unknown

(gordon russell)

Something good, something bad
Something special, something sad
Something good, something bad
Gonna get it with or without you

Something weak, something strong
Not too much, and not for long
Something weak, something strong
Gonna get it with or without you

I don't need a shot, i'll take what you've got
Now it's in my head, that's what someone said

Could have been you, could have been me
Could have been him, or history
Could have been you, could have been me
Gonna get it with or without you

- guitar solo -

I don't need a shot, i'll take what you've got
Now it's in my head, that's what someone said

Something good, something bad
Something special, something sad
Something good, something bad
Gonna get it with or without you

Something good, something bad
Gonna get it with or without you

(will birch/phil mitchell)

You had a reputation
Talk can be so unkind
You loved above your station
It messed up your mind
Take this information
And quit while you're behind

Kicked out of his bed
Now you might go blind
His line is dead
And your face is lined
You'll only get ahead
If you quit while you're behind

You got to get out while you can and run
You got to pay the price, once you've had your fun
Once you've had your fun yeah

- harmonica break -

You lost your inhibitions
Now they're hard to find
You made the late editions
In the daily grind
Forget your superstitions
And quit while you're behind

(wallis/brilleaux/russell/mitchell/morris)
(plangent visions music ltd./zomba music publ.ltd.)

Don't call my name, i just must answer
This ain't no game, i ain't no chanter
Don't get me wrong, i don't want trouble
You come back strong, i'll come back double
I don't mess around, i'm dangerous

She's like a knife, sharp but pretty
She'll break your heart just for fun
You bet your life, you'll get no pity
She'll drop you flat when it's done
Look but just don't touch, she's dangerous
Dangerous
Dangerous

Big city lights, cold city nights
Sharks taking bites, dangerous
Dangerous
Dangerous

- guitar break -

Big city lights, cold city nights
Sharks taking bites, dangerous
Dangerous
Dangerous

So just get smart and keep away now
You wouldn't like the games we play now
It gets kinda' rough, we're dangerous
Dangerous
Dangerous

- harp solo to fade -

(nix)

I'm going down
I'm going down down down down down
I'm going down baby
Down down down down down

I've got my big feets in the window
My head is on the ground

Let me crawl
Let me crawl across your floor
Let me crawl baby
Let me crawl across your floor

I'm going back to canvey island
That's where i used to live before

- harmonica solo -

I'm going down
I'm going down down down down down
I'm going down
Down down down down down

I've got my big feets in the window
My head is on the ground

Let me crawl
Let me crawl across your floor
Let me crawl baby
Let me crawl across your floor

I'm going back to canvey island
That's where i used to live before

(mickey jupp)
(polygram music publ.ltd.)

I'm not the man you're looking for
Honey, let go of my hand and show me the door

So long, you got me wrong
You ain't got me going, baby
You got me gone

Somewhere there's a fellow that's waiting for you
Somewhere there's a man with nothing better to do

So long, you got me wrong
You ain't got me going, baby
You got me gone

There's a man for the money
There's a man for the show
Listen to what i tell you, honey
I'm a man for the road

I'm not the man you're looking for
Honey, let go of my hand and show me the door

So long, you got me wrong
You ain't got me going, baby
You got me gone

There's a man for the money
There's a man for the show
Listen to what i tell you, honey
I'm a man for the road

Gone, gone, gone
Gone, gone, gone
Gone, gone, gone
Gone, gone, gone
'cause you ain't got me going, honey
You got me gone

Gone, gone, gone...

(sykes)
(prestige music ltd.)

