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Sono qui riportati i testi delle canzoni di altri Autori interpretate da Bruce Springsteen nel corso di concerti dal vivo o inserite all'interno di tributi e manifestasioni a favore di diverse Associazioni. Per le canzoni che sono comparse in album pubblicati ufficialmente viene riportato il relativo titolo. Non sono qui riportate le canzoni comparse su lavori appartenenti alla discografia ufficiale di Springsteen, in quanto sia i testi che le traduzioni sono reperibili nelle sezioni dedicate agli album e ai singoli. Le canzoni sono in ordine alfabetico. Chiunque abbia informazioni che possano completare il quadro da me riportato č pregato di comunicarmele, grazie.
Aggiornato al 08-12-2000
- Achy Breaky Heart ( )
- Across the Borderline (J. Hiatt, R. Cooder, Dickinson)
- Bad Moon Rising (J. Fogerty)
- Be My Baby (Spector, Greenwich, Barry)
- Blowin' in the Wind (B. Dylan)
- Boom Boom (J.Lee Hooker)
- Brown Eyed Girl (V. Morrison)
- Chicken Lips and Lizzard Hips (Traditional)
- Down By The River (N. Young)
- Follow That Dream (Wise, Wiseman)
- Gloria (V. Morrison)
- Gypsy Woman (C. Mayfield)
- Highway 61 Revisited (B. Dylan)
- I Ain't Got No Home (W. Guthrie)
- I Fought the Law (B. Fuller)
- I'm a Coward (When it Comes to Love) (G.Washington, B.Springsteen/B. Springsteen)
- I Want You (B. Dylan)
- Little Queenie (C. Berry)
- Love Me Tender (E. Presley)
- Many Rivers to Cross (J. Cliff)
- Mona (B. Diddley)
- Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) (W. Guthrie, M. Hoffman)
- Proud Mary (J. Fogerty)
- Rave On (West, Tilghman, Petty)
- Riding in my Car (W. Guthrie)
- Seven Nights to Rock (M. Mullican)
- Stay (M. Williams)
- Summertime Blues (B. Cochran, Capehart)
- The Ballad of Tom Joad (W. Guthrie)
- Trapped (J. Cliff)
- Twist and Shout (Medley, Russel)
- Vigilante Man (W. Guthrie)
- Who'll Stop the Rain? (J. Fogerty)
- Wooly Bully (Domingo)
- You Never Can Tell (C. Berry)
You can tell the world you never was my girl
You can burn my clothes up when I'm gone
You can tell your friends just what a fool I've been
And laugh and joke about me on the phone
You can tell my arms go back to the farm
You can tell my feet to hit the floor
Or you can tell my lips to tell my fingertips
They won't be reaching out for you no more
(Chorus)
But don't tell my heart
My achy breaky heart
I just don't think he'd understand
And if you tell my heart
My achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man
You can tell your Ma I moved to Arkansas
You can tell your dog to bite my leg
Or tell your brother Cliff whose fist can tell my lip
He never really liked me anyway
Or tell your Aunt Louise, tell anything you please
Myself already knows I'm not O.K.
Or you can tell my eyes to watch out for my mind
It might be walking out on me today
(Chorus)
But don't tell my heart
My achy breaky heart
I just don't think he'd understand
And if you tell my heart
My achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man
Across the Borderline (J. Hiatt, R. Cooder, Dickinson)
There's a place, so I've been told,
Every street is paved with gold
And it's just across the borderline
And when it's time to take your turn
There's a lesson that you must learn
You may lose more than you'll ever hope to find.
(Chorus)
And when you reach that broken promised land
And all your dreams slip though your hand
You have learned it's too late to change your mind
Cause you pay the price to come so far
Just to wind up where you are
And you're still just across the borderline.
Up and down The Rio Grande
A thousand foot prints in the sand
Reveal a secret no one can define
The river rolls on like a breath
In between our life and death
Tell me who is next to cross that borderline.
(Chorus)
And when you reach that broken promised land
And all your dreams slip though your hand
You'll know it's too late to change your mind
Cause you pay the price to come so far
Just to wind up where you are
And you're still just across the borderline.
