Codename Ruby

She got colours in her eyes
They always make you smile
When you're down she's coming to get you
Says take a look here I got you some good news
West by south maybe thirty-two degrees
Take any weapon that you need

That's when I know
Ruby still loves me

You always keep running always keep moving
I got no plans really getting that old
By the side of the road I have seen them falling
So called soldiers, I should have known

I'm just waiting on that next mission
Deep down, enemy territory
I been up I been down
I been kicked around some

Long as I know
Ruby still loves me

So come on baby give me those new directions
Give me your sweet smile give me a new identity
Some of the things you will always remember
Get caught in the crossfire
Don't know which way to turn

She got colours in her eyes
They always make you smile
When you're down she's coming to get you
Says take a look here I got you some good news
West by south maybe thirty-two degrees
Take any weapon that you need

That's when I know
Ruby still loves me

That's when I know
Ruby still loves me

That's when I know
Ruby still loves me


Big Six Blues

Big six she run so sweet
All the horses that you need
But I don't know where we are
But I will try to call you

Eighteen shows, twenty-one days
Three hundred miles away
Sometimes I miss you and sometimes I don't

Big six will get us there
And tonight I don't really care
Just feels good to be out there
Just keep rolling

That doesn't mean I don't love you
That doesn't mean I don't care for you
Lord knows I do


January's Son

Day she breaks now in the eastern sky
Came a blackbird yes I saw her fly
Standing on the mountain far from everyone
It was the time I knew time had surely come
January's son
Where did you go wrong
Where did you go?

Must have been the gypsy, showed me the way
Do what must be done she said, know there comes a day
You shall hear the spirits whisper on the wind
Calling you to join them as the new day just begins
January's son
Where did you go wrong
Where did you go?


Ancient Heart

Ancient heart
Where are my people
Where is Dominique
The broken wing
Women dance by the fire
Mad dogs howl at the moon
Ancient heart
Where are my people
It's a strange, strange world
It's gone crazy

Ancient heart
Where are my people
In the wilderness, I know
Looking for someone to follow
What they need is someone to love them
Ancient heart
Where are my people

It's a strange, strange world
It's gone crazy
There is no love
There is no sympathy
Ancient heart
Come on save me

Ancient heart
There is no mercy
The sky is grey
Shadow on the sun
Every time I turn around
Nowhere to run
Ancient heart
Where are my people


Gypsy's Lament

Come here my friend look over yonder
See the fire on the other side
Tomorrow there comes a fight, I hope you survive

On the fields of of all the nations, they have
Hunted us gypsies we are
My tribe has been scattered to the four corners
Earth is so wide

So this one's for you my old friend Riley
Saint Adrian and Vantoon
A cold wind that blows tonight and there's blood
Blood on the moon

I and I be scared man
Hellhound be on my trail
I and I know I be running
All the rest of my days


Sarajevo

In Sarajevo our fathers would play the music
Unholy now the genocide
They killed all the gypsies
In the name of the state in the name of religion
In the name of the joker so wild

Go now go now child
Go with the night and go to the mountain
I hope to see you when the season has turned
And all of my love
And all of the gold you must take with you
And I pray I pray for you

In Sarajevo people write other
People's names on a wall
But the sniper, son of fire, he waits patiently
Target one anything that moves
Mother you must take your children
Away from the frontline

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Saint Adrian

Our patron saint our friend in need
I came to see when we were traveling
He asked me questions I had some answers
But everything keeps changing

Saint Adrian I call you
Won't you give me a sign

A king I know you said would come
And you would walk into the sun

Now in my time I have seen many places
I have known many people
But this I say to you this man I once knew
He was really a holy man

Saint Adrian I will call you
Won't you give me a sign

A king I know you said would come
And you would walk into the sun

You know I miss you so much
You were always on our side
You had truth and you had eyes
That could see so far


Death of a Gypsy

The soldiers are coming
They will take us from this room
And I do believe this is the end
Dominique my friend

I know in another thousand years
Nobody will remember us
Only the wind
The songs we made the cards we played
And now we go to the sky

There will be thirteen numbers
There will be colours and colours
Ancient heart, where are my people now?


For the Turnstiles

All the sailors with their sea sick mamas
Hear the sirens on the shore
Singing songs for bits with tailors
Who charge ten dollars at the door

You can really learn a lot that way
It will change you in the middle of the day
Though your confidence it may be shattered
It doesn't matter

All the great explorers
Are now in granite lay
Under the white sheets for the great unveiling
At the big parade

All the big league batters
Are left to die on the diamonds
In the stands the home crowd scatters

For the turnstiles


Child

You come talk to me your words of wisdom
Tell me that the river is really free
But I have been around this fair country
I know there's dirty water on the eastern sea

When I was much younger I used to wonder
Will they ever try and change the world
Now time has caught up, we're all on a shelf
They will sell you for less than you're worth

Oh but child of mine when I gaze upon you
You know my heart it seems to understand
Someday when the winter is over, I will take you
To the promised land
I'll take you to the promised land


Cocaine Blues

Going up Field Street going up Main
Looking for a guy to bum cocaine
Oh sweet mama baby take a whiff on me

Take a whiff, take a whiff, take a whiff on me
Oh sweet mama baby take a whiff on me

Cocaine's for horses not for men
Doctor says it will kill me
Don't say when
Oh sweet mama baby take a whiff on me


Time

Why don't you walk on water they said
Then the master said
Why don't you watch me if you want to
Your kingdoms they will fall like stone
There will be roses scattered all around you
Because time, time waits for no man
Baby, why don't you trust me

Thru time unseen, time in between
You still believe in your pagan gods
You make me wonder
Even as we speak the horsemen ride
C'mon baby I'll take you to the other side
Can you hear the thunder
Time, time waits for no man
C'mon baby why don't you trust me

So one more time for the midnight
One more time just for me
How much did you really,
How much did you really
Was a bad time for loving
Was a good time for the blues

All lyrics kindly retyped by Kurt Shoemaker, February 2001.

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