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Four Hundred Miles of Blues
Four hundred miles of blues, blues on the broad highway (2)
Is your baby gonna be there, waiting at the break of day
Sixty-seven miles an hour, six more hours of night (2)
You wanna see your baby, just before daylight
You better turn off the radio, listen to the engine moan (2)
Your mind keeps turning with the wheels that are taking you home
Everybody's sleeping, everyone but you (2)
You've got your hands on the wheel and you're traveling with the blues
Who does your baby love? Who is on her mind? (2)
When you travel so far it’s gonna hurt if she treats you unkind
Four hundred miles of blues, blues on the broad highway (2)
Is your baby gonna be there, waiting at the break of day
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Sing Me This Song
03:30
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Sing Me This Song
If ever I forget the day we fell in love
If the richness of my loving words should seem to fade
If the fear that a long day’s work is not quite long enough
to keep us fed and warm
Should make me turn my head and look away
If ever I should hear our children cry at night
And not remember that they’re made of our own love
Or send them off to play in corners of the house while I sit here alone
Dreaming of the way my life once was
Sing me this song
And remind me of the days you sang along
And if I’m feeling weak, be strong
Remember just to sing to me this song
If ever you are feeling far away from me
As if you had to face your troubles all alone
You wonder if I’m really here to take the bad as well as feel the good
You think that if you cry, then I’ll be gone
If ever you’re afraid that you will drag me down
And keep me here instead of out and running free
If ever you should feel that all the choices that we’ve made
have all been wrong
You think that if you cry then I’ll be gone
I’ll sing this song
And remind you of the days you sang along
And if you’re feeling weak, I’m strong
I’ll remember just to sing to you this song
And if this lonely life of ours should get us down
This life of leaving friends and places far behind
And if we feel the fear that all these shifting, changing days
will never end
This dream of ours is just too hard to find
We’ll sing this song
Though the past we talk about is gone
And tomorrow seems so long
We’ll just sit here now and sing ourselves this song
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Coconut Dance
02:27
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The Coconut Dance
If you have a coconut
You've got a lot
Cause the coconut dance
Is really hot
You make a wish
It comes true
True for me
True for you
REFRAIN:
But I'll tell you one thing
Not any wish will do
It’s got to be a pink wish
Never black or blue,
It has to be pink
Or a purple one will do
Do the coconut dance
And while you are dancing
With a hey nonny hey
The cutest little mermaid
Will come swimming up the bay
She's gonna grant your wish
And her own wish too
And everybody's wishes
Are gonna come true
REFRAIN:
But I'll tell you one thing
Not any wish will do
It’s got to be a pink wish
Never black or blue,
It has to be pink
Or a purple one will do
Do the coconut dance
So the next time
You're in a tropical land
Just frolicking
In the sun and the sand
Do the coconut dance
And when you're done
A wish comes true
For everyone
REFRAIN:
But I'll tell you one thing
Not any wish will do
A pink or a purple wish
Never black or blue,
So if you have a wish
And you want it to come true
Do the coconut dance
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Everything’s Here But You
A fireside, cat curled up in a chair
Wine and crackers, picture book and a pear
Lamp light all warm and brown
The sounds of the city have all died down
There’s nothing to do but sit around
Everything’s here but you, babe
Everything’s here but you
CHORUS:
So many things I’ve seen and touched alone
And tasted and tried much more than I should have known
The wisdom and weather of all the years I’ve grown
And all I can wait for is the moment when you come home
Hickory smoke, lace on an evening clear
I could ride, but I’d rather just sit right here
Sun going down, but he doesn’t mind
Moon up high just like a lemon rind
Mother nature couldn’t be more kind
Everything’s here but you, babe
Everything’s here but you
CHORUS
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Zagatumé
01:29
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Zagatumé na, ay, ay
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I Can See
04:54
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I Can See
CHORUS:
I can see what the saints have seen
And I can be where the gods have been
There is nothing you know I don’t already know
Nothing you have I haven’t had before
And you can’t travel the places I go
But where am I now, oh Lord? Where am I now?
