Call him drunken Ira Hayes, He won't answer anymore;

Not the whiskey drinkin' indian, not the marine that went to war.

Gather 'round me, people, there's a story I would tell

About a brave young Indian, you should remember well;

Frome the land of the Pima Indians, a proud and noble band,

Who farmed the Phoenix Valley in Arizona land.

Down their ditches for a thousand years the aparkling weater rushed

Till the white man stole their water rights and their sparklin' water hushed

Now Ira's folks were hungry and their land grew crops of weeds

When war came Ira volunteered and forgot the white man's greed.

Well, they battled up Iwo Jima Hill - two hundred and fity men,

But only twenty-seven lived - to walk back down again;

When the fight was over - and Old Glory raised,

Among the men who held it high was the Indian - Ira Hayes.

Ira Hayes returned a hero, -celebrated throughout the land,

He was wined and speeched and honored, -everybody shook his hand;

But he was just a Pima Indian, --no water, no crops, no chance;

And back home nobody cared what Ira don - and went to the Indians dance?

Then Ira started drinin' hard - jail was often his home;

They let him raise the flag and lower it, like you throw a dog a bone;

He died drunk early one morning, -alone in the land he'd fought to save;

Two inches of water in a lonely ditch - was the grave for Ira Hayes.

Yeah call him drunken Ira Hayes - but his land is still as dry,

And his ghost is lying thirsty in the ditch where Ira died.

Chorus: Call him drunken Ira Hayes, He won't answer anymore;

Not the whiskey drinin' Indian, Nor the marine that went to war.

                    E   A                  E

The sunbird sings in the silver valley

                                                                                B7 

and a song drifts in through the clouds down tornado alley.

                    E   A                     E 

The sunbird sings and freedom rings.

                                   B7                        E 

The valley moon may shine but not in my eyes.

                 A

I'm gonna fly...

B7             E 

I'm gonna fly...

The sunbird's song's for what he longs for.

Other loves may shine as bright but not in my eyes.

My heart can only make one sound

like a whipporwill in the midnight.

I'm gonna fly...

I'm gonna fly...

Father sky's crying 'cause mother Earth is dying

and the sunbird he just sits there and sings about miracles.

a little time and a little more time

and the valley moon may shine but not in my eyes.

I'm gonna fly...

I'm gonna fly...

capo 4th

                        G7                                 C

Well when the wind - don't blow in Amarillo

               G7                                        C 

and the moon along the Garnison don't rise

            F                                      C 

Shall I cast my dreams upon your love, Babe

                          F                 C 

and lie beneath - the lafter of your eyes.

           C      F        C               G7                                      C 

It's snowin' on Raton - come mornin' I'll be through them hills and gone.

          G7                                             C 

Our mother thinks the road is long and lonely.

            G7                                                 C 

Little brother thinks the road is straight and fine.

                   F                                             C 

Well, little darlin' thinks the road is soft and lovely.

          C                     F                       C 

I'm thankful that old road's a friend of mine.

It's snowin' on Raton ...

I'll bid the years goodbye, you cannot still them.

Well you cannot turn the circles of the sun.

Well you cannot count the miles until you feel them.

And you cannot hold a lover that is gone.

It's snowin' on Raton...

Solo

Here tomorrow the mountains will be sleeping

Silentlyt the blanket green and blue.

All that I shall hear the silence they are keeping

I'll bring all their promises to you.

It's snowin' on Raton ...

             G         C         G              C                G

Layin' much that I ain't tryin' - fast liv'n slow suicide

                                                     D                               C            G 

When you're running in a place to hide - just looking for you.

                 G              C      G          C                     G

Well, my friends they all agree ain't many a fool like me

          D                      C                            G 

I just tell I'm wait and see - go looking for you.

               C

Looking low and looking high - looking far and looking wide

                                                                      G

Try to tell myself that am I fine but it just ain't true

                       D                              C                             G 

Oh it just ain't true - still looking for you - still looking for you.

