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[Soron]

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Thank you for the song, beautiful...


Crash Into Me ~ Dave Matthews Band

You've got your ball
you've got your chain
Tied to me tight tie me up again
Who's got their claws
in you my friend
Into your heart I'll beat again
Sweet like candy to my soul
Sweet you rock
and sweet you roll
Lost for you I'm so lost for you
You come crash into me
And I come into you,
I come into you
In a boys dream
In a boys dream


Touch your lips just so I know
In your eyes, love, it glows so
I'm bare-boned and crazy for you
When you come crash
into me, baby
And I come into you
In a boys dream
In a boys dream
If I've gone overboard
Then I'm begging you
to forgive me
In my haste
When I'm holding you so girl...
close to me


Oh and you come crash
into me, baby
And I come into you
Hike up your skirt a little more
and show the world to me
Hike up your skirt a little more
and show your world to me
In a boys dream... In a boys dream


Oh I watch you there
through the window
And I stare at you
You wear nothing but you
wear it so well
Tied up and twisted,
the way I'd like to be
For you, for me, come crash
into me

 

[H'venlee]

These Days: Rascal Flatts

Written by Steve Robson, Jeffrey Steele and Danny Wells.


Hey baby, is that you? Wow, your hair got so long!
Yeah, yeah, I love it, I really do.
Norma Jean ain't song we'd sing in the car driving down town.
Top down, makin' the rounds, checkin' out the bands on Doheny Avenue.
Yeah, life throws you curves but you learn to swerve.
Me, I swung and I missed, and the next thing you know,
I'm reminiscing missin': dreamin' on dreams, wishin' on wishes.
Like you would be back again.
I wake up and teardrops, they fall down like rain.
I put on that old song, we danced to, and then,
I head off to my job: guess not much has changed.
Punch the card, head for home, check the 'phone, just in case.
Go to bed, dream of you:
That's what I'm doin' these days.
Yeah, that's what I'm doin'.

Someone told me, after college, you ran off to Vegas.
You married a rodeo cowboy, why, that ain't the girl I knew.
Me, I've been a few places, mostly here and there one or twice.
Still sortin' out life but I'm doin' all right,
Yeah, it's good to see you too.
Well, hey girl, you're late, and those planes, they don't wait.
But if you ever come back around this sleepy old town,
Promise me, you'll stop in to see an old friend, and until then:

I wake up and teardrops, they fall down like rain.
I put on that old song, we danced to, and then,
I head off to my job: guess not much has changed.
Punch the card, head for home, check the 'phone, just in case.
Go to bed, dream of you:
That's what I'm doin' these........

I wake up and teardrops, they fall down like rain.
I put on that old song, we danced to, and then:

 

[H'venlee]

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[Soron]

Happy Thanksgiving yall

I know I'll leave somebody out of this post and I apologize. I want to wish all the good people I know a Happy Thanksgiving. And, especially...

redelicious
kayte
Lee
Scribbler
psyche
sweet mo

and my sweet best friend...
Arden




NORTH COUNTRY GIRL
(Pete Townshend)

When you travel to the green hills of Ayr
Where the sea breaks windows on the border line.
Remember me to a girl who lives there
For she once was a true love of mine.

Please see for me that her red hair is long
And flows and curls down to her back and breast.
Please see for me that her red hair is long
For that's the way I remember her best
North Country girl..........

See that she's warm when the summer ends
When trees are bare and the rivers freeze
She washes her clothes where the river bends
She's working on her knees

See for me that her coat's pulled up close,
And her beret frames her sweet pretty face.
See that she's warm and drink her a toast
For I am exiled in a lonely place.

Please let me know if she remembers me at all,
A hundred times I've hoped and prayed
That way up there near the Roman wall
She didn't suffer when the fall sprayed.

North Country girl.

 

[H'venlee]

Till Nothing Comes Between Us:
John Michael Montgomery

Written by Kerri Singletary, Rebecca Marshall and Tony Stratton Marty.


