Rough Diamonds, Precious Jewels

2001

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Published on Bandcamp on July 9, 2021

​Note that cover versions are removed

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See The Belfast Bootlegs for details of the pre-release versions, which differ quite significantly

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Disc One:

TV Ad [includes ufo]

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The legendary Larry Norman in concert, Assembly Buildings, Belfast, Thursday 27th October. Tickets from House Of Musique and usual outlets [Spoken, over a snippet of the song UFO]

He's an unidentified flying object
You will see him in the air

introductions

I know you're all looking forward to see him, so please put your hands together and a warm welcome for Larry Norman [Spoken by Trevor King]

god save the queen

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[Plays God Save The Queen falteringly on acoustic guitar]

That's something we borrowed from you. We have that in America. We don't know it too well but, we have it. You could borrow some of our music if you want. You could borrow this [Spoken]

[Plays Oh, Susanna with harmonica and tambourine]

If you like it please borrow it quickly [Spoken]

song for a small circle of friends

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​​​​Well my life is filled with songs
But I just could not get along without my friends
And I'm happy now but when this good life ends
I know a better life begins

And love to you sir Stonehill
With your guitar full volume on your amp
You're so crazy but I love you
I still love you as we both crawl towards the lamp

With Clapton on guitar
Charlie Watts on drums bff-pff
McCartney on the Hofner bass
With blisters on his thumb

Dear Dylan watch your fears all hide
And disappear while love inside keeps growing
Oh let it keep growing
You're older but less colder
Than the jokes and folks you spent your childhood snowing
Yes you did, yes you did

And someone died for all you friends
But even better yet he lives again
And if these words do not make sense to you
I hope his spirit slips on through
He loves you

He loves you, God loves you
And if my songs do not appeal to you
I hope his spirit slips on through
You know Jesus loves you
Ah da da da da
Ah da da da da la la mm
​Mm-hm

twelve good men

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You need twelve good men
I can only find eleven
There are six young lions
And I'm waiting for number seven
I may be living here on earth
But I am living for heaven
Yeah

There's a woman I'm in love with
And there's no need to say her name
Yes no matter what might happen
You know I'm gonna love her just the same
Yeah yeah yeah
Well it's like meeting an angel from heaven
Love is so hard to explain

I've got these dark sunglasses
The ones I've worn through all my youth
Yeah-eh
I've got this black leather jacket
Feel like William Booth
Now baby don't ask me nothing about nothing
Just might a-tell you the truth
Oh-oh-oh
Ah bababababa-oh
Ah babababa-oh
Bababa-ah-oh-ah yeah
La la la la leh

be careful what you sign

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Aah
​I was walking down the road when I bumped into you
I was walking down the road when I bumped into you
Mmm you stopped me, you touched me, you looked me in the eye
I had the feeling that you knew me, I decided you must die
I pulled out my Thornton special, I shot you in the head
I threw you in the alley way and I left you for dead

Then a man with a hat, he came up from behind
The sky went black and I thought I was blind
He put his hand into my jacket, he left a million dollar bill
And put his hand into my pocket, and left women and thrills
When I turned around to thank him there was no one there but me
Both my hands were filled with sand, I was standing by the sea

Yeah
I had dinner at eight, a-women at nine
The party was great till we ran out of wine
There was a knock upon the bedroom door, my knees began to shake
And this man came in and melted all the candles on my cake
He said I've come here to escort you, it's time for you to go
And then he opened up my body, he took away my soul

I was running down the road
I was trying to leave
Then I saw you all alone in between the thieves
And when the lightning flashed I saw somebody hanging from a tree
And as I turned to walk away I realized it was me
I pulled out my Thornton special, I shot me in the head
I threw me in the alleyway, I left me for dead

I was just going down the road
Just like you
I was just walking down that road
Down that road
​Down that road [Very faintly]

I was just walking down the road

everybody work [PART OF medley]

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​​You know the flesh will make you twist and shout
So with fear and trembling work your salvation out
Everybody work
(Everybody work)

There are ten commandments, now get this straight
If you keep the first two you'll fulfil the other eight
Everybody work
(Everybody work)

You know there's trouble between the brothers and sisters
People need to get along (Ooh)
Open up your hearts to one another (Ooh)
And learn to sing this song (Ooh) (Yeah)

If you don't die once you're gonna die twice
Obedience is better than sacrifice
Everybody work
(Everybody work)

You know there's trouble between the brothers and sisters
People need to learn to get along (Ooh)
Open up your hearts to one another (Ooh-ooh)
And learn to live this song (Yeah)

If you don't know what I'm saying go home and pray
Read your bible and die every day
Everybody work
(Everybody work)

twist and shout [part of medley]

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Shake it up baby (Shake it up baby)
A-twist and shout (Twist and shout)
Come on, come on baby (Shake it up baby)
Come on and work it on out (Work it on out)

You know you twist so good (Twist so good)
You know you twist so fine (Twist so fine)
C'mon and twist a little closer (Twist a little closer)
Let me know that you're mine (Know you're mine)

Shake it, shake it, shake it baby now (Shake it up baby)
Shake it, shake it, shake it baby now (Shake it up baby)
Well shake it, shake it, shake it baby now (Shake it up baby)
Well shake it, shake it, shake it baby now (Shake it up baby)
Oh-oh-oh​

​[Aah aah aah wow
​You make wanna shout] [Poor track split]

shout [part of medley]

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Aah aah aah wow
​You make wanna shout [On end of previous track due to inaccurate track split]

Yeah now shout (Shout)
Kick my shoes off now (Shout)
Lift my hands up now (Shout)
Go to church now (Shout)
Yeah yeah walk through that door now (Shout)
Sing those hymns now (Shout)
Say my prayers and (Shout)
Lift up my friends now (Shout)
I love my sister (Shout)
I love my brother (Shout)
Love my father (Shout)
Love my mother (Shout)
Open up my heart (Shout)
Open to the spirit (Shout)
Listen to the message now (Shout)
Hope I can hear it (Shout)
A little bit quieter now yeah yeah (A little bit softer now)
A little bit softer now (A little bit softer now)
Little bit softer now (A little bit softer now)

​(A little bit softer now)

A little bit louder now (A little bit louder now)
A little bit louder now yeah yeah yeah yeah (A little bit louder now)
A little bit louder [Just like in a black church - Spoken] (A little bit louder now)
Ye-ah a little bit louder now, aah (A little bit louder now)
Kick my shoes off
Throw up my hands now
Go to church now
Say my prayers now go
Sing those hymns now
With all my friends now
Listen to the spirit
'Cause I wanna hear it
Ho-ho-holy holy holy holy holy holy spirit now
Transform men
You know you gotta live right
Do what's right, be born again
You gotta stick your hands up now
Ready for the spirit

Wo-oh-ah-oh-wo-oh

everybody work (reprise) [part of medley]

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Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute
There's just one thing I forgot to say
If you love the Lord, there'll be evidence every day
You know you're walking through this life and people think you're just like them
But th' there should be something different about you
And they'll notice it if they, if they, if they look again
So if eh [Spoken]

If you don't know what I'm saying
Then go home and pray
Read your bible and die every day
​Everybody work (Yeah)
(Everybody work)
Wo oh oh everybody work
Wa-yeah (Everybody work work, work work)
Everybody work work work work work work (Work work, work work)
Everybody work, open up your heart now (Work work)
​Open up your mind  (Work work)
Reach out for the  (Work work)
Brothers and sisters  (Work work)
We've really got to love one another (Work work)
Yeah eh eh (Work work)
Work work work work work wo-ork (Work work, work work)
Everybody work work work work wo-ork (Work work, work work)
Now everybody work​

why don't you look into jesus

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Wah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

​​Sipping whiskey from a paper cup
You drown your sorrows till you can't stand up
Take a look at what you done to yourself
Why don't ya put the bottle back on the shelf
Yellow fingers from your cigarettes
Your hands are shaking while your body sweats
Why don't you look into Jesus
He's got the answer

Yeah yeah yeah ye-ah
Ya-ah yeah

You got gonorrhea on Valentine’s day
You're still looking for the perfect lay
You think a-rock and roll will set you free
You'll be deaf before you're thirty three
Shoot junk till you're half insane
A broken needle in your purple vein
Why don't you look into Jesus
He's got the answer

You sleep all night
Work all day
You take your money
Throw it all away
Say you're gonna be a superstar
But you've never hung around enough
To find out who you really are
Yea-ah
Wo-oh

A-think back to when you were a child
Your soul was free, your heart ran wild
Each day was different, life was a thrill
You knew tomorrow would be better still
Things have changed, you're much older now
If you're unhappy and you don't know how
Why don't you look into Jesus
He's got the answer

Yeah yeah yeah
Why don't you look into Jesus
He's got the answer
You oughta check it for yourself
(Why don't you) look into Jesus
He's got the answer
Wo oh oh oh ye-ah
He's got, he's got, he's got the answer
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

i wish we'd all been ready

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​Life was filled with guns and war
Everyone got trampled on the floor
I wish we'd all been ready

Children died, the days grew cold
A piece of bread could buy a bag of gold
I wish we'd all been ready

There's no time to change your mind (Ooh ooh)
The son has come and you've been left behind (Ooh ooh ooh)

A man and wife asleep in bed
She hears a noise and turns her head, he's gone
I wish we'd all been ready

Two men walking up a hill
One disappears, one's left standing still
I wish we'd all been ready

There's no time to change your mind (Ooh ooh)
The son has come and you've been left behind (Ooh ooh ooh)

Yeah you've been left behind

Life is filled with bombs and guns
Heaven help the little ones who die
I hope you'll all been ready (I wish we'd all been ready)

People, gold, oil, guns, war, AIDS, death
I hope you'll all be ready
Hope you'll all be ready (all be ready)

There won't be time to change your mind (Ooh ooh)
And no excuse for being blind (Ooh ooh)
The clouds will open up, Jesus will come down (Ooh ooh)
Those who believe will go home (Ooh ooh ooh)
Those who don't believe will be left behind
Don't get left behind
Don't get left behind
Don't get left behind​

the rock that doesn't roll

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​I was lost and blind then a friend of mine
Came and took me by the hand
And he led me to his kingdom
Which was in another land
You know my life has changed, it's rearranged
When I think of my past I feel so strange
Wowie zowie that cat's got soul
He's the rock that doesn't roll

Well he's the rock (that doesn't roll) does not roll
(He's) the rock that doesn't roll
He's good for the body, he's great for the soul (Ooh ooh)
He's the rock that doesn't roll

I was all alone like a rolling stone
I was going nowhere fast
Yes I was on that road so far from home
When the future touched my past
You know my mind is grown, my head has blown
Solid rock ain't a rolling stone
I wanna be like him, that's my goal
The rock that doesn't roll

Well he's the rock that doesn't roll
He's the rock that doesn't roll
You know he's good for the body, great for the soul (Ooh ooh)
He's the rock that doesn't roll

Ow yeh-eh

Yeah yeah yeah
I was lost and blind then a friend of mine
Took me by the hand
And he led me to his kingdom
That was in another land
My life has changed, it's rearranged
When I think of my past I feel so strange
Love that, father, he saved my soul
(Rock that doesn't roll)
Rock that does not roll yes

He's the rock (rock that doesn't roll) Does not roll
He's the rock (rock that doesn't roll) Does not roll
He's good for the body, he's great for the soul (Ooh ooh)
He's the rock that doesn't
Rock that doesn't
Rock that doesn't
​Rock that doesn't

You got to rock me 'cross the water
You've got to rock me from my grave
You've got to rock me 'til I'm born again
Rock me 'til I'm saved

Well he's the rock that doesn't roll
He's the rock that does not roll
You know he's good for the body, great for the soul (Ooh ooh)
He's the rock that doesn't roll

I wanna tell you he's the rock that doesn't roll
He's the rock that does not roll
Good for the body, great for the soul (Ooh ooh)
He's the rock that doesn't roll
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah aah yeh woo woo

why should the devil

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Well come on pretty baby want a-moving and a-grooving
Shake it baby, shake it, please don't lose it

I want the people to know
That he saved my soul
But I still like to listen to the radio
They say rock and roll is wrong
We'll give you one more chance
I say I feel so good I'm gonna get up and dance

I know what's right, I know what's wrong
I don't confuse it
All I'm really trying to say is
Why should the devil have all the good music
There's nothing wrong with what I play
Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues away

Say to cut my hair
They're driving me insane
I grew it out long to make room for my brain
Sometimes people don't understand
They say what's a good boy playing in a rock and roll band
There's nothing wrong with blues licks
All I'm really trying to say is
Why should the devil have all the good music
Nothing wrong, I feel good ???
Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues away

​Allright

I ain't knocking the hymns
Just give me a song that has a beat
I ain't knocking the hymns
Just give me something that moves my feet
I don't like some of those funeral marches
I ain't dead yet

