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1. Tall Cotton
2. The Girl in the Cafe
3. In My Solitude
4. Cadillac
5. Its Own Sweet Time
6. Firin' It Up and Shinin' It On
7. It Was There
8. Quite All Right With Me
9. Turpentine
10. Clementine
11. Yes, She Is
12. She's So Cool
13. Failed Love, Mindless Sex and Crying All Night
in Bus Stations
14. My Black Mama
15. Long Road and Lonesome
16. Child of Mine
17. The Girl in the Cafe (slight return)
(all lyrics ©Jeremy Saxon, except as noted)
I Was an Angel
1. Please Don’t Leave Me
2. Darling Daughter
3. I Was an Angel
4. Make Hay
5. She Could Ride
6. Too Much Smoke
7. Child of Mine
8. Emily’s Gone
9. Stealing In The Name of the Lord
10. Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
11. She’s a Caution
12. Watching Alison Drown
13. The Lord Will Provide
14. Patty’s Room
15. A Little More Time
16. She’s Waiting For Me
(all lyrics ©1997 Jeremy Saxon)
Tall
Cotton
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chorus:
I been trying to get out into the tall cotton
where the sweat shine in my hair
uptown downtown all the way around town
tradin what the market will bear
cho
hey what I wouldn’t do f’a little cash, said
susie
what I wouldn’t do f’a little cash, said faye
what you bof’ ain’t already done said maggie, ha
on film and only yesterday yay, yay
cho
I seen the devil in ‘e alley downtown
lookin sharp as a body could be, he said
why don’t you let y’ brother keep himself
come out and take a walk with me
he w’ talkin, out yonder in the tall cotton
cho
I been around this block one time
and I will say I seen my share, talkin
sweet young things turned big ugly mean
dressin dodgy up and callin it sanctified fair
Girl
in the Café
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she’s the girl in the café
she’s makin me coffee
I’m tryin to get to her, I’m givin her the eye
she must not a seen me
she keep right on workin
she sure is something, I’m about to die
she got a soft way a movin
smooth all my edges
she fill my heart up with hope for the world
she got a short tight t-shirt
bet she picked that special
to make her tips go way up high
say go, coffee girl
I want to say something
but I’m way too nervous
don’t want to seem too forward no, no
don’t want to be too bold
my fingers tremblin, from all this coffee
but I don’t want to leave here
and now my cup’s gone cold
so fill it up fill it up, baby one more time
she’s the girl in the café
and I’m out of my mind
In
My Solitude
[Duke Ellington]
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Cadillac
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there’s a Cadillac parked in my sweetheart’s
garage
there’s a Cadillac parked in my sweetheart’s garage
I wonder how’m I gonna get in there
with my little old Dodge?
you know the Cadillac stretch about 37 feet
he done hit the back wall and he’s still in the street,
that Cadillac …
I say look dude you in my place
he poots his exhaust in my face, that Cadillac …
now girlfriend how’d he get inside?
she said he honked his horn my door swung wide, that Cadillac …
there’s a Cadillac parked in my sweetheart’s
garage
there’s a Cadillac parked in my sweetheart’s garage
I’m trying to find room in there
for my little old Dodge
Its
Own Sweet Time
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what she said, what she meant
how it started, where it went
what I woulda seen if I had not been so blind
I am trying to forget
don’t remind me, not just yet
it’ll come back to me
in its own sweet time
and the number I could call
where the phone rang in her hall
these things that won’t stop
crowding up my mind, I am trying…
the last words she said
they jangling all in my head
I can’t sleep and
I can’t walk a straight line, I am trying…
Firin
It Up and Shinin It On
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well I walked up, took her right in my arms
like to made her shout
but when she told me I could
move right in, boys
you know I walked right out, I just keep
firin it up, movin along
firin it up, movin along
firin it up, movin along
‘t’s all I seem to know how, baby
was a sweet little lady with a diamond smile
say hey, she kept me warm
but when she tried to lock the door, I
went straight back to form, got back to firin it up…
well the lights go low and a hand reach out
I just can’t resis’
but once I taste that honeylove kiss
I start thinkin bout another I’d hate to miss
so if I stumble in to your town baby
bangin on my drum
grab a holt, girl, wind me up, yay
set back and watch me run, I just keep firin it up…
It
Was There
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the walk down the long hall
the beautiful stranger
the opening door, it was there
the torn moon mended
the lights slowly fading
the echo and all, it was there
our fingertips touching away the tears
our eyes like windshields in the rain
all this and more, it was a heartbeat to live for
and love to the core, it was there
it was there
the bridge was on fire
there was smoke in the twilight
the river all roily below
and a word sweetly whispered,
and a ripple inside
and a whimper, a drift and a flow
an answer to questions
a breath let out slow
a never mind I just don’t care
all this and more, it was a heartbeat to live for
love to the core, it was there
it was there
Quite
All Right With Me
