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DARKNESS, DARKNESS

NEW YORK 1963 - AMERICA 1968

And when I got to America, I say it blew my mind (x2)The Apollo Theater on a 125th street, the place was closed, it was pouring rain,

I had a feeling I'd go there again, The taxi driver thought I was insane,

Brown girl from the Bronx showed me her home,We went there by subway train

She took me there time and time again,Love was our sweet song's name.And when I got to America, I say it blew my mind (x2)The Negro was my hero and leader, His strange tasting waysthey turned me on

I tried my best to sound just like him, When he moveshe moves like lightning

Across the world the news was flashed, The country's young leader was laid to rest

Another ending of a new beginning, Others criedsome were grinning

And when I got to America, I say it blew my mind (x2).In Central Park the children were playing, Behind the bars the tiger walked

Smiling young faces of many colours, Many young tongues were being talked

The garbage lying in the streets of the Village, Smiling face of an unknown Bob Dylan. (do it again, man), She was sixteen, young and so willin'

The sudden violence of a Village killin'

(and here comes the Police as usual, eh, what good are you now)

And when I got to America, I say it blew my mind

(and all ya people standing around here with your hands in your pockets)

And when I got to America, I say it blew my mind

Interview:

What did you do in the services?

What did I do in the services? I was a fighter pilot. Yeah, that's right. But they didn't like me. They didn't want me. When I was sent overseas, the first thing they told me was: "um, we can't use you because we didn't send for you"

I was trained. The government paid, the government spent over $250,000 to train me as a pilot, and then after I got overseas, a general sent his adjutant down to meet our group to say that we didn't send for you and we don't want you. That's right. This is the truth, I'm telling you the truth! This is straight life but, ah, somehow we go on We go on because we would like to think there's hope. But that's a lie, there ain't no hope and that's the truth, that's the truth baby!

That's right when I know you out of the box. (laughter) Yeah, that's right! You know the town that I was born in, we didn't have no streets? It was all dirt roads, dirt roads and poor people, nobody had nothing. Matter of fact, we used to get together to have community meals. Somebody had cabbage, somebody else had some meat, somebody else had some corn mean and we'd get together and we'd make a meal, have a community dinner. That was when we were lucky and then we'd play cards. We didn't have any signals 'cause we didn't need any. Nobody had any cars. That's right! And on the corner, on particular corners, there were accidents all the time. Most of the people who were hurt in the accidents died just because nobody came to pick them up. The ambulance never came. That's right, the ambulance never came. I've just seen many a man bleed to death, lying on the street

There's got to be a change, there's got to be a change and there's enough people to do it! If they would get off their big fat you-know-what, and move! Because we don't have much time. There's enough people sayin', "Ain't it a shame? Ain't it a shame? Ain't it a shame?" Standing around. Good people, oh yeah! They all regard themselves as good people and they are full of "ain't it a shame's". And why don't people, why can't they see and why don't everybody do this and why don't everybody do that?

But if they, it's time for them to make a move, gets hands outta your pockets and go to work. Do something! Otherwise there gonna be nothing to do (laughter) Yeah, and that's funny!

End of Interview

Oh, hang on

Wanna be free babe, wanna be free, I made up my mind, that's where I wanna be

That's all I wanna do, to be free, to be free, To smell the grass beneath my feet

To smile at people on the street, To be in love with everyone,

To know that life has just begun, That's where I want to be, I want to be free babe

You know when I'm feelin' good babe?, That's when I feel freewhen I feel good

And when I feel good it's because, because I'm stoned babe

(I don't believe you), Oh yes, I'm so stoned, babe

(I don't believe you), It's a good good feeling, oh yes it is

(I still don't believe you), Ohhh, I don't care if you don't believe me

(I don' believe you), It's a good, good feelin' babe

I want to give it away, (No good will come this day)

I want to give it all away, (don't give it to me)

I'll die if I can' t give it away , (You cannot give it away), Tell me

(I can't tell you anything), Tell me you want to be free, tell me, tell me,

Give me some encouragement, (I feel, I feel, I feel)

And make me baby, I want, I want to make everybody to feel free with me

(I feel, I feel all wrong, you must me wrong), Because I know but I don't care,

Maybe I'm wrong, (You've got to be wrong)

I know I'm wrong babe, (You're so wrong)

I'm so very very wrong and what's good for me is good for you

(You cannot be free this way), It's got to be, oh, free me, oh, free me

(you'll never be free this way), I got to be free

You can't tell me that I don't feel free because I feel free

(You'll never be free this way), I wanna be free of all this, I wanna be outta here

(You'll never be free this way), An animal would do much to protect his young. And animal will fight to the death to protect his security and future life the way I have to live it.

It's altogether something that you would definitely not understand. Nobody understands this because, take for instance Saturday night, Saturday night is a big, big experience

I think I can feel it, I think I've got it, got to be free

(is it really freedom?)

I wanna give it to you.

(Burdon, Bruno)

AROUND AND AROUND They said the joint was rockin'

Goin' 'round and 'round

Oh baby

With that crazy sound

And it never stopped rockin'

Til the moon went down

You know it sounds so sweet

I gotta take me a chance

Rose out of my seat

You know I had to dance

Started movin' my feet

Oh, clappin' my hands

And we kept on rockin'


Oh baby






Oh baby




Twelve o'clock

And the place was packed

Twelve o'clock



Oh baby






Oh baby




(Berry)

THE STORY OF BO DIDDLEY

Now lets hear the story of Bo Diddley

And the Rock n Roll scene in general

Bo Diddley was born Ellis McDaniels

In a place called McCoom, Missississipi about 1926

He moved to Chicago about 1938

Where his name was eventually changed to Bo Diddley

He practiced the guitar everyday and sometimes into the night

Till his papa's hair began to turn white

His Pa said "Son, listen hear, I know

You can stay but that guitar has just gotta go"

So he pulled his hat down over his eyes

Headed out for them Western Skies

I think Bob Dylan said that

He hit New York City

He began to play at the Apollo in Harlem

Good scene there everybody raving

One day, one night, came a Cadillac with four head lights

Came a man with a big, long, fat, cigar said,

"C'mere son, I'm gonna make you a star"

Bo Diddley said, "Uh..whats in it for me?"

Man said, "Shut your mouth son,

play the guitar and you just wait and see"

Well, that boy made it, he made it real big

And so did the rest of the rock n roll scene along with him

And a white guy named Johnny Otis took Bo Diddleys rhythm

He changed it into hand-jive and it went like this

In a little old country town one day

A little old country band began to play

Add two guirtars and a beat up saxophone

When the drummer said, boy, those cats begin to roam

Oh baby oh we oh oh

Ooh la la that rock and roll

Ya hear me oh we oh oh

Ooh la la that rock and roll

Then in the U.S. music scene there was big changes made

Due to circumstances beyond our control such as payola

The rock n roll scene died after two years of solid rock

And you got discs like, ah...

Take good care of my baby

Please don't ever make her blue and so forth

About, ah, one year later in a place called Liverpool in England

Four young lads with mop haircuts began to sing stuff like, ah...

It's been a hard days night and I've been working like a dog and so on

In a place called Richmond in Surrey, whay down in the deep south

They got guys with long hair down their back singing

I wanna be your lover baby I wanna be your man yeah and all that jazz

Now we've doing this number, Bo Diddley, for quite some time now

Bo Diddley visited this country last year

We were playing at the Club A Gogo in Newcastle, our home town

The doors opened one night and to our surprise

Walked in the man himself, Bo Diddley

Along with him was Jerome Green, his maraca man,

And the Duchess, his gorgeous sister

And a we were doing this number

Along with them came the Rolling Stones, the Mersey Beats,

They're all standing around diggin' it

And I overheard Bo Diddley talkin'

He turned around to Jermone Green

And he said, "Hey, Jerome? What do you think these guys

Doin' our..our material?"

