
bill
I love you so I always will
I look at you and see the passion
eyes of may
oh, but am I ever gonna see
my wedding day?
Oh I was on your side bill
when you were losin'
I'd never scheme or lie bill
there's been no foolin'
but kisses and love won't carry me
till you marry me bill
bill
I love you so I always will
and in your voice I hear a choir
of carousels
oh but am I ever gonna hear
my wedding bells?
I was the one came runnin'
when you were lonely
I haven't lived one day
not lovin' you only
but kisses and love won't carry me
till you marry me bill
bill
I love you so I always will
and though devotion rules my heart
I take no bows
oh but bill you know
I wanna take my wedding vows
come on bill
I got the wedding bell blues
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you love fire
I'm mad with desire
you're my favorite one
got me cookin' with the fever
got my love runnin' for the sun
I feel so high
I feel like I may
go blowin' awaymy
well meaner
my day fancy dreamer
oh what can it be
well it's somethin' like a power
like a hold and it's holdin' me
I feel so high
I feel like I may
go blowin' away
my long laster
my soft hearted master
ain't been born and bred
but he's standin' in my doorway
in my mind
up above my head
I feel so high
I feel like I may
go blowin' away
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billy's blue
with his head hangin' to
his shoes
right the wrong
or play a song
to ease billy's blues
billy's down
he was born he was bound
to lose
right the wrong
or play a song
to ease billy's bluessome folks have it good
and some folks have it no good
but billy's go it bad
he's so endlessly sad
billy's blues
with his head hangin' to
his shoes
somebody please right the wrong
or play a song
to ease billy's blues
to ease billy's blues
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I was born from love
and my poor mother worked the mines
I was raised on the good book jesus
till I read between the lines
now I don't believe I want to see the mornin'
going down to stoney end
I never wanted to go down to stoney end
mama let me start all over
cradle me
mama cradle me againI can still remember him
with lovelight in his eyes
but the light flickered out and parted
as the sun began to rise
now I don't believe I want to see the mornin'
going down to stoney end
I never wanted to go down to stoney end
mama let me start all over
cradle me
mama cradle me again
never mind the forecast
cause the sky has lost control
cause the fury and the broken thunder's
come to match my ragin' soul
now I don't believe I want to see the mornin'
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I'm not scared of dyin'
And I don't really care
If it's peace you find in dyin'
Well then let the time be near
Just bundle up my coffin
'Cause its cold way down there
And when I die
And when I'm gone
There'll be one child born
And a world to carry on
My troubles are many
They're deep as a well
I swear there ain't no heaven
And I pray there ain't no hell
But I'll never know by livin'
Only my dyin' will tell
And when I die
And when I'm gone
There'll be one child born
And a world to carry on
Give me my freedom
For as long as I be
All I ask of livin'
Is to have no chains on me
All I ask of livin'
Is to have no chains on me
And all I ask of dyin'
Is to go naturally
And when I die
And when I'm gone
There'll be one child born
And a world to carry on
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silver was the color
winter was a snowbell
mother of the wind boys
livin' off the lovewell
with Lu
and everybody's callin' luie
luie luie
you got a thing about you
keep the light goin' for luie
and luie keeps on pushin' thru
thru
keeps on pushin'
amber was the color
summer was a flameride
cookin' up the noon roads
walkin' on god's good side
I was walkin' on god's good side
god's good side
with lu
and everybody's callin' luie
luie luie
you got a thing about you
keep the light goin' for luie
and luie keeps on pushin' thru
thru
keeps on pushin' thru
thru
he keeps on pushin'
I will always be fair
be there for lu
forever and ever more
everybody
everybody everybody
yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
And everybody's callin' luie
callin' luie
everybody's callin' luie callin'
my man
my man luie
callin' luie
my man luie
callin' luie
callin' luie
luie
people and the captain
callin' my man luie |

eli's comin'
eli's comin'
whoa you better hide your heart
your lovin heart
eli's a comin and the cards say
broken heart
oh broken heart
eli's comin'
hide your heart girl
eli's comin'
hide your heart girl
eli's a comin'
better hide girl
eli's a comin'
better hide your heart
your heart
eli's comin'
hide your heart
you better better hide your heart
eli's comin' better walk walk
but you'll never get away from the burn and the heartache
I walked to apollo and the bay
and everywhere I go
eli's a comin'
eli's a comin'
eli's a comin' and he's comin' to get me mama
I'm down on my knees
eli's comin'
hide it
girl
eli's a comin'
better hide girl
eli's a comin'
better hide your heart
your heart
eli's comin'
hide your heart
you better better hide your heart
eli's comin' better walk
cry but he's never gonna follow
I cried at the corners of the square
and everywhere I go
eli's a comin'
eli's a comin'
eli's a comin' and he comin' to get me mama
I'm down on my knees
I'm down on my knees
oh no no no
hide it
hide it
hide it
hide it
hide it
hide it
hide it
eli's comin' better hide your heart girl
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Can you surry,
Can you picnic?
