Waiting For A New Deal Now Michelle Shocked

Franklin Roosevelt said in 1932 "If you elect me this is what I'm gonna do If you can't get a square meal I'm gonna give you a new deal" And I'm waitin' for a new deal now Waitin' for a new deal

Blackjack Heart Michelle Shocked

I got a blackjack heart Now what you wanna bet I'm over twenty-one And your match you've met I got a blackjack heart I will cut you cold You got to tell me what you want Do you hit or do you hold

Desperados Waiting For A Train (Red River Valley) Michelle Shocked

We was friends, me and this old man Like desperados waiting for a train Just like desperados waiting for a train He was a drifter, a driller of them oil wells An old school man of the world He taught

New Orleans Michelle Shocked

Crescent moon over Crescent City Sweat's a' pourin' and the girls are gritty Joints are jumpin' Changin' lights Dancin' naked through the night Trombone Shorty's in the street Drums are rollin'

Will the Circle Be Unbroken Michelle Shocked

Traditional Will the circle be unbroken By and by Lord, by and by There's a greater home a-waiting In the sky Lord, in the sky I was standing on the corner On one dark and cloudy day When I

The Incomplete Image (4/4 Troubadour) Michelle Shocked

Last seen hitching down the Whitehorse Highway Picking on a guitar And waiting on a ride He'd been running on steam since he was sixteen Now the Daddy wants to see the boy before he dies Did I tell

Walking To New Orleans Michelle Shocked

I'm walking to New Orleans I'm walking to New Orleans You want to diss my home That's the reason why I'm going I'm walking to New Orleans I've got no time for talking I've got to keep walking

Hello Hopeville Michelle Shocked

Down at the Cold War Institute They were signing new recruits He went down to the station in his three piece suit Now she had cried for him to stay But there was nothing more to say As she was waving

Last Love Michelle Shocked

She got bells on her ankles and a stud in her nose For us to entangle was wrong I suppose Her family reunion, a time and a place And I could see eight good years disappear from her face And love

Winter Wheat Michelle Shocked

I seem to have lost my patience Waiting for the clouds of dust the custom cutter brings Well, the foreman called to say He would be here any day With his convoy of threshing machines Now what

Worth the Weight Michelle Shocked

Hand me down my old ball and chain It's worth the weight if I never have to see you again I'm running late but at least I'm running I've been down this road a time or two You know, nothing has

Graffiti Limbo Michelle Shocked

Lay down your burdens Lay down your cares The Holy Virgin, she's gonna greet you up there With a big can of spray paint, yeah And a big blank wall And I can guaran-damn-tee you There ain't no cops

Anchorage Michelle Shocked

I forgot how it goes I don't recall how it goes Anchorage Anchored down in Anchorage Leroy got a better job so we moved Kevin lost a tooth, now he's started school I got a brand new eight month

Lagniappe Michelle Shocked

Down in the Vieux Carre All you got to say is 'lagniappe' When you want just a little bit more Than you have bargained for For the thirteenth donut in the bakers dozen To give it to your pretty

No Sign of Rain Michelle Shocked

When I leave this town you will not see me cry An east Texas town with all the wells run dry Looking to the sky, waiting for a change No sign of rain And if I find life beyond the Interstate Past

God Is A Real Estate Developer Michelle Shocked

God is a real estate developer With offices 'round the nation They say one day he'll liquidate His holdings up on high I say it's all speculation He may be an absentee landlord Yeah, this may

Flying Lesson Michelle Shocked

Oh best-beloved With a little bit of patience And imagination We learn to fly Now hold out your hands Spread up your fingers See how they are feathers And your arms are wings Now flap your

Good News Michelle Shocked

See a fat brown snake Lay her eggs down in the mud Go slipping through the swamp now With a poison in the blood And a smokestack lightning Sparks are flying through the air And when the dust gets

Prince Of Darkness Michelle Shocked

And now he is the Prince of Darkness He holds old friends in such high esteem He sees a red town and wants it painted black For the Catholic girls at Halloween Well he said to me, "I've waited

Ballad Of Penny Evans Michelle Shocked

My name is Penny Evans and I've just turned twenty-one A young widow in the war that's been fought in Vietnam And I have two infant daughters and I do the best I can And now they say the war is over

Yamboree Queen Michelle Shocked

Except for the old farmers who still grow them in their gardens, still give 'em to their wives, who still make sweet potato pie for that sweet potato pie bake-off.

Poor Boy Michelle Shocked

Listen to me people It's a sad tale that I tell He was bound for heaven But the poor boy went to hell He was a poor boy He was a poor boy He was a poor poor boy In our hearts there was no joy

The Titanic Michelle Shocked

(It was 1912 and the Titanic was gonna take her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City and the great black boxer, Jack Johnson, he's heavyweight champion of the world.

Cold Comfort Michelle Shocked

And I know it's cold comfort They found him a guilty man But it don't feel like justice And it was not a first offense Heavy drink was on his breath Her death was on his hands Now you must look

See The Sea Michelle Shocked

If you could see what I see in the sea You'd say the sea is a swell place to be Even more if you see what I saw on the shore You'd never would see it the same as before Well you know there are

Change The Name Michelle Shocked

And this is taken down on the Legislative rolls which can now be found, I think, under the date of July the twenty-third, 1867. And this is what the hometown boy had to say.

