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  • Horse and Rider
  • Little Boy Lost
  • Moon

    Horse and Rider

    In the smoke of the twilight, on a milk-white steed,
    Michelangelo, indeed, could have carved out your features,
    "Jokerman"

    Well the deputy walks on hard nails,
    And the preacher rides a mount.
    "Shelter from the Storm"

    Outside in the distance,
    A wildcat did growl.
    Two riders were approaching,
    The wind began to howl.
    "All Along the Watchtower"

    I see pieces of men marching, trying to take heaven by force,
    I can see the unknown rider, I can see the pale white horse,
    "Angelina"

    The cat's in the well, the horse is going bumpety bump,
    The cat's in the well, and the horse is going bumpety bump.
    Back Alley Sally is doing the American jump.
    "Cat's in the Well"

    One day you'll be in the ditch,
    Flies buzzin' around your eyes,
    Blood on your saddle.
    "Idiot Wind"

    Well there was this movie I seen, one time,
    About a man ridin' across the desert and it starred Gregory Peck.
    "Brownsville Girl"

    I stumbled to my feet.
    I rode past destruction in the ditches,
    With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
    "Changing of the Guards"

    I'm gonna grow my hair down to my feet so strange,
    So I look like a walking mountain range.
    And I'm gonna ride into Omaha on a horse,
    "I Shall Be Free No 10"

    So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away,
    For the wild unkown country where I could not go wrong.
    "Isis"

    I hitched up my pony to a post on the right,
    Went into a laundry to wash my clothes down.
    "Isis"

    As we rode through the canyons and the devilish cold,
    I was thinking about Isis, how she thought I was so reckless.
    "Isis"

    I said a quick prayer, then I felt satisfied,
    Then I rode back to find Isis, just to tell her I love her.
    "Isis"

    And then there's always, "Special Rider" Music

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    Little Boy Lost

    Now, little boy lost; he takes himself so seriously,
    He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously,
    And when bringing her name up, he speaks of a farewell kiss to me.
    He's sure got a lot of gall,
    To be so useless and all,
    Muttering small talk at the wall,
    While I'm in the hall.
    "Visions of Johanna"

    Atlantic City, by the coal grey sea,
    I hear a voice crying, "Daddy," I always think it's for me,
    But it's only the silence in the buttermilk hills that call.
    "Carribean Wind"

    A cock is crowing far away,
    And another soldier's deep in prayer.
    Some mother's child has gone astray,
    She can't find him anywhere.
    "Dark Eyes"

    Somewhere Mama's weeping for her blue-eyed boy,
    She's holding them little white shoes and that little broken toy
    And he's following a star,
    The same one them three men followed from the East.
    I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
    "Man of Peace"

    Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
    Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
    "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"

    Alone you stand with nobody near,
    When a trembling distant voice unclear,
    Startles your sleeping ears to hear,
    That somebody thinks they really found you.
    "It's All Right Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"

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    Moon

    Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
    Birds fly high by the light of the moon,
    Wo-oh oh oh oh Jokerman.
    "Jokerman"

    That the stars fell down and the moon fades away,
    On Black Diamond Bay.
    "Black Diamond Bay"

    Brownsville Girl, with your Brownsville curl,
    Teeth like pearl, shinin' like the moon above.
    "Brownsville Girl"

    Oh the gentlemen are talking,
    And the midnight moon is on the riverside.
    "Dark Eyes"

    Now the moon is almost hidden,
    The stars are beginning to hide,
    the fortunetelling lady, Has even taken all her things inside,
    "Desolation Row"

    In another lifetime she must have owned the world, Or been faithfully wed,
    To some righteous king who wrote psalms, Beside moonlit streams.
    "I and I"

    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,
    I'll be your baby tonight.
    "I'll Be Your baby Tonight"

    Don't the moon look good, Mama, shining through the trees?
    Don't the breakman look good, Mama, flaggin' down the "Double-E"?
    "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"

    Oh, man has invented his doom,
    First step was touching the moon,
    "License to Kill"

    In the turning of twilight in the shadows of moonlight,
    You can show me a new place to start,
    "Where teardrops Fall"

    What's the matter with me? I don't have much to say
    Daylight's sneaking' through the window And I'm still in this all night cafe
    Walking to and fro beneath the moon
    "Watching the River Flow"

    Wiggle wiggle wiggle like a gypsy-queen,
    Wiggle wiggle wiggle all dressed in green,
    Wiggle wiggle wiggle til the moon is blue,
    Wiggle til the moon sees you.
    "Wiggle Wiggle"

    There was an old man and he lived in the moon,
    One summer's day, he came passing by.
    There was an old man and he lived in the moon,
    And one day he came passing by.
    "Under the Red Sky"

    Let the bird sing, let the bird fly,
    One day the man in the moon went home and the river went dry.
    "Under the Red Sky"

    Her and her boyfriend went to California,
    Her and her boyfriend done changed their tune.
    My best friend said, "Now didn't I warn ya,
    Brighton girls are like the moon,
    Brighton girls are like the moon."
    "Sign on the Window"

    Well they're not showing any lights tonight, And there's no moon.
    There's just a hot blooded singer, Singing "Memphis in June,"
    "Tight Connection to My Heart"

    Handy Dandy, controversy surrounds him,
    He been around the world and back again,
    Something in the moonlight still hounds him.
    Handy Dandy, Just like sugar and candy.
    "Handy Dandy"

    Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past.
    I know every scene by heart, They all went by so fast.
    "If You See her Say Hello"

    Isis and the moon shine on me DESIRE Liner notes

    The spanish moon is rising on the hill,
    But my heart is telling me, I love you still.
    "Abandoned Love"

    Some like to worship on the moon,
    Others are worshipping the sun,
    And there ain't no man righteous, no not one.
    "Ain't No Man Righteous"

    Buckets of rain, buckets of tears,
    Got all them buckets comin' out of my ears.
    Buckets of moonbeams in my hand,
    I got all the love, honey baby, you can stand.
    "Buckets of Rain"

    He looks so truthful, is this how he feels,
    Trying to peel the moon and expose it.
    "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window"

    The cold-blooded moon.
    The captain waits above the celebration,
    Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid,
    Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
    "Changing of the Guards"

    The hand made blade, the child's balloon,
    Eclipses both the sun and moon,
    "It's All Right Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"

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