EVERYTHING EXCEPT MY MORTGAGE BLOWN AWAY

 When they opened up the strip, I was young and full of zip
I wanted some place to call my home
And so I made the race, and I staked me out a place
And I settled down along the Cimarron

It blowed away (Blown away), it blowed away (Blown away)
My Oklahoma home, it blown away
Well, it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there
My Oklahoma home is blown away

Well, I planted wheats and oats, got some chickens and some shoats
Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face
Got a mule to pull the plow, I got an old red muley cow
And I also got a fancy mortgage on this place

Well, it blowed away (Blown away), it blowed away (Blown away)
All the crops that I've planted blown away
Well, you can't grow any grain if you ain't got any rain
Everything except my mortgage blown away

Come on!

Well, it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there
I figured I was all set for life
I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest
Then I went to town to pick me out a wife

She blowed away (Blown away), she blowed away (Blown away)
My Oklahoma woman blown away
Mister, as I bent to kiss her, she was picked up by a twister
My Oklahoma woman blown away

Well, then I was left alone just listening to the moan
Of the wind around the corners of my shack
So I took off down the road, yeah, when the south wind blowed
I traveled with the wind upon my back

I blowed away (Blown away), I blowed away (Blown away)
Chasing that dust cloud up ahead
Well, once it looked so green and fair, and now it's up in the air
My Oklahoma farm is over head

And now I'm always close to home, it don't matter where I roam
For Oklahoma dust is everywhere
Makes no difference where I'm walking, I can hear my chickens squawking
I can hear my wife a-talking in the air

It blowed away (Blown away), it blowed away (Blown away)
Yeah, my Oklahoma home is blown away
But my home, Sir, is always near, it's up here in the atmosphere
My Oklahoma home is blown away

Come on!

Well, I'm a roam'n Oklahoman, but I'm always close to home
And I'll never get homesick until I die
'Cause no matter where I'm found, my home's all around
My Oklahoma home is in the sky

It blowed away (Blown away), it blowed away (Blown away)
And my farm down on Cimarron
But now all around the world wherever dust is swirled
There is some from my Oklahoma home

It blowed away (Blown away), it blowed away (Blown away)
Yeah, my Oklahoma home is blown away
Yeah, it's up there in the sky in that dust cloud over n' by
My Oklahoma home is blown away
Yeah!

Come blow that horn now, thank you!

Come on, one more time!

Well, it's blown away (Blown away), blown away (Blown away)
Oh, my Oklahoma home is blown away
Yeah, it's up there in the sky in that dust cloud over n' by
My Oklahoma home is in the sky
Yeah!

 

It blowed away (Blown away), it blowed away (Blown away)
Yeah, my Oklahoma home is blown away
But my home, Sir, is always near, it's up here in the atmosphere
My Oklahoma home is blown away

Bruce Springsteen 

ERIE CANAL, AND YOU'LL ALWAYS KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR

I've got a mule, and her name is Sal
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal
She's a good old worker and a good old pal
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal

We hauled some barges in our day
Filled with lumber, coal, and hay
We know every inch of the way
From Albany to Buffalo

Low bridge, everybody down
Low bridge, yeah, we're coming to a town
And you'll always know your neighbor
And you'll always know your pal
If you ever navigated on the Erie Canal

We'd better look around for a job, old gal
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal
You can bet your life I'll never part with Sal
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal

Get up, mule, here comes a lock
We'll make Rome about six o'clock
One more trip, and back we'll go
Right back home to Buffalo

Low bridge, everybody down
Low bridge, we're coming to a town
You'll always know your neighbor
And you'll always know your pal
If you ever navigated on the Erie Canal

Where would I be if I lost my pal?
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal
I'd like to see a mule good as my Sal
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal

A friend of mine once got her sore
Now he's got a broken jaw
Because she let fly with an iron toe
And kicked him back to Buffalo

Low bridge, everybody down
Low bridge, yeah, we're coming to a town
And you'll always know your neighbor
And you'll always know your pal
If you ever navigated on the Erie Canal
Low bridge, everybody down
Low bridge, we're coming to a town
And you'll always know your neighbor
And you'll always know your pal
If you ever navigated on the Erie Canal
Low bridge, everybody down
Low bridge, we're coming to a town
Ooooooo...

Low bridge, everybody down
Low bridge, yeah, we're coming to a town

Bruce Springsteen 

MARY DON'T YOU WEEP, THIS OLD WORLD IS GONNA ROCK

Well if I could I surely would
Stand on the rock where Moses stood
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

Well Mary wore three links and chains
On every link was Jesus' name
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep
Go!

Go!

Well one of these nights bout 12 o'clock
This old world is gonna rock
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

Well Moses stood on the Red Sea shore
Smote' the water with a two by four
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

Alright!

(O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn)
(O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn)
(Pharaoh's army got drownded)
(O Mary don't you weep)

Well old Mr. Satan he got mad
Missed that soul that he thought he had
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

Brothers and sisters don't you cry
There'll be good times by and by
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

Well O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

Solo, try it out!
(O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn)
(O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn)
(Pharaoh's army got drownded)
(O Mary don't you weep)
Hey!

Drums!

