If you miss the train I'm on Then you know that I'll be gone You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a ...

Who'll build a box for Black Paul? Ah'm enquirin on behalf of his soul Ah'd be beholdin to ya all For a lil information, just a little indication Just who'll di...

This is True Mister nothing said forever said I can sing Hit it! Make it a dead one with words like blood, soldier mother OK Ok I want to sleep before the end w...

The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car Drifting down into the abattoir Do you see what I see, dear? The air grows heavy I listen to your breath Entwin...

Hushaby, don' you cry Go to sleepy little baby When you awake you shall have cake And all the pretty little horses Blacks and Bays, Dapples and Grays Coach, an...

From the Current '93 album All The Pretty Horsies Hush-a-bye Don't You cry Go to sleepy little baby Go to sleepy little baby When You wake You shall have All th...

And no more shall we part It will no longer be necessary And no more will I say, dear heart I am alone and she has left me And no more shall we part The contra...

As I sat sadly by her side At the window, through the glass She stroked a kitten in her lap And we watched the world as it fell past Softly she spoke these word...

(Leonard Cohen) I stepped into an avalanche It covered up my soul When I am not this hunchback that you see I sleep beneath the golden hill You who wish to con...

Babe I got you bad Dreaming blood-wet dreams only madmen have Baby I got you bad I wish to God I never had And it makes me feel so sad, O, Baby I got you bad Ye...

Stay by me, stay by me You are the one, my only true love The butcher bird makes it's noise And asks you to agree With it's brutal nesting habits And it's poin...

A traditional song which was a likely inspiration for Where The Wild Roses Grow Nick's song is also available When I was a wee thing, I heard my mother say That...

When I was a wee thing, I heard my mother say That I was meant for rambling and would easy go astray And before that I would work, I would rather sport and play...

Big Jesus soulmates Trash Can fucking rotton business this bot feet in the bad-boot siff in the crypt, babay, like a rock rock-rock-rock Big-Jesus soul-mates Tr...

Look-a look-a yonder (3x) Well the sun done gone The captain can't hold her (3x) The way I do now Ada got a gold mine (3x) Way above her knees The shiv (?) i...

Oh, Lawd, Black Betty, Bam-ba-lamb, Oh, Lawd, Black Betty, Bamhalamb, Black Betty had a baby, Bambalamb, Black Betty had a baby, Bambalam Oh, Lawd, Black Betty...

Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm I am the black crow king Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm I am the black crow king Keeper of the nodding corn Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! All the hammers are a-talki...

Last night my kisses were banked in black hair And in my bed, my lover, her hair was midnight black And all her mystery dwelled within her black hair And her bl...

This time it's the truth this time nothings goinna fall on through these books are broken up Blast off! Wham! bam! Right off the shelf Right off the shelf Blast...

Bless his ever loving heart Only he knows who you are He may seem so very far Bless his ever loving heart And when your feeling sad And everywhere you look you...

Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-coming Tap tap tappin with his cane Blind Lemon Jefferson is a-coming Tap tap tappin with his cane His last ditch lies down the road ...

I got a blue bird A blue bird on my shoulder I got a blue bird A blue bird on my shoulder I saw her standing Standing by the water She was naked Her hair in gre...

Blundertown is drowned in no brainstorm smothered in mud at the foot of the river the color vague is slapped around stupid blood dries to a very dull color I'm...

It's up in the morning and on the downs Little white clouds like gambolling lambs And I am breathless over you And the red-breasted robin beats his wings His th...

This garden that I built for you That you sit in now and yearn I will never leave it, dear I could not bear to return And find it all untended With the trees al...

Up those stone steps I clim Hail this joyful day's return Into its great shadowed vault I go Hail the Pentecostal morn The reading is from Luke 24 Where Christ...

Brother, my cup is empty And I haven't got a penny For to buy no more whiskey I have to go home I am the captain of my pain Tis the bit, the bridle, The trashi...

By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising And she'll find that note that I left hanging on the door And she'll laugh when she reads the part That says: "I'...

The Captain's fore-arm like bunched-up rope with A-N-I-T-A wrigglin' free on a skull'n'dagger and a portrait of Christ, nailed to an anchor etched into his uppe...

All words that look prounouncable are not typos, any that look unpronouncable are probably typos Each set of two lines is one line in the lyric book (ie what ha...

I lay down by the river The shadows moved across me, inch by inch And all that I heard Was the war between the water and the bridge Turn to me, turn to me, turn...

We've come to bring you home Haven't we, Cassiel? To cast aside your loss and all of your sadness And shuffle off that mortal coil and mortal madness For we're ...

Christina the Astonishing Lived a long time ago She was stricken with a seizure At the age of twenty-two They took her body in a coffin To a tiny church in Lieg...

