Old Paint Michelle Shocked

Traditional I ride an old paint, lead an old dam Going to Montana to throw a hoolihan They feed in the coolies and they water in the draw Their tails are all matted, backs are all raw Ride around

When I Grow Up Michelle Shocked

When I grow up I want to be an old woman When I grow up I want to be an old woman Oh, an o-o-o-o-old, an old, old woman Then I think I'm gonna find myself an old man Then I think I'm gonna marry

I Will Be Your Friend Michelle Shocked

When evening shadows fall And old friends don't return your call Just call on me my old friend My number's still the same And I will answer when it rains You can call on me I will be your friend

The Hard Way [Private Music album version] Michelle Shocked

mistakes of my wasted youth Why I didn't make it home on time But you would have thought I was only lying And it's, oh, the troubles I've known I seem to learn everything the hard way I'm not old

Looks Like Mona Lisa Michelle Shocked

If she had it to do all over again It would be a photograph She would have a wide grin But no, it was an artist with a longing loving style So when the paint was dry all that remained was a faint

Streetcorner Ambassador Michelle Shocked

imported port Important issues of the day, say "Unity will buy a quart" Oh streetcorner ambassador keeps highbrow company They drink the finest of liqueur at the A Train Embassy And it's toss into the old

Desperados Waiting For A Train (Red River Valley) Michelle Shocked

We was friends, me and this old man Like desperados waiting for a train Just like desperados waiting for a train He was a drifter, a driller of them oil wells An old school man of the world He taught

Who Cares? Michelle Shocked

I was walking down an old dirt road I was feeling out and down I was taking it out on an old tin can When I came up on an old ghost town Doors hanging on one hinge You know the scene The background's

Ballad of Patch Eye and Meg Michelle Shocked

Remembering back when I was a kid I'd sneak down to the docks Watch the old men carving wood I'd watch the sailors tying knots But the thing I remember best was grey-haired old Patch Eye And the

Down On Thomas St. Michelle Shocked

That's where they meet I went down there just the other day Down to Thomas St. the other day I went down to that old Went down to that old Blue Note Café Most folks there are black but

Anchorage Michelle Shocked

I took time out to write to my old friend I walked across that burning bridge Mailed my letter off to Dallas But her reply came from Anchorage, Alaska She said: Hey girl it's about time you wrote

Graffiti Limbo Michelle Shocked

Lay down your burdens Lay down your cares The Holy Virgin, she's gonna greet you up there With a big can of spray paint, yeah And a big blank wall And I can guaran-damn-tee you There ain't no cops

Carrickfergus / The Water Is Wide Michelle Shocked

And neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat That can carry two And both shall row My Love and I Oh love is gentle And love is kind The sweetest flower When first it's new But love grows old

T For Texas Michelle Shocked

for Texas, it's 'T' for Tennessee And it's 'T' for Thelma, oh she made a wreck of me Wanna buy me a shotgun As long as I am tall I'm gonna buy me a shotgun As long as I am tall I'm gonna shoot old

Prince Of Darkness Michelle Shocked

And now he is the Prince of Darkness He holds old friends in such high esteem He sees a red town and wants it painted black For the Catholic girls at Halloween Well he said to me, "I've waited

Worth the Weight Michelle Shocked

Hand me down my old ball and chain It's worth the weight if I never have to see you again I'm running late but at least I'm running I've been down this road a time or two You know, nothing has

5 AM in Amsterdam Michelle Shocked

It's 5 a.m. in Amsterdam And this is how I know Not by the voice on my portable radio The batteries are old It's 5 a.m. in Amsterdam And this is how I know Not by a digital watch I don't even

Waters Wide Michelle Shocked

I Have I wings to fly Oh give me a boat That will carry two And both shall row My Love and I Oh love is gentle Yes and love is kind The sweetest flower When first it's new But love grows old

Over The Waterfall Michelle Shocked

lived to tell I tell them in a song I knew a river wide and deep Her banks were very tall At one end was a mountain stream The other was a waterfall, boys The other was a waterfall I asked the old

Contest Coming (Cripple Creek) Michelle Shocked

spitting out cares Sound of a fiddle floating thru the air From the Jones boy across the holler From the Jones boy across the way Backwoods folks take sides from the middle Backwoods folks is old

Blackberry Blossom Michelle Shocked

flew above me Carrying my lover's soul far away Now each spring I lay a blackberry blossom By a cold gravestone on the Arkansas clay The Arkansas clay is rocky and hard With weeds grown over in the old

The Cement Lament Michelle Shocked

She makes her wish A taxi turns the corner A puddle makes a splish It weren't the blues It weren't low rent It was just a cement lament, Ohhhh How many years has it been Since you left that old

If Love Was a Train Michelle Shocked

her tracks Hey, if love was a train I'd throw my body right down on her tracks If love was a train I would feel no pain as she rolled right down my back Right down to my back (Well this little old

Homestead Michelle Shocked

"Well, now let me take a good look at you (There ain't nothing lye and hot water won't do) And you can sleep on my porch if you're wanting to And I'll give you my husband's old brown boots" But in

The Chain Smoker Michelle Shocked

encouragement are the last thing that he needs And he lights up a cigarette, thinking back to what the doctor said At the rate he's going, in a month he will be dead And so he lights up another As an old

