1.Urge For Going LP Version
I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town
It hovered in a frozen sky then it gobbled summer down
When the sun turns traitor cold
And all the trees are shivering in a naked row
I get the urge for going but I never seem to go
I get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in
I had me a man in summertime he had summer-colored skin
And not another girl in town my darling's heart could win
But when the leaves fell on the ground
Bully winds came around pushed them face down in the snow
He got the urge for going and I had to let him go
He got the urge for going
When the meadow grass was turning brown
Summertime was falling down and winter was closing in
Now the warriors of winter they gave a cold triumphant shout
And all that stays is dying and all that lives is gettin' out
See the geese in chevron flight
Flapping and racing on before the snow
They got the urge for going
And they got the wings so they can go
They get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in
I'll ply the fire with kindling now
I'll pull the blankets up to my chin
I'll lock the vagrant winter out and
I'll fold my wandering in
I'd like to call back summertime
Have her stay for just another month or so
But she's got the urge for going
So I guess she'll have to go she gets the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
All her empire's falling down and winter's closing in
And I get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
And summertime is falling down
2.The Tea Leaf Prophecy LP Version
(Study war no more)
(Lay down your arms)
(Study war no more)
(Lay 'em down, lay 'em down now)
(Study war no more)
(Lay down your arms)
(Study war no more)
Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread
The able bodied have shipped away
(Lay down your arms)
Molly Mcgee gets her tea leaves read
'You'll be married in a month' they say
(Lay down your arms)
These leaves are crazy
Look at this town, there's no men left
(Lay down your arms)
Just frail old boys and babies
Talking to teacher in the treble clef
(Study war no more)
She plants her garden in the spring
(Lay down your arms)
(Study war no more)
She does the winter shovelling
(Lay down, lay 'em down now)
(Study war no more)
Tokyo rose on the radio
(Lay down your arms)
(Study war no more)
She says she's leavin' but she don't go
(Study war no more)
Out of the blue, just passin' through
A young flight sergeant on two weeks leave
(Lay down your arms)
Says, 'Molly Mcgee and no one else will do!'
And seals the tea leaf prophecy
(Lay down your arms)
Oh these nights are strong and soft
Private passions and secret storms
(Lay down your arms)
Nothin' about him ticks her off
And he looks so cute in his uniform
(Study war no more)
She plants her garden in the spring
(Lay down your arms)
(Study war no more)
He does the winter shovelling
(Lay 'em down, lay 'em down now)
(Study war no more)
But summers just a sneeze in a long, long, bad winter cold
(Lay down your arms)
(Study war no more)
She says, 'I'm leavin here' but she don't go
(Study war no more)
Sleep little darlin'
This is your happy home
(Lay down your arms)
Hiroshima cannot be pardoned
Dont have kids when you get grown
(Lay down your arms)
Because, this world is shattered
The wise are mourning, the fools are joking
(Lay down your arms)
Oh, what does it matter？
The wash needs ironing
And the fire needs stoking
She plants her garden in the spring
(Lay down your arms)
(Study war no more)
He does the winter shovelling
(Lay 'em down, lay 'em down now)
(Study war no more)
The three of 'em laughing 'round the radio
(Lay down your arms)
(Study war no more)
She says 'I'm leavin here' but she dont go
(Study war no more)
She plants her garden in the spring
(Lay down your arms)
(Study war no more)
They do the winter shovelling
(Lay 'em down, lay 'em down now)
(Study war no more)
They sit up late and watch the Johnny Carson show
(Lay down your arms)
(Study war no more)
She says 'I'm leavin' here' but she dont go
3.Cherokee Louise
Cherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel
In the Broadway Bridge
We're crawling on our knees
We've got flashlights and batteries
We've got cold cuts from the fridge
Last year about this time
We used to climb up in the branches
Just to sway there in some breeze
Now the cops on the street
They want Cherokee Louise
People like to talk
Tongues are waggin' over fences
Waggin' over phones
All their doors are locked
God she can't even come to our own house
But I know where she'll go
To the place where you can stand
And press your hands like it was bubble bath
In dust piled high as me, down under the street
