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Oh Babe, it Ain't No Lie
[Elizabeth Cotten]
One old woman, Lord, in this
town,
Keeps a-tellin' her lies
on me.
Wish to my soul that old
woman would die;
Keeps a-tellin' her lies
on me.
Oh, baby, it ain't no lie,
Oh, baby, it ain't no lie,
Oh, baby, it ain't no lie,
You know this life I'm livin's
mighty high.
Been all around this whole
round world;
Lord, I just got back today.
Work all the week, honey,
and give it all to you;
Honey babe, what more can
I do?
Oh, baby, it ain't no lie,
Oh, baby, it ain't no lie,
Oh, baby, it ain't no lie,
You know this life I'm livin's
mighty high.
Oh Boy [B.Holly]
All my love, all my kissin'
you don't know what you been missing
Oh boy, when you're with
me
Oh boy, all the world would
see that you were meant for me
All my life I've been waitin',
tonight there will be no hesitatin'
Oh boy, when you're with
me
Oh boy, all the world would
see that you were meant for me
Stars up here and the shadow
is fallin'
You can hear my heart's
been callin'
Little bit lonely every
things right
I'm gonna see my baby tonight
Oakie From Muskogee [M.Haggard]
We don't smoke marijuana
in Muskogee;
We don't take our trips
on LSD;
We don't burn our draft
cards down on Main Street;
We like livin' right, and
bein' free.
We don't make a party out
of lovin';
We like holdin' hands and
pitchin' woo;
We don't let our hair grow
long and shaggy,
Like the hippies out in
San Francisco do.
I'm proud to be an Oakie
from Muskogee,
A place where even squares
can have a ball.
We still wave Old Glory
down at the courthouse,
And white lightin's still
the biggest thril of all.
Leather boots are still in
style for mainly footwear;
Beads and roman sandals
won't be seen.
Football's still the roughest
thing on campus,
And the kids here still
respect the college dean.
And I'm proud to be an Oakie
from Muskogee,
A place where even squares
can have a ball.
We still wave Old Glory
down at the courthouse,
And white lightin's still
the biggest thril of all.
We still wave Old Glory down
at the courthouse,
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.
Ol Slew-Foot [?]
(variation
on Bear Tracks)
[Begins]
High on the mountain, what
do you see?
Bear tracks, bear tracks,
looking back at me
You'd better get your rifles
boys before it's too late
The bear's got a little
pig and headed through the gate
[chorus]
Oh he's big around the middle
and he's broad across the rump
Running ninety miles an
hour, taking thirty feet a jump
He's never been caught,
he ain't never been treed
Some folks say he looks
a lot like me
I saved up my money and I
bought me some bees
They started making honey
way up in the trees
I chopped down the tree
but my honey's all gone
Ol' Slew Foot's done and
made himself at home
[chorus]
Winter's coming and it's
twenty below
The river's froze over so
where can he go
We chase him up the gully
and run him in the well
And shoot him in the bottom
just to listen to him yell
[chorus]
Old & In The Way [D.Grisman]
[Chorus]
Old and in the way, that's
what I heard them say.
They used to heed the words
you said, but that was yesterday.
Gold will turn to grey,
and youth will fade away.
They'll never care about
you, call you old and in the way.
Once I hear tell he was happy,
He had his share of friends
& good times.
Now those friends have all
passed on,
He don't have a place called
home.
Looking back to a better
day, feeling old and in the way.
[Chorus]
[Jam on chorus chords]
When just a boy he left his
home,
Thought he'd have the world
on a string.
Now the years have come
and gone,
Through the streets he walks
alone.
"I'm the old dog on the
stray", he's just old and in the way.
[Chorus]
[Jam on chorus chords]
[Chorus]
They'll never care about you,
call you old and in the way.
One Kind Favor [Blind Lemon
Jefferson]
Just one kind favor I ask
of you, one kind favor I ask of you.
One kind favor, I ask of
you. To see that my grave is kept clean.
If you ever hear a church
bell toll,
If you ever hear a church
bell toll.
If you ever hear, a church
bell toll.
You'll know by that I'm
dead and gone.
[Jam]
Dig my grave with a silver
spade. Dig my grave with a silver spade.
Dig my grave, with a silver
spade. Mark the place where I would lay.
Just one kind favor I ask
of you, one kind favor I ask of you.
One kind favor, I ask of
you. See that my grave is kept clean.
See that my grave is kept
clean. See my grave is kept clean.
One More Saturday Night
[Weir]
I went down to the mountain,
I was drinking some wine,
I looked up into heaven;
Lord I saw a mighty sign,
Writ in fire across the
heaven, plain as black and white:
"Get prepared. There's gonna
be a party tonight."
[Chorus]
Uh-huh, hey Saturday night.
Yeah, uh-huh, One more Saturday night.
Hey, Saturday night.
Everybody's dancin' down
at the local armory,
With a basement full of
dynamite and live artillery.
Temperature keeps risin';
everybody gittin' high.
Come the rockin' stroke
of midnight, the whole place gonna fly.
[Chorus]
[Jam on verse and chorus
chords]
I turn on Channel Six. The
President comes on the news.
Says, "I get no satisfaction,
that's why I sing the blues."
