Sloth
Composer(s): Dave Swarbrick; Richard Thompson
First release by: Fairport Convention - 1970
Covered by multiple other artists



Just a roll, just a roll
Just a roll on your drum
Just a roll, just a roll
And the war has begun

Now the right thing's the wrong thing
No more excuses to come
Just one step at a time
And the war has begun

Just a roll, just a roll
Just a roll on your drum
Just a roll, just a roll
And the war has begun

She's run away, she's run away
And she ran so bitterly
Now call to your colours, friend
Don't you call to me

Just a roll, just a roll
Just a roll on your drum
Just a roll, just a roll
And the war has begun

Don't you cry, don't you cry
Don't you cry upon the sea
Don't you cry, don't you cry
For your lady and me

Just a roll, just a roll
Just a roll on your drum
Just a roll, just a roll
And the war has begun

Just a roll, just a roll
Just a roll on your drum
Just a roll, just a roll
And the war has begun

(T.L.C.) Tender Love And Care
Composer(s): Lehman; Lebowsky; Clark
Performer(s): Jimmie Rodgers


Tender love and care 
Makes a life worth living 
Tender love and care 
That's what I'll be giving 

Every day, every night with you 
When you're wrong, when you're right, when you're blue 
I'll give tender love and care to you 
I'll give tender love and care (tender love and care) 

Tender love and care (tender love and care) 
I will give you always (I will give you always) 
Tender love and care (tender love and care) 
Both in big and small ways (both in big and small ways) 

When you need me you'll find me there 
At your side anytime anywhere 
Giving tender love and care to you 
Giving tender love and care (tender love and care) 

Gentle sweet and kind (gentle sweet and kind) 
I will always treat you (I will always treat you) 
Gentle sweet and kind (gentle sweet and kind) 
Every time I need you (every time I need you) 

I will cheer you if you are low 
I will chase all your cares and woe 
Giving tender love and care to you (tender love and care) 
Giving tender love and care (oooooh-ooooooh) 
Tender love and care (oooooh-ooooooh)

Tender love and care (oooooh-ooooooh) 
Tender love and care (oooooh-ooooooh) 
Tender love and care (oooooh-ooooooh)

Cross Your Heart
Composer(s): Ted O'Neill
First performance by: Tina Reynolds - 1974



La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
Cross your heart say I love you
Cross Your Heart and Hope to die
For a very simple reason and here's the reason why
For so many hearts are broken by one little lie
Cross your heart and hope to die

Sticks and stones wouldn't break my bones tho' it happened again and again
but I came smiling through don't ask me how
Playing at games and calling me names never worried me then 
but it's a different game we're playing now

Cross your heart say I love you
Cross Your Heart and Hope to die
For a very simple reason and here's the reason why
For so many hearts are broken by one little lie
Cross your heart and hope to die

It wasn't easy to get up believe me to get up again and again
each time they knocked me down it hurt alot
Life's got to show now, there's no where to go now
This is the end of the line, because I'm giving this one all I've got

Cross your heart say I love you
Cross Your Heart and Hope to die
For a very simple reason and here's the reason why
For so many hearts are broken by one little lie
Cross your heart and hope to die
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la

Please Don't Tease
Composer(s): Peter Chester; Bruce Welch
Performer(s): Cliff Richard



You tell me that you love me baby, then you say you don't 
You tell me that you'll come on over, then you say you won't 
You love me like a hurricane, then you start to freeze 
I'll give it to you straight right now, please don't tease 

You come right out and tell me, you're out with someone new 
You play it oh so doggon cool, I don't know what to do 
You never seem to answer me, you just don't here my pleas 
I'll give it to you one more time, please don't tease 

Oh please don't tease me, you know it hurts so much 
Come on and squeeze me, you know I need your tender touch 

But you tell me that you love me baby, then you say you don't 
You tell me that you'll come on over, then you say you won't 
You love me like a hurricane, then you start to freeze 
I'll give it to you straight right now, please don't tease

Sloppy Drunk
Composer(s): Jimmy Rogers
Performer(s): B.B. King



I would rather be sloppy drunk, than anything I know
I would rather be sloppy drunk, than anything I know
Give me another half a pint boy, then you will see me go

