Pavanne, cold steel woman Pavanne How do you love a woman With eyes cold as the barrel of her gun Who's never missed her mark on anyone Pavanne, Pavanne, Pavann...

My screenplay's on the block My Tuscan villa's in hock To Mister Pearly Jim My wife and kids have scrammed They say my phone is jammed By Mister Pearly Jim He ...

Peppermint rock with your name right through it all Suck it all day and it might go away Kiss me quick, cowboy, helter skelter Trampoline on the beach all day ...

Bad news, bad news, come to me where I sleep" Turn, turn, turn again "Say, one of your friends is in trouble deep" Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind "Tell m...

You and I Tempted by the promise of a different life Time has fled There's a constant battle running through my head I don't know what to do 'Cause I still beli...

Pharaoh he sits in his tower of steel The dogs of money all at his heel Magicians cry, Oh Truth! Oh Real! We're all working for the Pharaoh A thousand eyes, a ...

Was there ever a winter so cold and so sad? The river too weary to flood The storm in the wind cut through to my skin But she cut through to my blood I was look...

Won't you rise for the hangman His pleasure is that you should rise He's the judge and the jury At the jester's assize Poor Will on the gallows tree Never a cr...

(Richard Thompson) Here my love used to lie Like a pearl by my side Everything sweet, everything so complete Now my love makes her bed Where poppies grow over ...

Precious One, Precious One Thought you stood so sweet upon your own two feet Precious One, Precious One Thought there was no breeze could bring you to your knee...

A man sits down to write a letter, but instead he writes a book The book begins, Dear Sir, I don't know if you're interested, but Your wife is a whore A man get...

Old friend, it's been so long, and it's been so real And if I helped you once it was no big deal Too bad I can't be there when they call your name They're going...

Oh my hand shakes steady and my words are sweet And the whole world's lying here at my feet Put your trust in me, put your trust in me I rub my eyes and I catc...

Rainbow over the hill Rainbow over the hill Rain clouds lifting Just when you think they never will And I'll be on my way Up and down in a swamp all day And ju...

After the death of a thousand kisses Comes the catacomb of tongues Who can spit the meanest venom From the poison of their lungs Cruelest dance is the razor da...

Asked my daddy when I was thirteen Daddy can you tell me what love really means? His eyes went glassy, not a word was said He poured another beer and his face t...

Here we stand in sheets of rain Parting ways, loved in vain Never knew you'd be the reckless kind I reached out to catch your fall Said you needed a place to c...

It's a long,long way down to Reno, Nevada and a long,long way to your home But the change in your pocket is beginning to grumble And you reap just about what yo...

I am a travelling man, I have no country And travelling people are my kin by birth No chains will keep me from my destination And far flung are my footsteps on ...

One evening as I rambled Among the leaves so green I overheard a young woman Converse with Reynardine Her hair was black, her eyes were blue Her lips as red as...

Gentle ladies, gentle men Waiting till the dance begin Carefully we come to speak the word for all to hear If you listen, if you should We won't be misunderstoo...

Feel that sting across your back and Row, Boys, Row Don't wait for the whip to crack and Row, Boys, Row Is it wise to be moaning when the Captain comes? Tip you...

The song of wheels is in my head and mutiny in my hands The song of wheels is in my head and mutiny in my hands I'll go down to the dark place and kill it where...

Now my name is Samuel Hall, Samuel Hall, Samuel Hall Oh my name is Samuel Hall, Samuel Hall Oh my name is Samuel Hall, and I hate you one and all You're a bunch...

Me name is Sam Jones and it's bones me occupation Chuck your old hocks out for my consideration Thirty years a bone man, up and down the nation Sam Jones delive...

Wind's gonna blow my blues away Wind's gonna blow my blues away I'm gonna throw my shoes away Saturday rolling around Moon going down and the sun come up Moon ...

If you've handed me one, you've handed me a thousand shady lies And if I needed someone, I found someone to cut me down to size With every word you say, I'm lea...

(Chorus) Here she comes and there she goes Nothing on her fingers, nothing on her toes Why she comes, nobody knows Here comes Shaky Nancy Don't be believing she...

Shane and Dixie they were two-bit crooks They wanted to be famous like you read in books Shane had the brain and Dxie had the looks for glory As a bank robber S...

Midnight in her room There was music and incense and mirrors all round By the light of the moon Her silver dress slipped to the ground Then she knelt like St Jo...

My young love said to me "My mother won't mind And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind" And she laid her hand on me and this she did say "Oh, it wi...

Is this the togetherness she meant - so rosy I thought we'd share a continent - so cosy I thought love's passions really Would be more touchy-feely She said it...