Close your eyes, can you see me?
Rollin' down the Rocky Mountains,
Movin' like the wind that sweeps the Kansas plains.
I know you're with me,
As I make my way through Oklahoma,
Past the barns and weather vanes.
There are motels, cafes, bills and billboard signs.
A thousand miles of highway,
Between your heart and mine.

There will fin'lly come a moment,
When one man, and one woman,
Give ev'rything that they've been waiting for.
Oh.
I'll take you in my arms again.
Feel your skin against my skin.
An' let the sheet fall slowly to the floor.
'Til nothin' comes between us anymore.

In my soul, I can feel you,
As I cross the Mississippi,
You're the river flowin' in me comin' home.
I count each heartbeat,
'Til the moment we're together,
An' the distance can't be measured.
That's all that keeps me goin'
When I'm gone.

There will fin'lly come a moment,
When one man, and one woman,
Give ev'rything that they've been waiting for.
I'll take you in my arms again.
I'll Feel your skin against my skin.
An' let the sheet fall slowly to the floor.
'Til nothin' comes between us anymore.


There will fin'lly come a moment,
When one man, and one woman,
Give ev'rything that they've been waiting for.
I'll take you in my arms again.
Feel your skin against my skin.
An' let the sheet fall slowly to the floor.
'Til nothin' comes between us anymore.

 

[Arden]

Re: Happy Thanksgiving yall

I know I'll leave somebody out of this post and I apologize. I want to wish all the good people I know a Happy Thanksgiving. And, especially...

redelicious
kayte
Lee
Scribbler
psyche
sweet mo

and my sweet best friend...
Arden

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
to all!

 

[H'venlee]

Soron- Hope your day was wonderfully spent with those you love & love you.

Sending you warm hugs...until I can give you a real one again!
{{{{{Soron}}}}}

 

[Soron]

{{{{{{{{{{ Lee }}}}}}}}}}

I hope you and KR had some quality time together as well, darlin'

Girl Of The North Country
(Bob Dylan)

Well, if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howlin' winds.

Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
That's the way I remember her best.

I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all.
Many times I've often prayed
In the darkness of my night,
In the brightness of my day.

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

 

[kayte]

Soron ~ Warm hugs to you. Hope your Thanksgiving was as warm and wonderful as mine was.

 

[Soron]

Thank you sweet kayte...had a great holiday




Turn, Turn, Turn ~ The Byrds
Words-adapted from The Bible, book of Ecclesiastes
Music-Pete Seeger

To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven

A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep

To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven

A time to build up,a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together

To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven

A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing

To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven

A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time for love, a time for hate
A time for peace, I swear it's not too late

 

[Soron]

City of New Orleans ~ Arlo Guthrie
(Steve Goodman)

Ridin' on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central, Monday mornin' rail
fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
All along the south-bound odysey
The train pulls out of Kankakee
And rolls along past houses, farms and fields
Passin' towns that have no name
And freight yards full of old black men
And the grave-yards of the rusted automobiles

Good-Morning America, how are you?
Say don't you know me, I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five-hundred miles when the day is done

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels grumblin' 'neath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters, and the sons of engineers
Ride their fathers magic carpet made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel

Good-Morning America, how are you?
Said don't you know me, I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five-hundred miles when the day is done

Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changin' cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home, we'll be there by mornin'
Through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his song again
The passengers will please refrain
This trains got the disapearin' railroad blues.

Good-Night America, how are you?
Said don't you know me, I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five-hundred miles when the day is done

 

[H'venlee]

Bramble And The Rose
Songwriter: Traditional


We have been so close together
Each a candle and each a flame
All the dangers were outside us
And we knew them all by name

See how the bramble and the rose intertwine
Love grows like the bramble and the rose
Often cruel and often kind

Now it hurts you and it hurts me
Just to see what we can do
Give ourselves unto each other
Without ever meaning to

See how the bramble and the rose intertwine
Love grows like the bramble and the rose
Often cruel and often kind

Throw your loving arms around me
And sing for me a true love song
And the words sung together
I could sing them all night long

See how the bramble and the rose intertwine
Love grows like the bramble and the rose
Often cruel and often kind

See how the bramble and the rose intertwine
Love grows like the bramble and the rose
'Round each other we will wind