"The Bad Seeds performed Cindy regularly in their live sets in 1990,and indeed on a TV appearance as well I have a version of Elvis Presly doing this song, but ...

Wish I was an apple dangling from a tree Every time you'd pass me by you'd take a bite of me I wish I was a bluebird I'd never fly away I'd sit up on your shoul...

You better run You better run and run and run You better run You better run You better run to the City of Refuge You better run You better run You better run to...

Mejor puedes correr, Mejor puedes correr, correr y correr Mejor puedes correr, Mejor puedes correr Mejor puedes correr a la ciudad protectora Mejor puedes corre...

Now that mountains of meaningless words and oceans divide us And we each have our own set of stars to comfort and guide us Come into my sleep Come into my sleep...

Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow Jane Horrors in her head That her tongue dare not name She lives alone by the river The rolling rivers of pain Crow Jane Crow Jane Crow...

When ya walk out of here when ya walk out I gotta fill up that space or fill up that no-space I'll fill it up with tears [4 lines of this line repeated] Cry Cry...

As so with that, I thought I'd take a final walk The tide of public opinion had started to abate The neighbours, bless them, had turned out to be all talk I cou...

Oh-ho-ho-ho Dead Joe Welcome to the car smash Dead Joe Junk sculpture turning back to junk Dead Joe Oh joe nooooo! it's christmas time Joe it's christmas time n...

She sat in a wicker chair, her eyes they were downcast She breathed in the future, by breathing out the past The die is done, the die is shook, the die is duly ...

O DEANNA O Deanna! O DEANNA Sweet Deanna! O DEANNA You know you are my friend, yeah O DEANNA And I ain't down here for your money I ain't down here for your lov...

When you're sad and when you're lonely And you haven't got a friend Just remember that death is not the end And all that you held sacred Falls down and does no...

The woods eats the woman and dumps her honey-body in the mud Her dress floats down the well and it assumes the shape of the body of a little girl Yeah I recogn...

I found her on a night of fire and noise Wild bells rang in a wild sky I knew from that moment on I'd love her till the day that I died And I kissed away a thou...

Down in a willow garden Where me and my love did meet, 'Twas there we sat a courting My love dropped off to sleep I had a bottle of the Burglar's wine Which my...

Down in a willow garden Where me and my love did meet, 'Twas there we sat a courting My love dropped off to sleep I had a bottle of the Burglar's wine Which my...

The light from the window falls on the floor and after it breaks I cut my feet on the little bright pieces I glow in the dark But only when night falls it's fal...

On this European night out on the brink The cafes and the bars still stink The air is much too thick for seeing But not thick enough for leaning I leave in a ca...

It's difficult It's very tough I said to the man who'd been sleeping rough To sit within a fragrant breeze All among the nodding trees That hang heavy with the ...

Everything must converge, In time And so it goes, by and by Everything must converge, Some day, Somehow, some way Everything must converge, In time, Or so it ...

Farmer Emmerich went into his barn And found a cow suckling a serpent And a brown ape clanking a heavy chain Said Farmer Emmerich to the ape Never ask me to com...

For you dear, I was born For you I was raised up For you I've lived and for you I will die For you I am dying now You were my mad little lover In a world where ...

From the soundtrack to the film of the same name Empty out your pockets, toss the lot upon the floor All those treasures, my friend, you don't need them anymor...

Gun wears his alcoholism well Finger in Bottle and swingin' it still From Bed to Sink and back again Clock is crawlin' round the same He's bustin' Clock (he hat...

Where is Mona? She's long gone Where is Mary? She's taken her along But they haven't put their mittens on And there's fifteen feet of pure white snow? Where is...

Foi na cruz, foi na cruz Que um dia Meus pecados castigados em Jesus Foi na cruz Que um dia Foi na cruz Love comes a-knocking Comes a-knocking upon our door Bu...

Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girl You know, she lives in room 29 Why Why that's the one right up top a mine Ah start to cry, Ah start to cry O Ah hear her walkin' ...

Past the ivy-covered windows of The Angel Down Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral Through the churchyard I wandered Sat for a spell there and I pondered My back to...

Get ready for love! Praise Him! Get ready tot love! Praise Him! Get ready for love! Get readyl Well, most of all nothing much ever really happens And God rides...

I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass Through its telescopic bottom I can't raise my glass, without seeing her ass Through its telescopic bottom If y...

We've laid the cables and the wires We've split the wood and stoked the fires We've lit our town so there is no Place for crime to hide Our little church is pai...

See the little cloud up in the sky It's a good good day today See the little cloud pass on by It's a good good day today Mary comes now, let Mary be, Can you s...

