1. _ I Love You
I guess I'm lucky
It's in my blood I've got you and us two
That's what I'm thinking of
So you're moving into my place
That's a 24 hour taste
That's no can that's a case
This feeling I sure can't sense
I know it sounds old
But I love you I love you
I love you
So we seem a little young we have fun
We're friends we've lovers
Who cares about those others
Already got fathers and mothers
Two can be a crew got plenty to do something to see
Look in my eyes baby
Believe me
I know it sounds old
But I love you I love you
I love you
Your pops don't like me
Your moms sure does
She's seen the looks I give you
Seen them enough
To know this ain't no phase
Or some part time craze
It's a love affair that lasts during the week days
I believe in lucky and money
I've got ten bucks and a honey
I know I'm lucky
Just look at you and me
Move on in move on in
That ain't no sin
It ain't gonna be a sin
When we turn the lights to dim
I know it sounds old
But I love you I love you
I love you
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2. _ Blues Music
Me and my band
All must agree we like to get groovy
With the sounds of the old time
We like to jam cause man
Sounds from the Bandstand
Hand for the cause man
Hang from the old ones
The tones the gear the props and the ride very much in
Chilling outside
Going way back
From where music really started
I'm a child of the eighties
From where I departed since then I started
A collection of the people
Who started it all
I reckon
I kept them
In my sock like money
Blues music
It's all about rocking the van not rock to roll
Sway to sway
Shocks work out I play
What that fly girl Sabine say
About eight miles to the gallon that's some
Highway sailing
Cool cool lounging
Atlantic City bounding
1920's to the 1970's a stream
Pool solid steady
Getting ready real cool
The earth amp sock hat hi-hat dope
Dobro D'Addario strings for my things
The bass wail sings
Let the rhyme bring
The tense of the time
The old time
Blues music
Blind Lemon Jefferson and juice
B.M.W's the proof frosty Albert Collins bukkha white
Booker T James Brown
Jimmy smith at the console
The soul with the girls Aretha
Chakka Khan the show Solid Gold
Cisco and Sonny Lead Belly too
Peoples that rode with Woody and you Bob Dylan
A million Sears Silvertone guitars
Heard the licks no need to take them nowhere
Blues music
It's like chewing gum with your headphones on
Drinking lemonade
Chilling on the front porch after running ball
Like you lost a twenty dollar bill
You got a free ticket from the scratch and win
Its like the swimsuit issue
Could I get a tissue?
It's like you and your baby got nasty cut off and left alone now making eyes
On the city bus again grandma cooks blueberry pie
Little sister got a boyfriend
It's like smoking the ride
The final right
The vinyl rides
Blues music
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3. _ The Things That I Used To Do
Things that I used to do
Never do them no more baby
Things that I used to do
I ain't never gonna do them no more
Used to bother you around
Tears in my eye, low to the ground
Try and get slower, we been nowhere
You would leave me
Like twinkle soul
Is where to go
Baby you and me
Get with the roll
Here's a love song yeah
And I'm gonna sing it to you so slow
In your eardrum getting ready
All night long I rock steady
Always glowing like rudolphs nose at
Christmas time
Sure to glowin
Shining, undermining,
In your veins all in your mind
Upside you brain
Knock down deliver like hot tamales
I start to simmer
Things that I used to do
I ain't never gonna um do them no
More
Things that I used to do...yeah
Never ever gonna do them no more
Used to bother you around
Tears in my eye, sinkin' low to the ground
Lower than the ocean, swimmin' in the
Sea
Like I m a sword fish, check me
Baby shinin' all night long
Just to get some
The things the house man used to do
Never ever gonna do them no more
Yeah the thing that the marshmallow
Man- jimmy -jazz Prescott on the bass
Used to do
Never ever gonna do them no more
The things that I used to do
Never never never never gonna do them no, more
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4. _ Some Peoples Like That
So many different
Flavors for variety
Smooth in the mixing
Fixing a hole for myself
To be sitting
Never slipping
Cause I'm like that
It's not my choice
It's my voice so despite that
I'm living in my own time
For my sign
My signal
Won't mingle
I could still dig other keys
On the ring
All together now
Some people
Never satisfied
Can't be I've seen it
Got what they want
But still want more
I mean it
Some people
Don't get nothing
And they want even less
Some confess and some stress
What's going on
Some people is like that
Dig the eyes
Where it all goes down
The eyes because a glance caught skittish
That means we missed this
Chance to dig each other
Another bounce and then another
Another
Some people get scared
From situation that presents a tension
Then they wonder about events
Not mentioned
Some people like to look just like each other
Some can't never be clever
And some people think they're better
Some people got attitude
Backed up with attitude
People got to prove
That they could groove
To be smooth
Rude shit is dumb
Some people
Quite chill laid
Some people make noise
Some sit spart stick
With my boys
Shut up man just listen to the music
I used it I'm like that
Some people is like that
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5. _ Sweet Sugar Mama
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6. _ Sometimes
I'll always have myself ? ? ?
