The Drifter
Jesse and the padre try to keep things cool Knowing exactly how to make stone into jewels The judge was the kind of man who always talked fast And the way things were going His world wouldn’t last The desperado’s make a plan To set the town on fire And when they try to make a stand They were ambushed at the wire The drifter never stays to fight He keeps running till he’s way out of sight But it gets him nowhere And the driftеr never pays the pricе He’s running through the day and the night But he’s running to nowhere The judge said boys don’t you know this town is mine Don’t going try to change it everything will be just fine Those desperadoes don’t pay them no mind Everybody knows that they can’t read or write The judge put Jesse in the jail Although there is no crime The padre tried to get him out With a stick of dynamite The drifter never stays to fight He keeps running till he’s way out of sight But it gets him nowhere And the drifter never pays a price He’s running through the day and the night But he’s running to nowhere Oh no The drifter knows he can’t always go with the tide The time will come when he’ll have to choose up sides Which way will he go will it be left or right The judge says things are either black or white The desperado’s make a plan To set the town on fire And when they try to make a stand They were ambushed at the wire The drifter never stays to fight He keeps running till he’s way out of sight But it gets him nowhere And the drifter never pays the price He’s running through the day and the night But he’s running to nowhere
Gypsy Rider
Crank her over once again Put your face into the wind Find another road where you’re never been Sing that two-wheeled melody The highway symphony You know she’ll never understand Gypsy Rider sing Your who-wheeled symphony You know there’s nothing to explain She should have known by now You’re just a vagabond You may never pass this way again All the writings on the wall The paper all must fall You’re only as good as your word remains You can take it out if you Decide to follow through Just take what you earn and leave what remains Gypsy Rider sing Your two-wheeled symphony You know there’s nothing to explain She should have known by now You’re just a vagabond You may never pass this way again
Every Angel In Heaven
Garrett Waller pulled out of Memphis Can’t go back to Tennessee Worked the day and I knew I was through On a farm in the Shenandoah Valley And Atlanta got too crowded So I crept out without a sound I was drunk and I can’t remember Even the Wallens ran me out of town So I tried to settle down one summer But from love I fell from grace How the bridge in that cold November I thought I’d disappear without a trace And then I saw every Angel in Heaven I saw them drеssed as white as light And then all of my dеspair I could see them standing there To help me through that lonely night Help me through that lonely night Spent some time in a Texas prison The man said he wanted my life He thought I’d cheated him so he came at me With a gun but I had a knife When I got out I kept on wonderin’ Texas was no place to be The man had killed and lots of family there And all of them were trying to find me And then I saw every Angel in Heaven I saw them dressed as white as light And then all of my despair I could see them standing there To help me through that lonely night Help me through that lonely night Every time I find myself at the end of my rope There’s a noose waiting for me to be hung And when I get the mind I put it over my head The Angels always seem to come The Angels always seem to come I was standing on the platform Found a ticket on the ground Don’t matter where it takes me Anywhere is somewhere bound I was crushing out my last smoke As the train pulled in on time The conductor waved his lantern As a bell began to chime And then I saw every Angel in Heaven I saw them dressed as white as light And then all of my despair I could see them standing there To help me through this lonely night Help me through this lonely night Help me through this lonely night Help me through this lonely night
Del Gato
My name is Del Gato born close to the border Of white blood and red blood I came I travel the saddle I follow the cattle Down on the range where they graze And I just ride in from a hard south western drive My lips parched and bloodied My face torn by sand storms and pride Loyalty riches and inner bred ditches ? Was the brew that I drank as a child So rebellious a lover Don Juan as a my cover They die cast my type called me wild ? And I just ride in from a hard southwestern drive The hanging tree is waiting for me to arrive Structured political our children they ridiculed They teach them of sins and to lie Their schools build’t by fools but by breaking the rules Like A fox I am forced now to hide And I just ride in from a hard south western drive My lips parched and bloodied My face torn by sand storms and pride Pepper tree spreads taking many mans heads ? But the one they would want most is mine To the mission I go I In San Juan and I kneel And I pray for the love of my life And I just ride in from a hard south western drive My lips parched and bloodied My face torn by sand storms and pride ## Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) The crops are all in and the peaches are rott’ning, The oranges piled in their creosote dumps, They’re flying 'em back to the Mexican border To pay all their money to wade back again Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria, You won’t have your names when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be "deportees" My father’s own father, he waded that river, They took all the money he made in his life, My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees, And they rode the truck till they took down and died. Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted, Our work contract’s out and we have to move on, Six hundred miles to that Mexican border, They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves. We died in your hills, we died in your deserts, We died in your valleys and died on your plains. We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes, Both sides of the river, we died just the same. The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills, Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves? The radio says, "They are just deportees" Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit? To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil And be called by no name except "deportees"?
