The Best of Folk Songs 70's - James Taylor & Jim Croce

[Music] there's something in the way she moves or looks my way or calls my name [Music] if it seems to leave this troubled world behind if i'm feeling down blue or troubled by some foolish game she always seems to make me change my mind i feel fine anytime she's around me now she's around me now almost all the time and if i'm well you can tell that she's been with me now she's been with me now quite a long long time and i feel fine every now and then the things i lean on lose the meaning and i find myself careening in places where i should not let me go [Music] she has the power to go when no one else can find me yes and a remind me of the happiness and good times that i know well i said i just got to know that it isn't what she's got to say or how she thinks of where she's been to me the words are nice the way they sound i'd like to hear them best that way it doesn't much matter what they mean but she says they're mostly just to calm me down i feel fine anytime she's around me now she's around me now almost all the time if i'm well you can tell that she's been with me now she's been with me now quite a long long time yes and i feel fine i guess said it was bound to happen it's just a matter of time now i've come to my decision and it's a one of the painful kind cause now it seems that you wanted a model just a regular guy wouldn't do but baby i can't hang up on new lovers cross for you you really gotta hand it to you cause girl you really tried before every time that we spent laughing there were two times that i cried and you were trying to make me a martyr that's the one thing i just couldn't do cause baby i can't hang upon no lover's cross for you these tables are meant for turning people are bound to change [Music] and bridges are meant for burning when the people and memories they join all the same [Music] he'll have to be a super guy oh maybe a super garland cause i never was much of a martyr before and i ain't bout to start nothing new [Music] baby no lover's cross for you these tables are meant for turning and people are bound to change bridges are meant for burning when the people and memories they join all the same but i hope that you can find another who can take what i could not you'll have to be a super guy oh maybe a super god cause i never was much of a martyr before and i ain't about to start nothing new baby i can't hang for no lover's cross for you [Music] in my mind i'm gone carolina can't you see the sunshine can't you just feel the moon shining just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind guess i'm gone to carolina in my mind karen she's a silver sun you best walk away and watch it shining watch her watch the morning come [Music] a silver tear appearing now i'm crying [Music] there ain't no doubt in no one's mind that loves the finest thing around whisper something soft and kind and hey baby skies on fire i'm dying they died in my mind in my mind i'm gone to carolina and you see the sunshine can't you just feel the moonshine ain't it just like a friend of mine so hit me from behind yes i'm gone to carolina in my [Music] last night i think i might have heard the highway calling geese in flight and dogs bite the signs it might be omens say i'm going to go and i'm gone to carolina in my mind with a holy host of others standing around me still i'm on the dark side of the moon and it seems like it goes on like this forever you must forgive me [Music] if i'm up and gone to carolina in my mind in my mind i'm gone carolina [Music] can't you see the sunshine can't you just feel the moonshine painting just like a friend of mine if you hit me from behind guess i'm gone [Music] and i'm going to carry a liner in my [Music] mind [Music] say nice things about things [Music] don't you know i had a dream last night that you were here with me lying by my side so soft and warm and we talked a while and shared a smile and then we shared the dawn oh when i woke up on the dream it was gone don't you know i had a dream last night you were here with me lying by my side so soft and warm [Music] and you said you thought it over you said that you were coming home but when i woke up on my dream it was gone [Music] i'm not the same can you blame me is it hard to understand i can't forget you can't change me i am not that kind of man don't you know i had a dream last night everything was still [Music] you were by my side so soft and warm [Music] and i dreamed that we were lovers in the lemon scented rain but when i woke up [Music] dreaming again i had been dreaming dreaming again just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone susan the plans they made put an end to you i walked out this morning and i wrote down this song i just can't remember who to send it to [Music] i've seen fire and i've seen rain [Music] i've seen sunny days that i thought would never end i seen lonely times when i could not find a friend but i always thought that i'd see you again won't you look down upon me jesus you gotta help me make a stand you just got to see me through another day [Music] my body's akin and my time is at hand [Music] i won't make it any other [Music] seen sunny days that i thought would never end i seen lonely times when i could not find a friend but i always thought that i'd see you again i've been walking my mind to an easy time my back turned towards the sun though knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your [Music] sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground [Music] lonely times when i could not find a friend but i always thought that i'd see you baby one more time [Music] i again i'd see you one more time again there's just a