Woo

Jesus told the truth
Jesus showed the way
There's one more thing I'd like to say
They nailed him to the cross
And they laid him in the ground
But they shoulda known you can't keep a good man down

I feel good
All I'm really trying to say is
Why should the devil have anything
I said Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues
Jesus is the rock and he'll roll your blues
Jesus is the rock and he rolled our blues away
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

watch what you're doing

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Oh. Don't get too excited, that was rock and roll, don't, you know don't eh, don't eh, you know [Spoken]

​Well well well
Aah ah ah ah ow... [Mimics guitar]
Ah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Oh oh oh

​Oh mama killed a chicken, she thought it was a duck
She put it on the table with its legs sticking up
And papa broke his glasses when he fell down drunk
He tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk

You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah
You gotta watch where you're going

​I knew a girl, she was sweet as could be
But she fell for men just like a chain sawed tree
She listened to their lies, she was fooled by their charm
Now she's sitting with a baby in her arm

You gotta watch what you're doing
You know that
You gotta, you gotta watch out
Watch out
​Watch out

[Mimics guitar solo]

Everything's fine till things get bad
Then you sit around thinking 'bout the good times you had
It ain't no good to lead a life of sin
If you don't shape up you know you'll never get in
You gotta watch what you're doing 'cause he does
That's right, it's true
He loves you, he loves you
And he watches you 'cause he loves you
Aah

Some folks smile
I said some folks smile
Some folks, some folks smile
You think they're nice when some folks smile, they seem alright
And then later you find out they're like demons in the night
Try to love everybody but don't be blind
'Cause some kind of people try to mess up your mind
Gotta watch out
Don't be fooled
Watch out
Yeah yeah yeah

Some folks say that God is dead
That he doesn't exist except inside your head
I wonder how many are gonna be surprised
When they look straight up and see him coming through the sky

Do you know where you're going
Oh yeah yeah
Gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ah-ah

Watch out
There's someone after you
He's a liar they call the devil
He wants to lock you up in his zoo
He's got a nice little cage picked out just for you
I'll bet it fits real nice too
Watch out
Don't get caught, don't be fooled, don't get caught, don't be fooled, don't get caught, don't be fooled, don't get caught, ah don't

Aw ah yeah yeah [Very faintly]
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Oh Jesus take me to the river
Put me down, shake me up, help me to the cross
Take me to the river
Take me to the river
Take me to the river
Take me to the river

Gotta watch what you're doing
I was walking down the road
And I bumped into you
I saw you all alone in between the thieves
And when the lightning flashed I saw somebody hanging from a tree
And as I turned to walk away I realized it was me

Why, why, why

Watch what you're doing
You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah
Wo-ooh
Yeah

Ah yeah
For God's sake look out

Oh, yeah yeah yeah [Spoken]

feeling so bad

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I'm so glad eh, so glad that I got to. See for years every time I ever came to Europe it was during the winter and I'm really glad finally got to come during the summer [Spoken]

Well I'm feeling so bad in the middle of love
And it's easy to see that it isn't quite me that you're thinking of
Must be somebody else huh, but I'm wondering who
I can't seem to recall anybody at all who's in love with you

Every night you'll hear me say what a day

Well I saw you last week, you went out on the sly
You walked into some church, I suspected the worst, bet you met some guy
Well I waited outside, but you came out alone
With a satisfied look and a little black book, then you went straight home

Every night you'll hear me say what a day
Oh yeah

I got something I wanna say to you baby
And this is what it is
So listen [Guitar solo]
Aaah

Ah ah ah [x2]

Well this morning at ten, you invited me in
As you poured me some coffee you told me straight off that you found a friend
Well I wasn't surprised, no I wasn't surprised
'Cause you look so content baby, I see a different look in your eyes

Every night
You used to treat me right
You'll hear me say
Now you're pushing me away
What a day, what a day

Every night
You'll hear me say
What a day​

a note from mr god

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Mister piano [Spoken]

I was so down
Just hanging around
Wondering what to do
Then suddenly I was surprised from out of the blue

The birds sang their song as I walked along
I suddenly felt quite odd
‘Cause out of the sky fell a note from Mr God

And it said
You've got the blues but you can shake it
If you have faith you can make it
You have a chance
You must take it while you can

You have a choice but you must choose it
Don't give up hope
Or you'll lose it
And that's what it said on the note from Mr God

And it said
You have a chance but you must take it
If you have faith you can make it
You have a chance
You must take it while you can

You've got a choice but you must choose it
Don't give up hope
Or you'll lose it
And that's what it said on the note from Mr God

So if you feel down
Your chin on the ground
And suddenly you feel odd
Just look on the ground for that note from Mr God

​Thank you [Spoken]

leaving the past behind

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​I'm putting on my walking shoes, please help me find my hat
It's time that I was leaving, I've got no time for looking back
I'm going away

Don't help me [Spoken]

​I'm putting on my walking shoes an' please help me grab my hat
It's time some pretty soon I'll be leaving, I got no time for looking back
I'm going away ye-eh yeah
I'm feeling fine wo-oh oh-oh
And when it's time to go you've got to leave be' your past behind

Oh when I look outside my window, it's as dark as it could be
But I know the son is coming to wake the world from sleep
I'm going away, I'm feeling fine ah ha
When it's time to go
Better be ready to leave your past behind

[Snore]
Well
Man is born in trouble, everybody's got the blues
People looking for an answer, people hoping for good news
So if you got the answer then there's one thing you must do
You must walk, you must talk
You must hurry up to beat that clock
You must tell them to get ready so they can leave the past behind

My circle is completed, I've got to travel on
So if you understand, don't talk about me when I'm gone
I'm going away
But I'm feeling fine
Yeah-hoo-yo-oh-hoo-ooh
When it's time to go you better leave past behind
Nnn-hhn-ah-he-he-he-arg-hnn
You've got to start another circle, got to leave your past behind
Hmm gotta leave it behind
Well, leave it behind
Hmm-mmm-ooh-ooh-hoo
Oh do do do do do do do ETC
Oh you gotta leave your past behind
Yoo-hoo-hoo
yoo-ooh-hoo hoo ooh ooh ooh ooh
Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh ooh
Wo-ho-ah-mm hmm mmm

​Thank you [Spoken]

bishop of norway

I was in Norway three years ago and I got off the airplane and someone told me there were reporters that wanted to talk to me. So I went into this small room and they said, Larry Norman, what do you think about what the bishop have said?

The Vatican said something? No, the bishop a Norvay. He is the leader of the church. And what do you think about what have said?

What did he say?

Well the bishop have said that rock music and heavy metal is wery bad. And what do you think?

I think the bishop is right. Heavy metal music is bad. But it could be better if they would practice

​[Spoken]

rumors #1

Any new rumors?

You know what internet is? Yeah I found out I'm on interdret, internet. Uh and em some people are saying I never had a heart attack. And some people are saying I never was in the airplane accident. I wish they'd say some other things, like, like I never recorded some of those albums

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coy boy

Well you haven't given me much help on know wh', knowing what to sing for you tonight

[Audience member shouts out 'Moses']

Yeah I know, I know lady

Outlaw, outlaw
Outlaw, outlaw, outlaw [In Irish accent]

I remember the first time I came here I, and one of the first people I met was a guy named Miles McKee, an' he told me he wanted to come to America and be a coy boy

And I thought he meant something else. Coy indeed

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sweet song of salvation

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When you know a pretty story
You don't let it go unsaid
You tell it to your children
As you tuck them into bed
And if you know a wonderful secret
You tell it to your friends
Tell them that a lifetime filled with Jesus
Is like a street that never ends
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Sing that sweet sweet song of salvation
And let your laughter fill the air
Sing that sweet sweet song of salvation
And tell the people everywhere
You got to sing that sweet sweet song of salvation
To every man and every nation
Sing that sweet sweet song of salvation
And let the people know that Jesus cares
Ba-bam
Bam-ba-bam

Na na na na na na na na
​Na na na na na na na na na
​Na na na na na na na na
Ah na na na na na na na yeah yeah
Yow yeah
Mm-nn-ah-mm-ah-uh-uh

They never used to sing that part there [Spoken]

Take a look around you as you sing it
There are people everywhere
And to those who stop to listen
Your sweet song becomes their prayer
So if you know a wonderful secret
You tell it to your friends
Tell them that a lifetime filled with you know who
Is like a street that never ends

Alright it's your turn

Yeah-eh ah
Yeah let your laughter fill the air
Sing that sweet sweet (song of salvation)
And tell the people everywhere
You got to sing that sweet sweet (song of salvation)
To every man and every nation
Sing that sweet sweet song of salvation
And let the people know that Jesus cares
Ba-bam
Bam-ba-bam

Na na na na na na na na
​Na na na na na na na na na

Your turn [Spoken]
​Na na na na (na na na na)
(Na na na na na na na na na)

Ah-ha
Some of you didn't go up to the high part huh [Spoken]

Take a look around you as you sing it
There are people everywhere
And to those who stop to listen to you talking to them
Your sweet song might become their prayer
So if you know this wonderful secret
Tell it to your friends
Tell them that a lifetime filled with Jesus
Is like a street that never ends
Oh-oh-ah-ah-wow-ah

You sing that sweet sweet song of salvation
And let your laughter fill the air
Sing that sweet sweet song (of salvation)
Tell the people everywhere
You got to sing that sweet sweet song of salvation, woo-ooh
To every man and every nation
Sing that sweet sweet song of salvation
And let the people know that Jesus cares
Sing that sweet sweet song of salvation
And let the people know that Jesus cares
You got to let the people know that Jesus cares
You know he does, he died for us
To set us free from our s', set us free from our sin
Yeah all we gotta do is open up and let him in
You can come to this new auditorium
And sit in those chairs or go out into the streets of Belfast
And let the people know that Jesus really cares ah
Everywhere you go, let 'em know
In the rain and snow
Tell 'em Jesus loves 'em
You've got to let the people know that Jesus cares
You got to let the

I always feel like Van Morrison when I come into Belfast an' [Spoken]

[Gibberish]
Let the people know
Yeah
Here we go
Yeah everywhere
That's right baby agh
Hmm bi-ji-ji-mam-na [mimicking Van Morrison]

And let the people know that Jesus cares
You got to let the people know Jesus cares
Everywhere you go
Just let the people know that Jesus cares

Wa-ah wo-oh woh wo wo woh woh

Go ahead, you can do it too [Spoken]

Ooh

i am a servant

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I just don't think I should sing this loudly, so I'm gonna back off [Spoken]

I am a servant, I am listening for my name
I sit here waiting, I keep looking at this game
That I keep playing, I keep staying much the same
When you are lonely, you're the only one to blame

I am a servant, I am listening for your call
I've been unfaithful, so I sit here in this hall
How can you use me when I've never given all
How can you choose me when you know I quickly fall

So you touch my soul, you help me grow
You let me know you love me
I might feel worthless now, but help me make a vow
Humbly bow before thee
Oh please use me, I am lonely

I am a servant, getting ready for my part
There's been a change, a rearrangement in my heart
At last I'm learning, no returning once I start
To live's a privilege, to love is such an art
But I need your help to start
Oh please purify my heart
I am your servant​

​Thanks [Spoken]

​Hi Dan [Spoken]​
Hi Larry [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]

one way

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One way, one way to heaven
Hold your hands up high
One way, free and forgiven
You will be children of the sky

Two roads diverged in the middle of my life
I heard a poet say
And I took the road less traveled by
And that's made the difference every night and every day

So I say one way, one way to heaven
You got to hold up high your hand
Follow, you know that it's free and forgiven
You will be like children of the lamb

In my youth I knew the truth
But I spent many years just sitting and going down the wrong track
Well now that I’m older, I’m bolder
And I think it’s high time we were getting back
I was getting back
You were getting back
And that’s a fact

And I say one way, one way to heaven
You've got to hold up high your hand
Oh-oh one way, free and forgiven
Children of the lamb
I know you will be children of the lamb
Children of the sky

La la la la​

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Disc Two:

God part iii

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I don't believe in Beatles, I don't believe in rock
I don't believe in the cutting edge, that's just journalist talk
I don't believe in the cover story or the gospel charts
You can easily hit number one with a bullet an' totally miss the heart
But I, yes I, I believe in God, I believe in God

I don't believe in politics while the masses stay unfed
Till the leaders change priorities and supply the poor with bread
Don't believe in the people's revolution or the empty words of peace
'Cause you can tear all of the governments down, you still won't find release

I, yes I, I believe in God

I don't believe in Esperanto or the dreams of Babylon
If we all spoke the same language, long ago we would've built the bomb
I don't believe the Aryan is the master race
If they think that Jesus was white they'd be surprised to see his face

I, yes I, I believe in God, I believe in God

Alright take it boys [Spoken]

Sounds good [Spoken]

I don't believe in evolution, I was born to be free
Ain't gonna let no palaeontologist make a monkey out of me
I don't believe the devil's lies, ain't gonna be his slave
When I'm finished dying I'm a gonna bust out of my grave

