Verse

Well when you’re down on your luck you ain’t got a buck

In London you’re a goner now even London bridge is falling down

And moved to Arizona, now I know why

And I’ll substantiate the rumor that the English sense of humor is

Drier than the Texas sand

You can put up your dukes you can bet your boots

But I’m leavin’ just as fast as I can now

Verse

Well it’s cold over here and I swear I wish they’d turn the heat on

And where in the world is that English girl I promised I would meet, on the

3rd floor

And of the whole damn lot the only friend I got is a smoke and a cheap guitar

My heart keeps roamin’ my heart keeps longing to be home in a Texas bar

Instrumental

Verse

Well I decided that I’d get my cowboy hat and go down to the Marble Arch

Station

Cause when a Texan fancies he’ll take his chances

Chances will be takin’ that’s for sure

And them limey eyes they were eyein’ the prize some people call manly foot

wear

And they said you’re from down south and when you open your mouth

You always seem to put your foot there

Intro

Verse

It’s the end of the circus

And I’m feeling sad like a clown

My makeup is drowning in

Blood, sweat and tears

From my heart and I fear that

When I look around

I lost what I found

Solo

Verse

Isolate in the darkest of nights

And I’m down to the wire

Surrounded by fire

Pull the plug from the jug

But you can’t wash it out of your mind

Or stay ahead of the crime

Outro

Verse 1

Ma liberté

Longtemps je t’ai gardée

Comme une perle rare

Ma liberté, C’est toi qui m’as aidé

A larguer les amarres

Pour aller n’importe où

Pour aller jusqu’au bout

Des chemins de fortune

Pour cueillir en rêvant

Une rose des vents

Sur un rayon de lune

Verse 2

Ma liberté

Devant tes volontés

Mon âme était soumise

Ma liberté, Je t‘avais tout donné

Ma dernière chemise

Et combien j’ai souffert

Pour pouvoir satisfaire

Toutes tes exigences

J’ai changé de pays

J’ai perdu mes amis

Pour gagner ta confiance

Verse 3

Ma liberté

Tu as su désarmer

Toutes Mes habitudes

Ma liberté, Toi qui m’a fait aimer

Même la soli - - - tude

Toi qui m’as fait sourire

Quand je voyais finir

Une belle aventure

Toi qui m’as protégé

Quand j’allais mecacher

Pour soigner mes blessures

Verse 4

Ma liberté

Pourtant je t’ai quittée

Une nuit de décembre

J’ai déserté les chemins écartés

Que nous suivions ensemble

Lorsque sans me méfier

Les pieds et poingsliés

Je me suis laissé faire

Et je t’ai trahi pour

Une prison d’amour

Et sa belle geôlière

Outro

Et je t’ai trahi pour

Une prison d’amour

Et sa belle geôlière

Verse

When the rain is blowing in your face

And the whole world is on your case

I could offer you a warm embrace

To make you feel my love

Verse

When evening shadows and the stars appear

And there is no one there to dry your tears

I could hold you for a million years

To make you feel my love

Bridge 1

I know you haven’t made your mind up yet

But I would never do you wrong

I’ve known it from the moment that we met

No doubt in my mind where you belong

Verse

I’d go hungry, I’d go black and blue

I’d go crawling down the avenue

No, there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do

To make you feel my love

Instrumental

Bridge 2

The storms are raging on the rollin’ sea

And on the highway of regret

The winds of change are blowing wild and free

You ain’t seen nothing like me yet

Outro

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true

Nothing that I wouldn’t do

Go to the ends of the earth for you

To make you feel my love

To make you feel my love

Intro

Verse

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,

Letters I’ve written, never meaning to send.

Beauty I’ve always missed, with these eyes before,

Just what the truth is, I can’t say any more

Verse

Gazing at people, some hand in hand,

Just what I’m going through, they can’t understand.

Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend,

Just what you want to be, you’ll be in the end.

Solo

Verse

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,

Letters I’ve written, never meaning to send.

Beauty I’ve always missed, with these eyes before,

Just what the truth is, I can’t say any more

Verse

I don’t know much, when I knew less, I was heartbroke for the first time,

I was drowning in my tears, I went looking for a lifeline,

Trying to find some comfort, just a simple tender touch,

Searching for some little cure that would not cost too much,

And I could hear that produce wagon on the street,

I could hear that farmer singing, as I cried myself to sleep

Verse

I could not love to save myself from lonesome desperation.

Everything I thought was love was worthless imitation.

My concept of commitment was to take all you could give,

I thought the cheapest thrills I loved were teachin’ me to live,

But nothin’ seemed to last or see me through

Nothin’ but that little song that I still sing for you.

Verse

No love today, none tomorrow, not now, not forever.

You cannot see what comes for free, I think you much too clever,

For your own good I will tell you what’s right before your eyes,

Intelligence is no defense against what this implies,

In the end no one will sell you what you need,

You can’t buy it off the shelf, you got to grow it from the seed.

