tim hardin 1: mil razones para creer

Tim Hardin 1 (1966)

Don’t Make Promises

It seems the songs we're singing
Are all about tomorrow
Tunes of promises you can't keep
Every moment bringing a love I can only borrow
You're telling me lies in your sleep
Do you think I'm not aware of what you're saying
Or why you're saying it
Is it hard to keep me where you want me staying
Don't go on betraying it
Don't make promises you can't keep

We had a chance to find it
Our time was now or never
You promised me things that I need
But then the things behind it took away the chance forever
You're telling me lies in your sleep
Do you think I'm not aware...

Green Rocky Road

It’s a green, green and rocky road, promenade in green
Tell me who y’all love, tell me who y’all love
If your mamma chew tobacco, hooka, tooka soda cracker
It’s a green rocky road, promenade in green

Tell me who y’all love, who y’all love
If you got a carpet on your floor, you’ll never get to Baltimore
It’s a green rocky road, promenade in green

Who y’all love, tell me who y’all love
See the bird up in the sky, he don’t run he just fly
It’s a green rocky road, promenade in green

Tell me who y’all love, tell me who y’all love
 

Smugglin’ Man

I'm an old time smugglin' man and I know just what to do
I'm an old time smugglin' man and I know just what to do
I sell guns to the Arabs, I sell dynamite to the Jews

I'm a rum runner, and I built myself a ship
I'm a rum runner, and I built myself a ship
No matter how many slaves I sell
I have just enough money for one more trip

I sell whiskey to the Indians and I smuggle in the gin
I sell whiskey to the Indians and I smuggle in the gin
If you want anything illegal
ask old Timmie to bring it in

I'm an old time smugglin' man and I know just what to do
I'm an old time smugglin' man and I know just what to do
I sell guns to the Arabs, I sell dynamite to the Jews

How Long

How long, how long has the evening train been gone?
Baby won't you tell me, how long?
I'm riding a railroad,
I've headed out of town
The way things is it don't look like I
I oughta hang around

How long...

I'm riding a railroad,
I got the blues all around my head
The way I wake up this morning
I shouldn't get out of bed

How long ...

While You’re On Your Way

Making love has been as much as I could hope it would be
Every night has been like one night to me
You've got me feeling again
The feeling you gave me before
But to you those nights like any other night
Is just one more
Don't try to tell me that you care enough to love me
When you can't even do the things I need you to do
Don't make me listen to words you think will please me
When pleasing me don't mean anything to you

Just one more night makes no difference
As long as there's another night
To make right what you did wrong

The last days we had of one another will have to do
While you're on your way, while you're on your way
How did the feeling feel for you?

It’ll Never Happen Again

I remember our first affair
All the pain, always rain around my eyes
It'll never happen again
It'll never happen again

Every time I leave you alone
I remember times I couldn't come home
It'll never happen again
It'll never happen again

Why can't you be the way I want you to be
Why can't you see you got to change to love me

Reason to Believe

If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straightfaced while I cried
Still I'd look to find a reason to believe
Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else
Someone like you makes it easy to give
and never think of myself

If I gave you time to change my mind
I'd find a way to leave the past behind
Knowing that you lied straightfaced while I cried
Still I'd look to find a reason to believe

Never Too Far

Things you say will change your way
Like dark today, the way you are
From day to day your lies will play
Till you're away but never too far

Do you feel more like going on
When I say I wasn't wrong to chose you
Does it ease your heart to say
That tomorrow brings another way to lose you

In my wandering sense of time
I'll try to see enough to rhyme your changing line
In my slipping sort of step
I'll try to do much better yet
With what I get

Do you feel more...

Part of the Wind

Falling through my heart into loving you
Flying on wingless, wondering what to do
Asking a future for you
Fortune falling with my heart
Lock be trusted in time
Trusting the breeze to be mine
Hoping you'll be part of the wind

Running back to you I'm waiting for the sun
Waiting hoping you're the one
I won't chase you if you run
Hoping you'll be part of the wind

Ain’t Gonna Do Without

They call me Long Tall Timmie, cause I know what love’s about (x2)

If my baby leave me, (old Timmie / I) ain’t gonna do without
You got to have more than one woman If you wanna get along (x2)

