MAGNA CARTA
01-THE BRIDGE AT KNARESBOROUGH TOWN – C1 Do M
Magna Carta
If you should come
to Knaresborough town
Look for a woman
that knows me well
Light are her eyes
and fine her gown
And she goes by the bridge
at Knaresborough town
The rivers flows
on many a year
Through summer green
and autumn brown
And men have lived
and men have died
That walked the bridge
at Knaresborough town
---sitar break---
And if you come
upon the day
When ter all
the fields were found
The words of ruin
the thoughts of peace
That curse the bridge
at Knaresborough town
Now you who listen
mind you well
For twice the time
has come around
The bridge did fall
so who knows when
There'll be no world
for Knaresborough town
02-SONG OF EVENING – Mi M
Magna Carta
Pastel shades the hour
When evening climbs the sky
And burns a golden highway to the west
And the distant city sounds
Caress the trembling leaves
To die among the far horizon shores
Then the song of the evening comes in
And lingers 'til the closing, of the day
Just a song of evening flows on
like some tumbling river
And like a river flows away
I look beyond the window
Where twisted shadows play
And trees are bare below
the frozen stars
The stranger hurries through the cold
His collar round his ears
Dreaming words of comfort and a fire
Then the song of the evening comes in
And lingers 'til the closing, of the day
Just a song of evening flows on
like some tumbling river
And like a river flows away
03-FALKLAND GREENE – Mi m
Magna Carta
Were I the morning star
I could never shine so fair
Lady in your sequin gown
Riding on a milk with palfrey
Popinjay and minstrel Gaily
Riding down a forest road
Knights and ladies come ye well
To be at Falkland Greene
To be at Falkland Greene
Sand your coat of steel my lord
You could have a winesome favour
Ride you fair and speak you well
Maybe know a lady’s pleasure
Stuart lord in gold and crimson
Hunt the boar and fleetfoot deer
Poet if your lines be true
Then come to Falkland Greene
Come to Falkland Greene
04-ISN'T IT FUNNY (NOT A LITTLE BIT STRANGE) – Mi M
Magna Carta
I asked a glowworm how would it be
If you'd light the way for me
Oh no he said oh no he said
You step on my head he said
Oh no he said
You step on my head…
I asked a coalman just for a laugh
How many times did he take a bath
As many times said he,
as the bath takes me
Ooooh
Isn't it funny
and not a little bit strange
Like a biscuit on a plane
I told a clean-cut political man
We can change the world we can
Oh no said he (oh no said he)
I let the world change me
(Oh no said he)
I let the world change
Oh I asked a wise man
Where could I go,
to ease my mind and take it slow
he said try the moon,
I've heard it's cool up there
Ooooh
Isn't it funny
and not a little bit strange
That a man works his day
and he just fades away
05-FATHER JOHN – Fa# m
Magna Carta
Slowly steals the dawn
in a grey December way
tired night has closed her eyes
as if to say
Oh let all the world be light
each darkened room
‘til I return
Father John
wakes early
dons a faded robe
breathes a prayer
then hurries where
the air is cold
It’s Sunday come round again
maybe one face more or less
in church today
Oh can’t you see Father John?
Oh can’t you see Father John?
Miss Pringle and Miss Prendergast
and George who does the brass
are there
to say the words they’ve said
for twenty years
and no-one knows or cares,
safe in the security
of thing they see and want to be
believing in a word for growing old
Oh can’t you see Father John
no-one seems to want your words of love
any more
Can’t you see Father John?
Like the stain-glass window fathers
in last September cobwebs
God does not belong here anymore
Benediction said and done the echoes die
and silence fills the walls
High above him on the wind
the rooks sail in the torn winter sky
Just an old man with frosted hair
believing a dream
of love
Father John
Father John
Father John
06-THAT WAS YESTERDAY – C1 Mi M
Magna Carta
Diadems and gems that glitter
painted faces turning
lady played the harpsichord
where now the brambles grow
hopes and schemes
like old men's dreams
some have gone astra
the world could never change you said
but that was yesterday
peacocks, mannequin paraded
on your velvet lawn
servants at your beck and call
to bring your wine and roses
the songs your lovers made for you
were soon to fade away
the world could never change you said
but that was yesterday
fortunes come and go like winter
blossoms into spring
you woke one morning so unknowing
and all the money gone
you said goodbye to finery
and the friends who used to say
we're with you until the end of time
but that was yesterday
we're with you until the end of time
but that was yesterday
07-TWO OLD FRIENDS – C1 Re M
Magna Carta
Two old friends of mine
I saw them only yesterday
They where there But I
got the feeling
They had gone away,
Gone away
from each other
And I was alone
Killing time
A stranger in the silence
of their company
Two old friends of mine
Is this all life has left of you?
