THE TRACTORS
FAST GIRL
(Arista 8118)
2000
Produced by Steve Ripley
James Burton - guitar/dobro
Fats Kaplin - steel/dobro/fiddle/harmonica/mandolin/accordion
Teddy Jack, Angelene Ripley, Rick Vito - guitar/vocals
Al Perkins - steel
Jim Bates - bass
Jamie Oldaker, D.J. Fontana - drums
Sam Bush, Shelby Eicher - fiddle/mandolin
John Herron, Leon Russell, Glen Mitchell - piano/organ
Jim Karstein - percussion
Jay Spell - accordion
Bud Deal, Mike Panno - sax
Mike Bennett - trumpet
Vocals:
Vicki Hampton, Yvonne Hodges, Jim Pulte, Jared Tyler
Recorded at Church Studio, Tulsa
1.
BABALOU
(Steve Ripley)
« © '00 Fast Girl Music, BMI »
In the middle of the ocean storm clouds risin'
A young Christopher Columbus was searchin' the horizon
The crew say hey Chris what we gonna do
All that he could say was baba baba babalou babalou babalou
Babalou babalou
No matter what you do yaou got to babalou
God's chosen people were marchin' round the wall
They played so loud the wall began to fall
Above all the screamin' a voice came cuttin' through
Joshua was singin' baba baba babalou babalou babalou
Babalou babalou...
[ fiddle ]
In 1957 I was seven years old
Glued to the TV set wouldn't do a thing that I was told
I loved Lucy Fred and Ethel too
And Ricky when he sang baba baba babalou babalou babalou
Babalou babalou...
[ guitar ]
It's the American way to have a big election
Go right out and vote make a presidential selection
All those politicians they ain't got a clue
They wouldn't know their butt from a hole in the ground
Or a good babalou babalou babalou
Babalou babalou...
Babalou babalou...
Whatever else you do yeah you got to babalou
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2.
CAN'T GET NOWHERE
(Steve Ripley - D.J. Fontana)
« © '00 Fast Girl Music, BMI »
Wade in the water about half way up
Baby said whoa that's far enough
Can't get nowhere can't get nowhere
Can't find my way from here to there
Can't get started can't get nowhere
You're a fast ball baby inside curve
I'd take a swing I ain't got the nerve
Can't get nowhere can't get nowhere...
[ guitar - piano ]
Takes me all night must be somethin' wrong
Just to do what I used to do all night long
Can't get nowhere can't get nowhere...
[ guitar ]
Six-foot-four five-foot-one
Have to stand her on a chair just to get things done
Can't get nowhere can't get nowhere...
[ steel ]
There was a time I used to get on down
Now I can't seem to get off the ground
Can't get nowhere can't get nowhere...
Takes me all night must be somethin' wrong
Just to do what I used to do all night long
Can't get nowhere can't get nowhere...
Oh me oh my oh you what's a poor boy gonna do
Oh me oh my I can't get started and I don't know why
Can't get nowhere can't get nowhere...
Can't get nowhere can't get nowhere...
Can't find my way from here to there
Can't get started can't get nowhere
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3.
READY TO CRY
(Steve Ripley - Russell Bridges)
« © '00 Fast Girl Music, BMI »
Ready to cry I'm ready to let it all go
If you say goodbye ooh I'm ready to let the tears flow
And if I said that I could take it you know I'd be telling a lie
Cause I'm ready ready ready ready to cry ooh ready to cry
Count on me I'm ready to play the part
If you set me free ooh you know it's gonna break my heart
And if I said I'll be alright you know I'd be telling a lie
Cause I'm ready ready ready I'm ready to cry ready to cry
Ooh ready to cry ooh ready to cry
It's not the first time I've been hurtin' inside
But it's the first time I ever felt like I wanted to die
And I'm ready ready ready I'm ready to cry ready to cry
[ guitar ]
And if I said that I could take it you know I'd be telling a lie
Cause I'm ready ready ready ready to cry ooh ready to cry
And if I said I'll be alright you know I'd be telling a lie
Cause I'm ready ready ready I'm ready to cry ready to cry
Ooh ready to cry ooh ready to cry...