few things coming my way this time around now i thought [Music] like the pine trees lining the winding road i've got a name i've got a name like a singing bird in the crook and toad i've got a name i've got a name [Music] and i carry it with me like my daddy did but i'm living the dream that he kept won't pass me by like a north wind whistling down the sky i've got a song i've got a song like [Music] [Music] [Music] there [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] and i'm gonna go there free like a fool i am and i'll always be they could change their mind but they can't change me i've got a dream i've got a dream oh i know i could share it if you want me to if you're going my way i'll go with you bending down the highway don't let me down the highway [Music] pass me by [Music] way down here [Music] leave your mind behind baby james [Music] i'll have to go now [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] mexico [Music] [Music] mexico i guess i'll have to go now [Music] talking about mexico [Music] [Music] things were spinning around me and all my thoughts were cloudy and i had begun to doubt all the things that were me been in so many places you know i've run so many races looked into the empty faces of the people of the night and something is just not right cause i know that i gotta get out of here i'm so alone don't you know that i gotta get out of here cause new york's not my home though all the streets are crowded [Music] and there's something strange about it i lived there about a year and i never once felt at home i thought i'd make the big time i learned a lot of lessons awful quick and now i'm telling you that they were not the nice kind it has been so long since i have felt fine that's the reason that i gotta get out of here i'm so alone don't you know that i gotta get out of here cause new york's not my home [Music] [Music] that's a reason that i gotta get out of here i'm so alone don't you know that i gotta get out of here from new york not my home [Music] [Music] take to the highway won't you lend me your name your way in my way i seem to be one and the same mama don't understand it she wants to know where i've been i have to be some kind of natural bone food i wanna pass that ray again but you know i could feel it [Music] on a country road say alone home to jesus won't you good girls and boys i'm all in pieces you can have your own choice but i can see a heavenly band full of angels and they're coming to set me free i don't know nothing about the wild wind but i can't tell you that it's bound to be because i could feel it [Music] i guess my feet know where they want me to go walking on a corner [Music] take to the highway won't you lend me your name your way my way seem to be one and the same child mama don't understand it she wants to know where i've been i have to be some kinda not so born fool i wanna pass that way again but i could feel it low [Music] on a country road walk on down walk on down walk on down walk on down walk on down a country road [Music] la la la la la la la la la la [Music] thunder roar [Music] once we were lovers but somehow things have changed now we're just lonely people trying to forget each other's names now we're just lonely people trying to forget each other's names what came between us maybe we were just too young to know but now and then i feel the same sometimes at night i think i hear you calling my name [Music] these dreams they keep me going these days [Music] once we were lovers but that was long ago we lived together then and now we do not even say hello [Music] we lived together then and now we do not even say hello what came between us maybe we were just too young to know but now and then i feel the same and sometimes at night i think i hear you calling my name [Music] he needs dreams [Music] keep me going these days [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what came between us maybe we were just too young to know now and then i feel the same [Music] and sometimes at night i think i hear you calling my name [Music] these days [Music] when you're down and trouble and you need a help in hand and nothing won't nothing is going right close your eyes and think of me and soon i will be there to brighten up even your darkest night you just call up my name and you know wherever i am i'll come running all year baby [Music] now all you've got to do is call and i'll be there yeah yeah yeah you've got a friend [Music] if the sky above you should turn dark and full of clouds and that old north wind should begin to blow keep your hair together and call my name out loud now soon i'll be knocking upon your [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i i'll come running oh yes i will see you again winter spring summer [Music] ain't good to know that you've got a friend where people can be so cold [Music] they'll hurt you and research you well they'll take your soul if you let them all yell but don't you let them you just call [Music] [Applause] [Music] see you again oh baby don't you know bout winter spring summer fall [Music] hey now all you've got to do is call lord i'll be there yes i will know you've got a friend [Music] you've got a friend [Music] got a friend [Music] photographs and memories christmas cards you sent to me all that i have all these to remember you [Music] memories that come at night [Music] take me to another time back to a happy day when i called you mine but we sure had a good time when we started way back when morning walks and bedroom talks saw how i loved you then [Music] summer skies and lullabies nights we couldn't say goodbye and of all the things that we knew not a dream survived [Music] [Music] photographs and memories all