Who took the laughter, the times
We said what we were going to do?
When we were grown
and ready
To take on the world,
And now the tune is one
You can't remember
*Who lost the reason
For being together?
Who says the money
won't go round?
*Once it was love
And we'll live on a shoestring
But they don't give no mortgage
On a castle in the air
Two old friends of mine
A dripping tap
And a broken old chair
And if I read between the lines
Someone's lonely
Someone doesn't care
If it's all gone
by tomorrow
For tomorrow's been and gone
Like a bird
That has no home…
08-WISH IT WAS – C1 Re M
Magna Carta
If I had words like a hammer
If I had powers unreal
Then I would tear down Meggido
And I would bring you songs of love
And every child of tomorrow
Safely in it's bed could lie
And hate would die of starvation
Wish it was (I wish it was)
Wish it was the day it was
Wish it was
I wish it was
Wish it was the day
I'll find an old man lonely
In the autumn of his year
I'll find the young one hoping
To induce himself in love
And to both I give a rainbow
Neither side can make it on their own
Young and old come together
Wish it was (I wish it was)
Wish it was the day it was
Wish it was
I wish it was
Wish it was the day
I'll find some magic morning
I'll take a boat out on the sea
Maybe run before the west wing
To bring you songs of love
And every fear for tomorrow
In my head could surely lie
You and I we'd be together
Wish it was (I wish it was)
Wish it was the day it was
Wish it was
I wish it was
Wish it was the day
09-HIGHWAY TO SPAIN – Fa# m
Magna Carta
Two drifters running free
heading for the sun
rolling down a highway
to Spain
we were almost finished,
before we had begun
and nothing,
nothing would be the same
From Rouen down to Toulouse
that old transit saw us well
rolling through the vineyards
on the hill
bread and cheese in a sleepy town
heading out as the sun went down
counting up the money
Down that highway to Spain
strangers to the sun
who knows when we'll be back again
on that highway to Spain
the race is on again, my friend
South of Saragossa,
aiming for Madrid
where mirages danced fandangos
on the plain
we ran out of money,
I can't remember just what we did
but I recall we got there
Down that highway to Spain
strangers to the sun
who knows when we'll be back again
on that highway to Spain
the race is on again, my friend
10-AIRPORT SONG – Mi M
Magna Carta
Ooh, ooh ooh ooh
Sitting in the airport lounge
I'm waiting for a plane
Everything is grounded
For the fog is down again
I should be leaving in the morning
On a flight for Singapore
With a guitar and a suitcase and a face
In a photograph…
Dozing with a coffee
and a drooping cigarette
And the dog eared Sunday supplement
And still I can't forget
I should be leaving in the morning
On a plane bound for the sun
With a guitar and a suitcase and a face
In a photograph…
The hands on the clock
Turn around and around
Dragging past the hours
'Till the dawning of the day
And the girl in information
With her eyes on affirmation
She's turning with a smile
to break the news
I cannot quite believe it,
but I thought I heard her say
"The customs all have woken up,
the fog is on it's way"
So I'll be leaving in the morning
On a plane bound for the sun
With a guitar and a suitcase and a face
In a photograph
Oooh, ooh ooh ooh
Yes I'll be leaving in the morning
On a plane bound for the sun
11-WINTER SONG – Re m
Magna Carta
Falling leaves turn to gold
Silver flowers on my window
Spirit of the fading year
gently slips away
He knows not where
He cannot say, oh no
Naked trees in the sky
Stars are shining clear and cold
The minstrel of the ages sings of
An age old tune without a name
No one knows
The pilgrim travels on
His face towards the sun
Beyond the open road he travels on
Past the lamp shining windows
And faces by the fire
Before the midnight hour
For Christmas time
has come around again
Go to sleep, little child
You shouldn't be awake
Go to sleep little child
Time to let the night go by
Waiting for the sound of a magic sleigh
The chimneys not too tall they say
Or the roof too high for a reindeer to fly
No not too high for a reindeer to fly
12-SUNDAY ON THE RIVER – Sol M
Magna Carta
Where the wind blows
willow weep, water deep running along, the weir
and the boat goes
on the water brown, whirling round
flashing his eyes in the sun
Sunday on the river
with the time flo-wing by
I catch the morning
row a while row, just lie back and
gaze at the sky
reeds are swaying
beyond their head, where instead
of gloomy walls, trees roll by
Sunday on the river
with the time flowing by
(bridge)
Na, na, na, na, na ,na, na
I want you here by me
where the water's cool,
in the river pool
and no one's around, to see
Where the wind blows
willow weep, water deep
running along, the weir
and the boat goes
on the water brown, whirling round
flashing his eyes in the sun
Sunday on the river
with the time flowing by
Sunday on the river
with the time flowing by
13-TOOK A LONG TIME – Mi M
Magna Carta
I left my home in the wide north country,
turned my back on the nine to five.
