Nitty Gritty Dirt Band все тексты (слова) песен, переводы, видео, клипы

I beg your pardon momma
What did you say?
My mind was drifted off on Martinique Bay
It's not that I'm not interested you see
Augusta Georgia is just no place to be

I think Jamaican in the moonlight
Sandy beaches drinkin' rum every night

Fresh scrubbed baby, momma's kiss on his cheek
Steps off the greyhound with money for a week.
A wild eyed innoncent, he knows no fear
It takes more than heroes to survive down there.

In the badlands, the badlands, the badlands
Well if you've got the bullets...
They'll remember your name down there.

Buy for me the rain, my darling, buy for me the rain;
Buy for me the crystal pools that fall upon the plain.
And I'll buy for you a rainbow and a million pots of gold.
Buy it for me now, babe, before I am too old.

Buy for me the sun, my darling, buy for me the sun;
Buy for me the light that falls when day has just begun.
And I'll buy for you a shadow to protect you from the day.

There she sits buddy just a gleamin' in the sun
There to greet a workin' man when his day is done
I'm gonna pack my pa, and I'm gonna pack my aunt
I'm gonna take 'em down to the Cadillac ranch

Eldorado fins, white walls and skirts;
Drives just like a little bit of heaven here on Earth
So when I die buddy throw my body in the back

Merry-go-rounds and burial grounds
Are all the same to me.
Horses on post and kids and ghosts
Are spirits that we ought to set free.
Then city slicker pickers got a lot of
Slicker licks than me.
But ridin' the range and acting strange
Is where I want to be.

So many lonely people looking for a way
To fill the empty nights when the phone won't ring
We all want to fall in love, hear the birds sing
So if you're feeling desperate, don't give up
Times, they are a changing and so is your luck

Cupid's got a gun
Arrows wouldn't do

I played a wedding for the money,
And I wished that I could tell the bride and groom
Just what I thought of marriage
And what's in store after their honeymoon.

And I was grumblin' to the dancers
'Bout how men and women ought to live apart
And how a promise never made can not be broken

Well, I’ve been around for a pretty good while
I’ve been on the move since I was just a little baby child
Been with, I've been with out, never been no doubt
When that good time feeling comes around

Well, I’ve got my temper, just like you
A little fussin' and fightin', well, they ain't nothing new
But for a little while tonight everything gonna be alright

I walk in silence when it comes
This feeling when the spirit leads me on
If the dogs are barking and the night is rough
I take it as a sign to climb above
The city to the hill among the clouds
Where I can see my Savior now
He's waiting with His palm to me outstretched
His mercy is a balm when I'm perplexed

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury
I come before you to plead for the life of Leon McDuff
Ladies and gentlemen on the jury
I asking you to be the judge of when enough is enough

Now Leon McDuff has worked on his daddy's farm everyday since the day that he was born
Plowing in the fields and hoeing in the garden and helping pick the cotton and the corn
Then came the time of the Mississippi floods and all of his work went down the drain

Well you get down the fiddle
And you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes
And you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen till the morning light
Lousianna saturday night

Awaitin in the front yard

We met on the highway, she flagged me down,
Had a flat on her stingray with nobody around
I helped her out, she said climb in
So I ditched my ol truck just to see where the party would end.

We spent the weekend in reno in the honeymoon suite,
Never saw the casino, barely took time to eat.
I never dreamed she would take me this far

Well the little things that you say and do
Make me want to be with you
Oh, rave on it's a crazy feeling
And I know it's got me reelin'

When you say I love you
Rave on
The way you dance and hold me tight

Seems like 10 years ago
Though today my mind is slow
Me and Mickey Craig were running west from Idaho
Robbed a bank to get some bread

Seems like 15 men lay dead
In a path that led us straight to Santa Rosa
Now and then ol' Mick'd say

I met her in a movie house, she was playin' the arcades
And posing with her hang hair down, lookin' a little bit unmade
She spoke in broken English, I replied in broken French
'Come and share my popcorn, it's not a federal offense
She's so young
God help me, she's so young
Her skin was kind of pudgy, got spots all on her face
From wearin' too much makeup, and she wasn't walkin' straight

Along about eighteen and twenty-five
I left Tennessee very much alive
I never would have got through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a-ridin on the Tennessee stud

I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud

(J.Wilson/D.Greer)

She was her daddy's girl with her momma's smile
A country boy's dream she was a loveless child
She had a restless heart for the city lights
She left her country days for the city nights

There's just too many heartaches in paradise