Lyrics
Spin
Spin Spin Spin
Dust in my lungs choking back the songs I have sung
Mama don't you know where I am?
Daddy don't you know where I am? Spin Spin
Water wheel gears they do spin
Belts drive the looms
Belts drive the looms Spin Spin
Tender hearts tend the machines
Slender hands tie the threads
Slender hands tie the threads Spin Spin
Eyes in the dim
Never seeing what the day has been
Never seeing what the day has been Spin
Family farm so far away standing here days
and hours and days and hours and days and hours and days
Ma did you get my pay ? Spin Spin
Old machine taking my friends
No time to even cry
No time to even cry Spin Spin
Mercy each day I pray, Jesus sees me on Sunday
Jesus sees me on Sunday
Spin Spin Spin Spin Spin
Work Can't Wait For Beauty
Cold bright sun through the trees, my eyes alone face the east
Half moon hanging in the south, so pale as I look about
Frost chasing shadows, sky colors spin their tones
My eyes alone follow the patterns, of rippling clouds as they burn
Work can't wait for beauty, work can't wait for beauty,
Work can't wait for beauty, the job keeps pushing me on
Hill tops in the west get redder, where dawn light draws its line
My eyes alone breathe in the morning, knowing it'll soon be gone
North wind tugging at my face, I pay it no mind
I bow my head in silence, giving thanks for the time
Work can't wait for beauty, work can't wait for beauty,
Work can't wait for beauty, the job keeps pushing me on
Work can't wait for beauty, work can't wait for beauty,
Work can't wait for beauty, the job keeps pushing me on
My eyes alone breathe in the morning, knowing it'll soon be gone
Happen
It just happened to me , did it happen to you? It just happened to me,
Did it happen to you? It just happened to me
Saw you in the morning girl, hit without warning
When I saw you walking and you started talking with me
It just happened to me , did it happen to you? It just happened to me
Did it happen to you? It just happened to me
Hands we were holding girl, Sending the emotion
With our eyes locked a-gazing, I knew you were for me
It just happened to me , did it happen to you? It just happened to me
Did it happen to you? It just happened to me
Your smile showed to me, no need for words you see
All I want is to love you and you love me
All I want is to love you and you love me
In our time together girl, for worse or for better girl
Remember always this day and we'll still be you and me
It just happened to me , did it happen to you?
It just happened to me , did it happen to you?
It just happened to me , did it happen to you? It just happened to me
Say I Love You
We loved and said good- bye No time to even cry
Why didn't you scream and shout as I was walking out and
Say I love you Say I love you Say I love you
You know it was on our minds we never did cross that line
Why couldn't we find a way to speak words that meant always and
Say I love you, say I love you, say I love you
If we couldn't say it then, who knows when
Who knows when, who knows when
But we've got our own lives to lead together or separately
No one gave us rules to live and not be fools and
Say I love you, say I love you, say I love you
If we couldn't say it then,who knows when
Who knows when, who knows when
Just say I love you, just say I love you, just say I love you
Darn Man
The Darn Man started walking in June his wedding coat so fresh and new
Eyes empty, soul so scarred, to his bride he would be true
Darn Man Darn Man are you to wed?
Here's a bit of cloth needle and thread
Here's a bit of cloth needle and thread
His heart was filled with love and joy 'til fate shocked him all his years
A carriage tossed or a ship was lost,his bride lay dead ,he froze no tears
Darn Man Darn Man are you to wed?
Here's a bit of cloth needle and thread
Here's a bit of cloth needle and thread
Morning came and the Darn Man roamed, each day waiting for his bride
From family to family for food and rest, to darn his wedding coat and vest
Darn Man Darn Man are you to wed?
Here's a bit of cloth needle and thread
Here's a bit of cloth needle and thread
Days and years he ambled on his coat more patched and worn
Children laughed the Darn Man's here as they stared at his coat so forlorn
Darn Man Darn Man are you to wed?
Here's a bit of cloth needle and thread
Here's a bit of cloth needle and thread
Forty years the Darn Man made his rounds in the sweet New England hills
Time wore his wedding coat so thin, but time, his love would never kill
Darn Man Darn Man are you to wed?
Here's a bit of cloth needle and thread
Here's a bit of cloth needle and thread
Pretend
Just pretend we have never been in love before today
Never felt this way, never felt this way
Oh I want to believe it's just you and me in
love can't you see, with me, with me
Love me now let's begin, moments do not come again
Is it love our future sees? Just pretend
Look at me what do you see turning in my head today
Never felt this way, never felt this way
Love me now let's begin, moments do not come again
Is it love our future sees? Just pretend
Take my hand begin again no wounds to bind today
Never felt this way, never felt this way
Oh I want to believe it's just you and me in
love can't you see, with me, with me
Love me now let's begin, moments do not come again
Is it love our future sees? Just pretend
Heartless Scene
This is no place to cry with so many eyes
Seeing my tears flowing down
Phone to my ear Still the words aren't clear
But I know the sounds of good-bye
One hand catching my tears Why won't you come near
And tell me straight to my face
Put down your phone leave me alone
Don't use me this way
Just let me go, Just let me go, Just let me go,
Just let me go, Just let me go, Just let me go, Just let me go
My eyes red on the lids You know what you said
Why does love turn to hate?