If one don’t teach you, the other will do you wrong

Misty Roses

You look to me like Misty Roses
Too soft to touch but too lovely to leave alone
If I could be like Misty Roses
I'd love you much, you're too lovely to leave alone
Flowers often cry, but too late to find
That their beauty has been lost with their peace of mind
You look to me like love forever
Too good to last but too lovely not to try
If I believe in love forever
I'd forget the past, you're too lovely not to try

Hang On to a Dream

What can I say, she's walking away
From what we've seen
What can I do, still loving you
It's all a dream

How can we hang on to a dream
How can it ever be the way it seems

What can I do, she's saying we're through
With how it was
What will I try, I still don't see why
She says what she does

How can we hang on to a dream
How can it ever be the way it seems

What can I say, she's walking away
From what we've seen
What can I do, still loving you
It's all a dream

How can we hang on to a dream
How can it ever be the way it seems
How can we hang on to a dream

What can I say, she's walking away
From what we've seen
What can I do, still loving you
It's all a dream

How can we hang on to a dream
How can it will it be the way it seems
How can we hang on to a dream

fort recovery: rock y raíces

CENTRO-MATIC – FORT RECOVERY (2006)

covered up in mines

don't mind the new hilarity
just find the space in which you'll need
all your gases and your war paint
you always said the sanctity
of your transmissions to the sea
was destroyable & colorless
now i fall into the lines of some new detriment

the tradesmen covered up in mines,
they won't hesitate
you're crowning all the nominees
ignoring scrap technologies
from the roadway to the drunk tank
you found the plan
it was so wasteful
throughout your vast repellant feed
it was precarious & disgusting

calling thermatico

we're calling thermatico,
'cause he may have options within
the sequence to which we abide under the railway
he left colossal papers & medicines
to keep us alive
we were elated that thermatico
had never passed us by
unintimidated by the officers & prostitutes in line
early in the century he was the larcenist
the gasohol arsonist,
the consequent flier and later as a centerpiece,

he was discovered dealing with raven kissing the liars
so out in the courtyard we held a meeting
a summit of quality
but he told a lie and off went thermatico
into the sunset
he had lost options, he had lost ties

patience for the ride

so we're beginning at the end
with a message transmitted by the accident
send the damage was with us from the start
but you can't touch the forces
of our hurricane hearts
eleemosynary was your call
but you lied to the lonely hearts
on your desperate fall

and false was your figure from within
and gone are your golden ones
to their desolate pens
they stand battening the hatches, yeah

and we hope you brought your patience for the ride

you question our character and our kind
you say we're so unintelligent 'cause our pockets ain't lined
but we're collecting all your press of self-destruction
and your corporate mess

i see through you

sun's up, the stars are sleeping
and the morning's come
i'll see all that's creeping
til our work is done
and the more i learn about this world

ooh don't talk,
just listen to all the voices nature brung
pray the light will keep you til your final song
because the more i learn about this world
the less i find that i'm afraid to die

the day's gone
the nighttime's breathing
and our work is done
i'll note all that's golden
til our morning comes

the more i learn about this world
i learn through you

in such crooked time

when you move,
your eyes they twitch like mine
in such crooked time
so it goes, my friend and
when you call, your voice it shakes like mine
your hands they sweat like mine
it's all you could have done
and when the sun finally falls down
from your skies
don't you know that i will come find you just in time
on the shores of your decline
on the campsite of your fears
the four ends of this earth

you know i'll meet you there
and when the sweat & shakes depart,
ain't it justified through the course
of days and night
the error did us right

for new starts

you are correct, we are wrecked
and to give into effect,
this is the season for a response
see, it's your place and your part
slipping slowly off the mark
you are the reasons for the remarks

toes to the line,
now's your time for to publish & define
your new position, your new heart
we're carefully placed & disgraced
in this battle trash and waste
that's no condition for a new start

a connection i thought would not crack
now it's skin right off our back
that will surround us
when deputies arrive,
automatons, triple crowns,
and your gallery of sound

part-time attention ain't what
friendship's all about

the fugitives have won

you're running,
your mouth won't help
keep stride
cantankerous the missives that force recall
you'd hide & i could taste the salt
from your dishwasher eyes

imperial & weightless
much to all of our surprise
the fugitives have won
and i will occupy abandoned station tonight
i'll call upon some invitation of light
cause the fugitives have won