'Cause I, yes I, I believe in God, I believe in God

euro / ec / maggie

[Sighs]
​
So the EC is finally uh, getting together huh? I mean it's been what, how many years they've been trying to do? I mean it sounds like a good idea. You don't know, I mean it's an idea that men have, men often have real bad ideas. Like, like the war in the Middle East is not a great idea. I wonder why some leaders on both sides think it is. Maybe they're bored, like to play chess with human beings, you know

Um, uh, Thatcher was a interesting lady you know. Everybody in the EC said let's, let's get on with this thing and have this European money, this Euro dollar, and, and she said, no. She's the only one that said no, she kept holding back on it. I don't know what her motivation was. I don't know if she'd read the book of Revelation or, or the queen called her up and said Maggie, I'd like to remain on the money a little longer

It sounds like a good idea to have a united Europe and a, you know, one money and then your, your, your, your money won't be devalued when you go on vacation you know and everything will be worth the same and you know and it's. I', if this, this thing they're doing in, in New Zealand, this cashless society where they're trying to just do credit and not, n', no money and if that works I guess they'll export that to other small countries and, you know, all this stuff it sounds good. Like just let's get it together and just be one people, one world, you know. And then we'd probably want, li', just have one leader and, you know, this, somebody'll come along who seems like a real good guy

​[Spoken over guitar]

six sixty six

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In the midst of the war he offered us peace
He came like a lover from out of the east
With the face of an angel and the heart of a beast
His intentions were six sixty six

He walked up to the temple with gold in his hand
And he bought off the priests and propositioned the land
The world was his harlot and laid in the sand
While the band played six sixty six

[Mimics banjo solo]

We served at his table and slept on the floor
But he starved us and beat us, nailed us to the door
Well I'm ready to die, I can't take any more
And I'm sick of his lies and his tricks

You know he told us he loved us, that was a lie
There was blood in his pockets and death in his eye
Well my number is up and I'm ready to die
If the band will play six
If the band will play six sixty
If the band will play six sixty six

peacepollutionrevolution

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​​The word is revolution
No one’s fired a shot
But each side has its battle plans
With detailed counterplot
And the world is closely watching
As we near the battle line
If you’re truly wise
You’ll keep your eyes on Palestine

The water is polluted
And the air is filled with death
Some day it won’t be easy
To stop and catch your breath
It’s all in Revelation
Yes it’s part of the design
If you’re truly wise
You’ll keep your eyes on Palestine

A-la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la
A-la la la la la la la la la

I marched for peace in Washington
Things were getting hot
I gave blood in Chicago
I went anaemic on the spot
I woulda hitch-hiked out to Woodstock
But it’s all such a waste of time
So I’m writing down these songs to you
To sing and pass along to you
If you’re truly wise
You’ll keep your eyes on Palestine

A-la la la la la la la la la la
Revolution
La la la la la la la la na la
Peace and pollution
La la la la la la la la la la
And tribulation
A-la la na na la na la na
And persecution
La la la la la la la la la la
Jesus come quickly
La la la la la la la
The world's getting sickly
La la la la la
La la la la la la la la la

riverdance #1

​So I, I'm just, I'm going to ah eh New York in a couple days, when I finish here an' eh you know. Hey that Riverdance is really popular over there. You know I saw it but I didn't go to the theatre, I saw it, just saw it on TV and, it, it, it seems like those Irish people were in a terrible accident. And they can't move their bodies except for their, their knees down. But eh every once in a while they move their head, to see if they're still in step with the others. That's a strange uh art form [Spoken]

great american novel

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​I was born and raised an orphan
In a land that once was free
In a land that poured its love out on the moon
And I grew up in the shadows
Of your silos filled with grain
But you never helped to fill my empty spoon

And when I was ten you murdered law
With courtroom politics
And you learned to make a lie sound just like truth
But I know you better now
And I don't fall for all your tricks
And you've lost the one advantage of my youth

You kill a black man at midnight
Just for talking to your daughter
Then you make his wife your mistress
And you leave her without water
And the sheet you wear upon your face
Is the sheet your children sleep on
At every meal you say a prayer
You don't believe but still you keep on

And your money says in God we trust
But it's against the law to pray in school
You say we beat the Russians to the moon
And I say you starved your children to do it

You were far across the ocean
The war was not your own
While you were winning theirs
You almost lost the war at home
Did you really think the only way
To bring about real peace
Was to sacrifice your children
To kill all your enemies

Your, your politicians all make speeches
Your news men all take notes
They exaggerate false issues
As they shove them down our throat
Is it really up to them
Whether our nation sink or float
I wonder who would lead us
If none of us would vote

My phone is tapped, my lips are chapped
From whispering through the fence
You know every move I make
Or is that just coincidence
Will you try to make my way of life
A little less like jail
If I promise to make tapes and slides
And send them through the mail

And your money says in God we trust
But it's against the law to pray in school
You say we beat the Russians to the moon
And I say you starved your children to do it

You say all men are equal, all men are brothers
Then why are the rich more equal than others
Don't ask me for the answers, I've only found one
​That a man leaves his darkness when he follows the son​

reader's digest

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This is an old song [Spoken]

​Alice Cooper is a drag queen
Bowie's somewhere in between
Other bands are looking mean
Me, I'm trying to stay clean
I don't like the radio
I hate what the charts pick
Rock and roll may not be dead
But it's really sick

All over the world disc jockeys talk the same
And every town I play is like the town from where I came
Except for this town

Well the Rolling Stones again
The Rolling Stones are millionaires
Flower children pallbearers
Beatles said all you need is love
And then they broke up
I, I'll never break up
Jimi took an overdose
Janis followed so close
The whole music scene and
All the bands are pretty comatose

This time last year, people didn't wanna hear
They looked at Jesus from afar
Now they call him superstar

Dear John, never mind

Well it's a 1973, I wonder who we're gonna see
Who's in power now
I think I'll turn on the TV
The man on the news said
China's gonna beat us
We shot all our dreamers
There's no one left to lead us
We need a solution, some kind of salvation
Let's send some people to the moon
And gather information

They brought back a big bag of rocks
Only cost two hundred forty seven billion
Must be nice rocks

Well you think it's such a sad thing
When you see a fallen king
Martin Luther
Rodney
Don
Prince Charles

Well you think it's such a sad thing
When you see a fallen king
Then you find out they're only princes to begin with
Everybody's got to choose
Whether they'll win or lose
Follow God or sing the blues
Who they're gonna sin with
But what a mess the world is in
I wonder who began it
Don't ask me, I'm only visiting this planet

This world is not my home
And this is not rap

​[Chuckles]

near

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​​When you are lost
When you are sad
You must remember all the love we had

Try not to hurt
Try not to cry
Keep your head up and look into the sky
Oh don't wonder why, for I am near

Please say a prayer
When you think of me
And I'll be there even if you can't see

I love your heart
With all of mine
Yours is the love that I could never find
Because I was so blind, but I am near

I feel so far from where I know that I should be
Oh will I ever find my way
I’ve climbed the mountain and as far as I can see
This is the way that things will stay

Don't be sad
And don't despair
God knows your every thought and he is there

He is your house
He is your place
I feel his love when I recall your face
Or I look into space, for he is near

For he is near
For he is near

i am is

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And I wrote this song but I, I, I can't figure out a melody and eh, it's called I Am Is, and because the bible says that, that I am is. I, he, God is I am. Well it's kinda confusing but he am that he it, he, I am the I, I think he says I am the I am. Is that what he says? I am the I am. Yeah well I don't read Greek or, or Aramaic or, or Latin or anything so eh, well. So I wrote this, this song ca', I guess it's a, it's a poem [Spoken]

Eternity stretches out forever
I swim in the river of time
I lean on God
All that exists is his

Repobrate minds rage in dissonance
Tormented by the light
I wish they knew that
I am is

The galaxies in splendour
Stretch out before my eyes
And Jesus is not dead man
He is ris'

He is way cool when the heat of hell
Incinerates the flesh
Because
I am is

When time and space and matter
Weave the canvas of the world
We're created in his hands babe
That's his bus'

He binds the protons and the neutrons
With electrons and the quarks
Which spell out
I am is

The earth and moon and planets
Wind their way around the sun
Most men lead lives in desperate total mis'

'Cause the prince of darkness
Buffets them with lies and fury foul
Even he knows that
I am is

strong love, strange peace

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​​​​Backstage, I cross the middle ground
Curtain up and house lights down

'Cept not in here [Spoken]

I sing these love songs, I try to pass my heart around
And afterwards some people say they, they thought I tried to put them down
They feel so bad
It does not matter what I say
I hope tomorrow they have a better day

They seem so trapped
They need release
They need your strong love and your strange peace

Reporters question me, is this a new direction for the young
How lamb like their faces
But how snake like their tongues
They quote me perfectly
Then rewrite every word I speak
And go away and say we're all just some kinda Jesus freaks
I feel so good inside
It does not matter what they say
I hope tomorrow they have a better day

We're all trapped
We all need release
We need your strong love and your strange peace
Give us your strong love and your strange peace

riverdance #2

​You know I, I was gonna sing one of the songs you just mentioned but I, and I, I took a drink and I forgot. Oh. But you know how it is. You, you're, you're Irish, you know what it's like to take a drink and then forget. You know, that Riverdance thing I keep thinking of that you know it. I, I think it, the most incredible thing about it, the thing that impressed me the most was that, that Irish people could stand up that long. Sorry [Spoken]

the outlaw

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This is a song about best friend you'll ever have [Spoken]

​Some say he was an outlaw
That he roamed across the land
With a band of unschooled ruffians
And a few young fishermen
No one knew just where he came from
Or exactly what he'd done
But they said it must be something bad
That keeps him on the run

Some say he was a poet
That he'd stand upon the hill
And his words could calm an angry crowd
Or make the waves stand still
And he spoke in many parables
That few could understand
But the people sat for hours
Just to listen to this man

Some say he was a sorcerer
A man of mystery
He could walk upon the water
He could make a blind man see
And he conjured wine at weddings
And did tricks with fish and bread
He spoke of being born again
He raised people from the dead

Some say he was a radical
He spoke of being free
He was followed by the masses
On the shores of Galilee
He spoke out against corruption
And he bowed to no decree
They feared his strength and power
So they nailed him to a tree

Some say he was the son of God
A man above all men
But he came to be a servant
And to set us free from sin
And that's who I believe he is
'Cause that's who I believe
I think we should get ready
When it's time for us to leave

And I think we should get ready
'Cause it's almost time to leave
Oh wo oh oh said he was an outlaw
They said he was an outlaw
They said he was an outlaw
They said he was an outlaw
An' they said he was an outlaw
They said he was an outlaw
They said he was an outlaw

​Thank you, thanks
​Yeah [Spoken]

the pastor said

When I was little, about ten minutes ago, huh. Eh, back in 1956 rock and roll was a very scandalous thing to pastors and politicians and psychologists and parents and. And one day our pastor at this Baptist church stood up and said I believe in rock and roll. And eh people were very shocked. He said I believe in rock and roll, I'll tell you what I believe. I believe my feet are on the rock and my name is on the roll. And they were really. And I thought that was a good idea for a song [Spoken]

my feet are on the rock

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It wasn't a very popular thing to be a christian back in the fifties, which is strange because everybody said they were. But then to talk about Jesus, that wasn't something they were prepared to listen to at school, at work. Anyway, this song's for my pastor [Spoken]

​My feet are on a rock, my name is on a roll
But moving and a grooving it don't satisfy my soul
But when I’m down I go off on my own
And when I feel the need I dance before the throne

The people at my church, my friends down at the school
Sometimes they think I'm crazy, they think that I'm a fool
But I believe someone rolled away that stone
So when I feel the need I dance before the throne

Take it easy, nice and slow
Feel his presence, don’t you know
If he says follow, I will go
I feel like dancing, ‘cause he saved my soul

Goliath had a sword, David had a stone
I have got the Lord and I am not alone
So if you knock me down
Brother I will not fight you back
'Cause God loves all his children
Red, white, yellow, brown and black

Yeah I forgot to tell you that dancing was wrong too. That's what this song is about, it's about dancing. You know in Sunday school they taught us that David danced before the throne, but then in the grown ups eh church service they told us that dancing was wrong. So I thought you just have to make sure nobody's watching you if you do it. And as I got older I realised that baptists felt that eh dancing was like a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. So that's why I wrote this song [Spoken]

My feet are on a rock, my name is on a roll
But moving and a grooving, it will just never satisfy your soul
Well if you're down just go off on your own, yeah
And if you feel the need
Just dance before the throne

forget your hexagram

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Well here's a song for all the, the people who are, eh, ey, gu-un', you know that new age stuff. I'll just sing part of it [Spoken]

Forget your hexagram, you soon feel fine
Stop looking at the stars
You don't live under the sign
Don't mess with gypsies
Don't have your fortune read
Keep your tables on the floor
And don't you listen to the dead

