1) Last Train Home - Been Awhile (Joe Triplett)
2) Starling, Auldridge & Gaudreau - My Sally
(Eric Brace)
3) The Fieldhands - Field Hand Man (The Delmore
Brothers)
4) Jumpin' Jupiter - Buddy Love (Kevin Johnson)
5) Karl Straub - Blue Train (Kevin Johnson)
6) Little Pink - Cathode Ray Blue (Karl Straub)
7) Kevin Johnson & the Linemen - Carolina
(Karl Straub)
8) Graverobbers - It Wouldn't Be Easy (Scott
McKnight)
9) Tom Clifford - Day Go By (Evan Johns &
Joe Sasfy)
10) Hula Monsters - Things I'm Not (Scott McKnight)
11) The Grandsons - Real Real (Nina Simone)
12) Ruthie & the Wranglers - Why Must You Leave
Me? (Vernon Taylor)
13) The Kennedys - Tell Me How (Buddy Holly)
14) The Del Swarthmores - Love on the Rebound (Randy
Austin)
15) Bill & Louise Kirchen - I'll Never Be Free
(Benjamin/Weiss)
16) Lisa Moscatiello - In the Middle of Nowhere
(Beatrice Verdi & Buddy Kaye)
17) The Rhodes Tavern Troubadours - Then You Can
Tell Me Goodbye (J.D. Loudermilk)
18) Americana Motel - Don't Take Advice (Karl
Straub)
Hear the singin' of an old bullfrog, Anna
He's just a sittin' like a bump on a log, Anna
He just like to sit down there at the water all day
And he'll keep on singing as long as you don't rustlr too loud when you
pass his way
Spring'll come and the river swoll up, Anna
I been to town just to fix my old truck, Anna
And Jimmy told me "Look out Hon", now his eyes are growing dim
And Jimmy says "It looks like there ain't no easy way ou tof the mess
we're in"
Been Awhile since I felt like, like I could fall
Been Awhile since I felt like I could feel anything at all
Been some other girls and I liked a few, Anna
The thing that come between me and them is you, Anna
And I just like to lay down here, watch the water roll away
And I'll try to figure just what that old river's trying to say
Been Awhile since I felt like, like I could fall
Been Awhile since I felt like I could feel anything at all
Been Awhile since I felt like, like I could fall
Been Awhile since I felt like I could feel anything at all
Hey ho, rain and snow dark down in the hollow
Play for you with a fiddle and bow and I'll be gone tomorrow
Hey hey cloudy day, no sun in the valley
Ever since she went away I sure miss my Sally
A little while not long ago, we went to the city
She found it a lovely place I saw nothing pretty
She stayed I went now I do regret it
In my mind I see her smile I never will forget it
Hey ho, rain and snow dark down in the hollow
Play for you with a fiddle and bow and I'll be gone tomorrow
She wrote a letter short and sweet saying all was well
I wrote one back telling her that my life was hell
I begged her to return I swallowed all my pride
I never heard another word I guess she did decide
Hey hey cloudy day, no sun in the valley
Ever since she went away I sure miss my Sally
Her letter's in my pocket and my bags are at my door
I'll play one more fiddle tune and I won't play no more
You'll find me at the station waiting on a northbound train
I'll find the girl who stole my heart and be with her again
Hey ho, rain and snow dark down in the hollow
Play for you with a fiddle and bow and I'll be gone tomorrow
Hey hey cloudy day, no sun in the valley
Ever since she went away I sure miss my Sally
Ever since she went away I sure miss my Sally
Field Hand Man (A. & R. Delmore)
Always working just a field hand man
Nothing but a plow will fit my hand
Trust in God and doing the best I can
What it's like to be field hand man
I'm as happy as a prince so grand
In this lonesome delta land
I was born to make my life this way
From the dawn until the close of day
Can't be happy any other way
On the Mississippi river I'll stay
I can sing and drive my blues away
From this levee anyday
I'm so happy when the day is done
Than I know that I can have my fun
There are no more chores for me to run
Worries vanish with the setting sun
There's alittle girl and only one
Waiting when the day is done
Yes John Henry was a steel drivin' man
Drivin' steel over all this land
But he never could understand
All the pleasures of a field hand man
Don't you worry about this old field hand
He's a happy happy man
Well I was lookin' sorry and my heart's so lonely
I start to start dreamin' 'bout a groovy holiday
Where Buddy Love was bangin' out the be-bop sounds
And layin' out the ladies on the cold cold ground
Yeah Buddy got the girls and the boys went home
Singin' "Black Magic" on a barroom piano
They stood in line just to get a little kiss
And went to sleep at night wishin' they was his
But I'm a-drivin' home to my Momma and my Dad
Thinkin' bout the girls and the fun I never had
It's just a fantasy that I'm pleadin' guilty of
I wanna sing like Buddy Buddy Love
I wanna sing like Buddy Buddy Love
He wore his hair short and greased back smooth
Black smoking jacket and wing tip shoes