Jerome said, "Uh, where's the bar, man? Please show me to the bar..."

He turned around the Duchess

And he said, "Hey Duchess...what do you think of these young guys

Doin' our material?"

She said, "I don't know. I only came across here

To see the changin' of the guards and all that jazz."

Well, Bo Diddley looked up and said to me,

With half closed eyes and a smile,

He said "Man," took off his glasses,

He said, "Man, that sure is the biggest load of rubbish

I ever heard in my life..."

Hey Bo Diddley

Oh Bo Diddley

Yeah Bo Diddley

Oh Bo Diddley

Yeah Bo Diddley

(Burdon/McDaniel

TAKE IT EASY

If you take your time, you'll get what you want,

If you take your time, honey, you'll get just what you want.

So don't hurry me, don't worry me, take it easy baby.

If you take it slow, then you'll find I know,

If you take it slow. You'll get that feeling more and more.

So don't hurry me, hurry me, worry me, take it easy, baby.

I said I won't be like I used to know

You get my feeling of my pride and joy,

When I'm holdin' you baby, I feel like a baby,

But if you take your time, you'll get what you want.

So don't hurry me, hurry me, worry me, take it easy.

Take it easy, honey.and don't worrydon't rush me darlin'

I said I won't be like I used to know

You get my feeling of my pride and joy,

When I'm holdin' you baby, I feel like a baby,

But if you take it slow, then you'll find I know,

If you take it slow, you gonna feel it more and more.

So don't hurry me, hurry me, worry me, take it easy, baby.

(Burdon, Price)

BLUE FEELING

Sit here and wonder what am I so blue

Is it because I'm still in love with you ?

Blue blue feeling got me down today

Blue blue feeling, my baby's gone away

Now that she's gone, I don't know what I'll do

I guess I'll have to find, find somebody new



Baby please don't leave me, oh don't leave me

Now that she's gone, I'm feeling kind of blue

I guess I'll have to find, find somebody new



Well baby please don't leave me

Baby please don't go

Awh!Honey child don't leave me now,

Baby please, baby please

(unknown)

WORRIED LIFE BLUES

Oh Lord, Lordy Lord, it hurts me so bad for us to part

Someday baby, I ain't gonna worry my life no more

You're on my mind every place I go

How much I love you baby, baby you'll never know

Someday baby, I ain't gonna worry my life no more

So many mornings since you've been gone

I'm on my knees prayin' to you baby, please come back home

Someday baby, I ain't gonna worry my life no more, oh yeah

I want you brown eyes, I want you till my days end

But I want you as a lover, you're no good to me as my friend

Someday baby, I won't worry my life no more, yeah

That's my story, this is all I got to say to you

Oh goodbye baby, I don't care what you do

Someday baby, I ain't gonna worry no, my life no more

(Merriweather)

YOU'RE ON MY MIND

MondayFriday

WeekdayHolidayYeah

Every single empty day

You're on my mind

Yeah, you.are my mind

IrelandGermany

When I'm awayyou, I say

Every lonely place I go

You're on my mind

Oh yeah, you're on my mind

I tried forgettin' you

Tried to maintain my cool

But the existenceof youeffects my life

If you would forget the past

And maybe somedaytake me back

I'd rest easy in my bed tonight

You know I'd say now

Day timenight time

Good timesbad times

When I was down and showed up B.

You're on my mind

Oh yeah, you're on my mind

I tried forgettin' you girl

Tried to maintain my cool, yeah

But your existenceeffects my life

Baby, If you would forget the past

And maybe take me back

I'd rest easy in my lonely bed tonight

You know I mean it

MondayFriday

WeekdaySaturday

HolidayYeah

Every single empty day

You're on my mind

Oh yeah, you are my mind

Yeahyou're on my mind

(Burdon/Rowberry

THE BLACK PLAGUE

ohohohohoh

(gregorian chants)

the bell tolls

the black plague has struck

diseased eyes roll upwards

as if knowing which direction their souls will travel

(bring out your dead)

a woman in black cries

as the deathly procession passes by

and monks moan en masse

ohohohohohoh

(gregorian chants)

the yet clean peasant pounds upon the castle door

for it is safer inside the walls

their knocking pounds a dull tone across the quiet, deserted courtyard

the bodies of unfortuates bloat in the hot sun outside the castle walls

and ones ignorant of all facts plunder the diseased corpses for remaining riches.


and the bell tolls on

a man walks around the castle walls on the outside

the light from his lamp dancing shadows as he moves

he tends the sick

gives comfort to all he can for dying woman and crying man

but he feels it most for the children

(unclean)

tears glisten on his cheek

did man ever deserve this death?

and not all will die, just the poor

for the rich are inside the castle walls

and he knows he could be with them

and they laugh at this fool of a man

through the stone fortress windows

and the bell tolls on

(unclean)

and many deaths and many days later

many tears have been cry cried but in vain

for tears can never erase the pain of death

only time has that talent

his hands are now blistered but this man walks on

the only element of sanity that the people look to him for answers and he answers all

and the bell tolls on inside the castle wall


the dead are now buried and the plague is at its end

life for the people flowers again

they breathe fresh air like they did once before

and there is not a sound from beyond the castle walls

the bell has stopped

and only silence is heard

and the peasants outside wonder what happened within

in their bones they feel something is wrong

the bell has been silent much too long

for many days not one soul has stirred from the stone fortress where the rich people live

no one came and no one went

fear can do many strange things

and even though water ran low

their mouths burnt and bellys caked dry

not one person put a foot outside

no one had that much courage

for they feared the peasants and their world outside

so they played it safe and didn't move

but one by one they perished and died

(

COLORED RAIN

Yesterday I was a young man

Searching for my way

Not knowing what I wanted

Living life from day to day, yeah

Till she came along

There was nothing but an empty space

Not a trace

Feels like colored rain

Tastes like colored rain

Bring down colored rain

Rain, oh yeah

I can feel those colored changes

Going through my mind

United with a feeling

Bringing love into my eyes, yeah

Till she came along


Not a trace

Feels like colored rain, baby

Tastes like colored rain


Rain, oh yeah

Bring it on down baby

I can feel those colored changes

Going through my mind

United with a feeling

Bringing love into my eyes, yeah

Till she came along


Not a trace

Feels like colored rain, baby

Don't you know it feels like colored rain

Don't you know baby

Its not all the time

That the sun won't shine, baby, yeah

If you love me and you want me to be your man, yeah yeah

Theres one thing baby

Every woman should understand, hmmm

Without rain babe

Our love will never come to be

And if you want my sunshine

You've got to accept my hail rain and snow

There's one thing baby

That I want you to do for me yeah

I want you to take our body close

I want you to work that up I know

Take that colored rain

Bring it down yeah

Bring it on down yeah





( )

HOTEL HELL

The neon sign flashes,

Leaves its mark against the wall

The TV is silent

And will stay that way until dawn

The sheets are so cold,

The telephone is dumb

And I'm so very far from my home

In the dark I hear a siren

It screams across the night

Someone else is in trouble

I am not the only one

The cigarette glows,

I'm all alone


I would leave here tomorrow

But I know I've got to stay

If only you were here with me

I'm holding on to every memory, memory

Memory, memory, memory, memory

It is four o'clock in the morning,

The sun begins to rise

Another day I have to face,

Baby, I'm so dissatisfied

Breakfast is served

The morning news is heard


Yes, I'm so very far from my home

Yes, I'm so very far from my home

So very

Well, I'm so very far, far away from home

So very

(Burdon, Briggs, Weider, Jenkins, McCulloch)