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I ain’t seen her since she was nineteen
I hear she broke a couple hearts in between
one was her own and one I guess
was some lucky joker who said yes yes,
she’s quite all right with me
she’s quite all right with me
when she call my number I’m a say oo-ee
she’s quite all right with me
she come around wagglin her little behind
I’m tryin to remember what was on my mind
she bumps into you, she winks at me
I got twenty-twenty vision
and you know I see that she’s
quite all right with me
she’s quite all right with me
when she call my number I’m a say oo-ee
she’s quite all right with me
I seen her mama on fourteenth street
all the men fallin around her feet
one’s in stitches, one’s in tears
one’s saying ooh, the girl grease my gears and she’s
quite all right with me
she’s quite all right with me
when she call my number I’m a say oo-ee
she’s quite all right with me
take me home, son
take me home to fourteenth street
ain’t been back in a long, long
Turpentine
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well I met me a pretty girl late last night
and I asked her to be mine
took her on down to reese’s store and
bought some turpentine
dant n da, dant n da
‘n I’m drinkin turpentine
dant n da, dant n da
‘n I’m drinkin turpentine
it hurt my head when I wake up and it
make the whole world spin
clean the grease from off my hands and
tastes as good as gin
all I ask of this old world is
let the bright sun shine
feed me once or twice a week and
give me turpentine
mama said I should be ashamed and
I should put it down
only danger I can see’s
I’ll drink it till I drown
spoken (recorded backwards) during solos:
turpentine is poison; don’t drink it;
alcohol is poison; don’t drink it
Clementine
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fall into a glass of wine
every evening just at nine
wipe y’ sweat on velvet plush
drink until the world goes lush
something not quite sorted yet
something to go back and get
ease yourself across this line
excavating for your mind
oh my, darling
oh, my darling
oh my darling
lazy sunshine childhood days
whisper through y’ bloodshot haze
get your ducklings in a line
keep this song out of your mind
and every morning half past one
need someone to walk you home
dreadful sorry, yeah you know
you got you a ways to go
oh, my darling, oh
my darling, oh
my darling
Yes,
She Is
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she’s a sweet piece of work, yes she is
she’s a sweet piece of work, yes she is
she’s total uptown from her ____ on down
she’s a sweet piece of work yes she is
and she’s all right with me, yes she is
yeah she’s all right with me, yes she is
way she take my hand
way she call my name
well she’s all right with me yes she is
I could live forever in her eyes
I could live forever in her eyes
it’s a sunrise song it’s a daytime long
I could live forever in her eyes
and she happy with it all, yes she is
and she happy with it all, yes she is
and if somepm go wrong
tha’s a whole nother song
cause she happy with it all yes she is
she’s a sweet piece of work, yes she is…
She’s
So Cool
(©Rusty Miller, lyrics reprinted by permission)
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floodlights blazin
on the old christmas tree
and the tenspeed
sprinklers clickin
and the tire swing swingin in the breeze
she’s so cool
broken candles and we’re sleepin
on the wooden floor tonight
she say put this in your pocket
or the lightbulb may go out in your life
no we’re hiding under covers
like a baby in the womb
paint-set pictures of the devil
swallowing the moon
Failed
Love
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CHO:
failed love, mindless sex and
crying all night in bus stations
I wish you were here
I don’t know what we’d do but
it might be some consolation
I see you standin with you belly to the bar
in that smoke-colored satin dress
we’d find comfort in each others arms
if our hearts weren’t in such a mess
failed love…
ms. right couldn’t make it
she sent her regrets
she thanked me for patiently waiting
spent a little time with ms. very very wrong
but it all wound up too much like hating
failed love…
nighttime comin your fingers is itchin
wonderin maybe what you could get
everybody out lookin for somethin
nobody found it yet, it’s only failed love…
My
Black Mama
(Son House, w/a verse or two from Robert Johnson’s)
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Long
Road and Lonesome
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it’s a long road and lonesome, we on tonight
it’s another dark highway in the moonlight
it’s not like we had us an easy day
but keep drivin, ain’t no other way
I’mo tell you some jokes - been some good ones
myself
I’mo talk to you bout anything
between here and hell
if you get a little too sleepy I’ll take the wheel
we got miles to go, right now and for real
keep driving, keep driving
don’t stop just for me
cause one mo highway sign and
another mile of white line
might be all we need
there could be some hospital up ahead
where somebody know how to raise up the dead
keep driving, don’t stop just for me
mo’ and better before us have run down this road
mo’ and better before us have carried this load
and yes some have fallen along the way
but I’m hopin we’ll see home some sweet day
keep driving, keep driving...
