songbook no 1a

After the goldrush / Neil Young

Well I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming,

saying something about a queen.

There were peasants singing and drummers drumming

and the archer split the tree.

There was a fanfare blowing to the sun

that was floating on the breeze.

Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen-seventies.

I was lying in a burned-out basement

with the full moon in my eyes

I was hoping for replacement

when the sun burst through the sky.

There was a band playing in my head

and I felt like getting high.

I was thinking about what a friend had said,

I was hoping it was a lie.

Thinking about what a friend had said

I was hoping it was a lie.

Well I dreamed I saw the silver spaceship flying

in the yellow haze of the sun,

there were children crying and colors flying

all around the chosen ones,

all in a dream, all in a dream, the loading had begun.

Flying mother nature`s silver seed to a new home in the sun,

Flying mother nature`s silver seed to a new home in the sun.

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All my Loving / Beatles

1. Close your eyes and I kiss you

tomorrow I`ll miss you, remember I`ll always be true

And then while I`m away

I write home every day and I`ll send all my loving to you.

2. I`ll pretend that I`m kissing

her lips I am missing. And hope that my dreams will come true.

And then while I`m away

I write home every day and I`ll send all my loving to you.

All my loving I will send to you.

All my loving, darling, I`ll be true.

3. Close your eyes and I kiss you

tomorrow I`ll miss you, remember I`ll always be true

And then while I`m away

I write home every day and I`ll send all my loving to you.

All my loving I will send to you.

All my loving, darling, I`ll be true.

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BLOWING IN THE WIND / Bob Dylan

How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? -

Yes `n how many seas must a white dove sail, before she sleeps in the sand? -

Yes `n how many times must a cannon ball fly, before they forever are banned?

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? - Yes `n

how many ears must one man have, before he can hear people cry? -Yes n

how many death will it take till he knows, that so many people have died?

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,

the answer is blowing in the wind.

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?

how many times can a man turn his head, pretending he just didn`t see?

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,

the answer is blowing in the wind.

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BOAT ON THE RIVER /styx

Take me back to my boat on the river

I need to go down I need to come down

Take me back to my boat on the river

and I won`t cry out anymore.

Time stands still as I gaze in the water

she eases me down, touching me gently

with waters that flow past my boat on the river

so I don`t cry out anymore.

Oh the river is wise the river he touches

my life like the waves on the sand

and all roads lead to tranquility base

where the frown on my face disappears.

Take me back to my boat on the river

and I won`t cry out anymore.

Oh the river is wise the river he touches

my life like the waves on the sand

and all roads lead to tranquility base

where the frown on my face disappears.

Take me down to my boat on the river

I need to go down won`t you let me go down

Take me back to my boat on the river

and I won`t cry out anymore.

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THE BOXER / SIMON & GARFUNKEL

i am just a poor boy so my story seldom told,

i have squandered my resistance

for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises

all lies and jest still a man hears what he wants to hear

and disregards the rest

when i left my home and my family

i was no more than a boy in a company of strangers -

in the quiet of a railwaystation running scared,

laying low, seeking out the poorer quaters

where the ragged people go,

looking for the places only they would know

lie la lie.lie la lielie la lielie la lielie la lie....

asking only workman`s wages i come looking for a job

but i get no offers,

just a comeon from the whores on sevens avenue.

i do declare, there were times when i was so lonesome

i took some comfort there (hmm mmm hmmm)

then i`m laying out my winter clothes

and wishing i was gone, going home -

where the new york city winters aren`t bleeding me,

leading me, going home

in the clearing stands the boxer and the fighter by his trade

and he carries the reminders

of every glove that laid him down or cut him till he cried out

in his anger and his shame, "i am leaving, i am leaving",

but the fighter still remains

lie la lie.lie la lielie la lielie la lielie la lie....

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BYE - BYE LOVE / simon & garfunkel

There goes my baby with someone new.

