One Song

[Gobias Industries]

Oh comely

I will be with you when you lose your breath

Chasing the only meaningful memory you thought you had left

With some pretty bright and bubbly terrible scene

That was doing her thing on your chest

But oh comely

It isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess

Oh comely

All of your friends are letting you blow

Bristling and ugly

Bursting with fruits falling out from the holes

Of some pretty bright and bubbly friend

You could need to say comforting things in your ear

But oh comely

There isn't such one friend that you could find here

Standing next to me

He's only my enemy

I'll crush him with everything I own

 

Your father made fetuses

With flesh licking ladies

While you and your mother

Were asleep in the trailer park

Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums

The music and medicine you needed for comforting

So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving

And pluck all your silly strings

And bend all your notes for me

Soft silly music is meaningful magical

The movements were beautiful

All in your ovaries

All of them milking with green fleshy flowers

While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines

Smelling of semen all under the garden

Was all you were needing when you still believed in me

 

And I know they buried her body with others

Her sister and mother and 500 families

And will she remember me 50 years later

I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine

Know all your enemies

We know who are enemies are

 

Goldaline my dear

We will fold and freeze together

Far away from here

There is sun and spring and green forever

But now we move to feel

For ourselves inside some stranger's stomach

Place your body here

Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine

[mountain bed]

My Only Love

 

(Brian Ferry)

 

Do I ever wonder?

More than words can say

Heaven knows it's hard enough to pray

Let me tell you something

There's a change in me

Even now you're gone you'll always be

My only love

 

Does is seem so funny

For a fool to cry?

Do you know the meaning of goodbye?

There's a river flowing

By a willow tree

When you need to know remember me

My only love

 

Let me tell you something

More than words can say

But they're all I have, no other way

There's a river flowing

By a willow tree

In my heart you know you'll always be

My only love

[mountain bed]

It Never Rains

 

(Mark Knopfler)

 

I hear the Seven Deadly Sins

And the Terrible Twins came to call on you

The bigger they are babe

The harder they fall on you

And you you're always the same, you preservere

On that same old pleasure ground

Oh and it never rains around here

It just comes pouring down

 

You had no more volunteers

So you got profiteers for to help you out

With friends like that babe

Good friends you had to do without

And now they've taken the chains and the gears

From off your merry-go-round

Oh and it never rains around here

It just comes pouring down

 

And your new Romeo

Was just a gigolo when he let you down

See the faster they are babe

The faster they get out of town

Leaving make up stains

And the tears of a clown

Oh and it never rains around here

It just comes pouring down

 

Oh you were just a roller coaster memory

I don't know why I was even passing through

I saw you making a date with Destiny

When he came around here asking after you

In the shadow of the Wheel of Fortune

You're busy trying to clear your name

You say I may be guilty yeah that may be true

But I'd be lying if I said I was to blame

See, we could have been major contenders

We never got no money no breaks

You got a list of all the major offenders

You got a list of all their major mistakes

And he's just standing in the shadows

Yes and you smile that come-on smile

Oh I can still hear you say as clear as the day

'I'd like to make it worth your while'

 

Ah but it's sad reminder

When your organ grinder has to come for you for rent

And all you've got to give him

Is the use of your side-show tent

Yes and that's all that remains of the years

Spent doing the rounds

And it never rains around here

Well it just comes pouring down

 

Now you know what they say about beggars

You can't complain about the rules

You know what they say about beggars babe

You know who's the first to blame his tools

You never gave a damn about who you pick up

And leave laying bleeding on the ground

You screw people over on the way up

Because you thought that you were never coming down

And he takes you out in Vaudeville Valley

With his hand up smothering your screams

And he screws you down in Tin Pan Alley

In the city of a billion dreams

[Gobias Industries]

She's not a girl who misses much

Do do do do do do do do, oh yeah

She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand

Like a lizard on a window pane

The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors

On his hobnail boots

Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy

Working overtime

A soap impression of his wife which he ate

And donated to the National Trust

 

Down

I need a fix cos I'm going down

Down to the bits that I left uptown

I need a fix cos I'm going down

 

