The Be Good Tanyas

Well here I am, undone again. I know I'll see you, I just don't know when. Little stars, all a 'twinkling, I wonder where you are, I wonder what you're thinking. I know I gave my heart a little soon, I walk for miles underneath the moon, I sing this sad,...

Just play this one out until it explodes into a thousand tiny pieces What's your story, universe, you are melody in numbers You are shapes, you are rhythms, there are signs that we can learn To place over the heavens, to predict how long we'll burn How lon...

I'll be the wind in your leaves The warmth of the sun I'm always drawing your colors I'm always tracing your footsteps It's a hard world, it's a cold world I could never say what I mean I went looking in all the wrong places There's nothing wrong with...

out in the trees, dirt on our knees we laid him down forever and on that hill there it was still as in the ever after he lays his rest we knew it best to lay him down so gently and now he sleeps where moss does creep and no more is he with me the bir...

All the dogs are haunted And the snow melts on the grass You were what I wanted But the fever could not last In the day, I am dreaming In the night, I am cold While the stars are up there singing All the dogs are growing old No regrets, they're out t...

Don't you fall in love with me Don't show me your affection I can't give you what you want from me I don't want the attention I gave away my heart before And it only caused me sorrow How could I think of loving someone Today or tomorrow (Chorus) I'...

Don't you fall in love with me Don't show me your affection I can't give you what you want from me I don't want the attention I gave away my heart before And it only caused me sorrow How could I think of loving someone Today or tomorrow (Chorus) I'...

In spite of everything around me I hit the floor and my feet kept moving I looked forwards and never backwards I was out the door like a rollin' soldier Impossible to keep a straight line Too young to keep these bitter hearts And all around me, somebody...

All the sailors With their seasick mamas Hear the sirens on the shore, Singin' songs For pimps with tailors Who charge ten dollars At the door. You can really Learn a lot that way It will change you In the middle of the day. Though your confidence...

Where /did we go/ when the blue sky/ turned to liquid? And the cold trees/stood naked all up high/ on the mountain We were growing up… so strong… I have/ found a flower /that is growing/ in the forest And we talked/by the hours… We/ weren't lovers But...

Hello love my old friend Sure is good to see you again I stood out, on the road Just a watchin' the cars A come and go I felt empty, I felt bare I really thought that I could not care All the leaves are soaking wet How succulent a little spring day get...

Oh, "Cold Southern Morning" The "Sun Dun Rose" – "There You Go", oh yeah And "I'll Say" – and "I'll Say," yeah "No Other Way" – the "Hunger," oh yeah Oh, "Son Of Light" "Now Come Inside," "My Lazy Girl" And "So, You Finally Know", oh yeah The "Hunger,"...

Oh there is a house in New Orleans. They call the Rising Sun. It's been the ruin of many young poor girls And God I know I'm one. My mother, she was a tailor, yeah yeah She sewed my new blue jeans My father, he was a gamblin man Down in New Orleans. I got on...

Human Thing (Frazey Ford) Yer a human thing Who yah think that you're foolin 

I wish, I wish my baby was born And sitting on its papa's knee And me, poor girl And me, poor girl, were dead and gone And the green grass growing o'er my feet I ain't ahead, nor never will be Till the sweet apple grows On a sour apple tree But still...

Well, in my time of dying I don't want nobody to moan All I want my friends to do Come and fold my dying arms (Well, well, well) So I can die easy (Well, well, well) So I can die easy (Well, well, well) So I can die easy Jesus gonna make up my dying...

If I wanted to say to you That I wanted to see your face again That I wanted to hear you laugh out loud In spite of all the damage I've done If I wanted to hear you talk ohh no Or to hear your sense of things Or to call you up on a sunday morning In spite of...

The way your mind works Drivin' so fast, carving your way Through the city Well, you can't tell me You get what you want You've figured it out And you're just fine 'Cuz you're talking to yourself You don't hear a thing And all history unfolds before...

The way your mind works Drivin' so fast, carving your way Through the city Well, you can't tell me You get what you want You've figured it out And you're just fine 'Cuz you're talking to yourself You don't hear a thing And all history unfolds before...

Took a walk in my neighborhood It was two in the morning By the skytrain station The streets were full of junkies and homeless And they all wanted something They all wanted something And what am I supposed to do? There are too many of you Too many of you An...

It was on one fine March morning I bid New Orleans adieu. And I was on the road to Jackson town, my fortune to renew, I cursed all foreign money, no credit could I gain, Which filled my heart with longing for the lakes of Pontchartrain. I sat on board...

Wound up drunk again on Robson St. Strange cuz we always agreed At the start of every evening That's the last place I wanna be Coffee drinkers dressed in black with no sugar They don't give me no respect They say look her comes another one And I don't k...

Horses in the meadow Chickens in the stable If you'll be my one true love I'll love you when I'm able Oh I'll love you when I can Well I'll build a little cabin Way back in the pines Yonder come a little black bear With honey on his mind Oh come be m...

