Act naturally

THEME FROM AN IMAGINARY WESTERN
When the wagons leave the city

For the forest and further on

Painted wagons of the morning

Dusty roads where they have gone

Sometimes travelling through the darkness

Met the Summer coming home

Fallen faces by the wayside

Looked as if they might have known

Oh the sun was in their eye

And the days with the trials

In a country town

Where the laughter sounds

Oh the dancing and the singing

Oh the music when they played

Oh the fires that they started

Oh the girls with no regrets

Sometimes they found it sometimes they kept it

Often they lost it along the way

For each other to possess it

Sometimes ride inside of day

Oh the sun was in their eye

And the days with the trials

In a country town

Where the laughter sounds

Oh the sun was in their eye

And the days with the trials

In a country town

Where the laughter sounds

THERE'S A LIGHT OVER AT THE FRANKENSTEIN PLACE
In the velvet darkness of the blackest night

Looming bright there's a guiding star

No matter what or who you are
There's a light over at the Frankenstein place

There's a light burning in the fireplace

There's a light light in the darkness of everybody's life
Darkness must go down the river of night's dreaming

Flow Morpheus slow let the sun and light come streaming

Into my life into my life
There's a light over at the Frankenstein place

There's a light burning in the fireplace

There's a light light in the darkness of everybody's life

THIRTY-NINE
In the year of thirty-nine assembled here the volunteers

In the days when lands were few

Said the ship roved out on a blue and sunny morn

Sweetest sight ever seen

And the nights they followed day and the storytellers say

That the score brave souls inside

Sailed out for many years way across the milky sea

Ne’er looked back never feared never cried

Don’t you hear my call though you’re many years away

Don’t you hear me calling you

Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand

In the land that our grandchildren knew

In the year of thirty-nine came a ship in from the blue

Volunteers came home that day

And they bring good news of a world so newly born

But their hearts so heavily weigh

For the Earth is old and grey little darling we’ll away

But my love this cannot be

For so many years have gone though I’m older but a year

Your mother’s eyes from your eyes cry to me

Don’t you hear my call though you’re many years away

Don’t you hear me calling you

Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand

In the land that our grandchildren knew

Don’t you hear my call though you’re many years away

Don’t you hear me calling you

All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand

For my life ahead pity me

THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Once upon a time there was a tavern

Where we used to raise a glass or two

Remember how we laughed away the hours

And dreamed of all the great things we would do

Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose

For we were young and sure to have our way

La la la la la la, la la la la la la

Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days

Then the busy years went rushing by us

We lost our starry notions on the way

If by chance I'd see you in the tavern

We'd smile at one another and we'd say

Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose

For we were young and sure to have our way

La la la la la la, la la la la la la

Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days

Just tonight I stood before that tavern

Nothing seemed the way it used to be

In the glass I saw a strange reflection

Was this lonely fellow really me

Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose

For we were young and sure to have our way

La la la la la la, la la la la la la

Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days

through the door there came familiar laughter

I saw you face and heard you call my name

Oh my friend, we're older but no wiser

For in our hearts the dreams are still the same

Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the live we choose we'd fight and never lose

For we were young and sure to have our way

La la la la la la, la la la la la la

Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days

THREE TIMES A LADY
Thanks for the times that you’ve given me

The memories are all in my mind

And now that we’ve come to the end of our rainbow

There’s something I must say out loud

You’re once twice three times a lady

And I love you

Yes you’re once twice three times a lady

And I love you I love you

(You’ve shared my dreams my joys my pains)

(You’ve made my life worth living for)

(And if I had to live my life over again dear)

(I’d spend each and every moment with you)

(You’re once twice three times a lady)

(And I love you)

(You’re once twice three times a lady)

(And I love you I love you)

When we are together the moments I cherish

With every beat of my heart

To touch you to hold you to feel you to need you

There’s nothing to keep us apart

You’re once twice three times a lady

And I love you I love you

TIE YOUR MOTHER DOWN
Get your party gown and get your pigtail down

And get your heart beating baby

Got my timing right and got my act all tight

It’s got to be tonight my little school babe

Your mother says you don’t

And your daddy says you won’t

And I’m boiling up inside

Ain’t no way I’m gonna lose out this time

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Lock your daddy out of doors

