Random Song Lyrics Thread

[Tjack]

Work it out.

[Cancer]

Grand piano

Reed and pipe organ

Glockenspiel

Bass guitar

Double-speed guitar

Two slightly distorted guitars

Mandolin

Spanish guitar, and introducing acoustic guitar

plus Tubular Bells!

[Greywind]

Out of the street - get on home
Tail shaking filly running on her own
They say she got loose on the night
She was born
Cranking it up in a school zone

"Kick it out - Kick it out", she said
"kick out your motor and drive
While you're still alive - kick it out!"

Sitting in a bar in a seaside town
Sweet little love getting high getting down
Sailors see her running along the beach
Laugh and jump out of reach

Wild music blowing in her mane
She needs a bareback rider won't give her
No pain
A hard racy game of give and take
Leaves them dazed - half crazed- in her wake

"Kick it out - Kick it out", she said
"kick out your motor and drive
While you're still alive - kick it out!"

[death tribble]

When I look up from my pillow
I dream you are there with me
Though you are far away
I know you'll always be near to me

I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me
I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me

I look around me
And feel you are ever so close to me
Each tear that flows from my eye
Brings back memories of you to me

I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me
I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me

I was wrong, I will cry
I will love you till the day I die
You were all, you alone and no one else
You were meant for me

When morning comes again
I have the loneliness you left me
Each day drags by
Until finally my time descends on me

I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me
I go to sleep, sleep
And imagine that you're there with me

[death tribble]

When they begin the beguine
Quiero sentir
Las cosas de siempre
Quiero saber
Si tú aun me quieres
Quiero volver a empezar

When they begin the beguine
Quiero saber
Que fue de tu vida
Quiero saber
Si todo se olvida,
Para volver a empezar

Yo que siempre jugué con tu amor
Hasta el final
Y seguro yo estaba que tú
Aun me querías
Hoy al ver que ya todo acabó
Que no daría,
Para volver a empezar.

Día a día te hacías querer
Un poco más
¿Quién me iba a decir que una vez
Te perdería?
Y hoy al verme tan solo sin ti
Que no daría,
Para volver a empezar.

When they begin the beguine
Quiero sentir
Las cosas de siempre
Quiero saber
Si tú aun me quieres,
Para volver a empezar.

[death tribble]

Let this groove, get you to move,

it's alright, alright

let this groove, set in your shoes,

stand up, alright

 

Gonna tell you what you can do,

with my love, alright

 

Let you know girl you're looking good

you're out of sight and alright

 

Move yourself and glide like a 747

loose yourself in the sky among the clouds in the heavens

 

Let this groove, light up your fuse, alright

Let this groove, set in your shoes

 

stand up, alright

 

Let me tell you what you can do

with my love, alright

 

Gotta let you know girl you're looking good

you're out of sight, you're alright

 

Tell the DJ to play your favorite tune

then you know it's okay

 

What you found is happiness, now

 

Let this groove, get you to move, alright

Let this groove set in your shoes

Stand up, alright

 

You will find peace of mind on the floor

Take a little time, come and see, you and me

Make a little sign, I'll be there after a while

if you want my love

 

We can boogie on down, down, down, down

Let's groove tonight

share the spice of life

baby slice it right

 

we're gonna groove tonight

[death tribble]

Tears for souvenirs

Tears are not enough

Tears for shields and spears

Tears are not enough

 

Searching for certainty

When it's such an unstable world

Searching for something good

And I'm looking for the real McCoy

 

Blueprint, that says that boy meets girl

Picture, girl meets boy

A blueprint that says that the boy meets the girl

Picture in a magazine

 

Yes you've shown your feelings

Yes you've shown you're tough

Said things worth believing

Tears are not enough

Tears are not enough

Tears are not enough

 

Yes you've shown your feelings

Yes you've shown you're tough

Said things worth believing

Tears are not enough

Tears are not enough

Tears are not enough

 

Slam that door, slap my face

But I don't love you anymore

Dry your eyes Sink or swim

You surmise you can't win

We all make great mistakes

 

Blueprint, that says that boy meets girl

Picture, girl meets boy

A blueprint that says that the boy meets the girl

Picture in a magazine

 

Yes you've shown your feelings

Yes you've shown you're tough

Said things worth believing

Tears are not enough

Tears are not enough

Tears are not enough

 

Would I lie

Should I lie

Could I lie to you?

