I Need a Man
Hey, is this my turn?
You want me to sing now?
OK.
Whoa!
I don't care if you won't talk to me
you know I'm not that kind of girl
and I don't care if you won't walk with me
it don't give me such a thrill
and I don't care about the way you look
you should know I'm not impressed
cause there's just one thing that I'm looking for
and he don't wear a dress
I need a man.
I need a man
I need a man
I need a man
Baby baby baby don't you shave your legs
don't you double comb your hair
don't powder puff just leave it rough
I like your fingers bare
when the night comes down
I can turn it round
I can take you anywhere
I don't need love
forget that stuff
you know that I don't care
I need a man
I need a man
I need a man
I need a man
I don't need no heartbreaker
fifty-faced trouble maker
two timing time taker
dirty little money maker
muscle bound cheap skate
low down woman hater…
(incomprehensible gibberish.. Double dater.. Yellow bellied…)
I don't care if you won't talk to me
you know I'm not that kind of girl
and I don't care if you won't walk with me
it don't give me such a thrill
and I don't care about the way you look
you should know I'm not impressed
cause there's just one thing that I'm looking for
and he don't wear a dress
I need a man
leave me alone
I need a man
gonna take me home
I need a man
baby your just overblown
hey boy come on
I'll take you anytime
Annie Lennox
Sweet Dreams are Made of This
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world
And the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something.
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused.
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world
And the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something.
Hold your head up - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up.
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused.
Hold your head up - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up.
Sweet dreams are made of this... ( chorus 4x and fade)
Songbook 1
Angry Inch
My sex-change operation got botched
My guardian angel fell asleep on the watch
Now all I got is a Barbie Doll-crotch
I got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
I got a
I got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
I got a
I got an angry inch
I'm from the land where you still hear the cries
I had to get out, had to sever all ties
I changed my name and assumed a disguise
I got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
I got a
I got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
I got a
I got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
The train is coming and I'm tied to the track
I try to get up but I can't get no slack
I got a
Angry Inch Angry Inch
My mother made my tits out of clay
My boyfriend told me that he'd take me away
They dragged me to the doctor one day
I've got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
I got a
I got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
I got a
I got an angry inch
Long story short
When I woke up from the operation
I was bleeding down there
I was bleeding from the gash between my legs
My first day as a woman
and already it's that time of the month
But two days later
the hole closed up
The wound healed
and I was left with a one inch mound of flesh
where my penis used to be
where my vagina never was
A one inch mound of flesh with a scar running down it
like a sideways grimace
on an eyeless face
Just a little bulge
It was an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
The train is coming and I'm tied to the track
I try to get up but I can't get no slack
I got an
Angry Inch Angry Inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
stay under cover till the night turns to black
I got my inch and I'm set to attack
I got an Angry Inch Angry Inch
Tell Me Why You Cried
Tell me why you cried, and why you ______ to me.
Tell me why you cried, and why you ______to me.
Well I gave you ev'rything I had,
But you left me sitting on my own,
Did you have to treat me oh so ______?
All I do is hang my head and ______.
Tell me why you cried, and why you _______ to me,
Tell me why you cried, and why you _______ to me.
If there's something I have said or done,
Tell me what and I'll apologize,
If you don't really can't go on,
Holding back these tears in my ______.
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me,
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me.
Well I beg you on my bended knees,
If you'll only listen to my ______,
Is there anything I can do,
'cause I really can't stand it, I'm so in love with _____.
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me.
I Should Have Known Better
I should have known better with a girl like you
That I would love everything that you _____.
And I do, hey hey hey, and I do
Whoa, whoa, I
never realized what I kiss could be
this could only happen to _____.
Can't you see, can't you ______.
That when I tell you that I love you, oh
You're gonna say you love me too, hoo, hoo, hoo,
o oh
And when I ask you to be mine
You're gonna say you love me too
So, oh I never realized what I kiss could be
this could only happen to _____.
Can't you see, can't you ____.
That when I tell you that I love you, oh
You're gonna say you love me too, hoo, hoo, hoo,
oh
And when I ask you to be mine
You're gonna say you love me too
Whoa whoa I never realized what I kiss could be
this could only happen to ____.
Can't you see, can't you ______.
That when I tell you that I love you, oh
You're gonna say you love me too, hoo, hoo, hoo,
oh o.
And when I ask you to be mine
You're gonna say you love me too
You love me too
you love me too
She Loves You
She loves you yeh, yeh, yeh,
She loves you yeh, yeh, yeh.
You think you lost your love,
Well I saw her yesterday - yi - yay.
She sats she loves you,
And you know that can’t be bad,
Yes, she loves you,
And you know you should be _______.
She said you hurt her so,
She almost lost her mind,
And now she says she knows,
You’re not the hurting _______.
She says she loves you,
And you know that can’t be bad,
She says she loves you,
And you know you should be _______.
She loves you yeh, yeh, yeh,
She loves you yeh, yeh, yeh.
And with a love like that,
You know you should be glad.
You know it’s up to you,
I think it’s only fair,
Pride can hurt you _____.
Apologize to her.
Because she loves,
And you know that can’t be bad,
Yes, she loves you,
And you know you should be _______.
She loves you yeh, yeh, yeh,
She loves you yeh, yeh, yeh.
With a love like that,
You know you should be glad.
With a love like that,
You know you should be glad.
With a love like that,
You know you should be glad.
Yeh, yeh, yeh,
Yeh, yeh, yeh.
All The Lonely People
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it ______?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from ?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong ?
Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes ________.
Look at him working. Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there.
What does he _______?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody _______.
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved.
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
When I am Sixty Four
When I get older losing my hair
many years from now
will you still be sending me a valentine
birthday greeting, bottle of ______.
If I'd been out till quarter to three
would you lock the door
Will you still need ______?
Will you still feed me?
When I'm sixty-four.
You'll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with _____.
I could be handy mending a fuse
when your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings, go for a _______.
Doing the garden, digging the weeds.
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me?
Will you still feed me?
When I'm sixty- _____.
Every summer we can rent a cottage on the
Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck, and ______.
Send me a postcard, drop me a line
stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say.
Yours sincerely wasting _______.
Give me your answer fill in a form
mine forever ______.
Will you still need me?
Will you still feed me?
When I'm sixty-four.
Only A Northern Song
If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going ______.
But they're not;
He just wrote it like that.
It doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song
It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it's only a Northern song.
When you're listening late at night
You may think the band are not quite _______.
But they are, they just play it like that
It doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song.
It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it's only a Northern song.
If you think the harmony
Is a little dark and out of ______
You're correct, there's nobody there.
It doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
And I told you there's no one there
Nowhere Man
He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his nowhere land,
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going _____,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man, please listen,
You don't know what you're ________,
Nowhere man, the world is at your command.
He's a blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to _____,
Nowhere man can you see me at all?
Nowhere man, don't worry,
Take your time, don't _______,
Leave it all till somebody else lends you a hand.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going ______,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man, please listen,
You don't know what you're ________,
Nowhere man, the world is at your command.
He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his nowhere land,
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody,
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody,
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmelade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope ______.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her ______,
And she's gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow ______,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass _____,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with the kaleidoscope ______
Lucy in the sky with diamonds...
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
It was twenty years ago today,
Sgt. Pepper taught the band to ______.
They've been going in and out of style.
But they're guaranteed to raise a _______.
So may I introduce to you
The act you've known for all these years,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
We hope you will enjoy the show,
We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
Sit back and let the evening ______.
Sgt. Pepper's lonely, Sgt. Pepper's lonely,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
It's wonderful to be here,
It's certainly a thrill.
You're such a lovely audience,
We'd like to take you home with us,
We'd love to take you home.
I don't really want to stop the show,
But I thought that you might like to ______,
That the singer's going to sing a song,
And he wants you all to sing _______.
So let me introduce to you
The one and only Billy Shears
And Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
All You Need Is Love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
There's nothing you can do that can't be __________.
Nothing you can sing that can't be __________.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be ________.