I said goodbye to child horizons,
I must have made enough to stay alive.
You and I were friends from way back,
just drinking cognac through the dawn.
Putting right the wrongs in the laughter and the songs
that said all we knew, all we believed in
and you know
it took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya
took a long time, took a long time in the end
took a long time, took a long time just to know ya
to know my friend
Now broken rocks don't make no highway
and fallen stars don't mend no sky.
She is lying here beside me,
don't ever really have to ask a reason why.
And you and I we should not worry,
for all things they say will find a way.
Who knows where it ends
where the road winds where it bends
God knows, it might just roll on forever.
And you know,
it took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya took a long time, took a long time in the end
Took a long time, took a long time just to know ya,
to know my friend
And you know,
it took a long time, took a long time, just to know ya took a long time, took a long time in the end
Took a long time, took a long time just to know ya,
to know my friend
I feel the wind that shakes the barley
I've seen the writing on the wall
Just when it seemed I got to know ya
I never knew you at all
14-ELIZABETHAN – Si m
Magna Carta
My lady is so fair
and bright the river flows, beneath her window shows
a mirror for her face and for her hair
a mirror for her face and for her hair
if I had words to tell
a gallant lover I would be and offer on a bended knee
all that I am and serve her well
all that I am and serve her well
and when the soft wind blows
reeds by the water mere,
turning their heads can hear
the sound of her voice where she goes
the sound of her voice where she goes
If I could make, the gentle rain play
music for her ears
to hear my name
My lady is so fair
and bright the river flows, beneath her window shows
a mirror for her face and for her hair
a mirror for her face and for her hair
15-BEYOND THE ISLE OF SKY – Mi m
Magna Carta
Boat ride on the water
sea roll on the shore
girl with eyes of the morning
singing she climbs the hill
Come ye winds from the borderland
broken dreams can fly
above the poor and the rich man
beyond the isle…
of Skye
---guitar break---
Fisher ride on the water
straining the sea through a net
mountain lining the skyway
where the eagle sails in the sun
Come ye winds from the borderland
broken dreams can fly
above the poor and the rich man
beyond the Isle …
of Skye
beyond the Isle …of Skye
16-RING OF STONES – C2 Fa# m
Magna Carta
The painted face of evening
shrouds the sleeping day
voices in the twilight,
murmur
The trees that lean toward the sky
shake their weathered bones
and timeless magic lingers here
among the ring of stones
Like circles on the water
beneath the rising moon
a churchbell tolls the fading notes
of ti-------------me
a fallen king of long ago
sleeps the years alone
and a night wind hums a requiem
amidst the ring of stones
and down a stairway to Valhallah
it's steps of burning gold
and a servant of a lifetime by his side
with a dagger and a coat of steel
to see him on his way,
on his way-----
---ORGAN BREAK---
Di-anna sails her sea of cloud
above her silver bowl
the spirits of the darkness
fill the ai--------------r
and me I'm just a travellin' boy
so many miles from home
and they say the devil, walks the road
beneath the ring of stones
17-ARE YOU GOING MY WAY – Do M
Magna Carta
Too Too Too Too Too Too Too Too Too
Too Too Too Too Too Too Too Too Too
Are you going my way?
