One Man Dog

One morning, one morning, one morning in may
I spied a young couple, they were making their way
One was a maiden so bright and so fair
And the other was a soldier and a brave volunteer

Good morning, good morning, good morning said he
And where are you going my pretty lady
I'm goig out a walkin on the banks of the sea
Just to see the waters gliding hear the nightingale sing

Now they had not been standing but a minute or two
And out of his knapsack a fiddle he drew
And the tune that he played made the valleys all ring
Oh hark cried the maiden hear the nightingale sing

Oh maiden fair maiden tis time to give o'er
Oh no kind soldier please play one tune more
For i'd rather hear your fiddle at the touch of one string
Than to see the waters gliding hear the nightingale sing

Oh soldier kind soldier will you marry me
Oh no pretty maiden that never shall be
I've a wife in london and children twice three
Two wives and the army's too many for me

Well i'll go back to london and i'll stay there for a year
It's often that i'll think of you my little dear
And if ever i return it will be in the spring
Just to see the waters gliding hear the nightingale sing
To see the waters gliding hear the nightingale sing

Someone
I'm searching for someone who'll be true
Who'll change my life of blue
Into a dream of golden rainbows
Where are you?

I seems i've been searching
Searching more than just one lifetime
My heart is a magnet all for you
I'll know you when i see you
Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love

Life is worth less than nothing without love
Love is the force from which all beings live
Don't you see, it's the purpose of living to love and be loved
Again and again
Where are you
My heart cries for you
My eyes long to see you
My soul is all for you
Oh where are you, someone?

Don't you see, it's the purpose of living to love and be loved
Again and again
Where are you
My heart cries for you
My eyes long to see you
My soul is all for you
Oh where are you, someone?

Do me wrong, do me right,
Tell me lies but hold me tight,
Save your goodbyes for the morning light,
But don't let me be lonely tonight.

Say goodbye and say hello,
Sure enough good to see you, but it's time to go,
Don't say yes but please don't say no,
I don't want to be lonely tonight.

Go away then, damn you,
Go on and do as you please,
You ain't gonna see me gettin' down on my knees.
I'm undecided, and your heart's been divided,
You've been turning my world upside down.

Do me wrong, do me right (right now baby),
Go on and tell me lies but hold me tight.
Save your goodbyes for the morning light (morning light),
But don't let me be lonely tonight.
I don't want to be lonely tonight.
No, no, i don't want to be lonely tonight.

I don't want to be lonely tonight.

i got holy children to show me the light
Singing hallelujah, brother how 'bout you.
Yeah, we got a holy scriptures here that prove us to be right,
In believing out loud what we wish to be true.

I got stoned out neighbors to take me in tow
Singin' close your eyes, singin' open wide.
Watch the world fall away below, let the winter wind blow;
And where will we hide when it comes from inside?

Oh, hear me now, hear me now, hear me now,
Hear me now, hear me now, hear me now,
Hear me now, listen i got sweet, sweet music inside.

Is a child inside me was alone in the night
Now has come to me, love has set my soul free.
Is a man and a woman stand alone in the night;
Here is reason to be like sun on the sea.

I don't care if i got no money
I don't care if i got a dime
All i want to do is to dance with you honey
Please tell me you have the time
'cause i gotta get back on my feet again
Gotta get back on the street again.

La, la, la

Well i don't care if i got no fame
All i want to do is to hold your hand
Don't care if nobody knows my name
'cause i just want to try the best i can (yes i do)
I gotta get back on my feet again
Gotta get back on the street again.

La, la, la

Well, i don't know just what the world is coming to
And i don't know just what is going on among you
Well all i really know is i gotta get back on my feet again
Help me up now.

I don't care if i got no money
I don't care if i got dime
All i want to do is to dance with you baby
Please tell me that you got the time.
'cause i've gotta get back on my feet again
Gotta get back on the street again.

La, la, la

Stand it up for me now momma.

Its written in the surface of her skin
There's been a baby within
Given away in love
I see it in the little lines
Around her eyes, across her brow
She'll be driftin' away from me now

See the shape of feeling that's not quite there
Inside her soul
Love has gone away now, leaving behind an empty hole
Who am i to try to compete
With again, as the silence so easily rushes in
I will fly away

It was something i only dreamed of
Something that i'm not quite sure of
Something that i'll never tell you about

Make my bed out of wonder bread
Spread some mustard upon my head
I don't want no onions or sauerkraut, mamma
Hold on to the bun baby, work it on out.

I'm a chili dog
I guess you guessed by now
Sure 'nuf i'm a chili dog, baby (you and me)
Delicious!

Don't get jealous
Better not up and get over zealous (watch out now y'all).
Come on now fellas,
Pass me down the relish.

Don't read no ann landers
Just can't feed me no colonel sanders
I ain't trying to fool us
Don't bring home no orange julius.

Gotta have--one more time--get on down again
Woh, woh, chili dog, baby
Yes indeed, i want a chili dog, yeh
Talkin' about stone delicious
Good for you too!

Everybody knows that i'm just a joe
That likes to hang around
Talkin' about my problems
Bringing other people down
Well this may be so, but not long ago
I was sitting on the top of the world
Sure is strange how things can turn themselves around

When i'm in need of a little bit of consultation
Used to call on my uncle john
Took a trip down to west virginia
Found him dead and gone
And as some sort of silly little consolation
They gave me my ticket back
What you gonna do with folks like that?

You can talk about bands of angels
And you think you come with your soul in your hands
To set their children free
But you talk about little bit of understanding
Things that happen day to day
Some of you folks sure 'nuf have been good to me

You come on talkin' about angel bands
You think that you come with your soul in your hands
Just to set their children free
But you talk about a little bit of understanding
Things that happen day to day
Some one has been good to me, yeh.

Nobody but you, nobody but you, nobody but you, nobody but you
Nobody but you, nobody but you, nobody but you, nobody but you
Nobody, nobody but you
Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody
Nobody but you

Talkin' 'bout jumping jim
Talkin' 'bout a mud slide slim
Don't you know that a fish got to swim
Don't a goose got to fly high
Little dog got to die
And i'm goin' home
Woh, don't you know
Woh, don't you know

Talkin' 'bout a life on the street
Gonna think about an itch in my feet
Can't you hand me down them highway shoes
Lord knows i'm talkin' 'bout the walkin' blues
I got the rockin' pneumonia blues
And i'm headed home, bye-bye
Woh, don't you know
Woh, don't you know

Listen here now, don't you come 'round
Talkin' bout over yonder
Bound to wake up the walkin' man in me
And i'm bound to wanderin'
Hey now, talkin' all about 'spooning into bone
Looking just like sherlock holmes
Looking for a needle in a haystack
Seein' and eatin' lots of fatback
Talkin' 'bout a railroad track
And i'm going home, goodbye
Woh, don't you know
Woh, don't you know
Woh, don't you know

You oughta know
You oughta know
You oughta know
You oughta know like a fish in the stream
Oughta know like a leaf on the tree
Oughta know like a boat in the sea.