The Byrds

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"Jesus Is Just Alright"

"Jesus Is Just Alright"


Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right, Oh yeah
Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right

I don't care what they may know
I don't care where they may go
I don't care what they may know
Jesus is just all right, oh yeah
Jesus is just all right

I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just all right, oh yeah
Jesus is just all right

Do, do, do, [etc.]

Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right, Oh yeah
Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right

Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right, Oh yeah
Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right

 

[fox69]

"John Riley"

"John Riley"


Fair young maid all in her garden
Strange young man came riding by
Saying: "Fair young maid, will you marry me?"
This then, sir, was her reply

"Oh no, kind sir, I cannot marry thee
For I've a love who sails the deep salt sea
Though he's been gone these seven years
Still no man shall marry me"

"What if he's died all in some battle slain
Or if he's drowned in, in the deep salt sea?
What if he's found some other love
He and his new love both married be?"

"If he's found some other love
He and his new love both married be
I wish them health and happiness
Where they far across the sea"

He picked her up all in his arms
And kisses gave her one, two and three
"Then weep no more, my own true love
I am your long lost John Riley"
Saying: "Weep no more, my own true love
For I'm your long lost John Riley"

 

[fox69]

"Just A Season"

"Just A Season"


If all my days were hills to climb and circles without reason
If all I was was passing time my life was just a season

Tears and dreams and silly schemes and phillies running freely
I was young and no song was song that didn't sound appealing
I'd have my fun with a shy girl, then maybe hop a train
And I looked like I'd been standing in the rain

Dirty hands and root beer stands and money like a river
Making deals to see how it feels to get more than you're givin'
I'd have my fun with a gambling man and bluff him with my face
And it's drinks for everybody in the place

If all my days were hills to climb and circles without reason
If all I was was passing time my life was just a season

Shouting crowds and mummy shrouds and people goin' crazy
All we said was what was in their hands it surely was amazing
I had my fun in the bullring, I never got a scar
It really wasn't hard to be a star

If all my days were hills to climb and circles without reason
If all I was was passing time my life was just a season

 

[fox69]

"Just Like A Woman"

"Just Like A Woman"


Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows that Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.

She takes just like a
Woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like
A woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

Queen Mary, she's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can't be blessed
Till she sees finally
That she's like all the rest
With her fog, her
Amphetamine and her pearls.

She takes just like a
Woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like
A woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

It was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse
Is this pain in here
I can't stay in here
Ain't it clear that-

I just can't fit
Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit
When we meet again introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world.
Ah, you fake just like a
Woman, yes, you do
You make love just like a
Woman, yes, you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl.

 

[fox69]

"Kathleen's Song"

"Kathleen's Song"


When I awake you will be gone
Shady tomorrow
I want to go, where will you be
So I'll stay home letting my hair grow long
And I will be waiting for you

A fire burns, summer is gone
Winter is sorrow
And time don't mean nothing to me
And only the hours listen to hear my song
And I will be walking in dew
And I will be waiting for you

Some people say love goes away not mine

Four roses red for your cheeks I will borrow
And find romance for you to see
A surge of blue tells me your love is strong
Each spring my life is starting anew
And I will be waiting for you

 

[fox69]

"King Apathy III"

"King Apathy III"


Grease collecting stained-glass rubies
Pillowed gently on a strand
Bearing looks of frenzied blankness
Slowing down their freebie king

Middleclass suburban children
Wearing costumes that reveal
Blindly follow recent pipers
With their mystical appeal
Go now

So I'm leavin' for the country to try and rest my head
Cause if I hang around this scene too long you know babe I'll be dead

Color changes superficial
Apathy still a king
Liberal reactonaries
Never feeling anything
Go now

 

[fox69]

"Lady Friend"

"Lady Friend"


Here it comes again, it's going to happen to me
Here it comes, I should have learned to duck
She's going to say, she's going away
And I will have to live without her and survive

Here it comes, it looks just like the last wave I drowned in
Here it comes, and I'm so far from shore
She's going to go, and take her trinkets
And I will have to live without her and survive

Here it comes again, the night is going to fall
Here it comes, she's going to say good-bye
She's going to go, and leave only me
And I will have to live without her and survive.

 

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"Laughing"

"Laughing"


I thought I met a man who said he knew a man
Who knew what was going on
I was mistaken, only another stranger that I knew

And I thought that I found a light to guide me through the night
And all this darkness
I was mistaken, only reflections of a shadow that I saw

And I thought I'd seen someone who seemed
"at last" to know the truth
I was mistaken, only a child laughing in the sun, in the sun

 

[fox69]

"Lay Down Your Weary Tune"

"Lay Down Your Weary Tune"


Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum

Sruck by the sounds before the sun
I knew the night had gone
The morning breeze like a bugle blew
Against the drums of dawn
Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum

The ocean wild like an organ played
The seaweed wove its strands
The crashin' waves like cymbals clashed
Against the rocks and sands
Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum

The last of leaves fell from the trees
And clung to a new love's breast
The branches bare like a banjo played
To the winds that listened best
Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum

 

[fox69]

"Lay Lady Lay"

"Lay Lady Lay"


Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead