Lucinda Williams Album

you feel so good, Lafayette, now I've come to greet youtell all my friends I've come back againI couldn't stay away, I was gone only a daybut I'm comin' back to my sweet LafayetteI'm goin' down to Lafayette, I don't care how long I'm goneit's so hard to leave you, Lafayette, now I know where I belongwhen that sweet fiddle sounds and Clifton gets downthat music sounds so good to me, I just might dance until threeand I gotta get back to my sweet Lafayetteoh, those boys in Lafayette, smilin' so prettythose sweet boys in Lafayette, they sure do look good to mewe danced all night long to a sweet Cajun songdrinkin' and jivin' 'til dawn, I could dance on and ondoin' a two-step in my sweet Lafayettetake me back Lafayette, way down on the bayouI'm your girl, Lafayette, I'm gonna hang around youeat that gumbo and rollin' and tumbleand do crazy things every night, soon I'll be feelin' alrightwhen I get back to my sweet Lafayettewhen I get back to my sweet Lafayette

I think I lost it
Let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall
Along a back road somewhere
Money can't replace it
No memory can erase it
And I know I'm never gonna find
Another one to compare
Give me some love to fill me up

Give me some time give me some stuff
Give me a sign give me some kind of reason
Are you heavy enough to make me stay
I feel like I might blow away
I thought I was in heaven
But I was only dreamin
I think I lost it
Let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall
Along a back road somewhere
Money can't replace it
No memory can erase it
And I know I'm never gonna find
Another one to compare

SOLO

I just wanna live the life I please
I don't want no enemies
I don't want nothin if I have to fake it
Never take nothin don't belong to me

Everything's paid for nothing free
If I give my heart
Will you promise not to break it
I think I lost it
Let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall
Along a back road somewhere
Money can't replace it
No memory can erase it
And I know I'm never gonna find
Another one to compare
Money can't replace it
No memory can erase it
And I know I'm never gonna find
Another one to compare

Maria, you're still wild and restless
And I can just see ya ridin' in a rodeo
You might even make it down to Texas
Or you might head out west to New Mexico

So pack up all of your belongings
A pick-up will take you where you wanna go
You can ride out when you hear mountains calling
Out to Canada or the canyons of Colorado

New York City was always your home
But in your heart you know you were born to roam
And you're gonna leave as soon as you get the money
After you sell everything you own


GUITAR SOLO


Maria, is loneliness a virtue
Or does it steal you blind and leave you split apart
Maria, can you give me an answer
Are the songs we sing worth the broken heart


The highway has always been your lover
And someday you may know his name
Wherever you stay it wouldn't really matter
'Cause all those cities start to look the same

Some folks will try to take your heart away
And just when you think you've really got it made
You wake up and find madness in the morning
But damn the pain and damn those restless days
Damn the pain and damn those restless days

tryin' hard to be a happy womanbut sometimes life just overcomes meeveryday I'm workin' just to pay my dueslay down at night, my mind is so confusedgoin' down south with the New York City bluesgotta hit the road before I blow a fuseI might buy me a Cadillac or a ChevroletI don't care what model as long as it takes me awayI've been hiding my heart in a trunkcan you come see me when my ship has sunkyou can give me lovin, that I can't refuseand love is the one thing that's sure to cure my bluesgoin' down the road with a heavy hearttryin' to find lightness in the darktryin' to live my life, tryin' to get satisfiedmy mind is in the city but my heart is in the countrysidetryin' hard to be a happy womanbut sometimes life just overcomes meeveryday I'm workin' just to pay my dueslay down at night, my mind is so confusedlay down at night, my mind is so confused

written by Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams lead vocals and acoustic guitar
Mickey White acoustic rhythm and lead guitars, harmony vocals
Rex Bell electric bass and harmony vocals
Andre Matthews electric rhythm, lead and slide guitars
Ira Wilkes drums
Mickey Moody pedal steel guitar
Malcolm Smith fiddle and viola


Can you relieve me, baby
Take your heart from your sleeve
And put it on the line,
Put it right here beside mine.
I can't seem to read you most of the time
Don't you know that I need you
Will you ever be mine
Love is a gamble,
I knew it from the start
Whoever's holding the cards, please deal me the King of Hearts
Please deal me the King of Hearts.

