The Belfast Bootlegs

2000

The Belfast Bootlegs is the subtitle of the release Rough Diamonds, Precious Jewels, which is a 4CD compilation of Larry's concerts in Northern Ireland over the years, put together by Paul Shaw and Trevor King. While the official release was still being finalised and the tracks mastered, Larry issued some pre-releases. Firstly discs one and two, and later the 4CD "Cornerstone Pre-Release". Somewhat strangely, disc 4 of the Cornerstone set included barely any recordings from Ireland

Initial Solid Rock Pre-Release Disc One / Cornerstone Pre-Release 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]

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

shout [PART OF medley]

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Aah aah aah wow
You make wanna shout
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

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

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]

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]

one way

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

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

riverdance

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]

the 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

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

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]

my feet are on the rock

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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]

[Starts playing song]
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

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

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]

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

oh death where is thy sting

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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

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

darkness can't hide

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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

Initial Solid Rock Pre-Release Disc Two / Cornerstone Pre-Release Disc Two:

Bugging the sound man

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]

moses

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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]

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

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 center of my heart

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I'm gonna have to sing this song on the old guitar 'cause I can't sing that high. That's one of the things about me and my old guitar, we just got lower and lower as the years went by [Spoken]

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

I s' meant, spent so many years by myself
I'd see couples walking down the street
I heard people talk about lasting love but it just never happened to me

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

When I'm sad you help me see the light
When I'm confused we talk things through
How could anybody not see right away why I am so in love with you

I'm a walking contradiction
God's the keeper of the keys
You're the sweetest rose of Fehrion and that's all that matters to me

I never want to hurt you
I wanna bless you but I don't know where to start
I'm so in love with you baby
You're in the center of my heart
You're in the center of my heart

Ooh
You help me drive my car
You help me change the strings on my guitar
You pick up the pieces of a broken jar
And when the night is clear you point out the stars

Well throw me into the dungeon
Hold me over without bail
Sometimes I wanna give myself up before I make a mistake
No matter how hard I try I know I'm gonna fail
But you just laugh and say I worry too much
How do you know
But you just laugh and say I worry too much
That guilt is not what love's about
I feel forgiven by your slightest touch and your smile destroys my deepest doubt

Why do you love me so sweetly
How do you know me so well
Is it possible that in your quest for heaven
You've gone through a similar hell

Nothing can ever harm us, no one could tear us apart
Heidi what I'm trying to say is you're the center of my heart
You are the center of my heart
You're in the center of my heart
In the center of my heart

i hope i'll see you in heaven

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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]

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

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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 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

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]

audience request [INCLUDES TWIST AND SHOUT]

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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]

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

bombs II

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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 [unlisted]

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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]

under his love [INCLUDES UNDER HIS LOVE, WITHOUT YOU, UFO, I WISH WE'D ALL BEEN READY, SIX SIXTY SIX,MESSIAH AND EVE OF DESTRUCTION]

[Go to Song Page] Under His Love
[Go to Song Page] Without You
[Go to Song Page] UFO
[Go to Song Page] I Wish We'd All Been Ready
[Go to Song Page] Six Sixty Six
[Go to Song Page] Messiah
[Go to Song Page] Eve Of Destruction

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 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

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 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

the troubles

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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]

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]

Cornerstone Pre-Release Disc Three:

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 lsd for me

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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

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

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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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 roll is 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 [same recording as is on disc 2!]

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]

love is a commitment

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I don't think I wanna sing any more of these songs but eh, oh, oh here's one about love [Spoken]

I am on the left side, you are on the right
Even if we both disagree I'm gonna love you with all my might

Love is not a ballad on the top ten chart
Love is not a virus from Cupid's dart
Love is not a promise that you tear apart
Love is a commitment heart to heart

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ETC

Maybe you feel impoverished but true love can abound
Why don't we expand our love and knock these four walls down

Love is not a matter of time and space
Love is not a flower in a golden vase
Love is not a fantasy in silk and lace
Love is a commitment face to face

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ETC

I know that you've been hurt before, it's sad to comprehend
But baby I love you rich or poor so don't think this is the end

Love is not a fire like a burning coal
Love is not a high that you can't control
Love is not a moon with a midnight stroll
Love is a commitment soul to soul

Love can be a blessing or full of strife
Love burns like a kiss cuts like a knife
Love goes far beyond a man and wife
Love is a commitment life to life

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ETC

if god is my father

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Da da da da da da da da da da

