L/2
Liberty [Robert Hunter]
Saw a bird with a tear in
his eye
Walking to New Orleans---my,
my, my
Hey, now, Bird, wouldn't
you rather die
than walk this world when
you're born to fly?
If I was the sun, I'd look
for shade
If I was a bed, I would
stay unmade
If I was a river I'd run
uphill
And if you call me you know
I will
Mmmm, freedom
Ooo, liberty
O ... leave me alone
to find my own way home
I say what I mean and I
don't give a damn
I do believe and I am who
I am
Hey, now, Mama, come take
my hand
Whole lotta shakin' all
over this land
If I was an eagle I'd dress
like a duck
Crawl like a lizard and
honk like a truck
If I get a notion I'll climb
this tree
or chop it down and you
can't stop me
Mmmm, freedom
Ooo, liberty
O ... leave me alone
to find my own way home
Went to the well but the
water was dry
Dipped my bucket in the
clear blue sky
Looked in the bottom and
what did I see?
The whole damned world looking
back at me
If I was a bottle I'd spill
for love
Sake of mercy I'd kill for
love
If I were a juicer I'd binge
for love
If I were a coward I'd cringe
for love
Freedom
Liberty
Leave me alone
to find my own way home
Like a Road [Nix,
Penn]
When the road gets too long
And you run all out of sun
And the pain gets too much
to bear
Turn around, turn around
Turn around, and I'll be
there
Like a Road, Like a Road
leading home
When you wake up and start
to cry
And you need some place
to go
And you want some company
that really cares
Turn around...
When the grey clouds pass
you by
And the road you travel
on
Doesn't seem to be goin'
anywhere
Turn around...
Lindy [?]
I know they're gonna run
take me
When they get across the
sea
Ever' chance, those women;
Watch-it's amazing
It's all safe and now sugar
baby
Oh Mama, don't you weep and
moan,
Uncle Sam got your man and
gone.
Now then they're doin' the
Lindy Bird across the sea.
Oh Mama, how can it be, You
went way across the sea
Just to keep from doing
that Lindy fight with me
Oh baby, well I done just
told'ja now
Oh Mama, don't you weep and
moan,
Uncle Sam got your man and
gone.
Now then they're doin' the
Lindy Bird across the sea.
I asked her for a piece of
banana;
She said, "Let me play the
blues on your piano
And then I'll do that Lindy
thing with you."
Mary had a dream about a
submarine.
I asked her for a glass of
payolla;
She said, "Let me play the
blues on your Victrola,
And then I'll do that Lindy
fight with you."
Little Red Rooster [W.Dixon]
I'm a little red rooster,
too lazy to crow for days
Just a little red rooster,
too lazy to crow for days
Keep everything in the barnyard
people, upset in every way
Dogs begin to bark now and
the hounds begin to howl
Dogs begin to bark now and
the hounds begin to howl
Watch out stray cat people
The little red rooster is
on the prowl
If you see the little red
rooster,
Won't you please drive him
home
If you see my little red
rooster,
Won't you please drive him
home
Been no peace in the barnyard
people,
Since the little red rooster's
been gone
[Brent rap]
Yeah and the little red
rooster, well you ain't shit to me
Think you're a stud boy,
well I doubt you'll ever be
While your're away I'm gonna
fuck with your hens, boy
I'm just bein' neighborly
Little Sadie [Traditional]
Went down last night to take
a look around
Met little Sadie and I blew
her down,
Went right home, went to
bed
Forty-four colt smokes under
my head
And I began to think what
a deed I'd done
Grabbed my hat and away
I run, made a good run,
But a little too slow
They overtook me in Jericho
I'm standin' on the corner
ringin' the bell
Along came the sheriff from
Thomasville
Says "Young man, your name's
Brown,
Remember the night you blew
Sadie down?"
Oh, yes sir, my name is
Lee,
I murdered little Sadie
in the first degree
First degree and the second
degree
Got any papers won't you
read 'em to me.