if i held you up to fire
i would see a reddish frame
of rust around your soul's transparency
and you, you with your beauty
and i with my spleen
i'll hitchhike to your bonfire
in my suit of gasoline

monument sails

it's a number four gain
on this viking terrain
surprise, a needed relief
for a thirty-year pain
came with all allegiance high
to the monument sails of the southern skies

never to deny the magnitude gained
on the final drive
and if there's time,
just rearrange everyone for a
change of scenery
add to that moment an electric victory
that you will surely see

this airborne attack on a suspect
DB was planned
a false sense of safety on enemy ground,
a band stand but they have been missing
the calls to the line,
their time has run to some point where
their motion is locked down
and the consequent range
of their crisis and change
at hand was the right combination
in wrecking it all for them

triggers and trash heaps

well the host number dropped,
and your vision's corrupt
and your thought for today
was vetoed by hedman
but your parameters and your reasons alike
had the strength of mache,
or some hollywood wedlock

and it's hard to believe
the mess you're creating
with your triggers & trash heaps
hidden and waiting for their prey
it's a much-needed start
for a parasite heart

but a quick isolation,
you know it tends to inspire
so we left with our wreck
in the hour of refresh
and identified blazes
on the blacktops of texas

nothin’ i ever seen

this is like nothin' i ever seen
'cause you been a friend to me
in love & war & in all the combinations of the two

time's got no sympathy for you and me
we lose to eternity,
that's when you said:
try to make the very best of what you got
'cause forever never brings us what we want

take the maps and run

you take the maps & run
i'll be the human stain
cause you didn't know
that i was under the august tides
i saw the light
and fell into the shack and dwelled
but you didn't know
that i was under the august tides

take a rake

take a rake to each of our minds
meet us north of hornersville side
bring your gloves, see us out
right by the vines, bring your match,
and bring your best lines

tell us tales through alcohol eyes
count the refills until the sun starts to rise
there's a point beyond the old trees where
the goatman terrified me
twenty years stuck in my dreams
undefined and the time
it cannot erase
all the crusted ruts of that face

get your maps and polish your knives
and we'll ride
into night we'll ride

Y: las voces de la rebelión

Curiosa elección, la de un grupo caracterizado por su ataque onomatopéyico más que por su poesía. No es muy lógico deleitarse con los salivazos de Mark Stewart. Lo suyo siempre ha sido subrayar la música con sus diatribas y sus recitados poseídos. Pues de todas formas, ahí va un poco de misterio desvelado desde el disco Y de The Pop Group. Esto habla de revuelta y de incomunicación, de hielo y heridas sangrantes demasiado grandes para obedecer a la lógica.