My baby don't have to work
She don't have to rob and steal
My baby don't have to work
She don't have to rob and steal

I'll give my baby everything that she want's
I'm a - i'm a - i'm a - i'm a - i'm a
I'm a drivin' wheel

I'm a drivin' wheel

Well she left me early this morning
She said she would be back soon
She left me early this morning
She said she would be back soon

She said she'd be back early by the morning
Now it's late late late late late on a saturday afternoon
A saturday afternoon

- guitar break -

Well i wrote my baby a letter
I don't want nobody to break the seal
I wrote my baby a letter
I don't want nobody to break the seal

I want this letter to go straight to my baby
I'm a - i'm a - i'm a - i'm a
I'm a drivin' wheel

I'm a drivin' wheel
I'm a drivin' wheel
I'm a drivin' wheel

(john crippen aka johnny guitar/dave tice)

Well my baby went and left me for another man because i could not save a cent
She got up, got out, got all her possessions and down the road she went
I don't mind if i lose my baby cos i'm alright alone
She said don't call me, i'll call you but i haven't got a telephone.

Waiting for saturday night
Waiting for saturday night
That's how i got through school
Leaving work is cool
Waiting for saturday night

Juke box jenny standing in the corner searching for another dime
All dressed up and ready to go, if i had money i would make her mine
Working like a dog all week long i got the money in my hand
I can pay my bills, i can buy some pills but i'm going to see a rock n' roll band.

Waiting for saturday night
Waiting for saturday night
That's how i got through school
Leaving work is cool
Waiting for saturday night

Saturday night, saturday night
I've been waiting all week for
Saturday night, saturday night

- solo -

Saturday night, saturday night
I've been waiting all week for
Saturday night, saturday night

Juke box jenny standing in the corner searching for another dime
All dressed up and ready to go, if i had money i would make her mine
Working like a dog all week long i got the money here in my hand
I can pay my bills, i can buy some pills but i'm going to see a rock n' roll band.

Waiting for saturday night
Waiting for saturday night
That's how i got through school
Leaving work is cool
Waiting for saturday night

Waiting for saturday night
Waiting for saturday night
That's how i got through school
Leaving work is cool
Waiting for saturday night

(a. perkins, d. clark, 0. rush)

Oh baby, you know i may be a fool
I'm wastin' my time by goin' to school
The way you got me holdin' your door
I can't do my homework anymore
I can't do my homework anymore

Oh baby, i said you got me so blind
I'm walkin' 'round in circles, i could loose my mind
The way you got me holdin' your door
I can't do my homework anymore

Now baby you're as sweet as you can be
Everything you do keep on sending me
Just the kiss of your lips or the touch of your hand
Everything you do is really grand

Oh baby, oh, now what can i do
I'm walkin' round in circles in love with you
The way you got me holdin' your door
I can't do my homework anymore

Now baby you're as sweet as you can be
Everything you do keep on sending me
Just the kiss of your lips or the touch of your hand
Everything you do is really grand

Oh baby, oh, now what can i do
I'm walkin' round in circles in love with you
The way you got me holdin' your door
I can't do my homework anymore
I can't do my homework anymore
I can't do my homework anymore
I can't do my homework anymore
I can't do my homework anymore

(will birch/gordon russell)

I'm checking on you
You're checking on me
The moment we walk out the door
We're battered and blue
I'm reckoning we
Don't trust each other no more

Life is a riot
With spy vs spy
No peace and quiet
There's not a dry eye
In the house where we live
Life is a riot
With spy vs spy

You're running around
You're going outside
Trying to catch me with some blonde
I'm moving uptown
I'm ready to ride
Hey not so fast mrs bond

Life is a riot
With spy vs spy
No peace and quiet
There's not a dry eye
In the house where we live
Life is a riot
With spy vs spy
Life is a riot
With spy vs spy

- guitar solo -

We're looking for leads
We're searching for clues
We're looking for anything
That we can use, yeah

I'm checking on you
You're checking on me
The moment we walk out the door
We're battered and blue
I'm reckoning we
Don't trust each other no more

Life is a riot
With spy vs spy
No peace and quiet
There's not a dry eye
In the house where we live
Life is a riot
With spy vs spy
Life is a riot
With spy vs spy
Life is a riot
With spy vs spy
Life is a riot
With spy vs spy

