Little Feat

[fox69]

"Rag Mama Rag"

"Rag Mama Rag"


Rag mama rag... I can't believe its true
Rag mama rag... what did ya do
I go on up to the railroad track
Let the 4:19 scratch my back
Sag mama sag... whats come over you
Rag mama rag... I'm pullin out your gag
Gonna turn you loose... like an old caboose
Got a tail I need to drag

I ask about your turtle
And you ask about the weather
I can't jump the hurdle
And we can't get together
We could be relaxin'... in my sleepin' bag
But all ya want to do for me mama is
Rag mama rag... there's no where to go
Rag mama rag... come on resin' up the bow

Rag mama rag... where do ya run
Rag mama rag... bring your skinny little body back home
It's dog it dog... cat eat mouse
You can rag mama rag all over my house

Hail stones beatin on the roof
The bourbon is hundred proof
Its you and me and the telephone
Our destiny is quite well known
We don't need to sit and brag
All we gotta do is rag mama rag mama rag

Rag mama rag
Where do ya roam
Rag mama rag
Bring your skinny little body back home

 

[fox69]

"Rag Top Down"

"Rag Top Down"


Better beware 'cause I'm back in town
Driving my Chevvy with the rag-top down
Beware of what, well I don't know
I'm all shook up and ready to go

Rag-top, rag-top, what'll I do
Pop in miles, and 'Kind of Blue'
Been out chasing that long white line
Rolling down the mountsin on Highway 9

Out in the wide world running around
Driving my Chevvy with the rag-top down
Rag-top down

Set them up ladies, I'm coming to town
Driving my Chevvy with the rag-top down
All the ladies flash a smile or two
Relax sweet mama, that's all they do

Rag-top, rag-top, Highway 9
Santa Cruz to the county line
Hit San Jose with a twist of time
Wind in my hair, heart full of crime

Out in the wide world running around
Driving my Chevvy with the rag-top down
Rag-top down

San Jose is a low-rider town
No place to ride with the rag-top down
Kick the engine into cruise control
Rolling up the ramp to San Francisco

101 is the road to ride
Run out of gas and pull to the side
Stick out my thumb but no one stops
Keeping an eye peeled for the cops

Out in the wide world running around
Driving my Chevvy with the rag-top down
Rag-top down

Few minor warrants, nothing large
Enough to pull me in on charges
Redwood City, shoulder my pack
Siphon some gas, take a taxi back

Rag-top, rag-top, what'll I do
Baby I'm so in love with you
Say you'll take me back some time
I'll head back home up Highway 9

Out in the wide world running around
Driving my Chevvy with the rag-top down
Rag-top down

San Fancisco is the type of town
To drive my Chevvy with the rag-top down
I cruise around until it's dark
Still can't find no plae to park

Rag-top, rag-top, what'll I do
Turn my ass round home to you
Beg your pardo on bended knees
Take the pledge, hand over my keys

Out in the wide world running around
Driving my Chevvy with the rag-top down
Rag-top down

Driving my Chavvy
Driving my Chevvy
Driving my Chevvy
With the rag-top down

 

[fox69]

"Red Streamliner"

"Red Streamliner"


Red streamliner rollin'
Rollin' down the track the things you see
With your wheels in motion through desert, mountain, ocean
I hear you every night, is it a dream?

Red streamliner rollin' down, comin' down on me
Red streamliner rollin', rollin' long so free
Your past keeps comin' back on me
To far and near, away from here

Where people move a mile a minute
This hurricane livin' with you and me in it
Long into the night, that whistle offers light

Red streamliner rollin'
I wish you'd tell me 'bout the things you see
I'm lookin', lookin' down the tracks you ride
Knowin' that they're your only guide
I see them every night, is it a dream?
And when the sidewalks roll up at night
Just as stations pass by

Once the leader of the wild, wild west
Hurricane livin' been a lifelong song
Now you're cast of steel and cast aside
Broken dreams maybe, but you haven't died

 

[fox69]

"Representing The Mambo"

"Representing The Mambo"


Gretta's flunky, some boot-licking lackey, some wild-eyed Romeo
Winds op the mountain with Rio down below
Drives too slowly past a burning impromptu altar
Attended by no one of visible means
Could be a warning shining us on, but we're far too gone
We're on our way to see some Johnny
Representing the mambo
Representing the mambo... mambo... mambo oooh.. mambo

Rounding the corner we come to a halt
Doors fly open as we prepare for assault
Out from the shadows step the dangerous boys
Hands hiding weapons, they treat them like toys
Debutante Gretta, the taxidermist's daughter
She knows what to say
She knows how to mingle, she knows the lingo
Muchachos wh're here to see Johnny
Representing the mambo
Representing the mambo... mambo... mambo oooh.. mambo

Gretta leads us through the stone carved archway
Into the school of samba, the place of sacred rites
We push through a gauntlet of limpwristed handshakes
And empty cotillion air kisses
Gretta smiles as we make our way to the bar
The new crowd says I remind them of Frank
Who died of excessive nymphets
In Barcelona... in Barcelona

Who's that with Gretta? You know how she is...
Yeah, never the same one twice
I wonder if by any chance you would like a piece of cake
No thank you, my ears are too sweet now

A strange choice of work, but forensically it's true
Sudden thunder clap drum roll
Gretta's on the stage... she's a honey of a hun
This blue-eyed angel girl
Announces proudly to everyone in the room
Senores y senores here's Johnny
Representing the mambo
Representing the mambo... mambo... mambo oooh.. mambo

Gretta Gretta I've got to slip away
It just won't work between us
Your daddy runs the house of pain
You are the taxidermist's daughter

 

[fox69]

"Rio Esperanza"

