If engines ran on desire alone
My old yellow car would be driving me home…
We are
Counting the stars
Out in the night
Round an old yellow moon
With you
Right by my side
I got nothing to hide
From an old yellow moon
“Is this the train to Desert Moon?” was all she said,
But I knew I’d heard that stranger’s voice before.
I turned to look into her eyes, but she moved away,
She was standing in the rain,
Trying hard to speak my name,
They say first love never runs dry.
I look at you and suddenly
Something in your eyes I see
Soon begins bewitching me
It’s that old devil moon
That you stole from the skies
It’s that old devil moon in your eyes
Pennies in a stream,
Falling leaves, a sycamore,
Moonlight in Vermont.
Icy finger waves,
Ski trails down a mountainside,
Snow light in Vermont.
First you get the buckets ready, clean the pans and gather firewood,
Late in the winter, it’s maple syrup time.
You need warm and sunny days but still a cold and freezing nighttime
For just a few weeks, maple syrup time.
We boil and boil and boil and boil it all day long,
Till ninety seven percent of water evaporates just like this song
And when what is left is syrupy don’t leave it too long
Watch out for burning! Maple syrup time.
Roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar is sweet and so is maple syruple
Well I’m the seventh out of seven sons
My pappy’s a pistol, I’m a son-of-a-gun
Well, dang me, dang me
They oughta take a rope and hang me
High from the highest tree
Woman, would you weep for me?
Are you, are you,
Coming to the tree?
They strung up a man,
They say who murdered three.
Strange things did happen here,
No stranger would it be,
If we met at midnight,
In the hanging tree.
You are not alone dear loneliness
You forgot but I remember this
So stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened I know
I’m not alone dear loneliness
I forgot that I remember this
So stranger, stranger, stranger things have happened I know, oh oh, oh oh
Hello walls, hello hello
How’d things go for you today
Don’t you miss her
Since she up and walked away
And, I’ll bet you dread to spend another lonely night with me,
But lonely walls,
I’ll keep you company…
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
Arm in arm, we’ll walk at daybreak
Again I’ll touch the green, green grass of home
I hear the train a comin’, it’s rollin’ round the bend
And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when
I’m stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps dragging on
But that train keeps a rollin’ on down to San Antone.
Take the last train to Clarksville,
And I’ll meet you at the station,
You can be there by four-thirty,
'Cause I’ve made your reservation, don’t be slow,
Oh, no, no, no,
Oh, no, no, no.
Well, she said she’s trav’ling on
the one after 909
I said move over honey
I’m trav’ling on that line
Move over once
Move over twice
Come on, honey…
Don’t be cold as ice
You’re as cold as ice
You’re willing to sacrifice our love
You never take advice
Someday you’ll pay the price, I know
I’ve seen it before
It happens all the time
Closing the door
You leave the world behind
You’re digging for gold
Yet throwing away
A fortune in feelings
But someday you’ll pay
Silver and gold
How they shimmer
On ev’ry Christmas night
All the gold and the guns in the world (couldn’t get you off)
All the gold and the guns and the girls (couldn’t get you off)
I says, “hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Don’t hang around 'cause two’s a crowd
On my cloud, baby”
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down and still somehow,
It’s cloud’s illusions I recall,
I really don’t know clouds at all.
It said, You don’t even know who I am
You left me a long time ago
You don’t even know who I am
So what’ll you care if I go…