Tom Rush - Blues, Songs and Ballads

what is twinkle twinkle little star [Music] long come brady in his electric car [Music] in his eye going to shoot somebody just to see him die been on the job too long and duncan duncan is tending the ball [Music] along come brady with his shining star brady said duncan under arrest duncan shot a hole right in brady's chest been on a job too long well it's pretty pretty brief i know you've done wrong busting in here while my game was going on breaking down my window smashing down my door and now you're lying dead on that bar room floor been on a job too long [Music] doctor reached out grabbed and hold of his hands fell for his pulse doctor he said i believe to my soul king brady's dead been on job [Music] standing all around just taking brady to his burying [Music] now take him to the graveyard ain't gonna bring him back been on the job too long [Music] all of the women heard king brady was dead it all went home re-ragging red come slipping and sliding and shuffling down the street in a big mother hubbard stocking feet been on the job too long what is pretty pretty pretty now you know you've done wrong busting in here while my game was going on breaking down the window smashing down the door [Music] too long been on the job too long [Music] i don't want millions mr i don't want your diamond ring all i want is the right to live mister won't you give me back my job again [Music] i don't want your rolls-royce mister i don't want your pleasure yet all i want is food for my children won't you give me back the job i got [Music] now we work to build this country mister while you enjoy your life of ease you've stolen all that we build mr and now our children they starve in the freezer think me dumb if you want mister will you call me blue green or red this one thing [Music] sure no mister well my hungry children they must be fed but i don't want your millions mister i don't want your diamond ring all i want is the right to live mister will you give me back my job again [Music] i got the blues from a baby by the san francisco bay there's an ocean line i took her so far away and i didn't mean to treat us the best girl ever have had [Music] if you don't come back and think i'm going to lose my mind wish you ever come back to stay spend a brand new day walking with my baby down by the san francisco bay you know we're sitting down by my back door wondering which way to go woman i'm so crazy about now she don't love me no more i think i'll grab me fred train well cause i'm a feeling right all the way to the end of the line thinking all about you we'll live a while in another city just about to go insane sound like a herd and a baby the way she used to call my name has she ever come back to spend a brand new day walking with my baby down by the san francisco bay do [Music] do i got the blues from my baby done by the san francisco bay yes an ocean line i took so far away and i didn't mean to treat it so bad the best gal i ever have had said goodbye made me cry gonna lay right down and die well i ain't got a i ain't got a lousy time you don't come back and think i'm gonna lose my mind did you ever come back to stay spend a brand new day walking with my baby down by the san francisco bay who it might be by the samsung's [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] i surely will die and if the river was a whiskey and i was a duck and i'd dive to the bottom and i never come up well i'll eat when i'm hungry and drink when i'm dry liquor don't kill me i'll live till i die is beef steak when i'm hungry right whiskey when i'm dry it's greenbacks when i'm hard of religion when i die [Music] now we're for work i'm too lazy investment's too slow train robin's too risky so gambling i'll go [Music] well it's a whiskey right whiskey right whiskey i cried and i don't get her eye whiskey i surely will die [Music] every time she make me temperature rising not a big fat woman me shaking on the bone than me shaking on the phone and every time she dances a skinny girl gonna lose her home [Music] scratch it out [Music] fine looking woman with great [Music] every time she moved move like a softball leg [Music] me [Music] hell out of me [Music] well it's nine pound house it's a little too heavy for my size baby for my size i'm going on the mountain just see my baby [Music] wheels won't go [Music] do [Music] south of georgia a ring like mine baby ring like mine and this old hammer ring like silver shine like gold shine like gold and at this old house baby killed john henry you can't kill me can't kill me roll on buddy oh don't you roll so slow i can roll when the wheels won't go [Music] don't [Music] it's a long wait harlow long way to hazard just to get a little brew get a little brew so i'm going on the mountain just see my baby ain't coming back never coming back now you roll on buddy oh don't you roll so slow how can i roll when the wheels won't go [Music] now there is a manual here about almost any place you go and his holdings are in texas and his name is diamond joke and it carries all of his money the inner diamond studded jaw and he never took much trouble with the process of the law [Music] i hired out the diamond joe boys i did offer him my hand and he gave me a string of horses so old he could not stand and nearly starve to death boys well it did mistreat me so [Music] and i never saved a dollar in the pay of diamond joe [Music] as bread it was corn dodger and his meat could not choke it nearly drove me crazy with the wagon of his jaw and the telling of his stories i mean to let you know that there never was around her that could lie like diamond joke [Music] and i tried three times to quit him boys but he did argue so that i'm still punching cattle in the paved diamond and when i'm called up yonder and it comes my time to go give my blankets to my buddies [Music] give the fleas to diamond joe [Music] do [Music] did you ever go down on the mobia texas line did you ever go down [Music] on a mobile texas line [Music] now you know i want to ask you [Music] did you see that got a mind [Music] i don't cry baby now your daddy's gone away [Music] don't cry mom [Music] your daddy's gonna wait you know i hate to [Music] no i'll leave home someday [Music] and i've rolled the central boys and i rode the elements [Music] yes i rode the center and i rolled the yelling and and alabama women they look like sections [Music] do [Music] dr clyde look lonesome up above the deep blue sea don't the cloud look lonesome up above the deep blue sea don't my baby look so sweet lying in my arms asleep did you ever go down on the mobius texas line did you ever go down on a mobile texas line now you know i want to ask you did you see that guys [Music] really tell me joe turn i've been here neither town joe turner been here and gone really town joe turner been here and gone [Music] now this song was sung back in 1892 [Music] it was a terrible flood that year the poor people lost all they had they lost their farms and their livestock that's their horses cows pigs they knew there was only one man could help that man was joe turner joe turner was a man go around helping the poor people everywhere so when they got in trouble they all got together and they sang this song [Music] tell me [Music] [Music] joe turner been here and gone [Music] they go out in the woods try and shoot something [Music] possum squirrel come back home and all stacked up in the front yard they'd find meat and flour potatoes sugar they know joe turner had been there they'd all get happy dance around sing this song will you tell me joe turn i've been here and gone [Music] will it tell joe turner been here and gone will he tell me joe turner been here and gone they'd go out in the woods and try and cut some firewood come back home and they'd find all stacked up axes plows harness seed no joe turner been there they'd all get happy [Music] dance around maybe do a little boogie woogie [Music] here and gone now they tell me joe turner been here and gone [Music] will it tell joe turner been here and gone [Music] boys you better get you fired you know there's two might quit you and the other three might die i got a little monday a monday woman she lay it all on the shelf i got a tuesday boys she just did something else and it's a wednesday wednesday one bring me all my whiskey and bill there's a thursday woman she'd raise hell if she ever caught me here i got a friday [Music] she just want me all night there's a sunday sunday woman just won't let me sleep now you know about that gotta go for every day [Music] oh you real pretty baby child you gotta die one day all i want's a little loving now before you pass away i got me a married married woman can't call her name i got a little married one and i'm scared to call her name said if you got you 911 [Music] you better get you fired you know this two might quit you and the other three might die [Music] hey don't you leave me here [Music] now don't you leave me but if you must go anyhow leave a dime for beer [Music] in alabama [Music] his preacher's in the stand and he passed his hand around [Music] he said come on you brother sister shoot the money to me number [Music] whiskey baby let that cocaine be [Music] rooster [Music] he said if you want my frequency you got to run me down [Music] found out [Music] there's more pretty girls than one nine more pretty girls than one but it's every time i ramble around there's more pretty girls than one [Music] you look down the railroad line and you see the train roll by [Music] but there's more pretty girls than one [Music] there's more pretty girls [Music] you look out across the sea and you see the breakers swell how many true love was washed away no human tongue can tell but there's more pretty girls than one nine more pretty girls [Music] there's more [Music] so [Music] if i could shimmy like my sister kate shade like a bowl of jelly on a plate my mom was asking just last night she said how come kate can [Music] i may be late and i'd be up to date if i could shimmy like my sister keith [Music] do if i could make it break it like cake i wouldn't stay home to way too late get myself about as high as i can you know i'd do it yes every night and all the boys in the neighborhood no cake can shake mighty good when you're coming through that golden gate [Music] you should get one more [Music] so [Music] if i could shimmy like my sister kate shake it like a bowl of jelly on a plate mama kept on asking just last night she said how come all the boys are treating kate's so nice i said mama it's understood kate's the best shaker in the neighborhood yes i may be late i'd be up to date if i could shimmy like my sister keith when you're coming coming through that golden gate don't want no one to keep [Music] so [Music] well if you want to get to heaven let me tell you how to do it gotta grease your feet little mutton sewage you gotta slide on out of the devil's hand ooze over to the promised land you take it easy [Music] you go greasy well i'll stand one day by the metal pieces got my foot right next to a bucket of grease and my foot slipped into that bucket of grease the wind sliding up and down the metal piece hunting matches cigarette stubs and beer cans and all sorts of leftovers [Music] and i was sitting down yonder in a hollow on a log got my finger on a trigger and mine a hog and i pulled that trigger and the gun said gold shot a man over in mexico [Music] my hog got away i couldn't add a whole one anyhow well i got miguel six foot tall she sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall she's eating hog eyes [Music] gobbles down chitlins she's crazy about ice cream especially with gravy [Music] when i what's using my working so hard i got a gallon of rich folks yard she kills chicken she sends me the beach thinks