1. The Light Of Day
(D. Kincaid)
Before dawn each day
I'd go down below
And the walls they'd sweat
I'd sweat more
The coal-black dust
Filled the air
I'd breath it in
I could not afford to care
There were debts passed down
From father to son
From mother to daughter
From mother to son
As we owed our souls
To the company store
Each day we got less
They got more
I believe I can see
The light of the day
It's up there ahead
Not far away
I've been digging my way out
Of this dark mine
Since what feels like
The dawn of time
I believe I can see
The light of day
And the timbers placed
To support these walls
One day came down
About our heads did fall
I was buried alive
I was left for dead
But I came to
Began to dig instead
I swear when again
I can breath fresh air
Look up to the heavens
And thank God that I'm there
I'll never be buried
In this earth again
When I'm dead throw my ashes
To the four winds
Since I was a boy
I've worked this mine
They said "Son, you'll be here
Till the day you die"
But you'll get no more
Of my blood and my sweat
No more years of my life
In this God-less pit
There's sun and there's rain
And there's love up there
No cause in this world
Could drag me back here
2.
Sinister Purpose
(J.C. Fogerty)
When the sky
is grey
And the moon is hate
I'll be down to get you
Roots of earth will shake
Chorus:
Sinister Purpose
Knockin' at your door
Come and take my hand
Burn away the goodness
You and I remain
Did you see the last war?
Well, here I am again
Chorus
I can set you free
Make you rich and wise
We can live forever
Look into my eyes
Chorus
3.
We Are No Man
(C. Funk, D. Kincaid)
We live in
the hills travel at night
Invisible lives in the visible light
You might hear a sound with the fall of the sun
It's the beat of a heart the pound of a drum
Chorus:
We are here, we are No Man
Disappeared, we are No Man
Turned away, in our own lands
We are here
We'll never go away
Some men are kings and some work the mines
A few have it all get more all the time
They come with a gift and then with a gun
You learn how to serve or learn how to run
All over the world we live in the hills
Move in the wastelands the deserts are filled
We are the shadows that won't go away
The ghosts of the past the future someday
4
. Union Dixie - Gettysburg
(Traditional / C. Funk, D. Kincaid)
Way down South
in the land traders
Rattlesnakes and alligators
Ride away, come away
Ride away, come away
Where cotton's king and man are chadles
The union boys win the battle
Ride away, come away
Ride away, come away
Then we all go down to Dixie
Away, away
Each dixie boy must understand
That he must find his uncle sam
Away, away
We'll all go down to Dixie
Away, away
Away, down South of Dixie
On a cold October's day
The battlefield at Gettysburg
On a plaque I read my name
The wheels of time begin to turn
I see the years stripped away
I see their lines blue and gray
Chorus:
Down in Gettysburg
Saw them fall
Bloody Gettysburg
Took them all
Waited for the word
Never came
Retreat from Gettysburg
I've seen a lot of wicked things
Heard a lot of people cry
I know it couldn't touch the pain
Of seeing 50,000 die
I saw the sun fall away
The moon shone white on their graves
Chorus
Billy Yank said good-bye
Mother's son left to die
Dixieland look away
Mother's son died today
Papa fought a bloody war
His father in the one before
Walking through the haunted field
I knew we couldn't give no more
I saw the years stripped away
I watched men die blue and gray
Chorus
5.
Ridin' The Red-Eye
(D. Kincaid)
You see that
grey-haired man by the window
He ain't half as old as he looks
Barely aware that his wife has left him
He won't see his children grow up
Chorus:
Ridin' the Red-Eye
You can't take this ride all the way
Ridin' the Red-Eye
Whoa, it'll kill you one day
You see that girl so young and pretty
She don't know she'll be gettin' off soon
She'll take anything to stay on the Red-Eye
She don't see she's got it all to lose
I'm sick and tired of hearin' why
I should get on board that old Red-Eye
To find myself surrounded
By dealers, drunks and wasted lives
Overdoses, bitter tears
I want a sharp mind and my vision clear
Gonna look at life right in the eye
Gonna make damn sure it don't pass me by
Only two ways to get off the Red-Eye
One's good and the other one ain't
One leaves you six feet under
One gives you a chance again
Get off the Red-Eye
You can't take this ride all the way
Ridin' the Red-Eye
Whoa, it'll kill you one day
6.