You can't hitchhike your way to heaven
The devil's closed the roads
You live once and you die once with no
Re-incarnate episodes
Hitchhike, you can't hitchhike to heaven
Or get there by just being good
The rules were set down long ago
The love was laid down long ago
The love it came down long ago
When the spikes went in the wood

Woo hoo ooh
Woo hoo hoo
​Woo hoo ooh-ooh ooh

mendel's peas [Unlisted - on end of forget your hexagram]

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​Mendel's peas
Pretty green pearls all in a row
Help me please
This is not the way that I want to grow

How come he always turns the lights down an', an', I start having flashbacks [Spoken]

riverdance #3

Yeah that Riverdance is just ah. Yeah I, you know, I think they, tha'  they eh dance like this because ah, I think I read in the newspaper that the Irish had had their arms decommissioned [Spoken]​

nightmare #49

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​I was playing guitar at 34th and M
A man walked up and said are you him
I said am I who, he said I don’t know
So ineluctably I gave him a scenario

I said jump back, back in time
Back to ‘68, I didn’t have a dime
I was more poor than I’d ever been
And I was living like an orphan
In the city of sin

La da da ba ba da dun da ba-da-boo-da-doo-ETC

Capitol Records, Hollywood and Vine
I was following God, I was feeling fine
I was standing on the corner
Preaching on the streets
An ancient message to a modern beat

My hair was long
I might’a dressed like a bum
But my music made it clear
Where I was coming from
And where I’m going to
When my life is done
I say hey baby, have you seen your brother
Standing in the son

Da da da da da da da ba da da ETC

What am I gonna sing now. Uh I don't know, uh. This key doesn't give me any ideas either [Spoken]

ufo

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​He's an unidentified flying object
You will see him in the air
He's an unidentified flying object
And you will drop your hands and stare

You will be afraid to tell your neighbors
They might think that it's not true
But when they open up the morning papers
They will know they've seen him too

He will come back like he promised
With the price already paid
He will gather up his followers
And take us all away

He's an unidentified flying object
He will sweep down from the sky
He's an unidentified flying object
And some will sleep but will not die

He's an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take you home
He's an unidentified flying object
He will roll away your stone

And if there's life on other planets
I'm sure that he must know
And he's been there once already
And has died to save their souls

He's an unidentified flying object
You will see him in the air
He's an unidentified flying object
And you will drop your hands and stare
He's an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take you home
He's an unidentified flying object
He will roll away your stone

Ooh-ooh-ooh-hoo-ooh
Ooh-ooh-hoo-oohoh

a woman of god

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I need a woman who doesn't take drugs, don't mess with men
Believes the bible and despises sin
Lifts me up instead o' knocking me down
Ah, follows God 'stead of running around
I need a woman who's kind and true
I haven't found her but until I do

I'll be looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart

Wo-oh pa-pu-powb bow bow bow bow bow bow bow paow

I need a woman who knows the measure of what she's worth
Stores up treasure but not on earth
Seeks God's will in all that's done
Keeps her mind on the holy one
I need a woman who's kind and true
I haven't found her but until I do

I'll be looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
Just looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart

The bible says a good wife who can find, she's more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband is glad in her and she does him good, not evil, all her days. She reaches out to the poor, she reaches out to the needy and her children, her children shall rise up and call, call her blessed [Spoken]

Ye-ah that's why I'm looking for a woman like that
A woman with a righteous heart
I'm just looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart

Yeh I'm looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart

You can sing this too if you want [Spoken]

I'm looking for a woman of God

Even if you're a girl you can sing it [Spoken]

A woman with a righteous heart, mmm
I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart

You can sing the higher part, you can sing [Spoken]

I'm looking, I'm looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart

And the higher part is eh [Spoken]

I'm looking for a woman of God

And a haircut [Spoken]

A woman with a righteous heart
I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart

And let's put all those together [Spoken]

Looking for a woman of God
Looking for a woman of God, looking for a woman of God, looking for a woman of God, [gibberish]

Okay, thirteen parts now [Spoken]

Who doesn't easily fall apart

One more time [Spoken]

Wey-ah I'm looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
You know I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart

One more time [Spoken]

Well I'm looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
Bum bum bum bum
I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart

Yeh I'm looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
Owm bum bum
Looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart

​Very nice [Spoken]

if the bombs fall

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​​If the bombs fall, baby I love you
If they end it all, baby I love you
Through it all, I want you to know I love you

Yellow raindrops falling from on high
While a dark black cloud fills up the sky
I don’t want our love to end this way

What about the things we haven’t done
What about the songs we haven’t sung
What’s the matter with this world today

Well if the bombs fall, baby I love you
If they'd end it all, baby I love you
Through it all, I just want you to know I love you

And through the years and all the long hard miles
We'll shed some tears but we will share the smiles
Don't cry, I want you to know
I want you to know I love you

walking backwards

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Walking backwards down the stairs
Trying to get higher
How can I get anywhere
Walking backwards down the stairs

People stop to watch me
Wonder what I'm doing
What direction I'm pursuing
I pretend I'm free but actually I'm

Walking backwards down the stairs
Trying to get higher, higher
How can I get anywhere
Walking backwards down the stairs
Down the stairs
​Down the stairs​

if the bombs fall [reprise, on end of walking backwards]

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​And through the years and all the long hard miles
We'll shed some tears but we will share the smile
Don't cry, I want you to know I love you​

if you'll be my woman

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​I love to make you laugh when no one else can understand
I love to make you laugh 'cause I'm your man
When you're feeling down, you know the times you don't feel good
I like to make you feel the way you should

​And if you'll be my woman
I'll be your man
When you're down and out
Well just reach out your hand
And if you're sad
Y' know I'll understand
'Cause loving you is all I want to do
​Just to be with you my whole life through

marvin, david, walter,lincoln jones

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​I had a little dog and I named him
Marvin David Walter Lincoln Jones [x2]

He was a pedigree terrier
Couldn't been hairier
If he'd been a sheepdog
​A shaggly scraggly sheepdog
One day he won a prize at the county fair
For the littlest dog with the very most hair
​
Pow, bo-bo-bow-pow du du dat dow du du doh

rachael and me

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​Rachael and me walked along the beach
One of us wore a frown

She dug up sand crabs
And threw them far from shore
Ow then she returned them
While I dug up more​

quit kicking my dog

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​Every time I go to town
The boys keep kicking my dog around
Makes no difference if he is a hound
Y' gotta quit kicking my dog around
Wa-ooh
Wa-ooh

I've got a dog with a basketball nose [x3]

Reason I say that is 'cause it's always dribbling all over the place [Spoken]

​Every time I go to town
The boys keep kicking my dog around
Makes no difference if he is a hound
They gotta quit kicking my dog around
Wa-ooh
Wa-ooh

Um mm-mm-mm-mm

My sister has a dog named Elmer
My sister has dog named Elmer
My sister has dog named Elmer
My dog's name is Spot

​Every time I go to town
The boys keep kicking my dog around
Makes no difference if he is a hound
Y' gotta quit kicking my dog around
Wa-ooh
Wa-ooh

This is, these are all songs from my childhood a' [Spoken]

My dog lives in the city with the birds and the bees
He doesn't like city 'cause it doesn't have trees

Got fireplugs [Spoken]

​Well every time I go to town
The boys keep kicking my dog around
Makes no difference if he is a hound
You gotta quit kicking my dog around
Wa-ooh
Wa-ooh ooh

My dog sings it with me sometimes [Spoken]

Um, um, it's been so many years. I never sing this eh, my, my nephew came up and eh, eh to visit and he was singing this song an', an' I said how do you know that song, he says oh I learned it when I was a kid. And I said I wrote that song. I'd never met him until like three years ago you know, and he said no you didn't, it's, it's a children's song they sing when, when you're little. I said no, it's a song your mom told you 'cause she learned it from me, ?? she's my sister
Mm. I think it really messed me up being raised in a black neighbourhood because um, well here's, here's another song [Spoken, over guitar]

it's getting so you can't trust nobody

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​Getting so you can't trust nobody none of the time
The more you trust them the more you'll find
They just grieves you and deceives you 'til you lose your mind
Turn your back a minute
An' you see what you lose
They'll steal the feet right outta your shoes
It's getting so you can't trust nobody none of the time

Oh ow pa pow pa da ow ETC

Well a dark brown lady sang a tale o' woe
I said a tale of woe and it went just so
I loved a man clear to his bones
Was a man name a' Abraham Lincoln Jones
They caught him lying and he broke his vow
And I can't put faith in nobody now

Oh it's getting so you can't trust nobody none of the time
The more you trust them the more you'll find
They just grieves you and deceives you 'til you lose your mind
He took his part and his share
But yeah what is true
Is that he took my rent right along with him too
Well it's getting so you can't trust nobody none of the time​

parson brown

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Now parson Brown one Sunday morn
Was giving good advice
He warned his congregation
To resprain from sin and vice [Larry mispronounces 'refrain']

He told them 'bout the devil
And the fiery place below
He told them about heaven
And tried to help them go

Now hell is full o' vampire women, whiskey, sin and dice
Tell Satan to get behind thee
And prepare thou for paradise

Mose Jackson jumped up from his chair
And said parson is that true
That hell is full of what you said
Then a-let me say to you
If hell is full o' whiskey, women, booze and dice
Mister devil and I gonna put on a show
Never mind 'bout paradise
Walking around on gold streets in a white robe
Doesn't have much attraction to me
Ah let me ask you something, is all that whiskey an', down there for free
If what you say is the positive truth
Oh death where is thy sting

I don't care now 'bout no pearly gates
Or to hear them angels sing
With booze and women down below
Mister devil and I gon' put on a show
​'Cause if what you said parson is the positive truth
Oh death where is thy sting​

I was [Start of the following song]

elvis has left the building

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This is a song I wrote in the hospital. It was Elvis Week, or century. There were so many Elvis buttons on the nurses and I thought people come here from all over the world and they go to his grave and they, they look there and they try to figure out that, something about their own life thinking about his and. The poor man was just a man. And he might have ended his life differently than we think, because we don't really know how a man ends his life in private, at the last moment. So I wrote this song [Spoken]

Lean not on your own understanding
Lay your burdens down
Lean not on the gates of Graceland
That dream’s buried in the ground

Lean not on any person
Stand up straight and strong
And keep your feet upon the path
Discerning right from wrong

They wept when Elvis breathed his last
Down on the floor
Year after year they shed a tear
And love him even more

They lay their flowers at his grave
And suffer at his loss
But those who worship idols
Don’t comprehend the cross

Elvis you’ve left the building
But God's still in the house
I wonder what you said
With your last breath

Your girlfriend says you cried out
God help me, help me God
When comes the resurrection
Will you waken from your death

Elvis I know where you are
You’re sleeping in the ground
Will you rise and stand up
When the son of man comes down

You knew a lot of gospel songs
You sing about the light
I hope you reached out at the end
And this time held on tight

Elvis you’ve left the building
But God's still in the house
I wonder what you said
With your last breath

Your girlfriend says you cried out
God help me, help me God
When comes the resurrection
Will you waken from your death

Yea-eh-hee ye-eh-eh

Some sign up at the 'leventh hour
Some work right from the start
God knows how trapped a man can get
In the darkness of the heart

That’s why he gave us Jesus
To die upon that tree
So those of us entrapped by sin
Might some day be set free

Elvis you’ve left the building
But God’s still in the house
I wonder what you said
With your last breath

Your girlfriend says you cried out
God help me, help me God
When comes the resurrection
Will you waken from your death

Thanks [Spoken]

shot down

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​​I been shot down, talked about
Some people scandalize my name
But here I am, talking 'bout Jesus just the same

I've been knocked down, kicked around
But like a moth drawn to the flame
Well I am, talking 'bout Jesus just the same

Wo oh oh oh

You wanna talk about my life, well listen to me
You got your facts all backwards, one two three
Spreading rumours and gossip is a real bad game
The only name to spread is Jesus name

I've been knocked down, kicked around
But like a moth drawn to the flame
Well I am, talking 'bout Jesus just the same
Wo oh oh oh

Wo oh oh oh
Wo oh oh oh
Yeah yeah a massa coom a fi-ah hum-a-la
Wo oh oh oh

Makosi-am-a-cos-eh [x4]
Jesus, king of kings
Jesus, king of kings

Wo oh oh ho
Wo oh oh oh

Sound like football [Spoken]

​I been shot down, talked about
Some people scandalize my name
Well here I am, talking 'bout Jesus just the same

Wo oh oh oh
Wo oh oh oh
When I was just a little boy
My mother said to me
Wo oh oh oh

i've searched all around

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​​Darkness can't hide much longer
Spirit is getting stronger
You keep the dance halls humming
But the end of the age is coming

I've searched all around the world to find a place of peace
I've sat in the shade of God and watched the joy increase