Child
of Mine
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will you go to sleep and fly with the angels, child of
mine
go to sleep and fly with the angels, child of mine
mama gonna run now, find her star
in some mean old honky tonk bar
you stay here and fly with the angels, child of mine
take care of your baby sister now, child of mine
take care of your baby sister, child of mine
mama gonna run now, find her star
in some mean old honky tonk bar
you stay here and fly with the angels, child of mine
y’ mama got a date in the cold dark night now,
child of mine
your mama got a date in the cold dark night, child of mine
mama gonna run now, find her star
in some mean old honky tonk bar
you stay here and fly with the angels, child of mine
will you pray for your mama all night long, say child
of mine
pray for your mama all night long, child of mine
mama gonna run now, find her star
in some mean old honky tonk bar
you stay here and fly with the angels, child of mine
The
Girl in the Café (slight return)
(no lyrics)
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please don’t leave me
please don’t take your love away
cause I’m crazy bout you baby
and I need you thisaway
please don’t leave me
please stay here right by my side
cause I got a strong ol’ feeling
an its much too big to hide
but if you leave me
tell me who can your lover be
it ain’t no big thing baby
it’s lots of girls in love with me
now if you leave me
na, you sho don need to stall
cause I can get more women
than that old seventeen tram can haul
baby baby please don’t leave me…
please don’t leave me
please don’t take your love away
cause I’m crazy bout you baby
and I need you thisaway
mother may I go out to swim?
oh yes, my darling daughter
you hang your clothes on a hickory limb
and don’t go near the water
mother may I go out to dance
oh yes my darling one
you hold them when you get the chance
go out and have your fun
and mother may I kiss the boys
oh yes my darling dear
do any little thing that brings you joy
and don’t bring them round here
then mother may I have a child
oh yes my darling, do
you teach your child the facts of life
just like I have taught you
mother may I stay home alone
oh no my darling, no
there’s so much work to be undone
my darling you must go
this morning I’mo look in your eyes and wonder
I’mo look in your eyes in question
I’mo look in your eyes and pray
this morning as the minutes count down evil
I’mo walk from the room too quiet
till I’m safely out in my day
but last night I was an angel in your eyes
I was an angel in your arms
I was an angel
this morning I am walking the world like no one
I am walking to work like no one
I am one little part of a crowd
this morning I am one little man in winter
but I want to shout out like thunder
I want to shout out, out loud
last night I was an angel...
I’m thinking of just what you might be doing
of just what you might be thinking
of where you could be right now
I’m dreaming this morning at work I’m useless
I’m sleepy and spaced and careless
like I’m not even here at all
but last night I was an angel...