Twenty Flight Rock
(E. Cochran, N. Fairchild)
Oh I get a
girl with a record machine
When it comes to rockin she's the queen
We go to dance on saturday night
I'm all alone and I hold her tight
But she live on the twentieth floor in town
The elevator's broken down
So I walk one, two flight, three flight four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight more
Up on the twelfth I'm starting to sag
Fifteenth floor I'm ready to drag
Get to the top, I'm too tired to rock
Well she called me up on the telephone
Said "come on over, baby, I'm all alone"
I said "baby, you're mighty sweet
But I'm in bed with the achin' feet"
This went on for a couple of days
But I could not stay away
7.
Have Love Will Travel
(R. Berry)
Have love, whoa
Baby will travel
Have love, yea Darlin' will travel
If you need lovin’
Then hmm, mmm, I’ll travel
Well I travel from Maine to Mexico
To find a little girl that'll love me so
No matter where, no matter where I’ll be
I'm lookin' for a lover that’ll satisfy me
Have love, whoa Baby will travel
Have love, Yea Darlin' will travel
If you need lovin’
Then yeah, yeah, I’ll travel
Well I might take a boat, or I'll take a plane
Might hitchhike, or jump a train
Your kind of lovin' drives a man insane
So look for me a walkin' just any ol' way
Have love, whoa Darlin' will travel
Have love, yea Baby will travel
If you need lovin’
Then yeah, yeah, I’ll travel
8
. Cheyenne
(S. Kempner)
I was just a boy
The first time I heard of Cheyenne
I fell in love with the word
What to me seems such a strange exotic land
Where cowboys still ride the high plains
Where heaven kisses the earth
And a person could be free enough
To find out what he was worth
Chorus:
Cheyenne
Someday Cheyenne
I'm gonna ride the high plains
Cheyenne
Can't you just picture me
A city boy in God's country
I'd never known anywhere other
Than the streets of my town
Too much of anything even the best things
Will finally get you down
I'd never been any farther west
Than the shores of Jersey
But I guess dreams were created
By a God in his infinite mercy
Chorus
Well I've seen a little bit of the world
These past few years
And while I'm still a young man
I've had my share of laughs I've shed my share of tears
Tonight when I get home
I'll settle back and turn on the TV
Or I could just close my eyes
And Cheyenne is where I will be
Chorus
9.
The Other Side
(C. Funk, D. Kincaid)
Are you from
the other side
Where the music plays at night
When I stand behind the wall
I pretend to see it all
Here I stand, night into day
The western world, one world away
Chorus:
I dream every night
I run for the lights
And watch as this wall
Just crumbles
And falls
Are you from the other side
Where the many colored lights
make patterns on the clouds
And then fall upon the clouds
Here I stand, night into day
The western world, one world away
How I'd love to see the band
Just to watch and understand
How you do the things you do
How the music rings so true
Here I stand, night into day
The western world, one world away
Chorus
10.
Green River
(J. C. Fogerty)
Well, take me
back down where cool water flow, yeah
Let me remember things I love
Stoppin' at the log where catfish bite
Walkin' along the river road at night
Barefoot girls dancin' in the moonlight, Green River
I can hear the bull frog callin' me
Wonder if my rope's still hangin' to the tree
Love to kick my feet way down the shallow water
Shoe fly, dragon fly, get back to your mother
Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River
Up at Cody's camp I spent my days, oh,
With flat car riders and cross-tie walkers.
Old Cody, Junior took me over,
Said, you're gonna find the world is smould rin
An' if you get lost come on home to Green River