I don’t need him nosing around

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Give me all your love tonight
You’re such a dirty louse go get outta my house

That’s all I ever get from your family ties

In fact I don’t think I ever heard a single little civil word

From those guys

I don’t give a light I’m gonna make out all right

I’ve got a sweetheart hand to put a stop

To all that sniping and grousing
Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Take your little brother swimming

With a brick that’s all right

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Or you ain’t no friend of mine
Your momma and your daddy gonna plague me ‘till I die

I can’t understand it cause I’m a peace loving guy

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Get that big big big big big daddy out the door

Tie your mother down, tie your mother down

Give me all your love tonight

TIME AFTER TIME
Lying in my bed I hear the clock ticks I thing of you

All the things circled, confusion is nothing new

Flashed that warm night almost left behind

Suitcase so left me

Time after sometimes you pictured me

I’m walking to find a hope, you’re calling to me

I can’t hear what you’ve said

Then you said go slow, I fall behind

The second hand done right
If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time

If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time

If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time

If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time

I’ve done my pictured face

And darkness has turned to climb

Watch you through the window

You’re wondering it’s fine, O.K.

Scene left, stone left from deep inside

If you’re a big sound of time

If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time

If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time

The second hand done right
If you’re lost you can look, and you will find me time after time

If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting, time after time

TIME IS ON MY SIDE
Time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time is on my side oh yes it is

Now you always say

That you wanna be free

But you come running back

You come running back

You come running back to me
Time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time is on my side oh yes it is

You're searching for good times

But just wait and see

You'll come runnin' back

You'll come runnin' back

You'll come runnin' back to me
Girl girl go on I said go ahead a lot of the time

And baby do anything your heart desires

Remember I'll be around

But I know I know like I told you so many times before

That you are gonna turn back

Yeah you're gonna come back one of these days

Gonna hammer right on my door
Time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time is on my side oh yes it is

Cause I've got the real love

The kind that you need

You'll come runnin' back

You'll come runnin' back

You'll come runnin' back to me
Yes time time time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time time time is on my side oh yes it is

I said time is on my side oh yes it is

TIME WARP
It's astounding time is fleeting

Madness takes it's toll

But listen closely

Not for very much longer

I've got to keep control
I remember doing the time warp

Drinking those moments when

The blackness would hit me

And the voice would be calling

Let's do the time warp again
It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right

Put your hand on your hips and bring your knees in tight

It's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane

Let's do the time warp again

It's so dreamy

Oh fantasy free me

Till you can't see me no not at all

In another dimension

With voyeuristic intention

Well secluded I see all

With a bit of a mind flip

You're into a time slip

And nothing can ever be the same

You're spaced out on sensation

Like you're under sedation

Let's do the time warp again

It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right

Put your hand on your hips and bring your knees in tight

It's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane

Let's do the time warp again

Well I was walking down the street just a having a think

When this snake of a guy gave me an evil wink

He looked me up he took me by surprise

He had a pickup truck and the devils eyes

He stared at me and I felt the change

Time meant nothing after what I gained

Let's do the time warp again
It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right

Put your hand on your hips and bring your knees in tight

It's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane

Let's do the time warp again

THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING
Come gather around people wherever you roam

And admit that the waters around you have grown

And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth saving

Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changing

Come writers and critics, who prophecies with your pen

And keep your eyes wide the change won't come again

And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin

And there's no telling who that is naming

For the loser now will be later to win

For the times they are a-changing

Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside and it's raging

It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changing

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land

And don't criticise what you don't understand

Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command

Your old road is ripply again

Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changing

The line it is drawn the curse it is cast

The slow one now will later be fast

As the present now will later be past

The order is rapidly fading

And the first one now will later be last

For the times they are a-changing

TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON
When love with unconfined wings hovers within my gates