I'M AN ANIMAL

I'm an animal

I'm an animal

I'm an animal...here to blow your mind

I'm an animal...of the English kind

I'm an animal...gonna flip your wig

I'm an animal...behave just like a pig

I'm an animal

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Let me be your best friend

and I won't monkey 'round with you

I'm an animal...I'll eat your body and soul

I'm an animal...tune to rock and roll

I'm an animal...I'm a throroughbred

I'm an animal...going to give your head

I'm an animal...a woman is my prey

I'm an animal...eat both night and day

I'm an animal...I've got to satisfy

I'm an animal...never been known to lie

I'm an animal...animal life

I'm an animal...animalism

I'm an animal...human system, breath, flesh, flesh and blood

Physique, strength, power, vigor, force, spring, elasticity, tone and grace

Animal Kingdom, fumour, root, creation, animal creature, creature, being, living thing

Dumb animal, dumb friend, dumb creature, brute

I'm an animal...of the English kind

I'm an animal...going to blow your mind

I'm an animal...behave like a pig

I'm an animal...your gonna flip your wig

Oh, yeah

I'm an animal


I'm an animal


I'm an animal


I'm an animal


(Burdon/Briggs/Weider/Jenkins/McCulloch)

I'M DYING (OR AM I)

Got that sleepy feeling...got that sleepy feeling

When the lights go out...know the lights go out

Well, I know I should not do things...know I should not do things

But I really must work out...really must work out

Really must work out

It's a chemical reaction to state your piece of mind

God knows I'm dying

Body can't keep up...with my mind

Heard many people like me...many people like me

On this manufactured trade...manufactured trade

Tying to satisfy people...trying to satisfy people

When you know they've got you whipped..know they've got you whipped

Know they've got you whipped

One can only hope

Someday the sun will shine

God, knows I'm dying

My body can't keep up with my mind

You told me I'd be dying

At the temple was the living

But even when you're dying

There's some sweet joy in giving giving

Giving, giving, giving

Sometimes I sit and wonder..sometimes I sit and wonder

In an wine and smoke filled room..in a wine and smoke filled room

Why we sit here talking...why we sit here talking

Only adding to the gloom...adding to the gloom

Adding to the gloom

Then I see the wonder

The sky bursts into flame

God knows I'm dying

(

THE IMMIGRANT LAD

And here I sit with a tear in my eye, the waters of Tyne in between you and I


As a child I dreamed of her, on the far banks of the river

I knew she could not be reached, for my mind was forever wondering

Far above his head, as he tried his best to teach me

The river was muddy and black, black as the coal she carried

Impossible to cross, many men had tried

The old sailor told me, another life is lost



Black was the colour of my childish dreams, impressions that would last

Black coal, coal black pit yacka's face, escaping the coal dust blast

Blind pony stumblin' to the light of day, to retire in the green fields forever

And I'll build me a bridge of steel, to beat the black river forever

I'll beat that black river forever, I'll beat that muddy river forever



Conversation in a London Bar:

Cockney: I don't know why you geezers come down to London all the time, 'cause you look so miserable all the time, y'know.

Geordie: That's true, I havna been too happy but what brought us down here was three years on the docks and I just come down here for work and for money and get a bit few, few more quid in me pocket.

Cockney: Yeah, but coming down to the smoke, mate, you need people to see , you'll need friends, to goin' to see because it's a hard town down here.

IT'S ALL MEAT

The sound of Muddy Waters and the voice of Jimmy Reed

When Ray Charles moans

It's all meat on that same bone

It's all meat on just one bone

When Miles Davis blows his horn,

When Ravi Shankar plays

It's all down home

But it's all meat on the same bone

It's all meat on just one bone

When Erkel Darbies walks,

When Eric Clapton talks

There's only one place it can come from

And it's all meat on the same bone

All meat, same bone,

Do it!

Don't you listen to none of them jive hip squares

Try to tell you where the blues is from

'Cause the blues is from the whole wide world

Deep within the souls of men.

When Muhammad Ali gets mad

When an Irishman drinks

It's all for a woman

It's all for his home

It's all meat on the same bone

It's all meat, same bone

It's all meat, same bone

Same bone, same thing

It's all soul, It's all meat


MAN-WOMAN

Man, Woman, Desire, Love

Love one another

Can true love last forever?


They both agreeYes, it can

Be my woman.I'll be your man


'Baby, is there something wrong with you?

You don't do the things you used to do'

'I'm sorry baby, it's just I've been drinking, I need some rest'

That's when she starts really thinking

Man, Woman, Tired, Love

He still loves her and thats a fact

But he can't help the way he acts

She feels it now and she turns to ice

He sees an old friend for some advice

Man, Friend, 'Work things out'

'Okay baby, shoot, lets get things off your chest

I know what you need, you need a damn good rest

Now I know a chick, she's cool and she's a good friend'

...THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END...

He hesitates, he thinks, ahh, I'll take a chance

Well, whats wrong with taking a chick to a dance?

...NOTHING...

Whats wrong with taking a lady home?

...NOTHING...

'Stay awhile baby, it's all right, we're quite alone'

Well, what's wrong with that?

...PLENTY...

Man in heaven...temporarily

Woman.Worried

He arrives home very very late and she is staring at the wall

She says, 'How was the meetin' tonight honey? Did you have a ball?'

He says to her, 'No, it was a drag. Me and the fellas just got a little stoned.

I got a little drowsy and I couldn't find my way home.'

She says, 'Yeah, I know.'

...SHE KNOWS...

And he knows that she knows

Now she's got to work really fast

If their love is going to last

Talkin' it over would only be a drag

She's got to pull some tricks out of her feminine bag

Ha, all right

Comes morning she's home and dry

And her man sleeps on, satisfied,

And this is the story of Man, Woman, Desire, Love


Man, Man

Woman, woman, woman,

Desire

Love

Set your soul on fire...

(Burdon/Weider/Briggs/McCulloch/Jenkins)

NO SELF PITY

Electric light shines bright

But against the sun it is dim

Jet airplanes sure travel fast,

But how fast is the speed of light?

And no matter how low you are

There is always somebody lower

And no matter how slow you are

There is always somebody slower

Modern day structures are fantastic

But have you seen a butterfly's wings?

Man has created symphony

But have you heard a blackbird sing?

