Keep On Doing

(by margaret a. roche)


I'm losin' you
Fading from view

Aging and aching and raging and faking i'm

Losin' you
Losin' true

Last time i saw you i wanted to paw you
Not to destroy you now i just annoy you i'm

Losin' to
Accusin' you

When i first met you i failed to get you
Now that i let you come through i forget who i'm

Losin' out
Cruisin' about

The night of shining armor doesn't do her any favors

Make no mistake when mystiquing a make i'm

Losin' you
Choosin' to

(by terre and suzzy roche)


Nobody around here knows what happened to ;you
No one will ask you to explain
You have your arm around a drastic measure
All of your efforts down the drain

There might be something here you could get into
Or just be quiet by yourself
Oooooooo. . .
Stare at the stuff up on the shelf

You work too hard to take this abuse
Be on your guard jerks on the loose

Look who did it to you
Joker over there with nothing to do
Don't let 'm get through
Keep on doing what you do

Why don't you listen to my little pep talk
Instead of what that person said
And now i'm gonna open up the window
And you will come in off that ledge

You work to hard to take this abuse
Be on your guard jerks on the loose
Jerks on the loose
Jerks on the loose

(by margaret a. roche)


Stood on the street the other night
In full moonlight
Barefoot and oh dirtied
My dress was goin' away

There i was meetin' up with a man
For the payoff
Faithful and unhenpecked
I somewhat recollect

Soon she heard me
Siren she wailed
Queen spelling bee she nailed me
By name

What am i doin' out on the street?
I'm ashamed dear
Good boy he beats it
I tear myself downtown

God has let me release a sting
In my own eye
Walk home to just nightmares
No angels on the phone

(by george gerdes)


She goes steady with the maestro
And she rosins his baton
But when he goes out on a binge-o
She's been known to carry on
When the maestro goes out and paints the town

Maestro he gets very jealous
When she talks to any other man
And the other men's women tend to worry
What's she got to talk about with them?
The women worry 'bout what she wanna do
When she's through conducting her interlude

One time i saw her at the cafe
She was laughin' like she just let down her hair
The time i saw her on the sidewalk
And her face was all flushed and filled with tears
The time i saw her in front of the pet shop
And the maestro and the goose and the ghost were there
The time i saw her on her doorstep
She invited me upstairs
And she gave me a wooded chair
That i sit on in my underwear

I used to play the second fiddle
In her philharmonic hall
But now i look out for numero uno
And i don't play no violins at all
I play the part of the man who crawls the wall

(by david massengill)


O once i loved an outlaw he came and stole my heart
O how i count the hours
Since we were torn apart

On the road to fairfax county
I spied a highwayman
He wanted all my money
My heart beat like a drum

I gave him all my money
And sweet he smiled at me
His beauty eye took pity
Beneath the old oak tree

We kissed but for an hour
The sun was newly warm
The clouds were as the flowers
That bloom but for a morn

He gave back all my money
And bowed most gallantly
He promised for to meet me
That night beneath the tree

We'd flee to some far island
And there we would be wed
And freely we would live there
With no price upon his head

That night i went to meet him
With my inheritance
He kissed me 'neath the half moon
And joyful we did dance

O love betrays all secrets
It whispers in the breeze
The sheriff he did follow
With all his deputies

Like hounds rushing to slaughter
The fox whose luck is run
And he stood erect and cursed them
God damn you every one

They seized him in a fury
And heeding not my plea
They hung him from the oak tree
Where he made love to me