If God is my father
Then you are my brother
Why can't we bother
To really reach out and love one another
Why do we keep on acting the way we do
The way we treat each other
It must break his heart in two

Why do we argue
Why are there so many churches
With half of them empty
And some represents a million dollar purchase
What's happening to the message given by our lord
To take his gospel to the streets
And share our money with the poor

We learn to love
Love is the greatest thing
We've got to learn to love
Love is the only thing

You know peace is not the absence of bombs and guns
Peace is the presence of true happiness that comes from the holy one
Got to learn to love

Once we were happy
Oh yes, once in the garden
And then a lie broke the stillness
And our hearts began to harden
And hoping to be wiser man has reached too far
Sometimes I think that we've advanced
But then I look at where we are

And oh I cry
I feel like crying
????
And I feel like dying

We gotta concentrate on Jesus
Turn away from our favourite sins
Get ready for the new life
The maker's coming back again

We got to learn to love
Got to learn to love
Got to learn to love
????

Cornerstone Pre-Release Disc Four:

blues for breakfast

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You know the blues is from America
But everybody all around the world has had the blues
So it's nothing new, it's just
I think the secret of the blues is the less articulate you are
The more believable it sounds you know [Spoken]

[Mumbles]
[Mumbles]
[Mumbles] running down the road [mumbles]
That's right
Yeah you never never
Look about morning got to wake up [mumbles] get up now tick tock
Ki-taw, ki-taw, ki-taw

soul on fire

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Eldridge was a bad man
At least that's what the people said
But Eldridge he was only working out
All the things they put inside his head
He was like an angry lion
Trapped in a vice
They couldn't keep him down
And so they put his soul on ice

Well they locked him in a prison cell
'Til he managed to get away
But living on the run ain't no fun
Both eyes open every night and day
Just a little peace and quiet
Was his one desire
But it never came 'til something set his soul on fire

Now the man in the moon gave him the word
With a face that was clear and a voice that was heard
Go back to your people but lean on me
They can lock you up again
But I have set you free

Oh Eldridge says he's different now
But a lot of people don't agree
You know they say he's only trying to free himself
I guess in time we all shall see
But I do believe his message
He ain't no liar
When he says that Jesus can set your soul on fire

Soul
Soul on fire
Soul-ah

Soul on fire [x6]

Soul on fire
Yeah yeah yeah yeah-eh
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Set your soul on fire, Jesus, come on set my soul on fire

Come on, take me to the river
Help me get across
You've got to take me to the river
I feel so lost
I said Jesus set my soul, set my soul on fire
It's so strong
It's so raaargh, soul
Soul on fire
Soul on fire
Soul on fire
Set my soul on fire
Set my soul on fire

Help me decide
How clearly I can see the moon
Looking for the hole in the north
Hoping he'll come back soon

watch what you're doing

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Ah-ah-ah
Ah ah yeah
Yeh yeh yeh
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah ah uh huh

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
Tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk

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

I knew a girl, she was sweet as could be
But she fell for men 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 arms

You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah
Don't you know
You gotta watch what you're doing
You know that
You know that
You gotta watch out
Ow oh

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've gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah, yeah, don't you know
You know that
You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah oh oh yeah
Yeah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah some folks
Some folks smile you know
Some folks smile
Some folks smile, they seem alright
Later you find out they're like demons in the night
Try to love everybody but don't be blind
Some kind of people try to mess up your mind
Watch what you're doing
Yeah, yeah
Watch who you know, watch where you go
Watch who you fall in love with
Yeah

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

Watch what you're doing
Yeah
Come down, come down, come down, come down, come down, come through
Oh
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh no you gotta watch what you're doing

You know, there's someone after you
He's called the devil, he wants to lock you up in a zoo
He's got a nice little cage picked out just for you
I bet it fits real nice too
Real nice too
Gotta watch out
Oh
Na na la la la la la la
Na na na na na la la la
Oh
I see the son of man coming down from the sky
If you don't see him open up your heart
Open up your eyes
You need to be born again
Your friends may wait on you
The bible says God loves you
And I believe it's true
You gotta watch out
Here he comes
You gotta watch what you're doing
Here he comes like a thief in the night
You gotta watch what you're doing
Yaah
You gotta watch what you're doing

let that tape keep rolling

[Go to Song Page]

Oh

Well I woke up in the morning, I said a morning prayer
I washed my face with soap, I ran my fingers through my hair
I went down to the studio on Hollywood and Vine
The clock said seven thirty, well I made it just in time
I greeted the musicians, I grabbed the nearest chair
I started playing my guitar and told the engineer

