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1. THE BURDEN
(A-YOU CAN’T BEAR)
I hung my head and cried away
With a burden that I can’t bear
It’s cold outside, nowhere to lay
Alone I stand, nobody’s near
I’ve been by the highway side
With clothes wet, tight against the skin
It’s a long gone ride my friend
Down yonder, where I’ve been
I’ll build a road, a stairway
And escape the chain gang
But no breeze gonna take away
The things that are left undone...left undone
I went down to praying grounds
I fell on my wounded knees
Thought I heard a stranger shout
“There’s no ending, no release…”
I might drink whiskey, might drink milk
Or from shallow water of the land
On Big Muddy I will sink
Like an out-of-tune chant
Like a smokestack silver linin’
Hidden in the dark clouds
When the strike comes a-shinin’ down
Off the skies, on the top of mound…on the top of mound
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Chain Gang Partners
04:46
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2. CHAIN GANG PARTNERS
Hallelujah, for the chain gang, hallelu…hallelu…
Brothers…sisters…there’s a linin’…hallelu…hallelu
I was stuck on Death Valley, got the Death Valley Blues
Shadows were behind me and a lot of bad, bad news
Have you seen the iron horse, the black evil train
Carryin’ our companions, wasted all in vain
Hallelujah, for junco partners, hallelu…hallelu…
Our hands are empty but faces well hidden…hallelu…hallelu
Lord, I feel like a deportee, I got no kinfolk around
A million miles, a million tears…when you’re prison bound
The bullet flies, there’s blood…blood traces and rhyme
I’ll meet you in hell baby if I ever get there on time
Hallelujah…
You know, many a young men died a hundred times
Like angels on heroin paid for their holy crimes
Blackbirds love to steal men’s grace and hide
But you can join ‘em at a motel down the horizon line
Hallelujah…
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Lil' Mefisto
03:29
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3. LIL’ MEFISTO
Lil’ Mefisto was a man
A bad lil’ man
Under this mojo spell
Lil’ Mefisto was a man
A bad lil’ man
He had the rebel yell
He had the rebel yell
He loved the smack on streets downtown
This is his last night stand
For smack and booze he got it bad
He wasted into rust again
Lil’ Mefisto was a man
A bad highway man
He lived by the highway side
Lil’ Mefisto was man
A bad highwayman
He had his last damn ride
This junk has got him, it’s so sad
He had the monkey on his back
Damn the mean ol’ candyman
Poor lil’ boy…you got it bad….
Ride on…..ride on….ride on……
Lil’ Mefisto…
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4. GOIN’ DOWN
(IN A WHISKEY HAZE)
I’ve been waitin’, waitin’ at the station
Waitin’ on a Southbound bullet train
I’ve been drowning in a whiskey haze darling
I’m goin’ down…
These are “Days Of Wine & Roses” if you ask me
All the girls look beautiful tonight
But I’m just sinkin’ deeper in my drink darling
I’m goin’ down…
Where’s all the fun we used to have in Memphis
Playin’ Elvis like some big screen movie star
But these are memories lost inside my drink darling
I’m goin’ down…
So here’s to all the drunkards of this city
The lonely ones that they’ve got all the style
I’ll sink once more in a whiskey haze darling
An’ I’ll go down…
I’ll sink once more deep inside my drink darling
An’ I’ll go down…
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Lean On Me
03:16
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5. LEAN ON ME
Jack fell in love with Patty Valentine
He turned his head away; he was a friend of mine
Chester was so glad being with Marie-Ann
But she found another one to be her loving man
Shady was so pretty, John goddamn you man
He left his darling like a flower in the sand
Jane was a dame and Mary was a dude
One day she disappeared with a boy deep in the wood
I said lean on…lean on me
Janie she was sweet, she was a beauty queen
She left her parents’ house for the city n’ the streets
Johnnie was her boyfriend, a wasted little pimp
But he was high on acid so she blew a hole through him
Georgia she was pretty, she has a famous friend
She want’s to be a model but she’s only giving head
Jimmy he’s a pill head, her darling little one
But now he rots in prison having “Holidays In The Sun”
I said lean on…lean on me
How does it feel to walk the trail of tears?
You’re just a stranger…a loner through the years
I said lean on…lean on me
C’mon baby, lean on me
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Morning Blue
04:17
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6. MORNING BLUE
Where's my gun, I want to kill tonight
Where’s my drink, I want to get drunk tonight
Lord he took her without warning…Morning Blue
Now he feels so sad, so…Morning Blue
Dress in white, we’re gonna wed tonight
In that chapel on the hill tonight
There he stands all torn & tattered….Morning Blue
Singing songs ‘bout her and one…Morning Blue
Every night he wakes up crying for his love
Can’t forget that fateful…Morning Blue
Birds don’t sing…the roses bled that night
Bittersweet…the kiss you gave last night
Oh, the wine you drank, the taste’s so…Morning Blue
Sun don’t shine, it’s just a…Morning Blue
In Loving Memory of Bruno Adams
2/9/1963 – 18/4/2009 R.I.P.
