This song's for you (part 2)

[Becka]

Mr. Bojangles
Words and music by Jeff Walker

I knew a man Bojangles
And he'd dance for you
In worn out shoes

With silver hair a ragged shirt
And baggy pants
He did the old soft shoe

He would jump so high
Jump so high
Then he lightly touch down

Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles
Dance

I met him in a cell in New Orleans I was down and out
He looked to me to be the eyes of age as he spoke right out
He talked of life, he talked of life, he laughed, slapped his leg a step

He said his name, Bojangles, then he danced a lick across the cell
He grabbed his pants a better stance, oh, he jumped up high, he clicked his heels
He let go a laugh, he let go a laugh, shook back his clothes all around

Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles
Aw, dance

He danced for those
Minstrel shows and county fairs
Throughout the South.

He spoke with tears of fifteen years
How his dog and he
They would travel about.

But his dog up and died
He up and died
And after twenty years he still grieves

He said "I dance now
At every chance in the Honky Tonks
For my drinks and tips

But most the time I spend
Behind these country bars
You see on I drinks a bit"

Then he shook his head
And as he shook his head
I could swear I heard someone asking please

Mister Bojangles
Mister Bojangles
Mister Bojangles
Ah, dance

I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you

 

[Becka]

Not Pretty Enough
Kasy Chambers

Am I not pretty enough?
Is my heart too broken?
Do I cry too much?
Am I too outspoken?
Don't I make you laugh?
Should I try it harder?
Why do you see right through me?

I live I breathe.
I let it rain on me.
I sleep I wake.
I try hard not to break.
I crave I love.
I've waited long enough.
I try as hard as I can.

Am I not pretty enough?
Is my heart too broken?
Do I cry too much?
Am I too outspoken?
Don't I make you laugh?
Should I try it harder?
Why do you see right through me?

I laugh I feel.
I make believe it's real.
I fall I freeze.
I pray down on my knees.
I hope I stand.
I take it like a man I try as hard as I can.

Am I not pretty enough?
Is my heart too broken?
Do I cry too much?
Am I too outspoken?
Don't I make you laugh?
Should I try it harder?
Why do you see right through me?

Why do you see,
Why do you see,
Why do you see right through me?

 

[starlifter]

Hey Becka, I often don't know the tune that goes with a lot of your songs, but Mr. Bojangles is great! And I remember you posted a song about Texas a long time ago, and some of the lyrics in it were were hysterical (I'm from Texas!)...

 

[Simon Darkshade]

In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley

As the snow flies.
On a cold and grey Chicago morn' another liitle baby child is born
In the ghetto

And his mother cries ( in the ghetto )
'Cause if there's one thing that she don't need,
it's another little hungry
mouth to feed In the ghetto

Now people don't you understand The child needs a helping hand
Or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day
Take a look at you and me Are we too blind to see
Or do we just turn our heads and look the other way

As the world turns
and a hungry little child with a runny nose plays in the streets
as the cold wind blows
And his hunger burns
So he starts to roam the streets at night and he learns how to steal
and he learns how to fight In the ghetto

And then one night in desperation A young man breaks away
He buys a gun steals a car tries to run but he don't get far
and his mother cries
As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man face down in the street
with a gun in his hand
as her young man dies
on a cold and grey Chicago morn' another little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries

 

[monkeyman116]

LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY- ENGLISH NATIONAL ANTHEM
PARTICULARLY APPROPRIATE BECAUSE WE JUST SMASHED THE ARGENTINIANS TO LITTLE PIECES :d

Land of Hope and Glory
Mother of the free
How can we extoll those
who art born of thee?
Wider still and wider
Shall thine bounds be set
God who made thee mighty
Make thee mightier yet
God who made thee mighty
Make thee mightier yet

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN- BRITISH NATIONAL ANTHEM- FIRST VERSE
PARTICULARLY APPROPRIATE BECAUSE OF THE JUBILEE