Have you time to take a ride on?
Down an easy Highway
beneath the sunny sky
Chewing grass
In the meadow in the sun
Have a love together
In the world no symphony just,
Talk about the weather,
The way it used to be , you know
Not so very long ago,
not so very long ago
Time to laugh at the sun
Stay inside on a rainy day
We did'nt know
it couldn't last
Too Too Too Too Too Too Too Too Too
Too Too Too Too Too Too Too Too Too
Time to laugh at the sun
Stay inside on a rainy day
We did'nt know
it couldn't last
Are you going my way?
Leave the city far behind you
Such an easy highway
The way it used to be you know
Not so very long ago,
not so very long ago
Not so very long ago,
not so very long ago
Are you going , going my way ....... (repeat and fade)
18-EVERGREEN – Mi M
Magna Carta
One to one is the general rule
applies to most of us
you can't fool love
she leads you in the dance
you take her hand
you take a chance, and I
sometimes feel like a man possessed
of all the love I need
to keep me on the rails
and then again I get my days
when I cannot see,
the way ahead at all so I turn to you
Evergreen it don't matter
if the cold wind is blowing
if the dark clouds are flying,
high across the moon
Evergreen she's a lover
like a young tree in the summer
she sees me through my winter
and she'll touch me
touch me in the spring
Fingers reach to touch and teach
in words and notes that each of us can hear
and see in a special way,
that move you still
and yet you say, I wonder
love's a word you can't define,
it's there in every singers line
it hits you in so many ways,
it's hard to find,
not easy to say that I need you
and I
oh I must concede
I'm a man who needs to know
there's always someone there,
just to see me through
there are days
when I get so low,
when I
cannot see, the way
ahead at all
so I turn to you
Evergreen it don't matter
if the cold wind is blowing
if the dark clouds are flying,
high across the moon
Evergreen she's a lover
like a young tree in summer
she sees me through my winter
and she'll touch me
Evergreen it don't matter
if the cold wind is blowing
if the dark clouds are flying,
high across the moon
Evergreen she's a lover
like a young tree in summer
she sees me through my winter
and she'll touch me
right where it hurts
Evergreen she's a lover
I wouldn't want no other at all
19-WHITE SNOW DOVE – Re m
Magna Carta
When the last of the wine has sunk in the jar
and sleep fills my weary eyes
then I see my love like a white snow dove
like a white snow dove she flies
for she and I are ships that sail
for a league on the rolling sea
then I see my love like a white snow dove
like a white snow dove flies she
---Guitar break---
come stay by me come lay by me
come pass the long night away
for you fly like a dove like a white snow dove
yes you fly like a dove to me
20-IDDLE WIND – Re m
Magna Carta
An idle wind passes the shore
can I not love you anymore
you're like the skyline soft and fair
you're always changing always there
and the idle wind
brings the changes
and the idle wind
brings the strangeness
and the idle wind
leaves you name less
wind shift the mist, wind lift the spray
wind would you take my love away
she's like a rainbow in the sky
she's only colours in my eye
and the idle wind
brings the changes
and the idle wind
brings the strangeness
and the idle wind
leaves you nameless
in silent space white gulls glide
love is on the ebbing tide
and as the wind comes it cools the sun
I observe the colours as they run
and the idle wind
brings the strangeness
and the idle wind
leaves you nameless
21-TIME FOR THE LIVING – Mi M
Magna Carta
The wind blows the ashes of summer,
and pulls the tar
paper face on the plumbing
the marmalade cat,
with dark mangled ears
slips through the fence without pausing
this is my world and home
football and marbles
and coming home late if you dare
I look at the face in the mirror,
I know it so well,
but I don’t know at all
and the child books are weary,
and fade on the shelves
with things that were precious
now dusty
this is my yesterday
and the friends that I knew, have all gone
now - and now
now … is the time
for the leavin’
in a corner she sits, by the fire
she seeks the words
that somehow elude her
and the yesterday face,
a picture with moustache
looks down to the ground
from the mantelpiece
this is my world alone
the blue cotton dress and the man
on the cross on the wall ---