? ? ?
Sitting on the stair
Which way to find someone
Look around the city
Lookin' for my picture
I lost my money and my wallet at the ? ? ?
Oh mr. can you find
Miss did you see me
Strange things ? ? ?
My place I've gots to be
Sometimes
You know what's on my mind
Sometimes
You know what's on my mind
Wherever was I go
Its true I've got to go my own
Need someone to warm my soul
I don't know what soul
I get a bowl of soup
I feeling warm
I feeling warm
I'm asking to a ? ? ?
Don't tell me nothing
One thing I see
Peoples they mean
Looking for my brother
My brothers they're all gone
Gone to drive
I drive to stay alive
Sometimes
You know what's on my mind
Sometimes
You know what's on my mind
Sometimes
You know what's on my mind
Sometimes sometimes sometimes
I found a friend
Before he drops me ? ? ?
I met this girl
She wouldn't love me
I made some noise
Oh it was ugly
See I played myself
I can't get lucky
What you thinking
Always thinking much to learn
Time to burn
Sometimes
You know what's on my mind
Sometimes
You know what's on my mind
Sometimes
You know what's on my mind
Sometimes sometimes sometimes
You oughta know what's on my mind
Sometimes
You know what's on my mind
Sometimes
You know what's on my mind
Sometimes
Sometimes
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7. _ Coming Home
In the fall leaves turn brown
Nature sings its song takes its course
Now I know I'll be traveling on
Winters coming the air is getting cold
Birds are flying down the highway in the sky
This place is changing so am i
I've got to leave it all behind
Then someday I'll be back to claim whats mine
And don't worry
Someday I'll be coming home
Yes and don't worry now
Someday Ill be coming home
I don't know where I want to go but there's
One thing I know I've got to be on my own
So watch me as I go ramblin' on down the road
Singing songs of tales untold
Mystery men and the days of old
I'm going where my dreams can be
Where life is not reality
Where visions clad in colors true
Can take me where I'm going to and don't worry
Someday I'll be coming home
Yes and don't worry now
Someday I'll be coming home
I don't know what I'm looking for
I'm looking for an open door
To take me where I can live my life
The way I want to
I'll do things my way
Right or wrong
Play and sing all day long
Have my land, treat it well
And be kind to my fellow man
You may say that this ain't right
That's how I'll go about my life
I'll be light as a feather floating here and there
I don't know
Someday I'll be coming home
Yes and don't worry now
Someday I'll be coming home
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
Don't worry now
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8. _ Bye Bye Baby
Bye bye baby, don't be blue
Bye bye baby, don't be blue
Oh don't you cry no more baby don't you cry
Don't you cry anymore
Don't you cry shed a tear
Oh don't you cry no more
Well bye bye baby don't be blue
Bye bye baby don't be blue
Don't you cry no more
Baby don't you cry
Bye bye baby, don't be blue
Bye bye baby don't be blue
Oh don't you cry no more
Baby don't you cry
Bye bye baby don't be blue
Bye bye baby, don't be blue
Don't you cry no more
Baby don't you cry
Bye bye baby don't be blue
Bye bye baby don't be blue
Don't you cry no more
Baby don't you cry
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9. _ Leaving the City
I know this guy
All night long
She used to bang on the wall, babe
All night long
Now she gone
Oh couldn't carry on
Yes I'm a leaving the city tonight
Oh where I'm from
All night long
That's the noise in the streets
Baby all night long
Now I'm gone
I couldn't carry on
Yes I'm a leaving the city tonight
Oh baby I'm gone
Leaving the city
Yes I'm leaving the city
Outta town today
My god little honey please
All night long
See used to hop all over me
Baby all night long
Well now shes gone
Mmm couldn't carry on
Yes, I'm leaving the city tonight
And today I'm sure
All night long
That's a little bit too long
Well I'm a pack my bags I'm gone
Yes where I'm going
What dangers I may face
You know I'd a leave this place
Oh I gotta get on get on get on down
Get on down
Well I've been hanging out for too long
Wastin' time
See I've been stickin' runnin' round
Flying circles all the time
