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 Never Trust A Woman (Good Times Blues)  [Brent Mydland] 

        I see some good times, I gotta get to ring that bell 
        I gotta see some good times 
        Sometimes you make up for when I'm not feeling well 
        It must be due to some great times 
        Cause right now I feel like hell 

        Never trust a woman who wears her pants too tight 
        Never trust a woman who wears her pants too tight 
        She might love you tomorrow, but she'll be gone tomorrow night 

        Come tomorrow I'll get my pay to leave this town 
        Come tomorrow I'll get my pay to leave this town 
        She don't really love me, ain't no reason to stick around 
 

 New Orleans  [F.Guida/J.Royster] 

        Well, come on everybody take a trip with me 
        Down the Mississippi, down to New Orleans 
        They got the honeysuckle blaming on the honeysuckle vine 
        And love is blaming there all the time 
        They got the French boys swinging from a big old tree 
        Down the Mississippi, down in New Orleans 

        Well, come on take a stroll down on Basin Street 
        And listen to the music and the Dixieland beat 
        Oh, Magnolia blossom fills the air 
        And you ain't been to heaven if you ain't been there 
        Every Southern Belle is a Mississippi Queen 
        Down the Mississippi, down in New Orleans 
 

 New Potato Caboose  [R.Peterson] 

        Last leaf fallen bare earth where green was born, 
        Black Madonna two eagles hang against a cloud, 
        Sun comes up blood red wind yells among the stone, 
        All graceful instruments are known. 

        When the windows all are broken 
        And your love's become a toothless crone, 
        When the voices of the storm sound like a crowd, 
        Winter morning breaks, you're all alone. 

        The eyes are blind, blue visions, all a seer can own, 
        And touching makes the flesh to cry out loud 
        This ground on which the seed of love is sown, 
        All graceful instruments are known. 
 

 New Speedway Boogie  [Garcia/Hunter] 

           Please don't dominate the rap, Jack, 
        If you've got nothing new to say. 
        If you please, don't back up the track this train's got to run today. 

        I spent a little time on the mountain, 
        Spent a little time on the hill. 
        I heard some say, "Better run away," 
        Others say, "Better stand still." 

        Now I don't know, but I been told 
        It's hard to run with the weight of gold. 
        Other hand I heard it said, 
        It's just as hard with a weight of lead. 

        Who can deny, who can deny it's not just a change in style? 
        One step done and another begun and I wonder how many miles. 

        I spent a little time on the mountain, 
        Spent a little time on the hill. 
        Things went down we don't understand, but I think in time we will. 

        Now I don't know but I was told 
        In the heat of the sun a man died of cold. 
        Keep on coming or stand and wait, 
        With the sun so dark and the hour so late. 

        You can't overlook the lack, Jack, of any other highway to ride. 
        It's got no signs or dividing lines, and very few rules to guide. 

        I spent a little time on the mountain, 
        Spent a little time on the hill. 
        I saw things getting out of hand, I guess they always will. 

        Now I don't know but I been told, 
        If the horse don't pull you got to carry the load. 
        I don't know whose back's that strong; 
        Maybe find out before too long. 

        One way or another, one way or another, 
        One way or another, this darkness got to give. 
 

 Next Time You See Me  [William Harvey and Earl Forest] 

        Next time you see me things won't be the same, 
        Next time you see me things won't be the same, 
        If it hurts you my darling, you only got yourself to blame. 

        Well, it's true, true saying, all that shines is not gold. 
        Well, it's true, true saying, all that shines is not gold. 
        Like the good book says, you gotta reap what you sow. 

        Well, you lied, cheated -- woh-oh! for so long, 
        Well, you lied, cheated -- woh-oh! for so long, 
        You were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne. 

        Next time you see me things won't be the same, 
        Next time you see me things won't be the same, 
        If it hurts you my darling, you only got yourself to blame. 

        Well, it's true, true saying, all that shines is not gold. 
        Well, it's true, true saying, all that shines is not gold. 
        Like the good book says, you gotta reap what you sow. 
 

 The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down  [J.R. Robertson] 

        Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train 
        Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again 
        In the winter of '65, we was hungry, just barely alive 
        By May 10, Richmond had fell, it was a time I remember, oh so well 
 
        [Chorus] 

        The night they drove ole Dixie down, all the bells were ringing 
        The night they drove ole Dixie down, all the people were singing 
        Na, na na na na na na, na na na na na na, na na na na na na 

        Like my father before me, I'm a peaceful man 
        Like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand 
        Just 18, proud and gray, but a Yankee laid him in his grave 
        Swear by the blood running through my feet 
        You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat 

        [Chorus] 
        [Jam on verse & chorus] 

        Back with my wife in Tennessee one day she called for me 
        Virgil quick come see there goes the "Robert E. Lee" 
        I don't mind chopping wood and I don't care if the money's no good 
        Take what you need and leave the rest 
        They should never have taken the very best 

        [Chorus] 2x 
 

 Nobody's Fault But Mine  [Traditional] 

        Nobody's fault but mine if I don't read my soul gets lost 
        Nobody's fault but mine 
        Had a Bible in my hand, had a Bible in my arm 

        My mother she taught me how to read 
        My mother she taught me how to read 
        If I don't read my soul gets lost 
        Nobody's fault but mine, nobody's fault but mine 
 

 Not Fade Away  [B.Holly] 

        I wanna tell you how it's gonna be, 
        You're gonna give your love to me, 
        I wanna love you night and day, 
        You know my love not fade away. 
        You know my love not fade away, not fade away! 

        My love is bigger than a Cadillac, 
        I try to show you but you drive me back, 
        Your love for me has got to be real, 
        You're gonna know just how I feel. 

        Our love is real, not fade away, not fade away! 
 

 No Tomorrow  [?] 

        Look over yonder tell me what you see 
        Ten thousand people looking after me 
        I may be famous, I may be no-one, 
        But in the end all our races are run 
        Don't make my race run in vain, seems like there's no tomorrow 
        Seems like all my yesterdays were fitted in pain 
        There's nothing but darkness tomorrow 

        If you got to do like you said you do 
        If you got to change your mind and walk away 
        It don't seem to matter much anymore 
        Don't even ask me the time of day 'cause I don't know 

        Don't make me live in this pain no longer 
        You know I'm getting weaker not stronger 
        My poor heart can't stand much more 
        So why don't you just stop talking if you got to walk that dog 
        You start walking 

        I'll get by somehow, maybe not tomorrow, but somehow 
        I know someday I'll find someone who can ease my pain 
        Like you once done, yes, I know we had a good thing goin' 
        Seemed like a long time, like a long time 

        I didn't realize what was happenin' to my life 
        Till it was almost too late to say this 
        When I needed you, I needed you to lean on 
        You took your love and never gave it 
        Well this time is goodbye, so long 
        Maybe I must say "Take care and goodbye, so long" 
        Goodbye little girl I'm gone 

        You can go out and take your love 
        And give it to anybody who but a fool like me, would take it? 
        And maybe if they got a strong, strong heart 
        Then your love won't break it, but I'm gone, goodbye so long 
 

 
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