She sure looks happy I`m sure I`m blue

She was my baby till he stepped in.

Good bye to romance that might have been.

Refrain:

Bye-bye love, bye-bye happiness.

Hello loneliness I think I`m gonna cry;

Bye-bye love, bye-bye, sweet caress.

Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die;

bye-bye my love, bye-bye

I`m through with romance, I`m through with love.

I`m through with countin the stars above

And here`s the reason that I`m so free.

My lovin` baby is through with me. (Refrain ….)

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CALIFORNIA DREAMING /mamas & papas

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey

I`ve been for a walk on a winter`s day

I`d be safe and warm as I was in L.A.

California dreamin` on such a winter`s day.

stop into a church I passed along the way

get down on my knees I pretend to pray

(you know the) preachers likes the cold -

he knows I`m gonna stay

California dreamin` on such a winter`s day.

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey

I`ve been for a walk on a winter`s day

If I didn`t tell her I could leave today

California dreamin` on such a winter`s day.

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IF I WERE A CARPENTER / Four Tops

If I were a carpenter and you were a lady

would you marry me anyway would you have my baby ?

If a tinkle wear my tree - would you still find me ?

Carry in the parts I mean - following behind me.

Refrain:

Save my love through loneliness,

save my love for sorrow

I`d giving you my onliness,

come and give me your tomorrow

If I work my hands in wood, would you still love me ?

answer me "Babe, yes I would" - I`ll put you above me.

If I were a miller, and a mill - wheel grinding

would you miss your colour - bars? Your soft shue shining.

Refrain

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City of new orleans / steve goodman

Riding on the city of New Orleans,

Illinois Central, Monday morning rail,

fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,

three conductors, twenty-five sacks of mail.

All along the south-bound Odyssey

the train pulls out of Kankakee

and rolls along the houses, farms and fields

passing towns that had no names

and freight yards full of old black men

and the grave-yards of the rusted automobiles.

Refrain:

Good morning Amerika, how are you?

Say, don`t you know me, I`m your native son.

I`m the train they call the City of New Orleans,

I`ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealing cards to the old men in the club car

penny a point and no one`s keepin` score

pass the paper bag that holds the bottle

you can feed the wheels grumbling neath the floor.

The sons of Pullman Porter and the sons of engineers

ride their father`s magic carpet made of stream

and mothers with their babes asleep

are rocking to the gentle beat

the rhythm of the rails is all they dream.

Refrain: ...............

Nighttime on the City of New Orleans,

changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee

halfway home and we`ll be there by morning

through the Mississippi darkness rollin` to the sea.

But all the towns and people seem

to fade into a bad dream

the steel rail hasn`t heard the news

the conductor sings his song again,

its passengers will please refrain

this train`s got the disappearing railroad blues.

Refrain: ...

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Colours / DONOVAN

Yellow is the colour of my true love`s hair

in the morning when we rise

in the morning when we rise,

that`s the time, that`s the time I love the best.

Green is the colour of the sparkling corn

in the morning when we rise

in the morning when we rise,

that`s the time, that`s the time I love the best

Blue is the colour of the sky

in the morning when we rise

in the morning when we rise,

that`s the time, that`s the time I love the best.

Mellow is the feeling that I get

when I see her, aha,

that`s the time, that`s the time I love the best

Freedom is a word I rarely use

without thinking, aha,

of the time, of the time when I`ve been loved.

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COUNTRY ROADS / JOHN DENVER

Almost heaven - West Virginia –

Blue Ridge Mountains - Shennendoah River.

Life is old there, older than a tree,

younger than the mountains, growin` like a breeze.

Refrain:

Country roads, take me home

to the place I belong

West Virginia, mountain momma,

take me home country roads

All my mem`bries gather `round her –

miner`s lady - stranger to blue water.

Dark and dusty, painted on the sky,

misty taste of moonshine, teardrops in my eyes.

