INTRODUCTION


BABY GUITAR 
 
Have you heard the word 
Our friend is gonna be a star 
She's gonna get the chauffer 
And she's gonna get the car 
And she's gonna get the love 
Of the people at the bar 
And she's gonna give birth 
To a baby guitar 
 
Now rumor says our good friend 
Has done some carryin' on 
And rumor says in public 
She makes love to all her songs 
In front of the frustration 
Of the people at the bar 
She's got the nerve to mess around 
With her guitar 
 
Oh, it was sad 
To see the breakdown 
Of the princess' fallin' star 
One day when she was doin' 
All the people at the bar 
She did a little don't, yeah
And the pulled her head apart 
And neatly tuck'd away inside 
Her eyelid was her heart 
Then they look'd at one another 
And said we knew it 
There you are, oh
A nameless illegitimate baby guitar 
 
Now a loving loyal friend 
Took the off-spring as his own 
And accordin' to it's birthright 
He built it a throne 
And now just like his mommy 
He does the people at the bar 
And they look at one another 
And say he's gonna be a star 
Rememb'rin' well the mother 
Of the baby guitar


LAY YOUR HANDS ACROSS THE SIX STRINGS

Lay my hands across the six strings,
Trying to play the feelings
Gonna try to lay it down
Gonna try to lay it down
Put your hand upon my shoulder
I'm crying because it's over
And I know that I let you down

I got a funny feeling
When we saw the roadsign
Cuz after all it's your stay
It isn't mine
Well, you know I closed up my gate, baby
But somehow you got through
I learned a whole lot about me today
When I thought about you

Gonna lay my hands across the six strings
Wonder why my feelings have come to let me down
They come to let me down
Put your hand upon my shoulder
I'm crying because it's over
And I know that I let you down

I'm closer that ever
To be(??) on my own
Closer to heaven
And I'm farther from home
And I'm thinking sixty miles an hour, yeah
In a thirty mile zone

Wanna lay may hands across the six strings
I'm trying to play the feelings
Gonna try to lay it down
Oh, put your hand upon my shoulder
I'm crying because it's over
And I know that I let you down

Not til my second cup of coffee
Do I realise it's all done, ta da
And I put the long picture
Inside a short song
Now with all the rings around my fingers, yeah
And I still feel alone

Wanna lay may hands across the six strings
I'm trying to play the feelings
Wanna try to lay it down
I'm gonna try
Please, put your hand upon my shoulder
I'm crying because it's over
And I know that I let you down
I know that I let you down


PRETTY BOY FLOYD

Come gather 'round me children, there's a story I will tell
About Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well
It was in the town of Shawnee on a Saturday afternoon
His wife beside him in the wagon, and into town they rode

The deputy sheriff approached them in a manner rather rude
Using vulgar words of language, and his wife she overheard
Now, Pretty Boy grabbed a long chain and the sheriff he grabbed a gun
And in the fight that followed, he laid the deputy down

He took to the trees and rivers, oh he's gonna lead a life of shame
And every crime in Oklahoma was added to his name
In Oklahoma city it was on a Christmas day
Came a whole carload of groceries and a letter that did say

"Well you say that I'm a gambler and you say that I'm a thief
Well, here's a Christmas dinner, for the children on relief"
As through the world I ramble, well as through the world I roam
I ain't never seen an outlaw drive a family from their home

As through the world I rambled, I've seen some funny men
Some are gonna rob you with a six-gun, some will do it with a fountain pen
Some are gonna rob you with a six-gun, some will do it with a fountain pen


SOME DAY I'LL BE A FARMER 
 
Someday I'll be a farmer, working the land 
I wish I was a farmer, to work with my hands 
'Cause it's been too long a ride, too high the fare 
Well, I built an-climbed a mountain 
But it wasn't there 
And I been lookin' all around looked everywhere 
Well, I built and climbed a mountain 
But it wasn't there 
It isn't there, dum ta dum 
It isn't here, it isn't there, nor anywhere 
 
I'm gonna pick an apple right from the tree 
I'm gonna eat the apple 'cause it grew there for me 
And it's been to long a ride, too high the fare 
Well, I built an-climbed a mountain 
But it wasn't there 
And I been lookin' all around, looked everywhere 
To build and climb a mountain if it isn't there 
It isn't there, dum ta dum 
It isn't here, it isn't there, nor anywhere 
 