Memories of East Texas Michelle Shocked

East Texas And piney green rolling hills Covered in the springtime With golden daffodils Rowing on Sandy Lake come April Harvesting hay in June Sitting by the road watching well-fires burn By an old

Campus Crusade Michelle Shocked

Sister Cindy used to be a disco queen 'Til she come to Jesus and now she's saved Out on the West Mall with old Brother Jed Now she's fighting the Holy War The Campus Crusade Every Spring they seem

Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Michelle Shocked

town, I'm tired of hangin' around I gotta roll on between the ditches" This is an ordinary story about the way things go Around and around, nobody knows But the highway rolls on forever Oh that old

Ballad Of Penny Evans Michelle Shocked

infant daughters and I do the best I can And now they say the war is over but I think it just began I remember I was seventeen when I first met young Will On his fathers grand piano we played good old

Yamboree Queen Michelle Shocked

Except for the old farmers who still grow them in their gardens, still give 'em to their wives, who still make sweet potato pie for that sweet potato pie bake-off.

Change The Name Michelle Shocked

Why Sir, I was fourteen years old before I had my first pair of pants and they was of buckskin. But at the age of seventeen Mr Speaker, I had a jock on me the size of a ?????????

Russian Roulette Michelle Shocked

I need this hopeless feeling Like I need a hole in my head Give up my whole days wages To get this hole in the wall I call a holster that is empty Just a gun to the head I am a holy roller I'm pla...

Can You See It In Me Michelle Shocked

I can see it in the sunshine I can see it in the sea I can see it in the skyline Can you see it in me And I can taste it in a fine wine Travelled far from overseas And I believe that you could be...

Eddie Michelle Shocked

This boy named Eddie Used to set the fields on fire He's the only boy I know who dared to name his desire In a county where the dairymen all had milking machines Yeah, Eddie was the only one to se...

No Wonder Michelle Shocked

It's no wonder the sun Waits outside your window at the break of day As if to say "Come out to play Let's have some fun" And it's no wonder No wonder the sun Foolish of me, I know I did believe t...

What Can I Say? Michelle Shocked

Little children did I tell you how the mockingbird Called the animals together try to say a few words But the squirrels began to chatter and the bees began to buzz Just the way it is, just the way...

Hold Me Back (Frankie & Johnny) Michelle Shocked

Frankie was a good woman Everybody knows She gave her loving man Johnny a hundred dollar bill Just to buy one suit of clothes Frankie went down to the barroom She ordered herself one glass of bee...

Peach Fuzz Michelle Shocked

Peach Fuzz had a friendly face Too friendly for his own good Used to hang out at Ricky's Place It was a bar in the neighborhood A gay boy lit his cigarette But they called 'em fags cause that's w...

The Bitter Pill Michelle Shocked

Hey the bitter pill Took all I can stand The bitter pill You know I took it like a man Better find a cure I can't take no more The remedy to kill The bitter pill Doctor I know 'bout my reputation...

Last Love Michelle Shocked

She got bells on her ankles and a stud in her nose For us to entangle was wrong I suppose Her family reunion, a time and a place And I could see eight good years disappear from her face And love ...

New Orleans Michelle Shocked

Crescent moon over Crescent City Sweat's a' pourin' and the girls are gritty Joints are jumpin' Changin' lights Dancin' naked through the night Trombone Shorty's in the street Drums are rollin' ou...

Too Little Too Late Michelle Shocked

Too little too late Don't you tell me how it used to be I've seen the record and it clearly reads "To date: too little too late" Too little too late Don't you talk about the way things was Bringi...

Tabloid Michelle Shocked

Sittin' on a subway Reading all about it Another bold faced lying headline I don't doubt it This fascination with character assassination When all you really have in life is your reputation It's ...

Drip Dry Michelle Shocked

I've been living with the pain so long I've been gaining on you Gaining on you all of the time What did not kill me made me stronger If I live any longer I know I'm gonna blow sky-high I drip dry...

Jump Jim Crow (Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah *) Michelle Shocked

Jump Jim Crow Jump Jim Crow How do you, do you walk so slow Like a little red rooster with one trick leg Look like you the one laying the egg I don't know when but it'll be real soon Going down th...

Good News Michelle Shocked

See a fat brown snake Lay her eggs down in the mud Go slipping through the swamp now With a poison in the blood And a smokestack lightning Sparks are flying through the air And when the dust gets ...

Arkansas Traveler Michelle Shocked

Traditional Hey farmer! You been livin' here all your life? Not yet. Hey farmer! Where does this road go? Been livin' here all my life, it ain't gone nowhere yet. Hey farmer! How do you get to L...

Necktie Michelle Shocked

There was a naked man standing in an alley And he weren't wearing no clothes A naked man was standing in an alley And he wasn't wearing no clothes He said, "All that I need, I do believe, Is a pai...

Walking To New Orleans Michelle Shocked

I get back to New Orleans I've got no time for talking I've got to keep walking New Orleans is my home That's the reason why I'm going I'm walking to New Orleans I'm walking to New Orleans Michelle

God Is A Real Estate Developer Michelle Shocked

God is a real estate developer With offices 'round the nation They say one day he'll liquidate His holdings up on high I say it's all speculation He may be an absentee landlord Yeah, this may be ...