Refrain:

I hear her voice in the morning hours she calls me,

the radio reminds me of my home far away

and driving down the road I get a feeling

that I should have been home yesterday – yesterday Refrain:

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DIRTY OLD TOWN

i met my love by the gasworks door

dreamed a dream by the old canal

kissed my girl by the fact`ry wall

dirty old town dirty old town

the moon is shifting behind a cloud

cats are crawling all along the beat

springs a girl in the street at night

dirty old town dirty old town

i heard a whistle coming from the docks

and a train set the night on fire

smelled the spring on a smoke-filled air

dirty old town dirty old town

i` m gonna get me a nice sharp axe

shining steel tempered in a fire

cut you down like an old dead tree

dirty old town dirty old town

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Don`t let it bring you down (Neil Young)

Old man lying by the side of the road,

with the lorries rolling by

blue moon sinking from the weight of the load

and the buildings scrape the sky.

Cold wind ripping down the alley at dawn

and the morning papers flies,

dead man lying by the side of the road

with the daylight in his eyes.

Don`t let it bring you down, it`s only castles burning,

find someone who`s turning and you will come around.

Blind man running thru the light of the night

with an answer in his hand,

come on down to the river of sight

and you can really understand.

Red lights flashing thru the window in the rain

can you hear the sirens moan?

White cane lying in the gutter in the lane

if you walking home alone.

Don`t let it bring you down, it`s only castles burning,

find someone who`s turning and you will come around.

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Five hundred miles / hedy west

If you miss the train I`m on,

you will know that I am gone

you can hear the wistle blow one hundred miles.

One hundred miles, one hundred miles,

one hundred miles, one hundred miles

you can hear the wistle blow one hundred miles.

Lord I`m one, Lord I`m two,

Lord I`m three, Lord I`m four

Lord I`m five hundred miles from my home.

Five hundred miles, five hundred miles,

five hundred miles, five hundred miles

Lord I`m five hundred miles from my home.

Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name,

Lord I can`t go a home thisaway.

Thisaway, thisaway, thisaway, thisaway

Lord I can`t go a home thisaway.

If you miss the train I`m on,

you will know that I am gone

you can hear the wistle blow one hundred miles.

One hundred miles, one hundred miles,

one hundred miles, one hundred miles

you can hear the wistle blow one hundred miles.

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FOR NO ONE / BEATLES

1. Your day breaks, your mind aches,

you find that all her words of kindness linger on

when she no longer needs you.

2. She wakes up, she makes up,

she takes her time and doesn`t feel she has to hurry,

she no longer needs you.

Refrain:

And in her eyes you see nothing,

no sign of love behind the tears cried for no one.

A love that should have lasted years.

3. You want her, you need her,

and yet you don`t believe her when she said her love is dead

you think she needs you. (Refrain)

4. You stay home, she goes out,

she said that long ago she knew someone, but now he`s gone,

she doesn`t need him.

5. Your day breaks, your mind aches.

There will be times when all the things you said will fill your head

you won`t forget her. (Refrain)

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Four + Twenty / STEPHEN STILLS

Four and twenty years ago I come into this life

the son of a woman and a man who lived in strife.

He was tired of being poor

and he wasn`t into selling door to door

and he worked like a devil to be more.

A different kind of poverty, now upsets me so

night after sleepless night, I walk the floor and I want to know

why am I so alone,

where is my woman, can I bring her home ?

Have I driven her away ? Is she gone ?

Morning comes the sunrise, and I`m driven to my bed

I see that it is empty, and there`s devils in my head

I embrace the many colored beast,

I grow weary of the torement can there be no peace,

and I find myself just wishin` that my life would simply cease.

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Girl / Beatles

Is there anybody goin to listen to my story

all about a girl who came to stay.

She`s the kind of girl you want so much it makes you sorry,

still you don`t regret a single day. Ah, girl - girl.