I wish I was a farmer, working the land 
Some day I'll be a farmer to work with my hands 
'Cause, it's been too long a ride, too high the fare 
You know I built and climbed a mountain 
But it wasn't there 
And I been lookin' all around, looked everywhere 
Well, I built an-climbed a mountain, but it wasn't there 
And I been lookin' all around, looked everywhere 
To build and climb a mountain if it isn't there 
It isn't there, dum ta dum 
It isn't here, it isn't there, nor anywhere 
 
I wish I was a farmer, working the land 
Some day I'll be a farmer to work with my hands 
Hah da da ti da ti dum dum ti dum da da da dum


BABE RAINBOW 
 
Babe rainbow 
Keep your glow on 
There's a show on you know 
And they're all gonna be there 
Put the gleam in your eyes 
And do somethin' to your hair 
Keep your glow on 
 
Babe rainbow 
Keep your glow on 
Though your hand has 
Been held away too long, 
You're afraid to walk 
The streets alone 
Keep your glow on 
Babe rainbow oh - 
You gotta go on 
 
It must be hard lookin' up at the sun 
When you know in your heart 
You might never be warm 
I know it's hard lookin' up at the sun 
When you know deep inside 
You might never be warm 
 
Babe rainbow 
Dancin' to a slow dance 
At a memory affair 
When all the boys were there 
Keep the gleam in your eyes 
And don't let 'em know 
You care 
Keep your glow on 
Babe Rainbow - 
You gotta go on


IT'S ME AGAIN

(Thank you)

Haven't acted like a lady
Since my mother told me that I
Should sit with my knees together
I think I've been duped, ta da da da, hmmmm
Have I been used?
Get me back to a street where I can stay
Get me back on my knees, I need to pray
Need to pray

And it's me again, frozen in moments
In a city trapped, the light
And in the light sometimes, it's me again
Why look around, when you've seen it?
And it's me again, why turn it down
When you need it?
And it's me again, covered in morning
In a daytime, dealing in night
And in the night, sometimes it's me again
Why look around, when you've seen it?
And it's me again, why turn it down
When you need it?
And it's me again.

Haven't acted like a lady
Since my mother told me that I
Should sit with my knees together
I think I've been duped, ta da da da, hmmmm
Have I been used?
Get me back to a street where I can stay
Get me back on my knees, I need to pray


ANY GUY 
 
I was bored 
I would not compromise 
Wanted more 
So I looked in your eyes 
But it could have been any guy's 
It could have been any guy's eyes 
But your eyes were there 
And they started to stare 
But don't think that I care - No. 
 
Now you got 
The feeling you're great 
Cause we shared 
A few looks 
And I made one mistake 
But it could have been any one 
I was looking for that kind of fun 
And you were right there 
In love, all is fair 
But don't think that I care 
 
Now you got 
A new friend I know 
So I'm packing my things 
And I'm going to go 
Please don't make a scene 
Don't cry 
You can't stop me if you try 
I love being free 
It's the best way to be 
Is she as pretty as me, huh?? (3x) 
Is she as pretty as me, huh-huh? 
Is she as pretty as me, huh.


BRAND NEW KEY 
 
I rode my bicycle past your window last night 
I roller-skated to your door at daylight 
It almost seems like you're avoiding me 
I'm okay alone, but you got something I need 
 
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates 
You got a brand new key 
I think that we should get together and try them out you see 
 
I been looking around awhile 
You got something for me 
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates 
You got a brand new key 
 
I ride my bike, I roller skate don't drive no care 
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far 
For somebody who don't drive 
I been all around the world 
Some people say, I done all right for a girl 
 
Oh, yea yea, oh, yea yea yea, oh yea yea yea   yea yea yea
 
I asked your mother if you were at home 
She said yes but you weren't alone 
Oh, sometimes I think that you're avoiding me 
I'm okay alone, but you got something I need 
 
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates 
You got a brand new key 
I think that we should get together and try them out to see 
La la la la la la la la, la la la la la la
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates 
You got a brand new key


SOME SAY (I GOT DEVIL) 
 
Some say I got devil 
Some say I got angel 
But I'm just a girl in trouble 
I don't think I'm in danger 
Don't think I'm in danger 
No, I know I'm not in danger 
But some have tried to sell me 
All kinds of things to save me 
From hurting like a woman, and crying like a baby 
Something like a woman, crying like a baby 
 
And all the things that I have seen 
Qualify me for a part in your dream 
Qualify me for this dream 
 
And though I'd like to tell it 
Exactly how I feel it 
Somehow the music 
Hides it and conceals it 
Hides it and conceals it 
Oh, it hides 
 
And all the things that I have seen
Can be hidden in a part of my dream
Gonna hide it in my dream
 
Some say I've got devil
Some say I got angel 
But I'm just this girl in trouble 
I don't think I'm in danger 
No I'm not in danger 
No, I know I'm not in danger


BITTER BAD

It's bitter bad, heartsick sad
When the one that you love has lost the feel for you
If you do me wrong
I'll put your first and last name in my rock'n'roll song

It's bitter bad, he's got the nerve to get mad
When it's he who lost the feel for you

Oh what a life, what a mean low down world
You've been doing my stuff with another girl
You've been smoking my stuff with another girl

It's bitter bad, he's got the nerve to get mad
When it's he who lost the feel for you

Oh what a life, what a mean low down world
You've been doing my stuff with another girl
You've been doing my stuff with another girl

If you do me wrong
I'll put your first and last name in my rock'n'roll song
It's bitter bad, heartsick sad
When the one that you love has lost the feel for you
When the one that you love has lost the feel for you
When the one that you love don't love you anymore
When the one that you love has lost the feel for you


PSYCHOTHERAPY

Oh mine eyes have seen the glory of the theories of Freud,
He has taught me all the evils that my ego must avoid.
Repression of the impulses resuling paranoid
As the id goes marching on.
Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,
Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on

There was a man who thought his friends to him were all superior
And this complex he imagined made life drearier and drearier
Till his analyst assured him that he really was inferior
As the id goes marching on.
Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,
Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on

Do you drown your superego in a flood of alcohol - or something else -
And go running after women till you're just about to fall.
You may think you're having fun but you're not having fun at all
As the id goes marching on.
Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,
Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on

Oh sad is the masochism, the vagaries of sex
Have turned half the population into total nervous wrecks.
But your analyst will cure you, long as you can pay the cheques
As the id goes marching on.
Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,
Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on

Is your body plagued by aches and pains that you can't understand
Compound fractures ingrown toenails, floating kidneys, trembling hands,
There's a secret to your trouble: you're in love with your old man
As the id goes marching on.
Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,
Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on

Freud's mystic world of meaning needn't have us mystified
It's really very simple what the psyche tries to hide:
A thing is a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide
As the id goes marching on.
Glory glory psychotherapy, glory glory sexuality,
Glory glory now we can be free as the id goes marching on


TOGETHER ALONE 
 
We'll grow old, we'll take care of each other 
I'll be your sister, your mother, your lover 
We'll be friends during changes of weather 
Let's be together on our own 
Let's be together alone 
 
We're believers, we've been hurt by believing 
Needing people, we know looking's not seeing 
I see needs that might be answered by forever 
Together on our own 
Let's be together alone 
 
We'll learn living, like the words of a good song 
We'll learn timing, balance and rhythm 
We'll make it music 
I don't want to sing it on my own 
Let's be together, let's be together alone 
 
Let's be together alone 
Repeat 
 
We'll grow old, we'll take care of each other 
I'll be sister, mother and lover 
We'll be friends 
I'm tired of singing it alone 
Let's be together alone


BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE 
 
Beautiful people 
You live in the same world as I do 
But somehow I never noticed 
You before today 
I'm ashamed to say 
 
Beautiful people 
We share the same back door 
And it isn't right 
We never met before 
But then 
We may never meet again 
If I weren't afraid you'd laugh at me 
I would run and take all your hands 
And I'd gather everyone together for a day 
And when we gather'd 
I'll pass buttons out that say 
Beautiful people 
Then you'd never have to be alone 
'Cause there'll always be someone 
With the same button on as you 
Include him in everything you do. 
 