Can you surry,
Can you picnic?
Surry down to a stoned soul picnic
Surry down to a stoned soul picnic
There'll be lots of time and wine
Red yellow honey
Sassafras and moonshine
Stoned SoulSurry
down to a stoned soul picnic
Surry down to a stoned soul picnic
Rain and sun come in akin
And from the sky
Come the lord and the lightning
Stoned Soul
There'll be trains of
blossoms
There'll be trains of music
There'll be trains of trust
Trains of gold and dust
Sweet trains of thought
Can you surry?
Surry down to a stoned
soul picnic
Surry down to a stoned soul picnic
There'll be lots of time and wine
Red yellow honey
Sassafras and moonshine
Stoned soul
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Oh I belong to Timer
He changed my face
You're a fine one Timer
You've got me walkin'
Through the gates of space
I keep rememberin'
Indoors that I used to walk through
Baby I'm not tryin' to talk you down
But I could walk through them doors
Onto a pleasure ground
It was sweet and funny
A pleasure ground
Didn't know about money
Did not know about TimerHoldin' to my cradle at the start
But now my hand is open
And now my hand is ready
For my heart
So let the wind blow
Timer
I like her song
And if the song goes minor
I won't mind
And Timer knows the lady's gonna love again
Time says the lady rambles never more
If you love me true
I'll spend my life with you
And Timer
You're a jigsaw Timer
God is a jigsaw
Soulin' with
Soulin' with Timer
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Oo la la la
Oo la la la laEmily
And her love to be
Carved in a heart
On a berry tree
But it's only a little farewell lovespell
Time to design a woman -
Touch me
Oh wake me
Emily you ornament the earth
For me
Emily
You're the natural snow
The unstudied sea
You're a cameo
And I swear you were born
A weavers lover
Born for the loom's desire -
Move me
Oh sway me
Emily the ornament the earth
For me
Oh la la la
You're my friend
And I loved you
Emily
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Super summer
sugar coppin'
In the mornin'
Do your shoppin' baby
Love my lovething
You may disappear
But you'll be back I swear
Would you love to love me baby?
I would love to love you baby now
Would you love to love me baby?
I would love to love you baby now
Super summer sugar croppin'
In the mornin'
Do you shoppin' baby
Love my lovething
Super ride inside my lovething
You may leave the fair
But you'll be back I swear
Would you love to love me baby?
I would love to love you baby now
Would you love to love me baby?
