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Old Man Roller | Meet you in L.A. |
music: Peter Hesslein / words: James Hopkins Harrison | Hesslein/Homs/ Starrs/ Hecht/ Bornholdt |
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you had better watch out yeh | you sit on the riverbank |
when this cat is around he's motorbike child |
you're watching the boats go by |
he just takes to the road |
you're twenty years old and it's burnin' |
a riding chicken alone |
gotta steal to survive |
man I tell you he's wild |
telling too many lies |
with his hair greased back |
but you're ready and the plans they are made |
he hits the track | . |
be it town or freeway |
you gotta get away |
he rides speedway |
you gotta see for yourself |
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there's a world out there just waiting |
old man roller just gets going, yeah |
giving up this street life has been on your mind |
rock an rollin' giving everything he got |
so move on today |
when he's dancin' he rocks around the clock |
and I'll meet ya down in L. A. |
just a rollin' his everything in life is rock'n roll |
New York, Chicago onto Santa Fe |
rock and rollin' he twists the night away |
once you've started out on that road |
got a joke box and rock is all it |
you aint ever comin' back |
plays just a rollin'he doesn't have a care | . |
just rock'n'roll |
and if you wanna go to sunny California |
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they got the girls who'll keep you warmer |
he still lives in the fifties, yeah |
once you've started out on that road |
it seems that the times went and left him behind |
you aint ever comin' back |
everytime he's in town the people gather around |
you sit by the railroad track |
think he's out of his mind |
you're watchin' the trains go past |
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thirty years old and it's churning |
he really doesn't give a damn |
you're still using the lines |
what people think of him |
but the're way out a time |
they call him old man roller |
so catch the next plane going |
they laugh behind his shoulder | . |
they call him old man roller |
you gotta get away |
rock and rollin', rock and rollin' |
you gotta see for yourself |
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there's a world out there just waiting |
My Love
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giving up this street life has been on your mind |
Hesslein/ Horns/ Starrs/ Hecht/ Bornholdt |
so move on today |
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years fly past, and time is lost |
my love, the teardrops in your eyes again |
you never worry at all |
was made me realize again |
all you wanna do in life |
that all I did was wrong |
is follow the long winding road |
but you know I was blind to love |
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so blind to your ways, all of your ways |
you even tried saving money to buy a few things |
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but that was never the way |
they were for me, and for me alone you gave it all |
the way to get back on the road again |
like a fool, I didn't know you would soon be gone |
headin' for a new town every day |
but to late, I see your face |
and I'll meet ya - down in L. A. |
I see the place where everyone used to play |
New York, Chicago onto Santa Fe |
playing games of love with you |
once you've started out on that road |
it used to be so right, believe me |
you ain't ever comin' back |
when I say, making love as easy for us |
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but you know, our love was wrong |
Good Times |
so wrong, and love has faded like the sun |
Hesslein/ Horns/ Starrs/Hecht/Bornholdt |
now you know, our love was wrong |
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I'm sorry that I made you cry |
I aint the way I used to be |
. | but hey! babe I'm fine |
my love, I said goodbye, |
well, I guess I may have changed |
and now I know, maybe I should apologize |
but who's the same |
for what I did was wrong |
all of the time |
but you know I was blind to love |
I missed the sign |
so blind to your ways, all of your ways |
lost the way |
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Little Dancer
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I was almost goin' stone insane |
Hesslein/ Horns/Starrs/ Hecht/ Bornholdt |
you know what you've been doin' |
. | babe you're foolin' yourself |
I went into a dance hall |
when you were playin' for time |
I was lookin' for a little romance |
you had the best of those days |
she was standing on the floor alone |
I was a fool, and so blind |
I thought I might take a chance |
it was a game that you played |
but when she started to dance |
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man, she was dancing on the floor |
now that I can see for free why should I pay |
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even though I need some change |
I knew then I had to move then |
I'm gonna make it clear from today |
had to find me another girl |
I'm gonna step ahead grab a chance |
thought I found somebody else, said |
maybe fall in love, have a good romance |
goodbye to my little friend |
I know what I'm doin' babe, gonna |
but this other chick |
leave you behind |
couldn't do the things |
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that I wanted for myself |
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Sweet little Lady
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when I looked around |
Hesslein/ Homs/ Starrs/ Hecht/ Bornholdt/ Mavros
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she was dancin' right beside the back door |
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what a mover, she was a groover |
you're such a pretty schoolgirl movin'
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she was just what i was lookin' for |
in a grown up world
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what a dancer, what a dancer |
you go to all the rock shows hangin' round
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man, you oughta see her move |
the back doors you're leaving way to fast
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what a dancer |
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but a romancer |
I know you're sucha good girl
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but you're livin' in a crazy world
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was something she just couldn't do |
you're really goin' nowhere
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when I left the dance hall |
and you're movin' like a fast train
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she was walking next to me |
you'll never loose the past
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all the guys they stood and laughed |
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they knew how she could be |
you're lookin' so cool
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when we got outside |
when you're standin' by the stage
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lord, she kissed me and said goodbye |
just you wait cause you got a lot of lovin' to make
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I had to leave her, couldn't please her |
It's what they want from you
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I just hung my head and I cried |
and I know you want it too
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all the signs |