Mother Superior jump the gun

Mother Superior jump the gun

Mother Superior jump the gun

Mother Superior jump the gun

Mother Superior jump the gun

Mother Superior jump the gun

 

Happiness is a warm gun (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)

Happiness is a warm gun, mama (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)

When I hold you in my arms (Oo-oo oh yeah)

And I feel my finger on your trigger (Oo-oo oh yeah)

I know no one can do me no harm (Oo-oo oh yeah)

Because happiness is a warm gun, mama (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)

Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)

Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)

Well, don't you know happiness is a warm gun, mama? (Happiness is a warm gun, yeah)

[lamradio]

she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars

 

she's not at work, she's not at school

 

she's not in bed, i think i finally broke her

 

i bring her home everything i want, nothing that she needs

 

i thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me

she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars

 

i found her out back sitting naked looking up and looking dead

 

a crumpled yellow piece of paper, seven nines and tens

 

i thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me

 

she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars

 

i thought you'd be there holding daisies, you always wait for me

 

she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars

 

she's not at work, she's not at school

 

she's not in bed, i think i finally broke her

 

i bring her home everything i want, nothing that she needs

 

i thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me

she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars

 

i found her out back sitting naked looking up and looking dead

 

a crumpled yellow piece of paper, seven nines and tens

 

i thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me

 

she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars

 

i thought you'd be there holding daisies, you always wait for me

 

she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars

 

Such a very cool song...still have it in the iPod.

 

And used to hawk Caddys now...

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

In honor of Valentine's Day, Songs in the key of Romeo and Juliet

 

 

a lovestruck romeo sings a streetsuss serenade

laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made

finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade

says something like 'you and me babe how about it?'

 

juliet says 'hey it's romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack'

he's underneath the window she's singing 'hey la my boyfriend's back'

'you shoudn't come around here singing up at people like that

anyway what you gonna do about it?'

 

juliet the dice were loaded from the start

and i bet and you exploded in my heart

and i forget i forget the movie song

when you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong juliet?

 

come up on different streets they both were streets of shame

both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same

and i dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real

how can you look at me as i was just another one of your deals?

 

when you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold

you can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold

you promised me everything you promised me thick and thin

now you just say oh romeo yeah you know i used to have a scene with him

 

juliet when we made love you used to cry

you said 'i love you like the stars above i'll love you till i die'

there's a place for us you know the movie song

when you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong?

Juliet...

 

i can't do the talk like they talking on the tv

and i can't do a love song like the way its meant to be

i can't do everything but i'd do anything for you

i can't do anything except be in love with you

 

and all i do is miss you and the way we used to be

all i do is keep the beat and bad company

all i do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme

julie i'd do the stars with you any time

 

juliet when we made love you used to cry

you said i love you like the stars above i'll love you till i die

there's a place for us you know the movie song

when you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong?

Juliet...

 

a lovestruck romeo sings a streetsuss serenade

laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made

finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade

says something like 'you and me babe how about it?'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map

that brought Columbus to New York

Betwixt between the East and West he calls on her wearing a leather vest

the earth squeals and shudders to a halt

A diamond crucifix in his ear is used to help ward off the Fear

that he has left his soul in someone's rented car

Inside his pants he hides a mop to clean the mess that he has dropped

into the life of lithesome Juliette Bell

 

And Romeo wanted Juliette and Juliette wanted Romeo

And Romeo wanted Juliette and Juliette wanted Romeo

 

Romeo Rodriguez squares his shoulders and curses Jesus

runs a comb through his black pony-tail

He's thinking of his lonely room

the sink that by his bed gives off a stink

Then smells her perfume in his eyes and her voice was like a bell

 

Outside the street were steaming the crack dealers were dreaming

of an Uzi someone had just scored

I betcha I could hit that light with my one good arm behind my back

says little Joey Diaz

Brother give me another tote those downtown hoods are no damn good

those Italians need a lesson to be taught

This cop who died in Harlem you think they'd get the warnin'

I was dancing when his brains run out on the street

 

And Romeo had Juliette and Juliette had her Romeo

And Romeo had Juliette and Juliette had her Romeo

 

