John Hiatt

[fox69]

"Marlene"

"Marlene"



Marlene, Marlene
When you call my name
Marlene, Marlene
Like the summer rain
Like the honey too
Deep all in my brain
Marlene, Marlene
I'm in love with you

You know I wont be never satisfied
You make the blues running high
I don't know how many times I tried
To have a good girl by my side

Well I can mumble and I can squat
You got me that baby talk
I try to run but I can't even walk
Marlene, Marlene

Marlene, Marlene
If it was up to me
You know you are in my dreams
Back to Tennessee

I can't change
I don't think I'm doomed
Marlene, Marlene
I give it all to you

You know I wont be never satisfied
You make the blues running high
I don't know how many times I tried
To have a good girl by my side

Well I can mumble and I can squat
You got me that baby talk
I tried to run but I can't even walk
Marlene, Marlene

Marlene, Marlene
When you call my name
Marlene,Marlene
You're like the summer rain
Like the honey too
Deep all in my brain
Marlene, Marlene
I'm in love with you

 

[fox69]

"Master Of Disaster"

"Master Of Disaster"



Close one there
Choking in clean underwear
Bleeding tongue
Eight ball pounding in my lungs
Ship to shore
I can't see the coastline anymore
I shouldn't be here
I thought I made that loud and clear

But the master of disaster
Gets tangled in his telecaster
He can't play it any faster
When he plays the blues
When he had the heart to ask her
And every note just shook the plaster
Now he's just a mean old bastard
When he plays the blues

China town
Chasing that old dragon down
Madam Wong's
We play the blues with the curtains drawn
Sidewalks of white
While the LA sun beat out the night
Pounding brain
My last transmission down the drain

And the master of disaster
Gets tangled in his telecaster
He can't play it any faster
When he plays the blues
When he had the heart to ask her
And every note just shook the plaster
Now he's just a mean old bastard
When he plays the blues

There's a debt I owe
I'll never pay before I go
So I sing the blues
Hand me down my walking shoes
You're in my heart
Though we may be miles apart
There's my point
I'll see you in another joint

When the master of disaster
Gets tangled in his telecaster
He can't play it any faster
When he plays the blues
When he had the heart to ask her
And every note just shook the plaster
Now he's just a mean old bastard
When he plays the blues

 

[fox69]

"Maybe Baby, Say You Do"

"Maybe Baby, Say You Do"



Baby, baby do you love me baby?
Are you thinkin' of me baby, baby?
Maybe baby, say you do!
Baby, will you be my honey baby?
I ain't got no money baby, baby.
Maybe baby, say you do!

I've been a-selling hot dogs.
I've been trying to get to you.
I've been bowlin' and a rollin'
But there ain't nothin' seems to do.

Baby, baby do you need me baby?
Got the heebee geebies baby, baby.
Maybe baby, say you do!

Baby, will you be my only baby?
I'm so tired and lonely baby, baby?
Maybe baby, say you do!

I've been a-standin' in line,
With catsup on my shirt.
I've been a-dancin' like a chicken
But there ain't nothin' seems to work.

Baby, baby do you love me baby?
Are you thinkin' of me baby, baby?
Maybe baby, say you do!

Maybe baby, say you do!

Well now, maybe baby, say you do!

 

[fox69]

"Memphis In The Meantime"

"Memphis In The Meantime"


I got something to say little girl
You might not like my style
But we've been hanging around this town
Just a little too long a while
You say you're gonna get your act together
Gonna take it out on the road
But if I dont get outta here pretty soon
My head's going to explode

Sure I like country music
I like mandolins
But right now I need a telecaster
Through a vibro-lux turned up to ten

[Chorus:]
Lets go to Memphis in the meantime baby
Memphis in the meantime girl

I need a little shot of that rhythm baby
Mixed up with these country blues
I wanna trade in these ol country boots
For some fine italian shoes

Forget the mousse and the hairspray sugar
We dont need none of that
Just a little dab'll do ya girl
Underneath a pork pie hat

Until hell freezes over
Maybe you can wait that long
But I dont think Ronnie Milsap's gonna ever
Record this song

[Chorus 2x]

Maybe there's nothin' happenin' there
Maybe there's somethin' in the air
Before our upper lips get stiff
Maybe we need us a big ol whiff

If we could just get off-a that beat little girl
Maybe we could find the groove
At least we can get a decent meal
Down at the Rendez-vous

'Cause one more heartfelt steel guitar chord
Girl, it's gonna do me in
I need to hear some trumpet and saxophone
You know sound as sweet as sin

And after we get good and greasy
Baby we can come back home
Put the cowhorns back on the cadillac
And change the message on the cord-a-phone

But...