And no matter how dumb you are,

There is always somebody dumber

And no matter how fine you are

There is always somebody finer

I am blind, I am blind,

But I see behind my eyes

Man can make sweet red wine

But have you tasted a mountain stream

Hollywood has created movies

But listen to the color of your dreams

And no matter how ugly you are

There is no such thing as ugly

And no matter how bad you are

There is always someone to forgive you

And no matter how fine you are

There is always somebody finer

And no matter how low you are

There is always somebody lower

And no matter how fast you are,

There is always somebody faster

Faster, faster, faster, faster, faster, faster, and faster, and faster

And slower, and lower, and finer, and finer, and slower, and faster, and lower


ORANGE AND RED BEAMS

Orange and red beams

In and out

Peek through my window

In the night

The baby was born

Before a storm

And now I believe them

What they said

The thousand people

Who aren't really dead

The baby was born

Before a storm

And now a fate calls him a mile away

'Cause orange and red beams

Yes, are here to stay

Now I believe him

Before I escape

The thousand people

Do not really care

The baby was born

Before a storm

Orange and red beams, orange and red beams



(McCulloch)

RING OF FIRE

Love is a burnin' thing

It makes a fire ring

Bound by wild desire

I fell in to your ring of fire

I fell in to that burning ring of fire

I went down, down, down

And the flames got higher

And it burns, burns, burns

That ring of fire

That ring of fire

The taste of love is sweet

When souls like I always meet

I fell for you like a little child

Ohhh, and flames got wild

I fell into that burning ring of fire


And the flames got higher


That ring of fire

That ring of fire

Ahh, ahh, ahhh

I fell into that burning ring of fire


And the flames, they got higher


That ring of fire

That ring of fire

Well, I fell in to that burning ring of fire


And the flames, they got higher


That ring of fire

Well I'm burning

Let me burn in your ring of fire

Well now baby

Let the flames get higher and higher and higher and higher and higher yeah

Let me burn in your ring of fire

God knows I'm burnin' baby

The fire that burns is the fire that learns

Well, I'm burning right up baby

Burning up with your ring of fire yeah

Well, I'm burning baby

Said I'm burning baby

And the flames get higher(x2) In the burnin' ring of fire

YEAR OF THE GURU

My leader told me to jump in the river

The river was deep and the weather was winter

After a sailer very kindly saved me

My leader told me, you'd better take it easy

I took it so easy my leader called me lazy

Through the lack of red meat

Everything was getting hazy

Friends looked at me and said,

Man, you gotta be crazy

Oh, oh leader

My leader said son you'd better get yourself together

never mind the fools who know what we're getting into

But a forty mile walk would do us both a world of good

and he sat down and watched me take off down the road

Well, I walked so far my feet began to bleed

If this was good for me I just couldn't see it

A motorist picked me up and said

Look man, you must be crazy

Oh, oh leader

Oh, oh leader

My leader came to see me in a hospital bed

Well at least I really knew that my leader really cared

After giving me a second-hand roach

He said where's your donation man,

It's all for a good cause.

He left me all alone to work the riddle out

But I just couldn't make it so I began to shout

They stuck a hypodermic deep down into me

Said, look out nurse I think we got a loony

Oh, oh leader

Okay baby follow me now

Follow your leader

All right

Now here I sit in a state-run asylum

Limitless, friendless but much more together

I decided to do some good book readin'

About the art of people leadin'

Now I'm the leader and they're being led

What's the matter if they're crazy till you hear what I've said

Being the leader is really where its at

But just how long can a good thing last

Oh, oh leader

Oh, oh leader

Now listen to this baby

This is the year of the guru

Now the thing to do is to ask yourself

What can a guru do for me?

Then you say to yourself

I gotta get a guru

(Burdon/Weider/Briggs/McCulloch/Jenkins)

BEAUTIFUL NEWBORN CHILD

Oh yeah I'm a child of the funky time

Oh yeah my people have committed ugly crimes

And in the process of me breaking free

I have inherited a painful legacy

I have even created some ugly children for you to adopt

That you have chosen to embrace

You embrace the ugly, the dyin' and the freak

Only because he is a part of you and you are afraid to speak

Deep down, way down in the depths of you

He is ready to take over and rape the last part of the sanity in your mind

Let him out, let him out, let him run wild, scream free

Get crazy and forget about music what it was what it is or what its supposed to be

Give it to the day, give in to the funky

Give in to the gypsy, to the nigger in you soul and fly free

Fly free

..Give it to the....

Oh lord, curse of the newborn child

...The incredible madness of just you, and then

Yeah, yeah

...Maybe, we will see....

A beautiful newborn child

...Something beautiful, something beautiful...

etc....

(Burdon/WAR)

HOME COOKIN'

You hear that sound

Thats the sound of little feet

Running away from home

Little feet are always running away from home

To find bigger feet

And they usually end up getting kicked in the head

I joined the navy at the age of seventeen

There were lots of places I had not been

I had a dream in my head about a little Japanese girl

And it wasn't till I sailed halfway 'round the world

You know, you know

I miss good lookin' women in my home town

You know I miss warm cookin' mama, that you lay down

I found myself

On the 'frisco Bay

Getting high off the wind

A different chick every day

It wasn't till I found

Myself down Mexico way

With tears in my eyes

I was hurt to ?

You know, Lord I said...

I miss good lookin' women in my home town

You know I miss the home cookin' mama, that you lay down

So here I am

A million miles away from home

But I really do believe someday my time will come

Then I'll return the prodigal son

Spend the rest of my days loving every single last one

Yes, I miss good lookin' women in my home town

Yeah, you know I miss good lookin' women, that you lay down

You know I miss the good cookin' mama, that you used to lay down

You know I miss good lookin' women

Women, women, women, here women there women everywhere

old MacDonald had a farm on the farm he had some women here,

Women there women everywhere

Now, women, women

I miss good lookin' women in my hometown

I miss good lookin' women that I lay down....

(Burdon/WAR

ALL I DO

I aint got no time for nothin to do,

And I cant get ahead if Im watchin you, too.

Honey, all I do is wait for you.

People, all I do is wait for you.

Aint got no lazybones around me,

couse you cant get ahead if youre behind, you see.

(Spoken)

Goodbye, good luck, dont worry about me.

Goodbye, good luck, dont worry about me......

(Burdon/Kesterson/Sterling)

BE MINE

Free impossible believers,

If they worry evry minute that goes by.

Be the magic of the morning.

Be mine, all the time ,

be mine, be mine.

Baby, be mine.

Why do you belong to someone?

Try to see yourself between you being blind.

Be the woman who believes me.

Be mine.......................

Additional words

When you say you love somebody

Say it loud and absolutely blow their minds.

Be my only inspiration

Be mine.......................

Come and listen to my story,

Dont be afraid to leave your tears by my side.

Be the woman on my pillow

Be mine........................

(Sterling)

CITY BOY

Well, I came back to the city

And it wasn't very pretty,

It was dying

There were some who had more than they could eat

And other with no shoes up on their feet,

They were crying

I saw a brother sell his brother

While the cops held another,

They were laughing

I saw two dogs in the street,

A black one and a white one,

They were fighting

If it isn't very pretty

Why do they stay in the city

And watch it dying?

Why don't I go back to the country

And sit beneath a plum tree with my sweet little girl,

And listen to her singin'?

It's because I'm caught in a trap

Lord, and you know where that's at

It sure ain't the country

Oh, Lord knows, it ain't the country

It's because its the way I see it every night and day

I hope to change it

I'm just at city boy,

City boy, thats me

Hey! City boy, city boy

Yeah, yeah, city boy,

Oh Lord, city boy

(Burdon/Sterling)

FUNKY FEVER

Ive been looking for my baby

since I dont know when,

Cantseem to hide this feeling

I got deep down within.

She took away my love,

She took away my pride,

She gives me funky fever

Ive got deep down inside

Sometimes she makes me happy,

sometimes she makes me blue,

She gives me funky fever,

sometimes I get the funky flu.

Now I dont need my baby

Couse she told me what to do.

If you got that funky woman,

you get the funky fever, too.

Hey, funky fever, Hey, funky fever,

love that woman, too!

She gives me funky fever,

dont know what Im gonna do.

I love that funky fever,

I love that woman, too!

I got that funky fever,

gonna give it all to you!