I'll take Manhattan in a garbage bag with Latin written on it that says

"It's hard to give a shit these days"

Manhattan's sinking like a rock, into the filthy Hudson what a shock

they wrote a book about it, they said it was like ancient Rome

The perfume burned his eyes, holding tightly to her thighs

and something flickered for a minute and then it vanished and was gone

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[tkleist]

sleep will not come to this tired body now

peace will not come to this lonely heart

there are some things i'll live without

but i want you to know that i need you right now

i need you tonite

i steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves

cause i'll always miss her wherever she goes

and i'll always need her more than she could ever need me

i need someone to ease my mind

but sometimes a someone is so hard to find

and i'll do anything to keep her here tonite

and i'll say anything to make her feel alright

and i'll be anything to keep her here tonite

cause i want you to stay, with me

i need you tonite

she comes to me like an angel out of time

as i play the part of a saint on my knees

there are some things i'll live without

but i want you to know that i need you right now

suffer my desire

suffer my desire

suffer my desire for you

[lizish]

 

Basia Bulat - Heart of my own

 

http://www.iheartmusic.net/mp3/BasiaBulat-...eartOfMyOwn.mp3

 

Under that berm

Beneath that falls

Down on these walls

Burning my arms

I've been rounded

As said by you

 

For every word

I couldn't do

I've been uncrossed

And I've been untrue

I've been lovelorn

I've been a heart

 

But the heart of my own

Buckets and alone

The light of your verse

And the shadow between

The way that I was when

I used to know

 

If I go

What do I hold

For the maid or the mother I'll be

For a lumen, a better world hope

It is worse to be messing out here

Tomorrow meant the empty home

There are roses that come without seeking

The are the ones that I have to sow

In your verses that I'm repeating

The way that I was when I used to know

 

I wrote on these walls

A simple charm to keep the wolves at bay

Gave all my heart the strength in my arms

To hold you close and say

But I kept my eyes closed

Oh heaven know

Where the shadows are these days

 

I stood in a room

Of a house that washed away from me

It washed away from me

And it washed away

It washed away from me

And it washed away

[lizish]

This is a great song! Now I have it in my head, and my Friday will go much better.

 

Hey - the Tournament of Hearts starts this weekend.

 

I'm playing Weakerthans to commenerate!

[Doug]

Sittin' around with my homemade bone

I'm naked and loose when no one's home

And I may let my fingers roam

Juicing free on my holy bone

Here I am, on my knees

Praying to the beast that stole the sex from me

I see something we should do

If you need one, then you need two

I won't hold back, so why should you?

I won't hold back, so why should you?

Here I am, on my knees

With nothing to blame but my curiosity

It got the best of me

There's still pictures in my mind

I've been addicted all this time

Taught me everything I know

Tell me, girl, did it leave me cold?

Here I am, on my knees

With nothing to blame but my curiosity

The selfish child in me

[bobbob1313]

Do you like amercan music

I like american music

Dont you like american music baby

I want you to hold me

I want your arms around me

I want you to hold me baby

Did you do too many drugs

I did too many drugs

Did you do too many drugs too baby

You were born too late

I was born too soon

But every time I look at that ugly moon

It reminds me of you

It reminds me of you ooh ooh ooh

I need a date to the prom

Would you like to come along

But nobody would go to the prom with me baby

They didnt like american music

They never heard american music

They didnt know the music was in my soul baby

You were born too soon

I was born too late

But every time I look at that ugly lake

It reminds me of me

It reminds me of me

Do you like american music

We like american music

I like american music baby

Do you like american music

We like all kinds of music

But I like american music best

Baby you were born too late

And I was born too late

But every time I look at that ugly lake

It reminds me of me

It reminds me of me

Do you like american music

It reminds me of me

Do you like american music...

[froggie]

The Watchman's Gone - Gordon Lightfoot:

 

Just like birds of a feather

We too have followed the golden sun

It feels so good,

Knowin' the watchman's gone

If I give you a rose, buddy

Would you please bury it in the fields?

