Complete Studio Recordings

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
There's a feeling i get
When i look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts i have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.
And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.
Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How ev'rything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

(king/bethea)

Hear my baby comin' down the track
Betcha my baby's comin' back
Someday she'll get back to me
We're gonna raise a family

We're gonna groove, yeah groove
Yeah we're gonna groove

We're gonna love... until the break of day

Sweet as sweet as sweet can be
You don't know whatcha do to me
Let me say you're my one desire
You just set my soul on fire

Oh we're gonna groove,yeah groove
Yeah we're gonna groove
We gonna love... until the break of day

Sweet as sweet as sweet can be
Lemme tell ya you don't know whatcha do to me
You just set my soul on fire
Woman you know you're my one desire...

We gonna groove... (repeat)

dancing days are here again, as the summer evenings grow
I got my flower, i got my power,
I got a woman who knows.

Chorus

I said it's alright, you know it's alright
I guess it's all in my heart
You'll be my only, my one and only
Is that the way it should start?
Crazy ways are evident
In the way that you're wearing your clothes
Suppin' buzz is precedent, as the evening starts to glow.

Chorus

I told your mamma i'd get you home
But i didn't tell her i had no car
I saw a lion he was standing alone
With a tadpole in a jar.

Chorus

Dancing days are here again
As the summer evening grows
You are my flower, you are my power
You are my woman who knows.

Chorus

(page/plant)

(studio chatter: "shall we roll it, jimmy?"
("we're rolling on, what, one?")
("no, one again?")
(- airplane heard flying overhead - "got to get this airplane off.")
("naw, leave it, yeah.")

Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here (x2)
You didn't have to tell me that you love me so
You didn't have to love me, mama, let me go
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
You didn't have to make me a total disgrace
You didn't have to leave me with that beer in my face
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
That's alright, it's awful dog-gone clear.

Hey, hey, baby, why you treat me mean (x2)
You didn't have to crucify me like you did
You didn't have to tell me i was just your kid
Hey, hey, mama, why'd you treat me mean
You didn't have say you'd always be by my side
Y' didn't have to tell me you'd be my blushin' bride
Hey, hey, mama, why you treat me mean
But that's alright, i know your sisters, too

You didn't have to tell me that you love me so
You didn't have to leave me, mama, let me go
Hey, hey, mama, what is wrong with you
You didn't have to leave me like a total disgrace
You didn't have to leave me with that beer on my face
Hey, hey, mama, what is wrong with you
But that's alright, i'd be the same way, too

You didn't have to crucify me like you did
You didn't have to tell me i was just your kid
Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here
You didn't have to tell me you would be my own
You didn't have to tell me, baby, let me go
Hey, hey, mama, what is wrong with you
That's alright, i know your sister, too.
What's the matter with you, mama

Instrumental

Ah caught you smiling at me,
That's the way it should be,
Like a leaf is to a tree, so fine.
Ah all the good times we had,
I sang love songs so glad
Always smiling, never sad, so fine.

*as we walk down the country lanes,
I'll be singing a song,
Hear me calling your name.
Hear the wind within the trees,
Telling mother nature 'bout you and me.

Well if the sunshines so bright,
Or on our way it's darkest night
The road we choose is always right, so fine.
Ah can your love be so strong
When so many loves go wrong
Will our love go on and on and on and on and on and on?

* chorus

My, my la de la come on now it ain't too far,
Tell your friends all around the world,
Ain't no companion like a blue eyed merle.
Come on now well let me tell you,
What you're missing, missing, 'round them brick walls.
So of one thing i am sure,
It's a friendship so pure,
Angels singing all around
My dog is so fine.
Yeah, ain't but one thing to do
Spend my nat'ral life with you,
You're the finest dog i knew, so fine.
When you're old and your eyes are dim,
There ain't no old shep gonna happen again,
We'll still go walking down country lanes,
I'll sing the same old songs,
Hear me call your name.

(jones/page/plant)

Greasy slicked down body, groovy leather trim
I like the way you hold the road, mama, it ain't no sin

Talkin' 'bout love (x3)

Trouble-free transmission, helps your oil's flow
Mama, let me pump your gas, mama, let me do it all

Talkin' 'bout love (x3)

Dig that heavy metal underneath your hood
Baby, i could work all night, believe i've got the perfect tools

Talkin' 'bout love (x3)

A model built for comfort, really built with style
Specialist tradition, mama, let me feast my eyes

Talkin' 'bout love (x3)

Factory air-conditioned, heat begins to rise
Guaranteed to run for hours, mama it's a perfect size

Talkin' 'bout love (x3)

Groovin' on the freeway, gauge is on the red
Gun down on my gasoline, i believe i'm gonna crack a head.

