"scattered like lost words..."
Grateful Dead Lyric Concordance
a work in progress
compiled by
Sven Bachmann
(published with his permission in The Annotated Grateful Dead
Lyrics)
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List of songs acknowledged
A - Alligator
AATW - Iīve been all around this world
AG - Alabama getaway
Alt - Althea
AOML - Attics of my life
B - Bertha
BCE - Born cross-eyed
BdP - Brokedown palace
BE - Brother Esau
BEW - Brown-eyed women
BFA - Blues for Allah
BOR - Box of rain
BP - Black Peter
BS - Bird song
BTW - Black throated wind
C - Cassady
CAT - Comes a time
CB - Cumberland Blues
CC - Cosmic Charlie
CCS - China cat sunflower
CD - China doll
CF - Crazy fingers
CfJ - Catfish John
CJ - Casey Jones
Cm - Candyman
CPR - Cream puff war
D - Deal
DDB - Dupreeīs diamond blues
DS - Dark star
DTR - Doing that rag
DW - Dire wolf
ElP - El Paso
EOTW - Eyes of the world
EP - Estimated Prophet
EW - Easy wind
FLAS - Feel like a stranger
FOTD - Friend of the devil
FOTM - Fire on the mountain
FT - Franklinīs tower
G - Gomorrah
GDTR - Going down the road
GSET - Greatest story ever told
HCS - Here comes sunshine
HG - Heīs gone
HOTW - Help on the way
HT - High time
IIHTWTG - If I had the world to give
IMHBTR - It must have been the roses
INAM - I need a miracle
ISTE - I second that emotion
ITAM - Iīll take a melody
JS - Jack Straw
L - Loser
LL - Lazy lightning
LLR - Looks like rain
LLu - Loose Lucy
MABMG - Me & Bobby Mc Gee
MAMU - Me & my uncle
MB - Mexicali Blues
MC - Masonīs children
MD - Morning dew
MHUT - Mississippi halfstep uptown toodeloo
MITR - Mission in the rain
MOTM - Mountains of the moon
MT - Mama tried
NPC - New potato caboose
NSB - New speedway boogie
NTYSM - Next time you see me
O - Operator
OMSN - One more Saturday night
P - Passenger
PITB - Playing in the band
POC - Pride of Cucamonga
R - Ripple
RJ - Row Jimmy
Rm - Rosemary
ROR - Ramble on rose
S - Sugaree
SAD - Samson & Delilah
SB - Scarlet begonias
Sbl - Stella Blue
SdS - Shakedown street
SL - Stagger Lee
SM - Sugar magnolia
SOF - Ship of fools
SOTOTW - Sitting on top of the world
SS - St.Stephen
Sup - Supplication
T - Trucking
TE - The Eleven
TGR - The golden road
ThS - Throwing stones
THTC - The harder they come
TJ - Tennessee Jed
TLMD - To lay me down
TMNS - The music never stopped
TOO - The other one
TPR - The promised land
TRIO - The race is on
TS - Terrapin Station
TTMC - Till the morning comes
TW - The wheel
UC - Unbroken chain
UJB - Uncle Johnīs band
USB -US Blues
WBOTB - Whatīs become of the baby
WhR - Wharf rat
WPCTS - When push comes to shove
WR I & II - Weather report I & II
to abide
- if you can abide it, let the hurdy-gurdy play - CD
- we can have high times if youīll abide - SM
ablaze
- almost ablaze still you donīt feel the heat - FOTM
to accuse
- accused him of cheating, oh no - MAMU
ace
- and the aces are crawling up and down - DTR
- if I had a gun for every ace I have drawn - L
- sitting plush with a Royal flush, aces back to back - ROR
to ache
- thereīs an aching pain in my heart - TRIO
act
- son of a gun, better change your act - USB
to add
- nothing that you need to add or do - TLEO
to admit
- but you got to admit that sweet Jellyīs so good - DDB
- must admit youīre kinda frightning - LL
advice
- take my advice, youīd be better off dead - CJ
afraid
- you canīt let go īcause youīre afraid to fall - CAT
- or be afraid at the change you made - IIHTWTG
- but afraid, we may our home to waste - ThS
- when push comes to shove, youīre afraid of love - WPCTS
afternoon
- one afternoon, long ago - BOR
age
- I need a woman ībout twice my age - INAM
to age
- we dug him up on Tuesday, he hardly aged a day - MC
aglow
- while the firelightīs aglow, strange shadows of - TS
air
- float in air - CF
- fire wheel burning in the air - EP
- way up, the middle of the air - EP
- let there be songs to fill the air - R
- come back stepping like to walk on air - RJ
- double twist when you hit the air - RJ
- not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air - SB
- greet the morning air with song - TMNS
airplane
- whenever your airplane happens to land - CC
alarm
- false alarm, the only game in town - P
alight
- eyes alight, with glowing hair, all that - TS
alive
- one more day I find myself alive - BP
- when I get back to Memphis, be one less man alive - Cm
- I wonīt come back alive - SL
- she can make happy any man alive - SM
- gimme five, Iīm still alive, ainīt no luck - USB
Allah
- where Allah does command - BFA
- blues for Allah, in īshīAllah - BFA
- Allah, where are you now - WBOTB
alley
- shadow in the alley turned out all my lights - Llu
- rat cat alley roll them bones - ThS
alligator
- sleepy alligator in the nooday sun - A
- creepy alligator coming all around the bend - A
- came the biggest old alligator that Iīve ever seen - A
almost
- that could almost be true - BTW
alone
- you may be a Saturdayīs child, all alone - Alt
- alone with the rush of the drivers - BTW
- are flown, except you alone - BdP
- riding alone in the dark - ElP
- sometimes we walk alone - EOTW
- but youīre here alone, thereīs no one to compete - FOTM
- īcause Iīm all alone - L
- winter morning breaks, youīre all alone - NPC
- by standing in the road alone - POC
- that path is for your steps alone - R
- bur if you fall, you fall alone - R
- the mirror was a window she sat by alone - Rm
- out of the door and down on the streets all alone - T
- singing just leave well enough alone" - ThS
- come with me or go alone, heīs come to take his - UJB
- come on along or go alone, heīs come to - UJB
always
- come in the morning Iīd always be there - CfJ
to amaze
- where I dreaming lay amazed - AOML
angel
- like an angel standing in a shaft of light - EP
- on a crest of a wave her angels in flame - HOTW
- a broken angel sings from a guitar - SBl
- as well to count the angels dancing on a pin - WR II
anger
- Lord, he never spoke in anger - CfJ
- so in anger I challenged his right - ElP
angry
- the words come out like an angry stream - CAT
another
- or just another pretty face - Alt
- you can see clear to another day - BOR
- through dead dreams to another land - BOR
- take me back to another morning - CfJ
- I know itīs just another trick - CPR
- and find another sweet manīs gonna treat her - DDB
- in another timeīs forgotten space - FT
- if I tell another what your own lips told to me - IMHBTR
- one man gone and another to go - JS
- and youīll never find another honest man - L
- freedomīs just another word for nothing left to do - MABMG
- shot me another, oh damn, he wonīt grow old - MAMU
- one step down and another begun - NSB
- one way or another, this darkness got to give - NSB
- and another queen is on your throne - NTYSM
- one man gathers what another man spills - SS
- true love scratched for anotherīs sake - TRIO
answer
- some folks look for answers, others look for fights - PITB
- sunlight splatters dawn with answers - SS
- answers aplenty in the bye and bye - SS
- but what will be the answer to the answer man - SS
- the answer came, the wind and rain - WR I
- dawning answer comes there none - WBOTB
to answer
- my challenge was answered in less than a heartbeat - ElP
- Stephen would answer if he only knew how - SS
- can you answer, yes I can - SS
apple
- of, of, silver apples in the sun - POC
area
- give me the right area code and the number - O
arm
- or hold it all in your arms - IIHTWTG
- happy hours I spent there in her arms - MB
- he stretched out his arm, God knows, chains broke like thread - SAD
- with climbing arms of ivy wrapped around - TE
- put my arms around you, love you till you cry - WPCTS
to arm
- I could arm a town the size of Abilene - L
armory
- everybodyīs dancing down the local armory - OMSN
to arrest
- why donīt you arrest me - B
- you arrest the girls for turning tricks - SL
- how the hell can I arrest him, heīs twice as big as me - SL
to arrive
- who can stop what must arrive now - CF
arrow
- speeding arrow sharp and narrow - SS
- arrows of neon and flashing marquees - T
ashes
- dark star crashes, pouring ist light into ashes - DS
- more than just ashes when your dreams come true - FOTM
- ashes have scattered too hard to run - P
- ashes, ashes all fall down - ThS
to ask
- I would ask the same of you, but failing - CD
- and I asked him to come in out of the cold - GSET
- he asked me for mercy, I gave him a gun - GSET
- ask him for water, he poured me some wine - GSET
- asking you nice, now, keep the mother rolling - HCS
- or ask for the moon and heaven too - IIHTWTG
- would you come closer, if, if I asked you too - LL
- all that I am asking for is ten gold dollars - L
- I must turn down your offer, but Iīd like to ask a break - MITR
- ask the time, baby, I donīt know - RJ
- and I knew without asking, she was into the blues - SB
- well, donīt ask me to go downtown - SL
- just one thing I ask of you, just one thing for me - S
- hold away despair, more than this I will not ask - TS
- blind and dirty, asked me for a dime - WhR
asleep
- youīve all been asleep, you would not believe me - EP
ass
- and I left his dead ass there by the side of the road - MAMU
- beat you up and give your ass a kick - WPCTS
to assemble
- all the dancing kings and wives assemble in the hall - MOTM
attics
- in the attics of my life, full of cloudy dreams unreal - AOML
avenue
- trucking in style along the avenue - CC
- out there on the neon avenue - FLAS
to awake
- awoke today, felt your side of the bed - LLR
- how come you lay awake all night long - S
- always awake, always īround singing - ThS
awful
- awful cold and dark like a dungeon - DTR
baby
- loose with the truth, baby - Alt
- but baby, donīt get burned - Alt
- everything wanders from baby to z - DTR
- baby, baby pretty it up - DTR
- baby, baby tell me whatīs the matter - DTR
- gave my baby twenty or forty good reasons - DTR
- come back here pretty baby Louise - DTR
- well, baby, baby wants a gold diamond ring - DDB
- baby, baby you gonna lose your sweet man - DDB
- babyīs gonna weep it on for a while - DDB
- judge said son, I know your baby well - DDB
- ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills - FOTD
- got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee - FOTD
- it may have one good ring, baby, you canīt tell - FT
- now listen here, baby, īcause I mean what I say - HT
- now donīt think too hard, baby - HT
- donīt you push me, baby - L
- put your gold money, where your love is, baby - L
- be-bop baby how can this be - LLu
- hello, baby, Iīm gone, goodbye - MHUT
- lost my boots in transit, baby - MHUT
- thought I heard a baby cry this morning - MD
- you didnīt hear no baby cry this morning - MD
- ask the time, baby, I donīt know - RJ
- rock you baby to and fro, not too fast and not too slow - RJ
- said come back, babyļ I need you so - SOTOTW
- saw my baby down by the river - SM
- wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own - SS
- whoa, whoa baby back where I belong - T
- got a letter this morning, baby all it read - TJ
- catch a few winks, babyļ under the bed - TJ
- baby, wonīt you carry me back - TJ
- whatīs become of the baby this cold December morning - WBOTB
bachelor
- and I was born to be a bachelor - Alt
back, n. + adj.
- that my back might need protection - Alt
- to a double-E waterfall over my back - CCS
- I gonna bust my back, yes I will - EW
- out through the back door of Roseīs I ran - ElP
- up on his back and away I did ride - ElP
- Iīve got to make it to Roseīs back door - ElP
- a knife in the back and more of the same - HG
- I donīt know whose backīs that strong - NSB
- hail on my back like a shotgun blast - POC
- and here comes pride up the back stretch - TRIO
- sitting plush with a Royal flush, aces back to back - ROR
- Samson he crawled up on the lionīs back - SAD
- back to back chicken shack. Son of a gun - USB
- the plowman is broad as the back of the land - WR II
to back
- if you please, donīt back up the track - NSB
bad
- raised eight boys, only I turned bad - BEW
- and itīs no wonder, your reason goes bad - DDB
- going down the road feeling bad - GDTR
- mustīve been a bad thing to get shot down for - G
- for the bad I kept on turning - MT
- broken heart donīt feel so bad - RJ
bag
- wave the flag, pop the bag, rock the boat - USB
bail
- just out of prison on ten dollars bail - A
ball
- the ball game has gone much too far my dear - BCE
- cue ballīs made of styrofoam and no oneīs got the time - MHUT
- as Stagger Lee lit a cigarette she shot him in the balls - SL
- cold iron shackles, ball and chain - TJ
- balls of lighning roll along - TMNS
- picture a bright blue ball just spinning - ThS
- now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime - ThS
- or this shining ball of bule we can call our home - ThS
to ball
- I been balling a shiny black steel jack hammer - EW
- balling that jack and drinking my wine - EW
- doctor say better stop balling that jack - EW
- she come running and we ball all night - LLu
baller
- Iīm a stone jack baller and my heart is true - EW
band
- before a weary band - BE
- playing in the band, daybreak, daybreak on the land - PITB
- I canīt stop for nothing, Iīm just playing in the band - PITB
- you just keep on turning while Iīm playing in the band - PITB
- let him cast a stone at me for playing in the band - PITB
- just like Billy Sunday, in a shotgun ragtime band - ROR
- take you to the leader of the band - ROR
- everybodyīs playing in the heart of gold band - SB
- a three-piece band on the corner played - SL
- thereīs a band out on the highway - TMNS
- the band kept us so busy - TMNS
- while the music plays the band - TMNS
- and the band keeps playing on - TMNS
- theyīre a band beyond description - TMNS
- but the bandīs all packed and gone - TMNS
- been hiding out in a rockīn roll band - USB
- come hear uncle Johnīs band, playing to the tide - UJB
bandanna
- crazy cat peeking through a lace bandanna - CCS
- I took my harp on out of my dirty red bandanna - MABMG
bank
- on the bankīs green edge - BdP
- sheīs brown as the bank where she kneels down - WR II
bar
- that I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars - BTW
- 1929 when he stepped to the bar - BEW
- stepped up to Stagger Lee at the bar - SL
bare
- last leaf fallen bare earth where green was born - NPC
barely
- other times I can barely see - T
- ainīt no time to hate, barely time to wait - UJB
barren
- when they sigh about the barren lack of rain - TE
barroom
- youīre playing cold music on the barroom floor - FOTM
- went to the barroom, you know my body hurt - MAMU
basement
- with a basement full of dynamite and live artillery - OMSN
battle
- and they think that they have got the battle won - THTC
to bawl
- and I might lay right down and bawl - TRIO
to bay
- the preacher and the baying of his hounds - UC
beach
- standing on the beach - EP
- the heart has ist beaches - EOTW
bead
- in the reeds, silver beads, pass into the sea - WR II
beam
- sitting in Mangrove valley chasing light beams - DTR
to bear
- though his load was hard to bear - CfJ
- sure as she bore me, she bought me - TPL
- she bears it away with a love - WR II
beast
- what a raging beast with nothing to hide - P
- he ripped the beast till he killed him dead - SAD
beat
- quick beats in an icy heart - C
- it takes all you got just to stay on the beat - FOTM
to beat
- when I can hear it beat out loud - SdS
- sullen wings of fortune beat like rain - TS
- beat you up and give your ass a kick - WPCTS
to become
- and your loveīs become a toothless crown - NPC
- and my strength will become as natural as any old man - SAD
- what in the world ever became of sweet Jane - T
- whatīs become of the baby this cold December morning - WBOTB
bed
- gonna want a bed to lay your head - Alt
- make myself a bed in the waterside - BdP
- in a bed, in a bed - BdP
- I was laying in my bed and dying - BP
- who lived and died by the riverīs bed - CfJ
- I said my prayers and went to bed - DW
- ainīt a bed can give us rest now - JS
- awoke today, felt your side of the bed - LLR
- catch a few winks, baby, under the bed - TJ
- are you still in fear of the hand beneath the bed - WPCTS
bee
- and the bees made honey in the lionīs head - SAD
to beg
- yesterday I begged you, before I hit the ground - CD
- I beg of you, donīt murder me - DW
- I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune - UJB
beggar
- put the beggars to rout - A
- I wonīt slave for beggarīs pay, likewise gold and jewels - SOF
- I live in a silver mine and I call it Beggarīs tomb - UJB
to begin
- witness box began to rock and rise - AG
- and I was a man when all this began - BTW
- nobodyīs finished, we ainīt even begun - TGR
- one step down and another begun - NSB
- Terrapin, if itīs the end or the beginning, Terrapin - TS
- thatīs when it all began - TOO
- and again the hunt begins - ThS
begonia
- she wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls - SB
- scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues - SB
to believe
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- why they all believe him ? He wears a big diamond ring - AG
- believe it if you need it, or leave it if you dare - BOR
- gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe - CAT
- I canīt believe that she really wants you to die - CPR
- youīve all been asleep, you would not believe me - EP
- the very same voice I always believe - G
- and itīs real, believe what I say - INAM
- you know, he couldnīt believe his mind - SAD
- it was later than I thought when I first believed you - SOF
- the obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in - TS
- now is the time past believing - TE
- wonīt you believe what I say is true - TLEO
- I knew I would, Pearly, believe them - WhR
bell
- I rang a silent bell - CCS
- at five oīclock, the bells of heaven ring - CD
- in Franklinīs tower there hangs a bell - FT
- God save the child who rings that bell - FT
- in the Mission and the bells were not for me - MITR
- she had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes - SB
- wishing well with a golden bell - SS
- six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow - TE
to bell
- sun bells rain down in a liquid profusion - WBOTB
to belong
- only for one night you belong to me - ISTE
- get back home where you belong - RJ
- whoa, whoa, baby back where I belong - T
- got to get back to where you belong - TW
bend
- creepy alligator coming all around the bend - A
- come round the bend, you know itīs the end - CJ
to bend
- bent my ear to hear the tune - AOML
- thatīs why if you please, I am on my bending knees - B
- mountains of the moon, Electra bow and bend to me - MOTM
- hi ho the carrion crow bow and bend to me - MOTM
best
- working hours without rest, wanted me to have the best - MT
- the spiral light of Venus, rising first and shining best - TS
- and I love my Pearly Baker best - WhR
better
- Althea told me better cool down boy - Alt
- itīs forced me to see that youīve done better by me - BTW
- take my advice, youīd be better off dead - CJ
- couldnīt find any better ones in the morning - DTR
- doctor say better stop balling that jack - EW
- you better roll away the dew - FT
- you know better but I know him - HG
- Mama tried to raise me better - MT
- to my feet and prayed for better weather - MHUT
- `better run awayī, others say `better stand stillī - NSB
- perhaps theyīre better left unsung - R
- one of these days they know they better get going - T
- when you get back you better butter my bread - TJ
- you better head back to Tennessee Jed - TJ
- you better not be there when it rolls over - TLEO
- son of a gun, better change your act - USB
- itīs a buck dancerīs choice my friend, better take my advice - UJB
to bid
- darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye - SS
big
- came the biggest old alligator that Iīve ever seen - A
- teeth big and pointy - A
- he wears a big diamond ring - AG
- tumble down shack on Big Foot country - BEW
- thought heīd have a big old party - OMSN
- big Diesel Mack truck rolling down my way - POC
- like my heartīs got a big break - TRIO
- Mississipi River, so big and wide - SOTOTW
- how the hell can I arrest him, heīs twice as big as me - SL
- not only is that mother big but he packs a .45 - SL
- big wheel turn by the grace of God - TW
bill
- a lotta poor man make a five dollar bill - CB
- ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills - FOTD
- he took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air - FOTD
bird
- bird of Paradise - BFA
- maybe the sun is shining, birds are singing - BOR
- all the birds that were singing - BdP
- all I know is something like a bird within her sang - BS
- all the winter birds are winging home now - DTR
- wings a mile long just carried the bird away - EOTW
- listen to the birds in the hot wire sing - Llu
- fish are rising up like birds - TMNS
- the rainbow winged singing birds fly īround the sun - WBOTB
bitch
- mumbling bitches and wagging his tail - A
bitter
- oh, oh, bitter olives in the sun - POC
black
- black throated wind keeps on pouring in - BTW
- black throated wind, whisper in sin - BTW
- in the backwash of Fenario, the black and bloody mire - DW
- I been balling that shiny black stell jack hammer - EW
- black as the night were the eyes of Felina - ElP
- went back home with two black eyes - LLu
- and I catch a glimpse of black-eyed girls - MB
- black Madonna two eagles hang against a cloud - NPC
- written fire across the heaven, plain as black and white - OMSN
- she had good looks, God knows, and coal black hair - SAD
- black goes south while white comes north - ThS
- black dirt live again - WR II
to black
- blacked my eye and he kicked my dog - TJ
blame
- I was thinking that the blame was mine - BE
- no one left to place or take the blame - ThS
to blame
- like a child she is pure, she is not to blame - HOTW
- Iīd have no one but myself to blame - MB
- that leaves no one but me to blame - MT
- you only got yourself to blame - NTYSM
blast
- hail on my back like a shotgun blast - POC
to blend
- with rainbow colors blended - TOO
blessing
- Esau holds the blessing, brother Esau holds the curse - BE
blind
- blind in the lights of the interstate cars - BTW
- comes a time when the blind man takes your hand - CAT
- I was blind all the time I was learning to see - HOTW
- the eyes are blind, blue visions, all a seer can own - NPC
- blind and dirty, asked me for a dime - WhR
to blind
- all eyes are blinded by the sparkling waters - WBOTB
blond
- blond haired woman on the other side - SOTOTW
- blond haired woman the cause of it all - SOTOTW
blood
- where all the print is blood - AOML
- what good is spilling blood - BFA
- cut down a man in cold blood - JS
- and oneīs for blood at the point of a knife - JS
- blood was on my mind - MB
- sun comes up blood red wind yells among the stone - NPC
- howling at the blood of the moon - POC
- DeLionīs club through Billy DeLionīs blood - SL
bloody
- in the backwash of Fenario, the black and bloody mire - DW
to bloody
- the silent war it bloodied both our hands - BE
bloom
- all burst into bloom and decay - EOTW
to bloom
- what fatal flowers of darkness bloom from seeds of light - BFA
- Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty, but I donīt care - SM
- blooming like a red rose, breathing more freely - SM
blossom
- Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty, but I donīt care - SM
- sweet blossom come on, under the willow - SM
to blossom
- when the sweet magnolia blossomed - CfJ
to blow
- blow the horn, tap the tambourine - C
- mama keeps saying that the winds might blow - CC
- down that highway where ocean breezes blow - EP
- may the four winds blow you safely home - FT
- may the four winds blow you home again - FT
- going where the chilly winds donīt blow - GDTR
- I wonder how they blew it up - G
- blew the city off the man - G
- going where the wind donīt blow so strange - HG
- how it may blow in all good company - IMHBTR
- I was blowing sad while Bobby sang the blues - MABMG
- I remember knowing was that lonesome whistle blowing - MT
- and climb the walls and get out when they blow - ROR
- nor wind to blow - R
- and he blew that poor boy down - SL
- blew the smoke off her revolver - SL
- when the cold winds blow, itīll ease your mind - TTMC
- smoking crater of my mind I like to blow away - TOO
- but his pants are down, his coverīs blown - ThS
- now veiled in grey, Summer leaves have blown away - WR I
blue(s)
- blues for Allah - BFA
- under eternity blue - BFA
- I left St.Louis, the city of blues - BTW
- full of blues and trying to lose - BTW
- rosy red and electric blue - CC
- some sing blue - CF
- I hate so leave you sitting there, composing lonesome blues - D
- well when I get those jelly-roll blues - DDB
- lit up and flashing like the reds and blues - FLAS
- her secret incantations, a candle burning blue - INAM
- up on the blue Ridge mountains - IBAATW
- the sky was grey with a speck of blue - ITAM
- and a damn good case for the Mexacali Blues - MB
- I was blowing sad while Bobby sang the blues - MABMG
- feeling good was easy, Lord, when Bobby sang the blues - MABMG
- the eyes are blind, blue visions, all a seer can own - NPC
- working in a house of blue lights - O
- I get no satisfaction, thatīs why I sing the blues - OMSN
- scarlet and purple and crimson and blue - Rm
- and I knew without asking, she was into the blues - SB
- scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues - SB
- the sky was yellow and the sun was blue - SB
- Stella blue. Stella blue. - SBl
- Iīve stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel - SBl
- picture a bright blue ball just spinning - ThS
- red and white, blue suede shoes, Iīm uncle Sam - USB
- can you use them old U.S.Blues - USB
- blue light rain, whoa unbroken chain - UC
bluebell
- Sugar magnolia, ringing that bluebell - SM
to bluff
- she was too pat to open and too cool to bluff - SB
boat
- sink and drown, from rocking of the boat - SOF
- wave the flag, pop the bag, rock the boat - USB
bodhi
- dopperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono - CCS
body
- and dug for him a shallow grave and laid his body down - JS
- Bobbyīs body kept me from the cold - MABMG
- three days in the saddle, you know my body hurt - MAMU
- when they come to call on you and drag your poor body down - S
- with our bodies close together - TLMD
to boil
- his brain was boiling, his reason was spent - GSET
bold
- his buckle was silver, his manner was bold - GSET
bolt
- little bolt of inspiration, strike me now - Sup
- lock, bolt and key - HOTW
bone
- by the riverside I will rest my bones - BdP
- come on boys and gamble, roll those laughing bones - Cm
- rat cat alley roll them bones - ThS
- so the kids they dance, they shake their bones - ThS
book
- comic book colors on a violin river - CCS
- weīll go right through the book - INAM
- like the good book says - NTYSM
- from books that they were burning - TOO
boot
- lost my boots in transit, baby - MHUT
- boots were of leather, a breath of cologne - Rm
booze
- and keep a tight grip on your booze - MB
border
- canīt hit that border too soon - POC
bore
- your constant battes are getting to be a bore - CPR
born
- and I was born to be a bachelor - Alt
- born cross-eyed - BCE
- speaks his name for you were born to me - C
- something new is waiting to be born - CF
- born a slave in the town of Vicksburg - CfJ
- but between the day youīre born and when you die - THTC
- on the day when I was born, Daddy sat down and cried - MHUT
- tomorrow will be Sunday born of rainy Saturday - MITR
- last leaf fallen bare earth where green was born - NPC
- like a song thatīs born to soar the sky - WR I
to borrow
- his motto is nothing is borrowed, nothing is lent - GSET
boss
- comissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice - ThS
both
- the silent war it bloodied both our hands - BE
- goine, both dream and lie - CF
- youīre both out in the streets - CPR
- it would burn off both of your ears - D
- forming winds both foul and fair all swarm - TS
bottle
- the bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean - BEW
- drink down a bottle and be ready to kill - BEW
- I sat down to my supper, ītwas a bottle of red whiskey - DW
- while my rider hides my bottle in the other room - EW
- we finished the bottle and broke into mine - GSET
- well I grabbed me a bottle - MAMU
- so instead Iīve got a bottle and a girl - MB
- the bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before - SOF
bound
- but Iīm here on the road, bound to the load - BTW
- you and me bound to spend some time - D
- South Colorado, West Texas bound - MAMU
- leaving town, not knowing where I was bound - MT
- you know youīre bound to wind up dead - TJ
- bound to cover just a little more ground - TW
boundless
- ah child of boundless seas - C
bow
- William Tell has stretched his bow - Te
to bow
- mountains of the moon, Electra bow and bend to me - MOTM
- hi ho the carrion crow bow and bend to me - MOTM
bowling
- set up, like a bowling pin - T
box
- witness box began to rock and rise - AG
- a box of rain will ease the pain - BOR
- just a box of rain or a ribbon for your hair - BOR
to box
- shadow boxing the apocalypse, wandering the land - BE
boy
- Althea told me better cool down boy - Alt
- raised eight boys, only I turned bad - BEW
- come on boys and gamble, roll those laughing bones - Cm
- boys, Iīll take your money home - Cm
- come on boys and wager - Cm
- if youīve got a dollar boys - Cm
- when I was just a little young boy - DDB
- while the boys sing round the fire - DW
- I wouldnīt mind your hanging, boys - IBAATW
- thereīs a little boy who wants to shine my feet - MB
- good old boys in the Greystone Hotel - POC
- and they wonīt let the poor boy down - TPL
- and the poor boyīs on the line - TPL
