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Let me drown in molasses, let me die in your arms
Let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms.
Let me drown in molasses, let me die in your arms
Let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms
Let me drown in your bathtub
let me dry in your arms
Let me drown in your laughter
let me die in your arms
Like a Sleep-Evil Lotion
Like a sleepy blue ocean
Like a sleep in the washer
Like a sleepy blue ocean
Like a sleepy devotion
Like a sleepy blue ocean
Like the Mountain Dew springtime
Like the mountains in springtime
You build up my fences, like a KNIGHT in the forest
You filled up my senses, like a night in a forest
You build up my fences.
You fill up my senses.
You feel all my senses
You fill up my senses
You feel up my sensors, come feel me again
You fill up my senses, come fill me again
You fell from the staircase
You fill up my senses
You fill out my census
You fill up my senses
You fill up my bathtub
You fill up my senses
You fill up my census
You fill up my senses
You fill up my head head
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a slimey blue ocean
You fill up my head head
Come fill me again
You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again
You fill up my head, head
Like a slimey blue water
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
You fill up my sad sacks
You fill up my senses
I probably need a hearing aid!! LOL.
You fill up my senses
Like a knight in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a wok in the rain
You filled up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
You fill up my senses
Like a slimey blue water
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
You filled out my census
You fill up my senses
You filled up my census, I can hide in a florists
You filled up my senses, like a night in a forest
You filled up my senses, come kill me again.
You filled up my senses, come fill me again.
You filled up my senses, like a fight with a tourist
You filled up my senses, like a night in a forest
You give out my censors
You fill up my senses
You said to my dentist
'Like a mouthful of foreheads'.
You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest.
You still watch the Simpsons
You fill up my senses
Like the laughter in springtime
Like the mountains in springtime
"Aspenglow"
Winter's cold, Aspenglow.
Winter's gold, aspen glow.
"Aspenglow"
Wintersköl, aspen glow.
Winter's gold, aspen glow.
Wintersköl is an annual festival in Aspen, CO. (Editor's note: However, the lyric in this line seems to be disputed. Some sites actually give "Wintersköl" as correct, while others give "Winter's gold" as correct. So until I see the liner notes of the album, I'm leaving it this way.)
"Autograph"
Here I am enclosing my eyes again.
Here I am and closing my eyes again.
And your mother called last Friday,
Some guy made her cry.
And your mother called last Friday,
Sunshine made her cry.
Hey, Cook, be back home again
Hey, it's good to be back home again
It tastes good to be back home again.
Hey, it's good to be back home again.
Ten days on the road are Prarie Dawn
Ten days on the road are barely gone
Ten days on the road are fairly long
Ten days on the road are barely gone
There's a store across the valley
There's a storm across the valley
High Cliffs! The places you wind to
Aye Calypso, the places you've been to
So wrong and so well
So long and so well
To be tired of the movement and tired of the growing
Tired of beginning to understand
To be part of the movement and part of the growing
Part of beginning to understand
"Cowboy’s Delight"
Shedding their treasures, shook out their mines
Shared in their treasures, shook at their might
"Falling Leaves (The Refugees)"
From dust to dust from sea to shear
From dust to dust from seed to shear
"Fly Away"
Though your wings are frozen
Though your wings are broken
I'm sorry to believe in you.
I'm sorry to be leaving you.
"Gossip Changes"
Now God knew names and faces
Now we got new names and faces
"Grandma's Feather Bed" (MP3)
After supper we'd s*** around the fire
The old folks s*** and chew.
After supper we'd sit around the fire
The old folks spit and chew.
"Grandma's Feather Bed" (MP3)
It was made from the feathers of forty-'leven geese
Took a whole rope across for the tick
It was made from the feathers of forty-'leven geese
Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
"Grandma's Feather Bed" (MP3)
Made from the feathers of forty-'leven geese
Took a whole boat to row it across the crick [creek].
Made from the feathers of forty-leven geese
Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
"Grandma's Feather Bed" (MP3)
Made from the feathers of forty-leven geese
Took a hobo 'til cock's crow to pick
Made from the feathers of forty-leven geese
Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
I'm sorry about the way things are vagina
I'm sorry about the way things are in China
I'm sorry for all the whys I told you
I'm sorry for all the lies I told you
I'm sorry if I took those things you rented
I'm sorry if I took some things for granted
"It Makes Me Giggle"
Sometimes I wake up feeling crappy
Sometimes I wake up feeling crabby
"Leaving On A Jet Plane" (MP3)
I believe in all the jet planes.
