Winding your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well, another crazy day
You’ll drink the night away
And forget about everything
This city desert makes you feel so cold
It’s got so many people, but it’s got no soul
And it’s taken you so long
To find out you were wrong
When you thought it held everything
Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street
Chicago, New York, Detroit and it’s all on the same street
Your typical city involved in a typical daydream
Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings
This tired city was somebody’s dream
Billboard horizon as black as it seem
A four level highway across the land
We’re buildin’ a home for the family of man
There is a
Brotherhood of man.
A benevolent brotherhood of man!
A noble tie that binds all human hearts and minds
Into one brotherhood of man.
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his brother lived
Then he went to the room where his sister lived
And then he, he walked on down the hall
The Georgia patrol was making their rounds
So he fired a shot, just to flag 'em down
A big-bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said
“Why’d you do it?”
The judge said “guilty” on a make-believe trial
Slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile
Said, “Supper’s waiting at home and I got to get to it”
That’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia
That’s the night that they hung an innocent man
Well, don’t trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer
'Cause the judge in the town’s got bloodstains on his hands
And when that jailbird started singing
They know all the words were wrong
But the sheriff and the D.A. and the judge all sang along
They pinned it on Jack Favor, gave him life without parole
Gave Jack’s freedom to the jailbird, payment on the lies he told
And it just so happens that election year
Everybody made out at the polls
The account of the capture
Wasn’t in the papers
But you know they hanged ol’ Smack right then
Instead of later
A beautiful woman
(And a condemned man name Tom Dooley)
(When the sun rises tomorrow)
(Tom Dooley must hang)
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Por boy your bound to die
Last night as I lay sleeping I dreamed a dream so fair
I dreamed about my darling a rose was in her hair
I dreamed I left this prison started life anew
She told me that she loved me told me her love was true.
It was only a dream, just a prisoner’s dream
As I lay on my cold prison bed
My dreams of you can never come true
Dear girl, I wish that I was dead.
Then I awake and look around me
At four grey walls that surround me
And I realize, yes, I was only dreaming
For there’s a guard and there’s a sad, old padre
On and on, we’ll walk at daybreak
Again, I’ll touch the green, green grass of home
Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you
Green, green,
It’s green they say,
On the far side of the hill.
Green, green,
I’m going away to where
The grass is greener still.
Just a little green
Like the color when the spring is born
There’ll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights when the northern lights perform
There’ll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there’ll be sorrow
Popsicles, icicles, baseball and fancy clothes
These are a few of the things he loves
He loves Levis and brown eyes
And wind blowin’ through his hair
These are a part of the boy I love
I had a friend was a big baseball player
Back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks
But all he kept talking about was
Glory days well they’ll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory days, glory days
I wanna go back
And do it all over
But I can’t go back I know
I wanna go back
'Cause I’m feeling so much older
But I can’t go back I know
Suntanned bodies and
Waves of sunshine the
California girls and a
Beautiful coastline
Warmed up weather
Let’s get together and
Do it again
All the vampires, walkin’ through the valley
Move west down Ventura Boulevard
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
And the good girls are home with broken hearts
The highways jammed with broken heroes
On a last-chance power drive
Everybody’s out on the run tonight
But there’s no place left to hide