- and he blew that poor boy down - SL
- roll you down the line boy, drop you for a loss - UC
brain
- his brain was boiling, his reason was spent - GSET
brake
- but the train put ist brakes on - TS
brand
- and feel brand new about it - ITAM
- on, from the nothwest corner, with a brand new crescent moon - TS
bread
- when I get back you better butter my bread - TJ
break
- I must turn down your offer, but Iīd like to ask a break - MITR
- like my heartīs got a big break - TRIO
to break
- maybe youīre tired and broken - BOR
- gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams - CF
- we finished the bottle and broke into mine - GSET
- wheels broke down, leader wonīt draw - HT
- and break each and every law - INAM
- that would only break my heart - ISTE
- so it makes you wise to break the rule - ISTE
- when the windows all are broken - NPC
- winter morning breaks, youīre all alone - NPC
- the hound broke down left us all stranded - TPL
- Iīm taking it hard since you broke me off with a call - TRIO
- itīs a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken - R
- broken heart donīt feel so bad - RJ
- he stretched out his arm, God knows, chains broke like threads - SAD
- a broken angel sings from a guitar - SBl
- through all the broken dreams and vanished years - SBl
- thereīs just the pavement left and broken dreams - SBl
- broken ground, open and beckoning - WR II
breath
- boots were of leather, a breath of cologne - Rm
to breathe
- blooming like a red rose, breathing more freely - SM
breeze
- down that highway where ocean breezes blow - EP
- singing like a summer breeze - O
- a breeze in the pines and the sun and bright moonlight - SM
- around the manzanita stark and shiny in the breeze - TE
- well the cool breeze came on Tuesday - TMNS
brick
- bats carved out of bricks - WPCTS
to brick
- we bricked him in the wall - MC
brief
- shine on, glowing, brief and brightly - P
bright
- the desert stars are bright tonight - BFA
- so swift and bright, strange figures of light - CF
- wing spread bright spring from night - HOTW
- with buyers tall and bright - MC
- shine on, glowing, brief and brightly - P
- a bush of that bright, whoa, on Oaxaca vine - POC
- a breeze in the pines and the sun and bright moonlight - SM
- Inspiration, move me brightly - TS
- all are dim, but one is bright - TS
- picture a bright blue ball just spinning - ThS
- water bright as the sky from which it came - WR II
to bring
- and less and forgetting the love we bring - Alt
- youīre bringing me down, Iīm running around - BTW
- you are the song that the morning brings - EOTW
- and nothingīs gonna bring him back - HG
- when they bring that wagon īround - S
- hang it up and see what tomorrow brings - T
broad
- the plowman is broad as the back of the land - WR II
brokedown
- gonna leave this brokedown palace - BdP
brother
- my brother Esau killed the hunter, back in 1969 - BE
- when at first my brother walked away - BE
- but all this ended when my brother failed at war - BE
- Esau holds the blessings, brother Esau holds the curse - BE
- the more my brother looks like me - BE
- they say, love your brother - UC
brown
- brown-eyed women and red grenadine - BEW
- sheīs brown as the bank where she kneels down - WR II
- ribbons, ribbons, ribbons in her long brown hair - IMHBTR
to brush
- paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea - ThS
bubble
- you can make them burst like bubbles - ITAM
buck
- took his rings, four bucks in change - JS
- itīs a buck dancerīs choice my friend, better take my advice - UJB
bucket
- bucket hanging clear to hell - SS
buckle
- his buckle was silver, his manner was bold - GSET
buddy
- can I go, buddy, can I go down - CB
- keep on rolling, my old buddy - JS
- Jack Straw from Wichita cut his buddy down - JS
- my old buddy, youīre moving much too slow - JS
to bug
- and his eyes were bugging out - A
to build
- their walls are built of cannonballs - UJB
building
- if I had my way, I would tear this old building down - SAD
bule
- or this shining ball of bule we can call our home - ThS
bullet
- maybe tomorrow a bullet may find me - ElP
- I feel the bullet go deep in my chest - ElP
- with shotgunīs full of silver and bulletīs made of glass - WPCTS
bumper
- and the cornīs a bumper crop - TMNS
bunch
- a bunch of and an old tennis shoe - A
to burn
- but baby, donīt get burned - Alt
- cost two dollars and it burned like hell - BEW
- it would burn off both of your ears - D
- California, preaching on the burning shore - EP
- fire wheel burning in the air - EP
- for I feel a deep burning pain in my side - ElP
- inside youīre burning I can see clear through - FLAS
- or if they burned it down - G
- her secret incantations, a candle burning blue - INAM
- people were saying, the whole world is burning - P
- standing watching the fires burn - POC
- from books that they were burning - TOO
to bury
- you may be a clown in the burying ground - Alt
to burst
- all burst into bloom and decay - EOTW
- you can make them burst like bubbles - ITAM
bus
- passing me by, the busses and semis - BTW
- riding a getaway bus out of Portland - O
- left a bus stop in its place - TOO
- the bus came by and I got on thatīs when it all began - TOO
- at the wheel of the bus to never ever land - TOO
bush
- and wrap myself around a bush - POC
business
- if Mercyīs a busīness, I wish it for you - FOTM
- itīs not your business how itīs done - G
- that ainīt no business of mine - O
to bust
- I gonna bust my back, yes I will - EW
- the line is busted, the last one I saw - HT
- busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train - MABMG
- busted, down on Bourbon Street - T
- but the heat came īround and busted me - TOO
to butter
- when you get back you better butter my bread - TJ
to buy
- I bought you a paddle for your paper canoe - CC
- straight off bought me a through train ticket - TPL
- she bought me a silk suit - TPL
- two bit piece donīt buy no more - RJ
- said buy me a gin fizz, love" - SL
- in hopes he will come back, but he cannot be bought or sold - TS
buyer
- with buyers tall and bright - MC
to bypass
- stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill - TPL
to come
- came the biggest old alligator that Iīve ever seen - A
- creepy alligator coming all around the bend - A
- it keeps a coming back to me - Alt
- heard a voice a calling, Lord you was coming after me - B
- the thousand stories have come round to one again - BFA
- all of my friedns come to see me last night - BP
- wind came squalling through the dark - BP
- think, Iīll come back here again - BCE
- song coming on, so pleasing to see, come and gone, goodbye - BCE
- lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll - BdP
- mama, mama, many worlds Iīve come, since I first left home - BdP
- I tried to pretend, it came to an end - BTW
- come wash the nighttime clean, come grow the scorched ground green - C
- but the day may come, when you canīt fell at all - CAT
- come in the morning Iīd always be there - CfJ
- say youīll come back when you can, whenever your airplane - CC
- new ones coming as the old ones go - CC
- Kalico, Kahlia, come tell me the news - CC
- stranger ones have come by here, before they flew away - CD
- recall the days that still are to come - CF
- come on all you pretty women with your hair - Cm
- seven come eleven, boys, Iīll take your money home - Cm
- I come in from Memphis where I learned to talk the jive - Cm
- come on boys and gamble, roll those laughing bones - Cm
- come on boys and wager - Cm
- come round the bend, you know itīs the end - CJ
- wait until that deal come round - D
- Dupree come out with a losing hand - DDB
- why will you never come home - DTR
- the rain gonna come, but the rain gonna go, you know - DTR
- come back here pretty baby Louise - DTR
- was grinning at my window, all I said was Come on in." - DW
- the wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game - DW
- a wild young cowboy came in - ElP
- my time coming, voices saying they tell me where to go - EP
- my time coming, anyday, donīt worry about me - EP
- some come to laugh their past away - FT
- some come to make it just one more day - FT
- more than just ashes when your dreams come true - FOTM
- say alot of trouble coming, but it donīt have to come - G
- Moses come riding up on a Quasar - GSET
- and I asked him to come in on out of the cold - GSET
- you get what you come for, you ready to go - GSET
- itīs one in ten thousand that come for the show - GSET
- hey, hey, hey, come right away - TGR
- come and join the party every day - TGR
- summerīs coming in and itīs going - TGR
- without love in the dream, itīll never come true - HOTW
- tomorrow come trouble, tomorrow come pain - HT
- no one to fight, I came to you - HT
- the harder they come the harder they fall - THTC
- Lulu, come and open the door - IBAATW
- theyīre coming in the morning, thatīs the last youīll see - IBAATW
- no one is complaining, no, come in an shut the door - IMHBTR
- seems like everything come out wrong - ITAM
- dreams that never come true - ITAM
- come to daddy on the inside straight - L
- would you come closer, if, if I asked you to - LL
- the rain is gonna come, oh it surely looks like rain - LLR
- she come running and we ball all night - Llu
- I got jumped coming home last night - Llu
- I guess I came to keep from paying dues - MB
- Billy Jean was waiting when he came - MB
- Thursday came, then Friday, with buyers tall and bright - MC
- I turn and walk away and then I come round again - MITR
- come along, walking in the mission in the rain - MITR
- just to have one dream come true - MITR
- keep on coming or stand and wait, for the sunīs so dark - NSB
- come the rocking stroke of midnight - OMSN
- swing low sweet chariot, come down easy - TPL
- would you hear my voice come through the music - R
- came out to win her, and I came out in second place - TRIO
- come back stepping, like to walk on air - RJ
- she came dead and she went - Rm
- no one may come her, since no one may stay - Rm
- everything sewed up tight. How come you lay awake all night long - S
- when they come to take you down, when they bring that wagon round - S
- when they come to call on you and drag your poor body down - S
- I wonīt come back alive - SL
- come on honey, come along with me - SM
- saw my baby down by the river, knew, she had to come up - SM
- caught up in sunlight, come on out singing - SM
- saw her in El Paso, said Come back baby, I need you so" - SOTOTW
- bout to end my suffocation, come on strike me now - Sup
- but if you got a warrant, I guess, youīre gonna come in - T
- well, the cool breeze came on Tuesday - TMNS
- sun went down in honey, moon came up in wine - TMNS
- everybodyīs dancing, come on and clap your hands - TMNS
- the law come to get you if you donīt walk right - TJ
- spanish lady comes to me, she lays on me this rose - TOO
- the bus came by and I got on, thatīs when it all began - TOO
- the heat came round and busted me - TOO
- the way you came and the way you go - TTMC
- and/or it may require a change that hasnīt come before - TE
- the sailor, coming out again, the lady fairly leapt at him - TS
- in hopes he will come back, but he cannot be bought or sold - TS
- come, hear Uncle Johnīs band by the riverside - UJB
- like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go - UJB
- come with me or go alone, heīs come to take his children home - UJB
- come hear uncle Johnīs band, playing to the tide - UJB
- will you come with me, wonīt you come with me - UJB
- what I want to know, will you come with me - UJB
- stay seventy-two, come shine or rain - USB
- Iīd come to no good, I knew I would, Pearly, believe me - WhR
- winter grey and falling rain, weīll see summer come again - WR I
- the answer came; the wind and rain - WR I
- youīll see summer come again, like a song thatīs - WR I
- water bright as the sky from which it came - WR II
- dawning answer came there none - WBOTB
courthouse
- heard your plea in the courthouse, Witness box - Alt
Daddy
- come to daddy on the inside straight - L
- dear old Daddy rest his soul - MT
- Daddy sat down and cried - MHUT
damn
- and a damn good case for the Mexicali Blues - MB
- shot me another, oh damn, he wonīt grow old - MAMU
to dance
- capture a glance, and make it dance - BTW
- thereīs laughing in her eyes, dancinī in her feet - TGR
- wouldnīt you laugh, dance, and cry - IIHTWTG
- all the dancing kings and wives - MOTM
- everybodyīs dancing down the local armory - OMSN
- well she can dance a Cajun rhythm - SM
- so the kids they dance, they shake their bones - ThS
- everybodyīs dancing, come on children - TMNS
- keep on dancing though to daylight - TMNS
- but they kept on dancing - TMNS
- the fields are full of dancing - TMNS
- as he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing - WR II
- as well to count the angels dancing on a pin - WR II
dancer
- itīs a buck dancerīs choice my friend - UJB
danger
- looks like easy street thereīs danger at your door - UJB
to dare
- or leve it if you dare - BOR
- dashing and daring, a drink he was sharinī - ElP
- hereīs a half dollar if you dare -RJ
dark
- wind came squalling through the dark - BP
- cry in the dark, fly through the night - BS
- close the gap on the dark years in between - C
- dark as the night youīre still by my side - CF
- much difference between the dark and light - CAT
- awful cold and dark like a dungeon - DTR
- maybe get a little bit darker before the day - DTR
- riding alone in the dark - ElP
- splendor in the dark - INAM
- with the sun so dark and the hour so late - NSB
- between the dawn and the dark of night - R
- the sunny side of the street is dark - SdS
- in the dark of the moon besides - SdS
- maybe the dark is from your eyes - SdS
- you know you got such dark eyes - SdS
- the sky was dark and faded - TOO
- faced with mysteries dark and vast - TS
- let your tracks be lost in the dark and snow- TTMC
- Dark Star crashes pouring ist light into ashes - DS
darkness
- what fatal flowers of darkness - BFA
- this darkness gotta give - NSB
- I recall your darkness - SdS
- darkness shrugs and bids the day good-bye - SS
- while you were gone, these faces filled with darkness - TS
- but the darkness never goes from some menīs eyes - ThS
- darkness falls and sesons change - WR I
darling
- it ainīt cause Iīm the only left, darling - BCE
- if it hurts you my darling - NTYSM
- please forget you knew ma name, my darling Sugaree - S
dash
- caught in slow motion in a dash for the door - FOTM
to dash
- dashinī and darinī, a drink he was sharing - Elp
daughter
- the jade merchantīs daughter - MOTM
- the Marsh Kingīs daughter - MOTM
- they call her the woodcutterīs daughter - WR II
dawn
- in the sweet Delta dawn - CfJ
- chippinī them rocks from dawn till doom - EW
- between the dawn and the dark of night - R
- sunlight splatters dawn with answers - SS
- mermaids of porpoises draw up the dawn - WBOTB
- lighting the polished ice caverns of the dawn - WBOTB
- wandered the child who was perfect as the dawn - WBOTB
to dawn
- dawning answer came there none - WBOTB
day
- sleepy Alligator in the noon day sun - A
- where all the pages are my days - AOML
- any morning, any evening, any day - BOR
- feel your way like the day before - BOR
- you can see clear to another day - BOR
- through other eyes on other days - BOR
- one more day I find myself alive - BP
- see here how everything led up to this day - BP
- and itīs just like any other day - BP
- gone are the days - BEW
- from day to day just letting it ride - CAT
- but the day may come - CAT
- hung up waiting for a windy day - CC
- recall the days that still are to come - CF
- gone are the days we stopped to decide - CF
- five dollars a day - CB
- maybe get a little bit darker before the day - DTR
- itīs close on the heels of the day - EOTW
- it can ring, turn night to day - FT
- one watch by night, one watch by day - FT
- some come to make it just one more day - FT
- come and join the party every day - TGR
- without love day to day insanityīs king - HOTW
- I will pay day by day anyway - HOTW
- I will stay one more day - HOTW
- but between the day youīre born and when you die - THTC
- I need a miracle every day - INAM
- leaving Texas, fourth day of July - JS
- I love ya till the day I die - LLu
- he hardly aged a day - MC
- it was the hottest part of the day - MAMU
- three days in the saddle - MAMU
- and itīs three days ride from Bakersfield - MB
- on the day when I was born - MHUT
- I had the mark just as plain as day - MHUT
- could you imagine? One summer day - P
- it was sixty days or double life - POC
- darkness shrugs and bids the day good-bye - SS
- one day I ventured in love - TRIO
- one day when Samson was walking along - SAD
- one of these days they know they better - T
- drink all day and rock all night - TJ
- the other day they waited - TOO
- and when the day had ended - TOO
- but the heat came īround and busted me for smiling on an cloudy day - TOO
- a slow winder day a night like forever - UC
- well the first days are the hardest days - UJB
- true to my dying day he said - WhR
daybreak
- daybreak on the land - PITB
daydream
- sunshine, daydream - SM
- your typical city involved in a typical daydream - T
daylight
- if I get home before daylight - FOTD
- keep on dancing though to daylight - TMNS
dead
- inch your way through dead dreams - BOR
- take my advice, youīd be better off dead - CJ
- the handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor - ElP
- and dead to the core - FOTM
- though I know that when youīre dead - THTC
- hang me, hang me, so Iīll be dead and gone - IBAATW
- always said when Iīm dead Iīm gone - MC
- and I left his dead ass there - MAMU
- she came dead and she went - Ro
- when he got to moving ten thousand was dead - SAD
- he ripped the beast till he killed him dead - SAD
- he shot my Billy dead - SL
- you know youīre bound to wind up dead - TJ
- delusions of living and dead - WBOTB
deal
- wait until that deal come round - D
- donīt you let that deal go down - D
- last fair deal in the country - L
- last fair deal in the town - L
- before you let my deal go down - L
- when the dealing got rough - SB
dear
- the ball game has gone much too far my dear - BCE
- Delia DeLions, dear sweet Delia-D - SL
death
- ma love is stronger than my fear of death - ElP
to decay
- all burst into bloom, and decay - EOTW
- the garden was sealed when the flowers decayed - Ro
decide
- gone are the days we stopped to decide - CF
- you decide if he was wise - TS
deck
- I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades - DW
to declare
- Goddamn well I declare, have you seen the like - UJB
to decline
- well he may and he may decline - SS
deed
- shocked by the foul evil deed I have done - ElP
deep
- stray down to the water, deep sea of love - CF
- for I feel a deep burning pain - ElP
- what is a man deep down inside - P
- your streets run deep with poisoned wine - POC
- I feel tears welling up from deep inside - TRIO
degree
- twenty degrees of solitude, twenty degrees in all - MOTM
delight
- sweet Anne-Marie, and sheīs my heartīs delight - FOTD
- Loose Lucy is my delight - LLu
delightful
- sheīs got everything delightful - SM
to deliver
- everything promised is delivered to you - DTR
delusion
- searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion - DS
- delusions of living and dead - WBOTB
deny
- but I canīt deny, times have gone by - BTW
- I will not condemn you nor yet would I deny - CD
- but her pleading I denied - MT
- which could not be denied - MHUT
- who can deny, who can deny - NSB
to depend
- it all depends on whatīs with you - CC
desaster
- strategy was his strength, not desaster - TS
description
- theyīre a band beyond description - TMNS
desert
- the desert stars are bright tonight - BFA
- inside my head in the desert wind so dry - G
- riding and running across those desert sands - MB
- and like a desert spring, my lover comes - WR I
- shaking in the desert , now wherefore do you cry - WPCTS
design
- let your life proceed by its own design - C
despair
- hold away despair, more I will not ask - TS
destination
- destination seen unclearly - P
devil
- a friend of the devil is a friend of mine - FOTD
- ran into the devil - FOTD
- but the devil caught me there - FOTD
- when the devil wants to take it all away - MB
devotion
- if you feel like giving me a lifetime of devotion - ISTE
dew
- and speaking on life that passes like dew - BTW
- walk me out in the morning dew - MD
- roll away the dew - FT
- she can wade in a drop of dew - SM
diamond
- he wears a big diamond ring - AG
- like a diamond-eye jack - CCS
- through the transitive nightfall of diamonds - DS
- Dupreeīs diamond blues - DDB
- baby baby wants a gold diamond ring - DDB
- just to get baby a shining diamond ring - DDB
- sheīs a neon light diamond - TGR
- I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines - L
die
- now the die is shaken, now the die must fall - JS
- Cain caught Abel rolling loaded dice - MHUT
- īcause BillyDeLions threw the lucky dice - SL
- commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice - ThS
to die
- I was laying in my bed and dying - BP
- just want to have a little peace to die - BP
- who lived and died by the riverīs bed - CfJ
- I would ask the same of you, but failing, will not die - CD
- I canīt believe that she really wants you to die - CPW
- īcross my heart and hope to die - LLu
- I love ya till the day I die - LLu
- waiting for me when I die - THTC
- but between the day youīre born and when you die- THTC
- Mason died on Monday - MC
- in the heat of the sun a man died of cold - NSB
- and now heīs gotta die - SL
- sometimes when the night is dying - SM
- he has to die, you know he has to die - TOO
- to watch him die, you know he had to die - TOO
- summers fade, and roses die - WR I
- true to my dying day he said - WhR
- sweet perfume and squeeze you till you die - WPCTS
different
- but Delia whistled a different tune - SL
- while crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune - TS
dime
- sometimes your cards ainīt worth a dime - T
- asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee - WhR
- I got no dime, but I got some time - WhR
diesel
- Bobby flagged a diesel down, just before it rained - MABMG
- big diesel Mack truck rolling down my way - POC
- itīs nothing, they explain, itīs like a diesel train - TLEO
to dig
- Abraham and Isaac digging on a well - GSET
- and dug for him a shallow grave - JS
- we dug him up on Tuesday - MC
dim
- all are dim but one is bright - TS
dime
- he asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup - WhR
- I got no dime, but I got some time - WhR
to dip
- Ladyfinger dipped in moonlight - SS
dire
- when I awoke, the dire wolf - DW
- the dire wolf collects his dues - DW
direction
- I was feeling lost, lacking in some direction - Alt
- from the other direction, she was calling my eye - SB
- looking for a shot in some direction - TLEO
directory
- directory donīt have it, central done forgot it - O
dirt
- and I tried to wash off some of that dusty dirt - MAMU
- black dirt live again - WR II
dirty
- I took my harp on out of that dirty red bandanna - MABMG
- blind and dirty, asked me for a dime - WhR
to discover
- wake now, discover that you are the song - EOTW
- we can discover the wonders of nature - SM
to dissolve
- glass hand dissolving to ice petal flows revolving - DS
distance
- long distance runner, what youīre standing there for - FOTM
- long distance runner, what youīre holding out for - FOTM
ditch
- rat in a drain ditch - HG
to divide
- itīs got no signs or dividing lines - NSB
- stalking turf, dividing up meat - ThS
dizzy
- well, dizzy ainīt the word for the way - Sup
- all the dizzy ride on your cold shoulder - TLEO
- stars were spinning dizzy - TMNS
- dizzy with eternity - ThS
to dizzy
- itīs dizzying, the possibilities - ThS
dog
- cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile - HG
- blacked my eye, and he kicked my dog - HG
doll
- take up your China doll - CD
- seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll - TE
dollar
- just out of prison on ten dollars bail - A
- cost two dollars and burned like hell - BEW
- if youīve got a dollar boys - Cm
- a lotta poor man make a five dollar bill - CB
- make good maoney, five dollars a day - CB
- a thousand dollars please - DDB
- he took my twenty dollar bill - FOTD
- all that Iīm asking for is ten gold dollars - L
- hereīs a half dollar if you dare - RJ
to dominate
- please donīt dominate the rap, Jack - NSB
doom
- I been chipping them rocks from dawn till doom - EW
door
- he staggered home and found me in the door - BE
- Iīll be knocking on the golden door - EP
- out through the back door of Roseīs I ran - ElP
- Iīve got to make it to Roseīs back door - ElP
- get up, get out, get out of the door - FOTM
- caught in slow motion in a dash for the door - FOTM
- the door was ajar - GSET
- you ainīt got a hinge, you canīt close the door - GSET
- you canīt close the door, when the wallīs caved in - GSET
- no one is complaining, no, come in and shut the door - IMHBTR
- Lulu come and open the door - IBAATW
- and was closing the door - SB
- out of the door and down on the streets all alone - T
- theyīre gonna kick the door in again - T
- get out of the door and light out - T
- a door within the fire creaks - TS
- forgiveness is the key to every door - UC
- thereīs danger at your door - UJB
- her song is the latch on the morningīs door - WR II
- grabbing at the handle, scratching at the door - WPCTS
doorway
- walk out of any doorway - BOR
- your doorways crawl with fear - POC
double
- to a double-E waterfall over my back - CCS
- it was sixty days or double life - POC
- double twist when you hit the air - RJ
- takes the wheel, when Iīm seeing double - SM
doubt
- I never had doubts or thoughts of regret - BTW
- showing you the way, leaving no doubt - TTMC
to doubt
- did he doubt or did he try - SS
downtown
- left us all stranded in downtown Birmingham - TPL
- well, donīt ask me to go downtown - SL
- got up and wandered, wandered downtown - WhR
dozen
- off to my left ride a dozen or more - ElP
to drag
- and drag your poor body down - S
- had him dragged to the city hall - SL
dragon
- thereīs a dragon with matches thatīs loose - FOTM
drain
- rat in a drain ditch - HG
draw
- lightning on the draw - INAM
to draw
- catch colt draws a coffin cart - C
- wheels broke down, leader wonīt draw - HT
- or fit you in the lines I might have drawn - LLR
- if I had a gun for every ace I have drawn - L
- one of them Cowboys he starts to draw - MAMU
- Lord, he didnīt even draw - MB
- mermaids of porpoises draw up the dawn - WBOTB
dread
- you were gone, oh gone, my heart was filled with dread - LLR
dreadful
- something is dreadfully wrong for I feel - ElP
dream
- full of cloudy dreams unreal - AOML
- in the book of loveīs own dream - AOML
- in the secret space of dreams - AOML
- when there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me - AOML
- for this is all a dream we dreamed - BOR
- inch your way through dead dreams - BOR
- outside that dream - BE
- you were in his dreams - C
- through a dream night wind - CCS
- gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe - CAT
- more than just ashes when your dreams come true - FOTM
- without love in the dream itīll never come true - HOTW
- dreams that never come true - ITAM
- a younginīs dream of growinī up to ride - MT
- my dreams were riding tall - MITR
- tonight I would be thankful, Lord, for any dream at all - MITR
- just to have one dream come true - MITR
- they melt into a dream - SBl
- through all the broken dreams and vanished years - SBl
- thereīs just the pavement left and broken dreams - SBl
- it seems that all this life was just a dream - SBl
- seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll - TE
- with your dreams entwined together - TLMD
- old man sing about their dreams - TMNS
- go to sleep you child, dream of never-ending always - WBOTB
to dream
- sleeping and penchence to dream - Alt
- where I dreaming lay amazed - AOML
- when there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me - AOML
- for this is all a dream we dreamed - BOR
- donīt be suprised when you find me dreaming too - BOR
- sometimes at night I dream - BE
- get out the pans, donīt just stand there dreaming - HCS
- remnants of forgotten dreaming - WBOTB
dreamer
- you know, Iīve been called a dreamer - ITAM
dreg
- drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar - BEW
dress
- she got raven hair, a ruffled dress - MB
to dress
- dressed myself in green - B
- statuesque, raven-dressed, a goddess of the night - INAM
to drift
- so I think Iīll drift for olī where itīs at - POC
- I wonīt leave you drifting down - SOF
- drifting to the earth, remnants - WBOTB
drink
- sit down and have a drink with me - AG
- a drink he was sharinī - ElP
- ordered drinks for all - MAMU
to drink
- drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar - BEW
- drink down a bottle and be ready to kill - BEW
- like a rum-drinking demon at tea - DTR
- balling that jack and drinking my wine - EW
- everybody prayinī and drinkinī that wine - L
- īcause thinkinī and drinkinī are all I have today - MB
- I was drinking some wine - OMSN
- Iīll drink your health, share your wealth - USB
- stumblinī round drunk on Burgundy wine - WhR
to drip
- Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono - CCS
to drive
- driving that train, high on Cocaine - CJ
- jelly-roll will drive you so mad - DDB
- maybe you go away and drive a car - ISTE
- trying to drive me underground - THTC
- out on the mountain, itīll drive you insane - UC
driver
- alone with the rush of the drivers - BTW
- we sang every song that driver knew - MABMG
drop
- Lord, but not a drop on me - B