His wife says, "Don't get
crazy, Lord, you know just what to do,
Crank up that old Victrola.
Put on your rockin' shoes."
[Chorus]
Then God way up in heaven,
for whatever it was worth,
Thought He'd have a big
old party; thought He'd call it planet earth.
Don't worry about tomorrow.
Lord, you'll know it when it comes,
When the rockin', rollin'
music meets the risin', shinin' sun.
[Chorus]
Hey, another Saturday night
(one more Saturday night)
Hey, another Saturday night
(one more Saturday night)
Everybody gettin' high
(one more Saturday night)
Hey, another Saturday night
(one more Saturday night)
One more Saturday, one more
Saturday night.
Hey, another Saturday night
(one more Saturday night)
Hey, another Saturday night
Aaah, Hey, another
Saturday night.
One more Saturday, one more
Saturday night.
Hey, another Saturday night.
Hey, another Saturday night
Hey, another Saturday night.
One more Saturday, one more
Saturday night.
One Thing To Try [Robert
Hunter]
Break out your bottle, be
in trouble by noon
Never get satisfaction cause
ya boil too soon
Them downtown chippies know
your weight to the ounce
But the harder you fall,
Jack, the higher you bounce!
Stoke up your get, be ready
to ride
Keep your head and your
heart inside
Take it as far as you wanna
go
Until we can't see the desert
for the burning snow
But if you're in a hurry,
I really go to go,
If you're in a hurry, might
have to find out slow
That it's one thing to try,
another to fly,
You get there quicker just
a step at a time,
It's one thing to bark and
another to bite,
The show ain't over til
you pack up at night.
Ah well, ninety-nine people
all running around
Not one in a hundred got
his feet on the ground,
In fact one in a thousand
holding some in reserve
For when the real, true
action comes around the curve.
Take care of your people,
get some of them fed
Hide the ones in trouble
out under your bed
Keep an eye to the future,
an ear to the past
Cause after thinkin' it
over, know there's nothing much lasts.
So if you're in a hurry,
I really go to go
If you're in a hurry, might
have to find out slow
That it's one thing to try,
another to fly,
You get there quicker just
a step at a time,
It's one thing to bark and
another to bite,
The show ain't over til
you pack up at night.
Don't ever let it get the
best of you
Plan what you can, let the
rest shine through
Just so many angles you
can possibly see
Got to figure on those let
the other ones be
Don't be a collector of more
than you need
Got a lot of things growing
but keep watching your seeds
Got to sprout in December
what you planted in May
If the harvest is empty,
find some other good way
But if you're in a hurry,
I really go to go,
If you're in a hurry, might
have to find out slow
That it's one thing to try,
another to fly,
You get there quicker just
a step at a time,
It's one thing to bark and
another to bite,
The show ain't over til
you pack up at night.
On The Road Again [Traditional]
Why I married a bad girl,
tell you the reason why
Bad girls will even do things
on the sly
Look for your dinner to
be good and hot
She never even put a stew
bone in the pot
She's on the road again,
sure as you're born
Natural born easy on the
road again
She's on the road again,
sure as you're born
Friend come by, say looking
for his hat
Wants to know where your
husband's at
I don't know, he's on his
way to the pen
Come on pretty mama, let's
get on the road again
[Chorus]
[Jam]
Went to my house my front
door was locked
Went 'round to my window,
but my window was locked
Jumped right back, shook
my head,
Big old rounder in my folding
bed
Jumped into the window,
broke the glass
Never seen that little rounder
run so fast
[Chorus x2]
Operator [McKernan]
Operator, can you help me?
Help me if you please.
Give me the right area code
and the number that I need.
My rider left upon the Midnight
Flyer
Singin' like a summer breeze.
I think she's somewhere down
south, down about Baton Rouge.
But I just can't remember
no number, a number I can use.
Directory don't have it,
Central done forgot it;
Got to find a number to
use.
Trying to check out her number,
trying to run down her line.
Op'rator said that's priv'ledged
information
And it ain't no business
of mine.
It's flooding down in Texas,
the poles are out in Utah;
Gotta find a private line.
She could be hanging 'round
a steel mill,
Working in a house of blue
lights,
Riding a getaway bus out
of Portland, talking to the night.
I don't know where she's
going, I don't care where she's been,
Long as she's been doin'
it right.
[Jam on verse chords]
Long as she's been doin'
it right.
Other One [Weir/Kreutzmann]
Spanish lady comes to me,
she lays on me this rose.
It rainbow spirals round
and round it trembles and explodes.
It left a smoking crater
of my mind I like to blow away.
But the heat came 'round
and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day.
Comin', comin', comin' around,
comin', around,
comin', around, in a circle
Comin', comin', comin' around,
comin' around, in a circle,
Comin', comin', comin' around,
comin' in a circle.
Skippin' through the lily
fields I came across an empty space,
It trembled and exploded,
left a bus stop in it's place.
The bus came by and I got
on, that's when it all began,
There was cowboy Neal at
the wheel of the bus to never ever land.
Comin', comin', comin' around,
comin', around,
comin', around, in
a circle
Comin', comin', comin' around,
comin' around, in a circle,
Comin', comin', comin' around,
comin' in a circle.
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