Last Chorus

I got ba-na-na, watermelon, peaches by the pound,

Sweet corn, mirleton, mo’ better than in town,

I got okra, enough to choke ya, beans of every kind,

If hungry is what’s eatin’ you, I’ll sell you peace of mind,

But this ain’t what you came to hear me say,

And I hate to disappoint you, but I got no love today,

I got no… love today, I got no… love today, No love today

Intro

Verse

There’s gotta be a song left to sing

‘cause everybody can’t have thought of everything

One little song that ain’t been sung

One little rag that ain’t been wrung out completely yet

Got a little left

Verse

Gotta to be a song left to sing

‘cause everybody can’t have thought of everything

One little note that ain’t been used

One little word that ain’t been abused a thousand times

In a thousand rhymes

Verse

Gotta be a song left to sing  

‘cause everybody can’t have thought of everything

One little song that ain’t been sung

One little rag that ain’t been wrung out completely yet

Until there’s nothing left…

Outro

Verse

Your breath is sweet, your eyes are like

Two jewels in the sky

Your back is straight, your hair is smooth

On the pillow where you lie

But I don’t sense affection

No gratitude or love

Your loyalty is not to me but to the stars above

Verse

Your daddy he’s an outlaw

And a wanderer by trade

He’ll teach you how to pick an’ choose

And how to throw the blade

He oversees his kingdom

So no stranger does intrude

His voice it trembles as he calls out

For another plate of food

Verse

Your sister sees the future

Like your momma and yourself

You’ve never learned to read or write

There’s no books upon your shelf

And your pleasure knows no limits

Your voice is like a meadow lark

But your heart is like an ocean

Mysterious and dark

Verse

Who can say where the road goes,

where the day flows; only time…

And who can say if your love grows,

as your heart chose; only time…

Verse

Who can say why your heart sighs,

as your love flies; only time…

And who can say why your heart cries,

when your love lies; only time…

Verse

Who can say when the roads meet,

that the might be; in your heart.

And who can say when the day sleeps,

if the night keeps all your heart;

night keeps all your heart…

Verse

Who can say if your love grows,

as your heart chose; only time…

And who can say where the road goes,

where the day flows; only time…

Verse

Who knows? Only time…

Who knows? Only time…

Verse

Living on the road my friend

Was gonna keep you free and clean

Now you wear your skin like iron

Your breath’s as hard as kerosene

You weren’t your mama’s only boy

But her favorite one it seems

She began to cry when you said goodbye

And sank into your dreams

Verse

Pancho was a bandit boys

His horse was fast as polished steel

Wore his gun outside his pants

For all the honest world to feel

Pancho met his match you know

On the deserts down in Mexico

Nobody heard his dying words

That’s the way it goes

Verse

Lefty he can’t sing the blues

All night long like he used to

The dust that Pancho bit down south

Ended up in Lefty’s mouth

The day they laid poor Pancho low

Lefty split for Ohio

Where he got the bread to go

There ain’t nobody knows

Verse

The poets tell how Pancho fell

Lefty’s livin’ in a cheap hotel

The desert’s quiet and Cleveland’s cold

So the story ends we’re told

Pancho needs your prayers it’s true,

But save a few for Lefty too

He just did what he had to do

Now he’s growing old

Outro

And a few gray federales say

They could have had him any day

They only let him go so long

Out of kindness I suppose

Verse

Photographs and memories, Christmas cards you sent to me

All that I have are these to remember you

Memories that come at night take me to another time

Back to a happier day, when I called you mine

Verse

Summer skies and lullabies, nights we couldn’t say goodbye,

And of all of the things that we knew, not a dream survived

Verse

Photographs and memories, all the love you gave to me,

Somehow it just can’t be true, that’s all I’ve left of you

Intro

Verse

Hello, hello

are you in there child

Leave that party dress

and your suicidal smile

Hello, hello

I’ve come to see it done

the stripes across your face

and the battles that he’s won

Don’t tell me to hide

I’ve run from living all my life

I’m setting me free

blood, sweat and tears

I’ve been so desperate all these years

now I’m taking my bones

and leaving your ring

this house made of glass

is shatter - - - ing

I’m setting me free

Instrumental

Verse

Hello, hello

I hear the sirens roar

coming ‘round the bend

like a thousand times before

Hello, hello

don’t you give up the fight

like a beat-down dog

who’s forgotten how to bite

Don’t tell me it’s wrong

I’ve only come to be your friend

Solo

Instrumental

Hello, hello…

Intro

Verse

Oh, it’s a mystery to me

We have a greed with which we have agreed

And you think you have to want more than you need

Until you have it all you won’t be free

Verse

When you want more than you have you think you need…

And when you think more than you want your thoughts begin to bleed

I think I need to find a bigger place

Because when you have more than you think you need more space

Solo

w

Verse

There’s those thinking, more-or-less, less is more

But if less is more, how you keeping score?