Here from the shadows of the darkest pine To the edge of a sweet sunshine

I'll keep looking 'till I make you mine - looking for you.

When the curtain tumbles down.- I'll be somewhere hangin' round

With my heart laid on the ground - just looking for you

Looking low...

Solo

Looking low...

Won't say I love you babe. Won't say I need you babe.

But I'm going to get you babe and I will not to do you wrong.

Living's mostly wasting time and I waste my share of mine

But it never feels too good so let's not take too long.

You're as soft as glass and I'm gentle man

We got the sky to talk about and the world to lie upon.

          F                C                          F                   C

The days up and down they come - Like rain on a conga drum

  F                     G                             F                        C

Forget most, remember some - But don't turn none away.

F                   C                   F                   C 

Everything is not enough - Nothing is too much to bear

      C                           G                                F                         C

Where you've been is good and gone all you keep's the getting there.

       F         C    F         G

To live's to fly low and high

         C                      G 

So shake the dust off of your wings

                F                       C

And the sleep out of your eyes.

It's goodbye to all my friends. It's time to go again.

Think of all the poetry and the pickin' down the line.

I'll miss the system here -the bottom's low and the treble's clear

But it don't pay to think too much on the things you leave behind.

I may be gone but I won't be long

I'll be bringing back the melody and the rhythm that I find.

We all got holesto fill - and them holes are all that's real

Some fall on you like a storm - sometimes you dig your own.

But choice is yours to make - time is yours to take

Some dive into the sea some toil upon the stone.

To live is to fly - low and high

So shake the dust off of your wings - the sleep out of your eyes.

At my window - watchin' the sun go

Open the stars no - this time to shine.

The day dreams - are loft on dark wings

Soft as the sun streams - and days declaim.

Living is laughing - Diane says: "Nothing at all".

......I'll lyin' (Babe) - watching the evening fall.

-SOLO-

Well, time flows - through brave beginnings

And she leaves her endings - beneath our feets.

Walk lightly - upon their faces

Leave gentle traces - upon their sleeps.

All living is dancing - Diane does nothing at all.

Babe I'll begin here - watching the evening fall.

-SOLO-

Three dimes - hard lucking good times

Fast lines and low rhymes (ain't must I say).

Feel fine - feel low and lazy

Feel gray and hazy - feel far away.

Our living is ....... - Diane ain't flyin' so high.

Baby I'll lying here - watching the day go by.

-SOLO-

fade out

Well, why does she sing - her sad songs was for me I'm not the one

To tenderly bring - her soft sympathy I've just begun

To see my way clear - and it's plain if I stop I will fall

I can lay down a tear for a pain just a tear and that's all.

What does she want me to do - she says that she knows

This moments are rare and I suppose - that's it's true.

Then on she goes - to say I don't care - and she knows - that I do.

Maybe she'd just has to sing for the sake of the song

And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong.

-SOLO-

She'd like to think I was cruel

But she know that's a lie for I would be

No more than or two if I alowded her to cry all over me

All my sorrow is real even though - I can't change my plans

If she could see how I feel - than I know that she'd understand.

Ah does she actually think I'm to blame

If she really believe that some word of mine could releave all her pain.

Can't you see that she grieves

Just because she's been blindly deceive by a shame.

Ah but maybe she'd just has to sing for the sake of the song

And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong.

-SOLO-

Ah but nothing is what it seems Maybe she'll starts some day to realize.

If she abandons her dreams - and all the words she can say are only lies.

Ah when will she see that the gain is only to loose.

All that she offers me I ........change and I go to refuse.

Ah but it's only to herself that she's lyin'

She likes to pretend that something that she should defend with a cry

And I don't intend stand here and be the friend from who she must hide.

Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song

And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong

Ah but maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song.

I heard her sing in tongues of silver

Heard her cry on a summer storm

I loved her but she did not know it

I don´t think about her anymore

Now she´s gone and I can´t believe it

I don´t think about her anymore.