I found the Man of the Mountain in the days of old
And heard the words of the prophet in return for gold
While others were dying in the whistling snow
I rode swifter than silence on a soft rainbow
CHORUS
I was told by the prophet, if I would know the way,
That I must travel the mountain, then I would know what to say
To all the weeping people, who wait but never rest
But I jumped back on my rainbow and rode away to the west
CHORUS
I see the rising ocean that flows at my command
But the waves wash over the gardens where I used to stand
I’m all alone on and island, far from home and friends
And the gold lies under the water at the rainbow’s end
CHORUS
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7. |
Missy Mac
01:34
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Missy Mac
Missy Mac
Please Missy Mac
Missy Mac
Won't you pick up your phone
Missy Mac
Please get on track
Are you running with the pack?
Or are you sitting at home?
If you could only understand
What its like to be a man
Wishing hoping sulking moping
Trying to get my courage up
Just to make this call
Does it matter to you at all?
So Missy Mac
Please Missy Mac
Pick up or call me back
You never have to be alone
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If Now Were Only Forever
05:00
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If Now Were Only Forever
Two people, worlds apart, meet in the autumn sun
Coming far from separate places, each looking for the other one
Summer winds have dusted over roads that led them away
So many, many roads between now and yesterday
CHORUS:
If now were only forever, but it’s never the same
The seasons pass from summer to winter
You think love's gone
Till it comes back again
You don’t have to bring me laughter, you don’t have to smile
If you can’t love me when you’re crying I can wait awhile
But when you’re on your feet again and think your sorrow’s gone
Will you try to turn away, pretending you’re alone?
CHORUS
If all our dreams were had by looking in each others’ eyes
We could fade into a picture book where Cinderella never sighs
Children weeping by frosty windows on a winter’s day
Would look at us and see their sadness slowly drift away
CHORUS
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9. |
Lull You Bye
03:31
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Lull You Bye
Lull-a-bye, Lull-a-bye, rest your ears in the cooling, quiet night
Rest your gentle eyes on moonlight
Go to sleep, close your eyes
Let dreams take you on the magic ride
You’ll find gold in the sky
In the morning when you rise
Oh, hear the sound but not the song and let it gently lull you bye
Oh, hear me sing but not the song, you look just like a child
When you close your eyes
Lull-a-bye, Lull-a-bye, rest your ears in the cooling, quiet night
Rest your gentle eyes on moonlight
Go to sleep, the day is long
Here with me you belong
Forget your cares until the dawn
Birds will sing a different song
Oh, hear the sound but not the song and let it gently lull you bye
Oh, hear me sing but not the song, you look just like a child
When you close your eyes
Lull-a-bye, Lull-a-bye, rest your ears in the cooling, quiet night
Rest your gentle eyes on moonlight
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10. |
Two Colors
03:58
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Two Colors
Paris streets are cold in November
Shifting colors fade to grey and amber
Afternoon slides away
We walk along the lonely quai
Empty branches lace the edge of silent skies
Amber buildings stand along grey pavements
Silently the grey birds sit on amber casements
Grey skies make a roof above
Emptiness enclosing love
Like the river after rain our feelings rise
The earth is in your eyes so brown and deep
Winter is the silence of your sleep
Look and see how grey my eyes
Small spaces of November skies
We turn and watch the river flow deep and high
When darkness comes and makes all colors one
Mist dissolves distinctions and day is done
You and I two perfect lovers
Holding earth and sky together
In a dark and silent room will softly lie
Like two colors
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John Bailey Interlaken, New York
Playing, singing, performing, and recording in many styles with many musical companions since I was 16 years old. Folk, pop, bluegrass, Brazilian, jazz standards. This page is devoted to original songs by me and by my friends.
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