Bad Moon Rising (J. Fogerty)
I see a bad moon rising
I see troubles on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning
I see bad times today
Don't go 'round tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
I hear hurricanes a-blowin'
I know the end it's coming soon
I fear rivers overflowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruin
Don't go 'round tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
Hope you got your things together
Hope you're quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye
Don't go 'round tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
Don't go 'round tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
The night we met I knew I needed you so
And if I had the chance I'd never let you go.
So won't you say you love me,
I'll make you so proud of me.
We'll make 'em turn their heads every place we go.
So won't you, please, be my be my baby
Be my little baby my one and only baby
Say you'll be my darlin', be my be my baby
Be my baby now, My one and only baby
Wha-oh-oh-oh
I'll make you happy, baby, just wait and see.
For every kiss you give me I'll give you three.
Oh, since the day I saw you
I have been waiting for you.
You know I will adore you 'til eternity.
So won't you, please, be my be my baby
Be my little baby my one and only baby
Say you'll be my darlin', be my be my baby
Be my baby now, my one and only baby
Wha-oh-oh-oh.
So come on and, please, be my be my baby
Be my little baby my one and only baby
Say you'll be my darlin', be my be my baby
Be my baby now, my one and only baby
Wha-oh-oh-oh.
Be my be my baby Be my little baby.
My one and only baby
Oh, be my be my baby oh, my one and only baby
Wha-oh-oh-oh-oh...
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man
Yes 'n how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand
Yes and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
Yes and how many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea
Yes and how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free
Yes and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
Yes and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
Yes and how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry
Yes and how many deaths will it take 'till he knows
That too many people have died
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
Boom Boom (J. Lee Hooker)
Boom boom boom boom
I wanna shoot you right down
Take you in my arms
I'm in love with you
A love that is true
Boom boom boom boom
I need you right now
I mean right now
I don't mean tomorrow
I mean right now
Come on come on
I wanna give it up babe
Shake it up babe
Come on and shake
Shake it up babe
Come on come on shake it up babe
I like the way you walk
I like the way you talk
When you walk that walk
And you talk that talk
You knock me out
Right over my feet
Shake it up babe
Come on and shake
Shake it up babe
Come on come on shake it up babe
Boom boom boom boom
I wanna shoot you right down
Take you in my arms
I'm in love with you
A love that is true
Brown Eyed Girl (V. Morrison)
Hey where did we go,
Days when the rains came
Down in the hollow,
Playin' a new game,
Laughing and a running, hey, hey
Skipping and a jumping
In the misty morning fog
With our hearts a thumpin'
And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl.
Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mind
With a transistor radio
Standing in the sunlight laughing,
Hiding behind a rainbow's wall,
Slipping and sliding
All along the water fall,
With you, my brown eyed girl,
You my brown eyed girl.
Do you remember when
We used to sing,
Sha la la la la la la la la la
La te da
So hard to find my way,
Now that I'm all on my own.
I saw you just the other day
My, how you have grown
Cast my memory back there Lord
Sometimes I'm overcome thinkin' 'bout it
Laughing and a running, hey, hey
Behind the stadium
With you, my brown eyed girl
You, my brown eyed girl
Do you remember when
We used to sing... etc
Down By The River (Neil Young)
Be on my side, I'll be on your side, baby
There is no reason for you to hide
It's so hard for me staying here all alone
When you could be taking me for a ride
Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away
Down by the river I shot my baby
Down by the river, dead, oh, shot her dead, oh
You take my hand, I'll take your hand
Together we may get away
This much madness is too much sorrow
It's impossible to make it today
Yeah, oh, yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow and send me away
Down by the river I shot my baby
Down by the river, dead, oh, shot her dead, oh
Chicken Lips and Lizzard Hips (Traditional)
When I was a little kid
I never liked to eat
Mom would put things on my plate
And I'd dump 'em on her feet
But then one day she made this soup
I ate it all in bed
I asked her what she put in it
And this is what she said:
Oh, chicken lips and lizard hips
And alligator eyes
Monkey legs and buzzard eggs
And salamander thighs
Rabbit ears and camel rears
And tasty toenail pies
Stir 'em all together
And it's mama's soup surprise"
I went into the bathroom
And I stood beside the sink
I said, "I'm feeling slightly ill
And I think I'd like a drink"
Mama said, "I've just the thing
I'll get it in a wink
It's full of lots of protein
And vitamins, I think"
Oh, chicken lips and lizard hips
And alligator eyes
Monkey legs and buzzard eggs
And salamander thighs
Rabbit ears and camel rears
And tasty toenail pies
Stir 'em all together
And it's mama's soup surprise"
Follow That Dream (Wise, Wiseman)
If your heart is restless, from waiting so long
If you're tired and weary, and you can't go on
If a distant dream is callin' you
Then there's just one thing you can do
Follow that dream, wherever it may lead