They took me downtown all
dressed in black
Put me on the train and
sent me back
Sent me back to the county
jail,
I had nobody to go for my
bail
The judge and the jury they
took the stand
The judge hold the paper
in his right hand
Forty-one days, forty-one
nights,
Forty-one years to wear
the ball and stripes.
Little Star [Weir]
Lovers we got to be, lovers
we are.
I just wanna be one of those
little stars
One of those stars, that'll
be just fine.
All you gotta do is hang
up there and shine.
Hang up there and shine
Logger Song [Traditional]
As I strolled out one evening
within a small cafe
Forty year-old waitress
to me these words did say
I see you are a logger and
not just a common bum
Cause no one but a logger
stirs his coffee with his thumb
My lover was a logger, but
not like none today
If you pour whiskey on it,
he'd eat a bale of hay
Long Black Limousine
[?]
Down through the city their
fancy cars are such a sight to see
At first look your rich
friends that took you innocently
That now they finally called
you home to me
Papers told about you lost
your life
Of the party and the famous
crash that night
Racing on the highway that
turns nobody saint
Now you're driving in that
long black limousine
Looks Like Rain [Weir/Barlow]
I woke today, felt your
side of bed,
The covers were still warm
where you'd been laying.
You were gone,
my heart was filled with dread.
You might not be sleeping
here again.
[Bridge]
But it's alright, 'cause
I love you. That's not gonna change.
Run me 'round, make me hurt
again and again.
But I'll still sing you
love songs,
Written
in the letters of your name.
And brave the storm to come,
for it surely looks like rain.
Did you ever wake unto to
the sound, of street cats making love?
And guess from their cries
you were listening to a fight.
Well you know, hate's just
the last thing they're thinking of.
They're only tryin' to make
it through the night.
[Jam on bridge chords]
I only want to hold you,
I don't want to tie you down
Or paint you in the lines
I might've drawn.
It's just that I, have gotten
used to havin' you around.
The landscape would be empty,
if you were gone.
[Bridge]
Loose Lucy [Garcia/Hunter]
Loose Lucy is my delight,
She come runnin' and we
ball all night,
Round and round and round
and round
Don't take much to get me
on the ground.
She's my yo-yo, I'm her string,
Listen to the birds on the
hot wire sing,
Yeah (yeah), Yeah (yeah),
Yeah (yeah), Yeah. Singing,
"Thank you, for a real good
time!"
I got jumped coming home
last night.
Shadow in the alley turned
out all my lights.
Round and round and round
and round
Don't take much to get me
on the ground.
Loose Lucy, she was sore,
Says I know you don't want
my love no more,
Singing yeah (yeah), yeah
(yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah. Singing
"Thank you, for a real good
time!"
[Jam on all chords]
Be-bop baby how can this
be?
I know you been out a' cheating
on me,
Round and round and round
and round
Don't take much to get the
word around.
Cross my heart and hope to
die,
I was just hangin' out with
the other guys,
Singing yeah (yeah), yeah
(yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah. Singing
"Thank you, for a real good
time!"
Went back home with two black
eyes,
You know I'll love her till
the day I die,
Round and round and round
and round
Don't take much to get the
word around.
I like your smile but I ain't
your type,
Don't shake the tree when
the fruit ain't ripe,
Yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah),
yeah (yeah) yeah.
Singing yeah (yeah), yeah
(yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah.
Singing yeah (yeah), yeah
(yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah.
Singing, "Thank you, for
a real good time!"
Loser [Garcia/Hunter]
If I had a gun for every
ace I've drawn,
I could arm a town the size
of Abilene
Don't you push me baby,
'cause I'm all alone.
And you know I'm only in
it for the gold
All that I am asking for
is ten gold dollars
And I could pay you back
with one good hand
You can look around about
the wide world over
And you'll never find another
honest man.
[Chorus]
Last fair deal in the country,
Sweet Suzy.