ENGLISH	CASTELLANO
She Is Beyond Good And Evil My little girl was born on a ray of sound My little girl was born on a ray of sound Sleeps on water walks on ice Sleeps on water walks on ice got no father, immortal wife I'd exchange my soul for her there's no antidote for her I'd exchange my soul for her there's no antidote for her my little girl was born on a ray of sound my little girl was born on a ray of sound Like a dancing flame on a bed of nails She is one thing that you cannot buy with zero reasons for living with zero reasons for living my little girl was born on a ray of sound Our only defence is together as an army I'll hold you like a gun Western values mean nothing to her Western values mean nothing to her She is beyond good and evil	Ella está más allá del bien y del mal Mi pequeña nació sobre un rayo sónico Mi pequeña nació sobre un rayo sónico Duerme sobre el agua, camina sobre el hielo Duerme sobre el agua, camina sobre el hielo No tiene padre, esposa inmortal Entregaría mi alma por ella No hay antídoto para ella Entregaría mi alma por ella No hay antídoto para ella Mi pequeña nació sobre un rayo sónico Mi pequeña nació sobre un rayo sónico Como una llama danzante sobre una cama de clavos A ellan no la puedes comprar Con cero razones para vivir Con cero razones para vivir Mi pequeña nació sobre un rayo sónico Nuestra única defensa es unirnos como un ejército Te sostendré como a una pistola Los valores occidentales no significan nada para ella Los valores occidentales no significan nada para ella Está por encima del bien y del mal
Thief of Fire I admit my crime I'm a thief of fire I admit my crime crime crime I'm a thief of fire We do not have anything We have not learned anything We do not know anything Do not understand We do not sell anything We do not help But we will betray And we will not forget And we will not forget I admit my crime I'm a thief of fire But who to trust When you're stealing from a nation of killers Do I trust myself? I'm like a tramp in its cage Flower in Moscow Losers take all We are here to go All lovers betray All lovers betray	Ladrón del fuego Admito mi crimen Soy un ladrón del fuego Admito mi crimen, crimen, crimen Soy un ladrón del fuego No tenemos nada No hemos aprendido nada No sabemos nada No entendemos No vendemos nada No ayudamos Pero traicionaremos Y no olvidaremos Y no olvidaremos Admito mi crimen Soy un ladrón del fuego Y es que, ¿en quién puedes confiar Cuando robas a una nación de asesinos? ¿Confío en mí mismo? Soy como un vagabundo en su jaula Flor en Moscú Los perdedores se lo llevan todo Estamos aquí para irnos Todos los amantes traicionan Todos los amantes traicionan
Snow Girl Set fire to yourself on a train Don't approach your life with a sword Burning breast your heart's in flame But your eyelids shield you from the law I won't stamp on your coal eyes That poison tongue tasted stone Built out of tears so you cannot lie The voice of the wind tells you you are not alone Snow girl I burn you Snow girl I melt you Your hair is on fire When I touch you you melt Strong in the shadows But you cannot leave your room Knife inside you sharpens its blade Tick tick hammer and nail Tick tick hammer and nail Snow girl I burn you Snow girl I melt you Your hair is on fire When I touch you you melt Snow girl snow girl I burn you I melt you	Chica de nieve Pégate fuego en un tren No acerques un espada a tu vida Pecho ardiente, tu corazón está en llamas Pero tus párpados te protegen de la ley No dejaré mi sello en tus ojos de carbón Esa lengua venenosa sabía a piedra Construída a partir de lágrimas para que no puedas mentir La voz del viento te dice que no estás sola Chica de nieve, te quemo Chica de nieve, te derrito Tu pelo está ardiendo Cuando te toco te derrites Fuerte en las sombras Pero no puedes salir de tu habitación El cuchillo en tu interior afila su hoja Marca marca, martillea y clava Marca marca, martillea y clava Chica de nieve, te quemo Chica de nieve, te derrito Tu pelo está ardiendo Cuando te toco te derrites Chica de nieve, chica de nieve Te quemo, te derrito
