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             Nick Cave songs with unpublished lyrics.                 
    Many thanks to Paul Humphrey, Robert Schmitz and Carmen Priebe!    
  "......" or (?) means we don't know that part. Corrections welcome! 
                    Maurice Maes (maes@prl.philips.nl)
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Contents:

   I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
   Sad Dark Eyes
   Avalanche (L. Cohen)
   In The Ghetto (Mac Davis)
   I Put A Spell On You (S.J. Hawkins)
   Muddy Water (J. Bundrick)
   I'm Gonna Kill That Woman (J.L. Hooker)
   Sleeping Analeah (Newbury, Folger)
   Long Black Veil (D. Del, M. Wilkins)
   Hey Joe (W. Roberts)
   The Singer (Cash, Daniels)
   All Tomorrow's Parties (L. Reed)
   By The Time I Get To Phoenix (J. Webb)
   The Hammer Song (A. Harvey)
   Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart (Greenaway, Cooke)
   Jesus Met The Woman At The Well (Trad. Arr. The Alabama Singers)
   The Carnival Is Over (T. Springfield, F. Farian)
   Running Scared (Orbison, Melson)
   Black Betty (Leadbelly)
   Long Time Man (T. Rose)
   Scum	(Cave)		
   Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass (Cave)	
   Helpless (N. Young)
   The Train Song (Cave)
   Tower Of Song (L. Cohen)
   (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World (Cave)
   Blue Bird (Cave)
   What A Wonderful World (Weiss/Douglas)
   Rainy Night In Soho (S. MacGowan)
   500 Miles (H.West) (Kicking outtake)
   Rye Whiskey
   Plain Gold Ring
   What Can I Give You? (Cave)
   Sail Away (Cave)

I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
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I woke up this morning the sun don't shine in
I found my broken mind in a brown paper bag but then
I tred on a cloud I fell eight miles high
Told my mind I'm gonna  ...... sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and I followed it in
I met myself crawling out now, as I came crawling in
Then I woke up so tired I knew I'd never unwind
I saw so much, man it broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

Somebody painted April fool in big black letters on a dead end sign
I had my foot on the gas when I left the road and blew out my mind
I made miles out of Memphis and I got no spare
I made miles straight up downtown where
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

Sad Dark Eyes
=============
[As sung by Mick Harvey; Nick's live versions deviate from this.]
I look at you in your sad dark eyes
And your gypsy face with your spanish grace
With your words like rhymes and your voice like chimes

Darling, I want to kiss your burning mouth
Your sad dark eys and your ghostlike soul
Darling baby say that you'll be mine

Put your ring on my finger
And comb your long red hair
Put on your sad eyes
And tell me that you care
That you'll be mine, you'll be mine
Until the end of time

Avalanche
=========
I stepped into an avalanche 
It covered up my soul
When I am not this hunchback that you see
I sleep beneath the golden hill
You who wish to conquer pain 
You must learn to serve me well

You strike my side by accident
As you go down to your goal
This cripple here that you clothe and feed
Is neither starved nor cold
He does not ask for your company
Not at the centre, the centre of the world

I who am on a pedestal
You did not raise me there
Your laws do not compel me now
To kneel grotesque and bare
For I myself am the pedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare

You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn what makes me kind
The crumbs of love that you offer me
Are the crumbs I've left behind
Your pain is no credential here
It's just a shadow of my wound

I have begun to ask for you
I who have no greed
I have begun to long for you
I who have no need
You say you've gone away from me
But I can feel you when you breathe

Do not dress in those rags for me
I know you are not poor
And do not love me quite so fiercely now
When you know that you are not sure
It is your turn, my beloved one
It is your flesh that I wear

In The Ghetto
=============
As the snow flies 
On a cold and grey Chicago morn 
A poor little baby child is born in the ghetto

And his mama cries
Cause there's one thing that she don't need 
Is another little hungry mouth to feed in the ghetto

	Oh people don't you understand 
	This child needs a helping hand
	He's gonna grow to be an angry young man some day
	Take a look at you and me
	Are we that blind to see?
	Do we simply turn our heads and look the other way?

