lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

DOWN IN THE FLOOD

(Bob Dylan) « © '67 Dwarf Music, SESAC »
Crash on the levee mama water's gonna overflow
Swamp's gonna rise ain't no boat's a gonna row
Now you can train on down to Williams Point
You can bust your feet and you can rock this joint

But oh mama ain't you gonna miss your best friend now
You're gonna have to find yourself another best friend somehow

Now don't you try and move me you're just gonna lose
There's a crash on the levee and mama you've been refused
Well it's sugar for sugar and it's salt for salt
If you go down in the flood it's gonna be your falt

But oh mama...
[ dobro ] Well that high tide's risin' mama don't you let me down
Pack up your suitcase mama don't you make a sound
Now it's king for king it's queen for queen
It's a gonna be the meanest flood that anybody's seen

But oh mama...
You're gonna have to find yourself another best friend somehow
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2.

MR. TAMBOURINE MAN

(Bob Dylan) « © '65 Special Rider Music, SESAC »
Hey Mr Tambourine man play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey Mr Tambourine man play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you

Though I know that evening's empire has returned into the sand
Vanished from my hand left me blindly here to stand
But still not sleeping my weariness amazes me
I'm branded on my feet and I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty streets too dead for dreaming
Hey Mr Tambourine man play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
[ ac.guitar ] Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
My senses have been stripped and my hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step wait only for my bootheels to go wandering
I'm ready to go anywhere I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade cast your dancing spell my way I promise to go under it

Hey Mr Tambourine man...
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3.

DON'T THINK TWICE IT'S ALL RIGHT

(Bob Dylan) « © '63 Special Rider Music, SESAC »
It ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe it don't matter anyhow
It ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe if you don't know by now
When the roosters crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm travelin' on don't think twice it's all right

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light babe at last I'll never know
It ain't no use in turnin' on your light babe I'm on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was something I would do or say
To try and make it change my mind and stay
We never do too much talking anyway don't think twice it's all right
[ banjo - harmonica ] I'm walkin' down that long lonesome road babe where I'm bound for I can't tell
But goodbye is too good a word gal so I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind you could have done better but I don't mind
You just sorta wasted my precious time don't think twice it's all right

It ain't no use in callin' out my name gal like you never done before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name gal I can't hear you anymore
I'm thinkin' and a wonderin' all the way down the road
I've once loved a woman a child I'm told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul don't think twice it's all right
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4.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE

(Pete Seeger) « © '62 Sanga Music, BMI »
Where have all the flowers gone
Where have all the flowers gone long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone young girls picked them everyone
When will they ever learn when will they ever learn

Where have all the young girls gone long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone gone to young men everyone
When will they ever learn when will they ever learn

Where have all the young men gone long time passing
Where have all the young men gone long time ago
Where have all the young men gone gone for soldiers everyone
When will they ever learn when will they ever learn
[ ac.guitar ] Where have all the soldiers gone long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone gone to graveyards everyone
When will they ever learn when will they ever learn

Where have all the graveyards gone long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone gone to flowers everyone
When will they ever learn when will they ever learn

Where have all the flowers gone...
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5.

BLOWIN' IN THE WIND

(Bob Dylan) « © '63 Special Rider Music, SESAC »
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind
How many roads must a man walk down before they call him a man
Yes and how many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand
Yes and how many times must a cannonballs fly before they're forever banned
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind the answer is blowing in the wind
[ banjo ] How many times must a man look up before he sees the sky
Yes and how many ears must one man howl before he can hear people cry
Yes and how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind the answer is blowing in the wind
[ harmonica ] How many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea
Yes and how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free
Yes and how many times can a man turn his head and pretend he just doesn't see
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind the answer is blowing in the wind
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6.