No one you can save that can't be ________.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It's easy.
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is __________________.
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
There's nothing you can know that isn't ________.
Nothing you can see that isn't ________.
No where you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
Hey Bulldog
Sheep dog standing in the rain
Bull frog doing it _______.
Some kind of happiness is measured out in miles
What makes you think you're something special when you ________ ?
Child-like no one understands
Jack-knife in your sweaty ______
Some kind of innocence is measured out in years
You don't know what it's like to listen to your _______.
You can talk to me, you can talk to me
You can talk to me, if you're lonely you can talk to me
Big man (yeah) walking in the park
Wigwam frightened of the ________.
Some kind of solitude is measured out in you
You think you know it but you haven't got a _____.
You can talk to me, you can talk to me
You can talk to me, if you're lonely you can talk to me hey
Hey bulldog (woof), hey bulldog, hey bulldog
Hey man who's that boy? - woof!
Wha'd'ya say? - I said woof!
D'y' know any more? - wowu-wa ah! ha ha!
You got him! get him! ... get him man! ... get him! you got him!...
Quiet boy, quiet! (okay) quiet!
Hey bulldog...
All Together Now
One, two, three, four
Can I have a little _______?
five, six, seven eight nine ten I love you.
A, B, C, D
Can I bring my friend to _____?
E, F, G H I J I love you.
Sail the ship, Jump the tree
Skip the rope, Look at _____.
All together now....
Black, white, green, red
Can I take my friend to _____?
Pink, brown, yellow orange blue I love you
All together now....
Sail the ship, Jump the tree
Skip the rope, Look at ____.
All together now....
The Heart of Rock & Roll
New York, New York, is everything they say
And no place I'd rather be.
Where else can you do a half a million things
all at a quarter to three?
When they play their music, ooh that modern music
They like it with a lot of style.
But it's still that same old back beat rhythm
That really really drives 'em wild.
They say the heart of rock and roll is still beating
And from what I've seen I believe 'em.
Now the old boy may be barely breathing,
but the heart of rock and roll heart of rock n roll is still beating
LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip
Is something everyone should see.
Neon lights and the pretty pretty girls
all dressed so scantily
When they play their music
That hard rock music
They like it with a lot of flash.
But it's still that same old back beat rhythm
That really really kicks 'em in the…
They say the heart of rock and roll is still beating
And from what I've seen I believe 'em
Now the old boy may be barely breathing
But the heart of rock and roll, heart of rock n roll, is still beating.
DC, San Antone and the Liberty Town, Boston and Baton Rouge
Tulsa, Austin, Oklahoma City, Seattle, San Francisco, too.
Everywhere there's music, real live music, bands with a million styles
But it's still that some old rock and roll music
that really really drives 'em wild.
The the the they say the heart of rock and roll is still beating
And from what I've seen I believe 'em
Now the old boy may be barely breathing
But the heart of rock and roll is still beating
Huey Lewis & the News
We’re Going To Be Friends
Fall is here, hear the yell
back to school, ring the bell
brand new shoes, walking blues
climb the fence, books and pens
I can tell that we're going to be friends
Walk with me, Suzy Lee
through the park and by the tree
we will rest upon the ground
and look at all the bugs we found
safely walk to school without a sound
safely walk to school without a sound
Here we are, no one else
we walked to school all by ourselves
there's dirt on our uniforms
from chasing all the ants and worms
we clean up and now its time to learn
we clean up and now its time to learn
Numbers, letters, learn to spell
nouns, and books, and show and tell
at playtime we will throw the ball
back to class, through the hall
teacher marks our height against the wall
teacher marks our height against the wall
We don't notice any time pass
we don't notice anything
we sit side by side in every class
teacher thinks that I sound funny
but she likes the way you sing
Tonight I'll dream while in my bed
when silly thoughts go through my head
about the bugs and alphabet
and when I wake tommorow I'll bet
that you and I will walk together again
I can tell that we're going to be friends
White Stripes
Little Room
Well you're in your little room
And you're working on something good
But if it's really good
You're gonna need a bigger room
And when you're in the bigger room
You might not know what to do
You might have to think of
How you got started
Sitting in your little room
Nice and Lovely
She's nice
And extremly lovely
I want somebody to come tickle mi fancy
Shaggy and Rayvon again man
Rayvon
A shooby dooby doo, oooh, oooh
Shooby dooby doo, nice and lovely
Shooby dooby doo, she is the girl for me
Shooby dooby doo, ey
She have me nice and lovely, sweet and sexy now
She is the girl for me
She have me nice and lovely, sweet and sexy now
She is the girl for me
Because me love how she move and me love how she flex
Another man watch it, man I go get vexed
Over I'm burnt she a buss cold sweat
'Cause she is the girl for me
I said she is the girl for me
SHAGGY
She is mi nice and lovely, yes how she love me, girl
So come tickle up mi fancy
Nice and lovely, watch how she love me, girl
So come tickle up mi fancy
Hot and she buff, healthy and she rough
I want a young girl, she is mi extra stuff
She's my ebony, she is my chocolate fudge
My hot chocolate, you know what she confess
Well Rayvon and Shaggy rasta know say with rough
Another number one for make the world shake up
She is mi nice and lovely, yes how she love me, girl
So come tickle up mi fancy
Nice and lovely, watch how she love me, girl
So come tickle up mi fancy
Rayvon
She have me nice and lovely, sweet and sexy now
She is the girl for me
She have me nice and lovely, sweet and sexy now
She is the girl for me
A shooby dooby doo, woooh, oooh
Shooby dooby doo, nice and lovely
Shooby dooby doo, give me mi ebony
Shooby dooby doo, nice and lovely
SHAGGY
Ugh
She deh here, Jah know say she rough
She is my ebony, she is my chocolate fudge
I kiss her pon her lips and make her lipstick smudge
Well girl me a your man, you know say me now budge
Gal your body ready and a you them a grudge
Rayvon and Shaggy with the nice enough
A new brand style for make the world shake up
She is mi nice and lovely, yes how she love me, girl
So come tickle up mi fancy
Nice and lovely, yes how she love me, girl, ha-ha
Come tickle up mi fancy
Rayvon
She have me nice and lovely and me naw stop say so
If she had a thumb then me had a big toe
And two of we together let go drear fi flow
'Cause she is the girl for me
I said she is the girl for me
Because me love how she move and me love how she flex
Another man watch it, man I go get vexed
Over I'm burnt she a buss cold sweat
'Cause she is the girl for me
Yes, she is the girl for me
SHAGGY
She have me nice and lovely, yes how she love me, girl, ha-ha
Come tickle up mi fancy
Nice and lovely, yes how she love me, girl, oh girl
Come tickle up mi fancy
Hot and she buff, she healthy and she rough
Want a young girl now with the extra stuff
She's mi ebony, she is mi nice enough
My hot chocolate, girl and you confess(She is the girl for me)
I kiss her pon her lips and make her lipstick smudge
Rayvon and Shaggy with the nice enough
A new brand one for make the world jump up
She is mi nice and lovely, yes how she love me, girl (She is the girl for me)
So come tickle up mi fancy (Nice and lovely)
Nice and lovely... (Give me mi my ebony)
Shaggy
INNOCENT WHEN YOU DREAM
The bats are in the belfry
the dew is on the moor
where are the arms that held me
and pledged her love before
and pledged her love before
Chorus
It's such a sad old feeling
the fields are soft and green
Its memories that I'm stealing
but you're innocent when you dream
when you dream
you're innocent when you dream
running through the graveyard
we laughed my friends and I
we swore we'd be together
until the day we died
until the day we died
Repeat Chorus
I made a golden promise
that we would never part
I gave my love a locket
and then I broke her heart
and then I broke her heart
Tom Waits
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Tom Waits
FRANK’S WILD YEARS
Well Frank settled down in the Valley
and hung his wild years
on a nail that he drove through
his wife's forehead
he sold used office furniture
out there on San Fernando Road
and assumed a $30,000 loan
at 15 1/4 % and put down payment
on a little two bedroom place
his wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
made good bloody marys
kept her mouth shut most of the time
had a little Chihuahua named Carlos
that had some kind of skin disease
and was totally blind. They had a
thoroughly modern kitchen
self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
Frank drove a little sedan
they were so happy
One night Frank was on his way home
from work, stopped at the liquor store,
picked up a couple Mickey's Big Mouths
drank 'em in the car on his way
to the Shell station, he got a gallon of
gas in a can, drove home, doused
everything in the house, torched it,
parked across the street, laughing,
watching it burn, all Halloween
orange and chimney red then
Frank put on a top forty station
got on the Hollywood Freeway
headed north
Never could stand that dog
Tom Waits
MORE THAN RAIN
It's more than rain that falls on our parade tonight
it's more than thunder, it's more than thunder
And it’s more than a bad dream
now that I’m sober
Nothing but sad times, nothing but sad times
None of our pockets are lined with gold
Nobody has caught the bouquet
There are no dead presidents we can fold
nothing is going our way
And it’s more than trouble
I’ve got myself into
and it's more than woe-be-gotten grey skies now
And it’s more than a bad dream
Now that I’m sober
There’s no more dancing
There’s no more dancing
And it’s more than trouble
I’ve got myself into
Nothing but sad times, nothing but sad times
None of our pockets are lined with gold
Nobody has caught the bouquet.
