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Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big… Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big… Whatever colors you have in your m… I’ll show them to you and you’ll s… Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big…
Buckets of rain Buckets of tears Got all them buckets comin’ out of… Buckets of moonbeams in my hand I got all the love, honey baby
Go away from my window Leave at your own chosen speed I’m not the one you want, babe I’m not the one you need You say you’re lookin’ for someone
“There must be some way out of her… “There’s too much confusion, I ca… Businessmen, they drink my wine, p… None of them along the line know w… “No reason to get excited,” the th…
I can see the turning of the key I’ve been deceived by the clown in… I thought that he was righteous bu… Oh, something’s a-telling me I we… My patron saint is a-fighting with…
Sixteen years, Sixteen banners united over the fi… Where the good shepherd grieves. Desperate men, desperate women div… Spreading their wings 'neath the f…
In the time of my confession, in t… When the pool of tears beneath my… There’s a dyin’ voice within me re… Toiling in the danger and in the m… Don’t have the inclination to look…
If not for you Babe, I couldn’t find the door Couldn’t even see the floor I’d be sad and blue If not for you
Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon
... It ain’t no use to sit and won… If’n you don’t know by now And it ain’t no use to sit and won… It’ll never do somehow When your rooster crows at the bre…
Come, you masters of war— You that build the big guns, You that build the death planes, You that build all the bombs, You that hide behind walls,
Oh my name it ain’t nothin’— My age it means less— The country I come from Is called the Midwest. I’s taught and brought up there
The guilty undertaker sighs The lonesome organ grinder cries The silver saxophones say I shoul… The cracked bells and washed-out h… Blow into my face with scorn
Love that’s pure hopes all things, Believes all things, won’t pull no… Won’t sneak up into your room, tal… Capture your soul and hold it for… You don’t want a love that’s pure
If today was not a crooked highway… If tonight was not a crooked trail… If tomorrow wasn’t such a long tim… Then lonesome would mean nothing t… Yes, 'n’ only if my own true love…