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[Sgt. Pepper]

Hi Pri. I wrote a song just for ya.

Dear Pri, won't you come out to play?
Dear Pri, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Pri, won't you come out to play?

Dear Pri, open up your eyes
Dear Pri, see the sunny skies
The wind is low the birds will sing
That you are part of everything
Dear Pri, won't you open up your eyes?

Look around round
(Round round round, round round)
Look around round round
(Round round round, round round)
Look around

Dear Pri, let me see you smile
Dear Pri, like a little child
The clouds will be a daisy chain
So let me see you smile again
Dear Pri, won't you let me see you smile?

Dear Pri, won't you come out to play?
Dear Pri, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Pri, won't you come out to play?

 

[MoonLit_Water]

Justin Townes Earle "Time You Waste"

Remember sitting on a doorstep
Oh with tears in my eyes
Already had my bags packed
And kissed my momma goodbye
Had my heart set on someone
That I didn't even know
So tell me why
Still hurts me so
Cold afternoons
Oh mommas off to work
Just home from school
Feeling lonesome and unsure
Getting wise to the streets
Keepin' to my own
Just awake one day
To Find that I was grown
Oh, all the other ones
Only get one chance
Seeing life through the eyes of the innocent
Just to take it slow
Don't Believe In Haste
Cause in time youll miss
Time you waste
Guess I'm now grown
For the first time in my life
Oh, I feel at home
In my heart and in my mind
Don't think that I
Wouldn't take every minute back
Just couldn't bring myself
To live like that
Cause your only young once
Only get one chance
Seeing life through the eyes of the innocent
Yes, so take it slow
Don't believe in haste
Cause in time you'll miss
The time you waste
Yeah the time you'll miss, babe
Is the time you waste
​

 

[MoonLit_Water]

Justin Townes Earle "Harlem River Blues"

Lord, I'm going uptown
To the Harlem River to drown
Dirty water gonna cover me over
And I'm not gonna make a sound

I'm on a roll, mama, I gotta go
Gotta get there while I still can
Troubled days are behind me now
And I know they're gonna let me in

When you see me walking up the empty yard
With a-singing and a-clapping my hands
Tell my mama I love her, tell my father I tried
Give my money to my baby to spend

'Cause Lord, I'm going uptown
To the Harlem River to drown
Dirty water gonna cover me over
And I'm not gonna make a sound

Good times come and they go
Even a good man'll break
He'll let his troubles bury him whole
Even though he knows what's at stake

So I'm taking no chances
Carrying over while I'm still good in His grace
And I'm no fool, mama, I know the difference
Between tempting and choosing my fate

So Lord, I'm going uptown
To the Harlem River to drown
Dirty water gonna cover me over
And I'm not gonna make a sound

Lord, I'm going uptown
To the Harlem River to drown
Dirty water gonna cover me over
And I'm not gonna make a sound

Lord, I'm going uptown
To the Harlem River to drown
Dirty water gonna cover me over
And I'm not gonna make a sound​

 

[JoanJ]

Not much to say... just thinking about friends and ended up here. Pri... thoughts of strength and health for you. whodat... hope all is well with you... watched weather reports and thought of you. Redd...thank you for all you do... Moonlit...thanks for always bringing a smile... so many more on here I think of too.Sue, JJ, Fran..thanks for bopping about with me playing games. and there are more. Forgive me if I missed you on the list, that doesn't mean you haven't made my life better *hugs*

 

[MoonLit_Water]

Justin Townes Earle "Yuma


a fan made this for a video production class he was taking

Well he woke up that morning
And he called into work
Put on his daddy's old suit
With a second hand shirt
All untucked, shoes untied
The people all snickered as he walked by.
So he stopped in a bar,
Bought a shot of Stevens and another.
He bummed a cigarette
And set talking to a stranger about the weather.
And then he paid his bill and
He stepped outside, fell down into the street.
He cursed, and he cried
As he climbed back up to his feet again.


So up the road he found a payphone and called his mom.
He said, momma I think I'll be coming back home.
I been feeling so bad, and tired of this city.
Ain't been the same since I lost my pretty Angelina.
Momma I miss her so.
It's been over a year and there ain't nothing I fear so much as being alone.
And then he hung up the phone without saying good-bye.
Stopped in a store and bought a postcard and signed it, Fare thee well, and sent it back home to Yuma.

Lookin' back I'd say
It wasn't so much the girl
As it was the booze and the dope
And the way he took the weight of the world
Up upon his shoulders.
And when he washed the blue from his eyes
As he grew colder.
As through all those lonely nights there left alone.