There’s no dead presidents.
We can fold
Nothing is going our way
And it's more than goodbye
I have to say to you
It’s more than woe begotten grey skies now
And it's more than goodbye
I have to say to you
It’s more than woe begotten grey skies now
And it’s more than woe begotten grey skies now
Tom Waits
HANG ON SAINT CHRISTOPHER
Hang on St. Christopher through the smoke and the oil
Buckle down the rumble seat
let the radiator boil
got an overhead downshift
and a two dollar grill
got an 85 cabin
on an 85 hill
hang on St. Christopher on the passenger side
open it up tonight the devil can ride
hang on St. Christopher with a barrel house dog
kick me up mt. baldy
throw me out in the fog
tear a hole in the jack pot
drive a stake through his heart
do a 100 on the grapevine
do a jump on the start
hang on St. Christopher now don't let me go
get me to Reno and bring it in low, yeah
hang on St. Christopher with the hammer to the floor
put a hi ball in the crank case
nail a crow to the door
get a bottle for the jockey
gimme a 294
there's a 750 Norton bustin' down January's door
hang on St. Christopher on the passenger side
open it up tonight the devil can ride
hang on St. Christopher now don't let me go
get to Reno got to bring it in low
put my baby on the flat car
got to burn down the caboose
get 'em all jacked up on whiskey
then we'll turn the mad dog loose
hang on St. Christopher on the passenger side
open it up tonight the devil can ride on yeah
Tom Waits
COLD COLD GROUND
Crest fallen sidekick in an old cafe
never slept with a dream before he had to go away
there's a bell in the tower
Uncle Ray bought a round
don't worry about the army
in the cold cold ground
now don't be a cry baby
when there's wood in the shed
there's a bird in the chimmney
and a stone in my bed
when the road's washed out
they pass the bottle around
and wait in the arms
of the cold cold ground
cold cold ground
there's a ribbon in the willow
and a tire swing rope
and a briar patch of berries
takin over the slope
the cat'll sleep in the mailbox
and we'll never go to town
til we bury every dream in
the cold cold ground
cold cold ground
gimme a Winchester rifle and a whole box of shells
blow the roof off the goat barn
let it roll down the hill
the piano is firewood
times square is a dream
I find we'll lay down together in the cold cold ground
cold cold ground
cold cold ground
call the cops on the Breedloves
bring a bible and a rope
and a whole box of rebel
and a bar of soap
make a pile of trunk tires
and burn 'em all down
bring a dollar with you baby
in the cold cold ground
cold cold ground
take a weathervane rooster
throw rocks at his head
stop talking to the neighbors
til we all go dead
beware of my temper
and the dog that I've found
break all the windows in the
cold cold ground
cold cold ground
Tom Waits
GOIN OUT WEST (from Fight Club – Not on tape)
Well Im going out west
Where the wind blows tall
cause tony franciosa
Used to date my ma
They got some money out there
Theyre giving it away
Im gonna do what I want
Do what I want
And Im gonna get paid
Little brown sausages
Lying in the sand
I aint no extra baby
Im a leading man
Well my parole officer
Will be proud of me
With my olds 88
And the devil on a leash
My olds 88
And the devil on a leash
Well I kno karate, voodoo too
Im gonna make myself available to you
I dont need no make up
I got real scars
I got hair on my chest
I look good without a shirt
Well I dont lose my composure
In a high speed chase
Well my friends think Im ugly
I got a masculine face
I got some dragstrip courage
I can really drive a bed
Im gonna change my name
To hannibal or maybe
Just rex
Change my name to hannibal
Or maybe just rex
Im gonna drive all night
Take some speed
Im gonna wait for the sun
To shine down on me
I cut a hole in my roof
In the shape of a heart
And Im going out west
Where theyll appreciate me
Going out west
Going out west
THE ADVENTURES OF GREGORY PECKARY
Narrator: The adventures of GREGGERY PECCARY!
Greggery: Oh, here comes GREGGERY,
Little GREGGERY PECCARY
The nocturnal gregarious
Wild swine . . .
Narrator: A peccary is a little pig with a white collar that usually hangs around between Texas and Paraguay, sometimes ranging as far west as Catalina
Greggery: Catalina, Catalina, Catalina!
Narrator: This particular peccary is part of that bold . . .
Greggery: Bold . . .
Narrator: New . . .
Greggery: New . . .
Narrator: Breed . . .
Greggery: Breeding . . .
Narrator: That distinguishes itself by markings which resemble a WIDE TIE directly below the white collar
Greggery: If it's wide enough
Everyone will know
That the tie I'm wearing
Is a symbol
Of how nimble my mind will know
Ooh-ooh!
Narrator: (Swank suave!)
Greggery: Hoon-hoon hoonna-han
Hoonna hoonna
Narrator: Look out!
Here he comes again!
Greggery: Oh here comes GREGGERY PECCARY
Yes it's cravy, cravy, yeah . . .
Hoonna-han
Hoonna-han
Narrator: Every morning, GREGGERY drives his little red Volkswagen to the ugly part of town where they keep the Government Buildings.
Greggery: Voodn, Voodn!
Boy it's so hard to find a place to park around here!
Voo-voo-voo-nya-hoon
Narrator: GREGGERY PECCARY takes the elevator up to the eighty-third floor of a grim, gray, evil-looking building with a sign on the front reading: 'BIG SWIFTY & ASSOCIATES, TREND-MONGERS'.
And what, might you ask, is a TREND MONGER? Well, a TREND MONGER is a person who dreams up a TREND (like 'The Twist' ---or 'Flower Power'), and spreads it throughout the land, using all the frightening little skills that Science has made available!
And so it was, one fateful morning, GREGGERY PECCARY made his way through the Steno Pool . . .
Greggery: Hi Mildred!
Hello Gladys!
WANDA!
Narrator: Yes, from the moment they laid eyes on him, all the girls in the BIG SWIFTY Steno Pool KNEW . . . here was a nocturnal, gregarious wild swine ON HIS WAY UP . . . a PECCARY of Destiny, Adventure and ROMANCE . . .
Greggery: Is there any mail for me?
Stenographers: SWIFTY'S!
THIS IS BIG SWIFTY'S!
AT BIG SWIFTY'S WE ALL KNOW-OW-OW
(WO-WO)
YOU'LL GO
FOR ANY GIMMICK OR GIZMO!
Greggery: WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE INVOLVED
IN A SERIES OF COLORFUL
TIME-WASTING TRENDS?
Narrator: AIR HOCKEY . . . biff . . . dush-h-h!
Stenographers: LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA
YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP
Greggery: IS YOUR WIFE SNORING BY THE SINK?
