Cassandra Wilson

There were bells on a hill But I never heard them ringing No, I never heard them at all Till there was you There were birds in the sky But I never saw them winging No, I never saw them at all Till there was you Then there was music and wonderful rose...

If I send for my baby, and she don't come If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can't help her none And if she gets unruly, thinks she don't wan' do And if she gets unruly and thinks she don't wan' do Take my 32-20...

A day in the life of a fool A sad and a long, lonely day I walk the avenue hoping I'll run into The lovely sight of you coming my way I stop right across from your door But you don't see me anymore So back to my room I go with a gloom And I cry tears o...

A Little Warm Death A Little Warm Death won't hurt you none Come on Relax with me Let me take away your physicalities One little warm death coming up One little warm death with me tonight A little sweet death One little cherry breathless mist Feels l...

When a bee lies sleeping In the palm of your hand You're bewitched And deep in love's long looked after land Where you'll see a sun-up sky And a mornin' dew And where the days go laughin' by When love comes callin' on you Sleep on bee, don't waken Can't beli...

When autumn sings her lullaby And green leaves turn to gold Then I remember last September You and I said goodbye Whispering that we would be returning When autumn comes again Now autumn roams the hills once more But you forgot your vow Now here am I...

Lord I love my man, tell the world I do I love my man, tell the world I do But when he mistreats me Makes me feel so blue My man wouldn't give me no breakfast Wouldn't give me no dinner Fought about my supper and put me outdoors Had the dark clay make black s...

There's a crow flying Dark and ragged tree to tree It's black as the highway that's leading me Now he's diving down To pick up on something shiny I feel like that black crow Flying in a blue sky I took a ferry to the highway Then I drove to a pontoon plane I...

A day in the life of a fool A sad and a long lonely day I walk the avenue Hoping to run into The very sight of you coming my way. I stop just in front of our door But you're never there any more So back to my room And here in the gloom I cry tears of...

Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life you were only waiting For this moment to arise Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life you were only waiting For...

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but Blue skies Do i see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but Bluebirds All day long Never saw the sun Shining so bright Never saw things Going so right Noticing the days Hurryng by When you're in love My how the fly Bl...

My heart Is sad and lonely For you I sigh For you dear only Why haven't you Seen it? I'm all for you Body and soul I spend my days In longing And wondering why It's me you're wronging I tell you I mean it I'm all for you Body and soul I can't be...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ Night and stars above that shine so bright The mystery of their fading light That shines upon our caravan Sleep upon my shoulders as we creep Across the sand so I may keep The memory of our caravan This is so exciting, You are so inviting Resti...

How soft a whisper can get When you're walking through a crowded space I hear every word that you said I remember that everyday I get a little bit closer to you, to you How long an hour can take When you're staring into open space When I feel I'm slipp...

You'd better come on in my kitchen babe it going to be rainin outdoors Ah the woman I love took from my best friend Some joker got lucky stiole her back again You'd better come on in my kitchen babe it going to be rainin outdoors Oh-ah she's gone I know she wo...

Here come ol' flat top, he come groovin' up slowly He got joo joo eyeball, he one holy roller He got hair down to his knees Got to be a joker 'cause he's so hard to please (shhhoop- shhhoop- shhhoop- shhhoop-) He wear no shoeshine, he got walrus gumboot...

Crazy Crazy for feeling so lonely I'm crazy Crazy for feeling so blue I knew You'd love me as long as you wanted And then someday You'd leave me for somebody new Worry Why do I let myself worry Wondrin' What in the world did I do Crazy For thin...

I say I'll move the mountains And I'll move the mountains If he wants them out of the way Crazy he calls me Sure, I'm crazy Crazy in love, I say I say I'll go through fire And I'll go through fire If he wants it, so it will be Crazy he calls me Sure...

I can hear his heart beat for a thousand miles And the heavens open every time he smiles And when I come to him, that's where I belong And I'm running to him like a river's song He gives me love, love, love, love, crazy love He gives me love, love, love, love,...

dancing in dream time, we live forever one mind, one soul from the beginning constantly flowing into creation suns grow, moons die world without ending all of god's creatures alive with the spirit of the sun cycles and season abide by the sprit of the sun al...

When it's darkness on the delta That's the time my heart is light When it's darkness on the delta Let me linger in the shelter of the night Fields of cotton all around me Darkies singin' sweet and low Lord, I'm lucky that you found me Where the muddy M...