Got's to get away
Might not be back no more
See I'm a leaving
Don't you know baby that I'm gone
Oh I'm a leaving
Yes I'm a leaving the city tonight
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10. _ Nancy
Oh baby Nancy
Yeah little Nancy
I'm talking to you girl
I'm talking to Nancy
Baby
How could I bide my time
I knew you weren't even trying
Oh now I'm down in there in the heat babe
Oh, and I'm cooking
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Come on
You know you're making me wait
I said you take my plate
Well you want me as I was
With a different face
And you so sweet
Just like rose or moon scatter
The way I make love
I'm a make you feel better
How can I bide my time
I knew you weren't even trying
Oh now I'm down here in the desert
Oh and I'm crying
Yes I'm crying
Oh I'm crying
Baby I'm crying
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11. _ Everybody
Everybody needs a true, true friend
To help them through the day
Everybody needs a true, true friend
To help them through the day
If you need me
I'll be there
If you need me
You'll know where
Everybody needs a safe dark song ?
Even if it takes the whole night long
Everybody needs a safe dark song ?
Even if it takes the whole night long
If you need me
I'll be there
If you need me
I'll be there
Well, I'll be there
To help you along
If they lay me down tonight
I tried to lead a gracious life
If they lay me down tonight
Don't you know I tried to live all right ?
If you need me
Then I'll be there
If you need me
You'll know where
I'll be there, baby
You're my friend
I'll be there
Oh, but I love you
Oh, my friend
Oh, my friend
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12. _ Chains #3
Ain't no chains going to hold my body down
Ain't no chains gonna hold my body down
Ain't no chains gonna hold my body down
as I swim along from the sea to the sea
Ain't no waves gonna pull my body down
Ain't no waves gonna pull my body down
There, ain't no waves gonna pull my body down
as I swim along from the sea to the sea
Ain't no time gonna drown me from my cold
Ain't no time gonna drown me from my cold
Ain't no time gonna drown me from my cold
as I swim along from the sea to the sea
There ain't chains gonna hold my body down
Ain't no chains gonna hold me down
Ain't no chains gonna hold my body down
as I swim along from the sea to the sea
I'll swim with you
You'll swim with me
We shall be...
Ain't no shame in my game no no
There ain't no shame in my game
There ain't no shame that's included in my game
as I swim along from the sea to the sea
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13. _ Walk To Slide
Spring has sprung cause all it does is rain
Again outisde is dull walls as dull drive
The sea has called fog from the waters
City screams for suns and daughters
Owned by the nights
But they ain't all of that
Tainted cats freaks to roll
Cool in the packs
I'm in the basement mixing
Tripping off my lips and
Elixing my mind with the nightlife
Spring comes misting
Drunk and listening to AM radio
Remembering pump up the volume cause
I know I got it
The soul of speakers thought
I shed skins of old
When I'm taught by the older
Records that I caught I get fat
In my pad I'm not bad
Not smiling passing for time to take a while
Wasting from the wild as I walk to slide
I bring from inside from the center
Epicenter radius oval roll you smooth you
Mold you, I'm like that
Moon to sun to start this seed
Water drip drop drip drop
Your boggie ball your rubber ball
The smooth of a weathered wall
The cycles of the systems
The circles within them
I walk to slide
Walk the slide on the outside
Walk the mile on the in
Keep it clouds on the outside
Keep it cool on the in
Lost in the spin
The face folds to melt the mask
It's hard to get help when
You're coming from the down low
Growing to know the smooth
In change
I walk to slide
From the tombs I got tunes
Like the spoonful
House to groove French to groove
The falling sun
We've had our fun
The sunset came to still
Stays the same
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14. _ Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow night I'm goin' home
Tomorrow night I'm goin' home
Goin' to see my friends and my family
My dog my old brown ? ? ?