- she can wade in a drop of dew - SM
to drown
- the ships of state sail on mirage and drown in sand - BFA
- oh mother American night, Iīm drowning in you - BTW
- drowned in your laughter - FOTM
- saw your first ship sink and drown - SOF
dry
- flowing till the waters all are dry - WR I
to dry
- donīt you cry, dry your eyes on the wind - BS
to duck
- I ducked back into Novato - B
- ainīt no luck, I learned to duck - USB
dues
- just to pay his Union dues - CB
- the dire wolf collects his dues - DW
- I came to keep from paying dues - MB
to dust
- dust of those rusty strings just one more time - SBl
dusty
- the bottle was dusty - BEW
- and I tried to wash off some of that dusty dirt - MAMU
- I went down to that dusty streets - MB
to dwell
- Iīll tell you where the four winds dwell - FT
dynamite
- with a basement full of dynamite and live artillery - OMSN
- it takes dynamite to get me up - INAM
hail
- hail on my back like a shotgun blast - POC
hair
- or a ribbon for your hair - BOR
- with your hair a hanging down - Cm
- tapping at the window, touch your hair - CF
- ribbons, ribbons in her long brown hair - IMHBTR
- she had raven hair, a ruffled dress - MB
- Julie catch a rabbit by his hair - RJ
- she had good looks, God knows, and coal black hair - SAD
- well, Samson said, Delilah cut off my hair - SAD
- eyes alight, with glowing hair - TS
haired
- blond haired woman was the cause of it all - SOTOTW
- blond haired woman on the other side - SOTOTW
hairy
- sometimes at night I dream, heīs still that hairy man - BE
- still that hairy man - BE
half
- your tongue is twisted with words half spoken - BOR
- that being the point just about half way - MAMU
- half a cup of rock and rye - MHUT
- all the things I planned to do I only did half way - MITR
- turned into a struggle, half way īcross Alabam - TPL
- hereīs a half dollar if you dare - RJ
- you ainīt got half of what you thought you had - RJ
- when the moon is half way down - SM
- half of my life I spent doing time - WhR
- the other half found me stumbling around - WhR
halfstep
- halfstep, Mississipi uptown toodeloo - MHUT
halfway
- hell halfway twixt now and then - SS
hall
- all the dancing kings and wives assemble in the hall - MOTM
- pace the halls and climb the walls - ROR
- had him dragged to the city hall - SL
hammer
- a shiny black steel jack-hammer - EW
hand
- on my hand and knees, I will roll, roll, roll - BdP
- and a friend or two I love at hand - BP
- the silent war it bloodied both our hands - BE
- comes a time, when the blind man takes your hand - CAT
- cloud hands reaching from a rainbow - CF
- Dupree come out with a losing hand - DDB
- Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving - DS
- down went his hand for the gun that he wore - ElP
- a rifle on my shoulder, six shouters in my hand - IBAATW
- and I could pay you back with one good hand - L
- slapping time, Bobby clapping hands - MABMG
- high-low jack and the winner take the hand - MAMU
- laid back in an old saloon with a peso in my hand - MB
- when he lets a woman hold him in her hands - MB
- other hand I have heard it said - NSB
- I saw things getting out of hand - NSB
- tell your future, just look whatīs in your hand - PITB
- if a man among you got no sin upon his hand - PITB
- she bought me a silk suit, put luggage in my hands - TPL
- reach out your hand if your cup is empty - R
- that was not made by the hands of men - R
- you can shave my head, clean as my hand - SAD
- but Samson got his hands on the lionīs back - SAD
- strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands - SB
- donīt lend your hand to raise no flag - SOF
- youīve got to play your hand - T
- come on, clap your hands - TMNS
- people join in hand in hand - TMNS
- shake the hand that shook the hand - USB
- are you still in fear of the hand beneath the bed - WPCTS
to hand
- hand me my old guitar, pass the whiskey round - Cm
- itīs a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken - R
handle
- grabbing at the handle, scratching at the door - WPCTS
handsome
- the handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor - ElP
to hang
- we give him rope enough to hang himself - AG
- donīt be hanging around with old Catfish John - CfJ
- hung up waiting for a windy day - CC
- hang your heart on laughing willow - CF
- in Franklinīs tower there hangs a bell - FT
- you ainīt got the time to hang around - ISTE
- hang me, oh hang me, so Iīll be dead and gone - IBAATW
- I wouldnīt mind your hanging, boys - IBAATW
- I was just hanging out with the other guys - Llu
- she could be hanging around the steel mill - O
- Black Madonna two eagles hang against a cloud - NPC
- donīt hang your head, let the two time roll - RJ
- he shot my Billy dead, now Iīm gonna see him hung - SL
- bucket hanging clear to hell - SS
- Bayo, Bayo, see you hang him high - SL
- hang it up and see what tomorrow brings - T
- youīre sick of hanging around - T
- nowhere to go bur just to hang around - WhR
to happen
- whenever your Airplane happens to land - CC
- gonna happen every time - WR I
happy
- keep him happy all the time - CB
- now Iīm paying for those happy hours - MB
- she can make happy any man alive - SM
hard
- I had a hard run, running from your window - B
- snowed so hard that the roof caved in - BEW
- though his load was hard to bear - CfJ
- the winter was so hard and cold - DW
- itīs getting harder to stay in the saddle - ElP
- the harder they come, the harder they fall - THTC
- Iīm having a hard time - HT
- now donīt think too hard baby - HT
- donīt you touch hard liquor - L
- she tried very hard to fill his shoes - MT
- itīs hard to run with the weight of gold - NSB
- itīs just as hard with the weight of lead - NSB
- ashes have scattered too hard to turn - P
- running hard out of Muskrat Flats - POC
- you might think that Iīm taking it hard - TRIO
- well the first days are the hardest days - UJB
- wonīt you try just a little bit harder - TW
hardly
- he hardly aged a day - MC
harp
- I took my harp on out of my dirty red bandanna - MABMG
- and my tunes were played on the harp unstrung - R
to harvest
- if you plant ice youīre gonna harvest wind - FT
haste
- haste is the last theyīre thinking of - LLR
hat
- take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat - TGR
- won Stagger Leeīs stetson hat - SL
to hate
- I hate to leave you sitting there - D
- for the name of the one that I hated to face - TRIO
- ainīt no time to hate, barely time to wait - UJB
to have
- didnīt get the lickings that the other ones had - BEW
- if I had me a shotgun, Iīd blow you straight to hell - Cm
- if I had a gun for every ace I have drawn - L
- if I had my way I would tear this old building down - SAD
hay
- the weels are muddy, got a ton of hay - HT
head
- gonna want a bed to lay your head - Alt
- by the waterside I will lay my head - BdP
- I heard a voice inside my head - G
- steal your face right off your head - HG
- Annie laid her head down in the roses - IMHBTR
- donīt hang your head, let the two time roll - RJ
- you can shave my head, clean as my hand - SAD
- and the bees made honey in the lionīs head - SAD
- with thirty years upon my head - SOF
- heads all empty but I donīt care - SM
- well, Iīve heard it say thereīs something wrong in my head - Sup
- rich man stepping on my poor head - TJ
- to lay me down with my head in sparkling clover - TLMD
- shaking in the bedroom, covers on your head - WPCTS
to head
- on the wrong track and headed for you - CJ
- weīd be heading in the terminal gate - TPL
- if you donīt head back to Tennessee Jed - TJ
- you better head back to Tennessee Jed - TJ
- then you head back to Tennessee Jed - TJ
- letīs head back to Tennessee Jed - TJ
health
- Iīll drink your health, share your wealth - USB
to hear
- heard your plea in the courthouse - AG
- when there was no ear to hear you sang to me - AOML
- bent my ear to hear the tune - AOML
- heard a voice a calling, Lord you was coming after me - B
- if you hear that same sweet song again - BS
- and now here she starts, hear her cry - C
- you hear yourself say things you could never mean - CAT
- and you can hear him cry - CB
- but you never heard a word it said - EW
- sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of - EOTW
- I heard a voice inside my head - G
- I heard a voice telling me - G
- they never seem to hear you - THTC
- when I hear your velvet thunder - LL
- I thought I heard a baby cry - MD
- you didnīt hear no baby cry - MD
- I thought I heard a young man morn - MD
- I heard someone say - NSB
- other hand I have heard it said - NSB
- passenger, donīt you hear me - P
- would you hear my voice come through the music - R
- when I can hear it beat out loud - SdS
- and when you hear that song - SBl
- Iīve heard it say thereīs something wrong in my head - Sup
- soon you will not hear his voice - TS
- though youīll make a noise, just canīt hear your voice - TLEO
- everything I did I heard it first from you - TLEO
- everything I tell you, I heard it first from you - TLEO
- heard your news report, you know - TLEO
- did you hear what I just heard - TMNS
- but I could only hear the preacher - UC
- come, hear Uncle Johnīs Band playing - UJB
- I can hear your voice - UJB
- I got no dime, but I got some time to hear his story - WhR
heart
- letīs see with our heart - BFA
- quick beats in an icy heart - C
- hang your heart on laughing willow - CF
- Iīm a stone jack baller and my heart is true - EW
- tonightīs nothing worse than this pain in my heart - ElP
- the heart has its beaches, its homeland - EOTW
- Anne- Marie, and sheīs my heartsī delight - FOTD
- that would only break my heart - ISTE
- you were gone, oh gone, my heart was filled with dread - LLR
- put the fire in my heart - LL
- cross my heart and hope to die - LLu
- do you remember ? Hearts were too cold - P
- like my heartīs got a big break - TRIO
- my heartīs out of the running - TRIO
- thereīs an aching pain in my heart - TRIO
- broken heart donīt feel so bad - RJ
- everybodyīs playing in the heart of gold band - SB
- you can tell me this town ainīt got no heart - SdS
- used to be the heart of town - SdS
- donīt tell me this town ainīt got no heart - SdS
heartache
- heartaches a going to the inside - TRIO
- the race is on and it looks like heartaches - TRIO
heartbeat
- my challenge was answered, in less than a heartbeat - ElP
heartless
- heartless powers try to tell us what to think - ThS
heat
- almost ablaze still you donīt feel the heat - FOTM
- in the heat of the sun a man died of cold - NSB
- but the heat came īround and busted me - TOO
- nightmare spook, piece of heat - ThS
to heat
- one heat up and one cool down - ROR
heaven
- the bells of heaven ring - CD
- or ask for the moon and heaven too - IIHTWTG
- ainīt that heaven sent - JS
- locked up in the heavens Lord I saw a mighty sign - OMSN
- written fire across the heaven - OMSN
- then God way up in heaven - OMSN
heavy
- no rain is falling from a heavy sky - BOR
- left my mom a heavy load - MT
heel
- itīs close on the heels of the day - EOTW
height
- I need a woamn ībout twice my height - INAM
hell
- cost two dollars and it burned like hell - BEW
- if I had me a shotgun Iīd blow you straight to hell - Cm
- I didnīt know a stage line ran from hell - MB
- how the hell can I arrest him - SL
- will risk uncertain pains of hell - TS
- bucket hanging clear to hell - SS
- hell halfway twixt now and then - SS
help
- help on the way, well I know only this - HOTW
to help
- please help them to learn as well as to see - BTW
- I canīt help you with your troubles if you wonīt help - CB
- I know somethingīs helping me along - ITAM
- Operator, can you help me, help me if you please - O
- somebody help me get out of Louisiana - TPL
- just help me to get to Houston town - TPL
- got to help me girl, now - S
here
- mother American night, here comes a light - BTW
- think Iīll come back here again - BCE
- here he comes and heīs gone again - Cm
- there he goes and now here she starts - C
- Iīll be back here too- CC
- but standing here I say I just donīt know -CC
- everythingīs moving here but much too slow - CC
- stranger ones have come by here, before they flew away - CD
- I canīt sleep here no more - CB
- and at last here I am on the hill overlooking - ElP
- but youīre here alone, thereīs no one to compete - FOTM
- here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine - HCS
- now listen here baby, īcause I mean what I say - HT
- you might not be sleeping here again - LLR
- and here comes pride up the back stretch - TRIO
- hereīs a half dollar if you dare - RJ
- no one may come here since no one may stay - Rm
- nothing here that could intīrest you - SdS
- here beside him stands a man - TS
- thereīs a fear down here and we canīt forget - ThS
- the futureīs here, we are it - ThS
- listen, here it comes again - TMNS
- here, beside the rising tide - UJB
- here there my be tigers - WPCTS
- here there may be rattlesnakes - WPCTS
- here there may be roses - WPCTS
hey
- hey love go, and look around you - DTR
- the sun was screaming, Hey you!" - ITAM
- hey, hey, hey, come right away - TGR
- hey, Tom Banjo, hey a laurel - MOTM
- hey, the laurel, hey the city in the rain - MOTM
- hey, hey, hey the wild wheat waving in the wind - MOTM
- uhuh, hey, Saturday night - OMSN
to hide
- while my rider hide my bottle in the other room - EW
- wonīt hide my liquor try to serve me tea - EW
- there ainīt a place a man can hide - JS
- you might wager that Iīll hide in sorrow - TRIO
- the obvious was hidden - TS
- been hiding out in a rockīn roll band - USB
high
- driving that train, high on cocaine - CJ
- the sun is getting high - CB
- maybe off on some high cold mountain chain - HG
- I was having a high time - HT
- I could show you a high time - HT
- we could have us a high time - HT
- but you really get me high - LL
- high-low jack and the winner take the hand - MAMU
- and we high-tailed it down to Mexico - MAMU
- the temperature keeps rising, everybodyīs getting high - OMSN
- high wind chimes in the night - POC
- and I woke up high over Albuquerque - TPL
- Bayo, Bayo, see you hang him high - SL
- we can have high times if youīll abide - SM
- theyīre high stepping into town - TMNS
- wave that flag, wave it wide and high - USB
highway
- the highway, the moon, and clouds and the stars - BTW
- been chipping up rocks for the great highway - EW
- rainbows and down that highway - EP
- jack, of any other highway to ride - NSB
- out on the edge of an empty highway - POC
- there is a road, no simple highway - R
- thereīs a band out on the highway - TMNS
- till the morning comes, like a highway sign - TTMC
hill
- and at last here I am on the hill - ElP
- down off the hill to Fellina I go - ElP
- spent the night in Utah in cave up in the hills - FOTD
- I spent a little time on the hill - NSB
- the wine ainīt sweeter, either side of the hill - ROR
- golden hills, now veiled in grey - WR I
history
- historyīs page, it is thusly carved in stone - ThS
to hit
- before I have to hit him, Alabama - AG
- yesterday I begged you before I hit the ground - CD
- hits River Junction at seventeen to - CJ
- canīt hit that border too soon - POC
- double twist when you hit the air - RJ
to hold
- brother Esau holds the blessing, brother Esau holds the curse - BE
- what youīre holding out for - FOTM
- or hold it all in your arms - IIHTWTG
- I only want to hold you - LLR
- holding Bobbyīs body close to mine - MABMG
- when he lets a woman hold him in her hands - MB
- and mama couldnīt hold me anymore - MT
- my tears are holding back, trying not to fall - TRIO
- would you hold it near as it were your own - R
- thereīs nothing you can hold for very long - SBl
- hold away despair, more than this I will not ask - TS
- you canīt let got and you canīt hold on - TW
hole
- peek through a hole in the clouds - ITAM
home
- going back home thatīs what Iīm gonna do - BTW
- on other days while going home - BOR
- sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home - BdP
- since I first left home - BdP
- going home, going home - BdP
- he staggered home and found me in the door - BE
- boys Iīll take your money home - Cm
- go on home, your mamaīs calling you - CC
- why will you never come home - DTR
- all the winter birds are winging home now - DTR
- right outside this lazy home - EOTW
- winterīs summer home - EOTW
- and sometimes we visit your country and live in your home - EOTW
- if I get home before daylight - FOTD
- may the four winds blow you safely home - FT
- may the four winds blow you home again - FT
- the waves roll the ships home from the sea - IMHBTR
- he donīt go home with all - JS
- I got jumped coming home last night - LLu
- went back home with two black eyes - Llu
- looking for that home I hope she finds - MABMG
- if I knew the way I would take you home - R
- get back home where you belong - RJ
- been here so long, heīs got to calling it home - SS
- most of the time theyīre sitting and crying at home - T
- trucking, Iīm going home - T
- back home, sit down and patch my bones - T
- hey now, get back trucking home - T
- I left my home in Norfolk Virginia - TPL
- tell the folks back home - TPL
- get back home where you belong - RJ
- call it home for you and me - ThS
- but afraid, we may our home to waste - ThS
- or this shining ball of bule we can call our home - ThS
- and the rich man in his summer home - ThS
- heīs come to take his children home - UJB
homeland
- the heart has ist beaches, ist homeland - EOTW
honest
- honest to the point of recklessness - Alt
- and youīll never find another honest man - L
- heīs as honest as me - MAMU
- and Iīm as honest as a Denver man can be - MAMU
honey
- fare you well, my honey - BdP
- like I say, honey, itīs you - HOTW
- walk me out in the morning dew my honey - MD
- where have all the people gone my honey - MD
- and the bees made honey in the lionīs head - SAD
- come on, honey, come along with me - SM
- sun went down in honey - TMNS
to hop
- he just stumbles and hops - A
hope
- in hopes he will return, but he - TS
- full of hope, full of grace, is the human race - ThS
to hope
- I hope heīs got the sense to run - AG
- cross my heart and hope to die - Llu
- looking for that home I hope she finds - MABMG
- whoa, I hope youīll understand - PITB
horn
- blow the horn and tap the tambourine - C
horse
- out where the horses were tied - ElP
- sometimes we ride on your horses - EOTW
- I took the horses up to the stall - MAMU
- if the horse donīt pull you got to carry the load - NSB
hot
- you know, this space is getting hot - Alt
- well the musicīs thundering, restless and hot - FLAS
- sun so hot, the clouds so low - JS
- listen to the birds on the hot wire sing - LLu
- it was the hottest part of the day - MAMU
- itīs been hot for seven weeks now - TMNS
- too hot to even speak now - TMNS
hotel
- good ole boys in the Greystone Hotel - POC
- Iīve stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel - SBl
- sitting and staring out of the hotel window - T
hound
- I was trailed by twenty hounds - FOTD
- like four lean hounds the lighhouse keep - FT
- the [Grey]īhound broke down - TPL
- the preacher and the baying of his hounds - UC
hour
- now Iīm paying for those happy hours - MB
- working hours without rest - MT
- with the sun so dark and the hour so late - NSB
house
- working in a house of blue lights - O
to howl
- howling at the blood on the moon - POC
- listening to the winds howl - UC
human
- full of hope, full of grace, is the human race - ThS
hundred
- fever roll up to a hundred and five - BP
- switchmanīs sleeping, train hundred and two - CJ
- six hundred pounds of sin - DW
- Iīm gonna sing you a hundred verses in ragtime - ROR
hungry
- the barren lack of rain and droop so hungry - TE
hunt
- and again the hunt begins - ThS
hunter
- my brother Esau killed the hunter - BE
hurdy-gurdy
- if you can abide it, let the hurdy-gurdy play - CD
hurry
- Iīm in no hurry, no - EP
to hurt
- hurts my ears to listen, Shannon - JS
- run me around and make me hurt again - LLR
- three days in the saddle, you know my body hurt - MAMU
to obey
- our father favoured Esau, he was eager to obey - BE
obscure
- fuzzy then and still so obscure, goodbye - BCE
obvious
- the obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in - TS
to occur
- lately it occurrs to me what a long strange trip itīs been - T
ocean
- down that highway where ocean breezes blow - EP
offer
- I must turn down your offer, but Iīd like to ask a break - MITR
to offer
- gild the lil, offer jewels to the sunset - DTR
old
- and all the lights grow old - AOML
- I checked it running some old kind of trick - A
- sailing down the river in an old canoe - A
- a bunch of and an old tennis shoe - A
- came the biggest old alligator that Iīve ever seen - A
- weīre guilty of the same old thing - Alt
- and it looks like the old man is getting on - BEW
- and the old man never was the same again - BEW
- donīt be hanging around with old Catfish John - CfJ
- all the wild commandsment the old man shot his way - BE
- new ones coming as the old ones go - CC
- this old engine makes it on time - CJ
- old like a rum-drinking demon at tea - DTR
- wants it more than any old thing - DDB
- same old story and I know itīs been told - DDB
- I donīt want to be treated this old way - GDTR
- same old, rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb - HG
- I understand why the old fishermen sail along - ITAM
- gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride - JS
- my old buddy, youīre moving much too slow - JS
- oh damn he wonīt grow old - MAMU
- laid back in an old saloon - MB
- dear old daddy rest his soul - MT
- farewell to you old southern skies - MHUT
- thought heīd have a big old party - OMSN
- crank up that old Victoria, pu on them rocking shoes - OMSN
- good ole boys in the Greystone Hotel - POC
- so I think Iīll drift for olī where itīs at - POC
- I would tear this old building down - SAD
- Delilah she gained old Samsonīs mind - SAD
- and my strength will become as natural as any old an - SAD
- looked down on the ground, he saw an old jawbone - SAD
- old men sing about their dreams - TMNS
- can you use them old U.S.Blues - USB
- same old firends, the wind and rain - WR I
- old man down, way down, down, down by the docks - WhR
once
- you werenīt the woman I once thought Iīd met - BTW
- say it once again now, whoa I hope you understand - PITB
- one day I ventured in love never once suspecting - TRIO
- to lay me down, once more - TLMD
- once in a while you get shown the light - SB
one
- the thousand stories have come round to one again - BFA
- it ainīt īcause Iīm the only one left darling - BCE
- for this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon - BOR
- fare you well my only true one - BdP
- one more day I find myself alive - BP
- didnīt get the lickinīs that the other ones had - BEW
- like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack - CCS
- stranger ones have come by here, before they flew away - CD
- when I get back to Memphis, be one less man alive - Cm
- new ones coming as the old ones go - CC
- itīs really very one or two - CC
- you keep me up just one more night - CB
- tell me whatīs your reason if youīve got a good one - DTR
- couldnīt find any better ones in the morning at three - DTR
- one eyed jacks and the deuces are wild - DTR
- wrap it up, I think Iīll take this one - DDB
- Iīll pay this one off to you in lead - DDB
- one night a wild young cowboy came in - ElP
- I had but one chance and that was to run - ElP
- the first oneīs named sweet Anne Marie - FOTD
- the second one is prison, babe - FOTD
- got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee - FOTD
- the first one says sheīs got my child - FOTD
- the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench - GSET
- itīs one in ten thousand that come for the show - GSET
- one more time, been down before - HCS
- lost one round but the price wasnīt anything - HG
- I will stay one more day, like I say - HOTW
- the harder they fall one and all - THTC
- no one to fight, I came to you - HT
- the line is busted, the last one I saw - HT
- just one thing then Iīll be o.k. - INAM
- just one thing I got to say - INAM
- one more thing I just got to say - INAM
- only for one night you belong to me - ISTE
- and oneīs for sport and oneīs for blood - JS
- gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride - JS
- one man gone and another to go - JS
- I could pay you back with one good hand - L
- one of them called him, and then two more - MAMU
- one of them cowboys, he starts to draw MAMU
- Iīd have no one but myself to blame - MB
- no one could steer me right, but mama tried - MT
- that leaves no one but me to blame - MT
- cue ballīs made of styrofoam and no oneīs got the time - MHUT
- happy just to have one dream come true - MITR
- one step down and another begun, and I wonder - NSB
- one way or another, one way or another - NSB
- yeah, uhuh one more Saturday night - OMSN
- could you imagine ? One summer day - P
- one day I ventured in love never once suspecting - TRIO
- name of the one that I hated to face - TRIO
- one heat up, and one cool down - ROR
- one go up, and one go down - ROR
- and if you go, no one may follow - R
- no one may come here, since no one may stay - Rm
- one day when Samson was walking along - SAD
- I had one of those flashes - SB
- dust off those rusty strings just one more time - SBl
- it all rolls into one and nothing comes for free - SBl
- just one thing I ask of you, just one thing for me - S
- one last voice is calling you - S
- one man gathers what another man spills - SS
- thatīs it for the other one - TOO
- to lay me down, one last time, to lay me down - TLMD
- to tell sweet lies, one last time and say good night - TLMD
- all are dim but one is bright - TS
- no one left to place or take the blame - ThS
- itīs the only one he knows - UJB
only
- only way to please me, ya just gotta leave - AG
- fare you well my only true one - BdP
- raised eight boys only I turned bad - BEW
- it ainīt īcause Iīm the only one left darling - BCE
- got an empty cup only love can fill - CAT
- all I leave behind me is only what I found - CD
- itīs only fractured and just a little nervous - CD
- well I know only this, Iīve got you today - HOTW
- only if you let me be your world - IIHTWTG
- got to be the only way - INAM
- only for one night you belong to me - ISTE
- that would only break my heart - ISTE
- theyīre only trying to make it through the night - LLR
- I only want to hold you - LLR
- Iīm only in it for the gold - L
- was the only rebel child from a family - MT
- all the things I planned to do I only did half way - MITR
- if it hurts you my darling, you only got - NTYSM
- false alarm, the only game in town - P
- no manīs land, the only game in town - P
- terrible, the only game in town - P
- not only is that mother big but he packs a .45 - SL
- Stephen would answer if he only knew how - SS
- but I could only hear the preacher - UC
- the crow told me; itīs the only one he knows - UJB
open
- suddenly flies open, and a girl is standing there - TS
- broken ground, open and beckoning - WR II
to open
- open up your windows cuz the candymanīs in town - Cm
- Lulu, my Lulu come and open the door - IBAATW
- she was too pat to open - SB
order
- who gave you your orders, someone from the sky - G
to order
- went to the barroom, ordered drinks for all - MAMU
other
- there are things you can replace, and others you cannot - Alt
- through other eyes on ohter days while going home - BOR
- and itīs just like any other day - BP
- didnīt get the lickinīs that the other ones had - BEW
- some other fellowīs making nothing at all - CB
- canīt you see that youīre killing each otherīs soul - CPR
- while my rider hides my bottle in the other room - EW
- I was just hanging out with the other guys - LLu
- if heīs in some other land, write it off as stole - MC
- others say better stand still" - NSB
- other hand I have heard it said - NSB
- jack, of any other highway to ride - NSB
- some folks trust to reason, others trust to might - PITB
- some folks look for answers, others look for fights - PITB
- from the other direction she was calling my eye - SB
- she was not like other girls, other girls - SB
- blond-haired woman on the other side - SOTOTW
- other times I can barely see - T
- thatīs it for the other one - TOO
- the other day they waited, the sky was - TOO
- and all the others sound on him - TOO
- he could pass his time, around some other line - TLEO
- they love each other - TLEO
- I spent doing time for some other fuckerīs crime - WhR
- the other half found me stumbling around - WhR
over
- two times over and the rest were sins - BEW
- look around about the wide world over - L
- we stopped over in Santa Fe - MAMU
- when itīs done and over, Lord, a man is just a man - PITB
- and I woke high over Albuquerque - TPL
- flying over to the Golden State - TPL
- or just over played your part - SdS
- 1948, Xmas eve, with a full moon over town - SL
to overlook
- you canīt overlook the lack, jack - NSB
to owe
- take me to the repo-man to pay back what is owed - MC
owl
- lilac rain, unbroken chain, song of the sawhet owl - UC
own
- in the book of loveīs own dream - AOML
- its homeland and thoughts of its own - EOTW
- its evenings and songs of its own - EOTW
- sometimes we live no particular way but our own - EOTW
- Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own - EOTW
- if I tell another what your own lips told to me - IMHBTR
- would you hold it near as it were your own - R
- wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own - SS
- spinning that curious sense of your own - SS
- we are it, we are on our own - ThS
to own
- the eyes are blind, blue visions, all a seer can own - NPC
ox
- gone are the days when the ox fall down - BEW