I'm leavin' on a jet plane.
"Leaving On A Jet Plane" (MP3)
I'm leavin' Arnott's jet plane.
I'm leavin' on a jet plane.
"Leaving On A Jet Plane" (MP3)
Leapin' off a jet plane
I'm leavin' on a jet plane.
"Leaving On A Jet Plane" (MP3)
Leavin' on a jet train
I'm leavin' on a jet plane.
"Leaving On a Jet Plane" (MP3)
Oh babe, I hate the cold
Oh babe, I hate to go
"Leaving On a Jet Plane" (MP3)
Oh, babe, I hate the goat
Oh, babe, I hate to go
"Leaving on a Jet Plane" (MP3)
'Cause I'm leavin' on a freight train.
'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane.
"Leaving on a Jet Plane" (MP3)
He's blowin' his whore
He's blowin' his horn
"Looking for Space" (MP3)
I'm trying to find my homework
I'm trying to find my own way
"Looking for Space" (MP3)
On the road of experience
Dawn of the living dead
On the road of experience
Join in the living day
Riding on his daddy's shoulders, behind the view beneath the sun
Riding on his daddy's shoulders behind a mule, beneath the sun
The original is a terrible lyric - we all know what happens behind a mule...ewwww!
"Me And My Uncle"
Three days in the saddle, my butt it hurt.
Three days in the saddle, my body hurt.
"Me and My Uncle"
Two days in the saddle, my butt it hurt.
Two days in the saddle, my body hurt.
And I sweat to you
And I swear to you
"Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913"
And they sat there and they marveled, and they knew they could not tell whether it were angels, or the bright stars a-singing
And they sat there and they marveled, and they knew they could not tell whether rain were raining, or the bright stars were shining
"Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913"
I was lost on Christmas Eve, when the stars were shining
I traveled for a month, to westward falls and hills
And for many little villages in the darkness of the valley
This music did reach me, peels and bells were ringing.
A frosty Christmas Eve, when the stars were shining
I traveled for the home, where westward falls the hill
And for many, many a village, in the darkness of the valley
Distant music reached me, peals of bells were ringing.
Perhaps love is like an ocean
Full of codfish, full of plaice.
Perhaps love is like an ocean
Full of conflict, full of pain.
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
And he lost a friend in Captain Emory
And he lost a friend, but kept a memory
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
And he lost a friend, the Captain and Marie
And he lost a friend, but kept a memory
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
And he lost his friends, and he kepts his memories
And he lost a friend, but kept the memory
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
And he lost his friends, the Captain and Tennille
And he lost a friend, but kept a memory
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Call her out on Rocky Mountain High.
Colorado Rocky Mountain High
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Everybody’s hot
Everybody’s high
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
From a bottle, Rocky Mountain high
Colorado, Rocky Mountain high
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
He climbed the fever mountains.
He climbed cathedral mountains.
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
He climbs to see the mountains.
He climbed cathedral mountains.
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
His sinus turned inside himself to try and understand
The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake.
His sight has turned inside himself to try and understand
The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake.
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
I know he'd be a poorer man if he ever should leave this land
I know he'd be a poorer man, if he'd never seen an eagle fly
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
I seen it reign with ire in the sky
or
I'd see it rain if I were in disguise
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
I've seen it reign with ire in disguise
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
More people, more squatters on the land
More people, more scars upon the land
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
More people, more stars upon the land
More people, more scars upon the land
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Now his mind is full of wonder
But his heart, still loathsome fear.
Now his mind is full of wonder
But his heart still knows some fear.
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Rockin' mighty fine
Rocky Mountain High
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Rockin' mountain high
Rocky Mountain High
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Rocky Mountain High, Donnie Darko.
Rocky Mountain High, Colorado.
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Rocky Mountain High, Marlon Brando
Rocky Mountain High, In Colorado
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Rocky Mountain High, Norman Rockwell
Rocky Mountain High, In Colorado
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Rocky Mountain High, and Donna Fargo
Rocky Mountain High, In Colorado
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Rocky Mountain Pie
Rocky Mountain High
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Rocky mountain pie, with Portabello
Rocky mountain high, in Colorado
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
The Colorado Rocky Mountain high,
I've seen it rain and fire in the sky.