then why must you go,
are the words that she’s found
there’s a job in the paper, that’s firm
five minutes away from the place that you built
and the prospects get better, they say
how can I tell you now
good-bye must be all I can say
and now and now
now … is the time for the leavin’ (repeat to fade)22-WAYFARIN’ – Si M
Magna Carta
The clock tolls the hour and the morning's come
and the wreck of the meal is on the table
now I lay by your side,
when the candle lit has died
and I couldn't find the words
for to tell you
so I'll bid you farewell as you're sleeping
and you stand all alone in your world
the words that we shared are
but shadows that fly
through the hours that run
without waiting to say goodbye
(Goodbye) say goodbye
(Goodbye) say goodbye
I'm going out upon the highway
aiming for a city line
sky above and the road beyond
and I'm movin' on
and I'm movin' on
waiting in the freezing rain
maybe hitch a southern ride
a plastic meal on a motorway
and the city lights that burn the sky
*no one around and you know you're a long
*way from home
I'm going easy down the highway
looking out for something new
sky above and the road beyond
and I'm movin' on,
I'm movin'
The sun burns the sky and it sinks in the west
and my footsteps lead down to the sea
now I'm far away
but I seem to hear you say
take care my love while you're gone
(Goodbye) movin' on
(Goodbye) movin' on23-DANNY – Sol M
Magna Carta
Danny come runnin' through the
July morning
little boy laughing
at the, wind in his hair
sun on the apples dapples
faces in the morning
maybe he's listening,
maybe he hears
the voices of the summer in his ears
Daddy's on the road bound for,
San Sebastian
mama she's a lady,
with ringlets in her hair
Danny's got a rabbit
that is bigger than a tiger
maybe he's listening, maybe
he hears an
echo on the highway (echo on the highway)
the voices of the summer in his ears
Danny and the old man
hand in hand together
kicking at the football
in the cool of the day
picking up the memories
that the old one had forgotten
something is stirring from down over the years
the voices of the summer in his ears
Danny come runnin' through the,
July morning
(Danny come runnin' through the, July morning)
little boy laughing at the,
wind in his hair (little boy laughing)
at the wind in his hair
25-PARLIAMENT HILL – Re M
Magna Carta
Nothing to do
but watch the clouds go sailing by
thinking of you
see you walking in my mind
and all the doubts are left behind the sunshine.
if you come to Parliament Hill
for a while to look and see
nobody there on Parliament Hill, only me…
Head in the grass
watch the sky above me turn to blue
I never knew
living is so easy when you
leave the things behind that bring you down.
if you come to Parliament Hill
for a while to look and see
nobody there on Parliament Hill, only me…
*children by the seat
flying kites in the wind
know nothing much at all of you and me
*pulling on the strings
of the faces in the sky
floating high up in a world you cannot see.
break
and you should know
I like you near me all of the time
so don't ever go
you are all I need to know
and all I need to know is what is mine
if you come to Parliament Hill
for a while to look and see
nobody there on Parliament Hill, only me…
if you come to Parliament Hill
if you come to Parliament Hill
would you come with me
26-SONG FOR JOHN – Do M
Magna Carta
I will sing of you now,
old friend of my childhood
when the memories grow stronger
and the hard times are dead
and I see you so clear
old cloth cap and blue eyes
and your words and your laughter,
still ring in my head
and there were times when I thought,
life could not change you
that you were of iron
and hard as a stone
then I lifted the veil
and I saw you were fooling
for gentle, hurt easy,
like a child you were lost
for time and a river
they roll on together
who knows where we're going to,
or where we came from
Oh John, there was no one to touch you
Lord knows I miss you,
now that you've gone
And I saw through your eyes,
that the snow it lay whiter
that the deeps they were deeper,
that the summers ran dry
and the rivers were oceans
deep rolling in splendour
the trees they were giants,
that talked with the sky
Then one morning they found you,
like a child as if sleeping
but open hand stretching,
wide eyed to the sky
and the void that you left,
was too deep for the filling
and the love that you gave us,
oh it never will die
