He said, Dear, I'm leaving, right there in the hallway As the party roared on all around And her head wouldn't turn, O she couldn't look at him In a whirlpool s...

They say running into you is like running into trouble You bend my ear and I see double You're everybody's idea of a waste of time You still come around ‘cos I ...

Hard on me, hard on me Why do you grind me small Hard on me, hard on me At every fence I fall I bite my rage I stop my breath I shake my cage I swim with empti...

Saturday night and I'm all alone No ring on the door bell no ring on the phone And nobody wants to know anyone lonely like me Your boy friend's good looking, h...

I sigh when people pass by and I hide it away I wipe a tear from my eye and I hide it away When I need you the most I hold the ghost of you inside So I keep the...

Little boy running and the little girl too Got the money tucked up in their hands Over the wall and down into the street Give your money to the hollering man Gi...

Well I left my home down on the rural route I told my paw I'm going steppin out and get the Honky tonk blues, Yeah the honky tonk blues Well lord I got 'em, I g...

I stole your style Hope you don't mind I must try to be all I can be It suits me more Than it ever suited you Hope you like the new me I stole your laugh So br...

Oh the rain is falling (blow blow down) And the wild wind roars (blow blow down) It'll shake your windows (blow blow down) And rattle your doors (blow blow down...

You and your big ideas Taking your time with me Faithful as I faltered Steady as I stumbled A lifeline tossed in a boiling sea Whose dream was that - To parcel...

When we parted just like friends We never tied loose ends I could never say the words that would make amends Oh how I wanted to Oh how I wanted to To say I lov...

You broke my heart so many times I can't count the pieces Everytime you push me down It seems my strength increases How many times do you have to cry While peop...

Oh she danced in the street with the guns all around her All torn like a rag doll, barefoot in the rain And she sang like a child, toora-day toora-daddy Oh how ...

I've been gone so long, now ain't it a pity Bending my back in this hell-hole city Turning my ear from my friends and betters Up to my neck in unread letters An...

In my nightmare everything's wrong I'm waiting for love, but you come along You smile, you wave, you great me, Ciao! But you seem too happy to see me somehow Th...

Funny day, looking for laughter and finding it there Sunny day, braiding white flowers and leaves in my hair Picked up a pencil and wrote 'I love you' in my fin...

I feel so good I'm going to break somebody's hear tonight I feel so good I'm going to take someone apart tonight They put me in jil for my deviant ways Two year...

She said, darling I'm in love with your mind The way you care for me, it's so kind Love to see you again, wish I had more time She was laughing as she brushed m...

I ride in your slipstream I wear your reflection I echo your heartbeat In the wind You might say we're lovers You might say we're strangers You think you don't ...

It was cruel of you to stand At my door and take my hand Like a drowning man I clung to my defenses And ten years is a time But your looks, love, it's a crime ...

At my door the leaves are falling A cold wild wind has come Sweethearts walk by together And I still miss someone I go out on a party And look for a little fun...

I'm so tired of working every day, Now the weekend's come I'm gonna throw my troubles away If you've got the cab fare, mister you'll do all right I want to see ...

You may search at any cost But how long can you search for what's not lost? Everybody will help you Some people are very kind But if I can save you any time Co...

(Richard Thompson) I can't eat, I can't sleep Knowing that you're on Your midnight creep I can't jump I can't jive Knowing that you want me Dead or alive There...

You make me nervous when I see you I can't imagine what it's like to be you It's a mystery to me every day, And I've got to get away I put a bet on with a book...

You can find me in a dim light bar-room If your coldness should ever turn warm But the chances of you ever changing Are as slim as your two loving arms So I'm ...

If I were rich enough, To make you need me as much as I need you If I could pitch enough You'd realize what a little country bread can do Well, if my ma Had co...

O here we are just you and me The folks have gone to bed Cat's put out, the fire's stoked up And the fish have all been fed There's no one to disturb us So put ...

Every boy running and the little girl ?cheer? At the money took up in their hand Over the wall and down into the street Give your money to the hollerin' man Giv...

It don't cost much to let me go But if it does, I'll pay the price It don't cost much to call me u If you can't look me in the eye It don't cost much It don't ...

Ev'ry night when ev'rybody has fun, Here am I sitting all on my own, It won't be long yeh, yeh, It won't be long yeh, yeh, It won't be long yeh, yeh, Till I bel...

Well if you hear somebody knockin' on your door if you see something crawlin' across the floor baby it'll be me and i'll be lookin' for you If you see a head pe...

Jack O'Diamonds, on the move Jack O'Diamonds, one-eyed knave On the move, hits the street Bumps his head, on the ground Well, he's a scout, you're born to lose ...

