12 Songs

Rosemary, won't you come out tonight?
The moon is shining and the stars are bright
If you stay inside, how can i love you, dear
When you're up there and i'm down here?
Come on down, we'll take a walk in the park
I know a place there where it's good and dark
I'll hold yours, baby, and you'll hold mine
I'm thinking about you all the time
Hear that wind blow
'gainst your window
And i call your name
I need you so, baby
I'm ready to go, baby
Ain't that a shame?
Take your shoes off
Come with me
Take your shoes off
Come on down, we'll take a walk in the park
I know a place where it's good and dark
I'll hold yours, baby, and you'll hold mine
I'm thinking about you all the time

We met one summer evening
As the sun was going down
She was lying on the beach
In her graduation gown
She was wrapped up in a blanket
(i could tell she knew her way around)
And as i lay down beside her
You know she never made a sound
On down the beach came the beach-cleaning man
Scoopin' up the papers and flattening down the sand
"lucinda, lucinda, lucinda - we've got to run away
That big white truck is closin' in
And we'll get wounded if we stay"
Now lucinda lies buried 'neath the california sand
Put under by the beach-cleaning man
Lucinda, lucinda, lucinda - why'd you have to go?
They sent her to high school
They sent her to low school
She just wouldn't go further

There ain't no moon
There ain't no stars
Have to close up soon
'cause there ain't no cars
Got no radio
Got no telephone
I'm just awful bored
And i'm so alone
Baby, please come to the station
And i'll wipe your windshield clean
If you need oil, i'll give you oil
And i'll fill your tank with gasoline
Baby, please come to the station
You know i get so lonely there
Bring some wine for inspiration
And wear a ribbon in your hair
Hear those dogs bark
Man, they can feel this cold
And it's so dark i need your hand to hold
Baby, please come to the station
You know i need you so tonight
Come and put your arms around me
Baby, come and hold me tight
Please, baby, come to the station
I've taken all that i can take
Baby, how can you be sleeping
When you know that i'm awake?

Will you have whiskey with your water
Or sugar with your tea?
What are these crazy questions
That they're asking of me?
This is the wildest party that there ever could be
Oh, don't turn on the light 'cause i don't want to see
Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
Mama said, "that ain't no way to have fun"
Open up the window, let some air into this room
I think i'm almost choking on the smell of stale perfume
And that cigarette you're smoking 'bout to scare me half to death
Open up the window, let me catch my breath
The radio is blasting, someone's beating on the door
Our hostess is not lasting - she's out on the floor
I seen so many things here i ain't never seen before
I don't know what it is - but i don't wanna see no more
Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
Mama said, "that ain't no way to have fun"

Goin' down to the corner
Gonna have myself a drink
Goin' down to the corner
Gonna have myself a drink
'cause that shit that we been usin'
Sure confuse my thinking
Gonna send out to the drugstore
Buy myself a goat
Tie him up in my front yard
For all my so-called friends to see
Ain't nobody gonna look in window and laugh at me
I been up so long
That it looks like down to me
Please don't talk about to me when i'm gone
Baby, are you against me too?
Had a great idea the other night
Come-a-ti-yi-yippie, baby
Look out
When the blue of the night meets the gold of the day
We love you
We love you
We love you

Have you seen my baby
On the avenue?
You know she's driving me crazy
With the funny things she do
I seen her with the milkman
Ridin' down the street
When you're through with my baby, milkman
Send her home to me
Hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on
You know it's been so long
Since she have been gone
Hold on, hold on, hold on
I seen her with the gipsies
Dancin' in the wood
She's always been unfaithful to me
She ain't never been no good
I say, "please don't talk to strangers, baby"
But she always do
She say, "i'll talk to strangers if i want to
'cause i'm a stranger, too"
Hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on
You know it's been so long
Since she have been gone
Hold on, hold on, hold on