my darlin I believe you and I know your love is true
I won’t commit and it ain’t one bitty little
thing got to do with you, it’s just I’m ‘onna
make hay while 'e sun shine
make hay while 'e sun shine
love you while you here, and for as long as you mine
make hay while 'e sun shine
now you know you my sugar candy
and I thank you as sweet as cake
I can’t say more than one day
and that’s the only promise I’mo make is that I’m ‘onna
say you whine and you whimper and you carrying on
about I’m making your life hell
but if you take another look from the other side
you maybe see it suits you pretty well
don’t you go off runnin
cause I ain’t done talkin yet
just cause we ain’t no sure thing
don’t mean we ain’t a likely bet, why don’t we just
make hay while 'e sun shine
make hay while 'e sun shine
love it while it’s here and for as long as it’s fine
make hay while 'e sun shine
she’s not in good condition and her body doesn’t
shine
she corners awful shaky
cause her wheels are out of line
she’s heavy in the trunk, you know
she’s start’n to show her years
she’s shakin and she’s rattlin
and she’s always grinding gears
but she could ride
oh yeah, she could ride
she’s leakin from her gaskets
she’s rusted through the floor
she burns a quart of oil each time I take her to the store
she’s not so good on mileage
I fill her as we go
and I keep a gascan handy
cause she needs a steady flow
but she could ride…
I took her on the highway, I took her for a ride
I fiddled with her clutch until she start’d to come alive
her rubber it was screechin her motor was on fire
the cops was chasin after us behind us forty miles
you know that all my friends, they tell me
I should put her up for sale
I holler no, I love her from her bumpers to her tail
she may not be no racer, she can’t hit fifty five
but when I’m riding in her it’s a joy to be alive
cause she could ride…
too much smoke and not enough fire
I’m thinking of
what we used to call love
it used to get right up inside me
I had never been higher
now it’s too much smoke
and not enough fire
ask me to stay,
I know I will say
something to soothe you
I’m clever that way
skip over the sticky part
till I feel like a liar
and all this is too much smoke
and not enough fire
ask me to go,
I know I will say
something to smooth you right out
I can be heavy that way
brings us to the sticky part
makes me feel like a liar
and all this is
too much smoke and not enough fire
I’m thinking of
what we used to call love
it used to get right up inside me
I had never been higher
now there’s too much smoke
and not enough fire
too much smoke and not enough fire
too much smoke and not enough fire
will you go to sleep and fly with the angels, child of
mine
go to sleep and fly with the angels, child of mine
mama gonna run now, find her star
in some mean old honky tonk bar
you stay here and fly with the angels, child of mine
take care of your baby sister now, child of mine
take care of your baby sister, child of mine
mama gonna run now, find her star
in some mean old honky tonk bar
you stay here and fly with the angels, child of mine
y’ mama got a date in the cold dark night now,
child of mine
your mama got a date in the cold dark night, child of mine
mama gonna run now, find her star
in some mean old honky tonk bar
you stay here and fly with the angels, child of mine
will you pray for your mama all night long, say child
of mine
pray for your mama all night long, child of mine
mama gonna run now, find her star
in some mean old honky tonk bar
you stay here and fly with the angels, child of mine
chorus:
my emily's gone to New York now
and it's cold as a heart attack
I’mo hold my breath until I turn blue
but I don't think that’ll bring her back
she said I love the little bitty way that you smile
I love every little thing you do
but I'd rather be nobody in some great big town
than be somebody for somebody like you
and she’s gone…
she got a solid gold ring, and it's got written on it
‘you are my emily, and I am your man’
but it’ll never shine as bright in that pawnshop window
as it shone on her little hand
and she’s gone…
I'm a sit here in my hotel room
and I’m gambling with the gang
the radio plays every sad sad song that anybody ever sang
and she’s gone…
I said, honey whyn’t you look me right straight
in my face
and tell me just one thing true
what have I got that's a bright spot in my life
that ain't got to do with you?
and I understand she too cool to let a little tear
put a cloud in her pretty blue eye
but I think she woulda looked out of that bus window
maybe seen me, maybe even waved goodbye
and she’s gone…
Stealing In The Name of the Lord
there’s a man on the corner raising up a congregation
tellin them more and more about some useless information
sayin god’s gonna love you if you put your faith in me
sayin god’s gonna bless you children, give yo money to me that
man is
stealin in the name of the lord
stealin in the name of the lord
there’s a man callin out on his own tv station
reading from the gospel of his personal revelation
sayin help me build the lord’s own town, heaven here on earth
you want god’s love, let’s show him children
how much you think it’s worth, that man is stealin…
I know I shouldn’t be shoutin it out but I can’t
keep it to myself
no I can’t keep it to myself, no I can’t keep it to myself
I know I shouldn’t talk out of turn but I can’t keep it to
myself,
he’s stealin in the name of the lord
there’s a man in a office makin up a calculation
adding up the balance sheet of his ministration
he’s smilin, he’s laughin, he breathe easy and free
thinking about his real estate and his big screen tv
this man been stealin, stealin, stealin, stealin
Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
if this world from you withhold
all its silver and its gold
while around you folks is winnin everywhere
just remember in his word
how he feeds his little birds
take your burden to the lord and leave it there
