Somewhere old memories Echoed from the street in a crying hole Just a song from long ago When I lost my easy gods to the Harlem insect laws I heard your
Ain't it peculiar, darlin'? How our love goes on and on Ain't it peculiar, honey? We take the bad with the wrong You know that time after time A misfortune
Because of you, I face the world with pride, Because you are the breeze I drift upon In heaven flows from your eyes, Even though I've told lies, It always
Aren't you the girl who used to call me names? Aren't you the girl who used to play at games? Weren't you the one who said she'd never fall? Now you're
I was just a curly-haired mountain boy On my way passing through I heard a voice whisper, "Good evening" I turned to a shadow and saw her there So all
Just like a buzzin' fly I come into your life Now I float away like honey in the sun Was it right or wrong? I couldn't sing that song anyway Oh, but
Seems like in every hip conversation honey People brag about where they all come from Seems like in every hip conversation, woman I just end up sucking
The singer cries for people's lies He will sing for the day to bring him night The circus burns in carnival flame And for a while you won't know my name
Well, come along and walk with me And learn the songs that lovers sing When they believe We'll dance along the river's edge Just arm and arm along the
Well, I was born a blue melody A little song, my mama sang to me It was a blue melody Sailing far away from me Well, there ain't no wealth That can buy
I live by the river and I hide my house away Then just like the river, I can change my ways Oh, if you come to love me, you'll stay forever Inside my
Ah, tell me mama Ah, tell me darlin' Now that it's time for me to go Ah, don't you hold me down And kill the man you love Sweet mama what you gonna do
You came to me with fire inside Your movements and your pride And asking to be rescued from The pain you had become I tore apart the prison and I hid
The padre told me all the hymns were born Out of the saxophone And I went down to face them all Beneath the Tijuana moon I saw [Incomprehensible] Two
I know you're kind You've been through the mill Now you're standing in line Too proud to beg and too tired to cry About the one that got away Your first
Well, let me tell all you pretty women One tiny word of advice Tell you pretty women One tiny word of advice Just do me one favor Won't you please understand
Once I was a soldier And I fought on foreign sands for you Once I was a hunter And I brought home fresh meat for you Once I was a lover And I searched
Photographs of guns and flame Scarlet skull and distant game Bayonet and jungle grin Nightmares dreamed by bleeding men Lookouts tremble on the shore