Rodney Crowell

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"Bring It On Home To Memphis"
(with Rodney Crowell)

"Bring It On Home To Memphis"
(with Rodney Crowell)



Sweet Lucinda
Look out your window
LA freeway just like the man said
People honking their horns
Pointing guns at your head
Sweet Lucinda
In a land of cotton
You're not forgotten
The Mississippi River just rolls on through
And everybody's wondering what happened to you
In the land of cotton
Down on the delta
Remember your soul
We're waiting just to welcome you back to the fold

Tomorrow comes early
You better get humming
The whole damn town is gonna know that you're coming
Bring it on home to Memphis...
Bring it on home and give us a thrill
Bring it on home honey send me the bill
Bring it on home to Memphis...

Beale Street was jumping the day you were born
W.C. Handy was blowing his horn
From the bluffs to Mud Island
The music grew quiet
Mystery train put a hush on the night
Fireflies made light of the hot summer breeze
And the wind was a whisper through the tops of the trees
Rain started falling
The river grew lazy
Bring it on home child you're making us crazy
We've got hot buttered biscuits
Dewberry pie
White-flour gravy
In an endless supply
Cucumber salad right out of the ground
And cold soda water just to wash it all down
But down on the Delta
Where cotton is king
We only want to treat you like a homecoming queen

Tomorrow comes early
It's never too late
The whole damn town is gonna open the gate
Bring it on home to Memphis...
Bring it on home
We want to be good
Bring it on home t the whole neighborhood
Bring it on home to Memphis...

 

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"Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
(with Waylon Jennings)

"Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
(with Waylon Jennings)



Flying cross the desert in a TWA
Saw a women walking
Cross the sand
They been walking thirty miles
In route to L.A. to get
A brown eyed handsome man
The destination was
A brown eyed handsome man

Milo Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world
In the palm of her hand
But she lost both her arms
In a wrestling match to get
A brown eyed handsome man
She fought and won herself
A brown eyed handsome man

Way back in history
Three thousand years
Back ever since the world began
Been a whole lot a good women
Shedding tears for
A brown eyed handsome man
That's what the trouble was
A brown eyed handsome man

Beautiful daughter couldn't
Make up her mind between
A doctor and a lawyer man
Mamma told her daughter
Go out and find herself
A brown eyed handsome man
Just like your daddy is
A brown eyed handsome man

Arrested on charges
Of unemployment
He was sitting in the witness stand
The judges wife called up
The district attorney said you better
Free that brown eyed man
If you want your job you'd better
Free that brown eyed man

Way back in history
Three thousand years
Back when ever since the world began
Got a whole lot a good woman
Shedding tears for
A brown eyed handsome man
That's what the trouble was
A brown eyed handsome man

 

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"Bull Rider"
(with Rodney Crowell)

"Bull Rider"
(with Rodney Crowell)



First off you gotta wanna get off bad enough
To wanna get on him in the first place
And you better trust in your lady luck
Pray to God she don't give up on you right now

Live fast, die young, bull rider

One hand hold is all you've got
It's you and the bull against the clock and of course the crowd
And once upon a spinnin' ton
Nothin' else you've ever done can pull this way

You're just outside the buckin' chute
You lose a spur, you lose your seat and you lose yourself
By now he's buckin' mean and dirty
Slingin' shit and cowboy boots and kickin' clowns

No fools, no fun, bull rider

You gotta feel the way he's movin', you gotta watch his head
And brace yourself for anything that render you might dead
You know the art of hangin' loose is hangin' just as tight
Well it's something like a hurricane dancin' with a kite

Well the rodeo is more than rough
It’'s a fact of life and it'’s tough to cut and it’'s beaver hats
It’'s drinking beer and pulling trailers
Tight lemae on barrel racers and a horse bucking

No ride, no pain, bull rider,
Live fast, die young, bull rider

 

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"California Earthquake (A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On)"

"California Earthquake (A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On)"


There was a California earthquake in the year of '83
It shook the living daylights out of the Owens County Seat
There weren't a building still left standing when the dust had cleared away
Just a rumble in the distance all the way to San Andrea