rabbit
- Julie catch a rabbit by his hair - RJ
race
- the race is on and here comes pride up the back stretch - TRIO
- the race is on and it looks like heartaches - TRIO
- a closer look reveals the human race - ThS
to race
- whatīs to be found by racing around - BTW
- racing in rhythm of the sun - WBOTB
radical
- but the radical, he rant and rage - ThS
rag
- the people all know. Everybodyīs doing that rag - DTR
- if you keep on doing that rag - DTR
rage
- a lady of nobility, gentility and rage - INAM
to rage
- what a raging beast with nothin to hide - P
- and the radical, he rant and rage - ThS
ragtime
- just like Billy Sunday, in a shotgun ragtime band - ROR
- sing you a hundred verses in ragtime - ROR
railroad
- ride you out on a cold railroad - UC
rain
- Iīll show you snow and rain - BS
- no rain is falling from a heavy sky - BOR
- a box of rain will ease the pain - BOR
- and itīs just a box of rain - BOR
- sound of the thunder with the rain pourinī down - BEW
- and I feel the wind and I taste the rain - CAT
- your rain falls like crazy fingers - CF
- the rain gonna come but the rain gonna go yīknow - DTR
- Iīve seen the rain pouring down - ITAM
- the rain is gonna come, oh it surely looks like rain - LLR
- walking along in the mission in the rain - MITR
- thereīs some satisfaction in the San Francisco rain - MITR
- hey, the laurel, hey the city in the rain - MOTM
- country garland in the wind and the rain - SS
- you still had to stand out in the pouring rain - S
- barren lack of rain and droop - TE
- sullen wings of fortune beat like rain - TS
- blue light rain, whoa unbroken chain - UC
- stay seventy-two, come shine or rain - USB
- lilac rain, unbroken chain - UC
- sun bells rain down in a liquid profusion - WBOTB
- winter rain, now tell me why - WR I
- the wind and rain - WR I
- winter grey and falling rain - WR I
- same old friends the wind and rain - WR I
- we will not speak but stand inside the rain - WR II
rainbow
- cloud hands reaching from a rainbow - CF
- rainbows and down that highway - EP
- six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow - TE
- theyīre a rainbow full of sound - TMNS
- with rainbow colors blended - TOO
- it rainbow spirals round and round - TOO
- the rainbow winged - WBOTB
to rain
- just before it rained - MABMG
rainstorm
- ran into a rainstorm, I ducked back into Novato - B
rainy
- tomorrow will be Sunday born of rainy Saturday - MITR
to raise
- raised eight boys only I turned bad - BEW
- mama tried to raise me better - MT
- she tried to raise me right, but I refused - MT
- donīt lend your hand to raise no flag - SOF
to ramble
- as you ramble through your sorrow - ITAM
- did you say your name was Ramblinī Rose - ROR
- ramble on baby, settle down easy, ramble on Rose - ROR
rank
- stepping off sharply from the rank and file - DTR
to rant
- but the radical, he rant and rage - ThS
rap
- please donīt dominate the rap, jack - NSB
rare
- or anything fine or even rare - IIHTWTG
- a rare and different tune - TS
rat
- rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb - HG
- rat cat alley roll them bones - ThS
rather
- but Iīd rather be a free man in my grave - THTC
- there ainīt no place Iīd ratherbe - TJ
raven
- statuesque, raven-dressed, a goddess of the night - INAM
- sheīs got raven hair, a ruffled dress - MB
to reach
- cloud hands reaching from a rainbow - CF
- reaching for the gold ring down inside - CF
- never could reach it, just slips away - CF
- reach out your hand if your cup be empty - R
to read
- try to read between the lines - B
- you read about Samson, all from his works - SAD
- you read about this lion, he killed a man - SAD
- got a letter this morning, baby, all it read - TJ
- the wheels turned around and the letters read - TJ
ready
- drink down a bottle and be ready to kill - BEW
- Casey Jones is ready, watch your speed - CJ
- you get what you come for, ya ready to go - GSET
- Iīm ready to give everything for anything I take - MITR
real
- hipsters, flipsters, real cool chicksters - DTR
- get the feeling Iīm going to find out real soon - FLAS
- and itīs real and it wonīt go away - INAM
- and itīs real, believe what I say - INAM
- thank you, for a real good time - LLu
- if all of this is real now, tell me girl now - Sup
really
- I had to move, really had to move - B
- itīs really very one or two - CC
- I canīt believe that she really wants you to die - CPR
- there isnīt really very far to go - DDB
- to the thin line beyond which you really canīt fake - FOTM
- but you really get me high - LL
- I guess it doesnīt really matter anyway - MD
to reap
- like the good book says, you gotta reap what you sow - NTYSM
reason
- reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis - DS
- tell me whatīs your reason if youīve got a good one - DTR
- gave my baby twenty or forty good reasons - DTR
- tell you the reason, if you wanna know - DDB
- itīs no wonder youīre reason goes bad - DDB
- got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night - FOTD
- his brain was boiling, his reason was spent - GSET
- the way youīre messing with my reason - LL
- some folks trust to reason, others trust to might - PITB
to reason
- reason the poor girls love him - AG
rebel
- was the only rebel child from a family - MT
to recall
- recall the days that still are to come - CF
- I recall your darkness when it crackled - SdS
to recede
- lady in velvet recedes in the nights of goodbye - DS
to recieve
- you will soon recieve me - EP
recklessness
- honest to the point of recklessness - Alt
red
- brown-eyed women and red grenadine - BEW
- he made his way selling red-eyed gin - BEW
- rosy red and elecrtic blue - CC
- I sat down to my supper, ītwas a bottle of red whiskey - DW
- out in red on the streets today - EW
- lit up and flashinī like the reds and blues - FLAS
- and it feels about like running a red light - FLAS
- I took my harp on out of my dirty red bandanna - MABMC
- blooming like a red rose - SM
- living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine - T
- red and white, blue suede shoes, Iīm Uncle Sam - USB
to redeem
- test of the boomerang tossed in the night of redeeming - TE
redeemer
- there comes a redeemer and he slowly too - EOTW
reed
- see the sun sparkle in the reeds - WR II
reflection
- mirror shatters in formless reflection of matter - DS
to regain
- all he lost he shall regain - SS
region
- and chased the cloud shape to the regions of mind - WBOTB
- lost in the regions of shadow-like chains - WBOTB
regret
- I never had doubts or thoughts of regret - BTW
to refuse
- she tried to raise me right, but I refused - MT
to relinquish
- the child has relinquished the rein - TE
to remain
- St.Stephen will remain, all heīs lost - SS
- his mind remained unbended, he has to die - TOO
- their minds remained unbended - TOO
- now what remains ? The wind and rain - WR I
to remember
- the first I remember knowing was that lonesome - MT
- but I just canīt remember no number - O
- do you remember ? Hearts were too cold - P
remnant
- drifting to the earth, remnants of forgotten dreaming - WBOTB
to replace
- there are things you can replace, and others you cannot - Alt
report
- heard your news report, you know youīre falling short - TLEO
to require
- and/or it may require a change that hasnīt come before - TE
to reserve
- reserve me a table for three - AG
rest
- two times over, the rest were sins - BEW
- you can tell the rest what youīve been through - G
- ainīt a bed can give us rest now - JS
- working hours without rest - MT
to rest
- by the riverside I will rest my bones - BdP
- I loved my uncle, God rest his soul - MAMU
- dear old daddy rest his soul - MT
restless
- well the musicīs thundering, restless and hot - FLAS
result
- what the final result would be - TRIO
retread
- I nailed a retread to my feet and prayed for - MHUT
to return
- in hopes he will return, but he cannot be bought or sold - TS
- now is the time of returning - TE
to reveal
- a closer look reveals the human race - ThS
to revoke
- I guess they canīt revoke your soul for trying - T
to revolve
- glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving - DS
- now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime calls - ThS
- all the world revolves captured in the eye - WBOTB
rhyme
- in token rhyme, suggesting rhythm - TS
- and seasons will end in tumbled rhyme - WR I
rhythm
- she can dance a Cajun rhythm - SM
- in token rhyme, suggesting rhythm - TS
- racing in rhythm of the sun - WBOTB
ribbon
- or a ribbon for your hair - BOR
- she had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons in her long brown hair - IMHBTR
- the roses or the ribbons - IMHBTR
- faded is the crimson from the ribbons - IMHBTR
rich
- rich manīs stepping on my poor head - TJ
- and the rich man in his summer home - ThS
ride
- midnight on a carousel ride - CF
- and itīs a three days ride from Bakersfield - MB
- all the dizzy ride on your cold shoulder - TLEO
to ride
- from day to day, just letting it ride - CAT
- where we should go, we just ride - CF
- you will follow me and we will ride to glory - EP
- up on his back and away I did ride - ElP
- riding alone in the dark - ElP
- off to my left ride a dozen or more - ElP
- Iīm getting weary, unable to ride - ElP
- sometimes we ride on your horses - EOTW
- Moses come riding up on a quasar - GSET
- ride her like a surfer running on a tidal wave - INAM
- gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride - JS
- me and my uncle went riding down - MAMU
- and then a man rode into town - MB
- just riding and running īcross those desert sands - MB
- and a younginīs dream of growing up to ride - MT
- I walked this street, my dreams were riding tall - MITR
- jack, of any other highway to ride - NSB
- riding a getaway bus out of Portland - O
- it rode me past Raleigh, and on across Caroline - TPL
- ride our singing, Iīll walk you in the morning sunshine - SM
- three girls waiting in a foreign dominion, riding - TE
- ride you out on a cold railroad - UC
rider
- while my rider hides my bottle in the other room - EW
- my rider left upon the Midnight Flyer - O
rifle
- a rifle on my shoulder, six shooter in my hand - IBAATW
right
- judge you know that seems to me to be about right - DDB
- I challenged his right for the love - ElP
- off to my right I see five mounted cowboys - ElP
- right outside this lazy summer home - EOTW
- right outside the lazy gate - EOTW
- hey, hey, hey, come right away - TGR
- youīd get right to work if you had any sense - GSET
- steal your face right off your head - HG
- weīll go right through the book and break - INAM
- I just jumped the watchman, right outside the fence - JS
- youīre right beside me, but I canīt get through - LL
- standing right beside me, Lord, in everything I done - MABMG
- no one could steer me right, but mama tried - MT
- she tried to raise me right, but I refused - MT
- give me the right area code and the number - O
- long as sheīs doing it right - O
- through train ticket, right across Mississipi clean - TPL
- and might lay right down and bawl - TRIO
- I knew right away she was not like other girls - SB
- in the strangest of places when you look at it right - SB
- well, I ainīt always right, but Iīve never been wrong - SB
- the law come to get you, if you donīt walk right - TJ
ring
- why they all believe him ? He wears a big diamond ring - AG
- reaching for the gold ring down inside - CF
- baby, baby, wants a gold diamond ring - DDB
- just to get baby a shiny diamond ring - DDB
- it may have one good ring baby, you canīt tell - FT
- everybodyīs dancing in a ring around the sun - TGR
- took his rings, four bucks in change - JS
- she had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes - SB
to ring
- I rang a silent bell beneath a shower of pearls - CCS
- at five oīclock, the bells of heaven ring - CD
- love still rings true - CF
- it can ring - turn night to day - FT
- it can ring like fire when you lose your way - FT
- God save the child who rings that bell - FT
- sugar magnolia, ringing that bluebell - SM
to rip
- he ripped the beast till he killed him dead - SAD
ripe
- donīt shake the tree when its fruit ainīt ripe - LL
ripple
- ripple in still water - R
to rise
- witness box began to rock and rise - AG
- bout the time the sun rises west - BCE
- rising up to Paradise, I know Iīm gonna shine - EP
- the temperature keeps rising , everybody gittinī high - OMSN
- when the rock and roll music meets the rising sun - OMSN
- some rise, some fall, some climb, to get to Terrapin - TS
- rising first and shining best - TS
- fish are rising up like birds - TMNS
- by and by again, the morning sun will rise - ThS
- got some things to talk about, here beside the rising tide - UJB
- up and down, as we rise and fall - WR II
to risk
- will risk uncertain pains of hell - TS
river
- lying by the river just like he usually done - A
- sailing down the river - A
- out of the river all ugly and green - A
- listen to the river sing sweet songs - BdP
- River going to take me - BdP
- the river roll, roll, roll - BdP
- hits River Junction at seventeen to - CJ
- donīt go near that river - CfJ
- Catfish John was a river hobo who lived and died by the riverīs bed - CfJ
- Comic book colors on a violin river crying Leonardo - CCS
- wash your lonely feet in the river in the morning - DTR
- and the rivers keep a talking - EW
- across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river - MHUT
- Mississipi River so big and wide - SOTOHW
- saw my baby down by the river - SM
- thereīs mosquitos on the river - TMNS
- flowing till the rivers all are dry - WR I
- she follows the path to the river shore - WR II
- with a love that the river has taught her - WR II
riverside
- by the riverside I will rest my bones - BdP
- rolling in the rushes down by the riverside - SM
- come hear Uncle Johnīs band by the riverside - UJB
road
- but Iīm here on the road, bound to the load - BTW
- going down the road feeling bad - GDTR
- the golden road - TGR
- and I left his dead ass there by the side of the road - MAMU
- by standing in the road alone - POC
- there is a road, no simple highway - R
rock
- been chipping up rocks for the great highway - EW
- I been chipping them rocks from dawn till doom - EW
- half a cup of rock and rye - MHUT
to rock
- witness box began to rock and rise - AG
- listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul - BdP
- come the rocking stroke of midnight - OMSN
- put on them rocking shoes - OMSN
- rock your baby to and fro - RJ
- sink and drown from rocking of the boat - SOF
- drink all day and rock all night - TJ
- wave the flag, pop the bag, rock the boat, skin the goat - USB
rockīn roll
- when the rock and roll music meets the rising sun - OMSN
- been hiding out in a rockīn roll band - USB
rod
- small wheel turn by the fire and rod - TW
to role
- comissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice - ThS
to roll
- on my hands and knees I will roll, roll, roll - BdP
- in my time I will roll, roll, roll - BdP
- lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll - BdP
- fever roll up to a hundred and five - BP
- roll on up, gonna roll back down - BP
- roll those laughing bones - Cm
- you better roll away the dew - FT
- I can tell by the way you smile he is rolling back - C
- like a steam locomotive rolling down the track - HG
- askinī you nice now, keep the mother rolling - HCS
- ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea - IMHBTR
- keep on rolling, just a mile to go - JS
- keep on rolling, my old buddy - JS
- Cain caught Abel rolling loaded dice - MHUT
- big diesel mack truck rolling down my way - POC
- by sundown, rolling īcross Georgia state - TPL
- donīt hang your head, let the two time roll - RJ
- it all rolls into one and nothing comes for free - SBl
- rolling in the rushes down by the riverside - SM
- you better not be there when it rolls over - TLEO
- and when that train rolls in - TLEO
- balls of lighning roll along - TMNS
- it strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets - ThS
- rat cat alley roll them bones - ThS
- roll you down the line, boy, drop you for a loss - UC
to romance
- full of dancing, full of singing and romancing - TMNS
roof
- snowed so hard that the roof caved in - BEW
room
- while my rider hides my bottle in the other room - EW
- you keep firing me glances across the room - FLAS
- she took my up into her room - MB
rooster
- crazy rooster crowing midnight - TMNS
rope
- why donīt we give him enough rope to hang himself - AG
rose
- Annie laid her head down in the roses - IMHBTR
- maybe it was the roses - IMHBTR
- it must have been the roses - IMHBTR
- the roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair - IMHBTR
- let me lay īneath the roses - IMHBTR
- blooming like a red rose - SM
- St.Stephen with a rose, in and out - SS
- spanish lady come to me, she lays on me this rose - TOO
- now tell me why, summers fade and roses die - WR I
- here there may be roses - WPCTS
rosy
- rosy red and electric blue - CC
rough
- when the dealing got rough - SB
round
- lost one round but the price wasnīt anything - HG
- it rainbow spirals round and round it trembles - TOO
- round and round and round and round... - LLu
- round and round, the cut of the plow in the furrowed field - WR II
- seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal - WR II
- seasons round, creatures great and small - WR II
- run, run, robin run round - TW
to rout
- put the beggars to rout - A
to rove
- I told Althea Iīm a roving son - Alt
to row
- I said row Jimmy row, gonna get there - RJ
- get out and row, row, row, row, row - RJ
rudy
- rudies looking for a fight - ThS
to ruffle
- sheīs got raven hair, a ruffled dress - MB
ruin
- all the endless ruins of the past must stay behind - CPR
rule
- you know all the rules by now - UJB
rum
- old like a rum-drinking demon at tea - DTR
run
- I had a hard run, running from your window - B
- I had a run in, run around and a run down - B
to run
- I hope heīs got the sense to run - AG
- I checked it running some old kind of trick - A
- he never runs, he just stumbles and hops - A
- I had a hard run, running from your window - B
- I was all night running, running, Lord I wonder - B
- run around the corner, corner, Lord, run smack - B
- ran into a rainstorm, I ducked back into Novato - B
- now letīs go, run and see, run and see - BP
- in the timbers of Fenario the wolves are running round - DW
- many thoughts ran through my mind - ElP
- I had but one chance and that was to run - ElP
- he looked like he could run - ElP
- set out running, but I take my time - FOTD
- ran into the devil, baby, he loaned me twenty bills - FOTD
- I ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there - FOTD
- and it feels about like running a red light - FLAS
- donīt stop to run - HOTW
- I canīt get around and I canīt run away - INAM
- ride her like a surfer running on a tidal wave - INAM
- run me around, make me hurt, again and again - LLR
- she come running and we ball all night - LLu
- Masonīs children ran and flew, they ainīt never run so fast before - MC
- I didnīt know a stage line ran from hell - MB
- just riding and running īcross those desert sands - MB
- this trainīs got to run today - NSB
- I heard someone say better run away" - NSB
- itīs hard to run with the weight of gold - NSB
- check out her number, trying to run down her line - O
- running hard out of Muskrat Flat - POC
- your streets run deep with poisoned wine - POC
- Mary run around, sailing up and down - TLEO
- share your wealth, run your life, steal your wife - USB
- run, run, robin, run round - TW
runner
- long distance runner, what youīre standing there for - FOTM
- long distance runner, what youīre holding out for - FOTM
- my heartīs out of the running - TRIO
- and donīt you run off no more - RJ
rush
- alone with the rush of the drivers that wonīt pick me up - BTW
- rolling in the rushes down by the riverside - SM
rusty
- dust off those rusty strings just one more time - SBl
sad
- I was blowing sad while Bobby sang the blues - MABMG
saddle
- itīs getting harder to stay in the saddle - ElP
- three days in the saddle, you know, my body hurt - MAMU
to saddle
- I saddled up and away did I go, riding alone in the dark - ElP
safe
- may the four winds blow you safely home - FT
sail
- they say when your ship comes in, first man takes the sails - MHUT
to sail
- sailing down the river in an old canoe - A
- the ships of state sail on mirage and drown in sand - BFA
- I understand why the old fishermen sail along - ITAM
- ship of fools, sail away from me - SOF
- Mary run around, sailing up and down - TLEO
sailor
- shadows of a sailor, forming winds both foul and fair all swarm - TS
- the sailor gave at least a try, the soldier being much too wise - TS
- the sailor, coming out again, the lady fairly leapt at him - TS
Saint
- Annie Bonneau from Saint Angel say the weather down here - BP
- Saint Stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes - SS
- Saint Stephen will remain, all heīs lost he shall regain - SS
sake
- true love scratched for anotherīs sake - TRIO
saloon
- laid back in an old saloon with a peso in my hand - MB
salt
- the wife of Lot turned to salt, because she - G
same
- weīre guilty of the same old thing - Alt
- and the old man never was the same again - BEW
- and if your hear the same sweet song again - BS
- I would ask the same of you, but failing - CD
- cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, but the cards were all the same - DW
- same old story and I know itīs been told - DDB
- and Iīll call down thunder and speak the same - EP
- to flee the very same voice I always believe - G
- a knife in the back and more of the same - HG
- same old, rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb - HG
- it looks as though tomorrow Iīll do pretty much the same - MITR
- no matter what comes down, the mission always looks the same - MITR
- next time you see me, things wonīt be the same - NTYSM
- that same night be on your way - P
- Chicago, New York, Detroit and itīs all the same street - T
- she lost her sparkle, you know she isnīt the same - T
- if the game is lost, then we are all the same - ThS
- itīs the same story the crow told me, itīs the only one he knows - UJB
- same old friends, the wind and rain - WR I
sand
- the ships of state sail on mirage and drown in sand - BFA
- wild flower seed in the sand and wind - FT
- wild flower seed on sand and stone - FT
- just riding and running across those desert sands - MB
- sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below - TE
- circle songs and sands of time, and seasons will end in tumbled - WR I
satisfaction
- thereīs some satisfaction in the San Francisco rain - MITR
- I get no satisfaction, thatīs why I sing the blues - OMSN
to satisfy
- someday I know youīll satisfy me - LL
Saturday
- you may be a Saturdayīs child, all alone - Alt
- tomorrow will be Sunday, born of rainy Saturday - MITR
- uuuh, yeah, one more Saturday night - OMSN
to save
- God save the child who rings that bell - FT
to say
- Maior said why donīt we give him rope enough - AG
- smoke has cleared, she said, thatīs what she said to me - Alt
- they lie where they fall, thereīs nothing more to say - BFA
- from St.Angel say the weather down there so fine - BP
- gone are the days when the ladies said - BEW
- mama said donīt go near that river, - CfJ
- blind man takes your hand, says donīt you see - CAT
- you hear yourself say things you could never mean - CAT
- say youīll come back when you can, whenever your airplane - CC
- mama keeps saying that the wind might blow - CC
- but standing here I say I just donīt know - CC
- to say how do you do ?" before weīre left behind - CC
- little Ben clock says quarter to eight, you kept me up - CB
- said my prayers and went to bed thatīs the last they saw of me - DW
- was grinning at my window, all I said was Come on in." - DW
- papa said son, youīll never get far - DDB
- the jewelry man said - DDB
- says wrap it up I think Iīll take this one" - DDB
- judge said - DDB
- Dupree said - DDB
- doctor say, better stop balling that jack - EW
- but you never heard a word it said - EW
- my time coming, voices saying they tell me where to go - EP
- itīs gonna be just like they say - EP
- you show me a look that says Letīs go" - FLAS
- you say itīs a living we all gotta eat - FOTM
- the first one says sheīs got my child - FOTD
- say alot of trouble coming, but it donīt have to come - G
- he said these things just got to be done - GSET
- said You ainīt got a hinge, you canīt close the door" - GSET
- said You canīt close the door, when the roof caved in" - GSET
- I will stay one more day, like I say, honey, itīs you - HOTW
- I say forgive them Lord they know not what theyīve done - THTC
- like I told you, what I said, steal your face right off your head - HG
- now listen here, baby, īcause I mean what I say - HT
- now donīt think too hard, baby, īcause I know what Iīm saying - HT
- loose Lucy, she was sore, says I know you donīt want my love - LL
- always said when Iīm dead and gone, donīt you weep - MC
- she said her name was Billy Jean and she was fresh in town - MB
- they say that Cain caught Abel rolling loaded dice - MHUT
- they say when your ship comes in, first man takes the sails - MHUT
- dominate the rap, jack, if youīve got nothing new to say - NSB
- I heard someone say Better run away", others say - NSB
- other hand I have heard it said, itīs just as hard - NSB
- well, itīs a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold - NTYSM
- like the good book says, you gotta reap what you sow - NTYSM
- Operator said, Thatīs privīledged information." - O
- says, I get no satisfaction, thatīs why - OMSN
- his wife say, Donīt get crazy, Lord, you know just what to do - OMSN
- say it once again now, whoa, I hope youīll understand - PITB
- did you say your name was Ramblinī Rose - ROR
- I say row Jimmy row, gonna get there, I donīt know - RJ
- on the wall of the garden a legend did say - Rm
- said tell me where your strength lies, if you please - SAD
- well Samson said, Delilah cut off my hair - SAD
- I just stopped in, īcause I want to say - SdS
- I saw her in Dallas and El Paso, said come back baby - SOTOTW
- Bayo, Delia said, just give me a gun - SL
- said, Buy me a gin fizz, love" - SL
- well, Iīve heard it said thereīs something wrong in my head now - Sup
- all a friend can say is Ainīt it a shame ?" - T
- to tell sweet lies, one last time and say good night - TLMD
- well, do you know, itīs like I said - TJ
- my dog he turned to me and said - TJ
- donīt get in their way, thereīs nothing you can say - TLEO
- say it might have been a fiddle - TMNS
- wonīt you believe what I say is true - TLEO
- they say love your brother, but you will catch it when you try - UC
- what shall we say, shall we call it by a name - WR II
- everyone said, Iīd come to no good, I knew I would, Pearly - WhR
- the good Lord willing, if he says I may - WhR
- Pearlyīs been true, true to me, true to my dying day, he said - WhR
- I said to him, I said to him - WhR
saying
- well, itīs a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold - NTYSM
to scare
- but youīre scared of Stagger Lee - SL
scarlet
- garden grew scarlet and purple and crimson and blue - Rm
- she wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls - SB
- scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues - SB
- wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own - SS
to scatter
- scattered like lost words - C
- ashes have scattered too hard to turn - P
score
- gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride - JS
- November and more, as I wait for the score - UC
to scorch
- come grow the scorched ground green - C
to scratch
- true love scratched for anotherīs sake - TRIO
- grabbing at the handle, scratching at the door - WPCTS
to scream
- screaming and yelling, he was picking his chops - A
- the fireman screams and the engine just gleams - CJ
- the sun was screaming Hey you!" - ITAM
- old men sing about their dreams, women laugh & children scream - TMNS
- and the whistle is screaming, TERRAPIN - TS
sea
- I went down unto the sea - B
- child of boundless seas - C
- stray down to the water, deep sea of love - CF
- beneath the sweet calm face of the sea - CF
- eat it down by the sea - DTR
- standing on the beach the sea will part before me - EP
- the waves roll the ships home from the sea - IMHBTR
- from sea to shining sea - JS
- ship of fools on a cruel sea - SOF
- paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea - ThS
- chain of sorrow and pearls, unbroken chain of shy and sea - UC
- silver beads, pass into the sea - WR II
seabird
- flight of the seabirds - C
to seal
- get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine - MHUT
- the garden was sealed when the flowers decayed - Ro
to search
- listening for the secret, searching for the sound - UC
searchlight
- searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion - DS
season
- the heart has ist seasons, ist ist evenings and songs - EOTW
- seasons have frozen us into our souls - P
- several seasons with their treasons - SS
- this is the season of what, now is the time of returning - TE
- and seasons will end in tumbled rhyme - WR I
- seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal - WR II
- seasons round, creatures great and small - WR II
seaside
- Calliope wail like a seaside zoo - CC
seashore
- seashore washed by the suds and the foam - SS
second
- the second one is prison, babe, the sheriffīs on my trail - FOTD
- the second takes the afterdeck, the third the planks and ? - MHUT
- someone else came out to win her, and I came out in second place - TRIO
to second
- I second that emotion - ISTE
secret, n.+adj.
