Little Feat

[fox69]

"Romance Without Finance"

"Romance Without Finance"


No I'm not the type of girl to say
Baby, if you wanna play you pay
No way, I'm not that kind
Oh yeah - I've got love on my mind
Down in the quarter
Out on the corner, walkin' the line
They say romance without finance
That's a crime

Mercy me, heavens above!
What's money got to do with love?
I need a squeeze without a doubt
Won't put my hold on your bank account
I need a lover
Under the cover of the night
And if it's romance without finance
That's all right

Let us give you some free advice
Say that love must have its price
Can't you see girl, you're wastin your time
That boy, he ain't got a dime

They don't know if your love is true
They don't see what I see in you
You got a touch, feelin' so fine
I don't care about your bottom line

Down in the quarter
Almighty dollar's on their minds
But I'll take romance over finance
Every time

I don't care what your daddy do
I don't care if your blood is blue
Legal tender's bringin' me down
It ain't what makes my world go round

I need a lover
Seens me some tender eyes that shine
I'll take my romance over finance
Every time

Romance without finance
And I'll take romance over finance
Every time

 

[fox69]

"Rooster Rag"

"Rooster Rag"


Here's one line I remember
All the rest I forget
Something about stroking the rooster
Setting up a crooked bet

No concern of my own
What you do, do or don't do
We got all this and heaven too
Tie me down and paint me blue

Don't need a shot
Don't need a rooster

Ladies of the jury, stroke my rooster
I don't complain, it's not my nature
Take my milkshake straight, no chaser

Rooster rag, rooster rag
End up doing that rooster rag
End up, end up, end up doing that rooster rag

Mose don't you stroke that rooster
Step on back, step on back
It just serves to make him looser
Treat him right and he'll cut you slack

Tubal-cain was the god of fire
He got doused, first goood rain
Crossed the sea in a Goodyear tyre
Wired up tight, feeling no pain

Kings of creation, in strict rotation
Stroking the rooster Saturday night

Flirting with loss of reputation
A paid vacation where dogs don't bite

Rooster rag, rooster rag
End up doing that rooster rag
End up, end up, end up doing that rooster rag

No excuses, no regrets
Got back what I put out
Calling in all my crooked bets
'Cept them few that's still in doubt

Leave this old world a better place
Paper chase, what a waste
A cut-off throw-switch just in case
You bite off more than a taste

Don't need a shot
Don't need a rooster

Ladies of the jury, stroke my rooster
I don't complain, it's not my nature
Take my milkshake straight, no chaser

Rooster rag, rooster rag
End up doing that rooster rag
End up, end up, end up doing that rooster rag

Rooster rag, rooster rag
End up doing that rooster rag
End up, end up, end up doing that rooster rag

 

[fox69]

"Sailin' Shoes"

"Sailin' Shoes"


There's a lady in a turban, in a cocaine tree
She does a dance so rhythmically
She's cryin', and a-singin' and having a time
And don't that cocaine tree look fine

You've got to put on your sailin' shoes
Put on your sailin' shoes
Everyone will start to cheer
When you put on your sailin' shoes

Jedidiah, he's got a dime
Says he catch a more fish, every time
Well I got a line, and you got a pole
And I'll meet you at the fishin' hole

You've got to put on your sailin' shoes
Put on your sailin' shoes
Everyone will start to cheer
When you put on your sailin' shoes

[Guitar solo]

Doctor, doctor, I feel so bad
This is the worst day I ever had
He said, have you this misery a very long time?
Well if you are ill, ball it on the line

You've got to put on your sailin' shoes
Put on your sailin' shoes
Everyone will start to cheer
When you put on your sailin' shoes

 

[fox69]

"Salome"

"Salome"


I know this Jasper girl whose name is Salome
Bear east on Sixty-Three south of Aquacay
You're still in Texas, but just a stone's throw away
'Cross the river lies Louisian-i-ay