I seen a rose

Watchin' it all fold out

There's a train down at the station

It's come to carry my bones away

Two engines on

Twenty-one coaches long

End to end

Twenty-one coaches bend

The watchman's out

Kickin' the bums about

If I wait for the right moment

You can bet I'll climb aboard unseen

I've done it before

I know I can do it in my sleep

The watchman's out

Kickin'the bums about

The watchman's out

Kickin' your dreams about

As I leave you in the sunset

Got one more nothin' I'd like to say

"You don't know me

A son of the sea am I"

As I say to you, my brother

If you live to follow the golden sun

You better beware

Knowin' the watchman's always there

If you find me feedin' daisies

Please turn my face up to the sky

And leave me be

Watchin' the moon roll by

Whatever I was

You know it was all because

I've been on the town

Washin' the bullshit down

The watchman's out

Kickin' your dreams about

It feels so good

Knowin' the watchman's gone

It's like a song

Knowin' the watchman's gone

[lizish]

Dirtbombs and Alan Moore - Leopard Man at C+A

 

 

total black sabbath/high school lyrics, but I love the song.

 

Welcome to the jungle

When the zoo-age begins

We'll hunt down television set

And kill them for their skins

We

[Dude]

Over night scenes, dinner and wine

Saturday girls

I was never in love, never had the time

In my hustle and hurry world

Laughing myself to sleep, waking up lonely

I needed someone to hold me, oh

 

Its such a crazy old town, it can bring you down

Till you run out of dreams

So you party all night to the music and lights

But you dont know what happiness means

I was dancin in the dark with strangers

No love around me, when suddenly you found me, oh

 

Girl you're every woman in the world to me

You're my fantasy, you're my reality

Girl you're every woman in the world to me

Youre everything I need

Youre everything to me, oh girl

 

Evrything good, evrything fine

Thats what you are

So put your hand in mine and together

Well climb as high as the highest star

Im living a lifetime in evry minute that were together

And Im stayin right here forever, oh

 

Girl you're every woman in the world to me

You're my fantasy, you're my reality

Girl you're every woman in the world to me

Youre everything I need

Youre everything to me, oh girl

[Mystik Spiral]

Yes, I'm obsessed at the moment. Anyone who can interpret the ??? lyrics gets a cookie: A Balloon On A Broken String.

 

i'm not a boy i'm a big fat balloon

flapping in the wind

floating over the treetops

all the broken string

i've never been tied down

to anything

because i'm free

i suppose

i can go

where i want to go

i drift carelessly on a summer breeze

i bounce above the trees

i try to be cheerful

but i can feel myself

deflating all the time

up in the sky

because

i'm a balloon

on a broken string

i'm not attached to anyone or anything

anymore

oh oh oh

shoo bee doo

tra la la

i'm sad and alone

but you'd never know it to look at me

i look ever so happy

up here by myself

but i wish sometimes i look

the way i felt

because

i'm a balloon

on a broken string

i don't belong to anyone or anything

anymore

anymore

i'm a balloon

on a broken string

i'm not attached to anyone or anything

i'm a balloon

on a broken string

i don't belong to anyone or anything

and i know i look shiny and bouncy

but i'm all empty inside

and i won't even

if i was to just ???

then nobody would even notice me

i know i look shiny and bouncy

but i'm all empty inside

and i won't even

if i was to just ???

then nobody would even notice me

i know i look shiny and bouncy

but i'm all empty inside

and i won't even

if i was to just ???

then nobody would even notice me

i know i look shiny and bouncy

but i'm all empty inside

and i won't even

if i was to just ???

then nobody would even notice me

 

Wow, that song is ace.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

When I was a little girl I had a rag doll

The only doll Ive ever owned

Now I love you just the way I loved that rag doll

But only now my love has grown

And it gets stronger in every way

And it gets deeper let me say

And it gets higher day by day

 

Do I love you my oh my

River deep, mountain high

If I lost you would I cry

Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

 

When you were a young boy did you have a puppy

That always followed you around

Well Im gonna be as faithful as that puppy

No Ill never let you down

Cause it goes on and on like a river flows

And it gets bigger baby and heaven knows

And it gets sweeter baby as it grows

 