Sherman Buck was driving his old mule into town
When a big one came and shook so hard that it knocked him to the ground
Lord there opened up a hole so big he thought his time was up
Lord it swallowed up that poor old mule and it just missed Sherman Buck

California earthquake you just don't know what you've done
We may fall off in the ocean Lord you'll never make us run
You're a partner of the devil Lord we ain't afraid of him
We'll build ourselves another town so you can tear it down again

Then came the quake of '99 that levelled Mission Creek
The earth was like an ocean churning with waves of twenty feet
Lord it sounded like a thousand trains were screaming underground
Clean across to San Joachim they heard that mournful sound

California earthquake you just don't know what you've done
We may fall off in the ocean Lord you'll never make us run
You're a partner of the devil Lord we ain't afraid of him
We'll build ourselves another town so you can tear it down again

Then came one day the holocaust Lord on rocks of Franciso Bay
Miles of walls came down like old Jericho that day
Might near everything the earthquake missed a holy fire consumed
Just left 'em smoke and the ashes of the dreams that can't be ruined

California earthquake you just don't know what you've done
We may fall off in the ocean Lord you'll never make us run
You're a partner of the devil Lord we ain't afraid of him
We'll build ourselves another town so you can tear it down again
Lord, we'll build ourselves another town you can tear it down again

 

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"Candy Man"

"Candy Man"


Come on baby let me take you by the hand
Come on sugar let me take you by the hand
You're for me let me be all your own candy candy your candy man
Well come on baby I love your honey lovin' ways
Hey there sweet thing I love your honey lovin' honey lovin' ways
Oh come to me let me be all your own candy candy your candy man

Come on woman I'm gonna treat you right I'll give you candy kisses every single night
(Candy man your candy man your candy man your candy man)
Oh come to me let me be all your own candy candy your candy man
Yeah candy candy candy I got the sweet sweet things for you
Yeah candy candy candy I got the sweet sweet things for you

 

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"Chase The Feeling"
(with Rodney Crowell)

"Chase The Feeling"
(with Rodney Crowell)



It takes one to know one, baby
I know how you feel
You got your hunger
And some problems that are real

And you're dealing with some demons
Who are driving you insane
And I've seen them drag you screaming
Down the hallways of your brain

And you got loaded again
Ain't you handsome when you're high
Nothing matters
Chase the feeling 'til you die

Let it right on in there, baby
Let it run your life
Let it run your children off
And let it run your wife

Let it take the joy you love
And turn it to despair
You knew you knew better, baby
You just didn't care

And you got loaded again
Ain't you handsome when you're high
Nothing matters
Chase the feeling 'til you die

Blame it on the moonlight, baby
Think of number one
Tangled up in two
When you were shining like the sun

With some pretty piece of hunger
Who was younger than her eyes
On a scale of cosmic thunder
It's a wonder you're alive

And you got loaded again
Ain't you handsome when you're high
Nothing matters
Chase the feeling 'til you die
Nothing matters
Chase the feeling 'til you die
Nothing matters
Chase the feeling 'til you die

 

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"Closer To Heaven"

"Closer To Heaven"


I don't like hommus, I hate long lines
Nosey neighbors and venetian blinds
Chirping news anchors alter my mood
I'm offended by buzz-words like "awesome" and "dude"

I look like a train wreck, I feel like a blob
Till you get to know me, you may think I'm a snob
But I'm closer to heaven than I've ever been

I don't eat sushi, I don't smoke grass
I don't wear pyjamas, I don't drive fast
I hate idle gossip and tassled shoes
Slick politicians, they give me the blues

I don't ride in Limos, I can't play golf
I don't own a rifle that will blow your head off
But I'm closer to heaven than I've ever been

I'm riding that way from cradle to grave
I'm learning to feel my hands on the wheel

I love my friends, I love my wife
Four little babies are the light of my life
I love Sissy Spacek, I love Guy Clark
All the biscuits and gravy I can eat with a fork

I don't wanna be famous, who gives a damn?
I just wanna be happy where ever I am
And I'm closer to heaven than I've ever been
I'm closer to heaven than I've ever been