i'm working i'm walking the street looking at the signs looking in the windows looking at pretty girls and having a good time [Music] i walked out one morning about six o'clock walked out on the streets of little rock looking around to see what i could see and suddenly a paratrooper landed on me seven tanks howitzer army field kitchen a five-star general [Music] the reason for it was to see is time for the kids to go to school [Music] well now what's using my working so hard when it got me gal in the rich folks yard she kills chicken she sends me the beach thinks i'm working i'm laying asleep [Music] i'm dreaming about her her five other ones [Music] well i was down in the hen houses down in my knees and i thought i heard chicken sneeze it was only the rooster he was saying his prayers he was thanking the lord for the hens upstairs [Music] rooster praying in the hands are laying and little pullets plugging away the best they know how [Music] well now what's use in my working so hard when i got my gal in the rich folks yard she kills chicken she sends me the hedge thinks i'm working i'm laying in bed [Music] well if you want to get to heaven let me tell you what to do you got to grease your feet a little mutton stew you gotta slide on out of the devil sand ooze over to the promised land you take it easy [Music] go greasy [Music] yes you make me a pilot on your floor none make me pile it on your floor [Music] make it soft and make it low and my good guy will never know that you made me a pilot on your floor i'm tired and so dissatisfied [Music] might take a southbound freedom ride and if i get to memphis babe and i got no place to go won't you make me a pilot on your floor none make me a pilot on your flow baby make me a pallet on your floor yes often low and my good guy would never know that you made me a palette on your floor [Music] never turn a stranger from your door now you never turn a stranger from your door [Music] might be your best friend knocking you would never know he might be looking for a pilot on your floor maybe you never turn a stranger from your home now never turn a stranger from your home you might be on the road someday got no place to go you might be looking for a pallet on the floor the way you can make me palate [Music] make it soft baby make it low my good gal would never know that you made me a pilot on your floor on come all your good time friends of mine yes you come all your good time friends of mine the way you're hanging around me well and i'm doing fine but where were you when only had a dime [Music] [Applause] by the dog make it soft and make it low more good yeah we'll never know that you made me a pilot on your floor [Music] now you drop down mama let you daddy c you've got some baby keeps on worrying me my mama don't allow me [Music] late at night she said you may be too young [Music] some woman might not treat you right well [Music] queen of spades come on baby start your creeping ways but my mama don't allow me to [Music] she said you may be too young some woman might not [Music] stop scratching on my screen you're an evil one i know just what you mean my mama don't allow me when i flew round all night long she said you may be too young some woman might [Music] treat you wrong [Music] if you see me come and throw your mana doors i ain't no stranger i've been here before my mama don't allow me to wear late at night she said you may be too young some woman might not treat you right well i got me three women on the same old road one does my cooking one more why shouldn't one pay my roman board my mom don't allow me [Music] she said you may be too young some woman might [Music] oh you can take my little woman you sure can't keep along i got me a new way of loving new york men just can't catch on my mama don't allow me to mess around all night long she said you may be too young baby some woman might not treat you right [Music] now you drop down mama daddy see you guys you got some baby keep on worrying me but my mama don't allow me to mess around she said you may be too young some woman might not [Music] she might not might not [Music] treat you right [Music] i'm going downtown with my head in my hand looking for a woman ain't got no man looking for a woman ain't got no man it's like looking for a needle that's lost in the sand iraq mama do that right [Music] if you got one woman you better get two there's one for your buddy and one for you hey you better get a wife and a sweetheart too if the wife don't love it then the sweetheart do correct mama do that right if you got one woman you better get five is to my question the others might die it's a mighty hard job keeping women in line if one treat you good then five will treat you fine yes [Music] i caught my gal and we put it together and it's shaq there's a pistol in my pocket blackjack in the back and i'm going out and giving myself half a brick i believe i'll hurt that so and so drag mama do that right [Music] i'm going downtown with my hat in my hand looking for a woman and you got an old man and looking for a woman ain't got no man it's like looking for a needle that's lost in the sand that yes [Music] so [Music] in scarlet town where i did dwell was a fair made dwelling and many land cried well a day for love of balls [Music] and in the merry month of may when green buds they are swelling swede william on his deathbed late for a love of all [Music] now he sent his servant down to her and down where she was a dwelling he said you must come to my master dear if your name be born really [Music] well slowly slowly rosy up and slowly drew she knight him and the only words to him she said young man i think you're dying [Music] well he turned his face onto the wall and death was within the dealing he said farewell my comrades all be kind to bald now as she walked her long way home she heard the death bell vanello and every stroke did seem to seem