"Tom Dooley"

The Kingston Trio

[Intro:]

Throughout history

There've been many songs written about the eternal triangle

This next one tells the story of a Mr Grayson, a beautiful woman

And a condemned man named Tom Dooley...

When the sun rises tomorrow, Tom Dooley... must hang...

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Hang down your head and cry

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Poor boy, you're bound to die

I met her on the mountain

There I took her life

Met her on the mountain

Stabbed her with my knife

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Hang down your head and cry

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Poor boy, you're bound to die

This time tomorrow

Reckon where I'll be

Hadn't a-been for Grayson

I'd a-been in Tennessee

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Hang down your head and cry

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Poor boy, you're bound to die

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Hang down your head and cry

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Poor boy, you're bound to die

This time tomorrow

Reckon where I'll be

Down in some lonesome valley

Hangin' from a white oak tree

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Hang down your head and cry

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Poor boy, you're bound to die

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Hang down your head and cry

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Poor boy, you're bound to die

Poor boy, you're bound to die

Poor boy you're bound to die

Poor boy, you're bound to die...

ÒMaxwell's Silver HammerÓ

John Lennon & Paul McCartney

The Beatles Abbey Road

Joan was quizzical; studied pataphysical

Science in the home.

Late nights all alone with a test tube.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine,

Calls her on the phone.

"Can I take you out to the pictures,

Joa, oa, oa, oan?"

But as she's getting ready to go,

A knock comes on the door.

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Came down upon her head.

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Made sure that she was dead.

Back in school again Maxwell plays the fool again.

Teacher gets annoyed.

Wishing to avoid and unpleasant

Sce, e, e, ene,

She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away,

So he waits behind

Writing fifty times "I must not be

So, o, o, o.."

But when she turns her back on the boy,

He creeps up from behind.

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Came down upon her head.

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Made sure that she was dead.

P. C. Thirty-one said, "We caught a dirty one."

Maxwell stands alone

Painting testimonial pictures.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Rose and Valerie, screaming from the gallery

Say he must go free

(Maxwell must go free)

The judge does not agree and he tells them

So, o, o, o.

But as the words are leaving his lips,

A noise comes from behind.

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Came down upon his head.

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer

Made sure that he was dead.

Whoa, oh, oh, oh.

Silver hammer.

ÒCocaine BluesÓ

Cash Johnny

At Folsom Prison

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds

I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down

I went right home and I went to bed

I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head

Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun

Took a shot of cocaine and away I run

Made a good run but I ran too slow

They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico

Late in the hot joints takin' the pills

In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill

He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown

You're the dirty heck that shot your woman down

Said yes, oh yes my name is Willy Lee

If you've got the warrant just a-read it to me

Shot her down because she made me sore

I thought I was her daddy but she had five more

When I was arrested I was dressed in black

They put me on a train and they took me back

Had no friend for to go my bail

They slapped my dried up carcass in that county jail

Early next mornin' bout a half past nine

I spied the sheriff coming down the line

Ah, and he coughed as he cleared his throat

He said come on you dirty heck into that district court

Into the courtroom my trial began

Where I was handled by twelve honest men

Just before the jury started out

I saw the little judge commence to look about

In about five minutes in walked the man

Holding the verdict in his right hand

The verdict read murder in the first degree

I hollered Lawdy Lawdy, have a mercy on me

The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen

99 years in the Folsom pen

99 years underneath that ground

I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down

Come on you've gotta listen unto me

Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be

ÒThe Long Black VeilÓ

Cash Johnny

At Folsom Prison

Ten years ago, on a cold dark night

Someone was killed, 'neath the town hall light

There were few at the scene, but they all agreed

That the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me

The judge said son, what is your alibi

If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die

I spoke not a word, thou it meant my life

For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife

Chorus

She walks these hills in a long black veil

She visits my grave when the night winds wail

Nobody knows, nobody sees

Nobody knows but me

Oh, the scaffold is high and eternity's near

She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear

But late at night, when the north wind blows

In a long black veil, she cries ov're my bones

Chorus

She walks these hills in a long black veil

She visits my grave when the night winds wail

Nobody knows, nobody sees

Nobody knows but me

ÒDelia's GoneÓ

Cash Johnny

American Recordings

Delia, oh, Delia Delia all my life

If I hadn't have shot poor

Delia I'd have had her for my wife

Delia's gone, one more round Delia's gone

I went up to Memphis

And I met Delia there Found her in her parlor

And I tied to her chair

Delia's gone, one more round Delia's gone

She was low down and trifling

And she was cold and mean

Kind of evil make me want to Grab my sub machine

Delia's gone, one more round Delia's gone

First time I shot her I shot her in the side

Hard to watch her suffer

But with the second shot she died

Delia's gone, one more round Delia's gone

But jailer, oh, jailer Jailer,

I can't sleep 'Cause all around my bedside

I hear the patter of Delia's feet

Delia's gone, one more round Delia's gone

So if you woman's devilish

You can let her run

Or you can bring her down and do her

Like Delia got done

Delia's gone, one more round Delia's gone

ÒHardin Wouldn't RunÓ

by Johnny Cash

I know a man whose plow handle hand is quicker than the light,

Wes Hardin is his name, they say he travels in the night,

for he might have to kill or walk around a fight.