Thin white collar and a solid gold ring
Double martini and a Chesterfield king
Sit down at the piano and nobody said a word
Sing "Black magic" and he find himself a girl
Look her in the eye and he'd steal her heart away
And drive her up the mountain to a lover's hideaway
But I'm a-drivin' home to my Momma and my Dad
Thinkin' bout the girls and the fun I never had
It's just a fantasy that I'm pleadin' guilty of
I wanna sing like Buddy Buddy Love
I wanna sing like Buddy Buddy Love
But I'm a-drivin' home to my Momma and my Dad
Thinkin' bout the girls and the fun I never had
It's just a fantasy that I'm pleadin' guilty of
I wanna sing like Buddy Buddy Love
I wanna sing like Buddy Buddy Love
I wanna sing like Buddy Buddy Love
I wanna sing like Buddy Buddy Love
Wish I hadn't fell for you
Down into the life you were living in
Didn't know what else to do
Didn't have a heart full of this back then
And there's just enough room inside
Doesn't anybody wanna ride
Somewhere south of old El Paso
Somewhere north of Mexico City
There's a place where I can go
I just need someone to go with me
And there's just enough room inside
Doesn't anybody wanna ride
On my Blue Train
On my Blue Train
On my Blue Train
On my Blue Train
Why'd you have to look at me
Why'd you have to turn and look at me that way
Didn't you know that you would leave me
Didn't you know that I'd be standing here today
At the station on a Sunday morning
Wondering where on earth am I going
On my Blue Train
On my Blue Train
On my Blue Train
On my Blue Train
Wish I hadn't fell for you
Down into the life you were living in
Didn't know what else to do
Didn't have a heart full of this back then
And there's just enough room inside
Doesn't anybody wanna ride
On my Blue Train
On my Blue Train
On my Blue Train
On my Blue Train
Cathode Ray Blue (Karl Straub)
Sleep awhile
Sleep awhile
Mad juice in your limbs
Turn the TV on
Cathode Ray Blue
Creeping towards the light
Of diodes and rectifier tubes
Sleep awhile
Sleep awhile
Caught up in the drag
Glowing with a hue
Cathode Ray Blue
Creeping towards the light
Of diodes and rectifiers
Cathode Ray Blue
Horizontal hold
Halo of love
Blue picture tube
Cathode Ray blue
Paints a hold on you
Won't I have to talk
Won't I have to lie
Won't I have to wake up and pour out a dream
As rich as cream
Well I've never seen the coffee pour itself
Carolina
You are three feet from your glass
Carolina
And a thousand miles away
Carolina
I don't know what to say
Carolina
It's wearing off again
Back a little while
I felt a different way
I can even picture myself feeling that way
But I can't feel it
No coffee I can drink to wake it up
Carolina
You are three feet from your glass
Carolina
And a thousand miles away
Carolina
I don't know what to say
Carolina
It's wearing off again
It Wouldn't Be Easy (Scott McKnight)
I didn't know that it wouldn't be easy, easy, easy
Doing without
Getting along with all the things that I've got
Just for awhile I thought it'd be easy, easy, easy
I didn't know
Once I learned but long ago I forgot
All these hours that I'm awake
Outside I'm calm inside I shake
You'll never know the dreams I make
I didn't know, but now I know why, no, I know I
gave it a lot
Comes and it goes but it's never too far
Turn it around but it never stops turning, turning
Hurricane in my heart
Slamming the door that I'd left ajar
All these hours that I'm awake
Outside I'm calm inside I shake
You'll never know the dreams I make
I didn't know that it wouldn't be easy, easy, easy
Doing without
Getting along with all the things that I've got
Just for awhile I thought it'd be easy, easy, easy
I didn't know
Once I learned but long ago I forgot
Once I learned but over the years I forgot
Once I learned but long ago I forgot
Day Go By (Evan Johns & Joe Sasfy)
Well, the girls there on the coastline
They're side by side
Well the boat boys roll 'em over
Over with their eyes
Now me I found the shadow
A shadow for disguise
Day go by
She walk by
Day go by
Well, the girls there on the coastline
They tell their lies
Well the boat boys kick the sand
In reply
Now me I found the boardwalk
A shadow for disguise
Day go by
She walk by
Day go by
I don't know why
Why did I let her say goodbye
Day go by
She walk by
Day go by
Well the sunrise on the water
Shines its eyes
Well the clouds clear the sand
The tides they rise
Now me I found the letter
She said goodbye
Day go by
She walk by
Day go by
I don't know why
Why did I let her say goodbye
Day go by
She walk by
Day go by
Things I'm Not (Scott McKnight)
Don't think I don't understand
I've had it happen more that you would have thought
You got tired of your last man
And went looking for the things that he ain't got
You don't want me for the things I am
You just want me for the things I'm not
You had Mr. Safe and Sane
You wanted Mr. Where's the Party?
