Since the moment when first Like a rocket you burst In my hitherto tranquil skies I am startled to find I am not color blind When I view the blue of your eyes ...

Oh, every morning I wake up Happy for the first time I know, I know, I know, I know, I know It's in vain because you're in pain most of the time Oh baby, I wan...

Baby love Baby love is what we've got Baby love Baby love is what we've got No good poetry coming from my mouth No neat chords ringing out, ringing out, ringin...

Got your hand up all in my shirt And you know that it hurts Ball and chain, my ball and chain Crossing the street you look so fine Making up everything that's ...

Got your hand up all in my shirt And you know that it hurts Ball & chain My ball & chain Crossing the street you look so fine Making up everything that's in my...

There are days When the cage Doesn't seem To open Very wide at all There are others That would shock The most Indiscriminate Lovers of all My heart Was made Fo...

Poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore And I'm young & I'm strong But I feel old & tired Overfired And I've been poked & stoked It's all smoke, there's ...

Poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore And I'm young & I'm strong But I feel old & tired Overfired And I've been poked & stoked It's all smoke, there's ...

Poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore And I'm young & I'm strong But I feel old & tired Overfired And I've been poked & stoked It's all smoke, there's ...

Bring back my heart You can't have it It is mine You can't have it I know I said For you to take it But you don't use it And I got none in return So find it a...

Pack up all my cares & woes Feeling low, here I go Bye bye, Blackbird Where somebody waits for me Sugar's sweet, so is she Bye bye, Blackbird No one seems to ...

You're comin' tonight To my home town I've been to yours many times before And it's always been a thrill You'll stay in a hotel Or at friends near by We haven'...

Summer comes and rain falls away But the very next day it seems The snow comes to stay And you too will go just like the dog days do I'll put on my hat, my glo...

There's a door Handle's cold Made of iron & brass And this door it used to lead Into what is now my past If you were to have opened this door It would have lead...

These are not my people, I should never have come here The chick with a dick and the gift for the ga I know a place, I've seen the face And I'll take the coast ...

Far away In some lovely way I hear your call Whatever happened to them all? Whatever happened to us all? I know that we've never met before But that was then, ...

Trouble's not my own Since you've been gone Since you've been gone Cause you are the man of my dreams You do not exist And I'm over you But you are the man in m...

Cop a ride or catch a feel I won't be late, I won't decline Your invite tonight this starry cold night It's six o'clock get up the block Don't be scared don't ...

It's all right Life's struggle's gone You're understood And you can stop the fight You will go to the sea Leave & take your flight I will stay at home Walk the...

Cop a ride or catch a feel I won't be late, I won't decline Your invite tonight this starry cold night It's six o'clock get up the block Don't be scared don't ...

I heard that you hate me You know that I do The words that come out of my mouth And the sounds telling me I hate you too Next time you should be more careful w...

There was that song you wrote About the king who went broke It was the story of you From the point of view of your death bed blues And you will never believe in...

How soon will I be seeing you? How soon? I wish I really knew And when will I be hearing Words I want to hear Pretty little love words Whispered in, in my ear ...

How soon will I be seeing you? How soon? I wish I really knew And when will I be hearing Words I want to hear Pretty little love words Whispered in, in my ear ...

I will internalize everything I will hold back the pain And I will count the raindrops That fall on my head From above & below And I am wet & weak I am wet & we...

I can hardly move And I sure can't groove And I can hardly see why I'm so afraid And the days are long I can't get rid of what's wrong It's plain to see But the...

I'll be seeing you In all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces All day through In that small cafe The park across the way The children's ca...

In the middle of the night Comes a knockin' at my door There's a limousine outside And I know whom it's for And I heard it bein' read And I heard it bein' said...

It's over before it ever got started It's over before it ever got started It doesn't suit me to smile I might just sit here & cry a while Oh oh breathin's gett...

Remember when you said we'd marry The wilder shores of love The tide, it changes fast Ah when you're fast it never lasts I cannot read between your lines You c...

Sometimes I feel like there is no one No one at all That life is a myth And I won't be missed When I'm gone But they say that you are no one Without the people...

