Abilene Bob ibson, Lester Brown and John. Loudermilk (1963) E 7 Abilene, Abilene, prettiest town that I've ever seen olks down there don't treat you mean in Abilene, my Abilene E 7 I sit alone most every night, watch them trains as they roll out of sight I wish that they were carryin' me back to Abilene, my Abilene E 7 rowded city, ain't nothin' free, nothin' in this town for me Wish to od that I could be back in Abilene, my Abilene E 7 How I wish that train would come, take me back where I come from Take me where I want to be, back in Abilene, my Abilene E 7 Rotgut whiskey numbs the brain, if I stay here I'll go insane I think I need a change of scene back in Abilene, my Abilene E 7 Outside my window cold rain falls, sit here starin' at the walls If I was home, I'd be serene back in Abilene, my Abilene E 7 Abilene, Abilene, prettiest town that I've ever seen olks down there don't treat you mean in Abilene, my Abilene
Angel rom Montgomery John Prine (1971) I am an old woman, named after my mother My old man is another child that's grown old If dreams were lightning, and thunder was desire This old house would have burnt down a long time ago horus: Make me an angel that flies from Montgom'ry Make me a poster of an old rodeo Just give me one thing that I can hold on to To believe in this living is just a hard way to go When I was a young girl well, I had me a cowboy He weren't much to look at, just a free rambling man But that was a long time and no matter how I try The years just flow by like a broken down dam horus There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear 'em there buzzing And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say horus
Blowin' In The Wind Bob ylan (1963) How many roads must a man walk down Before you can call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? And how many times must the cannonballs fly Before they've forever banned? Refrain: The answer my friend is blowing in the wind The answer is blowing in the wind How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? How many tears must he have shed Before he can hear the people cry? How many wars will it take till he learns That too many people have died Refrain How many years can a mountain exist Before it is washed to the sea? How many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? And how many times can a man turn his head Pretending he just doesn't see? Refrain
reight Train Elizabeth otton 7 reight train freight train goin so fast, freight train freight train goin so fast B 7 Em Please don t tell what train I m on, so they won t know where I ve gone 7 reight train, comin round the bend, freight train, freight train, gone again B 7 Em One of these days turn that train around, go back to my hometown 7 One more place I d like to be, one more place I d love to see B 7 Em To watch those old Blue Ridge mountains climb as I ride ol number nine 7 When I'm dead and in my grave, no more good times here I crave B 7 Em Place the stones at my head and feet, tell the world I've gone to sleep 7 When I die please bury me deep, down at the end of Bleecker Street B 7 Em So I can hear ol number nine, as she goes rollin by 7 reight train freight train goin so fast, freight train freight train goin so fast B 7 Em Please don t tell what train I m on, so they won t know where I ve gone
Hallelujah Leonard ohen (1984) Em Em I heard there was a secret chord that avid played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? Em Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift Bm Em The baffled king composing hallelujah horus: Em Hallelujah, hallelujah, Hallelujah, hallelu...u... jah Em Em Well your faith was strong but you needed proof, you saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you Em She tied you to her kitchen chair, she broke your throne and she cut your hair Bm Em And from your lips she drew the hallelujah (horus) Em Em Baby, I've been here before, I've seen this room and I've walked this floor I used to live alone before I knew you Em I've seen your flag on the marble arch, but love is not a victory march Bm Em It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah (horus) Well there was a time when you let me know what's really going on below But now you never show that to me do you But remember when I moved in you, and the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was hallelujah (horus) Well, maybe there's a od above, but all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you It's not a cry that you hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah (horus)
Hard Times Stephen oster (1854) Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears While we all sup sorrow with the poor There's a song that will linger forever in our ears Oh hard times, come again no more Bridge: 'Tis the song, the sigh of the wea -- ry Hard times, hard times, come again no more Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door Oh hard times, come again no more While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay There are frail ones fainting at the door Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say Oh hard times, come again no more (Bridge) Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave Oh hard times, come again no more (Bridge)
