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Definitely Ain’t Got The Money (J.L.Lewis)
Well, I definitely ain’t got the money
I definitely ain’t got the money
I definitely ain’t got the money
Hey lord, oh lordy lord
Hey, I definitely ain’t got the money
Oh, I definitely ain’t got the money
Hey, definitely ain’t got the money
Oh lord, oh lordy lord
Hey, tell me what I’m gonna do now
Hey, tell me what I’m gonna do
Hey, tell me what I’m gonna do now
Oh lord, oh lordy lord
I lost my job and they cut my benefits
I lost my job and they cut my benefits
I lost my job and they cut my benefits
Oh lord, oh lordy lord
Shut the factory and I can’t find work now
They shut the factory and I can’t find work
They shut the factory and I can’t find work now
Hey lord, oh lordy lord
Well, my heads been playing games
Oh, my heads been playing games
Yeah, my heads been playing games now
And they say I’m fit for work
I definitely ain’t got the money
I definitely ain’t got the money
I definitely ain’t got the money
Hey lord, oh lordy lord
Well, they say they’re gonna take my house
Oh, they say they’re gonna take my house now
Well, they say they’re gonna take my house
Well lord, oh lordy lord
Now the wife and kids are crying
Oh, the wife and kids are crying
Well, the wife and kids are crying
Lord, oh lordy lord
Well, they say it’s a sign of the times now
Oh, they say it’s a sign of the times
Well, they say it’s a sign of the times now
Hey lord, oh lordy lord
I definitely ain’t got the money
Oh, I definitely ain’t got the money
I definitely ain’t got the money
Hey lord, oh lordy lord,
Lord, oh lordy lord
Lord, oh lordy lord,
Lord, oh lordy lord
Lord, oh lordy lord
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Let Me Go
02:26
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When I get the blues
I don’t let them get me down
I‘ll keep on walking to another town
Let me go
Yeah, let me go
Ah, let me go
Please let me go
I’ll find another little home
Further on down the road
Well, the sun is shining on the top of my head
Inside I’m just filled with dread
Let me go
Please, let me go
Ah, let me go
Oh, let me go
I’ll find a little bit of peace
Further on down the road
I’ll get in my van and drive night and day
Find me a party on the way
Let me go
Please, let me go
Ah, let me go
Please, let me go
I’ll find my fun
Further on down the road
When you go away working to another town
Get back and find your gal is fooling around
Let her go
Don’t worry, let her go
Just let her go
Yeah, let her go
Find another pretty girl further on down the road
I’ve been travelling as long as can be
But there’s plenty more places in the world to see
Let me go
Please, let me go
Ah, let me go
I gotta go
I wanna keep on travelling long as I’m able to roll
I wanna keep on travelling long as I’m able to roll
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Don’t take your past out on me
Or I’ll become part of your past
So, don’t take your past out on me
If you want our future to last
Well, I’ve taken all that I can take right now
I’ve taken more than I should take
And you should give me, anyhow
So, don’t take your past out on me
Or I’ll become part of your past
Don’t take your past out on me
If you want our future to last
I’ve taken so much, where’s the love you swore
I can’t take it anymore
So, don’t take your past out on me
Or I’ll become part of your past
So, don’t take your past out on me
If you want our future to last
I don’t know what happened to you before
You won’t trust or confide in me
I just can’t help you any more
Don’t take your past out on me
Or I’ll become part of your past
So, don’t take your past out on me
If you want our future to last
I’ve taken so much, where’s the love you swore
I can’t take it anymore
Don’t take your past out on me
Or I’ll become part of your past
Don’t take your past out on me
If you want our future to last
No, no, don’t take your past out on me
Or I’ll become part of your past
No, no, don’t take your past out on me
If you want our future to last
If you want our future to last
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There ain’t no way to hide your feelings now
No, there ain’t no way to hide your feelings now
It’s plain for all to see
Oh, how you feel for me
There ain’t no way to hide your feelings now
Well, I’ll just pack my things and I’ll be gone
Oh, I’ll just pack my things and I’ll be gone
There ain’t no use to stay
And try and carry on this way
So, I’ll just pack my things and I’ll be gone
You made it plain how you feel for me
Oh, you made it plain how you feel for me
You said it was the drink talking
Well your drink has got me walking
You made it plain how you feel for me
You let the truth out and didn’t know
Oh, you let the truth out and didn’t know
Well, I ain’t gonna cry
But I don’t want to hear you lie
So, I’ll just pack my things and then I’ll go
Oh lordy, I’ll be happy down the line
Yeah lordy, you been wasting my time
Pretending you love me
Let this bad situation be
’Cause there ain’t no way to change your feelings now