C'mon let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon, c'mon
C'mon c'mon c'mon

The first song that we cut was called "Lonely By Myself"
I think I'll do the vocal later, you can just leave it on the shelf
The second song we cut was called "Unlucky Blues"
The session's getting better now, we're turning on the juice
You know the last song took us seven takes, first one took us ten
If Jesus came right now I wonder who'd get in

Ah c'mon let that tape keep rolling

C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon, ah c'mon

Do you hear me singing on your record machine
The piano's banging, the guitar's twanging
The water cooler's clanging, the light bulb's hanging
Yes the music's playing, the production's clean
Cross fade all the tracks, don't leave no spaces in between

C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling
C'mon (c'mon) let your love keep flowing
C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling
C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling
C'mon (c'mon) c'mon
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon c'mon, c'mon, c'mon

I started out ten years ago, my guitar in my hand
I took the message in my heart and I gave it to the land
I went down to EMI to record Upon This Rock
I wanted to say something, I just let the music talk

I know where I am going, I know who I must be
I don't care how long it takes me, there's lots of things to see

C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling
C'mon (c'mon) let your love keep flowing
C'mon (c'mon) let your faith keep growing
C'mon (c'mon) let your light keep showing
C'mon (c'mon) be careful what you're signing
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon

He come walking down my street
He come into my heart
He make me feel so good
So good. so good. so tough
So fine
You know what I'm talking about
You know what I'm talking about

Talking about
I'm going home
I'm going home boumba back home
Bou ah-bou bou bou back home
Ah-bou ah-dou bou ba back home
Yeah

You come down, you make me feel alright
Like a thief in the middle of the night
I'm going home
I said come on
I'm going home
Let's go home

I'm going home

Going home [x4]
Getting out, checking out
Going home
Just visiting this planet
I'm only visiting
This world is not my home
I'm going home

Be back in fifteen minutes [Spoken]

i've searched all around the world

[Go to Song Page]

Yay

'arkness can't hide much longer
The spirit is getting stronger
You keep the dance halls hummin'
But the end of the age is comin'

I searched all around the world to find a place of truth
I opened the mouth of love and I found a wisdom tooth
Wo oh yeah

Maybe you think I'm plastic
Your situation's drastic
I made my faith is stronger
'Cause this world won't last much long

I searched all around the world to find a place of peace
I sat in the shade of God and I watched the joy increase
Wo oh wo-oh-oh ye-eh

There's no time left for stalling
Can't you hear someone calling
Life all around is crumbling
I think this world is stumbling
Maybe you think I'm wrong now
But this is my only song

Well I searched all around the world to find a grain of truth
I opened the mouth of love and I found a wisdom tooth
Ye-eh yeah
Well I've searched all around the world to find a place of peace
I sat in the shade of God and I watched the joy increase
Wo oh yeah
Well I've searched all around
I've searched all around
I've searched all around the world
And I don't know what I'm gonna do
But I have no plans outside of you
Well I've been looking up in the sky
Looking to see clearly the moon
I've been searching all around the world
Oh ??? I got no plans outside of you
Ah no no no no
I've searched all around, I've searched all around
I've been lonely by myself, lonely by myself
And I don't know what I'm gonna do
But I got no plans outside of you
No

leaving the past behind

[Go to Song Page]

Life is hard, life ain't easy
Man is born in trouble, everybody's got the blues
People looking for an answer, people hoping for good news
And if you know the answer then there's one thing you must do
You must tell 'em what you know and you must live a life that's true [Verse starts spoken and segues into singing]

I'm getting on my walking shoes, please help me find my hat
It's time that I was leaving, I got no time for looking back
I'm going away-eh-ye-ah-ah
I'm going away, I'm feeling fine, yeah, yah
When it's time to go you got to leave the past behind
Wa ow ow ow

Wa ow
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
'Cause when it's time to go
You've got to leave the past behind
Wa ah ah ow wo-oh-oh-oh

Man is born in trouble, everybody's got the blues
People looking for an answer, people hoping for good news
So if you know the answer then there's one thing you must do
You must walk, ow
Talk, waoh
Hurry up and beat that clock
You've got to tell 'em to get ready so they can leave this earth behind
Wa owh ow
Wa wow wa wow