(Richard Thompson) She charmed me from my cocoon She eclipsed the sun and the moon All that summer my feet never walked on the Earth She sang angels to rest S...

She's telling me she don't need headlights She's telling me the storm is friendly She says the volts are inviting She talks in couplets, she steers by lightning...

I keep my nose clean, I keep my speech plain I keep my promises, she twists the knife again I shut my memory, I close my eyes and then She takes another bite, s...

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you Look away, you rollin' river Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you Look away We're bound away Across the wide Missouri Now the ...

When I was a boy I was nobody's joy I was guilty in love Guilt, guilt, guilty in love More fool me I never could see what I was guilty of Now you steered me ri...

In the dark, who can see his face? In the dark, who can reach him? He hides like a child He hides like a child Keeps his finger on the trigger You know he can't...

Should I betray you to Charlene? She doesn't know the things I've seen She must still think you're Mr Clean Just like the man she wed Should I betray you to yo...

C'est pas que je te demande Que faire que tu ne jamais fais C'est seulement qu'il fait trop tard Et il fait trop noir pour trouver la porte Mais si tu dois par...

Oh some girls hold the ace, the deuce, the trey X-ray the deck to see what's coming Mary Antoinette she smiled that way Easy to smile when the luck is running ...

I do hate to see a rover riddled in the stones Now he's one step nearer to the ground And I do hate to see a hawker Broken in the bones Sickness and diseases p...

Oh Gillian she's a Doncaster lass Trains it down on the quarter past Friday night leaves the kids at home And struts her stuff on the Euston Road Saying "Do you...

The King sits in Dunfirmline town, drinking of the blood-red wine "Where can I get a steely skipper to sail this might boat of mine?" Then up there spoke a bon...

Remember the time when we two kin were reared There was never a morsel but that it was shared If the one babe was stung, t'was the other would cry There scarce ...

Just a roll, just a roll Just a roll on your drum Just a roll, just a roll And the war has begun Now the right things, the wrong things No more excuses to come...

Small town romance Back seat for a bed Nothings must be whispered Rumours must be fed Small town romance Everyone knows your mind They peep from faded curtains...

I was walking down the street when I met with Billy He shook his head at me and then he shook my hand He said "I've seen the world and done some living I don't ...

(Richard Thompson) Sneaky Boy, Sneaky Boy Thought you were one of us One of our gang Sneaky Boy, Sneaky Boy The mole in the tunnel The canary who sang While w...

Some sweet day, some sweet day I'm gonna hold you like I want to I'm gonna kiss you like I want to I'm gonna love you like I need to Some sweet day Some sweet ...

Oh speechless child, who wants to touch you Oh speechless child, no love in store To dumb to scream, to dumb to answer Can only listen and lock the door Can't s...

Come ye young men, come along, With your music and your song Bring your lasses in your hands For 'tis that which love commands Chorus (after each verse): |: Th...

This is a strange affair The time has come to travel but the road is filled with fear This is a strange affair My youth has all been wasted and I'm bent and gre...

The tears fall down like whisky The tears fall down like wine On an island made of cocaine In a sea of turpentine We all need some assistance But won't that day...

Summer has come in sing loudly, cuckoo! Seed grows and meadows bloom and the wood springs forth anew Sing, cuccu! The ewe bleats after the lam the cow lows aft...

Dying's not easy today Trying but can't get away Feel just the almost touch of her hand and the trees in her hair Eyes float, the sun she saw only me in the sky...

In SunnyVista all your dreams are reality It's the smart place to be For all the family O SunnyVista, where you always wanted to stay We'll dance the happy hour...

(Richard Thompson) With you or without you, love, I must be moving Never meant to linger here so long With you or without you, Though it breaks my heart To hea...

If everybody had an ocean Across the USA Then everybody'd be surfin' Like California You'd seem 'em wearing their baggies Huarachi sandals too A bushy bushy blo...

Suzanne takes you down to her place newer the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that'...

Yeah, nine years old and sweet as she can be All dressed up like a downtown Christmas tree Dancin?and hummin?a rock'n'roll melody She's the daughter of a well-r...

I gave my heart to you Oh oh oh oh I gave my heart to you Oh oh oh with sweet surrender Sweet surrender, oh sweet surrender Allah, Allah, Allah I'd give the wo...

They closed up the sooty gates of Ayres and Company We stood on the picket line, my Jennifer and me We blocked the street, now the lorries come and turn about T...

(Richard Thompson) If I ever get out of these shoes And I shrug off a skin or two I'll come looking in the wasted places Beat-up, last ditch rendezvous If it ...

If she's not here by now Then I guess she's not coming If she's not here by now Then I guess I don't care Waiter, I won't waste your time anymore You've already...

