I recall what my mother said to me When I was a baby sitting on her knee Son no matter what you may become Don’t you ever forget where you come from You are a rough diamond in the mine One day you will have your chance to shine You’re gonna shine Rough Diamond Child (x4) When I moved into your neighbourhood Everybody said I was no good Girl you were the only one to see You said there was something more to me You said you are a rough diamond in the mine One day you will have your chance to shine You’re gonna shine Rough Diamond Child (x4)

Say you love me, ‘fore I lose my mind Please believe me, there’s no axe to grind Our love’s an open door But it could be much more It could be so sublime It could improve with time Just like fine vintage wine While you’re sleeping, laying in your bed I am weeping, over things unsaid This love of ours could be Oh so magical A glass half empty Can be a glass half full Of love like vintage wine May your future, spare you from regret Good together, will get better yet Our love’s an open door But it could be much more It could be so sublime It could improve with time Just like fine vintage wine Love like vintage wine Love like vintage wine Love like vintage wine Love like vintage wine

I am yours yours yours, yours for a song I knew we’d get together before long It was clear that first morning that a new, new day was dawning So please be mine and I’ll be yours, yours for a song Every woman I’ve ever loved has done me wrong From New York to San Francisco to old Hong Kong They all had the recipe on how to make a fool of me So please be mine and I’ll be yours, yours for a song In the cold cold light of day can you be true If you can then this man will be true to you ‘Cause I’ve been lied to, I’ve been used I’ve been mistreated and I’ve been abused So now I’m yours yours yours, yours for a song Yes... I am... I’ll be yours, yours, yours............. yours for a song

I’ll get to you, I won’t be happy ‘til I do I’ll get to you, I won’t be happy ‘til I do And then I’ll keep you satisfied, way down inside I’ll get to you, I won’t be happy ‘til I do. When I walk by, I see you giving me the eye When I walk by, I see you giving me the eye And then I know it won’t be long before our love grows strong When I walk by, I see you giving me the eye.

 No other miss, ever made me feel like this No other miss, ever made me feel like this When you wear your hair so long, it really turns me on No other miss, ever made me feel like this.

I love my whisky, and I love my gin But if you come back home, I’ll never drink again If I lived my life, like a millionaire I’d give it all away, if you just come back here In my life I’ve made a few mistakes But none so great as driving you away So hear my plea, little Jenny Lee I’m gonna change my ways, just wait and see Well if you and your baby, ever fuss and fight Make no mistake, you got to hang on tight If you see my baby, please send her home Tell her my love, for her has grown Last time I saw her, she was walkin’ slow Down to catch the bus, to where I don’t know.

As I roam around, from town to town I see all my old buddies, all settled down And it seems to me, I’ll always be Here on the outside, just looking in You’ve got your wife, and some kind of life You take the time, you need to unwind I ride the highways, rain hail or shine But I never notice, all those exit signs So that’s my story, and I hope you will find Next time you see me, you will know my state of mind.

How long, how long, how long; how long, can one man have these blues How long before he knows for sure, he ain’t go nothing left to lose How long, how long; how long can one many carry on Hoping, praying and pleading; pleading for his woman to come back home How far, how far, how far; how far must my baby be That she can’t ‘phone and she can’t write a letter, Can’t get no kind of message through to me How far, how far; how far is the sun from you and I If you can see the stars tonight baby, I’ll write my love across the sky How strong, how strong, how strong; how strong must these chains be To keep me tied to a love that’s sinkin’, down to the bottom of the Deep blue sea How deep, how deep, how deep; how deep can the darkest ocean be I wonder is it deep enough, to drown my misery

Nobody took away the one good thing you found Nobody ever turned your whole world upsidedown Before you give out advice for free You ain’t been there, you don’t know nothing about me Who was it, left you with no way to carry on Who was it, made you wish that you had never been born There was a time when I was just like you I did the things I was supposed to do I worked two jobs, I did the graveyard shift You read the book, I was the one who wrote it Nobody ever made a fool of you Nobody, ever made you feel the way I do

