Verse

I sit and wait

Does an angel contemplate my fate

And do they know

The places where we go

When we’re grey and old

‘Cos I’ve been told

That salvation lets their wings unfold

So when I’m lying in my bed

Thoughts running through my head

And I feel that love is dead ;

I’m loving angels instead

Verse

When I’m feeling weak

And my pain walks down a one way street

I look above

And I know I’ll always be blessed with love

And as the feeling grows

She breathes flesh to my bones

And when love is dead   

I’m loving angels instead

Solo

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Intro

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Verse 1

I see the bad moon a-rising

I see trouble on the way

I see earthquakes and lightning

I see bad times today

Verse 2

I hear hurricanes a-blowing

I know the end is coming soon

I fear rivers overflowing

I hear the voice of rage and ruin

Solo

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Verse 3

Hope you got your things together

Hope you are quite prepared to die

Looks like we’re in for nasty weather

One eye is taken for an eye

Intro

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Verse

Take me back to my boat on the river

I need to go down, need to come down

Take me back to my boat on the river

And I won’t cry out anymore

Time stands still as I gaze in her water

She eases me down, touching me gently

With the waters that flow past my boat on the river

So I don’t cry out anymore

Instrumental

Intro

Verse

When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in the cradle

In them old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana

Just about a mile from Texarkana

In them old cotton fields back home  

Verse

When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in the cradle

In them old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana

Just about a mile from Texarkana

In them old cotton fields back home  

Break

Verse

When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in the cradle

In them old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana

Just about a mile from Texarkana

In them old cotton fields back home.  

In them old cotton fields back home.   

Intro

Verse

Well, we’re big rock singers

We got golden fingers

And we’re loved everywhere we go (That sounds like us!)

We sing about beauty and we sing about truth

At ten million dollars a show (Right!)

We take all kinda of pills that give us all kinda of thrills

But the thrill we’ve never known

Is the thrill that’ll git you

When ya git your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone

Verse 2

I got a freaky old lady name a Cocaine Katie

Who embroiders all my jeans.

I got my poor old gray-haired daddy

Driving my limousine

Now it’s all designed to blow our mind

But our minds won’t really be blown

Like the blow that’ll git you

When you git your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone

Solo

Verse

We got a lota little teenage blue eyes groupies

Who do anything we say

We got a genuine Indian Guru

Who’s teaching us a better way

We got all the friends that money can buy

So we never have to be alone

And we keep gittin’ richer, but we can’t get our picture

On the cover of the Rolling Stone

Intro

Verse 1

Drivin’ home this evening,

I could of sworn we had it all worked out.   

You had this boy believin’ way beyond the shadow of a doubt.   

Then I heard it on the street, I heard you might have found somebody new.   

Well who is he baby? Who is he and tell me what he means to you?

I took it all for granted, But how was I to know that you’d be letting go.

Verse 2

There’s time I’ve been mistaken.

There’s times I thought I’d been misunderstood   

So wait a minute darlin’. Can’t you see we did the best we could?

This wouldn’t be the first time

Things have go astray. Now you’ve thrown it all away.

Solo

I took it all for granted,

But how was I to know that you’d be letting go.

Intro

Verse 1

Ear -ly in the evening just around supper time,

Over by the courthouse, they’re starting to unwind,

Four kids on the corner, trying to bring you up,

Willy picks a tune out and he blows it on the harp.

Verse 2

Rooster hits the washboard, and people just gotta smile,

Blinky thumps the gut bass and solos for a while

Poor-boy twangs the rhythm out on his Kalamazoo.

And Willy goes into a dance and doubles on Kazoo.

Instrumental

Instrumental

Verse 3

You don’t need a penny just to hang around,

But if you got a nickel won’t you lay your money down.

Over on the corner, there’s a happy noise

People come from all around to watch the magic boys.

Intro

Verse

Someone told me long ago

There’s a calm before the storm, I know

It’s been coming for some time

When it’s over, so they say

It’ll rain a sunny day, I know

Shining down like {}water

Verse

Yesterday and days before

Sun is cold and rain is hard, I know

Been that way for all my time

‘Til forever on it goes

Through the circle fast and slow, I know

It can’t stop, I wonder

Intro

Verse 1

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel

I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real

The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting

Try to kill it all away, but I remembereverything

Transition

Verse

I wear this crown of thorns upon my liar’s chair

Full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair

Beneath the stains of time, the feelings disappear

You are someone else, I am still right here

Outro

If I could start again, a million miles away

I would keep myself, I would find a way

Verse

There are places I’ll re- member

All my life though some have changed

Some forever not for better

Some have gone and some remain

All these places have their mo- ments

With lovers and friends I still can recall

Some are dead and some are living

In my life I loved them all

Verse

But of all these friends and lovers

There is no one compares with you

And these memories lose their meaning

When I think of love as something new

Though I know I’ll never lose af- fection

For people and things that went before

I know I’ll often stop and think a- bout them

In my life I love you more

Instrumental

Outro

Though I know I’ll never lose af- fection

For people and things that went before

I know I’ll often stop and think a- bout them

In my life, I love you more

In my life, I love you more

Intro

    Oo oo-oo oo

    Oo oo-oo oo

Verse 1

Mama take this badge off of me

I can’t use it anymore

It’s getting dark, too dark to see

I feel I’m knockin on heaven’s door

Verse 2

Mama put my guns in the ground

I can’t shoot them anymore

That long black cloud is comin’ down

I feel I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door

Outro

Oo oo-oo oo (fade)