Take the sun from my heart Let me learn to despise I'll show you another who cannot tell lies The blind man can see Put a match to his eyes I'll show you anoth...

I forbid you maidens all that wear gold in your hair To travel to Carter Hall for young Tam Lin is there None that go by Carter Hall but they leave him a pledg...

It was three in the morning when she took me apart She wrecked the furniture, she wrecked my heart She danced on my head like Arthur Murray The scars ain't neve...

That's all That's all there was Say Amen Close the door She gave as much as she had to give Please don't ask for more Please don't ask for more That's all The c...

Well, the angels came to see me today Said "We've taken your racehorse away" And I believe it was that bookmaker from I believe that he put one in a pail Oh, th...

The river flows It flows to the sea Wherever that river goes That's where I want to be Flow river flow Let your waters wash down Take me from this road To some ...

Strolling down on Mutton Street The moon is peeping through Old wives say, Young Man, you'd better Watch your Ps and Qs But life is good on Mutton Street If you...

At the dark end of the street That's where we always meet Hiding in shadows where we don't belong Living in darkness to hide our wrong You and me, at the dark e...

As I was a-walking down Radcliffe highway A recruiting party came a-beating my way They enlisted me and treated me till I did not know And to the Queen's barrac...

Now Hobnail Kelly and the Beefcake kid Just rolled into town from the Land of sown-up faces Looking for a woman who can Punch and kick and bite Slide on down to...

I feel for you, you little horror Safe at your mother's breast No lucky break for you around the corner 'Cause your father is a bully And he thinks that you're ...

Gather round me buddies Hold your glasses high And drink to a fool A crazy fool Who told his baby, goodbye Too late he found out he loves her So much he wants ...

If that was our goodbye kiss Seems a habit too good to miss Once more for the memory Hit the heights too well that time To leave it there would be a crime Seems...

High up above the crowd The great Valerio is walking The rope seems hung from cloud to cloud And time stands still while he is walking His eye is steady on the ...

I like a girl in satin Who talks dirty in Latin A girl who's flirty When she quotes Krishnamurti If she likes to be goosed While reciting from Proust I'll know ...

I'm just a little beggar girl and Sally is my name You can call me a skiver and I'll call you the same You can show me you're sorry if you think it's a shame Th...

Like a lobster I can swim And can grow another lim Where a powerless stump you saw I have grown a powerful claw Where you thought me safely drowned In the dept...

Give me simple for my pleasure Charity for my success Give me wisdom and misfortune Heart's ease for my distress When men boast or make me tremble When men moc...

The time has come for action Leave your satisfaction Can't you hear St George's tune When George's tune is calling you on? Freedom was your mother Fight for one...

I'm Darby the tinker and my brother is Tam We go where the work is, my boys, and we work where we can With the mending and fixing, it's together we stay Intendi...

Called him poor boy You took him for fun He dressed for the tinkering trade He dressed for the tinkering trade Now the poor boy is taken away No use waiting Li...

I can't believe that it's so cold As gentle tides go rolling by, Along the salt sea strand The colours blend and roll as one Together in the sand And often do t...

What makes you men go crazy when the woman wear her dress so tight What makes you men go crazy when the woman wear her dress so tight Must be the same old thing...

You're going to give yourself away One of these nights Your gaze of compassion Just a little too right Your hug of encouragement A little too tight ANd then he'...

Lovers pair off and they fall into bed The same old lies trip off the tongue A few lonely hearts stand and prop up the room The night is young Envy the bodies ...

Don't think my love is something that you can play with I'm not the one to spend the time of day with You learn to hide love, you lock it up or find it gone You...

You gave so many things to remember you by Like a heart full of emptiness like tears in my eye When my heartaches all have gone It will be because you gave me s...

Come on now mister Step right inside and see the show You'll like it mister It cures you if you're feeling low We'll take care of you Especially if you've got t...

This old house is a-tumbling down The walls are gone but the roof is sound The landlord's deaf, he can never be found It's time to ring some changes They'll ar...

My mind keeps on telling me that this is no good And my heart is aching, that tells me I should But only time will show the wiser I've fallen in love with a gir...

Someone knocking at your front door Could be the one you're looking for To hang a dream on, to hang a dream on I might be the one, I just might be You might be...

Together again my tears have stopped falling The long lonely nights are now at an end The key to my heart you hold in your hand And nothing else matters now we'...

(Richard Thompson) When you were a vixen and I was a chump You looked at me like I crawled from a swamp Now things have a different complexion I'm the object o...

The songbird sings so clear Like your voice upon my ear I seem to hear traces of my love The river rushes down There's sweetness in the sound I seem to hear tr...

She's sitting on the train, the train's gonna to leave Bags in her hand, tears on her sleeve Banging on the window with all of my might But she won't look to th...