IT AIN'T ME BABE

(Bob Dylan) « © '64 Special Rider Music, SESAC »
Go away from my window leave at your own chosen speed
I'm not the one you want babe I'm not the one you need
You say you're looking for someone never weak but always strong
To protect you and defend you whether you are right or wrong
Someone to open each and every door but it ain't me babe no no no
It ain't me babe it ain't me you're looking for babe
[ ac.guitar ] Go lightly from the ledge babe go lightly on the ground
I'm not the one you want babe I will only let you down
You say you're looking for someone who will promise never to part
Someone to close his eyes for you someone to close his heart
Someone who will die for you and more but it ain't me babe no no no
It ain't me babe it ain't me you're looking for babe
[ ac.guitar ] Go melt by into the night babe never thinkin' this side is made of stone
There's nothing in here moving anyway I'm not alone
You say you're looking for someone to pick you up each time you fall
To gather flowers constantly and come each time you call
I'll love you for your life and nothing more
But it ain't me babe it ain't me you're looking for babe (hey)
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7.

ODE TO BILLIE JOE

(Bobbie Gentry) « © '67 Northridge Music, ASCAP »
It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was bailin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered at the backdoor you all remember to wipe your feet
And then she said I got some news this morning from Choctaw Wridge
Today Billie Joe Macallister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas
Billie Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please
There's five more acres in the lower forty I got to plow
And mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow
Seems like nothing ever comes to no good upon Choctaw Wridge
Now Billie Joe Macallister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Caroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night
I'll have another piece of apple pie you know it just don't seem right
I saw him at sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Wridge
Now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Mama said to me child what's happened to your apetite
I've been cooking all morning and you haven't touched a single bite
And nice young preacher brother Tailor dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday oh by the way
Said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you upon Choctaw Wridge
She and Billie Joe was throwin' something off the Tallahatchie Bridge

Year's come and gone since we heard the news about Billie Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson and they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus goin' round papa caught it and he died last spring
Now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything
And me I spent a lot of time pickin' flowers upon Chotaw Wridge
And dropped 'em into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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8.

FOUR STRONG WINDS

(Ian Tyson) « © '63 WB Music, ASCAP »
Four strong winds that blow lonely seven seas that run high
All these things that don't change come what may
But my good times are all gone and I'm bound for moving on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

I may go out to Alberta weather's good there in the fall
Got some friends that I can go to working for
Still I wish you'd change your mind if I asked you one more time
But we've been through that a hundred times or more
[ ac.guitar - dobro ] If I get there before the snow flies and the things are going good
You could join me if I sent you down the fare
But if you'll wait until it's winter it would do no good
For the winds sure can blow cold way out there

Four strong winds...
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9.

BUDDY DON'T ROLL SO SLOW

(Lester Flatt - Earl Scruggs - Louise Certain) « © '68 Scruggs Music, BMI »
This nine pound hammer is a little too heavy for my size it's for my size
Now roll on buddy don't you go so slow well can't I go if my wheels won't roll
[ dobro ] Well there ain't want no Hazzard in this coal county
And it rains like mine honey it rains like mine
For it rings like silver and it shines like gold
For it rings like silver and it shines like gold
Well roll on buddy don't you go so slow
Well can't I go if the wheels won't roll
[ fiddle ] Oh the nine pound hammer that killed John Henry
Ain't a gonna kill me ain't a honna kill me
Now roll on buddy don't you go so slow
Well can't I go if the wheels won't roll
[ ac.guitar ] When I pass on right on my tombstone
This coal miner is a long time gone
Well roll on buddy don't you go so slow
well can't I go if the wheels won't roll
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10.

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN

(Earl Scruggs) « © '49 Peer International, BMI »
[ instrumental ] **********

11.

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

(Woody Guthrie) « © '60 Ludlow Music, BMI »
This land is your land and it's my land from California to New York Island
From redwood forrest to the gulf stream water I said this land belongs to you and me

As I went roaming that river of highway I saw above me there in the skyway
I saw below me that golden valley I said this land belongs to you and me

This land is your land...
[ banjo ] I roamed and rambled I follow my footsteps
I crossed golden sands of your diamond desert
And all around me a voice kept saying
It said this land was made for you and me

This land is your land...
[ ac.guitar ] As the sun was shining and I was strolling
And the whitfields waving and the dust clouds rolling
As I thought of lifting a voice was saying
It said this land was made for you and me
This land is your land...
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