the love you gave to me somehow it just can't be true but we sure had a good time when we started way back when [Music] morning walks and bedroom talks saw how i loved you then tell me how can you stand there with your broken heart ashamed of playing a fool [Music] but one thing can be to another it doesn't take any [Music] if it feels nice don't faint twice [Music] will [Music] things are gonna be much better if you only will [Music] you can run but you cannot hide [Music] when you're all by yourself alone [Music] i think it's true what they say about this squeaky [Music] the way that you feel i know things are gonna be just things are gonna be much better if you only will [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] just like [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] right [Music] well i know it's kind of late i hope i didn't wake you but what i've got to say can't wait i knew you'd understand every time i try to tell you the words just came out wrong so i have to say i love you in a song yeah i know it's kind of strange every time i'm near you i just run out of things to say i know you'd understand cause every time i tried to tell you the words just came out wrong so i'll have to say i love you in a song [Music] every time the time was right all the words but there's something that i just got to though you'd see [Music] every time i tried to tell you the words just came out wrong so i have to say i love you in a song [Music] when this whole world starts up getting me down and people are just too much for me to face [Music] i'll climb way up to the top of the stair and all my kisses drip right into space [Music] on the roof is peaceful as can be low don't bother [Music] [Music] yeah is fresh and sweet i'll get far away from the hustle and crowd and all that great snow down in the street [Music] on the roof that's the only place i [Music] where you just have to wish to make it so let's go up on a room [Music] and knife the stars they put on a show for free [Music] that's what i said keep on telling you that right now in the [Music] and if this whole world starts again there's up on a [Music] a roof [Music] [Applause] everything is all right everything is all right [Music] [Applause] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] operator how could you help me place this car see the number on the matchbook is old and faded [Music] she's living in l.a with my best old ex-friend great [Music] gosh is such a new well and sometimes hate it [Music] isn't that the way they say it goes well let's focus my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real but that's not the way it feels [Music] but could you help me place this car [Music] i can't read the number that you just gave me there's something in my eyes you know it happens every time i think about the love that i thought would save me [Music] so i can [Music] that it just wasn't real but that's not the way it feels no no no no that's not the way it feels [Music] thank you for your time oh you've been so much more than kind you can keep the time [Music] but isn't that [Music] show [Music] but that's not the way it feels [Music] i've been wandering early and late from new york city to the golden gate and it don't look like i'll ever stop my wandering my daddy was an engineer my brother drives a hack my sister takes in laundry while the baby balls are jack and it don't look like i'll ever stop my wandering i've been in the army i worked on a farm and all i've got to show is the muscle in my arm and it don't look like i'll ever stop my wandering [Music] my mom she died when i was young my daddy took to stephen and he got home and it don't look like i'll ever stop my wandering [Music] snakes in the ocean hills in the sea i'll let it red-headed woman make a fool out of me and it don't look like i'll ever stop my wand [Music] well i've been wandering early and late from the new york city to the golden gate and it don't look like i'll ever stop my in [Music] though it don't look like i'll never stop my wandering [Music] lazy days in mid-july country sunday mornings dusty haze on summer highways sweet magnolia callin but now and then i find myself thinking of the days that we were walking in the alabama race driving movies friday nights drinking beer and laughing somehow things were always right i just don't know what happened now and then i find myself thinking of the days when we were walking in the aloe vera we were only killed but then i've never heard it said that kids can't fall in love and feel the same i can still remember the first time i told you i love you on the dusty mid-july country summer's evening a weeping willow sang it's lullaby and shared our secret and now and then i find myself thinking of the days that we were walking in the alabama rain walking in the alabama rain [Music] she's been holding on too long hoping i'm gonna change giving it up just a little bit more each time i come home looking and acting strange putting her down as [Music] do you think you might improve me try to take control watching every little thing i do just like a bleeding movie just like a leading role my mother saved me and i don't [Music] as i am i am be as you are as you see as i am i am first you make believe i believe the things that you make believe and abound lets you down [Music] then it's i who have been deceiving [Music] purposely misleading and all along you believed in me so we circle around one another playing a guessing game strangers at this masquerade pretending to know each other restraint to catch your name and never see the mistakes we must have made be as you are as you see as i am i am be as you are as you see as i am i am [Music] [Music] seems