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Blowing Kisses
03:21
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Blowing Kisses
Today’s my lucky day, I’m still alive
I bought new strings for my guitar
My son’s a drum machine, he’s doing well
I’m going sing this tune then grab a beer
I’ll smile and blow kisses for you
I’m free and easy and I hope you are too
I love the rain and clouds, I love the sun
They come and make my wee garden grow
I’ve got the Cocteau Twins and J-P Rameau
I’m going to give them both a spin
And I’ll smile and blow kisses to you
I’m free and easy and I hope you are too
I could sit here all day long feeling sorry for myself
But we’ve all had to make it through some shit
And life’s not about lying down and taking it
It’s about what you do next
Tonight’s my lucky night, here I am
I get to spend some time with you
Open your ears for me, open your arms
Give me a chance to touch your heart
Then I’ll smile and blow kisses for you
I’m free and easy and I hope you are too
I love you all, thanks for listening
I hope to see you at the bar
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My Guardian Angel
03:10
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My Guardian Angel
My Guardian Angel watches over me at night
You don’t see her but you can feel her by my side
My Guardian Angel kisses all my cares goodbye
You hear her singing in every guitar melody I write
She’s got no halo, needs no wings
But she’s the soul of every song I sing
Doo-doo doo-doo-doo…
My Guardian Angel went to heaven and came back
She steers me clear of the straight and narrow track
She got Jesus drunk, made the Devil high
She brings down the glory from on high
Doo-doo doo-doo-doo…
My Guardian Angel brings me everything I lack
My Guardian Angel has got my back
I catch her smiling from the corner of my eye
Look for her in the sunset between the ocean and the sky
I’m never lonely when I’m alone
My Angel comes to carry me back home
She sings doo-doo…
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Zipped
03:22
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Zipped
You say you’ve found another man
He’s dark, he’s handsome and he’s tall
You tell me that you’ve got bigger plans
And I don’t fit into them, I don’t fit into them at all
He took you flying in his plane
And told you that you could buy that dress
And now you want to take his name
But you’re so easily, so easily impressed
You insist I have to understand
I have to let you go and hold your hand
You want to see me fight for you to stay
Then tell me that I’m standing in your way
You say you need my love to keep you strong
Now I’m like a brother or a friend
You want me to write you another song
So that you can sing it to other men
Well, if they’re listening to this
‘Keep your powder dry and your trousers zipped’
I hate to hit you with the truth
I won’t be here waiting when he’s through with you
You insist I have to understand
I have to let you go and hold your hand
You want to see me fight for you to stay
Then tell me that I’m standing in your way
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Fretwork
01:15
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Give Me Heroes
03:06
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Give Me Heroes (Not Saints)
Give me heroes, don’t give me saints
Give me heroes, don’t give me saints
You know the future could be brighter if somebody shines the light
A pacifist or fighter who sees a better life
But when we start to hear the message, that’s when they come to tear them down
The TV screams that they’re imperfect to drown the message out
Give me heroes, don’t give me saints
Give me heroes, don’t sell me saints
A socialist for freedom, a woman for the top
A white man with humility, a black man who won’t stop
A homosexual President, an unrepentant youth
A conscientious warrior, a joker with the truth
Give me heroes, don’t give me saints
Give me heroes, don’t give me saints
You can make the future brighter, you can shine the light
No one has to be perfect just to make a better life
Salvador Allende, Jesus Christ
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shine a brighter light
Violeta Parra, Rosa Parks
Victor Jara, Light up the dark
Give me heroes, don’t give me saints
Give me my heroes, don’t feed me saints
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Skin
08:52
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Skin
Pour me another drink and waste your time with me
Sail me out of here and run before the wind
And any boat will do
Any star will do
Love is passing strange and dangerous to touch
Love is a child’s toy – treasured, broken, lost
Love is blood red wine, poisonous and sweet
Poisonous and sweet
Kill this night with me
Lose everything we are
Naked in the flame
We’ll burn through the dark
Lips explore your skin, fingers spark the light
What the morning brings is darker than the night
Waste your life with me
Buried in the dark and brighter than the sun
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Man Down
04:09
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Man Down
Once skies were my blues
I could pay for the booze
There was me, there was you
Now I’m broke in two
Man down
I breathed easy and free
I just blew on the breeze
There was you, there was me
Now I’m old and I freeze
Man down
I was king of this town
I was wearing the crown
You were Queen, dark and proud
Now you’re cold in the ground
Man down
Not a cloud in my skies
You turned lows into highs
I caught fire from your eyes
Now I’m barely alive
Man down
Man down
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In Praise of England
03:28
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In Praise of England
In praise of England I offer this song
A hymn to her spirit and people
From Tyneside to Thames for the sweat of the men
And the women who nursed and who built her
Colliers, seamen and factory girls
Poets and bold navigators
Who forged a new world and brought light to the dark
That commerce and greed wove about them
She rises and shines as she opens her arms
And atones for the sins of the past
With wisdom and grace she will lower her flag
And offer the world her fair hand
By her fields and her riverbanks roses still grow
And the sea casts her arms all about her
Who stood shoulder to shoulder with neighbours and friends
Against the black cross and final solution
Orwell and Atlee and Pankhurst and Benn
Reclaiming a land for her people
Darwin and Morris and Blake and Brunel
Laying the track to the future
May she harvest the seed the True Levellers sowed
Let her children find freedom and strength
Let her folk rise in common to share in her light
May her crown grace the heads of her people
I offer this song in praise of England
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The Jellicoe Express
11:43
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The Jellicoe Express
Bill takes a drag and outstares the moon
From the fields to the smoke to the swell
‘Your country wants you’ on every wall
Finger pointing
All aboard, all aboard and wave farewell
For country and King on the Jellicoe Express
Like cattle we sweat fearful and proud
Aboard old Misery
Mothers and lovers become words on a page
Fearful of infants forgetting your face
While Britannia sings glory to her Empire
On which the sun never sets
Northward from smoke to mists and gales
Your Country needs you to ride the waves
Old Munster’s fields to Scapa Flow
And the front of the storm
Scarcely a glimpse of the winter sun
Only the sea and the rage of the wind
We wait with the Fleet for summer months
And the call to arms
Mothers and lovers become dreams in the night
You lose track of the faces that you’ve left behind
The Hampshire at Jutland ruling over the waves
And counting the cost
Now glory and honour, the moustache comes aboard
Lord Kitchener needs you and your billet
As he tosses and vomits in the decks down below
You turn your gaze into the storm
Lurch as the Orkney blast turns your guts
The mine rips through sheet metal like paper
Every muscle screams as you grasp for the raft
You stare as the Hampshire goes down
And watch your comrades drown
Bill takes a drag and outstares the moon
Scapa Flow, the Express and then home to the fields
While His Lordship below tells the bones and fish
Your country wants you
Now lovers taste bitter brine in your blood
And coke, steel and rust stain your bones
Jellicoe to Jutland and the bosom of hell
As Britannia rules over the waves
Feeding her tears to the sea
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Richard Gorman Dundee, UK
Instructions for use:
1 Acquire Albums 2 Acquire whisky 3 Ensure no interruptions for the next hour 4 Dim Lights 5 Turn it up
Drink and repeat as required.
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