oh, sweet little lady
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should have told me |
well you're a cute little thing
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I didn't stand a chance |
but I don't wanna know your name
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no matter what I did, |
sweet little baby
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all she had in her head |
and you're a little roller skater
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was to get on that floor |
no one does it better than my
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sweet little lady
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Gamblin' Man |
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Hesslein/ Horns/Starrs/ Hecht/ Bornholdt |
when you wanna give some lovin'
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I know where you go runnin' down
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papa said I'm a fool tonight
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to where the bands play anytime
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he doesn't really try to know me
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night or day
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I don't care!
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you do your thing so fine
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the guys are here
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I've got the dice
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you're such a pretty schoolgirl
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gettin' old before your time
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you don't have to go to school today
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you go to all the Rock shows
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if this is what you wanna learn
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hangin' round the back doors
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all the cats they wanted to play
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you're leaving way to fast
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c'mon, man
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throw them
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Warriors |
it doesn't matter
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Hesslein/ Horns/ Starrs/ Hecht/ Bornholdt
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what game you play
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it doesn't really matter
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this war is done, we journey on
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what game you choose
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searching always for the other side
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the death bells lonely cry says goodbye
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if you don't have lady luck
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we travelled far, fought and won this war
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pretty sure your gonna lose
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thank god we're still alive!
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roll 'em once, roll 'em twice
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many men have died!
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you got to roll again
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I still hear them cry
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if you're thinking to win
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you're just a fool
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on and on we go
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where will we be tomorrow
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shake 'em once, shake 'em twice
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on and on
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you got to shake again you got to roll 'em
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sailing through the night |
you got to throw them for me
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on and on we go
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I'm sailing down the Mississippi
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we want to reach land tomorrow
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working like I know how
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so blow you trade winds
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blow us through the night
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I didn't know which way I was goin'
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but that's o. k. right now
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we've fought and won many wars |
a gamblin' man, it's all I'll ever be
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I know someday |
but don't you ever worry
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we will surely fall
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I was born, when the odds were wrong
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it's our destiny
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my mama left me in a sure fire hurry
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then the wind will softly tell the story
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of the men who die in glory and in shame
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but they all die in vain.
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it's all so wrong
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young men grow old in such a short time
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god where is your mind!
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but the lords of war say
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this is how they play
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so it stays!
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the moon tonight, cries alone
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a filling star is brushed away
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only fools would say we'll be saved
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this war is done, we must travel on
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always searching for the other side
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the death bells ghostly cry
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is ringing in my mind
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they hoisted up the sail
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and they let the flag unfurl
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then the wind did surely blow
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so they crossed the Spanish main
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that's another world away
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what awaits them no one knows
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the devil alone will surely know
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them for all the wrongs we've done
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who'll save us
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