1.

Acapulco Goldie

Shel Silverstein

© Evil Eye Music, BMI

Oh oh hey play the guitars
Yeah I love to hear the guitars playin'
Oh I love to sing I love to sing yes

She was dancing when I seen her
In a Mexican Cantina
In a neighborhood they call La Zona Roja
She had a child's smile
But she told me in a while
It would take a lot of gold to get to know her

Oh Acapulco Goldie donde did you go
You said you'd always hold me
But you run away with me Acapulco gold
Oh look at the terrible deed you did

I know there's no one cuter
Then she said she was a puta
I said what does puta mean
Hmm and so she told me oh no
Then we went to meet a dealer
We smoked and drink tequila
Then the lights went out
And I guess that's when where she rolled me

Just like Acapulco Goldie por que did you go
You said you always hold me
But you vamos away with me Acapulco gold
Oh yeah but you run away with me Acapulco gold

Oh Goldie how can you do these things to me
Oh where is my gun who took my gun
Oh I don't feel good I don't feel good lady
Stop the guitars stop the guitars

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2.

Penicillin Penny

Shel Silverstein

© Evil Eye Music, BMI

Penicillin Penny she's the queen of the sunset strip hmm watch her
If she ever gives you any then you better see your doctor real quick
From the back seat of Cadillac cars to the floor of men's room bars
She's Penicillin Penny and her future's written in the stars

She's Penicillin Penny and ever since the day she came and came
They say she's had so many she gives 'em all numbers not names ah bitch
I always call her Hun' but she calls me one thousand and one
And Penicillin Penny starts to boogie when the day is done

Brings on the claps

Now she's Penicillin Penny and if you ever see her passing through
Better run into your house before she stops and lays a little on you
If you ever let her in your door it takes 20 million units or more
To cure the love that Penicillin Penny's gonna lay on you

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3.

(# 69 pop hit)

Life Ain't Easy

Shel Silverstein - Ray Sawyer

© Evil Eye Music, BMI

Well here I am in the wind again
Floatin' where it takes me
Laughin' and splashin' in the summer sun
Until the 'larm clock wakes me
Then it's coffee and a kiss and two cigarettes
And I'm back out in the cold cold weather
Chasin' my dreams but I just can't seem
To rub two coins together

Singin' life ain't easy
They never said it would be
Life ain't easy
Whoever said it should be
Life ain't easy
And nothing comes free free free free
Life ain't easy
Tell me all about it
Life ain't easy
No no no no
Life ain't easy
And nothing comes free for you or me
[ guitar ]
That woman she don't understand
The way my mind keeps driftin'
The Lord don't always lend a hand
When my poor heart needs liftin'
Is home and kids really all there is
Or is there something better
And how much soul must a poor man sell
To rub two coins together

Don't you know that
Life ain't easy
No no no no
Life ain't easy
Whoever said it would be
Life ain't easy
And nothing comes free free free free
Life ain't easy
Can you hear me
Life ain't easy
Tell me all about it
Life ain't easy
And nothing's free free free free
Life ain't easy
Tell me all about it
Life ain't easy
No no no no
Life ain't easy
And nothing comes free free free free
Life ain't easy life ain't easy

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4.

When Lilly Was Queen

Ron Haffkine - Ray Sawyer - Dennis Locorriere

© Evil Eye Music, BMI

Lilly Pearl standin' by the woodstove
Cookin' up a pot of fatback and beans
Aprons made outta Martha White flour sack
Them was the days when Lilly was queen

There's gonna be a family reunion
Down around Little River Park
Lilly got a brand new baby they say
Jesse Brown had to up and run away
It might as well rain cause nobody came
Jesse left so fast the baby got no name

Lilly Pearl what'cha gonna name your baby
Lilly Pearl what'cha gonna name your child
Lilly Pearl they say he run away and left you crazy
But ooh your man had a pretty smile

Lilly Pearl told most folks
She could raise her baby fine without a man
But she cried at the table to her kin folk
Her people cried with her but did they understand

Lilly Pearl still standin' by the woodstove
Talkin' to a pot of fatback and beans
Twenty years later still cookin' a spread
But there's no reunion cause the family's mostly dead
They took her baby at the age of thirteen
Left her livin' in the days when Lilly was queen

Lilly Pearl did you ever name your baby...
Lilly Pearl you never gonna know your baby...