Highway 51 runs right by my baby's door Highway 51 runs right by my baby's door If I don't get the girl I'm loving Won't go down to Highway 51 no more Highway 51 Blues urtis Jones (1938) Well, I know that highway like I know my hand Yes, I know that highway like I know the back of my hand Running up from Wisconsin Way down to no man's land Well, if I should die before my time should come And if I should die before my time should come Won't you bury my body Out on the Highway 51 Highway 51 runs right by my baby's door Highway 51 runs right by my baby's door If I don't get the girl I'm loving Won't go down to Highway 51 no more If I don't get the girl I'm loving Won't go down to Highway 51 no more
Hotel Yorba The White Stripes 2001 I was watching with one eye on the other side I had fifteen people telling me to move, I got moving on my mind I found shelter in some thoughts turning wheels around I said thirty-nine times that I love you to the beauty I had found horus: Well, it s one, two, three, four take the elevator At the Hotel Yorba I'll be glad to see you later All they got inside is vacancy I've been thinking of a little place down by the lake They got a dirty little road leading up to the house I wonder how long it will take Til we're alone, sitting on the front porch of that home Stompin' our feet on the wooden boards, never gonna worry about locking the door (horus) (quiet) It might sound silly for me to think childish thoughts like these But I'm so tired of acting tough, and I'm gonna do what I please (louder) Let's get married in a big cathedral by a priest ause if I'm the man that you love the most you can say I do at least (horus) inal horus: And it's four, five, six, seven grab your umbrella rab hold of me cause I'm your favorite fella All they got inside is vacancy
I Ain't ot No Home Woody uthrie I ain't got no home, I'm just a-roamin' 'round Just a wandrin' worker, I go from town to town The police make it hard wherever I may go And I ain't got no home in this world anymore My brothers and my sisters are stranded on this road A hot and dusty road that a million feet have trod Rich man took my home and drove me from my door And I ain't got no home in this world anymore I was farmin' on the shares, and always I was poor My crops I lay into the banker's store My wife took down and died upon the cabin floor And I ain't got no home in this world anymore I mined in your mines and I gathered in your corn I been working, mister, since the day I was born Now I worry all the time like I never did before 'ause I ain't got no home in this world anymore Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see This world is such a great and a funny place to be The gamblin' man is rich and the workin' man is poor And I ain't got no home in this world anymore
I ll ly Away Albert E. Brumley (1929) 7 Some glad morning when this life is o'er I'll fly away Em To a home on od's celestial shore, I'll... fly away 7 horus: I'll fly away, Oh lory, I'll fly away Em When I die, hallelujah, bye and bye, I'll... fly away 7 When the shadows of this life have flown, I'll fly away Em Like a bird thrown driven by the storm, I'll fly away horus 7 Just a few more weary days and then I'll fly away Em To a land where joy shall never end, I'll fly away horus
Make Me own A Pallet On Your loor traditional 1) Make me down a pallet on your floor Make me down a pallet on your floor B 7 Em Make me down a pallet soft and low When I m broke and I got nowhere to go 2) Been hangin round with good time friends of mine Been hangin round with good time friends of mine B 7 Em Oh, they treat me very nice and kind When I ve got a dollar and a dime 3) Weary blues everywhere I see Weary blues an they re everywhere I see B 7 Em Weary blues everywhere I see No one ever had the blues like me 4) Way I m sleepin my back and shoulders tire Way I m sleepin my back and shoulders tire B 7 Em ome tomorrow, I ll be satisfied If I can catch a fast train and ride 5) Make me down a pallet on your floor Make me down a pallet on your floor B 7 Em Make me down a pallet soft and low When I m broke and I got nowhere to go
1) Oh, you playboys and playgirls Ain't a-gonna run my world 7 Ain't a-gonna run my world Ain't a-gonna run my world Oh, you playboys and playgirls Ain't a-gonna run my world 7 Not now or no other time Playboys and Playgirls Bob ylan (1962) 2) You fallout shelter sellers an't get in my door (3x) You fallout shelter seller an't get in my door, not now or no other time 3) Your Jim row ground an't turn me around (3x) Your Jim row ground an't turn me around, not now or no other time 4) The laughter in the lynch mob Ain't a-gonna do no more (3x) The laughter in the lynch mob Ain't a-gonna do no more, not now or no other time 5) Your insane tongues of war talk Ain't a-gonna guide my road (3x) Your insane tongues of war talk Ain't a-gonna guide my road, not now or no other time 6) You red baiters and race haters Ain't a-gonna hang around here (3x) You red baiters and race haters Ain't a-gonna hang around here, not now or no other time (Back to Verse 1)