And the world turns
And the hungry little boy with the runny nose
Plays in the streets as the cold wind blows in the ghetto

And his hunger burns
So he starts to roam the streets at night
And he learns how to steal and he learns how to fight in the ghetto

Then one night in desperation 
The young man breaks away
He buys a gun and steals a car
He tries to run but he don't get far

And his mama cries
A crowd gathers round an angry young man 
Face down in the street with a gun in his hand in the ghetto

And as her young man dies
On a cold and grey Chicago morn
Another little baby child is born in the ghetto

I Put A Spell On You
====================
I put a spell on you, 'cause you're mine
You'd better stop those things that you're doin'
Oh, honey, I ain't lyin', no

Wow, you better quit it, your messin' around
You better quit it, your foolin' around
I put a spell on you, wow, cause you're mine

It serves you right to suffer
It serves you right to be alone
Oh, you forever live the day I done packed and gone (?)

Oh you better kick it before it kicks you
Oh, you better quit it, it's true
I put a spell on you, wow, cause you're mine, mine, mine

You better quit it, your foolin' around
You better quit it, kick it, .... , oh you're messin' around 
I put a spell on you, you, cause you're mine

Muddy Water
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Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising
Muddy water taking back the land
The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating
Ain't no use to stay and make a stand

Well the morning light shows water in the valley
Daddy's grave just went below the line
Things to say, you just can't take em with ya
This flood will swallow all you've left behind

	Won't be back to start all over
	Cause what I felt before is gone

Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water taking back my home
The road is gone, there's just one way to leave here
Turn my back on what I've left below
Shifting land, broken farms around me
Muddy water's changing all I know

	It's hard to say just what I'm losing
	Ain't never felt so all alone

Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water taking back my home

	Won't be back to start all over
	Cause what I felt before is gone

Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water's changing all I know
Muddy water's changing all I know
Lord, this muddy water is taking back my home

I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
=========================
Yeah, my baby left me this morning
And I don't care now, I don't care what the people say

Yeah, I did everything that I could, everything I could,
Lord knows I did everything I could
I tried to satisfy her worried mind, that's what I did

You know she was nothing but trouble, trouble
She keep me worried all the time
God knows her movements are killing me

Yeah, my baby stayed out all night long, all night long
She keep me worried all the time

Yeah, I lay down last night I was thinking
Must I kill that woman? Must I kill that woman?
Oh Lord I get down on my knees
They tell me God forgivin' everything you do
But I don't care what the people say
I'm gonna kill that woman, 
I'm gonna kill that woman, God knows
I'm gonna get down on my knees

Sleeping Analeah
================
Yesterday the sun was shining but you're finding the sun it
Don't shine all the time
A winter day suddenly came your way 
And you ran into your mind

	Sleeping Analeah, Weeping Analeah
	Do you think you're ready for me?

Oh and yesterday is gone forever and ever, never
To be again
You looked for the sunshine, that brought warmth to your mind
But find only rain

	Sleeping Analeah, Weeping Analeah
	No, you're not ready for me

But when yesterday becomes a memory, a memory
That we uncovered in time
If you still remember that cold September
I reigned in your mind

	Sleeping Analeah, Weeping Analeah
	Then you'd be ready for me

Long Black Veil 
===============
	She walks these hills in a long black veil 
	She visits my grave when the night winds wail
	Nobody knows, nobody sees
	Nobody knows but me

Ten years ago, on a cold dark night 
Someone was killed 'neath the Town Hall light  
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed  
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me  
 
The judge he said: Son, what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die
But I spoke not a word though it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife
 
Now the scaffold is high and eternity is near
She stood in the crowd but shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
In a long black veil she cries on my bones

Hey Joe
=======
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?
I'm gonna shoot my baby, I caught her messin round with another man

Hey Joe, I heard you shot your baby down  
Hey Joe, I heard you shot your baby down 
Yes I did I shot her, I went and put her in the ground

Hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?
Hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?
I'm heading way down South where I can be free
I'm heading Mexico way, no hangman's about to put a leash around me 

The Singer
==========
As I walk these narrow streets 
Where a million passin feet have trod before me
With my guitar in my hand
Suddenly I realize nobody knows me

Where yesterday the multitude
Screamed and cried my name out for a song
Today the streets are empty 
And the crowds have all gone home

I pass a million houses
But there is no place that I belong
All I knew to give you 
Was song after song after song

All the truths I tried to tell you 
Were as distant to you as the moon
Born 200 years too late
And 200 years too soon

I'm a child of this age
Locked into the pages of your book
And when I am but dust and clay
And all the children stop to take a look

Will they marvel at the miracles I did perform
And the heights I did aspire
Or will they tear out the pages of the book
To light a fire

With the rain on my face
There is no place that I belong
Did you forget this fucking singer so soon?
And did you forget my song?