(bob dylan)

God said to abraham 'kill me a son'
Abe said 'man, you must be putting me on'
God said 'no' - abe said 'what?'
God said 'you can do what you want abe,
But next time you see me coming you better run'
Abe said 'where'd you want this killing done?'
God said 'out on highway 61'

Georgia sam he had a bloody nose
The wellfare department they wouldn't give him no clothes
He asked poor howard 'where can i go?'
Howard says 'there's only one place i know'
Sam said 'tell me quick man i got to run'
Oh, howard he just pointed with his gun
He said 'that's way down highway 61'

Mack the finger said to louis the king
'i got fourty red-white-blue shoe strings
And a thousand telephones that don't ring
Do you know where i can get rid of these things?'
Louis the king said 'let me think for a minute son'
And he said 'yes, i think it can be easily done -
Just take everything down to highway 61'

Well the 5th daughter on the 12th night
Told the 1st father that things weren't right
My complexion she says is much too white
He says 'come here step into the light'
He says 'mam you're right - let me tell
The 2nd mother this has been love'
But the 2nd mother was with the 7th son
And they were both out on highway 61

Now the roving gambler he was very bored
Trying to create a next world war
He found a promoter who nearly fell on the floor
He said 'i never engaged in this kind of thing before'
But yes, i think it can be very easily done
Well just put some bleachers out in the sun
And head it out on highway 61

(jordan/walsh)
(anglo-pic music co.ltd.)

If you've ever been down to new orleans
Then you can understand just what i mean
All through the week it's as quiet as a mouse
But on saturday night they go from house to house

You don't have to pay when you only mention
If you're a cook or a waiter or a good musician
If you just happen to be passing by
Stop in at the saturday night fish fry

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

Now my buddy and me was on the bandstand
Fooling around, just me and him
We decided we could use something to eat
So we went to a house on rampart street

We knocked on the door and it opened with ease
A light-skinned miss said 'come in, please'
Before we could even bat an eye
We was right in the middle of a big fish fry

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

Now the woman was screaming and jumping and yelling
The bottles were flying and the fish were smelling
From way up above all the noise they made
Somebody hollered 'better get outta here, this is a raid'

I didn't know we were breaking the law
Somebody reached over and hit me on the jaw
They had locked up from the front and the back
Putting them in the wagon like potato sacks

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

I knew i could away if i had the chance
But i was shaking like i had st. vitus' dance
I tried to crawl under a bathtub
A policeman said 'hey, now where you going, bud?'

They got us outta there like a house on fire
And put us all in that black mariah
They might of missed one or two
But they got both me and my buddy too

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

Well we headed for jail in a dazed condition
They booked each one of us on suspicion
My chick came down and she went my bail
Finally got me outta that rotten jail

If you ever wanna go get a fist in your eye
Just mention a saturday night fish fry
I don't care how many fish in the sea
Don't ever mention a fish to me

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

It was rocking, it was rocking
You never seen such scuffling and shuffling
'til the break of dawn

(rod piazza)

You was mean to me
You was so mean to me
You gonna be sorry
Oh you mistreated me
Broke my heart
The judge found never cruelty
I call it murder in the first degree

You made a fool of me
Yeah you made a fool of me, baby
Everybody knew it
They all knew but me
Broke my heart
The judge found never cruelty
But i call it murder in the first degree

Blue and lonely
So blue and lonely
Can't stop this pain
Deep down in my heart
And it's killing me

Broke my heart
The judge found never cruelty
But i call it murder in the first degree
Oh, i call it murder
Oh, oh, lord have mercy now

(morganfield)
(jewel music publ. co. ltd.)