If three and four were seven only

Where would that leave one and two

If love can be and still be lonely

Where does that leave me and you

Time there was and time there will be

Where does that leave me and you.

If I had a Buckskin Stallion

I`d tame him down and ride away

If I had a flying schooner

I`d sail into the light of day

If I had your love forever

Sail into the light of day.

Pretty songs and pretty places

Paces that I`ve never seen

Pretty songs and pretty faces

Tell me what their laughter means

Some look like they´ll cry forever

Tell me what their laughter means.

If I had a Buckskin Stallion

I`d tame him down and ride away

If i had a golden galleon

I`d sail into the light of day

If I had your love forever

Sail into the light of day.

Living on the road my friend Was gonna keep you free and clean

Now you wear your skin like iron And your breath´s as hard as Kerosene

You weren´t your Mama´s only boy But her favorite one it seems

She began to cry when you said goodbye.

Pancho was a bandit boys His horse was fast as polished steel

Wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel

Pancho met his match you know On the deserts down in Mexico

Nobody heard his dying words That´s the way it goes.

All the federales say They could´ve had him any day

The only let him hang around Out of kindness I suppose.

Lefty he can´t sing the Blues All night long like he used to

The dust that Pancho bit down south Ended up in Lefty´s mouth

The day they laid poor Pancho low Lefty split for Ohio

Where he got the bread to go There ain´t nobody knows.

All the federales say They couold´ve had him any day

They only let him slip away Out of kindness I suppose

The poets tell how Pancho fell Lefty´s livin´ in a cheap hotel

The desert´s quiet and Cleveland´s cold So the story ends were told

Pancho needs your prayers it´s true But save a few for Lefty too

He just did what he had to do Now he´s growing old.

A few gray federales say The could´ve had ´em any day

They only let ´em go so wrong Out of kindness I suppose.

