So i told him that he’d better shut his mouth And do his job like a man. And he answered "listen, father, I will never kill another." He thinks he’s better Than his brother that died What the hell does he think he’s doing To his father who brought him up right? Chorus: Take your […]
I traveled the banks of the river of jordan To find where it flows to the sea. I looked in the eyes of the cold and the hungry And i saw i was looking at me. I wanted to know if life had a purpose And what it all means in the end. In the […]
Memory moves us past each other Time is a ribbon without end Love is the lesson we keep learning Death but a moment we must spend Last week as i made our lunch We talked of yesterdays I remember more than you That happens lots these days But how we laughed, i almost cried And […]
In the year of the yellow cab In the shadow of the great world war The third kid grandmom had Came into this world On a rolling farm in maryland When wilson was the president And summer blew her good-bye through the trees A child of changing times Growing up between the wars The fords […]
Deportee - Pp M& (lifelines)
The crops are all in, the peaches are rotting The oranges piled in their creosote dumps They’re flying us back to the mexican border To pay all our money just to wade back again Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted Our work contract’s out and we have to move on 600 […]
The paint is old and peeling The shutters show some cracks There’s a heavy limb on the apple tree That’s got to be cut back There’s some water in the cellar A little sagging in the floor But this house has weathered many storms It will weather many more ’cause i scraped away the peeling […]
Excerpt from "talking union" words by lee hayes, millard lampell and pete seeger – inspired by woody guthrie’s "talking dustbowl". "talking union" ©1958 st Ng music, inc., bmi Lately i’ve been picking up strange vibrations I hear my music now on oldies stations "put out a cd called "the best of what i was" My […]
When i was a young man courting the girls I played me a waiting game. If a maid refused me with tossing curls I’d let the old earth take a couple of twirls And i’d ply her with tears instead of pearls And as time came around, she came my way As time came around, […]
There’s a little girl playing in the garden She thinks that she’s alone and no one sees But the beauty of it all As the daisy petals fall Is the wish she’s made that’s whispered in the breeze There’s the wish in the breeze Chorus: Won’t you take the chance And let your tears start […]
There is a house in new orleans They call the rising sun It’s been the ruin of many poor girls And me, oh god, am one If you had listened to what your momma said You’d be at home today But i was young and foolish, oh lord You let a gambler lead you astray […]