Come on follow that dream, to find the love you need
Come on follow that dream
Now I've been searching for a heart that's free
Searching for someone, to search with me
'Cause I need a love, a love I can trust
Together we' ll search for the things that come to us
In dreams, wherever they may be
Come on follow that dream to find the love you need
Come on follow that dream
Now every man has the right to live
The right to a chance, to give what he has to give
The right to fight for the things he believes
For the things that come to him in dreams
Yeah, follow that dream, wherever it may lead
Come on follow that dream, to find the love you need
Follow that dream, wherever it may lead
Come on follow that dream, to find the love you need
Come on follow that dream
Well follow that dream
Yeah come on and follow that dream
Come on follow that dream, to find the love you need
Gloria (V. Morrison)
Like to tell you 'bout my baby
You know she comes round
Just 'bout five feet four
From her head to the ground
Well she comes around here
Just about midnight
She makes ya feel so good Lord
She make ya feel alright.
Her name is G-L-O-R-I-a
Gloria, Gloria, Gloria... etc
Yeah, she comes around here
Just about midnight
Makes me feel so good Lord
Makes me feel alright
Walkinī down my street
Comes up to my house
She knocks upon me door
Makes me feel alright
Her name is G-L-O-R-I-a
Gloria, Gloria, Gloria... etc
From nowhere through the caravan
Round the campfire light
Lovely woman in motion
With hair as dark as night
Her eyes were like that of a cat in the dark
That hypnotized me with love
She was a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman
She danced around and round
Guitar's melody
From the fire her face was aglow
How she enchanted me
I'd like to hold her near
And kiss her hair and whisper in her ear
I love you gypsy woman
I love you gypsy woman
I love you gypsy woman
I love you gypsy woman
All through the caravan
She was dancing with all the men
Waiting for the rising sun
Everyone was having fun
Hated to see her go
Knowing that she'll never know
That I love her
That I love her
I love you gypsy woman
I love you gypsy woman
I love you gypsy woman
I love you gypsy woman
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be putting me on"
God say, "No". Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killing done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61"
Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose
Welfare Department they wouldn't give him no clothes
He asked poor Howard where can I go
Howard said there's only one place I know
Sam said tell me quick man I got to run
Ol' Howard just pointed with his gun
And said that way down on Highway 61.
Well Mack the Finger said to Louie the King
I got forty red white and blue shoe strings
And a thousand telephones that don't ring
Do you know where I can get rid of these things
And Louie the King said let me think for a minute son
And he said yes I think it can be easily done
Just take everything down to Highway 61.
Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren't right
My she said is much too white
He said come here and step into the light he says hmm you're right
Let me tell the second mother this has been done
But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61.
Now the rovin' gambler he was very bored
He was tryin' to create a next world war
He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor
He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before
But yes I think it can be very easily done
We'll just put some bleachers out in the sun
And have it on Highway 61.
I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' around
A hard working ramblin' man, I go from town to town
The police make it hard wherever I may go
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore
I was farmin' on the shares and always I was poor
My crops I laid into the banker's door
And my wife took down and died upon the cabin floor
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore
I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' around
A hard working ramblin' man, I go from town to town
The police make it hard wherever I may go
And I Ain't Got No Home in this world anymore
Now as I look around it's mighty plain to see
This wide wicked world is a funny place to be
The gamblin' man is rich and the workin' man is poor
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore
I Fought the Law
I'm breakin' rocks in the hot sun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I needed money 'cause I had none
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I left my baby and I feel so sad
I guess my race is run
But she's the best girl I've ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
Robbin' people with a six-gun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I miss my baby and the good fun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I left my baby and I feel so sad
I guess my race is run
But she's the best girl I've ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I ain't afraid of no lions
I ain't afraid of no grizzly bear
I got in a wrestlin' match with old King Kong
He didn't even muss my hair
There's just one thing in the whole wide world
That make me doubt my stuff
I'm a coward when it comes to love
Now bring down old Hulk Hogan
King Kong bundy too
Bring down old Big Mike Tyson
I'll show them what a real man can do
They say the tougher' get goin'
Now baby that's when the goin' get tough
But I'm a coward when it comes to love
I'm a coward when it comes to love
I'm a coward when it comes to love
You can bring on a different sexy girl
At every night of the week
Buddy that's okay
But I start tremblin', my knees get weak
Whenever I hear her say
Do you love me baby?