Do I love you my oh my

River deep, mountain high

If I lost you would I cry

Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

 

I love you baby like a flower loves the spring

And I love you baby like a robin loves to sing

And I love you baby like a schoolboy loves his bag

And I love you baby river deep mountain high

[mountain bed]

The Fool

(Curnin / West-Oram / Woods / Greenall / Barrett)

 

A sort of place you don't often find

A quiet room to go out of your mind

Will you excuse me whilst I confide

I've found a place where I can hide

Lights out by nine as a rule

One grey blanket, and a stool

Angels fear to tread where stands the Fool

But the air is warm, and the walls are cool

So I'm kept away, so here I'll stay

Even the judges kneel and pray

I am the winner in any event SNAP!

Who was the man who said society's bent?

So I'm locked away in my padded cocoon

A square of hell where nightmares bloom

Armageddon couldn't come too soon

But if it only meant that I could leave this room

 

Here stands the Fool

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

I got big balls

Big ole balls

Big as grapefruits

Big as pumpkins

Yes sir, yes sir

And on my really good days

They swell to the size of small dogs

My balls are as big as small dogs

 

Well, it ain't braggin' if it's true

Yes sir, yes sir

It ain't braggin' if it's true

Mohammed Ali said that

Back when he was a young man

Back when he was Casius Clay

Before he fought too many fights

And left his brain inside the ring

 

Sometimes I wish I was Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods

Sometimes I wish I was Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods

 

I got a friend whose goal in life

Was to one day go down on Madonna

That's all he wanted

That was all

To one day go down on Madonna

And when my friend was thirty-four

He got his wish in Rome one night

He got to go down on Madonna

In Rome one night in some hotel

And ever since he's been depressed

'Cause life is shit from here on in

And all our friends just shake their heads

And say, "Too soon, too soon, too soon,

He went down on Madonna too soon

Too young, too young, too soon, too soon"

 

And it ain't braggin' if it's true

Yes sir, yes sir

It ain't braggin' if it's true

Mohammed Ali said that

Back when he was Casius Clay

Before he fought too many fights

And left his brain inside the ring

 

Sometimes I wish I was Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods

Sometimes I wish I was Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods

 

If certain girls don't look at you

It means that they like you a lot

If other girls don't look at you

It just means they're ignoring you

How can you know, how can you know?

Which is which, who's doing what?

I guess that you can ask 'em

Which one are you baby?

Do you like me or are you ignoring me?

Do you like me or are you ignoring me?

Do you like me or are you ignoring me?

And all you need to do that

Is one good pair of big balls

Balls as big as grapefruits

Balls as big as pumpkins

Balls as big as mine

 

But even though my balls are big

Sometimes i wish they were bigger

Even bigger

Big as the wheels on tractors

Big as the golden arches

Big as the Golden Gate Bridge

Big as the state of Kansas

Big as Mars and Jupiter

Big as the swing in Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods

[Mystik Spiral]

dang, been a long time since I heard me some Dan Bern...

[rrgunn]

I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel

I was staring in my empty coffee cup

I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin'

All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles

I'm gonna drink 'em up

 

And if California slides into the ocean

Like the mystics and statistics say it will

I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill

 

Don't the sun look angry through the trees

Don't the trees look like crucified thieves

Don't you feel like Desperados under the eaves

Heaven help the one who leaves

 

Still waking up in the mornings with shaking hands

And I'm trying to find a girl who understands me

But except in dreams you're never really free

Don't the sun look angry at me

 

I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel

I was listening to the air conditioner hum

It went mmmmmm..

 

Look away...

(Look away down Gower Avenue, Look away....)

 

WZ - R.I.P.

[awatt]

I'm the man on the mountain, come on up.

I'm the plowman in the valley with a face full of mud.

Yes, I'm fumbling and I know my car don't start.

Yes, I'm stumbling and I know I play a bad guitar.

Give me little drink from your loving cup.

Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk.

I'm the man who walks the hillside in the sweet summer sun.

I'm the man that brings you roses when you ain't got none.

Well I can run and jump and fish, but I won't fight you

if you want to push and pull with me all night.