SOLO

If you came to my door
And you asked me for more I'd lay down beside you.
I'd never deny you.
And if I had lots of silver I'd give some to you
And if I had lots of gold I'd make a rich man of you.
Everytime I see you,
I want to fall in love again
I would like to free you, but you won't even let me in
You won't even let me in.
Can you relieve me, baby
Take your heart from your sleeve,
And put it on the line
Put it right here beside mine.
I can't seem to read you
Most of the time
Don't you know that I need you
Will you ever be mine Love is a gamble,
I knew it from the start.
Whoever's holding the cards, please deal me the King of Hearts,
Please deal me the King of Hearts


Lucinda Williams "Happy Woman Blues"
Folkways Records FTS 31067 1980

Well, I'm rollin' along the highway
Livin' the life I'm used to
I thought about you all the way from
Little Rock to Houston

And now I can't seem to get you off my mind
But your tied to somebody else
I think about you all the time
And I just can't help myself

Sometimes I don't know right from wrong
I find it easy to fall
It's hard when I been up all night long
That's when I want you most of all

Well, I'd love to see your smilin' face
If I could take just one last look
But you left me just one last trace
On the pages of your book

But words can't hold me every night
And words can't kiss me in the mornin'
Look out honey I got love in my heart
And it's growin' and it's burnin'

Sometimes I don't know right from wrong
I find it easy to fall
It's hard when I been up all night long
That's when I want you most of all

Well, I'm rollin' along the highway
Livin' the life I'm used to
I thought about you all the way from
Little Rock to Houston

And now I can't seem to get you off my mind
But your tied to somebody else
I think about you all the time
And I just can't help myself

Sometimes I don't know right from wrong
I find it easy to fall
It's hard when I been up all night long
That's when I want you most of all

Sometimes I don't know right from wrong
I find it easy to fall
It's hard when I been up all night long
That's when I want you most of all

That's when I want you most of all

Just another one night stand
Just another man to forget
Just another empty hand
With nothin' left to bet
It doesn't really matter what i say
There's no one here to blame
I'll just close the door and walk away
Let down once again
I can't even say you lied to me
'Cause you ain't said nothin' yet
You never even tried for me
There's nothin' to regret
Just another one night stand
Just another man to forget
Just another empty hand
With nothin' left to bet
I'd like to speak to you someway
But the words won't come out right
How can it feel so wrong today
When it felt so right last night
I claim no hold on anyone
No silken strings to bind
No promises unbroken
No messages to find
Just another one night stand
Just another man to forget
Just another empty hand
With nothin' left to bet

Howlin' at midnight, winter creepin' in
Feel like I've gone and lost my best friend
My best friend, lost my best friend
This car's headed down the wrong track again

I ain't got nobody, I'm nobody's girl
Gonna get in my mercury and drive around the world
Around the world, all around the world
When I reach that mountain top I'll stand with flags unfurled

She's up in New York city tryin' to make it big
Wrote me a letter yesterday sayin' I ain't got no gigs
Ain't got no gigs, I ain't got no gigs
If you wanna send me somethin', make it a two dollar rig

She's up in New York City tryin' to be a star
Told me you're wastin' your time where you are
Where you are, where you are
Gotta get yourself out of all those Texas bars

Howlin' at midnight, winter creepin' in
Feel like I've gone and lost my best friend
My best friend, lost my best friend
This car's headed down the wrong track again
This car's headed down the wrong track again

how long have you been hangin' aroundyour eyes fixed to the cement groundyour heart is warm, your hands are coldyou know the truth, but the story gets oldyou stood on the corner for a long timepeople passin' by gave you nickels and dimesthey think you're one of the nameless'cause you got no record and you ain't famousoh, Bill, I know how you're feelin'your heart's on fire and your head is reelin'but with the spirit to guide you and a friend beside youyou know you'll win if you're only willin'the sun's so hot and my heart is thumpin'let me buy you a beer or somethin'you've been travelin' a hard roadsit down, Bill, and lighten your loadif you need a friend give me a callI've got your picture on my wallfrom one compadre to anotherI love you, Bill, as I would my brotheroh, Bill, I know how you're feelin'your heart's on fire and your head is reelin'but with the spirit to guide you and a friend beside youyou know you'll win if you're only willin'

Refrain:
Louisiana man with a style his own,
Not like some other men I've known,
With his cowboy boots and his hats he wore so well;
Caught me eye on the very first day
And I never will forget the way
He played guitar and he sang just like an angel.

Thoughts of you flicker past,
Goin' on down the road so fast,
The trees and the bushes and the telephones poles fly by.
I never seem to have the time,
I'll just have to keep you on my mind,
How I wish I could keep you by my side.

Refrain

Country man with a heart of gold,
One more kiss before I hit the road,
Hold me one more time before I go.
Nights will be longer now
But I'll get along somehow,
I've learned how to do it all before.

Refrain

Sharp Cutting Wings (Song to a Poet) See file with chords!

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