Beautiful people 
You ride the same subway 
As I do ev'ry morning 
That's got to tell you something 
We've got so much in common 
I go the same direction that you do 
So if you take care of me 
Maybe I'll take care of you 
 
Beautiful people 
You look like friends of mine 
And it's about time 
That someone said it here and now 
I make a vow that some time, somehow 
I'll have a meeting 
Invite ev'ryone you know 
I'll pass out buttons to 
The ones who come to show 
Beautiful people 
Never have to be alone 
'Cause there'll always be someone 
With the same button on as you 
Include him in ev'rything you do 
He may be sitting right next to you 
He may be beautiful people too 
And if you take care of him 
Maybe I'll take care of you 
And if you take care of him 
Maybe I'll take care of you...


HEARING THE NEWS

Hearing the news ain't like being there
Nothin's like feeling it
When it's happening to you
Don't you know that hearing the news
Makes it easier, nothing is real
Unless it's happening to you

Don't you know that hearing the news
Ain't like being there
Nothin's like feeling it
When it's happening to you
Don't you know that hearing the news
Makes it easier, nothing is real
Unless it's happening to you

And because we don't know
We're trying to understand
Because we don't know
We hurt our fellow man
An' because we don't know
We're fitting in the plan
Everybody's hurting
There's a hurt in the land
Don't you know, don't you know

Nothin's like feeling it
When it's happening to you
Don't you know that hearing the news
Makes it easier, nothing is real
Unless it's happening to you

And because we don't know
We're trying to understand
Because we don't know
We hurt our fellow man
An' because we don't know
We're fitting in the plan
Everybody's hurting
There's a hurt in the land

There are people who are living
On the death in the land, oh no
Nothin's like feeling it
When it's happening to you
Don't you know that hearing the news
Makes it easier, nothing is real
Unless it's happening to you


SEASONS TO CHANGE

He is the farmer
I'll eat what he grows
He knows what it is going down
He knows what he sees
And he sees what he knows
And I know where we'll be when he's gone

Nowhere, sitting on nothing
Of our own creation
Waiting for seasons to change
Nowhere, sitting on nothing
Of our own creation
Waiting for seasons to change
Waiting for seasons to change


PEACE WILL COME (according to plan)
 
There's a chance peace will come in your life please buy one 
  
For sometimes when I am feeling as big as the land 
With the velvet hill in the small of my back 
And my hands are playing the sand 
 
And my feet are swimming in all of the waters 
All of the rivers are givers to the ocean 
According to plan, according to man 
 
Well sometimes when I am feeling so grand 
And I become the world 
And the world becomes a man 
 
And my song becomes a part of the river 
I cry out to keep me just the way I am 
According to plan 
 
According to man, according to plan 
According to man, according to plan 
 
For sometimes when we have reached the end 
With the velvet hill in the small of my backs 
And our hands are clutching the sand 
 
Will our blood become a part of the river 
All of the rivers are givers to the ocean 
According to plan, according to man 
 
There's a chance peace will come 
In your life please buy one


MY RAINBOW RACE 
 
One blue sky above us, 
One ocean, lapping all our shores. 
One earth so green and round, 
Who could ask for more? 
 
And because I love you 
I'll give it one more try 
To show my rainbow race 
It's too soon to die. 
 
Some folks want to be like an ostrich; 
Bury their heads in the sand 
Some hope for plastic dreams 
To unclench all those greedy hands. 
 
Some want to take the easy way: 
Poisons, bombs! They think we need 'em. 
Don't they know you can't kill all the unbelievers. 
There's no shortcut to freedom 
 
One blue sky above us, 
One ocean, lapping all our shores. 
One earth so green and round, 
Who could ask for more? 
 
And because I love you 
I'll give it one more try. 
To show my rainbow race 
It's too soon to die. 
 
Go tell, go tell all the little children! 
Go tell mothers and fathers, too: 
Now's our last chance to learn to share 
What's been given to me and you 
 
One blue sky above us, 
One ocean, lapping all our shores. 
One earth so green and round, 
Who could ask for more?


