1. |
Breathin & Blinkin
03:33
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When it comes to dyin bury me by the road
let the marker say the name of the day
for the people I know
never let it be said later when I'm dead
I played my music to the wind
I lived my years I listened with my ears
to the song we were playin
2.
there are many days here that I'll let go by
behind me to remind me that I'm still alive
breathin & a blinkin shoutin and a thinkin
thinkin thinkin optimist
goin as sure as the days that blur
in the time that I have left
3.
down along the corner where the avenue
carries fast by crowds that pass the daily afternoon
drink a cup of tea don't anybody see
anything but what I am
I'm sittin by the road where everybody goes
on our way to the land
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2. |
Come With Me
04:12
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Come with me come with me don't be afraid
we've got years in the future and a foot in the grave
I left my only woman on a cold dark night
in a beer bar fight on the highway
she didn't even miss me she was havin a time
it was saturday night she was tippin that wine
2.
laugh with me laugh with me don't you think it plain
ain't no beauty in this world all the landscapes are lame
some break their backs for a buck not me
somethin I can't see kind of lazy
I don't need much money I just wanna be high
sittin on my sofa with my head in the sky
3.
listen to me listen to me ain't the weather fine
the wind is blowin seasons and the summer is mine
catch a freight for Phoenix see America
pass through Broken Jaw on the way
I got my bruises early I may never get old
I'm poor free ain't no prisoner in no foreclosure home
4.
live a little give a little fiddle your way through
try to keep your mother's child from slippin in the stew
far off in the city where nothing grows
where the wise guy goes he's silly
I'll just sit by Lake Superior sing a rural song
keep my feet a dancin as I'm lookin around
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3. |
Everybody's Got
03:38
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opening:
Everybody's got a refrigerator
everybody's got a lot of stuff
everybody's gotta go sooner or later
everybody finds it grand to be free
1.
once I left for fortune hunting never thinkin i'd be back
met a man his head was bald and gray
had a tattered robe and a cross carried a sign which read
ain't no gold in these here hills sure as there ain't no god
2.
taught me how to live and he taught me how to hate
carried me off with his preachin and his wife
set me down on a log one day
showed me how to meditate
told me he knew most ever blamed thing
but he didn't know his mate
3.
carried on down the railroad track and soon I lost my way
picked up my chin and looked around
found a colored couple in a shack told me I could stay
'cept black folks in these here parts
don't cater too much today
4.
fired on past my uncle who was pointin hard at me
didn't know I knew'em like I do
looks like the kinda fella who wouldn't harm a flea
wants me to give up my short life for
somethin he claims is free
5.
wouldn't listen tried to tell him that it ain't no good
can't keep the cold out with a flag
have to find a place somewhere I can go
live my life on a piece of land
my neighbor don't worship gold - repeat opening
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4. |
Hound Dog Country
04:42
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I was waitin on my hound dog down by my whiskey jug
I was just as sure as could be never was a doubt
he'd be comin from the light into the shade of my roof
into the shade of my roof
2.
I got to thinkin 'bout my woman out in the field that day
bendin over shuckin corn workin hard since she was born
I guess I shouldn't be so soft daddy says ya gotta treat'em rough, daddy says ya gotta treat'em rough
3.
he's been missin for two weeks once he went a month
I can only sit here cannot do another thing
'til my buddy's here by me sharin the air I breath
sharin the air I breath
4.
she seemed educated when we first got together
but she didn't like my dog
sleepin with us eatin with us goin to the meetin with us
oh she kinda likes him now sorry she don't like my sow
sorry she don't like my sow
5.
hey my grandaddy done told me don't let anybody sing the blues
swing along a polka like grandmother used to do
children grab your sibling and go momma's gonna fly across the floor daddy's gonna fly across the floor
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5. |
Lonesome Cowboy
03:41
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I am a rovin rambler on my semi-lonesome way
the symmetric way I'm livin
divides the hours and the days
the sunshine of each moment is compared to yesterday
I fight and love and gamble but I'll be still today
2.
