Dr. Feelgood Album

(Nick Lowe)

We're in the heart of the city
Where the alligator roams
I'm a little lost lamb
Ain't got no place to go
I ain't got one penny
Just got a shirt on my back
I left home in a hurry
I ain't never goin' back
I'm lookin' for a lover in the heart of the city

Well I'm a standin' on the street
And I'm a steppin' off the end
Yeah I'm lookin' for a lover
Lookin' lookin' everywhere
Maybe I'm in with a chance
I hear a clickety clack
There's a girl my Lord
I see her stop, check, turn and double back
I'm lookin' for a lover in the heart of the city

I'm lookin' I'm lookin' I'm lookin' I'm lookin'
I'm lookin' lookin' lookin' lookin' everywhere
In the heart of the city

We're in the heart of the city
We're in the heart of the stars
I hear the crash of music
And a thousand guitars
And the boys are on the prowl
And they're checkin' on me
They know a bird up in the hand
Is worth two out on the streets
Checkin' on neat in the heart of the city

Heart heart of the city
Heart heart oh yeah
Heart heart of the city
Heart heart oh yeah
(repeat to fade)

(will birch/graeme douglas/dr feelgood)

My sugar likes to take a drink
To help her sleep and make her dream
She's on to something but now they think
There's not enough blood in her alcohol screen

When things get on top of her
There ain't no stoppin' her
My sugar turns to alcohol
One trip to the watering hole
My sugar turns to alcohol
One more drip will take it's toll

Now when it gets into her head
There ain't nothin' I can do
Her days are numbered the doctor said
Now she's drinking and counting too

When time is running out
Now there can be no doubt
My sugar turns to alcohol
One trip to the watering hole
My sugar turns to alcohol
One more drip will take it's toll


Eight bars I'm getting old

Now, in the morning her heads so thick
There's only one thing that she can do
One drink and she's a brand new girl
Then that brand new girl wants one too

When things get on top of her
There ain't no stoppin' her
When time is running out
Now there can be no doubt
My sugar turns to alcohol
One trip to the watering hole
My sugar turns to alcohol
One more drip will take it's toll

My sugar turns to alcohol
One trip to the watering hole
My sugar turns to alcohol
One more drip will take it's toll

Yeah I warned you about that stuff baby
That ain't gin you're drinkin'
That's pure petroleum
Ha ha ha ha yeah....

(nix)

I'm going down
I'm going down down down down down
I'm going down baby
Down down down down down

I've got my big feets in the window
My head is on the ground

Let me crawl
Let me crawl across your floor
Let me crawl baby
Let me crawl across your floor

I'm going back to canvey island
That's where I used to live before


- harmonica solo -

I'm going down
I'm going down down down down down
I'm going down
Down down down down down

I've got my big feets in the window
My head is on the ground

Let me crawl
Let me crawl across your floor
Let me crawl baby
Let me crawl across your floor

I'm going back to canvey island
That's where I used to live before

(cale)
No time for making my moves, no timeNo time for hitting the grooves, no time
Summer comes and summers goneWinter sings it's very sad songThe saddest part of all it seemsHow we lose most of our dreams
No time for making my moves, no timeI got no time for hitting the booze, no time
The clock it turns at a rapid paceAnd takes us to another placeThe train it goes from here to thereJust left me standin' here

No time for making my moves, no timeI got no time for hitting my grooves, no time
I had the blues this mornin'I cried all dayI guess you lose the blues in the mornin'If you cry the blues away
I got no time for hitting my grooves, no timeNo time for making my moves, no timeNo time and nothin' to loseI got no time for hittin' the booze, no time
Lets go man, hmmm I got no timeI got no no no no n n n no no time, no time

[No lyrics]

(morgan)

If my baby quit me, don't know what I'm gonna do
If my baby quit me, don't know what I'm gonna do
Yeah, I'm crazy 'bout my baby
Baby, I'm crazy for you

But I love my baby better than I love myself
But I love my baby better than I love myself
But she left me for another man
Left my loving up on the shelf

If my baby quit me


If my baby quits me
If my baby quit me...
I don't know what I'm gonna do

It could kill a man what that woman been putting down
It could kill a man what that woman been putting down
You better watch yourself
You been messin' with that known mess around

