Well I was born in a small town,
And I live in a small town,
Probably die in a small town,
Oh, those small communities.
Just a small-town girl, livin’ in a lonely world;
She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere.
Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit;
He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere.
A singer in a smoky room; the smell of wine and cheap perfume.
For a smile, they can share the night — It goes on and on and on and on
Strangers waitin’,
Up and down the boulevard,
Their shadows searchin’ in the night.
Streetlight people,
Livin’ just to find emotion,
Hidin’ somewhere in the night.
-“BB”-
Strangers in the night
Exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances
We’d be sharing love
Before the night was through?
Something in your eyes
Was so inviting
Something in your smile
Was so exciting
Something in my heart told me I must have you
What she sees is only what she wants to,
What she has is never enough,
What she does is only look at the good things,
What she is, is a woman in love.
And what he is, is just a ordinary guy
Like you and I,
And, what she is, is a woman in love.
She’s a good-hearted woman in love with a good-timin’ man
She loves him in spite of his ways that she don’t understand
Through teardrops and laughter, they’ll pass through this world hand-in-hand,
A good-hearted woman loving her good timing man
Oh please, say to me
You’ll let me be your man
And please, say to me
You’ll let me hold your hand
Now let me hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
It’s lonely just to sit here by myself each night
Not knowing when I’ll ever get to hold you tight
Oh yes I have temptations and sometimes it’s pretty rough
But temptation’s never strong as our sweet love
Cause our hearts are holding hands across the miles
Even though we’re lonely we can smile
Cause I know you’re my woman
And I know you’re my man
We’re far apart but our hearts are holding hands
I thought about a summer day
And how the time just floats away
Pretty things like incense and flowers
I wanna make them part of
Our sweet love
Could last forever
(Our sweet love)
Our sweet love
Could last forever
I thought about a winter night
And how I’d like to hold you tight
Candlelight the warmth of a fire
We could make them part of
Our sweet love
Honey it’s heaven
(Our sweet love)
Our sweet love
Could last forever
My Sweet Lord
Hallelujah
M M M my Lord
Hallelujah
My my my Lord
Hare Krishna
My My Sweet Lord
Hare Krishna
We’re heading 'cross the river
Wash our sins away in the tide
It’s all so peaceful
On the other side
Forget your troubles and just get happy
Ya better chase your cares away!!
Sing Hallelujah, come on get happy
Get ready for the judgment day
The water is wide, I cannot cross over
And neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I
A ship there was, and she sails the sea
She’s loaded deep as deep can be
But not so deep as the love I’m in
And I know not how, I sink or swim
She went down last October in a pouring, driving rain,
The Skipper, he’d been drinking, and the Mate, he felt no pain,
Too close to Three Mile Rock and she was dealt her mortal blow,
And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low.
There were just us five aboard her when she finally was awash,
We’d worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the cost,
And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim,
That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise again.
There’s a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
I wish I was in carrickfergus
Only for nights in ballygrand
I would swim over the deepest ocean
Just to see my love before I die
But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
Nor have I wings so I could fly
I wish I could meet a handsome boatman
To carry me over my love and I
Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship
Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip
Ride captain ride upon your mystery ship
On your way to a world that others might have missed
Now in the fall of forty-nine
He skipped across the seven brine this time
Looking for a berth in naval history
T’was never heard nor seen again.
Officially presumed as dead,
But the words he left behind
Still echoed through my mind,
“I’m the only man who’ll ever get to
Hell and come back alive!”
He’s the only man who’d ever get to
Hell and come back alive.
In ‘43 they put to sea, thirteen men and Kennedy
Aboard the P.T. 109, to fight the brazen enemy
And off the isle of ole’ Lusana, in the strait beyond Naru
A Jap destroyer in the night cut the 109 in two
Smoke and fire upon the sea
Everywhere they looked was the enemy
The heathen gods of old Japan
Yeah, the thought they had the best of a mighty good man
I’ve got your picture, I’ve got your picture,
I’d like a million of you all 'round my cell,
I want the doctor to take your picture,
So I can look at you from inside as well,
You’ve got me turning up and turning down, I’m turning in, I’m turning 'round,
I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so…
All I know is that to me
You look like you’re having fun
Open up your lovin’ arms
Watch out here I come
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round
Find a wheel and it goes round, round, round.
As it skims along with a happy sound.
As it goes along the ground, ground, ground.
Till it leads you to the one you love.