My friend poor Cherokee Louise
Ever since we turned 13
It's like a minefield walking to the door
Going out you get the 3rd degree
And comin' in you get the 3rd World War
Tuesday after school
We put our pennies on the rails
And when the train went by
We were jumpin' 'round like fools
Goin', 'Look, no heads or tails'
Goin', 'Look, my lucky prize'
She runs home to her foster dad
He opens up a zipper
And he yanks her to her knees
Oh please be here, please
My friend poor Cherokee Louise
Cherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel
In the Broadway Bridge
We're crawling on our knees
I've got Archie and Silver Screen
I know where she is
The place where you can stand
And press your hands like it was bubble bath
In dust piled high as me, down under the street
My friend poor Cherokee Louise, oh Cherokee Louise
Cherokee Louise
Cherokee Louise
Cherokee Louise
4.Ray's Dad's Cadillac LP Version
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Rollin' past the rink past the record shack
Pink fins in the falling rain
Rollin' to the blue lights past the water mains
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Weekends we'd get
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Yeah yea yeah
Rock 'n' roll in the dashboard
Romance in the back of
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Ray's dad teaches math
Zero, I'm a dunce, I'm a decimal in his class
Last night's kisses won't erase
Zero, I just can't keep the numbers in their place
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Last night we had
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
My my my oh oh
Rock 'n' roll in the dashboard
Romance in the back of
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
When it comes to mathematics
I got static in the attic, no sir, nothin's clear
I'll be blackboard blind on Monday
Dreamin' of blue runways on the edge of here
A little atmosphere blue lights out on airport road
Motown, in a field in a farmer's grove
Big planes comin' overhead
Lowdown, you can see the bolts, you can see the tire treads
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Weekends we'd get
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Oh, little darlin'
Rock 'n roll in the dashboard
Romance in the back of
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
Ray's Dad's Cadillac
5.Let The Wind Carry Me LP Version
Papa's faith is people
Mama she believes in cleaning
Papa's faith is in people
Mama she's always cleaning
Papa brought home the sugar
Mama taught me the deeper meaning
She don't like my kick pleat skirt
She don't like my eyelids painted green
She don't like me staying up late in my high-heeled shoes
Living for that Rock 'n' Roll dancing scene
Papa says, 'Leave the girl alone, mother
She's looking like a movie queen'
Mama thinks she spoilt me
Papa knows somehow he set me free
Mama thinks she spoilt me rotten
She blames herself but papa he blesses me
It's a rough road to travel, Mama let go now
It's always called for me
Sometimes I get that feeling and I wanna settle
And raise a child up with somebody
I get that strong longing and I wanna settle
And raise a child up with somebody
But it passes like the summer, I'm a wild seed again
Let the wind carry me
6.Don Juan's Reckless Daughter LP Version
I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter
I came out two days on your tail
Those two bald-headed days in November
Before the first snowflakes sail
Out on the vast and subtle plains of mystery
A split tongue spirit talks
Noble as a nickel chief
Strikin' up an old juke box
And he says, 'Snakes along the railroad tracks'
He says, 'Eagles in jet trails'
He says, 'Coils around feathers
And talons on scales
Gravel under the belly plates'
He says, 'Wind in the wings'
He says, 'Big bird draggin' its tail in the dust
Snake kite flyin' on a string'
I come from open prairie
Given some wisdom and a lot of jive
Last night the ghost of my old ideas
Reran on channel five
And it howled so spooky for it's eagle soul
I nearly broke down and cried
But the split tongue spirit laughed at me
He says, 'Your serpent cannot be denied'
Our serpents love the whiskey bars
They love the romance of the crime
But didn't I see a neon sign
Fester on your hotel blind
And a country road come off the wall
And swoop down on the crowd at the bar
And put me at the top of your danger list
Just for being so much like you are
You're a coward against the altitude
You're a coward against the flesh
Coward, caught between yes and no
Reckless this time on the line for yes, yes, yes
Reckless brazen in the play
Of your changing traffic lights