If my baby quit me
If my baby quits me
If my baby quit me...
I don't know what I'm gonna do

[No lyrics]

(mickey jupp)

Well I'm standing at the crossroads again
With an empty heart and a dollar ten
Maybe I'll bump into some famous names
Robert johnson, elmore james
I'm standing at the crossroads again

Well I woke up this morning like I usually do
My baby was nowhere around
I looked in the mirror, I looked in the hall
In my slippers and my dressing gown
There were lipstick traces on the bedroom door
Goodbye she wrote, I don't want you no more
I guess I'm not the man she was looking for
But just the man she found

Well I'm standing at the crossroads again
With an empty heart and a dollar ten
Maybe I'll bump into some famous names


Robert johnson, elmore james
I'm standing at the crossroads again

Here I am on my own again
Where did I go wrong this time
I treat them good like a gentleman should
And I never ever step out of line
I'm no kid I know my way around
Six foot six, I weigh 200 pounds
But I can't hold no romance down
Maybe I should give up trying

Well I'm standing at the crossroads again
With an empty heart and a dollar ten
Maybe I'll bump into some famous names
Robert johnson, elmore james
I'm standing at the crossroads again

Well I'm standing at the crossroads again
Well I'm standing at the crossroads again

Morrison-Manzarek-Krieger-Densmore

Down so Goddamn long that it looks like up to me
Well, I've been down so very damn long that it looks like up to me
Well, why don't some you, people, come on and gotta set me free ?

Well, warden, warden, warden, won't you break your lock and key ?
I said, warden, warden, warden, won't you break your lock and key ?
Won't you come along here, mister, oh, say : ‘Please, don't be'.

Come on.

Well, now, darling, darling, sister, won't you down your load on me ?
I say, darling, darling, sister, won't you down your load on me ?
…………………, come on, sister, I love you, yeah, yeah, come on.

Well, I said, baby, baby, baby, won't you give your love to me ?
Baby, baby, baby, won't you give your love to me ?
Won't you come along here, darling, come on and give help to me.

Yippee, one more, yeah.

I've been down so Goddamn long that it looks like up to me
Well, I've been down so Goddamn long that it looks like up to me
Yeah, why don't one of you people, come on and set me free, yeah ?

(rosas/perez/burnett)
Standin' there by the windowStarin' out of the nightYou got so many troublesOf a nervous mindBut don't worry babyS'gonna work out fine
You hear the sound of footstepsSteal across the floorYou pick the receiverYou don't know what forThen you saw a shadowSteppin through the door
Why don't worry babyWhat the world may bringWhy don't worry babyIt won't change a thingCause life is a fightAnd then you die

Standin' there by the windowStarin' out of the nightSee your lover leaningAgainst the old street lightBut don't worry babyS'gonna be alright
He was a tossin' and turnin'And he just couldn't sleepSaid you shouldn't botherIt was just a dreamSo where was he goin'Headin' down the street
Why don't worry babyWhat the world may bringWhy don't worry babyIt won't change a thingBecause life is a fightAnd then you die

(Will Birch/Dr Feelgood)
(Music also by Jimmy Reed - Omar & The Howlers: Down in Mississippi)

I'm going down by the jetty
Tonight the tide is high
It's tankers in the channel laying
Flames up in the sky

I'm going down by the jetty
(Be)fore I leave this world behind
'Cause that oil slick on the water
Is band to ease my worried mind

My face is slowly burning
My eyes are turning red
In the shadow of the refinery, baby
Tonight I'll make my bed

I'm going down by the jetty
(Be)fore I leave this world behind
(Fore I leave this world behind)
'Cause that oil slick on the water
Is band to ease my worried mind

- Harmonica and Guitar Solo -

The air is filled with poison
The sea is thick with grease
Somewhere in this hell on earth
I'll surely get some peace

With one foot on the water
And one foot on the pier
I'm ready for the next world
To get me outta here

I'm going down by the jetty
(Be)fore I leave this world behind
'Cause that oil slick on the water
Is bound to ease my worried mind

Bye bye, cruel world...

[No lyrics]