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Playing To An Audience Of One
Silver Lady
Can't We Just Sit Down And Talk It Over
Tattler
I Wish I Was...
Rider
Going In With My Eyes Open
Playing To An Audience Of One
Tomorrow Child
By The Devil (I was tempted)
Nobody But A Fool Or A Preacher
Mary's Fancy
Tired of drifting searching
Shifting
From town to town
Every time I slip and slide a little
Further down
I can't blame you if you won't
Take me back
After ev'ryting I put you through
But Honey you're my last hope
And who else can I turn to?
Come on Silver Lady take my word
I won't run out on you again
Believe me
Oh I've seen the light
It's just one long fight without you
Here I am a million miles from home
The Indiana wind and rain cut through me
I'm lost and alone
Chilled to the bone
Silver Lady
Double talkers, backstreet walkers
At ev'ry turn
Seedy motels and no star hotels
Till I had to learn
That the one shining thing in my life
Was the sweet love I had with you
And Honey, you 're my last hope
And who else can I turn to?
Can't 't you find it in you to forgive me ?
Words and music by David Soul/Geoff Stephens back to top
The one and only night you don't need to go at all
A car rolls up outside on time,
A moment from your call
A hand-shake seems more fitting than a kiss
It's such a shame that you and I should have to end like this
Can't we just sit down and talk it over?
Surely you can ask the man to wait
It's strange that you're the one so set on leaving
And I'm the one
Who said last night that it was all too late
Can't we just sit down and talk it over?
Who knows maybe in a little while
We'll forget our pride and the things
We said last night and maybe you and I can talk it out
Tonight stay somewhere warm, they say it's gonna freeze
You may not find a place at all so be sure to take your keys
I can almost taste the silence now
Does it really matter still, who was wrong who let who down
Can't we just sit down and talk it over?
Who knows maybe in a little while
We'll forget our pride
And the things we said last night
And maybe you and I can talk it out
Hold on, hold on
Surely you and I can talk it out
Words and music by Tony Macaulay
Whenever you find a man
Who loves every woman he sees
There's always some kind of woman
That's putting him up a tree
And that kind of man he ain't got
As much sense as a mule
'Cause you know all those women, they don't love him,
They're playin' him for a fool
Ah ah ah, oh no, it's not hard for you to understand
True love can be such sweet harmony
If you do the best that you can
If you marry the wrong kind of woman
And get to where you cannot breath,
You just as well go get your hat
And let that woman be
And men ought'a make good husbands
And quite trying to lead the fast life
Goin' out, dressin' up, every other woman
Won't put clothes on his own wife
Now there're lots of good women who want to marry
And live a good life at home
But they're afraid they'll get hold of a rowdy man
Won't leave other women alone
And there're lots of good men who want to marry
And live a good life at home
But everytime they turn their back
There's a man sayin; "Honey, has he gone?"
Words and music by Cooder/Russ Tidelman
I wish, I was the sunlight
Gently reaching out in space
And I wish you were the chilly morn'
So I could warm your face
And I wish, I was a spider
'Cause I've got a web to weave
And I wish you were a captured fly
So that you'd never leave
But I'm just a man
And you are just a girl
Though we walk hand in hand
With too much of this world
Oh and I wish, I was a scarecrow
'Cause I've got a scare or two
And I wish you were a stock of corn
With me protecting you
And I wish, I was a pillow
'Cause I've got some softness too
And I wish you were a weary head
Alone just me and you.
Words and music by David Soul/Rick Edelstein
Beyond the hills
Beyond the plain of the valley
Beyond another rim
The horse and rider's seen
I am the rider
And the horse is my time
Oh lady, lady wait for me
I am for ever there
Riding at a distance
Hoping to cross to you
Needing to be found
I am in pain, hold me I'm not sane, hold me
I have no name, hold me
Oh oh oh lady, lady wait for me
So see me if you can
The rider is me
And I will try, yes I will
To come to you
The way is strange
And the distance is my life
Oh lady, lady wait for me
I am for ever there
Riding at a distance
Hoping to cross to you
Needing to be found
I am in pain, hold me I'm not sane, hold me
I have no name, hold me
Oh oh oh lady, lady wait for me
Words and music by David Soul/Gardner McKay
You smiled that misty way
And something in me said
Remember the last time don't fall in love
I walked so blindly in
I fell and hurt my head
I can 't forget it, I won 't regret it
I couldn 't even stop it if I tried
Only this time I'm going in with my eyes open
I won 't make the same mistakes again
This time I'll see the signs and no hearts broken
Won't be so blind and loose my way
You 'd be so nice to love
Don't let it end the same
If you get uneasy, just let me know
Don 't lie or call me by
Somebody else's name
I couldn't take it
I know it would break it
And I wanna give you everything I am.