Coward, slinkin' down the hall
To another restless night
As we center behind the eight ball
As we rock between the sheets
As we siphon the colored language
Off the farms and the streets
Here in good old, 'God-save-America
The home of the brave and the free'
We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards
Of some duality, of restless multiplicity
Oh see, can you see？
Restless for streets and honky tonks
Restless for home and routine
Restless for country-safety and her
Restless for the likes of reckless me
Restless sweeps like fire and rain
Over virgin wilderness
It prowls like hookers and thieves
Through bolt-locked tenements
Behind my bolt-locked door
The eagle and the serpent are at war in me
The serpent fighting for blind desire
The eagle for clarity
What strange prizes these battles bring
These hectic joys, these weary blues
Puffed up and strutting, when I think I win
Down and shaken, when I think I lose
There are rivets up here in this eagle
There are box cars down there on your snake
And we are twins in spirit
No matter which route home we take or what we forsake
We're gonna to come up to the eyes of clarity
And we'll go down to the beads of guile
There is danger and education
In living out such a reckless lifestyle
I touched you on the central plains
It was plane to train my twin
It was just plane shadow to train shadow
But to me, it was skin to skin
The spirit talks in spectrums
He talks mother earth to father sky
Self indulgence to self denial
Man to woman
Scales to feathers, you and I
Eagles in the sky, you and I
Snakes in the grass, you and I
Crawl and fly, you and I
You and I, you and I, you and I
By the dawn till the light
You and I, you and I, you and I, you and I
Oh, you and I
7.Raised On Robbery LP Version
He was sittin' in the lounge of the Empire Hotel
He was drinkin' for diversion
He was thinkin' for himself
Little money riding on the maple leafs
Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves
She says
Let me sit down
You know, drinkin' alone's a shame
It's a shame, it's a cryin' shame
Look at those jokers
Glued to that damn hockey game
Hey honey, you've got lots of cash
Bring us round a bottle
And we'll have some laughs
Gin's what I'm drinkin'
I was raised on robbery
I'm a pretty good cook
Sittin' on my groceries
Come up to my kitchen
I'll show you my best recipe
I try and I try but I can't save a cent
I'm up after midnight, cookin'
Tryin' to make my rent
I'm rough but I'm pleasin'
I was raised on robbery
We had a little money once
They were pushin' through a four lane highway
Government gave us three thousand dollars
You should have seen it fly away
First he bought a fifty seven Biscayne
He put it in the ditch
He drunk up all the rest
That son of a bitch
His blood's bad whiskey
I was raised on robbery
You know you ain't bad lookin'
I like the way you hold your drinks
Come home with me honey
I ain't askin' for no full length mink
Hey, where you goin'？
Don't go yet
Your glass ain't empty and we just met
You're mean when your loaded
I was raised on robbery
8.Paprika Plains Remix
It fell from midnight skies
It drummed on the galvanized
In the washroom, women tracked the rain
Up to the make up mirror
Liquid soap and grass
And jungle gardenia crash
On pine sol and beer
It's stifling in here
I've got to get some air
I'm going outside to get some air
Back in my hometown
They would have cleared the floor
Just to watch the rain come down
They're such sky oriented people
Geared to changing weather
I'm floating off in time
I'm floating off, I'm floating off in time
When I was three feet tall
And wide eyed open to it all
With their tasseled teams they came
To McGee's general store
All in their beaded leathers
I would tie on colored feathers
And I'd beat the drum like war
I would beat the drum like war
I'd beat the drum, I'd beat the drum like war
But when the church got through
They traded their beads for bottles
Smashed on Railway Avenue
And they cut off their braids
And lost some link with nature
I'm floating into dreams
I'm floating off, I'm floating into my dreams
I dream Paprika plains
Vast and bleak and god forsaken
Paprika plains and a turquoise river snaking
The rain retreats like troops to
Fall on other fields and streets
Meanwhile they're sweet
Talking and name calling
And brawling on the fringes of the floor
I spot you through the smoke
With your eyes on fire
From J and B and coke
As I'm coming through the door
I'm coming back, I'm coming back for more
The band plugs in again you see that mirrored ball
Begin to sputter lights and spin
Dizzy on the dancers
Geared to changing rhythms
No matter what you do