When I was a boy back in ’68 Bought myself a guitar and I was playin’ just great I got me some flares and a paisley body shirt Then my old man came up and said something that really hurt Go get a job, go get a job He said quit acting like a jerk, everybody got to work Go get a job I met the girl of my dreams and she fell in love with me I said “baby lets set a date”, she said “no-we gotta wait” I said “what do you mean” she said “think of all the things we need Like a colour TV, and a washing machine” Go get a job, go get a job She said “baby don’t be a jerk, everybody got to work Go get a job”. I got my shit together and I formed a little band One time we were wailing on this one-night stand The joint got busted and I went before the judge He said “son now listen hear I’ve just about had enough” Go get a job, go get a job He said “son don’t be a jerk, everybody got to work” Go get a job

Every night when I lay down I toss and turn and roll around I drink hot milk and I count sheep Still I cannot get to sleep Baby since you went away Think about you night a day I’ve lost weight, my eyes are black I am an insomniac No more can I sleep, no more can I sleep Insomniac I turn on my radio Listen to the late late show Dawn is breaking bright outside Still my eyes are open wide I miss you wink, I miss your grin I miss the way you tuck me in I miss your bark, I miss your bite I miss the way you say goodnight I am an insomniac.

Your eyes are the colour of the sea Your lips are calling me At the end of the day, it’s always the same You are always just out of my reach The night you came to me Saying you longed to be free We talked and we talked, the whole night away But you were always just out of my reach Sometime you hold me tight Sometimes you kiss me goodnight But at the end of the day, it’s always the same You are always just out of my reach.

Well I’ve been to see your Mama, to ease my worried mind I said “your daughter’s misbehaving and she’s living on borrowed time” She said “do not give in to her, ‘cause that won’t do no good When she was a young girl, we didn’t do the things we should Next time we need some groceries, you drive down to the store You don’t need to have no, delivery to the door If you want to hear some news, turn on your radio Don’t start conversation, everywhere you go Well you know me well now baby, I don’t like to fuss and fight But you’re livin’ on borrowed time, ‘cause you don’t know wrong from right.

I’m in a holding pattern, all around your love And I ain’t gonna touch down, until it’s me you’re 
thinking of Me and my jet, can fly all night Me and my jet, can fly all night So when your runway is clear, turn on the landing lights We can reach Mach one, yeh and have a little fun We can reach Mach two, if I show you what to do But to reach Mach three little girl, you got to hold on tight
to me

The demolition man shows no sympathy for me Everything’s near gone, ‘cept the back door swingin’ in the breeze I found our love-letters, just a layin’ there in the dirt And our empty picture frame, Lord you know that really hurt The old wall clock, that once ticked by our happy hours Now just a broken down reminder, of the love that once was ours The demolition man shows no sympathy for me He cares nothing for lost love, and he don’t care ‘bout memories

I’ve seen the way that he treats you It breaks this old heart to see You deserve a better lovin’ man Come on baby run with me You don’t need his behaviour You just don’t need misery You don’t need the way he puts you down Come on baby run with me Are you gonna wake up cryin’? Are you gonna wake up wrong? Or are you gonna wake up far from here Lovin’ me so strong?

First thing in the morning, last thing at night They can be all wrong, they can be all right They can be your only friend Think you’ve lost them they’ll be back again They can feel good, they can feel bad Can be the worst ‘ole feeling you ever had They can talk to you, just like a man Right alongside you walking hand in hand Ever since the world began It’s been the same for every man Not a lot that you can do Blues is the truth, coming at you They can take the shape of a girl Same old thing all around the world They can be your baby’s other man If you’re a gambler they’re a losing hand Hear ‘em in a gunshot the middle of the night See ‘em when you’re driving caught in the headlight Hear ‘em in the sound of a lonesome whistle blow See ‘em in a tail-light as you watch her go.

Don’t say goodbye, I don’t want to hear you If we should cry, I just won’t know what to do Beyond the sky, we’ll meet anew Don’t say goodbye I saw you last night, and it broke me in two I curse my eyesight, for such a heartrending view The day that I die, I’ll be looking for you Don’t say goodbye I had a dream, nothing had changed We walked and talked, down a little country lane Where all hearts are new, we’ll meet again Don’t say goodbye.