The days of wine and roses Laugh and run away like a child at play Through the meadow land toward a closing door A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before The lonely night discloses Just a passing breeze filled with memories Of the golden smile that...

I got a letter this mornin, how do you reckon it read? It said, "Hurry, hurry, yeah, your love is dead." I got a letter this mornin, I say how do you reckon it read? You know, it said, "Hurry, hurry, how come the gal you love is dead?" So, I grabbed up my...

I don't want your institutions they won't give me a solution to the many problems of the poor and homeless dying babies, people acting crazy you build your world 9 miles high think you gonna touch the sky you might think you see the face of god in all its glo...

Don't blame me for falling in love with you I'm under your spell but how can I help it. Don't' blame me! Can't you see when you do the things you do! If I can't conceal the thrill that I'm feeling, Don't blame; me. I can't help it if that doggoned moon above...

He was drunk as Cooter Brown Words fell from his tongue With a slurring silver sound He come this way from the other side of town He was drunk as Cooter Brown And his coat hung 'round his shoulders With a gangster's tone A stylish man no woman leaves a...

I'm gonna get up in the morning I believe I'll dust my broom I'm gonna get up in the morning I believe I'll dust my broom Well my best gal, I'll be loving So my friend, get out my room I'm gonna write a letter to China See if my baby's over there [In...

Forty days and forty nights Since my baby done left this town Oh the sun shinin' all day long But the rain it just keeps on comin' down She's my life I need her so Why she left I just don't know Forty days and forty nights Since I sat right down and cr...

If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one Drying in the colour of the evening sun Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away But something in our minds will always stay Perhaps this final act was meant To clinch a lifetime's argument That nothing comes fr...

love makes me treat you the way that I do gee baby, ain't I good to you and there's nothing on this earth this girl wouldn't do gee baby, ain't I good to you bought you a fur coat for christmas and a diamond ring a cadillac car and everything love makes me...

You love sun in the distance trying to be a pretty golden brown. Smoke and rum is my mission happiness is all I need right now. Gonna come a time There's gonna come a time when I can go to Mexico I believe in the here and now I believe in the here and now to...

Gone with the wind, Just like a leaf that has blown away. Gone with the wind, My romance has flown away. Yesterday’s kisses are still on my lips, I had a lifetime of heaven at my fingertips. But now all is gone, Gone is the rapture that thrilled my heart....

Come a little bit closer Hear what I have to say Just like children sleepin' We could dream this night away. But there's a full moon risin' Let's go dancin' in the light We know where the music's playin' Let's go out and feel the night. Because I'm still in...

I got to keep movin' I got to keep movin' blues fallin' down like hail blues fallin' down like hail Umm mmm mmm mmm blues fallin' down like hail blues fallin' down like hail And the days keeps on worryin' me there's a hellhound on my trail hellhound on my tra...

I can't stand the rain against my window Bringing back sweet memories I can't stand the rain against my window Now that you're not here with me When we were together, everything was so grand Now that we've parted There's one sound that I just can't stan...

I have to say that we should finish it now Before we weaken 'cause we already know this is wrong I could give in, sometimes I think that I will Despite the temptation I try to be very strong In my reluctance seems a surprise It's not 'cause I don't want y...

The spark in your eyes sets my soul on fire Your voice is like a heaven above The touch of your hand drives me insane But baby, I wants to be loved I'm crazy about every little thing you do I cherish the way that you hug Your kiss is so sweet, honey, it...

'm only human baby Ain't I allowed to make mistakes You put your guilt on me And it's causing my poor heart to break, yeah Making me the human that I am Won't you forgive me baby I'm only human baby Won't you forgive me for that? Won't you forgive me baby I'm...

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill He sounds too blue to fly The midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry. I've never seen a night so long When time goes crawling by The moon just went behind the clouds To hide its face and cry. ~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~...

I've got you under my skin I've got you deep in the heart of me So deep in my heart, you're really a part of me I've got you under my skin I tried so, never to give in I said to myself this affair never will go so well But why should I try to resist, when dar...

I've grown accustomed to his face he almost makes the day begin I've grown accustomed to the tune that he whistles night and noon his smiles, his frowns his ups, his downs are second nature to me now like breathing out and breathing in I was serenely independ...