You're cutting and cruel I'm nothing like you
You're nothing to me
Why did you call me here to make this heartless scene
Why did you call me here or strangers to see
Just let me go, Just let me go, Just let me go,
Just let me go, Just let me go, Just let me go, Just let me go,
This is no place to cry with so many eyes
Seeing my tears flowing down
Phone to my ear Still the words aren't clear
I know the sounds of good-bye
Cry
See you walking down the track Seems you'll never come back
No matter what I'd try to say Ain't no words goin find a way
Know I'm gonna lose you What'll I do without you?
Cry cry without you Cry without you Cry cry without you
Another day drifts on by You left without saying why
My mind can only guess You couldn't take the stress
Know I'm gonna lose you What'll I do without you?
Cry cry without you Cry without you Cry cry without you
We never do all we can Me I'm just another man
Who thought he found a woman To give him forever lovin
Know I'm gonna lose you What'll I do without you?
Cry cry without you Cry without you
Cry cry without you Cry without you
Cry cry without you Cry without you
Cry cry without you Cry Cry without you
Boston's Great Molasses Flood
January 15th 1919 on the cobblestone streets of the North End of Boston
There at the Purity Distilling Company
Death from sweetness is a long gone now Yet you still smell molasses in old Boston town
Take a deep breath on a hot Summer's day Feel that old molasses flowing your way
Sugar cane molasses in 1919 Boston town Meant to bring sweetness to people all around
What happy smile imagined that it would Turn to destruction of the Great Molasses Flood
Take a deep breath on a hot Summer's day Feel that old molasses flowing your way
Take a deep breath on a hot Summer's day Feel that old molasses flowing your way
A rough iron tank stood fifty feet tall In Boston's North End a million gallons full
Early Spring heat on a mid January day Molasses fermented and the sides they gave way
A tide of molasses pushed through the streets Trapping covering all it did meet
No way to swim no where to run Twenty-One lives were lost in that Great Molasses Flood
Take a deep breath on a hot Summer's day Feel that old molasses flowing your way
Take a deep breath on a hot Summer's day Feel that old molasses flowing your way
Men, women, children, horses too Glued in its mire lost in its goo
Brought down a train trestle browned up the harbor Stuck in the stones forever and tomorrow
Take a deep breath on a hot Summer's day Feel that old molasses flowing your way
Take a deep breath on a hot Summer's day Feel that old molasses flowing your way
Take a deep breath on a hot Summer's day Feel that old molasses flowing your way
The Great Molasses Flood
Lost Shirt Sea Shanty
Lyrics by Joseph Manning Smith, Jr.(1837-1870)
Three weary months of life at sea on board ship Mary Ann
Our voyage not accomplished yet by many a good league's span
The shirt for weeks had stuck to me / I trusted him a friend
But Nature's law is uncontrolled and all things have an end
Here is the tale of my undershirt I tried to wash it clean
Here is the tale of my undershirt sailors all, save me (him)
Here is the tale of my undershirt I lost it to the sea
I thought to have my soiled shirts clean We had no laundress there
The sailors wash I oft had seen by towing clothes with care
One lone worn and adhesive shirt I fastened to a line
And from the cabin window hung Ah! Luckless plan of mine
Oh! stern hard fate; or else design or carelessly tied string
Into the limpid sea of brine my woolen shirt did fling
Into old Ocean's awful deep my dirty shirt did slip
I looked, I saw the thing was gone and wept with quivering lip
No evil comes without some good I miss my shirt 'tis true
But will no more attempt to tow My clothes in ocean blue
Here is the tale of my undershirt I tried to wash it clean
The Indian Ocean has thee now Far in its depth I ween
Longitude was seventy-five latitude nineteen
February 23rd, 1859, Requiescat in Mare
Tony's Tab
Hey Hey bartender bring me another beer
Just one more and I'll settle my tab and I'll be gone from here
You won't see me 'til payday comes
Then back for another evening 'til the last song issu ng
Settle my tab when the last song is sung
Settle my tab when the last song is sung
Hey bartender bring me another beer
You know the one I've been drinking of for oh so many years
Before the twist top was ever born and each song ends with a little sip
'Til the last song is sung
Settle my tab when the last song is sung
Settle my tab when the last song is sung
Hey bartender bring me another beer
Just one more and I'll settle my tab it's the songs I love to here
The music playing stirs my soul. Just one more and I'll settle my tab
When the last song is sung
Settle my tab when the last song is sung
Settle my tab when the last song is sung
Settle my tab when the last song is sung
Settle my tab when the last song is sung
Sleep Baby Lullaby
Time to go to sleep to-night, sleep baby sleep
Time to go to sleep to-night, sleep baby sleep
Rest your head upon my breast, sleep baby sleep
Rest your head upon my breast, sleep baby sleep
Safe and warm in my arms, sleep baby sleep
Safe and warm in my arms, sleep baby sleep
Children we shall always be, sleep baby sleep
Children we shall always be, sleep baby sleep
Sleep baby sleep, sleep baby sleep