O sweet Rosie Lee Like a sister to me But you thought I was playing you smart Jealous Words Won't lie still In my heart You saw us there dancing And you thoug...

Jealousy I saw you kissing him, telling him lies I held my breath and I closed my eyes Oh jealousy Count to three And maybe the pain will leave my heart I'll g...

Oh trouble becomes you, it cuts you down to my size And you never were less than perfect in my eyes But I lost my way somehow For three hard winters I held it i...

Jerusalem on the Jukebox they talk in tongues on Coronation Street Heaven help the Pharisee whose halo has slipped down to his feet A thousand satellite comedia...

Jet plane in a rocking chair Roller coaster roll nowhere Deaf and dumb old dancing bear I'll change this heart of mine This time, this time Sea cruise in a div...

''My shadow follows me Wherever I should chance to go'', John The Gun did say ''If you should chance to meet me As I wander to and fro, Sad would be your day M...

(Richard Thompson) Johnny's joined a ceilidh band, They're known quite well throughout the land, The Drones The Drones are signed up on a cruise While Tracey's...

My name is Josef Locke God bless all here and state your pleasure If you'll refill my glass I'll sing Ave Maria I'll sing The Old Bog Road or A Shawl of Galway...

When you're rocked on the ocean, rocked up and down, don't worry When you're spinning and turning round and around, don't worry You're just feeling sea-sick, yo...

There's sickness in this land Hearts have turned to sand Crushed with an iron hand There's justice in the streets They fooled you for so long You can't tell ri...

If I cross your path again Who knows here, who knows when On some morning without number On some highway without end Don't grasp my hand and say Fate has brough...

I ride with the Killerman Gold Posse And we rob from the rich and we give to the poor And the poor are we, and the poor are we And we are so poor, and we want s...

My father was a judge, a solitary man He beat me to cry, with the back of his hand I played with my sisters, he said I played too rough It seems to me son, I di...

Let me rock you in my arms I'll hold you safe and small A refugee from the Seraphim In your rich girl rags and all Did your dreams die young Were they too hard ...

U don't have 2 be beautiful 2 turn me on I just need your body baby From dusk till dawn U don't need experience 2 turn me out U just leave it all up 2 me I'm go...

Stow your gear and charge your lamp Say goodbye to dark and damp DSS will pay your stamp Last shift, close her down Leave your manhood, leave your pride Back t...

I drew near to the house of Layla It was then I heard her call Her sweet voice made me wish that it would never end at all Oh you say you see some good in me It...

I told you why I changed my mind I got bored by playing with time I know you thought you had me nailed Well I've freed my head from your garden rails Now it's ...

He was a species on the verge of extinction She was an Air New Zealand hostess They were mystically joined, like Rawicz and Landauer Like Pinky and Perky, like ...

My oh my, but you do look the killer Never mind the duds just look at that hat All that green chartreuse on the waistcoat How do you come by something like that...

I don't have no credit And I don't know where to get it I don't know where to get it And it's all the same to me You don't miss your shilling When you got some...

As I went oot a walkin, one fine summers day, I met wee Sammy McAuley, He says to me,I,ll buy ye a hauf, o the bonnie, bonnie nips o whisky CHORUS Oh ye tak a...

We may never meet in the light of day If we passed on the street, would we look the other way So I search for you where we can't be seen And I know we'll meet o...

Somebody's walking, oh somebody's walking There on the grave of our love And somebody's kicking the dust and the ashes away Why don't they just let it die And f...

That's the place I used to work When I was a wild, young turk It's now the Museum of Industry Schoolkids get in for free Brickworks-smell of rotten eggs Rubber...

Always move in pairs and travel light A loose friend is an enemy, keep it tight Always leave a job the way you found it Look for trouble coming and move around ...

What time of day is this? O you really look a mess Clean down the tables and help out on the door It's just no good to me if you're in ecstasy Running all night...

False hand in false hand Down Lovers' Lane, we walked, we two Love sold for fool's gold Down Lovers' Lane, we walked, we two On your back I'll clim Or you climb...

A worn out man He came into town He was mad with love Oh mad with love The whole of the town Oh they began to weep The rich and the poor When they heard him spe...

I packed my rags, went down the hill Left my dependents a-lying still Just as the dawn was a-rising up I was making good speed I left a letter lying on the bed ...

Act 1, Scene 2, The Clinic of Dr Krikstein On a podium, Center, MRS RIPSTOCK-GEDDES is posing as Aphrodite, complete with water jug Enter Left DR KRIKSTEIN, fol...

Mary and Joseph were watching their ?bother? Lovers with a different past, like the one that loves ?a rose? Mary is in stitches, she's tied down on the bed Whil...