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where
your love is baby,
Before you let my deal go
down, go down
Don't you push me baby, cause
I'm all alone.
Well I know a little something
you won't ever know.
Don't you touch hard liquor,
just a cup of cold coffee.
I'm gonna get up in the
morning and go.
[Jam on verse chords]
[Chorus]
Everybody prayin' and drinkin'
that wine.
I can tell the Queen of
Diamonds by the way she shines.
Come to Daddy on the inside
straight.
Well, I got no chance of
losing this time.
Well, I got no chance of
losing this time.
Well, I got no chance of
losing this time.
Lost Sailor [Weir/Barlow]
Compass card is
spinning,
Helm is swinging to and
fro.
Ooh, where's the dog star?
Ooh, where's the moon?
You're a lost sailor,
you've been too long at sea.
Some days the gales are
howling,
Some days the sea
is still as glass.
Ooh, 'neath the main
sail. Ooh, lash the mast.
You're a lost sailor,
you've been too long at sea.
Now the shorelines beckon,
yeah there's a price for being free.
AaddG F#m Bm F#m Bm F#m
Bm A
Yeah the sea bird's cryin'
and there's a ghost wind blowing.
And it's calling you, to
that misty swirling sea.
Till the chains of your
dreams are broken,
No place in this world you
can be.
You're a lost sailor,
you've been too long at sea.
Now the shorelines beckon,
yeah there's a price for being free.
Driftin', you're driftin'.
Yeah, driftin' and dreamin'.
'Cause there's a place you've
never been.
Maybe a place you've never
seen now.
You can hear it comin' on
the wind.
Don't want to drift your
life away. (Driftin' and dreamin')
Baby don't drift your life
away. (Driftin' and dreamin')
Yes, we're goin' on a dream
Maybe goin' on a dream,
Maybe goin' on a dream [End on A]
Louie, Louie [R.Derry]
Louie, Louie, me gotta go.
Louie, Louie, me gotta go.
A fine little girl, she
wait for me.
Me catch the ship across
the sea.
I sailed the ship all alone.
I never think I'll make it home.
Louie, Louie, me gotta go.
Louie, Louie, me gotta go.
Three nights and days we
sailed the sea.
Me think of girl constantly.
On the ship, I dream she
there. I smell the rose in her hair.
Louie, Louie, me gotta go.
Louie, Louie, me gotta go.
Me see Jamaican moon above.
It won't be long me see me love.
Me take her in my arms and
then.
I tell her I never leave
again.
Louie, Louie, me gotta go.
Louie, Louie, me gotta go.
Love in the Afternoon
[Kahn/Hunter]
Love, love in the afternoon
Outside the window an organ
grinder's tune
Rhythm, wine; touch of Jamaica,
Twilight time with a Kingston
lady
All the time in the world
for me and that girl
Sweet, she sang sweetly;
come back soon
Come back for more of that
love in the afternoon
Breezes blow by me in the
afternoon
She sings sweetly an organ
grinder's tune
Finally recovered from last
year's round of bye bye baby blues
All I crave today some love
in the afternoon
Love, love in the afternoon
It's easy as she goes, like
an organ grinder's tune
Gone with the moon any old
trouble it can't leave too soon
Trouble's no part of what
I want 'specially in the afternoon
Singin', sleepin' till two
Wakin' to make more love
in the afternoon
Lucky Old Sun [H. Gillespie,
B. Smith]
Up in the morning, out on
the job, work like a devil, for my pay.
But that lucky old sun,
got nothin' to do,
But roll around Heaven all
day.
Fuss with my woman, toy with
my kid, sweat to I'm wrinkled & grey.
But that lucky old sun,
got nothin' to do,
But roll around Heaven all
day.
But Lord above can hear me
cryin', tears in my eyes.
But down the dock, with
a silver line, lift me to paradise.
Surely I will tame your
calls, wash all my trouble away.
But that lucky old sun,
got nothin' to do,
But roll around Heaven all
day.
[Repeat all verses]
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