Sing along with Rawley....

Found Love

I’m troubled, Oh so troubled

I’m troubled all the time

If the Lord won’t see my trouble

I know I’m gonna lose my mind

 

 ‘Cus I found love                (I found love  y’all)

And her Daddy says I should be younger

I found love                        (I found love  y’all)

And her Mommy givin’ me the eye

I found love                        (I found love  y’all)

Just gotta satisfy this hunger

I found love                                 

Gonna keep her till the day I die

 

When I was sweet sixteen

The girls all cried

‘Go scurry on home to mother’

When I was twenty one there wasn’t one who looked my way

When I was thirty two they said ‘Hey, look at you!’

Then they went home with my brother

Now they stand in line think I’m fine with my hair all grey

 

I found love                                 

And her Daddy says I should be younger

I found love                                 

And her Mommy givin’ me the eye

I found love                                 

Just gotta satisfy this hunger

I found love                                 

Gonna keep her till the day I die

 

I still got fuel in my tank

And money in the bank

No kids to spoil the party

Lookin for a match? I’m quite some catch it seems!

Those Facebook eyes

Grew twice their size

When they saw real live Daddy comin’

Was it the bulge of my wallet in the pocket of my old blue jeans?

 

I found love                

And her Daddy says I should be younger

I found love                                 

And her Mommy givin’ me the eye

I found love                                 

Just gotta satisfy this hunger

I found love                                 

Gonna keep her till the day I die

 

I found love                

And her Mommy says I should be younger

I found love                                 

And her Daddy givin’ me the eye

I found love                                 

Just gotta satisfy this hunger

I found love                                 

Gonna keep her till the day I die

 

I’m troubled, Oh so troubled

I’m troubled all the time

If the Lord don’t see my trouble

I know I’m gonna lose my mind

 

I’m troubled, Oh so troubled

I’m troubled all the time

If the Lord don’t see my trouble

I know I’m gonna lose my mind

                

Steady At The Wheel

 

When I woke with you this morning

I knew you didn't want me there

I asked 'Should I be leaving?'

You said you didn't care

As I packed my bag you told me

You needed time to be alone

As I closed your door you were talking on the phone

 

But I'm steady at the wheel, wheel, wheel

I'm steady at the wheel, wheel wheel

My mind's like a rearview mirror

I don't know just how I feel

I'm steady at the wheel, wheel, wheel

I'm steady at the wheel, wheel, wheel

My mind's like a rearview mirror

I don't know what I feel

But I'm steady at the wheel

 

There's a sign up on the highway

Says I've done 400 miles

This gas won't last forever

But I won't slow down for a while

I wonder if he's passed me by

The guy you had to call

I wonder why I'm missing you at all

 

But I'm steady at the wheel....

 

The rain whips at the windshield

The blades can't wipe it clear

Are you telling him about me

Should I shed a tear?

All this mouth and not much money

You always said I was no good

But who's the saint and who's the sinner?

You didn't treat me like you should

 

But I'm steady at the wheel.....

 

 

Eleutra Chicken

 

It so damn hot I just one big wet spot

A shame I ain’t no swimmer

Under a shady tree beside the blue blue sea

I know I picked me a winner

Bahama Mama jus hear what I say

Don’t you Big Girl get no thinner

When you home by me you need your energy

To fry that ‘Leutra chicken for my dinner

 

Hey hey yah yah

Hey hey yah yah

Hey hey hey

Hey hey yah yah

Hey hey yah yah

Hey hey hey

 

Now we all munch and crunch

Reporter from The Punch

Say ‘White Boy! You some sinner!’

But all my Mama say is that she home all day

Fryin’ Leutra chicken for my dinner

Hey hey ………

                                                                                    

She stirrin’ in that pot. The stove get hot hot hot

And we watch that gravy thicken                                                                    

Oh she look so sweet when she say ‘Hon’ come eat’

And serve me fried Eleutra chicken

Hey hey …….

 

Y’all can walk the walk. Y’all can talk the talk

And make your high hair kinda shimmer

But when your man come home you make him all your own

And fry him Leutra chicken for his dinner

Hey hey ……

 

 

Just one kind of loneliness

  

So many numbers in my call-book

But the calls they never come

So many glasses in my kitchen

But I only use the one

So many weeks since I was walking

With somebody in the sun

So many lifetimes since my body

Was touched by anyone

  

Always say I’m feeling fine

When you ask me how I am

Say that I sleep well at night

And that I’m a lucky man

Won’t ever let you see those signs

Of the hurt deep down inside

Always going to tell you

I’m all right

 

There’s a thousand kinds of happiness

A million ways to love

But there’s just one kind of the loneliness

That I’ve got too much of

 

There’s a thousand kinds of happiness

A million ways to love

But there’s just one kind of the loneliness

That I’ve got too much of

 

Instrumental break

 