And my divine Althea brings to whisper at my grates

When thy light angled in her hair and fettered with her eye

Birds that wanton in the air know no such liberty

When flowing cups run swiftly round with no allay intends

Our careless heads with roses crowned our hearts with royal flames

When thirsty grief in wine we steep when healths and draughts run free

Fishes that tickle in the deep know no such liberty

Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage

Minds innocent and quiet take that as a hermitage

If I have freedom in my love and in my soul am free

Angels alone that soar above enjoy such liberty

TO BE A FARMER’S BOY
The sun had set behind yon hill across the dreary moor

Weary and lame a poor boy came unto a farmer’s door

Can you tell me if here it be that I can find employ
To plough and sow to reap and mow

And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy

My father’s dead my mother’s left with children great and small

And what is worse for mother still I’m the oldest of them all

Though small I be though I’ll work hard if you would me employ
To plough and sow to reap and mow

And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy

And if you will not me employ one favour I must ask

To shelter me ‘till break of day from this cold winter’s blast

At break of day away I’ll go elsewhere to seek employ
To plough and sow to reap and mow

And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy

Come try the lad the mistress said let him no further seek

Oh father do the daughter cried as the tears rolled down her cheek

A man that’ll work is hard to find so father him employ
Don’t turn him away but let him stay

And be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy

As time the lad became a man and the good old farmer died

Leaving the lad the farm he had and his daughter for his bride

The lad that was a man now is oft smiles as he thinks with joy
And he blesses that day he came that way

To be a farmer’s boy and be a farmer’s boy

TO KNOW HER IS TO LOVE HER
To know know know her

Is to love love love her

Just to see her smile

Makes my life worthwhile

To know know know her

Is to love love love her

And I do and I do and I do
I’ll be good to her

I’ll bring love to her

Everyone says there’ll come a day

When I’ll walk alongside of her

Oh yes yes to know know know her

Is to love love love her

And I do and I do and I do
Why can’t she see me

How blind can she be

Someday she’ll see

That she belongs to me

To know know know her

Is to love love love her

Just to see her smile

Makes my life worthwhile

To know know know her

Is to love love love her

And I do and I do and I do
TO LOVE SOMEBODY
There’s a light a certain kind of light

That never shone on me

I want my life to be lived with you

Lived with you

There’s a way everybody say

To do each and every little thing

But what does it bring

If I ain’t got you ain’t got you baby

You don’t know what it’s like

You don’t know what it’s like

To love somebody to love somebody

The way I love you

In my brain I see your face again

I know my frame of mind

You ain’t got to be so blind

And I’m blind so so so very blind

I’m a man can’t you see what I am

I live and I breathe for you

But what good does it do

When I ain’t got you, ain’t got you baby

You don’t know what it’s like

You don’t know what it’s like

To love somebody to love somebody

The way I love you

TOO TIRED
I lay down last night too tired to wake

I had a chill this morning too tired to shake

I got a good poker hand too tired to win

I hear my baby knocking too tired to let her in

I'm tired yeah yeah yeah I'm tired

Too tired too tired for anything

I'm too tired to walk too tired to run

I can hear my baby calling too tired too tired

I'm tired yes I'm tired I'm tired too tired for anything
I'm tired of prosperity I'm tired of luck

