Playlist The Waterboys

the waterboys - a boy in black leather

Jackie was one of the crowd
who hung out at the Cross Keys Hotel
She was a real bright kid,
thought I knew her pretty well
Beach parties at night
we ran down town in the day
till a boy in black leather
came and took Jackie away

We were all in The Keys one night
sitting, laughing and joking
Billy'd got himself a new job
Ros had given up smoking
I was crazy for Jackie
I was almost ready to say
when a boy in black leather
came and took Jackie away

He was standing at the bar
when I went up for a drink
Then he and she just started talking
I didn't know what to think
Billy pulled me into an argument
about the big bad world today
I looked up and a boy in black leather
was taking Jackie away

After that things began to get dull
I took up with Billy's sister Molly
but that got really kicked on the head
when she upped and went to college
I got to thinking about Jackie
and as Autumn moved into grey
I thought about a boy in black leather
who came and took Jackie away

Then this month I saw her
The girl I knew had all but gone
Tight jeans, mohair sweater
Her hair was chopped off peroxide blonde
I crossed the road towards her
thinking of something to say
when a boy in black leather walked over
and together they hurried away

On "The Waterboys"

the waterboys - anatomy of a love affair

You got me cheap, wherein I was wounded
back in the days of woe
You got me cheap, wherein I was wounded
back in the days of woe

I then deceived us, I then deceived us,
I then deceived us both
You used your lure then sex and affection
to train me like a beast

I left the money be, I left the money be,
I left the money behind
I left the money be, I left the money be
I left the money behind

the waterboys - and a bang on the ear

Lindsay was my first love she was in my class
I would have loved to take her out but I was too shy to ask
The fullness of my feeling was never made clear
but I send her my love with a bang on the ear

Nora was my girl when I first was in a group
I can still see her to this day, stirring chicken soup
Now she's living in Australia working for an auctioneer
but I send her my love with a bang on the ear

Deborah broke my heart and I the willing fool
I fell for her one summer on the road to Liverpool
I thought it was forever but it was over in a year (oh dear)
but I give her my love with a bang on the ear

The home I made with Bella became a house of pain
we weathered it together bound by a ball and chain
Is started up in Fife, and ended up in tears (oh dear)
but I send her my love with a bang on the ear

Krista was a rover from Canada she hailed
we crossed swords in San Francisco we both lived to tell the tale
I dont know now where she is oh but if I had her here
I'd give her my love with a bang on the ear

So my woman of the hearthfire, harbour of my soul
I watch you lightly sleeping and sense the dream that does unfold (like gold)
You to me are treasure, you to me are dear
so I'll give you my love with a bang on the ear

the waterboys - and the healing has begun

(Van Morrison)

When we walk down the avenue again
when we walk down the avenue again
When we walk down the avenue again
when the healing has begun

When we walk down the avenue in style
when we walk down the avenue, we smile
And we know that it's all going to be worthwhile
because the healing has begun
because the healing has begun

I want you to put on your bright red summer dress
I want you to put on your easter bonnet and Sunday coat and all the rest
And I want to make sweet love to you, yes
when the healing has begun
when the healing has begun

the waterboys - bring em all in

Bring 'em all in, bring'em all in, bring 'em all in,
bring 'em all in, bring 'em all into my heart
Bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in
bring 'em all in, bring 'em all into my heart

Bring the little fishes
bring the sharks
bring 'em from the brightness
bring 'em from the dark

Bring 'em from the caverns
bring 'em from the heights
bring 'em from the shadows
stand 'em in the light

Bring 'em out of purdah
bring 'em out of store
bring 'em out of hiding
lay them at my door

Bring the unforgiven
bring the unredeemed
bring the lost, the nameless
let 'em all be seen
bring 'em out of exile
bring 'em out of sleep
bring 'em to the portal
lay them at my feet

Bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in,
bring 'em all in, bring 'em all into my heart
Bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in, bring 'em all in
bring 'em all in,bring 'em all in to my heart

the waterboys - buckets of rain

(Bob Dylan)

Buckets of rain, buckets of tears
got all them buckets coming out of my ears
Buckets of moonbeams in my hand
you got all the love honey baby I can stand

I been meek
and hard like an oak
I seen pretty people disappear like smoke.
friends will arrive, friends will disappear,
If you want me, honey baby,
I'll be here

Like your smile
and your fingertips
Like the way that you move your lips.
I like the cool way you look at me,
Everything about you is bringing me
misery

Little red wagon
little red bike
I ain't no monkey but I know what I like.
I like the way you love me strong and slow,
I'm takin' you with me, honey baby
when I go

