Hey Nineteen
No, we can’t dance together
No, we can’t talk at all
Please take me along when you slide on down
Well she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked
Was way beyond compare
So how could I dance with another,
Oh, when I saw her standing there
I was born one morning when the sun didn’t shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number-nine coal
And the straw boss said, “Well bless my soul!”
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lives
Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we’d travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols,
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Guns and Ships,
So the balance shifts…
There is no pain, you are receding
The distant ships smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move, but I can’t hear what you’re saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I’ve got that feeling once again
I can’t explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn’t have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
It’s a mighty long way down the rock n roll,
From the Bradford cities to the oreoles,
N you look like a star,
But you’re still on the dole,
All the way to Memphis…
I hitchhiked up to Memphis, a young boy in my prime
I thought that big old city would ease my Georgia mind
After just one hour, I met this Southern girl
She said, “They call me the Queen of Memphis”
And then she took me around the world
Oh, Atlanta, I hear you callin’
I’m comin’ back to you one fine day
No need to worry, there ain’t no hurry
'Cause I’m on my way back to Georgia
On my way back to Georgia
And I’ll be with him (I know you will)
On that midnight train to Georgia
(Leavin’ on the midnight train to Georgia)
I’d rather live in his world (live in his world)
Than live without him in mine
(Her world is his, his and hers alone)
I said Georgia
Georgia
A song of you
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines
Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you
The Devil went down to Georgia
He was lookin’ for a soul to steal
I live my life like there’s no tomorrow
And all I’ve got I had to steal
Least I don’t need to beg or borrow
Yes, I’m living at a pace that kills
Runnin’ with the devil
Wearin’ her perfume, Chanel No. 5
Got to be the finest girl alive
She walks real cool, catches everybody’s eye
They got to be nervous, they can’t say hi
Not too skinny, she’s not too fat
She’s a real humdinger and I like 'em like that
Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress
Devil with the blue dress on
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
Evil woman how you done me wrong
But now you’re tryin’ to wail a different song
Ha Ha funny how you broke me up
You made the wine now you drink the cup
I came runnin’ every time you cried
Thought I saw love smilin’ in your eyes
Ha Ha very nice to know, that you ain’t got no place left to go
Just lay your head in daddy’s lap,
You’re a bad girl,
Bad girl…1-2-3-4…
And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn, next stop is Vietnam.
And it’s five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates.
Well there ain’t no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we’re all gonna die.
A B C
It’s easy as, 1 2 3
As simple as, do re mi
A B C, 1 2 3
Baby, you and me girl