When I think of all the times I`ve tried so hard to leave her,

she will turn to me and start to cry;

and she promisses the earth to me and I believe her.

After all this time I don`t know why. Ah, girl - girl.

She`s the kind of girl who puts you down when friends are there, you feel a fool. dididididididididi.

When you say, she`s looking good she acts as if it`s understood.

She`s cool, cool, cool, cool Girl! - Girl!

Was she told when she was young that fame would lead to pleasure?

Did she understand it when they said

that a man must break his back to earn his day of leasure?

Will she still believe it when he`s dead?

Ah, girl! Girl! Girl!

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HARVEST / NEIL YOUNG

Did I see you down in a young girl`s town,

With your mother in so much pain ?

I was almost there at the top of the stairs

With the screaming in the rain.

Did she wake you up to tell you that. It was only a change of plan

Dream up, dream up, let me fill your cup. With the promise of a man.

Did I see you walking with the boys

Though it was not hand in hand ?

And was some black face in a lonely place

When you could understand ?

Did she wake you up to tell you that. It was only a change of plan

Dream up, dream up, let me fill your cup. With the promise of a man.

Will I see you give more than I can take ?

Will I only harvest some ?

As the days fly past will we lose our grasp

Or fuse it in the sun ?

Did she wake you up to tell you that. It was only a change of plan

Dream up, dream up, let me fill your cup. With the promise of a man.

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HEART OF GOLD / NEIL YOUNG

I want to live, I want to give.

I`ve been I miner for a heart of gold.

It`s these expressions I never give.

That keeps me searching for a heart of gold.

And I`m getting old.

I`ve been to Hollywood, I`ve been to Redwood.

I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold.

I`ve been in my mind, it`s such a fine line.

That keeps me searching for a heart of gold.

And I`m getting old.

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Help / Beatles

Help! I need somebody,

help! Not just anybody,

help! You know I need someone, help!

When I was younger so much younger than today

I never needed anybodys help in any way

but now these days are gone I´m not so self asured

now I`ve find I`ve changed my mind. I`ve opened up the doors.

Refrain:

Help me if you can I`m feeling down

and I do appreciate you being round

help me get my feet back on the ground

won`t you please, please help me.

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways

my independence seems to vanish in the haze

but ev`ry now and then I feel so insecure

I know that I just need you like I`ve never done before,

Refrain: ...............

When I was younger so much younger than today

I never needed anybodys help in any way

but now these days are gone I´m not so self asured

now I`ve find I`ve changed my mind. I`ve opened up the doors.

Refrain: ..................

won`t you please, please help me.

help me. help me. uuhhh

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help me make it through the night / kris kristofferson

Take the ribbon from your hair, shake it lose and let it fall

laying softly upon my skin like the shadows on the wall.

I don`t care who`s right or wrong, I don`t try to understand

let the devil take tomorrow. Lord tonight I need a friend.

Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light

All I`m taking is your time. Help me make it through the night.

I don`t care who`s right or wrong, I don`t try to understand

let the devil take tomorrow. Lord tonight I need a friend.

Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow`s out of sight.

And it`s sad to be alone. Help me make it through the night.

I don`t care who`s right or wrong, I don`t try to understand

let the devil take tomorrow. Lord tonight I need a friend.

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Helpless / Neil Young

1. There is a town in North Ontario

With dreams comfort memory to spare

and in my mind I still need a place to go

all my changes where there

2. Blue, blue windows behind the stars

Yellow moon on the rise

Big birds flying across the sky

Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us .....

Refrain:

Helpless, helpless, helpless

Baby can you hear me now

the chains are locked and tied across the door

Baby sing with me somehow

3. Wiederhole 2. Strophe und Refrain

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Hey Jude / Beatles

Hey Jude, don`t make it bad,

take a sad song and make it better.

Remember to let her into your heart,

then you can start and make it better.

Hey Jude, don`t be afraid,

you were made to go out and get her.

The minute, you let her under your skin,

then you begin to make it better.

