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Blueshouse Boogie
03:26
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There’s a thing you can do
To stop yourself feeling down
It’s growing in size
Gonna take on the whole damn town
You gotta move your feet
And shake yourself around
And do the blues house boogie
And boogie down to the ground
You do the Blues House boogie
Boogie your blues away
You do the Blues House boogie
Boogie your blues away
Cos the blues house boogie
better than words can say
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Happy People Don't Smoke
02:31
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You see them in the morning
trying to get that final fix
before they reach the office
and they just can’t light those sticks
they’re needy and they’re hungry
like little crawling snakes
But when life starts getting better
And the boss decides to go
when you find a better job
and your ducks are in a row
and you can quit the habit got a hold on you
Happy people don’t smoke
Happy people don’t smoke
Happy people don’t smoke
Happy people don’t smoke
You know it ain’t no joke
Happy people don’t smoke
Smoke it!
So you’re get free of nicotine
and spending all that cash
which ends up as butt
and a stinky pile of ash
when your clothes don’t smell so nasty
cos you don’t need to smoke
Happy people don’t smoke
Happy people don’t smoke
Happy people don’t smoke
Happy people don’t smoke
You know it ain’t no joke
Happy people don’t smoke
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Blue Dragon
04:23
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There’s a place to go when you’re feeling low and life has brought you down
It’s an old hotel with a musty smell over on the edge of town
Just go and take a seat your blues will be complete though the colour scheme is brown
Down in the bar it’s the best place by far to claim your lonely crown
Drinking beer you ain’t lonely here and you don’t even speak
Cos there’s others there whose souls are bear, but please don’t think they're weak
There’s a band that plays in a country way and they think they’re unique
They won’t let you jam cos they’re the big I AM and you are just a freak
Go to The Blue Dragon, when you need a home
Cos at The Blue Dragon, you can be alone
And at The Blue Dragon, everyone’s the same
They have been hurt by love and need a gentle shove
To learn to live life with the pain
So you’ve been there now and you take a bow, you’re out there in the cold
If and if you want to stay this is the only way, you stay and just grow old
Or you could walk away before your hair turns grey before your soul is sold
So don’t be a miser, go tell Trip Adviser, to keep others from the fold
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I used to wonder what would happen when the future is now
I need more definition but we don’t know how
If I wanted more certain, should have been a civil servant
Getting paid a certain wage until I reach a certain age
Can’t get that definition, cost I took a different mission
and the journey was unknown
Maybe shoulda acted bolder before I got to being older
And done the things I shoulda – that I really, really coulda
But I am the man I am and done the things I can
to play the music that I love, that maybe comes from up above
And now that time has come to do it just like I always knew
But…
Depends on loads of things
Depends on loads of things
Life ain’t no certain thing
It keeps on varying
Just what the future brings
Depends on loads of things
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I'd rather work in the city - in a pinstriped suit and bowler hat
If you break my arm I'll join the union, you know how I feel about that
Put me in a uniform - if it comes to blows
But you'll never get me up
Never get me up
No you’ll ever get me up in one of those things
I'd rather spend time in the Foreign Legion
Or risk my neck travelling on the Southern Region
Put me in a uniform if it comes to blows
But you'll never get me up
Never gonna get me up
No you’ll ever get me up in one of those things
I can stay – way down here and get high
I don’t need no uniform to fly
If the good Lord had meant us to get up in one of those things
He'd have given us the tickets as well as the pair of wings
So if you don't mind I'll take my chances crossing the street
'Cause I need to the ground beneath my feet
Put me in a uniform if it comes to blows
But you'll never get me up
Never get me up
Never gonna get me up in one of those things
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Fire & Rain
04:13
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Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
Lady the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
I just can't remember who to send it to
I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Won't you look down upon me, Jesus
You've got to help me make a stand
You've just got to see me through another day
My body's aching and my time is at hand
And I won't make it any other way
Been walking my mind to an easy time my back turned towards the sun
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around
Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line to talk about things to come
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground
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7. |
You Don't Love Me
03:45
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You don’t love me baby
You don’t love me this I know
You don’t love me baby
You don’t love me this I know
If you leave me baby
I won’t have no place to go
I’m gonna tell my mother
I’m gonna talk to my father too
I’m gonna tell my mother
I’m gonna talk to my father too
I gotta tell the old man
What these wild girls do to you.
I’m gonna leave in the morning
You know crying won’t make me stay
I’m gonna leave in the morning
You know crying won’t make me stay
The more you cry baby
You know the further you drive me away
Goodbye now pretty baby
If I never see you no more
Goodbye now pretty baby
If I never see you no more
Lord, you think I’m a fool
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8. |
Divin' Duck Blues
03:43
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If the river was whiskey
and I was a diving duck
If the river was whiskey
and I was a diving duck
I would swim to the bottom, and drink my way back up
The sun gonna shine
on my back door someday
The sun gonna shine
on my back door someday
A big wind gonna come up
And blow my blues away
If the river was whiskey
and I was a diving duck
If the river was whiskey
and I was a diving duck
I would swim to the bottom,
and I’d drink my way back up
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A King of Rock 'n' Roll
03:54
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He cut his first hit record back in ‘55
that had a certain something kept the folks alive
He had a square guitar that looked like outa space
And Maraca man Jerome just kept it on the pace
His glasses gave him style
His check jacket was wild
There’s never been another like him ever, ever, ever…
(He’s a) King of Rock’n’Roll
(He’s a) King of Rock’n’Roll
Got a crazy rhythm with a crazy beat
He’s a King of Rock’n’Roll
Everybody tried to copy him but few can do it right
His chugging boogie-woogie gets it every night
His voice is like a siren, calling all to move
Cos once he starts that playing your whole body gotta groove
His beat it was so driving
His rhythm is still thriving
There’s never been another like him ever, ever, ever…
When he passed away and joined that great band in the sky
They all must be rejoicing but left us down here to cry
That chugga chugga throbbing comes from high up in the clouds
But we can still all hear it laying loud loud loud
His influence goes for
Buddy Holly, Johnny Marr
There’s never been another like him ever, ever, ever…
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Ten o’clock Sunday morning
I’m lying in my room
I hear the church bells ringing
but they don’t lift my gloom
Lookin’ out the window
I see the people going down to pray
They’re looking for salvation
no matter what they say
But we just…
Need somebody to hold me tight
Tell me everything’s gonna be alright
Need somebody to hold me tight
Tell me everything’s gonna be alright
I feel alone/so alone
(That’s why I) need somebody to hold me tight
There’s a man across the water
Says he wants to build a wall
Bring back jobs from China
Make things great for all
Spends weekend in Florida
Got high rise building and a private plane
Says he stands for the people
But we got fooled again
That’s why I…
You know the whole worlds crazy
Torn apart with rage and pain
“my God’s not your God
“so we must kill again”
There’s one God or no God
The differences are all by men
Why can’t we love our neighbours
Peace and Love to them
That’s why I…
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