Alabama Soft Spoken Blues
Composer(s): Maggie Graham - Nanci Griffith
Performer(s): Nanci Griffith



Southern man, you sure are pretty
got a smile to still the city
And Lord, you know, you got those sleepy eyes
Alabama sweet-talking baby
calmed the heart of a lonely lady
You kept me flying high
and the leaving easy
And it's Dallas in the rain
and I was dreaming
October winds still blowing, Lord
you know the song were flowing
From a broken-hearted lady
by the wayside
Listen to my song, you
kept it ringing clean and strong
You held me like an angel
to confide in
And I tried to make you home
But I was dreaming

Lord, I guess you just ain't home
that damned old telephone
Is trying hard to help me find the lines here.
Wish that you could understand
why I love the other man
He gives me truth and reason
I believe in

Alabama soft-spoken blues again
Alabama soft-spoken blues again
Early morning fog is rolling in
time for leaving

Alabama soft-spoken blues

When You're 21
Composer(s): Carl Perkins
Performer(s): Carl Perkins



Now, y'was just a young fellah, Son
The night your poor Mama died
And you don't remember it now
Why, we was both right there by Mama's side
Ya see, your Ma had this sickness, Boy
From all the hard work she'd done
And she prayed all of her life
That God would let her raise her baby to be twenty-one
Aw, me and you never moved into town, Boy
We just kept on livin' out here
And life's been pretty bad
For the past twenty-one years

Aw, I remember now when you was a little fellah
And I used to take my boy to church
And I seen you in the choir with them other young'uns
And it gave this heart a jerk
Ah, you sounded like a little bitty angel, Boy
And to Papa you sure did look sweet
Even though your little ragged britches
They came half-way to your skinny little knees

After the service was all over
Aw, it always filled your Papa's heart with joy
The good Preacher'd step down
And he'd pat your little head and then he'd say
"Carlin, you've got yourself a fine little boy"

Then me and you'd get in the wagon, Child
And you'd look over towards me
And you know, you just smiled an'
Why, I'd hand you the lines,
And I'd let you drive for a little while
Oh I guess life has been tough
For me, and for you too Son
And I know tonight that I've prayed all of my life
That I could raise my baby to be twenty-one

So tonight, Son
Livin' the life down here is about over
And my work's on earth about done
Maybe now I'll get to go see the Lord and to live with your Mama
Aw, thank you Lord
'Cause tonight my baby is twenty-one

Precious, sacred scenes untold

Alabama Rain
Composer(s): Jim Croce
Performer(s): Jim Croce



Lazy days in mid July, country sunday mornings
dusty haze on summer highways, sweet magnolia calling

Now and then I find myself thinking of the days
that we were walking in the Ala -- bama rain

Drive-in movies friday night, drinking beer and laughin'
somehow things were always right, just don't know what hap-pened

Now and then I find myself thinking of the days
that we were walking in the Ala -- bama rain

We were only kids but then, I never heard it said
that kids can't fall in love and feel the same

I can still remember the first time I told I loved you

On a dusty mid July, country summer's evening
a weeping willow sung its lullaby and shared our se - cret

Now and then I find myself thinking of the days
that we were walking in the Ala -- bama rain
that we were walking in the Ala -- bama rain

When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New
Composer(s): Bert Douglas; Charles McCarthy; Joseph Solieri
Performer(s): Jimmy Roselli;
and various other artists



Shades of night are falling
Bringing memories
Memories of a bygone day
Though it may be December
Though we're old and gray
To me you're still my blushing bride of May

When your old wedding ring was new
And each dream that we dreamed came true
I remember with pride how we stood side by side
What a beautiful picture you made as my bride
Even though silver crowns your hair
I can still see those gold ringlets there
Love's old flame is the same
As the day I changed your name
When your old wedding ring was new

Alabama Jubilee
Composer(s): George L. Cobb - Jack Yellen
Performer(s): Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan 
and multiple other artists