I'm floating back, I'm floating back to you
9.Song For Sharon LP Version
I went to Staten Island
To buy myself a mandolin
And I saw the long white dress of love
On a storefront mannequin
Big boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars
All for something lacy
Some girl's going to see that dress
And crave that day like crazy
The little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada
They can balance and they can climb
Like their fathers before them
They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline
Shine your light on me, Miss Liberty
Because as soon as this ferry boat docks
I'm headed to the church to play Bingo
Fleece me with the gamblers' flocks
I can keep my cool at poker
But I'm a fool when love's at stake
Because I can't conceal emotion
What I'm feeling's always written on my face
There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street
I went in to see her as a kind of joke
And she lit a candle for my love luck
And eighteen bucks went up in smoke
Sharon, I left my man
At a North Dakota junction
And I came out to the 'Big Apple' here
To face the dream's malfunction
Love's a repetitious danger
You'd think I'd be accustomed to
Well, I do accept the changes
At least better than I used to do
A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line
And so far from satisfaction
Dora says, 'Have children'
Mama and Betsy say, 'Find yourself a charity'
Help the needy and the crippled
Or put some time into Ecology'
Well, there's a wide wide world of noble causes
And lovely landscapes to discover
But all I really want right now
Is find another lover
When we were kids in Maidstone, Sharon
I went to every wedding in that little town
To see the tears and the kisses
And the pretty lady in the white lace wedding gown
And walking home on the railroad tracks
Or swinging on the playground swing
Love stimulated my illusions
More than anything
And when I went skating after Golden Reggie
You know it was white lace I was chasing
Chasing dreams
Mama's nylons underneath my cowgirl jeans
He showed me, first you get the kisses
And then you get the tears
But the ceremony of the bells and lace
Still veils this reckless fool here
Now there are 29 skaters on Wolmann rink
Circling in singles and in pairs
In this vigorous anonymity, a blank face
At the window stares and stares and stares and stares
And the power of reason
And the flowers of deep feelings
Seem to serve me
Only to deceive me
Sharon, you've got a husband
And a family and a farm
I've got the apple of temptation
And a diamond snake around my arm
But you still have your music
And I've still got my eyes on the land and the sky
You sing for your friends and your family
I'll walk green pastures by and by
10.River LP Version
It's coming on Christmas
And they're cutting down trees
Putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
It don't snow here
Stays pretty green
I'm gonna make a lot of money
And quit this crazy scene
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet how to fly
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I made my baby cry
You tried hard to help me
You put me at ease
You loved me so naughty
It made me weak in the knees
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I've ever had
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet how to fly
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I made my baby say goodbye
It's coming on Christmas
And they're cutting down trees
Putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
I wish I had a river I could skate away on
11.Chinese Cafe／Unchained Melody LP Version
Caught in the middle
Carol, we're middle class, we're middle aged
We were wild in the old days
Birth of rock 'n roll days
Now your kids are coming up straight
And my child's a stranger
I bore her, but I could not raise her
Nothing lasts for long
Nothing lasts for long
Nothing lasts for long
Down at the Chinese Cafe
We'd be dreaming on our dimes
We'd be playing, 'Oh my love, my darling'
One more time
Uranium money is booming in the old home town now
It's putting up sleek concrete
Tearing the old landmarks down now
Paving over brave little parks
Ripping off Indian land again
How long, how long
Short sighted business men
Ah, nothing lasts for long
Nothing lasts for long
Nothing lasts for long
Down at the Chinese Cafe
We'd be dreaming on our dimes
We'd be playing, 'You give your love, so sweetly'
One more time
Christmas is sparkling out on Carol's lawn
This girl of my childhood games
With kids nearly grown and gone
Grown so fast like the turn of a page
We look like our mothers did now
When we were those kids' age