All Tomorrow's Parties
======================
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
A hand-me-down dress from who knows where
To all tomorrow's parties
 
And where will she go and what shall she do
When midnight comes around
She'll turn once more to Sunday's gown
And cry behind the door
 
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
Why silks and plumes of yesterday's gowns
To all tomorrow's parties
 
And what shall she do with Thursday's rags
When Monday comes around
She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown
And cry behind the door
 
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown
For whom none will go mourning
 
A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown
Of rags and silks, a costume
Fit for one who sits and cries
For all tomorrow's parties

By The Time I Get To Phoenix
============================
By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising
And she'll find that note that I left hanging on the door
And she'll laugh when she reads the part
That says: "I'm leaving"
Cause I've left that girl so many times before

And by the time I get to Albuquerque, she'll be working
And she'll take off time just to give me a call
And she'll hear that phone keep right on ringing and ringing
On the wall, yeah oh, that's all

And by the time I make Oklahoma, she'll be sleeping
She'll turn softly in her sleep and call my name out low
And then she'll cry just to think that I'd really leave her, I left her
But time after time after time I tried to tell her so
But she just didn't know That I would really go
That I would really go

The Hammer Song
===============
Oh please don't send me out
Said the man with the hammer, hammering the anvil
I been walking on a road of rocks
And I keep on hammering, keep on hammering, keep on hammering,
Hammering the anvil
 
Don't let the sun go down 
Said the man with the fire, firing the furnace
I been buried in the snow
And I keep on firing, keep on firing, keep on firing,
Firing the furnace 

Oh don't talk to me
Said the man with the chisel, chiseling the surface
I been sleeping far too long
And I keep on chiseling, keep on chiseling, keep on chiseling,
Chiseling the surface 

I don't know what you mean
Said the man with the shovel, shoveling the ashes
I been digging in the frozen ground
And I keep on shoveling, keep on shoveling, keep on shoveling,
Shoveling the ashes 

Shoveling the ashes 
Chiseling the surface 
Firing the furnace 
Hammering the anvil

Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
===================================
Something's gotten hold of my heart
Keeping my soul and my senses apart
Something's gotten into my life
Cutting its way through my dreams like a knife
Turning me up and turning me down
Making me smile and making me frown

	In a world that was small
	I once lived in a time there was peace with no trouble at all
	But then you came my way
	And a feeling unknown shook my heart, made me want you to stay
	All of my nights and all of my days

I gotta tell you now
Something's gotten hold of my hand
Dragging my soul to a beautiful land
Something has invaded my nights
Painting my sleep with a colour so bright
Changing the grey and changing the blue
Scarlet for me and scarlet for you

	I've got to know if this is the real thing
	I've got to know what's making my heart sing
	You smile and I am lost for a lifetime
	Each minute spent with you is the right time
	Every hour, every day
	You touch me and my mind goes astray

Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
===============================
Jesus met the woman at the well
Jesus met the woman at the well
And he told her, everything that she'd done, that she'd done

And he said, woman, look-a here woman,
Tell me where is your husband?
She said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't have one

He said, woman, look-a here woman,
They tell me you have five husbands
And that man you have now sure ain't one

She went running, crying,                 God help me 
She said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you must be the prophet
Because you told me everything that I've done

The Carnival Is Over
====================
Say goodbye, my one true lover
And we'll steal a lover's song
How it breaks my heart to leave you
Now the carnival has gone

Oh my love, the dawn is breaking
And my tears are falling rain
For the carnival is over
We may never meet again

Like a drum my heart was beating
And your kiss was sweet as wine
But the joys of love are fleeting
For Pierrot and Columbine

Now the cloak of night is falling
This will be our last goodbye
Though the carnival is over
I will love you till I die

Running Scared
==============
Just running scared, each place we go
So afraid, that he might show

Yeah, running scared, what would I do
If he came back and wanted you?

Just running scared, feeling low
Running scared that you love him so

Just running scared, afraid to lose
If he came back, which one would you choose?

