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Grateful Dead - New Speedway Boogie

Grateful Dead - New Speedway Boogie Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Workingman's Dead
Released: 1970

New Speedway Boogie Lyrics

Please don't dominate the rap, Jack,
If you've got nothing new to say.
If you please, don't back up the track
This train's got to run today.

I spent a little time on the mountain,
I spent a little time on the hill,
I heard some say "Better run away",
Others say "Better stand still".

Now I don't know, but I been told
It's hard to run with the weight of gold,
Other hand I have heard it said,
It's just as hard with the weight of lead.

Who can deny, who can deny,
It's not just a change in style?
One step done and another begun
And I wonder how many miles.

I spent a little time on the mountain,
I spent a little time on the hill,
I heard some say "Better run away",
Others say "Better stand still".

Now I don't know, but I been told
It's hard to run with the weight of gold,
Other hand I have heard it said,
It's just as hard with the weight of lead.

Things went down we don't understand,
But I think in time we will.
Now, I don't know, but I was told
In the heat of the sun a man died of cold.

Keep on coming or stand and wait,
With the sun so dark and the hour so late.
You can overlook the lack, Jack,
Of any other highway to ride.

It's got no signs or dividing lines
And very few rules to guide.
I spent a little time on the mountain,
I spent a little time on the hill,
I heard some say "Better run away",
Others say "Better stand still".

Now I don't know, but I been told
It's hard to run with the weight of gold,
Other hand I have heard it said,
It's just as hard with the weight of lead.
I saw things getting out of hand,
I guess they always will.

Now I don't know, but I been told
If the horse don't pull you got to carry the load.
I don't know whose back's that strong,
Maybe find out before too long.

One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.

Writer/s: GARCIA, JEROME J. / HUNTER, ROBERT C.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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New Speedway Boogie

This was written about the disaster at the Altamont Speedway concert in 1969 when the Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels to work security. The lyric: "In the heat of the sun, a man died of cold" refers to Meridith Hunter, an audience member who was killed by the Hell's Angels. Garcia referred to the concert as "...a nice day in HELL." (thanks, Chris - San Francisco, CA)

According to Blair Jackson in Goin' Down The Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion , Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter wrote this as a response to an indictment of the Altamont affair by Rock critic Ralph Gleason. Hence the lead-in lyrics, "Please don't dominate the rap Jack, if you've got nothing new to say." (thanks, Rich - Gurnee, IL)

Travis Edmonson - 'Cross The Plains

Travis Edmonson - 'Cross The Plains Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Travis On His Own
Released: 1962

'Cross The Plains Lyrics

'Cross The Plains

Travis Edmonson was an American singer-songwriter from San Francisco, California, who recorded material both solo and as one half of the folk duo Bud & Travis. Edmonson befriended the young David Crosby and treated the aspiring hipster to his first taste of marijuana. He also recorded this Crosby-penned song for his Travis On His Own album.

This was the first song that David Crosby ever wrote. He told Mojo magazine (February 2014): "l've always been fascinated with wagon trains and the movement of people west. It wasn't a very good song."

He added: "I think the first song I wrote that was any good was 'Everybody's Been Burned,' which I did when l was with The Byrds."

Barry Manilow - One Voice

Barry Manilow - One Voice Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: One Voice
Released: 1979

One Voice Lyrics

Just One Voice
Singing in the darkness
All it takes is one voice
Singing so they hear what's on your mind
And when you look around you'll find
There's more than

One voice
Singing in the darkness
Joining with your one voice
Each and every note another rock
And hands are joined and fears unlock

If only one voice
Would start it on it's own
You need just one voice
Facing the unknown
And then that one voice
Would never be alone
It takes that one voice

Pa pa pa pa pa, pa pa pa pa

It takes that one voice
Just one voice
Singing in the darkness
All it takes just one voice
Shout it out and let it ring
Just one voice
It takes that one voice
And everyone will sing

Writer/s: MANILOW, BARRY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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One Voice

According to Manilow, this song came to him in a dream: "It woke me up and I croaked it into my cassette recorder and then went back to sleep. When I woke up and played it back, there it was. A whole song. Amazing."

All the background voices are actually sung by Barry Manilow. (thanks, Ariel - Rehovot, Israel, for above 2)

The Who - Dogs

The Who - Dogs Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 30 Years of Maximum R&B
Released: 1968

Dogs Lyrics

The first time we met you were a kennel maid,
You gave me a tip I got me forecast paid,
You were holding a greyhound in trap number one,
Your white coat was shining in the afternoon sun.

Now we're both together,
We're never gonna break apart, no no,
'Cause we're a happy couple you and me,
With a greyhound at either knee.

I'll have ten shillings to win on Camera Flash, young man,
What dog's that, it's a deuce, look at it.