Talkin' 'bout love (x3)
I can't stop talkin' about...

Come to me for service every hundred miles
Baby, let me check your points, fix your overdrive

Talkin' 'bout love (x3)

Fully automatic, comes in any size
Makes me wonder what i did, before we synchronized

Talkin' 'bout love (x3)

Feather-light suspension, coils just couldn't hold
I'm so glad i took a look inside your showroom doors

Talkin' 'bout love (x3)

Oh, i can't stop talkin' about love.

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
When the levee breaks i'll have no place to stay.
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Lord, mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.
Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down south
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about chicago.
Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinkin' 'bout me baby and my happy home.
Going, go'n' to chicago,
Go'n' to chicago,
Sorry but i can't take you.
Going down, going down now, going down.

(bonham/jones/page/plant)

In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn
All i want for you to do is take my body home

Well, well, well, so i can die easy (x2)

Jesus, gonna make up my dyin' bed.
Meet me, jesus, meet me. meet me in the middle of the air
If my wings should fail me, lord. please meet me with another pair

Well, well, well, so i can die easy (x2)

Jesus, gonna make up.. somebody, somebody...
Jesus gonna make up... jesus gonna make you my dyin' bed

Oh, saint peter, at the gates of heaven... won't you let me in
I never did no harm. i never did no wrong

Oh, gabriel, let me blow your horn. let me blow your horn
Oh, i never did, did no harm.

I've only been this young once. i never thought i'd do anybody no wrong
No, not once.

Oh, i did somebody some good. somebody some good...
Oh, did somebody some good. i must have did somebody some good...

And i see them in the streets
And i see them in the field
And i hear them shouting under my feet
And i know it's got to be real
Oh, lord, deliver me
All the wrong i've done
You can deliver me, lord
I only wanted to have some fun.

Hear the angels marchin', hear the' marchin', hear them marchin',
Hear them marchin', the' marchin'

Oh my jesus... (repeat)

Oh, don't you make it my dyin', dyin', dyin'...

(studio chatter: "that's gonna be the one, isn't it? "
"come have a listen, then. "
Oh yes, thank you.")

(bonham/jones/page/plant)

Wanna tell you about the girl i love
My she looks so fine
She's the only one that i been dreamin' of
Maybe someday she will be all mine
I wanna tell her that i love her so
I thrill with her every touch
I need to tell her she's the only one i really love

I got a woman, wanna ball all day
I got a woman, she won't be true, no
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I said i got a little woman and she won't be true

Sunday morning when we go down to church
See the menfolk standin' in line
I said they come to pray to the lord
With my little girl, looks so fine
In the evening when the sun is sinkin' low
Everybody's with the one they love
I walk the town, keep a-searchin' all around
Lookin' for my street corner girl

I got a woman, wanna ball all day
I got a woman, she won't be true, no no
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I said i got a little woman and she won't be true

In the bars, with the men who play guitars
Singin', drinkin' and rememberin' the times
My little lover does a midnight shift
She balled around all the time
I guess there's just one thing a-left for me to do
Gonna pack my bags and move on my way
Cause i got a worried mind
Sharin' what i thought was mine
Gonna leave her where the guitars play

I got a woman, she won't be true, no no
I got a woman, wanna ball all day
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I got a little woman and she won't be true

(hey hey what can i do)

I said she won't be true

(hey hey, what can i say?)

Hey hey, what can i do
I got a woman, she won't be true
Lord, hear what i say
I got a woman, wanna ball all day

Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true,
Wanted a woman, never bargained for you.
Lots of people talk and few of them know,
Soul of a woman was created below. yeah!
You hurt and abused tellin' all of your lies,
Run around sweet baby, lord how they hypnotize.
Sweet little baby, i don't know where you've been,
Gonna love you baby, here i come again.
Every day i work so hard
Bringin' home my hard earned pay
Try to love you baby, but you push me away.
Don't know where you're goin'
Only know just where you've been,
Sweet little baby, i want you again.
Been dazed and confused for so long, it's not true,
Wanted a woman, never bargained for you.
Take it easy baby, let them say what they will.
Will your tongue wag so much when i send you the bill?

*if the sun refused to shine,
I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea,
There will still be you and me.

