Last Time Around (1968)

On the Way Home | It’s So Hard to Wait | Pretty Girl Why? | Four Days Gone
Carefree Country Day | Special Care | The Hour of Not Quite Rain | Questions
I am a Child | Merry-Go-Round | Uno Mundo | Kind Woman


 

On the Way Home

When the dream came I held my breath with my eyes closed
I went insane like a smoke ring day when the wind blows
Now I won’t be back til later on if I do come back at all
But you know me and I miss you now

In a strange game I saw myself as you knew me
When the change came and you had a chance to see through me
Though the other side is just the same, you can tell my dream is real
Because I love you; can you see me now?

Though we rush ahead to save our time
We are only what we feel
And I love you; can you feel it now?


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It’s So Hard to Wait

I just can’t seem to get moving
Love me enough to begin
And I’ll never forget you

I hope that you care
More than a little for me

It’s so hard to wait
If I should stand and stare
Don’t be alarmed at me
It’s so hard to wait

I just can’t seem to get moving
Love me enough to be given
And I’ll never forget you


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Pretty Girl Why?

Like the ghost of someone dear she comes to haunt me in my sleep
Still I’m able to sincerely give away her heart for keeps
Pretty girl why? Pretty girl why not love me?
Pretty girl why? Pretty girl why?

There she leaves me twice lonely as I was but yesterday
Keeping such a hold upon my thoughts so near yet so far away
Pretty girl why? Pretty girl why not love me?
Pretty girl why? Pretty girl why?

The minstrel boy has gone to war now burdened with his father’s sword
Still she doesn’t see how she can give him peace amidst the whole
Pretty girl why? Pretty girl why not love me?
Pretty girl why? Pretty girl why?


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Four Days Gone

I met two kind people on the road
I was parched and dry from the cold
“I’ve been traveling four days and nights, sir,
And I do want to thank you for the ride, sir,
And the soup that your wife made tasted fine---
If it’s all the same I’ll be on my way at the next turn

And I’m three days shy of my town
And my baby’s waiting I hope, sir,
After fifteen trucks and an old Ford,
And the government’s madness, I ran away
And I hate to say I can’t tell you my name”

Cause I’m four days gone into running
I can’t even go home
Take my baby and roam
I got reason to live
I got the things I can’t give
And I’m four days gone into running


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Carefree Country Day

I get up in the morning with a cock-a-doodle-do
I get myself together if and when I choose
I’m just bucking time without a reason or rhyme
Oh what a wonderful way to spend a carefree country day
Oh, I’ve got to have it that way

I best get all my chores done, got some friends a-coming by
There’s more to country living than just trying to get by
I’m just bucking time without a reason or rhyme
Oh what a wonderful way to spend a carefree country day
Mmhm, I’ve got to have it that way

I make myself a living of off hauling old junk
The wagon that I’m driving came from Happy Walker’s dump
I’m just bucking time without a reason or rhyme
Oh what a wonderful way to spend a carefree country day
Oh yeah, I’ve got to have it that way


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Special Care

You there in the window looking at me
Do you think I’m blowing my cool, playing the fool?
You there on the corner staring at me,
Do you think I’m trouble? Would you like to shoot me down ?
What for?

Yeah, I'm tellin' you that special care has been taken
To make you aware
I’ve been forsaken
If you don’t care they will come
And burn your house down


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The Hour of Not Quite Rain

In the hour of not quite rain
When the fog was fingertip high
The moon hung suspended
In a singular sky

Deeply and beyond seeing
Not wishing to intrude
Bathed in it’s own reflection
The water mirrored the moon

The tumbling birds have now sobered
From the leaves of their nursery
Like shadowy, quiet children
Watching sleepily


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Questions

Where are we going love
What are you feeling
Now that I caught my love
My love is reeling
With the questions of a thousand dreams
What you do and what you see
Come on lover talk to me

When I was on my own
Chasing you down
What was it made you run
Trying to get around
The questions of a thousands dreams
What you do and what you see
Come on lover talk to me

Now that we’ve found each other
Where do we go now?
I’d like to know what you’re thinking
Answer me slowly now
The questions of a thousand dreams
What you do and what you see
Come on lover talk to me, yeah


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I am a Child

I am a child I last a while
You can’t conceive of the pleasure in my smile
You hold my hand, rough up my hair
Its lots of fun to have you there

I gave to you now you give to me
I like to know what you learned
The sky is blue and so is the sea
What is the color when black is burned?
What is the color?

You are a man; you understand
You pick me up and you lay me down again
You make the rules; you say what’s fair
It’s lots of fun to have you there

I gave to you now you give to me
I’d like to know what you have planned
The sky is blue and so is the sea
What is the color when black is burned?
What is the color?

I am a child I last a while…


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Merry-Go-Round

Upside down on a merry-go-round
Now just look at me
Straining your eyes to see just steady old me
No it’s a lover you see

Not just standing, lover, not just to be
Someone you can call neighborly

What in the world did you do
To make me love just you?
What did you do to me?
What you did to me…

This time, next time whichever may be
There’s something I can’t deny
I’m telling you now your love has socked it to me
It’s like a sweet lullaby

A melody that could only imply
Loving you is certainly worth a try

What in the world did you do
To make me love just you?
What did you do to me?
What you did to me….
What did you do to me?


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Uno Mundo

Uno mundo - Somebody’s dreaming
Uno mundo - Fanciful scheming
Uno mundo - Isn’t he reading
Uno mundo - Just the same

Uno mundo - Asia is screaming
Uno mundo - Africa seething
Uno mundo - America bleeding
Uno mundo - Just the same

Uno mundo
Uno mundo
Uno mundo
Uno mundo - Just the same

Uno mund - No me enganes(?)
Uno mundo - So mos equale (?)
Uno mundo - Por que no amas(?)
Uno mundo - Just the same

Uno mundo - Am I speaking
Uno mundo - I love keeping
Uno mundo - Traditional sleeping

Uno mundo - Just the same

Uno mundo
Uno mundo
Uno mundo
Uno mundo - Just the same


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Kind Woman

Got a good reason for loving you
It’s an old fashioned sign
I kind of get to feeling like, mmm,
You know when I fell in love the first time

Kind woman, won’t you love me tonight?
The look in your eyes…
Kind woman, don’t leave me lonely tonight
Please say it’s alright

Remember once before hearing the old folks say
Love’s an ageless old rhyme
Nowadays the saying depends so much on
The kind of woman that you find

Kind woman, won’t you love me tonight?
The look in your eyes…
Kind woman, don’t leave me lonely tonight
Please say it’s alright

Kind woman, won’t you love me tonight?
The look in your eyes…
Kind woman, don’t leave me lonely tonight
Please say it’s alright


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