Some blues are just blues Mine are the lonesome blues Some blues are just blues Mine are the lonesome blues All the birds flew south for the winter Left me these lonesome blues My baby left me Hitched a train down south My baby left me Hitched a trai...

If you ever feel lonesome And you're down in San Antone Just beg, steal, or borrow Two nickels or a dime, call me on the phone Oh, I'll meet you at Alamo Mission And we will say our prayers The Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mother will heal us As we kneel...

You said to yourself that we did not love you All of the years didn't mean nothing You told yourself we would not forgive you Mistakes that you made would keep us separated Comin' home hard day done Comin' home hard day done Don't you know it's your la...

Lonesome is I, I wished I could die Nobody cares for me Lonesome is I, I wished I could die Nobody cares for me It was a bright moon light night, the moon shining bright When you and I made love Your heart wasn't true, I'll say unto you I moaned like a...

I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee I'm goin' to Louisiana my own true love for to see It rained all night the day I left, the weather was bone dry And the sun so hot I froze to death, Susanna, don't you cry Oh Susanna, don't you cry for me I co...

Run away to the seashore It doesn't matter anymore It doesn't matter anymore Words dry up and fly away With the passing of the days Eventually you just let the stone fall I dreamed that I saw you You were down at the corner store You were looking thr...

In spite of everything around me I hit the floor and my feet kept moving I looked forwards and never backwards I was out the door like a rollin' soldier Impossible to keep a straight line Too young to keep these bitter hearts And all around me, somebody...

Ain't lookin' forward and I ain't lookin' back Aint' lookin' forward and I ain't lookin' back Lordy, seem like every hour sure gon' be my last Minutes feel like hours hours feel like days Minutes feel like hours and hours feel like days well the wind is a-ris...

Out Of The Wilderness (Trad.) Tell me how did you feel, when you come out of the wilderness? How did you feel, when you come out of the wilderness? How did you feel, when you come out of the wilderness? Lean and lonely lord Well, I felt like shouting, w...

Well I married me a wife She gave me trouble all my life She ran me out in the cold rain and snow Rain and snow, rain and snow She ran me out in the cold rain and snow She came a runnin on down the stairs Combin' back her long yellow hair And her cheek...

Well, who's gonna shoe your pretty little foot? Who's gonna glove your hand? Who's gonna kiss your red ruby lips? And who's gonna be your man? Is that you Reuben? Reuben, where have you been so long? Is that you Reuben? Reuben, where have you been so l...

well i ain't gonna marry neither settle down i'm gonna sit right here 'till i tear this barrel house down ain't no use a weepin' and there ain't no need to cry because you got a home just as long as i got mine well i loves you baby and i'll tell the...

Rudy lives on the borderline Between civilisation and basic survival The summertime treats him fairly well But the wintertime is a bitter cold rival It's wintertime now in Georgetown And the streets come alive with the Christmas lights And Rudy sleeps o...

I'm a ship, I'm a ship, I'm a ship Out on the sea None of my love Floating wild come back to me So I write you a letter, I'll write you a letter With this here pen Don't make me wait, don't make me wait 'Cause I'm your friend I'm in love with the gar...

Song For R. (Samantha Parton) You see people coming from all sides With their broken hearts and hollow eyes And you try to love but it's easier to hate When the seed that was planted was watered too late Oooh oh child Oooh oh child Your roots stretch...

Oh the cuckoo she's a pretty bird She warbles as she flies She never hollers coo coo till the fourth day Of July Gonna build me log cabin On a mountain so high So I can see Willie as he goes on by Well I've played cards in Texas And I've played cards...

Took a walk in my neighborhood Two in the morning By the Skytrain Station The streets were full of junkies and homeless And they all wanted something They all wanted something And what am I supposed to do? There are too many of you Too many of you...

Well I feel like an old hobo, I'm sad lonesome and blue I was fair as the summer day Now the summer days are through You pass through places And places pass through you But you carry 'em with you On the souls of your travellin' shoes Well I love you so dearly...

Up against the wall You don't stand so tall Better run, run, run put your armor on again She is 12 years old Nothing she don't know She says you're 32 but you wanna be 16 I know that you did not receive What it was that you needed when you were growin...

Sometimes I don't know where This dirty road is taking me Sometimes I don't know the reason why So I guess I'll keep gamblin' Lots of booze and lots of ramblin' Well, It's easier than just waitin' around to die Well, one time friends, I had a ma I even...

What Are They Doing In Heaven Today (trad.) I'm thinking today of friends that I used to know Who lived and suffered in this world below They're gone off to heaven, but I want to know What are they doing there now? Oh, what are they doing in heaven toda...

Dig if you will the picture Of you and I engaged in a kiss The sweat of your body covers me Can you my darling, can you picture this? Dream if you can a courtyard An ocean of violets in bloom Animals strike [Incomprehensible] poses They feel the heat,...