The Colorado Rocky Mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
The real reference is to a meteor shower that Mr. Denver had once witnessed in the Rocky Mountains.
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
The Colorado Rocky Mountain high,
Of cement, rain, and fire in the sky.
The Colorado Rocky Mountain high,
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky.
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Walk the mountain high
Rocky Mountain high
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
When they tried to tear the mountains down To bring in a couple more.
Why they try to tear the mountains down
To bring in a couple more?
"Rocky Mountain High" (MP3)
Why they try to tear the mountains down
To bring in a tug-of-war?
Why they try to tear the mountains down
To bring in a couple more?
It's the same old song up in the sky
It's the same old sun up in the sky
"Some Days Are Diamonds"
Some days are diamonds
Some days are pearls.
Some days are diamonds
Some days are stones.
"Some Days Are Diamonds"
Some days, vagina,
Some days, alone.
Some thighs are hard thighs,
Won't bleed me a bone.
Some days are diamonds
Some days are stones.
Some times are hard times
Won't leave me alone.
"Spirit"
And legalize my weed
And Vega lights my way
"Sunshine On My Shoulders" (MP3)
And if I had a date
And if I had a day
"Sunshine On My Shoulders" (MP3)
Sci-fi on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
"Sunshine On My Shoulders" (MP3)
Shoe shine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
"Sunshine On My Shoulders" (MP3)
Sunshine almost always makes me die.
Sunshine almost always makes me high.
"Sunshine On My Shoulders" (MP3)
Sunshine almost always makes me hide.
Sunshine almost always makes me high.
"Sunshine On My Shoulders" (MP3)
Sunshine on my shoulders gives me sunburn
Sunshine in my eyes can make me blind.
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry.
"Sunshine on My Shoulders" (MP3)
But if I had a summer fling
But if I had a song to sing
"Sunshine on My Shoulders" (MP3)
If I had a toy
or
If I had a game
That I could play with you
(later)
If I had a tail
That I could pin you
If I had a day
That I could give you
(later)
If I had a tale
That I could tell you
"Sunshine on My Shoulders" (MP3)
Shunshine on my soldiers
Sunshine on my shoulders
"Sunshine on My Shoulders" (MP3)
Sunshine almost always makes me hide
Sunshine almost always makes me high
"Sunshine on My Shoulders" (MP3)
Sunshine on my soldiers makes me happy
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Traveled by many
Remember Matthew
Traveled by many, remembered by few
When 'Sweet Surrender' was released, John Denver had recently released the biographical 'Matthew' (about his uncle, Dean).
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
007, West Virginia.
Almost Heaven, West Virginia.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
All my memories gather 'round her
Midas' lady, stranger to blue water
All my memories gather 'round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Almost Heaven West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, shining through the river.
Almost Heaven West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Almost Heaven, I wet my finger.
Almost Heaven, West Virginia
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Almost Heaven
West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Shannen Doherty River.
Almost Heaven
West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Shenandoah River.
Shannon Doherty was born the year that this song was written, but of course she would not be known publicly until the 90's.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Almost heaven, Where's the ginger?
Almost heaven, West Virginia.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Almost seven, where's the gin, yeah?
Almost heaven, West Virginia
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West Virginia, Mountain mummer,
Take me home, Country Roads
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West Virginia, Mountain Mama,
Take me home, Country Roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong, West Virginia,
Mountain llamas, take me home
To the country roads
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong, West Virginia,
Mountain momma, take me home
To the country roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain my mind
Take me home, Country Roads.
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain mama
Take me home, Country Roads.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Country Roads, take me home
To the place that I love, West Virginia, mountain momma take me home
To the country roads
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong, West Virginia, Mountain momma, take me home
To the country roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Country Rose, take me home
To the place, I belong
West Virginia
Corona Mountain,
Take me home, Country Rose.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia
Mountain Mama
Take me home, country roads.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Country Row,
Take me hoe,
to the face that I belong
Country Roads,
take me home
To the place I belong
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, Mount Madonna
Take me home, country roads.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia
Mountain llama
Take me home, country roads.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia
Mountain Mama
Take me home, country roads.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Country rose take me home
Country roads, take me home
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Country rose
Country roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Martin Lawrence
Mountain Mama
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Missed the taste of moonshine
Misty taste of moonshine
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Mystery in the moonlight a deer cut my eye
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
No tomorrow
Mountain mama
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Shannon, go a river.
