Robbie Robertson

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He was born in the belly of the country, over East of Eden, yeah. Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading, no. Put yourself behind the wheel and see if you can get that feel, oh; Move faster by night, yeah, move faster by nigh...

They say the axman's coming In a long black car They said the Axman's coming He plays a mean guitar Well he come across the border With a hatchet in his hand They said who's that stranger The one they call the axman You got Duane and Stevie Ray Brot...

I ain't no cowboy I just look like one And I ain't no prisoner But I'm on the run from these chains And I'm just between trains I ain't no loner I just work alone There ain't no place Where there's a home I could claim And I'm still between trains S...

I tried to reach you On Valentine's Day But how can I reach you When you're so far away Don't make me a victim Don't make me the clown With my arms reaching out And my head hanging down [Chorus:] We can't go on Touching the flame Breakin the rules...

Who else is gonna bring you A broken arrow Who else is gonna bring you A bottle of rain There he goes, moving across the water There he goes turning my whole World around Do you feel what I feel Can we make that so it's part of the deal I go...

Sometimes life can hit so hard It can knock you off your feet Leave you stranded by the side of the road Livin' on the street I've been down that path before From the bottom to the top I kept pushin' for something more And I didn't know how to stop S...

Come down to the manger, see the little stranger Wrapped in swaddling clothes, the prince of peace The wheels start turning, torches start burning And the whole wise men journey from the East How a little baby boy bring the people so much joy Son of a carpent...

In this dusty little railroad town Smack in the heart of the bible belt Where nothing ever changes While nothing remains the same When first I saw the raven Lean against the wind I said who's the girl With the tattoo on her skin I followed her home Sh...

Are you out there Can you hear me Can you see me in the dark I don't believe it's all for nothing It's not just written in the sand Sometimes I thought you felt too much And you crossed into the shadowland And the river was overflowing And the sky wa...

I wonder where it all began Was it in a place or in the heart Was it outside in the pouring rain In the darkness where the dreaming starts If I end up begging like a dog Does it make me any less than you Should I stand here and be judged When we alread...

Crow has brought the message to the children of the sun for the return of the buffalo and for a better day to come You can kill my body You can damn my soul for not believing in your god and some world down below You don't stand a chance against my prayers Y...

Hide in the bayou under the gun Been to the house of the rising sun Come down here trying to make a connection Must have a bad sense of direction [Chorus:] Go back go back to your woods Go back go back go back to your woods Carry a torch and an old st...

I think I'll go on back to Shenandoah She said that she'd meet me by the fork in the road I jump start my one eyed Ford I'm heading for the pow-wow I follow red path that leads to you [Chorus:] I gave my love a golden feather I gave my love a he...

Got a ticket on the mainline I was stranded on the fault line I got wasted on the moonshine Too far gone I was walking in the sundown I was heading for the breakdown When you're sleeping on the cold ground Too far gone There was a cloud hanging over...

It's way up in the Black Hills where we come from There's a girl and she warned me don't pick up that gun By the law of the land By the promise that might is right She would hold me and cry - don't you go off and fight Somebody knocking at my door...

No one left but survivors We fall, we rise But liberty is within us like the down is within the night There's an undercurrent across the land In the purple mountains, in the red desert From the Okefenokee to the Badlands and across the Medicine Line Don't...

Benedictine, sister to Isis and the black Madonna Mistress of magic, goddess of the Nile She could read the stars knew the secrets of the dead And could see what kind of madness Was stirring round in your head She said my birth sign is Scorpio We eat ou...

Welcome to my country Welcome to my home You could stay forever You won't leave it alone Welcome to the bush Take what you may need When shove comes to push You want me to leave [Chorus:] I can't let go of the painted desert I can't let go of the o...

The general rode for sixteen days The horses were thirsty and tired On the trail of a renegade chief One he'd come to admire The soldiers hid behind the hills That surrounded the village And he rode down to warn the chief They'd come to conquer a...

Mahk jchi tahm buooi yahmpi gidi Mahk jchi taum buooi kan spewa ebi Mahmpi wah hoka yee monk Tahond tani kiyee tiyee Gee we-me eetiyee Nanka yaht yamoonieah wajitse  

Everyone has a song God gave us each a song That's how we know who we are Everyone has a song We have come, heat the drum The land trembles with dancing We have come, bang the drum The land trembles with dancing [Chorus:] making a noise in this world...

You got lost in the crowd The waves of people in Chinatown Can't get behind this mystery Do you believe everything you see Just a shadow in the streetlight Just a shadow on the wall A silhouette, face in the darkness I've been waiting for the call [Cho...

In the moon the black cherries Kicking Bear brought news of the Paiute Messiah-Wovoka The prophet of the ghost dance, prophet of the ghost dance The whole world is coming A nation is coming, a nation is coming The eagle has brought the message to the trib...

Pay no mind to his messed up hair Pay no mind to the clothes he wears It's just the hours he's been keepin' Ain't been doing too much sleeping They dyed his hair and hid his feathers And told him he was Latin 'Til he came chanting down the street Like a...

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You know we have a million stories to tell I'm just one of a million or more stories that could be told [Chorus:] sacrifice your freedom sacrifice your prayer Take away your language Cut off all your hair sacrifice the loved ones Who always st...