You said it was the drink talking last night
Oh, you said it was the drink talking last night
Well, your drink it told the truth
And you’re the lying proof
And there ain’t no way to change your feelings now
No, there ain’t no way to hide your feelings now
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Saints & Sinners
03:11
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Some people been talking about you
Hey, I said it ain’t true
It couldn’t possibly be
Now they’re talking about me
Saints and sinners everywhere
Hey, you’d better beware
They be coming after you
When you don’t expect them too
Some people ain’t got no life
They cause trouble and strife
They’re angry as can be
’Cause of jealousy
Don’t ever let ’em make you blue
Don’t let the bastards get to you
Laugh in their face, don’t wear a frown
The way that they behave
Someone else will put them down
Don’t ever let ’em get you down
You’re just followed by a clown
It ain’t worth it you see
Laugh and let ’em be
Saints and sinners everywhere
So, you’d better beware
Or they be coming after you
Oh, when you don’t expect them too
Some people ain’t got no life
They cause trouble and strife
They’re angry as can be
’Cause of jealousy
Don’t ever let them make you blue
Don’t let the bastards get to you
Laugh in their face, don’t wear a frown
The way that they behave
Someone else will put them down
Some people been talking about you
Well, I said it ain’t true
It couldn’t possibly be
So, now they’re talking ’bout me
Yeah, they’re talking ’bout me
Hey, hey, hey
Talking ’bout me
Let ’em talk
Talking ’bout me
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I Love You
03:10
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I love the way you look at me
I love the way you smile
I love how you think of me
Every little once in awhile
I love the quiet times
Oooh you spend with me
I love the way you never get blue
No matter what I do
Oh, I love the way you look
I love the way you smile
I love the way you think of me
Once in a while
I love the way you talk
And I love everything you do
Ooooo I love you
At the end of day
When I’m alone with you
And the fire’s lit
And I’m cuddled up with you
No words we need to say
No small talk to get us through
And I know you know I’m ok
As long as I can come home to you
’Cause, I love the way you look
I love the way you smile
I love the way you think of me
Once in a while
I love the way you talk
And I love everything you do
Ooooo I love you
Well, I love the way you look
I love the way you smile
I love the way you think of me
Once in a while
I love the way you talk
And I love everything you do
Ooooo I love you
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You Win Again
04:22
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The news is out, all over town
You’ve been seen a-running ’round
And I know that I should leave but then
What can I do?
You win again
This heart of mine could never see
What everybody knew but me
Just trusting you was my great sin
What can I do?
You win again
Let’s Go!
Woo!
The news is out, all over town
You’ve been seen a-running ’round
I know that I should leave but then
What can I do?
You win again
This heart of mine could never see
What everybody knew but me
Just trusting you was my great sin
What can I do?
You win again
This heart of mine could never see
What everybody knew but me
Just trusting you was my great sin
What can I do?
You win again
This heart of mine could never see
What everybody knew but me
Just trusting you was my great sin
What can I do?
You win again
What can I do?
You win again
What can I do?
You win again
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Well, where would rock n’ roll be?
Hey, where would rock n’ roll be?
Without ya immigration or migration
Where would rock n’ roll be?
Well, there may not have been no country
May not have been no blues
No melting pot down in New Orleans
Well, that’s a hell of a thing to lose
Yeah, this world is going backwards
That’s the way it seems to me
So, when your building your barriers and border
Tell me one thing please
Well, where would rock n’ roll be?
Hey, where would rock n’ roll be?
Without ya immigration or migration
Where would rock n’ roll be?
Politicians and the media lying
Leading the whole country astray
Isn’t that classed as treason?
Then shoot them straight away
Oh, where do you think you come from?
Check your own family tree
Check your own ancestry
Hey, before you get righteous with me
’Cause where would rock n’ roll be?
Hey, where would rock n’ roll be?
Without immigration or migration
Where would rock n’ roll be?
Lying politicians not keeping promises they say
Making up anything they want to
And no-one making them pay
They should be nailed to the wall as examples to us all
And left to rot away
Oh, they’ll sell you to the highest bidder
For another pound in their pay
Where would rock n’ roll be?
Hey, where would rock n’ roll be?
Without immigration or migration
Where would rock n’ roll be?
Yeah, where would rock n’ roll be?
Tell me, where would rock n’ roll be?