 

Excuses had their uses

But now they're all used up, all used up

 

Excuses had their uses

But now they're all used up, all used up

 

Yes you've shown your feelings

Yes you've shown you're tough

Said things worth believing

Tears are not enough

 

Yes you've shown your feelings

Yes you've shown you're tough

Said things worth believing

Tears are not enough

 

Tears for souvenirs

Tears are not enough

Tears for shields and spears

[death tribble]

see a clinic full of cynics 

Who want to twist the peoples' wrist 

They're watching every move we make 

We're all included on the list 

 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum 

 

No nuclear the cowboy told us 

And who am i to disagree 

'Cos when the madman flips the switch 

The nuclear will go for me 

 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum 

 

I've seen the faces of starvation 

But i just can not see the points 

'Cos there's so much food here today 

That no one wants to take away 

 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum 

 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum - take away my right to choose 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum - take away my point of view 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum - take away my dignity, 

Take these things away from me 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum - take away my family, 

Take away the right to speak 

The lunatics have taken over the asylum take away my point of view, 

Take away my right to choose

[death tribble]

Sunday morning going slow, I'm talking to the radio

Clothes and records on the floor, the memories of the night before

Out in Clubland having fun and now I'm hiding from the sun

Waiting for a visitor though no-one knows I'm here for sure

 

Dancing, laughing, drinking, loving

And now I'm all alone in bedsit land

My only home

 

I think it's time to cook a meal to fill the emptiness I feel

Spent my money going out, I've nothing in I'm left without

Clean my teeth and comb my hair and look for something new to wear

And start the nightlife over again and kid myself I'm having fun

 

Dancing, laughing, drinking, loving

And now I'm all alone in bedsit land

My only home

 

I look out from my window view that really nothing else to do

Read a book maybe write a letter, mother, things are getting better

Watch the mirror count the lines, the battle scars of all the good times

Look around and I can see a thousand people just like me

 

Dancing, laughing, drinking, loving

And now I'm all alone in bedsit land

My only home

 

Dancing, laughing, drinking, loving

And now I'm all alone in bedsit land

My only home

 

Dancing, laughing, drinking, loving

[death tribble]

She unscrews the top of her new whiskey bottle, 

And shuffles about in her candle-lit hovel.

Like some kind of witch, with blue fingers in mittens, 

She smells like a cat and the neighbors she sickens.

Her black and white TV has long seen a picture,

The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture.

The postman delivers the final reminders; 

She sells off her silver and poodles in china.

 

Drinks to remember; I me and myself 

And winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf. 

Home is a love that I miss very much,

But the past has been bottled and labelled with love.

 

During the wartime an American pilot 

Made every air-raid a time of excitement. 

She moved to his prairie and married the Texan. 

She learned from a distance how love was a lesson. 

He became drinker and she became mother 

She knew that one day she'd be one or the other. 

He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy

Proud of her features she kept herself pretty.

 

Drinks to remember; I me and myself

Winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf. 

Home is a love that I miss very much 

So the past has been bottled and labelled with love.

 

He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber 

Out on the porch in the middle of summer 

She crossed the ocean back home to her family 

But they had retired to roads that were sandy. 

She moved home alone without friends or relations 

Lived in a world full of age reservations. 

On moth-eaten armchairs she'd say that she'd sod-all

The friends who had left her to drink from the bottle 

 

Drinks to remember; I me and myself 

And winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf. 

Home is a love that I miss very much 

So the past has been bottled and labelled with love

[death tribble]

Good

Morning

Universe

 

 

Good morning universe, how are you today ?

Morning, morning universe, I'm feeling good today

Come with me, come with me

Open up your minds and see

He intoxicates me on this neon world

Can take you far away

 

Good morning universe, how are you today ?

Morning, morning universe, I'm feeling good today

Good morning universe, how are you today ?