There was nothing in my life bigger than beer,
There was nothing in my life bigger than beer,
'Ceptin' you, little darling,
'Ceptin' you, little darling,
We're a happy couple you and me,
With a greyhound at either knee.

We go to the dog track on Saturday night,
We put all our money on a dog that we like,
A kiss and a cuddle, a hot meat pie,
Two dollar tickets and a starry sky.

There was nothing in my life bigger than beer,
There was nothing in my life bigger than beer,
'Ceptin' you, little darling,
'Ceptin' you, little darling,
We're a happy couple you and me,
With a baby on either knee.

Yes it's you little darling,
Yes it's you little darling,
Now it's you little darling,
Now it's you.

Girl, where's me wage packet ?????,
Ah I'll put twenty-five knicker please on Gallop Printer,
Oh, I hope the wife don't find out,
Yes, it's sure to win, isn't it,
Yes, I know, it's a good dog, I saw it run at White City,
Just last week, broke the record, Gallop Printer,
Nice dog, yes, lovely form, lovely buttocks.

Writer/s: PETE TOWNSHEND
Publisher: SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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Dogs

This tribute to White City's dog track was inspired by Pet Townshend's friend Chris Morphet, who had a fascination with greyhound racing. Morphet contributed harmonica and backing vocals to the tune.

The song was not a major commercial success at the time of its release and has been virtually disowned by the group since. According to Roger Daltry, Townshend had Small Faces bassist Ronnie Lane in mind when he wrote it. The vocalist told Uncut magazine: "He was such a lovely geezer, Ronnie, they were great guys, The Faces, all of them. But I think it'd have been better if Pete had just given the song to Ronnie in the first place. As a Who record, it was all a bit frivolous for me."

A musically unrelated sequel "Dogs Part 2" was later released as the B-side of "Pinball Wizard" in 1969.

The Living End - One Said To The Other

The Living End - One Said To The Other Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Modern ARTillery
Released: 2003

One Said To The Other Lyrics

One Said To The Other
You'll never find another
Now that you're on your own
To discover
You're living undercover
Now that you're on your *own

She's not really bothered by a riot in Milan
Only gets excited by the cheap shot brands
Dressed up in a number that she got from Japan
Powdered up, converted with solarium tan

You know that she won't leave here alone
(You know that she won't leave here alone)
She ain't ever gonna leave here alone

One said to the other
You'll never find another
Now that you're on your own
To discover
You're living undercover
Now that you're on your *own

She's not really in touch with the government plans
Much too busy looking for a one night stand
You don't have to show her before you get to know her
And she's the type who plays the fool I don't understand

You know that she won't leave here alone
(You know that she won't leave here alone)
She ain't ever gonna leave here alone

One said to the other
You'll never find another
Now that you're on your own
To discover
You're living undercover
Now that you're on your *own

She ain't ever gonna leave here alone
(Ain't Ever gonna leave here alone)
She ain't ever gonna leave here alone

She's not really bothered by the riot in Milan
Only gets excited by the cheap shot
Dressed up in a number that she got from Japan
Powdered up, covered in solarium tan

You know that she won't leave here alone
(Know that she won't leave here alone)
She ain't ever gonna leave here alone
(Ain't ever gonna leave here alone)
Oh you know that she won't leave here alone
(Know that she won't leave here alone)
She ain't ever gonna leave here alone

One said to the other
You'll never find another
Now that you're on your own
To discover
You're living undercover
Now that you're on your *own

One said to the other
You'll never find another
Now that you're on your own
To discover
You're living undercover
Now that you're on your *own

Writer/s: CHENEY, CHRIS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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One Said To The Other

To quote the main Living End website, this song is about "A conversation between two guys about one of their ex-girlfriends. A cheap trampy girl that's not worth the hassle. You know the type!"

This single was released a few months before the album. The song was an instant hit, and helped stage The Living End's rapid comeback after lead singer Chris Cheney's car accident. (thanks, Raymond - Sydney, Australia, for above 2)

Data Romance - The Deep

Data Romance - The Deep Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Data Romance
Released: 2011

The Deep Lyrics

The Deep

Director Alistair Legrand was excited to finally put an old idea to use when he teamed up with Data Romance for this music video. He remembers: "The idea for this video came to me when I was listening to this song I really liked a lot. I couldn't stop visualizing these robotic forms engaged in this street-style battle dancing…I kept thinking it would be perfect for a song that wasn't hip hop."

Legrand stumbled upon "jookin," a Memphis dance style that combined his robotic visions with ballet-like grace, and its master performer Lil' Buck. Along with co-choreographing the routines, Lil' Buck and his crew performed in the video.

Ajay Bhattacharyya told Toro Magazine why they chose Legrand to direct the video: "When we found Alistair's treatment, we gravitated toward it because it was so simple and barebones. It was dark, and didn't try to paint a plot, like putting our song to a movie or something. Guy-girl drama. (His plan) appealed to us way more, the visceral quality of it. I think there's a lot of darkness in our music that isn't evident on the surface."