Stenographers: LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA
YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP
Greggery: AIN'T YOUR LIFE BORING, DON'TCHA THINK?
Stenographers: YOUP YOUP YOUP-YOUP-YOUP YOUP YOUP
Greggery: LIFE IS SO MUCH BETTER
WHEN THERE'S SOME LITTLE SOMETHING
TO DO!
Narrator: Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a LIFE for you? Hmmmmm?
Greggery: I must plummet boldly forward to my ultra-avant laminated, simulated replica-mahogany desk, with the strategically-placed, imported, very hip water pipe, and the latest edition of the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG, and rack my agile mind for a spectacular new TREND, thereby rejuvenating our limping economy, and providing for bored & miserable people everywhere some great new 'THING' to identify with!
Stenographers: WE HAVE GOT THE LITTLE ANSWERS
TO THE THINGS
THAT MIGHT BE BOTHERING YOU!
Greggery: WE HAVE GOT YOUR LITTLE TOYS!
Stenographers: (WE'RE BUSY MAKIN' 'EM!)
BUSY MAKIN' 'EM,
WE'RE BUSY MAKIN' 'EM
Greggery: BUSY MAKIN' EM
Stenographers: JUST FOR YOU!
Yoo-hoo-hoo!
Greggery: Highly efficient, Miss Snodgrass!
Narrator: And with that, GREGGERY turned and strode nonchalantly into his dinky little office with the desk and the catalog and the very hip water pipe, and proceeded, with a vigor and determination known only to piglets of a similarly diminutive proportion, to single-handedly invent THE CALENDAR!
With his eyes rolled heaven-ward, and his little shiny pig-hoofs on the desk, GREGGERY ponders the question of ETERNITY (and fractional divisions thereof), as mysterious ANGELIC VOICES sing to him from a great distance, providing the necessary clues for the construction of this thrilling new TREND!
Angelic Voices: SUNDAY
Greggery: Sunday?
WOW!
SUNDAY, SATURDAY . . . TUESDAY THROUGH
'MONDAY - MONDAY'!
SUNDAY, SATURDAY
Narrator: And thus THE CALENDAR, in all of its colorful disguises was presented to the bored & miserable people everywhere!
GREGGERY issued a memo on it, whereupon the entire contents of the Steno Pool identified with it STRENUOUSLY, and WORSHIPPED IT as a WAY OF LIFE, and took their little pills by it, and went back 'n forth from work by it, and paid their rent by it, and before long they were even having BIRTHDAY PARTIES IN THE OFFICE by it, because NOW, AT LAST, GREGGERY PECCARY's exciting new invention had made it possible for everyone to find out HOW OLD THEY WERE!
Greggery: What hath GOD wrought?
Narrator: Unfortunately, there were some people who simply DID NOT WISH TO KNOW, and that's why, on his way home from the office one night, GREGGERY was attacked by a RAGE OF HUNCHMEN!
Making his way through the evening traffic, GREGGERY notices that the other vehicles which crowd and bump his little red car are all inhabited by slowly-aging 'VERY HIP YOUNG PEOPLE.'
They appear to be casting sinister glances toward him through their glinting acid burn-out eyeballs, trying to run him off the road, or make him bump into something . . . giving strong evidence of HOSTILE AGGRESSION!
To elude them, GREGGERY takes the SHORT FOREST EXIT off the expressway. They zoom after him in all manner of cars, trucks, garishly-painted buses, and motorcycles.
GREGGERY takes a bumpy trail off the main SHORT FOREST ROAD, which leads him up the side of a FAMOUS (and conveniently placed) MOUNTAIN, and into a strange cave on the edge of a cliff, not far from a LITTLE TWISTED TREE . . . with eyes on it.
Meanwhile, the enraged HUNCHMEN (and HUNCH-WOMEN) rumble through the SHORT FOREST until (realizing the little swine has escaped), they decide to park their steaming vehicles in a circular pseudo-Wagon Train formation . . . and have a LOVE-IN!
Under the influence of a fantastic amount of TRENDY CHEMICAL AMUSEMENT AID, they proceed to perform lewd acts, rip each other off for small personal possessions, and dance with depraved abandon in the vicinity of a six-foot pile of transistor radios (each one tuned to a different station).
Greggery: WHAT?
Narrator: The HUNCHMEN finally expire from exhaustion, and GREGGERY, who has viewed the proceedings from a safe distance, breathes a sigh of relief . . .
Greggery: Phew!
Narrator: Only to be terrified once again by a roar of immense laughter . . .
Billy: HO! HO! HO!
Narrator: Which seems to be rumbling up from the very depths of the cave in which he has hidden his car!
Greggery: Good Lord! What was that?
Narrator: GREGGERY doesn't realize he has concealed himself inside the very mouth of
Billy: HO! HO! HO!
Narrator: BILLY THE MOUNTAIN!
Billy: HO! HO! HO!
Narrator: And, as you all know, whenever BILLY laughs, rocks and boulders hack up, and the air for miles around is filled with tons of dust, forming a series of huge BROWN CLOUDS!
Greggery: WHO IS MAKING THOSE NEW BROWN CLOUDS?
WHO IS MAKING THOSE CLOUDS THESE DAYS?
WHO IS MAKING THOSE NEW BROWN CLOUDS?
BETTER ASK A PHILOSTOPHER 'N SEE WHAT HE SAYS!
Narrator: GREGGERY stops at a gas station and makes a mysterious phone call . . .
Greggery: IS THIS THE OLD LOFT
WITH THE PAINT PEELIN' OFF IT
BY THE CHINESE POLICE
WHERE THE DOGS ROLL BY?
IS THIS WHERE THEY KEEP
THE PHILOSTOPHERS NOW,
WITH THE RUGS & THE DUST,
WHERE THE BOOKS GO TO DIE?
HOW MANY YEZ GOT?
SAY YEZ GOT QUITE A FEW,
JUST SITTIN' AROUND THERE
WITH NOTHIN' TO DO?
WELL I JUST CALLED YEZ UP
'CAUSE I WANTED TO SEE
A PHILOSTOPHER BE
OF ASSISTANCE TO ME!
Narrator: GREGGERY receives information that 'The Greatest Living PHILOSTOPHER Known to Mankind' is currently in possession of the very information in question, and, furthermore, this information could be HIS, if only GREGGERY would attend a 'SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC GROUP ASSEMBLY' (Classes now forming), and available at a special low low introductory fee . . . and now, here he is, 'The Greatest Living PHILOSTOPHER Known to Mankind', QUENTIN ROBERT DeNAMELAND! Take it away!
Quentin: Folks, as you can see for yourself, the way this clock over here is behaving, TIME IS OF AFFLICTION! Now this might be cause for alarm among a portion of you, as, from a certain experience, I TEND TO PROCLAIM: 'THE EONS ARE CLOSING'!
Narrator: Make your checks payable to 'QUENTIN ROBERT DeNAMELAND, Greatest Living Philostopher Known to Mankind'!
Greggery: WHO IS MAKING THOSE NEW BROWN CLOUDS?
WHO IS MAKING THOSE CLOUDS THESE DAYS?
WHO IS MAKING THOSE NEW BROWN CLOUDS?
IF YOU ASK A PHILOSTOPHER, HE'LL SEE
THAT YOU PAYS!
GIDDY-UP-A-DING-DONG
Come on folks, and get in the groove, we gotta move......
I went ridin' the other night
Two colour horse, oh my what a sight!
The name of my horse was Ding Dong
While we was ridin' and singin' a song
Giddy up, giddy up a Ding Dong (repeat)
We rode and we rode the whole night through
My horse was tired, I was too
I had a date with ma girl at eight
Come on Ding Dong we can't be late
I said
Giddy up, giddy up a Ding Dong (repeat)
Got to her house and I got down
There was the toughest guy in town
If I went in, he might use force
Mounted up again and I said to my horse
Giddy up, giddy up a Ding Dong (repeat)
Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh You got to giddy up a Ding dong, etc
来在伙计, 和得到在凹线, 我们得到行动......