Morning, morning universe, I've been a long, long way

 

I'm back from Mars

And my starship's a jungle (It's a jungle)

I'm hopelessly lost but I don't care

I'm crashing cymbals in outer space

For all the Aliens to hear

 

I gotta find you in a chariot of fire

And I wanna touch you with fingertips of flames

Mind games

I wanna kiss you

I wanna kiss you again

Again

 

Good morning universe, how are you today ?

Morning, morning universe, I'm feeling good today

Good morning universe, how are you today ?

Morning, morning universe, I've been a long, long way

 

Good morning universe, how are you today ?

Morning, morning universe, I'm feeling good today

Good morning universe, how are you today ?

Morning, morning universe, I've been a long, long way...

[death tribble]

I saw you at the airace yesterday April showers get out of my way

Fear of flying no not me

I'm never bothered what you say someone's kid just lives for today

It ain't your problem anyway

 

Cause I've got my own way, I can find my own way, cause I've got my own way

Cause I've got my own way, I can find my own way, cause I've got my own way

 

Number one public figure what a pain just puts another rattle in your brain

Take another green but it's not the same

So now you're on the sandlane everyday dancing with the bulls in any old way

Running like a fox to keep up with me

 

Cause I've got my own way, I can find my own way, cause I've got my own way

Cause I've got my own way, I can find my own way, cause I've got my own way

 

I'm on 45 between 6th and Broadway, 45 between 6th and Broadway 45

I'm drinking 7UP between 6th and Broadway 7UP between 6th and Broadway, 7UP

 

Cause I've got my own way, I can find my own way, cause I've got my own way

Cause I've got my own way, I can find my own way, cause I've got my own way

[death tribble]

Every night I grab some money and I go down to the bar

I got my buddies and a beer, I got a dream, I need a car

You got me begging on my knees, c'mon and throw the dog a bone

A man he doesn't live by rock 'n roll and brew alone

Baby baby, baby baby

 

[Chorus:]

 

Rock 'n roll and brew, rock 'n roll and brew

They don't mean a thing when I compare 'em next to you

Rock 'n roll and brew, rock 'n roll and brew

I know that you and I oh we got better things to do

I don't know who you are or what you do, or where you go when you're not around

I don't know anything about you baby, but you're everything I'm dreaming of

I don't know who you are, but you're a real dead ringer for love

A real dead ringer for love

 

Ever since I can remember you been hanging 'round this joint

You been trying to look away but now you finally got the point

I don't have to know your name and I won't tell you what to do

But a girl - she doesn't live by only rock 'n roll and brew

Baby baby, baby baby

 

Rock 'n roll and brew, rock 'n roll and brew

They don't mean a thing when I compare 'em next to you

Rock 'n roll and brew, rock 'n roll and brew

I know that you and I oh we got better things to do

I don't know who you are or what you do, or where you go when you're not around

I don't know anything about you baby, but you're everything I'm dreaming of

I don't know who you are, but you're a real dead ringer for love

A real dead ringer for love

 

Oh ! You got the kind of legs that do more than walk

I don't have to listen to your whimpering talk

Listen you got the kind of eyes that do more than see

You got a lotta nerve to come on to me

You got the kind of lips that do more than drink

You got the kind of mind that does less than think

But since I'm feeling kinda lonely and my defenses are low

Why don't you give it a shot and get it ready to go

I'm looking for anonymous and fleeting satisfaction

I want to tell my daddy I'll be missing in action

Ever since I can remember I've been hanging 'round this joint

My daddy never noticed, now he'll finally get the point

You got me beggin' on my knees, c'mon and throw the dog a bone

A man he doesn't live by rock 'n roll and brew alone

Baby baby

 

Rock 'n roll and brew, rock 'n roll and brew

They don't mean a thing when I compare 'em next to you

Rock 'n roll and brew, rock 'n roll and brew

I know that you and I oh we got better things to do

I don't know who you are or what you do, or where you go when you're not around

I don't know anything about you baby, but you're everything I'm dreaming of

I don't know who you are, but you're a real dead ringer for love

A real dead ringer for love

 

Dead ringer for love

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

Dead ringer for love - dead ringer

[Cygnia]