Blood Money Teeth beckon you Who says guns speak louder Who says guns speak louder Money's a weapon of terror Money's a weapon of terror Spiders I can trust open my chest An order is an order Even when it makes no sense An order is an order Even when An order is an order An order is an order Spiders I can trust open my Teeth beckon you Man trap Thumb screw Skulls teeth shine Skulls teeth shine Iron maiden We are hungry and cold Spiders I can trust open my chest Boil my heart alive Money's a weapon of terror Who says guns speak louder who says guns speak Louder What does it feel like to kill a man How can you wash the blood off your hands Mercenary missionary mercenary missionary What does it feel like to kill a man	Dinero sangriento Los dientes te llaman ¿Quién dice que las pistolas hablan más alto? ¿Quién dice que las pistolas hablan más alto? El dinero es un arma del terror El dinero es un arma del terror Arañas en las que confío me abren el pecho Una orden es una orden Incluso cuando no tiene sentido Una orden es una orden Incluso cuando Una orden es una orden Una orden es una orden Arañas en las que confío me abren los Dientes te llaman Trampa humana Tornillo de mano Los dientes de los cráneos brillan Los dientes de los cráneos brillan Dama de hierro Tenemos hambre y frío Arañas en las que confío me abren el pecho Hierven mi corazón aún con vida El dinero es un arma del terror ¿Quién dice que las pistolas hablan más alto, quién dice que las pistolas hablan Más alto? ¿Qué se siente al matar a un hombre? ¿Cómo puedes lavarte la sangre de las manos? Misionero mercenario, misionero mercenario ¿Qué se siente al matar a un hombre?
Savage Sea I was waiting for a mermaid to appear Saying come little boy drown your fear So young we're the new explorers With the spirit of Doctor Livingston We'll talk to the savage sea It's the only direction for you and me We won't die together in the desert We'll escape from the men of prey We'll smile like the French Resistance And laugh at the guillotine We'll talk to the savage sea It's the only direction for you and me Disapproved of life around them So they created a world of their own You're my last request before the firing squad But bullets cannot penetrate the sea We'll hide in the savage sea It's the only direction for you and me Why should heroes always die in battle Take the violin We're exiles	Mar salvaje Estaba esperando a que apareciera una sirena Diciendo ven pequeño y ahoga tu miedo Tan jóvenes, somos los nuevos exploradores Con el espíritu del doctor Livingston Le hablaremos al mar salvaje Es la única dirección que nos queda No moriremos juntos en el desierto Escaparemos de los hombres de presa Sonreiremos como la resistencia francesa Y nos reiremos de la guillotina Le hablaremos al mar salvaje Es la única dirección que nos queda Desaprobamos la vida a su alrededor Así que crearon un mundo propio Eres mi último ruego ante el pelotón de fusilamiento Pero las balas no pueden penetrar el mar Nos esconderemos en el mar salvaje Es la única dirección que nos queda ¿Por qué los héroes deberían morir en la batalla? Coge el violín Somos exiliados
We Are Time No waiting No running No searching behind I will take you time I will break you mine Waiting is a crime All will be now Dreams are too fast You are the first We are the last No sequence to follow No fear of tomorrow Kiss of neverness Life of timelessness We'll break the speed of change We'll tame eternity Time is within you Shine through your eyes We'll kill the word Black letter lies Lies lies lies lies lies Your world is built on lies	Somos el tiempo Sin espera Sin carrera Sin búsqueda Tomaré tu tiempo Te destroz-haré mía Esperar es un crimen Todo ocurrirá ahora Los sueños son demasiado rápidos Eres el primero Somos los últimos No hay secuencia que seguir No hay miedo al mañana El beso del jamás La vida de la atemporalidad Romperemos la velocidad del cambio Domaremos la eternidad El tiempo está en tu interior Brilla a través de tu mirada Mataremos la palabra La letra en negro miente Mentiras, mentiras, mentiras, mentiras, mentiras Tu mundo está construido sobre mentiras
Words Disobey Me Scream of my heartbeat Those who know don't speak Speak the unspoken First words of a child Words which make black white Words which make men bite Words which make the air bleed Scream of my heartbeat Truth is a feeling But it's not a sound Truth is a feeling But it's not a sound We don't need words Throw them away Please don't blame me Words disobey me Speak the first word Speak the last word Please don't blame me Words disobey me	Las palabras me desobedecen Grito de mi latido Aquellos que saben no hablan De aquello que no se nombra Las primeras palabras de un niño Palabras que vuelven blanco el negro Palabras que hacen que los hombres muerdan Palabras que hacen sangrar al aire Grito de mi latido La verdad es un sentimiento Pero no es un sonido La verdad es un sentimiento Pero no es un sonido No necesitamos palabras Arrójalas lejos Por favor no me culpes Las palabras me desobedecen Dices la primera palabra Dices la última Por favor no me culpes Las palabras me desobedecen