Life is sad
life is a bust
All you can do is do what you must.
you do what you must do and you do it well,
I do it for you, honey baby,
can't you tell?

the waterboys - building the city of light

I set my shoulder to a brand new groove
building the city of light
something wonderful on the move
building the city of light
I'm laying roots, planting seeds
building the city of light
grateful to give whetever it needs
building the city of light

I'm using my head, using my heart
getting the balance right
I've got the horse before the cart

I'm using bricks and sticks and stones
building the city of light
and sweat and soul and blood and bones
building the city of light
technology, imagination
building the city of light
trust, belief and dedication
building the city of light

I'm using my brains, using my balls
keeping the goal in sight
feeling at heart a part of it all

I'm writing songs, singing 'em out
building the city of light
I live the things I'm singing about
building the city of light
I'm working on myself and my "stuff"
building the city of light
I just keep going when the going gets tough
building the city of light

Facing my beast, facing my fears
loving the darkness bright
I'm like a mirror when the shadow clears

Got no politics, got no price
building the city of light
I don't need saved, I don't need advice
building the city of light
I don't need freed - I'm already free
building the city of light
all the answers I need are inside me
building the city of light

All may change in the blink of an eye
All may change in the blink of an eye

the waterboys - burlington bertie and accrington stanley

Said Burlington Bertie to Accrington Stanley "I do not like that Andy Pandy,
he fancies himself as a regular dandy - let's take him down a stitch"

But unbeknown to Accrington Stanley and Burlington Bertie Namby Pamby was
sucking a stick of cinnamon candy and watching from a ditch.

Said Namby Pamby to Andy Pandy "Let us tell Mahatma Ghandhi that Burlington
Bertie and Accrington Stanley are up to dirty deeds."

Said Mahatma Ghandhi to Namby Pamby "You and I and Andy Pandy must enlist the
aid of Para Handy - he's the fella we need."

So away they rode - Andy Pandy, Mahatma Ghandhi and Namby Pamby - to the home
of Para Handy beyond the western wall.

Said Para Handy to Mahatma Ghandhi "I'll summon the brothers Handy Andy,
Dandy Jim and Tony Pandy - experts one and all"

Said Tony Pandy to Para Handy "Me and Dandy Jim and Handy Andy will bring you
the head of Accrington Stanley if it be your wish."

Said Mahatma Ghandhi to Tony Pandy, Dandy Jim and Handy Andy "brin me the
head of Accrinton Stanley on a silver dish."

So Handy Andy and Tony Pandy, Dandy Jim and Para Handy caught the villinous
Accrington Stanley in his pants and vest.

Said Accrington Stanley "You've caught me red-handed, I'm trounced and I'm
trumped, I'm stumped and I'm stranded. But before you go and do something
outlandish grant me one request."

Said Para Handy to Accrington Stanley "Make it quick and make it handy. In 30
seconds Handy Andy will remove your wicked head."

Said Accrington Stanley "Before you count 30 I'll swear on the grave of my
great-aunt Gerdie. The man you seek is Burlington Bertie - remove his
instead!"

But Para Handy and Tony Pandy, Dandy Jim and Handy Andy, Andy Pandy and
Mahatma Ghandhi (not to mention Namby Pamby) paid no attention to Accrington
Stanley and beheaded him - dead!

the waterboys - bury my heart

Bury my soul
where the dust meets the sea
Turn it loose in a lonely place
where man can still be free
Make up my clothes and sheets
in a ball, put them in the ground
Tell my children only truths
teach them to be proud
Tell them dreams and miracles
when thy thunder stops
Bury my heart!

Bury my heart!

I was born a travelling trooper
but I laid my wings to rest
Once I beat myself in squallor
now I feather up my nest
There are flags in my back yard
colours on my wall
I pay my servant well
but I made the bastard crawl
And I pretend no blessed evil soul
that I don't hear that thunder start
Bury my heart!

There's a lily in the valley
where I brought the news to Ro
I offered him my visions but
the heathen rose to go
So I took my shining sabre and I slew
my sinning friend
A christian burial was all he needed
to make him whole again
And I looked up way above me
and God rent the sky apart
Bury my heart!

Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!

We're God's chosen people
this and other truths I know
Put them into vicious practice
because the bible tells me so
And I drowned the noble savage
in the blessed holy water
I burned his filthy village
and I civilized his daughter

The liars in this world
who say we shame the blood of Christ
But killing is his mercy
and nits grow into lice

And all those gooks I napalmed
man, I did it in God's name
When the fools put me on trial I shouted out
I'm not to blame -- I did it for him!
I did it for him!

I did it for him!
He made do it!
He tore the heavens apart

Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!