If loving you is wrong I don't wanna be right If being right means being without you I'd rather live a wrong doing life Your mama and daddy say it's a shame It's a downright disgrace Long as I got you by my side I don't care what your people say Your friends...

we come from a place on the planet where crystal create subatomic sound the mother lode is raw with the rhythym, rhythym quantum music goes up and down on jump world, jump world psychomusicians gather together to sing their songs on the square why don't you c...

Yesterday's news is tomorrow's blues... But today I am alive (I am alive) Today I did much more than survive I learned to live by the love I give It's the only thing I own Shadowed valleys that I've known helped me build my home So tell me why? Why sh...

Take the last train to Clarksville, And I'll meet you at the station. You can be be there by four thirty, Cause I made your reservation. Don't be slow, oh, no, no, no! Oh, no, no, no! Cause I'm leavin' in the morning And I must see you again Well have...

Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed Whatever colors you have in your mind I'll show them to you and I'll see them shine Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed Stay lady stay, stay with your man awhile U...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ There may be trouble ahead But while there's moonlight And music and love and romance Let's face the music and dance Before the fiddlers have fled Before they ask us to pay the bill, And while we still have the chance Let's face the music and da...

like a fool, I believed in your lies those words behind your eyes you walked into something sweet and smoothest and warm you crawled under my skin you would say that it's all in my mind you'd never be unkind just like a snake wrapped around a heart of gold yo...

Little boy lost in search of little boy found You go a wondering, wandering Stumbling, tumbling, round! round! When will you find What's on the tip of your mind? Why are you blind To all you ever were Never were, really are, nearly are? Little boy fals...

Love is blindness I don't want to see Won't you wrap the night Around me Take my heart Love is blindness In a parked car In a crowded street You see your love Made complete Thread is slipping Love is blindness Love is clockworks And cold steel Fingers too...

I felt you move beyond the stratosphere I searched my mind but could't find you there The night was black, a comet pierced the sky How can it be that you don't hear my cry? All through the night I tossed It seemed as if a thousand years Were slipping pas...

The sky was blue and high above The moon was new and so was love This eager heart of mine was singing Lover, where can you be? You came at last, love had its day That day is past, you've gone away This aching heart of mine is singing Lover, come back to me...

The very thought of you makes my heart sing Like an April breeze on the wings of spring And you appear in all your splendor My one and only love The shadows fall and spread their mystic charms In the hush of night while you're in my arms I feel your lips so w...

Grab your coat and get your hat. Leave your worry on the doorstep. Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street. Can't you hear a pitter-pat? And that happy tune is your step. Life can be so sweet On the sunny side of the street. I used to walk in t...

More than a distant land Over a shining sea More than the steaming green More than the shining eyes Well they tell me it's only a dream in rio Nothing could be as sweet as it seems On this very first day down They remind me "son have you so soon forgotten Oft...

A country dance was being held in a garden I felt a bump and heard an "Oh, beg your pardon" Suddenly I saw polka dots and moonbeams All around a pug-nosed dream The music started and was I the perplexed one I held my breath and said "May I have the next one?"...

Wash my face with blue water Lay my head on white linens Morning comes, drink black coffee Then i play my song on red guitar Take my flight through blue heavens Walk my path in green gardens Drive my car on black highway Then I play my song on r...

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 our pathways awhile [Chorus] Come and sit by my side, if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu Just r...

this world may be so unkind blindness abounds, deaf to the sounds sweeter than angels' voices calling from beyond the water black child break wild move this world, no need to fear all the tears and the pain will dissipate like clouds in summer after rain that...

I got High John in my pocket And mud in my shoes Walked all the way from Mississippi Just to spread the news Don't care for idle conversation I'm not your girl about town But when it comes to make music I run the voodoo down And here in this quiet pl...

Baby, saddle my pony, saddle up my black mare Baby, saddle my pony, saddle up my black mare I'm gonna find a rider, baby, in the world somewhere "Hello central, the matter with your line?" "Hello central, matter, Lord, with your line?" "Come a storm last...

Oh Sankofa, high on the Heavens you soar My soul is soon to follow you, back to yesterdays moon will it remember me? Back to yesterdays sun, It will rekindle me Rekindle the spirit into tomorrow and high on the wind Sankofa flys again and again Oh Sankofa, h...

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" And if I pass this way again, you...

Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be? Is there a meadow in the mist Where someone's waiting to be kissed? Oh skylark Have you seen a valley green with spring? Where my heart can go a journeying Over the shadows and th...

He holds the mirror to my soul A beautiful mystery He is too young I am too old Yet we fit perfectly How could you feel Emotions I could never reveal Sleight of hand or of sleight of time Tell me why can't he be mine Am I a pawn in someone's game And some gr...

He had silver and gold Riches untold And the beast of the field lay at his feet Everybody bowed He wondered why or how It all came to be No one understood his sorrow No one saw his pain He way praying for grace Ravens pray for rain And when he st...

Where has the time all gone to? Haven't done half the things we want to Oh well, we'll catch up some other time This day was just a token Too many words are still unspoken Oh well, we'll catch up some other time Just when the fun is starting Comes the time f...

I went down to St. James Infirmary. I saw my baby there. Stretched out on a long white table, So sweet, so cold, so fair. Let him go, let him go, God bless him. Wherever he may be. He can search this whole wide world over But he'll never find another girl lik...

Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant south, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnol...

Strike a match so I can see If I've been down here before Where is the floor? What is it for? Strike a pose Imagining love and estatic applause Suckling big parts You are on task Strike a vein so we can see If it leaves some kind of mark No, its to...

All the good life, full of fun seems to be the ideal Mm, the good life lets you hide all the sadness you feel You won't really fall in love for you can't take the chance So please be honest with yourself, don't try to fake romance It's the good life to be...

The very thought of you And I forget to do The little ordinary things That everyone ought to do I'm living in a kind of daydream I'm happy as a king And foolish though it may seem To me that's everything The mere idea of you The longing here for you You'll n...

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head I said, "Hey mister, can you tell me where a girl might find a bed?" He just grinned and shook his hand, no was all he said Take a load off Fannie, t...

Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick, And think of you Turning in circles confusion-- Is nothing new Flashback to warm nights Almost left behind Suitcase of memories, Time after Sometimes you picture me I'm walking too far ahead You're calling to me, I can'...

You can take all the tea in China Put it in a big brown bag for me Sail right around all the seven oceans Drop it straight into the deep blue sea He's as sweet as tupelo honey He's an angel of the first degree He's as sweet as tupelo honey Just like th...

on my way on my way on my way on my way on my way back there again back to the warm spot in the middle of your soul I'll be there I'll be there I'll be there I'll be there if I have my own way oh, I been running sideways skipping 'round the holes I have made...

Baby, baby Baby, please don't go You make me crazy I've waited all day long Café is closing, grab your coat and Maybe we can follow where the evening's going Night's upon us, don't you wanna See how this will end? I watch the sunrise Reflected in yo...

~~~♫...la la la..♫ ~~~ A stick, a stone It's the end of the road It's the rest of a stump It's a little alone. It's a sliver of glass It is life, it's the sun It is night, it is death It's a trap, it's a gun. The oak when it blooms, A fox in the b...

we speak in separate words we love in differeent colors our love is madness how can it be? this is a mystery to me you broke into my world shattering all the lies that I'd heard all my life you were a whirlwind bending the trees, bending the trees I am a summ...

And there's a lineman for the county And he drives the main road Searching in the sun for another overload I hear him singing in the wire I can hear him through the whine But my Wichita lineman is still on the line I know he needs a short vacation but...

she walks along the city streets as if no would dare follow the path that she has chosen to take her anywhere she walks beneath the city lights, no other way until she captures every eye and makes the pavement sway woman on the edge, something to behold her h...

It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me to Paree, hmm The mistress wants to open up the castle in Capri, hmm Me doctor recommends a quiet summer by the sea, hmm, mmm Wouldn't it be loverly? All I want is a room somewhere Far away from the cold nig...

You don't know what love is Until you learn the meaning of the blues Until you've lost a love you had to lose You don't know what love is You don't know how lips hurts Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost Until you've flipped your heart and you have l...

You gotta move You gotta move You gotta move, child You gotta move Oh, when the Lord gets ready You gotta move You may be high You may be low You may be rich, child You may be poor But when the Lord gets ready You gotta move You see that woman,...

Remember the moments So precsious and rare The thought Of you kissing me there You know my secrets You know the curve and the line One touch And I know you are mine Rain falls down on me I can hardly see For the water in my eyes Love comes down on me I can ha...