Kiss me again, rekiss me and kiss me Slip your frigid hands beneath my shirt This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt Doesn't care if he gets hurt Green...

A grief came riding On the wind Up the sun on river Thames I was sittin' on the bank with my mouth open When I felt it entering I began thinkin' about our weddi...

On the first day of May I took to the road I'd been staring out the window most of the morning I'd watched the rain claw at the glass And a vicious wind blew ha...

Hamlet fishin' in the grave thru custard bones and stuff he aint got no friend in there I believe our man's in love Hamlet's got a gun-now he wears a crucifex p...

It's a very happy day We are at lots of fun fun fun And it's ice-cream and jelly and a punch in the belly How much can you throw over the walls? And see how hi...

It is for she that the cherry bleeds That the moon is steeped in mild nad blood That I steal like a robber From her altar of love O money lender! O clover gende...

In his boat and through the dark he rowed Chained to oar and the night and the wind that blowed Horribly "?round his ears Under the bridge and into your dreams ...

There is a town in north Ontario And I take comfort from memories there And in my mind I still need a place to go All my best changes were there Blue, blue win...

Get down, get down, little Henry Lee And stay all night with me You won't find a girl in this damn world That will compare with me And the wind did howl and the...

Get down, get down, little Henry Lee And stay all night with me You won't find a girl in this damn world That will compare with me And the wind did howl and the...

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm gonna shoot my baby, I caught her messin round wit...

You went looking for nur, dear, Down by the sea You found some Iittle silver fish But you didn't find me I was hiding, dear, hiding all way I was hiding, dear, ...

Worn and gnawn a little hole just a small hole letting in a sick wind in small puffs yo-ho hole yo-ho hole through which blow a small sick wind yo-ho hole yo-h...

Leroy Carr A traditional song which was a likely inspiration for The Train Song How long, how long, has that evenin' train been gone? How long, how long, baby h...

How long, how long, has that evenin' train been gone? How long, how long, baby how long Heard the whistle blowin', couldn't see the train Way down in my heart ...

I wish you happy christmas I do dear, I do I wish for you the stars, babe I wish for you the moon You can sit, and you can drink your champagne With your gibbe...

The boatman calls from the lake A lone loon dives upon the water I put my hand over her Down in the lime tree arbour The wind in the trees is whispering Whispe...

I had a dream I had a dream I had a dream, Joe I had a dream, Joe You were standing in the middle of an open road I had a dream, Joe Your hands were raised up ...

Credits: Newberry / Newberry I woke up this morning with the sun out shining in I found my mind in a brown paper bag but then I tripped on a cloud and fell eigh...

Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in Darling, you're the punishment for all of my former sins I let love i...

From Department of Enjoyment, NME compilation cassette; available on some bootlegs I put a spell on you, 'cause you're mine You'd better stop those things that...

John Lee Hooker - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar (Orpheum Music, 1959) A traditional song similar to My Little Boat Is Empty Nick's song is also available You know I ro...

You know I rowed a little boat, five miles 'cross the pond You know I rowed a little boat, 'bout five miles 'cross the pond I throwed my things in the little bo...

They're taking me down, my friend And as they uskher me off to my end Will I bid you adieu? Or will I be seeing you soon? If what they say around here is true T...

{I transcribed this as best I could from the recording feel free to correct any mistakes ???Micah D McConochie } " (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World" -...

(M Davies) As the snow flies On a cold and grey Chicago morn A poor little baby child is born in the ghetto And his mama cries Cause there's one thing that sh...

I don't believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him Not to intervene when it came to you Not ...

I got a woman She rules my house with an iron fist I got a woman She rules my house with an iron fist She screams out Jack the Ripper Every time I try to give t...

Jangling Jack Goes Yackety Yack Visits the home of the brave Hails a fat yellow ca Jack wanna celebrate Jack wanna big drink Driver drops him at a bar Called th...

Jesus met the woman at the well Jesus met the woman at the well And he told her, everything that she'd done, that she'd done And he said, woman, look-a here wo...

I am the King, I am the kind One dead marine through the hatch scratch and scrape this heavenly body every ince of winning skin there's garbage in honeys sack a...

First: I tried to kill it with a hammer thought that I could lose the head sure! We've eaten off the silver when even the food was against us and then I tried t...

When I first came to town They called me the roving jewel Now they've changed their tune They call me Katy Cruel Oh diddle day, oh diddle lie o day Oh that I w...

Well I love that Kewpie Doll yeah I bought her in a show I dressed her up in a cheap red cotton dress but everything was either fished-out or spat out fished ou...

This leaves out a lot of the repetions on this lyric sheet, and I'm pretty sure a few sections are out of order compared with the recorded song King Ink strolls...