Shenandoah River.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Take me home Kentucky Roads
Take me home Country Roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Take me home, country Rose
Take me home, country roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia mountain farmer
Take me home, country roads.
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, Martin Luther
or
West Virginia, Martin Lawrence
West Virginia, mountain mama
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, Matt and Momma
West Virginia, mountain momma
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, Mount St Barbara.
West Virginia, mountain mama
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, Mountain Highlife
West Virginia, Mountain Mama
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, Mountain Llamas
West Virginia, mountain momma
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, a mile to momma
Take me home, country roads.
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, come to Mama.
West Virginia, Mountain Momma.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, hot bananas
Take me home, country roads.
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, mount banana
Take me home, country roads.
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, mount your momma
West Virginia, mountain momma
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, mountain laurel
West Virginia, mountain momma
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, mountain llama
West Virginia, mountain momma
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
West Virginia, mountain my mind
West Virginia, mountain mama
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
What's for dinner, mountain mama?
West Virginia, mountain mama.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Whispered Ginger
West Virginia
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Wrestle champions
West Virginia
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Younger than the mountains, blowin' like a breeze
Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze
Trust me, it's "growin' like a breeze". I was born, raised, and live in WV, lol.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Younger than the mountains, glowing like a breeze
Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Younger than the mountains, going like a breeze
Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (MP3)
Younger than the mountains, growin' lima beans
Younger than the mountains, blowin' like a breeze
Editor's note: This line is actually disputed; some lyrics sites say "blowin' like a breeze" while others say "growin'..."; however, "blowin' like a breeze makes more sense in context, so I will leave it this way until I see the liner notes of the album.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Daddy taught me young how to hunt and how to twiddle
Daddy taught me young how to hunt and how to whittle
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Guitar's sweet so I keep it kind of low.
Kids are asleep so I keep it kind of low.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
He taught me how to work and play a toot on the fiddle
He taught me how to work and play a tune on the fiddle
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Life ain't nothin' but a farting-flying fiddle
Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Life ain't nothin' but a funny-money riddle.
Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Might be nothin' but a funny, funny riddle
Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
My days are all filled when I'm easy cutting cars.
My days are all filled with an easy country charm.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Silly folk drivin' in a black limousine
City folk drivin' in a black limousine
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Thank god I'm a crunchy boy
Thank god I'm a country boy
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Well I fiddled with my daddy 'till the day he died.
Well, my fiddle was my daddy's 'till the day he died.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Well I got me a fife and I got me a fiddle
Well I got me a fine wife, I got me a fiddle
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Well I got me a five and I got me old fiddle
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the brittle
Well I got me a fine wife I got me old fiddle
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the griddle
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Well, I got me a pipe, I got me a fiddle
Well I got me a fine wife, I got me a fiddle
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
Well, I work all day and I piddle in a can
Well, I work all day and I fiddle when I can
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy" (MP3)
When the sun's coming up,
I got kegs on the brittle
When the sun's coming up,
I got cakes on the griddle
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (MP3)
Life ain't nothin' but a fuddy-duddy riddle
Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (MP3)
Say "God, what a country boy"
Thank God I'm a country boy
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (MP3)
Thank God I watch PAW Patrol
Thank God I'm a country boy
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (MP3)
Thank God I'm Puppet Boy!
Thank God I'm a country boy!
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (MP3)
Thank God I'm a junkie boy
Thank God I'm a country boy
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (MP3)
Thank god I'm a Tonka truck
Thank God I'm a country boy
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (MP3)
Well I got me a fife and I got me a fiddle
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the girdle
Well I got me a fine wife I got me old fiddle
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the griddle
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (MP3)
Well I got me a fine wife I got me an ole fiddle
When the sun's coming up I got cake on the griddle
Well I got me a fine wife I got me an ole fiddle
When the sun's coming up I got cakes on the griddle
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (MP3)
Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle
When the sun's coming up I got cake on the griddle
Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle
When the sun's coming up I got cakes on the griddle
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (MP3)
When the sun's coming up,
I just can't solve the riddle
When the sun's coming up,
I got cakes on the griddle
"The Harder They Fall"
Some would jump right up and start all over again
Some just get right up and start all over again
Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries, I'll swing from your vine
Millions of people shall all pass away
E'er I forget the joy that is mine today
Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine
Millions of tomorrows shall all pass away
E'er I forget the joy that is mine today