YANKEE MAN

I've lived with the decent folk in the hills of old Vermont
Where what you do all day depends on what you want
And I took up with a full grown man though I was still a kid
And I smile like the sun to think of the loving that we did

He rose each morning and went to work and he kept me with his pay
I was making love all night and playing guitar all day
And I made apple cider and homemade bread to make the man say grace
In a house that he built by hand with a warm feet fireplace

Yankee man so good to me
Yankee man just a memory
Yankee man so good to me
Your memory is enough for me

An Autumn walk on a country road with a million flaming trees
I was feeling uneasy, there was Winter in the breeze, and he said:
Oh baby look over there the birds are southward bound
Oh baby I am so afraid to lose the love we found

I've lived with the decent folk in the hills of old Vermont
Where what you do all day depends on what you want
And I took up with a full grown man though I was still a kid
And I smile like the sun to think of the loving that we did
And I smile like the sun to think of the loving that we did
And I smile like the sun to think of the loving that we did...


YOU'RE NOT A BAD GHOST, JUST AN OLD SONG

You're not a bad ghost, just an old song
Good love gone wrong
Something knocking on my funny bone
You were right for the moment, but not a whole life
But you'd be right tonight 'cuz I'm singing old songs

You're not a bad ghost, just a false start
A pain in my heart, but not a bad one
You were right for the moment, but not my whole life
But you'd be nice tonight 'cuz I'm singing old songs
Ah, you'd be nice tonight 'cuz I'm singing old songs

You were a promise of heaven and a flicker of light
Oh, where's the light tonight, I'm singing old songs

You're not a bad ghost, just an old song
Good love gone wrong
Something knocking on my funny bone
You were right for the moment, but not for life
But you'd be nice tonight 'cuz I'm singing old songs
Oh, where are you tonight 'cuz I'm singing old songs
Oh, where are you tonight 'cuz I'm singing old songs
Oh, where are you tonight 'cuz I'm singing old songs


RECORD MACHINE

Someday I'll be an old record
A picture of what once had been
Someday I'll be an old song
That they heard in a dream or a record machine

Someday I'll be a old fashion
With ideas as dated as yours
Someday they'll laugh at our hair and the clothes that we wore
Like we've all laughed before

Someday I'll be an old record
A picture of what once had been
Someday I'll be an old song
That they heard in a dream or a record machine
Or a record machine
Or a record machine...


EYES OF MAN

I was up early one morning
When I lived alone in the dunes
As I remember it wasn't quite dawn
And I could still see the full moon
My senses told me that out in the silence
I might see or hear or feel the unknown
But the sun was faster than I was
The magic had set and was all but gone

Oh Lord, let me see something never seen before
By the eyes of man, lord
I want to see something never seen before
By the eyes of man
I think I saw a long time ago
Will I ever see again?
People saw a long time ago
Will they ever see, Oh Lord?

Repeat Chorus


STARS UP THERE

There should be stars up there
With you down here next to me
Where you used to be
Now the sky is dark tonight
There's no one by my side
There should be stars up there
With you down here next to me
Where you used to be
Now the sky is dark tonight
Hey Mister got a light
There should be stars up there
Stars up there


DON'T THINK TWICE, IT'S ALL RIGHT

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why Babe
It don't matter any how
Ain't no use to sit and wonder why Babe
If you don't know by now
When the rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
Well, you're the reason I'm travelin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right

Ain't no use in turnin' on your light Babe
Like I never knowed
Ain't no use in turnin' on your light Babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was somethin' you could do or say
Something to make me change my mind and stay
Well, we never did too much talkin' anyway
Don't think twice, it's all right

I'm going down this long lonesome road Babe
I'm bound for I can't tell
Good-bye's just another word Babe
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' that you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted all my precious time
Don't think twice, it's all right

Ain't no use in callin' out my name Babe
Like you never done before
Ain't no use in callin' out my name Babe
I can't hear you anymore
Well, I'm thinkin' an' I'm wonderin' the way down the road
I once loved a good man a child I'm told
Well, I gave him my heart but he wanted my soul
Don't think twice
Don't think twice, it's all...
Don't think twice, it's all right