So many weeks since I was walking

With somebody in the sun

So many lifetimes since my body

Was touched by anyone

Won’t ever let you see those signs

Of the hurt deep down inside

Always going to tell you

I’m all right

 

There’s a thousand kinds of happiness

A million ways to love

But there’s just one kind of the loneliness

That I’ve got too much of

 

There’s a thousand kinds of happiness

A million ways to love

But there’s just one kind of the loneliness

That I’ve got too much of

 

There’s just one kind of the loneliness

That I’ve got too much of

 

 

Stay With Me                            

 

Everytime I make you cry I know I’ll be sorry

Everytime I make you cry I know that I’m wrong

I don’t know why I want you to worry

Deep down inside I know I’m not strong

I know I’m not strong

  

Won’t you stay with me Just till the morning

Won’t you stay with me And sleep by my side

If you stay with me You can leave when it’s dawning

Please just stay with me Until it gets light

Until it gets light

  

Everytime I come home tired And you sit there waiting

Everything that I’ve been through Won’t leave my mind

Sometimes I need to clear my head Not start thinking

That’s the time I say those words And act so unkind

I act so unkind

  

Won’t you stay with me Just till the morning

Won’t you stay with me And sleep by my side

If you stay with me You can leave when it’s dawning

Please just stay with me Until it gets light

Until it gets light

 

Instrumental break on refrain

 

Won’t you stay with me Just till the morning

Won’t you stay with me And sleep by my side

If you stay with me You can leave when it’s dawning

Please just stay with me Until it gets light

Until it gets light

 

 

Hymn

 

So strange the ways of womankind

So strange the ways of man

So strange I should be shattered to the core

For the first time in a lifetime

Know exactly who I am

Don't want to be downhearted any more

 

I started out with nothing

And I'll end up just the same

Unless there's some exception to the rule

You said you'd help me overcome

This mortal sin of shame

When I'd shown you I was nothing but a fool

 

So hard to heal a broken heart

So hard to change a mind

So hard to make cold water taste like sweet red wine

It was never my intention

To deny you at first light

Always hoping you would never see the signs

Now all the hopes I ever had

Have turned back into fears

I’m deaf to all the world without your music in my ears

The doorway to redemption

Slowly closing in my face

I may never find a love to take your place

 

Instrumental on refrain

 

We walked down by the riverside

You took your hand from mine

My pleading and my prayers were all in vain

You needed someone faithful

And to love the faithless kind

Could never give you pleasure only pain

Now all the hopes I ever had

Have turned back into fears

I’m deaf to all the world without your music in my ears

The doorway to redemption

Slowly closing in my face

I may never find a love to take your place –   

repeat last line

 

 

 

Evil (Is the Way of the World)

When I could reach up to her knee          

My Grandma said to me

‘Boy – Evil is the way of the world!’

To mind your P’s and Q’s

You gotta know your ABC

Evil is the way of the world

It comes in Limousines

Or dressed in faded jeans

It gets you into trouble

And it always treats you mean

It can look just like a boy

It can look just like a girl

Evil is the way of the world

 

Evil                 Just take a shot shot shot

Evil                 Sign on the dot dot dot

Evil                 And then you’re got got got

Evil                 Some like it hot hot hot

 

It can crawl in through your window

On a hot and steamy night

Evil is the way of the world

It can make you do things in the dark

You won’t do in the light

Evil is the way of the world

It can look into your mind

When it takes you by the hand

It can charm away your money

Or your woman or your man

It can make you trade your secrets

For a diamond or a pearl

Evil is the way of the world

 

Evil                 Just take a shot shot shot

Evil                 Sign on the dot dot dot

Evil                 And then you’re got got got

Evil                 Some like it hot hot hot

 

It can look into your mind

When it takes you by the hand

It can charm away your money

Or your woman or your man

It can make you trade your secrets

For a diamond or a pearl

Evil is the way of the world

 

Evil                 Just take a shot shot shot

Evil                 Sign on the dot dot dot

Evil                 And then you’re got got got

Evil                 Some like it hot hot hot

 

21st Century Song 

Like to write to you and say

I’m gonna make it big

Bring our kids back home again

Did you tell them what I did?

Won’t lose another job

Won’t say there’s someone else to blame

Keep up there with the best of them

Get treated just the same

 

Promises oh promises

I’ll keep them all this time

You make your own bad luck you say

And Lord knows I made mine

The hunger stopped long time ago

It won’t start up again

I swear you never felt temptation

Like I did way back then

 

Did you find another soul to save?

Or are you still on your own?

