Farewell Tour

Doobie Brothers Farewell Tour Lyrics
1.Black Water

Patrick simmons

Well, i built me a raft and she's ready for floatin'
Ol' mississippi, she's callin' my name
Catfish are jumpin'
That paddle wheel thumpin'
Black water keeps rollin' on past just the same

Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Yeah, keep on shinin' your light
Gonna make everything, pretty mama
Gonna make everything all right
And i ain't got no worries
'cause i ain't in no hurry at all

Well, if it rains, i don't care
Don't make no difference to me
Just take that street car thats goin' up town
Yeah, i'd like to hear some funky dixieland
And dance a honky tonk
And i'll be buyin' ev'rybody drinks all 'roun'

Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Yeah, keep on shinin' your light
Gonna make everything, pretty mama
Gonna make everything all right
And i ain't got no worries
'cause i ain't in no hurry at all

I'd like to hear some funky dixieland
Pretty mama come and take me by the hand
By the hand, take me by the hand pretty mama
Come and dance with your daddy all night long
I want to honky tonk, honky tonk, honky tonk
With you all night long


2.Can't Let It Get Away

John mcfee / nicolette larson / patrick simmons

Everything comes to an end
Few have time to wait
Well my patience, lord, is wearin' thin
The hour's gettin' late
The ladies come and go
Barely turn my head
But you make me feel
Like a change is coming

I've been wastin' time
I'm ready for you
I'm leavin' my past behind
I'm ready for you

Can't let it get away
It's gettin' closer
Can't let it get away
I'm feelin' better
Can't let it get away, oh no
Can't let it get away, can't let it get away

Oh it was worth the wait
But i won't wait no more
I never believed in fate now, baby
I've been wrong before
This time i'm really givin' it all
And i ain't got time to wait
You make me feel
Like a change is comin'

I've been wastin' time
I'm ready for you
I'm leavin' my past behind
I'm ready for you

Can't let it get away
It's gettin' closer
Can't let it get away
I'm feelin' better
Can't let it get away, oh no
Can't let it get away, can't let it get away


3.China Grove

Tom johnston

When the sun comes up on a sleepy little town
Down around san antone
And the folks are risin' for another day
'round about their homes

The people of the town are strange
And they're proud of where they came
Well, you're talkin' 'bout china grove
Oh, china grove

Well, the preacher and the teacher
Lord, they're a caution
They are the talk of the town
When the gossip gets to flyin'
And they ain't lyin'
When the sun goes fallin' down

They say that the father's insane
And dear missus perkin's a game
We're talkin' 'bout the china grove
Oh, china grove

But every day there's a new thing comin'
The ways of an oriental view
The sheriff and his buddies
With their samurai swords
You can even hear the music at night

And though it's a part of the lone star state
People don't seem to care
They just keep on lookin' to the east

Talkin' 'bout the china grove
Oh, china grove


4.Don't Start Me Talkin'

'sonny boy' williamson

Goin' down to rosie's
Stop at fanny may's
Gonna tell fanny what i heard her boyfriend say
Now don't you start me talkin'
I'll tell ev'rything i know
I'm gonna break up this signifyin'
'cause somebody gotta go

Jack gave his wife two dollar
Go down to the market
Get out on the street, ol' george stopped her
He knocked her down
And blacked her eye
She get back home and tell her husband a lie
Now don't you start me talkin'
I'll tell ev'rything i know
I'm gonna break up this signifyin'
'cause somebody gotta go

She borrowed some money
To go to the beauty shop
'i'm goin' to a place where i can get my hair sot'
Now don't you start me talkin'
I'll tell ev'rything i know
I'm gonna break up this signifyin'
'cause somebody gotta go


5.Echoes Of Love

Patrick simmons / willie mitchell / earl randle

I hear your voice everywhere
It's echoes of love
Making me look back over my shoulder
Echoes of love are started all over

Echoes of love
Keeps on haunting
I'm out of control
Keeps on burning
Echoes of love are out of control
Bringing back love i used to hold

Darlin', since you went away
Think about you every day
So many memories
Got to get the best of me

Recalling the times
I used to hold you
I just wouldn't do
What i was supposed to
I've done things
I'd like to undo
Now darlin' it's you
I'd like to run to

Echoes of love
Keeps on haunting
I'm out of control
Keeps on burning
Echoes of love are out of control
Bringing back love i used to hold

Echoes of love
Echoes of love
Love, echoes of love
Keeps on haunting
Echoes of love, echoes of love
Keeps on burning
Echoes of love


6.Jesus Is Just Alright

A. reynolds

Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright

Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may know
I don't care where they may go
I don't care what they may know
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Jesus, he's my friend; jesus, he's my friend
He took me by the hand; led me far from this land
Jesus, he's my friend

Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may say, i don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say, jesus is just alright, oh yeah


7.Listen To The Music

listen to the music

Tom johnston

Don't you feel it growin', day by day
People gettin' ready for the news
Some are happy, some are sad
Oh, we got to let the music play
What the people need
Is a way to make 'em smile
It ain't so hard to do if you know how
Gotta get a message
Get it on through
Oh now mama, don't you ask me why

Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time

Well i know, you know better
Everything i say
Meet me in the country for a day
We'll be happy
And we'll dance
Oh, we're gonna dance our blues away
And if i'm feelin' good to you
And you're feelin' good to me
There ain't nothin' we can't do or say
Feelin' good, feeling fine
Oh, baby, let the music play

Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time

Like a lazy flowing river
Surrounding castles in the sky
And the crowd is growing bigger
List'nin' for the happy sounds
And i got to let them fly

Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time


8.Long Train Runnin'

down around the corner
A half a mile from here
You can see them long trains run
And you watch them disappear
Without love
Where would you be now
Without love

You know i saw miss lucy
Down along the tracks
She lost her home and her family
And she won't be comin' back
Without love
Where would you be right now
Without love

Well the illinois central
And the southern central freight
Gotta keep on pushin' mama
'cause you know they're runnin' late
Without love
Where would you be now - now, now, now
Without love

Well the pistons keep on churnin'
And the wheels go 'round and 'round
And the steel rails are cold and hard
For the miles that they go down
Without love
Where would you be right now
Without love
Where would you be now


9.Minute By Minute

Michael mcdonald/lester abrams

Hey, don't worry, i've been lied to
I've been here many times before
Girl, don't you worry, i know where i stand
I don't need this love, i don't need your hand
I know i could turn, blink, and you'd be gone
Then i must be prepared any time to carry on

But minute by minute by minute by minute
I keep holding on
Oh, minute by minute by minute by minute
I keep holding on

You will stay just to watch me, darlin'
Wilt away on lies from you
Can't stop the habit of livin' on the run
I take it all for granted like you're the only one
Livin' on my own
Somehow that sounds nice
You think i'm your fool
Well, you may just be right

'cause minute by minute by minute by minute
I keep holding on
Oh, minute by minute by minute by minute
I keep holding on

Call my name and i'll be gone
You'll reach out and i won't be there
Just my luck you'll realize
You should spend your life with someone
You could spend your life with someone

Minute by minute by minute by minute
I'll be holding on
Oh, minute by minute by minute by minute
I'll be holding on...


10.Olana

They can take the soul of time
and all the bad news I really don't care anymore
let it all come tumbling down nothing left to lose
let it all fade away

Olana - these are hard times
we'll take the best that we've got
Olana - and leave the rest behind
Oh Olana - girl we've got to fight if the dream that
we dream still exists in destiny's time

Olana

So we hang on through the night
with all our worries I really don't know anymore
but I can take my share I can hang on
but I can't fade away
Ah I know that your heart is true
And I know what your love means to me

Olana - these are hard times
we'll take the best that we've got
Olana - and leave the rest behind
Oh Olana - girl we've got to fight if the dream that
we share still exists in destiny's time

Olana

Olana

Olana - girl we've got to fight if the dream that
we share

Olana (Repeats as the song fades out)


11.Slat Key Soquel Rag

(instrumental)


12.Slippery St. Paul

Patrick simmons / tom johnston

Down along the river
Where the big bulrushes grow
You find the old frog jumpin the water
He won't come up no more, babe
He won't come up no more, baby
He won't come up no more, woo
He won't come up no more, sugar mama
He won't come up no more

Smell that burnin' fire, baby
Burnin' in the sand
See that devil rise, mama
He sho' wanna take yo' hand, now
He sho' wanna take yo' hand, baby
He sho' wanna take yo' hand, woo
He sho' wanna take yo' hand, sugar mama
He sho' wanna take yo' hand,

Oh, harvest moon
Keep shinin' your light down on me
The lord reach out his hand
My soul floats out to thee

I don't feel no pain
When they shot me down
Lay my body out, baby
They put me in the ground so cold
They put me in the ground, baby
They put me in the ground, woo
They put me in the ground, sugar mama
They put me in the ground


13.South City Midnight Lady

Patrick simmons

Up all night i could not sleep
The whiskey that i drank was cheap
With shakin' hands i went and i lit up my last cigarette
Well the sun came, night had fled
And sleepy eyed i reached my bed
I saw you sleepy dreamin' there all covered and warm

South city midnight lady
I'm much obliged indeed
You sure have saved this man whose soul was in need
I thought there was no reason
For all these things i do
But the smile that sent out returned with you

When day has left the night behind
And shadows roll across my mind
I sometimes find myself alone out walkin' the street
Yes, and when i'm feelin' down and blue
Then all i do is think of you
And all my foolish problems seem to fade away

South city midnight lady
I'm much obliged indeed
You sure have saved this man whose soul was in need
I thought there was no reason
For all these things i do
But the smile that sent out returned with you


14.Steamer Lane Breakdown

(instrumental)


15.Takin' It To The Streets

Michael mcdonald

You don't know me but i'm your brother
I was raised here in this living hell
You don't know my kind in your world
Fairly soon the time will tell
You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me
I ain't blind and i don't like what i think i see

Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets

Take this message to my brother
You will find him everywhere
Wherever people live together
Tied in poverty's despair
You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me
I ain't blind and i don't like what i think i see

Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets


16.What A Fool Believes

Michael mcdonald/kenny loggins

He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don't see
Tryin' hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life

She musters a smile
For his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize
It never really was

She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him...

Somewhere back in her long ago
Where he can still believe there's a place in her life
Someday, somewhere, she will return

She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
There's nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees...


17.You Belong To Me

Michael mcdonald/carly simon

Why'd you tell me this
While you look for my reaction
What do you need to know
Don't you know i'll always be the one
You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers
I've got lovin' eyes of my own

You belong to me
In this life
Anyone could tell
Any fool can see who you need
I know you all too well
You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers
I've got lovin' eyes and i can tell

You belong to me
Tell him you were foolin'
You belong to me
You belong to me
Tell him he's a stranger
You belong to me