This song was featured on the TV series Lost Girl in the 2011 episode "Fae Gone Wild."

Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling

Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Christmas Portrait
Released: 1970

Merry Christmas Darling Lyrics

Greeting cards have all been sent
The Christmas rush is through
But I still have one wish to make
A special one for you

Merry Christmas Darling
We're apart that's true
But I can dream and in my dreams
I'm Christmasing with you

Holidays are joyful
There's always something new
But ev'ryday's a holiday
When I'm near to you

The lights on my tree
I wish you could see
I wish it ev'ry day
Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say

That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year too
I've just one wish on this Christmas eve
I wish I were with you

The logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say

That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year too
I've just one wish on this Christmas eve
I wish I were with you
I wish I were with you

Writer/s: CARPENTER, RICHARD LYNN / POOLER, FRANK
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Merry Christmas Darling

This was the Carpenters' first attempt at Christmas music. The lyric was written in 1946 by Frank Pooler, who was the choir director at California State University, Long Beach. Karen and Richard Carpenter were both part of the choir. In 1966, at Pooler's request, Richard composed the music for this ballad, which was first released in 1970. This sparked the interest and idea of a Christmas album by the Carpenters, and on October 13, 1978, Christmas Portrait was released. (thanks, TimmT - Orange, CA)

In the UK, this was re-released in 1990 as a single with "(They Long to Be) Close to You," which is when it hit #25.

Data Romance - Can't Keep Your Mind Off

Data Romance - Can't Keep Your Mind Off Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Other
Released: 2013

Can't Keep Your Mind Off Lyrics

Can't Keep Your Mind Off

Although this sounds like a happier song, there's more going on under the surface. In our interview with Data Romance, Amy Kirkpatrick talked about how it was inspired by an inner struggle: "I wrote it at a time where I was trying to be okay with everything that was going on, and I really wasn't. It's when you're telling yourself 'everything's fine, I'll do this for you, it's no big deal,' but on the inside you're contradicting what you're saying."

Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City

Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: City Nights
Released: 1978

Hot Child In The City Lyrics

Danger in the shape of something wild,
Stranger dressed in black she's a hungry child.
No-one knows who she is or what her name is.
I don't know where she came from or what her game is.

Hot Child In The City,
Hot child in the city,
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty,
Yeah,
Hot child in the city.

So young to be loose and on her own.
Young boys they all want to take her home.
When she comes downtown the boys all stop and stare.
When she comes downtown she walks like she just don't care,
Yeah.

Hot child in the city,
Hot child in the city,
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty,
Yeah,
Hot child in the city.

Come on down to my place baby, we'll talk about love.
Come on down to my place baby, we'll make love.
Hot child in the city. Hot child in the city.
Hot child in the city runnin' wild and lookin' pretty,
Hot child in the city.

Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city.
Hot child in the city
Writer/s: MC CULLOCH, JAMES / GILDER, NICK
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Hot Child In The City

This song is about child prostitution. Gilder had moved from Vancouver to Los Angeles, and was amazed at how many young girls he saw working as prostitutes on Hollywood Boulevard. (thanks, Jeanette - Hawthorne, CA)

This was Gilder's only hit. He was previously in a group called Sweeney Todd.

This took 21 weeks to get to #1 in the US, a record at the time. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

Julian Lennon - Too Late for Goodbyes

Julian Lennon - Too Late for Goodbyes Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Valotte
Released: 1984

Too Late for Goodbyes Lyrics

Ever since you've been leaving me, I've been wanting to cry.
Now I know how it feels for you, I've been wanting to die.
But it's much too late for good-byes, yes, it's much too late for good-byes.

Time has gone since I've been with you, and we've been starting to die.
Now it seems you don't care for me, and I don't understand why.
But it's much too late for good-byes, yes, it's much too late for good-byes.

Ever since you've been far away, I've been wanting to fly.
Now I know what you meant to me, I'm the one who should cry.
And it's much too late for good-byes, yes, it's much too late for good-byes.

Ever since you've been leaving me, I've been wanting to cry.
Now I know how it feels for you, I've been wanting to die.
And it's much too late for good-byes, yes, it's much too late for good-byes.

Writer/s: LENNON, JULIAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Too Late for Goodbyes

Released in the UK in September, 1984, this was the first single for Julian Lennon, who is John Lennon's first son. (His first American single was "Valotte.") His mother Cynthia got a divorce from John when Julian was just five years old, and for the next nine years, Julian rarely saw his dad. When he was 14, Julian reconnected with his dad and made occasional visits to his home in New York City.

Julian inherited many of his father's musical gifts, including a knack for songwriting. He wrote "Too Late for Goodbyes" on his own and released the song when he was just 21. It was a Top 10 hit in both the UK and US, and helped him earn a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, which he lost to Sade.