 

[SecretScribe]

When I Lost My Faith
Words and Music: John Gorka

When I lost my faith in people
I put my trust in things
To avoid the disappointment
Trusting people brings

What trust in people brings
What I’ve brought myself
What I’ve brought to others
When they hoped for someone else

I tried to do it all myself then
Surrounded by my stuff
All I found were limitations
I could not rise above

There are gadgets and contraptions
Immaculate machines
There’s a program you can download now
That will even dream your dreams

It’ll even dream your dreams
For a monthly fee
Clear up your complexion
You get a hundred hours free

Possessions cannot save you
The way somebody can
When I learned to care for others
Then the boy became a man

When I lost my faith in people
I lost everything
Though I lose my independence
I am a freer man

 

[SecretScribe]

Yes, I am really stuck on this singer-songwriter ... if you ever have a chance to see a concert by him ... you should

Heroes
Words and Music: John Gorka

They say that when it comes to choosing heroes
It's best to pick the ones who aren't around
If you choose among the living
You tend to have misgivings
When your hero lets you down
He might have a bad night in your town

And so I will not name my heroes
And I'll keep my distance when I can
But if time should bend or break them
I hope I won't forsake them
If by chance they need a friend
Or need to walk on ordinary ground

God knows it must be tough to be a hero
To wake up in a hero's state of mind
They say it's hard to be heroic
Much easier to blow it
When somebody's watching all the time
And you're dancing on the thin edge of a dime

They say it's hard, so hard
They say it's hard, ain't it hard

If someday I'm mistaken for a hero
I only hope it's after I am gone
Some of us are heroes
Some of us are zeroes
Wannabes who never were the one
But who is who when all is said and done

Repeat first verse

 

[H'venlee]

You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This
Toby Keith


I've got a funny feeling
The moment that your lips touched mine
Something shot right through me
My heart skipped a beat in time

There's a different feel about you tonight
It's got me thinkin' lots of crazy things
I even think I saw a flash of light
It felt like electricity

You shouldn't kiss me like this
Unless you mean it like that
Cause I'll just close my eyes
And I won't know where I'm at
We'll get lost on this dance floor
Spinnin' around
And around
And around
And around

They're all watchin' us now
They think we're falling in love
They'd never believe we're just friends
When you kiss me like this
I think you mean it like that
If you do maybe kiss me again

Everybody swears we make the perfect pair
But dancing is as far as it goes
Girl you've never moved me quite
The way you moved me tonight
I just wanted you to know
I just wanted you to know

You shouldn't kiss me like this
Unless you mean it like that
Cause I'll just close my eyes
And I won't know where I'm at
We'll get lost on this dance floor
Spinnin' around
And around
And around
And around

They're all watchin' us now
They think we're falling in love
They'd never believe we're just friends
When you kiss me like this
I think you mean it like that
If you do baby kiss me again
Kiss me again

 

[Soron]

Scribbler, I remember an album a few years ago called "After Yesterday". I love Gorka's guitar playing.

Thank you for the song Lee.

 

[H'venlee]

Scribbler, I remember an album a few years ago called "After Yesterday". I love Gorka's guitar playing.

Thank you for the song Lee.

I hope you don't mind Soron. Just something that stuck me as meaningful today.

Things up and down in my life, and the littlest things leave their mark.

s for you.

 

[SecretScribe]

Scribbler, I remember an album a few years ago called "After Yesterday". I love Gorka's guitar playing.

Thank you for the song Lee.

1998 release. His most recent is "The Company You Keep" (2001)

 

[Soron]

I hope you don't mind Soron. Just something that stuck me as meaningful today.

Things up and down in my life, and the littlest things leave their mark.

s for you.

Sweetheart, you should know by now, I don't mind at all.
You know I love ya.

 

[H'venlee]

Sweetheart, you should know by now, I don't mind at all.
You know I love ya.

But it is always nice to hear.

 

[Soron]

But it is always nice to hear.