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5.

Monterey Jack

Shel Silverstein

© Evil Eye Music, BMI

Monterey Jack woke up in his shack on a Monday
Monterey Jack has a little bitty stack of some eldeberry wine
Monterey Jack walked down the track
All the way to old Harvey's shack
Stuckin' by old Harvey's back
And they say that's the way old Harley Davison died

One two three four
Old Jack Hoff was gettin' off in a doorway
Old Jack Hoff was gettin' off with little Sara Lee
Old Jack Hoff was gettin' off
When he mumbled stumbled and started to cough
His vein went hard and he went soft
They say that's the way old Jack Hoff OG'd
You mean OD'd no OG'd oh well what's that
That's when you OD and you say oh gee

One two three four
Tom McCann was sittin' in the sand by the ocean
Tom McCann looked into his hand and found a Jelly Roll
Tom McCann was feelin' grand
All the girls were lickin' his hand
He's a heel but man oh man
Everybody knows that Tom McCann got soul

It's over no it ain't no it ain't either here it is again
It's really the end

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6.

You Ain't Got The Right

Ron Haffkine - Ray Sawyer - Dennis Locorriere

© Evil Eye Music, BMI

You ain't got the right to tell me I'm not lonely
Cause you don't understand what I've been through
She had every right to do the wrong that she done to me
And that don't make it easier to lose
And that don't make it easier to lose

I woke up Wednesday mornin' with the feelin' she was gone
And I turned to face an empty place and I realized
That I didn't smell no coffee and all her pretty clothes was gone
I cried the first of the many tears you'll see me cryin' from now on

And you ain't got the right to tell me I'm not lonely...

I know her list of lovers was just as long as mine
But the sometime plan of a natural man is to settle down
But the one time ways of that woman done busted up my mind
Now she's out the door and she got one more on her list than I got on mine

And you ain't got the right to tell me I'm not lonely...

It's gonna be a long time fore I come this way again
I been dragged through school and I learned the rules and it seems to me
That a woman love to do you but she won't always do you nice
She had her turn I guess I learned you know she ain't gonna do me twice

And you still ain't got the right to tell me I'm not lonely...

Hello this first side of the record is over
And we would like you to go to bed
Go to sleep now and listen to the rest of the record tomorrow
Get some sleep you got big whoops in your eyes
Ha ha ha ha

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7.

Put A Little Bit On Me

Shel Silverstein

© Evil Eye Music, BMI

One a.m. and here I set
Two a.m. and you ain't home yet
I don't wanna think where you might be
Guess I'll go and get me stoned
Lord I feel so all alone
Oh and how I wish that you'd come home
And put a little bit on me

Put a little bit on me sweet momma
Put a little bit on me
You put a little bit on everybody else
Everybody else you see
You put a little here you put a little there
All I want is my rightful share
Hey momma ain't you gonna wanna
Put a little bit on me

You used to call me Sweet Daddy Jelly Roll
I used to feel your mind and thrill your soul
And any time I needed you you cure'd my misery
But those days have gone and passed us by
And all you do is lay around on your ass and cry
Baby if you don't wanna see me die
Put a little bit on me

Put a little bit on me sweet momma...
Put a little bit on me sweet momma...

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8.

(# 83 pop hit)

Ballad Of...