"I had an old reel-to-reel Fostex in my first flat or apartment in London, which was in Kensington," Julian told us . "I remember just being in my living room. It was on the top floor walk-up of six flights. I just remember sitting there with a keyboard and writing this track."

Given his personal history, this song could be interpreted as Julian Lennon's message to his dad, who left him when he was young. Julian tells us that this is not the case. "Initially it was about a girl, a relationship," he said. "Then it was a few other friends in the room and I was bouncing ideas back and forth. I just ended up with that particular phrase and title and it seemed to stick. So it made sense to me, and voilÁ ! Bob's your uncle. That's it. No hidden agendas on that one."

The album was produced by Phil Ramone, who had helmed albums by Paul Simon and Billy Joel. Ramone kept the production remarkably tasteful and mature considering he was working with a 21-year-old British kid in 1984. This is one of the more synth-heavy tracks on the album, but the keyboards were part of a mix with prominent guitar and bass.

Toots Thielemans played the harmonica part. Producer Phil Ramone used Thielemans the previous year on the Billy Joel track "Leave a Tender Moment Alone."

The video did very well on MTV, which Lennon credits for much of his success. He told us: "The early days of MTV certainly had a tremendous effect on most everybody at that point in time because that's when I felt the industry was a bit more exciting, because you really did in those days look forward to not only the latest new songs that were coming out by your favorite artists, but you wanted to see what they looked like, and sometimes that was the closest you were going to get if you couldn't go to their shows."

Sam Peckinpah, who directed the films Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and Convoy, directed the video. He also directed Lennon's next video, which was for his song "Valotte."

Moon Mullican - There's A Chill On The Hill Tonight

Moon Mullican - There's A Chill On The Hill Tonight Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Showboy Special
Released: 1947

There's A Chill On The Hill Tonight Lyrics

There's A Chill On The Hill Tonight

This was written sometime in the 1940s by Nelson Cogane, Sam Mysels and David Robertson (who wrote numerous jazz standards, including "We three").

In 1944, Jimmie Davis and Moon Mullican recorded the song together. Davis' name appears as co-writer, too, but no one is sure if he wrote it or bought it. Davis earned himself a top 10 Country hit with the song.

The definitive version of this song was recorded by Moon Mullican on King records in 1947. Sadly, this has not become a major standard like other songs of the time like "You are my sunshine", "I'll sail my ship alone" or "Walking the floor over you." (thanks, Patrick - Waterford, Ireland, for all above)

Five Finger Death Punch - The House Of The Rising Sun

Five Finger Death Punch - The House Of The Rising Sun Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol 2
Released: 2013

The House Of The Rising Sun Lyrics

There is a house in Sin City
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in Sin City

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk

Well, I've got one foot on the platform
The other's on the train
I'm goin' back to Sin City
To wear that ball and chain

Well, mother, tell your children
Never do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In The House Of The Rising Sun

In the house of the rising sun

Well, there is a house in Sin City
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, knows I, I'm one

Writer/s: BARONE/TRADITIONAL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, CLAUS OGERMANN, PRES. D/B/A HELIOS MUSIC CORP.
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The House Of The Rising Sun

The roots of this classic African-American folk song date back to 18th century English ballads before emigrants took it to America. The oldest known existing recording is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded the tune in 1934..

The most successful version of this folk tune was recorded by The Animals in 1964, after they originally performed it while touring England with Chuck Berry. Animals lead singer Eric Burdon, recalled to us: "It was a great song for the Chuck Berry tour because it was a way of reaching the audience without copying Chuck Berry. It was a great trick and it worked."

Released as a single, it became a #1 hit for the band in the UK, the US, Canada, Finland and Sweden.

Five Finger Death Punch covered this for their The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2 album, releasing it as the disc's second single. Guitarist Zoltan Bathory recalled how the band changed up the classic song to give it a hard-rock vibe, most notably, by switching the song's time signature from 6/8 to 4/4. "We had the idea to do this for a while," he explained. "The interesting thing about this song is that [it's] actually in a time signature of 6/8 which is a waltz… and rock music and waltz doesn't necessarily mix right."

He added: "So basically the challenge was: 'How do we make this song work? How do we take away that goofy vibe and how do we make it into a rock structure?'"

Zoltan Bathory co-directed the song's music video with Thought Pirates Films' Brian Neal. It was filmed in the Nevada desert and features a high stakes poker game with some dire results. "The song's lyrics are about gambling and drinking and we wanted to recreate those gun-swinging outlaw poker scenes familiar from classic Western movies," Bathory explained. "However, I just couldn't see us riding horses in the video so we shifted eras and went for a Mad Max-like post-apocalyptic vibe with the cars and the bikes we ride anyway."