oh leave it there, leave it there
take your burden to the lord and leave it there
if you trust and never doubt
he will surely bring you out
take your burden to the lord and leave it there
if your body suffer pain
and your health you can’t regain
till your sol is almost sinkin in despair
my god know the pain you feel
he can save and he can heal
take your burden to the lord and leave it there
oh leave it there, leave it there…
and if you lose sight of your trail
and your light begin to fail
don’t forget my god in heaven answer prayer
he will make a way for you
he will lead you right on through
take your burden to the lord and leave it there
oh leave it there, leave it there…
she ain’t half kind and gentle
and she ain’t half gentle and kind
and she don’t half keep me guessing
cause she ain’t half out of her mind
she’s a caution my girl, my girl she is
she’s a caution my girl, my girl
she’s living with her mother
and she’s living with her child
and she loves me cause I’m stable
and I love her cause she’s wild
we’re out walking on the dockside
we’re surrounded by her friends
they come round when the night begins
and they’re gone by the time it ends
and she’s laughing to beat the band
and there are tears in her eyes
and she’s crying for the way it is
and she’s screaming at the sky
when I hold her like you hold a child
and I feel how she’s afraid
and I know she’s no good for me
and I know why I have stayed
we think she sees
she think she sees
we see it all go down
we stand in water up to our knees
watching alison drown
watching alison drown
she swims in shallows and founders
she finds a puddle and sinks in it too
she paints the people like oceans around her
quite a lot like me and you and
we think she sees
she think she sees
we see it all go down
we stand in water up to our knees
watching alison drown
watching alison drown
see daddy’s silhouette in the moonlight
holding a lifesaver out to his favorite girl
grab it he’s calling he wants her to hold on tight
to her thorny world and
we think she sees
she think she sees
we see it all go down
we stand in water up to our knees
watching alison drown
watching alison drown
watching alison drown
watching alison drown
when troubles assails us
and dangers afright
though friends should all fail us
and foes all unite
still there’s one thing secures us,
whatever betide
the scriptures assures us
the lord will provide
his birds, without barns
or storehouse are fed
from them let us learn
to trust for our bread
his saints, what is fitting
shall never be denied
not so long as it’s written
the lord will provide
his call we obey, like abraham of old
and we don’t know our way
but faith makes us bold
for though we are strangers
we have a good guide
and trust in all dangers
the lord will provide
when satan appears to stop up our path
and fills us with fears
we’re all bound to heed
he cannot take from us
though often he’s tried
this heart-cheering promise
the lord will provide
he tells us we’re weak
our hope is in vain
the good that we seek
we never shall obtain
but when such suggestions
our spirits have tried
this answers all questions
the lord will provide
I might milk till the cows come home
and I might jump over the moon
I don’t believe it will move me as deeply
as I was moved in patty’s room
her friends all tell me to save my face
cough up my pride, restring my loom
but I sit back thinking of the excellent weave
that we wove in that bedroom, in patty’s room
I’d walked in pretty well off the street
I was a friend of a friend of a couple of her friends
it was her eyes and my eyes and that tingle tingle...
it kept firing up, it was really really hot
I was happy and I was happy to be happy
it went pretty hitchless right up to the switch
where we started to bicker and the tempers got quick
I’d been asking my bad self
how much should I expect
but I forsook that crawl for once and all
right there on her sundeck
and when I woke up with her all over me
in her morning moaning
I said if I’m not mistaken this is just about exactly
what I was trying to get into
and I say I might milk till the cows come home
and I might jump over the moon
I don’t believe it will move me as deeply
as I was moved in patty’s room
and if I pump myself up big fat and wide
and go sing me a beautiful tune
I don’t believe it will mean half as much to me
as what went down in that bedroom, in patty’s room
I’d been asking my bad self...
where I'm from, I have not been lately
I’m puttin in a little more time
I can't confess that I miss it greatly
puttin in a little more time
I said hey hey hey, hey hey hey,
puttin in a little more time
I said hey hey hey, hey hey hey,
puttin in a little more time
life back there was a pretty little sin
I could see it from the bottom of a hole I was in
I might travel till the world grow cold
the road is long but it will never get old
I’m looking for new way to scratch my itches
that'll keep me on the road and keep me out of the ditches
I'm comin in low, on a wing and a prayer
when your hand reach out, I will try to be there for you
she got a smile like the barrel of a dead man’s
gun
singing come on to me baby we will have some fun
she’s waiting for me
her eyes are wide open she can tell you the time
and she could have been yours but tonight she is mine
she’s waiting for me
she is the priceless goddess on a thriftstore shelf
she can love me better than I love myself
if I can reach her at all, if I can make her know
before she walk back outside into the snow
in the dead of the night constellations are spinning
somebody’s winning somewhere far away
the stars rain down their starlight upon me
I hold onto her and I have to say
if I could bottle this feeling and the look in her eyes
I’d be a zillionaire before the next sunrise
she put the ho in home, she put the blade to the heat
she tucks it all in cozy and she rocks it to sleep
she’s waiting for me
she’s waiting for me