I see the people standing on the shore I see the big chief standing on the shore I ask my mama what they're crying for I saw a black cloud hanging in the sky I saw a big black cloud hanging in the sky I ask my papa when will it roll by Oh we're s...

I come to town my work is done Well I just got off the road It's a long time since I been with someone I called this lady so divine I asked her and I asked her If she'd like to come out sometime We talked about some movie And we laughed at ourselves S...

The cry of the city like a siren's song Wailing over the rooftops the whole night long Saw a shooting star, like a diamond in the sky Must be someone's soul passing by These are the streets Where we used to run where your Papa's from These are the days Where...

Soldier of fortune He's a man of war Just can't remember What he's fighting for Start a revolution Right before your eyes When you hear the big bang Don't you be surprised showdown at big sky Darkness at high noon showdown at big sky Tha...

When I got back to my hometown I saw the ghosts of yesterday And my godmother bless her soul She still lives down this way Remember when I was just a kid And she would tell a story Of the rainbow Rainbow I come to you with an empty heart It's locked and I've...

She broke down, on a highway Miles from nowhere, it had no number She was lost, a long way from home She was fed up with the routine She got trouble with her man She blew town with a vengeance Painted desert, peyote rain Lord, don't let me go ins...

soap box preacher standing on the corner And all the people they would gather round You speak of faith with a blaze of glory But those that fear they wanna knock you down Nobody knows where you live Where do you go in the naked night All of the pr...

Yeah, I can see it now The distant red neon shivered in the heat I was feeling like a stranger in a strange land You know where people play games with the night God, it was too hot to sleep I followed the sound of a jukebox coming from up the levee All of a su...

Sonny got caught in the moonlight A wanted man with a haunted heart Sonny found out the hard way Playing for keeps, loser weeps He said he'd come back when the lion sleeps Struck by lightning, the fire is dying And she called out your name Sudden thun...

In circles we gather Moonlight fires are kindled Sending it back We just make it go back Beating hearts, beating hearts Come as one, come as one This is Indian country This is Indian country Together we dance All the first nations There's no chance...

From the Chitlin' Circuit to the Peppermint Lounge Been run off more than once for goin' underground Where I met an old bluesman with a walking cane He wore a stripe suit and used someone else's name He said son I've seen it all And it's not what you thi...

Didn't we break the silence Didn't we fear the storm Didn't we move the earth Didn't we shoot for the sky And didn't we catch the fire And didn't we call upon the spirits And didn't we fall together And didn't we die for love Days on the run,...

She walks alone down a sleazy backstreet Around a corner, up an alley to a dead end There under a small blue light She enters an unmarked doorway (A low heartbeat, a low pounding escapes into the night) This is a place she goes to fulfill a very basi...

Look over yonder, Apollo at a distance You can hear his music if you listen to the wind (blow) I want to be there - I want to be right there Bear witness, I'm wailing like the wind Come bear witness, the half-breed rides again In these hands, I've h...

These are the People of the Longhouse These are the People that you tried to break These are the People of the Pines Who Follow the code of handsome lake He drank your poison, swallowed your fire And lay with fever four long years He received a vi...

There was something strange In the sky tonight I was left standing With three moons shining Just on the outskirts of civilization [2x] Indians have always seen the lights Since the beginning of time They drew pictures on the rocks Of our relatives fr...

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One man's trash is another mans treasure One mans pain is another mans pleasure Play too hard play too rough And someday someone's gonna call your bluff Take a stroll off the deep end On the boulevard of broken dreams Took a stroll off the deep en...

The earth keeps on shaking But I'm standing still The chances I'm taking Against my will When we made it to the top We'd watch it fall couldn't stop Everything you leave behind Catches up in another time So just pull over To the side of the...

This was the way of it Let the story fires be lighted Let our circle be strong and full of medicine Hear me This is my dream song that I'm singing for you This is my power song that is taking me to the edge This is rock medicine The talking tree...

With eyes of fire No one can see The smoke from the sweet grass Covers me I am drawn I am drawn to her Like a moth to flame She leads me down unbound I am lost I am lost Has anybody seen me I am lost Oh nothing is forgotten Only...

There's gonna be a change of season Indian summer look around and it's gone Why you wanna save the best for last We grow up so slowly and grow old so fast We don't talk about forever We just catch it while we can And if I grab on to the moment Don't le...

We headed straight south in a sundown light On highway 61 through the delta night We shared the backroads with cardsharks and grifters Tent show evangelists and Luke the Drifter What is lost what is missing What's been gone way too long We had dreams w...

The letter that I sent to you Was it lost in the mail Then tell me why There's no reply Where can she be tonight As I lay here in the dark I reach for you I long for you But you've gone Like the wind And I know That you won't be back again Pictu...

Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit If I thought you were sent by the creator I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me Do not misunderstand me But understand me fully with reference to my affe...

Hearts are worn in these dark ages You're not alone in these stories pages The light has fallen amongst the living and the dying And I'll try to hold it in, yeah, I'll try to hold it in The world is on fire It's more than I can handle I'll tap into the...