- in the secret space of dreams, where I dreaming - AOML
- when the secrets all are told, and the petals all unfold - AOML
- but thatīs a secret that I can never tell - DDB
- her secret incantations, a candle burning blue - INAM
- Bobby shared the secrets of my soul - MABMG
- listening for the secret, searching for the sound - UC
to see
- no tongue can know, and lights no eyes can see - AOML
- and closed my eyes to see - AOML
- try to see whatīs going down, try to read between the lines - B
- I turned around to see - B
- letīs see with our heart these things our eyes have seen - BFA
- and I donīt want to see anybody cry - BCE
- song coming on, so pleasing to see, come and gone, goodbye - BCE
- itīs forced me to see, youīve done better - BTW
- please help them to look as well as to see - BTW
- to do for you to see you through - BOR
- you can see clear to another day - BOR
- maybe been seen before, through other eyes - BOR
- ease the pain, and love will see you through - BOR
- all of my friends come to see me last night - BP
- see here how everything led up to thise day - BP
- now letīs go run and see, run and see - BP
- gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams - CF
- got two good eyes, but you still donīt see - CJ
- good morning, Mr.Benson, I see youīre doing well - Cm
- I have seen where the wolf has slept - C
- blind man takes your hand, says donīt you see - CAT
- I canīt see much difference between the dark and light - CAT
- said my prayers and went to bed thatīs the last they saw of me - DW
- nothing out there you havenīt seen before - DTR
- but itīs been so long, since Iīve seen the young maiden - ElP
- I can see Roseīs cantina below - ElP
- oof to my right I see five mounted cowboys - ElP
- inside youīre burning, I can see clear through - FLAS
- see that girl barefooting along - TGR
- I was blind all the time, I was learning to see - HOTW
- the line is busted, the last one I saw - HT
- theyīre coming in the morning; thatīs the last youīll see of me - IBAATW
- let me lay īneath the roses, till my eyes no longer see - IMHBTR
- Iīve seen the rain pouring down. The sky was grey with a speck - ITAM
- Iīll take a melody and see what I can do about it - ITAM
- hurts my ears to listen, Shannon, burns my eyes to see - JS
- and I shot him down, Lord, he never saw - MAMU
- someone called my name you know, I turned around to see - MITR
- you never see those people anyway - MD
- the earth will see you on through this time - MOTM
- I saw things getting out of hand, I guess they always will - NSB
- next time you see me, things wonīt be the same - NTYSM
- looked up in the heavens, Lord, I saw a mighty sign - OMSN
- Passenger, can you see me - P
- people were saying the whole world is burning - P
- destination seen unclearly - P
- I see your silver shining town, but I know I canīt go there - POC
- I can see golden forests in the sun - POC
- when he first saw this woman, you know, he couldnīt - SAD
- looked down on the ground, he saw an old jawbone - SAD
- went to see the captain, strangest I could find - SOF
- saw your first ship sink and drown from rocking of the boat - SOF
- he shot my Billy dead, now Iīm gonna see him hung - SL
- Bayo, Bayo, see you hang him high - SL
- when all the cards are down, thereīs nothing left to see - Sbl
- saw my baby down by the river, knew she had to come up - SM
- takes the wheel when Iīm seeing double - SM
- hang it up and see what tomorrow brings - T
- sometimes the lightīs all shining on me, other times I can barely see - T
- till things weīve never seen will seem familiar - TS
- Lord, you can see that itīs true - TLEO
- you gotta try and see a little further - TLEO
- goddamn, well I declare, have you seen the like - UJB
- winter grey and falling rain, weīll see summer come again - WR I
- youīll see summer come again, like a song thatīs - WR I
- see the sun sparkle in the reeds - WR II
- maybe itīs mystery killer you saw on channel four - WPCTS
seed
- what fatal flowers of darkness bloom from the seeds of light - BFA
- and the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom - EOTW
- this ground on which the seed of love is sown - NPC
to seed
- wild flower seed in the sand and wind - FT
- wild flower seed on sand and stone - FT
to seek
- I have spent my life seeking all thatīs still unsung - AOML
to seem
- seems like Iīve been here before - BCE
- judge you know that seems to me to be about right - DDB
- seems so long I felt this way - EP
- they never seem to hear you, even your cry - THTC
- seems like everything come out wrong - ITAM
- you seem so near I start to wonder - LL
- so soon after payday, know it seemed a shame - MAMU
- mama seemed to know what lay in store - MT
- seems a common way to go, get out and row - RJ
- it seems that all this life was just a dream - Sbl
- till things weīve never seen will seem familiar - TS
- and all the others sound on him, but it doesnīt seem to matter - TOO
- statements just seem vain at last - TS
seer
- the eyes are blind, blue visions, all a seer can own - NPC
seldom
- seldom turns out the way it does in a song - SB
to sell
- he made his way selling red-eyed gin - BEW
- sell everything, without love day to day insanityīs king - HOTW
- proletarian gray, selling guns instead of food today - ThS
to send
- took his rings, four bucks in change, ainīt that heaven sent - JS
sense
- before I have to hit him I hope heīs got the sense to run - AG
- youīd get right to work if you had any sense - GSET
- spinning that curious sense of your own - SS
- light the song with sense and color - TS
to serve
- wonīt hide my liquor try to serve me tea - EW
to set
- set out running, but I take my time - FOTD
- busted, down on Bourbon Street. Set up, like a bowling pin - T
- Lord, theyīre setting us on fire - TMNS
- and the current fashions set the pace - ThS
to settle
- cool down, boy, settle back, easy Jim - Alt
- gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride - JS
- ramble on baby, settle down easy, ramble on Rose - ROR
- get tired of traveling and you want to settle down - T
seven
- seven come eleven, boys, Iīll take your money home - Cm
- seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll - TE
- itīs been hot for seven weeks now - TMNS
to sew
- everything sewed up tight. How come you lay awake all night long - S
shack
- tumble down shack on Big Foot country - BEW
- grass shack aniled to a pine wood floor - RJ
- back to back chicken shack. Son of a gun - USB
shackle
- cold iron shackles, ball and chain - TJ
shadow
- down in the valley of the shadow, just you, Alabama and me - AG
- shadow boxing the apokalypse, wandering the land - BE
- shadow in the alley turned out all my lights - LL
- firelightīs aglow, strange shadows from the flames will grow - TS
- shadows of a sailor, forming winds both foul and fair all swarm - TS
- in the shadow of the moon, Terrapin Station - TS
- when the shadows grow, itīll do you fine - TTMC
- shadow-like chains of illusion, delusions of living and dead - WBOTB
shaft
- like an angel, standing in a shaft of light - EP
- and windy vines in loops around the twind shafts of Lavender - TE
to shake
- and now the die is shaken, now the die must fall - JS
- donīt shake the tree when ist fruit ainīt ripe - LL
- sharp and painful that I may never shake - TRIO
- strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands - SB
- nothing shaking on Shakedown Street. Used to be the heart of town - SdS
- shake it, shake it, Sugaree, just donīt tell them that you know me - S
- so the kids they dance, they shake their bones - ThS
- shake the hand that shook the hand - USB
- shaking in the forest, what have you to fear - WPCTS
- shaking in the desert, now wherefore do you cry - WPCTS
- shaking in the bedroom, covers on your head - WPCTS
- shaking in the garden, the fear within you grows - WPCTS
shallow
- and dug for him a shallow grave and laid his body down - JS
shame
- so soon after payday, know it seemed a shame - MAMU
- all a friend can say is Ainīt it a shame ?" - T
shape
- the shape it takes could be yours to choose - TTMC
- and chased the cloud shape to the regions of mind - WBOTB
share
- donīt neglect to pick up what your share is - DTR
- Iīm gonna get my share now, whatīs mine - THTC
to share
- dashing and daring, a drink he was sharing - ElP
- we can share the women, we can share the wine - JS
- we can share what we got of yours, īcause we done shared - JS
- Bobby shared the secrets of my soul - MABMG
- I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools - SOF
- Iīll drink your health, share your wealth - USB
sharp
- stepping off sharply from the rank and file - DTR
- and a stab of loneliness sharp and painful that I may never - TRIO
- speeding arrow, sharp and narrow - SS
to shatter
- mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter - DS
to shave
- you can shave my head, clean as my hand - SAD
to shed
- his job is to shed ligh and not to master - TS
sheriff
- the second one is prison, babe, the sheriffīs on my trail - FOTD
shift
- take your shift at the mine - CB
shine
- it donīt change. Stay seventy-two, come shine or rain - USB
to shine
- maybe the sun is shining, birds are singing - BOR
- shininside - CF
- just to get baby a shining diamond ring - DDB
- rising up to paradise I know Iīm gonna shine - EP
- so as sure as the sun will shine - THTC
- to watch it shine, watch it shine - IIHTWTG
- shine on, keep on shining, shine on, keep on shining - ITAM
- the Great Nothern ou of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea - JS
- I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines - L
- thereīs a little boy who wants to shine my feet - MB
- well, itīs a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold - NTYSM
- shine on, glowing, brief and brightly - P
- I see your silver shining town, but I know I canīt go there - POC
- gonna make them shine, shine - Sbl
- sometimes the lightīs all shining on me, other times I can barely see - T
- the spiral light of Venus, rising first and shining best - TS
- or this shining ball of bule we can call our home - ThS
- shine your shoes, light your fuse, run your life - USB
shiny
- I been balling a shiny black steel jack hammer - EW
- wrapped around the manzanita stark and shiny in the breeze - TE
ship
- the ships of state sail on mirage and drown in sand - BFA
- ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea - IMHBTR
- they say when your ship comes in - MHUT
- but I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools - SOF
- saw your first ship sink and drown - SOF
- ship of fools on a cruel sea, sail away from me - SOF
- I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools - SOF
- donīt lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools - SOF
- when that ship comes in, you wonīt know where itīs been - TLEO
to ship
- shipping powders back and forth - ThS
shirt
- it being summer, I took off my shirt - MAMU
shock
- straight ahead you could not take the shock - G
to shock
- shocked by the foul evil dead I had done - ElP
shoe
- a bunch of and an old tennis shoe - A
- since you poured the wine for me and tightened up my shoes - D
- no one is watching or standing in your shoes - DTR
- take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat - TGR
- good to know you got shoes to wear, when you find the floor - HCS
- she tried so very hard to fill his shoes - MT
- crank up that old Victoria, put on them rocking shoes - OMSN
- she wore rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes - SB
- red and white, blue suede shoes, Iīm Uncle Sam - USB
- shine your shoes, light your fuse, run your life - USB
to shoot
- all the wild commandments the old man shot his way - BE
- shouting and shooting; I canīt let them catch me - ElP
- mustīve been a bad thing to get shot down for - G
- and I shot him down, Lord, he never saw - MAMU
- shot me another, oh damn, he wonīt grow old - MAMU
- īcause I shot first and killed him - MB
- Stagger Lee shot Billy DeLions - SL
- do you know what he shot him for - SL
- Stagger Leeīs a mad man and he shot my Billy D. - SL
- he shot my Billy dead, now Iīm gonna see him hung - SL
- as Stagger Lee lit a cigarette, she shot him in the balls - SL
- he shot my Billy dead and now heīs got to die - SL
shore
- preaching on the burning shore - EP
- she follows the path to the river shore - WR II
short
- time to be gone, and a short time to be there - BOR
- heard your news report, you know youīre falling short - TLEO
shot
- a pistol shot at five oīclock, the bells of heaven ring - CD
- line up a long shot, maybe try it two times, maybe more - HCS
- whatīs the point of calling shots, this cue ainīt straight in line - MHUT
- looking for a shot in some direction - TLEO
shotgun
- if I had me a shotgun, Iīd blow you straight to hell - C
- hail on my back like a shotgun blast - POC
- just like Billy Sunday in a shotgun ragtime band - ROR
- with shotgunīs full of silver and bulletīs made of glass - WPCTS
shoulder
- a rifle on my shoulder, six shooter in my hand - IBAATW
- all the dizzy ride on your cold shoulder - TLEO
to shout
- shouting ībout the times when we was mutual friends - A
- shouting and shooting; I canīt let them catch me - ElP
- listen to the thunder shouting I am! I am! I am! I am!" - WR II
shove
- when push comes to shove, youīre afraid of love - WPCTS
show
- goes to show, you donīt ever know - D
- well itīs one in ten thousand that come for the show - GSET
- so letīs get on with the show, letīs go - FLAS
to show
- Iīll show you snow and rain - BS
- you show me a look that says Letīs go" - FLAS
- I could show you a high time, living the good life - HT
- swore theyīd never show their face again - MC
- once in a while you get shown the light - SB
- showing you the way, leaving no doubt - TTMC
shower
- sun and shower, wind and rain - BOR
- I rang a silent bell beneath a shower of pearls - CCS
to shrug
- darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye - SS
to shut
- no one is complaining, come in and shut the door - IMHBTR
shy
- chain of sorrow and pearls, unbroken chain of shy and sea - UC
sick
- youīre sick of hanging around and youīd like to travel - T
side
- dark as the night youīre still by my side - CF
- for I feel a deep burning pain in my side - ElP
- awoke today, felt your side of the bed - LLR
- and I left his dead ass there by the side of the road - MAMU
- the wine ainīt sweeter, either side of the hill - ROR
- the sunny side of the streeet is dark - SdS
- blond haired woman on the other side - SOTOTW
sided
- eight sided whispering hallelujah hatrack - TE
to sigh
- sigh about the barren lack of rain and and droop so hungry neath the sky - TE
sign
- itīs got no signs or dividing lines, and a very few rules to guide - NSB
- locked up in the heavens Lord I saw a mighty sign - OMSN
- till the morning comes, like a highway sign - TTMC
silence
- just for a moment I stood there in silence - ElP
silent
- the silent war it bloodied both our hands - BE
- I rang a silent bell beneath a shower of pearls - CCS
- and the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom - EOTW
silk
- words from a silk trombone - CCS
- she bought me a silk suit, put luggage in my hands - TPL
silky
- silky, silky, crazy, crazy night - FLAS
silver
- where the wolf has slept by the silver stream - C
- copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono - CCS
- his buckle was silver, his manner was bold - GSET
- we used to play for silver, now we play for life - JS
- get youself a powder charge and seal that silver mine - MHUT
- of, of silver apples in the sun - POC
- I see your silver shining town, but I know I canīt go there - POC
- I live in a silver mine and I call it - UJB
- in the reeds, silver beads, pass into the sea - WR II
- full of silver and bulletīs made of glass - WPCTS
simple
- Iīll take a simple C and G and feel brand new about it - ITAM
- there is a road, no simple highway - R
sin
- black throated wind, whisper in sin - BTW
- two times over and the rest were sins - BEW
- six hundred pounds of sin - DW
- and if a man among you got no sin upon his hand - PITB
to sing
- when there was no ear to hear, you sang to me - AOML
- Taste eternity" the swords sing - BFA
- maybe the sun is shining, birds are singing - BOR
- all the birds that were singing are flown - BdP
- listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul - BdP
- river going to take me, sing me sweet and sleepy - BdP
- itīs a far gone lullabye, sung many years ago - BdP
- sing a lullabye beside the water - BdP
- sing to me, do your thing to me - BCE
- all I know is something like a bird within her sang - BS
- all I know she sang a little while and then flew on - BS
- laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark - BS
- anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passing by - BS
- laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night - BS
- recall the days that still are to come, some sing blue - CF
- may lady lullabye sing plainly for you - CF
- while Lady Lullabye sings plainly through you - CF
- collects his dues, while the boys sing īround the fire - DW
- if I had a song to sing, Iīd sing it to you - IIHTWTG
- sheīs my yo-yo, Iīm her string, listen to the birds on the hot wire sing - LL
- singing Thank you for a real good time" - LLu
- but Iīll still sing you love songs, written in letters of your name - LLR
- I was blowing sad while Bobby sang the blues - MABMG
- we sang every song that driver knew - MABMG
- feeling good was easy Lord, when Bobby sang the blues - MABMG
- singing like a summer breeze - O
- I get no satisfaction, thatīs why I sing the blues - OMSN
- laughing and singing, sheīs a carrying on - TGR
- Iīm gonna sing you a hundred verses in ragtime - ROR
- the song that woman sung was Look out Stagger Lee" - SL
- a broken angel sings from a guitar - Sbl
- I donīt follow, waits backstage while I sing to you - SM
- caught up in sunlight, come on out singing - SM
- ride our singing, Iīll walk you in the morning sunshine - SM
- old men sing about their dreams, women laugh & children scream - TMNS
- the fieldīs are full of dancing, full of singing and romancing - TMNS
- while crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune - TS
- always around, singing ashes to ashes all fall down - ThS
- singing Black goes south, while white comes north" - ThS
- singing I got mine and you got yours" - ThS
- singing someone got to turn the page" - ThS
- singing Just leave well enough alone" - ThS
- lightly sung, her song is the latch on the morningīs door - WR II
- singing birds fly īround the sun - WBOTB
single
- and Iīd trade on my tomorrows for a single yesterday - MABMG
to sink
- but I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools - SOF
- saw your first ship sink and drown from rocking of the boat - SOF
- all that could not sink or swim was just left there to float - SOF
- sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below - TE
- sink like a stone, float like a feather - UC
sister
- 49 sister states all had Alabama in their eyes - AG
- mama and papa, little sister makes three - IBAATW
to sit
- Billy Bojangles, sit down and have a drink with me - AG
- I hate to leave you sitting there composing lonesome blues - D
- I sat down to my supper, ītwas a bottle of red whiskey - DW
- sitting in Mangrove valley chasing light beams - DTR
- Abraham and Isaac sitting on a fence - GSET
- on the day when I was born, Daddy sat down and cried - MHUT
- good ole boys in the Greystone Hotel, sitting doing that gilt - POC
- sitting plush with a Royal flush, aces back to back - ROR
- the mirror was a window, she sat by alone - Rm
- īcause Iīm sitting on top of the world - SOTOTW
- most of the time theyīre sitting and crying at home - T
- sitting and staring out of the hotel window - T
- back home, sit down and patch my bones - T
six
- Moses stood up about six foot and ten - GSET
- a rifle on my shoulder, six shooters in my hand - IBAATW
- turn on channel six, the president comes on the news - OMSN
- six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow - TE
size
- I could arm a town the size of Abilene - L
skid
- nine mile skid on a ten mile ride, hot as a pistol, but cool inside - HG
to skim
- she comes skimming through rays of violet - SM
skin
- paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea - ThS
to skin
- wave the flag, pop the bag, rock the boat, skin the goat - USB
to skip
- skipping through the lily fields I came across an empty space - TOO
sky
- bird of Paradise fly in white sky - BFA
- no rain is falling from a heavy sky - BOR
- and my work fills the sky with flame - EP
- who gave you your orders, someone from the sky - G
- well they tell me of a pie up in the sky - THTC
- the sky was grey with a speck of blue - ITAM
- sun so hot, clouds so low, the eagles filled the sky - JS
- half a cup of rock and rye. Farewell to you old Southern skies - MHUT
- the northern sky it stinks with greed, you can smell it - POC
- the sky was yellow and the sun was blue - SB
- writing What for ?" across the morning sky - SS
- sigh about the barren lack of rain and and droop so hungry neath the sky - TE
- the other day they waited, the sky was dark and faded - TOO
- paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea - ThS
- willow sky, whoa, I walk and wonder why - UC
- like a song thatīs born to soar the sky - WR I
- water bright as the sky from which it came - WR II
to slap
- with them windshield wipers slapping time - MABMG
slave
- born a slave in the town of Vicksburg - CfJ
- than living as a puppet or a slave - THTC
to slave
- I wonīt slave for beggarīs pay likewise gold and jewels - SOF
- but I would slave to learn the way to sink your shiip of fools - SOF
sleep
- didnīt get to sleep last night till the morning - FOTD
- I just might get some sleep tonight - FOTD
- Iīd like to get some sleep before I travel - T
- go to sleep you child, dream of never-ending always - WBOTB
to sleep
- fate on Ophelia, sleeping and penchence to dream - Alt
- to watch for you while you are sleeping - BOR
- sleep in the stars, donīt you cry, dry your eyes on the wind - BS
- switchmanīs sleeping, train hundred and two is - CJ
- I have seen where the wolf has slept - C
- just one more night, I canīt sleep here no more - CB
- in Franklinīs tower the four winds sleep - FT
- you might not be sleeping here again - LLR
- to wake beside you, my love still sleeping - TLMD
- if the spiritīs sleeping, then the flesh is ink - ThS
sleepy
- sleepy alligator in the noonday sun - A
- river going to take me, sing me sweet and sleepy - BdP
- lazy lightning sleepy fire in your eyes, itīs like - LL
sleeve
- and the aces are crawling up and down your sleeve - DTR
- I know itīs just another trick she got up her sleeve - CPR
to slip
- never could reach it, just slips away when I try - CF
- then somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away - MABMG
slot
- went down to play the slot machine - TJ
slow
- evereythingīs moving here but much too slow now - CC
- watch each card you play and play it slow - D
- I felt this way and time sure passing slow - EP
- here comes a redeemer and he slowly too fades away - EOTW
- caught in slow motion in a dash for the door - FOTM
- keep on rolling, my old buddy, youīre moving much to slow - JS
- rock your baby to and fro, not too fast and not too slow - RJ
- trucking up to Buffalo. Been thinking, you got to mellow slow - T
- a slow winder day, a night like forever - UC
to slow
- the wheel is turning and you canīt slow down - TW
smack
- run around the corner, corner, Lord run smack into a tree - B
small
- gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride - JS
- seasons round, creatures great and small - WR II
- small wheel turn by the fire and rod - TW
to smell
- the northern sky it stinks with greed, you can smell it - POC
smile
- I like your smile but I ainīt your type - LLu
to smile
- I can tell by the way you smile he is rolling back - C
- nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile - HG
- a glimpse of black-eyed girls who giggle when I smile - MB
- but the heat came īround and busted me for smiling on an cloudy day - TOO
smoke
- when the smoke has cleared she said - Alt
- blew the smoke off her revolver - SL
to smoke
- yes, and the wheels, itīs smoking īround midnight - FLAS
- lost my boots in transit baby, pile of smoking leather - MHUT
- smoking into New Orleans - TPL
- smoking crater of my mind I like to blow away - TOO
snow
- Iīll show you snow and rain - BS
- magnolia blossomed, cotton fields as white as snow - CfJ
- let your tracks be lost in the dark and snow - TTMC
to snow
- snowed so hard that the roof caved in - BEW
to soar
- like a song thatīs born to soar the sky - WR I
soft
- soft, strong, sweet and true - CF
- Dallas, got a soft machine, Houston, too close to - T
soldier
- here beside him stands a man, a soldier from the looks of him - TS
- the sailor gave at least a try, the soldier being much too wise - TS
solid
- I been gambling hereabouts for ten good solid years - D
son
- I told Althea, I was a roving son, and I was - Alt
- Papa said, son, you will never get far - DDB
- well you know son, you just canīt figure - DDB
- judge said son, itīs gonna cost you some time" - DDB
- judge said son, I know your baby well - DDB
- son of a gun, better change your act - USB
song
- listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul - BdP
- song coming on, so pleasing to see, come and gone, goodbye - BCE
- and when you hear that same sweet song again - BS
- you are the song that the morning brings - EOTW
- ist seasons, its evenings and songs of its own - EOTW
- the songs that we hear are just songs of our own - EOTW
- just a song of Gomorroah, I wonder what they did there - G
- if I had a song to sing, Iīd sing it to you - IIHTWTG
- but Iīll still sing you love songs written in the letters of your name - LLR
- we sang every song that driver knew - MABMG
- I know this song ainīt never gonna end - ROR
- let there be songs to fill the air - R
- seldom turns out the way it does in a song - SB
- and when you hear that song - SBl
- the song that woman sung was Look out Stagger Lee" - SL
- in the end thereīs just a song, comes crying up the night - Sbl
- in the end thereīs still that song, comes crying up the wind - Sbl
- and when you hear that song comes crying like the wind - Sbl
- light the song with sense and color - TS
- greet the morning air with song - TMNS
- lilac rain, unbroken chain, song of the sawhet owl - UC
- wo, oh, what I want to know, how does the song go - UJB
- like a song thatīs born to soar the sky - WR I
- circle songs and sands of time, and seasons will end in tumbled - WR I
- her song is the latch on the morningīs door - WR II
- lightly sung, her song is the latch on the morningīs door - WR II
soon
- you will soon recieve me - EP
- get the feeling Iīm going to find out real soon - FLAS
- so soon after payday, know it seemed a shame - MAMU
- canīt hit that border too soon - POC
- knew sheīd have to come up soon for air - SM
- pretty soon, weīll trust you for the weather - TLEO
- soon you will not hear his voice - TS
- and I know weīll get there soon, Terrapin Station - TS
sore
- loose Lucy, she was sore, says I know you donīt want my love - LL
- my uncle starts winning; cowboys got sore - MAMU
sorrow
- as you ramble through your sorrow - ITAM
- you might wager that I`ll hide in sorrow - TRIO
- chain of sorrow and pearls, unbroken chain of shy and sea - UC
soul
- listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul - BdP
- canīt you see that youīre killinf each otherīs soul - CPR
- you ainīt got time to call your soul a critic no - EOTW
- I loved my uncle; God rest his soul - MAMU
- dear old daddy rest his soul - MT
- I gues they canīt revoke your soul for trying - T
sound
- sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down - BEW
- waken to the sound of street cats making love - LLR
- theyīre a rainbow full of sound - TMNS
- listening for the secret, searching for the sound - UC
to sound
- when the voices of the storm sound like a crowd - NPC
- and all the others sound on him, but it doesnīt seem to matter - TOO
south
- south Colorado, West Texas bound - MAMU
- I think sheīs somewhere down south - O
- black goes south while white goes north - ThS
- standing stream cries the south wind - WBOTB
to sow
- more than laurel you may sow - MOTM
- this ground on which the seed of love is sown - NPC
- like the good book says, you gotta reap what you sow - NTYSM
- the plowman is broad as the back of the land he is sowing - WR II
space
- in the secret space of dreams, where I dreaming - AOML
- this space is getting hot, you know this space - Alt
- in another timeīs forgotten space - FT
- a peaceful place it looks from space - ThS
- skipping through the lily fields I came across an empty space - TOO
spades
- cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, but the cards were all the same - DW
- ace of Spades behind his ears and him not thinking twice - MHUT
to spare
- Iīve got no star to spare, or anything fine or even rare - IIHTWTG
to spark
- sparking my imagination, got the lightning now - Sup
sparkle
- she lost her sparkle, you know she isnīt the same - T
to sparkle
- to lay me down with my head in sparkling clover - TLMD
- see the sun sparkle in the reeds - WR II
- panes of chrystal ice sparkle like waterfalls - WBOTB
- all eyes are blinded by the sparkling waters - WBOTB
to speak
- and speaking on life that passes like dew - BTW
- your tongue is twisted with words half spoken - BOR
- speaks his name for you were born to me - C
- Lord, he never spoke in anger though his load was hard - CfJ
- and Iīll call down thunder and speak the same - EP
- she spoke so kind and she talked so fair - SAD
- most of the cats that you meet on the streets speak of true love - T
- too hot to even speak now - TMNS
- while the story teller speaks, a door within the fire creaks - TS
- we will not speak but stand inside the rain - WR II
speck
- Iīve seen the rain pouring down. The sky was grey with a speck - ITAM
speed
- Casey Jones is ready, watch your speed - CJ
to speed
- seeing, double, pays my ticket, when I speed - SM
- speeding arrow, sharp and narrow - SS
spell
- wicked and evil while casting a spell - ElP
- mama came quick with the water witch spell - GSET
to spend
- I have spent my life seeking all thatīs still unsung - AOML
- thatīs where I mainly spend my time - CB
- you and me bound to spend some time wondering - D
- I spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills - FOTD
- and if he catches up with me, Iīll spend my life in jail - FOTD
- his brain was boiling, his reason was spent - GSET
- happy hours I spent there in her arms - MB
- I spent a little time on the mountain, I spent a little time - NSB
- I spent doing time for some other fuckerīs crime - WhR
sperm
- four men tracking down the great white sperm whale - TE
to spill
- what good is spilling blood - BFA
- one man gathers what another man spills - SS
spine
- dropped four flights and cracked my spine - TJ
to spin
- spinning that curious sense of your own - SS
- stars were spinning dizzy - TMNS
- picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free - ThS
spiral
- the spiral light of Venus, rising first and shining best - TS
to spiral
- it spirals round and round it trembles and explodes - TOO
spirit
- weīll consult the spirits, maybe theyīll know what to do - INAM
- if the spiritīs sleeping, then the flesh is ink - ThS
to splatter
- sunlight splatters dawn with answers - SS
splendor
- splendor in the dark, lightning on the draw - INAM
to splinter
- walk into splintered sunlight - BOR
spook
- nightmare spook, piece of heat, you and me - ThS
sport
- and oné for sport and oneīs for blood at the point of a knife - JS
to spread
- the flame from your stage has now spread to the floor - FOTM
- wing spread bright spring from night - HOTW
- my lover comes and spreads her wings - WR I
spring
- I worked all summer, spring and fall - SOTOTW
- sheīs a summer love for spring, fall and winter - SM
- and like a desert spring, my lover comes - WR I
- broken ground, open and beckoning to the spring - WR II
to spurn
- what a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned - SS
to squall
- just then the wind came squalling through the dark - BP
to squeeze
- wrap you in sweet perfume and squeeze you till you die - WPCTS
stab
- and a stab of loneliness sharp and painful that I may never - TRIO
stage
- the flame from your stage has now spread to the floor - FOTM
- I didnīt know a stage line ran from hell - MB
to stagger
- he staggered home and found me in the door - BE
to stalk
- stalking turf, dividing up meat - ThS
stall
- I took the horses up to the stall - MAMU
stand
- up on the Blue Ridge mountains, there Iīll take my stand - IBAATW
to stand
- you got a lot of words youīve got to stand behind - CAT
- but standing here I say I just donīt know - CC
- no one is watching or standing in your shoes - DTR
- like an angel, standing in a shaft of light - EP
- standing on the beach, the sea will part before me - EP
- just for a moment I stood there in silence - ElP
- many thoughts ran through my mind as I stood there - ElP
- long distance runner, what youīre standing there for - FOTM
- Moses stood up about six foot and ten - GSET
- get out the pans, donīt just stand there dreaming - HCS
- is there anything a man canīt stand to lose - MB
- standing right beside me, Lord, in everything I done - MABMG
- better run away", others say better stand still" - NSB
- keep on coming or stand and wait, with the sun so dark - NSB
- standing on a tower, world at my command - PITB
- by standing in the road alone, standing watching the fires - POC
- if you should stand, then whoīs to guide you - R
- you still had to stand out in the pouring rain - S
- the bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before - SOF
- you gained you still had to stand out in the pouring rain - S
- here beside him stands a man - TS
- suddenly flies open; a girl is standing there - TS
- thatīs how it stands today. You decide if he was wise - TS
- standing stream cries the south wind - WBOTB
- we will not speak but stand inside the rain - WR II
- you canīt go back and you canīt stand still - TW
star
- the desert stars are bright tonight - BFA
- sleep in the stars, donīt you cry, dry your eyes on the wind - BS
- the highway, the moon, the coulds and the stars - BTW
- dark star crashes, pouring ist light into ashes - DS
- if I had a star to give, Iīd give it to you - IIHTWTG
- well, maybe Iīve got no star to spare, or anything fine - IIHTWTG
- counting stars by candlelight, all are dim but one is bright - TS
- stars were spinning dizzy - TMNS
to stare
- sitting and staring out of the hotel window - T
stark
- wrapped around the manzanita stark and shiny in the breeze - TE
start
- Iīll get a new start, live the life I should - WhR
to start
- there he goes and now here she starts, hear her cry - C
- you seem so near I start to wonder - LL
- you know my uncle, he starts a friendly game - MAMU
- one of them Cowboys he starts to draw - MAMU
- my uncle starts winning; cowboys got sore - MAMU
- you missed out the thing that we had to start - SdS
state
- 49 sister states all had Alabama in their eyes - AG
- the ships of state sail on mirage and drown in sand - BFA
- Atlanta by sundown, rolling īcross the Georgia state - TPL
- flying over to the Golden State - TPL
to state
- solemnly they stated, He has to die, you know he has to die." - TOO
statement
- and he made a statement to someone in L.A. - BE
- statements just seem vain at last - TS
to stay
- I canīt stay much longer, Melinda, the sun is getting high - CB
- all the endless ruins of the past must stay behind - CPR
- itīs getting harder to stay in the saddle - ElP
- it takes all you got just to stay on the beat - FOTM
- I will stay one more day, like I say, honey, itīs you - HOTW
- no one may come here since no one may stay - Rm
- Iīve stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel - SBl
- stay seventy-two, come shine or rain - USB
to steal
- steal your face right off your head - HG
- if heīs in some other land, write it off as stole - MC
- share your wealth, run your life, steal your wife - USB
steam
- like a steam locomotive, rolling down the track - HG
steel
- I been balling a shiny black steel jack hammer - EW
- she could be hanging īround the steel mill - O
- with gloves of stainless steel, bats carved out of bricks - WPCTS
to steer
- no one could steer me right, but mama tried - MT
step
- one step down and another begun and I wonder how many miles - NSB
- that path is for your steps alone - R
- lose your step, fall out of grace - ThS
to step
- 1929 when he stepped to the bar, drank - BEW
- stepping off sharply from the rank and file - DTR
- come back stepping like to walk on air - RJ
- stepped up to Stagger Lee at the bar - SL
- rich man step on my poor head - TJ
- theyīre high stepping into town - TMNS
stew
- Masonīs children cooked the stew and cleaned up - MC
still, n.