Maybe you think I'm plastic
But this situation's drastic
I'm glad my faith is stronger
This world won't last much longer
An' maybe you think I'm wrong now
But this is my only song now

Wo oh oh oh
Wo oh oh oh

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Disc Three:

Maeari

What is this M A E A R I? Mary? Marry? M A E A R I Marie? Is that a girls name, Marie? It's the piano's name? Yeah, Okay [Spoken]

any requests #1

Is there something you'd like to hear? [Audience member shouts Unlucky Blues] I'll see if I can remember that. Moses [mumbles] Moses [Spoken]

[Audience shouting]

shake it up baby

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​Well shake it up baby now
Shake it up baby
Twist and shout
Twist and shout
You know you twist a little closer now
Come on and work it on out (Work it on out)
You know you twist so good (Twist so good)
You know you twist so fine (Twist so fine)
You better be careful baby
You're gonna hurt your spine
Aah
​Uh uh uh uh uh uh

unlucky blues

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Okay, if I can remember Unlucky Blues and if I can't you better help me [Spoken]

​Well I was born about eighteen years ago

I wrote this a long time ago [Spoken]

Well I was born about eighteen years ago in a little wooden corrugated roofed shack
I was born about eighteen years ago on the wrong side of the tracks
I never knew my father, I never

Don't, don't clap for this song, I'll never remember it [Spoken]

I never had a home
I don't know where I came from and I don't know where I'm going
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulder to my shoes
And I guess I'm stuck with my unlucky blue

Ah h-hmm h-hmm hmm-ow

When I was just a young boy I was raised on beans and trout

That's a fish [Spoken]

On my seventh birthday, well my mama she kicked me out
She said I'm good for nothing, no one treats me kind
I don't care, pretty soon I'm gonna leave this world behind
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
And I guess I'm stuck with my unlucky blues

I jumped into the river to try to put myself away
A man jumped in and saved me and he spoiled a perfect day
He dragged me to the river's edge, he said he knew I had a need
An' he pulled out a soggy bible and that man began to read
He told me things I did not know, I'm glad I did not die
'Cause he told me God's my father and my real home is in the sky

And I said

Woo-ooh hoo hoo hoo hoo

I was very excited but I couldn't think of anything to say [Spoken]

Woohoohoo  ETC

He said I'd done a very very foolish thing to try to drown myself and die
And I told him I was glad he happened to be passing by
He said God would forgive me if I repented of my sins
Then he said I must be baptised and he threw me in again

I was born to be unlucky, I knew it, from my shoulders to my soaking shoes
I said I must be stuck with these unlucky blues

Ah ah eh

But my life has changed in many many ways, I'm such a different man
I know now who my father is and I know just where I stand
With one foot up in heaven, one foot on the ground
I travel through this world of ours, I try to spread God's love around
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
And I came unstuck from my unlucky blues
Ah ah wo oh wo oh oh-oh and you can too
Yes you can, all you gotta do is like you know
Get up one morning and you don't feel so good
And you get up kinda say I got the blues
And you down the, try to jump in the river
And eh, somebody come and get you and you'll be saved too

watch what you're doing

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[Feedback] Alright. Th', this hall's way cooler than the other one [Spoken]

Wey-ah wo wo ah ah woh ETC

Mmm-nn-oh-ye-ah
Mama killed a chicken, she thought it was a duck
She put it on the table with its legs sticking up
Papa broke his glasses when he fell down drunk
Tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk

You gotta watch what you're doing
Don't you know
Y' gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah

I knew a girl, she was sweet as could be
But she fell for this man like a chain sawed tree
She listened to his lies, she was fooled by his charms
Now she's sitting with a baby in her arms

Well you gotta watch what you're doing
You know that
Yeah, that's right, you gotta
You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah-ah-oh-ah-wo
You gotta watch what you're doing
Wo-oh-oh-ah-ah-um

Everything's fine till things get bad
Then you sit around talking 'bout all the good times you've had
Well it ain't no good to lead a life of sin
If you don't shape up an' walk straight, you know you can't get in
You gotta watch what you're doing
'Cause he does
Yeah he, he does, he watches what we're doing and just
An', an' he loves us
And still he watches
And yet he loves us
Mmm

Well some people, some people smile and they seem alright
Later you they find out it's more like they got demons in the night

You know what I'm talking about? Maybe, may, I dunno, maybe, maybe they're only in California but it's just like people who think everything's really good you know, their, their life is great, and just maybe walking down the street you know hey what's happening dude? What? God? Yeah, course I believe in God. Sin? Yeah, I've heard of it. I even know somebody who does it [Spoken]

Well some people smile and they seem alright
And then later they find out it's more like they got demons in the night
You should try to love everybody but don't be blind
'Cause, 'cause some kind of people try to mess up your mind
Watch what you're doing
Yeah watch out who you hang around with you know
Watch out who your friends are
Watch out who you fall in love with
Watch out who you marry
That's right, yeah, you know what I'm talking about
I know what I'm talking about

Some people say that God is dead
That he does not exist except inside your head
Well I wonder how many are gonna be surprised
When they look straight up and see him coming through the sky

You gotta watch what you're doing
You gotta know where you're going
Do you know where you're going
Do you know where you're going
You gotta watch what you're doing, wo-oh
Wo oh oh ah ahm
Wo-oh ah

There's somebody after you
You may not believe it but it's true
He's called the devil and he wants to lock you up in a, in a zoo
He's got a nice little cage picked out just for you
And you, yeah me too
And he thinks it'll fit real nice too
So you gotta watch what you're doing
Know where you're going
You fall down, get back up again
Keep on going
You gotta watch what you're doing
Gotta know where you're going
You gotta wa', y' gotta wa', y' gotta wa', gotta wa-ha-atch what you're doing
Oh oh ah oh ah ETC
You gotta watch what you're doing

​I got this recording contr [Spoken - This is the start of the Haight Ashbury dialogue, but the track split is botched]​

haight ashbury

[Note: The first few words are on the end of Watch What You're Doing, due to a botched track split]

​[I got this recording contr]act from EMI when I was about eighteen an' I didn't know what to write about 'cause it was just so hard to communicate with kids my own age. So I thought well I'll just write about their experience and, instead of writing about what I know, because what do I know, I, you know, what I could write a blues song about how

I was a kid and then God revealed that I
Even though I didn't know what I'd done wrong
I was a sinner and I felt guilty and I knew that I was
A sinner even though I couldn't remember what I'd done
But I, I knew I was bad because, because eh
'Cause kids know that an'
And so then I became a christian when I was five
And eh, and then, and then, then I didn't have the blues anymore an' [Slightly sing-songy]

You know. So I, I just didn't know what to write about in, in the, in those days, so I wrote songs like this

[Spoken]

baby out of wedlock

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​​​​I had a baby out of wedlock
Her old man got me in a headlock
I was an unwed father
But don't bother feeling sorry for me

I took a lot of LSD
I smoked a lotta mar-ja-weenie
But it did not help me
It did not set me free

But Jesus, why'd you go and do it
Why’d you help someone like me
You saved me, you forgave me
And I swear you set me free
You took away my problems
One by one
I guess you knew what you were doing
When you sent your son

You know the way that I was living
It was like taking without giving
And I hurt a lot of people
And I lost my friends

I spent a little time in prison
But I know the Lord is risen
And I'll never need
To be locked up again

Wo Jesus, why'd you go and do it
Why’d you help someone like me
You saved me, you forgave me
And I know you set me free
You took away my problems
One by one
I guess you knew what you was doing
When you sent your son

I guess you knew what you were doing
When you sent your son
Took away my shame
I guess you knew what you were doing
When you sent your son
Now things have changed, they're not the same

I never thought about tomorrow
'Til my life was filled with sorrow
I was walking down a road not knowing
What was ahead

Well a man can spend his days
Living out his evil ways
Or he can try to find the truth
Before he's dead

Wo Jesus, why'd you go and do it
Why’d you save someone like me
You saved me, you forgave me
And I swear you set me free
You took away my problems
One by one
I guess you knew what you were doing
When you sent your son

​Ah okay ah [Spoken]

And I also wrote another one that's even worse [Spoken]

no more l.s.d.

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​No more LSD for me, I met the man from Galilee
He fixed my head, he fed me bread
Untangled all my thread

He's everywhere you go
He knows everything you know
They stole his duds and shed his blood
But he rose up from the mud

Take a chance with Jesus, do yourself a favour
Let him change your life, let him be your saviour
Take a chance with Jesus, wo oh-oh wo oh
God don't shove but the true love comes from above
​Oh yeah

Sing a song that'll set you free
Sing a song of calvary
And you'll be happy like I am
If you are washed in the blood of the lamb

a note from mr god

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​I was so down
Just hanging around
Wondering what to do
Suddenly I was surprised from out of the blue

The birds sang their song as I walked along
I suddenly felt quite odd
‘Cause out of the sky fell a note from Mr God

And it said
You got the blues but you can shake it
If you have faith you can make it
You got a chance
You must take it while you can

Don't give up hope, never lose it
You got a choice but you must choose it
That's what it said on this note from Mr God

Well this man had been eh walking down the street and eh, he'd had a little bit too much to drink, for about twenty years. And he saw a piece of paper on the ground and he picked it up and he read it and he thought mmm, this is all about me. Who could possibly know about me except for God. So he thought it was a note from God. And it wasn't. Just a tract someone had dropped out of their bible on the way to church. But he thought it was a note from God. And it wasn't. But he thought it was. And it wasn't. But he thought it was. And you know how it is if you read something and you feel that it's the truth, you wanna share it with people, which is what he did. He went off to his friends and he said look here what I found here, this note from God and it's about my life but eh knowing you as I do it seems like it's about your life too. And this is what it says and you listen to me brothers [Spoken, over continued music]

You got the blues but you can shake it
Ah ha
You got a chance but you can take it you know
Eh are you listening to what I'm saying 'cause this is eh, this sounds like the truth

Don't give up hope, never lose it
You got a choice but you gots to choose it
Ah-ah
That's what it says on this note from Mr God

So if you feel down
With your chin on the ground
And suddenly you feel odd
Then just look all around, look down on the ground, you might see a piece of paper could be a note from Mr

I was so much younger when I wrote these songs [Spoken]

God

Thank you, thanks [Spoken]
[Chuckles]

​Thanks [Spoken]​

weight of the world

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These things, these ideas keep visiting our families. The sins of the fathers are visited even to the third and the fourth generations. You can have alcoholism in a family, can have depression, you can have high principles or pressure expectations of perfectionist standards. Just be patient with your parents and pray that they'll be patient with you [Spoken]

​​​Maybe your father couldn’t love you like he should
Maybe your mother, she just tries the best she could
Everyone has a secret
You can give it away or keep it
But you should try to let it go

Don't carry the weight, the weight of the world
It’s breaking you down, on your back like a boulder
Before it’s too late, get rid of it now
Get it off of your shoulder
You've been abused
But you can lose the weight of the world
The weight of the world

It all comes down to who you crucify
You either kiss the future or the past goodbye
But God can help you fly
If you'll only try

Don't carry the weight
The weight of the world
It’s breaking you down, on your back like a boulder
Before it’s too late, get rid of it now
Get it off of your shoulder
We've all been used
But we can lose the weight of the world
The weight of the world
The weight of the world
The weight of the wo-hu-hu-hu-orld

let the rain fall down

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​As through this life you ramble and through this world you roam
You might live in a lot of houses an' never find a home
As down the road you wander, or through open fields you cross
You must never stop believing, for all is not lost
And don't you worry 'bout the unfaithful lover or false friend
For the love that you have tried to give, that's what matters in the end

​Heavenly father
Thou who all doth see
You let the rain fall on the good and the bad
So let the rain fall down on me

I didn't know you were my father
I thought you were the hanging judge
And when we came into your courtroom
I thought you'd hold a grudge
I thought I was a lowly servant
I didn't know I was a son
And I didn't know you had forgiveness and love
For everything we might have done

This world is crumbling, your kingdom is at hand
Give me the strength to live a little longer, help me to stand
There's gonna be a collision, this world is going fast
A mortgaged future meets a bankrupt past
Change is coming but people are sleeping in their beds
Storm clouds are bringing rain and the moon will turn blood red

​Heavenly father
Thou who all doth see
You let the rain fall on the good and the bad
So let the rain fall on me

Dearest father
Help me thine to be
You let the rain fall on the quick and the dead
So let the rain fall down on me
Let it fall
Let the rain fall down on me

all the way home

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​An' let this good life be the life we lead
Let our faith grow like a mustard seed
And let your love be all the love we need
To carry us all the way home

I've had my share of troubles as I've tried to walk this path
Sometimes it's been so bad I've had to laugh
I spent so many years in sorrow, much of my life in pain
But that's just the way it's been, we get the sunshine with the rain

But let this good life
Be the life I lead
Let my faith grow
Like a mustard seed
Let your love be
All the love I need
To carry me all the way home