(Ryan/Sterling)

GOTTA GET IT ON

Gotta Get it On

Since the sun came up this morning

Seems I'm into something new

I think you're gonna get it

All my troubles are a falling

All my dreams are coming true


All because I think of you


After all time and space I've learned the taste

I've learned how to feel the meaning of my memories

Open up the space between us

You'll find that the only way

Find its the only way

Get down on your back and pray

Find it's the only way

After all I knew and yet I couldn't last

Now I've learned to feel the meaning of my past

And if youre gonna live tomorrow

You gotta get it on today

Got to get it on today

Got to get it on today

(Hodgson/Sterling)

IM LOOKIN UP

Im looking up, x5

But when I look at you Im looking down.

Im looking up

at a world I left, Im looking down.

Im looking up

at the sky straight ahead,

theres the moon, the suns right behind you;

If you stare it can blind you.

And when you see them both together,

chances are Im gonna find you looking up.

(Sterling/Kesterson)

LETTER FROM THE COUNTY FARM

Letter from the county farm, letter from the county farm

And the wind it has been blowin'

Its been blowin' so strong

They're afraid to raise the flag 'less it gets torn to shreds

But God forbid the wind should ever stop blowin'

But if it did

I'm sure we'd all fall down

But sometimes it isn't windy

Like last February

I remember it snowed

and a week later it hailed

And now it looks like raining

Now it looks like raining

I'm convinced that what makes the rain and hail so heavy over here

is that the sherrif has been messing with out minds.

handin' out questionnaries to the pris'ners who are blind

to the pris'ners who are blind

Let me tell you one thing new at the county farm

They've got muzak in the fields

which makes this life of mine a little more unreal

a little more unreal

But I wish they'd kill the sounds, I wish they'd kill the sounds

You don't knowwhat it's like to hear Debussy in a California prison field

And I love

I love to sing while I'm workin'

I love to sing while I'm workin'

And the wind has been blowin'


I've given up reading for a time and taken up other pastimes

Such as watchin' winos gum their food and epileptics havin' bad times

More frequently I've been lost in this game

And it looks like they're gonna make a crim'nal out of me

A criminal out of me

But those guys who are down on me winnin'

Lord knows, they take the game so seriously

But what hurts me more, burts me more than anything

Is when I get your mail

When I get your mail, they've cut you

They've cut out the parts and the words that have feeling

So I'm left with only part of you

I say I'm only left with part of you



Oh, play your guitar, baby

Play your guitar, baby,

Get me off this farm, baby, take me away...

And apart from all this crap there is some peace and quiet

Except for the screws grumbling and mumbling and calling me a long hair

I wouldn't mind, but they cut my hair quite some time ago

They cut it off when I first came here

Which tells me Indo-China is really here behind this wire

And it soon will be dying engulfed in their own fire, in their own fire

In fact, they tell me that a boy like me shouldn't think like that

But this is murder and everybody accepts that.

Lord knows, they all accept it, and everybody knows thatt ain't where its at

So take care, pray for rain and maybe I'll see you

Visiting hours next week

And when the screw, when the screw says no touching,

Lord knows, I'll turn the other cheek.

(Burdon, Gordon)

THE MAN

(spoken)

Its flashing red, His plastic head,

Make a move and youre dead,

Im gonna fill your mind with lead.

Pass your papers on the ground,

and you better be cool,

Never drive with a roach in the car,

cause I aint no fool.

Its The man! Its The Man!

Hell keep you waiting, if youve got a date,

So you better relax cause youre gonna be late.

Flashin! Trashin! Crashin! Its The Man! Its The Man!

So we play the game, And its always the same,

Ive got the power of the name,

Im gonna drive you insane.

Pull over to the right couse

youre gonna be wrong,

No matter what you got to say,

you better save it for a song.

Dedicated to The Man,

I say, dedicated to The Man,

Its The Man!

(Stirling/Mitthauer/Ryan)

RAINBOW

Now if you want my love today,

if you want my sorrow,

It wont rain unless you pray

Rainbows come when rains are done,

fills the sky with colored sun,

My loves inside the rainbow.

Now if you have to go away,

wont be back tomorrow.

Take your time but evry day

Rainbows.........

Now if you dont know how to say

that you live in sorrow

If no love has come your way

Rainbows..........

(Burdon/Kesterson/Morris/Sterling)

THE REAL ME

Ive been here a million years,

You know who I am.

Sing songs of joy and sorrow,

Ive not been a sham.

Ive been in evry country, baby,

Ive been in evry place,

Millions have heard my music,

but they really dont know my face.

But, ah, this time the

mirror man came to me,

showed me xactly what I wanted to see.

I said its finlly beginning to be

the way I want it to be,yeah, yeah.

So when I come to your town this time

youre gonna see the real me.

Ive had my name in lights,

Ive known fortune and fame,

But I have always felt that I was a

lonely and lost faceless name.

I searched for years and years,

and finally this time

The face I present to you, baby,

I said this time is gonna be mine.

You see this time ........

This time youre gonna see the real me.

(Butler)

STOP

Stop what youre doin, baby come a little closer to me.

Tell me all your troubles, tell me evrything;

Ill give you sympathy.

Youre not supposed to say no,

but when you do,

I cant control myself (control myself)

Youre not supposed to refuse;

my love for you will make you satisfied sleep,

Lord, Oh (come on, baby)(satisfied)

Stop feelin sorry, dont you know

Ill give you anything you say.

(What I say)

Look inside my lonely room and tell me

do you really dig my lonely ways.

Youre not supposed....................

Dream on, dream on, dream on...........

Stop it, baby!

Youre not supposed to say no but when you do,

I get upset inside.

Youre not supposed to say no when do

I cant control (myself, myself, myself)

Hey! You better stop it, baby!

(Sterling/Kesterson/Haney)

THE WAY IT SHOULD BE

I dont understand what you do,

I dont even know how you live.

You think that Im better than you,

I think that its better to give.

You want me to tell you the truth,

You want me to reason and wait my turn.

I havent the nerve to say no,

I guess I deserve the burn you gave me.

Cant show my eyes, I dont want to know,

I havent the time to go any slower.

I dont understand how you live

(spoken)

And I dont even care if youre not my brother!

(Sterling)

BIRD ON THE BEACH

'Stood with my kid on the lonely windswept beach

The winter sun was on the horizon

And we were both out of reach

She ran ahead of me looking for the next surprise

Our souls were wet, yes Lord

From the incoming tide

She stopped and turned and looked at me

Lord, tears in her eyes

It's only a dead bird

And its soul has gone to the sky, yeah, yeah

Don't you know he's free

Not like you and me

That bird is free

Not like you and me

I never ever thought you would be so out of reach

And the lonely times have been like poison, child

I wish I could practise what I preach

Then I can release these feelings that I've been

Holding deep inside

I been missing you so much, baby

We only hear, there can be time

By then you will have forgotten

The little dead bird on the beach

But please don't forget your father, child

Because he's out of reach

I got a dream, baby

And my dream is

To be free

Freedom for you and me

I'm talking about freedom


You hear my music in the wind

Hearbeat like the rolling tide

One thing you can be sure of my love

Wherever you go, I'll hold your love inside

And I told her, look baby

Even if he was living

And you could hold him in your hands

You'd still have to open up one of these days

And let that bird fly, free

She stopped and turned and looked at me,

Lord, with tears in her eyes

It's only a dead bird and its soul has gone to the sky

Don't you know he's free


I'm talking about freedom, freedom


To be free

It's all I need baby

It's all I dream about baby

To be free

(Burdon)

I ain't mad at you

Don't you be mad at me

ain't mad at you

So don't you be mad at me

One and one is two

Two and one is three

I wanna find my baby going away downtown

I wanna find my baby going away downtown

If I can't find Roberta,

Going to jump overboard and drown

Oh, I said I ain't mad at you


I ain't mad at you, child


One and one is two,


Come on baby

Going to pawn my whistle,

Pawn my watch and chain

Going to pawn my whistle

Pawn my watch and chain

If I can't find Roberta

I'll hand over all my pay

Oh, I said, I ain't mad at you


I ain't mad at you


One and one is two


(Smith, Vincent)

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

I went down to Old Joe's Bar

On the corner by the square

All the men were having drinks, same as usual

And the same old crowd was there

Oh, no...

