How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[Aruntraveller]

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married a long time ago
 Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?

[Jack Knave]

killer joe don't you go
 hurt me slow please joe
 cool joe mean Joe

[ekim]

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song.

[Jack Knave]

Cortez The Killer

He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.

On the shore lay Montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.

And his subjects gathered 'round him
Like the leaves around a tree
In their clothes of many colors
For the angry gods to see.

And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on.

Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.

They carried them to the flat lands
And they died along the way
But they built up with their bare hands
What we still can't do today

And I know she's living there
And she loves me to this day
I still can't remember when
Or how I lost my way.

He came dancing across the water
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer.

[ekim]

You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen.

[Jack Knave]

Dancing in the Street

OK, talk to you
South America, Australia, France, Germany, UK, Africa
Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancing in the streets
They're dancing in Chicago
Down in New Orleans
In New York City
All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
They'll be swinging, swaying, records playing
Dancing in the street, oh

It doesn't matter what you wear,
Just as long as you are there
So come on, every guy, grab a girl,
Everywhere, around the world
They'll be dancing, dancing in the street

It's an invitation across the nation, a chance for Folks to meet
They'll be laughing and singing, music swinging
Dancing in the street
Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore in DC now
Don't forget the motor city
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[ekim]

This is my kind of town, Chicago is
My kind of town, Chicago is
My kind of people, too
People who smile at you
And each time I roam, Chicago is
Calling me home, Chicago is
Why I just grin like a clown
It's my kind of town.

[Jack Knave]

When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know, downtown

Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares

So go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure, downtown
Everything's waiting for you

Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows downtown
Maybe you know some little places to go to
Where they never close downtown

[ekim]

Start spreading the news
I am leaving today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York

These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York

I want to wake up in a city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

These little town blues
Are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
In old New York

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York.

[Aruntraveller]

Tom, get your plane right on time
 I know your part'll go fine
 Fly down to Mexico
 Doh-n-doh-de-doh-n-doh
 And here I am
 The only living boy in New York
 
I get the news I need
 On the weather report
 Oh, I can gather all the news I need
 On the weather report
 Hey, I've got nothing to do today
 But smile, de-doh-n-doh-de-doh
 And here I am
 The only living boy in New York
 

[Nearly Sane]

I've teamed up with the hippies now
I've got my fringe unfurled
I want to give peace, love and kisses out
to this whole stinking world
The gypsies, the travellers and the thieves
The good, the bad, the average and unique
The grebos the crusties and the goths
And the only living boy in New Cross

[Nearly Sane]

Alcoholics, child molesters, nervous wrecks and prima donnas
Jilted lovers, office clerks, petty thieves, hard drug pursuers.
Lonely tramps, awkward misfits, oh anyone of these.

[ekim]

She gets too hungry for dinner at eight
She likes the theater and never comes late
She never bothers with people she'd hate
That's why the lady is a tramp.

[Nearly Sane]

I got six Cadillacs, five Lincolns, four Fords, six Mercuries, three T-Birds, Mustang, ooooooohhh...I'm a lover. Mama was. Papa too. I tell you one thing

Well tell me
I'm the only son-of-a-gun this side of the Sun
You're a tramp, Otis

[Aruntraveller]

To my surprise, yes
One hundred stories high
People gettin' loose, y'all
You gettin' down on the roof
Let me hear

The folks was flamin'
Out of control
It was so entertainin'
When the boogie start to explode
I heard somebody say

Burn, baby, burn
Disco inferno
Burn, baby, burn
Burn that mother down
Burn, baby, burn
Disco inferno
Burn, baby, burn
Burn that mother down
Burnin'

[ekim]

He was a famous trumpet man from out Chicago way
He had a boogie style that no one else could play
He was the top man at his craft
But then his number came up and he was gone with the draft
He's in the army now, a-blowin' reveille
He's the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B.

[Jack Knave]

Furry Sings the Blues

Old Beale Street is coming down
Sweeties' Snack Bar, boarded up now
And Eagles The Tailor and the Shine Boy's gone
Faded out with ragtime blues
Handy's cast in bronze
And he's standing in a little park
With a trumpet in his hand
Like he's listening back to the good old bands
And the click of high heeled shoes
Old Furry sings the blues
Propped up in his bed
With his dentures and his leg removed
And Ginny's there
For her kindness and Furry's beer
She's the old man's angel overseer

Pawn shops glitter like gold tooth caps
In the gray decay
They chew the last few dollars off
Old Beale Street's carcass
Carrion and mercy
Blue and silver sparkling drums
Cheap guitars, eye shades and guns
Aimed at the hot blood of being no one
Down and out in Memphis Tennessee
Old Furry…

[ekim]

Birth of the Blues.
They heard the breeze in the trees
Singing weird melodies
And they made that, the start of the blues
And from a jail came the wail of a down-hearted frail
And they played that as a part of the blues

From a whippoorwill way upon a hill
They took a new note
Pushed it through a horn
Until it was worn into a blue note

And then they nursed it
They rehearsed it
And then sent out that news
That the Southland gave birth to the blues.

[Jack Knave]

"Summer Breeze"

See the curtains hanging in the window
 In the evening on a Friday night
 A little light shining through the window
 Let me know everything is alright, sing this song

 Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
 Hear me sing, summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind

 See the paper lying on the sidewalk
 A little music from the house next door
 So I walk on up to the doorstep
 Through the screen and across the floor

 Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
 Sing it, summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind, yeah

 When I come home from a hard day's work
 And you're waitin' there not a care in the world

 See the smile a waitin' in the kitchen
 Food cooking and the plates for two
 Feel the arms that reach out to hold me
 In the evenin' when the day is through

 Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
 Summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind

 Here we go, summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind
 Come on, summer breeze makes me feel fine
 Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind

[ekim]

Every little breeze seems to whisper "Louise."
Birds in the trees seem to twitter "Louise."
Each little rose tells me it knows I love you, love you.
Every little beat that I feel in my heart
Seems to repeat what I felt at the start.
Each little sigh tells me that I adore you, Louise.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Brother Louie

[Nearly Sane]

It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share
And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy he's my brother
He's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

[ekim]

Brother Can You Spare a Dime.

[Nearly Sane]

Rita was sixteen years
Hazel eyes and chestnut hair
She made the Woolworth counter shine
And Eddie was a sweet romancer
And a darn good dancer
And they waltzed the aisles of the five and dime
And they'd sing
Dance a little closer to me
Hey, dance a little closer now
Dance a little closer tonight
Dance a little closer to me
Hey, it's closing time
And love's on sale
Tonight at this five and dime

[Aruntraveller]

Rita was sixteen years
Hazel eyes and chestnut hair
She made the Woolworth counter shine
And Eddie was a sweet romancer
And a darn good dancer
And they waltzed the aisles of the five and dime
And they'd sing
Dance a little closer to me
Hey, dance a little closer now
Dance a little closer tonight
Dance a little closer to me
Hey, it's closing time
And love's on sale
Tonight at this five and dime

Slightly off kilter here - but there is something about those lyrics that brings Stephen King to mind when he's not in full horror mode.

Anyhoo.....

One time
You made me cry
Be proud that I
Remember

My chin is sore
The bruise is gone
But the spot is tender

Gave my hand a sister coy
To Cotton Alley where
You did enjoy
Your wicked games
You curious boy

Tied my laces up together
When I fell
You laughed
Until your belly was sore

In the brick laid aisle behind
The five and dime store