Hoping to learn, every wrong turn is a step t'ward the past
Going astray, losing my way, but I found it at last

Let this good life
Be the life that we lead
Let our faith grow and grow
Like a mustard seed
And let your love be all the love we really need
And carry us all the way home
And carry us all the way home
And carry us all the way home

And let us be all that we could be. And help us learn to feel, love, some day feel free. Everything we have let us learn to give it to you. Share it with one another, love one another, choose wisely in all that we do [Spoken]​

if i were a singer

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If I were a singer I could sing some songs for you
My pen could write down all the truth you're made of
And the only songs that I would choose to sing would be about your love
Oh oh ho
Oh oh oh

If I were a forest, if I only had one tree
I could still stand above the land and stretch toward heaven
Reach out my limbs to all the children of your kingdom
Be like a marker, a sign, welcome them up on top of this mountain
And let them satisfy their thirst from these running fountains
Oh oh ho
Oh oh ho

These are troubled days
And I want to live my life in some special way
These are troubled days
I'd like to give my life to love and show your way

Well if I were the blue sky my winds could blow for you
Or I could rage with hurricanes to make men cower
Make them afraid and watch me 'til that unexpected hour
When you come again from heaven's hidden tower
Wo oh ho

These are troubled, troubled days
And I want to live my life in some joyful way
These are troubled days
I'd like to live my life for love and show your way

Well if I were a singer I could sing my songs for you
My pen could write down all the truth I can see you're made of
The only songs that I would choose would be about your love
I would sing it 'til the faithless ones believed it
The children of your wayward church received it
I could sing it to the governments and leaders
And to the writers who have misled all the readers
I could sing it though they jailed me and they killed me
They could empty me of life but you have filled me
​You have filled me​​

bombs

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​​If the bombs fall, oh yes
If they end it all, ah ha-ah-ah-ah
Through it all, I still believe in you

Acid rain is falling from on high
While a mushroom cloud fills up the sky
I don’t want it all to end this way

What about the songs we haven’t sung
What about the things we haven’t done
What’s the matter with this world today

When the bombs fall, oh yeah
When they end it all, oh yeah
When the bombs fall, I'll still believe in you

You have made the world a place to live
You have filled the heart with love to give
Why do people turn their face away

Can't they hear the children in the street
Don't they see the homeless at their feet
If you ask them why, what would they say

​​If the bombs fall
When they end it all
If the bombs fall, I'll still believe in you

And through the years and all the long hard nights
You are still here to help us see the light
No matter what will come, we'll still believe in you

In you

diamonds

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​​You can take your diamonds and lock them in your room
And you will lose everything you save
You can take your flowers and lay them at his tomb
But I know he rose up from the grave

I'd like to invite the band to come up [Spoken]

Wo oh oh ho
Ho oh oh
Oh ho oh oh oh

and we sing the tune

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I was alone and without love
Hope was fading fast
Slipping right on past
Then by some grand design

I'm sure that they like songs about love, they just have to go right now [Spoken]

She came along and heard my song
And sang the harmony
She was right on key
And she was right on time

And I am hers, she is mine
We sing together now
She knows the words somehow
And I love her true
And we sing the tune

Love [Clears throat]
Love is a song from heaven
She is the love that I've been given
I was alone, I, I was unsure
She reached out to me
And she helped me see
That I still had a chance
I still had a chance

And I am hers, she is mine
Wo oh oh oh oh
We sing together now
And she knows the words somehow
An' I love her true
And we sing the tune

La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la

the tune

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​Once there was a tune
And everyone knew how it went
But as time went by
People began to forget
Until at last no one could remember
And there was sadness and hatred and wars and death

One day somebody said how does the tune go
Well, there is no tune, there never was, it’s only a myth
These were the philosophers
You mean there's no tune at all
Well it doesn't really matter what tune you play
As long as you play something
And you don't hurt anybody
These were the religious leaders
And so the world continued
And there were wars, death

And one day the world wearied all of this hatred and wars and
One day on the side of a hill a man appeared
With a smile on his face and kind of a sad look too
And some of the people heard this tune he was singing
And began to sing along

La la la la la…

And he looked at them and smiled
And someone said this sounds like the tune
Shut up, there is no tune, there never was, there never will be a tune
It's only a myth
Well it doesn't really matter what you play
As long as you play something
And don't hurt anybody, especially me

And he looked at them and
The people that loved him
Decided to follow him
And they did

La la la la la...

And the people that hated him
Decided to kill him
And they did
And when it was finished
They took his body down from the cross and laid it in a grave
And these philosophers and religious leaders went back to their houses
To eat and to drink

And they were interrupted
They heard someone singing the tune
And they, they didn't know who it could be
It was him
And had they been standing on the side of a mountain
Forty days later
They would have seen something very unusual
How did he do that
I don't really know, but when trouble goes you don't ask where
And he's gone, I mean I can't see him
And he, ah, he'll never be back ever again

And they went back to their houses of philosophy and religion
To finish their meals
Which were probably lukewarm by now
And they were interrupted
And they couldn't imagine who this could be
And they ran outside into the streets to lay hold of him
But they couldn't find him anywhere
Just a lot of people walking around kinda smiling
And they all knew the tune

La la la la la…

And they noticed something about these people
When they made a mistake they didn't just keep on singing until they'd completely forgotten
They stopped, and they listened

Da da da da
Da da da…

That's how they knew how the tune went
Because they listened
And if you're listening
Well all around you there's a tune
All you have to do is listen to it
Just listen to the radio
Watch television
Read Cosmopolitan
You'll hear it
Everywhere
There's a tune alright
But if you really listen quietly
You can hear another tune
But you have to listen quietly
And you have to listen every day

La da da da da da da
La da la da da da da

[Chuckles]
​Thanks. Thank you, thanks [Spoken]

sins

I used to be confused when, when I was first going to church because like I told you before th', downstairs in the little children's church they told us that David danced before the throne but upstairs they told us y', you shouldn't dance. And eh, and also they said you shouldn't drink, but downstairs in the little children's church they taught us that Jesus changed the water into wine. So I thought maybe he changed it back into water before it hit their stomachs. And upstairs they said it was a sin to you know, smoke and, and eh, and dance and it was a sin to go to the movies. And I, I thought that's why they called it cinema, so you would know [Spoken]

under his love

[This and the following three tracks are part of a sort of end times medley. Note also that the first second or two of this song is on the end of the 'Sins' dialogue]

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Under his love I'm convicted but forgiven
Under his love I've somehow passed the test
Although my life gets busy then I start missing him
Somehow I, under his love I've passed the test
Under his love, under his love I've passed the test

without him [includes parts of under his love, UFO and Six sixty six]

[Go to Song Page] Without You
​[Go to Song Page] Under His Love
[Go to Song Page] UFO
[Go to Song Page] Six Sixty Six

Without him I'm a tree without roots
I'm the lonely star of David in Beirut
I can't make it through without him
And I just don't know what to do
Without him I'll never know what's true
I'd be all alone and lost without you

Under your love I'm convicted but forgiven
He's an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take us home
Under your love I'm convicted but forgiven
In the midst of the war

i wish we'd all been ready [includes part of under his love]

[Go to Song Page] I Wish We'd All Been Ready
​[Go to Song Page] Under His Love

Life was filled with guns and war
And everyone got trampled on the floor
I wish we'd all been ready

Children died, the days grew cold
A piece of bread could buy a bag of gold
I wish we'd all been ready

There's no time to change your mind
The son has come and you've been left behind

Under his love I'm convicted but forgiven
Under his love I've somehow passed the test

messiah [includes parts of i wish we'd all been ready, UFO and eve of destruction]

[Go to Song Page] Messiah
[Go to Song Page] I Wish We'd All Been Ready
[Go to Song Page] UFO
[Go to Song Page] Eve Of Destruction

​Messiah took this world by force
Messiah took this world by force
I could see people dying
I could hear children crying
I could see the cities falling
I could hear the angels calling

Messiah, Messiah, Messiah took this world by force
He took this world by force

​Man and wife asleep in bed
An' she hears a noise and turns her head
He's gone
I wish we'd all been ready

Two men walking up a hill
One disappears, one's left standing still
I wish we'd all been ready

There's no time to change your mind
The son has come and you've been left behind

Messiah took this world by force
Messiah took this world by force
Rivers of blood were running
I could see the armies coming
I could see their weapons falling
Then I could hear the saviour calling

And Messiah, Messiah, Messiah, he took this world by force
Messiah, Messiah, Messiah, he took this world by force
Messiah, Messiah, he took this world by force
He will take this world by force
He will take this world by force

Life is filled with bombs and guns
Heaven help the little ones who die
I hope you'll all be ready

People, gold, oil, guns, bombs, AIDS, Iraq, Iran, Armageddon
I hope we'll all be ready

'Cause there won't be time to change our minds
And no excuse for being blind
The clouds will open up and Jesus will come down
Those who believe in him will go home to be with him
And those who don't believe will be left behind

Don't get left behind

Messiah, Messiah, don't get left behind
Messiah, Messiah, but don't get left behind
He's an unidentified fly, coming back to take us
Don't get left behind
Open up your mind and don't get left behind
He will take this world by
Tell me over and over and over and over again my friend
That you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

at the circus

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When I was a little boy
One thing filled my heart with joy
That's when we would go and see
All of the things at the circus

Lions, elephants and bears
Made me throw away my cares
Funny clowns with painted frowns
All of the things at the circus

Daring men and pretty ladies
Acrobats and things
​Inside a box of crackerjacks
I found a diamond ring

Afterward, the long way home
In my thoughts, so all alone
I would dream of things I'd seen
All of the things at the circus
All of the things at the circus
All of the things at the circus

rumors #2

I've never sung this song before. I've just been going through it today, trying to learn it. I wrote it for you guys and I appreciate all the love you guys have always shown to me, whereas in some countries there's a lot of rumours about me, negative things you know like I'm taking drugs and sleeping around and eh, turned away from God and you know. And I, I've asked around and I, I found out it's not true. But I appreciate all the love you've always shown me. I, I once was supposed to do a concert here and I was in the hospital having a heart attack. And eh you guys all showed up at the concert hall not knowing that I wasn't going to be able to be there. I was in a hospital in Holland. And em I was shocked to find out a few days later that they'd taken an offering and that you guys gave me more money than I'd ever asked for for doing a concert. It blew my mind. I, I, but I, I, I haven't tried to get sick, ah just to take advantage of you ay. Eh-ah. So I wrote this song called The Troubles [Spoken]

the troubles

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Mmm hmm
​You gotta go through changes
If you want to grow
You've got to learn some lessons
You don't want to know
You're gonna end up places
Where you've never been
You'll be a stronger person
When you get back again

There's a slow procession
On a lonely road
People start to cry
They've come to say goodbye
And their friends help carry the load
But if you open your arms
And take it all in
You'll be a stronger person
When you get back again

You can run for the shelter
And hide in the shadows
When the sky starts falling on you
Or you can open your heart
To the pain and the sorrow
'Til the storm is finally through​

It takes a lot of courage
To live this life
When the troubles come calling
And the tears start falling
It just cuts you like a knife
You gotta stand your ground
When your world caves in
You'll be a stronger person
When you get back again

God bless you [Spoken]

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Disc Four:

SOUND CHECK

Unh, oh [Very quietly]

I think one of these microphones is a little louder than the other one. I, I think it's this  one, this is louder right? Oh, can you turn this one down little, little bit so they're both even? 'Cause my guitar compared to my voice you know it's like folk music

Yeah and now I'd like to invite the rest of The Dubliners on stage

Uh did you turn it down? Or, hello hello hello hello hell, yeah that's just fine. You could turn this one up a little bit since this one's still louder. Yeah that's better. [Feedback] Ah geese migrating

​[Spoken]

ANY REQUESTS #2 / MOSES RAP

[Go to Song Page]

​Is there something you'd like to hear? [Audience shout out song titles] Okay well I'm not really into like getting on the new fads and stuff but so, I don't really wanna sing this with, I get th' [Spoken]

​A-Moses tending sheep in the fields one day
Well he thought he heard a burning scrub-brush say
You know you got to free your people
From the Pharaoh's hand
You got to take them all to the promised land
Ah [Makes beatbox noises]

​[Sighs]

PARDON ME

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Huh

​​Pardon me
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance

Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance

[Imitates instrumental solo]

Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love if love's not really there

Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
While your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbon from your hair

Pardon me [x3]

LEIDA, HARJO

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​Leida, Harjo
Open up your heart and let the wind blow
​Leida, Harjo
Open up your eyes and let your love grow
You know
You must go slow​

Ah ah you must let it go
Pa pa pa pa pa pum
​Ah ah you must hmm hmm hmm
Na na na na