Kind woman, i give you my all,
Kind woman, nothing more.
Little drops of rain whisper of the pain,
Tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong, with you there is no wrong,
Together we shall go until we die.
My, my, my, an inspiration is what you are to me,
Inspiration, look see.
And so today, my world it smiles,
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
Thanks to you it will be done,
For you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad,
Happiness....i'm glad.

*chorus

(page/plant)

Well i just got into town today
To find my girl who's gone away
She took the greyhound at the general store
I searched myself i searched the town
When i finally did sit down
I find myself no wiser than before

She said we couldn't do no wrong
No other love could be so strong
She locked up my heart in her bottom drawer
Now she took my heart she took my keys
From in my old blue dungarees
And i'll never go to texas anymore

* chorus: now my baby's gone i don't know what to do
She took my love and walked right out the door
And if i ever find that girl i know one thing for sure
I'm gonna give her something like she never had before

I took her love at seventeen
A little late these days it seems
But they said heaven is well worth waiting for
I took her word i took it all
Beneath the sign that said "u-haul"
She left angels hangin round for more

Chorus

I thought i had it all sewn up
Our love, a plot, a pick-up truck
But folks said she was after something more
I never did quite understand
All that talk about rockin' bands
But they just rolled my doll right out the door
Oh yeah, they just rolled my doll right out the door!

Bright light almost blinding,
Black night still there shining,
I can't stop, keep on climbing,
Looking for what i knew.
Had a friend, she once told me,
"you got love, you ain't lonely,"
Now she's gone and left me only
Looking for what i knew.
Mmm, i'm telling you now,
The greatest thing you ever can do now,
Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now,
It's very easy just.
Met a man on the roadside crying,
Without a friend, there's no denying,
You're incomplete, they'll be no finding
Looking for what you knew.
So anytime somebody needs you,
Don't let them down, altho' it grieves you,
Some day you'll need someone like they do,
Looking for what you knew.
Mmm, i'm telling you now,
The greatest thing you ever can do now,
Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now,
It's very easy just...ooh, yeah.

Queen of light took her bow
And then she turned to go,
The prince of peace embraced the gloom
And walked the night alone.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morn - ing light.
The dark lord rides in force tonight
And time will tell us all.
Oh, throw down your plow and hoe,
Rest not to lock your homes.
Side by side we wait the might
Of the darkest of them all.
I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley blow,
I'm waiting for the angels of avalon,
Waiting for the eastern glow.
The apples of the valley hold,
The seas of happiness,
The ground is rich from tender care,
Repay, do not forget, no, no.
Oh,-------dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.
The apples turn to brown and black, the tyrant's face is red.
Oh the war is common cry, pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad
That mortals never know.
Oh, well, the night is long, the beads of time pass slow,
Tired eyes on the sunrise, waiting for the eastern glow.
The pain of war cannot exceed
The woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall,
The ring wraiths ride in black, ride on.
Sing as you raise your bow,
Shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night
That lights the face so cold.
Oh dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the mornin' light.
The magic runes are writ in gold
To bring the balance back, bring it back.
At last the sun is shining, the clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes.

You know you shook me,
You shook me all night long.
You know you shook me, baby,
You shook me all night long.
You shook me so hard baby,
Baby, baby, please come home.
I have a bird that whistles,
And i have birds that sing.
I have a bird that whistles,
And i have birds that sing.
I have a baby, won't do nothing, oh!
Oh, oh, buy a diamond ring.
You know you shook me, baby,
You shook me all night long.
I know you really, really, did baby.
I said you shook me, baby.
You shook me all night long.
You shook me so hard, baby.
You shook me all night long.

When i done quit hollerin' baby
I believe i shake 'em on down
Get my babe, won't be late,
You know by that i mean seconds late
Ah, must i holler,
Must i shake 'em on down,
Well i've been mistreated, babe,
I believe i'll shake 'em on down.
Shake 'em.
Well i ain't no monkey.
I can't climb no tree,
No brown skin woman gonna make
No monkey out of me,
I ain't no monkey,
Sure can't climb no tree,
I been mistreated babe
I believe i'll shake 'em on down,
Well i've been mistreated babe
I believe i'll shake 'em on down.
Listen mama,
Put on your mornin' gown'
Put in your nightshirt
Mama we gonna shake 'em down
Must i holler
Must i shake 'em on down?
Gave my baby a twenty dollar bill,
If that don't get her,
Sure my shot, shot, shot-gun will,
Yeah, i gave my baby a twenty dollar bill,
If that don't get that woman,
I'm sure my shot-gun will.
Gonna go shoot her now...

