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A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade. Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made. Finds a streetlight steps out of the shade. Says something like you and me babe how about it?. .
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The drinking dens are spilling out. There's staggering in the square. There's lads and lasses falling about. And a crackling in the air. Down around the dungeon doors. The shelters and the queues
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Well, all down the 40 I never used to lift. Thirteen gears, double clutch shift. All those horses underneath the hood. I don't do it no more but I used to could GMC Cannonball going like a train.
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You get a shiver in the dark. It's raining in the park but meantime. South of the river you stop and you hold everything. A band is blowing Dixie double four time. You feel all right when you hear
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You've got to have no credit cards. To know how good it feels. The howling of the bridges. The sidewalks bound with steel. Sitting on the sidewalk. With a party to arrange. May you never change
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These mist coloured mountains. Are a home now for me. But my home is the lowlands. And always will be Some day you'll return to. Your valleys and your farms. And you'll no longer burn. To be bro
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Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies. Be, bop, a, lua, baby, what I say. Here comes Johnny singing I gotta woman. Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay He got the action, he got the motio
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The high priest of money looks down on the river. The dawn coming up on his kingdom of gold. When the rim of the sun sends an arrow of silver. He prays to the gods of the bought and the sold He tur
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Well, look out the window. Never saw so much rain. You better get down to the station. If you want to catch that train. So long, I guess that's that. Hey, hey, don't forget your hat Well, you don
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Hunted down I came upon. A place of ferns and grass. Gathered to a redbud tree. And now their footsteps pass. Where I crouch in dread. Discovery my certain death. Bur leaves reaching for my head
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We run along easy at periscope depth. Sun dappling through clear water. So went the dream of the drowned submariner. Far away from the slaughter Your hair is a strawflower that sings in the sun. M
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I had to leave for certain. I like to come back now and then. Maybe I'm just returning. So I can leave again The wind comes softly blowing. From the cold grey sea. She leans into my collar. Star
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Yon's my Privateer. See how trim she lies. To every man a lucky hand. And to every man a prize. I live to ride the Ocean. The mighty world around. To take a little plunder. And to hear the cann
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Got crows in my pasture. Rats in my barn. Crows in my pasture, babe. Rats in my barn. If I was you, little bluebird. I'd up and find another farm I've got nightshade in my meadow. Ragweed in my
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Blood and water bound to overflow. Blood and water bound to overflow. Well there's no more high water. But the Old Man's just waiting, I know He was sent up on the levee. Now they've gone up count
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Well, we like to have some friends around. Do the twist to Ray Charles and James Brown. After lunch I'll maybe take a nap. I like a nap before a scrap Honey, pass me more of them peas. Mm, I do li
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After two thousand came two thousand and one. To be the new champions, we were there for to run. From springtime in Arizona, 'til the fall in Monterey. And the raceways were the battlefields and we
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Pennies from heaven. Don't make me laugh. Here all you'll get. Is the pattering rain. Or yon two crows up over the hill. Looking for winterkill. Always at your boots. The mud behind the byre.
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Hammer on a skillet up they come. Showman whanging on a ballyhoo drum. Watch out, people I'm a greedy man. Swallowed all the fishes in the frying pan. Blood, gator blood, I got gator blood Chicken
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Was a windless night. When you left the ship. You never were. A steady bold one. I gave my hand. Ah but you did slip I'm a living man. And your a cold one. So haul away. Haul away from here My
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Well if you ain't got whiskey. Don't tell me that you ain't got gin. If you ain't got whiskey. Don't tell me that you ain't got gin. Well I got to have something. Need to get my medicine Well I c
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I am Jeremiah Dixon. I am a Geordie boy. A glass of wine with you, sir. And the ladies I'll enjoy. All Durham and Northumberland. Is measured up by my own hand. It was my fate from birth. To ma
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Miss you blues, baby, miss you blues. Miss you blues, baby, miss you blues. You never used to look behind you, that isn't what you'd do. Didn't leave a thing behind you but the miss you blues Who's
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On Silvertown way the cranes stand high. Quiet and gray against the still of the sky. They won't quit and lay down though the action has died. They watch the new game in town on the blackwall side
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"WHY AYE MAN". . We had no way of staying afloat,. We had to leave on a ferryboat. Economic refugees,. On the run to Germany. We had the back of Maggie's hand,. Times were tough in Geordieland.
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She came on the river. With a gift for me. I'm in way deep. That's how it has to be. It's hot in the desert. But I'm cool in the zone. People call me lucky. But I say you make your own I'm on a
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Don't you love the sound of the last laugh my friend?. Don't you love the sound of the last laugh at the end?. Down in the gutter with the mad old soldiers. Down in the scuppers with the drunken sa
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Rudiger stands in the rain and the snow. Collector of autographs. Names upon photographs. Faces of people who everyone knows Rudiger lives in a place on his own. Briefcase and spectacles. Strange
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Early in the morning. Going to meet a man. Wants a truck unloading. For cash-in-hand. You don't ask questions. When there's nothing in the bank. Got to feed the kids. And put the diesel in the
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These tables are haunted by the ghost of Las Vegas. Their chips were once mountains but they came here to play. They could take me if they wanted but I have nothing worth counting. And like the san
