Play It All Night Long

Posted on June 18, 2022

Album: They Lie In Wait
(Zevon)

Grandpa pissed his pants again
He don’t give a damn
Brother Billy has both guns drawn
He ain’t been right since Vietnam

“Sweet home Alabama” 
Play that dead band’s song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

Daddy’s doing Sister Sally
Grandma’s dying of cancer now
The cattle all have brucellosis 
We’ll get through somehow

“Sweet home Alabama”
Play that dead band’s song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

I’m going down to the Dew Drop Inn
See if I can drink enough
There ain’t much to country living
Sweat, piss, jizz, and blood

“Sweet home Alabama” 
Play that dead band’s song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

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Song For Woody

Posted on June 18, 2022

Album: They Lie In Wait
(Dylan)

I’m out here a thousand miles from my home
Walkin’ a road many men have gone down
I’m seein’ your world of people and things
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings

Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I’ll sing you this song
About a funny old world that’s a-comin’ along
Seems sick an’ it’s hungry, it’s tired an’ it’s torn
It looks like it’s a-dyin’ an’ it’s hardly been born

Hey, Woody Guthrie but I know that you know  
All the things that I’m a-sayin’ an’ a-many times more
I’m a-singin’ you this song, but I can’t sing enough
‘Cause there’s not many men who done the things that you’ve done

Here’s to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly too
And to all the great people that traveled with you
Here’s to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind

I’m a-leavin’ tomorrow, but I could leave today
Somewhere down the road someday
The very last thing that I’d want to do
Is to say I’ve been hittin’ some hard travelin’ too

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Lost Highway

Posted on June 18, 2022

Album: They Lie In Wait
(Payne)

I’m a rollin’ stone, all alone and lost
For a life of sin I have paid the cost
When I pass by, all the people say
Just another guy on the lost highway

Just a deck of cards and jug of wine
And a woman’s lies make a life like mine
Oh, the day we met, I went astray
I started rollin’ down that lost highway

I was just a lad, nearly 22
Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you
And now I’m lost, too late to pray
Lord, I’ll take a cost on the lost highway

Now boys don’t start to ramblin’ round
On this road of sin, are you sorrow-bound?
Take my advice or you’ll curse the day
You started down that lost highway

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I Won’t Call Your Name

Posted on June 18, 2022

Album: They Lie In Wait
(Johnson)

Would you hang your head and cry?
Would you hang your head in shame?
Well, I won’t say goodbye
I won’t call your name

Could you show all your remorse
So I can see it on your face?
No, I won’t ask for more
I won’t call your name

I will tell you all my secrets
I will tell you all my lies
Nothin’ is imperfect
Nothin’ that ain’t mine

If there’s a place where we could go
Where everything was sane
Would you wait until tomorrow?
Would you call my name?

I don’t think that you would wait
At least that’s what you’d say
And I won’t say goodbye
I won’t call your name

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Hard Times Killing Floor Blues

Posted on June 18, 2022

Album: They Lie In Wait
(James)

Hard times is here and everywhere you go
Times is harder than ever been before
Now people are driftin’ from door to door
Can’t find no heaven, I don’t care where they go

Let me tell you people just before I go
These hard times will kill you, just dry long so
Well, you can hear me sing my lonesome song
These hard times can last us so very long

If I ever get off of this killing floor
I swear I’ll never get down this low no more
No, no, no, no
I’ll never get down this low no more

And you say you had money, you better be sure
‘Cause these hard times will drive you from door to door
Sing this song and I ain’t gonna sing no more
Hard times will drive you from door to door

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Old Betsy’s Got A Tail

Posted on June 18, 2022

Album: They Lie In Wait 
(Johnson)

Old Betsy’s bought another yacht
The poor kid got close to naught
She’d make anything for profit
If the good guys can’t stop it

The poor kids will all fail
When everything’s up for sale
Let’s join the kids, let’s all wail
Old Betsy has got a tail!

They said them black boys was actin’ bad
Made ‘em all breakfast instead
Must be Old Betsy refused to eat
For who’d want to kick a hungry kid to the street

Her actions will reveal
She’s stolen another meal
Let’s join the kids, let’s all rail
Old Betsy has got a tail!

They’re going so far now as to steal your kid
So Bethany Christian Services can then make a bid
Give ‘em up or they just take ‘em away
There’s a well-to-do family perhaps willing to pay

For a migrant kid who’s got no say
Mom and Dad lost in the fray
Let’s join the kids, let’s unveil
Old Betsy has got a tail!

