Subject: Wilco & Billy Bragg - Mermaid Avenue Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:31:12 +0100 From: "Gunnar Hedlund" To: "Hans Settler" Thanks Gunnar! @ARTIST: Wilco & Billy Bragg @ALBUM: Mermaid Avenue @SONG: Another Man's Done Gone sometimes I think I'm gonna lose my mind but it don't look like I ever do I loved so many people everywhere I went some too much, others not enough I don't know, I may go down or up or anywhere but I feel like this scribbling might stay maybe if I hadn't seen so much hard feelings I might not could have felt other people's so when you think of me, if and when you do just say, well, another man's done gone well, another man's done gone @SONG: At My Window Sad And Lonely at my window, sad and lonely oft times do I think of thee sad and lonely and I wonder do you ever think of me every day is sad and lonely every night ia sad and blue do you ever think of me, my darling as you sail the ocean blue at my window, sad and lonely I stand and look across the sea and I, sad and lonely wonder do you ever think of me will you find another sweetheart in some far and distant land sad and lonely now I wonder if our boat will ever land ships may ply the stormy ocean planes may fly the stormy sky I'm sad and lonely but remember I will love you till I die @SONG: Birds And Ships the birds are singing in your eyes today sweet flowers blossom in your smile the wind and sun are in the words you say where might your lonesome lover be birds may be singing in my eyes this day sweet flowers blossom when I smile but my soul is stormy and my heart blows wild my sweetheart rides a ship on the sea but my soul is stormy and my heart blows wild where might my lonesome lover be @SONG: California Stars I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight on a bed of California stars I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight on a bed of California stars I'd love to feel your hand touching mine and tell me why I must keep working on yes, I'd give my life to lay my head tonight on a bed of California stars I'd like to dream my troubles all away on a bed of California stars jump up from my starbed and make another day underneath my California stars they hang like grapes on vines that shine and warm the lovers glass like friendly wine so I'd give this world just to dream a dream with you on our bed of California stars I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight on a bed of California stars I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight on a bed of California stars I'd love to feel your hand touching mine and tell me why I must keep working on yes, I'd give my life to lay my head tonight on a bed of California stars I'd like to dream my troubles all away on a bed of California stars jump up from my starbed and make another day underneath my California stars they hang like grapes on vines that shine and warm the lovers glass like friendly wine so I'd give this world just to dream a dream with you on our bed of California stars so I'd give this world just to dream a dream with you on our bed of California stars @SONG: Christ For President let's have Christ our president let us have him for our king cast your vote for the carpenter that you call the Nazarene the only way we can ever beat these crocked politician men is to chase the money changers out of the temple and put the carpenter in oh, it's Jesus Christ our president god above our king with a job and a pension for young and old we will make hallelujah ring every year we waste enough to feed the ones who starve we build our civilization up and we shot it down with wars but with the carpenter on the seat away up in the capitol town the USA would be on the way prosperity bound @SONG: Eisler On The Go Eisler on the go, Eisler on the move brother is on the vinegar truck and I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do Eisler's on the come and go and I don't know what I'll do Eisler on the farm, Eisler on the town sister in the tickly bush and I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do Eisler's on the come and go and I don't know what I'll do Eisler on the boat, Eisler on the ship daddy on the henhouse roof and I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do Eisler's on the come and go and I don't know what I'll do Eisler in the jail-o, Eisler back at home Rankin scratch his head and cry and I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do Eisler's on the come and go and I don't know what I'll do Eisler him write music, Eisler him teach school Truman him don't play so good and I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do Eisler's on the come and go and I don't know what I'll do @SONG: Hesitating Beauty for your sparkling cocky smile I have walked a million miles begging you to come wed me in the spring why do you, my dear, delay what makes you laugh and turn away you're a hesitating beauty, Nora Lee well I know that you're itching to get married, Nora Lee and I know I am twitching for the same thing, Nora Lee by the stars and clouds above we can spend our lives in love you're a hesitating beauty, Nora Lee we can build a house and home where the flowers come to bloom around