Mama take this badge from me
I can’t use it anymore
It’s getting dark too dark to see
Feels like I’m knockin’ on Heaven’s door
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm does bind the restless wave,
Who bids the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.
Aye, Calypso, the places you’ve been to,
the things that you’ve shown us, the stories you tell.
Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit, the men who have served you so long and so well.
Sleeping dreams will reach for her
She cannot say the words they need
She knows she’s alone
And she is free
Ocean gypsy of the moon
The sun has made a thousand nights
For you to hold
Ocean gypsy where are you
The shadows followed by the stars
Have turned to gold, turned to gold
Gypsy sittin’, lookin’ pretty
The broken rose with laughin’ eyes
You’re a mystery, always runnin’ wild
Like a child without a home
You’re always searching, searching for a feeling
That it’s easy come and easy go
Ramblin’ rose, ramblin’ rose
Why you ramble, no one knows
Wild and wind-blown, that’s how you’ve grown
Who can cling to a ramblin’ rose?
Texas…
I will compose
In fancy rhyme
Or just plain prose
Texas…
A song of praise
To you Prairie Rose
Texas…
Though I’m not sure
I can explain your strange allure
Texas…
Oh Prairie Rose
A crown of thorns
A scented flower
That’s right, you’re not from Texas
That’s right, you’re not from Texas
That’s right, you’re not from Texas
Texas wants you anyway.
Hi everybody
I’m Archie Bell of the Drells
Of Houston, Texas
We don’t only sing but we dance
Just as good as we walk
In Houston we just started a new dance
Called the Tighten Up
This is the music
We tighten up with
Uptight Downtown
All the blue lights fighting with the crowds
And oh, I know the temperature is rising, is rising
Uptight Downtown
All the blue lights fighting with the crowds
And oh, I know the temperature is rising, is rising
Good morning
It’s 3 a.m. in this great roaring city full of garbage eaters
Ravaging parking spots beneath my plaza window
I see cheetah in their tight skins and tired heels
All-night hippo in the diner crossing the street
Swarthy herds of young impala
Flambastic gibbon, even a struggling monza
Easy to poke yourself square in the eye
Harder to like yourself, harder to try
These are espouses, postcards and Neoprene
Roses, a dollar a stem
Everyone sleeping or pulling a long haul
The keys in the cooler it’s three a.m.
Have you seen Polythene Pam?
She’s so good looking but she looks like a man
Have you seen her in drag
Dressed in her polythene bag?
Yes, have you seen Polythene Pam?
I don’t care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my Plastic Jesus
Fame (fame) Bully for you
Chilly for me.
Get rain on that pain(pain)
Fame fame fame
Your fame and your fortune
Look what it brought you
All your fame and your fortune
You better take a look around
With your fame and your fortune
Careful who you talk to
Or the fame and your fortune
Watch it all tumble down
Saw my picture in the paper
Read the news around my face
And now some people
Don’t want to treat me the same
When the walls come tumblin’ down
When the walls come crumblin’ crumblin’
When the walls come tumblin’ tumblin’ down
Fame and fortune is a magnet
It can pull you far away from home
With a dream in your heart you’re never alone
Dreams turn into dust and blow away
And there you are without a friend
You park your car and ride away
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Gotcha with the cocaine, they found with your gun
No smooth-face lawyer to getcha undone
Say love ain’t the same on the south side of town
You could look but you ain’t gonna find it around
It’s the same old story
Same old song and dance, my friend