我去ridin ' 另一夜
二种颜色马, oh 我真是视域!
我的马的名字是丁・东
当我们是ridin ' 和singin ' 歌曲
轻浮, 轻浮丁・东(重覆)
我们乘坐了并且我们通过乘坐了整夜
我的马是疲乏, 我也是是
我有一个日期与ma 女孩在八
来在丁・东我们无法是晚
我说
轻浮, 轻浮丁・东(重覆)
得到对她房子和我到传达
有顽固的家伙在镇里
如果我参加了, 他也许使用力量
登上再和我对我的马说
轻浮, 轻浮丁・东(重覆)
Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh 您得到了对轻浮丁东, 等
NE X T
Naked a sin
An army towel, covering my belly
Some of us weep, some of us howl
Knees turn to jelly, but Next! Next!
I was just a child
A hundred like me
I followed a naked body
A naked body followed me, Next! Next!
I was just a child when my innocence was lost
In a mobile army whorehouse
A gift of the army, free of cost. Next! Next! Next!
Me, I really would have liked a little bit of tenderness
Maybe a word, maybe a smile, maybe some happiness, but Next! Next!
Oh, it was not so tragic
and heaven did not fall
But how much at that time
I hated being there at all, Next! Next!
I still recall the brothel trucks, the flying flags
The queer lieutenant slapped our arses
He's thinking we are fags. Next! Next! Next!
I swear on the wet head of my
First case of gonorrhea
It is his ugly voice that I forever fear, Next! Next!
A voice that stinks of whiskey, corpses and of mud
The voice of nations
The thick voice of blood, Next! Next!
Since then each woman I have taken into bed
They seem to lie in my arms
And they whisper in my head, Next! Next!
Oh, the naked and the dead
Could hold each other's hands
As they watch me dream at night
In a dream that nobody understands
And though I am not dreaming in a voice grown dry 'n' hollow
I stand on endless naked lines of the following and the followed
The Next! Next!
One day I'll cut my legs off
I'll burn myself alive
I'll do anything to get out of life, to survive
Not ever to be next, Next! Next!
Not ev....er... to be next, not ev............er.....ahh
Alex Harvey
THE TORTURE NEVER STOPS
Flies all green and buzzin’
In this dungeon of despair
Prisoners grumble
And piss they clothes
Scratch their matted hair
A tiny light from a window-hole
a hundred yards away
That all they ever get to know
about the regular life in the day
about the regular life in the day
Stinks so bad the stones been chokin
Weepin greenish drops
In the den where
The giant fire puffer woiks
And the torture never stops
The torture never stops
Slime and rot and rats and snot
And vomit on the floor
Fifty hillbilly soldiers men
Holdin’ spears by the iron door
Knives and spikes
And guns and the like
Of every tool of pain
And a sinsiter midget
With a bucket and a mop
Where the blood goes down the drain
And it stinks so bad, stones been chokin’
Weepin’ greenish drops
In the room where
The giant fire puffer woiks
And the torture never stops
The torture never stops,
The torture never stops
The torture never stops
Etc.
Flies all green and buzzin’
In this dungeon of despair
An evil prince eats a steamin’ pig
In a chamber right near there
He eats de snouts and the trotters first!
The loins and the groins is soon dispersed
His carvin style is well rehearsed
He stands and shouts
All men be cursed (4x)
And disagree it, well no one durst
He’s the best of course of all the worst
Some wrong been done
he done it first
It stinks so bad his bones been chokin’
Weepin’ greenish drops
In the room the night of the iron sausage
Where the torture never stops
The torture never stops,
the torture never stops,
the torture
the torture
The torture never stops
Flies all green and buzzin’
In the dungeon of despair
Who are all those people
That is locked away down there
Are they crazy?
Are they saddy?
Are they zeroes someone painted
It has never been explained
Since it first was created
But a dungeon like sin
Requires not but locking in
Of everything that’s ever been
Look at her
Look at him
That’s what’s the deal were dealin’ in
That’s what’s the deal were dealin’ in
That’s what’s the deal were dealin’ in
That’s what’s the deal were dealin’ in
LITTLE MISS PINKY
I got a girl with a little rubber head
Rinse her out every night just before I go to bed
She never talked back like a lady might do
And she looks like she loves it every time I get through
And her name is p-i-n-k-y
P-i- ain’t no lie
K-y me-oh-my
$69. 95, give her a try
P-i-n-k-y
P-i-n i cry
K-Y, don't be shy
$69. 95 boy, give her a try
Her eyes 's all shut in an ecstasy face
You can cram it down her throat, people, any old place
Throw a little switch on her battery pack
You can poot it, you can shoot it till your wife gets back
And her name is p-i-n-k-y
P-i-n i cry
K-Y don't be shy
$69. 95 boy, give her a try
I got a girl with a little rubber head
Rinse her out every night just before I go to bed
She never talked back like a lady might do
And she looks like she loves it every time I get through
Her eyes 's all shut in an ecstasy face
You can cram it down her throat, people, any old place
Throw a little switch on her battery pack
You can poot it, you can shoot it till your wife gets back
You can poot it, you can shoot it till your wife gets back
You can poot it, you can shoot it till your wife gets back
Etc.
Songbook 2
Perfect Day
Just a perfect day,
Drink Sangria in the park,
And then later, when it gets dark,
We go home.
Just a perfect day,
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later, a movie, too,
And then home.
Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.
Just a perfect day,
Problems all left alone,
Weekenders on our own.
It's such fun.
Just a perfect day,
You made me forget myself.
I thought I was someone else,
Someone good.
Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow
Lou Reed
Walk on the Wild Side
Holly came from miami f.l.a.
Hitch-hiked her way across the u.s.a.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her leg and then he was a she
She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side
Candy came from out on the island
In the backroom she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was given head
She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls go
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo)
Little joe never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay
A hustle here and a hustle there
New york city is the place where they said
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said hey joe, take a walk on the wild side
Sugar plum fairy came and hit the streets
Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat
Went to the apollo
You should have seen him go go go
They said, hey sugar, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
All right, huh
Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was james dean for a day
Then i guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that dash
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls say
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo etc.)
Lou Reed
I Wanna Be Black
I wanna be black, have natural rhythm
Shoot twenty foot of jism too
And fuck up the jews
I wanna be black, i wanna be a panther
Have a girlfriend named samantha
And have a stable of foxy whores
Oh, oh, i wanna be black
I don't wanna be a fucked up
Middle class college student anymore
I just wanna have a stable of
Foxy little whores
Yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
Oh, oh, i wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
I wanna be black, wanna be like martin luther king
And get myself shot in the spring
And lead a whole generation, too
And fuck up the jews
I wanna be black, i wanna be like malcolm x
And cast a hex
Over president kennedy's tomb
And have a big prick, too
Oh, i don't wanna be a fucked up
Middle class college student no more
Yeah, i just wanna have a
Stable of foxy little whores
Yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
I wanna be black
I wanna be black
I wanna be black
I wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(yeah, yeah, i wanna be black, oh, oh)
(yeah, yeah, i wanna be black, oh, oh)
(yeah, yeah, i wanna be black, oh, oh)
(yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
In Berlin
In Berlin, by the wall
You were five foot ten inches tall
It was very nice
Candlelight and dubonnet on ice
We were in, a small cafe
You could hear the guitars play
It was very nice
Oh honey, it was paradise.
Satelite of Love
Satellite's gone
Up to the skies
Thing like that drive me
Out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I like to watch things on tv
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of
Satellite's gone
Way up to mars
Soon it will be filled
With parking cars
I watch it for a little while
I love to watch things on tv
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of
I've been told that you've been bold
With harry, mark and john
Monday, tuesday, wednesday to thursday
With harry, mark and john
Satellite's gone
Up to the skies
Thing like that drive me
Out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on tv
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You
Packing up and I'm leaving this place.
I don't believe you'll cry, there'll be a smile upon your face.
I didn't think how much you'd hurt me.
That's something that I laugh about.
Bring in the good times, baby.
