Tag: John Wesley Harding

We Are Not the First

We are not the first to be We won't be the last We're looking to the future Banking on the ...

Why Must the Show Go On?

The director is drunk in the foyer And can't find the exit door And the star hears her five-minute call Lying slumped on ...

The Meltdown

The sun is playing hide and seek Blind shadows on the floor The clothesline sags, the clothes won't dry They're ...

The Funeral Band

La ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba The funeral band plays a song of ...

Ballad of the Inferno

And in the journey of my life I got lost in the darkest wood The way straightforward long since lost ...

The Bullet Catch

Every night in my magic show I substitute the real bullet for the fake You point the barrels at me ...

The Receiving End

It will not take a day Of stock market disarray To change the way you are Fortune cannot be impressed ...

I’ll Be Your Eyes

I know it's hard to see for real Everyone knows how low that feels Second thoughts replace what first impressions ...

Sorry, Lazarus

We opened up a can of worms By bringing you back to the wonderful world of germs Do you think ...

I Don’t Work Here

I know why you've brought me here But first I'd like to say It was a nice and strange surprise ...

The Coming of Sound

You haven't said a word for ages As you slowly turn the pages Of a book that we both know ...

Write What You Know

I been writing a book for my ghosts In return for the times that they did it for me I been staying up ...

Rock ‘n’ Roll Code

You got a lotta love from the crowd tonight Now you get to hang with your best friends One of ...

Dear Lawyer

Dear lawyer, dear lawyer I've noticed that you don't return my calls anymore Dear lawyer, dear lawyer And your assistant ...

The Undercard

Our evening's almost over And it hasn't yet begun The main event is happening elsewhere When I was unbeaten Well, ...

The Splendid Life

I recall the moment it was gone I was in the back and you were driving At first, I thought ...

Good for the Ratings

There's a war on TV And it's good for the ratings There's a madman kissing babies And it's good for ...

Be With Him

Haven't seen that look in your eyes Since I don't know when Back when we started Perhaps now is my ...

The Dark Waltz

On a crowded dance floor, we held each other tight As the band played soft and low They played a ...

Funny Old New World

Well, here's some Middle English for you scholars of renown Cave drawings of antiquity, some artifacts I've found It's still ...

One Night Only (Studio)

He got shafted in Bradford for his out-of-date routines up there And the trouble for the southern summer season Was ...

Pound Pound Pound (Studio)

This song is called "Pound Pound Pound." I was standing on a corner kicking my heels I had my coat ...

Bad Fruit

On the long slow slide to Calvary Was it an airplane flying home? Well, I met her when I was ...

Scared of Guns (1989)

The power of the bullet is fascinating They're polishing the Luger facsimiles 'Cause the little kids grow up imitating Cowboys ...

Lovers Society

Well, they're taking minutes to do what takes me hours At the lover's society Well, they're sending out tenders for ...

Browning Road

Well, the cats are howling round the dustbins They're all into that trash But they’re heading down to Clubville later ...

Same Thing Twice (1989)

He's done it all a million times The gags, the repartee, the little crimes Every audience is special, that goes ...

The Devil in Me (1989)

It's the devil in me It's the devil in me Well, it's the devil in me that's unlevelling me Well, ...

Roy Orbison Knows

Well, your voice grips me tight just like fingers And takes hold of whatever's inside Though we try to harmonize ...

Annan Water (Live)

One two, one two three four Annan Water's wondrous deep My love Annie's wondrous bonny I'm loathed that she should ...

Miss Fortune (Live)

A song off my last album, which is called Awake. I'm a confessional singer-songwriter. Actually, we were billed in the ...

Little Musgrave (Live)

As it fell out upon a day As many in the year Musgrave to the church did go To see ...

William Glenn (Live)

The following song includes the word "bosun." Well, it's of a ship and a ship of fame Launched off the ...

Isle of France (Live)

This song is called "Isle of France." Um, we're not sure where it is. It could be France, but it's ...

The Humpback Whale

'56, I sailed on board A ship called Byron One She's carried trawler men on deck And a harpoon whaling ...

Edward

What's that blood all on your shirt? Son, come tell to me Oh, that's the blood of my own greyhound ...

Canadee-I-O

It's of a fair and handsome girl All in her tender years She fell in love with a sailor boy And it's true ...

Already Dead

Life is just beginning to begin again I'm hoping that you've saved the best till last You're lying on a ...

Cover

I've covered Prince and Michael Jackson The Simons, Paul and Carly Fleetwood Mac and Saxon Bob Dylan and Bob Marley ...

The Secret Angel #2

The secret angel fell from grace Condemned to wear a human face Evicted from her paradise Excommunicated twice She settled ...

When the Beatles Hit America

Two, alright Due to a miracle marketing strategy Beyond the realms of reasonable possibility It is announced simultaneously On radio, ...

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