Well 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
Going away yay yay-eh
I'm feeling fine, yeah
When it's time to go
You got to leave this past
When it's time to go
You got to leave this earth
When it's time to go
You've got to leave this earth behin-ah-ow-ow wo-ow-wo-ow-wo-ow-wo-ow

why can't you be good

[Go to Song Page]

This is a song about love, about eh, sex, about marriage, about hatred, about eh, about, you know like if you're sixteen years old and you're walking around and you wanna fall in love with somebody. I say make sure that they fall in love with you. If you marry somebody make sure they, they love you as much as you love them. Real simple. He' we should be able to get it right somehow. So this is a song for you if you're sixteen years old, my advice, my advice to you is wait until you're eighteen [Spoken]

Wo oh oh

Why can't you behave
Why can't you be good
You don't even try
To do the things you should
Well what is the reason
I'd like to know
Why you can't be good

You go into the bedroom
You say you’ve got to powder your nose
But the powder is cocaine
I see traces on your clothes
Well what is the reason
I'd like to know
Why you can't be good

Take another look inside your dreams tonight
When you go to sleep
Try and find the reasons why you've lost your way
Like some little sheep

You say that you love me
You say your love is true
But you’ve got so many other lovers
What am I s’posed to do
Wo-oh what is the reason
I’d like to know
Why you can't be good
Oh

Take another long look inside your mind tonight
When you go to sleep
Try and find the reasons why you've lost your way
Like some little sheep

You say that you love me
You say your love is true
But you’ve got so many other lovers baby
What am I s’posed to do
Oh-oh what is the reason
I’d like to know
What is the reason
I’d like to know
What is the reason
I’d like to know
Why you can't be good

Ah can't you be good
Just be good you know, be good
I'm not saying you got to be perfect
You don't got to be perfect
Just try to be good, try
Try try try
Try to be good
You know sometimes, sometimes I stay up all night, you don't come home
Uh-uh, you don't come home
You don't come home 'til the next day
Or the next day after that, or the next day after that
Just try, try to be good
Try try
Gets a little bit lonely baby, a little bit lonely

irish spring

Hey do you have a soap over here called Irish Spring? That's just America huh? Oh. There's this soap over there, they're on TV, it's called Irish Spring and eh, and there's this two Irish, this man and this woman talking and, and eh. They're Irish, yeah. I think that's part of the ad campaign. And eh they're, they're talking and they're outdoors and they're touching the soap and it's not like they're washing with it or anything, where they're just idolising this soap or something an' there, this. Irish Spring a-eh yeah know an', and it's a man's soap 'n', and then this woman says and girls like it too. You know. So it's not really from here huh? Oh what a rip off

[Spoken]

woke up blues

[Go to Song Page]

Sometimes you wake up in the morning
You don't feel so good
Sometimes you wake up in the morning
And you just don't feel so good
Sometimes you wake up in the morning
And you don't feel so good
And then you know you got the blues

Well when you wake up in the morning
And you don't feel so good
You know you got the blues
Sometimes you wake up in the morning
You don't feel so good
You say I got the blues, I don't feel so good
I've, gonna feel pretty bad all day 'cause I got the blues
Well when you wake up in the morning
You might as well stay in bed 'cause if you're gonna have the blues
You might as well enjoy yourself

Yea-eh-eh-eh-eh-oh-ye-yeah

[Vocally mimics a guitar solo]

Sometimes you get up on the stage at night
And the microphones don't work so good
You get up on the stage
And the microphones don't work so good
Well I wish you'd turn up the microphone on the guitar
Oh yeah oh yeah
Wo-wo-oh wo-wo-oh wo-wo I'm still waiting
I'm a waiting, I'm a waiting wo-wo-oh wo-wo-oh wo-wo

mumbling man blues [same recording as blues for breakfast!]

christmastime

[Go to Song Page]

Santa Claus is coming and the kids are getting greedy
Eeh it's Christmas time
They know it's in the store because they seen it on the TV
It's Christmas time
Wo wo wo it's Christmas time
Wo wo wo it's Christmas time

You go into the forest and you cut down all the trees
It's Christmas time
I know you've got a power saw but who plants the seeds
It's Christmas time

It used to be the birthday of the man who saved our necks
But now it stands for Santa Claus you spell it with an x
It's Christmas time
Ah ah oh ah ah oh ah
It's Christmas time ta time ta
It's Christmas time

I've gotta buy a present, I can't remember who it's for
Bu bu bu ba ba bu it's Christmas time
But I'll see you in an hour when I get back from the store
Da dun ah da da dun it's Christmas time