Don't Call Me Pain Don't Call Me Pain My name is mystery Don't Call Me Pain My name is mystery Don't Call Me Pain This is the age of chance This is the age of chance Don't call me pain Being afraid is power T-O-R-T-U-R-E Being afraid is power T-O-R-T-U-R-E Being afraid is power T-O-R-T-U-R-E Soldiers soldiers soldiers March through your eyes Obey because you either love or fear Mercy mercy mercy Let U.S. bleed happily Let U.S. bleed in peace Nothing is impossible When you're living on the brink Shown the world But cut off your hands We fear what we do not understand Soldiers soldiers soldiers March through your eyes Fire your finger in the dark Fire your finger in the dark Don't Call Me Pain My name is mystery Don't Call Me Pain My name is mystery This is the age of chance so they say	No me llames Dolor No me llames Dolor Mi nombre es Misterio No me llames Dolor Mi nombre es Misterio No me llames Dolor Esta es la edad del azar Esta es la edad del azar No me llames Dolor El poder es tener miedo T-O-R-T-U-R-A El poder es tener miedo T-O-R-T-U-R-A El poder es tener miedo T-O-R-T-U-R-A Soldados, soldados, soldados Marchan a través de tus ojos Obedecen porque tú o bien amas o temes Misericordia, misericordia, misericordia Deja a (los EE. UU./nosotros) sangrar alegremente Deja a (los EE. UU./nosotros) sangrar en paz Nada es imposible Cuando vives en el filo Te han mostrado el mundo Pero te cortaron las manos Tememos lo que no comprendemos Soldados, soldados, soldados Marchan a través de tus ojos Prenden fuego a tu dedo en la oscuridad Prenden fuego a tu dedo en la oscuridad No me llames Dolor Mi nombre es Misterio No me llames Dolor Mi nombre es Misterio Esta es la edad del azar, o eso dicen
The Boys From Brazil Jungle protects the past Jungle protects the past Man in white pressed finger tips Against suntanned bodies Steaming skins and silver hair Even better than a medal Even better than a medal When in Rome Electric cavemen When in Rome Propeller dying When in Rome Silently praying My honour is my loyalty Is life more precious than property Here comes the bride All dressed in white Time to think Can we have a little more light Palm oil Surrounded by burnt bodies Over the phone came hate Why do the girls always follow the boys from Brazil Why do the girls always follow the boys from Brazil Why have I been spared Vengeance Why have I been spared if not for vengeance Vengeance for those wasted years If we forget the past we're doomed to repeat it	Los chicos del Brasil La selva protege el pasado La selva protege el pasado El hombre de blanco apretó las puntas de sus dedos Contra los cuerpos bronceados Pieles humeantes y cabellos de plata Incluso mejor que una medalla Incluso mejor que una medalla En Roma Cavernícolas eléctricos En Roma Hélice agonizando En Roma Rezando en silencio Mi honor es mi lealtad ¿La vida es más preciosa que la propiedad? Aquí viene la novia Toda vestida de blanco El momento para pensar ¿Podemos tener un poco más de luz? Aceite de palma Rodeado de cuerpos quemados Por el teléfono llegó el odio ¿Por qué las chicas siempre van detrás de los chicos del Brasil? ¿Por qué las chicas siempre van detrás de los chicos del Brasil? ¿Por qué he sido expuesto? Venganza ¿Por qué he sido expuesto si no es por la venganza? La venganza por esos años desperdiciados Si olvidamos el pasado estamos condenados a repetirlo
Don't Sell Your Dreams Speak chain lightning Words of blue glass Smash the sound barrier Steal the speed of light Bury the sun And drink up Drink up the night Please don't sell your dreams Please don't sell your dreams Speak chain lightning Paint a new sound Strike a new colour Catch catch catch a thought Tears of dust, swallowed by the air Please don't sell your dreams Please don't sell your dreams Don't live in somebody else's dream Don't live in somebody else's dream	No vendas tus sueños Rayo en cadena habla Palabras de cristal azul Destroza la barrera del sonido Roba la velocidad de la luz Entierra el sol Y bebe Bébete la noche Por favor, no vendas tus sueños Por favor, no vendas tus sueños Rayo en cadena habla Pinta un sonido nuevo Pulsa un color nuevo Atrapa, atrapa, atrapa un pensamiento Lágrimas de polvo, tragadas por el aire Por favor, no vendas tus sueños Por favor, no vendas tus sueños No vivas en el sueño de nadie No vivas en el sueño de nadie

