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I'm a Gambler
04:44
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I’m A Gambler Key of Bm / 108 bpm / Time 4:46
So many times I’ve tried to walk away
You pulled me back down now there’s nothing I can say
I’m a gambler -Ain’t nothing left for me to do
Ain’t no taste of heaven
Can save me now I’m just your fool
Just like a prize hanging on a string
I can’t escape can’t you see the shape I’m in
I’m a gambler – just one more toss of the dice
Ain’t no taste of heaven can save me now
I’m just your sacrifice
No matter what I do I cannot break away
Seven come eleven now I’m losing every day
I’m a gambler - I know that this ain’t right
Ain’t no taste of heaven can save me know
No it just ain’t worth the fight
I’m down so low what can anybody do
Aint’ nothing left to stake a claim on you
I’m a gambler – Now I lay it all on the line
Take my soul to heaven
Cause I believe that it’s losing time
I believe that it’s losing time
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2. |
Roll Sweet Daddy
03:59
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Roll Sweet Daddy Key of G / 90 bpm / Time 3:57
I can’t say that you been on my mind
The memory of you is making me feel fine
So come on Roll Sweet Daddy
Stop and take some time.
Yeah Roll it slowly yeah you got the feel
Slide on up till you got something real
Oh yeah Roll Sweet Daddy
You know how to deal
I say...Roll Sweet Daddy (roll sweet daddy)
Roll Sweet Daddy (roll sweet daddy)
Roll Sweet Daddy (roll sweet daddy)
Roll Sweet Daddy (roll sweet daddy)
Roll Sweet Daddy
You know that this is something real
Ain’t know trouble when you’re feelin right
Step up to the wild side in the light
Whoa come on Roll sweet Daddy
Nothin’s gonna stop us tonight
I say...Roll Sweet Daddy (roll sweet daddy)
Come on Roll Sweet Daddy
Roll Sweet Daddy (roll sweet daddy)
Roll Sweet Daddy (roll sweet daddy)
Roll Sweet Daddy (roll sweet daddy)
Roll Sweet Daddy
Nothin’s gonna stop us tonight
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3. |
Heart of the Blues
04:23
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Heart of the Blues Key of Am / 108 bpm / Time 4:26
Too many tears we’ve cried
There is no place to hide
In the darkness is there nothing really new
All alone now in the Heart of the Blues
No way to turn around
This emptiness is found
Deep inside is there anything that’s true
Can our love survive in the Heart of the Blues
This pain won’t wash away
Fall deeper everyday
Is there nothing that we can ever do
So long now in the Heart of the Blues
Tremble now at the sight
We both know it ain’t right
Try to find anyway through
And we’re drowning in the heart of the blues
In the heart of the blues
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4. |
Cry Cry Cry
04:05
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Cry Cry Cry Key of G / 98 bpm / Time 4:03
All you wanna do is make me cry cry cry
I’m always left asking baby why why why
You wanna leave me barely hangin on
Why you gotta hurt me so
While I try to be strong
All I wanna do is baby try try try
But you hurt me so much I wanna die die die
Oh believe me I need you to understand
Why’s it so damn hard for you to be a better man
I caught you baby all you do is lie lie lie
When I pin you down you try to fly fly fly
And everybody knows your just an evil kind of man
Yeah you are. Why you gotta hurt me so
While I try to understand
Now all I can do is say my my my
I’m gonna pack my bags and say bye bye bye
I’m gonna leave you just barely hangin on
You no longer hurt me so
Yeah I’m finally strong
I used to sit around and baby cry cry cry
But now I’m so very very high high high
Oh since I left you baby
Just barely hangin on
You can no longer hurt me so
I’m finally strong
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5. |
Losing Man
06:22
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Losing Man Key of E / 49 bpm / Time 6:22
In the Lazy Summertime
You haven’t got a dime
You say you’re feelin lucky
But you don’t really got the time
So you lay your money down
And they deal you a losing hand
And as you walk away
Everybody call you the losing man
Livin on whiskey on the hard side of town
Broken down believer
Hoping to be found as you spend all your money
On one toss of the dice
Nothing but a fool Oh you know now baby you’re just a losing man
Aint nothing but a losing man
You think you got it made
As you stroll around in style
You drive your fancy car
Drive the women wild
But the cards they don’t lie
Now go ahead and try to make your stand.
As we watch the tables turn.