All in my sleep i hear my doorbell ring
Look outside my window and see no doggone thing

Woman i'm troubled
I'm troubled and worried now (i be all worried in mind)
Well i just can't be satisfied
I just can't keep from crying

I feel like slapping a pistol in your face
I want some old graveyard to be your resting place

Woman i'm troubled
I'm troubled and worried now (i'm all worried in mind)

I'm going away to leave you, i won't be here no more
Heading for the southland and you won't have to cry no more

Woman i'm troubled
I'm troubled and worried now (be all worried in mind)

(tom waits/k. brennan)

Well i'm going out west
Where the wind blows tall
'cause tony franciosa
Used to date my ma
They got some money out there
They're giving it away
I'm gonna do what i want
Do what i want
And i'm gonna get paid

Little brown sausages
Lying in the sand
I ain't no extra baby
I'm a leading man
Well my parole officer
Will be proud of me
With my olds 88
And the devil on a leash
My olds 88
And the devil on a leash

Well i kno karate, voodoo too
I'm gonna make myself available to you
I don't need no make up
I got real scars
I got hair on my chest
I look good without a shirt

Well i don't lose my composure
In a high speed chase
Well my friends think i'm ugly
I got a masculine face
I got some dragstrip courage
I can really drive a bed
I'm gonna change my name
To hannibal or maybe
Just rex
Change my name to hannibal
Or maybe just rex

I'm gonna drive all night
Take some speed
I'm gonna wait for the sun
To shine down on me
I cut a hole in my roof
In the shape of a heart

And i'm going out west
Where they'll appreciate me
Going out west
Going out west

Album: on the road again

(kevin morris/will birch)

Crack me up
You really crack me up
Crack me up
You really crack me up

When the smoke begins to clear
On the circus you got here
We see the poor boy wait
And the hour is getting late

Crack me up
The way you run the place
Crack me up
But there's no smile upon my my face

It don't make me feel so grand
That you got the upper hand
And it's bound to bring me down
But it's the only show in town

Crack me up
You really crack me up
Crack me up
You really crack me up

I beg and i bawl, i hope you'll hear my plea
But you sit in that chair, your back to me
I shake and i shout, i call for something wet
But you just sit and smoke that cigarette

Crack me up
The way you run the show
Crack me up
Need somewhere to go

- guitar solo -

I don't feel so grand
That you got the upper hand
And it's bound to bring me down
But it's the only show in town

Crack me up
You really crack me up
Crack me up
You really crack me up

Crack me up
You really crack me up
Crack me up
You really crack me up

(j. l. williams)

How could i explain
This feeling that's true
Honey i can hardly stand it
I wanna make love to you

When the stars fall from the heavens
And the rivers have stopped to flow
If you just stop and talk to me
Honey that's when i know

I ain't gonna try and tell ya
How it's made me so blue
Sitting alone and wondering
I wanna make love to you

Please stop and tell me
Tell me you want me too
Oh come on baby
I wanna make love to you

I wanna make love to you
I wanna make love to you
I wanna make love to you
I wanna make love to you

- guitar solo -

When the stars fall from the heavens
And the rivers have stopped to flow
If you just stop and talk to me
Honey that's when i'd know

I wanna make love to you
I wanna make love to you
I wanna make love to you
I wanna make love to you

I wanna make love to you
Uh come on baby
I wanna make love to you
I wanna make love to you
I can't stand it baby
Make love to you
I wanna make love to you
Uh talk to me
I wanna make love to you

(b.b. king/j. taub)

Well she's 30 in the bust
24 in the waist
44 in the hips, man
She got what it takes

You upset me baby
Upset me baby
Like being hit by a falling tree
Woman, what you do to me

I'd like to discribe her
It's hard to start
I better stop now
I got a very weak heart

You upset me baby
Upset me baby
Like being hit by a falling tree
Woman, what you do to me

She's not to tall
Her complexion is fair
Man she knocks me out
The way she wears her hair

You upset me baby
Upset me baby
Like being hit by a falling tree
Woman, what you do to me

She's not to tall
Her complexion is fair
Man she knocks me out
The way she wears her hair