Intro

Verse

Left a good job in the city,

workin’ for the man every night and day

And I never lost one minute of sleepin’,

worryin’ ‘bout the way things might have been

Verse

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis,

pumped a lot of pane down in New Orleans

But I never saw the good side of the city,

’til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen

Instrumental

Solo

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river

Instrumental

Verse

If you come down to the river,

bet you’re gonna find some people who live

You don’t have to worry, cause you have no money,

people on the river are happy to give

Outro

Big wheel a-keep on turnin’, Proud Mary keep on burnin’,

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river

(x4 and fade)

Riffs

Intro

Verse 1

I got my first real six-string

Bought it at the five-and-dime

Played it ’til my fingers bled

It was the summer of ‘69

Verse 2

Me and some guys from school

Had a band and we tried real hard

Jimmy quit, Jody got married

I shoulda known we’d never get far

Chorus 1

Oh, when I look back now

That summer seemed to last forever

And if I had the choice

Yeah, I’d always wanna be there

Those were the best days of my life

Instrumental

Verse 3

Ain’t no use in complainin’

When you got a job to do

Spent my evenin’s down at the drive in

And that’s when I met you, yeah

Chorus 2

Standin’ on your mama’s porch

You told me that you’d wait forever

Oh, and when you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

Oh yeah - - - Back in the summer of ‘69Ohhh

Bridge

Man, we were killin’ time

We were young and restless

We needed to unwind

I guess nothin’ can last forever, forever no

Instrumental

Verse

And now the times are changin’

Look at everything that’s come and gone

Sometimes when I play that old six-string

I think about you, wonder what went wrong

Chorus 3

Standin’ on your mama’s porch

You told me that it’d last forever

Oh, and when you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

Outro

Oh yeah - - - Back in the summer of ‘69Uh-huh

It was the summer of ‘69. Oh yeah

Me and my baby in ‘69. Ohhhhh, oh

It was the summer, summer, summer of ‘69

Yeah    

(Fade out)

Verse

She’s got a smile that it seems to me

Reminds me of childhood memories

Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky

Now and then when I see her face

She takes me away to that special place

And if I stare too long, I’d probably break down and cry

Whoa, oh , oh, sweet child o’ mine

Whoa, oh , oh, oh, sweet love of mine

Picking pattern

Verse 1

Sylvia’s mother says, “Sylvia’s busy,

Too busy to come to the phone.

Sylvia’s mother says, “Sylvia’s trying,

To start a new life of her own."

Sylvia’s mother says, “Sylvia’s happy,

So why don’t you leave her alone?”

And the operator says:" Forty cents more,

For the next, three, minutes."

Verse 2

Sylvia’s mother says, “Sylvia’s packing,

She’s goin’ to be leaving today.”

Sylvia’s mother says, “Sylvia’s marrying,

A fellow down Galveston way.”

Sylvia’s mother says, “Please don’t say nothing,

To make her start crying and stay

And the operator says:" Forty cents more,

For the next three minutes."

Verse 3

Sylvia’s mother says, “Sylvia’s hurrying,

She’s catching the nine o’clock train.”

Sylvia’s mother says, “Take your umbrella,

‘cause, Sylvie, it’s starting to rain.”

And Sylvia’s mother says, “Thank you for calling,

And, sir, won’t you call back a- gain.”

And the operator says:" Forty cents more,

For the next three minutes."

Intro

Verse

Would you know my name

If I saw you in hea- ven

Would it be the same

If I saw you in hea- ven

Verse

I must be strong

and carry on

‘Cause I know I don’t bel- ong

Here in hea- ven

Link

Verse

I’ll find my way

through night and day

‘Cause I know I just can’t stay

Here in hea- ven

Link

Bridge

Time can bring you down

Time can bend your knee    

Time can break your heart

Have you begging please

Begging please

Instrumental

Verse

Beyond the door

There’s peace I’m sure

And I know there’ll be no more

Tears in heaven

Link

Verse

I must be strong

and carry on

‘Cause I know I don’t belong

Here in heaven

Outroi

Intro

Verse

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah  

Some call me the gangster of love  

Some people call me Maurice

Cause I speak of the pompitous of love  

Verse

People talk about me, baby   

Say I’m doin’ you wrong, doin’ you wrong  

Well, don’t you worry baby Don’t worry  

Cause I’m right here, right here, right here, right here at home

Verse

You’re the cutest thing

That I ever did see  

I really love your peaches

Want to shake your tree

Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time

Ooo-eee baby, I’ll sure show you a good time  

Verse

People keep talking about me baby  

They say I’m doin’ you wrong   

Well don’t you worry, don’t worry, no don’t wor- ry mama

Cause I’m right here at home   

Verse

You’re the cutest thing I ever did see  

Real- ly love your peaches want to shake your  tree

Lovey- dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey= dovey all the time