I think that's all I really know
Dun du da na na it's Christmas time
I got to sing another song or else I'll have to go
Da na na na na na na it's Christmas time

raindrops

[Go to Song Page]

Ha ha
What? [Crowd shouting song titles]
Are these songs? [Crowd member shouts raindrops keep falling on my head]
Did you say that, the guy with the moustache?
Oh you said it, the guy th', that's bald

Raindrops keep falling on my head
I'm not the kinda guy that wishes he was dead
Not the [mumbles]
Oh I'm never gonna stop complaining
As long the sun keeps raining
Raindrops falling on my bed
I'm not the kinda guy that washes his bedspread
Not that kind of me
So I'm gonna climb the mountain
Cross over the promised land
I'm gonna climb the mountain
Cross over to the promised land
Yeah and raindrops keep falling
Under, I'm under an umbrella stand

i feel like dying

[Go to Song Page]

I feel like dying
Done all I can
Well I lost my woman
She ran off with another man

I feel like dying
Like I got nothing to lose
I know I need something
But I do not need these blues

What am I gonna do about it
What am I gonna do
What am I gonna do about it
What am I gonna do

I feel like dying
And I can't take the strain
My life's in trouble
And I cannot take this pain

I feel like dying
Like this is the end
I need an answer
Oh I need a friend

Well you can just say
What am I gonna do about it
What am I gonna do
What am I gonna do about it
What am I gonna do

I feel like dying

Ah yeah yeah yeah

I feel like dying

the prayers of a righteous man [Contains the start of The great american novel]

[Go to Song Page]

I don't know if I'll be able to come back for a while and uh, I'm going to go to Derry Queen. Have a soda. No Derry, Derry, Londonderry. I was in Kerry once. That was very nice. I, I swear you, it was great. So I'm gonna be in Derry and I'm gonna try to do a lotta different songs. I'm sorry tonight I am not really doing songs you probably wanna hear, but I feel very emotional about being here and I feel emotional about not being able to come back and I'm trying to just give you something from, from my heart that's real special and even if it's not, um my best according to critics, who always know everything. Um, it's just me. It's from me to you, and thanks for being so nice to me. I came here uh, many times and last time I was supposed to be here, maybe not the last time, one of the last times I, I was in the hospital. I had this thing called sudden death syndrome. No, that's what they call it. Eh your heart stops. And, and I, I wanted to come and you guys took up an offering for me. And it was more than if I had come to do a concert. I just. So that's why I, the next two tours I won't be coming here

No, I've just gotta get off the road and, uh, I've been trying to raise money for a defibrillator. And ah, I, uh usually people take an offering at the concerts. I don't wanna take an offering. I just feel so good about being here I, I think I might even get healed being here and not need to have an operation. I mean anything could happen. People who have love and faith and who pray for you, things happen. You know, we're God's children, God is a very loving father and he listens to us. He takes heed to our prayers. The bible says the prayers of a righteous man availeth much. I don't know if any of us think we're very righteous but, you know, it's Christ's righteousness in us that God is looking at, not our own. So it's not by our perfection that our prayers are sped toward heaven. Just by our love for God and our desire to grow, our desire to die to self and, and grow more like, like him

So thanks for being like, like probably the best city I have ever been able to come to in any country. And don't tell anybody else 'cause they'll get really jealous, but I just love being here. I, did you get my letter? I sent a letter when I got sick and couldn't come. Good, okay. Well I meant it

[Spoken]

[Starts playing guitar]
I was born and raised an orphan

I am a servant

[Go to Song Page]

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'll 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
And humbly bow before thee
Oh please use me, I am lonely

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

See ya [Spoken]

the troubles (short version)

[Go to Song Page]

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

lugoj (short version)

[Go to Song Page]

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

interview with larry norman

Ah be hearing from Osmond Collins from the USA and speaking to Madeline Russett. To Larry Norman. Okay, so uh just hang on a minute, stay with me. He's just coming to the phone and then we'll put it on the air and hopefully um, we will speak to the man himself [DJ]

[Song plays]

What a groove, what a groove [DJ]

With my luck this has probably been cut off now. Hello [DJ]

Hello

Ha, there you go, sir. How are you? [DJ]

Good

Excellent. Excellent. Now uh this, just in case you don't know by the way is Mr. Larry Norman, musician extraordinaire on the line from Belfast. Now tell me first of all sir, what have you been doing in Belfast, or what are you doing in Belfast? [DJ]