the colors on the mountain are reflected from the sea
which dangle in the atmosphere
and meander with the breeze
the change that moves the mind about
covers the green earth
with layers of generations and memories of birth
3.
life began for me when I was just a little young
couldn't have been much older
than you when you were born
struck out on my journey to get here where I'm at
seems like such a long short time
to get here where we are
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6. |
Other People
03:47
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I love to be with other people I love to listen to them say
what they say
all of the universe is fairy land the vilest creature being of course man who can't feel his hypothalamus
I love to be with other people I love to listen to them say
what they say
off on yon horizon lifts the sun grant to me another day oh one, who watches all
I have the strength to move the mountain, I have the power in my mind, to never die ho ho ho ho
I believe for every card I flip there's a message from those fateful lips, that won't be denied
I don't know nothin about wordss i've said or things I say
I only know the things that come my way night & day
Life is but a shadow and a dream beauty blended well with the obscene on a merry-go-round ho ho ho ho
I love to be with other people I love to listen to them say
what they say
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7. |
We Could Be Happy
03:19
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We could be happy we could be happy oh come along
goodbye to your mom step down the ladder
chorus:
come on be free come on with me
2.
soft through the meadow soft through the meadow
enchantress and I together we'll lie weaving in tall grass
chorus
3.
sorta like bandits sorta like bandits we'll steal away
what reason to stay sit at every sunrise - chorus
4.
living breathlessly breathing life fully lo my spouse we're one, dreamland we're in love, all the world is ours -chorus
5.
merry be the day merry be the night always ever after
warming as the laughter even as the years - chorus
6.
shortly in the morning shortly in the morning oh come along oh come along step down the ladder - chorus
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8. |
Money Lender (no hurry)
03:13
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I'm sittin on my money lender's cushion
countin on the receipts picture all the deals uncovered
picture profits and things
the elbows on the waiters reach their shoulders
above the knocking I can hear requests for food
I have none here to give
the days are stacking up my debts I only have to be here
ten-fold it's back in time to lend again
1.
there ain't no hurry everything's all right everything's all right everything's all right
there ain't no hurry everything's all right
everything underneath the sun
2.
everybody's doin what they have to do what they have to do what they have to do, everybody's doin what they have to do everybody everything's all right
3.
old men lean on canes everything's all right everything's all right everything's all right, young men lean on women everything's all right everything underneath the sun
farewell damsel farewell all see you in the mornin see you in the mornin, greet the comin day
sometimes I feel grand and
I see you in your space above the river
there ain't no one fine as the sandwoman
ain't nothin fine as the sandwoman's sand good night
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9. |
Bit of a Radical
03:20
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I'm a bit of a radical I don't wear drawers
keep my body precious from historical war
I don't eat no animals, couldn't tell you why
Mortimer tells me I will be here 'till I die
2.
got a lot of memories crowdin my mind
got a lot of theories corruptin my time
need a little hope that'll help me go
'till I can find a method turnin grits to gold
3.
system is the way everybody goes any other way
somethin I don't know
hair's hangin low just the way it do
that's the way we grow it at the 60s school
4.
I ain't had too many people ever ask me
if I'd be a singer at their jamboree
maybe they know that I don't know how
to sing or dance stomp or bash I can't even howl
5.
I been playin guitar for a bunch of years
I been learnin yoddlin for a week
I don't want no teacher gonna learn myself
that's how you can tell me from everybody else
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10. |
Why
04:47
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You say you're goin I'm stayin goodbye
don't be afraid you've hurt me, why
Chorus:
i've always been alone
you were just passin
now you're gone
2.
our time together five summers five winters warm
I don't have any questions, why - chorus
3.
let me kiss your shoulders, and turn away forget you
I know the future is anxious, why - chorus
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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia
Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.
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