Beginnings

Hooky high hooky jo
I need you so
Hooky bye hooky go
Where i don't know
Looky high looky low
Where can you be
Hooky high hooky jo
I need your company

And my sergeant said
The war is over son
It doesn't really matter
That the north has won.

So i packed my bags
And i gave back my gun
I turned and headed home
With the fighting done

Hooky high hooky jo
I need you so
Hooky by hooky go
Where i don't know
Looky high looky low
Where can you be
Hooky high hooky jo
I need your company

Hooky jo and me
We planned to make a start
But the war came between us
And we fell apart

Now this old gray coat is getting mighty thin
But i'll keep on looking for her
Till we meet again

Hooky high hooky jo
I need you so
Hooky by hooky go
Where i don't know
Looky high looky low
Where can you be
Hooky high hooky jo
I need your company

I don't know how
To tell you who i am
Try to justify
You'd still deny i'm a man

I never understood it
So i don't expect you to
But i can't change now
Love, just for you

Maybe it's better
That you know at last
Oh i am sorry
It all happened so fast

We might have lasted longer
If i told you when we met
But it's an old song
For you to forget

Why did you love me more
Lord did i let her down
Why did she never understand me
Whey did she love me
Lord did i let her down
Why is it so hard to be yourself

I never understood it
So i don't expect you to
But i can't change now
Love, just for you

Maybe it's better
That you know at last
Oh i am sorry
It all happened so fast

We might have lasted longer
If i told you when we met
But it's an old song
For you to forget

Why did you love me more
Lord did i let her down
Why did she never understand me
Whey did she love me
Lord did i let her down
Why is it so hard to be yourself

Speak to the sky when ever things go wrong
And you know you're not talkin' to the air, to the air
And the world will look better from up there

Speak to the sky 'cause things can get ya down
And you know when you're talkin' to the lord, to the lord
The world will look better than before

And if i stumble and it seems that i am blind
Or if the road i'm on seems awful hard to find
And though my conversation doesn't always rhyme
I always try to find some time to .......

Speak to the sky and tell you how i feel
And to know sometimes what i say ain't right
It's all right
Cause i speak to the sky every night

And if i stumble and it seems that i am blind
Or if the road i'm on seems awful hard to find
And though my conversation doesn't always rhyme
I always try to find some time to .......

Speak to the sky and tell you how i feel
And to know sometimes what i say ain't right
It's all right
Cause i speak to the sky every night

Speak to the sky when ever things go wrong
And you know you're not talkin' to the air, to the air
And the world will look better from up there

Tears subsiding
Michael lifts
A gun up to his head
Sorry for the part he played
And many many dead

As he pulls the trigger,
And he feels the hammer fall
His mind goes back a year ago
And he remembers us all
And how we loved him

Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on
Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on

She said she'd been with other men
But that was long ago
Long before she fell in love with him
He ought to know

He could not believe her
He told her to her face
And took on with another girl
Put maggie in disgrace

Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on
Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on

But when they found they found her dying
He realized what he done
She died because he blamed her
For things she'd never done

A loud explosion rocks the air
And things go cry in shame
As the gun hurls out the shell
It crashes through his brain

Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on
Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on

She wakes up in the morning with the new sunrise
Looks at her husband sleeping still
Inside she cries

She makes the children breakfast
Gets them on their way
Watching them through the window
She prepares to face another day

Then her husband tells her
That he won't be home