On my left stood my good friend, Joseph McGinley

Oh his eyes were blood-shot and red

And he turned to the people standing by him

and these are the words he said...

I went down to that St James Infirmary

They had my baby there

She was lying on a long, long white table, yeah

So cold, so still...she was dead

Oh no..

Let her go

Let her go God bless her

Wherever she may be

She can search, search this whole world wide over

But she'll never, find another man as good as me

No she'll never, never find another man

Who'll treat her like I did

Give her all my money, yeah

Never find another man like me

No, she'll never

Find another man

Who'll treat her like I did

(Burdon/Weider/Briggs/Jenkins/McCullough)BURY MY BODY

Bury my body, Lord, I don't care where they...


Bury my body, Cause my soul is gonna live

With God, oh, oh, oh yeah



Bury my body, Cause my soul is gonna live


Lead me Jesus, lead me

Why don't you lead me in the middle of the air

And if my wings should fail me

Won't you provide me with another pair

Please God I don't care where they...

Bury my body

Lord, I don't care where they...

Bury my body

Cause my soul is gonna live


I said alright

You know it's alright

It's alright, c'mon...

Bury my body


Bury my body


Bury my body



Lead me Jesus, lead me

Why don't you lead me in the middle of the air

And if my wings should fail me

Won't you provide me with another pair

Please God I don't care where they...

Bury my body


Bury my body


With God

I said hey, baby,

My soul, my soul, my soul

Is gonna live, live with God

My soul, my soul, my soul, my soul

Is gonna live, live with God

(Kooper)

SHE SAID 'YEAH'

Well, dom, diddl-e-dom-dom

Little girl where did you come from

Driving my boy crazy

C'mon baby I don't mean maybe

Said 'yeah'

She said 'yeah'

She said 'yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah'

C'mon baby, I wanna make love to you

Nobody but you

You know I will buy you a diamond ring

I'll buy most anything

I love youno one above you

C'mon honey

Let me love to you

Said 'yeah'

She said 'yeah'

Said 'yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah'

C'mon baby I wanna make love to you

Nobody but you

She said 'yeah!'

You know I will buy you a diamond ring

I'll buy most anything

I love you

No one above you

C'mon honey

Just let me love you

Said 'yeah'

She said 'yeah'


C'mon baby I want to wrap my arm around you

That's what I said baby

You know I'll buy you a diamond ring

Buy you most anything

I love youNo one above you

C'mon, c'mon let me love you

Said 'yeah'

She said 'yeah'


Well, dom, diddl-e-dom-dom

Little girl where did you come from

Driving my boy crazy

C'mon baby I don't mean maybe

Said 'yeah'

She said 'yeah'


C'mon baby, I wanna make love to you

Nobody but you

(Jackson/Christy)

SMOKE STACK LIGHTNING

Oh, yeah, smoke stack lightning

Hum, hum, shine down on me babe

Well, I know since you've been gone

Oh I ain't no piece in my home

Oh babe, I gotta go catch the next train smokin'

Bring my bags and go

Oh my baby nee you by my side

Give me loving, keep me satisfied

Hear me crying, baby, oh, oh, oh, oh all right

Hear me crying, ough, ough,

Ough, ough, here my crying baby, ah ah ah ah

Hear me me crying now, hey hey hey

Smoke stack lightning, since you've been gone,

I ain't had no peace, no peace in my home

You don't tell me no crying, don't tell me know more

Come on back home baby hear me crying baby

Ough, Lord I know, ough, Lord I know, yeah

Oh, Lord, I know oh

Help me somebody

Smoke stack lightning,

Hear me crying baby,




Hey, all right, all right

Smoke stack lightning

Baby don't you know

(Burnett)

FOR MISS CAULKER

Well, you've been gone,

For fourteen long days

Yes, you've been gone

For fourteen long, lonely days

And I'm prayin' to the Lord

Please don't take my love away...

Come back home,

All I want is you

Hey, hey, hey, hey

Hey, Come back home, baby

You know all I want is you

You know you'll never find another boy

To treat you like I used to treat you

Oh baby,

Baby, why don't you come back home to me

Hey, baby baby,

Why don't you come back home to me

I want you to come back home baby

Baby, please set me free...

(Burdon)

GIN HOUSE BLUES

Stay away from me everybody, 'cause I'm in my sin

I said, stay away from me everybody, 'cause I'm in my sin

You know I'm beggin' you, somebody give me my gin.

Stay away from me, unless you wanta big fight

Stay away from me everybody, unless you wanta get involved in a fight

I'll fight the army and the Royal navy if I don't get some gin tonight

Hey, when I'm feeling high, everythings all right

Hey, when I'm feelin' high, everything is really all right

Gin is gonna be my wife for the rest of my life

Give me my gin

I can get a drink of gin, well, almost any old time

I can get myself a drink of gin, yeah,

Yeah, well, almost any old time

If I can't get myself a drink of gin

I guess I'll have to settle for red wine

I said stay away from me, unless you wanta start a fight

Yeah, stay away from me everybody unless you wanta start a big fight

I'll fight the army and the navy if I don't get myself some gin tonight.

Now now now, listen to me baby, hey, stay away from me everybody, 'cause I'm in my sin

Whoa, stay away from me everybody, 'cause I'm in the sin baby

I'll fight the army and the navy

Somebody, somewhere, give me my gin.

(Troy/Henderson)

THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT

(She can't help it, the girl can't help it)


she walks by, the men folk stand and gawp


She winks her eye, the brass lights turn to toast


She's got a lot of what they call the most


The girl can't help it she was born to please


And if I go to her on my bended knees


'Cause I'm hopin' obviously

That someday her answer will be

The girl can't help it 'cause she's in love with me


She'll mess around with every mother's son


If I give her good loving she says "baby well done"


She'd make my grandpa feel like twenty-one









(She can't help it, the girl can't help it) awh!