Well right now we're in the middle of rehearsal for tomorrow's concert with a band and some extra musicians from here in Belfast, George Lowdon, the uh, famous guitar maker, who's also playing guitar on stage tomorrow night

Mm-hmm [DJ]

Uh we've got keyboards uh, and uh percussionists, uh. It's gonna be great, we've got a extra, an extra special show for tomorrow night

Okay, tell me uh, a little bit about Larry Norman. Give us a, a flavour first of all to start us off [DJ]

Well I started in 1956 when I was nine years old. I started writing songs and performing them. I signed with EMI Records, the Capitol division in 1966, and I continued to make albums just about every year. I don't think I've missed a year since uh, that time. Uh, I went solo after two albums with Word, uh with uh Capitol, they gave me a, a solo contract. Uh Paul McCartney and other musicians were very encouraging to me. Um I, I felt like I've had a really interesting career. I've been kind of a, an underground artist. I never, I never liked commercial music, you know, I was of that era where artists felt that they needed to suffer for their music and that if you were commercial you were a sellout, so that's a tradition out of which I came. So I, uh, continued to make albums the way I wanted to. I got to produce my own records and hire my own musicians and

But, but it has to be said that that brought you into a certain amount of conflict with record companies, didn't it? [DJ]

Yeah, but they were very kind to me. I, I signed with MGM Records, which was Polydor, Polygram, well, I don't know what it was called over here, you know. And they, they, they let me do what I wanted to do. So I, I don't think that was the conflict. I think the conflict was with the public. What I was doing was I was singing rock and roll music about God. And back in the fifties uh, rock and roll was considered evil by many people. Parents, politicians, preachers, you know. So tha', that's where the controversy began. And uh, also, I've never pushed a party line. I, my, my music I don't consider it eh, em liturgical. It's not really gospel music, it's not really church music, it's rock and roll. Uh it's songs about life, but God is woven in the music. So a lot of people don't like that. They think that I should uh, you know, make gospel records or stop singing about God. And uh, to me everybody should be singing about God. It's part of life and it's a, it's a normal part of life

Now, now let me ask you then. So you, you've got your kind of underground thing going, but what, what happened and what did you feel when people like Billboard Magazine describe you as the most important writer since Paul Simon or, or Time Magazine make you um, what is it, the most significant artist in the field, that kind of thing [DJ]

Yeah

Does, does that upset you in any way? [DJ]

Yeah, it did. It kind of scared me. I didn't want people to uh, start coming to my concerts and not listen to my songs. I what, what I think is that a commercial artist becomes popular and then you get a bunch of people who don't really listen to the words. They are familiar with the melody, the music, and they like your personality, they like the sound of your voice and they don't get it. They don't get what you're saying. And you know I was from that era, like I said, where we wanted to change the world. We didn't want people to, to buy our records and, and uh. At, at least the ones of us that were being sincere didn't, I mean, maybe some people said they didn't wanna be commercial, but they really did. We wanted people to listen to our ideas and not just clap along and sing along. I, I tell you, I sold out Royal Albert Hall the first time I came to England and the second time I came to England, I sold it out twice in one day

Wow [DJ]

And when I looked out at the people, I realised they were all singing, they were mouthing the lyrics to all of the songs

Mm [DJ]

So I said, well, I'm retiring. This is the last time I'll be over here. And I never went back until years later. 'Cause I didn't wanna be popular. I wanted to be revolutionary, I wanted to help, help people and, and help change their world

But were you not revolutionary in what you're doing and, and the fact that you're making it popular just helps with, with, with what we're trying to achieve? [DJ]

Yeah but I was young and stupid and I didn't know that. I was an idealist, you know, I was an idealist. So now I don't mind if people sing along

Mm [DJ]

Yeah I've had 350 cover records, you know. Cliff Richard has recorded five of my songs, and even people eh, like Sammy Davis Jr

Yeah [DJ]

And eh people I would not imagine would

Well, well, let me tell you, we're playing two, two songs recorded by other people that we know about. Okay? [DJ]

Yeah

Now, and we do apologize if we, if we don't know about everything you've done because we, uh, we went on the internet and it kind of goes on forever on Larry Norman [DJ]

Yeah

But uh, there you go. We're playing eh, DC Talk, I Wish We'd All Been Ready [DJ]

Yeah

Tell me a little bit about that and your involvement, 'cause they, they have a picture on their video where they, they meet you [DJ]

Yeah, that was the first time I met 'em

Mm-hmm [DJ]