IRISH LOVE AFFAIR

Every time I come to Belfast I get in this weird mood a', and I feel so intimidated by you, because Irish people can sing better than anybody in the world. And I start hearing myself and going oh this is bad, put more, put more life into it. Do something with your voice. Like go home and study, you know opera, you know. Th' eh Irish people, I mean they're, you guys probably don't even know it. It's like I go to Norway and I'm, and I'm saying gee the fjords here are so beautiful. This, the', these deep, you know crevices and filled with wa', and people go yeah, yeah, yeah, it's okay. What is Hollywood like? I say it's like nine million people in a, in a cereal box, you know

And no, you, you guys probably are the same way about your vo', you probably don't think you can sing. You guys have such good voices in this country. There's so many lyrical, poetic, uh [sighs]. I shouldn't have bought all those Irish records, that's, that's what has done it to me. So when I come here, I start thinking about stuff. I, I've had this romantic and frightening relationship with Belfast 'cause I came over the first time to Europe and uh, ohw did England. You know, that was boring

And then I came here to Ireland and I di', all I knew that Ireland was, was green, that's all I knew. And I didn't know it was so much fun, 'cause the, the first night when I was gonna do the concert, we started the concert and then somebody came up and told me we have to leave, there is a bomb threat, as. All right. Ha ha, ha

So we all went outside and, and, uh, and talked to each other. I got to, I talked to people. A lot of times people don't talk to me because I guess they think I won't talk back t', with them. And cour', you know I'll talk back to you if you, if you say something. So I really had a lot of fun. I got to know Irish people were uh, real personable, real personal, and, uh, like, I'm not knocking the English, but I mean, everybody else does, why shouldn't I? Yeah. It's just tha', they're so restrained, you know, they're so uptight and, and they're so cool you know. And, and look, look, I'm from L.A. you know I dress like you guys dress just. You know I wanna be real, I don't wanna be cool. I'd like to be cool right now, but

Um, we uh were gonna come here with a band one time, I think this is in 80, 81, and we were told by the people in England don't go there because there's been a man in, in the prison who's been starving himself to death. And, and eh he just died. And so don't go there because you'll have a lot of problems with uh bombs and things. And I had never had any problem coming Ireland, I've never felt anything but love. I've had people come up to me after the concert when I'm out on the sidewalk who were drunk and, and they didn't offer to beat me up or anything you know. Irish guys get drunk and then they want to give you a kiss and you know, they wanna buy you a drink and be your best friend

​[Spoken]

VAN THE MAN

I played with Van Morrison in 66 and he used to come out with his band Them and uh I did ah like uh two weeks with him a', and um, every night he sang to the audience like this. And he wore his sunglasses so he couldn't see 'em out of the corner of his eye. And then I sang again with him in, in 1981 and, and he, he looked kind of toward 'em, he just stood a little bit like this. And then whenever the band would like do an instrumental he'd walk over to the piano and he'd just look at the top of the piano. He did that like song after song, go stand at the piano and just look at the top of the grand piano. An' I thought what is he doing over there, is he studying the, the wood, the grain or you know? And then one time he went over af', in the middle of a song and he goes, turned the page of a newspaper

And I realised right then, I'm a singer, that guy's an artist

[Spoken]

GOD CAN RESTORE US

This is a song about loss. Some of us have lost a lot. Some of us haven't lost our greatest treasures yet. But. [Audience member says something] That's not true sir. God can restore us to many things. But only God can do it. And some things we've lost we never had. I've just been thinking about this the last couple of weeks. Some of the things we've lost are dreams that never came true. We never possessed them. They possessed us and we held out hope. But we give up hope as the years go by because we think it'll never happen. But it can. God can bring to us what we always wanted. So don't give up hope about anything. Love one another, be kind, confess your sins one to another and be tender hearted and forgive each other. This is the kingdom of heaven, that we love one another, that we help one another. Don't let someone go. [Starts playing guitar] Hold onto everyone you can with love [Spoken]

I HOPE I'LL SEE YOU IN HEAVEN

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​When you first begin your journey
You're not sure of who you are
And the lessons that you're learning
They don't seem to take you far
And you just can't keep from stumbling
Though you try so hard to stand
Well the truth can be so humbling
When it's just beyond your hand

As though youth were my invention
As though love lay undefined
To stay young was my intention
To stay free and unconfined
And so I held my pride above you
Oh yes, what a fool was I
Holding back those words I love you
And letting out that word goodbye

Well I was wrong to let you go
I was a child and I did not know about the love
That we both could have given
And now you're gone so far away
I hope I'll see you again someday
But if I don't, I hope I'll see you in heaven

I was foolish in my younger days
To think they'd never end
Life confused me with its changing ways
And I could not comprehend
All the meaning in those moments
Now lost like footprints in the sand
And I'm sitting here remembering
But it's so hard to understand

I was wrong to let you go
I was a child, how could I know about the love
That we both could have given
And now you’re gone so far away
I hope I'll see you again someday
But if I don't, I hope I'll see you in heaven
Aah ah ah ah
Aah ah ah-ah-ah
Ah ah ah ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ah la la

I've been sitting in this garden
In the middle of my days
And my memories fade and harden
As the years they slip away
And I've been looking in this mirror
At the age around my eyes
Time is such an earnest labourer
Precision is its neighbour

Lay my body in the ground
But let my spirit touch the sky

Well I was wrong to let you go
I was a child, how could I know about the love
That we both should have, could have given
But now you're gone, you're gone so far away
I hope I'll see you again someday
But if I don't, I hope I'll see you in heaven
If I don't, I hope I'll see you in heaven
But if I don't, I hope I'll see you in heaven

THE MAN FROM GALILEE

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There was a blind man standing by the side of the road
He was blind from birth, it was a heavy load
And though he lived a good life he could not see
Up walk a man from Galilee

​Don't clap. This is not folk music [Spoken]

He touched his eyes and he made that blind man see
There ain't never been nobody like the man from Galilee

Well Lazarus died and for four long days
He laid in the grave and he did not raise
His sisters kept saying how can this be
Up walked the man from Galilee

He said Lazarus come forth and he was set free
There ain't never been nobody like the man from Galilee

You got to stand on the rock to get your name on the roll
Do not stray, do not stroll
If you're all messed up and don't know what to do
Then brother I am talking to you

I never sang that verse. Peter and the fishermen went out to fish but the nets didn't shake and the lines didn't twitch. They were ready to pull their nets from the sea then up walked the man from Galilee. He filled their nets with fishes and then he said to them fishers of men is what I want. That's why I never uh, 'cause that, it's too long. He filled their nets with fish and then he said to them fishers of men is what I want you to be. There ain't never been nobody like the man from Galilee. Go Johnny go [Spoken]

You got to stand on the rock to get your name on the roll
Do not stray, don't do the stroll
If you're all messed up and don't know what to do
Brother I am talking to you

Well they nailed him to the cross, they laid him in the ground
They put soldiers at the grave and there were people walking round
Saying this is the end of christianity
Up rose the man from Galilee

When I die I know where I wanna be yeah
There ain't never been nobody like the man
Never been nobody like the ma-ha-ha-ah-han
Never been nobody like the man from Galilee

Oh oh oh ah ah ah oh wa oh ah ah​ 

ROCK AND ROLL IS FROM THE DEVIL [INCLUDES FLY ME TO THE MOON AND I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE]

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​[Go to Song Page]

Um, some people don't like rock and roll music, which is okay you know for them not to like it. Em but some people think it comes from the devil and em, well I think before they start saying that though, like back in the fifties my dad would just say you know why do you like this rock and roll music? It doesn't you know, it doesn't, doesn't make any sense. It's crazy music, it's just a bunch o' you know weird idea, ideas and it does, it doesn't make any sense. Why don't you listen to some good music? So I'd kinda listen to what he and mamma were listening to you know, and they listened to, to songs like eh

​Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars-ah
Let me see what life is like on Jupiter and Mars
In other words hold my hand
Ah yes in other words, darling kiss me
Woodooleebeepababababobo bebeba [Sung acapella]

And I'd think yeah, fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars, that makes a lotta sense dad. You know, an', and he'd say well you know rock a' you know, okay so maybe s' you know som', some of the songs we, we listen to aren't like brilliant, but you know at least it's about good positive things, romantic, warmth, I mean th' rock and roll you know what that's about. All it's about is one, one thing, it's only about sssss' romance. So you know he used to like listen to an', you know they'd always have the, the radio on after dinner and, and they'd, they, you know the songs they were listening to were beautiful, um

I'm in the mood for love
Simply because you're near me
Darling but when you're near me
I'm in the mood for love [Sung acapella]

You know I'd, I'd listen to their songs an' like I'm in the mood for love simply because you're near me, Darling when you are near me I'm in the mood for love. That guy had no self control. And our parents used to listen to this kinda music all the time. It's no wonder there's so many of us

And during the fifties they said well rock and roll it, it makes people do bad things, it makes them you know carry knives and become juvenile delinquents and during the sixties they said rock and roll makes people take drugs and burn down the universities and during the seventies they said rock and roll makes people wear white clothes and go like this. And then

[Spoken]

BACKWARDS MASKING

And then during the eighties they, they'd been saying if you play, if you, if you play it backwards the devil talks to you. You know and I, I, I, I, I heard what they were saying and, and eh I played Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin, I played that backwards and you know I, I could hear it. It said [Mimics reversed speech]. And I was terrified. An', and so there was this big scandal about rock and roll and everybody was afraid, you know if you listen to rock and roll music whatever the message was that, that was backwards, that was there and you didn't know it was there 'cause it was backwards, so you didn't know it was there. And that's why it was dangerous. 'Cause it was backwards

And eh then we'd see on TV every once in a while there'd be some preacher in front of this big church and he'd be talking to the newsmen going yes sir boy, we had our young people bring their rock and roll albums to the church tonight and we moved all the cars and we put the rock and roll albums there in the parking lot and we set 'em on fire. We started throwing them in the fire and you shoulda heard all the howling noises coming out of the fire. You know, and I think well that wasn't demons you know I mean, oh maybe, maybe the records make a noise when you throw 'em in a fire, I mean logs do. But it doesn't mean it's demons, I don't think the devil is gonna tell all of his demons that their assignment is to go to earth and, and walk down the streets all over the world an' and go into record stores and climb into albums and wait, you know. I mean what if they got into the wrong albums? What if they got into an Abba album? They could be there for years

​[Spoken]

ROCK AND ROLLIS FROM THE CHURCH

And rock and roll, it, it doesn't come from the devil. Rock and roll came from the church. Two hundred years ago if you remember over in America, we went over to Africa and we brought back all those people to help out during the summer. And we told them about Jesus. And we told them about God and they believed us. Eh eh which is amazing, they believed that our God was kind even though we were cruel to them. We enslaved them, we sold their wives and children to other plantation owners, and yet they believed that our God was loving and kind. And they believed that he would rescue them. The more they found out about what was in the bible the more they began to believe that they were like the Jews, taken into slavery, but not into Egypt but into this place called America. And if they could only cross back over where they'd been brought from, they could get back to the promised land, their own country where they understood what was going on, and see, instead of being made to you know speak in a foreign language and, and, and live in a, in a different country and, and be slaves and be beaten, be mistreated

And their songs to God were so full of faith and yet from such a simple childlike point of view. But these songs came from their heart, not from their pen. They weren't writing from their minds, they were writing from their souls. This was soul music. And that's one of the reasons this music has lasted two hundred years and had an effect on young people. Why in the fifties when a young person would hear what the black church was singing they'd be so drawn to that, and why when black people who had been raised several generations away from their, their great great grandparents who were slaves. And when these people didn't really have a strong belief in God but grew up in the church they took the music of the church but instead of singing about their saviour they started singing about their baby, you know instead of singing about swing low sweet chariot they'd be singing about their cars. Now the, the difference between white gospel music and black gospel music is this, and it's the difference between white music and. and black music on any level is that white people are always singing about ideas, you know like fly me to the moon and, and I'm, I'm in the mood for love an', and black people are singing about you know I got shoes, you got shoes, all God's children got shoes. When we get to heaven gonna put on our shoes, gonna walk all over God's heaven

They're singing about swing low sweet chariot, a thing. They're singing about, you know rock and roll sang about the same thing. It didn't sing about concepts, it sang about stuff, like your car not your cherub an' an' your shoes. Rock and roll still sing about shoes. You can do anything but lay off my blue suede shoes. You know, he had tan shoes, pink shoelaces, polka dot vest man o' ma'. It's about stuff. Black people, that's all they knew, they only had a few things. They didn't have all the, the fancy ideas that white people had and so their belief in God was very direct too. And they believed that if a, a man could be taken from the earth in a flaming chariot in the bible then why couldn't a flaming chariot come for them. And so they sang these songs, swing low sweet chariot. They were taken in a ship from their country to this country, and then taken in a train from the ship to the plantation. So they sang about a ship from heaven, gospel ship that might come someday for them. A gospel train. Maybe you don't know some of these songs you know but these songs like eh Lord if I get my ticket can I ride, if I, if I obey you and if I'm prepared and I'm ready can I get on this gospel train and go to heaven?

