I don’t care what you do, i don’t care what you say I don’t care where you go or how long you stay Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me any more Well you take my money and you turn it out You fill me up with nothin’ but self doubt Someday baby, you…
 
Shadows are falling and i’ve been here all day It’s too hot to sleep time is running away Feel like my soul has turned into steel I’ve still got the scars that the sun didn’t heal There’s not even room enough to be anywhere It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there Well my sense…
 
Nobody feels any pain Tonight as i stand inside the rain Everybody knows That baby’s got new clothes But lately i see her ribbons and her bows Have fallen from her curls. She takes just like a woman, yes, she does She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does And she aches just…
 
If you see her say hello she might be in tangier She left here last early spring, is living there i hear Say for me that i’m all right though things get kind of slow She might think that i’ve forgotten her, don’t tell her it isn’t so We had a falling-out, like lovers often…
 
Trails of troubles, Roads of battles, Paths of victory, I shall walk. The trail is dusty And my road it might be rough, But the better roads are waiting And boys it ain’t far off. Trails of troubles, Roads of battles, Paths of victory, We shall walk. I walked down by the river, I turned…
 
If not for you Babe, i couldn’t find the door Couldn’t even see the floor I’d be sad and blue If not for you If not for you Babe, i’d lay awake all night Wait for the mornin’ light To shine in through But it would not be new If not for you If not…
 
There is a house down in new orleans They call the risin sun And its been the ruin of many a poor girl And me, oh god, im a-one My mother was a tailor She sewed these new blue jeans My sweetheart was a gambler, lord Down in new orleans Now the only thing a…
 
Hollis brown He lived on the outside of town Hollis brown He lived on the outside of town With his wife and five children And his cabin fallin’ down You looked for work and money And you walked a rugged mile You looked for work and money And you walked a rugged mile Your children…
 
Oh, i’m sailin’ away my own true love I’m sailin’ away in the morning Is there something i can send you From across the sea From the place that i’ll be landing? No, there’s nothin’ you can send me My own true love There’s nothin’ i’m wishin’ to be ownin’. Just carry yourself back to…
 
Old reilly stole a stallion But they caught him and they brought him back And they laid him down on the jailhouse ground With an iron chain around his neck. Old reilly’s daughter got a message That her father was goin’ to hang. She rode by night and came by morning With gold and silver…
 
Come gather ’round friends And i’ll tell you a tale Of when the red iron pits ran plenty But the cardboard filled windows And old men on the benches Tell you now that the whole town is empty In the north end of town My own children are grown But i was raised on the…
 
They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They’ve got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they’re restless They…
 
You walk into the room With your pencil in your hand You see somebody naked and you You say: who is that man? You try so hard but you don’t understand Just what you’ll say when you get home Because something is happening here But you don’t know what it is Do you, mister jones?…
 
Oh god said to abraham, kill me a son Abe said man you must be puttin me on God said no, abe said what God said you can do what you want abe but Next time you see me coming you better run Well, abe said where you want this killin done God said out…