You Can't Teach An Old

Seasick Steve You Can't Teach An Old Lyrics
1.Treasures

Lyricist:Steve Wold
Writer(s):Steve Wold

When I walk down your street
Through your barred windows you look at me
And you wonder, have I come to ask
For one of your precious things that do not last

All your treasures
All your treasures

You think you know me but you don't know
That there's more to this picture than that shows
And you fear that I come to steal
Your security that ain't real

All your treasures
All your treasures

I will leave now and you won't cry
With relief now you'll just sigh
You'll remember come one day
And you'll walk out your door
'Cause you can't stay

While all your treasures
All your treasures slip away

All your treasures
All your treasures


2.You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks

Lyricist:Steve Wold
Writer(s):Steve Wold

Must be something wrong with me
What it is I can't quite see
I can't seem to do nothing right
Maybe I need to change my style
Been this way for a long long while
Maybe there's a few things I oughta fix

Can you teach an old dog new tricks

Put a little fire, in my life
Climb a little higher, that is right
Tired of this ordinary bull...
Maybe I need to change my style
Been this way for a long long while
Maybe there's a few things I oughta fix

Can you teach an old dog new tricks

guitar solo

Can you teach an old dog new tricks

Well, that right
Maybe I should leave well enough alone
I might not be perfect but I'm me to the bone
I need to change my style
Been this way for a long long while
There ain't nothing that I got to fix

You can't teach an old dog new tricks
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

You can't teach an old dog
You can't teach an old dog
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
You can't teach
You can't teach
You can't teach


3.Burnin' Up

Lyricist:Steve Wold
Writer(s):Steve Wold

Oh, I want you, yeah, I want you
Oh, I want you
I'm burnin' up, I'm burnin' up, y'all
I'm burnin' up

Cool me down now with your love, girl
Cool me down now, there's a fire in my world
I'm burnin' up, I'm burnin' up, y'all
I'm burnin' up

Now when you got the love of somebody
And you ain't sure they got the love back on you
That's a hard thing, y'all

And you lose your appetite
And nothin' seem to taste good

And sometimes you just break out in a cold sweat
And sometimes you break out in a hot sweat
And then you know when you got the love of somebody

When you got the love of somebody
When you got the love of somebody
When you got the love of somebody

Yeah, when you got the love of somebody
Yeah, when you got the love of somebody
Yeah, when you got the love of somebody

Yeah, when you got the love
Yeah, when you got the love
Yeah, when you got the love

Oh, I want you, yeah, I want you
Oh, I want you
I'm burnin' up, I'm burnin' up, y'all
I'm burnin' up

Cool me down now with your love, girl
Cool me down now, there's a fire in my world
I'm burnin' up, I'm burnin' up, y'all
I'm burnin' up, I'm burnin' up


4.Don't Know Why She Love Me But She Do

Lyricist:Steve Wold
Writer(s):Steve Wold

I don't know why she love me like she do
She's full of lightning through and through
She's my gold mine, she's my diamond mine
She's my buried treasure, lord, it's true
I don't know why she love me like she do

She's drop dead beautiful
Smart as a whip when she's in school
All the boys love her, yeah, it's true
I don't know why she love me but she do
I don't know why she love me but it's true

She's drop dead beautiful
Smart as a whip when she's in school
All the boys love her, yeah, it's true
I don't know why she love me but she do
I don't know why she love me but she do

I don't know why she love me but it's true
I don't know why she love me but she do

I don't know why she love me but she do
I don't know why she love me like she do
I don't know why she love me but it's true
I don't know why she love me like she do


5.Have Mercy On The Lonely

Lyricist:Steve Wold
Writer(s):Steve Wold

One Two Three

Me and my girl got place to be, place to see
Y'all hear me
Guess you can say we're just doing things
That happiness and that will love bring

Have mercy on the lonely
Have mercy on the lonely

I used to walk the selfish way
But you end up alone, so hear what I say
Open the door, let love walk in
Got nothing to lose, maybe something to win

Have mercy on the lonely
Have mercy on the lonely
Have mercy on the lonely

A shack near the tracks, a mansion uptown
No one said you're gonna get down
Rather be poor and have my honey
Than own the banks with all the money

Have mercy on the lonely
Have mercy on the lonely
Have mercy on the lonely

Y'all say you want someone to love
I said make yourself somebody
Somebody you wanna love
Have mercy on your loneliness, have mercy on the lonely