Now I love that moonshine whiskey now, tell the world I do
Yes I love that moonshine whiskey now, tell the world I do
Now this is the reason why that I drink, I'm just trying to get along with you

I said oh, oh, bring me another half a pint
I said mmmmh, bring me another half a pint
Well I believe I'll get drunk boy, and then we gonna rock this joint

Well I love that moonshine whiskey now, tell the world I do
Yes I love that moonshine whiskey now, tell the world I do
Now this is the reason why that I drink, I'm just trying to get along with you

I said oh, oh, bring me another half a pint
I said mmmmh, bring me another half a pint
Well I believe I'll get drunk boy, and then we gonna rock this joint

I See A Star
Composer(s): Gerrit Den Braber; Hans van Hemert
First performance by: Mouth & MacNeal - 1974



The days and nights went by but no one told me

They can be fun too if you only see
There's such a lot of beauty you can live for
You only need someone to open up your eyes

And you will see things never seen before

I see a star

A brand-new star

It's right there twinklin'
In your eyes

I see a face

A happy face

It's like the mirror of my mind

I see a star . . .
I see a face . . .

You opened up my eyes for all the beauty
The beauty we're inhaling every day
It's been there all my life so it's my duty
I won't loose sight of it
the fire that you lit

Will keep on burning till the end of time

I see a star . . .
I see a face . . .
I see a star . . .

Happiness now is being shared by two
I just started my life anew

I see a star . . .
I see a face . . .

Please Don't Play Red River Valley
Composer(s): Johnny Cash
Performer(s): Johnny Cash



Well I see you got yourself a brand new harmonica
Mail ordered from the Steagal's catalogue
Boy I hope you can learn to play it like Lonnie Glossom
And while you added you to oughta learn a verse or two
Of Red River Valley Oh My Darling Clementine or Salty Dog
Oh but please don't play Red River Valley
And how about Polly Wolly doodle all day and see
You know the only song I ever learned to play on my 2 dollar and 98 cent harmonica
That I got from Wayne Raney in Clint Texas
C-l-i-n-t Clint Texas was Red River Valley
Then she said farewell to my french harp and me

Well I see you're doin' pretty good on your new harmonica
But don't you think you oughta learn about one more tune you know
See you hold it like you's gonna eat a handful of popcorn
And sometime you suck in and sometimes you blow
But friend now please don't play Red River Valley
And how about Polly Wolly doodle all day
Like I said the only song I ever learnd
On my 2 dollar and 98 cent harmonica that I got from Clint Texas
From Wayne Raney in Clint Texas was Red River Valley
Oh then she said farewell to my french harp and me

Sloop John B ((aka Wreck Of The John B. (The Weavers) - 1950))
((Adapted from: The John B. Sails (Traditional))
(Dutch Version: Hallo Ajouw - 1989)
Composer(s): Traditional - Carl Sandburg - Lee Hays
Performer(s): The Kingston Trio - 1958
and multiple other artists

Versions In Other Languages:
1966 - Mister John B. (Sylvie Vartan)
1989 - Hallo Ajouw (Normaal)



We come on the sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night
Got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I want to go home, yeah, yeah
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home

The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the Captain's trunk
The constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone
Why don't you leave me alone, yeah, yeah
Well I feel so broke up I want to go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I want to go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home
(Hoist up the John B's sail)
Hoist up the John B
I feel so broke up I want to go home
Let me go home

The poor cook he caught the fits
And threw away all my grits
And then he took and he ate up all of my corn
Let me go home
Why don't they let me go home
This is the worst trip I've ever been on

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I want to go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home

Please Don't Leave Me
Composer(s): Phil Lynott; John Sykes
Performer(s): John Sykes



In the summer we'd be crazy
We'd fool around all the time
Oh now I loved that girl
When she was mine
But now she's left me
For another guy
And it realy brought me down
For without that girl
I was lost and found

Oh darling please don't hurt me this way
Oh darling please don't leave me
Oh darling don't leave me
Oh darling please don't leave me