I'm sitting on a pin I'm too tired to get up

I'm tired I declare I'm tired

Too tired too tired for anything

THE TORTOISE
He was just a lonely tortoise looking for a home

His little feet were blistered

With the miles he had to roam

I found him in a pet shop

On his cheek there was a tear

On his little back was painted

“Five new pence to clear”
He’s a faithful friend the tortoise

and he’ll love you to the end

And you’ll never need a person

With a tortoise for a friend

I took him from that pet shop

Tied to a piece of string

He was happy in his freedom

You know I think I heard him sing

Then I took him to my sports car

We’d twenty miles to go

I tied him to the bumper

He was grateful for the tow

In the winter we would hibernate

We would both retire

And if he ever got too cold

I’d stick him on the fire

In the summer at the swimming pool

I was so proud of him

I threw him in, he often sank

You know I don’t think he could swim

Then came that day as come it may

To creatures great and small

A drunken driver hit my friend

And he went to the wall

All I found here and there

Were little bits of shell

So I made them into plectrums

And friends I knew this plectrum well

TRAIN IN G
I know you’re travelling but I don’t know where

I’d leave here with you but I just can’t pay my fare

Take me to some better place to be

Now tell me baby don’t you want a man like me

I came in the summer with the bright lights on my mind

I tried to make it but I soon got left behind

If you deal me one good hand to play

Then I swear I’ll keep your secret when your man comes back one day

Hey now baby won’t you take me on your train

We’ll leave tomorrow and we won’t come back again

And if the sun don’t shine on our back door

Then you can leave me in the morning if you just let me know what for

TRAVELLING BAND
Seven thirty seven coming out of the sky

Won't you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride

I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah

Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand

Playing in a travelling band
Take me to the hotel baggage going nowhere

Come on come on won't you get me to my room

I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah

Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand

Playing in a travelling band
Listen to the radio talking 'bout the last show

Someone got excited and they called the state malitia

I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah

Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand

Playing in a travelling band
Here we come again on a Saturday night

With your fussing and your fighting won't you get me to the rock

I wanna move playing in a travelling band yeah

Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand

Playing in a travelling band
Playing in a travelling band

Playing in a travelling band

Wanna give myself a hand

Cause I'm playing in a travelling band

Well I'm flying 'cross this land just to get a hand

Playing in a travelling band

TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
Oh she may get weary young girls they do get weary

Wearing that same old shaggy dress but when she gets weary

Try a little tenderness
You know she's waiting just anticipating

The things that she'll never never posses while she's there waiting

Try a little tenderness

That's all you gotta do

You won't regret it some girls they can't forget it

Love is their only happiness but it's all so easy

All you gotta do is try a little gentleness
All you gotta do is try a little gentleness

Hold her squeeze her never leave her

Try a little tenderness

Hold her squeeze her never leave her

Try a little tenderness
Try a little tenderness

All you gotta do is hold her squeeze her

Never leave her gotta please her

Try a little tenderness

Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness
Oh yeah squeeze her tease her never leave her

You gotta you gotta you gotta you gotta

Try a little tenderness

TUNNEL OF LOVE
Getting crazy on the waltzer but it’s the life that I choose

Sing about the six blade, sing about the switchback and the torture tattoo

And I’ve been riding on the ghost train where the cars they scream and slam

And I don’t know where I’ll be tonight but I’ll always tell you where I am

In a screaming ring with faces I saw her standing in the light

She had a ticket for the races, just like me she was a victim of the night

I put my hand upon her lever said let it rock and let it roll

I had the one armed bandit fever there was an arrow through my heart and my soul

And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning, up above

And I’m so high on the world come and take a slow ride with me girl

On a tunnel of love, love, love
It’s just a danger when you’re riding at your own risk

She said you are the perfect stranger and she said baby lets keep it like this

It’s just a kick, walk, twisting daily and step right up and see

Hey mister, hey mister gimme two, gimme two now `cause any two can play

And the big wheel keep on turning, neon burning up above

And I’m so high on the world come and take a slow ride with me babe

On a tunnel of love, love, love
Well It’s been money for muscle on another whirligig

Money for muscle and another girl I dig

Just a hustle just to make it big

And rock away, rock away, oh rock away, rock away

Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did

Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids

Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did

Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids

She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this

She put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss

And in the roar and dust and visa I stood I was to walk away

I could have caught up with her easy enough but someone must have made me stay

And the big wheel keep on turning neon burning, up above

And I’m so high on the world come and take a slow ride with me girl

On a tunnel of love, love, love
Hey now I’m searching through these carousel and carnival arcades

Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades

In any shooting gallery where promises are made

To rock away, rock away, Coloured cove to Whitby bay

Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did

Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids

Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did

Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids

Girl you look so pretty to me just like it always did

Like the Spanish City to me when we were kids