Do you love me baby?
Do you love me baby?
I got a muscle of iron
I got another muscle made of steel
But when we start kissin' 'n' huggin'
You may be the bravest man in the whole wide world
But Buddy, that ain't enough
I'm a coward when it comes to love
I'm a coward when it comes to love
I'm a coward when it comes to love
I Want You (B. Dylan)
The guilty undertaker sighs
The lonesome orangegrinder cries
The silver saxophone says
I should refuse you
The cracked bells and washed out horns
Blow into my face with scorn
But it's not that way
I wasn't born to lose you
I want you I want you
I want you so bad
Honey I want you
The drunken politician leaps
Upon the streets where mothers weep
And the saviors who are fast asleep
They wait for you
And I wait for them to interrupt
Me drinking from my broken cup
And ask me to open up
The gate for you
Now all my fathers
They've gone down
True love
They've been without it
But all their daughters
Put me down
'Cause I don't
Think about it
Well I return to the queen of spades
And talk with my chamber maid
She knows that I'm not afraid to
Look at her
She is good to me and there's
Nothing she doesn't see
She knows where I'd like to be
But it doesn't matter
Now your dancing child with the chinese suit
He spoke to me I took his flute
No I wasn't very cute to him
Was I
But I did it because he lied
Because he took you for a ride
And because time was on his side
And because I
Want you I want you
I want you so bad
Honey I want you
I got lumps in my throat
When I saw her comin down the aisle
I got the wiggles in my knees
When she looked at me and sweetly smiled
Well there she is again
Standin over by the record machine
Well she looks like a model
On the cover of a magazine
But she's too cute
To be a minute over seventeen
Meanwhile I was thinkin'
Well if she's in the mood
No need to break it
I got the chance and I oughta take it
If she can dance we can make it
C'mon queenie let's shake it
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
Won't someone tell me
Who's the queen standin over by the record machine
Well she looks like a model
On the cover of a magazine
But she's too cute
To be a minute over seventeen
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
Meanwhile, I was still thinkin,
Well if it's a slow one
We'll omit it
If it's a rocker, then we'll get it
If it's a good one, she'll admit it
C'mon queenie, let's get with it
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
Love me tender
Love me sweet
Never let me go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so
Love me tender
Love me true
All my dreams fulfilled
For, my darling... I love you
And I always will...
Love me tender
Love me long
Take me in your heart
For it's there where I belong
And will never part
Love me tender
Love me true
All my dreams fulfilled
For, my darling... I love you
And I always will...
Many Rivers to Cross (J. Cliff)
There's so many rivers to cross
And I can't seem to find my way home.
Wandering, I'm lost
As I travel along the white cliffs of Dover
Many rivers to cross
And it's only my wind that keeps me alive.
I've been hurt, washed up for years
And it's only my pride that lets me survive.
And this loneliness won't leave me alone,
It's such a drag to be on your own
My baby left, and she wouldn't say why,
Now all I do is cry
I've got many rivers to cross
And it's only my wind that keeps me alive
I've got so many rivers to cross,
Oh, so many rivers to cross
Mona (B. Diddley)
Life's good friends are hard to find
And now one of mine is dead
And things I should have said to her
I shall say to you instead
Mona mona
So much of you to love
Too much of you to take care of
Mona mona
You got too big to keep
And too damn old to eat
When you where just a football
At your mama's side
I reckon everyone figured you
For a bar-b-que when you died
And here I'm thinking about you
Lying underground
Pushing up a pine tree in my field
Oh mona mona
You can close your eyes
I've got a twelve gauge surprise
Waiting for you
Since the day she passed away
Everything's just the same
Everywhere I go
Somebody mentions her name
Sometimes it's easiest to tell
A friend a lie
They don't understand
The way I feel
Oh mona mona
So much of you to love
To much of you to take care of
So long
Now she is gone and I am
Left alone as you can see
But ever since I caused her death
I do miss her company
The crops are all in, and the peaches are rotting,
The oranges are piled in their creseote dumps,
You're flying them back to the Mexico border
To pay all their money to wade back again.