And then all at once, he was standing there
So sure of himself, his head in the air
While my heart was breaking, which one would it be?
Then you turned round and walked right out on me

Black Betty
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Look-a look-a yonder (3x)
Well the sun done gone

The captain can't hold her (3x)
The way I do now 

Ada got a gold mine (3x)
Way above her knees

The shiv (?) is golden (3x)
Above her knees

Look-a look-a yonder (3x)
Well the sun done gone

Wohoh, Black Betty,       bam-e-lam (2x)
Black Betty had a baby,   bam-e-lam (2x)
Damn thing was crazy,     bam-e-lam (2x)
Wohoh, Black Betty,       bam-e-lam (2x)
Oh, Betty Black Betty,    bam-e-lam (2x)
Black Betty had a baby,   bam-e-lam (2x)
Damn thing was crazy,     bam-e-lam (2x)
Black Betty didn't mind,  bam-e-lam (2x)
Damn thing was blind,     bam-e-lam (2x)
Wohoh, Black Betty,       bam-e-lam (2x)
Black Betty, Black Betty, bam-e-lam (2x)
Jump steady Black Betty,  bam-e-lam (2x)

That Monday, I was arrested
Tuesday, I locked up in jail
Wednesday baby, my trial's tested
On Thursday, nobody could blow my bail

	Yes, I'm almost done (3x)
	And I ain't gonna yell against no bells

On Monday, baby I went a-walking
Tuesday, I .... asked to go
On Wednesday I sat down a-talking
On Thursday she hock all a my clothes

	Yes, I'm almost done (3x)
	And I ain't gonna .... no more

Long Time Man
=============
Yeah, they came to take me away
Said I'd be sitting here for the rest of my life
But I don't really care - I shot my wife
And brother, I can't even remember the reason why

Oh, it makes a long time man feel bad
Yeah, it makes a long time man feel bad
Well I ain't had no love since I don't know when
It sure makes a long time man feel bad

We was down in Jacksonville
A cold winter night
My baby and I, we began to fight
I heated up, and I grabbed my gun
I get so cold on those nights down south

She was laying in a pool right there on the kitchen floor
She looked up at me and began to smile
Her gasping words: "Baby, I love you"
Then she closed those baby blue eyes

(chorus, and variations)

Sometimes I hear you call my name in the dead of the night

I ain't had those arms around me
I ain't had those lips, those lips, around me

It sure makes a long time man feel bad
So bad

Scum
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Well, I lived with one 
Well, I lived with one, I lived with two, 
I even lived with a third
I wanna tell you about number one
He was a miserable shitwringing turd
Like he reminded me of some evil gnome
Shakin hands was like shakin a hot, fat, oily bone
Holdin on for far too long
Yes he took me in, he took me in
He said that I looked pale and thin
I told him he looked fat
His lips were red and lickin wet
His house was roastin hot
In fact it was a fuckin slum
Scum! Scum!
Well then he hooked up with some slut from the same game
Black snow! Black snow!
Cocksuckstress, and I should know
Mean and vicious, her microphone always smelled suspicious
His and herpes bath towel type
If you know what I mean
I could not look at him, worm
He'd be takin a shower and who should walk in
He was the epitome of their type
Her middle name was Welcome, his was Wipe
Scum! Scum!
Well you're on the shit list
Thrust and twist, twist and screw
You gave me a bad review
And maybe you think that it's all just water under the bridge
Well my UNfriend, I'm the type that holds a grudge
I'm your creator
I think you fuckin traitor, chronic masturbator,
Shitlicker, user, self-abuser, jigger jigger!
What rock did you crawl from?
Which ..... did you come?
You Judas, Brutus, Vitus, Scum!
Hey four-eyes, come
That's right, it's a gun
Face is bubble, blood, and ...... street
Snowman with six holes clean into his fat fuckin guts
Psychotic drama mounts
Guts well deep then a spring is fount (?)
I unload into his eyes
Blood springs
Dead snow
Blue skies

Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass 
============================== 
I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass
Through its telescopic bottom

I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass
Through its telescopic bottom

If you wanna know what ... is
Ask the girl at the bottom of my glass

Well love'll come a-knockin' with my toolbag and my stockin'
........ drug ...

If you wanna know whats shakin' down the house
Ask the girl at the bottom of my glass

I can't smell my drink, without a woman at the sink,
...........

I can spill (slop) my drink, without that woman at the sink,
Coming back with her rag and mittens

If you're looking for that woman at the house
Ask the girl at the bottom of my glass
All right!

I can't raise my drink, without stopping to think
That some bad baby's givin' me trouble

I cannot raise my drink, without stopping to think
That some bad baby's givin' me trouble

If you wanna see what's inside of Sally
You'll find that girl in a hole out in the alley, yeah

I cannot raise my glass, without seeing her ass
That booze is a-turning bitter

I cannot raise my glass, without seeing her ass
Cause you got no more of that bitter

If you know a little bit about my past
Take a switch at the bitch in my house

Helpless
========
There is a town in north Ontario
And I take comfort from memories there
And in my mind I still need a place to go
All my best changes were there

Blue, blue windows behind the stars
Yellow moon on the rise
Big birds flying across the sky
Throwing shadows on our eyes
	Leave us helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless 
        Baby, heal me now

The chains are locked and tied across the door
They seem to help me somehow

The Train Song
==============
Tell me how long's the train been gone?
Tell me how long's the train been gone?
And was she there?
And was she there?
Tell me how long's the train been gone?

Tell me how many coaches long?
Tell me how many coaches long?
What did she wear?
And what did she wear?
Tell me how many coaches long?

Tell me when did the whistle blow?
Tell me when did the whistle blow?
And did she tie her hair?
And did she tie her hair?
Tell me when did the whistle blow?

Tower Of Song 
============= 
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song

I said to Leonard Cohen: How lonely does it get?
Leonard Cohen hasn't answered me yet
But I can hear him coughing all night long,
A million floors above me in the Tower of Song

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born like this, with a golden voice
Twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond,
Well they tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song

You can stick your needles in a voodoo doll
I'm sorry baby, but it don't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
They don't let a woman kill you in the Tower of Song

I've grown bitter, bitter, of this you may be sure:
The rich, the rich have got channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement but it won't be long, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices in the Tower of Song - oh yeah -
The guitar, the bass, the drums, so nice every hour in the Tower of Song

I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
But I loved you, baby, way back when
All the bridges are burning that we might have crossed,
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
But I'll never have to lose you again, Tower of Song

I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'm back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone
I'm speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song

Now you can say that I've grown bitter, of this you can be sure:
The rich have got channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement but it won't take long, I may be wrong

(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World
=========================================
It was a miracle I even got outta Longwood alive,
This town fulla men with big mouths and no guts,
I mean, if you can just picture it,
The whole third floor of the hotel gutted by the blast,
And the street below showered in shards of broken glass,
And all the drunks pourin' outta the dance halls,
Starin' up at the smoke and the flames,
And the blind pencil seller wavin' his stick,
Shoutin' for his dog that lay dead on the side of the road,
And me, if you can believe this, at the wheel of the car
Closin my eyes and actually prayin',
Not to God above, but to you, sayin',

	Help me girl, help me girl
	I'll love you till the end of the world
	With your eyes black as coal and your long dark curls

Some things we plan, we sit and we invent and we plot and cook up,
Others are works of inspiration, of poetry,
And it was this genius hand that pushed me up the hotel stairs
To say my last goodbye,
To her hair white as snow, and her pale blue eyes,
Sayin "I gotta go, I gotta go, the bomb and the bread basket
Are ready to blow,"
In this town of men with big mouths and no guts,
The pencil seller's dog spooked by the explosion
And leapin' under my wheels as I careered outta Longwood on my way to you,
Waitin in your dress, in your dress of blue

	I said thank you girl, thank you girl
	I'll love you till the end of the world
	With your eyes black as coal and your long dark curls

And with the horses prancin' through the fields,
With my knife in my jeans and the rain on the shield,
I sang a song for the glory of the beauty of you,
Waitin for me in your dress of blue

	Thank you girl, thank you girl
	I'll love you till the end of the world
	With your eyes black as coal and your long dark curls

Blue Bird
=========
I got a blue bird, a blue bird on my shoulder
I got a blue bird, a blue bird on my shoulder
I saw her standing, standing by the water
She was naked, her hair in great disorder

	And I know that I fly and the rest is lie

I sent a warning, a warning of disaster
I sent a warning, I warned of great disaster
I sent that blue bird, a blue bird down the water
I sent that blue bird, floating down the water

	And I know that I fly and the rest is lie
        Hold me, hold me, hold me close

What A Wonderful World
======================
I see trees of green, red roses too
I watch them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself: What a Wonderful World

I see skies of blue, clouds of white
The bright blessed day and the dark sacred night
And I think to myself: What a Wonderful World

The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of the people passing by
I see friends shaking hands, saying: "How do you do?"
What they're really saying is: "I love you."