Give me little drink from you loving cup.

Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk.

I feel so humble with you tonight,

just sitting in front of the fire.

See your face dancing in the flame,

feel your mouth kissing me again,

what a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz,

what a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz.

Oh, what a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz.

Yes, I am nitty gritty and my shirt's all torn,

but I would love to spill the beans with you till dawn.

Give me little drink from you loving cup.

Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk.

[markosis]

Every night I tell myself,

"I am the cosmos,

I am the wind"

But that don't get you back again

Just when I was starting to feel okay

You're on the phone

I never wanna be alone

Never wanna be alone

I hate to have to take you home

Wanted too much to say no, no,

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Never wanna be alone

I hate to have to take you home

Want you too much to say no, no

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

My feelings always have been

Something I couldn't hide

I can confide

Don't know what's going on inside

So every night I tell myself

"I am the cosmos,

I am the wind"

But that don't get you back again

I'd really like to see you again

I really wanna see you again

I'd really like to see you again

I really wanna see you again

I'd really like to see you again

I really wanna see you again

I never wanna see you again

Really wanna see you again

 

(a current obsession of mine)

[awatt]

When the waters is rough

the sailing is tough,

I'll get drowned in your love.

You've got a cut throat crew,

I'm gonna sink under you,

I got the bell bottom blues,

it's gonna be the death of me.

It's the graveyard watch,

running right on the rocks,

I've taken all of the knocks.

You ain't giving me no quarter.

I'd rather drink sea water,

I wish I'd never had brought you,

it's gonna be the death of me.

Soul survivor, soul survivor.

Soul survivor, soul survivor.

Soul survivor, soul survivor.

Soul survivor, soul survivor,

gonna be the death of me,

it's gonna be the death of me.

When you're flying your flags

all my confidence sags,

you got me packing my bags.

I'll stowaway at sea,

you make me mutiny,

where you are I won't be,

you're gonna be the death of me.

[froggie]

Gordon Lightfoot - Triangle

 

 

Oh the gist of it all is the first day of fall is the day when my ship will set sail

The best of all friends will say good-bye again there's still time for one last glass of ale

We'll sail away proudly, our backs to the wall on a southwind and lots of good cheer

And when we've looked over the white cliffs of Dover, We'll be in Bahama next year

From Bermuda on down the Triangle around us will teach us a lesson or two

There's many a mate who unevenyly stated the course he had charted was true

"Don't worry 'bout me," he said "Go down below, give a certified sailor a turn,

Just sip on your rum or I'll give you my thumb and say, son you got something t' learn!"

It's a mighty hard way to come down

And a mighty fine way to be found

So hand me my grip from an old sailing ship

Put the kiss of the dawn on my lips

With some luck tonight I might have her at my fingertips

 

Oh the best of all things is the first day of spring when when the water runs heavy and fast

The mermaids have all gone to Davy Jones' Ball

And it seems their first trip was their last

They had so much fun

They don't wish to return

to the beach where they lay all day long

They'd rather stay under

And boy it's no wonder

When all the rock lobsters roll on

It's a mighty fine way to be found

 

Triangle Triangle

Oh see my ship dangle

We're bound for Bahama my friend

Like lovers like danger

Like babies like mangers

But that's where my storybook ends

Like soldiers of fortune, believers in God

And all kings without crosses to bear

All sweepers and cleaners

with no misdemeanors

Should try the triangle out there

 

It's a mighty hard way to come down

And a mighty fine way to be found

So hand me my grip

From an old sailing ship

Put the kiss of dawn on my lips

With some luck tonight

I might have her at my fingertips

 

When she took her last tumble

The sea bottom rumbled

There was no confusion or blame

The captain said "Men we must answer again to the sea so ye may not complain"

And as they lay sleeping down there in the deep

With their faces turned up to the stars

A tuna fish turned

To a mermaid in bed and said

"There goes another sandbar"

 

It's a mighty hard way to come down

And a mighty fine way to be found

So hand me my grip

From an old sailing ship

Put the kiss of the dawn on my lips

With some luck tonight

I might have her at my fingertips