Now I get messed up
And I fool aroung
But there's no fun anymore
They say times must change
But I'm not so sure
Lost loves of summer
As we go out separate way
Remember memories you owe
Won't bring back those special days

(Chorus)

Please Don't Leave Me 
Composer(s): Fats Domino
Performer(s): Fats Domino



woooo, woooo, woooo, woooo 
wooo, wooo 
woohoo, woohoo, woohoo, woohoo, woohoo 
woohoo, woohoo 

Please don't leave me, baby, please don't go 
Please don't leave me, baby, please don't go 
Well if you go away and leave me, gee you gonna hurt me so 
Yes I love you baby 
Gonna tell all the world I do 
Yes I love you baby 
Gonna tell all the world I do 
Well if go away leave me don't know what I'm gonna do 

woooo, woooo, woooo, woooo 
wooo, wooo 
woohoo, woohoo, woohoo, woohoo 
woohoo, woohoo

Hallo Ajouw
((Adapted from: The John B. Sails (Traditional))
Composer(s): Traditional - Carl Sandburg - Lee Hays - Jan Manschot
Performer(s): Normaal - 1989

Versions In Other Languages:
1950 - Wreck Of The John B. (The Weavers)
1966 - Mister John B. (Sylvie Vartan)
1958 - Sloop John B (The Kingston Trio)



Wat waren wi-j nog jong, toen wi-j der an begonnen
Wi-j kwamen, wi-j zagen en wi-j overwonnen
Der is een tied van kommen, moar ook een toed van goan
Wi-j zegt hallo - en ik zeg ajouw

Joaren in 't rond, wi-j gingen van mond tut mond
Heftig hoken, 't bier vloag in 't rond
Gewoon gin gezeur, wi-j slept ow der deur
De kop der veur, wi-j donderen deur

Altied met z'n vieren, wie konnen de wereld an
Wat zo'k zeien, wi-j trokken ons eigen plan
't Wier de hoogste tied veur 't hardste lied
Al die verhalen die deren ons niet

Ik zeg nou ajouw - wi-j zegt nog steeds hallo
Ik stop der met - en wi-j goat deur met de show
Der is een tied van kommen - moar ok een tied van goan
Wi-j zegt hallo - en ik zeg ajouw

Wi-j stonnen veur kabaal, 't dak dat mos der af
Hoken in de zaal, iedereen wier maf
I-j mot niet blieven stoan, altied wieter goan
Ik zeg ajouw, moar zal wel blieven sloan

Ik zeg nou ajouw - wi-j zegt nog steeds hallo
Ik stop der met - en wi-j goat deur met de show
Der is een tied van kommen - moar ok een tied van goan
Wi-j zegt hallo - en ik zeg ajouw

Please Don't Go
Composer(s): Harry Wayne Casey; Richard Finch
Performer(s): K.C. & The Sunshine Band



I love you
Yeah
Babe, I love you so
I want you to know
That I'm going to miss your love
The minute you walk out that door
(Chorus)
So please don't go
Don't go
Don't go away
Please don't go
Don't go
I'm begging you to stay
If you leave
At least in my lifetime
I've had one dream come true
I was blessed to be loved
By someone as wonderful as you
(Chorus)
Hey, hey, hey
Yeah
Babe, I love you so
I, I want yo to know
That I'm going to miss your love
The minute you walk out that door
So please don't go
Don't go
Don't go away
Hey, hey, hey
I need your love
I'm down on my knees
Beggin' please, please, please
Don't go
Don't you hear me baby

Please don't go

Don't leave me now
Oh, no, no, no, no
Please don't go
I want you to know
That I, I, I, love you so
Don't leave me baby
Please don't go

Fleur De Liberté
Composer(s): Jacques Hustin; Frank F. Gérald
First performance by: Jacques Hustin - 1974



Reviens sur la terre, fleur de liberté
Reviens sur la terre, nos curs sont prisonniers
Il y a tant à faire et tant à aimer
Reviens sur la terre, fleur de liberté