You ought to see deacon Jones
When he rattles the bones
Old parson Brown foolin' 'roun like a clown
Aunt Jemima who is past eighty three
Shoutin' "I'm full o' pep!
Watch yo' step!, watch yo' step!
One legged Joe danced aroun' on his toe
Threw away his crutch and hollered, "let 'er go!"
Oh, honey, hail! hail! the gang's all here
For an Alabama jubilee

Mandolins, violins
Hear the darkies tunin' up, the fun begins
Come this way, don't delay
Better hurry, honey dear, or you'll be missin'
Music sweet, rag-time treat
Goes right to your head and trickles to your feet
It's a reminder, a memory finder
Of nights down in old Alabam'

Hear that flute, it's a beaut
And the tunes it's tootin', tootsie, ain't they cute?
Let's begin, it's a sin
To be missin' all this syncopated music!
Oh, you Jane, once again
Give your legs some exercise to that refrain
Boy, that's what makes me so dreamy and takes me
Back home to my old Alabam'

When Your Lover Has Gone
Composer(s): Einar Aaron Swan
Performer(s): Gene Austin;
and various other artists



What good is the scheming, the planning and dreaming
That comes with each new love affair
The dreams that we cherish, so often might perish
And leaves you with castles in air

When you're alone, who cares for starlit skies
When you're alone, the magic moonlight dies
At break of dawn, there is no sunrise
When your lover has gone

What lonely hours, the evening shadows bring
What lonely hours, with memories lingering
Like faded flowers, life can't mean anything
When your lover has gone

Alabama Highway
Composer(s): Steve Young
Performer(s): Steve Young; Jim McGuire; Willie Heath Neal



I'm Riding Down by Your old Shack Today
I'm Riding Down by Your old Shack Today
Riding On Down This Alabama Highway
I'm Riding Down by Your Old Shack Today

Lord, I've Worked All Out In Your Cotton Fields
Lord, I've Worked All Out In Your Cotton Fields
Worked So Hard Lord, I Thought It Was Unreal
Yea, I've Worked All Out In Your Cotton Fields.

Alabama Hiway, Take Me On Neath the Moonlight Toward The Day
Turn Supernatural, Take Me to the Stars, And Let Me Play
I Wanna Be Free, Alabama Highway

Yes I've Loved You, I've Loved You Dixieland
Yes I've Loved You, I've Loved You Dixieland
I Wonder Why You Never Give Me A Helping Hand
Cause I've Loved You, I've Loved You Dixieland

Alabama Highway
Take Me On
Neath the Moonlight Toward the day ..
I wanna be free, .. Alabama Highway

When Your Lover Comes Back
Composer(s): Berry Gordy Jr.
Performer(s): Mary Wells



The night is so clear & there's a moon above
Kiss me so sweetly, and I'm in love
So tell me, tell me, baby (tell me, tell me, baby)
What you gonna do (what you gonna do)
When your lover comes back? (when your lover comes back)
When your lover comes back (when your lover comes back)

It started as a plaything, didn't mean no harm
But now it's not a plaything when you take me in your arms
So tell me, tell me, baby (tell me, tell me, baby)
What you gonna do (what you gonna do)
When your lover comes back? (when your lover comes back)
When your lover comes back (when your lover comes back)

We had a quarrel; you left me so blue
I was just being kind to you; now I need you (I need you)
I need you (I need you) so bad

It started as a plaything, didn't mean no harm
But now it's not a plaything when you take me in your arms
So tell me, tell me, baby (tell me, tell me, baby)
What you gonna do (what you gonna do)
When your lover comes back? (when your lover comes back)
When your lover comes back (when your lover comes back)

When your lover comes back

Alabama Getaway
Composer(s): Jerry Garcia - Robert Hunter
Performer(s): Grateful Dead
and multiple other artists



32 teeth in a jawbone, Alabama trying for none
Before I have to hit him, I hope he's got the sense to run
Reason the poor girls love him, promise them everything
Why they all believe him? 
He wears a big diamond ring

Alabama getaway, getaway 
Alabama getaway, getaway
Only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away

Major Domo Billy Bojangles, sit down and have a drink with me
"What's this about Alabama? 
It keeps a coming back to me
Heard your plea in the courthouse 
Witness box began to rock and rise
49 sister states all had Alabama in there eyes

Alabama getaway, getaway 
Alabama getaway, getaway
Only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away

Major said why don't we give him rope enough to hang himself?
No need to worry the jury, this kind takes care of themselves
23rd psalm Major Domo, reserve me a table for three
Down in the valley of the shadow, just you, Alabama, and me

Alabama getaway, getaway 
Alabama getaway, getaway
Only way to please me, ya just gotta leave and walk away

When Your Hair Has Turned To Silver
Composer(s): Peter De Rose; Charles Tobias
Performer(s): Vera Lynn; 
and various other artists



When your hair has turned to silver
I will love you just the same
I will only call you sweetheart
That will always be your name . . .

Through a garden filled with roses
Down the sunset trail we'll stray
When your hair has turned to silver
I will love you as today . . .

Through a garden filled with roses
Down the sunset trail we'll stray
When your hair has turned to silver
I will love you as today . . .

Alabama Bound
Composer(s): Leadbelly
Performer(s): Leadbelly



I'm Alabama bound
I'm Alabama bound
And if the train don't stop and turn around
I'm Alabama bound

Oh, don't you leave me here
Oh, don't you leave me here
But if you must go anyhow
Just leave a dime for beer

Oh don't you be like me
Oh don't you be like me
Drink your good sweet cherry wine
And let that whiskey be

Well your hair don't curve
And your eyes ain't blue
Well if you don't want me, Polly Ann
Well I don't want you

When You Wore A Tulip
Composer(s): Percy Wenrich; Jack Mahoney
Performer(s): Jerry Lee Lewis;
and various other artists



When you wore a tulip
A sweet, yellow tulip
And I wore a big red rose
When you caressed me
'Twas then Heaven blessed me
Such a blessing no one knows
You made life cheery
When you called me dearie
'Twas down where the blue grass grows
Oh, it was sweeter than julep
When you wore a tulip
And I wore a big red rose

Ala De Colibrí
Composer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
Performer(s): Silvio Rodríguez



Hoy me propongo fundar un partido de sueños
talleres donde reparar alas de colibríes
Se admiten tarados, enfermos, gordos sin amor
tullidos, enanos, vampiros y días sin sol

Hoy voy a patrocinar el candor desahuciado
esa crítica masa de Dios que no es pos ni moderna
Se admiten proscritos, rabiosos, pueblos sin hogar
desaparecidos deudores del banco mundial

Por una calle
descascarada
por una mano
bien apretada

Hoy voy a hacer asamblea de flores marchitas
de deshechos de fiesta infantil, de piñatas usadas
de sombras en pena -del reino de lo natural
que otorgan licencia a cualquier artefacto de amar

Por el levante
por el poniente
por el deseo
por la simiente

por tanta noche
por el sol diario
en compañía
y en solitario

Ala de colibrí
liviana y pura
Ala de colibrí
para la cura

When You Wish Upon A Star
Composer(s): Leigh Harline; Ned Washington
Performer(s): Cliff Edwards



When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you

If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do

Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true

Al Venir Hacia Acá
Performer(s): Silvio Rodríguez



Al venir hacia acá
iba mirando el color de la acera
Era gris, como siempre
algo sucia y gastada
Tambien conté las grietas
y había cuarenta y tres nidos de hormigas

Al venir hacia acá
iba escuchando el sonido del aire
Era confuso y mezclado
en camiones y puertas
La gente se besaba
y había ruidos sin nombre ni apariencia

Al venir hacia acá
iba lentamente
como una ceremonia
secreta del camino
Al venir hacia acá
iba sonriendo
tranquilo y poderoso
como cualquiera que anda