Got tired of Good Time Charlie
And went lookin' for Jean-Paul Sarte
You don't want me for the things I am
You wanna super glue a broken heart
Maybe you need me to just prove you don't need him
Maybe you just don't want to be alone
It doesn't matter if I'm John or Joe or Jim
It doesn't matter if I'm Al Capone
All of my life I've been Mr. Nice Guy
When they're in trouble I'm the one they run to
Prove to themselves that they can get a nice guy
Then dump me for Jack the ripper when they're through
When I was young I had a baseball glove
Bounced a tennis ball off the wall
The tennis ball was not in love with the glove
It was on the rebound that is all
You don't want me for the things I am
I'm just a glove to catch you when you fall
Don't think I don't understand
I've had it happen more that you would have thought
You got tired of your last man
And went looking for the things that he ain't got
You don't want me for the things I am
You just want me for the things I'm not
I say real real
Our love is real to me
It thrills me
With perfect liberty
When you tell me you love me
And you hold me and kiss me
Then I know it's real real
It's so real to me
I say real real
Our love is real to me
Please thrills me
With your kisses sweet
Tell your papa and your mama
One day soon we're gonna
Have a great weddin' day
It's so real to me
I say real real
Out love is real to me
It gives me perfect liberty
When you tell me you love me
And you hold me and kiss me
Then I know it's real
It's so real to me
I say real now, real
It's so real to me
Please thrill me
With your kisses sweet
Tell your papa and your mama
One day soon we're gonna
Have a great weddin' day
It's so real so me
So real so real
It's so real to me
Why Must You Leave Me (Vernon Taylor)
Why must you leave me
why must you deceive me
oh darlin' you know I love you so
please don't desert me
you know how it would hurt me
oh darlin' you know I love you so
the love you gave to me
made my heart so glad
to share my dear with you
the love I never had
why must you leave me
please don't ever tease me
oh darlin' you know I love you so
Tell me how to keep your love
Tell me how I need your love
Tell me how you keep the love
Within your heart from me
Don't you know that I love you
Let me show why I'm true blue
When I know a love is true
Don't keep your love from me
If you would say to me today
The time for love is now
Could I sway your love my way
Then I say tell me how
If you would say to me today
The time for love is now
Could I sway your love my way
Then I say tell me how
Tell me how to keep your love
Tell me how I need your love
Tell me how you keep the love
Within your heart from me
Tell me how you keep the love
Within your heart from me
Love On the Rebound (Randy Austin)
If I were a fly
on the wall of this barroom
I'd have just one story to tell
I've seen it so many times with so many players
I'm sure that I'd tell it well
Two timin' lovers, insignificant others
In a booth by the jukebox entwined
Whispers, smiles, kisses, denials
Tragedy not far behind
I could tell by the way she'd slammed down that payphone
She just had a fight with him
Could see my own future begin to look brighter
While the bar lights grew dim
So I sidled up to her and I give her a smile, said honey do I see a tear
Tell me all about it we'll try to forget it
Here let me buy you a beer
Love on the rebound
Here at love's lost and found what goes around comes around sooner or later
Love on the rebound just one more heartbroken clown ready for one more go
around
In this sorry old town
I won't tell you the rest 'cuz you already kmow it
I've seen you down here before
Many' sthe time you've seen lovers departing, the clap of them old swinging
doors
A few weeks later you see em again on opposite ends of the bar
Her and her husband and him with his fiancee and both with their eyes on
the floor
Love on the rebound
Here at love's lost and found what goes around comes around sooner or later
Love on the rebound just one more heartbroken clown ready for one more go
around
In this sorry old town
Love on the rebound just one more heartbroken clown ready for one more go
around
In this sorry old town
I'll Never Be Free (Benjamin/Weiss)
Each time I hold somebody new my arms grow cold thinking for you
No one can take your place darling in my embrace I'll never be free
And when my lips burn with desire no other kiss put up the fire
Though I may try and try no one can satisfy this longing in me
I'll never be free from your smile so tender the sweet surrender in your
eyes
How can I be free when I still remember how you could thrill me with a sigh
Just like a chain bound to my heart your love remain when we're apart
Each kiss I gave to you made me a slave to you I'll never be free
I'll never be free...
