- A -
Songwriter: John Prine
I am an old woman
Named after my mother
My old man is another
Child who’s grown old
If dreams were lightning
And thunder were desire
This old house would’ve burned down
A long time ago
Refrain:
Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin’
Is just a hard way to go
When I was a young girl
Well, I had me a cowboy
He weren’t much to look at
Just a free ramblin’ man
But that was a long time
And no matter how I tried
The years just flowed by
Like a broken down dam
[Refrain]
There’s flies in the kitchen
I can hear ’em there buzzin’
And I ain’t done nothing
Since I woke up today
How the hell can a person
Go to work in the morning
Then come home in the evening
And have nothing to say?
[Refrain]
To believe in this livin’
Is just a hard way to go
- B -
Songwriter: Joni Mitchell
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Refrain:
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Choo Bop Bop Bop Bop… Choo Bop Bop Bop Bop
They took all the trees
Put ’em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see ’em
[Refrain]
Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
[Refrain]
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
[Refrain]
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
- C -
Songwriters: George Weiss / Hugo Peretti / Luigi Creatore
Wise men say
Only fools rush in
But I can’t help falling in love with you
Shall I stay?
Would it be a sin
If I can’t help falling in love with you?
Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand
Take my whole life, too
For I can’t help falling in love with you
Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand
Take my whole life, too
For I can’t help falling in love with you
For I can’t help falling in love with you
- D -
Songwriters: Glenn Lewis Frey / Donald Hugh Henley
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
You been out ridin’ fences for so long now
Oh, you’re a hard one
But I know that you’ve got your reasons
These things that are pleasin’ you
Can hurt you somehow
Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She’ll beat you if she’s able
Know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
Well, it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the things that you can’t get
Desperado, you know you ain’t gettin’ no younger
Your pain and your hunger, drivin’ you home
And freedom, oh freedom
Well, that’s just some people talkin’
Your prison is walking
Through this world all alone
And don’t your feet get cold in the wintertime?
The sky won’t snow, and the sun won’t shine
It’s hard to tell the night-time from the day
You’re losin’ all your highs and lows
Ain’t it funny how the feelin’ goes away?
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you (let somebody love you)
Let somebody love you before it’s too late
- E -
Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney
Ooh I need your love babe,
Guess you know it’s true.
Hope you need my love babe,
Just like I need you.
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me.
Ain’t got nothin’ but love babe,
Eight days a week.
Love you ev’ry day girl,
Always on my mind.
One thing I can say girl,
Love you all the time.
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me.
Ain’t got nothin’ but love babe,
Eight days a week.
Eight days a week
I love you.
Eight days a week
Is not enough to show I care.
Ooh I need your love babe, …
Eight days a week …
Love you ev’ry …
Eight days a week. Eight days a week. Eight days a week.
- F -
Songwriters: Elizabeth Cotton / Fred Williams / Paul James
Freight train, freight train, run so fast
Freight train, freight train, run so fast
Please don’t tell what train I’m on
They won’t know what route I’m gone
When I’m dead, Lord, and in my grave
No more good times, yeah, I crave
Place the stones at my head and feet
And tell them all that I’m gone to sleep
Freight train, freight train, run so fast
Freight train, freight train, run so fast
Please don’t tell what train I’m on
They won’t know what route I’m gone
- G -
Songwriter: Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter
Refrain:
Irene, goodnight
Irene, goodnight
Goodnight, Irene, goodnight, Irene
I kissed you in my dreams
Sometimes I live in the country,
Sometimes I live in town
Sometimes I take a great notion
To jump in the river and drown
[Refrain]
Stop rambling, stop your gambling
Stop staying out late at night
Come home to your wife and your family
And sit by the fireside bright
[Refrain]
Last Saturday night, I got married
Me and my wife settled down
Now me and my wife are parted
I’m gonna take another stroll uptown
[Refrain]
I love Irene, God knows I do
Love her ’til the rivers run dry
If Irene turn her back on me
Gonna take morphine and die
[Refrain]
- H -
Songwriters: Augusto Alguero / Ronald Mack
He’s so fine (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
Wish he were mine (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
That handsome boy over there (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
The one with the wavy hair (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
I don’t know how I’m gonna do it (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
But I’m gonna make him mine (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
He’s the envy of all the girls (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
It’s just a matter of time (doo-lang-doo-lang)
He’s a soft-spoken guy (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
Also, seems kinda shy (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
Makes me wonder if I (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
Should even give him a try (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
But then I know he can’t shy (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
He can’t shy away forever (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
And I’m gonna make him mine (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
If it takes me forever (doo-lang-doo-lang)
He’s so fine (oh-yeah), gotta be mine (oh-yeah)
Sooner or later (oh-yeah), I hope it’s not later (oh-yeah)
We got to get together (oh-yeah), the sooner, the better (oh-yeah)
I just can’t wait, I just can’t wait to be held in his arms
If I were a queen (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
And he asked me to leave my throne (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
I’d do anything that he asked (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)
Anything to make him my own (doo-lang-do-lang-do-lang)