Est-ce vraiment un enfant du Bon Dieu que j'ai vu passer ce matin?
Il avait l'air déjà d'un petit vieux qui n'attend rien du lendemain
Est-ce vraiment un homme à qui j'ai parlé? - Il me regardait sans me voir
Pourtant rien d'autre ne nous séparait que le grillage d'un comptoir

Reviens sur la terre, fleur de liberté
Reviens sur la terre, nos curs sont prisonniers
Il y a tant à faire et tant à aimer
Reviens sur la terre, fleur de liberté

Toi qui étais la princesse du vent, est-ce bien ici que tu vis
Dans ce palais de verre et de ciment où les arbres sont l'ennemi?
Tu as les doigts crispés sur l'avenir sans voir que le présent est mort
L'heure est venue pour moi de repartir, ce soir je serai seul encore

Reviens sur la terre, fleur de liberté
Reviens sur la terre, nos curs sont prisonniers
Il y a tant à faire et tant à aimer
Reviens sur la terre, fleur de liberté
(bis)

Please Don't Go
Composer(s): Les Reed; Jackie Rae
Performer(s): Donald Peers



Please don't go, I beg you don't go
For I need you here with me
If we part, down deep in my heart
I know what the end will be

No one else can take your place
The love that I have known
If I don't see your sweet face
My life I'll live alone

Stay here with me
That's the way it should be
The World can see
That I can't set you free

Just this once, I beg you just once
Forgive me for what I've done
I adore you, I was meant for you
Much more than anyone

Darling, I love you so
More than you seem to know
Stay here with me
Please don't go

Sloan
Composer(s): Bill Fries; Chip Davis
Performer(s): C.W. McCall



Well I found him on the corner of seventh and main 
In the Iowa township of Sloan 
He 'as tired an' he 'as hungry, he 'as old an' he 'as grungy 
And parked, in a no parkin' zone 

Well I bent down and says how ya doin' old fella 
He tried to get up on his own 
Then I gave him a piece of my ham salad sandwich 
And he reached up an' licked on my nose 

(He gave him a piece of his ham salad sandwich 
And reached up and licked on his nose 
Old Sloan) 

Well I opened the door of my old beat-up semi 
Threw an old dirty shirt on the floor 
He hopped in an' layed his self down by the gearshift 
Curled up and started to snore 

For years we went truckin' them highways together 
On the byways of life we did roam 
With his paws on the dashboard, his head out the windah 
And his ears in the breeze gently blowin' 

(With his paws on the dashboard 
His head out the windah 
And his ears in the breeze gently blowin' 
Old Sloan) 

Then one mornin' last May, four miles north of Mondamin 
I stopped to use a pay telephone 
Old Sloan made a fireplug, while I made a phone call 
And when I come back he was gone 

Well I searched forty miles of that interstate highway 
And the byways that we used to roam 
From Ricketts to Redline, Magnolia to Woodbine 
But I just couldn't find poor old Sloan 

(From Fiscus to Jacksonville 
Quick to Correctionville 
Looked like the end for old Sloan) 

Poor old fella 
He din't have no license nor shots nor nothin' 
I thought he 'as a goner 

Then on a cold winter day on the ninth of November 
I 'as drivin' my rig all alone 
When my eye caught a blur in my left rear view mirror 
And my ears heard the sound of old Sloan 

He 'as runnin' as fast as his old legs would run him 
And cryin' for me to slow down 
His tail was a waggin' his tongue was a draggin' 
As I opened the door for old Sloan 

(His tail was a waggin' 
His tongue was a draggin' 
As he opened the door for old Sloan 
Old Sloan) 

Well I gave him a hug and he licked me all over 
And I threw him his old dirty bone 
Then in through the windah jumped a poodle from Pisgah 
And she set on down beside Sloan 

(Then in through the windah jumped a poodle from Pisgah 
And set herself down beside Sloan 
Old Sloan) 

So that's where ya been boy... 
Hey, she's kinda pertty... 
Aww, Sloan...

