Green river

Well, take me back down where cool water flows, y'all
Let me remember the things I love
Stoppin' at the log where catfish bite
Walkin' along the river road at night
Barefoot girls dancin' in the moonlight

I can hear the bullfrog callin' me home
Wonder if my rope's still hangin' to the tree
Love to kick my feet 'way down the shallow water
Shoo, fly, dragonfly, get back, you mother
Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River
Well!

Up at Cody's camp I spent my days, Lord
With flat-car riders and cross-tie walkers
Old Cody Junior took me over
Said, "You're gonna find the world be smolderin'
And if you get a-lost, come on home to Green River"
Well! 

Going home

Go to sleep, you weary princess, let the miles roll you away
Out to this place on the prairie, where we've reached the end of day
You're going home, close your eyes, you're going home

Don't you worry, i'm right beside you, you can dream a peaceful dream
This road is long, but i don't worry, because you cause my heart to sing
Close your eyes, you're going home, close your eyes

You may wake up and find me, driving with a teardrop in my eye
It's from the happiness inside me, the reason why is you and i

Go to sleep, you precious angel, night has fallen, day is gone
Your brown eyes will sparkle in the sunrise, they will dance beside the dawn
Close your eyes, you're going home, close your eyes

You're going home, close your eyes, you're going home 

Oh what a beautiful world

It's the time and the place
Every line on your face
It's the truth and the lie
It's to live and to die
Oh what a beautiful world

It's a girl and a boy
And the first taste of joy
It's an old photograph of two hearts torn in half
Oh what a beautiful world

We build out hopes up high, perchance to someday fly
Across a clear blue sky to someplace new

It's a walk in the park or a shot in the dark
It's a thief in the night, or the first ray of light
Oh what a beautiful world

We live our legends down, wake up in lost and found
Become that highway sound and roll on through

It's the rise and the fall of the clocks on the wall
It's the first and the last of your days flying past
Oh what a beautiful world 

That lucky old sun

Up in the morning, out on the job,
Work like the devil for my pay
But that lucky old sun has nothin' to do,
But roll around heaven all day

Fuss with my woman, toil for my kids,
Sweat 'till I'm wrinkled and grey.
While that lucky old sun has nothin' to do,
But roll around heaven all day

Good Lord above can't you know I'm pining,
Tears all in my eyes
Send down that cloud with the silverlining,
Take me to Paradise

Show me that river, take me across
And wash all my troubles away.
Like that lucky old sun with nothin' to do,
But roll around heaven all day

Good Lord above can't you know I'm pining,
Tears all in my eyes
Send down that cloud with the silverlining,
Take me to Paradise

Show me that river, take me across
And wash all my troubles away.
Like that lucky old sun with nothin' to do,
But roll around heaven, just rolling round your heaven,

My God, let me roll 'round heaven all day

Thunder road

The screen door slams
Mary' dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
Darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a saviour to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero
That's understood
All the redemption I can offer girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now ?
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow
Back your hair
Well the night's busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back
Heaven's waiting on down the tracks
Oh-oh come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road sit tight take hold
Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back
If you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely
For words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free
All the promises'll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind so Mary climb in
It's town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win 

Gentle on my mind

It's knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

And it's knowing I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that are dried up on some line

That keeps you in the backroads
By the rivers of my memory
And keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we fit, together walking

It's just knowing that the world
Will not be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find

That you're moving on the backroads
By the rivers of my memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's crying to her mother
'Cause she turned and you were gone

I still might run in silence
Tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind

But not to where I cannot see
You walking on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

You dip your cup of soup, back from a gurgling
Crackling caldron, in some train yard
Your beard a roughening coal pile
And a dirty hat pulled low across your face

Through cupped hands 'round the tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

That you're waiting from the backroads
By the rivers of my memories
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind 

Love is Strange/Stay

Love, love is strange
Lots of people take it for a game
Once you've get it you never wanna quit
Once you`ve had it you`re in a awful fix

Some people, they don`t understand
They think lovin` is money in their hand
But your lovin` will never be arranged
Love is mystery, love is change

Baby, my sweet baby, baby you`re the one

People stay just a little bit longer
We want to play just a little bit longer
Now the roadies don't mind
And the union don't mind
If we take a little time
And we leave it all behind and sing
One more song.

Oh won't you stay just a little bit longer
Please, please stay just a little bit more?

Won't you put your sweet lips
To mine
Tell me you love me baby
All of the time

Stay just a little bit longer
Please please please please tell me that you find too
Now the promoter don't mind
And the union don't mind
If we take a little time
And we leave it all behind and sing
One more song. 

