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[bucket851]

"Rock'N'Roll Music" (Chuck Berry)

Just let me hear some of that rock'n'roll music Any old way you choose it It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it Any old time you use it It's gotta be rock - roll music If you wanna dance with me If you wanna dance with me I have no kick against modern jazz Unless they try to play it too darn fast And change the beauty of the melody Until it sounds just like a symphony That's why I go for that rock'n'roll music Any old way you choose it It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it Any old time you use it It's gotta be rock - roll music If you wanna dance with me If you wanna dance with me I took my loved one over 'cross the tracks So she could her my man a - whalin' sax I must admit they have a rockin' band Man they were goin' like a hurricane That's why I go for that rock'n'roll music Any old way you choose it It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it Any old time you use it It's gotta be rock - roll music If you wanna dance with me If you wanna dance with me Way down South they gave a jubilee Them country folks they had a jamboree They're drinkin' home - brew from a wooden cup The folks dancin' got all shook up And started playin' that rock'n'roll music Any old way you choose it It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it Any old time you use it It's gotta be rock - roll music If you wanna dance with me If you wanna dance with me Don't care to hear 'em play the tango I'm in no mood to dig a mambo It's way too early for the congo So keep a - rockin' that piano So I can hear some of that rock'n'roll music any old way you choose it It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it Any old time you use it It's gotta be rock - roll music If you wanna dance with me If you wanna dance with me

[haulingthescoreup]

Hi, bucket--

You might be having the perma-paragraph problem that I won with the Lithium upgrade. When you start a post, are you in HTML or in Rich Text?

I was in HTML, where I've always happily been, and I couldn't make paragraphs to save my neck. I think it was because I had long ago changed the WYSIWYG setting in the older forums control.

Try posting in Rich Text, and see if it works. If it does, you can either (try to remember to) select Rich Text every time you post, or you can click My Settings, then Preferences, then on the Preference Options screen, click Use Rich Text Editor, about half way down.

You can also go back and edit Chuck in Rich Text and restore the format that you originally posted. HTH

[bicknar]

OK,  Random, and Obscure... and kinda fitting my mood... Sorry for the buzz kill...

I was flicking through the channels on the TV
On a Sunday in Milwaukee in the rain
Trying to piece together conversations
Trying to find out where to lay the blame

But when it comes right down to it there's no use trying to pretend
For when it gets right down to it there's no one here that's left to blame
Blame it on me, you can blame it on me
We're just sugar mice in the rain

I heard Sinatra calling me down through the floorboards
Where you pay a quarter for a partnership in rhyme
To the jukebox crying in the corner
While the waitress is counting out the time

For when it gets right down to it there's no use trying to pretend
For when it gets right down to it there's no one really left to blame
Blame it on me, you can blame it on me
We're just sugar mice in the rain

'Cause I know what I feel, know what I want I know what I am
Daddy took a raincheck
Cos I know what I want, know what I feel I know what I need
Daddy took a raincheck, your daddy took a raincheck
Ain't no one in here that's left to blame but me
Blame it on me, blame it on me

Well the toughest thing that I ever did was talk to the kids on the phone
When I heard them asking questions I knew that that you were all alone
Can't you understand that the government left me out of work
I just couldn't stand the looks on their faces saying, "What a jerk"

So if you want my address it's number one at the end of the bar
Where I sit with the broken angels clutching at straws and nursing our scars
Blame it on me, blame it on me
Sugar mice in the rain
Your daddy took a raincheck, your daddy took a raincheck

[Noah_Bodie]

This one is very credit appropriate.

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
we're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run.

Keep your foot hard on the pedal. Son, never mind them brakes.
Let it all hang out 'cause we got a run to make.
The boys are thirsty in Atlanta and there's beer in Texarcana.
And we'll bring it back no matter what it takes.

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
we're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run.

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
we're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run.

Ol' Smokey's got them ears on and he's hot on your trail.
He aint gonna rest 'til you're in jail.
So you got to dodge 'im and you got to duck 'im,
you got to keep that diesel truckin'.
Just put that hammer down and give it hell.

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
we're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run.

[MidnightVoice]

When Annie Took Me Home
by Tom Paxton

Late at night, somewhat tight,
Guardian angels put to flight
Freddie's doused the neon light
That promised while it shone.

Time to go, time to blow,
They don't push me cause they know
I am still in my long ago
When Annie took me home.