Sometimes I feel like there is no one No one at all That life is a myth and I won't be missed When I'm gone But they say that you are no one No one at all with...

I wrote this song late last night About my brother and all his might And you would be so very kind To listen to these words I've written About the boy who seems...

I wrote this song late last night about my brother and all his might And you would be so very kind to listen to these words I've written About the boy who seems...

When you undress don't close the door I know you're in there Long brown legs curly brown hair The world ends here I got my eyes on you I got my eyes on you all...

Love is a stranger in an open car To tempt you in and drive you far away I said love is a stranger in an open car To tempt you in and drive you far away Well l...

Winter's coming on Only one place to be With my baby On those streets of New York in the fall No rooms to be had But I can get an add-on I haven't booked ahead...

What, what would I do If I can't have you If I can't have you What, what If I can't have you Here, here I am On this black river Dotted in time And the mangrov...

Some scratch their heads or squint their eyes All this time in precious smiles Dedicated to this same guy I don't know why myself He was wearing a ball cap & g...

(2003 Tour Version) I slept through the night, I got through to the dawn I flipped a switch & the light went on I got out of bed, I put some clothes on It was ...

Met you for the first time late last week Came to dinner, it could've been bleak But I held back Held myself on track Question of etiquette Or maybe just regre...

Emily tries but misunderstands She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams Till tomorrow There is no other day Let's try it another way You'll lose your m...

Oh, Daddy, I've been weepin' Just like a willow tree Without a wink of sleepin' Where is your sympathy? All is glad round the (???) Since you said goodbye to me...

And the children's eyes They turn as I walk away I am becoming a prey (?) And the firelight It burns in your eyes There are times you despise me You criticize m...

There's a saying old Says that love is blind Still we're often told "Seek and ye shall find" So I'm going to seek A certain lad I've had in mind Looking everyw...

Turn the key & warm up the vehicle Window's foggy & I'm in my little bubble Some are red, some are yellow Black & blue & different colours Mine is green Let's ...

You came over And we, we made out on my tiny couch We did not make love But decided to make trust You played the captain And I will, I will never understand Wh...

My Maker (title) My brother, my sister, my lover, my maker Did someone here fake it, someone here fate it Did someone here take it, someone here make it Someone...

I don't even know your name Much less or shame (?) You've been comin' round my door Comin' round my door But you don't need to know much To want to feel the to...

Shaking like a leaf on a tree That's coming loose from the stem Shaking like a leaf on a tree Because I'm coming loose from my man I'm like a weeping willow We...

These flowers are coming up wild They're coming up, they're coming up They're coming up wild These flowers are coming up wild They're coming up, they're coming...

This This life is boring This This life right now is snoring But that's all right That's okay It's still worth living When it is not I got the gun for my head ...

We had visions in the night I was scared and you held me tight It was like we were in black and white As clear as day, as dark as night And the truth became a...

I'm not such a good lover I'm a better talker So when you touch me there I'm scared that you'll see Not the way that I don't love you But the way that I don't l...

Would you care not standing so close I've got a promise that I gotta keep And I can't host The idea of you & me engaged in a kiss It's too dangerous & would be ...

Do you wanna wanna wanna grow up to be The kind you only wanna shut up And if time runs through your veins And causes you nothing but pain You're just like the...

When the day is short And the nights are long It's a different world Where the rules are wrong And I, I will go home with who Whoever is sure Are you sure? An...

Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? Hunger my driver, I go where I must Cold blows the winter wind over hill and heather: Thick drives the rain and ...

Left the pain before the dawn She never thought it would or could be easy Been inclined to carry on Hold my hard head And watch you walk out on me See the tears...

(Martha's song on The McGarrigle Hour CD from 1998) Here comes the daddy He's gonna knock me off my feet Here comes the daddy He's gonna knock us off our feet ...

I know you've got to go And I wanted to be afraid to say But I'm not I'm scared to death of what you've become You were my only ally Now you're looking around ...

When you are gone I'll cry When you are gone I'll cry But until then I'll crack a smile I'll stay dry for as long as I can Oh baby you've got a way with me I wi...