The Byrds

[fox69]

"Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)"

"Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)"


The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
The oranges are filed in their creosote dumps
They're flying 'em back to the Mexico border
To take all their money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, farewell Roselita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportees

My father's own father, he waded that river
They took all the money he made in his life
It's six hundred miles to the Mexico border
And they chased them like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves

The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
The great ball of fire it shook all our hills
Who are these dear friends who are falling like dry leaves?
Radio said, "They are just deportees"

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can raise our good crops?
To fall like dry leaves and rot on out topsoil
And be known by no names except "deportees"

 

[fox69]

"Dolphin's Smile"

"Dolphin's Smile"


Out at sea for a year
Floating free from all fear
Every day blowin' spray,
In a dolphin's smile

Wind-taut line split the sky,
Curlin'crest rollin' by
Floating free aimlessly,
In a dolphin's smile

Rainbow's end everywhere,
Full of light, free as air
Childhood's dream,
Have you ever seen a dolphin's smile

 

[fox69]

"Don't Doubt Yourself, Babe"

"Don't Doubt Yourself, Babe"


Don't doubt yourself, babe
Let you feet stand up your beliefs, babe
I know what's running through your mind
Think you ought to capture time
Make love, walk the straight and narrow, aah aah

Don't doubt yourself, gal
Let's what's inside be your guide, you know darn well
For all the wrong that's been done to you it's making you prettier
So don't be blue
Life your living what you've been through, you're lucky, aah

Don't doubt yourself when
Daylight fades and darkness begins
It's only come to show you that you're the one
Who knows where it's at
The rest; who think they've got it pat, know nothing, aah

Don't doubt yourself cause
At the end of your words no one applaudes
The truth is proven to be found
Hard to take the first time around
So don't you worry, it's gonna be alright, aah, aah

 

[fox69]

"Don't Make Waves"

"Don't Make Waves"


If you're looking to get a good thing going for yourself
House and pool a new Rolls Royce and some degree of wealth
Don't make waves don't make waves don't make waves
Take a ride out West to find that freedom that you crave
Kick that nine to five
Don't let them make you a slave
Don't make waves don't make waves don't makes waves

And when the toys that you dreamed of have finally come
They all will break and you're back where you started from

Malibou is calling you
With days and nights so warm
You can find excitement any size shape or form
Don't make waves don't make waves waves don't make waves

 

[fox69]

"Draft Morning"

"Draft Morning"


Sun warm on my face, I hear you
Down below movin' slow
And it's morning

Take my time this morning, no hurry
To learn to kill and take the will
From unknown faces

Today was the day for action
Leave my bed to kill instead
Why should it happen?

 

[fox69]

"Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man"

"Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man"


He's a drug store truck drivin man
He's the head of the Ku Klux Klan
When summer rolls around
He'll be lucky if he's not in town

Well he's got him a house on the hill
He plays country records till you've had your fill
He's a fireman's friend, he's an all night DJ
But he sure does think different from the records he plays

He's a drug store truck drivin man
He's the head of the Ku Klux Klan
When summer rolls around
He'll be lucky if he's not in town

Well he don't like the young folks I know
He told me one night on his radio show
He's got him a medal he won in the war
Weighs five hundred pounds and sleeps on his floor

He's a drug store truck drivin man
He's the head of the Ku Klux Klan
When summer rolls around
He'll be lucky if he's not in town

He's been like a father to me
He's the only DJ you can hear after three
I'm an all night musician in a rock 'n' roll band
And why he don't like me, I can't understand

He's a drug store truck drivin man
He's the head of the Ku Klux Klan
When summer rolls around
He'll be lucky if he's not in town

 

[fox69]

"Eight Miles High"

"Eight Miles High"


Eight miles high and when you touch down
You'll find that it's stranger than known
Signs in the street that say where you're going
Are somewhere just being their own

Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
Rain gray town known for its sound
In places small faces unbound

Round the squares huddled in storms
Some laughing some just shapeless forms
Sidewalk scenes and black limousines
Some living, some standing alone

 

[fox69]

"Everybody's Been Burned"

"Everybody's Been Burned"


Everybody has been burned before
Everybody knows the pain
Anyone in this place can tell you to your face
Why you shouldn't try to love someone

Everybody knows it never works
Everybody knows and me
I know that door that shuts just before
You get to the dream you see

I know it all too well how to turn, how to run
How to hide behind a bitter wall of blue
But you die inside if you chose to hide
So I guess instead I'll love you

 

[fox69]

"Farther Along"

"Farther Along"


Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long,
While there are others living about us,
Never molested tho' in the wrong.

Farther along we'll know all about it,
Farther along we'll understand why;
Cheer up, my brother, come sing in the sunshine
We'll understand it all by and by.

When death has come and taken our loved ones,
It leaves our home so lonely and drear;
Then do we wonder why others prosper
Living so wicked year after year.

Farther along...

Faithful till death said our loving, Master,
A few more days to labor and wait;
Toils of the road will then seem as nothing,
When we sweep thru that beautiful gate.

Farther along...

When we see Jesus coming in glory,
When He comes from His home in the sky;
Then we shall meet Him in that bright mansion,
We'll understand it all by and by.

Farther along...

 

[fox69]

"Fiddler A Dram"

"Fiddler A Dram"


I got goin', Jenny come along
Here come John, big boots on
I got goin', Jenny come along
Here come Johnny with his big boots on

I got goin', Jenny come along
Pretty little girl with a red dress on
She put it on, I put it on
Here come Johnny with his big boots on

Come on people give the fiddler a dram
Come on people give the fiddler a dram
Come on people give the fiddler a dram
Come on and give the fiddler a dram

I got a dog
Sitting on a fence
And I haven't seen the damn thing since
Worked all day with a bottle in my hand
Come on and give the fiddler a dram

Come on people give the fiddler a dram
Come on give the fiddler a dram
Come on people give the fiddler a dram
Come on and give the fiddler a dram

I got goin', Jenny come along
Twenty long years since I've been gone
I got goin', Jenny come along
Here come Johnny with his big boots on

Fiddler a dram, Fiddler a dram
Come on give the fiddler a dram
Fiddler a dram, Fiddler a dram
Come on give the fiddler a dram