Come on baby and I’ll show you a good time  

Verse 1

Well…., you wake up in the mornin, you hear the work bell ring,

And they march you to the table to see the same old thing.

Ain’t no food upon the table, and no pork up in the pan.

But you better not complain, boy, you get in trouble with the man.

Verse 2

Yonder come Miss Rosie, how in the world did you know?

By the way she wears her apron, and the clothes she wore.

Umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand;

She come to see the govnor, she wants to free her man.

Verse 3

If you’re ever in Houston, well, you better do the right;

You better not gamble, there, you better not fight, at all

Or the sheriff will grab ya and the boys will bring you down.

The next thing you know, boy, oh! You’re prison bound.

Verse

Well sometimes I go out by myself and I look across the water

And I think of all the things, what you’re doing and in my head I paint a picture

Verse

Did you have to go to jail, put your house on up for sale, did you get a good lawyer

I hope you didn’t catch a tan, I hope you found the right man who’ll fix it for ya

Are you shoppin’ anywhere, changed the colour of your hair, are you busy?

And did you have to pay that fine you was dodging all the time are you still dizzy?

Verse

Well sometimes I go out by myself and I look across the water

And I think of all the things, what you’re doing and in my head I paint a picture

Outro

Mmm… Valerie Valerie- e- ee

Valerie- E- ee, Va- A- le- rieee

Why dont you come on over Valerie…

Verse

As I was going over - The Cork and Kerry Mountains

I saw Captain Farrell - And his money he was counting

I first produced my pistol - And then produced my rapier

I said “Stand and deliver - Or the devil he may take ya”

Verse

I took all of his money - And it was a pretty penny

I took all of his money - Yeah, and I brought it home to Molly

She swore that she loved me - No, never would she leave me

But the devil take that woman - Yeah, for you know she tricked me easy

Verse

Being drunk and weary - I went to Molly`s chamber

Taking Molly with me - But I never knew the danger

For about six or maybe seven - Yeah, in walked Captain Farrell

I jumped up, fired my pistols - And I shot him with both barrels

Verse

Now some men like the fishing - And some men like the fowling

And some men like to hear - To hear the cannonball a-roaring

Me, I like sleeping - Especially in my Molly`s chamber

But here I am in prison - Here I am with a ball and chain, yeah

Verse 1

It’s late in the evening, she’s wondering what clothes to wear.

She puts on her make-up, and brushes her long blonde hair.

And then she asks me “Do I look all right?”

And I say “Yes, you look wonderful tonight!”

Verse 2

We’d go to party, and everyone turns to see

This beautiful lady, that’s walking around with me.

And then she asks me: “Do you feel all right?”

And I say: “Yes, I feel wonderful tonight!”

Bridge

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes,

And the wonder of it all is that you just don’t realise,

How much I love you!

Verse 3

It’s time to go home now, and I’ve got an aching head

So I give her the car keys, and she helps me to bed.

And then I tell her, as I turn off the light:

I say: “My darling, you were wonderful tonight! 

  Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight.”

Intro

Verse

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away  

Now it looks as though they’re here to stay

Oh, I be- lieve in yesterday

Verse

Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be  

There’s a shadow hanging over me

Oh, yesterday came suddenly

Verse

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play

Now I need a place to hide away

Oh, I be- lieve in yesterday

Verse

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play  

Now I need a place to hide away

Oh, I be- lieve in yesterday

Outro

Hmmmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm

Intro

Verse 1

You’ve got a friend in me

You’ve got a friend in me

When the road looks rough ahead

And you’re miles and miles from your nice warm bed

You just remember what your old pal said

Boy, you’ve got a friend in me

Yeah, you’ve got a friend in - - - me

Instrumental

Verse 2

You’ve got a friend in me

You’ve got a friend in me

You got troubles, I got them too

There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you

We stick together, we can see it through

Cause you’ve got a friend in me

You’ve got a friend in me

Bridge

Some other folks might be alittle bit smarter than I am

Bigger and stronger too, maybe…

But none of them will ever love you

The way I do

It’s me and you, boy

Verse 3

And as the years go by,

Our friendship will never die

You’re gonna see it’s our des-ti- - -ny

You’ve got a friend in me

You’ve got a friend in me

You’ve got a friend in - - - me

Instrumental