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VERSURI GOURDS
| Gourds - Bean Bowl |
| flyin moth took what it could
yer half naked
moth did good
a rabbit jumps it
a sheep makes it
horse hockey
piggly wiggly
go cat go
and I want you to
crawl out of my bean bowl baby
littl |
| Gourds - Cold Bed |
| The cold tonight seems more anxious to talk
than he has seemed in nights before
skinless face and yellow heart, he
hesitates and I wait
All my stories are about the same things
I find so many bed |
| Gourds - Coppermine |
| Coppermine, oh coppermine
My great-great grandfolk on my father's side
used to work,in a coppermine - oh yeah
A penny here, a penny there
won't you drop one in my waterwell
The women lived in Mai |
| Gourds - Dooley |
| Dooley was a good ol' man
he lived below the mill
Dooley had two daughters
and a forty-gallon still.
One gal watched the boiler
the other watched the spout
and momma corked the bottles
when ol' Dool |
| Gourds - El Paso |
| Flooded roads
out of town
Call and telephone lines are down
I call
and the lines are down
Retarded girl oh' she slurs
Tornadoes out on the desert sir
Tornadoes out on the desert
and were I'm goin |
| Gourds - Fine Leather Truck |
| Whippoorwill won't ya listen
To my roaming story
We started out frying
up a morning glory
I tell you 'bout the things ya like t¹know I
found
& how the moon woke us up with a jigglin' sound
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| Gourds - Gangsta Lean |
| Yer gonna have t'sit there and drink yer cup of
muddy water
Yer gonna have t'let the blood dry on yer hands
Ask yer mama t'knit you a blanket from Esau's
thigh
Cause yer gonna have t'learn t'be lowly |
| Gourds - I Like Drinking |
| I Like Drinking to forget your name
And I smoke reefer a'do much the same
Between me and you - there's ain't nothing I
wouldn't do
to untangle these ties with you
How much sweet life source have yo |
| Gourds - Ladies Choice |
| flyin down this hill on my schwin
well I guess this is where it all begins
go in sandburg come out like ray charles
an odor of jasmine for yer flowers
sometimes on my bicycle rides
these pleasant |
| Gourds - Lament |
| I could tell you that I was a christian
and I don't guess that would be a lie
I could tell you that I was church of christ
and I don't guess you could prove me wrong
so don't trouble no policeman
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| Gourds - LGO |
| The kiwi and the liquid gold
For Helen would have surely knowed
I'd love her if it weren't that I
Bind myself to a single joy
I was sleeping with my LGO
I was polishing my midnight runners
I wa |
| Gourds - Lowlands |
| I saddled me a wounded priest
Rode him wet through this August heat
I took me a German bride
all empty and bloody inside
in the dark I heard a thief
he stole my money and my grief
in the mornin |
| Gourds - Maria |
| Oh Maria hands it out
she comes from Guatamala
she helps me get around
she helps when I'm in trouble
when the ice cream hit the ground
The Federales they were a'coming
she had made arrangements |
| Gourds - My Time, Yer Time |
| folds and folds of hurling whirling words come
spilling out yer hole
dont intellectualize yer eloquent vomit when you
rise
now peter had Paul dont have it I have it have it
said I
in this rolling glo |
| Gourds - Pine Island Bayou |
| my poor Uncle Jimmy Turk
he got his house full of water and dirt
in that flood of '94 Pine Island Bayou
came thru his door
In that flood of '94
that devil rain began t'poor
it swelled the banks |
| Gourds - Plaid Coat |
| Started out late
In my Dirty Plaid Coat
Watched my heel
lift the dead satin dress
from the ground
One day I touched it with my hands
and it scattered like scared birds
By 3a.m. they were pidg |
| Gourds - The Flat Baritone |
| Form a ring and wind and twine
Round the ol' grape vine
Heavy on the wire from the house
Salt the cow and kill the calf
Meet yer lonesome with a once and a half
Gent¹s on the east and ladies |
| Gourds - Up On High |
| up on high where the wild foam vanilla baths flow
you know who chose the bones over the entrails
dispatch the toothless yapping dog
and while that dog was taking a shit
I snuck up behind him and gav |
| Gourds - Ziggy Stardust |
| Ziggy played guitar, jammin' good with Weird and
Gilly,
The spiders from Mars, he played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the special man, then we were Ziggy's band
Ziggy really sang, screwed up |
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