our yard I nail a fence so high that the boys with peeping eyes cannot see that angel face of my hesitating beauty, Nora Lee well I know that you're itching to get married, Nora Lee and I know I am twitching for the same thing, Nora Lee by the stars and clouds above we can spend our lives in love if you'll quit your hesitating, Nora Lee we can ramble hand in hand across the grasses of our land I'll kiss you for each leaf on every tree we can bring our kids to play where the dry wind blows today if you'll quit your hesitating, Nora Lee well I know that you're itching to get married, Nora Lee and I know I am twitching for the same thing, Nora Lee by the stars and clouds above we can spend our lives in love if you'll quit your hesitating, Nora Lee @SONG: Hoodoo Voodoo hoodoo, voodoo, seven twenty one two haystacka, hostacka, A B C high poker, low joker, ninety nine a zero sidewalk, streetcar, dance a goofy dance blackbirdy, bluejay, one two three four trash sack, jump back, E F G biggy hat, little hat, fatty man, skinny man grasshopper, greensnake, hold my hand hoodoo, voodoo, chooka chooky choochoo true blue, how true, kissle me now mommy cat, Tommy cat, diapers on my clothes line two four six eight, I run and hide pretty girl, pretty boy, pony on a tincan I'll be yours and you'll be mine hoodoo, voodoo, chooka chooky choochoo true blue, how true, kissle me now jinga jangler, tingalingle, picture on a bricky wall hot and scamper, foamy lather, huggle me close hot breeze, old cheese, slicky slacky fishy tails brush my hair and kissle me some more hoodoo, voodoo, chooka chooky choochoo true blue, how true, kissle me now hoodoo, voodoo, chooka chooky choochoo true blue, how true, kissle me now kissle me now, kissle me some more ... @SONG: I Guess I Planted I guess I planted some long lonesome seed of a song way down inside me long ago and now I can't remember when it was but it joined up with the rest of them and grows it's such a little song it don't compare with all your big ones you hear everywhere but when it dawns way in the back of your mind the big ones are made up of the little kind union song, union battle, all added up won us all what we got now union song, union battle, all added up won us all what we got now I can't even start to look around me here without hearing this song and seeing all of us first separated hurt, apart and afraid hungry for the union and so we kept on singing and working, fighting till we got it and this is the big union song I guess I hear union song, union battle, all added up won us all what we got now union song, union battle, all added up won us all what we got now we fought there at your place we fought there on your ship and I guess if you missed out on the fight for our union you missed out on one awful big step us people took union song, union battle, all added up won us all what we got now union song, union battle, all added up won us all what we got now @SONG: Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman, Ingrid Bergman let's go and make a picture on the island of Stromboli Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman, you're so perty you'd make any mountain quiver you'd make a fire fly from the crater Ingrid Bergman this old mountain, it's been waiting all it's life for you to work it for your hand to touch it's hardrock Ingrid Bergman, Ingrid Bergman if you'll walk across my camera I will flash the world your story I will pay you more than money Ingrid Bergman not by pennies, dimes nor quarters but with happy sons and daughters and they'll sing around Stromboli Ingrid Bergman this old mountain, it's been waiting all it's life for you to work it for your hand to touch it's hardrock Ingrid Bergman, Ingrid Bergman @SONG: One By One one by one the teardrops fall as I write to you one by one my words come falling on the page one by one my dreams are fading in the twilight one by one my schemes are failing fast away one by one the flowers fade here in my garden one by one the leaves are falling from the trees one by one my hopes are vanished in the clouds, dear one by one like snowflakes melting in the breeze one by one my hair is turning grey one by one my dreams are fading fast away one by one I read your letters over one by one I lay them all away one by one the days are slipping up behind you one by one the sweetest days of life go by one by one the moments stealing up behind you one by one she'll come and find not you or I one by one I hear the soft words that you whispered one by one I feel your kisses soft and sweet one by one I'll hope you'll say the words to marry one by one to one by one forever be @SONG: She Came Along To Me two hundered books could I write you about her because I felt if I could know her, I would know all women and they've not been any too well known for brains and planning and organized thinking but I'm sure the women are equal and they maybe ahead of the men yes, I wouldn't spread such a rumor around because one organizes the other and some times the most lost and wasted attract the most balanced and sane and the wild and the reckless take up with the clocked and the timed and the mixture is all of us and we're still mixing but, never, never, never