Closer to heaven
Closer to heaven

 

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"Come On Funny Feelin'"

"Come On Funny Feelin'"


I don't want to wind up bitter lost inside a silent rage
Or become like Rilke's panther out here locked up in a cage
The old man I've been talkin' to has cotton in his ears
But then who am I to blame him I've had mine stopped up for years
Singing come on funny feelin'

L.A. hits my windshield like some Armageddon sprawl
Plantin' palm trees in the desert makes no sense to me at all
In a science fiction world where walkin' wounded leave their mark
I just took my place among them tryin' to find a place to park
Singing come on funny feelin'

The funny feeling comes when you're in love with everyone
And all your races have been run or laid to rest
So get this freakin' anvil off my chest
Come on funny feelin'

The funny feelin' knows the way the whole thing comes and goes
It make's you stop and smell the roses if you're smart
So get this freakin' anvil off my heart
Come on funny feelin'

So it's not like I'm not blessed with something special in my world
Just around the next dark corner there's a blue eyed dancin' girl
Who love me like tomorrow comes with everything I need
And I just have to pay attention where this road I'm on might lead
I'm thinkin' come on funny feelin'

The funny feeling knows the truth the eye for eye & tooth for tooth
It's something way back in your youth you should not second guess
The funny feeling never lies it's there to open up your eyes
And make you stop and realize you're blessed
So get this frickin' anvil off my chest
Come on funny feelin'
Come on funny feelin'
Come on funny feelin'
Come on funny feelin'

 

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"Crazy Baby"

"Crazy Baby"


Well, we can sit right down
And we can cry, cry, cry
Or we can pack it up
And go get high, high, high

You know you're crazy, baby
That's all I want from you

Well, we can lay around
In this house all day
Or we can pack it up
And make a getaway

Now you're a good time momma
And I'm daddy good time too
You know you're crazy, baby
And I'm crazy about you

You know I've been all around
This hard rockin' world
And I've never seen a thing
Like you in it, girl

Now you're a high flyin' momma
And I want to ride with you, indeed I do
You know you're crazy, baby
And I'm damn sure crazy about you

Whoa, one time

You know I bounced all around
In this big rubber ball
Before I met you baby
I did not have no fun at all

And now I'm crazy, baby
And I've learned it all from you

You know you're crazy, baby
And I'm crazy about you
You know you're crazy, baby
And I'm damn sure crazy about you

Aw, let's go

 

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"Dancin' Circles Round The Sun (Epictetus Speaks)"

"Dancin' Circles Round The Sun (Epictetus Speaks)"


Disregard what don't concern you, don't let disappointment turn you
Avoid adopting other people's views
Know what you can and can't control, don't let envy take a toll
It's nothing more than weather passing through
When your back's against the wall, when you're headed for a fall
The tables set to make a run dancin' circles round the sun

Through action wisdom is revealed and too much talk is like a shield
In silence lies the keys to how we grow
When focused on the truth at hand, the critics try to make you bland
But they don't understand what they don't know
Make your own cracks in the sky, grit your teeth and learn to fly
And when the right thing has been done, you'll be dancin' circles round the sun

Forgive the ones who meant to harm you, don't let superstition charm you
Conform your wishes only to what's real
Your reputation doesn't matter, let idle gossip chirp and chatter
No one else can tell you how you feel
In between the masks you wear, wash your face and comb your hair
You're not hurting anyone dancin' circles round the sun

Your mind cries out to God alone, please send me someone I can own
Your soul says son you're walking on thin ice
Possession in the broadest sense, compounded by coincidence
When all it takes is one roll of the dice
In between the good and bad, think of all the fun you had
It's the same for everyone dancin' circles round the sun

Evolution comes in fits, it stops and starts, it coughs and spits
Picasso and Mile Davis come to mind
True artists, bold unbridled passion, no concern for fad or fashion
Sexy beasts in love with woman kind
Bend the rules until it breaks, stand your ground until it shakes
That's the way to get things done dancin' circles round the sun

Hey, sod convention let's have fun dancin' circles round the sun