Darling, see me standing down below I just want to know, is it yes or is it no? Baby, see me standing out in the rain I just want to know, when I get to see you again I’ve been up all night since I took you home My mind won’t rest, I can’t let you go I jumped back out of bed and I came straight round here To prove to you baby I ain’t goin’ nowhere Oh darling, see me standing down below I just want to know, is it yesr or is it no? O baby, you sure shook me up last night I love the way you move, and I love the way you hold me tight

When you were down and out, who gave you all of their 
time When you were broke and hungry, who gave you their last
dime On the night that we met, when the moon was high You said that you’d love me, until the day you die You got a short memory, to forget the love I’ve shown Some kind of short memory, to forget the love I’ve shown You say you don’t love me, you’re moving out on your
 own When you roll those dice, no telling how they may fall And when you fall in love, the biggest gamble of all

As the sun sinks down like a submarine You’ll find me down on the coast I’ll be gazing out at the shining sea That’s the time I miss you the most Every star that shines will one day die Every journey comes to an end And there are some things we’ll never know Though it helps us to pretend And I see your eyes In the blue around me And if I’m asked where you are gone I’ll say you’re lost at sea Every star that shines will one day die Every journey comes to an end And I see your eyes In the blue before me And if I’m asked where you are gone I’ll say you’re lost at sea Though I know not where you are gone I’ll say you’re lost at sea As the sun sinks down like a submarine You’ll find me down on the coast

Left my house and I left my home Left my good woman too To travel halfway around the world And play these old songs for you Up every morning and I hit the road The highway is my best friend I make your town an hour before the show And I’m gone as soon as it ends I’m a guitar man, I’m a guitar man Y’all know I’m a guitar man I’m a guitar man, I’m a guitar man And I’ll play this guitar as long as I can You can see me in Florida, you can see me in Maine See me down New Mexico Frisco to Chicago, it’s all the same Every old place I go

I had a dream I was a bird, I was flyin’ high in the sky I was flyin’ all over town, looking down with my bird’s eye He drove a long black cadillac, and he slipped in to your house I saw your bedroom light go on, then your bedroom light went out I can’t turn the other cheek, to this cheatin’ goin’ on So pack your bags and leave, before a righteous man
does wrong

I’m so tired, so tired I’m so tired and I’ve got to go Dear Lord take me home I’m so tired and I’ve go to go I’ve done the best I could, but now I’m done for good I’m so tired and I’ve go to go I place all my faith in you I believe in all you do, I place all my faith in you ……. You have always stood by me Now it’s time to let it be, you have always stood by me …….. Take me down to the sea Let the waves wash over me, take me down to the sea ……..

The time will come, and it won’t be long Look for me, and I’ll be gone This time darling, let me make it clear I’ve had it with you…I’m out of here I like a drink, the same as you But when you drink you don’t know what you do Went to cut me in the street Tried to pull your knife on me (You) spent every cent, that I worked for Lovin’ you has kept me poor

I’m goin’ home The whole world can see you’re too young for me I’m goin’ home You know it’s wrong You know it’s wrong Feels so good Feels so good We got to stop We got to stop Don’t you know Don’t you know

I’m gonna follow this ‘phone line All the way back home When I get to the receiver, honey you better be all alone I called you last week and I Thought you sounded strange You said it was just because you was oh so far away I got a funny funny feeling that you ain’t gonna Be found Must be a storm somewhere tonight and the lines must all be down You said you were staying home to curl up with a book The operator tells me that the ‘phone is off the hook