And let the bad times out.
That old sun keeps on shining,
But someday it won't shine for you.
In the morning I'll be leaving.
I'll leave your mother too.
Jethro Tull
A Christmas Song
Once in Royal David's City stood a lowly cattle shed,
where a mother laid her baby.
You'd do well to remember the things He later said.
When you're stuffing yourselves at the Christmas parties,
you'll laugh when I tell you to take a running jump.
You're missing the point I'm sure does not need making;
that Christmas spirit is not what you drink.
So how can you laugh when your own mother's hungry
and how can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?
And if I messed up your thoughtless pleasures,
remember, if you wish, this is just a Christmas song.
Hey, Santa... pass us that bottle, will you?
Bouree
(Instrumental)
Pussy Willow
In the half-tone light of a young morning
She sighs and shifts on the pillow.
And across her face dancing, the first shadows fly
To kiss the pussy willow.
In her fairy-tale world she's a lost soul singing
In a sad voice nobody hears.
She waits in her castle of make-believing
For her white knight to appear.
Pusy willow --- down fur-lined avenue
Brushing the sleep from her young woman eyes.
Runs for the train --- see, eight o'clock's coming
Cutting dreams down to size again.
Pussy willow --- down fur-lined avenue
Brushing the sleep from her young woman eyes.
Runs from the train. hear her typewriter humming
Cutting dreams down to size again.
She longs for the east and a pale dress flowing
An apartment in old mayfair.
Or to fish the spey, spinning the first run of spring
Or to die for a cause somewhere.
Pussy willow --- down fur-lined avenue
Brushing the sleep from her young woman eyes.
Runs from the train. hear her typewriter humming
Cutting dreams down to size again.
Locomotive Breath
In the shuffling madess
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all-time loser,
Headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
Steam breaking on his brow --
Old charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
In bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees --
Old charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up gideons bible --
Open at page one --
Old charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down
Jethro Tull
Stir it Up
Stir it up; little darlin', stir it up. come on, baby.
Come on and stir it up: little darlin', stir it up. o-oh!
It's been a long, long time, yeah!
(stir it, stir it, stir it together)
Since i got you on my mind. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) oh-oh!
Now you are here (stir it, stir it, stir it together), i said,
It's so clear
There's so much we could do, baby, (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Just me and you.
Come on and stir it up; ..., little darlin'!
Stir it up; come on, baby!
Come on and stir it up, yeah!
Little darlin', stir it up! o-oh!
I'll push the wood (stir it, stir it, stir it together),
Then i blaze ya fire;
Then i'll satisfy your heart's desire. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Said, i stir it every (stir it, stir it, stir it together),
Every minute:
All you got to do, baby, (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Is keep it in, eh!
(stir it up) oh, little darlin',
Stir it up; ..., baby!
Come on and stir it up, oh-oh-oh!
Little darlin', stir it up! wo-oh! mm, now, now.
Quench me when i'm thirsty;
Come on and cool me down, baby, when i'm hot. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Your recipe is, - darlin' - is so tasty,
When you show and stir your pot. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
So: stir it up, oh!
Little darlin', stir it up; wo, now!
Come on and stir it up, oh-ah!
Little darlin', stir it up!
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/guitar solo/
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Oh, little darlin', stir it up. come on, babe!
Come on and stir it up, wo-o-a!
Little darlin', stir it up! stick with me, baby!
Come on, come on and stir it up, oh-oh!
Little darlin', stir it up. /fadeout/
No Woman No Cry
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
Said - said - said: I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites
As they would mingle with the good people we meet.
Good friends we have, oh, good friends we've lost
Along the way.
In this great future, you can't forget your past;
So dry your tears, I seh.
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
'Ere, little darlin', don't shed no tears:
No, woman, no cry.
Said - said - said: I remember when-a we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown.
And then Georgie would make the fire lights,
As it was logwood burnin' through the nights.
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge,
Of which I'll share with you;
My feet is my only carriage,
So I've got to push on through.
But while I'm gone, I mean:
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
I said, everything's gonna be all right-a!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right, now!
Everything's gonna be all right!
So, woman, no cry;
No - no, woman - woman, no cry.
Woman, little sister, don't shed no tears;
No, woman, no cry.
I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown.
And then Georgie would make the fire lights,
As it was logwood burnin' through the nights.
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge,
Of which I'll share with you;
My feet is my only carriage,
So I've got to push on through.
But while I'm gone:
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
Woman, little darlin', say don't shed no tears;
No, woman, no cry.
Eh! (Little darlin', don't shed no tears!
No, woman, no cry.
Little sister, don't shed no tears!
No, woman, no cry.)
Ooh, yeah! all right!
We're jammin':
I wanna jam it wid you.
We're jammin', jammin',
And i hope you like jammin', too.
Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it anyhow:
I'n'i will see you through,
'cos everyday we pay the price with a little sacrifice,
Jammin' till the jam is through.
We're jammin' -
To think that jammin' was a thing of the past;
We're jammin',
And i hope this jam is gonna last.
No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor we won't bow;
Neither can be bought nor sold.
We all defend the right; jah - jah children must unite:
Your life is worth much more than gold.
We're jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin')
And we're jammin' in the name of the lord;
We're jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin'),
We're jammin' right straight from yah.
Yeh! holy mount zion;
Holy mount zion:
Jah sitteth in mount zion
And rules all creation.
Yeah, we're - we're jammin' (wotcha-wa),
Wotcha-wa-wa-wa, we're jammin' (wotcha-wa),
See, i wanna jam it wid you
We're jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin')
I'm jammed: i hope you're jammin', too.
Jam's about my pride and truth i cannot hide
To keep you satisfied.
True love that now exist is the love i can't resist,
So jam by my side.
We're jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin'), yeah-eah-eah!
I wanna jam it wid you.
We're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin',
We're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin';
Hope you like jammin', too.
We're jammin', we're jammin' (jammin'),
We're jammin', we're jammin' (jammin').
I wanna (i wanna jam it wid you) - i wanna -
I wanna jam wid you now.
Jammin', jammin' (hope you like jammin' too).
Eh-eh! i hope you like jammin', i hope you like jammin',
'cause (i wanna jam it wid you). i wanna ... wid you.
I like - i hope you - i hope you like jammin', too.
I wanna jam it;
I wanna jam it.
Start Me Up
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
I've been running hot
You got me ticking gonna blow my top
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
You make a grown man cry
Spread out the oil, the gasoline
I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine
Start it up
If you start it up
Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got
I can't compete with the riders in the other heats
If you rough it up
If you like it you can slide it up, slide it up
Don't make a grown man cry
My eyes dilate, my lips go green
My hands are greasy
She's a mean, mean machine
Start it up
If start me up
Give it all you got
You got to never, never, never stop
Never, never
Slide it up
You make a grown man cry
Ride like the wind at double speed
I'll take you places that you've never, never seen
Start it up
Love the day when we will never stop, never stop
Never stop, never stop
Tough me up
Never stop, never stop, never stop
You, you, you make a grown man cry
You, you make a dead man cum
You, you make a dead man cum
Rolling Stones
Brown Sugar
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields,
Sold in a market down in New Orleans.
Scarred old slaver know he's doin' alright.
Hear him whip the women just around midnight.
Ah Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
(A-ha) Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should
A-huh.
Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot,
Lady of the house wond'rin where it's gonna stop.
House boy knows that he's doin' alright.
You should a heard him just around midnight.
Ah Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
(A-ha) Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should
A-huh.
I bet your mama was a tent show queen, and all her boy
Friends were sweet sixteen.
I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like,
You should have heard me just around midnight.
Ah Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
(A-ha) Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should.
I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said
Oh just like a, just like a black girl should.
I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said
Oh just like, just like a black girl should.
Rolling Stones
Miss You
I've been holding out so long
I've been sleeping all alone
Lord I miss you
I've been hanging on the phone
I've been sleeping all alone
I want to kiss you
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh oooh
Well, I've been haunted in my sleep
You've been starring in my dreams
Lord I miss you
I've been waiting in the hall
Been waiting on your call
When the phone rings
It's just some friends of mine that say,
"Hey, what's the matter man?
