John Mellencamp

[fox69]

"Minutes To Memories"

"Minutes To Memories"


On a Greyhound thirty miles beyond Jamestown
He saw the sun set on the Tennessee line
He looked at the young man who was riding beside him
He said I'm old kind of worn out inside
I worked my whole life in the steel mills of Gary
And my father before me I helped build this land
Now I'm seventy-seven and with God as my witness
I earned every dollar that passed through my hands
My family and friends are the best thing I've known
Through the eye of the needle I'll carry them home

[Chorus:]
Days turn to minutes
And minutes to memories
Life sweeps away the dreams
That we have planned
You are young and you are the future
So suck it up and tough it out
And be the best you can

The rain hit the old dog in the twilight's last gleaming
He said Son it sounds like rattling old bones
This highway is long but I know some that are longer
By sunup tomorrow I guess I'll be home
Through the hills of Kentucky 'cross the Ohio river
The old man kept talking 'bout his life and his times
He fell asleep with his head against the window
He said an honest man's pillow is his peace of mind
This world offers riches and riches will grow wings
I don't take stock in those uncertain things

[Chorus]

The old man had a vision but it was hard for me to follow
I do things my way and I pay a high price
When I think back on the old man and the bus ride
Now that I'm older I can see he was right

Another hot one out on highway eleven
This is my life it's what I've chosen to do
There are no free rides No one said it'd be easy
The old man told me this my son I'm telling it to you

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Miss Missy"

"Miss Missy"


There's a band playing down the street we could see, yeah
Movie showing down at the Von Lee
A church supper with Grandma and Grandad
Let's go out and have ourselves the best time we've ever had

Say goodnight, my Miss Missy
Goodnight, it's time to go home
Hey, I might call you later
Oh Missy, girl, it's late, it's time to go home

Weight of the world's now on your head
I take back all those mean things I said
Little baby kicking down in your gut
I hope it doesn't grow up to be as crazy as us

Goodnight, oh my Miss Missy
Goodnight, it's time to go home
Hey, I might, I just might, call you later
Oh Missy it's time to go home

So let's dance slow just one more time
Let me hold your face close to mine, yeah
Let's pretend that Jesus has come
To take us out just one more night for fun

Goodnight, oh my Miss Missy
Goodnight, it's time to go home
Hey, I might call you later
Oh Missy, girl, it's time to go home

Goodnight, oh my Miss Missy
Goodnight, it's time to go home
Hey, I might, I just might, call you later
Oh Missy it's time to go home

 

[fox69]

"Mobile Blue"
(originally by Mickey Newbury)

"Mobile Blue"
(originally by Mickey Newbury)



Headed south to work to pipeline
Make some cash while in the meantime
Baby jumped a bird and flew away

Lordy, Lordy, my, my mind's achin'
Drunk and down and out and makin' time
With anything that comes my way

Staggered to the Greyhound station
L.A. means my destination
Put me on that dog, take me away

Mobile blues baby, I can't make it
Got me down Lord, I can't take it
Here in Alabama for one more day

I called a friend in Frisco
He said baby's in L.A.
Here I am in Alabama two thousand miles away
Lord I got this mobile blues today

I left her back in Frisco, Lord
And she begged me not to go
I know somebody must have told her
That I travel and I lie

That they saw me drunk in mobile
With some wired up chick from Jacksonville
And brother did we look like we could fly

I staggered to the Greyhound station
L.A. means my destination
Put me on that dog, take me away
Lord I got this mobile blues today
Lord I got this mobile blues today

 

[fox69]

"Mr. Bellows"

"Mr. Bellows"


The president he's a pretty nice guy
I'd like to take him out to dinner sometime
Drive around in his motorcade
Talk about those bills that ain't been paid
and maybe later on, just for fun,
We'll shoot off his submachine gun
We'll shoot out the sky, shoot out the sea
Shoot out those dreams about you and me