(She can't help it, the girl can't help it) (6)

she walks by, the men folk stand and gawp


she's got a lot of what they call the most


she can wink her eye and the brass lights turn to toast










(Troup)

HALLELUJAH, I LOVE HER SO

Let me tell you bout a girl I knowShe my woman and she lives next doorEv'ry morning 'fore the sun comes upShe brings me coffee in an old tin cupThats why I knowYes, I knowHallelujah, I just love her soWhen I'm in trouble and I have no friendsI know she'll love with me until the endEv'rybody asks me how I knowI smile at them and say she told me soThats why I knowYes, I knowHallelujah, I just love her soWhen she calls me on the telephoneBaby, I'm all aloneBy the time I count, one to fourI hear that woman on my doorAnd In the evening when the sun goes downAnd there is no one else aroundShe kisses me and she holds me tightEric, baby ev'rythings all rightThats why I knowYes, I knowHallelujah, I just love her soAll right nowNow when I call her on the telephoneHey baby I'm all aloneBy the time I count, one, two, three, fourI hear that woman on my doorAnd in the evening when the sun goes downAnd there ain't nobody else aroundShe kisses me holds me tightsays baby everythings all right thats why I knowYes, I knowHallelujah, I just love her soWhoa yeahHallelujah, I just love her soShe's my womanHallelujah, I just love her soOne more timeHallelujah, I just love that gal soOh baby yeah

(Charles)

HOW YOU'VE CHANGED

Oh, how I've loved you

Since the day you first told me your name

Yes, I have loved you

Thinking you all the while felt the same

Ohhh, how I've loved you

But your kisses don't taste the same


Since the day I first walked you from school


Breaking all of loves precious rules

You know I still love you

Even though I feel like a fool


Since the day you first told me your name


Thinking you all the while felt the same

And I, I still love you

Even though I know you've changed

(Berry

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT

Why am I lonely, why do I cry,

Am I gonna be a lonely one till the day that I die?

Yes, you don't be there while I sit here alone,

I can't believe my eyes, you've up and gone

I get so weary, weary and blue,

When I think about the good times that we two once knew

You, you know the reason why I sit here alone,

I can't believe my eyes, you've up and gone.

Once I have you here beside me,

When I had you here beside me I had your love to guide me,

And nothing, no nothing, no nothing, you don't know but from now on.

Lord I get so weary, lonely and blue

When I think about the good times, baby, we once knew.

You, you know the reason why I sit here alone,

I can't believe my yes, you've up and gone

All right babe

Once I had you here beside me,

When I had you here beside me,

I had your love to guide me and nothing, no nothing, no nothing could go wrong, yeah

Lord I get so weary, lonely and blue

I keep on remembering little things, baby, that we used to do.

You know the reason you were my lonely one,

I can't believe my eyes, you've up and gone.

I can't believe what I'm seeing babe,

Everything in between me and you

You walked out of my door,

Bye bye baby

(Burdon)

I'M IN LOVE AGAIN

Early in the morning

Sitting here all alone

Waitin' for my baby

To call me on the telephone

I'm in love, I'm in love

Feel good all the time

I said I can't sleep at night

Turning from side to side

The woman that I'm lovin'

She stays on my mind


Feels good all the time

Now let's get it now baby!

Let me tell you baby

I'll tell you what I want to do

I would rob, steal, kill somebody

To get some money for you

Cause I'm in love, I'm in love


Now let's get it one more time baby!

Let me tell you baby

Tell you what it's all about

When I see you honey child

You make me wanna jump and shout



Early in the morning

Sitting here all alone

Waitin' for my baby

To call me on the telephone





(Domino/Bartholomew

I'VE BEEN AROUND

I've been around the world, it's true

Searchin' for someoneexactly like you

I finally found a love that's true

You heard story, you heard just what I said

The one that I loveshe might as well be dead

Finally found a love that's true, oh, oh, oh, oh

You heard my storyyou know how I feel

You got me spinnin'.like a spinnin' wheel

And finally found a love that true

I've been around the world, it's true

Searchin' for someoneexactly like you

And finally found a love that's true

And finally found a love that's true

(Domino)

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL

Come on baby, let the good times roll

Come on baby, let me thrill your soul

Come on baby, let the good times roll, roll all night long

Oh baby, feel so good when you're home

Come on baby, rock me all night long

Come on baby, let's close the door

Come on baby, let's rock some more


Come on baby, let's close the door

Come on honey, let's rock some more


Oh baby, feel so good when you're home

Come on baby, rock me all night long

Come on baby, let the good times roll

Come on baby, let me thrill your soul


(Lee)

MAUDIE

"This song was written by John Lee Hooker

About his wife, her name is Maudie

Everytime he has an arguement with her

He has to write a new verse to keep her happy

He was over here at London a short while back

And he taught me this song .......?"

Oh Maudie, baby, I love you

Mmm, baby, I love you

Yeah, you've been gone so long

Girl, I miss you so

Oh Maudie, why did you hurt me?

Mmm, Maudie, I said why did you hurt me?

You know I need your sweet lovin' like a flower needs the rain

Sometimes when they'd have an argument

He'd take her by the hand and say,

"Maudie, you know I love you

You know I need you

And I got just one thing to say baby.ho!"

Hey Maudie, baby don't you know I love you

Oh, Maudie, I said baby don't you know I love you

I've been gone so long, God, I miss you so much

Sometimes Johns old lady

She'd turn around to him and say,

"John, if you don't quit your messin' around baby,

I'm gonna walk right outta that door

With my bag in my hand."

John would say, "Hey!"

Well, Maudie, sweet little girl, baby,

Oh Maudie, be my sweet little girl, baby,

When you touch my hand

My head is all in a whirl now baby

I love you Maudie

I said I love you Maudie

Oh, love you Maudie

Ooh, love you Maudie

You know I need, I need, I need, need, yeah

I said Maudie, baby, I love you

Oh Maudie, baby, I love you

I love you Maudie

You've been gone so long,

How I've missed you too much

I love you.

(Hooker

Long distance information, give me Memphis TennesseeHelp me find the party trying to get in touch with me

She did not leave her number but I know the place to call

The phone boy took the message and he wrote it on the wall

I said help me information get in touch with my Marie

She's the only one who'd phone me here from Memphis Tennessee

Her home is on the south side, high up on a ridge

About a half a mile from the Mississipi bridge

Oh help me information, more than this I cannot add

Only that I love Marie and all the fun we had

But we were pulled apart now 'cause her momma did not agree

And tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee

I said help me information, more than this I cannot add

Only that I miss Marie and all the fun we had

But she was pulled apart from me 'cause her momma did not agree

And tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee

Last time I saw Marie, she was waving me goodbye

With hurry home drops on her cheek that trickl'd from her eye

Marie is only six years old, so information please

Try to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee

I said try to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee

Oh won't you put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee

(Berry)

MESS AROUND

Now there's a dance I can see that the kids all do

It's called "the Mess Around", you can mess around too

Come on mess around, yeah it's Mess Around

You do the Mess Around, everybody do the Mess Around

Now you see that chick with that diamond ring

She knows how to shake that thing

She can mess around, yeah she can mess around

she do the Mess Around, everybody do the Mess Around

come on baby, let's mess child, yeah!

ah it's nice, baby, come on!

Now there's a dance that Ray Charles revived

You can do it, it will keep you alive

He does the Mess Around, yeah he does the Mess Around

Come on and mess around, everybody do the Mess Around

Now you see that gal with the red dress on

She'll do the rock and roll, baby all night long

That's the Mess Around, yes It's Mess around

You do the Mess Around, everybody do the Mess Around

Oh come on and mess baby, yeah you can mess, baby

Oh now you can mess around, yeah yeah you can mess around

Live down, live down to the Mess Around

Everybody do the Mess Around

(Nugetre

ONE MONKEY WON'T STOP THE SHOW

You know I got a letter from a friend of mine

In Newcastle-Upon-a'Tyne the other day

He said to me "Eric I heard you've been havin' some trouble down in the smoke with the girls"

He said "You wanna catch that flyin' Scotsman back up here to Newcastle,

'Cause we've got enough females to go around up here

And I can figure you can find yourself a little somethin'

And because people around here don't go away stealin' each others loved ones away from one another,

Like they do down there in the smoke"

He also said in the letter that, ah,

Things don't happen like that here on Tyne

And I believed every word he said, now


One more thing he told me now


He said to me babe


He said, all right, all right

So I'm sayin' to you who are listen'

If you've been unlucky in love

And you've lost somebody love

And you hear a voice that comes to you in the middle of the night and says

It says I want you to get on up

Listen to me,

I want you to get on up and find yourself another one

If your havin' breakfast one morning and out from behind the teapot a little voice says,

Listen, Hey! I want you to get on up now

If your out in the mornin' on your job

and a voice come to you on your job and says,

Get up! Get Up!