I would love to love you baby now
I keep hearin' mother cryin'
I keep hearin' daddy through his grave
"Little girl, of all the daughters
You were born a woman
Not a slave"
Oh I hate my winsome lover
Tell him I've had others
At my breast
But tell him he held my heart
And only now am I a virgin
I confess
Love my love thing
Love is surely gospel |

mama mama
you're a whiz and a scholar too
mama open up the room lock
sip sip
I'm going to the moon dock
he gives to mebuckles
off shingles
off a cockleshell on norway basin
coke and tuna
boots and roses from russia
now I'll live and die and rise
with my captain
mama say go
meet me captain saint
lucifer
darlin' I'll be there
don't you know
meet me captain saint lucifer
darlin' I'll be there
don't you know
now don't you know I love you
meet me captain saint
lucifer
la la la la la la la la
oo I love you
love you I do
mama mama you're a whiz
and a scholar too
mama I'm at anchor in your glow now
sip sip
even as I go now
he gives to me
buckles off shingles
and a jangle from a congo love chase
early bloomers made of earth and love lace
now I'll live and die
and rise
with my captain
mama be happy
meet me captain saint
lucifer
darlin' I'll be there
don't you know
meet me captain saint lucifer
darlin' I'll be there
don't you know
gutters in stacks
is where I come from
buckles off a poverty drum
oh my love trumpet soul
tell gabriel
to tell the captain
thank you baby
you're my baby now
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don't go to gibsom cross
the river
the devil is hungry
the devil is sweet
if you are soft then you will shiver
they hang the alley cats on gibsom streetI wish my baby were forbidden
I wish my world be struck by sleet
I wish to keep my mirror hidden
to hide the eyes that looked on gibsom street
there is a man he knows
where I'm going
gave me a strawberry to eat
I sucked its juices never knowing
that I would sleep that night on gibsom street
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New York
tendaberry
Blue berry
A rush on rum
Of brush and drumAnd
the past is a blue note
Inside me
I ran away in the morning
New York tendaberry
Blue berry
Rugs and drapes and drugs
And capes
Sweet kids in hunger slums
Firecrackers break
And they cross
And they dust
And they skate
And the night comes
I ran away in the
morning
Now I'm back
Unpacked
Sidewalk and pigeon
You look like a city
But you feel like a religion
To me
New York tendabery
True berry
I lost my eyes
I east wind skies
Here where I've cried
Where I've tried
Where God and the tendaberry rise
Where quakers and revolutionaries
Join for life
For precious years
Joined for life
Through silver tears
New York tendaberry
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Come on people
Come on children
Come on down to the glory river
Gonna wash you up
And downCome on
people
Come on children
There's a king at the glory river
And the king loved to sing
In the sun -
"We shall overcome"
I got fury in my soul
Fury's gonna take me
To the glory goal
In my mind I can't study war no more
Save the people
Save the children
Save the country
In my mind I can't
study war
In my mind I can't study war
There'll be trains of blossoms
There'll be trains of music
There'll be music...
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invitations to my party
send jones an inviting card
he got his meanstreak from the gutter
got his kindness from god
now tugboats paint the river
carry coal to the city
in white dock liners
happiness on the uptown side
at my party in the morningtide
oo la la la blackpatch
clothespins on wash ropes
window to window tie
socks and bells and nightgowns
tassels in the morning sky
womanchild on the sidestreet
flashin' in blackpatch
lipstick on her reefer
waiting for a match... |

Market in the
cool white mornin'
Merchants sell while women buy
Milk, tobacco, soap and matches
Sweep the floor
While the dishes drySpring whispered in her ear
Like soft Mediterranean wailin'
Sleepy woman by the
window
Dreamin' in the morning air
Of the one who takes her sweetness
By a chinese lamp upstairs
The steam of china tea
You could hear the woman sing
In the soft flames of spring
Spring has swept the
scarlet side streets
Winds caress, undress, invite
Upstairs by a china lamp
They softly talk in the cool spring night
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cold jade wind
not an angel in the sky
just cold jade restless wind
somethin's comin' I know
to devastate
my soul
I pricked my fingers
on the thorns
and this rain is a rainin hard
this sky's gonna beckon mariah
to match my soul
rain in the river
rain in the river
rain on the river banks
down my neck
beads of sweat
rain on the highway
running clear cross new york
a windsong through the barren trees
wild lavender heather
by the railroad sways
listen to the wailin'
of the rain in the river
rain on the river banks
roll, roll
river rock his soul
she's callin you
rainclouds
rainclouds
roll, roll
river rock his soul
she's callin you
rainclouds
rainclouds
down his neck
down his neck
down his neck
beads of
beads of beads of
beads of sweat
five boys standing on the banks of theriver
waiting for the virgin snow
searching for a miracle
a pearl in an oyster
and we all looked up to god
although he is the color of the wind
listen to the wailing
of the rain in the river
rain on the river banks
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You took my
heart misery
You taught me blues
Well I got a lot of patience baby
That's a lot of patience to lose
I've been treated bad
When I was a freeport
& you were the main dragBroken blues
I just don't know
Little bird
Flyin' by my window
Take me when you go
I lookin' at these times
And it's bound to drive me mad
When I was a freeport
& you were the main drag
What did I do?
Everybody's puttin' me down
I keep runnin'
But the law kept comin' around
So fare thee well
happiness
Cause' I've got blues
And I got a lot of patience baby
That's a lot of patience to lose
I'm a woman
And this is my due time
I've been treated bad
When I was a freeport
& you were the main drag
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