- THE JOURNEYMAN'S GRACE (D Swarbrick/R Thompson)
Someone told me there's a grace
That leads you straight from place to place
And you always leave the road behind you
You don't need your horses shod
Just a dowser and his rod
Leave your mistress, she won't need to find you
Oh please journeyman, help me on my way
Oh please, help me please. I won't be afraid
Oh please journeyman, help me on my way
Oh please, help me please. I won't be afraid
Lead my weary flesh and bone
To a circle made of stone
Take me to the mountains for my pleasure
And if the dead man won't depart
Drive a stake into his heart
And let the air deliver him his measure
Oh please journeyman, help me on my way
Oh please, help me please. I won't be afraid
Oh please journeyman, help me on my way
Oh please, help me please. I won't be afraid
Oh please journeyman, help me on my way
Oh please, help me please. I won't be afraid
Oh please journeyman, help me on my way
Oh please, help me please. I won't be afraid
When you see the race is run
And the dark has just begun
Come on with the few and leave the many
There you'll find the journeyman
With a lantern in his hand
He'll show you a good time for a penny
Oh please journeyman, help me on my way
Oh please, help me please. I won't be afraid
Oh please journeyman, help me on my way
Oh please, help me please. I won't be afraid
- SICKNESS AND DISEASES (D Swarbrick/R Thompson)
I do hate to see a rover riddled in the stones
Now he's one step nearer to the ground
And I do hate to see a hawker broken in the bones
Sickness and diseases pull you down, pull you down
Sickness and diseases pull you down
Everybody's got the sickness, everybody's down
Running to the doctor with a pound
Doctor, Doctor, do you have a needle big enough for me?
Sickness and diseases pull you down, pull you down
Sickness and diseases pull you down
Sickness and diseases pull you down, pull you down
Sickness and diseases pull you down
My friend Billy, well he looks so ill, his face as white as milk
Everybody runs for miles when he's in town
He's got every known disease and some without a name
Sickness and diseases pull you down, pull you down
Sickness and diseases pull you down
If you want to live to be a poor man or a prince
Pay good attention when evil times abound
Always listen to what you're mother said and stay in bed at night
Sickness and diseases pull you down, pull you down
Sickness and diseases pull you down
Sickness and diseases pull you down, pull you down
Sickness and diseases pull you down
- RAINBOW OVER THE HILL
Rainbow over the hill, rainbow over the hill
Rain clouds lifting just when you think they never will
And I'll be on my way, I've been down in the swamp all day
And just when it broke my will there's a rainbow over the hill
Don't you worry your weary head
About the fools and problems in your way
If you could see beyond tomorrow
You never would shed a tear today
Rainbow over the hill, rainbow over the hill
New day breaking, no time to be standing still
Further on down that road I reap what I have sowed
And just when I've had my fill there's a rainbow over the hill
Don't you worry your weary head
About the fools and problems in your way
If you could see beyond tomorrow
You never would shed a tear today
Rainbow over the hill, rainbow over the hill
Rain clouds lifting just when you think they never will
And I'll be on my way, I've been down in the swamp all day
And just when I've had my fill there's a rainbow over the hill
Rainbow over the hill, rainbow over the hill
Rainbow over the hill, rainbow over the hill
Rainbow over the hill, rainbow over the hill
- SHADY LIES
If you handed me one, you handed me a thousand shady lies
And if I needed someone, I found someone to cut me down to size
With every word you say, I'm learning every day
'Cause you keep handing me those shady, shady lies
Don't you want me to be just someone you can call on when you're down
Don't you want me to be waiting till you turn your head around
I think I must be mad, I'm thinking I've been had
'Cause you keep handing me those shady, shady lies
You're hiding your smile for the last time
Don't mention my name when I'm gone
If you handed me one, you handed me a thousand shady lies
And if I needed someone, well I found someone to cut me down to size
With every word you say, well I'm learning every day
'Cause you keep handing me those shady, shady lies
You keep handing me those shady, shady lies
You keep handing me those shady, shady lies
- A COMMERCIAL PROPOSITION
All right, everything's all right, everything's all right now
You don't have a trouble and you don't have a care, all right
All right, everything's all right, everything's all right now
So bring in the fiddle, you left out on the stair, all right
All right
Don't you worry 'bout a thing as you fly upon the wing
Everybody knows you just had to dance and sing
All right, everything's all right, everything's all right now
You don't have a trouble and you don't have a care, all right
All right
Oh, all right
Don't you worry 'bout a thing as you fly upon the wing
'Cause everybody knows you just had to dance and sing
All right, everything's all right, everything's all right now
You don't have a trouble and you don't have a care, all right
All right
All right
- THE MADNESS OF LOVE
I'm worn out from running, said the man at the crossroads
I'm threadbare like an old suit, looking for two eyes in a million
I'm dry tinder in the box, one spark and I'd torch this place
Take me to the city of tongues so I can call her name
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
I'm wrapped in confusion, said the man at the crossroads
Should my tongue speak or my tears flow
When the sickness takes you, when the fever holds you
When your reason leaves you, tell me how can you know?
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
The whole town was love-sick, they gathered at the crossroads
The rich and the poor, they began to weep
The gutters ran with tears, it was like judgement day
No one could hold back when they heard him speak
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, the madness of love
Oh, it's the madness of love
- JOSEF LOCKE
My name is Josef Locke
God bless all here and state your pleasure
If you'll refill my glass I'll sing Ave Maria
I'll sing The Old Bog Road or A Shawl of Galway Grey
And I've been gone from you for some while
Those English taxmen they've cramped my style
And if you think I'm some fraud upstart
Just let my voice be my calling card
It melted hearts, and royal teardrops fell
They loved me well, they loved me well
My name is Josef Locke
Ladies and gents, now on your honour
This is a damn poor show
You'll not call me a drunkard
I've sung for kings and princes
How the memories still glow -
O cessate di piagarmi
O lasciate mi morir
O lasciate mi morir...
All the applause, all the cheers and cries
How many times did that curtain rise
And now you dare mock the Singing Bobby
I'll find the door, take your bullies off me
A sweeter age it was that loved me well
They loved me well