Take my hand girl, I know where you've been
Up the flag pole and back down again
Walk on water or sink or swim
When you're with me

Her majesty, the Queen, is a pretty nice babe
And I'd like to take her down to St. Petersburg someday
Hand around with her friends and old Joe Kennedy
After dinner I might give her a squeeze
Then we'll just see how blue her blood really is
And in the morning she can introduce me to her kids

Take my hand girl, I know where you've been
Up the flag pole and back down again
Walk on water or sink or swim
When you're with me

Well our lord Jesus he wants me to pray
So I do every single day
I don't know if I'm coming in very clear
Supposedly he can hear me from here
and sometimes he gives me a little relief
When I'm down here on my knees
But there's no redemption on judgment day
For people like you and me

Take my hand girl, I know where you've been
up the flag pole and back down again
Walk on water or sink or swim
When you're with me

 

[fox69]

"My Aeroplane"

"My Aeroplane"


Wish I had an aeroplane
I'd fly away up yonder
'Til I could write me the perfect song
It'd be a song for the people
It'd be a song that everybody could sing along

If you needed a ride
You'd have one
If you needed a friend
I'd be your best one
If you got afraid
I'd take away all your pain
And I'd let you fly
In my aeroplane

If this song could spread happiness
I'd sing it long and loud
All over this land
I'd teach this song to the troubled
And we'd sing it for anybody
Who needed a helping hand

If you needed a ride
You'd have one
If you needed a friend
I'd be your best one
If you got afraid
I'd take away all your pain
And I'd let you fly
In my aeroplane

If you had a wish
Well I wonder what in the world
Your wish might be
Would it be a wish of freedom
And a joyous noise
That could ring out from all eternity

If you needed a ride
You'd have one
If you needed a friend
I'd be your best one
If you got afraid
I'd take away all your pain
And I'd let you fly - high
In my aeroplane

 

[fox69]

"My Soul's Got Wings"
(feat. Carlene Carter)

"My Soul's Got Wings"
(feat. Carlene Carter)



Well I've got a house, way up in the sky
Yes, I got a house, way up in the sky
Life may be dreary, but I can still sing
Fly up to heaven
On my soul wings

Well my soul Lord
My soul's got wings
My load is heavy
But I can still sing
Climb up my mountain
Walk on my sea
Fly up to heaven
On my soul's wings

Well I've got a house, way up in the sky
Yes, I got a house, way up in the sky
Life may be dreary, but I can still sing
Fly up to heaven
On my soul wings

So full of joy now, don't know what to say
Kneel at my bedside, each night to pray
Sleep on my pillow, all night I dream
Gonna fly up to heaven
On my soul's wings

Wake up in the morning, way up in the sun
Work for my Lord, 'til my work's done
Night time I stop, to count my good deeds
Fly up to heaven
On my soul's wings

Well I've got a house, way up in the sky
Yes, I got a house, way up in the sky
Life may be dreary, but I can still sing
Fly up to heaven
On my soul wings

Fly up to heaven
On my soul wings

Fly up to heaven
On my soul wings

 

[fox69]

"My Sweet Love"

"My Sweet Love"


Sweet Love standing at my gate
Oh my sweet love
Sure would feel good to feel good again
Oh my sweet love

You say that you need me
You'll always believe me
Oh my sweet love
That our love is forever
We'll always be together
Oh my sweet love

You say you'll always come through
There's nothing that you won't do
Oh my sweet love
But I've heard it all before
I can't beg you anymore
Oh my sweet love

You're the woman who knows exactly what she's doing
You're the girl who ate the apple off the tree
When you're good you're just crazy, when you're bad you're too much

You say you never can hurt me
You'll never desert me
Oh my sweet love
That your words are always true
I can depend on you
Oh my sweet love

When you get in the wind
And all the storms begin
Oh my sweet love
When you're sad and dismantled
All your senses rattled
Oh my sweet love