- I cut hickīry for to fire the still - BEW
still, adj./adv.
- `better run awayī, others say `better stand stillī - NSB
- ripple in still water, when there is no pebble tossed - R
- you canīt go back and you canīt stand still - TW
to stink
- the northern sky it stinks with greed, you can smell it - POC
stone
- plugging like stones from a slingshot from Mars - BTW
- Iīm a stone jack baller and my heart is true - EW
- wild flower seed on sand and stone - FT
- sun comes up bloodred, wind yells among the stone - NPC
- let him cast a stone at me for playing in the band - PITB
- and the politicians throwing stones - ThS
- historyīs page, it is thusly carved in stone - ThS
- we will leave this place an empty stone - ThS
stop
- it trembled and exploded, left a bus stop in its place - TOO
to stop
- who can stop what must arrive now - CF
- gone are the days we stopped to decide - CF
- doctor say, better stop balling that jack - EW
- and I canīt stop wondering just what you got - FLAS
- donīt stop to run - HOTW
- we stopped over in Santa Fe - MAMU
- but I canīt stop for nothing, Iīm just playing in the band - PITB
- stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill - TPL
- strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands - SB
- I just stopped in, īcause I want to say - SdS
- īcause the music never stopped - TMNS
- got it from the top, itīs nothing you can stop - TLEO
store
- down to the jewelry store packing a gun - DDB
- mama seemed to know what lay in store - MT
storm
- in the midst of a storm Iīd rather forget - BTW
- wheel to the storm and fly - C
- when the voices of the storm sound like a crowd - NPC
story
- the thousand stories have come round to one again - BFA
- same old story, and I know itīs been told - DDB
- while the story teller speaks, a door within the fire creaks - TS
- the story teller makes no choice. Soon you will not hear his voice - TS
- I got no dime, but I got some time to hear his story - WhR
- Schehrazade gathering stories to tell - WBOTB
to straddle
- straddled that Greyhound, it rode me past Raleigh - TPL
to strand
- left us all stranded in downtown Birmingham - TPL
strange
- stranger ones have come by here, before they flew away - CD
- so swift and bright, strange figures of light - CF
- you know itīs gonna get stranger, letīs get on with the show - FLAS
- going where the wind donīt blow so strange - HG
- and itīs strange, how no one comes round any more - IMHBTR
- in the strangest of places when you look at it right - SB
- went to see the captain, strangest I could find - SOF
- lately it occurrs to me what a long strange trip itīs been - T
- while the firelightīs aglow, strange shadows of - TS
stranger
- the handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor - ElP
- well, I feel like a stranger - FLAS
- I guess that stranger hadnīt heard the news - MB
- strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands - SB
strategy
- strategy was his strength, and not disaster - TS
to stray
- stray down to the water, deep sea of love - CF
stream
- I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream - C
- the words came out like an angry stream - CAT
- standing stream cries the south wind - WBOTB
to stream
- let the world go by, like the clouds a streaming - TLMD
street
- youīre both out in the streets - CPR
- out in reds on the streets today - EW
- waken to the sound of street cats making love - LLR
- watching flies and children on the street - MB
- I went down to that dusty streets - MB
- I walked this street, my dreams were riding tall - MITR
- your streets run deep with poisoned wine - POC
- nothing shaking on Shakedown Street - SdS
- Delia went a walking down Singapure Street - SL
- down every lonely street thatīs ever been - Sbl
- arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street - T
- Chicago, New York, Detroit and itīs all the same street - T
- most of the cats that you meet on the streets speak of true love - T
- out of the door and down on the streets all alone - T
- busted, down on Bourbon Street. Set up, like a bowling pin - T
- it strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets - ThS
- when life looks like easy street - UJB
strength
- said tell me where your strength lies, if you please - SAD
- and my strength will become as natural as any old man - SAD
- strategy was his strength, not desaster - TS
stretch
- now the race is on and here comes pride up the back stretch - TRIO
to stretch
- he stretched out his arm, God knows, chains broke like thread - SAD
- William Tell has stretched his bow, till it wonīt stretch no further - TE
to strike
- little bolt of inspiration, way you strike me now - Sup
- ībout to end my suffocation, come on strike me now - Sup
string
- when there was no strings to play you played to me - AOML
- sheīs my yo-yo, Iīm her string, listen to the birds on the hot wire sing - LL
- dust off those rusty strings just one more time - Sbl
- string barbed wire at your feet, that will not let you pass - WPCTS
to stripe
- commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice - ThS
stroke
- come the rocking stroke of midnight, the whole place gonna fly - OMSN
to stroll
- it strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets - ThS
strong
- soft, strong, sweet and true - CF
- my love was strong for this Mexican maiden - ElP
- my love is stronger thn my fear of death - ElP
- my love is strong and it pushes me onward - ElP
- I donīt know whose backīs that strong, maybe find out - NSB
- he was the strongest man that ever had lived on earth - SAD
struggle
- had motor trouble, it turned into a struggle - TPL
to stumble
- he never runs, he just stumbles and hops - A
- the other half found me stumbling around - WhR
style
- trucking in style along the avenue - CC
- and find another sweet manīs gonna treat her with style - DDB
- summerīs coming in and itīs going outa style - TGR
- who can deny, itīs not just a change in style - NSB
sud
- seashore washed by the suds and the foam - SS
suede
- red and white, blue suede shoes, Iīm Uncle Sam - USB
suffocation
- ībout to end my suffocation, come on strike me now - Sup
sugar
- sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty - SM
- sugar magnolia, rining that bluebell, caught up - SM
to suggest
- let my inspiration flow in token rhyme, suggesting rhythm - TS
suit
- she bought me a silk suit, put luggage in my hands - TPL
to suit
- going where the climate suits my clothes - GDTR
sullen
- sullen wings of fortune beat like rain - TS
summer
- right outside this lazy summer home - EOTW
- right outside the lazy gate of winterīs summer home - EOTW
- summerīs coming in and itīs going outa style - TGR
- it being summer, I took off my shirt - MAMU
- singing like a summer breeze - O
- could you imagine ? One summer day - P
- I worked all summer, spring and fall - SOTOTW
- sheīs a summer love for spring, fall and winter - SM
- and the rich man in his summer home - ThS
- the summer sun looked down on him - TOO
- winter rain, now tell me why, summers fade and roses die - WR I
- now veiled in grey; summer leaves have blown away - WR I
- winter grey and falling rain, weīll see summer come again - WR I
- youīll see summer come again, like a song thatīs - WR I
sun
- sleepy Alligator in the noonday sun - A
- Lord, until the sun goes down - B
- by the time the sun rises west - BCE
- maybe the sun is shining, birds are singing - BOR
- sun an shower, wind and rain - BOR
- sun going up and then the sun is going down - BP
- proud walking jingle in the midnight sun - CCS
- the sun is getting high - CB
- from night into the sun - HOTW
- the sun was screaming Hey you!" - ITAM
- Sun so hot, clouds so low - JS
- Shannon will keep him from the sun - JS
- from the coal mines of Kentucky to the California sun - MABMG
- in the heat of the sun a man died of cold - NSB
- with the sun so dark and the hour so late - NSB
- when the rockīn roll music meets the rising sun - OMSN
- oh, oh, bitter olives in the sun - POC
- of, of silver apples in the sun - POC
- I can see golden forests in the sun - POC
- the sky was yellow and the sun was blue - SB
- a breeze in the pines and the sun - SM
- theyīre crawling to the sun - TE
- everybodyīs dancing in a ring īround the sun - TGR
- cause as sure as the sun will shine - THTC
- by and by again, the morning sun will rise - ThS
- Sun went down in honey - TMNS
- the summer sun looked down on him - TOO
- like the morning sun you come - UJB
- singing birds fly īround the sun - WBOTB
- racing in rhythm of the sun - WBOTB
- sun bells rain down in a liquid profusion - WBOTB
- see the sun sparkle in the reeds - WR II
Sunday
- in spite of all my Sunday learning - MT
- tomorrow will be Sunday, born of rainy Saturday - MITR
sundown
- we was 90 miles out of Atlanta by sundown - TPL
sunflower
- look for a while at the China Cat sunflower - CCS
sunlight
- walk into splintered sunlight - BOR
- caught up in sunlight - SM
- sunlight splatters dawn with answers - SS
sunny
- the sunny side of the streeet is dark - SdS
sunshine
- laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark - BS
- here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine - HCS
- if my words did glow with the gold of sunshine - R
- Iīll walk you in the sunshine - SM
- lazing in the sunshine - SM
- sunshine, daydream. Walking in the sunshine - SM
- who played with the sunshines - WBOTB
sunset
- offer jewels to the sunset - DTR
supper
- I sat down to my supper, ītwas a bottle of red whiskey - DW
- the wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game - DW
- maybe take my supper, eat it down by the sea - DTR
sure
- I felt this way and time sure passing slow - EP
- so as sure as the sun will shine - THTC
- sure as she bore me, she bought me - TPL
- I said to him Iīm sure sheīs been." - WhR
surely
- the rain is gonna come, oh it surely looks like rain - LLR
surfer
- ride her like a surfer running on a tidal wave - INAM
to surprise
- please donīt be surprised when you find me dreaming too - BOR
to suspect
- but suspected something worse - BE
- one day I ventured in love never once suspecting - TRIO
to swarm
- shadows of a sailor, forming winds both foul and fair all swarm - TS
to swear
- tell me a lie, and I will swear, Iīll swear itīs true - LL
- swore theyīd never show their face again - MC
sweet
- listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul - BdP
- river going to take me, sing me sweet and sleepy - BdP
- meet me some morning in the sweet by and by - BCE
- if you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why - BS
- anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passing by - BS
- beneath the sweet calm face of the sea, swift undertow - CF
- life may be sweeter for this, I donīt know - CF
- soft, strong, sweet and true - CF
- walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn - CfJ
- when the sweet magnolia blossomed, cotton fields - CfJ
- baby, baby gonna lose her sweet man - DDB
- and find another sweet manīs gonna treat her with style - DDB
- but you got to admit that sweet, sweet Jellyīs so good - DDB
- maybe you like to give a kiss so sweet - ISTE
- sweet Suzie, last fair deal in the town - L
- swing low sweet chariot, come down easy - TPL
- the grass ainīt greener, the wine ainīt sweeter - ROR
- Delia DeLions, dear sweet Delia-D - SL
- sweet blossom come on, under the willow, we can have high times - SM
- what in the world ever became of sweet Jane - T
- to tell sweet lies, one last time and say good night - TLMD
- wrap you in sweet perfume and squeeze you till you die - WPCTS
swift
- beneath the sweet calm face of the sea, swift undertow - CF
- so swift and bright, strange figures of light - CF
to swim
- all that could not sink or swim was just left there to float - SOF
to swing
- swing low sweet chariot, come down easy - TPL
sword
- Taste eternity" the swords sing - BFA
sympathy
- gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy - Alt
table
- 23rd psalm Major Domo, reserve me a table for three - AG
tack
- well Samson and the lion they got in a tack - SAD
tail
- mumbling bitches and wagging his tail - A
tailor
- and one cool down, leave nothing for the tailor - ROR
to take
- no need to worry the jury, this kind takes care of themselves - AG
- river going to take me - BdP
- take up the yoke and plow the fields around - BEW
- take a look at poor Peter, heīs lying in pain - BP
- boys, Iīll take your money home - Cm
- take my advice, youīd be better off dead - CJ
- take me back to another morning - CfJ
- take your shift at the mine - CB
- take up your China doll - CD
- comes a time when the blind man takes your hand, says - CAT
- she canīt take your mind and leave - CPR
- says Wrap it up I think, Iīll take this one" - DDB
- maybe take my supper, eat it down by the sea - DTR
- take my line, go fishing for a Tuesday - DTR
- live five years if I take my time - EW
- set out running, but I take my time - FOTD
- he took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air - FOTD
- takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down - FOTM
- it takes all you got just to stay on the beat - FOTM
- the more that you give, the more it will take - FOTM
- straight ahead you could not take the shock - G
- take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat - TGR
- take a vacation, fall out for a while - TGR
- up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, there Iīll take my stand - IBAATW
- it takes dynamite to get me up - INAM
- Iīll take a melody and see what I can do about - ITAM
- Iīll take a simple C and G and feel brand new about it - ITAM
- took his rings, four bucks in change - JS
- donīt take much to get me on the ground - Llu
- donīt take much to get the word around - LLu
- it being summer, I took off my shirt - MAMU
- I took the horses up to the stall - MAMU
- high-low jack and the winner take the hand - MAMU
- when the devil wants to take it all away - MB
- she took me off into her room - MB
- she told me he would take her, if I didnīt use my gun - MB
- took us all the way to New Orleans - MABMG
- I took my harp on out of my dirty red bandanna - MABMG
- you know Iīm ready to give everything for anything I take - MITR
- take me to the repo-man to pay back what is owed - MC
- first man takes the sails, second takes the after deck - MHUT
- you might think that Iīm taking it hard, since you - TRIO
- if I knew the way I would take you home - R
- take you to the leader of the band - ROR
- takes the wheel, when Iīm seeing double - SM
- when they come to take you down, when they bring - S
- takes time, you pick a place to go, and just keep trucking on - T
- she takes her fan and throws it in the lionīs den - TS
- I will nit forgive you, if you will not take the chance - TS
- the shape it takes could be yours to choose - TTMC
- no one left to place or take the blame - ThS
- come with me or go alone, heīs come to take his children home - UJB
- itīs a buck dancerīs choice my friend, better take my advice - UJB
- and the name is on the earth that takes it in - WR II
tale
- that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done - TS
to talk
- canīt talk to you without talking to me, weīre guilty - Alt
- I come in from Memphis where I learned to talk the jive - Cm
- and the rivers keep a talking - EW
- I hear you talking about your troubles - ITAM
- riding in a getaway bus out of Portland, talking to the night - O
- she spoke so kind and she talked so fair - SAD
- talk about your plenty, talk about your ills - SS
- got some things to talk about, here beside the rising tide - UJB
tall
- children grew and grew, they ainīt never grown so tall before - MC
- Thursday came, then Friday, with buyers tall and bright - MC
- they might never grow so tall again - MC
- I walked this street, my dreams were riding tall - MITR
- sunshine, daydream, walking in the tall trees, going where - SM
to tap
- blow the horn, tap the tambourine - C
- tapping at the window, touch your hair - CF
taste
- full of tastes no tongue can know and lights no eyes - AOML
- but the taste of wine is worse than none at all - ISTE
to taste
- Taste eternity" the swords sing - BFA
- and I feel the wind and I taste the rain - CAT
- going where the water tastes like wine - GDTR
to tatter
- reason tatters, the forces teat loose from the axis - DS
tea
- call for his whiskey, he dan call for his tea - A
- old like a rum-drinking demon at tea - DTR
- wonīt hide my liquor try to serve me tea - EW
- wind in the willowīs playing tea for two - SB
to teach
- taught us all we ever knew, we ainīt never known so much before - MC
- taught me good Lord, taught me all I know - MAMU
- taught me so well, I grabbed that gold - MAMU
- with a love that the river has taught her - WR II
tear
- I feel tears welling up from deep inside - TRIO
- my tears are holding back, trying not to fall - TRIO
to tear
- I told Althea that treachery was tearing me limb from limb - Alt
- reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis - DS
- ever since they tore the jukebox down - RJ
- if I had my way, I would tear this old building down - SAD
to tell
- I told Althea I was feeling lost, lacking - Alt
- Althea told me upon scrutiny, that my back might need - Alt
- I told Althea that treachery was tearing me limb from limb - Alt
- Althea told me better cool down boy - Alt
- I told Althea, Iīm a roving son - Alt
- when the secrets all are told, and the petals all unfold - AOML
- Scheherazade gathering stories to tell - BFA
- you donīt have to tell me why - BCE
- tell me all that you know, Iīll show you snow and rain - BS
- I love you more than words can tell - BdP
- I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream - C
- I can tell by the way you smile he is rolling back - C
- nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, Iīm done with mine - C
- tell me what you done it for, No I wonīt tell you a thing - CD
- Kalico, Kahlia, come tell me the news - CC
- wonīt you tell everybody you meet that the Candymanīs in town - Cm
- if I told you all that went down, it would burn off both of your ears - D
- tell you the reason, if you wanna know - DDB
- but thatīs a secret I can never tell - DDB
- same old story and I know itīs been told - DDB
- baby, baby, tell me whatīs the matter - DTR
- what, what, tell me whatīs your why how - DTR
- tell me why will you never come home - DTR
- tell me whatīs the reason if youīve got a good one - DTR
- and tell me the name of the game that you play - DTR
- I was in love but in vain I could tell - ElP
- my time coming, voices saying they tell me where to go - EP
- just like they say, them voices tell me so - EP
- still I know I lead the way, they tell me where to go - EP
- them voices telling me, you will soon recieve me - EP
- well, Iīll tell you where the four winds dwell - FT
- it may have one good ring, baby, you canīt tell - FT
- your eyes tell more than you mean them to - FLAS
- Iīm telling you so you can tell the rest what youīve been through - G
- I heard a voice telling me - G
- well cool clear water well you canīt ever tell - GSET
- like I told you, what I said, steal your face right off your head - HG
- tell me the cost. I can pay let me go, tell me love is not lost - HOTW
- if I tell another what your own lips told to me - IMHBTR
- well they tell me of a pie up in the sky - THTC
- tell you, what Iīm gonna do - ITAM
- I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines - L
- tell me a lie and I will swear, Iīll swear itīs true - LL
- she told me he would take her, if I didnīt use my gun - MB
- know, but I been told itīs hard to run with the weight of gold - NSB
- know, but I was told in the heat of the sun a man died of cold - NSB
- know, but I been told if the horse donīt pull you got to carry the load - NSB
- tell your future, just look whatīs in your hand - PITB
- when the pilot told us in thirteen minutes - TPL
- tell the folks back home - TPL
- shake it, shake it, Sugaree, just donīt tell them that you know me - S
- said, tell me where your strength lies, if you please - SAD
- you can tell me this town ainīt got no heart - SdS
- well, well, well, you can never tell - SdS
- donīt tell me this town ainīt got no heart - SdS
- Bayo, Bayo, tell me how can this be - SL
- if all of this is real now, tell me girl now - Sup
- once told me Youīve got to play your hand" - T
- no more time to tell how, this is the season of what - TE
- that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done - TS
- which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell - TS
- since the end is never told, we pay the teller of in gold - TS
- tell you what Iīll do, Iīll watch out for you - TTMC
- to tell sweet lies, one last time and say good night - TLMD
- everything I tell you, I heard it first from you - TLEO
- heartless powers try to tell us what to think - ThS
- itīs the same story the crow told me, itīs the only one he knows - UJB
- theyīre telling me forgiveness is the key to every door - UC
- winter rain, now tell me why - WR I
- Scheherazade gathering stories to tell - WBOTB
teller
- the story teller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice - TS
- while the story teller speaks, a door within the fire creakes - TS
- since the end is never told, we pay the teller of in gold - TS
temperature
- the temperature keeps rising, everybodyīs getting high - OMSN
ten
- just out of prison on ten dollars bail - A
- that I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars - BTW
- at a quarter to ten you know itīs driving again - CJ
- at a quarter to ten you know itīs traveling again - CJ
- I been gambling hereabouts for ten good solid years - D
- winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet īneath the ground - DW
- Moses stood up about six foot ten -GSET
- well, itīs one in ten thousand that come for the show - GSET
- nine mile skid on a ten mile ride - HG
- ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea - IMHBTR
- all that I am asking for is ten gold dollars - L
- ten years ago I walked this street, my dreams were riding tall - MITR
- tidewater four ten on nine - TPL
- when he got to moving ten thousand was dead - SAD
to tend
- whichever way your pleasure tends - FT
terrible
- many a manīs done a terrible thing - DDB
- terrible, the only game in town - P
test
- now is the test of the boomerang, tossed in the night of redeeming - TE
to test
- test me, test me, test me, test me, test me - B
to thank
- saying Thank you, for a real good time" - LLu
thankful
- tonight I would be thankful Lord for any dream at all - MITR
thick
- in the thick of the evening, when the dealing got rough - SB
thin
- the needleīs eye is thin - BFA
- to the thin line beyond which you really canīt fake - FOTM
- knocked down, it gets to wearing thin. They just wonīt let you be - T
thing
- there are things you can replace and others you cannot - Alt
- the time has come to weigh those things - Alt
- weīre guilty of the same old thing - Alt
- it will not grow a thing - BFA
- letīs see with our hearts these things our eyes have seen - BFA
- sing to me, do your thing to me - BCE
- you hear yourself say things you could never mean - CAT
- tell me what you done it for, No I wonīt tell you a thing - CD
- wants it more than any old thing - DDB
- first thing you know youīre gonna pull that trigger - DDB
- many a manīs done a terrible thing - DDB
- mustīve been a bad thing to get shot down for - G
- the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench - GSET
- he said these things just got to be done - GSET
- and Iīll keep on fighting for the things I want - THTC
- just one thing that I got to say - INAM
- one more thing I just got to say - INAM
- just one thing then Iīll be o.k. - INAM
- but Iīve been called so many things before - ITAM
- haste is the last thing theyīre thinking of - LLR
- all the things I planned to do I only did half way - MITR
- next time you see me, things wonīt be the same - NTYSM
- things went down we donīt understand - NSB
- I saw things getting out of hand - NSB
- just one thing I ask of you, just one thing for me - S
- you missed out the thing that we had to start - SdS
- till things weīve never seen will seem familiar - TS
- got some things to talk about, here beside the rising tide - UJB
to think
- think Iīll come back here again - BCE
- I was thinking that the blame was mine - BE
- you werenīt the woman I once thought Iīd met - BTW
- who wouldnīt think twice about being there yet - BTW
- wrap it up, I think Iīll take this one - DDB
- now donīt think too hard, baby - HT
- and they think that they have got the battle won - THTC
- thinking well how it may blow in all good company - IMHBTR
- maybe you think that love would tie you down - ISTE
- maybe you think that love would make you a fool - ISTE
- haste is the last thing theyīre thinking of - LLR
- some thought he was the law - MB
- īcause thinking and drinking are all I have today - MB
- ace of Spades behind his ear and him not thinking twice - MHUT
- thought I heard a baby cry this morning - MD
- I thought I heard a young man morn - MD
- things went down we donīt understand, but I think in time we will - NSB
- I think sheīs somewhere down south - O
- thought heīd have a big old party, thought heīd call it planet earth - OMSN
- so I think Iīll drift for olī where itīs at - POC
- you ainīt got half of what you thought you had - RJ
- you thought you was the cool fool and never could do no wrong - S
- you think youīve seen this town clear through - SdS
- it was later than I thought when I first believed you - SOF
- you might think that Iīm taking it hard since you broke me off - TRIO
- trucking up to Buffalo. Been thinking, you got to mellow slow - T
- time of returning, with our thought jewels polished and gleaming - TE
- donīt think about what you leave behind - TTMC
- heartless powers try to tell us what to think - ThS
- think this through with me, let me know your mind - UJB
third
- the second takes the afterdeck, the third the planks and ? - MHUT
thirty
- with thirty years upon my back to have you call me child - SOF
thought
- well, I never had doubts or thoughts of regret - BTW
- tongue is twisted with words half spoken and thoughts unclear - BOR
- ist homeland and thoughts of ist own - EOTW
- many thoughts ran through my mind - ElP
- cherish well your thoughts and keep a tight grip on your booze - MB
- itīs a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken - R
thousand
- the thousand stories have come round to one again - BFA
- that I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars - BTW
- a thousand dollars please - DDB
- itīs one in ten thousand that come for the show - GSET
- when he got to moving ten thousand was dead - SAD
thread
- he stretched out his arm, God knows, chains broke like thread - SAD
three
- 23rd psalm Major Domo, reserve me a table for - AG
- couldnīt find any better ones in the morning at three - DTR
- mama and papa, little sister makes three - IBAATW
- three days in ths saddle, you know my body hurt - MAMU
- and itīs a three days ride from Bakersfield - MB
- a three-piece band on the corner played - SL
- three girls waiting in a foreign dominion - TE
throated
- black throated wind keeps on pouring in - BTW