Chorus
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria.
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,
And all they will call you will be deportee.
My father's own father he waded that river,
They took all the money he made in his life.
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees
They rode the truck till they took down and died.
(Chorus)
Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted,
Our work contracts out and we have to move on.
Six hundred miles to that Mexico border,
They chase us like outlaws, and rustlers, and thieves.
(Chorus)
We died in your hills; we died in your deserts;
We died in your valleys and died on your plains;
We died neath your trees, we died in your bushes,
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.
(Chorus)
The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
A fireball of lightning, it scarred all our hills,
Who are these friends all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says they are just deportees.
(Chorus)
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is the is the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves, to rot on the topsoil,
And be known by no name except deportee?
(Chorus)
Proud Mary (J. Fogerty)
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.
Big wheel a-keep on turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin',
Rollin', rollin',
Rollin' on the river.
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis,
Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans,
But I never saw the good side of the city,
Till I hitched a ride on a river boat queen.
Big wheel a-keep on turnin,
Proud Mary keep on burnin,
Rollin, rollin,
Rollin on the river.
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.
Big wheel keep on turnin,
Proud Mary keep on burnin,
Rollin, rollin,
Rollin on the river.
Rollin, rollin,
Rollin on the river.
A weh-aheh-aheh-ell
The little things you say and do
Make me want to be with you
Rave on
Itīs a crazy feelinī
An-a I know itīs got me reelinī
When you say, I love you
Rave on
Dum-diddly dum diddly dum
Diddly, diddly, diddly
The way you dance
And hold me tight
The way you kiss and say goodnight
Rave on
Itīs a crazy feelinī
An-a I know itīs got me reelinī
When you say I love you
Rave on
Dum, diddly dum, diddly dum
Diddly, diddly, diddly
Well, rave on
Itīs a crazy feelinī
And I know itīs got me reelinī
Iīm so glad that youīre revealinī
Your love for me
Diddly, diddly dum
Rave on
Rave on an tell me
Tell me
Not to be lonely
Tell me
You love me only
Rave on with me
Diddy, diddy, dum
Well-a rave on
Itīs a crazy feelinī
An I know itīs got me reelinī
Iīm so glad that youīre revealinī
Your love for me
Diddly, diddly, dum
Rave on
Rave on an tell me
Tell me not to be lonely
Tell me you love me only
Rave on with me
Aah, aah, aah
Seven Nights to Rock (Moon Mullican, 1956)
I got seven nights to rock
I got seven nights to roll
Seven nights, I'm gonna have a whirl
Seven nights with a different girl
Seven nights to rock
I got seven nights to roll
Monday, at sister Suzy's ball
Tuesday, at the old dance hall
Wednesday, at the road house inn
Thursday, at the lion's den
Friday, at the chatter box
Saturday and Sunday, everybody rocks
Seven nights to rock
I got seven nights to roll
Seven nights, I'm gonna have a whirl
Seven nights with a different girl
Seven nights to rock
I got seven nights to roll
I got seven nights to rock
I got seven nights to roll
I got seven nights, I'm gonna show my face
With a different chick and in a different place
Seven nights to rock
Seven nights to roll
Monday, I'm gonna rock with Jane
Tuesday, it's gonna be Lorraine
Wednesday, I'm taking Nancy Lee
Thursday, it's Betty Lou and me
Friday, I'm gonna jive with Sue
Saturday and Sunday, any chick will do
Seven nights to rock
I got seven nights to roll
Seven nights, I'm gonna show my face
With a different chick and in a different place
Seven nights to rock
I got seven nights to roll
Stay (M. Williams)
People stay just a little bit longer
We want to play just a little bit longer
Now the promoter don't mind
And the union don't mind
If we take a little time
And we leave it all behind and sing
One more song
Summertime Blues (B. Cochran, Capehart)
Iīm gonna raise a fuss, Iīm gonna raise a holler
About a workinī all summer just to try to earn a dollar
Every time I call my baby, and ask to get a date
My boss says, īNo dice son, you gotta work lateī
Sometimes I wonder what Iīm a gonna do
But there ainīt no cure for the summertime blues
Well my mom and pop told me, īSon you gotta make some moneyī
If you want to use the car to go ridinī next Sunday
Well I didnīt go to work, told the boss I was sick
īWell you canīt use the car īcause you didnīt work a lickī
Sometimes I wonder what Iīm a gonna do
But there ainīt no cure for the summertime blues
Iīm gonna take the weeks, gonna have a fine vacation
Iīm gonna take my problem to the United Nations
Well I called my congressman and he said īQuoteī
īIīd like to help you son but youīre too young to voteī
Sometimes I wonder what Iīm a gonna do
But there ainīt no cure for the summertime blues
The Ballad of Tom Joad (W. Guthrie)
Tom Joad he got out the old McAlester Pen
He got his parole
After four long years on a man killing charge
Tom Joad come walkin' down the road, poor boy
Tom Joad come walkin' down the road.