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Mile High"

"Mile High"



I wouldn't trade your sweetness
For all the sugar in the world
Girl, and I know you'll always be
The sweetest part of me
These bitter tears we've cried

All of the smack in Manhattan
Could not keep me high
Why do you do the things you do
To keep me loving you
Darlin' I don't know why

But you are my mile high
Oh my

An altered state of being
Is what everybody's looking for
Surely they see whenever you're around
My feet don't touch the ground
Baby come fly with me

You are my mile high
Oh my
Darlin' you are my mile high

Let's make this dance last forever
Please don't you ever say goodbye
Darlin' I want to stay this way
Tangled up in the sway
Until the day I die

You are my mile high
Oh my
Darlin' you are my mile high

 

[fox69]

"Missing Pieces"

"Missing Pieces"


I spent all day staring al a leaf
I know my time here is brief
I'd like to get some details down
Before i move on to another town

I met a man, he lost both arms
Got 'em caught up in her charms
She look the kids and the color TV
He said, "I wish she'd taken the rest of me"

[Chorus:]
This Travelin' life, well it ain't no good
I'd quit it honey, oh if i could
A puzzle to me why i even care
The missing pieces are everywhere

He drove to dixie to hush his mouth
She started talkin', like to wore him out
But they found love 'neath the southern stars
And some bruises and some scars

He sees her on that back porch swing
And i believe he would do anything
Stand all night in the pourin' rain
To wash her memory from his brain

[Chorus:]
This Travelin' life, well it ain't no good
I'd quit it honey, oh if i could
A puzzle to me why i even care
The missing pieces are everywhere

A false move here, a stumble there
A box of letters and a lock of hair
That's all that's left when i turn out the light
I count the missing pieces every night

[Chorus:]
This Travelin' life, well it ain't no good
I'd quit it honey, oh if i could
A puzzle to me why i even care
The missing pieces are everywhere

[Chorus:]
This Travelin' life, well it ain't no good
I'd quit it honey, oh if i could
A puzzle to me why i even care
The missing pieces are everywhere

 

[fox69]

"Motorboat To Heaven"

"Motorboat To Heaven"


You bring out the fool in me
The blind man at the bar
Who whistles for his drink and his cane
And shows everyone his scar

You're lovely, and you're cruel
You got me in a trance
You put my soul in those hot, hot coals
And you make my spirit dance

[Chorus:]
Motorboat to heaven
Baby's got the key
Tell me, how am I 'sposed
To get in close
Back here on these waterskis

You tell me everything
It makes me want to hide
But I know there ain't no place, that can erase
All the things I feel inside

So I'm out here in the wind
It seems to be my fate
To cruise the night, like some lost kite
Who knows it's just too late

[Chorus]

Tell me, how am I 'sposed
To get in close
Back here on these waterskis

 

[fox69]

"Movin' On"

"Movin' On"



I'll see my mother again I know
I see her everywhere I go
Sometimes I see my father too
Pourin' over blueprints that he drew
He made his way with sweat and brains
So I could ride this first class train
Well, he didn't even know where to
Only knew it wouldn't be long
Always movin' on

Sing a song about the big ship goin' down
Grandma cried, Grandpa too
Then we went to town to get some ice cream
See a picture show
Come back and take a swim in the lake's moon glow
Well, I knew then there were no watery graves
Just tears and laughter and moonlight on the waves
Then the cryin' of the mornin' loon
Pretty soon summers' gone
Always movin' on

My wife's mama lyin' in a dyin' bed
They've anointed her with oils and some words are being said
Somethin' about the soul bein' present eternally
Does that mean I'll be seein' you , babe
And will you be seein' me

Twilight's dimmin' down another day
Been some moments I didn't wanna let slip away
As if they wouldn't, as if I could
Stay in a place where time just stood
Like wood and steel in a watery grave
No tears no laughter, no moonlight on the waves
Well there's no place like that, it's true
Right here's where you and I belong
Always movin' on
Always movin' on

 

[fox69]

"Mr. Stanley"

"Mr. Stanley"



Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son
Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son

Now he's gone I ain't got no one

Daddy died when I wasn't half a man
Oh my daddy died when I wasn't half a man

Mr. Stanley took me in raised me the best he can

Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son
Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son

Now he's gone I ain't got no one

Six white horses coming down to Tennessee
Six white horses coming down to Tennessee

In the middle of the night to take Mr. Stanley away from me

 

[fox69]

"My Baby"

"My Baby"



My baby puts her hairspray on
With a lit cigarette in her mouth
Takes her fingernail polish off
Speedin' down some rural route
Got a carburetor so leaned out
I think she's burnin' Pam
I'm the son of a locker salesman
She calls me her lover man

Don't you talk about my
Don't you talk about my
Don't you talk about my baby, my baby, my baby, my baby, my :

Don't you talk about my
Don't you talk about my
Don't you talk about my baby, my baby, my baby, my baby

She once trained a horse to do cartwheels
Put a coyote in a sleeper hold
Her heart's been pierced by love repeatedly
But her mind is magnetic and bold
All she ever got outta women's college
Was some kind of fifth degree
Seems she couldn't keep her skirts
Far enough down below her knee

Don't you talk about my
Don't you talk about my
Don't you talk about my baby, my baby, my baby, my baby, my...

Don't you talk about my
Don't you talk about my
Don't you talk about my baby, my baby, my baby, my baby

When that sun comes up
She'll be deadheadin' all alone
She's been up all night
Just tryin' to beat that red guy home

She brings me coffee in her careless panties
Hickory cane and an old straw hat
Fringe velcro'd to a buckskin jacket
Cause daddy never let her leave the house lookin' like that

She's so beautiful it hurts my feelings
I think she's been around once or twice
A thousand years of hearts she's been stealin'
I'm happy to pay love's sacrifice

Don't you talk about my
Don't you talk about my
Don't you talk about my baby, my baby, my baby, my baby, my...