And any time you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain,

don`t carry the world upon your shoulders.

For well you know that it`s a fool who plays it cool

by making his world a little colder.

Da da da da da, da da da da.

Hey Jude, don`t let me down,

you have found her, now go and get her.

Remember to let her into your heart,

then you can start and make it better.

So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin,

you`re waiting for someone to perform with.

And don`t you know that it`s just you, hey Jude, you`ll do,

the movement you need is on your shoulder.

Da da da da da, da da da da.

Hey Jude, don`t make it bad,

take a sad song and make it better.

Remember to let her into your heart,

then you can start and make it better.

better, better, better, better, better, oh.

/: Da da da da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da, hey Jude :/

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If i had a hammer / pete seeger

If I had a hammer, I`d hammer in the morning,

I`d hammer in the evening - all over this land

I`d hammer out danger, I`d hammer out warning,

I`d hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters

all over this land.

If I had a bell, I`d ring it in the morning,

I`d ring it in the evening - all over this land

I`d ring out danger, I`d ring out warning,

I`d ring out love between my brothers and my sisters

all over this land.

If I had a song, I sing it in the morning,

I`d sing it in the evening - all over this land

I`d sing out danger, I`d sing out warning,

I`d sing out love between my brothers and my sisters

all over this land.

If I got a hammer, and I got a bell

and I got a song to sing, - all over this land

it`s a hammer of justice, it`s a bell of freedom,

it`s a song about love between my brothers and my sisters,

all over this land.

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I should have known better / beatles

I should have known better with a girl like you.

That I would love ev`rything that you do;

And I do Hey, hey, hey, and I do whoa, oh

I never realized what a kiss could be

this could only happen to me;

can`t you see can`t you see

That when I tell you that I love you, oh,

you`re gonna say you love me too, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, oh,

and when I ask you to be mine you`re gonna say you love me too,

you love me too,you love me too.

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I`m a loser / Beatles

I`m a loser - I`m a loser, and I`m not what I appear to be.

Of all the love I have won or have lost

there is one love I should never have crossed.

She was a girl in a million my friend,

I should have known she would win in the end.

Refrain:

I`m a loser and I lost someone who`s near to me

I`m a loser, and I`m not what I appear to be.

Although I laugh and I act like a clown.

Beneath this mask I am wearing a frown.

My tears are falling like rain from the sky,

is it for her or myself that I cry? Refrain:

What have I done to deserve such a fate ?

I realize I have left it to late.

And so it`s true, pride comes before a fall.

I`m telling you so that you won`t lose all. Refrain:

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I`m looking through you / Beatles

I`m looking through you. Where did you go?

I thought I knew you. What did I know?

You don`t look diff`rent but you have changed.

I`m looking through you, you`re not the same.

Your lips are moving. I cannot hear.

Your voice is soothing, but the words aren`t clear.

You don`t sound diff `rent I`ve learned the game.

I`m looking through you, you`re not the same.

Why, tell me why did you not treat me right ?

Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.

You`re thinking of me the same old way.

You were above me but not today.

The only diff `rence is you`re down there.

I`m looking through you, and you`re nowhere.

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IT NEVER RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Got on board the westbound seven forty seven .

Didn`t think before deciding what to do.

All that talk of opportunity, TV, break and movies, rang true - sure rang true.

Refrain:

Seems it never rains in Southern California

Seems I often heard that kind of talk before.

It never rains in California, but girl - don`t they warn ya ?

It pours, man it pours !!

Out of work, I`m out of my head, out of self respect, I`m out of my bread

I`m underloved, I`m underfed, I wanna go home.

It never rains in California, but girl-don`t they warn ya?

it pours, man it pours !

Will you tell the folks back home, I nearly made it.

Had offers but don`t know which one to take.

Please don`t tell them, how you found me - don`t tell them, how you found me!

Give me a break, give me a break! Refrain:

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