Fair And Tender Ladies
My daddy was a handsome gambler He had a chain five miles long On every link a heart gets dangled Of another maid he loved and wronged He told to you some loving story He’d make you think he’d leave them true But love grows cold as love grows older And fades away like morning dew I’d rather be in some dark hollow Where the sun refused to shine Than to live here in Missouri With your memory always on my mind Come all ye fair and tender ladies Take warning how your court your man They’re like a star on a summer’s morning First they appear then they’re gone again Your man They’re like a star on a summer morning First they appear then they’re gone again
Almost Saturday Night
Outside my window, I can hear the radio And you know that motor wagon is getting ready to fly Cause it’s almost Saturday night Bye bye, tomorrow, Jody’s gone to the rodeo And you know some good old boys are getting ready to ride Cause it’s almost Saturday night Gonna push the clouds away, let the music have it’s way Let it steal my heart away, and you know I’m-a-goin' Outside the ringing, the night train is bringin' me home When you hear that locomotion get ready to fly Cause it’s almost Saturday night Gonna push the clouds away, let the music have it’s way Let it steal my heart away, and you know I’m-a-goin' Outside the ringing, the night train is bringin' me home When you hear that locomotion get ready to fly Cause it’s almost Saturday night Outside the windows cause it;s almost Saturday night
I’m Your Toy (Hot Burrito #1)
You may be, sweet and nice, but that won’t keep you warm at night Cuz I’m the one, who showed you how, to do the things you’re doing now He may feel, all your charms, he may hold you in his arms But I’m the one, who let you in, I was right beside you then Once upon a time, you let me feel you deep inside And nobody knew, nobody saw, do you remember the way you cried? I’m your toy, I’m your ol' boy But I don’t want no one but you to love me I’m your toy, I’m your ol' boy But I don’t want no one but you to love me No, I wouldn’t lie, you know I’m not that kind of guy
Are We Still Making Love
Are we still making love Or is it just part of the game? Have we both had enough Of life being the same? Are we still making love? It’s so hard to say no And though things might be rough Maybe it’s time to let go Our life’s come full circle now again We lived life so fast we thought it couldn’t end And though we hurt each other so All we had to know Was how our heartaches began Are we still making love Or is it just part of the game? Have we both had enough Of life being the same? Are we still making love? It’s so hard to say no And though things might be rough Maybe it’s time to let go I’ve had some good love now and then I know I’ve stumbled, but I’ve gotten up again And somehow the good times that we had They don’t outweigh the bad Oh how can we bring it to an end? Are we still making love Or is it just part of the game? Have we both had enough Of life being the same? Are we still making love? It’s so hard to say no And though things might be rough Maybe it’s time to let go
Why Did You Leave Me Today
For so long worked so hard We didn’t have a dime But we had one anothers love That was all the time Then one day our ship came in The answer to our dreams A mansion filled with social life And golden leopardskins Why did you leave me today I was going to give you the world I watched my dream fly away All I can say why did you leave today As I walked thru these grand old halls I feel so cold inside Stare upon these grand old walls And all their costly prizes I realize I’d gladly trade them Thеse worldly things To lie besidе you one more time And share only our dreams Why did you leave me today I was going to give you the world I watched my dream slip away All I can say why did you leave today Why did you leave me today
Don’t It Make You Want To Go Home
Oh the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole And the Georgia sun goes down Well it’s been a long time but I’m glad to say I’m Goin' back down to my home town Goin' down to the Greyhound station Gonna buy me a one way fare Good lord willin' and the creek don’t rise By tomorrow I’ll be right there Don’t it make you want to go home now Don’t it make you want to go home All God’s children get weary when they roam Don’t it make you want to go home But there’s a six-lane highway down by the creek Where I went skinny dippin' as a child And a drive-in show wherе the meadow used to grow And strawbеrries used to grow wild There’s a drag strip down by the riverside Where my grandma’s cow used to graze Now the grass don’t grow and the river don’t flow Like it did in my childhood days Don’t it make you want to go home now Don’t it make you want to go home All God’s children get weary when they roam Don’t it make you want to go home Don’t it make you want to go home Don’t it make you want to go home now Don’t it make you want to go home All God’s children get weary when they roam Don’t it make you want to go home Don’t it make you want to go home
Number One Is To Survive
Things had gotten out of hand We had ceased to understand What had started out as fun Has now become a loaded gun Wish we could start again this time But things would be the same old mess We’ll have to leave it now behind Hoping you’d find your own address You know I’m headed for the sun And you are reaching for the blind I can hardly find the words And you can hardly find your mind Wish there was something I could say To make things better or OK You think you’re right all of the time So what’s the use to speak my mind And I know you well And I know it’s hell You’ve got to kick this thing alive And if you look upon my list Number one is to survive And I know you well And I know it’s hell You’ve got to kick this thing alive And if you look upon my list Number one is to survive And if you look upon my list Number one is to survive
Mary Sue
Used to take a run out of Bonner Springs Go and take look at the girls up in Tonganoxie Me and JD `58 Pontiac, baby moons All waxed up, sittin` in the light of the moon She was somethin` to see Oo-oo Mary Sue I wonder by now who you are married to Oo-oo Mary Sue I wonder if your memory remembers me like I remember you. Going out cruisin` on a Saturday night Always had Susan my Mary Sue holdin` me tight Always by my side Meetin` on the top of the hill west of town Quarter mile run meanest machine shuts `em down I love that sound Oo-oo Mary Sue I wonder by now who you are married to Oo-oo Mary Sue I wonder if your memory remembers me like I remember you. The years rolled by and I went far away Anyway the wind would blow But in my mind I see her everyday Why did I ever let her go? Used to take a run out of Bonner Springs Go and take look at the girls up in Tonganoxie Me and JD `58 Pontiac, baby moons All waxed up, sittin` in the light of the moon She was somethin` to see Oo-oo Mary Sue I wonder by now who you are married to Oo-oo Mary Sue I wonder if your memory remembers me like I remember you. Oo-oo Mary Sue I wonder by now who you are married to Oo-oo Mary Sue I wonder if your memory remembers me like I remember you.