This is the springtime of my loving-
The second season i am to know
You are the sunlight in my growing-
So little warmth i've felt before.
It isn't hard to feel me glowing-
I watched the fire that grew so low.
It is the summer of my smiles-
Flee from me keepers of the gloom.
Speak to me only with your eyes
It is to you i give this tune.
Ain't so hard to recognize-
These things are clear to all from
Time to time. ooooh...
Talk talk-
I've felt the coldness of my winter
I never thought it would ever go
I cursed the gloom that set upon us...
But i know that i love you so
But i know that i love you so.
These are the seasons of emotion
And like the winds they rise and fall
This is the wonder of devotion-
I see the torch we all must hold.
This is the mystery of the quotient-
Upon us all a little rain
Must fall, just a little rain?
Ooooh, yeah yeah yeah!

You need coolin', baby, i'm not foolin',
I'm gonna send you back to schoolin',
Way down inside honey, you need it,
I'm gonna give you my love, x2

*wanna whole lotta love? x4

You've been learnin', baby, i bean learnin',
All them good times, baby, baby, i've been yearnin',
Way, way down inside honey, you need it,
I'm gonna give you my love x2

* chorus

You've been coolin', baby, i've been droolin',
All the good times i've been misusin',
Way, way down inside, i'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you every inch of my love,
Gonna give you my love.
Yeah! all right! let's go!

* chorus

Way down inside, woman, you need love.
Shake for me, girl, i wanna be your backdoor man.
Hey, oh, hey, oh, oh, oh, oh, keep a-coolin', baby,
Keep a-coolin', baby.

(page/plant)

From the window of your rented limousine, i saw your pretty blue eyes
One day soon you're gonna reach sixteen, painted lady in the city of lies.

Oh, do you know my name? do i look the same
You know i'm the one you want. i must be the one you need, yeah

Clutching pages from your teenage dream in the lobby of the hotel paradise
Through the circus of the l.a. queens. how fast your learn the downhill side

Oh, do you know my name? do i look the same
You know i'm the one you want. i must be the one you need,.

Lips like cherries and the brow of a queen, come on, flash it in my eyes
Said you dug me since you were thirteen,then you giggle as you heave and sigh.

Oh, do you know my name? do i look the same
You know i'm the one you want. i must be the one you need.

Hours, hours, and the moments in between, oh, baby, i couldn't count the times
The fun of comin', oh the pain in leavin', baby, dry those silver eyes

Oh, do you know my name? do i look the same
You know i'm the one you want. i must be the one you need,

Ooh, that's right.

Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that they're all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to awake.
Seems that the wrath of the gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think i might be sinking.
Throw me a line if i reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.
To find a queen without a king;
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.
La la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

(page/plant)

I was burned in the heat of the moment,
Though it couldn't have been the heat of the day
When i learned how my time had been wasted,
(and a) tear fell as i turned away

Now i've got friends who will give me their shoulder,
Event i should happen to fall
Time and his bride growing older
I've got friends who will give me fuck all

(on the) corner of bleeker and nowhere
In the land of not quite day
A shiver runs down my backbone
Face in the mirror turns grey

So (i) looked round to hitch up the reindeer
Searching hard trying to brighten the day
I turned around to look for the snowman
To my surprise he'd melted away.

As the moon and the stars call the order
Inside my tides dance the ebb and sway
The sun in my soul's sinking lower
While the hope in my hands turns to clay
I don't ask that my field's full of clover
I don't moan at opportunity's door
And if you ask my advice, take it slower
Then your story'd be your finest reward.

Lost on the path to attainment
Search in the eyes of the wise
When i bled from the heart of the matter
I started bleeding without a disguise

Now everything's fine under heaven
Now and then you've got to take time to pause
When you're down on the ground, don't be messin' around
Or you'll land in a boat without oars
Hey babe, hey babe, hey babe,
I lost my way.

Hey babe, hey babe,
I don't know where i'm gonna find it.

Hey babe, hey babe,
Do you wanna know,
Do you really, really, wanna help me, yeah?

Let me tell you now, babe
Let me tell you
That it feels so good that it must be right

Now my babe,
Let me tell you
That it feels so good that it must be right...