I hear babies cry, I watch them grow
They'll know much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself: What a Wonderful World
Yes I think to myself: What a Wonderful World

Rainy Night In Soho
===================
I've been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And I've cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways

We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into heaven
And some of them fell into hell

I took shelter from a shower
And I stepped into your arms
On a rainy night in Soho
The wind was whistling all its charms

I sang you all my sorrows
And you told me all your joys
Whatever happened to that old song
To all those little girls and boys
       Those little girls and boys

Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
But there's a light I hold before me
And you're the measure of my dreams
           The measure of my dreams

500 Miles
=========
If you miss the train I'm on
Then you know that I'll be gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles

Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four
Lord I'm 500 miles away from home
500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles,
Lord I'm 500 miles away from home

Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name
Lord I can't go-a-home this-a-way
This-a-way, this-a-way, this-a-way, this-a-way,
Lord I can't go-a-home this-a-way

Rye Whiskey
===========
Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, I know you most of all
You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold
And Whiskey, you villain, you've been my down-fall
You've cuffed and you've kicked me but I loved you of old

	Oh Whiskey, Rye Whiskey, Whiskey I cried
	If I don't get rye Whiskey I surely will die

Well I go yonder mountain and build me a still
And I send you a gallon for a five dollar bill
Well it's beefcake when I'm hungry, Whiskey when I'm dry
And it's greenbacks when I'm hard off and hell when I die

If the sea were made of Whiskey and I was a duck
I'd swim to the bottom and never come up
Oh, but the sea ain't made of Whiskey and I ain't a duck
So I play Jack Of Diamonds and trust on my luck

Plain Gold Ring
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Plain gold ring on her finger she wore
It was where everyone could see
It belonged to someone, but not me
On her hand she wore a plain gold ring

Plain gold ring's got a story to tell
It was one that I knew very well
In my heart it will never be spring
Long as she wears that plain gold ring

When night time comes calling on me
I know why I will never be free
I can't stop these teardrops of mine, oh no
I'm gonna love her till the end of time

Plain gold ring's got but one thing to say
I'm gonna love her till my dying day
In my heart it will never be spring
Long as she wears that plain gold ring

What Can I Give You?
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All my life I failed to see
One good thing standing in front of me
And the planets gravitate around you
And the stars, the stars surround you
And the angels in heaven adore you
And the saints, the saints all stand and applaud you

	What can I give you?
	What can I give you in return?

The shadow came creeping, a criminal
That you chased, babe, from my life
And sometimes when I'm sleeping I see him shuffle against the night
Oh, he's away, yes he's away to return
And each step I take moves me one step below you
And you must do in order to console me
Help me, help me, help me, baby, reach down and collect me

	What can I give you?
	What can I give you in return?

Galaxies collide, and shut down around you
And I served, I stumbled and then I found you
In your robe, in your crown, reaching 'low me, 
Reaching low down to the ground

	What can I give you?
	What can I give you in return?

Sail Away
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I climb the hill, lay in the grass
A little dark eyed girl drifted past
She said all the best is come, it could not last
And the worst it has come true

Her hands are small and flooded up
I lay amongst the butter cup
I ... cold blood ended up (?)
For the worst, it had come true

	Sail away, sail away
	To a place where your troubles can't follow
	Sail away, sail away
	Save all your tears for tomorrow

The fence of the city move toward us
.... swallow swooped and the starlings want us (?)
And the .......
It assured us that the worst had come true

And all my sorrows made their bed beside me
The shame, the disgrace and the brutality
And she whispered that ..... left a flee (?)
For the worst, it has come true

	Dry your tears, forget while we're here
	Leave all your sorrows behind you
	..........., ovens will pass (?)
	To a place where your troubles can't find you

She came beside me amongst my coat
Her breath was warm against my throat
We clung to eachother so very close
For the worst, it had come true

	Sail away, sail away
	To a place where your heart will not shame you
	Take my hand through this night without end
	For the worst, it has come to claim you

	Sail away, sail away
	To a place where no one can betray you
	Take my hand through this night without end
	For the worst, it has come to claim you

	Sail away, sail away
	To a place where your troubles can't follow
	Sail away, sail away
	Save all your tears for tomorrow

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