Music
Midnight Wind (1977)
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1
MIdnight Wind
He blew in town at midnight
And he didn't mean to stay
And then he found her
Just at closing time at the Alamo Cafe
And the way he smiled and carried on
He kinda made her day
So by the time that she left
He left with her
And she let him borrow money
And she let him drive her car
She didn't really trust him
But she done and gone too far
When the midnight moon is shining
When it's shining down the way
Well, if he blew in on the midnight wind
He may never pass this way again
She knew down in her heart
That he would only stay awhile
But sometimes she was a woman
And sometimes she was a child
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Then just about the time
That she was learning how to smile
One Tuesday night
He came up missing
And sometimes now she thinks
She hears his footsteps cross the floor
But it's just that midnight wind
Howling around the door
When the midnight moon is shining
When it's shining down the way
Well, if he blew in on the midnight wind
He may never pass this way again
When the midnight moon is shining
When it's shining down the way
Well, if he blew in on the midnight wind
He may never pass this way again
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2
Sugar Hill Saturday Night
Well, the women are foxy and lowdown
They all like to have a good time
The men are sneaky and no account
They knock you in the head for a dime
And Friday evening to Sunday night
They stay stoned running blind
Well the music starts getting right
The people start getting tight
Some fool started a fight
That's Sugar Hill Saturday Night
There's a juke joint they call the Big Mama
And a joint called Rising Sun
You can have a good time
But if you step outta line
You damn sure better run
Cause the sheriff stands six foot seven
And he's a head whoopin' son of a gun
Well the music starts getting right
The people start getting tight
Some fool started a fight
That's Sugar Hill Saturday Night
Well it's five o'clock in the morning
And the blues is all played out
Just sitting here drinking whiskey from this coffee cup
When the lights went out
Well the music starts getting right
The people start getting tight
Some fool started a fight
That's Sugar Hill Saturday Night
Music starts getting right
The people start getting tight
Some fool started a fight
That's Sugar Hill Saturday Night -
3
Heaven Can Be Anywhere (Twin Pines Theme)
Somewhere there's got to be
Someplace where you and me
Can get away from this noise and worry
Just you and me alone
There'd be no telephone
We'd never be in a hurry
Just a hill with some tall trees
Where a creek comes moving in line (or bubbling by)
Mingling with the green of the grass
And the blue of the sky
I'd never go away
We'd just spend everyday
Living out the dreams we've been saving
Anyone who'd see us
Sure would like to be us
Just for the memories we're making
But I guess that would be heaven
And I don't really care
Cause while we're dreamin, baby
You don't have to wonder, baby
Heaven can be anywhere
As long as you're there
But I guess that would be heaven
And I don't really care
Cause while we're dreamin, baby
You don't have to wonder, baby
Heaven can be anywhere
As long as you're there -
4
Maria Teresa
Lights along the border
Two more lonely hours and I can go
Across the Rio Grande and Laredo
Cause Maria Teresa Marina Martinez
Is waitin' in Old Mexico
She's a rich Señor's daughter
And he sure ain't gonna like it when he knows
But I damn sure fight him and half of Texas
'Cause Maria Teresa Marina Martinez
Is waitin' in Old Mexico
High Sierra
Where evening breeze blows the tumbleweeds along
My Sombrero
And there's million stars and a thousand guitars
Always playing my song
Just a wild crazy cowboy
And I still don't like the way they rodeo
But I'll give up my wild oats for her sweet love
'Cause Maria Teresa Marina Martinez
Is waitin' in Old Mexico
High Sierra
Down where evening breeze blows the tumbleweeds along
My Sombrero
And there's million stars and a thousand guitars
Always playing my song
Lights along the border
Two more lonely hours and I can go
'Cross the Rio Grande and Laredo
Cause Maria Teresa Marina Martinez
Is waitin' in Old Mexico
Maria Teresa Marina Martinez
Is waitin' in Old Mexico -
5
Indian Man
Indian Man
They took your home
They took your land
Left you on the run for all of these years
Indian man
You didn't fit the white man's plan
So he herded you off down the Trail of Tears
But there was a time when the land was free
When the Seminole and the Cherokee
Stood proud
From the Rio Grande to the Midnight Sun
The Navajo rode and the Blackfeet drums beat loud
From the East they came
With the Cavalry soldiers and the wagon train
With a treaty of peace and rifle in their hands
And then the West was won
With the broken promise and the Gatling gun
And nobody never even tried to understand
But the Bible got read and the church bells rung
And they talk about peace with a forked tongue
In vain
While Blackfeet starved and the Cheyennes froze
And the Sioux blood stained the coldest snows
In shame
And the tracks went down
On the huntin' land and the sacred ground
Pickin' up all the drifters along the way
And then the trains rolled in
With the buffalo skinners and the greedy men
And the world got a little bit smaller every day
But there was a time when the land was free
When the Seminole and the Cherokee
Stood tall
Your head was up but your hopes were down
Though your heart was on the ground
You stood it all
And you're a better man than I am
Indian Man -
6
Grapes of Wrath
In 1927 Oklahoma blew away
And we started 'cross the country in a beat up Chevrolet
Our backs were to the sunrise and our feet were on the path
We're going out to the promised land and the Grapes of Wrath
They called us dirty rednecks and they called us filthy bums
Said we don't want ya'll in our town so why the Hell'd you come?
