I want to be free, it’s either do or die
This is in me, I’m running from these lies
I must move on from this continued mistake
I won’t take no, I’ve got no time to waste
It’s time I changed my ways, don’t want to be the same
No, I won’t stay the same
I’m moving on to grace, giving up my old ways
No, I won’t stay the same
Almost Heaven: West Virginia.
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
Life is old there, older than the trees,
Younger than the mountains, flowing like a breeze.
Oh Shenandoah,
I love your daughter,
Away, you rolling river.
For her I’d cross,
Your roaming waters,
Away, I’m bound away,
'Cross the wide Missouri.
In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
To the river so deep
I must be looking for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And it’s too hard to cross
And even though I know the river is wide
I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore
And try to cross to the opposite side
So I can finally find what I’ve been looking for
The water is wide, I cannot get oer
Neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I
A ship there is and she sails the sea
She’s loaded deep as deep can be
But not so deep as the love I’m in
I know not if I sink or swim
Last night I heard a sweet voice callin’,
“Come along, won’t you come along home.”
Wind on the river and the calves all bawlin’,
“Come along, won’t you come along home.”
Come along, won’t you come along home now.
Night is fallin’ and the path is steep.
Come along, won’t you come along home now.
Water’s runnin’ and the river is deep.
Wind goes “Whoosh!” And the trees are sighin’,
“Come along, won’t you come along home now.”
Somebody’s born and somebody’s dyin’.
“Come along, won’t you come along home now.”
Come along, won’t you come along home now.
Night is fallin’ and the path is steep.
Come along, won’t you come along home now.
Water’s runnin’ and the river is deep.
Every night the voice gets bolder.,
“Come along, won’t you come along home now.”
Song gets sweeter as I grow older,
“Come along, won’t you come along home now.”
Come along, won’t you come along home now.
Night is fallin’ and the path is steep.
Come along, won’t you come along home now.
Water’s runnin’ and the river is deep.
Come home, come home, ye who are weary come home.
Home: where my thoughts escape me.
Home: where my music’s playing.
Home: where my love lies waiting silently for me, silently for me.
Hold on, to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave (wave) is stringing us along
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m gonna make this place your home
Settle down, it’ll all be clear
Don’t pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
You get lost, you can always be found
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m gonna make this place your home
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home;
Oh, the sun shines bright
On my old Kentucky home.
From the Kentucky coal mines to the California sun,
Yeah, Bobby shared the secrets of my soul.
Through all kinds of weather, through everything we done,
Yeah, Bobby baby kept me from the cold.
I’m proud to be a coal miner’s daughter.
Oh come all you young fellers so young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine
It’ll form as a habit and seep in your soul
Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal
Where it’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the danger is double and pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls the sun never shines
It’s a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
Ev’ry mornin’ at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew, ya didn’t give no lip to Big John
(Big John, Big John)
Big Bad John
(Big John)
He was short and fat and rode out of the West
With a Mogen David on his silver vest
He was mean and nasty right clear through
Which is kind of weird 'cause he was yellow, too
They called him Irving
They call me Mellow Yellow.
Sunshine came softly through my a-window today.
She came in through the bathroom window
Protected by a silver spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
By the banks of her own lagoon
Didn’t anybody tell her?
Didn’t anybody see?
Sunday’s on the phone to Monday
Tuesday’s on the phone to me
Oh Mr Silver please come in
We’ve been sitting here waiting for you
Such a long long time
None may dare to watch your grandeur
None may walk
Moses by the seaside in 1974
Listens to the music of the skyscraper carnivores
There’s someone outside…
Moses by the seaside…
Somewhere in this wilderness you wander like a river
Crossing the wheatfields and crying to the sorry ocean,
We’re crying to the sorry ocean
Wrapped in the arms of the night
Someone outside
There’s someone outside, they’re trying to get in