If your mem'ry serves you well,
We were goin' to meet again and wait,
So I'm goin' to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late.
No man alive will comfort you
With another tale to tell,
But you know that we shall meet again
If your mem'ry serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road,
Best notify my next of kin,
This wheel shall explode!

If your mem'ry serves you well,
I was goin' to confiscate your lace,
And wrap it up in a sailor's knot
And hide it in your case.
If I knew for sure that it was yours . . .
But it was oh so hard to tell.
But you knew that we would meet again,
If your mem'ry serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road,
Best notify my next of kin,
This wheel shall explode!

If your mem'ry serves you well,
You'll remember you're the one
That called on me to call on them
To get you your favors done.
And after ev'ry plan had failed
And there was nothing more to tell,
You knew that we would meet again,
If your mem'ry served you well.
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road,
Best notify my next of kin,
This wheel shall explode!

Well I had an old dog and his name was Blue
Yes I had an old dog and his name was Blue
Well I had an old dog and his name was Blue
I bet you five dollars he?s a good dog too

Old Blue chased a possum up a holler limb
Blue chased a possum up a holler limb
Blue chased a possum up a holler limb
The possum growled, Blue whined at him

Bye Bye Blue, you good dog you
Bye Bye Blue, you good dog you

When old Blue died he died so hard
He shook the ground in my back yard
We lowered him down with a golden chain
and every link we called his name

My old Blue was a good old hound
You?d hear him holler miles around
When I get to heaven first thing I?ll do
is grab my horn and call for Blue

It?s the humming of the engines of the greyhound bus and trains
that keeps your memory on my mind and here with me
Many miles have come between us, cold nights on some roadside
Bringin? back your gentle ways of loving me

It?s the thought of how you loved me, how you treat me, how you thrill me
that clears my fogged mind to where I see
Some little girl as I walk by just looking at me sadly
bringin? back your gentle ways of loving me

It?s just your gentle way of loving me
It?s just your gentle way of loving me

It?s your hapiness I?ve never found with other loves that bothers
and a mother saying how her child loves me
And times you never talked about those late evening hours
Bringin? back your gentle ways of loving me

Love for anyone who needs her
Innocence is all that feeds her
Rollin? through the mist
Floating in a sea of madness
Reaching for the heights of gladness
or did she exist
Swirling ions from the stars streaming down on to the earth
from a galaxy like ours manifested in her birth
Child of the universe giving freely of herself
Purity of truth rehearse leaving men her cosmic well

Love for anyone.......exist.
Vision of an untouched grace walkin? gaily through the sun
No one else could take her place nor the work that she?d begun

Love for anyone who needs her
Innocence is all that feeds her
Rollin? through the myth
Knowing what is understanding
Patience that is undemanding
or did she exist
or did she exist

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Well, he's got him a house on the hill
He plays country records till you've had your fill
He's a fireman's friend he's an all night DJ
But he sure don't think much of the records he plays

He's a drug store truck drivin' man
He's the head of the Ku Klux Klan
When summer rolls around
He'll be lucky if he's not in town

Well, he don't like the young folks I know
He told me one night on his radio show
He's got him a medal he won in the War
It weighs five-hundred pounds and it sleeps on his floor

He's been like a father to me
He's the only DJ you can hear after three
I'm an all night musician in a rock and roll band
And why he don't like me I can't understand

He's a drug store truck drivin' man
He's the head of the Ku Klux Klan
When summer rolls around
He'll be lucky if he's not in town

Grease collecting stained-glass rubies
Pillowed gently on a strand
Bearing looks of frenzied blankness
Slowing down their freebie king

Middleclass suburban children
wearing costumes that reveal
Blindly follow recent pipers
with their mystical appeal
go now

So I?m leavin? for the country to try and rest my head
Cause if I hang around this scene too long you know babe I?ll be dead

Color changes superficial
Apathy still a king
Liberal reactonaries
never feeling anything
go now

Driftin? in school daddy?s a fool
We know someone?s on your mind
Women in space lovin? in lace
turnin? couplets into time and space
Meet the man who needs you now
Can you give your love away like candy?

Down on your knees trimmin? the trees
Can you imagine what it?s like
Love is lament, general decent
Doctor?s orders are unkind and bad
Meet the man...

The river found merry-go-round
spinning innocence and dreams
Can you believe what you perceive
Love is never what it seems to be
Meet the man....

Pushed me off the street today
The lamp light gets in the way
On the darkness you pushed me in
You say that it?s a sin we?re hangin? around

You told me not to sing today
You say my music gets in the way
Cause he walks on in just as you begin
Bringin? my soul brothers down

And although you?re smiling
your hate will not cease
So just face yourself babe
and leave my soul in peace

Well I?ll stay out of your way
if you keep out of mine
Find the good lookin? people go
Oh you know we?ll both go down in time

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Throwin' high and mighty traps
Countless fire and flaming road
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic flanks of musketeers
Foundation deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now

My guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.


Instrumental


You got me runnin?, you got me hidin?
You got me run hide, hide run
anyway you want baby, oh yeah yeah yeah
You got me doin? what you want me
baby what you want me to do

I?m goin? up, I?m goin? down
I?m goin? up down, down up
anyway you want......

You got me seekin? ,you got me hidin?
You got me seek hide, hide seek
anyway you want...

Upon my face I feel the sun
I see the children play and run
I hope they'll always stay that way
As tomorrow turns to yesterday
The trees are bending with the wind
The evening sky begins to dim
I see a man who walks alone
The warmth of love he has not known

SOLO

So come my friend and let's be one
Forget your fears let them be done
It's all one world in which we live
So understand and try to give

SOLO

So come my friend and let's be one
Forget your fears let them be done
It's all one world in which we live
So understand and try to give
It's all one world in which we live
So understand and try to give

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead

If your mem'ry serves you well,
We were goin' to meet again and wait,
So I'm goin' to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late.
No man alive will comfort you
With another tale to tell,
But you know that we shall meet again
If your mem'ry serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road,
Best notify my next of kin,
This wheel shall explode!

If your mem'ry serves you well,
I was goin' to confiscate your lace,
And wrap it up in a sailor's knot
And hide it in your case.
If I knew for sure that it was yours . . .
But it was oh so hard to tell.
But you knew that we would meet again,
If your mem'ry serves you well.
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road,
Best notify my next of kin,
This wheel shall explode!

If your mem'ry serves you well,
You'll remember you're the one
That called on me to call on them
To get you your favors done.
And after ev'ry plan had failed
And there was nothing more to tell,
You knew that we would meet again,
If your mem'ry served you well.
This wheel's on fire,
Rolling down the road,
Best notify my next of kin,
This wheel shall explode!

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Throwin' high and mighty traps
Countless fire and flaming road
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic flanks of musketeers
Foundation deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now

My guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.


Instrumental


You got me runnin?, you got me hidin?
You got me run hide, hide run
anyway you want baby, oh yeah yeah yeah
You got me doin? what you want me
baby what you want me to do

I?m goin? up, I?m goin? down
I?m goin? up down, down up
anyway you want......

You got me seekin? ,you got me hidin?
You got me seek hide, hide seek
anyway you want...

Instrumental