Al venir hacia acá
iba tocando la piel de algún árbol
Eran húmedas, suaves
(eran pieles de árbol)
Tambien corté unas hojas
para soltarlas al aire de la noche

When You Were Sweet Sixteen
Composer(s): James Thornton
Performer(s): The Mills Brothers;
and various other artists



You were sweet sixteen, you were sweet sixteen

I love you as I never loved before! 
Since first I met you on the village green
Come to me, or my dream of love is o'er! 
I love you as I loved you
When you were sweet 
When you were sweet sixteen

When first I saw the lovelight in your eye
And dreamt the world held naught but joy for me
And even though we drifted far apart
I never dreamt of what I dream of thee 

I love you as I never loved before! 
Since first I met you on the village green
Come to me, or my dream of love is o'er! 
I love you as I loved you
When you were sweet 
When you were sweet sixteen

Al Ponerse El Sol
Composer(s): Manuel Alejandro
Performer(s): Raphael



Nada se termina, todo vuelve a comenzar
Mueren ilusiones y otras nuevas naceran
La luna de ayer noche esta noche brillara
Las olas que se alejan a las playas volveran

Al ponerse el sol se llena el cielo de estrellas
Al ponerse el sol la noche empieza a nacer
Se puede hundir una vida y comenzarla otra vez
Al ponerse el sol comienza el amor

Por fin he comprendido que mi vida no acabo
Mi vida empieza ahora porque tengo un nuevo amor

When You Were Queen Of The May
Composer(s): Chas. E. Baer; Marion Raybould



Let me kiss those tears away
Smooth the locks now silver gray
Locks once gold
Let me whisper sweet and low
Love tales whisper'd long ago
Never old
You remember how the mocking birds were singing
So sweetly singing
Their love notes ringing
All the joys of love's young dream their songs were bringing
When my love I told. . . . .

Time's been kind to us I know
But someday we'll have to go
With the tide
Smilingly we've borne our share
Of life's sorrow, joy and care 
Side by side
In my dreams I hear the mocking birds still singing
So sweetly singing 
Their love notes ringing
And my heart is to the old days fondly clinging
When you were my bride. . . . .

Remember the village green, dear
Remember the ging-ham gown
You were that day, dear
Queen of the May, dear 
Apple blossoms drifting down, drifting down, drifting down
You were the fairest there, dear
You won my heart that day
And to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie
When you were the Queen of the May

Al Pie De La Montaña
Composer(s): José Alfredo Jiménez 
Performer(s): Lola Beltrán



Una casita al pie de la montaña
un arroyo que corra por el campo
un sol que alumbre siempre mi mañana
y una luna que brille en la noche
mientras canto

Una cariño que entienda mi cariño
una guitarra fiel que me acompañe
una copa de vino y un amigo
que platique de amor y respete el dolor
sin que me engañe

Eso quiero tener para darle mi adiós
a la gran ciudad, yo me quise quedar
pero siempre encontre alguién que me hizo mal

Por eso busco el pie de la montaña
y el arroyo que corra por el campo
por eso quiero el sol de la mañana
que me ayude a vivir sin que sienta morir
dentro del alma

Una casita al pie de la montaña

When You Waltz With The Girl You Love
Composer(s): Garfield Kilgour; Harry Von Tilzer



Music softly plays 
dreamy loveland days 
Waltzing a long with one dear sweet girl 
heart awhirl as you twirl 
gliding all around to that dreamy sound 
two eyes of blue steal your heart too 
then you say "Dear I'll be true"

Dreaming as you glide 
drifting by her side 
waltzing forever and then a day 
heart so gay as you sway 
you look in her eyes 
you're in Paradise 
that dreamy sound guides you around 
true happiness you have found

When you waltz with the girl that you love and adore 
all the world seems right in tune for a June time honeymoon 
when she says she'll be true as the stars up above 
then you sing of the Spring and the ring it will bring 
when you waltz with the girl you love