Tom Joad, he met a truck drivin' man,
And he caught him a ride
Said "I just got loose from the McAlester Pen
On a charge called homicide,
On a charge called homicide."
Well that truck rolled away in a cloud of dust
Tommy turned his face toward home.
He met Preacher Casy
And they had a little drink.
They found that his family was gone,
They found that his family was gone.
They found his mother's old fashioned shoe,
And they found his daddy's hat.
And they found little Muley, and Muley said,
"They been tractored off by the cats, Tommy boy.
They been tractored off by the cats."
Tom Joad, he walked down to the neighbor's farm,
And he found his family.
He took Preacher Casy
And he loaded up the car,
And his mother said, "We got to get away, Tommy Boy."
His mother said, "we got to get away."
Now the twelve of the Joads, they made mighty heavy load,
And Grampa Joad, he did cry.
He picked up a handful of land in his hand.
He said, "I'm stayin' with this farm till I die.
I'm stayin' here till I die."
They fed him short ribs and coffee and syrup.
And Grampa Joad, he did die.
They buried Grampa Joad by the side of the road,
Buried Grandma on the California side.
Buried Grandma on the California side.
They stood on a mountain and they looked to the west,
And it looked like the Promised Land.
That bright green valley with a river runnin' through
Held work for every single hand. They thought,
"There'll be work for every single hand."
The Joads road away to the Jungle camp
And there they cook them some stew.
And the hungry little kids said,
"We'd like to have some, too, please.
We'd like to have some, too."
Now, the Deputy Sheriff fired loose at a man,
And he shot a woman in the back.
Before he could take his aim again,
Preacher Casy dropped him in his tracks,
Preach Casy dropped him in his tracks.
Well, they handcuffed Casy
And they took him to jail
And then he got away.
He met with Tom Joad on the old River Bride.
And these few words he did say, poor boy.
These few words he did say:
"Well, I preached for Lord for a mighty long time,
Preached about the rich and the poor.
Us working folks gotta get together,
Cause we ain't got a chance anymore, Tommy boy.
We ain't got a chance anymore."
Well, the Deputies come,
And Tom and Casy, they did run
To the bridge where the water run down.
But the vigilante they hit Casy with a club,
And they laid Preacher Casy on the ground,
They laid Preacher Casy on the ground.
Tom Joad, he grabbed that Deputy's club,
And hit him over the head.
Tom Joad took flight
In the dark and rainy night,
A deputy and Preacher lying dead,
A deputy and preacher lying dead.
Well, Tom run back to where his mama was alseep.
And he woke her up out of the bed.
And he kissed goodbye
To the mother that he loved.
And he said what Preacher Casy said, Tom Joad
He said what Preacher Casy said.
"Well, everybody might be just one big soul,
Or it looks that way to me.
Everywhere you look, in the day or the night,
That's where I'm gonna be, Ma.
That's where I'm gonna be.
"Wherever little children are hungry and cry,
Wherever people ain't free,
Whevever men and women are fightin' for their rights,
That's where I'm gonna be, Ma.
That's where I'm gonna be."