We're gonna come around at twelve
With some Puerto Rican girls that are just dyin' to meet you.
We're gonna bring a case of wine
Hey, let's go mess and fool around
You know, like we used to"
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah
Aaah aaah aaah aaah
Oh everybody waits so long
Oh baby why you wait so long
Won't you come on! Come on!
I've been walking in Central Park
Singing after dark
People think I'm crazy
I've been stumbling on my feet
Shuffling through the street
Asking people, "What's the matter with you boy?"
Sometimes I want to say to myself
Sometimes I say
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
I won't miss you child
I guess I'm lying to myself
It's just you and no one else
Lord I won't miss you child
You've been blotting out my mind
Fooling on my time
No, I won't miss you, baby, yeah
Lord, I miss you child
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah
Aaah aaah aaah aaah
Lord, I miss you child
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah
Aaah aaah aaah aaah
Lord, I miss you child
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah
Aaah aaah aaah aaah
I’m waiting For The Man
I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man
Hey, white boy, what you doin' uptown?
Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around?
Oh pardon me sir, it's the furthest from my mind
I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mine
I'm waiting for my man
Here he comes, he's all dressed in black
Pr shoes and a big straw hat
He's never early, he's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait
I'm waiting for my man
Up to a brownstone, up three flights of stairs
Everybody's pinned you, but nobody cares
He's got the works, gives you sweet taste
Ah then you gotta split because you got no time to waste
I'm waiting for my man
Baby don't you holler, darlin' don't you bawl and shout
I'm feeling good, you know i'm gonna work it on out
I'm feeling good, i'm feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time
I'm waiting for my man
Velvet Underground
I’ll be your Mirror
I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are, in case you don't know
I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you're home
When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
'cause i see you
I find it hard to believe you don't know
The beauty that you are
But if you don't let me be your eyes
A hand in your darkness, so you won't be afraid
When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
'cause i see you
I'll be your mirror
What Goes On
What goes on in your mind?
I think that i am falling down.
What goes on in your mind?
I think that i am upside down.
Lady, be good, and do what you should,
You know it'll work allright.
Lady, be good, do what you should,
You know it'll be allright.
I'm goin' up, and i'm goin' down.
I'm gonna fly from side to side.
See the bells, up in the sky,
Somebody's cut the string in two.
Lady, be good, and do what you should,
You know it'll work alright.
Lady, be good, do what you should,
You know it'll be alright.
One minute one, one minute two.
One minute up and one minute down.
What goes on here in your mind?
I think that i am falling down.
Lady, be good, and do what you should,
You know it'll work alright.
Lady, be good, do what you should,
You know it'll be alright.
Beginning to See The Light
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Some people work very hard,
But still they never get it right.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Now i'm beginning to see the light.
Wine in the morning
And some breakfast at night.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Here we go again
Playing the fool again.
Here we go again
Acting hard again.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Now i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
I'm beginning to see the light.
I wore my teeth in my hands
So i could mess the hair of the night
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Hey i'm beginning to see the light.
I met myself in a dream
And i just wanna tell you - everything was alright
I'm beginning to see the light.
Here comes two of you,
Which one will you chose?
One is black, one is blue.
Don't look just what to do.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Now i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Some people work very hard
But still they never get it right
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
There are problems in these times
But none of them are mine
Baby, i'm beginning to see the light.
Here we go again,
I thought that you were my friend.
Here we go again,
I thought that you were my friend.
How does it feel to be loved?
How does it feel to be loved?
Velvet Undergound
Rock and Roll
Jenny said when she was just five years old
There was nothing happening at all
Every time she puts on a radio
There was a nothin' goin' down at all, not at all
Then one fine mornin' she puts on a new york station
You know, she couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started dancin' to that fine fine music
You know her life was saved by rock 'n' roll
Despite all the amputations you know you could just go out
And dance to a rock 'n' roll station
It was alright
It was allright
Hey baby you know it was allright
Jenny said when she was just by five years old
You know y parents gonna be the death of us all
Two tv sets and two cadillac cars -
Well you know it ain't gonna help me at all
Then one fine mornin' she turnss on a new york station
She doesn't believe what she hears at all
Ooh, she started dancin' to that fine fine music
You know her life is saved by rock 'n' roll,
Despite all the computations
You could just dance to a rock 'n' roll station
And baby it was allright
And it was alright
Hey it was allright
Hey here she comes now!
Jump! jump!
It was allright.
Songbook 3
ALICE’S RESTAURANT
By Arlo Guthrie
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 our's 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 fourty-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, Massachusets, 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 colour 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
colour 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 colour 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 colour 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 colour 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 colour 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 phsychiatrist, 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
colour 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 Sargeant 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, "Sargeant, 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 come's 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
Arlo Guthrie
GIDDY-UP-A-DING-DONG
Come on folks, and get in the groove, we gotta move......
I went ridin' the other night
Two colour horse, oh my what a sight!
The name of my horse was Ding Dong
While we was ridin' and singin' a song
Giddy up, giddy up a Ding Dong (repeat)
We rode and we rode the whole night through
My horse was tired, I was too
I had a date with ma girl at eight
Come on Ding Dong we can't be late
I said
Giddy up, giddy up a Ding Dong (repeat)
Got to her house and I got down
There was the toughest guy in town
If I went in, he might use force
Mounted up again and I said to my horse
Giddy up, giddy up a Ding Dong (repeat)
Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh You got to giddy up a Ding dong, etc
来在伙计, 和得到在凹线, 我们得到行动......
我去ridin ' 另一夜
二种颜色马, oh 我真是视域!
我的马的名字是丁・东
当我们是ridin ' 和singin ' 歌曲
轻浮, 轻浮丁・东(重覆)
我们乘坐了并且我们通过乘坐了整夜
我的马是疲乏, 我也是是
我有一个日期与ma 女孩在八
来在丁・东我们无法是晚
我说
轻浮, 轻浮丁・东(重覆)
得到对她房子和我到传达
有顽固的家伙在镇里
如果我参加了, 他也许使用力量
登上再和我对我的马说
轻浮, 轻浮丁・东(重覆)
Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh 您得到了对轻浮丁东, 等
NE X T
Naked a sin
An army towel, covering my belly
Some of us weep, some of us howl
Knees turn to jelly, but Next! Next!
I was just a child
A hundred like me
I followed a naked body
A naked body followed me, Next! Next!
I was just a child when my innocence was lost
In a mobile army whorehouse
A gift of the army, free of cost. Next! Next! Next!
Me, I really would have liked a little bit of tenderness
Maybe a word, maybe a smile, maybe some happiness, but Next! Next!
Oh, it was not so tragic
and heaven did not fall
But how much at that time
I hated being there at all, Next! Next!
I still recall the brothel trucks, the flying flags
The queer lieutenant slapped our arses
He's thinking we are fags. Next! Next! Next!
I swear on the wet head of my
First case of gonorrhea
It is his ugly voice that I forever fear, Next! Next!
A voice that stinks of whiskey, corpses and of mud
The voice of nations
The thick voice of blood, Next! Next!
Since then each woman I have taken into bed
They seem to lie in my arms
And they whisper in my head, Next! Next!
Oh, the naked and the dead
Could hold each other's hands
As they watch me dream at night
In a dream that nobody understands
And though I am not dreaming in a voice grown dry 'n' hollow
I stand on endless naked lines of the following and the followed
The Next! Next!
One day I'll cut my legs off
I'll burn myself alive
I'll do anything to get out of life, to survive
Not ever to be next, Next! Next!