(jones/page/plant)

Oh she's my baby, let me tell you why
Hey, she drives me crazy, she's the apple of my eye
'cause she is my girl, and she can never do wrong
If i dream too much at night, somebody please bring me down

Hey, i love that little lady, i got to be her fool
Ain't no other like my baby, i can break the golden rule
'cause i get down on my knees, oh, i pray that love won't die
And if i always try to please, i don't know the reason why, yeah

If she would come back, only stay with me

Every little bit of my love, etc., i give to you girl

I don't have to go by plane
I ain't gotta go by car
I don't care just where my darling is
People i just don't care how far
I'm gonna crawl
I don't care if i got to go back home
I don't care what i got to stand to her back
I'm gonna crawl
I'm gonna move the car, baby
She give me good lovin
Yes i love her, i guess i love her
I'm gonna crawl.

Oh!
Workin' from seven to eleven ev'ry night,
It really makes life a drag,
I don't think that's right.
I've really, really been the best of fools,
I did what i could, yeah
'cause i love you, baby,
How i love you, darling,
How i love you, baby,
How i love you, girl, little girl.
But baby, since i've been loving you, yeah,
I'm about to lose my worried mind, oh, yeah.
Ev'rybody trying to tell me
That you didn't mean me no good.
I've been trying, lord, let me tell you,
Let me tell you i really did the best i could.
I've been working from seven to eleven ev'ry night,
I said it kinda makes my life a drag.
Lord, that ain't right, no no!
Since i've been loving you,
I'm about to lose my worried mind.
Said i've been crying,
My tears they fell like rain,
Don't you hear,
Don't you hear them falling,
Don't you hear,
Don't you hear them falling.
Said i been cryin, yeah!
Oh my tears they felt like rain.
Don't you hear them falling?
Don't you hear them?
Do you remember, mama, when i knocked upon your door?
I said you had the nerve to tell me
You didn't want me no more, yeah
I open my front door, hear my back door slam,
You must have one of them new fangled,
New fangled back door man,
I've been working from seven, seven, seven,
To eleven ev'ry night,
It kinda makes my life a drag, a drag, drag,
Ah, yeah, it makes a drag.
Baby, since i've been loving you,
I'm about to lose,
I'm about to lose, lose my worried mind.
Just one more!
Oh yeah
Since i've been loving you, i'm about to lose my worried mind.

whoah, the girl i love, she got long black wavy hair
I do declare!
The girl i love, yeah, she got long black wavy hair,
Ah yeah,
Her mother and her father, lordy,
They sure don't, sure don't allow me there.

Well i, i'm goin' back to my baby, lord i,
I swear i wouldn't lie, yeah
I never saw that sweet woman yeah in-a
A-five long years gone by, yeah.
Well i'm goin' ho__me, i'm goin' home
'cause she's a sweet little darlin', ah
I said i been away, ahh-far too long,
I been away too long.

Take it jimmy!

Well, my baby when...
She shakes just like a willow tree,
Yes she does.
My baby, when she walks, ya know
She shakes like a willow tree, yeah.
Ah-that mean, mistreatin' baby she know she
Hop, hops all over me.
Oooh.

Yeah!
Alright!
Hops over me...

(page/plant)

Down by the seaside. see the boats go sailin'
Can the people hear, what the little fish are sayin'

Oh, oh, the people turned away. oh, the people turned away

Down in the city streets, see all the folk go racin', racin'
No time left, to pass the time of day

The people turned away. the people turned away
So far away, so far away

See how they run, see how they run, see how they run, see how they run.

Do you still do the twist
Do you find you remember things that well
I wanna tell you... some go twistin' every day
Though sometimes it's awful hard to tell

Out in the country, hear the people singin'
Singin' 'bout their progress, knowin' where they're goin'

Oh, oh, oh, oh, the people turned away
Yes, the people turned away

Sing loud for the sunshine, pray hard for the rain
And show your love for lady nature. and she will come back again the people turned away
The people turned away

(jones/page/plant)

Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
Like a star that can't wait for the night
I hate to think i've been blinded baby
Why can't i see you tonight?

And the warmth of your smile starts a-burnin'
And the thrill of your touch gives me fright
And i'm shaking so much, really yearning
Why don't you show up, make it all right?
Yeah, it's all right.

And if you promised you'd love so completely
And you said you would always be true
You swore that you would never leave me, baby:
What ever happened to you?