God gave Noah the rainbow sign
"No more water but fire next time"
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

Everybody!
(O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn)
(O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn)
(Pharaoh's army got drownded)
(O Mary don't you weep)

O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn
Pharaoh's army got drownded
Oooooooh, Mary don't yoooooou

(O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn)
(O Mary don't you weep, don't you mourn)
(Pharaoh's army got drownded)
(O Mary don't you weep)

Brothers and sisters don't you cry
There'll be good times by and by
Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

Bruce Springsteen

FUTHER ON, ONE SUNNY MORNIN' WE'LL RISE I KNOW

Where the road is dark and the seed is sowed
Where the gun is cocked and the bullet's cold
Where the miles are marked in the blood and gold
I'll meet you further on up the road

Got on my dead man's suit and my smilin' skull ring
My lucky graveyard boots and song to sing
I got a song to sing, keep me out of the cold
And I'll meet you further on up the road.

Further on up the road
Further on up the road
Where the way dark and the night is cold
One sunny mornin' we'll rise I know
And I'll meet you further on up the road.

Now I been out in the desert, just doin' my time
Searchin' through the dust, lookin' for a sign
If there's a light up ahead well brother I don't know
But I got this fever burnin' in my soul
So let's take the good times as they go
And I'll meet you further on up the road

Further on up the road
Further on up the road
Further on up the road
Further on up the road

One sunny mornin' we'll rise I know
And I'll meet you further on up the road
One sunny mornin' we'll rise I know
And I'll meet you further on up the road

Further on up the road
Where the way dark and the night is cold
One sunny mornin' we'll rise I know
And I'll meet you further on up the road.

Bruce Springsteen

I CAME FOR YOU, YOUR LIFE WAS ONE LONG EMERGENCY

Princess cards, she sends me
With her regards
Oh, bar room eyes shine vacancy
To see her, you gotta look hard
Wounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted
To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file
She's all I ever wanted

Oh, but you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts
Honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back
You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks
You said, "Here's your mirror and your ball and jacks"
But they're not what I came for, and I'm sure you see that too

I came for you, for you
I came for you, but you did not need my urgency
I came for you, for you
I came for you, but your life was one long emergency
And your cloud line urges me
Oh, and my electric surges free

Well, crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak
Oh, reveal yourself all now to me, girl, while you've got the strength to speak
'Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue
With their oxygen masks
But I could give it all to you now
If only you could ask

Oh, and don't call for your surgeon, even he says it's too late
It's not your lungs this time, it's your heart that holds your fate
Don't give me money, honey, I don't want it back
You and your pony face and your Union Jack

Well, take your local joker and teach him how to act
I swear I was never that way, even when I really cracked
Didn't ya think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive?
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound
And your Chelsea suicide, with no apparent motive
You could laugh and cry in a single sound

And your strength is devastating
In the face of all these odds
Remember how I kept you waiting
When it was my turn to be the god?

You were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach
Remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach?
And the band, they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek?
Yeah, that ragged, jagged melody, she still clings to me like a leech

That medal you wore on your chest always got in the way
Like a little girl with a trophy, so soft to buy her way
We were both hitchhikers, but you had your ears tuned to the roar
Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien distant shore
So you left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
And it's not that nursery mouth I came back for
It's not the way you're stretched out on the floor
'Cause I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors
And who am I to ask you to lick my sores?
And you should know that's true...

I came for you, for you
I came for you, but you did not need my urgency
I came for you, for you
I came for you, your life was one long emergency
And your cloud line urges me
Oh, and my electric surges free

I came for you, for you
I came for you, but you did not need my urgency
I came for you, for you
I came for you, your life was one long emergency
And your cloud line urges me
Oh, and my electric surges free

NOW EVERYONE DREAMS OF A LOVE LASTING AND TRUE

We said we'd walk together baby come what may
That come the twilight should we lose our way
If as we're walking a hand should slip free
I'll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me

We swore we'd travel darlin' side by side
We'd help each other stay in stride
But each lover's steps fall so differently
But I'll wait for you
And if I should fall behind
Wait for me

Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true
But you and I know what this world can do
So let's make our steps clear that the other may see
And I'll wait for you
If I should fall behind
Wait for me

Now there's a beautiful river in the valley ahead
There 'neath the oak's bough soon we will be wed
Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
I'll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me
Darlin' I'll wait for you
Should I fall behind
Wait for me

 

Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true
But you and I know what this world can do
So let's make our steps clear that the other may see
And I'll wait for you
If I should fall behind
Wait for me

Bruce Springsteen 

BUT JUST TO SAY I MISS YOU, BABY GOOD LUCK, GOODBYE

Two, three, four
Hey
Hey

Well, I came by your house the other day
Your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing that I could have done
There was nothing nobody could say

Me and you, we've known each other
Ever since we were 16
I wished I would have known
I wished I could have called you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now you hung with me when all the others
Turned away turned up their nose
We liked the same music, we liked the same bands
We liked the same clothes

Yeah, we told each other
That we were the wildest
The wildest things we'd ever seen

Now I wished you would have told me
I wished I could have talked to you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean
Now we went walking in the rain
Talking about the pain from the world we hid
Now there ain't nobody, nowhere, no how
Gonna ever understand me the way you did

Well, maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train travelling along
In some motel room, there'll be a radio playing
And you'll hear me sing this song

Well, if you do, you'll know I'm thinking of you
And all the miles in between
And I'm just calling one last time
Not to change your mind
But just to say I miss you, baby
Good luck, goodbye
Bobby Jean

Well, if you do, you'll know I'm thinking of you
And all the miles in between
And I'm just calling one last time
Not to change your mind
But just to say I miss you, baby
Good luck, goodbye
Bobby Jean

Bruce Springsteen