Nothing lasts for long
Nothing lasts for long
Nothing lasts for long
Down at the Chinese Cafe
We'd be dreaming on our dimes
We'd be playing, 'Oh my love, my darling
I've hundred for your touch a long lonely time
And time goes by so slowly and time can do so much
Are you still mine？
I need your love, I need your love
God speed your love to me'
Time goes, where does the time go
I wonder where the time goes
12.Harlem In Havana LP Version
At the far end of the midway
By the double ferris wheel
There's a band that plays so snaky
You can't help how you feel
Emmie Mae ran away
With a man as dark as night
You can see him, if you go there
Second trumpet to the right
They play 'Night Train'
So snaky
Black girls dancing
Long and lanky
Barkers barking
Step right up, folks
The show is about to begin
It's Harlem in Havana time
Step right in
Silver spangles
See 'em dangle in the farm boy's eyes
Hootchie kootchie
Auntie Ruthie would've cried
If she knew we were on the inside
When Emmie Mae ran away
She came back a bottle blonde
God, the gossips had a gourmet feast
Chomping on how she was born
But miracle of miracles
'Cuz we were underage
She got us nearly front row seats
To the right side of the stage
See that tall girl？
That's a man
That one, too
Big yellow feather fan
Barkers barking
Step right up, folks
The show is about to begin
It's Harlem in Havana time
Step right in
Silver spangles
See 'em dangle in the farm boy's eyes
Hootchie kootchie
Auntie Ruthie would've died
If she knew we were on the inside
13.Come In From The Cold Edit Version
Back in 1957
We had to dance a foot apart
And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines
Holding their rulers without a heart
And so with just a touch of our fingers
I could make our circuitry explode
All we ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in, oh, come in from the cold
(Come in from the cold)
We were so young
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
We really thought we had a purpose
We were so anxious to achieve
We had hope, the world held promise
For a slave to liberty
Freely I slaved away for something better
And I was bought and sold
And all I ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
(Come in from the cold)
We were so blue
(Please come in)
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
I feel your legs under the table
Leaning into mine
I feel renewed, I feel disabled
By these bonfires in my spine
I don't know who the arsonist was
Which incendiary soul
But all I ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
(Come in from the cold)
We were too young
(Please come in)
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
I am not some stone commission
Like a statue in a park
I am flesh and blood and vision
I am howling in the dark
Long blue shadows of the jackals
Are falling on a pay phone by the road
Oh, all they ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
(Come in from the cold)
I was so alone
(Oh, come in)
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
Is this just vulgar electricity
Is this the edifying fire
(It was so pure)
Does your smile's covert complicity
Debase as it admires
(Just a flu with a temperature)
Are you just checking out your mojo
Or am I just fighting off growing old
(Just a high fever)
All I ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in, oh, come in from the cold
(Come in from the cold)
I was so blue
(Please come in)
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
I know we never will be perfect
Never entirely clear
(When the moon shines)
We get hurt and we just panic
And we strike out, out of fear
(You were only being kind)
I fear the sentence of this solitude
Two hundred years on hold
(For my loving crime)
Oh and all we ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in, come in from the cold
(Come in from the cold)
When the moon shines
(Oh, come in)
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
When I thought life had some meaning
Then I thought I had some choice
(I was running blind)
And I made some valued judgments
In a self-important voice
(I was outta line)
But then absurdity came over me
And I longed to lose control
(Into no mind)
Oh, all I ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Oh, come in from the cold
(Come in from the cold)
We were so blue
(Please come in)
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
(Come in from the cold)
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
(Come in from the cold)
I was so alone
(Come in, come in)
(Come in, come in, come in, come in)
Come in from the cold
Please come in
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