Short Life of Trouble Traditional horus: Short life of trouble, and a few more words to part Short life of trouble, little girl, for a boy with a broken heart You know what you promised not more than a week ago You promised that you'd marry me standing in your mama's door horus So now you broke your promise, go marry whom you may I'll ramble round this whole wide world, I'll ramble back some day horus Now you've gone and left me, I don't know what I'll do I'd give the world and half of my life just to be married to you horus
Softly and Tenderly Will L. Thompson (1880) Softly and tenderly, Jesus is calling Em A alling for you and for me See on the portals, he s waiting and watching Watching for you and for me horus: Em ome home, come home A 7 Ye who are weary come home Earnestly, tenderly Jesus is calling alling, oh sinner, come home Oh for the wonderful love he has promised Em A Promised for you and for me Though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon Pardon for you and for me horus
Take Me Home ountry Roads John enver (1971) Em Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River Em Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains growin' like a breeze horus: ountry roads, take me home Em To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama Take me home, country roads Em All my mem'ries gather 'round her Miner's lady, stranger to blue water Em ark and dusty, painted on the sky Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye (horus) Em Bridge: I hear her voice in the mornin' hours, she calls me The radio reminds me of my home far away Em And drivin' down the road I get a feelin' 7 That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday (horus 2x)
Union Maid Woody uthrie (1940) Now there once was a union maid, she never was afraid A Of the goons and ginks and the company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called And when the boys come up to her, Lord this is what she said Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union I'm sticking to the union, I'm sticking to the union Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union I'm sticking to the union 'til the day I die Now this union maid was wise to the tricks of the company spies A She'd take the dare she didn't care, she'd always organize the guys And she always got her way when she asked for better pay She showed her card to the National uard, honey this is what they say horus Now you girls who wanna be free, just take a little tip from me A Oh get you a man who's a union man and you can join the ladies' auxiliary Because married life ain't hard when you've got a union card And a union life is a happy life and you've got a union wife horus (2x)
Wagon Wheel Bob ylan (with additional lyrics by Ketch Secor) 2004 Headed down south to the land of the pines Em I'm thumbin' my way into North aroline Starin' up the road, and pray to od I see headlights I made it down the coast in seventeen hours Em Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight horus: So rock me mama like a wagon wheel Em Rock me mama anyway you feel / Hey mama rock me Rock me mama like the wind and the rain Em Rock me mama like a south-bound train / Hey mama rock me Runnin' from the cold up in New England Em I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time stringband My baby plays the guitar, I pick a banjo now Oh, the North country winters keep a-gettin' me now Em Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave But I ain't a-turnin' back to livin' that old life no more (horus) Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke I caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long toke But he's a headed west from the umberland ap to Johnson ity, Tennessee And I gotta get a move on before the sun I hear my baby callin' my name and I know that she's the only one And if I die in Raleigh at least I will die free (horus)
We ll Meet Again Ross Parker & Hughie harles (1942) B 7 Em E 7 We ll meet again, don t know where, don t know when Am 7 But I m sure we ll meet again some sunny day B 7 Em E 7 Keep on smiling through, just like you always do Am 7 Til the blue skies chase the dark clouds far away B 7 So won t you please say hello to the folks that I know Em And tell them won t be long A 7 And they ll be happy to know that when you saw me go Am 7 7 I was singing this song (Repeat)
Why Me Lord Kris Kristofferson 1972 Why me, Lord? What have I ever done 7 To deserve even one of the pleasures I ve known Tell me, Lord, what did I ever do 7 That was worth love from you, or the kindness you ve shown horus: Lord, help me Jesus, I ve wasted it 7 So help me Jesus, I know what I am But now that I know that I ve needed you so Help me Jesus, my soul s in your hands Try me, Lord, if you think there s a way 7 I can try to repay what I ve taken from you Maybe, Lord, I can show someone else 7 What I ve been through myself, on my way back to you horus 2x