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People Get Ready
04:10
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People get ready there's a train a comin'
You don't need no baggage you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesel's hummin'
You don't need no ticket you just thank the lord
So people get ready for the train to Jordan
Picking up passengers from coast to coast
Faith is the key open the doors and board them
There's hope for all among those loved the most
There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
For there's no hiding place against the kingdom's throne
For there's no hiding place against the kingdom's throne
So people get ready there's a train a comin'
You don't need no baggage you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesel's hummin'
You don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord
You don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord
You don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord
(Modulate Up)
People get ready
People get ready
People get ready
People get ready
Copyright Warner-Tamerlane Pub Corp. and Sony/ATV Songs LLC o/b/o Mijac Music - Used by Permission
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You Can Just Walk
04:32
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You don’t care nothing for the life you are losing
And I don’t feel sorry for the things you are choosing
Up down back and forth round round again.
And it ain’t no use now it’s coming to an end
I tried, you lied, I cried, you sighed.
You laugh, and I burn, now it’s your turn
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you just walk.
Some woman told you, you could get a lot of money, and the same one sold you on a land of milk and honey
What a tangle web you weave when you first deceive
Now turn around, don’t come back It’s time for you to leave
I’ll be ok, when you go your way.
Good move you've made, leave now, think I’ll stay
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you just walk.
Leave it all behind… don’t look back to find…
You have changed your mind
You should have been more kind
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you just walk.
Leave it all behind… don’t look back to find
You have changed your mind
You should have been more kind
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you just walk.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you can just walk away.
You can just walk, you just walk.
Words/Music by Mike Lawson
Copyright 2022 artistpro LLC - Psychotronic Music - BMI
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Next time you see me, things won't be the same
Next time you see me, things won't be the same
Well if it hurts you my darlin', you only got yourself to blame
Well it's a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold
Well it's a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold
But like the good book say, you've gonna reap just what you sow
Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long
Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long
You're were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne
Well it's a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold
Well it's a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold
But like the good book say, you've gonna reap just what you sow
Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long
Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long
You're were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne
Next time you see me, things won't be the same
Next time you see me, things won't be the same
And if it hurts you my darlin', you only got yourself to blame
Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long
Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long
You're were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne
You're were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne
You're were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne
Earl Forest and William G. Harvey
Copyright Songs of Universal, Inc. o/b/o Lion Pub Co., Inc.
Used by Permission
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Maybe you want some time away
I may need a holiday
where this cloud ain’t hanging over mew
I’m not sure where I can go
Do you even want to know
Could we ever live in harmony
I’m still feeling out of touch
Maybe you don’t know that much
Is there nothing left to talk about
In another place and time
Maybe you would ease my mind
Seems right now that you just wanna shout
No, I don’t wanna feel this way so hard for me to stay today
You might need to let me know if you want for me to go
It's so hard for me to sort it all
Be my lover, be my friend
I don’t want for this to end
Please don’t push me
Please don’t let me fall
Are you feeling this way too
Is there nothing left to do
Can we think it over anymore?
There’s no point in spinning wheels
I don’t like the way it feels
Think about me when you walk the floor
No, I don’t wanna feel this way so hard for me to stay today
Take a picture of my heart
It’s the first place you should start
If you want to go another route
No one comes to our defense
You and me we should make sense
Do I really have to spell it out
No, I don’t wanna feel this way so hard for me to stay today
I feel like I want to die
Didn’t mean to make you cry
Seems there’s nothing right that I can do
Now you’re standing by the door
You don’t want me anymore
I have covered up the light in you
Is there nothing that we share?
Do I really even care?
Maybe I’m afraid of being free?
Do I give or do I take?
Is this how my heart will break?
Will you keep a little part of me?
No, I don’t wanna feel this way so hard for me to stay today
Words and Music by Mike Lawson
Copyright 2022 - Psychotronic Music - BMI
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He sits in your room, his tomb, with a fist full of tacks
Preoccupied with his vengeance
Cursing the dead that can’t answer him back
I’m sure that he has no intentions
Of looking your way, unless it’s to say
That he needs you to test his inventions
Can you please crawl out your window?
Use your arms and legs it won’t ruin you
How can you say he will haunt you?
You can go back to him any time you want to
He looks so truthful, is this how he feels
Trying to peel the moon and expose it
With his businesslike anger and his bloodhounds that kneel
If he needs a third eye he just grows it
He just needs you to talk or to hand him his chalk
Or pick it up after he throws it
Can you please crawl out your window?
Use your arms and legs it won’t ruin you
How can you say he will haunt you?