Yeah, they're nice boys. I, I, I love their music. It's great. And we became fast friends, and so they'd, they'd, one time they said hey we're, we're singing in Florida, do you wanna fly to Florida and come on as a surprise guest at our show, and so um I've done that. And if they ever know I'm in, in the audience, sometimes I come, come and see 'em different places, they'll drag me behind stage and then say okay, come on, come on and sing this next song with us and

Mm [DJ]

Sometimes I go I don't know this song, and they go, they just teach it to me right there really fast

Yeah. And the song I'm talking about is eh, I Wish We'd All Been Ready. Tell me a little bit about the motivation behind that song [DJ]

Well I'd never heard a song about that subject matter

Mm [DJ]

And so in 1968 I started thinking about it, that this would make an interesting song. So I wrote the song in um just uh, like twenty minutes and, and um I, I'm happy that, you know thirty years later people still like it

Mm-hmm. And, and the song is all about the fact that, you know, either one of us could drop dead tomorrow [DJ]

Yeah. It's about life and death, yeah

Mm. And we, if we, if we knew it was gonna happen, we would get ready now [DJ]

Yeah. Yeah, we've gotta be ready for eternity. We gotta be ready for the life going on after our, our, our simple life here. I mean, there is an eternal life. We don't know much about it. In fact some people may not have faith that it exists, but uh if it does exist, we better get ready even if we don't have that much confidence in it, we better get ready by living in a way that's appropriate, that's proper. We shouldn't be stealing, we shouldn't be lying, we shouldn't be doing drugs, we shouldn't be gossiping. There's a lot of things we do that hurt ourselves or hurt other people, and we should be living in a way that's more godly, more righteous, more proper

Let me ask you, how, how was this message received back in, in your early days, late fifties, early sixties? How, how did people take to this message? [DJ]

Oh, not at all. The church didn't want to hear me singing these crazy songs about rock and roll and God, and people who didn't go to church didn't want to hear these rock and roll songs because they mentioned God, you know. If I'd have left off the God part, that would've been okay

Mm [DJ]

I mean, I, like I said, I had a lot of success, a lot of other bands liked my music. Uh, U2 said that they started their group in high school because of one of the albums I did, that they liked that album so much. They said, well if Larry can sing about politics and religion and rock and roll and girls and everything at the same time, let's get a band. So they started a band. Van Morrison said he's a fan, and Dylan too', talking to my brother one day said he's a big fan and. So, that it's, you know, they didn't like it in the fifties and they didn't like it very much in the sixties, but just it's, it's picked up from time to time

So you must be delighted that the way it's gone in recent years where there is this great coming back to Christ and, and youngsters are, are, are receiving the message. There are bands like the, the Newsboys and DC Talk who are attracting millions upon millions of fans across the world [DJ]

Yeah, that's very exciting. Anything that helps kids g', have a better life and, and uh gets away from drugs and violence and, you know, sexual dysfunction and, yeah, anything that helps kids is great

Larry, another one of the songs that we're playing is, is this, this track by eh Holy Soldier, eh, Look Into Jesus. Tell us a little bit about that one [DJ]

Actually I, I wrote that for Janis Joplin, it's about her life

Mm-hmm [DJ]

And I used to perform with uh, Gratef', you know, the Grateful Dead and Doors and, and Janis Joplin would sit behind the curtain and watch us when we were on stage. She'd sit there with her bottle of uh, Southern Comfort whiskey

Mm [DJ]

And uh, you know, a paper cup and, and kind of pour the, the whiskey into the cup and then drink it little bit at a time and. So that, that's where the song starts off, sipping whiskey from a paper cup. It's really about her, it's about her whole life. But I I, for years I never told anybody what it was about. So people assumed, and it's a fair assumption, that it's about anybody's life

Absolutely. Yeah [DJ]

Yeah

And as long as they get the message [DJ]

Yeah

If the cap fits [DJ]

Yeah, that's right

Now listen, where is it you're appearing tomorrow. Tell us a little bit about this gig and what brings you to, to Belfast [DJ]

Uh um yeah I, I really love Belfast. I have kind of a love affair going with the city. I've, I've done a lot of concerts here that were very different. I try out, I try to do different things when I'm here, things I've never done anywhere. I've, I've talked about things that I don't ordinarily talk about. I've, I've sung songs that other people haven't heard in other countries. I don't know why. I just love Belfast

Hmm [DJ]

In fact, there's a four CD set coming out of fifteen years of my concerts because I've done a lot of songs here that have never been released anywhere in the world. So the four CD set from here is going to benefit the Romanian orphans