God save our gracious queen
Long live our glorious queen
God save the queen
Send her victorious
Happy and Glorious
Long to Reign Over us
God Save the Queen

 

[monkeyman116]

MUSE- THE UNQUESTIONABLE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD EVER (AND THEY'RE BRITISH TOO :d)
BLISS

Everything about you is how I'd wanna be
Your freedom comes naturally
Everything about you resonates happiness
Now I won't settle for less

Give me all the peace and joy in your mind

Everything about you pains my envying
Your soul can't hate anything
Everything about you is so easy to love (L)
They're watching you from above

Give me all the peace and joy in your mind
I want the peace and joy in your mind
Give em the peace and joy in your mind
ooo ooo ooo

Everything about you resonates happiness
Now I won't settle for less
Give me all the peace and joy in your mind
I want the peace and joy in your mind
Give me the peace and joy in your mind.

 

[monkeyman116]

www.musclemuse.com

MUSE
UNINTENDED

You could be my unintended
Choice to live my life extended
You could be the one I'll always love
You could be the one who listens to
My deepest inquisitions
You could be the one I'll always love

I'll be there as soon as I can
But I'm busy mending broken
Pieces of the life
I had before

First there was the one who challenged
All my dreams and all my balance
She could never be as good as you

You could be my unintended
Choice to live my life extended
You should be the one I'll always love

I'll be there as soon as I can
But I'm busy mending broken
Pieces of the life
I had before

I'll be there as soon as I can
But I'm busy mending broken
Pieces of the life
I had before

Before you

I could go on with more muse lyrics, but theyre all at www.musclemuse.com .......

 

[Apollo]

Suffragette City
Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
by David Bowie

Hey man, oh leave me alone you know
Hey man, oh Henry, get off the phone, I gotta
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face
This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place

Hey man, my schooldays insane
Hey man, my work's down the drain
Hey man, well she's a total blam-blam
She said she had to squeeze it but she... then she...

(CHORUS)
Oh don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket
I'm back on Suffragette City
Oh don't lean on me man
Cause you ain't got time to check it
You know my Suffragette City
Is outta sight...she's all right

Hey man, Henry, don't be unkind, go away
Hey man, I can't take you this time, no way
Hey man, droogie don't crash here
There's only room for one and here she comes, here she comes

CHORUS

Oh hit me!

CHORUS

A Suffragette City, a Suffragette City
I'm back on Suffragette City, I'm back on Suffragette City
Ooo, Sufraggete city, ooo, Suffragette City
Oooh-how, Sufragette City, oooh-how, Sufragette City, oooh-how
Sufragette

Ohhh, Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am!

A Suffragette City, a Suffragette City
Quite all right
A Suffragette City
Too fine
A Suffragette City, ooh, a Sufragette City
Oh, my Sufragette City, oh my Suffragette City
Oh, Suffragette
Suffragette!

 

[Mikoyan]

Decades
Joy Division
Closer [1980]

Here are the young men,
a weight on their shoulders
Here are the young men,
well where have they been?
We knocked on the doors
of hell's darker chambers
Pushed to the limits
we dragged ourselves in
Watched from the wings as
the scenes were replaying
We saw ourselves now as
we never have seen
Portrayal of the traumas and degeneration
The sorrows we suffered
and never were freed

Where have they been
Where have they been
Where have they been
Where have they been

Weary inside, now our hearts
lost forever
Can't replace the fear
or the thrill of the chase
These rituals showed up the door
for our wanderings
Opened and shut, then slammed
in our face

Where have they been
Where have they been
Where have they been
Where have they been

 

[monkeyman116]

Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday dear Monkeyman
Happy Birthday to You


[Sorry about the spam; I just couldn't resist]

 

[Switch625]

Posted in response to this thread by Rodgers.

Fat Bottomed Girls
Queen

Are you gonna take me home tonight?
Ah down beside that red fire light
Are you gonna let it all hang out?
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew love before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!