You can go back to him any time you want to
Why does he look so righteous while your face is so changed
Are you frightened of the box you keep him in
While his genocide fools and his friends rearrange
Their religion of the little tin women
That backs up their views but your face is so bruised
Come on out the dark is beginning
Can you please crawl out your window?
Use your arms and legs it won’t ruin you
How can you say he will haunt you?
You can go back to him any time you want to
Copyright © 1965, 1966 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993, 1994 by Special Rider Music
Used by Permission
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Well, it’s a fine spring day to be going for a walk in the park
And I’m gonna try to find a way to keep ya out til way after dark
And when the sun go down and we out on the town we can go
Maybe we drink a little, dance a little boogie at the rock and roll show
Thinking about nothing but the fun we’ll have, spending my money but it ain’t so bad
Well alright, I can’t wait for Saturday night
Well alright, you know I can’t wait for Saturday night
It’s all right
Every time you near me, how my heart start to tremble in fear
That somebody gonna woo you so, I wanna make it perfectly clear
How I need you, I can please you, and I wanna be your forever man
You know there ain’t nobody ever gonna love ya like the way that I can
When we laying down the boogie in our dancing shoes
Gonna tell you that I love ya, I got nothing to lose
Well alright, I can’t wait for Saturday night
Well alright, you know I can’t wait for Saturday night
It’s all right
You know I never ever thought that I would stand a chance
to find a woman like you start a new romance
Started thinking ‘bout the future and forgot my past, I know that we got something that was
built to last – uh huh
Well when the rock and roll music keeps a playing at a quarter to two
Gonna slip the band a fifty cuz I wanna keep dancing with you
When we close the joint down and the man say that we gotta go
We’ll hit the all-night diner, or an after-hours club that I know
I need to find the words to tell the things I’ll say
Cuz I wanna love ya baby each and every day
Well alright, I can’t wait for Saturday night
Well alright, you know I can’t wait for Saturday night
It’s all right
Well alright, I can’t wait for Saturday night
Well alright, you know I can’t wait for Saturday night
out of sight dynamite it’s alright
Words and Music by Mike Lawson
© 2022 Psychotronic Music - BMI
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Let me retell
A story of old
About a man named Moses
Who lived long ago
He prophicied good
He prophicied bad
And now that prophecy's coming to pass
Let all your sons, and your daughters
Of the golden calf
Lay down your burden of sorrow
Lay down your burden of hurt
Lay it all down, for paradise here on earth
A whole lot of people, including myself
Thought the story of Moses was just a tall tale
But all of the things that we see going on
Are just what Moses set down
Let all your sons, and your daughters
Of the golden-yeah
Lay down your burden of sorrow
Lay down your burden of hurt
Lay it all down, for paradise here on earth
Let me retell
A story I know
About a man named Moses
Who lived long ago
He prophicied good
He prophicied bad
And now that prophecy's coming to pass
Let all your sons, and your daughters
Of the golden-yeah
Lay down your burden of sorrow
Lay down your burden of hurt
Lay down your burden of sorrow
Lay down your burden of hurt
Lay down your burden of sorrow
Lay down your burden of hurt
I just can't imagine a reason for sorrow
Just can't imagine the hurt
You've got to lay it down
You've got to lay it down
You've got to lay it down
You've got to lay it down
I said lay down your burden of sorrow
Lay down your burden of hurt
Lay down your burden of sorrow
There's just no reason to hurt
You've got to lay down your burden of sorrow
Lay down your burden of hurt
I said
Lay it all down, for paradise here on earth
Words and Music by Bob Welch - Cigar Music ASCAP
Used by Permission
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Ain't Misbehavin
02:48
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No one to talk with
All by myself
No one to walk with
But I'm happy on the shelf
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
I know for certain
The one I love
I'm through with flirtin'
It's just you I'm thinkin' of
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
Like Jack Horner
In the corner
Don't go nowhere
What do I care?
Your kisses are worth waitin' for
Believe me
I don't stay out late
Don't care to go
I'm home about eight
Just me and my radio
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
Like Jack Horner
In the corner
Don't go nowhere
What do I care?