never could have it been done if the women hadn't entered into the deal like she came along to me and all creeds and kinds and colors of us are blending till I suppose ten million years from now we'll all be just alike same color, same size, working together and maybe we'll have all the fascists out of the way by then maybe so but, never, never, never never could have it been done if the women hadn't entered into the deal like she came along to me @SONG: The Unwelcome Guest to the rich man's bright lodges I ride in this wind on my good horse I call you my shiny black Bess to the playhouse of fortune to take the bright silver and gold you have taken from somebody else and as we go riding in the damp foggy midnight you snort, my good pony, and you give me your best for you know and I know, good horse, 'mongst the rich one's how oftimes we go there, an unwelcome guest I've never took food from the widow and orphans and never a hardworking man I oppressed so take you pace easy for home soon like lightening we soon will be riding my shiny black Bess no fat rich man's pony can ever overtake you and there's not a rider from the east to the west could hold you a light in this dark mist and midnight when the potbelled thieves chase their unwelcome guest I don't know, good horse, as we trot in this dark here that robbing the rich is for worse or for best they take it by stealing and lying and gambling and I take it my way, my shiny black Bess I treat horses good and I'm friendly to strangers I ride and your running makes my guns talk the best and the rangers and the deputies are hired by the rich man to catch me and hang me, my shining black Bess yes, they'll catch me napping one day and they'll kill me and then I'll be gone but that won't be my end for my guns and my saddle will always be filled by unwelcome travellers and other brave men and they'll take the money and spread it out equal just like the bible and the prophets suggest but the men that go riding to help these poor workers the rich will cut down like an unwelcome guest @SONG: Walt Whitman's Niece last night or the night before that I won't say which night a seaman friend of mine I'll not say which seaman walked up to a big old building I won't say which building and would not have walked up the stairs not to say which stairs if there had not have been two girls leaving out the names of those two girls I recall a door, a big long room I'll not tell which room I remember a deep blue rug but I can't say which rug a girl took down a book of poems not to say which book of poems and as she read it I laid my head and I can't tell which head down in her lap and I can't mention which lap my seaman buddy and girl moved off after a couple of pages and there and I was all night long, laying and listening and forgetting the poems and as well as I could recall or my seaman buddy could recollect my girl had told us that she was a niece of Walt Whitman, but not which niece and it takes a night and a girl and a book of this kind a long, long time to find it's way back last night or the night before that I won't say which night a seaman friend of mine I'll not say which seaman walked up to a big old building I won't say which building and would not have walked up the stairs not to say which stairs if there had not have been two girls leaving out the names of those two girls I recall a door, a big long room I'll not tell which room I remember a deep blue rug but I can't say which rug a girl took down a book of poems not to say which book of poems and as she read it I laid my head and I can't tell which head down in her lap and I can't mention which lap @SONG: Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key I lived in a place called Okfuskee and I had a little girl in a holler tree I said, little girl, it's plain to see ain't nobody that can sing like me ain't nobody that can sing like me she said, it's hard for me to see how one little boy got so ugly yes, my little girly, that might be but there ain't nobody that can sing like me ain't nobody that can sing like me way over yonder in the minor key way over yonder in the minor key there ain't nobody that can sing like me we walked down by the Buckeye Creek to see the frog eat the goggle eye bee to hear what the west wind whistle to the east there ain't nobody that can sing like me ain't nobody that can sing like me oh my little girly will you let me see way over yonder where the wind blows free nobody can see in our holler tree and there ain't nobody that can sing like me ain't nobody that can sing like me way over yonder in the minor key way over yonder in the minor key there ain't nobody that can sing like me her mama cut a switch from a cherry tree and laid it on the she and me it stungs lot worse than a hive of bees but there ain't nobody that can sing like me ain't nobody that can sing like me now I have walked a long long ways and I still look back to my tanglewood days I've led lots of girls since then to stray saying, there ain't nobody that can sing like me ain't nobody that can sing like me way over yonder in the minor key way over yonder in the minor key there ain't nobody that can sing like me ain't nobody that can sing like me