I knew he was different in his sexuality
I went to his parties as a straight minority
It never seemed a threat to my masculinity
He only introduced me to a wider reality
As the years went by, we drifted apart
When I heard that he was gone
I felt a shadow cross my heart

But he's nobody's hero
Saves a drowning child
Cures a wasting disease
Hero...lands the crippled airplane
Solves great mysteries
Hero...not the handsome actor
Who plays a hero's role
Hero...not the glamour girl
Who'd love to sell her soul
If anybody's buying
Nobody's hero

I didn't know the girl, but I knew her family
All their lives were shattered in a nightmare of brutality
They try to carry on, try to bear the agony
Try to hold some faith in the goodness of humanity
As the years went by, we drifted apart
When I heard that she was gone
I felt a shadow cross my heart

But she's nobody's hero
Is the voice of reason against the howling mob
Hero...is the pride of purpose
In the unrewarding job
Hero...not the champion player
Who plays the perfect game
Hero...not the glamour boy
Who loves to sell his name
Everybody's buying
Nobody's hero

As the years went by, we drifted apart
When I heard that you were gone
I felt a shadow cross my heart

But he's nobody's hero
Saves a drowning child
Cures a wasting disease
Hero...lands the crippled airplane
Solves great mysteries
Hero...not the handsome actor
Who plays a hero's role
Hero...not the glamour girl
Who'd love to sell her soul
If anybody's buying
Nobody's hero

Hero

[Greywind]

There was a time some time ago
When every sunrise meant a sunny day, oh a sunny day
But now when the morning light shines in
It only disturbs the dreamland where I lay, oh where I lay
I used to thank the lord when I'd wake
For life and love and the golden sky above me
But now I pray the stars will go on shinin', you see in my dreams you love me
Daybreak is a joyful time
Just listen to the songbird harmonies, oh the harmonies
But I wish the dawn would never come
I wish there was silence in the trees, oh the trees
If only I could stay asleep, at least I could pretend you're thinkin' of me
'Cause nighttime is the one time I am happy, you see in my dreams

We climb and climb and at the top we fly
Let the world go on below us, we are lost in time
And I don't know really what it means
All I know is that you love me, in my dreams

I keep hopin' one day I'll awaken, and somehow she'll be lying by my side
And as I wonder if the dawn is really breakin'
She touches me and suddenly I'm alive

We climb and climb and at the top we fly
Let the world go on below us, we are lost in time
And I don't know really what it means
All I know is that you love me, in my dreams

 

We climb and climb and at the top we fly
Let the world go on below us, we are lost in time
And I don't know really what it means
All I know is that you love me, in my dreams

Oho, in my dreams

[tkdguy]

When this old world starts getting me down

And people are just too much for me to face (Up on the roof)

I climb way up to the top of the stairs

And all my cares just drift right into space (Up on the roof)

 

On the roof, it's peaceful as can be

And there, the world below can't bother me

Let me tell you now

 

When I come home feeling tired and beat

I go up where the air is fresh and sweet (Up on the roof)

I get away from the hustling crowds

And all that rat race noise down in the street (Up on the roof)

 

On the roof's the only place I know

Where you just have to wish to make it so

Let's go up on the roof (Up on the roof)

 

At night, the stars put on a show for free

And, darling, you can share it all with me

I keep-a tellin' you

 

Right smack dab in the middle of town

I found a paradise that's trouble-proof (Up on the roof)

And if this world starts getting you down

There's room enough for two up on the roof (Up on the roof)

 

Up on the roof (Up on the roof)

Oh, come on, baby (Up on the roof)

Oh, come on, honey (Up on the roof)

Everything is all right (Up on the roof)

[Greywind]

Stay away from my window
Stay away from my back door too
Disconnect the telephone line
Relax baby and draw that blind

Kick off your shoes and sit right down
Loosen off that pretty French gown
Let me pour you a good long drink
Ooh baby don't you hesitate cause

Tonight's the night
It's gonna be alright
Cause I love you girl
Ain't nobody gonna stop us now

C'mon angel my hearts on fire
Don't deny your man's desire
You'd be a fool to stop this tide
Spread your wings and let me come inside

Tonight's the night
It's gonna be alright
Cause I love you girl
Ain't nobody gonna stop us now