Please Don't Bury Me
Composer(s): John Prine
Performer(s): John Prine;
Rig the Jig; Erik Viel



Woke up this morning
Put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen and died
And oh what a feeling!
When my soul
Went thru the ceiling
And on up into heaven I did ride
When I got there they did say
John, it happened this way
You slipped upon the floor
And hit your head
And all the angels say
Just before you passed away
These were the very last words
That you said:

Chorus:
Please don't bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
No, I'd druther have "em" cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size
Give my stomach to Milwaukee
If they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box
Just get "em" out of here
Venus de Milo can have my arms
Look out! I've got your nose
Sell my heart to the junkman
And give my love to Rose

Repeat Chorus

Give my feet to the footloose
Careless, fancy free
Give my knees to the needy
Don't pull that stuff on me
Hand me down my walking cane
It's a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye

Celui Qui Reste Et Celui Qui S'en Va
First performance by: Romuald Figuier - 1974



À la fin d'un amour, celui qui reste est le perdant
Celui qui part sait déjà que quelqu'un l'attend
À la fin d'un amour, à l'instant du dernier regard
Il y a toujours toujours sur Terre quelque part

Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va
Celui qui parle et celui qui n'ose pas
Celui qui pleure, celui qui baisse les yeux
Il y a toujours toujours à l'instant d'un adieu

Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va
Celui qui triche et celui qui ne sait pas
Celui qui va très bientôt trouver l'oubli
Et l'autre qui restera seul toute sa vie
Toute sa vie

Bien sûr je te comprends, il fallait en arriver là
Tu as la force de partir, je ne l'ai pas
Bien sûr que je comprends, bien sûr que je ne t'en veux pas
Mais déjà nous voilà devenus toi et moi

Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va
Celui qui parle et celui qui n'ose pas
Celui qui pleure, celui qui baisse les yeux
Il y a toujours toujours à l'instant d'un adieu

Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va
Celui qui triche et celui qui ne sait pas
Celui qui va très bientôt trouver l'oubli
Et l'autre qui restera seul toute sa vie

Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va

Please Don't Ask About Barbara
Composer(s): Bill Buchanan; Jack Keller
Performer(s): Bobby Vee; Gene McDaniels



Please don't ask about Barbara
Don't ask me if she's found somebody new
'cause I would try to smile but in a little while
My tears would show and then you'd know it's true
Please don't ask about Barbara
The hurt will bring the teardrops to my eyes
Though I would pretend that now she's just a friend
You'd look at me and see right through the lies
Tears, tears, go away, come again another day
How can I hide this pain I feel inside
When little teardrops give my heart away?
Don't you ever tell Barbara
I'd rather die than let her know I'm cryin'
Let her run around until the day she's found
She needs me back again but this I ask till then
"Please don't ask about Barbara"

Slipstream
Composer(s): Ian Anderson
Performer(s): Jethro Tull



Well the lush separation enfolds you
and the products of wealth
push you along on the bow wave
of the spiritless undying selves
And you press on God's waiter your last dime
as he hands you the bill
And you spin in the slipstream
timeless unreasoning
paddle right out of the mess

Please Come To Boston
Composer(s): Dave Loggins
Performer(s): Dave Loggins



Please come to Boston for the springtime
I'm stayin' here with some friends and they've got lotsa room
You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk
By a café here I hope to be workin' soon
Please come to Boston
She said "No
Would you come home to me?"

And she said, "Hey ramblin' boy now won't cha settle down?
Boston ain't your kinda town
There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"

Please come to Denver with the snowfall
We'll move up into the mountains so far that we can't be found
And throw "I love you" echoes down the canyon
And then lie awake at night till they come back around
Please come to Denver
She said "No 
Boy, would you come home to me?"

And she said, "Hey ramblin' boy why don't cha settle down?
Denver ain't your kinda town
There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me
'Cause I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"

Now this drifter's world goes 'round and 'round
And I doubt that it's ever gonna stop
But of all the dreams I've lost or found
And all that I ain't got
I still need to lean to
Somebody I can sing to

Please come to LA to live forever
California life alone is just too hard to build
I live in a house that looks out over the ocean
And there's some stars that fell from the sky
Livin' up on the hill
Please come to LA
She just said "No 
Boy, won't you come home to me?" 
And she said, "Hey ramblin' boy why don't cha settle down?
LA can't be your kinda town
There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me
No, no, I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"

"I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"