Ron Haffkine - Ray Sawyer - Dennis Locorriere

© Blackwood Music, BMI / Rekooh Music, BMI

He stands tall in his handmade boots
Pretty little girls all around
Black was the shade of his nudie suit
And when he sang there was not a sound

From state line to Mobile he entertained the crowds
Everybody there knew his name
His climb had started but the road gets harder
When you're closing in on fame

Bright lights shine and the crowd goes wild
The show won't start till y'all calm down
One pretty little girl stands all alone
And when she cried there was not a sound

For just three days in New Orleans she never left his side
That girl became a woman with her very first man
But to her only lover she was just like all the others
Till she stood there with that gun in her hand

A shot rang out and the crowd goes wild
A shot rang out and the crowd goes wild
A shot rang out and the crowd goes wild
The crowd goes wild the crowd goes wild
The crowd goes wild the crowd goes wild

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9.

Roland The Roadie And Gertrude The Groupie

Shel Silverstein

© Evil Eye Music, BMI

Now Roland the Roadie was only a toadie
Who sat up the lights and the mikes for the shows
And Gertrude the Groupie was a rock'n roll fan
Who stood by the stage door in the rains and the snows

Roland the Roadie met Gertrude the Groupie
At a rock concert back in Bayonne
He tried to seduce her said he'd introduce her
To all of the Beatles and Stones
So Roland the Roadie got Gertrude the Groupie
A seat in the balcony above
And Gertrude the Groupie felt grateful and groovie
But Roland the Roadie felt love

And some folks loves ham hocks and some folks loves pork chops
And some folks loves vegetable soup
And Roland the Roadie loves Gertrude the Groupie
But Gertrude the Groupie loves groups

She stood up and screamed as the amber spot beamed
On her heroes so skinny and tall
With their eyelids so droopy and Gertrude the Groupie
Knew she was in love with them all

Roland the Roadie told Gertrude the Groupie
To wait and he'd be her man
But while he dreamed of a rose covered home
She was out with the group in the van
[ harmonica - guitar ]
Now Roland the Roadie he's back on the road
His heart has been broken again
And Gertrude the Groupie waits out in the cold
For very next group to come in

And some folks loves ham hocks and some folks loves pork chops...
Groups groups groups groups groups groups groups

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10.

Come On In

Ray Sawyer - Dennis Locorriere

© Blackwood Music, BMI / Rekooh Music, BMI

I Don't know where you come from and I don't know where you been
If you're ever round my farm won'tcha come on in

I don't know if you been wrong don't know if you been right
But if you're ever round my farm won'tcha stop the night

If you're a pretty little hippie and you're a hitchin' down the road
And you wanna hang it up for the night
Look for the big green farm with the red and yellow barn
Just over to the left or the right

Come a kickin' through the chickens and ring my bell
And I'll be happy as hell well

I Don't know where you slept last night and I don't care what he said
If you're ever round my farm you can share my bed

I Don't know what you're smokin' or what you been learnin' in school
But if you're ever round my farm you can fuck my mule

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11.

Wonderful Soup Stone

Shel Silverstein

© Evil Eye Music, BMI

I swear you could taste the chicken and tomatoes
And the noodles and the marrow bone
But it really wasn't nothin' but some water and potatoes
And the wonderful wonderful soup stone

Hanging from a string in my momma's kitchen back in the hard time days
Was a little ol' stone bout the size of an apple it was smooth and worn and gray
There wasn't much food in my momma's kitchen so whenever things got tight
Momma'd boil up some water put in the stone say let's have some soup tonight

And I swear you could taste the chicken and tomatoes...

It'd be in the family for a whole lotta years so we knew it was a nourishing thing
And I remember momma as he stirred it in the water and we all could hear her sing
It's a magical stone and as long as we got it we'll never have a hungry night
Just add a little love to the wonderful soup stone and everything'll be all right

And I swear you could taste the chicken and tomatoes...

So it carried us all through the darkenin' days till finally the sunshine came
And the soup stone it started in a gatherin' dust but it hung there just the same
And ever since then the food's been plenty and ever now and then I find
That momma in the kitchen and the wonderful soup stone drifts across my mind

And again I can taste the chicken and tomatoes
And the noodles and the marrow bone
But it really wasn't nothin' but some water and potatoes
And the wonderful wonderful soup stone

And again I can taste the chicken and tomatoes...

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