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Junkyard Blues
04:04
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7. JUNKYARD BLUES
Grey gardens and magnolias
Beneath the glow of light
One of us, will forget
By the end of the night
Well, I’m a-coming from the junkyard
Where every distance is not near
I know I can’t play god no more
I trust no preaching words of fear
I hear echoes, echoes of words
When my friends they’re all gone
On a smouldering black earth
With these long heavy chains on
Well, I’m a-coming from the junkyard
Where every distance is not near
I know I can’t play god no more
I trust no preaching words of fear
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The Voodoo That Burns
04:31
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8. THE VOODOO
(THAT BURNS)
Oh, the voodoo that burns in your eyes
And the tears you disguise in your smile
Oh, the sin that you pour in my drink
And the smoke you inhale every night
Voodoo Queen, lookin’ down New Orleans
On the day that she found out he died
On the day that she found he died
Fine young man rode the train outta town
In her arms and into the bottle divine
Fine young man at the crossroads they met
And the cotton they shared in his bed
Now he’s all torn, it’s his own bloody fault
Here’s the day that he is gonna die
Here’s the day that he is gonna die
Oh, Voodoo this & Voodoo that…your mind it slips away
You took a ride with her downtown…now everybody knows
The priests…the thieves…the whores…the fiends
They know it was just a game
But you sunk deep into your hole
The Voodoo Queen she knows
It was bad mojo….bad mojo….bad mojo…bad mojo….
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The Mourner
03:53
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9. THE MOURNER
The “Mourner” was an outlaw, a low-life drunken thief
He was alone and forsaken in a world of sin
In somekinda shelter at the break of dawn
The whips they came-a-crackin’ grinding up the dust
But now I think I see no evil, I feel no low down thrills
There ain’t no hellhound jugglers, no man can foot the bill
The “Mourner” was a rhymer on black snake mountain line
He ended up like Judas but the treachery was mine
Let’s share a smoke my brother
While laying on Graveline Bay
At the “dirty plate trail” down highway Ninety-Nine
But now I think I see no evil…
Well I can’t tell the ghost by the darkest saint
Cos time it fades aways man and hope’s dyin’ in vain
You know, I was an outlaw, a low-life drunken thief
Alone and forsaken in this world of sin
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Marigold Walls
02:53
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10. MARIGOLD WALLS
Looking back to memories of a place called home
Keeping ever gentle on my mind
Floral walls in shades of gold I can recall
And heyday youth remains I left behind
Stories of Marigolds bloom on the walls
They’ve been whispering in time
Marigold walls in secret conspire
Like a ghost they’ve been haunting my mind
There’s something ‘bout those long forgotten days of mine
Songbirds flying high in the sky so clear
‘Bout Marigolds in different shapes with leaves that twine
‘Bout things that happened before…so far…so near…
Stories of Marigolds bloom on the walls
They’ve been whispering in time
Marigold walls in secret conspire
Like a ghost they’ve been haunting my mind
But then I’m rollin’ down the same ol’ neon road till dawn
Driftin’ away like I do every night
And then I long to fade in dreams of walls in shades of gold
And heyday youth remains I’ve left behind
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Just A Love Song
02:15
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11. JUST A LOVE SONG
Woke up in the morning feelin’ kinda low
And I wondered what’s troubling me
Went to the doctor to take a look
He said “My friend I have a medicine for you…
Love, will take your blues away”
Baby, I love you and I have to tell you this
So, please open the door
Please let me in, I need your lovin’
And all my troubles will be gone by morning
Why won’t you take my blues away?
So, she opened up the door at her lonely, lonely home
And I gave her a little kiss, but she said
“Johnny, excuse me please...
I don’t know if you’re the man for me…
…so take all your blues and go away…”
And I went to the doctor again
and he said the medicine’s still the same
So, why won't you open your door?
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12. CHERRY WINE
(LULLABY FOR THE WICKED)
My love she waits at the end of the road
She’s holdin’ dead flowers, she’s prayin’ for her soul
Well, my love she waits at the end of the road
She’s reading her diaries in the cold winter’s breeze (oh, oh)
Oh, the taste so sweet…like Cherry Wine
…a flower in the spring (oh, oh)
Oh, she looks so fine and I want her mine
…like sweet Cherry Wine
My love she waits at the end of the street
She dreams of red roses and a wedding ring
My love she waits at the end of the street
She’s dressed up in diamonds…she’s waiting for me (oh, oh)
Oh, the taste so sweet…
My love she cries, it’s such a sad lullaby
As a heart-broken lover is waving goodbye
My love she cries on a cold winter night
She stares out the window as the days go by bye…bye…bye…
Oh, the taste so sweet…
“She waits for an answer she knows I can’t give…”
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Land Ends
04:14
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13. LAND ENDS
"Where the desert meets the ocean
And the night turns into dawn
Where the flowers never blossom
And the rivers turn to sand
Staring at the vague horizon
Roamin’ down the desert land
We are heading off to nowhere
We’re Goin’ down…"
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14. DEATH DON’T HAVE NO MERCY
(IN THIS LAND)
Death don’t have no mercy in this land
Death don’t have no mercy in this land
He comes to your house…he don’t stay long
Look in the bed one morning… your mother’s gone
Well, death don’t have no mercy in this land
Death will leave you crying in this land
Death will leave you crying in this land
He comes to your house…he don’t stay long
You wake up in the morning… your father’s gone
Well, death don’t have no mercy in this land
Well death don't give you time to get ready in this land
Well death don't give you time to get ready in this land
He'll come to your house and he won't stay long
Look 'round the room one of your mama will be gone
Well dig my…dig my grave…use a bloody spade
Well dig my…dig my grave…use a bloody spade
Just make sure that my digging is well paid
Well dig my…dig my grave…use a bloody spade
Well death takes no vacation in this land
Well death takes no vacation in this land
He comes to your house…he don’t stay long
Wake in the bed one morning… and your family’s gone
Well, death don’t have no mercy in this land
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