- black throated wind whisper in sin - BTW
throne
- wrong to do it, woman, and another queen is on your throne - NTYSM
to throw
- throw me into the jailhouse, Lord until the sun goes down - B
- īcause BillyDeLions threw the lucky dice - SL
- she takes her fan and throws it in the lionīs den - TS
- and the politicians throwing stones - ThS
thunder
- sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down - BEW
- pearls of fragile thunder keeping time - CF
- and Iīll call down thunder and speak the same - EP
- so exciting, when I hear your velvet thunder - LL
- listen to the thunder shouting I am! I am! I am! I am!" - WR II
- if the thunder donīt get you, then the lightning will - TW
to thunder
- well, the musicīs thundering, restless and hot - FLAS
Thursday
- Thursday came, then Friday, with buyers tall and bright - MC
ticket
- straight off bought me a through train ticket, right - TPL
- pays my ticket when I speed - SM
tidal
- ride her like a surfer running on a tidal wave - INAM
tide
- come hear uncle Johnīs band playing to the tide - UJB
- got some things to talk about, here beside the rising tide - UJB
to tie
- of Roseīs I ran, out where the horses were tied - ElP
- maybe you think that love would tie you down - ISTE
- I only want to hold you, I donīt want to tie you down - LLR
tiger
- her there may be tigers, to punch you in the ear - WPCTS
tight
- cherish well your thoughts and keep a tight grip on your booze - MB
- everything sewed up tight. How come you lay awake all night long - S
to tighten
- since you poured the wine for me and tightened up my shoes - D
time
- shouting ībout the times when we was mutual friends - A
- the time has come to weigh those things - Alt
- two times over and the rest were sins - BEW
- long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there - BOR
- in my time I will roll, roll, roll - BdP
- ībout the time the sun rises west - BCE
- every now and then from time to time - BCE
- but I canīt deny, times have gone by - BTW
- comes a time when the blind man takes your hand - CAT
- pearls of fragile thunder keeping time - CF
- take me back to another morning, to a time so long ago - CfJ
- this old engine makes it on time - CJ
- keep him happy all the time - CB
- thatīs where I mainly spend my time - CB
- wait a minute, watch what youīre doing with your time - CPR
- you and me bound to spend some time - D
- judge said son, itīs gonna cost you some time" - DDB
- my time comeing, anyday, donīt worry about me, no - EP
- my time coming, voices saying they tell me where to go - EP
- and time sure passing slow - EP
- you ainīt got time to call your soul a critic, no - EOTW
- live five years if I take my time - EW
- in another timeīs forgotten space - FT
- set out running but I take my time - FOTD
- line up a long shot, maybe try it two times, maybe more - HCS
- one more time, been down before - HCS
- I was blind all the time, I was learning to see - HOTW
- Iīm having a hard time - HT
- I was having a high time - HT
- I could show you a high time - HT
- I was losing time, I had nothing to do - HT
- we could have us a high time - HT
- I was blind all the time I was learning to see - HOTW
- long as you live, would you have the time - IIHTWTG
- you ainīt got the time to hang around - ISTE
- well I got no chance of losing this time - L
- put the fire in my eyes, put the fire every time - LL
- thank you, for a real good time - LLu
- cue ballīs made of styrofoam and no oneīs got the time - MHUT
- hey, Tom Banjo, itīs time to matter - MOTM
- the earth will see you on through this time - MOTM
- slapping time and Bobby clapping hands - MABMG
- spent a little time on the mountain, I spent a little time on the hill - NSB
- things went down we donīt understand, but I think in time we will - NSB
- next time you see me, things wonīt be the same - NTYSM
- ask the time, baby, I donīt know - RJ
- donīt hang your head, let the two time roll - RJ
- one last voice is calling you, and I guess itīs time you go - S
- time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more - SOF
- dust off those rusty strings just one more time - SBl
- we can have high times if youīll abide - SM
- Stephen prosper in his time - SS
- other times I can barely see - T
- most of the time theyīre sitting and crying at home - T
- takes time, you pick a place to go, and just keep trucking on - T
- no more time to tell how, this is the season of what - TE
- time of returning, with our thought jewels polished and gleaming - TE
- now is the time past believing - TE
- he could pass his time around some other line - TLEO
- to lay me down, one last time, to lay me down - TLMD
- to tell sweet lies, one last time and say good night - TLMD
- we forgot about the time - TMNS
- ainīt no time to hate, barely time to wait - UJB
- what I want to know, where does the time go - UJB
- gonna happen every time - WR I
- circle songs and sands of time, and seasons will end in tumbled - WR I
- I got no dime, but I got some time to hear your story - WhR
- half of my life I spent doing time - WhR
- every time that wheel turn īround - TW
tin
- cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile - HG
tinge
- all alone, moving with a tinge of grace - Alt
tip
- got a tip, theyīre gonna kick the door in again - T
tired
- get tired of traveling and you want to settle down - T
today
- Esau, heīs on rollerskates today - BE
- easy wind īcross the Bayou today - EW
- out in red on the streets today - EW
- well I know only this, Iīve got you today - HOTW
- awoke today, felt your side of the bed - LLR
- īcause thinkinī and drinkinī are all I have today - MB
- walk me out in the morning dew today - MD
- I thought I heard a baby cry today - MD
- I thought I heard a young man morn today - MD
- where have all the people gone today - MD
- this trainīs got to run today - NSB
- since Iīm passing your way today - SdS
- proletarian gray, selling guns instead of food today - ThS
- thatīs how it stands today. You decide if he was wise - TS
token
- let my inspiration flow in token rhyme, suggesting rhythm - TS
tomb
- I live in a silver mine and I call it Beggarīs tomb - UJB
tomorrow
- tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground - BP
- maybe tomorrow a bullet may find me - ElP
- tomorrow come trouble, tomorrow come pain - HT
- Iīm living in yesterdayīs tomorrows I know somethingīs - ITAM
- tomorrow will be Sunday born of rainy Saturday - MITR
- it looks as though tomorrow Iīll do pretty much the same - MITR
- donīt worry about tomorrow, youīll know it when it comes - OMSN
- hang it up and see what tomorrow brings - T
ton
- the wheels are muddy, got a ton of hay - HT
- a ton of fun who packs a gun with all her freight - INAM
tongue
- full of tastes no tongue can know and lights no eyes - AOML
- your tongue is twisted with words half spoken - BOR
tonight
- the desert stars are bright tonight - BFA
- tonight nothingīs worse than this pain in my heart - ElP
- I just might get some sleep tonight - FOTD
- tonight I would be thankful, Lord, for any dream at all - MITR
- get prepared thereīs gonna be a party tonight - OMSN
tooth
- 32 teeth in a jawbone, Alabama trying for none - AG
- teeth big and pointy - A
top
- īcause Iīm sitting on top of the world - SOTOTW
- got it from the top, itīs nothing you can stop - TLEO
to toss
- when there is no peeble tossed, nor wind to blow - R
- now is the test of the boomerang, tossed in the night of redeeming - TE
totter
- clothed in totters always will be. Tom, where did you go - MOTM
touch
- scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues - SB
to touch
- tapping at the window, touch your hair - CF
- donīt you touch hard liquor, just a cup of cold coffee - L
- and touching makes the flesh to cry out loud - NPC
tower
- in Franklinīs tower the four winds sleep - FT
- in Franklinīs tower there hangs a bell - FT
- standing on a tower, world at my command - PITB
town
- open up your windows īcuz the Candymanīs in town - Cm
- wonīt you tell everybody you meet that the Candymanīs in town - Cm
- born a slave in the town of Vicksburg - CfJ
- out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love - ElP
- just as fast as I could from the West Texas town of El Paso - ElP
- thereīs a dragon with matches thatīs loose on the town - FOTM
- I could arm a town the size of Abilene - L
- last fair deal in the town - L
- leaving town, not knowing where Iīs bound - MT
- and then a man rode into town - MB
- she said her name was Billy Jean and she was fresh in town - MB
- lost is the long and loneliest town fairly sybil flying - MOTM
- false alarm, the only game in town - P
- no manīs land, the only game in town - P
- terrible, the only game in town - P
- I see your silver shining town, but I know I canīt go there - POC
- just help me get to Houston town - TPL
- thatīs the way itīs been in town - RJ
- 1948, Xmas eve, with a full moon over town - SL
- you can tell me this town ainīt got no heart - SdS
- you think youīve seen this town clear through - SdS
- used to be the heart of town - SdS
- donīt tell me this town ainīt got no heart - SdS
- theyīre high stepping into town - TMNS
- she comes from a town where they call her the woodcutterīs - WR II
track
- on the wrong track and headed for you - CJ
- like a steam locomotive rolling down the track - HG
- if you please, donīt back up the track - NSB
- let your tracks be lost in the dark and snow- TTMC
- as he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing - WR II
to track
- four men tracking down the great white sperm whale - TE
to trade
- town of Vicksburg, traded for a chestnut mare - CfJ
- and Iīd trade on my tomorrows for a single yesterday - MABMG
- and he made me trade the gallows for the Mexicali Blues - MB
trail
- the second one is prison, babe, the sheriffīs on my trail - FOTD
to trail
- I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds - FOTD
train
- driving that train, high on cocaine - CJ
- switchmanīs sleeping, train hundred and two - CJ
- gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride - JS
- busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train - MABMG
- on a freight train leaving town, not knowing, where I was - MT
- this trainīs got to run today - NSB
- straight off bought me a through train ticket - TPL
- itīs nothing, they explain, itīs like a Diesel train - TLEO
- and when that train rolls in - TLEO
- but the train put ist brake on - TS
transitive
- shall we go, you an I, while we can, through the transitive - DS
transitory
- seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll - TE
to travel
- Iīd like to get some sleep before I travel - T
- youīre sick of hanging around and youīd like to travel - T
- get tired of traveling and you want to settle down - T
treachery
- I told Althea upon treachery that was tearing me limb from limb - Alt
to tread
- built of cannonballs, their motto is Donīt tread on me" - UJB
treason
- several seasons with their reasons, wrap the babe in scarlet - SS
to treat
- find another sweet manīs gonna treat her with style - DDB
- I donīt want to be treated this old way - GDTR
tree
- run around the corner, Lord I ran smack into a tree - B
- ah, child of countless trees, ah child of boundless seas - C
- donīt shake the tree when its fruit ainīt ripe - Llu
- sunshine, daydream, walking in the tall trees, going where - SM
to tremble
- it rainbow spirals round and round, it trembles and explodes - TOO
- it trembled and exploded, left a bus stop in its place - TOO
trick
- I checked it running, some old kind of trick - A
- I know itīs just another trick she got up her sleeve - CPR
- you arrest the girls for turning tricks - SL
trigger
- first thing you know youīre gonna pull that trigger - DDB
trip
- what a long strange trip itīs been - T
trouble
- trouble ahead, trouble behind - CJ
- trouble ahead, Lady in red - CJ
- trouble with you is the trouble with me - CJ
- I canīt help you with your troubles if you wonīt help - CB
- say alot of trouble coming, but it donīt have to come - G
- tomorrow come trouble, tomorrow come pain - HT
- I hear you talking about your troubles - ITAM
- everybodyīs got their troubles too - ITAM
- had motor trouble, turned into a struggle - TPL
truck
- big diesel Mack truck rolling down my way - POC
to truck
- trucking in style along the avenue - CC
- trucking, got my chips cashed in. Keep trucking, like the do-dah man -T
- together, more or less in line, just keep trucking on - T
- trucking up to Buffalo, been thinking you got to mellow slow - T
- trucking, Iīm going home - T
- hey now, get back trucking home - T
true
- fare you well, my only true one - BdP
- that could almost be true - BTW
- soft, strong, sweet and true - CF
- love still rings true - CF
- Iīm a stone jack baller and my heart is true - EW
- more than just ashes when your dreams come true - FOTM
- without love in the dream, itīll never come true - HOTW
- dreams that never come true - ITAM
- tell me a lie and I will swear, Iīll swear, itīs true - LL
- just to have one dream come true - MITR
- well, itīs a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold - NTYSM
- most of the cats that you meet on the streets speak of true love - T
- wonīt you believe what I say is true - TLEO
- Lord, you can see that itīs true - TLEO
- true love scratched for anotherīs sake - TRIO
- Pearlyīs been true, true to me, true to my dying day he said - WhR
- Iīm sure sheīs been true to you - WhR
- I know that girlīs been true to me - WhR
to trust
- some folks trust to reason, others trust to might - PITB
- I donīt trust to nothing, but I know it comes out right - PITB
- pretty soon, weīll trust you for the weather - TLEO
truth
- loose with the truth, baby, itīs your fire - Alt
- and know the truth will still lie somewhere in between - BFA
try
- the sailor gave at least a try, the soldier being much too wise - TS
to try
- 32 teeth in a jawbone, Alabama trying for none - AG
- try to see whatīs going down, try to read between the lines - B
- full of blues and trying to lose - BTW
- I tried to pretend it came to an end - BTW
- never could reach it, just slips away, when I try - CF
- wonīt hide my liquor try to serve me tea - EW
- try on your wings and find out where itīs at - TGR
- line up a long shot, maybe try it two times, maybe more - HCS
- well the oppressors are trying to keep me down - THTC
- trying to drive me underground - THTC
- I keep on trying, but I canīt get through - LL
- you know theyīre only trying to make it through the night - LLR
- and I tried to wash off some of that dusty dirt - MAMU
- Mama tried to raise me better - MT
- that leaves no one but me to blame īcause mama tried - MT
- she tried so very hard to fill his shoes - MT
- no one could steer me right, but mama tried - MT
- trying to check out her number, trying to run down her line - O
- my tears are holding back, trying not to fall - TRIO
- clank your chains and count your change and try to walk the line - ROR
- illusion, but I might as well try, might as well try - SB
- in every blue-light cheap hotel, canīt win for trying - SBl
- did he doubt or did he try - SS
- I guess they canīt revoke your soul for trying - T
- you gotta try and see a little further - TLEO
- you got to try to see a little further - TLEO
- heartless powers try to tell us what to think - ThS
- they say love your brother but you will catch it when you try - UC
- wonīt you try just a little bit harder - TW
- couldnīt you try just a little bit more - TW
to tuck
- she wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls - SB
Tuesday
- baby, baby, pretty it up on Tuesday, old like a rum-drinking - DTR
- take my line, go fishing for a Tuesday - DTR
- we dug him up on Tuesday, he hardly aged a day - MC
- well, the cool breeze came on Tuesday - TMNS
tumble
- tumble down shack in Big Foot country - BEW
to tumble
- and seasons will end in tumbled rhyme - WR I
tune
- bent my ears to hear the tune, and closed my eyes - AOML
- anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passing by - BS
- but maybe I have a tune or two - IIHTWTG
- and my tunes were played on the harp unstrung - R
- but Delia whistled a different tune - SL
- while crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune - TS
- I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune - UJB
turf
- stalking turf, dividing up meat - ThS
to turn
- I turned around to see - B
- Iīm turning around thatīs what Iīm gonna do - BTW
- raised eight boys, only I turned bad - BEW
- it can ring, turn night to day - FT
- get out, get out, Mr.Lot and donīt you turn around - G
- but donīt you turn around, no, donīt look after you - G
- the wife of Lot turned to salt, because she - G
- shadow in the alley turned out all my lights - LLu
- I turn and walk away then I come īround again - MITR
- someone called my name you know, I turned around to see - MITR
- I must turn down your offer, but Iīd like to ask a break - MITR
- for the bad I kept on turning - MT
- and I turned 21 in prison, doing life without a parole - MT
- turn on channel six, the president comes on the news - OMSN
- ashes have scattered too hard to turn - P
- you just keep a turning while Iīm playing in the band - PITB
- turned into a struggle, half way īcross Alabam - TPL
- seldom turns out the way it does in a song - SB
- you arrest the girls for turning tricks - SL
- the wheels turned around and the letters read - TJ
- my dog he turned to me and said - TJ
- every leaf was turning; to watch him die - TOO
- singing someone got to turn the page" - ThS
- the wheel is turning and you canīt slow down - TW
- big wheel turn by the grace of God - TW
- small wheel turn by the fire and rod - TW
- every time that wheel turn īround - TW
twenty
- gave my baby twenty or forty good reasons - DTR
- I was trailed by twenty hounds - FOTD
- ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills - FOTD
- he took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air - FOTD
- twenty degrees of solitude, twenty degrees in all - MOTM
twice
- who wouldnīt think twice about being there yet - BTW
- I need a woman ībout twice my age - INAM
- I need a woman ībout twice my height - INAM
- I need a woman ībout twice my weight - INAM
- ace of Spades behind his ear and him not thinking twice - MHUT
- heīs twice as big as me - SL
twin
- Delilah Jones was the mother of twins - BEW
to twine
- high green chilly winds and windy vines in loops around the twined - TE
twist
- double twist when you hit the air - RJ
to twist
- tongue is twisted with words half spoken and thoughts unclear - BOR
two
- and a friend or two I love at hand - BP
- two times over and the rest were sins - BEW
- cost two dollars and burned like hell - BEW
- itīs really very one or two - CC
- switchmanīs sleeping, train hundred and two - CJ
- got two good eyes, but you still donīt see - CJ
- got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night - FOTD
- maybe try it two times, maybe more - HCS
- but maybe I have a tune or two - IIHTWTG
- went back home with two black eyes - Llu
- one of them called him and then two more - MAMU
- black Madonna two eagles hang against a cloud - NPC
- thereīs a lesson or two Iīve learned - POC
- two bit piece donīt buy no more - RJ
- donīt hang your head, let the two time roll - RJ
- wind in the willowīs playing Tea for two" - SB
- stay seventy-two, come shine or rain - USB
type
- I like your smile but I ainīt your type - Llu
typical
- your typical city involved in a typical daydream - T
ugly
- out of the river all ugly and green - A
unable
- Iīm getting weary, unable to ride - ElP
unbended
- his mind remained unbended; he had to die - TOO
unbroken
- blue light rain, whoa unbroken chain - UC
- unbroken chain of sorrow and pearls, unbroken chain of shy and sea - UC
- lilac rain, unbroken chain, song of the sawhet owl - UC
- unbroken chain of the western wind, unbroken chain of you and me - UC
uncertain
- which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell - TS
uncle
- me and my uncle went riding down - MAMU
- you know my uncle, he starts a friendly game - MAMU
- my uncle starts winning, cowboys got sore - MAMU
- I know my uncle, heīs as honest as me - MAMU
- in the confusion my uncle grabbed the gold - MAMU
- I loved my uncle, God rest his soul - MAMU
- come hear uncle Johnīs band, playing to the tide - UJB
- red and white, blue suede shoes, Iīm uncle Sam - USB
- Iīm uncle Sam, thatīs who I am; been hiding out - USB
unclear
- tongue is twisted with words half spoken and thoughts unclear - BOR
- destination seen unclearly - P
underfoot
- underfoot the ground is patched with climbing arms of ivy - TE
underground
- trying to drive me underground - THTC
to understand
- the more my brother looks like me, the more I understand - BE
- well, sometimes at night I think I understand - BE
- Dupree said Judge well, itīs well understood" - DDB
- I understand why the old fishermen sail along - ITAM
- things went down we donīt understand, but I think - NSB
- whoa, I hope youīll understand - PITB
undertow
- beneath the sweet calm face of the sea, swift undertow - CF
to unfold
- when the secrets all are told, and the petals all unfold - AOML
union
- contracted the union, put the beggars to rout - A
- just to pay his Union dues - CB
unreal
- in the attics of my life, full of cloudy dreams unreal - AOML
- less concerned about the people unreal - CC
unstrung
- and my tunes were played on the harp unstrung - R
unsung
- I have spent my life seeking all thatīs still unsung - AOML
- perhaps theyīre better left unsung - R
upside
- upside out and inside down - P
upstanding
- youīre a good upstanding man, a credit to the flock - G
to use
- we used to play for silver, now we play for life - JS
- I have gotten used to having you around - LLR
- she told me he would take her, if I didnīt use my gun - MB
- used to be the heart of town - SdS
- can you use them old U.S.Blues - USB
usually
- lying by the river just like he usually done - A
vacation
- take a vacation, fall out for a while - TGR
vain
- I was in love but in vain, I could tell - ElP
- statements will seem vain at last - TS
valley
- down in the valley of the shadow, just you, Alabama and me - AG
- sitting in Mangrove valley chasing light beams - DTR
to vanish
- took my twenty dollar bill, and he vanished in the air - FOTD
- thru all the broken dreams and vanished years - SBl
veiled
- golden hills, now veiled in grey, summer leaves - WR I
velvet
- lady in velvet recedes in the nights of goodbye - DS
- so exciting, when I hear your velvet thunder - LL
to venture
- one day I ventured in love never once suspecting - TRIO
verse
- Iīm gonna sing you a hundred verses in ragtime - ROR
vine
- high green chilly winds and windy vines in loops around the twined - TE
violet
- she comes skimming through ray of violet - SM
- waves of violet of crashing and laughing - WBOTB
violin
- comic book colors on a violin river crying Leonardo - CCS
- I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune - UJB
vision
- the eyes are blind, blue visions, all a seer can own - NPC
to visit
- and sometimes we visit your country and live in your home - EOTW
voice
- heard a voice a calling, Lord you was coming after me - B
- my time coming, voices saying they tell me where to go - EP
- just like they say, them voices tell me so - EP
- them voices telling me, you will soon recieve me - EP
- I heard a voice inside my head in the desert wind so dry - G
- I heard a voice telling me - G
- the very same voice I always believe - G
- voices of the storm sound like a crowd - NPC
- would you hear my voice come through the music - R
- one last voice is calling you, and I guess itīs time you go - S
- soon you will not hear his voice - TS
- though youīll make a noise, just canīt hear your voice - TLEO
- anybodyīs choice, I can hear your voice - UJB
to wade
- wading in the water and youīll never get wet - DTR
- she can wade in a drop of dew - SM
to wag
- mumbling bitches and wagging his tail - A
to wager
- come on boys and wager if youīve got the mind - Cm
- you might wager that Iīll hide in sorrow - TRIO
wagon
- follows his wagon behind him thatīs loaded with clay - EOTW
- when they bring that wagon īround - S
to wail
- Calliope wail like a seaside zoo - CC
to wait
- around some corner where itīs been waiting to meet you - BOR
- wait a minute, watch what youīre doing with your time - CPR
- Calamityīs waiting for a way to get to her - CC
- hung up waiting for a windy day - CC
- something new is waiting to be born - CF
- wait until that deal come round - D
- paradise waits on a crest of a wave her angels in flame - HOTW
- mind you hanging, boys, but you wait in jail too long - IBAATW
- busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train - MABMG
- Billy Jean was waiting when he came - MB
- keep on coming or stand and wait, for the sunīs so dark - NSB
- waiting for me when I die - THTC
- I donīt follow, waits backstage while I sing to you - SM
- the other day they waited - TOO
- three girls waiting in a foreign dominion, riding - TE
- November and more, as I wait for the score - UC
- ainīt no time to hate, barely time to wait - UJB
wake
- wake of the flood, laughing water, forty-nine - HCS
to wake
- wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world - EOTW
- wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning - EOTW
- you ever waken to the sound of street cats making love - LLR
- and I woke high over Albuquerque on a jet to the promised land - TPL
- now I live in fear waking up each morning - TRIO
- to wake beside you, my love still sleeping - TLMD
to walk
- only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away - AG
- walk out of any doorway - BOR
- walk into splintered sunlight - BOR
- when at first my brother walked away - BE
- proud walking jingle in the midnight sun - CCS
- been walking all morning, went walking all night - CAT
- lotta poor men got to walk the line just to pay - CB
- walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn - CfJ
- sometimes we walk alone - EOTW
- before I have to walk in with my oldīforty-four` - IBAATW
- walk me out in the morning dew - MD
- canīt walk you out in the morning dew - MD
- Iīll walk you out in the morning dew my honey - MD
- I turn and walk away then I come īround again - MITR
- come again, walking along in the mission in the rain - MITR
- I walked this street, my dreams were riding tall - MITR
- come back stepping like to walk on air - RJ
- clank your chains and count your change and try to walk the line - ROR
- one day when Samson was walking along - SAD
- as I was walking īround Grosvenor Square - SB
- Delia went a walking down Singapure Street - SL
- ride our singing, Iīll walk you in the morning sunshine - SM
- Iīll walk you in the sunshine - SM
- sunshine, daydream. Walking in the sunshine - SM
- sunshine, daydream, walking in the tall trees, going where - SM
- the law come to get you, if you donīt walk right - TJ
- willow sky, whoa, I walk and wonder why - UC
wall
- 1930 when the wall caved in, he made his way - BEW
- you canīt close the door, when the wallīs caved in - GSET
- we bricked him in the wall - MC
- the wall collapsed on Wednesday, we chalked it up to fate - MC
- on the wall of the garden a legend did say - Rm