Trapped (J. Cliff)
Well it seems like I'm caught up in your trap again
And it seems like I'll be wearin' the same ol' chains
Good will conquer evil and the truth will set you free
Then I know someday I'll find the key
Then I know somewhere I'll find the key
Well it seem like I've been playin' the game way too long
And it seems the game I played has made you strong
Well when the game is over, I won't walk out a loser
And I know that I'll walk out of here again
And I know that someday I'll walk out of here again
(Chorus)
But now I'm trapped, oh yeah
Trapped, oh yeah yeah
Trapped, oh yeah
Trapped, oh yeah
Now it seems like I've been sleepin' in your bed too long
And it seems like you've been meanin' to do me harm
But I'll teach my eyes to see beyond these walls in front of me
And someday I'll walk out of here again
Yeah I know someday I'll walk out of here again
(Chorus)
But now I'm trapped, oh yeah
Trapped, oh yeah yeah
Trapped, oh yeah
Trapped, oh yeah
Well it seem like I've been playin' the game way too long
And it seems the game I played has made you strong
(Chorus)
Because I'm Trapped, oh yeah
Trapped, oh yeah yeah
Trapped, oh yeah yeah
Trapped, oh yeah
I'm Trapped, oh yeah yeah
Trapped, oh yeah yeah
Trapped, oh yeah
Trapped,.oh yeah
I'm trapped.
Well shake it up baby now, twist and shout
Come on come on come on come on baby , now work it on out
Well work it on out , you know you look so good
You know you got me goin' now , just like you knew you would
Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh
Well shake it up baby now, twist and shout
Come on come on come on come on baby , now work it on out
You know you twist it little girl , you know you twist so fine
Come on and twist a little closer now, and let me know that you're mine
Well shake it up baby now, twist and shout
Come on come on come on come on baby , now work it on out
You know you twist it little girl , you know you twist so fine
Come on and twist a little closer now, and let me know that you're mine
Well shake it shake it shake it baby now
Well shake it shake it shake it baby now
Well shake it shake it shake it baby now
Rainy night down in the engine house
Sleepin' just as still as a mouse
A man came along and chase us out in the rain
Well was that a vigilante man?
Stormy days, we pass the time away
Sleeping in some good warm place
A cop come along we give him a little race
Say was that a vigilante man?
Well tell me why does a vigilante man
Tell me why does a vigilante man
Carry that sawed off shotgun in his hands
To shoot his brothers and sisters down that no good vigilante man
Well I ramble around from town to town
Yeah I ramble around from town to town
Yeah and they run us around like a wild herd of cattle lord
is that your vigilante man?
Well tell me why does a vigilante man
Tell me why does a vigilante man
Carry that club in his hands
Would he beat an innocent man down that no good vigilante man
Who'll Stop the Rain (J. Fogerty)
Long as I remember, the rain's been pourin' down
Clouds of mystery blowin, confusion on the ground
Good men through the ages, tryin' to find the sun
And I wonder, still I wonder
Who'll stop the rain
I went to Virginia seekin' shelter from the storm
Caught up in a fable, I watched a tower grow
Clouds like kingdoms crying, wrapped in golden chains
Yet I wonder, still I wonder
Who'll stop the rain
Heard the singer singin', how we cheered for more
The crowd had rushed together tryin' to keep warm
Still the rain kept pourin', pourin' on my brain
Yet I wonder, still I wonder
Who'll stop the rain
And I wonder, still I wonder
Who'll stop the rain
Wooly Bully (Domingo)
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big fangs and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Hatty told Matty, īLetīs donīt take no chance.
Letīs not be*L-seven*, come and learn to dance.ī
Wooly bully, wooly bully
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Matty told Hatty, īThatīs the thing to do.
Get you someone really to pull the wool with you.ī
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
You Never Can Tell (C. Berry)
It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well
You could see that Pierre did truly love the madamoiselle
And now the young monsieur and madame have rung the chapel bell,
"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
They furnished off an apartment with a two room Roebuck sale
The coolerator was crammed with TV dinners and ginger ale,
But when Pierre found work, the little money comin' worked out well
"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast
Seven hundred little records, all rock, rhythm and jazz
But when the sun went down, the rapid tempo of the music fell
"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
They bought a souped-up jitney, 'twas a cherry red '53,
They drove it down to Orleans to celebrate the anniversary
It was there that Pierre was married to the lovely madamoiselle
"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
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