Rumble and sway

One look, twice sold, three, four oh the way she looks at me
Held up, let down, she sings me silent melodies
Hair whipped, tight lipped, I've been calling out for you
cold sweat, once met, can't stand the way she looks at me

Don't you tell me no truths, I want all of your lies
Don't you tell me no truths, just all of your lies
Don't you tell me no truths, I want all of your lies
I'm wailing, so give me all of your lies
Give me all of your lies
Give me all of your lies
Give me all of your lies

Do the rumble and sway
Do the rumble and sway
Do the rumble and sway

One look, twice bold, three, four, I'm on my knees for her
Held up, let down, she sings me perfect harmonies
She fakes heart breaks, I'd take just a part of you
Those eyes, sweet lies, I've been drowning out for you

Don't you tell me no truths, i want all of your lies
Don't leave your money at home, just a word to the wise
Don't you tell me no truths, I want all of your lies
I'm wailing so give me all of your lies
Give me all of your lies
Give me all of your lies
Give me all of your lies

So don't you tell me no truths, I want all of your lies
Don't you tell me no truths, I want all of your lies
Don't you tell me no truths, I want all of your lies

Give me all of your lies
Give me all of your lies
Give me all of your lies

Don't you tell me no truth, I want all of your lies
Don't leave your money at home, just a word to the wise
Don't you tell me no truth, I want all of your lies

Give me all of your lies
Give me all of your lies
Give me all of your lies 

Don't you worry 'bout a thing

Everybody's got a thing
But some don't know how to handle it
Always reachin' out in vain
Accepting the things not worth having but

Don't you worry 'bout a thing
Don't you worry 'bout a thing, mama
Cause I'll be standing on the side
When you check it out

They say your style of life's a drag
And that you must go other places
But just don't you feel too bad
When you get fooled by smiling faces but

Don't you worry 'bout a thing
Don't you worry 'bout a thing, mama
Cause I'll be standing on the side
When you check it out...Yeah
When you get it off...your trip
Don't you worry 'bout a thing...Yeah
Don't you worry 'bout a thing...Yeah

Don't you worry 'bout a thing
Don't you worry 'bout a thing, mama
Cause I'll be standing on the side
When you check it out...
When you get it off...your trip

Everybody needs a change
A chance to check out the new
But you're the only one to see
The changes you take yourself through

Don't you worry 'bout a thing
Don't you worry 'bout a thing, pretty mama
Cause I'll be standing in the wings
When you check it out

Don't you worry 'bout a thing 

Faith

Well, I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body
I know not everybody has got a body like you
But I gotta think twice before I give my heart away
And I know all the games you play because I played them, too

Oh, but I need some time off from that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
Oh, when that love comes down without devotion
Well, it takes a strong man, baby
But I'm showin' you the door

'Cause I gotta have faith
I gotta' have faith
Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith
I got to have faith, faith, faith

Baby, I know you're askin' me to stay
Say "Please, please, please don't go away"
You say I'm givin' you the blues
Maybe you mean every word you say
Can't help but think of yesterday
And another who tied me down to loverboy rules

Before this river becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back on the floor
Oh, baby, I reconsider my foolish notion
Well, I need someone to hold me but I'll wait for somethin' more

Yes, I gotta have faith
Ooh, I gotta have faith
Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith

I'll just have to wait
Because I've got to have faith
I gotta have faith
I've got to, got to, got to have faith

Before this river becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back on the floor (I just gotta have faith)
Oh, oh, baby, I reconsider my foolish notion
Well, I need someone to hold me but I'll wait for somethin' more

'Cause I gotta have faith
Ooh, I gotta have faith
Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith 

Hey hey
Well well well well
Yeaah
Yeaah

We will go our way
(Together) We will leave someday
(Together) Your hand in my hand
(Together) We will make the plans

We will fly so high
(Together) Tell our friends goodbye
(Together) We will start life new
(Together) This is what we'll do

Life is peaceful there
(Go west) Lots of open air
(Go west) To begin life new
(Go west) This is what we'll do

Sun in winter time
(Go west) We will do just fine
(Go west) Where the skies are blue
(Go west) This and more we'll do

We will love the beach
(Together) We will learn and teach
(Together) Change our pace of life
(Together) We will work and strive

I know you love me
(I want you) Happy and carefree
(So that's why) I have no protest
(When you say) You want to go west

Life is peaceful there
(Go west) Lots of open air
(Go west) To begin life new
(Go west) This is what we'll do

Sun in winter time
(Go west) We will do just fine
(Go west) Where the skies are blue
(Go west) This and more we'll do

there are many ways
(To live there) in the sun or shade.
(Together) we will find a place
(To settle] down and live with space

busy pace back east,
(The hustling), rustling of the feet,
(I know I'm) ready to leave too,
(So this is) what we're going to do,

Life is peaceful there.
(Go west) Lots of open air.
(Go west) To begin life new.
(Go west) This is what we'll do.

Sun in winter time.
(Go west) We will do just fine.
(Go west) Where the skies are blue.
(Go west) This and more we'll do.

Life is peaceful there.
(Go west) Lots of open air.
(Go west) To begin life new.
(Go west) This is what we'll do.

together together we'll gone our way
(Go west) together together you lead me the way
(Go west) you begin life new
(Go west) this is what will do
(Go west) life is peaceful there