Now I'm going to wilderness
on a horse that I can trust
I will die where I fall
in the hot dry dust
And if you come to that place
remember this truth

That he who's born to property
is he who's born to lose
Will you bury my soul
where the dust meets the sea
Will you bury my heart
at Wounded Knee!
Bury my heart
at Wounded Knee!
Bury my heart
at Wounded Knee!
Bury my heart!

the waterboys - calling back my spirit

Something has been sleeping in me, weeping in me, creeping in me
Something has been crying in me, sighing in me, dying in me
In the righting of this wrong, I may have to fight a long awaited duel
I'm calling back my spirit from you, Iæ?¦ calling back what is my own.

Something has been burning in me, churning in me, turning in me
Something has been weeping in me, creeping in me, awaking in me
And in the execution of this task, I may come to see my enemy's mask
slip and fall

I'm calling back my spirit from you, I'm calling back what my own
I'm calling back, I'm calling back,
I'm calling back my spirit from you, I'm calling back what is my own

The storm of your outrage seethes and whips around my brittle bones
anger and violence erupt from your lips and your cover is blown!
I seek the sound of your name
I stand in my own footsteps and I claim my power

I'm calling back my spirit from you, I'm calling back what is my own
I'm calling back, I'm calling back, I'm calling back, Iæ?¦ calling back,
I'm calling back my spirit from you now!, I'm calling back what is my own

the waterboys - calliope house

the waterboys - careful with that melletron eugene

Be careful with that melletron, Eugene
careful with that melletron, Eugene
Careful with that melletron, Eugene
be careful with that melletron, you don't know where it's been

Careful with the melletron, Eugene
careful with the melletron, Eugene
Careful with the melletron, Eugene
be careful with the melletron, you don't know where it's been

Play I am the walrus, Eugene
play I am the walrus, Eugene
It's I am the walrus, Eugene
play I am the walrus, you don't know where it's been

Careful with the melletron, Eugene
careful with the melletron, Eugene
Careful with the melletron, Eugene
be careful with the melletron, you don't know where it's been
Be careful with the melletron, you don't know where it's been
be careful with the melletron, you don't know where it's been

the waterboys - dancing barefoot

(Patti Smith)

She is benediction
she is addicted to thee
She is the root connection
she is connecting with he

Here I go and I don't know why
I fell so ceaselessly
Could it be he's taking over me...

I'm dancing barefoot
heading for a spin
Some strange music draws me in
makes me come on like some heroin

She is sublimation
she is the essence of thee
She is concentrating on
he, who is chosen by she

Here I go and I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly,
Could it be he's taking over me...

I'm dancing barefoot
heading for a spin
Some strange music draws me in
makes me come on like some heroin

She is recreation
she, intoxicated by thee
She has the slow sensation that
he is levitating with she ...

Here I go and I don't know why,
I spin so ceaselessly,
'Til I lose my sense of gravity...

I'm dancing barefoot
heading for a spin
Some strange music draws me in
makes me come on like some heroin

the waterboys - a girl called johnny

I remember Johnny - hey!
Johnny come lately
I remember her shoes like a ballerina
A girl called Johnny who
changed her name when she
discovered her choice was to
change or to be changed

I remember a girl called Johnny
black as hell and white as a ghost
"Don't talk about life or death"
she said "I've had enough of both"
A girl called Johnny who was not scared
they'd have torn her to pieces but
who would dare?

I remember a girl called Johnny
the train came to town, boy she got on it
with no looking back, with not a word
If she said goodbye, well I never heard
but the noise goes on
the noise, the jazz
and the truth is in somebody else's hands
and the house that a girl called johnny built
is now just ashes and sand

the waterboys - a golden age

I heard a rumour of a golden age
and the stage is gettin' set
I heard a rumour of a golden age
the stage is gettin' set
I heard a rumour of a golden age
in the song, on a screen and printed page
And all the world will be a stage
and the stage is gettin' set

I've seen the glow of a golden dawn
and the dawn is comin' through
I've seen the glow of a golden dawn
and the dawn is comin' through
I've seen the glow of a golden dawn
and all will wait to gaze upon
And though the hour is hard and long
the dawn is coming through

I felt the wind behind my heels
and it feels good to me
I felt the wind behind my heels
and it feels good to me
I felt the wind behind my heels
My soul fired up like catherine wheels
And I'm never gonna forget how it feels
and it feels good to me

I stood on the side of a shimmering sea
I saw a ship come sailing in
I stood on the side of a shimmering sea
I saw a ship come sailing in
I stood on the side of a shimmering sea
said "Lord, I surrender" and fell on my knees
And loving rose in the heart of me
And the ship came sailing in

I heard a rumour of a golden age

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