"Rio Esperanza"


Texas to tennessee blue
Highway to highway
Just to get back to you
With the barren winds blowin'
A jealous moon 'cross the plains
I'll only be runnin' and callin' your name

I should have never left you
After what I held close
With the hours slippin' by
From the one I love most
Chasing days that take flight
And the mist from my eyes
I die a little each day with you so far away

Oh my darlin' I've cried these many miles
A kiss in the shadows, a whispered memory
I'll be waiting, all of my life, only my only (only my lonely)
Rio esperanza, it's the river of hope

There's a place in my heart where you'll always be
Where the shallows run long, and the driftin' is free

Oh my darlin' I've cried these many miles
A kiss in the shadows, a whispered memory
I'll be waiting, all of my life, only my only (only my lonely)
Rio esperanza, it's the river of hope

Across windswept hills your voice calms to caress me
Like a lover stealing glances
I can't wait to hold you
See the light flicker softly
In a blue silverscape
It's such sweet surrender (and) I've come home again

Oh my darling
A kiss in the shadows
A whispered memory
I'll be waiting
All of my life
Only my only
Rio esperanza
It's the river of hope

 

[fox69]

"Rock & Roll Everynight"

"Rock & Roll Everynight"


I wanna shake the floors, raise the roof
Don't shut me down, 'cause I'm livin' proof
I'm like the hurricane
Daddy ain't gonna turn you loose
Don't fight it, 'cause it ain't no use

Way back when, I was meek and mild
The boogie-woogie got me, turned the mild to wild
It threw me down, ain't got no strength to fight
I gotta rock & roll, baby, rock & roll everynight

Everynight, everynight
You can ride shotgun
And count the red tail lights
Everynight, everynight
You can roll the dice, take your chances
Hit the highway and roll your troubles away

Buckle your belts and don't be shy
We got a barrel-roll goin' and we're ready to fly
We can get there, we're lookin' at a non-stop flight
I wanna rock & roll, baby, I'm feelin' like dynamite

Everynight, everynight
You can ride shotgun
And count the red tail lights
Everynight, everynight
You can roll the dice, take your chances
Hit the highway and roll your troubles away

Front and center
Doctor'll give you a thrill
I'm gonna give you a shot
And cure all you'alls ills

Come on everybody let's get up let's go
Meet me tonight, after the show
Keep op with my tail lights
We're headin' on down the road
It's a shortcut to hell
But we got a long way to go

Everynight, everynight
You can ride shotgun
And count the red tail lights
Everynight, everynight
You can roll the dice, take your chances
Hit the highway and roll your troubles away

 

[fox69]

"Rock And Roll Doctor"

"Rock And Roll Doctor"


There was a woman in Georgia, didn't feel just right
She had the fever all day and chills at night
Now things got worse, yes a serious bind
At times like this it takes a man with a style I cannot often find
A doctor of the heart and a doctor of mind.

If you like country with a boogie beat, he's the man to meet
If you like the sound of shufflin' feet, he can't be beat
If you wanna feel real nice, just ask the rock and roll doctor's advice.

It's just a country town but patients come
From Mobile to Moline from miles around
Nagodoches to New Orleans
In beat-up old cars or in limousines
To meet the doctor of soul, he's got his very own thing.

Two degrees in be-bop, a PHD in swing
He's the master of rhythm, he's a rock and roll king, yeah.

If you like country with a boogie beat, he's the man to meet (he's the man to meet)
If you like the sound of shufflin' feet, he can't be beat (I say he can't be beat)
If you... if you wanna... if you wanna feel real nice, just ask the rock and roll doctor's advice.

 

[fox69]

"Rocket In My Pocket"

"Rocket In My Pocket"


My baby called me up
She said, "Why don't you ever take me out?
Pick me up in your brand new car
You shake the short change from your old fruit jar"

I put on my dancin' shoes
We headed straight for the rhythm and blues
The music was hot, but my baby was not

I've got a rocket in my pocket

 

[fox69]

"Roll Um Easy"

"Roll Um Easy"


Oh I am just a vagabond
A drifter on the run
And eloquent profanity
It rolls right off my tongue
And I have dined in palaces
Drunk wine with Kings and Queens
But darlin', oh darlin'
You're the best thing I've ever seen
Won't you roll me easy
Oh slow and easy
Take my independence
With no apprehension,no tension
You walki' talkin' dream paradise
Sweet pair a' dice
Well I been across this country
From Denver to the ocean
And I never met girls who could sing so sweet
Like the angels that live in Houston
Singin' "Roll me easy, so slow and easy...
Play that Concertina, I'll be your temptress..."
And baby I'm defenseless
Singin' harmony
In unison
Sweet harmony
Gotta hoist your flag and I'll beat your drum

 

[fox69]

"Romance Dance"

"Romance Dance"


Me and you, nothing to do
What am I gonna do with you
How's the chance
You and I go make romance

'Cause that's the kind of rockin' I need
Takes a pinch and a bite and squeeze
And I'm down on my knees
Well come on girl take a chance with me
A good ol' romance dance for me

Well I loved my way through the South one day
Runnin' scared all along the way
Wandering, looking to hide
Decided to head for the Mexico line

I had nothing going for me but my shoes
When I ran into a girl from Jaurez
Didn't care who or from where I came
Don't matter where in the world you goin'
Comes to lovin' it's all the same
All the same
And it's so insane
But I can't complain

What I need to be happy
Pretty girl in a lonely town
What I got to do to you
To get you to do the mess around

'Cause that's the kind of rockin' I need
Takes a pinch and a bite and squeeze
And I'm down on my knees
Well come on girl take a chance with me
A good ol' romance, no pants dance for me