- guitar solo -

You upset me baby
You upset me baby
You upset me baby
You upset me baby
Like being hit by a falling tree
Woman, what you do to me

You upset me baby
You upset me baby
You upset me baby
You upset me baby
Like being hit by a falling tree
Woman, what you do to me

(dave bronze/kevin morris)

When you're feeling down and you're all alone
There's a little lady you can telephone
When she knocks on your door makes your heart stand still
You give her the money, she gives you the thrill

She got what you want
She got what you need
It's the feelgood factor and it's guaranteed

Feelgood factor
She got the feelgood factor
Feelgood factor

Whatever you want, she don't care
She got the stock and she'll give you a share
It's a take-over bid your deposit is due
And if your credit is good she'll play footshs with you

She'll take you round the world and bring you back again
Deals in pounds or dollars or marks or yen
She goes in at the bottom and out at the top
And she keeps on going till your profits drop

She got what you want
She got what you need
It's the feelgood factor and it's guaranteed

Feelgood factor
She got the feelgood factor
Feelgood factor...

(will birch/gordon russel)

I ride a mare with a neck of steel
I pack a spare with a loaded wheel
Shoes and tie made of rhino hide
I keep an eye on the countryside

I'm hunting - shooting - fishing
Ahead of the pack
I keep an eye over my shoulder
But i never look back

I carry cash buried in my boot
I spit on thrash that i pass en route
I pay each fine with a mental note
I sign no line and decline to vote

I'm hunting - shooting - fishing
Ahead of the pack
I keep an eye over my shoulder
But i never look back
I never look back

- guitar solo -

I keep no files and no fixed abode
I eat up miles on a twisted road
I fight the sky with a lightning rod
I'm riding high by the grace of god
I know the names of the men and dives
I've heard the claims of their tortured wives
I've searched for clues caught 'em in the act
They've blown a fuse when i've made contact

I'm hunting - shooting - fishing
Ahead of the pack
I keep an eye over my shoulder
But i never look back
I never look back
I never look back
I never look back

- guitar outro -

(m. morganfield)

Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you (2 x)
I wanna love you so bad till i don't know what to do

I'm going down to louisiana to get me a mojo hand (2 x)
I'm gonna have all you women right here at my comman

Got my mojo working (4 x)
Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you

Play on!

- break -

Got my mojo working (4 x)
Got my mojo working, but it - uh uh - just won't work on you

(papa lightfoot)

Wine women and whisky
Goin' be the death of me
Wine women and whisky
Goin' be the death of me
I'm riding and i'm running
But still in misery

Won't you come back baby?
Won't you come back home to me?
Won't you come back baby?
Won't you come back home to me?
All the other women
Don't mean a thing to me

Come back baby
Talk some trash to me
Come back baby
Talk some trash to me
Well i never found a woman
That could give up all her loving for me

(taylor rhodes/jeff ross)

I just want to seek your love
And you to call my name
But i'm tied to another heart
Like a ball and chain
Shackled to a touch
That's as cold as steel
And all i need is for you to say to me
That our love is real to break these chains

I don't wanna go back - no
Just to know you love me would break these chains
I don't wanna go back - no
She and i will never be the same
So break these chains

You have opened my eyes
And i've finally seen
Love turns to a tie that binds when it's judgemeny day
She is not my lover
She's just a prison door
Say the words you know will turn me loose
I can't take this pain no more
Break these chains

I don't wanna go back - no
Just to know you love me would break these chains
I don't wanna go back - no
She and i will never be the same
So break these chains

Straps so tight they're cutting me
Cuts so deep they make my heart bleed
Only you could set me free
All it takes is your touch
To break these chains

- guitar solo -

I don't wanna go back - no
Just to know you love me would break these chains
I don't wanna go back - no
She and i will never be the same
I don't wanna go back - no
Just to know you love me would break these chains
I don't wanna go back - no
She and i will never never be the same

Oh lord - break these chains
Never never never never never going back
I don't wanna go back - no
Oh lord - break these chains

(sanderson/wallis)
(stiff music ltd./zomba music publ.ltd.)