And if you ever saw Wes Hardin draw you know he can skin his gun,

he won't say how many tried and died, up against the top hand,

up against the wrong man, cause Hardin wouldn't run.

He rode in like the Texas wind, took the Eastbound train,

going, going with Jane Bowen till the law men caught up,

So long Janie, chin up, I'll be back again.

Off he went to Huntsville Prison, so long Jane he cried,

fifteen years she waited till her heart broke, and she died,

and she left that bad land to wait up in the sky.

Free at last, the payin' past for all the wrong he did, first

free air they let him breathe since he was a kid, So let him

come and let him go, and let him deal and bid.

Near the border in El Paso "Lawyer" read the sign,

but you won't find him there for business every day at nine,

for business is real bad one client's all he had in quite a

long time.

Then Sheriff Selman's boy broke into Wes's woman's place,

up she jumped and pistol whipped him, kicked him in the face,

and John Selman demands revenge for this disgrace.

You can see her every night by candle light at Hardin's

favorite bar, She'd be hanging on his arm, and very late

they'd leave there, Heading for the goose hair, glad it wasn't far.

Thru the swinging door John Selman came with blazing gun,

Wes Hardin chug-a-luggin' red eye, got him in the back of the head,

John Wesley Hardin fell dead, cause Hardin wouldn't run.

ÒHenry LeeÓ

Nick Cave

Murder Ballads

get down, get down, little henry lee

and stay all night with me

you won't find a girl in this damn world

that will compare with me

and the wind did howl and the wind did blow

la la la la la

la la la la lee

a little bird lit down on henry lee

i can't get down and i won't get down

and stay all night with thee

for the girl i have in that merry green land

i love far better than thee

and the wind did howl and the wind did blow

la la la la la

la la la la lee

a little bird lit down on henry lee

she leaned herself against a fence

just for a kiss or two

and with a little pen-knife held in her hand

she plugged him through and through

and the wind did roar and the wind did moan

la la la la la

la la la la lee

a little bird lit down on henry lee

come take him by his lilly-white hands

come take him by his feet

and throw him in this deep deep well

which is more than one hundred feet

and the wind did howl and the wind did blow

la la la la la

la la la la lee

a little bird lit down on henry lee

lie there, lie there, little henry lee

till the flesh drops from your bones

for the girl you have in that merry green land

can wait forever for you to come home

and the wind did howl and the wind did moan

la la la la la

la la la la lee

a little bird lit down on henry lee

ÒStagger LeeÓ

Taj Mahal

Could Be on a rainy moring

Could be on a rainy night

Oh, Stagger Lee and Billy DeLyons

Had a great big fight

Talkin bout that bad man

Cruel old Stagger Lee

"Stagger Lee", said Billy,

Man you know I can't go with that

I done worn all your money

and your great big stetson hat

Talkin bout that bad man, bad man

Cruel old Stagger Lee

"Stagger Lee", said Billy,

Man don't take my life

I got two lovely children

and a very lovely wife

Talkin bout that bad man

Cruel old Stagger Lee

What do I care about your two little babes

or your darling life

you done wore my stetson hat,

I'm bound to take your life

Talkin bout that bad man, bad man

Cruel old Stagger Lee

Well Stagger Lee shot Billy

Shot that boy so bad

that the bullet went through Billy

and broke the bartenders looking glass

Talkin bout that bad man, bad man

Cruel old Stagger Lee

If you ever down in Louisiana

go in to the Lyons Club

Every foot you be steppin in

Billy did lie in blood

Talkin bout that bad man, bad man

Cruel old Stagger Lee

Could Be on a rainy moring

Could be on a rainy night

Oh, Stagger Lee and Billy DeLyons

Had a great big fight

Talkin bout that bad man, bad man

Cruel old Stagger Lee

ÒKimÓ

Eminem

Marshall Mathers LP

Aww look at daddy's baby girl

That's daddy baby

Little sleepy head

Yesterday I changed your diaper, wiped you and powdered you.

How did you get so big, can't believe it, now your two

Baby your so precious, daddy's so proud of you

SIT DOWN, BITCH, IF YOU MOVE AGAIN I'LL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OFYOU..

Kim: OK!!