tragic songs of life - letras

Álbum: Tragic Songs of Life (1956)
Artista: The Louvin Brothers

No hay manera de encontrar en la web las letras de este disco juntitas para cantarlas como un poseso, así que he tenido que hacer una compilación que espero que guste (al menos a mí me hará el apaño, jeje)

1. Kentucky
2. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
3. Let Her Go, God Bless Her
4. What Is Home Without Love
5. Tiny Broken Heart, A

6. In The Pines

7. Alabama
8. Katie Dear
9. My Brother's Will
10. Knoxville Girl
11. Take The News To Mother
12. Mary Of The Wild Moor


Kentucky

Kentucky you are the dearest land outside of Heaven to me
Kentucky your laurels and your red bud trees
When I die I want to rest upon your graceful mountain so high
Kentucky that is where God will look for me

Kentucky I miss the darkest singing in the silvery moonlight
Kentucky I miss the hound dog chasing coon
I know that my mother dad & sweetheart all are waiting for me
Kentucky I will be coming soon

Kentucky I will be coming soon.

I'll Be All Smiles Tonight

I'll deck my brow with roses
My true love may be there
And gems that others gave me
Will shine within my hair
And even them that know me
Will think my heart is light
Though my heart may break tomorrow
I'll be all smiles tonight

chorus: I'll be all smiles tonight, love,
I'll be all smiles tonight
Though my heart may break tomorrow
I'll be all smiles tonight.

And when the room he entered
The bride upon his arm
I stood and gazed upon him
As though he were a charm
And then he smiled upon her
As once he smiled on me
They know not what
I suffered
They found no change in me

chorus

And when the dance is over
And all have gone to rest
I'll think of him, dear mother
The one that I love best
He once did love, believe me
But now he's cold and strange
He sought not to deceive me
False friends have brought this change

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Let Her Go, God Bless Her

Let her go, let her go, God bless her
She's mine everywhere she may be
She may ramble this wide world all over
But she'll never find a friend like me

I went to church last Sunday
I saw my old true love there
And I knew her mind was a'changin'
From the way that she done up her hair

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I'm going to the races
To see my pony run
And if I win any green back
We're sure gonna have some fun

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Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in town
But sometimes I take a good notion
To jump in the river and drown

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What Is Home Without Love

Sad and alone in a mansion
No loving wife to caress
Sat a man sad and lonely
No loving wife's lips to kiss
She married him for (possessions?)
No love in her heart had she
Sad and alone, in his fine home
He looked all around him and said

What is home without a baby?
To love and to tease and adore?
What is home without a sweet wife?
To kiss you each night at the door?
What is home without sunshine?
To spread its bright rays from above?
You can have wealth and its pleasures
But what is home without love?

Walking down the streets one evening
He passed by a cottage so neat
Stopped and looked in the window
He saw there a picture so sweet
A husband, a wife, and a baby
They were hugging and kissing too
He turned aside, his tears to cry
And from his lips came these words

A Tiny Broken Heart

He was just a little farm lad so busy at play
In his little play house down by the gate
He stopped to watch a truck that was parking next door
At the home of his tiny playmate

Then he saw his Daddy watching too
As the man swiftly walked to the cottage door
He knew they were strangers that come from the town
Men he had never seen before

They soon were at their work and he heard his Daddy say
Our neighbors are moving today
Oh no he cried dear God don't let it be
They can't take my sweetheart away

I know Dad that you don't understand
How a heart so young can conceive a plan
I'm only seven now but it's just like you said
Dad someday I'll be a man

The man who runs the farm where your playmate now lives
He told me it'd have to be this way
For winter time has come and their work is all done
So now they are moving away

Let us buy the farm so they can stay
Give them all my toys that dear Santa gave
And give him the pennies in my little piggy bank
Pennies that my darling helped me save.

In The Pines

In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
And you shiver when the cold wind blows
little girl, little girl, what have i done
that's made you treat me so

You've caused me to weep, you've caused me to mourn
You've caused me to leave my home
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
And you shiver when the cold wind blows

The longest train I ever saw
Went down that Georgia Line
The engine passed at six o'clock
and the cab went by at nine

In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
And you shiver when the cold wind blows

The longest train I ever saw
was 19 holters long
the only girl i ever loved
is on that train and gone

In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
And you shiver when the cold wind blows

Alabama

Alabama
your beautiful sunlight
Your fields of cerecea potatoes and corn
Alabama
your crimson red clover
All mingled around the old place I was born.

Alabama
your hills and your valleys
Your creeks with laughter as onward they flow
Alabama
so sweet in the springtime
Sweet ferns and wild flowers and winter with snow.

Alabama
so sweet to my mem'ry
You shine like a light on a beautiful hill
Alabama
in days of my childhood
I labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill

Alabama
when red leaves are failing
I roam through your pastures with fences of rail
Alabama
when 'possums are crawling
And hound dogs are howling and wagging their tails.