For he’s so fine (so fine), so fine (so fine)
So fine (so fine), so fine (so fine)
So fine (so fine), oh-yeah (so fine)
So fine (so fine), uh-huh (so fine)
So fine (so fine)
- I J K -
Songwriters: Carole King and Toni Stern
Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time
There’s something wrong here, there can be no denying
One of us is changing
Or maybe we just stopped trying
Refrain:
And it’s too late baby now it’s too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died
And I can’t hide and I just can’t fake it
It used to be so easy living here with you
You were light and breezy and I knew just what to do
Now you look so unhappy and I feel like a fool
[Refrain]
There’ll be good times again for me and you
But we just can’t stay together, don’t you feel it too
Still I’m glad for what we had and how I once loved you
[Refrain]
It’s too late, baby; and it’s too late now, darlin’,
And it’s too late…
- L -
Songwriters: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, be
And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me
Shinin’ until tomorrow, let it be
I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
And let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
- M -
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m goin’ to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle mornin’ I’ll come followin’ you
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship
Oh, my senses have been stripped, and my hands can’t feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Waitin’ only for my boot heels to be wanderin’
I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade
Into my own parade
Cast your dancin’ 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 goin’ to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle mornin’ I’ll come followin’ you
- N -
Songwriters: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
I once had a girl
Or should I say she once had me
She showed me her room
Isn’t it good Norwegian wood?
She asked me to stay
And she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around
And I noticed there wasn’t a chair
I sat on a rug biding my time
Drinking her wine
We talked until two and then she said
“It’s time for bed”
She told me she worked
In the morning and started to laugh
I told her I didn’t
And crawled off to sleep in the bath
And when I awoke I was alone
This bird had flown
So I lit a fire
Isn’t it good Norwegian wood?
- O -
Songwriters: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Desmond has his barrow in the marketplace
Molly is the singer in a band
Desmond says to Molly, “Girl, I like your face”
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand
“Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah
La-la, how their life goes on
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah
La-la, how their life goes on”
Desmond takes a trolley to the jeweller’s store (choo-choo)
Buys a 20-carat golden ring (ring)
Takes it back to Molly waiting at the door
And as he gives it to her, she begins to sing (sing)
“Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah
La-la, how their life goes on
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah
La-la, how their life goes on”
In a couple of years they have built a home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones (ha-ha-ha-ha)
Happy ever after in the marketplace
Desmond lets the children lend a hand
Molly stays at home and does her pretty face
And in the evening she still sings it with the band, yes
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah
La-la, how their life goes on (yeah)
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah
La-la, how their life goes on
In a couple of years they have built a home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones (ha-ha-ha-ha), yeah
Happy ever after in the marketplace
Molly lets the children lend a hand
Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
And in the evening she’s a singer with the band, yeah
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah
La-la, how their life goes on (yeah)
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah
La-la, how their life goes on
And if you want some fun
Take ob-la-di-bla-da
- P Q -
Songwriter: Curtis Mayfield
Ooo-oo-oo-oo, Ooo-oo-oo-oo
People get ready, there’s a train a-coming
You don’t need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin’
Don’t need no ticket, you just thank the Lord
People get ready for the train to Jordan
It’s picking up passengers from coast to coast
Faith is the key, open the doors and board ’em
There’s hope for all among those loved the most
[instrumental interlude 4 bars]
There ain’t no room for the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
For there’s no hiding place against the Kingdom’s Throne
[instrumental interlude 8 bars]
So people get ready, there’s a train a-comin’
You don’t need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming
Don’t need no ticket —
You just thank — the — Lord — ooh — ooh
- R -
Songwriters: Frank M. Sampedro / Neil Young
There’s colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin’ their feet
People sleepin’ in their shoes
But there’s a warnin’ sign on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people sayin’ we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
There’s an old street light (near a garbage can)
Near a garbage can (near a garbage can)
And now she put the kid away and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid that’ll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
We got department stores and toilet paper
Got Styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
- S -
Traditional
Refrain:
Shady Grove, my little love
Shady Grove I say
Shady Grove, my little love
I’m bound to go away
Cheeks as red a blooming rose
And eyes are the prettiest brown
She’s the darling of my heart
Sweetest girl in towm
[Refrain]
I wish I had a big fine horse
And corn to feed him on
And Shady Grove to stay at home
And feed him while I’m gone
[Refrain]
Went to see my Shady Grove
She was standing in the door
Her shoes and stockin’s in her hand
And her little bare feet on the floor
[Refrain]
When I was a little boy
I wanted a Barlow knife
And now I want little Shady Grove
To say she’ll be my wife
[Refrain]
A kiss from pretty little Shady Grove
Is sweet as brandy wine
And there ain’t no girl in this old world
That’s prettier than mine
[Refrain]
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright.
