I’m gonna let it fall It’s telling me to get a move on But it don’t know I got a groove on you, oh on you There’s a book on the kitchen table It’s full of Aesop’s fables Morals there I should learn Instead I sit...

When I met you in the meadow You were walking like in a dream Your head blowing just like the flowers Deep within me my heart did weep Oh come on and touch me Feel the pleasure that I am Can't you see I'm only human Oh touch me Then I know you'll unde...

Yesterday, the many ways you looked into my eyes Seemed so strange for all the many years together Sitting by the window, couldn't move you if I tried I've been standing on the outside here for ever Candles lit an empty room where you and I last talked An...

Velvet was a very handsome mother-mare-to-be Grazing by a country road and tied to a very young tree We were walking to see her Velvet gazed upon me Indian Summer - turning colors on me Couldn't she have stayed until the first September day To foal in...

I spend the night in a chair thinking' she'll be there but she never comes and I wake up and wipe the sleep from my eyes and I rise, to spend another day without her It's just no good anymore when you walk through the door of an empty room...

Before I got to know you, when I didn't know any better I would have swore all you'd got going for you bounced inside your sweater Funny what a fool, what a fool you made of me I was out for a thrill You came in for the kill And you brought this womanizer...

Opened my eyes early this morning Having found myself all alone Sweet tasting midnight, still on my tongue And a touch of tomorrow in my bones Opened my eyes early this morning And the whole round world was turning cold Sweet tasting midnight, still on...

I've been racing with the rising sun Always going where I'm coming from I'm still waiting for my ship to come I've been hoping, darling you're the one You're the one, found me on this rocky shore Gave me everything and more You're the one, all I do I do...

I lost at love before Got mad and closed the door But you said, "Try, just once more" I chose you for the one Now we're having so much fun You treated me so kind I'm about to lose my mind You made me so very happy I'm so glad you came into my life T...