If you wake up in the morning, and you want to stay in bed You just don’t want to get up, to face the day ahead When you don’t want to eat, ‘cause your bread don’t taste like bread Your coffee tastes like poison, and your corn’s like shots of lead You got the blues, you got the blues Everytime you’d rather, be in another man’s shoes Them I’m here to tell you, and it may not come as news But you got the blues If you can’t pay the ‘phone bill, and you can’t pay the rent And you got a letter from the bank, sayin’ no more will be lent When your man or woman, don’t treat you like they should Does it make you feel like leavin’, and goin’ away for good When you see a married woman, that you used to know Does it make you stop and think, of good times long ago When you see young happy lovers, strollin’ arm in arm Do you ever stop to wonder, just where your love has gone

The world still turns and the wind still blows The sun still shines and the grass still grows But since you’ve been gone It’s a curious thing My bird won’t sing My dog still barks, and the rooster still crows My cat still howls whenever the full moon shows The rain still falls and the rivers still run Wake up every mornin’, to the same ole sun I sit down every evening, with a drink or two I turn on the TV., to catch the same ole news

Don’t tell a soul, just listen here My time has come, to disappear Some heavy trouble, is on its way You know I love you but I just can’t stay I got a ticket to Bermuda, one way ticket to Bermuda That triangle holds no fear, ‘cause I sure aim to disappear Don’t look for me, ‘cause I won’t be found I’m far away, yet I’m all around ‘I’m watching you, I’m keeping near When lightning strikes, you might just see me reappear I just might find , a sandy beach Kick off my shoes, and cool my feet String up a hammock, ‘tween two trees Let all my trouble just hang out in the breeze

Can you hear me? Telling you to leave that girl alone Can you hear me? I’m warning you don’t touch my happy home She’s tried it once or twice And it made her feel alright But at the gates of paradise Her blood runs fire and ice Just like a moth, a moth that gets drawn into a flame Just like a gambler, on a losing steak who won’t quit playing Just like a knife, a knife that will cut you so deep Like some sweet poison, a poison so that she don’t eat or sleep

Going to my home town, to look up my old friends I said it sure is good to see you, but they said man you know you’ve changed I drove out to my old house, but it did not seem the same As I pull out of the station I’m the only one inside It’s an empty train I ride A pretty little girl I met fell head over heals for me She said she would be mine, until the end of time But as the years went passing by, that proved to be a lie When I saw you last night, all my days were before me We was raised out in the country, where the air was sweet and clear I thought that my old life, would always be there

You were out again last night I sneeked up so I could see Through the door of the local bar You were sat there on some man’s knee I’m damned if I can see it Same way as you Why can’t you be true You know I love you darling Don’t I always stand by you Forget about your new friends ‘cause they don’t care ‘bout you Tearing up and down the town In your friend’s new Cabriolet Your hair blowing in the wind Don’t you care about what people say

Don’t treat me like a dog Don’t scream and shout at me I know that we ain’t got no money Do you think I really meant this to be? Tomorrow I’ll find me a job Tomorrow we’ll drink fine wine The wind is now set to change Everything gonna be just fine There’s a space ship out beyond Jupiter I seen it on TV Ain’t it great what they can do these days With all that technology, is there space for you and me out there I’m living for a time When you no longer say You’d trade all of your tomorrows For a single yesterday Someone should have warned me Put my fist clean through the door And all of this late night walkin’ Is driving me up the wall

See that sun sinking down, just as warm as a mother’s smile Don’t that blue moon look so cold, just like some orphaned child The city can’t love you, and I don’t believe the country will My mind’s a runaway train, on a one-track line down hill In the blind black night when those shivers and chills take hold The howling of the wind, is calling my soul back home

When I was an outlaw on the Goldfields I’d shoot and kill, I’d rob and I’d steal I’d take a man’s money, I’d take a man’s wife Take my love on the run, no fear for my life The Great Eastern Highway, was my home I slept one eye open, and I rode out alone I new every creek, every waterhole And every time, a miner struck gold I was an outlaw, on the Darling Range I know I was to blame, the whole world knew my name I was and Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw! Now buy me a whisky and I’ll tell you the tale How I locked three troupers, in their own gaol I still sleep in the ditch, on the roadside Reigns in my hand, saddled ready to ride Now I’m an old man, I’m no longer strong I don’t have the right, to live for this long When the wind’s on the range, and the moon is just right Look out there for me, in the ghostly light

