A long time ago came a man on a track Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back And he put down his load where he thought it was the best Made a home in the wilderness Built a cabin and a winter store And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore The other travelers came walking down the track And they never went further, no, they never went back Then came the churches then came the schools Then came the lawyers then came the rules Then came the trains and the trucks with their load And the dirty old track was the telegraph road Then came the mines and then came the ore Then there [...]
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Calling Elvis Is anybody home Calling Elvis I’m here all alone Did he leave the building Or can he come to the phone Calling Elvis I’m here all alone Well tell him I was calling just to wish him well Let me leave my number Heartbreak hotel Oh love me tender Baby don’t be cruel Return to sender Treat me like a fool Calling Elvis Is anybody home Calling Elvis I’m here all alone Did he leave the building Can he come to the phone Calling Elvis I’m here all alone Why don’t you go get him I’m his biggest fan You gotta tell him He’s still the man Long distance baby So far from home Don’t you think maybe [...]
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You walk out on the high wire You’re dancer on thin ice You pay no heed to the danger And less to advice Your footsteps are forbidden But with knowledge of your sin You throw your love to all the strangers And caution to the wind And you go dancing through doorways Just to see what you will find Leaving nothing to interfere With the crazy balance of your mind And when you finally reappear At the place where you came in You’ve thrown your love to all the strangers And caution to the wind It takes love over gold And mind over matter To do what you do that you must When the things that you hold Can fall [...]
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There’s gotta be a record of you someplace You gotta be on somebody’s books The lowdown – a picture of your face Your injured looks The sacred and profane The pleasure and the pain Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete And it’s your face I’m looking for on every street A ladykiller – regulation tattoo Silver spurs on his heels Says – what can I tell you, as I’m standing next to you She threw herself under my wheels Oh it’s a dangerous road And a hazardous load And the fireworks over liberty explode in the heat And it’s your face I’m looking for on every street A three-chord symphony crashes into space The moon is hanging upside down I don’t [...]
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