Whoa-oh whorehouse moan
Love that fat-back boiled in bone
Salty gravy seasoned with tears
Keep me happy for a hundred years

She got corn on the cob, black-eyed peas and ham
Served with salty gravy for the kind of man I am
She got roast potato, pheasant under glass
Moonshine in a Dixie cup, knock you back on your ass

Salty, salty gravy
Fat-back boiled in bone
Salty, salty gravy
Texas whorehouse moan

If you got an appetite she can't satisfy
Ain't her fault you couldn't, not 'cause she didn't try
No dance of seven veils to feast your eyes upon
Get down and lose yourself, come on baby come on

Whoa-oh whorehouse moan
Give me fat-back boiled in bone
Salty gravy seasoned with tears
Keep me happy for a hundred years

Last whorehouse in Texas, damn near on the State line
I can't tell you how I wish Salome was mine
I'd marry that lady today, move down to New Orleans
Spite of what people say how she's too good for the likes of me

Whoa-oh whorehouse moan
Give me fat-back boiled in bone
Salty gravy seasoned with tears
Keep me happy for a hundred years

Each year on her birthday I send a big bouquet
Of red, red, red roses and a jug of fine tokay
Salty, salty gravy, maybe crepe suzette
Forty second of July, a date I don't forget

Salty, salty gravy
Fat-back boiled in bone
Salty, salty gravy
Texas whorehouse moan

 

[fox69]

"Sample In A Jar"

"Sample In A Jar"


It's hidden far away
But someday I may tell
The tale of metal tangle
When into your world I fell
Without you now I wander
Soaking secretly afraid
'cause in your grasp the fears don't last
And some of them have stayed

I wheeled around because I didn't
Hear what you had said
And saw you dancing with elihu
Up on leemor's bed
And I was foggy rather groggy,
You helped me to my car
The binding belt enclosing me,
A sample in a jar

And on the market stands unfolding
With all their willies and their wares
I shuffle by alert but numb
To all the glances and the glares
And I think of you unheeding
All the times I raise my cup
It's now I know that you knew
That I'd soon end up end up

You tricked me like the others
And now I don't belong
The simple smiles and good times
Seem all wrong

 

[fox69]

"See You Later Alligator"

"See You Later Alligator"


Well, I saw my baby walkin'
With another man today
Well, I saw my baby walkin'
With another man today
When I asked her what's the matter
This is what I heard her say

See you later alligator
After 'while crocodile
See you later alligator
After 'while crocodile
Can't you see you're in my way now
Don't you know you cramp my style

When I thought of what she told me
Nearly made me lose my head
When I thought of what she told me
Nearly made me lose my head
But the next time that I saw her
Reminded me of what she said

See you later alligator
After 'while crocodile
See you later alligator
After 'while crocodile
Can't you see you're in my way now
Don't you know you cramp my style

I said, I'm sorry pretty daddy
You know my love is just for you
I said, I'm sorry pretty daddy
You know my love is just for you
Won't you say that you'll forgive me
And say your love for me is true

I said wait a minute 'gator
I know you meant it just for play
I said wait a minute 'gator
I know you meant it just for play
Don't you know you really hurt me
And this is what I have to say

See you later alligator
After 'while crocodile
See you later alligator
After 'while crocodile
Can't you see you're in my way now
Don't you know you cramp my style

 

[fox69]

"Shake Me Up"

"Shake Me Up"


Jump start my heart I'm all broke down
Hot wired and short of cash just outside of town
Roll the dice, I'll take the chance
Played out... there ain't no doubt I need a new romance

Seems I'm short a dime on my nickel bet
Waitin' for my number, but it ain't come up yet
Change my luck.. I'm on my knees
Let's see how good it gets

Shake me up, (shake me up)
Shake me up, (shake me up)
Shake me up
Baby I can take it
Don't care how ya do it
Just shake it

Spendthrift and foolish, beaten like a mule
Cotton mouthed... so confused... stumblin' like a fool
Hold me up... I'm sinkin' low...
I got... one shot... so come on girl let's go