Stay clean and find a proper job

And a house we could call home

Hands to my ears so I don’t hear

The bells of London chime

Sending you my number

‘Case you want to call sometime

 

Promises oh promises

I’ll keep them all this time

You make your own bad luck you say

And Lord knows I made mine

The hunger stopped long time ago

It won’t start up again

I swear you never felt temptation

Like I did way back then

 

I’m passing through the system

And I’ve got a place to stay

Be back in our old town again

Around the 12th of May

A carwash till I find my feet

But then I’ll raise my sights

I’ll take you out and sweet-talk you

One of these Saturday nights      

  

Dance Until We Die

 

When the lights go down in your house

I'm gonna keep them burning in mine

So our friends can see

Out of you and me

I'm the one who's having a good time

 

Late at night you lay down your head

I'll turn that sweet soul music way up high

So that crazy beat

Echoes down our street

And no-one gonna hear me if I cry

 

When we're apart you say it breaks your heart

Then when we're together you break mine

Won't tie no knot

That just don't hit the spot

We can't be together all the time

 

So go put on your high-heel shoes

And I'll go fix my tie

We'll walk downtown and lose these blues

And dance until we die

We'll dance until we die

 

When we're apart.....

 

Some sweet red wine and then you say you're mine

Can make my heart go cold

A man like me

Needs to know he's free

Or a man like me feels old

 

Oh go put on your high-heel shoes.....

 

 

Liza - Love is blind

 

Oh Liza What you done?                        

You shoot your Daddy with his own shotgun

You sitting beside him in the morning sun

Oh Liza What you done?

 

You see your Daddy need a helping hand

Your Daddy walking in a Strangers land

He looking cool but he don’t understand

You see your Daddy need a helping hand

 

Oh Liza Love is blind

Your Daddy say ‘Girl you be kind’

But you got other love in mind

Oh Liza Love is blind

 

You tell your story to the Man in black

He tell you ‘Get your life on track’

He tell you ‘Take your Daddy back’

You tell your story to the Man in black

 

Oh Liza What you done?

You shoot your Daddy with his own shotgun

You sitting beside him in the morning sun

Oh Liza What you done?

 

Oh Liza Love is blind

Your Daddy say ‘Girl you be kind’

But you got other love in mind

Oh Liza Love is blind  

 

 

Take Me To TheAirport

 

This old world has got some jokers up its sleeve

One day I’m there next to you the next I have to leave

I was worried I was hurried when my job came on the line

Took the first that came along – now it’s too late to change my mind

 

Take me to the airport

Put me on a plane

Walk me through the immigration line

And put me on a train

I’ll sit right back and close my eyes

Won’t open them again

Till we pull in at the station and I hear you call my name

 

Had good money had good wheels I had good love

I fell down hard and hurt my pride when push turned into shove

You said you understood me - and you said it was a shame

Where you want to be and have to be can’t always be the same

 

Take me to the airport…..

 

I walk this stony shore beside the cold black stormy sea

Those ships out there send signals that you’re far away from me

Another Monday morning put more money on the phone

Another week ahead to sleep alone

  

Take me to the airport ….

 

 

You Turn My Head

 

You talk talk talk on the telephone

You haven’t got a word to say

You smoke smoke smoke all those cigarettes

You say it keeps the flies away

You spend spend spend spend all my money

My banker said his hair turned grey

But when all that’s said

The way you turn my head

I think about you night and day

 

 

But mama that’s all right

You do the things you do

You’re never gonna turn your Daddy blue

You’re the sugar in my coffee

You’re the butter on my bread

The little things you do

They sure do turn my head

 

You chomp chomp chomp on that piece of pie

You nearly set my stove on fire

You bang bang bang on my old hi-fi

You say it makes the music higher

You play play play with your perfume spray

And everybody runs for cover

But when all that’s said

The way you turn my head

I’ll never need no other lover

 

But mama that’s all right

You do the things you do

You’re never gonna turn your Daddy blue

You’re the sugar in my coffee

You’re the butter on my bread

The little things you do

They sure do turn my head

 

Instrumental

 

But mama that’s all right

You do the things you do

You’re never gonna turn your Daddy blue

You’re the sugar in my coffee

You’re the butter on my bread

The little things you do

They sure do turn my head

 

You’re the sugar in my coffee

You’re the butter on my bread

The little things you do

They sure do turn my head

 

The little things you do

They sure do turn my head

 

 

Head Held High

 

With your head held high

You walked into the rain

I sat praying for a miracle

So I’d hear your voice again

In this world of contradiction

I know that I’m to blame

No matter how I try to change

I stay the same

 

True love is my religion

I believe and then I fail

One can lead and one can follow

One survive to tell the tale

So many stay believers

Some say love’s an empty place

I try to find that perfect kind

And never fall from grace

 

With your head held high

You walked into the rain

I sat praying for a miracle

So I’d hear your voice again

In this world of contradiction

I know that I’m to blame

No matter how I try to change

I stay the same

 

Thought I’d wait till you were rested

Before I came to make amends

Said that we were tried and tested

That we always should be friends

Sang songs of praise to make you see

I wasn’t one to grieve

You shook your head and then you said

You had to leave

 

With your head held high

You walked into the rain

I sat praying for a miracle

So I’d hear your voice again

In this world of contradiction

I know that I’m to blame

No matter how I try to change

I stay the same