Eminem: (Kim screaming) Don't make me wake this baby, she don't need to see

what IÕm about to do

Quit crying bitch, why do you always make me shout at you

How could you?...just leave me and love him out the blue

Kim: (crying)

Eminem: Oh, what's a matter Kim....am I too loud for you?? (Kim screaming)

Too bad bitch, your gonna finally hear me out this time

At first, IÕm like all right, you wanna throw me out, that's fine.

But not for him to take my place, are you out you're mind?

This couch, this tv, this whole house is mine.

How could you let him sleep in our bed?

Look it Kim, Look at your husband now,(kim: NOOO) I said look at him!!!

He ain't so hot now is he? Little punk.

Kim: Why are you doing this?

Eminem: Shut the fuck up!!!

Kim: You're drunk, You're never going to get away at this..

Eminem: You think I give a fuck!

Come on..we're goingÕ for a ride bitch,(Kim: NOOOO) sit upfront.

Kim: why can't we just leave Haley alone....what if she wakes up?

Eminem: We'll be right back......Well I will, you'll be in the trunk.

Chorus 2x

SO LONG

BITCH YOU DID ME SO WRONG

I DON'T WANNA GO ON

LIVIN' IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT YOU

Eminem: You really fucked me Kim,

You really did a number on me,

Never knew me cheatin' on you would come back to hunt me.

But we was kids then Kim, I was only 18!

That was years ago, I thought we wiped the slate clean

That's fucked up!!

Kim: I LOVE YOU.

Eminem: OH GOD MY BRAIN IS RACIN!

Kim: I LOVE YOU.

Eminem: What are you doing, change the station......I HATE this song! Does

this look like a big joke?

Kim: NO......

Eminem: * ThereÕs a 4 year old boy lyinÕ dead with a slit throat.....in your

living room.....HA HA........What you think I'm kiddinÕ you

(crying) You loved him didn't you?

Kim: NO

Eminem: BULLSHIT YOU BITCH DON'T FUCKING LIE

TO ME.....(honk, honk)....What the fuck's this guy's problem on the side of

me?......FUCK YOU ASSHOLE, YEAH BITE ME........KIM,KIIIM....why don't you

like

me?.....you think IÕm ugly don't you.

Kim: ITÕS NOT THAT

Eminem: no you think IÕm ugly,

get the fuck away from me, don't touch me.....

I HATE YOU...I HATE YOU...I SWEAR TO GOD I HATE YOU....

OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU .....HOW THE FUCK COULD YOU DO

THIS TO ME (Kim: sorry) HOW THE FUCK COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!

Chorus2x

SO LONG

BITCH YOU DID ME SO WRONG

I DON'T WANNA GO ON

LIVIN' IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT YOU

Eminem: Come on get out.

Kim: I can't I'm scared.

Eminem: I said get out bitch!

Kim: Let go of my hair....please don't do this baby...please...I love

you...look we

can just take Haley and leave

Eminem: FUCK YOU!....YOU DID THIS TO US...YOU DID IT...IT'S YOUR FAULT.

Oh my god i'm crackin up , GET A GRIP MARSHALL!!!!

Hey member the time we went to Brian's party?

And you were like so drunk that you threw up all over Archie.

That was funny wasn't it?

Kim: yes..

Eminem: THAT WAS FUNNY WASN'T IT?!!

Kim: YES!!

Eminem: See, it all makes sense, doesn't it? You and your husband had a

fight

One of you tries to grab a knife, and during the struggle he accidentally

gets his Adams apple sliced....And while this is goinÕ on...his son just

woke up, and he just walks in...She panics...and he gets his throat cut, So

now they both dead....and you slash your own throat, So now it's double

homicide and suicide with no note, I should have known better when you

started to act weird, We could've.......HEY! where ya goin....get back

here!!! You can't run from me Kim....It's just us...Nobody else! You're only

makinÕ this harder on yourself

HA HA....GOTCHA!!!! (Kim screams)HHHAA.......GO AHEAD YELL

HERE ILL SCREAM WITCHA......AH SOMEBODY HELP!!!

Don't you get it bitch, no one can hear you? ...Now shut the fuckup and get

what's comin to you......You were supposed to love me!!!!! (kim

choking).....NOW BLEED BITCH BLEED....BLEED BITCHBLEED...BLEEEEEED!!!!

Chorus 2x

SO LONG..

BITCH YOU DID ME SO WRONG..

I DON'T WANNA GO ON..

LIVIN' IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT YOU..

lyrics

ÒO'Malley's BarÓ

Nick Cave – Lyrics

Murder Ballads

I am tall and I am thin

Of an enviable height

And I've been known to be quite handsome

From a certain angle and a certain light

Well I entered into O'Malley's

Said, "O'Malley I have a thirst"

O'Malley merely smiled at me

said "You wouldn't be the first"

I knocked on the bar and pointed

To a bottle on the shelf

And as O'Malley poured me out a drink

I sniffed and crossed myself

My hand decided that the time was nigh

And for a moment it slipped from view

And when it returned, it fairly burned

With confidence anew

Well the thunder from my steely fist

Made all the glasses jangle

When I shot him, I was so handsome

It was the light, it was the angle

Huh! Hmmmmm

"Neighbours!" I cried, "Friends!" I screamed

I banged my fist upon the bar

"I bear no grudge against you!"

