We are family
I got all my sisters with me
Sisters, sisters, there were never more devoted sisters;
When a certain gentleman arrived from Rome,
She wore the dress and I stayed home.
Put on your red dress baby
And wear your smile
Say goodnight to your sister
We’re gonna walk for miles
We’ll go where the boats are leaving
In St. George’s Bay
And when I look into your eyes
There’s one thing that I can say
No one loves you this way
So put on your red dress baby
And one more time
Let me see you smile
We didn’t have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard pressed
Then Mama spent every last penny we had
To buy me a dancin’ dress
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
And she painted my eyes and lips
then I stepped into a satin dancin’ dress
that had a split on the side clean up to my hip
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
Standin’ back from the lookin’ glass
There stood a woman where a half grown kid had stood
This girl is a woman now
She’s learned how to give
This girl is a woman now
She’s found out what it’s all about
And she’s learning, learning to live
We live in a house upon the hill
It’s just a mile away
We look out to sea
Dawn’s early light
It chased the night away
Sometimes I can’t tell if I’m you or me
Alone in this room with the moon and the sea
Listen to the space where she used to be
Another life away
Surrender smiles, epiphanies
It’s almost every day
And the sea’s in my bed
And the moon’s in my head
Oh say can you see
by the dawn’s early light,
what so proudly we hailed
at the twilight’s last gleaming?
You’re a grand old rag; you’re a high-flying flag,
And forever in peace may you wave!
Catch a wave…
And you’re sitting on top of the world.
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of you
You were trying to break into another world
A world I never knew
I always kind of wondered if you ever made it through
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of you.
And it’s something quite peculiar
Something shimmering and white
Leads you here despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Under the Milky way tonight
Under the Milky Way tonight
Under the Milky Way tonight
Do you know the way to San Jose?
I’ve been away so long.
I may go wrong and lose my way.
Do you know the way to san jose?I
I’m going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose
California dreaming on a winter’s day
Stopped into a church I passed along the way
Well I got down on my knees and I began to pray
And the sign says “Everybody’s welcome to come in and kneel down and pray.”
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all,
I didn’t have a penny to pay.
So I got me a pen and paper and I made up my own little sign.
I said, “Thank you Lord for thinking about me. I’m alive and doing fine.”
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again!
First you get down on your knees,
Fiddle with your rosary,
Bow your head with great respect, and
Genuflect! Genuflect! Genuflect!
See you at the barricades babe
See you when the lights go low, Joe
Hear you when the wheels turn round
Someday when the sky turns black
It appears because it’s what I feel
I know I don’t understand
If you ask you know I don’t mind kneeling
But when my knees hurt I like to stand
Instinct is the common lawyer
A million years won’t erase
Strike the chord I’m searching for
Call it a committed race
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wander’d idly over the noisy keys;
I knew not what I was playing, or what I was dreaming then,
But I struck one chord of music like the sound of a great Amen.
It flooded the crimson twilight like the close of an Angel’s Psalm,
And it lay on my fever’d spirit with a touch of infinite calm.
It quieted pain and sorrow like love overcoming strife,
It seem’d the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
It link’d all perplexed meanings into one perfect peace
And trembled away into silence as if it were loth to cease;
I have sought, but I seek it vainly, that one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the organ and enter’d into mine.
It may be that Death’s bright Angel will speak in that chord again;
It may be that only in Heav’n I shall hear that grand Amen!
One simple thing that I never could see
But now I know
All of the rest will flow
Stay with me my angel I found you
Now I don’t feel low
All of the rest will flow
Eyes closed
All of the rest will flow