for time and a river
they roll on together
who knows where we're going to
or where we came from
Oh John, there was no one to touch you
Lord knows I miss you,
now that you've gone27-ROMEO JACK – Re M
Magna Carta
Baby lonely crying in the rain
says she'll never be the same again
she found she'd been locked outside last night
he was the friend who said he'd see her right
she reached the point, of no return
and now she can't come back
let the Devil take the highroad to Romeo Jack
Your conquests hang like washing on your line
you got it all worked out, it's working fine
when the tree ain't in the orchard
and the fruit is free for all
you let chance shake the apples and you
catch 'em as they fall
The rain can't damp your ardour
better wear your plastic mac
and it's quite OK to lie on, Romeo Jack
a flower by the roadside, turns her
face toward the sun, and sits in a dream
and what use is a flower, when it's
hidden out of sight and can't be seen
The womens' league is up in arms again
it needs a sense of purpose now and then
they're shocked they say, about the things you do
but give them half a chance and they'd do it too
the best laid plans of mice and men
are running rather slack
they seek him here, they seek him there
illusive Romeo Jack
I've heard it said you've almost had your run
and all your moral values are undone
and when at Twenty Five you're past your best
then leave the shattered remnants to the rest
and to show yourself from time to time
you haven't lost the knack
pack your bags and come and join us Romeo Jack
pack your bags and come and join us Romeo Jack
pack your bags and come and join us Romeo Jack28-SCARECROW – C1 Mi M
Magna Carta
Soldier,
in a field of green
worn out suit of yesterday
faithful,
have I always been,
standing in the wind and rain
but if only I'd a song to sing
I'd sing it every day
Stand alone,
beneath the sky,
in summer heat and winter snow
my eyes are blind,
my voice is dumb,
the wind has blown my hat away
but if only I'd a song to sing
I'd sing it every day
29-FOREVER – Sol M
Magna Carta
Forever
is tomorrow and a day
And I know that if they throw it all away
Life would still go on forever
Imagine
falling from a star
Not just a thousand years
Not just a million miles
Forever and for more
It would be hard for you
to surely comprehend
Forever, forever, forever
*I've seen the fussing and the fighting
I've seen the struggle to be free
I've known the laughter and the sorrow
There'll always be tomorrow
waiting there
Forever
as the wind blows from the sea
You and I shall be together just to see
It is no ordinary consequence of time
We're prisoners on the line
30-DOWN ALONG UP – Sol M
Magna Carta
Run, run the morning's come
and the air's like wine about me
run, run the morning's come
and the night is far behind
blow, blow the morning wind
turn the leaves around me
blossoms fall like summer snow
for gentle feet to tread
run, run the river runs
if I look into your pools
would I see her smile
blow, blow the summer wind
running on before me
take the words that fill my heart
and say I'm on my way
run, run the river run
say I'm on my way
blow, blow the summer wind
say I'm on my way
31-GIVE ME NO GOODBYE – C2 Mi m
Magna Carta
Give me no goodbye
though it's time for you to go
give no reason why
I don't really want to know
When your love walks alone in your memory
and the bed in the corner is dumb
the swallow has turned from the north wind
hiding his face in the sun,
yes he does so you run
Give me no goodbye
though it's time for you to go
give no reason why
I don't really want to know
I was your friend for a moment
a flame in the night for you to burn
to take, whenever you were hungry
to teach, with someone there to learn,
yes you do so you turn
yes you turn
yes you turn,
from me my love
Give me no goodbye
though it's time for you to go
give no reason why
I don't really want to know
got no time, got no time,
got no time to make or mend
there's no time, there's no time,
there's no time at all my friend
Give me no goodbye
though it's time for you to go
give no reason why
I don't really want to know
give me no goodbye give me no goodbye…
32-STING OF THE GIN – La m
Magna Carta
There's a cold rain falling from the sky above
and I'm lost as a woman on a drifter's love
there's a singin' in the wire,
there's a singin' in my head
and I can't find my own way home you can
tell by the style and the cut of my clothes
I've seen better days god only knows
I'm like a one man bandit at the Alamo
Running from the guns again
just running from the guns again
It's in the bite of the whisky
it's in the kiss of the wine
it's in the touch of Tequila
or the fruit of the vine
but the very next morning,
when you let yourself in
and she asks you what happened,
you blame it on the sting of the gin
big man picking up a telephone
he's got a woman in the city, got a woman at home
he waits for a line, then he hangs up in time
and reaches for the bottle again you can
lose your job and the money's all gone
and it don't look too good in the cold light of dawn
so you have a little drink, just to set you up again
for tomorrow
It's in the kick of the vodka
it's in the hush of the rye
sweet Amon-till-ado
gently kiss you goodbye
it's a way of forgetting,
the state that you're in
when no one believes you you
blame it on the sting of the gin
sting of the gin
33-WILD GEESE – Re M
Magna Carta
Beyond the salty tideway,
and the wide deserted shore
the sea mixes colours
with the sky
and the wild geese come, winging in,
like sails upon the wind
wayfaring strangers
to the land
now I wonder what it's like to be,
beyond the midnight sun
with the diamond ice field's flashing
and the long day never done
Well I seem to here them
calling, in the language of the free
the spirit, of the wide
north land
there are times and situations,
where a man must stand alone
believing he never,
never had a friend
the walls crowd in to crush him
and words pierce him to the bone,
for he tries so hard to make it,
and he finds he just can't take it,
in the end
short flute solo
but there's a lesson in the silence,
you know it's as ageless as the sun
you're never, given more,
than you can bear
and though you might just call to question,
all the things that you have done
that ain't gonna take you
anywhere
for sunset bloods the water,
the wind blows endlessly
the wild geese fly the ancient trails,
across the evening sky
and I seem to hear them calling,
in the language of the free
the spirit, of the wide north land
the spirit, of the wide north land34-LIVING WITH A WOMAN LIKE YOU-
Sol M Magna Carta
I get home weary
don't have a lot to say
I turn my back on
the end of a working day
sound of the city
coming off the street
you can feel the rhythm
right through your feet
living ain't easy times
you don't have a clue
but I got all I need
just living with a woman like you
don't have much money
or travel in a limosine
no friends of fashion
or places where faces are seen
well I got you and it matters a lot
no point in missin' what you just ain't got
I might be crazy nothin' more I can do
but I got all I need
just living with a woman like you
with a woman like you
we've been here so long
we both got each other
and I hope that's the way it will stay
it's been a long song wouldn't sing another
though I know that iy's easy to say
All in all, you can fight 'til the end of the line
Run for the money, and I'm runnin' most of the time
well I got you and a little bit more
love is together that's what it's for
it's all I can take I'm just makin' it through
but I got all I need just
living with a woman like you
with a woman like you
god I got all I need just
living with a woman like you
35-SAN FRANCISCO BAY BLUES – Do M
Magna Carta
I got the blues from my baby
left me by the San Francisco Bay,
The ocean liner's
gone so far away.
Didn't mean to treat her so bad,
she was the best girl I ever have had,
She said goodbye, I can take a cry,
I want to lay down and die.
I ain't got a nickel
and I ain't got a lousy dime.
She don't come back,
think I'm going to lose my mind.
If she ever gets back to stay,
it's going to be another brand new day,
Walking with my baby
down by the San Francisco Bay.
BREAK
Sitting down looking from my back door, wondering which way to go,
The woman I'm so crazy about,
she don't love me no more.
Think I'll catch me a freight train,
'cause I'm feeling blue,
And ride all the way to the end of the line, thinking only of you.
Meanwhile, in another city,
just about to go insane,
Thought I heard my baby, Lord,
the way she used to call my name.
If I ever get her back to stay,
it's going to be another brand new day,
Walking with my baby
down by the San Francisco Bay.
Walking with my baby
down by the San Francisco Bay.
Walking with my baby
down by the San Francisco Bay.