You're the woman who knows exactly what she's doing
You're the girl who ate the apple off the tree
When you're good it's just crazy, when you're bad it's too much

Sweet love standing at my gate
Oh my sweet love
It sure would feel good to feel good again
Oh my sweet love

 

[fox69]

"Night Slumming"

"Night Slumming"


(Night Slumming - burp 123)
Well good evening to, the dirty bordellos
And good evening to, the girls who work uptown
And say hello, well hello, to the gay young fellows
Who make their love, on the meat rack
In their sister's gowns

Well I ain't no king, but I ain't no princess
And I don't get drunk, no no
But I can still be blown away
The phantom lover of the future
And I don't go to work
'Cause I sleep all through the day
Talkin' 'bout

[Chorus:]
Night, night, night, night slummin'
Night, night, night, night slummin'
Night, night, night, night slummin'
So when you see me tonight
I'd be reaching the heights
So were coming

I never counted on ...
All the good things have been taken away from me
Aww, heavy or hard, I know those younger punches
Cause tonight is another day for destiny

Well the damage is done, hey I can't really feel it
Well I don't fault your love and
The bathroom stains, oh yeah
And its a little too fast and dieing too young
That's what we're talking about
Well it's this slummin' that makes me
Stop to think

[Chorus]

Night, night, night, night slummin'
Night, night, night, night slummin'(goodnight)
Night, night, night, night slummin'(yeah, yeah)

 

[fox69]

"No Better Than This"

"No Better Than This"


Give me twenty-five dollars
And drive me around downtown
Solve all my problems
Don't let me lose what I've found
Give me good lovin'
And seal it with a kiss
Then drop me off where the music's loud
But it won't get no better than this

Take me to a party
Where I'm the only man
With fifty women waitin' on me
Who say they understand
Feed me milk and honey
Give me a story that I'll never miss
Let me get one good night's sleep
But it won't get no better than this

Give me clear vision
And don't let me miss anything
I'll take the bird that whistles
And the world on a string
Fill my fist full of money
In these troubled times
And let me share the water
With all, all of mankind

Give me back my youth
And don't let me waste it this time
Stand me up at the golden gates
At the front of the line
Let me lie in the sunshine
Covered in the morning mist
Then show me something I ain't never seen
But it won't get no better than this

 

[fox69]

"No One Cares About Me"

"No One Cares About Me"


Well my wife she took off to Memphis
With some fella from our little town
My mother's at home up in Baltimore
And my daddy is down in the ground
It gets awfully cold here in the winter
Hot and humid in the summer time
I got laid off on account there's no work for me
Now I'm in the unemployment line

No one cares about me
No one cares about me
No one cares about me at all
If I had to guess
It's because I'm spotty at best
No one cares about me at all

Well my kids they've all scattered
Went lookin' for a better life
Lost one of my boys to the drug man
It's the only time I've cried in my life
And I knew an old guy once
He was kind of my friend
But he smoked himself to death
And they buried him out at Riverview
Now I'm all that I've got left

No one cares about me
No one cares about me
No one cares about me at all
If I had to guess
It's because I'm spotty at best
No one cares about me at all

Some day I'll go look up my brother
He lives a few miles from here
Haven't talked to him in quite some time
I guess it's been six or seven years
Well he works out there at the cannery
And I think he makes a pretty good pay
His wife she never thought too much of me
So I just stayed away

No one cares about me
No one cares about me
No one cares about me at all
If I had to guess
It's because I'm spotty at best
No one cares about me at all

Well it's hard to say what kind of fella I am
But most the time nothing goes my way
I must have done something pretty wrong
But I still think it will work out okay
There surely must be some angels around the bend
And they're trying to get to me
I'll catch up with them pretty soon
But for now no one cares about me

No one cares about me
No one cares about me
No one cares about me at all
If I had to guess
It's because I'm spotty at best
No one cares about me at all