Your kisses are worth waitin' for
Believe me
I don't stay out late
Don't care to go
I'm home about eight
Just me and my radio
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
Andy Razaf / Fats Waller / Harry Brooks
© BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc
Used by Permission
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I Got What I Wanted
05:35
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My early years were navigating steep, bumpy, dark, and twisted roads
Hauling love and misery, pulling on some heavy loads
I pushed the stone right up that mountain top
‘cuz I love to watch it roll back down
Picked up some hitchhikers on my way
I dropped them off downtown
I went up to the corner bar, played some songs on my guitar
I packed it up at 2AM, and when I get up tomorrow you know I’ll do it again
Well lookie here man yeah, I’m living my dreams,
But lemme tell you brother that it ain’t what it seems
Maybe I’ll never ever get when I need, but I, I got what I wanted
Like a rubber soldier on the front lines, shoving off the living dead
Running from the demons chasing me all up inside my head
You know I talked to gods, I talked to men
I’d talk to anyone who would hear
Now I just leave it to the universe, I know I got nothing to fear
I setup for another show, and when I get started it, well it’s time to go
I never gotten over the fright, but when the songs start playing it’s always a delight, yeah…
Lookie here woman well I’m living my dreams
But lemme tell you sister that it ain’t what it seems
Maybe I’ll never ever get when I need, but I, I got what I wanted
Be careful what you wish for, you know you might just find
Yourself standing in another town
On a beautiful stage for the deaf, dumb, and blind
Well, all the way around I go, far away, far away from the Gulf of Mexico
All the way to the promised land, the golden gate of San Francisco
I found love and joy out on the Haight
And when my demons came back lord I just couldn’t wait
To get back to my home in Tennessee, you know I hate the road
I went back to that corner bar, played some songs on my guitar
I packed it up at 2AM, and when I get up tomorrow you know I’ll do it again, well
Well lookie here man yeah, I’m living my dreams,
But lemme tell you brother that it ain’t what it seems
Maybe I’ll never ever get when I need,but I, I got what I wanted
Well lookie here woman well I’m living my dreams
But lemme tell you sister that it ain’t what it seems
Maybe I’ll never ever get when I need, but I, I got what I wanted
Words and Music by Mike Lawson
© 2022 Psychotronic Music - BMI
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Every Grain of Sand
06:21
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In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
There's a dying voice within me reaching out somewhere
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair
Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake
Like Cain, I behold this chain of events that I must break
In the fury of the moment, I can see the master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand
Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer
And the sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
Then onward in my journey, I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand
I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintery light
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face
I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, at times it's only me
I'm hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand
Words and Music by Bob Dylan
Special Rider Music, Universal Tunes
Used by Permission
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\Watch out now, take care
Beware of falling swingers
Dropping all around you
The pain that often mingles
In your fingertips
Beware of darkness
Watch out now, take care
Beware of the thoughts that linger
Winding up inside your head
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night
Beware of sadness
It can hit you
It can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for
Watch out now, take care
Beware of soft shoe shufflers
Dancing down the sidewalks
As each unconscious sufferer
Wanders aimlessly
Beware of Maya
Watch out now, take care
Beware of greedy leaders
They take you where you should not go
While Weeping Atlas Cedars
They just want to grow, grow and grow
Beware of darkness (beware of darkness)
Words and Music by George Harrison
Copyright Harrisongs Ltd
Used by Permission
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Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory
Listen to my story Ride the mighty high
Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory
Listen to my story Ride the mighty high
Take a load off your feet Hear what I'm saying
Hear what I'm saying it will set your mind at ease
I was just a man A lonely man indeed
God took all my troubles Yes, He did, He set me free
Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory
Listen to my story Ride the mighty high
Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory
Listen to my story Ride the mighty high
He led me to discover the man that I could be
Let Him be your leader He's so good He'll set you free
Listen to my story Listen to my plea
Let Him be your leader He will end your misery
Come on and ride the mighty high
Come on and ride the mighty high
Come on and ride the mighty high
Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory
Listen to my story Ride the mighty high
Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory
Listen to my story Ride the mighty high
Come on and ride the mighty high
Come on and ride the mighty high
Come on and ride the mighty high
Come on and ride the mighty high
Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory
Listen to my story Ride the mighty high
Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory
Listen to my story Ride the mighty high
Come on and ride the mighty high
Come on and ride the mighty high
Come on and ride the mighty high
Come on and ride the mighty high
David Crawford / Richard James Downing
© Universal Music Publishing Group
Used by Permission
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Mike Lawson & Friends Nashville, Tennessee
Mike Lawson has, over 30 years, recorded and/or performed together with Merl Saunders, Vince Welnick, Vassar Clements, Pete Sears, Gary Talley, John McEuen, Bob Welch, Dennis Robbins, Joe Louis Walker, Jorma Kaukonen, Phil Keaggy, Jack Casady, Scott Guberman, Dianne Davidson, Noah Wall, Tyra Juliette, Bill Vitt, Rob Wasserman, Michael Cleveland, Phil Madeira, and a host of other amazing friends. ... more
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