Round yon virgin mother and child,
Holy infant so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Silver bells, silver bells,
It’s Christmas time in the city.
(lyrics coming soon)
- T -
Songwriter: Pete Seeger
Refrain:
To everything turn, turn, turn
There is a season turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under Heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
[Refrain]
A time to buid up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones
A time to gather stones together
[Refrain]
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing
[Refrain]
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rain, a time of sow
A time for love, a time for hate
A time for peace, I swear it′s not too late
- U V -
Songwriters: Carole King and Gerry Goffin
When this old world starts getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space
On the roof, it’s peaceful as can be
And there the world below can’t bother me
Let me tell you now
When I come home feelin’ tired and beat
I go up where the air is fresh and sweet (up on the roof)
I get away from the hustling crowd
And all that rat race noise down in the street (up on the roof)
On the roof, the only place I know
Where you just have to wish to make it so
Let’s go up on the roof (up on the roof)
At night the stars put on a show for free
And darling, you can share it all with me
I keep a-tellin’ you
Right smack dab in the middle of town
I’ve found a paradise that’s trouble proof (up on the roof)
And if this world starts getting you down
There’s room enough for two
Up on the roof (up on the roof)
Up on the roof (up on the roof)
Oh, come on, baby (up on the roof)
Oh, come on, honey (up on the roof)
Everything is all right (up on the roof)
- W -
Songwriters: Lou Adler, Sam Cooke, Herb Alpert
Don′t know much about history
Don’t know much biology
Don′t know much about a science book
Don’t know much about the french I took
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me, too
What a wonderful world this would be
Don’t know much about geography
Don′t know much trigonometry
Don′t know much about algebra
Don’t know what a slide rule is for
But I know that one and one is two
And if this one could be with you
What a wonderful world this would be.
I don′t claim to be an ‘A′ student
But I’m tryin′ to be
For maybe by being an ‘A’-student, baby
I can win your love for me
Don′t know much about history
Don′t know much biology
Don’t know much about a science book
Don′t know much about the French I took
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me, too
What a wonderful world this would be
(La, ta, ta, tata, ta, ta) History
(Hmmmm) Biology
(Woah, la, ta, ta, tata, ta, ta) Science book
(Hmmmm) French I took (Yeah)
But I do know that I love you,
And I know that if you love me, too
What a wonderful world this would be
Songwriters: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can’t let you slide through my hands
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn’t drag me away
I watched you suffer a dull, aching pain
Now you’ve decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Can make me feel bitter or treat you unkind
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn’t drag me away
I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don’t have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let’s do some living after we die
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we’ll ride them someday
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we’ll ride them someday
- X Y Z -
Songwriters: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed on to the sun
‘Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
And our friends are all aboard
Many more of them live next door
And the band begins to play
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
Full steam ahead, Mister Boatswain, full steam ahead
Full steam ahead it is, Sergeant
(Cut the cable, drop the cable)
Aye-aye, sir, aye-aye
Captain, captain
As we live a life of ease (a life of ease)
Every one of us (every one of us)
Has all we need (has all we need)
Sky of blue (sky of blue)
And sea of green (sea of green)
In our yellow (in our yellow)
Submarine (submarine, aha)
We all live in a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine