GOLDEN slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye

I remember one Friday morning we were layin' down across the bed
Man was in the next room dyin', knelt down and raised up his head
And said the Lord ain't she pretty, the whole world know she's fine
She start lovin', she brings eyesight to the blind

When you're there, I sleep lengthwise
And when you're gone
I sleep diagonal in my BED

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

Well my daddy he stood at the foot of the stairs
He was calling to me at the time
And I knew even then, I could die for the thoughts
That I kept in the back of my MIND

It's knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
That keeps you in the backroads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

some folks like to getaway
take a holiday from the neighborhood
hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood
But I'm taking a greyhound
On the Hudson River line
I'm in a New York State of MIND

This place ain’t doing me any good
I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag
Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove

He wears a zoot suit with a reet pleat
Drives a '36 Cord with a rumble seat
Now he's a Lord, he's a jitterbug
Scare the letters off a highway sign
He drinks beer and eats beanies
Chases it down with ol' Thunderbird wine
Carries brass knuckles and a .44
Runs a loan shark business and a Mary Jane store
He's a. jitterbug; keeps movin', don't sit still
If the law don't get him, some gun-totin' irate husband will

I wore my .44 so long, Lord it made my shoulder sore
I wore my .44 so long, Lord it made my shoulder sore
I'm going to a party, where they say my baby's gone
I bin so bad this mornin', I don't know what I'm gonna do
Well, I woke up so mad this mornin', I just don't know what I'm gonna do
I'm going to my baby's house, I'm gonna tell her where I'm goin'

Stagger Lee told Billy
I can't let you go with that
You have won all my money
And my brand new stetson hat
Stagger Lee went home
And he got his forty-four
Said, I'm goin' to the barroom
Just to pay that debt I owe
Go Stagger Lee

He got all tangled up with liquor and drugs
Trying to make a racket, like those English mugs
Till he couldn't get arrested and he couldn't see straight
He couldn't even shine shoes in that Golden State
Not rock back BILLY
Come on rock back Billy

There's eyes behind the mirrors in empty places
Bullet holes and scars between the spaces
There's always one more notch and ten more paces
Billy , and you're walkin' all alone.

I go out WALKIN' after midnight
Out in the moonlight
Just hopin' you may be
Somewhere a-walkin' after midnight, searchin' for me

You used to be my hone.y
Till you spent all my money.
No use for you to cry.
I'll see you bye and bye.
Cause I'm walkin ' to New Orleans.

It’s just a country town but patients come
From Mobile to Moline from miles around
Nagodoches to NEW ORLEANS
In beat-up old cars or in limousines
To meet the doctor of soul, he’s got his very own thing

Good morning, America. How are you?
Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
And I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Well every year I ride this TRAIN
To Alabama in the rain
When I get that lonesome feelin' in my bones
I never get to Birmingham
But gettin' there ain't the plan
I just like the feel of going home

Well, I ride on a mail TRAIN, babe
Can't buy a thrill
Well, I've been up all night
Leanin' on the window sill
Well, if I die
On top of the hill
And if I don't make it
You know my baby will.

Close your eyes, close your door
You don't have to worry any more
I'll be your baby tonight.

Shut the light, shut the shade
You don't have to be afraid
I'll be your baby tonight.

Well, that mockingbird's gonna sail away
We're gonna forget it
That big, fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon
But we're gonna let it
You won't regret it.

Kick your shoes off, do not fear
Bring that bottle over here
I'll be your baby tonight.

Thirty days, lord and thirty nights
I'm comin' home on an airplane flight
Mama waitin' at the ticket line
Tell me son why do you stand there cryin'
It was the needle and the SPOON
And a trip to the MOON
Took me away, took me away

But there's a banjo MOON in a tie-dyed sky
Hippies dance and babies cry
Church bells ring as a silver-haired angel look down
And the blood of his music runs through the veins of our guitars
Bright lights, Dark Star

Ring, ring, the doorbell rings
C'mon in I got the Allman Brothers on the stereo

He thinks it's the latest sensation
And you just keep changin' the station
(believe me baby) Do you know what love is about
Heard it on your STEREO
Everybody does without

In a highway service station
Over the month of June
Was a photograph of the earth
Taken coming back from the moon
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway
Or me here least of all

Ev'ry time i see your face,
It reminds me of the places we used to go.
But all i got is a photograph
And i realise you're not coming back anymore.

Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight
You've had to hide sometimes but now you're all right
And it's good to see your smiling FACE tonight

Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say

Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to HIDE your love away

You saved your own special friend
'Cuz here you need something to hide her in
And you stay inside that foolish grin
When everyday now secrets end
Oh ... and then again - years may go by

Lord, I went to see my mama
down at the city hall
Said she loved me, and that ain't all
She said, everyday,everyday
I said, everyday and lord
everyday I sing the blues"