When I said those things I was out of my mind I was trying to be mean and cruel and unkind Don't take it too hard There's another man inside me wants to break u...

A holiday, a holiday, and the first one of the year Lord Donald's wife came into the church, the gospel for to hear And when the meeting it was done, she cast h...

We used to say "There'd come the day we'd all be making songs Or finding better words" These ideas never lasted long The way is up along the road, the air is g...

When I said those things I was out of my mind I was trying to be mean and cruel and unkind Don't take it too hard There's another man inside me wants to break u...

Well, that big dumb blonde with Gorgeous George And Turtle, a friend of theirs, with his cheques all forged And his cheeks in a trunk with a cheese in the cash ...

If the wife and I are fussin', brother that's our right 'Cause me and that sweet woman's got a license to fight Why don't you mind your own business (Mind your ...

What a fool I was What a thin disguise Brando mumble Mingus eyes Was a time she fell But then she got wise Brando mumble Mingus eyes Never had the squint of Jam...

My dearest Miss Patsy, I'm writing to say That I'm sorry to not be in touch It's been quite a parade, but my thoughts never strayed Too far, or too long, or too...

Hailstones and a sickle moon and the north wind races One more night of running my mind over lost embraces The steps you made when you walked away Still frozen ...

Like the flowers, like the bees Like the woodlands and the trees I like the Byrds on their LP's And I'm a refugee (Chorus) I wanna be a mole in a hole, digging ...

I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay Ain't it sad And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me That's too bad In my ...

So you think you know how to wipe your own nose So you think you know how to button your clothes You udon't know shit If you hadn't already guessed You're just ...

Well, come on pretty baby let's move it and groove it Shake it, baby, shake it, baby Please don't lose it The rhythym will get you to your heart and soul Well, ...

Please, Mr Lacey, let me work your loving machine Please, Mr Lacey, let me work your loving machine Will you let me control the handles, you know it's the best ...

My sweetheart she bounced right out of my arms She was gone before I remembered to cling Did I reach out too slowly to catch her Or was she by nature a slippery...

(Richard Thompson) If I say what's on my mind, dear The judge will slap me down You've got me in the corner And it's only the second round So I'll keep my mout...

Oh kind Mrs Rita I never will tell The way that you keep us poor girls here in hell And I never will sneak to the News of the World Oh kind Mrs Rita Sincere Mr...

My Soul My Soul My Soul She's never going to shake it up She'll never be satisfied She's never going to eye me right The way I want to be eyed The way she cr...

Mystery wind blowing tonight Driving rain, close up tight Don't leave a crack for the rain to get in Don't leave a hole for the mystery wind >From some other ti...

Love makes people so blind That's why I can't make up my mind If you stop me dead in my tracks Or you just paper over the cracks You're the one I've wanted so l...

(Richard Thompson) I see young girls with old faces I see good girls in bad places I see plain girls in finery And every one be the death of me Needle and Thr...

O who will remember, O who will be sure And still feel the silence as close as before And was there a season without any rain, And never, O never, O never again...

Night comes in Like some cool river How can there be Be another day Take my hand O real companion And we'll dance We'll dance ‘till we fade away O the songs Po...

Hey come and make it easy Hey come and make it back It's no use to be free If lies are all the truth they see They'll screw up what you do When you're through ...

I'm going to pretend you like me too All of my messages come from you If I keep it up it might even drive you crazy I'm going to pretend you're my squeeze Arm i...

Everybody came to nobody's wedding Everybody knew it was bound to be a hoot What can you do when nothing else is cooking? You make your own amusement, bring a p...

In Nottamun Town, not a soul would look up Not a soul would look up Not a soul would look down Not a soul would look up Not a soul would look down To show me th...

When the stone is grown too cold to kneel In crystal waters I'll be bound Cold as stone, weary to the sounds upon the wheel Now be thankful for good things bel...

Oh, I swear and I swear and I swear But my heart's not in it I can deadpan as dead as I can But my heart's not in it What little of yours, what little of mine...

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 I've done some living I d...

As I was walking down by old Thames side Well my foot and my heart seemed to falter For there you were standing by Custom House Landing Like Venus risen out of ...

One door opens, another shuts behind One sun sets and another sun she rises Love comes to you in old familiar ways Love comes to you in shadows and disguises S...

He used to be the only man I would see He used to be the only good man for me Oh, he used to be my one sure thing Look at me now, what you see, it isn't me Loo...

God never listened to Charlie Parker Charlie Parker lived in vain Blasphemer, womaniser, Let a needle numb his brain Wash away his monkey music Damn his demons,...

It's a grey, grey morning, the rain it do fall I'm feeling hungry and low My bed's so empty, I wish I could call On the painted ladies I know When you've got no...