Old Betsy’s bought and paid for
By those who’ve sought endless war
By those who’ve brought guns into schools
Are they really gonna play us for such complete fools?

The time has come to end this greed
Let’s build a system based on need
Let’s join the kids, let’s all hail
Old Betsy has got a tail!

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Poor Black Mattie

Posted on June 18, 2022

Album: They Lie In Wait
(Burnside)

Poor Black Mattie ain’t got changin’ clothes
Fool got drunk, close that door
Poor Black Mattie, ain’t got changin’ clothes, I know
Fool got drunk, threw her clothes outdoors

I’m goin’ to Memphis, see that world’s fair
Reason I’m goin’, baby there
Yeah, I’m goin’ to Memphis, I got to see that world’s fair
Reason I’m goin’, you know my baby’s there

Need no heater, fireplace by my bed
Woman I got, cherry red
I need no heat, got a fireplace by my bed
What I got, keep me cherry red

See that moonlight shinin’ through them trees
Look at that woman above her knee
See that moonlight shinin’ through them trees
Look at that woman, just above her knee

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Cluck Old Hen

Posted on June 18, 2022

Album: They Lie In Wait
(Traditional)

My old hen’s a good old hen
She lays eggs for the railroad men
Sometimes one, sometimes two
Sometimes enough for the whole damn crew

Cluck old hen, cluck and sing
Ain’t laid an egg since way last spring
Cluck old hen, cluck and squall
Ain’t laid an egg since way last fall

My old hen got a wooden leg
The best old hen that never laid an egg
Laid more eggs than any hen around the barn
Another drink of whiskey won’t do me no harm

Cluck old hen, cluck and sing
Ain’t laid an egg since way last spring
Cluck old hen, cluck and squall
Ain’t laid an egg since way last fall

Cluck old hen when I tell you
Cluck old hen or I’m gonna sell you
Last time she cackled, she cackled in the lot
The next time she cackled, she cackled in the pot

Cluck old hen, cluck and sing
Ain’t laid an egg since way last spring
Cluck old hen, cluck and squall
Ain’t laid an egg since way last fall

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Little Girl

Posted on June 18, 2022

Album: They Lie In Wait
(Budde)

Take my hand, little girl
And I’ll lead where you are goin’
Take my hand, little girl
And I’ll lead the way

Take my hand, little girl
And I’ll lead where you are goin’
I’ll have to leave you, little girl
Where you’re goin’, I can’t stay

Keep the straight and narrow path, little girl,
For there are monsters
In the darkness of the wood
They lie in wait, little girl

Take my watch, little girl
On your way where you are goin’
Take my watch, little girl
May it keep you on time

Take my watch, little girl
May it show you your future
Take my watch, little girl
Already seen mine

Keep the straight and narrow path, little girl,
For there are monsters
In the darkness of the wood
They lie in wait, little girlL

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Nasty Woman

Posted on May 2, 2022

Album: Burden
(Johnson)

I got a nasty woman, she treat me well
Now don’t you hear me? Tell me what you say!
I got a nasty woman, and she treat me very well
‘N if that fool don’t quit it, tomorrow she’ll be nasty still

Now tell me how come you do like you do, do, do 
Don’t you hear me? You fascist pig-dog!
How come you wanna do like you do, do, do?
How come you wanna treat us like you do, do, do?

Ah, you said that you win bigly, that’s a lot to chew
Well, now what you doin’? Power to truth? Nah!
You in the big leagues now, that’s a whole lot to chew
Well, don’t that big road look lonesome when all you care about is you?

Well, you said that you won bigly, but that ain’t the truth, no!
Now what you doin’? You might as well burn the Constitution
And you in that big house now, and that’s a whole lot to chew, man!
Why don’t that big road look lonesome when all you care about is you?

Now tell us how come you do like you do, do, do 
Why don’t you hear us? You fascist man-child!
How come you wanna do like you do, do, do?
How come you wanna treat us like you do, do, do?

I got that nasty woman, she’s hear to stay, I say
Now don’t you hear me? Tell me what you say!
I got that nasty woman, and she’ll take it all the way to the hill (if she has to)
‘Cause if that fool don’t quit it, tomorrow she’ll be nasty still

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