{{{{{{{{{{{{ LEE }}}}}}}}}}}}

 

[Soron]

GALVESTON BAY
(Bruce Springsteen)

Fifteen years Le Bing Son
Fought side by side with the Americans
In the mountains and deltas of Vietnam

In '75 Saigon fell
and he left his command
And brought his family to the promised land

Seabrook Texas and the small towns
in the Gulf of Mexico
It was delta country and reminded him of home

He worked as a machinist, put his money away
And bought a shrimp boat with his cousin
And together they harvested Galveston Bay

In the mornin' 'fore the sun come up
He'd kiss his sleepin' daughter
Steer out through the channel
And casts his nets into the water

Billy Sutter fought with Charlie Company
In the highlands of Quang Tri
He was wounded in the battle of Chu Lai
And shipped home in '68

There he married and worked the gulf fishing grounds
In a boat that'd been his father's
In the morning he'd kiss his sleeping son
And cast his nets into the water

Billy sat in front of his TV as the south fell
And the Communists rolled into Saigon
He and his friends watched as the refugees came
Settle on the same streets and worked the coast they grew up on

Soon in the bars around the harbor was talk
Of America for Americans
Someone said, "You want 'em out, you got to burn 'em out"
And brought in the Texas klan

One humid Texas night there were three shadows on the harbor
Come to burn the Vietnamese boats into the sea
In the fire's light shots rang out
Two Texans lay dead on the ground
Le stood with a pistol in his hand

A jury acquitted him in self defense
As before the judge he did stand
But as he walked down the courthouse steps
Billy said "My friend, you're a dead man"

One late summer night Le stood watch along the waterside
Billy stood in the shadows
His K-bar knife in his hand
And the moon slipped behind the clouds

Le lit a cigarette, the bay was as still as glass
As he walked by Billy stuck his knife into his pocket
Took a breath and let him pass

In the early darkness Billy rose up
Went into the kitchen for a drink of water
Kissed his sleeping wife
Headed into the channel
And casts his nets into the water

Of Galveston Bay

 

[redelicious]

It's Alright


Oooo, yeah, yeah
They say it's alright
They say it's alright
Say it's alright
Have a good time
'Cause it's alright
Whoa it's alright

Now we gonna move it slow
When the lights are low
When you move it slow
It feels like more
'Cause it's alright
Whoa it's alright

Now listen to the beat
And kinda tap your feet, yeah
You got soul
Everybody knows that it's alright
Whoa it's alright

When you wake up early in the morning
Feeling sad like so many of us do
Hum a little soul
And make life your goal
And surely something's gotta come to you

And you gotta say it's alright
Say it's alright
Say it's alright
Have a good time
'Cause it's alright
Whoa it's alright

Everybody clap your hands
And give yourself a chance
And you got soul
Everybody knows
That it's alright
Whoa it's alright

Someday I'll find me a woman
Who will love me and treat me real nice
When my woe's got to go
My love she will know from morning, noon, and in the night

And she's gotta say
That it's alright
Say it's alright
Say it's alright, have a good time
'Cause it's alright
Whoa it's alright

Everybody clap your hands
And give yourself a chance
You got soul
Everybody knows
That it's alright
Whoa it's alright

You got soul
Everybody knows
That it's alright
Whoa it's alright

 

[Arden]

Hiya Red!

Here's one for someone that's not here...

CHRISTMAS IN KILLARNEY
(Cavanaugh / Redmond / Weldon)


The holly green, the ivy green
The prettiest picture you've ever seen
Is Christmas in Killarney
With all of the folks at home

It's nice, you know, to kiss your beau
While cuddling under the mistletoe
And Santa Claus you know, of course
Is one of the boys from home

The door is always open
The neighbors pay a call
And Father John before he's gone
Will bless the house and all

How grand it feels to click your heels
And join in the fun of the jigs and reels
I'm handing you no blarney
The likes you've never known
Is Christmas in Killarney
With all of the folks at home

 

[Soron]

Thanks Red, darlin'....
LOVE Curtis Mayfield


It's nice, you know, to kiss your beau
While cuddling under the mistletoe
And Santa Claus you know, of course
Is one of the boys from home

are you starting to get in the Christmas spirit, Arden?