We're gonna pitch a ball Down to the union hall We're gonna romp and stomp till midnight We're gonna fuss and fight till daylight We're gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long

Jack Straw from Wichita cut his buddy down, And dug for him a shallow grave and laid his body down. Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light, One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow.

Got to hear me now A little bolt of inspiration The way you strike me now It's sparking my imagination

Hey hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day.

What shall we say, shall we call it by a name, As well to count the angels dancing on a pin. Water bright as the sky from which it came, And the name is on the earth that takes it in.

If I had a gun for every ace I have drawn, I could arm a town the size of Abilene. Don't you push me baby, 'cause I'm moaning low And you know I'm only in it for the gold.

Way down upon Shadowfall Ward End of the avenue Run, hide, seek in your own backyard Mama's backyard won't do All night long I sang Love's Sweet Song down where the water flowed Way down, down along Lazy River Road

Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter. Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving. Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of goodbye. Shall we go, you and I while we can Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?

I wanna tell you how it's gonna be You're gonna give your love to me I wanna love you night and day You know our lovin' not fade away You know our lovin' not fade away Not fade away

When all the cards are down, there's nothing left to see, There's just the pavement left and broken dreams.

Wake of the flood, laughing water, forty-nine, Get out the pans, don't just stand there dreaming Get out the way, get out the way. Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.

Going where the climate suits my clothes I'm going where the climate suits my clothes Going where the climate suits my clothes Don't wanna be treated this a way

Run for the money, caught short on the rent Big ideas but the money's all spent If you got the do-re, I got the mi And I got a notion we're all at sea Yeah, we're all at sea

Uh huh, hey, Saturday night One more Saturday night Hey, Saturday night

Some people tell you the walkin' blues ain't bad Worst old feelin' that I've ever had Some people tell you the walkin' blues ain't so bad Worst old feelin' that I've ever had

Since I'm passing your way today Well, well, well, you can never tell I just stopped in 'cause I want to say Well, well, well, you can never tell I recall your darkness When it crackled like a thunder cloud Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart I can hear it beat out loud

Baby Baby pretty it up on Tuesday Old like a rum-drinking demon at tea. Baby Baby tell me what's the matter Why, why tell me what's your why how? Tell me why will you never come home Tell me what's your reason, if you've got a good one.

Think that I'm the only one left darling About the time the sun rises west Feeling groovy Looking fine Think I'll come back here again Every now and then From time to time

I will walk alone by the black muddy river And listen to the ripples as they moan I will walk alone by the black muddy river Sing me a song of my own

William Tell has stretched his bow Till it won't stretch no furthermore And/or it will require a change that hasn't come before

Truckin', like the doodah man once told me, "You've got to play your hand" Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime, if you don't lay'em down.

Just like Jack and Jill, Mama told the sailor One hear up, and one cool down, leave nothin' for the tailor. Just like Jack and Jill, Papa told the jailer One go up, and one go down, do yourself a favor.

Been walking all morning Went walking all night I can't see much difference Between the dark and light And I feel the wind And I taste the rain Never in my mind To cause so much pain

Last leaf fallen, bare earth where green was, bone Above Madonna, two eagles hang against a cloud Sun comes up blood red Wind yells among the stone All graceful instruments are known

No, no! She can't take your mind and leave I know it's just another trick she's got up her sleeve I can't believe that she really wants you to die After all it's more than enough to pay for your lie

I was standing at the corner, talking to Miss Brown Well I turned around sweet mama, she was way across town So I'm walkin' down the street with a dollar in my hand I've been lookin' for a woman sweet mama, ain't got no man.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, the heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings, But the heart has its seasons, its evenin's and songs of its own.

Help on the way, well, I know only this, I've got you today. Don't fly away, cause I love what I love and I want it that way. I will stay one more day, like I say, honey it's you. Making it too, without love in the dream it'll never come true.

I wish I was a headlight, on a northbound train I wish I was a headlight, on a northbound train I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain.

You told me goodbye How was I to know You didn't mean goodbye You meant "please don't let me go"? I was having a high time, living the good life, Well I know

Willow sky, whoa, I walk and wonder why They say love your brother but you will catch it when you try Roll you down the line boy, drop you for a loss Ride out on a cold railroad and nail you to a cross

One more woman, Lord in this town. Keep her telling her lies on me. Wish to my soul that old woman would die. Keep her telling her lies on me.

Is there anything a man don't stand to lose When he lets a woman hold him in her hands You just might find yourself out there on horseback in the dark Just riding and running across those desert sands

All I know is something like a bird within her sang, All I know she sang a little while and then flew off, Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain.

My eyes turned to me, my darlin' and this is what she said: "You know that I will only be happy, when you and I are wed." Then God way up in heaven one day for her did call I lost my bride, oh how I loved her, my Rosalie McFall.

Esau skates on mirrors any more Meets his pale reflection at the door Yet sometimes at night I dream He's still that hairy man Shadow boxing the apocalypse And wandering the land Shadow boxing the apocalypse And wandering the land

River gonna take me, sing me sweet and sleepy Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home

I had to move Really had to move That's why if you please I am on my bended knees Bertha, don't you come around here any more

Look for a while at the China Cat sunflower, Proud-walking jingle in the midnight sun. Copper-dome bodhi drip a silver kimono, Like a crazy-quilt star gown Through a dream night wind.

Cow is giving kerosene, kid can't read at seventeen The words he knows are all obscene, but it's alright. I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive.

How my friends spoke so good of you Makes me burn inside Think of all you did to him I don't care how far or fast you ride

When they come to take you down When they bring that wagon 'round When they come to call on you and drag your poor body down Just one thing I ask of you, just one thing for me Please forget you knew my name, my darling Sugaree

Lazy lightning You say you never strike the same place I want a double dose in any case I'd fly a kite if I thought Thought that would do

Don't worry about me, nah nah nah, don't worry about me, no And I'm in no hurry, nah nah nah, I know where to go.

No more time to tell how This is the season of what Now is the time of returning With our thought jewels polished and gleaming

When you go down to Deep Elem put your money in your pants Cause the women in Deep Elem they don't give a man a chance Oh, sweet mama, your daddy's got them Deep Elem blues.

Well, baby baby wants a gold diamond ring, Wants it more than almost any old thing, Well when I get those jelly-roll blues, Why I'd go and get anything in this world for you.

Now I love those cowboys, I love their gold I love my uncle, God rest his soul Taught me good, Lord, taught me all I know Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold And I left his dead ass there by the side of the road

I can hear the drums Voodoo all night long Mister Charlie telling me I can't do nothing wrong

Heartless powers try to tell us what to think If the spirit's sleeping, then the flesh is ink. History's page, it is thusly carved in stone The future's here, we are it, we are on our own.