The Singer - Kicking Against The Pricks
(cash, daniels) As i walk these narrow streets Where a million passin feet have trod before me With my guitar in my hand Suddenly i realize nobody knows me Where yesterday the multitude Screamed and cried my name out for a song Today the streets are empty And the crowds have all gone home I […]
(a. harvey) Oh please don’t send me out Said the man with the hammer, hammering the anvil I been walking on a road of rocks And i keep on hammering, keep on hammering, keep on hammering, Hammering the anvil Don’t let the sun go down Said the man with the fire, firing the furnace I […]
(t. springfield, f. farian) Say goodbye, my one true lover And we’ll steal a lover’s song How it breaks my heart to leave you Now the carnival has gone Oh my love, the dawn is breaking And my tears are falling rain For the carnival is over We may never meet again Like a drum […]
(greenaway, cooke) Something’s gotten hold of my heart Keeping my soul and my senses apart Something’s gotten into my life Cutting its way through my dreams like a knife Turning me up and turning me down Making me smile and making me frown In a world that was small I once lived in a time […]
(newbury, folger) Yesterday the sun was shining but you’re finding the sun it Don’t shine all the time A winter day suddenly came your way And you ran into your mind Sleeping analeah, weeping analeah Do you think you’re ready for me? Oh and yesterday is gone forever and ever, never To be again You […]
Running Scared - Kicking Against The Pricks
(orbison, melson) Just running scared, each place we go So afraid, that he might show Yeah, running scared, what would i do If he came back and wanted you? Just running scared, feeling low Running scared that you love him so Just running scared, afraid to lose If he came back, which one would you […]
Muddy Water - Kicking Against The Pricks
(j. bundrick) Mary, grab the baby, the river’s rising Muddy water taking back the land The old-frame house, she can’t take-a one more beating Ain’t no use to stay and make a stand Well the morning light shows water in the valley Daddy’s grave just went below the line Things to say, you just can’t […]
(d. del, m. wilkins) She walks these hills in a long black veil She visits my grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows but me Ten years ago, on a cold dark night Someone was killed ‘neath the town hall light There were few at the scene, but they all […]
(traditional, arr. the alabama singers) Jesus met the woman at the well Jesus met the woman at the well And he told her, everything that she’d done, that she’d done And he said, woman, look-a here woman, Tell me where is your husband? She said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, i don’t have one He said, […]
(j.l. hooker) Yeah, my baby left me this morning And i don’t care now, i don’t care what the people say Yeah, i did everything that i could, everything i could, Lord knows i did everything i could I tried to satisfy her worried mind, that’s what i did You know she was nothing but […]