I've been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I've seen every blue eyed floozy on the way
But their beauty and their style
Wear kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them lovely ladies every time

Oh won't you take me home tonight
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round

Hey listen here
Now your mortgages and homes
And the stiffness in your bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still get my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me

Oh you gonna take me home tonight (Please)
Oh down beside that red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out?
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round
Get on your bikes and ride
Fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls

 

[Becka]

Originally posted by starlifter
Hey Becka, I often don't know the tune that goes with a lot of your songs, but Mr. Bojangles is great!

I always try to look for a song that at least a few other people here have heard.

And I remember you posted a song about Texas a long time ago, and some of the lyrics in it were were hysterical (I'm from Texas!)...

I didn't know you were from Texas!

Is this it? This is the only song I can think of like that-


Welcome to Texas
by a guy who's name I cannot remember!

Welcome to Texas, glad that you came down,
You've got lots of friends here, so take a look around.
They come from Arizona, they come from Ohio,
They come from Minnesota to get out of the snow.

You don't like our driving, and you don't like our roads.
You make fun of the way we talk, you make fun of our clothes.
But you've clogged up the highways, you've been pouring in for years,
If you don't like the way we do it, what are you doing here?!

Welcome to Texas, don't anybody get me wrong,
We're glad you came to see us, just don't forget to go back home.

We don't need your politics, we don't need your prayers.
We don't need your moral compass leading us anywhere.
We don't need your business, we don't need your art,
We don't really give a d*** how you do things up North.

Welcome to Texas, don't anybody get me wrong,
We're glad you came to see us, just don't forget to go back home.

'Cause you gripe about our music, you gripe about our food.
You gripe about the weather here, say it's way too hot for you.
We've heard all your whinning, and it starts wearing thin
When we see our milk and honey running down your chin.

So come on down to Texas, have yourself a ball,
Take the kids to Six Flags, take the wife out to the mall.
Have a good vacation, then don't hesitate
To point your car back up the road to that outbound interstate.

Welcome to Texas, don't anybody get me wrong,
We're glad you came to see us, just don't forget to go back home.
I said get on home.

 

[Becka]

Heaven Bound
Kelly Willis

Electricity roared but you looked so bored on the line
Nobody knows how it felt to see that cannon ball melt in your mind
Calling all cars, one less dog behind bars, one less man in pain
It hurts to see you go, but darling don't you know we're so glad you came

And you'll stay gone a long, long time
Day by day you'll fly across our minds
Only a fool would want to stick around
When you're heaven bound

Disconnect the phone, heart from bone, voice from mind
So sad and blue, how'd you do, of course you did just fine
So grab a tail on this big gray whale and do your best to stay brave
In that final hour he was just a beautiful flower that couldn't be saved

And you'll stay gone a long, long time
Day by day you'll fly across our minds
Only a fool would want to stick around
When you're heaven bound

You'll stay gone a long, long time
Day by day you'll fly across our minds
Only a fool would want to stick around
When you're heaven bound

 

[starlifter]

by Becka:

We're glad you came to see us, just don't forget to go back home.
I said get on home.

This is the line that I remember, but could not recall the wording... one has to grow up in Texas, and see the influx of new "native" Texans to really get the full humor here, LOL... Thanks Becka.

BTW, I grew up in Arlington, in the great nation-state of Texas (between Dallas and Ft. Worth) long before Arlington became the yuppieville that it is today.

PS, Nothing against the other great counties, err... , make that States, of America.

Quick Quiz 4 All:

1. Name the only state that was a Nation, and gave up it's nationhood to become a state.

2. Name the only state that actually had and maintained it's own Navy until the 1950's (when the navy was absorbed into the US Navy... the USNR (reserves) to be exact). :fish:

Hint: The answer is the same for both .

by Simon Darkshade:

In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley

Great & moving song, esp. as performed by the himself!

EDIT: Add Icon & quiz.

 

[starlifter]

Just noticed you posted another while I was posting, . Thanks for the post of Heaven Bound, and that line is cool on its own or in the song.