Have mercy on the lonely
Have mercy on the lonely


6.Whiskey Ballad

Lyricist:Paul Martin Wold
Writer(s):Paul Martin Wold

To all those people living in their flats
Not so pristine
Who look up from the alley ways
That skies that we've all seen

But somehow I know that
They see it from a different point of view
The red door's painted black
The sky is gray not baby blue

So lighten up, have a cup
Of my happy golden drink
It'll taste strong to begin with
You'll get used to it, I think

It'll wash away your sorrows
Soak up your concern on a trouble
When you wake up not a single tables turn
But it's all right, it's all right, it's all right

So if you're a bit unhappy
Or you're slightly depressed
Just hum along to this song I wrote
Release some of your stress

But when I sing the chorus
There's one thing I know for sure
A nice clean shot of whiskey
Is my recommended cure

So lighten up, have a cup
Of my happy golden drink
It'll taste strong to begin with
You'll get used to it, I think

It'll wash away your sorrows
And soak up your concern on a problem
When you wake up not a single tables turn
But it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right

So lighten up, have a cup
Of my happy golden drink
It'll taste strong to begin with
You'll get used to it, I think

It'll wash away your sorrows
And soak up your concern on a problem
When you wake up not a single tables turn

So lighten up, have a cup
Of my happy golden drink
It'll taste strong to begin with
You'll get used to it, I think

It'll wash away your sorrows
And soak up your concern on a problem
When you wake up not a single tables turn


7.Back In The Doghouse

Lyricist:Steve Wold
Writer(s):Steve Wold

With things alright for a little while
But then the story of my life
Was gonna wipe that smile

You heard the born of a bad sign
And a baba black sheep
With me in trouble
I always think that was me

Back in the doghouse
What did I do wrong?
Back in the doghouse
And I'm singing this song, well

Song of the last minute
But is the doghouse a place?
Yeah, it's more like you said
That you gotta face

When you find the doghouse
Dog, you ain't know
'Cause there ain't no escape
And there's nowhere to go

Back in the doghouse
What did I do wrong?
Back in the doghouse
And I'm singing this song, well

Yeah, back in the doghouse
What did I do wrong?
Yeah, back in the doghouse
And I'm singing this song

Yeah, back in the doghouse
What did I do wrong?
Yes, I'm back in the doghouse
And I'm singing this song

Back in the doghouse
Lordy


8.Underneath A Blue And Cloudless Sky

Lyricist:Steve Wold
Writer(s):Steve Wold


9.What A Way To Go

Lyricist:Seasick Steve
Writer(s):Seasick Steve

What a way to go
What a way to go
What a way to go
What a way to go

Twenty five years working for the state
Saved all your money, got a good rate
Always thinking 'bout that pension plan
The day of retirement, the promised land, well

Got a finish off that swimming pool
Get some umbrellas, don't wanna be cool
Remember to take them fishing trips
You never had time for, this is it

The day of retirement have finally come
Get a gold watch and your work is done
One month later your heart give out
What was all that planning about?

What a way to go
What a way to go
What a way to go
What a way to go

Well, they finally lay you in the ground
Your wife and the children standing around
Now they got that pension plan
Rather have you, don't you know it, man

What a way to go
What a way to go
What a way to go
What a way to go

What a way to go
What a way to go
What a way to go
What a way to go


10.Part

Lyricist:Steve Wold
Writer(s):Steve Wold


11.Days Gone

Lyricist:Steve Wold
Writer(s):Steve Wold


12.It's A Long Long Way

Lyricist:Steve Wold
Writer(s):Steve Wold

It's a long, long way
'Cause I've been there before
It's a long, long way
And I've been there before

You prob'ly won't take no advice from me
I never took none myself, you see
It's just when you get older
You'd like to pass some on but nobody's listening

And it's a long, long way
'Cause I've been there before
It's a long, long way
And I've been there before

Why do we make the same mistakes
Year after year, tear after tear?
Just when we've learned a lesson or two
It's the time when our life's almost through

And it's a long, long way
'Cause I've been there before
It's a long, long way
And I've been there before

I ain't tryin' to be no saint
Shoot I ain't even often right
But I'm still here fightin' that good ol' fight
So the only thing I'll say
Don't give up on your dreams
Or they will give up on you

And it's a long, long way
'Cause I've been there before
It's a long, long way
And I've been there before

Thanks for takin' time to listen to an old man
Your time is a valuable thing
And I ain't tryin' to preach, I'm only passin' by
And I hope you like the song that I sing

And it's a long, long way
'Cause I've been there before
It's a long, long way
And I've been there before

And it's a long, long way
'Cause I've been there before
And I don't think I'm goin' there no more