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4.
NINE ELEVEN
(Steve Ripley - Huey Smith - Willie Weeks)
« © '00 Fast Girl Music, BMI »
Somebody get the doctor on the phone
I got a funny feeling won't leave me alone
Girl it's a crime what you do to me nine eleven emergency
I got the temperature a hundred and four
Hurt so good scream and holler for more
Baby it's a crime what you do to me nine eleven emergency
Give me a pill give me a shot
I got the chills and I'm burning up hot
Stomach's turning bout to regurgitate
Nine-one-one me babe before it's too late
Diagnosis got to get help fast one more boogie might be my last
But I gots to do it what can I say nine eleven haul me away
[ sax ]
Give me a pill give me a shot...
Girl it's a crime what you do to me nine eleven emergency
Nine eleven emergency
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5.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING
(Steve Ripley)
« © '00 Fast Girl Music, BMI »
Hear the angels sing it's a beautiful thing
There's a lot of new music stop and think and you'll find
Even Hank was new music once got to keep an open mind
I set aside my Faron Young and bought myself a Hootie
I rolled down the window of my pickup truck and sailed it like a Frisbee
It's a beautiful thing praise the Lord above
It sailed through the air on the wings of a dove
Hear the angels sing it's a beautiful thing
[ fiddle ]
Even the best of friends don't really understand
How it feels to hit a lick in a Chuck Berry rock'n roll band
Or sing Hey Good Lookin' get the crowd in a trance
See the gleam in a young girl's eyes as she gets up to dance
It's a beautiful thing praise the Lord above
When the band hits a groove that fits like a glove
Hear the angels sing it's a beautiful thing
In the still of the night you by my side
I listen to you breathe tears in my eyes
Love falls all around like a soft gentle rain
It's you and me baby and it's a beautiful thing
It's a beautiful thing praise the Lord above
You by my side forever fallin' deeper in love
Hear the angels sing it's a beautiful thing
Hear the angels sing it's a beautiful thing
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6.
COMPUTER CONTROLLED
(Steve Ripley)
« © '00 Fast Girl Music, BMI »
Sometimes I feel like a dinosaur
Standin' up here with my electric guitar
It won't be long we won't need musicians
Just button pushers and good electricians
The whole world is computer controlled
Speed of light shrinking planet
It's the age of miracles we take for granted
We've all got a number it follows us around
Can't get away they'll track you down
It's out of our hands it's computer controlled
The whole world is computer controlled
We're approaching the ultimate chaos
Where everything's reduced to ons and offs
Where the measure of a man is his hard disk size
Say hey what do you say let's get digitized
We're approaching the ultimate chaos...
Get your kicks on the world wide web
Reach out and touch a porno Hollywood celeb
Download some explanation maybe you'll find
Some kind of new world order thinking that will free up your mind
And take your soul it's computer controlled
It's out of our hands it's computer controlled
The whole world is computer controlled computer controlled
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7.
FAST GIRL
(Steve Ripley - Bud Deal - Mike Panno)
« © '00 Fast Girl Music, BMI »
She got a candy red Cadillac Coupe DeVille
Great big house on a great big hill
Big time needs big time friends
She wear you flat out then start all over again
She's a fast girl
She got a high tone way of gettin' real low down
Sometime she screams sometime she don't make a sound
She got homegrown tomatoes ripe on the vine
Gently takes your hand then drags you over the line
She's a fast girl you can see it in her face
In the way she moves she's all over the place
Body in motion brain in a whirl no bout a doubt it she's a fast girl
[ horns ]
She got big red lips she give real good phone
Big pointed breasts filled with silicone
Never automatic she got manual drive
Know how to crash and burn and come through alive
She's a fast girl
[ horns ]
Martinis and the smell of cigar smoke
Hangin' in the air till you're ready to choke
On life itself future and past
As long as it's big as long as it's fast
She's a fast girl
She's a midwest fundemental grew up in church
A Catholic girl on a lifelong search
For some kind of meaning that's big and fast
She's a fast girl you can see it in her face
In the way she moves she's all over the place
Body in motion brain in a whirl no bout a doubt it she's a fast girl
No bout a doubt it she's a fast girl
She's a fast girl she's a fast girl she's a fast girl...