And my dick felt long and hard

"I am the man for which no God waits

And for which the whole world yearns

I'm marked by darkness and by blood

And one thousand powder-burns"

Well, you know those fish with swollen lips

That clean the ocean floor?

When I looked at poor O'Malley's wife

That is exactly what I saw

I jammed the barrel under her chin

And her face looked raw and vicious

Her head it landed in the sink

With all the dirty dishes

Her little daughter Siobhan

Pulled beers from dusk till dawn

And amongst the townfolk, she was a bit of a joke

But she pulled the best beers in town

I swooped magnificent upon her

As she sat shivering in her grief

Like the Madonna painted on the church-house wall

In whale's blood and banana leaf

Her throat it crumbled in my fist

And I spun heroically around

To see Caffrey rising from his seat

I shot that motherf**ker down

Mmmmmmmmm Yeah Yeah Yeah

"I have no free will," I sang

As I flew about the murder

Mrs. Richard Holmes, she screamed

You really should have heard her

I sang and I laughed, I howled and I wept

I panted like a pup

I blew a hole in Mrs. Richard Holmes

And her husband he stood up

And he screamed, "You are an evil man"

And I paused a while to wonder

"If I have no free will then how could I

Be morally culpable, I wonder"

I shot Richard Holmes in the stomach

And gingerly he sat down

And he whispered weirdly, "No offense"

And lay upon the ground

"None taken," I replied to him

With which he gave a little cough

With blazing wings I neatly aimed

And blew his head completely off

I've lived in this town for thirty years

And to no-one I am a stranger

And I put new bullets in my gun

Chamber upon chamber

And when I turned my gun on the bird-like Mr. Brookes

I thought of Saint Francis and his sparrows

And as I shot down the youthful Richardson

It was Sebastian I thought of, and his arrows

Hhhhhhhhhhhh Mmmmmmmmm

I said, "I want to introduce myself

And I'm glad that you all came"

And I leapt upon the bar

And shouted out my name

Well Jerry Bellows, he hugged his stool

Closed his eyes and shrugged and laughed

And with an ashtray as big as a f**king big brick

I split his head in half

His blood spilled across the bar

Like a streaming scarlet brook

And I knelt at it's edge on the counter

Wiped the tears away and looked

Well, the light in there was blinding

Full of God and ghosts and truth

I smiled at Henry Davenport

Who made an attempt to move

Well, from the position I was standing

The strangest thing I ever saw

The bullet entered through the top of his chest

And blew his bowels out on the floor

Well I floated down the counter

Showing no remorse

I shot a hole in Kathleen Carpenter

Recently divorced

But remorse I felt and remorse I had

It clung to everything

From the raven hair upon my head

To the feathers on my wings

Then I squeezed my hand in it's fraudulent claw

With it's golden hairless chest

And I glided through the bodies

And killed the fat man Vincent West

Who sat quietly in his chair

A man become a child

And I raised the gun up to his head

Executioner-style

He made no attempt to resist

So fat and dull and lazy

"Do you know I lived in your street?" I cried

And he looked at me as though I was crazy

"O", he said, "I had no idea"

And he grew as quiet as a mouse

And the roar of the pistol when it went off

Near blew the hat right off the house

Well, I caught my eye in the mirror

And gave it a long and loving inspection

"There stands some kind of man", I roared

And there did, in the reflection

My hair combed back like a raven's wing

My muscles hard and tight

And curling from he business end of my gun

Was a query-mark of cordite

Well I spun to the left, I spun to the right

And I spun to the left again

"Fear me! Fear me!"

But no one did cause they were all dead

Huh! Hmmmmmmmm

And then there were the police sirens wailing

And a bull-horn squelched and blared

"Drop your weapons and come out

With your hands held in the air"

Well, I checked the chambers of my gun

Saw I had one final bullet left

My hand, it looked almost human

As I help it to my head

"Drop your weapon and come out!

Keep you hands above your head!"

Well, I had one long hard think about dying

And did exactly what they said

There must have been fifty cops out there

In a circle around O'Malley's bar

"Don't shoot", I cried "I'm a man unarmed!"

So they put me in their car

And they sped me away from that terrible scene

And I glanced out of the window

Saw O'Malley's bar, saw the cops and the cars

And started counting on my fingers

Aaaaaaaaah One Aaaaaaaah Two Aaaaaah Three Aaaah Four

O'Malley's bar O'Malley's bar