And you thought it was only in movies
As you wish all your dreams would come true
It ain't the first time believe me, baby
I'm standin here feeling blue
Yeah i'm blue

Now i will stand in the rain on the corner
I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown
Another ten minutes no longer
And then i'm turning around

The clock on the wall's moving slower
My heart it sinks to the ground
And the storm that i thought would blow over
Clouds the light of the love that i found

Now my body is starting to quiver
And the palms of my hands getting wet
I've got no reason to doubt you baby,
It's all a terrible mess

I'll run in the rain till i'm breathless
When i'm breathless i'll run till i drop, hey
The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless
I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah
Light of the love that i found...

(bonham/jones/page/plant)

One time love, take care how you use it
Try to make it last all night, and if you take your pick
Be careful how you choose it, sometimes its hard to feel it bite
Feel it bite.

A man i know, went down to louisiana,
Had himself a bad, bad fight
And when the sun peeked through
John cameron with suzanna,
He kissed the whiskers, left & right
Whiskers!

Now, now, now, fright subsides
Out at a hotel in the quarter, our friends check in to pass the night
Now love gets hot, but fire preceded water
Poor whiskers set the room alight.
Whiskers!

Down on bourbon street, you know it's right
You can see my friend, they run around all through the night
Most everywhere, until the closet's bare
Run for the razor, doin' up my hair

New orleans queens, sure know how to schmooze it
Maybe for some that seems alright
When i step out, strut down with my sugar
She'd best not talk like barry white!

One time love, take care how you use it
Try to make it last all night, and if you take your pick
Be careful how you choose it, sometimes its hard to feel it bite
Feel it bite.

Hey fellas, have you heard the news?
You know that annie's back in town?
It won't take long just watch and see
How the fellas lay their money down.
Her style is new but the face is the same
As it was so long ago,
But from her eyes, a diff'rent smile
Like that of one who knows.
Well, it's been ten years and maybe more
Since i first set eyes on you;
The best years of my life gone by,
Here i am alone and blue.
Some people cry and some people die
By the wicked ways of love;
But i'll just keep on rollin' along
With the grace of the lord above.
People talkin' all around 'bout the way you left me flat,
I don't care what the people say, i know where their jive is at.
One thing i do have on my mind, if you can clarify please do,
It's the way you call me by another guy's name when i try to make love to you!
I try to make love but it ain't no use.
Give it to me, give it!
(guitar solo)
Work so hard i couldn't unwind,
Get some money saved;
Abuse my love a thousand times,
However hard i tried.
Heartbreaker, your time has come,
Can't take your evil way;
Go away,
Heartbreaker.
Heartbreaker!

(page/plant)

Ooh...know i feel so strange looking out the door
Oooh...tryin hard to change but can't let go
Oooh...cryin' tears of pain and more and more
Oooh...everyday is the same as the one before

I'm walkin the floor over you
I'm walkin the floor

Every heart that breaks is a heart that's cold
To the hand that takes your dreamless soul

Ooh...is it long to wait, is it much to pay?
Oooh...sometimes it's hard waiting for the day.

You know it's hard. i said it's hard
You know it's true. i said it's hard
You know it's hard. you know it's true

Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost
When you hear the call can you count the cost?
As you stand alone do you wonder how?
Can you step aside, does it matter now?

Every love that's changed ?-?-?-?-?-?
In the eye of the night ?-?-?-
In the day everything ?-?-?-?
She was smilin' a tear at her waters fall ??

You know it's true. you know it's true now

I'm walkin the floor over you
I'm walkin' the floor
Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost
When you hear the call can you count the cost?
As you stand alone do you wonder how?
Can you step aside, does it matter now?

Does it matter now? (repeat)

Leaves are falling all around,
It's time i was on my way.
Thanks to you, i'm much obliged
For such a pleasant stay.
But now it's time for me to go,
The autumn moon lights my way.
For now i smell the rain,
And with it pain,
And it's headed my way.
Ah, sometimes i grow so tired,
But i know i've got one thing i got to do,

*ramble on,
And now's the time, the time is now
To sing my song.
I'm goin' 'round the world,
I got to find my girl, on my way.
I've been this way ten years to the day, ramble on,
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams.

Got no time to for spreadin' roots,
The time has come to be gone.
And tho' our health we drank a thousand times,
It's time to ramble on.

* chorus

I ain't tellin' no lie.
Mine's a tale that can't be told,
My freedom i hold dear;
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air,
T'was in the darkest depths of mordor
I met a girl so fair,
But gollum, and the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her.
Her, her....yea.
Ain't nothing i can do, no.