Do you know the lyrics in a song called "The Green Green Grass of Home"? It's another poetic song with metaphor that is probably not about what people expect at first. I'll have to look for the lyrics to it & post later on .

 

[starlifter]

For those that may not know, Johnny Cash is a singer with lots of personal experience with life problems and has served time in Prison decades ago. And his voice is pretty darned unique and expressive.


The Green Green Grass Of Home

Written by Curly Putman
Favorite rendition = Johnny Cash

The old home town looks the same
As I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my mama and papa;
Down the lane I look and there runs Mary...
Hair of gold and lips like cherry:
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.

Yes, they'll all come to meet me...
Arms a-reaching, smiling sweetly;
It's good to touch
The green, green grass of home.

The old house is still standing,
Though the paint is cracked and dry.
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on;
Down the lane I walk and with my sweet Mary,
Hair of gold an lips like cherries
It's good to touch
The green, green grass of home.

Then I awake and look around me...
At the four gray walls that surround me,
And I realize that I was only dreaming.
For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre.
Arm and arm we'll walk at daybreak -
And again I'll touch...
The green, green grass of home.

Yes, they'll all come to see me
In the shade of that old oak tree;
As they lay me 'neath...
The green, green grass of home.

Edit: Add formatting & info.

 

[starlifter]

This one is totally different that the C&W style of my prior post. I'll always associate it with the movie "An American Werewolf in London".

Bonus note: John Fogerty sang this with the Greateful Dead on 3Nov91 at the memorial concert for Bill Graham.


Bad Moon Rising

Lyrics: John Fogerty
Music: John Fogerty

I see a bad moon rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today

Don't go out tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

I hear hurricanes a-blowing
I know the end is coming soon
I fear rivers overflowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruin

Don't go out tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

Hope you got your things together
Hope you're quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye

Don't go out tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

 

[starlifter]

Simon & Garfunkel made some great songs together, but here's Paul Simon's classic:


The Boxer

Lyrics: Paul Simon
Music: Paul Simon

I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are ppromises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest

When I left my home
And my family,
I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway station
Running scared
Laying low
Seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places
Only they would know

Asking only workman's wages
I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores
On Seventh Avenue
I do declare
There were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there

Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters
Aren't bleeding me
Leading me
Going home

In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of ev'ry glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
But the fighter still remains

 

[starlifter]

The immortal Bob Dylan's rendition kindof reminds me of Becka's "Mr. Bojangles" posted earlier.


Mr Tambourine Man

Lyrics: Bob Dylan
Music: Bob Dylan

Hey Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you

Though I know that evening's empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand
But still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me
I'm branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming

Hey Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
My senses have been stripped
My hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wandering
I'm ready to go anywhere
'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it

Hey Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you

Though you might hear laughing, spinning
Swinging madly across the sun
It's not aimed at anyone
It's just escaping on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facing
And if you hear vague traces
Of skipping reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time
It's just a ragged clown behind
I wouldn't pay it any mind
It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing

Hey Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you

 

[Xeven the God]

Slipknot
Wait and Bleed
Iowa [1999?]

I've felt the hate rise up in me...
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves...
I wander out where you can't see...
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed...

Goodbye!

I wipe it off on tile, the light is brighter this time
Everything is 3D blasphemy
My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up
This is not the way I pictured me
I CAN'T CONTROL MY SHAKES!
How the hell did I get here?
Something about this, so very wrong...
I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this
Is it a dream or a memory?

GET OUTTA MY HEAD CUZ I DON'T NEED THIS!
Why I didn't I see this?
I'm a victim - Manchurian Candidate
I - HAVE - SINNED - BY - JUST
Makin' my mind up and takin' your breath away

GOODBYE!

You haven't learned a thing
I haven't changed a thing
My flesh was in my bones
The pain was always free

I've felt the hate rise up in me...
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves...
I wander out where you can't see...
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed...

AND IT WAITS FOR YOU!