Don't say a word my virgin child
Just let your inhibitions run wild
The secret is about to unfold
Upstairs before the night's too old

Tonight's the night
It's gonna be alright
Cause I love you woman
Ain't nobody gonna stop us now

[Greywind]

Stranger are you waiting
For someone to come down and love you in time
Stranger you're debating
Can you get the words in your head
And you're heart to rhyme

Feel like a perfect stranger
You been gone so long
It's come down to feeling
And you're feeling wrong

I know how you want to, you're a hero
Under the stars you are wild
Well, come on, I want you I'm telling you
You're only a stranger a little while

Feel like a perfect stranger, you been gone so long
But you still know how to make it baby
You got to make it strong

It just got too heavy to carry
It all came down
But you're still alive, you're still seething
Just in time, you found your time
And your timing is perfect stranger
What it gets down to, you, you, it's you baby
Only you
Only you
Your timing is perfect stranger
You been gone too long
But it's your time to make baby
Come on and make it strong now

[tkdguy]

(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.)
What you say?
(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.)

Woah Woman, oh woman, don't treat me so mean,
You're the meanest old woman that I've ever seen.
I guess if you said so
I'd have to pack my things and go. (That's right)

(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.)
What you say?
(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.)

Now baby, listen baby, don't ya treat me this-a way
Cause I'll be back on my feet some day.
(Don't care if you do 'cause it's understood)
(you ain't got no money you just ain't no good.)
Well, I guess if you say so
I'd have to pack my things and go. (That's right)

(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.)
What you say?
(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more.)

Well
(don't you come back no more.)
Uh, what you say?
(don't you come back no more.)
I didn't understand you
(don't you come back no more.)
You can't mean that
(don't you come back no more.)
Oh, now baby, please
(don't you come back no more.)
What you tryin' to do to me?
(don't you come back no more.)
Oh, don't treat me like that
(don't you come back no more.)

[Greywind]

How many nights, how many days
Do I wait here for you?
Have you long forgotten all the things we'd said?
And how many times must I let the phone ring
Just to get to you?
Could it be that now this love has long gone dead?

No, no
The wait hasn't been so long
No, oh
I'm sure your feeling's gone and then

Love, love
Feels like a ball and chain
What a fool I've been to fall in love again, oh
Love, love
When will it ever end?
And I don't think that I can ever love again

Well, how many nights have I stayed by the phone
Just to hear from you
Could it be that I just wanna hear you say that
All of this time you been thinking alone
Wondering what to do
And that "I love you" is all you wanna say?

No
The wait hasn't been so long
No
I'm sure your feeling's gone and then

Love, love
Feels like a ball and chain
What a fool I've been to fall in love again, oh
Love, love
When will it ever end?
Well, I don't think that I can ever love again

No, no
I'm sure your feeling's gone and then

Love, love
Feels like a ball and chain
What a fool I've been to fall in love again, oh
Love, love
When will it ever end?
I don't think that I can ever love again, oh

I don't think that I can ever love again
'Cause your love feels like a ball and chain

[Greywind]

The problem is all inside your head
She said to me
The answer is easy if you
Take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle
To be free
There must be fifty ways
To leave your lover

She said it's really not my habit
To intrude
Furthermore, I hope my meaning
Won't be lost or misconstrued
But I'll repeat myself
At the risk of being crude
There must be fifty ways
To leave your lover
Fifty ways to leave your lover

[CHORUS:]
You Just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free

She said it grieves me so
To see you in such pain
I wish there was something I could do
To make you smile again
I said I appreciate that
And would you please explain
About the fifty ways

She said why don't we both
Just sleep on it tonight
And I believe in the morning
You'll begin to see the light
And then she kissed me
And I realized she probably was right
There must be fifty ways
To leave your lover
Fifty ways to leave your lover

[Greywind]

When you're out there on your own
Where your memories can find you
Like a circle goes around
You were lost until you found out
What it all comes down to

One by one
The lonely feelings come
Day by day, they slowly fade away

Oh, the look was in her eyes
You never know what might be found there
She was dancing right in time
And the moves she made so fine
Like the music that surrounds her