A D

There is no deeper blue

A D

In the ocean that lies

A E7

As deep as the blue

D A

Of your laughing eyes

A D

No sweeter sound

A D

Than your gentle sigh

A E7 A

No heart was ever so pure

Instrumental

Dream pretty dreams

Touch beautiful things

Let all the skys surround you

Swim with the swans

And believe that upon

Some glorious dawn

Love will find you

Come some day

I'm bound away

Wind and wings on the water

Whatever may

You must stay

And remain my beautiful daughter

There is no deeper blue

In the ocean that lies

As deep as the blue

Of your laughing eyes

No sweeter sound

Than your gentle sigh

No heart was ever so pure

Good night Katie Belle, Good night

Turnstiled, Junkpiled
by Townes van Zandt	Townes van Zandt

D D7

I been turnstiled, junkpiled and railroaded too

G E7 A7

I've been laid low but don't you know I'm still in love with you

D

I been took down many a road If anybody says ain't, they lie

G E7 A7 D

But I ain't got no plans 'cept to be your man And love you 'till I die

You got me under your spell Won't you tell me, all about your wonderful charms,

I got time to burn and a lot To learn, Mama take me in your loving arms

Well I know that prob'ly You feel quite oddly, 'bout the words You hear me say,

but if you hold me Tight, it's gonna be alright Mama chase my Blues away

I been turnstiled, junkpiled and railroaded too

I've been laid low but don't you know I'm still in love with you

I been took down many a road If anybody says I ain't, the lie

But I ain't got no plans 'cept to be your man Mama love you till I die

I been turnstiled, junkpiled and railroaded too

I've been laid low but don't you know I'm still in love with you

I been took down many a road If anybody says I ain't, they lie

But I ain't got no plans 'cept to be your man I want to love you 'till I die

White Freightliner Blues
by Townes van Zandt	Townes van Zandt

F C

I'm headed out on the highway listenin' to them big trucks whine

F C

Headed out on the highway listenin' to them bigh trucks whine

G7 F C

White Freightliner won't you steal my mind

Well, New Mexico ain't bad, Lord people there they treat you kind

Well, New Mexico ain't bad, Lord people there they treat you fine

That ol' White Freightliner gonna steal away my mind

Well if you see Miss Caroline tell her that I'm doin' fine

If you see Miss Caroline tell her that I'm doin' fine

That ol' White Freightliner gonna haul away my mind

Well it's bad news from Houston half my friends are dying

Well it's bad news from Houston half my friends are dying

White Freightliner won't you steal away my mind

Well, Lord, I'm gonna ramble 'til I get back to where I came

Well, Lord, I'm gonna ramble 'til I get back to where I came

That ol' White Freightliner gonna haul away my brain

I'm headed out on th highway listenin' to them big trucks whine

Headed out on the highway listenin' to them big trucks whine

White Freightliner won't you steal away my mind

White Freightliner won't you steal away my mind

The Catfish Song
by Townes van Zandt	Townes van Zandt

G C G

Down at bottom of that dirty ol' river

D C G

Down where the reeds and the catfish play

G C G

There lies a dreams as soft as the water

C G C G

There lies a bluebird that's flown away

Well to meet is like springtime and to love's like the summer

Her brown eyes shown for nobody but me

Then autumn forever, the fool come a fallin'

And the rain turned to freezin' inside of me

I'll kindle my fires with the words I can't send you

And the roads I can't follow and the songs I can't sing

I'll wander alone on the sleigh bells of winter

With the stars for a diamond and the world for a ring

Well all you young Ladies who dream of tomorrow

While you're a listenin' these words will I say

Cling to today with it's joy and it's sorrow

You'll need all your memories when youth melts away

Well the angel of springtime he rides down the southwind

The angel of summer he does just the same

The angel of autumn she's blue and she's golden

And the angel of winter won't remember your name

Well down at bottom of that dirty ol' river

Down where the reeds and the catfish play

There lies a dream as soft as the water

There lies a bluebird that's flown away

Aw, there lies a bluebird that's flown away

Blue Wind Blew
by Townes van Zandt	Townes van Zandt

C

Well the blue winds blown my dreams away

F

My darling's flown and she's gone to stay.

C

All I got now is yesterday

G

And I don't know what to do.

C

Well I guess I'll go downtown and see

F

Just what downtown can do for me

C

Maybe set my lonesome free

G

Or maybe let me go.

I loved her true and I told her so

I ask her too and she told me no.

She said she had somwhere to go

and in the end she said: Goodbye

Well I wonder how long it can go on

How long I'll sing this same old song

I wonder which one done us wrong

Which one forgot to try.

I loved her true and I told her so

I ask her too and she told me no.

She said she had somewhere to go

and in the end she said: goodbye.

Instrumental

I love you true and I told you so

I ask her too and she told me: no

She sais she had somewhere to go

And in the end she said: goodbye.

Instrumental

I'll be here in the morning
by Townes van Zandt	Townes van Zandt

D G D

There's no stronger wind than the one that blows down a lonesome railroad line

E7 A7

No pretty sight than looking back on a town you left behind

D G D

But there's nothing that's as real as a love that's in my mind

A G

Close your eyes I'll be here in the morning

A G Bm A7

Close your eyes I'll be here for a while.

Well there's lots of things along the road I'd shurely liked to see

I'd like to lean into the wind and tell myself I'm free

But your softes whisper's louder than the highway call to me

Close your eyes I'll be here in the morning

Close your eyes I'll be here for a while.

All the mountains and the rivers and the valleys can't compare

To your blue lit dancin' flashing eyes and yellow shining hair

I could never hit the open road and leave your layin' there

Close your eyes I'll be here in the morning

Close your eyes I'll be here for a while

Now lay your head back easy, love, close your cryin' eyes

I'll be laying here besid you when the sun comes on the rise

I'll stay as long as a cuckoo wails and the lonesome bluejay cries.

Close your eyes I'll be here in the morning

Close your eyes I'll be here for a while

Close your eyes I'll be here in the morning

Close your eyes I'll be here for a while