Keep looking back over your shoulder
You don't know who might be there
Hiding under your bed or right behind your chair
Watching every move now and hearing every word
Be careful what you say now, you might be overheard

Don't talk of the devil
Don't talk of the devil
Don't talk of the devil
He might be near

He's watching from the tv
He waits to make a pass
You pour him from a bottle
He's smiling from your glass
He talks through women's lips now
He laughs through those eyes
Shooting from the hip now
It's all a batch of lies

Don't talk of the devil
Don't talk of the devil

Don't say i didn't warn you
'cause i'm a man who knows
Who wishes he'd never been born
Bad from head to toe
Better keep your nose clean
And keep your cards to your chest
The only thing you can do know
Is keep hoping for the best

Don't talk of the devil
(repeat to fade)

You got a new way of walking, got a new way of talking
You think that you're fooling me and i can't dig it
Girl i got a message, coming down the wire
Better that you know yourself

You've been rocking with somebody new
And it hurts all over my feelings
You've been rocking with somebody new

You got a new way of dressing and a new way of dancing
You think that you're fooling me and i can't see it
Girl i got a message, coming down the wire
Better that you know yourself

You've been rocking with somebody new
And it hurts all over my feelings
You've been rocking with somebody new

Well, i'm still gonna be with you
Never gonna be the same
People been talking 'bout this business for years
Still, the same old game

You got a new way of kissing that i've been missing
You think that you're fooling me and i can't tell
Girl i got a message, coming down the wire
Better that you know yourself

You've been rocking with somebody new
And it hurts all over my feelings
You've been rocking with somebody new

- guitar solo -

You got a new way of kissing that i've been missing
You think that you're fooling me and i can't tell
Girl i got a message, coming down the wire
Better that you know yourself

You've been rocking with somebody new
And it hurts all over my feelings
You've been rocking with somebody new...

(d. johnson/j. walker/c. cawte/s. turner)

Got a robert johnson photograph that you didn't know exists
Even got his autograph, let you have it for a kiss
I'm a liar baby but i only lie for you
There is nothin' in this world i wouldn't do for you

I met memphis minnie lola(?) and she taught me all i know
Told me how to sing the blues when that lonesome whistle blows
I'm a liar baby but you know it's just for fun
Don't know minnie lola(?) so put away your gun

Well i've lied about my name and lied about my age
Told so many damned lies and you know i've got away
Well i've lied around the world and i lied about the news
So it's me you'll belive when i've lied about the blues

- guitar solo -

Me and john lee hooker played a muddy water song
Working on the chain gang in the alabama sun

I'm a liar baby but i only lie for you
There is nothin' in this world i wouldn't do for you
I'm a liar baby but you know it's just for fun
Don't know minnie lola(?) so put away your gun

Lying about the blues
(repeat to fade)

(guidry)

Key: emaj


When i saw my baby walking with another man today
When i saw my baby walking with another man today
When i asked her what's the matter, this is what i heard her say:

See you later alligator, in a while crocodile
See you later alligator, in a while crocodile
Don't you know you're in my way now
Don't you know you cramp my style

She said, i'm sorry pretty daddy, you knew my love is just for you
She said, i'm sorry pretty daddy, you knew my love is just for you
Won't you say that you'll forgive me and say your love for me is true
I said, wait a minute gator, i know you meant it just for play
I said, wait a minute gator, i know you meant it just for playdon't you know you really hurt me, this is what i have to say

See you later alligator, in a while crocodile
See you later alligator, in a while crocodile
Don't you know you're in my way now
Don't you know you cramp my style

See you later alligator, in a while crocodile
See you later alligator, in a while crocodile
Don't you know you're in my way now
Don't you know you cramp my style