Still I wish there was somethin' you could do or say
Something to make me change my mind and stay
Well, we never did too much talkin' anyway
Don't think twice, it's all right


SWEET MISERY

I love to sing, I love my life
I love you so much I could love your wife
And I've been told I'm a crazy fool
Just as crazy as I look to you
That's as useless as the things that we do
For the sake of sanity, you gotta save the fool

I love the rain, I love the sun
I love my misery and I love my fun
And I've been told I'm a ranting fool
Just as crazy as I look to you
That's as useless as the things that we do
Oh Lord above do you love the fool

I love to laugh, I love to cry
I love living so much I would love to die
And I've been told I'm a ranting fool
Just as crazy as I look to you
That's as useless as the things that we do
Oh Lord above do you love the fool

I love to sing, I love my life
I love you so much I could love your wife
And I've been told I'm a crazy fool
Just as crazy as I look to you
That's as useless as the things that we do
Oh Lord above, you gotta save the fool

I love to sing, I love my life
I love you so much I could love your wife
And I've been told I'm a ranting fool


MONONGAHELA RIVER

Some get put in prison
Others put themselves in one
Pittsburgh, you're the living proof

Some kill themselves living
Others get killed for trying, trying hard
They kill the ones who break the rule

Row me down, row me down
Monongahela River
Water down the city's gloom

Oh the lamplight is frozen
On windows and Sundays
So we never see the darkest room

But the heartfire is burning
And I keep praying one day
We will see the light of truth

Row me down, row me down
Monongahela River
Water down the city's gloom

Row your boat to the shore
Monongahela River
Isn't water anymore

Some get put in prison
Other put themselves in one
Pittsburgh, you're the living proof


YES SIR, THAT'S MY BABY

Yes sir, that's my baby
No sir, I don't mean maybe
Yes sir, that's my baby now

Yes sir, that's my baby
No sir, I don't mean maybe
Yes sir, that's my baby now

By the way, by the way
When we reach the preacher
I'll say with feeling

Yes sir, that's my baby
No sir, I don't mean maybe
Yes sir, that's my baby now

etc.


AUTUMN LADY

Autumn flower rhyme filtered through my mind
But I wouldn't begin to explain without help from a song
And the moon and the sun
Sometimes the wind that blows through life
Can stir up the darkness and pain, oh
I've been blown to the right and the left of the light
It's the wind but I still feel to blame

The Autumn Lady is laying now on a mountain of feathers and down, oh
She spent all her nights under raspberry lights,
And her days, wrote her days into songs
Why has the maple gone brown on me
Has the falling already begun
I lay in the grass in the fields of the past
Since you're gone with the moon and the sun


CHART SONG (for Leilah)

Well your chart says you're restless
With a long way to go
If your last life was easy
We may never know
How I wish you a life without the fear of pain
And welcome to the world
You have been born again

Don't fear the change

Well I've looked for the meaning
And I've looked through clear light
And I pray you find the grace to stay asleep at night
How I wish you a life without the fear of pain
And life is so much harder
When you fear the change

Don't fear the change

Well your chart says you're restless
With a long way to go
If your last life was easy
We may never know
How I wish you a life without the fear of pain
And life is so much harder
When you fear the change

Don't fear the change


AS I SEE IT NOW

As I see it now
We have all got to change
Keeping us whole is the main thing
But me, I just sing
Sometimes out of my range
Reaching for notes in my dreams

Let's dream together for the ride
It's not forever just tonight
My visions in sound
Delivered my sorrows to you and you found me
So let's dream together for the ride
Let's dream together for the ride
Let's dream together for the ride
Let's dream together for the ride

As I see it now
The world's got to change
Keeping it whole is the main thing
But me, I just sing
Sometimes out of my range
Reaching for notes in my dreams

Let's dream together for the ride
It's not forever just tonight
My visions in sound
Delivered my sorrows to you and you found me
So let's dream together for the ride
Let's dream together for the ride
Let's dream together for the ride
Let's dream together for the ride...