- and climb the walls and get out when they blow - ROR
- their walls are built of cannonballs - UJB
to wander
- shadow boxing the apocalypse, wandering the land - BE
- everything wanders from baby to z - DTR
- I take me out and I wander around, wander īround - SM
- wandered the child who was perfect as the dawn - WBOTB
- got up and wandered, wandered downtown - WhR
to want
- call all he want to, but he canīt call for me - A
- gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy - Alt
- and I donīt want to see anybody cry - BCE
- what do you want me to do, to do for you - BOR
- just want to have a little peace to die - BP
- you ainīt gonna learn what you donīt wanna know - BTW
- the first you wanted, the last I knew - CC
- I canīt believe that she really wants you to die - CPR
- tell you the reason, if you wanna know - DDB
- baby, baby wants a gold diamond ring, wants it more - DDB
- you gave all you had. Why you wanna give more - FOTM
- I donīt want to be treated this old way - GDTR
- and I keep on fighting for the things I want - THTC
- īcause I love what I love and I want it that way - HOTW
- I only want to hold you, I donīt want to tie you down - LLR
- she was sore, says, I know you donīt want my love anymore - LLu
- when the devil wants to take it all away - MB
- thereīs a little boy who wants to shine my feet - MB
- working hours without rest, wanted me to have the best - MT
- I just stopped in, īcause I wanted to say - SdS
- get tired of traveling and you want to settle down - T
- what I want to know, is are you kind - UJB
- what I want to know, will you come with me - UJB
- what I want to know, how does the song go - UJB
- what I want to know, where does the time go - UJB
war
- the silent war it bloodied both our hands - BE
- but all this ended when my brother failed at war - BE
- so go somewhere else and continue your cream puff war - CPR
- and the whole world full of petty wars - ThS
warm
- the covers were still warm where you been laying - LLR
to warn
- though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few - SOF
warrant
- but if you got a warrant, I guess, youīre gonna come in - T
to wash
- come wash the nighttime clean, come grow the scorched - C
- wash your lonely feet in the river in the morning - DTR
- I tried to wash off some of that dusty dirt - MAMU
- seashore washed by the suds and the foam - SS
waste
- but afraid, we lay our home to waste - ThS
water
- just a box of rain, wind and water - BOR
- sing a lullabye beside the water - BdP
- stray down to the water, deep sea of love - CF
- wading in the water and youīll never get wet - DTR
- takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down - FOTM
- going where the water tastes like wine - GDTR
- ask him for water, he poured me some wine - GSET
- Mama come quick with the water witch spell - GSET
- well cool clear water well you canīt ever tell - GSET
- wake of the flood, laughing water, forty-nine - HCS
- cold mountain water, the jade merchantīs daughter - MOTM
- down by the water, the Marsh Kingīs daughter - MOTM
- ripple in still water - R
- sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below - TE
- flowing till the waters all are dry - WR I
- where she kneels down to gather her water - WR II
- water bright as the sky from which it came - WR II
- all eyes are blinded by the sparkling waters - WBOTB
to water
- wonder who will water all the children in the garden - TE
waterfall
- to a double-E waterfall over my back - CCS
- panes of chrystal ice sparkle like waterfalls - WBOTB
waterside
- make myself a bed in the waterside - BdP
- by the waterside I will lay my head - BdP
watch
- one watch by night, one watch by day - FT
to watch
- want me to do, to watch for you while youīre sleeping - BOR
- Casey Jones is ready, watch your speed - CJ
- wait a minute, watch what youīre doing with your time - CPR
- watch each card you play and play it slow - D
- no one is watching or standing in your shoes - DTR
- to watch it shine, watch it shine - IIHTWTG
- watching flies and children on the street - MB
- standing watching the fires burn - POC
- to watch him die, you know he had to die - TOO
- tell you what Iīll do, Iīll watch for you - TTMC
- now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime - ThS
wave
- paradise waits on a crest of a wave her angels in flame - HOTW
- ride her like a surfer running on a tidal wave - INAM
- ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea - IMTHBTR
- waves of violet go crashing and laughing - WBOTB
to wave
- hey, hey, hey the wild wheat waving in the wind - MOTM
- wave the flag, pop the bag, rock the boat, skin the goat - USB
- wave that flag, wave it wide and high - USB
way
- only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away - AG
- sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home - BdP
- feel your way like the day before - BOR
- inch your way through dead dreams - BOR
- he made his way selling red-eyed gin - BEW
- all the wild commandsment the old man shot his way - BE
- I can tell by the way you smile he is rolling back - C
- Calamityīs waiting for a way to get to her - CC
- been so long since I felt this way - EP
- way up, the middle of the air - EP
- seems so long I felt this way - EP
- still I know I lead the way, they tell me where to go - EP
- sometimes we live no particular way but our own - EOTW
- it can ring like fire when you lose your way - FT
- whichever way your pleasure tends - FT
- I donīt want to be treated this old way - GDTR
- get out of the way, get out of the way - HCS
- help on the way, well I know only this - HOTW
- īcause I love what I love and I want it that way - HOTW
- got to be the only way - INAM
- I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines - L
- the way youīre messing with my reason - LL
- that being the point just about half way - MAMU
- took us all the way to New Orleans - MABMG
- Iīm on my way, on my way - MHUT
- all the things I planned to do I only did half way - MITR
- one way or another, this darkness got to give - NSB
- then God way up in heaven - OMSN
- that same night be on your way - P
- big Diesel Mack truck rolling down my way - POC
- if I knew the way I would take you home - R
- seems a common way to go, get out and row - RJ
- thatīs the way itīs been in town, ever since they tore - RJ
- turned into a struggle, half way īcross Alabam - TPL
- if I had my way, I would tear this old building down - SAD
- seldom turns out the way it does in a song - SB
- there ainīt nothing wrong with the way she moves - SB
- since Iīm passing your way today - SdS
- when the moon is half way down - SM
- but I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools - SOF
- well, dizzy ainīt the word for the way - Sup
- little bolt of inspiration, way you strike me now - Sup
- New York got the ways and means, but just wonīt let - T
- donīt get in their way, thereīs nothing you can say - TLEO
- showing you the way, leaving no doubt - TTMC
- of the way on in or the way back out - TTMC
- the way you came or the way you go - TTMC
- any way they fall, guess who gets to pay the price - ThS
- old man down, way down, down, down by the docks - WhR
wealth
- Iīll drink your health, share your wealth - USB
to wear
- why they all believe him ? He wears a big diamond ring - AG
- down went his hand for the gun that he wore - ElP
- good to know you got shoes to wear, when you find the floor - HCS
- faded is the crimson of the ribbons that she wore - IMHBTR
- she wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls - SB
- knocked down, it gets to wearing thin. They just wonīt let you be - T
weary
- before a weary band - BE
- Iīm getting weary, unable to ride - ElP
weather
- the weather down here so fine - BP
- but who can the weather command - BP
- nailed a retread to my feet and prayed for better weather - MHUT
- pretty soon, weīll trust you for the weather - TLEO
weed
- where itīs at, where the weed grows green and fine - POC
week
- itīs been hot for seven weeks now - HOTW
to weep
- gonna plant a weeping willow, on the bankīs green edge - BdP
- babyīs gonna weep it on for a while - DDB
- always said when Im dead and gone, donīt you weep for me - MC
to weigh
- the time has come to weigh those things - Alt
weight
- I need a woman ībout twice my weight - INAM
- itīs hard to run with the weight of gold - NSB
- itīs just as hard with the weight of lead - NSB
well
- Abraham and Isaac digging on a well - GSET
- well cool clear water well you canīt ever tell - GSET
- wishing well with a golden bell, bucket - SS
to well
- I feel tears welling up from down deep inside - TRIO
west
- bout the time the sun rises west - BCE
- out in the West Texas town of El Paso - ElP
- wild as the West Texas wind - ElP
- out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love - ElP
- just as fast as I could from the West Texas town of El Paso - ElP
- South Colorado, West Texas bound - MAMU
western
- unbroken chain of the western wind - UC
wet
- wading in the water and youīll never get wet - DTR
whale
- four men tracking down the great white sperm whale - TE
wharf
- wharf rat - WhR
wheat
- hey, hey, hey, the wild wheat waving in the wind - MOTM
wheel
- scattered like lost words, wheel to the storm and fly - C
- fire wheel burning in the air - EP
- yes, and the wheels, itīs smoking īround midnight - FLAS
- the wheels are muddy, got a ton of hay - HT
- wheels broke down, leader wonīt draw - HT
- takes the wheel, when Iīm seeing double - SM
- at the wheel of the bus to never ever land - TOO
- the wheels turned aoround and the letters read - TJ
- the wheel is turning and you canīt slow down - TW
- small wheel turn by the fire and rod - TW
- big wheel turn by the grace of God - TW
- everytime that wheel turn round, bound to cover just - TW
while
- all I know she sang a little while and then flew on - BS
- look for a while at the China Cat sunflower - CCS
- babyīs gonna weep it on for a while - DDB
- take a vacation, fall out for a while - TGR
- once in a while you get shown the light - SB
to whirl
- music would play and Felina would whirl - Elp
whiskey
- call for his whiskey, he can call for his tea - A
- drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar - BEW
- hand me my old guitar, pass the whiskey round - Cm
- I sat down to my supper, ītwas a bottle of red whiskey - DW
to whisper
- black throated wind, whisper in sin - BTW
- she took me up into her room and whispered in my ear - MB
- eight sided whispering hallelujah hatrack - TE
whistle
- I remember knowing was that lonesome whistle blowing - MT
- and the whistle is screaming, TERRAPIN - TS
- listen to the whistle of the evening train - TJ
to whistle
- whistling and singing, sheīs a carrying on - TGR
- but Delia whistled a different tune - SL
white
- bird of Paradise fly in white sky - BFA
- magnolia blossomed, cotton fields as white as snow - CfJ
- written fire across the heaven, plain as black and white - OMSN
- black goes south while white comes north - ThS
- four men tracking down the great white sperm whale - TE
- red and white, blue suede shoes, Iīm uncle Sam - USB
whoa
- say it once again now, whoa I hope you understand - PITB
- around a bush of that bright, whoa, on Oaxaca wine - POC
- whoa, whoa, baby, back where I belong - T
- sun went down in honey, moon came up in wine - TMNS
- willow sky, whoa, I walk and wonder why - UC
- blue light rain, whoa, unbroken chain - UC
whole
- thereīs a whole lotta women out in reds on the streets today - EW
- takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down - FOTM
- come the rocking stroke of midnight, the whole place - OMSN
- people were saying, the whole world is burning - P
- and the whole world full of petty wars - ThS
wicked
- wicked and evil while casting a spell - ElP
- with wicked Felina, the girl that I love - ElP
wide
- Mississippi River so big and wide - SOTOTW
- look around about the wide world over - L
- wave that flag, wave it wide and high - USB
- let it flow, greatly grow, wide and clear - WR II
wife
- got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee - FOTD
- the wife of Lot turned to salt, because she looked - G
- all the dancing kings and wives assemble in the hall - MOTM
- his wife say Donīt get crazy, Lord, you know just - OMSN
- share your wealth, run your life, steal your wife - USB
wild
- all the wild commandments the old man shot his way - BE
- one eyed jacks and the deuces are wild - DTR
- a wild young cowboy came in, wild as the west Texas wind - ElP
- wild flower seed in the sand and wind - FT
- wild flower seed on sand and stone - FT
- hey, hey, hey the wild wheat waving in the wind - MOTM
- wonīt leave you drifting down, but, woh, it makes me wild - SOF
willing
- the good Lord willing, if he says I may - WhR
willow
- gonna plant a weeping willow, on the bankīs green edge - BdP
- hang your heart on laughing willow - CF
- wind in the willowīs playing Tea for two" - SB
- sweet blossom come on, under the willow - SM
- willow sky, whoa, I walk and wonder why - UC
to win
- he canīt win for losing - CB
- since it costs a lot to win, and even more to lose - D
- and they think that they have got the battle won - THTC
- my uncle starts winning; cowboys got sore - MAMU
- someone else came out to win her, and I came out in second place - TRIO
- in every blue-light cheap hotel, canīt win for trying - Sbl
- won Stagger Leeīs Stetson hat - SL
- what you may win, what you may lose - TTMC
wind
- Arabian wind - BFA
- donīt you cry, dry your eyes on the wind - BS
- black throated wind, keeps on pourinī in - BTW
- just a box of rain, wind and water - BOR
- sun and shower, wind and rain - BOR
- just then the wind came squalling through the dark - BP
- sleep in the stars, donīt you cry, dry your eyes on the wind - BS
- like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind -CCS
- and I feel the wind and I taste the rain - CAT
- Mama keeps saying that the wind might blow - CC
- easy wind cross the Bayou today - EW
- wild as the West Texas wind - ElP
- may the four winds blow you home again - FT
- may the four winds blow you safely home - FT
- Iīll tell you where the four winds dwell -FT
- if you plant ice, youīre gonna harvest wind -FT
- in Franklinīs tower the four winds sleep - FT
- wild flower seed in the sand and wind - FT
- goinī where the chilly winds donīt blow - GDTR
- I heard a voice inside my head in the desert wind so dry - G
- going where the wind donīt blow so strange - HG
- hey, hey, hey the wild wheat waving in the wind - MOTM
- sun comes up blood red wind yells among the stone - NPC
- high wind chimes in the night - POC
- nor wind to blow - R
- wind in the willowīs playing Tea for two" - SB
- comes crying like the wind - SBl
- going where the wind goes - SM
- country garland in the wind and the rain - SS
- high green chilly winds - SS
- forming winds both foul an fair all swarm - TS
- when the cold winds blow, itīll ease your mind - TTMC
- or it could have been the wind - TMNS
- like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go - UJB
- listening to the winds howl - UC
- unbroken chain of the western wind - UC
- standing stream cries the south wind- WBOTB
- the answer came; the wind and rain - WR I
- now what remains? The wind and rain - WR I
- and little change, the wind and rain - WR I
- some old friends the wind and rain - WR I
to wind
- you know, youīre bound to wind up dead - TJ
winder
- a slow winder day, a night like forever - UC
window
- I had a hard run, running from your window - B
- in and out the window like a moth before a flame - BOR
- open up your windows, cuz the Candymanīs in town - Cm
- tapping at the window, touch your hair - CF
- was grinning at my window, all I said was Come on in." - DW
- one pane of glass in the window - IMHBTR
- when the windows all are broken - NPC
- the mirror was a window she sat by alone - Rm
- sitting and staring out of the hotel window - T
windy
- hung up waiting for a windy day - CC
- high green chilly winds and windy vines - SS
wine
- since you poured the wine for me and tightened up - D
- balling that jack, drinking ma wine - EW
- going where the water tastes like wine - GDTR
- ask him for water, he poured me some wine - GSET
- but the taste of wine is worse than none at all - ISTE
- we can share the women, we can share the wine - JS
- everyoneīs praying and drinking that wine - L
- I was drinking some wine - OMSN
- your streets run deep with poisoned wine - POC
- around a bush of that bright, whoa, on Oaxaca wine - POC
- the grass ainīt greener, the wine ainīt sweeter - ROR
- I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine - WhR
- stumbling around drunk on Burgundy wine - WhR
wing
- when I had no wings to fly, you flew to me - AOML
- wings a mile long just carried the bird away - EOTW
- try on your wings and find out where itīs at - TGR
- wing spread bright spring from night into the sun - HOTW
- cut your engines, cool your wings - TPL
- sullen wings of fortune beat like rain - TS
- my lover comes and spreads her wings - WR I
to wing
- in the eagle-winged palace of the Queen Chinee - CCS
- all the winter birds are winging home now - DTR
- the rainbow winged singing birds fly īround the sun - WBOTB
wink
- catch a few winks, baby, down under the bed - TJ
winner
- there ainīt a winner in the game, he donīt go home with all - JS
- and it looks like heartaches, and the winner loses all - TRIO
- high-low jack and the winner take the hand - MAMU
winter
- all the winter birds are winging home now - DTR
- the winter was so hard and cold - DW
- winterīs summer home - EOTW
- wondīring where the nut-thatch winters - EOTW
- winter morning breaks, youīre all alone - NPC
- not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air - SB
- sheīs a summer love for spring, fall and winter - SM
- winter rain, now tell me why - WR I
- winter grey and falling rain, weīll see summer come again - WR I
wiper
- with them windshield wipers slapping time, Bobby clapping hands - MABMG
wire
- listen to the birds in the hot wire sing - Llu
- string barbed wire at your feet, that will not let you pass - WPCTS
wise
- so it makes you wise to break the rule - ISTE
- gave at least a try, the soldier being much too wise - TS
- you decide if he was wise - TS
to wish
- if Mercyīs a business, I wish it for you - FOTM
- wishing well with a golden bell - SS
witch
- mama came quick with the water witch spell - GSET
witness
- plea in the courthouse, witness box began to rock and rise - AG
wolf
- I have seen where the wolf has slept - C
- in the timbers of Fenario, the wolves are running round - DW
- when I awoke, the dire wolf, six hundred pounds of sin - DW
- the wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game - DW
- the dire wolf collects his dues - DW
woman
- you werenīt the woman I once thought Iīd met - BTW
- brown-eyed women and red grenadine - BEW
- come on all you pretty women with your hair a hanging down - Cm
- thereīs a whole lotta women out in reds on the streets today - EW
- I need a woman ībout twice my age - INAM
- I need a woman ībout twice my height - INAM
- I need a woman ībout twice my weight - INAM
- we can share the women, we can share the wine - JS
- when he lets a woman hold him in her hands - MB
- wrong to do it, woman, and another queen is on your throne - NTYSM
- when he first saw this woman, you know he couldnīt believe his mind - SAD
- the song that woman sung was Look out Stagger Lee" - SL
- blond haired woman on the other side - SOTOTW
- blond haired woman the cause of it all - SOTOTW
- fortune comes a-crawling, calliope woman - SS
- youīre my woman now, make yourself easy - TTMC
- old men sing about their dreams, women laugh & children scream - TMNS
- nothing more, the love of the women, the work of men - WR II
- all the world revolves captured in the eye of woman - WBOTB
wonder
- and itīs no wonder, your reason goes bad - DDB
- we can discover the wonders of nature - SM
to wonder
- I was all night running, running, Lord I wonder - B
- I just wonder if you shouldnīt feel - CC
- you and me bound to spend some time wondering - D
- wondīring where the nut-thatch winters - EOTW
- and I canīt stop wondering just what you got - FLAS
- just a song of Gomorrah, I wonder what they did there - G
- I wonder how they blew it up - G
- you seem so near I start to wonder - LL
- one step down and another begun, and I wonder - NSB
- and when that train rolls in, you wonder where itīs been - TLEO
- wonder who will water all the children in the garden - TE
- willow sky- whoa, I walk and wonder why - UC
word
- with its words of a life where nothing is new - BTW
- with its words of a life that could almost be true - BTW
- your tongue is twisted with words half spoken - BOR
- I love you more than words can tell - BdP
- scattered like lost words - C
- let the words be yours, Iīm done with mine - C
- the words come out like an angry stream - CAT
- you got a lot of words youīve got to stand behind - CAT
- words from a silk trombone - CCS
- but you never heard a word it said - EW
- donīt take much to get the word around - LLu
- freedomīs just another word for nothing left to - MABMG
- if my words did glow with the gold of sunshine - R
- well, dizzy ainīt the word for the way youīre making me feel now - Sup
work
- and my work fills the sky with flame - EP
- youīd get right to work if you had any sense - GSET
- you read about Samson, all from his works - SAD
- that the work of his day measures more than the planting and - WR II
- nothing more, the love of the women, the work of men - WR II
to work
- I gotta get down, or I canīt work there no more - CB
- working hours without rest, wanted me to have the best - MT
- working in a house of blue lights - O
- working on a T-bone steak a la carte - TPL
- I worked all summer, spring and fall - SOTOTW
world
- mama, mama, many worlds Iīve come, since I first left home - BdP
- why I go and get anything in this world for you - DDB
- wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world - EOTW
- only if you let me be your world - IIHTWTG
- if I had the world to give - IIHTWTG
- I may not have the world to give - IIHTWTG
- could I ever give this world to you - IIHTWTG
- Lord, I been all around this world - IBAATW
- look around about the wide world over - L
- people were saying, the whole world is burning - P
- standing on a tower, world at my command - PITB
- īcause Iīm sitting on top of the world - SOTOTW
- let the world go by, like the clouds a streaming - TLMD
- what in the world ever became of sweet Jane - T
- and the whole world full of petty wars - ThS
- all the world revolves captured in the eye of woman - WBOTB
to worry
- no need to worry the jury, this kind takes care - AG
- my time coming, anyday, donīt worry about me, no - EP
- thereīs no need for you to be worrying about all those people - MD
- donīt worry ībout tomorrow, Lord youīll know it when it comes - OMSN
- the first days are the hardest days, donīt you worry any more - UJB
worse
- but suspected something worse - BE
- tonightīs nothing worse than this pain in my heart - ElP
- but the taste of wine is worse than none at all - ISTE
worth
- nothing ainīt worth nothing, but itīs free - MABMG
- with a lifetimeīs worth of the Mexicali Blues - MB
- then God way up in heaven, for whatever it was worth - OMSN
- sometimes your cards ainīt worth a dime - T
worthless
- back in El Paso my life would be worthless - ElP
to wrap
- says Wrap it up, I think Iīll take this one" - DDB
- wrap myself around a bush - POC
- wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own - SS
- with climbing arms of ivy wrapped around - TE
- wrap you in sweet perfume and squeeze you till you die - WPCTS
wrench
- you know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench - GSET
to write
- Iīll still sing you love songs, written in the letters of your name - LLR
- if heīs in some other land, write it off as stole - MC
- written fire across the heaven, plain as black and white - OMSN
- in moonlight writing What for" across the morning sky - SS
- five men writing with fingers of gold - TE
wrong
- on the wrong track and headed for you - CJ
- something is dreadfully wrong, for I feel a deep - ElP
- nothingīs for certain, it could always go wrong - HT
- seems like everything come out wrong - ITAM
- wrong to do it, woman, and another queen is on your throne - NTYSM
- you thought you was the cool fool and never could do no wrong - S
- there ainīt nothing wrong with the way she moves - SB
- well I ainīt always right, but Iīve never been wrong - SB
- and thereīs nothing wrong with the look thatīs in her eyes - SB
- well, Iīve heard it say thereīs something wrong in my head - Sup
Xmas
- 1948, Xmas eve, with a full moon over town - SL
year
- itīs a far gone lullabae sung many years ago - BdP
- close the gap on the dark years in between - C
- I been gambling hereabouts for ten good solid years - D
- live five years if I take my time - EW
- ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea - IMHBTR
- ten years ago I walked this street, my dreams were - MITR
- through all the broken dreams and vanished years - SBl
- with thirty years upon my head to have you call me child - SOF
to yell
- screaming and yelling, he was picking his chops - A
- sun comes up bloodred, wind yells among the stone - NPC
yellow
- the sky was yellow and the sun was blue - SB
yesterday
- yesterday I begged you, before I hit the ground - CD
- Iīm living in yesterdayīs tomorrows - ITAM
- Iīd trade on my tomorrows for a single yesterday - MABMG
yoke
- take up the yoke and plow the fields around - BEW
youngin
- and a younginīs dream of growing up to ride - MT
z
- everything wanders from baby to z - DTR
zoo
- Calliope wail like a seaside zoo - CC
Words not acknowledged
Abraham - GSET +
BFA
afterdeck - MHUT
ajar - GSET
alright - CF
always - NSB
american - BTW
arabian - BFA
axis - DS
backstage - SM
backwash - DW
badlands - ElP
barbed - WPCTS
barefooting - TGR
barley - WR II
battes - CPR
Bayo - SL
Bayou - EW
be-bop - Llu
bedroom - WPCTS
bloodwind - ThS
boogie - NSB
boomerang - TE
bushel - WR II
bye - SS
December - WBOTB
demon - DTR
den - TS
deuces - DTR
do-dah - T
do-pas-o - RJ
dock - WhR
doggie - TJ
dominion - TE
droop - TE
hallelujah - TE
hatrack - TE
hereabouts - D
hickīry - BEW
hipster - DTR
homeland - EOTW
horseback - MB
o.k. - Alt + INAM
rattlesnake - WPCTS
ray - SM
rein - TE
repo-man - MC
riddle - MOTM
rol - MOTM
rollerskates - BE
royal - ROR
rye - MHUT
sawhet - UC
scrutiny - Alt
self-centered - Alt
semis - BTW
seventeen - CJ
seventy - USB
several - SS
shakedown - SdS
shooter - IBAATW
sideshow - INAM
sidewalk - ThS
six-hundred - DW
sixty - POC
sleeplessness - BE
solemnly - TOO
solitude - MOTM
songbirds - WBOTB
spanish - TOO
speedway - NSB
spur - GSET
square - SB
stainless - WPCTS
stargown - CCS
station - CJ
statuesque - INAM
steak - TPL
stella - Sbl
styrofoam - MHUT
summertime - USB
switchman - CJ
sybil - MOTM
tambourine - C
taxi - TPL
telephone - TPL
tennis - A
terminal - TPL
thirteen - TPL
thundercloud - SdS
tidewater - TPL
timbers - DW
toodeloo - MHUT
toothless - NPC
transit - MHUT
treetops - PITB
trombone - CCS
twixt - SS
watchman - JS
whalebelly - TE
windshield - MABMG
yo-yo - Llu
Posted October, 1996