Alabama
your beautiful highways
All curved through the mountains where love ones do wait
Alabama
your golden rod flower;
And the "Welcome home' sign hanging over the gate

Alabama
to me you are callin'
My footsteps are haltered no longer to stray
Alabama
you hold all I long for
You hold all I love so I'm coming today

Katie Dear

Oh Katy dear, go ask your mother
If you can be a bride of mine
If she says yes, come back and tell me
If she says no, we'll run away

Oh Willie dear, there's no use in asking
She's in her room, up taking rest
And by her side lies a silver dagger
To slay the one that I love best

Oh Katy dear, go and ask your father
If you can be a bride of mine
If he says yes, come on back and tell me
If he says no, we'll run away

Oh Willie dear, there's no use in asking
For he's there too, up taking rest
And by his side lies that golden dagger
To slay the one that I love best

Then he picked up that silver dagger
And plunged it through his troubled heart
Saying goodbye Katy, goodbye darling
The time has come for us to part

Then she picked up that bloody dagger
And stove it through her lily white breast
Saying goodbye pa, goodbye mama
I'll die with the one that I love best

My Brother's Will

My brother and I were out hunting
A stray bullet made him its mark
I carried him back to the cabin
His life nothing more than a spark

He whispered to me very softly
Dear brother, I'm going away
So listen and come to me closely
There's so much that I have to say

My sweetheart, her dear name is Sally
Her mother and father have died
She's waiting alone in the valley
When I left her, oh how she cried

I promised to bring her my fortune
Return to the valley and wed
But I've had a call from my maker
So I'll have to go there instead

He gave me the ring he had bought her
And told of the plans they had made
He spoke of how long she had waited
And for his return, how she prayed

He gave me a small piece of paper
The will he had made for this day
I promised to do as he wanted
The Good Lord would show me the way

He gave me his home in the valley
And all of the money he had
He asked me to marry his Sally
And promise she'd never be sad

But once long ago we were rivals
For I loved her too from the start
I'd made up my mind to stay single
For Sally had broken my heart

My dear brother went up to heaven
And I went to our valley home
But Sally had married another
So what's left for me but to roam?

I pray the good Lord up above me
To keep Brother's faith in me still
His Sally was fickle, unfaithful
That's why I broke my brother's will.

Knoxville Girl

I met a little girl in Knoxville, a town we all know well,
And every Sunday evening, out in her home I'd dwell,
We went to take an evening walk about a mile from town,
I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down.

She fell down on her bended knees for mercy she did cry,
Oh Willy dear don't kill me here, I'm unprepared to die,
She never spoke another word, I only beat her more,
Until the ground around me within her blood did flow.

I took her by her golden curls and I drug her round and around,
Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town,
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl with the dark and rolling eyes,
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride.

I started back to Knoxville, got there about midnight,
My Mother she was worried and woke up in a fright,
Saying "Dear son, what have you done to bloody your clothes so?"
I told my anxious Mother, I was bleeding at my nose.

I called for me a candle to light myself to bed,
I called for me a hankerchief to bind my aching head,
Rolled and tumbled the whole night through, as troubles was for me,
Like flames of hell around my bed and in my eyes could see.

They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cell,
My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail,
I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail,
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl, the girl I loved so well.

Take The News To Mother

While the shot and shells were scattering
All o'er the battlefield
While the boys in France were fighting
To save their noble flag

Save their flag or give their lives
All for their country and home
They brought him back and heard him say
I can no longer stay

Go take the news to Mother
For she knows how well I love her
Kiss her dear sweet lips for me
Tell her I'm not coming home

Oh tell my darling sweetheart
That her lips I'll kiss no more
For this battlefield is awful
I'm sure I'll see her no more

Now, I'd love to see my mother
Kneeling by the old hearth stone
But I'm in this hell right here on earth
And her prayer I'll hear no more

Go take the news to Mother
For she knows how well I love her
Kiss her dear sweet lips for me
Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmmmm

Tell her I'm not coming home.

Mary Of The Wild Moor

It was on one cold winter night
When the wind blew across the wild moor
When Mary came wandering home with her child
Till she came to her own father's door
Father, dear father, she cried
Come down and open the door
Or the child in my arms, will perish and die
From the winds that blow across the wild moor
But her father was deaf to her cry
Not a sound of her voice, did he hear
So the watch dog did howl and the village bells tolled
And the wind blew across the wild moor
Oh, how the old man must have felt
When he came to the door, the next mornin'
And he found Mary dead, but the child still alive
Closely grasping his dead mother's arms
In grief the old man passed away
And the child to its mother went soon
And no one they say, lives there to this day
And the cottage to ruin has gone
But the villagers point out the spot
Where the willows grew over the door
Saying there Mary died, once the gay village bride
From the wind that blow across the wild moor.