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8.
DON'T EVER TAKE MY PICTURE DOWN
(Moon Mullican - Lou Wayne)
« © '00 Unichappell Music, BMI »
You can take my ring off your finger
You can go out and paint the whole town
Well go do what you will you are my baby still
Don't ever take my picture down
Let it hang let it hang in the corner
To remind you that I'll be around
Cause when I'm feeling blue I'm coming home to you
Don't ever take my picture down
[ steel - piano - fiddle - sax ]
You can swim like a fish in the ocean
You can jump like a frog on the ground
But you can't mend a heart that's been broken apart
Don't ever take my picture down
You can use up all the grease that's in the kitchen
You can go buy some more by the pound
But true love's not like lard and you'll find it is hard
So don't ever take my picture down
Let it hang let it hang in the corner
To remind you that I'll be around
Cause when I'm feeling blue I'm coming home to you
Don't ever take my picture down
[ sax - steel ]
Let it hang let it hang in the corner...
Well go do what you will you are my baby still
Don't ever take my picture down don't ever take my picture down
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9.
HIGHER GROUND
(Steve Ripley - Walt Richmond)
« © '00 Fast Girl Music, BMI »
I had an uncle big as life he called me Captain
He believed he played a part in God's plan
He drove a Hudson Hornet car and a John Deere tractor
Safe in the sweaty palm of God's hand
I can still hear Georgia singin' through the kitchen window
One farm over Johnny joined up with Uncle Sam
Daddy done sold the farm wants to move out to Vegas
Johnny never made it back from Vietnam
They say you can't go home again but every now and then
You gotta look back to where you've been
Cause we're all part of the circle that's spinnin' round
Lord lift me up plant my feet on higher ground
[ steel - fiddle ]
Black Bear Creek runs down through Pawnee County
Where your roots hold you tight like a rusty cage
My mama say you better be careful boy what you wish for
God has a funny way of turnin' the page
They say you can't go home again...
Yeah we're all part of the circle spinnin' round round and round
Lord lift me up plant my feet on higher ground
Lord lift me up plant my feet on higher ground
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10.
LITTLE PLACE OF OUR OWN / ON THE ROAD AGAIN
(Steve Ripley - Jamie Oldaker - Bob Dylan)
« © '00 Fast Girl Music, BMI »
He blew the whistle sang like a bird
Told 'em everything he'd ever seen or said or done or heard
He knew they had him anyway they'd traced a dozen calls
To a room in back of Murphy's place outside of Omaha
You remember Murphy brains behind the deal
Had her fingers stuck in everything Kansas City to Mobile
I was such an innocent when I stumbled on the scene
But I knew Murphy back in Tulsa on channel seventeen
He preached hellfire and brimstone played rock'n roll guitar
Jocko worked behind the scenes to make Murphy some kind of star
The money was rollin' in they were sellln' salvation
About that time Jocko disappeared right before the operation
I knew they were boys from DC out of nowhere there they were
Lookin' for Murphy they couldn't find him they never thought of lookin' for her
Jocko never surfaced but I hear he did OK
Maybe down in Mexico some say Paraguay
You can find it in the Bible in the papers and on TV
Love is all there is and all there's ever gonna be
Run for the border reach for the stars
If women come from Venus and men come from Mars
Where are you and me baby gonna find a little place of our own
Shoot for the moon give it all you got
Take your best aim take your best shot
It's just you and me baby baby don't leave me here all alone
Here all alone here all alone here all alone
Things we do today used to be a sin
It's hard to tell the difference in this world we're livin' in
Take the rag from your face
The God of Abraham done rolled away the stone
Run for the border reach for the stars
If women come from Venus and men come from Mars
Where are you and me baby gonna find a little place of our own
Yeah it's just you and me baby baby don't leave me here all alone
Here all alone don't leave me here all alone
Here all alone don't leave me here all alone here all alone
Run for the border reach for the stars...
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