   There was I wondering why
   Annie'd choose to ask me over.
   But she did, sure she did,
   She called me her Irish rover.

Sat me there in her chair,
Ran her fingers through my hair.
Talk of heaven, I've been there,
When Annie took me home.

Rafters rung, songs were sung,
Spanish is a loving tongue.
Ribbons on my life were hung,
When Annie took me home.

   There was wine, there was time
   All the while guitars were playing.
   When the day came my way
   And she told me I'd be staying.

Love can go, love can grow,
Did she love me? I don't know.
Though she often told me so,
I never really known.

Was I blind?  I don't mind.
I think life's been more than kind.
Thanks to life there was the time
When Annie took me home.

[haulingthescoreup]

Prairie Wedding (Mark Knopfler)

We only knew each other by letter
When I went to meet her off the train
When the smoke had cleared and the dust was still
She was standing there and speaking my name

I guarantee she looked like an angel
I couldn't think of what I should say
But when Adam saw Eve in the garden
I believe he felt the selfsame way

I handed her up on the wagon
And I loaded up her trunk behind
She was sitting up there with the gold in her hair
And I tried to get hold of my mind

Do you think that you could love me Mary
Do you think we got a chance of a life
Do you think that you could love me Mary
Now you are to be my wife

We finally headed out of the station
And we drove up the home trail
And when we came to the farm she laid a hand on my arm
I thought my resolution would fail

And I froze as she stepped in the doorway
Stood there as still as could be
I said I know it ain't much, it needs a woman's touch
Lord she turned around and looked at me

Do you think that you could love me Mary
You think we got a chance of a life
Do you think that you could love me Mary
Now you are to be my wife

We had a prairie wedding
There was a preacher and a neighbour or two
I gave my golden thing a gold wedding ring
And the both of us said I do

And when the sun's going down on the prairie
And the gold in her hair is aflame
I say do you really love me Mary
And I hold her and I whisper her name

Do you think that you could love me Mary
You think we got a chance of a life
Do you think that you could love me Mary
Now you are to be my wife

Prairie Wedding

[MidnightVoice]

Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the mornin' last. Just kickin' down the cobblestones, Lookin' for fun and feelin' groovy. Ba da da da da da da, feelin' groovy. Hello, lamppost, whatcha knowin'? I come to watch your flowers growin'. Ain'tcha got no rhymes for me? Doo it doo doo, feelin' groovy. Ba da da da da da da, feelin' groovy. I got no deeds to do, no promises to keep. I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep Let the morningtime drop all it's petals on me Life, I love you, all is groovy! Ba da da da da da da ba bap a dee...

[wmarat]

Dance Me To The End Of Love
from Cohen Live

LYRICS

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love


Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love


Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love


Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

[BungalowMo]

Ahhhhh...one of my all time favorites... From 1972

Dust in the Wind (no, not the Kansas one) as sung by Todd Rundgren

You Tube :-)   worth a listen....white boy soul & a little Edgar Winter sax to boot.

Tell everyone that I am sorry, truly sorry
  For all the wrongs I done
  I never meant to hurt nobody
  Lord I never want to do no wrong

  I have lied, I have begged and I have cheated
  And I know my ship won't be coming in
  As I lay me down to take my rest
  I see that it's just dust in the wind

  Take hold my hand, hold it tighter, ever tighter
  You must believe that I love you still
  But my strength, it grows weaker, ever weaker
  And my body has lost its will

  Oh my Lord, I have lost once again
  And I got no one to help me find my way
  But I never wanted to hurt nobody
  And I never wanted to do no wrong

[MidnightVoice]

Garden Party : Rick Nelson

I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again
When I got to the garden party they all knew my name
No one recognized me; I didn't look the same

But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well
You see, you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself

People came from miles around everyone was there
Yoko brought her walrus there was magic in the air
And over in the corner much to my surprise
Mr. Hughes hid in Dylan's shoes wearing his disguise

[chorus]

Played them all the old songs, I thought that's why they came
No one heard the music, I didn't look the same
I said hello to "Mary Lou", she belongs to me
When I sang a song about a honky-tonk, it was time to leave

[chorus]

Someone opened up a closet door and out stepped Johnny B. Goode
Playing guitar like a-ringin' a bell and lookin' like he should
If you gotta play at garden parties, I wish you a lot of luck
But if memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck

[chorus]