​[Spoken]

IF I GOT MY TICKET

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​​Lord if I got my ticket, can I ride
If I got my ticket Lord, can I ride
If I got my ticket Lord, can I ride
Up to heaven on that morning

You hear a lot of talk about a gospel train
You better be ready 'cause it's on its  way
Be down at the station right on time
An' if you’re not ready you'll be left behind

Clean out the world and leave no sin
I tell you brother, he's coming again
If I've got my

That's why they sang these songs. These songs are, you know these songs weren't meant to be like, like rock and roll singers sing their music. These songs were reverent spiritual songs but they had so much urgency to them. They weren't slow and placid like white music. And maybe on' you know, I don't think rock and roll eh is of the devil. I know where it came from, I grew up in a black neighbourhood, I heard this music during my childhood. This is God's music. Fact the devil doesn't make rock and roll or anything else, the devil can't make nothing. God has created everything and the devil tries to steal all of the stuff that God has made and tries to say that he owns it, that it's his, that he's fun, God is boring. That he's creative, that God is you know old, elderly. Th', th', that the devil has something for young people and only when you're old and dying you need to worry about that God stuff. The devil doesn't create anything but he'll steal anything you leave laying around. And this music belongs to the church [Spoken]

SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT

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Swing low sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home [x2]

If you've never heard any black gospel songs, I know you've heard this one you know, and you ever thought about the words [Spoken]

Well I looked over Jordan

And they didn't know the name of the ocean they'd crossed [Spoken]

And what did I see
Coming for to carry me home

Waiting for the second coming of Christ [Spoken]

A band of angels coming after me
Lord, Lord
Coming for to carry me home

Y' wanna sing it with me [Spoken]

Swing low dow-dow, dow-dow, da
Coming for to carry me home
Wo oh oh oh oh oh-oh-a-oh
Sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home

Think about the words [Spoken]

Well if you get up there

If you die before I do [Spoken]

If you get up there before I do
Coming for to carry me home
Tell all my brothers and sisters
I'll be coming there too

Tell them I still believe, I'm still running the race, fighting the good fight, I'm gonna be there. Tell all my brothers and sisters
I'm coming there too [Spoken]

Swing low sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home [x2]

Yeah-ah

Coming for to carry us home
Like a thief in the ni-hi-hight

It's a good sermon [Spoken]

THE LONG HARD ROAD

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​You meet a lot of travellers on the road that winds through life
Some hands hold the light of love, some hands conceal a knife
Some friends stand behind you, some lie right to your face
I don’t have time for looking back, I’ve got to run this race

Down a long hard road where I come from
Down a long hard road that I've been on
Down a long hard road, I just keep going going going

This is your part [Spoken]
Down the long hard road just sing along
Down the long hard road
Down the long hard road, I just keep going going going

Some receive salvation and they love you for your prayers
Some resent the love you’ve given and claimed all the work was theirs
Some people like to put you down ‘cause they know you won’t fight back
And some folks speak of love and peace but their hearts are cold and black

Two three four [Spoken]
Down the long hard road that I've been on
Down the long hard road I’m travelling on
Down the long hard road, I just keep going going go
Down the long hard road, I been on
(Down the long hard road) travelling on
(Down the long hard road) I like that harmony

Some people never understand the road you’re travelling on
And some people hate you while you live, some love you when you’re gone
Forget about your reputation, Satan’s gonna shake it up
Some folks don’t know truth from lies so they'll just make it up

A one two three four [Spoken]
Down the long hard road that I've been on
Down the long hard road I’m travelling on
Down the long hard road, I just keep going going going going
Down the long hard road I've been on
Down the long hard road I’m travelling on
Down the long hard road, I just keep going going going going

Wa-ah ah wa wa wa ah wa ETC

No, it's not over sorry. Just had to move the page over into this light [Spoken]

It’s great to feel the love for all those people that you know
But if they change direction wish them well and let them go
You know it may be sad to lose so many friends along the way
But the road we're travelling on it gets more narrow every day

Ain't that right [Spoken]

Down the long hard road
Down the long hard road
Down the long hard road, we just keep going going going going
Down a long hard road that we've been on
Down the long hard road we're travelling on
Down a long hard road, we just keep going going going going
Down the long hard road that we've been on
Down the long hard road we're travelling on
(Down the long hard road), we just keep going going going going
Down the long hard road
Down the long hard road yeah-eh-eh-eh
Down the long hard road, we just keep going going going going​ on

​Woo

SLOW FAST

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I'm on a slow fast
I wonder how much longer I should make it last
I'm on a slow fast
I'm praying for a future to replace my past

I've always had a hungry feeling
An appetite I could not deny
When life is ???, eat it
Life is ??? and breathing from the sky

I'm on a slow fast
I wonder how much longer I ca', should make it last
I'm on a slow fast
And I'm waiting, praying for a future to replace my past

Mmm hmm wa ah ah ETC

Slow fast
Hm slow fast
Since I'm in the country where people like real music
Instead o' leaping round
Dropping your clothes to the ground
Electrified, electrocuted on stage
Rock and roll death with a rage
But you all play, you got pianos at home
An' ocarinas
Tambourines
Little brothers that you know how to make them scream
Ireland, I've always loved you
I don't know why
Probably love you 'til the day I say goodbye

SERMONETTE

I don't know what state of mind you're in. I don't know spiritually where you are, but I, I know that there's been a lot of bad preaching over the last two thousand years. And no one is going to hell because they're bad, but that's what many have been taught. And no one's going to heaven because they're good. The way to get into hell is to spend your life running away from God and you will end up in hell. Not because you were bad, but because you didn't wanna go to heaven. And the way you end up in heaven is not by being good. It's by following God, obeying God, listening for God's leading in your life, learning about Jesus, trying to live according to the way he taught and having faith in Christ, believing in Christ, loving God because he's your father and he loves you. You're not to fear him. He's not an angry God with you. If you love him he, he is your father and you are his child. And he will help you make your life much better than you could ever make it without God

So if you're not a christian, and I don't know what meaning that has to every person. If you're not a follower of God, if you're not a lover of Jesus, if you're not putting your faith in, in God's sovereignty and believing that he can help you live your life, then I would like you to become a christian. I would like you to pray to your father and ask him to change your heart, and maybe you feel you don't have enough faith but you do because faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. Faith is when you don't know, like uh if I say do you have faith if I drop this Lowden guitar, it'll, it'll hit the floor. I won't do it, George. Haha I won't do it. Uh, you could say yeah, but, but see, you don't need faith, you know that gravity will take the guitar down. Faith is when you don't know. I don't know if you're there God, I don't know i', if you exist. Or maybe you exist and, but I don't know if I'm sincere, I don't know if I'm gonna follow you. I don't know if I'm gonna change my mind and leave and go away. I, I don't know these things, but I hope, I hope that you are there and I hope you will rescue me from myself, and I hope you will change my heart and my life. I hope you will take away these sins that I keep committing over and over again because I don't want to do them, but they're habits. Please help me to stop

Baptise me in truth and in peace. Baptise me in Jesus' blood, baptise me in water, baptise me in the Holy Spirit, baptise me in whatever it is that you give to us. I want to be covered with it, soaked through with it, and I don't know how to do this for myself. So please help me God, save me from myself. Help me to follow Jesus. And I ask you in the name of Jesus. He died on the cross for a mysterious reason because you love us and you wanna save us from our own deaths. Thank you God for being a loving father

[Spoken]

GOODBYE FAREWELL

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​​​​Goodbye, farewell
We'll meet again
Somewhere beyond the sky
I pray that you will walk with God
Goodbye my friends, goodbye

The light grows dim
But in this hour
I have no tears to cry
My heart is full
My joy complete
Goodbye my friends, goodbye

I feel no loss of hope as I've grown older
Only this worlds weight upon my shoulder
My heart beats to a slower drum
So softly in my vein
The night is warm but in my sleep
I dream of heaven's rain

Everything I am I’ve tried to show you
And in this life I’ve been so blessed to know you

Goodbye, farewell
We’ll meet again
Somewhere beyond the sky
I pray that you will walk with God
Goodbye my friends, goodbye
Goodbye my friend, goodbye

​Bye [Spoken]

THE TROUBLES

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​​You gotta go through changes
If you want to grow
You've gotta learn some lessons
You don't want to know
You're gonna end up places
Where you never been
You'll be a stronger person
When you get back again
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh

There's a slow procession
On a lonely road
People start to cry
They've come to say goodbye
And friends help carry the load
But if you open your arms
And take it all in
You'll be a stronger person
When you get back again

You can run for the shelter
And hide in the shadows
When the sky is falling on you
Or you can open your heart
To the pain and the sorrow
'Til the storm is finally through​

[Coughs]

It takes a lot of courage
To live this life
When the troubles come calling
And the tears start falling
It just cuts you like a knife
You've gotta stand your ground
When your world caves in
You'll be a stronger person
When you get back again

Na na na na da da na
Da na na na na ah ya ah ya ah ya
Ung da na da da da ah la de da na na

You can run for the shelter
And hide in the shadows
When the sky starts falling on you
Or you can open your heart
To the pain and the sorrow
'Til the storm is finally through​

​It takes a lot of courage
To live this life
When the troubles come calling
And the tears start falling
It just cuts you like a knife
You've gotta stand your ground
When your world caves in
You'll be a stronger person
When you get back again
When you get back again
When you get back

Be a stronger person
When you get back
Be a stronger person
When you get back
You'll be a stronger person
When you get back again

Ah da da da bum
Ung da da da dun
Doy ee oy ee oh

[Coughs]

Keep going [Spoken, very faintly]

​??? [Spoken, very faintly]

LUGOJ

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​​Down through the fields
Across the river
Up to the door of the house
Where the children live

The light reveals
The lamp light shivers
That stand before
As you reach out your hand to give

The empty faces full of questioning
Your workless fingers full of gesturing
What language can you share
The one of love and care
That's all that's needed there

You smile dismayed
Your gaze returned
By hopeful eyes
And timid looks, lips moving silently

The past replayed
The houses burned
With no disguise
Betrayal shook each child so violently

You move your fingers slowly at your side
You tell yourself you got no guilt to hide
You look down at the floor
Your back against the door
Then look at them once more

The cold night air
Starts creeping in
You start to speak
Your coat feels warm, with your pockets full

Their legs are bare
Their arms are thin
Their hands are weak
So close to harm that your senses crawl

You hold your breath then you let it out
You've got so much you can live without
They stand here watching you
The time for words is through
'Cause you know what to do

THE CENTRE OF MY HEART

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​​Does anybody know what love is
Does anybody know
Does anybody know what love is
I thought once or twice I'd found it
It just up and disappeared before I had the chance to put my arms around it

I'd see couples walking down the street
Holding hands and looking free
People talk about lasting love but it just never happened to me

But then one day I met you, you broke my chains apart
You showed me love's true freedom
And laid your soul in the center of my heart

When I'm sad you help me see the light
When I'm confused I just talk to you
No matter what kind of trouble I'm in, you always seem to know what I should do

I'm a walking contradiction
You're the keeper of the key
You're the road that leads to Fehrion and that's all that matters to me

I only want to serve you
Oh but where do I start
My love is just a reflection of your soul in the centre of my heart

I’ve travelled so far
I turn around, there you are
And when I feel like I'm lost in the dark
You lift me up and you show me the start ah

Throw me into your prison of love
Hold me over without bail
I wanna give myself up without a fight but I'm so afraid I'm gonna fail

You let me know that I worry too much, this is not what love's about
I feel forgiven by your sunsets, your rain washes away my doubt

Nothing can ever stop this
Death won't tear us apart
All I'm really trying to say is you're the soul in the center of my heart

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Pre-Release Samplers

Paul Shaw and Trevor King gave a four track sampler to people who bought ten or more tickets to Larry's March 2000 concert in Belfast. In 2001, amid continued delays with the official release, three vignette samplers were produced, aimed at giving prospective buyers a flavour of the content and audio quality of the project

​See the CD tab on the singles page for details

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Romanian Relief Records RRR 1000 [August 28, 2001, UK / USA, CDR]

The official release was packaged as two double CD sets, both including a 16 page booklet. Initial copies came with a slip-case, shown to the right above

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Romanian Relief Records RRR 1000 [Unknown year, likely post 2005, USA, CDR]​

Same artwork and booklets as with the original release, but pressed on white faced CDRs, as opposed to the original silver faced discs. It is extremely unlikely that any of this pressing came with a slip-case

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Romanian Relief Records RRR 1000 [Unknown year, likely post 2005, USA, CDR]​

Same artwork and booklets as with the original release, but pressed on full white faced CDRs

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Romanian Relief Records RRR 1000 [Unknown year, likely post 2008, USA, CDR]​

​There are more recent CDRs with completely different disc art. I don't have any pictures however​

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Amid release delays, two sampler CDs were sent out to people who had pre-ordered The Belfast Bootlegs. See them on the CD tab here

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