That's an ice ? ? ? cool for
Good stuff down on the south side
They keep me flowin'
Good times is goin' smiling and rolling
I gots to run into my old time used to be
Used to be with me
Gonna catch my love on this weekend
If she's still speakin' to me
Come'on jenny lee
Gotta get you into my ride
Gonna drive all over the city tonight
Checkin' down by the river
Two tired to go ? ? ?
Yeah, tomorrow night I'm goin' home
Well tomorrow night I'm goin' home
Welcome home boy
Well how you been
Its good to see you
Hello friend
You've got a fine car
And some cool threads
Its good to see you
Well hello friend
I had to leave my home and get out
I've been all around town to town
Room to room
Moon to moon
Found my groove ? ? ?
Smooth as I should be but there's time changing
Then I ? ? ? myself
Watch out every door is on my trail ? ? ?
Comin' down like hail
I lose 'em now
I'm homeward bound
I've seen the past flash in my eye
Days like clouds in the sky
Talk about the days
Will listen but I can't hear
Yesterday yesterday
Ready for some cookin'
Mom's fixin' chicken
Strawberry rhubarb crisp
Its good like this
Later on I gots ta go see the catman
My boy ? ? ?
I don't know got some new girl
Every time we speak
Freaks glazed in the heat
Coolin' on second with the wet green sneaks
And this course ? ? ?
Feelin' nice
I'm goin' home
I'm goin' home
Yeah, tomorrow night, I'm goin' home
Oh, tomorrow night, I'm goin' home
Yeah, I'm goin' home
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15. _ Soda Pop
I like soda pop
I like cough drop
Like chicken lo mein
I'm the main dish
The main man
Wild west
Smooth as swiss
Gimme a kiss 'cause I like it
I like it like this
Oh I like it like that
A hit from the bat
I walk like a dog
Cool like a cat
I'm dressin' kind of funny
Spendin' my money
That girl got the junk
But love got drunk
I like to work 'em
I like to jump 'em ? ? ?
I never never never find some ? ? ?
? ? ?
? ? ?
Well earl couldn't leave the camera ? ? ?
But still wants some more
? ? ?
? ? ?
Although I might forget
Oh gooo gaa gaa
I have the night before
She said I snore
But I'm too busy sleeping
I'm too busy sleeping sleeping
Keeping ? ? ?
? ? ?
That grates on my brain ? ? ?
Drop the bomb ? ? ?
Drop the bomb
Drop the bomb
I got the long legs
The long car
A long time to keep a satisfyin'
When ? ? ?
I glide like a trolley
Flow like a leaf
I fall like a feather
But find no relief into action
Well I'm cashin'
Well I forgot your name baby
And that's why I'm askin'
Whoah whoah whoah
Now I know where I stand
Above reality ? ? ?
Sometimes I gotta settle down
With a comic book
And a soda pop
And a soda pop
Lemon soda pop
Hey thanks a lot
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16. _ Town To Town
I may had forgot that
But it seems I'm here to stay new
Town to town
Room to room
Room to move
Time to lose in my room
Or call to telephone my baby's house
She ain't never home
Ain't there ain't nowhere
She lets it ring
I keep thinking to home
Sick
Of thinking for home
I keep talking
Just for talking
Tired
Of talking it's the
Moon
Walking even he gets some ....