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The Siege of Tennyson
03:26
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I’m gonna tell you a story
About the siege of Tennyson
When the cops come after Eddie
And sent him on the run
Named John Eddie Edwards
But his friends called him Eddie
A friendly guy with a wonky eye
He had corrected recently
Eddie had a disagreement
Disagreement with his son
So, his son thought he’d get even
And set him up not just for fun
He phoned the police
Said Eddie’s beating up his mum
And he was gonna kill her
If they didn’t come
Eddie woke up on his bed
With coppers knocking on his door
So, he told them where to go
Just like many times before
It wasn’t long before the cops
Had blocked off every street
So Eddie barricaded his front door
And went back to sleep
Many hours later
He woke back up in this mess
Police smashing through the front door
So, out the back he ran his best
Out the back door
A muddy hill he knew so well
Hey, flying like the clappers
There’s no way to stop him now
The steep hill went down to Cogan
Eddie knew it since a kid
He knew every crook and cranny
From a misspent youth he hid
At the bottom of the hill
Was a busy, busy road
On which lorries they were flying
With their heavy loads
The only way to stop
Was to grab on to a tree
He managed to stop
I’m sure it wasn’t gracefully
Also flying was a copper
Chasing Eddie down the hill
He had no way of stopping
So, surely he’ll be killed
Eddie saw what was happening
And grabbed the copper by the coat
Stopped the copper becoming a cropper
Woah, and history was wrote
Because he stopped to save the cop
The rest had caught up now
They slapped the handcuffs on him
And took him to a cell
Back at the station
They all heard what Eddie done
And they treated him like royalty
That crazy, crazy one
They made him a full breakfast
Then they set him free
So, he went back home
To get drunk on his own settee
This wasn’t the only siege for Eddie
Up at Tennyson
He said he’d blow up the gas mains
If they didn’t give him some
But that’s another story
I ain’t gonna tell to you
You can ask him yourself
That friendly one-eyed fool
Crazy one-eyed friendly fool
Crazy one-eyed friendly fool
Crazy one-eyed friendly fool
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It Hurts when i'm sober
02:23
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Yeah, it hurts when I’m sober
So, I’m drinking today
It didn’t hurt this morning
But I was drunk up ’til midday
It ain’t my baby left me
It’s my body causes pain
And it hurts when I’m sober
So, I’m drinking today
When I wake in the morning
I can’t get out of bed
My back’s in seven pieces
And the pain shoots to my head
There lays an empty bottle
That drowned the pain the night before
And it hurts when I’m sober
So, I’m gonna drink some more
Everybody’s now an expert
Telling me what to do
The chiropractor tried to fleece me
Thinking I’m a fool
The physiotherapist crushed me
Until I had no breath
But I didn’t need a drink today
I think he’s the best
It only hurts when I’m sober
So, I’m drinking today
It didn’t hurt this morning
’Cause I drunk up ’til midday
It ain’t my baby left me
It’s my body causes pain
And it hurts when I’m sober
So, I’m drinking today
It hurts when I’m sober
Oh, it hurts when I’m sober
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Nails in My Head
03:45
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Baby left me crying
Baby might as well left me dead
Baby left me crying
With words like nails in my head
Oh, words like nails in my head
Words like nails in my head
Baby left me crying
She might as well left me dead
Well, I could not believe it
I disbelieved it was true
My head made up my own version
In which you still loved me true
Words like nails in my head
Words like nails in my head
Baby Left me crying
Words like nails in my head
I was momentarily paralysed
I was momentarily dead
I was momentarily lifeless
From the lying words that she said
From the lying words that she said
You could have just said goodbye
It’s not working out for you
Instead you tried to ruin me
Just for loving you
With words like nails in my head
Words like nails in my head
Baby left me crying
She might as well left me dead
You spread lying rumours
Saying I was the devil to you
Mistreating and beating and all night cheating
When that really summed up you
With words like nails in my head
Words like nails in my head
Oh, baby left me crying
She might as well left me dead
I was momentarily paralysed
I was momentarily dead
I was momentarily lifeless
From the lying words that she said
The lying words that she said
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Wipe me Out
02:07
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I hear there’s a comet passing earth today
And there’s a slight chance it’s gonna wipe us all away
It’s gonna wipe us out
Ah, wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe us out
If it comes our way
Gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe us out
Passing earth today
Now, this thing’s bigger than me and you
If it comes our way, hey lordy, we’re screwed
Gonna wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe us out
That’s all I got to say
Gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe us out
That’s all I got to say
Yeah, the human race is killing this world
But this could do it in a single move
Gonna wipe us out
I wish it’d wipe us out
Ah, will it wipe us out?
That’s all I got to say
Wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe us out
It’s gonna wipe us out
That’s all I got to say
Well, if it’s heading for earth let it land on me
Let it wipe me out quickly and pain free
Let it wipe me out
Ah, let it wipe me out
Let it wipe me out
That’s all I got to say
Let it wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe me out
Let it wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe me out
Let it wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe me out
Let it wipe (wipe) wipe (wipe) wipe me out
Let it wipe me out
If it comes our way
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Originally recorded by Pee Wee King in 1952
I’ll settle in the woods where the land is free
No hog tied life will wash on me
I’ll build me a cabin for the world to see, by and by
The woods snow covers in the first hard freeze
And wolves are howling through the giant trees
I’ll sleep with a rifle here across my knees in the night
Spring will follow and my heart will wake
I’ll find me a woman who will share my fate
For a man in the wilderness needs a mate
And a wilderness man am I
So, I’ll settle in the woods where the headland juts
And build me a cabin that’ll mean so much
But my cabin in the woods needs a woman’s touch
So do I
Spring will follow and my heart will wake
I’ll find me a woman who will share my fate
For a man in the wilderness needs a mate
And a wilderness man am I
So, I’ll settle in the woods where the headland juts
And build me a cabin that’ll mean so much
But my cabin in the woods needs a woman’s touch
So do I
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John Lewis Wales, UK
The real 'John Lewis' has been a headlining mainstay on the Rock n Roll, Rockabilly, Country Roots circuit for many years now, his work spanning 3 decades, Armed with a guitar and a stomp board John's infectious onstage passion, humor and distinctive voice has him delivering songs about modern life avoiding the cliches of the aforementioned genres whilst retaining an old sound with a modern twist ... more
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