Got that kinda something that turns my head around
Got the walk... got the talk
Let's take it on downtown

Shake me up, (shake me up)
Shake me up, (shake me up)
Shake me up
Come on girl get to it
I don't care how ya do it
Just shake me

Sounds like a diamond back, feels like a heart attack
When ya shake it
Love the way ya move and everything you do
Got me runnin' hot... I'm shakin now... so please don't stop

I got it bad but baby that's no crime
On a flight tomorrow night... somewhere down the line
Treat me right, shake me while you can
Feel free... give me everything you can

Shake me up, (shake me up)
Shake me up, (shake me up)
Shake me up
Baby let's get through it
I don't care how ya do it
Just shake me

 

[fox69]

"Shakeytown"

"Shakeytown"


First time that I saw her
Down at the predator's ball
She was lookin' ore that's a little bit lost
Like this was her very first cattle call
She was a quick understudy
She learned to use her appeal
'Cause now all you hear is the squeal of the wheels
Of her super-nice over-priced automobile, yeah

She's makin my heart beat
Jumpin' at every turn
A hundred miles an hour, yeah
Like she's got money to burn

Whoa, she's an overnight sensation
Oh yeah, she knows her way around
Won't waste time on conversation
Gonna take ya right down
Down to Shakeytown

Ya' know she took me honky-tonkin'
Out on the Westside Drive
Whe was star at the monkey bar
And I was social suicide
And now she's off in a corner
With a Hollywood wheel
Lookin' to hook a development deal for
Fifty grand, honey, and all she can steal

She got the hang of the fast life
She gets the parts that don't speak
She introduce me to jack-knife
That's her agent this week

Whoa, she's an overnight sensation
Oh yeah, she knows her way around
Won't waste time on conversation
Gonna take ya right down
Down to Shakeytown
She will take you down
Take you all the way down
Down to Shakeytown

Got a Czech director, yeah
And her Italian camera man
Ya know they try to protect her
But she's doin' the best that she can

Whoa, she's an overnight sensation
Oh yeah, she knows her way around
Won't waste time on conversation
Gonna take ya right down
Down to Shakeytown
She will take you down
Take you all the way down
Down to Shakeytown
She will take you down
Take you all the way down
Down to Shakeytown

 

[fox69]

"Silver Screen"

"Silver Screen"


Every night she sits there TV blasting in her face
People runnin' runnin' to and fro, it's such a frantic pace
But in her hand she's got control, remote as that may seem
A certifiable obsession a broadcast malady
When all is said and done she's in love with the silver screen
With the silver screen

Video tape movies where she cashes in her dreams
Ghostly illuminations how they brighten up her scene
Her perception of reception is her lone reality
What to eat and what to wear she edits out without a care
The rest falls through the cracks, an unconscious stream
When all is said and done she's in love with the silver screen
With the silver screen

In a city full of wishes that she shut out long ago
If wishes were a penny we all know which way she'd go
Given choice 'tween perfect health and peace throughout the world
Apocalypse utopia or space not explored
When all is said and done she's in love with the silver screen

 

[fox69]

"Six Feet Of Snow"

"Six Feet Of Snow"


Six feet of snow coming through my radio
It's raining in stilettos from here clear down to Mexico
My hands they're numb from hanging on that steering wheel
They're frozen tight, hope the wind don't blow me off the road tonight
Don't you know the ice and snow is sneaking in through my windows
Don't you know how much I hate to be so cold and so alone
I'm coming home

If it wasn't for the lines that wind side by side
I'd be lying next to her, next to her tonight

Sweet New Orleans that's where my girl she waits for me
Hair so long and eyes so green
She's the prettiest girl I've ever seen

Don't you know the ice and snow
Is sneaking through this boy's window
Don't you know how much I hate to be so cold and so alone
I'm coming home

If it wasn't for the lines that wind side by side
I'd be lying next to her, next to her tonight