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17. _ Stepping Stones
Baby you've been up, broken down
Every man knows your name in this whole damn town
In every bar they know your drink, what should I think
I turned around to look and you gave some dude a wink
I thought I'd be happy with a woman like you,
But you walked on my pride and my manhood too
I don't know too much but one thing I know
A man stuck on you is like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
What you forgot to mention, what was your real intention
Did you want a man to love, or someone to prop and carry you up
To a higher status, but the matter of fact is, your detachment
Will bring you further down and now you're all used up
Don't bother coming round
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Well, I remember back to what you put me through
I keep thinking to myself
What's wrong with you
Ain't it enough to have a man for a lover and a friend
Tear him up and leave him when the money's spent
Well, you're just like Delilah sittin' in her den
You take the strongest man and break 'em down again
But I have gained some knowledge
Go on pack your things and move back to college
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
Because you keep using me like a stepping stone
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18. _ Small Fish
Ever since Ive been a small fish
Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
I sitting on the street man
Playin my guitar
Lookin at all the people
Passin by the store
Well they dont even know
Im a small fish gonna swim
And they just dont know where were gonna begin
Ever since that Ive been a small fish
Oh yeah oh comeon
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
Livin it
Lovin it
Pushin it
Oh now Im shovin it
Yeah were kickin it
Oh and were lickin it
Yeah were lookin it
Oh and were cookin it
Yeah and Im takin it
You know and Im breakin it
And Im shakin it
And I cant bakin it
And I gotta take it
Oh I will take it
But I couldnt makin it
I already made it
Oh yeah, watch out for the sharks
The baracuda too
You watch out for the big fish
When they all try to eat you
You watch out for the fisherman
And the hook line and the sinker
You watch out for the jellyfish
Cuz they all try to go get you
Ever since, they have been a small fish
Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Yeah
We go from coast to coast to coast to coast to coast
We go from coast to coast to coast to coast to coast
I said I go from coast to coast to coast to coast to coast
You gotta go from coast to coast to coast to coast to coast
Yeah and from see to shining sea
Oh ever since that Ive been a
Ever since that I've been a small fish
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19. _ Shooting Hoops
When the school lets out and the shifts are done
Get the boys together get a ball get a run
Lace up the sneaks kick off them shoes
I'll admit I play to win yo cause I don't like to lose
At Seger Park they've got the competition
Good moves baby -- I'm the definition
They shooting hoops
Yeah Yeah Yeah
They playing basketball
I learned at Old Pine, see I'm the school yard hustler
I had my hardknocks now I'm an off the backboard buster
I could fake to the left penetrate like Mike
Or 360 in the air as Dominique might
I could pass like Magic
I could shoot like the Bird, after a Doctor J dunk
The courtside drunk said good lord
They shooting hoops
Yeah Yeah Yeah
They playing basketball
Lunch from a hot dog stand a pretzel and a pop
We've been playing all day cuase we've had this court nonstop
The city sun is hot -- all the courts they steaming
Bright eyed young ball handlers are believing and dreaming
Hoping some day all this playing will be paying
That's what all the sideline junkies smoking reefer keep saying
They shooting hoops
Yeah Yeah Yeah
They playing basketball
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20. _ Kiss and Tell
Don't kiss and don't tell
You gonna get yourself in trouble
Your true love will leave you
You did wrong that's why she said so long
Boy'd you find another girlfriend
It seemed to be last night
I mean the sweetest little songbird
A sweet sugar momma that's alright
You shoulda been satisfied
With that look in her eye
Oh don't you miss her voice
I miss her and her mind
So don't kiss and don't tell
You gonna get yourself in trouble
Your true love will leave you
You did wrong that's why she said so long
I could only gets her back in my arm
My cold cold heart will surely melt
But then I threw it all away
Why the messin' round and a tellin'
So don't kiss and don't tell
You gonna get yourself in trouble
Well, your true love will leave you
You did wrong that's why she said so long
Oh all these fine women
They know whats going on
Man you thought that you was all alone
But she could tell by the moon
That she won't go by soon
No no no no
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