Campus Crusade Michelle Shocked

Sister Cindy used to be a disco queen 'Til she come to Jesus and now she's saved Out on the West Mall with old Brother Jed Now she's fighting the Holy War The Campus Crusade Every Spring they seem

Wichita Lineman Michelle Shocked

I am a lineman for the County And I drive the main road Searching in the sun for another overload I hear you singing in the wire (I hear you singing in the wire) I can hear you through the whine

Carrickfergus / The Water Is Wide Michelle Shocked

Traditional The water is wide I can't cross over And neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat That can carry two And both shall row My Love and I Oh love is gentle And love is kind The

Little Billie Michelle Shocked

Line Little Billie sure could sing the blues When a woman has five sons She's gonna spend a lot of time Down on her knees praying And in her pillow crying Now her boy lay on the street Shot in

Wobbly Blood Michelle Shocked

justice in the Coeur d'Alene mines A thousand men were doing time In a makeshift prison for class war crime The Bunker Hill company scab mill had been blown to hell with dynamite The governor had

The Chain Smoker Michelle Shocked

He sits on the front porch To watch the sun go down A pile of cigarette butts Gathering on the ground He'd been a chain smoker for sixty years Both his fingers were stained and brown But what the

Homestead Michelle Shocked

Almost got me a coyote today A lowdown skunk of a dog, I say I fired my gun as he slunk away But he'll be back again You know, it ain't been easy since my husband died A widow woman at thirty-five

Disoriented (lament for the trust territories) Michelle Shocked

Disoriented, dazed, confused Oh I am lost but I have nothing to lose Wearing my soul in the holes of my shoes Disoriented Disoriented Perspective's vanished now there's only points of view Then

Laundry Day Michelle Shocked

and fat as a homeroom spitball No time to try to get 'em all Bring in the underpants and overalls And left four sheets out on the line 'Cause even ghosts got to sleep sometime She saved one for

One Piece At A Time Michelle Shocked

plan that should be the envy of most any man I'd sneak it out of there in a lunch box in my hand Now, gettin' caught meant gettin' fired But I figured I'd have it by the time I retired So I'd get me

V.F.D. Michelle Shocked

Me and my friend and this boy named Eddie We was bored one afternoon We was sitting in the hay It was a hot Texas day And we was playing with matches like some kids do We would throw our matches

Come a Long Way Michelle Shocked

I kicked in his door at 5 AM "I've come for my bike" I told the repo man My 920's gonna take me far today You can travel for miles and never leave L.A.

On The Greener Side Michelle Shocked

Send me a dozen long stem roses I'll tell you what I will do I'll bend them into a crown of thorns And send it right back to you Your love, love, love Don't keep me satisfied And though I've

Blackberry Blossom Michelle Shocked

The blackberry blossom, well the last time I saw one Was down in the bramble where I rambled in the spring The bramble was wild, I was torn by the briers My love, he wooed me as I lie there With a

Waters Wide Michelle Shocked

Traditional The water is wide I can't cross over And neither have I Have I wings to fly Oh give me a boat That will carry two And both shall row My Love and I Oh love is gentle Yes and love

Secret to a Long Life Michelle Shocked

Billy Barlow was a poor boy That's why he robbed the Union Grove Bank He was a sweet talking ladies man That's what he'd have ladies all to think Oh the secret to a long life's knowing when it's

Necktie Michelle Shocked

There was a naked man standing in an alley And he weren't wearing no clothes A naked man was standing in an alley And he wasn't wearing no clothes He said, "All that I need, I do believe, Is a pair

T For Texas Michelle Shocked

'T' for Texas, it's 'T' for Tennessee 'T' for Texas, it's 'T' for Tennessee And it's 'T' for Thelma, oh she made a wreck of me Wanna buy me a shotgun As long as I am tall I'm gonna buy me a shotgun

What Can I Say? Michelle Shocked

Little children did I tell you how the mockingbird Called the animals together try to say a few words But the squirrels began to chatter and the bees began to buzz Just the way it is, just the way

Trackstar MICHELLE

In the future the two of us We might not like the view of us And we'll pine for these times, all the while When that now turns to memory But the end's still ahead of me Start to lengthen my stride to the

Eddie Michelle Shocked

This boy named Eddie Used to set the fields on fire He's the only boy I know who dared to name his desire In a county where the dairymen all had milking machines Yeah, Eddie was the only one to separate

Remodeling The Pentagon Michelle Shocked

to the military state Keep communism on the run And to keep up with the high cost of peace They're remodeling the Sextagon The generals have to keep up their four-tank garages And payments on a

If Love Was a Train Michelle Shocked

If love was a train I think I would ride me a slow one One that would ride through the night making every stop, huh If love was a train I would feel no pain and I would never get off, no sir Oh, I'd

No Wonder Michelle Shocked

out to play Let's have some fun" And it's no wonder No wonder the sun Foolish of me, I know I did believe that chariots carried it high Into the sky But it's your smile That makes it glow So now