Hey Sister, Go Sister, Soul Sister, Go Sister
Hey Sister, Go Sister, Soul Sister, Go Sister
He met Marmalade down in Old New Orleans
Struttin’ her stuff on the street
She said 'Hello, Hey Joe, you wanna give it a go?
'Mmm mmm Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Hear
Mocha chocolata Ya Ya
Creole Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Well, come on ev’rybody
Take a trip with me
Well, down the Mississippi
Down to New Orleans
They got the honeysuckle bloomin’
On the honeysuckle vine
And a-love is a-bloomin’ there
All-a the time
You know ev’ry Southern Belle
Is a Mississippi Queen
Down the Mississippi
Down in New Orleans
Yeah, she’s my kind of woman, y’all
She’s just my size
She knocks me out the way she looks me in the eye
Going back to Louisiana,
To that girl I left behind
She used to live in Shreveport, but then she moved
Bet you ten to one she’s gone to Baton Rouge
I’m gonna look her up, if you know what I mean
If I have to go as far as New Orleans
Empty birdcage in her room
Curtains pulled against the moon
Follow her down to Louisiana
Hotel room bedside manner
God I’ve got to get back soon
She wriggles like a fish in a net
Details you can never forget
One thing or another
Never anybody considering the regret
That’s my story
Cost a fortune
Louisiana
I can see her lyin’ back in her SATIN dress
In a room where ya do what ya don’t confess
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin’ ‘round my back stairs
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin’ ‘round my back stairs
She’s been lookin’ like a queen in a sailor’s dream
And she don’t always say what she really means
Sometimes I think it’s a shame
When I get feelin’ better when I’m feelin’ no pain
Sometimes I think it’s a shame
When I get feelin’ better when I’m feelin’ no pain
I can picture every move that a man could make
Getting lost in her lovin’ is your first mistake
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin’ ‘round my back stairs
Sometimes I think it’s a sin
When I feel like I’m winnin’ when I’m losin again
Hail to the King!
Hail to the Queen!
Hail to the Princess Aurora!
Well you know that kings ain’t stupid
But I don’t have a clue
So don’t be cruel Joseph
Help me I beg of you
Well I was standing doing nothing in a field out of town
Whe I saw seven beautiful ears of corn, uh-huh
They were ripe, they were golden and
You’ve guessed it,
Right behind them came seven other ears
Tattered and torn, uh-huh
Well the bad corn ate the good corn
They came up from behind yes they did
Now Joseph here’s the punch line
It’s really gonna blow your mind
Well the bad corn was
As bad as it had ever, ever, ever been
Well this dream has got me all shook up
Treat me nice and tell me what it means
Hey, hey, hey Joseph
Won’t you tell poor old Pharaoh
What does this crazy dream mean?
Oh yeah
Welcome to my nightmare.
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream?
It’s alright we told you what to dream.
You dreamed of a big star,
He played a mean guitar,
He always ate in the Steak Bar.
He loved to drive in his Jaguar.
So welcome to the Machine.
Machines meant the workforce shrunk.
You think you’d see us settle
When bosses said 'Lets junk each punk
and replace you … with heavy metal
Luddite Luddite Luddite Luddite Luddites
The working man was sacrificed
Luddite Luddite Luddite Luddite Luddites
Turned us in to anar-chists
If I had a mind to, I wouldn’t want to think like you.
And if I had time to, I wouldn’t want to talk to you.
I don’t care what you do, I wouldn’t want to be like you.
I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
No, and I ain’t lookin’ to fight with you
Frighten you or tighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
Well pretty soon I met a friend,
He played guitar.
We used to sit on the steps at school
And dream of being stars.
We started a band,
We played all night.
I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don’t know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don’t know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you
I look at the world and I notice it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
Saturday night I was downtown
Working for the FBI
Sittin’ in a nest of bad men
Whiskey bottles piling high
Bootlegging boozer on the west side
Full of people who are doing wrong
Just about to call up the DA man
When I heard this woman sing a song
A pair of .45’s made me open my eyes
My temperature started to rise
She was a long cool woman in a black dress
Just-a 5’9, beautiful, tall
With just one look I was a bad mess
'Cause that long cool woman had it all
Okay, I can see it now it’s all the same thing
Just different wrapping around it
No need to soften your words, they’re still gonna hurt
So don’t pull punches
I tried to be everything you’d ever want
And sometimes I even stood on my heart and stomped
Now I’m finally alone and dressed for the show
But going nowhere
They don’t need to see me crying
I’ll get my little black dress on
And if I put on my favorite song
I’m gonna dance until you’re all gone
I’ll get my little black dress on
Slit skirts, Jeanie never wears those slit skirts
I don’t ever wear no ripped shirts
Can’t pretend that growing older never hurts.
Clean shirt, new shoes
and I don’t know where I am goin’ to.
Silk suit, black tie,
I don’t need a reason why.
They come runnin’ just as fast as they can
coz every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.
Gold watch, diamond ring,
I ain’t missin’ a single thing.
And cufflinks, stick pin,
when I step out I’m gonna do you in.
They come runnin’ just as fast as they can
coz every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.
Give Blood
But you may find that blood is not enough
Give blood
And there are some who say it’s not enough
Give blood
But don’t expect to ever see reward
Give blood
You can give it all but still you’re asked for more
Give blood
But it could cost more than your dignity
Give blood
Parade your pallor in iniquity
Give blood
They will cry and say they’re in your debt
Give blood
But then they’ll sigh and they will soon forget
So give love and keep blood between brothers
So give love and keep blood between brothers
We played king of the mountain out on the end
The world come chargin’ up the hill, and we were women and men
Now there’s so much that time, time and memory fade away
We got our own roads to ride and chances we gotta take
We stood side by side each one fightin’ for the other
We said until we died we’d always be blood brothers
Now the hardness of this world slowly grinds your dreams away
Makin’ a fool’s joke out of the promises we make
And what once seemed black and white turns to so many shades of gray
We lose ourselves in work to do and bills to pay
And it’s a ride, ride, ride, and there ain’t much cover
With no one runnin’ by your side my blood brother