Words and music by Tony Macaulay
They say maybe dreams are only movies of the mind
Still I've lived a few
Oh I'm not a star
Though in some ways I've made it
But all these nights away is gonna lose me you
I've thought a lot about it in these backs stage rooms
And I'd leave it all, if you want me too.
Some nights, God knows I'll miss the music
I'll miss the crowds that call my name
I'd find contentment now
If I thought you'd just hang' on
Playing to an audience of one
Some nights, God knows it won't be easy
I'll feel the lights I'll hear the sound
I'll find a piece in me
Cuddled up when the evening's done
Sometimes playing to my audience of one
The endless driving, midnight arriving
The sleeping when you can
Still worth it somehow just for that lift
You get when you walk on
But just to call you up some nights between the shows
To say "Good-night I miss you" ain't enough I know
So I'd leave it all if you tell me so
I'll find a piece in me
Cuddled up when the evening's done
Playing to my audience of one
Sometimes playing to my audience of one.
Words and music by Tony Macaulay
What song to sing my tomorrow child
Still so small and new?
What shall I say to show the way?
What games to play with you?
The world turns quickly now
And changes every mile
What shall I say to show the way?
Tomorrow child
I can't tell you what your life will be
Time will show you roads that I can't see
And if they carry you away from me
Then go with love
Whatever travels you may wander through
Whatever wonders you may some day do
Take my lullaby along with you
And go with love
Tomorrow child
I'll give you room to find your way
Just near enough to hear the things you need to say
And if you lose your way or wander there a while
The world is all my gift to you
Tomorrow child
Words and music by Brian Neary/Enoch Anderson
I've done a lot of laughing
A little bit of crying
I've been a lot of places
And made a mess of friends
Got wedded to the whisky
Should've been a good woman
If I could re-live my days
Changing my ways
I'd not touch' a drop again
By the devil I was tempted
And many jugs I've emptied
I felt so rejected
I didn't wanna go astray
Half my life has been awasted
By the booze I've tasted
But the demon I have faced it
And sent him on his way
I hope I'll be forgiven
For all my bad livin'
I had to make some changes
'Fore he got me in the end
Now I've got a pretty woman
She gives me good lovin'
I can 't re-live all my days in a different way
But I won't go astray again
By the devil I was tempted
And many jugs I've emptied
I felt so rejected
I didn't wanna go astray
Half my life has been awasted
By the booze I've tasted
But the demon I have faced it
And sent him on his way
Words and music by Guy Fletcher/Doug Flett
Mr Jimmy makes a drink with thirty-four different liquors
He pours it all in one shot glass
You can count the layers
His little wooden bar-room
Betsy tried to blow it away
They just mopped it back up some you know
It's all two-lane today
If you asked me my opinion 'bout it I'd have to say
There's nobody but a fool or a preacher
Would not love it in New-Orleans
I said there's nobody but a fool or a preacher
Would not love it in New-Orleans
Look out
The Mardi Gras is coming up soon
I'm gonna be down the street with the music and the booze
Them Crescent City ladies they love to tease and flirt
They steal your heart with one smile
And a flip of their skirt
They steal my heart with one smile
And a flip of their skirt
I'm gonna dance until I'm dizzy
Laugh until it hurts, whoa whoo
Miss Delacroix can tell you all about your fortunes
She knows everything there is to know about hoodo,
charms and potions
She can answer any questions you might care to ask
What to look for in your future
How to cover up your past
She said she found it likely, I'd be coming back there fast
Repeat chorus, second verse and chorus
Words and music by David MacKenzie
I remember Mary's Fancy
With painted rugs on veranda doors
And Kit who cooks surprises in foods
From the Grenadines and Guadeloupe
And the old man sang as he measured the rum
And sang in the street band, walking by on the road
Then at night and sometimes afternoons
My visitor would slip through curtain doors
She was far too young
The moon turned gold to bronze
As the afternoons slipped down into the sea
Oh I remember Mary's Fancy
Walking along in sun-dried clothes
From the beach to the town, to the top of the hill
Wherever we went led back to our room
And the sails we watched from our shadowy bed
With flags of ships waiting out in the bay
She was far too young
When the easy rain
Held us prisoner for the night
And what we did in the place was everything
And beauty shed her grace on thee
Mary's Fancy stands there still
An empty shell on a dried out hill
But once together we laughed and wept
Now the memory of my love is kept
Where ships sail in to sail away
In a sense she'll return like another day
And love that made it Mary's Fancy
Love that made it Mary's Fancy - gone.
Words and music by David Soul/Gardner McKay