like such a long time ago [Music] i was walking on a lonely road getting tired of dreaming alone like all the lonely people i had known seems like such a long time ago [Music] there was no one who would share my song i was just a boy far from home but i became a man when you came along we spent the whole night talking you said you'd like to see the sun rise but in the cold of morning was nothing that i had not seen in your eyes [Music] i was so afraid to touch you thought you were too young to know so i just watched you sleeping then you walk and said to me the night is cold it frightens me i could sleep so easy next to you it wasn't very long you say that ago would like to share my role then you started singing my song you said so many nights away let's not spend the moments wasting time because we have very far [Music] [Applause] i am young but i am so alone we spent the whole night talking but in the gold of morning [Music] hey girls gather around listen to what i'm putting down hey baby i'm your handy man [Music] [Music] if your broken heart [Music] [Music] i whisper sweet things you tell all your friends i'm busy 24 hours a day i fix broken hearts i know but i truly care [Music] come home i'm busy 24 hours a day i fix broken hearts baby i'm your hand amen [Music] come [Music] yay [Music] that's me [Music] [Applause] [Music] hubbing up and down and around and round and back again in so many places i can't remember where i went and my only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend never really was a friend at all [Music] i've traded love for pennies so my soulfulness lost my ideals in that long tunnel of time and now i've turned it inside out and around about and back [Music] [Music] i was searching all the time something that i'd never lost or left behind well i've traded love for pennies so were so blessed lost my deals in that long total of again [Music] [Music] you now want me in my second circle and i'm hidden for the top i learned a lot of things along the way i'll be careful while i'm climbing cause it hurts a lot stronger when you're down nobody gives a damn anyway but i've traded love for pennies so my soulfulness lost my ideas and that [Music] where i started again [Music] [Music] well the sun is slowly sinking down [Music] but the moon is slowly rising [Music] so this whole world must still be spinning around i still love you so close your eyes you can close your eyes it's all right [Music] yeah but i can sing this song you can sing this song and i'm gone [Music] it won't be long for another day we gonna have a good time no one's gone taking time away [Music] only close your eyes you can close your eyes it's all right i can sing this song [Music] we've been running away from something we both know we've long run out of things to say and i think [Music] [Music] in the morning and we've been hiding from something that should have never gone this far [Music] but after all it's what we've done it makes us what we are then you've been talking in silence for liverpool silent you are a dog oh little one let's set up footsteps on your floor in the morning but everyone let's set up footsteps on your floor one less man to walk in one less pair of jeans upon your door one less voice but tomorrow's a dream away and today has turned to dust your silver tongue has turned to clay and your golden rule to rust if that's the way that you want it well that's the way i want it more because there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor in the morning [Music] but everyone away when today has turned to dust [Music] your silver tongue has turned to clay and your golden ruler if that's the way that you want it [Music] steps on your [Music] there is a young cowboy he lives on the ring his horse and his cattle are his only companions [Music] he works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons waiting for summer his pastures to change [Music] and as the moon rises he sits by his fire thinking about women and glasses of beer and closing his eyes as the doggies retire he sings out a song which is soft but it's clear as if maybe someone could hear [Music] good night new moonlight ladies rock-a-bye sweet baby jane [Music] deep greens and blues are the colors i choose won't you let me go down in my dreams and rock her by sweet baby james now the 1st of december was covered with snow [Music] so was the turnpike from stockbridge to boston lord the berkshires seemed dream like on account of that frosting with 10 miles behind me and 10 000 more to go there's a song that they sing when they take to the highway a song that they sing when they take to the sea a song that they sing of their home in the sky maybe you can believe it if it helps you to sleep but singing works just fine for me [Music] greens and booze are the colors i choose won't you let me go down in my dream and rock of our sweet baby james [Music] if i could save time in a bottle the first thing that i'd like to do is to save every day till eternity passes away just to spend them with you [Music] if i could make days last forever if words could make wishes come true if i'd save every day like a treasure and then again i would spend them with you [Music] but there never seems to be enough time to do the things [Music] i've looked around enough to know you're the one i wanna go through time with if i had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true the box would be empty except for the memory of how they were answered by you [Music] but there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them i've looked around enough to know you're the one i want to go through [Music] [Music] you

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