POET 
 
I am not a poet, living is the poem 
I am not a singer, I am in the song 
And I've got a story that I cannot write down 
And I'm with you but I'll always be alone 
I may not be right, but I don't think I am wrong 
 
Every note's an answer, every word's a sign 
Every man's a dancer, following his own time 
I've found a tearful language that translates what I am 
And I cried out loud, but they didn't understand 
I cried so hard I may never try again 
I may never try, I may never try again 
 
Cleansing in the water, heal me in the light 
Mend you ageless daughter, I've been awake all night 
'Cause if your sands are shifting, I'll need to know what I forgot 
I don't want much, but I need an awful lot 
 
I've found a tearful language that translates what I am 
And I cried out loud, but you didn't understand 
I cried so hard I may never try again 
I may never try, I may never die again 
 
I may never cry again 
I may never try again 
I may never die again


RING THE LIVING BELL 
 
     SHINE THE LIVING LIGHT (Chant) 
      
     Ring the living bell 
     Ring the living bell 
     Shine the living light 
     Shine the living light 
     Ring the living bell 
     Ring the living bell 
      
     RING THE LIVING BELL 
      
     Been celebrating 'way too long 
     'n' I've been drinkin', I'm ashamed to tell 
     Still feel thirsty 
     God I want to drink the water from the well 
     Still feel thirsty 
     God I want to drink and ring the living bell 
     Ring the bell, ah 
     Ring the living bell 
     Still feel thirsty 
     God, I want to give and ring the living bell 
      
     I'm not a magic lady 
     But I want to sing to help the light 
     Descend on the earth today 
     Because it's gonna get dark tonight 
     Sing the light, ah 
     Sing the living light 
     Still feel weak, but God, 
     I want to give and shine the living light 
     Still feel weak, but God, 
     I want to give and shine the living light 
 
     Been walking down the street all night 
     'n' I been feeling kinda cold
     Still feel naked
     God I wanna be warm before I get old and I'm cold
     Ah, an' I'm feeling cold 
     Still feel hungry 
     God I want to give and ring the living bell 
     Still feel hungry 
     God I want to live and ring the living bell 
 
     Been celebrating 'way too long 'n' I have eaten much too well 
     Still feel hungry 
     God I want to give and ring the living bell 
     Ring the bell, ah 
     Ring the living bell 
     Still feel hungry 
     God I want to give and ring the living bell 
     Still feel hungry 
     God I want to give and ring the living bell 
     Still feel hungry 
     God I want to give and ring the living bell 
     Ring the living bell 
 
     SHINE THE LIVING LIGHT (Reprise) 
 
     Ring the living bell, ring the living bell 
     Shine the living light, shine the living light 
     Ring the living bell, ring the living bell 
     Shine the living light, shine the living light 
     Ring the living bell, ring the living bell 
     Shine the living light, shine the living light 
     Ring the living bell, ring the living bell 
     Shine the living light, shine the living light 
     Ring the living bell, shine the living light
     Shine the living light, shine the living light 
     Ring the living bell, ring the living bell 
     Shine the living light, shine the living light 


ACTRESS

You see she is the actress who plays the part of snow
And when they ask her to play Jesus ah she turned down the role
And when they ask her to play sunlight she'll give it a try
And when they ask her to play music she'll sing till she dies
Well she wouldn't die of pleasure, she wouldn't die from pain
She wouldn't die of starshine and she'll forgive the rain
And some say she whiles away her life in the lights that change her
She will not live for friends she'll die of strangers
She will not live for friends she's gonna die of strangers

And all her young men told her they liked the songs they heard
They loved the melodies but they didn't understand the words
And some say she whiles away her life in the lights that change her
She will not live for friends she's gonna die of strangers
She wouldn't live for friends she'll die of strangers

*Won't you lay down children won't you lay and take you rest
Won't you lay your head on you dear Savior's breast
Will I love you but Jesus loves you best
And I bid you good night, good night, good night
And I bid you good night, good night, good night, good night, good night
They're gonna eat up all the children when they wouldn't be good
Good night, good night, good night

You see she was the actress who played the part of snow
And when they ask her to play Jesus ah she turned down the role
And when they ask her to play sunlight she gave it a try
And when they ask her to play music her own sweet music
Well they asked her to play music and she sang till she died

Well I love you but Jesus loves you the best
And I bid you good night, good night, good night