JAMES TAYLOR
01-COUNTRY ROAD – Re M
James Taylor
Take to the highway
won't you lend me your name
Your way and my way
seem to be one and the same
Mamma don't understand it
She wants to know where I've been
I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to pass that way again
But I could feel it
On a country road
Sail on home to Jesus
won't you good girls and boys
I'm all in pieces,
you can have your own choice
But I can hear a heavenly band full of angels
And they're coming to set me free
I don't know nothing 'bout the why or when
But I can tell that it's bound to be
Because I could feel it, child, yeah
On a country road
I guess my feet know where
they want me to go
Walking on a country road
Take to the highway
won't you lend me your name
Your way and my way
seem to be one and the same, child
Mamma don't understand it
She wants to know where I've been
I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to pass that way again
But I could feel it
On a country road
Walk on down, walk on down, walk on down
Walk on down, walk on down a country road
country road
Walking on a country road
02-FIRE AND RAIN – Do M
James Taylor
Just yesterday mornin',
They let me know you were gone.
Susanne, the plans they made,
Put an end to you .
I walked out this mornin',
And I wrote down this song.
I just can't remember,
Who to send it to.
I've seen fire and I've seen rain,
I've seen sunny days,
That I thought would never end.
I've seen lonely times,
When I could not find a friend.
But I always thought that I'd see you again.
Won't you look down upon me, Jesus?
You gotta help me make a stand.
You just got to see me,
Through another day.
My body's achin',
And my time is at hand.
And I won't make it,
Any other way
Woh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain,
I've seen sunny days,
That I thought would never end.
I've seen lonely times,
When I could not find a friend.
But I always thought that I'd see you again.
Been walkin' my mind to an easy time,
My back turned towards the sun.
Lord knows, when the cold wind blows,
It'll turn your head around.
Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line,
To talk about things to come.
Sweet dreams and flyin' machines,
In pieces on the ground.
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain,
I've seen sunny days,
That I thought would never end.
I've seen lonely times,
When I could not find a friend.
But I always thought that I'd see you, baby,
One more time again, now.
Thought I'd see you one more time again.
There's just a few things comin' my way,
This time around, now.
[Fade.]
03-SWEET BABY JAMES – Re M
James Taylor
Well, there is a young cowboy he lives on the range
His horse and his cattle are his only companions
He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons
Just waiting for Summer, his pastures to change
And as the moon rises he sits by his fire
Thinking about women and glasses of beer
And closing his eyes as the dogie’s retire
He sings out a song which is soft but it's clear
As if maybe someone could hear
Goodnight you moonlight ladies
Rock-a-bye sweet baby James
Deep greens and blues
Won't you let me go down in my dreams
And rock-a-bye sweet baby James
Now the first of December was covered with snow
And so was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston
Though the Berkshires seemed dream-like on
account of that frosting
With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go
There's a song that they sing
A song that they sing when they take to the sea
A song that they sing of their home in the sky
Maybe you can believe it if it helps you to see
That singing works just fine for me
So, Goodnight you moonlight ladies
Rock-a-bye sweet baby James
Deep greens and blues are the colours I choose
Won't you let me go down in my dreams
And rock-a-bye sweet baby James