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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 01:59 PM
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As I was walkin' round Grosvenor Square
Not a chill to the winter
but a nip to the air
From the other direction
she was calling my eye
It could be an illusion
but I might as well try
Might as well try.

She had rings on her fingers and
bells on her shoes,
And I knew without askin' she was
into the blues
Scarlet begonias
tucked into her curls
I knew right away
she was not like other girls--
other girls

In the thick of the evening
when the dealing got rough
She was too pat to open and
too cool to bluff
As I picked up my matches and
was closing the door
I had one of those flashes:
I'd been there before--
been there before.

I ain't often right
but I've never been wrong
It seldom turns out the way
it does in the song
Once in a while
you get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right

Well there ain't nothin' wrong
with the way she moves
Scarlet begonias or a
touch of the blues
And there's nothing wrong with
the look that's in her eye
I had to learn the hard way
to let her pass by--
let her pass by

The wind in the willows played Tea for Two
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue
Strangers stopped strangers
just to shake their hand
Everybody's playing
in the Heart of Gold Band
Heart of Gold Band
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MyUncle Donating Member (798 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 02:13 PM
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1. > Fire on the Mountain>Uncle John's Band>Morning Dew.
Encore:
Touch of Grey>We Bid You Goodnight
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 02:27 PM
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2. >Sugar Magnolia>Fire on the Mountain> Dark Star>Jam>Dark Star
Edited on Mon Sep-27-04 02:28 PM by manco
Morning Dew, Throwing Stones>Not Fade Away

E: Brokedown Palace>Sunshine Daydream
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MyUncle Donating Member (798 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 02:41 PM
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3. I think the post Dew sequence is a stretch.
But I LIKE it.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 02:43 PM
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4. Long distance runner, what you standin’ there for?
Get up, get out, get out of the door
Your playin’ cold music on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core.
There’s a dragon with matches that’s loose on the town
Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down.

Fire! fire on the mountain!

Almost ablaze still you don’t feel the heat
It takes all you got just to stay on the beat.
You say it’s a livin’, we all gotta eat
But you’re here alone, there’s no one to compete.
If mercy’s a bus’ness, I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true.

Fire! fire on the mountain!

Long distance runner, what you holdin’ out for?
Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door.
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had. why you wanna give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which you really can’t fake.

Fire! fire on the mountain!
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:02 PM
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5. (In keeping with typical '78 setlists) If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down

Delilah was a woman, she was fine and fair
She had good looks - God knows - and coal black hair
Delilah she gained old Samson's mind
When first he saw this woman, she looked so fine

Delilah she climbed up on Samson's knee
Said tell me where your strength lies, if you please
She espoke so kind, she talked so fair
That Samson said, Delilah you cut off my hair
You can shave my head, clean as my hand
My strength will become natural as any other man

If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down

You read about Samson, all from his birth
He was the strongest man ever ever lived on earth
One day while Samson was walking along
Looked down on the ground he saw an old jaw bone
Then he stretched out his arm god knows chains broke like threads
And when he got through movin', ten thousand were dead

If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down

Now Samson and the lion, they got in attack
And Samson he crawled up on the lion's back
You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paw
Samson got hands up round the lion's jaw
He ripped that beast god knows he killed it dead
And the bees made honey in the lion's head
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MyUncle Donating Member (798 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:09 PM
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6. This thread is making me SMILE, SMILE, SMILE...
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:14 PM
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7. You do have nothin left to do, you know
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:20 PM
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8. I'll smile, smile, smile more when HE'S GONE! :) n/t
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 03:35 PM
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9. Me too MyUncle!
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!
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