36-ULYSSES – Re M
Magna Carta
Ice flowers on your window
you know it's cold outside
sparks flyin' to the night sky
but I'm here with you beside me now
naked as a child
naked as a child
time finds a weary traveller
on such a night as this
I feel you stir against me
I kiss away the dark and lonely times
we've been alone
Lady, we've been alone
Oh, my mistress is the guitar
and my lover she's the song
times we were the best of friends and
but I know here in my heart
how much I needed you
and that's all I can say
can't think of one good reason
to cause you pain
my life is but a season
and restless as the tide and I'm movin' on
and in your arms again
in your arms again
Oh, my mistress is the guitar
and my lover she's the song
times we were the best of friends and
but I know here in my heart
how much I love you
and that's all I can say
and that's all I can say37-NOTHING SO BAD – Re M
Magna Carta
We were talking
just yesterday
And the night was so still and warm
and the earth was dry,
waiting for the rain to cry
That it's all over
I can hear you
so clear
And your words filled the night with pain
Everywhere you try to run
there's nowhere left to go
Everything you try to be
nobody wants to know
You're all so busy growing
there's little left to grow…
Left to grow
So old friends
don't you be so sad
For nothing's so bad
it can't get better in the end
nothing's so bad
it can't get better
flute & guitar solo
I can see you
so clear
Just holding a drink you did not need
and your eyes were angry,
brooding like a storm
that breaks,
the clears the sky
So old friend
don't you be so sad
For nothing's so bad
it can't get better in the end
nothing's so bad
it can't get better
38-FACES OF LONDON – Sol M
Magna Carta
There are lights on the water
they shine on a river
from St. Pauls down to Gravesend,
they shine to the sea
and I'm sick and I'm tired
footsore and weary
the faces of London,
got nothing on me
???
got by on a coffee
songs of the rivers, of the
hills and old ways
and the faces of London
no time for the stopping
each one an island,
in a big lonely sea
*the wind blows the paper
past the underground stations
the streets are deserted
and cold as a grave
*I remember on leaving
your last words so well
you'll always survive,
if you've something to sell
accordion break
now it's four in the morning
the cold neon mourning
there's a Rolls rolling homeward
and the driver he's yawning
and I'm sharing this moment
with a drunk and a bottle
two faces of London
with nowhere to go
39-IN TOMORROW – Mi M
Magna Carta
There's a time before the morning
when the earth is hushed and still
and the streetlights lose their halos
and the cats slide home to bed
it's mostly then I miss you, see your
sweet face on the pillow by my side
and it's cold here in tomorrow
and I got no place to hide
I've loved the perfect strangers
had my share of old fairweather friends
but I did not lack for comfort
when I was lost and had no place to go
I see us walk beside the river
feel the warm wind touch your hair
then we fade into tomorrow
and I'm miles from anywhere
*I gotta do what I gotta do
there's no special, reason to give
God knows,
I wouldn't do it any other way
*I need the wheels and a changin' tide
like the desert needs the rain
there's nothing more than I can say
more than I can say
Guitar break
so leave your lovelight burning
Honeybabe, I'm coming home
I'll be real as daybreak (daybreak… )
not just sweet words on a telephone
and shut the crazy
world outside the door
and I'll love you 'til tomorrow
takes me down the road once more
I'll love you 'til tomorrow
takes me down the road once more
I'll love you 'til tomorrow
40-RAINY DAY COMPANION – Mi M
Magna Carta
Well we were young
and that doesn't really matter now
those days were fun
and that's all that really matters now
my rainy day companion
my rainy day companion
well I don't know
why I turn the pages now
the words seem so clear
although my eyes are misty
now my rainy day companion
my rainy day companion
*Time after time I've been
changing my mind I've been
living from day to day
then you find that you're
trapped on the line and there's
nothing at all you can say
Though there were nights
I thought might last forever now
but that's not, right
for nothing lasts forever now
my rainy day companion
my rainy day companion
my rainy day companion41-WILD HORSES – Re M
Magna Carta
You and I just wild horses
aiming for the sun
You and I were younger then and growing
And the old grey house in the winter wild
And the springtime of the year
She loved us like a mother does her children
She loved us like a mother does her children
Fishin' in a trout stream,
running wild along the dale.
We were free as the clouds in the morning.
No T.V. or electric light
and the darkness fell like a winter's night
And silence was a friend you did not question
Silence was a friend you did not question
All of these changes we've been through
And seen through together
Follow the changes and know that the
Past lives within you forever...
Forever, forever
You and I just young dreamers
lying in the grass
And the long shadowed evening behind us
Living out our freedom
never knowing that we asked
Too much of the road that's before us
Too much of the road that's before us
All of these changes we've been through
And seen through together
Follow the changes and know that the
Past lives within you for ever...
Forever, forever
All of these changes we've been through
And seen through together
Follow the changes and know that the
Past lives within you for ever...
Forever, forever…