We ain't scared of anybody we're just running from the drought
And I'm damn proud I'm an Okie so you'd better watch your mouth
California you're a faker
California you're a lie
'Cause the rich keep getting richer
While the hungry children cry
One of these days
you're going to pay
For your mistakes
I spent all my younger days just followin' the sun
I met the only girl I ever loved when I was 21
And Ruby was the only good thing that I ever had
Oh Lord, I don't know how thing can turn out so bad
We moved out close to Bakersfield and tried to settle down
I got a job sharecroppin' for the richest man in town
If he'd a just left us alone we'd a lived a happy life
But he couldn't keep his eyes off of my wife
He slipped into my house one day when Ruby was alone
And by the time that I got back the damage had been done
And what I saw when I walked in just filled me full of hate
And she just laid there crying
Like her heart would break
I grabbed my gun and started out but Ruby begged me please
So I went in town and told the law but they just laughed at me
But thirteen sticks of dynamite that night made quite a sound
And brought a big fine mansion tumbling to the ground
California you're a faker
California you're a lie
Cause the rich keep getting richer
While the hungry children cry
One of these days
you're going to pay
For your mistakes -
7
Redneck Fiddlin' Man
Well, down in Mississippi, there's a little bitty town
And there ain't much happens 'til the sun goes down
Then all the people come from miles around
To hear a little four-piece band
There's a dog house bass and a kid on the drums
And a guitar picker just as hot as they come
Up steps a man with a bow on his thumb and a fiddle in his hand
He tunes up the fiddle and he resins up the bow
And he plays an old tune called "Cotton Eyed Joe"
And they dance all night on a hard wood floor to the redneck fiddlin' man
[CHORUS:]
Good times go by easy
Good times fly away
One night some boys from town came by
With a bellyfull of liquor and the devil in their eye
And they said, "Old man, you're way outta style
You don't play Rock N' Roll"
Well, he picked up his fiddle with style and ease
And he played a little rock just as pretty as you please
Then he bent down, turned around, knocked them to their knees
When he played a little mountain soul
Then, he tightened up his bow and he made another pass
And he played "Sally Good'N" kinda' rowdy and fast
Then he played a little blues and he played a little jazz
Just to show them he could do it all
[CHORUS:]
Good times go by easy
Good times fly away
Well, he tuned up the fiddle and he resined up the bow
And he played an old song called "Cotton Eyed Joe"
And they danced all night on a hard wood floor to the redneck fiddlin' man -
8
Ode to Sweet Smoky
Please treat me tender
Like you used to
One and another
How could we lose
Oh those sweet memories
Come back to me silently
Oh sweet Smokey
I'm in love with you
She was the first girl
I'd ever seen
Dressed in a robe of
Tall evergreens
Oh those days ponderin'
Freely I was wanderin'
Oh sweet Smokey
I'm in love with you
High on a mountain
You know you make me
Weak in the knees
High on a mountain
I just can't believe
The things that I see
High on a mountain
You know you make me
Weak in the knees
High on a mountain
I just can't believe
The things that I see -
9
Good Ole Boy
Well I went down the road and I got in a fight.
We was cuttin' and a shootin' in the middle of the night.
The police came to raid the place
Well I jumped up; cussed in the police face
They whipped my head until my head caved in.
I jumped back up said do it again.
I'm a little wild and a little bit breezy
Rollin' 'em high and ridin' 'em easy, yes I am
Hog wild and woman crazy
'Bout half mean and about half lazy, yes I am
But I know what I am
And I don't give a damn
'Cause I'm a good ole boy
Well I found myself on a lucky streak
Rollin' seven come eleven in the middle of the street.
I won me two hundred dollars on a natural pass
When a big dude started givin' me some sass.
Well I grabbed him by the neck and I jerked him around
I tore up his head and a acre of ground
I'm a little wild and a little bit breezy
Rollin' 'em high and ridin' 'em easy, yes I am
Hog wild and woman crazy
'Bout half mean and about half lazy, yes I am
But I know what I am
And I don't give a damn
'Cause I'm a good ole boy
Well I jumped right up and I went for a ride
And I was driving my car on the left hand side.
Well I started out rollin' toward the county line
But I got sidetracked by a bottle of wine.
I run the right rear wheel in a big mudhole.
I tore down a house and a telephone pole.
But I'm a little wild and a little bit breezy
Rollin' 'em high and ridin' 'em easy, yes I am
Hog wild and woman crazy
'Bout half mean and about half lazy, yes I am
But I know what I am
And I don't give a damn
'Cause I'm a good ole boy -
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Black Bayou
Well I lost all my money playing five card stud
Now my last six pack is gone
I ain't got no bed for my achin' head
Cause my baby won't let me come home
Well it must have been a west-bound ill wind
It might have been an evil breeze
But something come floating through the swamp last night
And put the hoochie-coo on me
Black Bayou
I ain't done nothing to you
When I woke up it was late Sunday night�
And I was way down in jail on my knees
I called my best friend up on the phone
And said, "Hey buddy, can you help me please?"
He said, "I think you must have the wrong number,
I don't seem to recall your name."
I said, "They turn me loose,
I get my hands on you,�
You ain't never a gonna forget it again."
Black Bayou
I ain't done nothing to you.
[bridge]
Well it must have been a west-bound ill wind
It might have been an evil breeze
But something come floating through the swamp last night
And put the hoochie-coo on me
Black Bayou
I ain't done nothing to you.
Black Bayou
I ain't done nothing to you.
Black Bayou
I ain't done nothing to you.