Everybody calls you the losing man
Aint nothing but a losing man
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6. |
It's So Easy
03:00
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It’s So Easy Key of C / 98 bpm / Time 3:01
It’s so easy when you finally found
Someone to love you
Who really wants you round
Oh it’s so easy
Keep you from feeling down
Yeah its so easy to hold your head up high
Oh you got that love
In your bed each night
Oh so damn easy you always feeling right
No ain’t no trouble ain’t no misery
Yeah ain’t no trouble ain’t no misery
Yeah its so damn easy you’re finally feeling free
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7. |
Calling All Saints
04:25
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Calling All Saints Key of E / 87 bpm / Time 4:26
Too much trouble in the bad part of town
One bullet brings another child to the ground
Now we’re calling all saints to heal them in Chi-town
One man’s faith is just another man’s cause
They shoot em up just ignore the law
We’re calling all saints come on down and save us all
Walk these streets you feel the cold wind blow
Empty eyes as they all fight for the gold
Calling all saints to heal the Chi-town soul
Mr. Mayor please do what you can
Show them the law don’t have to have such a heavy hand
Calling all saints to heal em in Chi-land
Preacher teach there’s got to be a place to start
No bully can tear this town apart
We are the saints to save this Chi-town heart
Tell me why one more child has to die
Stand around and tell the same ol lies
We are the saints that can heal the
Chi-town cry
Too much trouble in the bad part of town
One bullet brings another child to the ground
Now we’re calling all saints to heal them in Chi-town
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Everybody Wants To Be Loved Key of G / 100 bpm / Time 5:02
Everybody wants to be loved
Yell from the tree tops to the heaven above
Everybody just wants to be loved
Well there ain’t no doubt about it
All we need is love
If all the trouble in the world today
Could easily be swept away
What would you give
What would you wanna do Oh Oh Oh
if you could just give love you never really have the blues
Well all the guns would finally be put down
And all the lonely people would be found
If everybody’d show someone they care
We’d all the hate and now...love wouldn’t be so rare
Everybody wants to be loved
Yell from the tree tops to the heaven above
Everybody just wants to be loved Oh Oh Oh
Well there ain’t no doubt about it
All we need is love
Believe in love now there is no doubt
That all this pain can be thrown out
And heaven can be right there for you Oh Oh Oh
I swear love is everywhere it’s shining down on you.
No don’t be cold don’t live in fear
Open your heart let somebody near
Never give up on finding somebody true
I swear that love is everywhere Feel it shining on you.
Can you feel it shining!!!
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9. |
Bucky Blues
05:04
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Bucky Blues Key of E / 65 bpm / Time 5:04
It’s early in the morning
Not much I can do
My heart is feelin heavy
In the memory of you
This pain don’t go away
I got the Bucky Blues
Why’d you have to leave
Now what am I supposed to do
You left a hole in my heart
Don’t know where to begin
I try to move on but the pain pulls me back in
You were the best in me
Now you’re wearing angels wings
Bucky why’d you have to leave
Everybody knows what you meant to this world
You had a heart of gold really quite a pearl
You’d never run you’d always fight to win
Now Bucky why’d you gone and leave
I need you baby come back in
It’s early in the morning
Not much I can do My heart is feelin heavy
In the memory of you
This pain don’t go away I got the Bucky Blues
Why’d you have to leave
There’s nothing left for me to do
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10. |
Battle of Jessie
03:16
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Battle of Jessie Key of E / 98 bpm / Time: 3:14
Way down in the holler on the bad side of town
Jessie knew someday they’d take his life
So he ran hard every night, trying to stay in the light
No they won’t break him down without a fight
His daddy was a gambler
His momma played the blues
They never really taught him wrong from right
But Jessie was a good man doing everything he can
No he won’t be broken down without a fight
As the story happens on one hot summer night
The chips were down and Jessie had a gun
Now the bloodstains won’t wash away
Jesse finally had his day and now our man
Is really on the run
The law tried to find him but they couldn’t find a trace
For many years it seemed that he has won
Till one day he came to town and the sheriff tried to
Shoot him down, he was wounded in the arm by the sheriff’s gun.
He held his hand up to the sky and shouted lord why o why
Did you forsake me after all the good I done
No there ain’t no way I die tonight I’m rising up to fight the fight
Ain’t no way the devil wins cause it ain’t right
The moral of the story is to stay out of the street
Cause trouble always finds a way to win
Yes Jessie was a good man, doing everything he can but
Trouble always finds a way to win
Yeah the devil always finds a way to win
Yeah yeah trouble always finds a way to win
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11. |
Trouble With The Water
04:37
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Trouble With The Water Key of G / 125 bpm / Time 4:35
There’s trouble with the water when will they testify
Trouble with the water how many people lied
When they cover up the story of how many children died
Oh the Trouble with the water
Now there ain’t no place to hide
Just a small town by the river
What can a poor mama do
They said people don’t’ you worry
But they aint talking true
Now everybody’s tryin to help but what can really be done
Oh the trouble with the water’s like a lead loaded gun
Just trying to save a dollar
Well it ain’t so black and white
Well they knew about the trouble
But they lied and it ain’t right
When poison runs through neighborhoods
Where only children do run.
Well the trouble with the water
What has Mr. Synder done
Politicians love their Jesus
But they love their money more
They will justify their actions,
Take advantage of the poor
Well Jesus would be horrified by what some wealthy people do
And the trouble with the water,
Well it really ain’t nothing new
Trouble with the water yeah
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12. |
Black Orchid Blues
05:42
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Black Orchid Blues Key of Gm / 74 bpm / Time 5:43
Why does everything have to go so wrong
Why do struggle for so long
When all around me everybody’s acting crazy
Why do we carry on
And yes, this is an evil time
I say, Oh yeah this is an evil time
When all around you all you can see baby is so many people
Ain’t no reason why
No, no...ain’t no reason
I know, whoa yeah that someday love will find a way
Whoa and I know whoa oh oh that someday love’s gonna find a way
Yeah and we’ll end all of this suffering cause I know
that love’s the only way
Why, does everything have to go so wrong
Why, why, why why why does everything have to go so wrong
Now when all around everybody’s acting crazy
Why do we carry on, do we carry on
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