Should I stay or go?
I really want to know
Would I lose or win
If I try and love again?
Gonna try and love again
I'm gonna try and love again
Gonna try and love
Gonna try and love

Right or wrong, what's done is done
It's only moments that we borrow
But the thoughts will linger on
Of the lady and her song
When the sun comes up tomorrow
Well, it might take years to see
Through all these tears
Don't let go
When you find it you will know

Oh, gonna try and love again
Gonna try and love again
Sometimes lose, sometimes win,
Sometimes you need a friend
Gonna try, gonna try
Gonna try, gonna try

[Greywind]

In the southern part of Texas
In the town of San Antone
There's a fortress all in ruins that the weeds have overgrown
You may look in vain for crosses and you'll never see a-one
But sometimes between the setting and the rising of the sun
You can hear a ghostly bugle
As the men go marching by
You can hear them as they answer
To that roll call in the sky

Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett, and a hundred eighty more
Captain Dickinson, Jim Bowie
Present and accounted for

Back in 1836, Houston said to Travis
"Get some volunteers and go
Fortify the Alamo."
Well the men came from Texas
And from old Tennessee
And they joined up with Travis
Just to fight for the right to be free

Indian scouts with squirrel guns
Men with muzzle-loaders
Stood together, heel and toe
To defend the Alamo

"You may never see your loved ones,"
Travis told them that day
"Those who want to can leave now
Those who fight to the death let 'em stay."

In the sand he drew a line
With his army sabre
Out of a hundred eighty five
Not a soldier crossed the line
With his banners a-dancin'
In the dawn's golden light
Santa Anna came prancing
On a horse that was black as the night

Sent an officer to tell
Travis to surrender
Travis answered with a shell
And a rousing rebel yell
Santa Anna turned scarlet
"Play deguello!" he roared
"I will show them no quarter
Every one will be put to the sword!"

One hundred and eighty five
Holding back five thousand
Five days, six days, eight days, ten
Travis held and held again
Then he sent for replacements
For his wounded and lame
But the troops that were coming
Never came, never came, never came

Twice he charged and blew recall
On the fatal third time
Santa Anna breached the wall
And he killed 'em, one and all
Now the bugles are silent
And there's rust on each sword
And the small band of soldiers

Lie asleep in the arms of the Lord

In the southern part of Texas
Near the town of San Antone
Like a statue on his pinto rides a cowboy all alone
And he sees the cattle grazing where a century before
Santa Anna's guns were blazing and the cannons used to roar
And his eyes turn sorta misty
And his heart begins to glow
And he takes his hat off slowly
To the men of Alamo
To the thirteen days of glory
At the siege of Alamo

[Greywind]

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
For the stranger there amongst them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around
He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty-four
And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
One and nineteen more

Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around
Was an Arizona Ranger, wouldn't be too long in town
He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter, he was after Texas Red
After Texas Red

Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red
But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead
Twenty men had tried to take him, twenty men had made a slip
Twenty-one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet
It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
About to meet his death

There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play
And the swiftness of the Ranger is still talked about today
Texas Red had not cleared leather for a bullet fairly ripped
And the Ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered 'round
There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
Oh, he might have gone on living but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

Big iron, big iron
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

[Greywind]

Aw, we walked the streets of Greenwich Village
Holdin' hands like school kids in the summer August sun
Smilin' at the passing strangers on their way
And wishin' the end would never come
Then a flower lady sold me one red rose to give you
For your chestnut hair, just to make it shine
Then I held you close to me, and I whispered
Joli girl, when will you be mine

Then we stepped up to the first stand on the corner
For some coconut champagne
And a taxi driver cussed us, 'cause a blind man got his tip
And tapped "thank you" with his cane
And we ducked out of the rain into a dusty little shop
That traded books and fluffy hats, rings and beads
Then I held you close to me, and I whispered
Joli girl, you're all I need

Aw, Joli girl, please don't ask me how long I'll be stayin'
You and your dandy ship of dreams that we can share
Tomorrow is just another day, I'm maybe far away
Joli girl, I might be anywhere
So let's spread our blanket in the park and hold each other close
The night is coming on and soon we'll have to go
But remember, Joli girl, oh remember
Joli girl, I love you so