Not ev....er... to be next, not ev............er.....ahh
Alex Harvey
THE TORTURE NEVER STOPS
Flies all green and buzzin’
In this dungeon of despair
Prisoners grumble
And piss they clothes
Scratch their matted hair
A tiny light from a window-hole
a hundred yards away
That all they ever get to know
about the regular life in the day
about the regular life in the day
Stinks so bad the stones been chokin
Weepin greenish drops
In the den where
The giant fire puffer woiks
And the torture never stops
The torture never stops
Slime and rot and rats and snot
And vomit on the floor
Fifty hillbilly soldiers men
Holdin’ spears by the iron door
Knives and spikes
And guns and the like
Of every tool of pain
And a sinsiter midget
With a bucket and a mop
Where the blood goes down the drain
And it stinks so bad, stones been chokin’
Weepin’ greenish drops
In the room where
The giant fire puffer woiks
And the torture never stops
The torture never stops,
The torture never stops
The torture never stops
Etc.
Flies all green and buzzin’
In this dungeon of despair
An evil prince eats a steamin’ pig
In a chamber right near there
He eats de snouts and the trotters first!
The loins and the groins is soon dispersed
His carvin style is well rehearsed
He stands and shouts
All men be cursed (4x)
And disagree it, well no one durst
He’s the best of course of all the worst
Some wrong been done
he done it first
It stinks so bad his bones been chokin’
Weepin’ greenish drops
In the room the night of the iron sausage
Where the torture never stops
The torture never stops,
the torture never stops,
the torture
the torture
The torture never stops
Flies all green and buzzin’
In the dungeon of despair
Who are all those people
That is locked away down there
Are they crazy?
Are they saddy?
Are they zeroes someone painted
It has never been explained
Since it first was created
But a dungeon like sin
Requires not but locking in
Of everything that’s ever been
Look at her
Look at him
That’s what’s the deal were dealin’ in
That’s what’s the deal were dealin’ in
That’s what’s the deal were dealin’ in
That’s what’s the deal were dealin’ in
LITTLE MISS PINKY
I got a girl with a little rubber head
Rinse her out every night just before I go to bed
She never talked back like a lady might do
And she looks like she loves it every time I get through
And her name is p-i-n-k-y
P-i- ain’t no lie
K-y me-oh-my
$69. 95, give her a try
P-i-n-k-y
P-i-n i cry
K-Y, don't be shy
$69. 95 boy, give her a try
Her eyes 's all shut in an ecstasy face
You can cram it down her throat, people, any old place
Throw a little switch on her battery pack
You can poot it, you can shoot it till your wife gets back
And her name is p-i-n-k-y
P-i-n i cry
K-Y don't be shy
$69. 95 boy, give her a try
I got a girl with a little rubber head
Rinse her out every night just before I go to bed
She never talked back like a lady might do
And she looks like she loves it every time I get through
Her eyes 's all shut in an ecstasy face
You can cram it down her throat, people, any old place
Throw a little switch on her battery pack
You can poot it, you can shoot it till your wife gets back
You can poot it, you can shoot it till your wife gets back
You can poot it, you can shoot it till your wife gets back
Etc.
WONDERFUL WINO
Late in the summer of '69
I went downtown and bought me some wine
Oh, I drank it down under the table
I said: watch me now,
I'm gonna eat the label
Well I'm a wino man,
Don't you know i am?
36 - 24, hips about 30
I seen a fine lady
I see a fine lady and I start talkin' dirty
Boy, she looked over at me
And she raised her thumb
She said: "Jam down the road
You bum, bum, bum, bum"
I'm a wino man,
Don't you know I am?
I went to the country,
And while I was gone
I lost control of my body functions
On the lower headed ladies front lawn
I'm so ashamed,
But I'm a wino man
I can't help myself
I've been drinkin' all night
Till my eyes got red
Stumbled on the gutter
And busted my head
Bugs in my zoot suit,
Been scratchin' like a dog
I can't stand no water,
And I stink like a hog
Give me a five dollar bill,
And an overcoat too
Give me a five dollar bill,
And an overcoat too
A five dollar bill and an overcoat too
A five dollar bill and a floor shine shoe
Song Book 2
Just a perfect day,
Drink Sangria in the park,
And then later, when it gets dark,
We go home.
Just a perfect day,
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later, a movie, too,
And then home.
Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.
Just a perfect day,
Problems all left alone,
Weekenders on our own.
It's such fun.
Just a perfect day,
You made me forget myself.
I thought I was someone else,
Someone good.
Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow...
Lou Reed
Walk on the Wild Side
Holly came from miami f.l.a.
Hitch-hiked her way across the u.s.a.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her leg and then he was a she
She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side
Candy came from out on the island
In the backroom she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was given head
She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls go
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo)
Little joe never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay
A hustle here and a hustle there
New york city is the place where they said
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said hey joe, take a walk on the wild side
Sugar plum fairy came and hit the streets
Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat
Went to the apollo
You should have seen him go go go
They said, hey sugar, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
All right, huh
Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was james dean for a day
Then i guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that dash
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls say
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo etc.)
Lou Reed
I Wanna Be Black
I wanna be black, have natural rhythm
Shoot twenty foot of jism too
And fuck up the jews
I wanna be black, i wanna be a panther
Have a girlfriend named samantha
And have a stable of foxy whores
Oh, oh, i wanna be black
I don't wanna be a fucked up
Middle class college student anymore
I just wanna have a stable of
Foxy little whores
Yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
Oh, oh, i wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
I wanna be black, wanna be like martin luther king
And get myself shot in the spring
And lead a whole generation, too
And fuck up the jews
I wanna be black, i wanna be like malcolm x
And cast a hex
Over president kennedy's tomb
And have a big prick, too
Oh, i don't wanna be a fucked up
Middle class college student no more
Yeah, i just wanna have a
Stable of foxy little whores
Yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
I wanna be black
I wanna be black
I wanna be black
I wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(yeah, yeah, i wanna be black, oh, oh)
(yeah, yeah, i wanna be black, oh, oh)
(yeah, yeah, i wanna be black, oh, oh)
(yeah, yeah, i wanna be black
In Berlin
In berlin, by the wall
You were five foot ten inches tall
It was very nice
Candlelight and dubonnet on ice
We were in a small cafe
You could hear the guitars play
It was very nice
It was paradise
You're right and i'm wrong
Hey babe, i'm gonna miss you now that you're gone
One sweet day
Oh, you're right and i'm wrong
You know i'm gonna miss you now that you're gone
One sweet day
One sweet day
In a small, small cafe
We could hear the guitars play
It was very nice
Candlelight and dubonnet on ice
Don't forget, hire a vet
He hasn't had that much fun yet
It was very nice
Hey honey, it was paradise
You're right and i'm wrong
Oh babe, i'm gonna miss you now that you're gone
One sweet day
You're right, oh, and i'm wrong
You know i'm gonna miss you now that you're gone
One sweet day
One sweet day
One sweet day, one sweet day
Oh, one sweet day
One sweet day, baby-baby, one sweet day
One sweet day, one sweet day
Satelite of Love
Satellite's gone
Up to the skies
Thing like that drive me
Out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I like to watch things on tv
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of
Satellite's gone
Way up to mars
Soon it will be filled
With parking cars
I watch it for a little while
I love to watch things on tv
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of
I've been told that you've been bold
With harry, mark and john
Monday, tuesday, wednesday to thursday
With harry, mark and john
Satellite's gone
Up to the skies
Thing like that drive me
Out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on tv
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You
Packing up and I'm leaving this place.
I don't believe you'll cry, there'll be a smile upon your face.
I didn't think how much you'd hurt me.
That's something that I laugh about.
Bring in the good times, baby.
And let the bad times out.
That old sun keeps on shining,
But someday it won't shine for you.
In the morning I'll be leaving.
I'll leave your mother too.
Jethro Tull
SONG BOOK 3
ALICE’S RESTAURANT
By Arlo Guthrie
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 our's 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 fourty-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, Massachusets, 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 colour 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
colour 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 colour 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 colour 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 colour 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 colour 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 phsychiatrist, 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
colour 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 Sargeant 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, "Sargeant, 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 come's 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
Arlo Guthrie
Why does my heart feel so bad?
Why does my heart
Feel so bad?
Why does my soul
Feel so bad?
These open doors
Moby