* chorus

Gonna ramble on, sing my song
Gotta keep-a-searchin' for my baby...
Gonna work my way, round the world
I can't stop this feelin' in my heart
Gotta keep searchin' for my baby
I can't find my bluebird!
I'd listen to my bluebird sing but i can't find my blue bird
A-keep-a ramblin' baby...

(berns/page/plant)

There was a time, i used to call you on my very own
We were so happy woman, talkin' for hours and hours on the telephone

Then one day, i set you up to walk right outta my life
Leavin' me all by myself, all alone, to cry every night

(babe...) oooh, i want you to come back home yeah (come on home)
(oooh yeah) sweet little girl (ooh yeah, been gone so long)
Been away so long

Now listen to me: i said i made up my mind
Woman when you left me there, oh
I was gonna find another sweet lover
Who's gonna feel all of my... cares

So i met a sweet little girl, just about as nice as she could be, oh
I fell in love with that woman, but she turned around,
And did the same thing again to me...

(babe...) baby, please come home (come on home) hoome yeah...
I know, (ya been gone too long) been away so long
(babe...) i want you to please come home, oh (come on hooome...)

So i made up my mind, i gonna crawl right back to you woman
I'm gonna plead and plead and plead, yeah, 'till you're here by my side
I can't even walk down the same old streets we used to walk down
'cause i keep thinkin about all the good times
Keep thinkin' about it, i wanna make you mine

Babe, babe, babe, please (come on home, yeah) (come on home)
(you've been gone too long)

(page/plant)

I've been to london, seen seven wonders. i know to trip is just to fall
I used to rock it, sometimes i'd roll it. i always knew what it was for.

There can be no denyin' that the wind 'll shake 'em down
And the flat world's flyin'. there's a new plague on the land

If we could just join hands (x3)

Traversed the planet when heaven sent me. i saw the kings who rule them all
Still by the firelight and purple moonlight. i hear the rested rivers call
And the wind is crying, from a love that won't grow cold
My lover, she is lying, on the dark side of the globe

If we could just join hands (x3)

You got me rockin' when i ought to be a-rollin'
Darlin', tell me, darlin', which way to go
You keep me rockin', baby, then you keep me stolen
Won't you tell me, darlin', which way to go... that's right

Oh how i wonder, oh how i worry and i would dearly like to know
I've all this wonder of earthly plunder will it leave us anything to show

And our time is flyin' see the candle burnin' low
Is the new world rising, from the shambles of the old

If we could just join hands.

(jones/plant)

Baby, when you walk that sweet walk
Oh, you walk it good, yes you walk it good
Baby, when you talk that sweet talk
Oh, it sounds so good, oh so good

With a little bit of concentration
And a little bit of helpin' hands, yeah
And a little bit of raving madness
You know it makes me feel, baby
Both my feet are back on the ground

And when the rhythm takes me
It feels so good, oh so good
Baby if it keeps a-shaking
It will do you good, oh so much good

With a little bit of stop-a-shakin' shakin'
And a little bit of ?fly right down?
And a little bit of sweet con-carne
It makes me feel, makes me feel
I got my feet on the ground

Ooh now baby, when you move it makes me
Really feel so good, oh so good
And i'm so glad, so glad, so glad, so glad
And i'm good, oh, so good
With a little bit of concentration
And a little bit of helping hand
And a little bit of ?saving madness?
You know it makes me feel, baby
I'm back on the ground oh yes, sure does
It makes me feel back on the ground.

I'm feelin' good child!
Down on the ground.
Sha la la la...

hey lady--you got the love i need
Maybe more than enough.
Oh darling... walk a while with me
Ooh, you've got so much...
Many have i loved, many times been bitten
Many times i've gazed, along the open road.
Many times i've lied, many times i've listened
Many times i've wondered, how much there is to know.
Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings
I live for my dream, and a pocketful of gold.
Mellow is the man, who knows what he's been missing
Many many men, can't see the open road.
Many is a word, that only leaves you guessing
Guessing 'bout a thing, you really ought to know, ooh!
You really ought to know, i really ought to know!
Oooh, you know i should, you know i should, you know i should...