So he was just 23 when he stepped out on that ledge.
It was his weary heart that pushed him to the edge.
He was tired of living life, looking for love.
A weary heart just needs a little touch.
And is it too much to ask, he cried as he stepped into the wind.
He turned his back onto the world and he fell back to earth again.
So with the wind in his hair, and smile on his face,
He crashed through the hood of an Old's 98,
And he lay there dying on a cold winters day
All alone, all alone.
​

 

[MoonLit_Water]

Justin Townes Earle "The Ghost of Virginia"


how can you not like a song about a train

Well she comes out at night with the cold winds of December
And when it's quiet you hear her engines cry
She blows smoke out her wheels and her gears pound the steel
As they carry her down the line

Now I'm sure you've heard stories as most of us have
In the lunch counter and barber shop queues
She's the Ghost of Virginia and from here up to Richmond
She runs by the light of the Moon

Well a few years back on the old Suffick Road
Where it crosses the abandoned rail line
My Grandpa claimed that he'd seen a freight train
And it wasn't no sleek stream line

She was cold black and steel and she screamed as she cut
Her way clear of the pines
But he swears to this day he can feel the earth shake
And smell her smoke when the wind's just right

Yeah but back in her day she was a real working horse
Haulin' coal out for old man Ward
She was tied up with ribbons and set out to Richmond
Haulin' soldiers during the war

Ah but some say she wrecked and she rides these rails
Hopin' one day that she'll get it right
Others say she roams out picking up lost souls
Carryin 'em down to Carolina

So if you're ever out on the old Suffick Road
And you see this strangest of sights
She's the Ghost of Virginia bound from Raleigh up to Richmond
And you'd best stay out of her line

Yeah you'd best stay out of her line

​

 

[daleron]

Good night everyone


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[MoonLit_Water]

Justin Townes Earle "Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Fell About Me Now"

 

[MoonLit_Water]

Justin Townes Earle "I Don't Care"

 

[MoonLit_Water]

Justin Townes Earle "Working For The MTA"

Well, it's cold in them tunnels today
Well, it's cold in them tunnels today
It's cold down in those tunnels today
Mama, working for the MTA

I run that six-line train
I run a six-line train
I run a six-line train
Clear from Brooklyn Bridge to Pelham Bay

I'm the son of a railroad man
I'm the son of a railroad man
I'm the son of a railroad man
Born and raised back in south Louisian'

This ain't my daddy's train
This ain't my daddy's train
This ain't my daddy's train
Mama, I ain't seen the sun in days

Yeah, them hard times are going around
Hard times are going around
Hard times are going around
Bringing hard luck on New York town

But I'm banking on the A-T-E
Banking on the A-T-E
I'm banking on the A-T-E
Brother Georgie's gonna see me free

So, it's cold in them tunnels today
Well, it's cold in them tunnels today, babe
It's cold in those tunnels today
Mama, working for the MTA
Yeah, I'm working for the MTA​

 

[MoonLit_Water]

Justin Townes Earle "Down On The Lower East Side"

Well the midnight's on Manhattan 11th street and all alone
Countin' cracks beneath my feet 'cause my head is hanging low
And the street lights all down be shining on the falling rain
Shadows dance across the street
Wind seems to whisper her name
But in this tired old town another sleepless night
Keep me wandering around down on the lower east side

So lay a star up in heaven shining down from up above
And the city is unforgiving when you got nobody to love
But it's more and more these days I find I need a place to hide
And it's easy to get away when you're down on the lower east side
Yeah it's easy to get away when you're down on the lower east side​

 

[Sundrinkr]

Good Morning Insomniacs!

 

[daleron]

Good morning everyone!


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[Sgt. Pepper]

If it's Tuesday, it has got to be Ruby.

 

[JoanJ]

 

[JerryRM]

Good morning/afternoon, Insomniacs.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

Hello Jerry, long x no see. Hope all is well.

 

[JerryRM]

Hi Pepper. I haven't posted much lately, but every now and then I perk up a bit. lol

All is well with me, I hope that all is well with you.

 

[Reddhott]

afternoon my dear friends~~~hope everyone is doing well today~~~
im suppose to be cleaning oh well it will get done sooner or later...

wooow Pepper that was sooo cool the way you did the song for Pri(((hugs)))
great tunes Moonlit..always love the music!
~~~(((hugs)))Pri~~
ty Joan,Sun Dale,Jerry for stopping by~~always love to see everyone((hugs))

 

[JerryRM]

Hi Redd.

I see Pri "liking" posts. Hi Pri, I hope that all is good with you.