And you know its not the foreman

Its a little voice that says

You wanna get up and walk ...(?) women

Go on and find yourself somebody

That's what you'd better do.

Because I'll tell you one thing

There's one thing I found out

One thing I found out

Took me a long time to find it out

Yeahit took me a long time to find out

But I,.think I got it now

Oh yeah..

One monkey don't stop no show

Yes, its true baby


Don't let one monkey stop up your show



(Tex)

THE RIGHT TIME

You know the right time (night and day)

Is the night time (night and day)

If you wanna be (night and day)

With the girl you love (night and day)

Oh baby (night and day)

Said come on baby (night and day)

Hold me tight (night and day)

Make everything alright (night and day)

I know the night time (night and day)

Oh is the right time (night and day)

If you want to love me (night and day)

That's what I say

Let me tell you about my mother (night and day)

Hum hum and my father (night and day)

They're long gone (night and day)

Left this poor child cryin' (night and day)


Come on baby (night and day)

I want you by my side (night and day)

You gotta keep me satisfied (night and day)


Every night is the right time (night and day)

To be with the one you love (night and day)

Oh baby

(Night and day) (11)

squeeze me (night and day)

please me (night and day)

hold me (night and day)

tight as you can (night and day)

oh baby (night and day)

I said come on baby (night and day)

Want you by my side (night and day)

Got to keep me satisfied (night and day)



To be with the one you love (night and day)

I said it, I said it one more time

Oh you know the night time (night and day)

Every day is the right time (night and day)

If you wanna be (night and day)

With the one you love (night and day)


Oh come on baby (night and day)

I want you by my side (night and day)

I said I want you by my side (night and day)



To be with the one you love

(Herman)

DARKNESS, DARKNESS

Darkness, darkness

Be my pillow

Take me in and let me sleep

In the coolness of the shadow

In the silence of the deep

Darkness, darkness

Hide my yearning for the things that cannot be

Keep my mind from constant turning

Towards the thing that cannot see

Thing that cannot see,

Thing that cannot see.

Darkness, darkness

Long and lonesome is the day that brings me everything

I have felt the edge of sorrow,

I have known the depth of fear.

Darkness, darkness

Be my blanket

Trouble me with your endless night,

Take away, take away, take away the pain of knowing

Fill the emptiness with bright

Emptiness with bright,

Emptiness with bright

Darkness, darkness

Be my blanket

Take me in and cover me

Take away, take away, take away the pain of knowing

Fill the emptiness with bright,

Emptiness with bright,

Emptiness with bright

Emptiness, loneliness

Take away

Emptiness, loneliness

Take away

My sorrow

(Levinger)THE LAST DRIVE

They came from England

They came from France

All the way from the USA

Just to take a chance

They came from Holland

Germany, Scandinavia too

The rebel citizen driver's, look out

They come blasting through

And they would drive all the way

Through the pouring rain

All night and all day

Non-stop all the way

Jacking it in for the last drive, jacking it in for the last drive now


Outlaw motorcycle gangs joined forces with the citizen drivers

And had become the spearhead,

Finding out the routes that would take them south,

Away from the cold north to the sun,

The rebel riders.

Black Chevy's, Rollers and Ford Escorts too

Tanked up, tuned up, ready to blast, clean on through

I said, the riders were the spearhead, they got us over the border line

And we came steaming through Amsterdam, right on time

I got nothing to declare, there ain't nothing to be checked

But at the Franco-Russian border ten of us go wrecked



A family doctor in Boston, Massachusetts,

He made it all the way not by chance

He had a hot shot Chevy panel truck designed as an ambulance

Be broke through to his final destination

The desolated beaches of St. Tropez




(Burdon, Carter, Dietz, Gartig, Kravetz, Noya, Passmann)

POWER COMPANY

My daddy worked a lifetime, yeah

For the Power Company

Turning night into day, yeah

Yeah, for the Power Company

You know that he can still recall when the company was God,

Man was a slave

Throughout a war-torn strife,

My daddy held his lit electric light.

Power Company

They told him: 'join the union, lad, or we'll kick you in the ass'.

Power Company

I grew up with these words printed on my back

Power Company

Whoa, oh, oh, ohPower Company

Whoa, oh, oh, ohwhen will you be free?

I worked like a dog all day on the production line

This factory is a jail, every day of your life you know

You're doing time

Now I got a little car

And I can't afford the gas

The house is cold and draughty

And the kids grow up too fast

I walk around, no future, no past

Power Company



How this world keeps on turning every day is a mystery

My old man gets up each morning

And he goes to work each day at the Power Company

Yeah, he still does his little job and it isn't very hard

A computer to talk to instead of people he once knew

And the bosses at the top

They never seem to stop

Power Company

And we're singin'





Yeah, when will you be free from the Power Company? (Power Company)

Whoa, oh, oh, oh, when will you be free? (Power Company)

Ask yourself a question and look around you (Power Company)

You ask yourself a truth that you'll find out (Power Company)

And you'll never be free (from the Power Company)

Yeah, move your head (Power Company)

Move your soul

(Burdon, Carter, Gartig, Kravetz, Noya, Passmann)

I USED TO BE AN ANIMAL

I want to tell you a story

Once upon a time

There were five young guys

Hanging in and out of Newcastle,

Playing Rhythm and Blues

They had nothing to lose

They didn't need that tin-pan hassle

Over the Reeperbahn where the beat was born

Shocking the heart of the nation

Sign of the times

A new search in life

Start of a new rock generation

From day one to kingdom come

I'd do it all again

I used to be an animal (he used to be an animal)


I used to be an animal (whoa, oh)

But I'm all right now

All right now, baby

Twenty years ago we were children of war

But we danced to the Bo Diddley beat

There were rockers and mods,

We didn't take it too hard

We had blue suede shoes on our feet

A revolution in France and James Brown's dance

A new world coming our way

We'd talk that talk in the streets of New York

And never looked back to this day

From day one to the risin' sun

I'll do it all again





All right, all right, all right

Yeah, yeah, all right, whoa baby

We were flippin' and trippin'

And rockin' and rollin'

And generally havin' a ball

For the price of a drink

There was no time to think about the morality of it all

There was freaks and queens and love-ins and has-beens

Whisky-a-gogos and all night flamingos

A psychedelic explosion in slow motion,

Dr Strangelove's bomb

From day one to the risin' sun

I'll do it all again (whoa, oh, oh)





All right, all right,

Yeah, yeah,

All right, all right,

I'm all right now

(Jackson-Clark, Burdon, Bastow)

Eric Burdon

A GIRL NAMED SANDOZ

Well I met a girl called Sandoz

And she taught me many, many things

Good things, very good things, sweet things

I met her one sunny morning

It was hot but the snow lay on the ground

Strange things, very strange things, my mind has wings

Sandoz, Sandoz who taught me love

Sandoz, Sandoz heavens above

They could all learn something from your mind

Yeah baby

She is very old

You may think she's young

One kiss from her

And you know your time has come

Good times, for all time, Sandoz

Sandoz

Sandoz

(Burdon/Briggs/Weider/Jenkins/McCullough)

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