(jones/page/plant)

And if you feel that you can't go on. and your will's sinkin' low
Just believe and you can't go wrong.
In the light you will find the road. you will find the road

Oh, did you ever believe that i could leave you, standing out in the cold
I know how it feels 'cause i have slipped through to the very depths of my soul.
I just wanna show what i'd give you it is from every bend in the road
Now listen to me
Oh, whoa-whoa, as i was and really would be for you, too, honey
As you would for me, oh, i would share your load.
Let me share your load. ooh, let me share, share your load

And if you feel that you can't go on
In the light you will find the road

Though the winds of change may blow around you, but that will always be so
When love is pain it can devour you, if you are never alone
I would share your load. i would share your load
Baby, let me, oh, let me

In the light
Everybody needs the light.
In the light, in the light, in the light

Light, light, light, in the light
Light, light, light, in the light, ooh, yeah
Light, light, light, in the light

Oh, baby, it's cryin' time, oh, baby, i got to fly.
Got to try to find a way, got to try to get away,
'cause you know i gotta get away from you, babe.
Oh, baby, the river's red, oh, baby, in my head.
There's a funny feelin' goin' on, i don't think i can hold out long.

*and when the owls cry in the night,
Oh, baby, baby, when the pines begin to cry,
Baby, baby, baby, how do you feel?
If the river runs dry, baby, how do you feel?

Craze, baby, the rainbow's end, mmm, baby, it's just a den
For those who hide, who hide their love to depths of life
And ruin dreams that we all knew so, babe.

* chorus

Hey, girl, stop what you're doin'!
Hey, girl, you'll drive me to ruin.
I don't know what it is that i like about you,
But i like it a lot.
Won't let me hold you,
Let me feel your lovin' charms.

*communication breakdown,
It's always the same,
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane!

Hey, girl, i got something i think you ought to know.
Hey, babe, i wanna tell you that i love you so.
I wanna hold you in my arms, yeah!
I'm never gonna let you go,
'cause i like your charms.
* chorus
I want you to love me all night...
* chorus
I want you to love me all night
I want you to love me
I want you to love...yeah! i want you to love!

How many more times,
Treat me the way you wanna do?
How many more times,
Treat me the way you wanna do?
When i give you all my love,
Please, please be true.
I'll give you all i've got to give,
Rings, pearls, and all.
I'll give you all i've got to give,
Rings, pearls, and all.
I've got to get you together baby,
I'm sure, sure you're gonna crawl.
Wanna love some other man too!
I was a young man, i couldn't resist
Started thinkin' it all over, just what i had missed.
Got me a girl and i kissed her and then and then...
Whoops, oh lordy, well i did it again.
Now i got ten children of my own
I got another child on the way that makes eleven.
But i'm in constant heaven.
I know it's all right in my mind
'cause i got a little schoolgirl and she's all mine
I can't get through to her 'cause it doesn't permit
But i'm gonna give her everything i've got to give.
Oh, rosie, oh, girl x2
Steal away now, steal away
Steal away baby, steal away
Little robert anthony wants to come and play.
Why don't you come to me baby?
Steal away, all right, all right...
Well they call me the hunter, that's my name
They call me the hunter, that's how i got my fame
Ain't no need to hide,
Ain't no need to run
'cause i've got you in the sights of my..........gun!
How many more times
Barrelhouse all night long, all right!
How many more times
Barrelhouse all night long?
I've got to get to you, baby
Baby, please come home.
Why don't you listen to me babe?
Why don't you please come home? x3
Ooh!

With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat,
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
Missus cool rides out in her aged cadillac.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

*come on, babe on the round about,
Ride on the merry-go-round,
We all know what your name is,
So you better lay your money down.

Alimony, alimony payin' your bills,
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
When your conscience hits, you knock it back with pills.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

* chorus

Tellin' tall ( helen told ??) tales of how it used to be,
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
With the butler and the maid and the servants three ( servantry ? ).
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman, oh, you got it.
Nobody hears a single word you say.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
But you keep on talkin' till your dyin' day.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

* chorus

Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

And if i say to you tomorrow,
Take my hand, child, come with me.
It's to a castle i will take you,
Where what's to be, they say will be.

*catch the wind, see us spin,
Sail away, leave today,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show
That you will be mine
By takin' our time. ooh!

And if you say to me tomorrow,
Oh what fun it all would be,
Then what's to stop us, pretty baby,
But what is and what should never be.

* chorus

So if you wake up with the sunrise,
And all your dreams are still as new,
And happiness is what you need so bad,
Girl, the answer lies with you, yeah.

* chorus

Hey, oh
Oh the wind wont blow and we really shouldn't go
And it only goes to show-ow-ow.
Catch the wind, we're gonna see it spin
We're gonna...sail, little girl
Do do do, bop bop a do-oh
My my my my my my yeah
Everybody i know seems to know me well
--but does anybody know i'm gonna move like hell
--but they're never gonna know cause i move like hell.
(pick one...heh)