I'll never be free I'll never be free I'll never be free
In The Middle of Nowhere (B. Verdi/B. Kaye)
Where does our love lie?
In the middle of nowhere
Will it soon pass me by?
In the middle of nowhere
Baby, won't you tell me
What am I to do?
I'm in the middle of nowhere
Getting nowhere with you
Mmm, where did my heart land?
In the middle of nowhere
Where are the dreams I planned?
In the middle of nowhere
Listen to me baby
Listen to my plea
I'm in the middle of nowhere
And it's worrying me
Over and over again
You tell me you need my love
If what you say is true
Why can't we be together?
Over and over you tell me
I'm all that you're thinking of
Baby you know that I love you
But I can't wait forever
Where does our love lie?
In the middle of nowhere
How can you let it die?
In the middle of nowhere
Are you gonna leave me?
Leave my heart astray
I'm in the middle of nowhere
Come and show me the way
Over and over again
You tell me you need my love
Baby you know that I love you
But I can't wait forever
Where does our love lie?
In the middle of nowhere
How can you let it die?
In the middle of nowhere
Are you gonna leave me
And leave my heart astray
I'm in the middle of nowhere
Come and show me the way
Hey, where does out love lie?
Come on now
Where does our love lie?
Right slap in the middle of nowhere
Right slap in the middle of nowhere
Right slap in the middle of nowhere
Then you can Tell Me Goodbye (J.D. Loudermilk)
Kiss me each morning for a million years,
Hold me each evening by your side,
Tell me you love me, for a million years,
Then if it don't work out, then if it don't work out,
Then you can tell me goodbye!
Sweeten my coffee with a morning kiss,
Soften my dreams with a sigh,
After you've loved me for a million years,
Then if it don't work out, then if it don't work out,
Then you can tell me goodbye!
If you must go, I won't grieve,
If you just wait a lifetime before you leave . . .
If you must go, I won't say no,
Just so we can say that we tried,
Tell me you love me for a million years,
Then if it don't work out, then if it don't work out,
Then you can tell me goodbye!
Then you can tell me goodbye . . .
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Don't Take Advice (Karl Straub)
If your grass is wet
Don't try to mow it
If there's still fish to catch
Don't head for shore
Don't try to sing a song
If you don't know it
Don't track that mud
On Mom's clean floor
Don't apologize
If you don't mean it
Don't take the chicken out
Way before it's done
Don't discuss a film
If you haven't seen it
Don't wait 'til 4 am
To clean your gun
Don't give a baby a zippo lighter
Don't tease monkeys, run with scissors
Or cut down a redwood tree
Don't take advice from a songwriter
And whatever you do
Don't be like me
Don't read a newspaper
If you are drivin'
Don't stand a foot away
When something blows up
Don't curse your girlfriend
for not arrivin'
If she looks pretty
When she shows up
Don't fix anything
that isn't broken
Don't slam tequils shots
And try to shave your head
Don't think about what to say
After you've spoken
Don't haunt a house
If you're not dead
Don't give a baby a zippo lighter
Don't tease monkeys, run with scissors
Or cut down a redwood tree
Don't take advice from a songwriter
And whatever you do
Don't be like me
Don't watch the TV news
Until you go nuts
Don't stand behind a horse
If he's awake
Don't run a red light
Near Dunkin' Donuts
Don't drive a brand new car
Into a lake
Don't leave your house
Without your pants on
Don't unjam a stapler
With your thumbs
Don't send a telegram
To Charles Manson
Don't give your teenage son
A set of drums
Don't give a baby a zippo lighter
Don't tease monkeys, run with scissors
Or cut down a redwood tree
Don't take advice from a songwriter
And whatever you do
Don't be like me
Don't fall in love
with someone who's already taken
Don't slow down to a crawl
So you can see a wreck
Don't grow dreadlocks
If you're white and not Jamaican
And please try not to obsess about
Star Trek
If you're running late
Don't flood your engine
Don't see movies that are built around
Tom Cruise
Don't use aspot welder
If you're not gonna pay attention
If you're a white teenager
Please don't sing the blues
Don't give a baby a zippo lighter
Don't tease monkeys, run with scissors
Or cut down a redwood tree
Don't take advice from a songwriter
And whatever you do
Don't be like me