Means for every point you make, your level drops

Kinda like you’re starting from the top. You can’t do that…

Intro

Verse

I have often told you stories

About the way

I lived the life of a drifter

waiting for the day

When I’d take your hand and sing you songs

Then maybe you would say

Come lay with me and love me

And I would surely stay

Solo

Verse

Many times I’ve been a traveler

I looked for something new

In days of old when nights were cold

I wandered without you

But those days I thought my eyes

Had seen you standing near

Though blindness is confusing

It shows that you’re not here.

Ootro

Yes, I can hear the sound

of a windmill going round

I guess I’ll always be

a soldier of vfortune.

I guess I’ll always be

a soldier of fortune.

Verse

I have often told you stories about the way

I lived the life of a drifter, waiting for the day

When I take your hand and sing your songs then maybe you would say

Come lay with me and love me and I would surely stay

Verse

Many times I’ve been a traveler who looked for something new

In days of old when nights were cold I wandered without you

Those days I thought my eyes have seen you standing near

Though blindness is confusing, it shows that you’re not here

Outro

I can hear the sound of a windmill going round

I guess I’ll always be a soldier of fortune

I guess I’ll always be a soldier of fortune

Verse 1

Through early morning fog I see

visions of the things to be

the pains that are withheld for me

I realize and I can see. That…

Verse 2

I try to find a way to make

all our little joys relate

without that ever-present hate

but now I know that it’s too late,

Verse 3

The game of life is hard to play

I’m gonna lose it anyway

The losing card I’ll someday lay

so this is all I have to say.

Verse 4

The only way to win is cheat

And lay it down before I’m beat

and to another give my seat

for that’s the only painless feat.

Verse 5

The sword of time will pierce our skins

It doesn’t hurt when it begins

But as it works its way on in

The pain grows stronger…watch it grin

Verse 6

A brave man once requested me

to answer questions that are key

is it to be or not to be

and I replied ‘oh why ask me?’

Intro

Verse

He caught a train from Alexandria

Just a broken man in flight

Running scared with all his devils

Saying prayers all through the night

But mercy can’t find him

Not in the shadows where he calls

Forsaking all his better angels

That’s how every empire falls

Instrumental

 C 

Verse

The bells ring out on Sunday morning

Like echoes from another time

All our innocence and yearning

And sense of wonder left behind

Oh, gentle hearts remember

What was that story his they lost

When religion loses vision

That’s how every empire falls

Instrumental

Verse

He toasts his wife and all his family

The providence he brought to bear

They raise their glasses in his honor

Although this union made ’em share

Of a man that lives among them

But still a stranger to them all

For when a heart is never open

That’s how every empire falls

Instrumental

Verse

Lock the door and board the windows

Put the people in the street

It just my job he says I’m sorry

And draws the jackels home to eat

But at night he tell his woman

I know I hide behind the laws

She says you are only taking orders

That’s how every empire falls

Instrumental

Verse

A bitter wind blows through the country

A hard rain falls on the sea

If terror comes without a warning

There must be something we don’t see

Well, fire begets this fire

Like torches thrown into the straw

If no one ask and no one answers

That’s how every empire falls

Outro

Verse

The first time...ever I saw your face,

I thought the sun rose...in your eyes.

And the moon and stars...were the gifts you gave,

To the dark…and the endless sky, my love.

Verse

And the first time… ever I kissed your mouth,

I felt the earth move… through my hands.

Like the trembling heart... of a captive bird

That was there… at my command, my love

Verse

And the first time... ever I laid with you,

I felt your heart... so close to mine.

And I know our joy... would fill the earth,

And last… till the end of time, my love.

Fingering pattern

Intro

Verse

Tall and tanned and young and lovely

The girl from Ipanema goes walking

And when she passes, each one she passes goes -ahhh!

Verse

Tall, and tanned and young and lovely

The girl from Ipanema goes walking

And when she passes, I smile - but she doesnt see

She just doesn’t see, no, she just doesn’t see…

Verse

Olha, que coisa mais linda, Mais cheia de graça,

É ela, menina, que vem e que passa

Num doce balanço, a caminho do mar

Moça do corpo dourado, do sol de ipanema,

O seu balançado mais que um poema

a coisa mais linda que eu já vi passar

Solo

Verse

Tall, and tanned and young and lovely

The girl from Ipanema goes walking

And when she passes, I smile - but she doesn’t see

She just doesn’t see, no, she just doesn’t see

Verse

On a long road, miles to go

It’s winding and cold and its covered with snow

But I ask you what we all want to know

Where are we going from here…

Lines on my face, lines on my hands

Lead to a future I don’t understand

Some things don’t go as they’re planned…

Where are we going from here…

Verse

Tracing the trails through the mirrors of time

Spinning in circles with riddles in rhyme

We lose our way, trying to find

Searching to find our way home…

Trying to find our way home…

Intro

Verse

So, so you think you can tell,

Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.

Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil,

Do you think you can tell?

Verse

Did they get you to trade… your heroes for ghosts,

Hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change,

And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

Instrumental

Verse

How I wish, how I wish you were here.

We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,

Running over the same old ground. What have we found?

The same old fears… Wish you were here!

Outro

(repeat and fade)