Mm-hmm [DJ]

So that, it should be quite successful. I hope it raises a lot of money for them

And what, what's the venue you're in tomorrow? [DJ]

I don't really know the name of it. Uh, sorry. I could find out

Now listen, we, we saw it on the, the, the internet and it was there and we thought well we'll ask, we won't print that off, we've, printing everything else off though [DJ]

Oh, sorry. Sorry

Don't worry. We'll find out. And, uh [DJ]

It's a very nice hall

I, I'm sure it is ha ha ha [DJ]

Yeah. I've been there before. The acoustics are great

La', lis', listen [DJ]

Hey where, where's the hall, where am I performing? Assembly Building

The Assembly Buildings [DJ]

Yeah

Assembly Hall is it? [DJ]

Old grand building

Wonderful. Well we will find out the exact information about that and we'll put it out on the show. How long you, you in uh Europe for? [DJ]

Uh only a couple more days. Three more days, then I have a, a concert in Manhattan, you know, Bono and Pope have been pushing this uh, Drop The Debt campaign

Mm [DJ]

That rich countries should try to forgive all or most of the debt to poor countries

Yeah [DJ]

So that's what this concert is in Man, in Manhattan, in New York. So that's on Sunday

Well Larry, I wish, I wish you had enough time to come in and visit us. We're only ov', just over the water from, from where you are now [DJ]

Ah-huh

We would really like you to drop in here you know [DJ]

Well maybe someday I can

Well, I, I hope you can [DJ]

Yeah

Let me, let me ask you one more question because [DJ]

Yeah

Time, time is running out on us as you can imagine [DJ]

Yeah

Are you disappointed? You mentioned Bono there and, and the Drop The Debt um, situation. Are you disappointed that even after all these years, And we're talking from the fifties to now, that we still need these songs that, that, that are just telling it as it is. Should, should, should a change not have been made by now? [DJ]

Well, I think a change is made. In, in, but uh, there's always new kids coming along that are not socially aware of all the things that maybe their older brothers and sisters might know about. So I think the music has to keep going with this, with a similar message. I've been singing about the poor since the sixties, and yet I find that people are always coming up to me and asking how, well how can they help the poor, they don't know anybody who's poor

Hm [DJ]

So I tell 'em about the organisations that exists all over the world. Yeah I, I think it's important to keep singing the message

Well Larry I, I hope you keep singing it for a, a long, long time. As I say I do hope you'll uh, come in and see us sometime. Do you know if Van Morrison's gonna be at your concert tomorrow night? [DJ]

Uh. no I don't. I think he's on tour

Oh, I see. Cause he [DJ]

Yeah

He, he's just you're kind of guy, if you see what I mean [DJ]

Yeah. Yeah. I love his music too

Fantastic [DJ]

Yeah

Listen, thank you very, very much indeed for taking the time to be with us [DJ]

Well, you're welcome

Wish you all the very best for the future. Keep on singing those songs and writing those songs. And please, if you've ever got any time, you have got to come in and be with us live [DJ]

Okay. Thank you very much

Okay [DJ]

Yeah

Thanks very much indeed [DJ]

All right

And we're gonna play one of these songs now. We're gonna play DC Talk and a track called I Wish [DC Talk cover of I Wish We'd All Been Ready starts playing] We'd All Been Ready. And look out for Larry Norman on the video [DJ]

Ooh

This disc was clearly put together to meet a deadline - Larry's 2001 appearance at Cornerstone Festival. With a few exceptions it consists of tracks lifted from Blarney Stone and Sticks & Stones, and which have nothing whatsoever to do with Belfast or Northern Ireland

Solid Rock Records SRD-407 and SRD-408 [2000, USA, CDR] - Initial Solid Rock Pre-Release

Kode: TBB-US1 / TBB-US2

Two separately packaged CDs, both with 4 page booklets. These CDs were sold in limited quantities at concert/s in late 2000 and/or early 2001. They were described as survey items, seeking feedback regarding the content

Note that disc one in particular has several instances where two songs are combined into a single track on the CD

Solid Rock Records SRD-407 and SRD-408 [2001, USA, CDR] - Cornerstone Pre-Release

Kode: TBB-US3

Four CDs packaged in a fatboy jewel case. No booklet, just front and rear inlays. Note that only disc 2 is labelled SRD-408. The other three discs are all labelled SRD-407

Discs one and two are identical in content to the initial pre-releases, just with the track splits largely tidied up