I came home the other day, police took my wife away I don’t know what to do no more Ain’t no justice, ‘specially when you’re poor I saw a lawyer they said was best, but he could not care no less He didn’t know, if they gonna let her go He said come back, when you got more dough If you get yourself a gun, go on out and kill someone In five years, you will be set free But you take what you need and they throw away the key We was thrown on the street, we don’t have enough to eat We don’t have decent clothes to wear Ain’t no justice and no one seems to care This old city, broke my heart Tore my lovin’ home apart I don’t know, what to do no more Ain’t no justice, ‘specially when you’re poor

I'll listen to you every single night Talk it through until we get it right I will be your shoulder to lean on When all your so-called friends have come and gone Sometimes things don’t work out how we planned In your darkest night I’ll hold your hand You’ve been let down many times before Now I’m right here to even up the score I won’t leave… (x4) When you find it hard to carry on I’m on hand to help you to be strong When the words won’t come I’ll still be here I’ll hold you close and lay to rest your fears I won’t leave…….(x4) Like the sun that always shines I’ll be with you all the time I can’t make myself more clear I will never, ever leave I will bring your breakfast to the bed Cook and clean and soothe your aching head I will do most anything for you Just one thing that I will never do I won’t leave………… (x4)

Nobody hears me crying, nobody hears me crying Nobody hears me crying, nobody hears me crying If you had my troubles, I’d be sorry for you Keep them to myself, nothing else I can do In the dead of night, cold wind all ‘round my door Cold chill around my heart, cold rain about to fall Nobody hears me crying, nobody hears me crying Nobody hears me crying, nobody hears me crying Nobody hears me crying, nobody hears me crying Nobody hears me crying, nobody hears me crying

Up all night thinking, but I still don’t know which way to go Up all night thinking, but I still don’t know which way to go I believe I’ve got to leave, but I love, but I love my baby so I’ve always been lonesome, ever since I was just a boy at school I’ve always been lonesome, ever since I was just a boy at school Now that I’m grown and need a friend, please, please, please tell me what I’m supposed to do When you first came to me, you were just, you were just a child When you first came to me, baby you were just, you were just a child I never knew you’d be such a woman and I was out every night running wild

Keep your motor running baby, I want to check your oil Keep your motor running baby, I want to check your oil I got the dipstick handy and the radiator’s ‘bout to boil She got twin carburettors of the kind I like to tune She got twin carburettors of the kind I like to tune Keep that motor running baby, morning night and afternoon Don’t need no choke ‘cause she’s already hot Hangs on in the turns and she knows what’s what Her plugs are firing and her points are good Everything’s sure fine underneath that hood Keep your motor running baby, I want to check your oil I got the dipstick handy and the radiator’s ‘bout to boil

Slip you out of neutral straight, on into overdrive She’ll slip you out of neutral, straight on into overdrive Keep that motor running baby, morning noon or night it’s alright Don’t need no choke ‘cause she’s already hot Hangs on in the turns and she knows what’s what Her plugs are firing and her points are good Everything’s sure fine underneath that hood Keep your motor running baby, I want to check your oil I got the dipstick handy and the radiator’s ‘bout to boil

My nerves have got me shakin’ Acting strange, hyper-ventilating Stress has got me, reeling and rocking Tensions got me down, something shocking Get into the bottle, slip into the bottle Get into the bottle, slip into the bottle I declare that I need me a job I’m sick and tired of not working for Uncle Bob Man down there says ‘you aint got what it takes’ I said ‘why not give me a try just give me a shake’ Get into the bottle, slip into the bottle Get into the bottle, slip into the bottle Sometimes, when everything is going wrong I need, what the bottle do for me Call up my pretty girl, I said, ‘why not take a whirl’ I’m feeling below par, I want to ride in your Jaguar She says ‘I don’t know but I’ve been told Weather man says it’s turning cold’ Get into the bottle, slip into the bottle Get into the bottle, slip into the bottle Get into the bottle, slip into the bottle Get into the bottle, slip into the bottle