heart-hearted barbarian [Music] [Music] our younger sister she came to her [Music] she said bunny barbie take him now it's time enough to tell me now [Music] and her older sister she came to her she said bonnie barbie take him oh it's time enough to tell me now when his grave closed there i'm making [Music] noun mother mother go make my bed and you make it soft and narrow sweet william died for me today i'll die for him tomorrow [Music] sweet william was buried in the old churchyard now barbara allen in the choir out of his breast there [Music] well it grew and they grew to the old church top till they could grow no higher and there they twined in a true lover's night for all true lovers to admire [Music] do [Music] hey mom come on cocaine got me on the sun cocaine around my brain [Music] hey babe please come soon cocaine got me on the moon cocaine around my brain i woke up this morning by the two a.m the cocaine got me on again cocaine around my brain [Music] i woke up this morning's half past two nobody here but cocaine and you cocaine round brains i woke up this morning's half past three nobody here but cocaine and me cocaine around the brain here comes a little lady all dressing red cocaine got it by the head cocaine around my brain [Music] i woke up this morning's half past fourths cocaine pounding up and down my floor cocaine around my brain i woke up this morning's half past five there's cocaine yelling dead or alive cocaine around the brain here come a little lady all dressing green prettiest woman ever seen cocaine around my brain [Music] well i walked up fifth baby turned down maine looking for a place that sold cocaine cocaine around my brain there's a sign in the window it ain't no joke the sign on the counter said no more cold cocaine around my brain comes a little lady all dressed in blue tell me baby what you gonna do cocaine around my brain here comes a little lady all dressing white tell me baby we stay all night cocaine around my brain i got a head full of whiskey battle for the gym the doctor said kimmy but he don't say when cocaine around the brain come on hey babe come on run the cocaine got me on the sun cocaine around the brain i'll baby please come quick to cocaine guide me who's so sick cocaine all around my brain [Music] so [Music] come back baby baby please don't go the way i love you darling you'll never know come back baby let's talk it over one more time so many days since you've been gone [Music] i've been spending my life alone come back baby let's talk it over one more time you're on my mind every place i go the way i love you darling nobody knows come back baby let's talk it over one more time [Music] if i could holler like a mountain jack go up on the mountain call my baby back and say come back baby let's talk it over one more time nice come back baby baby please don't go the way i love you darling nobody knows let's talk it over one more time [Music] i talk about your gamblers the odyssey no richard lee bet a thousand dollars boys come out on a three you lose your money learned to lose nine stackly and billy was gambling late at night and staggering the billy lions they had an awful fight lose your money learned to lose and staggly said billy i can't let you go with that you don't want my money you can't have my stetson hat you lose your money learned to lose pretty staggly went running all up that northern track he said i ain't gonna kill you now but don't be here when i get back and lose your money and learn to lose now it's staggeringly coming running in red hot broiling sun i said reach down and draw roberta you give me my 41. lose your money learn to lose weight and stagger lee coming running he stood in the ballroom door there was old billy lions pacing up and down the floor lose the old money learned to [Music] a lose of woman come running she fell down on her knees just crying oh mr stagger he don't just shoot my brother please lose your money and learn to lose [Music] shot him four or five times he shot down that poor boy just to see him die lose your money learn to lose well the judge you told the sheriff he said get him dead or alive and how in the hell can we bring him in when he carries a 45 you lose the old money learned to lose [Music] old mrs lyons she said i don't believe it so you and billy been friends such a very long time ago [Music] lose your money and learn to lose [Music] roberta said to stagger lee you look all out of breath looks like you might have been the cause of some poor boy's death you lose your money learned to lose stagley said roberta don't the sky look mean and great i believe to my soul it might be my judgment day lose your money learn [Music] peter said go back the other way we don't allow no [Music] said to the devil he said get up on your shelf my name is staggley you're gonna run this place myself lose the old money learn to lose and the devil's little children they went scrambling up the wall [Music] where you talk about your gamblers you'd have seen old richard lee you bet a thousand dollars boys come out on a three lose your money learn to lose if you lose your money learn to lose [Music] now baby please don't go baby please don't go baby please don't go back to new orleans you know that hurt me so baby please don't go [Music] know your man done gone back to county farm got a long chain baby please don't go [Music] now don't you call my name [Music] don't you call my name don't you call my name you got way down here ball and chain baby please don't go [Music] go [Music] oh you turn your lamp down low now and turn your lamp down low turn your lamp down low and baby please don't go you know [Music] now baby please don't go baby please don't go baby please don't go back to new orleans i know that hurt me so baby please don't go [Music] [Applause] please don't go [Music] you

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Published: Mon Oct 11 2021